The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX COL. WILLIAM J. MOXLEY WINS OUT IN HIS RACE FOR CONGRESS. IN THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. CARL L. BARNES, .INDEPENDENT .REPUBLICAN .WAS SECOND IN THE CONTEST. FRANK S. RYAN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE CAME UNDER THE WIRE AS THIRD IN THE POLITICAL WINDUP. MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WAS SPENT TO BUY GREASE FOR THE MOXLEY MACHINE. WHICH ENABLED MANY DEMOCRATS TO EASE OR SLIP THROUGH IT. Vol. XV COL. WILLIAM WINS OUT IN THE CONGRESS. IN THE SIXTH CONGRESSION CARL L. BARNES, .INDEPEND SECOND IN THE CONT FRANK S. RYAN DEMOCRAT DER THE WIRE AS T WINDUP. MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED SPENT TO BUY GREAT CHINE. WHICH ENABLED MANY I SLIP THROUGH IT. Last Tuesday the citizens residing in the sixth Congressional District became highly wrought up over the election which was held to fill the vacancy in the lower house of congress caused by the election of the Honorable William Lorimer to the United States Senate, last spring with the aid of the votes of almost sixty Democratic members of the legislature of Illinois. The contest between Col. William J. Moxley, Carl L. Barnes, Frank S. Ryan and the other candidates was hot from the start to the finish and the final result was that Col. Moxley won out in the race for Congress with both hands down. He received 14,594 votes of the 30,161 votes cast for all the candidates, giving him a plurality of 8,317 over Carl L. Barnes, Independent Republican candidate and a plurality of 6,414 over Frank S. Ryan the Democratic candidate for Congress. So it appears on the face of the returns that Dr. Barnes, the Independent Republican was second in the contest, while Frank Ryan came in under the wire as third in the political windup. Old Uncle Joseph G. Cannon who can outcuss the boss devil himself, Gov. Charles S. Deneen, the honorable Richard Yates, John M. Harlan, the would-be silk-stocking mayor of Chicago and many other prominent Republican and Democratic politicians, including Judge Petit, who did not think it was improper for him to de Ministers, Teachers, Doctors, Lawyers and Dentists. According to a magazine published by Hampton Institute, the Negro has better advantages for entering a profession in the North than he has for learning a trade. In Philadelphia, for example, where there are now over 80,000 Negroes, there are no large professional institutions which deny entrance to them. Negroes have studied in all departments of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple university, Jefferson Medical college, Hahnemann Medical college, the Medico-Chirurgical college the Academy of the Fine Arts, the School of Industrial Art, the School of Pedagogy, the Normal school and others, but they are not admitted into the school of Baldwin's locomotive works, or even Girard college, and there is but one public trade school for boys in the entire city. Quite as great a factor in building up a Negro professional class in the North, says the Southern Workman, in the heavy migration from the South, which creates a field for Negroes to practice the professions. ```markdown ``` HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY cend from his exalted and honorable position on the bench, and deliver radical political speeches, jumped into the political game. More than one hundred thousand dollars was spent to buy grease for the Moxley machine, without saying anything about the tons of butterline his managers distributed free among the voters residing in the sixth congressional district, and by reason of this fact many Democrats were enabled to ease or slip through it and record their votes in favor of Col William J. Moxley. From all outward appearances, it seems that the Democratic party in Cook County, and throughout the state of Illinois, has become the tail end of the Republican party, for at the last session of the legislature of Illinois, Congressman William Lorimer, decided that he wanted to be elected to the United States Senate, and for some kind of a consideration, he reached over among the Democratic members of the legislature, and picked up about sixty of them, and the trick was turned in a bold and barefaced manner, and as long as the great mass of the voters feel that the Democratic party of this county and state, is nothing more than the tail end of the Republican party, and no loaves and fishes in sight, except for a few of its leaders, and in consequence of this fact, no victories will perch on the banners of Democracy in Cook County and Illinois for many years to come. Large segregated sections of Negroes like the Second, Third and Fourth wards in Chicago and the Seventh ward in Philadelphia, have been responsible for the growth of the great city churches and the development of a new type of minister, as well as for the multiplication of physicians, lawyers, dentists, and teachers. According to the census reports of 1900 there were then in the Northern states among the Negroes 2,600 clergymen, 100 dentists, 280 lawyers, 2,118 musicians and teachers of music, 141 government officials, 274 physicians and surgeons 2,319 teachers and professors, and 1,335 actors and showmen. Some Negroes have held petty judgeships and some have held other public positions connected with the profession of law. There is one assistant United States district attorney in Boston, a graduate of Harvard. There are in Chicago an assistant state's attorney, an assistant county attorney and an assistant city attorney who are Negroes, and at the last election for municipal judges in that city a Negro was defeated for a judge ship by less than 500 votes.—Ex. CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 27, 1909. MR. ANDREW J. RYAN. The only lawyer, who has the distinction of being twice elected city attorney of Chicago and who would make an ideal candidate for one of the Superior Court judgeships in 1910. PRACTICE OF FORESTRY IMPORTANT ISSUE IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. "A very few years ago 'forest conservation' was little more than a phrase; today it is a vital issue in our national development," says Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., in a circular on the status of forestry in this country, which has just been issued by the United States Forest Service. "In connection with the general plan to conserve all natural resources, it is the most important and farreaching economic policy ever adopted and pursued by any nation. the arid lands are vivified by irrigation; cheap water transportation is a matter of dollars and cents to every citizen; trustworthy power streams are the key to the age of electricity; at the gates of which modern in dusty is standing. Yet the guardia of the waters is steadily compelled to retreat before the ax and fire. "In waste alone we reject more than two-thirds of the lumber that might be taken from the standing tree. At least half of this waste is unnecessary. In the first place, we waste the forest by refusing to take advantage of its full capacity for growth. Protected and properly managed, our "The forest is one of the chief supports of the whole material fabric of our civilization. The forest means not only a permanent supply of wood and the life of all the industries which depend upon it, but also the control of the waters for human use. There is only barronness in the future of the nation, which has lost the use of wood and the control of water. "The sort of use that was made of natural resources during the pioneering stage, while right enough at the time, is far too wasteful to be carried on into the new industrial era. In order to know how to use a thing however, it is necessary first to find out how much of it there is to use and taking stock of our forest resources has led to startling results "It has shown that we are still destroying the forest as we use it; that we are taking from it every year three and a half times as much wood as is added by the new growth. It has shown that less than one-third of the growing tree felled by the lumberman is never used at all, so that two-thirds of all the timber cut is simply destroyed. It has shown that one-eleventh of all the forests are swept by fires every year, and that on the average since 1870 forest fires have yearly cost $50,000,000 in timber and fifty lives. It has shown that over ninety-nine per cent of the forests in private hands—which comprise three-fourths of all the forest land and four-fifths of all the wood—is thus devastated by destructive use and the scourge of unchecked fires while less than one per cent is properly handled for successive crops or effectively protected from fire. The forest as a resource is rapidly being utilized." "But the inventory of the forests has had yet other ugly facts to reveal. With the disappearance and deterioration of the mountain forest the Nation is losing control of the streams, which are useful in our civilization in ways and degrees unparalleled by any other resource. Pure water for domestic purposes, is of course, indispensable; usable water at the right seasons is the sole reliance of the great projects by which