The Broad Ax

BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN, THE ONE-EYED, CRACK-BRAINED ANARCHIST OF SOUTH CAROLINA, WHO RATTLES AROUND IN THE SEAT IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY THE ILLUSTRIOUS WADE HAMPTON BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN, THE ONE-E CHIST OF SOUTH CAROLINA, W SEAT IN THE UNITED STATES PIED BY THE ILLUSTR The brutalities and the atrocious crimes which are being perpetrated upon the liberty-oving Filipinos who are fighting for their wives their children, their homes and all that is near and dear to them, by the American soldiers, have not only shocked the finer sensibilities of all the highly civilized people everywhere, but they have also caused United States senators to participate in many overheated and angry debates recently in the senate, and while the Philippine civil government bill was up for discussion last week. Benjamin R. Tillman, the one-eyed crack-brained, and the loud-mouthed anarchist of South Carolina, who is a repulsive and loathsome enemy to society, law and order, brazenly gloated over the fact that "the people of South Carolina, Mississippi and in other Southern states resort to the shotgun policy in order to suppress the Negro vote, and to maintain the supremacy of the whites." According to the press dispatches at the time that Tillman, the vile and untamed anarchist, began running off at the mouth, all the honorable Democratic Senators showed their utter contempt for him by withdrawing from the Senate and they absolutely refused to listen to his vaporings or his anarchistic frothings. These Democratic Senators deserve to have their names written in letters of pure gold high upon the scroll of fame and honor for possessing the courage and the manhood to turn their backs on Tillman the misfit of South Carolina, who has succeeded in covering the name and the memory of the late United States Senator Wade Hampton all over with infamy and treason, while on the other hand all the Republican senators rushed into the Senate chamber from the committee rooms where no doubt they had been indulging in whisky cock-tails or high-balls, and these infamous Republican Senators encouraged Tillman to go ahead with his distempered and inflammatory utterances. What a holy spectacle! It was enough to cause the very stones under our feet to weep and to enter their solemn protest against such proceedings. It was sufficient to compel all the noble and the courageous men who have stood up in the United States Senate within the past one hundred years and raised their voices in behalf of justice and humanity to leap forth from their graves and assume the most ghastly and fantastic forms in order to scourge and drive these imitation Republican senators from the seats once occupied by them, in that body which has lost the respect or true Americans, for permitting themselves to remain perfectly silent in the presence of Ben Tillman. Before resuming his seat, Tillman, who should be shot to death or hung up by the neck for the good of society and for inciteing the People of the Southern States to disregard the laws to commit murder and resort to all forms of lawlessness, exclaimed "that when we get ready to put a nigger's face in the sand we put his body there too. The South will not submit to Negro domination. The threat of Negro domination hangs over us like the sword of Damocles. Lynchings will continue as long as those flends outrage our wives and daughters." Let us analyze this last statement of Tillman's and see how much truth it contains; the idea he endeavors to convey is that they only mob and lynch Negroes in the south for outraging or assaulting white women, but this is misleading and Tillman seems to lose sight of the fact that whoever scores a point against the right loads the dice against himself. To illustrate from the close of the rebellion in 1865 to the present time, the most accurate records inform us that between 25,000 and 40,000 black men, women and children, have been lynched, mobbed, burnt at stake, their quivering flesh cut up into chunks and sold for cash and of this vast number who met such appalling deaths, less than three hundred have been charged with attempting to outrage white women. But they have been burned --- alive for quarreling with white men, for making threats, for miscegenation. They have been mobbed and lynched for stealing a blind mule and other trifling articles, and they have been strung up to a tree and their dangling forms riddled with buck-shot for consorting with immoral white women. What does this tend to prove? Does it not prove that the great majority of the Southern people have always placed a low estimate upon the lives of all Negroes? That it is not so much for the commission of crimes or reputed crimes of Negroes against the white women of the South which impells the whites to adopt such brutalizing methods for the purpose of punishing Negroes who are charged with violating the laws; that it is simply a manifestation of that inborn hatred and race prejudice which crops out on the slightest provocation that it is the outcropping of that hellish and damnable system or institution which flourished in the South for many hundred years which exerted such a pernicious and degrading influence over black and white bond and free—slavery! Why don't Tilliman discuss this phase of the "Mace Problem" in the United States Senate? Why does he not inform all the world through the columns of the press that 90 per cent of all the bastard children born to Negro women in the South have white fathers, that many of these unfortunate Negro women are uncouth and filthy in their habits but notwithstanding this fact the very best white (?) gentlemen like Tillman delight in embracing them. It would do no harm if Tillman would also proclaim aloud from the mountain tops that down in Louisiana today more than two thousand so-called pure white gentlemen, leaders of the best society, are whiling away their beautiful black misstresses, that their beautiful black misstresses, that the same condition of affairs exists in the other Southern States to a greater or less degree; that in South Carolina and in other sections of the South and even out in Kansas many white villains have painted themselves black to enable them to satisfy their beastly and lustful passions upon their relatives and sweethearts. Only a few months ago right in Tillman's own state, two young bloods were apprehended for committing an assault on a high-toned lady; they were not mobbed nor lynched, however, but they were turned loose and deemed worthy to mingle in the best society. This one