The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX President William H. Taft's Message to Congress IS A VERY TAME DOCUMENT. HE SIDE STEPS MANY VITAL OR IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. WHICH ARE OF GREAT INTEREST TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IT WILL NOT COMPARE FAVORABLY WITH SIMILAR STATE PAPERS. WHICH HAVE BEEN PROMULGATED BY MANY OF HIS PREDECESSORS. Vol. XV President Will Message to IS A VERY TAME DOCUMENT VITAL OR IMPORTANT WHICH ARE OF GREAT IN PEOPLE. IT WILL NOT COMPARE F STATE PAPERS. WHICH HAVE BEEN PROM PREDECESSORS. On last Monday, both houses of congress convened for the short or the holiday session and on the following day President William H. Taft's meso congress was read and to say the least, it is a very tame document and he side steps many vital or important questions, which are of great interest to the American people. The president, in what might be called his maiden message touches upon the Canadian Boundary Treaty, the international conference at Brussels, he praises Turkey's progress, the improvements in Cuba. In speaking of the unrest in Central America, the president sets forth his views as folloows: "Since the Washington conventions of 1907," he says, "were communicated to the government of the United States as a consulting and advising party, this government has been almost continuously called upon by one or another, and in turn by all of the five Central American republics, to exert itself for the maintenance of the conventions. Nearly every complaint has been against the Zelaya government of Nicaragua, which has kept Central America in constant tension or turmoil." "I need not rehearse here the patient efforts of this government to promote peace and welfare among these republics, efforts which are fully appreciated by the majority of them who are loyal to their true interests. It would be no less unnecessary to rehearse here the sad tale of unspeakable barbarities and oppression alleged to have been committed by the Zelaya government. "Recently two Americans were put to death by order of President Zelaya himself. They were officers in the organized forces of a revolution which had continued many weeks and was in control of about half of the republic, and as such, according to the modern enlightened practice of civilized nations, they were entitled to be death with as prisoners of war. "At the date when this message is printed this government has terminated diplomatic relations with the Zelaya government, for reasons made public in a communication to the for- SHERIFF DAVIS OF ALEXANDER COUNTY, ILLINOIS REMOVED FROM OFFICE IN DISGRACE. It is gratifying to state, that Governor Charles S. Deneen comes up with the right thing, when he put one over on Sheriff Davis of Alexander County, III, and removed him from office in disgrace, for failing to bravely and manfully protect the lives of the two prisoners whom he permitted to be mobbed and lynched a short time ago, by the eminently respectable Christian ladies and gentlemen of Calro. The badge of shame fastened upon Sheriff Davis, for yielding to race prejudice and practically joining hands with the mob in its bloody work of murdering men who had not been tried and convicted of committing any crime, should be a wholesome warning to other sheriffs of this state and peace officers that they must not enlist their duty and that they must always HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY mer Nicaraguan charge d'affaires, and is intending to take such future steps as may be found most consistent with its dignity, its duty to American interests, and its moral obligations to Central America and to civilization. It may be necessary for me to bring this subject to the attention of the congress in a special message." He successfully plows around the great scandal in connection with buying and constructing the Panama Canal; he also dislikes to touch upon the many glaring frauds which have been committed by some of the custom house officers at New York City, for the benefit of the American Sugar Refining Company, and others who gave up some of their money to assist to elect him president of the United States. The president, like president like President Roosevelt, is a strong advocate of speedy justice, which is noting more nor less than mob and lynch law, and ht also favors curtailing the powers of the courts; he is also in favor of compelling congressmen who are candidates for re-election and their managers, to file a statement with a proper officer of the United States government as to the amount of money they receive and expend in their campaigns and where the money comes from, but the president is very careful not to ask congress to pass a law to punish by imprisonment all the head captains of industry and the bosses of the gigantic trusts and monopolies, who chucked hundreds of thousands of dollars into his campaign fund in 1908, and for some cause or other the president is silent on this point. The president favors a commission of not more than seven persons to consider the feasibility of an exposition to show the progress of the Negro since his emancipation. The other subjects or questions touched upon by the president are very shallow—not weighty by any means and they will excite but little interest in the hearts of his countrymen. On the whole his message does not compare favorably with similar state papers, which have been promulgated by many of his illustrious predecessors. shoot to kill, regardless of whom the bullets hit and kill, in order to preserve law and order. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THDMAS JEFFERSON. Sunday afternoon, December 12, at 3:30 o'clock, Julius F. Taylor will address the Standard Literary Society, which meets in Olivet Baptist church, 27th and Dearborn street, on the "Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson," with short introductory remarks on some of the defects which retard the progress of the Negro race in America. Augustus L. Williams, one of the efficient attaches of the county treasurer's office, left Monday evening for Mt. Vernon, Ill., to be present for the examination of newly graduated lawyers, relative to their qualifications for admission to the bar. PETER M. HOFFMAN. The popular and most efficient coroner of C man-American Republican whose army of friend for Governor of Illinois in 1912. STATES TO BE REPRESENTED IN RECEIVING PARTIES AT THE NEW YEAR'S CHARITY BALL. Partial List. behalf of Gould; stewardess conesses; School, A club, Mrs Society. The popular and most efficient coroner of Cook County influential German-American Republican whose army of friends are already booming him for Governor of Illinois in 1912. Illinois:—Mrs. Geo. C. Hall, Mrs. Katie Crump, Miss Maggie Wallace, Mrs. Wm. Bell, Mrs. Etta Shoecraft, Mrs. Alberta Smith, Miss Mamie Smith, Mrs. Lille Taylor, Mrs. Bortha Hamilton, Mrs. Blanche Lett, Mrs. Gertrude Balay, Mrs. Howard Cornwell, Mrs. Carrie Shanklin, Mrs. Alice Simpson, Mrs. Frank Foster, Mrs. Mary Wilson, Home Club, Mrs. R. R. Jackson, Virginia:—Mrs. Cora Tracy, Mrs. J. R. Marshal, Louisiana:—Miss Pearle Mayo. Kentucky:—Mrs. Mary Waring, Miss Lizzie Slaughter. Ohio:—Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, Mrs. S. G. Barnett, Gace Alexander Hayman, Michigan:—Mrs. Grace Parks. Canada:—Mrs. J. E. Johnston, Pennsylvania:—Mrs. Chas, Jackson. Colrado:—Miss Pearl Ramey. Tennessee:—Mrs. Julia Fitzgerald, Marguerite Hugins. Arkansas:—Mrs. J. H. Johnson, Mrs. F. A. Rawlins. Washington, D.C.:—Mrs. Josephine Davis. Wisconsin:—Mrs. J. Navendorph. Texas:—Mrs. Arthur Anthony, Mrs Mayo. Maryland:—Miss Mary Washington, Mrs. Mary Williams. WILLIAM BRUNER PUT$ ONE OVER ON REV. ELIJAH J. FISHER. In the case of William Bruner against the Rev. Elijah J. Fisher, in the Apellate Court. Mr. Justice Smith in rendering the opinion in the above cause in the Apellate Court recently found as follows: "After a careful consideration of the evidence we think that the plaintiff in error E. J. Fisher is justly indebted to William Bruner in the sum of $108 the judgment of the lower court is therefore reversed and the cause remanded unless the defendant in error, William Bruner shall remit in ten days down to $108.00 in which case a judgment will be affirmed for this amount." It seems that Mr. Bruner's attorneys concluded that they would be able to show another jury that Mr. Fisher even owed more than Judge Smith had allowed and they permitted the case to be reversed. REV, I. N. DANIELS WELCOMED TO DES MOINES, IOWA. The members and friends of St. Paul's A. M. E. church tendered a welcome to their newly appointed pastor, Rev. I. N. Daniels and his wife on Wednesday evening. Welcome addresses were delivered as follows: "In behalf of the stewards by Harrison Gould; trustees, W. H. Humburd; stewardesses, Mrs. E. L. Shaw; deaconesses, Mrs. Lizzie Glass; Sunday School, Atty' s J. Joe Brown; Callanan club, Mrs. E. B. Elliston; Missionary Society, Mrs. Emma Fisher; Pastor's Aid Society, Mrs. Lena Krays and the city pastors, Rev. H. W. Porter, after which responses were made by the pastor and his wife, and all present were served gratuitously to a dainty two course repast prepared and served by a committee of the ladies of the church.—The Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa, December 4, 1900. GRAND TESTIMONIAL FOR THE BENEFIT OF DAVID M. SAR- GEANT AT MASONIC TEMPLE, TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 14. The undersigned citizens, have pledged themselves to aid in a testimonial benefit to be given at the Masonic Hall, 3956 State street on Tuesday evening, Dec. 14, 1909, for the benefit of Mr. David M. Sargeant, who, for nearly a year, has been suffering with paralysis. Mr. Sargeant has lived among us for the past 10 years and has at all times and on all occasions proven himself a most worthy citizen, and a strong champion on matters concerning the race. Mr. Sargeant was born on the Island of Barbados, where he has decided to return and where, perhaps, he may be better able to conquer his terrible affliction. We wish him God-speed recovery. There will be a program rendered by voluntary talent, also a few remarks by Hon. F. L. Barnett. Dancing until 1 P. M. Music by Garfield Wilson's Orchestra. Admission 35c. We solicit your cheerful support. Committee:—Terrevous L. Douglas, Chairman; Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Miller, Hon. F. L. Barnett, Dr. and Mrs W. A. Richardson, Mr. W. R. Sobers, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Rawlins, Mr. Henry A. Isaacs, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Cuffee, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. King, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Hall, Mr. Noah D. Thompson, Mrs. Anna Smith, Mr. Edward Alexander, Mrs. Grace Alexander, Mr. Glesner Fowler, Mrs. Dr. Nelson, Mr. Leonard Brownie, Miss Blanche Shaw, Mr. A. L. Hackley, Miss Estelle Clark, Mr. A. S. Barnett, Miss Lucile Woods, Mr. W. H. Jackson, Dr. Chas. De La Bastide, Dr. J. R. Wright, Dr. Claude Bell, J. W. Anderson. Mrs. Mary Franklin, of San Francisco, Cal, arrived in the city Sunday morning, and she will make her future home with her mother and brothers, Mrs. Harris, 5025 Armour ave. Poor Consump-tives Cause Vast Loss LACK OF HOSPITAL BEDS COSTS COUNTRY OVER A BILLION DOLLARS. Sixteen states and territories of the United States provide no place where the poor consumptive can be treated, except in jails and insane asylums. This statement together with another, to the effect that not one in thirty of the victims of consumption who want to get in hospitals can find a place there, a fact which will mean a loss to the country of $1,275,000,000 is made by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in a bulletin issued today. The National Association states that there are in the United States at least 300,000 consumptives who are so poor that they cannot pay for proper medical treatment in tuberculosis sanatoria and hospitals. Some of them can pay small amounts a week for their maintenance, but the great majority of them cannot pay anything. Foor this large class of patients the entire country has provided only 10,000 beds for the free treatment of tuberculosis. In Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Phillipine Islands, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming there is no place where the consumptive without means can be treated but in jails or insane asylums and in most cases he will get no treatment there. Sixteen other states provide less than 50 beds each for poor consumptives. In only two states, Massachusetts and New York have beds for needy tuberculosis patients been provided, so that at least one in ten may find a place for treatment. In many of the other states, not one in 50 of the destitute consumptives can find a bed in a hospital or sanatorium. It costs on an average about $250 to cure an incipient consumptive or to care for an advanced case until death. .. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. The annual Ball given by the Washington Business League at the Leland Giants Skating Rink last Wednesday evening was quite a grand affair. The officers and members of the League are much pleased and we hope them much success. The weather is fine for roller skating. Visit the Chateau Rink and have a good tmie. The Orchestra Music at the Chateau Rink is growing more and more popular with the skaters. Join the crowd tonight. A good time in store for all. Mr. Andrew Foster, Manager of the Leland Giants Baseball Club and wife left for Austin, Texas, last Monday to spend the Christmas holidays. Visit the Chateau Skating Rink any Sunday evening and listen to the famous Eighth Regiment Band in their lastest song hits. The talk of the town—Chateau Skating Rink. The place to have a good time. Visit it tonight. Those not wishing to skate can spend a pleasant evening in the Parlors upstairs. Dancing free. Mr. J. H. Bolden, Manager of the Leland Giants Skating Ring and wife wish to extend their many thanks to asump- s Cause Vast Loss TAL BEDS COSTS OVER A BILLION If he is left in destitute circumstances without proper attention, he will surely infect with his disease at least two other presons, and possibly many more. Considering that the average life is worth to society in dollars and cents, about $1,500, the net loss which would accrue to a community by not treating its poor consumptives in proper institutions would be for each case, including those who are unnecessarily infected, at the very lowest figure, $4,250. On this basis, if the poor consumptives in the United States who are now sick were seegated from their families, and either kept in institutions until they died, or else cured of their disease, the saving to the country would be the enoumour sum of $1,275,000,000. Consumption is primarily a poor man's disease. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of New York City says: "Roughly speaking, the incipient tuberculosis patient can buy as many chances of fresh air and cure as he has money." The percentage of deaths from consumption among the poor is 100 per cent higher than among the well-to-do and the rich. 65 per cent of the consumptives in the United States are too poor to provide proper means for treatment. They must either be placed in a sanatorium or a hospital where they will be removed from the possibility of infecting other members of their families, or the loss resulting from neglect to care for these poor consumptives will be the case if they were properly housed in institutions. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis declares that if every county or township erect an institution for the treatment of indigent cases of consumption, this disease would be wiped out in a few years. their many friends for the kindness they have shown during the recent bereavement, the death of their mother. APPOMATTOX CLUB NOTES. Installation of new officers Jan. 8. * * * * Wm. Emanuel Stag tonight at which time the Ex-President's picture will be presented by his son and accepted by Hon. E. H. Wright. * * * * Board meeting tonight, 8:30 P. M. FEINBERG & PECKS' NEW DEPARTMENT STORE IS CATCHING ITS SHARE OF THE HOLIDAY BUSINESS. Feinberg and Peck's, new department store, 3032 and 3034 State st., corner of 31st street and No. 8 W. 31st street; is catching its share of the holiday business. Their store only opened on Tuesday, November 30th, but each day since that time, it has been crowded with shoppers and their holiday goods of every description, are being lugged away by the people in every direction. of St. Mary's A. M. E. Church, 1926 Dearborn street, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1909, promises to be a nice affair. W. H. SANDERS, Pastor. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Priests, Irish, Single Tax, Taxable publications or have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all over disliking 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. $3.00 Six Months. $1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5638 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIAU F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1878. JOSEPH O. LANE, THE PRACTICAL JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER. Mr. Joseph O. Lane, the well known, practical watch maker and jeweler, who was for many years engaged in business on South Clark street, between Harrison and Polk streets, who four years ago, removed his place of business to 76 E. 31st street, near Michigan ave., and his store is well stocked with a nice line of goods for the holiday season; such as ladies and gents gold and silver watches, diamond rings, elegant silverware, with the names of the purchaser engraved on each article, ladies fine combs, highly ornamented set with brilliant stones. Mr Lane takes great pleasure in stating; that "he will be delighted to greet his many old friends and patrons during the holiday season; that they will receive full value for every dollar's worth of goods purchased from him and that he is fully prepared to do watch and jewelry repairing. PROOF CONVICTS NEGRO TROOPERS. Conclusive Evidence Obtained by Military Court in the Brownsville Case. LINE OF FIRE IS TRACED. Bitter Debate in Congress Threatens to Be Renewed by Discoveries. Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—Conclusive evidence is said to have been obtained by the military court of inquiry in the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Tex., that members of the Twenty-fifth infantry, Colored, who were within the fort fired on the town at the time their companions were racing through the streets of the Texas town shooting right and left. Congress To Be Stirred. None of the members of the court of inquiry would discuss the matter, but it is intimated that a demand for the abolition of the Negro troops which are provided for by law will be made by the southern delegations in congress. Thus the bitter debate that marked the final days of the Roosevelt administration threatens to be renewed. The evidence discovered by the officers who compose the court is said to be susceptible of complete proof. Certain members, it is reported, made personal examination of buildings across the road from the fort in Brownsville. They discoverd bullet holes in the sides of three houses. Continuing their investigations they discovered the bullets, which were of the regulation army design. Following back the line of fire, as shown by the track of the bullets the markrmen could have been nowhere else than within the