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How the White Real Estate Agents Successfully Jolly THE BIG NEGRO BY MAKING HIM BELIEVE THAT HE IS TOO GOOD AND TOO GREAT TO LIVE IN AMONG HIS OWN PEOPLE. THEN THEY SELL HIM A HOUSE AT A FANCY FIGURE IN A BLOCK AMONG THE WHITES, WHERE THERE IS NO OTHER NEGRO. AND AFTER PLYING ON HIS WEAKNESS ALONG THIS LINE. THEY WILL SELL THE SAME STYLE OF HOUSE IN THE SAME BLOCK. TO THE SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH BIG NEGROES FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS THAN THE FIRST ONE PAID FOR HIS HOUSE. SO THE FIRST BIG NEGRO IS OUT $1,000 IN HIS REAL ESTATE DEAL. No class of business men in Chicago thoroughly understand how to work on the weakness of the big Negro who wants to get away from his race like unto the white real estate agents. They understand the big Negro much better than the big Negro understands himself in this respect and they successfully ply their trade to perfection. In order to catch the big Negro in their net or trap they jolly him along by making him believe that "he is too good and too great to live in among his own people, that if he resided in among the best class of whites he would stand out more prominently as a true leader of his race." The White real estate agents understanding the big Negro full well knows that he has succeeded in pumping him full of the right kind of "dope" and it is only a question of time until he sells the big Negro a house at a fancy figure in a block in among the whites where there is no other Negro. To illustrate our point the white real estate agents will bargain to sell the first big Negro a house, we will say for seven thousand dollars, and immediately after the big Negro and his family settle down in their new and exclusive home and while he is laboring under the impression that "he is the only pebble on the beach," the white real estate agents will, in a cold-blooded manner, whip around and hunt up the second big Negro and they will unarm him of all suspicion as to their scheme by adressing him as follows: "This is Mr. So and So, is it not?" and, after being informed that they are correct as to his name and standing as a leader of his race, then the white real estate agents will advance a little further in their conversation and finally they propound this question to the second big Negro by asking him if he "knows Mister So and So" and when he states that he does, then they will hand him this question. "Well, you know that Mister So and So is a big leader among your people, and we sold him a fine house last week for seven thousand dollars, which is located on a nice street east of State street right in a block in among the whites and no other leader of your race resides in that block but him, and if you will not let the cat out of the bag, we will sell you a house right next door to him for six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars." HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY endeavor to pass for white no matter how dark he and his family may be, and the white real estate agents will s ill him the same style of house in the same block and right bang up by the side of the other three big Negro leaders, for six thousand dollars, thereby causing the first big Negro to drop one thousand dollars in his first real estate deal and the second and third big Negro leaders dropped two hundred and fifty to five hundred dollars each and property in the same block on both sides of the street, on account of such transactions greatly depreciates in value. Whenever the white real estate agents locate one big Negro in a block in among the whites and are unable to sell property to others like himself then they will induce the big Negro to either sell or trade off his property at a great loss and move away from the whites. This is the trick the white real estate agents put over on one great big cussing and damning Negro, five or six years ago. They sold him a fine house away out south in among the whites, for ten or twelve thousand dollars, and for a short time the big Negro was the big chief or the king in among the whites he puffed and swelled up so big until no common Negro could touch him with a ten foot pole, but at last the white real estate agents made up their minds to skillfully rob this big Negro of his honors and they persuaded him to exchange his big house for property in the "Red Light District" on Wabash avenue. AS WE SEE IT. "Booker T. Washington is the typical optimist. You don't hear him complain that the Negro has no chance. You don't see his name signed to a remonstrance to the President because he does not appoint Negroes to Federal offices. You don't hear him predicting the decay of the United States and the end of the world because the white man isn't nice to the black man. What he said the other day-to an association formed to promote the business interests of Colored men was very different. He reminded them that when their league was formed hardly any drug stores were run by Colored men and now there are about two hundred such. We beg his pardon for using the common phrase "Colored men" what he says is "Negroes," or "black people." In the same period the number of Negro banks has increased from half a dozen to forty-seven; Negroes have now got about ten thousand dry goods stores, groceries and industrial enterprises. The Negroes now have a farm acreage nearly equal to all New England. They have 200,000 farms and 400,000 homes, eighty-five insurance companies and several thousand un- 10 dertakers. Fifty-seven per cent. of the Negroes can read and write, and they have 26,000 churches. Dr. Washington is doing everything in his power to keep the attention of his people upon industrial advancement and he has reason for encouragement at the results of forty years. The Hon. John J. Hetzel, after reading and commenting on the clipping above, handed same to us. What the slip says is true, and why? Because Booker is the one Negro who had his class of men put in office and those not so, put out. Negro brain, mechanism and ingenuity—none of which he made—made him; enriched him and gave him world fame—hence no cause to complain about chance. Why should he remonstrate and sign his name to petitions to the President when he is known as "Ohio's third Senator." MEDITATIONS. He who believes in a personal devil denies, inferentially, God's omnipotence. He who believes that man deserves eternal punishment, by so doing accuses God of having blundered in his creation. He who believes the doctrine of original sin believes in an unjust God. A totally depraved race could only be created by a totally depraved God. He who believes death came into the world through one man's sin needs to study geology. He who believes woman's peculiar sufferings are due to God's curse upon Eve must believe in a sadly unchivalrous and cruel God. Nay more, he must believe in a God more cruel than Nero and more brutal than the most degraded wife beater. No you don't see his name in print against the way whites treat the blacks, for the reason, he tells them to be polite, and to the very ones who are not "nice to black men Booker T. Washington formed the business league for one purpose, and that was in the hope of holding together a class that is very fond of telling the world what it is doing and rest assured that it does more by word of mouth and on paper in its convention halls than it does at home. His league had little or nothing to do with the formation of banks, drug stores, etc. This slip says "Negroes have now got about ten thousand dry goods stores, groceries and industrial enterprises. We venture the assertion that there is not a real first class dry goods store in America owned and operated by a Negro. The land the Negroes own that is equal to the territory of New England was gotten and owned by Negroes—hundred of thousands of whom never saw Booker T. Washington. The 57 per cent of Negroes who can read and write owe it mostly to the free school system and we don't believe Booker T. Washington ever built one of the 26,000 churches he praises so lavishly. Booker T. Washington has and is doing good, but our objection to his work is: he does not try to make plowmen men, but men plowmen. The Negro as a mass has plenty of everything but manhood, which is by far greater than education—The Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va. He who believes in a personal devil denies, inferentially, God's omnipotence. He who believes that man deserves eternal punishment, by so doing accuses God of having blundered in his creation. He who believes death came into the world through one man's sin needs to study geology. He who believes woman's peculiar sufferings are due to God's curse upon Eve must believe in a sadly unchivalrous and cruel God. Nay more, he must believe in a God more cruel than Nero and more brutal than the most degraded wife beater. He who believes that God drowned the human race in a universal deluge, must believe God guilty of the most frightful and indiscriminate massacre that has ever disgraced the annals of history or mythology.