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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY James Aloysius Quinn Stands At the Top As Chicago's Best Oil Inspector THE RECORD MADE BY HIM FOR THE MONTH OF MAY AS SET FORTH IN HIS REPORT FAR SURPASSES THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY ANY OF HIS PREDECESSORS. WORTHY AFRO-AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS HAD A TRUE FRIEND IN THE NEW CITY OIL INSPECTOR. MISS JENNIE POWELL RESIDING IN THE 21st WARD SECURES A POSITION IN THE CITY HALL THROUGH HIS INFLUENCE. MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON HAS NO STRONGER SUPPORTER THAN THE BIG CHIEF OF THE 21st WARD. Vol. XVI James Aloysius At the Top Best Oil Ins THE RECORD MADE BY HIM FOR FORTH IN HIS REPORT FAR COMPLISHED BY ANY OF HIS WORTHY AFRO-AMERICANS HAVE IN THE NEW CITY OIL INS MISS JENNIE POWELL RESIDING POSITION IN THE CITY HAI MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON H THAN THE BIG CHIEF OF T On or about May 1 James Aloysius Quinn, assumed the duties of city oil inspector and right from the very first day that he walked into his office he began to bring about reforms in it and to get everything in connection with it in apple pie order or on a firm business basis, and after running it for the month of May, right up to the handle, on the 1st of June, he furnished Mayor Carter H. Harison, with a detailed report of the amount of business he had transacted for the city up to that time. In everywhere he made a very creditable showing, proving far beyond a doubt that Mayor Harison made no mistake in selecting Mr. Quinn for his present position. His monthly report should be read by all those who are interested in the affairs of this city, it is in part as follows: 67,926 Barrels Oil at 6 Cents. "The total number of barrels of oil, gasoline, and naphtha inspected during the month was 67,926, which at the rate of 6 cent per barrel brought a revenue of $4,075 or, less the expenses of the office; a net revenue to the city of $3,003, which will be turned over to the city collector. "It is a matter of satisfaction for me to report that the total number of barrels inspected during the month of May, 1911, was 12,603 barrels more than was inspected during the month of May, 1910, and 4,043 barrels more than has been inspected during any month since the creation of the office. "It is the first time such a report ever was made and it indicates that the city's yearly income will be increased well onto $30,000, and this speaks mighty well for the business ability of Mr. Quinn. The report also set forth the amount of salary received by each one of his assistants which is as follows: The pay roll of the once: "The organization of the office consists of the inspector, the chief deputy, and five deputies," it read. "The following are the names appearing on the pay roll of the office, number of days in the month of May on which they have drawn pay, and the total salaries: James A. Quinn, inspector of oils, 60 days, $287; John A. Zimmer, deputy, 31 days, $200; Wm. Gorman, deputy, 21 day, $100; H. W. Spear, deputy, 31 days, 100; William J. Blomen, deputy, 27 days, $87 E. W. Jenks, deputy, 17 days, $55; Joseph W. Coan, 11 days, $32. Supplies, printing and so on amounted to $110, making a total expense, for the month, including the salary roll, of $10.71, and as stated before Mr. Quinn, is entitled to wear the belt as Chicago's best oil inspector, for at all times he is right there with the goods." It may not be out of the way at this time to state that worthy Afro-Americans have always had a true friend in James A. Quinn, that he is ever ready to speak a good word in their behalf, that having a heart in him as big as an ox, he has in the past as well as the present, performed many good deeds for them, for the dead as well as for the living. --- Only this week Mr. Quinn went to the front and succeeded in securing a position in the city hall, for Miss Jennie Powell, a deserving young Colored woman, who resides in the 21st ward, coming here from the South not so many years ago and being ambitious to learn, she has worked hard in order to earn enough money to educate herself, to start with Miss Powell will receive sixty-five dollars per month, which will enable her to get on her feet in good shape. This and many other reasons account for the fact why the great majority of the Afro-Americans, residing in the 21st ward and in the other sections of the North Side, have faith in Mr. Quinn—knowing that his friendship is sincere, they are always ready to follow him in politics. Mayor Carter H. Harison has never had any firmer nor stronger supporter than James A. Quinn. He has been true to the "man of destiny" throughout his entire political career. Even away last July Mr. Quinn did not hesitate in declaring that "if Carter H. Harrison, lived, that he would be the next Mayor of Chicago," and at that time, he was urging the wise politicians to jump in the Harrison hand wagon. But many of them gave him the old familiar horse laugh, and strongly intimated that he was talking through his hat, simply because he runs a big hat store, corner of Erie and North Clark street, but Mr. Quinn, being pretty wise, he was able even at that time to see the hand writing on the wall, which when rightly interpreted, meant the election of Carter H. Harrison, as Mayor of Chicago in 1911, and Mrs. Quinn, has never betrayed the trust nor confidence reposed in him by "Our Carter." THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, WILL BE CELEBRATED AT INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14. On Wednesday evening, June 14, the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Harriett Beecher Stowe, will be celebrated at the Institutional Church 3825 Dearborn St. Prof. William Pickens, of Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., will be the principal speaker. Prof. Pickens is a graduate of Yale College, and won his prize for Oratory while there. Those who heard him at Quinn Chapel when the Negro Fellowship League celebrated "Emancipation Day" there the first of last January, know him to be a great and eloquent orator. MR. JAMES A. QUINN. ..The up-to-date city Oil Inspector; tip-top business man a loyal friend to worthy Afro-Americans, and a steadfast supporter of Mayor Carter H. Harrison. Reporting of living cases of tuberculosis is now required by law or health regulation in 25 states, while in 28 states and territories, no provision whatever is made for keeping record of cases of this infectious disease, according to a statement published to-day by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in its official organ, the Journal of the Outdoor Life for June Connecticut, District of Columbia, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont are placed in the honor class as having laws which provide specifically for the reporting of tuberculosis and which make provision for the proper registration of living cases of this disease. In fourteen other states, laws or regulations of the state boards of health require that tuberculosis be reported simply as one of list of infectious diseases. These states are, Alabama, California, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah Washington, and Wisconsin. The following 28 states and territories have no provision whatever for the reporting or registration of tuberculosis cases:—Arizona, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hapshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Several cities in non-registration states, as for instance, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, and New Orleans, have local ordinances requiring that tuberculosis be reported. In all, there are about 100 cities in the United States which have ordinances of this nature. The National Association insists that the first requisite for a comprehensive campaign for the elimination of tuberculosis in a state or