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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. ROBERT E. BURKE AND FRED E. ELDRED MUST GO AS LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF COOK COUNTY. VOL. VII. The cry and lamentations seems to be ascending up to the high heavens from the people in all walks of life in this city and county "that for the sake of honesty and decency in politics, that Robert E. Burke and Fred E. Eldred must go or be deposed as the leaders of the Democratic party of this city and county; that the Democratic party can never win an election under their leadership." After keeping our eyes open for almost three years, and after noting closely the political actions of Messrs. Burke and Eldred we have become fully convinced that they are not the men to be at the head of the Democratic party of this city and county, nor of any other party; that as long as they are permitted to pose as its leaders the Democratic party will continue to be a stench in the nostrils of the vast majority of the respectable voters of Cook County. Therefore it's the solemn duty of all the lovers of Democracy to hurl Robert E. Burke, the dictator, and Fred E. Eldred, the up-start from power and let honest men whom the people can and will respect and place confidence in superceed them as leaders of the party, but the people can never trust Messrs. Burke and Eldred, as far as politics are concerned for they are too tricky and slippery. It must be admitted by those who are familiar with the political history of this city and county for the past eight or ten years that ever since Messrs. Burke and Eldred have been the controlling spirits of the Democratic party the impression has gone abroad that there is a secret understanding between Boss Burke, and Bill Lorimer, that the corruptible rulers of the Republican machine can rob and loot the people of Cook county, providing Lorimer, Henacy & Co. do not interfere with Messrs. Burke, Eldred and company in film-flaming the people residing in the city. Think of the demoralizing effect that such an impression as this has upon the rank and file of the voters! and is there any plausible reason why they should work for the success of the Democratic party in this county, as long as it is whispered around among its leaders that the Democratic county machine and the Republican county machine both receive their oil or grease from the same can or cup? That there is a solid compact or perfect understanding between the bosses of the two machines. Are the great army of Democrats of this city and county perfectly willing to permit Messrs. Burke and Eldred to swap or trade them around like so many dumb cattle or hogs, for their own personal aggrandizement? If so then they are unworthy of the name of freemen. In all sincerity we ask, is there no higher mission for the Democratic party of Cook county to perform than to fly the political kite of Lorimer, Henacy, Burke, Eldred and company? Has the Democratic party sunk so low that it is impossible for it to displace Messrs. Burke and Eldred, as its leaders? And if there is any one thing, which is as patent as the noonday sun, it is that these two false leaders of Democracy care nothing for its teachings nor its true principles have no higher ambition than to use the name of true Democracy to further their own selfish ends, delight in elevating their tools into positions, whom they can handle and force them to do their bidding like political slaves, if any one doubts this statement, all they have to do is to turn back the pages of the political history of this city for the past few years, then they will be fully persuaded that we are stating that which is true. Under no circumstances should Messrs. Burke and Eldred, be permitted to control the next county convention nor to name the candidates for the various county offices for the people of Cook county, will no longer stand for Messrs. Burke and Eldred, and if they should become too conspicuous in the convention, the ticket nominated by it would be defeated at the polls next November by more than one hundred thousand majority. One of our chief objections to both seem to take much pleasure in pandering to the lowest element of pandering to the lowest element of Afro-American Democrats, such fellows as Old Ham Carter, who has outlived his usefulness; George J. Woods, the gambling king; Marsh, the ex-jail bird of Milwaukee, Wis.; Long Jim Miller, who skinned The Broad Ax out of one dollar as six months' subscription and who furnishes strawbail for theives and criminals at the 35th street police station; George J. Terrell, who laid The Broad Ax out for three dollars, which sum he is unable to pay; Mush Mouth Johnson, the big gambling boss at 464 State street; Poney Moore, the stud-poker boss, 17b 21st street; Billie Piper, who runs a notorious dive at 141 West 47th street, and John Jennings and company, are the class of Afro-American Democrats who have either directly or indirectly received consideration or favors from the hands of Messrs. Burke and Eldred; none of these unsavory characters can put their heads inside the homes of the many thousands of respectable Colored people of Chicago, and some of them cannot control their own votes, without saying anything about controlling the votes of others, nevertheless for various reasons Messrs. Burke, and I Eldred look upon these characterless Negroes as the highest types of Negro Democracy. For this reason and for the future success of Democracy in Cook County