The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Japanese are furious against the Americans. They demand the right to become FULL-FLEDGED AMERICAN CITIZENS. THEY HATE AND DESPIE THE NEW ALIEN LAND BILL OF CALIFORNIA. THEY MAINTAIN THAT THEY WILL BE MOBBED AND LYNCHED LIKE THE NEGROES IN THIS COUNTRY IF THEY DO NOT MANFULLY FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS. THE MORE THAN TEN MILLION AFRO-AMERICANS SHOULD IMPLORE THE JAPANESE TO ASSIST THEM TO ROLL BACK THE WAVE OF BACE PREJUDICE AND OPPRESSION WHICH IS CONSTANTLY ENGULFING THEM IN AMERICA. Vol. XVIII. The Japanese furious against Americans demand to become FULL-FLEDGED AMERICAN CITIZEN NEW ALLEN LAND I THEY MAINTAIN THAT THEY WILL THE NEGROES IN THIS COUN FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS. THE MORE THAN TEN MILLION A THE JAPANESE TO ASSIST THE RACE PREJUDICE AND OPPRE GULFING THEM IN AMERICA. It may be that before the proud and haughty Americans who are always arrogant unto death when it comes down to dealing with the darker races scattered over the face of the earth and who, if they would unite or stand together, would control the world and everything in it, will be forced to engage in a bloody war with Japan, for the Japanese are furious and are up in arms so to speak against the Americans in connection with the new alien land bill which has been enacted by the legislature of California, and recently signed by Governor Johnson. They, the Japanese, demand the right to become full-fledged American citizens and not aliens in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." In this they are right, for if they permit the Americans to construct and own all the railroads in Japan and to peacefully conduct other vast enterprises in that country, then, in all fairness man to man on that same theory the Japanese have the undisputed right to do the same thing in America. They, the Japanese, maintain that they will be mobbed and lynched in this country, like the Negroes if they fail to manfully fight for their natural and inherent rights. It was declared in Tokio a few days ago by Professor Nagal of the Waseda University, located in that far away city that "God had made the White and the Colored people equal; unless we claim equality, we shall fail to carry out God's wishes", and another speaker at the same meeting exclaimed SENATOR JAMES K. VARDAMAN DESERVES OUR SYMPATHY FOR HIS NARROWMINDEDNESS IN RELATION TO THE AFRO-AMERICANS. Logical Contribution By Mrs. E. Lavigne Garnett of Philadelphia, Pa. This great question called the "Negro Question" according to Senator James K. Vardaman, is the only one of great pith and moment. Well so be it. Many a true word spoken in a joke—it is a joke as far as he can discern; for we know that when blinded by prejudice, one can not see very far; and yet our blind prophet states a very important fact. When our toll of a thousand years and our accumulation of a vast wealth of ill-gotten gain is about to crumble and disappear and leave us poor, indeed, how all important it must be to see to it that no one robs us of the little we have. No man but the one at the top of this ladder knows how little he actually possesses. It is the small fellow who looks on and thinks it is grand; but if he could only place himself in this enviable position just long enough to understand, he would outrun himself if called upon to exchange places. This peculiar race was called from Africa as leaven for the lump of Ethiopia's vast domain. Again he calls his son, but on a different mission from Egypt, lead us not unto temptation is a very important clause in the Lord's Praver. The great Naserene said, "It is necessary that these offenses come, but woe unto him by whom they come'. Some one had to be tempted to use HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY that the Japanese must be given equal treatment everywhere with other people; that if they receded one inch from that point that they would be mobbed and lynched like the Colored people in the Southern states. Right now many of the leading men of Japan as well as the rank and file of its citizens are panting to engage in a bloody war with the Americans. This week the Japanese government sent in instructions to Ambassador Chinda at Washington, D. C., to press more vigorously the claims of the Japanese. In its communication to the Japanese Ambassador the Foreign Office urged the necessity of impressing upon Secretary of State Bryan Japan's interpretation of the existing treaty between this country and the United States. It is a foregone conclusion that if the people residing in California, through their legislature have not the right to enact the exclusion act against the Japanese, then the people residing in the Southern states through their legislatures have no right at law to enact Jim Crow legislation against the Colored people and the doctrine of "States' Rights" is knocked into a cooked hat. It is therefore the solemn duty of the more than ten million Afro-Americans residing in this country to implore the fighting Japanese to assist them to roll back the wave of race prejudice and oppression which is constantly engulfing them in America. these ignorant people as personal gain to the end that they should be enlightened. Now these intellectual giants were led into this temptation that they might recognize spiritual things. These, unfortunate White slaves—yes, slaves for no man would enslave another unless he was a slave to himself. No man misuses another unless he is ignorant; thus we take advantage of one form of ignorance under the bane of another form of which it seems the Primitive Garden was destined to teach, rather in which he received his first lesson. "Beloved, we are all the sons of God". Since Cain was punished for the righteous blood of Abel, there has been no exception to the rule. Now, when we say that God seems to tempt man, it is only a figure of speech; for avarice was his guilt. He must learn that the penalty for avarice is poverty. It is a sign of present spiritual poverty which sooner or later materializes itself. "Tis then he beholds his plight; but if by reason of obedience he is able to read his daily lesson of cause and effect, watch the plant-life, the firmament. There is no place his voice is not heard. The simple rule of life manifest itself in every living thing according to its nature; and if he observes and repent God is quick to forgive and transfer him to a higher lesson; but if he refuses to learn and boast that his brother has no right that he, the White man is bound to respect, then must he be permitted to go on in sin and ultimate eternal error or must the secret pass into the hands of one worthier than he? great Negro-hating, lynchers, burners of human flesh, and self-loving immoral blind leaders of a regiment headed for dethronement, debasement, will call a halt on their destructive night ride and consider themselves very fortunate to have a chance to repent. But alas this will not be—it can not be. It is a part of the penalty. Their hearts are not set on Godly things. They have become drunken on the wine of their own folly. Now, they have ears and hear not; eyes and see not. As a race and since it is inate in the breast of every Negro to naturally understand spiritual things and to love and be sympathetic toward his White brother especially. Let us rally to his need and pity our oppressor, nor ever stoop to do him honor to despise. The Germans having a saying to this effect: "What you want the people to do, teach it in the schools." This is sound common sense. It should suggest the importance of teaching in our public schools the fundamentals of good citizenship. And, this work of training the children in civic usefulness can be carried on without interfering with their hours of recreation or with the successful prosecution of their regular studies in school. Indeed, most of the work they can do in looking after the sanitary conditions of their neighborhoods will take them out of doors and, if entered into with that zest and interest which children usually bring to their work, will prove as beneficial to both their physical and mental development as will any of the pas- LESSONS IN CITIZENSHIP. Why should not the children be taught early to take part in civic work? The clean-up campaign which is now on furnishes a splendid opportunity for them to get some practical and valuable lessons in civic cleanliness, lessons which they will not forget and which will impress upon their minds the importance of having, so far as possible, clean and attractive surroundings. Permitting and encouraging the children to engage in civic work in the communities wherever they live tend to give them the vision that is needed to see the things that make for community discomfort and danger. For once it is clearly understood that the health of a section is good or bad as its sanitary condition is good or bad, the people of that section will see to it that their surroundings are made clean and kept so all the time. The trouble with people who are content to live amid dirty and unsightly surroundings is that, having eyes they see not and having noses they smell not, the things that promote discomfort, disease and death. So, what better way to give to the children the eyes that see and the noses that smell than to have them take an active part in the work of keeping their communities clean? When the children know that manure piles breed flies and that flies carry filth and disease wherever they go, they will help to