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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Booker T. Washington In Hot Water The Negroes of the North Who are Not so Fond of this Great (?) Uplifter of His Race are Trying to Get Him to Prosecute Ulrich. They Know if this Affair is Aired in the Courts He Will be Shown Up Good and Proper. Booker Fears the Spotlight of Truth. Vol. XVI Booker T. In Hot The Negroes of the Fond of this Great (i are Trying to Get Hi They Know if this Affa He Will be Shown Booker Fears the Special correspondence from Washington, D. C., explains a few of the why's Booker Washington, Tuskegee's Negro educator, has not prosecuted Ulrich for pasting him with a club on the coco. If our correspondent's information is correct, there's a reason with an extremely large R. Our information says: "Booker T. Washington is in hot water as a result of the clubbing that he got in the meantime of his meandering in the tenderloin district in New York City. Those of the Negro race in the North who are not so fond of Booker are urging that he press the prosecution of his assailant. This is what Booker don't want." What was Booker doing in the tenderloin district? He said he was looking for one Smith, a certain accountant. Smith states, however, that he has never frequented, nor even rarely tarried, in that particular shady section where Booker got the hot end of the big stick. It is gradually getting out that the locality Booker was in is a notorious street, and that the house Booker was laying around when he got up against a fighting Dutchman is anything but a reputable place. This, and more, too, is what the trial of Booker's assailant might develop. Trial or no trial, Booker put his foot in it, and the public searchlight is now turned on him. It is said that Booker hiked away from New York down to Philadelphia after he got his clubbing, and went to the house of a Negro in that city by the name of John S. Durham. This fellow Durham has a white wife. One of Booker's former right-hand Negroes in New York is one Dr. Thompson, and this Negro also has a white wife. Taken in connection with his proclivity to stop at hotels in the North which have white chambermaids, his close association with big Negroes in the North who have white wives gives the white people of Alabama an insight into the real Booker Washington that they ought to have. Booker has been playing both ends against the middle. He has been whooping up one sort of activity down here and living a different life himself when he is in the North. Smith refuses to have it go out that he could ever be found in the tenderloin, and Booker was there all right. What was he there for? What was he there for? Why does Booker stop at the big white hotels where white women clean up the rooms? If some of these white women could be made to talk, they might make it very interesting for Booker. Is this the quiet way that Booker has adopted of getting in touch with a certain class of white women? These are some of the questions that are being asked as a result of the New York episode. It would look as if, right at this juncture, some of Booker's big white friends in Alabama would begin to lay low. If they do not, they ought to do so at least, and await developments. What is most interesting in this thing, however, is the fact that the Negroes in the North who don't like Booker, and who probably know the whole truth about him, are trying to smoke him out and force him into prosecuting his assailant, so that he will get the proper airing. But airing is just what this Blacka-Moor don't want, and his assailant will never be brought to trial if the court waits for Booker to handle the prosecuting end. For he don't want to lose the hold he has on Northern "bug-house" candidates. He wants to continue to receive those donations to his Alabama school, and he knows that if he is shown up in his true light—if the North knows Booker for just what he is—these donations will cease. Not only will those donations cease, but he will not be allowed to hobnob with sentimental white people; not only that, but he will lose his pull with the officials at Washington. Booker says that he was looking for one Smith. He was on a said-to notorious street in the tenderloin. Smith says he is no frequenter of tenderloin districts. Somebody has lied. We give Smith the benefit of the doubt. We believe every white man in all this Southland will believe Mr. Smith when he says the tenderloin district is no place to find him, for the reason that he does not go to these places. This particular street is said to be notorious. It is in the tenderloin district. White women live in the tenderloin district. Booker was there. Booker never attempts to ramble in white tenderloin districts in the South. He does in the North. In the North—New York, Pennsylvania and other states—allow the cohabitation of whites and Negroes. They are allowed to marry. Was Booker in this particular district looking for a white woman low enough to meet him and take him to her room? Booker knows, but Booker won't tell. He won't prosecute Ulrich — the man who cracked him on his head—because it will show him up, and Booker don't want to be shown up. He wants to pose as the great uplifter of his race. He wants to be the king bee in the hive. Above all, he wants to keep his hold on the sentimental misfits that pour gold into his pockets in order that he and his family may live in idle luxury. Booker don't care a Corey damn for the Negroes. He is looking out for Booker all the time. You never hear of Booker roaming in Negro sections in the North. He does roam in white sections, and notorious white sections at that. Booker, when he got the hot end of the big stick, ran like a whipped dog, so the papers said. It took a policeman and several citizens to catch him. They found that he was bleeding from gashes in his head. He said he was the great (?) Booker Washington. The policeman didn't believe him. The policeman didn't think that the tenderloin was the place to find this uplifter (?) of the Negro race. Booker was carried to a hospital. There he succeeded in making them believe that he was indeed Booker Washington, and explained his condition by saying that he was looking for one Smith, an accountant. Smith says it's a lie. Who has told the truth? Booker or Smith? A. B. ATTORNEY B. F. MOSELEY. Orator, Lawyer, Baseball Fan, Secretary and Treasurer of the Leland Giants Baseball and Amusement Association. We believe that Smith told the truth. Do you?—From Howle's Iconoclast, Birmingham, Alabama, May 10, 1911. CONCERNING FLIES. The common house fly breeds in kitchen garbage in human excre It has been our contention right along, that Booker T. Washington should prosecute Albert Ulrich, to the full extent of the law—that by failing to do so, he places the whole Negro race in a bad position, as he delights to pose as its only leader in all things and at the same time for failing to prosecute Ulrich, he opens the way for newspapers published by the whites in his own state and in other sections of the south as well as in the north, to cast doubt, upon his good motives or intentions, in being found in the front hallway of an apartment building in west 63rd street. New York city at an unreasonable hour in the evening, and as he say, the building, is located in the red light district of that city, and again we repeat, that it is up to Mr. Washington, to clearly and truthfully account for his presence in that locality, and in order to retain the full confidence of the race whom he claims to represent at all times and to silence and unhonor those, who are not always in harmony with his views and teachings, he must do this in open court.-Editor. JOHN M. WRIGHT AN AFEO-AMERICAN CHOSEN CITY TREASURER OF TOPEKA, KANSAS, BY THE DEMOCRATS. John M. Wright, one of the most highly respected Afro-Americans in the west, was recently chosen city treasurer of Topeka, Kan.