The Broad Ax

THE NEW POLITICS The following oration was recently delivered by Mr. Wm. F. Harrah, the official stenographer in the committee rooms of the City Council before the North Side Debating Society, and it is worth any ones time who believes in good government to carefully peruse it and weigh its contents. The scholar, the citizen and the patriot should be combined in the noblest type of man—The Statesman. The politician is a promisor—a mercenary, conscienceless hireling, who caters to public fancy. The statesman is aggressive, fearless and determined in his advocacy of good government irrespective of the popular cry. Education develops power. Patriotism in politics is honesty, so political institutions, to be lasting, must be fostered by patriotic, unflicching, intelligent men. Men actuated not by selfish motives, but rather by the common good. Men who would sacrifice popularity rather than principle. The successful government must be operated by wisdom not by the ebulllient enthusiasm so previant to-day. In semi-civilized ages, when war was the strongest bond of international harmony, the warrior was the representative of patriotism. As civilization progresses and arbitration is substituted for war, a new type of patrotism is developed. The outward show of power is displaced by the noiseless planning of the executive, by the silent thinking of the statesman. Popular government is not of recent conception. It dates back from the beginning of man. From the despotism of the Orient to the aristocratic states of Antiquity and from the Middle Ages, founded on slavery and serfdom, to the Democratic policy of states still in development, there has been a regular progression of civil and intellectual freedom. Antiquity has seen republics born of enthusiastic patriotism; has seen them flourish and then decline. Their future seemed secure, when, alas, the world was startled by the echo of their fall as they toppled over the presipice of political corruption. The path of civilization is strewn with the wrecks of their former granduer. Each nation's history has been prophetic. From the height of one's development is observed a corrseponding decline of culture, freedom and power in the others. All previous republics have been the victims of their leaders. So long as the leaders were honest and competent, the republic prospered; but it has been a frequent occurrence to see political leaders sacrifice their people, their country, for individual gain, to satisfy an insatiate love of power. We, like the races of antiquity, delight in conquest. Not the conquest of war, but the conquest of commercialism. In a night, as if by magic, our nation has become the standard in commercial and political worlds. Side by side, step by step, like borthers of one birth, have our commercial and political elements grown. Steadily and almost unconsciously the commercial element gained strength over the political, until to-day the nation's vitality and intellect is absorbed in the mad whirl of business. The business man looks upon the government as a protection for his business. He regards the law as a tool by means of which he can take advantage of those less fortunate. The educator criticises philosophizes and points out reform. The clergy looks upon politics as something to be spurned. We all accept the privileges of our political institutions as something due us, and ask for more. We should be proud of our commercial enterprises; we should glory in our intellectual advancement; we should praise our artists and encourage our sculptors, but our first duty we owe to our government. We owe it to ourselves to take an active interest in politics and thereby avert the calamity that would otherwise be ours on account of public inactivity. To-day our politics is in the control of the political boss. The whip of political power is in the hand of the "gangster." Public policy is moulded by men who have industrial gain and advancement at heart rather than the welfare of the country. Men of moral and intellectual force refuse to enter political life because of the odium incumbent upon political activity. The claim is made that politics is synonymous with dishonesty. The nation has suffered many trials all of which she has at last overcome. To-day she suffers with a malady more dealy than all others. The disease of public dishonesty is eating away the vitals of her institutions. On every hand reports come to us showing the degraded condition of our politics. Our legislative bodies, municipal, state and national, we see ruled by political hirelings; our congress a place of filerbustering and inactivity. We find at work in our country the same evil influences which can only lead, if not checked in time, to the disaster of former republics. Our governmental structure is in danger. The nation's destiny is imperiled. A popular demand is made for legislation to do away with a system that is concentrating wealth and distributing a universal poverty. The rich man is scornful; the poor man is sullen; the nation looks on fascinated, yet it dreads the conflict which is inevitable. The demand is ignored, for to meet the issue with candor might result in party defeat, and politicians flinch like cowards. The prospects of an era of prosperity are sacrificed for a party victory. Of what new school of patriotism are these men the offspring—these mercenaries unworthy of our citizenship? The ballot is the only means of dismissing such men from politics, but an enthusiastic populace rush to the polls and vote for party principals not for honest men. Party principals should be a secondary consideration, not a primary one. It is only by the active and effective work of an honest citizenship that we can ever hope to eliminate the present corrupt political conditions. The future safety of American Institutions is largely dependent upon the introduction into politics of the best type of her citizens. A nation is composed of individuals and upon them depends its greatness or decline. Their honesty becomes the nation's virtue; their faults the nation's imperfections. Corrupt the individual and you dethrone the nation's justice; educate her citizenship and you perpetuate her liberty. In the words of Edmund Burke, "As long as popualr support and confidence is given upon convicted failures, imposition and incapacity, reform is impossible. Political crime and injustice must treminate in disaster. There yet remains time to frame it with free deliberation. It will even be received by the people with the grace and favor of a spontaneous act. What will it be when it is extorted