barracks. —Chicago Tribune, Dec. 10. THE COLORED MEN'S RAILWAY PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. The Board of Directors of The National Colored Men's Railway Protective and Benevolent Association, together with a large number of the members, met at their headquarters, 2918 States Street, second floor, last Wednesday night, and arranged plans for the public meeting of the Association to be held in the near future The members present were enthusiastic at the progress which the Association had made, and all agreed that the Association was destined to become the greatest Negro organization in the United States. Announcement will be made in these columns in our next issue of the plans for the public meeting and a general outline of the progress thus THE LADY OF THE TOWN MR8, L. TISH LEE. Dramatic author of considerable note, who will appear at the Pekin Theatre, this week in her own play entitled, "The Model Family." PEKIN THEATRE The bill at this popular house next week is a very choice one. Many new faces and acts will be seen. Among them are "Benton & McKenzie" in Vaudville Up-To-Date. The sensational "Prentice Troupe," Claude Remf, in Pink Tea on The Wire. Specially engaged, "Mrs. L. Tish Lee, formerly a society leader in this city, and will be remembered as the authoress of a drama that was presented at the Pekin entitld "A Play Without a Name." Mrs. L. Tish Lee will appear in her own play, entitled "The Model Family," supported by her own company. far made, together with prospects for development. CHIPS Mrs. John Jones, 43 E. 29th Place, who has been suffering for the past two weeks with a very severe cold, is rapidly improving in health. Miss Kezee, sister of Mrs. S. J. Carter, 168 E. 32nd street; who has been visiting in Denver, Colo., for some time past, returned to the city Wednesday and will make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Carter. Mrs. Robert M. Mitchell, 2733 Dearborn street, to the delight of her many friends, continues to enjoy the best of health, and she is like a new woman to what she was three or four years ago. Major John C. Buckner, returned home Thursday evening from a flying trip to Washington, D. C., and the wise one's say that he will become the next Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. Owing to the inclement weather, Monday and Tuesday evenings, the recitals of the Choral Study Club at the Institutional Church were not attended by their usual large crowd, but the audiences were appreciative and the programme was carried out as planned. David R. Jones; Chief Depty Coroner of Cook county, is one of the most affable and obliging county officials, and at all times those having business to transact with him are treated with the greatest consideration, and it would be well indeed, if many of the other city and county officials would immitate Mr. Jones in this respect. Mr. Edward Hillman, head of Hillman's big Department Store, State and Washington streets, wears a pleasant smile that won't come of these delightful winter days, for the holiday business is rushing in all the departments of his store and many Colored people are doing their Christmas shopping at Hillman's. The Choral Study Club, rendered "The Holy City" and Hallelujan Chorus" at Institutional Church, Monday and Tuesday evenings and the singing by Mr. T. Thomas Taylor, and by the other artists taking part in it could not be surpassed. The Choral Study Club, in accomplishing a great work and it is highly deserving of the hearty support of all the lovers of music, residing in Chicago. Mr. Albert Cole, of Flushing, Ohio, is in the city visiting his two sensible and well trained daughters along business lines, the Misses Jessie and Anna Cole, who are both very valuable assistants of Jesse Binga, the successful banker and real estate dealer, at State street and 36th place. Mr. Cole does all the teaming business, for the citizens of Flushing, and he is numbered among its most business-like and substantial citizens. Some say that Archimedes made the first wheel clock as early at 200 B. C. Others give credit to Wallingford, who lived so late as the beginning of the fourteenth century. But the most perfect water clocks were, long before the latter period, furnished with wheels, so that the only improvement was the substitution of a solid body to act as a moving weight instead of water. It is not to be wondered at that the application of a weight to clocks as a moving power should attract so little attention, as water and sand were undoubtedly thought more convenient by contemporary writers. The oldest complete clock moved by weights is probably that sent by the sultan of Turkey to Frederick II. in 1232. In the thirteenth century many of the church steeples in Italy were furnished with clocks moved by weights, which struck the hours. Hele of Nuremberg is supposed to have constructed the first watch in 1500, and to him must also be given the credit of the spring clock. The fusee was probably invented in England about the end of the sixteenth century. But it was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that the pendulum was first applied to clocks by Huyghens. Bear Hunting In Brittany Boar hunting in Brittany. Boar hunting in Brittany is full of exciting incidents, and the boars seldom die unavenged, for though they are beset by mounted hunters and peasantry on foot armed with guns, the lifeblood of many a hound is drawn before the savage old tusker yields up his life. His dangerous powers of offense cease only with his last gass. Though the grip of the bulldog, the yelping of the hounds, the din of horns and the cries of the beaters may force him from his lair to seek refuge in flight, that withdrawal may be set down rather than prudence and disgust than to any fear. When at last he is brought to bay, with his back against a rock or a tree trunk, he is ready to defy a host. Met in a narrow alley of the forest, neither man nor horse can withstand the avalanche of his onset. Not infrequently the hunter who loves his hounds will feel but little triumph even in the death of many boars if, having begun the season with a large pack, he ends it with a miserable remnant, having left all his best and bravest dogs on the field of battle. They tell a story in Wall street that Mr. Morgan once replied to a young friend who had asked him what were the best clubs to belong to in New York, "Young man, the very best clubs to devote your time to are Indian clubs." IN MEMORY OF JOHN BROWN. The Race Called Upon to Show