The Broad Ax

THE ANDREW JACKSON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. Wednesday, Jan. 8, the admirers and the followers of Andrew Jackson in many sections of the country mingled together for the purpose of paying homage unto him and to debate upon his brave and heroic acts and deeds, but none of the speakers at the banquets which were held in honor of his memory throughout the land, and at the Sherman house in this city, so far as we know, referred to the fact that Andrew Jackson, though a "rockribbed" Democrat, was the first person in the United States to confer the title of Major upon a Negro. Many of the able and brilliant orators on that occasion very vividly portrayed to their hearers the actions of Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, but it can be truthfully said that not one of the learned orators whose eloquence ran much freer than water or common wine, condescended to touch upon the part played by the Negro at the battle of New Orleans, neither did they inform the world through the columns of the public press, that prior to that memorable battle Old Hickory promulgated the following address to the Negro soldiers who led the charge in that fierce engagement, Gen. Jackson thus spoke to his colored troops: "To the men of color, soldiers: From the shores of Mobile I collected you to arms; I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory with your white countrymen. I expected much from you, for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable to an invading foe. I knew that you could endure hunger and thirst and all the hardships of war. I knew that you loved the land of your nativity, and that, like ourselves, you had to defend all that is most dear to man. But you have surpassed all my hopes; I have found in you, united to these qualities, that noble enthusiasm which impela to great deeds. "Soldiers, the president of the United States shall be informed of your conduct on the present occasion, and the voice of the representatives of the American nation shall applaud your valor as your general now praises your ardor. The enemy is near. His sails cover the lakes; but the brave are united, and if he finds us contending among ourselves, it will be for the prize of valor, and fame, its noblest reward." The battle of New Orleans decided the fate of England. The British had a battalion of Negross from the Island of San Domingo in that battle, who fought like tigers, but Andrew Jackson hurled his four hundred colored troops against them, and by so doing he succeeded in driving the British from these shores. At the battle of Mobile, after the American troops had been defeated and were retreating, a Negro by the name of Wm. Jeffrey, mounted a horse and rallied the troops and lead them on to victory against the British. For performing that brave and daring deed Gen. Jackson conferred the title of Major upon Jeffrey, and he wore it until his death in Nashville, Tenn. It would have been very edifying and inspiring to the thousands of colored men who are great admirers of Andrew Jackson, if some of those who were selected to laud the virtues of Gen. Jackson would have slightly referred to his connection or relation to the Negro, for it must also be remembered that Andrew Jackson was instrumental in having the right of suffrage conferred upon all free Negroes residing in Tennessee; that he was absolutely opposed to the extension or the continuance of slavery in this republic. Whenever the leaders and the followers of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson learn to magnify or enlarge upon what those two great statesmen accomplished for the Negro, the same as the leaders of the Republican party does, then they will be able to demonstrate that they are just as diplomatic and as shrewd as the leaders of the Republican party. Then they will be willing to divide some of the honor and a little of the glory among the Afro-Americans who cherish and reverence the names of Jackson and Jefferson. The members of the Buffalo whist club met at the home of Mrs. Shelton, 4901 Dearborn street, Thursday evening. Those in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McKnight, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Plowden, Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor, Mines. Lucas, Lyons, Jones, Spaulding, Wilkerson, Lucas, Powell and Lapsey, Messrs. Simms, Reed, Fletcher and Spriggs. WASHINGTON'S CRITICS. The Washington Bee has been taken to task by the New York Age for republishing an editorial from the Chicago Broadax which falsely charges Booker T. Washington with being in politics. In his vigorous style the Age editor tells Taylor of the Broadax that his statements are false and malicious and gives the Bee editor some sage advice about quoting articles damaging to another man's standing and character without being sure of his facts. We are grateful to the Age for its defense of Prof. Washington. This man Taylor of the Broadax is unfortunately one of a large brood of small-bore Negroes, who, being themselves incapable of praiseworthy achievements are constantly betraying their littleness and ignorance by criticising such men as Washington who are doing magnificent deeds not only for the race, but for the nation. We do not believe in human infallibility; but we have unfaltering trust in Mr. Washington's wise leadership; and undisguised disgust for his incompetent and yelping critics.—The Enterprise, Omaha, Neb. If it was not for the fact that within one year the alleged editor of the Enterprise was nothing more than a lackey or jumping-jack for Mayor Moores of Omaha, we would be inclined to express our boundless contempt for the poor, little, pin-headed, sickly creature, but as it is against our rule to pay any attention to boys unless they have been engaged in journalism six months, so in this case we can only say to Brother Mahammitt, "Shoo-fly, don't bother us." But we have a little something to say in reference to Prof. Booker T. Washington, and his would-be leadership of the Negro race. For some years Prof. Washington has continuously traveled over the country proclaiming himself the new Moses, or the infallible leader of the Negro, and what has his leadership consisted of? Why, simply begging money for Tuskegee, and up to the present time the Negro race has failed to produce a more artful or scientific beggar than Prof. Washington, and we have been very reliably informed that Prof. Washington receives a certain per cent or commission on all the money he begs for Tuskegee, that by this process he has made, and is worth in his own name, more than one hundred thousand dollars. No one, however, has ever heard of Prof. Washington giving any of this money for the purpose of defending or protecting the Negro in his civil or political rights. Moreover, Prof. Washington always speeds through the south on Pullman cars, but the great majority of his brethren are compelled to ride in "Jim Crow" cars. But if Prof. Washington possessed undaunted courage, which all leaders of any race of people ought to possess, he would or could not rest content with out demanding better treatment for the men and women of his race who are not as exalted as himself. Alderman W. F. Brennan spent the last two weeks in Rome and Atlanta, Ga., and while in those two Southern cities Alderman Brennan visited the stockades and the sights which he beheld were horrifying and sickening. Men and boys of all ages were huddled together in one large room, so he says, "like so many animals, without halfway decent bunks." In fact they laid close up to each other on the floor in filth and dirt. The room occupied by those human cattle was poorly ventilated and so hot that it made him sweat like a "nigger" at an election as a result of remaining in it five minutes. The stockades located at Rome are the worst of the two and there Alderman Brennan maintains at that point his warm blood boiled over when he saw women and children subjected to so much brutal treatment by those having charge of the stockades. The scenes which he witnessed there were heartrending in the extreme, and they are a foul blot on our so-called modern civilization. Mrs. Lula C. Hill, 219 41st street, received a short time ago $1,000 from the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York, on account of her husband's death. Mr. Hill was a porter on the Pullman palace cars and he was one out of quite a number of colored people residing in this city who have their lives insured in the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York. The Chicago office of this company is on the fifth floor of the Stewart building, State and Washington streets. Mr. E. P. Barry, who is well known to the business men of Chicago is its manager. HEW TO THE LINE. JAMES C. BLANEY PHOTO BY