The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. Forced to Resign or Give Up the Ghost as One of the Members of the Moving Picture Censorship Board, Thereby Causing Him to Lose $110 per Month in Easy Money, in Addition to Depriving Him of $40. to $50. per Month Rent for the Institutional Church, Which He Received from the Illinois State Commission IT IS MAINTAINED THAT MANY PROMINENT WHITE AND COLORED CITIZENS STRONGLY PROTESTED TO MAJOR M. L. C. FUNKHOUSEER AND MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON AGAINST PERMITTING THE REV. HON. GENTLEMAN TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THE CITY IN THAT CAPACITY. THAT THE LADY MEMBERS OF THE CENSORSHIP BOARD BEING FEARFUL AND HIGHLY APPREHENSIVE THAT AT MOST ANY TIME THEY WERE LIABLE TO BE STRUCK DOWN STONE DEAD FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE BRILLIANT RAYS FROM HIS LADY'S EVIL OR FASCINATING EYE, CUT HIM TO THE QUICK ON ALL OCCASIONS. IT IS ALSO ASSEBTED THAT HE WILL SOON REVIVE HIS OLD CHURCH ORGAN WHICH HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY DEAD FOR ALMOST ONE YEAR IN ORDER TO GOBBLE ON TO SOME OF THE STATE PRINTING AND KNOCK COL. S. B. TURNER AND HIS NO IDEA OUT OF IT. Vol. XIX. The Rev. H. to Resign the Move Him to Depriving Institution State Co. IT IS MAINTAINED THAT MANY REV. TO MAJOR M. L. C. FUNKHOUSE REV. HON. GENTLEMAN TO CO. THAT THE LADY MEMBERS OF THE THAT AT MOST ANY TIME THE EFFECTS OF THE BRILLIANT QUICK ON ALL OCCASIONS. IT IS ALSO ASSERTED THAT HE WILL LUTELY DEAD FOR ALMOST ON AND KNOCK COL. S. B. TURNER. One month ago the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D., was so drunk with his own self-importance that he entertained the idea that he was the king of all the earth—that all its people were simply his willing slaves—that they were all created for no other purpose than to administer to his wants and his comforts, but today it is gradually dawning upon his beclouded mind that he has not at all times everything in this world by the tail. For public sentiment has been running strong against him—so strong that Bishop Samuel Fallows, who wants to do right at all times and whose true friendship for the Colored race can't be questioned and the other members of the state commission open and above board voted in favor of changing the headquarters of the commission from the Institutional church to 128 North La Salle Street. At the time that the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Casey, Ph. D. D. D., was selected one of the members of the moving picture censorship board he loudly boasted that he had a lifetime job that old Julius Taylor and his little "Nigger" newspaper was unable to hurt or harm him in the slightest degree, but we continued to fire red hot shot and shells into his sides each and every week until we finally made an opening which caused some of the most prominent White and Colored citizens to sit up and take notice and many of them within the past few weeks have called on Major M. L. C. Funkhouser, others have forwarded letters to him and to Mayor Carter H. Harrison, so it is maintained strongly protesting against permitting him to continue to further serve the great respectable citizenship of this city in that capacity. Being partly able to detect which way the wind is blowing and to correctly read the signs of the times or the lines which were written by mysterious fingers on the walls of the palace at the time of Belshazzer's feast of the gods thousands of years ago, "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin," so he was forced to resign and give up the ghost. It is also said that the lady members of the censorship board dreaded to come in close contact with the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D. They being fearful and highly apprehensive that at almost any time they were more than liable to be struck down stone dead from the effects of the brilliant rays from his lady's evil, fascinating or enchanting eyes, so they cut him to the quick on all occasions and no doubt about it he felt their sharp cuts very keenly. In his effort to be the tameest and the greatest all-hog in the wide world, HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE) CHIPS FALL WHERE I THEY MAY well onto one hundred and fifty dollars is fast fading away from him each month, one hundred and ten dollars per month as a member of the moving picture censorship board and forty to fifty per month rent for the Institutional church which he received from the Illinois State Commission and no one but light headed ignorant fools could or would ever permit themselves to entertain the idea for one minute that the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D., would ever willingly give up so much real easy money unless he was absolutely forced to do so. The Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D., so it is asserted will soon revive his Old Church Organ, the Chicago Conservator, which has been absolutely dead for almost one year in time to gobble onto some state printing and knock or beat Col. S. B. Turner out of it; for brother Carey feels that inasmuch as Col. Turner bitterly fought the Hon. Edward F. Dunne in 1912 and said every mean thing he could think in relation to the Democrats that at no stage of the game is he entitled to shove his snake in the grass feet under the Democratic pie counter and come to think of it, it is said that the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D., in 1912 received more than one hundred dollars in Democratic easy money for simply, softly stating to some one at some time, somewhere in the remote part of this state that "the Hon. Edward F. Dunne is rather changeable in his mind, that like unto an old lady he is all fuss and feathers and that he would be unable to do a great deal of harm to the Colored people if he should happen to be elected Governor of Illinois." Therefore, it would seem to all fair minded men that the Rev. Hon. Archibald Jackson Carey, Ph. D. D. D., has already received his pay for doing nothing for the Democrats in this state in 1912 and as he faked several hundred dollars out of the pockets of the taxpayers in 1913 with his Old Church Organ and for committing that fraud he should be prosecuted to the bitter end for obtaining money under false pretenses and from no standpoint of reasoning is he justly entitled to receive one dollar's worth of state printing for his Old Church Organ at any time. Miss Anna Schulman, stenographer for Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington Street, returned home Tuesday evening from her vacation trip which she delightfully spent at Banger, Mich. HONS. JOHN E. OWENS AND JOHN A. CERVENKA HAVE SELECTED JULIUS F. TAYLOR TO LOOK AFTER THEIR INTEREST AMONG THE COLORED VOTERS IN COOK COUNTY. IN THEIR CAMPAIGNS FOR RE NOMINATION AND RE-ELECTION TO THEIR PRESENT POSITIONS Owing to so many people of all kinds, good, bad and indifferent, whose political worth or standing many times is of doubtful value, consuming so much time of the candidates seeking political honors and they not being in a position to investigate their claims or pretentions as to the number of voters they can control and deliver at the primaries and the day of election. It was decided this week by Hons. John E. Owens, Democratic candidate for re-nomination and re-election for judge of the County Court, and John A. Cervenka, Democratic candidate for re-nomination and re-election for clerk of the Probate Court, to place everything pertaining to their campaigns in connection with the Colored voters of this city and county in charge of Julius F. Taylor. Showing that they have the utmost confidence in our ability and honesty to conserve their best interests in that respect. Every day except Fridays the writer can be found at 184 West Washington Street, room 708, from 1230 to 2 o'clock. Phone main 4153. Prior to that time he can be located in the council committee rooms on the second floor of the city hall and later on each evening he can be communicated with by calling Drexel 4590. JOHN J. HAYES HIGHLY COM MENTS THE PROBLEM From August 1, 1899, down to the present time, Mr. John J. Hayes, member of John J. Ryan and Company manufacturers of brass furnishings, 100 S. Jefferson Street, has been a constant subscriber to The Broad Ax and while in conversation with him a few days ago he highly commended it for contending or fighting in favor of pushing to the front at all times the best class of Colored men and women to represent the Colored people on all occasions. He plainly stated that he was not seeking any quarrel with Governor Edward F. Dunne, but