from you with indignation and violence; with a verdict of denunciation, with the indelible bond of "Traitor." Originality is essential to a national growth, but we must not be deaf to the teachings of the past. Antiquity boasts of her Rome; an educated people; masters of art; teachers of philosophy; founders of republicanism; yet the persistent strength of the spoils system, the mutual jeolesy of classes, the dishonesty of the political leaders were the causes which resulted in Rome's distruction. Rome had her warrior, but she lacked the foresight of wisdom. She had her politician, but she lacked the statesman. The vigor of her manhood was swallowed up in the sounding of her cymbals and the blowing of her trumpets; her future was buried in the baseness of her revelry. America is the Rome of modern times fostered and developed by the advance of a christian civilization. In the noon tide of our prosperity and power, the close observer can notice the effect of an epidemic of public dishonesty paralyzing the republic. The first fatal blow at the permanency of a republic is the lack of truth in her public men. Consider what the downfall of this country would mean to the future of mankind. It would mean (Continued on last page.) HEW TO THE LINE. WM. M. BUTTERWORTH, THE ABLE LAWYER AND THE POPULAR ALDERMAN CF THE 31ST WARD. 1 THE FRIENDS OF ILLINOIS CLUB FIRST FIGHT IN OLIVET BAPTIST MAY BALL. CHURCH. There is no member of the city council who works harder for the best interest of the city, nor who endeavors to please or satisfy all the citizens re- 1910 gardless of their politics like unto Alderman Butterworth, who was chosen as a member of that body last Spring from the 31st ward. Shortly after his election to the council he set about cleaning up and beautifying the 31st ward and at the present time that ward though this laborous efforts it surpasses all the other wards in the city for clearness. He maintains an office on So. Halsted street, near 61st street, for the benefit of the residents of the THE FRIENDS OF ILLINOIS CLUB MAY BALL. Tuesday evening the friends of Illinois Club., whose officers are as follows: L. W. Washington, President; Wm. H. Johnson,Vice-President; John L. Evans, Recording Secretary; W. Sykes, Treasurer; B. D. Wilder, Financial and Corresponding Secretary; R. A. Jackson, Chaplain, gave its annual May Ball at the Masonic Temple. It was a very creditable and an enjoyable affair and between four and five hundred people attended it, and as far as we were able to see nothing occurred to mar the pleasure of anyone. Many of the ladies were gowned in most exquisite costumes, which caused them to resemble fairy angels (if there are angels) Only two criticisms have we to pass upon the ball. 1st, its our opinion that the gentlemen, who discoursed such classical music ought to had sense enough to remove their hats or caps while following their avocation in the presence of ladies and gentlemen, that they should also wear clean white shirts and collars and black suits on such occasions and not strut around among the dancers in their old blue clothes.—with their caps on the top of their heads. Second, it sent a cold chill up and down our spinal column to observe cheap, crap-shooting, th-norn gambler George Jackleg Terrell, who beat The Broad Ax out of three dollars, and several other rotten characters like him, who look upon all women as common street walkers, dancing and mingling with the cream of the Negro society of Chicago. Ex-State Senator T. T. Alliane, late of Louisiana but now of this city, returned from a two weeks' visit to New Orleans and the South Monday morning. ward and all its citizens black and white Democrats and Republicans always receive the glad hand from Alderman Butterworth, whenever they a C w o p a e t h w i n w d q t c o b o v w b c v w I drop in to see him in his Halsted street office or in his office in the Roanoke building, 145 La Salle street. Alderman Butterworth is chairman of the committee of the Health Department, member of the Judiciary Committee and several other important committees of the City Council and for that reason and for his many other good qualities The Broad Ax would like to see him returned to the Council in 1903. FIRST FIGHT IN OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday evening, just as Rev. Jasper Finn Thomas was winding up in brow-beating and begging the hard working people who belong to Olivet to give him more money so he could go up to St. Paul, Minn., and down to Nashville, Tenn., and live easy while the people must toil and sweat for their money, his Chicago wife, Mrs. Sally Thomas, who has for years been endeavoring to defend the actions of Rev. Thomas, got into several quarrels with some of the other sisters on that day regarding her husband, and while Mrs. Thomas and another woman, whose husband is an officer of Olivet, were standing near the collection table, this lady, whose name we'll refrain from publishing at this time struck Mrs. Thomas right in the face, but before this lady was able to deal Mrs. Thomas another blow, they were parted by friends, and the first fight in old Olivet was declared off. While the malee was at its height the greatest excitement prevalled among the sisters and brethren. Just before Mrs. Thomas was smashed in the face, Rev. Thomas commanded all those who were willing to stand by him to stand upon their feet and less than half of the congregation stood up, which indicated which way the wind is blowing. Miss Genevieve Lowen Arbuckle, 3735 Prairie avenue, who is one of our best lady friends, has for the past two weeks been confined to her bed by serious illness, but at the present time Miss Arbuckle, much to the gratification of her numerous friends, is rapidly improving. Dr. and Mrs. Georg C. Hall, will move into their beautiful new home in Hyde Park June 29th. ```markdown ``` INDEPENDENCE OF THE CHRONICLE. The Washington Post takes occasion to say that The Chronicle is in the first decade of the twentieth century what Garrison's Liberator was in the middle of the nineteenth. It finds the independence of the editorial page of The Chronicle "phenomenal in a democratic newspaper published in the second city of the continent, and presenting every appearance of prosperity." It ought to occur to so appreciative a critic that the prosperity of The Chronicle has an intimate connection with its independence. The humanity of The Chronicle is implied in its independence. The critic, however, is amazed that an independent newspaper presenting every appearance of prosperity and published in the second city of the