WALINGER JAMES C. BLANEY. Chicago's Proficient Boiler Inspector. In the old town of Lake there are very few men better known or more respected than James C. Blaney, the JAMES BLANKE PHOTO BY WALING present boiler inspector of Chicago, who was born in New York city, Jan. 10th, 1862, and came to this city in 1867. For many years after locating here he resided with his parents at the corner of Wentworth avenue and 45th street. During his boyhood days he attended the old Coleman school, 47th and Dearborn streets, and at the early age of 14 years he graduated from the Englewood High School, and by the time Mr. Blaney was 15 years old he entered the Rock Island boiler shop, where he served five years, becoming foreman of the Chicago Marine iron works at the age of 22 years. He also served as foreman for Swift & Co., U. S. Y., and several other large boiler manufacturing plants. Long before the old town of Lake became a part of Chicago, Mr. Blaney was appointed town tapper, and from that time to the present he has been very prominent in local politics. He always fought on the side of Democracy, for he believes that the true principles of Democracy will again prevail in this country. Mr. Blaney as time went by very successfully passed the civil service examination as engineer. He was one of 14 out of 150 to come through without a scratch against him, and as a result of his splendid record in that direction he was appointed engineer in one of the pumping stations belonging to the city. While serving in that capacity he took the examination for chief engineer and he stood at the head of a list of five who passed. July 1, 1901, James C. Blaney became boiler inspector of Chicago, and in making the appointment Mayor Harrison set politics aside and selected three experts, who compelled the eleven candidates to go through a rigid examination before them. This method would not have been pursued if it had not been for the two disastrous boiler explosion which occurred late last spring. We refer to Doremus' laundry and the Chicago & Northwestern explosions. At the end of that examination Mr. Blaney came out of it with flying colors and received his present appointment. The first annual report of Inspector Blaney shows that Mayor Harrison made no mistake in his choice for boiler inspector. In 1900 the engineers connected with the office examined 6,981 boilers; in 1901, according to the report; 9,966 examinations were made, which shows an increase of 2,985. The last five months of 1901 shows a gain over the first seven months of the same year of 1,423 boilers and 259 tanks. If Mr. Blaney keeps plugging away he will prove himself to be the best and the most proficient boiler Inspector Chicago has ever had. Our estimable friend, Miss Amelia M. Scott, lately passed the civil service examination for a position in the Chicago postoffice. Miss Scott stood at the top notch of all who were exam- ned, and The Broadax hopes it will not be long until she is assigned to a good position. Mr. James A. Quinn, city sealer of Chicago, left Friday night with his son for Washington, D. C., where his son will enter the Georgetown university. Mr. Quinn will return to Chicago Tuesday morning. M. DOES NOT PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACHES. If there is a Negro in all this country who should be admonished to practice what he preaches, that distinguished personage is Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee fame. While the celebrated Professor is urging other Negroes to crowd their children into the industrial school which he is manipulating and insisting that they content themselves with what he is pleased to call "training of the hand," he is educating his children in Northern white colleges, wherein they receive the highest degree of intellectual culture As evidence of this assertion, the fact is noted that press reports a few days ago contained the following: "A few days ago, a report went out from Wellesley College, in Massachusetts that much prejudice was shown against Booker T. Washington's daughter, Portia, in the placing of her in the school. The college authorities made haste to deny that there are any discriminations of color in the school. The character and reputation of Wellesley are such that they do not need to make any such protestations." Observant Negroes would like to know why it is that Prof. Washington does not content himself that character of training for his own children that he vouchsafes unto others. Why should not his daughter "Portia" be taught to cook good biscuits and to knit marketable hose, instead of seeking a finished education in a white college where now and then it becomes a question largely in debate whether or not she is wanted on the campus? We do not assume to dictate to the Professor but it is our undisputed privilege to call his attention to the fact that if a first-class education is desirable for his children, other Negroes possessed with the same degree of parental love for their children are partial to such training. In the days to come when Mr. Washington poses as the advocate of the utilitarian idea, other members of his race will find serious temptation to suggest "Go thou and do likewise."—The ShrevePort, La. News The writer of the above article has sized up Prof. Booker T. Washington about right, and as a leader or instructor of the Negro, it shows that the Prof. is as inconsistent as the great majority of Negroes, who spend all day Sunday in church, singing and shouting, and the rest of their time in playing policy. G. E. Evans, the coal and wood dealer, 332, 29th street, who was for eight years superintendent of the Sunday school at Bethel church, has lately become superintendent of the Sunday school at the Institutional church. Mr. Evans will endeavor to begin the school each Sunday morning promptly at 9:30 and he will feel highly delighted to have his many young and old friends attend the Sunday school at the Institutional church. --- CHIPS L. W. Washington was recently elected president of the Friends of Illinois. Rollin B. Organ is going right ahead with his boom for sheriff of Cook county. County Commissioner Joseph E. Flanagan is in the lead for the nomination as president of the board of county commissioners. The white bricklayers of Richmond, Ill., have gone on a strike, and the contractors of that city are now employing colored bricklayers to do their work. John H. Cross, 222 West Lake St., dealer in wines, liquors and cigars, is still doing business at the old stand and he is ever pleased to meet his old friends. Attorney Albert B. George arrived home from Washington, D. C., Tuesday morning, where he spent the holidays with his best lady love and other friends. Hon. F. W. Blocki, Chicago's honest commissioner of public works, is back at his desk hard at work, after spending ten days in Georgia in the interest of his oil wells and iron mines. The Tilden Democracy is still in the ring, and its leaders intend to carry the war against Robert E. Burke into Africa and the fight at the primaries this spring will tell who will rule the people, the leaders of the Democratic party or master R. E. Burke. Al. F. Gorman, supervisor for the town of Lake, a candidate for clerk of the county court. Al. Gorman is very popular with the young element of voters throughout the town of Lake, and he is well fitted for any position which the leaders of the Democratic party could bestow upon him. John Cline, Esq., of Cline Bros., flour and feed merchants, also proprietors of J. and D. Cline Express and Storage Co., 89 North State, has entered the aldermanic contest in the 21st ward and Mr. Cline proposes to put up a stiff fight against Alderman John Minwegan and all comers. While attending the meeting of the Democratic state committee at Springfield Monday, we had the pleasure of dining with Alderman and Mrs. Thos. White and their family. The Broadax has many warm friends among the best ladies throughout Illinois, but it has no better friend than Mrs. Thos. White. Prof. W. H. Councill, Normal, Ala., spoke at Bethel church, Dearborn and 30th streets, Thursday night, on "The Building of a Race." Prof. Councill is a very eloquent speaker, and one of the most noted Negro educators in this country. His interesting talk and sound advice was well received by the large number who had the rare fortune to hear him. Mr. E. V. Cerveney, the able west town collector, and manager for the Monarch Brewing Co., is being warmly supported by Col. A. D. Gash and many other influential citizens residing in the 12th ward, for alderman, and from now on Alderman Brennan must wake up to the fact that he has got to go up against a wide-awake and a live candidate in the person of Mr. Cerveney. Monday the Democratic state committee of Illinois met at the St. Nicholas