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THE BROAD AX Col. Theodore Roosevelt has been Caught in the Coon Trap by the Senate Committee INVESTIGATING THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES IN 1904. JOHN D. ARCHBOLD, HENRY C. FRICK, GEORGE J. GOULD AND JOHN P. MORGAN, CONTRIBUTED $100,000 TO $150,000 EACH TO THE CAMPAIGN FUND, TO ASSIST TO ELECT. THE FORMER ROUGH RIDING PRESIDENT EDWARD H. HARRIMAN, CHUCKED IN $50,000 OF HIS OWN MONEY, ASIDE FROM RAISING $240,000 FOR THE APOSTLE OF PURITY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. SEVERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES OF NEW YORK CITY ANTIED IN $300,000 OR $400,000 FOR THE PRESENT HEAD AND FRONT OF THE BULL MOOSE CROWD. $2,199,000 WAS MILKED OUT OF THE MONEY KINGS; THE GREAT CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY AND THE BLOOD SUCKING CORPORATIONS. FOR THE ADVANCE AGENT OF PROSPERITY, PANICS AND WILDCAT MONEY IN 1907 FOR THE PEOPLE TO DO BUSINESS WITH. GOVERNOR WOODBOW WILSON STARTS ON HIS LONG SPEAKING TOUR THROUGH THE WEST, HE WILL BE THE GUEST OF THE DEMOCRATS OF CHICAGO, OCTOBER 10. CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM SULZER NOMINATED TO MAKE THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. GOVERNOR HERBERT S. HADLEY OF MISSOURI DESERTS THE BULL MOOSE PARTY AND JOINS THE FORCES OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. Vol. XVIII. Col. Theodore has been Coon Tr. Senate INVESTIGATING THE REPUBLIC JOHN D. ARCHBOLD, HENRY C. P. MORGAN, CONTRIBUTED CAMPAIGN FUND, TO ASSIST T THE FORMER BOUGH RIDING P CHUCKED IN $50,000 OF HIS $240,000 FOR THE APOSTLE OF SEVERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMP IN $300,000 OR $400,000 FOR THE BULL MOOSE CROWD. $2,199,000 WAS MILKED OUT OF THE TAINS OF INDUSTRY AND THE FOR THE ADVANCE AGENT OF P MONEY IN 1907 FOR THE P GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON ST THROUGH THE WEST, HE W CRATS OF CHICAGO, OCTOBER, CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM SULZER FOR GOVERNOR GOVERNOR HERBERT S. HADLEY, MOOSE PARTY AND JOINS THE H. TAPT. Shortly before the close of the presidential campaign in 1904, Judge Alton B. Parker, the Democratic candidate for president at that time declared in several speeches which he delivered in the east, that the heads of several life insurance companies, the managers of the Standard Oil Company, the brazen-faced bosses of the money and stock market, industrial kings and many of the high or heaven born bloated high brow, millionaires, who never earned an honest dollar in their lives, who have always made their ill-gotten money by squeezing the very life blood out of the toiling millions and crushing those under their feet of iron, had contributed vast and untold sums of money to aid in electing Col. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. It will be recalled that on the Sunday morning prior to the presidential election at that time, that President Roosevelt came out in a long statement signed by himself which was published to the world in which he denied that any of the life insurance companies, the heads of the grasping corporations and any of the great commercial kings had contributed one dollar to help to defray the expenses of his campaign, that he would not accept one dollar of their tainted money, that the majority of wealthy men were malfactors and wicked criminals at heart, who seldom contributed one dollar towards the support of their government or for the lasting good of this country, except for selfish purposes and he not only branded Judge Parker as a Democratic liar but every other kind of a liar under the bright shining sun, and he wound up by loudly declaring that Judge Parker was a rattled brained fool for giving expression to such damnable low bred lies, that he was a fit subject for some insane asylum, that he would make a splendid president of hades and a mighty poor president of the United States. When the smoke of that great contest had cleared away Col. Roosevelt had marched on to victory and Judge Parker, had marched on to defeat, so there was great rejoicing on the part of the people, for they like simple and weak minded little children foolishly labored under the impression that for once in their lives they had at last succeeded in electing an honest man in every sense of the word to rule over them and to guide and direct their governmental affairs, in the person of his HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY majesty, the great and mighty Col. Theodore Roosevelt. In this respect they, the people were sadly mistaken however, for not long after he had had that great and distinguished honor heaped upon him, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. sent him a bill for fifty thousand dollars which its officials claimed he owed it for traveling over its various lines on his speaking and pleasure tours on receiving the bill he cussed and swore and loudly exclaimed that he never would pay it and it is fair to presume that he never has paid it which is in our opinion an evidence of dishonesty on his part, not many months after he assumed the duties of his office, Congress started in to investigate him just a little bit and in doing so it found out to the great astonishment of all the people residing in all parts of the civilized world, that four or five of the largest life insurance companies in New York City had robbed the widows, little children and other policy holders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and that the vast sums of money which they had thus stolen, they willingly chucked it into the Republican campaign fund in order to help to elect Col. Roosevelt, President, after that eye opener no further investigations along that line were made until recently. Nothing further was accomplished in this direction until late the past Spring at that time it was brought to the surface that the late Edward H. Harriman the big Railroad king, whom Roosevelt very bitterly denounced later on as a malfactor of great wealth and that no honest men could ever think about associating with him, had raised $240,000 for the apostle of purity and righteousness and that the money was used by Cornelius N. Bliss, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee in 1904 to assist to put Col. Roosevelt on the inside of the breastworks in his hand to hand contest with Judge Parker. Col. Roosevelt at that time and this Spring like a man who has become drunken with his own power and self conceit rared back on his self constituted dignity and he possessed a sufficient amount of unmitigated gall to attempt to cuss out all those who dared to intimate such a thing. The senate committee after its summer vacation resumed its labors in Washington, D. C., this week; and it was proven that John D. Arch- [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie, looking directly at the camera. The background is plain and light-colored. There are no visible texts or markings on the image.]] CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM SULZER. The Peoples Candidate for Governor of the Empire State. bold, head of the Standard Oil Company, Henry C. Frick, George J. Gould and John P. Morgan, contributed $100,000 to $150,000 each, to the campaign fund, to assist to elect the former Rough Riding President. Mr. Morgan admitted this week, before the investigating committee; that he had personally counted out $150,000 of his own money to Mr. Bliss, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, for the purpose of furthering the election of Col. Roosevelt, aside from giving a large sum of money to assist in the local contest in New York State. ander Walters, he is fishing. Delored votes that he canduce to march under his b without the least doubt about thousands of Afro-American march on to victory or to do him. Our old friend the honoriam Sulzer, who has been re-elected to Congress for the years from a strong Repu trict in New York City,was nominated to make the race of the Empire state and be the best vote getters in the and being exceedingly pop It was clearly proven this week before the Senate investigating committee, that the late Edward H. Harriman, chucked in $50,000 of his own money, in addition to raising $240,000 among his friends for the apostle of purity and righteousness, that several life insurance companies of New York City, antied in from $300,000 to $400,000 for the present head and front of the Bull Moose crowd, who are simply thirsting for power and offices, that more than 73 per cent. of the $2,199,000 which was milked out of the money kings, the great captains of industry and the blood sucking corporations, was contributed by the corporations, for the advance agent of prosperity, panies and wild cat money in 1907, for the people to do business with, and with those millions behind him, to be recklessly expended for campaign purposes, in the way of debauching and buying up the voters throughout the country, it was an easy matter for Col. Roosevelt, to knock out Judge Parker, in 1904. Boss William Flynn, of Pa., also admitted on the witness stand, before the investigating committee, that he carelessly threw several hundred thousand dollars into the jack pot, to assist Col. Roosevelt, in his present contest for the presidency. It has been clearly proven beyond a doubt that Col. Roosevelt has been firmly caught in the coon trap of the Senate investigating committee, that he has proven himself to be the greatest pervicator of his day and generation, and that he has no more regard for the absolute truth, than the head or the boss devil has for holy water. Gov. Woodrow Wilson