we ardently hope that Messrs. Burke and Eldred will be deposed as Leaders of the Democratic party of this city and county. WHERE LIES THE OFFENSE? WHERE LIES THE OFFENSE? We know that in all times and nations the few have and still hold the advantage over the many. In the navy the common sailors do all the hard labor, get very little pay while half a dozen officers get big pay and are idle most of the time. In the army it is the same. Captains and lieutenants get hundreds of dollars per month, soldiers $18 to $20. Coming to civil service it is the same. Nor do the few get the superior pay because they are more able and needed than the many. Quite the contrary, for if the officers were annihilated their places are filled from the numbers of the many, and often the whole work is done by privates. When pensions are given it is the few who still get hundreds per month while the others get five or ten. Coming to the fields of labor; in mines, factories and on railroads all the labor is done and all dangers incurred by the many while officials do little and get large rewards. The officers and privates of the British army are a fair illustration of the conditions that prevail everywhere. There the common soldiers sit around their scant rations of army bread and beef with tea or coffee prepared by one of them as best he can, while the officers at their luxurious quarters are served at splendid tables literally groaning under all the varieties of viands that epicurian fashion demands, with all costly liquors and waited upon by trains of cooks and waiters. One is inclined at times to ask, what offense has the poor laboring man been guilty of towards society that he is so helittled, so trampled on and so served. In our own model republic it is the same—everything is for a few, very little for the many, and that little grows daily less. HOLT. "Negroes will not be permitted to use the Carnegie Library in Atlanta, Ga." These are the words of the president of the Trustees Board of Atlanta. The Negro citizens are protesting that this is not the spirit in which Mr. Carnegie made his donation. The result is, that an effort will be made to induce Carnegie or northern philanthropists to provide ample means for a library for Negroes.—Ex. Don't think that sensible girls adhere men because of their physical [Name not visible in the image] SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. Truth About the School-Question. The New York Independent, which is undoubtedly the very best publication of religious nature in this country and which has always voiced the ALDERMAN who will have to fight ex-Aderman C 30th rights of the Negro race had this to say editorially on the proper education of the colored race in America in its last issue: (From New York Independent.) We want to give our heartiest indorsement to the attempt of Booker T. Washington to secure an endowment of not less than a million dollars for the Tuskegee Institute, and to Dr. Frissel's appeals for a similar endowment for Hampton Institute. Mr. Washington says well that as it costs $110,000 a year to run the Tuskegee Institute, and $60,000 or more has to be raised annually by the special appeals of one person, the condition is quite too precarious which depends on one man's life and strength. Already an endowment of over $273,000 has been secured, and the value of the plant is $270,000. The appeal is one that easily reaches the heart of the people. It is for the great ignorant, common mass of the Negro people. It does not offer to supply preachers and lawyers and editors and politicians, nor even teachers except of a humble grade; but it does propose to teach the commonest people, who represent the huge mass, how to build a decent house, how to keep out of debt, how to buy a farm, how to be self-respecting and respectable. All this appeals easily and rightfully to the readiest comprehension of the needs of the people and we are not surprised that so able and devoted a leader as Mr. Washington has attracted enthusiastic supporters, and has collected such an immense sum year after year. It represents the material growth and progress that can be seen. It is expensive, of course, for shops are vastly more costly than school rooms, but it is worth the large cost which makes Hampton and Tuskegee far the most expensive, as they are the largest and best known of the Negro schools of the south, and those that have the highest favor with their white neighbors. And yet, granting all this, it must never be forgotten that the largest and most persuasive and controlling ```markdown ``` influence is always from the top and not the bottom. Advancement comes by a pull from above, much more than by a push from below. The academy lifts the common school; the college lifts the academy; the university lifts the college, and never the reverse. M. McINERNEY, has. J. Boyd for supremacy in the ward. The influence of Johns Hopkins University, on our colleges is an illustration, and was frankly admitted the other day by the president of Harvard. Now colored people are, just like white people in this respect—except that, as education is at so low an ebb among them, their educated men have a greater proportionate influence than among white people. Mr. Washington understands and freely acknowledges this. He marries a college graduate, selects college graduates for his teachers, and sends his son and daughter to college. That is right and wise for the broad influence, transcending the local, must come from higher institutions