The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. James Sunshine Sherman, the Ex-Demo- crat and Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate HISSED AND GREETED WITH CAT CALLS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO DELIVER A POLITICAL SPEECH AT BETHEL CHURCH. HE STRUCK AN UNPOPULAR CHORD IN AN EFFORT TO PRAISE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. THE FORMER BOSS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF UTICA, N. Y., ELABORATED ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN BUT WAS SILENT ON THE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN. MORE LETTERS PASS BETWEEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WHO HAS TEN WHEELS IN HIS HEAD AND COL. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. THE PRESENT OCCUPANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, IS A CHEAP OR THIRD RATE POLITICIAN AND IS LOWERATING THE DIGNITY OF HIS EXALTED POSITION. SENATOR J. B. FORAKER DECLARES THAT NO SELF-RESPECTING NEGRO CAN CAST HIS VOTE FOR WILLIAM H. TAFT. GOVERNOR CHARLES N. HASKELL STEPS OUT AS TREASURER OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE. HERMAN RIDDER OF NEW YORK SELECTED AS THE NEW TREASURER. Vol. XIII James Sunsh Sherman, the crat and R Vice- HISSED AND GREETED W ATTEMPTING TO DELI AT BETHEL CHURCH. HE STRUCK AN UNPOPULA PRAISE PRESIDENT RO THE FORMER BOSS OF THE UTICA, N. Y., ELABORA BUT WAS SILENT ON PAIGN. MORE LETTERS PASS BET VELT WHO HAS TEN COL. WILLIAM J. BRYA THE PRESENT OCCUPANT OF CHEAP OR THIRD RAT ERATING THE DIGNIT TION. SENATOR J. B. FORAKER DE PECTING NEGRO CAN LIAM H. TAFT. GOVERNOR CHARLES N. HAS URER OF THE DEM MITTEE. HERMAN RIDDER OF NEW NEW TREASURER. The past week has been full of political excitement, and the Standard Oil Lightning has struck in so many directions that no one can tell who among the big Democratic and Republican politicians will fall to the mat from its effect. One among the many incidents which caused the Republican politicians to set up and take note, was the cold reception accorded to James Sunshine Sherman, the ex-Democrat and Republican vice-presidential candidate, who was hissed and greeted with cat calls, while attempting to deliver a political speech at Bethel church, late Monday evening. It was the first grand rally of the Cook County Colored Republican Club, and great preparations had been made to receive the ex-Democrat and vice-presidential candidate in all his glory. Rev. Elijah J. Fisher, Pastor of Olivet Baptist church, who it is claimed endeavored to skin brother Walter M. Farmer out of seventy-five dollars as attorneys fees, was selected as the honorable chairman of the meeting. Hon. Martin E. Madden, was the first speaker, he was followed by Hon. E. P. McCabe of Oklahoma, who had much to say against the objectionable features which are embodied in the present constitution of that far away South-western State, but for some cause or other he failed to state that notwithstanding the fact that "Jim Crow" laws had found their way into its constitution, and the further fact that a strong delegation of Colored Republicans had wended their way from the west to Washington to register their bitter protest to president Roosevelt against signing the enabling act, so that the new state could not come into the Union without his approval, and to show that he did not intend to pay the slightest attention to the whinings of the Colored Republicans, and that "Jim Crow" laws looked good to him, president Roosevelt, gladly affixed his signature to the measure admitting Oklahoma into the sisterhood of states, which proves regardless of the statements of Mr. McCabe, that the Republican party through president Roosevelt favors and upholds all kinds of "Jim Crow" laws for the Negro. The Hon. S. A. McElwee was the next speaker, and in setting forth his reasons for favoring the election of William H. Taft, he declared that if William J. Bryan was elected president that he would be run or controlled by the Southern people and that no "Negro would be appointed to office if the Democrats were voted into office at Washington," and so on, but Judge McElwee, failed to state, that President Roosevelt in order to please the Negro-hating elements in the South and in the North, proclaimed to the world that "the Negro race is largely composed of criminals, murderers, and rapists," and William H. Taft said Amen! to the same thin that president Roosevelt has appointed less Negroes to office than any other president since the days of Abraham Lincoln or Andrew Johnson; that the unspeakable Hoke Smith, of Georgia, was urged to be present at the notification meeting of William H. Taft, at Cincinnati, Ohio, that John Temple Graves, before leaving the Democratic party to become the tool of William R. Hearst, wanted president Roosevelt re-elected; that John Sharp Williams, old Jim Vardaman, Hoke Smith, Jeff Davis, Ben Tillman, and Senator Joseph W. Bailey, are all hoping and praying that Taft will be feat Bryan, for they know that! Taft is elected, he will never bother 1910 EX-ALD. JOHN J. BRADLEY. The popular and steadfast friend, of worthy Afro-Americans in the Town of Lake, each time was in company with Alderman Mr. Innerney, when he called on Superintendent Cooley, to request him, to permit the small children near the Lake High School to continue their studies there, and not one word passed between them in reference to establishing the color line in the public schools in Chicago. his head about elevating the Negro over the whites in the South; president Roosevelt has appointed more Democrats to office in all parts of the South, than any other president in the history of this country, that Taft has promised to do the same thing, that two rebel Democrats are members of his cabinet, namely Luke E. Wright of Tennessee, secretary of war, who has always been opposed to the civil and political advancement of the Negro and has declared to the world a thousand times that this "is a white man's country and that there is no room in it for the Negro," and Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney-General of J. Maryland who has openly advocated mob and lynch law for Negroes who have been simply charged with assaulting "white women," notwithstanding the fact that some of them are willing to make love to the Negro. These are some of the things that Judge McElwee, did not touch upon while endeavoring to shed light on the minds of those who sat under the sound of his voice and it seems to us that now would be a good time for the fool-killer to visit the earth with his big club and kill off a lot of dishonest would-be orators who are putting in their time in dealing in false logic. It was well on to 11 o'clock, when vice-presidential candidate James Sunshine Sherman, accompanied by Hon. Charles Nagel entered Bethel church, and the former Democratic boss of Utica, N. Y., who has been at the head of the Ice Trust in his city for a long time, and who only turned Republican in order to be elected to congress, where there is supposed to be pretty good pickings. He was faintly applauded by the audience, which was largely composed of women. Mr. Nagel introduced Attorney Walter M. Farmer, who in turn presented the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate to the audience, who started in to elaborate on Abraham Lincoln, and his friendship for the Colored race, but he was silent as to the present issues of the campaign. He had pretty smooth sailing, until the end of his short talk. Then he attempted to land President Roosevelt, by declaring. "There are no better soldiers, as Theodore Roosevelt has often said, than those of the Afri can race." These remarks were greeted with loud hisses and cat calls and it unmistakably indicated to Mr. Sherman, that he had struck an unpopular chord. Several men in the audience shouted, "How About Brownsville?" Those words completely unnerved him, and the excitement rose so high, that he was unable to make himself heard above the noise, and when order was restored by the policemen, Mr. Sherman blunted out! That "Any one who would hiss the name of President Roosevelt ought to be thrown out of the church!" and he was so mad over the treatment he had received, at the hands of Negroes, who are supposed to be, the slaves of the Republican party, that he felt like uttering a long string of cuss words! The past week more letters have passed between president Roosevelt, who seems to have ten wheels running around in his flighty head at the same time, and