Appreciation of His Deeds. To the Colored Citizens of the United States and Their Fellow Countrymen: Greeting: Inasmuch as by some error the New England Suffrage league at its sixth annual session in Boston on Oct. 4 urged the colored people of the United States to generally celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the public murder of John Brown and named the date Dec. 29, 1909, we, the undersigned officers of said league, announce that the proper date is Dec. 2, 1909. In pursuance of the vote of the league ratified by the mass meeting at St. Paul's Baptist church on the night of Oct. 4 and in consonance with its spirit we issue this appeal first to all colored Americans and also to all their fellow countrymen to assemble in public memorial meeting on Dec. 2 next to honor the memory of this protomartyr of freedom. We especially urge the National Independent Political league and the Niagara movement to hold such public memorial meetings and all literary or patriotic societies to do so. We appeal to all the colored churches of this country and to all other churches to set aside the Sunday preceding Dec. 2 in honor of John Brown as a day of prayer for the cause of freedom, for which he laid down his life, and of honor to this great crusader. We further appeal to the colored press and to all other publications to spread this appeal broadcast before their readers. WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER, President, 77 Cornhill, Boston. REV. W. W. RYAN, Corresponding Secretary, 41 Court Street, West Newton, Mass. The Best Clubs. LIKE HAMMERED GOLD. Proposed Monument For the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition monument, to be the crowning work of sculpture of the international exhibition of 1909, will be covered with solid gold leaf. Gold donations to the amount of $7,000, necessary to completely cover the great shaft with the shining metal, will be solicited from Alaskans, Yukoners and the people of Seattle. An appropriation to cover the cost of building the monument in staff has been authorized, the drawings made and the sculptor is engaged in building his clay model. The monument is to stand in the center of the plaza in front of the magnificent group of United States government buildings and directly at the head of the Cascades. Looking south from the monument will be first the central features of the exposition, and then the eye will travel over a panorama of eighty miles of mountain, lake and woodland scenery to Rainier and the Cascade range. The exposition monument is to be more than seventy feet in height. The monument proper will stand on a pedestal twenty feet high. This column will be of Corinthian design, on the top of which will be a globe giving the signs of the zodiac. On top of this globe will be a huge American eagle with outstretched wings, as in flight. Grouped about the base of the monument will be three seated female figures symbolic of the northland, the south seas and the orient. Every foot of this great monument will have the appearance of having been hammered out of pure gold if the donations are sufficient to complete the undertaking.—Seattle Times. Youthful Suicides There is a shocking proneness among youthful Bengals to kill themselves on the least pretext. It seems to be an exaggerated form of sultiness, and one would like to have a medical opinion on the matter. A student is reprimanded by his parent because his studies don't show the advancement expected. The boy swallows some opium and ends his studies. A girl wife in Howrah takes a dislike to the second choice of her husband. She also secures an exit by the easy means of opium. A Bengal woman in Howrah wanted to go on a pilgrimage to Gays. Her mother said she could not advance the railway fire, and the girl went out to a tree and hanged herself. These are all recent cases.—Calcutta Empire. A. Pleasant Prison The prison at Cetinje, Montenegro, has been described as surely the most extraordinary one in existence. It presents little to indicate that it is a place of confinement, there being apparently nothing between the prisoners and absolute liberty. There are no outer prison walls, and in the cells the men—about eight or ten to each—are as contentedly and comfortably housed as their own personal domestic belongings can make them. Moreover, they are generously fed, and cigarettes without stint, wine occasionally and no work at all combine to check any desire to escape more effectually than would strong walls, iron bars and an army of jailers—London Globe. Tees In the Treetops Here is a story speaking better for the German emperor's goodness of heart than his knowledge of the ancient and royal game of golf. "So you want ground for your golf club, Sir Frank" said the kaiser to the British ambassador at Berlin. "We haven't got nice grass meadows round Berlin as you have in England, but I'll give you a bit of the Grunewald." a phe forest near Berlin and a great Sunday resort of the Berliners. "Ah, sire," Sir Frank Lascelles replied, "I am afraid there would be too many trees!" "Trees!" instantly replied the emperor, with bonhomme. "All the better to keep the sun off you when you are playing in the summer!" Cold Storage Poultry. The state board of health of Massachusetts has issued a bulletin on cold storage poultry in which this advice is given to housekeepers: "In order to avoid obtaining waterlogged and refrigerated fowls the consumer should demand the frozen bird and thaw it himself. If thawed quickly by immersion in a bucket of hot water it may be eaten with impunity and with relish the same day it is purchased, or if hung overnight at room temperature it may be ready for use the day following." The Funny English. James S. Palmer, vice president elect of the United States, may possibly look forward to filling one day the position of president. It will be remembered that on the death of President McKinley, Mr. Roosevelt, who was then vice president, succeeded automatically to the presidency without opposition. Should anything happen to Mr. Taff (which we sincerely trust, for his sake, may not be the case) Mr. Palmer would probably, if precedent were followed, take his place. — Illustrated Londos News. The Moving In Party. "Yes, they have a new sort of function in Chicago that is quite the rage." "What is it called?" "It's called a moving in party. When the hostess learns that the empty house next door is to be occupied she calls her guests by telephone, and they come and draw cuts for the front windows and then sit there and size up the new neighbor's stuff as the movers carry it in."