incident proves that Tillman and his followers are not greatly interested in the virtue of their women, that they simply and solely use the cry about protecting "our wives and daughters" and Negro "domination" for the purpose of inflaming the minds of the whites against all Negroes. Not by any means do we want to convey the impression that we are in favor of condoning crime of any kind on the part of the Negro, far from it, but we do believe that whenever any Negro commits a crime he should be punished according to the established laws of the land; that he should receive the same justice that is dealt out to men and women of other races, and those who are not in favor of the orderly administration of justice are criminals at heart. In conclusion, if Ben. Tillman's idea of government in relation to the Negro is to prevail in this republic, then we admonish the Negro to burn up his Bible, trample the teachings of the religion of the cross under his feet, for it would be as false as hell itself and from henceforth let the Negro worship the gods and the heroes of war "for vengeance is mine sayeth the gods!" Ex-Alderman Patrick F. Haynes, who is known throughout Lake View is Elder Haynes, is out after the scalp of all the boys in the 26th ward who intimate that they are in favor of preventing him from going as a delegate to the county or the state convention, and from the way Elder Haynes talks he will certainly wake up the big and little politicians in the 26th ward. HEW TO THE LINE. Woman's Inhumanity The decision of the National Federation of Women's Clubs to exclude colored women will shock humanity throughout the world. The social question was not involved. American womanhood has hitherto been looked upon throughout the world as the most favored, the best educated, and the most independent. That its standard of education, its exceptional privileges as compared with the womanhood of other countries and its acknowledged independenec should all have succumbed in a national convention to the political bigotry of a small section of the republic is calculated to arouse in the consciousness of the intelligent mankind everywhere a doubt about the superiority of the type of womanhood hitherto believed to be American. An extreme view of the number of colored women who could be sent as delegates to a national convention overwhelmingly controlled by white women must place the figure below a dozen. That the white women of the United States should in the merely hypothetical presence of possibly three or four colored women feel themselves in some imaginary way injured is incomprehensible. The plain truth is that the question before the biennial convention of the National Federation of Womens Clubs at Los Angeles was whether women of color in the United States should remain free women or should be again reduced to the condition of human chattels. This truth is not proclaimed publicly on the platform or in the press, but every candid observer of the current trend of opinion in one section of the country knows and will admit that this is the case. A woman in the United States must hold one of two positions—either she must be free to take the same part in nonsocial life that all free women take or she must be a slave. The slavery of women has existed in many countries and at all times as an institution of itself. A slavery of women has been and is actual without a slavery of men. In Greece and Rome under the pagan system women were slaves without respect of color, while men without respect of color were free. The name of the women slave class under paganism where men were free was heterae. They were not ignorant women. They were not valuntarily degraded. Their condition of servitude which did not involve race or color, was due to their exclusion from means of honorable self-support. In order to live they had to become practically, while not nominally slaves. This class exists actually but not nominally in every monarchial country at the present time. A woman who is not free to enter into the nonsocial competitions of life which afford honorable and virtuous self-support is by that fact reduced to slavery. The social corruption which exists in monarchial countries and which is far greater than the social corruption in democratic countries which would inevitably be transferred to the democratic countries if the category of womanhood were barred from an equal participation in the opportunities of non-social existence. If women's clubs of the United States should adopt the cruel rule made a part of the constitution of the National Federation of Women's Clubs of the United States it would become necessary for the cooled women of the United States to sink into the condition of servitude as their only means of subsistence. The principal at stake is equal opportunity for womanhood to live honorably. This does not carry with it an obligation upon women of color to subject themselves to undesirable social intercourse, white or black. This does not impose upon white women a compulsion to manage their social affairs otherwise than they would if the entire human race were of one color. The number of colored women able to help the country in its unsocial activities is so inconsiderable that it ought to be in its aggregate an object of compassion and encouragement by the many millions of the white women of the United States. A cooperation among women for the valid advancement of all women is a manifest need of the country and the hour. Every door of honorable usefulness should be opened to all women without thought of the accident of color, race or creed. If the educated and fortunate womanhood of the United States will not assist in the uplifting of the less fortunate womanhood or the United States the future of this republic, especially its moral future, must be looked upon with apprehension. The women who led the movement in the National Federation of Women's Clubs to condemn the colored women of the United States to slavery must be animated, doubtless unconsciously, with fear that their social position is insecure and would be ruined should they permit a handful of colored women of education and talent to be brought into comparison with them.