has started on his long journey through the west, he will speak in the leading cities and towns in Ohio, Ind., Ill., Mo., and Colorado and before returning to his home in the east he will travel well onto five thousand miles, he will arrive in Chicago Oct. 10, and be the distinguished guest of its Democratic citizens who are planning on giving him a royal reception; Gov. Wilson will visit the State Fair at Springfield on "Democratic Day" and speak from the same platform with Bishop Alex- under Walters, he is fishing for all the Colored votes that he can get or induce to march under his banner and without the least doubt about it many thousands of Afro-Americans will either march on to victory or to defeat with him. Our old friend the honorable William Sulzer, who has been elected and re-elected to Congress for the past 18 years from a strong Republican district in New York City, was this week nominated to make the race for Gov. of the Empire state and being one of the best vote getters in this country and being exceedingly popular with all classes of his fellow citizens throughout his state he has a splendid fighting chance of becoming Gov. of New York. Governor Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri has deserted the Bull Moose party and he is now engaged in making speeches for President William H. Taft, to the gerat rejoicing of his firm supporters and followers, the actions of Gov. Hadley means that he is just beginning to see the light of day and that he is able to tell which way the wind is blowing. ROUSING COLORED PROGRESSIVE MEETING IN EVANSTON, ILLINOIS Over eight hundred enthusiastic Colored voters crowded the Evanston Auditorium to its fullest capacity and listened to able addresses delivered by prominent speakers on the Initiative, Referendum and Recall Tuesday evening. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Young Men's Progressive Club of Evanston and was said to have been the most successful meeting held thus far in that vicinity since the beginning of the campaign. The Hon. George W. Ellis delivered an able and convincing argument with forceful and telling effect. The Hon. B. F. Moseley, as usual acquitted himself with honor and credit. James Hale Porter, a creditable warrior of many a well fought battle, demonstrated his ability as an exponent of Progressive ideas. Others who participated in the program were the Rev. I. A. Thomas, and A. N. Fields. James T. Brewington, who in company with Col. A. N. Fields, cut a wide swath in the mayoralty campaign in which Prof. Charles E. Merriam, ran up against Carter H. Harrison, in the Spring of 1911, has been selected as the grand chief to conduct the campaigns, for Hon. Andrew Russel, Republican candidate for State treasurer and ex-county Judge Lewis Rinker, Republican candidate for State's Attorney, with headquarters at 3449 S. State street. Home-Coming Week Among the Former Members of the Grand Old Party PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. T AFT SEEMS TO BE BEGAINING CONSIDER ABLE LOST GROUND IN THE MIDDLE WEST. TO THE GREAT GRATIFICATION TO HIS FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS AND MANAGERS. CONTRIBUTED BY PHIL H. BROWN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE AUDITORIUM HOTEL CHICAGO. Chicago, Ill., Oct. 4.—This has been home-coming week at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee. Every report from every source shows that the people are returning to the fold in phenomenal numbers—returning from their midsummer diversification, wherein they attended Col Roosevelt's photospasm of social and ambitious greed, not to mention Professor Wilson's inexperience meetings and chautauquas of theoretical research, and are now settling themselves down to the serious business of electing a Republican President. It is a fine sensation to be identified with a party that has always led prosperity by the hand. When the Republican party comes back, behold prosperity with her overflowing cornucopia there by its side. They are comrades. Out west, where the Roosevelt splash in the political pool has been most pronounced, the people are awakening to the dire possibilities of the election of either Wilson or Roosevelt. They recall that under the last Democratic administration that corn, which now brings 77 cents upon the Chicago market was worth only 16 cents at this same season of the year, and that during Roosevelt's administration there was an inceptive money stringency, wherein it was impossible to draw money from the savings banks. It has recurred to them at the same time that Roosevelt was the only Republican President since 1873 who had any condition that even savored of a business depression. As a result of these retrospectives there has been an exodus from the Wilson and Roosevelt camps in the west that approaches a stampede. High cost of living, which accrues from natural causes, of which the demand created by the wonderful prosperity of the country is not the least, is not so bad when the people have the high money with which to meet it; but contemplate a term of four years of Wilson and the inevitable stagnation of business, owing to his platformed policy of tariff tinkering, and with the present high prices of commodities attending us. Of course, everybody knows that the Roosevelt forces are simply cohorts of the Democrats; Roosevelt is not running for the presidency, but for revenge upon the Republican party, which he seeks to destroy because it has denied his dictatorship. There is no class of people to whom national prosperity means more than it does to the Colored people. They are essentially wage earners and service men, who thrive more upon the luxurious waste of life than upon the business routine of actual necessities. In many cases they are farmers, but-not so generally in the north; but at any event the prosperity of the nation has upon the Negro an influence akin to a modus vivendi. If the money market is strained, there is no building, and if there is no building there is no hod-carrying. Those who are service men, such as waiters, which avocation has developed into quite an art, barbers, cooks, porters, butlers, coachmen, No. I footmen and chauffeurs, are all dependent upon prosperity. The railroad porter, who relies largely upon tips for his wages, feels keenly the falling off of travel and the lack of liberality when his patrons have not the money to spend. The Democratic party is constitutionally and by predisposition a party of penny. It has the characteristic and unhappy faculty of being poor itself and of rendering everybody else poor around it. Can it be so easily forgotten that Mr. Bryan threw off the belt and stopped the entire proceedings of the late Democratic Convention at Baltimore in an effort to throw Ryan and Belmont out of the Convention simply because they had made and saved some money. Professor Wilson, whom Theodore Roosevelt is trying to elect President of the United States, is the advance agent of business depression. He howls down the successful business man of the country, while he has for all of his school teaching career been a parasitic beneficiary of the philanthropic fruits of their business acumen. He has imbibed all of the freetrade theories of his friend and neighbor the late departed, Grover Cleveland, the president of panies, without the latter's hardheaded and rugged conception of statecraft. He has a pedagogic idea of constructive government, and has taken a post-graduate course at the feet of William Jennings Bryan, whom the country has thrice voted as having too many revolutionary bats in his garret to be president of this great country. He is "book-larnt" but otherwise inexperienced in economic politics and possesses that personal, padagogic pedantry which renders him self-sufficient to a degree only equalled by that incomparable concentration of conceit, Theodore Roosevelt. What with tariff tinkering for revenue only, violent assaults upon the policies under which this country has become the industrial and commercial monarch of the world, with a schoolroom pigmy lost in the seat of an intellectual giant, it isn't hard to see that prosperity will hide her face and seek the seclusion of the ground hog, from sheer lack of confidence. Theodore Roosevelt is playing sancho Panza to Woodrow Wilson's Don Quixote in this triangular contest, and Woodrow Wilson, with his scholastic temperament and stulted understanding, is just as capable of administering the affairs of the office to which he aspires as a blacksmith is capable with his tongs and anvil to repair the mechanism of a miniature Swiss watch. Since the Negro is as much, if not more than any other citizen dependent upon the prosperity of the country, not only for his luxuries, but for his necessities, it is his duty to place his shoulder to the wheel and assist in the retention of prosperity by the election of the Republican candidate for President, and if he does not do this, we are sure to come face to face with the wolf of want and the pain of retrogradation. 