The Broad Ax

The National Semi-Centennial Emancipation Exposition Association Has Been Duly Incorporated UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS AND A CHARTER HAS BEEN ISSUED TO THE INCORPORATORS. AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN WILL BE WAGED IN PAVOR OF THE NATIONAL PROPOSITION. BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, CHAIRMAN OF THE ILLINOIS STATE COMMISSION, AND SOME OF HIS ASSOCIATES ON IT WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO GRANTING THE CHARTER TO THE ASSOCIATION. GOVERNOR EDWARD F. DUNNE, AS WELL AS ALL THE GOVERNORS OF ALL THE STATES THROUGHOUT THE UNION, WILL BE REQUESTED TO APPOINT THREE COMMISSIONERS TO WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THOSE WHO PAVOR A NATIONAL EXPOSITION. IN THE ISSUE OF THE BROAD AX OF JUNE 28, BEFORE GOVERNOR DUNNE APPOINTED 8 COMMISSIONERS FOR ILLINOIS, IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT A MOVEMENT WAS ON FOOT TO LAUNCH A NATIONAL EXPOSITION AND CELEBRATION. Vol. XVIII. The National tennial En Exposition Has Been or UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS TO THE IN AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN WILL BE W PROPRIETARY BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, CH COMMISSION, AND SOME OF TERLY OPPOSED TO GRANTI TION. GOVERNOR EDWARD F. DUNNE, OF ALL THE STATES THROU QUESTED TO APPOINT THE CONJUNCTION WITH THOSE SITION. IN THE ISSUE OF THE BROAD A DUNNE APPOINTED 8 COMM ANNOUNCED THAT A MOVEM NATIONAL EXPOSITION AND The past week the National Semi Centennial Emancipation Exposition Association was incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois and the charter is in the hands of the incorporators who are as follows: Walter M. Farmer, B. F. Moseley, Charles B. Travis, Miss Bertiola Fortson. Frank L. Hamilton, Mrs. William Emanuel, Hon. F. E. J. Doyd, Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Julius F. Taylor. When it was stated through the columns of the various newspapers that the association was almost ready to apply for a charter, and that an active campaign would be waged in favor of the National proposition, the good Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, chairman of the Illinois State Commission, and several of his associates on it, including the one or two slick little Colored men, were bitterly opposed to granting the charter to the association, but with all their so-called pull with their Lord and with all of their political scheming like unto common ward or pot-house politicians they were unable to induce the Hon. Harry Woods, secretary of State, to do so. Prior to their attempt to hold up the charter the commission met at the state house at Springfield and at that meeting its members decided to put forth an effort to expand the state celebration in 1915 into a national celebration and to force or command the next Legislature to appropriate one hundred thousand dollars more of all the taxpayers' money in this state in order to enable them to do so, as they have an itching desire to rob those connected with the national movement of what little honor and glory they have acquired for attempting to promote a national celebration; they further want to stamp out all opposition to their high handed method in transacting the business which belongs to the public and compel all the decent and respectable property owning Afro-Americans residing in this state to stand with bowed uncovered heads when they are in the presence of one WILLIAM HENRY LEE, LATE MEMBER OF THE BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE OF LAIRED AND LEE, WHO DIED IN THIS CITY THE LATTER PART OF JUNE, HAS SEVERAL CLAIMANTS FOR HIS $200,000 ESTATE. It has turned out after a thorough investigation that William Henry Lee, sole owner of the book publishing house of Laird and Lee, of this city, has turned out to be a Colored man. He passed away the latter part of June, leaving an estate valued at $200,000. HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY or two persons prominently connected with the commission who are utterly unworthy to receive the slightest consideration from the hands of half way honest men. Bishop Fallows, his aids and his commissioners must learn this one great lesson or truth, namely, that those who succeed or who even attempt to score a point against the right load the dice against themselves. As it has been stated in these columns before that Governor Edward F. Dunne, as well as the Governors of all the states throughout the Union, will be politely requested to appoint three commissioners to work in conjunction with those who are working might and main for a National Exposition. According to our way of thinking the ten million Afro - Americans scattered throughout this broad land should for once in their lives become united and in every way possible assist to make the national movement the success it should be, for nothing can be accomplished in that direction unless the Colored people themselves fully make up their minds to assist to collect the best products of their skill into a great exposition in Chicago in 1915, for that will be the best means of proving to entire world that the Colored people in these United States have actually made remarkable progress in every line of honest endeavor during the past fifty years or since the dawn of freedom upon them. It will be recalled that the idea to hold a national exposition and celebration in Chicago in 1915, set forth in the issue of The Broad Ax of June 28, one week before Governor Dunne appointed 8 commissioners for Illinois, and they and the Governor should not hesitate for one moment to work in harmony with those who were first in the field to conceive and launch the movement in favor of holding a national exposition and emancipation celebration in Chicago in 1915, the 50th anniversary of the freedom of the slaves in America. For many years he was afraid of his own shadow, as much as possible he would remain in the rear of his place of business, being fearful all the time that some one would enter it and recognize him as a Colored man. He refrained from associating with White persons as much as he could, and would never permit himself to converse with them about his past life. Once in a while he would steal away from his lodging place on West Washington Boulevard in the dark hours of the night and, for a short while at least, the Negro blood in his veins would assert itself, and he could be [Name not provided] One of Chicago's eminent lawyers, well known and popular citizens, who has been selected by Governor Edward F. Dunne as President of the Good Roads Commission of Illinois, and Col. Gash will give up his law business in order to devote all of his time to the public welfare and to improve the roadways of this state; in the next two years he will superintend the expenditure of more than a million dollars in that direction. Governor Dunne deserves to be highly commended for selecting Col. Gash for that important position. Found in the company of a few of his tried and trusted Colored friends on the South Side, who never violated the trust and confidence he reposed in them. Since his death, three or four Colored people in various parts of the country have come forward to claim a part of his estate, at the same time asserting that they are blood relatives of his. Mr. Lee left no will and unless some one can come forward and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are relatives of his, his estate will be turned into money and in time it will be turned into the treasury of the State of Illinois. owned by Colored business men were in the parade. Jesse Binga, President of the Association, made a fine showing in the way of advertising his bank and real estate office, located corner of State Street and 36th Place. Most every line of business in some way or other was represented in the parade and many people who beheld it were surprised to learn that so many Colored people were actively engaged in most every line of business in Chicago. Vance Anderson was the grand marshal of the parade, assisted by Charles E. Morrison and Wm. Howerton. On arriving at Woods' Academy the parade, after marching and counter- It was too bad that Mr. Lee lacked the moral courage to stand up and proclaim his racial identity and let the world know that the Colored men are capable of conducting business on a large scale, like unto the men of other races of mankind. THE CHICAGO COLORED BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION MADE A SPLENDID SHOWING LAST FRI-DAY EVENING. It's First Annual Street Parade, Emancipation Celebration and Reception at Wood's Academy Was a Great Success. Col. Allison W. Sweeney Was the Grator of the Evening. Last Friday evening the Chicago Colored Business Men's Association gave its first annual street parade, emancipation celebration and reception at Wood's Academy, 3800 Vincennes Ave., and the street parade was an eye opener to the many thousands of people who witnessed it from start to finish. It was headed by the K. P. band; to the delight of the hosts of onlookers it wended its way over the following route: from State and Thirty-sixth Place to Wabash Ave., north on Wabash Ave. to 35th Street, to Vernon Ave., north on that avenue to 31st Street, east on that street to State Street, south on State Street to 37th Street, east on that street to Vincennes Ave., south on that avenue to Woods' Academy. Between 50 and 60 autos and wagons owned by Colored business men were in the parade. Jesse Binga, President of the Association, made a fine showing in the way of advertising his bank and real estate office, located corner of State Street and 36th Place. Most every line of business in some way or other was represented in the parade and many people who beheld it were surprised to learn that so many Colored people were actively engaged in most every line of business in Chicago. Vance