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Mayor Fred A. Busse Backs Back and Refuses to Enter the Contest Free For All Fight For Mayor Among the Republican Candidates. Messrs. Graham, Harrison and Dunne Are Still Throwing Dust In Each Others Eyes. And Are Waging A Hot Campaign It Is Hard to Tell Who the Lucky Winner Will be. John Arthur Johnson Delivered a Powerful Speech In Favor of the Election of Andrew J. Graham and Then Departed For California. Vol. XVI Mayor Fred A Backs Back to En Free For All Fight For M Can Messrs. Graham, Harrison a Dust In Each And Are Waging A Hot C Who the Lucky John Arthur Johnson Deli Favor of the Election of Then Departed Many of the followers and retainers and tin-born politicians both Democrats and Republicans who have for the past four years worshipped at the feet of mayor Fred A. Busse, were greatly surprised when he announced the first of this week that he intended to show the white feather and back, back and not enter the contest for re-election as mayor of Chicago. It is contended by some of the wise politicians that many of the leading newspapers in this city had some kind of goods on the "Bedslat" ataissman, and if he should decide to make the second race, some things would come out about him in connection with his administration which would make mighty interesting reading. And to a blind man up a tree, it would seem that mayor Busse displayed a large amount of wisdom when he wisely determined to graciously retire from active politics and at the expiration of his present term as mayor, to re-engage in the coal business. His final action in this direction has participated a free for all fight for mayor among the other Republican candidates: John Edward Scully, Chas. R. Merriam, John R. Thompson, Thomas M. Hunter and John F. Smulski, have so far entered the free for all race with bright prospects that there are others to follow. Not in many years have the leaders of the Republican party been split up into so many factions as they are at the present time and unless they can get together and unite on some one who is popular, honest, full of sound business ideas and looks good to the BOOKER T. WASHINGTON GREATLY DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE PRESIDENT TAFT HAS REFUSED TO APPOINT. His Man Friday William H. Lewis Assistant Attorney General. Shortly after the November election of 1910, Booker T. Washington, who always contends, that it is wrong to put a $5.00 hat on a 50 cent head; called on President Taft, at the White House, and urged him to make good the promise he had made before the election, and appoint his man Friday, William H. Lewis, of Boston, Mass., Assistant Attorney General of the United States. But President Taft, by using a few cuss words let Prof. Washington, who aspires to become the political boss of the whole Negro race; know that he had changed his mind, that prior to the election he had promised to appoint his friend Lewis to that position, in order to hold the Colored voters in line and that Attorney General Wickersham, did not want any Colored assistants in his office, higher than janitor, or an alaround fountain. Therefore, a great disappointment has crept over the face of the new Moses of the Negro race; because his political influence has been unsufficient to land William H. Lewis, who HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY voters, they, will not come within one thousand miles of electing any candidate at the April election. Messrs. Andrew J. Graham, Carter H. Harrison and Edward F. Dunne are still throwing dust day and night in each others eyes and it is mighty hard to tell who the lucky winner will be, one thing is dead certain the people residing in this city and the big town its self will not be transferred to hades if either one is chosen mayor of this great city and the hot-headed followers of each one of them, would be displaying a little common horse sense if they would keep this fact well in mind. Last Sunday, John Arthur Johnson, delivered a powerful address at a meeting held at 1619 Wabash avenue, in favor of the election of Col. Leopold Moss, as Alderman of the First Ward, and Andrew J. Graham, for mayor of Chicago. After urging his hearers, to lay down a little something on their election; he departed for Los Angeles, Cal., where he will spend two months in resting up. At this point it can be said, to the credit of Andrew J. Graham, that he stands well, with the Colored people residing on the West Side, where he is best known to them; that George O. Jones, the successful undertaker, 1904 West Lake street, and other substantial Colored men residing in that section of the city, deposit their money in the Graham and Sons bank, 659 West Madison street, and they like any other class of citizens and business men, always receive a square deal, and the same consideration bestowed upon the other patrons of the bank. believes that the Negro should be "Jim Crowed" and disfranchised, in the office of the Attorney General of the United States. WALTER L. COHEN, STEPS DOWN AND OUT OF OFFICE. He Was the Last Afro-American Republican to Hold a Federal Position in Louisiana. President Taft, who completely filled the eyes of the Negro, with common sawdust prior to his election to the presidency in 1908, continues to make good the promise he made to the Southern white people, after his election, that is not to appoint any Negro to any federal position, in any section of the South. And Walter L. Cohen, is the latest victim of the President's unfriendly Negro policy, for many years Mr. Cohen, has served as the United States Land officer or the receiver of public lands, but in order to get rid of him his office has been removed from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. La., and turned over to a lily white Republican and with the knocking out of Col. James Lewis, who had also served the U. S. Government for many years at that point, by President Taft and Frank H. Hitchcock Postmaster general, Walter L. Coher is almost the last Afro-American who held a prominent federal position in the Southern States. CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 11, 1911. [Name] EX-ALDERMAN JOHN BURNS. Valuable member of the Board of Local Improvements, who has many friends, who would delight to see him become the Republican candidate for Alderman of the 30th ward. TUBERCULOSIS FIGHTERS WILL DISCUSS RESULTS OF WAR. National Association Meeting at Denver in June—Fall in Death Rate Predicted. Simultaneously with the announcement of its next annual meeting in Denver, June 20 and 21, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis presents statistics in a bulletin issued today, which shows the results of the crusade against consumption in the United States for the last 10 years. result in the next ten years in striking fall in the death rate from tuberculosis. He adds, "What we need most at the moment is more hospitals, more dispensaries, and more visiting nurses. We are working for these definite ends, and the next ten years will show results even more marked than those of the decade just passed." THE WOMAN'S CURSE. Women have been under a sex curse from early historic times. We read in the Bible that after our first The seventh annual meeting of the National Association in Denver will be held just before the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Los Angeles. The tuberculosis workers' convention will be divided into three sections under the direction of Dr.William H. Welch of Baltimore, president. Dr. William Charles White of Pittsburg will be chairman of the Advisory Council of the association, which will meet at the same time. The three sections are, the Sociological, with Alexander M. Wilson of Philadelphia as chairman; the Clinical, with Dr. Charles L. Greene of St. Paul as chairman; and the Pathological, with Dr. William Ophuels of San Francisco as chairman. The report of the Executive Secretary, Dr. Livingston Farrand, will be incorporated in a statement of the results of the crusade against tuberculosis in the United States for the last 10 years, which will be transmitted to the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Rome, next September. Dr. Farrand's report will show that 10 years ago there was only one organization in the United States for the education of the public about tuberculosis, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. By September, 1911, the National Association says there will be over 500 such bodies. Ten years ago there were five special dispensaries or clinics for the examination