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From thousands of pulpits in all parts of the United States, fake cures for consumption will be exposed and denounced on Tuberculosis Oay, October 27th. This is part of the program for the movement announced to-day by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Literature giving information on fraudulent and alleged "eures" for consumption will be sent to clergyman all over the country, and an organized crusade against the traffic in these drugs and devices will be instituted. The literature will be sent to ministers either directly from the National Association office in New York or through the many state and local anti-tubercosis associations scattered throughout the country. It is estimated that over 100,000 clergymen will be reached in this way. From actual records on file in the office of The National Association, it is estimated that the volume of business done annually by the various concerns who sell fake remedies for tuberculosis amounts to well over $15,000,000. The number of these remedies now being used as so-called "eures" is over 500. Three classes of "cures" are distinguished by the National Association. In the first class are included hundreds of devices and drugs which can be bought for any sum ranging from ten cents to five dollars at a drug store. The second class of "cures" includes the "institutes," "professors," or companies of "doctors," who for a consideration guarantee to cure consumption by some secret method of which they are the sole proprietors. There are nearly one hundred-fifty of these institute frauds in the United States, cheating the people out of millions of dollars annually. In the third class of "cures" are placed a number of home-made remedies, which either through ignorance or superstition have been advanced as treatments for tuberculosis. Some of these are onions, lemons, rattlesnake poison, coal dust, lime dust, pigs' blood, dog oil, milk "strippings," and even alcohol. None of these remedies will cure consumption, declares The National Association. No drug, gas or other material has yet been discovered, which when eaten, inhaled or injected into the system, will kill the germs of tuberculosis without doing serious injury to the body. The only real cure for tuberculosis recognized by The National Association consists of the combination of fresh air, good food, and rest taken under the direction of a competent physician. HEALTH NOTES During the Summer months the Sanitary Bureau of the Department of Health is kept unusually busy. There are all kinds of complaints coming in to the Bureau every day. These complaints cover a multitude of things that annoy people and which tend to destroy or interfere with community health and comfort. The Department of Health is glad to receive these complaints. They indicate that the people of this city are anxious to have better surroundings; that they want the things that make for community comfort. They also indicate an increasing degree of confidence in the Department of Health, that when complaints are made they will be given attention, and that the Department will co-operate with them in getting for them better living conditions in their neighborhood. It may be of interest to give just a few figures showing something of the activities of the Sanitary Bureau for the month of August. Here they are: During the month a total of 2,220 complaints were received and given out to inspectors. These complaints covered almost every imaginable thing about which decent and order-loving citizens would be justified in complaining; dirty back yards, broken root drains, clogged up drain pipes, insignily vacant lots, manure bins, broken roof gutters, and many others of a like character. Total inspections for the month were 7,553; total notices served 2,085; total nuisances on which abatements were secured for the month 2,561. The grand total of inspections for the month was 14,805. During the same month the Bureau of Sanitation served 1,453 notices ordering the abatement of nuisances of many kinds. Of these 99 were served in the 2nd ward, 90 in the 1st, 87 in the 22nd, and 60 in the 30th. The wards in which the least number of complaints were the 9th and 33rd, with a record of 17 and 15. These figures are of interest from more than one view point. For example, whether the ward with only 15 notices served during the month has anything more to its credit than the ward with six times that number could only be determined in a tour of inspection through the wards named. It is entirely within the probabilities that the ward making the biggest demand upon the Department's services is the ward that is making the most strenuous efforts to improve its physical conditions; and that the ward having the smallest number of notices served may be careless and indifferent as to the things that make for community comfort and safety. And, once more, both of these probabilities may be far wide of the real facts. But, however this may be, the fact still remains that the figures given are of interest and deserving of study. SUDDEN DEATH OF REV. JORDAN CHAVIS. On Wednesday morning at 8:30 o'clock, Rev. Jordan Chavis, suddenly passed away at his home 3560 Vernon avenue, apoplexy was the direct or the leading cause of his death. He had just finished eating his morning meal when he was stricken down by the hand of death without the least warning. Drs. G. A. Lewis, A. Wilberforce Williams and L. W. Lewis were hastily called to his bedside but they were unable to do him any good in the way of relieving him of his suffering and restoring him back to life. Rev. Chavis was born in Vicksburg, Miss., 56 years ago, he came to Ill. in the days of his youth and for many years he resided at Quincy, this state, where for a long time he was the pastor of one of its Baptist churches, prior to removing to this city to reside he was also pastor of a Baptist church at Springfield, Ill., at the time of his death he was the Pastor of the Hermon Baptist Church on the North side, which he founded some years ago. He was a prominent member of Arnett Lodge of K. P.'s and Odd Fellows Lodge 7455, he was Grand Master of the U. B. F's for the state of Ill. and National Grand Master of the same order, he was Chaplain of the Eighth Regiment and he faithfully served it as such while it was in Cuba, he was also an honored member of the Annie Walker Society, and a high Mason. He leaves behind him to maurn his death his constant and devoted wife, Mrs. Jordan Chavis, Jordan Chavis, Jr., Miss Susie Chavis, Horatio and Lawerence Chavis and thousands of warm friends in all parts of the country. Funeral services will be held over his remains at 1:30 o'clock Sunday, at Quinn Chapel, 24th and Wabash Ave. interment at Mt. Glenwood cemetery. The head officers of the U. B. F.'s of this state, Ky., and other states will be present and with the assistance of the heads of the other secret orders which he belonged to will assist the Preachers in conducting the services. Col. John R. Marshall, Commanding the Eighth Regiment headed by its famous band, will act as the guard of honor. MAKING USE OF THE TIME MAKING USE OF THE TIME. Jno. Wanamaker, when Postmaster General of the United States, employed as a laborer a young Colored man, whom he liked very much. He suggested to the lad that he improve his financial condition by improving his education by night study, which he promised to do. Several days later Mr. Wanamaker asked him how he was getting along with the new work. He said he had not had time to do anything and thought he would have to give up the idea for his time would not permit. "Why," replied Mr. Wanamaker, "I do not understand you when you say you do not have time to improve yourself. I am Postmaster General of the United States; I conduct the largest department stores in the world, having one at New York, another in Philadelphia, and another in Paris. I am member of many corporations, am superintendent of one of the largest Sunday Schools in the country, and I find time to study to improve myself. Indeed, I find that I have so much time I am always looking for some profitable way to use it." Yet there are preachers who can't read a hymn or a chapter in the Bible correctly to save their lives; who do not know how to treat a text, and who are utterly unintended to lead the people. They seem not to have time to improve their minds; but they spend from ten to SWORN STATEMENT PERTAINING TO THE OWNERSHIP OF THE BROAD AX UNDER THE NEW POSTAL LAWS. The following is our sworn statement pertaining to the ownership, management, circulation, etc., of The Broad Ax published weekly at Chicago, Ill., required by the Act of August 24, 1912. Note.—This statement is to be made in duplicate, both copies to be delivered by the publisher to the postmaster, who will send one copy to the Third Assistant Postmaster General (Division of Classification), Washington, D. C., and retain the other in the files of the post office. D. C., and Retain the Name of Editor, Julius F. Taylor, 5027 Armour Ave., Chicago, Ill. Owner: Julius F. Taylor, 5027 Armour Ave., Chicago, Ill. (If a corporation, give names and addresses of stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock.) Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders: None. thirty hours a week in "vain babblings" on street corners, in barber shops, at some "good sisters," or other places where there is no improvement. —The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, Pa., September 28-12. To all of the above we simply say Amen! Amen!