—The Chicago Chronicle. Normal Notes. Hon. E. W. Barrett, editor and proprietor of the Age Herald, accompanied by his staff in his private car, paid us a visit last week inspecting our work. He was deeply impressed with our work. Dr. Mayo, who has been with two weeks, delivered a series of lectures and left for Washington last Sunday. At the close of the services the children of the school presented him with a beautiful floral offering. United States District Judge Thomas G. Jones, formerly governor of Alabama, with his private secretary, Mr May, spent several hours with us this week. His speech to the teachers and students was a masterpiece in English and wholesome advice. Bishop Turner will address our graduating class on the 27th inst. Dr. R. H. Boyd of Nashville, will deliver the annual address before the industrial graduating class on the 26th inst, and Dr. E. C. Morris of Arkansas, will deliver the Commencement sermon on the 25th. REV. D. W. JONES IS INNOCENT OF THE CHARGE. Many of the blind and ignorant defenders and followers of Rev. A. J. Carey, who heard our article read to them in the last issue of The Broad Ax, wherein reference was made to Rev. A. J. Carey running and hiding under one of the large tables in the South Town office in order to prevent Rev. D. W. Jones from seeing him (Rev. Carey), are busily engaged in circulating the report of the effect that Rev. Jones conveyed that information to The Broad Ax for the sole purpose of injuring Rev. Carey, but we want to state in the plainest and most emphatic language that Rev. Jones never spoke nor conversed with the writer concerning the actions of Rev. Carey and the South Town office, but we obtained our information from men employed in the South Town office and not from Rev. D. W. Jones. Another New Reader of The Broad Ax. Mr. Jeremiah B. O'Connell, of the law firm of Devine & O'Connell, Reaper Block, who resides at 431 LaSalle Ave., is the happy and proud father of bouncing new baby-boy, and at this writing Mrs. O'Connell and young Mr. O'Connell are both doing well and the young fellow is growing so very fast that it will not be very long until he is able to sit up in his little chair and read The Broad Ax, and if Mr. and Mrs. O'Connell will name their first offspring Julius Daniel O'Connell The Broad Ax will present him with a brand new milk bottle and a little tin whistle. A Black Chief Justice. Sir William Conrad Reeves, who recently died, was Chief Justice of Barbadoes, West Indies. He graduated from Middle Temple, England, in 1863. returned to the West Indies, was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1883, in 1888 was appointed Chief Justice of Barbadoes, and in 1889 was Knighted by one of the most honored orders of England.—Ex. Harry J. Rogers, who stands p with the young voters in the Town of Lake woud make a splendid County Commissioner. Chips. State Senator Barney J. Maguire has started his senatorial boom in 9th Senatorial District. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Davis Thompson have removed from 3722 Dearborn street to 6349 Rhodes avenue, and they are now at home to their friends. "Jesus and the Social Question" is Prof. M. M. Mangasarian's subject on Sunday morning at the Grand Opera House. Alderman Fred A. Hart spent the last ten days at West Baden, and he is now looking as healthy and as pretty as a rose. Mr. and Mrs. John Morton of Aurora, Ill., are visiting their friends, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Washington, 3719 Dearborn street. Joseph A. Swift, 5428 South Halsted street, continues to keep his ball rolling for County Commissioner, and Mr. Swift believes that he will capture the prize. Revs. Jordan Chavis and Longreen Murray attended the Republican state convention at Springfield last week, we suppose for the purpose of tapping the small fry politicians. As long as our good and great friend, Hadji Mohammed Wolomoi Kiram, sultan of Sulu, gets his pension regularly he cares not who gets the water cure.—Ex. John P. Hopkins, chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Illinois, is wearing a very broad smile these days for he is of the opinion that the Democratic party will sweep this state from end to end this fall. Attorney Frederick Mains, Ashland Block, is getting up in the world. For a long time he ran his law office on the 8th floor but Mr. Mains now has a fine suite of rooms on the twelfth floor of the same building. County Commissioner Rollin B. Organ has for years proven his friendship toward decent Afro-Americans, therefore, The Broad Ax will cheerfully support Rollin Organ for member of the Board of Assessors or for any other position within the gift of the people Alderman Charles Werno who is chairman of the Judiciary committee of the city council, is one of the sturdiest German-Americans of Chicago, and Alderman Werno is ever ready to turn a good trick for his friends and supporters. Mrs. R. A. Smith, 361 30th street, for the past three weeks has been visiting relatives and friends at Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Smith greatly enjoyed her trip to pittsburg and she arrived home Sunday morning much to the delight of her husband and her devoted daughter, Mrs. Powell. Since the nomination of John R. Marshall for County Commissioner, we have been informed by many of the leading Afro-American Repu'icans that they will vote the entire Democratic county ticket, providing the leaders of the Democratic party nominate Lawrence A. Newby for County Commissioner. Mr. W. H. A. Moore left for Charleston, S. C., Tuesday evening where he will labor for the next ten days to induce the Afro-American exhibitors at the exposition now being held in that city to exhibit their products at the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Exposition which will be held in this city from August 14th to September 14th, 1902. Col. John R. Marshall and Mush-Mouth Johnson the gambling boss, 464 State street, seem to be warm friends. Mush-Mouth and the Colonel made a trip to New Orleans, La., together last winter and they also occupied the same quarters in the Pullman car while traveling to Springfield last week where they came near running the state convention. Information has come to The Broad Ax to the effect that Revs. R. C. Ransom, A: Longgreen Murray, and A South Town Office Carey were all three candidates for County Commissioners, and it is also said that these three devines informed Boss Lorimer that all the members of their churches would rally to the support of the G. O. P. in Cook county if its leaders would place either one of them on the ticket. NO. 30. .. Washington, who palms himself off as the city purchasing agent of Chicago, is one of those small souled creatures who cannot stand up under prosperity without it swelling his head. A few years ago while he was down at the heels he was civil and all right, but since he began drawing big pay from the city he is very haughty and he does not like small Democratic newspapers. Miss Gertrude Green and Mr. Edward Murray Blackwell will be united in marriage June 25th at St. Thomas church, Rev. Father Lealtad will officiate. The three bridesmaids who will attend Miss Green reside in different sections of the country and they will journey to Chicago in order to participate in this swell wedding. The material for the dress which Miss Green will wear on the occasion was bought at Marshall Field & Co's, and it cost one hundred dollars. The colored people of the States of Louisiana and Alabama, will contest the disfranchisement clauses of the new constitution of those states before the United States Supreme Court. Wilford H. Smith, a prominent Negro lawyer of New York, will contest the suffrage provisions of the Alabama Constitution, meanwhile Mr. Purcell, a Negro lawyer of Pensacola, will argue before the United States Supreme Court for the right of Negroes in Florida to sit on juries.