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M. FERDINAND J. KARASEK. Republican candidate for the nomination for Circluit Court Judge of Cook County Judicial Primary election Tuesday, April 13th. Mr. Ferdinand J. Karasek Republican candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., was born in Bohemia in 1867. When five years of age, he came to Chicago with his parents and was educated in the public schools. He comes from a family of six children, three boys and three girls. When twelve years of age, he was obliged to go to work; he continued in commercial life, working finally for Marshall Field & Company, Retail. Being ambitious for an education, in 1886 he prevailed upon his parents to allow him to enter Knox Academy at Galesburg, Illinois, he helping to pay for his education by doing work outside of school hours. After graduating from a three years' course in the Academy, he entered Knox College and took the classical course and graduated in 1893. College; prominent among these in the famous Colton Debate Prize, the highest honor in debating, the Knox College Oratorial Prize, the highest honor in public speaking conferred by the College. After graduating from Knox College, he took a two years post-graduate course at Emerson College, Boston Mass. He thereupon entered Northwestern University Law School and graduated in 1897. Ever since this time he has devoted himself to private practice of law. In 1894 he married Miss Marjorie Lincoln Allen, of Providence, Rhode Island, the sweetheart of college days and now resides at 836 S. Trumbull avenue, with his wife and two children. He has offices at 910 Ashland Block. Mr. Karasek is an industrious In his second year in the Academy, he was brought into prominence by winning the declaration contest and every year thereafter during his following six years, he carried off various honors, both in the Academy and JUDER CHARLES M. WALKER One of the nine Democratic Judges to recieve a high vote by the members of the Chicago Bar Association for re-nomination, at the judicial Primaries Tuesday, April 13. HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY College; prominent among these is the famous Colton Debate Prize, the highest honor in debating, the Knox College Oratorial Prize, the highest honor in public speaking conferred by the College. After graduating from Knox College he took a two years post-graduate course at Emerson College, Boston, Mass. He thereupon entered Northwestern University Law School and graduated in 1897. Ever since that time he has devoted himself to private practice of law. In 1894 he married Marjorie Lincoln Allen, of Providence, Rhode Island, the sweetheart of college days, and now resides at 836 S. Trumbull avenue, with his wife and two children. He has offices at 910 Ashland Block. Mr. Karasek is an industrious, clean-cut honorable citizen. During his eleven years practice as an attorney, he has been associated in many important legal controversies. He was counsel for Mr. Paul A. Hazard (now Sanitary Trustee) in the mandamus proceedings against County Clerk Joseph F. Haas, which was the first suit of its kind under the new primary law, and was successful in compelling the County Clerk to place the name of Paul A. Hazard at the head of the list of candidates for the office of Sanitary-Trustee; which position on the ballot and the important litigation in connection therewith were largely instrumental in electing Mr. Paul A. Hazard to the office he now holds. By a strange coincidence Mr. Karasek was obliged to file a similar suit in his own behalf in the present primary election to compel County Clerk Mr. Joseph F. Haas to give Mr. Karasek his proper place on the primary ballot; in which case the court ruled that Mr. Karasek's petition was filed second, thus putting Mr. Karasek's name among the Circuit Court Judges the fifteenth name from the top, or the tenth name from the bottom on the primary ballot. By his large acquaintance with matters of civic government, by temperament training and education, Mr. Ferdinand J. Karasek is thoroughly qualified for the office of Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He is a man of unusual ability; we recommend him for this high office and urge our friends and readers to extend to him their hearty and universal support at the coming judicial primary on Tuesday, April 13. REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC JUDICIAL CANDIDATES TO BE VOTED FOR AT THE PRIMARIES TUESDAY, APRIL 13TH. The Republican Judicial candidates to be voted for at the primaries, Tuesday, April 13, are as follows: FOR JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT. Vote For One. Theodore Brentano. FOR JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COURT Vote for Fourteen. George A. Carpenter, John Gibbons, Merritt W. Pinckney, Frederick A. Smith, Richard S. Tuthill, Jesse A. Baldwin, Charles Alling, Jr., John F. Holland, Henry W. Price, Kickham Scanlan, Frank P. Schmitt, Edwin A. Olson, Homer E. Tinsman, Adelor J. Petit, Ferdinand, J. Karasek Charles G. Neely, Warwick A. Shaw, Pliny B. Smith, Henry W. Leman, Benjamin D. Magruder, Warren Pease, Ernest Saunders, McKenzie Cleland, Thomas Taylor, Jr. The following are the Democratic candidates: Thomas G. Windes, Francis Adams, Julian W. Mack, Edward O. Brown, Richard W. Clifford, Lockwood Honore, Frank Baker, Charles M. Walker, John P. McGoorty, Sigmund Zeiler, Donald L. Morrill, George Kersten, William H. Arthur, Richard E. Burke, John T. Murray, William D. Munhall, Joseph Sabath. The Socialists candidates for Circuit Judges, are as follows: Seymur Stedman, William A. Cunne, Philip