hotel, Springfield, and 29 out of the 31 members of the committee were present. Much business was transacted during the session. The latter part of February the committee will again meet for the purpose of fixing the date for holding the next state convention. Hon. T. E. Ryan of Ryan, Merton & Newbury, attorneys, Waukesha, Wis., who is a member of the Democratic National Committee, recently delivered an eloquent address before the Jefferson club of Milwaukee. Mr. Ryan is very friendly to the Afro-Americans, and the chances are that he will be honored by the democracy of his state, with the nomination for governor of Wisconsin this year. The A. W. Settles Company, which will open up a large grocery and department store in the spring, as an enterprise among the colored people, is meeting with success so far. Its officers are selling its stock very rapidly and it's a good thing, and Negroes who have a little money to spare after paying the subscription to their newspapers and other honest debts, should invest it in the stock of the A. W. Settles Co. Wednesday evening, Jan. 8th, Alderman and Mrs. Thos. White of Springfield, Ill., gave an old fashioned housewarming, which was attended by over two hundred of the best people of the capital city, and on Wednesday even- NO. 12. ing, Jan. 15th, Mr. and Mrs. White entertain all the ex-soldiers of their city, including the colored soldiers also. Recently Ald. White remodeled and enlarged his house and he now has one of the finest homes in Sprinfield. One hundred and thirty-five persons were mobbed and lynched in this country last year, as against 115 in 1900. Of the number so dealt with 109 were negroes, 26 whites, one Indian and one Chinaman. The Negroes were lynched for stealing, brawling, wrecking trains, running gambling houses, insulting white women, etc. Of the 109 Negroes murdered in cold blood, only 26 were accused of criminal assault on white women. Three were lynched for the fun of it, or for unknown reasons; nine were mobbed and their black bodies riddled with bullets on account of race prejudice; in one case the mob swung up a Negro who was not charged with committing any crime, and after he was dead it found it had lynched the wrong Negro. Judge Lynch had a good harvest among the Negroes in 1901, and Professor Booker T. Washington, President Roosevelt and the government which is owned and controlled by the G. O. Lily White Party still lives, and mob and lynch law continues to flourish in spite of the prayers of the Negroes. A0 TRUE AS GOSPEL. When you go to church to help the Lord don't shake hands with anybody with two fingers. It is God's law that nothing can be added to our treasures that we wrongfully take from others. The people who help us most are those who make light of our achievements and have faith in our possibilities. We are sculptors in Time's big workshop, and the present is but the clay from which we would mold a statue of joy or sorrow to adorn the altar of our past or glorify the vista of our future. We too often consider superfluous in another the things we haven't dared to cultivate in ourselves, and in the same way overestimate those we have ourselves been able to cultivate and became interested in. It is the perversity of human nature that makes the things of mortality dearer to us in proportion as they fade from our hopes, like birds, whose hues are only unfolded when they take wing and vanish amid the skies. There will always be debatable ground as to whether, in respect of what has happened, we might not have known better; but in our thankfulness that we know better now, we can afford to leave that unsettled. We talk about the telescope of faith, but I think we want ever more, the microscope of watchful, grateful love. Apply this to the little bits of our daily lives, in the light of the spirit, and how wonderfully they come out.—Pennsylvania Grit. FIXINGS FOR THE HOUSE. Rush-bottom chairs have for the time being quite superseded leather ones as the most correct thing for dining-room use. They are exceedingly durable. Rocking chairs have apparently seen their day, as the lounging chair is very much more favored. Many artistic decorators assert that a rocking chair is only permissible in a bedroom. All sorts and kinds of things in fanciful shapes are to be found for electric lights. One lamp has for a shade a green silk umbrella, and hanging from the edges are long oval pendants of glass. Bayadere open-work lacey stripes about three-quarters of an inch wide, alternating with those of similar width of plain white Swiss, are among the newest styles of white ruffled bedroom curtains. To make oilcloth last well lay sawdust evenly over the floor before putting down oilcloth for thus will the sound of walking be deadened and the oilcloth will last much longer than if it were laid on the boards. Green corduroy paper is rather newer than the two-toned green stripes popular so long, and gives an equally pleasing result. For the prevailing style of colonial bedroom, with its mahogany furniture and white woodwork, this green corduroy up as far as the candle-rail and a poppy pattern in a mulberry hue above is unexceptional. She—Do you remember how you said, when you were courting me, that if I would marry you I would have nothing to do all my days but sit about and look pretty? And how different it is now! He—Well, it isn't my fault if you can't look pretty any more. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the two principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Methodists, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any he 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 intellectual right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; like only on one side of the paper. New Year..... $2.49 Hostile..... 1.49 Writing sales made known on application That submarine boat acts very much like a Spanish cruiser. Edward's crown will have 3,000 jewels. Half that number of hairs would suit him better. Argentina will apparently swallow a sufficient does of that Chile sauce to see what it tastes like. Lord Kitchener is sensitive about his name. A kitchener by any other would smell as sweet to Botha. Minneapolis Times: The Filipinos are a pretty bad lot, but give the school teacher a little more time. There isn't any doubt that Grover Cleveland's gout will discourage would-be presidents from growing very stout. Schley has declined an offer to lecture. Whether the verdict was just or not, he will now be dearer to the American people than ever. A serum for tetanus has been discovered, it is said. In some cases it ought to be administered along with the antitoxin for diphtheria. Commissioner Rockhill finds that the United States asked nothing of China except what was clearly inscribed on its laundry ticket. Mr. Kipling is on his way to South Africa and Richard Harding Davis is on his way to South America. Southward the stars of literature take their way. The public is earnestly longing for the day to come when the terrible shrinkage in the price of copper will strike a responsive thrill in hard coal. In case any neutral power desires to use the Nicaragua canal while we are at war with another power all that it will have to do will be to apply to us for our consent. Detroit Tribune: And any nation which objects to the kind of neutrality Uncle Sam will maintain along his canal will be at liberty to introduce another brand if it can. Away down into old Missouri an Oshkosh philosopher chased the purloiner of his better half. He wanted to congratulate him in person. This is glorified common sense. These are prosperous times "down in Maine," the farmers and truck gardeners of that state being enabled by the shortage in the West to command practically their own prices for all products. The Spanish newspaper organ in Mexico pronounces the Roosevelt message to be full of altruism, optimism and embrosis. This will necessitate a rereading by those who want to find the embrosis. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court has established the important fact that there is a point beyond which speculators cannot go in a conspiracy to reduce the selling price of securities without rendering themselves liable to the penitentiary. Ex-Congressman Thomas B. Reed, in a speech at the St. Nicholas society's banquet in New York, asked his hearers to "honor that handful of Dutchmen who are holding at bay the warriors of the proudest nation of the modern world." This is the nearest to an expression of opinion on the Boer war that Mr. Reed has ever given. When the Salvation Army gets hold of a drifting brother or sister it calls them by these names, and means it, and hustles around to get them a job. Opinions will differ about the pleasure of being drummed into paradise, but if this big-hearted, intrepid organization isn't doing a great share of Christ's work the world has strangely misread the Master's teachings. The condition of affairs in Liberal circles in England seems to have improved very sensibly since Lord Rosebery's Chesterfield speech: There are indications now that the factions may be brought together under the noble Lord's leadership on some kind of a platform having to do with the Boer war. Public sentiment in England, while almost unanimously in favor of prosecuting the war to the bitter end, is now supposed to have undergone some change. Multitudes of Englishmen are eager for a cessation of hostilities, and there is some possibility in the opinion of good judges, that a reorganized Liberal party may be formed around this central idea. The plague of to-day is the lineal descendant of that which was cleared away from London by the great fire. It represents one of many epidemics which history teaches us devastated Europe during past ages; pests, these, abolished by the disappearance of the dirt which forms their soil and breeding place. We know the germ of the plague. It was discovered by Kitasato in 1894, and independently in the same year by Yersin, whose protective serum is used as a preventive. The germ is a somewhat shortened and rounded bacillus, that flourishes at a temperature approaching that of the blood. Apparently the germ does not multiply by giving off "spores" or seedlike bodies, but by simple division of the parent germs into others. It is easily killed. A temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit destroys it quickly, and acids also act efficiently in this direction. Yersin found the plague germ living in the soil in affected places. In the earth it appears to be non-virulent, but placed in another environment, say the animal body, it speedily develops into disease-producing powers. Cows, sheep, pigs, cats, and, of course, rats, are affected by it, but the dog is said to enjoy an immunity from the attentions of this bacillus. Gaining access to the body, through the skin for the most part, and probably through some abrasion or wound, the bacilli make for the glands, and as these swell an enlarge, constituting what doctors call "buboes," the disease has become known as the "bubonic plague." The fleas which infest the rat are also credited with a share in the diffusion of the allment, for, charged with the microbes, these parasites will infect other rats, or may possibly inoculate man. Hence the crusade against rats which has been ordered and advised. It may be added that in one form of the plague the lungs are liable to be specially involved, and the coughed-up matter in that case is highly infectious.—London Chronicle. Lavish Young Vanderbilt Young Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt spends money with a hand almost as lavish as that of the nobles of the Roman decadence. On a recent record-breaking coaching trip that he made from New York to this city he had his own photographer—a youth in an odd gray hat—along with him, and he and his equilpage were photographed besides by newspaper men at every stop that was made along the line. Immediately after the trip Mr. Vanderbilt requested a firm of advertising solicitors in New York to ascertain the names of all the newspaper men who had photographed him, to obtain from these men prints of all the negatives which they had made, and then to order three dozen mounted pictures from each negative that was good. A photographer of this city who had made three negatives got an order from the firm of solicitors for nine dozen pictures at $6 a dozen. One day's work filled the order, and he earned that day $54. He says there were at least seventy-five pictures made of Mr. Vanderbile on his trip, and at least fifty of these were good. Therefore he estimates that, what with the bill of the advertising solicitors, this great ordering of photographs by the young millionaire has cost him fully $1,000.—Philadelphia Record. Country Boy Squirches City Uncle Country Boy Squelches City Uncle. He was a typical small boy, who lived in a well-to-do town in the western part of the state, with pride in his native home, and a vague idea that city people considered all outsiders as small potatoes, and few in a hill at that. Now, when his mother brought him to Milwaukee to visit her brother, he held his head proudly and intended to convey the idea that he and his were of some importance. His uncle took him to see the different big buildings, including the Pabst theater, the library, postoffice and the various churches. One Sunday they were seated in St. Pauls'. The mother turned her head to take in the beauty of the pictured windows with their pretty colorings, and secretly wished her lot had fallen in the city, but the boy saf bolt upright as though such surroundings were very common to him. When they reached home his uncle remarked, "Well, Tommy, the church is something grand compared with your buildings in C—." With an impatient toss of his head, Mr. Impertinence announced: "It wouldn't make a woodbox for our Baptist church."—Milwaukee Sentinel. Bone-Made Cold Cream A good cold cream is made as follows: Put in a double boiler six ounces of sweet almond oil, and, having put as much water in the outer vessel as for any cooking, set on the range to warm. Have ready four good-sized cucumbers which have been carefully wiped to be perfectly clean. Cut them, unpeeled, in squares two or three inches in size. When the oil is warm add the cucumbers and set the boiler on the back of the stove, where the water will simmer for four or five hours. Strain and to six ounces of the liquid add one ounce of white wax, one of spermaceti and two of lanolin. Heat until these ingredients have melted, then remove from the fire and heat with an egg-beater until cold, adding during the heating process two teaspoonfuls of tincture of benzoin. The English lexicographer, Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the son of a book dealer. Gen. Joe Wheeler is sixty-five, and was graduated from West Point forty two years ago. TO BRING MOON WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF EARTH THE BROOKE OBSERVATORY ABOVE THE CLOUDS. THOS. P. BROOKE SECTIONAL VIEW OF BROOKE TELBSCOPE A telescope, which is to bring the moon within eight miles of the earth instead of forty miles, and have the view even more distinct! This is the work which, after nine years of study and experiment, a Chicago man hopes to accomplish. Besides this the scheme is to be the pet project of a man, who, though not a millionaire nor a man largely known as a philanthropist, is to accomplish this work for the promotion of the study of astronomy and for the benefit of the public. Thomas Preston Brooke is better known as a leader of bands and orchestras than as an astronomer, yet he has always spent his leisure moments in the study of the stars and for the last nine years has been bringing to fruition the plans for a telescope which he contends will obviate many of the defects in the largest and most modern instruments and work wonders in bringing the heavenly bodies within the range of mortal vision. What He Hopes to Accomplish. Mr. Brooke is at present in the east, getting from Philadelphia and New York firms estimates on the cost and time required for the construction of his huge telescope. While the work was merely in the tentative stage, he was extremely reticent in regard to his scheme, but his eastern trip has in the last two weeks shown him that T. he can accomplish his purpose, and for the first time he has consented to give the public an advance account of his plans. In a description of his project written exclusively for the Chicago American, Mr. Brooke gives herewith a clear account of what he hopes to accomplish. Obviating a blur occasioned by an indistinct focus by means of concentrated reflections of the telescopic image is the feature of Mr. Brooke's plans which distinguishes his 'scope from others. The reason that the image of a planet seen in the small end of a telescope is blurred and indistinct is that the telescope is near-sighted, just as are some people, and from a study of near-sighted people he has hit upon his scheme of reflections to counteract this evil. The instrument planned by Mr. Brooke and on which he has obtained estimates calls for the largest lens ever fitted to a telescope, being fifty-four inches in diameter. The cost of this lens alone will be about $10,000. Mr. Brooke has interested others in his desires, and it is probable that the tubing of the telescope will be contributed by an eastern manufacturer and that others will contribute toward building a suitable observatory for the instrument on Gray's Peak in Colorado. The study of astronomy undertaken by the promoter of this enterprise has been accomplished