The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Aftermath of the Colored Press Banquet in Honor of Booker T. Washington THE GREAT WIZARD OF TUSKEGEE GROSSLY VIOLATED THE RULES OF POLITE SOCIETY. IN HIS REMARKS TO THE EDITORS AND NEWSPAPER MEN BY MAKNG PERSONAL REFERENCE TO JULIUS F. TAYLOR. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FACT THAT HE HAS DINED WITH KINGS AND QUEENS AND OTHER POTENTATES OF THE OLD WORLD. Vol. XVI The Aftermath Press Banqu Booker T. W THE GREAT WIZARD OF TUSKES RULES OF POLITE SOCIETY IN HIS REMARKS TO THE EDITOR MAKNG PERSONAL REFIT NOTWITHSTANDING THE FACT KINGS AND QUEENS AN OLD WORLD. It was not our intention on receiving the invitation at first to attend the recent banquet given in honor of Noah D. Thompson, and Booker T. Washington as special guest, by Mr. William D. Neighbors, at the Dumas hotel, 3312 Wabash avenue, and in setting forth some of our reasons for not wanting to attend it, it was pointed out by us to those having the affair in charge, that "possibly some of Mr. Washington's lick-spit-tals or synophants who would be in evidence at the banquet might unbosom themselves of some insulting remarks in relation to our views or attitude, respecting the dangerous course he has persistently pursued in reference to the civil and political status of the Negro. It turned out however, that his more than blind followers possessed more real horse sense than he did in this respect and it remained for the great Wizard of Tuskegee, himself, to grossly violate the well established rule of police, society, in his side remarks to the editors and the other newspaper men by making personal reference to Julius F. Taylor. Notwithstanding the fact that he has dined with kings, queens, and other potentates of the old world. Like ourselves he was one of the invited guest and he had no moral right to refer to us, at all on that occasions, it was not the time nor place to strike at us because we are unable to agree with him, as to his solution of the "Race Problem," it was not the time nor place to even make the slightest reference as to what he did or did not stand for in connection with the Negro and the many serious problems of life which are constantly confronting him, the banquet was given for the sole object to devise the best plan or method to further the best interest of the owners of the Colored newspapers published in this city, and not to discus men and measures. Our five minute toast "The influence of the Press" was third on the set program, but in order to give MILHOLLAND vs. WASHINGTON. The very influential Mr. Milholland of New York feels aggrieved at the character of speeches Mr. Washington made in Europe. Englishmen and in fact all Europe read our American papers. The lawlessness of any portion of the country is known the world over. For Mr. Washington to say that a few Negroes in Pullman cars in the South is misgading. True a Negro purchasing a sleeper for Atlanta from Philadelphia, may ride, but for that Negro to purchase the ticket in Atlanta or Memphis for Philadelphia is another thing. Mr. Washington applied for a special car to travel over Tennessee and Arkansas and a portion of Oklahoma and what did he get? Simply a day coach with no other accommodations. If it is true that Negroes can ride in a Pullman coach in the south it does seem that he should be able to get a special car with accommodations commensurate with his standing. It is true that certain Negroes do ride in Pullman cars and these Negroes can get their tickets at any place in the south. The Colored girl with a turban on her head or as maid with an apron on her ride anywhere she desires. She is the servant of a white woman and is nursing her child and this is her place and since she is sat HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Mr. Washington a chance to slap at us he was rushed in ahead of us and we had to stand aside until he had finished digging us in the ribs, and when he had clearly, let it be known that he cannot be classed with first class gentlemen, he sprang to his feet, withdrew from the banquet table and left the dining room before we were called on to respond to our toast. Some of his cringing and hungry followers pointed their fingers at us and laughed real loud, while he was engaged in displaying his illbreeding in this respect and he and they hoped and prayed that we would say something in reply to his cowardly and ungentlemanly attack on us, so that they could rush to his defense and engage us in a wordy dispute in a fruitless effort to defend our position at that time, but we completely fooled his whole pack or bunch of shouters and retainers and when the toastmaster finally did call upon us we delivered our toast which we had stored away up in our head and consumed just 2½ minutes by the watch in doing so it was the shortest toast of the evening, and we paid no more attention to his out of place common remarks than we would to a fly on a cartwheel. To say the least it was a great surprise to them for they naturally thought that we would fall right into the trap they had skillfully set for us, but they simply loaded the dice against themselves and with a smile on our lips we put one over on all of them In referring to the fact that The Broad Ax, had given "him more free advertising than any other newspaper in the United States, he did not say friend Taylor, Editor Taylor on Mr. Taylor, but he blunted out Taylor, which simply shows that like the vast majority of the Afro-Americans, he look upon Colored editors as a huge joke that no one is duty bound to respect them, that they all live from hand to mouth and that they are only worthy to be treated with scorn and contempt! isled to do this all of the "Jim Crow" laws don't interfere with her. Yes, she can ride anywhere and southerners like to have them. But that same girl with a diploma in her hand, music in her fingers and head, poetry, in her brain and literature on the end of her tongue, can't ride in that coach. She is an uppish Negro and for her ride in a Pullman coach means spotting of the other Negroes but the servant girl may ride. We should like to know if Mr. Washington gave this side over there. Did he also tell with what difficulty he has gotten Pullman cars and in many instances failed to get them? It is well to hold up the peaceful side of things and encourage the best view of them but it is useless to strain the truth to be thought well of in our towns where we live. If Mr. Washington knows anything, he knows that railroad men of the south, especially ticket agents, are the meanest set of decent men in the south and they delight in humiliating a Negro. Some of them are so uncouth till they almost refuse to sell you a ticket and then they will make you wait as long as they can. There are some exceptions, but the rule is. mean men in ticket offices. However, this is the issue: "Has Mr. Washington told the truth in Europe?" Mr. Milholland, a very rich man, disputes him and certainly the history of "Jim Crowman." CHICAGO, DECEMBER 17. 1910. M. J. WILLIAM A. DOYLE. Eminent Lawyer and One of the Newly Appointed Masters In Chancery of the Circuit Court of Cook County. is on the side of the latter. Optimism is good and all should encourage it but when truth is desired, that should come in preference to all things. The fact is, no Colored man can condone the south for admitting servant girls and a few cringing Colored men to the Pullman cars when they shut out the majority of the race, and as a general thing no Negro need apply. The hundreds of girls and boys in Mr. Washington's school can tell him if he does not know it that they, though getting the education the South endorses, can't get a Pullman car ticket. It would be interesting to know the result if one of the Tuskegee students would apply for a Pullman car ticket at the ticket officer there. It is due the Negro that his'ils are proper set forth without changing them either way.