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THE BROAD AX The Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, Secretary of the Illinois State Commission Indicted Three Times by the Cook County Grand Jury HE IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AND BATTERY AND CONSPIRACY, AND HIS BONDS IN THE THREE CASES AMOUNT TO $3,100. JUDGE THEODORE BRENTANO IN THE FIRST BRANCH OF THE CRIMINAL COURT DENIED A MOTION LAST SATURDAY TO QUASH THE INDICTMENTS AGAINST MR. SWANN. AND HE WILL BE PUT ON TRIAL BEFORE JUDGE RICHARD S. TUTHILL IN THE SECOND BRANCH OF THE CRIMINAL COURT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. WILL THE SIGN OF THE CROSS PREVENT MR. SWANN FROM BEING CONVICTED? AND IF HE IS CONVICTED AND SENT TO THE PEN AT JOLIET, WILL GOVERNOR DUNNE REACH OUT HIS HAND AND PARDON HIM? WITH THESE INDICTMENTS HANGING OVER HIM AND WITH SOME KIND OF TROUBLE HANGING OVER HIS HEAD AT GARY OR HAMMOND, IND., SO IT IS CLAIMED. SOME OF THE WIVES OF THE HEAD OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT, ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD, IN CAMP THE PAST SUMMER FELT HIGHLY HONORED TO HAVE MR. SWANN TO ESCORT THEM ABOUND. THERE IS ONLY ONE MANLY COURSE FOR GOVERNOR EDWARD F. DUNNE TO ADHERE TO AND THAT IS TO CALL FOR THE RESIGNATIONS OF THE HON. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN AND THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JACKSON CAREY, PH. D. D. D., AND REMOVE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE COMMISSION FROM INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. Vol. XIX. The Hon. Theace Swan of the Illinois Commission Three Times Cook County HE IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AND HIS BONDS IN THE THREE THEODORE BRENTANO IN THE COURT DENIED A MOTION DICTMENTS AGAINST MR. SWAN AND HE WILL BE PUT ON TRIAL HILL IN THE SECOND BRANCH NEAR FUTURE. WILL THE SIGN OF THE CROSS BE CONVICTED? AND IF HE IS OR AT JOLIET, WILL GOVERNOR IN PARDON HIM? WITH THESE INDICTMENTS HAND KIND OF TROUBLE HANGING MOND, IND., SO IT IS CLAIMED. SOME OF THE WIVES OF THE HEALMENT, ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUELF TIGHLY HONORED TO HIS AROUND. THERE IS ONLY ONE MANLY COUNNE TO ADHERE TO AND TIONS OF THE HON. THOMAS HON. ARCHIBALD JACKSON CAN HEADQUARTERS OF THE COURCHER. It has been honestly and truthfully stated in these columns many times before, namely, that we hold no malice nor bitterness nor ill-feeling against the Honorable Thomas Wallace Swann, but if we should be ushered into the next world in the twinkling of an eye with all of our imperfections resting on our head we would still be firm or steadfast in our contention that Mr. Swann has no moral right to arrogate unto himself the absolute or the true leadership of all the Afro-Americans within the confines of Illinois. From no point of view does he possess the slightest qualifications which entitles him to hold himself out as a leader of men, for he has no control over himself and again no sane or sensible man would ever attempt to aspire to become a leader of men who has not the slightest conception of the eternal fitness of things, who is ever ready to transform himself into a dead tough or rough and tumble prizefighter—one who entertains the idea that the only way to lead or to handle men is to rule over them with brute force and that it is eminently right and proper to pull your revolver and threaten to shoot them down on the slightest provocation if they should fail to dance to your music. Right at this point it may not be out of place to remind Mr. Swann that there are two important things that he should remember to the end of his time here on this old earth, and that is that his uncontrollable temper has at last brought him face to face with doing or serving time behind the bars either in the Cook County jail or behind the bars in the pen at Joliet, Illinois, and that every time that he scores a point against the right he simply loads the dice against himself. The present trouble confronting Mr. Swann in the Criminal Court of Cook county started back in 1911, and it has been hanging fire from that time to the present. It appears, according to the indictments which have been running against him all that time that he started out fully determined to assist to defeat the ends of justice, the true story in connection with his indictments runs something like this: In the fall of 1910 Mrs. Ella Martin and her sister, Mrs. HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Birdie Parish, rented a house from Jesse Binga at 3638 Forest avenue, and for some cause or other he was unable to collect any rent from them. Finally, in a gentlemanly way he resorted to the Municipal Court in order to regain possession of his property, and at the time he secured judgment against them in the aforesaid court they owed him fifteen months' rent and on May 25th, 1911, the officers of the law entered their home where they had enjoyed free rent for a long time, and in a lawful manner removed all of their furniture and other fixings out on the sidewalk where they remained piled, up until May 30th, and on that date it is charged in the indictment that the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann who at that time wanted to become the head political boss of Gary, Ind., and of this city and a number of prize-fighting or dead tough men hailing from the First ward, wended their way to the house in question; that they made a mad or wild murderous rush for the door; that they broke it open; that they assaulted Harry Smith, whom Mr. Binga had placed in charge of the house, and that they moved everything belonging to Mrs. Martin and to Mrs. Parish back into the house where they again resided for some time without paying any rent. On July 15, 1911, the Cook County grand jury returned indictments against Mella Ella Martin, Mrs. Birdie Parish and Messrs. Swann and Martin. Mr. Swann in the three indictments is charged with assault and battery and with conspiring to defeat the ends of justice and Mrs. Laura Beasley, residing at 3245 Forest avenue, and Adam Leweyck, who resides in South Chicago, signed his bond for $3,100. On last Saturday a motion was made before Judge Theodore Brentano sitting in the first branch of the Criminal Court, to quash the indictments running against Mr. Swann, but the motion was denied or overruled and he will be forced to trial before Judge Richard S. Tuthill in the second branch of the Criminal Court in the near future. The burning question which is uppermost in the minds of many people is simply this. Will the sign of the cross prevent Mr. Swann from being CHICAGO. OCTOBER. 18 1913 C.E.U. HON. EDWARD F. DUNNE. The great Democratic Governor of this state who labors under the hallucination that he has greatly honored the Afro-Americans residing in the middle west, by selecting the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, Secretary of the Illinois State Commission who has three indictments hanging over his head in the Criminal Court of Cook County. convicted of these charges in the criminal court of Cook County? And if he is convicted and sent to the pen at Joilot, will Governor Dunne reach out his hand or strong arm and pardon him, so that he can continue to serve as the secretary of the Illinois State Commission? Theater on Thirty-first street, near Dearborn. Then he became involved in long and expensive litigation with the writer which caused him to loose his home and all his other visible property, finally separating from his wife, whose life he endeavored to end this spring, disfiguring her face, and she With these three indictments hanging over him here in Cook County and with some kind of trouble so they claim hanging over his head at Gary or Hammond, Ind., some of the wives of the head officers of the Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guards, in camp at Springfield the past summer felt highly honored to have Mr. Swann escort them around and he was by far the social lion on that occasion. He succeeded in making the majors and colls, believe that he stood so close to Governor Dunne, and was so powerful that he could have them unstripped of their shoulder straps and so on, or words to the same effect, and like the fair ladies of the regiment, they were ready and willing to pay homage to him. There is only one manly course for Gov. Dunne to pursue and that is to call for the resignations