The Broad Ax

PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND OTHER LEADERS OF THE NEGRO RACE. All intelligent and unintelligent Negroes, who are scattered throughout the world have been taught or admonished by the vast majority of the whites and the editors and publishers of newspapers belonging to the same race, within the last few years to regard or look upon Prof. Booker T. Washington as the greatest, or the only true leader of the Negro race, that owing to his eminent ability he is far superior to all the many other able representatives of the Negro that his ideas or philosophy pertaining to the education of the Negro—his civil or political rights are infallible. Now, no one questions, the right of the whites nor the owners of their news papers for designating Prof. Washington as their ideal leader of the Negro, for it has ever been the rule of the opposite race to select the leader for the Negroes and it cannot be successfully disputed but what the whites generally manage to choose for a leader of the Negroes one from among them, who will close his eyes to their true or real condition. For that reason the whites and more especially the Southern whites have heretofore held up Prof. Washington, as the only leader of the Negroes, because he has endeavored to pander to their prejudices their whims, their narrow and bigotted ideas respecting the rights of the Negro to have a fair and equal chance in the race of life. But just as soon as Prof. Booker T. Washington dared to exercise all of his rights as a free American citizen and accept an invitation to sit at the same table with a white person, then the great majority of those same people whom he has labored to please by remaining silent and perfectly voiceless while they have been busily engaged in mobbing, lynching, and burning Negroes at the stake by wholesale, set up the hue and cry that Prof. Washington was no more to the Southern people than any other common. "nigger" that he is inferior to the lowest and most ignorant white person in the South, that he is now in favor of "niggers" marrying white women, etc. All this outcry against Prof. Booker T. Washington on the part of the whites of the South, proves to our mind that Prof. Washington, even though he has the voice of the American people, as the great leader of the Negroes, is not large enough, nor great enough and we might say courageous enough to assume the entire leadership of the Negro, that he has not gained one point for the race since he became its sole leader by tamely permitting the so-called best friends of the Negro race to reduce it to a condition which is worse than absolute prejudice. Therefore there is only one manly course open for Prof. Booker T. Washington to persuue that is, if he still possesses an itching desire to be hailed as the great leader of his race. Namely, to summons all the smaller leaders of the race to meet with him in convention, and after due and calm deliberation on all those things effecting the rights of the Negro as an American citizen, proclaim to all the American people that he, himself, and all the lesser leaders of the race, are willing to right all the past wrongs inflicted upon it in water, that they are more than willing to let the "dead past burry its dead," yes to blot from their memories all of the recollections of the sufferings and the horrors which the Negro endured during the long and dark hours of slavery in this country. But let them proclaim from the housetops that from henceforth they have highly resolved not to sit with folded arms and permit tawless bands of white Christians to mob, lynch, murder, burn at the stake innocent men, women and children upon trumped charged. No longer will we permit half drunken white leafers to drag our wives and daughters out of the cars which they have paid first-class fare to ride in; nor submit to ride in "Jim-crow" cars, which are occupied by drunken, cursing, tobacco chewing, low-bred white men, who delight in insulting and degrading our females, but who conduct themselves like hell-hounds if a Negro happens to look at a cheap white woman. No longer will we be treated as criminals and outlaws after assisting the early fathers of this country in two bloody wars to wrest it from England. Let Prof. Booker T. Washington, adhere to these views if he is a true leader of his race and say to the American people that unless they accord better treatment to the Negro, he will appeal to the Pope of Rome, and to one or two strong foreign powers to interfere in behalf of the Negro, in the interest of humanity. The same as this country waged the war against Spain (so it is claimed) in the interest of humanity. If Prof. Washington will take this stand, or course, he will become Toussaint L'Ouverture, the second, then the blessings and the benedictions of our fathers, our kindred and of all the noble sons and daughters of justice and liberty, who have gone on before we will be showered down upon him then he will be instrumental in encircling the Negro race with a new ray of hope, sunshine and glory, which will linger with it throughout the coming ages. THE RACE PROBLEM As Viewed by Northern and Southern Slowly and almost imperceptibly Southern and Northern views of the Negro the race question are being blended into new and modified forms and are steadily being accepted in all sections and by all classes. The trend of things would indicate that within a few years the differences between the opinions held throughout the nation on the race question will not be due to various methods of reasoning. The time will soon come when the Negro will no longer divide the North and the South. The coming of that day is to be earnestly prayed for by all classes. With its advent will come a cessation of the peculiar and particular persecutions and outrages to which the Negro is now subjected. The Negroes will then no longer be thought of and dealt with as a class but will be regarded and dealt with as individuals. Under such conditions merit will not be unrecognized because of race prejudice nor will demerit be unseen because of sentiment. Laws aimed at races will be impossible and prejudices that obscure the worth of individuals because of their race relations will vanish. The treatment accorded certain Negroes at London during the Ecumenical Conference and the ideas which these influential individuals are sure to have gotten will have a very powerful effect both upon the white people and the colored people of America. It will lead more of the white people to see that there are some Negroes who are worthy of recognition to a fuller extent than what has hitherto been generally believed and it will lead some Negroes to see that there are some of the race who are more worthy than are some others of