and instruction of needy tuberculosis patients, three of these being in New York City, one in Boston, and one in Providence. By September, 1911, the United States report will be able to list nearly 400 such institutions. In 1900 there were less than 100 hospitals, wards, and pavilions where tuberculosis patients could be treated, with not more than 6,500 beds all told. The National Association hopes to report by September at least 450 hospitals and sanitoria with an aggregate capacity of at least 30,000 beds. Commenting on these possibilities, Dr. Farrand says that the educational campaign is directly responsible not only for the great growth in institutional provision but that it will also result in the next ten years in a striking fall in the death rate from tuberculosis. He adds, "What we need most at the moment is more hospitals, more dispensaries, and more visiting nurses. We are working for these definite ends, and the next ten years will show results even more marked than those of the decade just passed." THE WOMAN'S CURSE. Women have been under a sex-curse from early historic times. We read in the Bible that after our first parents had eaten of the forbidden fruit the Lord God pronounced a curse on the serpent, on the man and on the woman, the woman receiving the most terrible one; she was to be the sex-slave of man; "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee." We have no thought that the real God ever cursed anything, animate or inanimate; but we know the curse of sex-subordination has been the lot of women all through Jewish and Christian history. During the last one hundred years in this country women have made great progress in the political and industrial fields, but none that I can see towards social sex-equality. If a young man leads a free sexual life the world makes light of it; if a young woman moves along the same line she is held to be too degenerate for any kind of social recognition. Women who pass as respectable are even harder on her than the male portion of the community. Those who clamor for sex-equality—men and in a greater degree women—never attempt a social practice of it; it is all an unused abstraction. Even a seducer suffers little social harm compared with the seduced. There are parties devoted to reforming those they call fallen women, but they pay no attention to reforming fallen men; they do not recognize a libertine as fallen; not that he has not behaved as badly, but he has not lost his social standing. And a reformed woman, by reforming, does not recover her former standing. After that she may receive a degree of toleration, but no real respect. "Thy desire shall be to thy husband"; i e., thy first thought shall be to please and attract him; thy woman descendants to attract men. Thou shalt be his sex-slave. The conduct of women shows that this condition of mind has obtained largely among the sex ever since. The ways practiced to make herself sex attractive are many, with a frequent variation. The padding to make certain parts appear more voluptuous FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD The Cimeter Offers $50 to the Chicago Defender (Defamer) to Prove Truth of Its Published Statement Or Affidavit From the Citizen of Oklahoma Whom the "Defamer" Says Sent Them the Correspondence—Put up or Shut up. The Chicago (Defamer) Defender prints a letter from the cousin of Dr. Thompkins and then says the letter proves that a correspondent from Oklahoma sent in the famous "Special" that was stolen from the Cimeter. Mr. Defamer, if the above statement is untrue, and you get an affidavit from Dr. Thompkins that our statement is false, then we will give you correspondent the $50 or let you name the charitable organization that shall receive it, and if it's true, the We admit that we are short on brains, Mr. Defamer, but we know enough not to commit larceny. Now, Mr. Defamer, if you will produce the correspondent and he or she will make affidavit that he or she wrote the famous "Special," the Climeter will make the correspondent a present of $50 in hard coin of the realm, or we will deposit $50 in any bank in Muskogee, to be given to charity, if the correspondent makes the affidavit, and we won't ask Defamer to put up a penny. The lady who subscribed to the Defender (Defamer) on the strength of the "Special" certainly got stung, and no one knows it better than Dr. Thompkins. The article stolen by the Defender (Defamer) appeared in this paper before Dr. Thompkins had let the state, and the doctor carried a copy home with him. Now this was at least a week before Defamer got in the game. Now, and eniticing, coupled with the compressing of other parts. To increase their attractiveness many women put on an artificial complexion, and if they can afford it they appeasen often in a new dress. A great deal is said these days about the "white slave" traffic. It is horrid to contemplate, but I perceive that this and all prostitution is an outgrowth of sex-inequality. No woman chooses the life of a harlot, but she is condemned to it if she exercises the liberty that is accorded to men. She would not be so condemned if she stood on the same sexual plane. She does not demand sex-equality, but does even more than her part in maintaining herself in sexual bondage. "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." Remove the curse. Let them arise to the dignity of self-respect and sex-respect. —Sam'l Blodget, in Universal Republic. THE MIDLOTHIAN CLUB WILL REINDER "MEDEA" At Oakland Music Hall. This coming Tuesday evening, February 14th, The Midlothian Club, will render the drama entitled "Medea" at Oakland Music Hall, Cottage Grove avenue and 40th street. Dancing and music by Garfield Wilson's Orchestra. The following are the officers and members of the Club: Officers: Miss Annie Lowry, President; Miss Arnette Danner, Vice President; Miss Eva Cunningham, Secretary; Miss Hattle Shelton, Asst Secretary; Miss Roberta Eckols, Cor Secretary; Miss Juel Fowler, Treasurer; Miss Mamie Lewis, Librarian; Mrs. Matiye I. Thornton, Directress. Committee on Arrangements: Miss Annie Lowry, Chairman; Mrs. Matiye I. Thornton. Floor Committee: James A. Mundy, W. J. Kelly, W. A. Howse. Members:—Mrs. Eugenia Norwood, Mrs. Lena Stewart, Miss Eva Cunningham, Miss Lillian Edwards, Miss YARS REWARD to $50 to the Chicago ) to Prove Truth ined Statement The Citizen of Oklahoma er" Says Sent Them ence—Put up or t up. Mr. Defamer, if the above statement is untrue, and you get an affidavit from Dr. Thompkins that our statement is false, then we will give your correspondent the $50 or let you name the charitable organization that shall receive it, and if it's true, then we don't ask you to put up a cent, but admit you have lied or stretched the truth. We may be egotistical, without brains and small caliber, as suggested by Defamer, but all of this is better than being a common, ordinary d—d liar and journalistic thie. We never said the Defamer copied from us; we said he STOLE the article. Is not that plain? Defamer certainly is a pioneer in the art of prevarication, and is a past master in the game. "Lay on, McDuff, and damned be him that first eries, 'Hold, enough!'"—From The Climeter, Muskogee, Oklahoma. Feb. 3, 1911. Brother Twine, you certainly have struck the bull's eye right square in the center and if the time has come for some one to put or shut up and if there is fifty hard dollars in sight. Let it come our way and we will blow in half of it for a new spring suit and turn the remainder over to charity.—Editor. Hattie Shelton, Miss Arnette Danger, Miss Mamie Lewis, Miss Almeda Sears, Miss Margaret Huggins, Miss Lillian Martin, Miss Katie Williams, Miss Etta Franklin, Miss Robble Tobias, Miss Clarice Chappelle, Miss Juel Fowler, Miss Vera Wesley, Miss Blanche Shelton, Miss Robert Eckols, Miss Mamie Thomas, Miss Annie Lowry, Miss Edith Madden, Miss Maude Roberts, Miss Elsie Terry, Miss Hazel Bolden. Honorary Members:—Jas. A. Mundy, W. J. Kelly, W. A. Howse. CHATEAU RINK NOTES. Wm. D. Neighbors, one of Chicago's enterprising and leading real estate men, accompanied by Mr. L. B. Anderson, Assistant County Attorney, were welcomed visitors at the Rink during the week. There will be a unique skate contest to-night and to-morrow night, as well as a Hurdle race for girls. Those wishing to see a rare skate contest will do well to attend. The Sunday afternoon concerts are just the caper for those who are at a loss to know what to do with themselves from 2 to 5. Come out Sunday and have a good time. W. E. Berry of the Eighth Regiment promises to put on some new music for Sunday night. Come out and hear the 8th Regiment Band in their latest musical hits. Judge Thomas C. Clark, who made a successful run last fall, defeating the machine candidate at the primaries, and was elected one of the superior court judges; was this week honored with the appointment as one of the associate judges, of the branch Appellate Court. Judge Clark, is a high class gentleman, and his associates in the Appellate court, will be, Judges, Jesse A. Baldwin and Frederick A. Smith. 