continent should assert that the question of color at the recent farcial convention of women's clubs was, in fact, whether the women of African descent in the United States shall remain free women or be again reduced to the condition of human chattels. This interpretation of the colored question was perfectly understood at the convention. The question of social equality was not involved. The object of the convention as declared by its own voice was the promotion of the good of humanity and the advancement of women. By the voice of the convention women with an admixture of African blood should be excluded from association with white women. If this declaration were put into effect women with an admixture of African blood would be excluded from honest employment. The question, therefore, is not social, but economic and moral. To exclude any class of women from honest employment is to reduce that class to an infamous mode of subsistence. The action of the Los Angeles convention was the Tillman shotgun policy feminized. Sectional politics ruled the Los Angeles convention. The sectional faction manipulated the convention with daring cunning, transparent and for the moment effectual. That faction succeeded in making a professed momentary organ of American womanhood affirm that the accident of a darker pigment in a woman's blood should debar her from association with white women; should stigmatize her as unworthy and base, no matter what her personal character, her education or her talents. The sectionalists listened with respect to a Chinese woman, a pagan, a contented representative of the lowest status of womanhood even in Asia. But for the native American women of dark blood—Christian, refined, college bred—it had only the brutal dogma of perpetual and hopeless degradation. The Chronicle is of opinion that a woman in the United States must belong to one of two classes. She must be free or she must be a slave. To be free she must have the same privileges of education, of self-respect and of opportunity for employment that all free women enjoy. If these privileges be denied she is practically condemned to actual, if unavowed, serfage. Women of all races are now freely admitted to the highest educational institutions of all countries. Their presence in the professions in this country no longer causes surprise. In proportion to their numbers colored women are well represented in all honorable vocations which women follow for their own support and the support of dependents. To declare that women of color shall not be employed in activities in which other women are engaged is to condemn an entire class of women to slavery. A fair field in the struggle for virtuous existence is all that the colored women in the United States ask. The white woman who feels that she cannot afford to give this chance to colored women thereby confesses that she fears the colored woman may prove to be her superior. NO. 32. The question is not of social equality. It is memerly a question of economics and morals.—The Chicago Chronicle. Every Afro-American who can afford to subscribe for a Daily newspaper should become patrons of The Chronicle, for it is the only daily paper in Chicago which possesses the courage to speak out in thunderous tones in favor of permitting colored men and women to have an equal chance in the great struggle for existence. MAJOR L. M. ENNIS PRESENTED THE MEDALS TO THE 8th BATTALION OF ILLLINOIS. Thursday evening the 8th Battalion of the Illinois National Guard were presented with the medals they had won from the state for their excellence in rifle practice and also their long and honorbale service medals by Major Lawrence M. Ennis. Before presenting the medals, after the battalion had in true military style been turned over to him by Col. Marshall. Major Ennis paid a splendid tribute to the colored troops of the United States. He spoke particularly of the record made by the 8th Illinois Infantry—of how when the white troops sick and discouraged in Cuba had asked to be sent home, how the colored boys of the 8th had volunteered to take their places, and how they had done so in everlasting glory to themselves and their people. He told of how Americas colored troops, officered by men of their own color and people, good obedient, intelligent and faithful soldiers, ready and willing to serve under any tropical sun, gave to the European powers their greatest fear of the resources of the United States. The late war had demonstrated the efficiency of the American volunteer soldier, but the strength, stamina and ability of Americas colored troops, to operate under tropical suns, in health vigor and intelligence, made our nation an invencible one among the people of the earth. Major Ennis in his Irish eloquence awoke the great 1st regiment Armory, when the exercises were held, with thunderous applause when in conclusion after paying a mighty tribute to the boys of the 8th Infantry, he said: "And when you meet these stay at home people, who refused to enlist, when you my comrades, went to the front, and now with sneer and jibe try to belittle your efforts and your services, just tell them from me that in the sight of God and man, it is ten thousand times nobler and grander to be soldiers with a black skin, than to be stay at home cowards with a white liver." The ceremonies were carried on in full military manner, and the army officers present were unstinted in their praise of the drill discipline and appearance of the boys of our own 8th Illinois. D. O'Toole, the popular undertaker, 4131 State street, is a true saint of Democracy, and the leaders of the party would be honoring themselves by nominating Mr. O'Toole for county commissioner. Dr. Howard S. Taylor, prosecuting attorney of Chicago, returned to his labors Monday morning, after spending three weks at his old home, Stanton, Va., and Washington, D. C., and we were informed by the doctor, that after conversing with many Negroes in all part of Virginia, its his candid opinion that one-third of the Colored people in Virginia are progressing, one-third standing still or holding their own, and the other one-third are going backwards. Doctor Taylor further stated "that while he was in Washington, he came in contact with many statesmen or politicians, and they all intimated that to all intents and purposes the leaders of the G. O. P. have cut loose from the Negro in the South, and that unless there is a strong revival of the rights of man throughout this country, it will be only a question of time until the Negro will be distranchised in all parts of the North, as well as the South." "Under the Turquoise Sky," and "Camping in Colorado" are the titles of two most beautifully printed and illustrated pamphlets, descriptive of Colorado scenery and camping, published by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway. The latter is a camper's guide book. These are the finest railroad literature that has come to our notice, and the general passenger department of the Rock Island route, Chicago, is distributing them free on request. 