The Broad Ax

THEODOR W. JONES CONTENDS THAT REV. JASPER F. THOMAS OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH WOULD BENEFIT THE CO MUNITY BY COMMITTING SUICIDE Editor Julius F. Taylor:—That Rev. J. F Thomas of this city is guilty of all the offences charged against him by the public press, is an opinion in which I believe the overwhelming majority of the people of Chicago openly concur. It is an opinion concurred in, privately, by a majority of the members of Olivet Baptist church of which he is pastor. If this same majority had the courage of their convictions, and would speak out openly, this man's doom would be speedily sealed. But the trouble is there is no organized, aggressive, and effective opposition against this so-called preacher's misrule. Since strife, contention and warring elements are rife in this church, let us consider for a moment, the influence and equipment of the combatants on either side. For Rev. Thomas are the old and ignorant women, who unfortunately constitute the majority. Many of these unlettered and unthinking people Thomas has beguiled as effectually as the serpant beguiled Eve. Secondly, for Thomas is the "riff-raff" and "hangers-on" who have voted him a good fellow. Thirdly, this man's attributes, for he is possessed of an unusual amount of low cunning, which now serves him in good stead. Arrayed against Thomas are the intelligent and substantial members of the church and nearly all of its officers. Second, the press and public sentiment. Third, all of the contractors and creditors. Fourth the donor of the $1,500 in prospect. Fifth, the eternal principles of right and justice. Would this statement of comparative strength prepare one to believe that, when a business meeting of the church was called to investigate the charges freely landed about and to force the preacher's resignation, he would have the audacity to sit as judge upon his own case, and by his nefarious rulings thwart the popular will? It may be seen, however, by the character of the opposition that some of its forces are abstract; while many of the others, if they belong to church at all, do not belong to this particular one, hence have no vote or voice in its counsels. Now let us view the situation as it is at present. The dissension between the opposing factions is absolutely as marked as ever. There is no harmony, or christian fellowship, in the church, and it is evident that there can be none. Thomas is temporarily in the saddle and the church is permanently out-of-doors. This is not the first time that the devil and the powers of evil have won a temporary victory. I recall a passage in the book of Revelations which seems to fit this occasion. "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." But let us resume. The preacher and his interlopers have no real interest in the church, hence there is no degree of enthusiasm among them as to its welfare. They have no definite plan to present to the people for the redemption of their property. They can publish no statement of their case in this city that will hold out any promise of returns in any way, and can issue no address to the public that will appeal to any considerable number of people out side of this city. Having lost the confidence of the community, the city and state, they can raise no funds, and could be relied upon to inappropriate them if they did. That the people are profoundly dissatisfied with this crowd of "pap-suckers" is evident from the weekly collections. Let us take for example the first Sabbath in September, which was communion Sabbath, and among Baptists this service is very largely attended. After paying Thomas $32.50, his weekly salary; $25.00 per month, in advance, th present rental of the lewd dance hall in which services are held; $3.50, the weekly salary of the organist, there were 616s, left. It is clear that these receipts cannot be increased. The contract for the hall is for the Sabbath day only; hence they have no place to give a concert, festival or fair; no place in which to hold a reception, sociable, or musical; no church home for Thomas to deserate with his "fish-fries, rabbit dinners and chitterling-suppers;" no altar before which to solemnize the vows of wedlock; no pool in which to baptize repentant souls; and no sanctuary from which even to bury their sainted dead. Alas! such mismanagement amounts to a crime. It will be seen, therefore, that they have to depend absolutely upon the Sabbath day's collection and nothing more. Since every Sabbath is not communion day, there will be a falling off of attendance on other Sabbaths, and naturally a shrinkage, of collections, to say nothing of the effect that inclement weather and an approaching hard winter will have. I have tried to show clearly that the income cannot increase, but will diminish. But, for the sake of argument, let us suppose that by great persistency and retrenchment the profits can be kept at 61 cents per week. The time required in which to clear the indebtedness of $24,000 on the church would be 39,344 weeks and one day, equal to 756 years and sever months, to say nothing of paying accrued interest. The early part of last week many representative Negro men and women attended the seslons of the Afro-American Baptist Association which were held in the Shiloch Baptist Hon. Wm. E. Mason, the Patriotic and eloquent Senator of the Prairie State; Champion of the rights of the common people who is bound to win in the race, for the United States Church, Barmingham, Ala., and as usual a fight occurred between several of the delegates and in the midst of the excitement and commotion some one cried"fire" which created a stampede for the door and in the struggle which followed one hundred and ten men, women and children lost their lives. Many of them were literally trampeled to death. In addition to this terrible loss of life, one hundred and possibly more persons were injured. It is unpleasant to admit it, nevertheless it is true, that it seems almost impossible for the Afro-Americans in any part of this country to hold religious or any other kind of gatherings or meetings without bloodshed or disorder on the part of those who claim or pretend to be the leaders of the race. A colored attorney from Baltimore, Md., started the fight at Birmingham because some one trampled on his toes. This lawyer poses as one of the eminent leaders of the race; but at heart he is a savage. No gentleman would ever think of engaging in a fight in a religious meeting. Within the past few years fights have occurred in Quinn chapel of this city, Olivet Baptist Church, Bethel and some of the others, and in some of these fights revolvers and other weapons have been drawn by the Christian deacons and members. Only last year when Rev. Longreen Murray was up for trial for running with too many women the contending factions entered Bethel church armed to the teeth bent upon carrying their point by the shedding of human blood if necessary. In other sections of the country this same lawless spirit is manifested whenever meetings or religious gatherings are held. So far four or five meetings have been held by the AfroAmerican Council in different sections of the country and every meeting has broken up in disgrace and confusion. The National Negro Business League organized several years ago by Prof. Booker T. Washington held its second meeting in this city in 1901, and it ended in disgrace. T. Thomas Fortune was the central figure in bringing it into ill repute and it was only by the heroic efforts of some of its members that a fight was averted, all of these incidents and the Birmingham horror should warn and teach the leaders and the so-called Christian men and women of our race that they must be more orderly and circumspect in conducting their religious and other meetings. SPECIAL NOTICE. Our article on "The Color Line in the Cook County Jail" will not appear until the next issue of The Broad Ax. Instead of the misery and all the horrors of poverty that now afflict three fourths of the people how easy it will be to make all comfortable. Just suppose all the public needs are administered by the public for themselves. Why not? Where wants are they? Your own. What right then have a few men to gratify you at a cost to keep you as paupers? It is unnatural. Nature says "help yourself." "There is water. There is"7 sh shrdu There is water. Go drink." There is land. Occupy it. Room enough." But no sooner are people associated than 'tis found a half dozen persons have blocked all access except for a big profit to themselves. In every little community of this nation today, there hangs over every family, save a few, the threat of dire suffering in disgrace from poverty (disgrace because of our own false opinions). It is fearful to contemplate. And yet how easy all might be changed for perfect security and comfort. Knowing this and seeing here and there some associations living happily why will not all strive for this reformation. Every village should arrange to live as one family as nearly as practicable. All the roads, all transportation, water, feuel, light should be purchased at bare cost. Instead of that except the posta service, everything is being monopolized by a few. The times are becoming more and more out of joint. Possibly the coal famine this coming winter may force the people to think a little. The price of meat has caused a little stir. But awful symptoms are visible already. No sooner does a people arrange to live together as a state or nation than they select a few men to make laws to rule them. They can not do it for themselves. These few begin to get out of the many as much as possible. They make tariff and internal revenue laws and a lot of others that are sure to be violated. This creates a criminal class where all were once equal. Heavy imports and monopolies make paupers. You have new paupers and criminals made by law. You go on increasing them. So from first to last your representative government is a humbug and robber and tyrant. HOLT. Revs. D. W. Jones, W. S. Brooks, R. C. Ransom, Andy Carey and Longgreen Abe Murray have been re-appointed to hold down their pulpits in Chicago for another year. MISSRULE. Mrs. Robert A. Williams, 3544 Dearborn St.; and her pretty and accomplished niece, Miss Slaughter, of Louisville, Ky., who is visiting with Mrs. Williams, are both loyal friends of this paper. Andy Carey and Longreen Murray were both glad to get back to Chicago for one more year for they can have more fun here with the boys and girls than they could if they had been sent to the back woods. State Chairman John P. Hopkins and