The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. REVS. JOHNSON F. THOMAS, A. LONGREEN MURRAY AND A. JEFFERSON CAREY HAVE BEEN WE IGHED IN THE BALANCE, AND FOUND WANTING. VOL. VII. Several warm friends have recently informed the writer to the effect that Rev. Johnson F. Thomas says "the reason The Broad Ax delights in attacking him is that he, Rev. Thomas, refused to confer a favor upon its editor some time ago." We only have one word to say respecting this report or statement, namely, that it is a malicious falsehood from top to bottom, for we can honestly state that we have never asked a favor from Revs. Thomas, Murray, nor Carey, not even to the extent of a five cent piece, and there is no personal ill-feeling on our part against either one of these three so-called Devines. But we do object to their dishonest methods in dealing with their fellow-men, and as we proceed we will endeavor to fortify our position. One Sunday evening early last fall while Rev. Johnson F. Thomas was begging and pleading for more money, he exclaimed in a very loud voice from his pulpit that "he wanted the members and friends of Olivet to give him more money that he did not care how or where they got it, just so he received the money." Rev. Thomas did not stop for one minute to consider the moral effect of his utterances. It would seem from the manner in which he spoke that if any one of the good sisters belonging to or attending Olivet should happen to get the notion into their heads to go out and sell their virtue for money and turn it (the money) into the treasury of Olivet Baptist church, that he, Rev. Thomas, would absolve such sisters from all their sins, and give them free transportation on to heaven, and if some of the men who drank in his words had been swayed by his faulty advice and had gone forth from Olivet and robbed or murdered some one for their money and then turned the money over to him for the church, no doubt he would have been willing to issue to them free pass-ports to that Baptist paradise beyond the skies. This is the logical deduction of the advice to the members and friends of Olivet by Rev. Thomas on the Sunday evening referred to. On another occasion while Rev. Thomas was almost crying for more money he walked down out of his pulpit, at the same time laying a silver quarter on the table, he declared "that that was the last and the only piece of money he had to his name, that unless some one gave him some more money he would be compelled to walk home as he had no money for car fare." At that juncture an honest young man came forward and gave Rev. Thomas fifty cents so he would not have to walk home, and several faithful sisters did likewise, and while Rev. Thomas was still engaged in talking with those who had collected around him in the main body of the church, Rev. Thomas ran his hand into his vest pocket and pulled out a ten dollar bill and said to his second wife (not to his first wife down in Lexington, Ky.); "Here, Sally, take this money and put it away for I may loose it." At that point a good sister stepped up to Rev. Thomas and said, "Why Elder Thomas, you informed us a few minutes ago that you had no money and that you would have to walk home." Rev. Thomas hesitated a minute, then he simply laughed real loud and exclaimed, "Pshaw! That is nothing!" Prior to the death of Rev. Green who preached on the North Side, Rev. Thomas asked his members for a second collection for the purpose of aiding Rev. Green, and twenty dollars was lifted in the second collection. Then Elder Thomas claimed that the addigrents of Olivet had done well, and that he would send Rev. Green ten dollars and keep ten, or words of the same effect. Does not all these things prove that Rev. Thomas has been weighed in the balance and is found wanting, that he does not speak out against vice, gambling dens, bad houses and other places of Immorality which are thriving close up to the doors of Olivet, that his method or system of ethics is not conducive to the highest morality? At the time Rev. A. Longreen Murray assumed charge of Bethel church he would not read any political notices from his pulpit but whenever he read one he would come down out of his pulpit and stand in front of the altar. At the same time declaring that he would not desecrate nor profane the pulpit of the Lord with politics, and at that time it was hard for the members of Bethel to realize that Rev. Murray was conning them as far as politics was concerned, that he was simply a big bare-faced hypocrite, for just as soon as the politicians fixed Rev. Murray by giving him a little of the dough, or the longreen, he not only transformed Bethel church into a political hall but he also preached politics from his pulpit, and on one occasion he had Harvey Thompson, the wife-beater, Dan Jackson, the notorious libertine, and many other cheap black and white politicians who would need a thick coat of white-wash in order to transform them into bright shining angels, all up in the pulpit shouting or preaching politics. Is not this sufficient to prove that Rev. Murray is a low-bred hypocrite, that he has no high conception of honesty nor righteousness? Rev. Murray, for your own good you should come out in the open and answer the following questions: Did you not sign your name on the South Town office pay roll last year as A. Murray? A man who has worked in the South Town office for many years claims that you did, Rev. Murray, and he also states that Collector Fuller paid you $90 for three weeks' work and that during that time you did not work one day, that the only work performed by you was to walk into the office each Saturday, sign the pay-roll as A. Murray and draw your $30. Is this true or false, Rev. Murray. for you must be aware of the fact that if it is untrue it is your duty as a minester of the gospel to clear your skirts of these charges or reports which have now become the talk of the town and if it is true Rev. Murray that you did connect your name to the South Town office payroll, then the members of Bethel, should not permit you to pollute its pulpit, not only that but they