The Broad Ax

The Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph., D. D. D., is by Far the Most Unpopular A. M. E. Preacher in Chicago ONCE EACH YEAR THE BETTER CLASS OF THE MEMBERS OF QUINN CHAPTER AND BETHEL CHURCH WHERE HE ATTEMPTED TO EXPOUND HIS UNSOUND GOSPEL IN BY GONE YEARS. SEND PETITIONS TO BISHOP B. F. LEE OF THE CHICAGO CONFERENCE SOLEMNLY PROTESTING TO HIM NOT TO RE-UNSADDLE REV. CAREY, ON EITHER ONE OF THEIR CONGREGATIONS. HE HAS BECOME SO UNPOPULAR THAT ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE TURN OUT TO HEAR HIM GESTICULATE AND PAW THE AIR IN THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. IT WILL BE RECALLED THAT IN 1902 HE WAS ACCUSED OF BUNNING AND HIDING UNDER A TABLE IN THE SOUTH TOWN ASSESSORS OFFICE IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING WHILE HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET AWAY WITH SOME EASY MONEY. EARLY LAST MONDAY MORNING HE ENDEAVORED TO BUST INTO MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON'S INNER OFFICE TO FIND OUT FOR SURE WHETHER THE WHITE LADY MEMBERS OF THE CENSORSHIP BOARD WOULD BE PERMITTED TO PROTEST TO HIM AGAINST SERVING ON THE BOARD WITH HIS LORDSHIP. Vol. XIX. The Rev. Hoy Jackson C. D. D., is Most Unpop E. Preacher ONCE EACH YEAR THE BETTER CHAPTER AND BETHEL CHURCH EXPOUND HIS UNSOUND GOSPE SEND PETITIONS TO BISHOP E. F. I. SOLEMNLY PROTESTING TO CAREY, ON EITHER ONE OF THE HE HAS BECOME SO UNPOPULAR THAT TURN OUT TO HEAR HIM GET THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. IT WILL BE RECALLED THAT IN 19 AND HIDING UNDER A TABLE OFFICE IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE ATTEMPTING TO GET AWAY WAY EARLY LAST MONDAY MORNING MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON'S SURE WHETHER THE WHITE SHIP BOARD WOULD BE AGAINST SERVING ON THE BOX Some few light headed people have intimated to us at various times within the past six months, to the effect that the articles which have appeared in these columns from time to time in relation to the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D have greatly added to his popularity, that the more anyone fights or contends against him the stronger he becomes and the higher up he ascends in every direction, that his hide is thick like unto the poreupine or the hedgehog; that nothing can hurt him nor disturb his peaceful slumbers; that may appear to be true to those who do not know the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. DD. D. from a to z like the writer. For there is no one living that deeply loves to be praised, puffed and to be petted like he does and every time he reads the many things or references to himself which appear in The Broad Ax, from week to week he fumes and rages like a real mad man or a half drunken divine, one who has been stricken low by the wet holy ghost, and if he was only able to do so and make his get away with it he would dearly love to end the existence of the writer who is his very best friend but he don't know it. One step further, a great many people are not aware of the fact that once each year the better class of the members of Quinn Chapel and Bethel Church where he made a rank failure while attempting to preach to them and expound his unsound gospel, send petitions to Bishop B. F. Lee who presides over the Chicago A. M. E. Conference bitterly and solemnly protesting to him not to re-unload or re-saddle the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. on either one of their congregations for they know BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SNUBBED BY THE LEADING APRO-AMERICANS OF LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN. Booker T. Washington spoke in this city Monday evening and he was snubbed by its leading Colored citizens; they absolutely refusing to participate in a reception and dinner which was given in his honor on the night of the 27th. So it was up to the White citizens to entertain him. Joseph Davis, the Colored porter, at the Elks Club was the only Colored person to join hands with the prominent white citizens including Mayor Ori J. Sorensen who assisted to welcome him to La Crosse. In the evening Prof. Washington spoke at the Congregational Church on "The Problem of Educating the Blacks in the Southern States." HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY him too well in their dealings with him in the past. If there is anyone silly or foolish enough to believe that the actions of the members of Bethel Church and Quinn Chapel greatly adds to his respectability and popularity they are heartily welcome to continue to entertain their narrow contracted ideas in that respect. As further undisputable proof that his former so-called popularity is fast fading away and that no real sane person takes any stock in anything he attempts to do and that the fight that has been waged on him through the columns of this paper in relation to his unmoral conduct in the past is telling on him and that thousands of honest people believe that every word that has been uttered against him in this respect is the gospel truth—that the great mass of the highly respectable people have long since lost all confidence in him and as a result, of this loss of confidence in him only a handful of people turn out to hear him gesticulate, paw the air, rant and snort each Sunday