—Rochester (N. Y.) Sentinel. DIRTY AIR DEATHS. We have frequently stated in these little health talks that pneumonia is a dirty-air disease. We have also repeatedly called attention to the fact that just as soon as cold weather comes, there is an immediate increase in the deaths from pneumonia. This means that people are being killed by dirty air. The yare being killed because they refused to vent late their houses and work places. This is why 143 people in Chicago died from pneumonia last week and also why in November there were 45 deaths caused by this king of dirty air diseases. If people will only let fresh, put air into their homes, they need no and they will not die from pneumonia. It is easy to raise one window just little from the bottom and to low- SENATOR WILLIAM LORIMER WINS OUT AGAINST HIS ENEMIES. He Is Not Gulity of Buying His Way Into the United States Senate. Black Eye For the Chicago Tribune And Governor Charles S. Denean. The United States Senate Investigating Committee which thoroughly investigated the bribery charges which had been rolled up against Senator William Lorimer, and the committee in its report to the Senate gives him a clean bill of sale to his seat in that body. It was no more than what we had expected, for after reading all the evidence adduced against him by the paid witnesses at the hearing in this city, it was stated in the columns of this paper that Senator Lorimer would be absolved from the charges of bribery by the United States Senate. And this has come to pass, and the Senator after a long and bitter fight has won out again'n his political enemies, and The Chicago Tribune and Gov. Charles S. Deneen, and also Col. Theodore Roccevelt, for they have all received black eyes for the part they played in endeavoring to down We have frequently stated in these little health talks that pneumonia is a dirty-air disease. We have also repeatedly called attention to the fact that just as soon as cold weather comes, there is an immediate increase in the deaths from pneumonia. This means that people are being killed by dirty air. The yare being killed because they refused to ventilate their houses and work places. This is why 143 people in Chicago died from pneumonia last week and also why in November there were 450 deaths caused by this king of dirty-air diseases. If people will only let fresh, pure air into their homes, they need not and they will not die from pneumonia. It is easy to raise one window just a little from the bottom and to lower another just a little from the top, and in that way keep the air in the house in good, breathable condition without discomfort. Especially can this be done in moderate winter weather. Attention should be paid to the ventilation of sleeping rooms. The biggest bedroom, even made is not big enough to sleep in with the windows all closed. Bedrooms should be aired thoroughly for an hour or more every morning. In steam, hot water or furnace heated houses or apartments, the heat should be turned off in the bedrooms upon retiring at night; also in the morning when they are being aired out. By closing all doors communicating with other rooms, the house can be kept warm. But it is far better to cool the whole house off a little than it would be to omit airing out the bedrooms. The intelligent housewife who loves cleanliness and fresh air will easily find some way, even in the coldest of weather, to air the bedrooms without much discomfort or without making any noticeable increase in the coal bills. And even though fuel is high, it is cheaper in the long run than sickness and death. So, as we have already advised, ventilate, but don't hibernate. The Midlothian Club, will give a Xmas party, Thursday, Dec. 22, at the residence of Miss Elizabeth Clark, 3812 Wabash avenue. DIRTY AIR DEATHS. President Taft Names One Southern Democrat FOR CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. ANOTHER DEMOCRAT FROM GEORGIA BECOMES ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE COURT. THE COLORED REPUBLICANS ARE AMASED AND DUMFOUNDED OVER THE ACTION OF THE PRESIDENT. A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT WILL BE ELECTED IN 1912. A SPICY AND INTERESTING ARTICLE BY ATTORNEY EDWARD E. WILSON. This week the President of the United States took occasion to exercise his right of nominating judges for the Supreme Court of the country. Through a republican the President saw fit to name not only two democrats, but two Southern democrats—one of them a man who, during his whole public career, has announced his unalterable opposition to Negro citizenship. Some say that these two Southerners are good judges; but experience has taught us that for the Negro, nothing good politically comes out of the South. The naming of a Southern democrat for chief justice may well make thoughtful Negroes stop and wonder whether we are drifting. President Taft has named two Southerners for vacancies on the Supreme bench within less than two years. There are now three there, one-third of the bench being composed of Southern Democrats. It is worth while to emphasize the words Southern Democrat because as every intelligent man knows there is as much difference between a Southern Democrat and a Northern Democrat as there is between men of different parties. In the North a man is often a democrat from some economic principle; his attitude towards the Negro is usually fair; he has no particular prejudice and no desire to strip the Negro of his civil and political rights. In the South, democrat means a Negro-hater; it is seldom that a man becomes prominent in that section unless he has been a bitter denunciator of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments—these amendments which the South firmly believes were never fairly adopted and which they will set aside whenever they have sufficient power to do so. The present situation is full of the irony of fate. The Negro helped save the un'on; he helped to put Mr. Taft where he is; yet no sooner is that gentleman securely fixed in the seat of power than he begins to pack the Supreme Court with those who are hostile to the Negro's rights; with the very men indeed, who thought the nation only fit for destruction. A Negro who has watched the attitude of the South for the past twenty years may well tremble for his future standing as a citizen in the United States. The South has yielded nothing; has abated not a jot or title of its claim that the government shall be a white man's government. Southerners have talked this everywhere and at all times. They have asked no compromise; they have sought no quarter; they have marched steadily forward until they have taken the ballot from the Negro everywhere in the South and are now hoping that he may be shorn of his power in the North. In the meantime, instead of trying to preserve the liberties and rights that cost so much, the Negro has gone off after strange Gods and is never so well satisfied as when he is throwing up his hat and shouting over some opportunity to learn how to plow or to wash dishes! He will wake up finally when it is too late and find that while worshipping at the altar of industrialism, the ballot box and the halls of justice have been closed against him. Two years from now another presidential election will take place—judging from the present a democratic president will be elected. Vacancies will Names Southern Democrat UNITED STATES SUPREME GORGIA BECOMES ASSOCIATE RE AMASED AND DUMFOUND- THE PRESIDENT. WILL BE ELECTED IN 1912. TITLE BY ATTORNEY EDWARD no doubt occur on the Supreme bench and these vacancies will be miled by Democrats. Justice Harlan is growing old and will soon be gone. Scant as has been the attention paid by the Supreme Court to the Negro's rights, it will be scatter still; and we may see discriminative legislation passed by Democratic Congress upheld as the law of the land. And for this we may thank Mr. Taft for filling the bench in the way he has. It will be not a little amusing to see how the Negro office-seekers and tuff-hunters will explain this last move of Mr. Tafts. All of us remember how they ran up and down the streets of Chicago with their eyes bulging in terror lest a democratic president be elected and a Supreme Court appointed that would give slight heed to the war amendments in so far as the Negro was concerned. With tears in their eyes and sobs in their throats they begged every Colored man to stand by Taft as a protection against the rule of the South; and lo! Taft has come on and given them what they were desperately struggling against. It is difficult to explain the conduct of the average Northern republican when brought face to face with the Southern. The Southerner yields nothing; yet your Northernner yields everything, aurrenders everything, almost without summona. Northerners are like a certain much advertised Negro leader who says his is a policy of conciliation, whereas the conciliation consists in yielding everything to our foes, stripping the Negro of everything worth possessing and leaving him at the tender mercy of his enemies. Mythology tells us that Circe used to lure men to her shores and then turn them to swine. The Southerner must possess some of this power as he throws a spell over the Northerner, when he comes in contact with him, and having sung to him a siren song soon turns him into a coward. COUNTY JUDGE JOHN E. OWENS WILL PURIFY THE BALLOT. Severly Punish Ballot Box Stuffers and Refuse to Appoint Low Dive Keeper and Those Composing the Criminal Element as Clerks and Judges of Election. Judge Owens will not tolerate any longer, divekeepers, and those composing the criminal element to serve as judges and clerks of election. For this class of gents who have been so prominent in the past, in dictating to property owners and decent citizens how they must vote and when they could vote, will in the future find their occupations gone. In his honest efforts to purify the ballot, and to severely punish ballot-box stuffers, Judge Owens calls upon the citizens Association and other civic reform organizations and the better class of citizens in general throughout Chicago to assist him to accomplish the much needed reforms in this respect. Judge Owens, deserves to be highly commended for being able to rise above party politics and make it possible for the great citizenship of Chicago to cast clean ballots and to have their vote honestly counted. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the two principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Muslim Taxiers, Repubilianens, or anyone else can have their ways, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever excluding the editorial right to speak its own word. THE BROAD AX 807 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. PHONE DREXEL 4500. JERSEY P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 10, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March & 1879. EMBS EXAMINED AND TREATED. Dr. P. J. Scott, ocular specialist Spasmodies and eye glasses made to order. 2004½ State street, Chicago. TWO COLORED WOMEN SHOW WHAT THE RACE IS DOING. One an Educator at the Capital, and the Other a Singer, Talk on Negro Progress in this City. PROF. DU BOIS ON COLOR PRE IUDICE. Under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a lecture-recital was given to-day in the Berkeley theatre. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who is a member of the Board of Education at Washington, delivered an address, and Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, a pupil of Jean de Reszke, sang. Both women are Colored. Mrs. Terrell talked on the social and economic progress of Colored women in the United States, and Mme. Hackley spoke of the development of musical ability among members of her race. She also sang. Prof. W. E. B, Du Bois, president of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, talked on that organization's aims. The association developed from a movement begun on the Lincoln centenary to eliminate the so-called "Negro problem." A Negro Scholar's Talk. Dr. Du Bois who is of Negro blood, was assistant instructor in sociology for one year in the University of Pennsylvania, and for twelve years professor of the same subject in Atlanta university. He comes of a family of working people, who could just about make ends meet in Great Barrington, Mass. With the aid of scholarships and fellowships, and by hard toil during the summers, he acquired his education. Harm to Whole Country. "Race prejudice," he said, "is harmful not only to those whom it concerns directly, but to the entire country. It is spoiling our ideals of democracy, leading to caste, and to the exaggeration of social differences. "It is strange that in a country like the United States, which is attempting to open the largest opportunities to men, there are 10,000,000 people, American born, identified with the history of the country, in whose faces the door of opportunity is kept closed. Barred from the Trades. "In the South not one Negro child out of three has a chance to learn to read and write. Colored people are shut out of many trades and occupations. Attempts are being made to stop them from buying property in certain localities. "Now then, when you have people oppressed in this way, the oppression tends to spread. Sooner or later the people of the United States will find that at the bottom of their society they have not only Colored people, but the poor of all races. "Our association is anything but a philanthropic one. Its purpose is not to help part of the nation, but the whole nation. We believe that race prejudice is a human weakness which must be attacked by every civilized weapon. "We are holding mass meetings, publishing tracts and a monthly magazine, writing letters, papers and articles, and doing everything to form a sound public opinion." To Die for Defending Home. Prof. Du Bois cited the case of Pink Franklin, a Negro who violated an agrichitnurab contract; and is sentenced to die two days before Christ- mas for mortally wounding a constable. "An awful crime, I admit," he said. "But the constable, warrant in hand, broke into his home, his castle, in the dead of night, and announced his presence with a pistol shot. Naturally the man mistook him for a burglar. Do you call this justice? "Colored women in the South are treated with no respect. They are not even given the title of Miss or Mrs, and they have practically no protection at law."—The Evening Mail, New York City, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1910. "THE BALL OF THE SEASON." A monster Benefit and Ball, will be given by the public-spirited citizens of Chicago, for the purpose of raising funds to carry the celebrated Finger-Print case of Thomas Jennings to the Supreme Court, Thursday evening, December 22, 1910, at alight o'clock, at Central Hall, 22nd and Wabash Avenue. This case is one that has attracted unusual attention and the conviction upon such evidence has received a scarting criticism from both press and the bar. It is to be hoped that the public will take interest in the above mentioned benefit in order that this man's life may be saved. Distinguished speakers will address the audience on the admissibility of "Finger-Print" evidence in criminal cases. Committee on arrangements: Fred Slaughter, Proprietor of the Canadian Club, Chairman; Tom McCain, Payne & Bolling, Dave Knighten, Dan Jackson, A. N. Fields, Jamas Tracy, Cley, Lett, Frank Lewis, Dr. Tivis, Henry Goins, W. J. Brown, Mark Cowan, Walter Harris, Morris Rothschild, Dr. Anderson, J. S. Dorsey (Druggist), James H. Porter, Dr. E. A. Jordan, Kit Carson, Frel. L. Erwin, Dr. Mercer, Jake Parks, Alexander Stevens, Moses Miller, Arthur Codooze, Wesley Plummer, Dan Macon, Hon. Frank L. Hamilton, James T. Brewington, Randall Woodfork. Buy a few tickets and help Thomas Jennings appeal his case to the Supreme Court. No man should hang until the Supreme Court passes on his case. Tickets of admission, 50 cents. Refreshments served. Music will be furnished by the 8th Regiment I. N. G. Band. CALL FOR A CONFERENCE OF PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE FORMATION OF A NATIONAL NEGRO BASE BALL LEAGUE. WHEREAS, the undersigned having been and still are interested in the National Pastime, Basseball, and WHEREAS, the Professional Negro Ball player is compelled under present conditions to live and die a Semi Pro there being no other field open to him, thus compelling veteran players to be classed and pitted with amateurs, and WHEREAS, the Capital invested in the Semi Pro Parks and players can be utilized for the active formation and operation of a Negro National Baseball League, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the undersigned and such other persons may be interested in the formation of such a League meet at the Chateau De La Plaisance, 5324 State street, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, December 28th, 1910 at 12 M. noon, in National conference for the purpose of organizing, securing Park franchises, creating a circuit and appointing a schedule committee, etc. RESOLVE that the tentative plan heretofore insued by Beauregard F. Moseley, be the nucleus or basis upon which the organization shall be formed. This 30th day of November, 1910. Signed Beauregard F. Moseley, representing Leland Giants of Chicago, Illinois. Frank Polambo, representing New Orleans B. B. Club of New Orleans, La. Ralph Clemmons, representing Dixie Park Baseball Club of Mobile, Ala. S. R. Gibbs, representing Fall City Stars of Loulsville, Ky. S. M. Cohen, representing Cohen Baseball Club of New Orleans, La. DR. TURNER INDICTED. Negro Physician Faces Trial In District Court. Dr. Val. Do. Turner was indicted by the grand jury and arraigned before Judge Grrier M. Orr, Tuesday. Dr. Turner is accused of having performed a criminal operation on Louise Anderson, Stillwater, from the effects of which the girl died. Dr. Turner is at liberty on $53,000 bail—From the Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Turner, the wife of Dr. Turner and Miss Ruth McGhee, visited this city not so long ago and they were wined and dined by its best people, and the father of Miss McGhee, F. L. McGhee, beat us out of three dollars several years ago. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. The contest Sunday night afforded amusement to a large concourse of people who find the real pleasure of the week at the Chateau. On Monday night last, the peerless comedian, S. H. Dudley and Secretary and Treasurer B. F. Moseley were entertained by the Corporation Club at the Rink. Among those present and making speeches of welcome and adoration were W. D. Fitzpatrick, E. Quielan, Ed. Levy, R. L. Tracey, Chas. A. Miller, Samuel Sadbury, Harry Nolan, J. H. Coleman, J. Wallace Swann, Wm. A. Ramsay, and E. M. Shoecar. One of the most enjoyable evenings of several enjoyable ones was this one, so said S. H. Dudley, the guest of honor. Cary B. Lewis was a welcomed visitor during the week and promises to return with his best girl Sunday night. Mr. Lewis is now connected with the Chronicle and finds the Chateau just the place for local news. Big program tonight and tomorrow night. During the Xmas Holidays there will be skating every night and a skate contest for cash prizes will be awarded to competitors and on New Years night a watch party will be highly entertained by the best entertainers in the city, in the Cafe. Speak for your seats now. MILLIONS OF RED CROSS SEALS ALREADY SOLD. Tuberculosis Fighters Will Realize $500,000—Hundred Thousand Helping in Sale—Will Double Last Year's Record. Washington, D. C., Dec. ), 1910. Reports from headquarters of the American Red Cross given out today indicate that at the beginning of the last week of the sale of Christmas Seals, nearly $5,000,000 have been sold and that the prospects are bright for a sale of more than $500,000. The actual number of Seals sold to date is nearly 15,000,000 in excess of the entire number sold in 1909 and is already nearly three times the sale of 1908. If the sale this week keeps up at the same rate as since December 1st, the national authorities estimate that over $500,000 will be added to the tuberculosis funds in all parts of the country. This will be double the amount realized last year. Engaged in this campaign for selling Red Cross Seals is an army of over 100,000, including men, women, and children of every rank and station. Agents have been appointed in one or more places in every state, except Idaho and Montana. Among the groups and institutions which are assisting in the movement are the Anti-Tuberculosis Societies, Red Cross Chapters, Women's Clubs, Labor Unions, Lodges, Schools, Banks, Theaters, Department Stores, Hospitals, and innumerable other agencies. Thousands of dollars worth of advertising is being donated to the campain, and many millions of circulars are being distributed to remind people to buy Red Cross Seals. A TRIP TO JAMATU: NEW PLAY AT THE PEKIN THEATRE. The. Pekin this week offers another one of their entire productions by the stock company. The currant play is staged in a most elaborate manner, beautiful costumes and light effects while the comedy is refined and amusing. An addition to the cast in Billy Johnson the cleverest of Colored artist in the light comedy line. A Trip to Jamatu is fittingly named a Comic Opera as it has all of the accessories that make up an entertainment of that kind. New and pretty song numbers abound throughout the two acts. The first act in a get rich quick firm of grafters is full of laughs. The signing of a contract between Johnson, Gilpin and Perrin is a highly humorous scene. The last act laid on the island of Jamatu is truly picturesque and the burlesque queen of Mrs. McIntosh is really a character new in Negro offerings on the stage. The jungle number by Miss Banks is most tuneful and prettily sang and the picture made during the number is most attractive. The Singing and Dancing dolls are a delightful and unique number, the young ladies are made up to represent dolls and perform a number in the actions of automatums, this feature is possibly the daintiest thing that has ever been attempted in a Colored production. Miss Crosby makes a doll that the ladies would like to take home for their babies. The entire second act of the play is a pagenat of beautiful costumes and novel light effects and the setting a gem of color, Miss Wise contributes a number of Twilight that is highly effective, her beautiful soprano voice is shown off to telling advantage. This production is on par with anything that has been offered by any thing that has been offered by any of the Colored organizations. THE FRED D. JONES CO. DEALERS IN DIAMONDS, WATCHES, AND JEWELERY OPEN BRENCH STORE AT 9208 STATE STREET. J. E. Webb, Manager. The first of this week the Fred D. Jones Company, reliable dealers in diamonds, watches, and jewelery, at 274 Wabash avenue, 17 malden Lane, New York City, opened a nice branch store at 2308 State street, Jones, Diamond Shop. Mr. J. E. Webb, who ranks among the best Colored business men in Chicago is manager of the store and he has a full line of high grade diamond rings, watches, and other jewelery on hand, suitable for Christmas presents, which he is selling at reasonable prices and on easy weekly or monthly terms. He will give away a diamond brouch, valued at $53, and man's diamond ring, valued at $66, December 26th. One ticket given with each dollars worth of goods purchased in the store. Mr. Fred D. Jones, head of the Jones Diamond Shop, is an up-to-date business man and he is well pleased with the success Mr. Webb is meeting with at the South side branch store. 3208 IState street. RECEPTION AND BANQUET IN HONOR OF BISHOP BLACKWELL. Monday evening, December 12th, a reception and banquet was held at Walters A. M. E. Zion Church, 38th and Dearborn streets, in honor of Rt. Rev. George L. Blackwell, and the following interesting program was rendered: 1. Music, by Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir; 2. Invocation, Rev J. F. Thomas; 3. Welcome Address on behalf of Church, Miss Octavia Hudson; 4. Solo, Mrs. Emma S. Jackson; 5. Introductory address, Rev H. H. Wells; 6. Salutory, Thomas Wallace Swann; 7. Address, Attorney J. Gray Lucas; 8. Anthem, Choir; 9. Address, Rev E. T. Martin, D. D.; 10. Address, Rev H. E. Stewart, D. D.; 11. Music, by Quartette; 12. Address, Hon. E. J. Margerstadt; 13. Address, Hon. Howard S. Taylor; 14. Address, N. S. Y. M. C. A. Rev. John E. Moreland; 15. Solo, Mrs. Delilah Thomas; 16. Address, Hon. C. Frank Taylor; 17. Anthem, Choir; 18. Address, Rev A. J. Carey, D. D., Ph. D.; 19. Response, Bishop G. L. Blackwell; 20 Quartette, Messrs. Thomas, Miller, Myers, Bethel. THE MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF COOK COUNTY. Wheel in Line For Andrew J. Graham For Mayor of Chicago. The first of this week, the majority of the members of the managing committee of the Democratic party of Cook County, under the leadership of Roger C. Sullivan, member of the Democratic National Committee, wheeled into line for Andrew J. Graham for Mayor of Chicago at the same time Henry Stuckart was selected to make the race for city treasurer, and Francis D. Connery, was united upon for city clerk. From now on the fight between the followers of Graham, Harrison and Dunne, will be red hot and it may not be true, but some say that later on Mr. Dunne will withdraw from the race in favor of Carter Harrison, so that he can without much trouble put Mr. Graham, out of the running. SILVER OFFERING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OLD FOLKS HOME. The workers for the King Circle of the Kings' Daughters kindly ask your assistance in their annual Christmas donations to the Old Peoples Home for the Infirmed Colored people in the way of a silver offering at the Appomattox Club, Thursday, December 22, 1910, from 2 to 6 p. m., No. 3441 Wabash Avenue. Mrs. Ada McKinley, leader; Miss Connie G. Hancock, Rec. Sec'y.; Mrs. James M. Woodard, Chairman of the Committee on Charity. APPOINTS COLORED MAN ASSIST. ANT COUNTY CLERK. John Rauch, the newly elected Democratate County Clerk of Marion County, Ind., (Indianapolis), has selected William H. Morris, an Afro-American to be complete Record Clerk. Mr. Morris, actively supported the Democratic candidates in that county at the late election, and he will receive his reward not as a cuspidor cleaner, but as a first class clerk. CHIPS Miss Rosalie Eddie, is ill at her home 3639 Vernon avenue. The Standard Literacy Bethesda Baptist Church are arranging an excellent programme for New Year's day. Doctor Robinson, of Buxton, Iowa, is visiting his sister, Mrs. S. A. T., Watkins, 3632 Calumet avenue. He will return home the first of the coming week. Dr. M. F. Murray, who for many years, had his office at 1935 State street, corner of 20th has removed it and his family into his own home 2733 Indian avenue. Attorney A. L. Williams, 171 Washington street, will leave the coming week for Washington, D. C., New York City and points in South Carolina. He will be absent one month. Judge Thomas F. Scully, is making good, and is at present presiding at the East Chicago Avenue Police Station, and he understands how to temper justice