city is a well-enforced law requiring that every living case of tuberculosis be reported to the health authorities. Frank W. Solon to the delight of him many friends, has become superintendent of streets a posit is the honest opinion of many citizens, that within a very short time, under his watchful eyes the streets in all parts of the city will be in much better condition than they have been for some time in the past. WHITE GIRL ELOPES WITH FREE- HOLD NEGRO. Girl Had Met Her Colored Lover in Secret Frequently and He Often Called at Her Home. The Freehold police have asked the police authorities of nearby towns and cities to apprehend George Day, a local Negro, who is believed to have eloped with Edith Reynolds, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Reynolds, white. The alleged elopment occurred Sunday May 28, when the young woman, who will celebrate her seventeenth birthday this month, started from home ostensibly to attend the Baptist Sunday school services at Freehold. It was not until the girl failed to return home that an investigation was started and facts were learned that led to the belief that the girl had been meeting the Negro secret, and that she had been induced to run away with him. The Reynolds family live on what is known as the David Buck farm about a mile and a half east of Freehold, and Day lived a short distance beyond them, though he changed his residence frequently, and lived alone. Day occasionally visited the Reynolds home on some pretext. He was there about 8:30 on Sunday morning, endeavoring to trade a trivial article with Mr. Reynolds. He returned home and shortly after nine o'clock the girl started for Sunday school. When she failed to return home her parents became suspicious of Day. A visit to his place disclosed the fact that he had gone away, driving his sorrell horse which is blind in both eyes, but a good driver, attached to a buggy wagon. Later it was found that the girl had secretly taken clothing from her home other than that she wore when she left. Day is alleged to have told his friends recently that he was "going to beat it," and "that he would take a white girl with him when he left." Day's criminal record includes the serving of a six-year sentence in State prison on a charge of manslaughter in Middlesex. He has also served time for chicken stealing in Monmouth. Later Day and Miss Reynolds, were arrested at Chester, Pa., where they had eloped and last Wednesday morning county detective William D. Hulse went to Chester to secure the prisoners. It will be necessary to secure requisition papers before Day can be brought to Monmouth county. The charge against him is abduction. Day has a wife and family. The Reynolds girl was found with Day.—The Echo, Red Bank, N. J., June 4, 1911. President William H. Taft Will Not Recomend to Congres THAT IT ENACT NATIONAL LEGISLATION TO CHECK OR SUR- PRESS MOB AND LYNCH LAW IN THIS COUNTRY. A COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT CITIZENS CALL ON HIM WITH THAT OBJECT IN VIEW. SPECIAL TO THE BROAD AX. Washington, D. C., June 1. Senator Charles Curtis from Kansas secured an audience with President Taft this afternoon for a committee of ladies and gentlemen representing The National Association for The Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters in New York City, to present the following Memorial: Washington, D. C., June 1, 1911. To His Excellency William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. civilization, our Christianity and the honor of our Nation. With assurance of our high regard etc. We are. Very Obediently Yours, The National Association For The Advancement of Colored People. The members of the Committee were: Rev. W. A. Sinclair of Pennsylvania, author of "The Aftermath of Slavery;" Hon. Archibald E Grimke., of Massachusetts, author of "The Life of Charles Sumner" for the Statesman's Series, and E Minister to Santo Domingo; D The National Association For The Advancement of Colored People, composed of the white and Colored citizens of the United States, do most respectfully call your attention to the alarming increase of lynchings in our country—during three days of last week eleven persons of color (one a woman and one a youth) were lynched, not one of whom was even suspected of committing or attempting to commit the nameless crime against woman. The lynching of Colored persons—now averaging one for almost every day in the year is committed in the most atrocious and brutal manner. And the mobs engaged in this nefarious business are composed of many of "the leading" white men and women (and even children) of their various communities who make sport of murder and laugh at the cries of anguish and pain of those whom they hang, shoot to pieces or burn. No age, sex or position is a bar to lynching; men, women and children; the laborer, the teacher, the physician, the man of means, the pauper and even the Minister of the Gospel fall easy victims to the Negro-hating mobs whenever their savage passions are aroused by any designing man who is willing to lead its blood-thirsty heards in their quest for murder and carriage. Repeated appeals have been made to Governors, State Legislatures and Sheriffs to prevent lynchings, but to no avail. The spirit of murder and lawlessness has spread to such an alarming extent in this country until human life—if it be that of a black persons—is not safe anywhere in America. The people in numerous communities of our beloved land are fast becoming transformed into hoards of thugs, outlaws and murderers, and America is fast becoming a hissing and a by-word upon the lips of civilized peoples everywhere, and the very foundations of our Government are being undermined. We would remind your Excellency that there is no occasion for the lynching of any Colored person anywhere in this country, for all the laws of the State and National Governments are made by white men, and the judges and other authorities charged with their enforcement are all white, and there is no danger of a Colored man who has been proven guilty of any crime being able to escape just punishment for the same. We believe that the time has come when the Chief Executive of the Nation—into whose hands have been committed the enforcement of the laws and the preservation of the rights of all the people should call the attention of Congress to this awful reign of lawlessness and murder, and recommend that appropriate legislation be enacted for the protection of life, liberty and property in every part of the United States as the State Governments seem impotent to render such protection. And we would urgently implore your Excellency to send a Special Message to Congress asking that such action be taken as will remove this foul blot which impaces our Am H. Taft demand to Congres ISLATION TO CHECK OR SUR- W IN THIS COUNTRY. CITIZENS CALL ON HIM WITH civilization, our Christianity and the honor of our Nation. With assurance of our high regard, etc. We are, Very Obediently Yours, The National Association For The Advancement of Colored People. The members of the Committee were: Rev. W. A. Sinclair of Pennsylvania, author of "The Aftermath of Slavery;" Hon. Archibald H. Grimke., of Massachusetts, author of "The Life of Charles Sumner" in the Statesman's Series, and Ex-Minister to Santo Domingo; Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland of Rhode Island, President of The National Medical Association; Rev. Benjamin F. Foster, Ex-Auditor of The State of Kansas; Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D. D. of Washington, National Organizer of The National independent Political League; Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross, Pastor of The Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Rev. Dr. R. K. Harris, Pastor of The Israel C. M. E. Church, Rev. W. D. Naylor, Pastor A M. E. Church of Garfield, William H. Harris, Esq., Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Member School Board of District of Columbia and Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, Member of the Executive Committee of The Niagara Movement—all of Washington. The Memorial was indorsed by The National Independent Political League, J. R. Clifford, Esq. of West Virginia, Presideat, James L. Neill, Esq., Recording Secretary and by The Constitution League, of New York City Hon. John E. Milholland, President, Dr W. A. Sinclair, Field Agent. A similar Memorial was presented by the same Committee to the Senate of the United States and to The House of Representatives. THE CANTATA OF QUEEN ESTHER BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED AT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MRS. DELLA RIDGEWAY BROWN. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson in Her Most Charming Manner Represented the Beauteous Queen. THE AFFAIR WAS A GREAT FINANCIAL SUCCESS. Monday evening, June 5th, the Cantata of Esther, the beauteous Queen was more than beautifully rendered at Olivet Baptist Church, under the able direction of Mrs. Della Ridgeway-Brown. The following were the cast of characters: Esther the Queen, Mrs. Martha B. Anderson; Ahasuerus King, Mr. F. B. Waring; Hayman, the King's Counselor Mr. Opal Cooper; Mordical, a Jew, Dr. Wm. H. Marshall; Zeresh, Haman's Wife; Mrs. Della R. Brown; Mordicalis Sister, Mrs. Mayme Baity; Prophetess, Mrs. Alice Taylor; Princes, Mrs. Rosalie Gordon; Scribe, Mr. John Fields; Beggar, Mr. Frank O. Raines; Hegai, Mr. Wm. O. Brown; High Priest, Mr. Rich, A. Williams; Herald, Mr. Luther Perry; Harbónah, Mr. John Mitchell; Pershans, Jews, Guards, Maids of Honor; Organist, Miss Gertrude Jackson; Pianist, Miss M. L. Jackson. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, in her most charming manner who was the personification of everything that was lovely and beautiful, represented Queen Esther, even the costume she wore was created by her own hands, plainly showing that she is an artist along many lines and when she had finished singing ever so sweetly she was presented with a very large beautiful bunch of American Beauty Roses and Carnations. The affair was largely attended and it was a great financial success owning to the hard work of Mrs. Della R. Brown, who shared the singing honor of the evening with Mrs. Anderson. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, 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 Six Months 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5027 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO 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, 1879. DIAMOND DUST. The game Sunday at the Leland Giants Park was the best in the city. Did you see it? If not, why not? * * * The Boosters will be on hand Sunday in great force to witness the presentation of the Pennant to the Giants, as city Champions and the Foot Race at Normal Park. * * * L. Lehman, J. F. Taylor, R. H. Payne, R. S. Abbott and F. Day joined the Boosters Club last Saturday night and will be initiated tonight at the Burlington Cafe, 2918 State St., so as to be full pledged members at Sundays game between the Leland Giants and the Artesians, in their Flag raising stunt, at 69th and Halsted streets. Don't miss this game. The Lelands will leave Sunday night for West Baden, where they play one week and at Louisville, June 18th, 19th and 20th returning June 25th. Buster Henderson was fined $1,000, W. Adams, the Haber Dasher $500 and President Bolling censured for inattention to lady Boosters at Saturday night's meeting, however, on motion of R. H. Payne all fines were suspended after the recalcitrants had properly conferred with the Burlington mixoligist. Capt. Nate Harris dropped in and paid his respects to the Boosters and thanked them for making life miserable for the players and jovial for the spectators at the game Sunday. Prof. Wm. Emanuel and Artist Johnson were among the race building characters at Sunday's game, who believed in patronizing Race enterprise. Tomorrow, Sunday will be the Leland's last game home until June 25th, when they play the boys from New York, the Buffalo Giants. The best game in the city last Sunday was played by the Leland Giants and Spaldings as the following results will show. Leland Giants 3, Spaldings 2. Chicago Cubs 6, New York Giants 5. Gunthers 4, Rogers Park 3. Thus it can readily be seen that the Spalding and Lelands put up the best article of ball in the 6 leading games played on local diamonds. When it comes to pitchers, a great deal can be said about various Athletes who have played in and around Chicago, and perhaps there are now some of the best pitchers in the business connected with Chicago teams, but anyone who has studied and observed impartially the career and consistent work of the slab artist must give the palm of superiority to one of the youngest men in the business and that too, to the Leland Giants world’s wonder, Frank Wickware, scarcely 22 years of age. He has made and kept the best record for the past two seasons of any pitcher here about and is predestined to go down in baseball history as the greatest pitcher any Race has as yet produced. Last season he struck out 13 of the Spaldings, a team that recently defeated the American Giants. You should see him work Sunday at 89th and Halsted street. Fred Evans the Keystone Bean Brumel has made application to join the Boosters and will be at Sunday’s game. All Boosters are hereby requested to put in an appearance at Leland Giants Park, at 2:30 P. M. Sunday, June 11th to witness Flag Raising by order Jesse F. Bolling, President. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, COR. SSTH & DEARBORN ST. The Quarterly Conference held on the 8th was well attended and the reports of the various departments of the church were very gratifying to the Presiding Elder, Dr. T. H. Tipton. A general summary showed that nearly $11,700 had been raised during the quarter and about 27 new members had been added to the church. Sunday services will be as follows: Prayer meeting 6:00 a.m. At 11 a.m. Dr. T, H. Hipton, the Presiding Elder, will preach, Sunday School at 1 p.m. W. J. Burdine, Superintendent, Christian Endeavor at 6:30, C. J. Jackson, President at 3:00 p.m. will be the regular Quarterly meeting service Rev. S. L. Birt, Pastor of St Johns' A. M E Church, will preach the Sacramental sermon. The public is cordially invited to attend this service. In the evening the Pastor, Rev. Callis, will occupy the pulpit. The regular Quarterly Love Feast will be held on Monday evening at 8:00 p.m. All lovers of a good spiritual meeting are cordially invited to attend our Love Feast. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society enjoyed a very pleasant and profitable meeting at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Venerable, 3533 Wabash avenue, addresses were delivered by the Presiding Elder Dr. T. H. Tipton and Mrs. S Samuels of St. Louis, Mo. The refreshments served by the hostess were very much enjoyed by all present. .The next meeting will be a prayer and praise service and the society will meet at the church.—"C." "TO PASTORS OF CHURCHES, PRINCIPALS, PRESIDENTS AND HEADS OF SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, HOSPITALS OR OTHER PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. In the interest of the work in which you are engaged and for the purpose of collecting and compiling statistics as to important and essential features about the Church or Institution under your management and control, showing the cost, the present valuation, the current expenses, the indebtedness, etc., you are requested to please communicate with the United Church Protective Foundation, U. S. A. (Incorporated). 