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BROAD AX United States Senator James B. Frazier Upholds the Acts of President Roosevelt IN DISHONORABLY DISCHARGING THE THREE COMPANIES BELONGING TO THE 25TH REGIMENT. HE DECLARES THAT HE IS NOT IN FAVOR OF SOCIAL EQUALITY, THAT THE PURITY OF THE WHITE RACE MUST BE MAINTAINED IN THE SOUTH. A NEW DANIEL HAS COME TO IUDGEMENT Vol. XIV United States James B, Upholds Presid IN DISHONORABLY DISCHA IES BELONGING TO THE HE DECLARES THAT HE IS EQUALITY, THAT THE RACE MUST BE MAINT A NEW DANIEL HAS COME Wednesday, United States senator James B. Frazier, of Teenn., had his day in the senate on the "Brownsville affair" and being an old time Democrat and sharing the same mossback views on the "Race Question" in the South as the honorable Luke E. Wright, for they both hale from the same state, Teenn., and as president Roosevelt has ever since he moved into the White House, fished for Democratic votes, he readily selected senator Frazier, to serve on the senate military committee, which attempted to investigate the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Texas, in August, 1906, and feeling very grateful for the honor bestowed upon him, senator Frazier freely concluded that it was his solemn duty to stand by president Roosevelt right or wrong and uphold his acts in dishonorably discharging the three companies belonging to the 25th Rergiment. Senator Frazler, took strong ground against the pending bills to restore these men to the army. A part of theme were shown, he said, to have been guilty. Because it is impossible to ascertain which ones are guilty and which are innocent, all should not be restored, he argued. After exhaustively reviewing the testimony Senator Frazler said. "Most men who have investigated this case, or have read the proof, I have no doubt, believe that perhaps 10 per cent of the battalion discharged are actual murderers or abettors of murder. Innocent Not Named. Certainly every tribunal which has investigated has so found. The most searching investigation has failed to point out who are the guilty and who are the innocent. Then shall the government take the chance of placing in is ranks murderers, rather than leave out of its ranks some men who may not be criminals, but upon whom certainly rests suspicion of crime? "Do we owe nothing to the honor and good name of the army itself, to the peace and security of the people among whom these men, if re-enlisted, must be quartered? "Are all our sympathies to be expended upon a body of men, a part of whom are midnight assassins, and none upon the innocent and helpless people of Brownsville who were shot and murdered?" The Foraker bill to reinstate the men, he said, offered a premium on perjury, because it proposed to pay the men for the two years since their discharge if they would repeat the oath they have already taken. Calls Race Wronged. The senator deplored that the race question had been injected into the discussion of this subject, declaring that a greater wrong was never inflicted upon the great body of respectable and law abiding Negroes of this country, "to place them in the attitude of upholding crime and shielding criminals because of their race." Making frank avowal of his own friendliness to the race and of the debt he owed to his black "mammy," and others, Senator Frazier declared: "But I would not be entirely frank if I did not say that upon certain phases of the race question they, the people of Tennessee, in common with the rest of the south, have stood, and I believe will ever stand firm and unalterable. "1. Never again will the Negro race be allowed to politically dominate and control a sovereign state of this union. To do so would be to enthrone ignorance and give it dominion over intelligence and to bring back the reckless debauchery of the reconstruction era. "2. The social barrier which separates the races never will be allowed to be lowered. To do so would destroy the purity and integrity of the white race and shock the sensibilities and outrage the moral sense of the Caucasian race the world over." "For forty years, in patience and kindness, the people of the south have wrestled with this problem. It is still unsolved. What the end will be only God in his infinite wisdom can see. Save South Must Solve Race Issue. "But one thing I do know, that the solution of this problem rests primarily in the hands of the southern white man and the southern black man, and calls for the wisest counsel and broad conservatism of both. I know that it can never be solved by men far removed from its fatal touch, and whose minds are not filled with an appalling sense of the deep racial difficulties with which it is hedged about." It seems that senator Frazier, like the honorable Ben Tillman is unable to discuss the right or the wrong of President Roosevelt in discharging the three companies of soldiers referred to without dragging in his so-called "Race Problem" which is nothing more nor less than eminations from minds steeped in wrong doing and corruption, diseased and perverted. Very pathetically Senator Frazier referred to his "black mammy" which is simply moonshine, for in the good old slavery days in the south, many dear black mammies were sold by southern gentlemen, in order to raise enough money to pay their gambling debts, and to buy slik dresses and diamonds for their wives and daughters, and it seems to us that all southern gentlemen would display mighty good taste if they would give us a rest in relation to their black mammies, for when gentlemen will sell their own flesh and blood for the sake of pilling up wealth, they have not much real love for their so-called black mammies. CHICAGO, JANUARY 23, 1909. [Name] JOSEPH A. O'DONNELL. Eminent lawyer, eloquent orator, pworthy Afro-Americans. Within the past two weeks quite a few Afro-Americans, including lawyers, in common with other citizens, have called on Joseph A. O'Donnell at his law offices in the Metropolitan block, Randolph and La Salle streets, and they have, one and all, urged him to become a candidate for one of the circuit court judgships, at the June election, at the same time pledging him their loyal support. To all their pleas and entreaties, Mr. O'Donnell informed one and all It is freely admitted by all those who are capable of opening their to the bright sunlight that in no section of this broad land are the whites and blacks mixed up in blood relationship to the same exentt as they are in the South, notwithstanding this bold sign senator Frazier, who was never heard of in the senate until last Wednesday, has the brass to rant about "the purity of the white race must be maintained in the south." Senator Frazier, has proven himself to be, a new Daniel come to judgement, and as such, he ought to know, that his so-called "Race Problem" in the south will never be solved, until all discriminatory laws, as to the civil or political rights of the Negro, are effaced from the statute books of the various states composing the union, and that he is treated in every respect as far as the law is concerned as other full fledged American citizens! D. J. KEEFE OPPOSED BY LABOR. Effort Made to Block His Confirmation as Immigration Chief. Washington, Jan. 16.—Considerable opposition to the confirmation of Daniel J. Keefe of Michigan, who was nominated by the President on Dec. 1 to succeed the late Frank Sargent as commissioner general of immigration, has developed in the Senate under the leadership of Mr. Gore of Oklahoma. The objection to confirmation advanced by Mr. Gore is the fact that a report has been made to him by certain labor leaders that Mr. Keefe received the appointment as a reward for breaking with Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, during the recent presidential campaign. Some labor leaders have gone so far as to send letters to members of Congress charging that Mr. Keefe, as a prominent labor leader himself, has been a traitor to the cause of labor. Several efforts have been made by Senator Dillingham, chairman of the popular citizen and steadfast friend of a that he is out of politics, that he is not a candidate for circuit court s judge, that he is confining his time and energy to the practice of law; that he is very thankful to his friends of all races and nationalities for the interest they have manifested in his welfare, and that if they have any law business he will transact it for them in an honest and trustworthy manner, which will be of more bene-fit to him than being honored with a judgshlp. committee on immigration, to obtain action on this nomination in committee, but thus far he