Col. William J. Bryan, and it must be admitted by all fair minded men that the "Rough Riding president, has made a monkey of himself by rushing into print and branding this and that man as an infamous liar, thereby proving himself to be nothing more than a cheap or third rate politician and in the language of the old Colored man, "he is lowering the dignity of his exalted position." The president in his eagerness to elect his "man Friday" falls to take into consideration the fact that he is the president of all the people Democrats as well as Republicans, all are taxed either directly or indirectly in order to maintain the office which he occupies, and he has no moral right to wield its great power to crush the lives of single individuals or a collective body of men who may honestly differ with him on the leading questions of the day; it may not be known to the president that seemingly he has become lost or separated from all the finer sensibilities which should be planted deep into his heart, that is if he craves the respect and honor due him by the 80,000,000 American citizens, and once more we implore the president to refrain from further letter writing in condemnation of this that or the other man, attend strictly to his knitting at Washington and permit Bryan and Taft to fight their own political battles—then and not until then can he be seemingly considered the worthy successor of the illustrious men who have in the past been elevated to the presidency of the United States! Senator Joseph B. Foraker, in a long letter to the press the latter part of last week, in touching upon his past connection with the Standard Oil Company declared that "he did not (Creditured on page 9.) Bishop Alexander Walters in an Open Letter Urges the Division of the Negro Vote He Declares That President Roosevelt Caters to The South Why Not the Black Man: That Hon. Luke E. Wright, an Ex-Gonfederate Soldier, Has Succeeded William H. Taft as Secretary of War. That President Roosevelt Honored Senator Tillman by Putting Him in Charge of His Rate Bill. An Interesting Article Which is Full of Hard Nuts for Afro-American Republicans to Crack. The appointment of the Hqn. Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, an Ex-Confederate soldier and Democrat, to succeed Mr. Taft as secretary of War, was a big bid for Southern support. The New York American, in speaking of Mr. Wright, says: He served as a Confederate soldier, and from Shiloh to Stone River he fought with his face ever to his foe, and now, forty years later, he is at the head of the War Department, governing soldiers, directing generals, in the control of the musketry, the cannon, the military forces of the country; the first man south of the Mason and Dixon line to hold that portfolio since Jefferson Davis resigned to go to the Senate in 1857. Born a Democrat a Democrat still, and yet he is in the Cabinet of a Republican—placed in charge of his country's most treasured secrets, chief of a multitude of employees, some with shattered limbs and memories of hard fought battles, and yet there is no protest on the part of white Republicans—and yet, in the face of all this it is considered an unpardonable sin for a Negro to affiliate with the Democratic party, from which this man was taken and exalted by a Republican President. I have no objection to this; all I want is an opportunity to make friends with the same people. Bryan is Friendly to the Race. I know that Mr. Bryan is friendly to us and will treat us fairly. The above quotation from the Democratic platform and from the Courier-Journal and other S outhern papers are certainly inducements for the Negro who thinks and who has the good of his race at heart and who believes that the division of the Negro vote and the defeat of the Republican party will help his race as nothing else can—to Vote the Democratic Ticket. Negro Haters in Both Parties. We are told that we can not afford because fire-brands and Negro haters to unite with the Democratic party like Hoke Smith, Vardaman, Tillman, Heflin and Jeff. Davis are members of it. Yet it is a fact known to all who are conversant with political affairs, that these men are discredited by the best thinking people of the nation. Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, was very recently beaten in the Democratic primaries of his state for a second term as governor on account of his radicalism. Former Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi has recently been defeated in the primaries of his state as a candidate for the United State Senate, on account of his extreme views on public questions; and still more recently this same gentleman was defeated in his attempt to pass before the Democratic State Convention of Mississippi, an ANTI-NEGRO RESOLUTION, because it was stated by United States Senator McLaurin of Mississippi, that if the one presented by Gov. Vardaman passed that it would cause Mr. Bryan to lose Negro votes all over the country. Congressman Heflin was hissed and not allowed to finish his speech at the Denver Convention on account of his well known attitude on the Negro question. It is an open secret that no Democrat out spoken against the Negro was not allowed any prominence in the Democratic National Convention and not one speech uttered, not one mention was made that could be constructed as being against the Negro, and we challenge any one to show one line in the Democratic platform that is Anti-Negro. The radicalism of Senator Jeff. Davis of Arkansas has been reubaked in his own State and if the election was tomorrow he would meet the same fate as Hoke Smith and Vardaman. If Jeff. (Continued on page 2.) PUBLISHED WSEKLY. . giana Sue a ‘fidels, - Sayong aise can have thai sey. se massa ‘The Broad Ax is a whose its own ming. Lecal communications will recetve attention. Write only On one side of ‘the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in ad- fer peeibnS etree sat ccsnscacecotas Advertising rates made known on ‘Aééress all communications to THE BROAD AX $038 Armour Averue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Pub- Entered as Second-Class Matter, ‘Awg. 10, 1902 at the Post Omice at Selesgs Titashe ‘wader Aat Of Cereh 2%, 1678. -HOW SHOULD THE NEGROES. VOTE? DSM BK a Negro ane Cant answer for them, but were I a Negro, as I am a white, I would vote against Taft— if I had to vote a blank. I espoused the cause of the Negroes at the age of Rineteen and have held to the faith ever since. Because of the way Roose. velt outraged the Negro soldiers at Brownsville, I shall vote for Bryan, state ticket and all. Taft ts Roose- Yelt’s shadow. I have read over two thousand pages of the testimony in that Brownsville outrage, and as a Tesult, I say without hesitation that the Negro soldiers never shot up that town. It was @ set-up job. I don't claim that all the people of Browns- Ville held a towsi meeting and re- solved to shoot up their town in order to make the’impression that the Ne groes did, but a lot of hudiums did go into a conspiracy to do it, and im!- tated the Negroes ag well as they could. They were mad about the Ne- groes being sent there, and took this Way to get rid of them. “I now be lieve Roosevelt had them taken there purposely to lay the foundation for a trouble 0 he would have an excuse todo what he did. These soldiers have been as greatly outraged as was Captain Dreyfus of France, because he was a Jew. France has at last righted the wrong to Dreyfus. Will the United States government do the same by these Negroes who saved Roosevelt at San Juan hill in the war ‘with Spain? On May 21. Senator Foraker, who made a brave fight for justice to these Negro soldiers, said of his bill to re- store the Negro soldiers: “I hope the Colored people will see their opportu- nity and require every senator and congressman, who stands for reelec- tion this year, to pledge himself to support the bill, and not only ask congressmen and senators to define their. position, but our candidates for the presftiency and vice-presidency also.” I wonder if he got such a promise from Taft? I venture not. Taft would have to go and ask Roosevelt, and he would say NO, YOU SHALL NOT MAKE SUCH A PROMISE. Foraker's ‘cow gave a bucket full of good milk then kicked it over. ‘Will Bryan and Kern do any better by the Negroes than has Roosevelt and Taft? Well, they can't do worse, and probably will not do as bad. What Kern said about the Negro vote was while be was smarting under defeat which the Negross helped to make. Roosevelt said worse about them after they had‘all voted for him. Republic- ‘ans say the southern Democrats will ‘use their influence with Bryan against “the Negroes. Well, the southern lillie white Republicans will use their in- finence with Taft against the Negroes. ‘So there is your offset. + Cleveland, who got 20 Negro votes, “treated them far better than has “Roosevelt, who got all of them. ‘Roosevelt lifted them up a little, then ‘threw them down harder than has “anybody else, and propose to hold 4own, If in view of all this, the tinne to tick the band that emites Which they win get—J. 7. ¢ aeeee opeaece Creat Der 26, 1908.