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. CHARITY BENEFIT 7th Regiment Armory 34th and Wentworth Avenue Under the Management of MRS. WM. EMANU Assisted by a Representative Co NEW YEARS' EVENING, JAN. It is expected all social clubs, societies, and will take part. Grand march will be picturesque and repr organizations of this city. Col. John R. Marshall and the 8th Regim march. There will be a matinee cotillion 4 to 6 and Ball from 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 50c Admission COMMISSION Col. John R. Marshall, Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Mrs. A. C. Dr. Mary F. Waring. The Cotillion will be led by the leading social clubs of this city. BENEFICIOUS Old Folks Home, Emanuel Amanda Sm. The following Ladies and Clerks serve as: PATRONS AND PATRONESSES and Mrs. W. T. Jefferson, Capt. and Anderson, Maj. and Mrs. R. R. Jack Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Avendorph, M. Mrs. J. S. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Morr. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bell, Mr. and Mr. Balay, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lett, Mr. and Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Ge. and Mrs. D. Young, Col. and Mrs. Bolden, Mr. and Mrs. H. Boger, Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Cowan, Dr. and Ms. S. L. Williams, Mr. Wm. Wharton, Arthur, Mr. Geo. Thompson, Mr. J. Brody, Mr. J. Jones, Mrs. M. Smith, A. C. Richardson, Mrs. Edna Goode-lor, Mrs. M. Bronson, Miss H. Hodge, Mrs. B. Patton, Mrs. J. E. Johnson, COMMITTEE. Col. John R. Marshall, Mr. J. N. Avendorph, Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Mrs. A. C. Richardson, Mrs. C. Johnson, Dr. Mary F. Waring. Noah D. Thompson. The Cotillion will be led by the Bachelor Club one of the leading social clubs of this city. BENEFICIARIES. 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, M. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Manning, Mrs. A. C. Richardson, Mrs. Edna Goode-Crump, Mrs. C. Johnson, Mr. P. Taylor, Mrs. M. Bronson, 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. Business men at Muscogee, Oaks, 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 MODERN FIVE ROOM FLAT FOR RENT. For rent modern 5-room 2nd flat nicely decorated, china cabinet in dinning 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 5033 Armour Ave. 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 3618 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. A. 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 EMANUEL representative Committee WING, JAN. 1st, 1910 s, societies, and organizations que and represent leading or- me the 8th Regiment will lead the million 4 to 6 P. M. Reception ATTEE. Mr. J. N. Avendorph, Richardson, Mrs. C. Johnson, Noah D. Thompson. The Bachelor Club one of the MIARIES. Settlement, Day Nursery, with Home. Gentlemen have consented to Col. and Mrs. J. R. Marshall, Dr. Mrs. J. L. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley, Mr. and Mrs. F. Waring, Mr. and Ris Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. R. Crump, S. D. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. S. and Mrs. D. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. C. Cordon, Mr. and Mrs. Phil. Green, Mr. H. H. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. S. and Mrs. W. A. Richardson, Mr. S. 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 spready steers, the hides of which are extensively used for that purpose. MRS. LAYTON'S ABLE REPORT. 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. THE F. & P. DEPARTMENT STORE The new store is starting in with a lot of customers. Why should you go down town to trade when you have a good DEPARTMENT STORE near your home? You can save 25 per cent to 35 per cent on your groceries and get FISH'S Stamps by patronising FEINBERG & PECKS new Department Store. Here are some of the prices we are making this week. Pillsbury, Ceresota or Gold Medal Fancy Sugar Corn ..... 7½c Flour ..... 24½ lb. sack 75c Uneeda Biscuit ..... 3 pkgs. 11c 5 lb. sack 18c Light Housekeeping sack ..... 8c Solid Meat Tomatoes ..... 7½c Early June Peas ..... 7½c Fein CORNER OF JOHN B. ROGERS, Pres. Kentucky Feinberg CORNER OF STATE AN HN B. ROGERS, Pres. THOS. McCA Kentucky Club Ca Feinberg & Peck CORNER OF STATE AND THIRTY-FIRST ST. 2260 State Street (Up-Stairs) Phone Calumet 3527 Chicago's Newest and Finest Dining Parlors Best to Eat. Best Service. Best Decorum. Special T EDWARD'S WHITE for the relief and treatment of affe- such as Counghs, Colds, Croup, W chitis, Tickling in Throat, etc. Special Trial Offer WARD'S WHITE PINE and the relief and treatment of affections of the Throat a as Counghs, Colds, Croup, Whooping Cough, Hoarses , Tickling in Throat, etc. Special Trial Offer for the relief and treatment of affections of the Throat and Lungs such as Counghs, Colds, Croup, Whooping Cough, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Tickling in Throat, etc. Price, 25 Cents Cut out and bring this advertise Syrup for 20c. We do not claim to be the big Earth, but will make Customers f and getting full value. C. E. KREYSSL 5059 State Street, N. E. Corner 51st Cut out and bring this advertisement and receive a book for 20c. We do not claim to be the biggest, best and oldest Drugs, but will make Customers feel that they are being getting full value. E. KREYSSLER, CHEMIST and State Street, N. E. Corner 51st St., Chicago. Phones Oakland Cut out and bring this advertisement and receive a bottle of this Syrup for 20e. We do not claim to be the biggest, best and oldest Drug Store on Earth, but will make Customers feel that they are being well treated and getting full value. G. E. KREYSSLER, CHEMIST and DRUGGIST 5059 State Street, N. E. Corner 51st St., Chicago, Phones Oakland 245 and 246 success or 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 netted 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 Rismark, N. D., who drew claim No. 2 in the Cheyenne and Standing Rock land lottery at Aberdeen, S. D., recently, is, 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 men of the town. 