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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY The Colored Preachers Residing in Preachers' Row On Vernon Avenue Are So Busy in Raking in Their Table and Dollar Money That They Are Not Interested in the Moral Condition of the Community Around and About Them. One or Two Good Time Houses Are Flourishing Right in Their Midst. Vol. XIV The Colored P siding in Pr On Vernon Avenue Are Their Table and Dol That They Are Not Inter dition of the Comm Them. One or Two Good Time Right in Their Mids Within the past four or five years all the Afro-American preachers except one or two who are looked upon by the big stall fed preachers as short stop or small fry preachers, moved from the west side of State street onto the avenues and streets east of the grand dividing line, at the time that transformation took place, it was earnestly thought that their very presence in among the other Afro-Americans would hold them in check to such an extent that none but the pure in heart would dare to seek shelter near their saintships or divine sanctuaries, but this is as far from the truth as the sun is from the earth. For if we mistake not Rev. Moses H. Jackson, the honest and highly respected pastor of Grace Presbyterian church, resides on Wabash avenue, south of $5th street, and the sale of bottled beer at one dollar a bottle, can rushing and good time houses are on the increase nigh unto him and without desiring to do Rev. Jackson an injustice, but so far we have not heard of him raising his voice in or-out of his pulpit against the evil or the immoral conditions existing so close to his home, it may not be true but it has come to our ears that he wants his salary raised so that he will be able to maintain himself and family in better style, but at the present time Rev. Jackson is faring much better than his Lord and Master did when He was on this earth. For we are told each Sunday by the preachers that he had nowhere to lay His head, no home to call His own, that He took no thought of tomorrow and that like the beautiful little sweet singing birds in the air He received His food and raiment from on high. Rev. Elijah J. Fisher, pastor of Olivet Baptist church, resides on South Park avenue, between 32nd and 33rd streets and unlike Elijah of olden times he is not doing much reform work for his Lord aside from gathering in 20 to 30 dollars table money each week besides other rake-offs which happen to fall his way. Many times in the past he has stood up in his pulpit and exclaimed, "Here, you Niggers, I want you all to give me more money, as I need it in my business and I must have more money for this church and it is up to you all to get it for me most any old way." Or words to the same effect. It is therefore unreasonable to expect Rev. Fisher to cry out very strong against the evil forces for he must have money and seemingly he is willing to take it in from all those who are willing to contribute it regardless of who or what they are and that is the chief reason why Rev. Fisher is disinclined to thunder HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS CALL WHERE THEY MAY forth against that class of semi-respectable Afro-Americans who are running fancy rooming or sporting houses on the East side of State street. Bishop H. B Parks lives on Calumet avenue, between 33rd and 34th street and it is not apparent that he is using his preistly influence to improve the moral conditions of the people in his neighborhood or to drive out the good time houses running only a short distance from him on the same street. Revs. A. J. Carey, pastor of Bethel church, D. P. Roberts, pastor of Quinn chapel, J. F. Thomas, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church, J. B. Massiah, pastor of St. Thomas church, Jordan Chavis, pastor of Hermon Baptist church and Bishop C. T. Schaffer, all reside in Preachers' Row on Vernon avenue, between 34th and 37th street, and these eminent divines seemingly do not know that there are several good time houses running at full speed near unto them but they are so busy in raking in their 20 to 30 dollars per week table money and dollar money, that they are not interested in the moral condition of the people of the community around and about them. There is one good time house on Vernon avenue, within a stone's throw of the homes of Revs. J. B. Massiah, Jordan Chavis, D. P. Roberts and J. F. Thomas and it does seem that these,big preachers rather like to have such resorts close unto them. The Colored lady running this good time house claims that she sells 20 to 30 dollars worth of bottled beer each night, that many young Colored girls frequent this good time house, drink bottled beer, laugh loud and crack coarse jokes with vile mouthed men who are old enough to be their fathers. It is useless for these preachers to close their saintly eyes and contend that no good time houses exist near them nor on the other streets, and avenues East of State street, for they do and plenty of them and if they have not seen nor heard of them, then they are purposely blind, devoid of hearing and we might say that for a monetary consideration they are willing to wink at vice, condone crime and gloss over the cespools of iniquity. If the Christian religion amounts to one row of pins, and if its mission is to lead the people here on this earth, away from darkness into lightness, and to cause them to eschew everything that is bad, and embrace everything that is good and ennobling, and if these preachers are really and truly the mouth-pieces of their God, then it is their duty, and the duty of the other Afro-American preachers in this city to buckle on their armors and to go forth to battle, in their-pulpits and out of them, in the cause of decency, virtue and higher ideals, for more saner and right living among the Afro-Americans in Chicago. (To be Continued.) CHICAGO. SEPTEMBER 25, 1909. THE LATE GOVERNOR JOHN A. JOHNSON OF MINNESOTA. Early on Tuesday morning John A. Johnson, the great Democratic Governor of Minnesota, passed away at Rochester that state, after he had undergone three operations for appendicitis. took a prominent part in but about many important reform in shaping the legislation for native state, becoming so popular all its people until he was non- and elected Governor in 1904. The early struggles of Governor Johnson, upwards and onwards, reads like a fairy tale. He was born of extreme poverty at St. Peter, Minnesota, July 28, 1861, where his remains were laid to rest Thursday with great civic and military honors. His parents, Gustave and Caroline Johnson, arriving in that little city as poor immigrants from Sweden in 1856, and were married in 1858. His father was a man of some inherited property, but he had wasted his inheritance before he left Sweden and when he arrived in America he was forced to follow blacksmithing. Misfortune continued to pursue his father, and at last poverty compelled his devoted and loving mother to take in