The Broad Ax

W. H. CLARK AND LAWYER WM. SCHWEMM, ENDEAVORED TO FLIM-FLAM ATTORNEY R. M. MITCHELL OUT OF MRS. EARLEY'S SUIT AGAINST THE CITY. For some time past many reports have come to us, which seemed to bear evidence that W. H. Clark, who has been employed as jack of all trades in the corporation counsel's office, has been busily engaged in giving out the impression that owing to the fact he works as a sup in the law department of the city that he is in a position to settle damage suits against the city without going into the courts; that owing to his high standing he is able to control all or most of the courts and juries in this city and county. So much talk along this line, has floated around lately, and as it seemed to eminate from W. H. Clark, we made up our mind to do a little investigating for ourselves and ascertain whether or not there was any truth or foundation to the many reports or rumors which have come to our ears and with that object in view, we soon learned of W. H. Clark's connection with Mrs. Earley's law suit. It appears that Mrs. Earley fell through a defective sidewalk on Dearborn street, near 24th, in the forepart of 1900 and as the result of the fall she broke her ankle in two places and not long after she met with the accident; so she says W. H. Clark wanted her to drop R. M. Mitchell, who at that time was her lawyer and permit Attorney Schwemm, to have her case. At present we will refrain from reproducing our interviews with Dr. Croker, who waited on Mrs. Earley; Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Earley and Lawyer O'Brien, and only relate a portion of the conversation or interview, which we had with Lawyers Schwemm and Mitchell. Mr. Schwemm admitted to us that on many occasions he had conversed with W. H. Clark in the corporation counsel's office, but he would not say that he had consulted with Clark about Mrs. Earley's case, he also stated that he called on Mrs. Earley, who stopped with Mrs. J. C. Fletcher, 2306 Wahash avnue, and Clark also hung up in the same house. Mr. Schwemm further said, that he sent Mrs. Earley a letter requesting her to let him have her case, and it seems he wanted her to sign some kind of a lawyer's statement, but she would not sign it. He further averred, after much pressing and pumping, that without being requested by Mrs. Earto do so, he went into court and served notice on Mr. Mitchell to turn over to him all papers in the suit of Mrs. Earley against the city. When we waited upon Attorney R. M. Mitchell to find out what he knew about Mrs. Earley's suit and W. H. Cark, he responded to the questions which we propounded to him as follows: Q. Do you know W. H. Clark, of the corporation counsel's office? A. Yes, if you mean the Colored attache of that office. Q. Do you know if he is a practicing lawyer? A. No, at least his name does not appear among the lawyers of that office, nor among the lawyers of this city. Q. Do you know Mrs. Elnor F. Harley? A. Yes, if you have reference to the lady, who was injured by falling through the sidewalk last year. Q. Are you her lawyer? A. I was, but I am not now, owing to some misunderstanding I withdrew from the case. Q. Why did you withdraw from it? I understand that you prepared and had it already for trial? A. Lawyer Schwemm came to my office and requested me to turn over the papers to him saying that W. H. Clark of the corporation counsel's office and his friend, Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Harley had requested to have his name entered as attorney of record. Q. When was this? A. It was some time last December. Q. Did you turn over the papers to Mr. Schwenm. A. No, he served me with a notice to appear before Judge Haneey, but he failed to put in appearance when the time came to settle the matter. Q. Did you see him? A. Yes, I saw him and Clark in the hallway, leading to Judge Haney's chambers the morning the case was set for argument. Q. What became of the matter? A. It was dismissed for want of prosecution. Q. Did you talk with Mrs. Earley about it? A. Yes, she told me that she had not authorized any one to enter their appearance as her attorney of record; that Mr. Clark told her that I was not allowed to try cases before Judge Hanecy nor before any of the judges, and she must employ Mr. Schwemm as her attorney—that he had the power to settle the case and that A. J. Ryan would do whatever he told him to do about the case and if she did not let Mr. Schwemm have the case, he would see that she did not get anything for it.. She also informed me, that she was requested to sign papers to the effect that whatever was recovered should be divided in three parts, 1-3 hers and the other 2-3 to somebody else. Q. Are you Mrs. Earley's attorney now? A. No. The people gave her so much trouble about her case and about me, I deemed it wise to withdraw from it. HAM CARTER'S GAG RULE. On Sunday June the 9th there was a meeting of the Colored Democracy of Cook County held at their rooms, 145 Randolph street, and in that was seen some of the most unreasonable parliamentary ruling, the most tyrannical attempts to apply the gag rule perhaps that Cook ever witnessed. There had been a number of demands for a meeting of the club to find out what had been done, but the effort was in vain. No attention was paid to the demands the monarch of all he surveyed deemed it unnecessary to heed anything asked him, but only used his time in proudly proclaiming "The world is mine." But when a petition was circulated to force a meeting this meeting was called in order to head off the petition. But when the meeting was called to order the would be great "I Am" began to make his usual shrrieking talk, and in it he accused some persons of writing newspaper articles against him and also demanding a meeting of the committee, but he said he saw none of the present, but like he had done numerous times before "reckoned without his host," for Mr. Shepperd arose and repeated what he had written for the "Broad Ax" and said he stood where he had always stood with reference to his, Ham Carter's incompetency of being a leader. That he did not believe that proper work had been done in the interest of the colored demacracy since the closing of the campaign. The next thing on the cut and dried programme was the whitewashing or endorsing scheme of the work of the committee, and they did that without ever hearing a report of what the committee had accomplished. It is usually the rule in this country to put the horse before the cart, but in this instance they indorsed something and said, it was well done without ever seeing or knowing of what had been accomplished. Even a member of the executive committee said immediately after adjournment that he had not seen or heard of any report. But the gag rule was applied, the laws of parliamentary usages was thrown aside, all done to glorify Ham Carter, who, sitting as chairman, saw to it that it was accomplished in spite of all law, during the fight upon endorsement. Mr Sheperd, who was dis- HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, JUNE 15, 1901. gusted with the unjust ruling declared the next time he came to a Ham Carter meeting he purposes to destroy all his books on parliamentary rulings. Then after the whitewashing there came a motion to adjourn which was promptly seconed by L. A. Newby. Then after motion was before the house which is never debateable W. H. Clark desired to say something and then began to make a speech. Mr. Shepperd arose to a point of order on Mr. Clark when Ham Carter applied the gag and refused to let the point be stated simply because Clark had defended him during the meeting, and rule or no rule he wanted to hear himself lauded by the speaker. But no one knew better than Clark that he was out of order. There never was a parliamentary rule in the world that gave a presiding officer the right to refuse to hear a point of order on a person who holds the floor, his only right is to hear the point and then pass on its legality, but the gag rule had to be applied and Ham Carter saw to it. But there are yet some members of the Colored Democracy of Cook County who refuse to "bend the hinges of the knee" to Ham Carter, so that favor will follow favoring. But remember that pride goeth before a fall and that Ham Carter is one of the thousand who has attempted this rule and to-day they are among the forgotten just as Carters fate is sure. Oblivion will envelope him and the flocks that know him now will in a short time know him not forever. An Eye Witness. RENTING AGENTS FULL OF RACR PREJUDICE. Editor of The Broad Ax, please publish this article in behalf of the Colored Women's Business Club: If you are colored and would like to feel that you have not the privileges of the caucasian, just apply to George Newberry, Marquette Building; W. Brown, 234 31st street; C. Barber, 3503 State street; W. Dickinson, 32nd and State streets; E. Goodridge, 86 Washington street, or T. Zanders, 155 La Salle street, for rooms or houses in a respectable neighborhood, or any place that no one but the lowest whites would inhabit. You will speedily have cause to reflect on the injustice and oppression that we are laboring under in this enlightened 20th century. The Colored Women's Business Club has been endeavoring for the past two months