with mercy. Mrs. Amanda Smith of Harvey, Ill., will address the Negro Fellowship League, Sunday, December 18 at 4 p. m. at 2830 State street. Subject: "Her Life and Travels." Good music. All are welcome. I. B. W. Barnett, Pres. George O. Jones, funeral director and embalmer, 1904 West Lake St., by hard work and hustling early and late has proven himself to be one of the best business mep in Chicago, he has built up an extensive undertaking business in all parts of this city and he is honest and as straight as a string in all his business transactions. R. L. Jackson, the successful Afro-American printer, 2822 State street; jumped into the Democratic camp early last spring, and worked very hard for the success of every Democratic candidate on the ticket at the fall election, and when the pie is cut, early in January, he should get one slice of it. Mr. John H. Anderson, Commissary Gargeant in the 24th U. S. Infantry stationed at Madison Barracks, Sacketts Harbor, New York, passed through Chicago last week en-route to Helena, Montana. The few hours he was here, he was the guest of his brother, Mr. Henry S. Anderson of 6450 Champlain Av. Sheriff Michael Zimmer, who returned home, Wednesday, from attending the National Rivers and Harbors Conference at Washington, D. C., will not make many changes in his office until after the first of the year. Edward G. Buresch has become his private secretary and John Stelk, will serve as his personal attorney. Sheriff Zimmel is feeling fine after his short vacation trip. Fidelity Court, No. 22, H. of J. met last Tuesday, Dec. 13, in Huletts Hall and elected the following officers for the year 1911: Most Ancient Matron, Mrs. Marion Rafft; Junior Matron, Mrs. Martha B. Anderson; Worthy Joshua, Mr. John Dunmore; Worthy Secretary, Mrs. Ida McIntosh Dempsey; Worthy Treasurer, Mrs. Josie Anderson; Inner Gate Keeper, Mrs. Second Charity You are cordially invited to attend the second annual charity ball at the Street and Wentworth Avenue, Mo. The features of the evening will be cert music, from eight to nine. Grcluding the maltese cross formation of calceum light. A foral clock will charity during the evening. Second Annual Charity Ball You are cordially invited to attend and to interest others to attend the second annual charity ball at the seventh regiment armory, 34th Street and Wentworth Avenue, Monday evening January 2nd, 1911. The features of the evening will be the eighth regiment band in concert music, from eight to nine. Grand march at nine forty-five including the maltese cross formation and the grand moonlight effect of calceum light. A foral clock will signal the amount raised for charity during the evening. Beneficiares Emanuel Neighborhood Settlement Home and the Home for Aged and Mrs. Fannie Emanuel, Chairman, Advisory Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Julius N. Av Jesse Binga, Col. James Johns A. C. Richardson. General Adm Emanuel Neighborhood Settlement, Amanda Smith Orphanage Home and the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People. Mrs. Fannie Emanuel, Chairman, Morris Lewis, Secretary. Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Julius N. Avendorph, Col. John R. Marshall, Jesse Binga, Col. James Johnson, Mrs. Sarah Duncan and Mrs. A. C. Richardson. Dessie Marmon; Outer Gate Keeper, Mrs. Louise Waller. Attorney B. F. Moseley, and the writer, taken in the show at the Pekin Theater, Saturday evening and after it was over, Sherman H. Dudley, the great comedian and head of the "Smart Set," which is ending its two weeks engagement at the Globe Theater, joined us after his labors of the evening were over, and a bee line was made for the cafe upstairs, and while feasting on the best that Col. Bob Motts had in the house to eat, Mr. Dudley, in a very entertaining manner unwound some of his richest stories and at all times he is unassuming and a hale fellow, well met. Ye editor certainly enjoyed the evening and friend Moseley, who is a prince of good fellows knows how to get mighty close to us. MILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE I've just been down to Toyland. Of dolls and jumping jacks And woolly lambs and railroad trains And trolley cars and stacks. Of other Christmas thimblebots There seems to be no end. It's fun to visit Toyland, though You've nothing much to spend. Just think of aeroplanes that fly As slick as Wilbur Wright. Although, so far as I'm concerned, I shouldn't risk a flight. And think of auto cars that chug And blow right up—"kerbang!" And some that seem to run as fast, Almost, as Louis Strang. And there are dolls so wondrous wise That when they start to speak You wonder if they'll spout a lot Of Chocaw, French or Greek. And there are mullet cows so smart, With hides as fine as silk. That if you know just what to do They'll give you sure 'nough milk. —Birmingham Age-Herald. Ready For the Worst. Tract Distributer—Doesn't it seem dreadful that ere long you must lie down in that silent tomb? "Oh, no! That doesn't worry me." "You are prepared then?" "Prepared for anything. I write jokes for a funny paper." The Tree of Captain Jas. A curious tree grows in the cemetery of Tanah-Abang, at Weltevreden, Batavia, isle of Java, Dutch East Indies, which is called the tree of "Father (or Captain) Jas". Father Jas, an officer of the old East India company, died in 1795 and was the first man whose remains were buried in the above named cemetery, or, as people in Batavia used to say, he was the first inhabitant of Tanah-Abang. In the course of time a wild fig tree commenced to grow on the grave and is at the present time a large tree with a heavy trunk that embraces in its roots the original tombstone. Only a few portions of this stone are now visible. There is a strange superstition about this tree, people saying that when a lady makes a wish at the grave beneath it the wish is fulfilled, but the wisher ought to hang a garland on the tree. It seems, indeed, that many wishes are fulfilled, as a large number of garlands adorn the tree. At Christmas time especially the tree is decorated with many fresh garlands.—Strand Magazine. Annual y Ball end and to interest others to attend the seventh regiment armory, 34th monday evening January 2nd, 1911. the eighth regiment band in con- mand march at nine forty-five in- n and the grand moonlight effect signal the amount raised for ent, Amanda Smith Orphanage Infirm Colored People. Morris Lewis, Secretary. y Board vendorph, Col. John R. Marshall, on, Mrs. Sarah Duncan and Mrs. mission 50c. He will bury cheaper than the trust P. GEO. 0 Funeral Director and Embal- successful undertaking establishe of the people's appreciation of I am the only Undertaker that the same price as Hearse and to One Hundred Dollars on a f You are cordially invited to co- making arrangements. We carry a large stock on hand suit the people. Funerals are conducted in any out extra charges. Large Chapel free to our pat of the United States and fore prices. Phone, West 1761. Lady attes Lake St., near Lincoln St. We carry a large stock on hand from which to select, that will suit the people. Funerals are conducted in any part of the city or suburbs without extra charges. Large Chapel free to our patrons. Bodies shipped to all parts of the United States and foreign countries at the very lowest prices. Phone, West 1761. Lady attendant. Office and chapel, 1904 W. Lake St., near Lincoln St. ELKS' SESSION OF SORROW. Impressive Services by Monumental Lodge in Baltimore. The most important as well as interesting event among secret societies in Baltimore for the first week in December was the annual session of sorrow observed by Monumental lodge, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The exercises were held at Asbury Methodist Episcopal church on Sunday, Dec. 1. The program, which was very elaborate, was nevertheless in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion. The attendance was large and included many out of town visitors. Able addresses on the meaning of the occasion and of its importance were delivered by Eralted Ruler Lewis E. Williams, Attorney William C. Mc- GODS NOTE LEWIS R. WILLIAMS. Card and Mrs. Emma V. Kelly of Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Kelly is the grand secretary of the Daughters of Elks. The music for the occasion was a feature of the services. Among those who rendered vocal selections were Miss Mamie Woolford and Mr. Samuel T. Hemsley. The order throughout the country is keeping up its prestige. Harmony prevails all along the line of its work, and the sature seems to hold out the sunnery of success. The officers of Monumental lodge are: Lewis E. Williams, exalted ruler; William Smith, esteemed leading knight; Richard Morseh, esteemed loyal knight; William J. Johnson, esteemed lecturing knight; J. Thomas