of the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann and the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D., D. D., and remove the headquarters of the commission from the Institutional church. DEATH OF "PONY" MOORE, THE FORMER LORD MAYOR OF THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT OF CHICAGO. Col. "Pony" Moore, who was one of the best known men among the sporting fraternity throughout the United States, passed away last week at Austin, Texas, and was buried in that city Friday, October 10. Continued strokes of paralysis was his final undoing. At one time Mr. Moore was the Lord Mayor of the "Red Light" district on the South side in this city, and his word was law in every respect, and the sporting element of both classes flocked to his palace de hotel Moore, or Turf Exchange, which was located on Twenty-first street between State and Dearborn streets, where he made a barrel of money. He resided with his family in a fine home at 3314 Calumet avenue. Later on he opened up the Palace Another pause for a reply! is state who labors under the hallucination. Afro-Americans residing in the middle Thomas Wallace Swann, Secretary of the has three indictments hanging over his book County. Theater on Thirty-first street, near Dearborn. Then he became involved in long and expensive litigation with the writer which caused him to loose his home and all his other visible property, finally separating from his wife, whose life he endeavored to end this spring, disfiguring her face, and she can never recover from its effects. Being ordered to leave the city, as his wife did not wish to prosecute him, he went to his old home, the scenes of his boyhood days, Austin, Texas, where he passed on into the great beyond. Possessing no money and not many true friends to mourn his loss. He had a most remarkable career. Peace to his ashes! EDITOR OF THE BROAD AX IS A SPICY WRITER. No one can read the Chicago Broad Ax without coming to the conclusion that the editor, Mr. Julius F. Taylor is a brave and spicy writer. He seems to be a man of settled convictions. He knows what to say and how to say it. The Editor is a kin to our old friend, John Mitchell, Jr., the Editor of the Richmond Planet. He is a hard fighter and this he does with a relentless zeal. He never gets tired and the track never gets too cold when he thinks he is right.—The Baptist Reporter, Jackson, Mississippi, October 10, 1913. MRS ROSA MORGAN, THE FASHIONABLE MILLINER, WILL SELL TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS AT CUT RATE PRICES EACH MONDAY. Mrs. Rosa Morgan, 3709 S. State Street, the popular and fashionable milliner, will from now until the close of the season, sell the latest and most stylish trimmed and untrimmed hats at cut rate prices each Monday. Now is the time for the ladies to secure the latest creations in headgear at bargain prices. Miss Lucille Peyton, 3514 Prairie Avenue, is now enrolled as a student at the National Training School, Lincoln Heights, Washington, D.C. Miss Peyton is taking a post graduate course in dressmaking and will return to Chicago in June, 1914. Judge Marcus Kavanagh Delivered an Eloquent Oration or Plea Last Saturday Afternoon Before the Irish Fellowship Club ON "THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO." HE PLEADED FOR EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE FOR MEN OF EVERY RACE AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE COLORED MAN. HE LAID DOWN THREE STRONG AND FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS, NAMELY, "FIRST, THAT WE MUST TRY TO RID OURSELVES OF UNJUST PREJUDICES AGAINST THE NEGRO, THAT HEAVY TASK ACCOMPLISHED; SECOND, THAT WE STRIVE TO INFLUENCE OUR FELLOW CITIZENS IN THE SAME DIRECTION. "THIRD, THAT WE SHALL ENDEAVOR TO OBTAIN A NATIONAL COMMISSION COMPOSED MOSTLY OF WHITE MEN, NORTH AND SOUTH, TO TAKE EVIDENCE AND DEVISE REMEDIES FOR THIS IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION." Among the many grave problem pressing upon this people there is, it seems to me, one neglected question of crying importance: How much have we freed the Negro? The other day a semi-professional concern advertised for a Negro girl cashier. There were sixty-four applications for that one position. The majority of the girls who applied had High school education —because the Negro will make the most pitiable sacrifices to give his children learning—these were neatly dressed, modest appearing and intelligent. The one who succeeded had made fifty-two other fruitless efforts to get a position. I do not like to let my mind follow the sixty-three unsuccessful young girls in the weary, heartbreaking search they are still pursuing; and yet, it will be demanded of these young women that, behind their dark, humiliated cheeks they keep white souls burning. To their infinite credit most of them will. This instance illustrates the attitude of the American public towards the Negro. Let a black man get work of equal rank among White brickmasons, electricians, clerks, bookkeepers, and what happens? Every White employee will quit the job as though the place has been covered by a pestilence. There is not a great store in Chicago that dare put a Negro clerk behind its counters, no matter how competent he may be. There is not a street railway that dares to put a Negro to work on one of its cars. The every day story of a Negro hunting a house in which to live is filled with burning humiliation and injustice. And yet, the Negro of pure African blood is rare, many of them are almost White—oppressed with White men's brains, cursed with White men's hearts, hopelessly consumed with White men's ideals and aspirations. I ask you this afternoon to put yourselves and your families in the place of an honest, respectable Negro with his own wife and little children. To do that you will have to crush out all the strongest yearnings and highest longings of your hearts. Then see what a dismal place you have made of it. Think for a minute that your little children, no matter how wise they may become, or how good they shall remain, must never hope for public esteem or general honor. What incentive remains behind your darkened lives? When we complain of the Negro we should remember that one cannot measure the capabilities of a race by its lowest members, but by the attainments of its very highest. We have pushed the Negro out into freedom. Free to do what? To become a porter in a saloon, or a waiter in a dining car. Which was better, the drugged contentment of the slave, or the hopeless, endless humiliation and burning subjection of the freedmen! If the Negro may not use his education it is a cruelty to educate him. If he may not use his freedom it was a crime No. 3 to set him free. Still he has progressed wonderfully. The general social and intellectual condition of the American Negro in the North today is vastly superior to that of the White inhabitant of any civilized country in the Seventeenth century. Yet, three generations ago he was a slave, a chattel, a thing. Notwithstanding this, it was essential to slavery that the slave should feel himself physically and mentally a slave. Generation after generation this idea was ground into his soul. Let the general community today unite in its estimate as to any of us, and imperceptibly we will sink or rise to the limits of that estimate. If we brutalize a man, we have no right to complain when he acts like a brute. To begin making a man respectable we must commence respecting him—to keep him honorable it is often necessary to honor him. Do you realize that in spite of this handicap there are Negro homes in Chicago, and not a few of them, the equals in actual refinement to almost any White man's? Have you considered that there are working in this Republic black men and not a few, in the various professions that are the equals intelligently, and in many cases the superiors of their competitors? One of the best lawyers in Chicago is a Negro and a rich man besides. The polite learning of the ages is familiar to him. He loves the best pictures and knows the finest music, but he may not take one meal in any decent restaurant. Suppose that man were to come in here today and sit at the table with us—do you care to analyze your feelings towards him? And yet, the Bishop on his silken chair, the splendid old Pope on his ancient throne is not nearer to God's great care and affection than this world exiled Negro. So embittered has this man grown against his country and even against his own race that there is no light left in the world for him. All this through no fault of his own, mind you, not because of anything he has done to us, but because of what God did to him. The only right way for you to judge a man is for you to put yourself in his place. Put yourself in that man's place! The problem is not dying out—every year it increases in intensity. In 1790 there were less than 800,000 Negroes in this country; in 1860 more than four millions; today every tenth person in the Republic is a Negro, and his ratio of increase during the last decade was eleven per cent. They will tell you in the South they have settled the Negro problem. They have not even begun to realize its awful importance to them. Terrorism never yet settled anything permanently. Only cold, hard justice can do that. The Negro's intelligence is growing in the South and hastening there to an awful moment when the two races shall stand THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the dignity of Democracy but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indefinite Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Advertising rates made known on appli- cation. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5027 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL PHONE DREXEL 4500. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1908, under Class A of Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO. Concluded from page 1. fronting each other in open conflict—the one contemptuous, confident of being in the right and determined; the other race determined, desperate and revengeful. But that moment must never arrive. It is absurd to blame the South for slavery. Slavery came to this country when it was recognized everywhere as proper and was salutory to both slave and master. It grew imperceptibly into an institution. Through an accident of invention almost over night it became a necessity to the welfare of the cotton raiser. Before that the sentiment of the South was against it. In 1861, with one blow, the property and prosperity of the Southern states were crushed. Put yourself in the Southerner's place. His attitude today would be your attitude under like circumstances. It is our attitude in the North, only differing in degree, not in kind. But the time has come for big, brave men and women, North and South, to do something. I hold no brief for the Negro. I recognize his many faults. The traits inbred and inbred again through generations cannot be gotten out of the blood in a day. All I ask for him is justice—simple justice. Nobody is seeking for freedom of social intercourse with the Negro—he himself knows that impossible. But I believe that unreasoning prejudice should not prevent any woman or man in this country from filling any position he is able to fill—that every citizen may have freedom to freely use every gift with which God has endowed him. There is only one cure for this evil, and that is the fine eternal Heaven-sent panacea for every social ill—pure, even-handed justice. The solution of the problem is not impossible. Some one has said that looking history through evil is only good in the making. As Emerson says, "Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams." The South had the question settled once and the North unsettled it. I think the highest minded, finest natured people in the world today live in this country below the Mason and Dixon's line. I sometimes think that the Oak of American manhood and the Rose of American womanhood grow best there. Their point of view is at present almost the irresistible attitude of their history and situation. Still, it is terribly unjust and therefore, temporary. I propose three things: First, that we try to rid ourselves of unjust prejudices against the Negro, that heavy task accomplished; second, that we strive to influence our fellow citizens in the same direction; third, that we shall endeavor to obtain a National Commission composed mostly of white men North and South, to take evidence and devise remedies for this impossible situation. YOUTHFUL BURGLAR DIES FROM WOUND. Elvee Hughes, Second Boy To Loose Life In Attempted Robbery.—Grocer's Deadly Aim. Elvee Hughes, 17 years old, died at the County Hospital Thursday night of last week from a gunshot wound in his right side, received when he and another youthful companion by the name of Martin attempted to burglarize a grocery and meat market at 49th and State Streets about three weeks ago. Hughes, (nicknamed by his companions Sugar Plum), and young Martin were caught by the proprietor after they had entered his store, and he opened fire on them with a shot gun. Martin was instantly killed but young Hughes escaped and reached the hospital. His remains were taken to Williamson & Jackson's morgue where it lay until Tuesday when sorrowing relatives accompanied it to its final resting place. Hundreds of children viewed the silent form. It was an awful object lesson. They continued to gaze, but they uttered not a word. The Bread Ax thinks it useless to point out the moral in this case. HEALTH NOTES. The real strength of a nation lies in the health and vigor of its people, rather than in the territory it owns. * * * * * Overcrowded tenements and dirty, poorly ventilated work places are breeding places for tuberculosis. The crowding together of human beings in home, church, factory, school or place of amusement is certain to result in injury to their health and a lowering of the standards of right living. * * * * * It is the part of wisdom for us to spend money for national defense; that is, for defense from the foes without. But it is also wise that our nation should not be niggardly in appropriating money to fight our foes within, the preventable diseases. These diseases destroy annually more lives, many times over, in our land alone, then are lost in all the wars the world over for a like period. It is stated on good authority that in the United States alone the preventable diseases kill 1800 persons every day and entail an economic loss of over one million dollars. Uncle Sam takes pretty good care of the men who serve him in the Army and Navy. In 1912 the government spent $9,444,613 or $72.00 on each enlisted man for health purposes. These expenditures covered every phase of welfare work that tended to protect and safeguard the health and physical well-being of the men. There can be no criticism of a policy that means so much in conserving and maintaining the heath and bodily vigor of our soldiers and sailors; but it is to be hoped that Uncle Sam will also see the wisdom of spending more money for general health purposes. In other words, our government might well spend more money in protecting and conserving the health of its vast army of citizens whose physical well-being means so much for the nation's material growth and prosperity. ..... Commercialism says, "Build your buildings as high as you please." Sound sanitation says, "No building should be higher than the width of the street on which it stands." The objections from a sanitary standpoint to tall buildings, are that they shut off the sunlight from the streets and from the structures on the opposite side of the street. It is well known that sunshine is destructive of germ life and wherever there is lack of this God-given agency of health there is always a death rate above the normal. When it is remembered too, that there is less sunshine in the city than in the open country, due to smoke, fog and atmospheric influences, buildings should not be so constructed as to convert our city streets into veritable canyons so deep and narrow that the rays of the sun never touch their lowest depths. Among the household pests that are the bane of all good housewives, the cockroach ranks along with mosquitoes and the much dreaded bed bug. If anything tends to destroy the good temper and peace of mind of the cleanly and order-loving housewife, it is to have her kitchen swarming with cockroaches. Until recently, however, the cockroach has not been thought of as a possible carrier of disease. But in the light of experiments conducted in the laboratory of Parasitology in the University of California, it appears that if the housefly carries the germs of disease, the cockroach is scarcely less dangerous in the same way and transmits bacteria in a similar manner; that is, by collecting the germ-laden filth on its foot and mouth parts and by feeding on filth and discharging this when feeding on human food. It is shown that the cockroach invades places where contaminating material such as sputum or excrement is found and that its food habits are such as to afford ample opportunity for its contaminating the food of man. PHYLLIS WHATLEY CLUB NOTES. "Social Meeting" Wednesday afternoon, October 15, was unusually interesting. Miss Malvina Williams of Butte, Montana, gave an enthusiastic account of the work being done by the Western Federation which includes Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Washington. Mrs. James entertained the club with very pleasing vocal and instrumental music. Mrs. Eva Jenifer conducted the first lesson in the history of Illinois. The President gave a synopsis of "The Black Fairy," one of the best stories that our young author, Fenton Johnson, has yet written. Light refreshments were served. The club will meet with the Douglas Center Woman's Club October 21, in a Suffrage Class. Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCullough will be the instructor. Sunday evening, Attorney Walter M. Farmer, Frank L. Hamilton and Lawyer B. F. Moseley, enjoyed a birthday dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor. Attorney William G. Anderson, was among those to call later in the evening to extend congratulations and like the other guests he enjoyed the birthday cake and the home made grape juice. Dr. Anna Beatrice Schultz-Knighten has Sought Releif in the Bankruptcy Court in Order to run out from Under her Army of Creditors JOHN M. SMYTH COMPANY, MANDEL BROTHERS AND OTHER PROMI- NENT BUSINESS HOUSES ARE ON THE UNLUCKY SIDE OF THE LEDGER. FRANK L. HAMILTON, DAN M. JACKSON, MONTROSE RANKIN, THE DRUGGIST, THIBTY-SIXTH AND STATE STREETS, MRS. A. T. SMIL- LEY-PONDER, THE CATERER, AND OTHER AFRO-AMERICANS WERE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE CREDITORS' FENCE. ALL TOLD, HER LIABILITIES AMOUNT TO ALMOST $6,000 WITH NO ASSETS OF ANY VALUE. September 18, Dr. Anna Beatriee Schultz-Knighten, 2719 S. State Street, was declared a bankrupt in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, eastern division. The following is a true and correct schedule of her indebtedness which amounts to almost $6,000, with no as- sets of any value. The sworn state- ment as to the correctness of the schedule by T. C. MacMillan, clerk of the District Court, follows the list of creditors. John M. Smyth, 701 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Chattel mortgage on per- sonal property consisting of furniture. Debt contracted during years 1911 and 1912 at Chicago. Security, about $45; debt about $90. John W. Cronk, 83 5th Ave., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered in Chicago in 1912. Amount $15. Strelitz Brothers, Columbus Memo- rial Bldg., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered at Chicago in 1912, for which note was executed. Amount $19. E. A. Stack, 29th and State Sts., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered at Chicago in 1907. Amount $11. Collier's Weekly, 910 S. Michigan Av., Chicago. Balance due on account $2.80. Mrs. Dana Lawrence (Jorgen Dahl), Springfield, Ill. For money loaned at Chicago in 1904, for which promissory note was executed. Amount $50. Frank Hamilton, 2807 Wabash Av., Chicago. For money loaned in March. Loftis Brothers, 108 N. State St., Chicago. Notes and chattel mortgage on personal property. Debt contracted during 1904 at Chicago. Security unknown; debt about $68. Dr. Bower Elliott & Co., 431 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. Chattel mortgage on personal property. Debt contracted during 1910 at Chicago. Security about $10; debt about $10. Waterbury Chemical Co., Des Moines, Iowa. Goods sold and delivered at Chicago in the year 1910. Amount, $21. Parisian Garment Co., 159 N. State St., Chicago. Goods sold and delivered upon which payment has been entered in the Municipal Court. Debt contracted in Chicago in the year 1911. Amount $30.50. Mrs. Anna Kennedy, 208 E. 31st St., Chicago. For money loaned in the year 1909, for which promissory note was executed upon which judgment was entered in the Municipal Court. Am. $25. S. J. Matherson, 818 W. 35th St., Chicago. Goods sold and delivered at Chicago in 1909, upon which judgment has been entered in the Municipal Court. Amount $5.50. Geo. Leibrant Plumbing Co., 4 E. 31st St., Chicago. For plumbing work done in Chicago in 1911, upon which judgment has been entered in the Municipal Court. Amount $20.37. Central Trust Co. of Illinois, 125 W. Monroe St., Chicago. For money loaned at Chicago in 1913, for which promissory note was executed. Amount $79. Donald Hart, acct. the Central Trust Co. of Illinois, 125 W. Monroe St., Chicago. For rent of premises occupied in the year 1913, Amount $240. Michael Vogt, 317 E. 26th St., Chicago. Goods sold and delivered at Chicago in the year 1913. Amount $5. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 49 E. 47th St., Chicago. For money loaned on insurance policy at Chicago in 1913, for which note and assignment were executed. Amount $668. John W. Cronk, 83 5th Ave., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered in Chicago in 1912. Amount $15. Strelitz Brothers, Columbus Memorial Bldg., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered at Chicago in 1912, for which note was executed. Amount $19. E. A. Stack, 29th and State Sts., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered at Chicago in 1907. Amount $11. Collier's Weekly, 910 S. Michigan Av., Chicago. Balance due on account $2.80. Mrs. Dana Lawrence (Jorgen Dahl). Springfield, Ill. For money loaned at Chicago in 1904, for which promissory note was executed. Amount $50. Frank Hamilton, 2807 Wabash Av., Chicago. For money loaned in March, 1913, for which promissory note was executed. Amount $35. Dan M. Jackson, 2961 S. State St., Chicago. For money loaned in 1913 at Chicago. Amount $10. Sharp and Smith, 103 N. Wabash Av., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered at Chicago in 1899. Amount $25. D. H. Williams, 3129 Indiana Av., Chicago. For professional services rendered at Chicago in 1912. Amount $50. Jones & Dreyer, Monadnock Block, Chicago. For goods sold and delivere d during 1910. $50. Geo. Green Lumber Co., 22nd and S. Canal St., Chicago. For goods sold and delivered during 1910. $12. Julius F. Taylor, 5027 Armour Av. Chicago. For legal services rendered during 1911. $253. Illinois Tunnel and Telephone Co., 162 W. Monroe St. Chicago. For telephone service during 1912. $100. Mrs. Mary Meger, 2439 Wabash Av. Chicago. For money loaned during 1906. $50. John Buchanan, 27th and State Sts. Chicago. For hardware sold and delivered during 1903. $25. M. Lydia Jones, 2719 State St. Chicago. For money loaned in 1910. $20. Wm. Wood and Co., 51 5th Ave. New York, N. Y. Balance due on account of 1911. $10. R. S. Abbott, 3159 S. State St. Chicago. Balance due on account of 1910. $5. Chas. Simmons, 2725 S. State St. Chicago. For goods sold and delivered during 1906. $25. C. J. Gibson, 5716 Midway Park, Austin, Ill. For goods sold and delivered during 1912. $2.00. I, T. C. MacMillan, Clerk of the District Court of the United States of America, for the Northern District of Illinois, do hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a true and correct copy of Schedule "A" (2) and "A" (3) to petition of Dr. Anna B. Schultz-Knighten, Bankrupt No. 21332, as same appears from the original filed in said Court on the 18th day of September, A. D. 1913, and now remaining in my custody and control. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at my office in Chicago, in said District, this 10th day of October, A. D. 1913. T. C. MacMILLAN, Clerk. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF FREEDOM. Julius F. Taylor, Editor The Broad Ax, Chicago:— As you know, this is the Fiftieth Anniversary Year of our freedom. I very much hope that there may be a general disposition on the part of our people everywhere to fittingly celebrate this occasion. Some time ago, you may remember, I published the statement which follows with reference to this matter, and beg again to bring it to your attention. Whatever I wrote at that time was to this effect: After consultation with a number of the leading men and women of our race, I have taken upon myself the responsibility of asking our people to devote the week of October 19 to 26 to the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of our freedom. Something has already been done, however, in several parts of the country, towards carrying into effect the plan already suggested for local celebrations. In order that these various local celebrations may be carried out harmoniously and in such a way that each local celebration will contribute to a national total, the following recommendations are submitted: (1) That October 19-26, 1913, be known as Fiftieth Anniversary Week. (2) That schools, churches and all other societies and organizations in every part of the United States, where there is a considerable number of our people, unite and co-operate for the purpose of holding local celebrations that shall recite our progress in commercial, professional, intellectual, moral and religious directions. An effort should be made to secure the strongest and most representative men obtainable as speakers. It is my earnest hope and desire that the above suggestions be read before the various churches, lodges and other organizations of our people, to the end that the Fiftieth Anniversary Week of Freedom shall be generally observed everywhere. We must depend, of course, upon our newspapers to bring this matter to the attention of the Colored people, if any large number of them is to be reached. I very much hope you will heartily cooperate with, and give full publicity to this effort. Sincerely yours, (Signed) Booker T. Washington. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., October 11, 1913 DEMOCRATS, KEEN FOR SPOILS, TO OUST CIVIL SERVICE MEN. Lewis Fathers Plan To "Fire" Employes in Marshal's and Revenue Collector's Offices in Illinois. Wasington, D. C.—About 400 civil service employees in the office of the United States marshal and collector of internal revenue in Illinois will be thrown out of office and replaced by Democratic politicians under the exemption provision enacted by congress. This number is estimated by Senator Lewis, who was instrumental in formulating the provision as an amendment to the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. The exemption is contrary to the recommendation of the civil service commission and is disliked by President Wilson. The advocates of the merit rule will ask the president to veto the bill, which lets down the bars of the spoilsmen. The passage of the exemption provision by the house produced the first serious division of the Democratic majority. Of the Illinois delegation those who voted to remove these employees from civil service were Baltz, Borechers, Fitzhenry, Foster, Fowler, Hill, MeAndrews, O'Hair, Stronger and Tavenner, all Democrats. Those who voted against the provision were Mann, Republican, and Stone, McDermott and Gallagher, Democrats. Other Illinois representatives were absent. THE GEORGE W. WILLIAMS' BENEFIT. Friday Afternoon, November 7th, Is Date Set. New States Theater Has Been Secured. The date for the testimonial benefit for George W. Williams has been set for Friday, November 7th, at 2:30 p.m., and the New States Theater has been secured. Twenty select vaudeville acts have been arranged for, which includes some of the premier vaudeville stars among the Colored professional ranks, and a complete list of which will be published later. The committee in charge of the benefit anticipate no trouble in bringing this affair to a successful issue, inasmuch as the beneficiary is without a doubt one of the most deserving that could have been selected, and it is the hope of the committee that the members of the race will show their loyalty to one who has been such a help to the upbuilding of Negro theatricals. CHIPS S. W. Clark, Unionville, Mo., and J. W. Renty, of Shreveport, La., are among the new readers of The Broad Ax. Mrs. Malinda Brisbane and her daughter, Miss Maude Pellam, have removed from 2946 Prairie Avenue to 5835 Lafayette Avenue. It is rumored that Mrs. George W. Lacey, who was at one time the wife of Dr. George W. Lacey, will take unto herself a second husband shortly after January 1, 1914. Mr. Bird Lucky, who has been confined to his residence, 5008 Dearborn Street, for a week or more with a severe cold, is reported better and able to be around the house. Mrs. B. F. Moseley, 6248 S. Sangamon street, gave a dinner Sunday evening in honor of Miss Emily Ganaway, of LaFayette, Ind., who is visiting at the home of Mrs. M. J. White, 3253 Rhodes avenue. Mrs. Amanda Ross of Louisville, Ky., was the guest of Mrs. Cora Holton, 3658 Wabash Avenue, this week. Mrs. Ross was enroute to her home after spending five weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Bessie' Street, in Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Victor Boyd, 5746 LaFayette avenue, entertained Tuesday afternoon, in honor of her friend Mrs. Crawford, of New York City. A large number of ladies were present to greet the honored guest of the occasion. Choice refreshments were lavishly served by the charming hostess. Not only Mayor Harrison, but the entire community points with pride to the new street signs that are being put up rapidly all over the city. These signs fill a long felt want, they are plain enough for a child to read. When the work is completed it will mark another substantial accomplishment of the present administration. Mrs. Joseph H. Hudlun, 15 W. 51st Street, has sent out this week invitations to the wedding of her daughter, Mrs. Joanna C. Snowden, to Mr. James Hale Porter, on Tuesday evening, November 4. The ceremony will be held at 6 o'clock at the above mentioned number, and from 8 to 11 o'clock the same evening the reception will be held at 3302 Rhodes Avenue. The happy couple will be home at that number after November 15. J. W. Anderson, 3221 Vernon Avenue, one of the social lions of Chicago, and William R. Sobers, 5606 Lake Avenue, the up-to-date Hyde Park tailor, will be in evidence at the reception and grand ball to be given at the 7th Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Wentworth Avenue, Thanksgiving evening, Thursday, November 27. They will cut in on the Tango and the other new and latest dances. Mrs. Robert Owens, of Los Angeles, Cal. and her two daughters, Miss Gladys and Manila Owens, have this week been the guests of Mrs. Jesse Binga, 3324 Vernon avenue. During their short stay here, a number of young society ladies and gentlemen, called to pay their respects to them. Mrs. Owens, and her daughters, were en route, to Nashville, Tenn., where they will enter Fisk University. Mr. Owens, is the wealthiest and the most progressive Afro-American business man in Los Angeles, Cal. The National Negro Semi Centennial Exposition Association Will Give a Reception and Grand Ball at the Seventh Regiment Armory. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET AND WENTWOETH AVENUE, THANKSGIVING EVENING, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. THE TANGO, THE BRAZILIAN AND LAME DUCK DANCES WILL BE THE LEADING OR THE STAR ATTRACTIONS OF THE EVENING. MANY PROMINENT WHITE CITIZENS HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN FOR BOXES IN ORDER TO WITNESS ONE HUNDRED COUPLES ARTISTICALLY EXECUTE THESE LATEST DANCES. PRANK L. HAMILTON WILL SERVE AS CHAIRMAN ON THE COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS, MRS. WILLIAM EMANUEL CHAIRMAN OF THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE. ONE HUNDRED PROMINENT AFRO-AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN WILL BE SELECTED AS PATRONS AND PATRONESSES OF THE AFFAIR. SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT AIDA OVERTON WALKER WILL APPEAR WITH HER ALL STAR CONCERT COMPANY AT THE PEKIN THEATRE THE ENTIRE WEEK OF NOV. 3rd A very pleasant week is promised by Miss Walker and Company-- There will be Pretty Girls, Pretty Costumes, Special Scenery, Tuneful Mueso—in fact every effort will be made to entertain you. Watch for further particulars regarding this engagement. Don't forget the time—WEEK NOV. 3rd. The piece—PEKIN THEATRE. The girl—AIDA OVERTON WALKER. Prices 25--50--75--$1.00. Matinees at Popular Prices Thursday and Sunday. On Thanksgiving evening, Thursday, November 27th, the National Negro Semi-Centennial Exposition Association will give a reception and a grand and brilliant ball at the 7th Regiment Armory, 34th street and Wentworth avenue, and if all signs do not fail it will be one of the finest and most memorable social affairs so far held among the better class of Afro-Americans residing in the great city of Chicago. Admission will be as usual, the small sum of 50 cents and the price will be within reach of all those who desire to spend one enjoyable night while indulging in the various up-to-date and latest dances and listening to the tantilizing and enchanting music, and the eloquence of some of the most prominent orators in this country whose CHIPS Mrs. H. C. Prentiss and Miss Minnie King, 3457 Dearborn Street, were among the Chicagoans who attended the State Fair at Springfield, Ill. They returned home early this week. FURNISHED ROOMS TO RENT. Modern furnished rooms to rent reasonable to either married couple or single gentlemen. 