should drive you from the city for accepting any money from the worst gang of robbers and boodlers that ever ran the South Town office or any other public office for they robbed and plundered the tax-payers right and left, and, Rev. Murray, if some of the money which the South Town gang stole from the people found its way into your pockets it ought to forever damn you for it is blood money which was wroung from the honest people. Rev. Murray, like Rev. J. F. Thomas, is an anti-delluvian preacher and he has also been weighed in the balance is found wanting; for he never raises his angelic voice against the questionable resorts and dives which are located so near the doors of Bethel church. Rev. A. Jefferson Carey in the last month we have been informed by more than twenty people that "you also signed the South Town office pay-roll as A. Carey," also one of the men connected with the South Town office made the same statement in our presence Rev. Carey, he further stated that you, Rev. Carey, drew 90 dollars for three weeks' work, that one Saturday while you were waiting for your unearned money Rev. D. W. Jones stepped into the South Town office unexpectedly and in order to prevent him from seeing you, like a guilty boy, you ran and hid under a large table, is this true or false, Rev. Carey? If you did not sign the South Town office payroll as A. Carey and if you never received any money under the pretence of working three weeks while as a matter of fact you did not work one day, nor hide under the table then Rev. Carey, you should wash your hands of this mess and inform the public that you are not guilty of sluking so low in the scales of humanity. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` MR. JOHN J. HARKINS THE POPULAR AND EFFICIENT CHIEF ASSES SOR OF THE WATER DEPARTMENT OF CHICAGO WHO WOULD MAKE AN IDEAL CLERK OF THE PROBATE COURT. For Rev. Carey, you are not ignorant of the fact that such reports as the above and all evil reports or rumors which are scattered broad-cast respecting the delinquencies of one preacher has a tendency of lowering all preach- MR. JOHN J. HARKINS THE POPUL SOR OF THE WATER DEPARTM MAKE AN IDEAL CLERK O ers in the estimation of the non-church going people so, for your own sake, you should possess the manhood to deny these charges and bring to the bar of justice those who are endeavoring to besmirch or blacken your character. For you cannot afford to have your name connected with the bunch of jail birds who looted the South Town office. It is maintained that while Rev. Carey was engaged in preaching down in Georgia he was perfectly contented to feast on sow-belly and hominy, but now he lives on Forest Ave. in grand style with a white servant to wait on him and his family. He has a telephone in his house and he can lay in his bed until ten o'clock in the morning and talk through his telephone to people in all parts of the city. The latter part of January, Mrs. Carey was complaining to one of the real dark lady members of Quinn Chapel "that her Irish bidy had left her without giving her any notice, and that she was all up-set until she could find another Irish or Swedish Girl." This lady who used to pay one to two dollars each month into Quinn, but now she only drops one cent in the basket when they lift the collection, also intimated that Rev. Carey's "children attend a white dancing school and that sister Carey is not so anxious to have so many colored people to blow into their Forest Ave. home." If these things are all true, and there is never much smoke without some fire, it would indicate that the Careys are some dogs in Negro swell-dom that there is no colored girl in this city good enough to work for them; that it must be very pleasant to the women who belong to Quinta Chapel to transform themselves into beggars and take in washing for the white folks in order to maintain the Careys in elegant or grand style. Rev. Carey, like Reva. Thomas and Murray, has also been weighed in the balance and is found wanting and he is not the preacher to thunder forth against vice, crime and immorality in high places, therefore, he is a stambling block in the pathway of the Negro race. Congressman James McAndrews is spending one week in the city and congressman McAndrews will be renominated and re-elected from his district. THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF COOK COUNTY. Tuesday afternoon last, Lorimer, Haneey, Smyth, Jamieson and Co. held their mock Republican convention in AR AND EFFICIENT CHIEF ASSES- ENT OF CHICAGO WHO WOULD F THE PROBATE COURT. the First Regiment armory, and the following machine made ticket was turned out by the four G. O. P. Czars: County treasurer—John H. Hanberg. Sheriff—Daniel D. Healy. County clerk—James Reddick. Clerk probate court—P. J. Cahill. Clerk criminal court—W. C. Lawson. Clerk Appelate court—A. R. Porter. Board of review—Roy O. West. Assessors (country tqwns)—William H. Weber, Adam Wolf. County Judge—Orrin N. Carter. Judge probate court—C. S. Cutting. Judges circuit court—Daniel J. Schuyler, Lorin C. Collins, Jr., Abram M. Pence. Judges superior court.—William S. Elliott, Jr., Fred A. Smith, George A. Dupuy, Willard M. M'Ewen (to succeed Nathaniel C. Sears.) County superintendent of schools—A F. Nightingale. President county board—Henry G. Foreman. County commissioner (city)—John R. Marshall, Henry G. Foreman, Charles A. Raggio, Anton Novak, Claus Flodin, Edwin K. Walker, John P. Garner, John J. Vanderbilt, William Hale Thompson, Herman Ahrens. County commissioners (Co.)