washing and her little son, John A. Johnson, who in time became the sixteenth governor of the great state of Minnesota, cheerfully acted as her delivery boy, and when he was 12 years old he begged his mother to permit him to give up attending school in order to enable him to earn money to support the family and from that time onward he drank in his education in the evenings after his dav's work was performed as all around man and clerk in a general store at $10 and $12 per month. Later on he became a clerk in a drug store, where he worked for nine years and became a licensed pharmacist. Then he found employment with a railroad contractor and earned about $75 a month, which enabled him to support his mother, sister and brother in pretty good shape. In time, by the aid of some of his good friends, he became part owner and editor of the St. Peter Herald. Then he began to take an active interest in politics and to move forward in all the affairs of life. He was elected to the state senate of Minnesota for two terms, where he M. J. Doherty, superintendent of streets, has been working extremely hard this summer and he gave up his vacation in order to be on hand and to see that his aids in the various parts of the city have performed their duties in relation to keeping the streets clean and in proper order. took a prominent part in bringing about many important reforms, and in shaping the legislation for his native state, becoming so popular with all its people until he was nominated and elected Governor in 1904, in 1906 and in 1908, with large majorities at his back each time, showing that he was absolutely honest in conducting the public affairs of its people. He has the honor of being the-only person in the history of Minnesota to be elected three times in succession to that exalted office. On June 1, 1894, Governor Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Elinore Preston and he is survived by his constant and devoted wife and their two children. Governor Johnson was not only a friend of the common people, but was always willing to fight for their rights and accomplished a lasting work in their behalf. He was also liberal minded and he measured all men by their ability to do things and not by the color of their skin nor nationality and as chief executive of Minnesota he adhered to this policy by employing two Colored men in his office; not as porters or cuspidor cleaners, but one of them served as his assistant secretary and the other acted as usherer, and all politicians both great and small, and the public in general, had to state their business first to the Colored man before they could be introduced to Governor Johnson. By honoring the two Colored men in such a manner made him exceedingly popular with the Colored people throughout Minnesota, and at each election they warmly supported and voted for him, regardless of his politics. Governor Johnson was prominently brought forward as one of the presidential candidates in 1908, and he received over 150 votes at the Denver convention, and if he could have lived until 1912 he would have been the logical and successful standard bearer of the Democratic party for President of the United States. James T. Jones, who has been for many years one of the courtesious and obliging clerks in the bureau of water, returned home the first of the week from spending a part of his vacation with friends at Wall Lake, Iowa. The Rise and Reign of The Bourbon Oligarchy In The Southern States. By Joseph C. Manning, Editor of the Southern American, Alexander City, Alabama. SEPTEMBER 1, 1904. THE DEMOCRATIC RACE ISSUE. CHAPTER IV. It is the endeavor of the leaders of the "democracy" in the South to have it appear to the North that the sole issue of paramount importance to the South is the alleged race issue. Much talking, and more editorial matter, is indulged in concerning the "necessity" of preserving the domination of the "democracy" in behalf of the "white supremacy. It requires votes to win with in elections, and to win the majority of votes South in opposition to the "democracy" must come from Southern whites. The "democracy" pretends to speak for "the South" and yet this oligarchy, without the votes of a majority of whites, is the self-esteemed only preserver of good government and the interest of whites of the South. The inference is to be had that the oligarchy is apprehensive that if they permit the majority of whites to control that the states of the South will post haste be "black supremacy" and terrible to contemplate! Why this distrust of the Southern white people? From Mississippi, where the Negro is without any voice whatever in government, most is heard about the jeopardy of "white supremacy." There arises from Mississippi an amazing tirade of abuse of the Negro and the onslaught upon him is terrific. Just how the "white supremacy" of the oligarchy may be affected in Mississippi by the Negro is beyond understanding, for the ballot is solely in the hands of whites and the machinery of elections is absolutely in the control of the oligarchy. The governor of this state is not only opposed to the Negro being permitted to vote, but he as vehemently insists that the Colored man should not be educated. It will be recalled that the opposition to the Blair Educational bill came from the representatives in Congress from the South and the measure was rejected because it would help the education of blacks in the South and, furthermore, hasten the awakening of illiterate whites to their political thralldom. One member of Congress from Alabama opposed Federal aid to education upon the grounds that education caused the white farmer boy to get too proud to work in the sun and turned him from the plantation! Deep down behind this sohistory the real reason lay. It has always been the spirit of bourbonism to suppress the possibilities arising before the poorer whites of the South and to beat them backward instead of alding them onward. Yet it was the poor whites of the South who were forced to the front in the war of secession and did the principal battling; the Confederate State of Alabama, with other States South, having passed an act exempting from conscription for service in the war the large holder of chattel slaves! To now inflame these poor whites again to further subservience to the oligarchy, vulgar abuse of President Roosevelt is indulged in, by Mississippi leaders especially, and the election of President Roosevelt, it is declared by the whole "democratic" Southern press, means the putting of the Negro over whites. This is not Reign of The Oligarchy In ern States. Editor of the Southern City, Alabama. DEMOCRATIC RACE ISSUE. ER IV. done that it is needful now to keep the Negro down, but because it is determined as essential to the plans of keeping the oligarchy up. The President has pursued the policy of President McKinley in the matter of Southern appointments except that he has seen fit to appoint certain democrats to positions in the South. It