than Hampton and Tuskegee, and fortunately much less expensive. There is no need to fear that these colleges, some of which bear the unfortunate designation of university, as do other humble colleges in the north, will overeducate their pupils. The highest of them all. Howard University, at Washington, lacks a year of the curriculum of a New England college, and the best of the rest, such as Fisk, Atlanta and Shaw, lack two years. Their ablest graduates need to come to a northern college to graduate over again. The best of them need to have an enlarged course, for the best education is never too good for a Negro or white man. It is somewhat of a disadvantage to a colored college in the south that it is supported by a benevolent society, as nearly all of them are. They are lumped together, half a dozen of them, perhaps, in the society's reports, and no one makes a special strong appeal for aid and endowment, although they are doing far the most useful work done for the Negroes of the South. Not one of them has such an endowment as Hampton or Tuskegee, and not one of them is yet so ambitious as to think of looking for a million dollars. We know time dammon Theological Seminary, of Atlanta, has an endowment of $562,000, but that is only for Methodist theological students and not for general education. Talladega College may have about $110,000 endowment, and Atlanta Uni- 一 versity $40,000 and Fisk University as much; Clark University has $175,000 Leland has $118,000 and Shaw $31,000, but hardly any other institution has funds. as much as $10,000 of permanent. In the north, as in the south, the institutions that give a practical and industrial education are having an extraordinary popularity. Such are the Pratt Institute, of Brooklyn; the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, and the Armour Institute of Chicago. Of course, they are of very much higher grade than Hampton and Tuskegee, but they show into what these latter institutions may grow. Armour institute, it is now announced, is to become an integral part of Chicago University and receive additional millions, and develop, we suppose, into a great college of technology of the highest grade. It illustrates the general acceptance of the principle that it is the top and not the bottom from which power comes. Commercial "colleges" and trade schools are admirable, but for wide influence the student must seek the education of the departments of finance and economics in our universities, or of electricity and engineering in our highest schools of technology. We should take comparatively little interest in Hampton and Tuskegee if we did not see in them the promise of something much higher than they now give, even the highest; just as we value the colleges of the south, white and black, less for what they now are than for what they will be when they shall have acquired a generous endowment.—The Guardian. Boston, Mass. NOTES FROM NORMAL, ALA. The Bible Band has been conducting a great revival meeting which has proven a blessing to all. Many souls have been added to the great Christian army. Mr. Charles Stewart is with us and delivered an able address on last Sunday morning to teachers and students. The arrangement for commencement are about completed and everyone is looking forward to it with much pleasure. Quite a number of Northern people visited Normal during last month. All expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the work. CHIPS. At Trenton, N. J., last week, three colored men were married to three handsome white girls Ex-Minister to SanDomingo, John S. Durham, has a story in the Lippincotts Magazine entitled "Diane or the High Priestess of Hayti." Mr. John L. Slaughter, a colored citizen of Milwaukee, has opened "The Turf," a newly constructed twenty-one room hotel. Mrs. Wm. McKnight, 450 37th street, has arrived home from Hot Springs, Ark., and she is looking more beautiful and bewitching than ever. County Commissioner Rollin B. Organ, has been spending the past week in New York City, and he will return to the city Sunday morning. The Woman's Club of Peoria, Ill., voted the past week in favor of admitting Colorod women's clubs into the National Federation. Mr. Noah D. Thompson, who holds down a responsible position with the U. S. Express company, has resigned as a member of the Informals. Mr. E. A. Johnson, the well-known writer of school books and other Negro literature, has been appointed U. S. District Attorney in North Carolina. "Major" Taylor, the crack bicyclist, and Miss Daisey Morris, were recently married at Ansonia, Conn. The "Major" has started for Paris where he will contest with expert French riders. Mr. Melville G. Holding is making an enviable record as City Oil Inspector, and there are greater political honors in the near future awaiting Melville Holding. NO. 26. Hon. John E. Owens, city attorney of Chicago, left for St. Louis, Mo., the first of the week; he will return to the city and be ready for business Monday morning. Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is infected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so is it likewise reformed by their moderation.