—Alfred Van Steenberg, Peter M. Hoffman, William Busse, August C. Boeber, Joseph Carolan. The convention was not called to order until between two and three o'clock, but on Monday night Messrs. Lorimer, Haney, Smyth, Jamieson and small company met in one of the back rooms in one of the hotels and they then and there selected their willing tools for the various places on the ticket entirely ignoring the rights of the people and without consulting the wishes of the one thousand and thirty-nine delegates in the matter of choosing candidates. This reprehensible method of doing politics is un-American and it is an insult to the intelligence of the electorate. Of course, we have no desire to convey the idea that Lorimer, Haney, Smyth, Jamieson and company selected all the worst men in their party as candidates for some of them are reputable citizens who stand well in their respective communities. But most of the men on the ticket are professional politicians or office holders and Dan Healy and many of his associates on the ticket have been eating pie and cake at the public crib ```markdown ``` for many, many years. From time to time The Broad Ax will endeavor to shed a little more light on some of the products of Boss Lorimer's machine. It is the firm opinion of many Republicans that the Democratic party can route Bill Lorimer and his office-holding crowd, providing the leaders of the party will nominate a good clean ticket composed of business men and not load the ticket down with a lot of cheap grafting politicians whom the tax-payers will not trust to handle their money nor to transact their business. In the first place the people residing in the several sections of the city and in all parts of the county must be permitted not only to have a voice in the selection of delegates to the convention, but they must also have a voice in the convention as well, and no two nor three crafty bosses, whoever they may be, should for one minute be permitted to crack their whips over the delegates and command them to do their bidding, regardless of the rights of the people. The merits and demerits of the aspirants for the various positions on the ticket should be discussed right in the open convention and in all cases the very best men should be brought forth and placed on the ticket, and the nominations must not be ground out by any machine, and right now The Broad Ax wants to serve notice on the leaders of the party that knowingly it will not support a dishonest man for any office, white or black, high or low Democrat or Republican. If the leaders of the Democratic party will act in accordance with these ideas we feel confident that victory will perch on the banner of Democracy in Cook County next November. THE WOMEN'S FARCE AT LOS ANGELES. Political bigotry and race animosity have had an apparently easy victory at the biennial convention of women's clubs in session at Los Angeles. What has been adopted nominally as a compromise upon the color question is in fact a complete surrender of the northern clubs to the manifestly superior tact which directed the bigotry of the convention. There is assuredly no reason in common sense why educated and refined women belonging to the yellow, the brown or the black races should not cooperate with other intelligent and refined women in promoting industry and philanthropy. No question if social intercourse was involved. Political bigotry so completely dominated the women at Los Angeles that a rule has been adopted requiring the unanimous vote of the membership committee to admit any delegate. "In case of a tie" the question is amusingly referred to the board of directors and a three-fifths vote of that body will be required to elect. This brutal and transparent subterfuge designed to keep out women of native American colored blood if elected delegates by state clubs was adopted by an overwhelming majority. Whether on thinking the thing over self-respecting women who also respect the constitution of the United States will desire in any considerable number to remain monetary supporters of the farcial and now un-American National Federation of Women's Clubs is a question the answer to which unbigoted women belonging to women's clubs will await with considerable interest. The conviction has been growing rapidly throughout the women's clubs of the country that the National Federation of Women'n Clubs is both useless and rediculous. This conviction is now becoming more general and its effect will be the saving of considerable money for more benign club uses than a biennial trevesity which has ceased to be merely absurd and has become malignant. It would have been vastly more to the credit of the Los Angeles convention if the majority had frankly voted that they are in favor of reducing again to slavery all women in the United States whose blood is not pure NO. 29. white. A chemical investigation of blood corpuscles might, it is true, render the strict application of such a decision acutely embarrassing in many unsuspected places. The triumph of political bigotry and social barbarity at Los Angeles is a shame to American womanhood. The Chicago Chronicle. In our judgment this is the clearest and most logical editorial that can or will ever be written on the narrow minded and bigoted women who dominate and control the National Federation of Women's Clubs. NORMAL NOTES Mr. W. A. Hunton, field secretary of the Colored Y. M. C. A., spent a few days with us this week. His interesting talks to the teachers and students were highly appreciated. Judge Jones, formerly Governor of Alabama, accompanied by his secretary, Mr. May, spent several hours with us this week. His eloquent address, which was so encouraging and elevating, made a deep impression on all who heard it. Dr. Mayo's lectures become more and more interesting each time. We are all pleased and highly gratified to have him with us and to be able to listen to his instructive teachings. CHIPS. Justice John K. Prindiville is now located in his new justice shop, 91 South Clark street. Max Stern & Co., printers, 84 5th avenue, will gladly pay anyone two dollars who can induce Rev. A. Longgreen Murray to call in and see them. Attorney Hugh J. Kearns has vacated his law office in the Ashland Block and he is now in fine quarters in the Woman's Temple. Alderman P. J. O'Connell, it is said, will control the delegation from his ward to the Democratic County Convention. Lawyer Dan Morgan Smith has removed from 225 Dearborn street to the Portland Block, 107 Dearborn street. "The College Man and Woman, and the People Who Do the World's Work" will be discussed by Prof. Mangasarian Sunday morning at the Grand Opera House. Mayor D. J. Hogan, of Geniva, Hl. who