Anderson was the grand marshal of the parade, assisted by Charles E. Morrison and Wm. Hertowton. On arriving at Woods' Academy the parade, after marching and counter-marching in front of it, disbanded and many of those who had witnessed it entered the hall to listen to the music furnished by Prof. Garfield Wilson. Mr. Henry Mitchell acted as chairman of the meeting, and first Mr. Jesse Binga, President of the Chicago Colored Business Men's Association, was introduced and he made a few timely remarks. Rev. E. W. McDaniel spoke very briefly and to the point. Col. Allison W. Sweeney was the orator of the evening and his talk in reference to the "New Emancipation for the Negro," was more than timely and it would be well indeed if Col. Sweeney would spend the most of his time in delivering such wholesome talks among Colored as well as among White people in the various parts of the country, and it would be a paying investment in the long run if the members of the Chicago Colored Business Men's Association would devise some kind of a plan to raise the wherewith to defray his expenses and start him on a talking tour throughout the country. The First Regiment Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias will give its first Field Day exercises and hand concert at the White Sox Base Ball Park, 35th Street and Shields' Avenue, Sunday, August 10, at 2:35 P. M. The star attraction will be a base ball game, Chicago Giants vs. Spaldings; Col. H. H. Biggs, Chairman on Committee of Arrangements. Admission 25 cents, grand stand 35 cents, box seats 50 cents. See ad in another column of this paper. The National Semi-Cenennial Emancipation Exposition to be Held in Chicago, Illinois THE LATTER PART OF AUGUST AND THE FIRST PART OF SEPTEMBER, A. D. 1915, MANY PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN BELONGING TO THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. ARE BECOMING INTERESTED IN THE MOVEMENT AND THE FOLLOW- ING ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY PERTAINING TO THE EXPOSITION HAS BEEN PROMULGATED. On the first day of February, A. D. 1865, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the United States was proposed to the 38th Congress by the Hon. John B. Henderson, senator from Missouri. On the 18th day of December of the same year the amendment was proclaimed ratified by the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, thus abolishing slavery and all forms of involuntary servitude, except for crimes, etc. By this beneficent act of universal freedom over four million of Colored people in the United States were given bodily emancipation. Ignorant, poor and debased by 250 years of the worst system of human slavery the world has ever witnessed, they faced the dawn of freedom with a resolute determination to measure up to the requirements of their new responsibilities. How well the race has met the requirements of freedom and citizenship can best be told or portrayed by concrete evidences of their achievements and development. In 1915 the former slaves will have been emancipated just fifty years; a short period, indeed, in the life and history of a race or people. Nevertheless, these years are fraught with wonderful meaning to the former slaves and their descendants, because of the things they have accomplished and the obstacles they have overcome. As a race they have constantly been on trial and too frequently the presumptions have all been against them. They have been forced, therefore, to work out their own salvation as it were, not only with fear and trembling, but with a consciousness that the world at large has but meagre knowledge of their struggles, their development and their achievements. The transition from slavery to freedom is always a critical period in the progress and development of a race. A combination of unfavorable circumstances has made this period doubly trying to the emancipated people of this country. The standard by which their efficiency and their achievements are measured, is that represented by the ripest culture and development of Caucasian Civilization. In meeting this severe test their friends have often expected too much of them, while their enemies have met every attempt on their part to enter into the full enjoyment of a freeman's estate, with hostile legislation, bitter denunciation and the spreading of race hatred and prejudice throughout the world. Viewed, therefore, in the light of their peculiar condition and environment, their achievements in their social life, their educational and literary development and in the fields of mechanical arts and constructive genius, have a more inspiring significance and should attract more attention than those of any other race or people in the world. This Semi-Centennial of their Emancipation offers the Colored people of this country their first opportunity of demonstrating to the world what freedom has done for them. A National Semi-Centennial Emancipation Exposition, to be held at Chicago during the months of August and September, 1915, is the object and aim of the organization sending out this communication; and, it is earnestly hoped, that it will meet with the hearty approval of the Colored men and women of the United States and the generous support of their friends. No.45 In launching this movement for a national exposition there is not the slightest intention or desire on our part to antagonize the various state expositions now under way. We are of the opinion, however, that it is hardly possible for a separate state exposition to present an exhibit sufficiently comprehensive to properly show the progress made by the race, nor will it attract the attendance that a concentrated national exposition would. It is sincerely believed that such an exposition can be made a potent factor in vindicating the race, checking the spread of race prejudice and of securing for our people a more patient and considerate hearing in their plea for justice and fair treatment. With an exposition broad enough in scope and purpose to comprehend not only their achievements of brain and brawn, but to give to the world some adequate conception of their wonderful capacity for entering into harmony with, and assimilating the highest culture and laudable aims of our Twentieth Century Civilization, the race will be able for the first time in its history to give the world a glimpse of the inner soul of a people striving to lift itself from the galling curse of a demoralizing slavery to the glories and blessings of a great civilization. Let Colored architects design the buildings; let Colored artisans rear the structures, and let Colored men and women direct and superintend the Exposition. We feel assured that the results will justify the outlay in money, time and energy, and will prove a creditable offering to the world's achievement. THE NATIONAL SEMI-CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION ASSOCIATION Beauregard F. Moseley, President, Frank L. Hamilton, General Secretary. Committee on Address. Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Hon. F. E. J. Lloyd, Julius F. Taylor, Louis B. Anderson, Walter M. Farmer, Chairman. HON. SAMUEL ALSCHULER WILL NOT BECOME ONE OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Hon. Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora, Ill., who is a member of the big law firm of Kraus, Alschuler and Holden, with extensive law offices on the 12th floor of the Chicago Tribune Building, has been urged by United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis to become one of the Assistant Attorney Generals of the United States. But Mr. Alschuler has declined to accept that honorable position. His main reason is that, owing to the delicate health of his mother, he does not care to be so far away from home permanently at the present time. The many warm friends of Mr. Alschuler would much prefer to see him selected United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Phil Green, 243 W. 47th Street, will on August 23rd leave for a visit to Baltimore, Md., his old home, and attend the session of the annual meeting of the Elks at Atlantic City, N. J., August 24 and 29. He is figuring on having a most jolly time while absent: Mrs. Green will not accompany him. THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Includes, Single Taxes, Republics, or anyone else whose grade is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Brand AX is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to 5027 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1878. State Charter Issued to the Amanda Smith Industrial School. New Corporation Enters Upon a Good Work After many years of trials and hardships the institution founded by Amanda Smith, the well known Evangelist and Missionary worker, succeeded in enlisting the co-operation, endorsement and support of strong friends of dependent children and also the endorsement and approval of the State Board of Charities. This endorsement is shown by a Charter for Industrial Training School for Girls issued about three weeks ago. Under the Charter, the officers have been elected and the practical work has begun. Judge Pomeroy, temporarily presiding in the Juvenile Court last Monday, committed two girls to the care and custody of the new school and that commitment marks a new era in the welfare of our dependent girls in this State. The officers and members of the new institution represent many persons and organizations known by their good work in behalf of Colored people. They recognize the need of an institution which will do active work in educating and training Colored girls and will bring to that training concentrated heart service. These officers and members met Thursday afternoon for a conference with other interested friends in the Juvenile Court Room and a most helpful discussion of the plans and purposes of the new school was participated in by many of those present. The buildings owned by The Amanda