at the Institutional Church. It will be recalled that in 1902, the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. was accused of running and hiding under a table in the South Town assessors office in the Stock Exchange Building while he was attempting to get away with some easy money. Early last Monday morning he rushed into Mayor Harrison's main office all out of breath and he endeavored to bust into his inner office, to find out for sure whether or not, the White lady members of the moving picture Censorship Board, would be permitted, to file a protest, against serving with his lordship, as a member of that board. PORMER ALDERMAN JOHN J. BRADLEY SELECTED FOR UNITED STATES MARSHAL FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Recently, President Woodrow Wilson, sent the name of former Alderman John J. Bradley, to the United States Senate; as his choice for United States Marshal, and on Tuesday of this week; his nomination was confirmed by the senate for that position, to the great gratification of his hosts of friends. 1210 1000 1000 BANQUET AND RECEPTION TO RUBE FOSTER AND HIS AMERICAN GIANTS AT ODD FELLOWS HALL. By L. W. Washington. The Citizens Committee's Banquet to the American Giants and Rube Foster. At Odd Fellows Hall, Thursday Evening was a success in many ways: The green colored menu immediately brought pleasant memories of the players of this team; from the past scenes upon the diamond. And then too, it was a success, because the Hon. Beaegard F. Moseley was its Toast-Master who made those boys with earnest hearts and anxious endeavors, who play the game, feel that they were not forgotten. It was a success because it was the most Democratic meeting I have ever attended, I saw nothing but the ball passing with the swiftness of a cannon shot, leaving the hands of Wade, stopped by Booker, without a fumble, One out and the line drive by Hill defeated; who to short stop Lord snipped the ball to Francis on third; Two out as the game became more exciting, I saw Garvisin the left field trying to cover the right, but Duan was there which brought the smiles of Rube and Dougherty. It was a success because of Its representation In the persons of Major John R. Lynch, author of The Book Entitled "Reconstruction." Billy Gleason the man who Knows; Col. Franklin A. Denison representing the sentiments of the entire eight regiment, Major R. R. Jackson, representing the great Pythian order, Mr. John M. Schorling The man who with his money took a chance with Rube Foster, who has made good. Mr. Schorling said that things to be considered connectively with a base ball park, "Was first to have a good team, secondly to have the arrangement of your seating capacity so as to give your patrons a good View, and third a good diamond. It takes a good deal of expense to keep a park in order and I want to say this that no where in the United States to day, can you get the same amount of service as you get at the American Giants base ball Park. Rube Foster said you have asked me to speak upon the subject why I Play base ball." Because when I was a child I was very sick, and I discovered that by playing base ball, I had found a sure cure for consumption, and the thing was so serviceable to me, in developing my physique would save the day for the other boys and girls, by the out door open air sport. After having traveled over 12,000 miles we are proud to be with you, back in to the greatest base ball city in the world. Every citizen should be a fan If for nothing more than to take in the fresh air that one is permitted to breathe. I play the game so as to have that boy play it in such a way as to be able to make money to take care of his family. Col. F. A. Denison. "I can't tell you much about the game across the borders. But I can tell you, that Intelligence, Courage and Obedience, is very necessary qualities to make a good soldier, and I am under the impression that it takes the same thing or qualification to make a good ball player, I believe by the good conduct and the manly stand of such men as are affiliated with the American Giants will one day wipe out the color line. Dr. M. J. Brown said that the American Giants, were the undergrounds of the Diamond, a credit to the race and to themselves, and the people ought to give them every encouragement by patronizing their games as other folks do. Mr. S. B. Turner Editor of the Idea, said that one could run the bases better by getting a little advertisement now and then for the managers because it would be the Colored papers which would keep up the sentiment, which makes the successful run in base ball. Mr. L. W. Washington Representing The Broad Ax said "That a base ball player could not successfully make an Infield Hit, without using The Broad Ax. That we were proud to know that Rube Foster and the American Giants are teaching the race the best use of an organization, and the effects of good will and Unity." Mrs. Hattie Booker the wife of P. Booker catcher of the American Giants will join her husband on the 4th of May in Chicago, Ill. THE AMATEUR MINSTREL CLUB PRESENTED THE MONEY REALIZED FROM ITS RECENT ENTERTAINMENT TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE OLD POLKS HOME. Last evening, the Amateur Minstrel Club, held a presentation meeting at the Appomattox Club, at which time the money which was realized from its recent show and dance; was presented, to the Board of Directors of the Old Folks Home; for the entertainment was given for its benefit. Luncheon was served and Frank B. Waring President and Charles S. Washington Secretary were on hand to greet those who had been invited to be present at the Presentation Meeting. The Sixth Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People WILL BE HELD AT BALTIMORE, M. D., MAY 3, 4, AND 5. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES OF ITS SESSIONS WILL BE THE READING OF A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM HIS EMINENCE, JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST IN HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR THE AFBO-AMERICAN RACE. HON. CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, HON. MOORFIELD STOREY, DR. WILL IAM H. WELCH, HON. GEORGE DOBBIN, BISHOP JOHN GARDNER MURRAY, HON. ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE, DR. JOEL E. SPINGARN AND PROF. W. E. B. DU BOIS, WILL BE AMONG THE SPEAKERS. Glen View, Cook County, Ill. April 25th, 1914. To Julius F. Taylor, Editor, The Broad Ax. Sir:—Have you ever had a violent gust of wind come through the open windows and play destructive havoc with the papers in the editorial room? No, that is a feeble metaphor. Can you imagine, let us say, what it would be like to toss sheafs of paper up in the air before blasts from a big ten-inch gun? has courageous friends there, as everywhere. And I don't forget that one of the star speeches on the program will be an address by the Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore on "Legal and Economic Equality." I have been to these conferences of ours, off and on, and I want to say that the Baltimore program, in my judgment, eclipses them all. The opening session Sunday afternoon will be opened with a special message from his Eminence, James Cardi- Well, something of that sort describes the sensations I have had for the past two weeks when, as Chairman of the Press Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, I have had to watch the "copy" which I have politely and laboriously handed out to the press of the country regarding our big Baltimore conference, simply blown to smithereens by the War News From Mexico. Why, last year and the year before the great Associated Press carried a column of advance news about our annual conference to the big White papers of the country. This year the A.P. has cut it down to about a "stickful" and I doubt if much of that has actually been printed in the White papers. As every newspaper man knows, it has been cut, cut, cut on everything to make room for the "hot" war news and the "fake" war news from below the Rio Grande. This is very rough, indeed, on the chairman of the press committee, but it isn't really going to hurt our big Baltimore conference one little iota. But I want to drop this week the stereotyped methods of "press work" and tell the readers of The Broad AX quite simply and frankly, that this sixth annual conference of our association is going to reach the highest pitch we have ever reached in courageous and constructive discussion of the race question. And this is not "talk," that's hard solid fact. As your readers probably know in a general way, the conference takes place in Baltimore on May 3rd, 4th and 5th. Some people thought we made a fatal mistake in going to Baltimore. I did myself, but the fact remains nevertheless, that this conference is going to be welcomed in Baltimore by a committee which includes some of the biggest and most public-spirited men in the place. The chairman of the local committee is Mr. William F. Cochran, one of the wealthiest men in that wealthy city and one of the most public spirited. There is Mr. George Dobbin Penniman, general counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and a man as sound on the race question as Mr. Moorfield Storey. There is Dr. William H. Welch of John Hopkins University, a scholar of international repute; there is Bishop John Gardner Murray of the Episcopal Church; there is Dr. Robert Stuart MaeArthur of the Baptist Church; there is Dr. Frank Manny, one of Baltimore's leading educators—well there is no need to go on with the list. I can only say that it makes me slightly ashamed of my misgivings regarding "White" Baltimore. The Colored man No.32 Annual Meet- the National on for the ment of Col- ple D., MAY 3, 4, AND 5. ONE OF THE OF ITS SESSIONS WILL BE THE AGE FROM HIS EMINENCE, JAMES AS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST IN RO-AMERICAN RACE. N. MOORFIELD STOREY, DR. WILL-DOBBIN, BISHOP JOHN GARDNER, GRIMKE, DR. JOEL E. SPINGARN WILL BE AMONG THE SPEAKERS. has courageous friends there, as everywhere. And I don't forget that one of the star speeches on the program will be an address by the Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore on "Legal and Economic Equality." I have been to these conferences of ours, off and on, and I want to say that the Baltimore program, in my judgment, eclipses them all. The opening session Sunday afternoon will be opened with a special message from his Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons, and there will be addresses by Hon. Moorfield Storey of Boston, president of the N. A. A. C. P., United States Senator Wesley L. Jones; Dr. Howard Kelley of Johns