to secure club rooms, and visions of a cozy rest-room, with a couch comfortably filled with downy pillows, a few rockers, books and pictures, an office with its necessary paraphernalia and smart attendant, had floated hazily through the cerebrums of these enterprising girls. The appointed committee went gaily to work confident of speedy success, but agents, not fate, willed otherwise. An interview with each of the above men, resulted in a request to "call again," or "I'll let you know in the morning," or a point blank, "I can't rent to colored." The intercessions of Miss Ada Sweet and Mrs. Cecelia Parker Woolley, two of Chicago's most influential white club women, were of no avail because our skin happened to be a shade or two darker than that of the agents. These ladies worked valiantly for the club, for two weeks, and were then obliged to give up in despair. So far the club has met with no obstacles worthy of mention, and that it cannot overcome this one. is no fault of its own, for every member has constituted herself a committee of one and has done her best. That men, educated men of the predominant race, should hold such strong prejudicial ideas, in regard to their less fortunate and slightly darker brothers, is a blot on their boasted civilization and a disgrace to the cancanian race. The club wishes to locate in the district bounded by 28th on the north, State street on the west and 32nd on the south. Anyone knowing of a desirable flat, house, or rooms in this vicinity will greatly aid the club by reporting same to the president, Mrs. A. M. Smith, 2807 Wabesh avenue. J. JUNE. The Colored Women's Business Club is composed of many of our very best Afro-American women and it is a burning shame that they should be subjected to such mean and contemptible treatment by the above mentioned renting agents. Editor of The Bread Ax: Allow me space in your paper to state some facts on the condition of the public schools of southern Illinois. If there is any place on God's green earth that needs good moral and intellectual teachers it is needed here in Cairo for the colored people have noticed the advancement of the colored children for ten years in school and there is no improvement in the children both intellectually and morally the children are destitute of good manners who attend the schools ladies and gentlemen passing through the streets, white or black, are ashamed to meet the colored children when school dismisses on account of their boisteriousness and vulgar language of course children should be taught good manners at home for the parents and teachers are both responsible for the children's conduct the children should not be taught to read the textbook alone, but they should be taught how to be ladies and gentlemen also. There is nothing to redeem our children, but to employ white principals, for the majority of the colored people have turned their backs on morality. I have consulted with the school board concerning this matter and find that the fault is not in them, for they believe that the colored race should be as moral and progressive as any other race the conduct among the teachers is unknown to the board. Last year one of the colored principals cut one of his brothers inside of the church. Of course I have children in school and I have a right to look after their interests and I will not send my children to such teachers as they have here, for all the better class of citizens will hire a moral and intellectual teacher to teach our children. Now, shall we sacrifice the whole race, just to please a few teachers who have become to be eye sores to the people. No! We need a Colored man on the school board to look after the interests of our people as much as the white people. If the school board elects these teachers again it will show to the community how much they care for the colored race. PROF. W. H. COUNCILL PRAISES THE BROAD AX. The following letter speaks for itself: Dear Sir-I have your esteemed letter of the 1st inst., contents noted. The Broad Ax comes weekly to our Reading Room, and I read it weekly. In fact, I read many of the leading Negro papers, I enjoy them. These papers have made wonderful improvements in the last ten or fifteen years. The matter is usually first-class, and instructive as well as entertaining. The Negro weekly compares well with the average white weekly which comes to our college, and we have large numbers of both kinds. I will close by stating that your request will be cheerfully complied to. With best wishes, I remain, Some pin-headed individual who thinks himself of so much importance during the meeting of the Cook County Colored Democracy, last Sunday moved that The Broad Ax be condemned for its fight on Ham Carter; but his rash motion was voted down or it got lost in the shuffle. So it would seem that after all The Broad Ax exerted more influence in Ham Carter's meeting than Ham himself or his pin-headed friend. I saw her roserecked crown, I saw her cushioned throne, As she clanked her ship's reins, And broke fair Summer's chains. Sweet and warm was her mouth As she steered to the South, Green was her grand garment As she traced Summer's scent. Her hair was as pale blue And from it dropped sweet dew, And she was fair as Moon. For she said she was June. CHIPS. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, vice-president of Wilborforce University, has contributed an able article to the May number of the Forum, on "The Negro and Our New Possessions." Alderman Thomas Carey may not stand for re-election to the city council next spring, for some say that the alderman is thinking about starting out after he nomination for sheriff of Cook County, and if he should secure the nomination he would be elected. Mrs. Anderson, 3018 Dearborn street, met with a severe accident Monday afternoon. She was in the act of lighting from a State street car at Adams and State Sts., when the cars started up and before she could light upon her feet, she was thrown to the ground and hurt quite badly. Alderman Fred. A. Hart says that he "does not take any stock in the report that Alderman Thomas Carey played fast and loose with him pending his election to the city council." Alderman Hart also maintains that whoever John E. Traeger favors for alderman will receive the nomination next spring. Lawyer M. Shepperd had the courage of a lion Sunday and Ham Carter could not scare him out with his wind and bluster. Mr. Shepperd has proven himself to be one of our true friends and we desire to thank him for standing up and pleading our cause in the presence of those, who endeavor to ride two horses in opposite directions at the same time. Hon. A. J. Ryan has so far given eminent satisfaction as an able and efficient city attorney, and The Broad Ax is loth to believe that W. H. Clark can put a bit in Mr. Ryan's mouth and drive him up and down the city hall for the benefit of the briefless, broken down and shyster lawyers who are ever ready to take advantage of the poor and unfortunate. Just because Carter Harrison has been three times elected to the mayoralty of Chicago, the Democrats are advocating him as a presidential possibility. Seattle has a mayor that has been three times elected to the mayoralty of Seattle. Now, wouldn't it be a huge joke if the presidential ticket of 1904 would be Humes versus Harrison? - The Republican, Seattle, Wash. Rev. Father Dorney, who stands high in the estimation of every man, woman and child in the Town of Lake, is doing a great work among the people who live near his church and school, 45th and Wallace streets, where he has labored for the past twenty years. Father Dorney is a whole-souled, big-hearted, practical Christian and such men as he always commands our highest admiration. At a marriage in Poland recently the bridegroom was 88 years old, while the bride was but 18. In attendance at the wedding were eleven sons of the bridegroom by a former marriage, the eldest of whom was 60 years old and the youngest 41. There were also present of the bridegroom sixty-three grandchildren thirty-nine great-grandchildren, twenty-one children of the fourth generation and four of the fifth.—Ex. Sunday, June 9, was Ladies' Day at the South End Club, and those who attended enjoyed the occasion. Mrs. Georgiana Moody highly pleased all by her select reading. Mrs. M. J. Harris sang a soprano solo, and she held her own as being the sweetest singer in the Town of Lake. The address by Rev. J. C. Peters, "Which Way?" was very fine and practical. Duncan P. Webster speaks this Sunday, June 16, on "Social Clasification." The merry war between Chicago Afro-American Democrats is still going on. "Broad Ax Taylor" has been indicted by the grand jury for criminal libel and Capt. Carter and his friends are happy. The "Broad Ax," Taylor's paper, continues to pour hot shot into the Carter ranks in the shape of editorials so vitrolic that one can scarcely read them. Charges and counter charges are the order of the day.