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THE BROAD AX The Hon. Thos. Wallace Swann, Secretary of the Illinois State Commission in 1911, Induced Joseph Fels THE FAMOUS SINGLE TAX ADVOCATE OF ENGLAND AND A PROMI- NENT CITY HALL OFFICIAL TO RIDE IN AN AUTO TO AND FROM INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH, WHERE THEY SPOKE ON SUNDAY EVENING. MR. SWANN STATING THAT HE AND THE PASTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH, THE REV. HON. ARCHIBALD JACKSON CAREY, PH. D. D. D., BELIEVED IN DOING THINGS UP BROWN OR TO THE QUEEN'S TASTE. AFTER ENGAGING THE AUTO, MR. SWANN REFUSED TO PAY THE BILL, WHICH AMOUNTED TO $10.00, AND THE CITY HALL POLITIQUAN WAS FORCED TO PAY IT OR STAND A LAW SUIT. SO PAR HE HAS NOT RECEIVED HIS $10.00 FROM MESSRS. CAREY AND SWANN, AND HE MAY ISSUE AN ORDER ON GOVERNOR EDWARD F. DUNNE TO HOLD OUT THAT SUM FROM THEIR SALARIES AS THE HEAD CHIEFS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE COMMISSION. Vol. XIX. The Hon. The Swann, S the Illinois mission in Joseph Fel THE FAMOUS SINGLE TAX ADVOC NENT CITY HALL OFFICIAL T INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH, W EVENING. MR. SWANN STATING THAT HE A CHURCH, THE REV. HON. ARCH BELIEVED IN DOING THINGS TASTE. AFTER ENGAGING THE AUTO, M BILL, WHICH AMOUNTED TO MICIAN WAS FORCED TO PAY SO FAR HE HAS NOT RECEIVED H SWANN, AND HE MAY ISSUE F. DUNNE TO HOLD OUT THAT THE HEAD CHIEFS OF THE I The latter part of November, 1911, the single tax advocates met in convention in this city and as it was a very important meeting the Hon. Joseph Fels journeyed clear from London, England, in order to answer present at the meeting. On the last evening of its sessions the leaders of the single tax movement planned to give a banquet at the La Salle Hotel, but as the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann had been present at the sessions and claimed to be a single taxer, no doubt for money only, the manager of the La Salle Hotel was sharp enough to look clear through him at a single glance and he decided that no Colored men could enter its dining rooms on that occasion. Later on, on that same Saturday evening, the single taxers gave their banquet at Kimball's Cafe, which is located on the North side of Monroe street, between Clark and La Salle streets, and Mr. Fels was the honored and the distinguished guest of the affair, next to him came the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, secretary of the Illinois State Commission, for he was the head pet of the whole affair, as the "color line" at the La Salle Hotel had been drawn on account of his presence at the hotel. The Sunday evening following that incident the Hom. Joseph Fels and a prominent city hall politician who is himself a red-hot single taxer, who is president of one of the departments on the second floor of that buildings, both spoke at a meeting at the Institutional Church, gotten up by Messrs. Carey and Swann for the purpose of pulling in a little easy money, prior to the meeting at the church Mr. Swann showed up at the place where Mr. Fels was stopping and he insisted that he and the prominent city hall politician REV. D. P. BOBEETS, FORMER PASTOR OF QUINN CHAPEL AND BETHEL CHURCH, VISITED CHICAGO THE PAST WEEK. Rev. D. P. Roberts, formerly the pastor of Quinn Chapel and Bethel Church, but now the pastor of Bethel Church of Indianapolis, Ind., visited Chicago the past week. He came on to preach the funeral sermon over the remains of E. J. Brown, who was one of the old members of Bethel Church. Rev. Roberts is well pleased with his new charge in Indianapolis. He informed the writer that the best class of Afro-Americans, including lawyers, doctors, school teachers and the leading business men and women were members and officers of his church. He and Mrs. Roberts are enjoying the best of health, and have been HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY should ride to and from the Institutional Church in an auto, stating at the same time that he, himself and its pastor, the Rev. Honorable Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D., always believed in doing things up brown or to the queen's taste. Against their best judgment Mr. Fels and the prominent city hall politician yielded to the urgent demands of Mr. Swann and they consented to accept of his hospitality and of the hospitality of the Institutional Church and its pastor. Several weeks after Mr. Fels and the prominent city hall politician, had enjoyed the ride in the auto and spoken at the Institutional Chureh, the city hall politician received a bill for $10.00 from the owner of the auto and a letter wherein he went on to state, that he was unable to collect his bill from Mr. Swann, even after he had engaged his services or from any one else and that he would be compelled to hold him for the amount of the bill, as he had been one of the parties who had used it and in order to avoid a law suit, the prominent city hall politician was forced to write out his check for $10.00, which he has on exhibition as a memento of his stupidity in permitting Mr. Swann to lead him around by the nose. So far he has failed to receive his $10.00, although he has written several letters to Mr. Swann, politely requesting him to permit the $10.00 to blow his way, but up to the present time he has been unable to lay his hands on it and now the prominent city hall politician is thinking about issuing an order on Governor Edward F. Dunne to cut his $10.00 out of the salaries of Messrs. Swann and Carey, as the head chiefs of the Illinois State Commission. warmly received by the citizens of Indianapolis. Once each week, from now on, they will read The Bread Ax at their new home, 414 West Vermont street. REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES WILL ADDRESS THE MEMBERS OF THE APPOMATTOX OLUB SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 8th. This coming Sunday afternoon, February 5th, at 3:30 o'clock, Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones will address the members of the Appomattox Club, 3441 Washabene, avenue, on "Abraham Lincoln." Mrs. George H. Hutchinson will be the soloist for the occasion. Both members and their friends are cordially invited [Name] ALDERMAN HUGH NORRIS, Republican candidate for re-nomination at the Primaries, Tuesday, February 24, and re-election to the City Council from the 2nd Ward, Tuesday, April 7. The aldermanic contest is on in full force in the 2nd ward; and Alderman Hugh Norris, who is just finishing one term in the city council and has made a splendid record by voting right on all questions effecting the best interest, not only of the people residing in his ward, but for the best interests of all the people throughout Chicago. Honestly believing and feeling that he has discharged his duties in the past without fear or favor, he has become a candidate for re-nomination at the THE HIGHER EDUCATION AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Dean Kelley Miller has just issued an interesting bulletin setting forth the workings of the College of Arts & Sciences of Howard University. This bulletin sets forth in clear, concise terms the educational facilities and advantages of a great institution of learning located at the National Capital. Primaries, Tuesday, February 24th, and for re-election, Tuesday, April 7th. He has the solid indorsement of the 2nd Ward Republican organization at his back. He is also being warmly supported by Congressman Martin B. Madden, State Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, Ald. George F. Harding, Hon. Edward D. Green, Major Robt. R. Jackson, Hon. Oscar De Priest, A. H. Roberts, and in fact by all the other strong and influential leaders of the Republican party in the 2nd Ward.