Hopkins University and Rev. R. W. Bagnall of Detroit. The two last-named are Colored gentlemen and are not eclipsed in native ability by the speakers preceding them on the program. The sessions Monday afternoon and evening will be addressed by Mr. Archibald H. Grimke of Washington, D.C., who presides in the afternoon. Mrs. Havelock Ellis, wife of the distinguished English scientist. Attorney W. Justin Carter of Harrisburg, Pa., on "Discrimination in the Professions." Mrs. Coralie F. Cook, of Washington D.C., on "The Problem of the Colored Child." Rev. R. G. Waller, on "The Colored Problems of Baltimore." Dr. Joel E. Springarn of New York City, who presides at night sessions. Mr. Butler R. Wilson of Boston, in a frank talk on "The Growth of Color Prejudice in New England and How We are Meeting It." Dr. Katherine B. Davis of New York City, on "The Problem of the Delinquent Colored Women." Prof. T. S. Inborden of Engfield, N.C., on "The Negro and the Land." All of the subject named above have their phase of interest for those who are concerned to have the race problem solved, and solved right. Personally I confess most curiosity to hear the two Colored speakers who are going to discuss the question as it appears in New England and Baltimore. On Tuesday the third and closing day of the conference, there will be some tremendously stimulating and, I believe, heartening addresses. On the revised program which has just reached me I find Dr. W. E. B. DuBoise down as the chairman for the afternoon and Bishop John Hurst for the evening, with other speakers listed as follows: Charles J. Bonaparte on "Legal and Economic Equality." Miss Adelene Moffatt, a Southern White woman on, "The Southern Renaissance." Rev. S. L. Theobald on "The Catholic Church and the Negro." Mr. Lafayette M. Hershaw on a timely topic, "The Civil War and the Colored Man." Mr. W. Ashbie Hawkins on, "The Negro and the Court." Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard on, "Some Traitors to the South." and—wait a moment—pause—get into focus: (Continued on page 2.) The prosecution had only one witness to prove its case and that was the girl herself as the testimony of all other witnesses failed to corroborate her statement. On the other hand, it was shown that the girl had a very bitter quarrel with Mrs. Browning and the Browning family and the girl's family had serious disagreements and the Browning's had ordered the girl's mother to move from the Browning house. It also appeared that the alleged assault was made about the 1st of January and the girl never said a word about it, until the quarrel in March not even to her mother, and although she lived in the Browning house for two months after the alleged occurrence, she never complained to Mrs. Browning. Besides that, it appeared considerable feeling existed in church circles, because Mr. Browning who had been a member of the Macedonian Baptist Church, Rev. James Royal, pastor had received a call to preach and was preparing for the ministry and had been partly licensed by Rev. Royal to "preach the gospel to every living creature" and especially to the sinners of Maywood. After that Rev. Royal changed his mind and concluded to cut the ground from under Brother Browning's gospel shoes, so they fired him out of the Macedonian church. Brother Browning then joined the Second Baptist Church, Rev. James Swanson, pastor. New Probe Started April 27th. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. George Cleveland Hall announces the removal of his office and residence May 1, 1914, to 3408 South Park avenue, Chicago. Hours, 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sundays by appointment only. Telephone Douglas 4111. CHIPS The following Bargains will be OPEN FOR INSPECTION from 2 to 4 P. M. Daily. 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If you have friends visiting you, or if you are going on a visit ont 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, 4690. "Why don't you enter the race for mayor? You could be elected with a whoop." "No. I'll never enter a political race of any kind. No raking up of the past for me." "What have you to fear?" "I was a member of a male quartet enca."—Chicago Record-Herald. They say that all is fair in love. But on this saw don't bet. A girl can be your turtle dove And still be a brunette. —Chadmatt Enquirer. "What comes after the honeymoon, Uncle Heck?" The simooon usually," replied the pachy old bachelor—Puck. If you would buy cigars for me Buy just the sort you're able; But, oh, dear lady, hear my plan; Don't choose 'em by the label! —Detroit Free From. "What's the trouble with the ballen?" "You see, sir, the boss told the engineer to fire the furnace, and he made a mistake and fired the stoker."—Baltimore american. When weather chant brings general cheer Be careful what you say. We mumt't talk too loud for fear We'll frighten it away. —Washington titar. "We are going to name our baby after one of his uncles, but we can't decide which." "That's easy. Which one has the most money?"—Pittsburgh Press. At our stately old palace Rideau The ladies would dance the tangean, But by proxy the crown Put a dainty foot down And said with decision, "Nean, nean!" —Toronto Globe OPP. BLACKSTONE WABASH AVENUE. 