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SOME OF THE SOCIAL DOINGS AMONG THE AFRO-AMERICANS IN CHICAGO. Mr. Henry O. Tanner, the famous artist addressed the Negro Fellowship League, Sunday, February 5th, 2830 State street an informal reception was held in the reading room. Miss Hazel Harrison the talented musician will appear in a piano recital at the Music Hall in Fine Arts Building, Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19, at 3, o'clock. No one should miss this opportunity to hear this young woman. Miss Hazel Hodge and Mr. Alexander D. Ragett of Mexico will be married Wednesday evening. Feb. 15, at the home of the bride, 3823 Wawash avenue. Owing to the recent death of her father the wedding will be quiet only relatives and immediate friends of the family being present. Miss Hodge made her debut at a brilliant reception given in her honor by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hodge at Douglas Club House 3516 Ellis ave., a few years ago, and has been prominent among the social circles of this city, after a short trip they will reside at 3423 Dearborn St., in the beautiful home given her by her father, where they will be pleased to see their many friends. Mrs. Chas. Washington 3734 Calumet avenue entertained the F. E. W Whist Club, Wednesday afternoon Feb. 8, from 2 to 6 p.m. Those present were—Mesdames Robertine Simon, Blanche Cornwell, Carrie Shanklin, Mamie Carroll, Nellie Butler, Annie Hawley and Blanch Turnbull. * * * Mrs. Geo. C. Hall, 3249 Wabash avenue will be hostess at a Parquet party at the recital to be given in the music hall, Fine Arts Building by Miss Hazel Harrison, Sunday, Feb. 19, at 3 p. m., about thirty of Chicago's elite will be in the party. Invitations have been issued for the exercises commemorating the Birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass at the Appomattox Club, 3441 Wabash avenue, Sunday, Feb. 12, 3 p. m. and the following interesting program will be rendered: Vocal Solo, Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, B. M.; Address, "Abraham Lincoln," Hon. Wm. H. McSurely, Judge of the Superior Court; Vocal Solo, Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, B. M.; Address, "Frederick Douglass," S Laing Williams, Esq. Asst. U. S. District Attorney—'E." THE VOLUNTEER WORKER'- CLUB. The Volunteer Worker's Club met and were entertained, at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Porter, 6432 Vincennes avenue, Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 8, 1811. The Club decided to work for charity. After the routine business had been transacted; Mrs. C. J. Walker of Indianapolis, gave a very interesting talk on her work, and complimented the Volunteer Workers on their efforts for charity. Mrs. Unina Tivis responded for the club. DEATH OF MARSHALL DRISH. Monday morning, at 5:30 February 6th, Marshall Drish, 4623 Dearborn street, the kind and devoted husband of Mrs. Stella Drish, who was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, in August 1859, departed this life. Mr. Drish leaves to mourn his loss, a faithful and loving wife, three brothers, a kind sister, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law, two nephews, five nieces and hosts of warm friends. "As his wife stood and Sister Alenworth kneeled, praying at his bedside, he proclaimed loudly and plainly, "I am saved, I am saved." Sister Alenworth asked him, "Are you sure that you are saved?" He answered, "Yes I am sure that I am saved, I am saved" He answered, "Yes I am sure that I am saved, I am saved," and he raised his hand Heavenward. "Sister Alenworth began to sing. 'Hallelujh it is done.' He joined in and tried to help her sing. Then he said, 'Yes I know it is done.' These were his last words. This was last Sunday evening about 5 p. m." Funeral services were held over his remains, at Quinn Chapel Thursday at 1 o'clock. Rev. D. W. Cook, officiating. Charles S. Jackson, undertaker in charge. Interment at Graceland Cemetery. The church was well filled by his friends and others who desired to witness the last sad rites over his remains. The floral offerings some of the beautiful designs being made by Mrs. J. J. Manley, were numerous and most beautiful. For 27 years, Mr. Drish was in the service of the Pullman Palace Car Company, and during all that time, not a black mark of any kind was entered up against him. Some five or six years ago, he met with a serious injury while in the discharge of his duties, and not being able to recover from its effect, it was indirectly the cause of his death. Mr. Drish always managed to save some of his small earnings which he wisely invested in income property in this city. In every sense of the word; he was a thoroughly honest man, and we all know that an honest man, is the noblest work of the Gods. WEBER'S THEATRE 19th and Wabash Ave. Coming to Weber's Theatre for one week beginning, Feb. 26th, the Original Smart Set Company in His Honor the Barber, with S. H. Dudley, the greatest funmaker of his race, Aida Oerton Walker, the graceful dancer, and Andrew Tribble, female impersonator and the best and largest aggregation of Colored singers and dancers in the world. A sure cure for the blues, S. H. Dudley who plays the part of Raspberry Snow in the play has the ambition to shave the president, which by the way he does not succeed in doing, but the many situations that occur throughout the play give occasion for great merriment. New scenery, new costumes and all up-to-date. LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. Hon. Geo. W. Plummer one of the leading lawyers of Chicago, will deliver the address on Abraham Lincoln for the Negro Fellowship League at 2830 State St., Sunday, February 12, at 4 p. m. Everybody invited, M. C. B. Mason, Jr., will sing. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Pres. Flourishing Mutual Benefit Society. The Star of Zion society, a mutual benefit organization for Afro-Americans, with headquarters in Boydton, Va. Is one of the most thrifty organizations of its kind in that section of the state. It has a large and growing membership and is doing much good among the people in the rural districts. H. H. Burwell is the authorized traveling agent for the society. Sheep's Wool Two Feet Long Sheep's Wool Two Feet Long. An Australian sheep raiser while mustering his flocks climbed for fun the summit of a high peak on his estate. On reaching the top he was astonished to find a merino sheep in a grassy sheltered hollow. The animal had apparently lost its gregarious instincts, developed misanthropical tendencies and led an exalted hermit existence for years. Having never been shorn, its wool was a couple of feet in length. This is said to be the longest staple of wool on record.—London Chronicle. British Columbia's Yellowstone. A play and pleasure ground comprising some 300 square miles of the wildest and most majestic mountain, lakes and river scenery in America has just been set apart by the government of British Columbia as a provincial national park. It is in the heart of the Vancouver island Alps. The park surrounds Butte lake, named for its discoverer, a California prospector of very early days, who was the first to penetrate the interior of the island.—Collier's. CHIPS Next Sunday is Quarterly meeting day at Quinn Chapel, Holy Communion will be served at 3 o'clock p. m. Mrs. Katherine Jones, 3712 Dearborn St., is spending two weeks with friends and relatives in New Orleans. When all else fails use Bittering Hair Tonic and Pomade, Mrs. L. M. Farmer, Proprigor, 4856 Langley ave. Rev. Moses H. Jackson will preach a special sermon to the ladies next Sunday morning at Grace Presbyterian Church. Mr. James Myer, 3720 Wabash avenue, has been confined to his home for several weeks with a serious illness. Mr. and Mrs. E. Johnson, 3026 Vernon avenue, left last Thursday for Hote Springs, Ark., where they will spend one month. Mrs. John W. Taylor, 5027 Armour avenue, left Wednesday for Detroit, Mich., where she will spend eight or ten days on a business trip. Robert M. Sweitzer, clerk of the county court, this week appointed James A. Easton, one of the leading Afro-American Democrats of the 2nd ward, to a position in his office. The Fisk Quartette is in New York city making new records for the Victor Talking machine. While there they will sing for Jno. D. Rockefeller's daughter. Miss Carrie Coleman of Detroit, Mich., who has been residing in the city for the past five weeks with Mrs. Elnora Claytor Brooks. 