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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY The Front and Rear Yards and Porches of Many Afro-Americans Residing on Wabash Avenue ARE NOT KEPT IN APPLE PIE ORDER. Some of Them Fail to Have Window Lights Replaced That Have Been Broken Out. Many Other Evidences of Their Happy Go Lucky Shiftlessness. Vol. XIV The Front and Porch Afro-American on Wabash ARE NOT KEPT IN Some of Them Fail to H placed That Have Be Many Other Evidences of Shiftlessness. Our article last week on the present conditions existing on Wabash Ave., caused wide spread comment, on the one hand the majority of those who are honestly in favor of the moral advancement of the Negro, and who are in favor of seperating the sheep from the goats, thought it was timely and that there must be a general shaking up on the part of those who stand for decency and morality. On the other hand those who entertain the fallacious idea that "Colored women who have grown rich by procuring beautiful young Colored girls, for white men to debauch an other lewd characters, including both men and women, freely have the right to buy homes right by the side of the best white and Colored people, in this city to live in them—that one Colored man or woman, is as good as another Colored man or woman, that it is too bad that the whites through the columns of The Broad Ax, are enabled to become familiar with the conduct of some of the Colored people residing on Wabash ave., that they are no worse than the whites; that half dressed Colored women some of them claiming to be highly respectable have the right to pack all the beer they want to drink through the front doors of the elegant houses and flat buildings, wherein they reside; that that is no one's business what they do or how unwomanly or anlady like they conduct themselves and so, have severely condemned our article claiming that it will be productive of much harm. No attempt will be made by us at this time to change the views of those who entertain such ideas, but at the conclusion of these articles we might pay some attention to their mutterings with these side remarks, we will proceed with the main show under discussion. Heretofore, the hew and cry has gone up among the Afro-Americans that on account of the Color of "their skin they had always been forced to live in poor and unsanitary houses, and that if they ever had the opportunity to reside in fine houses, east of State street, that they would greatly appreciate it and keep everything in connection with their homes tidy and spank and conduct themselves like first class white folks. In many instances this has proved to be untrue, for within the past two years, the whites were routed out of the large flat building which is located on Wabash ave., a little north of 25th st., and extends north towards 24th st., and the rear porches of this flat building which can be plainly observed from the South Side Elevated trains and the State street cars, and laying all jokes aside they are a holy fright all kinds of rubbish and refuse is piled high on them by the Colored occupants of the flat building and not the slightest attempt is made on the part of anyone to rid the porches of the old discarded mattresses, bed springs, women's shoes, old bustles and the other-worn out ladies garments and it is safe to say that there is not another back porch in any part of Chicago that can compare with this particular porch for dirt and untidiness in every way and the strange part about it all is that the Colored people residing in that flat building whoever they may be, are greatly in love with its appearance, for as far as we could learn not one of them have requested the owner or agent of the building to have the porch put in apple pie order and to compel the tenants to keep it in that condition. There is a beautiful front yard to this building, but owing to the fact that the grass has not been cut many times, the past summer it does not look so well and a Colored gentleman runs a coal office and yard in the basement at the South end of the building and the soft coal dust rather detracts from the pleasant surroundings. Continuing our walk along Wabash ave., recently we noticed that quite a few lights have been broken out, of the windows of some of the houses occupied by the Afro-Americans and halting in front of those lovely brown stone houses with very large bay windows, which stand on the West side of Wabash ave., just south of 31st street, we observed that one of half basement window lights has flown away and it has been out of sight since May 31st, Decoration Day, the first time that we happened to notice that some Colored people residing on Wabash ave., have no use for window lights and some of them like the Colored folks on old Armour ave., and Dearborn St., paste paper over the openings caused by the defective window lights. Many other evidences of the happy go lucky shiftlessness on the part of many Colored people living along on Wabash ave., can be noticed such as the decorations in the front hallways of their homes being defaced from the effect of pilling trunks and other heavy articles up and down the steps, and the roomers poorly writing their names high up on the sides of the walls and so on, so far showing that they have failed to cultivate a taste for the true and the beautiful in the way of keeping everything in connection with their places of abode, inside as well as outside neat and tidy. While walking on South on Wabash ave., the same date May 31st our big feet got hooked up in some wire neting which had been put all around the nice grass plot, next to the curbing iv front of an elegant brown stone house in the 3and block and some garden truck and weeds were peacefully growing where the nice front lawn should be and close up by the side of that beautiful house which is fine enough for a king to live in the grass was long CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 11. 1909. I.P.E.U. The popular and painstaking City Treasurer of Chicago; whose army of warm friends, are grooming him, for the Republican nomination for Mayor of this city in 1911. The popular and painstaking City Treasurer of Chicago; whose army of warm friends, are grooming him, for the Republican nomination for Mayor of this city in 1911. and uncut, and it is useless to state that it is the home of first class Colored people. One of the most striking signs that was ever swung to the breezes was displayed in the 33rd block on Wabash ave., early last spring and we beheld it with our own eyes it read as follows: "Hot chitling supper hea to-night only ten cents." The person or persons who got up that sign had an eye to business, for it does seem that some Colored people residing east of State street, dearly love to eat chitlings. There are more than six good time houses and flat buildings on Wabash ave. between 30th and 35th street, that have many brazen faced semi-respectable women hanging around in them and as the evenings grow dark these women sit at the front windows, some of them, almost.half-naked and they endeavor to rope men into have a good time if they look to be easy and ready money and women in this district have been seen setting on the lap of men drinking bottled beer which costs one dollar per bottle, and right here, it may not be out of place to state that "some of the fair ladies occupying these houses and flats just referred to pay government taxes, which gives them the right to sell bottled beer, whisky not everything else in the drinkable line, while many others do the same thing without paying out twenty-five dollars each year for a license to do business. In this same district and on the other parts of Wabash ave., many women wear out their elbows by leaning on the window sills all day long. They spend much of their time in looking up and down the street, across it and talk and shout in a loud voice to those they know residing on the opposite side of the street. They assemble in great crowds on the front steps of their homes, where they entertain their friends and they laugh so loud and make so much noise, some of the men folks singing and playing on the old banjo and other musical instruments, that it is no wonder that the whites want to flee from them. (To be continued.) THE NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. The Advocate is compelled to raise its voice against that auxiliary of the National Negro Business League which is known as the Negro Press Association. This is another endeavor to control the publications of the race and make them organs in the interest of industrial education and industrial education alone. In other words, it is an attempt to monopolize the race journals, nothing but a trust, whose headquarters will be Tuskegee, and whose news will be of Tuskegee, and whose so-called press opinion will be the same. Now industrial education is all right for those who like it, or perchance are adapted to it, but it is contrary to the laws of nature to mold the prosperity of dozens or so of millions of people into mere industrially educated creatures, for among us are those who are capable of entering any field of life's vocation, and it is a great mistake to endeavor to attempt to bring together into one great combine the presses of the race. If there is to be any Negro Press Association, Mr. N. B. Dodson is the man who will eventually bring it about, and that to which will be the general interest of the Negro press and not the particular interest of a specified few.