—Clicero. State Senator Barney J. Maguire has been on the sick list for two weeks, but the senator is now on the mend and is able to be around again and shake hands with his many friends. The Van Horn Tailoring Co., 275 Dearborn, are the slickest tailors, dyers, cleaners and repairers in town. They will press your suit while you wait. They also make a specialty of ladies work. Ex-City Treasurer Ernest Hummel continues to be mentioned by his friends in connection with the nomination for County Treasurer. Mr. Hummel is the prince of the German-Americans and if nominated he would add strength to the county ticket. Dr. M. F. Murray, 1935 State street, would make a splendid Commissioner of Public Health, and his selection as such would be a vast improvement over the present individual who is at the present time endeavoring to discharge the duty of that office. Rev. J. W. Robinson will dish up spiritual food at St. Mark's church, 47th and State streets, for another year, and it is said that Rev. Robinson will build a new twenty-five thousand dollar church before he gives up preaching in Chicago. Col. Ike P. Rivers who is known to all the politicians and leaders of the Republican party, is a candidate for County Commissioner, and the Colonel has many friends both white and black who would like to see him secure the nomination. Last Saturday evening an anti-Roy O. West meeting was held at 4838 Armour avenue. It was addressed by James H. Harris, and several other speakers. Col. B. F. Moseley came over from the 31st ward and poured out his eloquence in behalf of Roy O. West, who is almost a dead one. Prof. M. M. Mangasarian delivers his fifth lecture of the course on the "Religion of the Great Infidels" at the Grand Opera House, Sunday morning, subject, "The Whole Truth About Thomas Paine," who was the first person in the world to write against the continuance of the African slave trade. The Indiana Club of Chicago will give a reception and musicale at the Auditorium Hotel Saturday evening, April 26, in honor of the "Indiana Authors," Wm. E. Brown, its president, Charles H. Leech, its secretary, and its other officers are the promoters of the affair, and they and many other prominent gentlemen and ladies will take part in it and serve on the reception committee. Lawyer R. M. Mitchell, "I see that you have mentioned Miles J. Devine for one of the Judges of the Superior Court, and permit me to say that there is no lawyer in this city whom I would rather see elevated to one of the judgeships than Miles Devine, for he is strictly honest, free from the big-head, a good lawyer, is well liked by all classes and he would make an ideal judge." Rev. A. J. Carey, was one of the honorary pallbearers at Perry A. Hull's funeral Tuesday, and while we admit that he had the right to act in that capacity, but it's our opinion however, that Rev. Carey would feel highly insulted if the relatives of any dead common Negro politician like Perry A. Hull, had requested him to do likewise, and by Rev. Carey, acting as he did proves, that he endorsed Perry Hull's political methods, which was that "he was in favor of transforming the Negro churches into political halls," for Perry Hull, thought that was the best way to "round up the Durkey preachers and to keep the 'niggers' in line for the G. O. P. of Hull, Henacy, Ed. 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Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Permanence, orthodoxy, Protestants, Knights of I labor, Indies, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any so we 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 literal right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; it sits on one side of the paper. One Year..... $2,60 Two Months..... 1,60 Vibrating rates made known on application children all comments/notes to JULIUS P. TAYLOR. Editor and Publisher. Kenosha's Jack the Kisser hugs 'em till they scream. Sometimes the man is completely exhausted. Kansas City's big pigeon shoot must have been nearly as exciting as killing grasshoppers with a club. Before the advent of another Easter celebration the paragraphers ought to devise some new jokes about Easter millinery. Fifty women have just got law diplomas in New York. The jury of the future has evidently got to steel its heart. A vessel loaded with Cuban sugar was beached a few days ago on Molasses Island. This is a case of sweets to the sweet. John L. Sullivan is having an arena built around him and will endeavor to revive the waning interest in Olympian sports. The Havemeyers have invested heavily in the copper business and are supposed to be after the red scalp of Senator Clark. The New York miner who fell 500 feet down a shaft without serious injury would make good ballast for one of the airships. The New York publisher who is to establish a suburban line of balloons will not be the first editor who has gone up in the air. The mountain lion sent to the White House from Colorado as a gift to President Roosevelt will be kept there because it is stuffed. A Chicago city official has resigned because he couldn't live on the salary he got. He must have regarded public office as a public trust. J. Pierpont Morgan says he will attend the coronation of King Edward. If he likes it real well he may hire the king to do it over two or three times. By the time Spain shall have emerged from the many perils now confronting the dynasty the Carlists will begin to emerge again from the mountains. The successful method of bringing the insurgent Cherokees to order by threatening them with the barber's shears might be tried with Paderewski and Kubelik. A Chicago hunter was arrested with his game bag full of songbirds that he had shot. Doubtless he is too mean to live, but he will have to be permitted to do so. The news that a college football player was employed to watch the polls in the first ward of Chicago shows