—The Tippecanoe Cc ‘Demoorat, Lafayette, Ind. GOOD CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. Agents wanted for Taylor's Cylinder Somb. ‘The best teir straightener ‘Bvery family will buy one. Write St, Cincinnati, oc. | FOR NEARLY TWO HOURS HE USES CONVINCING ARGU- MENT AND IMPREGNABLE LOGIC IN THE DISCUS- SION OF PUBLIC QUESTIONS AT LIGHT GUARD ARMORY. TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE GATHER TO HEAR THE GREAT- EST COMMONER OF THE PRESENT AGE RIDDLE THE POSITION OF THE MONEY CHANGERS AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGED CLASSES, SIX THOUSAND OF WHOM WERE JAMMED INSIDE THE ARMORY. WAYNE COUNTY COLORED BRYAN CLUB ATTEND IN BODY AND ARE GIVEN FRONT SEATS TOGETHER, THEIR BANNER ON THE PLATFORM—DERTOIT COLLEGE OF LAW BRYAN CLUB SECURED SEC- TION IN GALLERY. As has been reported from other sections, so in Michigan, the recep- lon of William Jennings Bryan was 8, wonderful and continual ovation {from the time he arrived at 6:30 0 tm. until be left at 11 p. m. for Ohio, The reception committee of the Wayne County Bryan club met the train in the morning, which included Messrs, John Naylon, Frederick F. Ingham, Geo. William Moore, P. J. M. Hally, Francis H. Warren, Thos. P. ‘Penniman, Judge Wm. F. Connolly, Thos. Kissane, Prosecutor F. D. Eamans, Hon. Wm. C. Maybury and several other prominent persons, in- cluding Douglas Marshall, acting president of the Wayne County Col- ored Bryan Club. These went to Mr. Bryan's car inside the depot gates to greet Mr. Bryan, who arrived from Buffalo in company with National ‘Committeeman E. 0. Wood, the genial political manager from Flint; Mayor ‘Thompson, Hon. Alfred Lucking and James Schermerhorn. By the time this small party reached the gates of the depot thous. lands of people thronged the depot to escort the candidate to the Pontcha-- tram hotel. The communication in the morning papers from President Roosevelt occupied considerable cf ‘the commoner's morning hours, p-e paring an answer. Meantime the state and local Democratic workers assemble’ in the o@nvention hall in the Hotel Pontchartrain and listened to several rattling good addresses from State Chairman John T. Win. ship, Candidate for Governor Lawton T. Heamans’ Candidate for Congress W. D. Mahon, W. L. Findlay of Ohio, Hon. Alfred J. Lucking and finally a heartto-heart talk from the candi- date for president. In the audience of workers were Prof. Wm. H. Dam. mond of the controller's office, Doug- las Marshall of the Colored Bryan club, "and Francis H. Warren. One of the busiest members of Mr. Bryan's party was Col. John I. Mar- tin, of Missouri, sergeant-starms of the National Democratic committee. Mr. Martin told the Informer repre- sentative that he bas four Colored Americans in his employ in most re- sponsible positions sround headquar- ters as his assistants. Alexander Manging, a prominent Colored man from Indianapolis, was one of Mr. Bryan's party. A large party accompanied Mr. Bryan to Ann Arbor, where Be sp: to 10,000 persons in the park in that ity, returaing to Detroit at 6 p.m. The Wayne County Colored Bryan club. which now has an enrollment of 260 names, met on Municipal park promptly at 6:80 p. mi. and procee: to the Light Guard Armory in time to occupy the seats. which had been reserved for the club. Many of the members were late in assembling and some of these got inside the hall while others were unable to enter and joined the crowd outside. Hemans a Winner. ‘Long before the hour arrived for GROCERY SHOWER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOUISE JUVENILE HOME. The first of last week, 2 grocery shower was given for the benefit of tho Louise Juvenile Home, 6130 Ada strét, which is ably conducted by Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, who after much herd and laborious work, ex- tending through many years, has suc- ceeded in providing = comfortable home for more than 2) dependent children. ‘The grocery shower was given un- Ger the auspices of the Englewood Women's club. Mra. A. M. Smith, Pres.; Miss Cecilia. Johnson, Vice-Pre- sident. Those donating were: Dr. A. B. Scbults, Mra. Doolittle, Mrs. A. ee ee aj mas, Mrs. on oe 22 Brown, Mrs. AM. Smith, Miss Minnie ae ee ae ee a Ve jammed to suffocation. Promptly at 7:30 o'clock Sheriff Burns. president jof the Wayne County Bryan club, in- troduced Hon. Alfred Lucking as chairman of the meeting, and he al: ways gets an audience in the best of humor by his witty sallies and cut- ting satire. Hon. Lawton T. Hemans was the first speaker introduced, and he made a great hit with the big audi- ence. It decidedly looks as though ‘Mr. Hemans will be the next governor of Michigan if outward appearances ‘count for anything. Mr, Hemans is covering the state personally and is making friends ‘everywhere he goes with iis pleasing adrress and fetching argument. Would Quit Philippines. Candidate for Congress W. D. Ma- hon also. made a splendid impression and received = decided ovation when he said it would be far better to com- mercially annex our neighbor Canada than to be engaged in an attempt to govern the Filipino people against thelr will 10,000 miles away. The peopie inside the armory knew when Mr. Bryan arrived outside, as a shout went up from without that almost stopped the meeting inside. ‘The great commoner talked for 20 minutes to the people without before entering the big hall. When je did enter he was hailed in a manner with the demonstration which lasted sev- eral minutes. Justice for All the People. For one and threequarter hours Mr. Bryan poured into the ears of his hearers the soundest logic, deducted from the fallacy of Republican dogma and the rule of special privilege grafters, and the application of his most convincing and invincible argu- ments. The speaker had the knack of bringing a ludicrous situation out of every telling point that kept the great audience in the best of humor. The applause was great and frequent, and another ovation greeted the mighty commoner when he had fin- ished. Never before was such enthu- siasm shown among Michigan's Democracy, and it all points to cer- tain victory this fall if this enthusi- asm is followed up with hard work at the polls, Mr. Bryan's whole argument was based upon the statement as he looked directly at the Colored Bryan club that “the Democratic party is, interested in the whole people; inter- ested in every element of society, and demands justice for all as the basis of co-operation."—The Informer, De- troit, Mich., Sept. 26. 1908, The above article is reproduced for the purpose of simply stating that Francig H. Warren, referred to in the accopnt of the visit of Col. Bryan to Detroit is the able editor of The In. former of that city, and it ts one of the many Afro-American newspapers, whose editors are hitting some mighty good licks for Bryan and Kern.—Editor. M. Jacobs, Mrs. Matison, Ada Clark, Anna Schwendel, Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Cuba Mercer Marguerette Dode, Ce- lia Johnson, Geo. Albert Williams, J. G. Brunmfield, Mr. and Mrs. Lillard, Mrs. Cummings, The groceries con- sisting of large quantities of syrup, sugar, flour, potatoes and large num ber of cans of vegtables, ‘The Louise Juvenile Home, is wor- thy of any donations which may be bestowed upon. it for the benefit of poor dependent children. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. The Pekin Inn Cafe hereafter will be under the management of Mr. W. P. Bell, who will be glad to see and serve his many friends everything’ tn season cuisine and service the best recelve our specis! attention, three private dining rooms. > NOT GUILTY OF UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. Judge Bietler of the Municipal Court of ‘Chicago. Mr. E.G. McElroy, Mr. McEI- wee's client is entitled to the money in question, $4,500.00. Several weeks Jago the public was startled by a re port to the effect that attorney Mc- Elwee was guilty of unprofessional conduct with reference to the probate of a certain will in the Probate Court of Cook County, in that he was charged with conspiracy to do an un- lawful act. The facts as ascertained from witnesses who testified upon the investigation of said cause, before Judge Bietier, were as follows to wit: On March, 2nd, A. D. 1908, Joseph G. Wilson made his last will and test- jamept naming the said E. G. McElroy Jas legate. Dr. Anna B. Schults and Mathew Bird wore witnesses to the ‘will. On the 16th, of March A. D 1908, Joseph G. Wilson died at Denver, Colo. After the death of Wilson, E. G. McElroy took charge of the remains and buried him, and then came on to Chicago to wind up the estate. Mr. McElwee never knew Wilson during his life time nor he never knew Mr. McElroy before the day that Mr. Me- Elroy called on him and a his services as an attorney to take charge of the business for him. Tr only connection that Mr. ties ht with the maiter was that as an attor- ney as above stated. Some time after te il war rotated nd he ac administrator took charge of the es- tate, Thomas Pierson, a Colored law- yer, approached Mr. McElwee and said to him that he had information that he McElwee had collected $6000.00 from an estate and that “one of the witnesses to the will was going to complain, unless he, Mr. Me- Elwee should pay over a cer- tain sum of money. He further stated that this witness was under his wing and he could control him and if the money was forthcoming the matter would be hushed up.” Mr. McElwee had not collected any money from the estate and stated that he had not collected it and it he had, he would not pay one cent to stop + plack-mailing scheme. Subsequently the attention of the State's Attorney was called to the matter and investi- gation followed with the results above stated. The Court found that the wil! was made and properly signed and witnessed by the parties whose names were thereto attached and that no offense had been committed by any me. Therefore, all of the parties here- in named were discharged and the cause dismissed. In this connection it might be said that prior to coming to this city in 1901, to reside Mr. MsElwee was quite prominent in the political and clvil affairs of Nashville Tenn., but in his struggles to climb upwards and pefore becoming a successful law- yer, he had to work very hard at any- hing that he could get to do, while attending Oberlin College, he waited | on the table, picked currants and washed dishes for his board, then he aught school in Miss. for 5 years and | ne year in Alabama, and at one time be walked thirty miles to secure a jchool in Tenn., after teaching a large school in the day, he would walk ten niles two nights in the week to recite | in Latin, Greek, German and Algebra ‘0 a white student at Vanderbilt uni- rersity. In time he entered Fisk uni- versity at Nashville, Tens, graduating | herfrom in 1883, then he entered the | Central Tennesse College, where he| tudied law and graduated in 1835, and | while still a law student he was elect- | nd to the legislature wf Tenn. and irst took his seat in January, 1883 and | together he ‘served three terms in| ts legislature, his speech on “Mobs” | llivered before that body was widely | treulated. He was a delegate to the Chicagr | onvention in 1884, which nominated |' james G. Blaine, the Plumed Knight | ot Maine and he was one of six del: | gates who voted for him on every |' yallot, in 1888, Mr. McElwee, was| anited in marriage to Miss Georgis | Shelton, the highly accomplished | laughter, of one of the most promin- mt families in Nashville, and several Robert K. Sloan, president of the men's Association of Chicago. who is widely and favorably known in jail sections of the city, is putting up ja strong fight to be elected Coroner lof Cook County. 4 ALD. MICHAEL MOINERNEY. Has been misquoted by the daily press, in reference to drawing the color line in the schools. He positively states, that,” Ex-Alderman John J. Brad. ley accompanied him, when he called on Superintendent Cooley, to urge him to permit the small children in the vicinity of the Lake High school, to permit them to cintinue their studies there, and use the two vacant rooms for that purpose, and not fc them to cross the car tracks, on their way to and from the Hancock school, located some ten or tweive blocks from their homes, and at no time in their conversation, was one word s; en in favor of drawing or establishing the color line in the public schools in Chicago. Bishop Alexander Walters on the Division of the Negro vote. (Concluded from page 1.) Davis was at the Denver Convention so far as the Associated Press reports are concerned nobody knows it save himself. Roosevelt Honors Tillman. So far as Senator Tillman is con. cerned, our REPUBLICAN PRESI- DENT,’ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, thought enough of his ability, his libe- rality and his broad statemanship to put him in charge of the Rate Bill, his most important measure, since his occupancy of the White House. And yet this same Ben Tillman, United States Senator from South Carolina, stated publically upon the floor of the ‘Senate that he would not have lynched ‘167 Negroes at one time. The foolish cry that the Negro can not go into the Democratic pa-ty on account of Vardaman, loses its weight, ‘when it is remembered that this same Vardaman has again and again de- nounced, vilified and abused our RE- PUBLICAN PRESIDENT, sometimes in trems unfit for publication but none of this has prevented our Republican President from appointing Democra- tie Judges, Cabinet Officers, Civil Service Commissioners, political re- ferces and Democrates to every office within his gift. IP DEMOCRATS ARB GOOD ENOUGH TO BE APPOINTED BY A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT ARE THEY NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE VOTED INTO OFFICE? AND VOTED INTO OFFICE BY NE- GROES? I cannot see for for the life of me why it is so highly commendable in the President to do everything thst is in his power to win over Southern Democrats to the support of his poli. cles and on the other hand is so re- prehensible and down right treachery on the part of Negroes to vote with the Democratic Party in order to have that party change its policy towards the Negro. It is the only party that can change the discriminatory legisla tion which has been enacted against us, without a great political upheavel, amounting to almost a revolution. Republican Party Fails to Give Relief. ‘We have prayed and we have made appeal after appeal to a Republican Congress for relief, only to be told that we had, appealed to the wrong place, thai we should go to the Su- preme Court for redress; but when we knocked at the doors of the Su- preme Court and asked for relief we were told to go back to Congress that the matter was out of the jurisdiction of the Court. Thus we have been sent by the President to the Court, trom the Court to Congress, and from Congress back to the Court, and relief is about as near in sight as when we James Sunshine Sherman hissed at (Concluded from page 1.) see how any self-respecting Negro can vote for William H. Taft and Senator Foraker will wage a bitter fight against brother Taft in Ohio. | Governor Charles N. Haskell of Ok- Jahoma could not stand the fring o: the cross firing in relation to his con- nection with the Standard Ol! Com- pany, s0 he has stepped down snd out as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and Herman Rid- der the great German-Amercian ed! ‘tor of New York City, bas been select- ed as the now Treasurer, the past ten days have proven one thing name- ly, that men must come clean while in politics if they do not the eletrie light turned on them. started. This but shows the impoteney fd the unwillingness of the Repubit can Party to give the Negro the reliet destred. Democrats Reward Negroes in Propor. portion to Services Rendered. But now comes forward the LEA. DER of the New Democratic party and many of his supporters offering to help us if we will help them. And since the President of the United States is not afraid of Southern De mocrats—EVEN THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO DESTROY THE UNION —surely we ought not to be afraid to reach out and take the hand that is extended to us. It is bad politics for all voters of any race to be on one side regardless of what may be their rationality. Wherever we have bad sense enough to help the Democratic party, notably in New York City, they have always