Mayor Dennis J. Hogan have just completed a tour of Il. and they are of the opinion that if the leaders of the party in this county do their best Illinois will be swung in the Democratic column Nov. 4th. Alderman Fred A. Hart will be renominated and re-elected to the City Council from the 29th ward in the spring of 1903 for Ald. Hart is always on the side of the people and the people are with him. Dudenhaven, the bond shark, is not permitted to frequent the Cook County jail from henceforth, but he would not have been headed off from robbing the poor helpless prisoners if it had not been for The Broad Ax, but it would be mighty hard for jailer Whitman to admit that this is true. It is said that when Col. John R. Marshall attempted to speak at States Attorney Charley Deneen's blow-out at 62nd and Halsted St. Monday night, "He was hissed" and many of those who were in the hall yelled dead cats or dead rats. Laying all jokes aside, Col. John will have a mighty rocky road to travel between now and election day. Ex-County Commissioner Edward H. Wright lately bought a new home at 2963 Wabash Ave. and he will shortly move into the second ward where he will be able to take many good hot-shots at Ed. Morris, the slick and tricky attorney for "The Gamblers' Trust," who with Young Dixon, who is owned by Judge Pat Hanecy, should not be permitted to misrepresent the people of the 1st Senatorial District at Springfield. Jailer John L. Whitman's newspaper is out but it seems to us that most of the space is devoted to lauding praising the good-looking little jailer: it contains a list of articles and the amount which the prisoners have to pay for them, but Jailer Whitman fails to state in his moral improvement journal that "the prisoners have to pay three cents for the two-cent papers and two cents for one-cent newspapers." Sunday night All Hash Roberts, the tenth rate ex-barber,and Jackleg Lawyer and Martin B. Madden delivered political speeches in Quinn Chapel. After the political preaching was over many of the old sisters got mighty hot and they vowed that they would not attend meeting any more at Quinn until after election. They could not shout and pray while cheap white and black Republican wind-bags occupied the Lord's pulpit and spit tobacco juice on the carpet and furniture. Mr. Austin J. Doyle, chairman of Advisory Committee, which have charge of the Democratic campaign in this county,has chosen seven thousand Democrats to assist him in his work of endeavoring to wrest Cook County from the hands of Bill Lorimer and his gang of Plundering Jayhawks and if Chiarman Doyle and the other members of his committee feel that they want the Afro-American voters to aid them in their fight against Bill Lorimer, Sam Raymond, Pat Hanecy and Co., then The Broad Ax is more than willing to help to uphold the hands of Chairman Doyle, but we will not work in the harness with Negro chap-shooters, gamblers, nor with old political tramps from Mississippi. Monday night the leaders of the G. O. Lily White Party of the town of Lake held a Republican emancipation ratification meeting at Columbia Hall, 6142 S. Halsted street. State's Attorney Charles S. Deneen, who thought that the writer ought to be sent to jail for fighting his colored Republican Preachers, W W. Wilson, candidate for congress against Dan Morgan Smith, James R. Mann, M. B. Madden, Carl Lundberg, N. J. Nagle, Revs. George Tillman, R. C. Ransom and Jasper Thomas were billed to do the speaking Music was furnished by the Deneen Orchestra and Prof. N. Clark Smith ran that end of it; all over the South Side among the Afro-American Republicans. Deneen Clubs are being formed for the purpose of booming the handsome State's Attorney for Governor of Illinois. And if he works his white brethren and plays fast and loose with the Negro Preachers and gambling house bosses like mush mouth Johnson he may land the nomination. 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The city of Seattle lies between Puget sound and Lake Washington. A canal is now being dug for the purpose of connecting the two. Puget sound is salt and connects with the Pacific ocean. Lake Washington is a body of fresh water. The object in the connection is novel. Familiar with the region, and having heard of the canal and the reason for it, we have looked the matter up a little, and find that it is to be a barnacle cure on a large scale, reports the Christian Advocate. It is well known that barnacles, a variety of marine shellfish, attach themselves to the bottom of vessels, and after a time, when the number becomes great, the movement of the ships becomes so seriously retarded that the vessel has to be dry docked and cleaned. This is an expensive operation, and many are the devices which have been resorted to to prevent the adhesion of the barnacles, but without success. Barnacles appear to be more prolific on the Pacific coast than on the Atlantic, and, therefore, getting rid of them becomes even more important than in the case of Atlantic shipping. It is a well-known fact that the barnacles drop off if the ship lies for even a short time in fresh water, and the proposition to connect Puget sound with this beautiful fresh-water lake has for its end the taking advantage of this fact, so that by means of the canal the vessels may be run into Lake Washington and allowed to lie there until the barnacles drop off. These animals, like others whose native element is salt water, die after a time and lose their grip. FOND OF DRAMATIC EFFECTS. Among the characteristics that distinguish Viscount Kitchener none is more conspicuous than his appreciation of the dramatic, and he never fails to make use of such effects to advance his own interests. There is no man who has shown on so many occasions a splendid insight into dramatic situation. There has never been one of his great events which has not been so stage-managed as to produce the greatest possible dramatic effect. When he was advancing on Omdurman, for instance, he cut the wire between Egypt and home for several days—they were the last days that still intervened between him and the crowning victory. This mysterious and sinister veil which all at once was drawn between England and her forces heightened the mystery, the suspense, the passionate interest in the last hours of the great struggle, and when Kitchener permitted the veil to be lifted again it was to display to a people almost maddened with suspense the bloody field on which lay crushed forever the broken and scattered forces of the mahdi. And again when this victory was completed and when Kitchener stood in the middle of the town where Gordon had died, surely it was a very high and keen sense of the dramatic which impelled Kitchener to hold a funeral service to Gordon's memory. Here, indeed, in sober, solemn, unexceptionable fashion, was the final triumph of civilization over barbarism heralded and commemorated to all the world. BLANES THE TYPEWRITER. To That Invention the Illustrator Attributes the Cause of Many Inferior Books. John Sloan, the illustrator, has a novel and plausible idea as to the reason for the publication of late years of so many mediocre books, says a Philadelphia Record man. "I believe," said he, "that the responsibility rests with the typewriter. Manuscripts in the past were written with the pen, and were not read very carefully, for to read a novel of 100,000 or 150,000 words of handwriting was a giant's job that, I venture to say, mighty few publishers went through with if they could help it. But now every manuscript is typewritten, and is as easy to read as print. Hence the publisher it is submitted to runs through it—or rather his reader does—can't help but find, here and there, points of merit in it and risks bringing it out. The typewriter is so blame. I fancy 60 per cent. more manuscripts are read now than used to be and 60 per cent. more are published. Whenever I happen on a particularly bad novel of the short trousers or historical school, I curse the inventor of the typewriter." ONE OF THE ANCIENT ARTS As with Everything Else, Americas Has Captured the Cooperage Business of the World. Cooperage is one of the ancient arts born, doubtless, of the necessity of having proper vessels for preserving wines. The London coopera were incorporated into a guild in 1501. As usual, America has captured the cooperage business of the world. The National Barrel and Cooperage company declares that 200,000,000 barrels are used annually. I could mention one company alone that turns out 40,000 a day, or 12,500,000 a year. Its product includes casks, kegs, all sorts of barrels, butter tubs, pails, churns, etc. Our boundless forests gave us the advantage in cooperage. We supply nearly all the rest of the world with barrels, casks and staves, our annual product being valued at more than $40,000,000. For casks to hold liquids oak is used, while for sugar and flour and other dry substances nothing has been found to equal elm. The manufacturers have bought up millions of acres of forests to guard against a scarcity of barrel material. They are vandals, like the rest of the timber users. Sufficient unto the day is the forest thereof. If they can make $1,000,000 in a lifetime by utterly devastating 10,000,000,000 acres of precious woodland, why, they will make the $1,000,000. BIRTH OF LONDON BRIDGE. On August 1, 1831, William IV. and Queen Adelaide formally opened with much ceremony the famous London bridge, so that the structure now is a little over 71 years old. Their majesties went in grand procession from Buckingham palace to Somerset house, and thence by barge to the bridge. The awnings of the royal barge were removed, that a full view of the royal pair could be had along the whole line. At London bridge a grand pavilion had been set up close to the site of Old Fishmongers' hall. It was constructed of standards captured in a hundred fights, canopied in crimson and decorated with massive shields. When the king stepped ashore he said to two members of the London bridge committee: "Mr. Jones and Mr. Routh, I am very glad to see you on London bridge. It is certainly a most beautiful edifice and the spectacle is the grandest and the most delightful in every respect that I ever had the pleasure to witness." This, of course, says the London News, was before anyone thought of building an annex to Westminster abbey. HOW HE SAVED HIS LUNG. Young Bostonian Who Was Cured of Consumption on a Farm in Ireland, A young Bostonian, reared in the lap of luxury, had lost a lung and physicians informed the father that if he was not sent on an ocean cruise or to the far west he