—The Advocate, Portland, Oregon, Sept. 4, 1909. Brother Cannady, you are talking good common horse sense, for the entire Negro race press of this country should not be under the absolute control of Booker Taft Washington—Editor. Roger C. Sullivan, member of the democratic National Committie, and former Mayor John P. Hopkins, struck this town on Thursday; from an extensive pleasure trip through Europe and Africa, where they spent much time in familiarizing themselves with the social and political conditions of the old world. The Rise and Reign of The Bourbon Oligarchy In The Southern States. By Joseph C. Manning, Editor of the Southern American, Alexander City, Alabama. THE POLITICAL SOUTH AT PRESENT The present political South is the progeny of the old political South. The war of the Rebellion wrought the change from the South of chattel slavery; it abolished this pernicious institution and wiped out the viper of secession, which preyed upon the body politic, but there is prevalent today a slavery of disfranchisement by State Constitutional subterfuge and a system of peonage by the chicanery of employing legislative enactment and there yet obtains the same defiant spirit characteristic of the slave owning aristocracy—the despotism of reign or ruin, of dominate or destroy! It is alive in the old leaders of the slave owing oligarchy, many of them present leaders—and this sentiment is breeded in many of their sons—that theirs is the God-given right to control, and to "boss," and that the maintenance of their power, by whatever recourse under high heaven, is justifiable and "politics!" To the extent that the slave holding oligarchy found palliation, through its pulpit and press, for holding the Colored race in servitude, just so does this progeny of the slave owning aristocracy now endeavor to exonerate and excuse their political usurpation and their theft of political authority. Their recent turning from the manipulation of elections returns and outrages at the ballot box to domination by the shrewdness of Constitutional trickery, and the divers other "legalized" methods known only to and characteristic only of the Southern alleged "democracy," is an intended salve to ease strictured consciences and, also, a cloak by which the hope is had that the real political deprivacy of this regime of now may be to some extent disguised and the wrath of a righteous national public sentiment thereby avoided. The Negro in slavery was subservient, humble, burden-bearing, ignorant. To the master he was as property. He was treated as such by the slave-driver. The slave was housed, clothed in a manner, and fed. So was the work-horse housed, harnessed and driven; the Negro slave and the working horse each being treated with as much humane consideration as the other. The lash was applied to both. The black child was sold from the black "mammy" just as was the coit sold from the mare. In the opinion of the many who held slaves it was wrong to permit any intellectual growth upon the part of the slave and the law made it criminal to teach a Negro to read or to write. Such an enactment as this at least "graced" the penal code of Alabama. It has been related that in the South of slavery frequently an apt Colored man who had stolen a knowledge to write suffered the loss of the fore-finger and the thumb from the right hand! Is it at all shocking that there is at present a governor of a Southern commonwealth who would declare: "I am just as much opposed to Booker Washington's, with all his Anglo-Saxon reinforcements, voting as I am to the Reign of The Oligarchy In ern States. Editor of the Southern City, Alabama. SOUTH AT PRESENT. TER II. CHAPTER II. voting by the cocoanut-headed, chocolate-colored, typical coon who blacks my boots?" Does it appear out of the reasonable trend of things that Mississippi should put a Vardaman in the highest position of state, the government there of today being but the offspring of its Jefferson Davis oligarchy of slavery of yesterday? Who can doubt that the expressions of Vardaman, uncloaked with any evasive sophistry and hypocrisy, is but the undisguised sentiment of the more discreet of the political type honoring him and to which he is a member in high rank? This man, opposing the education of the Negro, is but constructed like one of those who, before him, took the knife and shorn the hand of the helpless slave of the fingers God had placed there to be directed by an educated and uplifted mind! In the contemplation of chattel slavery not alone must there be considered the wrongs inflicted upon the oppressed blacks growing out of this humane institution. The hardships, sufferings and wrongs heaped upon the blacks were terrible, but the institution of chattel slavery effected to bring about a condition by which whites of the South have come to endure a yoke of political serfdom and of political outrage beyond the power of language to portray. Popular government has become prostrate, the voice of the people in representative government has been silenced, and force, fraud and strategy has been enthroned. The strength of press and ministry, of law-making and law-executing authority has been thrown to the aiding and abetting of a political despotism that has employed every available agency, but the right, to fasten its hold upon the governing power. The people of these Southern Sates have not been, from the beginning, the only sufferers because of the desperation of the leaders of the bourbon oligarchy. In the extremity of madness for domineering, the leaders of the oligarchy have reached the knife of rashness to the very heart of the nation and drawn its blood on more than one field. When the terms of re-entrance to the Union were accepted, even then these party conspirators against popular government, no sooner had they attained position in the grand old Union, commenced to execute designs by which the hands of the power of the oligarchies of the South might again be replaced to the throat of popular and representative government in the South and soon again other forms of revolution, and riot and reign of terror, were employed to hoist the political pillage of this regime upon the liberties and national rights of the masses in the states south of the Ohio. The present result of this reign of the bourbon oligarchy is that its injurious and spurious effects reaches so far into the welfare of the general government that whites North, as well as South are coming to feel the poisonous sting of the bourbon "democracy" political serpent. Ample illustration of the revolu- Ample illustration of the revolu- (Continued on page 2.) No.49 Will promulgate and at all times update the principles of Diversity, but Catholic Protestants, Priests, Inmоль, Single Taxes, 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 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. The Rise and Reign of The Bourbon Oligarchy in The Southern States. (Concluded from page 1.) tionary temperament of the Southern "democracy" is afforded in the example of the Rebellion. That the spirit of govern or overthrow by force did not die when secession failed, that the determination to dominate is as strong now as then, it is only necessary to refer back to recent political events in some of these states during these years not long since gone. Violence and fraud was seemingly, a pastime employed in the Reconstruction era, but we find that crimes against the ballot have been just as brazenly perpetrated when these oracles of the Southern "democracy" were not called upon to count out and to intimidate "carpet baggers" and "Niggers." The theft of the governorship of Alabama from Hon. R. F. Kolb, a native Southerner and an ex-Confederate soldier, demonstrated indisputably the fact that the oligarchy is resolved not to yield political control and that no one except upon member of the regime shall be permitted to be elected to office in the States which they fasten down with hooks of daring despotism. Captain Kolb had been permitted to be elected to the office of Commissioner of Agriculture of Alabama by the "democracy," but the leaders of the machine rebelled against his ambition for higher place. Popular before the people, more so than any man of his party in his time, the masses favored his aspirations and encouraged his candidacy for governor; and the white counties favored his nomination and he secured the delegations to the state convention. He was "figured out" there. He made his appeal to the electorate. The result was that the "democracy" was "saved" by immensely padded returns from the sixteen black belt counties in Alabama populated largely by blacks and that enormous fictitious majorities, from these counties, were employed to overcome and to annul the majorities honestly polled by the whites in the forty-five white counties of the State—counties populated almost exclusively by whites. Returns were recorded for the "democracy" from black belt precincts where the polls were not in reality opened and where the formality of an election was dispensed with. Upon the day of the "official" count the majority of votes for Kolb were scaled down in the white counties, where the "democracy" controlled the returning boards, by the throwing out of the vote of many precincts voting Kolb majorities and this was necessary to overcome the revolt against the machine even though the belt had already "done its duty." There is not an informed man in Alabama who will not, perhaps, confess to the election of Kolb in 1892 by a tremendous majority. The supporters of the Kolb ticket were mocked at and defiled. The bourbon leaders boastingly asserted: "Yes, we counted you out and we will do it again, if necessary, and what are you going to do about it?" The present Populist candidate for President Hon. Thomas E. Watson, had an experience in congressional politics in his district not very much unlike the gubernatorial campaign and