get rid of the manure heaps and also help to keep flies out of their homes. There is no truer saying than that happiness depends upon health. And next as a factor in happiness is that of beautiful and attractive surroundings. Once get these fundamental truths firmly fixed in the child's intelligence and you have made him a valuable and indispensable aid in all forms of community welfare work. --- The Germans having a saying to this effect: "What you want the people to do, teach it in the schools." This is sound common sense. It should suggest the importance of teaching in our public schools the fundamentals of good citizenship. And, this work of training the children in civic usefulness can be carried on without interfering with their hours of recreation or with the successful prosecution of their regular studies in school. Indeed, most of the work they can do in looking after the sanitary conditions of their neighborhoods will take them out of doors and, if entered into with that zest and interest which children usually bring to their work, will prove as beneficial to both their physical and mental development as will any of the pastimes in which they are accustomed to engage. At all events this idea of training the children along the lines of civic efficiency and usefulness is well worth considering. It is certainly fitting and proper that training in citizenship should be begun early if the highest and best conceptions of civic and community life are to be attained. Now that we have all started to make Chicago clean let us be equally determined to keep it clean all the time. Spasmodic cleaning is better than no cleaning at all; but the better way is to keep everlastingly at it, as the advertisers say. NEED DEFEND OUR OWN PEOPLE Booker T. Washington in his speech at the Peace Congress at the Odeon spoke against the unfair manner in which the Japanese were treated in California, but uttered not a note of complaint against the wrongs and outrages inflicted upon the Negro in America. California is trying to deprive the Japanese of the right to own land. In many parts of the United States they segregate the Negro, deny him the right of residence in certain towns and on certain streets, and even to occupy, rent or purchase houses. He is hanged without trial and no recourse is taken or can be taken; he is burned alive, and the press, the pulpit and Congress are silent, and even our great champion, Booker T. Washington, is mum. But when a few Japanese in California are restricted in their right to purchase land Dr. Washington doesn't see the Negroes lynched and burned to death around him. He weeps over the wrongs inflicted on the Japanese. We wonder if Japan needs the defense of a champion Negro Syncnacchion. Japan, with her dreadful dreadnaughts, her victorious army, just from Shan Hills and Port Arthur, and her navy from --- The Annual examination for the Rhodes Scholarship at the Oxford University THE LAST ONE WAS WON BY ROBERT VALENTINE MERRILL, OF CHICAGO. SPIRITED INTERESTS ARE CENTERED ABOUND THESE SCHOLARSHIPS. THE LUCKY WINNER OF THE PRIZE RECRIVES THE SUM OF $1,500 PER YEAR FOR THREE YEARS. ALAIN LEROY LOCKE, AN AFRO-AMERICAN, SNATCHED THE PRIZE AWAY FROM ALL OF HIS COMPETITORS SEVERAL YEARS AGO. President Edmund J. James of the University of Illinois, chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee of Illinois, has just received notice from Hon. George R. Parkin, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Rhodes Scholarships, that the next qualifying examination for all candidates for an Oxford Rhodes scholarship will be held October 14 and 15, 1913. This examination corresponds to the entrance examinations required by many American colleges. From the candidates who pass this examination a scholar will be selected for Illinois, who will begin work at Oxford in October, 1914. Papers will be set in this examination in Latin, Greek and mathematics, and only those candidates who pass in at least Latin and mathematics will be eligible for a scholarship. Cecil Rhodes, the committee of selection, in selecting a student for appointment to a scholarship, takes into consideration, (1) his literary and scholastic attainments; (2) his fondness for and success in outdoor sports, such as football, baseball, tennis, and the like; (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; and (4) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates. An examination was held in October, 1912, as a result of which Mr. Robert Valentine Merrill, a junior in the University of Chicago, was selected as Rhodes Scholar from Illinois for the three years, 1913-16. After the examination to be held next October there A Rhodes scholar is appointed for a period of three years and receives the sum of fifteen hundred dollars each year. A Rhodes scholarship at Oxford is therefore a prize of greater money value than any scholarship at any American university. The candidate for a Rhodes scholarship must be an unmarried male citizen of the United States with at least five years' domicile; must by the first of October, 1913, have passed his eighteenth but not his twenty-fourth birthday; and must have completed at least his freshman year at some recognized degree-granting university or college. In accordance with the wishes of Mr. the battle of the Sea of Japan, with all these wonderful agents talking for her we do not think that the services of an Alabama Negro who submits to disfranchisement and Jim Crowism in his own state is needed to uphold the rights of a people like the Japanese.—The Advance, St. Louis, Mo., May 17, 1913. To the above we simply say Amen! Amen!—Editor. ANTHONY OVERTON AND JULIUS F. TAYLOE DIVIDED THE HONORS AT THE ST. MARK LYCEUM Last Sunday afternoon, Mr. Anthony Overton, president of Hygienic Manufacturing Company, addressed the Lyceum at St. Mark Church, on some evidences of the progress of the Afro-Americans along business or commercial lines, and Julius F. Taylor spoke on the "Power and Influence of the Press." At the conclusion of their talks a rising vote of thanks was extended to them. Mr. William D. Neighbors, Attorney Hale G. Parker and others, ably discussed some of the propositions which had been advanced by the speakers. Sunday, June 1, Attorney Hale G. Parker will be the leading speaker. The Lyceum meets every Sunday at 4:30 o'clock and the meetings are very interesting. SHERIFF MICHAEL ZIMMER TO ADDRESS THE STANDARD LITERARY SOCIETY AT BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. This coming Sunday afternoon, May 25th, at 4:30 o'clock, Sheriff Michael Zimmer will address the Standard Literary Society at Bethesda Baptist Church, 3823 Wabash Avenue. Sheriff Zimmer has been one of our warm friends since 1901, and as his No.34 Cecil Rhodes, the committee of selection, in selecting a student for appointment to a scholarship, takes into consideration, (1) his literary and scholastic attainments; (2) his fondness for and success in outdoor sports, such as football, baseball, tennis, and the like; (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; and (4) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates. An examination was held in October, 1912, as a result of which Mr. Robert Valentine Merrill, a junior in the University of Chicago, was selected as Rhodes Scholar from Illinois for the three years, 1913-16. After the examination to be held next October there will be no similar examination until the fall of 1915. Candidates are expected to send written application at an early date to President Edmund J. James, Urbana, Illinois. May 20, 1913. Much interest is always manifested in these scholarships by the students in the various colleges and universities throughout the country. It will be recalled that only a few years ago Alain LeRoy Locke, an Afro-American, whom we had the pleasure of meeting while visiting in Washington, D. C., march past, snatched the prize away from all of his White competitors.—Editor. heart is in the right direction he will make a short, interesting talk. As sheriff of Cook County, he has been fair in dealing with his Afro-American brethren, and has appointed quite a number of them to office. He should be warmly and loyally greeted by a large audience. JACK JOHNSON AND MISS BELLE SCHREIBER Jack Johnson comes in for not a bit of our sympathy. He has made a fool of himself, and punishment is always its pay. True, had he not whipped Jim Jeffries, the publicity he has gotten would not be but that did not justify his lustful craziness for lewd White women—the world's worst devils. No difference how bad White women may be, when Negroes tie up with them, America's prejudice places the blame on the Negroes, and since they have all colors of their own they are fools to have any dealings with them, and deserve to be punished, not so much for the alleged crime, but for disgracing the race. However, it ought to apply with more force to White slavery by White men, with Black women the country over, and especially the South.