—that city has adopted the commission from of government, and at the late election, J. M. Billard, Democrat was elected mayor, and P. Miller and E. W. Statts, Democrats were elected two of the commissioners; and Messrs.: Tandy and Boone, are the two Republican commissioners elected at that time, and when it came to selecting a city treasurer, mayor Billard, and his two Democratic associates voted for Mr. Wright, while Messrs. Tandy and Boone, Republican commissioners voted for a white female applicant, and absolutely refused to vote for their Colored brother. The Democratic mayor and the two Democratic commissioners claim that they voted for Mr. Wright, because he was thoroughly qualified for the position and was a man of honor and character. This speaks well for the Democrats of the most flourishing city in the Sunflower state. CONCERNING FLIES. The common house fly breeds in kitchen garbage, in human excrement and in animal manure. The blue bottle fly breeds in decaying meat. Hence, when you permit flies to get into your home they become the connecting link between your food on the one hand and the garbage can, out-house and stable on the other, transmitting to your table particles of filth and germs of disease. The germs of typhoid fever, diarrhoea and consumption are among those transmitted in this way. If you have flies in your house, look for their breeding places in the immediate neighborhood. The most effective way to exterminate the fly is to strike at its breeding place. Destroy the future fly by preventing flies from laying eggs and by destroying maggots. Each female fly lays an average of 2,000 eggs, which in a few days hatch into maggots. The maggots soon creep into the ground and form pupae, which after ten days develop into young flies. The complete cycle requires about fifteen days. Do not try to kill the maggots by covering them with dirt, as this does not prevent their development. Keep the garbage in tight.y-covered cans so that flies cannot enter and lay eggs. If your can is not tight spray its contents each day with the following mixture: Kerosene-One quart. Crude carbolic acid—One table-spoonful. This solution will prevent flies from alighting on the garbage and will destroy the eggs and maggots which are already in it. A metal spray, such as is used for spraying plants, can be obtained for this purpose at a cost of about 50 cents. Do not allow manure to accumulate in your stable. Have it hauled away at least once a week. Clean the stalls daily and throw the manure in fly-tight covered boxes. Throw a handful of chloride of lime into the manure box every few days. Spray any loose manure about the barn with the kerosene-carbolic mixture. Out-houses should be fly-tight with doors and windows screened. All cracks and crevices should be sealed with putty or pitch, so that the flies cannot enter the vault to lay eggs. The kerosene-carbolic acid mixture is here also of value in destroying the eggs and maggots. To rid the house of files, see that your screens fit tightly. Wipe off the outside of your screen door every day with a cloth soaked in New Policy at The Pekin Theater 27th and State Streets Beginning Monday Evening, May 22nd, Two Big Shows Nightly At Popular Prices, the Best Attractions by First Class Artists. No Theater on the South Side Will Excel the Old Pekin. When It Emerges From Its Remodeling Process Now Being Pushed to Completion. Beginning on Monday, May 22nd, the Pekin Theatre will give two performances a night. This policy is instituted during the summer months as the weather conditions makes an evening in the theatre trying if the entertainment is of long duration. In view of the fact that a short, crisp and bright show is desired by the public the change is made. The bills will be, as always, of a high standard, including comedy and novelty acts that are selected for their merit to please the patrons. Now that two shows a night are to be given, a reduction in the price of admission will be made while the standard of the entertainment will remain the same. Lawrence Johnson—The greatest of all Ventriloquists. Clarence Tisdale—Tenor. Mme. Helene—Mind Reader. Morris & Morris—Fun on a Broomstick. For the past two weeks much activity has been displayed by Robert T. Motts, manager of the Pekin Theatre, 27th and State streets, and the father of Theatres among the Colored people throughout the United States. He has had a number of workmen engaged in remodeling all of the outside of the building, and when completed it will be finished in brick and concrete, which will greatly add to its appearance. The first bill to be offered beginning on Monday at Summer prices will consist of the following attractions: Sivingali—The Wonderful Hypnotist. Fanny Wise in new songs. kerosene, to prevent flies alighting on the screen ready to enter when the door is opened. The kerosense-carbolic mixture may be used instead of kerosene, if desired. Provide yourself with a "fly-swatter" made of an oblong piece of ordinary screen wire, 8 1-2 x 7 inches, to which is attached a wooden handle about two feet long. A little practice with this instrument will enable you to rid the house of flies. Let your little boy do it. It will keep him profitably engaged. TUBERCULOSIS FIGHTERS WANT NEW HEALTH COMMITTEE. National Association Says Congress Pays Scant Attention to Disease Prevention. A protest is registered in a statement given out today by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis against the existing conditions in Congress which require measures concerning public health to be referred to a committee on commerce. At the same time, a plea was made for a new Committee on Public Health in the House of Representatives, similar to the one existing in the Senate. The National Association in its statement supports the Committee of One Hundred on National Health in its assertion that under the present division of committees, owing to the large number of measures before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, public health matters do not receive the attention they deserve. The statement says that hogs, cows, and steel rails receive much more attention than that most vital of all matters, public health and the prevention of disease. At the present time, the anti-tuberculosis workers declare, no committee in the House has any direct responsibility for health legislation. It is therefore suggested that a new committee be formed, similar to the one in the Senate. The National Association is appealing to its 510 affiliated associations in all parts of the United States to support the movement for the formation of such a committee in the House. Mrs. J. N. Croker, 5317 Wabash ave., left last Saturday morning for Springfield, IL, where she will spend ten days at the home of her parents who have been indisposed for some time past. The Pekin Theater State Streets g, May 22nd, Two Big Shows nightly Attractions by First Class Artists. Side Will Excel the Old Pekin. In Its Remodeling Process hoped to Completion. Lawrence Johnson—The greatest of all Ventrilloquists. Clarence Tisdale—Tenor. Mme. Helene—Mind Reader. Morris & Morris—Fun on a Broomstick. For the past two weeks much activity has been displayed by Robert T. Motts, manager of the Pekin Theatre, 27th and State streets, and the father of Theatres among the Colored people throughout the United States. He has had a number of workmen engaged in remodeling all of the outside of the building, and when completed it will be finished in brick and concrete, which will greatly add to its appearance. The inside of the Pekin will also be remodeled, and Mr. Motts will spare no pains nor money in bringing it right up to date in every way; but while the remodeling process is going on, two big shows at low prices will be pulled off each night. DIAMOND DUST Last Sunday was quite historic, the Leland Giants showing their old time form with Wickware pitching, almost no hit, no run game, while the American Giants, herald as the world beaters was getting drubbed 5 to 4 by a third class team. Sunday, tomorrow the Leland Giants play the Logan Squares, Callahan's old team. The Logans have beat such teams as the Chicago Giants, the Gunthers and the West Ends and promises to make it interesting for the Lelands. This will no doubt be the best game in the city and all of our people should attend it. Did you see the Boosters last Sunday, they are the fun makers of the baseball world and Headquarters at the Burlington, playing between 2918 State and 69th and Halsted streets, Leland Giants Park. The Boosters' Big Red Flyer starts from the Burlington Cafe every Sunday at 2 P. M. It is maned by the following crew: J. F. Bolling, Advance Agent of the funny Tribe, Romeo Loving the real baseball fan, Buster Henderson, Proprietor Tonsorial, 2903 State, pilot, Big Bill McCollough, heap big electric fan, Thomas Motts, the Pekin beauty, Allen Alford of the United order of Ball fans, and Marshal of the thea ay, Robert Gillispie, the ozark fan tan, Tom Allen, who has the power of Al Tearney to fan for two years, Inspector of Right Way. Follow this big red wagon of fans and the sorrow of Satan will never cross your path. Secretary and Treasurer B. F. Moseley and Julius F. Taylor are honorary members of the Leland Giants Booster Club and have been fined for not attending last Saturday nights meeting. Daniel H. Macon and others, applications to become members of the Leland Giants Booster Club will be considered at Saturday night's meeting. Full attendance is required, 11:30, 2918 State street, Burlington Cafe. The Fellowship Herald, is the name of a new weekly publication which made its appearance last week. It is the official organ of the Negro Fellowship League, 2830 State street. It is ably and brilliantly edited by Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who has no superior as a keen, logical and forcible writer. It is bright in its appearance and as there is always plenty of room at the top in any venture or undertaking, there is no reason whatever, why the Fellowship Herald, should not successfully sail on the journalistic sea. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxers, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. vance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known en application. 5027 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. PHONE DREXEL 4590. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1878. CHILD'S SLIP PUT ON PARENT. Judge Goodnow Blames Woes for Lack of Early Training. URGES MORE CONFIDENCE. Declares Formative Instead of Beform- ative Measures Are Needed. In a recent address on "The Peril of the American Home" Judge Charles N. Goodnow of the Court of Domestic Relations has placed upon the shoulders of parents the responsibility for child delinquency and dependency. "Domestic troubles usually arise from ignorance and a misconception of the marital relation," he said. "The most frequent causes are drunkenness, laziness, early marriages, and dissatisfaction with conditions and surroundings, too much interference by near relatives or meddling friends, a scolding tongue, ill health, immorality, and often pure cussness. Traces Causes of Trouble. "Why so many family discords; why so many broken hearts; why so much misery! Because in youth we are not taught the power of self-restraint; because selfishness, envy, jealousy, hatred, cupidity, and greed become the dominant characteristics of our minds; because so few mothers and fathers become confidential enough with their sons and daughters to teach them the true object of their existence; because so many young men and young women never are brought to know or understand the seriousness of the marriage vow. Would Start with Grandpathers. "Facing the appalling statistics of crime, I ask you had we not better use formative rather than reformative measures? "As the child is taught, so will the man teach. The condition in a man's home is sure to reflect some early phase of his own training. The best time to begin training a child is to begin with its grandparents while children are in their infancy." It is the solemn duty of parents, to carefully read what Judge Goodnow, has to say, in relation to their duty to their children for it goes without saying, that there are thousands of people in this city, who permit their children to grow like wild and poisonous weeds, and they are simply training them to fill the jails and other penal institutions, or to become criminals and vicious characters. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. Cor. 38th and Dearborn Sts. Rev. Henry J. Callis, D. D., Pastor. The interest in our church work is still increasing. The report of the trustee's on the Easter Rally showed that over $880.00 had been raised. All the floating debts of the church with the exception of the organ have been met and they have a balance of over two hundred dollars to the credit of the church. The last Quarterly conference for this conference year will be held June 8th. General Class on the 9th. Quarterly meeting on the 11th, and Love Feast on the 12th. These will be interesting days in Zion, every department of the church is getting ready. The Baby Wedding and childrens program given by Mrs. H. C. Fox and Mrs. Lillie McNary on last Thursday evening was a grand success. The children done themselves great credit and quite a neat sum was realized. Services Sunday as follows, Early prayer meeting 6:30 A. M. at 11:00 A. M. the pastor will preach on "Spiritual Progress in Weakness." Sunday School at 1:00 P. M. W. J. Burdine, Superintendent. Christian Endeavor 6:30 C. J. Jackson, President. At 8:00 P. M. Rev. Callis will preach on "My Repentance and God's Pardon."—"C." THE KEMPER HARRELD VIOLIN RECITAL At the Institutional Church Was a Very Fine Affair and Well Attended. Last Monday evening Prof. Kemper Harreld, who is a thorough musician from head to foot, gave his Violin Recital at the Institutional Church, 3825 Dearborn street. He was assisted by Mrs. Abbie Mitchell-Phillips, soprano, and Mrs. Alma Pitts-Williams, reader; Frank Jordan Woods at the piano. The following very interesting program was ably rendered: L Concerto, D Minor ....Wienlawski Allegro Moderato Romance Mr. Kemper Harreld. II. Der Erikonig ..... Schubert Am Sontag Morgen ..... Brahms Mrs. Abbie Mitchell-Phillips. III. Zingarella, The Gypsy Flower Girl of Spain ..... Mac Dowell Mrs. Alma Pitts-Williams. IV. Suite, Opus 34 ..... Ries III. Adagio V. Perpetuum Mobile. The Star and the Flower ..... Guy D'Hardelot Florian's Song ..... Benl. Godard As My Dear Old Mother ...... Antonlin Dvorak Morning Hymn ..... George Henschel Mrs. Abbie Mitchell-Phillips. VI. Menuet ..... Beethoven Canzonetta ..... A. d'Ambrosio Hungarian Dance ..... Brahms Mr. Kemper Harreld. Those taking part in it were at their best and were called back several times after each number. It was very fine in every way, and it was more than fairly well attended. Mr. Kemper Harreld richly deserves the unstinted thanks of the music loving people for the successful effort he put forth in getting up his classical Violin Recital. Mrs. George C. Hall, Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, Miss Blanche Shaw, Mrs. A. W. Williams, Mrs. Martha Broadus- Anderson, Mrs. R. A. J. Shaw, Mrs. Josepht Brent, Mrs. Hattie C. Claybrook, Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, and Mrs. Ophie Wells were the patronesses of the affair. "God as One Divine Person." Before I was eight years old I asked who God was and where he lived. Soon after I was eight years old my mother died quickly of a fever and I was told "God had taken her away to himself." I kept my mind open in search of all I could find about that God. Years passed and I listened to know what people said about God. In 1877 I took my first lessons in practical hypnotism and mesmerism from a great master in this science of nature. After this I learned spiritism of nature. Soon I learned that the Holy Ghost of the Bible authors was the same force in nature as hypnotism and mesmerism. Hypnotism is named from the god Hypros, a person; Mesmerism was named from Mesmer. By this god the Holy Ghost was made clearer to me. But there were other gods. God Jehovah was a spirit to the authors of the Bible, but who was God Jehovah? I searched history. I found a history of him while he lived the life of a man. God Jehovah of the Bible authors was a mortal man before he died, and came as a spirit to Aaron, Moses and others. His name as a mortal man was God El, of Byblus and Tyre and Africa. He, like Washington, was a warrior; also he was a builder in Byblus. The first temple in his honor was built on a mount at Byblus. Thus I searched history and found many gods who lived thousands of years before God El (or God Jehovah) was known in history. The Bible says "God came from Tenran." Tenran is now called Africa.—Aurin F. Hill, 13 Isabela St., Boston, Mass.—Boston Transcript ZION FORUM. The Zion Forum met last Tuesday evening Pres. Dr. Jas. N. Harris in the chair. After the reading of the minutes and the usual items of business the program committee presented its program, although some of the numbers were omitted, the program with the report of the critic and reading of the journal was much enjoyed. The meetings of the Forum are growing in interest and the programs bid fair to be of a high order as the weeks go by. This new organization meeting as it does on Tuesday evening makes a splendid gathering center for the young people of the city, it is hoped that they will avail themselves of the social benefits and intellectual develop- ment that the Forum is affording. The meeting begins at 8:30 and closes at 10:00.