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 Gaette --- --- BERG & STATE AND THI THOS. McCAIN, Sec'y Club Cafe Best to Drink. Best Music. Best of Everything Trial Offer TE PINE and TAR ections of the Throat and Lungs Hooping Cough, Hoarseness, Bron- ement and receive a bottle of this ghest, best and oldest Drug Store on tel that they are being well treated LER, CHEMIST and DRUGGIST St., Chicago. Phones Onkland 245 and 246 McKeesport Knights' Big Event. Tube City company, No. 9, uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, of McKeesport gave its third annual reception recently at the North Avenue rink, and it was a splendid success. Among the visiting companies taking part is the drill were the world's champions, Elite company, No. 5, of Pittsburgh, Captain Carter commanding, and J. C. Ross company of Braddock, commanded by Captain Boyd. Among the honor guests were Matthew A. Henson, Commander Peary's companion to the north pole; Brigadier General Frank A. Sutton, General A. M. Burress, Major John Childness, Colonel Williams, Harry Stewart and Charles Stinson. The guests were dined at the Hotel Montgomery and expressed themselves as delighted with the open tended hospitality shown them. "Do you believe there is anything in lock?" asked the young man. "Yes," answered the home grown philosopher. "There is a lot of intelligence and perseverance in it"—Detroit Tribune. 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. Fancy Sugar Corn ..... 7½c Uneeda Biscuit ..... 3 pkgs. 11c All National Biscuit Co.'s. 5c packages, for ..... 4c Regular 30c coffee ..... 19c per lb. Regular 35c coffee ..... 23c per lb. Our 60c fine basket Japan Tea ..... 39c Our very fancy English Tea ..... 39c & Peck AND THIRTY-FIRST ST. CAIN, Sec'y afe ers everything WM. D. N. REA AT LO Easiest Term Loans on first Fire Insurance Main Office: Suite 64, 95 Washington St. 'PHC fer d TAR and Lungs sensness, Bron- Joseph R. Dunn "Bud bottle of this rug Store on well treated and DRUGGIST and 245 and 246 English Ghop, Suey and All C est Culinary Art b The After Theater Proper Place To Enjoy A be served by Polite Atten --- Ice Wholesale and Retail Henry M. Crystal Ice D. D. NEIGHBORS & REAL ESTATE AT LOWEST PRICES Best Terms to be had in C loans on first and second Mortg are Insurance placed in any comp In Office: 95 Washington St., CHICAGO, ILL. Br 35175 WM. D. NEIGHBORS & GO 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., CHICA60, ILL. Branch Office 3517 State Street PHONE 4366 CENTRAL Joseph R. Dunn PROPRIETORS George High The "Budweiser" "Budweiser" 5050 State Street, Chicago English Chop House Dry and All Chinese Dishes Served in Dulinary Art by a First Class Chinese After Theater Parties will find the "Budw ace To Enjoy A Delightful Repast, and all B by Polite Attendants. 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 Fine Funeral Furnishing Goods and Livery In Connection. Open Day and Night General Expressing To and From All Depets 8628 DEANBORN ST., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 4983 Dorsey's WHITE ROSE Petrolatum For Chapped Hands, Face and Lips. KINGSTON PHARMACY J. S. DORSEY, R. Ph., proprietor 116½ W. 51st Street, near Dearborn, Chicago. TELEPHONE OAKLAND 302 Our Motto is Purity and Accuracy Established 1867 Phone Oakland 2550-155 John J. Dunn Coal and Wood Wholesale and Retail Dealer in FIFTY-FIRST STREET AND ARMOUR AVENUE Rail Rards: 51st St. & L. S. M. S. By., 52nd St. and Armour Avenue CHICAGO Orphan Asylum's Annual Dinner. The annual southern dinner of the Brooklyn Howard Colored Orphan asylum, which is considered one of the most important social events of the institution, will be given this year on Wednesday. Nov. 17, under the ladies' auxiliary to the board of managers. Superintendent James H. Gordon is conducting the affairs of the asylum in an able and businesslike manner and has the confidence of the public HBORS & GO ESTATE BEST PRICES be had in Chicago and second Mortgages secured in any company Branch Office CAGO, ILL. 3517 State Stree 'PHONE 4366 CENTRAL RIETORS George Hight weiser" hop House Dishes Served in the High- st Class Chinese Cook. will find the "Budwiser," The fateful Repast, and all Patrons will By Bagi, Basket and Tons SUPERSTATE 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. 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 "Phelips 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. REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY. Its Seeming Triumph Over the Negro Politically Only Temporary. 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 Quientin 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 incrative places. Get them and then fill them with ability, honesty and sincerity—Dodson. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4000 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS Bouldance 57 Macallister Pine Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1393 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-329 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO. Phone Main 4158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4850 Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT AW 300 ASHLAND.BLOCK A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. Tel. Calumet 3221 Dr. M. J. Brown 2701 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 dealer 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. B. Davis cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3532 State street. 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. 32d street, near State. James W. Graves, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3008 State street. Emigration to Africa Unwise. 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. By N. B. DODSON. 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 exile." 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 heat, 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 Simplon 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 Rybnik, 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. Netties 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 Fate. 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 sovereignty 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 contact 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 stereoptic 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 MIDDLE EAST MUSEUM JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Safety Deposit Vaults, $300 REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, new dents, including payment of taxes and locking after on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago Office Phone, Douglas 727 Res. E. JACKS FUNERAL DIRT 2959-61 STATE ST.,, Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pike Fine Carriages for Hire to Parties A Good Drug Store to Visit We do not claim to be the biggest, Store on Earth But we are doing everything we can to make our customers will always feel that they are being full value received. We most cordially invite you to come here use from a Drug Store. We would like to have home in our store. Bring your friends with you welcome. Customers may rely upon obtaining pure Physicians' Prescriptions and Family Recipes Our best Bargain White Rose FOR THE HAIR—ELEGANTLY PERFUMED, Invigorates the Scalp and renders the Hair pHable Permade for Ladies and Gentlemen. John H. Montgomery Gerald Bldg., 26th and State St. Recent allowed on Savings Accumulation Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per person. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT All sell Real Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and locking after assessments of Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business. One, Douglas 727 Res. Phone, Do E. JACKSON GENERAL DIRECTOR 159-61 STATE ST., CHICAGO Branch: 1310 Bingham St., Pittsburg, PN Carriages for Hire to Parties and We Good Drug Store to Trade in claim to be the biggest, best or one of the Store on Earth Doing everything we can to make this a Drug Store will always feel that they are being well treated. We cordially invite you to come here and buy your Drug Store. We would like to have you feel the store. Bring your friends with you. You will Customers may rely upon obtaining pure medicines. Prescriptions and Family Recipes Accurate. Bargain White Rose Pomade HAIR—ELEGANTLY PERFUMED, PURE AND NATURAL the Scalp and renders the Hair pliable and suitable for Ladies and Gentlemen. H. Montgomery, Drug Arald Bldg., 26th and State Street, Chicago Bartlett L. E. B. BARTLETT & S Real Estate ing, Loans and Insur e Street Sowed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT State on commission, manages estates for non-resi- ces and locking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. 727 Res. Phone, Douglas 1856 JACKSON AL DIRECTOR ESTATE ST., CHICAGO to 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 we 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 SENTLY PERFUMED, PURE AND HARMLESS. and renders the Hair pliable and silky. The re- and Gentlemen. Montgomery, Druggist 6th and State Street, Chicago 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As ageut buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and locking 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. FOR THE HAIR—ELEGANTLY PERFUMED, PURE AND HARMLESS. Invigorates the Scalp and renders the Hair pliable and silky. The reliable Pomade for Ladies and Gentlemen. John H. Montgomery, Druggist Gerald Bldg., 26th and State Street, Chicago TLETT & SON l Estate oans and Insurance Chicago J. S. BARTLET Real Est Renting, Loans and J. S. BARTLETT & SON Real Estate Renting, Loans and Insurance 5126 State Street Chicago NOTARY PUBLIC Telephone] Oakland 1061 "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." Mrs. Fusy—It takes half of my time keeping our silver in shape. I wish I could find a polish that would last. Mr. Fusy—Send for a burglar. He'll clean it up so that it won't bother you any more—Detroit Free Press. "Well, there's one good thing about it. It won't be much trouble to wind up his estate."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Still Belligerent. Nell—She says she's ready to make up if you are. she says she's ready to make up if you are. Belle-Tell her 1 suppose I'll be ready to make up, too, when my complexion gets as bad as hers is.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. "How often." said the philosopher, "a man is reminded of his own littleness in this great world." "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, "especially if he has three daughters who have been to boarding school."—Washington Star. 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. Secondary Consideration. She—I don't see why you should hesitate to marry on $3,000 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 stomach—Boston Transcript. "I know they will. We boarded with them last summer."—Baltimore American. Not Acquainted With It. "Pa, what's a sine qua non?" "Oh, pahaw, don't ask me! I ain't had my automobile long enough to learn about all of these technical names yet."—Chicago Record-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 arbitrary and dictatorial in my manner." 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. "No matter," she replied cheerfully. "I won't pay the slightest attention to what you say."—Presbyterian Standard. --- --- J. S. Bartlett Probably. L. E. Bartlett Often Reminded. "Hair's a little inclined to"— "Cut it!" interrupted the man who wanted to catch a train—Puck. Made No Difference. Chicago HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Telephone Yards 693 JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO JOHN J. BRADLE Real Estate Loans e and Plate Glass Insur 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO this space next Fored Tenants Always A Watch this space next week Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciated AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY Stove Heated Flat 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 Heated uit your income. I rent only my to rent, you will save many a wee ad. Richardson, 142 L n 2183 CHICAGO Room 1, Phone Oakland 1787. E RAILROAD IN ed and Domestic Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, C American Brick and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY Vice-President, JOHN SHELHA Secretary, WILLIAM S MANUFATURERS OF On and Sewer Office and Yards: and Robe is running winter and summer, ea the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Yards. Phone Yards 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 Richards Telephone Main 2188 Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle Street Telephone Main 2188 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK THE RAIL Imported and Liquor Cafe in N. E. Corner Fifty-first - American President and Treasurer Vice-President Se MANUF Common and Office 45th and Yards running w with the latest in Output of Winter Yards ...... Output of Summer Yards... Telephon Imported and Domestic Wines LIQUORS & CIGARS Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, M. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... per day Output of Summer Yards ..... per day THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO ```markdown ``` --- Present this ad. 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