—Fred W. Taylor, in "The Truth Seeker." JEHOVAH'S WORK A FAILURE. According to the theologians, God made this world for his children. It was his only work of any consequence. It ought to have been perfect. Yet he covered it with poisonous herbs and vines, filled its jungles with ferocious beasts and deadly reptiles, and not satisfied with this, he put a few active volcanoes in the neighborhood, and chartered the earthquakes, cyclones and typhoons, went into partnership with malaria and tuberculosis, and gave the demon of catastrophy carte blanche—merely to make life interesting. He made a mistake when he made man, and then damned the entire human race on account of the mistake. In my opinion the Jehovah of the Bible was a failure as a business manager. According to his creators, he made a world on which he has never been able to declare a dividend, and if the future pans out like the past he will be in universal bankruptcy at the day of judgment—The Firebrand. Former Alderman John J. Bradley of the 30th ward, who has a strong following in the Town of Lake and who is favorably known throughout this city; may be induced to make the race for sheriff of Cook County in 1910. PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE NEGRO His Southern Policy a Menace to Negro Citizenship. Booker Washington His Advisary. Peace in this Country Conditioned Upon the Enjoyment of Freedom. The Negro the country over now seems to be very much agitated over the outcome of the Negro question under the Taft administration. Before the Chicago convention which nominated Wm. H. Taft for President of the United States, a taste was given the Negro of what might be expected if he was elected, some took the warning, and together with the editor of this paper set out to defeat his election (which would have resulted if the Negroes had been true to themselves), with the result that a few calamity-seeking office-holding and office-seeking Negroes, began to enter a tribute of abuse against the manly Negroes who believed in the full manhood rights of the race, who were everywhere telling Colored men, that the election of Taft meant four years more of Republican rule in which the same methods used in denying Negroes the right to participation in councils of the party, would be employed to keep him out of official recognition in the ranks of the party. And when this doctrine became widespread through the workers of the National Negro American Political League, a requisition was at once made on the office-holding Negroes in Washington to get busy; thereupon leave was granted with pay and other essentials, and Dancy, Vernon, Tyler and many of the Bishops of the A. M. E. Church and Negro officials in foreign ports began a tour of the states, cursing out, abusing, vilifying and charging that Negroes opposing Taft were either a "job lot marked undesirable and kicked out of the Republican party, or had been bought outright by the Democratic party." For all of these gentlemen, we entertain high respect in their official capacity, but as dictators to the masses of whom they are not in all cases, peers, we have a feeling of disdain; however, modifying this feeling by the acknowledged ego which will get the better of those who have not learned to subordinate themselves to the interest of the greatest number. The election over, Mr. Taft inaugurated his ennunciamento to the public as regards the Negro, having found its way to the press of the country, in which the statement appeared that "Negroes would in no case be appointed where it did not meet the approval of the whites," and further that "Booker Washington's stamp of approval" must appear upon all applications, if they would receive favorable consideration, the feeling which usually characterizes the defeated to bow to the inevitable took on a cast of resentment, because what was to follow could be seen; and now to the credit of him who said, "It's never too late to mend," and to those who worked against the best interest of the race, in adding in his election that an opportunity is afforded them at the confessional for their misdeeds, comes the complaint from the far West and the South, that Taf' is unfriendly to the Negro." And as a result at Jackson, Mississippi, the Negroes refused to receive his address, and at Denver, Colorado, would not hear him. We wonder sometimes what these great Negroes holding jobs in Washington and other places, think of their President; and then we wonder what they think the Negro race thinks of them as leaders and representatives. No.8 In one of his speeches on the Negro question he said: "It is for the peace of both races that Negroes should not hold office." In reply to this quotation The American Independent wishes to say that, as long as the Negro lives in this country with the white man under the same laws, having the same rights, the same citizenship with its attendant rights guaranteed by the constitution of the United States, and can only enjoy it theoretically, there will be no peace. We do not argue that there will ever be perfect tranquility in this or any other country where two races live one dominating in point of numbers, intellect and wealth; but we could have an honest supremacy, with honesty and fair-dealing characterizing it; and that would relieve the tension, lessen the chasm which today exists. A short while ago at the Tennessee State Fair, Judge J. M. Dickinson of the war department said among other things, words well worthy of repetition. It follows: "It is idle to talk of a settlement of the Negro question in the sense that all agitation and controversy will cease. You might as well talk of settling the poverty question or the labor question. There can be no settlement so as to remove forever controversy arising from the continuing conditions of twelve millions of one race of people, living in a country with another race, both having the same rights and opportunities under the existing law and theoretically the same citizenship, with its attendant rights. In any aspect the question is protentious. The distant future may evolve something—hold in store the operation of some forces which we cannot forsee. The destiny of a nation is happily a closed book. We must deal with the present and its problems as they appear. It is our duty to minimize, as far as we can, the troubles as they arise. To obviate them and to make them as harmless as possible, calls for the exercise of the highest wisdom, firmness and moderation and justice. "If the white people assert the right to govern, then the government should be one of fairness and justice, a government of law and not of passion. The courts, and not mobs should punish lawbreakers. Negroes should be protected in their property rights, settled with justly and governed by the constituted authorities." It is brutal and inhuman to deal with wards other than in a just and charitable manner, and the same is true as applied to the dealings with subjects of state or nation less fortunate than those who govern. The Negro does not ask a favor, when he demands the rights of a citizen, it is within the province of American citizenship to have and enjoy all the benefits contingent upon such citizenship. Its eligibility has been defined in the laws of our country, and the right to acquire has been defined by the constitution of the United States; any attempt at modification or classification works an offense as well as an injustice against the race deprived of the full enjoyment of such rights, and as a result, punishment follows. The Negro has no grievance against Booker Washington as an educator, for it is a conceded fact (Continued on page 2.) THE BROADAX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indians, Single Taxes, Republicans, or others, have thereby only, 