is one of the big guns on the Democratic State Committee of Illinois, was sauntering around town first of the week. Alderman Henry L. Flick, "when your paper first began coming to my place of business the many colored railroad men who frequent it paid no attention to it but now all of them as well as all of my other customers like to read The Broad Ax." Mr. Wm. Peacock will receive the nomination for Congress in the Seventh Congressional District. He is a strong man and can be elected in the leaders of the party in the district will stop fighting each other and settle down to business. Charles J. Holmes, who was a member of the Public Library Board, died very suddenly the latter part of last week. Mr. Holmes, who was always very courteous, was a useful public spirited citizen, and he will be greatly missed in the social and business circles of Chicago. In the death of Potter Palmer, whose funeral was held Wednesday, and which was largely attended by both rich and poor, the Afro-American race has loat one of its best and warmest friends. Years and years ago when it was dangerous for a white man to champion the rights of the Negro, Mr. Palmer, who was a life-long Democrat, was ever ready to aid them by giving them work and by permitting respectable colored people to stop in his hotel when the doors of other hotels were slammed in their faces. For his many kind and generous acts toward the race the Colored population not only of Chicago but throughout the country in common, with his family, unmerous friends and the public in general, mourn his death. Will presuginate and at all times uphold the prun principles of Democracy, but Formerly, Judicial, Protestant, Knights of Lions, Includes, Mormon, Republican, Priests, or any he also can have their say, no longer as their language is proper and responsibility is hard. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; side only on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): The Year..... 82,91 The Month..... 1,66 Advertising salons would be known on application, address all communication to THE BROAD AX, 900 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Assassination without discrimination is a favorite policy in Russia. This spring's crops of Brussels sprouts consists mostly of hayonets. Andrew Carnegie's new book will be bought by all the Carnegie libraries, of course. Mr. Carnegie says he is "not a philanthropist." He doesn't want to die disgraced—that is all." Dr. English, the author of "Ben Bolt," contributed more to the success of "Trilby" than Du Maurier did. Suppose indigestion does cause lying in mild forms—some cooks are lucky that it does not cause murder. A horse twenty hands high is the latest Kansas production. It will make a good mount for Minerva Nation. Just to sort of wind up the "r" season, word comes from Baltimore that a man in that city choked to death on an oyster. "God bless my people, black and white," were the last words of Wade Hampton. There is a text which needs no sermon. Ben Butler's monument will have to wait until a generous public can decide whether to locate it at Boston or New Orleans. German professors say American meat is all right; but then the professors are not interested in any German hog farms. Kipling's reference to Cecil Rhodes as a "devout" man seems to be stretching the de mortuis maxim to the breaking point. Now that chorus girls are beginning to write books, perhaps the bald-headed men will have a chance to figure as novel heroes. Those fellows in Belgium who have three votes each think it is preposterous that those with but one each should want a change. A German newspaper has been calling J. Pierpont Morgan "an unscrupulous adventurer." Yet we have not declared war on Germany! Gen. Chaffee reports a brief engagement with the Moros at Parang Parang. This cannot be very far from the province of Ping-Pong. Mr. Carnegie says "poverty is a rica heritage." Mr. Carnegie gets off these little things with the comfortable air of a man who has dined well. Since the Nebraska Indians have formed a relic trust persons who desire to purchase ancestral scalps may expect to pay hair-raising prices. There are people inquisitive enough to want to know how many times in seventeen years, anyhow, the seventeen year locusts may be expected. Five hundred girls from New York stormed the White House and shook hands with the president. No, it will never do to elect Hobson to that office. Morally speaking, limburger cheese has one great advantage over oleomargarine. Nohody can accuse it of trying to pass itself off for something else. Mme. Calve says she will never return to make any farewell tours of America. She must have her money buried where moths cannot eat nor rust corrupt it. The price of strawberries has dropped to a point where church festival committees will be justified in putting at least half a dozen on a fifty-cent plate of ice cream. Miss Stone says that Mme. Tsilka's baby softened the hearts of the brigands. Ah, what a wonderful thing a baby in. And what a pity that it has become unfashionable. Frenchmen who are after J. Pierpont Morgan with wild-cat schemes should know that he has plenty of opportunities to purchase gold bricks in his own beloved land. The Belgian socialists are reported to have dropped "one man, one vote," suffrage. It is more likely, however, they have merely laid it down to meisten their hands for a better hold. The ancient Greek sandal, consisting of a sole laced over the bare foot, is to be affected by some New York, Boston and Philadelphia women this season. Special sizes will be provided for Chicago. > NOW CHEAP BAKING POWDER IS MADE. The Health Department of New York has seized a quantity of so-called cheap baking powder, which it found in that city. Attention was attracted to it by the low price at which it was being sold in the department stores. Samples were taken and the chemist of the Health Department reported the stuff to be "an alum powder," which analysis showed to be composed chiefly of alum and pulverized rock. The powder was declared to be dangerous to health, and several thousand