—Ex. Alderman John J. Bradley will put up a red-hot or a stiff fight all along the line in the 30th ward for the purpose of capturing or controlling the 30th ward delegation to the Democratic county convention, and many of the boys who have always heretofore gone out and brought in the delegations are willing to bet ten to one that Alderman Bradley will, when the ballots are counted on the day of the primaries, come out of the scrap or fight victorious. Our article last week on the Revs. Thomas, Carey and Murray turned the town up side down, and very few people knew that Rev. Carey employed an Irish servant girl, or that Rev. Thomas had another wife down in Kentucky, or that Rev. Murray will not walk down on 5th Ave. to see Max Stern & Co. If the church members would do less praying and shouting and devote more time to reading The Broad Ax they will learn a great deal concerning the rascality of the Negro preachers of Chicago. Mr. James C. Denvir, editor of the Standard Opinion, which is the best and the greatest newspaper on political affairs in Chicago, is a candidate for congress in the eighth Congressional district. Mr. Denvir is in every way fitted to represent the people residing in the eighth district in Congress. He is an orator of no mean ability, he is polished in his manner, and it is a source of much pleasure to The Broad Ax to speak a kind word in behalf of James C. Denvir, the able and brilliant editor of Standard Opinion. A vast concourse of Democrats of the 31st ward assembled at Henning's Hall, 59th and Hslsted streets Saturday evening for the purpose of indorsing Congressman John J. Feely for clerk of the supreme court. State Senator M. J. Butler presided, and harmony speeches were made by Chairman Butler, Congressman Feely, Alderman P. J. O'Connell, Walter T. Stantor, Dan Morgan Smith, Rep. John E. Doyle, James A. Long, Geo. A. Huff, and several others. Rep. Doyle declared that he wanted to succeed himself in the legislature if the politicians would permit him to do so, and his friends, Walter Stanton, Geo. Heck, A. L. Simons, intimated that they would not attempt to bust into the legislature if Johnny Doyle can brush by. Dan Morgan Smith announced his candidacy for Congress. Messrs. Huff, Murphy, Evans, Carr and Starr went on record for county commissioners, and Jim Long, Ed Carroll, Donohue, Heice, Harris and Cunningham were around figuring on becoming county committeemen, and all in all it was a big harmony meeting. Never advise a man to go to the wars or to marry. Always think twice before you speak—and nine times out of ten you will have no occasion to say a word. Will presupplate and at all times uphold the great principles of Democracy, Fat Farmers, Athletics, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Morons, Republicans, Priests, or any he also can have their say, no long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Az is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the intellectual right to speak its own mind. Year.....59.9 Month.....1.9 Overriding code is made known on application definition all once mounted to IT IS IN A BOSTON PAPER THAT WE USE A REFERENCE TO BENJAMIN HUR. John L. Sullivan is out with a strong protest against the "water cure." Judging from his silence, King Leopold must be busy working on a tunnel or a cyclone cellar. Mr. Morgan's $45,000 Bible will afford him some gilt-edged texts and rich food for thought. The price of unfinished lumber is about to be advanced. Are people beginning to eat that, too. Venezuela revolutionists have won a signal victory by killing one man and badly scaring several others. Mr. Carnegie is right. Wealth does not bring happiness. But Solomon and others found it out before he did. J. Pierpont Morgan is said to want German potash mines. If he wants them very much he will probably get them. Carnegie has gone to Europe. Towns not yet large enough for libraries will be given three months in which to grow. Tobacco chewers will be glad of the cheering news that growers are now using paris green on the plants to kill the worms. A Kentucky court has just acquitted a man who was charged with the murder of Goebel. Score another broken record for Kentucky. Russell Sage says labor and capital were never so near together as now. Russell ought to know. He's an expert on "nearness." Lord Salisbury will not have a stenographer or a typewriter in his employ. It is easy to see who does the dictating in that family. A bunco steerer who once had a fortune of $700,000 died in a poorhouse the other day. At some time in his life he must have tackled the wrong farmer. England is not well pleased with the plan of the proposed ship merger. It is a peculiarity of Mr. Morgan's deals that they are rarely satisfactory to both sides. Why shouldn't New Jersey put up with her famous mosquitoes, instead of appropriating $10,000 to drive them out? The mosquito was incorporated in New Jersey. New York is going to expend $1,-500,000 for churches during the coming year—almost as much as the average magnate is willing to lay out on his summer cottage. This $8,000,000 bank smash in Geneva shows that they have speculative bank officials in Switzerland, too. The weakness seems to be just about as widespread as humanity. About 400,000 larks are sent yearly from the continent to the London markets. London seems to be getting up-or down-to the old Roman level in point of gormandizing. A Milwaukee man is said to have crossed the ocean in a trance. The Cream City has plenty of material for the building of trances, but it is unusual for them to last a week. The Belgian rioters faced the rifles and revolvers of the militia and police, but dodged King Leopold's automobile. Some things are too dangerous for even desperate men to fool with. The famous opera stars have sailed for home. It