Smith Home have been thoroughly cleaned, renovated, decorated and put in sanitary condition so that the girls who enter the institution will find a pleasant home and be taught by teachers who are identified with them by strong ties of race kinship. Mrs. Phoebe Jones, for many years a capable and successful teacher in the public schools of Kentucky, is Matron in charge and is most efficiently assisted by Mrs. Austin, also a public school teacher. Hereafter no boys will be taken at the Amanda Smith Home. Commitments of dependent boys are being made to The Louise Manual Training School, recently chartered and under the splendid and capable management of Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, whose years of successful probation work peculiarly fit her for the duties of Superintendent. The hardships, poverty and strain which marked the struggle of the Amanda Smith Home to take care of dependent boys and girls entirely through charity is now a thing of the past. Hereafter the County will pay Fifteen Dollars per month for each girl that is sent to this institution. To this most important work there should come from he people of Chicago, White and Colored, prompt and generous aid. The current expenses will be met largely by the appropriation from the County, but the school should be enlarged, fully equipped, and with all modern agencies for the development and training of girls. New buildings should be added to the properties now being occupied. Colored dependent girls should have the same splendid facilities which the generous public have given to White dependent girls, and, it is confidently believed that the generous donations made for the benefit of dependent White children will not fail to continue and bring similar help to the aid of the Colored girls. Public interest will increase in this work from now on and no doubt all institutions interested in child welfare work will lend a hand toward making this Training School equal to the best in the land. "ROGER'S COMPLEXION CREAM" is guaranteed to remove all blemishes from the face, black heads, sunburn, tan. Will heal all pastural eruptions. Price 50 cents. Quality not quantity. Address 3540 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, or 228 Claim Street, Aurora, Ill. HEALTH NOTES. It has been estimated by those who have had experience in rat-destroying campaigns that in the average city there is at least one rat per inhabitant. If this estimate is even approximately correct, Chicago has a rat population of 2,000,000 or more. It is also estimated that the average life of a rat is five years; so that on this basis, 2,000,000 rats die in Chicago every five years. This would mean that on this rate of mortality, 400,000 rats die each year in Chicago or over 1,000 daily. Now, the query arises, what becomes of the dead rats. Surgeon V. G. Heiser, of the U. S. Public Health Service and Chief Quarantine officer for the Philippine Islands, has raised this same question in connection with his thorough and effective campaign of rat extermination in the City of Manila. He estimates that the rat mortality in Manila is not less than 30,000 a year; and yet in all his vigorous clean up work in that city a dead rat was rarely discovered. His observations also covered a careful investigation of the garbage destruction plants where in several days' deliveries of garbage and refuse only one dead rat was found. It was also noted that the Sanitary officers were seldom troubled with complaints as to odors from rats that had died in inaccessible places; so that from no source was it found possible to obtain any definite information as to what becomes of the dead rats. Concluding his article in a recent issue of the Public Health Reports, Dr. Heiser suggests that further studies along these lines be made and expresses the belief that the knowledge, if it could be obtained, might prove to be useful in the destruction of rats and in ridding our cities of these dangerous and expensive pests. During these sultry August days, dress the baby lightly—the fewer clothes the better. The baby that is over dressed just to make it look sweet and pretty will be cross and uncomfortable, and cross because it is uncomfortable. And don't starch the baby's dresses, let them be as soft and comfortable as you know how to make them. Babies that are healthy and good-natured do not need a lot of nice clothes to make them pretty any more than you would use artificial aid to add to the beauty of a bunch of fresh blown roses. So, in hot weather, the less clothes the baby has to contend with, the better off it will be. Shoes and stockings should not be thought of. For every day wear, binder and napkin, with possibly the lightest of short gown or slip are plenty. But there are some things the baby should have. It should have at least two baths a day. It should have a drink of cool—not iceed—boiled water several times a day. It should have plenty of good fresh air, and if dependent on cow's milk, it should be fresh, clean and pure. If you have a baby in the home, write to the Department of Health, and we will be glad to send you the little booklet telling you how to take care of the baby. You know if babies are worth having, they are worth saving. So, let's save the babies. ROBERT C. OGDEN SUCCUMBS New York Philanthropist, Once Partner of John Wanamaker, Dies at Maine Residence. Kennebunkport, Me., Aug. 17.—Robert C. Ogden of New York, a philanthropist, died to-die at his summer residence here. Mr. Ogden had been in ill health a long time. He was 77 years old. His fortune was made as a partner of John Wanamaker. In 1908 he declined an appointment as a member of President Taft's commission to Liberia. For many years Mr. Ogden was greatly interested in educational work among the Colored people in the southern states; he was prominently connected with the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Booker T. Washington's school, and with the Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Owing to illness he was unable to attend the last commencement of the last mentioned institution, which he very much regretted.—Editor. On last Saturday evening it was our pleasure to receive by special dispatch from Dr. Miller two big black bass, which were mighty good eating for our Sunday dinner. And at this point we heartily wish to thank not only the Doctor for the fish but also his good wife, Mrs. Miller, for seeing to it that they reached us in good shape. NEW PLANTS DISCOVERED IN STUDY OF GRAZING LANDS. In making a study of grazing lands on the national forests, 125 entirely new species of plants have been discovered by the government experts, and will be named and classified by the botanists of the department of agriculture. Their discovery came about through the collection of some 9,000 different plant specimens, with notes as to their habits of growth and forage value. This work is part of a comprehensive plan to determine the grazing value of every acre of national forest land, in which the capacity of the soil to grow certain forage crops is to be determined and an effort made to decide for which class of stock—sheep, cattle, or goats—the range is best suited. The men who have made the studies have combined the qualities of practical stockmen and trained botanists. They divided the areas into such small subdivisions that maps have been prepared which show exactly the kinds of feed which grow on each acre, and the time of year it is ready for grazing. The maps also show the stock's water supply and indicate the kind of stock best suited to the area. The investigation also showed the examiners many areas covered with flourishing plants which apparently should furnish excellent grazing, but which were not of a character relished by stock; these areas, therefore, had little or no stock-carrying capacity. As a result of the study, the forest service announces that it will be in a position to perfect its system of grazing management to bring about still better conditions for both stock and range. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH COR. S8TH AND DEABORN STS. Rev. H. J. Callis Pastor The services at our church last Sunday were a little better than the average. A large audience gathered at 11 A. M. to hear Dr. M. C. B. Mason and they were not disappointed. Dr. Mason gave us a splendid sermon from the words, "She hath done what she could." It was one of those discourses that touch and inspire every listener. The Sunday School and Christian Endeavor services were of the usual interest. At the Sunday evening service the church was crowded to the doors. Our pastor conducted the celebration of the Holy Communion. It was an inspiring and helpful service. The offerings for the day were over fifty dollars ($50). Our services for Sunday will be as follows: early morning prayer meeting at 6 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. by the pastor; subject, "The Marriage of the King's Son." Sunday School at 1:15 P. M.. C. J. Jackson, superintendent. Christian Endeavor at 6:35 P. M. Eugene Gray, President. At the evening service (8 P. M.), Rev. J. R. Riley, D. D., of Knoxville, Tenn., will speak for ten minutes preliminary to the sermon. The choir will render special music, solo, vocal, selected, Mrs. Delila Thomas. Sermon by the pastor; subject, "Christ's Warning to the Luke-warm Follower." The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, was delightfully entertained by Miss Lillian Brouder at the home of her brother. Mr. William Brouder, 3849 State Street. Do not forget the Union Methodist Picnic at Glenwood Park, Monday, the 11th. Train leaves Fifth Avenue Station near Jackson Boulevard at 9:30 A. M. Take the "L" road and get off at Quincy. Rev. and Mrs. Callis will attend the Connectional Council and Executive meeting of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society in Pittsburgh, Pa., August 16-25. Mrs. Callis is District President of the society for the Michigan Conference. Mrs. C. J. Jackson, our accomplished organist, was absent from the Sunday evening service on account of an acute attack of indigestion. She is somewhat improved, but still confined to her home. The No. 1 Stewardess Board were entertained at the home of their President, Mrs. J. B. Foster, 4606 Wabash Avenue, last Tuesday. The No. 2 Stewardess Board met at the home of Mrs. Aurelia Fisher. 