pounds were carted to the offal dock and destroyed. It is unsafe to experiment with these so-called "cheap" articles of food. They are sure to be made from alum, rock, or other injurious matter. In baking powders, the high class, cream of tartar brands are the most economical, because they go farther in use and are healthful beyond question. He Took the Persimmon. When Senator Simmons was a candidate for senator down in North Carolina his principal opponent was a millionaire, who flooded the state with handsome buttons bearing his picture. The appearance of the buttons everywhere rather annoyed Mr. Simmons, who felt that he must do something to counteract this evidence of popularity. He had no money to throw away on buttons and for awhile he was in a quandary. Then an inspiration came to him. He decided that he would take a persimmon for his amble. Persimmons are as numerous in North Carolina as sands upon the seashore. In the fall of the year, when the election was held, they were round and hard, and fastened quite securely to their short stems. It did not take long for the followers of Mr. Simmons to learn that they could not please him better than by wearing a persimmon, and so the button was soon cast into the shade. "We are all 'simmons men,'" said the wearers of the fruit, and the phrase, combining a pun on the persimmon with loyalty to the popular candidate, was so effective that it materially helped Mr. Simmons to win in his race for the senate. Watts Flate, N. Y., May 5th.—George Manhart of this place, a hale and hearty old soldier of 80 years of age, tells a thrilling story of a narrow escape from death. "Four years ago," he says, "the doctors who were attending me during a serious illness called my wife aside and told her that I could not live two weeks as I had Bright's Disease, which meant certain death. "As a last resort we thought we would try Dodd's Kidney Pills, and accordingly sent to Mr. Clark's drug store and got a box. "This remedy worked wonders in my case. I noticed the improvement at once and discharged the doctor. "I kept on improving until every symptom of illness had gone and I was strong and well. "I feel like a boy and to-day I am ennopping wood as well at eighty as at twenty. Dodd's Kidney Pills did it." Medals for Soldiers of '61. Gov. Crane of Massachusetts has signed the bill awarding a medal to every man from his state who went out in response to President Lincoln's first call for troops. The pen with which he signed the bill has been presented to President Pierce of the "minute men of '61." Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunlons, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeBoy, N. Y. Students in Paris. Students take no unimportant part in French life, especially in Paris. Statistics published by the Ministry of Public Instruction show that the total number of students in French universities is 30,270. There are 751 newspapers and periodicals in Sweden, including 52 dailies. Stockholm has twelve dailies, seven published in the morning and five in the evening, which is a large number for a city of 320,090 inhabitants. Try One Package. If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. Blind Asylum in Ceylon. It has been decided to found an eye hospital and an asylum for the blind as Ceylon's memorial to the late Queen Victoria. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defance Starch for the same price of other starches. The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and blesses, and by which he is loved and blessed.—Carlyle. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle (except green and purple). Sold by druggists, 100. per package. Every right action and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on person and face.—John Ruskin. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Usa Red Cross Easi Blue and make them white again. Large 3 de. package, 5 cents. Every brave man is a man of his word.—Cornellie. SECURING MR. BARKER. THE jurymen thought they had been of great assistance in restoring the plaintiff to his rights. The judge took no little credit to himself for having directed a verdict for the plaintiff and left the jury to determine only the amount of damages to be given. The spectators supposed that all the credit was due to the attorney for the masterly way in which he had presented his case for the plaintiff. Those who really knew, however, were aware that the chief cause of the plaintiff's victory was the quick wit and persistence of a long-legged, awkward youth of eighteen, who at that moment was busily scraping spatterings of thick brown mud from the back and sleeves of a well-worn coat. But I am beginning my story at the wrong end, and must go back to the events of five or six hours earlier and start anew. The increased rinkling of telephone bells throughout the city indicated that the business of the day was fairly started. It was nearly 9.80. Mr. Hoff, the lawyer, was in his office looking over the memorandum and noting the items of the day's business. His finger dragged slowly down the page, pausing at each line. He was mentally checking off the items that would demand his personal attention when the click and bur of the desk telephone announced that some one wanted to speak to him. He pulled the instrument nearer to him and called. "Hello!" A strong, rasping voice came to his ear: "Hello! Is that Mr. Hoff?" "Yes." "This is Johnson. Our case is likely to be reached to-day. Isn't it?" "Yes," responded the attorney. "I think they will get to it this afternoon. You had better have your witnesses at my office by 1:30 this afternoon." "That's just why I telephoned you," said the man at the other end. "You remember that man Barker I spoke about?--Hello, there, Central! Don't cut me off!