the arid lands are vivified by irrigation; cheap water transportation is a matter of dollars and cents to every citizen; trustworthy power streams are the key to the age of electricity, at the gates of which modern industry is standing. Yet the guardian of the waters is steadily compelled to retreat before the ax and fire. "In waste alone we reject more than two-thirds of the lumber that might be taken from the standing trees. At least half of this waste is unnecessary. In the first place, we waste the forest by refusing to take advantage of its full capacity for growth. Protected and properly managed, our forests will produce far more wood than they do at present. But while it is wasteful to cripple the forest by a violent lumbering which destroys young growth—the promise of the future forest—it is doubly wasteful to lock up the forest and let the ripe timber die and decay, for in the former case the forest at least contributes a temporary supply of wood, whereas in the latter case it contributes no wood at all. "It is not use which destroys the forests, but waste. Not use as such, but destructive use, combined with inexcusable neglect, is causing the forests to dwindle under our progressive demands upon them. The problem, therefore, is not to be solved by disuse, but by wise use and protection. These together will so stimulate forest growth that the needed wood may be harvested without depleting the stock on hand, and will keep intact the protective cover at the stream sources."—"M." THE CHORAL STUDY CLUB OF CHICAGO. At Institutional Church, 8:15 P. M., No. 3825 Dearborn St. In "The Holy City" and "Hallelujah Chorus," on each evening, Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6th and 7th, '09. Solos by the following capable talent: Mrs. Hattie Claybrooks, Soprano, Miss Minnie L. Barnes; Contralto, Mr. Wm. H. Hackney; Tenor, Mr. T. Thomas Taylor; Baritone. Twenty beautiful separate and distinct solos, duets, quarters and choruses. Admission 50 cts. All good seats. A limited number reserved at 75 cts. This coming week, Elinor Glyn's, "Three Weeks", will be thrown upon 'he bill boards at the Globe Theatre The dramatization of Elinor Glyn's, great book "Three Weeks" which has reached the enormous sale of almost 4,000,000 copies, which has turned the social world upside down and the play based upon it, will be rich and racy, and its success is all ready assured. FRED A. WESCOTT Former Promoter and Manager of the Black Diamond Development Company. HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD BY JUDGE JAMES W. FINLEY OF THE KANSAS COURTS. ALL HIS CONTRACTS TO DRILL WELLS AND SELL GAS HAVE BEEN ANNULED. THEY WERE TAINTED BY ORIGINAL FRAUD SO HELD THE COURT. FRANK McCANDLESS WILL RECEIVE $4,250 FOR DRILLING FIVE WELLS—HE PAID WESCOTT $3,000 FOR THE CONTRACT WHICH HAD BEEN ENTERED INTO BY THE OFFICIALS OF THE BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. Judge James W. Finley decided this morning that Fred A. Wescott had been guilty of fraud in dealing with the Black Diamond Development Company, and that because of such fraud the contract between him and the company by which he was engaged as manager should be set aside. The judge also held that Wescott's fraud in dealing with the company which he promoted tained all other contracts which he made, including those with the Kansas Natural Gas Company for the sale of gas from the Black Diamond's wells and with J F. McCandless for drilling wells upon the Black Diamond's holdings. Several instances of fraud were alleged that Wescott had represented to them that the Kansas Natural Gas Company would not purchase gas from a corporation but only from individuals. Because of such representations he obtained a contract from them whereby they sold the gas to him and he in turn disposed of it. Another instance of fraud was the allegation that Wescott represented to them that the gas was taken at an eight pound pressure, whereas he sold it to the Kansas Natural at a two pound pressure. They alleged that this amounted to a difference of $9,187.33 in the gas sales from June 25, 1907, to December 1, 1908—that Wescott received $19,342.62 on meter reading computed on the basis of two pounds pressure and they received but $10,155.22 from the same amount of gas computed on an eight pound basis. The court decided that Mr. Mc THE OPENING OF THE FEINBERG AND PECK NEW DEPARTMENT STORE, CORNER 31st AND STATE STREETS. This coming Tuesday, November 30th, will occur the opening of the new department store of Feinberg and Peck, in the Columbia Hotel building, 31st and State streets. The old quarters where Jacob Feinberg, who cleaned up more than $40,000 in a real estate deal in 1906 and 1907 conducted his grocery and meat market in for more than eight years, have been greatly improved, enlarged and handsomely decorated, giving the store an entrance on 31st street with more than 50 feet frontage on State street, including an attractive entrance. Mr. Cady K. Peck, who is wide awake and a keen business man, has become associated with Mr. Feinberg, in his new enterprise and departure, and the doors of their new department store will be swung open to the public on the above mentioned date. They will sell everything from a paper of pins to a silk dress pattern. Candless is entitled to a reasonable compensation for the drilling he has done. Wescott made a contract with the Black Diamond company to put down ten wells for $15,000—$1,500 a well. It was agreed today that $850 a well is a reasonable compensation. Mr. McCandless, it is said, bought the contract from Wescott, paying $5,000 for it. Of this $3,000 was in cash and the balance was to be paid by him as he received the money from the Black Diamond company. He sank five wells. According to the agreement, he will receive $4,250 for his work and was given judgment for that amount. He paid $3,000 to Wescott for the contract. This leaves him $1,250 net for the work—$250 a well. The company is composed of Negroes. Wescott was the only white man in the bunch. He promoted the corporation, and his associates had such confidence in him that they unanimously elected him manager. He came here and did about as he pleased. To keep any of the officers or stockholders from visiting Chanute and learning the true state of affairs, he told them their petition alleges, that the citizens of Chanute were very hostile toward Negroes and that it would be risky for them to venture here. Things got in such shape, however, that the president, Dr. A. W. Williams, braved the western wilds and conducted an inquiry which resulted in the suit asking that the contract retaining Wescott as manager be annulled.—The Chanute Tribune, November, 18, '09. Their large and varied stock of goods are fresh and clean, and their motto will be quick sales and small profits. Miss Anderson, who has been the proficient cashier and book keeper for Mr. Feinberg so long, will continue to serve in the same capacity for the new firm. Fifteen sales-ladies, will be engaged for the opening, and more will be added on as the holiday season approaches. THE ONLY STEAM HEATED RESIDENCES RENTED TO COLORED PEOPLE IN CHICAGO. The latest property to be rented to Colored people are the 18 desirable houses at 3613 to 3648 Forest Ave. These residences consist of 10 rooms steam heat, hot water, janitor service, the interior hardwood finish and floors, marble mantles, side board, gas stoves stone stationary wash tubs, cement basement every convenience make them the "harbor of lost dreams." The For Rent sign directs you to the janitor for inspection. WILL promulgate and do all times agree hold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Freemason, IRL, Dalai, Single Taxes, Republican or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad An is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, still 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 5088 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1802 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1879. NORTHERN COLORED WOMAN FINED FOR DEFENDING HER RIGHTS. Southern Judge Convicts Because She Is From North—Would Have Been More Severe If She Had Been From Boston. Flashily dressed, with an exasperating twang and an insolent manner a Negro woman from the North met her Waterloo in police court here, yesterday morning. She was arraigned by Patrolman Hutto on a charge of disorderly conduct. She threatened to slap the face of a white woman, who collided with her on Broughton street. It appeared that immediately after the collision when the Negro woman threatened to strike the white woman a man cracked her over the head. The Negro woman pulled a dangerous looking hat pin, and it was at this stage that Patrolman Hutto reached the scene. She couldn't tell who hit her, and the patrolman ordered her to move on. He had gone only a short distance when his attention was attracted to a second disturbance. The woman was brandishing the hat pin and creating considerable disorder. She ignored the orders of the uniformed man and had to be dragged to the Gamewell box. "The court manner of the Negro woman was just as uncivil and the way she told her story rather jarred Recorder Schwartz, "I