election experience of Captain Kolb. The ballot box stuffers of Richmond county, Georgia, so much overdid it, however, that Mr. Watson's opponent was compelled by the notoriety of the steal to become ashamed to accept the so open-handed stolen political goods. When the election of managers of Richmond county, the one black belt county of the Congressional district, employed to annul the votes of the other several white counties voting majorities for Mr. Watson, these men were counting out a native Georgian who is the peer in intellect of any man living or that has ever lived in that commonwealth. His honesty of purpose and his patriotic intent has only been equaled by his superb courage in standing out against the organized body of political highwaymen in his district and State who have robbed him and his fellow citizens of their manhood rights. But why recount these political outrages Who is it that does not remember the election of Hon. H. Clay Evans to the governorship of Tennessee in 1894 and how he was defrauded by the "official" count when the face of the returns showed his election, even after the election had been one of highhanded corruption and fraud upon the part of the "democracy" in the counties of the black belt of that State - where the unscrupulous ballot box stuffer could "get in his work." The history of Goebelism in Kentucky is not ancient history, either, and the nagging of a free people there to almost desperation, because of the revolutionary acts of the oligarchy, forms a chapter not soon to be forgotten. The "democracy" has much to say of the murder of Goebel, but it overlooks the crime of raping the goddess of liberty" of which he, and his cohorts, were guilty. Years will not efface from the name of this State of governmental outlaw" parading in the cloak of "democracy," the shame and disgrace brought upon this commonwealth. If Goebel were assassinated, lynched, or what not, is it not "democracy" to meet out summary punishment for unspeakable crime? Why, then, this horror of "democracy" that the "democracy's" own has come home to them? Is this a government of free men? Is there not such a thing as the sovereignty of the people and the nationality of the citizen? It is said by the patriotic orator upon the national forum that this land is not a despotism governed by a king, but a republic in which every citizen is a sovereign. What citizen has the right, then, to deny to another the right he demands for himself? The ballot is the scepter of our sovereign citizens' kingly authority. It is the source of our governing power. To strike down the ballot, therefore, is to strike a blow at America's only king. It is treason to our republican form of government. It is an insult to the nationality of the citizen, it is treason to the nation! Does not the republic owe it to itself and do not its free men owe it to the republic to protect every citizen in his right by reason of his sovereignty and his nationality. Native white men of the South, men with blue eyes and straight hair, have had their ballots thrown out, annulled miscounted. Majorities have been overridden, scoffed at! The great mass of voters in the South have been dashed back into sullen silence and into hopeless acquiescence and, under present conditions, they are as helpless as are the blacks upon whose necks the bourbon heel was long since pressed. Why nominate State and Congressional candidates to oppose this regime? Their past record justifies the assertion that these oligarchists would hold elections in hogsheads and stuff ballots in with pile drivers, and then swear to the returns; and, further, the local courts would be no terror to their overt acts, this course being "necessary" to uphold their particular brand of "white supremacy." Candidates for Congress who oppose the oligarchy are counted out and denied the certificate of election and forced, if seated to inaugurate an expensive contest and frequently the taking of the testimony is attendant with the risk of one's life. The price is too great. The experience of Hon. William F. Aldrich, of the Fourth Alabama district, the facts being upon records of Congress, bear out this conclusion. Three times elected, three times counted out, three times seated upon contests, one time held up at the point of drawn weapons to accommodate his opponent, who took this occasion to inflict bodily punishment upon him—these are not at all pleasant enough experiences to inspire many men to espouse the cause of good government in the South. Yet, there are those who advocate "letting the South alone" and leaving to the oligarchists of the South "the adjustment of these local conditions!" There is but one peaceful recourse for rightful settlement of this suffrage situation in the States of the South. That recourse is for the nation to protect to every citizen his national rights when infringed upon by the powers dominating the State. The prolonging of the meeting this issue is but leaving to the people of the States of the South the other possible resort to desperate measures, which public sentiment will not sustain and which step conservative men will not pursue or advise. Astute indeed is the appeal that comes up from these oligarchists to be permitted to go their own way in their own methods. These men are not pleading for "the South," they are begging for themselves. The liberties of the masses South are crushed beneath the feet of these tyrants, whose prating hypocrisy does not voice the will of the oppressed of this section. This appeal by the bourbon oligarchy goes upward to the North at a time, also, when the "Democracy" South seeks to engraft itself upon the general government to the extent that the padded "democratic" South may fasten its hold upon the nation precisely as it has upon the States of the South. (To be continued.) BEGINS NEW VICE WAR FIGHT STARTS WITH RAID. Officials of Organization Will Pros A brand new anti-vice campaign is to be started this month by the Douglas Neighborhood Club. The officers of the organization declare that before it is ended not one disreputable resort will be left in the South Side district bordering the lake and bounded by Twenty-ninth, Thirty-ninth and State streets. The first move will be made to-morrow morning, when officials of the club will appear in the Harrison Street Municipal Court to prosecute four women and three men arrested Saturday night in a raid of a resort conducted by Irene Fuller at Thirty-first street and Cottage Grove' avenue. Club Gives Warnings. The Fuller woman, it is said, has been warned several times during the last few months by agents employed by the Rev. Morton Culver Hartzell, president of the club, but has paid no attention to the warnings. Saturday night the place was raided by S. T. Wilson and W. H. Rogers, the club's official investigators, with a detail of police from the Cottage Grove avenue station, and seven people, including the Fuller woman, were arrested. All gave fictitious names. "We have taken a fresh start in our work of routing out the disreputables in this district," said Mr. Wilson yesterday, "and we have determined not to stop short of an absolutely thorough clean-up. What the Club Has Done. "This part of town in the past has been pretty bad. There is a great difference now, for we have put 'For Rent' signs on about sixty-five places within the past year, and have driven out more than 200 persons—men as well as women. "There still is a great deal to be done, however. Despite our efforts the disreputables make their way into the district, and we feel that it is time for drastic action that will show them conclusively that they are not wanted and will not be tolerated. We hope now to clear up the region in good shape. We believe that comparison will show now that we have here one of the cleanest parts of the city, but that is not enough. We intend to have a neighborhood that will be absolutely clean."—Record-Herald, Sent. 6-09. The Afro-Americans, residing in the district—that is, those claiming to be highly respectable, should join hands, with Rev. Morton Culver Hartzell, and the other officials of the Douglas Neighborhood Club, and heartily assist to rid the district referred to of its undesirable characters—Editor. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. Big attractions at the Chateau Garden every Saturday and Sunday evening. Good usic, dancing free, good show. Visit it tonight. After witnessing the game Sunday between the Leland Giants and the Gunthers visit the Chateau Gardens and spend a pleasant evening. The cool evenings are fine for roller skating, why not learn now. Good music, best of decorum. The Leland Giants Bast Ball and Amusement Association will close the Chateau Garden September 26th for the season. Come out tonight and have a good time. The Chateau Rink and Parlors will be newly decorated for the winter. Everything firstclass and up to date. Join the crowd tonight. NEGRO TOWN LOSES CHARTER. Alabama Legislature Decides That Administration Was Unwise, (Special to the New York Times.) Hobson City, Ala., Sept. 4-09.