—“B.” THE THIRTY-SECOND COMMENCE-MENT OF THE STATE UNIVER- VITY OF KENTUCKY. By J. Fenton Johnson State University held its thirty-second commencement the week of May 7 to 14. Large crowds attended the services. Degrees and diplomas were conferred upon over fifty students. Prof. A. E. Meyzeek of the City Normal School, received the degree of Master of Arts. The deans and principals are: J. H. Hubert, College of Arts; M. B. Lanier, Theological Seminary; Carolyn A. Steward, Normal School; Mary B. Anderson, Industrial Arts; Mrs. M. B. Lanier, Normal Preparatory School; Dr. Green, Medical School. State College of Arts is the only Negro College in Kentucky. It is in dire need of funds, and those who champion higher education should do something to prolong its life. Its curriculum is one of the best in the country, and many men and women have been made useful A. B.'s and M. D.'s under the faculties of the various departments of this University. GUARD GETS SIX NEW ARMORIES Senate Passes $405,000 Appropriation— Two of New Structures for Chicago. Springfield, Ill., May 18.—(Special.) —Six new National guard armories were provided for by house bill 264, which passed the senate tonight carrying an appropriation of $405,000. The money will be distributed as follows: Second regiment, Chicago, $175,000; Eighth regiment, Chicago, $100,000; Company F. Fifth infantry; Company I. Eighth infantry, and naval reserves, Quincy, $50,000; Companies D and I, Third infantry, Aurora, $40,000; Company F, Sixth infantry, and naval reserves, Moline, $35,000; Company G, Third infantry, Woodstock, $15,000. Several thousand dollars also was appropriated in another bill for repairs for the First regiment armory in Chicago. DRAMA. "Scenes in the Union Depot." The Woman's Aid, organized to raise money for the benefit of the Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored People will give a drama in one act and a dance afterwards at Oakland Music Hall, 40th street and Cottage Grove avenue, Monday evening, May 22nd, at 8 p. m. It is hoped that the public will turn out and encourage this worthy effort, as all proceeds realized will be for the benefit of the Home. CHIPS Mrs. Howard M. Smith, 3552 Rhodes ave., may spend the summer months in visiting with friends in Baltimore, Md. Wesley P. Williams, of Youngstown, O., was in the city the first of the week, visiting his sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert A. Williams, 3544 Dearborn street. Miss Birdie Corker, of Toronto, Canada, is in the city and she will make her future home with her uncle and aunt Dr. and Mrs. J. N Corker, 5317 Wabash avenue. Mrs. Anna Hayman, 3236 Wabash avenue, so far is doing very nicely in the millinery business. See her announcement in another column of this paper. Mrs. Edward S. Miller, 3642 Wabash ave., put in her time the past week in cleaning house and for that reason she was unable to greet some of her friends. William Robinson, 3511 Armour avenue, has for the past two weeks been seriously ill, but the doctor feels that he is on the safe road to recovery. The musical and literary entertainment and broom drill, given at St. Mary's Church, 4926 Dearborn st., Monday evening, May 15, was well attended, and the money collected in from it will be used to clean the church. W. K. Crampton, 62 E. 28th street, has been confined to his bed from the effect of a very severe cold which he contracted on his farm in Mich. His many friends hope to see him out again very soon. Hubert R. Cross, the popular bar tender, who is an old time friend of Wesley Plummer, one of the big politicians in the second ward, will be in the future as in the past on his job at Charles Letts, 20th Century Cafe and Buffet, 3132 State st. Col. "Rube" Foster and his American Giants met defeat at the hands of the Spaldings, at the new American Giants Park, 39th and Wentworth avenue, last Sunday afternoon, the game standing 5 to 4 in favor of the Spaldings; more than two thousand fans witnessed the hotly contested game. Frank P. George presents "The Danaabagay," including the invincible celebrities: Miss St. Clair White, Miss Gladys E. Edwards, Mr. Craig Williams, Miss Gladys Anderson, Mr. George Garner, Jr. Oakalnd Music Hall, Decoration evening, May 29. Garfield Wilson's Orchestra will augment the discourse. Sam Fielding, manager in advance. --- The New York public schools have the oldest pupil on record, Mrs. Martha Harmon, Colored. She is 70 years old. The board of education recently awarded her two gold medals; one for merit in study, and the other for regularity of attendance. Mrs. Harmon was born a slave in Kentucky. NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS TO RENT. To rent nicely furnished rooms, 3236 Wabash abve., Phone Douglas 462. NEW MILLINERY PARLOR Mrs. Anna Hayman, 3236 Wabash avenue. Phone, Douglas 462. Latest styles in ladies' hats, hats made to order, trimmed and blocked. Prices reasonable. HEROIC ACHIEVEMENTS BY COLORED AMERICANS NOTED Physical Prowess Which Narrow Racial Bigots Cannot Gainssy. While the mission of the Tuskegee (Ala.) student is primarily to record the progress and work of the students, graduates and friends of the Tuskegee institute, it nevertheless keeps a watchful eye on the achievements of the race on the outside. It chronicles from the files of the Carnegie hero commission nine instances of daring and self forgetful devotion to others in peril which have won for colored men and women rewards given by the commission. In most of these cases the persons for whom death was braved were white. In six instances of heroism by colored persons at least one child was in danger of death when the effort to save life was made, nearly always with success. Two of the colored heroes perished in trying to rescue others. It is well to keep such facts before the people of this country of mixed races and many nationalities. It tends to broaden the American outlook upon great national problems and to raise the average standard of justice and fair play. There is no denying the evidence of manhood and womanhood of the highest type which is furnished by self-srificing heroism. A man who dies or braves death to save a child not in his care or related to him in any way is none the less a hero of the finest type because his skin is dark. Physical prowess is so truly at the bottom of the greater part of man's progress that it cannot be disregarded or lightly valued by the narrowest racial bigots. The evidence which the Carnegie hero fund records furnish that the noblest kind of courage and the most stalwart manhood are found among all races and classes is a wholesome influence in American life. No Man Knows What the End Will Be. What will be the termination of color prejudice in the United States God only knows. From the way some persons act in many sections of the country. If it were possible for them to do so, they would monopolize the sun, moon, stars, air, water, light, rain and all the other physical forces which are given for man's benefit to keep the colored people from enjoying the use of them. Isn't it mean? Zulu Prince Delivers Fine Oration. The address of Madikane Q. Cele of the graduating class at Hampton institute recently was an excellent literary production and shows the possibilities of his tribe for intellectual development. Mr. Cele is a Zulu prince from Natal, South Africa, who has worked his way through Hampton and become a wheelwright. Manhood Rights a Common Privilege The right to vote or speak on questions which concern the body politic, to support the right and condemn the wrong, should not be confined to any one class of persons in business or the professions. It should be and is by right a common privilege. Let colored Americans stand to their guns. Right will eventually win the day. The Royal Box. King George of England can trace his ancestry back more than 800 years. Queen Elizabeth of Roumania is a faith curist, the only sovereign, indeed, to publicly acknowledge her convictions about the matter. The queen of the Belgians has promised to become the godmother of the seventh girl born in any Belgian family, but has stipulated that the seven girls must follow each other without the interpolation of a boy baby. NAPIER BANQUET ECHOES HEARD New Register of the Treasury Depiores Present Conditions. BANE OF COLOR PREJUDIGE In First Public Address After Entering Upon Duties of Office Noted Tennesseean Says That Things Sometimes Look Dark For the Race. What Former Leaders Did. Washington.