was walking down Broughton street when a white woman bumped into me," said the prisoner. "She told me not to bump into her and I told her not to bump into me. She said she would have me taken care of if I bumped into her, so I told her I would slap her face. When I walked away some man came up and struck me. I was asserting my rights and I want to know what right that policeman had to arrest me. I wanted to know who had struck me, and that officer had no right to interfere." "Are you from Boston?" guessed the Recorder with a twinkle in his eye. "No, I am not," snapped the woman "I am from Jersey City, New Jersey." "Well, it will be $25 or four months for you," ordered Judge Schwarz, who neglected to tell the assister of rights how many dollars she had been saved by not hailing from Boston. CHATEAU DE LA PLAISANCE. Rink Notes The Thanksgiving Program at the Chateau Rink was well attended and all reported a good time and promised to call again. Those who do not wish to skate can find amusement in the parlor's upstairs. Dancing free. Why don't you learn to skate now? Now is the time, admission free to beginners. Why not follow the crowd every Sunday evening to the Chateau De La Plainance where it is always warm and comfortable and a place of amusement of every kind. Skating and dancing music by the Eighth Regiment Band of 30 pieces. Among the many visitors at the Chateau Rink last Tuesday evening were Mr. James H. Kelly of Baltimore, Maryland and Henry R. Jones --- of this city, and a party of friends from the North side. Meet me any night at the Chateau Rink and we will have a glide on rollers. Orchestra music. General election of officers Sat. December 4th. All members are expected to participate. The nomination of officers on the 20th indicates that hereafter color and not brains will be a determining factor in the election of officers in the future. We will watch this latest craze of idiocy with some degree of interest as something better is expected of educated Negroes. Arrangements are now being made for a Stag in honor of Cole and Johnson, now playing in Chicago. CHIPS Mrs. Clara B. Barley, 3600 Wabash Ave., is spending the week with her mother in South Bend, Indiana. Mrs. James Parker, 6508 St. Lawrence Ave., has returned to her home after a few weeks confinement at the hospital. Mrs. William Lewis, 3310 1-2 Rhodes Avenue, is home again after a two weeks visit with friends at London, Canada. Little Miss Edna Moxley, has returned to her home, London, Canada, after a six months visit with her aunt, Mrs. William Lewis, 3310 1-2 Rhodes Avenue. A record breaking crowd attended the ball at the First Regiment Armory, Thanksgiving evening. The committee in charge reports great profits and that everybody had a good time. Mr. Manuel Jackson, and his party of friends have returned from the southern part of the state, where they were quite successful in their coon and poesum hunt. James A. Quinn, city sealer, under Mayor Carter H. Harrison, and prominent in North side politics, returned home last Saturday morning from a ten days vacation trip to West Baden. Dunn and Hight, have just finished remodling "The Budwiser" 5050 State Street, from end to end, and everything in connection with it is slick and clean. Joseph R. Dunn, part owner of "The Budwiser" 5050 State Street, left Thursday morning for Logansport, Ind., in order to be at the bedside of his wife, Mrs. Dunn, who at this writing is very ill. Bishop I. B. Scott of Liberia, passed through the city Tuesday. While here the Bishop spent an hour in the company of Mr. Noah D. Thompson, to whom he told many interesting stories regarding the life and work of his parishioners abroad.—"T." While returning from Church last Sunday evening, Mr. James de Koven Thompson, the music composer was assaulted by a gang of ruffians at the corner of 35th and Indiana Ave. Later the ruffians were arrested and fined twenty-five dollars and costs. Former State Senator, P. J. McShane, who is a strong factor in Republican politics in the Town of Lake and who has never been known to go back on his legions of friends, may be induced to make the race for one of the county commissioners in 1910. The Choral Study Club, the standard Chicago organization and the leading Colored club of the West will be heard in "The Holy City" and the famous Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" on Monday and Tuesday evenings Dec. 6th and 7th at Institutional Church, No. 3825 Dearborn Street. Don't fall to hear this great organization. Admission 50 cts. No poor seats. A few reservations, 75 cts. Mr. Harry Stanton Brown and Mrs. Earnestine B. Thompson Smiley were quietly united in marriage the first of the week. The bride and groom are now honeymooning in the State of Michigan, among relatives and friends of the groom. The happy couple will make Chicago their home until next spring, when they will move to Seattle, Washington, where it is said the groom possesses considerable valuable real estate. Mr. James H. Browne, the senior manager of the Globe Theatre, Wabash Avenue and Hubbard Court, is well pleased with the success of the two weeks engagement of Cole and Johnson, in their celebrated play, the "Red Moon." For each performance they played to crowded houses, and Mr. Browne, in thoroughly convinced that the Afro-American newspapers played their part in helping to swell the receipts at the box office. Turner B. Ashby, head of the great perfumery manufacturing company of Junius J. Smith, and Company, 100 Lake Street, is highly delighted with the large volume of business which has been transacted by his company this year, and their fine perfumes and other high class toilet articles can be found on sale at the retail store of Marshall Field and Company, and other high class stores throughout the country. Senator Thomas P. Gore, better known as the 'blind Senator from Oklahoma' addressed the Chicago Sunday Evening Club last Sunday evening at Orchestra Hall. Among other things he said that Chicago is the greatest industrial, commercial and financial center in the United States and that in his capacity as a United States Senator he will do everything in his power to make it still greater. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams is a member of the above named club and takes an active part in all of its functions.—"T." Bishop I. B. Scott, who represents the Great Methodist Episcopal Church in the African Republic spent Tuesday in Chicago, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Crowley, 3685 Vernon Ave. The good Bish was an route from St. Paul to Memphis, Tenn., to join Dr. Booker T. Washington in his trip through the State of Tennessee. While in St. Paul, the Bishop made several addresses at the request of Bishop Hartzell, who is assisting him in his efforts to raise three hundred thousand dollars for the Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Bishop is very optimistic regarding the progress of his race in this country and says that since the recent visit of the United States Commissioners to the Republic of Liberia the prospects of better conditions for our Foreign relatives have greatly increased—"T." THE PHELPS-STOKES FUND. Tuskegee and Calhoun Remembered In Miss Stokes' Will. The will of Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, daughter of the late James Stokes, who died on April 26 at Redlands, Cal., was recently filed for probate. It makes specific bequests of nearly $300,000, most of which goes to charity and educational institutions. The residue of the estate she directs to be made into what is to be known as the "Pheips Stokes fund," to be used for "the erection of tenement house dwellings in New York city and for the education of Negroes, the North American Indians and needy and deserving white students through schools similar to those at Northfield, Mass., and the Peck Industrial school at Asheville, N. C." This fund is to be under the direction of a board of trustees composed of the Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, the chancellor of New York university, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Newton P., Caroline M. P., Helen O. P. and Olivia E. P., Stokes, together with Grace H. Dodge, F. Louis Slade, Mabel Slade and Arthur Curtiss James. The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute of Tuskegee, Ala.; the Calhoun Colored school of Calhoun, W. Va., and the Peabody Home For Aged and Indigent Women at West Farms, N. Y., receive each $10,000, to be used in the erection of chapels. The Burnham Industrial farm at Canaan, N. Y., gets a like amount. Business Progress at Washington. The success of the National Benefit association at Washington has been phenomenal. By thrift and economy the managers have been able to meet all of their obligations and have saved enough to enable the association to purchase additional property recently, which will be remodeled for business purposes. Success of the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood, an organization which has for its object the forming of a Young Men's Christian association at Denver, Colo., is meeting with encouraging success. The organization was begun in 1908 and up to the present