—Adv. activities of the graduates of the College within recent years. Nine such graduates are pursuing post-graduate work in the leading universities of the country, seven pursuing Theology, nine Law, and twenty-one Medicine. The pamphlet points out in these terms the need of higher education of the Negro. "The higher education of the Negro is justified by the requirements of the leaders of the people. It is a grave mistake to suppose that, because the Negro is relatively backward as com- The College of Arts and Sciences contains over three hundred students, with a faculty of over twenty members. This is the largest group of Colored youth to be found in the world pursuing the higher academic education. The courses cover the usual grade of college subjects. Special emphasis is laid upon the departments of sciences, leading to the study of medicine, and other practical applications. Combination courses have been arranged whereby a student may gain one year between his college course and his course in law, medicine, or theology. This is in harmony with the practices of the leading institutions of the country. The bulletin states that the curriculum and facilities have been brought fully up to the demands of the modern college. Statistical tables show the remarkable growth of the college from the small beginnings in 1868 to the present number. This growth has been especially noticeable during the past six years. Among the graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences are found men of high standing in the professions of ministry, medicine, and law, and as educators, authors, and public servants. Among the distinguished dead are listed the late Rev. Wm. J. Simmons, D. D., author of "Men of Mark", and the chief influence in welding together two million Negro baptists into a coherent organization; and the late Mr. F. J. Shad, Secretary of the Medical Faculty, Howard University. The bulletin calls special attention to the increased numbers, and also to the Primaries, Tuesday, February 24th, and for re-election, Tuesday, April 7th. He has the solid indorsement of the 2nd Ward Republican organization at his back. He is also being warmly supported by Congressman Martin B. Madden, State Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, Ald. George F. Harding, Hon. Edward D. Green, Major Robt. R. Jackson, Hon. Oscar De Priest, A. H. Roberts, and in fact by all the strong and influential leaders of the Republican party in the 2nd Ward.—Adv. activities of the graduates of the College within recent years. Nine such graduates are pursuing post-graduate work in the leading universities of the country, seven pursuing Theology, nine, Law, and twenty-one, Medicine. The pamphlet points out in these terms the need of higher education of the Negro "The higher education of the Negro is justified by the requirements of the leaders of the people. It is a grave mistake to suppose that, because the Negro is relatively backward as compared to the White man, his leaders need not have the broadest and best education that our civilization affords. The more backward and ignorant the led, the more skilled and sagacious should the leader be. It requires more skill to lead the helpless than to guide those who need no direction. If the blind lead the blind, they will both fall into the ditch. The professional class constitutes the light of the race. The Negro needs headlight to guide him safely and wisely amid the dangers and vicissitudes of an environing civilization. The Negro teacher meets with every form of ignorance and pedagogical obtuseness that befalls the White teacher; the Negro preacher has to do with every conceivable form of original and acquired sin; the doctor meets with every variety of disease that the human flesh is heir to; the lawyer's sphere covers the whole gamut involving the rights of property and person. The problems involved in the contact, attrition, and adjustment of the races involve issues which are as intricate as any that have ever taxed human wisdom for solution. If, then, the White man who stands in the high place of authority and leadership among his race, fortified as he is by a superior social environment, needs to qualify for his high calling by thorough and sound educational training, surely the Negro needs a no less thorough general education to qualify him to serve as philosopher, guide, and friend of ten million unfortunate human beings. The Wisest and the Smoothest Old Line Machine Politicians in Chicago are at Sea at the Present Time THEY ARE UTTERLY UNABLE TO FIGURE OUT THE FAR REACHING EFFECT OR THE INFLUENCE AND THE VOTING OF SO MANY LADIES WHO HAVE JUST BECOME SUCH AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. IN CITY AND COUNTY POLITICS IN THIS NECK OF THE WOODS. FOR ON TUESDAY MORE THAN 153,000 OF THEM PROUDLY AND GALLANTLY MARCHED TO THE PLACES OF REGISTRATION AND WITHOUT THE LEAST HESITATION REVEALED THEIR RESPECTIVE AGES TO THE JUDGES AND CLERKS OF ELECTION. FIVE OR SIX LADIES HAVE BECOME ALDERMANIC CANDIDATES IN THE VARIOUS WARDS. AND AS ABOUT 150,000 MORE LADIES WILL REGISTER ON MARCH 17 AND VOTE AT THE PRIMARIES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, AND AT THE ALDERMANIC ELECTION TUESDAY, APRIL 7. IT IS THEREFORE APPARENT THAT SOME OF THE PRESENT ALDERMEN ARE SLATED OR DOOMED TO FALL ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BREASTWORKS IN THE FINAL BOUND-UP IN THE ALDERMANIC CONTEST. Not one of the wisest and the smoothest of the old line machine politicians in Chicago ever dreamed that over one hundred and fifty thousand ladies or women would become so greatly interested in politics all at one time and because of their sudden activity has driven the politicians out at sea. Taking these things into consideration it is no wonder that a severe or a cold wave struck this city on the morning after the registration, for no one can calculate respecting the far-reaching effect or the voting of so many ladies who have been hurled headlong into the swirling pool of politics in this neck of the woods in the twinkling of an eye. For on Tuesday, Feb. 3, was a history-making day for them, for on that date more than 153,000 of them proudly and gallantly mischiefed to the places of registration and without making say bones about it and without the least hesitation revealed their respective ages to the clerks and judges of election. Many Colored ladies like their White sisters are out after the scaffals of the boss politicians and hundreds of them were just as busy as bees around the polls on Tuesday. Some ten or twelve of them have become judges and clerks of election in the second ward. The GRAND JURY UBEGS REINFORCEMENT OF CONCSEALED WEAPON LAW AND JUDGE WOULD MAKE OFFENSE A FELONY. A widespread crusade against the carrying of concealed weapons probably will result from an action of the grand jury and a recommendation made by Chief Justice Charles A. McDonald of the Criminal Court last Saturday. The grand jury adopted a resolution advocating stricter enforcement of the law against carrying concealed weapons and advised judges hearing such cases to impose heavy fines when the defendants are found guilty. In an address to the grand jury Judge McDonald recommended that this offense be made a felony. Copies of the resolutions were sent to Chief Justice Harry Olson of the Municipal Court and Chief of Police Gleason. "Fifty per cent of the cases that come before me result from the carrying of concealed weapons," Judge McDonald said. "If a law were adopted making a penitentiary offense of carrying revolvers and other deadly weapons I am sure that the number of these cases would show a marked decrease." More than half of the cases heard by the grand jurors were crimes in No.19 first and the first Old Line Politicians in fire at Sea at last Time FIGURE OUT THE FAR REACHING FIRE AND THE VOTING OF SO MANY SOME SUCH AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. IN THIS NECK OF THE WOODS. 8,000 OF THEM PROUDLY AND GALLANT PLACES OF REGISTRATION AND REVEALED THEIR RESPECT AND CLERKS OF ELECTION. SOME ALDERMANIC CANDIDATES IN DIES WILL REGISTER ON MARCH 17. MES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, AND MES TUESDAY, APRIL 7. AT SOME OF THE PRESENT ALDERMANIC TO FALL ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ALDERMANIC BOUND-UP IN THE ALDERMANIC vast majority of the Colored women seem to be lining up for William B. Cowan for Alderman, while the great majority of the White women seem to be doing the same thing for Alderman Hugh Norris. And as the aldermanic fight progresses in that ward and becomes more bitter each day, the old "Color-line" may again be forced to the front—and if it is, it is bound to work or bring forth great and lasting harm to both, the Colored and White alike residing within its confines. Five or six ladies have become aldermanic candidates in the various wards, and to all appearances they intend to contest every inch of the ground with the men candidates, and as about 150,000 more ladies will register on March 17 and be good ready to vote at the primaries Tuesday, Feb. 24, and at the aldermanic election Tuesday, April 7, and as stated before it is mighty hard to tell just how the more than three hundred thousand lady voters will jump on the day of election. It is therefore perfectly apparent that the sign of the times seems to indicate that some of the present aldermen are slated and doomed to fall on the outside of the breastworks in the final round-up in the aldermanic contest. which revolvers and other weapons were used. The resolution in part follows: "We, the members of the January (1914) grand jury, do earnestly recommend to instruct all police officers of the city of Chicago to search diligently all persons suspected of carrying concealed weapons and to arrest all such persons, and do further request and recommend that the aforesaid city ordinances against carrying concealed weapons be diligently and rigidly enforced." Once more we call upon the Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann, to stand up and lead us in prayer for it is said that not so long ago some hot words passed between the Hon. Attorney Martin and Mr. Swann, who does not pay five cents worth of any kind of taxes in Chicago or in the State of Illinois, and that Mr. Swann beat Mr. Martin in pulling his gun first. At another time it is said that Mr. Swann pulled his gun and loudly threatened to pump some hot shot into the sides of the Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. Having no desire on our part to do either one of these gentlemen an injustice, we therefore, call on them to state through the columns of The Broad Ax, free of charge, if the above statements are true or false.