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 6028 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 2, 1879. President Taft (Concluded from page 1.) that he is a genius in this line and without a peer. He is especially fitted for this work, and his counsel is worthy of solicitation, but because he enjoys deserving and merited rank in the educational world, it does not necessarily obtain that he is the Moses of the Negro race to lead him out of political bondage. The political rights of the Negro is another attainment contingent upon American citizenship, it belongs to the Negro race as much as to the white race, more than to any other Americanized race in the country, and any doctrine against its fullest enjoyment is infidelity, a dogma which belongs to a long dead past, and the history of a nation known for its ignorance and barbarism. Education and wealth are two valuable acquisitions but the rights of a freeman excel in happiness more than these. The apostles of peace therefore, may cease in their attempts at encouraging the public of an approaching era of peace, until they can give assurance to this whole nation that the time is, when all men regardless of previous conditions shall enjoy the inalienable rights of American citizens. President Taft's Southern policy may result in satisfying some of the prejudices there, and here and there may gain for him a vote; but if he figures on making enough Republicans out of Southern Democrats to make up for the loss to the party in independent and disfranchised Negro votes, whose disfranchisement is at the sanction of a Republican Supreme Court, under a Republican president he is decidedly mistaken. They will go with him long enough and far enough to accomplish their purpose and then throw it back in his face at the polls, which will be a just rebuke. And as for the Negroes, those who are so unselfish as to regard the interest of the race as paramount to their own personal interest, will never render the hearty support to the Republican party they have heretofore rendered, which has chronicled their many successes, until the party returns to its former land mark. And to those Negroes who can see but the one way politically, we do not charge blindness nor pur-blindness, but if there was ever a lacking of the courage of one's convictions, manhood if you please, it was, and is exhibited on the part of those people who are still claiming that the Negro is in debt to the Republican party.—From the American Independent, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 16, '09. ATTRACTIVE BILL AND MANY GOOD STUNTS AT THE PEKIN. As the old saying is, "All roads lead to the Pekin Theatre," 27th and State street, where the people receive the worth-of their money at each and every performance. The main attraction at the Pekin this week are the Zemo Zemo troupe, in their high class acrobatic stunts, the Bradfords, in their dandy dancing and singing sketches, the two Franciscos, the comic magicians, who are very clever, indeed and the popular Lottie Wilson who always makes a good hit with her singing and dancing and the Egglestons, with their fine playing on their many musical instruments, are the leading features at the Pekin this week and the whole show is worth seeing. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. The Chateau popularity is evidenced by automobile parties almost nightly Monday and Friday night are fast becoming known at this popular resort as automobile party nights. The contests begun last Sunday night will terminate tomorrow night Those leading so far are O. Otley Wm. Chilton and C: Elridge. Those wishing to see expert and fast skating will do well to attend. Orchestra music is used now at all skate sessions and the necessity for dancers to go elsewhere is eliminated, as more than two hours is given to dancing every Monday and Friday and other nights. The coming event is the Halowe'en Carnival beginning on the 29th and ending on the 31st. This will be a mask affair and prizes will be awarded to the best skaters and best dancers. Those who think they are it in these sports will do well to enter the contests. Big program tonight and tomorrow night. Go out and patronize wholesome life race enterprise. In 1910 there will be nominated by the political parties of Cook County candidates for the following offices: Sheriff. County Judge. County Clerk. County Treasurer. Clerk of the Criminal Court. Clerk of the Probateourt. President of Board of County Commissioners. Ten County Commissioners. Superintendent of Schools. Judge of the Probate Court. Two members Board of Assessors Nine Municipal Court Judges. Member Board of Review. Three Sanitary Trustees. Ten Congressmen Sixty-three members of the Legis lature. And Ten State Senators. APPOMATTOX CLUB NOTES The stag given last Thursday in honor of Bert A. Williams, J. A. Shipp and other members of the fantastical and musical comedy, "Mr. Lode of Koal," was a huge success. All of the male members of the club and their friends were present and gave Mr. Williams and his fellow asasociates a real Chicago greeting which impressed them so much that Mr Williams was compelled to respond with his humorous song hit, "That's a Plenty." The Entertainment Committee will report plans for the November entertainment to the cabinet Sunday at 6 o'clock. President Moseley requests that full committee be present CHIPS Miss Rickards of Detroit, Michigan is the guest of Mr. Charles Dunn and his mother this week. Bethel Literary and Historical Club —Program Sunday, Oct. 23. Address by Capt. R. L. Ratcliffe; essay by Mrs. Jackson; solo by Mrs. Narells. Quite a number of social events are being arranged for Miss Edna French the charming bride-elect, who is soon to join the ranks of the "happily wedded." Dunn and Hight, owners of the "Budwlser," 5050 State street, are now doing a lively business in their English chop house and chop suey cafe. Mrs. Mary A. Williams, 6618 Vernon avenue, entertained Messrs. Taxas Waller, John H. Murphy and Nelson Walker, on Baltimore, Md., at dinner Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Hamlet, 5036 Armour avenue, last week purchased a nice 11-room brick residence on Forest avenue, between 34th and 35th streets. Mr. Noah D. Thompson will leave here the first of the week for Somerset, Penna, to visit his son, master Noah Murphy Thompson. Mr. Thompson will be accompanied cast by his father-in-law, Mr. John H. Murphy of Baltimore. John E. Traeger, the most popular German-American Democratic politician in Cook County, is enjoying a healthy boom, for the nomination for president of the Board of County Commissioners in 1910. Atorney B. A. T. Watkins left Thursday evening for Jackson, Miss., on business for the K. P.'s As the supreme attorney for that order he will appear in a suit now pending against it in that state. Valuable Member of the City Council, Who Will Be Returned to That Body, In the Spring of 1910. ALDERMAN JOHN BURNS INDUCES THE OFFICIALS OF THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY To Install a New System for Preventing so Much Smoke at its Round House and Shops at 47th and Wentworth Avenue. not to do anything in this respect. But lately Alderman Burns, backed up with a huge petition, signed by a majority of the property holders in that vicinity, demanding that action must be taken by its officials in that respect, and after several more conferences along those lines by Alderman Burns, the railway officials de For a long time Alderman John Burns has been earnestly striving to induce the officials of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co to do something in the way of doing away with so much smoke at their yards and round house extending on Wentworth avenue, from 47th to 51st street. At first its officials were inclined Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Stewart, Captain and Mrs, John L. Fry and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pearson, are among some of the most prominent Afro-Americans who have taken apartments in the Cranford flat building 3600 Wabash avenue. Frank L. Gale, 3140 State street, is getting rid of two or three pianos each week and he is well pleased with the success which has attended him so far, and with the holiday season approaching he expects to transact a large volume of business. The "Beneft dance" given by Mrs. Wm. Emanuel and Mr. Charles Dunn, Tuesday evening was a financial and social success, from which the