—At the recent banquet tendered him by the Tennessee colony of the nation's capital Mr. James C. Napier, the newly appointed register of the treasury, made a notable speech, describing somewhat in detail the growing opportunities for the industrial and economic development of the Negro in the south. The deliverance, coming from such a high source, has attracted nation wide attention. After expressing his heartfelt thanks to his fellow Tennesseeans and his friends from other states who had joined with them in tendering this splendid testimonial and reviewing briefly the civil and political status of the race since the war Mr. Napier said in part: The pretudices engendered by the peculiar conditions following the close of the civil war and fanned into a burning flame by what took place during the reconstruction period, we must confess, took deep root in the minds of both white and colored people. It is but reasonable to conclude that these conditions could not be altered in a day. But these conditions are changing, and a better feeling is being manifested almost in all the relations between the white and colored people of the south. There is a large and growing class of people on both sides who have set their sights on the effort to better spirit and a better feeling between neighbor and neighbor, whether that neighbor be a black or a white man. A result of all this is that the colored people are building homes and character and are throwing around these the strong arm of protection. They are establishing themselves in the business of trades and commerce and are fixing lines of credit and confidence in almost every community. They are pushing into every phase of business that surrounds them. They are buying land and cultivating. The colored man sees the need of a drug store, and he opens one. He finds a neighborhood where a grocery store is needed, and immediately he begins the work of establishing that branch of business. In short, he constitutes an important factor in every industry that engages the attention of the people in the different communities in which he lives. Where formerly in stores, in factories, in mills, in manufactories and in railway [Name] HON. JAMES C. NAPIER. service he could secure only the lowest grades of work, his education, his good character and trust, and his dutiful habits are placing him where he is doing a much higher grade of work and receiving for it much better pay. Race Achieving Marvelous Results. Our own preachers are ministering to our spiritual needs; our lawyers are looking after our trouble and the courts; our doctors are looking after our health, curing complaints and preventing disease. We have $2,000 teachers in our common schoolhouses. Howard university, Fisk university, Wilberforce and like schools are furnishing higher education to our youth. Hampton, Tuskegee and the normal and industrial institutes of Alabama, together with other like institutions, are furnishing industrial training; these are moving along in the even tenor of the war and is doing a wonderful work in the uplift of the people. In their combined efforts they are achieving marvelous results in the progress of the entire race. With such opportunities at hand in almost every southern state is there any wonder that the race is advancing? With such facilities it would be a great wonder if it did not advance. Many of us, and especially our friends of the north, are often wont to forget all these things and bemoan the withdrawal of the withholding from us of many rights and the high under the law ought not to be withheld to deplore these conditions as much as we need our friends, and we want all concerned to know that we are not satisfied with them and that we are ready at all times to enter our protest against them. It cannot be denied that things sometimes look dark and gloomy for us, and we often hear the expression that "if some of our great leaders—namely, Douglass, Langston, Bruce, Downing and others who struggled so hard to have the people of this District clothed with all the rights of citizens—could now see our condition they would turn over in their graves." They opened for us the doors of the restaurant, the hotel and the theater. These are all now closed, and the jimcoe can roll into the District of Columbia, the very capital, with immunity. "Upon the success of the Leland Giants this year depends the Negro continuance as a factor in the baseball arena. Their Park is the only Park in the city operated and controlled by Negroes. This should be sufficient for every Negro to attend the games at this Park." B. F. Moseley, Sec. and Treas. 6221 Halsted St. MOTT'S PEKIN THEATRE Summer Prices 5, 10 and 20 Cts. Two Shows Nightly 7:30 and 9:30 3 Sundays and Holidays 6:30, 8:30 & 10 BIGGEST BILLS—SMALLEST PRICES $7.50 weekly benefit for accidents; $6.00 weekly sick benefit; $1000 for loss of limb or eyesight; $25.00 for Emergency Relief; Cost $5.00 per year. No other dues nor assessments. Reliable Company with $100,000 State Deposit to guarantee the payment of claims. Men and Women between the ages of 16 and 65 accepted. For further information address Dept. 314, American Registry Company, Erie, Pa., giving age, occupation and present state of health. Enthusiasm of Inexperience. You'll often find when in his pride The knocker rails with grim elation The thing he talks of is outside His usual line of occupation. Unavoidable. Philanthropic Old I lady—But I gave you sixpence yesterday on condition that you were not to spend it in drink, and I can distinctly smell liquor on you. Deadhouse Dan—Lady, I am the victim of cruel circumstances. I found a bottle containin' not appeared ter me ter be worter. Wot was 'my' ory, lady, to find arter drinkin' of it all that it were whisky!—Sydney Bulletin. Perhaps the Service Is Better. The world grows better, all agree—Congratulate humanity— The telephones, 'tis said, are free From rudeness and profanity— -Cleveland Plain Dealer. Getting Ready. "For heaven's sake, Mildred, what have you been doing? You look as if you had fallen into a coal hole." "It was just about as bad. Aunt Martha has telegraphed that she will be here tomorrow, and I've been hunting through the attic for her picture." —Chicago Record-Herald. Joy o' the World. Green fields smiling to the sky, Gardens white and red. There'll be harvest by and by, Answered prayers for bread. —Atlanta Constitution. Sbe—Oh, it reminded me so much of the time you were courting me, Fred. "How so?" "Why. I thought you never would come to the point!"—Yonkers Statesman. Weary Waffles' Plaint. If I had to be a minister It's be an awful fix. I'd have to work one day a week And only loaf on six. —Spokane Spokesman-Review. Gone to Waste. "I don't like the way they reported my speech," complained the new congressman. "Why, they sprinkled in plenty of laughter and applaud." "Yes, but how about all them gestures?"—Washington Herald. A New Relation. No doubt young Algie McPhister Today is feeling quite'sore. Last night he acquired a "sister" That he never had had before. —Chicago News. Already Provided. The minister was shaking hands with a new member of his congregation, a girl fresh from Sweden, and said cordially, "I would like to know your address so I can call on you." "Oh," said the girl innocently, "I haf a man."—Success Magazine. Just Among Ourselves. And when you come to think it o'er We, none of us, amount to much, But few are jerry to the fact Except our boss, wife, God and such. —Puck. Practical Education. Mother-I list got a letter from Ephraim sayin' as how he's took up fencin' in college. Father-Itail, stone or barb?—Cornell Widow. Unseasonable Thoughts. Twere fine to hear the robin's lay And watch the blossoms grow And see the butterflies at play. Instead of shoveling snow. —Washington Star. --- He will bury cheaper than the trust [Name] GEO. O. Funeral Director and Embalmment successful undertaking establish of the people's appreciation of I am the only Undertaker that the same price as Hearse and come to One Hundred Dollars on a fun You are cordially invited to commaking arrangements. GEO. O. JONES. We carry a large stock on hand suit the people. Funerals are conducted in any out extra charges. Large Chapel free to our path of the United States and foreign prices. Phone, West 1761. Lady atten 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. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Marie Drusser, the actress, was born in Canada. Her real name is Koerber. Miss Esther E. Lape, instructor in Swarthmore college, has been appointed instructor of rhetoric and composition in Wellesley college. Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of the speaker of the house of representatives, is fond of walking and may be seen almost any day, despite the weather, taking her constitutional in that way. In the agricultural department is a woman, Mrs. Mica Zesta Heldmann, who makes models of the various bugs that prey upon grain, trees and farm produce, in order that students of agriculture may receive practical demonstration in fighting them. Mme. Lawrence Fiedler, representing the French government, has been sent to this country to study the school system, the fight against tuberculosis and industrial training schools, among other things. She believes that the task will require ten years to complete. Dr. Alice Hamilton has been appointed by the federal government to make an investigation of the lead industries similar to the investigation made for the Illinois commission on occupational diseases. Dr. Hamilton is a member of the staff of the Memorial Institute For Infectious Diseases in Chicago. BEAU MOUNT G CEMETERY Only Chicago Cemetery discrimination. Only Chicago Cemetery BEAUTIFUL MOUNT GLENWOOD CEMETERY. EXCURSION—Special train Decoration Day, May 30th to Cemetery. Leave La Salle Street Station at 1:30 p. m.; 31st Street Station at 1:35 p. m.; 63rd Street Station at 1:40 p. m. Returning, leave Cemetery at 5:00 p. m. Tickets only 30 cents round trip. Tickets on sale at the Cemetery office. SECURE TICKETS EARLY! Good speaking, singing and other exercises. Come and go with us and see this beautiful Cemetery. NOTICE!—On account of expensive improvements being made there will be an advance in the price of all lots in Mount Glenwood Cemetery on June 15th, 1911. BUY NOW! Call at our office or write for illustrated folder and price list of lots. Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association Tel. Douglas 5574 Open Evenings 3125 So. State St. JONES. . . er who conducts, one of the most moments in Chicago. As a result, honest funeral direction. Furnishes automobile funerals for burriages, can save you from Fifty funeral. apare our prices with others before and from which to select, that will be part of the city or suburbs with- ons. Bodies shipped to all parts sign countries at the very lowest dant. Office and chapel, 1904 W. The Writers. Alfred Austin, the poet, is an amateur gardener and an expert fisherman. William Dean Howells, the author, was a composer on Ohio newspapers before the war. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has a passion for perfumes and tea gowns. Her favorite flower is the red carnation. Marie Corell was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, the song writer. Her parents were of Scotch and Italian blood. Lloyd Osbourne, the novelist, is an expert boxer and can hold his own with the best of them with a pair of mitts. He is the adopted son of Robert Louis Stevenson. Tales of Cities. In Columbus, O., householders must dampen ashes before the cans are set out. The official figures for the census of St. Petersburg, taken Dec. 15, 1910, show a population of 1,907,708. The killed and injured by accidents in London streets number nearly 10,000 a year. Of these 200 are killed on the spot. New York city, with more than three times the population of Philadelphia, has no more homes owned by their occupants than has the City of Brotherly Love. TIFUL GLENWOOD TERY. whose Charter does not allow where the funeral train stops NEW AWAKENING IN CHURCH LIFE Growth and Prosperity of Mother Bethel In Philadelphia. WISDOM OF BISHOP GAINES Historical Review of Oldest Religious Corporate Body Among Afro-Americans In the World—Once Foremost of Them All—Rev. Dr. Montrose W. Thornton's Successful Leadership. By WHITTIER H. WRIGHT. Philadelphia.—The African M. E. church is the oldest religious denomination among colored people in the world. It had its humble rise in the City of Brotherly Love, the cradle of American independence, 125 years ago. Its first church, known as Mother Bethel, was erected on Sixth street, below Pine. It was a blacksmith shop converted into a house of worship by the founder, first pastor and bishop, Richard Allen. Here it has remained for all these years the most honored and sacred spot in Negro history. Three church P. REV. DR. M. W. THORNTON. buildings have in turn succeeded the "blacksmith shop." The present edifice, erected in 1889, is one of the finest structures owned by the race. Conditions have changed within the last twenty-five years. These have largely affected the church life of Mother Bethel and made a problem that has baffled the wisdom of its directors. Twenty-five years ago Bethel stood alone, the foremost, largest and leading church body in the city. It was the center of the colored population. Since that time new conditions have set in. A foreign class has surrounded the cradle spot of African Methodism. The colored people have been pushed miles away and other churches have arisen to afford a greater convenience. Four years ago Bishop Wesley J. Gaines came to the district and made this matter one of his chief concerns. All eyes rested upon his choice of appointment for the old Mother church. To the surprise of many and against the advice of others, the good bishop chose a young minister of the conference not exceeding his thirties, expressing the confidence that this young MOTHER BETHEL CHURCH. man possessed the capabilities of preserving the glorious heritage bequeathed by the fathers. This young man at that time, acclaimed the leader of the conference by his brethren, was Montrose William Thornton, the fearless little fellow that dared champion the cause of his people in Delaware and defied the mobs that were pursuing them to death. His utterances and courageous attitude at that time attracted the press of the nation and classed him with the heroes of other days. Brilliant, forceful and resolute, this young man entered the portals of the illustrious Allen; in less than a year Philadelphia and the connection were aware that something had happened with "Allen's anvil." The sparks were indeed flying, and the people were flocking to see and hear Dr. Thornton. Oppositions heightened with jealousies arose from within and without, but he rode serenely over them. Precedents were swamped to pieces, new methods and customs were weekly instituted; the church entirely reorganized and the services modernized. The surplaced choir, processions, recessions, altar attire, individual communion cups, personal pulpit attire, regaled officers, Allen corps of drilled and costumed young men, etc., were parts and ways of this young Samson. Tongues were wagging, but Thornton was working, the empty pews of dul Mother Bethel were being filled and the heavy church debt was being reduced by the thousands. Today Mother Bethel has again taken her place with the most active church bodies in the city or connection. Four years ago her bonded debt was $24,000. Thornton has reduced it to $10,000, thus paying and burning the first mortgage in forty years. Through his efforts Allen's tomb has been completed, electricity installed, innumerable repairs made, an increase of 900 souls to the church and one of the largest and most popular attendance to be found anywhere. Dr. Thornton is beloved by his entire membership. The corporation has bestowed upon him honors never before accorded any predecessor. They have by resolution memorialized the bishop for his fourth year's return and again have repeated the same for the fifth year. If he is returned he will enjoy the greatest honor of any of the illustrious pastors that have preceded and will be the first to serve Bethel five years successively. Several financial records have been broken by this little man and other things too numerous to mention that are secrets of his success and popularity. As a writer, speaker, organizer and leader he has few superiors, and his name is largely mentioned throughout the connection as a fit candidate for the bishopric. Mother Bethel has given seven of her most renowned pastors to this holy office. None has given her a