shown a willingness to treat us with consideration. The large patronage given by Tammany Hall to the United Colored Democracy, under the leadership of Chief Edward Lee and Mr. Ralph E. Langston is a mot substantial evidence of this fact. This question reninds me of two reads purpert'pg to end at 2 +‘1te of political blixs. If sfter ‘forty yeae travel on the one road you should fail to reach the goal, would you not try the other road a while, notwithstané ing you had been prejudiced against it by reports unfavorable. The fint road is the Republican way which we have been traveling for foriy oid years, and .we are further from the goal in the Southland, today, than Fe were when we started. The other road is the Democratic way; had ¥¢ not better try it a while? Division of Vote our only Political Salvation. Our franchise is the outcome of the Civil War. The Republican party "a in power and in order to retain their power, the party managers saw that it was necessary to make an ally & the Negro. This was accomplisied by the aid of the votes of the m= who had lost their sons, brothers 1d friends on Southern battlefielis snd their treasures in that terrible strus- gle. They were sore over the matter and were willing to do anything t help the Negroes who had helped them and who would perpetuate their reign of power. Would they do it today? No. Thus you see that we had better take advantase of the Brownsville incident to divide the vote. Now is the opportune time, it we let the opportunity pass, we ma not have another in a quarter of # century. Now is the opportune time to divide our vote. Alexander Walters. —In The Star of Zion Charlotte, X- C Sent 26. 1908. | ‘Mr. Marshall W. Ponder and rs Diann Talbout Smiley were united 2 wedlock Saturday evening Septembet 26th, at eight thirty o'clock. The rest fence of the Bide 2111 India 6, where the wedding took place, ¥# deautifully decorated with flowers About one hundred guests were biddes and the ceremonies were performed by Rev. Father Massiah of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. Many handsome presents were received. The coule will rside at the above address, wher? the bride carries’ on a good caterins business. _ Henry Goings, Shreveport, 1. & warm supporter of The Broad 4s and he Hikes it because it stands u? for the ctvil and. political rights of ‘be COLOR LINE IN MORE SCHOOLS. Reports from Two Buildings Tell of Its Appearance. President Schneider Repeats Condemnation of "Jim Crow" Plan. Reports from two more elementary school buildings increased the perplexity of the Chicago school officials in dealing with the "color line" yesterday. In the neighborhood of the Moseley school it was learned a movement is on foot among the parents of white pupils to cause a shifting of school boundaries so that most of the white children will be sent to the John B. Drake school, at Calumet avenue and Twenty-sixth street. At the Copernicus school, a new building at West Sixtieth and Throop streets, the feeling between the whites and the Negroes is intense, according to Principal Cora Caverno, and clashes between the two have demanding a division of the races. The Moseley school is at Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street, near the heart of a densely populated Negro neighborhood. Of the total enrollment, it is said, more than 50 per cent are Negroes, and in many of the classrooms there are not more than half a dozen white children. Several meetings of parents have been held in the region about the school, and plans now are under way for sending a delegation to ask the school board for the desired change in the two school districts. "Always Having Fights." "They're always having fights at school," said a Moseley pupil, a 15 year old girl, yesterday. "In my room there are only three or four of us that are white. I wish we could go over to the Drake school, but I don't suppose they'll let us." The Copernicus school, which was opened recently, has a Negro enrollment of about 30 per cent. The white and Negro pupils, it is reported, have an attitude of armed neutrality which gives way every few days to an open fight. No official complaint has been made to the school board, but parents and property owners in the district are planning to take up the matter within a few weeks if it is not relieved. The protests aroused last week by the transfer of 159 children from elementary rooms in the Lake High school to the Hancock school, where about 10 per cent of the pupils are Negroes, had their effect on the school officials. Following a conference between Ald. Michael McInerney and Supt. Cooley orders were given in the morning for the return of the children to their rooms in the Lake building. "This solves the difficulty for the present," said District Supt. Orville T. Bright. "We found that two of the rooms in the Lake building are not needed at once, and that they can be used for first grade pupils." A report that the teaching force of the Keith school and many residents of the neighborhood had expressed themselves in favor of segregating the races in the schools brought some reflections from President Schneider in the afternoon. "I see they're giving it to me for what I said about a clean Negro and a dirty white boy," he said. "Well, I stand by what I said. It's right, isn't it? And as for segregation, that's ridiculous. You can't segregate in the public schools. It's contrary to state law. Think of having 'Jim Crow' schools in Chicago!"—The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 29, 1908. The Tribune is one of the strongest supporters of William H. Taft in this country and it entertains the idea that every Negro who falls to vote the Republican ticket straight from top to bottom is a traitor to his race, and yet the great Tribune is working overtime in an effort to establish the "color line" in the public schools in Chicago.—Editor. WHY SHOULD WE NOT DIVIDE? The difference between the Colored folks and the white folks when it comes to a question of politics is that the white folks can differ and still be the best of friends, but when a Colored man differs in politics from his neighbor, he not only loses prestige but is soundly berated by his fellows and hears all kinds of hard things said about him. Now why is it that white people can differ and still agree, while Colored people must not even agree to differ? The fundamental principle upon which this government is founded is free speech. The result is seen in every daily newspaper in the country, and every day in the year, to check it off at once breeds anarchy, and so every man feels that he has the perfect right to express an opinion on any matter of any kind. But we as a people are too prone to criticize our neighbor because he has an opinion different from ours. Because there a number of Afro- Americans who do not believe that Judge Taft is the best man that could be elected President of the United States, there are any number of others ready to do and say all manner of things to and about them simply because of a difference of opinion. Some years ago the Irish, almost to a man were adherents of the Democratic party, and to see an Irishman was to see a Democrat. Is it so today? Not by any means. In both parties, and for that matter in all the different parties, Republican, Democrat, Independence, Temperance and Socialist, can be found the Jew, the Irishman, the German, the Italian, the Russian and the American, but when it comes to the Negro, he must be bound hand and foot to the one party, and this is one of the reasons why he has so little value as a voter. Why should not the Negro as well as men of every other nationality be divided up between all the paries? No reason in the world. If we owe any debts it is time we had paid them and gotten a receipt, for unless we do, the time will come when we will be bound hand and foot, and to use the language of the Scripture, "Cast into outer darkness where there will be weeping, walling and gnashing of teeth."