3215 Vernon avenue. Town Topics. Chicago needs a breakwater for the annual wave of crime.—Chicago News. According to the city directory, the population of Detroit and suburbs is now 614,486, this being a six cylinder town.—Detroit Free Press' Milwaukee is to have a $5,000,000 hotel. One wonders why, since it is so easy to run into Chicago from Milwaukee.—Chicago Record-Herald. There are more fat, prosperous, well dressed men in Natchez than any other city in the state—and more pretty girls than anywhere else in the country.—Natchez News. Expensive Times. "The farmers are jubilant over dollar wheat." And the consumers are apprehensive about dollar beefsteak.—Washington Herald. Potatoes are getting so aristocratic that it may not be long until each comes wrapped in tissue paper like an orange.—Chicago News. The estate of the late Anthony N. Brady in England will pay death duties to the amount of $1,050,000 to the British exchequer. It is becoming a more expensive thing for a rich man to die either at home or abroad.—New York World. names will be announced in these columns later on. The Tango, the Brazilian and the Lame Duck dances will be the leading or the star attractions of the evening. Many prominent White citizens have already spoken for boxes, in order to witness one hundred couples artistically execute these latest dances. Frank L. Hamilton, who is the prince of good fellows, will be chairman of the committee on arrangements. Mrs. William Emanuel will serve as chairman of the reception committee. One hundred prominent ladies and gentlemen will be selected as patrons and patronesses of the affair. Later on the name of the couple to lead the grand march will be announced in these columns. Fierce Things. The fiercest thing on earth I wot— A thing to call for gibes— Would be a baseball game between A lot of baseball games— -Denver Republic. A fiercer thing than that would be a close world series game Reporter wrote edited By stars that lost the same. -New York Evening Sun. We Should Smile. "Has anything come along to take the place of the turkey trot?" asked the man who doesn't keep up with the times. "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "I understand that the latest thing in laughs is the canary bird giggle."—Washington Star. Arts. We praise the art of talking. To display it we are proud. We think there's something clever in conversing right out loud. We dodge the art of listening, and to learn it we are slow. But the art of saying something is the art that we should know. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Safety. "You say you made a fortune as a merchant in the City of Mexico?" "Yes; I had a little idea that brought thousands to me. I established bomb-proof rest rooms."—Kansas City Journal. Suit Yourself. Observe yon man. He's far from gay. It seems his wife has gone away. Yon other man is bowed with woe. It seems his wife declines to go. We dodge the moral, as it were. Pick out the moral you prefer. By Its Lonesome He-What would you say if I were to tell you that I have a bright idea? She-I should say that it might stand a pretty good chance of becoming lone some.-Christian Science Monitor. ENGAGEMENT ON WALKER You can't play truant in the school of experience. Too bad they don't put currency on the free list. Even a fast young man can't catch up with tomorrow. The iceberg creeping into print should be a warning to mariners. The verdict of the German savants is that the divining rod is alles recht. Occasionally you meet a foreigner or a college professor who calls it "pumpkin" pie. Four thousand deaths are caused each year in Mexico by scorpions. How many by revolutions? "Either we are immortal beings or we are not," says Sir Oliver Lodge. And who can dispute that? Prince of Monaco while in New York took no chances in Wall street, and you can use the argument either way. The Washington woman whose arm was dislocated by a sneeze must have been laughing in her sleeve at the time. Surprising as it may seem, a lot of people in the temperate zone, with four seasons a year, have chronic spring fever. The diplomatic service is not usually regarded as requiring uniring industry, but in the case of Japan it is different. The California prune crop is estimated at 200,000,000 pounds, or enough to run 1,000,000 boarding houses until next season. That French aviator who persists in looping the loop might do well to put in his spare time looking over the proofs of his obituary. A French engineer says the Panama canal is too small. How big would it have been if the French engineers had finished the job? In the days of ancient Rome the populace was contented with bread and circuses. Now it demands peanuts and moving picture shows. One man declares that before long the whole world will work eight hours a day. That'll save a lot of wear and tear on the hotel chairs. All is lost! Throwing the javelin is the newest sport for women. The bachelors who have escaped Cupid's bow will now be brought down. Having helped to move the crops, maybe the national treasury department could be prevailed upon to assist in moving the Christmas presents. The English of Harvard university students is criticised. Next Boston, the outraged, will be accused of cherishing the split infinitive in its very midst. Since the golf championship has been wrested from England poor old John Bull will probably recall that he really never did care for anything but cricket. The function of the great European powers as regards the Balkans consists in saying "Tut, cut!" before a war begins and "Oh, dear!" after it has started. _____ It has been estimated that 1,000,000 lead pencils are used up daily. If every woman sharpened her own pencil the number used would be past computation. _____ With the proverbial perverseness of the sex, a German princess shoots herself because she has to marry a title, while American heresses kick when they can't. _____ Short the nation may be of cows, sheep, goats and other things on which people feed, but the country apparently never will be short of those who feed on the public. _____ A St. Louis packer says porterhouse will be selling for a dollar a pound in ten years unless we stop killing the fatted calf. Suppose we welcome the prodigal with clam chowder. A British visitor complains of the shocking publicity of our barber shops and adds that we have no notion of modesty or privacy. Perhaps he thinks we ought to have our hair cut in the dark. This prediction of a restoration of hoopskirts to fashion may not be realized. A great many such threats never come true. For instance, about a year ago they were foretelling side whiskers for men. A New England suffragette has tamed angelworms so that they come up out of the ground and eat sucker-krant from her hand. Such a woman should have no trouble whatever with mere man. That proposition to make baggage cars collapsible, so they may act as buffers in train collisions, will meet the hearty approval of everybody, perhaps, except the person who has a trunk in the baggage car. The New York lockups are overcrowded, and various relief measures are popped. The district attorney suggests longer hours and fewer holidays for the judges. Is the man mad that he makes so revolutionary a proposal? --- UNREST IN RANKS OF ODD FELLOWS Tenure cf Office Is Main Topic For Discussion. CAUSE OF PRESENT PLIGHT. Failure to Elect Chief Officials at Last Biennial Meeting Held In Atlanta May Embarrass Friends of Grand Master Edward H. Morris, Who Favor His Re-election. Boston.