appears that the oligarchy deems it necessary to create great furor upon the Negro question that either they may bolster up their regimes or else force the present President to turn over the whole Federal patronage to the advocates of the "democratic" race issue in the South. There is no movement possible upon the part of the disfranchised Negroes of Mississippi to be elected to office or to capture the government of the commonwealth. Although the Hon John Sharp Williams is advocating this general government giving the right of representative government to the Phillipine natives, yet his appeals in this regard have not, as yet, aroused or "Inflamed" the Colored citizens of Mississippi to beseech him to lead a movement in behalf of the rights of more capable Colored men nearer home. The Mississippi oligarchy is apparently safe and secure, as far as the manipulation of the electro rate is concerned, and the mere handful of voters have it all to themselves. This eternal and unceasing wall about the "Nlewer," however, continues to go up and appeals to the passions of the lawless are made until the incited to vengeance white mob shoots the convicted victim of crime as he stands between the courts and the gallows. The race issue in national campaigns is brought into play by the Souhtn "democracy" for purely partisan usage and this usage is a cowardly sham to turn the voter North from clear insight into the real suffrage condition South as it really and vitally effects not only the liberties of whites South, but, also, the suffrage rights of whites North. The extent of this race issue in Mississippi is that the Negro is employed by the oligarchy as a political scapegoat and that he, in his unfortunate condition, is employed to condone and to cloak the political rascality of those who usurp the control of government from both whites and blacks. This unending imposition upon the whites of the South and this political treatment of the Colored race of the South, upon the part of the "democracy," is to be censured in the strongest language. How wonderful it is that whites are so misused and aroused beyond reason to the extent that the welfare of their homes and their liberties are invaded as the consequence of this Southern misgovernment now dominant solely by reason of this imagery "democratic" race issue? How strange it is that Southern white men will become crushed with passion and in certain localities become a band of murderers because of a purely "democratic" race issue sentiment that appeals to supposed N..51 (Continued on page 2.) Will promigrate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholica, Protestanta, Priesta, Inside single Taxers, Republicana, or anyone else can have their say, as long as language is proper and responsibility is dared. The Broad Axis 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. 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 8, 1879. The Rise and Reign of The Bourbon Oligarchy in the Southern States. (Concluded from page 1.) conditions absolutely inexistent? The manner in which wrong doing by an individual member of the Colored race is taken up to arouse popular sentiment of lawlessness as against the Colored race to the wide-spread extent that this inflamed feeling reaches out and finds formation in mobs and goes further to the extremity of resulting in death to the innocent because of the crime of the guilty. There is a race issue to this extent in the South and this was demonstrated not many weeks ago in Georgia when the thirst for vengeance against the whole race led to the shooting of an old Colored man as he sat, harming no one, in his own humble cabin home. Then, perhaps, there may be found something of a race issue, in fact, to the extent that the rule of the oligarchy in Alabama, and other Southern States, has developed the system of peonage, when the old oligarchy of slavery thought not of other forms of servitude than chattel slavery. In chattel slavery, however, the submissive blacks slept in the cabin unchained, in peonage they are housed in the chain-gang stockade. There were, by census reports, 57, 310 white prisoners in the United States in 1890, while the number of blacks were 24,277. It appears that both races supply violators of law. It is true, however, that the offences of the Colored race are not to as great extent of a grave order of crime as newspapers South would have it believed. The larger number of offenses are of little moment as compared to the crimes of whites and, considering that there are now 9,312,585 Colored persons in the United States, the number imprisoned is not so bad a showing for a people out of bondage, with their poor opportunites and environments. There are whites, as well as blacks, who commit horrible acts of violence. White men hold up trains and blow up banks. Mobs are not incited, however to shoot down whites indiscriminately. Neither is the white race damned by adverse public opinion because of the sin of the white individual. It is not true of the Colored race, unfortunately for them and for the efforts of those among this race who strive, amid difficulties known only to God and them, to raise the standard of their people. The "democratic" race issue is most uncharitable in that lawlessness of the lawless is visited upon the struggles of the many to elevate and to uplift to higher and loftier standard of citizenship. No people look with more horror to the results of the awful crime of rape than the better element and the predominating members of this race and they keenly feel that the committing of this crime by some one brutal member of this race puts an intolerant burden of race hate upon all. Their leaders and preachers are crying out against this crime, which, although seldom it may occur, is bearded far and wide and brings hardships to all this people. There is much to be said for the Negro of the South that is not desensitary. Henry W. Grady knew this and he gave wonderful progress of this people but few years ago in savannah. It is needless to tell how the chattel slave, illiterate and in poverty, turned the career to the life of a free man. Beginning in 18 norance and want, he has risen to education, to property and to usefulness. The cabin of the slave has produced one of the world's greatest personages now upon the arena of life. Colored homes, Colored farms, Colored schools, Colored doctors, Colored editors, Colored lawyers,—this is evidence that this race has not been wholly in idleness and depravity! Not of inflammatory disposition, the black man guarded and cared for the homes of those of the whites absent fighting to keep him in servitude. He raised supplies on the black belt farms to go forward to feed the men struggling on the battle field to keep him in chattel slavery. Out of his taxes today are taken funds to pay pensions to the Confederate soldiers who fought to overcome the benefactors of his race. These black men are not members of any newspaper-correspondent created "Before