—The Afro-American Ledger, Baltimore, Md. SOUNDS THE PRAISE OF THE BROAD AX. The following letter which is from one of the most prominent Afro-American business men in Seattle Wash., and it speaks for its self. Julius F. Taylor, Editor, The Broad Ax:— I have had the pleasure of reading what you had to say in support of the Negroes who have manhood enough to resent an insult so glaring as the one given them by the administration. I believe that if there was ever a time when the Negro can and ought to show his worth, it is now. Let me say, may God bless the efforts put forth by you to arouse the Negro to stand up like a man, Mr. Chase told the Republican Committee a few days ago, that the Negro would not support the Democratic party, because said Chase: the Negro gets nothing from the Democrats. Thereby giving the impression that the Negro votes only for Loaves and Fishes. But I believe Mr. Chase will learn in this fight that he is dealing with men and not stones, men who hold principle above office. Let us be men and defeat those who would insult the race. I am for William J. Bryan, for pres- ident of the United States. Respectfully Yours. State Senator San Ettleson and his bunch of cheap politicians, have been put to the bad in the 3rd ward. For Alderman Milton J. Foreman and his followers, have been declared the chief cocks of the walk, and they will dispense all the patronage in that ward. Alderman Foreman, is backed up by Congressman Martin B. Madden, and Mayor Fred Busse, and the final termination of their bitter fight, means the downfall of Oscar De Priest. FOUR ROOM FLAT FOR RENT. For rent four room modern flat, gas, bath and all improvements $20.00 per month, 404 Bowen Ave., east of Grand Blvd., between 41st and 42nd streets. WAMSLEY & SON'S Will destroy chicken lice, fleas on cats and dogs, lice on horses and other animals. The liquid is a disinfectant as well as a healer. "Does not stain." The 15c and 25c bottles and 25c packages of Cockroach and Ant Feed are the small orders referred to in our ad. in another column, for which we will accept stamps in payment by out of town orders if desired. Glass telephone poles re-enforced my wire are being used in some parts of Germany. By order of the Emperor William the trousers of seamen of the German navy are in future to be made about two centimeters wider. A dumb tramp has been arrested in Berlin for begging. He used a photograph, visiting private houses only, where his machine poured out a heart-sending tale of its owner's misfortunes. Plays and Players. Doris Mitchell will be Norman Hackett's leading lady in "Classmates." George Broadhurst has written a new play, called "An International Marriage." A dramatization of "David Copperfield" may be produced in Paris the coming season. Dallas Welford is to appear in a new piece under the Shubert management called "Her Highness Radish." Andrew Mack will star the coming season again under the management of William Harris in the repertory including "Arrah-na-Pogue" and a new comedy. Brevities John C. Godding of Gardiner, Me., the oldest living papermaker in New England and probably in the United States, recently celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday. Rear Admiral Joseph Philibert, the French commander in Moroccan waters, has been promoted to the grade of vice admiral. Rear Admiral Berryer succeeds him in command of the Moroccan division. James Sherburne Weymouth of Laconia, N. H., is the last survivor of a family of thirteen children, twelve of whom lived to maturity and had families. He has seen seven generations of his maternal family. Young Cornellius Vanderbilt declares, "The happiest time in my life was when I was wearing overalls in the Baldwin Locomotive works in Philadelphia one hot summer a few years ago studying locomotive construction." Alvin F. Smith of Montpellier, Vt., aged ninety-three, claims that the use of tobacco has prolonged his life. Luther P. Wood of the same town, aged ninety, disagrees with Mr. Smith, and to prove that he was in good condition Mr. Wood, who has never used tobacco, recently walked two miles. Andrew Forrester, Sr., eighty-one years old, and his son, Andrew, aged forty-six, recently called at the office of the clerk of the district court, Kansas City, Kan., and took out their first naturalization papers. The senior Forrester has been a resident of the United States for nearly half a century. Sir Charles Matthews has been appointed by the British government as director of public prosecutions, with a salary of $15,000 a year. He was born in New York, where his father, Charles Matthews, the famous actor, was filling a theatrical engagement at the time, his mother having as Lizzie Davenport also been a footlight favorite. Charles L. Kimmens of Bolton, Mass., has resigned as town sexton after serving for four years. His brother was sexton four years; his father was sexton forty-five years; Jesse W. Babcock, Mr. Kimmens' stepson, was sexton two years; George Babcock, his brother, was sexton two years, making a total of fifty-seven years that the office has been filled by the Kimmens family. English Etchings. The Cremation Society of England has decided to lower its membership fees and otherwise to extend its operations. The drapery trade has supplied more lord mayors of London than any other business, the total being seventy-four. The foundation stone of the first skyscraper in England was laid at Liverpool recently. The new building, which will be 300 feet high, is being constructed on a site overlooking the Mersey. After sixty years of doing without a complete Young Men's Christian association building London, the birthplace of the movement, is to have what it needs in this particular. The new headquarters in Tottenham Court road will be a stately pile of buildings designed by Rowland Plumbe. Home Notes. If old keys are kept in a box by themselves some of them will frequently come into play in unlocking a trunk or other receptacle the key to which has been lost. If your cellar is dark and you are afraid of accidents when going down the steps have the last step whitened so that you will easily know when you are at the bottom. You can see this step plainly even in a dim light. The under oven in the range is a most convenient place in which to keep irons. They may be taken hot from the stove and placed there where they are out of the way. They are usually warm when taken out, thus heating up rapidly. Pith and Point. Freedom is like blue roses—there is no such thing. People don't care for explanations and don't believe them. It is not what you think of your employer, but what your employer thinks of you. Some men don't know much, but they always know enough to think of the meanest thing. A grouchy man may not be agreeable, but he is a joy in comparison with the facetious man. Don't despise the ignorant man. If it were not for him the smart people would not have a chance to show how much they know.—Atchison Globe. Plays and Players. Joseph Hart, the well known vande- ville top liner, has made a big hit in London. Edward E. Kldder has written a play for Marguerite Clark called "The Moon Child." A theater in Meridian, Conn., is to be named "The Merry Widow." Marie Doro may continue to play abroad, as she has made a big social success in London. Reginald Barlow has retired from the stage to enter the ministry. He is a son of the old minister, Milton Bar- low. "CAN'T SLEEP, BED BUGS" WILL YOU scratch and tumble all night, when our Bed Bug and Moth Liquid will clear beds and walls of these miserable vermin? Also kills lice on chickens, cow or colt. Cost, half gallon, 75c; gallon, $1.25; 5 gallon can, $4.50. A 50c package of Cockroach and Ant Feed banishes them. Booklet, "Extermination of Insects," sent postpaid on request. Remit stamps for small orders, large by P. O. order or registered mail. WAMSLEY & SON, 3344 State St., Chicago Telephone Douglas 6100 IN THE SOUTH, WEST, AND OTHER SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY To handle The BROAD AX AND ACT AS CORRESPONDENTS PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suites 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 509. CHICAGO. Residence 57 MoonBlister Pines Telephone Ashland 368 Office Telephones Central 1389 Automatic 5960 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 218-320 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR; .AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence. Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1328 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 "CAN'T SLEEP Dr. W. E. MACKEY 4842 Armour Avenue. Phone, Blue 6571. CHICAGO. Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 p. m.; and Nights. Dr. A. B. Schultz Hours: 2719 STATE STREET 9 to 12 A. M. 8 to 5 CHICAGO and after 6 p. m. C. E. Kreyssler 5059 STATE STREET N. E. Cor. 51st St. CHICAGO Telephones: Oakland 246 and Oakland 245 Arthur Johnson Strietly First Class and Up-to-Date Work at Reasonable Prices Special Attention Given to Orders for Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Repairing Goods Called for. Orders Delivered. 