he is firmly convinced that he has made a serious mistake in conferring high political honors on some Colored men who are unworthy if all reports are true to receive such honors. ATTORNEY WALTER M. FARMER RAN DOWN BY A FAST SPEEDING AUTOMOBILE, BREAKING HIS RIGHT ARM. Tuesday evening shortly after Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 W. Washington Street, alighted from a State Street car at 56th and South State Street, which was headed south and just as he was in the act of crossing to the east side of that same street, a fast speeding auto darted out from behind a street car going north, striking him without a moments warning, running him down, breaking his right arm and otherwise injuring him. The auto ran so fast that no one was able to detect or secure its number. Many of the passengers on the car going north and people in the immediate vicinity kindly assisted Mr. Farmer to his feet and to the home of one of his friends in the neighborhood whom he intended to visit that evening, and they in turn escorted him to Dr. Denison, who is located on Garfield Boulevard, near State, he being the nearest physician, who reset his broken arm and his wrist which had also been dislocated. He states that the pain in connection with the accident has been something awful. But after all it might have been much worse and he is glad that he is still on earth and able to look after his law business. SATURDAY NIGHT HOP. The management of The West Michigan Resort, located near Benton Harbor, Mich., propose to give another "Saturday Night Hop," similar to the one given last year by Attorney W. G. Anderson, in honor of Mrs. E. H. Wright on Saturday evening, Aug. 15th, 8 o'clock, in honor of the visitors of Chicago. It is understood that our genial friend, Hon. Frank L. Hamilton, President of the Appomattox Club, will on this occasion bring his new touring car, which his friends have already christened "The Merry Widow" over to the resort, and it is rumored that in President Hamilton's car some of the pretty out-of-town visitors from the East will ride. Mr. Hamilton's chauffeur is to wear a brand new suit of the latest design for chauffeurs, and a great time is to be expected by all present. The excursion boat carrying this merry crowd is to leave the Graham & Morton docks, foot of Wabash Avenue, Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, returning Sunday evening. DR. HENRY R. SMITH IS STILL IN LONDON, ENGLAND. This week Dr. Midian O. Bousfield, 3401 S. State Street, received a letter from Dr. Henry R. Smith who is attending the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, informing him that he has been appointed junior assistant to Mr. Coats and Mr. Hepburn, who are connected with that institution. Popular Polish-American citizen, honorable and efficient secretary and member of the Board of Assessors and Democratic candidate for treasurer of Cook County. HEALTH NOTES. In order to promote better community conditions we need: Popular education on health matter. Better housing laws to prevent overcrowding of tenants. Sunlight, open windows, plenty of breathing space in our homes. More Municipal parks and play grounds. Proper ventilation of places of public assembly, such as schools, churches, theatres, lodging houses, etc. More attention to Industrial sanitation which means better working conditions for those who toil. Better laws for the control of disease among Dairy cattle, to the end that the City's milk supply may be made more safe at the point of production. A cultivation of the community spirit in the individual. A spirit that will prompt every citizen to be alert and watchful for the interests of the community in which he lives. The above are some of the things that are needed in Chicago, needed in fact, in every large city in the laud. Things, too, that the people can have if only they can be brought to realize their value and to work for them. Wall paved, well kept streets, efficient police and fire protection and well organized public health service are all agencies highly contributory to the making of good community conditions. But perhaps the most important of all is that the people themselves keep their homes and the immediate surroundings in a clean sanitary condition. No. 46 D. Forced members of y Causing addition to t for the he Illinois W. KORALESKI adorable and efficient secretary and member c candidate for treasurer of Cook County. Also that they look after their personal hygiene; cleanliness of body, cleanly habits, neatness, order. These all count for much. MANY PROMINENT CHICAGOANS AT THE WEST MICHIGAN RESORT. Attorney W. G. Anderson spent the week-end at the famous West Michigan Resort, located near Benton Harbor, last Saturday and Sunday. Among the other Chicago people present were Attorneys B. F. Moseley and Thomas Pearson, Hon. and Mrs. E. H. Wright, Mrs. Violette N. Anderson, Harrison Emanuel, J. M. Long, Mrs. Willie Collins, Mrs. Arminta Black, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. McCage and others. Mrs. Bowles, a very charming young lady from Jersey City, N. J., rendered a vocal solo, which was much appreciated by those present. HON. CARL SCHURZ VROOMAN AP POINTED ASSISTANT SECRE TARY OF AGRICULTURE. The first of this week President Woodrow Wilson appointed the Hon. Carl Schurz Vrooman of Bloomington, Illinois, late Democratic candidate for the nomination for United States Senator from Illinois, as assistant secretary of the department of agriculture at Washington, D. C. Mrs. A. J. Wethington and children, 5149 Federal St., have been in Glencoe, visiting her sister, Mrs. Geo. J. Gant THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 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A Tuberculosis Census of thousands of churches in various parts of the country will be taken in September, under the direction of The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The census will be part of the preparation for the Fifth Annual Tuberculosis Day to be observed during the week of November 29th. The ministers of several thousand churches will be asked to report on the number of deaths from tuberculosis in the last year, the number of living cases in their parishes on September 1st, the number of deaths from all causes, and the number of members or communicants. These figures will be made the basis of an educational campaign, which will culminate in the Tuberculosis Day movement, for which occasion sermon and lecture outlines and other forms of tuberculosis literature will be distributed free to ministers. Last year, nearly 75,000 churches, schools, and other bodies took part in the Tuberculosis Day observance. The movement had the endorsement of leading church officials of every denomination. More than 1200 anti-tuberculosis societies scattered all over the country will work this year to make Tuberculosis Day a success. THE FORTH COMING BAZAAR The bazaar which the young people of the city are planning to give for the benefit of the local work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will take place on Friday and Saturday evening, Aug. 28 and 29, in the large tent which stands on the corner of Thirty-sixth and Wabash Avenue. At the meeting of the executive committee which took place Thursday evening of this week at the Provident hospital, plans were developed which promise to make the affair of great popular interest. A number of fun-making devices have been secured as well as the services of musicians and other artists for the entertainment of the crowd. A rigid censorship will be exercised in advance over all the features proposed and the committee extends its assurances to the public that the entertainment will be of the highest possible grade and in the best possible taste. On Sunday afternoon, following the two evenings of merry-making, the young people will again take over the tent for a large public meeting at which prominent speakers, both White and Afro-American, will appear. That part of the program will be announced later. THE REPUBLICANS OF THE 47TH AND 48TH PRECINCTS OF THE SECOND WARD ORGANIZED A SAMUEL A. ETTELSON CLUB. The first of this week the Republicans of the 47th and 48th precincts of the second ward held a lively meeting and organized a Samuel Ettelson Club, and its members will boom him for re-election to the State Senate from the third senatorial district. James D. Macon was elected President of the club and Henry Anderson was chosen secretary. As stated before Senator Ettelson was endorsed for re-nomination and re-election and Hon. Martin B. Madden was endorsed for re-nomination and re-election to congress. Major Robert