Day Club and the South knows this creation of fiction is an infamy and a slander. These men are not terrors to representative government nor to the South. They are not considered by the people of the South, whose opinions are entitled to respect, as a menace to the state or nation. Their labor made the wealth and really sustained the homes of the old slave-holding aristocracy. Their toll is today contributing much to the wealth and to the happiness of Southern homes. The true white men of the South are not such political cowards that they fear the domination of this people as is pretended by the "democratic" press. It is shameful, it is disraceful, to make this race the "democratic" foot ball for the gratification of political spleen and the venting of partisan rancor. It is a sin, before God, to so enlarge upon the crimes of the few to the injury of all. It is unpardonable to so persecute an humble race that there may be sought to hide behind the flog of abuse heaped upon it the political chicanery of a governing regime that is fat with despotism and with fraud. Social equality as between the races is the esteemed strongest string upon the "democratic" race issue harp. An unceasing cry goes up from the mouths of these leaders of the recine of olfarchism about their "awful" pretended apprehensions that themselves and their families may be compelled to associate with a "Nigger." It is known of all men that the law of this republic has notating whatever to say or do with any man's selection of his personal associations. This is entirely with the individual. For that matter, there is not such a thing as social equality among the whites in this country. (To be Continued.) CHATEAU RINK NOTES The best treat of the season at the Chateau Garden tonight. Big Vaudeville Company illustrated song, Moving Pictures and dancing free, roller skating and a good time for all. The Endurance race at the Chateau last week was the most exciting race in the history of the Chateau Rink. Long before the time for the races to appear the crowd began to fill the Balcony and Rink. At 9:30 at the sound of the zong the skaters were started by Referee James Strathers at a very fast clip. Round and round the skaters circled the Rink for one hour. At 10:30 the races were called to a hait for the judges to decide who were the winners. At 11 p. m. Mr. B. F. Mosley, secretary and treasurer, called together the winners on the platform in the Garden. Mr. Chas. Perkins making the greatest number of miles, first price $10.00: Mr. Wm Chilton, second prize $5.00: Orant Uley, third prize $3.00: consolation prize for the one making the smallest number of miles, Mr. John Brown, price $2.00. After witnessing one of the most exciting games of the season between the White Sox and the Leeland Giants Sunday, Sept. 26th, at their own grounds, 79th and Went worth avenue, don't forget to frequent the Chateau and have the time of our life. The Chateau Garden will close for the season of 1909 toilebt, Sunday, with many thanks to their patrons for their presence during the season. On Saturday, October 3rd, the Chateau Rink will open for the skating season during the winter. The dining room, parlor and the rink floor will be put in first class condition. Crochetru music, pew skates and boat of decorum. Admission, 10 cents. Frank L. Gole, 2140 State Street, continues to branch out in the piano business and all the available space in his store is occupied by some of the finest pianos that are made in this country, and he is selling bargains, in new and second hand instruments on every occasion. TWO MORE ANTI-NEGRO CLUBS FORMED IN WOODLWN AND PARK MANCR. 25,000 White Property Holders In That Section of the City, It Is Said, Have Agreed Not to Sell Nor Rent Their Houses to Colored People. The latter part of last week a large bunch of the whites residing in Hyde Park, Woodlawn and Park Manor, met at Grand Boulevard Hall, 47th street and Grand boulevard, and after passing resolutions in favor of keeping up the warfare against permitting Negroes to buy property in that part of the city and to urge those who are located there to get a hustle on themselves and steal away like the gentle Arab. Two more Anti-Negro clubs were formed. William P. Dawson, Secretary of the Southern Club was elected president of the Woodlawn branch of the Hyde Park Improvement and Protective Club, and Charles O. Wright, Jr., was chosen to that same honor for the Park Manor Club. Some of the members of these various clubs severely censured the Anti-Negro whites residing in Hyde Park, for paying some of the Colored people to move away, they claiming that in time they can be induced to do so without giving them any money. It is said that the various officials of these Anti-Negro organizations have secured the pledges of more than 25,000 property owning whites in Kenwood, Hyde Park, Woodlawn and Park Manor not to sell nor rent their houses to Colored people. Whether this is true or false there seems to be more of a determination on the part of the whites residing in that strong Republican district to draw the dead line on the Negro, than at any other time in the history of Chicago. TAFT'S SOUTH CAROLINA AP- POINTMENTS. (Charleston, S. C. News and Courier, Dem.) Mr. Taft's record in the way of appointments in South Carolina is one to which he may "point with pride," and for which he is entitled to the thanks of the people of the state. The roll is worth calling at times to show how far we have traveled since the unhappy blinders of the last administration: Durant, collector of the port of Charleston, with "Pe'e" Jennings as deputy collector thrown in for good count; Floyd as postmaster at Spartanburg, with the indorsement of many of the best men in that city; Hastie as assistant district attorney at Charleston; Storen as census supervisor of the First district; Waterhouse at Beaufort; Russel at Anderson; Pritchard at Greenville! Douglas for the Fifth district; Dupre for the Columbia district, and possibly Alexander for the Sixth district. All these men are white men; a number of them are democrats, and the majority of them are natives of the state. We think that this is a good record, and that, besides pleasing the people and making them think that they really have an interest in the government at Washington, the government itself will get first rate service. THE NEGROES AND THE WHITES Mrs. Cella Parker Woolley's question, "Why not deport the whites?" is a "corker" that "obnurates" where can we place the 70,000,000 white "winners" so that the Negro may roam? There are hundreds of property owners in the south division of Chicago who will sell their property for half its cost and welcome deportation to some other part of their loved country if Uncle Sam will guarantee them immunity from the Negro. The combined wealth of the entire Negro population of the south side would not pay the loss Negroes have caused to property in that section. There has been a loss of nearly $500,000 on