3152 Wentworth Avenue. Sister Fisher served a fried chicken dinner. At American Giants' Base Bull Park, August 16th, the Colored Doctors and Dentists will play Grace Fresherystian Team. There will be gathering throngs. It will be Chicago's society gale day. It will help the Old Folks Home. No one is so stingy or so mean that he will stay at home. You will be old, remember, and you will want soft hands to touch you, kind hearts to bless you, liberal souls to help you—that is when you get old. You will want free medicine, plenty of well cooked, wholesome food, tender care, and, the best of all, an institution owned and operated by your own race. We can't have the right kind of Old Folks Home if you fail to do your humble part. Every one of us must do something, give something. The Colored doctors, dentists and druggists believe in doing what they can to help, so must you. August 16th, Saturday, 2:30 P. M., American Giants' Base Ball Park. Admission, 25 and 35e. THE SOCIAL GATHERING AND BANQUET BY THE PROGRESSIVE CLUB OF THE SECOND WARD AT ODD FELLOWS HALL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, WAS A VEYE PLEASANT AFFAIR. Wednesday evening a social gathering and banquet was given at Odd Fellows Hall, 3335 S. State Street, under the auspices of the Progressive Club of the 2d Ward. It was a most enjoyable affair and was in charge of the following committee: Mrs. John Hamlin Fitch, Simon P. Garry, Daniel J. May, Dr. Engene Perkins, J. E. Johnson, Chas. W. Slobig, Chairman, Chas. B. Travis, Secretary. Lawyer B. F. Moseley was the toastmaster of the evening. Frank L. Hamiton, A. N. Fields, Simon P. Garry, James H. Porter, N. Petterson, Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mrs. John Hamlin Fitch, E. E. Gillandi, Hon. F. E. J. Lloyd, Charles B. Travis, and Chairman Charles W. Solbig were among the speakers. 125 guests were present and enjoyed the speaking. the eating and other light refreshments. CHIPS Mrs. Eudora Lockett is touring Nebraska with the Southland Job Singers. Dr. Harry Garnes spent the week end in Benton Harbor and reports a good time. Mrs. India Deming and daughter, Mrs. Garfield Wilson, are spending two weeks in Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Ed. Nixon, 2827 Wabash Avenue, has had many visitors from afar stopping with her this summer and she always provides neat quarters for her guests. Mrs. Carrie Warner, 5223 Dearborn Street, will on August 16th leave for the west Michigan resort near Benton Harbor, Mich., where she will spend two weeks' vacation. Attorney Edward E. Wilson, one of the Assistant State's Attorneys of Cook County, is spending the remainder of his vacation at Des Moines, Iowa, and other points in that state. Mrs. Allie Maxwell, 5244 S. State Street, will on the 16th of August leave on a two weeks' vacation trip for New York City, Atlantic City, N. J., Philadelphia, Pa., and other points in the east. Miss Nellie Calloway, 3142 Rhodes Avenue, has charge of the employment office of J. N. Simms, 3102 S. State Street. She will look after it for two weeks, while Mr. Simms is absent from the city. Miss Anna Schulman, stenographer for Lawyer Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington Street, returned home Monday morning from her two weeks' vacation trip to Bangor, Mich., which she greatly enjoyed. Standard Literary of Olivet Church has given August 17th as a Fenton Johnson Day. G. W. Ellis will speak. Richard T. Greener and others. Miss C. Delpha Boyer will be soloist. Mr. Johnson will read from his book of poems. Congressman James McAndrews has spent the past week in Chicago. He will leave for Washington, D. C. Sunday morning to resume his duties in Congress. He is of the opinion that Congress will not adjourn until late in the fall. Mrs. Geneva Smith and her sister. Miss Katie Fowler, 5363 Dearborn Street, entertained the Byron Brothers, the famous and renowned musicians, on Thursday evening, at an elaborate eight course dinner. Mrs. Smith and her sister were charming hostesses, and the guests present were more than delighted with the elegant repast. Miss Dempsey entertained Mrs. Brooks of Hot Springs, Ark., at the residence of Mrs. Woods, 3727 Forest Avenue, Thursday evening, August 7. Mrs. Katherine Montgomery and a number of guests were present and report a delightful evening. Mrs. Brooks is in the city visiting her sister. Mrs. F. A. Rawling, of 4817 State Street. ```markdown ``` Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington Street, will leave August 15 or 16 on a two weeks' vacation trip to Niagara Falls, Albany, N. Y., where he will take the boat on the Hudson River to New York City and on to Atlantic City, N. J., and Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Jennett Wiley and Mrs. Blanche Lett, two dashing grass widows, may accompany him. Attorney Frank D. Comerford, who occupies fine law offices on the ninth floor of the Ashland Block, is more than likely to receive a fine Federal plum from the hands of President Woodrow Wilson in the way of a ministership to one of the South American Republics. Mr. Comerford has been a subscriber to The Broad Ax for many years and we would be delighted to see him land. It was our pleasure, while calling at his office this week, to be presented to his highly cultivated wife, Mrs. Comerford, who has won a national reputation as a newspaper and magazine writer. She is a very pleasant lady to meet and she is also an admirer and reader of this paper. A Garden Tragedy. Mister Watermelon Vine got clean above hisself; He plung his long legs crost de groun' en climb up on de shelf. He pass Mis' Merry Gold right by to tell his true lib story. To Jes' de flower ob de flock, en dat's Mis' Mawmin' Glory. Sunday meetin' nigger come a-steppin' mighty high. He see dat watermelon from de corner ob his eye. Sez he: "He's lookin' mighty fine. I spec' he's gittin' meller. I swine huck ear hong er' bit en den I grabs dat feller!" De sun he sank, de moon he rose en den slipped out er sight. Mis' Mawmin' Glory closed her eyes en almos' died wild fright. Mis' Merry Gold turned yaller ez a form drap from a tree. En dat Mister Watermelon—whar, oh, whar wuz he? Nex' day dey sent for Sherlock Holmes, de great detective chief. Dey gib him all de mournful facts ter slo' em on de thief. He chuck his head, "Tain't no use use me ter chase sich loot. Fer a nigger in a melon patch am always in cahoot!" —Willie Bellah in Atlanta Constitution. Greatest Diamond Mine. The Premier diamond mine, in South Africa, twenty-five miles to the east of Pretoria, is the biggest in the world, where 15,000 Kaffirs work every day digging, drilling and loading trucks of blue earth, from which diamonds are extracted to the value of $10,000,000 per annum. Mistress and Maid. "May I borrow a volume of Emerson from the library?" asked the housemaid. "I have no objection," answered her mistress. "While you are about it bring me Lady Jezebel's Divorce."—Boston Advertiser. FOR RENT. RENT FREE TILL SEPT. 1ST. Modern apartments, steam heat, hot water the year around. 3 rooms, $22.00; 4 rooms, $27.50; 6 rooms, $32.00; 8 rooms, $40.00 to $42.50. AMERICAN APARTMENTS, 2728 Wabash Ave. FLATS TO RENT. S. Richardson, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 160 N. 5th Ave., Room 506, near Randolph St., phone Main 2133, Automatic 33-201, has the following flats to rent: 2420 La Salle St., 5 rooms, $12. 2720 Dearborn St., 7 rooms, $19. 3002 Armour Ave., 5 rooms, $14. 5754 Wentworth Ave., 5 rooms, $18. 7230 Wentworth Ave., 7 rooms, $22. S. Richardson, 160 N. 5th Ave., Room 506. Tel. Main 2133. Automatic 33-201. 2410 La Salle St., 5 rooms $12. 2720 Dearborn St., 7 rooms, $19. 3002 Armour Ave., 5 rooms, $14. 5521 Shields Ave., 5 rooms, $18. 3818 Armour Ave., 7 rooms, $18. Desk Room for business purposes in branch law office of W. G. Anderson & L. A. Newby, 35th and State St., N. W. corner. Phones Douglas 8078 and Auto. 72-384. Hours 10 to 12 a. m., 8 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M. Dr. MacENRY J. BROWN Physician and Surgeon Oculist. Practice limited to Diseases of Eye and Ear. Office and Residence, 3502 S. State St. Chicago. FOR RENT. For Rent, 4451-38 South State Street, four (4) room apartments. 4519-28 Evans Avenue, six room apartments. 3809 Rhodes Avenue, House eight rooms in perfect condition. Inquire, Chicago Real Estate Loan and Trust Company, 117 North Dearborn Street Room 904. ```markdown ``` RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL UPLIFT Great Work of New Jersey Sunday Schools. MEETING HELD IN ORANGE Central Organization Among Baptists Entertains Host of Delegates and Visitors at Annual Convention In Union Baptist Church-A. S. Kingsley Makes Masterly Address. Orange, N. J.-The New Jersey Baptist state Sunday school convention held its annual meeting at the Union Baptist church here for two days the last week in July. Rev. Dr. W. P. Lawrence, pastor of the Union church and president of the convention, presided. The various schools were well represented by delegates, and all of the sessions were well attended. The annual sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. William M. Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn. The sermon was instructive and abounded in helpful suggestions and illustrations. Well prepared papers on various phases of Sunday school work were read by Miss Bella Perry, Miss Hattie McKee, Miss Effle Ivay, Mrs. Rosa Polk, Mrs. John Hearn and Miss Nellie P. Schenck, who conducted the feature known as the "Literary Hour." The cause of Baptist institutions was presented in a forceful address delivered by the Rev. Dr. H. H. Mitchell. Among the stranger visitors who took part in the exercises were Messrs. A. S. Phillips of South America and D. G. Fisher of South Africa, who are students at the Virginia Theological seminary and college, Lynchburg, Va. The conference held for the benefit of the teachers in the different grades of the school proved very helpful. Music was furnished by a number of young woman who rendered inspiring vocal and instrumental selections. Rev. Page M. Beverly, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Burrell, Rev. D. W. Cannon, R. L. Burrell and Rev. J. E. Briggs were among the leading spirits. The address of Mr. A. S. Kingsley, a white business man of South Orange, and a good friend of our people, was the crowning feature of the closing session of the convention. Mr. Kingsley has done much to aid in religious and social settlement work among the colored people of his section. He has given liberally of his means and has also been instrumental in interesting other white persons who have assisted through Mr. Kingsley the church which he has given much of his time, labor and influence. He is an educator and a man of liberal views and he does not harbor race prejudice. The greetings of the New England Baptist Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. convention were given by N. Barnett Dodson, president of that body. Dr. Lawrence's annual address was timely and created enthusiasm among the delegates. He in part said: We are living in a new age. Secular history tells us of the age of stone and iron. Modern scholars still refer with pride to the golden age of art, science, literature and philosophy, and the pages of history are constantly calling attention to the unspeakable happenings of the dark ages. In sacred history we have the patriarchal age, the prophetic age, the ages of the judges and kings, the apostolic age, the age of reformation, etc. But this is an age upon the earth, it is the age of faith and social justice, of good will and fair play, and this is pre-eminently the age of babyhood, girlhood and boyhood. Never before in the history of the world has so much attention been given to the life, growth and symmetrical development of the child, the boy and the girl, as in the present generation. He is the owner of the study of the biologist. The sociologist, walking among the flowers that bloom in this garden of God, Pedagogues have well high revolutionized the old educational systems in order to meet the needs of this new and greatest of all ages. It is generally conceded that the star alive to the needs of the hour least along the way is the education of his children. The question naturally arises, "Has the church and the home awakened to the exigencies of the hour?" While profoundly grateful to God for all the good that has been done, I pause to place a laurel upon the brow of the consecrated men and women who wrought so nobly and unselfishly to make our Bible schools what under God they are today. I go further and to out to you the city of the dead and place a wreath upon the graves of those immortal heroes of the cross who have fought a good fight and finished their courses and kept the faith, etc. Yonder they are, like a cloud of witnesses. I can hear their voices saying to us, "Quit you like men; be strong." There is room for improvement in our Bible school. One of the great needs of the hour is trained teachers. It is to be regretted that so many of the best trained men and women from an intellectual pool of view are unwilling to consecrate their talent to this all important God ordained work. In the south and in some of the eastern and western sections of our country the public school teachers, business and professional men and women are leading in Bible school work. As the harvest is so great and the laborers are so few, let us pray the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers into his harvest. Convention of Galilean Fishermen. The annual session of the National Grand Tabernacle of Galilean Fishermen, held for four days in Baltimore, beginning Tuesday, Aug. 5, was largely attended. The reports from the various subordinate lodges showed that the past year had been one of achievement in members and finance. Charles B. S. Holmes of New York city, national grand ruler, presided. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10th WHITE SOX BALL PARK 35th St. and Shields Ave. K. OF P. FIELD DAY CHICAGO GIANTS VS SPALDINGS Game Called 3:30 p. m. CRAWFORD, the Cuban tamer and conqueror of the New York Lincoln Giants, will pitch. Band Concert, Exhibition Drill by Knight Templars, Patri- archies, U. B. F.'s and the 1st Regiment Champion Team. MUSICAL DRILL AND DRESS PARADE Committee of Arrangements: Col. H. H. Biggs, Capt. J. Ison, Capt. Chas. Seals, Q. M. Committee on Invitations: Col. F. B. Powell, Lient. Thes. Foster, Capt. L. Willis. Admission 25c Grand Stand 35c Box Seats 50c UP THROUGH DIFFICULTIES. Scholarly Attainments of Professor J. H. A. Brazelton of Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla.-Professor J. H. Augustus Brazelton, principal of the Douglas high school in this city, is a nattice of New Market, Tenn. His father, Anderson Brazelton, was a soldier in the Union army in the war of the rebellion. The elder Brazelton died in 1880, leaving a widow and seven small children. Young Brazelton was therefore thrown on his own resources practically in early life, as were the rest of the children. But, having a good mother in the home to advise and direct affairs, the family was kept together. J. H. Augustus Brazelton attended the public schools of his village during the short session in the fall and the parochial schools supported by the freedman's board of the Presbyterian church during the winter and spring. At eleven years of age he entered the Austin high at Knoxville. However, on account of ill health he was compelled to quit school the following spring and return to his home at New Market. At seventeen he entered the Freedman's Normal institute, Maryville, Tenn. He graduated at Freedman's [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit] J. H. A. BRAZELTON, A. M. Normal within two years and attended for seven years Maryville college (white), an institution founded in 1819. By an act of the legislature of Tennessee and a decree of the board of trustees of Maryville college separating colored from whites in said school, Mr. Brazelton was forced to go elsewhere for one year in order to receive his degree of B. A. So he attended Knoxville college during 1901-2 and graduated. The degree of master of arts has also been conferred upon Profressor Brazelton. In the spring of 1902 he was elected assistant principal of Douglas high, Oklahoma City. Oka, through the assistance of Hon Ed S. Vaught, at that time superintendent of schools of Oklahoma City and now an able attorney and man of affairs. The next year Mr. Brazelton was made principal. This position he has held for ten years and has been recently re-elected. During his administration the Douglas school has grown from ten teachers to fifty and the enrollment has increased from 200 to 1,500. The Douglas high school has now seventy-five graduates. Among the alumni of Douglas high there are three medical doctors and two dentists and three college graduates and one university graduate, one dressmaker and scores of teachers in the public schools of Oklahoma and other states. Professor Brazelton has the distinction of being the last president for two years of the Colored Teachers' Association of the Territory of Oklahoma and the first president for two years of the Negro State Teachers' Association of Oklahoma. At St. Louis, 1911, in the National Association of Colored Schools he introduced and had adopted a resolution providing a committee on Negro ideals and Negro textbooks. Professor Brazelton was appointed chairman of said committee, and at Chattanooga, Tenn., July, 1912, he delivered an address on Negro ideals and Negro textbooks to the national association. Millen at Gettysburg Celebration Miller at Gettysburg. Levi Miller of Belief, Winchester county, Va., bears the distinction of being the only colored Confederate veteran of the civil war in attendance at the anniversary celebration of the great battle of Gettysburg. It is said that the Confederate camp sent Comrade Miller to the celebration at its expense. He wore his gray uniform and received invited attention. Prepared. "Are you prepared to undergo hardships?" "I think I am." "Are you willing to be laughed at and ridiculed and pointed out as one who ought to be under the care of a guardian?" "I think I could even undergo that if necessary." "Are you willing to give up all worldly pleasures, to walk when others ride, to be pitied as a weakling, to be sneered at by people who have little wit and to be generally regarded as one who has forfeited the right to hope for the respect of society?" "Yes." "All right; then go ahead and be a poet."—Chicago Record-Herald. Why? Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? As he rides in his swift flying car like a cloud A break in the axle, a bust in the tire— He passes from life to the heavenly choir. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? The while he is soaring above the great crowd The monoplane busts or its motor's delayed. And they hunt for the man with a pick and a spade. —Denver Republican. Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? As long as the motorboat craze is allowed A sudden explosion, a wave of the hand, Man passeth from life into Gabriel's band. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sounded Very Alarming. Simmons had returned from his vacation. "I certainly enjoyed the husking bees," he said to a young woman. "Were you ever in the country during the season of husking bees?" "Husking bees!" exclaimed the girl. "Why, of course not! How do you husk a bee anyway, Mr. Simmons?"