S. Brown, William Bross Lloyd, Peter Sissman, Carl Strover, Marcus H. Taft, Henry E. Murphy, Louis J. Delson, William Feathers, A. B. Hvale, D. J. Bentall, Samuel Block, J. J. Kral. Only fourteen candidates can be voted for on either one of these tickets, and the fourteen receiving the highest number of votes are the only candidates, be they Democrats, Republicans or Socialists, that can enter the running at the Judicial election to be held the first week in June. LOOK WHOSE COMING. Canta Day, (Carrie Washington), and her dancing Boys gong west for 16-weeks, after a successful run in the east, week of April 12th, Majestic Theatre. THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE NEGRO RACE. The greatest enemy of the Negro race is not the people of any other race, but the greatest enemy of the race is the Negroes themselves. The beeteting sin of the race is idle gossip and the dissemination of evil report. No other people on God's green foot stool can sling a thousandth part of the mud and slime that can be thrown by the Negro. We are inclined to believe that envy and jealousy are at the bottom of a great deal of what is circulated to the detriment of others. It is an unfortunate fact that there is but little love on the part of one Negro for another Negro. There is no such thing as race pride and love. A man that will sacrifice, struggle and aspire to get up in the world will excite more of contempt and hatred from his people than sympathy and encouragement. The Negro that is poor in many instances, hates the man that has the least more than he has. His belief seems to be that all Negroes should be poor together. The Negro that tries to accumulate something is a marked man for the arrows of slander and evil report. It is a serious condition that confronts the race. If those that aspire to be something are to be punished by those that don't want to be anybody the world ought to know it. Much of the trouble and strife in the community are caused by ignorant, shiftless and idle gossips that either have nothing to do or won't do anything else but run about over the community lying on everybody that they can think about. The only cure for the gossiping habit is education and staying at home. It may be an infringement on the personal rights of the individual, but it would conserve the public welfare if some means were found by which the idling, visiting gossips may be forced to stay at home. It would be well for the state if some definite punishment were doled out to the public gossip. The Negro race is seriously handicapped by this class of people, and the sooner an outcry is made against that class of cattle the better it will be for the race. In the days of ancient Rome when the great civil war was raging between the hostile forces of the triumvirate, the victim captured by the enemy was sure of death if he was so unfortunate as to own any property. Such seems to be the case with our people. If a man has even changing clothes he is the victim of evil report and slander.—The Sentinel, Memphis Tenn., April 3, 1909. This is one of the best articles that has been written in many a day, and as stated by the editor of The Sentinel, the majority of the Colored people spend one half of their lives in peddling slander and scandal.—Editor. "CAPTAIN SWIFT" TO BE PRESENTED AT THE PEKIN IN THE INTEREST OF EARL WILSON. One of the Competitors of the Chicago American Around the World Contest. Mr. Robt. T. Motts proprietor and manager of the Pekin Theatre, will on the afternoon of April 15 at a special matinee given in the interest of Earl Wilson, one of the competitors of the "Chicago American Around the World Contest" present "Captain Swift," a show, which during its short run received unstinted praise from the theatre-going public. The efforts of this bright young Colored boy was brought to Mr. Motts' attention by a number of prominent citizens, and he readily agreed to do anything within his power to further the cause of the project. It is to be hoped that patriotism will inspire every one to attend this matinee, thereby aiding this young man in reaching the goal of his ambition. Mr. Motts, deserves to be highly complimented for the active interest, is displaying in behalf of Earl Wilson, the only Afro-American boy; in The Chicago American around the world contest, and at the special M. JUDGE EDWARD OSGOOD BROWN. Highly indorsed by the Chicago B Judge of the Circuit Court. Highly indored by the Chicago Bar Association for re-nomination for Judge of the Circuit Court. Highly indored by the Chicago Bar Association for re-nomination for Judge of the Circuit Court. matinee at the Pekin, Thursday afternoon April 15, the house should be crowded from pit to dome, by those who are financially interested in the success of Earl Wilson. EASTER SERVICE AT QUINN CHAPEL. The following program will be rendered, at Quinn Chapel, Easter Sunday: "He has risen, come see the place where the Lord Lay." Easter Song Service by the Choir of Quinn Chapel, A. M. B. Church, Sunday evening, April 11, 1909, at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, Director; Miss Elizabeth Williams, Accompanist; Rev. D. P. Roberts, D. D., Pastor. Program—1. Processional. 2. Prayer, Dr. D. P. Roberts. 3. Chorus, "Magnificat," Marks. 4. On Wings of Living Light, Hammond, Miss Ida Stokes. 5. Chorus, "On That First Easter Morning," Spence. 6. Hosanna, Granier, Miss Eliza McCoomer. 7. HON. JOHN P. McGOORTY. Eminent lawyer and highly esteemed and popular citizen and Democratio candidate for the nomination for judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. ```markdown ``` Chorus, "Te Deum Laudamus in G," Calkin. 