time has a membership of about 200. It has collected over a thousand dollars and has the hearty support of the central Y. M. C. A., which has also assured our men that it will aid them financially. The recent lecture settled the Brotherhood $357. Afro-Americans in Denver will soon have a full fledged Young Men's Christian association. Calvin Bowdry's Good Fortune. Calvin Bowdry, an Afro-American in the employ of M. W. Webert at Bismark, N. D., who drew claim No. 2 in the Chayney and Standing Hock land lottery at Aberdeen, D. E., recently, in according to Judge Witten, the first Afro-American to draw a leader's prize. Mr. Bowdry's claim is said to be worth $20,000. He is twenty-five years of age and very ambitious to become one of the leading business Success of Wage Earners' Company First and Oldest Dunning Institution Among Afro-Americans at Savannah Off- cered by Capade Iron, Who Are Striving to Conserve the Best Interest of the People. By GEORGE F. KING. BY GEORGE F. KING. The Wage Earners' Loan and Investment company, an Afro-American concern founded nine years ago at Savannah, Ga., making it the first and oldest banking institution among Afro-Americans in Georgia, has by the success achieved by its officials and promoters applied the kind of grit and ability to be honest found in the memorable words of Napoleon, "A given force applied for a given time upon a given point is bound to win," proving to the gesminist of the race that "impossible is the adjective of fools." This bank has 2,200 depositors, mainly of the laboring classes among our people, who have caused the resources to reach the encouraging amount of $78,000 and a reality holding well in the thousands. By the人的 appreciation of its relation to the people whom it serves and the keen conception of results to be derived from a conservative management the officials have been able to accumulate a surplus fund of undivided profits that amounts to more than 50 per cent of the paid in capital. The stock of this banking corporation is in demand because it is now and has for seven years annually yielded a dividend of 12 per cent for those who hold its certificates of shares. It has only one class of shares, which is a commendable feature for an institution for racial commercial development. As a result of business agility the shares are 50 per cent above par, and the board of directors is contemplating erecting a large brick structure for banking and business purposes upon the second street of commercial importance in the city. In Savannah one will find too large a number of Afro-Americans living in settlements and houses not conducive to good health and the appreciation of racial economy. Therefore this corporation is making a specialty of real estate loans and has been able to put over 400 families in comfortable modern homes in good locations, in part relieving the congested settlement condition of the race in Savannah. It has offered excellent advantages to the people of the Negro race and has successfully germinated various divisions of commercial activities among Afro-Americans in Savannah. M. L. E. WILLIAMS. nah. Its success is an inspiration, and before this movement was organized very few Afro-Americans were engaged in business in Savannah. Its soundness gives it recognition in banking circles. During the panic period just past most of the banks in the city resorted to the "clearing house certificates" and in some instances did not make payments upon demand. This institution had prepared for such emergency to such an extent that it did not accept the plan adopted for the relief of other banks, but met all demands with the United States currency. A white corporation of magnitude in the industrial corporation accepted the opportunity presented the business element of Savannah during the paulkky days by procuring funds from this bank for its exigencies. The officers and directors of this company are the following prominent Georgians: L. E. Williams, president; W. R. Fields, vice president; Walter S. Scott, secretary and treasurer; directors, L. E. Williams, L. M. Follard, R. B. Brooks, W. H. Burgess, J. H. Bugg, M. D.; W. J. Williams, W. R. Fields, John H. Deveaux, Sol C. Johnson, P. Edward Perry, James M. Ferreebee, Walter S. Scott. Superficial Aspect of Raca Hatred. The quirks and turns of racial and religious prejudice are odd and somewhat incomprehensible. It is but a manifestation of the antipathy of the governing toward the governed and also the ill governed. The hatred of one race for the other is to a very large extent the hatred of the oppressor for the oppressed. It but actually racial, though this is the superficial aspect. It is a manifestation of a common human phenomenon the intense dislike of a man toward a person whom he has wrought—Cambridge (Mass.) Advocate. CHARITY BENEFIT Under the Management of MRS. WM Assisted by a Rep NEW YEARS' EVEN It is expected all social clu will take part. Grand march will be picture ganizations of this city. Col. John R. Marshall and march. There will be a matinee co and Ball from 7 P. M. to 12 MRS. WM. EMANUELE led by a Representative Con- trol MARS' EVENING, JAN- d all social clubs, societies, and will be picturesque and represen- t this city. Marshall and the 8th Regime be a matinee cotillion 4 to 6 P. 7 P. M. to 12 M. MRS. WM. EMANUEL Assisted by a Representative Committee NEW YEARS' EVENING, JAN. 1st, 1910 It is expected all social clubs, societies, and organizations will take part. Grand march will be picturesque and represent leading organizations of this city. Col. John R. Marshall and the 8th Regiment will lead the march. There will be a matinee cotillion 4 to 6 P. M. Reception and Ball from 7 P. M. to 12 M. General Admission 50c COMMUNITY Col. John R. Marshall, Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Mrs. A. C. Dr. Mary The Cottillion will be led by leading social clubs of this city. BENEFIT Old Folks Home, Emanuel Amanda S. The following Ladies and serve as: PATRONS AND PATRONESSES and Mrs. W. T. Jefferson, Capt. and Anderson, Maj. and Mrs. R. R. J. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Avendorph, Mrs. J. S. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. M. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bell, Mr. and M. Balay, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lett, Mr. s. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson C. and Mrs. D. Young, Col. and Mrs. Bolden, Mr. and Mrs. H. Boger, D. and Mrs. Wm. Cowan, Dr. and M. S. L. Williams, Mr. Wm. Wharton, Arthur, Mr. Geo. Thompson, Mr. J. Brody, Mr. J. Jones, Mrs. M. Smith, A. C. Richardson, Mrs. Edna Goodenor, Mrs. M. Bronson, Miss H. Hodgson, Mrs. B. Patton, Mrs. J. E. Johnson COMMITTEE. Marshall, Mr. J. Manuel, Mrs. A. C. Richardson, M. Dr. Mary F. Waring. on will be led by the Bachelor C clubs of this city. BENEFICIARIES. Home, Emanuel Settlement, Amanda Smith Home. Ladies and Gentlemen have PATRONESSES—Col. and Mrs. J. Jefferson, Capt. and Mrs. J. L. Fry, M. and Mrs. R. R. Jackson, Mr. and Mr. N. Aventorph, Mr. and Mrs. F. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis, Mr. and B. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. D. Lawrence, Mrs. C. Lett, Mr. and Mrs. D. Harris, and Mrs. Jackson Gordon, Mr. and Mr. Ag. Col. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson, Mr. Mrs. H. Boger, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Olman, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. William, R. Wm. Wharton, Mr. Noah D. Tho Thompson, Mr. J. C. Stubbs, Mr. Je jes, Mrs. M. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. M. Mrs. Edna Goode-Crump, Mrs. C. John on, Miss H. Hodge, Miss Essie Arnold Mrs. J. E. Johnson, and Prof. T. W. Col. John R. Marshall, Mr. J. N. Avendorph, Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Mrs. A. C. Richardson, Mrs. C. Johnson, Dr. Mary F. Waring. The Cottillion will be led by the Bachelor Club one of the leading social clubs of this city. Old Folks Home, Emanuel Settlement, Day Nursery, Amanda Smith Home. The following Ladies and Gentlemen have consented to serve as: PATRONS AND PATRONESSES—Col. and Mrs. J. R. Marshall, Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Jefferson, Capt. and Mrs. J. L. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Anderson, Maj. and Mrs. R. R. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Avendorph, Mr. and Mrs. F. Waring, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. R. Crump, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. D. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. S. Balay, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lett, Mr. and Mrs. D. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. C. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Phil. Green, Mr. and Mrs. D. Young, Col. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bolden, Mr. and Mrs. H. Boger, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cowan, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Williams, Mr. Wm. Wharton, Mr. Noah D. Thompson, Mr. Geo. Arthur, Mr. Geo. Thompson, Mr. J. C. Stubbs, Mr. Jesse Binga, Mr. A. Brody, Mr. J. Jones, Mrs. M. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Manning, Mrs. A. C. Richardson, Mrs. Edna Goode-Crump, Mrs. C. Johnson, Mr. P. Taylor, Mrs. M. Bromson, Miss H. Hodge, Miss Essie Arnold, Miss L. Woods, Mrs. B. Patton, Mrs. J. E. Johnson, and Prof. T. W. Tivis. WANTED GOOD COLORED MAN. One who is well acquainted on the south side, to sell suits, overcoats and trousers on salary, and commission. Good job for the right man. N. S. Gross, importing tailor, 3018 State street, phone Douglas 172. Adv. 4 times. Dec. 18. Bavarians and Beer Bavaria remains easily ahead in its consumption of beer for last year. We are told it drank 248 quarts for every man, woman and child in the kingdom. Though the ladies assist, we may set aside the children and conclude that the average Bavarian man is not far outside a gallon a day.—Westminster Gazette. MODERN FIVE ROOM FLAT FOR RENT. For rent modern 5-room 2nd flat nicely decorated, china cabinet in dining room, French plate console, and gas grate in parlor, porceline bath tub and marble top wash stand. Rent free to December 1st, 5027 Armour Ave. Call at 5038 Armour Ave. One Two-Flat Building, of six and seven rooms and basement; 6519 Drexel Ave. Bargain; $5,800.00. D. C. SMITH, 3128 State St. One Six room House and Barn near 63d St. and Winchester Ave. Lot 30 x125; Bargain $2,900.00. D. C. Smith, 3128 State St. SPECIAL One Life S with each ord Photos. SPECIAL One Life Size Picture with each order of $3.00 Photos. GET YOUR PHOTO TAKEN FOR XMAS Peter P. Jones 3519 STATE ST. Telephone Douglas 4332 FOR SALE EMANUEL Representative Committee WING, JAN. 1st, 1910 obs, societies, and organizations esque and represent leading or- the 8th Regiment will lead the tillion 4 to 6 P. M. Reception M. NITTEE. Mr. J. N. Avendorph, C. Richardson, Mrs. C. Johnson, F. Waring. by the Bachelor Club one of the y. CIARIES. Settlement, Day Nursery, Smith Home. Gentlemen have consented to —Col. and Mrs. J. R. Marshall, Dr. Mrs. J. L. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley, Mr. and Mrs. F. Waring, Mr. and riss Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. R. Crump, Mrs. D. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. S. and Mrs. D. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. C. Cordon, Mr. and Mrs. Phil. Green, Mr. J. H. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. r. and Mrs. W. A. Richardson, Mr. rs. C. W. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Noah D. Thompson, Mr. Geo. C. Stubbs, Mr. Jesse Binga, Mr. A. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Manning, Mrs. Crump, Mrs. C. Johnson, Mr. P. Tay- Miss Essie Arnold, Miss L. Woods, and Prof. T. W. Tivis. Scarcity of Leather. When the scarcity of hides and skins is referred to it is hardly understood by the layman, who perhaps does not know that the world is being scoured in all corners for all available skins and hides. More races are constantly becoming civilized, and the increase of our hide and skin supply is not in proportion to that of the human race. The amount of leather used in the manufacture of novelties of all kinds has increased to a great extent within a few years, says the Shoe Retailer, but in no line has the use of leather broadened so extensively as in automobile manufacture. Any one who is at all familiar with an automobile knows that there is a considerable amount of leather used in its construction, in upholstery and otherwise. This means a large draft on the leather market, which is perhaps more noticeable in the high price of spreadly steers, the hides of which are extensively used for that purpose. Head Worker For Order of St. Luke at Washington Retires. Mrs Julia Mason Layton has retired as District of Columbia deputy for the Order of St. Luke and has been succeeded by Mrs. Bessie Anderson. Rev. A. C. Garner, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church, was made associate deputy. According to the ably prepared report of Mrs. Layton, St. Luke has thirty-two councils in the District, representing a membership of about 2,500. In the states the order claims a total of 30,000 members, and a large amount of real estate is held by them. Mrs. Anderson announces that a campaign for an increase in membership here is to be inaugurated. The head quarters of the order is in Richmond, Va., where the president, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, conducts a bank and is the manager of a prosperous department store owned by the St. Lukes. SPECIAL One Life Size Picture with each order of $3.00 photos. JOHN B. ROGERS, Pres. THOS. McCAIN, Sen'y Kentucky Club Cafe 2260 State Street (Up-Stairs) Phone Calumet 3527 Chicago's Newest and Finest Dining Parlors Best to Eat. Best to Drink. Best Service. Best Music. Best Decorum. Best of Everything. DR. WASHINGTON'S TOUR. Noted Educator's Trip Through Tennessee Arouses Much Enthusiasm. Beginning Nov. 18 and ending Nov. 25, Principal Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, will make such a tour through Tennessee as was recently made through Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia. The party as at present made up will consist of the following persons: Mr. Washington, Hon. J. C. Napier of Nashville, who is arranging the details of the trip; Mr. N. B. Dodson of New York city, Mr. John Daniel of Boston, Dr. R. E. Park of Boston, Mr. Charles Banks of Mound Bayou, Miss.; Mr. J. E. Bush of Little Rock, Ark.; probably Dr. T. J. Jones, Major R. B. Moton and Mr. W. T. B. Williams of the Hampton institute, Virginia, and, in addition, Treasurer Warren Logan, Dr. Kenney, Mr. Scott and Mr. Hunt. A number of Tennesseeans will also accompany the party. The intention is to visit the cities of Bristol, Johnson City, Greenville, Knoxville, Harriman, Emery Gap, Chattanooga, South Pittsburg, Columbia, Palmdale, Nashville, Springdale, Hopkinsville in Kentucky, Clarksville, Brownsville, Memphis and Jackson. The whole state is alive with enthusiasm, and the tour is sure to be unusually successful. TRIUMPH FOR DOUGLASS. Grandson of the Great Agitator Capt uates West Audience In Brooklyn The first star recital of the Carlton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association, Brooklyn, for the season of 1900-10 was held in Association hall on Fulton street on Thursday evening, Nov. 11. The star attraction was Joseph H. Douglass, the renowned violinist (grandson of Frederick Douglass), who has captured many brilliant audiences at home and abroad. It was Mr. Douglass' second appearance in Brooklyn in the interest of the Carlton avenue branch, and he fully sustained his reputation as a pleasing violinist of rare ability. It was a Douglass triumph. The audience was large and showed its appreciation for high class music by liberally applauding each selection rendered. Other artists of the evening, who performed their parts well and who also received liberal applause from the audience, were: Mme. Delyon Leonard, the brilliant and popular soprano soloist of New York; the Academy Male quartet of Brooklyn, Miss Helen Murphy, a white lady C JOSEPH H. DOUGLASS. from the Brooklyn Young Women's Christian association, who as elocutionist was heard to good advantage, and the Eureka Instrumental trio. Professor James F. R. Wilson, the well known organist and piano player, was the accompanist of the evening. Secretary Robert P. Hamlin and his able committee, with Professor P. Albert Myers, chairman, deserve great credit for making it possible for the public to hear and enjoy such a fine musical treat. The recital has awakened new interest in the association, which will go far toward strengthening it both in finance and membership. Women's Clubs Doing Good Work. The Frances & W. Harper league celebrated its fifteenth anniversary Tuesday evening, Nov. 16, in the John Wesley Zion church, Pittsburg. A well arranged program was carried out; no charges for admission. Friends wishing to assist the Home For Destitute Colored Children at Eastbrook, Pa., were given an opportunity to do so. Clubs were invited to attend in a body, wearing their club badges to distinguish them. INSTRUCTOR OF MUSIC. Miss Effie E. Grant Chosen Head of Department at Bordentown. The success of many young Afro-American women in the higher branches of learning within the past few years has been truly gratifying and should arouse and inspire a large number of those who for some reason are wont to leave school before finishing the prescribed course of study. A condition even more deplorable than this is to be found at the present time at Galveston, Tex., where the school authorities have shortened the course of study in the high school for Afro-Americans because a sufficient number of our girls and young women have not taken ad- A. vantage of the opportunities offered by the school to justify a continuation of the full course. We recall with pleasure the progress which Miss Effle E. Grant has made both as a student of music and also as a teacher. From the time Miss Grant gave her first public recital in Warner hall, New Haven, Conn., last spring to the present the public has manifested keen interest in her. She is a graduate of the Yale Conservatory of Music and since finishing her studies there has been very active in musical and educational affairs. At