worthy beneficiaries will obtain financial assistance. The managers and all others who assisted in this worthy effort should be congratulated. Dr. C. D. Trice, 2902 State street, returned home Wednesday morning from an extensive tour through Oklahoma and Texas. While absent he disposed of some real estate he owned at Marlan Texas, and he expects to invest the money he realized from the sale in Chicago real estate. E. Greenstein lately branched out in the merchant tailoring business at 18 W. 51st street, near State. He makes fine suits to order at the very lowest prices. Ladics' and gent's garments cleaned, dyed and neatly repaired. Give him a trial and be convinced as to his first class workmanship. John H. Montgomery, the popular druggist in the Gerald Building, 26th and State street, who will, if all signs do not fall enter the aldermanic contest in the 2d ward next spring, and as he stands ace high with all classes of his fellow citizens, he will receive the hearty support of both Democrats and Republicans. President Taft boasted that he did not intended to appoilt Co'ored men to office in the South, but he did not say he would not appoint them in the North, but he is not doing it just the same. Mr. Taft is one of the best presidents that the South has ever had—The Advocate, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 16, 1909. Mr. Johnson Carter, better known as the "Black railroad magnate," entertained a small party of friends at his handsomely furnished quarters, 2624 Wabash Ave., Sunday afternoon last. Mr. Carter is very proud of his store of wines and liquors, which are said to be the finest possessed by any Colored man in the city. Editor John H. Murphy of Baltimore, Md. arrived in the city from Kansas not to do anything in this respect But lately Alderman Burns, backed up with a huge petition, signed by a majority of the property holders in that vicinity, demanding that some action must be taken by its officials in that respect, and after several more conferences along those lines by Alderman Burns, the railway officials decided to install a hot water system for washing out and filling the boilers which system cost the company well on to $12,000, and its officials further say that it will lessen the smoke fully sixty per cent and that they are on the lookout for other devices which will prevent so much smoke. Alderman Burns deserves much praise for the good work he has accomplished in this respect. City, Mo., Friday morning, accompanied by a party of seven gentlemen, who have been on a "sight-seeing trip" west. Mr. Murphy will make his visit here very short, because he is very much needed in his home State, Maryland, where they are trying to disfranchise his people. Alderman Jacob A. Hey chairman of the committee on Street Nomenclature of the City Council is the right alderman in the proper place, and as Alderman Hey never tires in working hard in the interest of all his constituents in the 23rd ward and for the best interests of all the people of Chicago, he should be returned to the council in 1910, without the least bit of trouble on his hands. Jacob Feinberg, who has for the past seven or eight years conducted the large grocery store and meat market, corner 31st and State street, has discontinued that line of business and in the near future he will open up an up-to-date department store at the same location, with entrances on State and 31st streets. He will employ 15 to 20 salesladies on the start and increase the number as the business expands. It is reported that Major Franklin A. Denison, who is one of the handsomest men in Chicago, is willing to sell his elegant home which he recently bought at 3531 Wabash avenue and moved into it about one year ago, for a great deal less than he paid for it, that he has become tired of living in among the whites and that he wants to move back in his old home in the 35th block on Dearborn street and reside among the Colored people. The Leland and Lane Social, Business and Republican political club, will give a grand banquet Tuesday evening, Oct. 26, at Masonic hall, 3956 State street, admission 35 cents, cloak room free. The following are the main show of this new Leland and Lane Republican club: W. Jefferson chairman, Geo. Woodson, Matt. Smith B. S. Duncan, Louie Jones, Hon. Dell Roberts, J. F. Bolling, S. B Turner, Dr. Brown, Leroy Jenkins, Geo. Montague, Jack Bell, Sergeant-at-Arms. TWO LOTS FOR SALE CHEAP. For sale at a great bargain, two lots on Langley avenue near 65'h street, $550 each or make reasonable offer. Address L. W., care The Broad Ax, 5038 Armour ave. The Chauffeur's Rebuke. An elderly colonel in a New York club is very inquisitive, and there is no question he hesitates to ask. The other day he saw drawn up before a hotel a fine motor car, and at the wheel of the car sat a chauffeur who had formerly been in his own employ. The colonel stopped and asked the chauffeur who his master was, how he liked his job and what wages he drew. The chauffeur answered these questions politely. There was a cold glitter in his eye, though. He was waiting for an opening. It came when the inquisitive old clubman said: "Er-Gaston. what-er-how much did your employer pay for this car?" "The fact is, sir," the chauffeur answered promptly, "I never had the impudence to ask him." The Old Roman Ballot. The ballot was first introduced into Rome in the second century B. C. This was the real Australian ballot. The voter received a sort of wooden slate covered with wax on which the names of all the candidates were scratched. He made holes in the wax opposite those of his choice and dropped his tablet in the box. After the downfall of the Roman republic popular government took a long sleep, and there was little use for a ballot till quite modern times. Effort Appreciated. "So you were deeply touched by the poem young Mr. Guffson wrote to you?" said Maude. "Yes." answered Maymie. "But it was not a good poem." "I don't care. It was just as much trouble for him to write it as if he had been Shakespeare."—Washington Star. Couldn't Then. "I would like mightly to enjoy itches." "Then why don't you try to marry 'em?" "As I said, I want to enjoy 'em."—Kansas City Times. "How do you know Bliggins enjoys trouble?" "Because he'd rather be the umpire in a baseball game than one of the players."—Exchange. Success often leads to insolence.—Irish Proverb. "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."—Chilean Newspaper. Food of the Chinese In the Revue d'Hygiene Dr. Malegon, 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 boiled. 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 liqueshes 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." Shrewd Business Man A large number of Afro-Americans are engaged in the hack and carriage business in connection with the railroad train service at White Plains, N., among whom is George W. Freeman, who meets all trains and gives special attention to the travelling public. His courteous demeanor has made business for him. Plumes Direct By buying from us you can save pay a profit when you can buy your Genuine Ostrich Plumes, 16 inches Plumes Direct From the Farm By buying from us you can save jobbers and retailers profits. Why pay a profit when you can buy your plumes from us and save it? Genuine Ostrich Plumes, 16 inches long, our price, $1.00. We have a complete line of Willow Plumes, direct to you at wholesale prices By cutting out this ad and delivering it to us, we will give a reduction of 10 per cent. on presentation of same. REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY Its Seeming Triumph Over the Negro Politically Only Temporary. Hon. R. L. Smith of Paris, Tex., for years deputy internal revenue collector, with headquarters in the city above named, and Hon. M. M. Rodgers of Lagrange, Tex., deputy internal revenue collector, with headquarters at Austin, have both been asked to vacate their positions, thus reducing the number of colored men holding federal jobs in Texas outside the postoffice department to one-Hon. Nathaniel Qulentin Henderson of Columbus, Tex. He is in the revenue service. Be it remembered that a Republican sits in the White House and is supposed to be guided in matters of appointments in Texas by State Chairman C. A. Lyon, also a Republican, with headquarters at Sherman, Tex. More and more it grows apparent that the latter day Republicanism does not comprehend the colored man. He is not without hope, however. He has his remedy. It is on the inside. Let him look to himself and remember that in all things merit has its reward. The machinations of enemies and the combination of hypocrites cannot change the inexorable laws of fate. As the Negro more nearly and clearly demonstrates to the world his capacity for self government, for the discharging of those functions which mark the upright and intelligent citizen, he will come into his own. The fact that Republican hypocrisy and prejudice have temporarily triumphed over the Negro in the matter of acquiring his political and civil rights does not of necessity constitute a discouraging element. The colored man has but to look to the future and make good. Time is a great leveler and constitutes a factor with which mankind must reckon, and it is possible that this great question of the rights of a race may be settled right.