8. Salvation, Williams, Miss Ida Stevenson. 9. Chorus, "Awake Thou That Sleepest," Spence. 10. Solo, Mrs. Clara Jackson Hutchinson. 11. Quartette, "The-Lord is Nigh," Sullivan, Misses Etta Hill, Rebecca Williams, Messrs. Rollin R. Dent, James Craig. 12. Chorus, "Remember Thy Tender Meries," Farmer. 13. Nunc Dimittis, Marks. 14. Doxology, Benediction. In addition to the above program on Sunday morning, Miss Maud Roberts, will be soprano soloist. Mr. Kemper Hareld, violin soloist. In the evening, there will be a song service by the choir, assisted by Mrs. Clara Jackson-Hutchinson, as soprano soloist. Another special feature of the service at night will be a song composed by Frank B. Williams, a young Colored composer. The Senior and Junior choirs will be under the direction of their highly accomplished instructor Mrs. Martha B. Anderson. --- No.27 Many Surprises Came To the Surface at the Municipal Election In Chicago ISAAC N. POWELL ELECTED CITY TREASURER OVER HARRY R. HILDRETH. WHO CAN ATTRIBUTE HIS DEFEAT TO FRANK LEDERER AND FREDERICK W. BLOCKI, HIS CAMPAIGN MANAGERS. FRANCIS D. CONNERY ELECTED CITY CLERK OVER JACOB H. MARKS. ALDERMAN JAMES H. LAWLEY, WON OUT IN THE 14TH WARD. ALDERMAN MICHAEL McINERNEY, TRIUMPHED OVER VAN HOUTEN IN THE 30TH WARD. ALDERMEN MOYNIHAN, DOWNEY, O'CONNELL, BURKE, RACE, JOSETTI AND KRUGER FELL ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BREASTWORKS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE WARDS. The municipal election held in this city last Tuesday, caused many surprises to float to the surface. At the beginning of the contest for the municipal offices, it looked as though Harry R. Hildreth Jr., would defeat Isaac N. Powell, for city treasurer in an easy walk, but the last two weeks before the contest closed the tide turned from Hildreth, to Powell, this was largely due to the fact, that Frank Lederer and Frederick W. Blocki, poorly managed his campaign; these two self-important gentlemen, who have proven themselves to be green-horns in politics were positive before the election that they carried all the voters in this city in their hip pockets, and that Harry Hildreth was dead sure of being elected, but the returns told a different tale, for Isaac N. Powell, snatched the prize from him and for the first time in many years Chicago has a Republican city treasurer, and it is plainly written in the political skies that the Republicans will continue to run Chicago, which is a Democratic city, as long as the present would be leaders control the Democratic party. It was evident from the first that Francis D. Connery, owing to his splendid record in the city council would be elected city clerk, and he put Jacob H. Marks, his Republican appointer to the bad with 6,495 votes on his side of the game. The aldermanic contest, was a stem winder, in many respects, and after a rough and tumble fight, so to speak, Alderman James H. Lawley, won out in the 14th Ward, over Joseph F. Connery and Alderman Michael McInerney, triumphed over Van Houten in the 30th Ward, with almost three thousand majority at his back, proving that the voters in the 30th Ward were more than willing to stand by him despite the bitter fight made against him by the municipal voters league. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. Aldermen Moyinhan, Downey, O'Connell, Burke, Race, Josetti, and Kruger fell on the outside of the breastworks in their respective Wards, much to the regret of their many friends and supporters. The Democrats and the Republicans split even each, party elected 18 Aldermen as follows: 1—*Michael Kenna (dem.) 2—*George F. Harding Jr. (rep.) 3—*Milton J. Foreman (rep.) 4—James M. Dailey (dem.) 5—John J. Sheahan (dem.) 6—Theodore K. Long (rep.) 7—Charles E. Merriam (rep.) 8—John R. Emerson (dem.) 9—*Dennis J. Egan (dem.) 10—*Thomas F. Scully (dem.) 11—*Ed. F. Cullerton (dem.) 12—Long—*M. Zimmer (dem.) 12—Short—A. J. Cermak (dem.) 13—*Arthur W. Fulton (rep.) 14—*James H. Lawley (rep.) 15—Henry Uttatel (rep.) 16—*Stanley H. Kunz (dem.) 17—*Lewis D. Stits (rep.) 18—*John J. Brennan (dem.) 19—*John Powers (dem.) 20—*John P. Stewart (rep.) 21—*Francis W. Taylor (rep.) 22—Herman F. Bauler (dem.) 23—*Jacob A. Hey (rep.) 24—August Krumholz (dem.) 25—*Winfield P. Dunn (rep.) 26—*William F. Lipps (rep.) 27—Joseph F. Capp (rep.) 28—Matthias A. Mueller (rep.) 29—*Michael McInerney (dem.) 30—*James A. Kearns (rep.) 31—*Albert J. Fisher (rep.) 32—Charles E. Reading (dem.) 33—William F. Ryan (dem.) 34—John S. Clark (dem.) One of the most pleasing features of the election Tuesday was that the voters decided by a majority of 127,820 in favor of establishing a Tuberculosis sanitarium in this city, which is a movement in the right direction and when it is completed it will fill a long felt want. tion, Monday, April 5th, and promised to call again. The departure Tuesday evening over the Illinois Central in a private car of Rube Foster and his Leland Giants for Memphis on their Southern training trip indicates the determination of the Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Association to win the pennant in the Chicago League, as this trip will get the men in the pink of condition to open the Season on their return, with the invincible Callahans Logan Squares, May 2. Too much praise can not be bestowed upon the Secretary-Treasurer, B. F. Moseley for the splendid business method that he has inaugurated in the management of this famous team, and the other enterprises of the Association of which he is a controlling factor, as this is the first time a Club composed of Colored men, has participated actively in organized Base Ball and the people should appreciate this initiative effort by an increased attendance and patronage of the games and enterprises of the Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Association. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie, facing slightly to the right.] One of the most prominent lawyers in Chicago, and Republican candidate for nomination for judge of the Circuit court of Cook County. Kickham Scanlan, Republican candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court, was born in Chicago, Oct. 23, 1864. He was educated in the public schools and high school of Washington, D. C., and at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His legal education was obtained at the Chicago College of Law he being a graduate of the first class of the institution in 1889. After leaving school he entered the employ of W. P. Rend, the well known miner and shipper of coal, and remained in his employ for sev- eral years. In the spring of 1886 he entered the law firm of Luther Laffin Mills and George C. Ingham, and was connected with these eminent law yers for a period of over seven years participating in many of the notable cases tried by these attorneys, among which might be mentioned the Cronin in murder case, the boodle cases and the jury bribing cases. Mr. Scanlan was the special prosecutor for the people in the last trial of the Cronin case. For the last five or six years Mr. Scanlan has been engaged almost exclusively in the practice of civil law. NEGRO PAPERS. An extract from an article by Jas. T. Phillip, published in the Richmond Reformer, Mr. Phillips says: "The Negro editor, born in poverty and schooled in adversity, has ever been hampered and hedged about with financial and other, difficulties penurally his own. Hard indeed has it been for him to secure merited financial support, cold and unsympathetic the public, whom he has so generously served: yet despite all, he has held fast to the horns of the altar as it were, and through thick and thin of a grim and relentless opposition over which no courage but his could have prevailed, has fought the battles of the race with such zeal and at times with such personal sacrifice and even suffering as is on his part, although little to the credit of a larger number of our people who have thoughtlessly withheld their support, a thing far more than praise worthy, if not altogether sublime to contemplate. "Alarmingly few of our educated people know much about the difficulties with which the Negro press of this country has even at this late day to contend and still less can they conceive the almost unthinkable influence for good it has always exerted and is now increasingly exerting in behalf of a constantly improving moral, social, economic and spiritual life of the Negro race. "Important as are many other forces contributing to the race's progress, few, if any of them could have been brought to bear with such telling-effect as they have been if it had not been through the agency of race newspapers and magazines. With the Colored people as with the white people, the most effective, if not the only practical way of enlisting the attention and securing the support of the public in furtherance of any worthy cause is in these times, almost exclusively through the press, and as to the Negro race, still more exclusively through its own press; for unfortunately for the blackman the white press of this country, unintentionally or not, rarely gives space for anything concerning him except an all too frequently overdrawn description of this bad quality. His good traits, his increasing intelligence, his steady, persistent improvement along all lines that indicate that he is fast and unavoidably appropriating the genius of American civilization, it leaves severely to the eloquent pen of the Negro editor; so that it has been and is well nigh impossible for any reader of current news to get even a faint idea of what ten millions of the republic's citizens are driving at, unless it be through the columns of our Negro papers. "Thus it ill becomes a great number of our educated men and women of our white subscribe to probably three or four white newspapers and magazines without even reading, to say nothing of subscribing to and eral years. In the spring of 1886 he entered the law firm of Luther Lafflin Mills and George C. Ingham, and was connected with these eminent lawyers for a period of over seven years, participating in many of the notable cases tried by these attorneys, among which might be mentioned the Cronin murder case, the boodle cases and the jury bribing cases. Mr. Scanlan was the special prosecutor for the people in the last trial of the Cronin case. For the last five or six years Mr. Scanlan has been engaged almost exclusively in the practice of civil law. doing all in their power to encourage and support Colored papers and magazines through the columns of which alone can come that information as to the multiform efforts and splendid achievements of the people of our race, which is at present so much needed to inspire and ennourage the youth." APPOMATTOX CLUB NOTES. The Club through A. C. Harris, M. C. Cowan, W. R. Cowan, Frank Hallinton, Dr. T. W. Tives, J. H. Bolden, J. T. Morton, Pres. B. F. Moseley and others have purchased the property, 3441 Wabash Ave., and will move into their new quarters ere the 1st of May. The Banquet April 9, was a convention affair. The members of the Club and their wives promise to make it not only a galor but one of the swellest Club functions yet held at the Club at its present quarters. Arrangements are now being made by the Club for a Summer