the recital mentioned Miss Grant played a transcription of Haydn's "With Verdure Clad" ("Creation") with marked ability. Greig's "The Two Brown Eyes" and "The Swan," by the same author. "Serenata" (G. Braga) and "To Spring," Chamhade, were also brilliantly rendered. Miss Grant has accepted the offer of the Bordentown Industrial school, at Bordentown, N. J., to take charge as music teacher and is succeeding splendidly. She is a typical New England girl who by persistence is making for herself a place of honor in the educational work of the race. N. R. DODSON. SUCCESS OF J. M. COFFEY. Passed Civil Service Examination and Meet Master Instructor at Chicago. Made Meat Inspector at Chicago. Mr. John M. Coffey, who has been connected with the war department at Washington for several months, has been appointed to a lucrative berth as meat inspector as the result of a civil service examination and has been assigned to Swift's packing house at Chicago. His duties consist of looking after the sanitation in the cutting, trimming, offal and tanking departments and keeping track of the edible and inedible products and seeing that they are properly tanked. Previous experience is standing him in good stead, and Mr. Coffey is already making a record in his new calling. Mrs. Coffey, who is a bride, accompanied her husband to Chicago, and they are creating quite a favorable impression in the social life of the Windy City. They are fortunate in having as a chaperon that popular and ever obliging Chicago pilot Mr. North D. Thompson of the United States Express company. WM. D. NEIGHBORS & CO REAL ESTATE AT LOWEST PRICES 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 4366 CENTRAL Joseph R. Dunn PROPRIETORS George Hight "Budweiser" English Chop House 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. Pianos 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 FRANKL.GALE 3140 State Street Charles S. Jackson Undertaker and Embalmer 3249 State St., Chicago, Ill. Fine Funeral Furnishing Goods and Livery in Connection. Open Day and Night "The up to date American newsboy can learn something in Berlin," writes a New Yorker from that city. "One of the popular sellers of newspapers in this town is a gray haired, tall, soldierly looking man who has adopted an original method. He has the papers attached, one copy of each publication, to a long fishing rod, on the top of which there is a little pocket for coins. People on omnibuses and at upper windows may be served by means of the rod. They help themselves to the paper they desire, deposit their money in the little bag, and the sold paper is replaced by another from the stock which the old man carrier in a bag slung over his shoulder. The children in the district where he does business call him the "nickel fisher." Naming Men-of-war The big battleships of the United States navy have thus far been named after the states of the Union and the cruisers for the cities. But the department has a good rule by which the names of men who in the past distinguished themselves in the service can be bestowed on the smaller craft. Thus the memory of five naval heroes has just been honored in the designations of the five new torpedo boat destroyers authorized by congress. Twenty-six such names of famous officers have already been used, and to these the department has added those of Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, Lieutenant John Tripp, Captain Daniel T. Patterson, Rear Admiral Henry Wilke and Ensign John R. Monaghan.—Buffalo Commercial. Iron Cyclone Collar An iron cyclone cell is a novelty described in Popular Mechanics. It says that a metal concern in one of the cyclone states is manufacturing the cyclone cellar of extra heavy galvanized corrugated iron. It has a cylindrical shape and is provided with stairway, seats, shelves and bins. Under ordinary conditions it is used for the keeping of fruits and vegetables. The whole is anchored solidly in the ground and thoroughly braced. Goods and Livery in in Day and Night Renewing Hostilities. Mrs. Caller-I'm surprised that you recognized me. It has been more than five years since we met. Mrs. Naggeby-I had almost forgot- ten your face, but I remembered that dress you Live on. No Recommendation Goldsborough—You may say what you like about Ricketts, but he's as good as his word. Polindexter—But consider how many bad words he uses.—Detroit Free Press. His Holy Sabbath Day. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," said the good man. "I always do," replied the chronic golfer. "I played seventy-two holes last Sunday."—Chicago Record-Herald. Willing to Listen. Tess—She was boasting that she is a very good listener. Jess—Yes. She's what you might call a fluent listener. She loves to hear herself talk.—Philadelphia Press. "John," queried her husband's wife. "if some bold, bad man were to kidnap me, would you offer a reward?" "Sure thing," replied the wife's husband. "I always reward those who do me a favor."—Chicago Daily News. Handling the Law. "According to the boys who took Pelter home this morning, his wife laid down the law to him." "Laid it down! Why, man, she threw it at him." General Expressing To and From All Depots Ice Coal Wholesale and Retail By Bags, Baskets and Tons Henry M. Turner Crystal Ice Company 3629 BEARBORN ST., CHICAGO 4863 Phone Douglas 4863 Phone Aldine 2088 Renting a Specialty Clark, Hayes & Co. REAL ESTATE RENTING Loans and Insurance 3705 State Street Chicago Dorsey's WHITE ROSE Petrolatum For Chapped Hands, Face and Lips. KINGSTON PHARMACY J. S. DORSEY, R. Ph., proprietor 116% W. 51st Street, near Dearborn, Chicago. TELEPHONE OAKLAND 302 Our Motto is Purity and Accuracy Wholesale and Retail Dealer in FIFTY-FIRST STREET AND ARMOUR AVENUE Rail Rides: 1st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry., 2nd St. and Armour Avenue CHICAGO Chateau De La Plaisance 5324-26 State Street 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 leads 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 GIANTS BASE BALL & AMUSEMENT ASS'N. WHOLE HOG OR NONE Widow Distrustful of Farmer Who Had Porker to Sell. "It's curious how the people have turned around within a couple of years and become so distrustful," said the old farmer as the matter of graft and trusts was touched upon. "I had four hogs to sell and advertised them in the village paper. Half a dozen people came out to see them, and among them was a widow. She wanted me to swear to the breed, the weight and the fact that the hogs were in good health. She wanted to be assured of their good eyesight and hearing. She wanted to be satisfied that they were good natured hogs. She wanted me to sign a paper that I had raised the porkers instead of stealing them. When I had done all this and the sale was about effected she suddenly turned and walked away. "Hello, now, but what's the matter? I called after her. "You've cut their tails off," she replied. "Yes; that was done when they were pigs." "Then you knock off 50 cents aplece for missing tails or I don't buy. It's whole hog or none and no graft."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His Experience. "There are some songs that will never die," said the musical enthusiast. "I guess that's right," answered Mr. Cumrox. "My daughter sits down at the piano and tries to kill a few of 'em every evening. But it's no use."—Washington Star. For Example. "As for me," stated the petulant person, "I see no difference between half a loaf and no brend." "But there is a difference," replied the practical one. "Wouldn't you prefer a whole doughnut to a doughnut hole?"—Judge. Easily Parted. "He's quite bald, I understand." "Almost. He has just two wipes of hair left." "Indeed?" "Yes, and he calls one 'the fool' and the other 'his money.'"—Philadelphia Ledger. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4000 O'Donnell, Dillon & ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS Burdence 87 Macalester Plaza Telephone Ashland 509 Office Telephones Central 1800 Automatic 5040 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 255-250 Hempers Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO. Phone Main 4158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 706, 171 Washington St. Ren. 4836 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 820 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE GENTHAL 900 CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 94-06 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 616 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. Tel. Calumet 3221 Dr. M. J. Brown Physician and Surgeon 2761 Dearborn Street, - CHICAGO Hours: 10 to 12 m.; 2 to 4; 7 to 9 p. m. Phone Oakland 1328 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 1550 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: R. M. Harvey's Barber shop, 3924 State street. 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 Thos. H. Crump, news decler notions and stationery, 3704 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. Philip Smith, cigars, tobacco and news stand 8 W. 27th Street. 