Harden, esquire; Rev. C. Gillmore Cummings, chaplain; Nelson Price, secretary; James Daugherty, assistant secretary; Lawson N. Dohm, treasurer; Harry Randolph, inner guard; Jerome S. Robinson, organist; Samuel Taylor, master of social session; Dr. Charles H. Powler, medical examiner. EFFECT OF STATE FAIRS UPON THE COMMUNITY. Exhibitions in Columbia and Watesburg, S. C., Were Well Attended. As a promoter of state fairs on a large scale the Rev. Richard Carroll of Columbia, S. C., has few buddies and no superiors. The recent exhibition in Columbia was a great success in that it has awakened a deeper interest on the part of the white people in the work and achievements of our people amer who conducts, one of the most achments in Chicago. As a result honest funeral direction. that furnishes automobile funerals for carriages, can save you from Fifty funeral. compare our prices with others before and from which to select, that will be any part of the city or suburbs with trons. Bodies shipped to all parts sign countries at the very lowestendant. Office and chapel, 1904 W. along material lines as shown at the Columbia fair. The fair in Batesburg, held just after the one in Columbia, was largely attended. The exhibition of farm products of various kinds created a helpful impression upon the visitors, who came from many sections of the state. Besides the literary features of the occasion, gospel meetings were conducted nightly under a big tent conveniently arranged for that purpose. The bringing together annually of so many persons of both races in a business way has created a greater desire among the people for mutual co-operation and helpfulness. Rev. Mr. Carroll is a pioneer in work of this kind and seems never happier than when he is engaged in doing something which will tend to elevate the masses of our people in his section of the state. He has given much time and study to the plans for the successful development of state fairs, and those conducted by him are of the highest type. Mr. Carroll's co-operation in the management of the Batesburg fair shows to what extent he is interested in matters which are intended to acquaint the white people of the community with the progress which is being made by the colored people in industrial pursuits and educational uplift. Personal Preference and the Law. The supreme court of North Carolina is puzzling its brain in an effort to reach a decision which will for all time put an end to the question of intermarriage between white and colored persons in the state and presumably in all of the southern states. But legal barriers, if one may judge by past performances, are not strong enough to put an end to the personal preferences of one individual for another. Thus it has been and thus it will be for ever and ever. Amen! Encouragement For True Reformers. It is encouraging to the thousands of members of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers scattered throughout the country to learn that arrangements have been made for its continuance. While there is bare possibility of the savings bank of the order in Richmond, Va., ever being operated again, the fraternal part of the institution is believed to be safe. Experiences of John Mitchell, Jr. Experiences of John Mitchell, the south vary so one can't tell who is who nor which is which, observes the Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. A few days ago our banker and editor, John Mitchell, Jr., went to Texas. He crossed the line and was honored by the Mexicans, but soon as he stepped back on American soil and assumed the role of a man he was asked, "Are you a foreigner or American born?" "American born," was his reply. "Then take a bigger place." And he been a foreign Negro he could have done as he pleased. Give Federal Government Mere Power. "Old Hickory," writing in the Dallas (Tex.) Express, says: "Unless the federal government is given power to punish mobs that lynch and burn foreigners living in this country the United States is going to commit the error of waking up the 'wrong passenger' one of these days and is going to find itself with a full grown row on its hands. The burning of a Mexican at a Point State has caused Mexico from center to circumference." MAKES PARIS LAUGH. A Ticket War Between the Busses and Their Patrons. The company that runs the ombuses in Paris has recently put into effect a system of giving tickets to passengers when they pay their fares. And this has caused a howl from the traveling public. It is not that the public objects to the tickets. What it is annoyed about is the too frequent visits of inspectors demanding to see the tickets. Some persons are making life a burden to the inspectors, delaying the buses and making all Paris laugh. One of them saves every ticket he gets, and as he goes about the city constantly he has a pocket full of them. Every time he gets on a bus, pays his fare and receives a ticket he simply adds it to his collection. When the inspector enters and cries "Tickets!" the man draws forth his collection and holds it out to the inspector. A dialogue something like this follows: "What's all this?" "Tickets." "What for?" "I don't know." "Then why do you hand them to me?" "Because you asked for them." "I didn't ask for all these. I want your ticket for this bus." "You have it." "Where?" "In that bunch." "But I don't want this bunch. I want your ticket." "Then pick it out." "That is not my business." "Nor is it mine." "Why do you keep all these tickets?" "Because it says on them, 'On no account lose this ticket or throw it away.'" "But it is of no use after it has once been used." "I know nothing about that. I am simply doing what your company tells me." "Well, I haven't time to argue with you. Are you going to hand me your ticket?" "I have already done so." The colloquial generally ends in the inspector leaving the bus in a bad temper.—London Globe. HER PLUCK WON. Turkish Officials Couldn't Intimidate This American Woman. When Dr. Mary Eddy, the only woman physician in Turkey, tried to secure the right to practice in the Ottoman empire she had to face an examination by a score of the most distinguished doctors of the country she was trying to invade. She is of American parentage, but was brought up in Syria. The first question was in French and uttered in a contemptuous tone, "Who are you?" To the astonishment of her examiners she answered in the Arabic language, "I am of you and from among you." She was examined without intermission for six hours, says Success. Tired with receiving correct answers one of the inquisitors in the hope of intimidating her called out, "That answer is wrong." She asked for certain medical books and with striking calmness said, "If all these authors do not sustain my answer I will withdraw my application to practice medicine." Her American pluck won her the day, and she was given the long desired privilege. She is now devoting her life to the curing of blindness, a disease to which the Moselems fall easy prey on account of the shifting sands lifted and blown easily about by the winds. Her services during the Armenian massacres have given her a place in the hearts of the natives second only to that of their prophet, Mohammed. Aviator Cord and Wire The arrival of the aeroplane has given us a new industry, or rather a modification of an old one—namely, that of manufacturing aviator cord and aviator wire. The Reeblings have devised a special kind of wire aviator cord to be used for stays on aeroplanes. The cord consists of a number of fine wires of great strength stranded together. The strength of the different sizes runs approximately from 2,000 to 2,300 pounds. For steering gear a more flexible cord is provided, composed of six strands of seven wires each, with a center of either cotton or wire. The aviator wire differs from aviator cord in that it consists of a single wire instead of a number of wires twisted together. The wire is made in twelve sizes, with a breaking strength that varies from 2,000 pounds to 175.