has failed. Senator Gore has given notice of a desire to appear before the immigration committee and to argue his objection to Keefe's confirmation. It will be recalled, that six weeks or two months, prior to the presidential election, that Daniel J. Keefe, called at the White House and had a long interview with the President, and after the interview, it was unofficially intimated by some of the members of the kitchen cabinet, that Mr. Keefe would be selected to succeed Frank P. Sargent as Immigration Commissioner. With an oath on his lips; President Roosevelt emphatically denied, that he contemplated then or at any time in the future, of appointing Mr. Keefe to any government position. Never theless, Mr. Keefe went forth from the White House, shouting for Taft and Sherman, and declaring, that "even if Judge Taft had sent laboring men to jail for contempt of court, and had decided that $1.00 a day was sufficient for any workman to support himself and family; that he was the best man to elect President of the United States." So Mr. Keefe with his present job dangling before his eyes, endeavored to make good with the laboring people, by urging them to vote, in favor of continuing the grand old party in power. And less than four weeks, after the presidential election; President Roosevelt, in order to reward Mr. Keefe, for political services he had rendered, his man Friday, William H. Tatt, selected him for immigration commissioner. Showing, that a secret understanding had been entered into, between the President and Mr. Keefe, at their first interview, and that the President, knows how to cuss and sidestep the truth like any common citizen, when he has an object in doing so! President Roosevelt And William H. Taft Are Still in Bad on the "Brownsville Affair" THEY PAID OUT REAL GOOD MONEY BELONGING TO THE PEOPLE. TO UNRESPONSIBLE AND DISHONEST DETECTIVES WHO FURNISHED THEM IN RETURN FOR IT. BOGUS STATEMENTS OR CONFESSIONS IN RELATION TO THE GUILT OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE "SHOOTING UP" OF BROWNSVILLE. THE LATEST REVELATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH IT, PLACE MESSRS. ROOSEVELT AND TAFT, IN A HUMILIATING ATTITUDE. The President on Dec. 16, 1906, sent a message to Congress explaining why he had dismissed in disgrace three whole companies of the Twenty-Fifth infantry. Some members of these companies, he said, had been guilty of the "murderous conduct of shooting up the town of Brownsville." All the rest were guilty, he said, of a "conspiracy of silence" to protect these criminals. in a subsequent conspiracy" to prevent the "discovery" of the alleged "rioters," for a consideration of $5,000 to be paid them during the next six weeks. Then by another contract, on Sep. 1, 1908, Browne and Baldwin were to get $5,000 more, and by a third, on Dec. 11, Browne was to get $5,000. All of these sums have been paid—$15,000 in all—the last payment being The President averred that these charges had been proved by "scores of eyewitnesses," and that the "essential facts" were established "beyond chance of successful contradiction." "There can," he continued, "be no doubt whatever" that the soldiers all knew, "after if not before the attack," which of their comrades "took actual part in this murderous riot." "They have stolidly and as one man broken their oaths of enlistment and refused to help discover the criminals." The average man would conclude from these repeated assertions of certainty—less than half of which have been quoted—that without any doubt some of the soldiers were guilty of a murderous riot and that all the others were guilty of shielding the criminals, and that the incident would have closed with a general public conviction that the President had done right. Yet the President himself was apparently uncertain, for he caused another inquiry to be made at Brownsville, and more testimony to be gathered, and on Jan. 14, 1907, sent another message about it, in which he again insisted that the guilt of the accused soldiers had been "conclusively and overwhelmingly established"—that "every essential point is established beyond possibility of honest question." Then, as we all know, the committee on military affairs went over the whole ground again and sustained the President, and with its report early in 1908 it was supposed that the Brownsville affair had finally closed. But not so. The President was still dissatisfied. In spite of all his assertions of absolute certainty, he felt it necessary to get more evidence to justify his wholesale punishment of these soldiers. And so early in 1908 negotiations were begun with one Herbert J. Browne, a Washington newspaper reporter, and W. G. Baldwin, head of a private detective agency. As a result a contract was entered into with these persons on April 16, 1908, by the War Department, with the President's knowledge and approval. By this contract Browne and Baldwin undertook to "conduct such investigation and inquires" as would enable "the principal participants" in the Brownsville "rot" to be "identified and determined," and also to ascertain the "names of the participants No.16 rosevelt from H. Taft in Bad on the nsville Affair" OD MONEY BELONGING TO SHONEST DETECTIVES WHO RETURN FOR IT. NFESSIONS IN RELATION TO SOLDIERS IN THE "SHOOTING IN CONNECTION WITH IT, rosevelt AND TAFT, IN A IDE. in a subsequent conspiracy" to prevent the "discovery" of the alleged "rioters," for a consideration of $5,000 to be paid during the next six weeks. Then by another contract, on Sept. 1, 1908, Browne and Baldwin were to get $5,000 more, and by a third, on Dec. 11, Browne was to get $5,000. All of these sums have been paid—$15,000 in all—the last payment being made on Jan. 2, 1909. What the President got for this $15,000—taken from the treasury with extremely doubtful warrant of law—has been disclosed in his message of Dec. 14, in which he presented the "evidence" and the "names" secured by Browne and Baldwin and their "operatives," and by Senator Foraker's speech in the Senate on Jan. 12. The affidavits laid before the Senate by Mr. Foraker prove that the President was grossly deceived by his sleuths, and is in the humiliating position of having spent—with very doubtful warrant of law and in direct violation of a statute prohibiting the employment of private detectives—$15,000 for a mess of lies. The exposure of the methods of Browne and Baldwin—how they went out not to get the truth, but to manufacture the "evidence" which the Presiden needed to convince himself, for the third or fourth time, that his wholesale punishments of American soldiers were justified—was outlined on this page in a partial review of Senator Foraker's speech published last Friday. Not only are the "confessions" which Browne and Baldwin told the President they had obtained repudiated by their alleged makers, but reputable men present when these "confessions" were said to have been made deny that anything of the sort was "confessed." These dirty men in a dirty trade deserve no further public attention. The shocking part of the disclosure is the humiliating position in which the President of the United States is left. The chief magistrate of the nation has been befooled, tricked, deluded into putting forth in a public document, in a message to Congress, a lot of falsehoods which he had accepted as truth. He has given the official sanction of his great office to a nasty lot of worthless stuff. Of course the President was deceived. No one believes for a moment that he wished to have lies collected and fabricated. But he has been deceived because in the pride of opinion and in order that he might be justified in a gross blunder, by which he did injustice, he resorted to the paid informer for aid. He offered money for "evidence." He made it an object of material gain (Continued on page 2.) FUELISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholica, Protestants, Priests, Insiders, Single Taxers, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5038 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. RT. REV. H. B. PARKS, D. D., LL. D. CELEBRATED HIS 2TH WED- DING ANNIVISARY. Observations of the Event by a Man on the Corner. Last Saturday, Rt. Rev. H. B. Parks, D. D. L.L. D., 3312 Calumet avenue, celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary; in the afternoon of the day mentioned above the following program was rendered: Invocation, Rt. Rev. E. W. Lampton, D. D.; Life and Times of Bishop Parks, Rev. T. W. Haigler, D. D.; Bishop Parks, presiding officer and leader, Rev. A. Brooks, D. D., Greetings from Tennessee, Rev J. A. Jones D. D., Bishop Parks, as a churchman, Mrs. Anna T. Jackson; Life is What You Make It, Rev J. W. Walker, D. D.; Bishop Parks, an Exponent of African Methodist Principles, Rev W. Sampson Brooks, D. D.; Bishop Parks as an Ideal Bishop, Rev A. L. Pinkston, D. D.; Bishop Parks and the 12th Episcopal District, Rev J. H. Smith, D. D.; A Tribute to Bishop Parks of the 12th Episcopal District, Rev H. I. P. Jones, D. D.; Bishop Parks 25th Marriage Anniversary, Rev I. H. Welch, D. D.; Greetings from North Alabama, Rev J. B. Carter, D. D.; Announcements, Benediction. Evening, 8 p. m. to 11 p. m. Invocation, Rt. Rev. J. S. Flipper, D. D.; Marriage ceremony performed by Rt. Rev. C. T. Shaffer, D. D., and Rt. Rev. A. Grant, D. D. Presentation of gifts —1. From Tennessee. 