R. Jackson, for re-nomination and re-election to the Illinois Legislature from the third senatorial district and Hon. Oscar DePriest was heartily endorsed as the leader of the Colored Republicans of the 2nd HYDE PARK NEWS By L. W. Washington —Read this Column— Mr. Carey Young, formerly connected with the Hyde Park A. M. E. church, has joined the Baptist church. Mrs. William Craig has moved back to her former residence at 5606 Lake Park Ave. She has left the city for Kansas City, she will visit New York also before returning home. Mr. George Garner is with us again after his long stay at Palm Beach, Fla., California and other points of interest. Mrs. Emma Colman, president of the Voluntary Club, and Mrs. Edward McQuary, secretary, visited Miss Carrie Hunter last Sunday at the County hospital. "Oh, the good we all may do while the days are going by." Mr. Chas. Hunter has returned from Springfield, Ill., where he went with his regiment the Eighth. He hopes that the peace of Europe may rest in safe hands. On last Sunday, Aug. 2nd, Mr. B. Dobson, while watching the boats on the lake, scanning the azure and the blushful deep, standing on the beach at Jackson Park he observed a lady with two boys and a girl embarking on the pleasure boat May, to and from the crib, while entering the gang plank slipped, the man rowing the boat fell into the water with one of the smaller children in his arms, a crowd of three thousand sightseer's witnessed the occurrence. Amidst excitement had failed to offer assistance. When Mr. Dobson (Colored), several hundred feet away saw the accident and hurried to the rescue just in time to save them both as they came to the surface of the water for the second time. After receiving many congratulations from the crowd and thanks from the man in charge of the boat and mother of the child admist cheers, quietly disappeared from the scene not knowing he was observed by the writer. Why not a Carnegie medal. To the correspondent of The Broad Ax a witness and contributed by Mr. Chas. Hunter, 5540 Lake Park Ave. REV. E. J. FISHER AND HON. ED WARD D. GREEN HAVE BOTH WITHDRAWN FROM THE LEGIS LATIVE RACE IN THE FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT. After thanking our many friends for signing our petitions as candidates for the General Assembly in the First Senatorial District, and in other ways indicating your interest in us, we wish to say, in consideration of our interest in the race to which we are joined by ties of blood and suffering, we think it advisable to withdraw our names from the consideration of the people at the Primaries September 9th. It must be patent to every Negro of sound judgment that the Negro race would be deprived of representation in the State Legislature from the First Senatorial District if five Colored candidates remain in the race. We believe that the interest of the race should be placed above the ambition of any individual. In these critical times we need one of our own to stand guard over our interests in the Legislature. This we will not have if the Colored people do not unite their forces upon some one man. In order that this may be done we withdraw our names and urgently request our fellow citizens to give their undivided support to Mr. Adelbert H. Roberts who will represent us honestly, ably and fearlessly. Elijah J. Fisher. Chicago, August 6, 1914. STREET PARADE AND INDOOR CARNIVAL BY THE COLORED BUSINESS MEN. The Chicago Colored Business Men's Association will hold a parade and indoor carnival on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, August 10th, 11th and 12th, at Lincoln Gardens, 29th St., near Wabash Ave. The parade will form at 7:30 P. M. Monday evening, August 10th, at 36th Place and Wabash Avenue, near Binga's Bank. Great preparation is being made with King Rex and the Carnival Queen. All the leading business men are united and will participate in this parade. Display demonstrating the unparalleled material progress of the Negroes in Chicago, at the Gardens. Admission will be free to all. Chicago Colored Business Men's Association, a chartered organization. The object of this association: 1. To maintain Co-operative service in business. 2. To perpetuate Industrial and commercial life. 3. To promote and defend high civil and moral standard. Officers and Council Committee: Jesse Binga, president; Robert L. Hall, vice-president; Dr. C. D. Bell, financial secretary; M. T. Bailey, general secretary; Major John R. Lynch, Dr. M. R. Bibb, Bev. J. T. Jenifer, Messrs. W. W. Wallace, R. D. Mason, W. H. Biley, W. B. Wilson, Miles M. Webb, Vance Anderson, J. H. Anderson, E. Baldwin and H. B. Craddock, as well as others. K THE LATE MRS. WOODROW WILSON Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock M her eyes in death at Washington, D. C. other complications; all the people the parts of the civilized world bow the President Wilson over the unestimable of Mrs. Wilson. Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock Mrs. Woodrow Wilson unconsciously closed her eyes in death at Washington, D. C., from the effects of Bright's disease and other complications; all the people throughout the United States and in other parts of the civilized world bow their heads in the greatest sympathy with President Wilson over the unestimable loss which he has sustained in the death of Mrs. Wilson. THE ST. THOMAS GUILD EXCURSION. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, BOUND TRIP TICKETS 50 CENTS. Dont fail to attend the Annual Moonlight Excursion on this Tuesday evening, August 11th, under the auspices of St. Thomas' Guild. The sail along the Lake Shore is always a pleasant gathering of the best people of Chicago. It is hoped that you will be among the excursionists. See advertisement in another column of this paper as to time of departure of the commodious steamer, "City of Benton Harbor," and other particulars. CHIPS Miss Emma Porter of Antioch, Tenn. formerly of Roger William University, is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. W. Porter, 3622 Rhodes Avenue. Phone Douglas 1174. Mrs. Ophelia R. Bryant has issued invitations for the marriage of her daughter, Estella Elizabeth, to William James Crews, Wednesday, August 12th, at her residence, 6432 Champlain Ave. Miss Maud Johnson, 737 W. 60th St., the popular clerk in the office of the Board of Education, will be married Tuesday evening to Mr. Albert George Williams of the post office force. Hon. John E. Traeger, Democratic candidate for sheriff of Cook County, is still setting a lively pace for all of his competitors and on Wednesday, September 9, he will come in under the wire ahead of them all. Captain Louis B. Anderson, adjutant of the 8th regiment, I. N. G., while in camp at Springfield last week was thrown from his horse and his left arm broken. He is at home and doing nicely. Mr. J. S. Tandy, the well known railroad man, has been sick at his home, 5145 Federal Street, for several weeks. He is greatly improved at this writing. His many friends have been very attentive to him. Charles E. Morrison, special messenger for Mayor Carter H. Harrison, left Tuesday evening on a three weeks' vacation trip. While absent he will visit Pittsburg, Pa., Washington, D. C., New York City and other points in the east. John Winslow who is quite well known on the South side died at 3832 S. State Street Tuesday. Funeral services will be held over his remains at Olivet Baptist church today. He was a member of Hannibal Lodge No. 6, K. of P. Attorney Frank B. Comerford with offices in the Ashland Block and late Democratic candidate for United States Senator from Illinois, left last evening for Midas, Idaho, where he will spend two weeks vacation on his extensive ranch. W. H. Smith who was for many years the right hand man of the late Robert T. Motts, has been placed in charge of the Pekin Theatre and he is in a posi- Mrs. Woodrow Wilson unconsciously closed , from the effects of Bright's disease and brought the United States and in other air heads in the greatest sympathy with loss which he has sustained in the death tion to rent it for holding political meetings or any other public gather- ings. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bish have sold their home at 5821 S. Wabash Avenue and they have moved into their new home which they recently bought at 3146 Rhodes Avenue. At the present time Mr. Bish is working for Rouland Bros., 189 W. Madison Street. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tidrington, 3343 Forest Avenue, will, on the 15th of this month, start on their vacation which they will spend at the West Michigan Resort and shortly after September 1 they will journey to Boston, Mass., where they will attend the Odd Fellows B. M. C. John P. Tansey, editor and publisher of The Democratic Bulletin, is one of the Democratic candidates for County Commissioner. His name is twelfth on the list of candidates, and being a clean cut business man the voters will make no mistake in assisting to put him over at the primaries Wednesday, September Wednesday evening Miss Minnie L. Barnes and Mr. John Henry Lewis were married at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. George R. Barnes, 4544 Evans Ave. Rev. M. H. Jackson officiating. The happy couple were the recipients of many valuable presents. They are to have their home at 7233 Vincennes Road. Less Commissioner Davis' triumph over the rebellious prisoners on Blackwell's island is militancy of a high order properly directed. If the fool who didn't know it was loaded could only hit the man who rocks the boat, few would object to his possession of firearms. Now the man who has recovered from his vacation eyes with pitying contempt the man who is in the throes of preparing for a vacation. Paris has just completed a census of her trees. Possibly the census was ordered in connection with a national search for new cabinet material. What foundations for the fish stories of a great nation lie in the 4,000,000,000 spawn distributed in the fiscal year just passed by the bureau of fisheries! Advisable as it may be to cultivate the "smile that won't come off," there is far greater need for a similar cheerful disposition on the part of pants buttons. If Greece makes as good a thing out of the battleships as we did of the Louisiana purchase at about the same price, her ancient glories will soon be restored. A Chicago man committed suicide because his wife nagged him for fooling away a quarter getting his hair cut. It is surprising to learn that he had any hair. The battleship Mississippi, purchased by Greece, has been rechristened the Kilkis. If she had been sold to Russia the vessel might now be rejoicing under a six syllable name Miss Margaret Wilson's formula for dispelling the heat with a "cheerful smile" be fair philosophy. But it is doubtful if the most cheerful smile will restore the starch to the wilted collar Kathryn—In one respect she's like all other women. Kitty—Meaning? Kathryn—She thinks she's so different.—Puck. There are a lot of careless geeks Who manufacture toil. They wait until an engine squeaks Before they purchase oil. —Cincinnati Enquirer. "How can I make this summer room look cool?" "Why not try a frieze on the walls?" —Baltimore American. As long as wife loves her chap She dresses neat and dapper. But when she doesn't care a rap She slouches in a wrapper. —New York Mail. Visitor—Why have you put two hot water bottles in my bed, Bridget? Bridget—Sure, mum, wan of thim was leaking, and I didn't know which, so I put both in to make sure—Current Opinion. "I must disguise myself again," Said old Detective Topp. He touched a button on his vest And turned into a shop. —Philadelphia Ledger. Mistress—That's a nicely made dress you have on. Jane. It's like the new parlormaid, isn't it? Jane (a close student of the fashion catalogues) — Oh, no, ma'am, this is quite a different creation—Punch. The lawyer wooed and lost the maid; Her love was warm, but short, But she was brought to term, for he Sued for contempt of court. —Philadelphia Ledger. "Mrs. Bilter has a fine disposition, hasn't she? And gets on with her hus- band, doesn't she?" "Indeed, yes. Why, she would get on with anybody's husband."—Life. Come, Maud, into the garden go And pluck a juicy mango; Then down the paths, all graveled smooth, Let's munch and dance the tango. —Baltimore American Little Brother—Bet he'd kiss you if I weren't here! Sister—You insolent boy! Go away this very minute.—Penn State Froth. The skirts now fit 'em like a glove, But when the bustles hit 'em, More like a padded boxing glove Is how their skirts will fit 'em. —New York Mail. "Here, wait!" "Yessah!" "You said you had some fresh dew berries. These you brought are over due berries."—Exchange. "Why does yo' call dat ole mule 'Fac? A dinged queer name, Eph Bings!" "Why, Rufus, I call dat mule 'Fac' Cause fac's am stubborn things." —Philadelphia Ledger. "Time flies." quoted the sage. "Yes," replied the fool. "But he isn't crazy enough to loop the loop like some of the modern filers."—Cincinnati Enquirer. How beautiful the stars appear Under the lens' wondrous spell, And yet it fetches, seems to me, The chorus girls out quite as well. —New York Sun. "There ain't nothin' bad about me, lady," said the ramp at the door. "No?" said the Boston lady with the eyeglasses. "How about your grammar?" -Yonkers Statesman. Love, honor and obey—the marriage vows. Alas for vows so promising, so mocking: Full many a bride will simply knit her brows When mildly asked to darn her hubby's stocking -Judge. "I don't know what to call this new runner we've planted." "Why not call it the Marathon vine?" -Baltimore American. The year's at the spring. And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; We are all upets. For we're on the wing; The cat looks forlorn; We leave at eleven— The house is to let! -Milwaukee Journal. "She's very formal, isn't she?" • "Very. She even objected when the parrot spoke to her without being introduced" - Detroit Free Press. By now the groom of June no doubt Would like to meet the simple John Who very often pointed out That two could live as cheap as one. -Detroit Free Press "The Beegins are a remarkable family." "How so?" "They have a boy seven years old and they don't call him 'Buster'" - New York Press. There was a young man of Racine Invented a flying machine. It was good as could be. With one drawback. You see. The thing wouldn't fly worth a bean. -Milwaukee Free Press. "Well, I was knocked speechless, and my wheel was knocked spokeless." —Christian Register. I herewith discourse on The subject of sorrow: The troubles that kill are The troubles we borrow! —Judge. "He is a man. I am told, of sedentary habits." "No such thing! He never touches a drop." —Baltimore American. Spring has bees and blooms in bud On display And eleven kinds of mud. By the way [ ] SIRES AND SONS Henry Lewis, twelve years old, of Baltimore, Md., weighs 190 pounds. George Rae recently rowed 200 miles from Keokuk, In., to St. Louis. John Wanamaker, the noted merchant, celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday on July 11. William Kane, seventy years old, has retired on a pension after serving fifty years as a porter in Grand Central station, New York. Dr. James Richard Lucas, archbishop of Mackenzie river since 1906, has the largest diocese in the world, and his field includes the north pole. Vermont now has three former governors who have passed the eightieth milestone—John W. Stewart of Middlebury, eighty-eight; Samuel E. Pingree of Hartford, eighty-two; E. J. Ormsbee of Brandon, eighty. Seth Low, the new head of New York's chamber of commerce, fills a position to which his father was elected fifty years ago. He was recently given the honorary degree of doctor of laws by Columbia college, from which he graduated in 1870. He was the eleventh president of Columbia and served as a trustee for thirty-three years. Town Topics. Many a town could call itself "the city beautiful" if it wasn't for the people in it.—Charleston News-Courier. Some one says that New York pays nearly half the income tax. Yes, but where does New York get the money to pay it with?—Petroit Free Press. We haven't yet investigated the theory of standardizing the babies, but we suppose it means to have all the babies of the country as nearly like those of Houston as possible.—Houston Post. Two Boston men had a fight over the question whether the name Woodrow Wilson is a trochlec or an lambic dimeter. When it comes to the genuine blown in the bottle culture you've gotta hand it to Boston.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Pert Personals. Nat Goodwin denies that he is responsible for an organization in France known as the Association of Neglected Wives.—Buffalo Express. Time cannot wither nor custom stale the variety of Carnegie's thrift. He is renting out most of his Skibo castle estate as shooting grounds for rich Yankee sportsmen.—St. Louis Republic. Former President Taft holds the record in one respect. No other man has been mentioned so many times for a place on the supreme bench.—Washington Star. Miss Alexander, an English suffragist, says she is "just as good as any man." But that is not very high praise for a lady to give herself, when you come to think of it.