in the leisure mo- ```markdown ``` ments of a busy career. He and his Chicago Marine band are a Chicago institution which has of late gained a national reputation, having appeared in every city of importance from ocean to ocean and from Halifax to New Orleans. But in the midst of an ardent passion for music has grown up in Mr. Brooke a passion for the science of astronomy almost equally strong. It is Mr. Brooke's intention not to give the telescope to any institution of learning, but to make it a public observatory, so that students and laymen alike may reap the benefits from it. The inventor writes of his discovery as follows: I stood upon the summit of Gray's Peak one night nine years ago and enjoyed one of the grandest views of the planets ever witnessed by man. Our party had journeyed up the trail from Silver Plume to the Peak for the purpose of seeing the sun rise over the Eastern plain, and to watch the wonderful panorama which gradually developed as the light extended to the Mount of the Holy Cross and other ranges to the westward. From the first appearance of dawn until after the sun had risen well above the eastern horizon the ever-changing light effects produced a scene of indescribable grandeur. THOS. P. BROOKE To me, however, the most magnificent spectacle was the starry realm as it appeared long before sunrise, viewed from the top of that mighty old mountain. We reached the summit nearly two hours before sunrise and several of the tourists wrapped themselves in blankets and stretched out on the frosty granite, after admonishing our guide to awaken them in time to see the first rays from old Sol. For my part, having been an earnest student of astronomy all my life, the dome of the universe had never appeared so beautiful. I had with me a strong field glass, which is a very insignificant instrument for viewing the heavenly planets, but even with its puny aid I spent one of the most interesting hours of my life. The various groups of stars with which even school children are familiar, such as the Square of Pegasus, the Goat, the Great Bear and Little Bear, blazed forth with unusual brilliancy in the light atmosphere, while with the naked eye I could easily discern the crater of Mount Tycho on the moon, and by using the field glass several of the lesser craters on its surface became quite distinguishable. A Telescope on Gray's Peak. Ever since that memorable night my greatest ambition has been to construct a telescope that would eclipse all others and place it on the topmost extremity of Gray's Peak. I have made astronomical examinations with nearly every telescope of any consequence in America; have carefully noted every weak point in their construction and devoted much time to exhaustive and expensive experiments with the view or overcoming them. For Big Game Shooting. Roast camel is, it appears, a luxury not to be despised. One of these animals provides ample rations during one day for a hundred men, and the hump is considered quite a delicacy. This fact is disclosed in an interesting communication sent to the Harrovian, a journal published by the students at Harrow, in England, by an "Old Boy" of the famous school, who was an officer with the force sent to punish the Mad Mullah in Somaliland. That country seems to be an ideal place for the chase. Real lions are still plentiful. The greater koodoo abounds and many other animals, such as the snub-nosed gazelle and the Sakaro antelope. In his native costume the Somali himself must be a picturesque individual. He wears a white linen sheet and sandals, carries a round shield of oryx hide, two spears, one for throwing and one for use at close quarters, and round his waist he straps a small but heavy hacking sword, worn with the hilt to the left, and the scabbard across the front of the body. All Somalis are Mahometans, and do not touch spirits or BROOKE OBSERVATORY ABOVE THE CLOUDS. INFORMATIONAL VIEW OF BROOKE TELDSCOPE wine. They usually possess four wives, whose chief occupation is to load the camels and to guard and tend large flocks of sheep and goats. It will thus be seen that Somaliland affords ample scope for the hunter and the monogamous missionary. Fined the Dead Man. The following story of a former county magistrate was told last week at Towson: The body of a man, who had been dead for some hours, was found by the police, and the magistrate, acting as coroner, was notified. He made an investigation, and after fading a revolver and $5.30 in the clothes of the dead man, decided it was a case for a magistrate and not for a coroner, and ordered that the body be brought before him at the station house. Here the magistrate charged the dead man with carrying a concealed weapon and fined him just $5.30, the amount of money found in his pocket. The revolver was taken for other expenses of the trial, and the body was turned over to the county authorities to be buried at the expense of the county.—Baltimore Sun. Pay of German Army Officers. The pay of the officers of the German army is very small, and no one can obtain a commission unless he has a sufficient private fortune to yield him an income of at least $125 a year. SUNDAY IN OLD VIRGINIA The Day Was Observed as Strictly as in New England. There is an idea prevalent that the strict observance of the Sabbath was almost wholly confined to the North. Nothing could be more erroneous. "The Blue Laws" of Connecticut, surviving as a proverb for hardness, have impressed the popular mind and fixed an idea which was, however, not absolutely accurate. As severe as those enactments were, they were scarcely more rigorous, whenever the observance of Sunday was concerned, than those under which the colony of Virginia was established and developed. Attendance on divine service was as strictly enforced, and abstinence from all secular employment as rigidly enjoined. It was a church-going time. Religion engrossed one energies of the people. Participation in worship was the law and whoever failed in it was a lawbreaker and was dealt with accordingly. Later on—that is, prior to the Revolution—there came a certain laxness—the reflex of the taut-strung bow—when the fox-hunting, cockfighting parson was inducted into the livings; but, as the causes were temporary, the main cause being the political appointment by an absentee Metropolitan, so the effect was not permanent. It was out of these conditions that Hanover presbytery sprang, under the influence of Patrick Henry's model, the eloquent "Parson Davies," later the president of Princeton college. Indeed, while some of the English parsons who have made the time notorious, were dicing, and drinking, and fighting, the laity were standing staunchly for the old customs, and were making the saddling upon them of such miscreants one of the charges in their indictment against the government "at home." They withstood innovation. They kept the faith. They build churches which still stand to-day as memorials of their piety and churchmanship.—From "An Old Virginia Sunday," by Thomas Nelson Page in Scribner's. Queer Travels of Plants One would not imagine offhand that ice could possibly be instrumental in accomplishing the distribution of plants, yet a French scientist has recently called attention to the fact that icebergs are frequently useful in this way. Navigators of polar seas often encounter bergs carrying enormous masses of debris, with more or less soil, in which plants are growing. Eventually the ice mass runs aground upon the shore of some distant land, there depositing the plants, which may find themselves so situated as to be enabled to reproduce their species. The case of volcanoes as plant distributors is even more remarkable, though one must regard as very exceptional such instances as that noted at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1887, where large quantities of volcanic pumice were observed floating on the sea. On these fragments of pumice were found various small animals unfamiliar to that part of the world, and there was also a sort of cocoanut. The nut was planted, and in due time produced a palm strange to the African coast. It was decided that the pumice came from the great eruption of Krakatoa, in the Straits of Sunda, which was in its way the most remarkable volcanic cataclysm of modern times.