2. From Alabama. 3. From other states. Banquet—none. 11 p. m. benediction. The man on the corner sets forth the following observations on the Bishop H. B. Parks, a new resident in this city residing at 3312 Calumet avenue, coming here from New York City, they say; but he is the presiding Bishop of the 12th Episcopal district, which takes in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, with a salary of about $8,000 per year. Well, this reverend gentleman, on Saturday night, January 16th, gave what he called his 25th wedding anniversary, which was a little less than an ordinary party. And after having quite a few of his Southern ministers to come up here for the affair, not to speak of the invited city guests, which was quite a few also, this reverend gentleman did not even go to the expense of having the services of a musician of a caterer; not even a glass of cut flowers were to be seen about the place. Now what do you think of an affair like this, given by a man of his position? Those of the society people that were there are ashamed to make it known that they attended such an affair as that. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Harris, and Mr. and Mrs. Sandy W. Trice—From the Man on the Corner. A NEGRO ON THE GRAND JURY. First to Enjoy the Honor Since 1878 —Negro Hatero are Wandering How It Happened. Canton, Miss., Monday, Jan. 11.—The Madison county Circuit Court met in a regular session here today. with Judge Potter on the bench and District Attorney McNiel at his post. The grand jury was impanelled, with F. H. Ray as foreman. The judge's instructions were forcible and explicit. Quite a surprise was created this morning, when it developed that a Negro had been selected on the grand jury, something that has not been done since 1878. The explanation is made by the member of the board of supervisors, who made the selection, that he was advised by lawyers to do so. Andrew Helm, Colored, is very [Name not visible] REV W. SAMPSON BROOKS. Pastor of St. Paul Church Nashville Tenn., who visited Chicago the past week and attended Bishop Parks' 25th wedding anniversary. Pastor of St. Paul Church Nashville Tenn., who visited Chicago the past week and attended Bishop Parks' 25th wedding anniversary. intelligent, and no objection is made against him personally. Considerable comment is made about the matter, however, as being wholly unnecessary and a bad precedent. SUDDEN DEATH OF DR. HENRY CLAY CRESS. Charles Jackson Was In Charge of the Funeral. DIXIE PAPER HITS TILLMAN; Richmond, Va., News-Leader Says Senator's Career Has Been One of Abuse and Villification. The News-Leader of Richmond, Va., in an editorial published on Jan. 11, had the following to say of the Roosevelt-Tillman trouble: "Mr. Tillman began his public career by slandering and abusing everybody. He proclaimed from every stump and in many newspapers that the legislature of his state had been 'bamboozled or debauched' by the corporations and the aristocracy. "He was elected governor in 1892. The legislature elected with him failed to obey his orders exactly and he announced to the public that it was a legislature composed in both branches chiefly of political driftwood. Now he denounces Mr. Roosevelt for insulting a legislative body and most vigorously and solemnly shrieks his protest against the encroachment of the executive rights of the legislature. "In the course of years of service in the United States senate Mr. Tillman has come to be regarded as a kind of a rugged Roman type, a coarse, rude, and violent man, but of the most rigid virtue and integrity and the most stubborn and dauntless courage. "The truth is that while he was governor of South Carolina Mr. Tillman never scrupled to accept favors from corporations for his own personal economies and profit. In the year 1896 a big section of a rakeoff of about $60,000 from the commissions on a bond issue for the refunding of the state debt was traced to Mr. Tillman's nearest political friends and personal associates, and a missing hunk of it, some $12,000, was traced so close to him that it scorched his skm. "In the matter of rebates he has confessed publicly to accepting them from distilleries from which he purchased supplies for the state barroom." "President Roosevelt doubtless knows all the facts. He knows that in South Carolina men of the Wade Hampton type practically they may have held, high or low; that there was a ceaseless effort to fill every position with Tillman contall swingers, dependents, and tools." R. TAYLOR DONATES LOT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WAIT-ERB' HOME. To the Editor of The Broad Ax. Dear Sir:—The Chicago Beach Literary Society of Hyde Park beg leave to thank Mr. Ras Taylor through your paper for the magnificent gift of a lot located at Blue Island, for the purpose of building a home for the old and decrepit walers. Having accepted the same, we hope that the waiters of this city and elsewhere will unite with us and build worthy of the gift. Already the Literary has raised some money to start the said building, which will cost $2,000. We are. Respectfully, Chicago Beach Literary, Jas. Bryson, Sec. Geo. Green, Pres. SUDDEN DEATH OF DR. HENRY CLAY CRESS. Charles Jackson Was In Charge of the Funeral. Dr. Henry Clay Cress, who was well known throughout Chicago, and was an active member of Quinn chapel, and for a while was also a member of Bethel church, passed away last Friday noon at Provident Hospital. Pneumonia was the immediate cause of his death. He was only sick a few days, and was under the care of Dr. J. A. Cotton, and Dr. C. D. Trice. Dr. Cress resided with his wife and their one child, at 2967 Dearborn street. At the time of his death he was not a member of any secret societies which he had formerly affiliated with and at one time was quite prominent among his brethren. Funeral services were held over his remains at Quinn chapel, Sunday, at 1 o'clock, Revs. D. P. Roberts and A. J. Carey officiating. The church was well filled with his admirers and friends, who joined with his wife, child, and other relatives in lamenting his untimely death. His remains found a resting place in Graceland Cemetery. Charles Jackson, the neat and painstaking undertaker, 2959 State street, had charge of the funeral. TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE SOUTH. God and nature have so arranged this universe that along with every wrong, ye, in the wrong itself is born the force that will ultimately overthrow it. Evil may be said to consulde, for it furnishes by its own course the poison with which its career is eventually cut short. Proceeding upon this theory, the Rev. Sutton E. Griggs, A. M. D., of whom ex-President Merrill of Fisk University said, "The man whom I think understands the race question better than any other living man," has made a study of the manner in which injustice toward the Negro is operating on the Southern whites and shows in an indisputable manner in a booklet which he has written, that their course is working the whites immeasurable harm. The Hon. J. C. Napier, widely known throughout the nation, president of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League, trustee of the Anna T. Jeanes' fund, cashier of the One Cent Savings Bank, had the following to say of the booklet in question. "I have read Mr. Griggs booklet called "Needs of the South." I simply wish I had sufficient words to tell just how much I think of it. To my mind its circulation through the South will do more good than any thing that I have ever read. I have sent my copy to President Taft with the strongest indorsement of which I am capable of giving. Long may Mr. Griggs live to give out such able thoughts as are found in that little booklet." This booklet is one of a series that Mr. Griggs will produce showing how the South harms itself whenever it deals unjustly by the Negro, how that its only hope from self inflicted harm is in a policy of fair play. To the thoughtful man who reads this booklet, brief as it is, it is not apparent how it can fail to revolutionize the thinking of the South. The Orion Pub. Co. Nashville, Tenn PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND WILLIAM H. TAFT. (Concluded from page 1.) to get the "evidence" he wanted. The persons he employed knew they would get money if they got the kind of "evidence" the President wanted, and could get him to believe it true. So they got it—and the President believed it. The humiliating position in which the President of the United States consequently finds himself shows what are the pitfalls of government by spies and espionage, and what is the discredit that such a system brings to all concerned—The Chicago Inter Ocean, Jan. 18. '09. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. Mrs. Carrie Warner and guest, Miss Williams of French Lick Springs, visited the Chateau last week. Mr. Danger Talbert, Third Baseman of the Leland Giants Base Ball Club left for Palm Beach, Florida last Tuesday. The Old as well as the Young enjoy themselves at the Chateau. Those not present last Saturday and Sunday missed a rare treat. One hundred and fifty skaters in the Grand March. Come out next Friday, Saturday and Sunday and look on if you don't care to skate. New music and a change of pictures nightly. Grand March at 10:45 P. M. Mrs. J. H. Bolden, who has been very sick with Rheumatism is slowly convalescent. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leland and Mr. and Mrs Andrew Foster visited the Chateau last Saturday. * * * Mr. Henry Lyons, recently of Chicago but now of Des Moines, Iowa paid a visit to the Chateau. * * * Meet me at the Old Fashioned Party Saturday Eve at the Chateau. As there will be a Grand time looking at the skaters eating Possum and Potatoes; then too, the races, greatest comedians, Burt A. Williams and George Walker, will be there with their Chorus, the best in the Land in fact it will be a Williams and Walker night. Mr. H. Stokes of Cincinnati, Ohio visited the Chateau last Saturday ever. After viewing the skaters and visiting the Club Parlors, pronounced that all was complete and wished the Management much success. COURT CALLS NEGRO WHITE. Virginian Sentenced to Prison for Marrying Black. Richmond, Va., Jan. 21.—Marcus Lindsay and his wife have been sentenced to serve eighteen years in the penitentiary. Lindsay is the son of a white woman, and although he believed he had Negro blood in his veins and associated with members of that race, the court held that he had enough Caucasian blood to be legally white. Lindsay recently was married to Sophy Jones, a Negro, the widow of another Negro, and has since lived with her. The two were indicted on the ground that Lindsay is a white man. TWELVE NEGRO CONGRESSMEN IN CUBA. In the election of November 14 with the Liberals, the Negroes of Cuba elected twelve of their number to the National Congress. At no time under the Palma Government were there more than three Negroes in the Cuban Congress. President Gomez, fully aware of the power and nature of the electorate that placed him in office, has appointed many Negroes to the heads of departments and divisions. Ex. THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH CELEBRATES LINCOLN DAY. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln will be celebrated by an illustrated lecture giving a full description of the life and career of Lincoln, taking the most important facts in his life. This will be given on Friday night. On Saturday night an illustrated exhibition will be given for the children with scenes from the life of Lincoln, and also a description of the slave life before the war. Sunday night, Feb. 14, will be an illustrated sermon. The subject will be, "Before and After Freedom." This will be illustrated both on canvass and by living pictures, which will reveal the life of the slave. A feature of the evening service will be a story of an escape from slavery, showing how marvelously God directed a woman to escape from bondage. This story is equal to a book of fiction. Monday Fourth Big Week Williams and Wa Williams and Walker IN THEIR SECOND EDITION OF "BANDANNA LA Book and Lyrics by J. A. Shipp and Alexander Music by Will Marion Cook. NEW SONGS AND OTHER C "BANDANNA LAND" Book and Lyrics by J. A. Shipp and Alexander Rogers. Music by Will Marion Cook. Bert. Williams' NEW SONG "I'm Tired Eatin' In De Restaurants" "I'm Just Crazy About You" AND THE FOLLOW "Peace Wid De World" "Noble "Hard to Love" "Somebody" And "CONSOLA night will close with a platform meet ing, celebrating the birth of Richad Allen. Rev. H. E. Stewart will preach at both services Sunday.—"S." WHITE GIRL WEDS CHINAMAN. First Marriage Annuled by Court, but Law Is Overcome. Livingston, Ala., Jan. 19.—Lum Jack, a Chinaman, and Miss Alice Patton of Meridian, Miss., have been married here. Ten days ago they were married at Meridian, Miss., but the courts set the marriage aside. Lum and his bride came to Alabama because the laws do not prevent such a union. They returned to Meridian, where the groom has a laundry. CHIPS Don't miss the Actors Ball, Coliseum, Jan. 28. Yes, Mr. Geo. Walker, will lead the grand march at the Actors Ball. Mr. Bert Williams will assist in the Grand Pagentry at the Actors Ball. All The White Players at the different theatres will be at the Actors Ball. Mr. Sam'l. W. Thompson is visiting his wife and children in Los Angeles, California. You cannot afford to miss the Actors Ball, it is the talk of Chicago, in Society Circles. 40 Private Boxes will be placed at your disposal at the Actors Ball, for reservations apply to Fred Slaughter, 2971 State st. Mr. Jos, Kelly, 3809 Armour ave., entertained a small party of gentlemen friends at a stag party, Saturday evening, last. Mr. Lyde W. Benjamin, has returned to his home in Boston after spending about ten days in our city as guest of Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall. Susie Cook, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cook, 64th st., and Rhodes ave., is sick and confined to her home. Mrs. George C. Hall is making preparations for a few weeks visit at Tuskegee Institute as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Miss Maria Baldwin, Colored, is principal of the Agassiz school, Cambridge, Mass., which is attended by over six hundred white pupils. Mrs. Jos. Williams, 6554 Champlain ave., is suffering considerably from the pains of a broken arm, caused by a fall which she received a week ago. A large number of society folks are making elaborate preparations to attend the Inauguration of President Elect. Taft in Washington, D. C., March 4th. The Actors Ball at the Collisium Thursday eve., Jan. 28, tendered to Williams and Walker and Company, will be The Big Social Event of the season. County Commissioners Frank C. Leland will introduce Williams and Walker at the Actors Ball tendered to those celeberties by the Colored Theatrical Profession of Chicago, Coliseum Annex, Jan. 28. Miss Lucy Flynn was on last Thursday united in marriage to Mr. W. E. Carlmore, and the newly wedded couple are now at home to their many friends, 4919 Dearborn street. --- and Walker ND EDITION OF NA LAND" pp and Alexander Rogers. Marion Cook. OTHER CHANGES George Walker's NEW SONG "Down Among the Sugar Cane." NEW DANCE "O You Devil" body" "Sue Simmons" OLATION" Martin Flanley owner of the Empire Hotel, 4141 S. Halsted street, has hosts of friends in that neck of the woods, who are urging him to enter the Aldermanic contest in the 29th ward this spring. Jesse Binga, S. E. cor. State and 36th Place, is proving himself to be a first class banker, and he is well pleased with the patronage he continues to receive from those doing business in his neighborhood. Mr. F. C. Whispetal entertained Madames Mary A. Williams, Geo. C. Hall, Mr. Sam'l. W. and Noah D. Thompson, at the Richard B. Harrison recital Thursday evening in honor or of Mr. Lyde W. Benjamin, of Boston. It is expected that there will be a rough and tumble fight, between derman M. McInerney, and former State Senator P. J. McShane, in the 30th ward at the coming spring election, and it is hard to tell which way the cat will jump. Charles H. Anderson, the successful head of the Anderson Fish and Oyster Co., Jacksonville, Florida, has become a regular subscriber to The Broad Ax, which simply means that Mr. Anderson knows a good thing when he sees it. Nathan Saunders, 164 Chestnut st. departed this life the latter part of last week. He was buried last Sunday at 1 o'clock from Wayman