would die of consumption. Accordingly the father put him aboard ship, with $1,400 in cash, and started him off to Samaria, being advised that the dry country between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean was good for consumptives. When he reached Queenstown the boy made the acquaintance of a hard-headed, sensible chap, who told him that Samaria was sure death; that the only way to save his lungs was to go to Wicklow county, near Tinahely, and set to work on a farm. The advice was taken and for nine months the son of Back Bay aristocracy did chores for a man who owned a castle. At the end of that period he was as lusty as a bull moose, with a pair of lungs like a blacksmith's bellows. The former gave him £20 and an honorable discharge. He returned to Boston with his $1,400 and his health. He now lives in New York, a modern Hercules. LAST OF THE DELAWARES. Passing of the Greatest Tribe of Amerien's Aboriges in the Death of Kiankia. Kiankia, descendant of a long line of distinguished Indian chiefs, died a few days ago in a little hut in a secluded spot near the shores of Raritan river, about two miles from Flemington, N. J., and with his passage disappeared the last of the once great and proud tribe of the Delawares. Arthur Tenbroeck, of New York city, who has spent many summers in the neighborhood of Flemington, and who made the acquaintance of the aged chief of an extinct tribe about three years ago, superintended his burial and says that his wishes—that he should be laid away under the shadow of an ancient elm, where once his forefathers sat in solemn council—were carried out. Mr. Tenbroeck says that Kiankia informed him some time before his death that he was 96 years old. "It was generally supposed," said Mr. Tenbroeck, in discussing the death of the last of the Delawares, "that old Indian Anne, who died in Mount Holly in 1894, was the last of the famous tribe, but it was not known then that her brother Kiankia was still alive." It is stated that experiments with aluminum as a substitute for paper are now under way in France. It is now possible to roll aluminum into sheets four-thousandths of an inch in thickness, in which form it weighs less than paper. By the adoption of suitable machinery these sheets can be made even thinner and can be used for book and writing paper. The metal will not oxidize, is practically fire and water proof, and is indestructible by worms. HUMAN ILLS OF ALASKANS. After a residence of 16 months in Alaska an English physician has made a report of the diseases which most afflict the people of that cold region. There are, he says, two seasons. Winter, the season of pack ice; summer, the season of swamps. The winter lasts for nine months, the summer for three. Among human maladies cerebro-spinal meningitis is very prevalent, sometimes in epidemic form, sometimes in sporadic form. It is often difficult to distinguish from the cerebral form of typhoid. Scorbutus is also widespread. Rheumatism is frequent and usually takes the neuralgic type; inflammatory rheumatism is rare. Pneumonia is almost unknown, strange to say. Affections of the digestion are very frequent, owing to poor food; nervous diseases, such as locomotor ataxia, etc., are also frequent. Alcoholism and the like are prevalent, due to the ennui of the long winter, but, on the whole, intemperance is less harmful in Alaska than in more southern climates. Insanity is by no means rare, and it declares itself most frequently in winter, owing to ennui, absence of occupation, lack of exercise and isolation. Its usual form is acute melancholia, almost always followed by acute mania. Suicidal mania is also frequent. Taken altogether the catalogue of Alaskan diseases is a long one and indicates that a vigorous physique and morals is required to resist them. THE BRITISH LOAD LINE. Vessels Are Not Permitted to Carry Surplus Cargoes in English Waters. A short time since the captain of a Dutch vessel here took the singular step of making application to one of the bodies authorized to assign the load line to have the line marked on the side of the vessel, says London Fairplay. This was carried out and the vessel was then loaded. The captain found that the disk was submerged, and in the coolest way possible appears to have waited on the board of trade officials and to have asked them for permission for his vessel to sail in her overloaded condition. To his great surprise he was told by the officials that his vessel would be detained until the surplus cargo was taken out of her. He urged that the load line act applied to British ships only and that consequently his vessel could not be interfered with. It was explained to him that the act referred to foreign as well as British ships and that at any rate he had "given himself away" by actually adopting the British loadline. The officials visited the Dutch vessel when it was discovered that the disk had been incorrectly assigned, being a trifle higher up the ship's side than it should have been—so that in fact she was more overloaded than she even appeared to be. A quantity of cargo was ordered to be discharged—four times the quantity that brought the vessel to her incorrectly assigned loadline. The Dutch captain sailed a sadder man. ST. VINCENT ERUPTION. A Curious Feature Observed by Prof. Russell After the Volcano's Uphenaval. In' Century Prof. Russell prints the following bit of personal observation among his conclusions concerning the West Indian eruptions: "The distribution of hot material discharged from La Soufriere in a belt across the island of St. Vincent, instead of over a V-shaped area as at Martinique, seemed to have an intimate connection with the position of the crater near the summit of La Soufriere and the influence of the trade-winds on the distribution of the material discharged from it. As is well known, the depth of the layer of the atmosphere affected by the trade-winds is comparatively shallow, and above it the air is moving from west to east. The stones and dust abot upward from La Soufriere rose through the trade-wind layer, and were carried eastward by the upper air-current. On falling, however, they again met the influence of the westward-blowing trades and were given a slant in a westward direction sufficient to allow them to pass through windows and enter houses. The windows of some of the houses near Georgetown which face eastward have the appearance of an abandoned house which has served as a target for stones, while the westward-facing windows, or those looking toward the volcano, are but little injured." Bad Hand Made Him Money. When Lord Curzon, now viceroy of India, was at Oxford, he wrote an abominable hand. One day he penned two letters, one of them to a relative and one to a chum with whom he always discussed the faults of their respective relations, and accidentally put these letters into the wrong envelopes. He was about to write a profound apology to his relative when he received the following note from him: "Can't read a word of your four pages, but guess you want some money, you young rascal." Inclosed was a Bank of England note for a good amount. Big Game in South Africa. At the present time many valuable species of big game in South Africa are threatened with extinction. It is proposed to establish regulations for their preservation, and it is suggested that camps should be set apart for the purpose of breeding certain species in order that the country may be restocked with game. HUNTERS FOR HEALTH. An Army of Travelers Always on the Move in Search of Favorable Climate and Conditions. Fully a million people in the United States are constantly out health hunting. With half a million people suffering with tuberculosis, half as many more afflicted with asthmatic and bronchial troubles, and countless numbers possessing from one to half a dozen ordinary diseases which are either attributed to or directly affected by the climatic conditions of the land in which they live, it is not strange that there should be a small army of professional health hunters flitting around from one part of the world to another in search of that chief desideratum of all, happiness in this life, which we happen to know most about. The up-to-date physician must now be a good geographer and well acquainted with all the health resorts of the world. He must know where the best "sun cure" is to be found. He must be able to recommend certain high altitudes where it is dry, but not dry enough to overburden the heart's action. Some cannot stand the irritating winds of the coast and must go inland among the pines, while others must need the coast air. In fact, the physical geography and climate of the world is all things to all men. There is a large class of nervous cranks in the world who refuse to settle anywhere permanently. Something keeps telling them to "keep moving." They are constantly migrating in the chase for health, says the Boston Globe. The army of health hunters is growing every year, and the easy facilities for rapid transit serve to increase it. But there are some drawbacks to the migration cure. The chase after health serves to increase the fear of disease, and fear is the closest servant of death. But there is no healthier place to migrate to for awhile than the old home, for both mind and body. Therefore, don't forget old-home week. The whole man will profit thereby. DOGS TO GUARD THE LOUVRE. Precautions Taken by Paris Authorities to Protect Priceless Collections of the Museum. Though the "diving dogs" of the Parisian river police have been rather ridiculed since they absolutely refused to go to the rescue of the enterprising journalist who threw himself recently into the Seine from the Pont de la Tournelle to try their mettle, dogs are to have another official appointment in Paris. The authorities at the Louvre are instituting a "dog service" to supplement the night guardians of the museum. This excellent innovation has been brought about by the action of an irrepressible journalist, who in his thirst for "copy" hid himself in one of the Roman sarcophagi when the doors of the great museum closed to the public at five in the evening. He was not discovered, and would have remained there all night with the whole of the priceless collection at his mercy had it not been that a friend to whom he had confided his intention wisely informed the authorities. This fact conclusively proved the journalist's contention that the place was not properly guarded, and the authorities for once thought it was best "to shut the stable door before the horse was stolen," and so have settled that in future the night patrol