—Philadelphia Evening Post. Antics of Machinery. "The queerest thing about machinery," said an old railroad man, "is that different machines, all built on exactly the same lines, with every part of the same size and of the same material, possess a distinct individuality. Take locomotives, for instance. A railroad will build a batch of engines, say, 20, of a certain class. All of them will be of the same dimensions, the same details in every particular, and yet every one will behave in a different manner. There will be as much difference between them as between 20 men. Some will steam well, others not. One will be cranky in a certain particular, and a second in still another. One will be stiff, rigid; another loose-jointed. And then, just like members of the human family, some will be remarkably unlucky, through no fault of their own, while their mates go through life without a scratch." Fashions in Ashanti. The Ashantis, says an English paper, have become most regular attendants at the English church, and churchgoers have become quite used to the ludicrous spectacle they afford. King Prempeh is particularly partial to European dress, and appears at church in a frock coat, a tall hat, and patent leather boots. The queenmother, however, still keeps to her native costume, which consists of a cloak of a pretty shade of pale blue spangled with silver. The cloak is worn in much the same way as the Roman toga. The other Ashantis nearly all wear European dress on Sundays, though some of them appear in colors, bright yellow crimson and green appearing to be their favorite shades. Electricity to Guide Shops A new electrical apparatus for the guidance of ships at sea is being made at Baltimore. A shoal light-ship will be equipped to throw a 13-inch electric beam skyward, and the reflection, it is promised, can be seen thirty or forty miles away. Jackson, Ont., has made a record for municipal economy. Of the $2,000 voted for decorations for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York $300 was not spent. ADVISES YOUNG MEN. JOHN D. ROOKEFELLER, JR., TELLS OF THE ROAD TO SUOCESS. son of the Richest Individual in the World Talks of the Trials of His Own Life—How He Was Convinced of the Weakness of His Methods. Before a large number of young men, many of them members of his Bible class in New York, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., delivered a short address on "Opportunity." In an earnest manner he expressed the belief that mere chance has little to do in shaping the fortunes of men, and that opportunity must be sought. He based his remarks on the promise given in Matt. vii, 7: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." "It often happens," said Mr. Rockefeller, "that a young man in all earnestness says, 'I want to do something for myself, something for my friends, something for my family and something for my God,' and fails to do anything. Then he sighs and believes that opportunity has never offered itself to him. "I suppose that it often happens that men are the victims of circumstances, but more often a better explanation for failure can be found. Some say that Hobson did that great deed in the harbor of Santiago because fortune favored him. Others who were there were brave and competent and just as willing as Hobson, yet the opportunity was only for him. "The reason that one man finds an opportunity while another fails is that the first seeks while the other waits to be called. It is not always so, but at least ninety-nine times in a hundred fortune favors the persistent hunter and passes by the laggard. "Christ says, 'Go and knock on the door if you want to get in. Don't sit back and wait for the door to open.' So when a man knocks on the door to success and demands an opportunity, he may be a mighty poor specimen, he may be ignorant, he may know nothing of the task on the other side of the door, but the fact that he knocks and P John D. Rockefeller, Jr. demands admittance shows that he deserves to be tried, and in nearly every case fortune opens the door to him and the opportunity is his. "It has been my experience that, though I have been willing to do church work, and felt it my duty to do it, I failed for a long time. It was because when the request for a teacher came, when there was a call for volunteers for mission work, I at once said; 'That isn't my call. That is for one more experienced than I. I am ready, but the opportunity hasn't arrived.' "Then I changed methods. I knocked, and the door was opened. I sought an opportunity and presented myself, admitting my unworthiness. My work has been easier ever since. And so it is with all things in this world. In business and in professional life opportunities must be sought. If you find yourself idle while willing to work and you think that opportunity passes you by, stop and consider more carefully. In all probability you will find that the fault is yours. "Opportunity consists of one-tenth circumstance and nine-tenths effort. Look at the men and women who succeed in the world. In a majority of cases success has come, not because opportunity ran against them, but because they ran against opportunity with so much force that they carried everything before them. "I believe that the man who has found his opportunity and has made the most of it is more greatly benefited by the results than the world is benefited by his work." China's Wide for Sale Everything goes by contraries, of course, out here. The European of proverbial experience buys a grand piano which, being bought, necessitates corresponding alterations and improvements in the drawing room, and so to the house in general, the result being a removal from the villa t oa mansion. China knows better. She buys an expensive fleet, and then, foreseeing the trouble and expense it is going to be to her in a thousand different ways, gets into a quarrel with Japan so that she may rid herself of a considerable portion. That done, the second step is taken. So that all temptation may be removed she gives away her naval ports. Now she puts up to auction the few remaining vessels. "Going, going"—and not just "gone," the troubles and anxieties of a fleet. "Hane in Luck" was nothing to it. Wonderful Chimal—Shanghai Mercury. A young man from Indiana, says the Washington correspondent of the New York World, had a fine job in the treasury department as messenger. About all he had to do was to sit in an armchair and kick his heels. A few days ago some heartless wretch transferred him to the force of guides, thus making it necessary for him to trot, trot, trot, all day with gaping sightseers. The new guide showed his first bunch of tourists into the big room where all the old money sent in for redemption is counted, and announced in a loud voice: "These are the most expert money-counters in the world. Most of them have been here for sixty years." Instantly there were loud cries from the young women who count the money. They held an indignation meeting and sent a petition to have the young guide discharged, and he was put back on the messenger roll. Now he sits all day in his arm chair, contentedly kicking his heels, and whenever he sees one of the young women from the money counting room he smiles sweetly. A Grateful Man. Cox, Wis., Jan. 6.—With Kidney disease so bad that he could hardly walk across the room for pain, Frank M. Russell of this place was a man greatly to be pitied. He tired out with the slightest exertion and in spite of all the doctors could do for him he was growing gradually worse. He had tried many medicines and treatments without benefit, but recently he read in a newspaper about Dodd's Kidney Pills, and these helped him from the very first dose. He took several boxes before he was completely cured, but now he is well and strong as ever he was, and feels very grateful to Dodd's Kidney Pills for his restoration to good health. Garman's Sketch of Himself. Dr. H. Garman, entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, lately received a request to furnish for publication a sketch of himself. He replied: "The most important facts of my life history are the following: (1) Born, Stephenson county, Illinois. (2) Began the study of natural history same date. Yours very truly, H. Garman." Trees Known by Fruit. Every tree is known by its fruit. A good tree is not that one which is merely capable of bearing fruit; it is that which does bear it. One may be endowed by nature and by education with qualities that make him capable of great usefulness, but he is judged, not by his capacity for usefulness, but by his exercise of usefulness.