chapel. He was a prominent Odd Fellow, and was a member of Lincoln'n Lodge. He was laid to rest by the members of his order, in Rose Hill Cemetery. Emanuel Jackson, 2950 State st., in charge. Isaac N. Powell, the popular and efficient chief clerk of the Board of Election Commissioners( has entered the race, on the Republican side of the fence, for City Treasurer of Chicago. It can be said for Mr. Powell that he is more than qualified to fill any office within the gift of the people. W. D. Neighbors, 95 Washington st. who keeps abreast at the times in all things pertaining to the real estate business, is freely of the opinion that now is the time to catch onto some mighty good bargains, in two, three or six flat buildings and houses and lots, as the prices on all kinds of property will shoot upwards with the approach of spring. R. B. Caldwell, 4733 Dearborn st. captain of the 27th Precinct of the 30th ward, is chuck full of honesty and truthfulness and be it said to the credit of Mr. Caldwell that he is one among the very few Afro-Americans who regard their word as their bond in all business transactions even to the extent of paying subscriptions to newspapers. Joseph H. Hudlum, who has for many years been in charge of the Board of Trade Building, recently bought a fine nine-room house over East among the tones, corner of 42nd and St. Lawrence avenue, and it is expected that before a hundred new moons, Mr. Hudlum and his new bride will be enjoying the comforts of their lovely home. West Virginia's most prominent Republican newspaper, the Wheeling Intelligencer, is a strong advocate of separating the Negro from all other races on the railroads of that state. On the 2nd of the month it published a rabid editorial urging the passage of a "jim-crow" car law, and the col of a "jim-crow" car law, and the Col- "Drinking" cored citizens of Huntington, W. Va. s few days ago held a mass meeting jn which resolutions were . adopted strongly condemning the Intelligencer for the editorial, One of the largest “white” military orgenizations in Cleveland has bad a colored captain ever since its or- ganization. While the state militia facades a Colored battalion, the Ninth, many of the other battalions have “mixed” companies. Cleveland also has a Colored police Heutenant, fifteen Colored teachers in the city schools, including one in a high school, two Negro asisstant superin- tendents in manufacturing establish- ments employing white operatives, and one Colored private secretary to a railroad president. Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, for a long time pastor of St. Stephens’ church, on the West Side, but who is at the present time holding down a first- class charge in Nashville, Tenn., spent the past week in Chicago, while in the city he assisted Bishop and. Mrs. H. B. Parks, 3812 Calumet avenue, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniver- sary, and on Sundayevening he was one of the speakers at the Southern- er’s Day at Bethel church. WOMAN AND FASHION A Senn What Sins 6 Shee, The buge bat that settles bandeau- Jess about the head is relieved from any suggestion of heaviness by the upturning side roll which shows the hair. Over the brim of this big bat of satin in the deep electric or Edi- won blue falls a superb biack willow SEA CO ORR S, £ SS a “Ac uu ee a a) ae EEE <n We Ga pf 4 yi (ly ry ( Li i TN feather. About the low crown is fold- ed a wide scarf of silver tissue, on which are embroidered motifs in the ich blue color. A hat for ceremonious ‘wear could scarcely be more simple yet the very simplicity of this lovely ‘model forms its chief distinction. Feathers and Velvet. ‘The feathers of last year’s chapeau ‘can be freshened up by holding them im the steam from boiling water. This loosens up all the fluffy particles, and if on colored feathers salt is sprinkled it cleans them. They should then be @ried with hot air and for this pur pose can elther be held in front of a register or over a hot stove. When the latter method is used be careful not to sitige the ends. After this each strand should be placed over the back of a silver knife and drawn between it and the thumb of the right hand. Put through this process, they will have a slight curl. ‘The Peoular Moleskin. The extraordinary popularity of moleskin nowadays sets people won- dering how they ever got along with- out it. In the past it was called iron or elephant gray, and there was a great rage some dozen years ago for ‘suits of mole color in covert coating, a material which, except for covert conta, is seldom thought of in these times. Mole seems to have taken an ‘established place among the colors. Yeuna Girl's Dancing Frock. A dainty accordion plaited dancing Gress for little girl is fashioned of fine china silk. The skirt is afforded @ decorative finish by three graduated tucks and is set on to a tiny decollete yoke of the silk, that is enhanced by @ trailing floral embroidery, fanked by delicate featherstitehing. For the guimpe and elbow length pout sleeves —an entirely separate affair—e fine spot net ts used. NINE-ROOM BRICK HOUSE TO RENT. Nineroom brick house to rent, two story end basement, 5031 Lake-ave. in the exclusive Madison Park dis trict. Remt $35.00 per month Apply for further information tq John A. Carroll, 153 E. 58rd street. THE NEGRO QUESTION SOLVED | ea THE KEY eiday ne eee WEY CRIME 7 SESSA are titers terms to agents. Adres, James Samuel Stemons _ 28'S. Hicks Street ‘Philedelphis A THRIFT OWN. Lyman Jennings. By the terms of a contract entered into thirty-one years ago between Ly- man Jennings, then fifty-nine years eld, and the town of Athol, in Massa- ehusetts, be gave the town $9,000 out- right on its agreement to pay him in- terest on it at 6 per cent as long as he Uved—$540 @ year—and then to con- tinue after his death to pay to his widow $180 a year ana to each of his three children $120 a year, an amount equal to that which Jennings would recelve yearly during his lifetime, as long as each of these four heirs might live. The results of the contract are being widely commented upon as a ruinously reckless deal by that thrifty New England town. The selectmen decided to take up with Jennings’ of- fer after applying the figures of a life ‘msurance mortuary table to the five Proposed beneficiaries. Jennings lived thirty years instead of the fourteen ‘and a half years that they had credit- ed him with. The town meantime had paid out to him $16,200. His wife and one daughter now survive him, and the town ts paying them together $300 © year end wust continue to pay one ‘$180 a year and the other $120 so long 8 each lives. In other words, it is Row getting the use of $9,000 for only about 3 1-3 per cent interest. If it in- Vested the principal properly there ‘ought to be a good profit in this. But, supposing Jennings had put that $9,000 tm a good savings bank back in 1877, be would have drawn $540 a year on it for at least fifteen years or so and after that only 5 per cent or 4 per cent or perhaps as low as 3% per cent at times, but on an average interest of 4 per cent for the full period he would have drawn $12,500 in all, and his widow and daughter would now be drawing 4 per cent on it, or $360 a year instead of $300, and, besides this, they, not the town, would own the $9,000. Lyman Jennings wasn't near- ly as good a “figgerer” as the town of Athol was, after all—New York Com- mesefel. A Lucky Investment. John Roberts of Watkins, Schuyler county, a well driller, recently pur- chased of Angelo Dupree, a junk deal- er, an old pump for 10 cents. It was apparently of no value, but he thought there might be some parts that he could use in his business. When Mr. Roberts and his assistant took the pump to one of the wells they were Grilling and started breaking it up, they were greatly surprised to see gold coins drop out of the holes they made. They at once finished the job and found $4,000, nearly all in twenty dol lar gold pieces. Whom the pump be longed to at the time the money was hidden or how long it had been there fs 2 mystery. The latest date of any of the coins was 1888. Mr. Roberts Rt once deposited his find in the Farm- ers and Merchants’ bank at Watkins.