will be accompanied by dogs who can be trusted to scout out intruders. TIGERS ARE THEIR TERROR. These Animals Are Drenaded by the Hindeos More Than Any Others in the Jungle. It is in India that the ravages caused by wild beasts and reptiles are most marked. Not merely single towns or villages, but whole districts, have in times not far distant been converted into deserts by the sudden advent of unusual numbers of tigers or of snakes. The former is especially destructive, and the facts set forth in cold figures in government reports concerning his depredations sound absolutely incredible, says Pearson's Weekly. Even a single tiger which happens to be a confirmed man-eater will often suffice to scare away entire populations. One large male killed 108 people in three years and caused the eventual abandonment of a big cotton factory, together with the model village it supported. Another killed an average of about 80 persons per annum for several years, and during a period of famine so completely closed the roads leading to a certain place that four-fifths of the inhabitants perished of starvation. A third, so late as 1869, killed 127 people, and stopped a public road for many weeks, until the opportune arrival of an English sportsman, who at last shot him. A fourth caused 13 villages to be abandoned and 250 square miles of land to be thrown out of cultivation. There seems to be need of a term to designate the new terrors of our streets, those speed-crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute, says the Horseleas Age. Various terms are loosely applied, but a new compound would be desirable. We suggest the word "automaniac," which is in harmony with several well-known words of Greek derivation already rooted in the language as descriptive of victims of diseased and abnormal appetite (dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac), and conveys a strong and true picture of the mental state of the worst of these offenders against law and decency. The coffee house is a temperance substitute for the inn in England, says Gunton's Magazine. It furnishes, minus the intoxicating stimulants, similar social features, but it is tacked on to the same social habits that the inn developed. In this country those habits were not formed by the saloon experience, and the attempt to establish the coffee house as a substitute for the saloon necessarily lacks that social incentive which exists in England. The coffee house here takes on the feature of the restaurant rather than either the German beer garden or the English inn. The Americans have never learned to go to these places for their leisurely intercourse and amusements and hence do not find it when coffee is substituted for beer. They have gone to the theaters or to the clubs for this social outlet. It is, therefore, not surprising to the careful student of European and American traditions that the coffeehouse plan does not work in this country, though it worked well in England. To be successful, social and economic as well as political institutions must largely grow out of the habits, customs and desires of the people. They cannot to any considerable extent be transplanted from one country to another. THE NATURE OF COWS. Have Their Likes and Dislikes and Act at Times Very Much Like Human Beings. "Cows have their likes and their dislikes," said the milkmaid to the summer boarder who was curious to see every part of the farm, according to the New York Tribune. "For instance, a cow admires a horse, and will stand and watch one for a long time. She is sort of timid about him, but she admires him just the same. She has a contempt for a mule, and seems to be amused by his antics. Hoga she tolerates, that's all. And sheep, she hates. She will not eat grass where sheep have been. She hates dogs, too, but will tolerate the shepherd dog, because she knows she simply has to, and that the shepherd dog will not bite her. "Cattle go wild at being let into a fresh pasture," added the milkmaid. "It seems to go to their heads. Each is afraid that the other has got a better feeding place than herself, and tries to drive her neighbor away." "Then there is a good deal of human nature in the cow, after all," mused the summer boarder, who had studied a year or two at a university, and was given to philosophical reflections. "Weil, I should smile," answered the milkmaid. "A single cow, with a calf will boss a whole herd of steers," and, swinging her pail over her arm, she went down to the milking pans. 'TWIXT SUMMER AND AUTUMN "One thing that has been puzzling me ever since I struck this part of the country is the easterner's division of the seasons," lamented the man from Milwaukee, according to the New York Times. "Out where I come from we always count August as a summer month, but the New York and New England population—and especially the theatrical portion thereof—evidently classify it otherwise. "I have reached the conclusion by reading the advertisements on the billboards. You may travel the length of any prominent theatrical street in every good-sized eastern city and take occasional peeps into the adjoining streets, and at the entrance to almost every theater not now doing business you will see this sign: 'Closed for the summer. Will reopen in August.' "Now what I want to know is, what is the status of August in this part of the country? Is it a summer month, or a fall month, or a winter month, or has it been lopped off from all the divisions of the year established by the calendar and been made to constitute a season by itself?" The startling charge that many New York children are born blind in subterranean apartments under great office buildings in New York because their mothers for years have never seen the light of day is made by Rev. Dr. David M. Steele, one of the curates of St. Bartholomew's parish. Dr. Steele says: "How many know that some of the great office buildings have under them apartments for 50 families, and that in these families children are sometimes born blind, because their mothers for whole years never see daylight? How many know that on the roofs of these buildings there are families of janitors whose six-year-old children have never stepped upon the ground?" Dr. Steele is an authority on life on the east side and in the tenement districts. Charles Dickens' office table, chair and looking glass and another highback chair he used in the editor's office of All the Year Round were sold at auction in London lately for 425. They were given at Dickens' death to his housekeeper, and sold by her to a collector. The Siberian Railway. Foreigners will not be permitted to travel over the Siberian railway without special Russian authorization. This has been officially announced by the Russian consul at Shanghai. CHINESE FOND OF GAMING. They Are Inveterate Card Players and Have Games of Their Own Invention. The "heathen Chinee" portrayed by Bret Harte, with "his sleeves full of saes and bowers," is not a creation of fiction. In fact, almost every native of the celestial empire is a born gambler and will hazard all he possesses on the turn of a card. If there is one thing the Chinese in America cannot understand regarding our customs it is why the police and courts should take cognizance of gambling. It is a recognized amusement in China and the Chinaman is a reckless gambler. They have several kinds of playing cards, but the general name for them is chepae, or paper tickets. The cards are two inches and a half in length and half an inch wide and the kind most commonly used are called tseen-wanehe-pae, "a thousand times 10,000 cards." This pack has 30 cards—three suits of nine each and three independent suits which are superior to the rest. The suits are named respectively "nine myriads of strings of beads," "nine units of cakes" and "nine units of chains." There are several queer names for other varieties of playing cards. One is called "the hundred boys' cards," another "ehariots, horses and guns" and a third, curiously devised on the principle of some of our historical games, is called "a thousand times 10, 300 men's names cards." GIVE BABIES SOLID FOOD One Cause of the Emormous Dead Hate Among Children of New York's Poor. The average mother in easy circumstances will smile rather derisively on hearing that France has a law making it a crime to give solid food to any child under one year old. Yet every tenement house worker, visiting nurse, health department officer or settlement resident can testify that the custom of feeding solid food to toothless infants is wellnigh universal in the alum tenements, says a writer in the New York Tribune. France, with her low birth rate, has found that she cannot spare the 20,000 babies that were lying every year before the state took them under its care. The American waste of child life amounts to 300,000 annually under five years, the proportion of deaths being greatest among the foreign population, where the high birth rate is balanced by a heavy death rate. Beer, tea, coffee, condensed milk, watermelon, green corn and pork rind are among the "dainties" handed out to the unfortunate tenement house infant. "My baby sit up at table and eat everything all same as grown up, now," said one young foreign mother, proudly, displaying her saffron colored one year-old to the pitying eyes of the superintendent of a day nursery. CANNIBALISM IN PARIS. Parts of the Human Which Bank Delicate Tit-Bits in the Various Quarters. Cannibalism is still rife among the Paris hooligans. The last case we recorded was one of ear-eating; the other day it was a nose, says the Paris Messenger. Tastes differ with different localities, and whereas at La Villette policeman's ear is looked upon as a delicate tit-bit, at Bercy constable's nose is not despised. Bercy is where the wine comes from, and it may be that ruddy nasal organ is preferred to a pale one by the local man-eater. At one a. m. an "agent" of the name of Pedamons was on duty on the Boulevard de Bercy when his assistance was sought by a publican who requested him to act as "chucker out," one of his customers being drunk and refusing to quit. The customer in question, a man named Bailly, took no heed of the constable and the latter clasped him round the waist in order to evict him. Bailly thereupon started biting and tore the constable's nose right off. He was subsequently arrested and Pedamons was taken to the hospital. If an operation is performed it would only be right to take flesh from Bailly's arm to provide the policeman with a new nose. Railways Without Rails. It is suggested that the automobile will give us, after awhile, lines of