—Dallas Express. PLENTY OF ROOM HIGHER UP Business Men More Conservative-The Prepared Man Gets the Job. There are twelve Afro-American letter carriers in the postal service at Muscogee, Okla., and two more on the eligible list who will enter the service Oct. 1. This is encouraging. Let our young men and women prepare themselves to fill positions of trust and responsibility both in the government service and in private corporations. Merit counts and persistence wins. More and more business men are becoming less clannish and more conservative, and the person that is prepared to fill important places in the commercial world will get them nine times out of ten now where years ago fitness had little bearing when an Afro-American applied for the position. There is plenty of room higher up. Let us go up with confidence and possess some of the lucrative places. Get them and then fill them with ability, honesty and sincerity—Dodson. Civilization and the Negro. Nobody can guess as yet what is to be the destiny of the descendants of the 10,000,000 Negroes now in the United States. They are, we suppose, by all odds the ablest, most civilized and competent 10,000,000 lot of Negroes in the world. They are all at school in a great school kept somewhat reluctantly by white men. Somehow and some time those Negroes are going to have something like a fair show. Civilization will have a job for them, and it will be not the worst job that they can live by, but the best of which they are capable.-Life. Muscogee to Welcome Business Men. Business men at Muscogee, Okla., are all aglow over the coming of the Texas business men's excursion, which is due to arrive there from Dallas and Fort Worth Aug. 6. The excursionists will be tendered a magnificent reception at the McCullough auditorium on the evening of that day. Colonel Archie V. Jones will deliver the address of welcome. From the Farm jobbers and retailers profits. Why plumes from us and save it? long, our price, $1.00. New Plumes, direct to you at wholesale ing it to us, we will give a redction me. Leather Company Mer Peacock's Jewelry Store. Take play windows on State Street. WASHINGTON LETTER [Special Correspondence.] The liveliest question in Washington just now is that of a change in the District form of government. As everybody probably well knows, affairs are administered now by a commission of three men appointed by the president, one of whom must be an army engineer. Those opposing the present form of government argue that it lacks in concentration and efficiency, that public matters are delayed by reason of having three heads and that the whole plan is inherently weak and has long been outgrown by the city. There is undoubtedly a growing opinion that a concentration of authority in the District government would simplify the municipal situation and produce better results. The commission plan has its good features. It has long been held up as a model, ideally suited to the needs of the District of Columbia, where suffrage is denied. Favor Single Head. Many substantial citizens and large taxpayers are convinced that a one headed government would work more smoothly and satisfactorily. This is no new conviction on their part. It has been emphasized by recent exhibitions of division in the present triumvirate, it is true, but the advisability of concentrated authority has appealed to them for years. These citizens, however, who honestly believe in the wisdom of a change for the public good, see great danger in going before congress and asking for a change at this time. If by simple act one commissioner or governor could be substituted for the triumvirate they would urge it earnestly and heartily. Fear Unrestricted Suffrage. But they fear the proposition would mean the opening up of the whole question of the relations between the District and federal government, with a possible alteration of the organic act and perchance the granting of unrestricted suffrage. Better suffer the ills we have, they argue, than invite ills we know not of, especially as the ills we now have, though vexations, impose no heavy burdens and involve no maladministration. In other words, they are reluctant to take the chance of jumping from the frying pan into the fire. If the present form of government makes for discord, which is freely admitted, it has, at any rate, not resulted in graft and corruption of affairs here—often clumsy and slow and unsatisfactory, nevertheless has been almost uniformly free from scandal, save in minor places. The integrity of the commissioners themselves has never been brought into question. To Plant Thousands of Trees. There will be more and better trees lining the streets of Washington by next spring than ever before if the plans of the division of trees and parking of the District government are materialized. The officials are busily engaged in planting trees throughout the city, both in the residential and business sections, and it is expected that, if the weather will permit, the department will place in the ground more trees of all varieties this fall than have been planted during any one season in twenty-five years. From District Nurseries. The nurseries of the District government at the foot of E street southeast and in Georgia avenue will supply the trees to be used in beautifying the city. Of the 2,100 to be set out, European sycamores, elms, Norway maples, sugar maples, pin oaks, gingkos and lindens will be in the majority. During the summer the requests of residents for trees to be placed in front of their homes were carefully considered, and whenever it was found advisable to grant the requests workmen were sent to these locations and excavations made. These excavations are seven feet long, three and a half feet wide and four feet deep. These were filled with rich earth at the time they were dug. They are now ready for the reception of the trees. Preparing For Inauguration. Already Washington is agitated over the inaugural ceremonies and the initiation of William H. Taft into the office of president March 4. Commissioner Macfarland has suggested that a departure be made from the time honored custom of holding the inaugural ball in the pension office. He believes it should be held in the new National museum building, which will be finished in all probability by March 4. Schoola of Long Ago. The public schools in the District of Columbia were established in 1804, Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States, being the first president of the board. In those early days two kinds of pupils attended the schools, those who paid for instruction and those who did not. Nothing could have been devised to promote class distinction more effectively than such a system. The civil war changed it and made the public school a public school, where all pupils stand on the same equality—that of worth. The awards of merit in those early days suggest the poor boy and girl as winners, for under action of the board in 1825 a suit of clothes was authorized to be presented to the most proficient boy and a trock to the girl. The first real effort to establish public schools in the county was under the law of Aug. 11, 1886, which provided for primary instruction of white children outside of Washington and Georgetown. A dislike on the part of the property owners to be taxed for the education of the poor and to avoid having their children associate with their inferiories in wealth caused the plan to fall. CARL SCROFFIELD. Reason Enough. Critic (as the composer plays his last piece)—Very nice indeed. But what is that passage which makes the cold runs down the back? Composer—'That is where the wanderer hank the hotel bill brought to him—Filegende Blatter. Don't Mention It. Sapphead—You saved me from being killed by that auto. I owe my life to you. How shall I ever repay you? Stouten—Young man, don't trifle debts like that worry you!