three homes in one block alone—for instance, the Gates and Higginbotham homes. As an illustration: A home in Wabash avenue cost $18,000, was valued for taxation in 1894 at $15,000 and taxed at over $160 a year. It is now valued at $6,000—is on the market at that price—and pays about $70 in taxes. The home builder loses $10,000 and the city about $100 in taxes yearly. Multiply this by the many similar cases and figure the loss to the city and citizen. It is true that white people are not forced to move out because the Negro moves in, but the fact is that they do. I have no doubt the white people of this country would gladly pay a special tax to help Negroes improve their condition, elevate themselves and become lawful, responsible. citizens, with every right the white man enjoys. But let them keep to themselves. Manly pride ought to induce them to Build up for themselves, not pull their neighbors down Chicago. A SUFERER. From the Chicago Daily News of recent date. WHITE MEN IN LOUISIANA MARRYING COLORED WOMEN. New Orleans, La., Sept. 14, 1900.—"She's my wife. We have lived together 38 years. The law can not estrange us" Thus spoke Joseph Lawrence, a white farmer, in the second criminal court, while he was awaiting trial on the charge of marrying a Colored woman. Through the arrest of Lawrence and his Colored wife the police discovered a hard situation. All around Lee station the white farmers and fishermen and other classes have intermarried with Colored people and reared large families, regardless of the law against such. A number of arrests have been made, but it has been impossible to convict one for the reason that the white parties all went on the stand and swore they were Colored. Just what the prosecuting Attorney can do remains to be seen.—The Picayune New Orleans, La. OBJECT TO RACE SEGREGATION Negroes of Hyde Park Neighborhood at Meeting Protest Plan of Realty Dealers. Resentment against the Hyde Park Improvement Protective club was expressed at an indication meeting of 200 Negroes last night at the St. Paul Baptist church 5540 Lake avenue. The attempts of the real estate men to segregate Negroes was condemned by speakers and a resolution was passed thanking Municipal Judge Sheridan Fry for his work for the Colored people. Parker H. Sercombe, chief speaker of the evening, warned the Negroes against snobbishness. A. L. Williams, a property owner, said to have declared formerly that the Negroes ought to move out of neighborhoods where they were not wanted, presided over the meeting.—The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 24, 1909 THE CIMFTER OF MISKEGEE IS OFF ITS BASE. September 11th The Broad Ax contained a comment on an editorial which had appeared the week before in The Advocate. Portland, Oregon on the Negro National Press Association which was organized at Louisville, Ky., during the meeting of the Negro National Business League, and editor W. H. Twine, of the Climeter, reading with his eyes closed, got the Negro National Press Association and the Western Negro Press Association mixed up and he was unable to tell which was which and he jumped onto us for pitching into the Western Negro Press Association. For the benefit of brother Twine, we desire to say that not one line has ever appeared in these columns against the last mentioned association. There is no better amusement house in Chicago than the Pekin Theatre, 27th and State street, owned and managed by Robert T. Motts. Every night in the week good shows are in evidence, consisting of vaudeville, comedy, high opera singing, moving pictures and so on. From 7:30 to 11:30 the patrons of The Pekin can laugh one thousand times at the laugh provoking antics of the high class theatrical artists at The Pekin, and the amateurs who appear every Saturday night. Manager Motts keeps abreast of the times and it is the talk of the town that he is running good shows. COLORED MAN AND $2,000,000 CON CERN. Mr. Z. W Mitchell of Alberta, Canada, a Colored man, has been elected secretary and treasurer of the Edmonton Realty Cooperative Corporation. Limited, of which Lleut. Gov. G. H. V. Burles of Alberta, Canada was its president. The capital stock of the company is two million dollars.—Ex. CARD OF THANKS The relatives of the late Mrs. James E Thompson have a high appreciation of the many kindnesses received at the hands of sympathizing friends during her recent illness and demise. They desire to and do hereby extend their thanks to everybody who by word or deed cheered them on through the hours of sorrow and IRISH CHORAL SOCIETY ELECTS. Officers of the Irish Choral society for the coming year were elected Thursday evening as follows: President—Patrick H. O'Donnell. Vice President—J. A. McGarry. Secretary—L. M. Somers. Treasurer—Frank O'Dowd. The following were elected to the board of directors: Dr. R. J Tivnen, R. W Wolfe, J. W. Donahue, A. McDonald, Thomas Taylor Drill, B. M. O'Nell, and Phillip J. McKenna. CHIPS Miss Minnie Fielding, of Hot Springs, Ark., is on a visit to this city. Mrs. R. J. Bass, 5252 State street, is visiting relatives and friends in Zanesville, Columbus and Springfield, Ohio. Rev. J. R. Riley, Pastor of Shiloh Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tenn., is visiting friends and relatives in this city. He is stopping with Mrs. Brownside, 3228 Armour Ave. Mrs. M. Tooles Mitchell returned home Tuesday from Columbus, Ohio. where she has been for several weeks. attending the Baptist Association. She says the Ohio people are noted for their hospitality. Miss Estella Bonds, 6652 Wabash Ave., entertained a number of her friends at a "musical" Monday evening last. The program was furnished by her new pupils and was very entertaining from beginning to end. Marshall Drish, 4623 Dearborn St., who is one among the old railroad men in Chicago, after a long seize of indisposition, is able to get around among his many friends again. Mrs. Jacob Demby, of Topeka, Kansas, is visiting relatives and friends in the city. Mrs. Demby reports that her husband, Rev. Jacob Dembv, formerly of this city, is doing well in his new home. Revs. A. J. Carey and H. E. Stewart left Tuesday evening for the conference which meets in Moline Illinois. There is much speculation as to what disposition will be made of these two D. Ds and Dr. Roberts, of Quinn Chapel. Mr. Louis Woods, proprietor of the Wood's Hotel, Kansas City. Mo., and the able manager of the Kansas City Sun, spent last week in the city visiting his brother, Mr. Robert Woods. 