that higher education can be put to practical uses. A Detroit woman had a man arrested on a charge of robbing her. Then she married him. Perhaps she figures on getting even by going through his pockets while he slumbers. Paris is about to impose a municipal tax of four cents a volume on novels. Such a move on the part of the United States might curtail the production of colonial romances. The fact that the young king of Spain, who is to be crowned May 17, will be known to history as Alfonso XIII., may explain the dark predictions concerning his accession. Scientists believe that there is a city at the north pole, and that the inhabitants are just like other people. If so, we may be sure that they are kicking on the smoke nuisance. Foxhall Keene has been nearly killed riding to hounds again. If Foxhall didn't get nearly killed in this way every few months his life would be wholly devoid of excitement. A Binghamton, N. Y., couple were arrested for getting married by mistake. Suppose all the couples that have made a mistake in getting married should be arrested. But let's don't. There is a chance for a rich American woman to see the coronation of England's king by marrying a peer of the realm. And there are women who are perfectly willing to take the chance. France expects a number of cabinet changes in the near future. No doubt dozens of obscure statesmen are taking advantage of the opportunity to have themselves mentioned for cabinet positions. SCULPTOR CAME TO MEND BUST. And the Irate Janitor Took Him for a Plumber. Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, is an Exeter boy and a graduate of Phillips Exeter academy. Like all Exeter men, he is very loyal, and generously donated examples of his work to both town and academy. A few years ago one of the busts in the academy chapel had the misfortune to lose a nose, and as Mr. French was visiting the town he kindly offered to replace it. Now, it happened that the bust was not the only thing in the academy that needed mending, for the night before a cold snap had frozen and burst the main water pipe. The plumber, as usual, was late in appearing, and the old janitor was terribly upset. 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A nasty practice is what the Chicago Inter Ocean calls the pasting of repeated layers of wall paper, one upon another, thus covering up the filth and germs of disease that may be propagated in the very absorbent and decaying mass of flour paste, paper, animal glue, colors, etc. They give opinions of eminent health officers and sanitarians, urging that such practice should be stopped by legal enactment, and also take occasion to say that these sanitarians recommend Alabastine as a durable, pure and sanitary coating for walls. The Inter Ocean says: "This is a very important question, and, as it costs nothing to avoid this danger, why take any chances?" How much of the alarming spread of smallpox and other diseases may be due to unsanitary wall coverings? Decorated by the Kaiser. During the last year the kaiser has decorated no fewer than 2,473 persons with either a star or a ribbon—a greater number than in any year since Wilhelm II. ascended the throne. 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BUTTON, 112 Baldem Ave., Chicago, Ill. A Voice From Beyond. (Copyright, 1982, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) With shrill distinctness the cry arose above the never-ceasing din of the great railway station. Years of detective work had made me callous to the horrors of human suffering and crime, but that weird cry, so full of anguish and reproach, jostled me sharply out of my usual indifference. It caused me to forget entirely for the moment the haggard face of a young man that I had been watching with some interest as I sat over in a corner out of the crowd awaiting a delayed train. It was not the face of a criminal, but it had the hunted look of one, and fear and remorse were plainly stamped upon it. The young man had been pacing nervously up and down the pavement in front of the door, and I remembered afterward that he had stepped inside just a moment before I had been startled by the unusual cry behind me. Before I could turn it was repeated: "My nerves must be getting bad," I thought, as with a creepy feeling almost of dread I turned to see what it was. Instead of a tragedy, a comedy, for what I saw was two malden ladies, very prim as to aspect and uncertain as to ages, in a great state of excitement, trying to pacify a parrot, which was struggling to get away and shrieking: "Oh, Tom--you--y-o-u!" "Oh, my! Oh, my!" exclaimed one of the ladies, "whatever can be the matter with the bird? He was never acted like this before—isn't it horrible?" As I arose to go to her assistance, for the parrot seemed to be more than she could manage, I noticed that the young man had begun his restless tramp again and was coming in our direction, his eyes bent on the floor. "Oh, Tom—you—y-o-u!" shrieked the parrot, seemingly beside himself with fear and rage. There was something in the actions of the parrot that drew my attention again to the young man and held it. Suddenly he seemed to hear the cry. He stopped, clutched at his collar as if choking, and the look of horror and fear on his ashen face was pitiable. Whether he saw the parrot or not I never knew, but with a groan he slipped a pistol from his pocket and put a bullet in his brain. The suicide of Tom Galgwyn, wealthy young man about town, was the sensation of the day, and all sorts of