is reasonably certain that they take with them enough pocket money to enable them to make both ends meet during the summer vacation. A leading Philadelphia society woman says: "The women who make up Philadelphia society know nothing of swearing." This speaks well for the habits of the men of Philadelphia when they are at home. What a warm matrimonial experience Jones H. Johnson must have had when he describes it "as a living, blazing, festering, blistering never-ending torment." Now we should like to hear from Mrs. Johnson. The subject of Marie Corelli's new novel is stated to be that "which has not heretofore been treated in fiction, but is first in all men's minds." She must have a scheme for getting a genuine something for nothing. A Franco-Yankee Hat By Elizabeth McCracken. THEX were at breakfast at the little round table on their little side porch. The sun was shining; the morning-glories, so carefully trained by Lilla herself, were waving their bright, rainbow-tinted cups; the wrens, who had a nest under the eaves, were chirping. George was softly whistling for sheer lightness of heart, but Lilia was wrapped in silence. She gazed meditatively and silently into space. George began to take alarm. Silence, especially at breakfast, was not Lilia's normal state. Unless she went into town to shop, she did not see George from breakfast until evening. As she had been married but four months one week and two days—to be as accurate as she—she did not often go into town to shop; and she always had so much to say to George! "What are you thinking about, my dear?" he asked, finally. He was fond of calling her "my dear;" it made them both seem so much older. "Hats," was Lilia's reply. "I must get one," she continued, "and I was wondering what kind. What would you advise?" "Me?" exclaimed George, in ungrammatical dismay. "I don't know anything about girls' hats!" "You are an artist," said Lilia, "and besides, you've always admired mine." "Yes," said George. "Why don't you get another one like them?" he suggested eagerly. Lilia laughed merrily. "What a sight it would be! They've all been different. Imagine—a composite hat!" She laughed again, and then she said soberly, "But the fact remains that I must get a hat. I really must, and I wish you would come with me and help me select it." "By all means, my dear." George cheerfully replied. "Any time you like; but you see how little I really know about even your hats." "Well, you can tell me how I look in the ones I try on." George laughed; and he laughed again as Lilia, before leaving him at the front steps, said. "Then you will meet me at noon to-day, and allow at least an hour—" "At least an hour? My dear girl, does it take you an hour to buy a hat?" "It takes me two," said Lilia, impressively. "What are you laughing at?" "Hats!" retorted George, mirthfully; but he met Lilia punctually at noon. "Have you allowed an hour?" she asked, as they went together to what she gravely told him was the only possible place to buy a proper hat. "An hour and a half." he replied, as they went into the only possible place. He wondered why it was the only possible place; he had seen hats, presumably proper, exhibited in many other windows. He followed Lilia in silence; he was suddenly curious as to the cost of girls' hats. Lilia's father was rich. George knew that until her marriage she had not been in the habit of giving the cost of her hats, or, indeed, the cost of anything, very serious attention. He was very far from rich, and as he looked at Lilia, accustomed all her life to all the things that money can buy, a fear seized him. He had told Lilia once that he was a poor man, and she had smiled a slow, wise smile, and said, "Oh, are you?" He had been so happily sure that she had understood him, and that she had been willing to forego some of the things that money can buy for the sake of those things that money cannot buy. He had been into the only possible place to buy a proper hat. She smiled at his grave face. "Don't look so solemn, my dear," she whispered. "The safety of the commonwealth isn't at stake." She was so like her usual self now that he could not be very solemn, and her all too obvious lack of logic in the buying of a hat interested him deeply. "Don't you know what you want?" he inquired, during the absence of the attendant, as Lilia tried on a black hat, and then a white one, and then a brown one. "Oh, dear, yes!" she said. "Then why don't you ask for it?" he said. Lilia laughed softly. "I can't; I never know just what it is until I see it." George stared at her in comic astonishment. "My dear girl—" fishment. "My dear girl—" "It's madness—but it has some method," said the dear girl, with laughing eyes. "It is so delightfully domestic—and funny—to have my husband come with me to buy a hat," she added in a whisper, as the attendant returned with still a different hat. "That is very pretty—and artistic," said George, judicially, as Lilia gazed in the glass at its gray and black effect against her golden hair. "It is a dream!" said Lilia, conclusively, as the attendant again left them. "It is exactly what I want. Do you really like it?" she added, with delightful anxiety and deference. "Perfectly charming—and very simple," said George, critically. "Yes, it is simple," Lilia said. "She glanced again at the hat; then a queer, half-tender, half-amused expression crept into her laughing eyes, and she looked closely at George. She suddenly remembered how serious his face had been as they entered the shop. "How hopelessly stupid of me to come here!" she thought, in dismay. "I actually forgot that I can't just get things now and send papa the bills! Still George doesn't know anything about hats. I just won't get one now, and the dear boy need never know I forgot that I can't send big bills to him. He is such a sensitive goose about money!" She smiled at her husband, described with such indignant affection, and said to the attendant: "Thank you for showing them to me. I'm sorry, but none of them are quite what I want." "But, my dear," George began, "you said—" "None of them are quite what I want," repeated George's wife, decisively. "We expect some others next week," said the attendant, who had often served Lilia. "Don't you like this gray one?" she added, indicating the one which George had been under the strongest impression that Lilia did like. "It isn't quite what I want," replied Lilia. "I thought you said it was exactly what you wanted," George remarked, as they went into the street. Lilia laughed. "I changed my mind," she said. "A woman always may, you know," she further explained. "Shall we go to some other