102 West 42nd Street, New York City. If you are interested a regular blank for this information will be sent upon sending postal card. It is hoped and planned that some aid and good may result to the work in which you are engaged by so communicating Respectfully. United Church Protective Foundation. U. S. A. (Incorporated) 102 West 42nd Street, New York City. SPECIAL NOTICE National Negro Press Association. Corresponding Secretary. R. W. Thompson, of the National Negro Press Association, has in course of preparation a comprehensive directory of newspapers owned and published by Colored men in the states, territories and District of Columbia. Mr. Thompson is very desirous at this work because as circumstances will permit for presentation at the annual meeting of the National Negro Press Association which meets at Little Rock, Ark., in August. Mr. Thompson is very anxious that copies of race journals be regularly sent him, with such information touching the volume of their annual business, circulation, value of plant, number of employees, etc. Mr. Thompson's address is 1004 S. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. M. M. LEWEY REV. W. SAMPSON BROOKS OF NASHVILLE' TENNESSEE STILL STANDS BY THE BROAD AX. Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, who was for a long time pastor of St. Stephens church, on the West Side this city and who was instrumental in constructing the present new edifice, and who has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Holy Land. And for the past four or five years he has been pastor of the largest A. M. E. church, in Nashville, Tenn., and for more than nine years, he has stood by The Broad Ax with his money. WAYMAN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. The services Sunday will be as usual. Preaching at 11 A. M. and a special program at 8 P. M. One special feature of the evening program will be an address by Mrs. Ide. Wells Barnett. Sunday June 18, Mrs. Nora Taylor will preach at both services. Subject Sunday morning. "Building not made with hands." with hands." Sunday evening discourse will be from the subject, "6 things necessary for fishing for men." The Pastor Rev. H. S. Stewart will preach at both the services Sunday. The Grand Re-opening of the church will occur Sunday, July the 2nd.— "S." THE CLOSING CONCERT OF THE CHORAL STUDY CLUB. The closing concert of the Choral Study Club of Chicago will take place Monday evening, June 26, at Association Auditorium, in the Y. M. C. A. Building, 19 S. La Salle Street, near Madison Street. Castilla (for male voices) by Protheroe and Bon Bon Suite by S. Coleridge Taylor, will be presented for the first time in America. Mr. Gerald Tyler of Kansas City, Mo., Baritone. All seats reserved. Boxes holding six persons, $6.00. Parquet and first three rows of balcony 75 cents, all other seats 50 cents. Secure seats in advance from members or the Secretary, Miss Cecelia Johnson, 5830 Wabash Avenue, rhone Wentworth 3053. GRADUATION OF NURSES OF PROVIDENT HOSPITAL Thursday evening June 8 the graduation exercises of the nurses of Provident Hospital were held at the Grace Prebysterian Church and the following program was rendered: Prayer, Rev. Moses Jackson; President's Address, George H. Webster; Vocal Solo, Miss Gladys Edwards, accompanist, Miss Gertrude Jackson; Address, Hon. Samuel Alschuler; Reading, Miss Carrie Hunter, Selected. Address to the Nurses, Mrs. John O'Connor, President of Chicago Women's Club; Violin, Harrison Emanuel, (a) Zephyr, Hubay; (b) Russian Airs, Weniaski: Vocal Solo, Mr. George Garner, Jr.; Selected, Presentation of Diplomas and Pins. School Hymn Benediction. CHIPS Capt. John Fry, 3022 State St., spent Monday in St. Louis, on a business trip. Miss Luella White of Milwaukee spent Thursday in the city visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Juson, 3334 State st., are spending their vacation in Xenia, Ohio. Mr. Wm. H. Clark, of the Election Commissioner's office spent Tuesday in Benton Harbor. "Boston" Claxton who was operat ed on for appendicitis at Provident Hospital is much improved. Mr. Dejunius Ogburn, 3606 State st., underwent a slight operation at Provident Hospital Monday. Mr. P. E. Robinson, 3018 State st., garduates in dentistry from Northwestern University next Tuesday. Mr. Chas. Miller and Fred Slaughter have returned to the city after an extended auto trip through Ohio and Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Young of Omaha, Neb. have moved to Evanson, where they will make their future home. Mr. Young is in the auto business. Dr. T. S. Officer and Dr. O. M. Henderson, were married Tuesday evening 29th and State st., at the residence of Dr. Blbb, about 300 friends attended. Quinn. Terrell and Murray is the name of a new brokerage and real estate firm that have opened a handsome suite of offices on the corner of 31st and State sts. Mrs. Mary A. Bradshaw of St. Louis Mo., arrived in the city the first of the week, on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, 4856 Langley Avenue. A pedestrian who didn't look where he was going was injured by Dr. Lewis' auto, Thursday at 22nd and Michigan ave., he's being cared for at St. Luke's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. A Hammond, the chief artists of the Eltouar Amusement Company, left last Saturday for Boley, Okla., where they have a two or three months' engagement. The many friends of Carl Hardy who was so seriously injured in the St. Paul limited wreck a week ago, are glad to learn that he is improving, he is now confined in the Seattle Hospital. Mr. Grant Gardner, for many years a resident of Chicago, but now residing in Grand Haven, Mich., spent a few days in the city the first part of the present week, he is looking fine and he and his good wife, Mrs. Gardner, are well pleased with their new home in Michigan. George O. Jones, the progressive undertaker and embalmer 1904 West Lake street has continued to deal so fair and square with the people that he now has patrons in all parts of Chicago. The Berean Baptist Church, 4838 Dearborn street, head its annual bazaar last week and grand rally, the past Sunday and more than $700 was gathered into the church from the effort put forth by Rev. W. S. Braddan and the members of his flock. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, left Tuesday evening for his summer home, at Huron Mountain, Mich. and he will spend until next Wednesday in getting it in ship-shape order for Mrs. Harrison and the other members of his family who will follow later. The committee, on celebrating a sane Fourth of July, met at Olivet Baptist church last evening and Hon. Edward D. Green and other members of the committee completed arrangements for celebrating the Fourth for many of the children on the south side and the play ground, 24th and Wabash avenue will be used for that purpose. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, displayed much wisdom, in selecting Dr. George Bright Young, late surgeon in command of the United States Marine Hospital of this city, as city health commissioner, and the new commissioner will find plenty of work to do in order to put and keep Chicago in a clean and healthy condition. Mrs. Nancy J. Nelson, of Cincinnati, O., and who has lived for a long time on Buymiller street in that city is a constant supporter of The Broad Ax, Mrs. Nelson is an exception to the general rule, for she is one among the few out of town Colored ladies, who is up-to-date enough to remit their indebtedness to the paper without being pestered about it. The Volunteer Workers Club held its regular meeting at the home of its corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Sarah H. Banks, 3318 Wabash avenue, Wednesday, June 7. The club feels very grateful to their friends for the success of the May Musical, they are preparing to entertain their young friends at a Lawn Fete, June 16, at Mrs. Laurella Chandler, 6353 Rhodes ave. Mrs. Clara Johnson, Pres.; Mrs. Mamie Bish, Sec.; Miss Lucy H. Webster, Rep. NEW MILLINERY PARLOE Mrs. Anna Hayman, 3236 Wabash avenue. Phone, Douglas 462. Latest styles in ladies' hats, hats made to order, trimmed and blocked. Prices reasonable. DR. COOPER'S FINE RECORD. Made