3710 Dearborn St., left Friday a. m. for Hot Springs, Ark. R. M. Leach, head of the Leach Van and Express Co., 3228 State St., has been on the sick list for the past several weeks; but he is now able to get on the outside of his regular rations each day. --- William Jones, who successfully conducts a grocery store and meat market at 2624 State street and his wife Mrs. L. L. Jones, have agreed to disagree and from henceforth they do not smile at each other as they pass by. Mrs. Elnora E. Claytor and Mr. Luther S. Brooks, were quietly married on last Friday, February 3rd at 8:30 p. m. at the home of the bride 3710 Dearborn St. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. T. Martin, pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church. William L. 'Connell, county treasurer; has selected, Marcus Jacobowsky, as assistant county treasurer. For years Mr. Jacobowsky, has held a responsible position with the Fort Dearborn National Bank, and he is up-to-date in every respect and the right man in the right place. Mr. George King, 99th street and Vincennes Road; who has for years and also his good wife Mrs. King, been in the service of the Rock Island Railroad Company, has been confined to his home through illness. It is hoped he will soon be able to resume his duties. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Miss B. Mae Boyd from Bethesda Baptist Church, where she has been director of the choir for sometime was cleared up last week, when it was learned that she had become wedded to a Baptist minister of Madison, Wis., where she will make her future home. The Crisis, for February, which is published by the National Association, for The Advancement of Colored People, 20 Vesey street, New York City, and which is ably and brilliantly edited by W. E. B. Du Bois and associates; contains several interesting articles, "Talks About Women," by Mrs. John E. Milholland should be eagerly read by all women and especially by the Colored women, and it is safe to say, that the February number of The Crisis, is the best of them all. Last Sunday was Ladies' Day at the Bethesda Standard Literary and a very unique and interesting program was rendered. The special features on the program were the songs rendered by Miss Jennie M. Johnson and the address on Woman Suffrage delivered by Miss Harriett Grimm. Both ladies are of the Illinois Political Equality League. Some excitement prevailed when a communication, signed by several of the officers, was read in which they tendered their resignations. It was decided not to act until Tuesday night at which time a business meeting was called to consider the matter. Recently a committee was appointed by the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows to investigate the condition of the dances and balls which are held in the Odd Fellows Hall, 3335 State St., every Tuesday and Friday night. The committee have a report which will undoubtedly impress the Association unfavorably. They find that the dances are largely attended by young men and girls ranging from the ages of 12 and 20 years old. The conduct of some of these is outrageous and a disgrace to the community. We hope that immediate steps will be taken to put a stop to these outrages. A GOOD LOCATION FOR COLORED DOCTOR. For Rent-6 room flat on 47th St. near State street, newly remodeled stove heat, every room light, ideal professional and living rooms for Colored physician. Sol. Livingston, 4711 State street. Phone Oakland 2083. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Mrs. L. L. Jones, wife of William Jones, has left his bed and board. He is no longer responsible for any debts she may incur. William Jones, 2624 State street, Chicago, February 7th, 1911. WORK HORSE FOR SALE CHEAP. For sale cheap, one good blind work mare. The Annex Livery Stable, 4931 Indiana Avenue. Telephone Oakland 963. Man Whom the World Applauds Most. As a word of encouragement for the ambitious, self reliant young men and women of 'the race in their effort to make their mark in life the Griffin (Ga.) Echo says: "If for any reason you cannot convince the man of means to lend you a hand in your struggle, despair not, but become more determined in your effort to succeed, for, after all, the world applauds loudest the man who succeeds by reason of his own dogged determination." Mystic Shriners' Big Recognition. One of the most largely attended receptions among secret societies in Brooklyn so far for the month of January was the one given by the Ancient Arabian Daughters of Sphinx at Sumner hall. Members of the subordinate lodges of the Mystic Shriners crowded the hall and were conspicuous in the grand march, which was participated in by fully 300 persons, led by the deputy grand matron and R. L. De Vass, noble of the thirty-second degree. SHE BOSSES A BOSS. A Woman Whom John D. Rockefeller, as a Rule, Meekly Obeys. The only person on earth that John D. Rockefeller takes orders from is a woman, and that woman is not Mra. John D. Rockefeller. She is his secretary, Miss Adam. She is a clear cut, precise, strong, vigorous woman, like Katherine Harrison, who was H. H. Rogers' secretary for many years. Miss Adam looks after the oil king's correspondence, makes all of his engagements and is his remembrancer, so that he forgets none of them. She goes through his mail every morning and picks out the letters she thinks worth while for him to see. The rest of them she either mentions to see if he has any special instructions or else she answers them without asking his advice because she knows his wishes so thoroughly. Sometimes Mr. Rockefeller, who is getting to be quite a mild and tolerant sort of man, is inclined to follow the suggestion of some of his correspondents or to do as he is requested by an acquaintance or a friend. Miss Adam has been with him so long and knows him so well and has his confidence so absolutely that she does not bestate to take a stand against him if she does not believe in the wisdom of what is suggested. Nine times out of ten the man of $500,000,000 bows to her will. Before getting an interview with Mr. Rockefeller it is necessary to get past Miss Adam. She is the most coldly critical of any of the guardians of the great, and a man has to have urgent business indeed and something of the highest importance to secure him an audience with the oil king. If there is one thing above all others that Miss Adam regards with peculiar antipathy it is a newspaper man—New York Press. Industry of Houston Afro-Americans Afro-Americans in Houston. Tex- are to be commended for the efforts which they are making to establish and maintain a well stocked library. In order to commute the plans and secure the necessary funds to carry on the work the pastors of the various churches have been requested by the library committee to have their con- gregations make a special contribution to the fund on Sunday, Jan 29. Exempt. Knicker—Consistency is a jewel. Bocker—Pity nobody smuggles it in.—New York Times. Pointer on Weather Gauges. "When is the best time to buy thermometers?" "In the winter, when they are down." What They Said. "They say she is going to be married." "Poor thing!" said the grass widow then. Said her best friend, "It's true, but I wonder. Whatever that man sees in Jen." "He's after her money, I'll bet you," said one, "for he hasn't a dime." "She's going to be married," an old maid "My goodness, it's just about time!" -Detroit Free Press. Father Didn't Do So Bad. Father didn't do so bad. After all, I guess it must Have been along 'bout five o'clock When Mr. Wilkins come with dust Upon the table, he pa- "Now, Mr. Perry, I'm just bad About Miss Mary." "Ah!' an' Er!'