—Presbyterian. Set Type for "Outre-Mer." At Brunswick, Me., lives a printer who did all the typesetting and presswork on Longfellow's "Outre-Mer; or, Tales of the Sea," the first novel the great poet wrote. He is Theodore McLellan, now ninety-one years of age. "Trymi" Is Reliable and this item is valuable—worth 25c to every sufferer from Constipation, Stomach, Liver or Nervous trouble who will cut it out and send with address to R. J. Sarasy & Co., Janesville, Wis., for a package of Trymi Tablets free of charge. Results certain and guaranteed or money returned if not satisfied. Do not suffer when it is not necessary. Happiness Springs from Within. A happy life is "when the inner life is adjusted so satisfactorily that it gives one no trouble and there is time and opportunity to spend the outer life for others." An article which will prove of the widest interest to all who are interested in education is one in the January Cosmopolitan by Elisha Benjamin Andrews, ex-president of Brown University, who has had the courage to show the great evils resulting from the private contract school book system-evils which could be very easily avoided if the proper organization were brought into this effort. The announcement is made that in the Chicago orchestra concerts at the Auditorium on Jan. 24 and 25 the Symphony, "The Four Seasons," by Henry K. Hadley, will be given its first performance in Chicago. This is the symphony which recently carried off two prizes—that offered by M. Paderewski for the best work by an American and a similar one offered by the New England Conservatory of Boston. A man went into a St. Louis restaurant and shouted, "Where's the head waiter?" That dignitary came forward. "Say," bawled the man, "do you serve lobsters here?" "Yes," replied the waiter, urbanely, "What will you have?" Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 6th.—A very timely and practical suggestion comes from a physician of this city, He says, "Take Garfield Tea, the Herb Medicine. It is especially needed at this season when the system is apt to be out of order from eating rich food. This wonderful remedy cleanses the system and regulates the kidneys, stomach and bowels. It is simple, pure and effective, and is good for young and old." Buddhism seems to be making a fair number of converts in this country. California now has three churches and San Francisco a society which, though only three years old, has a membership of more than 300. ALWAYS USE RUSS BLEACHING BLUE, acknowledged the leading bluing. Made by The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. There are about ninety deaths in Shakespeare's plays. The series of special photographs contibuted by the Santa Fe railway to the exhibit of the Postal Department at the Pan-American Exposition is one of the few which are to be transferred with the exhibit to the Interstate and West Indian Exposition at Charleston, S.C. The series is illustrative of the transcontinental mail service on the Santa Fe between Chicago and San Francisco, and aside from the very interesting railroad features shows many novel portions of Uncle Sam's postal service between remote mountain districts, Indian trading posts, etc. The pony express and the Indian runner, lithe and long limbed, are still necessary to the government in some sections of the West. The postal department has asked and received permission from the Santa Fe, to place the photographs permanently in the Postal Museum at Washington after the close of the Charleston exposition. The Woman and Her Wrap Once upon a time Boreas and Dame Fashion were talking about their respective powers, when a woman passed by wearing a long sealskin wrap. "See me make her take it off," said Boreas. He blew, and he blew, and he blew; and the harder he blew, the tighter the woman drew the wrap to her. Dame Fashion smiled, and when he desisted she stepped up to the woman with a confidential air. "Your wrap is very much out of style, my dear," she said. Immediately the woman took it off. Moral-The breath of fashion is more powerful than the north wind. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. 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PERSONAL—CORKS, BUNIONG, CORNS—Hard and soft corns absolutely curved and all soreness removed from bunsions; no need to suffer with those you have or allow others to form; FIMPLES, BOILS, COLD SORES scattered with the same SAFE, SURE, and SIMPLE remedy; two ounces with full directions, in plain safety mailing tape, postpaid to any address on receipt of $1.00. Address S. S. REMEDY CO., Geneva, Ill. "NO-TIE" SHOE LACE Agents Wanted. Novelty and com- fort combined. Try a pair; you will never do without them. Postpaid 8 perr of 25c. "Me-Tie" Shoe Lace Co., 100 W. 97th St., N. Y. City. 6% First Mortgages To parties who wish to invest their money safe, I can offer some choices First Real Estate Mortgages, land located in best portion of No. Dakota. Highest rate. Correspondence collected. N. J. Mankamp, Blobee, N. D. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 2, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Mindly Mention This Paper. ```markdown ``` ...CURES... FISTULA, POLL EVIL, In 4 to 16 weeks. 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No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO., 17 State Street, New York City. Y GAME—For Home and Friends. POWERS Card Bobk of Uncle Sam. 53 Cards, each with map of one of U. S. Possessions. Plays over 60 Improved Games. Instruct, interest and amuse. Complete map of all U. S. Possessions extra with each game. Sold by Dealers, or mailed on receipt of Price, 25c. Bo first. Write now. Pub. by JAMES M. POWERS, Henry, III. Copyright 1901. POWERS Card Book of Uncle Sam. 53 Cards, each with map of one of U. S. Possessions. Plays over 50 Improved Games. Instruct, interest and amuse. Complete map of all U. S. Possessions extra with each game. Sold by Dealers, or mailed on receipt of Price, 25¢. Be first. Write now. Pub. by JAXEL M. FOWERS, Henry, III. Copyright 1901. FARMS and STOCK RANCHES for sale in Iowa, Neb. Minn. and So. Dak. The Union Land Co., 403 Fifth St., Sioux City, Iowa. PRINCESS LACE LOOM." complete 53 Book, 100; Lace Thread, 500 Yard Spools, 100. E. J. GROTE, Art., 507 Oriel Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. $100 REWARD For a case of Dyspepsia and In- digestion that cannot be cured by us. Clarke's Bismo in PEPSIN TABLETS. Safe and reliable. Price No and Sd. by druggists. samples free. Agents Wanted. CLARKE'S MEDICINE CO. Wannom, Ohio. MISCELLANEOUS. LADIES AND GENTS to do writing at home. Position permanent Salary $80 per month and extra commission. Address with stamp, MRS. M. D. LEDWARD, Blackville, R.G. GENTS' Drawer Supporters; latest outs; fine for acts sample per 12c. A. M. Sahler, Quimby, Ill. INSANITY I CURE in from 2 to 4 months. No failure. Charges $500 to $200. C. BERNSDORFF, M.D., 2615 Lafayette Avenue, St. Louis, Md. 2016 Layaway Avenue, St. Louis, MO WANTED—Workers at home (either sea), hodorable business, good pay; inc. stamp. Box 315, Topeka, Kan. SHORTHAND and Bookkeeping by mail; special rates. Correspondence a/c School, Kan., Fe. WE PAY $22 a week and expenses to men with rigs to introduce poultry compound. International Lifg. Co., Box 185, Parcoa, Kan. Ladies & Gentls to do writing; guarantee work for one year; salary can be made 30 per month. No canvassing. Address with stamp. CLAMIDAN FIREDURNER, Blackville, & C. PISO'S CURE FOR BEST WHEAT MILK TABLE Best Cough Syrup, Tastes Good, Use in time. Bottle by drummers. CONSUMPTION Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Canal 292 BARNEY BENSON, House and Fire Wrecking. MOVER of All Kinds of 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 4928. London-Made Clothes in Gotham. London tailors make a fortune in New York every spring and fall. They send their representatives over from London and the latter put up at the best hotels in New York City and take innumerable orders for suits of clothes from the younger members of the swell clubs who cannot go over and who desire to own English clothes with the English mark in the neck of the coat. Prof. Mommsen, the great historian, was 84 years old on Nov. 30. It is more than fifty years since he was appointed professor of jurisprudence at Leipzig, and at the Universities of Zurich and Breslau he held professional chairs until 1858, when he went to Berlin as professor ancient history. He was at one time a member of the chamber of deputies of Prussia. Grave of Old Blackbird. Old Blackbird's grave in Nebraska is to be marked with a suitable monument to replace the rotted pole which how calls the traveler's attention to it. The Indian chief was medaled by President Van Buren for his valor in the Black Hawk war and was known throughout the northwest in pioneer days as the "white man's friend." Hinde's Advertisement in English. A Hindu baker's assistant in Bombay, on setting up in business for himself, bethought him of catering for the English community as well as for the native one. With this end in view he had the following notification painted over his doorway: "Ram Bux solicits respectful patronage. He is a firstclass British loafer." The governors of Macclesfield Inmary recently appointed Miss Clarke of Glassgow to be house surgeon, and the six honorary medical members of the staff thereupon resigned. The governors and the doctors conferred for two hours, and the latter agreed to withdraw their resignations on the conditions that they be consulted respecting future medical appointments and that Miss Clarke's services be dispensed with. These conditions were refused.