—The Appeal. W. H. Clark sat or stood by Ham Carter's side in the meeting last Sunday, and he not only wanted to be the whole thing, but he also declared that Ham Carter was a perfect gentleman, or words to that effect. We will not dispute with Clark about Ham Carter's gentlemanship, but if he is a perfect gentleman then we might just as well apply that same title to all the foul-mouthed gamblers, low dive keepers, and old whisky bloats in the country. While the meeting of the Cook County Colored Democracy was in full blast last Sunday, George J. Terrell, who will not pay us the three dollars as subscription to The Broad Ax declared in open meeting that The Broad Ax was no newspaper; that nobody but fools read it, but every week George Terrell goes to the barber shop at 139 47th street for no other purpose but to read The Broad Ax, therefore Terrell must be the biggest fool in Chicago. Topeka has a Negro councilman, a Negro member of the board of education. A Negro deputy sheriff, a Negro city marshall, as well as a Negro fire company.—Ex. According to the number of colored people in Chicago, the Afro-Americans of Topeka are away ahead of colored citizens of this city, for there is no reason in the world why we should not have one or two colored members in the city council. Furthermore, we should have representation upon the board of education, for all other races outside of the Negro race have representatives upon that board. Mr. James H. Harris attended the meeting of the Cook County Colored Democracy Sunday, and without any request from us he had the courage to stand up in front of Ham Carter and tell him to his face that he wrote the letter to The Broad Ax and endorsed The Broad Ax from top to bottom. These remarks on the part of Mr. Harris brought eight or ten of Ham's Lackies to their feet at one time and they snorted and blowed like mad bulls. Ham jumped about ten feet in the air and with his arms above his head, with his eyes sticking out like big apples, which caused him to resemble a wild man or a raving maniac, he exclaimed that "he would send Julius F. Taylor to the penitentiary." We will not loose any sleep about Ham sending us to the penitentiary, but we do feel grateful to Mr. Harris for defending us in Carter's meeting. A departure from old methods of log transportation has been recently made on the Columbia river. This consists in building huge rafts so substantially that they can be towed to San Francisco. It is no small undertaking to put to sea with a stupendous, unwieldly raft and successfully tow it almost a thousand miles; but the trip has been accomplished a number of times and promises to become a regular business. The logs are principally for piling and posts and one raft will contain as much as 500,000 lineal feet. The rafts are built somewhat in the shape of a colossal cigar, and each log is fitted carefully into its place. The whole is fastened together with tons of chains, till the danger of going to pieces at sea is reduced to a minimum. Turkey, ordering a new warship without paying what is due on past contracts, recalls the optimism of the slater, who, falling from a tower, remarked as he passed each story, "All's well so far." will presuppose and at all times uphold the principles of Dumuragay, but Forman, Bahrain, Protectants, Knights of Labor, Bashkai, Mammam, Republica, Principe, or any so can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Breed Ax is a newspaper whose platform is based enough for all, over claiming the mattered right to speak its own mind. Tom Murray, a prominent hat merchant of Chicago, says: "It is a disgrace to get rich," and to avoid the disgrace Mr. Murray will henceforth give half the proceeds of his business to the poor and needy. A French scientist has discovered that plants are very sensitive to poison. The higher plants, as well as fungi, enable us to detect the presence of copper, mercury and other toxic substances, which chemical analysis does not detect. What sort of a halo ought an Alaskan saint to wear? A mission worker thinks that the frost and ice encompassing the face and head of a missionary bishop, when he appeared to make his expected visit at Circle City, constituted the kind of a halo appropriate to sainthood in that region. Telephone poles and wires are held, in Krueger vs. Wisconsin Telephone Co. (Wis.), 50 L. R. A..298, to make an additional burden upon a street, for which compensation must be made to the owners of the land as a condition of such use, and this decision is in accord with the majority of the precedents, as shown by the note in 24 L. R. A. 721. The Navy Department at Washington has received a fine oil portrait of R. W. Crowninshield, who was secretary of the navy from 1814 to 1818. The portraits of American naval secretaries now are about complete. Secretary Whitney's portrait has not been obtained as yet, however. Acting Secretary Hackett recently urged him to add his portrait to the collection. The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science has been enriched by one of the most curious collections ever known—a collection of locks of hair from the heads of all the presidents of the United States from Washington down to McKinley. These are accurately authenticated and neatly arranged in an appropriate case, and in some instances are accompanied by family coats-of-arms. In Hawaii enormous quantities of ducks are raised by the Chinese upon the edges of the ocean. Twice a day, within restricted areas, they are permitted to eat the young fish which swim in the inclosed coves. Fish are reported to be growing scarcer every year and by some this diminution is at tributed to the wholesale destruction of the young fry by the Chiness. Although 74 years old, Gideon Hawley of Erie, Pa., is still running an engine on the Lake Shore railroad. He began railroading in 1846 and has been with the Lake Shore since 1852. A few days ago Hawley was put through a severe examination, the railroad officials believing that it was about time he should retire. To the surprise of the company not a trace of color blindness or dim vision or defective hearing could be found. According to a report by United States Consul Grout, a recent experiment in wireless telegraphy off the coast of Malta has resulted in the successful transmission of a message 184 miles. The message was received in an unexpected way. While experimenting on a ship in the open sea the operators were surprised to receive a message in Italian asking the position of their ship. It was afterward found that the message came from an Italian war vessel at Syracuse. Noiseless baseball, as distingished from the game played largely with the lungs, may not be so far distant as it seems to many despondent lovers of a sportsmarlike game. A graduate publication, representing a well-known college, declares that the adoption of a noiseless game would do mere good to that institution than winning the championship. The campaign motto of a baseball nine ought to be, "Give an opponent every opportunity to do his best—and then beat him!" A rowdy may resort to barbaric yells as a means of defeating an antagonist, but a gentleman is bound to refrain from debasing methods of gaining a triumph. All shining buttons, buckles and ornaments are to be dispensed with in the new military uniform for German forces. A grayish brown cloth will be used for coat, trousers and cap. War without glitter will be less fascinating as the years go by, and that is well. Nothing ought to disguise its real significance. Only the, patriotic sense of duty will make men engage in war when it shall have been stripped of its romance, and when its deadly purpose shall be written in every feature. If there were no men to bury, no bills to pay, war would be a popular resource of excitement sechars; but graves and debts are accompaniments which mock at romantic theories about campaons and battles. MACLAREN IN THE SLUMS The author of "The Bonnie Brier-Bush" tells a slum story in the Century. It is called "Jasmine Court and a 'High Ranger.'" Jasmine Court Chestnut Street, belonged to an excellent maiden lady who supported mission work among the women of India with all of her spare means, and did not know whence her income was gathered, and would have been very much horrified if any one had told her that her own tenants needed her help very much more than the women in the senanas. Her estate, with others of the same kind, was managed by an agent, who was not any worse by nature than other men, but who considered it to be his duty to spend as little as possible upon the property, and to get as much out of it as he was able, by unrelenting energy in securing the rent, and imperturbable callousness to the misery of the tenant. Very likely he was a deacon in a chapel somewhere, and not only paid his own bills with regularity, but also gave liberally to the hospital collection, and was very much beloved in his own family; for half our sins are done vicariously or ignorantly, and we may be as cruel as Herod the Great, and all the time consider ourselves to be kind-hearted, open-handed Christian people. The agent would have been very much ashamed if any one had accused him of sentiment, and his policy might well justify him from such a charge; but even this austere man had his lapses into poetry, although he endeavored to make the muses serve the purposes of business. So long as the street, to which his property clung like a child to the skirts of a very unsympathetic mother, was called Back Hooley Lane, he was quite content that his court should be known as No. 11, and, indeed, except for police sheets and