the race. This is a truth which the colored people refuse to acknowledge and which very few prominent colored persons have had the courage to assert and to maintain. Among the most prominent exceptions of recent and present times are Bishops D. A. Payne, J. M. Brown, Hon. J. M. Langston and Bishop W. B. Derrick. To this list of very prominent individuals might be added the names of thousands who in their communities have been like them. But all such persons have had to bear the persecutions of their fellows and have been styled as "stuck-up" etc. It is only in the rarest instances that any such persons have been accorded any honor that depended upon popular favor. The average Negro can recognize and can honor superior merit in one who panders to him and who never reveals a consciousness of his superiority but the average Negro cannot forgive in one of this number any assertion of conscious superiority. It is possible to cite numerous instances where colored men in various organizations have thought it necessary in order to win popular favor to proclaim themselves as former slaves or the immediate descendants of slave parents when such statements were untrue. One of the most powerful slogans is the cry, "I HEW TO THE LINE. Mr. James J. Gray, member of the Wizard of Assessors of Cook-County, who has manfully stood by the people in their fight against the millionaire tax-dodgers, who is the choice of many of the leading Democrats for chairman of the new city central committee. was born a slave," or "My parents were slaves." It is most noticeable that in most all contests for votes the Negro decries and honestly abhors a discussion Mr. James J. Gray, member of the who has manfully stood by the people tax-dodgers, who is the choice of many of the new city central committee. of the actual character of an aspirant. Most Negroes in public life skrink from the fierce light of newspaper discussion and regard any mention of their names, except in terms of the most fulsome and disgusting flattery, as the act of an enemy. This is a race trait growing out of the truths above mentioned. There is no Negro editor whose dependence for pay is based on the favor of an organization who dares to be always manly in his utterances and consistent in his discharge of his official duties. While it is true that the editor of the official organ of any organization should serve the best interest of that organization yet it is also true that he should be allowed to do it in a manly way. A case in point is where the able and educated editor of the Christian Recorder was subjected to the humiliation of having one of his editorials taken out of the hands of the printer and the trashy and truckling deliverance of some one else substituted. This is set forth in the first editorial of the Christian Recorder of Oct. 10. by Editor Johnson. Such illustrations go to show that indepedence and the development of striking individualities meet unusual difficulties in the organizations of the race. Bushops Turner, Derrick and Waters are striking exceptions. These three great men differ radically in their views, but each is a thoroughly independent character and possessed of strong and well marked individuality. The utterances and the courses pursued by these men are not determined by the number of anticipated "amens" but they think for themselevs and speak and act independently and ofttimes brave the most adverse criticism. It is only such independence that can make true leaders, the lack of this makes demagogues and mere politicians. It is not to be understood that in citing individual illustrations that it is meant to say that there are no others, but the intention is to name those most distinguishedly fitted to illustrate the truth aimed at. In journalism the Hon. George L. Knox stands out as one of the most independent and heroic characters. His paper has the widest circulation of any race journal but has won it by being absolutely the most independent. Future conditions will encourage more than do present conditions the development of independent and striking individualities among us. When the attendants of a conference Board of Assessors of Cook County, in their fight against the millionaire of the leading Democrats for chairman in Alabama were taking the train for home it was noticed that a bishop and a distinguished educator had taken seats in a Pullman car. In the "jim-crow" they were roundly criticised and bitterly denounced as being "stuck-up" etc. They were subsequently made aware of the sentiments expressed concerning their act. Whether their future course was influenced by a regard for these unjust criticisms or not is unknown, but in the majority of instances public men among us pander to the popular whim however unreasonable. Those who are thus weak and yielding can never be true leaders. The trend of events shows that the public is rapidly getting at things as they are and is learning to see and recognize individuality among the colored people. The time will come when some colored people can and will ride first-class and some cannot do go, and yet will not hate those who can. The time will come when Negro preachers, editors, teachers and public men will dare to discuss the race question fully and honestly and yet will not render themselves fatally offensive by their candor. That time is not yet, and he is not a wise politician who allows himself to speak and act up to his highest convictions. With the average Negro the worth of a man is determined by his popularity. "What do the white folks say about him?" is a question that is often asked, and the answer of which cuts a mighty big figure. The "white folks" have put the tag of their approval upon many a worthless colored jack-ass and he passes as a lion. The average Negro has not yet learned how to think and to reason independently and still goes by his feelings. All of this well change as each Negro is thrown upon his individual merits.