--I say, you remember I told you Barker was our main witness. I thought he was friendly and would come without subpoena, but I have heard that he was interested with Long in some matters, and I am afraid he will give us the slip. He knows his testimony will probably beat Long." "So that's his game, is it?" said Mr. Hoff, pulling a pencil from his pocket. "Give me his address. I'll have him subpoenaed." While he was writing down the address a loud shout from the instrument made his ear ring and betrayed the fact that his client was very much excited. "I say! Hello, there!" "Yen: what is it?" "Oh, I was afraid you had left the telephone. I wanted to say that your man will have to look sharp. Barker will avoid service if he can." "All right. Good-bye." Mr. Hoff hung up the receiver and pressed an electric button beneath his desk. In a moment a young man entered. His head was covered with a toasted mat of yellow hair. There was apparently an estrangement between his hands and the ends of his coat sleeves, and the bottoms of his trousers found a convenient resting place on the tops of his shoes. His appearance was not very prepossessing, but Mr. Hoff, who kept a watchful eye over his clerks, had, in the short time this young man had been with him, learned to respect him, and to know that an indomitable spirit lay behind his uncouth exterior. "Yes, sir. He lives up where I came from." "Well, I want you to make out a subpoena for him in the case of Johnson versus Long for this afternoon. Be sure and get service on him. He will avoid you if he can, but I rely on you. Here is some money for his fees, and some that you may need for expenses. It is very important that you get him this morning." "Yes, sir," was the only response, as the young man took the money and left the room. Upon inquiring at the office of Mr. Barker for that gentleman he was informed that he was not in, and would not be in that day; that he was out at his home. With many a boy this would have been the end of the matter. He would have returned, saying the man he sought was not in town. Carl remembered that Mr. Barker was expecting to be subpoenaed, and was probably keeping out of the way; in fact, he felt sure of it, for he had seen the angry glance the manager had given the bookkeeper when the latter told the whereabouts of his employer. Carl thought for a moment and then hurried up the street. It was ten minutes before 10, and a train would leave shortly for the suburban town where Mr. Barker lived. He caught the train, and an hour later was approaching the Barker residence when he saw that gentleman descending the front steps, satchel in hand. The long-distance telephone had evidently been used to warn him that he was being sought, and that he had better absent himself if he could, and meanwhile keep a sharp lookout for an overgrown boy with tow-colored hair and ill-fitting clothes. "Mr. Barker! Mr. Barker!" called Carl, seeing that he was likely to miss his man, after all. Mr. Barker heard quite plainly, but pretended not to know whence the voles came. He stared blankly about for an instant, at the sky and the tops of the buildings, as if he imagined some one might be calling from there. Having succeeded in seeing no one he started rapidly down the street. Presently he heard the patterning footsteps of some one running behind him. Would his dignity permit him to run? The idea made him blush, but he remembered that delay meant defeat for Long, and that defeat for Long meant dollars out of his own pocket. A plan of escape presented itself. He hurriedly drew his watch from his pocket, glanced at its face, and made a pretense of realizing that he was in danger of missing his train. He took a firmer grip on his satchel and started on a run for the railway station. He had been an athlete in his day, and even now was no mean runner. Dodging the people when he could and jostling them unceremoniously when he could not, down the street he fled. People eyed him with surprise as he hurried by. Their surprise changed to wonder when, few moments later, a boy dashed past, calling loudly. Then they realized that the prominent citizen was not anxious so much to catch a train as to avoid being caught. Carl was shrewd enough to know that by calling to the man he would compel him either to stop or to give the impression of being pursued. Passers-by who paused and watched the chase did not understand the cause, but enjoyed the spectacle. "Well," ejaculated the Rev. Mr. Morrow, as he adjusted his silk hat after coming in violent contact with the fleeing man, only to have it tilted over the other way by the youthful pursuer, "the town seems to be on the move this morning; business must be pressing." "Yea," replied a bystander, "Barker seems to be a little rushed this morning." The chase was becoming exceedingly interesting. Shopkeepers rushed to their doors to learn the cause of the disturbance. Mr. Barker's face glowed a brilliant red; perspiration stood out upon his countenance. Then he caught sight of a cab standing on the other side of the square, waiting for business. The business came with a rush. Mr. Barker saw a way of escape. He dashed into the cab, ejaculated with his remaining breath, "Depot, quick!" alarmed the door and sank back panting on the seat. The driver's whip hissed in the horses' ears, they leaped forward and Mr. Barker was off. Here was another good excuse to present for not serving the subpoena, but Carl was not looking for excuses. For a moment he was puzzled and stopped short on the curb and gazed after the cab. Near by was a group of jeering boys, among them some whom he knew, for, as he had told Mr. Hoff, this was his native town. "Hey, legs," called one, "what you waiting for? Why don't you go on?" Carl turned toward the speaker, who was leaning on a bicycle, and opened his mouth as if to make some sharp retort, but catching sight of the wheel, changed his mind and said, "Lend me your bicycle. Fox, will you?" "Nope!" replied Fox, shaking his head, "I want it myself." Carl watched the cab rolling down the street and rapidly increasing the distance between him and Mr. Barker. "Here," he said, thrusting his hand into his pocket, "I'll give you fifty cents if you will let me use it." "Put it there!" was Fox's brief but expressive answer, as he extended his hand for the coin. Carl gave him the money, threw a long leg over the saddle, and was soon pedaling down the street after the cab. As