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Success may ruin some persons, but that does not deter the strugglers up the ladder. A music trust is to be formed. Its promoters ought to be able to work in harmony. It is twice as hard to make a good matter better as it is to make a bad matter worse. The speechless banquet will be popular with all except the man who has rehearsed his. Love laughs at locksmiths, and when poverty comes in at the door he also laughs at glaziers. Good men help one another, even without suspecting it. The bad deliberately oppose each other. Time has delicate little waves, but the sharpest cornered pebble, after all, becomes smooth and blunt at last. Experiments with radium prove that it will do wonderful things if science con only find out just what they are. Even in London they are learning that time is money. A "Book of Hours" sold there for $700 the other day. Alphonse Bertillon made it easier to detect criminals. But the police records do not indicate any great diminution in crime. It is estimated that 100,000,000 fish in New York state have cancer. And a good many of them are sure to get the hookworm. A music professor has evolved the theory that soprano singers should many tenors. Isn't this a little rough on the sopranos? Not only do the poor pay more than the rich for food products, as has been shown by expert inquiry in New York, but they pay cash. Presently some forehanded reformer will make a hit with the plain people by demanding government ownership of moving picture shows. Some one says "no thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable." He is itable to be, however, if he occupies himself with the business of other people. An Italian post has just celebrated his one hundred and second birthday. In the matter of dying, however, it's the same with poets as it is with other men. --- Money by any other name would be as hard to get. The best way to deal with secrets is not to have any. Cupid rules some marriages, and others are ruled by cupidity. The judge isn't the only person who complains that life is full of trials. Love is the only thing in the world that is at once a necessity and a luxury. Talk about coals to Newcastle! An American firm has opened a laundry in Peking. There are people who are as silent as the tomb until they run across a batch of bad news. The New York criminal whose finger print is a blank must be the long looked for John Doe. A convict won his freedom by drawing cartoons. Penned his way out of the pen, as it were. The lobbyist is one of the few men who find that it does not pay to advertise their business. An optimist, as we understand it, is a man who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. Women on juries is said to work well in Norway, but then the girls all dress alike over there. Vocational training will be simplified when everybody is running an automobile store or a garage. "The right woman can make a fool of any man." says a woman lecturer. Avoid the right woman. Just because G. K. Chesterton complains of too much morality it doesn't follow that the millennium has arrived. If you are really going to make yourself useful the coming summer you will keep your fly swatting equipment handy. There's one good thing about learning to drive an automobile. Nobody has to run alongside of you to hold you up. What greater chivalry could those Greek soldiers have shown after killing the Turks than by marrying the widows? A diplomat is a man who can say the right thing to a woman who has just made the discovery that her jelly won't jell. The proper way to eat snails, according to an exchange, is with a three pronged fork. What's the matter with a capsule? Some idlers make the mistake of thinking the Lord will provide the patches when the seat of their trousers needs repairs. The Philadelphia woman desirous of trading off a defective spinal cord might exchange with some men, and then lose out. French sculptors are trying to fix the tembine waist line. Too late. It slipped off over the ankles and was lost awhile ago. At last the removal of a verniform appendix has been done in moving picture films. Shakespeare never had anything like this. A woman lecturer says that little girls should not be allowed to play with dolls. What would she substitute, bombs and firebrands? Mere energy is not necessarily a virtue. A lazy man asleep in the shade is just as useful as a "hustler" who stirs up nothing but trouble. About the first thing a woman does after moving into a house is to look in all the closets to see if the last tenants left any family skeletons. To some men no deeper tragedy could be imagined than the story of the Britisher who hunted his lost wife for thirty-seven years—and then found her. It is to be hoped that the fact will be concealed from the domestic cow that imitation tortoise shell is made from her milk, as she is haughty enough already. The man who prepared the instructions to quacks found in a federal raid in St. Louis had evidently read the pointers to book agents furnished by publishers. The refusal of Mrs. Pankhurst to marry the best man in the world is liable to bring forth aspirants to that title who would otherwise never have been heard from. Next to obtaining garden seeds that will grow, perhaps the most difficult task on the hands of the citizen of domestic tastes is to find a setting hen that will stay set. University of Chicago professors have