—New York Life. Sufficient Reason. Chum—Why don't you assert your authority as head of the family and take matters in your own hands? Head of the House (mournfully)—My wife won't let me—Rutilmore American. Go easy. Gavin—There's one thing I like about Jones' shop, you can order your goods through the telephone and after a short wait have them delivered. Bailley—That is just what I don't like. Gavin—What? Bailley—The short weight—New York Journal. disappeared. A simple expedient when one wishes to confide his secrets to paper and yet keep them is to use ordinary rice water instead of ink. It cannot be seen when dry, but turns blue when iodine is applied to it. If it be desired to make perfectly sure of the destruction of the contents of the letter after it has been read the purpose may be accomplished by writing it with a solution of iodine of starch in water. A few days later the script will have et!-exchange. Did you ever think what a curious thing it is that some furious have pockets—great, roomy, fur lined vest pockets, big enough to carry a family of little ones about in? Many of the animals native to Australia and Tasmania have these convenient pockets, and so has the possum, a common animal in our southern states. The kangaroo is the largest of this species. Full grown kangaroos go sixteen feet at a jump, and so when going on a long journey or running from hunters think what a comfort it must be to Mother Kangaroo to know that her babies are snug and safe in her pock- Animals With Pockets. Sock and buskin. In the early ages theatrical performers disguised their faces with wine lees or a rude pigment. Aecheyius, the famous tragic poet, introduced masks, which were of various kinds, expressing every age, country, condition and completion. All were constructed with the greatest nicety and precision. The dresses were also adapted to the characters assumed by the actors. What was known as the buskin was a hunting boot. Three worn by tragedians had soles three inches thick, composed of layers of cock, and were laced up in front as high as the calf. Sandals were also worn, and many of these had thick cock soles. The colors of the foot coverings were various, red being the favorite hue for warriors and purple for other characters. Slaves wore a low shoe bearing the name of sock, which was also the ordinary footwear of comedians. From this circumstance arose the well known phrase of "sock and buskin," so generally associated with the drama. But there was one senator who resisted to be dignified—Senator Houston of Texas. "Day after day" says Mr. Ecklott, "during spare moments he sat there in his seat carving hearts out of soft pine wood. They were pieces about the size of the hand. When he had completed one of these works of art he would summon a page and, polishing toward some fair spectator in the gallery, would say, "Give this to that laid up there with General Sam Houston's compliments." Mr. Ecklott remembers Houston as one of the gentlest and kindest of men. In the "Memoirs of a Senate Page" Christian F. Kickoff recalls the years just prior to the outbreak of the civil war, when Summer, Wade, Douglas, Hamlin, Houston, John P. Hale, Breckinridge, Thomas and Jefferson Davis were debating the great questions upon which the north and south were at variance. They were an impending body of men, mostly clad in black breadcloth and wearing high silk hats. Flight of the Spirit A case recorded by Pituchch would seem to support the theory that during periods of protracted insensibility the spirit of the sleeper, freed from the body, wanders away to realms and access not conceivable by the ordinary senses. A man named Thespius, tells us, tells us from a great height and was picked up to all appearances dead. There were no external wounds about him, but the physicians were saddled of the fact of the decease. Arrangements were made for his burial, but on the third day after his fall he received, much to the consternation of his friends. In a short time it became quite evident that the whole tenor of his man's life had changed. Previously his character was that of a republate and a vicious man, but after his insensibility he ever followed after virtue. On being asked the reason of the change, Thespius related that during his long sleep his spirit had been liberated from his body and had saddled away to a strange land, where it had joined a whole company of other spirits. His past he was disclosed to him in all its hideousness, and the glorious capabilities which were before him were revealed in such a manner as to make him ambitious of attaining them. REAL ESTATE AT LOWEST PRICES easiest Terms to be had in CHI Loans on first and second Mortgage Fire Insurance placed in any comp Main Office: 64, 95 Washington St., CHICAGO, ILL. 3517 'PHONE 4966 CENTRAL Peoples Pharmacy 2642 Dearborn St., Chicago. NORTHW CORNER Easiest Terms to be had in Chicago Loans on first and second Mortgages Fire Insurance placed in any company Main Office: Suite 64, 95 Washington St., CHICAGO, ILL. Branch Office 3517 State Stree 'PHONE 4866 CENTRAL 2642 Dearborn St., Chicago. NORTHWEST CORNER 27th Phone Calumet 3221 Drugs and Chemicals, Medicines, Druggists' & Toilet Articles and Fine Stationery We Guarantee Personal Attention to Prescriptions Pure Drugs and Chemicals, Medicines, Druggists' Sandries Toilet Articles and Fine Stationery We Guarantee Personal Attention to Prescriptions. Only the Purest Drugs Used. Lowest Prices, quality considered. Your Patronage is Appreciated. CALL AGAIN Ghop,Suey and All Chinese Dishes Served in the Highest Culinary Art by a First Class Chinese Cook. The After Theater Parties will find the "Budwiser," The Proper Place To Enjoy A Delightful Repast, and all Patrons will be served by Polite Attendants. 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 Fine Funeral Furnishing Goods and Livery in Connection. Open Day and Night. PATRICK M. 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 Residence 87 Macallister Pines Telephone Ashland 368 Office Telephones Central 1859 Automatic 5849 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO. Phone Main 6158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 703, 171 Washington St. Rea., 4854 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR: AT LAW 220 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 908 CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Law. 84-96 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. 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. Dorsey's WHITE ROSE Petrolatum For Chapped Hands, Face and Lips. KINGSTON PHARMACY J. S. DORSEY, R. Ph., proprietor 116 1-2 W. 51st. Street. near Dearborn, Chicago TELEPHONE OAKLAND 392 Our Motto is Purity and Accuracy 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 1850 Established 1877. Phone Oakland 439-439 John J. Dunn Whelesale and Retail Dealer in.. COAL & WOOD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARD; just St. & L. R. & M. R. jand St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Offers for the Winter Unique and Superb ROLLER SKATE PROGRAM Every night in the week from 7 to 12 P. M. with the following variations: SKATING from 7 to 10:30—Dancing from 10:30 to 12 P. M. every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday night, with the best Orchestra music. Cash Skate Prize Contest every Wednesday, Sunday and Monday night. Go where you will, pay what you may, but the CHATEAU loads in real wholesome health-giving entertainment. Come away from the stuffy, tubercular, 5 cent death given, cheap theatre and enjoy the invigorating, health-giving atmosphere of the CHATEAU. Admission, 10 cents--one dime Leland Glants Base Ball & Amusement Ass'n. FLATS AND 12-ROOM HOUSE TO RENT CHEAP. The following flats and 12-room house to rent cheap: 2806 Dearborn st., 1st flat, 5 rooms, $16.00. 2406 La Salle st., 2nd flat, 4 rooms, $10.00. 2412 La Salle st., 1st flat, 5 rooms, $15.00. 3002 Armour ave., 1st flat, 5 rooms, $18.00. 217 E. 16th st., 12 room and base ment house, $40.00. For further information call at the office, 5038 Armour ave., or on S. Rich ardson, 142 La Salle street. 