—Editor. JOHN W. WORTHINGTON, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BANK WELL PLEASED WITH HIS TRIP TO MOUND BAYOU, MISSISSIPPI. He Was Entertained At The Homes of Isaac T. Montgomery and Charles Banks. Wednesday morning, John W. Worthington, President of the American Bank, 117 N. Dearborn Street, returned home from his trip to Mound Bayou, Miss., where he went to inspect the property of the Mound Bayou Oil, Cotton Seed and Mill Company. He found the property in first-class condition and far beyond his expectations. Charles Banks, is President of this company. The main building is 400 feet long, built of solid brick and three stories high and when the machinery is installed in it and every thing put in running order the entire plant will cost over $1,000,000. One hundred Colored men, women and children will be employed in it, and Mr. Worthington states with much pleasure that it is one of the finest and most extensive plants of its kind in any section of the south and just as soon as the chain of title, to the property is perfected, he will make a loan on it for $40,000, and he intimated that it will be one of the best and the safest loans that any bank or any one can make at any place or time. First Mortgage Bonds will be issued, bearing 6 per cent, interest running, against the property, ranging from $100 to $250 and $500, they will be in the reach of all Colored people or others who have small sums of money to invest in absolute good security. While in Mound Bayou, Mr. Worthington was the guest of both Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Banks, and he states that he never fared better in his life. That both of those gentlemen reside in elegant homes, which are neatly and artistically presided over by their intelligent wives. Mound Bayou, is strictly a Negro town, all of its city officials belong to the Colored race, including the station agent, the postmaster, and not a White man of any description, permanently resides in it, nor is engaged in business in it. The population of the town is about 2,000, and it is well governed, well lighted, thoroughly sanitary and in a flourishing condition, and as stated before, Mr. Worthington, is well pleased with his visit to it, and states with pleasure, that the Colored people are making rapid and substantial progress in that section of the south. WALTERS A. M. B. ZION CHURCH Cor 38th and Dearborn Ste. Rev. H. J. Callis, D. D., Pastor. The services at our church on last Sunday were well attended and the usual spiritual interest was evident. The offerings were up to their usual standard. All of the Captains working in the rally are evincing great interest, at the roll call on last Monday night nearly all of them reported progress. Sunday the services will be as usual except the omission of the Holy Communion which will be celebrated at our first Quarterly Meeting on the 13th in the afternoon Rev. Robinson of St. Marks M. E. Church will preach the sermon, and the choir of St. Paul C. M. E. Church will furnish the music. Our First Quarterly Conference will be held on the 10th. Rev. R. P. Christian, Presiding Elder. Mrs. C. J. Jackson is arranging for a very unique entertainment which will take place on Tuesday the 8th, known as the Living Pictures. The Millionaire Wedding for which cards of admission are in circulation and will take place on the 15th, bids fair to be a great success. PHYLLIIS WHEATLEY NOTES. A very pleasant meeting was held Wed. Oct. 2nd. Many visitors were present. Those who gave interesting talk were Miss Janie Lee of Troy, N. Y., Miss Mary E. Williams of the Harriet Lubbman House, Boston, Mass., Mrs. S. B. Dill of Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Sarah Hamilton, of Cornell Charity Club, and Mrs. Addie Morris Seeney, who has returned from an extended visit in the East. Mrs. Dora Manly of Colorado Spring is visiting Mrs. J. J. Johnson, 3722 Forest Ave. The Corn Party to be given at Johnson's Hall, 3522 State St., Wed. Oct. 29th, promises to be a grand affair. (Mrs. Addie Morris Seeney.) ARKANSAS NEGROES NOT DIS FRANCHISED We rejoice with the Negroes of Arkansas in that the "Grandfathers Clause" was defeated in the election held in that state last week, "The white people," so says The Mosaic Guide, "took a stand against disfranchising the Negro." We congratulate J. E. Bush and S. A. Jones for their manly fight for justice and right. This is a great victory for the Negro, not only in Arkansas but for the Negroes throughout the country. Jeff Davis got the black eye, and may it never open on his sinful soul. HEYWORTH QUITS THE BULL MOOSE PARTY. Lawrence Heyworth Wednesday withdrew his name as Bull Moose candidate for Congress in the First District. He did not assign any reason, nor was there anyone at the Progressive headquarters who was willing to say—for publication, at least—what the explanation might be. It was announced, however, that no candidate will be named to take Mr. Heyworth's place on the ticket and it was also admitted that the Bull Moose workers in the district have been instructed to use their efforts in behalf of James Donovan, the Democratic nominee, against Martin B. Madden, the Republican incumbent. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH, 5951 Dearborn St. S. S. 1:45, Mrs. Minnie Clark, Supt. C. E. 6:45, Mrs. Lalla Jones, Pres., at 7:45, The Evangelist Frank Starks will speak. Mr. and Mrs. James Martin united with the Church Sunday. Mrs. Lizzie R. Palmer Berry of Jersey City, N. Y. is in the city, the guest of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. James Higgins, 5253 Dearborn St. "WILSON, THAT'S ALL," COLORED MAN'S OPINION OF SULZER AS CHASER. Special Dispatch to The Broad Ax. NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—A crowd of delegates from Syracuse surrounded a Colored porter in the station at Albany this morning. "Here, you!" cried one of them, "what do you think of our candidate?" "Who's that?" the porter asked, cautiously. "Sulzer!" roared the crowd. "Well," said the Colored man, "I don't see how you're gwine to beat Wilson with Sulzer for a chaser." CONVICT WOMAN AS A SLAYER. A woman was convicted Tuesday of murder in Cook County. Mrs. Lulu Blackwell, Colored, was found guilty of slaying Charles Vaughan, also Colored, at 8212 South Dearborn street, February 16. The jury in Judge Thomas G. Winds' court fixed the punishment at thirty-five years in prison. The state's attorney's office was surprised and the defendant was shocked. The defendant was secure in the feeling of precedent that a woman could not be convicted of murder and she laughed at the witnesses against her. "Oh, mammal What do you think of that," she exclaimed, when the verdict was read. Some minutes later the defendant was able to produce a considerable show of emotion and finally developed a case of hysteria. CHIPS. George W. Holt, 3004 State street, spent several days in St. Louis this week, looking after his business interest in that city. Mrs. Ella Wheeler, 5025 Armour avenue, left Monday morning for a two weeks visit among her old relatives and friends at Mendota, Ill. Mrs. Edward S. Miller, 3642 Wabash avenue, returned home Friday morning from a two weeks pleasure and vacation trip, to Minneapolis, Minn. Louis Seldon, 5011 Armour avenue, Republican candidate for county commissioner, has been confined to his home with a severe sick spell for the past week. Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson announces the opening of her new studio of Music in rooms 12 and 14, number 3522 South State street, October 8, 1912. Miss Elizabeth B. Slaughter, 3544 Dearborn street, and Mrs. Edward H. Morris, 3256 Rhodes avenue, returned to the city Thursday morning from the summer home of the Morris' at Benton Harbor, Mich. Mrs. Charles J. Pickett, Washington, D. C., who has for the summer been the guest of Mrs. John R. Marshall, 3630 Calumet avenue, left for her home in the east Thursday evening. Dr. D. H. Anderson and William H. Clark, have opened up a branch headquarters for the adherents or supporters of Judge Edward F. Dunne, at 3016 State street, over Silver's tailor shop. Mrs. David Manson, 5413 Calumet avenue, puts in the greater portion of her spare time in pursuing her literary and musical studies and it is barely possible that before a great while she may be induced to again make her appearance before the public. Attorney Augustus L. Williams, 184 W. Washington street, is working, tooth and toe nail, for the re-election of Governor Charles S. Deneen, and can be seen almost any day, darting in and out the Republican State headquarters in the Hotel La Salle like a busy politician. Mr. Jerry M. Blumfield will address the Negro Fellowship League Sunday afternoon, meeting at the Reading Room, 2830 State St. His subject will be Legislation of the Republican Party." Mr. Blumfield is one of the rising orators of our race. All are invited to hear this able and eloquent address. Mrs. Alberta Moore-Smith, addressed the women of the Hyde Park Congregational Church Wednesday evening. Her subject was "Social Aspect of the Chicago Negro." It was the first time a Colored woman had been invited to speak in that church, and her talk will be printed in pamphlet for free distribution among its members in that neighborhood. James A. Ross, first vice-president of the National Colored Democratic League in charge of the Western headquarters at 3314 Wabash avenue, and some of his associates gave a dinner Thursday evening, at the Baker House 3312 Wabash avenue, in honor of some or the local Democrats and those who aspire to become the national leaders of that party among the Colored folks. On Thursday evening, October 10, Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 6130 Ada street, founder and manager of the Louise Juvenile Home, for dependent and neglected children, will celebrate its 4th anniversary inspection of the home. 5:30 P. M. Light luncheon. 6:30 P. M. The following will be the speakers for the occasion: Wilfred S. Reynolds, Executive Sec., County Board of Visitors, Subject, Child Dependency and our Responsibility; Will T. Davis, Cook County Jailor, Dr. C. L. Jefferson, Pastor Hope Pres. Church, Miss Ethel M. Simpson, Childs Life in an Institution, J. M. Blumfield, Master of Ceremony. Silver offering will be received. PLATS TO RENT 7240-7243 Wentworth Ave., first flat, 7 Rooms and Bath, $20.00. Second flat nothing better seven rooms and bath Bent $22.00. 