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Do not forget that Vogeler's Curative Compound is made from the formula of a London physician, who has given years of study to same. Sample bottle free from St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore. Mes. SOAN, "The Royal Standard," Primley Road, Primley, writes: "I was a great sufferer from acetatica for many years. I tried all sorts of limbins and embrocations which had no good effect; I used St. Jacobs Oll, and the pain left me instantly." SAVE MONEY Buy your goods at Wholesale Prices. Our 1,000-page catalogue will be sent upon receipt of 15 cents. This amount does not even pay the postage, but it is sufficient to show us that you are acting in good faith. Better send for it now. Your neighbors trade with us—why not you also? Montgomery Ward Co. CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. 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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, data only on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): One Year.....$2.99 Months.....1.69 advertising sales made known on application address all comments* to JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. It might be unsafe now to flee even to the mountains of Hepsidam. In Mr. Morgan's version of the Bible it reads: "He that hath shall keep on taking." Money certainly seems to have been the root of considerable evil in the Ford family. Prince Henry has now been having an enthusiastic reception at Cork. 'Och der broth of a boy! The up-to-date Chicago girl now has her initials embroidered on her shirt waist. How "tasty!" Mr. Carnegie is giving away automobiles. Most persons, however, would prefer one of his autographs. "I hear three voices calling," says an eastern poet. The butcher, the iceman and the landlord, probably. A Boston paper says Hetty Green "has gotten" a permit to carry a pistol. Pass the smelling salts, please. The man who would botanize on his mother's grave is around again with a funny cartoon of the St. Pierre horror. Mr. Carnegie says there is no patriotism in trade. There are some petrons, however, whose trade is patriotism. Hetty Green has been granted permission to carry a pistol. The name of the generous donor has not been disclosed. Potter Palmer may have been the least known of the Palmer family, but it was his money that made the others famous. Mary MacLane, who has written a slingy book, says she doesn't want the world's pity. But pity is not exactly what she is getting. One of the lessons of the hour seems to be that it is a risky thing to build a city within shooting distance of an extinct volcano. Sol Smith Russell left an estate valued at about $150,000. In view of the fact that he was an artist this showing is remarkable. Unfortunately, however, there is no reason to hope that William Waldorf Astor will not be just as foolish as Lord Clivenden of Taplow. In the western states the general complaint seems to be that the rains and the government garden seeds do not arrive at the same season of the year. Carnegie has been telling people over in London that it is hard work to give money away. Still, we could mention several professions that are harder. A contemporary remarks that the clubwomen do not draw the color line at home on wash days. That is because it is necessary to draw the clothesline. Havana and Santiago are boasting that they are the cleanest and healthiest cities in the world. Uncle Sam has proved himself to be an excellent housekeeper. Hetty Green is now packing a gun, but it is dollars to wormy apples that she couldn't hit a flock of barns with the shooting iron unless she "pinted" it the other way. The friends of Aaron Burr would do well to let him rest. The visible supply of paint is not sufficient to make his memory green enough to be presentable at this late day. Over 100 mock weddings at Yonkers have been declared valid. Some people are obliged to have strange forms of amusement to while away the time, but they usually have to pay for it. A Chicago man wants a divorce because his wife fed him seven nights in the week on spareribs and sauerkraut. It is perhaps needless to add that his name is neither Fritz nor Hans. An eastern man claims to have sold for $1,000,000 a mine that he bought from the Indians for $18. Still, it will be just as well for the average citizen to keep on being careful about speculating in mines. Mrs. Ethel Kirk of Chicago answering her husband's bill of divorce, complains that she was treated "like a governess." Sometimes a wife sues for divorce because her husband treats the governess too well. CHILDREN WITH ORIGINAL IDEAS Youngsters Give Tablesau of Garden qi Ed a, "In Costume." This story is told by a Philadelphia: "My friends in Santa Barbara, California, that land of perpetual sunshine, have three most interesting and originally minded children, one girl and two boys. They were quite accustomed to roaming around their father's place very scantily clad, so we were not much surprised, upon returning from a drive one very warm morning, to find all three, clothed only in Nature's garb, at play in the orchard back of the house. The two younger children, Walter and Katherine, were seated under the branches of a tree—totally naked—looking like Raphael's cherubs, while a few yards away, the eldest boy, George, a man of about seven years, stalked solemnly up and down with an old high silk hat of his father's perched on his curly head. Calling Walter to her, the mother said: "What are you playing, darling?" "Oh, this is the Garden of Eden," responded 5-year-old Walter. "I'm Adam and Kathy's Eve." "But what on earth is George doing with his father's hat on?" questioned the mother, too well accustomed to the children's mode of illustrating Biblical truth to be very much surprised at anything. But even her composure was shaken when, with a most solemn look on his cherubic face Walter responded. "Oh, he's God." WISHED HE HAD THE STORY BACK Funny Tale Lost on Non-Appreciative German Audience. Col. Adolphus Busch, who has been doing some booming as a member of the St. Louis Exposition exploiting committee, tells the following story: "Last summer when I went to Europe I took along my head brewer, whose admiration for his adopted country is only equaled by his desire to appear thoroughly Americanized. Together we visited his native town in Germany, where he was made much of. Of course they had a 'kommers,' and my companion took the opportunity to endeavor to make a speech after the American style, but in the German language, of course. He started out boldly, though he is no public speaker, and got along fairly well until he attempted the funny story which he knew should accompany every American speech worthy the name. It was funny, I assure you, as he told it, but his hearers were too well-mannered to laugh at their fellow-townsman, and so it fell flat. Discouraged and disgusted by this lack of appreciation of American humor, he dropped heavily into his chair, and, leaning across the table, whispered hoarsely to me: "I'd gif ten tollars if dot story was pack into me.'"