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's drug store, 20 W. 51st street, near Dearborn. A. F. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand 5004 State street R. J. Jones, news stand, barber shop and pool room, 5264 State street George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 31 W. 51st street near Dearborn. W. S. Cole cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st street, near Dearborn. J. R. Peters, cigars, tobacco laundry office and news stand, 8 W. 27th street, near State. T. B. Hall, laundry office, tobacco and news stand, 11 W. 29th street near State. Mrs. Jas. H. Lewis, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th street near State. B. Davis cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3532 State street. E. D. Burt, notions and news stand 2636 State street. W. M. Maxweli notions, cigars tobacco, confections and news stand 5252 State street. L. Miller shoe shining parlor and news stand, 39 W. 37th street, near Dearborn. J. P. Winstead, cigars, notions and news stand 6 E. 33d street, near State. "Doctor," said the convalescent, smiling weakly, "you may send in your bill any day now." "Tut, tut," replied the M. D., silencing his patient with a wave of his hand. "You're not strong enough wet." Judge. To the landsman the sea must always possess dangers that to the sailor appear only as casual phenomena upon which to exercise his skill. The prayer book has a special petition for the safety of those who go down to the sea in ships, and every one who ventures to leave the shore goes forth with a consciousness of awe at his own daring. Yet in the intricate complexity of modern civilization safety on land and safety at sea have walked by no means with equal step. Every morning brings us some story of death or accident on land, while the great passenger ships come and go in monotonous regularity, bringing no reports more stirring than those of high seas that have kept them from making new records. With the present madness for speed and its attendant recklessness our streets demand constant alertness if one would cross them with safety. Speed at sea has come through larger and more stoutly constructed ships. So the familiar old story of the sailorman at sea in a storm who, serene in his consciousness of ample sea room, plouls ejaculated. "God help the poor folks ashore tonight." is not wholly fantastic.—L. Frank Tooker in Century. On Hiring a Cook. The woman in need of a cook was so well groomed and looked so generally prosperous that the manager of the employment agency thought he had at last found a place for the high priced French cook for whom he had been trying to find a situation. But the new customer would not even listen to the praises of the French cook. "Don't mention French cooks to me," she said, "nor graduates of cooking schools. I've tried both. I like their cooking, and I don't object to the wages they ask, but they take up too much room. My kitchen isn't large enough to hold all the cooking utensils they require, and my income isn't large enough to buy them. Those stylish cooks need four times as many pots and pans and molds and things as ordinary cooks use. If I hire a fancy cook I shall have to move into a fancy apartment to get a kitchen big enough to accommodate her." "That is a common complaint against these experts, foreign and American," sigged the manager. "I am beginning to think there must be something in it."—New York Sun. The Twenty Cent Revenge. She was in a very bad temper as she boarded an Amsterdam avenue car. Her temper was not improved by the fact that as she drew a quarter of a dollar from her jeweled gold purse the coin slipped from her fingers and rolled on the floor of the car. She made no move to recover the money, but when the conductor came in to collect her fare she pointed with the tip of her handsome parasol to the coin. "I dropped my fare," she said snappishly, "Pick it up." The young conductor looked her in the eye for just a moment, and then, stooping, he picked the coin from between the slats on the floor covering. Lefleurie he took four nickels from his pocket and put them where the quarter had been before. Maybe it was the effort of bending that made his face red. When he straightened up he rang up the fare, turned and sauntered back to the rear platform.—New York Press. ‘The Night Horse Show-in the Gc!lseam a> att Witnele Stave Frir- “he management of the |W itsol State Fair has provided au o:trectiv ‘this year that fs sure (o citrsci.. Wt) @ Night Horse Show end itr! ie iven in the Colisenm Wier cer. ‘Thursday end Fridsyor'ctts. 1h: gtand parade of beautifu. moins. 6. diers and in barness, wiil occur <i 4 @elock sharp. There will te ! enters. Burdiers, high school pets, trrcers, ‘single, double and triple teams. Becs tifal Indies and handsome run ii compete with their horses for #3.021 ‘tn cash prizes, In some refe-ts will resemble a tournament of me4i2va: times with footmen and equerries in liveries and heralds to announce t3¢ events. Lavish Cecorations end eum. Dellishments will conceal the grea steel beams and arms of the Coliseum, ‘and the boxes will be filled with Iedies ‘whose costumes and jewels will daz ¢ the eye in the myriad of electric lights ‘The Coliseum will be a scene of in toxteating beauty on these nights ‘Music will be furnished by the sp'endis ‘Watch Factory Band of Springfield. MANY SEE LINCOLN'S [OME. fr ee: ee ey feiee BU: ‘Second only to the tomb of Lincoin, the Home of Lincoln. attrac:s more Nisitora than any other object of his toric interest in Springfield, Ti. It 1s om the northeast corner of Jackson and Bightb, the street cars passing (he oor, and is being preserved just ns { was when Mr. Lincoln left {t to assume Ba arduous duties as President. 1t fs controfied by the State. Visitors tc the State Fair this year, Oct. 1-3 should by all means make a pligrimase to the Home of Lincoln. TLLINOIS STATE FAIR RACES. ‘Big, Fat Purses for Speedy Horses— ‘New Running Track This Year. ‘The racetrack of the Iinois State Pair is one of the fastest in the coun- try. ‘The world’s pacing record on a racetrack was made on it. Large sums ‘of money are annually spent to place 4 tm perfect condition for the Kings of the Turf. The racing card for the State Pair 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 Ilinois Derby will be run, besides an $800 pace, two trotting races at $1,800 and ‘& $200 running race. ‘On Thursday, Oct. 7, $1,000 ts given for = trot, $2 560 for two pacing races and $500 for a couple of fast running races. Friday, Oct. & two. trotting races ‘will win $2200, two pacing raccs £2,000 and two running races’ $400. Saturday, Oct. 9, there will probably be some sensat ‘onal cutomotile racing Hedzwood Hoy and Lady Naud C. ill Le special attractions on ove day. 4 DOMESTIC SSIENSE SCHOGL. A.Fen Vays’ Course in Cooking and e at IVincls State Fair, my eee with Sert, 24. 3909. anc oe deg Ronneres wil be a 4m Domestic Sck in the a linois Sfete Fair Mrs. 3.-M. Die! Bit. Ver non, is president and Miss Ge:(rnde Doyle, Winchester, secretary of vie ‘Woman's Board, in charge of this d= wartment. Mrs. Nellie Jones, former!) dead of the Domestic Science depari- ment, Kansas University, is instructor 4m cooking. Sanitary housekeeping and personal hygiene also are taught. iach pupil will bring her own toilet articies, napkin ring, white apron. a kitchen ‘apron, « blanket and spread. Threo echolarships for the highest grades will be given to the University of 11. ‘gels, for continued work in the Unt- versity in household science. Ladies a. ‘every county In the State criroi! . as pupils. They sleep and est in the Woman's Boliding. +. * Fhe Women's Bulidina ‘The iliincis Board of Agriculiure, recognizing the necessity for a bulid- ing exclusively for women, evecied ‘Gis spacious end comfortable sirue- ture several years ago. It is SZxit fect, and -its broad verandss, easy hairs and invitingly-large ‘rooms com- sarah & 0s ties. oe Temticte- Sek ence School over 1 ‘young lady students. The Temple of Jus:ize. ~. This magaificent edifice is scrom ska sasoat. rom the Dapltl. tits & pare ‘gpecimen of modern Renaissance, ¢ig- ee at ee The walls. und je woodwork ‘fa s0:id_mabog oon at tn beater ’ Open to Visiza | Tie Covehine Geen. Ty 16 «ximary bousemald the fal eo of 2 inaige plant tuto 2 violent iinApe Gf pcoughing “is aatarally dievkeerting Net there are plasts ahoh wilt do'fhis when the broom wr vw duster begins to cake dust