134 W. 51st Street, Chicago THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO Foreman Bros. Banking Co. §. B. Cor. LaSalle and Madison Sts. CAPITAL, - - $500,000 SURPLUS, - - $500,000 Undivided Profits$100,000 Accounts of corporations, firms and individuals are solicited and will be received upon the most favorable terms consistent with conservative banking. P, BED BUGS" e all night, when our Bed Bug s and walls of these miserable ackens, cow or colt. Cost, half on can, $4.50. A 50c package ishes them. Booklet. "Exter- Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. 31st St. & L. G. & H. R. Ry. Sand St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO W. R. Cowan A. C. Harris M. C. Cowan W. R. Cowan & Co. Real Estate, Loans and Insurance 260 S. CLARK STREET Tel. Harrison 1075 CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Dragas 329 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQORS AND CIGARS COOK Waiters and Cooks Prefer Dur Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. THE BROAD AX. is for sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Geo. L Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 East 31st St. C. H. Green, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. Mrs. Alma A. Simpson, news agent, 1255 State street. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, tobacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 2704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3532 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street. Mrs. J. W. Hailey 116 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 3812 State Street. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St., Detroit, Mck. The Standard News Co 131 W. 53rd st. New York, City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 49 W. 185th street, New York City, N. Y. 150th Street, New York City, N. 41 Selections FISHING FOR OIL. Curious Spectacle on the Coast of California. In the neighborhood of Summerland, on the coast of California, ten miles south of Santa Barbara, the visitor may behold at the present time a strange and interesting spectacle the like of which was never seen in the world before. It is nothing more or less than a fishery for petroleum. Out from the smooth, sandy beach and extending at right angles therewith into the ocean are many long docks or pliers supporting old derricks. The latter are like any other derricks constructed for such a purpose, but instead of being used to bring up oil from the dry land they are made to serve for fetching the fluid from beneath the waters of the sea. The pliers described are, many of them, of great length, stretching a quarter of a mile or more out into the Pacific. In order to tap the oil bearing strata under the sea, Derricks are set all along the beach itself, upheld by plies, in order that the breakers may flow back and forth beneath them. One might imagine that the discovery of the oil under the sea came about through observation of petroleum floating on the waves. Such does not seem, however, to have been the case. Prospectors for the precious fluid, having come upon a productive oil field on terra firma in the neighborhood of Summerland, were naturally led down to the ocean beach by the circumstance that the oil producing area appeared to extend in that direction. Finding that there was oil beneath the very breakers, it occurred to them to seek it farther out. The petroleum obtained from under the sea is remarkable, like all the oil in the neighborhood, for containing a great deal of asphalt. It is, in fact, very impure and thick owing to this admixture of an extraneous substance. But the asphalt itself is decidedly valuable when separated and is being utilized for paving and other such purposes.—Saturday Evening Post. A Bored Floor. Mr. Reeder of Kansas told a story to the house of representatives about a Kansas settler and a trick he played. "I think we sent him on to the state of Wyoming," he said. "We have a lot of bad people in our state from Kansas," suggested Mr. Wendell of Wyoming. "This was a pretty smart fellow, and I wonder they did not send him to congress," answered Mr. Reeder. "The law required the settler to build a house with a board floor and a board roof. So he dug into the bank a space of three feet wide and six feet long and put poles across the top for a roof. Then he sharpened a stick and bored holes in the ground of the dugout. Next he bored holes through the roof and made an affidavit that he had a bored floor and a bored roof."—Detroit Free Press. Many Names of Hinoham's Hall. Hingham has one hall with three names, the largest in the town and the one where all the town business is transected, where Company K, Fifth regiment, M. V. M., has its armory and where the Hingham Agricultural society holds its deliberations. The hall has the distinction of having three names—Hingham town hall, the armory and agricultural hall. If it is a public performance or town meeting then the notices read, "At the town hall;" if it is a rose and strawberry show or an agricultural meeting, then they read, "At agricultural hall," and if Company K is drilling or entertaining its friends the invitations may, "At the armory." No other hall in Plymouth county has so many official titles—Boston Herald. Honduran Hard Wood. A railroad in Honduras, which has just been opened to traffic as far as Celba, thirty-five miles, was built with crocosed pine ties from the United States. It is worthy of note that, while crocosed pine ties are being shipped from the United States to Honduras, hard woods are coming to the United States from that country. Americans are doing the shipping both ways. A tract of 8,000 acres in Honduras has been secured by an American company, which will cut the mahogany and other valuable hard woods and ship them to the United States—Forest and Stream. English Musical Teste The London Evening News in order to determine the musical taste of the English people asked its readers to name the musical compositions the performance of which gave them the most pleasure. The answers showed these to be the most popular in the order named: the overture to "Tannhauser," the overture to "William Tell," Teckelowski's "1612" Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" "Thomas" "Mignon Gavotte" "The Mlkado," Mendelsohn's "Midsummer Nights" Dream. A Nailless Skyscrape A skyscraper structure, without a wall or a screw in it, has been put up around and above the great southwestern gate of the city of Pekin. It is made entirely of bamboo poles and cords. The enormous scaffolding was necessary for the rebuilding of the Chienmen gate, which was badly battered in the Boxer troubles. The new gate is to be an imposing affair, twice the height of the great wall of the famous Chinese city. CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS Filkins, full of petty hauteur, Bought a yellow auto motor- And its tawdy tints bedziz Half the world and its horizon. How I hate the fellow! For his pesky "honk" comes bossing him, he touches a crossing, And in automobiles. There's no hobbit, "if I were There's no hank for "If you please" So I Go (P. S.—Why do people visit On a crosswalk? Say, why is it?) Edmund Vance Cooke in Woman's Home Companion. On the Highway. Waggles—Gee, I wonder why dat dorg blt me? His Friend—Oh, well, dere's no accountin' fer tastes, you know!—St Louis Post-Dispatch. Smashing Her Baggage A series of terrific crashes against the front door brought the mistress to that exit, and, flinging it open, she beheld standing calmly before it the new cook, her baggage lying about in confusion, while driving off with a black countenance was the baggageman. "Mercy!" exclaimed the startled mistress. "Why did that rude man hurl your baggage after you like that, Mary? Wouldn't you pay him?" "Oh, it ain't thot, mum; but me last job wor at his house."—Judge. A Useful Tool. Gyer—Lots of inventors never fully realize the importance of their inventions. Myer—Don't they? Gyer-No. Take the hairpin, for example. It is said the inventor never intended it to be used in dressing the hair.-Minneapolis Journal. A Reason Now. "Oh, Arizona will be admitted, all right," said the gentleman from that territory. "Been turned down pretty regularly, hasn't it?" "Don't let that worry you. They'll need the name for a battleship now." —Philadelphia Ledger. Deluding Himself Towne—It doesn't seem to have done Gagley any good to join church. He appears to be grouchier than ever since he got religion. Brown—I don't believe he's got it at all. I'll bet what he takes for religion is merely dyspepsia. — Philadelphia Press. Proverb Practically Applied "A man is judged by the company he keeps," said the aphorist. "Yes," answered the man with a boom. "Which makes it undesirable sometimes to print the names of all the contributors to your campaign fund."