—Editor. THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promote and oil all times public the principles of Duxeroy, but Onalake, Frostorists, Pinters, Inklings, Single Tumers, Republicans, or anyone else can have their own ideas. Gauge is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is to inform the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will require attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$9.99 Six Months.....$1.99 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 2007 FEDERAL STREET, CHICAGO, IL JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 18, 1880, official Office Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 6, 1880. A Message to the Race. In this day and time, much is being said and done by the learned, the unlearned, the teacher, the professor and the statesman, trying to impress the world with the fact that the Negro isn't anything, never has been anything and never can be anything. That there never was anything of note connected with his history. They are even going so far as to deny his being fit to associate with other races. They speak of him as though he had always been dishonest in the estimation of man and in the estimation of God, yet the Negro has been one of the most honored of all races, if we are to believe the bible. Shem was the progenitor of the patriarchs, prophets and the Jews and also of Christ, and on these accounts, the renown of the house of Shem has been great in all the earth. Into this renowned family, black women were taken as wives. Abraham, the father of the Jews, married the first one, Gen. 25-1. Moses, the great Hebrew legislator and law giver, married an Ethiopian woman, 12:1. Judah, Simon and Joseph, the family of Jacob, married black women also, Gen. 42-10, first Chronicle, 2-3, Gen. 41-45. This brings us to the thought that the black and white people have always inter-mixed. I speak of this, not because I favor the inter-mixing, but to show that it is not an unheard thing. There is so much being said in an effort to keep the races apart, in churches and restaurants, hotels and on trains and everywhere. Some would like to separate heaven and hell if it were possible and some would go so far as to say that we will go to neither place, as we have no souls. The scripture has little to say about the color of people in that day, merely speaking of them as being of a certain country, or as the child of a certain man. The hypocrisy of the American people is very obnoxious to other nations on the color line. If the visitors to this country will open his eyes, he may see at least twelve millions of people, who are neither black nor white, all called Negroes. Who is responsible for this? Our White brothers. Two of the apostles were Negroes. The names of these two Black men, who taught and preached with the apostles, were Barnabas and Simon, Acts 13-1. Now we will see that Christ had Negro blood in his veins. Now the scriptures teach us that Christ was to come and did come from the tribe of Judah, see Gen. 49-10, Heb. 7-14, Rev. 5-5. This man Judah was the fourth son of Jacob, who was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. Judah had only five children, and they were males, 1st Cor. 2-4, three by his first wife and by his second, 1st Chr. 2-2, 4, and both his wives were Canaanite women. They were descendants of Canaan, a black man and Canaan was the son of Ham, Gen., 10-6. Tamar, Judah's second wife, bare him two sons, whose names were Phares and Zurah, 1st Chr. 2-4. The name of Phares appears in the genealogy of Jesus Christ, see Matthew 1st chapter, third verse. So the reader can plainly see that Judah, of whom Christ was to come, starts off, by presenting to the world a child by a Canaanite woman, who was a Hamite descendant. So after stating that Judah had no other children, except those by Hamites, (1st Chr. 2, 3, 4) I will endeavor to say without fear of successful contradiction, that the statement I made, declaring that Christ had Negro blood in his veins, is true. There is much more that I could say to further prove my statement. I get just a little bit tired of hearing so much said and seeing so much written by so-called Christians about the Negro being unfit to ride or walk or eat or drink with the White skinned races. A man's color does not make the man. Christ is no less a Savior because of the fact that he comes from the tribe of Judah and has Negro blood in his veins. Just as he was scorned in his day, so we in our day. Just as he is being honored and loved today, so will we come into our own in a future day.—Ex. Good air is good medicine for all of us all of the time. The windowless, room is a curse to civilization and should not be occupied by either man or beast. Borrowed daylight is bad for those who are compelled to use it. Each domicile should have its own rightful share of God's light and air. In these days of improved facilities for rapid transportation the twenty-five building lot should be abolished, and no residence building should be permitted to extend from lot line to lot line. As fuel in the furnace will not burn unless the draughts are kept open, so the food we take into our bodies will not give us the greatest good without fresh air. The mouth is the seat of many of the communicable diseases. Because this is true, mouth sanitation is important. A clean mouth and sound teeth are pretty big factors in protecting our physical health; especially is this true of children. Teach the child to keep its mouth and teeth clean and it will be far less liable to attack from the usual epidemic diseases peculiar to childhood. Fortunate indeed is the city that has a plentiful supply of pure, unpolluted water, for all its citizens. Fortunate, too, for the citizens if they make a liberal use of such water for both drinking and bathing purposes. Eighty per cent of our blood, by weight, is water. This fact alone explains why we should drink water freely. The skin, next to our lungs and kidneys, is an important factor in renovating our systems. So we need clean skins. Here are some suggestions for bathing taken from the Department of Health Bulletin: Instead of soap use sal soda or bicarbonate of soda (baking soda.) It will clean the skin quicker and better than many of the fancy toilet soaps and will not cause the irritation that some soaps do. When through bathing rub dry with a rough towel, and then wash the whole body over with a cold solution of common salt and dry the body lightly. This is an excellent skin tonic and a good bracer against colds and night sweats. Rock-ribbed, germproof health is largely attained by healthy skins. There is need for radical revision of a city's building laws that permit the erection of buildings with inside rooms or windowless rooms. Sometimes these are disguised as alceve rooms, opening into a larger room having direct light and ventilation. But, too often these alceves are curtained off for sleeping quarters and become little else than breeding places for disease. The curtains catch the germs, the occupants of the alceve room catch disease and the needless death rate mounts higher and higher all the time. PREACHER IS FIRED BETHELHEM BAPTIST CHURCH WINS BOTH BATTLES, CONGRE GATION INCORPORATES UNDER THE STATE LAWS. A zealous congregation of church people organized three years ago under the name of Bethlehem Baptist Church won two victories last week, one in the Civil Court and the other in the Criminal Court. The result of the double victory is to put a preacher by the name of S. H. Johnson out of the pastorate, which he formerly held in that church and prevent him from using the church name again in his own work and also to hold intact for the treasury of that church $500.00; for which there was a dispute between two factions of the church. The brother Johnson faction was not only fired, but lost its name as well. The church proper is under the pastorate of Rev. W. M. Venable and Everett J. Turner, church clerk. The Johnson faction was represented by W. G. Anderson, while F. L. Barnett and W. M. Smith were the lawyers for the church. The first case was a civil matter in Judge McGoorty's court. The Johnson faction by a bill in chancery, tried to prevent the majority of the church from occupying the