theories were advanced as to the cause of it. His friends declared that he must have had some hidden romance, presumably a disappointment in love, and some impressionable young ladies beewed his memory with tears. Those who knew him better attributed his act to temporary insanity following a long debauch, which was true enough as far as it went. Many remarked the coincidence that young Galgwyn and the uncle that had raised him and whose heir he was, had died violent deaths, about each of which a mystery clung, for this uncle had been murdered in his room one night about a year before and his murderer had never been discovered. But I alone knew that there was any direct connection between the death of the two men, the murder of old Joe Branch and the suicide of his nephew, Tom Galgwyn, whom the old man had loved as his own soul. The curious incident in connection with the suicide had aroused my curiosity and I took palms to trace the antecedents of the man and of the bird. Galgwyn, left an orphan when a mere child, had been adopted by his uncle, who was wealthy and unmarried, and whose only near relative the boy was. His somewhat isolated but beautiful suburban home had been found too dull by Tom when, after a none too savory career at college, he had returned to it, and careless of his uncle's feelings and wishes, he spent practically all his time in the city. He had lived, I was told, at a fast pace, and in spite of the liberal allowance his uncle made him he had gotten deeper and deeper in debt, until he "Oh, Tom—you—y-o-n!" and reached the point where threats of criminal prosecution had been made, for certain of his transactions. It was about this time that his uncle was found one morning in his room murdered, with a score of knife wounds in his body. The servants were all away, but it was remarked as a curious fact that his mastiff, a very savage and alert watchdog, had given no alarm, and showed no signs of having attacked the murderer. It was never explained, either, how the murderer got into the house, for the next morning it was found locked as usual, "Oh. Tom--you--y-o-n!" with nothing broken. Nor was there any evidence of a fight in the old man's room, although he was neither weak nor cowardly. These facts threw some suspicion on the servants, but they proved their innocence conclusively. For some reason nobody seemed to suspect the man who was to profit by the death of the murdered man, and so the crime took its place among those whose perpetrators are never found. The parrot? He had been a favorite pet of Mr. Branch's for years, and had been in the room when he was murdered. The parrot must have seen the murder committed and heard the dying words of the old man. He had been sold by the executors to a dealer and by him to the old malds, from A man is lying on the floor, his head resting on a table. A birdcage hangs above him, and a man stands nearby. "His uncle had been murdered." whom I bought him. He has never had any more such paroxysms as that in the sta. on. When I thought of a parrot's proneness to mimic strong exclamations of all kinds, and remembered the note of anguish and reproach in that cry in the station, the mystery of Joe Branch's death was no mystery to me. Often I have pictured to myself that death scene, and thought that no matter how secure from detection the doer of such a dastard deed may seem, he can never know at what moment vengeance may strike, nor what strange weapon she may choose to serve her purpose. METHODS OF TRADE IN ABYSSINIA. Commerce Carried on in a Very Primitive Manner. The market for the gold-producing region of Abyssinia is at Nedjo. Gold washers bring the metal in dust and nuggets from all corners of the country, pressed into large quills closed with a morsel of wood. The holders are so transparent that the precious powder is as easily visible as though it were a tube of glass. The washer sells the produce to a broker, who works it into circles of pure gold of about the thickness of a heavy finger ring. These circles are not closed, so that the buyer may twist them before weighing, thus assuring himself, upon finding them malleable, that no copper has been mixed with the pure metal. The brokers sit bent over, in long files, with their small scales in their hands. A kind of cotton goods manufactured in the United States, which is called "aboudjedide" and bears the mark of a camel, serves in country districts of Abyssinia as money, being used for clothing, tents and many other purposes. A piece of this material thirty yards long, the average price of which is $2, generally sold to retail dealers in lots of twenty pieces, is a token by which Abyssinian coffee is purchased in the regions of production. The change in the price of American cottons has obliged the wholesale merchants to increase in Abyssinia, as elsewhere, the price of a bale of this material serving as money. Immediately the price of coffee rose at the five centers of production, but when the native farmers reached Harrar, the commercial center of the country, expecting to sell their coffees at the higher price imposed by the increased value of American cottons, they found themselves face to face with the falling prices which beset all the coffee markets in the world. This caused much hardship. The following brief paragraphs are copied from "Encounters Between Famous Men," the forthcoming book by J. Billington Billdad. They simply show whether the historical novel is drifting: "As George Washington came within sight of Rome he observed that the city was in flames, and having drunk all of the fire extinguisher from his bottle at the previous stop, he turned his horse's head and was about to gallop away, when his quick car caught the strain of music. George paused and looking upward beheld Nero perched on the city wall playing a violin solo. Waving his hand in adieu to the cruel tyrant, George Washington rode away, leaving the crackling flames behind him, because the Father of his Country had no use for crackling flames where he was going. "This is the only instance on record of a meeting between George Washington and Nero. Its authenticity can not be doubted, inasmuch as the writer's grandfather was present when it happened."