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BROAD AX HON. JOHN E. MILHOLLAND OF NEW YORK CITY RUBS IT INTO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON GOOD AND PLENTY THE GREAT WIZARD OF TUSKEGEE IS SHARPLY TAKEN TO TASK FOR DEALING IN MUCH FALSE LOGIC IN HIS ARTICLE IN THE OUTLOOK. HIS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE A PANACEA FOR THE MANY ILLS AND WRONGS WHICH BESET THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE IN THIS COUNTRY. HE IS NOT THE PROPER REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COLORED RACE FOR HE SEEKS TO MAKE ITS MEMBERS AND THE WORLD AT LARGE BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE HAPPY AND CONTENTED. WHILE THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN THEY ARE DEPRIVED OF RIGHTS AND WRONGED TO AN EXTENT UNPARALLED IN THE HISTORY OF ENLIGHTENED GOVERNMENT AND CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION. AN INTERESTING ARTICLE WHICH SHOULD BE CAREFULLY READ AND DRANK IN BY EVERY AFRO-AMERICAN THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Vol. XVI HON. JOHN OF RUBS IT INTO GOOD AND PLENTY THE GREAT FOR DEALING IN MUCH HIS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IS IN ILLS AND WRONGS WHILE HE IS NOT THE PROPER REP MAKE ITS MEMBERS AN HAPPY AND CONTENTED WHILE THROUGH NO FAULT WRONGED TO AN EXTEN GOVERNMENT AND CHIE AN INTERESTING ARTICLE W EVERY AFRO-AMERICAN Mr. Booker T. Washington's series of articles in "The Outlook," ostensibly reflecting his observations of laher and social conditions in Europe in comparison with the Colored man's lot in the South, represents his latest and most ambitious effort to reconcile our race to the infamy of existing conditions, and thereby enabling Tuskegee's principal to earn anew the gratitude of the Bourbons from Maine to Mexico, while he placidly continues to receive the shekels from the fool philanthropic North. No Reply from Washington Yet. All this and much more is pointed out in the subjoined interview with Mr. John E. Milholland by a representative of "The Guardian" in New York last week, and we urge its careful perusal by every friend of the Race, of Justice and of Freedom. Mr. Milholland, after referring to some of the incidents connected with Mr. Washington's tour of Europe last year and his various interviews and speeches that were intended to reassure English and continental opinion on the Race question in America, continues the indictment of Mr. Washington which he began to draw in London months ago when he refused to accept an invitation to the dinner in Mr. Washington's honor and gave his reasons for not doing so—reasons that yet remain unchallenged. Ignores Subsidized Organs. Ignore Subsidized Organs. "After eight months of silence Mr. Washington replies to the protest I filed against some of the remarks he made while in England on the condition of the Negro In the United States. My first remonstrance was published in the London Standard' on the sixth of September last; on the sixth of May he makes his defence in 'The Outlook.' If he has spoken on the subject. I am not aware of it. What he may have said through the hireling writers of his subsidized Negro press is of no consequence, except to himself." "Mr. Washington's answer is absolutely unique. Merely as a specimen of his logic, of his intellectual craft, it is eminently wroth of consideration. I know of no brighter illuminant of his mental processes." His Mental Processes Illustrated. "Within sixty days after that ghastly massacre down in Texas, last July — where more than sixty Colored people were done to death by mob violence, lynched, shot down in the fields while at work, dragged from their homes at night, kicked, clubbed or stabbed to death, and all on account of an ordinary street brawl between a white man and a Negro and all without any subsequent investigation by local, state or federal authority—Mr. Washington calmly informed the English people that Race conditions were 'much im man cars in the Southern states, that is, given an opportunity to sleep at night while travelling, a privilege no longer denied to hogs or-cattle, thanks to humane sentiment and the Inter-State Commerce Commission." School Not a Panacea, Only an Allevi- vant. "To Americans familiar with he actual situation his statements were too palpably erroneous to have any weight whatwere; to the English people with an imperfect knowledge of the facts and the vast amount of misinformation constantly spread before them by those who are interested in depriving the Negro of his constitutional rights, Mr. Washington's statements assumed a serious import, and I challenged not only the truth of what he said but undertook to demonstrate that the Tuskegee idea had been more a curse than a blessing to the Negroes of America in that, it had helped to render our National opinion uncertain by deluding the North with the notion that the proposition embodied in his school was really a panacae for all Race troubles, whereas at best it is only a trifling alleviant however warmly indorsed by intelligent Bourbons North and South of Mason and Dixon's line." Proved Him Unrepresentative. Proved Him Unrepresentative. "I went further. Mr. Washington I insisted, did not really represent the Colored people of America in what he said and I proved it by that memorable appeal to Europe signed by Trotter, Sinclair, Morris, Pickins, Mossell, Bentley, Waller Du Bols, Chestnut, Stewart, Buckley, Waldron, Moore, Wallis and other real Race leaders in this country. He stood, I said, either ignorantly or intentionally, for the Reactionaries of the South and a misguided philanthropy of the North rather than for the great mass of liberty-loving, in justice-hating people of the United States." Booker's Near-Reply to Milholland- Paliates Wrongs of His Race. "To all this, what was and is Mr. Washington's reply? Silence, silence and crafty transparent evasion of the issue. I quote his exact language from the current number of 'The Outlook," which a Philadelphia friend has been good enough to send me: "Not infrequently when in my public speeches I have made some reference to the condition of the Negro in the South, certain members of my own race in the North have objected because, they said, I did not paint conditions in the South black enough. During my stay in England I had the unusual experience of being criticised in the London newspapers for the same reason, this time by an American white man. At the very moment that this man attacked me because in my public interviews I emphasized the opportunities rather than the wrongs of the Negro in the South, I had in my possession the document to which I have referred, which gives the official history of fifty-two persons, one for CHICAGO, JUNE 3, 1911. every week in the year, who had died in the city of London alone for want of food. I have never denied that the Negro in the South frequently meets with wrong and injustice; but he does not starve. I do not think a single case was ever heard of, in the South, where a Negro died from want of food. In fact, unless because of sickness or some other reason he has been unable to work, it is comparatively rare to find a Negro in an almshouse. A "Platitudinous Narcotic Deliver ance." "It would