—New York Times. The World's Greatest Problem. An organized effort to conquer the greatest problem of the age is urged by Prof. John Perry. The world's present comfort depends upon coal, but our steam engines are wasting from 90 to 99 per cent of their fuel, while the store of coal is vanishing at such a rate that in another hundred years the English hamlets of contented working folk that have become cities of luxurious people will decay again into hamlets, inhabited by a discontented, poverty-stricken population. Taking the value of human labor as the normal value of energy, England is wasting 900 times its national debt every year. The voltaic cell wastes less than 10 per cent of its fuel energy and paths have been opened that seem to lead to a conversion of the energy of coal into mechanical work through electricity with like small loss, but the efforts of scientific men are discouraged by the difficulties and the small prospect of personal reward. The investigation must be national or international. "I feel sure," Prof. Perry concludes, "that if one or two chiefs like Lord Kelvin or Lord Rayleigh were entrusted with the expenditure of a million a year for two or three years, * * * with power to impress the services of all scientific workers likely to be of use, * * * they would bring the invention within the reach of the ordinary engineer." Panama Hate Bring Pegasus. According to S. P. Bogran, son of the late President Bogras of Honduras, the republic is enjoying greater prosperity than for many years past simply because Panama hats are in fashion. Honduras and the State of Panama are the only two countries where Panama hats are made, and the revolution in Colombia has kept people in Panama too busy to be manufacturing hats. So Honduras has plenty of business in this line. The Honduras government has found the new industry so advantageous that it is giving it every encouragement and extending special privileges and exceptions from taxation to the factories manufacturing Panama hats. As long as the fashion keeps up Honduras will be prosperous, says Mr. Bogran, and the prosperity thus assured has done much to give the country peace. Darwin's theory of the origin on man has been attacked by Mme. Celine Renoof, a French scientist, in a lecture recently delivered before a woman's club in Paris she argued in a vastly plausible way that man is of vegetable origin and does not descend from the monkey. The best way to win on a horse race is to forget to take any money to the poolroom with you. BEFORE LEAVE TAKING By Z. A. HOWRY. Copyright, 1983, Daily Story Pub. Co. The season at the national capital was at its height; the whir of fashion was in the air, and it seemed the social question would if possible absorb the political one. K. street was crowded, for it was "Cabinet Day," and two members of the President's official family resided there within a square of each other. "Some people just think they are enjoying themselves." Richard Stacy exclaimed, indicating with his cane the stream of callers pouring into the Secretary's door. "They are not after pleasure," Harvey Johnston replied, smiling, "they are following the band." The two men had walked into the street together and stood in front of Johnston's home watching the scene. Oh, vanity of vanities, How wayward the decrees of fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are. Stacy quoted—following his friend into the house. They left their top coats in the hall and went directly to the library. The low book cases lining the walls were filled with handsome volumes, some of them rare and difficult to obtain, and the center table was covered with magazines and journals, scientific and political. A bronze head of Minerva held the letters and loose papers on the desk in place. Stacy seated himself in an easy chair and appropriated a footstool. "Thoughts are battling with each other for a channel of utterance in this room," he said, glancing up at the busts of statesmen standing guard over the books, "no wonder your editorials are a surprise to your friends!" Harvey was amused. "But my valiant effusions are launched from the office down town." "Nonsense," the army officer persisted, "I do not care where they are written they are inspired in this room, I believe in this chair." Johnston was looking for a box of cigars. "I thought these could not be lost," he said, placing the Havanas before his guest. It was growing dark, and the fire had become the significant light in the library. Clouds of smoke curled lazily above their heads. "I wish you would not leave Washington to-night. I want you to go to the Warrens' with me, they made quite a point of your coming," Johnston said. At first Stacy way back in his chair seemed too comfortable to reply, then he leaned forward. "It is out of the question, old man, I claim a social furlough when away from home." "Tell me, Dick," the editor watched the rings of blue vapor as he spoke, "were you ever hard hit?" "If I understand you, no." But the question aroused his interest. "Harvey," he continued, "do you remember a picture that hangs in my room to the right as you enter?" Johnston nodded, a look of genuine amusement showing in his eyes. "It was copied from a rough drawing I made in war times." Stacy left his seat, and stood with his back to the fire. "To-day I thought I saw that face again; it was somewhat older and very much sadder. I was going to the Navy Department to see McNairy and passed her as I crossed the Avenue from Lafayette Square." The servant came in to light the gas. Many carriages rolled by outside, announcing the fact that the