church building and from using the church name. The church faction in their cross bill charged that brother Johnson had been fired from the battlements of the church and that he had no authority to use the church or its name. Judge McGoorty decided in the favor of the church people and brother Johnson and his faction was put out of business. Recognizing their defeat the Johnson faction incorporated under another name and is doing business at another stand. In order to secure the possession of the money which was held by the church, brother Johnson swore out a warrant charging brother Enze, chairman of the bank committee with larceny as bailie, because he would not hand over to the aforesaid Johnson the contents of the church treasury. THE MASTER HON. JOHN E. OWENS, The able and popular Judge of the County Court of Cook County, who has thousands of friends and warm supporters in this city and county, who will do everything in their power to assist to put him over at the primaries and at the election this coming fall. Brother Enze's trial took all Wednesday afternoon before Judge Ryan, who finally decided that brother Enze was not guilty of any offense. He was simply an honest and fearless custodian of the money who dared to go to jail in the discharge of his duty. He refused to give up the money and the court judgment declared he was right. About fifty members of the Bethlehem Baptist Church were present when the decision was rendered, and their joy knew no bounds. Some thanked the Lord, some thanked the Judge and others thanked the lawyers. But the lawyers "got theirs." were numerous and bitterly hostile to Mrs. Vance, while friends of Mrs. Vance gave their heartfelt sympathy to her and earnest support to lawyer F. L. Barnett who fought for her freedom. The evidence disclosed many years of unhappy married life, but no witness to the actual shooting on the fatal night. The prosecution charged that the husband and wife were in a bitter quarrel at 1:30 in the morning and he was trying to leave the house when she fired the shot from a magazine gun which killed him, and her written confession was used to prove the charge. Mr. Barnett's defense charged that MRS. OLA VANCE SET FREE BY JURY. WEST SIDE FRIENDS SHOW INTEREST IN LONG TRIAL. MRS. VANCE DEPENDED BY FORMER STATE'S ATTORNEY, P. L. BARNETT. Mrs. Ola Vance, who was charged with the murder of her husband, Hurley Vance, was acquitted after a three day's trial by a jury's verdict of "not guilty" returned into Judge McDonald's Court last Saturday morning. This was the last act of a tragedy which has occasioned a great amount of interest in West Side circle of Chicago Colored people for nearly two years past. Mr. Hurley Vance and his wife were well known Colored residents of Chicago for many years. Mr. Vance was a prominent Pythian, and member of other local organizations while his wife was prominent in social and charitable work. Of refined and gentle manner, Mrs. Vance had the sympathy of many close friends, who knew that she suffered greatly from domestic troubles but which were kept hidden from the public until the midnight tragedy which disclosed that Hurley Vance had been shot in the face and was lingering between life and death at the Cook County Hospital and his wife was under arrest, charged with assault with intent to kill and murder. Friends of Mrs. Vance at once went to her rescue and she was set at liberty under heavy bail, to await the result of the wound upon her husband. As soon as she was released, Mrs. Vance went to her husband's bedside at the hospital and it was plain that though he was wounded unto death, he had no vindictive feeling against his wife. He asked her to take him home again and she applied for permission to do so, but the hospital authorities said he was to ill to be moved, so she watched by his bedside almost constantly until death closed the chapter of their married life. Mrs. Vance was again arrested and charged with murder, but was again released on bond with Mr. Geo. O. Jones and Mr. Samuel Amos as sureties. The case, after being called several times, finally went to trial Wednesday of last week and was one of the bitterest contested legal battles affecting Chicago Colored people for many years. Mrs. Vance was defended by former Assistant State's Attorney F. L. Barnett and the State's Attorney's office was ably represented by Mr. Hayden Bill, known as one of the most vigorous and capable prosecutors in Mr. Hoyne's office. The relatives of the husband NOT GUILTY were numerous and bitterly hostile to Mrs. Vance, while friends of Mrs. Vance gave their heartfelt sympathy to her and earnest support to lawyer F. L. Barnett who fought for her freedom. The evidence disclosed many years of unhappy married life, but no witness to the actual shooting on the fatal night. The prosecution charged that the husband and wife were in a bitter quarrel at 1:30 in the morning and he was trying to leave the house when she fired the shot from a magazine gun which killed him, and her written confession was used to prove the charges Mr. Barnett's defense charged that the husband had frequently beaten his wife, that on the night in question he had knocked her down, that both struggled for the revolver, and that while they had separated and he was out in the hall, the revolver was fired by accident and the husband was shot without any intent to kill on the part of the wife. His explanation of the written confession, together with his argument on all other points in her defense, convinced the jury that the shot was the result of an accident and on Saturday they returned a verdict which made Mrs. Vance a free woman and restored her to her friends who rejoiced with her over the final outcome. Dr. Mercer, who was the family physician and who was present a few minutes after the shooting was not called as a witness by the State, but, he was called by Mr. Barnett though he had been named as a witness for the State. Dr. Mercer's testimony was clear and convincing, showing that Mr. Vance declared that the shot grew out of a family trouble and that he did not want his wife prosecuted. The State's Attorney by cross-examination tried to break the force of Dr. Mercer's testimony but failed. Mrs. Vance made a fine witness in her own behalf and by a plainly truthful statement of that fatal night's trouble proved that she was not guilty of murder. The jury believed her and gave their verdict accordingly. Chief Sam Leaves Kansas City for Chicago with Party "Going Back Home." Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 6.—Chief Alfred C. Sam, leading the back-to-Africa movement, got to Kansas City this morning with twenty-four "colonizers" from Oklahoma. Two Negroes were picked up here. They left for Chicago at 6 o'clock over the Rock Island. According to Chief Sam there will be further accessions at Chicago, New York, and Boston. The party will sail from Galveston for Africa some time next month. Sam was satisfied. "My name is Alfred C. Sam. I am the chief of the Akim tribe of the gold coast in West Africa," he said. NEGROES BUILD Y. M. C. A. HOUSE Work on a new two-story brick Y. M. C. A. building exclusively for Colored members has been started at 1014 Emerson street, Evanston. The permit for the structure, which is to cost $22,000, was issued this week. Provision is made for additions. Last spring Colored men of Evanston made a campaign for funds. There are two other Y. M. C. A. buildings in Evanston. DEATH OF JOSEPH N. HART. Wednesday, February 4, at 5:30 P. M., Joseph N. Hart, 67 E. 36th street, quietly passed away. Funeral services were held over his remains yesterday at 12 o'clock at his late home. He is survived by his constant and devoted wife, Mrs. Anna Hart, three daughters, Mrs. William H. Hayman, Miss Gertrude Hart, Mrs. Grace Hart Brown and one or two sons. Many friends of the family, sympathize with them in their bereavement. HAVING CHILDREN HER BUSI NESS, SAYS WOMAN New York—When John Palmieri, counsel for Mrs. Rebecca Cohen, who is being sued for divorce, asked Sadie Rothman, a witness for the defense, what her business is everybody in the courtroom got a surprise. "My business," said Mrs. Rothman, serenely, "is having children. I have four children already; soon I hope to have another." CHIPS What do you think? A Negro, Joseph Ricks, was elected Borough Auditor at Coastesville, Pa., the town of the horrible Negro-burning a few years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Moman have removed from 4319 Langley avenue to 5025 Federal street, where they will be pleased to receive their friends. John L. Randolph, 5025 Federal street, and J. H. Smiley, 5013 Dearborn street, are serving as two of the new clerks of elections in the 20th precinct of the 30th ward. C. C. Smallwood, 1912 Dearborn street, who runs on one of the crack trains over the Northwestern Railroad from Chicago to Los Angeles, Calif., is a warm supporter