Presiding Elder After Successful Pastorate in Brooklyn. In retiring from the pastorate of the Bridge Street A. M. E. church in Brooklyn, where he has pastored for the past five years, the Rev. Dr. A. R. Cooper made the following report of what he has accomplished during his administration: Conversions, 179: accessions, 1,092: baptisms, 134: deaths, 106: missionary money, $652.45; total money raised from all purposes, $38,890.28. Beside this splendid record the church has been renovated, is free from debt, and over $2,000 has been paid on the personage. Dr. Cooper is now presiding elder or the Albany (N. Y.) district of the New York conference of the A. M. E. denomination. Why Higher Education is Necessary. Our people are making appreciable headway in their educational development, in their religious growth and in the acquisition of industrial skill, says Southern Life, a high class monthly magazine published at Atlanta, Ga. The conviction is irresistible with us that the Negro should now begin to seek expert training in commerce and literature. It is high time that we endeavor to bring on a much more rapid development along these two lines if we are to win an unassailable position of eminence along with the other great races, win those "heights by great men reached and kept." And get their pants chock full of ants. —Boston Herald. Too Much Clothing. "Nettie," said her mother, "don't you want a hard boiled egg for lunch?" "I'd like to have one, mamma," replied Nettie, "if you've got time to undress it for me." —Chicago News. Ever on the Move. The dove of peace was on a llmb. It cooed in accents vexed. Where shall I migrate next? "War's rumors shift with swiftness grim. "War's rumors shift with swiftness grim, -Washington Star. AFRO-AMERICANS IN COLLEGE LIFE ANXIOUS TO SERVE THE RAGE Brief Review of What Is Being Done Along the Line of Higher Education. Remarkable Achievements of George W. A. Scott and Charles Fred White In Oratory and Athletics. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The success of young Afro-Americans at the various universities this year has been very marked. At the interclass (sophomore) meet at Harvard Theodore Cable won the sixteen pound hammer throw with a heave of 144 feet 10' inches. Graduates from the University of Pittsburgh this summer will be Hub- P CHARLES FRED WHITE bard Hottensworth, Riley Leftwick and Ray H. Wooten, collegiate and engineering departments; William Writt Jr., and S. Rosemond Davis, medical department; Leo P. Phillips and Mr. Primus, pharmaceutical department while Daniel W. Hall gets his certificate for a special course in the industrial arts from Carnegie technical schools. Aspiration of George W. A. Scott. No event, however, in college circles thus far has created greater enthusiasm among the masses of the race than the winning of the Curtis medal by George W. A. Scott at the recent oratorical contest at Columbia university. Mr. Scott was born in Lynchburg, Va. He received his elementary training in the country schools of Virginia and West Virginia. Taking up his residence in New York in 1898, Mr. Scott attended the public school and the Morris high school before entering Columbia university. He took several prizes in the elementary schools for excellence in his [Name] studies, conduct and attendance, having gone for four years without being absent or late. He is vice president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the only national colored fraternity in the United States. In high school he was in athletics and was an officer in the association give club and for four years president of the Aiowr Literary society. Besides editing the school annual, he held several other important offices. In his senior year he won first prize, a gold medal, for oratory in college he was a member of 3 delisting clubs for the freshman class. "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 Trees, 6221 Halsted St. $1,000 Death Benefit $7.50 weekly benefit for accidents; $10.00 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. In 1910 he won second prize in the Curtis medal contest. The decision was so close that many declared that he should have been awarded first place. This year he was awarded the first prize, a gold medal. The judges decided in Mr. Scott's favor in less than ten minutes. It is Mr. Scott's ambition to become an instructor in some one of the higher institutions of learning for Afro-Americans, as he believes himself especially fitted to be of great service to the race along this line. He is fond of history, political government and the higher sciences. He is young, full of life and eager to be of service to other young and aspiring youths who are making the upward struggle in life. Charles Fred White's Fine Record. As an athlete Charles Fred White, University of Pennsylvania, law, '12, has accomplished wonders within the past seven years. Here is his record: Class and varity track teams (high jump and broad jump), Phillips Exeter academy, 1903-4; class football team, Exeter, 1903; class and varsity track teams (winner in ten different events in one afternoon), Williston seminary, 1905-8 all round (Kennedy medal) champion track and field athlete, Williston, June, 1907 champion broad jump and record holder, Amherst College Interscolastic association, June, 1907, champion high jump and record holder, Amherst College Interscolastic association, June, 1908, freshman and varsity track team test freshman and varsity track team test freshman and record holder of P, 1969-1971, junior holder of A, A, 1 all round 100 yard dash record, Chicago August, 1970 champion middle Atlantic A, A, 120 yard dash, Philadelphia, September, 1910 winner of numerous prizes in 100 and 240 dashes; high and broad jump running and standing; high and low hurdles; hammer, shot put and discus throw WORKING CONGREGATION Members Make Grand Effort to Meet Conditional Offer of $250. The work of the Rev. A. J. Mitchell, pastor of the Court Street Methodist Episcopal church in Bedford City, Va. is commendable. Through the generous aid of members of the church and friends the church debt has been reduced to $1,841. An effort is now being made to raise $350 to meet a conditional gift of $250. The $550 rally was held on Sunday, June 4. Over $221 was raised by the members alone, and when full reports are all in from friends and wellwishers it is hoped that the demands of the conditional offer may be fully met. Those conversant with conditions in the country districts in the south can readily understand what a tremendous sacrifice this struggling congregation is making to free the church property of debt. Subscriptions may be sent to Mr. William H. Terry, Bedford City, Va., who will gladly acknowledge the same by sending a duly signed receipt to the donor. WOMEN WORK FOR UPLIFT. Clube In South Carolina to Meet in Columbia June 22. The women of South Carolina who are engaged in or in any way interested in club work will have a chance to be heard at the forthcoming convention of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which meets in Columbia for three days, beginning on Thursday, June 22. Mrs. Carrie B. Perry, president of the federation, invites all clubs not members of the organization to elect delegates to the convention, with instructions to join the central body, thereby making one strong organization of women who shall work hand in hand for the general and mutual uplift of womanhood. Delegates may secure accommodation in advance by sending their names to Mrs. Mary Marce, secretary, Bamburg, S. C. Sporting Notes. Baltimore has organized a ladies' tennis association. Jim Flynn, who knocked out Al Kaufman, does not care to fight Jack Johnson, but would tackle Sam Langford. Edmund I. my, who for six years was the undisputed champion of America on skates on the ice, has made good at professional baseball, piing center field for the Manchesterd team of the Ohio and Pennsylvania league. Tewaskin, the star runner of the Carlisle Indian school, who recently won the twelve time ran Grosse roadway, New York City, may try to make the Marathon team that will represent this country at the Olympic games next. He will bury cheaper than the trust P. B. GEO. C. Fuheral Director and Embalm successful undertaking establish of the people's appreciation of I am the only Undertaker that the same price as Hearse and o to One Hundred Dollars on a fu You are cordially invited to cos making arrangements. GEO. O. JONES. We carry a large stock on ha 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 after 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. Current Comment. If they continue to "raise" the Maine much longer she's likely to become an airship.-Richmond News-Leader. More than 780,000 automobiles are registered in America this year. And yet there are persons who complain about the high cost of living.-Milwaukee Sentinel. Bernard Shaw says Americans are a "horrible, appalling lot," his judgment being undoubtedly based upon the vogue his plays have over here.-Syracuse Post-Standard. London requires taximeters to be connected to the front wheels of taxi-cabs because the rear wheels do the most slipping. In 1904 there were only two motor cabs in London. By 1909 they had grown to 3,956, and at the end of March this year the number was 7,165. Paris, with a population of 3,000,000 has 18,000 automobiles. Moscow, with 1,500,000 inhabitants, has 720. The gasoline auto of today is not suited to Russia. Telephone Calls. The repair and removal of instruments costs the New York Telephone company $8,000,000 a year. Free E BEAU MOUNT O 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 Satur- 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. Automobiles. JONES. er who conducts, one of the most ments 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- ons. Bodies shipped to all parts sign countries at the very lowest audent. Office and chapel, 1904 W. A three minute telephonic conversation between Berlin and the Swedish city of Gothenburg costs only 80 cents. There were pretty close to 20,000 tele- phone conversations between Chicago and New York last year over six wires. Congressional Record. Leave to print in the Congressional Record is something like telling your treasures to a policeman.—Washington Stew. The regular contributors to the Congressional Record are so industrious that they never care any room for "Old Subscriber."—Exchange. "The Congressional Record has no advertising section." comments the Birmingham Age-Herald. Get wise, friend. It hasn't any other kind.—Washington Post. His Unneighborliness. My neighbors don't like me, their hatred is deep. And I hear that they want to annul My right to live near. I don't blame Not So Strange. She—Isn't it strange that men seldom write poems on love after they are married? He—Oh. I don't know! I never heard of a man writing a poem on the ocean after an attack of scurlekness. Chicago News. excursion TIFUL FIRST ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT National Religious Training School Scores Big Success. FEATURES OF THE EXERCISES Men of National Repute Attend Closing Exercises of Well Governed Institution Founded by Dr. J. E. Shepard—Every Race Must Have Its Own Leaders, Say Judge Stafford. BY GEORGE FRANCIS KING. Durham, N. C.-The first annual commencement of the National Religious Training school recently held in Durham was one of the greatest educational events among the race ever held in this city. The standard and scope of this institution were evidenced by the men of national reputation in attendance. The growth of the school was a startling feature to the many prominent visitors of both races from many sections of the country. The exercises began with the annual musical, which was attended by a large number of music lovers from all parts of the state and was conceded by musical critics to have been a high class affair. The baccalaureate address was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Augustus P. Record, pastor of the Church of the Unity, Springfield, Mama. Dr. Record's subject was the "Unfinished Task." Many people, conspicuous in educational and religious spheres, attending the oratorical contest of the institution said that for the first year's work of the school the contestants showed a training that was remarkable and that the proper conception of the possibilities for the great and farreaching success of the plans of the founder and president of the institution were evidenced in the work of the contestants. The address to the undergraduates by President James E. Shepard was also a pertinent feature of the exercises. The address to the literary societies was delivered by Dr. P. W. Few, president of Trinity college in Durham. He spoke in part as follows: I am always glad to come into contact with single individuals or a whole people who have great tasks before them, especially if they are willing fairly and fearlessly to confront their great tasks. Circumstances have set before you the high task of building in a short time and under surroundings of a well developed society a worthy civilization of your own. There are features of the case that make your case unique. There is nothing else just like it in all the world. Then Durham are making efforts, with patience, to work out the problems of your destiny. And you are working out your destiny here under peculiarly favorable conditions, for I am sure that the relations existing between the white and colored races in Durham are better than I have observed elsewhere in America. To help your race forward and to improve these good relations between the two races is an opportunity for which this institution ought to be most grateful. In thoughtful minds one misgiving about American education arises out of the probable education too little direct effort, including made to produce soundness of education. This is the fruit of right education that is most difficult to set about cultivating. It is. I think, the immense difficulty of the task that has caused it to be neglected and a failure to appreciate the importance of it, for I take it that everybody regards character as the supreme thing in men. Yet this supreme thing in men is self-treated as only an accidental product of American public education, to give this supreme thing the ascendant place in education is the work yet to be done in America, and it can only be done by the combined efforts of teachers, know the difference between education and of who demand that in the training of their children the first thing should be put first, and those two forces must be backed by a courageous public opinion that can estimate moral as justly as it estimates material values. I feel especial interest in your school because, as I understand it, you are here really setting the fruits of character high above every other consideration and because you seem to see clearly that personal and national character must rest upon a religious basis. The fundamental organic committal of the institute to the moral causes and to the moral causes to mankind constitutes the main source of power and gives it its chief opportunity for service to the American people. The annual commencement address was delivered by Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, associate justice supreme court of Columbia, at which time three young indians received their diplomas from the commercial department. His address was one of the most inspiring ever heard in this city. He said in part: This school was born of the realization of this deep truth, that every race must have its leaders. It is not enough to provide for the average man. You must provide likewise for the exceptional man. You must encourage leadership. You must see that those who by nature and ambition are calculated to lead shall be by education and discipline fired to lead wisely. Every race will have its leaders. The black race will have its own. We cannot be well trained. We are well trained. We can see to it that they shall be filled with true ideals of service. The time has gone by when you could put the human mind into a dungeon. The instinct for something better is unconquerable. Men will have light. They will have their share in the fruits of the world's progress. No dead weight of opposition can ever keep down the mighty instinct of growth. As Wendell Phillips was fond of saying, "The tiny weeds of an important summer upheave the coronal foundations of the earth of ruins." Where there is life there will be growth. If you plant an acorn in a vase the acorn will die or else the vase will crack. Of all the follies that ever took possession of the human mind the supreme folly is to suppose that you can keep a man in ignorance if he wants to learn. shall it be vice and crime and rebellion against society and law or shall it be truth and virtue and loyalty to God and to the state? That is the question. The mistakes men have made so often in the past have been in supposing that the strong and prosperous hold a mortgage on the weak and poor. In the world of morals it is the other way. It is the weak who have more power upon the strong, in the ignorant who have less power. It is no safety but in justice. God has no made his world that the rich shall dwell in fear unless they banish ignorance and crime and poverty from their borders. That is the only policy of insurance that in the long run is worth a penny. There is no safety for a state but in the intelligent loyalty of its citizens. It was wilted and wilted. You can do almost anything with it, but you cannot not rest a nation upon force. If that was true, and it was true, even under the old forms of government how much more is it true under a government like ours, where public sentiment is the only king, where even the law upon the statute book is good will of the community is behind it. Durham has become one of the most important places in the United States. This little town of 18,000 inhabitants among the hills of North Carolina has drawn to itself the attention of the whole country. Why? Because it has struck bedrock on this race question. Here is a community where the best elements of both races meet and work together for the good of all. Mutual helpfulness and mutual respect, these are the talismanic words that have been spoken here. We have seen a civil suit judge of the United States and a former governor of the state traversing the country to fill the treasury of this institution. We have seen a distinguished ex-Confederate officer, perhaps the foremost, citizen of his state, ready to become the guardian of its funds, to give it the prestige of his name and benefit of his counsel and service, and we have seen the good people of this town setting the country an example of unselfish, and brand blind hospitality, in an attempt to elevate a race. KITTRELL COLLEGE ECHOES. Graduate Hear Optimistic Address by the Rev. Dr. A. L. Gaines Kittrell, N. G.-The celebration of the quarto-tenentary of Kittrell college recently was made memorable by many brilliant features during the week of exercise. Chief among them were the dedication of Duke hall. PETER H. HARRIS REV DR A L. COINES raising of a large amount toward the $25,000 needed for extension work, the literary program held in connection with the graduating exercises and the annual sessions of the North Carolina and western North Carolina A. M. E. conferences, presided over by Bishop Levi J. Coppin. The address to the graduating class on the closing day was delivered by the Rev. Dr. A. L. Gelnes, pastor of Trinity A. M. E. church. Baltimore. He said in part: To bring about ideal conditions a race is needed that makes no particular claim, as did the Hebrews, of being God's peculiar people and whose training is unlike that of Japeth-materialists and lovers of conquest. Race is needed that believes that conditions must be brought about not by extracting and humiliating other races, but that conditions must be changed by race acting in complementary functions, or, to put it differently, in the final to teach other races that each race must contribute its part to the general upift of humanity. The Negro is free, and his freedom was brought about by his own blows. He has taken up his burden as a freedman, and though the wind has been in his face and the current against him, he has been moving forward and upward. He has wiped out 10 per cent of his literacy, his level 10 per cent of 40,000 students in our higher institutions of learning, 30,000 teachers 20,000 learning trades, 12,000 pursuing classical courses, 1,300 in scientific courses and 15,000 graduates. The Negro has many excellent newspapers by which he pleads his own cause, $10,000,000 in school property attest his own efforts for education, $10,000,000 for church property speaks of his loyalty to God, and $10,000,000 for taxable property tell of the pride which he takes in his home. And so I am here today to impress this audience, and especially the student body, that it is my belief that, Sham and Joseph having the wrong idea of race superiority and having failed to bring about ideal conditions, it now devolved upon the Negro to take the necessary conditions by teaching the world that the idea of race domination, whether such be dreamed of by white people or black people, is foreign to the idea of God as taught by the Necked Master. Religious circles in Pittsburgh are taking a lively interest in the arrangements for the sixteenth annual convention of branch No. 2 of the Christian Missionary alliance, which will be held for two weeks beginning on Sunday, June 11. The local committee expects fully seventy-five delegates from out of town. Early morning prayer meetings will be a special feature of the convention's program. Elks to Meet in Boston in August. Members of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks throughout the country are manifesting much interest in the coming convention of the order, which is to be held in Boston in August. Large delegations are expected from the south and west. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Miss Ellen Terry uses a visiting card of a style peculiar to herself. As small as the conventional gentleman's card, it bears only the words "Ellen Terry." Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, a society woman of Washington, has written the music for a number of Wordsworth's songs, her work being considered of more than usual merit. Mrs. Frederick Schoff, president of the National Congress of Mothers, is working to get a national endowment for a school and university extension plan for the education of Americans in parenthood. Miss Anna B. Eckstein, who formerly taught in Wellesley college, got the names of 1,000 Wellesley girls to her petition for universal peace before she sailed for Europe. She expects to have millions of signatures before the world peace congress in 1913. She is a director of the American Peace society. Miss Anne J. Allebach, president of the New York University Philosophical society, is the first woman in this country to be elected a minister of the Mennonite church. She was ordained a short time ago in Philadelphia. Miss Allebach is an interesting writer and represents the advanced thinkers of the church. Town Topics. In New York they fire the police commissioner and give the police the fire commissioner.-Boston Transcript. One way to boost Indianapolis is to make visitors carry away some very pleasant memories of a clean city.-Indianapolis Star. Chicago drinks a million gallons of beer on a hot day.-News Item. St. Louis and Milwaukee papers please copy.-Omaha Bee. Another advantage of Syracuse over New York as a place of residence—one may take a bath without calling up the city hall to ask permission.-Syracuse Post-Standard. Timely Tips. You spend a whole evening in sprinkling your lawn, and it raineth thereafter from midnight till dawn.—Chicago Tribune. These people who commit suicide on account of the hot weather never seemingly pause to reflect that they may be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. This is the time of the year when a lad and a lass on a crowded excursion steamer can look at each other and feel that they are a thousand miles away from anybody.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Writers. Walter Pulitzer, the author, is one of the crack chess players of America. Frederick Upham Adams, the novelist, is the inventor of several electric light devices. Edwin Le Fevre, the writer of Wall street romances, was born at Colon, republic of Panama, in 1871. Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian author, is an ardent student of bees and owns a large and valuable apiary. W. M. Marwell notions, oligra to bacco, confections and news stand 5322 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. 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Williams Painter, Paperhanger and Calciminer Plasterer & Whitewasher 605 West Harrison Street Chicago Teacher of Vocal and Piano Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson Soprano Fall Term Begins Septamber Ist, 1910 Residence 6450 Champaign Avenue Chicago, IL. Phone Normal 336 Established 1887 Phone Oakland 2380-188 John J. Dunn Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Coal and Wood WM. D. NEIGHBORS & GO 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 Resolutions Adopted Indorsing the Administration of the Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett and Pledging Support For His Re-election as Secretary—Friends Want Him Elevated to Bishopric. New York.—The recent session of the board of missions of the African Methodist Episcopal church, held in New York the last week in May, brought out prominently what the denomination is doing for the cause of missions. At this meeting the secretary of the missionary department, the Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett, submitted his third annual report, which showed that $71,517 had been raised for missions through the Easter day collections, besides a similar amount from the Women's Missionary society, the Homes of Foreign Missionary society and the Homes of American Missionary society. Joseph A. Shaffer of Chicago, who pleaded, suggested to the board that an effort be made to have the financial publishing home, church extension and the missionary boards unite in petitioning the next general conference for authority to erect a suitable building for the housing of these departments in Philadelphia. He also said that quarters could be provided in the proposed building for a great library, which would contain all books written by the race and pertaining to the race question. Dr. Beckett and others urged the necessity of a building as proposed, and the bishop's suggestion was unanimously indorsed. Besides appropriating money for the carrying on of mission and educational work in Africa, Canada, the West Indies and South America, the board agreed to purchase for $1,500 a $7,000 church and school property recently erected by the Rev. P. A. Luckle in British Guiana, South America; voted to recognize the Women's Mite Missionary and Home and Foreign Mis- [Name] sionary societies as auxiliaries of the board of missions and held memorabilies services for the late Bishop Abram Grant, B. W. Lampton and the Rev. Dr. L. H. Reynolds. The president of the Women's Mite Missionary society, Mrs. Mary F. Handy of Baitimore was present and told of the workings of her department. She also stated that the society would submit vouchers to the board of missions for all inmates expended, as has been desired for some time by Secretary Beckett. A recommendation was also adopted to ask the next general conference of the denomination to allow the board of missions half of the Easter day collections now going to the board of church extension. Resolutions highly commendatory of the administration of Dr. Beckett and pledging support for his re-election as secretary or any other position in the church to which he may aspire were unanimously adopted. Dr. Beckett has been urged by prominent churchmen in all sections of the country to become a candidate for the bishopric. Born in South Carolina in 1859, he has made hosts of friends during his ministry of twenty-seven years. He has represented the South Carolina conference at four general conferences. For sixteen consecutive years he lived in Charleston, where he was both pastor and presiding elder. He is a graduate of both Clark university and the Gammon Theological seminary, Atanta, Ga. The following members of the board were present: Revs. J. L. R. Watkins, Philadelphia; W. H. H. Butler, Pittsburgh; G. H. Shaffer, Indianapolis; F. Jesse Peck, Los Angeles, Cal.; I. N. Ross, Washington; B. J. Ramsey, Columbia, S. C.; C. C. Tucker, Oklahoma; J. W. Rankin, Waxahachie, Tex.; D. A. Perrin, Florida, and James W. Walker, Selma, Ala. Pert Personals. "Don't use long words" is an admonition from F. Hopkinson Smith. Still, he uses the "Hopkinson."—Poughkeepsie Star. J. Pietpoht Morgan complains that he is losing his appetite, probably the only thing that ever got away from him—Detroit Free Press. Mary Garden thinks women's clothes are discussed much more than they should be. In Mary's case there should be less discussion—and more clothes.—Houston Chronicle. Having snubbed the Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, Queen Mary thinks it's just delightful to be the wife of a king.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Recent Inventions. To enable a person to sign twenty documents at once there has been invented a machine in which a score of fountain pens are operated by a master pen. Operated by a small motor driven by a dry battery is a machine invented in Germany to resuscitate persons overcome by gases which automatically pumps out the lungs and fills them with oxygen. A wave power motor that a California recently patented utilizes the horizontal motion of the water instead of the vertical, as usually is the case in such machines. The Royal Box. Each of King George's sons will receive £10,000 a year from the civil list on attaining his majority and each daughter £6,000 a year at her majority or marriage. Among the most carefully guarded possessions of the German crown prince is a large and interesting scrap book containing over 1,000 pages of adverse newspaper criticisms. Queen Mary of England is averse to rouge and powder, but is fond of earrings and is pleased to see the women of her court wear them. Liking for earrings is an inherited fad of the queen. The Judge's Bench. A New York judge says that drunkenness is no excuse for bigamy. Well, then, is bigamy an excuse for drunkenness? -Detroit Free Press A Georgia man has been ordered by a judge to kiss his wife every day, so he might as well engage a seat on the water wagon—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. "The better a person is dressed the less money he has, as a rule," says Judge Parry, whose experience in the county court certainly gives him a right to speak on the subject—London Telegraph. The present system of British telegraphy all over the world embraces 1,111,850 miles of wire. In an electric fountain small enough for use as a table decoration that a Boston man has invented the falling water turns a wheel which changes the colors of the lights which illuminate it. 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and locking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 101 WASHINGTON STREET. African Brick Co. and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHRLHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. Brick Co. THOMAS CAREY. JOHN SHELHAMER, etery, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CARRY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. 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