coroners' inquests, it did not really require any name. Chestnut Street quickened the imagination of the agent, and as occasionally he had been told that his property was a moral disgrace to the city—this from the philanthropic visitors—and also that it was a sanguinary pigsty—this (slightly translated) from the inhabitants—he felt that something must be done; and instead of cleaning and repairing it, he covered all its faults as with a garment by painting up in black letters on a white ground—the only whiteness in the place: "Jasmine Court." A PRESIDENTIAL KISS Baron Perre de Coubertin writes in the Century of Emile Loubet, president of the French Republic, recording incidentally one of the little occurrences that have made the chief executive a popular man: What was it that Emile Loubet did to cause him to be so highly thought of by those who gave him their votes? If you should ask the general public or interrogate current opinion or the press you would be answered with the commonplace which one hears so often in similar cases. "Oh," they would say to you, "he didn't do anything." At the famous Parisian tavern, the "Black Cat," where all the men of the day are touched off in popular ballads, the answer was somewhat different. The refrain of a political song that met with great success a year ago was this: "Loubet. oh, how much he loved his mother!" And from stanza to stanza we find the good people of Montelimar, and even the entire French people, represented as overcome by the affection which Emile Loubet showed for his mother, that most respectable peasant woman, who lives in Montelimar. The explanation of this song is an episode in the life of the president, which redounds completely to his honor. On the day that he entered his native town for the first time as president of the republic he saw his mother seated on one of the tribunes, watching the procession pana. At once he caused his carriage to be stopped, and, without the slightest regard for the pomp and officialdom with which he was surrounded, he got out of the carriage and ran over to kiss the old lady, being unwilling to wait to the end of the ceremonies. Such a spontaniety of feeling as his, and such simplicity of manners, far from shocking, were sure to gain for him the hearts of Frenchmen. But by putting this little episode in relief the balladmaker wished to impress his hearers with the idea that there was nothing in the political career of Emile Loubet which was more interesting to note than this family scene. Examinations of German Recruits. An inquiry made among recruits for the German army showed the existence of great ignorance in the majority of those examined regarding public personages and events. Out of 78 recruits from various parts of Prussia 21 were unable to give any answer when questioned as to who was the Emperor of Germany. Twenty-two designated the emperor as a great general, nine called him a renowned field marshal, six thought him to be the minister of war, while fourteen of the replies were approximately correct. Several thought the late Prince Bismarck was emperor, a great poet and a translator of the Bible. The Coke Oven Industry. The coke oven industry, unknown in 1886, turned out a product in the United States last year valued at $84, $80,618, an increase since 1889 of 110 per cent. The by-products added nearly $1,000,000 more. Some men have penny wisdom and dollar foolishness. COL. W. F. CODY, TALKS OF EARLY DAYS IN THE WEST. Col. W. P. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is, as a general rule, rather economical in the matter of giving interviews to the public press, but while in Boston with his great educational exhibition the other day he was induced to say a few words about himself and the development of the great West which will be of interest to readers generally. Speaking of his early life he said: "There were a heap of occupations for boys in those days, and I guess I tackled 'em all; driving loose, cattle behind a bull train, carrying dispatches for freighting outfits, following and going with trappers for furs on different streams. That's how I learned to know the Indian—by going with traders who trade with 'em for furs. When I was along in my teens I was perfectly familiar with all the country from the Canadian river in the south to the Yellowstone of the north, and the lands between the Rocky mountains and the Missouri river. I became thoroughly acquainted with the Indians, knew their favorite haunts, their camps and their bad lands." "What was the real cause of the first Indian uprising?" "It was the effect of the bad example set them by the white men. During the war of the rebellion the Indian heard that the white men were killing each other off. They kept hearing about it for two years, until all the tribes were talking about the gradual extinction of the white man, who had wonderful guns and ammunition. At last they held a grand meeting which led to a general uprising. They obtained modern guns and armed themselves like the white men, and it was their impression that they could sweep across the continent clear through to the 'great river,' the Atlantic, and recapture their country from the whites." The material for western romance began at this time with a vengeance, and followed the dramatic flavor that literature had gained from the sorrows of the civil war. The United States government is not a romantic organization, however, and as soon as peace was declared in Washington between the North and the South, the entire forces of the regular army were hurried out to the frontier, commanded in turn by such men as Sherman, Sheridan, Hancock, Custer, Carr, Miles, Crook, Augur, Ord, Hazen, Emery, Duncan, Forsythe, King, Reynolds, Terry, Penrose, Palmer, Gibbon, Canby, Henry, Whistler, Crosby, Greely, Sudley, Mills, Hayes, Schwitzer and many others. Most of these officers were totally unfamiliar with the plains, and then came into existence the man of whom "Bill" Cody is an ideal representative—the scout. "You see, when these army fellows came out our way," continued Col. Cody, "the question was, Who could they find to act as guides and scouts? The miners were inefficient; they didn't tell much about the hiding places of the Indians, so they began to look around for fellows like me, who had been raised out there. When Gen. Sherman came West in '65 and '66 to make his great treaty with the Klown and the Comanche Indians, I was first employed as a scout and dispatch carrier. Well, he soon found that I knew the country better than any man in his command, and he made me his guide. I felt considerable pride in my responsibility, too, for I was pretty young to have an old army veteran like Sherman leaning on me." He paused. "How young?" I asked. "Nineteen!" he said, emphatically, and in two years—that is, in '68—when Sherman took command of the field, he made me chief of scouts and guide of the United States army." "Scouting was a trade?" I asked. "It's a gift. The Indian is the natural scout, and he'll keep a white man hustling, with all his clothes on, and no sleep either to beat him." "Yes, sir, as well as the Indian could hunt his. A scout had to have eyes, ears and I brain working overtime when he was on the trail, I can tell you." "You followed the tracks of the Indian ponies?" "Tracks, nothing!" said "Bill" contemptuously. "That's no sawdust country out there; it's all grass. You couldn't see a heof print. I've followed a single horse file by watching the grass and noticing how it was broken. I could tell the way the grass broke if the Indians were traveling that or allow, horses packed heavy or light, ridden by Indians or running loose. The manner in which a moosein shaped its tread on the prairie would tell me what tribe our enemy belonged to, and by their camp members whether it was a party on the warpath or peaceful Indians. Nothing made an army man so sore as to have a guide make a dry camp at night, so that a scout had to be convergent with the country and reach water when nightfall came. The subjection of the Indians was one of the toughest propositions to fuse. In 1877 the Pine Ridge trouble broke out. The Indians expected their BUFFALO BILL Messiah, who was to liberate them from captivity. The suppression of this uprising fell to the lot of Gen. Miles, and he fought, as he always does when in command, with his head. He put down the ghost dance without the loss of hardly a life on either side, and in all my service as a scout I never saw finer generalship than his at Pine Ridge. "Even in the thick of the Indian fighting it was impossible for a man to escape seeing the great possibilities of those arid states, but it took a professor to convince me of the chances of civilizing that country. I was stationed at Fort McPherson, Neb., Gen. Sheridan, in command of the Missouri division. The general came to me one day and instructed me to act as guide for Prof. O. C. Marsh and 25 Yale students who wanted to go through the 'Bad Lands' on a fossil expedition. Well! I got kinder jealous of that professor. He was always talkin' a whole lot of stuff about that country that I'd never heard before. He said that the Great Big Horn basin was formed by the passage of a big snake that had finally cut its way through the Big Horn canyon. He went in to tell