—The Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va., May 17, 1913. Louis F. Post, the able and broad-minded editor of the Public, which he has published in this city for the past eighteen years with the great assistance of his good wife, Mrs. Post, a Democrat of Democrats, was this weak, to the great delight of his thousands of friends, appointed by President Wilson, assistant secretary of the Department of Labor. In every way Editor Post is more than qualified to discharge the duties of his officer. ‘PUBLISHED WEEKLY. aS Se =a se The! Brved Ax leo whose See ‘Local communivativas will recetve ntten- er ‘Wévertising rates made known on appli- oe alien's THE BROAD AX (921 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. a eee JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Raitor and Publisher Sa = ANOTHER BIG BOOST FOR THE LOUISE JUVENILE HOME, 6121 ADA STREET, CHICAGO. Kind friends have been holding for many weeks indignation meetings dis- cussing homes for Colored children. It seems as if the Louise Juvenile Home and its bright prospects of being a larger institution is the cause of all these meetings held by a few of the ‘so-called important Colored people who have just begun to wake up to the fact that there are so many homeless Col- ‘ored children on the streets of Chicago, and no place where they ean be prop- erly trained. ‘With all their sympathy for these unfortunates they are not willing to sacrifice a dime for their support, neither would they open their homes and take one in for fear of degrading ‘themselves, and with all the religion we are supposed to have, the church doors have been closed against them. The Louise Juvenile Home was vis- ited a few days ago by the Curran Legislative Committee, investigating tomes nd charities. Mr. Curran, chairman of the committee, was de- lighted with the conditions in this chome; also Mr. Mooney, the state’s at- ‘torney for the legislators, admired the meatness of the home, and said the children were clean and well fed, and ‘that it was conducted more as one large amily than un institution. He further stated ‘that they had been into so many ‘filthy places that it was really a treat ‘to come into a clean and neat place Jiike the Louise Home. ‘He expressed himself to Mrs. Mc- Donald, regretting very much any un- just criticism that appeared in the newspapers beeause they were well pleased with the home, but they could not control the newspapers. Mr. ‘Mooney, in talking to Mr. Wilfred 8. Reynolds, superintendent of the Ili- nois Childrens’ Home and Aid Society, said again that he was sorry for the newspaper criticism and recommended the home very highly. Mr. Charles ‘Virden, investigator for the Board of Administration st Springfield, spent ‘two hours in the Louise Juvenile Home Jast Saturday and was delighted with all conditions and told Mrs. McDonald that Mr. Curran, the chairman of the Curran Committee, bad also recom- mended the home to him. Mr. Virden complimented Mrs. Ethel Simpson, the Se ‘McDonald wishes to thank those ‘Who held the indignation meeting from the bottom of her heart for interesting themselves so much and being the means of making the home so popular with such a grand body of gentlemen as the Curran Investigating Committee. Remember, friends, all liars have their part in the ike of fire and every knock is a boost. Mrs. MeDonald met the committee and was never treated bet- ter by any one. They proved to be great friends to the Louise Home and ee ‘McDonald wishes to thank Mr. Ourran, Mr. Mooney, Mr. Virden and especially Mr. Wilfred 8. Reynolds, ‘who thas done so much for the home. COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. ‘On Sunday, May 25th, at two o'clock the annual Commencement Sermon will be preached in the Institute Chapel by Dt. John B. White, pastor of the See- ond Baptist hutch, Atlanta, Georgia Dr. White is ond of the strongest taoral forees in the Bouth, is an elo- quent speaker, and will bring to Tus- ‘ogee Institute students, teachers, and steh other friends ts may be presest, 2 imbssage of godd Wil and hope worthy of being listened to. On Mondsy evening, May 26th, in the Institute Obapel, the annual exer- Gives of Phelps Hall Bible {raining Sebool will be held. , ‘The Annual A@dress on this ‘oces ion will be Gelivered by Rev. P. W- ‘Walls, of Birmingham, Alabama _ The Boston Trinity Church patie TS ey ene. ‘at 20 o'sleck: ‘le in’ ks se pes oe eh fa bes saad @ the Wear oe 2 the ‘@t the or & MiaMI Classes, Who deliver the best papers on the sibjects assigned for ‘the competition. ‘Weanesday, May 28th, is given over cimost entirely to the student body for reereation and to the Senior Class for the eclebration of Class Day Exer- cises. A specitl program is being arranged by Mr, Richardson, head of the Divi- sion of English. These exercises will be held on the lawn to the rear of White Memorial Hall, | Thursday afternoon at two o’clock in the Institute Chapel, the annual Commencement Exercises of the Insti- tute will be concluded with by an ad- dress by Dr. Robert E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advo- jente, New Orleans, Louisiana, Exer- ‘cises will also be held in the morning ‘at ten o'clock. An attractive feature of Thursday’s program, both morning and afternoon, ‘will be the exhibit by the various In- dustrial and Agricultural Divisions of the school. Students will be found mending shoes, printing books, operat- ing dynamos, ete., preparing and serv- ing meals operating a miniature cream- ery, and in other ways demonstrating before the audience what is actually being done from day to day by the young men and women of the Insti- tute. | NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS. | ‘The undertaking firm of Robinson & Fountain has opened parlors in Atlanta, Ga. It is reported that the wage earning capacity of the Negroes of Atlanta, Ga, is four millions of dollars annu- ally. ‘The Meeryland Theatre is the name of a Colored playhouse which opened its doors to Colored people in Sedalia, ‘Mo., on April 2ist. The Negro farming settlement of Reno, Nev., is to have substantial re- eruits, One hundred Colored families ‘will move there shortly. Each family has $3,000 or more and will take up 600 acres of farm land. A colony of Negro farmers. is set- tling on government land in Blackton, New Mexico. The farmers are install- ing new farming machinery, pumping stations and telephones and are plan- ning to put their settlement in touch with the outside world. ‘The Star Publishing and Printing Company in Tulsa, Qkla., has opened for business. The company will pub- lish a paper to be known as the Tulsa Star. The town is said to be ripe for sueh an undertaking, as the Negro population is large and there are many flourishing Negro business houses lo- ‘cated there. ‘Mr. Riebard A Cooper, a member of the Common Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recently introduced a resolution appropriating $5,000 for the entertainment of the National Negro Business League when it holds its forthcoming convention in that city August 20th, ist and 22nd. The bill was passed by the Council and has just been approved and signed by Mayor ness League of Philadelphia, under the leadership of Dr. Algernon B. Jackson is earnestly at work arranging the de- tails of entertainment, ete, for the ‘The new $100,000 Odd Fellows build- ing, which was recently dedicated in ‘Atlasta, Ga., és altendy ull of big busi- ness totieerns. On one floor are located the Oda Fellows Insurance Department and the Atlanta Independent. The Odd Fellows’ Endowment and Sinking Fund represents $22,000 per month. On an- other floor ere the Union Mutual In- surance Co., which is capitalized at $25,000.00" and doing a yearly business of $170,000 and the Martin Realty Company. The Standari Life nsur- ance Company, which was recently cap- italized at $100,000, and the Georgia ‘Mutual Insurance Company with $5,- 000.00 bonds deposited with the State Trensurer, coeupy ‘till another ‘oor. ‘The Atlante State Gavings Bank, with 4 capital stock of $26,000.00, is located on the first flour. The faramed Norti Cardlins Mutual and Provident Inser- ance bus several offices in the building. ‘The remainder of the building is oces- pied by lawyers, doctors and agents of various kinds. PREADS GUILTY 10 MANN OF ‘WEROLATEION. Al Warren, Colored, pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Landis to @ vio- lation of the Mann act Monday. Mr. ‘Warren, whom the government agents say is an ex-convict, was charged with having transported Eva Carter, twenty- five years old, from Chicago to Gary, nd, where he placed her in a dis underly house, Be far he has not been wentenced hy Judge Landis. ; SETS RULES FOR GAMING GRAGB. Nada, Paristun Artist, Explains Secret to His Many Women Admirers. oT A GIFT OF NATURE. Declares Tt is s Complete Science ‘Which Pair Sex Should Study to Do Belves Justice. Paris—Nada, the artist, who is thought the finest Parisian delineator ‘of the beautiful lines of women, has given his women admirers in the last issue of the La Vie Heureuse some good advice on the cultivation of grace- folness. Grace, he asserts, is not merely s gift of nature. It is also a complete science, which every woman can and should study to do herself real justice. Should Follow Physical Culture, In order to attain to the maximum of gracefulness, Nada insists that every woman, however gifted naturally should follow some form of physical culture. In replying to the erities, who hold ‘that this year’s fashionable silhoutte and characteristic curved pose of the body are inartistic, Nada says that no woman ean fail to be graceful if she follows six rales: “First—When in company adopt rather a remote air. Don’t show tod eager an interest in what people say. Let it be thought that you are enig. matic. Nothing sueceeds so well as this. “‘Second—Speak as little as possible, Above all, speak without gestures which are the enemy of grace in con- versation. “<Third—When at table taste rather than eat. Bat with studied gestures so as to show off the hand and arm. ‘Smelling Flowers Adds to Grace. “‘Fourth—When receiving at home or when in a box at the theater, have a few roses with long stalks at hand Inhale them from time to time. Thi movement of gathering up flowers close to the face is of never fading grace. ! “«Fifth—Study the sound of you voice. So many women lose part of their charm as soon as they oper their mouth. A voice of half a piteh low without being grave, may be ob: tained with very little trouble, and is infinitely seductive. “Sixth—Let the five foregoing rules be carried out in the most natural wa} without the smallest effort perceptible; for if effort be revealed by your wa} of inhaling the flowers or putting « glass to your lips, better give it 0] ‘and go back to mother nature.” WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, Cor. 38th and Dearborn Streets. Rev. H. J. Calis, DD., Pastor. ‘We are glad to note that while many of our people are dissatisfied with the showing that we are making ‘‘In the World in Chieago’’, that the manage- ment of this great Missionary Demon- stration, is very much pleased with the demonstrations being put on at District 26 (Ameriean Negro). We hope the workers will not be discouraged, but do the best they can to hold ap the race in the best possible light. The services at our church last Sun- day were at high water mark. A large audience listened to Rev. Callis at 11:00 a. m., on ‘The Power of Importunity.”