more faithful and brilliant service than Dr. Thornton, and it would be no surprise if this little man of strength and character should be the eighth to wear the mantle of the sacred Allen. RANK DISCRIMINATION. Colored Man First on Eligible List, Office Abolished. The heart of an editorial in the May number of the Crisis under the caption "Civil Service" reads like this: "A civil service examination was held in Cleveland to fill a vacancy in the position of law clerk, stenographer and typewriter at $1,600 per annum in the office of William L. Day, United States district attorney. About ten candidates took the examination. Two colored men stood first and third and a Jew second on the list. "James G. Bachman, white, who was appointed and who was at the time of the examination temporarily employed in the office of District Attorney Day, was among those who took the examination. Bachman failed to qualify in the competitive examination for the place, and as soon as this was known the department of justice in Washington, acting on Mr. Day's recommendation, abolished the position of law clerk stenographer and typewriter. "In lieu thereof Bachman was appointed an assistant United States district attorney for Mr. Day's office, thereby ignoring the three persons, Messrs. Henry L. Thomas, Nathan Rappaport and Edward Dunjill, who stood highest on the eligible list and who were certified for appointment. Now, then, is this a case of rare race pride and triumph Americanism, or is it just a plain low trick of which every fair minded man should be ashamed?" IMPORTANT CONVENTION. Association For Prevention of War to Meet In Paris. Dr. A. M. Curtis, president of the National Medical association, has appointed the following well known physicians to represent the National Medical association at the meeting of the International Medical Association For the Prevention of War, to be held in Paris in June: Drs. George Cleveland Hall, Chicago; John E. Hunter, Lexington, Ky.; A. M. Brown, Birmingham, Ala.; George E. Cannon, Jersey City, N. J.; M. O. Dumas, Washington, D. C., and M. F. Wheatland, Newport, R. I. As the several governments are entitled to a personal representative, it is thought that Dr. A. M. Curtis will be designated by President Taft as the special envoy of the United States. Bishop Scott Gives Timely Advice. If the advice of Bishop Isaiah Scott, who has charge of the work of the African Methodist Episcopal church in the Republic of Liberia is followed, Afro-Americans in this country will not concern themselves about emigrating to that country. There is no better place for colored Americans than the United States. Chanees for improvement in Liberia are very slim, he said. Strict Party Line Policy Not Essential. The time has passed when Afro-Americans should look to any one political preferment. There may be good men and bad men in all parties, but the man who is willing to concede the rights of other men and who uses his office in the interest of all the people alike, regardless of race or color, is the kind of man to support in whatever party he may be found. Anniversary of Malta Commandery. The first anniversary of Malta commandery No. 18, Knights Templars, East End, Pittsburg, will be held on Tuesday evening, May 30, in Old Calvary church, on Pennsylvania avenue. Features of the celebration will be a May festival and musical. War Aeroplanes. A number of Farman military biplanes have already been bought by the French, Italian and Spanish governments. The French government has bought a number of Breguet biplanes, constructed almost entirely of steel and that can be taken to pieces in half an hour. Russia will at once acquire a fleet of 300 war aeroplanes, all of them to be delivered before the end of the summer. She has already bought eight Bristol biplanes, five Farman biplanes and forty Bierlot monoplanes. Sporting Notes. Al Kaufman is hankering for a fight with Carl Morris, the Sapulpa (Okla.) "white hope." Raymond Thomas, who for five years has held the motorcycle championship of Maryland, will not be a contender this summer. Edward V. Frick, the junior half mile champion, has been working on the Columbia university track and showing fine form. Wefers expects Frick to beat 1 minute 56 seconds this summer. English Etchings. The first English house of commons convened in 1295. In England the first literary journal was published in 1680, the first sporting paper in 1663 and the first medical paper in 1686. In England in the past three years seventy-four men have been sentenced to death and forty-seven executed, while of ten women sentenced none suffered the extreme penalty. Clean Streets. Clean streets and healthy people usually are found in the same city.—Fort Wayne News. Pile high the rubbish for the cleanup up man and you will lessen the number of files this summer.—Scranton Tribune. Above all, a city must be clean. If streets and alleyways are not cared for properly all efforts to beautify a city will be in vain.—Boston Globe. Congressional Cuts. It is feared that voters will not find the garden seeds distributed by new members any more reliable than those sent around by the old timers.—Washington Star. Our idea of carrying optimism too far is to hope that your representative in congress will accomplish all he says he's going to when he takes the train for Washington.—Ohio State Journal German Gleanings. The latest fashion prevailing among the women of the Berlin aristocracy is to have their portraits painted while they are asleep. The servant girls of Berlin are aggrieved by the new tax on amusements, for it makes them pay higher price of admission at the dance halls. The German war authorities have duplicates of all bridges in France. If, in case of war, any of these bridges were destroyed, they could be replaced by the German army in six hours. 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, 30 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 L. Martin, maker of Saa cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 31 W. 51st street near Dearborn. W. S. Cole cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st street, near Dearborn. Philip Smith, cigars, tobacco and news stand 6 W. 27th Street. T. B. Hall, laundry office, tobacco and news stand, 11 W. 23th street near State. Mrs. Jas. H. Lewis, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 38th street near State. B. Davis cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3833 State street. B. D. Burt, notions and news stand 3800 State street. W. M. Marwell motions, cigars to bacco, confections and news stand 5363 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. Residence 57 MaconHill( Telephone Ashland 888 Office Telephones Central 1309 Automobile 5060 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 818-330 Heaper Block BARK AND WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO S. A. T. WATKINS Suite 411, 89 Dearborn St. Tel. Central 3142 Res. Tel. Douglas 3634 CHICAGO Office Phones Res., Do Cent. 6884. 3337 W Res., Doug. 4397 3337 Wab. Ave. Third April. J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 303 Kedzie Bldg. 89 Randolph St. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4609 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW & Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS Phone Main 4158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5070 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 616'. Telephone Main 3077. Telephone Main 2017 Attorney-at-Law 171 WASHINGTON ST. Room 788 Chicago Telephone Monroe 8857 L. D. Williams Painter, Paperhanger and Calciminer Plasterer & Whitewasher 603 West Harrison Street Chicago Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson Soprano Fall Term Begins September 1st, 1910 Residence 6450 Champaign Avenue Chicago, IL. Phone Normal 3316 Established 1867 Phone Oakland 2850-185 John J. Dunn Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Coal and Wood FIFTY-FIRST STREET AND ARMOUR AVENUE Roll Bards: 11st St. & L. S. & M. S. By., 51st St. and Armour Avenue CHICAGO --- 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 KITTRELL HOLDS BIG CELEBRATION School Which Had Humble Beginning Has Become One of the Most Important Educational Institutions In the South—Part Taken by Professor John R. Hawkins. By FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. Kittrell, N. C.