—The next meeting of the biennial movable committee of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows will be held in this city in September, 1914. The meeting will be a notable one because of an effort on the part of some of the members of the order to get control of the affairs of the fraternity. Edward H. Morris of Chicago, the present grand master, is being groomed by his friends for re-election, it is said. He has already received the indorsement of several district grand lodges. Mr. Morris has served seven years as grand master, but there was an intervening period during his occupancy of the position. As the last session of the biennial movable committee, held in Atlanta, failed to elect his successor, therefore he and the officers elected at Baltimore three years ago are still holding on. Henry Lincoln Johnson, the present deputy grand master of the order, is also being strongly backed for the position. He has the backing of his jurisdiction—Georgia—and has received assurances of support from various sections of the country. At the last session of the biennial movable committee Mr. Johnson would have probably been elected grand master of the [Name] HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON. order if he had not declined on account of his having been committed to the candidacy of Benjamin J. Davis. The latter has declared that he will not enter the fight next year, but will devote all of his energies to the continued upbuilding of the order. Mr. Johnson is the present recorder of deeds at Washington. He is a graduate of Atlanta university and the University of Michigan law school. He has been prominent in the affairs of the order for years. His friends say that his election will make for the conciliation of the various factions in the order. There are many candidates in the field for the other prominent offices in the order. Benjamin Nelson of Harrisburg, Pa., is being talked of to enter the race against James H. Needham of Philadelphia, who has been secretary for many years. Julius C. Johnson of Baltimore will have opposition for reelection as grand treasurer, and should there be a new subcommittee of management selected Harry S. Cummings of Baltimore may lose out as attorney general of the order. The biggest fight will take place over the question of the abolition. Grand Master Morris is told to have been one of the most endastic champions of its creation, he and his followers in the order we now regarded as opposed to its continued existence. One of the anomalies of the situation is that those who will most likely be rival candidates at the coming session were formerly working in unison when it came to matters affecting the order. The Atlanta Independent declares that "Johnson's election means freedom of speech and freedom of action among all the members of the order." The friends of Grand Master Morris claim that he is the ideal candidate and that the fact that he has served a previous term of four years and that also he will have been in office another four years when the clans meet again next September does not legally bar him from re-election, as the law provides that no officer save the grand secretary shall be elected for more than two successive terms, and this does not apply to Morris since no election has been held. The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Mothers' club will celebrate the third anniversary of its founding Oct. 30 by giving an exhibition of the home work of its members, such as plain and fancy sewing, embroidery, cooking and preserving fruits of indulous kinds. BUSY LIFE OF C. H. BROOKS. Author, Real Estate Broker and Leader In Many Good Movements. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Philadelphia.-Charles H. Brooks, Esq., who served as chairman of the local committee of arrangements for the entertainment of the National Negro Business league held here in August, is one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of this city. He is a business man of much experience and has been a worker in many good movements for racial uplift here. He is one of those rare characters whose influence pervades the very atmosphere in which he moves, and his friends lavish upon him their confidence and esteem. Mr. Brooks not only occupies a conspicuous place in the business arena, but has gained distinction as an author, Christian worker and friend of education. His best known work is the "History of Odd Fellowship Among Colored Men In America," which appeared in 1804. This is the only work of the kind ever published by a member of our race. The data for the book were gathered by Mr. Brooks from England, Australia and here in America. The committee of management in England, the highest governing board in the world, pronounced the matter contained in the book absolutely correct. Copies are on file in the office of all the subcommittees. By contract with the American subcommittee Mr. Brooks agreed not to reproduce copies of the book after the first edition was exhausted. The manual of the order for the board to which he belongs was also written by Mr. Brooks, who served as grand district secretary for twelve years. Mr. Brooks wrote the history of the Cherry Memorial Baptist church in this city, of which William A. Creditt, LL. D., is pastor, on the occasion of its hundredth anniversary in 1909. He is president of the board of trustees of the above named church, secretary of the Cherry Building and Loan association, manager of the Reliable Mutual Aid association, expert accountant for the Downingtown (Pa.) Industrial school and solicitor for the foreign mission board of the national Baptist convention. Mr. Brooks does a thriving real estate and legal business and has been successful in handling many difficult matters along the lines indicated. He has a group of capable assistants in his office, which accounts largely for his being able to handle so wide a variety of important matters with satisfaction to his numerous clients. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE OF EPISCOPAL CHURCH WORKERS Session Held In Lawrenceville Requests Bishops For Afro-Americans. At the recent session of the conference of church workers among colored people, held at the St. Paul Normal and Industrial school, Lawrenceville, Va., a memorial was adopted asking that colored bishops be selected by the Protestant Episcopal church for missionary work in districts where large numbers of colored people are to be served. The general convention of the Episcopal church meets in New York in October, and it is to this body that the memorial is to be presented for consideration. Rev. Dr. H. B. Delaney, president of the workers' conference, and Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, secretary and author of the memorial, were chosen as delegates to lay the wishes of their organization before the general convention and to press the selection of colored bishops for missionary service among Afro-Americans. The next session of this important conference of church workers is to be held in September, 1914, at St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal church, New York city. The recent meeting held in Lawrenceville, Va., was one of much interest and from which many good results are expected. MISSION WORK IN AFRICA. Views of a Former Missionary on Uplift of the Natives. That Africa offers a most inviting field for the African Methodist Episcopal church to do a still greater missionary and educational work in West and South Africa is the opinion of the Rev. Dr. L. C. Curtis, pastor of Trinity A. M. E. church, Baltimore. Dr. Curtis served in West Africa as a missionary for his denomination a number of years and accomplished an excellent work there. Schools and mission stations are the result of his labors. "I labored in West Africa," says Dr. Curtis, "a number of years, and I believe that the work there has a bright future. I would be glad for our people here to give more of their means for the upbuilding of the African work, for the natives there are hungering for Christianity and education." Dr. Curtis was a candidate for bishop for the West African work at the last two general conferences of his denomination and is being urged to enter the race at the general conference which will be held in Philadelphia in 1916. National Semicentennial Association. The National Negro Semicentennial association, with headquarters in Chicago, has been incorporated under the laws of Illinois for the purpose of holding a national celebration and exposition of race progress in Chicago during the months of August and September. 