soon as he was fairly started the boys set up a shout. Mr. Barker was wiping the perspiration from his ruddy face and congratulating himself that he had escaped from a very uncomfortable and trying situation, when the shout reached his ears. He glanced back through the little window in the rear and beheld that troublesome youth astride a wheel and pursuing him like fate. "Dear me," he ejaculated, biting his lips with vexation, "how annoying! What a nuisance that boy is!" He thrust his head out of the cab window and called to the driver, and at the same time handed him something which shone in the sunlight like silver. It covered the back of the rider's coat with a thick fern-leaf spatterwork of mud that extended up over his collar and on to his cap. The wheels of the bicycle looked like a pair of pinwheels throwing out muddy sparks. It was not a pleasant ride, but it was lessening the distance between Carl and the cab. Mr. Barker was becoming nervous. By exchanging running for riding he had gained nothing except that riding was not quite so fatiguing to a "prominent citizen." The distance between the competitors had been nearly closed and the bicycle was following the cab almost as close as a racer follows his pacing machine. Carl's head was bent low over the handle bars. The cab suddenly turned round a corner into another street. The bicycle turned also, but with disastrous results. In his excitement Carl had forgotten the slippery condition of the asphalt, or he would not have tried to turn so sharp. As it was his bicycle wobbled and slid and fell, and he and it together whirled, a heap of wheels and legs, up the avenue, leaving a wide swath like the path of a street sweeper. Mr. Barker heard the fall and leaned back comfortably against the cushions, muttering, "There, I guess that will settle that impertinent young chap!" The horses were checked and allowed to continue at a gentle trot, for the race was over. That is, Mr. Barker and his man thought so. As for Carl, he had not, as yet, had an opportunity to think at all. At length, however, he and his wheel came to a stop. The world ceased spinning around, and he arose with no bones broken, although he was plastered and smeared from head to foot, so that he looked like an animated clay model. Here was a third excellent reason to present for not serving the subpoens. Surely he had done everything that could be done. But even while rolling along the street Carl's determination had not wavered. As he rose to his feet he paused but a moment, then he dragged the bicycle to a curb, where he left and dashed into a narrow passageway between the buildings. He was familiar with the place, and knew that the cab, if it kept straight on to the station, would, after driving down the side of the block, turn into another street and pass the other end of the alley. His guess as to its course was correct, for just before he reached the end of the passage he saw the cab trundle by at an easy pace. He crouched close to the wall until it was safely past, and neither Mr. Barker nor his cabman noticed him. Then he darted out, seized the rear spring of the conveyance, threw his legs over the axle, and hanging down out of sight of the occupant, rode safely along with Mr. Barker, and at his expense. Undignified, uncomfortable! Yes, but effective, and Carl was thinking only of results. On they went. Mr. Barker and his man, ignorant of the boy under the cab, were quite at ease, and Carl, although very much cramped and jolted, was quite as contented as the others. "Ha!" thought Mr. Barker, bouncing comfortably on the cushions. "I guess they will have to be a little sharper than that. It will teach them better than to send a boy after me." "Ouch!" ejaculated Carl, shifting his weight to the other leg as an extra jolt bumped the axle uncomfortably under his knee. "I don't believe I like this kind of lower berth." Then, with a smile, "but I couldn't think of leaving Mr. Barker." At length the driver pulled up his horses at the station. Mr. Barker, well satisfied with himself, stepped out of the cab. He closed the door, looked up at the driver and smiled a knowing smile. The driver smiled back at Mr. Barker. A muddy, bedraggled, scarecrow of a boy got down from the running gear, stepped round the side of the cab, and seeing the exchange of glances between the two men, and observing that smiling seemed to be in order, also smiled. From these smiles it might be inferred that everybody was perfectly happy, and that everything had turned out to the intense satisfaction of every one concerned, but when the driver saw the apparition in mud standing behind his customer he nearly toppled from his seat. His eyes grew round and the lines nearly fell from his hands. Mr. Barker turned to learn the cause of the man's dismay, and found himself confronted with a paper held in an extended, dirt-begimmed hand. Before he realized the situation he had taken the paper, and as he felt the touch of silver in his hand he heard a voice say: "That is your subpoena and this is your fee, Mr. Barker. I would have given it to you softer, but you seemed to be in a hurry." That is how Carr won the verdict for the plaintiff in Johnson versus Long, for Mr. Barker's unwilling evidence was sufficient to decide the case.—Youth's Companion. amounted to much in his youth. You always have grave doubts whether his success is as great as reported. You sometimes find it hard to be as pleased with his good fortune as an old friend should be. When he appears to be glad to see you you cannot help being a little surprised. When he does not appear to be overjoyed at meeting you it is recalled that he always was that way—and nothing to his credit. It is difficult to avoid speaking of his "poor old father and mother" when his family is mentioned. Altogether, it is a hard thing to regard his rise as an altogether creditable performance or to reflect upon its attendant circumstances without the thought that there are some things about them which you could have done better.—Indianapolis News. 