—The only city in the United States under the exclusive control of Negroes was officially killed when Gov B. B. Comer to-day signed a bill concealing its charter. The bill was passed at the special session of the Legislature, which adjourned to-night. The town was named after Richmond Pearson Hobson, in memory of the Spanish war deeds of the Alabamian, and was incorporated by a special law. It elected a Mayor and a Board of Alderman, confining the nominees, of course, to members of the Black race. Only Negroes lived in the town, which had a population of about 800. It was found by Representative Cooper, of Calhoun County, in which the Negro town was located, that the Government had been unwise. The excuse submitted above why the charter of Hobson City, Ala., should be revoked is scarcely an excuse at all. That the Legislature of Alabama can be called into special session at the expense of taxpayers and for no other purpose than to revoke the charter of the only Negro city in the State and country, seems scarcely creditable. And yet this is the true state of affairs. The reason given for this unusual prank is that the government of the city was "unwise." What is to be understood from "unwise?" Was the government of the city "unwise" because it was bad, or because its representatives were Colored. No charge of bad government was alleged against the city. Then it must have been unwise upon the sole ground that the government of the city was Colored. Is a Negro government ipso facto bad? The South would seek to convey that idea. It is a strange anomaly the State of Alabama presents anyway. The whites don't want the Negroes among them and whenever Negroes betake themselves to themselves these same whites find some pretex for the purpose of remaining among Negroes. The whites in the South have two ideas in view: 1. To remain in a position to exploit Negroes at will and especially Colored women. 2. Hobson City was a concession that Negroes are capable of self-government, and it is this thought that the South would seek to crush out both in the minds of Negroes and the country at large. Finding Hobson City a startling success under Negro government, the State of Alabama could stand no longer to see a living refutation of its ancient and cherished contention of inferiority of the Black race. Hence, it called a special session of the Legislature to cancel the charter of Hobson City, in order that it may turn out the Negro officials and put in whites. The present attitude of the South is not only one of repression, but of experimentation, so to speak. Just the other day a Colored man was lynched in Texas because a white man had taken his cow, and he went to law to have the cow replenvived. All such actions as these are indicative of deeper currents of feeling. These lawless acts may be the precursor of great era of travail in the South. And what the birth of such an era will bring forth we are not permitted to say. We think, however, that it will be an era of bloodshed, in which the nation will be called upon to pay the price of lawlessness in the South in the same manner as it had to pay the price of human slavery in the South in 1863. 'The laws of changeless justice bind Opresser with oppressed: As close as sin and suffering joined. We march to fate, abreast."—Ex. It must be remembered that Gov. Comer of Alabama, and Booker Taft Washington, are great friends and as the great begging wizard of Tuskegee, maintains that the Negro must continue to occupy humble positions in the South and forever remain the hewer of wood and the drawer of water, the chances are he induced Gov. Comer, to revoke the charter of Hobson City, Alabama, in order to keep the Negro out of politics.—Editor. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTES Sunday morning the Pastor will preach on the subject. The law of Freedom." The Intermediate Endeavor will hold special service Sunday evening beginning at 6 P. M. Tuesday night, Sept. 14 will be given a Testimonial and Reception to Rev. H. E. Stewart B. D., with the following program: Piano Solo, Hilbert Stewart. Remarks by Mr. Geo, Alexander and Mrs. Arnetta Jackson representing the Church. Remarks by Hon. S. Laing Williams, Mr. Geo. T. Kersey Oscar DePriest. Dr. Geo. C. Hall and Rev. A. J. Carey. Response by the Pastor. A commit tee will serve refreshments. Several solos will be rendered and a pleasant time is anticipated. Sept. 19 will close the conference work at the Church, a Musical and Dramatic Concert will be given on Monday night, the 20th by Mr. Green and other artists, the proceeds will be given to the conference claims. THE UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP. National Grand Master Walter M. Farmer is mailing to the members of the Order a circular couched in courteous and fraternal language assuring the membership that he has no fight on anyone who is interested and is striving for the best interest of the Order of United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten of the World. He has had the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois incorporated, because it had never been incorporated and because the laws of the Order require that such be done. He sees no reason why he should have any controversy with the membership in the State of Illinois. There are only three States now that have not signified their allegiance to the National Grand Lodge as represented by Mr. Farmer, and it will not be long before every state will be working in harmony with his administration. He has just returned from visiting the Grand Lodge of the State of Missouri, which heartily endorsed him as National Master. He met at Kansas City representatives from several states who pledged their allegiance and their support. THE PEOPLES PHARMACY COMPANY OPENS NEW DRUG STORE NORTHWEST CORNER 27TH AND DEARBORN STREET. On Tuesday evening; the Peoples Pharmacy Company, duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois; opened a new drug store at 2642 Dearborn street, northwest corner of 27th. Dr. M. J. Brown is one of the prime or main promoters of the new store and his many friends are already flocking to its support. Everything in connection with it is first slass and up-to-date. Only the purest drugs are handled and sold at the lowest prices, and all prescriptions will be carefully compounded. Fine toilet articles, perfumes, stationery and a thousand and one things which are usually found in first class drug stores are in evidence at the new drug store of the Peoples Pharmacy Company. CHIPS Mr. J. Lipton 5012 Dearborn St. is on the sick list this week. Dr. George C. Hall, has returned to the city after several weeks vacation, which he spent in the East. Mr. Jesse Binga entertained a small party of friends at dinner Tuesday afternoon in honor of Miss Effie Simmons of Washington, D. C. Mrs. A. E. Roman, 4417 Wabash Ave., entertained a theatre party in honor of Miss Bertha Allen of Louisville, Ky., Thursday evening, Sept. 9. Miss Elizabeth Johnston, 3441 Wabash Ave., returned home last Saturday from a three weeks' visit and vacation trip from St. Paul, Minn. John E. Owens, ex-city attorney of Chicago, and his friend John T. Fleming, arrived home the latter part of last week, from a European trip. Mr. Nelson Long, is preparing to take an extensive trip through the east, on his return, he will visit Buffalo, New York city and other prominent cities of the East. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Miller entertained at dinner in honor of her aunt, Mrs. Marie Williams of Lincoln, Nebr., who is spending a week stay in the city. Miss Emma Shaw has returned to the city after several weeks, spent in the East with friends and relatives. Miss Blanche Shaw is spending her vacation in Benton Harbor, Mich. Miss Effie Simmons of Washington, D. C., is visiting the city, and stopping with Mrs. Edw. Shanklin, 604 St. Lawrence Ave. Miss Simmons teaches school in the capitol city. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice left last Saturday 4th inst., for 10 days visit with friends and relatives, at Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss C. Shelton 4636 Langley Ave. entertained a host of friends in honor of Miss Bertha Allen of Louisville, Ky., and Prof. Morrison of New Orleans, La. Tuesday evening. Sept. 7, all reported a delightful time, dainty refreshments were served. Miss E. J. Isabelle of New Orleans, La., vice-president of the public schools in the Crescent City is in the city a guest of a month at the home of her brother and sister Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Motley, 404 Bowen Ave., old number. Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Hunter, of Alton, Ill., spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bish, 5821 Wabash Ave., Mr. Hunter was the first Grand Master of the United Brothers of Friendship of Illinois, and Mr. Bish was its first grand secretary in 1879 and 1880. Dr. P. F. Roberts, son of Dr. N. F. Roberts, vice president of Shaw University, who was taking a post course at the North Western Medical College, has returned to his home in Raleigh, North Carolina to witness the marriage of his sister Miss Marie Roberts to Dr. E. McCauley. Booker T. Washington Jr., arrived in the city. Thursday afternoon from Tuskegee Institute, enroute to Seattle, Washington where he with his mother will view the Fair before returning to his studies at Fisk University. While here Mr. Washington was the guest of Mr. Noah D. Thompson, 6618 Vernon Ave. Frank T. Fowler, who was one of the honest members of the city council from the 14th Ward, in 1899 and 1900, and who sought the Republican nomination for Mayor of Chicago in 1901; was this week appointed a member of the board of local improvements by Mayor Busse. Mr. Fowler, who always wears a genial and pleasant smile, and extends the glad hand to everybody, is the right man in the right place, and Mayor Busse made no mistake in selecting him for that responsible position. An Epitaph. In the churchyard of Leigh, near Bolton, will be found a tombstone bearing the following amazing sentence: "A virtuous woman is 5s. to her husband." The explanation seems to be that space prevented "a crown" being cut in full, and the stonemason argued that a crown equals 5 shillings. —London Notes and Ouerles. Food of the Chinese In the Revue d'Hygiene Dr. Malegnon, who lived for many years in China, gives some curious details of the food of the Chinese. This is what he says of the sons of heaven and the way they eat eggs: "The Chinese are great eaters of eggs, which they take hard bolled. One finds them in all the roadside places for refreshment. The Celestials have an expression, 'Eggs of a hundred years.' The eggs are not always a century in age, but one is able to get them of many years' standing. The Celestials have a preference for the egg of the duck or goose. They are placed with aromatic herbs in slaked lime for a period, the minimum time of treatment being five or six weeks. Under the influence of time the yoke liquefies and takes a dark green color. The white coagulates and becomes green. The product of the eggs, which has a strong odor, from which a stranger betakes himself quickly, the Chinese eat as hors d'oeuvres, and it is said to have the taste of lobster." Musical Note. "How do you sell your music?" asked the prospective customer. "It depends on the kind you want." replied the smart clerk. "We sell piano music by the pound and organ music by the choir." A Blowing Up. "Now. Willie," said the teacher to a small pupil. "can you tell me what dynamite is used for?" "Yes, ma'am," answered Willie. "It's used to blaspheme things with."