5754 Wentworth Ave, 5 Rooms and Bath front fnts $18.00 four room rear flats, Bent $16.00 Stone front House 5521 Shields Ave., 5 Rooms and Bath, $18.00 best resident district. 2811 Armour Ave., 2nd flat 5 Rooms and bath, $16.00. 3412 La Salle Street, 5 Rooms, $16.00. G. RICHARDSON, 169 N. 8th Ave. Room 306, Phone Automatic 83-201 BANE OF RACE PREJUDICE Noted Brooklyn Writer Commands Stand Taken by Standard Uniforms Stand Prayer by Senator Union. In reply to a recent editorial in the Brooklyn Daily Standard Union under the caption "A Prejudice Which Should Be Removed," Mrs. M. C. Lawton, the well known writer and agitator for the legal rights of Afro-Americans, says: "It is a sad commentary on a civilized government when worth and character must surrender to petty race prejudices, particularly when such concessions dwarf the development and growth of an entire race, intellectually, financially, physically and morally. Intellectually, because the doors of many of our higher institutions are closed against him, and yet he is expected to compete with the man who can enter any college in the world. This privilege being denied him, he is branded as mentally inferior to other races. Financially, because he is underrated, therefore underpaid. Besides there are so many fields of labor into which he may not enter because of race prejudice. "Physically, because he is barred from athletic associations which make it possible for him to take the physical culture so necessary to a sound physical body, symmetry of form, etc. Morally, because of the congested manner in many instances in which this hydra-headed monster, prejudice, forces him to live. If the locality is desirable the rent is so extortionate that he must take all sorts of persons in his home to meet the monthly expense. Again, although his salary is less than that of any other class of citizens, he must pay interest for his color. This condition is calculated to lower the moral status of any race or people. "To shut the doqr of opportunity in the face of any man and then brand him as shiftless and indolent is a malicious crime. To bar him from educational advantages and then label him as inferior is equally as criminal. "There are men and women in the colored race whose identity would be imperceptible under a microscope, yet if it is known that they possess 1 percent of colored blood the 15 per cent of the white blood counts for naught. Mathematics is no factor in this problem; hence the discrimination is not based on the complexion nor the texture of the hair. There are also scores of refined, intelligent, cultured men and women who are just as much ostracized as the most vagrant and uncouth men and women of their race. "I heartily indorse the spirit of the editorial referred to in that it favors fairness and justice for the self respecting Ilians, at the same time imploring the self respecting class of that race to condemn the vicious and treacherous among them. "What is true of this particular class is no less true of the colored people. Let them ever be on the alert, commending worth and integrity wherever they find them and condemning crime wherever it exists. "I assume that this fair and square article is no less directed to one race than another and that the Standard Union, so widely read among the colored citizens generally of Brooklyn, will ever be found on the side of right as it sees it, regardless of race, creed or previous condition." The article in question dealt with the discrimination practiced against Italians as tenants. THRIFTY BUSINESS MAN. How a South American is Succeeding in the States. Among the young men of the race who have launched out on a business career, and the type that always meet the approval of men like Dr. Booker T. Washington, is B. Callender, who is conducting a successful express, cellar cleaning and dirt hauling business in Orange, N. J. Mr. Callender conducts one of the few places of the kind in the city and is building up a successful business. He does most of the express and dirt hauling of the town through contract, and by steady devotion to his work he is building up a splendid business. Mr. Callender is among the young men of the race with foresight who seized upon the opportunity to get away from the city and start a business of his own. He began in business by buying a horse and wagon and engaging in the express business, but his business increased to such an extent that he soon added an additional force in order to meet the demands for his services. Mr. Callender is a native of Venezuela and came to America in 1907. While his business place is in Orange, Mr. Callender finds time to act as sexton for the Twenty-third Street Presbyterian church, one of the largest white churches in New York. His example could well be followed by other young men of the race. Golden Rule Tabernacle of Moses. Golden Rule Tabernacle, the order of Moses, has been recently organized in McKeesport, Pa., with a membership of fifty-four. Grand Master Joseph J. Minor conducted the ceremonies, and was ably assisted by Mrs. Anna Delphia, organizer of the new tabernacle. Mr. Minor expresses himself as being well pleased with the progress which the order is making in Pennsylvania, as is true of its work in other states. To Teach at Howard Industrial School. By securing the services of Miss Alberta Everett of Lynchburg, Va., as a member of the faculty, the Howard Industrial school at Kings Park, New York, gains a zealous worker and well qualified teacher. Miss Everett is the daughter of Mr. A. J. Everett, the well known contractor and builder and one of Lynchburg's most highly respected citizens. SIRES AND SONS Kaoru Osani, founder of the Jiyu Gekijo, or Liberal Theater Society of Japan, is coming to this country to study American ways and theaters. The English editor of the Shanghai Commercial Press, Fong See, was graduated in 1905 from Columbia university. For a time he worked as a laundryman in New York city. Levi Quadenfield of Philadelphia, aged sixty-one, has just married a sixteen-year-old wife who cannot speak English and with whom he must converse through an interpreter. Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, whom President Taft has appointed minister to Greece, has been president of Cornell university since 1892. He has been granted a year's leave of absence. Luther Conant, Jr., who has been appointed to succeed Herbert Knox Smith as government commissioner of corporations, has been deputy commissioner since June, 1909. For several years before that he was a special examiner in the same department. John Osborne, many years ago the world's premier jockey, is probably the most striking example in the world of clean living associated with sport. Although over eighty years of age, the venerable Englishman retains his love for the turf by training a few good horses and often gives his charges their early morning gallops, his strength and agility being the marvel of his associates. Nogi and Japan. This Japan which is so modern and up to date in arms, in medicine, in industries, in trade, in education, is still oriental and, to western minds, unfathonable. Its ways of thought are not our ways.—New York World. It is old Japanese custom, but the knowledge that it has survived until this twentieth century will shock the western world. It is as if Count von Molke had killed himself at the bier of Kaiser Wilhelm I. — New York Times. Suicide as an act of worship in these days cannot be regarded otherwise than as a crowning act of barbarism, and doubtless the sad and distressing end of the hero of Port Arthur, possibly the most magnificent general of Japan, will be the last of its kind.—Baltimore American. Sporting Notes. The Los Angeles race track will include a $40,000 grand stand. The Schuylkill navy oarsmen of Philadelphia will endeavor to secure the 1913 regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen. Several foreign judges are to officiate at the horse show in Madison Square Garden. New York city, this fall. Prominent among these is Baron Gino di Morpurgo of Rome, one of the keenest horsemen in Italy. Ed Siever, former Detroit pitcher, after a whirl at umpiring in the Southern Michigan league, gave it up and resigned, saying he would not stand for the criticism of players on the field or volunteer assistants in the grand stands and bleachers. Aerial Flights. The aeroplane has figured in wedding gayeties and figures now in reconciling estranged husband and wife. It will soon be the vehicle for elopements.—New York Tribune. Aviator Curtiss' claim that hydroaeroplanes will soon be skimming the seas suggests that while you can't fall far from a hydroaeroplane you can fall mighty deep.—New York American. Jules Vedrines' prediction of an aeroplane express across the Atlantic between the dawn and the twilight of a summer's day may be a dream, but he it doing his part to make it a reality.—New York World. Flippant Flings. Cuba needs $11,000,000. So do most married men.—Baltimore Sun. "One of the poorest lemon crops on record." This may be taken several ways, but it refers specifically to citrus fruit.—Boston Journal. The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette seems to prove that marriage promotes longevity. Now, of course, somebody will rise to proclaim a preference for a short life and a merry one.—Louisville Courter-Journal. Shaping Our Ends The manicurist is the destiny that shapes our ends.—Philadelphia Inquiler. What's the matter with the chropodist?