of The Broad Ax, and at every turn in the road Mr. Smallwood speaks a good word for it. Attorney Timothy J. Fell, Suite 702 Chamber of Commerce building, ranks with the ablest lawyers at the Chicago bar, and being a polished gentleman all the time, Mr. Fell would make an ideal candidate for one of the judges of the Municipal court this coming fall. On Thursday evening, January 29, at Kokomo, Ind., Miss Charlotte Quinn Marsh, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Marsh, was united in marriage to Mr. Harry Morgan of this city. They will be at home at 4442 St. Lawrence avenue, after February 20. James W. Brewington, who in the past has been quite a political factor in politics in the 2nd ward; returned to the city Sunday morning from Montreal, Canada, where he had been for the past four or five months. He will support William R. Cowan for Alderman in the 2nd ward. Fenton Johnson, the young Afro-American poet of Chicago, who made a hit with his book, entitled "A Little Dreaming," is now living in New York City, where for the next six months, he will be engaged in writing for a syndicate of New York newspapers. His Chicago friends wish him the greatest success. Mrs. Mary Harsh, 2963 Federal street, while returning home from a lodge meeting last Tuesday evening fell from a State street car at 30th and State streets, while in the act of alighting from it. She was shook up considerably and otherwise injured which will cause her to remain at home for the next week. The "Negro Farmer," is the title of a new weekly publication which has just sprang forth from the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Its columns would be devoted almost exclusively to teaching or instructing the Colored farmers in that section of the country and in other parts of it, how to farm, in the most up-to-date manner. Booker T. Washington is one of the chief officials of the "Negro Farmer" Publishing Co. Miss Ethel Phelps, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Phelps, 31 W. 51st street, was on last Saturday evening united in marriage to Mr. Fred Tessmer. Her sister, Miss Clara Phelps, served as bridesmaid. A reception and dance after the wedding was held at Spregue's Hall, 4400 State street. The newly married couple are at home to their friends at the above mentioned number. Some one around this big town who goes by the name of Brent, whom we do not know and we never want to know him for he may be a cheap jumping jack—for some White concern or he may be a polisher of some White gentleman's boots. Whatever he does and whoever he is he seems to be full of fighting bile and as a positive proof that he is not a high class gentleman he delights at all times to refer to mem- bers of his race as "Curs," and that is the chief reason why he is beneath the notice of decent and respectable gentlemen. SPRICAL NOTICE All parties having social or personal items or other matter for publication. Such social items and so on must reach the editor not later than on Thursday morning, prior to the Saturday the articles are expected to appear. Write plainly and on one side of the paper only. Personal or social items and short church notices, will be published free. If you have friends visiting you, or if you are going on a visit out of the city, or move from one section of the city to another, or buy a new house or flat building, or if any of your near and dear friends become united in marriage to some one, or join the Heavenly host in the great beyond; or if you give a dancing party or other social functions and so on; all such information plainly and shortly written will be considered news matter. And as stated before will be published free of all charges. Remember that all communications along this line must be short and to the point. Address all communications to the editor of The Broad Ax, 5027 Federal street. Phone Drexel, 4590. A Chicago hypnotist has opened a school for book agents. Most of 'em are post graduates in that art. A Minnesota college offers a course in sausage making. The students will certainly have a long grind ahead of them. It is said there is about $12,792,000,000 in the world. And 90 per cent of the inhabitants control the last six figures. The Cleveland physician who ran over a holdup man has discovered a new and promising use for the automobile. The happiest wife is not always the one who marries the best man, but the one who makes the best of the man she marries. It does sound better to say that we accepted the position than to say we nearly ran our legs off and told forty lies to get it. The unluckiest man is the one who the day after he has paid a tax on his income finds out that the cashier has run away with it. The times when a farmer's personal knowledge of finance was limited to a very faulty judgment of gold bricks are away back in the past. The German crown prince is said to spend much of his leisure time making furniture. At last we know what is meant by a royal good time. Dr. Wiley says Eve was created before Adam. The good doctor is evidently the one who can tell us whether the egg or the hen came first. When a man tells a woman of forty that she appears to be growing younger all the time she is likely to guess that she has met a cheerful liar. Lord Rosebery says England ought to have 500,000 more babies than she has. Can't the suffragettes be persuaded to do something about it? A Moorish woman is not supposed to know her own age, which indicates that the proverb beginning "Where ignorance is bliss" has been translated. The New York gun men who assassinated Rosenthal now make the plea that they were "just bad boys." "Bad" is rather strong. Wouldn't "naughty" be better? An exchange says that there are no less than nineteen "Bald mountains" in the United States. When a mountain begins to shed its hair there's no cure for it. Nobel prizes are new only in name. Herodotus, the father of history, was given the Nobel prize of his day for literature at the Olympic games more than 2,300 years ago. A Kansas City man has invented a contrivance to dry a woman's hair, but the only way to button her up the back is by digital hysteresis combined with more or less schmerhed profanity. A well known medical writer suggests that every policeman should also be commissioned a health officer, the idea being perhaps that the policeman should be authorized to arrest disease on sight. Modern children are taking a pledge never to be afraid, especially in the dark. Now, if they can only be got to take another, pledging them to keep this pledge, the matter will be disposed of nicely. The Chicagoan whose name was Paliponisoringappacopocankaummoporgglogonios and whose house burned down while he was trying to spell it over the telephone still has a good deal left to complain of. --- PEKIN THEATRE 27. and STATE STS. under new Management High Class MOTION PICTURES JORDAN'S FAMOUS ORCHESTRA GRIFFIN S THEATRICAL AND SCHOOL OF V MAIN OFFICE: 3159 SO, STATE STREET Phones: Auto. 71-703, Doug. 4558 Douglas 73—TELEPHONE "The Chat Frank Hall, Prop. Mr. Clarence Jones, S Personally conducted b Grand SUNDAY FROM 5 TO 10:30 P. M 346 E. 35th Street, JOE SHOECR Mr. Clarence Jones, Symphony Orchestra Personally conducted by Mr. [Clarence Jones 346 E. 35th Street, Opposite Grand Blvd. "You said you would make papa come to terms." "I did, and they were the vilest any one ever applied to me."—London Mail. Should you attain to knowledge great A certain sadness will befall; You can't get any one to wait And listen while you tell it all. —Washington Star. Mrs. Newgold—Genevieve, Albertine, you are not playing that duet together. One of you is a bar ahead of the other. Genevieve (proudly)—Well, I was the one ahead, anyway!—Puck. When you count up the worries that enter some lives "Are you familiar with the Mexican situation?" "Only up to 8 o'clock this morning." —Detroit Free Press. "Let us fly," said the ardent lover bold To his fairest ardentator, Not that he feared her father's wrath, But that he was an aviator. —Baltimore American. "Time works wonders," quoted the sage. "That's because it is always on the job," returned the fool.—Cincinnati Enquirer. "How is your Shakespearean club getting on?" "Splendidly. We learned two new steps last week."—Life. They go into the church unwed, And married they come out. And this is why, it has been said, The sex is so devout. —Puck. Jack—My mother paid $9 for this coat. Jill—My mother has a charge account. She never pays for anything.