— Utica (N. ¥.) Press. ai eee Before leaving for France, after his Tecent visit to England, King Alfonso made a call on a well known firm of Jewelers in Regent street, London. After a cursory glance around the showrooms he looked at his watch and exclaimed: " wish to buy a few things, but am im a great hurry.” He purchased a number of sets ‘of game bird menu holders in silver and enamel, a gold elephant charm, some handsome diamond ornaments and oth. er pleces of jewelry, then, remarking that he had only ten minutes in which to catch his train, suddenly swept up all the articles from the counter and, without waiting for them to be put in paper, thrust them into his pockets and was gone, the visit occupying just three minutes. Ceylon's Camphor Trees. It fs estimated that the planting of ‘between 15,000 and 20,000 acres to camphor trees in Ceylon would de- velop @ production of 8,000,000 pounds, which, according to most authorities, is the quantity of camphor demanded annually at present. The camphor tree naturally grows to a height of forty feet, but in Ceylon it is being kept at the more convenient height of four to five feet. ae ‘The public debt of Japan amounted on March 31, 1908, to about $1,108,- 861,375. Her population, exclusive of her island colonies, Formosa, the Pes- cadores and Sakhalin, is about 48, 000,000. The national debt, therefore, ‘amounts to about $24 per capita, the greater part of which is owed abroad, and the cost of ber civil end military establishments is enormous. Eggshell Ges Manties. Eggsbells as gas mantles is an ides from Germany. The contents are @rawn or blown out, the ends are neatly cut off, and the body of the ‘shell is fixed in position like the reg- wlar article. The light thus obtained fs very good, while the new form of mantle ts durable. The New Game. ‘They say that there is a new game fn the academic department. It is called the James game. You read # Ne ee nae ‘Mr. James when you can't under ‘stand a line and one for yourself when you can—Yale Alumna! Weekly. } Sieeeet, Gitte: Chen” It has been the custom to refer to the sultan of Turkey as “the sick man ef Burope.” It has been moved ané seconded that the word “slick” be in- serted in place of the word “sick.” Are you ready for the question }—But- Po . REAL ESTATE AT LOWEST PRICES ) Easiest Termsto be had in Chicago Loans on first and second Mortgages ) Fire Insurance placed in any company Main Office: Branch Office: ) Suite 64,95 Washington St., CHICAGO, ILL. 3220 State Street "PHONE 4366 CENTRAL Selections Specimen of a Fish That ts Both Queer and Rare. One of ‘the rarest specimens of the fish kingdom known to waters con- tiguous to the North Carolina coast ‘was captured in a seine at Masonboro sound by William Hewlett, a fisher man, says the Wilmington Dispatch. ‘The fish, which was brought to the city, is what is called “the sea bat,” ‘and it ts a perfect reproduction of 8 leather wing bat on a large scale. The fish is about fifteen inches long and about thirty inches across the back. Strange to state, it had a thin, threadlike tail about fifteen inches in Jength, and on each side of the rear ‘appendage were two perfectly formed gloved feet, with a smaller dimension having the exact appearance of 2 thumb with the other part of the hand mittened. The mouth of the strange specimen was about five inches across, and on each side of the mouth or the underside of the body there were five “strainers,” or holes, through which the fish is said to rid itself of refuse Products resulting from the forage it Picks up at the bottom of the sea. The top of the fish was a dark slate color, and the under part of the body was white. One old negro fisherman more than seventy years old declared that this was only the second specimen of the sea bat he had ever seen in his long experience as a fisherman. The spect- men, which had a truly uncanny ap- Dearance, will probably be sent to the @tate muscem at Raleich. _ Frying Pan Stage. “The late Mrs. William Astor,> sal ® colonial dame, “took, after all, an optimistic view of American society. She criticised our faults, but she be Meved in our future. American so clety, she used to say, would even- tually be the finest in the world. Once she declared at a dinner that it was the proper social sequence to get, like ‘us, the money first and the refinement and culture afterward. She said that ‘when she looked at the uncouth mil- Honaire of today and thought of the splendid creature to come after him she felt as optimistic as the fisher man who, casting bis line, brought up frying pan and said: “‘Oh, that's a good beginning—a fry- ing pan! I have only to catch a fish ow and I shall be all right’ "—Wash- fagton Post. iit Mittin. ‘That the Egyptians made sea voy- ages long before the time of Solomon, hitherto considered the first ocean traveler on a large scale, is declared by Professor James H. Breasted to be conclusively proved by a tablet found by him in Palermo, Sicily, dur ing the three years’ exploring trip from which he recently returned. Pro- fessor Breasted asserts that the in- scriptions on the tablet show that the Egyptian king who built the first pyramids made & voyage with forty ships across the Mediterranean to Lebanon to obtain cedar for a tem- ple. This journey, according to the Professor, was made in the thirtieth century B. C., or 2,000 years before Solomon made his voyage for 2 sim- far purpose. a ii ie Some particulars are given in the British Medical Journal of a proposal te provide an ocean sanitarium for tu- Dereulosis. The suggestion is to fit up & sailing ship of about 2,000 tons for not less than fifty patients, each to be provided with a large and well venti lated cabin. The deck would be used for what is commonly called the ve randa treatment. The intention of the promoters is thst the ship shall cruise fm the neighborhood of the Canaries, ‘where it will have the advantage of ‘the trade winds and of an equable ‘imate, while a port will not be far Gixtant in case of the onset of bed ‘weather. | A Majestic loo Wall. Th a letter from Professor Bilge worth Davis, 2 member of the British antarctic expedition now secking s ‘way toward the south pole, there oc- ears = vivid Gescription of the great antarctic ice barrier, which was en- countered by the Mttle ship Nimrod. “Tt is a sight,” says Professor Davis, “thet beggars ell description. Imag- fe a continuous ico wall 500 miles Jong and one to two hundred feet Mgh, the exquisite bine of the cre- ‘vasses contrasting finely with the das- afing white of the weathered ice on gither aide of them.” Selections NAVAL SHARPSHOOTERS. (Change Six Yeare Has Made in Our ‘Men Behind the Guns. ‘The American navy now leads the world in accuracy and rapidity of shooting. Six years ago it was behind the navy of every first class power. Six years ago the standard for firing heavy turret guns, which are now a battleship’s sole weapon of conse- quence in battle, was once in five min- Utes. ‘The average of hits on the tar- get now in use would not have been nce an hour. At present these guns fire an average of one and a half shots a minute. They hit the target once a minute. Six years ago the standard rate of fire for six inch guns was less than two shots a minute. As shown by the tests of 1902, less than one shot in six bit the target. Today these guns frequently make as many as twelve bits a minute, and the av- erage of the whole navy fs six hits « minute. These are the records at the 1,600 yard range. At the last long range target practice in Massachusetts bay the battleships of the north At- lantic fleet, firing at a ‘target from three to five miles away, averaged nearly 30 per cent of hits. With a tar- get one-third the size of the ships at Santiago at distances from two to three times as goxat our fleet made more than fifteen times the percentage of hits. Translated into terms of war these cuanee mean this: Six years ago an American battleship would not bit an enemy's vessel at a battle range of three miles or more oftener than twice an hour. Today every ship of an ene- my’s fleet steaming into range would be struck by two tons of steel shell every minute by every modern Ameri- can ship firing at her. Solid metal ‘spatters like mud when these great Projectiles strike it, When charged ‘with their high explosives these shells are swept through the ship in frag- ments of from 200 pounds in weight down to the finest steel dust. In all human probability no ship in the world could stand such a fire fifteen ‘minutes.—McClure’s. tne Anowieage That Hurts. Towne—So Dumles married a col- lege woman. My, it must be fierce for him to be tied toa woman who knows 80 much that he doesn't know! Browne—Oh, that doesn’t hurt him so much as the fact that she knows “how” much he doesn't know.—Catho- Me Standard and Times. Striving to Please. “Yes,” sald the housewife, “yours is @ sad story. But it isn’t the same story you told last year.” “Well, lady.” answered Plodding Pete, “you surely wouldn't expect a man to go all dat time an’ not show any improvement!”