1914. The incorporators are Beauregard B. Moeley. Julius F. Taylor and Walter M. Farmer. Good government is good citizenship in action. Some men never borrow trouble; they buy it outright. No such word as "pacification" in the Balkan dictionary. Wood for artificial limbs is running short. Save your legs! Probably Mexico would like our fatherly attitude better if she did not fear adoption. "New York physicians extol the value of the Piorkowski serum." Oh, tell it to Sweeneyiskovitch! There is reason to believe that a race of arctic explorers will be evolved in the natural course of events. Devotees of golf should frown upon those explosive balls. The language of the game is sufficiently explosive. Holland will enfranchise its women, thus indicating the meaning of the expression, putting the men "In Dutch." Chicago now has three courts for the settlement of domestic difficulties; but, just the same, young people continue to marry. Perhaps we shall yet see the day when playwrights will discover that realism isn't necessarily a synonym for indecency. Four years ago Bleriot flew over the English channel. Now Garros crosses the Mediterranean. Atlantic ocean next. Who is going to wear all the hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry that has been stolen the past summer? The reason why most of us are reluctant to take advice is that we hate to admit that any one has judgment superior to ours. Candidates need not despair because the tariff is settled. It's the easiest thing in the world to drum up an excuse for running for office. Argentina has adopted old age pensions for workers. Mexico could do it more economically. Its revolutions don't permit much old age. A medical journal tells how to lie when asleep. This is valuable and needed advice, as that's when most men tell the unfortunate truth. Manuel, it seems, is plotting again to recover his throne, but what's the use? The Republican government has not had time yet to pile up a surplus. It is said that Minnesota's new prison will cost $2,000,000, but we will wager that many of its guests will kick about the accommodations nevertheless. The French scientist who makes the declaration that man is descended from the bullfrog probably bases it on the fact that eventually everybody croaks. Modern Greeks are just as heroic as their ancestors, reports Jacob Gould Schurman. Unfortunately no Homer or Xenophon now chronicles their prowess. The uninformed man who tries to gather mushrooms is the natural running mate of the person who ventures to take medicine without examining the label. A flaming bit of news has been received from Indianapolis of interest to women and theatergoers: All the ushers in one of the theaters are red haired girls. Women to wear real suspenders? Then it is up to them to learn another man's art. They'll have to know how, in emergencies, to fasten them with a shingle nail. More than 2,000,000 American farmers have telephones, and many of them have automobiles also. Still, for some reason, the farmers' sons keep on yearning for city life. A German invention called the toxi-meter determines just how drunk a man is. It is presumed that when a man is batting .300 a little bell rings and warms him to desist. A Paris maid, thinking to win good luck, stroked a hunchback on the hump, causing him to attack her with his cane. Certainly her good luck came swiftly, if her experience taught her good sense. Scientists tell us that the temperature in the crater of Vesuvius is 690 degrees. Anybody who is skeptical as to the veracity of science has only to pack his little thermometer and take the next boat. It might not be so terribly hard to have good roads if drivers of all vehicles could educate themselves into avoiding incipient ruts and consider it their duty to co-operate in the great work of improving and preserving the public highways. The Englishman's breakfast of bacon and eggs is condemned by the London Lancet, which recommends coffee and rolls as more suitable for "brain workers" after a sound night's rest. Is no British institution immune from attack? This in effect is a disloyal attempt to continentalize a cherished English meal. Phone Douglas 883 @ Automatic 72-746 THOMAS COLE HOWARD F. CATLIN PROPRIETORS Cc. C. HOTEL & BUFFET 3449 So. State St. Chicago, Il, Automatic 72-377 Phones Douglas 1360 and 2349 KEYSTONE HOTEL | DAVID McGOWAN, Prop. 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Richardson, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 160 N. 6th Ave, Room 506, near Randolph St, phone Main 2133, Automatic 33-201, his the fol- lowing fiats 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. 2424 Seminary Ave. 4 rooms and bath, $16. 2426 Seminary Ave, 4 rooms and bath, $15. If you want « landlord that will do the same to all honest men you wont rent until you see Samuel Richardson, 160 North Fifth Ave, Room 506, North West corner of Randolph St, Owner. FOR RENT. Desk Room for business purposes in branch law office of W. G. Anderson & L. A. Newby, 35th and State &t, N. W. corner. Phones Douglas 8078 and Auto. 72-384. Hours 10 to 12 a. m, 3 to 5 and 7 te 9 P.M. Dr. MacENRY J. BROWN Physician and Surgeon ‘Oculist. Practice limited to Diseases of Eye and Ear. Office and Residence, 3502 8. State St. Chicago. DE WITT H. HARDIN LAWER NOTARY PUBLIC ‘Suite 8 Johnson Bidg. Phone Douglas 7720 3522 So. State St., Chicago RESIDENCE 3423 FOREST AVE. Phone Douglas 6001 fee 8 5 @rs22 JESSE BINGA Sess SE Gor, Sine ent 36h Pa, Chica ee Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-resi- dente, including payment of taxes and locking after assessments. Money to loan en Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. ‘A STORE FOREVERYBODY «| | ite PY LN ; a aes Ready to wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices, quality and workmanship considered. Make it s point te visit this store every day and take advantage of the special bargain offerings that we give in all departments. Telephone Yards 693 a8 JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans : Fire and Plate Glass Insurance 4709 S. HALSTED ST CHICAGO Phones { iuetsste =o Ante 74-478 Prop. LA VERDO BUFFET IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street 0. The Cranford Apartment Building, 3600. Wabash Ave eee : te a a or lee aes | 1 Phone Aldine 3653 EXKotel Brunswick Geo. W. Holt, Prop. | BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. 3004 State Street Chicago The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. eam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. a J. W. Casey? Agent, "Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. HENRY JONES A. F. CODOZOE THE ELITE ; CAFE and BUFFET Finest Table d’ Hote in the City 4p. m.,to 1 a.m. 3030 State Street Chicago, Ill Amber Light Is Fine For The Complexion amber Light is often a parting se ae SS {more beautiil and shows 77g <3" complexion to oa a _— fe are fi Actresses and singers know : Bs : P J ot ee y ey Hard white lights or tinted im Vy 1 Fights of other sorts make bal f | fren) face powder and litle de- pr i fects of the skin annoyingly i conspicuous. & Wane: Midis tee meee ae ee cour best customers for Amber ceived for these lights were The Amber Glow Light is the climax of all the home lights that have come from the Welsbach laboratories Our house to house demonstrations of these lights sold them ae ae oe ue es as soca 2 ‘We will be glad to give you a free demonstration in your own living room. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company ‘Thos. McCain Mort Shoecraft Joe Shoecraft, Mgr. Chicago The Pompei Buffet and Cafe 20-22 East 31st Street :: CHICAGO Phones, £ Dougias 333 + Anto. T1818 . WILLIAM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEED, M'g'r Phone Douglas 3309 — Automatic 75-173 MINERAL SPRING CLUB me BU Ee F 2 TY AND CAF E 3517 S. State Street, CHICAGO HIGH CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVENING OOo eee ————— — FRANK DUNN ESTABLISHED TEL OAKLAND J.B. MoCAHEY 1877 1880, 1861, 1652 ‘TRUSTEES JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL ; FIFTY-FIRSt STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS Sist St. and L. S. & M.S. Stet St. and ARMOUR AVE. FRANK DUNN CHICAGO JOHN BLOCKI & SON PERFUMERS .- | Cc. Bs Kreyssler, Druggist | 5057 S. STATE STREET | NOT ON THE CORNER — | For high grade Drags, Chemical, and Medicizal Preparations , ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF Blocki’s Ideal & Blocki’s Flower | In Bottle Perfumes