— No; father didn't do so bad. "She'll have me," Mr. Wilkins said, "If you will only say the word." And father made a fine pretense And father made a fine pretense I say! "an' Eh!' an' Wot's this nowt' An' all the time he was so glad His head was going round an' round. No; father didn't do so bad. "We've talked it over." Wilkins said, "An' Mary says it is a go." But father settled in his chair. An' Mary with her costly tastes— Nother; father didn't do so bad. Of course he got her, Wilkins did. An' welcome to her for a dress. To buy her furlows an' furn An' every now an' then a dress. I saw pa smokin' after that, An' lo, that careworn face an' sad Was smiling like a Billikin! Nother; father didn't do so bad. Worthy of His Hire "Boy, can you direct me to the bank?" "Yes, but bank directors get high pay." Doctor's Diagnosis Only The pretty daughter of a physician is engaged to a college student of whom her father does not altogether approve. His daughter is too young to think of marriage, the doctor asserts. The college student is too young to think of it likewise. It is out of the question. She explained all this to her lover the other night. "Father says," she summed it up, "father says, dear, that I will have to give you up." The young man sighed. "Then it's all over," he murmured, with gloomy interrogation. And the girl laughed and blushed. "Well," she said. "well, you—you—know that when the doctor gives you up that's just the time for you to take more hope. Isn't it sometimes that way?"-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. The Power of Music A manufacturer who made his fortune "with his coat off," as he expressed it, was induced by his daughters to attend a Wagner concert, the first ne had ever attended. The next day he happened to meet an acquaintance who had seen him the night before, who asked, "I suppose you enjoyed the concert last night, Mr. Smith?" "Yes; it took me back to the days of my youth," the father said, with a reminiscent smile. "Ah, summer days in the country, girl in a lawn dress, birds singing, and all that!" exclaimed his friend. "No; the days when I worked in a boiler shop," replied the manufacturer. -Hartford Times. Gave Himself Away A farmer and his wife killed their last hog and left the carcass out at night to cool. It was gone the next morning. They agreed to say nothing about it and then they would know that the first person mentioning the loss was the thief. Sunday as they entered church the preacher read his text, "I have meat to eat that you know not of." Nudging his wife, the old man whispered. "Mariah, we never did suspect him, did we?"—Thomas (Okla.) Tribune. Crafty Weeer. "How did Smiggies win Mrs. Willjums over to giving her consent to his marrying her daughter?" asks, the young man with the large pipe. "Met the old lady in the dark hall." way and kissed ber, then apologized saying he was sure she was the daughter," explains the young man with the excited socks.—Judge. Hard For the Funny Man "I see they've got a machine for sewing on buttons now," said the humorist's wife. "That's just my luck," said the humorist. "The first thing you know somebody will invent a machine for finding lost collar buttons, and my business will be ruined."—Yorkers Statesman. TREATMENT OF HORSES How to Feed and Water Them In Hot Weather. Extremely hot weather brings more or less suffering to a horse, and if the animal does not receive proper care and attention at this trying period disastrous results are sure to follow. Above all things else, says Country Life In America, do not overwork the farm horse or force the driver for too much speed or make long drives without frequent rests. At this season, when water is usually more or less scarce and horses apparently have an insatiable thirst, the matter of watering deserves considerable attention. Do not give the horse too much at a time, and it is safest to give none at all while he is very warm. A bran mash twice a week will assist in keeping the system cool, and in case of overfat a dram of pulverized saltpeter added to the mash will be beneficial. On very hot days allow work horses two hours for dinner instead of one, and do not feed until they are somewhat cooled off. Also remove the harness at this time; this extra labor is more than offset by the comfort it gives the animals. In a three horse team the middle one is most liable to heat exhaustion because of the additional heat radiated upon him by the horse on each side. On this account it is advisable to change the horses so that one will not be compelled to be in the middle for more than half a day at a time. The pernicious pestering of files is another matter that cannot be overlooked. The dairy cows and calves, as well as the horses, can be well protected from files by such preparations as are for sale at almost all drug stores or are advertised in the farm papers. These preparations are not expensive and are best applied with a sprayer, although a brush or rag will do if a sprayer is not available. For the work horse a light treatment every morning will afford better protection from files than a net or blanket and is much cooler. According to another writer, it is allowable when a horse is hot to let him have three or four swallows of cool water, but no more. The few swallows will help cool him, and another limited drink may be given every few minutes for four or five times, after which he may drink his fill without danger. In careless or inexperienced hands, however, the only safe way is to let the horse stand for half an hour or more with no water until he is fairly cooled off. Salt is necessary to horses, but it should not be given to them in large quantities and irregularly. An excess of salt at one time produces congestion of the stomach and induces excessive thirst. The best plan is to keep rock salt in reach of the horses at all times, so that they can satisfy their appetite by an occasional lik. If you have not followed this practice, introduce it gradually by giving the animal a little salt with his regular ration for a week. TEST OF FABRICS. How to Detect Frauds In Silk, Linen or Woolen Goods. Of the goods sold as "all wool" there is not one-tenth that is genuine. Generally the main component is cotton. The test for this is simple. All that is necessary is to pull out a few threads and apply a lighted match. Cotton will go off in a blaze; wool will shrivel up. To distinguish pure linen from counterfeit is even easier. The intended buyer need but wet the finger and apply it to the goods. If they are pure linen the moisture will pass through, the spot touched will be soaked at once, and almost immediately one side will be as wet as the other. Frauds are more numerous in silk than in any other fabric, but here also the material of adulteration is cotton. Its presence can be readily discovered. Draw a few threads out. The piece of cotton will snap off short when pulled, while the silk will stretch and permit a considerable pull before breaking. The boasted silk of our grandmothers that "stood by itself" is not necessarily the best. Modern ingenuity has devised means by giving the poorest articles the best body requisite for this purpose. Shellac and other sticky substances mixed through the fabric will produce as stiff a silk as ever gured the wardrobe of our ancestors. Such stuff is quite worthless, however, as it quickly rots. How to Make Oatmeal Lemonade. Lemon oatmeal is a drink of which invalids rarely tire. Mix a tablespoonful of fine oatmeal into a smooth paste with cold water, then pour over it three pints of boiling water, stirring well all the time. Place in a saucepan and boll until the quantity is reduced to two pints. Set it aside to cool and then pour the clear graur away from the sediment. Add to this the juice of a lemon and a small quantity of powdered sugar. This may be served hot or cold, and it is good either way. He will bury cheaper than the trust P. A. GEO. C Funeral Director and Embalm successful undertaking establis 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 ha 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 atte Lake St., near Lincoln St. TRUTH ABOUT RACE PROBLEM Conditions Confronting Colored Americans Are Pointed Out. INJUSTICE MUST BE RESISTED 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. In an Open Letter to Mr. J. Ellis Barker Dr. J. M. Waldron Gives Some Timely Information as to the Attitude of Colored Men In Reference to Their Citizenship. The personal interest which Mr. J. Ellis Barker of London is taking in the economic, social and political status of colored Americans by making a study of conditions among them in the various sections of the United States is having a good effect. In order to fully assure Mr. Barker that the race appreciates his efforts in this direction, the Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron, organizer at large for the National Independent Political league, has sent Mr. Barker the following open letter: My Dear Sir-I have recently seen in several of the newspapers of my race a brief account of