—Washington Herald. Current Comment. As usual, the newest battleships are to be the largest in the world, but before they are completed larger ones will have been planned elsewhere.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Everybody seems to be down on the naval plucking board, and it now stands a very good chance of being plucked itself.—Philadelphia Press. A Chicago professor person gives nine reasons "why boys go wrong." They don't, commonly, else the world would be unworkable.—New York World. It is fine to have a bumper crop of alfalfa too. It is true, we don't eat alfalfa, but the creatures we eat will eat it, which is much the same thing.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Flippant Flings. Archery is becoming fashionable again. And just when the eugenists thought they had drummed Cupid out of camp!-New York Sun. England points with pride to the fact that the militant suffragists have not yet dared to attack that last stronghold, the Isle of Man.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Good cheer cometh from Boston to the man the hairs of whose head are too easily numbered. A hospital at the Hub announces a cure for badness. But if it works who is to sit hereafter in the front row at the beau try show?-New York World. Three Strikes. Certainly there is room in Chicago for three baseball pennants.—Chicagot News. Once in awhile an umple appears who makes the fans wish a few militant suffragettes would take an interest in the game.—Washington Star. The baseball war has not made any one any richer and has clogged the dockets of the courts. It ought to be called off.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Cookbook Fried food should not be allowed to become chilled before serving. To make cabbage digestible, when half boiled pour off the water and place in fresh boiling water. In testing the oven for cake baking remember that greater heat is required for a cake baked in layers than for a single loaf. If eggs are to be stuffed they must be put into cold water as soon as they are taken from the stove. This will keep the whites in better shape. M. C. GAINES, President W. T. GAINES, Jr., Treasurer EDW. TIDRINGTON, Secretary The Fraternal Real Estate many attractive bargains, buildings on the south side at low rates. We also desire to call building—our lodge room hall on the fourth floor; we only $2.00 per year, a plausible while away on your COME AND SEE ONLY ESTATE. If you wish to borrowMENT. If you wish to buy property. If you wish to investMENT. If you wish to take on DEPARTMENT. If you want to build if you want your old HATION DEPARTMENT. We, being practical to look after your interest. WE WANT YOU TO OUR SPLENDIDDLE LINCOLN STATE UNDER 3105-07 S CAPITAL, $200,000.00 Fraternal Real Estate Co. calls special attention to active bargains in sales of desirable residence on the south side; also many flat buildings to reside. Also desire to call attention to the many facilities our lodge rooms and its equipments; our entrance fourth floor; our 500 safety deposit boxes which per year, a place to store your silverware and safe away on your vacation. AND SEE ONE OF THE BEST EQUIPPED ESTATE OFFICES IN CHICAGO. We wish to borrow money, consult our LOAN. We wish to buy property, consult our REAL ESTATE. We wish to invest, consult our INVESTMENT. We wish to take out insurance, consult our INVESTMENT. We want to build; if you want your old house, rent your old house stuccoed, call on our CO-DEPARTMENT. Using practical building mechanics, are fully under your interests along all lines of real estate. WANT YOU TO CALL AND SEE THREE SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED DEPARTMENTS. POLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO UNDER STATE SUPERVISION 3105-07 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Douglas 200 $200,000.00 SURPLUS, The Fraternal Real Estate Co. calls special attention to their many attractive bargains in sales of desirable residences and flat buildings on the south side; also many flat buildings to be rented at low rates. We also desire to call attention to the many facilities of our building—our lodge rooms and its equipments; our entertainment hall on the fourth floor; our 500 safety deposit boxes which rent at only $2.00 per year, a place to store your silverware and other valuables while away on your vacation. COME AND SEE ONE OF THE BEST EQUIPPED REAL ESTATE OFFICES IN CHICAGO. If you wish to borrow money, consult our LOAN DEPARTMENT. If you wish to buy property, consult our REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT. If you wish to invest, consult our INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT. If you wish to take out insurance, consult our INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. If you want to build; if you want your old house made new; if you want your old house stuccoed, call on our CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT. We, being practical building mechanics, are fully competent to look after your interests along all lines of real estate and building. WE WANT YOU TO CALL AND SEE THROUGH OUR SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED DEPARTMENTS. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors: will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. Open one with us. WEST MIC BENTON WEST MICHIGAN RES BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN AN IDEAL PLACE TO SPEND YOUR VACATION—WEEK END OR PARTY— Take Graham Morton Boat, foot of Waba 9:30 A. M. DAILY OUR BUS AT THE DOCK Our Telephone 1229 ::: W. H. HUFFM ANNUAL MOONLIGHT Braham Morton Boat, foot of Wabash 9:30 A. M. DAILY OUR BUS AT THE DOCK Phone 1229 ::: W. H. HUFFM ANNUAL MOONLIGHT CURSIC UNDER THE AUSPICES OF ST. THOMAS' GU y Evening, August 11th first time this well equipped boat, which o has been chartered exclusively by Colo leaves foot of Wabash Ave., from the Graha p. m., returning 12 midnight, thus giving a ck, and a longer sail than we ever had before GOD MUSIC IN THE SOCIAL HA Take Graham Morton Boat, foot of Wabash Ave. 9:30 A. M. DAILY OUR BUS AT THE DOCK Our Telephone 1229 ::: W. H. HUFFMAN, Mgr. Tuesday Evening, August 11th, 1914 This is the first time this well equipped boat, which carries 3,000 passengers, has been chartered exclusively by Colored People. Boat leaves foot of Wabash Ave., from the Graham & Morton docks at 8:30 p. m., returning 12 midnight, thus giving ample time to get to the dock, and a longer sail than we ever had before. GOOD MUSIC IN THE SOCIAL HALL --- Safety Deposit Boxes $2.00 Per Year 6155 Wentworth Ave., Chicago Phone Wentworth 1712, Real Estate Co. calls special attention to their plans in sales of desirable residences and flat side; also many flat buildings to be rented. Call attention to the many facilities of our homes and its equipments; our entertainment; our 500 safety deposit boxes which rent at place to store your silverware and other valour vacation. ONE OF THE BEST EQUIPPED REAL ESTATE OFFICES IN CHICAGO. Grow money, consult our LOAN DEPARTMENT property, consult our REAL ESTATE DESTITUT, consult our INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT out insurance, consult our INSURANCE. Build; if you want your old house made new; house stuccoed, call on our CONSTRUCT. Building mechanics, are fully competentests along all lines of real estate and build. TO CALL AND SEE THROUGH OBLY EQUIPPED DEPARTMENTS. STATE BANK OF CHICAGO DER STATE SUPERVISION SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. SURPLUS, $20,000.00 Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3 Per Cent Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent, Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, Illinois. Morton Boat, foot of Wabash Ave. 9:30 A. M. DAILY R BUS AT THE DOCK ::- W. H. HUFFMAN, Mgr. NATIONAL MOONLIGHT CURSION MISPICES OF ST. THOMAS' GUILD Bringing, August 11th, 1914 is well equipped boat, which carries 3,000 chartered exclusively by Colored People. Wabash Ave., from the Graham & Morton Bringing 12 midnight, thus giving ample time to guer sail than we ever had before. C IN THE SOCIAL HALL Buy your tickets in advance so as to avoid the rush. Take any Elevated or surface line to foot of Wabash Avenue and you will see the Graham & Morton sign. Henry O. Tanner's Paintings Win High Praise. MASTER OF HIS PROFESSION Great Interest Shown In Painting by Former Pittsburgh Boy, Whose Recent Picture, "Jesus at the House of Lazarus," Created Big Sensation In World's Art Metropolis. Of the American artists who are seeking fame at the world's art metropolis, Paris, it has remained for an American Negro to carry off the prize, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is