—Collier's Weekly. There was a young man named Snider, whose hobby was hard apple cider. He called on his dams, but muttered to her. And dared not sit beside her. —Spokane Spokesman-Review. "I see that one of the ladies says geniuses never ought to marry." "I suppose she is married or doesn't know a genius who would be likely to ask her anyhow." — Chicago Record-Herald. We couldn't get along without the active human brain. But save us, kindly providence, from people who explain. —Dallas News. Home Address: 3645 RHODES AVENUE Auto. 77-609 Finest Cafe in the City. Astronomers and golfers are Alike, so it appears— At any rate, the motion of the sphere. —San Francisco Chr SISTERS CALL AGENCY D LAUDEVILLE ART Managers and Acts Write or Call Hours: 11 A. M. to 6 P. M. CHICAGO HONES—Auto. 72775 "Chateau" Call, Prop. Symphony Orchestra by Mr. Clarence Jones EVE. Musicale M., EVERY SUNDAY Opposite Grand Blvd. RAFT, MGR. It is perhaps better to be green with verdancy than with envy. Some married men make ideal companions—away from home. In addition to other things, Mexico now seems to need the money. Many a man would benefit more from a holiday if his wife took it for him. Vaccination may keep people from taking things, but it won't cure kleptomania. Cincinnati wants lamps on baby carriages. It'll want headlights on roller skates next. It is costing more now even to look at an egg. Egg candlers are demanding higher wages. And now Manhattan is to have a building taller than the Woolworth. The sky is the limit. Early to bed and early to rise—and you'll be surprised at the people you will meet going home. At the same time if Vesuvius could cure her own bronchitis Italy would be able to breathe more freely. Many large corporations are learning that it is both profitable and wise to make the people love them. It begins to look as though a bad thing were now a good thing for the average New York play producer. Switzerland may welcome Mrs. Pankhurst with full confidence that nobody will attempt to burn down the glacial scenery. Midwinter surf bathing may be delightful, but a lot of people manage to get along without it with no discomfort whatever. A Pennsylvania farmer boasts of a hen which laid an egg with a nickel inside. Another puzzle for the income tax collectors. The new water cure for bichloriditis will doubtless prove effectual if the patients are fortunate enough to rally from the water. Washington is to stop the use of pro-fanity on the streets. This is a cold and unsympathetic world for disappointed office seekers. It is reported that King George liked the first poem of Poet Laureate Bridges. Possibly the king liked it because it was rather short. Under the Management of H. C. JENKINS Service Unexcelled. HALF CENTURY OF FREEDOM. Dr. Frissell Makes Optimistic Address at Hampton Institute Celebration. "Here in Virginia colored people have a better chance than anywhere else in the world to live and improve. We can work out the race problem better in America than anywhere else. While there is much for the colored people to struggle for, still there should be great thanks to God for what has been accomplished." These inspiring words were spoken by Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal of Hampton institute, when he addressed the large audience of colored people who recently assembled in the normal school gymnasium at Hampton institute to hold a union celebration of their fifty years of freedom. Dr. Frissell urged the colored people to co-operate for the development of the nation. He referred to the work which the Negro Organization society is doing to teach the lessons of "better health, better education, better farms and better homes." He expressed his pleasure at seeing so many of our people of the lower peninsula gathered at Hampton institute. Rev. A. A. Graham of Phoebus, the presiding officer, referred to the important work which mothers and fathers now aged had done in making it possible for our young people to get an education. Addresses by local colored men and women showed the progress that has come during fifty years of freedom and the work that remains to be done. The music included singing by the large Hampton chorus and audience and band selections under the direction of Professor W. M. O. Tessmann. JAMES D. CORROTHERS AS WRITER OF SHORT STORIES Glimpse of His Early Struggles and Subsequent Rise to Prominence. That due preparation for one's calling in life, a fixed alm, high ideals and sticking to the job are necessary factors in the upward struggle to gain success are distinctly apparent in the rise of the Rev. Dr. James D. Corrothers, poet, orator and short story writer. Dr. Corrothers is a native of Michigan and received his early education in the public schools of South Haven, Mich. Being the only colored boy in the school, he had a hard time convincing the white boys that he was human flesh and blood just as they were. He met their taunts and slurs both in the classroom and on the school grounds with manly courage and proved himself to be the equal in intellect and physical prowess of any in his class. By hard labor and strict economy he made his way through school, finally graduating from Northwestern university and Bennett college. Dr. Corrothers has been active in the ministry, but devotes practically all of his time now to literary work. His poems and short stories have appeared in some of the leading magazines and newspapers, such as the Century, American, Criterion, the Philadelphia Press and other well known and influential publications. One of his latest poems, "The Dream and the Song," appears in the January number of the Century. The Rev. Mr. Corrothers, accompanied by his wife, who is a successful music teacher and gifted pianist, attended one session of the National Negro Press association at its annual meeting held in Philadelphia last August and by invitation delivered a most timely and helpful address which was much appreciated by the members of the association and the large audience present. He is destined to rise still higher in the galaxy of poetic fiction and short story writers. Always abreast of the times, competent, genial and ambitious, his fame will increase with the coming years. Professor Spingarr's Speaking Dates. Professor J. E. Spingarr, chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, opened his speechmaking campaign against race segregation at a large and enthusiastic meeting in Detroit Thursday evening. Jan. 8. He arrived in Chicago Saturday and spoke at Lincoln Center Sunday, Jan. 11. From Chicago Mr. Spingarr went to Quincy, Ill., where he delivered a most effective address Tuesday, Jan. 13. The other places and dates in his schedule for speeches are Kansas City, Kan. Jan. 15 and Topeka, Kan., Jan. 16. The Hon. Arthur Capper, Progressive candidate for governor of Kansas, is expected to preside at the meeting in Topeka, St. Louis Jan. 19, Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22 and perhaps at Cleveland, O., Jan. 26 on his return trip to New York. Local League on Urban Conditions. The Savannah (Ga.) branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People, recently organised by Assistant Director Eugene K. Jones of New York, starts off auspiciously. Since its inception the early part of November it has raised over $270 as a fund with which to carry on its work. The league distributed dinners and gifts of various kinds to needy families and the less fortunate children of the community as a Christmas remembrance. Sol C. Johnson is president of the league. Alpha Lodge to Hold Celebration. What promises to be one of the biggest events in secret society circles in Brooklyn in February is the forty-fifth annual celebration and reception of the founding of Alpha lodge, 1881. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. The affair will be held at Labor dayeum Thursday evening, Feb. 5. SEGRECATION OF FARMERS. Du Bois Scores the Poe Theory at Ad- dition vancement Association's Meeting. New York.-Farm segregation as the newest and most pressing development of the Negro problem in the south was the main topic of the first session at the annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People recently held in this city. The speaker who told of the movement to curtail the landholdings of our people was Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols, director of publicity and research for the association and the first to spread the facts of the situation in the north. He attacked the position of Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, as one of the chief supporters of the idea of farm segregation and reviewed the progress in agriculture and property in land on the part of the colored people.which has led to the plan to limit their activities. Other speakers were Mrs. Belle C. La Follette, wife of United States Senator Robert M. La Follette, and Charles Edward Russell, recently Socialist candidate for mayor of New York. The business session of the association consisted of reports of the progress of work throughout the country during the year and the annual election. The following were elected as directors: Elbridge L. Adams, Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, Rev. W. H. Brooks, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, Mrs. Florence Kelley, Charles Edward Russell and John G. Underhill of New York, Miss Mary