place?" said George, still mystified. "What do you want, my dear?" "Something to eat. I'm positively famished!" said Lilia. "But aren't you going to buy a hat?" asked George, in surprise. "I think I'll wait until next week." She looked up at him and added, gently. "Don't talk to me any more about hats: you said yourself that you knew nothing about them." He did not talk to her about them, as she sat opposite him at the restaurant table, and she talked very little to him about anything. She was almost as silent as she had been at breakfast; but she smiled at him in a way that reminded him of the time he had told her that he was poor, and she had said, "Oh, are you?" After luncheon he took her to her car, and waited until it bore her from his sight. As he started to return to his studio he said to himself, "I wonder why she changed her mind about that hat. She certainly said it was exactly what she wanted." Then all at once he understood. "Could it have been possible?" he thought, remembering her added tenderness. "The dear girl!" For a moment he hesitated; then quickly he returned to the only possible place to buy a proper hat. The proper hat in question was in the show window. It was, as he said, very simple. He went into the shop, and to another attendant than the one who had so recently shown Lilia the hat. "How much is that gray hat in the window?" he asked. The attendant looked at the hat. "Twenty-eight dollars," she said. "It is a new hat from Paris." "Lilia did know!" George said to himself. "It is very simple!" he gasped to the attendant. "Yes," said the attendant, "but it is from Paris." "What is it made of?" George asked blankly, wondering how a coil of something gray and soft, combined with one strange black flower, could possibly cost $28.00. "Illusion," said the attendant. "Illusion? What a name! Is illusion so expensive?" "Oh, no; quite the contrary." "Is it the flower, then, that is so expensive?" "Oh, no," said the attendant, pitying his ignorance. "It is the style." "The style?" "The art in the making of it, I mean." "It is artistic," said the artist, as he once more left the shop. The price of the style fascinated him to such an extent that he lingered at the window and stared at the gray illusion and the black flower. "Twenty-eight dollars! Upon my word! It's so simple I could draw it with four lines," he thought, in his mystification. Then a new and remarkable idea came to him, an inspired idea! He snatched out his pencil and a card and made a rapid sketch of the Parisian hat. Then he went with hasty strides from the only possible place to another place, some distance removed. He apparently desired to leave far behind him the atmosphere of Parisian style and its seeming value. With the sketch in his hand he approached an attendant in this second shop. "Can you make a hat like that?" he inquired. "Oh, yes," she said, easily. "It is very simple. What color is it? What is it made of?" "It is gray illusion and a black flower. Where does one get gray illusion and black flowers?" "We can supply them," said the attendant. "Shall I show them to you?" "How much will it cost to make it?" George asked. The attendant told him; he thought it very little indeed, and his bewilderment increased. The illusion and the flowers were produced. The attendant's curiosity was violently aroused, but she was properly businesslike. George actually began to look upon the buying of a girl's hat as his distinct vocation. He selected a black flower with the air of a connoisseur, and with his artist's eye chose the exact shade of gray illusion. "How long will it take to make it?" he inquired. "I could do it before to-night," the attendant replied. "Will you call for it or shall I send it?" "I'll call for it." George said. "I'll call for it," George said. He did call for it, and he examined it with an elaborate care that would have convulsed a less well-poised attendant. To his inexperienced eyes it was exactly like the original hat of the only possible place-save in price. He bore it proudly home, and not until he reached the front gate and heard Lilia playing the piano in the little drawing-room did he wonder what Lilia would say. He had been so borne along on the waves of inspiration that, like many inspired persons, he had not stopped to determine his exact route. Actually he faltered. He was overwhelmed by a sense of his own appalling audacity! What would Lilia say? He felt shy of approaching her with the hat, and was indeed meditating upon the feasibility of concealing the box in the shrubbery, when Lilia herself, hearing his steps, came out into the fading light to meet him. She had never more eagerly awaited him than on that day, never than on that day more happily wandered about the little house, which altogether was scarcely larger than her father's drawing-room, and which yet held a glory that all the money in the world could never have bought. Lilia had never until that day so keenly realized the brightness of that glory. She came smiling into the twilight, looking like a lily in her white gown. "Oh, my dear—" she began; then, seeing the hapless hat-box, stopped. Hat-boxes have never been recommended for unobtrusiveness. She could hardly have avoided seeing it. "My dear boy, what in the world is that?" she demanded. Haltingly, George told her. He told her more than he realized, and she laughed until her eyes were wet and shinling. She insisted upon seeing the sketch, and took immediate possession of it. "You are a goose!" she told and retold George. "A perfect goose! Do you suppose I care how much money you have? Do you suppose I care whether my hats come from Paris or not—under the circumstances? Really, you are a goose—but I am very fond of you. To think I missed seeing you get that hat! What fun it must have been!" She tried on the hat, and she explained to him so fully and so warmly that she did not care whether she had any hats at all, or he had any money at all, that he could not understand—and she admired the hat profusely. "It is a perfect dream!" she said; and certainly she looked far more charming, all flushed and bright-eyed, in it than she had looked in the Parisian original. Lilia keeps it very carefully and she never tires of relating its history. "No," she always concludes, "I don't think George will ever again have the courage to select a hat for me, even though I positively loved the one he did select. Oh, I have had a great many other hats—naturally—and some of them were from Paris, but no other hat that I have had ever gave me such complete and happy and unusual satisfaction as that absurd Paris hat that was really not Parisian at all."