-The twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of Kittrell college, which began on Friday, May 19, to run for six days, marks one of the most important educational events thus far held in the south this year. The celebration will be attended by prominent educators from all sections of the country, as well as leading churchmen of the A. M. E. connection. The speakers will include-Professor John R. Hawkins, commissioner of education for the A. M. E. church; [Name] PRESIDENT D. J. JORDAN. Professor D. J. Jordan, president of Kittrell college; Rev. Dr. G. D. Carnes of Wilmington, N. C., who will deliver the baccalaureate sermon; Rev. J. W. Sanders of Smithfield, Va., who will address the literary societies, and Rev. A. L. Gaines of Baltimore, who will deliver the address to the graduating class. Kittrell college is one of the most important educational institutions in the southland. It was founded by Rev R. H. W. Leak of Raleigh, N. C., and several others, representing the North Carolina conference of the A. M. E. church. The upbuilding of the school has been largely due to the great and self sacrificing labors of Professor John R. Hawkins, who served as its president and is now treasurer of the college. The institution is supported by the North Carolina, the western North Carolina, the Virginia and the Baltimore conferences. Professor Hawkins has traveled all over the bounds of these conferences in the interest of the work. The college opened in a small way in February, 1888, and the following year it was chartered by the North Carolina legislature. The school now has a group of six buildings, one of which, Duke hall, will be formally dedicated on the last day of the celebration, May 24. This building will replace the one destroyed by fire two years ago. The college authorities hope to complete the raising of a fund of $25,000 during the celebration for extending the work of the school. The following men have served as presidents of the college: Professor B. B. Gaines, 1886-9; Professor John R. Hawkins, 1880-98; Professor G. G. O'Kelly, 1886-8; Professor J. S. Williams, 1986-100; Professor P. W. Dawkins, 1981-9; Rev. W. H. Giles and the present emperor B. J. Jordan. During the several years President Jordan has been in charge of the affairs of the institution he has suddenly labored to place it in the front rank of educational institutions in the south. He is a native of southwest Georgia and received his collegiate training at Allen university, Columbia, N. C. He has been teaching for the past twenty-five years, sixteen of which he spent in Atlanta, Ga., where he taught in the public schools of that city and Morris Brown college. He was professor of mathematics in the latter school and for eight years served as its vice president. Kittrell college offers excellent normal, classical and collegiate training. Courses in theology, domestic science and the trades are also given. The faculty includes the following teachers: P. C. McGill, C. W. A. David, Miss Victoria E. Dickson, Miss Lula Norris, Miss Minnie Thomas, Miss A. W. Moorehead, Miss M. Etta Stewart, Miss H. C. McBain, Miss Ellinor B. Hawkins and Mrs. Alice Watkins. The executive board is composed of the following persons: Bishop Levi J. Coppin, president: Professor D. J. Jordan, Professor John R. Hawkins, Revs. R. H. W. Leak, J. E. Jackson, S. S. Morris, W. H. Capehart, A. Stroud, R. R. Nichols, K. C. Holt, H. K. King, J. W. Walker, G. D. Jimmerson, S. M. Johnson, N. W. Brown, P. J. Jordan, J. W. Norris and C. H. Stephan CONCORD LITERARY CIRCLE. Holds Debate on Question of Better Kind of Education. The subject for discussion at the recent meeting of the Concord Literary circle in Brooklyn was: "Resolved. That industrial education is more beneficial to the colored race than intellectual." For the affirmative Frederick Lopez gave a historical review of the progress made from ancient times up to the present along industrial lines. He showed that the city of Rome, with its magnificent architecture, and Carthage and Athens, with their splendid buildings, were the product of industrialism. Mr. Lopez said that the men who run the mills, factories and machinery are the men who are running the government. This entire universe, so to speak, is being run by three men—Carnegie, Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgah. They have more real power than all of the other men put together. Mr. Thomas E. Scott, who assumed the negative side of the debate, said that, while industry had built up these ideal cities, the great intellectual leaders had given to them their prestige and influence; that, while Rome was mistress of the world, to Caesar belonged the credit for her worldwide fame; that, while Germany, with its industries, was regarded as one of the foremost countries, its real value was computed because of Bismarck, its leader. England has two kinds of education, one for the higher class and another for the lower, but its rulers are always selected from those receiving the higher education. Spain, because of its ignorance, was throttled and rated as a third class nation. Japan refused to accept industrial education as her standard and sent her children to the best colleges, universities and seminaries and today challenges the world. College education brings with it a dignity and culture which the colored race needs. This age calls for men who can measure arms with the men of any other race—statesmen, lawyers, physicians, ministers, schoolteachers, etc. This can only be accomplished by getting the very best training available. Messrs. N. B. Dodson, W. H. Major and Mrs. M. C. Lawton, the judges, after summing up the evidence adduced by both contestants, unanimously awarded the decision to Mr. Scott, who had the negative side of the question. Many a politician changes his mind after he sees his interview in print.—Toledo Blade. It will be a great little summer for the trying out of presidential booms.—Chicago News. "When does a leader become boss?" asks a contemporary. Generally at the first opportunity.—Richmond News Leader. Apples cored for baking are delicious filled with orange marmalade and a little butter and sugar. Bananas fried in butter and seasoned with a tiny pinch of salt and paprika are often used as an accompaniment to roast mutton. Dates stuffed with walnuts and then dipped in melted chocolate make a delicious bonbon. Among a sanguilful of such dates have for variety's sake a few that are stuffed with raisins and dipped also in chocolate. THE MIDDLEMARK MUSEUM GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent a Safety Depo RE As agent buy and sell Real dents, including payment o on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Inv The Cra Building The finest building Steam heat, electric light 'Phone Randolph Ameri President and T Vice MA Common 45th a per cent allowed on Savings Accounts by Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Y REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates, paying payment of taxes and locking after assessments. In Real Estate. Specially 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, Ag. Randolph 803 101 WASHINGTON ST. American Brick Co. Agent and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer B Office and Yards: h and Robey S 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 FORTY-FOURTH STREET The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. 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. Teleph E.J Telephone Yards 12 T. A. Stac Prescription Druggist 2 South State Street, Chicago Corner 29th Phone Calumet 185 umet 846 Auton The Old Burton Bar James M. Porter Telephone Yards 128. 2842 South State Street, Chicago Corner 29th Concert Every Afternoon and Night STATE STREET CHIC S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 Borrowed on Savings Accounts mit Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT state on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tues and locking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Banford Apartment No. 3600 Wabash Ave. Never opened to Colored tenants in Chicago, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 101 WASHINGTON STREET. Man Brick Co. Insurer, THOMAS CAREY. President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MUFATURERS OF and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: d Robey Sts. One Yards 128. A. Stack Prescription Druggist State Street, Chicago Corner 29th One Calumet 185 Automatic 68208 Old Burton Bar James M. 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