—Scientific American. A Land of Hotels Those who know Switzerland best will be least astonished at the figures which M. A. Danzat publishes in his work on Switzerland, recently issued in Paris, for since there is a hotel on nearly every hilltop and scores round every one of the larger lakes it is more than credible that there are 2,000 hotels in the twenty-two cantons. In the Grisons, the most sparsely inhabited canton, in which even the larger towns rarely have a population of more than 1,500, there are no less than 358 hotels and boarding houses, while the canton of Borne, which includes such favorite places as Interlaken, Thun and Grindelwald, has more than 400. There are 165,000 beds in the 2,000 hotels, but these are by no means sufficient during the "haute saison," when many a fired tourist is glad to get a bed made up on the Billard table—Dundee Advertiser. Passing of the Silk Hat. There are comparatively few silk hats worn in London today, and the average man makes his dress headwear last three times as long as he did formerly, for the simple reason that he uses it much less frequently, says a London dispatch. Of course everybody who is anybody possesses this at one time indispensable and still fashionable article, but it is used only for ceremonial occasions and is not often seen, even in Piccadilly or the park. STEADY ADVANCE OF METHODISM Eighteenth Annual Conference In Greensboro Breaks Record. ABLE PLEA FOR EDUGATION. Bishop Coppin In Address to A. M. E. Conference Says a Weak Pulpit cannot Be of Real Value to the Pew. Some Achievements of the Race Reeited. The eighteenth annual session of the western North Carolina conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, recently held in Bethel A. M. E. church, Greensboro, N. C., was one of the most successful held for several years. The Right Rev. Bishop L. J. Coppin presided over the various sessions and inspired both clergy and laymen by his words of good cheer and instruction. Addresses of welcome to the ministers, delegates and visitors were delivered by Dr. James B. Dudley, Dr. J. E. Dellinget, Rev. J. G. Walker and Miss Georgia Morrow. Among the leading men of the conference were Dr. R. H. Leake, Dr. C. H. King, Dr. J. E. Jackson, Professor J. M. Avery and Dr. George W. Adam, Rev. W. H. Manoke, pastor of Bethel church, endeavored to make the various meetings pleasant and profitable for those who attended. In the course of his annual address Bishop Coppin said in part: The special work of the church is moral, religious and educational. We must depend upon the ministry to carry out these purposes by the co-operation of the lay members. I am more and more convinced that the pressing need of our church is a stronger ministry. A weak pulpit cannot be of real value to the pew. Our church schools must be strengthened and our missionary funds increased for the home as well as the church. We have closed at Rich Square reported $23,000 collected this year, principally for education and missions. The quarto-centennial meeting of Kittrell college will be held next May, and we owe it to ourselves and to the people we serve to make the occasion a brilliant success. We ought to raise $30,00 for Kittrell college tuition. The legacy of character and a Christian education is the most valuable inheritance that we can hand down to our children. Being churchmen does not hinder us from seeing many disadvantages, civic and political, that the race labors under, but this work, being a secular kind, must be left largely to secular hands. We must have legitimate work, and to do this we must have a strong ministry, a ministry that is morally and intellectually strong. I shall expect the hearty co-operation of the committees whose duty it is to examine candidates for the ministry to be presented at this conference. I trust that these committees will make as good a showing as the conference just closed in the east Timely Educational Address. The educational address to the conference, which was delivered by Professor John R. Hawkins, secretary of the educational work of the denomination, was most thoughtful and full of helpful information. Professor Hawkins said in part: We love our country because we have helped to make it what it is; interwoven in every warp and woof of history is a thread of our trials, our sufferings, our sacrifices and our devotion. There has been no movement for good but that we have had some part in making it a success. Whether in the field or in forest, in peace or in war, on land or on sea, in the mine or on the mountain; whether under the burning sun of the equater or on the ice floes of the north pole, the colored man has found the altar of duty and there made his contribution to the cause of civilization and the uplift of humanity. It is not boasting to say that as a race we have done well and deserve the help and encouragement of the world. In the short space of forty-six years we have wiped out at least 60 per cent of our illiteracy and have enrolled in the public schools of the country more than 1,500,000 children between the ages of six and twenty-one. We have to our credit about fifty institutions for higher training, with at least 35,000 teachers, over 20,000 students, with 30,000 taking special courses in business, professional and nursing training for greater activities. To help care for the sick and fight diseases we have more than 3,000 Negro doctors and over 1,000 trained nurses; to plead for justice, nearly 2,000 Negro lawyers. We are speaking to the world through our weekly newspapers and magazines and nearly $50 colored authors, helping to manage the finances of the country through forty banks owned and controlled by our race. We have husbanded our resources in buying farms as well as in selling them in cities and a farm we can claim ownership in more than 230,000,000 worth of school property, $400,000,000 worth of church property and an assessed valuation of more than $800,000,000. I believe in the doctrine of Pericles in his funeral oration when he said, "Athens owes her supremacy not to the elevation of a select class of all her citizens." I believe it to be of more importance now than men, strong men, brave men, true men, true leaders, our homes, in our schools and in our churches than it is to train men for our great war vessels. We need heroes to come upon the scenes to save our great country from rushing on to that sure and certain fate which has befitted other nations whenever they have neglected to cultivate the good, the righteous at home and gone wild after their liberation. We nations sounds the alarm, for we cannot forget that nations rise, have sway but for a season and then perish. Nations acquire their prominence, their prestige and their power by the strength, the power, the fitness and the capabilities of their people. You cannot elevate a nation without elevating and lifting up the Our hearts must bear with the common throbbing pulsation of the human family. We must reach out after humanity and break the great masses of human souls surging too and too in the busy hearts of the life hinds on as many impossible and develop in them the disposition to grow up into men and women with strength of A. B. CO. Main Store: 274 Wabash Avenue New York Office: 17 Malden Lane Jewelry rep. Branch Store: 3208 State Street. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS. From, On and After This Date, The Broad Ax Can Be Found on Sale At the Following News Stands: R. M. Harvey's Barber shop, 3924 State street. J. S. Dorsey's drug store, 20 W. 51st street, near Dearborn. A. F. Tervalon, oligar store and news stand 5004 State street R. J. Jones, news stand, barber shop and pool room, 5264 State street George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 81st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelpa, 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 to bacco, confections and news stand 5252 State street. H. Hart, news stand, cigars, tobacco and laundry office, 15 W. 35th street. A. A. Dwelle, cigar store and news stand, 21 E. 33rd street near State. Freddie Smith, 1858 29th street, Newport News, Va., news agent. Turner Williams, barber-shop, 12 West 30th street, near State. Residence 87 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 343 Office Telephones Central 1859 Automatic 5948 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO Phone Aldine 36 Hotel Brun Geo. W. Holt, P. BUFFET, POOL AND 3004 State Street. 11 W. 29th street Telephone Ma wis, notions, cigars J. A. 15 W. 34th street Telephones Automatic 8969 DEVINE Y AT LAW Reaper Block WASHINGTON 370. AGG. Clark Real Estate Loans and Flats and H 3705 ST Phone Aldine 3653 Phone Aldine 3653 Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. 3004 State Street. Chicago UNDER FUNERAL Not in any t the trust. Investigate Caskets, $15 for $50, 60, Calls answer Phone Oakland 1328 now open and doing business every minute, under the management of J. E. Webb Everything in fine DIAMONDS, WATCH CHESIS and JEWELRY at least downtown prices and on easy weekly or monthly terms. Make your Christmas selection now all you need is a dollar or two fee deposit. Drop in any time (day or evening) and let Mr. Webb show you how you can buy a fine Watch or Diamond and never feel the expenditure. It's the best way in the world to save your loose change. If you cannot call, Mr. Webb will be glad to send a representative with anything you would like to consider. Telephone Douglas 4784 will get him. Take your Watch and Jewelry repair to Webb and save money PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Aashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 706, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO Res. Phone, Doug. 4397 3337 Wabash Ave., Third Apart. J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 205-7 Kedzie Bldg. Telephone Randolph 3575. 