—J. M. Henderson, M. D., in The Freeman. Mayor Carter H. Harrison is to be commended for selecting Melville G.Holding to succeed Robert E. Burke, aa city oil inspector. Mr. Holding is a first-class honorable gentleman, who possesses a clean business record and his appointment to discharge the duties of city oil inspector will meet with the hearty approval of all good citizens who are in favor of reform in conducting the affairs of that office. --- THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE WILL Last Sunday the following persons were selected by the South Side Sunday Club as a committee to run out all the tough characters from the neighborhood 47th street and Armour avenue: Prof. S. D. Fowler, James H. Harris, Rev. J. W. Robinson, D. P. Webster, S. B. Emmick, Mrs. H. T. Pelkey and Mrs. Titus. If this committee is God-fearing and has the courage to do its duty, the first thing it ought to do should be to close up the crap or gambling joint conducted by George Jackleg, or blackleg, Terrell, which is located at 47th and Armour avenue. Then let it next surprise the three or four policy shops, which are running in full blast in the same district, if it does its duty in this regard it will accomplish much good. CHIPS. Mr. John Breen, may become the candidate of the Tilden Democracy for elderman from the 30th ward. Eighteen miles West of Toledo, O., is a town called Archibald which boasts that no Negroes can live there. William Howard Fitzgerald, assist ant corporation counsel, is rapidly recovering from a severe attack of rheumatism. Sunday morning, Nov. 10, prof. Wm. M. Salter speaks in Steinway Hall Society for Ethical Culture on "Man's Need of Religion." Thursday evening Nov. 21 a grand entertainment will be given at St. Mark's Church, for the benefit of the South End Sunday Club. S. Laing Williams was elected President of the Men's Sunday Forum, last Sunday and Dr. W. H. Davis, was rechosen as secretary. Doctor Joseph Jeffery, addresses the Men's Sunday Forum at the Institutional Church, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10, his theme is "Race Prejudice." Mr. M. J. Doherty, superintendent of streets, is kept mighty busy these days in seeing that the streets of Chicago are kept in better condition. Wm. L. Gahan, is still being mentioned by his friends residing in the 30th ward in connection with the nomination for alderman from the 30th ward. Mrs. R. C. Ransom reads a paper before the South End Sunday Club Sunday, Nov. 10, on "Social Service." Miss Day, Mrs. Woodridge and St. Mary's M. E. Church choir furnish the singing. Wednesday afternoon the Phyllis Wheatly Club met at the pleasant home of Mrs. S. J. Hart 4841 Armour avenue. An interesting meeting was held and plans perfected to carry on the work for the new year. Prof. M. M. Mangasarian begins his first lecture at the Grand Opera House, Sunday morning, Nov. 10, on Shakespere's women. He will elaborate on "Shakespere's Relative Estimate of Men and Women—Richard the Third and Lady Macbeth." Another Negro was burned at the stake in Perry County, Miss., a few days ago. This form of amusement is becoming so common nowadays that the Christians who perform such acts, do not take the trouble to ascertain the names of their victims. Master in chancery, George Mills Rogers, is not only one of the best lawyers in Chicago, but he excels as a master in chancery, and it would be more than gratifying to The Broad Ax to see Mr. Rogers elected as one of the new judges of Cook County. Monday evening three hundred employees of the postoffice tendered Postmaster Coyne a banquet at the Sherman House. Col. Ike Rivers spoke in behalf of the Colored employees of that office. Postmaster Coyne is held in high esteem by all who serve under him. James J. McNarney, 840 42d street "it always amuses me to see how you get after those who play you for a sucker, and whenever The Broad Ax arrives at my place, it is read by many, who frequent my place of business and they like it, because it 'hews to the Line'." A. S. Gage, Esq., proprietor of the Wellington hotel and president of the Hotel Men's Association of the United States will enter the aldermanic contest in the first ward against Bathhouse John. Mr. Gage is the candidate of the Tilden Democracy and he is'a live one and a fighter. Dr. Rufus G. Collins, physician and surgeon, 5059 State street, ranks with the highest and the best men in his profession in this city. Doctor Collins always has pleasant greetings for all, regardless of their station in life and that good trait makes him very popular with all classes. Justice of the peace, Thomas Edgar, corner of Milwaukee avenue and Irving Park boulevard, is well known to many of the Colored people residing in all parts of the city, and whenever any of them get in trouble Justice Edgar is always willing to assist them and deal with them fair and square. Does any one remember that during President Grover Cleveland's first term he entertained Frederick Douglass at a Congressional reception at the White House and that Douglass sat next to him and also dined Lilioukalani, the deposed queen of Hawaii whose skin is as dark as that of a Negro? We do.—Ex. Indianapolis Journal: "One of those disagreeable persons who recalls events or the long ago announces that the wife of Richard M. Johnson who was Vice President when Mr. Van Buren was President, was a Colored woman. In the event of Mr. Van Buren's death she would have been mistress of the White House." We learn that a member of the unconstitutional "constitutional" convention lost $4,000 in a Colored woman's house in jail alley. No respectable Colored man would have been caught in such a place, why should an alleged respectable white one wish to go there? It savors of "social equality."—The Planet, Richmond, Va. Those white people who are so afraid of honorable, social equality in the daytime, should be equally consistent in being afraid of it in the night-time. This rising generation is having a mighty suspicious streak of white in its anatomy, which thows the burden of suspicion upon some of these foremost ranting Negro-haters.—The Planet, Richmond, Va. Of course all have noticed a remarkable change in the expression of Southern papers concerning the Roosevelt-Washington dinner since they have learned that as early as 1801 President Thomas Jefferson the idol of the Democratic party, gave a dinner to Benjamin Banker, the great Negro methamatician, at the White House. Pass the word along.—Ex. James A. Taylor, an eccentric old resident of Hamburg, N. Y., holds peculiar views of the hereafter. He has had his funeral vault prepared and carved over the door is this inscription: "No orthodox flend, with cloveg foot and barbed tail, will ever be seen in this pleasant vale. My fate you wish to know. I am the same as I was millions of years ago—MATTER."—Kx. Rev. Wm. S. Braddon, and the other workers connected with Berean Baptist Church, 4th and State street, raised $26.73 at the rally last Sunday. The following are Rev. Braddon's evening subjects for November. Sunday evening, Nov. 10: "What Is Heaven?" Nov. 19, "Is Heaven a Place?" Nov. 24, "The Way to Heaven." December 1, "Will We Know Each Other in Heaven!" Col. Beauregard F. Moseley, orator, lawyer, and the promoter and organizer of the original Theodore Roosevelt Club of Illinois, does not hesitate in pronouncing The Broad Ax by far the best newspaper published in the interest of the Afro-Americans in this city or State. The Colonel admires The Broad Ax, for he says, "that no man, white or black, is too big for it to tackle, nor no man is too small for it to notice." Last winter Frank-hawk Murphy, was a candidate for alderman from the 30th ward and he promised to subscribe to The Broad Ax, if we would give him a little boost. We gave the big fat boy several boosts, but he refused, or failed, to keep his word, but he never fails to read The Broad Ax, if he can find one laying around loose. Just like a number of Colored men, who read The Broad Ax, after the white folks get through with it. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the two principles of Democracy, but Parma, Catholic, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any he also can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the militant right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; she only on one side of the paper. Prince Henry of Prussia was made a full admiral of the German fleet by his brother the Kaiser, at the time of the Czar's visit to Dantzig. Lugi Carreno, a well known Roman journalist, recently got employment as a day laborer in the Vatican garden, in order to get material for an article on the daily life of the Pope. At Cotta, in Saxony, persons who did not pay their taxes last year are published in a list which hangs up in all restaurants and saloons of the city. Those that are on the list can get neither meat nor drink at these places, under penalty of loss of license. The Chinese government has engaged the services of M. Rutshauser, a Swiss engineer, to build a powder factory, probably at Pekin, also to superintend the rebuilding of the arsenal at Tien-Tsin. M. Rutshauser has been hitherto director of the powder factory at Berne. Professor Labaud, of the Strasburg university, received a letter recently from a Japanese lady informing him that she would commit suicide on a certain day because her brother had failed in an examination, and asking the learned professor to commit suicide also. On inquiry it was found that the Japanese lady had actually done as she had threatened. Omer Pellea, aged 10, was fatally shot at Winchester, Ind., while posing as President McKinley at Buffalo by Emil Miller, a boy of the same age, who was acting the part of the anarchist. The lads were playmates and decided to imitate the Buffalo tragedy. Miller secured his brother's Florbert rifle for the work. The ball passed almost through Pellea's stomach and he will die. Tea is the favorite drink in Russia, and the government has been for some time encouraging the cultivation of the plant there. It has been found that it thrives in the Caucasus, and a number of plantations have been in operation for several years. The cultivators have not succeeded in getting the fine flavors of Chinese, Ceylonese, and Indian tea, but what they produce finds a ready market among the peasants. A happy village is La Haye, in Normandy, numbering scarcely 400 inhabitants. Under the will of a M. Fortier, a native of the place, who has recently died, the sum of 20,000 francs will be available annually, in the proportions of a third, for the provision of bread, boots and medicines at reduced prices, and medical attendance for the old people and children of the village; another-third for the provision of savings bank nuclei for five young men and five young women, and the remainder to be distributed among the soldiers on active service who are natives of La Haye. There has just been brought to light another tragic romance of Paris life. An early promenader in the Park of St. Cloud noticed a bulky mass floating in the lake. It was found to be composed of two human bodies—a man's and a woman's, tied fact together by a rope. The man was a working stonemason named Blaudet, the young woman a domestic servant named Brault. The young man's parents refused to section their marriage, thus interposing an insuperable obstacle in French law, and the lovers had taken this sad alternative for asserting their indissoluble union. During the recent German army manenvers there was tested, under the personal supervision of the grand marshal of the Prussian court, a newly invented traveling "field kitchen" for the Kaiser's private use. Besides the provision for cooking, during which the vehicle remains stationary, there is an ingenious contrivance for keeping the dishes warm as long as may be necessary. For this the kitchen can follow the movements of the Emperor. At a given signal the "kitchen" comes to pieces like a piece of stage scenery, and one of its sides forms a handy table, while others have warm chambers and serve as sideboards. Edward J. Ivory, who was arrested and acquitted in England seven years ago of a charge of being in an alleged conspiracy to blow up the house of parliament with dynamite, is to make a second attempt to secure damages in the sum of $200,000 for false imprisonment. Ivory, who is a waiter in a restaurant in Chicago, has placed the case in the hands of Henry W. Scott, a New York lawyer. Mr. Scott, who is associated with Joseph Martin of British Columbia, and Charles F. Beach, Jr., of London, will present the claim to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer. If it is refused he will appeal to the state de- The coronation chair is one of the most interesting pieces of historic furniture that exists; as a venerable witness in the long history of this country its value cannot be overestimated, and not only so, but as a work of art, made by order of King Edward I to inclose the stone from Scone, its importance is equally great. What was the fate that befell this chair under the sympathetic charge of the officials? Mature reflection convinced these gentlemen that it did not look sufficiently "smart," and, no doubt, had it been placed, gray with age and history, on the "bath red" apotted carpet, surrounded as it was with the gimcrack brass railings from St. James' palace, it would have stood a silent and yet eloquent witness against modern official taste. The chair was placed in the hands of the upholsterers. It was smeared with brown stain and varnish, and otherwise tinkered by Messrs. Banting's man. Dragged along by sundry workmen over the unprotected mosaic pavement of Abbot Ware, I myself saw the chair, brought round from the recesses where it had been "doctored." The flat surface of the chair, back, and arms, still retain in places the ancient gesso ornamentation. Into these surfaces Mr. Wright, the clerk of works of the Abbey, found men driving "tacks" to hold some of their upholsteries, and very properly protested.—Nineteenth Century. THE CHAMPION WING SHOT. Ferris Wheel Park, Chicago, Nov. 4th.