White Ovington of Brooklyn and Miss Jane Addams and Dr. C. E. Bentley of Chicago. The reports of committees showed a healthy growth for the association during the year, with over 1,900 new members added, making the total membership about 3,000 and a total contribution of almost $14,000, representing an increase of almost $7,000—1. e., 100 per cent—as an indication of the increasing interest in the work of the association. Besides people in this city who attended the meeting, there were about 400 from the branches of the association in important cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast present. Dr. Du Bois began his talk on farm segregation by reviewing the solution of the Negro problem suggested twenty-five years ago. "Take the Negro out of politics. Train him for work, particularly for farm work. The result will be the disappearance of the Negro problem." He went on to give statistics to show that the Negro has submitted to practical disfranchisement through a large part of the south and to complete social discrimination against him, in order to gain the chance for education and independent support. The results have been that the Negro schools have been neglected, a large proportion of our children are not in school, and there has been quiet but determined oposition to the success of the higher schools for the race, while in the industrial and agricultural field the Negro has had to contend against tremendous odds. Instead of welcoming the fact that, despite odds, the Negro has developed his abilities and acquired farm property as the working out of the solution suggested a quarter of a century ago, the advancement of the race has roused alarm. CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF SENATOR CHARLES SUMNER Birthday of Famous Champion of Human Rights Fittingly Observed. Speaking at a largely attended meeting in Washington Tuesday night, Jan. 6, the Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross, pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, urged the colored people to arm themselves with every necessary equipment for the proper protection of their civil and political rights as American citizens. He gave it as his opinion that the race should spend less money for musical instruments, dancing lessons and the like and more for the kind of education which qualifies one to defend himself against insult and oppression. The meeting was held in honor of the birthday of Charles Sumner, the great champion of human freedom and liberty. Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard also spoke in defense of the race, declaring that the present attitude of the national government toward our people was nothing less than a new slavery which did not even represent the heart and conscience of the true south toward the colored people. The speaker denounced the segregation of employees in the government service, declaring that in many instances the law of the civil service commission and the constitution of the United States were both being violated. Dr. Ross said that it was the policy of this country to prepare for war in time of peace and that the race should look well to its primary interest now, because no government can long exist in peace and prosperity half slave and half free. This was Lincoln's lapse dixit, and it proved to be more than true. The meeting was enthusiastic and will result in much good to the cause of justice and fair play for those who are being wronged without just cause. Suffrage League to Give Song Recital. The Lucy Stone Suffrage league of Pittsburgh is preparing for an elaborate song recital, to be given at the Bethel A. M. E. church Thursday evening. Feb. 26. Mme. Marie Burton-Hyman, the well known soprano soloist of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, will take the leading part. Mrs. R. Welford Holmes is president of the league. ADVOCATES EQUAL JUSTICE. What Oswald Garrison Villard Says About Race Segregation. The news from Washington that the effort to segregate the colored and white clerks in the federal departments is checked if not ended must cause to rejoice every one who believes in fair play and the square deal, says Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post, in a lengthy article in the Philadelphia Press Jan. 2. He says: Particularly to supporters of the Woodrow Wilson administration, like myself, is the news welcome, for this attempt to draw caste lines in the very heart of the government of the greatest of democracies, founded upon the principle that all are born free and equal, constituted a grave blot upon Mr. Wilson's record, besides laying him open to the charge of preaching a "new freedom," but practicing a "new slavery" for those upon whom divine Providence in its wisdom has bestowed dark skins. But, if we can rejoice over this reversal of a bad federal policy, to our shame be it said that segregation goes on apace elsewhere. Nine southern cities have voted to establish the ghetto on American soil, though Augusta, to its credit, has just voted down this cruel and un-American proposition. It is a policy dictated by the most selfish of considerations, for it would make the progress of a race in an urban community depend upon land values. For once the commonest excuse for holding the Negro down—the false cry of race purity and of social equality—is put aside in favor of this new proposition that the Negroes must be confined to a given quarter lest by going elsewhere they depreciate the property of whites. Thus it is laid down that if a colored man would rise and secure for his children better light, better air, a better home in less crowded and more sanitary quarters, he is thereby committing a social crime; that we must prevent his carrying out an ambition which we applaud in every other American, be he Jew or gentle. Armenian or Russian or Pole or German or pure American. We reprobate it in the Negro as if mere contact with him were leprous. We can all sympathize with those whose property suffers in value by reason of color prejudice, but the whole history of our cities tells of the ruination of aristocratic quarters by the infux of trade or of masses of immigrants. Sudden changes in value are what every one faces who buys urban property. Losing money ought surely never to be an excuse for putting extra burdens on a race already heavily disadvantaged. BIG FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN. Favorable Outlook For New Y. M. G. A. Building In New York. The recent Y. M. C. A. building fund campaign in New York, which attracted nation wide publicity, brought about a unity of effort never before known among the colored people of that city. It called up latent energies which were heretofore undreamed of. It established self confidence among individuals who worked earnestly to do their share in securing funds for the big Y. M. C. A. building campaign, and it resulted in the collection of over $40,000 in a fortnight from those who had little to give. This co-operation indicates what may be brought about when men and women realize that they have important interests in common and that they win for themselves a new place in the estimation and respect of their white friends when they become active workers instead of passive beneficiaries. The daily reports from those raising money in the campaign evoked much favorable comment. Analytical minds were active in giving, by comparison, true value to the gifts of our men and women-gifts from a race with few avenues open for earning even a bare living in a great cosmopolitan city. Dr. J. E. Moorland, national secretary of the colored men's department of the Y. M. C. A., and his able assistants deserve a great deal of praise for their uniting work in raising money for the large fund from which the colored people will receive enough money for two well equipped buildings. More important than the added material equipment of the Y. M. C. A. work will be the improved social reaction among our people, who will have more opportunity to develop along the lines of physical conservation, wholesome amusements and religious culture. The fact that our race will have in New York an association building costing $150,000 for men and one costing $100,000 for young women will put more pressure on men and women in other cities so that they will follow the farsighted wisdom of such a man as Julius Rosenwald of Chicago and help the colored people financially and otherwise to have in cities and towns where the race resides in large numbers first class association buildings and efficient organizations to help in the struggle for the higher things of life. The Portsmouth (Va.) Choral Society. The Choral' society of Portsmouth. Va., a well organized musical organization, recently presented the cantata "Hlawatha's Wedding Feast" at the Hampton institute with much success. The program was given in two parts and consisted of mixed quartets, harp tone, soprano, tenor, contraitra and bass voices. Hiram Simmons was director and pianist. He was assisted by R. Nathaniel Dett, director of music at Hampton institute. 