Gy. This siuewtar plaot Js: the “coughing bran.” known to the botanist ax the Lutada tuedeos, It Is @ native of ‘warut and mutst Cropical countries and ‘canpun atid will aot stand dust. Whes dud scitles upon the breathing pores 1 the leatex of this plant and chokes them gax accumulates inside the teares and when tt gins sufficient strength forcibly “blows off,” clearing the pores of Gust and making a sound exactly Uke coughing. At the same time the leaves tremble and the plant actuaily “gets red In the face” throug the sinking of the green chlorophyll grains and the appearance of red par- Uicles ou the leaves. This plant is sometimes used 28 @ house plant, and swreptng the room sets ft coughing. to the intense astonishment of persons Bot familiar with ite peculiarities London Chronicie. ald Bax the Mies. ‘Lord ‘Northcote was once made curl. ous use of while governor general of Australia, sys London M.A. P. Stroli ing ove wight through an avenue of somber trees to a friend's house to dinner, be was suddenly pounced upot by a maidservant, who Kissed him ef fusively and pressed a little parce! into bis band. “Here's a sausage for you 1 cav't come ont tonight, as master bas company,” she whispered and as mys teriously dixappeared. When be go! fo the house be found one of bis servants loitering by the gate. “What are you doing there? asked Lord Northcote. “I'm waiting for my sweet heart.” the man stammered. “Where Is abe?” “to service bere.” “Ab, then 1 aw rigtt. Here ts a saumge from -SCUF sweetbeart. and she wishes me to tell you that she cannot come out to ‘aight, ax ber master bas company.” Sceing that the man looked nervous, he added kindty: “She also gave me s kiss for you, but perhaps you would rather walt watil you see ber, Here is ‘6 sbillings instead.” Beund About Derkine. | _ The neighborhood of Dorking, where George Mer-dith lived. bas many liter ‘ary associations Lodependent of ite ‘connection with (hat famous novelist. ‘It-was at Burford Bridge, vear Dor ‘king, that Keats completed ~Endym- fon” tn November, 1817; close by, at ‘tbe Rookers, was born Father Mal thes, the popular economist, and at West Humble Frances Burney. after ber marriaze with General d’Arblay, ‘bullt Camilia cottage with profits of ‘ber nove! of that name and settled Gown. Sheridan resided at Polesden ‘and John Stuart Mill at Mickleham. “while other filestrious residents in the locality in cartier times were John ‘Evelyn and Daniel Defoe. To most ‘people, however. the chief Iiterary ax soriation of Dorking is with Dickens, for was it not at the Marquis of Gran- by's, variously identified with the White Hart and the Oi King’s Head, that Mr. Weller. Sr., made the fatal bun Ger of proposing to a “vidder?”—West- minster Gazette. ‘Enclich DifScult te Pronounce. ‘The Gificuity of English for stran- gers does not te in its orthography, ‘Vat in its provunciation. Abroad peo- ple will constantly say that they cap read and write Engiish readily, while unable to utter a word or to under stand a word of the spoken language, 28, of course, vice versa, a great many English and Americans can read and write French long before they can up- Gerstand or make themselves under- stood. The other languages are just as dificult for them to pronounce as English for others. The only dif- ference ts that English stands alone with tte syxtem or lack of system of pronuociation. When a Frenchman knows bow to write German he is at the same time able to speak the lap- guage, if not beautifully, at least so as to be understood. The same holds for a German speaking French.—Pro- fessor Albert Schinz in North Amert- can Rerlew. ‘Tine Gattle of the Nations. The conflict called the “Battle of the Natlous™ was the battle of Leipaic. It was fougiit on Oct. 1618, 1818 be- tween the soldiers of Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden. Denmark and Hol- land, under Schwarzenberg, on the one side, and Nzpoleon’s army of allies, on the other. It was one of the greatest vatties of modern times. A half mil- Mon of mev were engaged. and the casuattios on both sides were 94,000. It remulted in overwhelming defeat for Tass cope fro epsey smtion ot many. from Europe participated in tt, ‘bence’ the “Battle of Nations.” <3 Over the Limit. ‘Hiesband (reading from his paper) Tere, thes say. Is & fomet coming to- ‘ward the earth, traveling at the rate ‘of 2 milftion miles a minute. Wife ‘(awaking from 2 doxe}—Why don't they enforce the speed laws better?— ‘American. ate It Makes © Difference. ‘Tw_Lever's “Charles O'Malley” the hero's boast while on bis way tos Guet. “I can break the stem of # wine- ‘Bfteen paces,” was met by bis and mentor with the comment, a bot the wineciass besn't 2 pie ite ha % i ee eS ae 7 “Dhey cred to aay I was a man with “And vowT” ee on \etat oes kee : ‘a. gest... Wisb-T could have a (ae JESSE BINGA a 6 BANKER | ~- Telephone Dougias 1565 GENERAI, : BANEINS F 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT See acettceenscraanaekeaine sine reooanaas Seoneyws ion on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Office Phone, Doug!as 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 1856 E. JACKSON | FUNERAL DIRECTOR ae Fine Carriages for Hire to Parties and Weddings A Good Drug Store to Trade At. We do not claim to be the bi; best or oldest . Sore on foes — ea eae aah nn ale es eked a cean full value received. can tegen t Deg Stare We weed te to tere sou fool pertecliy at Sane One eR ne eee Se You waar Customers may rely upon obtaining pure medicines. Physicians’ Prescriptions and Famity Recipes Accurately Prepared. Qut_best Berwin White Rose Pomade 10c FOR THE HAIR—ELEGANTLY PERFUMED, PURE AND HARMLESS. ee eee ‘The re- John H:. Montgomery, Druggist Gerald Bidg,, 26th and State Street, Chicago J. S. Bartlett : L. E. Bartlett J. S. BARTLETT &SON Real Estate Renting, Loans and Insurance 5126 State Street Chicago NOTARY PUBLIC a ‘Telephone Oakland 1061 itis olen cceore Sites dener Bs Bute nen bs te ole ee was entirely inadequate to accom-| the freight department of the Centra modate the throngs ot people. An ex-| needed. says the Baltimore News. I tension was added six yeara ago, and | i Telated that some time after he tool tt now comfortably seats about 6,000.| charge of the Central's traffic office 4 magnificent Night Horse Show will Rutter called on the commodore t be given within its walls Wednesday, ees eee arene. eee ‘Phureday and Friday nights, It is| be bed stated the case the president eeed to display horses and fat stock, | }ooked at bim' sharply and asked: ILLINOIS GAME EXHIBIT. ‘State Game Warden Wheeler Will Ex. “hibit Beautiful Birds and Fowl. | ‘Immediately east of the broad road jst the main entrance to the Iilinols ‘Btate Fair Grounds, during the State ‘Fair, Oct. 1-9, State Game Warden ‘Wheeler will display # goore of vari eties of pheasants, grouse, quail and other -game birds which bis depart- ‘ment is propagating ou 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 dis- tant countries from which they were imported and the certainty that they will soon be plentiful enough in Il ols ta serve ss. deicate:Saeeels ft fes on the Iiinois State Fair grounds ‘They are protected by law under heavy penalties for several yearn * ons ob Biel =. “Tour wit Sout. mf care for. ” 2 ee Rs ee, James H. Rutter, then tn the employ of the Erie railroad, = man be believed the freight department of the Central nected, says the Baltimore News. It fe related that some time after he took charge of the Central's traffic office Rutter called on the commodore to ‘submit a plan for improvement. When be ‘had stated the case the president looked at him sharply and asked: “Rutter. what does the New York Central pay you $15,000 a year for?” ‘The reply was, “For managing the freight traffic department.” And then the commodore said, “Well, you don’t expect me to earn your sal- ary for you, do your” * Ratter went out and carried through ‘bis plan on bis own judgment. The re- sult was highly satisfactory. Rutter ene Se Us t6 Saud. A man in workman's garb one day called at a loca! dentist's, and the door ‘was opened by a maid. ‘Workman—is the gent in that draws teeth? Servant—No, sir, but I expect he will ty shortly. ‘Workman (psusing om Goorstey)— ‘Does he give gus? “Ten” “What does he charge?” “One dollar.” “What—one dollar! Do you mean to , mies, a fellow’s got to swallow over 1000 feet of gas to have one ‘tooth out? 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