—Washington Star. A Strictly Feminine Comment. “I notice that a leading actress tele- phoned that her automobile was bro- Ken down and she couldn't attend a meeting of her creditors.” “Wasn't that sweet of her? Going to all that trouble for a lot of fussy old creditors!”—Pittsburg Post. Notice It? “People usually try to do as they are done by.” “For instance?” “Whenever some one is run down by & motor car a lot of folks begin run- ming down the cars.” — Kansas City ‘Times. A Great Difference. “Margaret, it was very naughty of noes You said if buy you that new dolly you'd go ‘to the dentist's without a murmur.” “I didn’t murmur, muvver. I scream- o4."—Lippincott's Magazine. Wise Youth. “Come,” said the reckless rounder, “get in the push and be « high filer.” “Not me.” replied the wise youth. “Tre noticed that it is usually the high filer who drops the hardest.”—Pitts- burg Post. A Mixup. “What made Miss Flip look so sour ‘at the ball last night?” “Probably because she was in a pic- ‘Me at her pretty rival's being so suc- @emsful in her preserves.”—Baltimore ‘American. An Odd Combination. “Young De Peyster's match with that girl who so unexpectedly fell into ‘@ fortune was 2 brilliant stroke.” “In what way?” “He made « lucky hit with 2 lecky mie.” JohnJ. Dunn wa-tceate HCOALS mez ISQAts wipectchorah yma beret ase FACTS IN FEW LINES "pepe tha etd Denmark has a population of 2,508,- 000. Of these 500,000 are in Copenba- gen and its suburbs. ‘There is a great shortage of officers fm the Russian army. In the infantry alone it amounts to 3,000. During each month for the last two years about 21,000 Russian immigrants have entered the port of New York. Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand bad to pay a deficiency of $811,810 on last year’s working of the Pacific cable. An air gun of large size, working on the principle of the pneumatic ham- mer, has been devised for killing ani- mals in a humane manner. On her preliminary trials the British destroyer Swift maintained for sev- eral hours a speed of 383 knots, or nearly forty-five miles an hour. She is the fastest vessel ever built. Seven hundred of the persons who died in Ireland last year were stated to be ninety-five years of age or up- ward, and no fewer than 145 were re- ported to be centenarians or upward. ‘The British built but German owned ae eter eee Se cane off Cape Flattery, has been pur- |chased by Americans and converted nto the first six masted barkentine in the world. Lassa, the mysterious capital of Tibet, is beginning to show longings for the amenities of western civiliza- tion. It has just placed a contract with a Calcutta firm to supply a large number of European band instru- ments. Mme. Poppova is a Russian woman who has invented an airship and has called it the Annulated Dragon, which gives one an idea of its shape. There is a system of hoops that serves to steer it, and the ship is said to adapt itself to every sort of wind very read- ily. A Pittsfield (Mass.) business house has adopted the policy of having a young woman bill collector. The girl is meeting with more success than three men, it 1s sald. Her favorite form of salutation is to sraile prettily and ask, “Don't you want te pay your bill today?” ‘The answer is nearly al- ways yes. ‘A few years ago the currency of Austria was changed from guidens and kreutzers to crowns and bellers. To deceive customers figures are still sometimes placed in shop windows in sach a way that florins are mistaken for crowns and bills made accordingly. By a recent ordinance this has been made a punishable act. ‘There has died in the workhouse at Dorchester, England, a woman named Harriet Hammett, a native of Tol. puddle, who was admitted to the workhouse in 18/4 As her age at death was sixty-nine, she must have donned workhouse garb when five years old, The only home she ever Temembered was “the house.” ‘The beneficial effect of storage on the sanitary quality of water now seems to be well established, and a further contribution to the data on the subject has just been made by one of the experts of the London water board. He has shown that typhoid bacillt put im river water gradually disappear as the water remains longer in storage. Sweden has three factories building imitations of American mowers and reapers, The largest of these built 6,000 to 7,000 machines for the season of 1908, copying almost exclusively one of the best selling American mowers. ‘Thetr reaper is an exact copy of the American original, Swedish made parts fitting American built machines. The new Turkish minister of edinca- tion says: “We have compulsory edu- cation at present, but we lack primary schools. We shall establish them. We shall develop the existing higher edu- cation. The study of history will now be allowed. We want a regime of Uberty of the press, even with all the cris % mane, for it te 8 secomaey ‘There has been opened in Mannheim, Germany, a tuberculosis museum, the object of which is to educate the pub- le as to the causes, cure and preven- tion of consumption. The museum is ‘opened three times a week for a period of two bours, and during that time physicians are present, who instruct ‘Visttors in the manner of fighting the | A Pleasant Winter Evening, ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF ONE? ‘Then Visit the “Chateau,” 6824 State ‘Street, Tonight. There is a fine Picture Show Roller Skating, Dancing and _supert muni, refreshments and. folly go0 ‘oa good people. No proscrip Sevier at bes Admission, 10 cents—one dime LELAND GIANTS’ BASEBALL AND AMUSETIENT ASS’N. - = H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4680 . O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO JAMES J. GRAY ATTORNEY AT LAW Surte 1518 Ashland Block ee AND CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Tel. Central 4723 aaa Dr. W. E. MACKEY THE ELITE BURERT waaay ‘State eaeee CHICAQL ‘Phone Oakland 1528 F. A. Rawlins ‘The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR ) When his work is finished | you have no displeasure, i ‘State Street CHICAGO ‘Phone Douglas 1550 ss BROAD AX CAN BE ae ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS. ‘From on and after this date, The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, a cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George I. Martin, maker of fine ci- gars, and news stand, 342 3ist street, near State. ‘Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions ‘and news stand, 131 W. Sist street, near Dearborn. ‘W. 8. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 354 Sist street, J. RB. Peters, cigars, tobacco, laun- ry office and news stand, 338 27st street. T. B. Hall, iaundry office, cigars, tobsceo and news stand, 281 29th street. ‘Mrs. A. E. Baker, notions, cigars and news stand, 419 36th street. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news ‘stand, 3532 State street. B D. Bart, cigars, notions and ‘Rews stand, 2636 State street. BR A. Jones news stand and barber shop, 4827 State street. 1. W. Washington, Chicago Beach ‘Hotel, Hyde Park. LIKE HAMMERED GOLD. Proposed Monument For the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition monument, to be the crowning work of sculpture of the international exhibition of 1900, will be covered with solid gold leaf. Gold donations to the amount of $7,000, necessary to completely cover the great shaft with the shining metal, will be solicited from Alaskans, Yukoners and the people of Seattle. An appropriation to cover the cost of building the monument in staff has been authorized, the drawings made and the sculptor is engaged in building his clay model. The monument is to stand in the center of the plaza in front of the magnificent group of United States government buildings and directly at the head of the Cascades. Looking south from the monument will be first the central features of the exposition, and then the eye will travel over a panorama of eighty miles of mountain, lake and woodland scenery to Rainier and the Cascade range. The exposition monument is to be more than seventy feet in height. The monument proper will stand on a pedestal twenty feet high. This column will be of Corinthian design, on the top of which will be a globe giving the signs of the zodiac. On top of this globe will be a huge American eagle with outstretched wings, as in flight. Grouped about the base of the monument will be three seated female figures symbolic of the northland, the south seas and the orient. Every foot of this great monument will have the appearance of having been hammered out of pure gold if the donations are sufficient to complete the undertaking.