—Capt. A. H. Bogardus, the champion wing shot of the world, has spent the summer here. His shooting school has been one of the features of the Park during the season. He has given many exhibitions and his skill with the rifle is superb. The Captain tells of a very close call he once had when living at Elkhart, Ill. He had been a sufferer from Kidney disease for several years and it rapidly developed into Bright's Disease. All his friends told him that this was incurable and that he would never get better. To say that he was alarmed is to put it very mildly. This plucky man had faced many dangers and it made him sick at heart to think that at last he was to be conquered by such a cruel foe. At last he heard of a medicine that had cured many such cases—Dodd's Kidney Pills. He used them and was completely restored to good health. He says: "I attribute my present good health to Dodd's Kidney Pills and to nothing else." Strong Sportsmen of the Turf Never in American turf history have racing affairs been in stronger hands than now. It is announced that Jas. B. Haggin will return to the turf in stronger force than ever before. Prominent among racing sportsmen just now are such men as William C. Whitney, James R. Keene, Perry Belmont, Clarence McKay, W. K. Vanderbilt and others of great wealth, their united fortunes footing up over $250,000,000. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7th. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Canada to Coln "Beavers". It is said that Canada is soon to have her own mint and that the gold coins will be called "beavers." In value the "beavers" will correspond to our eagle, $10; double "beaver," $20; and half "beaver," $5. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The Mexican Army. The Mexican army in 1899 was composed of eight generals of divisions, fifty-three of brigades, 994 chiefs, 2,481 subordinate officers and 27,247 soldiers, Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 31st. After investigating Garfield Tea, which is quite universally acknowledged to be the best family remedy, it is not difficult to explain its success—it is the medicine for GOOD RESULTS! It is prepared here by the Garfield Tea Co., in their new and attractive laboratory and is made wholly from simple, sweet and withal, HEALTH-GIVING HERBS. Garfield Tea is the ORIGINAL herb cure for constipation and sick headache. Philosophy triumphs easily over past, and over future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy.—La Rouchefoucauld. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle (except green and purple). Sold by druggists, 10c, per package. Potatoes are so high that the short crop will probably return more money to the farmer than ever before. Mrs. Austin's Buckwheat has a world wide reputation on account of its purity and genuine Buckwheat flavor. Don't forget the name. 一 VILLAGE-ROAD IN JAPAN. AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE. It was near the end of August that a mountain, or perhaps more properly speaking, a high hill, was razed by an earthquake to the level of the plain of Igusa, in the northern part of Japan. That hill was more than 500 feet high and covered forty acres of the outskirts of the village of Kolwayama. It sank in the night, and in the morning the terror-stricken residents of Kolwayama were startled to find that it had disappeared from view forever. Apropos of this occurrence, Mr. Clarence WINE TO THE GODS, TO PROPITIATE VOLCANO'S WRATH. TIATE VOLCANO'S WRATH. Brownell, author of "Tales from Tokio," writes the following account of his own experiences with earthquakes in Japan: "We were up to dine near the Imperial university in Tokio, Japan, one evening, in the beautiful puzzle-pathed grounds known as Kaga Yashiki, where once the Prince of Kaga had his palace. The building had become one for the investigation of earthquakes, where those uncanny disturbances made records on various contrivances a famous specialist had devised for measuring all sorts of jolts and jars and palpitations. Their capacity for notation included all disturbances from the upheaval of a mountain range to the alighting of the most VILLAGE ROAD IN JAPAN, careful fly. The professor in charge explained what a "quake" did to an earth particle during a seismic disturbance—how it moved east and west, north, south and up and down. He showed a "track" a colleague of his, Professor Sekiya, had made to illustrate the movement. The track was of wire bent and twisted so that it looked like a skein of yarn a kitten had been playing with. To follow it from end to end would have taken a patient man a week. "Oh, for an earthquake," said one of the visitors. "Well, you may not have long to wait," said the professor. "We have about 500 a year in Japan, you know. One may be along before the evening's over." And he spoke truly, for the servants had no more than brought on the fish, when the floor began to wiggle, the lamps and pictures to sway, the windows to rattle and the dishes on the mahogany to clatter as young roosters do. He exclaimed: "Here you are, boys. How singularly apropos. I'll have some good records to show you in the morning. Meanwhile, as this building is a bit old, I suggest we get under the table. It is built on the earthquake plan and should the roof fall,, we are safe there." By the time he had said "there" all of us were there, riding on the sea less billows of the floor, which creaked and undulated and bumped our heads against the table's under surface and rolled us against its stalwart legs and against each other as though we were great dough billiard halls trying to make cannon and cushion shots. When we came from under the table the professor lighted a cigarette and said: "All Japan is an upheaval, and off the coast a bit, say from 50 to 200 miles east of Sendal, a town north of here, there is the greatest depression in the world's crust we know of. The Tuscarora Deep we call it; after the United States government vessel that discovered it. It would be safe to dive from the top of Fujil into Tuscarora Deep, at least there would be plenty of water and no danger of striking bottom. The depth is more than 24,000 feet. Fujil, the highest point of Japan's upheaval, is 12400 feet. So we have 36,000 feet between top' and bottom. A safe seven miles. I fancy." Down near Nagasaki, the chief seaport on the island of Kiushiu, is the largest active volcano in the world, Aso San, yet in spite of its activity and the terrible eruptions it has had, there are some seventy villages inside the crater, with a total population of perhaps 20,000. During one eruption Aso San destroyed 50,000 lives—obliterated them. All conditions of men, from Mikados down to the most lowly, have made offerings and prayers to propitiate the wrath of this vast volcanic mountain. Once the people heard rumblings and went to the priest with money, but in vain. The rumblings continued, and the priest said that probably God wanted more money. Then the people gave again, but God