5032 Armour Ave. He was accompanied by his beautiful and charming wife and her sister, Mrs. Rosa Stroud. Miss Estella Bonds, who is quite popular in musical circles, was, the first of this week, united in marriage to Dr. M. A. Mators, who was recently divorced from his first wife, who is now earning her living teaching school down in Texas, and it is reported that they will occupy a fine flat on Wabash Ave., at $40 per month. The Rev. Father D. J. Piordan, pastor of St. Elizabeth's church, visited the Sodality of the B. V. M. of St. Monica's church at the residence of Mrs. Charles W. Jefferson; Wednesday, Sept. 15. He installed the officers for the evening year, gave the ladies a beautiful lecture, and said he was very much pleased with the work they had accomplished in the past year, and he wanted them to take the course of all the Colored Catholics in the city, and promised them a pastor in the near future. On Sunday morning last a large number of our "local big men" eagerly scanned the puwers with a strong hope of seeing their names mentioned as "Defenders of the race." "Race leaders," etc., etc., but nary a line did they see about themselves and it serves them right! In the future let us hope they will know enough to engage space in their own papers to tell the other fellow what they think of him. Foolish men to expect your "rantings" to be sought after and printed by the very fellow against whom you rant—"T" Steam Heated Flats to Rent We have for rent seven team treated flats, 3832-3834 and 3876 Wabash Avenue. All hardwood trim and floors. Jailitor service, etc. WT D. NFIGHBORS & CO., 95 Washington St. Phone, Central 4366. Wasted All Three Wishes An Irish legend has it that a good fairy once visited an old couple and promised them that any three wishes they would make would be granted. After racking their brains for some time in an endeavor to discover what they desired most the couple decided to visit the county fair to see if something there would suggest what they wanted. They did so, and, after rambling around all day and not seeing anything that exactly suited them, toward evening they found themselves before a display of kitchen utensils. Among them was a soup ladle, cheap, but likely to appeal to a woman, so the old woman in an absent moment said, "Oh, I wish I had one of those," and immediately she had it. The old man was so enraged because his wife had thoughtlessly thrown away one valuable wish that he retorted, "I wish that was stuck down your throat," and immediately this was done. Thereupon he was at once sorry at what he wished, and the only thing left to do was to wish the ladle out again. So all three wishes went for naught. How Snakes Get Over Ground How Snakes Get Over Ground. Although the snake appears to have no legs or feet, it may be said to be practically supplied with upward of a hundred pairs of them. In fact, each joint of the backbone bears a pair of ribs, which are mobile and have their points attached to the inner surface of one of the large transverse, platelike scales which clothe the undersurface of the body. Thus by the movements of the ribs attached to it each plate can be drawn forward and its margin applied to the ground. By the successive application of these multitudinous plates the body can be drawn forward in a straight line without its being thrown into undulations from side to side. But rapid movements are also effected by such undulations, and serpents can by pressure and appropriate muscular action climb trees and sometimes spring forward. They also swim easily by lateral flexures, but no serpents advance by vertical bendings of the body, though they are so often drawn in such an attitude. Bolivia's Electrical Storms Owing to the peculiar topographical formation of Bolivia, electric and other phenomena are of constant occurrence, the principal zone where such disturbances take place being the Altiplancle, or grand plateau. As the atmosphere is heavily charged with electricity both in summer and winter, dry or electric storms are of frequent occurrence both on the plateau and in the valleys. Before the rainy season sets in electrical accumulation becomes considerable on the plateau region, its most violent manifestations taking place toward the eastern section of the tablelands. An electrical storm in these regions is always a most imposing spectacle, as the tremendous force of the wind, almost equal to a hurricane, and the heavy electrical accumulation in the clouds produce terrible atmospheric explosions and violent detonations, while the surface of the ground sparkles and crackles. Vacation by Think Make a compact with your soul to take a vacation and the way is simple. There are portions of your time over which you have control. Probably your evenings and your Sundays are your own. Set apart a month or so. Eliminate the self assigned tasks for those hours out of business and give yourself up to the pursuit of pleasure. Get others to join you. Call a vacation club. Adopt a real vacation spirit and go in for a good time. Resolve never to speak of work out of business hours, but to fill to the full that time which is your own with recreations which most appeal to you. Did you ever sing? Sing now. Did you ever paint? Paint now. Remember nature's gifts to you and find occasion to praise nature within as well as without—Exchange He Got It Wrong. A lady while going downstairs to dinner had the misfortune to step slightly on the dress of a lady in front of her. The man on whose arm the former was leaning said aloud, rudely, so that the couple in front might bear: "Always getting in the way, like Baalam's ass." Upon which the lady whose gown had been trodden on, turning round, replied with a sweet smile: "Pardon me! It was the angel who stood in the way and the ass which spoke"—Tit-Bits. Touching. Jack-That young Simperly seems such a fragile fellow I should hesitate to touch him for fear he would break. Sam-He wouldn't hesitate about touching you if he was broke.-London Telegraph. Why Women Are Like Tugboats. Biggs-Why are the tugs on the Wisconsin river like the co-eds who walk up and down State street? Muggs-And the answer is? Biggs-Some toe out and I some toe in.-Wisconsin Sphinx. A Coordinate Position. "What is a speaker of a house?" "Your mother is." "And what are you?" "I suppose I might be called the leader of the minority."-New York Press. LIKE HAMMERED GOLD. Proposed Monument For the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific exposition monument, to be the crowning work of sculpture of the international exhibition of 1909, will be covered with solid gold leaf. Gold donations to the amount of $7,000, necessary to completely cover the great shaft with the shining metal, will be solicited from Alaskans, Yukoners and the people of Seattle. An appropriation to cover the cost of building the monument in staff has been authorized, the drawings made and the sculptor is engaged in building his clay model. The monument is to stand in the center of the plaza in front of the magnificent group of United States government buildings and directly at the head of the Cascades. Looking south from the monument will be first the central features of the exposition, and then the eye will travel over a panorama of eighty miles of mountain, lake and woodland scenery to Rainier and the Cascade range. The exposition monument is to be more than seventy feet in height. The monument proper will stand on a pedestal twenty feet high. This column will be of Corinthian design, on the top of which will be a globe giving the signs of the zodiac. On top of this globe will be a huge American eagle with outstretched wings, as in flight. Grouped about the base of the monument will be three seated female figures symbolic of the northland, the south seas and the orient. Every foot of this great monument will have the appearance of having been hammered out of pure gold if the donations are sufficient to complete the undertaking.