Secretary's home for the present had lost its importance as the gathering place of fashion. Harvey watched his friend with increasing interest. "I shall induce you to remain over another day," he decided mentally, "upon the chance of meeting this love of long ago, and take you with me to the Warrens' tonight." When Stacy was presented to Miss Clarke of Tennessee that evening, he was conscious of a sudden exhilaration. "Of Tennessee?" he repeated. The notes of low music filled the house, palms waved their graceful A man in a suit sits in a chair, gesturing with his hands. A man in a suit stands behind him, holding a tray with a bottle and a glass. Stacy seated himself in an easy chair. fronds from niches and archways, and brilliant women, and what is better, beautiful ones, moved from room to room. "A good many years ago," Stacy said, "I was much interested in a family named Gray; they lived twelve or fifteen miles from Memphis. The old gentleman's four sons," he went on reminiscently, "were in the Confederate army, but he dispensed a lordly hospitality, and later when an order was issued to destroy his fine ancestral home we were able to prevent its execution." Isabel Clarke smiled brilliantly. "The Grays are my dear friends," she exclaimed, "and I have often heard them tell of the time when Jean Prentiss dropped on her knees before the handsome young officer, and pleaded so eloquently with him that he revoked the order to burn her guardian's home." She glanced up into Col. Stacy's face. "I conclude you are the man!" He bowed his head in assent. "Tell me," he said earnestly, "what has become of the Grays, of Miss Prentiss?" He had not known before the young girl's name. "The old people are dead, the daughter, Lucy Gray, is married, the family is scattered and the homestead sold." "And Miss Prentiss?" "Jean is here, in Washington, visiting the family of the member of Congress from our district." He bent eagerly toward her. "Would you object to giving me her address?" A "I've found her!" he exclaimed, bursting into Harvey's sanctum. She gave it to him, and he left the Warrens' that night thinking that at times it is well to follow the lead of an editor. "There must be some mistake. I know no one by this name," Jean Prentiss said next morning, when Stacy's card was brought to her. Below in the library Stacy was having a bad half hour. It was not a sound but an impression that made him turn his head; a lady stood in the doorway for a moment, then moved slowly across the space dividing them. The eyes he well remembered were looking again into his own. "My apology for coming, Miss Prentiss," he said, "is that I am a man with a memory." "And I, too, have not forgotten, Col Stacy," and she extended her hand cordially to him. "I have found her," he exclaimed an hour later, bursting into Harvey's sanctum, "and she is all I thought or hoped her to be!" "I have been thinking of the old times since I saw you," Jean Prentiss said to Stacy. She was very beautiful, her eyes sparkled like sunlight on a jewel, and her laugh was as spontaneous and merry as when she made the brightness of Gray farm. "I, too, have been retrospecting," he replied, "and there is one scene that will never leave my memory." He drew a yellow paper from his pocket and spread it before her. "This has been my talisman since I first saw you." Jean's color heightened as she bent over it; she saw a kneeling figure, a fair girlish face uplifted in supplication, and great wondrous eyes that looked an appeal, that carried a command. Below she read: "A face to lose youth for. To occupy age with the dream of, To meet death with—" "I could not be so impressive now," she said, gazing sadly at her other self. "This was the audacity of youth that had confronted no failure." That night she wrote to Lucy Gray Claire: "I am coming home to be married; all the happiness of my life except this last has been shared with your people and I want to associate them now in this new era in my life." As a postscript she added: "Col. Stacy says that Isabel Clarke must be one of the wedding guests." Hanna Never Kats Alone. Senator Hanna of Ohio is one of the most remarkable men in congress. He is sometimes gruff in his manner and might easily give the impression that he is a hard man to enter into conversation with. While he is one of the busiest men in the world, he always finds time to listen to persons who beg his ear. Senator Hanna has one peculiarity that stands pre-eminent. He never eats alone. If he is not with some one he invariably enters into conversation with the waiter or some one at another table. He is a lover of good things. Ambulances at Railroad Stations. By the kaiser's desire, fully fitted up ambulance trains have been placed at seventy-five German railway stations, and telephonic communication has been made with local doctors. SUFFERED 25 YEARS With Catarrh of the Stomach Pe-ru-na Cured. Congressman Botkin, of Winfield, Kan. In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman, Congressman Botkin says: "My Dear Doctor—It gives me pleasure to certify to the excellent curative qualities of your medicines—Peruna and Manalin. I have been afflicted more or less for a quarter of a century with catarrh of the stomach and constipation. A residence in Washington has increased these troubles. A few bottles of your medicine have given me almost complete relief, and I am sure that a continuation of them will effect a permanent cure."—J. D. Botkin. Mr. L F. 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And we are such good customers; our plumbing is nearly always out of order."—Brooklyn Life. Bighead—"My wife can't keep accounts. Bookkeeping is a mystery to her." Gayboy—"It's different with my wife. She does keep accounts, but her bookkeeping is a mystery to me."—Town Topics. Granger—"You would hardly call Miss Pole a very warm-hearted person?" Farmer—"Warm-hearted? On the contrary, she is awfully cold. If she should shed a tear, you may be sure it would be a hailstone."—Boston Transcript. "What part of speech is button?" asked the teacher of the second grade grammar class. "It's a verb," exclaimed Bobbie, positively. "A verb!" echoed the teacher, in surprise. "How do you make that out?" "Well," answered Bobbie, "when a goat gives a feller a buttin' don't it express action, bein' and state of bein'?"