be difficult to find in all the platitudinous narofic deliverances with which he has beguiled the American people for the last twenty years, anything that reflects more acurately his peculiar quality of mind, his plausibility, his seeming cosmopolitan viewpoint, his apparent largeness of vision, his deftness in escaping any dilemma, his marvelous ability to hoodwink the unwary and deceive shallow-thoughted, well-meaning people who never can or at least never do) acquire the wisdom of the serpent, emphasized so strongly by the Greatest of all Reformers." "What was the issue raised by him and discussed by me? The pauperism of London? Certainly not. The awful condition of the East End. Nothing of the kind. We were not talking about the starving Americans or famished Britishers any more than we were about the social waste of New York, Paris or other great cities. He had attempted to mislead the English public on the condition of the Negro in America. For this I rebuked him. Now he comes back to admit not that Colored American citizens are lynched by the hundred, beaten by the thousand and politically ensloved by the million, but that nevertheless, they do escape the occasional fate of an English beggar they really do not starve to death. No Proper Comparison. No Proper Comparison. "Surely in this day no argument is necessary to prove that, all in all, the American masses, black and white, are better off materially that is in the matter of food and drink, than those of most world nations. This is no longer a debatable proposition. As Benjamin Harrison tersely remarked more than twenty years ago 'the gates of Castle Garden swing in and out', and the million or more immigrants that flock to these shores every year are a cloud of witnesses to the same effect." More Color Oppression in America More Color Oprission in America Than England "It would have been more to the point had Mr. Washington drawn comparisons between our Negro policy, or lack of it, and the treatment of its Colored population by the British people. That would have been relevant and quite in order. I am more or less familiar, with the troubles in India, real or imaginary; of the Egyptian ambition for self-government I have some knowledge, as well as of Race relations in the West Indies and Canada and in the light of that knowledge I challenge Dr. Washington or any one else to deny that [Name not visible in the image] ALDERMAN WILSON SHULFELT. Member of the City Council from the 2nd Ward who is getting ready to put up a strong fight at the primaries in the spring of 1912 to be re-elected to that body. there is more oppression, injustice and cruelty witnessed in Mississippi, the Carolinas and other states, North as well as South, during one year than among all the 300 Colored millions of India for a decade." When Did English Lynch? When Did English Lynch? "When was an Egyptian lynched by his British neighbors? When was a Colored man in Hindustan burned at the stake? What disturbance do you hear of in Jamalca and why is it that in the vast territory known as British America, with all its mixed Races and Indian tribes, a few hundred policemen are sufficient to maintain as perfect order as exists throughout any rural region of the civilized world?" "On one point I agree with Dr. Washington but it requires no 'official statistics' to convince people that English pauperism is a dreadful thing. The English people themselves realize it and the unprecedented ed measure introduced last week in Parliament by the chancellor of the exchequer, and accepted in principle by all political parties, evidences the national determination to grapple with the problem along the boldest lines, just as my old friend, General Booth, of the Salvation army, urged a quarter of a century ago." The Difference. "Right here is afforded the real antithesis, the most striking contrast between the British and our own government. England has a race problem in India but she has grappled and is grappling with it and with a prospect of solving it successfully. She has a race problem on her hands in Egypt but it also is in the process of solution, notwithstanding the gratuitous advice given her by that ex-president of the United States, who 'trying to teach his grandmother to suck eggs' attempted to tell the great liberal government of England, the most progressive that ever ruled the British empire, how to do something that his own administration at home utterly failed to accomplish and failed in the most contemptible, ignominious manner." In America. "In comparison with the statesmanlike efforts of England to deal with this question, what have we to offer? Mob murder without protest, lynch law as thoroughly established as though it were upon the statute books, shooting men to death on a public theatre "age by an audience pawing for the privileges, trial by jury suppressed, free speech denied, elections a farce and the constitution in practical operation a mere sectional document!" Thanks Washington for One Thing. Thanks Washington for One Thing. "Mr. Washington acts wisely in pressing his comparisons between the nations no further than the poorhouse or the unfortunate tramps asleep on the Thames Embankment, and it may alleviate the tortures of the next poor devil roasted at the stake down in Georgia to know that fifty-two English beggars starved to death although they escaped his fate. "For this consoling contribution to the literature of lynching, we will all thank Mr. Washington." Some Comfort to the Opprassed. "It may comfort the hundreds of petty offenders wholly innocent victims of perverted police justice that are now forced to disgrace humanity and shame American civilization, working by day in chain gangs and sleeping by night like beasts of the field in stockades, to know that English paupers do not always receive sufficient food to sustain life." "It may content the one hundred and fifty thousand disfranchised Colored voters of Louisiana to know that while deprived of all the rights of citizenship guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States, they nevertheless will have all the hog and hominy that they want to eat and, according to Mr. Washington's version of the Scripture, I suppose that immortal Psalm will hereafter read 'Man shall live by bread alone.'" Great Compensation This! "And what a compensation it is to the five million black and white children of the country who are growing up in gross ignorance, deprived of every facility to acquire the most rudimentary form of education, to learn as the result of Mr. Washington's European itinerary, that, unlike the British hobo, they can really sleep at night under some other cover than the clouds and stars, and may reasonably hope to escape the fate of the fake organ grinder who, plastering his musical instrument No.35 is getting ready of 1912 to be re- with placards about his ambition for legitimate employment, seems to have appealed particularly to Tuskegee's president—it was abrand new game in London last year." "The late Dr. Watson, 'Ian MacLaren,' was blessed with an unfailing sense of humor but the term "Moderator" as applied to the presiding officer of the Presbyterian General Assembly to which the Doctor was a loyal but discriminating adherent. 