did not grant their prayer. "He thinks you have given insufficiently," explained the priest, so the people gave a third time. Then the holy man beat his sacred drum and clanged the sacred gong, repeated seven prayers and informed his parishioners that God advised them twice. First, in the case of flood run to the hills. Second, in case of earthquakes run to the bamboo forest, where the matted roots form a network that would hold them up even though the ground should open. And the people went away dissatisfied, for they had known this all along. WAYS OF THE HORNED TOAD. Charles F. Holder, the naturalist, writes of horned toads as follows in the Scientific American: "In handling the lizards, which are perfectly harmless, despite their warlike array of spines, I noticed that, although I had treated them gently, my hands were spotted with blood, and upon examining one of the anima's I found that its eyes were suffused with blood, while in another specimen its eye appeared to be destroyed, or represented by a blood spot. I at first assumed that while together the animals had injured each other with their spines; but suddenly, when holding a lizard near my face, it depressed or lowered its head, and I immediately received AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE. a fine spray-like discharge, which proved to be blood. A glance at the animal showed that its eyes were bloody, as though ruptured. The volley had come so suddenly that I did not see it, but I was convinced that in some way the lizard had ruptured a blood vessel in its eyes and had forced the fluid through the air a distance of at least a foot. "I immediately began to experiment with the little captives, and found that the above explanation was the case beyond question; but only a small percentage of the lizards could be induced to respond to my methods; giving them slight taps on the head seemed to exasperate them the most, and they would lower the head convulsively, the eye would be depressed, and a jet of thick blood, or blood which congealed very quickly, would be shot in a delicate stream to an extraordinary distance. "Suspecting that the lizards did not consider me a dangerous enemy, and that I would have better success with some animal, I called in the aid of a fox terrier, for which the little creatures evinced the greatest fear. When the dog placed his nose near them they crouched low and endeavored to shuffle themselves under the sand out of sight; but when the dog was urged on and began to bark they would draw back, hiss slightly, then depress the head, and the white face of the enemy would at once be spattered with drops of blood. Such a discharge was very effective and when received in the nostrils it caused the dog no little annoyance and he ran around excitedly for a moment vainly endeavoring to rid himself of the fluid, which evidently had some disagreeable feature." Dashaway—Did you tell the Briderleys that I was going to call there last night? Cleyerton—Yes. How did you know? Dashaway—The wedding present I gave them, was in the front parlor.—Town and Country. E Miss Lillie Degenkolbe, Treasurer South End Society of Christian Endeavor, 3141 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill., Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. 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ZELLER, Publisher Room 596, 18 South Four h St. St. Louis, Mo 25 OF THESE MINES have shown large ore bodies and produced high grade ores. Three large Tunnels will open nearly 100 mines at a depth of from 600 feet to 2,000 feet. One of these mines has produced about $2,000,000.00 and many others from $100,000.00 to $400,000.00. Pusbling the Perambulator. Mrs. Haskins—"I saw your husband today in a bicycle suit. I didn't think you'd let him ride." Mrs. Strongmind—"My dear, that was not a bicycle suit, although it might properly be called a 'wheeling suit.' You see, I want him to be appropriately garbed when he takes baby for an alring."—Philadelphia Press. Largest in the World. Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., are the largest manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate in the world. They received a gold medal from the Paris exposition of last year. This year they have received three gold medals from the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo. Their goods are the standard for purity and excellence. While the proportion of male criminals has increased considerably in Germany since 1882, that of female offenders has remained stationary. Foolish and obstinate people alone suffer from neuralgia or rheumatism. For they can always secure Wizard Oil and cure themselves. The farm products of the United States this year are worth about $400,-000,000 more than last year's outturn. TRAVELERS TO GALIFORNIA Naturally desire to see the grandest and most impressive scenery en route. This you will do by selecting the Denver & Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western, "The Scenic Line of the World," and "The Great Salt Lake Route," in one or both directions, as this line has two separate routes across the Rocky Mountains between Denver and Ogden. Tickets reading via this route are available either via its main line through the Royal Gorge, Leadville, over Tennessee Pass, through the Canon of the Grand River and Glenwood Springs, or via the line over Marshall Pass and through the Black Canon of the Gunnison, thus enabling the traveler to use one of the above routes going and the other returning. Three splendidly equipped fast trains are operated to and from the Pacific Coast, which carry through standard sleepers daily between Chicago, St. Louis, Denver and San Francisco. Dining cars (service a la carte) on all through trains. If you contemplate such a trip, let us send you beautifully illustrated pamphlets, free. S. K. Hooper, G. P. & T. A., Denver, Colo. In New Orleans last year seventy-eight persons died from the effects of gunshot wounds. THE BIBLE AS A WAR CODE. How It Has Been Employed in the Mr. Kruger's cable to his Pretoria relatives who inquired what was to be done with the ex-President's house, now it was no longer tenanted by the late Mrs. Kruger, was "Read Proverbs vil., verses 19-20"—"For the goodman is not at home, he has gone on a long journey. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed." Under Kruger rule every South African editor found the Bible an indispensable book of reference, most proclamations from Pretoria containing Biblical allusions. The latest cable sent by Mr. Kruger has now prompted a correspondent to a Leeuwarden (Holland) paper to enumerate a number of Scriptural messages exchanged by the Boer leaders just before the surrender of Conje. On February 25, 1900, Mr. Kruger telegraphed to General Christian De Wet (who was to rescue Cronje): "Notify Cronje that large reinforcements are on the road, and he will be released. Psalm xxil., 21." which reads: "Save me from the lion's mouth, for Thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." De Wet heliographed Cronje the same day at 12:20 p. m.: "President telegraphs, 'Stand firm; large reinforcements are approaching. As soon as they arrive we shall attack at dawn on the north. Psalm lxiv., 7." Cronje replied with Psalm xx., 7, also mentioning incidentally that his food supplies were getting short, to which the ingenious De Wet retorted: "Psalm lix., 15"—"Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied." But Cronje grew impatient; De Wet's promised convoy of food was long in coming, and he again heliographed "Psalm xx., 7"—"Some trust in chariots and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God." No relief coming on the morning of the 26th, General Cronje heliographed: "The enemy has been enormously reinforced; I am hard pressed. Psalm iii., 1." Most of the verses have been most aptly chosen, and in many cases convey the meaning of the sender as perfectly as a long message sent over the wires in the usual way. NEW YORK BUTTERCUPS. A Club of Women Who Are Pledged to Say No Unkind Word. Of making women's clubs there is no end. New York has a new society. The members call themselves the Buttercups. Why Buttercups, deponent sayeth not, but the aim of the society is a laudable one, no less a thing than the cultivation and dissemination of charity and good will. No member is to say an unkind word or to form a harsh judgment. Every member is to take whatever comes with cheerful serenity and make the best of the situation. Each woman is pledged to spread abroad the club principles. If any one in the fold is heard to utter an expression unbefitting the sisterhood her fellows are apt to say "Buttercups." The magic word will bring the wandering one back to a sense of her responsibility. A member of the society tried the formula on a mere man the other day. He was talking before an audience of women that included many Buttercups. He grew violent on the subject of Czolgosz and expressed an unchristian desire to make the assassin's punishment a harsh one. Some of the women applauded, but one woman arose to the occasion. She was a Buttercup, and in the words of the statesman she "seen her duty and she done it." In clarion tones she called out to the speaker: "Buttercups!" The man didn't understand. Perhaps it was natural that he shouldn't intuitively grasp the meaning of the warning word. He looked puzzled and went on with his speech, but later he asked the significance of the enigmatic comment. The Buttercups say he was deeply impressed by the explanation. He sighed to be a Buttercup himself, and just to show that there was no hard feeling the society made him a member. So one little word may alter the destiny of a man.—New York Sun. Lord Morris' Counter-Thrust. The late Lord Morris was unsparing in the counter thrust when he was assailed. An English official, who filled the post of under-secretary to the lord lieutenant, once was rude enough to remark, in a loud voice, at a Dublin dinner table, that it was a strange arrangement, and one characteristic of Ireland, that he should have a much smaller salary than the chief justice—Morris was then chief justice—though his functions were so very much more important. Chief Justice Morris, amid the awed silence which ensued, said: "That is a thrain o' thought that I am sure often occurs to me tipstaff."—London Letter. She (arrayed for the theater)—Sorry to have kept you waiting so long, Mr. Spoonamore, but it has taken me longer than usual to get ready. I look like a fright in this hat, too. He (desirous of saying something complimentary)—It isn't the er—fault of the lovely hat, I am sure, Miss Hankinson. —London Tit-Bits. Library Trucks. Penley—Has Blufferton begun his new novel get? Skrivner—No. I heard that, on account of it being the holiday season, he is having some trouble in getting his publisher, his dramatist and his advertising expert together.—Puck. A pathetic message was received by Dr. Gould of Rockland, recently from that lonely place called Matinicus. Dr. Gould has a system of pigeons which convey messages from there to the mainland, and there came a pigeon to the homing loft at Tenant's Harbor conveying news of the serious illness of Mrs. E. A. Young. The silent messenger that flew across twenty miles of seas to Tenant's Harbor was found to have seven No. 1 shots imbedded in her body and wings. With this injury, by a thoughtless sportsman, the bird had flown across with her message, and, true to instinct, the bird had delivered her message. Shortly after the homecoming the bird died.—Kennebec (Me.) Journal. 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CONTINENTAL TOBACCO COMPANY. ee ae : i. 2 : + Rlaperentiove sin Bsa a > Come eee Pe Ne ree Uae ee * convention making it “a felon: ee ee eee nent . a wee gous dad he sae Re ee eee en ec — "aha eae tS Se ag | "Color tle : oes a hae ti te ie tbe Ce | gee eneatt We oii Oe Seu tile “en Gal equality” business broken up—The ea a e 2 = g - : ig Somes ct ‘Terrell, takes the co he ‘new laims that he never or- Geved us to send The Broad Ax to the house where be bunks in that we forced him to tike-and read it. What a big Tie, but what more can anyone expect from « cheap gambler like Terrell. -Mr. ” (2) Terrell, don't" you remember the 10th of October 1899, the morning we met at requested us to mention your name in connection with Lieutenant W. P. Clan- ‘cy/s0 you could become solid with him. Stigger Terrell, if you say this is un- trus, if you contend that-you never re quested us to send you The Brosd Ax then you are a bare-faced liar. ‘The Dallas, Texas, Express wants to know: How does the Negro Democrat of the North look upon the disfranchis- itig_echetmes. now being practiced in the South. Don't all speak at once. Will Brother Taylor, of the Broad Ax, an- swer Brother King?