a son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church. His name is Henry O. Tanner. His salon picture, over which the European critics are enthusiastic, is called "Jesus at the House of Lazarus." The old Biblical saw that a prophet is not without honor but in his own country has been well borne out in the case of Henry O. Tanner. To meption his name in any assemblage of American connsoseurs is to receive a frank stare of ignorance. To mention his name in an assemblage of European artists is to encounter at once frank acknowledgment that you are speaking of a present day master. He was born in 1859. For more than a quarter of a century he has been painting industriously, and many of his best canvases are hung in leading museums both here and abroad. Yet none of the recent books on American artists more than mention him. One work of this kind refers to him incidentally in these words: "A picture by H. O. Tanner, painted with all the oriental surroundings, but with strong religious feeling." This writer says: "His work is curious technically. We stand before a knowledge, solid and sure of itself. The weighty strokes, which, when seen from near by, resemble a veneer of mahogany, evidently come from a flowing and unctuous brush. Through the thick paint there plays a soft light which models the outlines in chiaroscuro." Another critic said of him: "Mr. Tanner is a dreamer and a worker. He works diligently and with a good will, but he produces only two or three canvases a year. 'Because I paint laboriously,' he said with a charming modesty. I should rather say 'scrupulously.' He reflects long upon a subject until he is permeated with the spirit of it. He searches out its intimate poetry, at the same time carefully studying its psychological aspect, and even after the general effect has been established he returns to it again and again, tirelessly seeking to improve upon it. I find in his talent something of the genius of Rembrandt." In striking contrast to the judgment of this critic who can liken Tanner only to the great Rembrandt are the things written about the artist by American critics. Unable to gainsay that his "Jesus at the House of Lazarus" is by far the premier among all the exhibitions of American artists at the Paris salon this year one of them can find little more to say of the picture than that the Mary in the picture only expresses irritability in her face and that Martha seems to be bringing in a dish of ice cream. This critic pretends to find many other "anachronisms." He thinks that the interior of Lazarus' house suggests the nineteenth century more than it does the first, that the Lazarus is a portrait of the artist himself and that the other figures in the picture are portraits of modern persons. The story of Tanner's life is within itself interesting. He was born in Pittsburgh, his father being a leading Negro ecclesiastic. One afternoon he was walking with the bishop in a Philadelphia park when he saw an artist at work painting a hillside. He was then five years old. That night he took a piece of awning from the back of a kitchen door for a canvas and the back of an old geography, with a hole jabbed through it for his thumb, as a palette. He tried to mix some colors on the geography back with but indifferent success Later he made the acquaintance of C. H. Shearer, a prominent Philadelphia artist, through whose friendship and influence he was admitted to the Philadelphia School of Fine Arts. Finally, in 1891, after many victories and much living on starvation rations, he had accumulated enough money to take him to Europe. He started for Paris Jan. 4, 1891. He lived very frugally in the French capital, studying at the Academie Julian. He struggled along unnoticed until a sketch, very much to his own surprise, won him a prize in an annual competition. For many years he was confronted by the most disheartening obstacles. He lived on even less than had marked the "starvation time" in the United States. He got typhoid fever and almost died. After a brief visit to Philadelphia he returned to Paris. Then he painted his first great picture, "Daniel In the Lions" Den. His next great picture was "The Resurrection of Lazarus," his first to be purchased for the Luxembourg collection. This made him. He decided then upon a visit to the Holy Land to study the original settings of Bible themes. RISE OF DR. D. A. FERGUSON. Worked His Way Through School. Stands Foremost in His Profession. Richmond. Va.—Foremost among the men of his profession in this city is Daydid Arthur Ferguson, doctor of surgical dentistry. He is a native of Portsmouth O., where he was born a little less than forty years ago. His parents are also natives of Ohio, but in 1885 went to Bowling Green, Ky., at which time Mr. William B. Ferguson, father of Dr. D. A. Ferguson, became principal of one of the public schools. Young Mr. Ferguson after completing the public school course at Bowling Green became an apprentice in the dental office of Dr. S. T. Barr, in which capacity he served for three years. His pay in the beginning was $1.50 per month. Having the desire for a higher education, Mr. Ferguson returned to his native home, Portsmouth, in 1892 and entered the high school, from which he was graduated with honors in the class of 1896. During his high school course his spare time was employed in the office of Dr. C. P. Dennis, where he earned money enough to pay his expenses in school. Upon the completion of his high school course Dr. Ferguson matriculated for Howard university, dental department, from which he was graduated in 1899. Having had seven years' experience in practical dentistry. Dr. Ferguson was permitted to do operative work in the dental infirmary with the members of the senior class and also acted as assistant to the demonstrators in the dental laboratory. So proficient was he in prosthetic work that he was kept working in the laboratories of seven dentists. In this manner he earned more than enough DAVID A. FERGUSON, D. D. S. to defray all of his expenses. Thus with what he earned during the summer months doing hotel work at various summer resorts he was enabled to send money to his father during school vacation, his father having been unable to render him any financial assistance. Dr. Ferguson was married Nov. 20, 1897, to Miss Antoinette V. Carter of Washington. They are the proud possessors of two children, a boy and a girl, aged fifteen and ten respectively. In 1890 Dr. Ferguson began the practice of his profession in Richmond, Va., being the first colored applicant to appear before the Virginia state board of dental examiners. He also had the distinction of making one of the highest averages ever made before that board. For several years Dr. Ferguson has been a very active member of the National Medical association, attending every session. At the meeting held at Tuskegee in 1912 he was elected vice president of the National association. In 1913 he was unanimously elected president of the Tri-state Dental association of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. This was the first meeting of this association, and it was held at Buckroe Beach, Va. Dr. Ferguson is well and favorably known for his liberality. He is unselfish and takes great interest and pride in assisting and advising the younger members of the profession. While he devotes strict attention to his very large practice, he ever holds in mind the old age that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Dr. Ferguson, accompanied by Mrs. Ferguson, will be at the next session of the National Medical association to be held in Raleigh, N. C., beginning Tuesday, Aug. 25. The Alabama Dixie Line Railroad. The progress of the colored people of Alabama is attracting a deal of attention since the news of the Dixie Line railroad was given to the public. This railroad runs from Kowalga, a thrifty town in the state, to Alexander City in the eastern part of the state, and is the first to be built and operated by our race in America. The Dixie Line connects with the Central Georgia railroad at Alexander City, Ala. Knights of Pythias Start New Lodge. The Knights of Pythias of Georgia are steadily increasing in numbers, influence and usefulness as a secret order. Grand Chancellor Bolen recently set apart a new lodge in Arcadia, Ga. with twenty-one members. Endowment Secretary F. M. Cohen and other members of the order from Savannah assisted the grand chancellor in setting up the new lodge, which bears the name Dorechester. Fined For Violation of Its Contract. The latest report on discrimination by a railroad against its passengers on account of color comes from Hopkinsville, Ky., where it is said a fine of $500 was charged up to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company for not providing equal accommodations for white and colored passengers, as stipulated in its contract. JULIUS F. TAYLOR: Please enter my name as a subscriber to THE BROAD AX. I herewith enclose $2.00, the annual subscription to same. Six months for one dollar. Disturbing Elements. "A sailor bold I'd like to be." I heard the farmer roar. "For I would like to plow the sea And then raise cain on shore." —Cincinnati Enquirer. "I wish I was the Prince of Wales." Declared a country swain. "In answer to my people's halls I'd turn around and reign." —New York Mail. "Td like to be the president. To save the land I'd burn. Then flood it all with eloquence. The smouldering hate to spurn." —Spokane Spokesman-Review. Father's Question. "My father and I know everything in the world," said a small boy to his companion. "All right," said the latter. "Where's Asia?" It was a stiff question, but the little fellow answered coolly, "That is one of the questions my father knows."