—Chicago News. Before and After "A woman is as old as she looks," quoted the wise guy. "Before or after she is dressed to go out?" queried the simple mug.—Philadelphia Record. What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away - Latin Proverb. Sunset In "the Red City" of Savaria. The numerous entrances to the old town of Rothenburg are guarded by beautiful watchtowers, which are inhabited by impoverished old women, who rent their airy lodgings for a nominal sum. The red twinkle of their lamps high over the dusky streets of Rothenburg at night—for it is as mediaeval in its lighting as in many other ways—is very charming in effect. The walls of Rothenburg are a constant delight to visitors, who, by dint of much squeezing through narrow passageways and groping in darkness, are able to make a circuit of the city, getting gilmpses on the way through loopholes of the green country outside. Wondrous views of the town are also to be had from many of the distant hills. At sunset the sight of its graceful towers and clutter of red roof tops is like a fair vision of romance. The city blazes for a moment in a fiery mist, then suddenly melta, mirage-like, in the gathering dusk, leaving a sense of something born of dream, the illusion of an enchanter's wand.—Rothenburg Letter to Vomme. Hastilbeck ship. Pioneer Goldland type-42 John J. Dunn COAL & WOOD Wholesale and Retail Dunner Inc. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. Bent, Yonge, and L. & L. & R. & L., proud to, and answer to, CHICAGO Dorsey's WHITE ROSE Petrolatum For Chapped Hands, Face and Lips. KINGSTON PHARMACY J. S. DORSEY, R. Pn., proprietor 116 1-2 W. 51st. Street, near Dearborn, Chicago TELEPHONE OAKLAND 302 Our Motto is Purity and Accuracy DR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS announces the Removal of his office to 3255 State Street, N. E. cor. 33d Street Suite A CHICAGO, ILL. Hours 10 to 12 m., 2 to 5, 6:30 to 8:30 YOURSELF AND FRIENDS WILL BE CORDIALLY RECEIVED Phone Aidine 2208 Tel. Calumet 3221 Dr. M. J. Brown Physician and Surgeon 2701 Dearborn Street, - CHICAGO Hours: 10 to 12 m.; 2 to 4; 7 to 9 p. m. EQUAL PAY FOR BOTH RACES. Georgia Arbitration Board Against Seniority of White Firemen. The award of the Georgia railroad strike arbitration board, which was announced a few days ago, is against the seniority of white firemen over Negroes and provides that the Georgia railroad when using Negroes as firemen, hostlers or hostlers' helpers shall pay them the same wages as white men in similar positions. Arbitrator Hardwick dissented from this. Firemen in the line of promotion to the position of engineer must have three years' experience before being promoted to the position of engineer and are to be promoted in the order of their seniority. If they refuse or fail to pass the first examination they will be reduced to freight service without losing their seniority. Falling on the second examination, they will be reduced to the bottom of the extra list or disposed of as the company desires. Firemen now in the service who are physically incapacitated for service will not be subject to this rule. Mr. Hardwick in a dissenting opinion from the proposition fixing Negroes' wages the same as those of whites said: "In so far as the above finding permits the continued employment of Negro firemen I dissent because I believe from the evidence that such employment is a menace to the safety of the traveling public." The arbitrators, chosen as a result of the recent strike of the white firemen, were ex-Secretary of the Navy Hilary Herbert for the road, Congressman Hardwick for the white firemen and Chancellor Barrow for the Negro firemen. Bishops' Case Dismissed. Five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal church, who complained to the interstate commerce commission some time ago that they were discriminated against by southern railroads and by the Pullman company in transportation, dining car and sleeping car facilities, have been informed by the commission that their complaint was not warranted. The bishops are Wesley J. Gaines, H. M. Turner, Evans Tyre, C. S. Smith and F. W. Lampton. Most of the complainants and their witnesses testified that they actually did ride on sleeping cars. It is held by the commission in its decision that undue discrimination or prejudice was not shown, and the complaint, therefore, was dismissed. Political Independence There is a growing spirit of independence among the younger element of Negroes, which is a hopeful sign of the future for the Negro politically. The tendency of our fathers to pose as martyrs to the cause of the G. O. P. while white demagogues in that party had working agreements with their political opponents which enabled them to swap votes for certain offices, using the Negro as a pawn in their desperate game, will not be so pronounced in the future state and national campaigns. The young Negro is going "to play ball" when the political season opens again, and he will certainly make some political leaders sit up and take notice. Negroes are slow but apt scholars. Race Question Ridestamped The prevailing opinion that President Teft has sidestepped the Negro question seems to be not wholly without foundation. Well, the race that can stand 290 years of the most damnable bondage that ever cursed a world and four years of civil war will survive the parity of a political party. The Negro is one of the permanent races. He will not disappear, reports of his enemies to the contrary notwithstanding—Dallas Express. THE ILLINOIS STATE FAIR SPLENDID PROGRAM--OCT. 1-9. Greater Than the World's Fairs—$70,000 in Cash Premiums—Season's Big Racers—Night Horse Show—Accommodations for All—Better Go. There is plenty at the Illinois State Fair this year (October 1-9) to entertain everybody for every one of the nine days. It is the Greatest Fair on Earth this year, greater than in 1908. The exhibits far exceed the space. The "Bay of Naples" between the street car tracks and Machinery Hall and the wonderful Dome building, has been filled in with solid clay. The space is gilt edge and was instantly snapped up by farm implement, vehicle, fence and windmill exhibitors who were unable to secure space in the Monster Machinery Hall and its Annex. The exhibit of modern farm implements, vehicles and utensils is the most wonderful show in the country. The Worlds Fairs at Chicago and St. Louis did not approach the Illinois State Fair in this line. A Missouri farmer, from near Lemar, bought three pieces of farm machinery at the Illinois State Fair in 1904, ordering shipment to be made to his home. "I spent a week at the St. Louis Worlds Fair," said he, "and the agricultural show there looks like 30 cents compared to the Illinois State Fair." Seventy thousand dollars in cash premiums will be disbursed this year by the Illinois State Fair. The total has been slowly climbing the ladder for years. Fifteen years ago, when the Fair was held at Peoria, the total amounted to about $25,000. The Fair has outgrown its clothes in every department. It has become so immense that the State Board of Agriculture has not been able to keep pace with the demands for space and even the monster buildings are taxed to accommodate the throngs of people. Over 2,000 prize sheep and swine were housed in pens and tents during the last three years on account of insufficient room in the pavilions set apart for them. Four years ago an immense cattle barn was erected, but the demand for space has already outgrown its walls. The horse department also is crowded to the limit. But the exhibitors come to the State Fair, because it is the Greatest Fair on Earth. No other Fair shows the quality and quantity of fat stock, pedigree and prize-winning stock. The demand for more space for the horticulture and floriculture exhibits became so insistent that the Board made a change this year. The great horticulture department will be found in the north wing of the Exposition building. The entire center of the immense Worlds Fair Dome building will this year be given over entirely to floriculture and it will be the most wonderful spectacle in the Fair grounds. From the balcony above a vision of lovelliness will be presented on the floor below which will intoxicate the senses of the artistically inclined. Thousands of dollars are given in cash prizes for flowers and plants. The Domestic Science department is not neglected, either. A carload of cakes, pastry, jellies, jams, preserves occupy one wing of the Dome. This is one of the most popular departments to the ladies on the grounds. Over 100 young ladies are domiciled in the Women's Building where under experts they are taught to cook and roast and bake, and fry and broil, besides lessons are given in nursing and household hygiene. They live in the beautiful and commodious building dedicated to the Women of Illinois. Miss Gertrude Doyle, Secretary, Winchester, will furnish particulars. There will be some wonderful horse racing every day, beginning with Monday. The purses are fat, the track is fast and the grandstand always cool and pleasant. 