why there should be in this basin the finest soil in the world; that there must be great mineral deposits there, probably sea gold. I said to him then that I guess he thought he knew more about that country than I did, and told him he'd better go it alone. Well, sir, the old fossil hunter was right. Twenty- p- ns te at n e ry COL. CODY AS HE APPEARS TOO years later a party of prospectors discovered gold, campers had seen the color of it and hurried out there to locate claims." "And what did they find?" "Millions of acres of grasing land, the sides of the canyons covered with timber, all kinds of building stone, marble, granite, sandstone, gypsum. They found they could raise cereals as good as any in Indiana or elsewhere. They had discovered a national park. Why, in my town of Cody, within a few miles are seven different kinds of natural water geysers, hot, cold, boiling, frozing, any old style you want." Starting life in the West at its most thrilling period, Col. Cody has seen the buffaloes pass away, the Indian subdued, the cowboy farmed out, the settlers crowding in. He has been of active service to the United States government in all these years; but the most American thing that this typical American has done is to build a town in the shadow of the canyons and baptizes it with his own name—Bernice Daily Herald. Dizier's Seed Again The familiar controversy never loses guishes.. What is the origin of Dixie's Land or Dixie Land, or Dixie? On, on, it goes. I believe it was right here on Manhattan Island, and that the fellow who wrote about it being a "land of cotton, 'simmon seed, and sandy bottom" was a chump. Old Man Dixie was a slaveholder on Manhattan Island, who removed his slaves to the Southern states, where they had to work harder and fare worse; so they were always sighing for their old home, which they called "Dixie Land." The "nigger" imagination soon advanced this island into a sort of Delectable Country, or Land of Beulah. New York Press. Odd Oklahoma Justice If one wants to find an extraordinary brand of justice he must go to Oklahoma or some other region known in general parlance as the bounding west. At Alva a man was arrested for stealing two hogs, which he hauled to Waukomis and sold for $20.50. The law defines grand larceny as the stealing of something of more value than $20, and petit larceny as the stealing of something of less value than this sum. The question in the hog case was whether it was grand or petty larceny. The lawyer for the prisoner argued that while the hogs had been sold for more than $20, the prisoner was entitled to a credit of $1 for hauling them to market, which would reduce their value to less than $20 and BUFFALO BILL AY.—From a Sketch by Goodman. the crime of his client to petty larceny. And the court so found. A few ocean travelers are now enjoying the novel sport of riding the "sea horse." This "sea horse" is not the marine animal which zoologists know by that name. It is an electrical contrivance in the gymnasium outfit aboard the new cruising yacht Princessin Victoria Luise of the Hamburg-American line. A gymnasium itself is an unusual enough institution aboard ship. One of the appliances affords all the varieties of horseback exercise, a conventional saddle, stirrups and other accessories being provided, and with them suitable adjusting mechanism, so that the whole outfit can be given more or less violent vertical and slightly horizontal reciprocating movement through a system of arms and connecting rods, simulating very closely the motion of the animal in life. Happiness is increased, not by the enhancement of the perseverance, but of The image provided does not contain any text. It appears to be a blank or empty space with no visible content. Library rules ordinarily forbid the removal of valuable books and engravings from the premises, so that there is trouble in obtaining photographs copies of pictures or plates, the introduction of artificial light, or even of a camera being commonly prohibited. A method of getting over this difficulty, which has been tried recently with success, is to coat a piece of cardboard with a phosphorescent substance, and, after sufficient exposure to the sun, place it at the back of the picture to be reproduced. Then (supposing that the picture is in a book) a dry plate is put against the face of it, and the volume is closed. This can be managed very easily by manipulating the dry plate under a cloth that covers the book. The dry plate is allowed to remain from eighteen to sixty minutes, according to the nature and thickness of the paper. Then it is withdrawn, under the cloth as before, and put into a dark box for subsequent development. It is stated by the inventor of this process that, if films are used instead of dry plates, a large number of copies of different engravings in the same book may be made at the same time.—Saturday Evening Post. Couldn't Wear Shoes. Sumpter, Ill., June 10th.—Mrs. J. B. Flanigan, of this place, had suffered with dropsy for fifteen years. She was so very bad that for the last three years she has not been able to wear her shoes. She had doctored all the time, but was gradually getting worse. Last winter Mr. Flanigan, who was very much discouraged, called for some medicine at Mr. J. J. Dale's drug store in Carmi. Mr. Dale persuaded him to have his wife try Dodd's Kidney Pills, and he bought six boxes. His wife used five out of the six, before she was entirely cured. She is now as sound and as well as ever she was, completely restored to health, and free from any symptom whatever of dropsy. 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Ghe w im sizait- ened circumetanees that approach éire poverty and a8 she is Wary old and probably will moet live through the present year the suthorities will take notice of hor ease and attempt to make wv a eee the most unique character in gs. There is not & person im Chicage who lived there im the early days of the city who Goes Rot remember “In- dan Mary.” Time was in the ‘ariy days when she Was = familiar figure om the streets of Chicago, and there was one parti¢ular period when she was lauded as @ hereine and the whole dty talked of her. This was during the civil war, when she saved the life of Colonel Mulligan, the tameus com- mander of the Mulligan Brigade, er “the Irish Grigade,” as it was famili- arly known. Colonel Mulligan was se- verely wounded. The battle raged all day, 2,000 federal soldiera holding back 6,000 confederates until Mulligan fell. Mulligan was removed te island No. 16, near Lexington, where he lan- gushed fer want ef modical help. There was me nufee te be fould «- ences scaenan iH = gn - aa IH hae eee = , & uy y= ~ INDIAN MARY AND HBR DOG, RUM. Puritan New, Eagiané. Net the Only Stera Commenwealth The official public fogging of women in Virginia bas aroused much unfavor- eble etminent and many bitter re- marks about “chivalry in the Old Do- minion.” As a matte of fact, says the New York Tribune, the incident is nothing more than’ a mild revival of the “blueilaws” of Colonial times— laws surpassing in ecverity any st- tributed to Conupcticut or any other Puritan colony. It°has loag been & by-word that in Connectiopt a man was forbidden to kiss his wifeom Sun- day, But in Virginia amy young women who was guilty of flirtation or who en- couraged more than ene man to pay her sentimental attention was liable to be flogged! It was forbidden to speak evil of dignitaries in New England: but in Virginia if ene ventured to crit- icise the governor he was put into the Dillory. The’ @traitiace religiousness of the Puritans has been made fun of; but in Cavalier ‘Virginia it was forbid- den to “disparage a minister;” to take a voyage on Sunday save go to church, er to fire a gun on Sunday, excepting te shoot an Indian. That the shooting of Indians, of course in defense of the colonists, was considered a proper funstion on the Sabbath is shown by the fact that every beed of = family with himto church every Sunday. cun and plenty of ammunition It is Sa pemmine an = eahaodias sad the Se nseenmrs se ‘pun- ishoent i of gross Judyment of mankind was a, o fi eons wae sapeors of te S90 Ne rose mate ee aoe pricey hewn , ae 3s ig: Rape ic gr Bayt ERS ge TI pels nee Pee actioned es oe ® oo Re a de oad the test your af the $00 < -* a, FE GOES PE he Pn nena om eae ee ssf zs sk i ai _ ran ere >big tre. of. L & ity, sue ard nd, man, ) to hat ate the ed ary the ain ~ cea m2, ito > ot in of he ne > cept “Indian Mary,” who was with the army. abe cuerted her medical Knew!