Outing, which will no doubt be a boat excursion instead of a Railroad Plenl. Members and friends of the Club are requested to send in their new addresses so as to pervent the confusion heretofore experienced by the Club at its annual Outing, as only invitations sent out direct from the Club House will be honored this year when the Outing is given. The May House warming will be made the event of the season. Detailed Announcements later. REV. FATHER J. B. MASSIAH WILL PREACH THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR ANNUAL SERMON. Sunday afternoon (Easter Sunday) at 2 o'clock, Rev. J. B. Massiah, will preach the annual sermon, for the Knights Templar at Masonic Hall, 3958 State street. The Knights will march from Appolo Hall 27th and State streets to Masonic Hall, 40th and State, and if it is a bright, sunny day, they will present an imposing sight wending their way through the streets. Fifty Thousand Inches Of Publicity Given By the Newspapers Which Are the Greatest Aid in in The War on Consumption They Excel All Other instrumentalities in Assisting to Educate the People. Along The Line of Correct Living, And How to Avoid Being Mowed Down by Tuberculosis. Consumption is receiving nearly one-half mile of publicity a week, is the unique statement which the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis issues today. According to some recent statistics compiled by that body, the various newspapers of the United States printed articles concerning tuberculosis, which, when measured, amounted to over 50,000 column inches of space in two weeks. The investigation which the National Association conducted included all of the daily and weekly newspapers throughout the Uniteed States as well as some of the larger journals and magazines. In the two weeks which were taken as a standard, it was found that 51,557 column inches of space was devoted to the subject of tuberculosis. If all of this matter were gathered together at one time, it would make a newspaper the ordinary size of 369 pages printed solid, without any advertisement, all on the subject of tuberculosis. If it were arranged in one long chain, it would make a single column of matter four-fifths of a mile long and two and one-quarter inches wide. PRESS LEADS FIGHT. Among the numerous agencies which are to-day joining in the fight against tuberculosis, such as the school, church and labor unions, the press is in the foremost rank. Never before in the history of American journalism has the press taken such a lively and continued interest in a subject pertaining to human health. When it is considered that tuberculosis alone kills nearly 200,000 people in the United States every year, and that there are at the present time at least 600,000 cases of this disease in the various parts of the United States, a sufficient warrant for the activity of the press is given. The following States are leading at the present time in the amount of publicity being given to tuberculosis: New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. MODERN FLATS TO RENT. Strictly modern lower 5 room flat and one upper 6 room flat. Both flats newly decorated, to rent to families of adults. 5025 Armour ave., call 5038 Armour ave. CHIPS Mrs. Marcus of 4637 Ellis Av., who has been ill is improving. setts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Missouri, Texas and Illinois. However, there is not a State in the Union in which the press is not devoting some space to the subject of tuberculosis TUBERCULOSIS GOOD NEWS Not only is the campaign being promoted by the weekly and daily press, but it has also been taken up by the various magazines, weekly story papers, trade journals, religious papers and others of a similar nature. Even the foreign papers are interested. A bulletin sent out recently by the National Association was printed in five different languages. An instance of the readiness to co-operate in the campaign against tuberculosis may be noted in the experience of one prominent weekly journal which devotes its self entirely to philanthropic and charitable subjects. Seven years ago, when this paper started to publish items on tuberculosis, a number of its readers considered it extremely bad policy, because of the apparent indifference and repugnance of the subject. To-day such articles are read eagerly and thoroughly. EDUCATION NEEDED. The National Association declares that consumption will never be wiped out until the prevalent ignorance concerning this disease is overcome. To combat successfully this lack of knowledge, immense amounts of literature of various sorts are being distributed constantly. Within a year's time thousands of tons of leaflets, aggregating over one hundred million pages, are distributed by the various organizations engaged in the these individual agencies, the National Association believes that the press is the greatest means of educating the masses concerning this disease. If the present rate of interest on the part of the newspaper world continues, it is estimated that within a few years every man, woman and child in the United States will have learned the simple doctrines of tuberculosis. Among the easter baptisms is that of the infant daughter of the late Bettie Womack Link, at Bethel Church. It is rumored that a popular grass widow is soon to be led to the altar for the 3d time. A southern M. D., is the lucky fellow. George Holt, of St. Louis, is reconstructing the building at 3004 State st., into the finest marble front buffet, barber shop hotel and turkish bath emporium in Chicago. The rumor that Mr. Ben Hoxter of Hot Springs had been sentenced to the penitentiary for 15 years is being strenuously denied, by himself, wife, and friends as having no foundation whatever. George T. Kersey, 6908 Cornell ave. one of the most prominent Odd Fellows in the United States, is honest to the backbone, and it is always a pleasure to him to pay his bills, without being hounded to death. Mr. Stephen Burton of Bridgeport, Conn., until last March one of the 20th Century Boys between Chicago and New York, died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday last. Monday evening, May 10, the 8th Regiment, Illinois National Guards, will give its 9th annual military ball, dress parade and band concert, at the 7th Regiment Armory, 34th street and Wentworth ave. 