'If there is any body on earth,' he used to say, 'that requires a stimulant rather than depressant it is we Presbyterians,' and what undear heaven made our forefathers think we needed a Moderator is be bond Calvinistic imagination.'" Seek to Make Tnem Content. "In like manner I am tempted to say that if every effort was misguided, superfluous, unpatriotic and really inhuman, it is that which seeks to make satisfied with their unhappy lot ten million or more American citizens who are, through no fault of their own, deprived of rights, and wronged to an extent unparalleled in the history of enlightened government and Christian civilization. The American Negro has no business to be satisfied with his present condition. It is a duty which he owes to God and man to be thoroughly dissatisfied with it, to protest against it, to fight for its bequest and for the abolition of the infamous injustice under which he suffers and the lawlessness that disgraces our Nation." An Abominable Business. "Mr. Washington has undertaken to do in Europe that which he, with other influences, has almost succeeded in doing in the Northern States: alienate sympathy from the Negro by bulriling the National perception to the actualities of the case. He may succeed in deceiving the English people, but I don't think so. He certainly win not if the Colored people of the United States exhibit one-tenth as much courage, common sense and ordinary perception as they have patience through all these long years of tial and suffering." "It is a deplorable abominable business in which he has engaged himself. As an American citizen, I denounce it here as I have in Europe." —The guardian, Boston, Mass. THE BROADAX PUBLISHED WEEKLY Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Single Taxes, 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. One Year $2.00 Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5027 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. PHONE DREXEL 4590. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. DR. YOUNG MAY BE NEW HEALTH HEAD. Mayor Offers Post to Surgeon in Charge of United States Marine* Hospital. DEPENDS ON MAC VEAGH. Government Must Grant. Leave of Abence, for Which Precedents Exist. Dr George Bright Young, surgeon in command of the United States Marine hospital of Chicago, has been offered the post of health commissioner. There is every reason to believe that he will be appointed by Mayor Harrison next Monday evening. The only element of chance is that Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh may refuse the leave of absence already requested through Surgeon General Wyman. It is believed, however, that the leave will be granted, as there are several precedents for the step. Word of favorable action is expected from Washington at any time. "Tribune" Forecast Verified. By a practical confirmation of the disclosure of Dr. Young's selection yesterday Mayor Harrison verified the statement published in The Tribune shortly after his installation that he would seek for health commissioner a man of thorough experience in the federal public health and marine hospital service. After consultation with a number of men intimate with national work of this character he selected Dr. Young because of the unusual combination of his twenty years' service of a general sort at a score of stations throughout the country and his six years' residence in Chicago, which has brought him into contact with many of the most important phases of the local health situation The selection was declared purely "non-political" and the result of Mayor Harrison's personal determination to select his commissioner on the basis of efficiency alone. The mayor declined to discuss the fitness of Dr. Young beyond a statement that he considered him "a very good man." Born and Educated in South Born and Educated in South Dr. Young has been in the public health and marine hospital service since 1889. He was born in New Orleans, La., on May 12, 1860, the son of George Bright, Young and Ann Tweed Rogers Young. His father was for forty years editor of the New Orleans Prince Current and Commercial Advertiser. In 1870 the family moved to Charlottesville, Va., and there the son received his early collegiate education in the state university. He was graduated from the University of Maryland with a medical degree in 1887, practiced medicine for a year, was on the staff of the New York City Insane hospital another year, and then became an internate at the New York Marine hospital, receiving his commission in 1890. Since that time he has served at St. Louis, Mo.; Cairo, Ill.; Memphis, Tenn.; New Orleans, La.; Portland, Ore.; Pittsburg, Pa.; New York City; Key West Fla.; Louisville, KY., and Chicago. For three years he was in charge of the United States quarantine station at the Delaware breakwater. In addition he has been assigned to laboratory and other special work at Washington during different period- He spent a year in special governmental work, guarding the country from the importation of cholera from Italian ports, having charge of southern Italy and Sicily, with headquarters at Naples. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1887 he had charge of the interstate quarantine work in western Tennessee, southern Mississippi, and a part of northern Alabama. He was ordered south for the second outbreak the following year, but the order was changed and he was sent to Washington to aid Surgeon General Wyman in directing the work from there. In the last yellow fever trouble in 1905, he was sent to Jackson, Miss., and placed in charge of a big part of the quarantine work, covering all the movements of trains, etc., in all of Louisiana and Mississippi except the immediate Gulf coast, and the neighborhood of New Orleans. He has represented the service in the American Medical association, both in its councils on medical legislation and medical education, and in its house of delegates for the last four years. For several years he has been a member of the Lake Michigan water commission, of which he now is president, and under the last administration was a member of the municipal milk commission. —The Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1911. DIAMOND DUST. It was a pretty game last Sunday, until the elements defied the Boosters President's ukase, rained like belle. Wickware was putting them over too swift for the Athletics, for when the game was called the score stood to 10 in favor of the Leland Giants. Among the substantial men of the Race present were Dr. A. W. Williams, R. T. Motts of the Pekin, Thos. W. Allen City Inspector, Jess F. Bolling, Prop. of the Burlington, David Manson, Manufacturer and Mining expert, Mr. Allain and others. The ladies were also present and looked as cute as ever. Come out next Sunday and see them. . . . The' Boosters were all there and Mr. David Manson was unanimously elected Chairman of the Executive Committee, this means a royal good time for the. Boosters and they are to be congratulated upon their splendid selection. Julius F. Taylor Editor of The Broad Ax has been suspended for three hours by the Boosters for failure to be at Sunday's game and will be compelled to face the music at the Burlington next Saturday night. We sympathize with ye Editor. . . . Don't forget to see Sunday's game. The Spaldings is a cracked team, having beat the American Giants with Skel Roach in the box, who on Sunday will be opposed by Wickware, the Leland's man of iron. Come out and see this battle. The Leland Giants won last Sunday and Decoration day and lost one game out of the last three played. They play at Chicago Heights today and they are at home tomorrow, 69th and Halsted. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON NOT IN HOT WATER. Now why The Broad Ax of Chicago should say that Booker T. Washington is in hot water because he is not breaking his neck to prosecute that German for slugging him we cannot well see for the life of us. And why and how he will be "shown up good and proper" as The Broad Ax further states if the affair is aired in Court we cannot grasp the idea for such an assertion. Mr. Washington will take care of himself, whether he prosecutes Ulrich or not. His enemies need not be bothered in the least—The Clarion Nashville, Tenn As far as we are concerned, we are not now nor never have been an enemy of Booker T. Washington, we are only bitterly opposed to him setting himself as the "Jim Crow" leader of the Afro-American race, in all things in order to rake in money, so that he can maintain his family in the grandest style, educate his children in the best white schools in this and in the old country, while advocating industrial education, for all other Colored children, and if he will only prosecute Albert Ulrich, and then return to Tuskegee, and devote his time to his school work, and refrain from urging the Negro to give up his civil and political rights, and tamely submit to everything which tends to unhorse him, as a full-sided American citizen, then and not until then can he reasonably expect to have the united support of all the Colored people residing north of the Mason and Dixon Line at his back—Editor. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB NOTES Election of officers June 7 Many good situations are awaiting those seeking employment by applying at the Home, 3530 Forest Ave. All donations of bedding, table linen, kitchen utensils, rocking chair, screens of which the Home is greatly in need will be gratefully appreciated and thankfully received by the house committee. Mrs. Nora Lee, Ch. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, Cor. 38th and Dearborn Sta. REV. H. J. CALLIS, D. D., Pastor. Childrens Day exercises will be held in this church on the 18th of June that will be the last General Fund Rally day before the annual conference. The United Order of True Reformers will have their annual Thanksgiving sermon at 3 P. M. on the same day in this church The Children Day program will be in the evening. On the 11th our last Quarterly Conference for this year will occur. P. E. Dr. Tinton will be in charge. The dinner given by the Sunbeams Decoration day and the program rendered in the evening by the Cherry Blossom Glee Club were both a grand success. The Baby Wedding on Wednesday night for the benefit of the South Side · Mission was as well attended as could be expected under the circumstances a neat little sum was raised to help the Mission. The Spinsters or (Old Maids) Convention held on Thursday evening was well attended all of the Old Maids acquitted themselves with credit. The proceeds were for the benefit of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society. Sunday services as follows: Early morning prayer meeting 6 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Subject, "The Baptism of Jesus." Sunday School at 1 P. M. W. J. Burdine, Supt. Christian Endeavor 6:30 P. M. C. J. Jackson, Pres. Preaching at 8 P. M. Subject, "The Conversion of the Eunuch." CAPT . AVENDORPH'S FAILURE TO GET THE BALL, BRINGS DEFEAT TO HIS TEAM. The Emergencies and Mysterious Nine played a ten inning game of base ball last Tuesday afternoon, at Washington Park, which proved rather an amateurish affair, notwithstanding the line up of both teams which was made up of Grace and other semi-professional players. The feature of the game, aside from the four home runs that was made, two on each side, was the anxiety on the part of the Mysterious Boys to beat Avendorph, his team, seemingly being an after consideration. Avendorph, played in his old time form up until the most crucial moment, when the score stood 21 to 20 in his team's favor, in the last half of the tenth inning, with three men on bases, two cuts, two strikes and three balls on the batter: a chance that seldom comes to a man to make himself a hero on the ball field, but it came to Capt. Avendorph, but he failed and defeated his team. Everyday had their eyes open to see what would happen, and when the crowd realized what really had happened, it seemed as though everybody said in one voice, Julius lost the game. The final score, Mysterious Boys, 22 Emergencies 21. The line up, Emergencies, Madden, P., L. Green, C., Oglesby, 1st B., Hill, 2ndB., M. Williams S. S?. Avendorph, 3rd B., Gaines, L. F., Motley C. F., B. Irwin, R. F. Mysterious Boys—C. Lewis, C., M. Washington, P., W. Harsh 1st B., L. Thompson, 2nd B., W. Peters, 3rd B., F. Wooden, S. S. Thompson, C. F., Roy French R. F. Lough, L. F.,—"L.F." FRANK P. GEORGE WAS AT HIS BEST MONDAY EVENING IN HIS ANNUAL DANABEGAY AT OAK-LAND MUSIC HALL. Last Monday evening, Frank P. George, assisted by Miss St. Clair White, violinist, Miss Gladys E. Edwards, soprano, Miss Gladys Anderson, dramatic star, Mr. George R. Garner , Jr., presented his annual Danabegay, at Oakland Music Hall, and the following program was rendered: The Melange. Selection, The Wilson Orchestra. Reading—"The Drunkard," Requested, Mr. George. Songs—(a) Joy of the Morning, Mace, (b) Dearest, Donier, Miss Edwards. Violin—(a) Concerto, No. 7, Rode. (b) Sing Me to Sleep, Greene, requested by Alfonso Anderson, Miss White. Song— (a) Cleistе Aide, Verdi. (b) The Rosary, Requested, Nevin, Mr. Garner. Violin—(a) Legende, Wiennaki. (b) Walt, Hormitz Bowen, requested Mr. George, Miss White. Songs—(a) Nita Gitann, DeKoven. (b) To My First Love, Luke, Mr. Garner. The Playlet Kilty Wheaton, Miss Anderson; Jim Crothers (The Burglar), Mr. George--N. B. Incidental Music of Playet, Miss St. Clair White. It was freely admitted by all who had witnessed Mr. George on prior occasions, that "he was at his very best on Monday evening, he was indeed very clever in the parts he so dramatically performed and Mr. George, should make up his mind to burn all his bridges behind him and devote the remainder of his life to acting on the stage for without any question about it he possesses a large amount of real dramatic talent. PEKIN THEATRE On Monday evening another interesting bill of vaudeville will be offered at the Pekin Theatre. The two shows a night policy with bright and clean entertainments has proven very attractive to the patrons especially the liberal numbers of real high class Colored acts that are engaged each week. Many new and pleasing novelties have been engaged for the coming week. An entire travel production has been booked for the coming week. The Reese Bros. Africanders will be a novel street display every evening. Southern quartet, Taylor and Price, a singer and dancing couple and Clarence Tisdale in new and beautiful illustrated songs should again provide pleasing entertainment. Seats are reserved for the first performance only. The second show patrons are entitled to any vacant seat. Only the best acts and at popular prices. Ten cents balcony twenty cents main floor, boxes twenty-five cents. WAYMAN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. The Pastor will preach at both the services Sunday 11 A. M and 8 o'clock P. M. At the evening service a special report will be made relative to the Bee Hive effort. The morning choir gave a very fine program Monday night which was appreciated very much by the audience present. The Pastor H. E. Stewart and wife will leave for Wilberforce, Chio, next Tuesday. The contract will be let for the decoration of the main auditorium of the church. The platform will be enlarged and a choir box made which will accommodate the choir. The plans are now for a great Reopening service the first Sunday in July. Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett will deliver an address at Wayman Chapel Sunday evening, June 11. Mrs. Nora Taylor will preach at both of the services June 18. HON. S. A. T. WATKINS Selected Assistant Corporation Coun- sel. Attorney Watkins of Chicago Ill. is the supreme attorney for the sup- preme lodge of K. of P. and has been for a number of years. He is a brilliant scholar and one of the foremost men of Illinois. He has recently been appointed by Mayor Carter H. Harrison as assistant corporation counsel. Judge Watkins is fully qualified to fill this position with credit and dignity.—The Baptist Reporter, Jackson, Mississippi, May 27, 1911. ZION FORUM. The Forum will meet in regular session Tuesday evening, among the numbers on the program will be a paper by Mr. H. C. Fox. Subject "Modern Age." Baritone solo by Mr. Jas. P. Norwood, Instrumental solos by Miss Evans and Mrs. E. E. Clayton. The paper read by Mr. Fox will be for open discussion. The social committee will entertain the Forum with refreshments at the close of the session. "B." The Return of Spring Gray unrelenting skies hang o'er The landscape pale with bleak distress, But in the millinery store "Tis blossoming springtime none the less. -Washington Star. The Old and the New. OLD STYLE. "Ah. Binks, I hear you had an arrival in your family this morning." said Dickens. "Yep," said Binks, with a beaming face. "Ah. Binks, I bear you had an arrival in your family this morning." said Dickens. "Yep," said Binks, with a beaming face. "What make?" asked Dickens. "Fierce flier. 1911 model." shortied Binks.-Harper's Weekly. Another Version. "Mother, may I go out to skate?" "You may, my little Myrt. But you must stay close by the stove And wear your hobble skirt." -Chicago Tribune. Too Many Benneta "It seems to me," remarked the observant man. "that your church is losing ground. I notice you didn't enroll a single convert last month." "My friend," replied the Mormon elder, who had received his own mallinery bill that morning. "It's almost impossible to get any man to join our church around Easter time."—Catholic Standard and Times. NEW MILLINERY PARLOR Mrs. Anna Hayman, 8236 Wahash avenue. Phone, Douglas 462. Latest styles in ladies' hats, hats made to order, trimmed and blocked. Prices reasonable. CHIPS It has been said that if old man Adam, had remained awake he might still have that rib, which was used to make beautiful women. Mrs. Josephine Jordan, 3800 Wabash Ave., will leave Saturday, June 3, for Cincinnati, Ohio, and other eastern points before returning home. Col. John R. Marshall, assistant Game Warden of the State of Illinois, the first of the week, started on a ten days tour through the Southern part of the state. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, 3226 Prairie Ave., President of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will leave June 7 on an extensive tour through the State in the interest of her work. Mrs. Nellie Phelps 31 W. 51st st., and her son Harold, returned home Tuesday morning from a short visit to Davenport, Iowa, where she was called to attend the funeral of her late beloved mother Mrs. Fellows. Mrs. Carrie Warner 5223 Dearborn St. who has proven herself to be a successful business woman, and she believes in beautifying her lovely home outside as well as on the inside and add to its attractiveness she has planted a fine tree in front of it Mayor Carter H. Harrison was feeling mighty good on Friday, and to make others feel the same way he appointed James Miller, who is one of the oldest Afro-American Democrats in Chicago, as Street Paving Inspector at one hundred dollars per month. Mrs. George King, 99th street nd Vincennes road, made a pleasant call on Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. King, who is a devoted member of St. Thomas Church, has for more than five years been a constant reader of The Broad Ax. Paul-Laurence Dunbar, memorial services will be held Sunday afternoon June 25th, at Institutional Church, at 4 p. m. The speaker and soloist will be announced later. The affair will be under the management of Julius N. Avendorph. All are invited. Inspector William P. Clancy, long in charge of the Stock Yards district; now engaged in rounding up, those who are inclined to violate the laws in the Hyde Park police district, and Inspector Clancy is more than the right man in the right place. Representative John Hrubec, and his family have removed from 1734 W. 51st street, to 5209 S. Robey st., and Mr. and Mrs. Hrubec, are ideal citizens, and if he lives he will be re-elected to the legislature in 1912, their bright little daughter Clara, is one of our little friends and she is fast learning how to read The Broad Ax. --- Police Inspector Nicholas Hunt, who has honorably served the city for many years, takes to his new position as inspector of the downtown or the first district, as naturally as a duck takes to water, and Chief McWeeny made no mistake, when he transferred Inspector Hunt, as his chief aid at the Central division. George O. Jones, the enterprising funeral director and embalmer 1904 West Lake street, Phone West 1761, who has stood up and manfully and successfully fought the "undertakers or the Funeral Trust" for the past two years, is still doing business at the same old stand and he at all times sells first-class funeral goods much cheaper than any of the leading undertakers in this city. --- The 16th biennial session of the Supreme Lodge and Court of Calanthe Knights of Pythias, of the World and the 6th National Encampment Uniform Rank, under the generalship of Major Robert R. Jackson, will be held at Indianapolis, Ind., from August 21, to August 26, there will be seven of the greatest bands in the world on hand to discourse music for the fifty thousand visitors who are expected to be sent on that occasion. SCALP SPECIALIST AND HAIR GROWER. Mrs. Beulah Jackson, scalp specialist and hair grower, 3613 Dearborn St., Phone Automatic 77382, is at home at all times to all of those who need an expert artist in her line of business. LELAND GIANTS Every Sunday at their Park 60th and HALSTED STREET "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 game at this Park." B. F. MOSELEY, Sec. and Treas. 