- sige over @ying colonel and ber Th@fan medicines saved him affer sev Weeks’ nursing and carefal atten- tiem. “indian Mary” berved threugs- out the War im the capacity of munse gn@ had the awful experience of sev tug her hupband, Wiliam H. Coshrena, on eutey asl ee Same Renntty, S0t for devertion tate = Een. aoe ee 100 years old, was captain of Fane’: company. Mary Cochrane is 7% years of Her mother was Julia La Salle af De. trelt, a full-bleoded squaw, and her Srandfather, Jacob La Salle, was on Indian chief. She spent her early years im Chicago and in 1861 joined the federal army im the capacity of nurse. Ghe entered the service under Colonel James McMullen and wea cregit for the bravery she displayed on several occasions. During the past thirty years she has lived in this section ef the country, where she has in some way acquired the reputation of being a witea. ; She bas not been troubled by the se- etety of her village, and her oaly com- panien t her little shack is a small dog. SOR ee Seer ne a eer Des applied, through Justice Clair this city, for a pension for her service during the civil war, ‘fe accepted as one of the ‘inevitable conditions of the day, there is at least ome. business, cigarmaking, in which small capitalists can engage, Says & New York cigar manufacturer. With & capital of $25 any cigarmaker can start in busiztess as a manufactures and while he may not become rich, cam make a living. There are at least 2,500 eigar manufacturers In New York whe work as journeymen when there is ne demand for their services, and by the expenditure of a few dollars become manufacturers when work is slack. All that one of these small manufacturers Reeds in order to start in business is a tew pounds of “wrapper” leaf, the same of “filler,” and pound or so of “biné- ers” and skill. He will have to get bondsmen, as each cigar menutactuser must have two securities in $1,000 each before he can get a license, but there is usually no difficulty in securing the bonesmen. ‘When the Marriage Knot Was Beal’ Few of those who talk of the “mar- riage knot” realise thet the knot was ever anytbing more than a mere figure @f speech. Among the Babylonians trying the knot was part of the mar riage ceremony. There the priest tok a thread of the garment of the bride ‘and another from that of the bride- groom ané tied them into a knet, whieh he gave to the bride, thus sym- bolising the binding nature of the anion which now existed between her self aad ber husband. : —_———— ; weem Lowty Station to High ‘The Austrain Parliament has a mem ber who was 2 wiiter. Carl Mitter- mayers was elected to the Reichsrath four years ago, st # time when he was serving a5 8 waiter in a small suber ban restaurant. And there is « butcher im the British House of Commons. At least two members of parliament aze grocers, and there are a dosen whe were once laborers. The parliament of ‘Vaneouver bas as its speaker s man ‘eo was once & opal miner in Nerth- es Power of the Rethschiiés Since 1850 the Rothchild family has an 4.000000 000; for Attain of the February jean ef ‘be California state ts 930 mikes lang, A GLORIOUS SIGHT. ‘Plelds of Wheat tn Which the Shocks ‘Were So Thick It Was Almost Im- Possibie to Drive Between Thee To the Editor: A gentleman from Duluth made a trip through a portion of Western Canada last summer and writing of what he saw, says: “Wheat, for imstance, will average twenty-five or thirty bushels to the acre. I saw shocks so thick in the field that it would be almost impossi- ble to drive between them. Winters, it is said are longer than near Du- luth, but the Japan current, warm ehincok winds and dry atmosphere make the winters comparatively mild.” Thousands of such testimonials are to be had from settlers who have taken advantage of the low-priced lands of Western Canada. During the present year new districts will be opened_up im the Saskatchewan valley an@ ad- vantage should be taken of this at Once. Information can be had from any agent of the government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in your columns. Yours truly, > OLD READER. NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO ‘Via Missouri Pacific Rallway. The Missouri Pacific Railway is now operating double daily service from St Louis and Kansas City to points iz Colorado, Utah and the Pacific coast Trains leave St Louis 9 a m., an¢ 10:10 p, m., Kansas City 6 p. m. and 1 a m,, carrying through sleeping can between St. Louis and San Francisec without change. . Excursion tickets now on sale. For further informatior address Company's agents. H. C. TOWNSEND, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis, Mo. The Best War. If you are going to take advantage of the Cheap Rate to California in July, account of the Epworth League Convention to be held at San Francis- co, remember that the Southern Pa- cific Company can offer more attrac- tions in the way of diverse routes tc and from and through California than any other line. Send to the under- signed for a map of California, which will show how you can reach all points of interest via the Southern Pacific Lines and how you can have your ticket to San Francisco reading over one line and returning another These cheap rate Round-Trip Tickets will be on sale July 6th to 13th in- clusive and will be good for return un- til August Sist. W. G. Neimyer, Gen- eral Western Agent, 238 Clark street Chicago, Ill. Acteaily Manufactaring Marble. Manufacturers are actually. making marble by the same process by which mature makes it, only in a few weeks instead of a few thousand years. They take ~a rather soft limestone and chemically permeate it with various coloring matters, which sink into the stone, and are tot a mere surface col- oring, as in scagliola. The completed material takes a fine polish, and many Of the specimens are of beautiful color and marking. Used as a veneer, it is about one-third the price of nature's marble. ‘Trv Grain-O!f Try Grain-Ot your Grocer a 9 of GRAIN-O, aoe pow. food ariak eta ike place of cottes. ‘The children drink it without injury os wall is adult. All who try it, GRAIN-O bas ee ere : the price of cof sions Saowe tress. ee. aun Sold by all grocers. The largest loaves of bread baked in the world are those of France and Italy. The “pipe” bread of Italy is baked in loaves two feet or three feet long, while in France the loaves are made in the shape of very long roils, four or five feet in length and in many cases six feet. Many good physicians and nurses use Wizard Oil for obstinate rheumatism ees It’s the right thing to (ee Many a man spends half his time anticipating to-morrow and the other half {0 regretting yesterday. ‘There are in California nearly 45,000 ‘Italians. Their property is estimated at $50,000,000. =at Tok ORT.ATOMAt ee ‘Reready| Morgsn’s = Some men sim high, but lack the necessary ammunition. — Philadelphia Reseds: ee ee ‘am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved ‘my life three years sgo.—Mrz. Taos. Roms Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.. Fub. 1, 900. A man sometimes loses bis head, but 2 woman seldom loses her tongue. - FITS Permasentiy ured. ‘aot ‘Dr. King’s ‘Nerve ffm Sara The population of Japan is increas- fing at the rate of 400000 a year. BEEF YOUR oa Beh ee " ‘The breath of scandal is an il wind typ constitutional cure. Price. Ta An expressman says that old maids are uncalled-for packages. TiS age poi meres ind Kafire own nine-tenths of the 12,- 900,000 acres of Natal s sah Sia a ~ qrouble are like bables—they grow ees that dreadful fiend that threatens the Be ote : ees —_iife of rich and poor, can attack and gS Toei kill only those whose bowels are not ; RT Seale. | ‘Aici\i) kept thoroughly cleaned out, purified <A A> x pant Vii and disinfected the year round. One LG) IN iii whose liver is dead, whose bowels xX LX. rN and stomach are full of half decayed PRR ee Wr ) food, whose whole body is unclean INE) Wy, pba a quick and ready victim cS Se Neat Uy Wy) J ot a icitis. — —— eeres Se eee <= SS ES in FE = oer EE CLEAN INSIDE! Use Vf aim gin | BA the only tonic laxative, that will = Sy) gs > make your bowels strong and healthy, Fe Sa ee ae ¢ ¢ s a ee eee ae —j———— you. you hh ee will find that all diseases are absolutely Se PREVENTED BY 250. 506. SE ST . Kyu — [2c Oe el hale Shen IN BULIG QUARDING AGAINST MOTHS. Mahogany Sawdust or Hot Sand Are abded Into Furs ‘To clean furs there are two practical and effective methods. One is by rub- ae eee at has been first wet in benzine or gasolene; the other is by rubbing with hot sand. By means of either fur may be perfectly cleaned, explains the ‘Woman's Home Companion. Tue saw- dust used by furriers is what is called “veneering sawdust”; that is, it is from cutting across the grain, and is short and sand-like. This sawdust will not stick to fur like the long particles from cutting wood with the grain. It can be procured at hard-lumber saw- mills or from furriers. The sand used is that clean yellow kind, free from dust, as sea or lake shore sand, or such as is sometimes taken from sand hills. It should be made hot in a stove-oven to the degree that it can be borne by the hand—greater heat than that en- dangering the fur. After cleaning, furs should, of course, be beaten (with rat- tan beater) and alred—not sunned, for fear of fading. As for wool garments they. should be carefully looked over first, and all that need cleaning be cleaned by a professional cleaner or by home measures. It is a mistake to put things away “to be cleaned in the fall”; it is simply an invitation to moths. Before cleaning wool gar- ments should be weil beaten, aired and gunned. New Star in Persons The new star in Perseus is now 80 faint as to be barely visible without a telescope. The star was first seen on the 224 of February. On Saturday evening, the 23d, it reached the first magnitude. While the veteran volunteer firemen of Watson, Miss., were holding their annual street parade the other day a genuine alarm was turned in and the old-fashioned machines were first at the blaze, which they extinguished be- fore the steam apparatus arrived. 