—Toledo Blade. Supreme Court Justice Delany decides that a barber cannot legally practice chropody. What is needed how is a decision that the domestic razor must not be borrowed for amateur effort of that kind.—New York World. Short Stories. The insurance companies of the United States in 1911 paid out $502,640,000. The United States consumes more spun and manufactured silk than any other country. Somebody could combine business with sport in India by killing the wild pigs and having their skins converted into leather. There are more one dollar bills in circulation in this country than any other denomination. The five dollar bill is next in number. Ever been a-swimming when the fellows took and tied Your duds in one mixed mess of knots and hollowed when you tried To get the things untangled? You'd be at it tooth and tail Chewing at the knots, when all the gang would start to rail (And it rubbed you on the raw): "Chicky, chicky, chaw your beef! Beef-wun—tough! Couldn't—git—enough! Chaw! Chaw! Chaw!" Reckon that's as good advice as any ever got— Good, I guess, for any mess that life itself can knot. Take the trouble dealt you. Let gawks gape or jeer. Strain your soul to set your teeth and chew that tangle clear. Ay, at it claw and jaw. "Chicky, chicky, chaw your beef! Beef-wound tongue! Couldn't-gil-enough! Chaw! Chaw! Chaw!" —Puck. -Puck Needed Help. "A brawny negro," said Robert Edson, "was once employed as a stove-dore on the docks at Memphis to help unload a cargo from the steamer Anna P. Silver. "The negro was carrying anvils ashore, and so great was his strength that he carried one under each arm. "In crossing the narrow gangplank with an anvil under each arm the negro slipped and fell into the water. "He came up puffing and blowing. 'Frow down er rope' he yelled. "The men on board laughed at him in derision. " 'Frow down er rope' pleaded the negro, treading water vigorously. "Getting nothing but jeers, the negro cried excitedly: "For de lan's sake, frow down er rope or I'll drop one of dese anvilie."—Young's Magazine. The Lonic of Dress. "A pretty thing!" she quick returned. "Why, no one's wearing that!" He remained discreetly silent Till he saw a tailored suit. "There," he cried, "is a corker! That is, what I call a beaut!" He turned on him a glance of scorn. A glance that crushed him flat. And the verdict that she uttered was, "They all are wearing that!" -Judge. A Prediction Verified. A fortune teller was arrested at his theater of divination, al fresco, at the corner of the Rue de Bussy, in Paris, and carried before the tribunal of correctional police. "You know how to read the future?" said the president, a man of great wit, but too fond of a joke for a magistrate. "I do, M. le President," replied the sorcerer. "In this case," said the judge, "you know the judgment we intend to pronounce?" "Certainly." "Well, what will happen to you?" "Nothing." "You are sure of it?" "You will acquit me." "Acquit you!" "There is no doubt of it" "Why?" "Because, sir, if it had been your intention to condemn me you would not have added irony to misfortune." He was acquitted.-Life. All in the Family. Father whacks the carpet Hanging on the line: Son is playing baseball (He is on the "nine"): Daughter's out canoeing With some jolly friends— Mother washes, irons, cooks, Scrubs and sweeps and mends. —Canadian Courier. Pride The following anecdote helps to prove that, even among the present Greeks, in the gloomy days of servitude, the remembrance of their ancient glory is not totally extinct: When Mr. Anson (Lord Anson's brother) was upon his travels in the east he hired a vessel to visit the isle of Tenedos. His pilot, an old Greek, as they were sailing along said, with some satisfaction. "There is our fleet lay." Mr. Anson demanded, "What fleet?" "What fleet?" replied the old man, a little piqued at the question. "Why, our Grecian fleet at the sieve of Troy."—Life Counsel. If you would be perfect, dear sisters and brothers. Just follow the counsel you give unto others. But if you'd be holy and wondrous and true Just follow the counsel they give unto you. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Willing to Wait. A Baltimore clubman tells of two convicts who met for a moment alone in a corridor and took advantage of the fact for a hurried interview. Said one, "How long are you in for?" "For life," responded the other. "And how long are you in for?" "Twelve years," responded the other. "Then," said the lifer, cautiously extracting a letter from its hiding place as he glanced fearfully around. "take this and mail it for me when you get out."—Baltimore American. Face to face with a solenium hereafter. —Washington Star. Up to Date. Fresh Tourist (in mountain district) —What a backwoods! I'll bet you a dollar, my man, that you can't tell me whether Andrew Jackson is dead or not. Native—Maybe I can't, but I'll bet you $100 I can name more 300 and better batters in either of the big leagues than you can and let it go at that!—Puck. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS Mme. Albant, sixty and poor, is in London, teaching music for a living. Once she was worth nearly $1,000,000. Mrs. Mary Ashton, said to be the oldest living army nurse in this country, has just celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday. Mrs. A. M. Blair, the "musical philanthropist" of Washington, is now gathering forces for a woman's orchestra in the national capital. She is already the head of three women's choral clubs in Washington. Mrs. Ono, the wife of a Japanese financier, is traveling about this country and surprising the curious by smoking cigarettes and dressing like a Parisienne. As a matter of fact, she has lived in Paris for a number of years. Miss Hildegarde Nash, who recently won the award of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels against twenty-two contestants, is the first American in the history of the Brussels conservatory to attain this honor. The diploma given her renders her eligible to a violin professorship. She is a native of Watertown, Mass., and began her violin studies at the age of eight. Town Topics. It took a German geographer to tell Chicago to its face that it was not. representative of the United States.—New York Sun. New York is welcome to Boston ideas—first, center doors in the elevated cars; now vocational training in the public schools.—Boston Journal. Part time in the crowded public schools of New York, but no lack of well paid places in the civil service for faithful policemen.—Boston Transcript. St. Paul policemen have been ordered to use their clubs on street mashers. It is hoped the St. Paul policemen are provided with good, heavy clubs.—Chicago Record-Herald. Pert Personals. Isadora Duncan has bought a castle in Europe. The rest of us could do it if we didn't have to wear clothes in public.-Rochester Union and Advertiser. Having completed her conquest of the central Asian mountains, Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman should come home and tackle Mount McKinley. That would be a climb worthy-of her wonderful mettle.-Boston Journal. There is good reason to doubt the report that Patti is contemplating another farewell tour of the United States, but there is little doubt that such a tour would be successful, not through what the divi is, but what she used to be.-Boston Journal. English Etchings. Portsmouth is the most strongly fortified place in England. Smoking in English railway trains was officially prohibited before 1888. No house in London is more than 200 yards from a postoffice or a pillar box. The aggregate gross income of the inhabitants of the British isles amounts to $5,045,000,000 a year. Near Dorchester, England, there are the remains of a Roman amphitheater capable of holding 13,000 people. Fashion Frills. "Robespiere style" suggests a real reign of terror in the fashionable world.-Boston Journal. More "hobbles" from Paris and 1830 whiskers from London are likely to make Broadway still more wonderful to visitors.-New York American. A Paris brain specialist says women will be bald in 500 years. Then some of the hats of last winter and spring will be very appropriate.-Rochester Union and Advertiser. Motorcycle Speed. Meanwhile no list of deadly weapons is complete unless it includes the motorcycle.-Topeka Capital. Every now and then the motorcycle and the auto show the aeroplane that it hasn't quite put their noses out of joint yet as killers.-Washington Post. The British cycling authority who says that motorcycle speed mania is sensationalism and not sport is entirely correct in his opinion.-New York World. Cost of Living. Treasury officials are trying to make the dollar more beautiful. Why not more plentiful?—New York American. The agricultural department says that farmers are now getting less for food, but when is the consumer going to get it for less?—Washington Post. The sense of humor outlies even hope. Men joke about the cost of living even when it is impossible to pay their bills.—Louisville Courier Journal. Electric Sparks. Electric batteries can be made much stronger by heating them. The export of electrical apparatus last year reached the enormous figure of $19,855,838. Over the four wires connecting Chicago to New York eleven messages can be sent at once. A complete telephone transmitter which folds into a watch case has been invented to relieve a person of the implacent necessity of using an insinatory public telephone. An actor without funds managed in some way to get a second class ticket on a line of steamers running between Seattle and San Francisco. The voyage between these two points consumed the better part of three days, and in view of the fact that his money were at a low ebb he figured it out in this way: The first day out he slept all day to keep from eating and remained up all night to keep from sleeping. The second day he took physical culture exercises. On the third day he could stand the strain no longer and went down to the dining room and ordered the best meal the best could afford. While tucking it under his belt he conjured up in his mind's eye a picture of a cell in the bastle in San Francisco. After finishing the meal he said to the waiter, "How much do I owe you?" "Nothing," replied the waiter; "your meals are included in your ticket."