—Seattle Times. Youthful Suicides There is a shocking proneness among youthful Bengalis to kill themselves on the least pretext. It seems to be an exaggerated form of sultiness, and one would like to have a medical opinion on the matter. A student is reprimanded by his parent because his studies don't show the advancement expected. The boy swallows some opium and ends his studies. A girl wife in Howrah takes a dislike to the second choice of her husband. She also secures an exit by the easy means of opium. A Bengal woman in Howrah wanted to go on a pilgrimage to Gaya. Her mother said she could not advance the railway fare, and the girl went out to a tree and hanged herself. These are all recent cases—Calcutta Empire. A Pleasant Prison. The prison at Cettinje, Montenegro, has been described as surely the most extraordinary one in existence. It presents little to indicate that it is a place of confinement, there being apparently nothing between the prisoners and absolute liberty. There are no outer prison walls, and in the cells the men—about eight or ten to each—are contentedly and comfortably housed as their own personal domestic belongings can make them. Moreover, they are generously fed, and cigarettes without stint, wine occasionally and no work at all combine to check any desire to escape more effectually than would strong walls, iron bars and an army of jailers—London Globe. Tees in the Treetops. Here is a story speaking better for the German emperor's goodness of heart than his knowledge of the ancient and royal game of golf. "So you want ground for your golf club, Sir Frank?" said the kaiser to the British ambassador at Berlin. "We haven't got nice grass meadows round Berlin as you have in England, but I will give you a bit of the Grunewald," a pine forest near Berlin and a great Sunday resort of the Berliners. "Ah, sire," Sir Frank Lascelles replied, "I am afraid there would be too many trees!" "Trees!" instantly replied the emperor, with bonhomie. "All the better to keep the sun off you when you are playing in the summer!" Cold Storage Poultry. The state board of health of Massachusetts has issued a bulletin on cold storage poultry in which this advice is given to housekeepers: "In order to avoid obtaining waterlogged and refrozen fowls the consumer should demand the frozen bird and thaw it himself. If thawed quickly by immersion in a bucket of hot water it may be eaten with impunity and with relish the same day it is purchased, or if hung overnight at room temperature it may be ready for use the day following." The Funny English James S. Palmer, vice president elect of the United States, may possibly look forward to filling one day the position of president. It will be remembered that on the death of President McKinley, Mr. Roosevelt, who was then vice president, succeeded automatically to the presidency without opposition. Should anything happen to Mr. Taft (which we sincerely trust, for his sake, may not be the case) Mr. Palmer would probably, if precedent were followed, take his place. — Illustrated London News. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave Saint St. & I. & J. & K. & R. Bain, Farmer Gend St. and Armour Ave. CRICAGO Dorsey's WHITE ROSE Petrolatum For Chipped Hands, Face and Lips. KINGSTON PHARMACY J. S. DORSEY, R. Pn., proprietor 116 1-2 W. 51st. Street. near Dearborn, Chicago TELE:DORF 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 Aline 2203 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. Failing 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 travelling 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 as will certainly make some political leaders sit up and take notice. Negroes are slow but apt scholars. Race Question Sidestopped. The prevailing opinion that President Taft has sidestepped the Negro question seems to be not wholly without foundation. Well, the race that can stand 220 years of the most damnable baggage that ever curred, a world and four years of civil war will survive the purity of a political party. The Negro is one of the permanent means. He will not disappear, reports of his enemies to the contrary notwithstanding—Dallas Reporter. To the ordinary housemaid the falling of a house plant into a violent paroxysm of coughing is naturally disconcerting. Yet there are plants which will do this when the broom or the duster begins to make dust fly. This singular plant is the "coughing bean," known to the botanist as the Eutada tussens. It is a native of warm and moist tropical countries and cannot and will not stand dust. When dust settles upon the breathing pores in the leaves of this plant and chokes them a gas accumulates inside the leaves and when it gains sufficient strength forcibly "blows off," clearing the pores of dust and making a sound exactly like coughing. At the same time the leaves tremble and the plant actually "gets red in the face" through the sinking of the green chlorophyll grains and the appearance of red particles on the leaves. This plant is sometimes used as a house plant, and sweeping the room sets it coughing, to the intense astonishment of persons not familiar with its peculiarities. London Chronicle. Paid For the Kiss. Lord Northcote was once made curious use of while governor general of Australia, says London M. A. P. Nrolling one night through an avenue of somber trees to a friend's house to dinner, he was suddenly pounced upon by a maidservant, who kissed him effusively and pressed a little parcel into his band. "Here's a sausage for you I can't come out tonight, as master has company," she whispered and as mysteriously disappeared. When he got to the house he found one of his servants loitering by the gate. "What are you doing there?" asked Lord Northcote. "I'm waiting for my sweetheart," the man stammered. "Where is she?" "In service Lore." "Ah, then, I am right. Here is a sausage from your sweetheart, and she wishes me to tell you that she cannot come out tonight, as her master has company." Seeing that the man looked nervous, he added kindly: "She also gave me a kiss for you, but perhaps you would rather wait until you see her. Here is 5 shillings instead." Round About Dorking. the neighborhood of Dorking, where George Meridith lived, has many literary associations independent of its connection with that famous novelist It was at Burford Bridge, near Dorking, that Keats completed "Endymon" in November, 1817; close by, at the Rookery, was born Father Malthus, the popular economist, and at West Humble Frances Burney, after her marriage with General d'Arblay, built Camilla cottage with profits of her novel of that name and settled down. Sheridan resided at Polesden and John Stuart Mill at Mickleham, while other illustrious residents in the locality in earlier times were John Evelyn and Daniel Defoe. To most people, however, the chief literary association of Dorking is with Dickens, for was it not at the Marquis of Granby's, variously identified with the White Hart and the Old King's Head, that Mr. Weller, Sr., made the fatal blunder of proposing to a "vilder?"