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. E. D. Burt, notions and news stand 2636 State street. W. M. Maxwell 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. James W. Graves, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2008 State street. Dr. Ernest Lyon, American Minister to Liberia, In Address at New York Says the Negro Can Survive the Struggle For Existence Here and Should Remain. In a recent address before St. Mark's Lyceum in New York Dr. Ernest Lyon, American minister and resident consul general at Monrovia, Liberia, speaking on emigration of the American Negro to Africa, said: "In regard to the struggle which is now on between the two races two questions are suggested—viz: Can the race survive the struggle? If it cannot, is it wise for it to remain? "These in turn suggest a third, If emigration, whither? "Can the race survive the struggle for existence, in which are pitted against it in the most formidable manner mind and matter, men and money, laws and institutions, together with every other device which the ingenuity of the other race can invent? I answer emphatically yes. The fittest will survive. It is impossible to annihilate ten millions of people. "The ancient Britons Cleero described as being dull, stupid and fit only for slaves. No one would have thought that from the latter race would come the masters and conquerors of the earth; that their literature would have become the cream of the human intellect and their language the most popular on the globe. "I would rather be a Negro than anything else and to be where the struggle is the fiercest. The hope of triumph through manly endeavors should furnish inspiration to endure hardships as a good soldier and citizen. "Let us admit, however, by way of argument, that the Negro cannot survive. What then? Would you advise him to remain in a land in which he seems doomed to discrimination and humiliation and perhaps to extinction, as the social scientist would express it? I answer this question in the affirmative. I would advise him to remain until he was thoroughly convinced that he could better his condition by going to some other country. "What are the reasons advanced to justify Negro emigration from the United States? Two—the white man's reason, general unacceptability on account of race and color (with this we cannot deal in this paper); second, the black man's reason, prejudice. "This is the most comprehensive term that can be employed. All seem agreed that prejudice against race and color, arising from a previous condition of servitude, is the root of the evil. This is the indictment and the only one that can be made against the people of the United States. But I do not think the situation will be helped any by declaring that the evil is universal. "What imputation can be brought, so far as the country itself is concerned, against the territorial adequacy of its resources for the livelihood of its citizens without any reference to race, color or previous condition of servitude? "What indictment can be brought against the abundance of opportunities in almost every sphere of influence for the development and progress of the Negroes. If the door of opportunity closes among the whites he can turn to more than 10,000,000 of his own race whose needs are similar under the same favorable auspices. "What imputation can be brought against the advantage for education of every kind—classical, professional, technical, liberal and industrial? In no other country in the world do the same advantages exist for the poor. "What indictment can be brought against the spirit of Christian benevolence, which is widespread, manifesting itself in a number of schools and colleges, universities and seminaries, scattered all over the land, for the higher education of the Negro? "Now, I say with all candor if the Negro can better his condition in so brief a time by going somewhere else, let him leave. "Where will you direct him to go? Africa, you say, but Liberia in particular. "No one who knows the condition in Africa would advise emigration to any part of that continent. I think the feeling is decidedly against the coming of the American Negro. I am satisfied that the American Negro would find, in addition to the opposition which would come from the heads of European colonies and protectorates in Africa, if he intended to live in them, a curious kind of prejudice of blacks against blacks, which would annoy him equally as much, if not more, than that in the United States. "I should feel some delicacy in offering Liberia to American Negroes, in view of the fact that the highest authorities in Liberia have declared that it is not ready for the return of the exiles." Victory For Mrs. Mattie Walker. Mrs. Mattie Walker, an Afro-American of Springfield, Ill., whose household furniture was destroyed by the mob during the riots in the city in 1908, was awarded a verdict of $208 by the circuit court a few days ago. This is said to be the first verdict for damages against the city on claims growing out of the riots. The statute of 1887, under which the verdict was rendered, only allows recovery of three-fourths, while that of 1908 allows recovery of full amount. INSIDE THE EARTH. A Scientist's Idea of What Might Be Discovered. "I have had the idea for some time past," writes Camille Flammarion in the London Strand Magazine, "of sinking a shaft into the earth for the express purpose of scientific exploration, descending as far below the surface as the utmost resources of modern science would permit. "The first result would be to obtain an inexhaustible source of beat, which might be distributed and applied to industrial purposes. According to the most authentic estimates, the boiling point will be found at a depth of about two miles." "Without doubt we should also discover springs of hot water, like those which were found during the construction of the Simpson tunnel in 1903, with a temperature of 48 to 53 degrees centigrade. We should also come upon subterranean rivers and cascades, which might be employed as a motive power. "The second result would be the exploration of this unknown world itself. Who knows what curiosities of geology and paleontology might be revealed by this investigation into these dark abysses of the earth—what mines of iron, of copper, of precious metals such as gold, platinum, silver, radium and of elements hitherto unknown and unsuspected? "This idea has been forcibly recalled to my attention in consequence of the recent earthquakes and the extremely contradictory opinions of geologists upon the interior state of the globe. Is this globe liquid or solid? From the most ancient times scientific men have considered the problem under all its bearings without having succeeded in lighting upon any satisfactory solution. "The railway tunnels which pierce the mountains have done no more than traverse the inequalities of the crust of the earth. The deepest shaft which penetrates the earth was constructed between 1893 and 1902 at Paruschowitz, near Rybuik, and is about a mile and a quarter in depth, scarcely more than an insignificant scratch upon the surface of our globe." Weeds as Food. In view of the present prices of food products and the outlook for the future it may be some comfort to the American citizen to know that several of the most common weeds are good for table use. Wild chicory is bitterly hated by the farmer, but it will make a delightful salad, tender and wholesome. The virtues of the dandelion in this respect are now well known. Wild mustard, or charlock, another bane of the farmer, gives a delicious flavor to soup, as will pokeweed, which in France is cultivated as a vegetable, taking the place of bay leaves, sage, thyme and the like. Dock weeds are astonishingly hard to discourage, so in Europe they use both the broad leafed and curly leafed varieties as table vegetables. Nettles are much used in Scotland, Poland and Germany' as greens when young and tender. Purslane is boiled with other vegetables to give the dish a pliant flavor. Sorrel is looked upon as a great pest by most farmers, but choice leaves picked from sorrel weeds make a splendid salad for a game dinner. Most people think milkweed poisonous, but it is in fact a medicinal vegetable with a flavor all its own. The young leaves seem a cross between spinach and asparagus and in a salad are delicious.—Harper's Weekly. The Irony of Fata. The late Baron von Mueller, government botanist of Victoria, made the study of the plants and flowers of Australia his life work. He published forty books on the subject, was made a German baron and a British knight and was otherwise decorated by most of the sovereigns of Europe. He spent £20,000 in the interest of Australian botanical science, with the result that he died worth only a few hundred pounds. By his will he ordered that this money should be devoted to the preparation of a memoir and the care of his grave, specifying the flowers he wished to have planted over his remains. But a Melbourne court has just decided that the money cannot be applied to these purposes, but must be handed over to the relatives.