—London Mail. Rockefeller Chops for Exercise. John D. Rockefeller is following the example of Gladstone and chopping wood merely as exercise on his road to health at his country seat in Pocantico Hills. Mrs. Rockefeller herself looks after the preparation of her husband's meals. The latter can hardly eat a full meal as yet, for he is suffering considerably from indigestion. Besides his woodchopping, Mr. Rockefeller exercises with dumbbells and in outdoor walking. A Fatal Objection. The Brussel's man's invention by which talkers over a telephone may see each other will not become popular. The usefulness of the telephone would be largely destroyed if, when one called up a woman he had to wait till she made her toilet before she answered.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Their Love Eternally Buried. Before the Empress Frederick's coffin was finally closed all the love letters she received from her late husband, the Emperor Frederick, together with his last written messages inscribed after he had lost his power of speech, were placed in the coffin over her heart. Gambling in Mexico. The minister of war in Mexico has decided to restrict the number of gambling houses in that city, and officers are warned that if caught in one of the establishments the penalty of dismissal from the army will be enforced against them. The Toothbrush'Plant. One of the most curious plants in the world is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper which grows in Jamaica. By cutting a piece of the stem and fraying the ends the natives make a toothbrush. England spends £8,400,000 a year on her paupers, Scotland £900,000, Ireland £1,400,000, France spends less than £1,500,000 BAKING A TURKEY. An Expert Says It Is Generally Dude in a Wrong Way. "Ninety-nine women out of every one hundred; ninety-nine cooks out of every one hundred, will bake a turkey with the back to the pan," said a New Orleans man who keeps in touch with the kitchen, "and this is a mistake. I said ninety-nine out of every one hundred. Rather should I have said that the mistake is almost universally made. But few cooks ever think of cooking the turkey any other way. There seems to be a demand for well-browned turkey breast. But in browning the breast they sacrifice the sweetness of this part of the fowl. The best way to prepare a turkey is to bake it with the breast down. I learned this lesson from Mme. Begue, whose place down in the Old Quarter near the French market has become famed all over the country. She never thinks of baking a turkey with the breast up. The breast is turned to the bottom of the pan, and instead of being dry and tasteless when it is served is richly flavored, and as sweet and juicy as one would care to have it. You see, all the fine flavoring of the turkey, the juices of the dressing and all the daintier touches flow down toward the breast of the fowl, and when the white meat is served you get the full benefit of every flavor added during the processes of preparing and baking the turkey, in addition to the distinctive taste of the fowl itself. Inconvenient and awkward? Not at all. It is just as easy to cook a turkey in this way as in any other way, and the result is infinitely more satisfactory. It is no trouble to arrange the fowl in the pan. If you decide to place the fowl on the table before carving it you will find that it will look quite as well as it would if baked in the usual way, and certainly it will taste much better than it would if you baked the breast until it was dry and flavorless."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. ROYALTY AT SEA. Most Members of Reigning European Families Subject to Seasickness. The number of royal yachts in existence and the immense sums lavished on them are amazing when it is taken into consideration how much royal and imperial personages are a prey to mal-de-mer. The German emperor is always ill when facing a gale at sea. The empress is a much better sailor in this respect. When the two of them went to the holy land the empress was the only person of the imperial circle on board who was not prostrated by seasickness during the trip down the Adriatic. Prince Henry of Prussia likewise confesses to seasickness each time on going to sea after being in port for awhile. The duke of Cornwall is afflicted in the same way, and the duchess is such a martyr to seasickness that she hesitated for a long time before consenting to undertake the tour just concluded. She suffered intensely during the trip, from Portsmouth to Gibraltar, the weather in the bay of Biscay being very stormy. King Edward, although devoted to yachting, has been absolutely prostrated by mal-de-mer when crossing the channel between Dover and Calais. Indeed, the only member of the English royal family who is absolutely immune from this ailment is the widowed duchess of Albany.—London M. A. P. Do the Best You Can. A clock with the notion never to strike less than twelve would be a nuisance instead of a jo2. It would be like some people—such people as are indisposed to do anything unless they can do some big thing. You could perhaps do a thousand little and useful things while you sit and do nothing, waiting for the opportunity to do some great thing. You are waiting in vain. Learn now that the ability to do great things belongs to those who are disposed to do little things. They are the willing doers of little things who are promoted to the doing of great things.—Word and Way. Ask your dealer for Sunday Creek No. 19 HOCKING The best for domestic use. For Sale by THE JONES & ADAMS CO. Anthracite and Bituminous Coal 47th St. and Wabash Railroad; Strictly dealers' yards. HALL & RAWLINS Undertakers and Embalmers AND LIVERY 4838 State Street CHICAGO Bathmates and Special- cations Purchased ... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage ..... Telephone Yards 864. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO. MRS. LIZZIE N. RANDELL Dressmaking and Plain Sewing..... 4836 State St. CHICAGO FOR BARGAINS IN Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishings and Shoes GO TO THOMAS & HARRIS TWO BIG STORES 5101-3 Wentworth Ave. 5650-4 S. Halsted Street GUS GEBHARDT Boots, Shoes and Rubbers Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods No. 5046 SO. STATE STREET CHICAGO NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS. The decisions of the United States Court on these subjects are interesting. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to renew their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the postoffice to which they are directed, they are responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without informing the publisher, and the papers are sent to the former address, they are held responsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to take periodicals from the office or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. 6. If subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give notice at the end of the time if they do not wish to continue taking it; otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it, and the subscriber will be responsible until an express notice, with payment for all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. Don't imagine that all hair preparations are alike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has been on the market for so long that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use on their hair. It is most delicately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fail to cure dandruff and make the hair straight, soft and beautiful. It invigorates the scalp producing new growth and stops the hair from falling out. Try a bottle and you will be sure to be pleased. Only 50 cents, express paid, to any address in the United States. Druggists also sell it. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, ```markdown ``` Waiting for Business Is very poor business. The only way to do business in a business-like way is to make business. If you are in business and are not satisfied with the volume of business you have been doing, we would suggest that you take the business advice of one who makes it his business to make business for others. Your announcements in the columns of this paper will bring you increased business. We can easily demonstrate to your satisfaction that waiting for business Is Not Good Business William Howard Fitzgerald SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR PROVISIONS FROM LAWYER Room 402 Reaper Block, CHICAGO S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 706 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2025. — A. E. 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