railway without rails, if such an expression may be allowed. On Long Island, for example, an automobile road of 50 miles in length is to be constructed, to cross other roads either above or below grade, so that the owners may speed their machines as they please. When this has been done, the next step will be, perhaps, to attach trailers, and then passengers and freight will be taken, and a regular traffic established. At least it may reasonably be expected that the building of such roads will result in the running of automobile coaches as feeders to steam or electric lines, where it would not pay to lay a railroad track. An Astonishing Narrative. The Pioneer tells a story of a rat which on one occasion was caught alive on a ship and thrown over board. A seagull was floating by the side of the ship. Immediately there ensued a battle royal, and the rat strangled the seagull to death. He then sat upon the carcass of the seagull, unfurled its left wing to catch the wind, and, working the right wing as an oar, set sail for the shore! The Trade of Smyrna Smyrna is the smartest town in Turkey so far as trade is concerned. It does a bigger business than Constantinople. It is the headquarters of the wool and of the rug and carpet trade. PEACH STONES FOR FUEL, © - Sees arb syc cal ee ppeas, soe! a = Belt The strike and the increased cost of coal incideait: bok Giveey puch ettention: ther materials for fuel, and a°Baitimore man says s good substitute for'the bleck dia- mond is Grie@ peseh stones. The only objection to*thelr- tse is their scarcity, which Gepen@s entirely on the size of the- “‘erop. Frank Hall, the eam Feferred to, says bis family bad used peach stones as fuel for years umtil sbout three or four years ago, since which time the supply bas @ppeared to have de creased. : “We used to get the dried peach stones from Mf. Noel, who got them from the Gifferent packing-houses and dred them.on his place,” sai? Mr. Hall. “I think we psid $2.50 a joad for them, the load containing sbout 45 bushels. The fuel was used in the kitchen and gave good results. The stcnes will make @ quick, hot fire, aod one that will last. One and » half or two buckets of the peach stones will ‘last as Jong as a bucket of coal. One has to be careful not to fill the stove too full or there will likely be an explosion similar to s gasoline explosion. The proper way to keep the fire goimg is to put ins sbovelful ate time. “Peach stones thrown into e damp selisr,” said Mr. Hall, “are said to cave a peculiar effect on s person. After the stones are in the cellar for some time gases arise, and the fumex ill go to one’s bead and give the ume effect as if the distilled product of the peach bad been imbibed.” LIVES BY SELLING CANDY. Business of a Bright Young Syracuse Giri—Oustersers Help Them peives. How to make money by selling boi bons and trusting to the honesty of parchasers is @ problem that a bright young girl of Syracuse hassolved. Her place of business is @ little booth where the customer enters and helps himself to what he wants, leaving the price in the till, where he makes his own change. In siz months she has sold 16,000 boxes of candy and her losses have been leas than five pounds of candy and less than five dollars in mash. She finds that people are gen- wally honest. Rev. F. H. Towns, Maplewood's news- Sealer, has been testing the honesty of Maplewood people in somewhat the tame way for several years and has sever lost a copper. He leaves the pe- 2ers on the window sill in his little shop near the Maplewood depot, with nstructions for anyone to takes peper and throw the money in the open win- jow onto the floor. He has sold hun- ireds of im this way end cas alvage Saeaaineeatel acta sumber of papers taken. This recalls the sociologist who, to ‘est the question of popular honesty, usked in succession s large number of persons if they had lost half = dollar which be pretended to have picked up m 8 street in New York. Every one lisclained ownership. Honesty is not 0 rere a virtue as some suppose. COLOR-MAKING BACTERIA. large Kambers of the Micre-Orgaa- isms That Predsce Verious- Beeé Matters, ‘The prepa mo ere out of all proportion to ir tot the least interesting phase of their existence is that described in an.erti- dein La Nature by Henri Coupin. M. Coupin treats especially of the color- ing matters produeéd by bacteria, some of which are noteworthy for their brilliancy and others for their themical or physiologies} peculfari- ties. Says M. Coupin: 4 “A large number of bacteria pro- duce coloring matter, sometimes very wid * © 8 2 @ pipiens most numerous, the tnxide the elements thet manufacture it; thus the becteria themselves are colored. Im the other See Spreads, es it ie produced, sur rounding medium, end thie has the characteristic color, while the bacteria themselves are pale or even colorless. Thus the becillus fluorescens and otb- ers are nearly white, while they color the culture medium green.” j Every species, we aré told, has ite Particular eolor; ee Snother golden, arebrilliant one at least is pink, the bacillue of bine milk is sky blue; are respect- ively greenish r ‘and brown. The cha: eeesese af mass cacuce owe dain aloe 0 i crubes that ° ries. a Brave Women. Millie Hennius, the Indisn women, of Vancouver, who recently received the medal of the ‘Humane So- tiety, was going ‘buaband, her three small shildren and = woman triend, in « boat to-thé north erm of Burrard Inlet, ‘The 1 is turned in = stom. “The weighted by @ om and heevy ty the wean aii Saas Sass the woman. ra. ven ere tyear-old iu her teeth, « nd 2 r dering each ft the ott pes eee one of her shoulders) swan, i ome ihe heade of sil. thres bore the, 4! Mustaches are not ¥ Hashes agate Soe ae ae ae el See Se eee oe ee IMPORTANCE OF WASHINGTON. x Cquttent Seats “@imbin <0. eis Capital City an, & Dipic- matic Post. _ There is a new fector in European politics; it “is America, More par- ticularly is thie new factor import- Sah the coleulations of the British empire. Sevelopment of the center from Paris to Washington, but our goverament altogether ig- ‘Rores the altered situation, says the ‘London Truth. “The following table ot *selaries paid to our diplomatic -Tepresentatives. is instructive: The pone png ep enone Vienna, £8,000; et St. Petersburg, _ £7,800; at Rome, £7,000; at Wash- ‘ington, £6,500. Apart from other considerations, it is, therefore ob- vious that Paris is regarded by our ‘diplomatiste as the prize of the ser- viee, while Washington ie a low rung im the ambassadorial ladder. But ‘the United States send their best ‘men to represent them in London, Londen is the appointment [which -¢hose wen most velse It is an Sn we meee from our minds the lingering impression that America is rebellious British col- ony—e vulgar Anglo-Saxon suburb. The United States is now « great country, the most important foreign element that Great ‘Britain has ‘0 deal with. Washington, must, there- ‘fore, be made the principal post in our @iplomatic service, and to do that the salary must be considerably Faised, even if at the expense of the other firstclass appointments. It Would be ® pitiful blunder to appoint & new ambasseador to succeed Lord Paeuncefote on the old lines, to wit, 8 & Tepresentative to the last im- portant embasey but Madrid! . THE LOTTERY INIQUITY. Survives im Spite of AM B@oets of Otvil Authorities to Mame Be Out, The Louisiana lovtery, the biggest of the lot, was driven out of New Orleans and out of the United States after years of attack by the postal suthori- ties and the press. But the lottery evil is still with us, says the Atlanta Jour- nal. Savannah is the lottery center of Georgia. It is said that several men have made fortunes by dealing in lot- tery tickets. There is hardly « city of considerable sise in the United Btates where lottery tickets may not be pur- chased. 4 Mexico bee s large number and va- riety of lotteries whieh are liberally patronized in this country, Canade also supplies lottery tickets in great numbers to dealers in the United States and to individual purchasers. France, Germany and several other European countries help to satisfy the craving of our citizens who consider the lettery 2 quick and sure way to fortune. All classes of people supply the patrons who enrich the lotteries. Many persons of wealth buy lottery ticketa regularly. The wage earners of the United States squander a large per cent. of their earnings in this form of gambling. Lotteries antedate eivili- zation. Some of the earliest human records indicate the antiquity of lot- teries. They thrive on the love of gam- bling, which is one of the most univer- sa] passions of men. ‘ LOOKING FOR A WIFE. Bo Was “Huskier” and “Morre!” Bu Gouléa’t Beast of Much f Béucatica. A Mississippi man sent the following letter in answer to 6 matrimonisl ad vertisement: “I inelose my photogral with My Full Descriptions. It show: the features as nachel as can bee only it is to Dark; Iam very lite Com- plexion, Gray eyes, Orbon helix, ¢ 4094 high, waight 190 Lbs, inclined to hump shouldered; A Muakler Man and a widower 28 years old, with A Com- mon School Equations, but hav Got Anof to Atten to Enny Business. I ax Strictly Morrel: Don't ese Tobsecc Nor Whiskey.” He is anxious to have her understand that her “Age, Com plecktions, wait snd Mil Suits me t stee, Kind Loving Girl) I hav Only one Thing to Offer, And it is Neithez Lands Ner Gold. But « Strong Arm and True Hert, and will Lay Down ‘My Life for the Rite Girl and Be happy. for i am Tired of living Alone. ‘That Girl that Steela my Hart and takes my Name for the Remainder of ‘My Lif i will. make Happy, for i am Hunting s Girl thet i ean idleise and Make o Angel of.” = ‘ Tree That Taras te Stone. There is s tree that grows m Mexico called the “ehijol,” or stone tree. It is of enormous proportions, both in circumference and height. It hae s number of branches spreading out widely snd carrying leaves of a yellow- ish green color. The wood is extreme- ly fine and easily worked in a green state. Itia notgiven to either warping or splitting. The most remarkable thing sbout it is that after being cut the wood gets gradually barder, and in ‘the course of afew years it im sbsolute- ly petrified, whether left in the open ait or buried in the ground. From this ‘timber houses can be built eompistely fire-proof, and would inst as long es though built of stone. Sine. a Incidental to the thunder eeason, the weather bureau bas diseovered that more then 700 persons sre killed by Hightaing every year tn the United Btetes. In wetter of fatalities from 4896 to 1900 Pennsyivenia ranked first ‘Hiineis, Indians