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Branch Office: 3220 State Stree 'PHONE 4366 CENTRAL CHIPS Letters have been received by the men of the 10th U. S. A., who were dishonorably discharged to hold themselves in readiness to go to Washington a moments notice for the presentation of their cases. By the will of the late Sallie J. McCall considerable property has been left to establish a Negro Industrial School at Cincinnati, O. Many of the trustees named in the will are Negroes, among whom is Georlie H. Jackson. John Garner, Proprietor of the Elite Buffet, 3030 State Street, has been confined to his home through serious illness for the past five weeks. But by skillful medical treatment he is able to be around and look after his busines again. Attorney C. J. Waring, with law offices at 59 Dearborn st., and residing at 2802 S. 42nd Court, Crawford, where he is highly respected by all classes of his fellow citizens, is in favor of Mr Ferdinand J. Karasek for Judge of the Circuit court of Cook county. The Chicago Colored Industrial School, has removed to 2721 State street, into newly decorated and well lighted quarters, and the spring term began Monday, April 5, where our young girls may learn cutting, designing, dressmaking, and ladies' tailoring. The 9th annual military ball, dress parade and band concert, to be given by the 8th Regiment Illinois National Guards, at the 7th Regiment Armory, 34th street and Wentworth ave., Monday evening, May 10, promises to be the leading social feature following the Lenten season. Admissin 50 cents. Former Judge William Prentiss, Albert H. Putney, Marcellus W. Meek, and Marshall Solberg, have formed a partnership for the general practice of law, under the firm name of Prentiss, Putney, Meek and Solberg, with offices in the Rand McNally Building, Suite 440-452 160 Adams street. Mr. and Mrs. S. Levi, 5046 Armour ave., mourn the death of their little daughter, Jessica Alene, age 8 months and ten days. Pneumonia was the immediate cause of death. Rev. W. S. Braddan, preached the funeral services. Some beautiful floral offerings were sent by friends, and she was laid to rest in Oakhill. THE BROADAX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxa, Republicans, or laymen, who are not as likely as they are—their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Air is a newspaper whose plausible 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.....$2.60 Six Months.....$1.60 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 4038 Armour Avenue Chicago. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. 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Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. Admission, 10 cents--one dime LELAND GIANTS' BASE BALL AND AMUSEMENT ASS'N. Never Knew Her Mussband's Name. In declaring that she never knew her husband's first name Mrs. Esther Nieman of Monroe street created laughter at the central police court. "I have always called him 'Pop' from the first day I married him, and as he did not object I never worried myself about his first name," said Mrs. Nieman, who had her husband arrested on the charge of failing to support her. The accused husband by direction of the magistrate was induced to tell his wife his full name. "Certainly. I'm glad to do it," remarked the defendant, "but I think my wife has known right along that I am Jacob Nieman." After telling his name Nieman was held in $300 bail for trial—Philadelphia Inquirer. In Catania an enterprising wine dealer has initiated a novel scheme of drinking by the hour ad libitum. For 15 cents one may drink for sixty minutes, and the current price of wine is 5 cents a liter. The chances are, however, in favor of the merchant, for it requires a strong stomach to drink three liters of Etna wine in one hour. At a neighboring town the charge is 10 cents for the first hour and 15 cents for two. The fashion seems to have "caught on," and at Bologna, where the wines are better, the charge is 41 cents for the first hour, 31 cents for the second and 20 cents for the third. The result of these inducements to drink is said not to be enchanting. He (savagely)—So another judge has decided the same old thing—a wife's right to search her husband's pocket. She (suavely)—Don't say "same old thing." I am sure that is a matter in which there is seeking after a great deal of change—Minneapolis Journal. Art Values. Artist—I would like to paint that old Rosinante of yours. How much would you charge me for two hours a day on him? Farmer—One dollar, and in ten days you can keep the horse—Fliegende Blatter. The Old Male Stage. Patience-When your sister was younger they say she liked to see an up to date man. Patrice—She's getting to that age now when she's content to see any kind of a man—Yonkers Statesman. No Acid Needed. Weary William Rhoades—Say, Happy, wotta de difference between us an' how fall cider? Happy Harry—Search me. Weary William Rhoades—Day don't have ter put no acid in us ter keep us frum workin'." At which the dry hay in the mow burst into a furious flame—Eyebrow Inducements to Drink. Practical Kind. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4860 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO JAMES J. GRAY ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1518 Ashland Block RANDOLPH AND CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Tel. Central 4728 Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5849 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 315-330 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. Phone Main 4158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Rea., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 823 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 898 CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 in 619. Telephone Main 3077. Dr. W. E. MACKEY 4842 Armour Avenue. Phone, Blue 6571. CHICAGO. Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 p. m.; and Nights. J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 326 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIGSORS AND CIGARS 5030 State Street CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1528 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAQO Phone Douglas 1529 THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND 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 L. Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 31st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 131 W. 51st street, near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 354 31st street. J. R. Peters, cigars, tobacco, laundry office and news stand, 333 27st street. T. B. Hall, laundry office, cigars, tobacco 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, 3533 State street. E. D. Burt, cigars, notions and news stand, 2636 State street. R. A. Jones news stand and barber shop, 4837 State street. L. W. Washington, Chicago Beach Hotel, Hyde Park. They Had Will Power. I was sitting one morning in a quiet corner at Monte Carlo when two elderly men sat down beside me. One was evidently a Scotchman, and the other, I gathered, was from Yorkshire. The former remarked, "I have just managed it." This, I discovered, meant a wint of 20 francs. Their daily routine was to appear at the same roulette table at an early hour and play the lowest stake of 5 francs on even chances—that is, on black or red or on the odd or even numbers. They would lose and win and win and lose, but they remained calm and self contained and persevered until they had each 20 francs to the good. I observed them daily. Some mornings they scooped in the amount in twenty minutes, and at other times it was a tough struggle until luncheon time before they managed it. I never saw them fall once, and I learned that they had pursued the same plan for four months. One thing was clear—nothing could tempt them to go beyond the modest stake, and they had the will to stop when they won the stipulated amount. It was really one of the best illustrations of will power I have ever seen, for few, indeed, who enter the portals of the casino are able to resist the compelling atmosphere of the tables to play on if losing and to plunge if winning—Chambers' Journal. Family Jars. Schoolmaster (to his wife)—My dear, I wish you would speak more carefully. You say that Henry Jones came to this town from Sunderland. Wife—Yes. Schoolmaster—Well, now, wouldn't it be better to say that he came from Sunderland to this town? Wife-I don't see any difference in the two expressions. Wife—But my father is not in your pocket. You mean you have in your pocket a letter from my father. Schoolmaster—There you go with your little quibbles. You take a delight in harassing me. You are always taking up a thread and representing it as a rope. Wife—Representing it to be rope, you mean. Schoolmaster—For goodness' sake, be quiet, Never saw such a quarrelsome woman in my life—London Scrap. Pretty Slow. Horace L. Moore was lieutenant colonel of the noted Nineteenth Kansas cavalry. He could lead men for a longer period without rest on a single ration of cheerful good humor than any other officer. Though not given to jokes, he was the reputed author of as many astonishers as the great Lincoln. One time, on the march, he sent an orderly with a message to an officer at some distance. Before the man was out of hearing Moore shouted: "Hey, orderly! Come back here!" He came galloping back, sitting limply in the saddle. Moore dropped his voice and, assuming a half confidential manner, inquired. "Orderly, in the course of your life have you ever seen a snail?" "Yes, sir," was the astonished reply. "You met him, then," replied Moore, "for you'd never overtake one!"—Kansas City Journal. His Business Ability. In the Adirondacks lives a man too easy to work, but evidently of great business ability. One winter when he was sitting around smoking his family came so near starvation that some of his neighbors, who could ill afford to help him, took up a collection and bought for the suffering family a barrel of flour, a barrel of pork and a load of wood. They were not considerate enough to cut the wood, but the business man knew how to manage. He hired some of the neighbors who had not contributed to his donation to cut the wood and paid them with half the pork and half the flour—Lippincott's. Admirably Equipped. Cordial Meezofantil, the famous Italian linguist, who died at the age of seventy-five, knew and could speak more than fifty languages. He could entertain his English friends with specimens of the Yorkshire dialect and his French or German visitors with the patois of their respective countries. "Dear me!" exclaimed Lord Byron, to whom this was told. "He ought to have been the custodian of the tower of Babel." Breakfast Months. A traveler stopped at a hotel in Greenland, where the nights are six months long, and as he registered asked a question of the clerk. "What time do you have breakfast?" "From half past March to a quarter to May."