—Youth's Companion. Archaeology in London Archaeology, according to Dr. Freshfield, who lectured at the London Institute, becomes an absorbing passion when once the initial stage is passed and the victim is too engrossed to find time for any other occupation. He can find no better field for exploration than London—even without the aid of the steel excavator. He can see excellent Roman remains while doing business at the money order department of the postoffice. With a little more trouble he can study Saxon remains in Edward the Confessor's Chapel or the Chapel of the Pyx, at the Abbey. The Tower and the Bow Church woo him with allurements of the Norman style. Then the parochial records of the city and of the city companies call for the explorer who has caught the fever. He will have the joy of learning that the plague of London was preceded by three other worse plagues in the same century, and that the dog—not the rat—was officially regarded as the disseminator. After this we may expect to see stockbrokers forsaking golf and gold and rubbing brasses in Westminster Abbey.—London Chronicle. Wanted Lots of Love. Librarians have some peculiar experiences, especially in the down-town districts, where the poor children are often sent by their elders to draw books. The other day a little chap of perhaps five and of some foreign extraction toddled into' a down-town branch and, holding up a grimy card, said to the young woman in attendance: "Please, my sister, would like a book of love." The librarian suppressed a smile and gave him "Children of the Abbey." 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This shows how that judicious legislation has a tendency to embarrass rather than to resolve social problems, often injecting extraneous elements into a condition already too complex. Puck. All the Same In His Case. He—"I believe the great trouble with the American people is that they sleep too much. Most men say they have to sleep seven or eight hours out of every twenty-four, but I find that I'm just as bright if I sleep only four hours as I am if I sleep twice that long." She—"Don't you mean just as dull?" Chicago Record-Herald. "I'm worried about that young man," said Colonel Stilwell, confidentially, to the hostess who had introduced him to a rising young astronomer. "Why?" "He looked up at the sky and commenced talking about seeing dragons and great bears, and a lot of things, till I took the liberty of telling him that people who can't use things in moderation ought to let 'em alone."—Washington Star. Highly Recommended For Breezy Weather —Life. 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WANTED TO CLIMB OVER THE GATE Story of Secretary Moody and a Naughty Boston Woman. They are telling a story in Washington about the new Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Moody was riding on one of the Boston surface cars, and was standing on the platform on the side next the gate that protected passengers from cars coming on the other track. A lady—a Boston lady—came to the door of the car, and, as it stopped, started to move toward the gate, which was hidden from her by the men standing before it. "Other side, please, lady," said the conductor. He was ignored as only a born and bred Bostonian can ignore a man. The lady took another step toward the gate. "You must get off the other side," said the conductor. "I wish to get off on this side," came the answer, in tones that congealed the official into momentary silence. Before he could either explain or expostulate, Mr. Moody came to his assistance. "Stand to one side, gentlemen," he remarked, quietly. 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British Deposit: 25c. Charlottesville Sq. London. French Deposit: & Hue de la Palix. Paris. Pot- TER DRUG & CHEM. CORP.OLD Propa. Boston, U. S. A. Board of Trade Man, old in the business, will invest your money, $60 and upward on per ct. of profits, high- est credentials. Wm. Marter. $24 La Salle St., Chicago MYSTIC CIRCLE Guide to fortune-telling and dream book; all for 10c. RICH MFG. CO., 1 Bedford St., STANFORD, CORP. BATTLE LAKE COPPER DISTRICT Want party to organize company to stock a good group of claims. No fancy price asked. Part stock and part cash. Address JOHN KRUGER, Saratoga, Wyo. AGENTS WANTED BIG MONEY. EASY SELLERS. Household necessities. Experience not required. Mention paper: Bellefontaine Novelty Works Co., Bellefontaine, O. RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED TO HANDLE high grade mining stocks. For particiure address: JOHN P. PAY, New York Block, Seattle, Wash. GOATS FOR SALE FOR MOHAIR, MILK, children, or breeding; shipped anywhere. The TIAOA CO., Paw Paw, Mich. FOR SALE—STOCK AND GRAIN FARM of 1,800 Acres—60 miles east and south of Chicago. Hallroad station on land. Pine stream, good house. barn and other improvements. Greatest bargain in Northern Indiana; price only $80 per acre. Address Jacob Keller, North Judson, Ind. MANAGER WANTED—Every Large County— "Game e' Skill" nickel slot machine for drinks and cigars; strictly lawful, takes place of forbidden slot machines, thereby making a long-felt want. Rented or sold on easy payments. Sells as night. Forry thousand now in use. CONNAD JACKSON DESK CO., Cincinnati, Ohio. DO YOU INTEND TO BUY A PARK IN SOUTH DAKOTA this Season! If so, you should see us, as we have large lists of well selected lands; our own or under exclusive agency. Twenty years in business here. Also 6% net on conservative loans. On a large line, not a dollar in default. In last 10 years not one forclosure. BROWN BEGS, Aberdeen, R.D. RUPTURE OURED while you work. You pay $6 when cured. No card, no pay. ALEX SPIER, Box 0, Westbrook, Maine. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 20, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Mistily Meant This Paper. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Conn. 270 The bank at Monte Carlo was too strong for Mr. Schwab, but he has broken the automobile record. Three Castellanes have been elected to the French Chamber of Deputies. The Gould fortune is in politics. An infusion of William Waldorf Astor should be enough to make the British peerage give up the ghost at last. According to the Duluth Herald the only difference between sanatarium and sanitorium is in the charge to the patients. "When perfect politeness comes in at the door," noted the large-waisted philosopher, "perfect honesty flies out of the window." Coffee was the only stimulant that Dewey's men had at the battle of Manila Bay. And that, it must be admitted, was sufficient. Henry Labouchere says Morgan is putting the handwriting on the wall. But perhaps Henry is mistaken. Morgan may be reaching for the wall. Nicola Tesla has discovered how to extract power from the atmosphere to propel airships. As soon as he can get around to it he will extract some. An Ohio girl expired the other day from the effects of tight lacing. Her corset was ten sizes too small. But why mourn for her? She probably died happy. Mr. Carnegie has been elected a member of the Plumbers' guild in London. The association with this craft will relieve him of all anxiety about dying rich. A Missouri court has decided that teachers may whip their pupils. There are pedagogues in Missouri who have discovered that pupils may sometimes whip their teachers. If we accept the old saying that figures cannot prevaricate we must admit that there has been a wonderful revival of interest in baseball throughout the country. Many of the newspapers are discussing what they call "the downright folly of the beef combine." Most persons, however, are thinking about its downright inconvenience. "Mathewson's twitters in the second inning caused a couple of fouls to ascend to the empyrean and come straight down into Yeager's mit." O, yes, the baseball season's here. Goat's lymph is said to make old people young again, but a portrait of a goat on the door of a down town business place is not a sign that lymph is sold within at 5 cents a glass. The Rev. Mr. Hyde of New York says that women ought to be allowed to propose. Allowed! It would be interesting to know how they can be prevented from proposing if they wish to. A Boston preacher says the society women of that city swear horribly. It has always been feared that close application to the study of Browning would if carried on very long lead to something bad. The Marquis of Queensberry who has run through a great fortune in ten years is the son of the distinguished author of the rules which bear the Queensberry name. It is just as well to give the old man his due. Soon the young king of Spain will be crowned, and three days later the republic of Cuba will celebrate its birthday. Alphonso XIII. will hardly telegraph his congratulations to be read at the Cuban festivities. Frank Stockton was almost seventy years old, but he wrote with all the freshness and joy of youth. His heart was warm and his sympathy was wide. Literature has lost a bright ornament and the reading world a good friend. The attendance at the larger universities of the United States is: Harvard, 5,576; Columbia, 4,422; Michigan, 3,812; Chicago, 3,727; California, 3,540; Minnesota, 3,536; Cornell, 3,216; Wisconsin, 2,812; Yale, 2,680; Pennsylvania, 2,520. It is understood that J. P. Morgan receives $12,500,000 of stock in the shipping combine for his services in organizing and financing it. This seems like a good price, but it should be remembered that Mr. Morgan needs it. He buys Old Masters. A widow of Dayton, Ky., and a merchant of Hopkinsville in the same state have been married by telephone. Of course to a widow who, presumably, has previously gone through the regular matrimonial form, a long-distance ceremony may be as good as any other. But we fancy that a real "blushing bride"—that is, one blushing as a bride for the first time—would wish to have the ceremony wireless and the space between stations not more than the length of two arms. Tobacco chewers will be glad of the cheering news that growers are now using paris green on the plants to kill the worms. Russell Sage says labor and capital were never so near together as now. Russell ought to know. He's an expert on "nearness." A Kentucky court has just acquitted a man who was charged with the murder of Goebel. Score another broken record for Kentucky. A reunion of French cooks was recently held in Paris, ending with a big banquet. The wonder is that the broth was not spoiled. Lord Salisbury will not have a stenographer or a typewriter in his employ. It is easy to see who does the dictating in that family. If Cecil Rhodes was, as Kipling says, a "devout dreamer," it will be hard to get up a satisfactory definition of a hard-headed man of action. A bunco steerer who once had a fortune of $700,000 died in a poorhouse the other day. At some time in his life he must have tackled the wrong farmer. England is not well pleased with the plan of the proposed ship merger. It is a peculiarity of Mr. Morgan's deals that they are rarely satisfactory to both sides. Why shouldn't New Jersey put up with her famous mosquitoes, instead of appropriating $10,000 to drive them out? The mosquito was incorporated in New Jersey. New York is going to expend $1,500,000 for churches during the coming year—almost as much as the average magnate is willing to lay out on his summer cottage. This $8,000,000 bank smash in Geneva shows that they have speculative bank officials in Switzerland, too. The weakness seems to be just about as widespread as humanity. About 400,000 larks are sent yearly from the continent to the London markets. London seems to be getting up-or down-to the old Roman level in point of gormandizing. A Milwaukee man is said to have crossed the ocean in a trance. The Cream City has plenty of material for the building of trances, but it is unusual for them to last a week. The Spanish residents of Cuba are beginning to complain of the number of sleepless nights they are compelled to endure by reason of the demonstrations in honor of President Palma. The Belgian rioters faced the rifles and revolvers of the militia and police, but dodged King Leopold's automobile. Some things are too dangerous for even desperate men to fool with. The famous opera stars have sailed for home. It is reasonably certain that they take with them enough pocket money to enable them to make both ends meet during the summer vacation. A leading Philadelphia society woman says: "The women who make up Philadelphia society know nothing of swearing." This speaks well for the habits of the men of Philadelphia when they are at home. What a warm matrimonial experience Jones H. Johnson must have had when he describes it "as a living, blazing, festering, blistering neverending torment." Now we should like to hear from Mrs. Johnson. The subject of Marie Corelli's new novel is stated to be that "which has not heretofore been treated in fiction, but is first in all men's minds." She must have a scheme for getting a genuine something for nothing. German bankers want to boycott South American countries. They never know when they lend money to one of those countries whether the same man will be the government on pay day or whether it will be some one who never heard of them. 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