—Ohio State Journal. If we prayed as long as God would listen we would never cease. WISOONSIN PAPER ON WESTERN CANADA. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, One of the Favored Districts. The following clipped from the correspondence columns of the Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader is but one of many letters of a similar character that might be published concerning Western Canada, the land of No. 1 hard wheat and the best cattle on the continent. It is a simple matter to reach the lands spoken of, the Canadian Government having agencies established at St. Paul and Duluth, Minnesota; Grafton, North Dakota; Watertown, South Dakota; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Des Moines, Iowa; Wausau and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Sault Ste. Marie and Detroit, Michigan; Toledo and Columbus, Ohio, and by writing to or calling upon any of these agents at these points full information can be secured. This is a great opportunity to secure a home free of cost or if you desire to purchase lands they can be bought now at prices much lower than will exist in a few months. But read what the correspondent referred to has to say of one particular district. "To the Editor of the Leader—The rush of the land seekers will be to the prairie provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The allurements of a soil that yields 40 bushels of wheat to the acre are too great to be resisted and an immense migration from this country may be confidently predicted. People here laughed at first at the idea of any one leaving the United States for Canada, but the Dominion authorities knew they had a good thing and they stuck to it. Their officials evidently knew the value of printers' ink. They spared no expense in letting the people of this country know that these lands were there and that they were exactly as represented. They did more. They sent out specimens of the crops raised and samples of the grain. We have had them here at four consecutive street fairs, presided over by one of their ablest immigration officers. This gentleman spared no pains. He explained the value of the lands and the richness of the soil from morning to night to all comers. "All this told in the long run. Several went up from here to spy out the land and like Caleb, the son of Jepunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, brought back a good report, and now some ten families will leave here in a few weeks for Saskatoon to settle upon farms there, and others are preparing to follow. Of course many will appear shocked at the idea of any one leaving the stars and stripes for the Union Jack, but patriotism is but a nomenclature after all, and our experience has been that in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand a man is the most patriotic where he can make the most money and do the most harm to those whom he hates." The rain falls alike upon the just and the unjust, but the unjust usually find it easier to afford a rain-coat. Drive Rbeumatism Away by the use of MATT J. JOHNSON'S 6088. It cures thoroughly and quickly. The natural selection is usually the best umbrella in the rack. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 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Before he had finished using the contents of the first bottle he could walk readily without the aid of a stick, and after a few applications from the second bottle he was free from pain, and has been ever since; and although fifty years of age and a farmer, he can walk and work without experiencing any pain or difficulty whatever." VOGELER'S CREATIVE COMPound, the great remedy which makes people well; it is made from t'be formula of an eminent London physician. Send to St. Jacobus Oil, Ld., Baltimore, Md., for a free sample bottle. One of America's greatest wonders is located in Edmonson County, Kentucky, 90 miles south of Louisville. This Company has just issued a very interesting booklet of 32 pages descriptive of the Cave. This booklet is well illustrated with many fine half-tone cuts, is printed on enameled book paper and design on cover is in three colors and very attractive. If you want a copy send 10 cents in silver or stamps to C. L. STONE, Gen'l Pass, Agent Louisville&Nashville R.R. LOUISVILLE, KY. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Canal 272 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 National Negro Business League will meet at Richmond, Va., August 25th, 28th and 27th, and if Prof. Washington could induce Dead-Beat Ed Cooper of Washington, D. C., to send The Broad Ax the sum of $8.35 which no skinned the editor out of, then we might attend the meeting of the League. Then we would think that Prof. Washington was accomplishing some good by compelling Cooper, who is one of the high officials of the league, to pay his honest debts, for if Prof. Washington is unable to persuade his associate officers to deal justly with those to whom they owe money, his league is N. G. The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain another articles on Revs. Jasper Finegan Thomas, All Jumping Carey, and Acrobatic Longreen Murray. The successful method of bringing the insurgent Cherokees to order by threatening them with the barber's shears might be tried with Paderewski and Kubelik. A Chicago hunter was arrested with his game bag full of songbirds that he had shot. Doubtless he is too mean to live, but he will have to be permitted to do so. The news that a college football player was employed to watch the polls in the first ward of Chicago shows that higher education can be put to practical uses. A Detroit woman had a man arrested on a charge of robbing her. Then she married him. Perhaps she figures on getting even by going through his pockets while he slumbers. Paris is about to impose a municipal tax of four cents a volume on novels. Such a move on the part of the United States might curtail the production of colonial romances. The fact that the young king of Spain, who is to be crowned May 17, will be known to history as Alfonso XIII., may explain the dark predictions concerning his accession. Scientists believe that there is a city at the north pole, and that the inhabitants are just like other people. If so, we may be sure that they are kicking on the smoke nuisance. Foxhall Keene has been nearly killed riding to hounds again. If Foxhall didn't get nearly killed in this way every few months his life would be wholly devoid of excitement. A Binghamton, N. Y., couple were arrested for getting married by mistake. Suppose all the couples that have made a mistake in getting married should be arrested. But let's don't. There is a chance for a rich American woman to see the coronation of England's king by marrying a peer of the realm. And there are women who are perfectly willing to take the chance. France expects a number of cabinet changes in the near future. No doubt dozens of obscure statesmen are taking advantage of the opportunity to have themselves mentioned for cabinet positions. Listening to three hours of discussion on the chemical analysis of the cocktail of commerce routed a W. C. T. U. delegation at Philadelphia. The cocktail acts this way usually, whether it is analyzed or taken in simple faith. That Paris woman who retained her china intact until a servant who had been discharged returned and broke it is in luck. In this country the smashing of the ware would have been attended to during the period of amicable relations. Officials of the Merchants' National bank of Chicago, which is to be consolidated with the Corn Exchange bank, distributed $80,000 in gifts to faithful employees. This particular feature of the merger business wins popular approval. Kenosha's Jack the Kisser hugs 'em till they scream. Sometimes the man is completely exhausted. Kansas City's big pigeon shoot must have been nearly as exciting as killing grasshoppers with a club. Before the advent of another Easter celebration the paragraphers ought to devise some new jokes about Easter millinery. Fifty women have just got law diplomas in New York. The jury of the future has evidently got to steel its heart. A vessel loaded with Cuban sugar was beached a few days ago on Molasses Island. This is a case of sweets to the sweet. John L. Sullivan is having an arena built around him and will endeavor to revive the waning interest in Olympian sports. The New York miner who fell 500 feet down a shaft without serious injury would make good ballast for one of the airships. The New York publisher who is to establish a suburban line of balloons will not be the first editor who has gone up in the air. The mountain lion sent to the White House from Colorado as a gift to President Roosevelt will be kept there because it is stuffed. A Chicago city official has resigned because he couldn't live on the salary he got. He must have regarded public office as a public trust. J. Pierpont Morgan says he will attend the coronation of King Edward. If he likes it real well he may hire the king to do it over two or three times. By the time Spain shall have emerged from the many perils now confronting the dynasty the Carlists will begin to emerge again from the mountains. Finding of Gold in Australia. According to an old document just discovered in Australia, gold was first found by a convict near Parramatta, in 1789. The unfortunate fellow was at once charged with having stolen a watch and "boiled it down," and, being convicted by the rude court of those carly days, was given 150 lashes for his pains. In later years the record of this incident was closely examined by an undoubtedly competent authority, who was quite convinced of the genuineness of the convict's story. Noises Wh'ch Attract Snakes. Noises Which Attract Snakes. It is a curious fact that there are certain kinds of noises which attract snakes. For instance, the whirr of the mowing machine, instead of scaring these reptiles, as might be supposed, seems both to allure and enrage them, and they almost invariably dart toward it, rearing themselves in front of the machine, which, of course, promptly chops off their heads. In six months as many as 120 cobras alone have been slaughtered on one grass farm in India. 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. 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