-Washington Star. What He Does. "Pa, what does a king or an emperor do when he grants anybody an audience?" "He does about what your mother does when she grants me an audience—talks most of the time."—Denver News-Times. "Do you attend church regularly?" inquired the solitious friend. "I've been a regular churchgoer of late," answered Mr. Cumrox. "Mother and the girls took me on a guidebook tour through Europe." — Washington Star. The Easiest Way. "The easiest way to succeed, my boy, is to give the people what they want." "No, sir; you are mistaken. The easiest way to succeed is to make the people think they want what you are giving them."—Chicago Record-Herald. Signs and Symptoms "Do you believe the countenance is indicative of character?" In some respects. For instance, when you see a hatched faced woman, ten to one you'll find her temper on edge."-Baltimore American. Man as a Shopper. A gentleman undertook to purchase a waist for his wife. "What bust?" inquired the saloonwoman. "Why, I didn't hear anything."—Everybody's. Not Worth Repeating. Kind, Lady—But that isn't the same story you told me the last time you were here. The Hobo—Course it isn't. Youse didn't berieve de odder one—Chicago News. Obviously. "Aunt Hepesy, what do they use invisible hairpins for?" "To fasten up invisible hair, of course." $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and La Fayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 rooms, modern, hardwood throughout. $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone, 5-6 rooms, steam heat, hardwood throughout. $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front residences; will sell separate. Make terms. $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick foundation. $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern improvements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. JESSE BINGA, 3637 State St. Phone, Douglas 1565 Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciated AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY Stove Heated Flats I am no Agent. I Rent only my own Property You will save many a weary step when you want a Flat if you first call on me. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PROPERTY Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle Street Telephone Main 2183 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK (Please cut this out) FUNERAL DIRECTOR 2959-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. 2821-23 Archer Ave. Chicago Telephone Yards 721 FIRST CLASS LIVERY Leland Giarts Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with it's increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With It's Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto Riding, and all the latest fun making devices and laugh producing concessions, together with a First Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accommodate 1000 guests, at it's present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning and Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. It has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and interest in this Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each. You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come!买 and build one of your own by filling out me attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. which I am sending as Part (or inful) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association. I agree to pay $___ per month until the full amount has been paid, at which time I am to recieve my stock certificate. N. B. All payments on Stock Accounts amounted to the order of Beaugrard P. Moresley, Treasurer, 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock- holders are entitled to prefer- erate new layovers and should inform the Treasurer with their final remittance of their inten- tions to apply for employment. For further information ad- ress Leland Giants Base-Ball and Asn. 6258 Halsted St. Chicago, IL Name Address City State ForSale 57th and La Fayette Ave., hardwood throughout. Miley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone hardwood throughout. Jabash Ave., 2-9 room stone from marate. Make terms. Mille St., 6 rooms, frame, brick, Mille St., 2 flat, brick and frame, Mille St., frame building, 6 rooms. Born St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 room. 3637 State St. Ph. FRED TENANTS ALWAYS A AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY TO SUIT EVERY MAN'S INCOM Nent. I Rent only my own. I have many a weary step when you wail if you first call on me. ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSON Richardson, 142 L 2133 CHICAGO Room 1 (Please cut this out) Douglas 727 Res. Phone, M. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECT 61 STATE ST., CHICAGO H: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg Pages for Hire to Parties and ERT K. SL GENERAL DIRECT Purcher Ave. Telephone Yards 721 ST CLASS LIVING Base-Ball and Amuse Organizing—Capital St. $100,000 Parts of the Leland Giants Base-Ball association in order to give room for purpose of buying a Permanent Hos- tellment and Establishing For All The Peo- mance Park, With It's The The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric ing, Hurley Burley, Double Swing st fun making devices and laugh pro- cess Summer Hotel, large enough to education, 79th and Wentworth Ave., to the Loop District in Chicago. -Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. -Millions can be made by those W Vendor Of The Race Owning And Ou- ng Plant, Where More Than 1,000 May and October of each year, where Life and Freedom of a citizen un- effectively given by subscribing for S purposes low so that all Loyal Members in this Twentieth Century Entitle- Dollars Each You Squander M Amusement Parks and Public Places. Come! buy and build one of your mail with Ten Dollars to the Lela- tion. Do it to-day so that we may co- Always Appreciated RECORDINGLY Fed Flats MAN'S INCOME Only my own Property when you want a Flat on me. FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY 142 La Salle Street Room 1, OTIS BLOCK e out) Ms. Phone, Douglas 5998 JKSON DIRECTOR T., CHICAGO Pittsburg, Pa. Parties and Weddings. SLOAN DIRECTOR Chicago Rds 721 LIVERY And Amusement Assn. Capital Stock 100 Base-Ball Association, has con- vive room for the former, with it's Permanent Home For The Leland All The People, The Only First It's Theater (Light Theater), Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Double Swing, Boating, Auto and laugh producing concessions, to- gge enough to accommodate 1000 worth Ave., twenty (20) minutes Chicago. Gent Crazy. Stocks have doubled in by those Who Take Stock In Running And Operating This Imme- rature More than 1,000 Persons Will each year, where you can come with- a Citizen unmolested or annoyed describing for Stock in this Corpora- tory Loyal Members of the Race can century Enterprise. Think of it, Squander More than this amount Public Places, where you are not hold one of your own by filling out to the Leland Giants Bass-Ball but we commence to build. 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, Ill. Enclosed please find $..... Part (or infill) as subscription fee for stock of the Leland Giants Base B $_____per month u ____has been paid, at which time I am Name _____ Address _____ City _____ State _____ Description fee for Paints Base Ball and Amusement per month until the full amount which time I am to recieve my stock WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHA-E Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe In Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IL. WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB BASE BALL AT 8 P.M. AUBURN PARK, 79th AND WENTWORTH AVE. Take State Street and Wentworth Avenue Car to the Park. AFTER THE GAME VISIT THE Chauteau De Plaisance The only Summer Resort of its kind in the World. 5222-24-26 STATE STREET. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: J. J. Bradley BRADLE REAL AND 4709 S. Halsted Street Frank H. Lewis, Prop. THE Imported LI N. E. Corner POOL AND BILLIARDS Phone Callnet 2940 J. M. Fields LDS IS CHICAGO Lou Seldon, 4gr.