shown by careful experiments that the land is subject to tides as well as the water, thus confirming the observations of many convivial lay scientists. SIRES AND SONS. Michael Haitsch, Cleveland aphasia victim, has completely forgotten German, his native language. Judge William Kelley of St. Paul, Minn., has worn every day a white rose in his buttonhole for the last twenty-six years in memory of a daughter who died in 1888. Leon de Warzee, who has just been promoted first secretary of the Belgian legation at Tokyo, was transferred to that post from Teheran as second secretary last April. The Right Hon. Richard Robert Cherry, who has been appointed to succeed Baron O'Brien as lord chief justice of Ireland, has been lord justice of appeal for the island for several years. He was born in 1830 and was educated at Trinity college. Rev. William Duncan, who built up the famous missionary village of Indians known as Metlakatla in Alaska, is now eighty-two years old and on account of the decreptude of old age has been forced to give up the unique chieftainship which he held among his tribe of converts in both religious and civic capacities. Fashion Frills Clothes don't make the man, but they sometimes make a monkey of him.—Philadelphia Record. This age is so mad for efficiency that it utilizes even the frenzied energy of delirium to design women's hats and gowns.—Chicago News. Hair and complexion in Paris must now be made to match the gown. It looks like patchwork, however, to let the eyes remain the natural color.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The fashion editor says that our best dressed women are wearing a great deal of taffeta, but we don't suppose she means a great deal all at one time.—Ohio State Journal. Recent Inventions. To obviate the danger to the lungs from inhaling dust a new rock drill is so constructed that it catches all the dust in a bag. A spring actuated burglar alarm has been invented which rings a bell the instant a doorknob is turned and also prevents a key being turned from the wrong side. The inventor of a corrugated propeller for motorboats claims it arrests the centrifugal action of the water along the blades and increases the driving power of the machinery without increasing the fuel consumption. Three Reels. Sadler's Wells theater; the oldest surviving theater in London, having been built in 1765, is about to be turned into a moving picture house. Sydney, Australia, with 600,000 inhabitants, has sixty moving picture theaters. Bombay contains fifteen picture shows, mostly controlled by Parsee. A new motion picture camera using electric sparks instead of shutters is capable of making 100,000 pictures a second and has made seventy-two pictures of a bullet fired from a revolver passing through a space of ten inches. Town Topics. Police commissioners come and go in New York, but graft goes on forever.—Philadelphia Ledger. Baltimore moves forward despite the knockers tied to the tail of the cart of progress.—Baltimore American. There's at least one place in Cleveland that's in no need of cleaning. Reference is intended, of course, to the city treasury.—Cleveland Leader. The Duke of Manchester says that Philadelphia is a "swift and wicked city." Our advice to the duke is to stay away from Chicago.—Detroit Free Press. Flippant Flings. Jane Addams says she doesn't know enough to be mayor. Nether do a lot of men we know, but some of them are mayors—Detroit Free Press. An arctic expedition de luxe has been planned, with bathrooms, tobacco, spirits and a piano. They should not forget desk chair—New York Sun. It takes a Frick to be able to buy Whistlers. The rest of us have to be content with trying to silence them with brickbats—Philadelphia Ledger. Aerial Flights. Aviators continue to be free from the attentions of life insurance men.—Washington Star. Flying across the Atlantic in a hydro- aeroplane is now one of the popular parlor games.—Chicago News. Saving the crew of a torpedo boat that went on the rocks, as French aviators did, is something more than a stunt. It was much more worth doing than looping the loop and turning somersaults in the air.—New York World. Short Stories. A vast portion of Australia is virtually empty. The ratio of population in northern Australia is about one to every 700 square miles. During the past ten years 46,680 men deserted from the army. Becruits are chosen with care, for, out of 100,000 who applied for enlistment in 1912, only 20,000 were accepted. The Customer—These grand opera phonograph records are no good. I can't get anything out of half of them. The Salesman—Yes; they are our finest achievement. You never can tell when they'll sing, they're so temperamental.—Puck. I'm very kind to cooks, but still it riles a man, you know. To figure from the kitchen's smell she's burning up his dough. —Dallas News. "Did you see how the tango has got into the silk trade?" "That so? Now we'll have even the silkworms doing the proper wriggle."—Baltimore American. He had a grievance, fierce indeed. He said, as he denied it, "If I am going to succeed I'll surely have to hide it!" —Cincinnati Enquirer. "Pop." "Yes, my son." "Do you believe that history repeats itself?" "Yes, my boy." "Well, if it does, who is the other man like Washington who never told a lie?"