your views relative to the colored man in this country. I rejoice that you have been enlightened relative to the condition and character of my people in America and have thereby become a friend to the colored man and REV. DR. J. MILTON WALDRON. anxious to help set him forth in his true light before the British and European public. As a means of assisting you in your good work and of provoking other men of my race to aid you in your noble efforts of addressing to you this open letter. I take it that, you are a widely, traveled man and that you have studied human nature deeply. This being true, you will readily understand that the colored man of America, like all other men, is a many-sided creature. Aside from the accidents of color, previous condition of servitude, reality of birth, etc., the colored America, like other human beings similarly situated, and requires the same kind of training, mentorship and hepeditary fluences for life and development—nothing less and nothing more. It is a mistake, it seems to me, to argue that the colored American is different from other human beings and is therefore to be dealt with in a way contrary to that pursued in developing other members of the human family, and yet this mistake is endulged in by almost every white Ameri- Mr. J. Ellis Barker: D. JONES. A mer who conducts, one of the most moments in Chicago. As a result, honest funeral direction. It 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 part of the city or suburbs withrons: Bodies shipped to all parts sign countries at the very lowest indent. Office and chapel, 1904 W. can and by many colored men in discussing the so called "race problem," and, and to say, the majority of the white people of this country regard the colored man of America—and all other countries, for that matter—as not being really a man. Most of them admit that he is a human being, but of a low order, an inferior, and destined to forever remain less than a man. You will readily admit, I believe, that the spirit of the present age is materialistic and that there is great danger of measuring every person and everything by the utilitarian standard. The question with 75 per cent of the people is not how can they help to make the colored American man in America, which the image of God, but how can they make him a useful factor in developing the material resources of this country? Shall the colored man in America be permitted and assisted to rise to the full stature of noble and heroic manhood and be allowed to enjoy all the rights, opportunities and privileges accorded other men in this country, or shall he be forced into the position of a serf and be permitted to work in the fields of agriculture he serves the material interests of the white man and subordinates himself to him in every walk of life? These two questions divide the white philanthropists of this country and also place into two different and distinct schools the colored men and women of America who are laboring for the uplift of their fellows. Those who look upon the colored man "as necessary" only to the physical and material development of the United States say that the "race problem can only be solved by teaching the colored man to work, to regard himself as a necessity to the white man's business and not to complain at his lot, however hard, that he should be treated (to show politics, to move along the line of least resistance and to get money and property and his manhood, political, civil, social and economic rights will finally come to him of their own accord." Those who believe that the colored man is destined by God to be a man and to enjoy all the rights, opportunities and privileges of any other class of men in this country and that he has an important part to play in the development of this country and this world take the position that "the colored American is not only entitled to a trade, a common school education and money and property, but he needs and ought to have whatever is required by any other race for its highest development in all spheres of life, and the colored man is not without aspiring to the highest standard and contending with all his might all the time for everything which any other man is entitled to, and he must not be satisfied with anything less." Most white persons, and numerous colored as well, who have written or spoken upon the so called "race problem" have made the sad mistake of setting up too low a standard for the dark skinned American and have forgotten that the colored man in this country is as much a man per se as any other human being on this earth or on other continent. It seems to escape the attention of the majority of the students of the "race problem" that the colored man of America is not only "needed by the white man in his business," but is needed by him in every other sphere of life. These would be solvers of the "race problem" also forget that this country is destined to be the meeting ground of all the races of the earth and on these shores is to be born the ideal man. This ideal or future man is to be neither distinctively Shematic, Hamitic or Japhetic, but an admixture of all the races of the world. This being true, the white people of this country and those who are yet to come to these shores owe it to the colored man who is already here or who may come with the future to see to it that he is afforded the largest opportunity for the highest possible development along all right lines in order that he may contribute unhpaired and unhindered his share to the formation of the ideal or future man. In your travels in this country I hope you will not allow the glamour of material success or the magnitude of materialistic institutions for and among the most ordeal people in the world, these of us who are contending that the colored man in America be regarded as a man in the full sense of that term and be treated as such are not whinners or theorists, but advocates of the highest and best of people on earth, and hundreds of millions of people who are yet to inhabit this continent. We know that America cannot abide as a government of, by and for the people and fulfill the end of her being while she ill treats and regards as less than men any large part of her population, and we would be untrue to our country, untrue to ourselves and to our God if we did not in every way in our power resist the wrongs done the colored man and the darker races generally in this country and contend with might and malice that American and all other oppressed people in this country be given the same opportunities, rights and privileges accorded any other element of the nation's inhabitants. I am yours for equal rights and oppo- tunities for all American citizens. J. MILTON WALDRON. Washington, January, 1911. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE STRENGTHENS FACULTY. Professor William H. Clarke Appointed Dean of Academic Department. Huntaville, Ala.—In securing the services of Professor William H. Clarke, a well known educator and a man of much force and character, as dean of the academic department the management of the Agricultural and Mechanical college located here has won quite a prize and thereby has increased its literary efficiency a hundredfold. Mr. Clarke is a graduate from both the classical and theological departments of Lincoln university, Pennsylvania, and has done considerable postgraduate work in mathematics and the sciences in the University of New York. He gave up the ministry for the teaching profession and for several years has been identified with many of the better schools for the training of colored youth. In all of them his work has been of a very high character. Besides his work at Normal, his most notable engagement was at the Kentucky Normal and Industrial institute, Frankfort, where he held for some time the chair of natural science. Incidentally it might be mentioned that Dean Clarke is a specialist in the natural sciences—chemistry and phys- C PROFESSOR WILLIAM H. CLARKE ics—and is a man of broad training and rare ability. He likewise is a specialist in mathematics. Two years after accepting the natural science post Professor Clarke was invited to the responsible position of dean of the institution, which position he held for four years, resigning over the protest of the school authorities at Frankfurt to accept the similar position at the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Normal. In this connection it might be stated that Mr. Clarke had repeatedly been offered very flattering positions at Normal during the life and presidency of the