and New “were HCW EGYPT IS GOVERNED, ‘The Khedive Is Supreme and OD- talneé His Power Through Berece of Arma, eae ee ee ‘the girection of o khedive, seventh ruler of the dynasty of Mahomet Ali, who was appoitted governor of Bgypt in 18906 and made himself, in 1811, ab- ‘solute master of the country by force of arms. The control of the khedive wes gradually increased, and in 1873 he was given the privilege of conclad- ing commercial treaties with forsign powers and wmaintaining armies. From 1879 to 1553 two comptrollers general—appointed by, France and England—had considerable power in directing the affairs of the country, but in 1882. in consequence of a mili- tary rebellion, England intervened in behalf of the khedive, and, as this in- tervention was not joined by France, the joint contro] was abolished end a decree signed by the khedive giving to England the right to appoint an English financial adviser, without whose concurrence no financial deci- sion can be taken, and since that time an English officer has cooperated in the direction of financial affairs in Egypt.. A number of representative institutions, including a legislative council and genera] assembly, were created by the khedive in 1883, and the legislative council, which is a consulte- tive body of 30 members, 14 of whom &re nominated by the government, meete once a month to examine the budget. and may propose lawa, but eannot initiate leciciation_ SNAILS FOR THE TABLE." Some Sent to Parts Are Fed on Ave matic Herbs to tmpreve Thetr Flayor. ‘The popularity of the snail as an ar- ticle of food is not confined to Paris, but extends throughout southern Eu- Tope and some parts of Africa. Dr. Ed- ward, a French writer, in a pamphiet, says that 90,000 pounds of snails are sent daily to Paris from the gardens at Poitou, Burgundy, Champagne and Provence. Those reared in gardens are fed on aromatic herbs to improve their flavor. Their market price is from 3 francs 50 centimes to 3 frances 50 centimes a hundred, while those from the hedges, woods and forests bring only 2 francs td 2 france 60 centimes. The proprietor of one sneil- ery ip the vicinity of Dijou nets over 7,000 franca annually. The snail is reared and fattened with grest care in some cantons of Switzerland as an article of luxury, and is exported ina pickled state. It ts also eaten as 3 relish and nutritious article of food in Austria, Spain, Italy and in some sections of the United States: The Ashantees and other African tribes smoke them and est them as daily food all the year around. In Algeria, in the markets, large heaps of snails are sold by the bushel and the hundred as an article of food. Vendors hawk them in the streets of Cairo. In modern Rome fresh-gathered snails are hawked by women from door to door. PRESERVE WEDDING GOWE. Kept by Many Women as a Memente @f the Most importa of AM Bvenuts. A woman's wedding gown is seldom ‘worn except on anniversary occasions after the day upon which the nuptials are celebrated) Most woman regard this garment as especially sacred and take extraordinary means to preserve it im all ite pristine purity. The wed- en sorte ane ae jo bride to adopt, and it bids fair to have quite s vogue. That every bride possessed of any gentiment wishes to keep her wedding gown ina state of preservation fs s foregone conclusion, and this elegant receptacle ia admirably suited to the purpose for which it was designed. It is made of light wood enameied white and having the bride's initials in silver letters op the outside. A lining of tufted white sstin is revealed on opening the box, end losks of silver and white leather straps fasten it. A photograph of the ‘wedding gown is often taken by the modiste before sending it home and making « collection of the photo- graphs of wedding gowns or eny other distinctive costumes is one of the pres- ent fads, the idea being to preservethe pictures as mementoes for future gen- erstions.and also as illustrations of present-day fashions. Ancient Humas Remains. Human remains recently unearthed at Girga, in Egypt, consist of a con- tinuous series extending backward over at least 6,000 years. The bodies sre so weil preserved, owing to the dryness of the atmosphere in the re- gion and to the perfection of inter- ment, that not only can the hair, the asils, the ligaments, be made out, but also the muscies and the nerves. In almost every case the brain also is preserved, and the climax has been reached in two casés where the eyes, with the lens in good condition, are present. There are now unearthed Scena Moagnon te ans ae a ranging throughout the is pastios, others of the eighteenth, and yet others of the Ptolemaic and early a Seperctitices Miners ‘Three hundred miners the other Gay refused to go down the Glyn eorryg colliery, near Port Talbot, in Wales, because they said it . was haunted. It was asserted that the figure of a woman bearing « lighted lamp had been seen in the workings sad the screams of a woman heard. ras Miimecis River Carp. . PP ships anoually to New York 000 worth of German carp, ee es ae ee teen Je wala hes heer a cel Play Havec with a Shoot- img Gallery's Targets. A wiry-looking bronzed youth in a khaki uniform walked into a Philadel- phia shooting gallery the other day things spade Philedeiph ‘says the ia Press. There were four stationary bulls-eye targets, representing men and animals, at the rear of the gallery, and on these the marksman rapped out a series of clangs that resembled realistic rendition of the anvil chorus. Then he took a fresh rifle and beat a tattoo on ea psir of swinging targets. A row of several scores of clay pipes next received his attention, and the proprietor of the place spent a bad five minutes figuring out the time and money it would to lace the dhudeens that Soe ees oe. Sev- eee er aes ware re for the youth ind the gun. The only thing breakable remaining was a glass ball supported by a dancing wa- ter jet. This the marksman failed to smash, though he spent half an hour and considerable ready money in an endeavor before leaving. “Darn those fellows from the Philippines!” ex- claimed the shooting gallery man. “That's the second one to clean \me out to-day. If it hadn't been for that gises ball on the water I'd have come out to the bad both times.” NATIONALITY IN FEET. Peeuliarities of the Pedal Bxtremi- ties of Some Races of the a ' @84@ Werld, National characteristics are many and varied and scientists are always Giscovering new things in which we differ from our neighbors on the con- tinent. The latest of these is feet, says London Answers. The French foot is narrow and long. The Spanish foot is small and elegant- ly curved—thanks to ite Moorish blood —corresponding to the Castilian’s pride of being “high in the instep.” The Arab’s foot is proverbial for its high arch. The Koran says that a stream of water can run under the true Arab's foot without touching it. The foot of the Scotch is high and thick; that of the Irish, flat and square; the "English, short and fieshy. When Athens was in her zenith, the Grecian foot was the most perfectly formed and exactly proportioned of that of any of the human race. Swedes, Norwegians, and Germans have the largest feet, Americans the smallest. Russian toes are “webbed” to the first joint: Tartarian toes are all the same BAR BIG BANARAS. ‘The Large Pret is Nearly Always Se lected by Purchasers, But it Is the Poorest, Tt comes natural to everyone to get “ae much as he can for his money,” but in endeavoring to do so he is often led astray. The biggest is not always the best, and this applies even to such a common thing 4s the fruit sold in shops and streets, says London An- swers. A London dealer who has handled tons of fruit said recently: “It is often amusing to see men, women and children picking out, as they believe, the choicest fruit at the shops and off barrows. If there are half s dozen big oranges within sight, they will have them, even if it is necessary to overturn all othér varieties that are sold by the piece of dozen. “They invariably get the poorest specimens of the whole lot, and yet are not aware of it. It is only rarely you tind @ person who is s good judge, and he will at once size up the heaviest oranges, lemons or bananas, regard- leas of size, and gete the choicest TROUBLES OF MAP-MAKING. Although Government Has Been En- waged in the Werk 20 Years, It Is Uneompieted, ‘The geological survey of the United States has just issued a report show- ing that although 20 years has been devoted to mapping out the country te a. veyed. In some of the ec- tions the work is attended with the greatest difficulties and dangers. Re cently a party sent to map northern Montana was obliged by the severity of the weather to climb Calf moun- tain no fewer than eight times—the last 1,300 feet on foot—before an op portunity was presented to get a photograph of the surrounding coun- try. The photographic method is em ployed in all such wild regions. When the ‘aegatives were finally secured ft waa after waiting sll day in a driv- ing snowstorm. Then there was a ‘dull of -a-few seconds, during which six shapehots were made. During the other seven days the snow was Co ‘The Mateer’s American Stecks. The German emperor is reputed to have pearly $3,000,000 invested in Union Pacific and other American railway stocks, lately acquired; his experiences in German investments under the recest collapse of specula- tion and industry having proved cost- ly to him. gtish E and, explorer, is king of es” on ma- Matice Gling after’ archeclogsel specimens. Bi ; achive eee ment ray al h sa cams 8: BURIED AMERICAN - HISTORY. 