? ‘The diseourse was well received and all present seemed to be helped by it. The Sunday School and Christian En- deavor were well attended. At 7:45 p. m. Rev. Callis preached the fifth sermon in the series on God's Message to Men. The large audience present was delighted by the attendance of the Hampton Quartette, who sang several selections, each of whieh were greatly appreciated. The Quartette is here singing in The World in Chicago. Four persons united with the church, one of which was transferred to the Salem Baptist Chureb. Our services for Sunday will be of special interest. The pastor will preach at 11:00 a, m. Subject: ‘Drink- ing from the Living Water’. At the evening service the Tuskegee Club will render a short Literary program im connection with the regular service. ‘The pastor will deliver the sixth ser- mon in the series of God's Message to ‘Men. Subject: ‘The Miraculous Power of the Mossage”’. Dr. Callis officiated at the very Pleasing home wedding of Mr. Geo. W. Turner snd Miss Clara Washington Tuesday evening, May 20th, at the brides’ home, 4504 State Street. ‘We are to be surprised on Monday, June 2nd, by something entirely new, & Demonstrated Besuty Leetare by ‘Mime. Alice H. ‘Thomas-Mason and a song recital by Mine. Marie Burton- Hyram. This is to be a full dress June jentertainment. A pleasing luncheoa will ‘be served at the close by twelve young women. Admission 25¢—‘0,”’ ‘THE LoT OWNERS’ AssOCLATION Or MOUNT GLENWOOD CEM ‘Tiny. ‘Pwo hundred and fifty lot owners in the Mt, Glenwood Cemetery met at the on Montay Bight, May 19tb, and or- ganized the Mount Glenwood Cemétery Lot Owners’ Association. The object of the Association is mutual defense of the lot owners’ interests, and to co- operate with the Mount Glenwood Cemetery Corporation to improve the Cemetery and help make it successful. ‘Mr. Martin Wells was chairman, and Mrs. Mamie Britton was secretary. An organization committee was appointed by the ebairman and reported as fol lows: That an executive committee of nine members be elected from the floor Its duties shall be to transact the busi- ness of the association, to formulate rules for its government and to elect its officers. ‘The following were elected the first members of the Executive Committee: A. P. Tervalon, Martin Wells, Mrs Nina Hall, C. L. Makle, W. C. Bell, Mrs. Maud Newsome, Joseph W. Moore, R. J. B. Ellington, Dr. E. 8, Miller, James H. Wright. Another meeting will be called in June, and all lot owners are urged to join the Association. ‘WAYMAN OHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. ‘The pastor of Wayman is preaching a series of sermons both Sunday morn- ing and evening. The evening sermon last Sunday was on the subject, ‘The Doom of the City’’. The subject for Sunday, May 25th, will be, ‘The Black Man and the Social Evil’’. ‘The subject for the morning sermon will be THE MISSION OF THE MOD- ERN CHURCH. The pastor will an- swer the question, ‘Why the Church Has Failed in Reaching the Masses, ‘As In Former Dayst”? What effect commercialism, and skepticism has upon the modern church? The morning choir as well as the evening choir will render some special music for the occasion. Wayman Chapel rejoices in having reduced their main debt another $500, making $1,600 in the last three years Five hundred dollars was laid on the table a few weeks ago. Events to remember. The Womans Mite Missionary So- ciety will give a May Pole Party Thurs. day night, May 20th. ‘The most important event of the month of June will be the North Shore Men’s Club at the church Monday night, June 9th. The club has about thirty young men connected with it and are preparing a very fine affair for the date mentioned. Baptismal services at the charch the second Sunday in June. A special ser mon to the candidates for Baptism wil be preached by the pastor Sunday, June ‘Ist, at 8 o’elock.—‘‘D.’? INSTITUTIONAL A. M. E. CHURCH. 8825 Dearborn Street. Rev. A. J. Carey, DD., Ph. D., Minister. ‘The Leaven and the Mustard Seed” was the subject from which Dr. Cares preached @ most excellent sermon Bum day morning to a large and appreci- ative audience. The music by the choir was inspiring and delightfully pleasing. Sunday evening Dr. Fenwick deliv: ered a truly interesting discourse from the text, ‘Set Thine House in Order” His sermon dealt largely with hy- gienie and sanitary conditions in the home and showed that Christianity consists in cleanliness of surroundings as well as cleanliness of heart and life and that the one contributes largely to the other. ‘Tomorrow the pastor will preach at 11 A. M. and at 7:30 P. M. All officers, members and friends are urgently requested to meet in confer- ence Monday evening at 8 o'clock. A “Community Club’? will be or- ganized Tuesday evening. The subject is to consider ‘all matters that concern the community life. All interested per- ‘sons are cordially invited —‘‘8.”” 8T. MARK CHURCH. Fiftieth and Wabash. J. W. Bobinson, Pastor. ‘Large congregations in sttendance last Sunday, both morning and evening. ‘The pastor preached at both services. One hundred and fourteen dollars was raised to finish paying the mortgage on the chureh. The mortgage will be burned Friday evening. ‘The Bunday School is very interest- ing. The Sunday School teachers of the churches in this vicinity are invited to take part with us in a union teach- ers’ meeting, the first meeting to be held this evening at St. Mark. ‘Our pastor preached s powerful ser- mon Yast Sunday at 3:00 P. M. at St. Lake M. E. Church. The May Baraar opens Monday evening, May 26th, and continues all week. An excellent each even- fog. Mra: Mey and Mrs. Wiliams wil appear Friday evening. The mortgage will also be burned Friday evening. too A HSA ih ot Me ens ‘Mrs. RB. A. Crolley, Friday, we 289 en Wala serve. I? you ato a member, will you please attend some of these meetings. The convention of the W. H. M. 8. meets with us June 25-20. If you ean take some of the delegates please in- form Mire. Louse Montgomery, 5436 Desrbomn Street. You @re only ae- quired to give them breakfast as the committee is preparing to give them dinner and supper at the church. The governors of the states are calling for each one of the members and friends to be loyal to your state and help make your state succeed in the rally in July. The sick are Mrs. Anna Floyd, Mrs. K. B. Garner, Mrs. Elizabeth Ash, Miss Hazel Wilburn and James Cook. ‘The last two persons are at Provident Hospital. The public is invited to all ou serviees—'*L, M.”? WHITE GIRL WEDS JAP; PASTOR ‘WIRES JOHNSON. Minneapolis, Minn, May 22—Kozo K. Maihori, a Japanese, who came to Minneapolis some timé ago from Yoko- hama, was married to Miss Bertha Royan, a Minneapolis girl, by Rev. G. L. Morrill, who some time ago bitterly denounced the California alien land bill in as sermon here. The Rev. Mr. Morrill immediately sent a telegram to Governor Johnson of California, in which he said: ‘I have just married a Japanese to an American, and done more for God and Unele Sam than you ana your alien lana bill will do in a thousand years.’? Mr. CHIPS, been ill for a few days confined to his home, 67 East 36th Street, but is improving. Mrs, Alice Thomas Mason and Mrs. Marie Burton-Hyram will give a beauty concert some time in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brewington and their family are now located at 3718 LaSalle Street. Miss Katherine Easton of 3613 Prairie Avenue, will spend two weeks of her June vacation in Cleveland, Ohio, visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs, Vance Anderson, for- merly of the MeClure Block, 35th and Dearborn Streets, have moved to 5235 Wabash Avenue. Mrs. Clara May Owens, sister of William and James Maxwell, is able to be out again among her friends after a brief illness at Provident Hos- pital. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cole, formerly of Louisville, Ky., have permanently located in this city and are now settled in their beautiful home on Wabash Avenue. Mr. Henry Dotson, who made a trip to New Orleans and married one of its belles, expects her here on the 22nd, as she was detained at her former home on account of illness of her sis- ea: Dr. W. A. Driver, 3300 State Street, continues to hold his own with the best and the oldest Afro-American M. Ds. in this city and he has many patients seattered in all directions on the South Side. Major Franklin A. Denison, 5413 Calumet Avenue, bas been confined to his home all the past week, with an in- jured foot, which he burt while alight- ing from a street car. Mrs. Alice Plummer, 2062 Dearbora Street, underwent = serious operation at Provident Hospital last Thursday, and not Mr. Wesley Plummer, as it had been stated and all things con- sidered Mrs. Plummer is getting along fairly well. Attorney John G. Jones, 3717 Ar- mour Avenue, has been confined to his home the past two weeks with heart trouble. His friends are pleased to learn that he seems to be out of im- mediate danger of passing to his re- ward at this writing. a ‘The Eighth Regiment Dlincis Na. tiomal Guards will give their 18th An nual Ball at the 7th Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Wentworth Avenue Monday evening, May 26th. Admis sion 50 cents, Seo announcement in another column of this paper. John Afthut Johnson is still enjoy- ing his Uberty on his $30,000 bond with big detective hitting bis trail all the time. ‘Ths indtion for & now trial before Judge George A. Carpen- ter will not be argued for some time, owing to the absence of Harry A. Parkin, aatistant United States dis- friet attorney, who landed Mr. Joha- son, from the city. The editor has reeesived an invite- tion from the Board of Trustees and the Faculty of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Als, to attend the 32nd Anniversary exercises, commencing Sunday, May 25, and lasting until Thursday, May 29. Booker T. Washington, Principal. See ee, Program in another column of thi, Paper, Hon. John E. Praeger, City Comp. troller, still continues to be one of the beat public officials and full of pry. gressive business ideas, being... president of the Stockmen’s Trist aaj Savings Bank. He has interjecte t:4 sound business principles into his pres. ent office, which largely accounts top the efficient manner in which be con. duets all of the affairs pertainine to it. | George T. Kersey, 6908 Correll Ave ‘nue, one of the most prominent siining headlights of the Grand Unitoi Orie of Odd Fellows, always stamis realy ty promptly respond to the arnval ra. minder which he receives from the writer, and for many years Mr. Ker sey has been steadfast financial sp porter of this paper. Dr. W. H. Marshall, 5:02 State Street, has for the past several weeks, been at the home of his parents, Cheraw, S C., and his father, after a long illness, passed away last Satur. day. Dr. Marshall will return to the city from his sad mission this evening and be ready to look after his masy patients. Jones and Codozoe, owners an] man- agers of the Elite Buffet and Cafe, 3030 South State Street, have lately had their establishment repainted and otherwise redecorated inside and out and everything in connection with it looks nice and clean. They aro noted for making the best club sandwiches im town. ‘Wm. RB. Sobers, 5606 Lake Avenue, Hyde Park, the up-to-date and popular merchant tailor, employs three to four men all the time and he has been ex- tremely busy all this season in buili- ing fine suits of clothing for many of the best people residing in the Hyde Park district. ‘Miss Mary Gray of Paris, Ill., and Mrs, Susan Barnett of Detroit, Mich, have been visiting in the city for the past week, guests of their niece, Dr. Tda Gray Nelson of 3662 Wabash Ave. They were highly entertained. Many social functions were given in their honor. The Elks gave their annual ball Monday evening at Central Hall, 22d and Wabash Avenue, but for some cause or other it was not as largely attended as it was in former years and the sporting bloods who were in evidence did not spend their money as freely as they did in the good old days when Chicago was a wide open town. Mr. George A. Schilling, President of the Board of Local Improvemests, is the right man in the right place, for early and Iste he can be found at his desk striving to convince the tar payers and the property owners that it is to their best interest in the long run to have the streets and alleys paved so that Chicago will in time be- come a clean and beautiful city. The Wide-Awake Club, connected with the Berean Baptist Church, 4538 Dearborn Street, will present Mr. George R. Garner in a recital at that church Tuesday evening, May 27, a sisted by Mrs. Fannie Hall-Clit, reader; Miss Pauline J. Lee, pianist; Mr. Theodore Friedlander, violinist; Mr. Mayme Worthington, pianist; Miss Marion E. Garner, accompanist. Ad- mission 25 cents. The Peerless Club gave its annual strietly formal dance Monday evening at Masonic Hall, 3066 State Street, and when the affair closed more tha2 forty autos were on hand to convey the merry dancers to their homes and rooming houses. The gentlemen st tending it were togged up in full dress evening suits, and the ladies were co tuned in the latest and most expeasiv® costumes. ‘All in all it was some dance which was only participated in by the young Afro-American bloods. Phones Douglas 8078 and Auto. 72354. gers 10 fo 18m, ab fo Suet 7% Dr."MacENRY#J. BROWN ‘Physictzn and Surgeon Oculist. Practice limited to Diseases of Bye and Bar. Office and Residence, 3502 8. Stato St Chicago. Office Phones: Residence Phones: Randolph 4758 ‘Douglas 3183 ‘Anto 48458 —— Violette: N. Anderson Court Stenographer Rypewriting, Mimeographing ‘Notary Public. - Buite 18, 148 N. Dearborn St. Res. 3837 Wabssh Ave. CHICAGO and dollars may save you. Call and receive, free of charge—no deposit required—a pocket saver that registers each coin you insert. SECURITY SAVING BANK 5101 So. State St. FLATS FOR RENT. FOR RENT--639 Bowen Ave., two 6-room flats, hot and cold water, bath, gas, stove heat 1st and 2nd floors; $21.00 each. Tel. 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The EIGHTH ILLINOIS NATION will]give]their Eighteenth Armory, 34th Street and W evening, May 26th 1913. Music by the full 8 The feature of the evening will and Presentation of Long and f The EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD will]give]their Eighteenth Annual Ball, 17th Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Wentworth Avenue, Monday evening, May 26th 1913. The feature of the evening will be Band Concert, Dress Parade and Presentation of Long and Honorable Service Medals. ADMISSION 50 CENTS PATRONIZE THE Home Security Savings Bank PATRONIZE THE Home Security Savings Bank START TO SAVE NOW 3 Per Cent Paid on Savings SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES, $3.00 PER YEAR Stocks and Bonds for Sale. Best Investments. Come Here to get that Loan You Need. Visit Our Real Estate Department for Positively the Best [Bargains on the South Side. Fire, Plate Glass, Automobile INSURANCE Wm. D. Neighbors, Cashier S. E. Cor, 31st and State Sts.: Bank Floor Phones: Douglas 31 Automatic 74-259 SAVE DIMES These words sound good. 3101 So. State. FOR RENT A suspension bridge over a river has but one tower, the other and being anchored took bluff. It is a curious fact that the shells of certain animals, such as cephalopods, brachipods and some bivalves, are commonly marked by retrogressive changes as age advances. "The old man returns to second childhood in mind and body," states a scientist, "and the shell of the cephalopod has in old age, however distinct and highly ornamental the adult, very close resemblance to its own young." The Capitol Statue The bronze statue of Freedom which surmounts the dome of the capitol at Washington is nineteen feet six inches in height and weighs 14.985 pounds. The polar regions are said to cover 4,888,800 square miles. Lobsters from Roumania, Hungary and Russia have little flesh on them and turn a dull color when they are boiled. Indians who accepted $24 from Governor Peter Minuit for Manhattan Island in 1626 did not make such a bad bargain, for if they had invested that sum of money at compound interest at the prevailing rates since then their heirs would now have $12,000,000.00. Gas Stove Toasting. A cheap and durable toaster for a gas stove is a piece of sheet iron. Over this a five cent wire toaster can be used without danger of burning or blackening the bread. Despite the fact that some of them manage to get enormous fees, it is said that the doctors as a class get poorer and poorer financially every year. New York's First Graveyard. The first graveyard in New York city was established in the year 1633. It was situated on the west side of what is now Broadway above Morris street. The oldest grave of which there is a record is that of a child, marked with a sandstone slab, with a skull, crossbones and winged hourglass. Green Turtle. The green turtle is found most extensively all along the coast of Magdalena bay. Lower California. The natives in a great many localities subsist almost entirely on its meat. An Ill. Fated Vessel. The steamer President, which left New York for Liverpool March 11, 1841, with 136 persons on board, was never heard from. New Zealand's Parliament. New Zealand, like Canada and South Africa, has long possessed a bilingual parliament. In 1867 Maud members were for the first time admitted to the house of representatives and allowed to address the assembly in their own tongue. Lunar Gravity. Because of the lower surface gravity on the moon a body which weighs twenty-one pounds here would weigh only three pounds there. REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARD Annual Ball, 7th Regiment Ventworth Avenue, Monday 8th Regiment Band I be Band Concert, Dress Parade honorable Service Medals. IZE THE Security Bank Bavarian cables at in a high Animal Shells Polar Regions. Lobsters Manhattan Island. Doctors' Incomes Green Turtle. Lunar Gravity BUSINESS WELL MANAGED. Thrity Concern in Nashville Has Confidence of the Public. Nashville, Tenn.