—London Chronicle. The Air Nine Miles High. Samples of air at a height of nearly nine miles have been recently obtained and examined for the presence of the rare gases. The collecting apparatus, carried by a large balloon, is a series of vacuum tubes, each drawn out to a fine point at one end. At the desired height an electro-magnetic device, connected with each tube and operated by a barometer, breaks off the point of the tube, admitting the air. A few minutes later a second con_act sends a current through a platinum wire round the broken end, melting the glass and sealing the tube. All the samples obtained show argon and neon, but no helium was found in air above six miles. Lantern Pictures Without Screens. A French engineer, F. de Mare, has invented an apparatus for projecting stereopticon pictures without the use of a canvas screen. He places the lantern at the back of the stage and causes the magnified image of the slide to be reflected from two mirrors, the second of which presents the picture directly to the spectators. The latter are seated in a fully lighted room, and the lecturer is not compelled to hide himself in darkness while explaining his views. By placing the lantern beneath the stage one of the mirrors can be dispensed with, and the spectators see the image at its first reflection. THE MUSEUM GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Ac Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per cent allowed on Savings Ac Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on co- dents, including payment of taxes and le- nage on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patro- Office Phone, Douglas 727 E. JACK FUNERAL 2959-61 STAT Branch: 1310 Bingh Fine Carriages for Hire A Good Drug Store We do not claim to be the Store But we are doing everything we can. Customers will always feel that the full value received. We most cordially invite you to use from a Drug Store. We wou- home in our store. Bring your fi- welcome. Customers may rely upon Physicians' Prescriptions and Fa- Our best Bargain White FOR THE HAIR—ELEGANTLY P Invigorates the Scalp and renders liable Pomade for Ladies and Ge- John H. Montg- Gerald Bldg, 26th and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and looking after assessments Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business. E. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECTOR 159-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, PA Carriages for Hire to Parties and We Good Drug Store to Trade in claim to be the biggest, best or o Store on Earth Doing everything we can to make this a Drug will always feel that they are being well treated received. Corodially invite you to come here and buy w Drug Store. We would like to have you feel store. Bring your friends with you. You w Customers may rely upon obtaining pure medicines. Prescriptions and Family Recipes Accurate. Bargain White Rose Pomade AIR—ELEGANTLY PERFUMED, PURE AND the Scalp and renders the Hair pliable and s a for Ladies and Gentlemen. H. Montgomery, Dru Arald Bldg., 26th and State Street, Chicago Bartlett L. E. B. BARTLETT & S Real Estate ing, Loans and Insu e Street As agent buy and sell Rea. Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Office Phone, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 1856 E. JACKSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR 2959-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. Fine Carriages for Hire to Parties and Weddings A Good Drug Store to Trade At. We do not claim to be the biggest, best or oldest Drug Store on Earth But we are doing everything we can to make this a Drug Store where Customers will always feel that they are being well treated and getting full value received. We most cordially invite you to come here and buy whatever you use from a Drug Store. We would like to have you feel perfectly at home in our store. Bring your friends with you. You will always be welcome. John H. Montgomery, Druggist Gerald Bldg., 26th and State Street, Chicago J. S. BARTL Real Renting, Loans J. S. BARTLETT & SON Real Estate Renting, Loans and Insurance 5126 State Street NOTARY PUBLIC Telephone Oakland 1061 Probably. Mrs. Fussy—it takes half of my time keeping our silver in shape. I wish I could find a polish that would last. Mr. Fussy—Send for a burglar. He'll clean it up so that it won't bother you any more—Detroit Free Press. Belle-Tell her I suppose I'll be ready to make up, too, when my complexion gets as bad as hers is.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Why He Cried. "Why are you crying, Johnny?" "We was playing train, and I was the engine." "Yes?" "And pa comed in and switched me." —Judge. "How often," said a "a man is reminded of ness in this great word" "Yes," answered Mr. clally if he has three have been to boardingington Star. Lacomie "Hair's a little inclin" "Cut it!" interrupted wanted to catch a trail Secondary Cons She-I don't see w Why He Cried. "Why are you crying, Johnny?" "We was playing train, and I was the engine." "Yes?" "And pa comed in and switched me." —Judge. Took Them In Too. "The people on that farm are such warm hearted, hospitable folks. They will take anybody in." "I know they will. We boarded with them last summer."—Baltimore American. Not Acquainted With It. "Pa, what's a sine qua non?" "Oh, peshaw, don't ask me! I ain't had my automobile long enough to learn about all of these technical names yet."—Chicago Record-Herald. ill. We boarded with ".-Baltimore Ameri- something to eat. She (petunially)-Isa a man; always think ach.-Boston Transcriptainted With It. me qua non?" A Thoughtful Young Wife. "I know what I can do to keep these cigars for Alfred. I'll put a little camphor in the box."—Browning's Magazine. --- J. S. Bartlett S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year Jackson Real Director State St., Chicago Bingham St., Pittsburg, Pa. For Hire to Parties and Weddings Drug Store to Trade At. Be the biggest, best or oldest Drug Store on Earth We can to make this a Drug Store where feel that they are being well treated and getting You to come here and buy whatever you We would like to have you feel perfectly at your friends with you. You will always be rely upon obtaining pure medicines. and Family Recipes Accurately Prepared. White Rose Pomade 10c ENTLY PERFUMED, PURE AND HARMLESS, and readers the Hair pillable and silky. The re- and Gentlemen. Montgomery, Druggist 5th and State Street, Chicago L. E. Bartlett BETLETT & SON Real Estate loans and Insurance Chicago "You know Jones, who was reputed so rich? Well, he died the other day, and the only thing he left was an old Dutch clock." "Well, there's one good thing about it. It won't be much trouble to wind up his estate."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Often Reminded. "I'll be my com- phila- ry" "I I was ed me." are such They ed with Ameri- d" "How often," said the philosopher, "a man is reminded of his own little- ness in this great world." "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, "espe- cially if he has three daughters who have been to boarding school."—Wash- ington Star. Laconic. "Hair's a little inclined to"— "Cut it!" interrupted the man who wanted to catch a train.—Puck. Secondary Consideration. She—I don't see why you should hesitate to marry on $8,000 a year. Papa says my gowns never cost more than that. He—But, my dear, we must have something to eat. She (petulantly)—Isn't that just like a man; always thinking of his stom- ach—Boston Transcript. Made No Difference I ain't ought to technical Herald. Made No Difference. "I must warn you, dearest," he said, "that after we are married you will very likely find me inclined to be arbi- tary and dictatorial in my man- ner." "No matter," she replied cheerfully, "I won't pay the slightest attention to what you say."—Presbyterian Stand- ard. Chicago HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciate Colored Tenants Always Appre Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciated AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY Stove He and houses to suit your in When you want to rent, you first call on Present this ad. Samuel Richards Telephone Main 2138 Save Heated Flue does to suit your income. I rent only my own you want to rent, you will save many a weary st on this ad. H Richardson, 142 La Sal ne Main 2183 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS Via, Prop. Lou Phone Oakland 1787. THE RAILROAD INN Ported and Domestic Wine Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, American Brick Co. Agent and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLI MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer B Office and Yards: H and Robey S Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dyer. Telephone Yards 12 Stove Heated Flats and houses to suit your income. I rent only my own property. When you want to rent, you will save many a weary step, if you first call on Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle Street Telephone Main 2188 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK THE RA Imported and Liquor Cafe N. E. Corner Fifty-first - American President and Treasure Vice-President MANU Common and 45th and Yards running w with the latest i Output of Winter Yards ..... Output of Summer Yards..... Telephon THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. 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