'Superintendent Hopkins is negotiating for the season's sensational racers, Hedgwood Boy and Lady Maud C. A magnificent Night Horse Show will be given in the Coliseum for three nights — Wednesday, Thursday and Friday when $5,000 in cash prizes will be contested for in a tournament which will bring out the handsomest and best horses in the country. The State Fair will be a great show. Better go. Railroad rates are all right this year, and Springfield has agreed to give everybody proper accommodations. The Chamber of Commerce, Springfield, is pledged to do it. Governor's Residence, Springfield Wilmington State Fair Few states furnish their executives with a handsomer home than does Illinois. The present mansion was erected before the war, and has cost over $100,000. It occupies a block of beautiful sloping ground, is well shaded by noble forest trees and the lawn is picturesque with beds of flowers and shrubs. BRILLIANT SCENE OF BEAUTY. The Night Horse Show in the Colleum at Illinois State Fair. The management of the Illinois State Fair has provided an attraction this year that is sure to attract. It is a Night Horse Show and it will be given in the Coliseum Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. The grand parade of beautiful horses, saddlers and in harness, will occur at 8 o'clock sharp. There will be hunters, hurders, high school pets, tandems, single, double and triple teams. Beautiful ladies and handsome men will compete with their horses for $5,000 in cash prizes. In some respects it will be a tournament of medieval times with footmen and equerries in liveries and heralds to announce the events. Lavish decorations and embellishments will conceal the great steel beams and arms of the Coliseum, and the boxes will be filled with ladies whose costumes and jewels will dazzle the eye in the myriad of electric lights. The Coliseum will be a scene of intoxicating beauty on these nights. Music will be furnished by the splendid Watch Factory Band of Springfield. MANY SEE LINCOLN'S HOME. Home of Abraham. Lincoln, Springfield, Ill. Second only to the tomb of Lincoln, the Home of Lincoln attracts more visitors than any other object of historic interest in Springfield, Ill. It is on the northeast corner of Jackson and Eighth, the street cars passing the door, and is being preserved just as it was when Mr. Lincoln left it to assume his arduous duties as President. It is controlled by the State. Visitors to the State Fair this year, Oct. 1-9, should by all means make a pilgrimage to the Home of Lincoln. ILLINOIS STATE FAIR RACES. Big, Fat Purses for Speedy Horses—New Running Track This Year. The racetrack of the Illinois State Fair is one of the fastest in the country. The world's pacing record on a racetrack was made on it. Large sums of money are annually spent to place it in perfect condition for the Kings of the Turf. The racing card for the State Fair this year is very attractive. On Monday, Oct. 4, there will be two trotting races for $1,300, a pace for $500 and two running races for $400. On Tuesday, Oct. 5 there is a $1,000 trot, two pacing races for $1,500, and two running races for $500. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, the Illinois Derby will be run, besides an $800 pace, two trotting races at $1,800 and a $200 running race. On Thursday, Oct. 7, $1,000 is given for a trot, $2,500 for two pacing races and $500 for a couple of fast running races. Friday, Oct. 8, two trotting races will win $2,300 two pacing races $2,000 and two running races $400. Saturday, Oct. 9, there will probably be some sensational automobile racing. Hedgwood Boy and Lady Maud C. will be special attractions on one day. A DOMESTIC SCIENCE SCHOOL A Ten Days' Course in Cooking and Baking at Illinois State Fair. Baking at Illinois State Fair. Beginning with Sept. 24, 1909, and lasting until Oct. 9, there will be a school in Domestic Science in the Woman's Building, Illinois State Fair grounds. Mrs. J. M. Dickson, Mt. Vernon, is president and Miss Gertrude Doyle, Winchester, secretary of the Woman's Board, in charge of this department. Mrs. Nellie Jones, formerly head of the Domestic Science department, Kansas University, is instructor in cooking. Sanitary housekeeping and personal hygiene also are taught. Each pupil will bring her own toilet articles, napkin ring, white apron, a kitchen apron, a blanket and spread. Three scholarships for the highest grades will be given to the University of Illinois, for continued work in the University in household science. Ladies from every county in the State enroll themselves as pupils. They sleep and eat in the Woman's Building. The Women's Buildings The Illinois Board of Agriculture, recognizing the necessity for a building exclusively for women, erected this spacious and comfortable structure several years ago. It is 92x84 feet, and its broad verandas, easy chairs and inviting-large rooms commend it to ladies. The Domestic Science School is here with over 100 young lady students. The Temple of Justice. This magnificent edifice is across the street from the Capitol. It is a pure specimen of modern Renaissance, dignified and stately. The walls and floors are in richly veined imported marbles with decorated vaulted cellings. The woodwork is solid mahogany, quarter-sawed oak floors. No description of this beautiful structure can do it justice. Open to visitors. Easiest Terms to be had in Chicago Loans on first and second Mortgages Fire Insurance placed in any company 'PHONE 4366 CENTRAL AGENTS Can Make From $5.25 It is the Best Seller That Has A NEW BOOK HAS MA "The Industrial History of the N By Giles B. Jackson and D. W. This book is a novelty. It con- never before published. It take- ious, ethological, domestic, inver- of the Negro. One of its most- of the Negro, why he is black a Although it contains over 400 tions the price has been placed for board back; $1.50, cloth b Liberal arrangements will be wanted throughout the country. Jackson, 602 N. 2nd St., Rich secure this book from the h $1.00, $1.50 or $2.50 to R. T. Richmond, Va. Postage 13c exte AGENTS WANTED Make From $5.00 to $25.00. The Best Seller That Has Ever Been Upon the NEW BOOK HAS MADE ITS APPEARANCE. Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States B. Jackson and D. Webster Davis of Rich is a novelty. It contains matter concerning more published. It takes up the industrial, so logical, domestic, inventive and business adve ngro. One of its most important features is ngro, why he is black and why his hair curls, which it contains over 400 pages, with about 1 price has been placed within the reach of a back; $1.50, cloth bound and $2.50, hall arrangements will be made with agents. Aroundthought the country. For terms write to 602 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Parties to his book from the home office can send 50 or $2.50 to R. T. Hill, Treasurer, 602 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Postage 13c extra. AGENTS WANTED Can Make From $5.00 to $25.00 a day It is the Best Seller That Has Ever Been Upon the Market A NEW BOOK HAS MADE ITS APPEARANCE "The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States" By Giles B. Jackson and D. Webster Davis of Richmond, Va. This book is a novelty. It contains matter concerning the race never before published. It takes up the industrial, social, religious, ethological, domestic, inventive and business advancements of the Negro. One of its most important features is the origin of the Negro, why he is black and why his hair curls. Although it contains over 400 pages, with about 100 illustrations the price has been placed within the reach of all at $1.00 for board back; $1.50, cloth bound and $2.50, half morocco. Liberal arrangements will be made with agents. 10,000 are wanted throughout the country. For terms write to Giles B. Jackson, 602 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Parties desiring to secure this book from the home office can send the price $1.00, $1.50 or $2.50 to R. T. Hill, Treasurer, 602 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Postage 13c extra. BASE BALL 1909 The Summer Schedule at 7 Leland LOGAN SQUARES—May 9th, June WEST ENDS—June 6th, 19th, Aug. GUNTHFERS—June 5th, 13th, July ANSON COLTS—June 20th, July MILWAUKEE—June 26th, Aug. 8 After the Game Visit the Open 5324 State Street PIAN ALL KINDS OF NEW PIANOS ON EASY PAY ... Call Before Local Branch Agent for EASY TERMS AND FRANK 3140 STAT The Summer Schedule at 79th and Wentworth Avenue Leland Giants vs. SQUARES—May 9th, June 12th, Aug. 7th and 11th DDS—June 6th, 19th, Aug. 1st and 14th. RS—June 5th, 13th, July 31st, Sept. 12th. OLTS—June 20th, July 18th, Aug. 29th, Sept. EE—June 26th, Aug. 8th, 28th and Sept. 26th The Game Visit the Open Air Musical Emporium 5324 State Street. Phone Went. 215. IANO ALL KINDS OF NEW AND SECOND HAND ANOS ON EASY PAYMENTS THIS MON ... Call Before You Buy ... Branch Agent for Bissell, Cowe EASY TERMS AND EASY PAYMENTS ANK L. GA 3140 STATE STREET LOGAN SQUARES—May 9th, 12th, Aug. 7th and 15th. WEST ENDS—June 6th, 19th, Aug. 1st and 14th. GUNTHFRS—June 5th, 13th, July 31st, Sept. 12th. ANSON COLTS—June 20th, July 18th, Aug. 29th, Sept. 19th. MILWAUKEE—June 26th, Aug. 8th, 28th and Sept. 26th. After the Game Visit the Open Air Musical Emporium. 