—Another striking evidence of the possibilities of the race to succeed in matters of business requiring more than ordinary knowledge, executive ability and self reliance is furnished in the statement made public following the recent business meeting of the Star Realty company in this city. The concern was organized less than a year ago in a small way, but its achievements have been great. In this connection it is well for our people to pay strict attention to all movements which have for their aim the bettering of conditions for employment and for better wages. At the meeting referred to steps were taken A. S. PROFESSOR W. D. HAWKINS. to enlarge the scope of the organization, which means that there will be room for more workers to carry on the business. Nashville has long been noted for the large number of thrifty men and women of the race who have made good in business and in the various professions. It is also famous as an educational and religious center, being the seat of Flask university, Mehary Medical college and the National Baptist convention, with its allied branches. The man who has engineered to such a splendid success the concern above mentioned more than any other official and whose skill in business and financial matters is above the average is Professor W. D. Hawkins. He is assistant cashier of the People's Savings Bank and Trust company. Professor Hawkins is a graduate of Walden university, is also a law graduate and was for many years a member of the Walden faculty. He is an expert accountant and possesses exceptional business acumen. NATIONAL LEAGUE FILES PAPERS OF INCORPORATION Professor Seligman Heads List of Officers of the New Body. New York—The National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People has recently received from the state of New York papers of incorporation, with the following persons named as directors: Professor E. R. A. Seligman, Mrs. William H. Baldwin, Jr. Dr. William L. Bulkley, Mr. L. Hollingsworth Wood, Mr. A. S. Frissell, Mr. Victor H. McCutcheon, Dr. Felix Adler, Mr. Roger N. Baldwin, Rev. Samuel H. Bishop, Miss S. P. Breckenridge, Dr. William H. Brooks, Mr. Paul D. Cravath, Dr. P. A. Johnson, Mrs. E. B. Leaf, Mr. Abraham Lefkowitz, Mr. Fred R. Moore, Dr. Edward Ewing Pratt, Dr. E. P. Roberts, Mr. Paul J. Sachs, Mr. George W. Seligman, Miss Elizabeth Walton and Mr. William G. Willecox. At a meeting Thursday, May 1, the organization formally adopted bylaws and elected the following officers: Chairman, Professor E. R. A. Selligman; vice chairmen, Mrs. William H. Baldwin, Jr., and Dr. William L. Bukley; secretary, Mr. L. Hollingsworth Wood; treasurer, Mr. A. S. Frissell; assistant treasurer, Mr. Victor R. McCutcheon. The league, whose work is familiar to our people in most all sections of the country, has moved its headquarters from 281 Fourth avenue to the World's Tower building, 110-112 West Fortieth street. It is doing an important work for the betterment of the race here and in other large cities of the north, where opportunities and conditions are so unfavorable for good homes, wages and fair treatment. Henry O. Tanner's Pictures Exhibited Henry O. Tanner, the celebrated artist, who has won two gold medals at the Paris salon and who is represented by two pictures in the Luxembourg, Paris, had nineteen works in the exhibition at the Knöder gallery, in Fifth avenue, New York, during April. All his pictures are in green, which is enlivened by yellow, red and blue element. The effect is unusual, but pleasing. Of the Moroccan pictures "Entry to Citadel" and "Moonlight–Palace of the Governor" are especially good. "Christ, at the Home of Lazareus" is a modern treatment of a religious theme. "Staples–Bleher Folk" is a shadowy work and beautiful. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Irene Haliberg of New York. fifteen years old, is six feet six inches high. That she has crossed the Atlantic ocean fifty-four times and has never been seasick is the boast of Mrs. W. B. McGrath of London. Mrs. J. A. Stein of Los Angeles, Cal., has reared twenty-two children. Seventeen of them have been her own. Five have been adopted. Miss Jane Fairman of Chicago, after forty-three years of clerking in the office of the Illinois Central road, has been retired on a pension. Miss Ena Fitzgerald of Sunnyholme, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, author of "And the Stars Fought," has been elected the first lady member of the Isle of Wight Model Aero club. There are many earnest women botanical students, but to Miss Ethel Sargant, one of the most noted, belongs the signal honor of being the first woman to be appointed president of the botanical section for the meeting of the British association, which is to be held next September in Birmingham. The Royal Box. King George of England dislikes horseback riding. Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII., receives an annuity of $350,000 a year from England. Czar Nicholas II. belongs to the Grateco-Russian, officially called the orthodox faith. William II. is a Protestant, believing in the tenets of Luther. Francis Joseph is a Catholic. The young Prince Frederich Leopold of Prussia is an artist of promise, and his work in black and white, exhibited at Berlin under an assumed name, received favorable criticism. He has been accepted as a pupil by Karl Hagemelster, now an old man, but recognized as one of Germany's masters. Town Topics. New York understands her own needs. Her new courthouse will be the largest in the world.—Boston Herald. No city in the world spends so much for making the city beautiful as Paris, and no other city receives anything like the same amount of money from the visitors of the world.—Milwaukee Journal. A St Louis company has opened "beauty parlors" for its women employees. That's all right, of course. In Cleveland, though, no such artificial encouragement is needed.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. English Etchings. Nearly fifty tons of water were lifted from the mines of South Staffordshire, England, last year for every ton of mineral. London sewage has its main drainage outfalls at Barking and Crossness. The average daily quantity dealt with is about 260,000,000 gallons. Some of the vast private parks of England are likely to be restored to agricultural use. Bichelm park, one of the most magnificent of these parks, is, it is announced in part at least, soon to be put under the plow. Pert Personals. King Alfonso is so lucky he could almost get up in the dark and drink out of the wrong bottle.-Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Catt says Mrs. Pankhurst is a woman of convictions. She certainly is. Been convicted five or six times at least.-Houston Post. Dr. Mott may have been right when he said that half the poets are insane, but some of them-as. for instance, Alfred Henry Noyes—are crazy just like a fox.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Facts From France. The number of foreign residents in France has increased since 1851 from 399,000 to 1,132,000. Of 10,000 towns in France having more than 1,000 inhabitants about 6,000 are without any public lighting. Oscar Delamade, who, although twenty-one years old, is only twenty inches high, was recently taken before the military council of Douai, France, and exempted from military service. His father took him to the council in a perambulator. Three Strikes. One of the charms of baseball is that if you cannot play you can qualify as an expert critic—Chicago News. Other pitchers need to practice their drops, but Jupiter Pluvins can go in without training and shut out two leagues—New York Sun. The baseball rules seem to be fairly satisfactory in other respects, but for the benefit of those who seek to interpret them they should be translated into English. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. German Gleanings. Berlin forbids smoking on street railways. Life is longer in the German cities than in the small towns, according to the German statistics. There are now 9,500,000 wage earning women in Germany due to the urgent demand of the factories for female labor. In Germany, with its 63,000,000 inhabitants, there are about half a million descendants of the marriages of blood relations. CHEERING WORDS FROM DR. BOONE Lott Carey Missionary Arrives at Liberian Capital. SAILED ON STEAMER CELTIC Zealous Christian Worker, Who Formerly Spent Five Years on the Kongo, Takes Medical Course In America and Returns to Devote Life to Uplift of the Heathen. Brooklyn.