—Yonkers Statesman. The new canal seeps through the sand And slowly seeks its goal, And everywhere, in every land, They all discuss the toll. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Gibbs—I tell you, old man, a wife is a very expensive article. The wilderness' will blossom Like the rose of you les' say, "I'll keep the saw a singin' In the timber every day" -Atlanta Constitution. Willie—Paw, what is a man of un- told wealth? Paw—A tax dodger, my son—Cincinn- ati Enquirer. A person named Susan McHopper Donned clothes so awfully proper That her young son, J. Brooks, Cried with fright in his looks, "Is this my mommer or popper?" -Philadelphia Ledger. "You look as if you had achieved some great triumph," said his wife. Man wants but little here below, And yet he frets and frets. He wants but little, and we know 'Tis little that he gets. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bacon—What was your first impression of Venice? Egbert—Why, nearly everything appeared to be floating before my eyes.—Yonkers Statesman. The plumber's life is filled with salve, His days are gay and bright. For he can go to bed and have A pipe dream every night. "Have you ever been indicted for anything?" "No. I've never been able to induce people to let me figure in the large affairs of trade."—Chicago Record-Herald. It might be nature faking, but as I travel on I'd like the kindly vision to see the geese as swan. It seems not one whit wiser—and really what's the use? To go about insisting that some swan is a goose. —Life. Miss Catt—She has a novel complexion. Miss Nipp—Yes; but the novelty is apt to wear off—Judge. The bill collector said, "I say, This job is not all fun, For, though I'm dunning night and day, My work is never dun." —Cincinnati Enquirer. The Bore—Do you know, Tennyson's poems carry me completely away. Miss Bert—Really? I'm awfully sorry we haven't a volume in the house.—Philadelphia Ledger. Those Mexican boarders Great trouble are givin'. They don't care a darn For the high cost of livin'. —Atlanta Constitution. "Look here, Fred, I think I know you well enough to ask you how much I ought to tip that butler of yours!" "Then I should treat him accordingly. I wouldn't give him more than $50."—Life. Little Miss Mullet Stood on a tuftet Speaking for equal rights. Some one offended, Another defended. And the outcome was several fights. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Will I have to pay cash for this message?" "Pay in advance, sir." "Whr. don't all telegraph messages go on tick?"—Baltimore American. There was a young lady in Java Who said that she surely must hava Sleigh ride with her bean In the beautiful sneat, But he said, "I am more used to lava." —Life. "Is he an apostle of humanity?" "Is he? He has twelve children and won't let one of them take music less sons."—Philadelphia Ledger. Behave yourself, son. Don't be known as a grumbler. A smile on your face is worth two in a tumbler. —Cincinnati Enquirer. RESIDENCE 1262 MACALISTER PLACE TELEPHONE, MONROE 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 318-328 REAPER BLOCK 9 CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS 7 PHONES CENTRAL 230 AUTOMATIC 41-916 CHICAGO A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St. Chicago Suites 619 to 616 Telephone Main 3077 PHONES: OFFICE, MAIN 4183 AUTOMATIC 33-736 BRESIDENCE, DREXEL 79> SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARY PUBLIC CHICAGO Phone Franklin Bea 508 R. 36th St. 2727 Tel. Douglas 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney-at-Law 118 N. La Salle Street Oxford Building Suite 403 CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 W. Randolph Street. CHICAGO Suite 708 Delaware Bldg. Tel. Central 3142 Office Phone Automatic 44-185 W. G. ANDERSON Room 40, 143 North Dearborn Street Cor. Randolph St. CHICAGO McCormick Bldg Evening Office, 2458 State Street Phone Automatic 77-574 DE WITT H. HARDIN Suite 8 Johnson Bldg. Phone Douglas 7720 3522|So. State St., Chicago RESIDENCE 3423 FOREST AVB. Phone Douglas 6001 Phone Douglas 8078 Automatic 72-384 Office Hours-8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Dr. MacENRY J. BROWN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON OCULIST Practice Limited to Diseases of Eye and Ear 3502 S. State St. CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 Sq. Wabash Ave. Oakland 6002, Auto. 73-058 Phone Dresel 18015 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment THE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. Old Line Legal Reserve Co. Under State Government Supervision. $100,000 deposited with the State. Policies of all Kinda ranging from $20 cents become the $100,000 in the federal Contracts give to the colored policy holder more than any other company for the same weekly premium. Colored Agents to Write and Collect Tour Business. Information of rates and values at your age will be furnished free, upon giving your age, name and address to The American Life Insurance Co. of Illinois. Tel. Randolph S. Home Office—Harris Trust Building. 