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As the "tutti-men" are treated frequently on their rounds the town is kept in a ferment for the greater part of the day, hosts of holiday makers swelling the procession, while cakes and oranges are freely enjoyed by the swarms of excited children who follow close on the heels of the officers. Hocking proper has disappeared from the order of events, a circumstance to be regretted by all lovers of qualit customs. Formerly the men went through the town on Monday carrying a chair gayly decked with ribbons, or, more probably, it was kept concealed until some unwary woman ventured from her house, when she was caught, placed in the chair and "hocked," or lifted three times, after which, if unable or unwilling to pay the tax of money demanded, she was kissed by all the revelers. On the following day it was the privilege of the women to "hock" the men, with the usual result of a large haul of money, with which a supper was provided. In most parts of England the celebration of hocktide has fallen entirely into disure; even in Berkshire, as we have seen, the rougher element has been dropped, though the toll and its substitute, the garlands, and the supper, are still religiously maintained.—London Globe. Her Wish Was Gratified. A big woman, all the way from Dakota, was a caller at police headquarters the other day. She wanted to see a detective and much to her surprise he was no different in appearance from men who follow other callings. "Excuse me, sir," she said, as she approached the desk, "but would you please show me a detective?" "What's the trouble?" Clerk Gorman inquired. "Have you been robbed?" "Been robbed?" queried the visitor. "Indeed, I haven't. I want to see a detective, that's all. I've heard of 'em and read about 'em, and now I would just like to see one." "Here comes one now," she was told. "Madam, this is Detective Proctor." "Well, I do declare!" exclaimed the woman. 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Nevertheless Mr. Turner beat Jackson, Morris & Co. and was elected as a delegate to the state convention, and Morris, Jackson & Co. failed to carry their primary district, which means that Morris is politically dead. The state of New Jersey will purchase Ironsides, the old house of Commodore Stewart near Bordentown, for the use of the colored youth as a desirable industrial school, under control of the state board of education. A bill appropriating $35,000 has passed both houses of the legislature and simply awalts the signature of the governor.—Ex. "The People's Tabernacle" at Atlanta, Ga., is another one of Bishop Turner's new ideas for the betterment of the condition of his people. He has just completed in this city a mammoth structure with a seating capacity of four thousand people, at his own expense. Which will be devoted to the intellectual development of the Negro race.—Ex. At the close of the war Gen: Wade Hampton, who died last week in South Carolina, retired to his plantation, accepting the legitimate consequences of defeat, while defending the motives and conduct of the Southern states. In 1866 he alluded to the Negro as follows: "As a slave he was faithful to us; as a freed-man, let us treat him as a friend."—Ex. The Old Church Organ last week had Ed Morris' mug or cut in its columns advocating the attorney for the Gamblers' Trust for one of the judges of this county. The Old Organ could not believe that the gamblers attorney was a dead one, that in case he was elected judge all decent people would be compelled to hold a smelting bottle to their nose whenever they passed Judge Gambling Attorney Morris on the street. Col. John.. R. Marshall was nominated by Bill Lorimer's machine for County Commissioner to catch the colored vote, but if the leaders of the Democratic party will nominate Lawrence A. Newby for Commissioner he can easily skin Col. Marshal, who is not the whole thing among the colored people of Cook County. Lawrence Newby is prominently identified with secret societies and thousands of Afro-American Republicans would vote for him in preference to John R. Marshall. Since ping-pong was invented 8,000,000 of the featherweight zylcnite balls have been turned out in London. And their life since then has not been an idle one. Yale's new launch, the Elihu Yale, has been tried and found to be all right. Perhaps a launch race between the Elihu Yale and the John Harvard would be interesting. In Kansas they are killing prairie dogs by turning jets of steam into their holes. In these days of electricity this method seems extremely cumbersome and old fashioned. F. Marlon Crawford has just finished a play called "Francesca da Rimini." Clyde Fitch is about the only playwright we know of who has not as yet written a "Francesca da Rimini." The esteemed Philadelphia inquirer may not have portraits of all the notables in stock, but this hardly justifies that paper in printing a cut of Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court and labeling it "Rear Admiral Cogblan." There is a great rush for membership in the new millionaires' club which is being started in London. This is one instance in which even the modest man would like to be in the crowd.—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. The Boston literary critic who has compiled a list of what he calls the fifty "best" American poems gives thirty places to the authors of his own city and one place to a Chicago writer. The average will be even when Chicago enumerates the fifty "best" American sausages. 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 in 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, Illinois. Brewing PANY D MAIN STREET. Telephone Central 494 WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Ave., Ch Telephone Lake View 270. IENADEL B 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. HOHENADEL BROS. 211-213 Madison Street CHICAGO Telephone Main 3300 Policemen, Firemen, Street Car Employes, Letter Carriers, Telegraph Messengers, Elevatormen, Railroad Employes, Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Watchmen, Etc. GEO. C. CALLAHAN & CO. 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