—Ohio State Journal. Got It Done An intelligent looking boy walked into a grocer's shop the other day and, reading from a paper, said: "I want six pounds of sugar at six and one-half cents a pound." "Yes," said the shopman, "that will be thirty-nine cents." "Eleven pounds of rice at six cents a pound." "Sixty-six cents." "Four pounds of tea at fifty cents a pound." And so he continued: "Five pounds of coffee at twenty-five cents, seven tins of milk at ten cents, four tins of tomatoes at nine cents, eight tins of sardines of fifteen cents." The shopman made out the bill and handed it to the lad, saying: "Did your mother send the money or does she want them entered?" "My mother didn't send me at all," said the boy, seizing hold of the bill. "It's my arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it done somehow."—Brooklyn Eagle. --- Some Singular Thefts. For some time past several milk sellers in the Latin Quarter of Paris have complained of thefts of their tins, and the mystery was solved the other day when a young man, well dressed, was seen in the early hours of the morning carrying a big tin of milk on his shoulder. When questioned, he dropped his burden and fled, but was captured, and was found to be a Greek student, George Sacchini by name, whose parents made him an allowance of 700 francs a month. He stated that an irresistible force compelled him to steal the milk, and on searching his rooms in the Boulevard St. Germain a dozen large milk tins and about thirty smaller ones were found. Origin of "Shrew." The shrew was originally the shrewmouse, which, when her young were helpless, would fight desperately in their defense, and so well-known was the courage of this little animal, which would even go out of its way to seek an enemy at times when the nest needed protection, that the word became applied to a woman who was ever ready to seek a quarrel. PARSLEY SHOULD FOLLOW ONIONS Also, If a Dyspeptic, Spread Melted AIDS, if a Dyspeptile, Spread Melted Cheese Upon Nine Ple. "Parsley," said the restaurateur, "removes the smell of onions." He frowned portentiously at a waiter who had dropped a plate of ice cream on the red carpet. "Excuse me, won't you?" he asked, and went and whispered something passionately in the waiter's ear. On his return he resumed: "Yes, you may eat a bushel of onions, and a little parsley taken afterward will leave you so that Sherlock Holmes himself would be unable to say what you had been feeding on. That is the truth, and I wish more people were aware of it. For onions, which are the most wholesome things in the world, would be as popular as they are wholesome if this matter of the parsley were more widely known. "Another thing," went on the man, according to the Philadelphia Record, "old cheese melted slightly makes mince pie digestible. You may be a confirmed dyspeptic, but if you will spread on the top crust of your mince pie a thin layer of rich old English cheese I promise that you may eat the pastry without any aftermath of remorse and pain." Burning Head Star City, Ark., May 26th.—A very remarkable case has just occurred here. Mr. W. H. McFalls has been suffering severely for two years with an alliment that puzzled the doctors and everybody. The trouble seemed to be all in his head, which had a burning sensation all the time. Sometimes this burning pain in the head would be worse than at other times, but it never left him. At last he tried a new remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills and was agreeably surprised to find that the burning gradually disappeared. An attack of La Grippe has laid him up for the last few weeks, but Dodd's Kidney Pills have banished his old trouble entirely. His son George used a few of the Pills which his father did not need and they have done him so much good that he says he would not take ten cents a pill for the few he still has left. Hurt Trade in Mirrors "The trade in fine mirrors is no longer what it used to be," says a dealer. "Twenty-five or thirty years ago every well-to-do family bought, at least, once in its life, a Belgian or a French mantel mirror or pier glass, framed in gold or ebony, and worth from $200 to $500. But now families no longer find it necessary to invest their money in that way. Our builders, within the last two or three decades, have taken more and more to building mirrors into the houses, just as they build mantels or doors in them." The "Know-Nothing" Eras The late Dr. Charles A. Phelps of Boston, came near being the last survivor of the peculiar "Know-Nothing" era in Massachusetts. He was one of the original "Know-Nothing" leaders. He later became the presiding officer, in turn, of both branches of the legislature, and acquired an importance in politics which resulted in giving him office under the Republican national administration.New York Post. "UNDER THE TUROUOISE SKY." This most fascinating, clearest and interesting description of Colorado will be sent free by John Sebastian, G. P. A. Great Rock Island Route. Chicago. Also "Camping in Colorado" free, if you want it. Tells about camping in the Rockles, with full details for the inexperienced. Information about Colorado Hotels and Boarding Houses gladly furnished. It will be worth your while to learn the details of the cheap rates to Colorado effective this summer by the Rock Island. 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The richness of this country was not known until late in the fall of 1901, after heavy snows had closed all avenues by which the region might be reached except upon snowshoes. Notwithstanding this fact, Colonel W. H. Dewey of Idaho, and others who have had wide experience in mining, have expended vast sums in the purchase of undeveloped claims. The surface indications are marvelously rich. These gold bearing ledges, from 100 to 300 feet, will run through a mountain parallel to each other. In the Dewey mine, this vast deposit has values running from $7 to $4,000 per ton, and the plates of the 10-stamp mill which runs on the ore have to be cleaned of their accretions of gold every six hours. In a few weeks two miners last spring cleaned up $7,500 in placer gold, using a small cotton hose to wash the gravel, the water coming from a small reservoir on the mountain side. The mineral zone covers a large section of hitherto unexplored country, and is about 175 miles from a railroad. 