—New York Evening Post. An Optimist's Calendar Saturday is a glorious day With Sunday coming after, A day for brushing gloom away, A day for joyous laughter. Saturday is a day of hope For the man who opens the envelope Containing the wage which he has earned. Saturday is a day of glee; Saturday is a day to be. Free from trouble and unconcerned. Saturday is a day of brightly Cease to think of the care that's fled. Saturday is a day to brightly Look ahead. —Chicago Record-Herald. An Inherited Taste. "What's the kid crying for?" asked the husband. "The moon, dear," replied the wife. "Well, tell him it's made of green cheese." "I did, dear, and he still wants it." I suppose he thinks I can make a Welsh rabbit out of it"—Yonkers Statesman. Her Care. He bade his wife be merry; He bade his wife be gay; He bade her sing and dance for him And put her cares away. But still she clung to weeping, And still she heaved a sigh. She would not sing or dance for him, And so he asked her why. "You ask why I should worry," Said she, "and why I pine? The servant girl our neighbor hires Has bought a hat like mine!" —Detroit Free Press. Hard Luck. Hard Luck. Quizzer — What's the matter, old man? You look worried. Sizzler — I have cause to. I hired a man to trace my pedigree. Quizzer—Well, what's the trouble? Hasn't he been successful? Sizzler—Successful! I should say he has! I'm paying him hush money.—Judge. Vain Desires. I want to be elemental, To wear skins and kill my own grub; Like the cave men of old I would roam, free and bold, And woo me a bride with my club. I want to be elemental, In primitive fashion to dwell, But my barbarous wife Jot notes on the life Of a blasted expensive hotel! —Chicago Daily News. There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise. He never left his overcoat Because he saw blue skies. —Denver Republican. There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise. He never missed an opportun- ity to advertise. —Kremmling News. UGUST 10th BALL PARK Shields Ave. ELD DAY COLLEGE MAN ON RACE PROGRESS Professor N. C. Bruce Sees Bright Future Ahead. SPEAKS AT BATES COLLEGE Well Known Educator of Dalton, Mo. Pays High Tribute to His Alma Mater and Declares That Colored Americans Are Not Discouraged, Noble Type of White Americans. In a recent address at Bates college Professor N. C. Bruce, a prominent educator of Dalton, Mo., and an alumnus of Bates college, gave a most interesting and instructive discourse on the struggles and achievements of the colored race in America since emancipation. Professor Bruce is a well known college man and deserves all the praise which has come to him for his unselfish labors in behalf of his race. Mr. Bruce first paid this high tribute to his alma mater: "Bates college recognizes men and manhood. Her doors, from the beginning back yonder in 1864, were opened to all who had a will, male and female, especially the worthy poor. God grant her the wisdom to fight it out forever on this line. Like Pentecost, where Persians, Medes, Greeks, barbarians, Parthians, Cretes, Jews, all were welcomed and were of one mind and purpose, never destroying each other's sunshine of racial purity, may she never even suffer her student bodies to close Bates' door of hope against any poor boy of any race." Continuing his speech, Professor Bruce said: In those sections we now possess $1,000,000,000 of property, have more than forty good colleges manned successfully by our own trained educators, 2,000 lawyers, 3,000 medical doctors, 35,000 teachers of 2,000,000 children in public schools, 300,000 farms owned by us, with 100,000 churches and with upward of sixty banks of our own and hundreds of various business establishments, and the story has hardly begun of what has been done, and yet we are just beginning to make real progress. How is it. I am often asked, that your people, several hundred, are in German, Italian and English colleges PROFESSOR N. C. BRUCE. and universities, making equally high averages as the best white Americans, and that in our great American universities, when given a chance, they perform as well even in the most abstruse subjects as any of their white fellows? I invariably give one and the same answer to all, the Bates college answer, that "God is no respecter of persons." Your own Abraham Lincoln had less chance than most southern Negroes today, yet he excelled Harvard's Edward Everett at Gettysburg, and his name and fame today shine as a star of the first magnitude. Again I declare to you that my people are not discouraged. The God of nations is our God. He it is whom my people try to serve, who gives us grace sufficient to withstand every injustice aimed at us. But Bates college, especially the faculty and classes of the eighties and nineties, affords a better answer than my feeble words can give. For here there now is a type of great and noble hearted white Americans, who give every student equal and exact justice. Negroes are not all indolents, fools and menacers of race purity and race integrity. More than nine and three-fourths millions of us are proud of our God given color, satisfied with ourselves, are busy in our fields and at our work, trying always to produce a better citizenship and not thinking nor desiring to mongrelize America. The few score who give trouble are set down upon harder by these overwhelming hosts of us than by any of you or your southern cousins. And so sanity and reason are again reenthroning themselves in the minds and hearts of white Americans, and these, like Bates college fifty years ago, are now beginning to appreciate the oneness of humanity and are finding out that one man or race cannot degrade, enslave and withhold inallenable rights from their unfortunate brother of a darker hue without themselves suffering in equal proportion. Our governing classes are seeing that education and training will help even cats and dogs and horses and that no imported Chinese, Jap, Slav, Turk or Greek can beat my hardy and sunburn race in the cotton, corn, hay and rice fields. WILSON APPOINTS PATTERSON Northern Daily Thinks Number of Colored Democrats Will Increase. Under the caption "Recognizing Negro Democrats" the Brooklyn Daily Standard Union says editorially concerning President Wilson's appointment of Attorney Adam E. Patterson of Muskogee, Okla., to be register of the United States treasury at Washington: "Since the years following close on the reconstruction period, when the name of Blanche K. Bruce, a former senator from Mississippi, appeared as register of the treasury on our greenbacks, the position has been a sort of prescriptive right of the Negroes loyal to the party in power, whether Democratic or Republican. "President Wilson follows custom in naming Adam E. Patterson, leader of the Democratic Negroes of Oklahoma, as register. It is likely that there will be no hitch about the confirmation of Patterson. Custom is a binding force in Washington. "It is fair to say that, without exception, the Negroes who have filled this place have been faithful, hardworking officials and have justified their selection. White men might have done as well, but could not have done better. "The number of Negro Democrats in the United States, north as well as south, is likely to grow immensely before the Wilson administration is over. That will be a particularly wholesome thing for the race as a whole." "Thinking Negroes have long regretted the substantial solidarity of the colored vote for Republicanism. They know that the hope of the Afro-American lies in voting, as do other citizens, on principles at issue in a given election." What say ye to these assertions, brethren of the Afro-American press? HOLCOMBE DEFENDS HOME AGAINST WHITE INTRUDERS Solicitor Jackson Renders Fair Decision In Port Tampa Holdup Episode. Tampa, Fla.—On the night of July 23 at about 1 o'clock three white men entered the home of Columbus Holcombe, an Afro-American, residing in a town near this place, claiming to collect a bill from one of Mr. Holcombe's lodgers. Mrs. Holcombe remonstrated with the men, and they in turn cursed her. Holcombe arose and told the intruders that he did not curse before his wife and did not allow any man, white or black, to curse her. The white men fired two shots in the house, and Holcombe seized his revolver and shot repeatedly until one of the white men was killed and the other two were wounded. Holcombe and Charles Hall, the lodger, were arrested and taken to the county jail. On July 25, after an investigation upon the part of County Solicitor Jackson, they were released on the grounds that they had acted in self defense. This decision has surprised many of the Negro hating white people, as they had hoped for a lynching bee. The colored men were advised to leave this vicinity. The editor of the Tampa Daily Times in commenting on the affair said that Solicitor Jackson did right in exonerating the Negroes. This impartial comment, coming from the pen of a southern white man, shows that not all the white people of the south are enemies to the colored people. The Times says: "It is too much the habit of a certain class of white men to act in their dealings with Negroes as if the latter had no rights of any kind that the dominant race is compelled to respect. This is in the highest degree reprehensible and should receive outspoken condemnation of all those who recognize the error, the criminality of such course of action. "All men are equal before the law and have the same right to its protection in the enjoyment of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "Reverse the positions of the parties of the Port Tampa affair and consider what a howl of execration would have arisen throughout the country at the deeds of the black fiends that attacked the home of a peaceable citizen in the dead hour of night attempting to murder the inoffending man and his helpless wife in their home all for the alleged purpose of collecting a trifling debt. "There would be talk and perhaps the grim reality of a lynching, and it would be well deserved, as many another crime of the kind that has been in silence condoned." New York Emancipation Exposition. In seeking to make the coming emancipation exposition to be held in New York the last ten days in October distinctively and impressively educational the commissioners have struck a responsive chord of race pride and ambition to show to what intellectual heights the race has attained since its freedom. In this exposition there will be as little as possible of the country fair type of exposition. The commission, rather, stresses the conferences and congresses on the religious, economic and other important phases of the advance of the race. Success of Rural School Supervisors. The position of supervisor of education has always carried with it a high degree of honor and distinction for the person appointed. Three southern states now have colored supervisors of education for the schools attended solely by colored youths. Kentucky and Virginia led off, and Alabama follows. The work of these educators in the two states first named has been efficiently successful. BIG FACTOR IN SOUTH'S GROWTH RACE WORKING FOR RESULTS Succinct Account of Commercial Advance In Two Great Southern Cities and Part Played by Colord Americans—How the State Benefits by Industry of Laboring Class. By RALPH W. TYLER. Atlanta, Ga.