115 W. Haines St. CHICAGO. TELEPHONES Oakland 1609 Res. Oakland 1760 Auto. 79156 HENRY C. BOMAR & SON FINE FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVING, PARKING AND SHIPPING 3 Tiptoe Daily to All Deposits 4706 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO FOR RENT. Dark Room for business purposes in branch law office of W. G. Anderson & L. A. Newby, 35th and State St. N. W. corner. The recent adoption of a new segregation ordinance in Norfolk, Va., is causing no little unrest among the colored citizens against whose interest the measure is aimed. The first segregation law adopted by the city was declared invalid, unreasonable and unjust by Police Justice James S. Barron and ruled out by Judge McLemore of the city circuit court. The Journal and Guide, an influential weekly edited by P. B. Young in Norfolk, Va., commenting at length on the new ordinance in an able editorial, in part says: "The new ordinance as adopted by both bodies of the city council with only one dissenting vote differs from the old ordinance in one or two essential parts. It establishes the right of the city to appeal by eliminating the jail sentence from the penalty for its violation and under its provisions—whether intended so to be or not—is operative in only such city blocks as are already 'white' or 'black' as defined by the ordinance. "The old ordinance defined a block as 'white' or 'black' in proportion to the number of white or colored residents in the block. Strange to say, the new law takes no cognizance of blocks occupied by both races. From a layman's point of view the ordinance merely anticipates a condition that may never exist. Still in its final analysis it is as objectionable as the old ordinance inasmuch as in its legal aspects it abrogates the right of one citizen to contract with another and is a serious menace to the economic advancement and even existence of the Negro. "In order to conform to a legislative statute it is framed to 'prevent conflict and ill feeling between the white and colored races in the city of Norfolk and to preserve the public peace and promote the general welfare by making reasonable provision requiring the use of separate blocks for residents for white and colored people respectively.'" "In this particular it is a misnomer. No arbitrary law, no manner of class legislation can prevent ill feeling between the races. On the other hand, it can only serve to accentuate race prejudice and is of itself a practical demonstration of ill feeling between the races. As Dr. James B. Dudley has wisely said, 'That government is best that govern least—that places 'no unnecessary restrictions and handicaps upon the activities of the people.'" "The vote in the common council was almost unanimous, only one member. John J. Pitt of Washington ward voting against it. Mr. Pitt made a statement before casting his vote to the effect that he 'did not think the measure was just to the colored residents of the city. I cannot get the consent of my conscience to vote for it, and for that reason make this statement before voting.' Mr. Pitt also said that he 'did not subscribe to the doctrine that "might makes right" and that he regarded human rights above property rights.' "Those were lofty sentiments. It requires great courage for a young southern white man to take that stand. He stood alone, which was not a rare thing. But it gives him more honorable distinction because of having stood alone. The colored citizens of Norfolk, who have long suffered as the result of unjust restrictions, have written the name of John J. Pitt upon a roll of honor, which is headed by the names of those princely Virginia gentlemen. Tazewell Taylor and James S. Barron. "We fail to recognize the necessity of a segregation ordinance in Norfolk. The Negro does not want to encroach upon the precincts which the white man has set aside for himself. He does not want to invade the white man's exclusive reservations. The Negro does want room for expansion, however. He cannot be restricted to an area inadequate to meet the demands of natural growth and survive the pressure of economic competition. The Negro's fight against segregation is not a fight to live with the white man, but a fight to live by himself. "We have been asked why the Negro objects to segregation. We do not object to segregation as voluntarily practiced by both races because of the natural law of selection which leads members of separate races to group together, which is a good and desirable thing in our situation, but we do object to segregation by legislation, because it distinquishes us as legal undesirable; consigns us to undestrable localities; denies us participation in public improvements; subjects us to unsanitary conditions; increases our inconveniences; diminishes our accommodations; deprives us of police protection; restricts property values; exposes us to crushing business competition, and instantiates race prejudice." A woman always has a grouch When thinking of her setter, But she is sure to smile the day The postman brings her letter. '—Yonkers Statesman. Mrs. Flitt—My husband very seldom goes to his club. THE MUSEUM 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year THE NEW YORK CITY MUSEUM OF ART AND CINEMA LA VERDO BUFFET IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARETTES 3100 State Street CHICAGO. The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. A WILLIAM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEED, Mfr. Phone Douglas 3300 Automatic 75-173 would be "perfectly foolish" about a dinner of Corn Beef and Cabbage,—with fresh bread—baked; 'atoes—a good cup of coffee and a big hunk of apple pie to finish up with.