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It is as the honest politician, the incorruptible legislator, the impartial judge, and the firm executor that the modern patriot serves his country. The nation's welfare is a sacred trust and he guards it as the sleepless dragon guarded the apples of The Hesperides, lest liberty, prosperity and christianity, the golden apples of our temples be snatched by the hand of corruption. To be a true patriot under the present condition of political life in this country one must be prepared to sacrifice self. Behold such a man suffering the condemnation of sincere yet ungrateful people! Imagine him bearing the animosity of political leaders! See him making justice a common right and curtailing the power of wealth! Then see him at last forced out of politics by the machine. The people failing to recognize in him their friend and benefactor. His political death warrant is unconsciously signed by an unappreciative people. Still, though his party conquer, or be conquered, he struggled to secure for his country truer prosperity and contentment. Such is the character truthfully conceived of the patriot and the martyr. To this propogandist of good government must be given the work of inaugurating The New Politics. When patriotism decrees it a common duty to serve one's country in times of peace by supporting purety in government; by uppholding the nation's welfare regadless of party affiliations, by living as loyal, industrious, active citizens, an era of prosperity, peace and happiness will reign supreme, and the result will be a truer liberty and a grander civilization. The age of force and fear will be past; dieals will grow grander and purer justice will be tmepered by mercy, and love of honor will be again the standard of fitness. The patriot will have embrazoned on his escutcheon that time worn adage "To thine own self be true, and it follows as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any one." The soldier of peace, clothed in the armour of a clean conscience, fortified by the knowledge that he fights for a righteous cause, will march on to a grander and noblier conquest; the amelloration of mankind; the elevation of politics to a place of honor; and our grand old country will be the beacon light of civilization as she leads humanity through trials to triumph. CHIPS. Harry J. Rogers, who is some muggins in the 30th ward, lately won a big stake while playing the races and he now has a rol of green-dough in his hip pocket as large as a fat woman's leg. Mrs. V. N. Blackwell, 2906 Calumet avenue, entertained Thursday evcening Miss R. Thompson, of the Freedman's Hospital, Washington, D. C. and Dr. Thomas of the Meharry Medical School, Nashville, Tenn. Thursday evening the Tilden Democracy of the Second ward held a great meeting at Arlington hall, 31st and Indiana avenue. It was addressed by ex-Judge Thomas A. Moran, and other able speakers. Many Afro-American Democrats attended the meeting. The Geraghty Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of Campaign Buttons and Badges, 61 La Salle St., whose ad. appears in another column of this paper, have secured the contract to make ten thousand buttons for the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Exposition. Attorney Israel Cowen, who led the judicial ticket two years ago in this county, is being urged by his friends to seek the nomination for one of the judgeships this year and his selection as such would be just and proper for Mr. Cowen is in every way qualified to serve as one of the judges of Cook County. About the only persons some of our race leaders lead are themselves. How many do you think are following Ida B. Wells-Barnett? Do you see them going her way in droves or in processions? I should say not. She is alone leader treading a lonely path. What the race needs is real leaders, not those who merely use it to their own self-aggrandizement.—Ex. The Tower Hill House, on the top of Tower hill, South Kensington at Narragansett Pier, R. I., has been donated by Gordon Mackay of Newport, for a manual training school for colored children. Included in the gift of the hotel property are ten acres of land and four cottages. The principal of the school will be the Rev. Mr. Holly of Philadelphia.—Ex. Old Ham Carter, who resembles an old mud hen in as much as he always endeavors to soar way up above the clouds, while as a matter of fact he is unable to jump or fly two feet, announced his candidacy for Congress in the First District at Arlington hall Friday night, but it is said that his announcement fell flat and cold upon his hearers and that they did not take any stock in the old mud hen, when he declared "that six thousand Colored voters residing in the 1st district would vote for him." Rev. Longreen Murray opened his large mouth Sunday night in his pulpit and he "declared that he wanted the brothers and sisters to call and see him in his 14-room mansion on Wabash avenue, that the only reason he moved away from the "niggers" was to get "more room." We would advise all the members of Bethel who want Rev. Longreen Murray's servent to let them into his mansion, to take their dollar money and a fat chicken with them, then Rev. Long green will permit them to stand in his hallway while he smiles upon them. Congressmen Thompson, of Alabama, Littlefield of Maine, Gen. Dick of Ohio Secretary Shaw, of the Treasury Department and several other Congressmen and high priests of the G. O P. traveled as far South recently as Tuskegee, Ala., where they chatted with Prof. Booker T. Washington, the J. P. Morgan of the Negro race, and these distinguished gentlemen after conversing with a thousand men in connection with Prof. Washington, have proclaimed to all the world "that the Negroes in the South are happy and contented that the 'Race Problem' is solved." and that settles it. John J. Coburn, of the Twelfth Ward would be a very good candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court. Mr. Coburn's candidacy would materially help the ticket in the country towns. We clip the above from the Standard Opinion. We are shocked to see such utterances appear in its columns. It must know that a man of the stripe of John Coburn, would neither lend strength to the Democratic ticket nor dignity to the bench if he should happen to be elected. In the name of common sense, Bro. Standard Opinion, above all thing, let us have men of the proper metal for the judiciary. Tuesday evening a Democratic meeting was held at 43rd and State, which was presided over by Thomas E. Ryan, and addressed by Alderman M. McInerney, ex-Ald. Chas. J. Boyd, Rep. E. M. Cummings, Harry Flemings, John Breen, S. A. T. Watkins, Light-cork Joe Schran, and a few others, then—announced his candidacy for member of the Board of Review, against Roy O. West. It was a roasting meeting from start to finish, and all the orators, with the exception of Mr. John Breen, thought Alderman John J. Bradley, Col. Dan Morarity, Arthur McLaughlin & Co., were very foolish to put up a fight at the primaries. 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