6221 Halsted St. MOTT'S PEKIN THEATRE Week of June 5 REESE BROTHERS AFRICANDERS TAYLOR AND PRICE CLARENCE TISDALE Two Shows Nightly—7:30 and 9:30 Three Shows Sundays and Holidays 6:30, 8:30 and 10 Prices: Ten cents balcony, twenty cents main floor, boxes twenty five cents. $1.000 Death Benefit $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. Reliance 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. Current Comment. An eclipse of the sun which can't be seen is about as exciting as a Halley comet minus a tail.—Philadelphia Bulletin. It seems that a good many of our spring baseball "phenoms" have already made home runs—back to the farm.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Luther Burbank has produced a new strawberry, and now he might turn his attention to growing a box with the bottom where a bottom ought to be instead of one-third of the way up.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Timely Tips. The oyster has now entered upon his well earned annual vacation.—Cleveland Leader. In a little while the summer board season will make the American farmer an object of still more respect and solicitude.—Washington Star. And now approaches that season when the person who dwells in the country begins to wax immensely popular with his city cousins.—Philadelphia Inquirer. A Lively Illustration. Hearing a noise at midnight in one of his rooms, a gentleman tiptoed to the spot, thinking to take the burglar unawares. Sikes, however, was not to be caught "napping," and before the owner of the house fully realized what was happening he was looking down the muzzle of a revolver. "You realize that you are at my mercy?" "Ye-a." replied the house owner. "And also realize that I could shoot you dead if I wished?" Another trembling affirmative. "You did not hear me enter the house?" "No." "Well, if you had your windows fitted with one of Ketchum's new patent burglar alarms this wouldn't have happened. I am an agent for the"—But the house owner had swooned.— The Great Cunctator. Among the ancient heroes Old Fabius was no slob. He rose to immortality By soldiering on his job. -Chicago Tribune. Dutiful Debbin "A better boss you'll not find, zur." declared the old farmer enthusiastically. "Obeys every word you say t'un and is worth three times the price I'm askin'. Try 'un, zur, try 'un." The prospective buyer did try 'un and returned an hour later with a frowning countenance. "Somewhat lavish in your pwaises, what?" quoth the dandy as he dismounted. "Nevah wode a worse horse in all my life!" "Well, well." exclaimed the old farmer disappointed. "And what's wrong with 'un, zur?" "Wbz." retorted the dandy. "the bwute kept on stoppin'—stopped every twenty yards an' cooked up its ears." "But that's just his conscientiousness, zur." replied the farmer. "Don't you see? He's so affeared you may say 'Whon' and he won't hear you that he stops to listen." -Answers. Weary Water's Plaint. I if had to be a minister I'd be an ugful 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 con- gressman. "Why, they sprinkled in plenty of laughter and applause." "Yes, but how do they get times?" - Waste. He will bury cheaper than the trust P. A. GEO. C Funeral Director and Embalmment successful undertaking establish of the people's appreciation of it I am the only Undertaker that the same price as Hearse and or to One Hundred Dollars on a fun You are cordially invited to co-making 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 attes Lake St., near Lincoln St. We carry a large stock on hand from which to select, that will suit the people. Funerals are conducted in any part of the city or suburbs without extra charges. Large Chapel free to our patrons. Bodies shipped to all parts of the United States and foreign countries at the very lowest prices. Phone, West 1761. Lady attendant. Office and chapel, 1904 W. Lake St., near Lincoln St. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. 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 Zests Heidmann, 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 Fledler, 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. Free E Free Excursion TO BEAUTIFUL MOUNT GLENWOOD CEMETERY ON SUNDAY, JUNE 11th. Go See This Beautiful Cemetery for Yourself and Buy a Lot Before the ADVANCE IN PRICES JUNE 15TH. Now 6 and 8 grave lots are $45.00 and $50.00; 8-grave lots $55.00 to $60.00. Terms easy; $2.00 cash and $2.00 per month. After June 15th, these lots will each be $5.00 higher in price. Tickets may be secured at this office after Monday, June 5th. No tickets given out after 9 o'clock Sat- day evening June 10th. Train leaves LaSalle street station at 2 p. m.; 31st street at 2:05 p. m., and 63rd street at 2:10 p. m. Mount Glenwood Cemetery Assn. 3125 SOUTH STATE STREET Phone Douglas 5574. Open Evenings. A. JONES. ner who conducts, one of the most moments in Chicago. As a result honest funeral direction. furnishes automobile funerals for carriages, can save you from Fifty general. Compare our prices with others before and from which to select, that will be part of the city or suburbs with enrons. Bodies shipped to all parts sign countries at the very lowest indant. 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. Eam Wheeler Wilcox has a passion for perfumes and tea gowns. Her favorite flower is the red carnation. Marie Corelli 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. xcursion TIFUL Withridates Mithridates, great ruler of Pontus, gradually hardened himself against every known poison by taking thy doses, so that no poison could catch him napping. Ether. Ether as an anaesthetic was used by Dr. Jackson for the first time in 1846. Cooking Beats. One must be careful not to break the skin of beets and not to cut their tops off too close lest the juice flow out and leave the beet colorless and tasteless. Asia Minor. Most of the people living in the villages and towns of 'Asia Minor know nothing about remedies of any kind except the few made of roots and herbs growing near by, and a physician's services are rarely called for; consequently the mortality among the people is very great. In the larger cities and communities on the main roads there are many physicians. Fastest Flowing River. The fastest flowing river in the world is the Sutlej, in India, which rises 15,200 feet above the sea and falls 12,000 feet in 180 miles. Montreal's Earthquake A severe earthquake at Montreal Nov. 27, 1782, damaged 165 houses. Saxon and Nerman. The period of the blending of the Saxon and Norman elements that form the English race and language extended from 1006 to 1400. The Charger at the Funeral. The charger led at the funeral of a cavalry officer is a relic of the custom when a horse was sacrificed at the grave. An officer led the charger behind the bier to the brink of the grave, and it was there slain and thrown in upon the coffin. The last occurrence of this kind took place at Treves, Germany, in 1781. Baking a Fish. If you desire to serve a baked fish whole and have it stand upright on the platter put a carrot inside the fish before cooking and it will remain in position. The Dead Sea There is absolutely no foundation for the statement sometimes heard in certain quarters that swimming the Dead sea is impossible. On the contrary, owing to the buoyancy of the water it is almost