—National Monthly. 'N' the way he spoke about her eyes 'm' hair 'N seen my sweetheart Sue. Jim Todd, who's gone through college, tried To alip me a tosh or two. How that poet had lived a long ago. Been buried a thousand years or so. But I said: 'Jim, you're a kilder, see? 'N you might fool some, but you can't fool me.' That poet sure meant Sue. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. Logical Anyway A correspondent from Berea sends these: "My father is the superintendent of the German Methodists' Orphan home here. This incident happened the other day. Wanting to know the time, I sent a youngster into the house to look at the clock. He came back and told me it was a quarter to 4. I didn't think it was quite that late, so I sent another child. He reported that it was twenty-five minutes of 4. Up speaks the first lad: "I knew that: but if 25 cents is a quarter, why ain't twenty-five minutes a quarter?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Slight Oversight. He had eleven kinds of bait, Three sorts of line. He spent a wad to buy a rod Of Norway pine. He had a pair of rubber boots That reached the hip; Sent miles to get a special net With which to dip. He had most all they specify He had no hooks. —Philadelphia Bulletin. A Pen and Ink Shakespeare. Woodrow Wilson, on a recent visit to Atlantic City, referred good humorely to his rather illegible handwriting. "Poor Greeley once quoted from Shakespeare in a leading article, 'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis, 'tis true.' "This appeared the next day as "'Tis two, 'tis fifty, 'tis fifty, 'tis fifty-two."—New York Tribune. Oh. You Maud! Maud Muller on a winter's day Helped harvest ice instead of hay. The judge slid up on gleaning skates. Sent there perhaps by kindly fates. He noticed Maud; he turned to look And instantly a tumble took. Maud never got second chance. And there, of course, was no romance —Washington Herald. Their Worst Fault. Uncle Joe Cannon, seated on the plaza of the Cape May hotel, condemned a certain improvement type of social reformer. "They're great 'borrowers,' he said, "these chaps who are going to make the world all over again. "The worst thing about your Utopians is that they're all I-O-U-toplans." —Detroit Free Press. Difficult A long hard coal famine is threatened, also. That hard coal will be harder than ever. —Detroit News. Understood Argument. "So you took your wife to the baseball game?" "Yes," replied Mr. Meekton. "Did she enjoy it?" "Only part of it. She thought they wasted a great deal of time running around the lot, but she thought the arguments with the umpire were quite interesting."—Washington Star. Bedeviled. For years I've gazed upon your face, Your smile, your dimples and your grace Although no word we've spoken yet— In fact, although we've never met— Your witching beauty drives me mad, Oh, girl of the tooth soap ad! 4 Science Lesson "A child of that age studying natural history? You astonish me!" "It's so, just the same. He was learning the difference between a wasp and a fly."—Houston Post. Same Old Story. Whenever I go fishing The story is the same; The fishing always was immense The week before I came. —Cincinnati Enquirer. $15 Victor-Victrola IV You never thought of getting a genuine Victor-Victrola for $15—yet here it is. And it is of the same high quality and perfection which characterizes all the products of the Victor Company. Come in and hear it—any time. Other styles $25 to $200. Victors $10 to $100. Telephone Douglas 4558 Telephone Automatic 71-703 FRANK L. GALE PIANO CO. 3159 S. State Street : Chicago Phone: Office, Mala 4153 Rea, Dreml, 7990 Auto, 33-736 ATTORNEY AT LAW Saffie 708, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone; Central 6624. Rn. Phone, Doug. 4397. No. 508 East 36th Street. J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney at Law Suite 405, 145 Clark St. Cor. Randolph St. Tel. Aldine 1820 In Office at Night C. H. KNIGHT, M. D., C.M. Office Hours: 9 to 11 A.M. 2 to 5 P.M. 3158 State Street, Chicago Office Hours—From 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sunday by appointment. DR. THEO. R. MOZEE DENTIST Phone, Oakland 4662; Automattia 73053 Frank Dynn and J. B. McCahay, Trustees Tel Oakland 1550-1551-1352 Established 1877 John J. Dunn Coal Wholesale Retail FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVE. Rallyard 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Rentidence, 1262 Macallister Place Telephone, Monroe 2714 Miles J. Devine Attorney at Law Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Streets CHICAGO Phoca, Central 1249; Auto, 41-913 Tel. Central 3142 Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 26 W. RANDOLPH STREET Suite 708 Delaware Building CHICAGO A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North'La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615:to 616 Telephone, Main 3077 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 L. 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. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3532 State St. Edward Felix, notions, eigars and news stand. 52 W. 80th St. William Gaughan, laundry office, eigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. Harry Shelby, news stand 3308 1-2 State Street. Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, eigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, Cigars, Tobacco, Notions, Stationery and News stand, 3640 South State street. J. Hamilton, news stand, out of town papers, and shoe shining parlor, 3220 South State street. J. H. Roberts, barber shop and news stand, 3308 14 State street. 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 colored policy holder 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 5. 72 West Adame Street Telephones, CALUMET 4401--4428 AUTOMATIC 75-655 Artesian Pharmacy 2701 Dearborn St. CHICAGO Use Dorsey's fine Pomade for the hair. It will make it soft and glossy. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Phone your ORDERS Phone Douglas 5520 Rooms by Day or Week Room 28-35-50s The Douglas Hotel For Men Only Baths, Steam Heat, Electric Light 2906 S. State Street, CHICAGO TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland 1760 Auto. 79156 HENRY C. BOMAR & SON FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS 4706 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO $15 Amaryllis. Back where dandelions grow Lives my Amaryllis. From her head to tip of toe I love my Amaryllis. She is plain as plain can be. But she's style enough for me. A dearer one you'll rarely see Than Amaryllis. Through the woods and o'er the fields Roama my Amaryllis. Ecstasy her sweet voice yields— Amaryllis. Oft she lies there in the sun, Gayly thinking happy one. Glad the day is nearly done— Amaryllis. I've been offered prices great For Amaryllis. But to sell I somehow hate— Amaryllis. For to part I don't know how. All my folks would kick, I trow. So I guess I'll keep my cow— Amaryllis. -Judge A Question of Weights Senator Borah was talking at a dinner in Boise about an embarrassing question that had been asked at Chicago. "The question," he said, smiling, "went unanswered. It was like little Willie's query. "A young gentleman was spending the week end at little Willie's cottage at Atlantic City, and on Sunday evening after dinner, there being a scarcity of chairs on the crowded plaza, the young gentleman took Willie on his lap. "Then during a pause in the conversation little Willie looked up at the young gentleman and piped: "Am I as heavy as sister Mabel?"—New York Tribune. "No Successor?" [The Cubs * * * smiled when they read that the refrain "Tinker to Evers to Chance" would have no successor.—Collier's Weekly.] This is a slogan that thrills to the ear: "Wagner to Yerkes to Stahl." More or less trio, o nehm es von mir, "Wagner to Yerkes to Stahl." Three of the nifftest ball playing geats Ever referred to as "stonewall defense." Slip them a lyrical laurel wreath—hence, "Wagner to Yerkes to Stahl." His Job. "When we had climbed to the top of the mountain we observed an old man sitting on a rock with a pair of glasses in his hands. Every now and then he would squint through them and then let out a yell. Finally I approached him and asked, 'Why do you rubber and holler?' He answered: "Where be ye stopin'? "Down at the Cliff hotel," I answered. "Then don't take up my time, or I'll lose my job. I'm the famous echo you read about in the advertisements of this here place. Git outer th' way while I squeal!" — Cleveland Plain Dealer Not the Proper Gait. If your gate is bending double Go and remedy the trouble. Do not brace it with a prop—that's not the proper way. Slight habits are insidious. And we hope not inviolable To tell you that to prop a gate will pre- pagate delay. How It Was Done. At a lutcheon in New York Dr. Lyman Abbott, slipping a glass of ice cold milk, told a woman suffrage story. "I had heard a lot," he said, "about the wonderful success of woman suffrage in Australia, so, meeting an Australian woman one day, I asked: "How did you vote, madam, at the last election? "The Australian woman answered with a simper: "In my mauve pannier gown, slr, with a large mauve hat trimmed with mauve ospreys."