—The Conservative. Deacon, or .Col. “Wilkins. Inas- much as you pray, sing, shout, preach and marry in order to make both ends meet so you can keep the best so- called Negro néwspaper in the world go- ing, and itiasmuch as Prof. Booker 'T. Washington has adviced the Negro to keep out of politics, which really meays that be is im favor of his disfranchise- ment,and inasmuch as Presidents McKin. ley’ and Roosevelt gave Mississippi, N. Carolina, South Carolina, and one or two other Southern states one extra Con- gressman for disfranchising the Negro, therefore we would most respectfully re- er you and Brother King to Prof. Book- er-T. Washington and President Roose- velt. The Dallas, Texas, Express, and The Conservator, please copy. ~ STORYETTES. When Gen. Moreau was in England he was onre the victim of a rather droli misunderstanding. He was pres- ent at a concert where a piece was SE et Ree setrete: , tomorrow.” Having a very impectect knowledge of English, he fancied it to be a cantata given im his honor, apd thought ue disting- wished the words: “To Moreau, to Moreau.” Bach time the refrain was repeated he rose to his feet and grace- tufty bowed on all sides, to the great astonishment of the audience, who did net know what to make of it. Ask any educated Frenchman to mame a typical miser and he will an- swer without hesfiation, “the late President Grevy.” His avarice seemed 2g clear as the light of day. M. Grevy gare few receptions and a contribu- tion on ‘his part to a charity was a thing almost unheard of. “He must, inGeed, be a hardened old miser,” so everybody argued, “to prefer loss of popularity to loss of a few thousand @ year in charities.” ‘It appears we Aare all beer unjust to M. Grevy. The former steward of the Elysee palaca M. de Gouriet, in his memoirs, which will be published shortly, says that ‘20 more open-handed man ever lived than M. Grevy. Only be never gave anything himself. His gifts were sent through friends, and he never allowed this charities to be mentioned. His right hand knew not what his left hand gave. “I speak with knowledge,” says M. de Gourlet; “I was often his eft Rand.” = Senator Hanna's secretary says that simes 1396 500 children have been named after the senator. Br D. B. Partington was recently ne Se Setecentey ot Virginia at Morgantown. Bir John Kamaden is the richest of all English baronets. His income is estimated to foot up $40,000 a year. A gift of $10,000 from John D. Rock- efelier completes the building fund some na. on a sitive as attorney tor cently of a press of private g =e of Boston bas dees ee ee comescutive years. He is a we: reale icmeecbionsee. einted to a federal judgeship, carried, hen not 21 years old, one of the flagy : GLOBULES. Mt te eutimated: that thé Puget Gound Sockeye. calm-2 pack for tais ““&kLetory daslding in ‘Chicago Yas Tesswes WITH THE SAGES. Pine asdiew organ Berths ~ aged [Tard good Bree tm im ge bes Ss nai eS Seay . pe eee zo life, make per- meveratce your boson Saneion bene froseone as =e . . ~ | sider ‘brother, and hope your guardian era 4s born ‘into this * ‘a burst of music, and shalt make it a dance, a dirge, or @ life march, as thou wilt.—Cariyie. “The arm-thair of the sick, or of the old, is the center of the house. They ‘think, ‘perhaps, that they are usim- portant; but all the household hope and cares flow to them and from them —Sir A. Helps. Remember that tf the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunity for good deeds is renewed for you day by day. The thing for us ‘to long for is the goodness, not the glory. —F.’W. Farrar, D. D. ’ ‘The souls that would really be richer in duty in some new position are pre- cisely those who borrow mo excuses from the old one, who even esteem it full of privileges, plenteous in occa- sions of good, frequent in divine ap- peals.— Martineau. If we would live.in peace, let us make the best constructions of one another's words and actions. Charity judgeth the Dest and it thinks no evil. If words and actions may be construed in a goed sense, let us never put a bad construc- tion upon them.—John Bunyan. Cheerfulness is one of the great fac- tors in promoting health. To make habitual war on depression and low spirits, which in youth’ one is apt to indulge, is one of the things learned as he gets older. They are noxious alike to body and mind, ani already partake of the nature of death —Mat- thew Arnold. For safety arid for swiftness, for clear light and successful labor, there is nothing like the present. . Practically speaking, the moment that is flying holds more of eternity than all our past; and the future holds none at all, and only becomes capable of holding any as it is manufactured piecemeas into the present.—Faber. HAPPY TIT-SITS. . Towne—Do | understand you to say that Spencer's case was reauy a faith @ure? Browne—Yes. You see, the ee eee “That was a good picture in the pa- per yesterday of your son, the football player, Mr. Husxing.” “Yaas. I knew who "twas just as soon as I seen th’ mame under it.’ “Is that a good show that’s running in Orpheus hall?” “Naw! Too goody- goody.” “But the show at the opera house is pretty bad, morally, isn’t it?” “Yes, that's a good show, all right.” “Doctor, you told me three month: ago that if you didmt perform an op- eration on me I should be a dead man in twenty-four hours.” “Weil, sir, J was wrong, and I can only express my great sorrow for it.” . Brackett—They say you are finan- cially embarrassed? Do you owe 4 very large amount? Crackett—I don't owe anything, but there are severa) people who owe me, and I haven't the courage to ask for it—Boston Tran- script. Barnes—Yes, I guess it is true thal it is the little things that count. Howes—So you have come to that con- clusion, have you? Barnes—Yes. You see, I was walking with Tedworth and he said if he should find a million dol lars he'd give me half. Presently he picked up a dine, and when I asked him to share it with me he abused me like a pickpocket. ‘When children quarrel over their games they are soon reconciled if they continue to play; and so when men Gisagree it is well to say little and keep at work. ” _ When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into theit higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love. The genius is childlike. Like chil- @ren he looks into the world as into @ new creation and finds there a per- ennial source of wonder and delight If he is not a spoiled child, he cares little whether or not men hear or praise, as a fair and modest girl, heed- Jess of the charms she bears, walks in- different amid admiring eyes. To understand the world one must often stand apart {rom the throng, and a@entemplate the turmoil of strife and passion from some sheltered spot. ‘Thus, when we sit amid graves we per- ceive more clearly the folly of ‘greed and ambition; when we look up to the patient stars the madness of all the hurry and worry comes home to us; when we lie on the bosom of the earth, anwar Way's. sy ben oprlyr sfpumery ee of the crowd. MUCH IN LITTLE. Tamerlane, the Tartar conqueror, bad s club foot. His real name was ‘Timour Leuk, or Timour the Lame. The Shah of Persia hes become a camera fiend and has bad a large dark thom fitted ap in the palace at Tebe- ren. é | Pens of hardenf® gutta percha have ran sn family of inoeet-eating birds, Kaew 6 Geers Greet eee Gas | ae Goal - and - Wood, Armour A venue... CHARLES KLEIN, General <a [lerchandise, 47th and State Stree OHICAGO. | = ALEX |. 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