-Harper's Weekly. It was in 1847 that Hicks first made a county name as a witty raucoteur. In that year Sir Samuel Spry, who had been member for Bodmin since the great reform bill, lost his seat and in a petulant mood took legal proceedings against Hicks on the ground that he had abused his official position to influence voters at the poll. In the course of the trial Hicks was called upon to state what he had to say in his defense. In the course of his statement he asked leave of the court to illustrate his position by a story. His request being assented to, he related how a few days previously he had been to see a lad whom he knew well who was laid up from a fall from a vicious donkey, which had kicked out all his front teeth. The lad, said Hicks, had taken the matter in the most kindly way and had said to him, "Tisn't the fall, Mr. Hicks, and 'tisn't the vally of the teeth what annoys me, but 'tis the nashty, ghastly, wishous disposition of the jackass." Sir Samuel Spry sprang up in the well of the court in a fury and exclaimed, "He has called me a jackass!" The court was convulsed with laughter, and Hleks was promptly and fully acquitted of the trumpery charge brought against him—Cornhill Magazine. Great Wars From Trifles. Great wars, pregnant with bloodshed and all the horrors accruing thereto, have very often been the outcome of trifling incidents which might, had they been treated properly, have been smoothed over and the slaughter averted. More often was this the case in earlier times than it is now. Every one knows that William the Conqueror lost his life in France through his horse treading on a redhot clinder while he was superintending the burning of Mantes, but few people know the fact which gave rise to the campaign that cost William his life. During the latter part of his reign he became abnormally stout and consequently the laughingstock of not only his subjects, but his neighbors across the water. One day his contemporary, Philip of France, compared him to a fillet of veal on casters and suggested that he should be exhibited at a prize monarch show. This so enraged William that he straightway made war upon his ridiculer, and the loss of thousands of lives was the result-London Tit-Bits. Gestures Part of Talk: There is a man who from a very early age has lived in countries where Spanish is the almost universal tongue. From force of this training he speaks Spanish perfectly. He has not the slightest trace of an English accent, and persons who do not know that he is of American parentage are willing to believe he is a Spanish, merely from hearing him talk. He is so perfectly bilingual that it shows even in his gestures. When talking with English speaking persons he sits quietly and does his conversing with his mouth alone. Only in case of making a point most emphatically does he use a gesture. But the moment he drops into Spanish his every word is accompanied by a movement of the hands or arms. It is interesting to watch the change from the English to the Spanish side of him, because it comes so suddenly. He really can't speak Spanish without gesturing--New York Sun. Some Slang Words. A remarkable fact is that many slang words have a classical origin. For example, the word "mill," a vulgarism for a fight, is traceable to the Greek word "bamilla," which means a combat. "Ucle," the affectionate term for a pawnbroker, is derived from the Latin "uncus," a hook on which the article pledged was hung. To go before "the beak" is a distinct reference to the old Roman custom of adorning the platform from which justice dispensed with the beaks of ships, which platform came to be called the rostrum, that being the Latin for a beak or prow. Cruel. The rich bachelor sighed and looked at the beautiful girl fixedly. "Things are at sixes and sevens with me. I feel the great need of a woman in my home, one who could straighten out my tangled affairs and make life worth living again." Her glance spoke an interest which approximately expectation. "Yes?" she queried softly. He blurted out, "Do you know of any good, ablebodied woman whom I could get to clean house?"—Argonaut. A Sure Scheme. Young Wife—I am determined to learn at what hour my husband comes home at nights. Yet do what I will I cannot keep awake, and he is always careful not to make a particle of noise. Is there any drug which produces wakefulness? Old Wife—No need to buy drugs. Sprinkle the floor with tacks. 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Office Phone, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 5998 E. JACKSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR 2959-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Fine Garriages for Hire to Parties and Weddings. B. H. JOHNSON VAN AND EXPRESS Furniture Moving a Specialty Storage Warehouse 4915 STATE STREET CHICAGO M. F. LYNCH Renting, Loans and Insurance 5126 State Street Chicago THE MUSEUM S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 HILLMANS STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciated 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 THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe In Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IL American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF