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THE BROAD AX The Bull Moose or The Lily White Party After A Cut And Dried Program Nominated Col. Theodore Roosevelt And Governor Hiram W. Johnson FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THE FORMER BOUGH RIDING PRESIDENT AND HIS MANAGER SENA- TOR JOSEPH M. DIXON. DISPLAYED THEIR SPLEEN AND HATRED AGAINST THE COLORED SOUTHERN DELEGATES AND THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE IN GENERAL. BECAUSE THEY WERE UNABLE TO BUY UP, BRIBE OR DEBAUCH THE SIXTY-SIX COLORED DELEGATES FROM THE SOUTH WHO ATTENDED THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN JUNE IN THIS CITY. OR TO INDUCE THEM TO VIOLATE THEIR INSTRUCTIONS AND TRANSFER THEIR VOTES FROM PRESIDENT TAFT TO THE BLATANT SO CALLED STATESMAN OF OYSTER BAY. BY REASON OF THIS FACT EVERY COLORED DELEGATE FROM THE SOUTH ATTENDING THE BULL MOOSE CONVENTION WERE EXCLUDED OR KICKED OUT OF IT. GROSSLY INSULTED AND BRANDED AS BEING IGNORANT AND UTTERLY UNFIT TO ASSIST AT THE BORNING OF THE NEW LILY WHITE PARTY. NO SELF-RESPECTING AFRO-AMERICAN IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD MARCH UNDER THE BANNER OF OOL THEODORE BOOSEVELT FOR TIME AND AGAIN HE HAS PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE A RANK ENEMY AND A COPPER-HEADED TRAITOR TO THE COLORED RACE. Vol. XVII. The Bull M. Lily White A Cut And gram Non Theodore And G. Hiram FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT FORMER ROUGH RIDING PRESIDENT JOSEPH M. DIXON. DISPLAYED THEIR SPLEEN AND SOUTHERN DELEGATES AND GENERAL. BECAUSE THEY WERE UNABLE TO THE SIXTY-SIX COLORED DEATTENDED THE REPUBLICAN IN THIS CITY. OR TO INDUCE THEM TO VICE TRANSFER THEIR VOTES IN BLATANT SO CALLED STATES. BY REASON OF THIS PACT EVER SOUTH ATTENDING THE EXCLUDED OR KICKED OUT GROSSLY INSULTED AND BRANUTTERLY UNFIT TO ASSIST LILY WHITE PARTY. NO SELF-RESPECTING AFRO-AMERICAN MARCH UNDER THE BANNER FOR TIME AND AGAIN HE HA ENEMY AND A COPPER-HEA RACE. Two days prior to the convening of the Bull Moose or the Lily White party at the Coliseum, Monday, August 5, the former Rough Riding President and his manager Senator Joseph M. Dixon, brazenly showed their cloven feet and displayed their spleen and hatred against the Colored southern delegates and the Afro-American race in general; the main or their chief cause of their outburst against the Colored delegates from the southern states at the present time was owing to the fact that Messrs. Roosevelt and Dixon were unable to buy up, bribe or debauch the 66 Colored delegates from the South who attended the regular Republican national convention in this city in June. It will be recalled that they utterly failed in every way to induce them to violate their instructions and transfer their votes from President Taft to the more than blatant so-called statesman of Oyster Bay. At that time Senator Dixon very boastingly published it to the world that he could buy all or a majority of those 66 Southern Colored delegates for Col. Roosevelt; that all he had to do was to show the "Niggers' the money, then they would willingly flop over but somehow or other they failed to flop, then Col. Roosevelt who discharged three companies of the 25th Regiment without a trial, from the U. S. army, and forever debarred them from holding any civil position under the government, and branded the Negro race as a race of rapists and criminals, rushed onto to this city from his eastern home and after arriving here, one by one of the 66 Southern Colored delegates was induced to visit him at his rooms in the Congress Hotel and there after trying himself to bribe them in one way or another he met with failure, with all of his bait and fair promises to them they would not budge nor desert President Taft for him. Then he began to loudly curse and damn them and for that reason and for no other he issued orders that every Colored delegate from the South attending the Bull Moose convention must be absolutely excluded or kicked out of it, grossly insulted and branded as being ignorant and utterly unfit to assist at the homing of the new Lily White party. It is more than evident to our mind that Col. Roosevelt has always had an inborn hatred for the Negro; that he has never had any use for him except to ride him as a stalking horse to further his own political ambitions, at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American war, the brave Colored troops, saved his life and made it possible for him to serve for almost 8 years as president of the United States and how did he repay them for saving his life? Why by slandering them by writing articles for the magazines for one thousand dollars per article in which he endeavored to gobble onto all the honor and the glory of that memorable contest himself; he declared that he had to threaten to shoot the Colored soldiers in the back—before they would do their duty and make their heroie charge up San Juan Hill—that it would never do to have Colored officers to command Colored soldiers for they would not obey them—then after dealing the Colored troops this terrific false blow and slandering them to beat the band for money. In 1900 when he became a candidate for vice-president he had the nerve and the brass to travel around among the Colored people in all parts of this country and urged them to stand by him and the Grand Old Party—he praised the southern Colored delegates who had Loyally assisted to nominate him and the lamented William McKinley—in 1904 he done likewise and in 1908, he had nothing but the highest words of praise for the Southern Colored delegates who turned their backs on Senator Joseph B. Foraker, their best and truest friend and voted almost solidly in the convention for his man Friday William H. Taft, whom President Roosevelt at that time with the aid of a large number of federal office holders and with his steam roller well oiled and in first class working order, rammed down the throats of the American people whether wanted him or not. All of the foregoing, seems to plainly indicate, that Col. Theodore Roosevelt, has no earthly use for the Negro, except to use him to further his own selfish CHICAGO, AUGUST 10, 1912 J COL. JOHN B. MARSHALL The Popular Commander of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards The Best and the Greatest Negro Military Organization in the World. purposes and we freely confess, that it is far beyond our ability to understand or to see how any self-respecting Afro-American can support him, or raise his voice, in his behalf. For at numerous times, he has proven himself to be a rank enemy and a copper-headed traitor to the Colored race. As expected in accordance with a cut and dried program Col. Roosevelt and Gov. Hiram W. Johnson of California, were nominated for president and vice president by the Bull Mosers and the Lily Whites, and the platform adopted for them to run on or to stand on, is full of all kinds of isims. It means all things to all men, except to the Negro. It was skillfully thrown together, to catch the votes of the white Negro hating element residing in the Southern states, and other sections of the country, who favor the disfranchisement of the Negro, all kinds of racial discriminations and the "Jim Crow" car for him and his family. But in our humble opinion, his platform and his long winded speech, which consumed three hours, in setting forth his rattle brained views on a thousand and one unlogical subject and his hostile attitude against the Southern Negro will do him no good, at the polls in November. For the American people are not ready to march under the red flag of Anarchy and Socialism. BOOSEVELT AND THE NEGRO VOTER. Mr. Roosevelt defines his attitude and the attitude of his new party towards the Negro in a letter to Julian Harris of Atlanta, Ga. Boiled down, the mass of verbiage amounts simply to this: Mr. Roosevelt is for the Negro in the North and he doesn't care a rap about the Negro in the South. He is for the Negro where the Negro can vote, and he is against the Negro where the Negro is practically debarred from voting. He is for the Negro with genuine enthusiasm in the states where the Negro can help him. He is against the Negro in those states where it is the Negro who needs the help. He is an old-time war Republican in Indiana and Illinois and he is a Lily-White Republican in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. He wants Negro delegates in the forth-coming hand-picked convention from the Northern states. He doesn't want Negro delegates from the Southern states. In justification of this two-faced attitude, he points to and laments what he terms the failure of the Republicans for the forty-five years to build up a party in the South on Negro votes alone. There we have it—the whole Roosevelian theory of political morals. Principle, the responsibilities left by the war are nothing. The Republicans are not strong in the South. Therefore they are wrong! In this, as in every other issue presented, Roosevelt has trimmed his sails to catch every favoring breeze. He has decided it by the grand principle of political expediency, as he sees it. "Can you give me anything? If so, I'm for you. If not, I'm against you." That's Roosevelt. That's the platform, principle and practice of the Third Term party.—The Inter Ocean, August 7-12. FURLONG SECTION AN IDEAL COLONY. Spirit of Progressiveness Prevails in Settlement of 700 Negro Citizens. Thrift distinguishes the Furlong tract on one square mile, bounded by Long Beach avenue, Alba street, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-first streets which is occupied chiefly by 700 Negroes. Attractive gardens and neat, well-kept homes predominate. So excellent is order in the neighborhood that no arrests have been made for more than twelve months. Prosperity prevails, but in case a widow or head of a family is unfortunate and fails to meet payments due on the home place, the tract has its Progressive league formed for the purpose of assisting the delinquent. H. T. Wells is president of the league. Each member contributes $1 a month to a common fund. Noah D. Thompson, progressive grocer of the district, maintains a store which is a model of neatness for the young folks. Mrs. Thompson, a graduate of Howard and Oberlin colleges, who was at the head of settlement work in Washington, D. C., is prominent in social and educational work in the tract. The spirit of Tuskogee institute prevails everywhere. Paint, whitewash, neatness, perfect sanitary arrangements, and love of home, are noticeable all over the tract.-The Tribune, Los Angels, Cal., August 4, 1912. Robert M. Sweitzer, county clerk, has forwarded to the writer a neatly covered little hand book, which contains the list or the names of all the county and town officers, of Cook County, and a directory of city officers of the city of Chicago. It also contains valuable information for the tax-payers, and the names of all of the judges of the circuit and superior court. It is in every sense of the word, a handy reference book, and we extend our thanks to Mr. Sweitzer, for it. The Grant Guild, has been organized at Bethel Church, by Mrs. Hattie Arrant, and on next Thursday evening, August 15, a musical under its auspices will be given at the church, in honor of the many strangers visiting in the city. Three More Young Colored Boys Get Into Most Serious Trouble THEY HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF STEALING JEWELRY AND OTHER ARTICLES, THEY ROBBED PAWN SHOPS AND JEWELRY STORES ON THE SOUTH SIDE. THEY SPENT MUCH OF THEIR TIME IN HANGING OR LOAFING AROUND POOL AND BILLIARD ROOMS. AT THE TIME OF THEIR ARREST THEY WERE HEAVILY ARMED TO THE TEETH WITH REVOLVERS. The latter part of last week Sylvester Ahause, 15 years old, Lawrence Jones, 15 years old and Monroe Beechman, 18 years old, all Colored boys, were arrested in a pool room at 1149 S. State Street; by policemen M. W. Holliday, and Frank Abraham, of the South Clark street station, after a desperate struggle with them. They were suspected of having been the ring leaders in robbing a number of jewelry stores and pawnshops on the South side. At the time of their arrest, the police found in their possession 45 gold and diamond rings, 6 watch chains, 3 watch cases and 2 watch charms, which were supposed to have been lately stolen by the young burglars. from some of our best Colored families, in this city, will persist in getting into all kinds of trouble, without calling any names, only a short time ago some young Colored boys were engaged in playing billiards in a pool room at 3409 South State street, somehow or other a dispute arose between them in connection with the game, one word brought on another and finally one of the boys hauled off and struck his friend over the head with a billiard cue, he was rushed off to Provident Hospital where his scalp wounds were dressed he lingered between life and death for sometime, then his good Lord decided that he would not take him to His Home in Heaven at the present time—that He would permit him to stay The Beechman boy, at the time of the arrest drew two revolvers at once and was just in the act of shooting officer Holliday, when he was knocked down by policeman Abraham, then all of the youthful boys submitted to arrest. As stated in these columns some two or three weeks ago, that young boys, should not be permitted to hang around pool and billiard rooms, that many of such boys, both White and Colored, would rob and murder, and commit all kinds of crimes, in order to get the money to spend in such places and other questionable resorts, that no boys should be permitted to have any kind of deadly weapons in their possession. It is deplorable to think of it that, here are three young Colored boys, two of them only 15 years old, armed to the teeth, and bent upon a career of desperate and most dangerous criminals. It may be that the parents of these boys have never attempted to give them the proper amount of moral training, which would or should impart to them self control. If this is true, then their parents should not utter one word of complaint when they see their boys carted off to some of the penal institutions in this state. Almost every day in the week boys HEALTH NOTES Shoot the dog and save the child. Better the cur in the dog pound than the bitten child in the home. Your neighbor's child was bitten yesterday. Your child may be the next victim. From January to July 801 persons in Chicago were bitten by dogs and 6 have died from hydrophobia. Let the police catch and destroy every unmuzzled and unlicensed dog in Chicago and it would soon be a safer place to live in than it is to-day. Dog days are those days when the homeless, ownerless, unmuzzled dogs roam about a community snapping and biting at every one they meet. There are many thousands of such dogs in Chicago and each and every one is a memace to public health and safety. Have you talked to your alderman about the milk ordinance? Have you made it plain to him that you are in favor of clean, safe milk for the babies of Chicago? If not, get busy. Do it to-day. No.45 from some of our best Colored families in this city, will persist in getting into all kinds of trouble, without calling any names, only a short time ago some young Colored boys were engaged in playing billiards in a pool room at 3409 South State street, somehow or other a dispute arose between them in connection with the game, one word brought on another and finally one of the boys hauled off and struck his friend over the head with a billiard cue, he was rushed off to Provident Hospital where his scalp wounds were dressed he lingered between life and death for sometime, then his good Lord decided that he would not take him to His Home in Heaven at the present time—that He would permit him to stay here on earth and play billiards for a while longer. Early the past spring a number of young Colored boys entered a saloon at 31st and State street and while they were all engaged in drinking some fighting whisky they got into a heated argument over this or that girl or their best girl and when they emerged from the saloon, one of the young boys whose parents are highly respectable and reside away out on South Park Ave. was hit in the head with something hard by one of the members of his crowd, like some one dead he instantly fell to the sidewalk, then he was taken to Provident Hospital, where he died before his parents had time to arrive there to see the last breath leave his body; he was bright and full of hope and promise; his parents no doubt proudly looked forward to the time when he would become a manly man and be a source of much comfort to them, but it seems that the sporting fates had decreed otherwise. Many other similar cases like the above could be cited which seems to indicate that there are hundreds of young Colored boys and many beautiful young Colored girls in this city who with either the direct or the indirect aid of their parents, each day are rushing headlong into moral ruin and destruction. On January 1, 1912, according to a report issued by the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, there were 3624 cases of leprosy in the United States and its Insular possessions. Of these Hawaii had 696; the Phillipine Islands, 2,754; Porto Rico, 28; leaving 146 for the United States proper. Of the cases in the States, California had 23, Louisiana 71, Massachusetts, 12, Minnesota, 18, and New York 5. Illinois had none. Several of the states reported single cases. ATTRACTIONS OF THE STATE STREET FAIR AND CARNIVAL. Among the many attractions that will be seen during the Grand State Street Fair and Carnival, the following will be on the ground to entertain the public, all of these shows are in a high class order and moral in every particular. Lots of fun and life. Read the list and pick out in advance what you most like, think of it. Circus. Tiny Mite, Kelly—Skeleton Dude, Jungle Land—Animal Show, Fat Man, Mazeppa Horse, Chiguita—Doll Lady, Electric Show, Ferris Wheel, Carry—us all, Plantation, World Wonder, Ocean Wave and Vandeville Show. Fun for us all, a good and great time is coming. N. B. Remember Tuesday August 27th is Tag Day for the Churches and Charitable Institutions. 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The first part of last week, the Eighth Biennial Convention of the National Association of Colored Women, was held at Hampton, Va., and it is freely admitted that it was the most helpful and interesting meeting, so far held, by the Colored women in this country. It is estimated that there are about eight hundred local clubs managed by Colored women. A few statistics from two hundred clubs, making reports to the N. A. C. W., will show the vast strength of the club movement among Colored women: Total membership. 10.908. Money collected in two years $82, 424.66. Cost of property owned by clubs, $61,845.15. Present valuation of property, $113, 332.25. The Association was organized in Washington, D. C., in 1896. It was affiliated with the National Council of Women of the United States in 1900 and was incorporated in 1904. National conventions have been held in Nashville, Buffalo, Detroit, Louisville, Chicago, St. Louis, and Brooklyn. Officers. The following national officers were elected: Mrs. Margaret Murray Washington, Tuskegee, Ala., president; Mrs. Ione G. Gibbs, Minneapolis, Minn., vice president at large; Mrs. Mary Talbert, Buffalo, N. Y., chairman of executive board; Miss Ida R. Cummings, Baltimore, Md., corresponding secretary; Mrs. Mamie E. Steward, Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Janie Porter Barrett, Hampton, Va., Miss Roberta Dunbar, Providence, R. I., first, second and third recording secretaries, respectively; Mrs. Ida Joyce Jackson, Columbus, O., treasurer; Mrs. Emma Lindsay Davis, Chicago, Ill., national organizer; Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, O., parliamentarian; Mrs. Mary V. Parish, Louisville, Ky., statistician Mrs. Booker T. Washington announced the names of the following heads of national departments: Mrs. Sylvania Williams, New Orleans, La., mothers' clubs; Mrs. C. T. Dorrah, Ocain, Fla., children; Mrs. Nannie H. Burroughs, Washington, D. C., young women's work; Dr. Mary Fitzbutler Waring, Chicago, Ill., health and hygiene; Mrs. Bishop Handy, Baltimore, Md., humane; Mrs. Wilkerson, Orangeburg, S. C., domestic science; Mrs. Joseph Brown, Des Moines, Iowa, social science; Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, Richmond, Va., business; Miss Mary S. Jackson, Providence, R. L., suffrage; Miss Alice Wiley Seay, Brooklyn, N. , associated charities; Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce, Washington, D. C., civie and forestry; Mrs. Alice Jackson, Lexington, Ky., rescue work; Mrs. J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn., educational; Mrs. Jacobson, Oklahoma City, Okla., kindergarten; Mrs. W. T. B. Williams, Hampton, Va., music; Mrs. Adella Hunt Logan, Tuskegee Ala., rural conditions; Mrs. C. W. Posey, Homestead, Pa., art; Mrs. Bishop Clinton, Salisbury, N. C., literature; Mrs. William Alphin, Waco, Tex., religious work; Mrs. Agnes Lewis, Montgomery, Ala., agriculture; Mrs. M. C. B. Mason, Cincinnati, Ohio, temperance; Mrs. Sadie B. Hamilton, Pittsburg, Pa., juvenile courts. What the N. A. C. W. is Doing. The members of the National Association of Colored Women are vitally interested in everything that pertains to race development, including the study of better methods of caring for children, the improvement of homes and home life, the relation of children to their parents and of parents to their children, the duty of young women in all phases of homemaking, the helping of country men and women to a brighter, happier life, the introduction of pictures, books, music, games, and newspapers into rural homes, the problem of teaching older people how to economize time, strength, and material products and use all of their assets to better爱 The National Association of Colored Women is helping along many lines in the making of substantial and happy homes. It is carrying into practice the idea of relating knowledge and experience to the improvement of life in the home, the school, the church, and the community. Nothing that is of interest or value to the Negro race is outside of the program of activity that is being worked out by the splendid Colored women who bring to their task of race and national uplift keen minds and warm, Christian hearts. These questions were ably discussed at the eighth biennial convention, recently held at Hampton Institute. Activities of the N. A. C. W. Special work along the following lines is carried on by the N. A. C. W. Support of reformatories, old folk's homes, nurseries, working girls' homes, and social settlements; study of civics needlecraft, art, literature; and domestic science; and the development of social uplift work. The national motto, "Lifting as We Climb," has been worked out with rare thoroughness by thousands of Colored women. Frankness, honesty, and seriousness characterized the many discussions dealing with the work of Colored women engaged in the white plague cruse, child welfare work, the more efficient organization of community work, the problem of dealing with delinquent boys and girls, the promotion of the Young Women's Christian Association work, the proper care of infants, the problems of the adolescent period, the twentieth-century woman, the segregation and housing of Negroes in cities and towns, woman suffrage, and the relation of White and Colored people throughout the country. No attempt was made to gloss over the questions of lynching and kindred evils, Jim Crow cars, the traffic in girls and women, and the need of concerted action on the part of Colored people to secure fairer treatment. Resolutions. The report of the committee on resolutions, read by Mrs. Warren Logan, Tuskegee, Alabama, protested against the Jim Crow cars with their uncomfortable and inferior accommodations as well as the friction which they create; declared against race segregation which compels good Colored people to live in surroundings that are subject to the vile influences of commercialized vice to which they are in no way a party; urged the co-operation of white and Colored people for the suppression of the social evil and the punishment of those engaged in the traffic of girls and women; indorsed the work of the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, which aims to do constructive and preventive social work for improving the social and economic conditions among Negroes in urban centers; deplored lynching and called upon ministers and other public men to enlist against mob violence; declared in favor of full woman suffrage and advocated the formation of political study clubs to stir up men to greater interest in matters concerning their own welfare; recommended the introduction of agriculture in the public schools, school gardens, corn and canning clubs, social and literary clubs in rural communities; approved officially the chivalry shown by the men in the "Titanic" disaster. Mrs. Booker T. Washington was chosen delegate to represent the N. A. C. W. at the Emancipation Jubilee which will be held in Washington, September 26, 1912. The next biennial convention will be held at Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. THE PEKIN THEATRE. This Historic House, which was the beginning of Colored Theatres, hardly needs an introduction, but for the benefit of those who have lately chosen this city as their home, we will give a brief and accurate account of this Famous Amusement resort, the Pekin, was founded by the late Robert T. Motts in the year 1904, opened its doors on the 18th day of June, same year, it was first operated as a "Cabaret" better known as a Music Hall. So great was its success that its capacity was not great enough to accommodate the prodigious crowds who swarmed nightly to be entertained in this the most fashionable resort of its kind in America. After about a year of this style of entertainment a demand was made on Mr. Motts that the public wanted a theatre, so great were these demands on him that he had the matter under due consideration, but was hurried to action on account of a fire which occurred on Jan. 7th, 1906, it was then that preparations were made for the launching of a theatre for the Colored people of this city. This new enterprise was opened on the 17th day of March, the opening night will never be forgotten as it marked an epoch in a new field of industry under afterwards famous by the untiring efforts and broadmindfulness of one whose name will live forever the late Robert T. Motts. Time changes all things and we will now mention the changes that within a couple of weeks will take place, not a change in name but a change in These faces will be new to many, but one of them will be the old familiar and genial face of "Mr Frank Haight." Mr. Haight in securing the Pekin done so after a hard fight with many competitors, he does not come to us with the experience of a shoemaker, a butcher or a segregated saloon keeper, but comes to us brim full of the knowledge he gained when he was the general manager of such famous Negro Minstrel Organizations as the Original Callender Minstrels Z. W. Spragues and Haverly's Black 40. Then we find him on the executive staff of McVickers Theatre, with such experience he is well equipped to conduct a place so dear to us all the "Pekin." Mr. Haight is not making any rash promises he has leased the Pekin on purely a commercial proposition. Whatever sentiment he has is for the name "Pekin" being a stanch friend of the late owner. He wishes that the old patrons who saw the Pekin grow will live to see in the near future a magnificent new theatre erected on the same site. A new house, but always the old name "Pekin." Mr. Haight has not yet adopted his policy of operations. His opening coming out of season does not permit him to secure the desired vaudeville attractions although he has placed the bookings in the hands of the Western Vaudeville Association his intentions are to offer Polite Family Vaudeville at Summer Prices and I understood him to say that all seats would be 10 cents, Box and Lodge Seats 15 cents these prices will prevail until the regular season opens. He also says that he will mount the house from the entrance to the gridiron with Colored attaches so that the Theatre will remain as it was founded, a Theatre for The People. The Theatre and lobby has been thoroughly renovated and decorated. The new order of things will be very pleasing to its many patrons. Mr. Haight is daily on the premises superintending the many changes that are being made. We almost forgot to tell you that associated in this enterprise with Mr. Haight is one of Chicago's most enterprising and progressive business men in the personage of Mr. Tom Chamales, the well known owner of the "Cafe Savoy" on Wabash Ave. Mr. Chamales also has Theatrical Enterprises being the owner of the "Empress Theatre" on the South side, now being conducted by the Sullivan and Considine Circuit, also using vaudeville at the Savoy. Mr. Chamales has the reputation of going the limit where there is a possible chance to break even in a financial footing and we are proud that the Pekin is in such experienced hands as Messrs. Chamales and Haight and we welcome them to be among us and heartily endorse the Pekin as the Amusement Home of the People. The exact opening date will appear in these columns also the attractions next week. —S. W. H. THE CONTEST FOR QUEEN OF THE CARNIVAL AMONG THE LADIES CONTINUES TO GROW EXCITING. The main thoroughfares and the side streets on the South side, are being billed announcing the fact that the August Carnival and Negro Exposition will open up on State street, from 31st street to 39th street, from August 17th to August 31st. Active work will begin the first of this week on the construction of the arches, and the electric wiring which will brilliantly illuminate the streets, will be installed immediately, and Banker Jesse Binga, Manager of the August Carnival, promises to have everything in connection with it ready on time. Bailey's ladies band will furnish music for one or two nights during the Carnival and as the work progresses in relation to it, the contest for Queen of the carnival continues to grow in interest among the many contestants. Votes Mrs. William Emanuel . . . 1,585 Miss Bertha Moseley . . . 1,079 Miss Elizabeth B. Slangher . . . 535 Mrs. John R. Marshall . . . 625 Miss Nioma Bunn . . . 55 Mrs. Harry A. Duncan . . . 45 Mrs. Carrie Warner . . . 25 Mrs. J. H. Johnson . . . 135 Mrs. Geneva Smith . . . 27 Mrs. Louise Montgomery . . . 29 Miss Empress Davidson . . . 336 Mrs. J. C. Stewart . . . 30 Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins . . . 165 Mrs. Martha B. Anderson . . . 125 Miss Rose Richardson . . . 825 Miss Lucille Peyton . . . 575 Miss Essie Arnold . . . 225 Mrs. Louis B. Anderson . . . 145 Miss Lenora McCabe . . . 1,125 In order to vote for your favorite for queen of the carnival, cut out the coupon in another column of this paper, and mail it as directed, and the lucky winner of the $100.00 prize may be the one you are greatly interested in. The contest will close Saturday evening August 17, and all the coupons cut out of The Broad Ax, must be in our possession on the evening of that date, or early Monday morning August 19, so that they can be checked up properly by Mr. Jesse Binga and the other members of the committee, and the lady receiving the highest number of votes, will be declared the queen of the August carnival and crowned with all the honors due the queen on Wednesday evening August 21. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH 5251 Dearborn St. Bov. Jsa. Higgins, Pastor. The 8th and last Quarterly Meeting for the Conference Year will take place Sunday, Aug. 11th. Services 10:45; 3 p. m.; 7:45. Services 10:40:14, M. p. 74. At 3 p. m. Dr. W. D. Cook of Quinn Chapel will preach the sacramental sermon. Wayman Chapel Choir will sing. Dr. T. Reeves, P. E. will preach at 10:45. Judge Mayo will preach at 7:45. Monday Eve Love Feast. On the 14, 15, and 16 of August the Evangelist Stewardess, Deaconess and Missionary Convention at St. Mary's. CHIPS. Mrs. Kathyrine Hamlet and her young son Hamlin Hamlet, 3359 Forest avenue; are spending their vacation at Saline, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins have removed from their old home 3632 Calumet avenue into their new home 3332 Calumet avenue. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Brewington, 2350 Dearborn street; and the other members of their family; are summering at Wilmette, Ill. W. H. Smith, who was for many years, the right hand man of the late Robert T. Motts, founder and owner of the Pekin Theatre, may be officially connected with it, under its new management. William D. Neighbors, cashier of the American Bank, 28th and Wabash avenue; made a pleasant trip last Sunday to Milwaukee, Wis., and return. He very much enjoyed the cool ride on the lake. Mr. Perry, official architect of Tuskegee Institute Ala., spent a few days in this city this week, as the guest of S. A. T. Watkins, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago. Bishop Benjamin F. Lee, D. D. L. L. D. will preach at the Institutional Church Sunday morning. Don't miss this rare treat. Bishop Lee is one of the greatest living preachers. Don't fail to hear him. Julius T. Taylor, left last evening for Springfield, Illinois, where he will go into encampment with the 8th Regiment. He will serve as war correspondent, a special tent will be erected for him, immediately to the left of Col. Marshall's headquarters. Dr. W. F. Garnett, of Evanston, Ill., recently bought a four flat buildings on 37th Street near Vincennes avenue. He was in the city on Tuesday and made arrangements with Banker Jesse Binga, to handle and manage the prop- Ernest Tidrington, Indianapolis, Ind., is visiting his brother Edward Tidrington 3343 Forest avenue; he was a delegate to the Bull Moose Convention. Before returning home he will spend two weeks at the Mossdale Farm, near Niles, Mich. The Colored Democrats, of the 5th Precinct 2nd ward, met at their headquarters 2822 State street last Saturday evening and after considerable deliberation, they decided to change their name to the Colored Democratic Harmony Club. The Club will be independent and it decided not to carry any individual name. R. L. Jackson, was elected President; Rev. S. H. Johnson, treasurer; Mr. Jefferson, Secretary. Col. John R. Marshall, 8630 Calumet avenue was taken suddenly ill last Sunday evening shortly after midnight. His condition grew rapidly worse until Monday morning. Dr. Daniel H. Williams who was getting ready to depart for Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., was hastily summoned, and under his skillful treatment, Col. Marshall is now on the road to recovery, and accompanied the 8th Regiment, to Springfield last night, where it went into encampment for one week. Count the days, just eight days away, the Great of the Greatest Carnival of Modern times. Nothing but Beauty and Mirth. Business men acclaim that they see a future for the street and they are putting every effort forward to make the Fair a success. Remember that this Carnival is not so much for fun and folly, but to uplift Industrial pursuits and to do something for the race, let us begin now to train our minds to the thought that the ladder is here for us to ascend. Progressive ideas is every where. Let us keep abreast with the times. This is our Fair and Carnival, let us personally make it a success. AFRICAN TIMES ON THE PROBLEM Urges Closer Co-operation Among Darker Races. Militant Journal Edited in London by Duse Mohamed Makes Significant Call to Colored Americans For Mutual Affiliation—Affords Channel For International Exchange of Ideas. The African Times and Orient Review, which is an outgrowth of the universal races congress which met in London in 1911, is a monthly journal devoted to the colored races of the world. It is a thirty-five page magazine, edited with great ability. Duse Mohamed, a Negro born in Egypt and educated in England, is its editor. The Review is to be the mouthpiece of the dark and colored races throughout the world. In the foreword it says, "We feel that for lack of understanding the African and oriental have produced nonappreciation, and nonappreciation has unleashed the hydra headed monster of derision, contempt and repression." Laudable ambitions have but to be voiced to be appreciated, and that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin has only to be brought into operation to establish that bond of universal brotherhood among white, yellow, brown and black. In a "Word to Our Brothers" it says: "As for you, the black race, the brown race and the yellow race, this is your own journal. The more humble you are the more need you have of us and the more readily shall we extend our sympathy and advice. We want to bear from you, the young and budding Sun Yet Sens. "We call on men like Blyden, the Conrad Reeveses, the embryo Frederick Douglasses and Paul Laurence Dunbars. If you have anything to say for the good of your race let us hear it. * * * Your day is coming. Your place in the sun has been and will come again. As darkness overtook you for a space, it must also overtake Europe. The future of Africa, the future of India, will not be decided in the charceries of Europe, but upon the hills of India and the plains of Africa. "See that your loins are well girded and that you have your staff firmly in your hand when you once more take your place in the sun." The Review is a decided revelation editorially and typographically, while its contributed articles are of a highly meritorious character. It is to be hoped that American Negroes who want to know what is taking place in the darker world and what progress their race is making will subscribe to this excellent magazine. The significance of the Review need not be stated. It must be apparent that the necessity which called it into being is vital to the interests of those whose spokesman it is and that the darker races are beginning to rouse from their lethargy and to draw nearer to one another. Sample copies of the review may be had by addressing the publication office, 131 Finsbury pavement, London, E. C. Our poets and writers have here an opportunity to win international fame, and we hope that many will accept the Review's generous invitation to let it hear from them. We think the subscription price is $1 per year. It is worth every penny of it. EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Next Annual Meeting Will Be Held at Clarement, Va. The National Negro Educational association will hold its annual meeting in 1913 at Claremont, Va. The sessions will be held in the new Lincoln Memorial hall, which was dedicated at the recent commencement of the Temperance Industrial and Collegiate institute, of which Lincoln hall is an addition. The honor of vice president at large was given to Dr. John J. Smallwood of the above named school. The other general officers of the association are: J. Silas Harris, Kansas, president; Mrs. Julia Embrey, Colorado Springs, Colo., recording secretary; H. R. Graham, Kansas City, corresponding secretary; T. H. Lyles, St. Paul, treasurer; Drs. O. D. Howard and Valdo Turner, medical directors; Rev. J. W. Robinson, St. Albans, W. Va., statistician. The executive committee is headed by Mr. W. H. Harrison of Oklahoma City; Rev. J. C. Taylor, Toledo, O. musical director; Miss Marie Burgette, Milwaukee, Wis., official stenographer. Prowess of Champion Jack Johnson. The Houston (Tex.) Freeman says: Jack Johnson continues to toy with all the white hopes, just as a cat does with a mouse. Patting them on the back, grinning in their faces, punching and jabbing them when and where he pleases—this is certainly too much Johnson for the would be heavyweight champions of the world. Privileges of Home Open to All. The St. David's Fresh Air home in White Plains, N. Z., is one of the best equipped institutions of its kind in the north. It was founded by the Rev. R. G. Cliffon, rector of St. David's church, New York city, about ten years ago. The privileges of the home are open to all without regard to color or creed. HAYNES SPEAKS TO CLUBWOMEN Much of Progress Made Due to Their Fidelity. LARGER FREEDOM HIS PLEA Director of National League on Urban Conditions Emphasizes Work and Benefits of the Organization in Practical Address to the National Association of Women's Clubs. Hampton, Va.-The biennial convention of the National Association of Women's Clubs recently held in this town at the Hampton institute was largely attended. Delegates from women's clubs in most all sections of the country were present. Among the men invited to speak and who delivered addresses was Professor George E. Haynes, one of the directors of the National League on Urban Conditions. Professor Haynes was recently honored with the degree of doctor of philosophy by Columbia university. Dr. Haynes' address is in part as follows: We are standing upon the threshold of the semicentennial of our incorporation from chattel slavery. During the years that have passed we have climbed slowly, but surely, up the heights of civilization, lifting as we climb all the nations that touch us. As our people have struggled upward they have been beset with foes from without and foes and fears from within, but in spite of it all they have made progress. I hope you will not think that I wish merely to throw bouquets when I say that our people could not have moved M. S. S. DR. GEORGE W. HAYNES. upward as they have done if there had not been in our midst women as noble, as devoted, as self sacrificing, as any people can claim. When truth gets a hearing there will be one paean of praise for Negro womanhood. Although largely unprotected, greatly abused, often poorly provided for, it has contributed the greatest power producing our progress. With a number of others, it is my privilege to work day by day to better the environment for that aspiring womanhood, for the manhood upon which it depends and for the childhood from which it buds. Therefore come before you, delegates of the National Association of Colored Women's Club, to make a plan for a better environment and laver freedom. Since the year of the emancipation proclamation Negroes have been moving in large numbers to the towns and cities. It is true that about three-fourths of the population still live in the country, yet in the eleven southern states the number living in towns and cities has increased constantly at the rate of over one-third of 1 per cent each year during nearly thirty years. There is now between 18 and 28 percent of the total population living in cities. I come, therefore, to plead for your cooperation with the National League on Urban Conditions Among Us in its efforts to make the city environment of our people better and their adjustment to easier. My subject falls naturally into three parts—(1) the movement of Negroes to cities, (2) segregation within the cities and what it means, and (3) plans to In our practical activities in the cities within two years there has been tremendous progress made, far larger than what any of us dreamed at the beginning. In New York city we have combined those of the strongest organizations made up of the leading white and colored citizens that have been working for five or six years at various phases of condition there. These organizations, now formed into the national league, now support the only colorful officer in the court of general session. I wish there were time for me to tell you of the great service Miss Grace Campbell is rendering to scores of our young men and young women who are unfortunate enough to come within the tolls of the law. We have a travelers' aid and protective worker, whose work in dealing with young women and girls as she meets them at the boats and trains and gets knowledge of them before they fall would all another interesting chapter. We run a boy's camp and supplies the fresh air work being done in a city. We have some neighborhood jobs for battling the conditions in the neighborhood and brought to all of the people who work in the city and working among boys in the city for a monthly conference over the problems at which they are working. These are only some of the many activities of our New York work. We have developed branches that starting similar work in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Memphis and in Nashville. We are beginning with travelers' aid work by workers in Baltimore and Norfolk. In the matter of bringing home the problems of social uplift to our youth the hague has instituted College with Fisk university. The college instituted with Talladega college in developing courses in economics, sociology and history. Greatest Triumph for the Race in the Annals of Local History ---GRAND AUGUST CARNIVAL--- Two Big Weeks of Mirth, Merriment and Review] of Enterprise AUGUST 17th to 31st 1912 Construction of arches, pillars, etc., to be a work of art. Designs for the street decorations will be a revelation of incomparable beauty. Over-head lighting, multicolored effects, a veritable blaze of glory. A Special Feature for Each Day's Program Every military organization, all secret orders, associations, clubs, institutions to be featured in this stupendous display of thrift. Daily Parades—Music Everywhere—Amusements Watch weekly papers for later announcements or call "Douglas 1565" FOR CONCESSIONS ETC., THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OR THE MOST POPULAR WOMAN IN CHICAGC TO BE THE QUEEN OF THE J Grand August Carnival $100.00 One Hundred Dollars To The One Elected Queen Cut out this Coupon and vote for the Lady you think is the most beautiful or most popular I Vote For M___ ___Street Cut out this Coupon and Mail it to the CARNIVAL DEPARTMENT, The Broad Ax, JESSE BINGA, Manager, Cor. 36th Place and State Street Tel. Aldine 1620 In Office at Right C. H. KNIGHT. M. D., C.M. (Canada) PHYSICIAN AND GURGEON Office Hours: 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 5 P. M. 3158 State Street, Chicago Office Hours—From 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sunday by appointment. DR. THEO. R. MOZEE DENTIST 4715 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone, Oakland 4662; Automatic 73053 Frank Dunn and J. B. McCahay, Trustees Tel Oakland 1550-1551-1552 Established 1877 John J. Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVE. Rallyyards: 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Residence, 1262 Macallister Place Telephone, Monroe 2714 Miles J. Devine Attorney at Law Suite 518-520 Reamer Block Clark and Washington Streets CHICAGO Phone, Central 1249; Auto, 41-913 Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 36 W. RANDOLPH STREET Suite 768 Delaware Building CHICAGO Greatest Triumph for Suite 708, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone; Central 6624. Res. Phone, Doug. 4397. No. 508 East 36th Street. J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney at Law Suite 405, 145 Clark St. Cor. Randolph St. Bluefish. The bluefish is the most uncrillized fish that swims. It bites and slashes and murders other fish for the sake of killing. Marking Linen. When using marking ink for linen make your initials on the linen with an ordinary lead pencil and then trace with your ink over the pencil marks. The pencil will prevent the ink from spreading and giving the linen a blotted appearance. Saves Their Feelings. To spare the religious susceptibilities of the Egyptian peasantry the 3 per cent interest paid by savings banks is described as a reward to the depositor for saving his money. the Race in the Ann Italy boasts of the first Punch and Judy show. It originated in that country in the seventeenth century and was introduced into England during the reign of Charles II. Tattooing In Paralia Until the last generation tattooing was almost universal in Persia. Today it is rare among the upper classes, but is still affected by the lower classes. Women are tattooed not so much with a view to decoration as to avert the "evil eye" or to hide a blemish or to cure a malady. Tax en Bachelors In some of the towns of Hungary a special tax is levied on bachelor, ranging from a few cents to about $20 per annum. Octopus and Conger Eel. Conger eels hunt for the octopus and when found proceed to browse on its limbs. The octopus tries to hug the slippery, slimy conger tight, but in vain, and, finding its limbs growing fewer, discharges its ink in the face of the foe and under cover of the turbid water beats a hasty retreat. An English Ounce The precise weight of an English ounce was fixed by Henry III., who decreed that it should weigh 640 grains of dry wheat. The Cuckoo. The cuckoo is too flighty a lady to be willing to sit in a nest and hatch out eggs, so she lays in the nests of other birds, one here and one there, and to complete the deception she abstracts an egg from the nest she lays in so that the addition of her own egg won't be noticed. Champagne Bottles No machine has as yet been invented in France which can supersede manual labor in the manufacture of champagne bottles. The men performing this difficult work are well paid. Deepest Sea. The greatest depth of the sea yet discovered is $2,089 feet. Beets, Carrots and Parsnips. Beets, carrots and parsnips all contain a large percentage of sugar. Carrots and parsnips when young and tender are very nutritious. als of Local History ARNIVAL--- STATE S REET -FROM- 31 ST STREET -TO- 35TH STREET Review of Enterprise 1st 1912 ork of art. Designs n of incomparable cts a veritable blaze UNITED STATES STEAMBOAT EXCURSION For the Entertainment of the DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE AND FRIENDS Music and Dancing Aboard Chicago's Latest and Most Unique Craft "UNITED STATES." Wood Map of the U.S.A. Made of blocks of wood furnished by Governors of every State. Only one of its kind in existence PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL GOVERNORS, HISTORICAL PAINTINGS, SELECT SAYINGS OF EMINET MEN, LETTERED IN GOLD. All of which you may enjoy FOR THE SUM OF 50 CENTS THE ROUND TRIP Leave Clark Street Bridge (Clark St. and Chicago River) Aug. 23, 1912, 3:00 P. M., Friday For further particulars address CHICAGO NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, 2728 Wabash Ave. Phone Cal. 2918 We have picked a genial wizard as a leader in the fray. We count on him to drive our various troubles all away. He knows a lot of mystic words, which he'll consent to say In style corrected. The problems of the tariff will be freely understood. And no one will consent to take more profit than he should. The two-for-five cigars will be uplifted till they're good When he's elected. The birds won't steal the cherries, and the kinds that do not sing Will learn to fly more slowly while you shoot them on the wing. The honeybee will labor and be too polite to sting He'll send out invitations which say, "Come and help yourself." A Good Riddance "Why, Ruby, I haven't seen you for a year. How're you been?" "All right. How've you been? Seen Jim Lang intely?" "No; I hardly ever see him nowadays." "How does that come? He used to send you candy and flowers, and he used to call on you every night. Doesn't he do that now?" "Nope. He doesn't send any more flowers and candy, and I never see him in the evening." "Well, it's a good riddance. How did you shake him?" "We got married." The Storm and the Rainbow. Sometimes Jim cross, an' an I cry A little bit, an' be on by My mamma sees me, an' she'll say, "We're having' quite a storm today." An' en 'im shamed, i am, an' try To brush th' tears out of my eye. An' en my mamma says, "I see It's dess a little shower, maybe." An' en it is, an' after wile I'm better, an' I start t' smile. An' en my mamma says, she do, At' en my mamma says, she do, J. W. Foley, in New York Times Foreign Affairs. The czar and the kaiser talked peace, but will go on building warships.—New York World. Spain is taking drastic measures to suppress begging. Measures to suppress conditions that produce beggary haven't yet suggested themselves to the rather cumbrous workings of the Castillian mind.—Brooklyn Eagle. If a German subject is sent to jail for four months for turning a bust of the emperor with the face to the wall what would happen to him if he should hit the effigy with a hammer and smash it to pieces?—New York Tribune. Tales of Cities. Calcutta, with its population of 1,300,000, is the second city in the British empire. Constantinople is a dirty, backward city, but glorious with art, teeming with people, forested with masts of shipping, splendid in trade opportunities, one of the greatest cities of the world. Manchester, N. H., is the only city in the United States situated exactly on the forty-third parallel of latitude, nor is there any town, village or even hamlet situated squarely on the forty-third degree line, it is said. "Your son certainly sticks to his job." "Yes; he's like a postage stamp—he always sticks when he is licked first!" JAMIE "Darling, do you really love me?" breathed the lover. "I do. Have I not sworn it many times?" sighed the loveress. "You have, but do you?" "Why do you ask? What have I done to make you doubt it?" "Ha, girl! I saw you—I caught you"— "What did you see, love? Speak!" "When I came in I saw you setting the clock an hour forward!" She could not deny it. Her affection was not bore proof. This was the beginning of the end.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Two of Them. There was a girl in our town, And she was wondrous slim. You really couldn't see her When the lights were low and dim. —Springfield (Mass.) Union. There was a girl in our town, And she was wondrous slim. We had to sit out on the stairs When she was in the flat. —Chicago Record-Herald. Conserving Leather Tommie was given a new pair of shoes, and his father told him to be careful and not wear them out too soon. Two weeks later his father said to him: "Tommie, I understand you have been at the foot of the class all week." "Yes, father, I have. I could have gone to the head of the class several times, but I was afraid it might wear out my shoes walking so far."—Yonkers Statesman. The Cheerful Salesman The Cheerful Salesman. A sheery man was the travelling man, the salesman the salesman the gay. As a bill from his dentist did scan He whistled a roundelay. "The house will pay it," he mused in glee "So in worrying there no sense is. To tell him the firm, you see, As no dental expense." He Was. "Here's a stone I got at a bargain the other day," said the man with the dyed mustache. "I'd like to have you tell me whether it's a real diamond or not." The jeweler examined it. "Paste," he decided, handing it back. "Stuck!" exclaimed the other. The Freeman's Boast. "T'll be no boss' man!" he cried. No yoke shall gall my neck! I have a freeman's holy pridel My will's my own, by heck! I'll choose my course to suit my whim. My heart shall know fear! His wife then came and silenced him And led him by an ear. -Chicago Record-Herald. Granted. Judge—What is your reason for wanting a divorce? Wife—My husband is a baseball fan. Judge—That does not constitute sufficient ground for a decree. Wife—I know that, your honor, but his team is in last place—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Better Way. 'Tis better to have loved and been a hen pecked hubby all your life Than to have caused your friends to say They never fully understood What they were going to way Through all the years and never could Persuade a girl to be your wife. In Futuro. "What's your idea of the future journal?" "It will be written by advertisers, and it will contain nothing calculated to bring a blush to the cheek of the young person except cosmetics."— Judge's Library. 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: A. F. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 Sate street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 15 W. 36th St., near Dearborn. T. B. Hall, laundry office and news stand, 11 W. 29th St., near State. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3532 State St. W. M. Maxwell, notions, cigars, tobacco, confections and news stand, 5244 State St. Edward Felix, notions, cigars and news stand, 52 W. 30th St. F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 8 W. 27th St., near State. Turner Williams' barber stop and news stand, 3252 State St. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. N. T. Chilton, ladies' and gents' shoe shining parlors and news stand 5106 State Street. Harry Shelby, news stand 330812 State Street. Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. Benjamin Z. Eakin news and advertising agency, 428 Indiana Avenue, indianapolis, Ind. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Under State Government Supervision, $100,000 deposited with the State. Policies of all kinds, ranging from five cents to ten thousand dollars. Our industrial Contracts give to the color- policy folder more than any other company for the same weekly premium. Colored Agents to Write and Collect Your Business Information of rates and values at your age will be furnished free, upon giving your age, name and address to The American Life Insurance Co., of Illinois, Tel. Randolph S. 72 West Adams Street McCall's Magazine and McCall Patterns For Women Have More Friends than any other magazine or patterns. 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Governor Marshall, the Democratic ‘eandidate for vice president, is a com municant of the First ‘Presbyterian chureb, Indianapolis, and teaches a class in its Sunday school. Harry James Veitch. on whom the king of Engiand bas just conferred the honor of knighthood, is one of the most prominent men in the world of horticulture. His pre-eminence was obtained by exploration and scientific knowledge. Henry Moore Teller recently cele- brated his eighty-secood birthday at his home in Denver... He was United States senator five times from Colo- ado and once secretary of the Interior ‘under Presidest Arthur. He was bora tn New York. W. T. Vernon, a negro lawyer and educator of Kansas City. has recelved Botice of bis appointment as president of Campbell college of Jackson, Miss. ‘Vernon was register of the United ‘Btates treasury ander the Roosevelt administration. _ Gordon Strong, a wealthy Chicago real estate dealer, bas provided « Dome 'for five little boys to whom he ‘will give every advantage of luxury and education. He desired to relieve is lonely hours by the chatter of the children. ‘The boys come from famil- fes of good stock but of limited means, They are chosen for the making of men, not dependents. Sporting Notes. Hampden park. Glasgow, has a soc eer Geld which will accommodate a crowd of 150.000 spectators. John L. Sullivan ts reported to have said A! Palzer can win the beavy- weight pugilistic title from Champion Jack Johnson. Dodie Archdile (2:06%) bas the dis- tinction of never being unplaced in a beat of a trotting race. She bas start- ed im sixty-five heats and never fin- ished back of fourth position. Boston has a municipal athletic asso- ciation whoxe aim ts to make use of municipal gymnasiums, public parks, play grounds and other means for out- door and indoor activities so that these features of city life may be utilized by still greater numbers of young people @uring the entire twelve months of the year. Church and School. ‘Chicago's summer schools have 11,000 pupils. ‘There are now fifteen Episcopal ca- thedrals in Africa and twelve Boman Catholic. . ‘The First Reformed church of Brook: Jyn celebrated recently the two bun @red and fiftieth anniversary of its founding. The congregation frst met tm 2 barn near the site of the present ‘city hall in 1661, when Brooklyn was a small villace ‘The boar of education in Denver bas established » course to fit girls above ‘the age of 1 welve for motherhood and Pe duties ot the housewife. The course sludes cooking, sewing. laundry work, ‘eral houxe manayement and the _=- 20f children. eo Fashion Frills. ‘The high waisted beltless skirt shows where some of the pias go— Detroit News. Does a girl take a stitch in time when she mends the clocks in her stockings?—Chicago News ‘The textile fabric men complain that the narrow skirts are rufoing them. So does father.—Cleveland Leader. “If he's wearing a silk shirt it's a safe bet he's married.” observes the Baltimore Sun. This slipsbod phi- Josophy “Is evidently from a bachelor who doesn't know that if a married man had a silk shirt his wife would take it for a kimono.— Washington Post. New York’s Scandal. ‘The New York police situation is the most scandalous affair in recent his tory.—Washington Star. ‘The imaginary” Gesperadoes of dime novels were pillars of respectability Deside the real assassins of New York. New York -American. . If the police of New York are to be Festored to good standing they must Foot out the sore spots and see to it that justice triumphs, no matter who ‘may suffer.— Washington Post. t -Bunched Hits. Sometimes « champion baseball club ‘ean come beck, and sometimes it can ‘nly slip back —Cleveland Leader. "Some men are born great,” remark- ef the man on-the car, “and some ‘make a bome run with the bases full” Toledo Biade. Goes witbout saying that summer ro- eorts where free baseball tickets are fiasved have the call on popularity— tatlenta Constitution. ; Foreign Affairs. qin Snsiote seam vo be, barutng ‘Be off the fire hetore tt ts done—Oht ‘Tho Turks ave bit the most ve hit upon the. ‘economical ageticy of war making yet. ‘They siok Itallan Geets by telegraph— cnet fabri thd ot oa DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. ‘The government of Panama bas jus appointed Miss Agnes Ewing Brown an American woman, director of the worma! schools for girls at Panama. ‘Miss Mary M. Bartelme of Chicago has been appointed assistant Judge of the juvenile court in Cook county, IIL She is a practicing lawyer and a few ‘years ago was made public guardian of ‘Cook county. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., whose Gaughter, Grace Roosevelt, is ten months old. has already filed an appli- cation with a New York private school for her daughter to enter there in 1920. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, moved his family from the Pacific const « short time ago. ‘Mrs William Tod Helmuth of New York bas the distinction of belonging to more organizations than any other woman In the Federation of Women’s Clubs. She bas badges from women's organizations all over the world. Sbe ts seventy-five years of age, but is as active and bright as a woman twenty years younger. Mary Melvin, blind from infancy, bas been graduated from Goucher col- lege and was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa kes. the symbol of scholarly work. She is an accomplished athlete, a singer of considerable ability and plays her own accompaniment on the piano. She intends to do graduate work at Johns Hopkins. | Current Comment. As between the aeroplane and the Girigible, the difference seems to be merely choice ss to methods of dy- ing suddenly.—Pittsburgh Chronicle ‘Telegraph. How the Mississippi river must laugh out of its various mouths at the schemes that are suggested for straightening and “regulating” {t!— Chicago Tribune. It is a shame to think what Ameri- ¢an athletes may be expected to do with tbe Olympic games when this country gets a chance to entertain the champions of the world —Cleveland Leader It is entirely owing to the change of time In the Pacific ocean and not to journalistic prescience that the death of the Japanese emperor was known in New York the day before it hap- pened.—New York World. The Artists. _ Timothy Cole, whose wood engraving reproductions of the great paintings o! the world have become famous, has re ceived the degree of master of arts from Dickinson college. Hugo Meismer, an artist who gives Jessons to a few select pupils in Ber Uin, has dismissed one of thelr number ‘who arrived late at the studio owing tc an automobile accident because he bad brought with him no sketeh of the acci dent. Augustus Eddy of Chicago, father of Spencer Eddy, the diplomatist, has at the age of sixty taken up painting in s serious manner and is already gaining Tecognition for his work in France He is busy with landscapes and por- traits and is the youngest man of his age in Paris. Political Quips. Politics seems to be one of Amert a's expensive amusements —Chicag News. The high cost of our politics is the most conspicuous exbibit in that lin this year.—Springfield Republican. It looks now as if only people whe have no money would be allowed tc contribute to campaign funds this year.—Bostou Traveler. For an institution without a yell ot & football team or a professor whe says sensational things the electoral college manages to hang on remark ably well.—Denver Republican. Town Topics. We thought Detroit was virtuous but the dictograph tells.—New York ‘World. Some historian says tt cost $7,600 to Giscover America. And in these days it costs some folks nearly that much Just to discover some pafts of New ‘York.—Dnluth Herald. Hereafter no residents of Niagara Falls, except the hackmen, may solic it business in the public streets. ‘The hackmen have earned this exemption by gentleness, probity and self re straint—Buffalo Express. Timely Tips. ‘There are still a few files left— Wheeling Rerister. Some one asks what goes faster than vacation. Easy. The money for it— Philadelphia Inquirer. Anesiie: ity ant Nes-Goobate'are keeping comparatively quiet this sum- ‘mer.—Chicago Recoré-Herald. ‘The man who stops on the street and Jooks at 2 thermometer on a bot and humid day seldom feels much cooler afterward.—Boston Globe. “ Flippant Flings. ‘Hams a bundred years old have been found in Providence, and there is no trouble finding eggs to match —Detroit Journal. - liagnthan cwrenty metal artices wore t = eee te ane woman. ‘That's carrying “souvenir fad too far.—Cleveland Lender. ie 3 we 'e @F2> JESSE BINGA =]. BANKER eas |S. EL Gor, State and 36th Place, Chicago eae” Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANEING : 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-resi- dents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Moncy to loan ne Zavesally Iavbon the patronage of Chicago business men. 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He started at 10 o'clock in the morn- ing and returned at 3, worn and tired. “What's the matter, my love?” ask- ed the wife solicitously as he sank into a chair beside her bed. “Were there no servants at the office?” “Yes, heaps of ‘em,” replied he, with @ groan, “but unfortunately they'd all worked for us before.”—Answers. ‘Tranquil Joys, ‘Let others take those eastern trips Or have = fing in gay New York. ‘By shores of bloom tho river slips. “Tis fun to watch = bobbing cork. aren ane ‘Where summer skies above are blue And all the vales are sweet with song. ‘Birmingham (Ala) Age-Herald, An Unfair Advantece Professor Brander Matthews at a lit rary dinner in New York said of certain “best seller?” “The grammar is rather off. its author lies open to the rebuke meted out to a Philadelphia author in the last century. This au- thor had been siasbed in a review, and he wrote to the reviewer apd. chal- Jenged him to. duel. But the critic wrote back: ‘I bave read your letter. It is as wretebed as your book. You have called me ont. Very well; I choose grammar. You are a dead man’"—Argonaut. peas ‘The Freeman’s Boast. Sheers Ihave a nave a Seems bely pigs ‘FB chcons my course fo Sat my whim. ens a Ame Pac oe Bunched Hits. Hardly a day passes now without the news that one or two college grat- uates have joined the ranks of the professional baseball players. — New ‘York Sun. The arrest made in New Jersey for using the mails to form a baseball poo! illustrates the necessity of vigilance to protect the national game from the tnsiduous intluence of gambling—New ‘York World. Short Stories. ‘The United States uses ap 320,000,000 tead pencils every year. ‘The world's demand for moving plc- tures now calls for the use of nearly 5,000 miles of films a year. ‘The Mexican army is recruited by Grawings held annually in each mu nictpality and conducted by city oft Experiments conducted in Cuba for three years indicate that sea island cot- ‘ton can be grown there successfully ‘and prove a valuable industry. We ask de Lawd ter make us thank: ful for what we receive, an’ when ¥* receive it we wonder why be didn’t ‘end us more.—Atianta Constitution. ‘Be worshiped his ancestors ‘And bragged about their pelt. But we have yet to hear him blow (Or brag about himscif. —Cineianat! Enquirer. ‘Wige—She's the sort of girl who positively refuses to stay single ‘Wagg—That's the sort that also pos! tively refuses to stay married —Phil- adelphia Record. > ‘me ‘dotter bat. > Saris - ee