—There are two cities in the south contesting for the supremacy in Dixieland, and they are Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. The next federal census will undoubtedly show one or the other the largest city in all southland. In both the Negro citizenship forms one-third of the total population, and the next ten years' record made by each in population, wealth and commercial progress must in no small way be contributed to by this third of our people. And were it not for the progress that was made during the past decade by this one-third population in each city both would have failed to have made the wonderful strides already recorded Birmingham, surrounded by an almost inexhaustible deposit of iron ore, coal and limestone, making it the Pittsburgh of the south, depends upon its Negro population largely for taking the mineral deposits from the earth and later developing it from the crude form to a marketable product of usefulness. In Atlanta, which city alms to be the gateway for all that region that lies to the south, the Negro is depended upon largely to make her busy industries hum. The white man most largely, of course, furnishes the money in both cities, but the Negro furnishes the brawn, without which wealth is nothing. In the south increased population is largely due to births instead of to foreign immigration as in the north and west. The colored people oppose "race suicide" with a prolific birth rate. This makes for better recognition of the race in Atlanta and Birmingham. A stranger within the gates of Atlanta is first shown through Peter and Decatur streets, where the race is now progressing, then he is whisked out to the "intellectual center," to the University of Atlanta, Atlanta Baptist university, Clark university, Spellman seminary and Morris Brown college and then to Piedmont street. Ridge avenue, North boulevard and some of the other avenues where our people have beautiful homes. The exploiting of the first is to show the contrast between stationary and advancement; to prepare one for the unrolling before one's eyes the wonderful advancement we are making. Since the regrettable and hoped to be forgot, Atlanta riot, our progress has been accelerated by a better consideration on the part of the whites. The best whites, in no small degree, appear to be trying to wipe out that awful blot in Atlanta's record by according the race a fairer chance to make good. That it is making good is evidenced by the beautiful homes, the successful business enterprises, the high class professional men, and the crowded universities which make Atlanta the "Athens of America." The Odd Fellows' temple alone stands as a monument to race progress in Atlanta. In no city in the country has the race such a magnificent building or such a revenue producing investment. Not content to stop here, the Odd Fellows here are preparing to erect a $50,000 auditorium adjoining, and make Auburn avenue and the vicinity the Negro business center of Atlanta. The money for this auditorium is in hand—$50,000 on deposit in the bank. Ben J. Davis, the most advertised, perhaps the most decried, and, paradoxically, one of the most useful men in this section, has done much to advance the race in Atlantas. Even those who disagree with him, even those who despise him, admit that he is a wonderful organizer, a wonderful producer of good for the race, and a man who has really done things in Atlanta. But Dr. Davis is not alone, for Henry A. Rucker, quiet and astute; Dr. William Penn, R. E. Pharro, Dr. T. H. Slater, Dr. Butler, Dr. Johnson, H. E. Perry, G. M. Howell, Ben Driskell, John Herden. Contractor Hamilton and a number of others whom I could mention have helped largely, earnestly and enthusiastically to put Atlanta on the Negro commercial map and to force better consideration at the hands of the whites. And her ministers and those self sacrificing, high purposed, intellectually strong professors here in the educational institutions which make Atlanta famous have helped amazingly to purify the moral and religious atmosphere of the city. I made diligent inquiry as to the collective wealth of Negroes in Atlanta and to my astonishment discovered that it mounts up to $30,000,000. Wonderful evidence of progress! In Atlanta the Negro has been the pioneer in the insurance business, three large companies doing an enormous business. A visit to Atlanta immediately dispels that discouragement one contracts when he reads of the many restrictions that senatorial trinity of anti-race sentiment are constantly planning for the race in the north as well as the south. TWO CLEVER PERFORMERS. Efficient Work of Misses King and Gee Worthy of Praise. By WHITTIER H. WRIGHT. Philadelphia.—In no other field have colored Americans with artistic aspirations found the road to success so hard as that leading to prominence upon the stage. As a rule, those who have selected the stage for their professional career have been given very little consideration by our writers and critics. It is true, however, that the profession has in the past merited severe criticism; but, like any other thrifty vocation, it has improved with time. There are many clever, honest and well deserving colored men and women following this profession. Conspicuous on the roll of those who are endeavoring daily to raise the standard of acts upon the stage may THE FASHION OF THE TAIWAN WORLD MISS EFFIE KING AND MISS LOTTIE GEE. be mentioned the Misses Effie King and Lotte Gee, the Ginger Girls, in a refined singing and dancing act. These talented young women have one of the best "sister" acts in vaudeville. Both have excellent voices and know how to use them. The act is beautifully costumed and staged with artistic taste. They are conscientious workers, and their services are constantly in demand. Miss King was born in Lima, O., and educated in the public and high schools of that city. She began her musical career in the A. M. E. church of that city, and later joined the Mitchell Sisters of Wilberforce university in the American Jubilee chorus. Miss King appeared with Williams and Walker for two years, and with the Smart Set company for two years, and later joined her present partner in vaudeville. There is no more ambitious student among the colored performers than Miss Lottie Gee. Her aim has been to please, as she has successfully done. To this end she has thoroughly prepared herself. Miss Gee is a native of Virginia. She, with Miss King, joined the American Jubilee company, Williams and Walker company and later entered vaudeville. These young women represent the better element of young colored performers on the American stage. Both own property, thus showing that their efforts have not been in vain. RACIAL QUESTIONS ARE AMONG MOST IMPORTANT. Colored Americans Taking Care of Own Problem, Says Dr. MacArthur. In an able address at the national convention of Baptist young people of America, which held its sessions at the Baptist temple, Brooklyn, for five days recently, the Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur, who was for forty years or more pastor of the Calvary Baptist church in New York city, referring to the unjust discrimination and prejudice practiced against the colored people, made the following sweeping declaration: "The question of religion must be studied racially. Racial questions are among the most important considerations of the hour. We hear persons talk of the Negro question, but this is a question of minor importance. The Negro is an American. He speaks English. He is vastly more American than many of us who affect to be his superior. He is taking care of his own question in an interesting way. The sorts of Russia were liberated before Mr. Lincoln issued his emancipation proclamation. The Negro in America has made vastly greater strides in the acquisition of property, in the possession of education and in the development of Christian life than have the sorts of Russia. "The whole problem in America is finding its own solution. Perhaps the greatest danger we have today is with the ignorant white people rather than with the Negro. "There are enormously difficult racial questions in several states today, but they are largely questions affecting the white race rather than the Negro. The Anglo-Saxon race is autocratic, proud and self opinionated. It is extremely hard to get on with it in many parts of the world. It treats not only the black race, but also the brown race, as if both races were greatly inflicted." THE BROAD AX CAN BE POUND 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 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. 