120 Randolph Street, Chicago Telephone Main 2017 J. A. TRIBUE Attorney-at-Law 171 WASHINGTON ST. Room 708 Chicago A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suits 615 to 616. Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson Soprano Fall Term Begins September 1st, 1910 Residence 6450 Champlain Avenue Chicago, Ill. Phone Normal 3316 Phone Aldine 2686 Renting a Specialty Clark, Hayes & Co. Real Estate, Renting, Loans and Insurance Flats and Houses to rent and For Sale. 3705 STATE STREET CHICAGO JONES' DIAMOND SHOP 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 3517 State Street CHICAGO, ILL. Phone Aldine 2532 A Christmas Present That He Didn't Expect. By FRITZ KORSMEYER When the maid opened the door a gust of December wind, carrying with it a few flakes of snow, followed the tall, stiff form of Crancer through the vestibule and into the hall. As the maid had spent years in the service of the Garrisons, she ventured a restrained "Good evening," but Crancer calmly stalked by her over to the hall tree. When he had put aside his things and turned to her again she said: "Mr. Robert is in his room, sir. Shall I tell him you are here or will you"—"I'll go up. He's expecting me." At the head of the stairs he knocked at his friend's room and entered. "Sorry to keep you waiting, old man; ready in a few minutes. Sit down and make yourself comfortable, won't you?" Crauner took the proffered cigar and smoked in silence a few minutes while his friend worked at his cravat. "I had a rather peculiar talk with Miles today," began Crauner in a tone that led Garrison to stop whistling and mumble an encouraging monosyllable; "happened to meet him on the street, you know, just as I was going into Hope's to look at a few Christmas things. He had such a long face on that I thought he needed jollying up a hit. Not like him to need cheering, is it?" "Scarcely," assented Garrison, with an uneasy laugh. "But of course you know that Charlie has had some occasion to look grim lately." "Oh, yes! I've heard the family fortunes have been rather going to pot. Well, as I said, I started in to chaff him about Christmas gifts. I bought a few trifles, but most of the time I was showing Miles things that I said a man with a flancee ought to be interested in, and he was. Several times I thought he was in the point of buying something worth giving, but he finally said he couldn't decide. We walked up the street together, and Miles fell to speculating in a general way as to what girls expected of their flances at Christmas time. He seemed to want my opinion. Queer of him to come to me with that sort of talk, wasn't it Bob?" "Yes, but I suppose he thought you didn't know enough about his affairs to suspect that he was talking of his own case. Men who are in love always talk glittering generalities, while they haven't a thing in mind but their own particular affair, supposing other people won't know it. What did you tell him?" "Well, I said it depended largely upon what girls had been taught to expect. From that we drifted into a discussion as to what a man should do when his prospects changed during his engagement. Miles said that to the sort of girl a man would really care for it would make no difference. Good Lord—the sort of girl a man would really care for! I told him a man never knows what kind of girl he is likely to care for or what kind he is caring for, so far as that goes, and I said that if I were engaged to a girl I wouldn't take any chances at Christmas. He responded rather weakly that most girls of our acquaintance already had everything they wanted." "Oh, ye, true as far as it goes, but you know very well that the average girl likes to think her lover has searched the town over for something out of the ordinary. Now, we know that nothing remains to be bought as a Christmas gift that we wouldn't just as soon be without, but women don't know it and never will, and so they go on, expecting joyous astonishment every year." "Still, I don't believe Martha's just like other girls in that respect." "But I don't believe men will like other girls in that respect." "Oh, I don't mean that she cares particularly for what Miles may give her. If I may touch on such matters. But wouldn't any girl of the proper spirit expect—By the way," Crancor bryke off, interrupting himself and glancing toward the half open door, "I saw a light across the hall when I came up. Is that?"— think she's downstairs." Garrison went to the door and called his sister's name. Receiving no response, he returned. "Her door was open, but she didn't answer, so she isn't upstairs. Shall we go now?" At the foot of the stairs they encountered Miles, who had just come in. The three men chatted a moment. Then young Garrison and Cranger went out. Miles thought Martha looked at him more seriously than usual as she gave him her hand, but her eyes were bright, and when she spoke there was a touch of gayety in her voice. "Sit by the fire, won't you?" she urged. "You must be nearly frozen. I like snow for Christmas, but without this freezing temperature." She pushed a chair nearer the fire and then crossed to a stano where huge roses were nodding over the edge of a cut glass jar and gathered them in her arms. "How do you always manage to find the most perfect blossoms for me, Charles?" the girl asked indistinctly, her face hidden in the roses. She raised her head for an answer, but the man was looking into the fire. She moved the stand nearer him. "I want these close to us this evening. Don't you think they should be? Why don't you reprove me for being sentimental, as you always do? Or are you already under the influence of tomorrow and kindly disposed toward every one, even me?" "Oh, well. I'll take it back if you don't like it," she hastened to say, sucking in a tone of almost banter to stress. "My dear, I wanted to tell you about some plans for tomorrow, but how can I talk Christmas when you are in such a solemn state? You'd dishearten Santa Claus himself." "I've been thinking," answered Miles slowly, "that perhaps you may have thought the roses—may have taken them in a way—may perhaps have misunderstood them a little." He rose, took a few steps around the room and then began again with better courage. "It occurred to me after I had sent them that as they would arrive this evening you might not take them as as my gift. I must tell you something that has been troubling me for a long time. Things are not quite the same with father and me as they were when I first met you. Perhaps you knew it?" There was a questioning inflection in his last words. The girl's face had paled a little, but just the faintest smile curved her lips. She was gazing steadfastly at the rose jar, on which her hand rested, and she made no answer. "Until Christmas came I did not realize the change in our prospects," he went on steadily. "Perhaps I did not want to think of that, but if it does make a difference, why, then"—Martha was looking straight into his eyes with an expression of infinite tenderness. "It has made a difference, Charles, all the difference in the world. I have been wondering for weeks what you would like for a Christmas gift, and what you have said tonight solves the problem." There was a queer little catch in her voice, but she went on bravely. "And I've decided, sweet-heart, to give you that which I think you need most of all"—her hand crept tremulously into his—"myself." Miles stared at her in a dazed fashion, and she smiled at him gently. lou, and she smiled at him gently. "I realise now, dear, how selfish I was to insist on being a June bride just because my mother and Nell had been married in June. The family will all be here tomorrow, even Aunt Helen from Toronto. Of course it would be such a quiet wedding—no finery, no gifts—but I thought that now, when—you were in-trouble, you might need me—and" The matter of fact Miles was alive to the whole glorious meaning of her words now, and, drawing her to him, he murmured brokenly: "If I need you! Oh, you can't understand how much!" The Christmas chimes were ringing as Miles left the house. A few moments later Martha stood before the gas log in her own room. A half ruffled smile settled about her lips. "And I haven't even a new white frock that will pass for a wedding dress!" she murmured. Then she crossed to a quiet chest of drawers and drew forth a bulky package tied with blue ribbons. From a nest of tissue paper she unwrapped a man's traveling set in richest alver. 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