5324 State Street. Phone Went 215. ALL KINDS OF NEW AND SECOND HAND PIANOS ON EASY PAYMENTS THIS MONTH . Call Before You Buy . Local Branch Agent for Bissell, Cowen Co. EASY TERMS AND EASY PAYMENTS FRANK L. GALE 3140 STATE STREET Office Phone, 2445 Aldine Charles S Undertaker a 3249 State Stre Fine Funeral Furnishin Connection. Open Charles S. Jackson Hertaker and Embalmer 49 State Street, Chicago, General Furnishing Goods and L connection. Open Day and Night Charles S. Jackson Undertaker and Embalmer 3249 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Fine Funeral Furnishing Goods and Livery in Connection. Open Day and Night. Spontaneous combustion can only occur when oxidation causes the temperature to rise to the ignition point of the material. Spontaneous combustion of the human body is impossible on account of the heat regulating effect of the 75 or 80 per cent of water contained. The enormous heat necessary to dry the tissues sufficiently would destroy life long before ignition could take place. An old idea was that the alcohol in a confirmed drunkard might promote combustion, but Liebig showed that even if the body could give off inflammable vapor and this could become ignited the body itself would not be set on fire. Mans Superiority. "Woman," exclaimed the suffragette. "is the equal of man in every respect." "Oh, I don't know," replied a man in the audience; "it takes a man to put an angleworm on a fishhook."— Detroit Free Press. WANTED 20.00 to $25.00 a day Ever Been Upon the Market DEI ITS APPEARANCE "Gro Race of the United States" Webster Davis of Richmond, Va. ains matter concerning the race is up the industrial, social, religi- tive and business advancements important features is the origin and why his hair curls. On pages, with about 100 illustra- within the reach of all at $1.00 round and $2.50, half morocco, made with agents. 10,000 are For terms write to Giles B. mond, Va. Parties desiring to home office can send the price Hill, Treasurer, 602 N. 2nd St., ra. Giants 12th, Aug. 7th and 15th. 1st and 14th. 31st, Sept. 12th. 18th, Aug. 29th, Sept. 19th. 28th and Sept. 26th. Air Musical Emporium. Phone Went. 215. NOS AND SECOND HAND PAYMENTS THIS MONTH To You Buy . . . For Bissell, Cowen Co. EASY PAYMENTS L. GALE E STREET Residence Phone 5988 Douglas S. Jackson and Embalmer et, Chicago, Ill. Goods and Livery in Day and Night. Arthur Aull is responsible for this one; "Folly, Genius and Common Sense once went walking and came to a stream. Genius, having his head in the clouds, naturally started to wade across, paying no attention to the depth. The waters soon went over his head, and he was drowned. Common Sense hunted for a safe way to get across, and finally he found a foot log. As he got out about the center of the stream the log awayed, and he fell into the water and sank to rise no more. Folly stopped at the bank of the stream to amuse himself by throwing pebbles into the water and watching the waves. He sat upon the moist, cold bank until he caught a cold which developed into pneumonia, of which he soon died. Moral—It doesn't make much difference, after all, whether you are a genius, a sage or a fool. You'll get it sooner or later anyway."—Erchanga. Branch Office 3517 State Street PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4600 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Bushhouses SW MoonKinder 7000 Telephone Ashland 326 Office Telephones Central 1600 Automatic 5040 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 215-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON ST & CHICAGO. Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence. Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res. 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 300. ASHLAND.BLOOK A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 34-33 La Suite Street, Chicago Suite 646 to 619. Telephone Main 3097. Phone Oakland 1526 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1529 A Pleasant Summer Evening ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF ONE? Then Visit the "Chateau," 5324 State Street, Tonight. There is a fine Picture' Show, Roller Skating, Dancing and superb music, refreshments and a jolly good time for good people. No proscription. Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. Admission, 10 cents--one dime LELAND GIANTS' BASE BALL AND AMUSEMENT ASS'N. 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: J. S. Dorsey, 116½ W. 51st St. A. F. Tervalon, a cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. R. A. Jones new stand and barber shop, 5264 State Street. George I. 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 $1st street. J. R. Peters, cigars, tobacco, laundry office and news stand, $38 $7st street. T. B. Hall, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 281 29th street. Mrs. Jas. H. Lewis, nations, cigars and news stand, 419 36th Street. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news SPECIAL DAYS AT STATE FAIR. Big Days at the Illinois State Fair this Year—Better Go. Friday, Oct. 1—Opening Day, when a regiment of "white wings" will pick up paper, lumber, packing cases and sweep and dust, burnish the brass, polish the silver and glass. Saturday, Oct. 2—The bands make their appearance, the wild west and vaudeville shows open their doors in Happy Hollow, racers are being accustomed to the track, fruits and flowers are grouped in artistic designs and the Alton arranges for its shuttle train service. Sunday, Oct. 3—Sacred services with music by the bands and a quartette, an eloquent lecture by an eminent orator. Exhibits will be open and ready for inspection, but the machinery will not run. Excursions for people who work during the week. Monday, Oct. 4-Children's Day, when thousands of children who attend the schools are admitted free and the best care taken of them. In all towns in central Illinois school is dismissed for this day and the children taken to the State Fair, where they obtain an intimate knowledge of the productivity of Illinois soil. Special care is taken of the little ones. The racing begins, $2,200 in pursues being distributed. The show of handsome horses and fat stock in the Coliseum begins. Three splendid bands. Tuesday, Oct. 5-Central Illinois Day, when the different cities in the central part of the State meet their friends on the Illinois State Fair Grounds. An especially attractive racing card has been arranged, and $3,000 will be given out in pursues, including a $1,000 trot and a $1,000 pace. Five magnificent bands from the larger cities will be on duty. Wednesday, Oct. 6—Old Soldier's Day, when the veterans of the civil war will be guests of the State Board, and each one will be given a badge. Veterans of '53 who were at the first Illinois State Fair, will be received on this day, and will hold an experience meeting and tell of aud-lang yne. The Illinois Derby will be run, and $3,000 cash given to fast horses on the race track. The Night Horse Show will open at 8 o'clock sharp in the Coliseum. Six bands will blow. Thursday, Oct. 7—Governor's Day, when the Governor of Illinois will be the special guest of the Board of Agriculture. He will dine with the Board, look at the fat stock, the modern farm implements, the state exhibit of beautiful game birds, hold a reception and witness the races. There will be three great races for big purses—$4,000 being distributed to winners. It will also be a day for Illinois statesmen, the United States senators, congressmen and members of the legislature are expected to be present. The Night Horse Show in the Coliseum continues. Friday, Oct. 8—Springfield Day, when the shops and stores and offices in the Capitol city are closed and everybody attends the State Fair. It is a city holiday and an enormous attendance is promised this year. The Night Horse Show ends tonight with a test of jumpers, hunters and hurdles. On the race track $4,200 will be distributed. Saturday, Oct. 9.—Automobile Day, when there will be some sensational races on the race track by dare-devil demons in goggles. THE STATE FAIR AND RAILROADS Low Rates Granted by All Lines—Cheap Excursions on Many Lines. All the railroads have made a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip to the Illinois State Fair, October 1-9. Many of them will run excursion trains on certain days at a much lower rate than this. It is probable that there will be a rate of $2 or less for the round trip from East St. Louis, and $2.50 or $3 from Chicago. Ask the railroad agent. Ample accommodations will be provided by all lines. Talk to your neighbors. Get up a neighborhood crowd. Probably a special chair car can be obtained. Excursion parties, are being arranged in this way from distant parts of the State to visit the Fair this year. The Springfield lines, Chicago & Alton, Illinois Central, C., P. & St. L., Wabash, C., H. & D., and B. & O. are making great preparations to handle the crowds quickly and comfortably. The Alton will land its passengers at the grounds. Better go. The Illinois Traction System is making a rate of less than one fare for the round trip. Better go. THE TRACTION KING OF ILLINOIS. An Illinois Statesman Who Doubles Farm Values—Friend of State Fair Central Illinois is gridironed with interurban lines owned by Congressman William B. McKinley, of Champaign. Springfield, the State Fair (Oct. I-9) city, is the hub of most of them. Lines extend from the capital city to St. Louis to Decatur, Champaign and Danville, to Lincoln and Bloomington and to Peoria. Farm values have enormously increased on these lines. Mr. McKinley believes in the State Fair. He wants every farmer on his lines to visit it this year and has made a round trip rate of less than one fare as an inducement. As a congressman he plus his hopes on the farmer. He favors an income tax and a corporation tax by the federal government. "If we had a corporation tax years ago with its necessary publicity," said he recently "there would be no truns." He was mentioned for United States senator in the legislature last spring, and doubtless will be a candidate when Mr. Cullom's term is out. This is the colossal Dome of the Worlds Fair in Chicago, purchased and moved to Springfield by the Board of Agriculture in 1894. Its immense rotunda this year will be exclusively devoted to floriculture. The mammoth steel and glass dome, the largest in the world, requires a building 222-222 feet, and will comfortably house 100,000 people. SPECIAL PRIZES AT STATE FAIR. For Horses. Cattle, Swine and Sheep—Extras for Aristocrats. In addition to the regular cash and trophy prizes of the Illinois Board of Agriculture special premiums are provided by breeders' associations and others. The horse gets most of them. The Night Horse Show provides $5,000 cash for show horses. The Percheron Society offers cash, gold medals and ribbons; the Percheron Registry company offers gold and silver medals; the Clydesdale association, gold medals; American Shire association will give silver cups and ribbons; the Belgian association, cash, gold medals and ribbons; the Saddle Horse Breeders a $100 trophy; the English and American Hackney associations, silver medals, and heavy horses bred and owned in Illinois get prize ribbons. Extra prizes are held up for Poland China, Duroc Jersey Reds, Chester Whites, Illinois Berkshires, Hampshires and Tamworths in swine. The Schuttier Wagon company give a blue farm truck for best pair of pigs. Extra prizes for sheep include cash for lambs bred and owned in Illinois, cash for American Oxford Downs, and a silver cup for Angora goats. It pays to exhibit high grade cattle at the State Fair. Additional prizes to the amount of $750 in cash, one-half to Illinois breeders, is given by the American Short-Horn Breeders association, the Hereford association offers $300 in cash and the Aberdeen-Angus association $300. For dairy breeds the State Dairymen's association offers gold medals and cash. It pays the farmer to visit the Illinois State Fair. Better go. FOR STATE FAIR VISITORS. Accommodations for Strangers—Points of Interest in Springfield. The Chamber of Commerce of Springfield has taken in hand the matter of providing comfortable accommodations at reasonable rates for all State Fair visitors this year. Last year the arrangements were by no means perfect, but the pledge is given now that strangers by writing to Chamber of Commerce, Springfield, can obtain comfortable rooms at reasonable prices. Of course, if a stranger applies to persons he meets on the street, unknown to them, they may be gouged, but if they will report this to the Chamber of Commerce the gouger will be severely disciplined. Information bureaus will be found at hotels. Springfield offers many objects of interest to State Fair visitors and all can been seen without charge. The Lincoln Monument and Lincoln Home, Tanner Mausoleum, Capitol, Arsenal, Temple of Justice, Camp Lincoln, Governor's Residence, Old State Capitol, National Cemetery (Old Camp Butler), Carnegie Library, Y. M. C. A., Masonite and Odd Fellows' Buildings, Country Club and half a dozen beautiful parks. Upon application to Secretary J. K. Dickirson, Springfield, a free ticket to the State Fair this year will be sent to every person who visited the first State Fair, in 1853. These veterans will meet at some convenient place on the Fair grounds on Wednesday of the Fair, and talk over old times. It promises to be one of the features of the 1909 State Fair. Over fifty already have registered their names, several from Texas and other distant points. There will be ten bands of music at the State Fair this year. Neighborhood excursion parties are being arranged for the State Fair this year. This is a most satisfactory and desirable way to visit the Fair. Me Henry county, on the Wisconsin line, and Williamson county, near the Ohio river, are arranging parties. The center of the monster Dome building will be devoted exclusively to flowers and plants this year. It will be a dream of beauty. The state display of game birds alone is worth a visit to the State Fair. Dairy Products Building. This extensive building, 62x152, is north of the Dome and is devoted to milk, cream and butter, honey and bees. The University of Illinois conducts a daily demonstration of buttermaking with sanitary appliances. Cream tests will be made here and patent milkers exhibited. A REMARKABLE RECORD. During the past fifteen years, since the Illinois State Fair was permanently located at Springfield, it has given, principally to the people of Illinois, over a million dollars more than it received from the State in appropriations. It has handed out in that time $1,831,332.17, of which $539,685 went for premiums. For the same period the legislature gave the State Board of Agriculture $796,383.78, principally for permanent buildings. The value of the present State Fair site is over one million dollars, including the 150 acres upon which it is located. It belongs to the State as long as the State Fair is held there. This is a remarkable showing for the State Board of Agriculture. THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PERSONS GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vault REAL ESTATE Assagent buy and sell Real Estate on cond dents, including payment of taxes and loc on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patron Office Phone, Douglas 727 E. JAC FUNERAL 2959-61 STATE Branch: 1310 Bingha Fine Carriages for Hire M. F. I Plumbing, G Sewe 4740 STATE ST Recent allowed on Savings Acc Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT R sell Rea Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Estate. Finally Invites the patronage of Chicago business m e, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Doug E. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECTOR 59-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Marriages for Hire to Parties and Wedd F. F. LYNCH Building, Gas Fitting Sewerage STATE STREET, CHICAGO 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year Aslagerut 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. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Office Phone, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 1856 E. JACKSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR 2959-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Fine Carriages for Hire to Parties and Weddings Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Sewerage 4740 STATE STREET, CHICAGO TELEPHONE DREXEL 3633 --- Bartlett L. E. Ba BARTLETT & S Real Estate ing, Loans and Insur Street J. S. BARTL Real Renting, Loans J. S. BARTLETT & SON Real Estate Renting, Loans and Insurance 5126 State Street Chicago NOTARY PUBLIC Telephone Oakland 1061 This splendid structure 225x326 feet, was erected about ten years ago, but was entirely inadequate to accommodate the throngs of people. An extension was added six years ago, and it now comfortably seats about 6,000. A magnificent Night Horse Show will be given within its walls Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. It is used to display horses and fat stock. ILLINOIS GAME EXHIBIT. State Game Warden Wheeler Will Exhibit Beautiful Birds and Fowl. Immediately east of the broad road at the main entrance to the Illinois State Fair Grounds, during the State Fair, Oct. 1-9, State Game Warden Wheeler will display a score of varieties of pheasants, grouse, quail and other game birds which his department is propagating on the State game farms. Waterfowl in many breeds and other "animals with wings" will form part of this matchless exhibit. The bright plumage of the birds, the distant countries from which they were imported and the certainty that they will soon be plentiful enough in Illinois to serve as delicate morsels for the palate, make this one of the prettiest sights and most interesting studies on the Illinois State Fair grounds. They are protected by law under heavy penalties for several years. The Official Goat. "Your wife doesn't seem to care much for that friend of yours." "No. He's the man I lay the blame on when I'm detained downtown."—Philadelphia Post. pulled out without gas Estimates Given J. S. 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Agent and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY, Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLI MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer B Office and Yards: H and Robey S Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dyer. Telephone Yards 12 I am no Agent. I Rent only my own Property You will save many a weary step when you want a Flat if you first call on me. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PROPERTY Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle Street Telephone Main 2133 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK (Please cut this out) THE RA Imported and Liquor Cafe N. E. Corner Fifty-first - American President and Treasure Vice-President MANU Common and 45th and Yards running with the latest i Output of Winter Yards Output of Summer Yards Telephon THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, M. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. 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