—Seattle Times. Youthful Suicides There is a shocking proneness among youthful Bengalis to kill themselves on the least pretext. It seems to be an exaggerated form of silliness, and one would like to have a medical opinion on the matter. A student is reprimanded by his parent because his studies don't show the advancement expected. The boy swallows some opium and ends his studies. A girl wife in Howrah takes a dislike to the second choice of her husband. She also secures an exit by the easy means of opium. A Bengali woman in Howrah wanted to go on a pilgrimage to Gays. Her mother said she could not advance the railway fare, and the girl went out to a tree and hanged herself. These are all recent cases.—Calcutta Empire. A. Pleasant Prison The prison at Cettinje, Montenegro, has been described as surely the most extraordinary one in existence. It presents little to indicate that it is a place of confinement, there being apparently nothing between the prisoners and absolute liberty. There are no outer prison walls, and in the cells the men-about eight or ten to each-are as contentedly and comfortably housed as their own personal domestic belongings can make them. Moreover, they are generously fed, and cigarettes without stint, wine occasionally and no work at all combine to check any desire to escape more effectually than would strong walls, iron bars and an army of jailers—London Globe. Tees In the Trestops Here is a story speaking better for the German emperor's goodness of heart than his knowledge of the ancient and royal game of golf. "So you want ground for your golf club, Sir Frank?" said the kaler to the British ambassador at Berlin. "We haven't got nice grass meadows round Berlin, as you have in England, but I will give you a bit of the Grunewald." a pine forest near Berlin and a great Sunday resort of the Berliners. "Ah, sire," Sir Frank Lascelles replied, "I am afraid there would be too many trees!" "Trees!" instantly replied the emperor, with bonhomme. "All the better to keep the sun off you when you are playing in the summer!" Cold Storage Poultry. The state board of health of Massachusetts has issued a bulletin on cold storage poultry in which this advice is given to housekeepers: "In order to avoid obtaining waterlogged and refrozen fowls the consumer should demand the frozen bird and thaw it himself. If thawed quickly by immersion in a bucket of hot water it may be eaten with impunity and with relish the same day it is purchased, or if hung overnight at room temperature it may be ready for use the day following." The Funny English. James S. Palmer, vice president elect of the United States, may possibly look forward to filling one day the position of president. It will be remembered that on the death of President McKinley, Mr. Roosevelt, who was then vice president, succeeded automatically to the presidency without opposition. Should anything happen to Mr. Taft (which we sincerely trust, for his sake, may not be the case) Mr. Palmer would probably, if precedent were followed, take his place. — Illustrated London News. The Moving In Party. "Yes, they have a new sort of function in Chicago that is quite the rage." "What is it called?" "It's called a moving in party. When the hostess learns that the empty mouse next door is to be occupied she calls her guests by telephone, and they come and draw cuts for the front windows and then sit there and sneeze up the new neighbor's stuff as the movers carry it in"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Wealth of Our Nation. In 1880 the United States held the fourth rank among the manufacturing nations. Great Britain, France and Germany were ahead of us, in the order named. We passed Great Britain in 1880, and today the aggregate of our manufactures equals that of Great Britain, Germany and France combined. The value of our products of manufactures has doubled since 1888. The value of our exports of manufactures has doubled since 1898. In the value of the property represented manufactures rank third among the great activities of the United States, agriculture being first and the railroads being second, but in the number of persons employed agriculture is the only interest which leads manufactures. Manufactures are far ahead of agriculture in the value of the products. The money invested in manufactures represents an eighth of the value of all the real and personal property in the country. The United States manufactures 35 per cent of all the manufactured products of the world. The value of the farm property of the United States increased from $7,980,000,000 in 1880 to $20,514,000,000 in 1900 and about $25,000,000 in 1908. A Disusted Dog. A family downtown, having a false grate in one of the rooms of the house, placed some red paper behind it to give it the effect of fire. On one of the coldest days the dog belonging to the household came in from out of doors and, seeing the paper in the grate, deliberately walked up to it and laid down before it, curling up in the best way to receive the glowing heat as it came from the fire. He remained motionless for a few moments. Feeling no warmth, he raised his head and looked over his shoulder at the grate. Still feeling no heat, he went across and carefully applied his nose to the grate and smelt of it. It was cold as ice. With a look of the most supreme disgust, his tall curled down between his legs, every hair on his body saying "Tm sold," the dog trotted out of the room, not even deigning to cast a look at the party in the room who had watched his actions and laughed so heartily at his misfortune. That dog had reason as well as instinct—Troy Times. New Use of Electricity in Printing. Printed sheets as delivered from the press frequently "offset" or smear from undried ink. An electrical method of preventing this has recently been patented. The sheets as they leave the press first pass over electric heaters and also over a conductor carrying a current of very high tension, from which a silent discharge or "leakage" of electricity passes to the paper. The combined effects of the heat and of the electrical discharge, together with the chemical action of the ozone generated in the air by the latter, "set" the ink so that it cannot smear. Besides this, the effect of any frictional electricity already present on the sheets, preventing their piling properly, is neutralized by the discharge. New York Herald. Harmful Precedent. "There are no telephones in English banks," said a banker. "Even the great Bank of England itself has no telephone. "That sort of thing is what sets England behind the times—that observance of tradition, that refusal of new things, as though simply because they are new they must of necessity be vulgar and bad. "A London bank and its branches were swindled out of a large sum the other day. The swindle would have failed had a system of telephones connected these banks. "But in the past banks had no telephones in England. Therefore precedent requires that they do without them still." Bulgaria's Eclipse. Bulgaria is sufficiently in the public eye just now to compensate her for a total eclipse that lasted for three or four centuries. Between the obliteration of mediaeval Bulgaria by the conquering Turk and her very modern resurrection she disappeared more completely than Poland ever has. The very name of Bulgaria was remembered only by the learned. Sir Charles Elliot points out that in journeying from Belgrade to Constantinople in 1884 Klinglake must have passed straight across Bulgaria, yet when describing his travels in "Eothem" he makes no allusion to the country or its inhabitants. Refusing to "Feed the Brute." Herding to *feed the brute*. "If," says Lady Frances Balfour, "women who cook and do laundry work refused to cook and wash shirts for their men folk before they return home they would get the suffrage very quickly." Our own impression is that a good many of the recalcitrant women folk would get something else first, for if you refuse to "feed the brute" the brute is very apt to wax brutal. As to the less brutal brute, he would probably be content to put his washing out, decline to "come home to his tea" and stop supplies while waiting for the clouds to roll by.-Pall Mall Gazette. Australian Barmalds. The barmaids of Sydney and Melbourne are the prettiest in the world. They are mostly recruited from Tasmania, the insular state of the commonwealth, which has been christened the "Chiccassia of the Colonies" on account of the surpassing loveliness of its daughters, several of whom have found their way into the select pages of Dod and Delbrett.—London Chronicle. 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