impossible not to swim. Equally fabulous is the idea that no animal or vegetation can live near its shores. A Long Mile. The German mile is more than four times as long as the English. Queer Indian Tribe. There is an Indian tribe in Bolivia which shuns the whites and lives as in the stone age, making tools and weapons of stone, wood or bone. Age of Fish Until within recent years there had been ascertained no trustworthy way of finding out the age of fish. It has been shown that mere size does not indicate age. Relbisch. Helincke and others have discovered that many of the bones, scales and otoliths of fishes have annual age rings resembling those in tree trunks. The Australian Blacksnake. The blacksnake is the danger of the Australian bush, and a deadly reptile it is, whose bite will kill any one in about eight minutes. Baby's Bih. The half of a large dress shield is used by a young mother as an interlining for her baby's bib. It prevents the moisture from his mouth from soaking through to his dress. Purifying Water A teaspoonful of a solution of a level teaspoonful of chloride of lime to four cupfuls of water will purify two gallons of water from bacteria without leaving taste or odor. Caesar Augustus Augustus as heir of Caesar came into possession of $850,000,000, the amount which the dictator had amassed from the spoils of war. When he became emperor Augustus was but thirty-three years of age. Palm Wine In addition to being a beverage, palm wine may be used as a yeast, an insecticide and a disinfectant, and it also will remove rust from metals. The Speedy Salmon The greatest speed ever known to have been attained by a fish is twenty-five miles an hour. The salmon is reported to be able to maintain this speed for a short distance. Bett Founding. The real art of bell founding reached perfection in Belgium and Holland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the heels of that time still stand as models. Rough and Ready Weaving. The Australian aborigine when weary of a single life looks about for a partner and, finding one to his liking, stalks her and, watching his opportunity, stuns her with a heavy blow and carries her off to her new home, where, it is to be hoped, on her return to consciousness his after tenderness makes some atonement for his somewhat rough and ready way of wooing. "My new spring down received a very sincere compliment the other day." "As to how?" "The proprietor of a restaurant I went into asked me to sit near the window. Said it would lend tone to his place."—Washington Herald. "They say that time alone will tell!" Exclaimed the maiden when He finally left, and then she turned The clock hands back to ten. —Philadelphia Ledger. "Fanny, you were nearly half an hour telling Jack good night." "How peaceful and how quiet, George, It seems to be out here." She said. "No sound but of the birds Can one detect, my dear." Just then a rural district man Who made one of a group Disturbed that peaceful silence much By starting in on soup. —Yonkers Statesman. "What kind of a man would you like for a husband?" "Oh, either a bachelor or a widower, I'm not particular which."—Universalist Leader. A controversy, waxing rude, Is seldom rendered mute Until it strikes an old time feud Or else a libel suit. —Washington Star. "But, why do you object to my manners?" "For one thing, you eat with your knife." "Well, I have to—I'm left handed."—Toledo Blade. "A little nonsense and then and is relished by the best of men." Unless they learn before it's done That they are paying for the fun. —Chicago Record-Herald. "You say you moved the people out of the house we are going to move into." "Yes, madam." "How many loads did they have?" "We moved them very nicely with two loads." "Is that so? Then make three loads of our stuff. We've got to create an impression somehow." —Detroit Free Press. Of all sad words That pen has writ The saddest are these: "Please remit!" —Judge. Mary—That top floor boarder moved out today. Jane—I didn't see any luggage go out. Mary—There was none. I think he placed his effects in an envelope and posted 'em to the new address.—Brooklyn Eagle. Now, why King Solomon was wise Is not quite plainly seen, oh! "Tis said he had one thousand wives, And not one went to Reno. —Yonkers Statesman. Willis—He is the most wonderful man I know. Gillis—Indeed! Why so? Willis—Before he got his machine he promised the usual number of people that he would take them riding, and he actually kept his word with all of them!—Fuck. At ten o'clock I'm feeling rich, At ten'leen just the same; At twelve o'clock me for the ditch— The gas bill has just came! —Cleveland Leader. "Just see this picture. Doesn't the train seem to be tearing along at terrific speed?" "Yes; the artist must have put a taxi driver instead of an engineer in the cab."—Buffalo Express. A sailor took to gardening once. And all his neighbors laughed When he spoke of an onion bed That he'd raked fore and aff. —Chicago News. "Out to luncheon. Back in five minutes." read the sign on the door. "Yesm." said the wise office boy. "He ain't got the price of a ten minute lunch in his clothes."—Toledo Blade. Since cooking keeps her head awhirl Some folks have often said They wondered how so light a girl Could make such heavy bread. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Gerald—At forty a man is either a fool or a physician. Geraldine—I suppose it would be po lite in me to say "You're the doctor."—New York Press. Had I the wealth of all this world Safe locked with bolts and bars I'd doubtless like a telescope And envy that of Mars. —Washington Star. No Worse Than Usual. Belshazzar read. "Mene, mene, tekel nphazzin." "Probably my stenographer's translation of 'Your favor of even date received.'" he cried. Herewith he continued the feast.—New York Times. The wife remarked that she at last Was strong for conservation. The husband said, "Remember that When making conversation." —Yonkers Statesman. "How do you suppose the fires of romance are kindled?" "I should judge by love matches."—New Haven Register. These "lend a hand" chap may be all right, but there's another kind. And that's the "lend a dollar" chap—whew, but he's hard to find! —Chicago News. --- Hard Luck That Won. He vowed he'd win the pretty maid By foul means or by fair. And so he left no stone unturned, Not o'ean a solitaire. -Chicago News An Advocate of Rapidity. "Which party emblem do you prefer, the elephant or the mule?" "Well," replied Farmer Corntossel, "as things go nowadays both them animals is pretty slow. What one of the great parties ought to do is to associate its ideas with something like the automobile."-Washington Star. Canvas Back. He fired at ducks and bagged the sail. His dog got on the track. And, seeing that the prey was duck, he brought the canvas back. The News One Way. A Scotch student, supposed to be deficient in judgment, was asked by a professor in the course of his examination how he would discover a fool. "By the questions he would ask," was the prompt and highly suggestive reply.—Tit-Bits. To Head Her Off. It's nearly time The young man squirms And says ice cream Is full of germs. —Houston Post. One Blessing. "There's one blessing about poverty," says the poorly clad philosopher. "Name it." demands the agitator. "Why, a man doesn't have to hire a whole lot of expensive lawyers to show him how to stay poor."