—Westminster Gazette. English Difficult to Pronounce. English Difficult to Preserve The difficulty of English for strangers does not lie in its orthography, but in its pronunciation. Abroad people will constantly say that they can read and write English readily, while unable to utter a word or to understand a word of the spoken language, as of course, vice versa, a great many English and Americans can read and write French long before they can understand or make themselves understood. The other languages are just as difficult for them to pronounce as English is for others. The only difference is that English stands alone with its system or lack of system of pronunciation. When a Frenchman knows how to write German he is at the same time able to speak the language, if not beautifully, at least so as to be understood. The same holds for a German speaking French.—Professor Albert Schlinz in North American Review. The Battle of the Nations. The conflict called the "Battle of the Nations" was the battle of Leipzig. It was fought on Oct. 16-18, 1813, between the soldiers of Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Holland, under Schwarzenberg, on the one side, and Napoleon's army of allies, on the other. It was one of the greatest battles of modern times. A half million of men were engaged, and the casualties on both sides were 94,000. It resulted in overwhelming defeat for Napoleon and the liberation of Germany. Troops from every nation of Europe participated in it, hence the "Battle of Nations." Husband (reading from his paper): Here, they say, is a comet coming toward the earth, traveling at the rate of a million miles a minute. Wife (awaking from a dozer) Why don't they enforce the speed laws better? Baltimore American. Loans on first and second Mortgages Fire Insurance placed in any company Peoples Pharmacy Co. 2642 Dearborn St., Chicago. NORTHWEST CORNER 27th Pure Drugs and Chemica's, Medicines, Draftists' Sundries Toilet Articles and Fine Stationery We Guarantee Personal Attention to Prescriptions. Only the Purest Drugs Used. Your Patronage is Appreciated. 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 TRICK M. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block SANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Residence 57 Macallister Flat Telephone Ashland 383 Office Telephones Central 1339 Automatic 5020 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 315-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STO. CHICAGO. Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence. Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 704, 171 Washington St. tes. 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR: AT LAW 828 ASHLAND BLOCK ELEPHONE CENTRAL 828 CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 a 619, Telephone Main 3077. 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 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 gars, and news stand, 342 31st street. SPECIAL DAYS AT STATE TIRL. 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 raudville shows open their doors in Happy Hollow, racers are being customized 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 soll. 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 purses, 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 lunge. 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 hurdlers. 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 TRACION KING OF ILLINOIS An Illinois Statesman Who Doubler 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. 1-8) city, is the hub of most of them, 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 pins 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 trusts." He was mentioned for United States senator in the legislature last spring, and doubtless will be a candidate when Columbo'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. Forests 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 Schuttler 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. FCR 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, M. M. C. A., Masonie 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 1809 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. Mo 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 $1,331,332.17, of which $528,685 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 160 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. BROADWAY MUSEUM S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vault REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on com- dents, including payment of taxes and lock- in Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patron Office Phone, Douglas 727 E. JACK FUNERAL 2959-61 STATE Branch: 1310 Binghah Fine Carriages for Hire M. F. L. Plumbing, Gas Sewer 4740 STATE STR Recent allowed on Savings Acct. Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT R sell Rea Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and locking after assessments, Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business e, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Doug E. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECTOR 559-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Marriages for Hire to Parties and Wedd E. F. LYNC Building, Gas Fitting Sewerage STATE STREET, CHICAGO owed on Savings Accounts Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- ses and locking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 1856 ACKSON CIAL DIRECTOR ESTATE ST., CHICAGO Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. for Hire to Parties and Weddings LYNCH , Gas Fitting and Beverage STREET, CHICAGO 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As agent bivail sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and locking after assessments. Money to loan in 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 M. F. LYNCH Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Sewerage 4740 STATE STREET, CHICAGO TELEPHONE DREXEL 3633 --- Bartlett L. E. BARTLETT & S Real Estate ing, Loans and Insur e Street L. E. Bartlett BARTLETT & SON real Estate loans and Insurance Chicago 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 EXHBIT. 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 phaeasants, 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 State Warden of vari- quail and is depar- tate game breeds and will form bit. 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