—Washington Post. Changed. The ladies do the marching now. The men just sit around And let the women show 'em how To make th' skies resound. There was a time when fife and drum Filled men an' boys with joy. But customs new and strange have come Since father was a boy. The Legal Mind. "I don't see how a lawyer can enjoy a ball game under the present rules." "What would a lawyer want?" "I should think they'd want to stop the game after every decision and have it argued and ruled on, with a court of appeals sitting constantly on the side lines."—Kansas City Journal Correct. The men who say Hard work is sweet Are those who live On Easy street. —Cincinnati Enquirer. The Retort Courteous. An Englishman in Dublin was asked by an Irish cab driver if he wished to ride through the city. "No," replied the Englishman, "I am able to walk." "Ah, well," remarked the jehu, "may your honor long be able, but seldom willing."—Boston Post. Merely Prejudice. We've said it once, And we repeat. Exemplar was never Made to eat. "What are you puzzling about?" "I'm writing a sketch for vaudeville on the current political situation." "Well, you ought to have plenty of good stuff to put in." "That isn't what puzzles me. I've got so much good stuff I don't know what to leave out."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Figs and Dates. It is a good plan to wash fgs and dates before giving them to children or, for that matter, to any one. Their sweetness attracts insects, and their stickiness makes them a perfect home for dust and its undesirable germs. Yet most people seem never to think of this at all. Washing will not impair the flavor. On the contrary, it makes them more agreeable to the sight and touch as well as to the taste. The First Coins The first coins were struck in brass about 1184 B. C. and in gold and silver by Pheidon, tyrant of Argos, about 862 B. C. The Original "Village Blacksmith?" Dunchurby, near Rugby, England, claims that its smithy is the original forge which inspired the famous verses on "The Village Blacksmith." It is a picturesque old place, and the "spreading chestnut tree" still flourishes in front of it. Trousers. Troussers in their present shape were introduced into the British army in 1813 and tolerated as a legitimate portion of evening dress in 1816. * The Gulf Stream. Western Europe's climate would be changed entirely were the isthmus of Panama and adjacent territory to be submerged, for in that case the equatorial current would be carried into the Pacific ocean, and the gulf stream, which does so much to warm Europe, would not emerge into the Atlantic. Oldest House In Paris The oldest house in Paris, built in 1407, is still standing. The house was built by a philanthropist, Nicol Flamel, and was originally used as a hostelry for workingmen. The Game of Craps The game of "craps" is an old one. Is the word itself a corruption of the French "creps," a favorite game in the gambling hails of the Palais Royal in the eighteenth century? Bescherelle says it was a game played with dice and of English origin; that the name was sometimes written "krabs" and the word was spoken when one succeeded in throwing 2, 3, 11 or 12 at the first cast. The Screw Cylinder Invented about 236 B. C., the principle of the pumping screw, or screw cylinder, is still the same for those in use today. Freezing Water Water contracts as it falls from the normal boiling point, 212 degrees, until it reaches 39 degrees. Below that degree it expands, and at 32 degrees, the freezing point, it will expand enough to burst pipes and vessels holding it. Fruit Eating Is Healthful. If people ate more fruit they would need less medicine and would have better health. Fruit eaten early in the morning on an empty stomach serves as a stimulant to the digestion, and apples and oranges eaten at any time in the day are good for billiousness. Stewed prunes and figs are also healthful at any time. Preserving Beef. Strange as it may seem, beef may be kept for months if immersed in sour milk. The lactic acid destroys the germs of putrification. Eclipses. The average number of total and partial eclipses in any one year is four; that the maximum is seven and the minimum two. Where only two occur they are always both of the sun. There are a great many more eclipses of the sun in the course of a year or a hundred years than there are of the moon. China. Excluding Silberia, China is the largest empire in Asia. Powdered Mica. Mics when reduced to a powder form is used as a lubricant for high speed machinery. It keeps the bearings free from dust and resists cold and dampness. Jellyfish. A jellyfish weighing one pound contains over fifteen ounces of water. Stylish Raincoats Instead of raincoats, the Nicaraguan wears a capote, which is a piece of impervious material almost square with a hole in the center large enough for the wearer to put his head through. It is made by pouring rubber over unbleached muslin. First Encyclopedia. Pliny's "Natural History" may be regarded as the first encyclopedia, since it contained 30,000 facts compiled from 2,000 books by 100 authors. London's Fogs November is London's worst month for fogs. During a good year the Londoner may have to breathe only fifty fogs. In a very bad year he may have to endure as many as eighty. London's countless coal fires, mingling soot with mist, connect the Londoner's fog for him. The great majority of fogs in the metropolis begin to form between 7 and 8 in the morning, just when most fires are being lighted. Typhoid. If typhoid fever breaks out in your vicinity eat nothing that has not been subjected to heat above the scalding point. BROADWAY JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Ac Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per cent allowed on Savings Ac Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year 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 looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. As agent buy and sell Real Estate on condents, including payment of taxes and loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patron The Cranford Building. 36 The finest building ever opened Steam heat, electric light, tile bath sell Real Estate on commission, manages estate payment of taxes and looking after assessments Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash A building ever opened to Colored tenant electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. ford Apartment . 3600 Wabash Ave. er opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. tile baths, marble entrance. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash Ave. THE MASTER The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET A Running Mate for the Kitchen Range little "Kitchen Heater" to be "off side" of a gas range. A Running Ma for the Kitchen Rang We are selling a little "Kitchen Heater" to be hitched up on the "off side" of a gas range. "Hooked double" they make a great Winter pair. In cold weather the rangeneeds help to keep the kitchen warm. This is just what the little kitchen heater does—it supplies the heat to keep the kitchen warm and cozy while the faithful range gives all of its heat to the cooking of the dinner. The total expense is only just what it was when you used the range alone in the Summer. For, strange to say, the little heater, while it will burn coal or coke, will do just as well on short rations THE PEOPLES GAS LIGHT Peoples Gas OPLES GAS LIGHT COKE COMP Peoples Gas Building S LIGHT & COKE COMPANY les Gas Building THE PEOPLES GAS LIGHT COKE COMPANY Peoples Gas Building Education Notes. Shanghai has a modern kindergarten, and more are to be established. Better decoration of schoolrooms is one of the aims of an association for national culture recently formed in Italy. In European countries children attending private schools or being educated at home are obliged to pass a state examination identical with that prescribed for children in the public schools at the end of the course. Nearly one-fourth of the boys and girls who enter the American public schools reach the high school. This, too, when the work of the high school of today is almost as advanced as that of the college of a few years ago. Telephone Douglas 1565 J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. of waste paper and garbage. You simply throw in the paper and garbage you commonly carry to the alley—throw it in two or three times a day and the appliance yields all the heat needed for an ordinary kitchen. Think of what this means—it means that you can cook all winter on a gas range, entirely free from the drudgery of handling wood, coal, ashes and dirt. At the same time you can heat your kitchen with waste you generally toot out into the cold and wet. There won't be a home in this city without one of these kitchen heaters when the people learn about them. We expect to install thirty thousand this Fall—better order one now before the rush season. Why does the burglar call the tool with which he opens windows and doors a "jimmy?" No one seems to be sure. Perhaps it is merely a pet name. The French burglar calls his Jimmy "Frene Jacques," which is first cousin to "Jimmy." Dates on Coins. James V. of Scotland was the first to put dates on his collinge. The 6 e'Clock Club. London once had a Six o'Clock club, which consisted of six members only, who met at 6 o'clock in the evening and separated at 6 o'clock in the morning. Dr. Brooks and the celebrated Greek scholar Person were members of this club. 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