014 Wiliiamaburs im Virginia That ‘Was Intended as a Chartered Oty Under Royalty. Even in a country so recently con- selous of the past as our own, there are buried cities awaiting the pickax of the historian. Of these, none is perhaps more interesting, certainly none more picturesque, more colon- fal and—even to-day—more English than old Williamsburg, in Virginia— that “middle plantation,” which in 1832 was “laid out and paled,” to be- eome a chartered city, the capital of & great eolony under king and crown. Ite three streets of the reign of William and Mary are its only thor- oughfares and two “back” streets, hardly more than grase-grown lanes of to-day. Duke of Gloucester street, broad and genially hospitable, stretches leisurely from the founda- tions of the ancient capitol building on the east (of whose walls not one brick is left nor one white pillar of its porticos) to the iron turnstile gates of William and Mary college grounds at the western extremity of the town. On the right, as one enters the college gate, is a charming mansion, the residence of the president of William and Mary, and upon the left, seross the campus, stands the old Rrafferton building, the earliest school for the education of Indians erected on American soil. In the time of Gov. Spotswood, says Coun- try Life in America, it was necessary to resort to strenuous efforts to in- sure attendance, for the students were mainly hostages, the sons of chiefs of neutral or friendly tribes during Indian warfare. FIRST MONT PELEE DRAMA. A Play with the Martinique Volcane im It Produced t= Parts i 1860, It is searcely to be expected that the dramatists ever seeking some new field tor the scene of their efforts will long allow the volcanic explosions at St. Pierre to escape them. But even the earliest to utilize any scenes of the re- 2ent eruptions will not be a pioneer in drawing inspiration from Mont Pelee, says the New York Sun. It has been recalled by a Frenchman with a long memory that Adolphe YEnnery, author of “The Two Or- phans.” “A Celebrated Case,” and tbout a hundred other meiodramas, weceeded in getting before the public irst with a play based on the voleano at Martinique. It was called “The Earthquake at Martinique,” and was veted in 1840 at the Theatre de la Jaiete in Paris. The old play in spite of its horrors is said to have been very effective on the stage. In it the villain who mur- fered an old man led his wife and laughter into @ erater of the voleano (00 feet under the surface of the earth. There was a sudden earthquake and the villain fell into a cavity and was killed, while the woman and her ebild were rescued. 8LK TEETH AS INVESTMENT. One of the Chief Assets of = Men- tama Man Who Mas « Big Fortune, “Elk teeth by the bushel are one of the chief assets which John Losekamp, of Billings, Mont., enumerates among ais big fortune,” said E. M. Hoskins, a Butte man, reports the Denver Post. “Losekamp keeps 8 genera! store at Billings and for many years it was his 2ustom to trade supplies of one kind or another for elk teeth, which, by the way, were used for charms and amulets ong before the Elks took them up is the emblems of their order. “The action of the Colorado lodges 2B agreeing to wear no more elk teeth recause the demand for the teeth saused a wholesale slaughter of elk, aad = marked effect in reducing the orice. Other lodges respected the mo- tive, and quite a boycott on elk teeth was on for a year or more. It seems, however, they are indemand again. -“Losekamp has been selling his at two dollars’ apiece for ordinary teeth and getting fancy prices for the very 2est. His stock is sufficient to supply the demand for years, but he makes no effort to sell them, as he wants to leave them as-a part of his estate, be- lieving they will increase in value fast- er than any other kind of property.” LOATHE SIGHT OF GOLD. That le the B@ect of Constant Goa- taet with the Metal Upon Mint Bmpicyes. “I have visited the mints of three countries,” remarked s traveler, s med- ical. man, according to the Chicago Tribune, “and I have found all the of- ficial guides in them broken down in nerve and victims of insomnia. Every one of these officials is required to give bonds, not only for his own hon- esty, but tocover theft by visitors whom a oer ae Sen ene. eee tomary to hand money a! it am: tho Vidiatas 40. chav’ the Glan ta tha different stages of development. If the een roe euee of are a aos ca tte Manel Go fa Moonee 0 Paris, the man confessed that the sight of coined gold and silver was odious to and that he bad come to look everyone who visited the mineas . robber. . — in pearly every case it has affected pon fold and lver had afecicd his nae Sabha nieae hae deaneen o certain obj a sSgpae~ Sata sprsagpened ad BAMES AMONG SEGROES. How So Many 044 and Classical Ay pellations Came to Be Borne — There is e good reason for the co rious proper names ¢ven now in. use amongst negroes, says an article on the American negro, in Leslie's Month- ly. Their native African names were scarcely ever used, owing to both dif ficulty in pronunciation as well se inability on the part of the black: to give them when demanded. The hundreds it was necessary to name on the arrival of cargo caused the dey! of the week, months, numbers, ani- mals, gods and goddesses, heroes. demi-gods, Biblical characters, Shakes pearean names and the shorter Eng lish and French Christian names of the @ay to be used over and over again. In every district were dozens of sable workers anewering to such names as Tuesday, Friday, July, November, Pri- mus (in use to this dey), Sixteen (rare even then), Doe, Hart, Rabbit, Fox (in we now), Jupiter, Pallas, Hector, Ve nus, Diana (now “Di"), Perseus, Her- cules, Aaron, Moses, Pharoh, Romulus, Remus, Hamlet, Othello, Caesar (8 favorite), Jonaa Rose, Priscilla, John, Jack, Lize, Beth and others. Varis- tions were had by prefixing “Young” or “Old” to the name given. The American negroes acquired their sur- names rather sunrmarily immediately after the emancipation. % WISE HINDOO STAR GAZER. Astrologers Who Propheaied the Mb mess and Recovery of King Béward, of Bagitaad, Some remarkable horoscopes of the health of Edward VII, prepared by famous Hindoo astrologers, were pub- Mshed November 4 last in the Hindoo, a native newspaper. These horoscopes were recently reprinted in the same paper and have been hailed with im- mense relief by the king’s loyal sub- jecte in India. These horoscopes are certainly most remarkable, when we remember they were published eight months ago, though we may smile at the cure suggested in the second: 4 Tanjore astrologer predicted: “Our beloved emperor will be soon en- throned (Pattabhi-ehekam) and. will brilliantly reign over his kingdom for ® period of not less then 15 years to come. Gome sickness would trouble him, but his majesty’e Hfe is secure for many years to come.” A Dindigul astrologer stated: “The Position of the planets shows that be tween June 21 and 28, 1902, the king- emperor will suffer of boils like car buncles throughout the body and the conjunction also indicates danger. As ®& panacea for thie evil the emperor is recommended to make gifts of black bulls, as it would give considerable relief and sustenance to him.” TITLE WAS SOON PROVEN. Unele Sam Buys Back Land trom Maa te Whom It Was Sold by Gow ewmument tan 18460. “You may go beek home and pre- pare the papers for the transfer of your land to the government, making gure you have the deed set forth every transfer of the property, and, when this is completed you can ob- tain the $7,500 which as been socept- ed as the government price for yous site for a postoffice.” “Well, if that’s all you want, I can fix that up real quick. Just say that the property is transferred to the United States from John MeCusick to whom the Innd was deeded by the United States in the year 1840.” - This is the conversation which took place in the treasury depart ment cf the United States Saturday between Supervising Architect Tay- lor and John MecCusick, of Stillwater, Minn., at the consummation of the bargain in which the government se cures the title to a postoffice site in Stillwater. McCusick bought the land from the government st $1.25 per acre in 1840. He has held it ever since, and now he is selling 135x150 feet of it back to the government for the sum of $7,500. FORGOT HE HELD A POLICY. & Burneé-Owt Boston Clothing Mes- ehaat Whe Overlooked a Risk et $4,000, & Boston clothing house was de stroyed by fire recently and in con- nection with the adjustment of the losses the representative of one of the insurance companies interested discovered that the insured had @ policy for $4,000 which had been over- looked. Upon making representations to the firm the proprietor denied that he had any such policy, and it was only on the protiuction of the books of the Queen, showing when the premium had been paid, that he was eonvinced that he was entitled to the sum involved. Even then he declared that the insurance concern had made « mistake, but if it insisted that he was entitled to it he would consent to take the money. The cecurrence was so exceptional that special in- terest bas been taken im the case, with the result that the firm's credit will probably be materially strength- ee ! Zest Ee@fee Cite Leentes The site of the lost Indian city Mascoutena, which was reported a# having 200,000 inhabitants in 1675, has been determined by the Iabors of Thomas Clithero, of Portage, Wis. sow extended over many years. It was the largest city in all indian his- Or econ and the descrip is concerned, ene ote Fonaia tn the souree the seventeenth century, closing Marquette and Joliet in 1673, are said to have been verified = = = =——=—s J. Wesley Plummer, one of Sheriff Magerstadt's cheap lackles, has gone busted in the saloon business and is going through bankruptcy. Wes, who wanted to be County Commissioner, owes nearly two thousand dollars, and he has no money on hands to pay his creditors. He was in the saloon business at 3020 State street, and it is claimed by many of the boys that Wes and his partner, Garner, drank up all the profits. George Jackley Terrell, Ed. Morris, attorney for the "Gamblers' Trust," Jasper Thomas, Jim Seven Come Eleven Miller, Old Barnett, Mushmouth Johnson, Andy Carey, Little Whisk Bill Ward, Longgreen Murray, Col. John R. Marshall, the old short raw-boned tramp from Miss., Mrs. Rebecca Springstine and Co. are figuring on going before the U. S. Grand Jury next month for the purpose of getting Julius F. Taylor indicted for sending obscure literature through the U. S. Malls. Col. John R. Marshall and his bosom friend Mush-mouth Johnson went on a pleasure trip to New Orleans, La., last winter and these two leaders of the Afro-American race, we don't think, occupied the same bunk in the rear end of the Pullman car, in going to and returning from the Springfield convention, and everybody knows that Col. Marshall spends much of his time in Mush-mouth's big gambling joint, 464 State street. Notwithstanding this fact Ernest J. Magerstadt, the mis-Sheriff of this County, who is growing rich from starving the prisoners, thinks that Col. John is the only colored man in Chicago, who has sense enough to represent the Afro-Americans on the Board of County Commissioners, because he, the Col., trains or runs with the gambling or sporting element which are led by Col. Mush-mouth Johnson, Poney Moore, Sam Snowden, Bob Motts and Co. The Ladies of St. Thomas Church have completed all arrangements to entertain its members and friends Wednesday evening, Oct. 1st, at the cosy home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A.Willianms 3544 Dearborn St.; Choice refreshments will be served, dancing will be order, the proceeds of the affair will be used to tender Rev. A. Lealtad a vacation trip and it can be said that from the time Rev. Lealtad became the pastor of St. Thomas, he has not had a vacation of one day and inasmuch as he has labored hard to implant pure and noble ideas into the minds of those who attend his services—he is entitled to have a short vacation. Rev. Lealtad dose not transform his church into a political hall,nor run around after the candidates for two or three dollars or a drink of fighting whisky like some of the Afro-American preachers of Chicago—this is to his everlasting credit and The Broad Ax hopes this function gotten up by the ladies of his church will be largely attended. FRIENDLY ADVICE FREE. From on and after this date all Afro Americans, who are confined in the Cook County jail, and the other penal institutions of this county, who have been tricked or defrauded out of their money by scheming and unscrupulous white and black lawyers or alleged lawyers under the pretense of signing their bonds or securing their release or freedom are requested to communicate with Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ay, City. AGENTS FOR THE BROOD AX. From on and after this date The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following places: E. H. Faulkner, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3104 State street. A. F. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 368 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. Battise's Barber Shop, 139 W. 47th street. J. E. Webb's Cigar Store, 280, 29th Street. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. Disraeli's satire. This is what Disraeli wrote at the time of Queen Victoria's coronation, and some may feel the same way now: "I must give up going to the coronation, as all the members of parliament must be in court dresses or uniforms, and I can't afford to buy any. I console myself with the conviction that to get up at seven o'clock, to sit dressed like a funky in Westminster abbey for seven or eight hours, and to listen to a sermon by the bishop of London are treats which can be missed with fortitude." Big Pay for - Tooth. A Russian opera singer who had five front teeth knoel'd out in a railway accident has been awarded compensation in the shape of $50,000. NATIONAL DEBT OF PRUSSIA. In 1000 It Amounted to About 8,200,000,000 Marks-How It Was Chiefly Incurred. An article on the "National Debts of the World" appears in the North American Review. It is on "The Public Debt of Prussia," and is from the pen of Dr. Adolph Wagner, professor of political economy in Berlin university. Prussia appears to be in a very happy case. Summing up his description of her financial obligations, which were mainly incurred in purchasing or constructing railways, Dr. Wagner says: "Prussia's state debt, including her share in the imperial debt, amounted for the year 1900 to about 8,200,000,000 marks, entailing an outlay of about 321,000,000 marks (not reckoning the sinking fund of the imperial debt). That is to say, it represents about 244 marks of capital and 9.5 marks of annual charges per head of the population, against 314 marks and 12.5 marks in Great Britain, and 629 marks and 21.2 marks in France. But, in these latter countries, both the interest and the repayment of the debt have to come almost entirely out of the pockets of the people; whereas in Prussia, as in the whole of Germany, this is entirely achieved by the surplus from the state railways and other government property—a surplus so large that it suffices besides to cover nearly half the expenditures of the army and navy, so that only the other half and the charges of the civil administration have to be provided for out of the taxes." MOST VERSATILE OF PEERS. An English Nobleman Who Is a Preacher and a Schoolmaster in Turns. One of the most peculiar of English dignitaries is Lord Normanby, who is a clergyman living in a castle, who not only attends strictly to the duties of his ecclesiastical office, but runs a school as well. Many sons of noblemen have been trained at Lord Normanby's beautiful Mulgrave castle, overlooking the North sea, near Whitby, and the marquis, who is at once proprietor and headmaster of the school, has won for it a lasting reputation. His boys are perhaps the only boys in England to call the holder of five titles of peerage "headmaster." It is said that Lord Normanby gently wields an iron rod and that his discipline is of the strictest kind, but no boy has ever left him it is said, with anything but the happiest of recollections. A story which ought to be true has been told of the marquis, who is, moreover, a canon of Windsor and a friend of the king. The wife of a millionaire, the story goes, wrote to Lord Normanby proposing to send her son to his school and asking if his lordship was careful about the social position of his pupils. She must have been astonished by Lord Normanby's answer which ran: "Madam: For so long as your son conducts himself well and pays due attention to his work I shall make no inquiries as to the antecedents of his parents." DYING DO NOT SHED TEARS. Persons on Their Death Beds, Says a Physician, Seem Incapable of Weeping. "I have stood by the bedside of hundreds of dying people," said an old physician at Topeka recently, reports the Kansas City Journal, "and I have yet to see a dying person shed a tear. No matter what the grief of the bystanders may be, the stricken person will show no signs of overpowering emotion. I have seen a circle of agonized children around a dying mother—a mother who in health would have been touched to the quick by signs of grief in a child—yet she reposed as calm and unemotional as though she had been made of stone. There is some strange and inexplicable psychological change which accompanies the act of dissolution. It is well known to all physicians that pain disappears as the end approaches. And nature seems to have arranged it so that mental peace shall also attend our last lingering moments." GERMLESS SCHOOLBOOKS. A new ordinance has been adopted in Salt Lake City with the idea of preventing the disseminating of scarlet fever and diphtheria germs among school children, says a recent report from that city. Both diseases have recently been epidemic among the children in the city and the board of health decided that the germs traveled in the school books and other things carried by the pupils. The result has been the passage of an ordinance which is probably more stringent than any other of the kind ever adopted by any municipality. FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW 832 MARQUETTE BUILDING Telephone 2310 Central CHICAGO LAWRENCE A. NEWBY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Room 6, 128 LaSalle St., CHICAGO RESIDENCE 2623 WABASH AVE William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Room 402 Reaper Block, CHICAGO JOSEPH A. 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WYATT, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN Manufacturer of OPTICAL AND REFRAOTING GOODS Watches and Jewelry Repaired, Prices Reasonable. Eyes Tested Free. ..... 98 E. Madison St. near Dearborn Chicago BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO FOR BARGAINS IN Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishings and Shoes GO TO THOMAS & HARRIS TWO BIG STORES. 5101-3 Wentworth Ave. 5650-4 S. Halsted Street WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. Is nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Severe of imitation. Owing to the Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Eligantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only $0 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us $0 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Don't imagine that all hair preparations are allike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has been on the market for so long that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use on their hair. It is most delicately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fail to cure dandruff and make the hair straight, soft and beautiful. It invigorates the scalp producing new growth and stops the hair from falling out. Try a bottle and you will be sure to be pleased. Only 50 cents, express paid, to any address in the United States. Druggists also sell it. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. FOR SALE. Three story brick building, lot 25x 125, vacant lot adjoining same length, brick cottage rear of corner lot. Rent $90 per month. This property is located on Halsted street near 35th and it is a great bargain at $12,000. For further particulars call on or address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. ROOMS FOR RENT. Two comodious nicely furnished rooms for rent to gentlemen only. Inquire at 2623 Wabash avenue. ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER, SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Ave., Ch n Ave., Chicago. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. HENADEL BR DEL BROS. HOHENADEL BROS. 211-213 Madison Street CHICAGO Telephone Main 3300 UNIFORM CAUSE FOR Firemen, Street Car Employees, Barriers, Telegraph Messengers, Watermen, Railroad Empil- Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Wat GEO. C. CALLAHAN & CO. PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Eto. WATER STREET, COB FEINBEN market and Grocer Telephone 565 South State Sts. CHI Higginbothan Masco Geneco 25th Street - - - CHI W. BOYD DEALER WOAL, WOOD AND EXPRESSING Promptly Attended to Cash on Deliver 4656 Armour Avenue, CHI as. J. 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Cormick, THE ROOM AND DOMESTIG ERS AND CIGARS CHICAGO. JOSEPH STRAUS NORTHERN HANGE STABLE. General Business Horses on Hand CHICAGO, IL. BENSON, Fire Wrecking. All Kinds of MACHINERY. Dolas and Monuments and Placing of all and Girders for natural work. Canal St., Chicago MAIN 4928. COAL, WOOD AND ICE MOVING AND EXPRESSING Cash on Delivery All Orders Promptly Attended to Telephone Blue 289 4656 Armour Avenue, CHICAGO. Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. CHICAGO, IL BARNEY BENSON, House and Fire Wrecking. MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE-MAIN 4928. HOUSE AND LOT WANTED. Anyone having a good house and lot for sale on easy payments located between 59th and 69 Halsted and Ashland avenue, will find it to their advantage to address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. avenue, Chicago, Ill. --- Mason and General Contractor