late President William H. Council, and also from the College of Liberia at Monrovia and from the Tuskegee institute. President Walter S. Buchanan, who has succeeded the late President Council at Normal, has not only found in Mr. Clarke a man of fine education and training, but indispensable in the work of making the Agricultural and Mechanical school at Normal the greatest educational training school for the race in the south. Mr. Clarke numbers among his accomplishments the ability to speak with ease and grace. Masons to Have New Paper. The Recorder is the name of a new paper soon to appear in Washington in the interest of the Masonic fraternity. Its home office will be in Masonic headquarters, 1633 Eleventh street, southwest. W. H J. Malvin is to be editor, and J. P Turner and W. T. Menard will be regular contributors to its columns. MINIMUM OF CEREMONY. A Little Sermon on the Best Way to Be Married. "Limit of the marriageable age? You ask me," said Major Bruce, "what is the limit of the age at which people ought to be allowed to marry? Why, what a question! "There is no limit. Any age between twenty-one and a hundred is a good enough age for a man, provided there is nothing else to hinder and provided he has the means of support and can find a lady whose inclinations match his and whose companionship he will promote his contentment. But, of course, there is always room for the use of judgment in marrying, and the older one grows the more judgment there is room for, both in the selection of one's accomplices and in the method of doing it. "Mature gentlemen who marry youngish maldens will have to do their marrying as the bride thinks most suitable, however trying it may be to their own experience and battered feelings. But their preference will naturally be to marry with the least possible preliminary clamor and discussion. To marry first and talk about it afterward, that will be the plan most acceptable to them. And they will prefer, I suppose, to be married with the minimum of spectacular accessories—bridesmaids, orange blossoms, choir boys, hacks standing at the door and all that panorama which is so pleasing to the young." "And what is your notion of the minimum of ceremony, major?" "Oh, well, that's according to taste. Most ladies, of whatever age or previous experience, prefer to be married in a church and by a minister, but if it was my own case—being now past sixty, as I am—and if the lady's feelings and preferences were exactly harmonious with mine, we would have the most modest marriage I could manage—by a justice of the peace, I guess, behind a tree. And then a paid notice in the paper and a new will, and that would be all, and we could go right on as though nothing had happened."—Life Perfect Peace. The shivering carolers had just selected a pitch beneath a lamp in a back street when a small boy emerged from a house opposite and beckoned mysteriously to their leader. "Mother says you're to sing something loud," he whispered. "That bit about 'Peace on earth' will do finel! She don't want no others. Just you go on holering 'Peace on earth.'" For ten minutes the willing minstrels yelled their loudest. Then a little woman, armed with a copper saucepan, appeared upon the scene. "Thanks!" she said, handing the collector threepence. "That 'Peace on earth' as done it beautiful! My ol' man went to fetch the turkey 'e won in a raffle tonight, an' comin' 'ome' e made one or two calls and lorst it, so I've just been a-teachin' 'im to be more careful, an' I didn't want none o' the neighbors to interfere when e 'oillered out."—Pearson's Weekly. On Their Honeymoon He-You must never, never think of going to the Adirondacks in the hunting season, sweetheart. She—You must never, never think of going to the Adirondacks in the hunting season, Peter. He—And why not? She—Because, Peter, you'd be taken for a bear anywhere.—Harper's Weekly. Burglar's Peculiar Action. A burglar went home one night recently, fumbled noiselessly at the keyhole and let himself in without making a sound. He was about to creep softly upstairs when his wife appeared on the upper landing. "Blame it," bellowed the burglar, "I thought I wos in another house!"—Brooklyn Life. "My wife is simply worn to a frazzle." "Social activities?" "No; she has been trying on new hats for three weeks now, working eight hours each day." — Washington Herald. Telephone Monroe 8857 L. D. Williams Painter, Paperhanger and Calciminer Plasterer & Whitewasher 608 West Harrison Street Chicago 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 George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 51st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, $1 W. 51st street near Dearborn. E.A. Stack Prescription Druggist 2842 South State Street, Chicago Corner 29th Phone Calumet 185 GAMELAND & SONS BANK Mrs. Jas. H. Lewis, notions, signs and news stand, 15 W. $6th street near State. E. D. Burt, notions and news stand 263$ 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, 1358 29th street, Newport News, Va., news agent Turner Williams, barber-shop, 12 West 30th street, near State. Teacher of Vocal and Piano Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson Soprano Fall Term Begins September 1st, 1910 Residence 6450 Champlain Avenue Chicago, Ill. 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Phone Aldine 2532 FARMERS LISTEN TO GOOD ADVICE HOLTZCLAW'S ABLE ADDRESS Thrilling Personal Experiences of Men Who Get Their Living Out of the Soil Were Features of the Meeting, Shiftlessness, Idleness and Debt Slavery Condemned. Utica, Miss.—A strong, common sense address to farmers by William H. Holtzclaw, principal and founder of the Utica Normal and Industrial institute; remarkable stories by individual farmers, who told of their efforts to purchase land and educate their children, and a sane, conservative public address by the farmers and visitors assembled were the principal features of the seventh annual farmers conference, recently held at the institute. In the address to the farmers, which begin the exercises, Professor Holtz-ler reported the object of the conference to an honest effort on the part of the institution to be of service to the people of the community and have some pointed advice to the people. Shiftiness, idleness and being always in debt were strongly condemned by the prominent educator, and, on the other hand, he told his hearers that if they wanted to enjoy prosperity they must work for it. "The price of success is industry, thrift, economy and morality," he said. "With these you must mix a good degree of foreight. For nearly fifty years you have been renting land, and you have worked it until you have literally worked it to death. Yet there are some present today who are not worth one cent more than they were forty-eight years ago. We get into the habit of believing that the world is against us; that the white man is making an effort to keep us down. I have never found one white man whose opinion was worth anything in the community that was opposed to Negroes being respectable and progressive citizens. On the other hand. I know them by thousands who have helped Negroes to buy homes and attain respectable places as citizens. The personal experiences of many of the unlettered colored farmers who have been inspired by the institution in its efforts to relieve their condition formed by far the most interesting portion of the conference program. Several hours were taken up in hearing these impromptu speeches, and among the farmers who gave interesting testimony were Pleasant McCadney, Isaiah Marshall, Daniel Lee, Daniel Griffin, Henry Samples and many other farmers who have struggled hard until they are now in comfortable circumstances. Significant resolutions prepared by a committee composed of Professor T. J. Johnson, F. G. Smith, Mae Dixon, C. S. Kelley and M. B. Anderson were read and adopted unanimously. The resolutions were vigorous and forceful and expressed the real sentiment of the progressive colored man. The Negro was commended in all efforts to be law abiding, to acquire property, to raise the moral status, and industrial education was held up to be of the greatest possible benefit to the masses. A frank statement of the condition of the rural public schools and the lack of law enforcement was one of the noteworthy features of the address. which read in part: "It cannot be expected that Negroes remain on the farm from year to year, receiving scant wages only once a year, with no educational opportunities, because their teachers are poorly paid. This can be changed to a very