—Chicago News. Really the Worst. Really the Worst. Since Ananias had his birth We have had liars on this earth. Some men will lie about their wealth. And women lie the fish they've caught. Men lie about the fish they've bought. And also of the fish they've bought. Some fellows lie about their lives And some, 'tis said, unto their wives. We've heard men lie about their wage And women lie about their age. But of all liars since the first The weather prophets are the worst. —Yonkers Statesman. With an Eye E toward Economy. Mr. Perry had been out for a day's fishing. As he proudly displayed the contents of his basket to his wife, she exclaimed: "Oh, Alva, aren't they beauties! But I've been so anxious for the past hour, dear." "Foolish little one!" said Alva caressingly. "Why, what could have happened to me?" "Oh, I didn't worry about you, dear," said the woman, "but it grew so late I was afraid that before you got back to town the fish markets would all be closed."—National Monthly. She and He. She thinks of a hero like one in the book. Of summer romancing so fine, And he thinks of some girl who could manage to look Like the one in the cover design. —Washington Star. Different Method. "What is the difference between a philosopher and an optimist?" "Well, a philosopher takes things as they come, while an optimist, if they come with the dark side uppermost, turns them over."—Boston Transcript. The Futile Rainbow Chaser. Bill met the malden in a shower. The rail fell splatter, splatter. Bill sheltered her for half an hour And pulled that "rain beau" patter. The girl said: "It listens fine, But here's an awful face: Here comes that harebrained spouse o' mine, And he's a rain beau chaser." —New York Mall. Doing Well. Box—How are you making out on your resolution to economize? Dix—Fine! I've got my running expenses slowed down to a walk.—Boston Transcript. Triolet of the Bad Memory. I don't know your name; I remember your face. I say it in shame. I don't know your name. Is it Agrees or Mame Or Mabel or Grace? I don't know your name; I remember your face. —Detroit Free Press. Faultfinding should begin with one self. Even the best excuse is rather a poor thing. A "near neighbor" is sometimes a very "close" neighbor. Screens in the windows prevent erape on the doors. When some fellows "come back" they have a cold storage look. THE BROAD A [5027 Federal St., Chioago JULIUS F. TAYLOR: Plea THE BROAD AX. I herewith tion to same. 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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 Phone: Rea. 5133 So. Wahab Ave. Oakland 6062, Auto. 73-058 Phone Dresel 18815 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 X $2.00 PER YEAR $1.00 FOR 6 MONTHS e enter my name as a subscriber to enclose $2.00, the annual subscrip- dollar. State____ Stella—I hear you had a terrible experience. Bella—Yes; I was rescued from drowning by another girl—Hartford Times. Please don't forget the optimist, Who's in all seasons sunny. He laughs when jokes are very good And smiles when they're not funny —Yonkers Statesman. BROOKLYN MUSEUM GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent a Safety Depo REAL As agent buy and sell Real dents; including payment o on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Inv The finest building Steam heat, electric light 'Phone Randolph & We Waited T Hundreds of H A PERFECT The manufact "I-Want" Heats Itself a C Other self-heated cents to operate w Our endorsement months. We are every day. This enormous de fully alive to the Recent allowed on Savings Acct. by Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estat payment of taxes and looking after assessment Estate. Specially Invites the patronage of Chicago business. Cranford Apartment Building. 3600 Wabash A It building ever opened to Colored tenant electric light, tile baths, marble entrance J. W. Casey, A andolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON Lited Ten Years—and Tested beds of Inventions Before W FECT SELF-HEATED FLAT manufacturer calls this new wond Vant-U" Comfort Itself for Three Hours a Cost of One Cent self-heated flat irons cost all the way operate three hours. Serement of this iron sold 35,000 th We are now selling an average of mous demand proves that Chicago w e to the advantages of 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for non-residents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. Money to loan on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. THE BROADWAY The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 'Phone Randolph 803 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. We Waited Ten Years-and Tested Some Hundreds of Inventions Before We Found A PERFECT SELF-HEATED FLAT IRON The manufacturer calls this new wonder the Heats Itself for Three Hours at a Cost of One Cent Other self-heated flat irons cost all the way up to 15 cents to operate three hours. Our endorsement of this iron sold 35,000 the first two months. We are now selling an average of over 500 every day. This enormous demand proves that Chicago women are fully alive to the advantages of Ironing in Cool Comfort with a mechanical initely and costs Drop us a postal your own kitchen The People Peoples Gas Buildi 3448 Indiana Ave mechanically perfect iron that stays d costs but 1/8 of a cent an hour to a postal and we will show you one i kitchen. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Com as Building Telephone Ran iana Ave., near 35th St., Phone Dough with a mechanically perfect iron that stays hot indefinitely and costs but 1/3 of a cent an hour to operate. Drop us a postal and we will show you one in action in your own kitchen. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building Telephone Randolph 4567 3448 Indiana Ave., near 35th St., Phone Douglas 8242 Boys! Do you want this dandy BICYCLE? No Money Needed This is not a Prize Contest. Every boy who fills out and mails the corner coupon can earn this high-grade Bicycle for very little effort during spare time. ASK "The Bicycle Man." Mail this coupon TO-DAY. "The Bicycle Man" % The McCall Co. 226 W. 37th Street New York City Dear "Bicycle Man": Please tell me how to get one of your high-grade Bicycles, without money, and for very little effort. Name Address 9 S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 Bowed on Savings Accounts at Vaults, $3.00 per Year ESTATE DEPARTMENT State on commission, manages estates for non-resi- tues and looking after assessments. Money to loan the patronage of Chicago business men. Bentford Apartment 3600 Wabash Ave. Over opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET. In Years—and Tested Some ventions Before We Found SELF-HEATED FLAT IRON Rorer calls this new wonder the "J" Comfort Iron For Three Hours at Cost of One Cent At irons cost all the way up to 15 three hours. If this iron sold 35,000 the first two now selling an average of over 500 and proves that Chicago women are advantages of perfect iron that stays hot indefi 1/3 of a cent an hour to operate. and we will show you one in action in Gas Light & Coke Company] Telephone Randolph 4567 near 35th St., Phone Douglas 8242 RACE PROGRESS IN SOUTHWEST Boley, Okla., Owned Entirely by Afro-Americans. FOUNDED BY T. M. HAYNES National Negro Business League's Representative Gives Facts and Figures Which Shew Remarkable Achievements and Capacity of Our People For Self Government. By RALPH.W. TYLER. Boley, Okla.