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Emmy Destinat, the prima donna who sang for a cinematograph company recently in a lion's cage, has received for this performance the largest salary ever paid to a singer. For singing a single aria from "Mignon" she has been paid $12,500. She was in the case exactly five minutes, so that the payment works out at $2,500 a minute. In addition to this, the film company had to insure her for $125,000 against death or injury. The Royal Box. The Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, who is aged fourteen, has been made "Translator of English" by the Danish boy scouts, of whom he is one. Queen Mary is an enthusiastic book lover, and whenever she pays short, informal visits to London she usually goes to a famous book shop in the west end, as nothing pleases her better than to be able to look through the new books at her leisure. Prince Alexis Karageorgevich, who has taken up his residence in America with his American bride, who was Mrs. Huger Pratt of Cleveland, is a claimant to the throne of Servia. He fought in the ranks of the Servian army as an enlisted man in the war with the Turks. The prince is a cousin of King Peter of Servia and asserts that he is entitled to the throne. Current Comment. Folks are queer. They light matches to find gas leaks and neglect to light the gas when hunting for medicine bottles. Some enterprising newspaper man ought to send out an authoritative statement on "Who's Killing Who" in Mexico. — Memphis Commercial Appeal. The season of swimming and boat rocking fatalities is past, but that of skating disasters has begun, while the automobile we have always with us.—New York Tribune. Typhoid fever has practically been driven from the army and navy, and some day it should be driven from civil life, when the facilities for prophylactic vaccine treatment become more general.—New York World. Aerial Flights. The use of looping the loop in an aeroplane is problematical unless it is expected to help in military action by throwing the enemy into a state of dazed admiration—Washington Star. The "automatic stabilizer" invented by Orville Wright is said to make it possible to learn to fly in twenty minutes. If flying is made too easy and too safe will there be the same incentive to learn?—New York World. The French have figured it to show that in 1908 there was one death of an aviator for every 1,000 kilometers flown, while in 1912 there was one death for every 140,000 kilometers only. As we see it, they simply fly a little farther now to come to the same end.—Buffalo Commercial. Flippant Flings. The coal man will make things warm for you, even if you don't pay his bills.—Philadelphia Record. The proposition to tax bachelors to provide pensions for widows is enough to provoke the bachelors to marry the widows out of revenge.—Baltimore American. Another English literary man has been knighted. Soon there will be nothing to read in England but "A Thousand and One Knights."—New York American. It is being argued in New York that a lemon trust exists. This is a hard case to prove. If anything, there is too much competition in lemons—you can pick 'em anywhere.—Boston Globe. FLATS TO RENT. STOVE HEATED FLATS TO SUIT INCOME. You will save many tired steps when you want a four or five room flat if you first call on me. Good Tenants Appreciated. Good tenants Pay rent from the first of each month. Please be among the many good tenants paid for renting the same as agents. 2720 Dearborn St., 2nd flat, 7 rooms, $19.00. 3741 LaSalle St., 2nd flat, front, 5 rooms and bath, $20.00. 2406 LaSalle St., 1st flat, 6 rooms, $12.00. If you want a landlord that will do the same to all honest man you wont rent until you see Samuel Richardson, 160 North Fifth Ave., Room 506, North West corner of Randolph St. Owner. THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: From on and after this date The Broad Ax, can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George I Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. B. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. Mrs. Nellie Phalpe, 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, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 52 W. 27th St., near State. "What has become of the orator who used to make such thrilling speeches?" "He had to quit," replied Farmer Corntossel. "He took on so much weight that he couldn't get up on a soap box without smashin' it in."—Washington Star. A markman bold was William Tell, One of the stars. He nearly always rang the bell And won cigars. —Pittsburgh Post. "Sir, Rudolph, the lion, has just bitten off his trainer's arm." "In that case Rudolph won't want any dinner," said the heartless proprietor of the show.—Kansas City Journal. Lives of suffragettes remind us That as long as slurs rile note We have always had some trouble More or less, about the vote. Automatic 72-746 HOWARD F. JIGATLIN NETORS L & BUFFET Chicago, Ill. S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago GENERAL BANKING owed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT estate on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tues and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Fenford Apartment Y. 3600. Wabash Ave.; ver opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. tile baths, marble entrance. 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. The Cranford Apartment Building. 3600. Wabash Ave. THE HOTEL The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. ing You To Light Your Store Are You Paying Big Bills alf Enough Light? would save you each month? Do you realize that the hundred thousand Gas Ares in use in Chicago are saving tens of thousands of dollars for your competitors? Switch from photo of gas are installed which served one Chicago factory 8220 What Is It Costing You To Light Your Store or Factory—Are You Paying Big Bills for Half Enough Light? Gas Light Coke Company Telephone Randolph 4887 Mort Shoecraft Pompei The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building Telephone Randolph 4867 20-22 East 31st Street :: CHICAGO THE MUSEUM 3 per cent allowed Safety Deposit Vaul REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on c dents, including payment of taxes and h on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patr The Cranfor Building. The finest building ever open Steam heat, electric light, tile ba 'Phone Randolph 803 Blatch from photo of gas are installation which saved one Chicago Factory $220 last year. What Is It Costing You or Factory—Are You for Half E Are you aware that store and factory Gas Arcs have been greatly improved in recent years? Do you know that these Gas Arcs now yield the tremendous volume of 350 candies for only one cent an hour? Do you know that the Gas Company maintains these lights—keeps them in order—keeps them burning at their maximum efficiency? Do you realize how much a Gas Arc lighting installation The Peoples Gas LA Peoples Gas Building Thos. McOain Telephone Douglas 1565 J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. If you haven't investigated the matter—and the economy appeals to you—drop us a line or phone us. We will gladly send you our printed Gas Are data—or, if you wish, we can send an expert to submit specific figures on your particular requirements. A STORE FOR EVERYBODY HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STATE Everything to eat, to wear and for the home. Ready to wear attire for man, woman and child at lowest prices, quality and workmanship considered. Make it a point to visit this store every day and take advantage of the special bargain offerings that we give in all departments. JOHN J. BRADLEY IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street CHICAGO. 3004 STATE STREET HENRY JONES THE CAFE Finest T 4 3030 State Street WILLIAM LEWIS, F. Phone Doug MINERAL BUFFET 3517 S. S HIGH CLASS INT FRANK DUNN J. B. MOCAHEY TRUSTEES THE ELITE CAFE and BUFFET Finest Table d'Hote in the City 4 p. m., to 1 a. m. Street C LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEE Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic 75-173 GENERAL SPRING CAFE FET AND CAFE 13517 S. State Street, CHICAGO CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVEN IN ESTABLISHED TELE KEY 1877 1877 JOHN J. DUNN WHOLESALE FIFTY-FIRST RAILYAR 816 FRANK DUNN WHOLESALE COAL RETAIL FTY-FIRST STREET and ARMOUR AVENUE RAILYARDS Slot St. and L. S. & M. S. Phone: Douglas 3256 HARRY J. KELLY Prop. BUFFET S AND CIGARETTES| CHICAGO. 653 NSWICK op. BILLIARDS A. F. CODOZOE LITE FFET in the City MARY C. SNEED, M'dr omatic 75-173 ING CLUB D CAFE CHICAGO EVERY EVENING RETAIL MOUR AVENUE L. S. & M. S. R AVE. CHICAGO CHICAGO Automatic 72-379 Chicago, Ill TEL. OAKLAND 1850, 1851, 1852