31st 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, cigar, tobacco and news stand. 8 W. 27th St. near State. William Ganghan, 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, 3308½ S. State St. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Bell and Alford, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3128½ South State street. T. S. Harris, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 2845 South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand, 5202 South State Street. AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Old Line Legal Reserve Co. Under State Government Supervision. $100,000 deposited with the State. Policies of all Ninds 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. Clerk Agents Write and Collect Your Business. Information of rates and values at your age will be furnished free, upon giving your age, name and address to The American Life Insurance Co. of Illinois. Tel. Randolph S. Home Office—Harris Trust Building. 15 W. Monroe St. CHICAGO. TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland 17601 Auto. 79156 HENRY C. BOMAR & SON FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS 3.Tripes Daily to All Dapots 4706 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO OFFICE HOURS Phone Oakland 4662 From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Automatic 73-058 From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday by Appointment 4709 S. State St CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Office Phone Automatic 44-185 Room 40. 143 North Dearborn Street Cor. Randolph St. CHICAGO McCormick Blvd. Evening Office, 3458 State Street Phone Automatic 77-574 Treasury Employees. The employees of the treasury department of the United States govern- ment number more than 11,000 per- sons. Polished Apples. When serving large red apples whole on the table polish them with olive oil. Port and Starboard. If you stand on the deck of a ship and look forward the port side is on your left, the starboard side on your right. The most distant planet in our solar system, Neptune, is 2,750,000,000 miles from the sun, and yet the arm of the sun reaches out and controls the remote planet without the least difficulty. In a word, gravity is universal, every atom in the universe exerting its influence upon every other atom. Cleaning Tiling. Never clean tilings with water, as it invariably loosens them. To make them look bright and clean apply some turpentine with a woolen cloth. Ate His Way to Old Age. Peter Czartan or Tortin, the Belgrade patriarch, a notorious glutton, could not have been troubled much with indigestion, as he is stated to have lived to 150 and even 180 odd years. Auto 310-320 Rampage Multi Glencoe and Washington Streets CHICAGO Flushing Central 1870, Auto 42409 Phones Office, Main 4153 Res. Drummel, 7990 Auto. 35-736 WALTER M. FARMER ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 706, 186 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 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 Whalers of Norway. Norway's whaling industry began in 1868. Ocean Steamers An ocean steamer of the first class, going at full speed, cannot be brought to a standstill in less than three minutes, in which time she will have travelled a distance of about half a mile. Ancient Cheeses. Cheeses 100 years old are said to exist in Switzerland. Paperhanging. A good hint for those who do their own paperhanging is to apply the paste to the wall instead of to the paper. Amateurs will find it much easier to match the pattern, and the paper is less liable to tear by following this method, besides saving time and trouble. Japan's Coal Deposits There are 1,200,000,000 tons of coal deposits in Japan. This coal is now being mined at the rate of 14,000,000 tons a year. Snoring. Snoring is due to air drawn in and expelled through the mouth in such a way as to set the soft palate and uvula vibrating. The reason a person is apt to snore when lying on the back is that in that position the lower jaw is apt to drop down from the pull of gravity, thus opening the mouth and causing the sleeper to breathe through it instead of through the nose. While lying on the side no effort is required to keep the mouth closed. Tree Hearts. The "heart wood" of a tree has ceased to take any part in the vegetative economy of the tree. Its only use is to strengthen the trunk. Lace Centers. Brussels is one of the four important centers for the manufacture of high priced gloves, Grenoble, Paris and Luxemburg being the only other centers of equal or greater importance. Dated Spoons. During the seventeenth century in England, before the English spoons changed from the round to the oblong bowls, it was customary to date them. A Good Floor Stain. A good floor stain that goes right into the wood and is very durable is made of fineseed oil colored with ground burnt umber. Rub thoroughly into the boards with a flannel pad and next day polish with beeswax and turpentine or any floor polish that you are in the habit of using. Electricity in Coal Mines. Stray electric currents have been found in Kentucky coal mines sufficiently powerful to explode blasting powder. Packing China. Pack glass or china in straw that has been slightly moistened. This will prevent the articles from slipping about. Wrap each article separately, placing the heaviest on the bottom. Our Original Forests, The original forests of the United States contained timber in quantity and variety far exceeding that found on any similar tract in the world. GENERAL BANKING cent allowed on Savings Accounts Deposit 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. 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. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. 10 The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. tables Are Best Cooked With Moderate Heat every strong juiced vegetables should be cooked all the sweet juiced sorts, such as peas and ons, should "simmer" over a slow fire. Vegetables Are Best Cooked With Moderate Heat Vegetables Are Best Cooked With Moderate Heat Only very strong juiced vegetables should be cooked rapidly—all the sweet juiced sorts, such as peas and young beans, should "simmer" over a slow fire. Branch Stores in Every District Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building Joe Shoecraft, Mgr. Chicago Mort Shoecraft e Pompei The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Peoples Gas Building The Pompei 20-22 East 31st Street :: CHICAGO Phones. THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PERSONS 3 per cent all Safety Deposit REAL As agent buy and sell Real E dents, including payment of t on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites The- Cran Building The finest building e steam heat, electric light 'Phone Randolph 803 Vegetables With M Only very strong rapidly—all the sw young beans, should "Composite" Range No. 289 with burner in bottom of oven for cooking vegetables. The Peoples C Peo Thos. McCain Joe Shoe The JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 J. W. Casey, $ ^{*} $ Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. The modern way is to cook your vegetables in the oven—this scheme preserves the flavor and sends the odor up the flue pipe. Some of our new types of "Composite" Gas Ranges have burners in the bottom of the lower oven—especially for cooking vegetables. Every "Composite" is of course equipped with a "simmering" burner on top. You will find a "Composite" Range much more economical than a hot plate or single oven stove. "Composite" Ranges are built for us in fifty shapes. They are sold on monthly payment plans—delivered and connected free. We are selling over 150 "Composites" every day. Telephone Randolph 4567 and ask for handsome illustrated catalog. "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. OHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Telas 4482 HARRY 73-974 74-478 LA VERDO BUFFET AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIG street JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO LA VI IMPORTED AND DO 3100 State Street Hotel BUFFET, LA VERDO BUFFET IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street 0. Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS Street Arlas 3256 Auto Hotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. Phone: Douglas 3256 HENRY JONES THE CAF THE ELITE CAFE and BUFFET Finest Table d'Hote in the City 4 p. m., to 1 a. m. LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEE Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic 75-173 GENERAL SPRING CITY FET AND CAL 3517 S. State Street, CHICAGO CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVI 3030 State Street WILLIAM LEWIS, F. Phone Doug MINERAL BUFFET 3517 S. S HIGH CLASS INT WILLIAM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEED, M'g'r Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic 75-173 MINERAL SPRING CLUB BUFFET AND CAFE 3517 S. State Street, CHICAGO HIGH CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVENING JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESAL FIFTY-FIRST ST RAILYAR 61st FRANKDUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. NN BLOCK, Pres. F. W. BLOCK WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FIFTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and ARMOUR AVE. RANKIDUNN CHICAGO JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS Blocki's Ideal & Blocki's Flower In Bottle Perfumes Phones { Douglas 4482 Auto 73-974 Auto 74-478 3004 State Street FRANK DUNN J. B. MoCAHEY TRUSTEES BUFFET S AND CIGARETTES 0. nswick BILLIARDS. Chicago A. F. CODOZOE LITE FFET MARY C. SNEED, M'g'r omatic 75-173 ING CLUB D CAFE CHICAGO EVERY EVENING RETAIL OUR AVENUE S. & M. S. AVE. 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