—To prove that the Negro, as a race, is incapable of self government such proud Caucasians as would arbitrarily assume to serve as accusers, judge and jury for the race are wont to point to that revolution torn black republic, Haiti. If such would but turn their eyes to the southwest they would behold the existence in one state alone—Oklahoma—of eight exclusively Negro towns that are conclusively demonstrating the Negro's capacity for self government and as a town builder. Boley, Taft, Red Bird, Langston, Tatums, Brooksville, Vergon and Rentiesville, all in the state of Oklahoma, testify to the innate peacefulness and the acquired constructiveness of the American Negro. Boley, with its 2,500 exclusively Negro population within the corporate limits of the town and its 10,000 Negro population within a radius of ten miles, which population is a direct contributant to the municipality, is the largest of the eight exclusively Negro towns in Oklahoma and the largest exclusively Negro town on the western hemisphere, being three times the size of Mound Bayou, Miss., the much exploited Negro settlement. I spent several days here in the interest of that wonderfully constructive organization which Dr. Booker T. Washington inspired into existence—the National Negro Business league—carefully investigating this exclusively Negro town, whose stability and orderly government, carefully and conservatively administered, present the conclusive proof that the American Negro is capable of self government. In Haiti a standing army, whose maintenance imposes a burdensome tax upon the country's limited resources, preserves the life of the republic and at the same time contributes to continual disastrous and bloody revolutions. In Boley no soldiers patrol its borders, its streets, or guard its regularly elected officials. Boley is governed not by force of arms, but by the minions of peace. Boley has orderly conducted elections for the selection of governing officials, but no armed revolutions to enthrone an executive Boley's taxes are assessed by and with the consent of the governed and not by arbitrary officials who "assume" office and power through might. Boley typifies the constructive propaganda of Booker T. Washington rather than the destructive intrigues which foment in the black republic just beyond America's southern sea kissed border. Boley represents Negro advancement Boley at first was but a mere camp of Negro railroad construction hands, whose foreman was a white man named Boley, from whom it took its name. It was founded by T. M. Haynes, a Negro, who is still living—and a valued citizen of the town—to witness the fruition of his altruistic plans. It was incorporated and chartered as a municipality in 1904. The town, comprising 200 acres, laid out with broad streets crossing at right angles, has a bonded indebtedness of but $32,000 and a school district bonded indebtedness of $17,000. This bonded indebtedness is secured by property within Boley whose taxable value is $450,000 and by property within the county whose taxable value is $800,000, making a total of $1,250,000 in property to secure the payment of $49,000 bonded indebtedness. This little town here in the far south west has been called the "Million Dollar Black City," because the volume of business transacted here in 1913 reached $1,000,000 and because the value of the city's reality and the amount its citizens have invested in business total $1,000,000. In 1913 the Negro merchants of Boley handled $192,000 worth of business, her Negro farmers handled $250,000 worth of foodstuff and live stock, her Negro cotton buyers bought $325,000 worth of cotton, and her local postoffice did $252,300 worth of business, $250,000 of which represented money passing through the money order department. The one bank—capitalized, controlled and conducted by Negroes—had individual deposits at the close of business Dec. 31, 1913, amounting to $55,000. This financial showing for a community composed exclusively of people but half a century removed from slavery—from a period when the right to acquire and hold property was denied them both by public sentiment and law—is a splendid attestation to the thrift and industry of our race. The residences, public buildings and stores of Boley compare most favorably with those of any town of like size whose controlling population is made up of the dominant race. In fact, there are many white older towns throughout the west of this and greater size whose residences, public buildings and stores do not compare with Boley's. 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: E. H. Faulkner, news agency; 3109 S. State street. Mme. Rosa Lee Tyler, ice cream cafe; 3313 S. State St. George 1 Martin, maker of fine cigars and news stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. R. M. Harvey's barber shop and news stand, 3924 State street. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 34 W. 31st St., near Dearborn. 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, 3 W. 27th St., near State. Sylvester McGloffin, news stand and laundry office, 4122 State St. William Gaughan, laundry office cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2636 State St. E. M. Oliver, notions, cigars and news stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, cigars, tobacco, notions, stationery and news stand, 3640 S. State St. George McFaro, shoe shining parlors and news stand. '3800½ State street. T. B. Hall, Laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3618 South State street. Bell & Alford, cigars, tobacco and news stand. 3128 $^{1}$ South State street. Fred M. Waterfield, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 5202 South State street. Miss E. M. McClain, hair dressing parlor and news stand. 30 W. 39th street. F. M. Diffay, cigars, tobacco, notions and news stand. 3605 State street. A. Turpin, cigars, confections and news stand, 3511 S. State street. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Anna Sims has retired after teaching forty-three years in Columbus (O.) schools. Mrs. Margaret Garwood of Philadelphia is one hundred and seven years old. Native of Ireland. Mrs. D. H. Seaman of Brooklyn, N. X., will drive her auto to the Pacific coast, taking hubby along to attend to repairs. At a festival held in Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Lucy M. Bennett appeared in a dress and hat which she bought from Abraham Lincoln when he managed a country store. Mrs. Bennett was one of the early Illinois pioneers and is seventy-six years old. Mrs. B. A. Cook, a former employee in a hotel in Sacramento, Cal., who recently was married to B. A. Cook, a wealthy man of Galveston. Tex., returned to Sacramento, bought the hotel and discharged the housekeeper, fulfilling a prophecy made last summer. Fashion Frills. It requires no small amount of ingenuity for a man to hide behind his wife's skirts these days.—Washington Post. Fall fashions for men decree clothes molded to the form and "shapely" trousers. The tailor's art will still be to provide the shape to go with the style.—New York World. It is claimed that the young women of former days dressed no more elaborately than those of today. But they dressed more completely. — Nashville Banner. A woman may be compelled to wear the same dress she bought four years ago. But that doesn't keep her from putting in four hours a day reading the fashion dope.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Science Siftings. Light passes from the moon to the earth in one and one-quarter seconds. According to a Paris surgeon, radium emanations are valuable after operations to destroy stray diseased cells that the knife may have missed. Tests have shown that as little as a quarter of 1 per cent of sugar will prevent cement settling, while from 1 to 2 per cent, will make it set quickly, but later disintegrate. Dr. Bottlinger of Munich says that gravitation is absorbed in traversing a medium, so that the interposition of a third body between two others effects their mutual attraction. He is of the opinion that the attraction of the sun on the moon is enfeebled when the earth comes between them, when there is an eclipse. Lipton's Yacht. Maybe one of the reasons that England doesn't lift America's cup is that we have competitions for a defender on this side, while over there they are in the habit of thinking it Sir Thomas' job—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sir Thomas Lipton's chance of "lifting the cup" with Shamrock IV. is roughly worth 3 to 1 at Lloyds. This is a case, however, where "previous performance" dope sheets do not help much. The beaten Shamrock were not this Shamrock—New York World. 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