—Chicago Post. Financial Comparison. The prima donna's early state Oft claims of wealth a glittering store. Although her salary is great. Sometimes her alimony's more. —Washington Star. Why He Likes Aeroplanes. Howell—Rowell considers his airship his best friend. Powell—you see, his wife ran away while he was on one of his flights.—New York Press. Or Do They? Or Do They? Lives of coachmen all remind us In our race for daily bread We must sometimes whip behind us If we wish to keep ahead. —Chicago Tribune. Very Often. "There's a difference in children." "Yes. The poor man's children are assets, the rich man's liabilities."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Town Topics. Where will Cincinnati deposit its dead cats if the canal is abandoned?—Dayton News. New Yorkers are doing a lot of talking about fire protection, but the membership of their churches does not seem to be increasing.—Cleveland Leader. Speaking of common drinking cups, Chicago might take a hint from Cincinnati, which has placed a "sanitary policeman" at Fountain square.—Chicago Journal. It appears that Philadelphia last year spent $5,000,000 more than it received. If that doesn't wake the old town up its case is hopeless.—Des Moines Tribune. 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 6004 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, 31 W. 51st street near Dearborn. W. S. Cole cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 51st street, near Dearborn. Philip Smith, cigars, tobacco and news stand 8 W. 37th Street. T. B. Hall, laundry office, tobacco and news stand, 11 W. 39th street near State. Mrs. Jas. H. Lowls, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th street near State. B. Davis cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3530 State street. B. D. Burt, notions and news stand 3530 State street. W. M. Maxwell motions, elegans to bacco, confections and news stand 5252 F'ate street. H. Hart, news stand, cigars, tobacco and laundry office, 15 W. 35th street. A. A. Dwelle, cigar store and news stand, 21 E. 83rd street near State. Freddie Smith, 1358 29th street, Newport News, Va., news agent. Turner Williams, barber-shop, 13 West 30th street, near State. Burdance 57 Macallister Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1359 Automatic 599 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 215-320 Reper Mack CLARK AND WASHINGTON ST. CHICAGO. S. A. T. WATKINS LAWYER Suite 411, 59 Dearborn St. Tel. Central 3142 Res. Tel. Douglas 3684 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 Bandolph St. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREET8 Phone Main 4158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res. 4356 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 J. A. TRIBUE 171 WASHINGTON ST. Room 708 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 1807 Phone Oakland 2820-155 John J. Dunn Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Coal and Wood FIFTH-FIRST STREET AND ARMOUR AVENUE Rail Routes: Main St. & L. St. & M. St. B. St., Main St. and Arrow Avenue CNICAGO --- 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 Noted Educators Take Part in Elaborate Anniversary Program. 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: 0 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. B. 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, 1886, 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. Golnes, 1886-9; Professor John B. Hawkins, 1889-96; Professor O. G. O'Kelly, 1896-8; Professor J. S. Williams, 1888-1900; Professor P. W. Dawkins, 1891-8; Rev. W. H. Giles and the present incumbent B. J. Jordan. During the several years President Jordan has been in charge of the affairs of the institution he has assistedly 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 Elinor B. Hawkins and Mrs. Alice Watkins. The executive board is composed of the following persons: Bishop Levi 1 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, C. H. King, J. W. Walker, G. D. Jimmerson, S. M. Johnson, N. W. Brown, P. J. Jordan, J. W. Norris and C. H. Stepean. 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 Morgan. 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. 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 savorful of such dates have for variety's sake a few that are stuffed with raisins and flinned also in chocolate. GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allow Safety Deposit REAL As agent buy and sell Real Estate dents, including payment of tax on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites The Crane Building The finest building e Steam heat, electric light, Recent allowed on Savings Acc by Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages est payment of taxes and locking after assessments Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash A It building ever opened to Colored tenant electric light, tile baths, marble entrance 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year 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. THE The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 'Phone Randolph 803 101 WASHINGTON STREET. American Brick at and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAME Secretary, WILLIAM SUL - America President and Trea Vice-Pres MAN 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 Dyer. Telephone Yards 128. 2842 South State Street, Chicago Corner 29th The Old Burton Bar James M. Porter Concert Every Afternoon and Night THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 Slowed 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. Anford Apartment 5. 3600 Wabash Ave. over opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 101 WASHINGTON STREET. ian Brick Co. . Surer, THOMAS CAREY. President, JOHN SHELMAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. "A STORE FOR EVERYBODY" Telephone Yards 693 JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Convenient to Surface and Elevated Roads. Honest working Colored people always appreciated and treated respectfully. If you desire to live where you won't be ashamed to have your friends call on you before you rent either on South, West or North Side, cut this Ad out and present it to The BELLE MEADE CLUB Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. LEWIS, Proprietor 5059 Armour Ave. Cor. 51st Street, Chicago Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. Elite Buffet and Cafe 3030 State Street 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. Rent Direct Four, F Convenient to colored people alway If you desire our friends call on north Side, cut the Samu 12 LA SALLE ST Southwest Corner of Mad Frank L. Ga THE Pianos, Or Brass a Pay TUNING The BE 5059 Hotel BUF 3004 State Street A. F. Godozoe Elit Phone Douglas The Owner. Room Flats Roads. Honest working d respectfully. Don't be ashamed to have Owner on South, West or Hardson CHICAGO, ILL. Sam'll Lee ANO CO. SHEET Games and Supplies. Cash or Easy till 10.30. 3. REPAIRING 1787 DE CLUB Cafe Srietor Four Ave. Chicago swick MILLIARDS. Chicago and Cafe street Chas. Harris, Manager u Money Business General Brokerage Infidential Henry Jones