-In a letter dated at Monrovia, Liberla, West Africa, to the Rev. Dr. William Maurice Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist church in this city, the Rev. Dr. C. C. Boone, missionary under the auspices of the Lott Carey home and foreign mission convention, gives a graphic description of his voyage from New York to Liverpool and from thence to Monrovia. He arrived on the west coast of Africa the latter part of March. Dr. Boone spent five years doing missionary work on the Kongo previous to returning to America a few years ago for the purpose of taking a medical course at Shaw university, Raleigh, N. C. He was successful in his studies, and, having graduated, the Lott Carey convention, by which he is engaged, gladly returned him to the foreign field, with headquarters at Monrovia. Besides the letter to Dr. W. M. Moss, the Rev. Mr. Boone sent the following to the chairman of the executive committee of the National Negro Press association. He says: The voyage from America to Liberia was long, but pleasant. Going out from New York on the Celtic of the White Star line, we were at the table with three missionaries, and from Liverpool to Monrovia we sat with two other workers for West Africa. We were detained in Liverpool nine days, waiting for a steamer. However, we made the trip in a month and three days. The country here is quite different from Kongo. In a radius of eight or ten miles from the ocean the land is level and thickly wooded. The soil is the most fertile that I have ever seen. All the vegetables that grow at home flourish here. Even watermelons grow here in abundance. Climate.—Being north of the equator, the rains come here from May to October, just the reverse to what they do south. We are having nice old Virginia weather now. My thermometer has not registered but 87 degrees F. In the shade. The people are many and of many tribes and nations. I have already come in contact with Kongolees, Crew, Day, Vey, Gola, Pessle and Mandingo. Now, what language must I speak or learn? Well, since the Day are the first people of the country and have the purest dialect that I have found I have decided to learn Day as a standard and then associate the others as occasion requires. The customs of the people are very peculiar here as well as in other parts of this great land. The church bells are sometimes rung at midnight and horns blown. When I asked the cause I was informed that an old woman was dead and that was the meaning of the alarm. Another time I saw a large crowd gathering and asked the trouble, and they said that it was the heart man, a heathen doctor that catches people and takes their hearts for medicine. I went to see him, and they had him tied. I am out here at Brewerville, and I find Revs. Hayes and Gale at their posts. But there is not much going on just now, this being the season for gathering coffee. But we have published that the Day school will begin on the 14th of April, and we are going to push that work until Rev. and Mrs. Thomas come. Then that will be their work. My first work is to get hold of the language. You can make but very little impression upon the native man unless you can speak his own dialect. I shall not have a very hard task to master the Day language, although there is absolutely nothing in print in any of the dialects, because I know the Kongo so well—for instance, the Kongo people say dia for food; the Day, zia; the Kongo-Kwele, gone; Day-Kwele, go. I have already gone far in the Day language and have not been here a month. Here are a few little words and phrases; Tongue-mai, tongues; miale, chair; ebe, checks; gaboye, boats; awool, lips; wemwoso, sun; grewoma, God; grebo, got no sense; maho, I have got sense; masobo, water. I find that I have 152 such words and expressions. That is not so bad for one that has scarcely unpacked his luggage, is it? My medical work is simply growing beyond all anticipations. I have been out here fifteen days and have made sixteen medical visits, held twenty-one consultations, cured and discharged four patients and have four waiting for operations. The outlook was never brighter in any country than in Liberia. Every one is longing for help and praying for the gospel that saves from sin. The American Negro Baptist should send his congratulations to the poor little struggling churches here at Brewerville that have purchased of their own free will twenty-nine acres of beautiful tableland and have given it to the Lott Carey convention for mission work. That is grand. Buceanneca A "buccaneer" originally meant a man who used a "buccan," or frame for drying and smoking meat and so preserving it for long voyages. Wiremaking Wire was originally made by hammering, but is now produced by means of powerful machinery which draws the heated metal through a series of holes of gradually diminishing size. The first wire mill in England was set up at Mortlake in 1663. Enormous quantities of wire of differing grades and sizes are now used, ranging from a thickness difficult to bend to the finest thread. Mending Felt. Breaks in stiff felt frequently may be mended by holding under them a lighted match, the heat causing the shellac used for stiffening, to melt and run together. A Kitchen Range Hint A flatiron stand will be found useful on the range to keep the contents of a saucepan warm without danger of burning. It is also useful when one desires food to simmer. There is then no fear of sticking or burning on a hot stove. Siam's Petroleum. Petroleum is obtained from the earth in Slam by the natives digging pits about sixty feet deep and dipping it out with pails. Lilies of the Valley. The cultivation of lilies of the valley is one of the oldest branches of commercial borticulture in Germany, and since about 1850 shipments of the crowns, or "pips" as they are called, have been made to the United States in increasing quantities. The First Silk. The first slik was made 2600 B. C. by the wife of a Chinese emperor. Aristotle in 350 first mentions slik among the Greeks. Carpeau's Unconventionality The sculptor Carpeau was always a bohemian and generally absentminded. Invited once to the Tulleries by Emperor Napoleon III, and the Empress Eugenie, he pulled out his pipe after dinner, filled it and, discovering that he had no matches, took a scrap of paper, climbed on a chair and lighted the pipe from the great chandelier above the table. "You don't mind smoking, do you, ma'am?" he said to the empress. San Domingo's Showers San Domingo has an average rainfall of 108 inches. The Fleur-de-lis Almost every country has its national flower. It was not till the reign of Henry VI., however, that England's came to be the rose. France is the only European country upon whose arms a flower appears. The fleur-de-lis is really three lilies. Straw Men of Korea On the last day of each year the Korean throws out of the house a straw image of a man, which is said to carry sins and bad luck with it. Mount Apo. The highest mountain in the Philippines is Mount Apo, on the island of Mindanao, according to a statement by the United States geological survey. The height of this mountain above sea level is given in the Encyclopedia Britannica as 10,312 feet. A Well Lighted Stage. The stage lights of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York number over 2,800. There are 700 white lights and 468 each of blue, red and amber. Sponges. Nothing is known of the food of sponges. It is taken in through the canal system and in a finely divided state, but of what it consists is an unanswered question. Sponges are said to have few natural enemies. The rate of growth under natural, undisturbed conditions is also a matter of uncertainty, but it is estimated that the average six inch sponge is probably four years old. Gold and Silver Weddings From Germany we get the custom of celebrating gold and silver weddings Pidgin English. "Pussy he belong housey." in plain English means a cat. "Pussy he belong bush," a haire. A servant trying to explain "pins and needles" in his legs described it this way. "That leg belong me he all same make like soda water." Mammoth Cave. Mammoth cave breathes once a year. That is to say, in summer, when the temperature of the external air is above that of the cave, the current sets from the latter to the former. In fact, the cave is the entire summer making an expiration. On the other hand, when the order is reversed or the outer atmosphere is below 54 degrees, the cave makes an inspiration or draws in its breath. This is accomplished during the winter. Glowworms Glowworm, like ants, are very sensitive to vibration, and when approaching them in the grass one must not tread heavily or they will extinguish their light and thus be lost to view. The Ole Swimmin' Hole. The "ole swimmin' hole," immortalized by James Whitcomb Riley, was in Hancock county, Ida, a particular part of Brandywine creek. $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 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. P. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 State 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. 51st St., near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 51st St., near Dearborn. 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. William Gaughan, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. J. H. Roberts, barber shop and news stand, 3308 $ S. State St. Abram Aplin, cigars, tobacco, gents furnishings and news stand, 4730 S. State St. A. H. Harris, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2825 S. State St. White & Bell, toilet articles, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2942 S. State St. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 1343 W. 61st street, near Ada. THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Old Line Legal Reserve Co. 110,000 deposited with the State. B 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. Accrued funds to Written 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 Wt Adame Street TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Rem. Oakland 17601Auto. 79156 HENRY C. BOMAR & SON FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS OFFICE HOURS Phone Oakland 4662 From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Automatic 73-858 From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday by Appointment DR. THEO. R. MOZEE DENTIST 4709 S. State St CHICAGO Notary Public Office Phone Automatic 44-185 Rec. Phone Automatic 79-137 W. G. ANDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite S, Methodist Church Block S. K. Cor. Clark & Washington Sts., CHICAGO Residence: 3642 Prairie Ave. Victor Baldwin, 1000 Muncaster Plane Tennessee, Tennessee 2574 Miles J. Devine Attorney at Law Suite 300-320 Rumpf Blvd. Glash and Washington Streets CHICAGO Florida, Central 190th Auto, 41-413. Pharm Office, Main 4153 Rn. Drummel, 7930 Auto. 35-736 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 184 Washington St. Notary Public CHICAGO, ILL. Phone Franklin Res. 508 E. 36th St. 2727 Tel. Douglas 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney-at-Law 118 N. La Salle Street Oxford Building Suite 403 CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO Suite 708 Delaware Bldg. Tel. Central 3142 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St. Chicago Suite 615 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 SIRES AND SONS. Major W. N. McKelvey, Chicago, now owns the sword of Balboa. Dr. G. L. Hogan of Los Angeles has autographs of every president of the United States. John Dennis Lewis, aged seventy-two, of Philadelphia, believes himself to be the only surviving son of a Revolutionary soldier in the United States. Ralph C. Watrous, formerly lieutenant governor of Rhode Island, has been made the first president of the new National Association of Allied Interests Fertaining to the Horse. Joseph Steinhart, known as the apple king, having handled as high as a million dollars' worth of fruit in one deal, trumped a pushcart in New York and sold apples at two for a cent not so many years ago. Matthew Wellington, one of the six Nasik "boys" who carried the body of David Livingstone from the heart of Africa to the coast, is still Living at Mombasa, British East Africa, and is in the government service. Charles Teiller, discoverer of the secret of cold storage, has recently been decorated in Paris with the Legion of Honor. His discovery was made in 1976, but he had to endure years of hardship and comparative poverty before he could convince the Academie des Sciences that cold storage was practical. A hint for the man who likes to work about the house: To avoid splitting a board when driving a nail, says a mechanical magazine, cut off the point of the nail with pliers. Such a nail will punch rather than wedge its way through and may be driven almost on the edge of the board without splitting it. $15 GENERAL BANKING Recent allowed on Savings Accounts Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-resi- payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. The building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. 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. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. 1 The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. ny Different Shapes it Corners and Nooks In Every Kitchen Many Different Shapes To Fit Corners and Nooks In Every Kitchen BLOCKI, Prep. F. W. BLOCKI, Treas.] N BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO A. Kreyssler, Druggist 157 S. STATE STREET OT ON THE CORNER JOHN BLOCKI, Press. F. W. BLOCKI, Treas.] JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS GO TO C. E. Kreyssler, Druggist 5057 S. STATE STREET NOT ON THE CORNER For high grade Drugs, Chemicals, and Medicinal Preparations All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF Blocki's Ideal & Blocki's Flower In Bottle Perfumes THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS 3 per cent all Safety Depos REAL As agent buy and sell Real E dents, including payment of t on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invite The·Cra ·Building The finest building e steam heat, electric light 'Phone Randolph 803 Many D To Fit Co In Ew "Composite Ranger No. 483 with triple oven and window in oven door. "Composite" "Composite" Room No. 10-20 with double ooze and windows in oven door JOHN BLOCKI, Pres. JOHN B C. E. Kro 5057 S. JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago J. W. Casey, $ ^{*} $ Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. Ranges for big kitchens—little kitchens and kitchenettes. Ranges for nooks of any size. Ranges for corners, with either right or left hand ovens. Ranges with any number of top burners, and Ranges with two, three or four ovens. All counted, we have some fifty different shapes for as many different requirements. Every One A "Composite" Gas Range Every one built to our specifications. "Composites" have many features that work for economy—features that have actually made a new system of cooking possible. Our newest catalog of "Composite" Ranges pictures all the different styles and tells how they are sold on a monthly payment plan. Ask for the catalog to aid you in picking out a style to fit your kitchen. The Ranges are displayed at all of our branch stores and at our big sale room downtown. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building. Telephone Randolph 4567 "A STORE FOR EVERYBODY" HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. Everything to eat, to wear and for the home. Ready to wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices, quality and workmanship considered. Make it a point to visit this store every day and take advantage of the special bargain offerings that we give in all departments. JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO The BEL 5059 Cor. Telephone Oakland 1787 BELLE MEADE C Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. LEWIS, Proprietor 059 Armour A Cor. 51st Street, Chicago Douglas 4482 HARRY Auto 73-974 Auto 74-478 LA VERDO BUFFET TED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGA te Street The BELLE MEADE CLUB Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. LEWIS, Proprietor 5059 Armour Ave. Cor. 51st Street, Chicago Phones { Douglas 4482 Auto 73-974 Auto 74-478 HARRY J. KELLY Prop. LA IMPORTED AND 3100 State Street Hotel BUFFET 3004 State Street IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street CHICAGO. Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS State Street Elite Buffet and Café 8030 State Street AM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEE [Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic]75-173 GENERAL SPRING CAFE F F E T A N D C A L 3517 S. State Street, CHICAGO CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVEN UNN ESTABLISHED TEL. HEY 1877 158 Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. Elite Stant Douglas 6000 WILLIAM LEW |Phone MINERA BUFF 3517 HIGH CLASS Elite Buffet and Cafe WILLIAM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEED, M'tr [Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic]75-173 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRST RAILWAY FRANK DUNN Douglas 5574 FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. UNN CH Aust FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. FRANKIDUNN CHICAGO BEAUTIFUL MOUNT GLENWOOD CEMETERY. The Most A new concrete two a cony reception room as A deep well for the be drilled. Further, plans are b the summer. The Wise Ones will increase the prices. Terms: $2.00 cash and ance Policy to protect p Telephone f FREE To all Color The Most Perfect Burial Ground in the Northwest. concrete two-story building is now being erected which motion room and a perfectly appointed lunch room. well for the purpose of supplying the purest and coolest plans are being made for their new vault to be const. The Ones will buy lots now before the improvements not prices. 1.00 cash and $2.00 per month, with a free Sick and A to protect your payments. Telephone for an agent to come and tell you about it. To all Colored churches, Sunday-schools, lodges and Grove for plenums or outings. Train stops at the gate The Most Perfect Burial Ground in the Northwest. A new concrete two-story building is now being erected which will contain a cozy reception room and a perfectly appointed lunch room. A deep well for the purpose of supplying the purest and coolest water will be drilled. Further, plans are being made for their new vault to be constructed during the summer. The Wise Ones will buy lots now before the improvements now being made increase the prices. Terms: $2.00 cash and $2.00 per month, with a free Sick and Accident Insurance Policy to protect your payments. Telephone for an agent to come and tell you about it. FREE To all Colored churches, Sunday schools, lodges and clubs, beautiful Oak Glen Grove for picnics or outings. Train stops at the gate. A day's outing for young and old at Oak Glen, under oak trees, on the banks of a nice stream of water, in the pure country air, will not soon be forgotten. Make dates at once. Office $125 8, State $8. Open evenings. A. F. Godinez FRANK DUNN J. B. McCAMEY TRUSTEES Telephone Yards 693 Phone Aldine 3653 187 THE CLUB safe ator r Ave Chicago HARRY J. KELLY Prop. FET AND CIGARETTES CHICAGO. wick IARDS. Chicago Nursey Jeans Cafe C. SNEED, M'g'r 75-173 CLUB CA F E AGO RY EVENING TEL. OAKLAND 1850, 1851, 1852 INN AIL VENUE I. S. CHICAGO Automatic 71-866 Northwest. elected which will contain room. and coolest water will to be constructed during iments now being made ick and Accident Insur- u about it. bridges and clubs, beauti-