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I can't believe that God's love has got a hell attached to it. We are all of some specific use; if we aren't stirring up the people, we are some of the people getting stirred up. All men are not Christians. A big majority are satisfied with no other qualification than belonging to the church. There is danger in stretching your lies beyond the point you are accustomed to stopping at. A liar must learn his gait. If men would strive to see how good they could be, instead of how rich they can get, you could drop your purse in the church and go back next day and find it again. Man cannot believe at will. There is no shadows where there is no light, no intellect where there is no thought, no doubts where there is nothing concealed. Too much valuable time is lost in digging up reasons why God should damn the world, which could be used far better in trying to bless the poor people who are already damned. The American laboring people can only buy and consume so much of the country's productions as their wages will buy. All productions above that point is overproduction and under-consumption. Should we create more than we need? Men who become suddenly rich are like boys; they love to toot their horns.—Finnickey Finnukin in Pennsylvania Grit. WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW. A poor woman is fat; a rich woman is only stout. Life is worth living so long as there is somebody worth loving. The woman who has pretty feet is not apt to wear ugly shoes. You can't act all the time as if life were a perpetual cake walk. An old maid is a woman who has seen the flower of youth gone to seed. seen the flower of youth gone to seed. A singer must have a pretty good compass before he ventures on high C's. When a woman loses $5 her worry is never marked down to four-ninety-eight. The woman who has poetical aspirations always talks about the "gray montony of life." A woman is never comfortable at the theater if she is conscious that her back hair looks badly. A rain of terror—one in which a woman has on her very best dress and is without an umbrella. "Happy is the wooing that is not long a-doing," counsels one proverb; and, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure," cautions another, so what are you going to do about it? Why is it that just as soon as you make up your mind to save more money there are a dozen things you think you must have?—Philadelphia Times ODDS AND ENDS. A very moderate estimate for the antiquity of man, according to recent investigations of a French scientist, is 238,000 years. A so-called "tax on health" raises the price of salt in Italy from its natural cost of eleven pounds for 2 cents to nearly 4 cents a pound. Miss Lucy C. Coolidge recently received the largest vote ever cast for one person in Portland, Me. She was on all tickets as a candidate for the school board and got 8,418 votes. General Sir Evelyn Wood, adjutant general of the British army, has just entered upon the fiftieth year of his active service. This started in the navy, which he left for the army in 1865. Strutting about on a Colorado Springs ostrich farm is a big bird that is valued at $1,000, one hundred for himself and a thousand for his owner's diamond stud, which he swallowed the other day. Gotrox—I discharged my last butler because he got drunk. New Butler—well, you'll never 'ave to discharge me h'on that h'account, sir! H'I could drink h'all day h'and then walk a crack!—Puck. GLOBJULES The secretary of state for India has sanctioned a scheme for five large central asylums for the insane of India. Among the Burmese a newly married couple, to insure a happy life, exchange a mixture of tea leaves steeped in oil. It is believed that the figures of the recent English census will prove more reliable than any similar returns previously made. Uncle Sam is making all the way from $40,000 to $80,000 a day in stamps upon stock bought and sold on the New York exchange. The $120,000,000 of iron and steel products exported last year exceeds the total of American manufactures exported twenty years ago.—Utica Globe. NEW HOUSEHOLD IDEAS. Exercise before breakfast should be very light, and it is better to eat a cracker or something before starting out. Children's luncheons should be carried in baskets, not in tin boxes. The lunch basket should be occasionally washed in hot salt water. Chocolate Drops—Two and a half cups pulverized or granulated (or maple sugar may be used), one-half cup of cold water; boil four minutes, place the saucepan in cold water, and beat till cold enough to make into little balls; take half a cup of Baker's chocolate, shave off fine and put it in a bowl set in the top of a boiling teakettle to melt, and when the balls are cool enough, roll in the chocolate with a fork. This makes eighty. When finished take out and lay on buttered paper until cold. If silk is very dirty, spread each breadth on a large table and sponge it upon both sides with warm water mixed with ox gall. Rinse the silk several times in clear water, changing the water each time. Then sponge it upon the wrong side with a weak solution of glue. Try the experiment first on a scrap of the goods till you find it as stiff as new silk. Dry the silk and then roll it up in a damp towel and after two or three hours iron on the wrong side with a moderately hot iron. Apple water is a refreshing drink for an invalid. It can be made with either raw or baked apples, the latter being preferred. They should be sour, and when cooked should be put in enough boiling water to cover them. Let stand until cool, strain, and sweeten to taste. For that made from raw apples, three or four juicy, sour apples of fine flavor should be pared and sliced. Pour over them two cupfuls of boiling water and let stand for three hours. Strain, sweeten, and add a small piece of ice. Indiananpolls News. LITERARY NOTES. Herbert Spencer has just entered his 82d year. Though more or less of an invalid, he continues to entertain his friends in his Brighton home. Comic operas have much amused him in his time, but he has given them up now, and he has given up also the prolonged games at billiards, at which he was an adept rather proud of his skill. Brander Mathews observed not long ago in a novel that the most interesting conversation in polite society is always personal gossip. Proof of this may be had from a reading of Oliver Onions' "The Compleat Bachelor," a witty account of the life of an Englishman of position and means during the season in London. The gossip of Rollo Butterfield is limited to the imaginary personages of the book, but the story of fashionable life in the world's metropolis is always entertaining, especially to those who have the misfortune or good luck to be born in quite another sphere of life. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. It is not offended at your absent-mindedness, nor jealous, if you turn to other pleasures, of leaf, or dress, or mineral, or even of books. It silently serves the soul without recompense, not even for the hire of love. And yet more noble, it seems to pass from itself, and to enter the memory, and to hover in a silvery transformation there, until the outward book is but a body and its soul and spirit are flown to you, and posses your memory like a spirit.—H. W. Beecher. HINTS FOR THE SUMMER GIRL. Cravats of the same fabric as the blouse will be favored by the Shirtwaist Girl. Dimity, with fine Hamburg insertion, is approved by Miss Up-to-Date's summer lingerie. Garland laces are as much in vogue as ever; in black upon bright fabrics they are very effective. White serge, mohair and cloth costumes will be a feature of the fashionable woman's warm weather wardrobe. Sashes of wide flowered ribbons with fringed ends will be a pretty accompaniment of the diaphanous summer frocks. The fichu is still with us; of lace or of chiffon or mull edged with lace, it will gracefully adorn many of the summer costumes. The skirts of the thin gowns hang closely, excepting just at the feet, where ruffles or flounces make them stand out very much like the petals of a flower. Hat boxes for travelers when first introduced carried six hats; now, by ingenious device, the same size of hat box can carry any number up to twelve hats without damage, and any one may be removed without disturbing the others.—Philadelphia Times. The young man who hustles for a job will get his name on the gay roll quicker than the one who applies for a position.—Chicago News. Telephone Yards 792. Established 1877 JOHN J. DUNN, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In.... Coal - and - Wood, 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. NOTARY PUBLIC Telephone Wentworth 65. OTTO V. MUELLER Real Estate, Renting, Loans ... Insurance ... 910 W. 68d st. (near Halsted) CHICAGO. RENFROE BROS. Dealers in WOOD, COAL, FEED AND IGE. 187 West Forty-Seventh St. OHICAGO. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. Office Hours: Phone 818 Went. 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m 6 to 7:30 p. m. TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. PROF. W. E. DORSEY, 1968 La Salle St. Leader and Manager K. P. Military Band and Orchestra Music Furnished for Balls and Receptions. Prices Reasonable. Call and see me. Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards Ltd. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 48g8 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO House: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. WANTED. A colored man and wife with no children want the janitorship of a flat building. Can furnish good references. For further information, address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave. If your nearest druggest does not have the Original Ozonized Ox-Marrow he can get it for you from any wholesale druggist in the city. It straightens kinky hair. Warranted harmless. Only 50 cents a bottle. The Ozonized Ox-Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT Six Senators Are Serving from Each of the States. The first parliament of the new commonwealth of Australia was recently opened with special pomp and ceremony. The tariff question was the chief issue in the elections, which took place late in March. Should duties be levied with a view of protecting home industries; or for revenue chiefly, with some regard to protection; or for revenue solely, without regard to other considerations? This was the question upon which the parties divided, and they were known respectively as High Tariffists, Low Tariffists, or Free Traders, according to the principle for which they stood. There are thirty-six senators in the parliament—six for each of the states forming the federation, little Tasmania having as large a representation in the senate as New South Wales or Victoria, just as with us Nevada has as many senators as New York. There are 75 members of the House of Representatives, apportioned by population. Senators and representatives were chosen by the same electors, and on the same days, but the senators on a general ticket, while the representatives in most instances were elected by districts. The result of the elections was to give a free trade or low tariff majority of six in the Senate and a protection or high tariff majority of five in the House of Representatives. This close division, with the margin in the Senate on one side and in the House on the other side, of the most important question which the parliament will have to consider, suggests a possibility of such conflicts of policy as have occurred in this country when the Senate and House were controlled by different political parties. The Australian premier Mr. Barton, and all his colleagues are protectionists. Next to tariff, labor questions are likely to be prominent. The Labor party, which secured eight seats in the Senate and sixteen in the House, knows what it wants, and will be an aggressive force.—Youth's Companion. Japan and California Compared. Although Japan is smaller than California, and only one-twelfth of her area is cultivable, it has a population of 44,000,000. A. D. GASH, Attorney at Law. 84 and 88 La Salle St., Suite 615 to 619. Telephone, Main 3077. Chicago. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 80 S. Clark Street, CHICAGO TEL. MARRISON 51. Thomas F. Soully, Attorney at Law, 70 Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO. Room 14. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE CHICAGO Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St, Down Town Office 260 S. Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 2533 Harrison. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tul. M. 2024. — EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 200 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2533. CHICAGO GEO. W. W. LYTLE, Attorney and Counselor at Law Telephone Central 3558. Suite 60, Grand Opera House, Notary Public 87 & 89 S. Clark St. Chicago Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 728 Open House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. TELEPHONE MAIN 1782. G. E. EVANS. Dealer in All Kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL, Wood, Charcoal, Coke and Ice, Expressing and Moving a Specialty. 332 29th St. Chicago, Ill. Read and subscribe for The Broad Ax, the only newspaper in Chicago which "hews to the Lina." Gate Aboard Liners. Every large ocean liner carrying passengers, always has on board from six to ten cats, these being apportioned to various parts of the ship, as well as appearing on the vessel's books as regards the rations they draw. A few of the first-class saloon cats have become quite celebrated, especially in the long-voyage boats that go to India and Australia. Large sums have been offered for one saloon cat on a great line, and the staff have to guard it strictly from acquisitive admirers, in whose luggage it has several times been found. A TOWN UNDERMINED. When Buildings Sink They Are Elevated on Jackscrews and Rest. The remarkable subsidences which have often occurred in and around the town of Northwich, in Cheshire, England, form the subject of a paper by T. Ward, recently issued by the Institution of Mining Engineers. The subsidences are chiefly due to mining in the upper bed of rock salt and the too rapid removal of brine by means of modern pumps. In a natural condition the water in or on the salt beds becomes saturated with salt and then ceases to dissolve it, but now the brine is continually pumped up in immense quantities, and the fresh water which flows to take its place dissolves the salt pillars which have supported the roof and over-lying strata, with the result that there is a depression toward each pumping center. In almost every case the mines in the upper bed of rocksalt are destroyed by water rapidly eroding the salt pillars in this way. Another cause of subsidence is the pumping of brine from off the rockhead; that is, the surface of the upper bed of rocksalt. These are by far the most serious and widespread, and it is from them that the town of Norwich suffers so much damage. Owing to the subsidences, which show themselves first by small cracks in the buildings and in doors and windows refusing to shut, a system of framework buildings has been allowed, so that when a building sinks it can be lifted by screw-jacks and put back to its original position. By degrees the town is becoming one of framework buildings, and will, for England, be unique in this respect.—Nature. --- BARNEY BENSON, HEAVY MACHINERY. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office, 31 South Canal St.. Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4029 ...The Mutual Reserve Fund Life or New York... OVER $41,000,000 PAID IN LOSSES. Insurance for the Protection of the family at actual cost E. P. BARRY, M'g'r. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Special Agt. 440 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St. 5069 Armor Ave. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Canal 370 POOL AND BILLIARDS BRAXTON'S ....PLACE SAMPLE ROOM Fine Wines and Liquors Imported and Domestic Cigars 360 West Lake St. JIM GEORGE Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, OHIOAGO Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West. 1028. OHI IRISH NAMES IN FRANCE. France with its MacMahons, O'Neills, O'Connors and Nugents, possesses many Irish names. The Boulanger movement introduced to us Count Dillon, in whose gardens the Floquet duel was fought. Most of the Franco-Irish, though two hundred years may have passed since their ancestors left our shores, have preserved a great affection for Ireland, and each St. Patrick's day sees a certain number of them united to celebrate the feast of Ireland's patron saint. I had the pleasure of being present at one of these "dinere de St. Patrine," under the presence of the Vicomte O'Neill de Tyrone, a charming nobleman, who claims descent from Owen Roe O'Neill. Among Irish names in France I may mention Crébillon de Ballyhigue, MacGuckin de Slane, Mahon de Monsagha, O'Quin d'Etcheparc (formerly mayor of Pau), Harty de Pierrebourg, Harden-Hickey (who shows his Irish origin by editing the principal comic paper in Paris, the "Triboulet"). There are a few names with the prefix "O," and it is hard to know how they came by it. There is a Baron O'Tard de la Grange, and a Comtesse O'Pole, and I have also seen in a list of students O'Diette and O'Lanyer. These are to be distinguished, of course, from such noms de guerre as O'Monroy, O'Diu, O'Squarr, etc.—The Gentleman's Magazine. ice on Bottom of Sea. In the Baltic Sea and in many northern regions the lower water is so much colder than the water at the surface that ice forms at the bottom while the surface waters seem warm. This phenomenon puzzled scientists for many years. The ice formed in small cakes or flakes and rises to the top, where it melts if the weather is warm or the cake freazes into a solid mass if the weather is cold. Scientists have discovered that the phenomenon is due to an undercurrent of very low temperature. Boatmen, when they see the ice cakes rising to the surface, hurriedly take to the shore if frigid weather exists, for otherwise their boats would be rapidly ice bound, and they would be unable to escape. T. OHIOAGO. JOSEPH STRAUSS NORTHERN HANGE STABLE. General Business Horses On Hand OHIOAGO. III. CURLY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT BY THE TAKEN FROM LIFE. BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. 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