great extent. The Negroes of the state of Mississippi make up 58 per cent of the population, yet they receive only 24 per cent of the money for education. We do not even suggest that the white children should receive less than they already receive for education, but the best interests of the state demand that the Negro shall have more." A large number of prominent men from various sections of the state attended the conference. National Religious Training School Needs More Room For Students. At the January meeting of the board of trustees of the National Religious Training school, Durham, N. C., of which Dr. James E. Shepard is president, reports were read which showed that the school was in excellent condition in all departments of its work. The need of greater facilities for the work of the school was a prominent feature of the session of the board. Bishop George W. Clinton, D.D., offered a resolution, which was unanimously passed by the board, to the effect that the substantial progress of the school demands an increase of buildings and other facilities to meet the needs of the work. The resolution empowers the president to appeal to the public for liberal support for the institution, which is filling a peculiar need for the people for whom it is disseminating a wholesome atmosphere for the greatest uplift. Owing to the large number of applications that are being received for the many departments of the school two more dormitories, a larger auditorium and a special building for the medical training of missionaries for home and foreign work must be erected as soon as the funds are in hand. It is the consensus of opinion of those working for the bettering of conditions among the race that the missionaries should receive the very best training. The influence of the school is already being felt in a number of states, and students from five states have enrolled. There are nearly 100 boarding students, with a like number of day students. President Shepard was authorized to proceed as soon as funds are available to erect two brick buildings. The board unanimously and enthusiastically passed a resolution thanking ex-Governor Glenn and Judge Peter C. Pritchard for their great interest in the work, which has been a potent factor in the present success of the institution. The summer school and Chauquaau, which will begin about July 5, with special courses, will be largely attended, and the lectures will be the best of their kind ever given at an institution for the race in the south. AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY. Work of an Institution In Washington Composed of Literary Men. This statement regarding a well known institution is of interest: The American Negro academy was formally organized in Washington March 5, 1887, by the action of eighteen men, of whom nine still maintain an active connection, three others having died. During its existence there have been at different times fifty-four enrolled members, representing A. sixteen states and the District of Columbia. The initial meeting held Dec. 18, 1836, was participated in by Alexander Crumwell, Walter B. Haynes, Kelly Miller, Paul Laurence Dunbar and John W. Crumwell, at whose residence the meeting was held. Dunbar, while he read selections from his poems at more than one of the earlier annual meetings, did not actively connect himself with the organization. He was invited to the organization—Rev. Alexander Crumwell, the founder; Dr. William E. B. DuBois and Hon. Archibald H. Grimke. Among the distinguished men residents elected to honorary membership are included Edward Wiltmot Blydon of the west coast of Africa. Right Rev. James Theodore Holly, bishop of Haiti; Henry O. Tanner, the artist; Antenor Firmin, the Haitian statesman and author, and S. Coleridge-Taylor, the musical composer; the late Sir Samuel W. Lewis, enlightened by Queen Victoria, and Dr. Louis Joseph Jaquier, member of several foreign learner societies. Though the constitution makes provision for membership of fifty, at no one time THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas GENERAL BANKING For cent allowed on Savings Account Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per cent. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates, paying payment of taxes and locking after assessments. Real Estate. especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash Ave. Best building ever opened to Colored tenants, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agents Randolph 803 101 WASHINGTON ST. Furnish You More to Protect Your Property or Business Image Banking and General Brokerage All Business Strictly Confidential Barn Assets Realization Company, 3517 State St. Phone, Aldine 25 American Brick Co. Agent and Treasurer, THOMAS CARRY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Bldg. Office and Yards: GENERAL BANKING Borrowed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT Estate on commission, manages estates for non-resi- ties and locking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Bentford Apartment 3600 Wabash Ave. Over opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 101 WASHINGTON STREET. Wish You Money Your Property or Business Building and General Brokerage Business Strictly Confidential Realization Company State St. Phone, Aldine 2532. An Brick Co. Surfer, THOMAS CAREY, President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. UFATURERS OF Grand Sewer Brick Office and Yards: And Robey Sts. 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vault REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on co- dents, including payment of taxes and lo- n on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patro The Cranfor- Building. 36 The finest building ever open Steam heat, electric light, tile bat- 'Phone Randolph 803 We Furnish to Protect Your Pr Mortgage Banking and All Business Stri Northern Assets Re- Office, 3517 State St. - American President and Treasurer, The Vice-President, J Secretary MANUFAT Common and w Office a 45th and 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on 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. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. We Furnish You Money to Protect Your Property or Business Mortgage Banking and General Brokerage All Business Strictly Confidential Northern Assets Realization Company Office, 3517 State St. Phone, Aldine 2532. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER. Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Telephone Yards 12 It pays to advert in The Broad A phone Yards 12 ways to advert The Broad A ne Yards 128. to advertise Broad Ax. Telephone Yards 128. It pays to advertise in The Broad Ax. save there been as many as forty members. The present enrollment is thirty, three of whom are engaged in educational work; seven are active in the Christian ministry, four being blishes; one is a literary man, one devoted to institutional work, four are editors, one a journalist in New England and the state of New York in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, eleven in what might be termed the central Atlantic states, eight in the south Atlantic section and three in the central west. From the beginning the administrative officer, its corresponding secretary, has been Mr. John W. Crumwell, also the editor of the American Negro Monographs. As yet its principal work has been the occasional publications, of which thirteen are found in the principal libraries of the country, including those of the representative universities south as well as in the north and west. --- --- --- Premiums on Children. The increased cost of living and the marked tendency toward the "two child standard" in German towns has led the municipality of Schoenberg, which comprises a large part of south and southwest Berlin, to offer premiums to municipal employees with large families. All parents with more than two children are to benefit. Widowers with children are treated equally with those whose wives are alive. The premiums are large enough to make a considerable difference in a workingman's household. Fathers with three children receive about $2.50 monthly, with four children $3.75, with five $4.50 and with more than six $5 monthly. "A STORE FOR EVERYBODY" JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Rent Direct from the Owner. Budweiser Buffet 5050 STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Fine Wines, Liquors, Imported and Domestic Cigars Cafe Up-stairs. Open All Night. Service First Class. Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS.