The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. REV. LONGREEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN MURRAY'S BLACK OR UNSAVOURY RECORD IN INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AND IN THIS CITY. Before attempting to refer to Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's Black or unsavoury Record in Indianapolis, Indiana, and in this city, we want to lay down two propositions. First it does not afford us any pleasure to write against ministers of the Gospel, for during our boyhood days we were taught to look upon all ministers with the greatest respect and for many years we did reverence them, until we beheld many of them staggering in and out of saloons and other tough resorts and doing other things that non-Professing Christians would shrink from doing, then in a large measure we got our respect for all ministers who fail to toe the mark or Practice what they Preach. Second we want it distinctly understood that we do not write against unworthy ministers for the purpose of receiving the applause of the unthinking rabble, but our sole object in doing so is, that we honestly believe the time has arrived in the history of the Afro-American race, when an attempt should be made to drive all Libertines, Whisky-drinkers, liars, thieves and grand rascals out of the Pulmits. "In your write up of Revs. Murray, Carey, and Thomas, in the issue of The Broad Ax, dated May the 10th, I wish to say that you did a noble and manly thing for the Public if these things are true, I am a minister in the A. M. E. Church, and I know both Revs. Murray and Carey, personally, and I know Murray to be one of the most corrupt scoundrels out side of the Penitentiary. Here in Indianapolis his name was the synonim of all that was immoral black, and corrupt. You must see that his Bishop A. Grant, is no better than Rev. Murray in that he stands by him in all his diveltry. Keep up your fight for a purified ministry, and the Good Lord will bless you." We could quote from many other letters from reliable persons concerning Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and his sinful acts but we believe this one is sufficient for all purposes. Not for ten thousand dollars would we intimate that at the time Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray came to Chicago to assume charge of Bethel Church, which was on or about October 1st, 1900, that Mrs. Pasty Dean, rode in the same seat with Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and Mrs. Murray, so that he could hug Mrs. Dean close up to his unmanly breast, but we do know that the Murrays had hardly found time to settle in their new home 2974 Dearborn St. before Mrs. Dean became a part of their household. She left her home and husband in Indianapolis, so they say for the purpose of following Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray to this city, and many claim that four other women followed him to Chicago. Be that as it may, but one thing is certain Rev. Longreen introduced Mrs. Dean to the members of Bethel Church, as his neice, he or some one else succeeded in having Mrs. Dean to become a member of the Bethel Choir, and she sang very sweetly with the other members of the choir, until finally some of the officials of Bethel did not like the looks of certain things which they had observed or things which they had observed or heard respecting sister Dean, and their pastor, and her services as the prima donna of the choir were dispensed with by the officials of Bethel church. On one occasion while Mrs. Dean, was still living at Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's house, a gentleman who had been presented to her, not knowing that anything was wrong paid her a friendly call, and while that gentleman who is a member of Bethel church, and Mrs. Dean, were sitting far apart in the front parlor, Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, buonced into the parlor, walked up in front of Mrs. Dean, and the gentleman, and disappeared like Bany quo's ghost without uttering one word. The gentleman was thunder struck and he picked up his hat and flew. Relating his experience to one of his friends, his friend conveyed the idea to him that "he ought to had better sense than attempt to monkey around Mrs. Dean, for she belongs under Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's heavenly wings. One day early in the summer we ran into Mrs. Dean, and Rev. Longreen, on LaSalle street, and we do not blame him for getting stuck on her, we hope our readers will pardon the expression, for she is well built, quite good-looking and wears fine duds. She is the same lady whom Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray assisted on the street cars at 29th and State street, one Saturday night last June at half past one o'clock. 1920 Mr. Chas. M. Walker The Popular and Hard-working Corporation Counsel of Chicago, whoes Friends Are Already Engaged in Launching His Boom For Mayor of This Great City In 1903. JAILOR JOHN L. WHITMAN WANTS TO HOLD ON TO THE WEEPING WILLOWS. Just as soon as the election returns indicated that old Dan Healy was at last defeated in his race for sheriff, and that Thomas E. Barrett, would be the next sheriff of this county, John L. Whitman, the two-faced reformer, thought of the horrible blow it would be to him to lose his fat job, and the two thousand and four hundred dollars which is attached to it each year, which he has been able to salt down in his jeans for the last ten or twelve years, while at the same time, he delights in drawing "The color line" and in feeding the prisoners on water and cold air. Ran behind the silk dresses of many of the ladies belonging to the women's clubs, who had their husbands and lovers to vote and work for Old Dan Healy, and seemingly Jailor Whitman urged these club ladies to start a movement in favor of having himself retained as jailer under sheriff Barrett, for he wants to continue to hang on to the weeping willows. Is there any good reason why Sheriff Barrett should retain John L. Whitman as jailor? Did he not write a letter to all his friends prior to the election urging them to vote for Old Dan Healy, in preference to Thomas E. Barrett? Nevertheless these, silly club women, and many men who call themselves reformers but who out-lie the devil in a business transaction, entertain the idea that because Whitman, trains with them, that he is the only man in Cook County capable of performing the duties as jailor, and they intend to implore and to pray unto Sheriff Barrett to permit Saint Whitman, who lets the fellows who has the contract for selling the newspapers in the county jail, charge the prisoners 3 cents for the 2-cent papers, and 2 cents for the one cent papers to hold on to his easy job. For the life of us we can't see why Whitman should be retained and we suppose if he should take a notion to die and fly to heaven, that all the prisoners would be turned out of the Cook County jail for the reason that no one could be found with sense enough to feed them rotten meat which costs nothing, but which the tax-payers of this county are compelled to pay 25 cts a day for each prisoner who is forced to eat it. Is this the reason why, these men and women want to retain Whitman as jailor? But after all that is said and done we believe that Sheriff Barrett will do his duty and turn John L. Whitman out in the street and select a first-class jailor for Cook County. DETROIT DEMOCRACY ELECT COLORED ATTORNEY CIRCUIT COURT COMMISSIONER. The colored voters of Detroit are rejoicing over the election of W. C. Swan, a prominent colored attorney of that city, who was nominated by the Democrats and elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of circuit court commissioner. We wonder what some of our good Republicans in Milwaukee who are continually flouting in our faces about what their grandfathers did for us forty years ago will say to this. When Mayor Rose promoted a colored man to run an elevator at the city hall the Milwaukee Sentinel almost had a fit and denounced the appointment in strong terms. Should a colored man be given such a high place in Milwaukee some of our good Republican brothers would turn in their graves.—The Advocate, Milwaukee, Wis. Brother Advocate what you say regarding the lily-white Republicans is true, and they are on a level with the present lily-white leaders of the Democratic party of Cook county for they would rather lose ten county elections and spend a million dollars in monkeying with all nationalities outside of the Negro race, rather than nominate an honorable Afro-American for county commissioner. HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINTS SIEGEL, COOPER AND CO. FOR MRS. MOLLIE MURRAY. Mrs. Mollie Murray, a colored lady of this city, about three years ago went into Siegel, Cooper & Company, on the corner of Van Buren and State Sts., and purchased some articles and while she was in the store she was falsely arrested on the charge of stealing. Her case came up at the police Court and Mrs. Murray was discharged, and she then commenced suit against Siegel, Cooper & Company for damages. The case came up in the Circuit Court before the Honorable Judge Dunne recently. The jury heard the evidence and rendered judgment for $4,000 against Siegel, Cooper & Company in favor of Mrs. Mollie Murray. Lawyer John G. Jones and Edward E. Wilson appeared as the attorneys and represented Mrs. Murray in the case. State Senator Barney J. Maguire, has for the past week been confined to his house through sickness. But at the present writing he is improving. Attorney S. A. McElwee, returned to the city Wednesday from Bradley, Ga., where he had gone on legal business. Col. Mush-mouth Johnson, so they say spen three thousand cents in cold cash in his effort to elect Col. John R. Marshall, County Commissioner. The Stalwart Republican Club of the second ward have re-organized lately and it has elected A. Jones as president and A. M. Lucas as secretary. What has become of Col. Mush Mouth Johnson since the election has he joined Rev. Jasper F. Thomas' church and transformed himself into a Sunday school teacher. Rev. Father Riordan of St. Elizabeth Church 41st, and Wabash avenue is contemplating spending the winter in Southern California for the benefit of his health. United States Senator Wm. E. Mason, spent the past week in Washington, D. C., but the senator is now lack in his headquarters in the Grand Pacific Hotel, and he will keep up his fight against Albert J. Hopkins, until Hopkins goes down to defeat. Al. F. Gorman, the best Supervisor the Town of Lake ever had, is now following his old profession, that of architect, and he is meeting with success. Some day Al. Gorman will be a member of the city council from the 29th ward. Last Wednesday evening the members and friends of St. Mary's church, 50th and Dearborn streets, gave a reception in honor of its new pastor, the Rev. Jessie Woods, the church was well filled. The address of welcome was delivered by John B. Hart. Mrs. Samuel Alston, 368 East 30th St., whose husband conducts one of the elevators in the City Hall, is interested in everything which is intended to advance or improve the Afro-American race, and she is staunch in her friendship for this paper.' Sunday, November 16th, The Men's Forum, which meets at the Institutional church, will discuss "The Negro Temperament in American Literature." This is an interesting subject and it should draw a large crowd to the Forum Sunday at 4 o'clock. As we are devoting considerable time and space on Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray this week, it will be impossible for us to pay much attention to Rev. Andy Carey, his relation to the wet spirits or the High Ghost for several weeks to come. Alderman P. J. O'Connell spends much of his time in looking after the interest of all the people in the 31st ward, and they will keep him in the city council for the next ten years for they and the people of Chicago need his services. The leaders of the Democratic party of Arkansas nominated and elected an Afro-American Democrat as a member of the state legislature but the bateyed leaders of the Democratic party of this city and county think Negroes are only fit to wash spitoons or to hold some cheap job where there is no honor attached to it. Friday afternoon last Mrs. James H. Harris, 4764 Armour avenue, very lavishly entertained the Cornell Club, which was organized over a year ago for charitable purposes. Twenty-five ladies greatly enjoyed the repeat spread before them by Mrs. Harris, and in winding up the affair they all declared that "she was a charming hostess." Four classes of Negroes are entitled to register under the grandfather clause of North Carolina: those whose ancestors were free Negroes in this State prior to 1835; those whose fathers and grandfathers lived in States in which they were entitled to vote prior to 1867, and those who can read and write and explain the Constitution of the United States.—Ex. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indels, Farmers, Single Taxes, Regulicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. One Year..... $2.00 Six Months..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. FRENCH WOMAN A POWER. Countens de Loignees Wields as Great Political Influence as Did Mme. de Maintenon. Mme. la Comtesse de Loignees still keeps up the only great political salon in Paris. She has a gorgeous home in the Avenue de Champs Elysees and her political power is as great to-day as ever was that of Mme. de Maintenon. Count de Mun is the only member of the chamber of deputies who can afford not to attend her receptions. Ladies leave her severely alone, but men of power are forced to file before her every Thursday from four to seven and to offer incense to this political goddess. Mme. Adam once wielded a similar power, but she has been politically deserted since Gambetta said he could not be seen in her salons again, and yet she retained her power for years. But Mme. de Loignes controls them all. Waldeck-Rousseau consulted her before retiring; she told Paul Deschanel not to contest the presidency of the chamber of deputies. She advised the three Castellane brothers to stand for the chamber. Such is her power that President Loubet calls upon her, to the great chagrin of Mme. Loubet, who is an excellent housewife but not a politician. Frenchmen are superstitious about the political power of women, says the Detroit News-Tribune. White-haired senators fear her, with the possible exception of Mr. Clemenceau. With her will die the political influence of the French salon. YOUR SHARE OF MONEY. The Amount of Cash Each Person of Our Population Should Have to Be Even. Have you $28.66? If you have not you are short your per capita share of the money circulation of the United States, and some one has what would be coming to you if the money that is in circulation were equally divided. This statement is made without reservation, on the authority of the latest report of the treasury department, says the New York Herald. Another thing; you are entitled to seven cents more than you were one year ago, according to this same report, even though there has been allowed for an increase of 113,000 in the population, for in that same time there has been an increase of more than 65,000,000 in the money in circulation. So you see you are better off than you were a year ago-if you get your dues. In fact, you are getting better off all of the time. What has happened since 1879? The population has increased 58 per cent, and the money in circulation has increased 176 per cent, and more than one-half of that increase in circulation has been in gold or in gold certificates. Smelt the Mastodon A correspondent writing to the Chicago Tribune says: "A number of years ago the bones of a mastodon were found in a swampy farm near Three Oaks, Mich. The university was notified, and some men came to disinter the 'remains.' I was standing next to the old farmer who owned the land, when it suddenly occurred to him that he could throw light on the subject, and he remarked: 'Waal, naouw, I thought I smelt somethin' last summer when I was daoun here plowin'." An Ohio minister traveled 300 miles to get home to vote at the local option election recently. He went 146 miles by rail, 17 miles by carriage, 120 miles on a bicycle and 7 miles afoot. He led the prayer meeting jollifying over the result. Immigration statistics for the last fiscal year are of interest, because of the great increase in the number of new arrivals. Of the total of 494,800, the month of May brought the most, 82,054; and in the past four months the arrivals numbered 268,607, or considerably over one-half. Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany and Russia sent the most immigrants. It is of interest to note that only one-fourth of the whole number were women, and that not the newer parts of the country, but New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey were the destinations of the majority of the incomers. Many went far west, even to California. Crematories for Diseased Animals. Crematories for the destruction of animals which have died from infections and contagious diseases have been erected in several parts of Silica. As Prepared by the Expect Military "Chal," They Are a Most Pal- table Food. "Beans are the soldiers' mainstay," says Thomas P. Dillon, a retired United States cavalry officer, according to the Philadelphia Record. "The American soldier, at a pinch, can equal the performance of an Arab on a handful of dried dates—he can ride and fight all day on a mere handful of beans, properly prepared. There is nothing to equal the army baked bean. Your celebrated 'Boston baked' are but a poor imitation of the succulent articles turned out by a regular army cook. There's an art in cooking them that nobody but an army man can ever acquire. I've been on service when for a week at a time our menu consisted of beans for breakfast, beans for dinner and beans for supper; and did the troopers tire of the monotony? Not a bit of it. They sang for more, and in spite of hard work and lack of variety at mess the fellows actually got fat. That demonstrated to me the nutritive quality of beans, and I made it a point to get into the good graces of the cook and learn how to bake them. It isn't such an elaborate process, but there's a trick in doing it right. My friends are all fond of beans the way I cook them, and many a time I've been asked for the recipe, but that's a thing I don't give away to everyone. You see, people enjoy a dish all the better when they know it's something that not everybody can get up. It might take some of the best away if they could say of my beans: 'I know how to make them.'" KNOWLEDGE WAS POWER. How familiarity with the Chinese Language Made a Woman a Countess. One of the unmarried women in diplomatic circles at Washington is Countess Marguerite Cassini, the accomplished niece of the Russian ambassador, who is a countess in her own right, not by heredity, but by special grace of the czar, and a curious story is told of the manner in which she won her title. It was when Count Cassini had his fateful conference with Li Hung Chang at Peking, long before the Boxer trouble. The count's interpreter was away, for Li Z call was unexpected, and as the Chinese statesman could not speak Russian and the Russian diplomat did not understand Chinese the conference came to a deadlock. The count's niece, who had picked up something of the language, stepped into the breach and the affair was arranged to the satisfaction of both parties. The Chinese empress loaded her with presents, the czar's government made a note of the service performed, and when there was a question a couple of years ago of the young lady's precedence at Washington, where the count was then ambassador, the czar himself counfounded her rivals by making her a countess. This was something like rapid promotion for the lady. CHINESE ARMY ROLLS. They include with the Soldiers, Their Horses and Every Article of Equipment. Now that China has Russia for a near neighbor, it remains to be seen how successfully, or otherwise, the middle kingdom will continue to practice its favorite game of bluff. How it has reenforced its army is shown by the Swedish explorer, Herdin, says Youth's Companion. The Chinese have a most extraordinary way of enumerating troops. They are not content with counting the soldiers only, but reckon in also their horses, rifles, shoes, breeches and so forth, so that the resultant total is a long way above what it ought to be. They apparently go on the supposition that the rifle is at least as valuable as the man, and by an analogous train of reasoning they argue that a man is of little use if he has to travel on foot, that he cannot go about naked, and so on. Hence they count the whole kit, horse, rifle, breeches and all. By this peculiar process of arithmetic they fancy they deceive the Russians into believing their garrisons much stronger than they are. NEGROES DON'T MIGRATE. Some Interesting Facts About the Colored Race Revealed by the Recent Census. There were 6,500,000 colored persons in the United States in 1880, 7,500,000 in 1890, and 8,800,000 in 1900. A "general movement" of colored inhabitants from one state to another or from one section of the country to another, due to economic, political or hygienic reasons, has been declared to be in progress at intervals of two or three years since the close of the civil war. But the figures of each succeeding census prove that the colored population of the United States is by no means migratory; it changes little year by year except as the result of the ordinary increase in population. Various ambitious projects of leaders to "colonize"certain states have failed entirely. In Kansas, for instance, there are only 9,000 more colored inhabitants than there were 20 years ago, though Kansas has long been the mecca of many colored colonizers. An Italian having written a book upon the art of making gold, dedicated it to Pope Leo X., expecting a good reward. His holiness, finding that the man constantly followed him, at length gave him a large, empty purse, saying: "Sir, since you know how to make gold, you can have no need of anything but a purse to put it in." When we think of the mining of precious stones our thoughts are quite certain to leap into South Africa, over to the orient, among the mountains of Asia and Europe, or perhaps to South America, but we are not likely to think of our own land yielding them; but the fact is that no insignificant value in gems is taken from the soil right here at home. The report of the geological survey, just compiled for 1901, shows that during the year we mined in the United States precious stones to the value of about $300,000, reports the New York Herald. Diamonds represent only $100 of this amount, but the fact that they are found at all gives encouragement to the hope that paying fields of them may some time be found. Last year one diamond was found in Lee county, Georgia, where diamonds were not before known to exist. New Mexico furnished $18,000 in turquoises, and these have been placed on the market. Montana gave us $90,000 in sapphires, which come next. They came from Fergus county. Granite county is now being explored for fancy colored sapphires, that give evidences of being there in paying quantities. Fine and extensive rhodolite garnet deposits are found in Mason county, North Carolina. Many dark green, blue and yellow beryls, as well as amethysts and emeralds, were found in that state. There is hardly a state of the union in which there is not some trace of precious stones, and it appears not at all unlikely that before many years we may be competing with the old world in furnishing gems. ANCIENT AMERICAN BOOK. When hieroglyphs are mentioned one naturally thinks of the records of ancient Egypt; yet before Columbus landed on these shores the Aztecs of ancient Mexico had a most elaborate system of writing in hieroglyphs. They formed long strips of deerskin into books folded screen-fashion, on which were depicted signs and representations of ceremonials. These old pre-Columbian books the Spaniards greedily collected and burned so that only ten are known to-day in the whole world. One of these has only recently been found in one of the libraries of Europe and an exact copy presented to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where it will shortly be placed on exhibition. The text represents the history of the lives of several individuals. One recounts the life of the Lady Three-Glints, who has two husbands and a child and goes through elaborate ceremonies. Another portion of this old "Codex," as it is called, says the New York Times, treats of the life of a great lord and conqueror named Fire Deer, who, in company with other chieftains, makes many conquests. This old book proves most conclusively how love, religion and warfare went hand in hand in the lives of the ancient Mexicans, just as in people's lives to-day. GOTHAM'S COURTING CLUB. Odd Organisation in New York City That Does Not Contemplate Matrimony. The city of New York boasts a club which has for its object the promotion of courtship in so far as matrim. concerned. A number of young men there have banded themselves together to make love to damsels, who, instead of looking for proposals, are content with what is called "a good time." Their knights escort them to theaters, picnics and other amusements, make them presents, and are generally attentive to even a greater degree than the ordinary enamored swain. Couples who break the rules of the club by marrying have to pay a fine of $50 and are forever banished from the club. One or two couples have already paid this fine says the Detroit News-Tribune, and entered into the forbidden state, a dinner for each occasion being held by the club to console the members for their loss. An equally curious club has for some time been in existence in Chicago. It is composed of young men, all of whom bear the Christian name of Joseph, and who have entered into a solemn compact to woo no girls except those bearing the Christian name of Mary. The club has a considerable membership, and it is a noteworthy fact that, so far, its rule has never been broken. There are employed on the farms near Calumet 300 Finnish girls, who work in the hay and grain fields like hired men, says the Detroit Tribune. The farmers say they are cheaper than male help and give more complete satisfaction. The larger number of these farm girls have worked in the crop fields in the old country and prefer the open air to the narrow kitchen confines. The girls work faithfully and show no inclination to daily and look the other way to be "surprised" with a kiss from a big, sweating hired man. Their employers like them on this account; also, because there is no competition. Typewriting and mat weaving have been successfully taught to the blind, and it is believed that they could even learn to make lace, and thus gain a new means of livelihood. Town Guardhouse in Pennsylvania What Is Werely a Convenience for Prisoners. Elizabethtown, the county seat of Essex, in the Adirondacks, possesses a comedy jail, according to the Philadelphia Ledger. It is small, having windows secured by wooden bars and a jailyard inclosed by a solid fence of three-quarter-inch boards, which a healthy male could push over with his shoulder. But the prisoners rarely, if ever, attempt to escape. Some good stories are told by Judge Kellogg, Judge Hand and other residents. It is a custom to allow the prisoners out on parole, so that they may cut the grass on neighboring lawns, do garden work, or repair roads for the village or county. Recently one prisoner, who should have returned at eight o'clock, did not apply for admission until nearly an hour later. The warden angrily demanded to know the reason, and added: "Don't let this occur again, or I will not allow you to come in. I lock the door at eight o'clock, and won't open it in the future for you." Another accused of and awaiting trial for manslaughter, overstayed his parole and pleaded as an excuse that as it was Saturday he thought he would go and spend Sunday with his wife, returning to the jail on Monday morning. MIGRATION OF THE SNIPE. Tons of Lead Ore Fired at the Artful Dodger as He Wings His Way Southward, The snipe, properly Wilson's snipe, Gallinago Delicata, but commonly known as English snipe and wrongfully called half a dozen other names, is a widely distributed species. It visits every state at some season; its northward migration extends within the arctic circle, while it is known to go southward to northern South America and the West Indies. Comparatively few of the birds which move northward from February until May breed south of the international line. It is quite true there are breeding grounds at various points of the northern states, but the great breeding range extends from latitude 42 degrees north to some undetermined point much nearer the pole than most sportsmen will venture. Some time in September the first south-bound birds pass below the Canadian grounds, and soon most of the suitable marshy bits of east and west have their share of long-billed prizes. Then begins an astonishing attack which extends from ocean to ocean and generally sweeps southward from Canada to California. Probably tone of lead, half of which is wasted, are fired at the artful dodger. CARIBOU MURDER. Large Companies That Slaughter Hundreds of the Animals in Newfoundland. Newfoundland is probably the only country in the world where venison, salted or fresh, is a staple article of diet for the masses. The coast folk make their plans with method and deliberation, says Outing. From the harbors where they reside they go in their boats to the rivers and fords which strike into the interior. When navigation is no longer possible they debark and continue on foot to the deer country. They carry barrels filled with salt and sometimes go in large companies. When the rendezvous is reached they camp. Then they ambush themselves along a promising "lead" or deer track, armed with a long, six-foot muzzle-loading sealing guns, which they charge with about "eight fingers" of coarse gunpowder and "slugs" of lead, fragments of iron or bits of rusty nails whichever they may have. They fire point blank into a herd of caribou, as it passes, and being usually good shots, contrive to kill almost anything they aim at, or to wound it so badly with these dreadful missiles that it soon collapses. Then they skin and cut up the meat, for these men know a little of every trade, and pack it in the barrels with the salt as a preservative. NOVEL PRISON REFORM. Italy Proposes Compensation for Men Who Have Been Unjustly Condemned. A new criminal bill is about to be discussed in Italy, and it is thought in Rome that it will be passed. It proposes to concede to those found to have been unjustly condemned to prison an indemnity, to be decided upon by the courts, says a report to the Chicago Tribune. If the person has been in prison through a real judicial error the indemnity will in some way correspond to the financial lose which he and his family have sustained, while if he has been condemned through the bad faith of a third person, through false testimony (for which, of course, the court which condemned him is not responsible), the indemnity will be less, but at least he will have the wherewithal to begin life anew. It has been proposed to indemnify those living when the law passes who have already been released from unmerited condemnations, or the families of those who have died while undergoing unjust sentence. Thomas France and John Johns, sailors in the United States navy, are full-blooded Iroquois Indians, who grew up together on an Indian reservation. They left home about ten years ago and never met until a week or so ago, both having sailed all over the world meantime. To their tribe they are known respectively as Leaping Deer and White Feather. "Fish are a good deal like people," said Superintendent Spencer, of the New York aquarium. "You can't always tell by their countenances what to expect of them. Look at that fellow there, now!" He pointed to a tiger fish which was butting its nose against the glass of its tank. No more villainous face of the pugnacious sort could be found in a day's search in the haunta of the third-rate pugilists. "Looks as if he would fight at the wriggle of a fin, doesn't he?" the superintendent continued. "See those jaws! Bad eye, too. Well, sir, that is the most gentle fish in the aquarium—one of the clinging kind, that seeks affection and kindness. Now over there is a lady fish. Just observe those brilliant colors, and that dear, innocent face, and notice the coaxing, graceful movements of its tail. You'd think it would eat out of your hand, and droop if you scolded it. "On the contrary, it's the most unladylike fish in this collection; its temper is shrewish, and its habits are bad, and if you give it a chance it would bite you like a savage bull pup. It's a vicious fish, and doesn't deserve all those fine airs it has." Mr. Spencer put his hand near the glass front of the tank, says the New York Mail and Express. There was an instant commotion; the insinuating tail lashed the water, and that angelic mouth bumped sharply against the barrier in a swift effort to nip the tip of the superintendent's finger. "Would you ever think it?" said Mr. Spencer. "Lady fish, indeed!" SHOE TRADE OF CUBA. Shipments by American Manufacturers Have Been Very Largely on the Increase. From statistics relating to the boot and shoe trade of Cuba, while under United States control, as shown by the last commercial summary of the island for May, 1902, published by the bureau of insular affairs of the war department, it appears that for the period mentioned purchases, including sandals, were made to the amount of 9,545,098 pairs, valued at $6,812,017, the importations coming chiefly from Spain and this country in the ratio of 73 per cent. for the former, against 26 per cent. for the latter, though a comparison by years discloses the fact that under an equitable adjustment of the tariff rate on merchandise of this class, in effect prior to United States intervention, American manufacturers of boots and shoes have largely increased their trade with Cuba. In connection with this statement the fact is mentioned that during each month of the three calendar years, 1899, 1900 and 1901, the total importations of boots and shoes into the island were $680,621, $335,643 and $467,778, respectively, considerably in excess of the shipments from our customs houses destined for all Europe (excepting the United Kingdom), the exportation from the United States for this trade being $212,935, $285,172 and $400,431 during the periods mentioned. DAINTY WOMEN OF JAPAN. The Picturesque Little Ladies Certainly Cannot Be Accused of the Sin of Overeating. The almond-eyed, dainty little female of Japan is easily satisfied in the matter of food. She begins the day by eating when she wakes a couple of little green plums pickled in vinegar and rolled in sugar. This traditional breakfast of Japan is completed by a cup of tea. The dinner, which is brought on a red lacquer tray, is the drollest affair. The viands are in tiny cups with covers and among them are such dainties as a hashed sparrow, a stuffed prawn, a salt sweetmeat, seaweed with sauce and a sugared chili. After these dishes, which are mere "fruits," the substantial part of the meal is begun. A wooden bowl, bound with copper, is brought in, filled to the brim with nice plainly boiled in water. From this the flower of Japan fills her bowl—a capacious one—and, having mixed it with a black sauce flavored with fish, she then lifts it to her mouth and crams it down with the aid of her chopsticks. Thus ends her dinner. AUTO CLIMBS A TOWER. Two Hundred Pound Machine in Copenhagen Performs a Most Remarkable Fent. A curious performance was lately accomplished by an automobile in Denmark. Copenhagen possesses a circular tower 100 feet in height, which was formerly used for astronomical purposes. Its top is only reached by ascending a spiral passage 12 feet broad which winds between the outer wall of the tower and an inner circular wall. From the base to the top it is entirely without steps, and the gradient is seven inches per ell. An automobile of five-horse power, weighing 200 pounds, and carrying three persons, ascended the tower the other day, taking one minute for the journey, and afterward making the much more dangerous descent with equal success. It is of interest to recall that the Czar Peter the Great, on visiting Copenhagen in 1716, made the same ascent and descent in a carriage drawn by four horses. Wonderful Piece of Furniture Which Was the Pride of the French Emperor. Napoleon's magic table is one of the greatest curiosities from the time of the great emperor, who had it in his study at the castle of St. Cloud. After the death of Napoleon it was bought in London by Baron Rehausen, Swedish ambassador to the court of St. James at that time. It is now owned through inheritance by one of the foremost families of the Swedish nobility, says the Strand Magazine. Inside the drawer of the table is pasted an old slip on which is printed a description, which in modernized English reads as follows: "The Emperor Napoleon was highly delighted with this extraordinary work of art. It formed the surface of one of the tables in his study, and was always shown to all foreigners of distinction who visited the imperial court. It is a painting whose resemblance to what it represents is the most elusive ever produced by the genius of man. One may look at this strange production of art in different lights—the pieces of money, the fragments of broken glass, the penknife, water and cards retain an equally illusive appearance as the observer moves round the table—but it requires a very minute examination to discover all the truly magical wonders it possesses." In these times when relics of Napoleon I. are eagerly sought for, the present whereabouts of this masterpiece should certainly interest all connoisseurs. SECOND-HAND FOOD BARRED Leavings of Rich Men's Banquet Must Not Be Eaten by the Poor of Paris. "What is one man's meat is another's poison" is a proverb just now born out in literal fact by the police raid upon the arelquins of Paris, reports a London paper. The arelquins are the keepers of small restaurants at the market, whose supplies are provided from the broken remains of repasts at different fashionable restaurants. The proprietor takes each morning a tour of the fashionable quarters and by paying a small amount to different maitres d'hotel he has the privilege of selecting a menu for his house from what is left of a swell dinner the day before. This he serves up to his customers for two cents and the latter have the privilege of eating what the aristocrats had set before them. The elegance of the courses, however, is outweighed by their unwholesome effects. So many maladies are laid at the door of these second-hand feasts that the police have undertaken to protect the public stomach from possible indiscretions. The arelquins will soon be a picturesque feature of the past, for as their licenses expire they will fade from existence. MODERN SURGERY. Everything Depends Upon the Cleanliness and Exclusiveness of the Operation. Your modern surgeon of note is a "sterile" man. The operating room, almost hermetically sealed and at a temperature of 100 degrees or thereabouts, is purified daily by means of a hose throwing a solution of bichloride of mercury over ceiling, walls and floors. The surgeon arrives in an anteroom in his civilian's garb. He is required to be clean shaven, like a monk, says the New York Press. His clothes are removed. Two attendants in the sterilizing room hand him a white duck gown reaching from collar to heel, and a cowl of the same material, which covers tightly every part of his head except eyes, nose and mouth. The sleeves of the gown reach to his elbow. He incases his hands in the thinnest, finest sterilized rubber gloves. These garments are handed to him in sterilized tongs. There has been no human contact. Thus equipped, he is prepared to saw and slice. INVENTOR OF THE BATON. How It Caused the Death of the Man Who First Introduced the Band Leader's Wand, The inventor of the baton has been discovered. According to the investigations of a Frenchman the credit belongs to Lully, the composer, who eventually had cause to regret his invention. Before he adopted the baton, conductors were in the habit of pounding on the floor with their feet or clapping their hands to mark the time. Lully found it wearisome to keep his foot constantly in motion, and so used a stick to strike the floor and beat time. He used a pole six feet long. One day he brought down the pole with such force that it struck his foot and made a deep wound. He paid no attention to the matter. The wound grew worse and ultimately caused his death: After his time conductors tried more and more to improve the baton and it was ultimately brought to its present form. Tall Men in Indiana A record of the height of Indiana soldiers in the civil war shows that out of 118,254 there were 15,047 5 feet 10 inches high; 8,706 5 feet 11 inches, 6,679 6 feet high; 2,614 6 feet 1 inch, 1,357 6 feet two inches, 406 6 feet 3 inches, and 336 over 6 feet 3 inches. Commenting on these statistics, Dr. Gould, actuary of the United States sanitary commission, writes: "It is evident from our statistics that the Indiana men are the tallest of all natives of the United States and these latter the tallest of all civilized countries." The fairy tale of money growing on bushes was lately realized along the right of way of the Burlington railroad between Hyannis and Alliance, says a Lincoln (Neb.) report. A gang of section men were at work, when one of them noticed something that looked like a bill waving from the tangled top of a sunflower growing by the roadside. He investigated. It was a treasury note for $10. He walked a few steps farther and there, nodding from a branch of a bit of dog fennel, was another bill of similar denomination. He called to his companions, and the entire gang threw down their tools and started on a money hunt. For three hours they searched up and down the right of way and far afield. At almost every yard their trouble was rewarded by finding either a five cr a ten-dollar bill. Some bills were tangled in the tops of weeds, others half hidden in bushes along the fence, and still others in the stubble of the field. The entire day's clean-up of the eight was $2,135. When the find was reported, word came from headquarters that a money pouch containing $3,500 had been lost from an express shipment the day before. The supposition is that the bag fell out of the open car door and was ground to pieces under the wheels, and the contents were scattered to the winds. This hypothosis is supported by the later discovery of portions of the damaged pouch. RELIGION OF THE BLANKET. The Navajo Squaw Prays as She Weaves the Threads of Her Beautiful Production. It is a religion to make a Navajo blanket. Through the kinky, bristling twine of the warp are woven the hopes and aspirations of an immortal soul. In the warm colors are expressed the ardors of passionate hearts, the sandstorms they have faced, the cloudbursts under which their backs have bent, the smiling sunshine that has dried their wool, all the adverse and good fortunes that have befallen are wrought into the intricate designs. The squaw prays as she pushes the wool cart, and she prays as she twirls the distaff in her hands or rolls it on her thigh; she prays as she arranges the healds; she prays as she lustily pounds down the woofstrands with her scrub oak batten, says the Southern Workman. A blanket is all a prayer, a human document, a biography bright with the joy tints of canary yellow, dark with the olive green of pain. One is drawn to it because one's heart is moved by its ineffable, intangible humanness. One is strangely moved to both laughter and tears by its exquisitely variant colors, each expressing an emotion by its warmth of blended fibers, each throbbing to a note of triumph or of THE FRUIT PLETHORA Fine Apples Fed to the Pigs Because of the Superbundant Product of the Orchards. Rarely, if ever, has there been such a superabundance of fruit as now abounds in the New England orchards. The limbs of the apple and pear trees hang heavy under the weight of their enormous yield, and the ground beneath the trees is covered with the decaying droppings. In some localities fine apples may be had for the picking, and an offer of half a dollar a barrel for the fruit on the tree is eagerly accepted in the rural districts. Thousands of bushels are being fed to the cattle and pigs and the cider mills are glutted with raw material for the presses. It seems a pity to see such a large quantity of fine fruit going to waste. It is almost superfluous to offer suggestion in the line of thoughtful philanthropy to Dr. Hale, but the glutted condition of the orchards suggests that it might be a good idea to renew his farmers' fruit offering scheme, which furnished such a liberal supply of free fruit to the poor people of Boston when it was originally undertaken. Undoubtedly a great many bushels of apples can now be had for the asking. The leading haberdasher shops employ only clerks who are expert in arranging cravat shapes. Make-up neckwear is adopted for provincial trade, as a rule. Among the duties of such assistants is to attend weddings and other house functions. The bridegroom nowadays presents his "best man" and nuders with cravats and gloves for the ceremony. The haberdasher's clerk reports at the proper place in due time and adjusts these cravats uniformly, placing the scarfpins in correct position, etc. He also fits the gloves in each case. His employer collects a handsome fee for this professional service. Buddhists in America. It is stated that San Diego, in Southern California, is fast becoming the Buddhistic center of America. In one house there has been erected a shrine to Buddha, and the owner, a woman of means, has brought a Buddha priest from India, who gathers a large congregation together every week. Increased Receipts Explained. The largest increase in postal receipts in the history of the service was shown in the reports of 50 leading post offices for September. That was the month, says the Chicago Record-Herald, in which the people who were away on vacations wrote home for money to get back with. WASHINGTON'S STONE TROUGH Picturesque Basin in Philadelphia, from Which the General Watered His Parson. The famous old stone basin from which Washington watered his horses in revolutionary days is no longer used as a pump trough. It has been removed from the obscurity of the old frame pump house adjoining the Bartram mansion (where for nearly a century it collected the waters from the cooling springs of the old well) and has been given a position of honor just outside of the historic mansion, says the Philadelphia Record. At first glance it seems to have been placed thus in order to serve as a huge stone cistern to collect the rain water from the projecting eaves, but closer inspection shows that the rain spout is turned away from it, and it is not intended to serve any practical purpose, but is simply preserved as a treasured relic. In giving it a position of honor, where it will attract the attention of the visitor soon after entering the famous gardens, the place has been carefully chosen. For although it had been taken from the old well which, perhaps, seemed a more appropriate place for it, where it stood when Washington's horses drank from it, it has been placed near the famous "Washington arbor" on the river front of the Bartram house. Only a few yards away in the long ago there stood the Washington arbor, overlooking the shining stretch of Schuvilldill. Close by this mammoth stone basin or trough, on the lawn on the river front of the house, are two noble boxwood trees sent from Smyrna, Turkey, to Mr. Bartram by the earl of Bute, over 160 years ago. Appropriate surroundings these for the historic old stone trough. STEADY GOING VOLCANO. Small One in Santa Barbara County, California, That Has Been Active for Many Years. Santa Barbara county is naturally divided into a northern and a southern half by a range of rugged mountains varying from 2,000 to 4,000 feet high. The city of Santa Barbara, Montecito and other health resorts are along the coast in the southern half. Los Alamos is near the middle of the great valleys comprising most of the northern part of the country, and is about 60 miles from the city of Santa Barbara, with a big mountain range intervening, says the San Francisco Chronicle. For many years there has been a small, active volcano on the Los Alamo side of the mountain. It is almost within sight of the old Los Alamos-Santa Barbara stage road that crosses the mountain by the San Marcos pass. Hunters and cattlemen of the vicinity and prospectors are familiar with it. Smoke and steam constantly issue from various fissures along the summit of a plateau or shelf near the northern slope of the mountain. Viewed from the distance of the old stage road, these manifestations appear like small campfires. They have never developed any alarming tendencies and have attracted very little direct investigation. And yet they may become vent holes from which long-confined ashes and lava will spout. VERY LONG PLUMB LINES. Two of Plano Wires 4,440 Feet in Length Suspended in Michigan Mine Shafts. Some singular experiments have been carried out recently by hanging what are probably the largest plumblines ever used anywhere in two of the shafts of Tamarack mine at Calumet, Mich. At first two lines of No. 24 piano wire, each 4,250 feet long, and carrying a cast iron bob weighing 50 pounds, were suspended about 12 feet apart in shaft No. 5. Careful measurements showed that the lower extremities of the lines diverged eleven-one-hundredths of a foot, or three-quarters of an inch. This was a surprising circumstance for which various explanations were offered. To avoid possible magnetic repulsion, bronze wires, carrying 60-pound lead bobs, were hung in shaft No. 4. These wires were 4,440 feet in length. They showed a slight convergence at the bottom, but when they were hung in shaft No. 5, instead of converging, they diverged, as the steel wires had done. These facts, together with other considerations, led to the conclusion that the cause of the divergence was neither gravitation nor magnetism, but the influence of almost imperceptible air currents in the shafts. An Interesting Moment. A German has discovered, according to the London Express, that on Saturday, August 2, in the early morning, at one minute and one second past one o'clock, a most interesting moment arrived. It was the second second of the second minute of the second hour of the second day of the second week of the second month of the second half of the second year of the second decade of centuries A. D. An English physician who has been making a study of diseases in Alaska reports that cerebro-spinal meningitis is very prevalent, acorbutus is widespread, rheumatism is frequent, pneumonia is almost unknown, strange to say, and insanity is by no means rare. His report indicates that a vigorous physique is required to resist the Alaskan climate. JUMPING THE DEER. One of the Most Thrilling Experiences Which Defall the Hunter of Big Game, "Jumping a deer" is a highly-attractive phrase, quite apt to make a tingling in the back hair of the tenderfoot who hears it for the first time. It is also intensely satisfactory to the chap who always has to shave before wooing nature, says Outing. You may, indeed, get a good shot in this way, and it is generally the only way to see the grandest of all the sights of the woods—deer running through a windfall. To see the glossy curves of fur curl over the lofty logs that lie piled on each other in boundless confusion is well worth a trip to the woods, while for him who loves the rifle as I do, more for what cannot be done with it than for what can, there is no such target elsewhere. But for the tyro who is dying to get that first deer "jumping a deer" generally means out of sight and out of hearing both. For the deer that goes off to lie down after feeding does not go to sleep, but to ruminate and take life easy. Once in a great while one falls into a doze, but almost always the head is well erect and all senses keen for danger. And even if one is in a doze it may slip away without your suspecting its existence, for sleep deadens little of the senses of this wary animal. The man who "wouldn't shoot such an innocent creature as a deer" should by all means see one getting out of a heavy windfall, while the man who loves game that can get away can here find the attraction of the woods at its climax. WOODEN INDIANS MUST GO. Tobacco Store Signs That Are Condemned to Retirement in New York City. One of New York's busy municipal commissioners says the wooden Indian must get off the walk. If the cigar dealer needs him in his business he will be obliged to take him inside and give him house room. Anyway, he cannot be allowed to encumber the sidewalk, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Of course it may be possible that the commissioner is moved by an honest desire to keep the walks clear, and then again he may be under the influence of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Aged Wooden Indians. And, really, it must be admitted that there are cases where interference would seem to be justified. There are wooden Indians of extreme age who are still forced to do their servile duty at all seasons of the year, and in the most inclement weather. With cramped muscles and ossified limbs they have stood on guard for many decades. Many of them are gray and dingy and weather beaten, but they never complain. Some of them have cracked open and lost their feathers, and warped their fingers, and dropped their wampum. Why, there are cigar dealers so unfeeling as to refuse them even a coat of paint when the mercury drops to zero. PLAY BILLIARDS. French Physicians Are Sorry That the Game In Declining in the French Halls. Somebody has discovered that people in France are not playing billiards so much as they did.formerly. Over this announcement has arisen a lamentation. Physicians have joined in it as well as lay admirers of the game. They declare that its disappearance would be a misfortune from a sanitary point of view. The game, they say, gives just the exercise they need to a great number of people who without it would take no exercise at all. While involving no severe physical exertion, it keeps the muscles in shape, stimulates the circulation, helps the digestion and requires just enough mental effort to give the nervous system a rest from the ordinary worries of life. In proof of all of which they cite the good spirits usually exhibited about a billiard table. For elderly people, for the stout who cannot take much exercise, billiards is pronounced an excellent tonic. So the friends of the game are preaching a revival of its popularity. Unconscious Humor. Certificates of death are not documents where one usually seeks for humor, but there is frequently to be found in them much of the unconscious variety, says Pearson's Weekly. Here, for instance, is how the cause of death is stated in the case of a isborer: "Died from injuries received through a bull accidentally kneeling on his chest." The consideration shown for the feelings of the bull is a fine touch, and suggests grave questions on the moral responsibility of the lower animals. Again, a man is stated to have died "from the effects of injuries received after being run over by a railroad train in motion, owing to a misunderstanding between deceased and an engine driver." This description of a rather ordinary railway casualty is excellent; it, too, is so tender toward the feelings of the living. Before sending linen to the laundry look every piece over for forgotten collar buttons and stick pina. The laundries are repositories of more lost articles of this description than is dreamed of by the public. Every day quantities of gold and jeweled articles are picked up. Some of them are identified and restored, but more are simply pocketed by the finders. Money was frequently found in the pockets of washable waistcoats worn last summer. JERSEY'S PURCHASE PRICE. Historic Document Which Shows That the State Was Sold by Indians for Rum, Guns, Eto. Carefully locked away in one of the fireproof safes of the New Jersey Historical society there now are two valuable documents that tell of the early colonization of the state, says the New York Times. The first is a deed on parchment from Charles II. to his brother James, duke of York, afterward king of England, giving him a grant of all lands from the St. Lawrence river to Chesapeake bay. The only two names on the grant that Americans of to-day would recognize are Nantucket and Cape Cod, which are spelled as they are to-day. The St. Lawrence river is designated as "The Great River in Canada." The deed is beautifully written in Gothic lettering, and the document is in excellent condition. Under each line of writing is a ruling of red, evidently done with a quill. The parchment is over two feet in length, and to the bottom is attached what was once a large seal of wax. Gold and silver cords are fastened to the seal. In an upper left-hand corner is an engraving of Charles II., and the borders of the deed are filled with pen and ink designs, delicate and beautiful. The document is dated from Westminster in the seventeenth year of King Charles' reign. While the deed is apparently the original, for the amount of work expended on it would not be given to a copy, no signatures appear, and apparently none was ever placed on it. CENTURY OF PATENT ISSUES. The census bureau lately issued a report dealing with the cooperative relation of patented inventions to manufactures, which shows that New York, though third in population and patent rank for the first decade of the 100 years has since been first in both, as well as manufactures. It is an interesting fact, in considering the list of states presented in the report, that the manufacturing rank of a state as a rule approximates its patent rank, says the New York Sun. The report says: The first patent granted by the general government was to Samuel Hopkins, July 31, 1790, for an improvement in pot and pearl ash manufacture. The last patent granted for the year 1889, at the close of the first 100 years of patent issues, was to Wilhelm Dreyer, December 31, 1889, for an electro-magnetic typesetting machine. These two patents are suggestively symbolical of the progress of the century in invention and manufactures—the first akin to the primitive industries of a new country and the last serving the exacting demands of a highly organized industrial system. The total number of patents issued during this century of invention was 428,621." A feature of the report is the steady growth shown in the numbers of patents granted to citizens of foreign countries. NOT THE SAME NAMES. Nomenclature for Birds in England and America Is Not at All the Same. In reviewing a book about "Beasts and Birds in America," the London Spectator warns English readers against the confusion that may arise in their minds by the application of the same name to different birds in England and the United States. "The consequence," it remarks, "is that the critical English schoolboy who reads of robins pecking a wicked squirrel ('Meeko') to death will perhaps toss the book away as untrustworthy—unless he is a reader of Wendell Holmes, and remembers the allusion to the day when young Americans were misled by the English books with local color not fitting the new country. In the books that came from England the robin was a little domestic bird that fed at table instead of a great fidgety, jerky, whooping thrush." But the whooping thrush (Tardus migratorious) of North America hada red breast like the robin of England, and so the name was given to him, and it was a mob of whooping thrushes, and not robin redbreasts, that did "Meeko," the mischief maker to death. And so, it may be added, the ancient misunderstanding and controversy between English and American tourists at the Atlantic liners' tables as to what is a partridge, a pheasant, a grouse, etc., will go on to the end of time. Executive Kindness A singular case is that of Patrick Logue, of Altoona, Pa., who has been prosecuted for cruelty to animals, his offense consisting of excessive kindness. Logue is so fond of an intelligent horse owned by him that he will not allow the horse to work or even be exercised. For four years the horse has not been out of the stable. Logue feeds it and cares for it tenderly, but he has steadfastly refused to take it out. Consequently the Humane society has brought suit to force him to give the horse some work or exercise it daily at leash. Fine Tribute to Mackay. John W. Mackay, the Irish-American multi-millionaire, who died recently in London, had a fine tribute paid to him once by a friend. "Mackay," said he, "is one of the few rich men I should like to know if he were poor." Emigration of Jews. During the last year 80,000 Jews emigrated from Roumania. "A whole lot of ideas with which we grow up change when we get into another country," said a New York man who has just came back from a three months' trip in the southwest, according to the Sun. "Now, one of the things we have heard of all our lives is that if a man's hat blows off he is a fool to run after it, for there is always somebody around polite enough to pick it up and hand it to the owner, if he has to walk a block to do it. "I have seen it done. I have read about it more times than I have had hats." "But it is not the custom at Reno, Okla. I was sitting on the veranda of the hotel in that town, watching the various articles which one of those sandstorms whirled through the air. "The hat of a citizen was raised and carried against a place on the other side of the street. A strapping fellow, who had been picking his teeth with a match as he sat near me on the varanda, got up, whipped out a navy revolver and fired a shot at the hat, nailing it to the fence: "The owner came up, pulled the hat from its impalement, waved his hand at the man on the veranda and proceeded on his way. "It saves time runnin' after it,' said the man on the veranda, 'and it don't hurt the hat.'" AMERICAN SURGERY PRAISED. High Tribute Paid Our Doctors and Medical Men by the Late Professor Virehow. The late Prof. Virchow, the eminent German physician and scientist, had a high notion of American doctors and American medical scientists generally, reports the Chicago Inter Ocean. When interviewed some time ago the professor said, in the course of the conversation, that several young medical students from the United States had passed through his hands whose attainments were certainly on a very high level and whose brightness and alertness could not be excelled. "I have a great admiration of American surgery," he added. "The men in America are as good as any we have here in Europe and in some departments they are better. I do not think, though, that the American specialists are as good as the best men in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, but they are making big strides. No penurious spirit rules the United States. Everything is on a large, liberal scale, and the splendid university endowments there are bound to tell in the near future. The American laboratories are excellently equipped and the students have enormous advantages over those who study at some of the inadequately equipped schools in Europe." MODERN CAVE DWELLERS. Comfortable Villas Carved Out of Rock by Civilians at Kinver Edge, England. Although there is nothing inherently improbable in the circumstance, it is not generally known that the race of troglodytes is not yet extinct, and that there are at least quite a number of cave dwellers in modern Britain. The inhabitants are by no means half savages. At Kinver Edge, near Birmingham, are two rows of modern villas, formed mainly out of the "immemorial caves hollowed out of the hill," with stone-front projections. These dwellings are said to be "far more comfortable and luxurious than the less-original houses to be found in more pretentious neighborhoods." The rooms are "spacious and rain-proof" and the people of Enville, "as the village formed by these houses is called, are justly proud of their quaint homes, and speak with patriotic affection of Holy Austin rock, the stone from which their dwellings are hewn." There are several remarkable cave dwellings in Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, says the Detroit News-Tribune, the "proprietor" of one of which has adorned the various levels of his hillside cave home with battlements and calls it Fort Montague. SENATOR CLARK'S WIT. How the Western Billionaire Got Back at a Tonsorial Artist Who Had "Nerve." A story is going the rounds in Butte which quite aptly represents the business methods adhered to by United States Senator W. A. Clark, the multimillionaire miner, banker and manufacturer. Upon his return from the east the senator visited a barber shop for the purpose of having his hair trimmed. He inquired for a certain barber whose ability had been recommended to the senator by his son, Charles W. Upon the completion of the job the senator inquired the amount of the bill, whereupon the tonsorial artist calmly replied: "Charley usually gives me five dollars." The senator was taken by surprise, but, regaining his wits, asked: "But what is the usual charge for such a service?" "Fifty cents," responded the barber. "Well," said Senator Clark, with a smile, according to the New York Times, "Charley has a rich father and I have not," whereupon he handed the barber 50 cents and departed. Glaciers in Montana. But few people are aware that there are in Montana some of the finest glaciers in the world. Singular Happening in a Paris Shop Which Precipitated a Remarkable Battle, There was an extraordinary occurrence recently in a cheesemonger's shop in the Avenue Parmentier, Paris, relates Pearson's Weekly. One of the tradesman's customers, who had invited five friends to dinner, had purchased a large cheese, and when it was cut into the stump of a half-smoked cigar was found in the middle. The host and his guests marched round in a body to the cheesemonger to demand an explanation and the return of the money or the substitution of another cheese, but the tradesman refused all three propositions, and even suggested that they ought to be satisfied, as they had not only the cheese, but half a cigar as well. One of the guests then threatened to report the cheesemonger for selling tobacco without permission. High words followed, and at length the customer picked up the offending cheese and hurled it with correct aim at the dealer's head. A regular battle ensued. The shopkeeper was backed up by his wife and three assistants and the customer by his friends. The counter was piled with cheeses of various kinds, and these were converted at once into missiles, while the butter also came in handy. The uproar attracted the attention of a policeman, who arrived just as a large Dutch cheese crashed through the window and caught him on the chest. When the officer had recovered his breath he separated the combatants and took them to the police station, where they were discharged with a caution. LOBSTER CLIMBS TREES. Inland Sea Captures of the East India Islands That Are Fond of Cocoanuts, In the East Indian islands is found a curious lobster which climbs trees. Although it prefers a home on land it at times feels a longing for the water, where it goes to moisten its gills; and here the eggs are laid, and the young are raised on the coast, where they have the benefit of salt air, always good for children. But most of their time is spent inland, living at the roots of trees where they have burrowed deep hollows which they carpet luxuriously with fibers stripped from coconuts. They come out of these homes at night to climb the palm trees, for although it seems funny to us, their climbing is quite a serious business to them, since it is in this way that they secure the cocoanuts of which they are so fond and on which they live principally. To get at the contents of the nut the lobster first tears away the fiber which overs the three "eyes." (You must all have noticed those black spots on one end of a cocoanut that makes it look like the wierd face of a monkey.) It hammers away with its claws at these spots or "eyes" until a hole is made, when it extracts the kernel by means of its smaller pincers. Sometimes after drilling through the perforated "eye" it grasps the nut in its claws and breaks it against a stone. STUCK TO HIS EYEGLASS. The English Diplomat Wore It, Even When He Was Capsized in the Sea. Recently a party from the embassies at Constantinople went to inspect the international lifeboat service on the Black sea coast. At one of the lifesaving stations they thought they would like to test the conditions of life-boat work, so, clothing themselves in bathing costumes and cork jackets, they each took an oar in a lifeboat, to the huge delight of the Turkish boatmen. One of the secretaries of the British embassy is never seen without an eyeglass, and is said even to sleep with it. On this occasion he was faithful to his eyeglass and solemnly embarked in a cork jacket and eyeglass. All the proper exercises were gone through, and finally the boat was capsized and righted again by its own crew. As they crept out from under the capsized boat a howl of surprise came from the Turks, for the secretary's head appeared, with the eyeglass firmly fixed in its proper position, its owner taking it as a matter of course that it should be there. ONLY A LITTLE CLIP. An Ingenious Device for Holding Paper, Which Has Become Very Popular. A short time ago someone put on the market an ingenious device for holding sheets of paper together. It took the place of the pin, says the New York Press. By "short time" is meant a matter of some five or six years. Today there are more than 20 different kinds of clips, selling from 60 cents per 1,000 to 25 cents per 100, and considerable capital is invested in their manufacture. The same general principle is followed in all, and it is assumed that each improvement is patented. Corporations have been formed to make nothing but clips, and competition is lively. The original patentee will no doubt become a millionaire, though he may make only one cent on each 1,000 sold. It is the simple, dirt-cheap invention that brings the big returns—something so inexpensive that all the millions of us want it. Uncle Sam's Salt-Water Farm. For 30 years the United States commission of fish and fisheries has been making a study of Uncle Sam's salt-water farm, its products and the man who work it. This is the second game of the series to be played for the "Old Folks Home" championship cup. James Hale Porter, Pres. Chicago Ath. Assn. Chas. L. Webb, Pres. Evanston Ath. Assn. J. Reed, Mgr. Evanston Ath. Assn. Grand reception and dance, 8 p. m. that evening in Evanston. Admission 25 cents. Thanksgiving evening Nov. 27, a joint debate will be held in Allen Chapel, Avondale. "Resolved that it is to the interest of the Negro to migrate to Africa, and exSenator T. T. Allain has served notice on its pastor Rev. D. W. Jones who has recovered from his late sickness," tht he wants to speak in favor of the Negro remaining right heah in this country." James, come eleven, Miller, who will not pay the one dollar'which he owes as six months subscription to The Broad Ax, and who spends much of his time in George J. Wood's gambling joint on State street near 30th street, claims that he will be one of the new Deputy Sheriffs of Cook County, but we do not believe that Sheriff Barrett will appoint crapshooters or dead-beats to any office. Robert H. Jones, 4740 Lake avenue, in a letter to The Broad Ax recently says, "That it is the only Afro-American newspaper in this country that dares to print the truth respecting "The Negro and the Republican party and the relation sustained to them by the men who are now at the head of this government." Mr. Jones, is an admirer and a supporter of The Broad Ax, and we are glad that he likes it. We understand that Mr. Yancy who was for a long time the head janitor of Quinn Chapel has started suite against old Quinn to recover the four or five hundred dollars as back salary. Let the officers and members of Quinn Chapel stop paying Rev. Andy Carey $30. per week as table money providing him with free coal and putting up $35 per month for house rent. If they will do this then they will be able to pay janitor Yancy. The men and women of our race who will lead must lead. We need to have much work done. Let us begin now more in earnest than ever. We must decrease crime and idleness and we must work to establish a higher moral character, and besides let's practice honesty as well as preaching it. If we will start and lead in these principles we as a race will gain more respect and confidence of all the people than we now have.-The Times, Galveston, Texas. The Old Church Organ had something to say last week about it being 'opposed to the election of Albert J. Hopkins to the United States Senate." If this is or was true no one has ever heard of it. Of course the Old Church Organ, whose side-whiskered manager is ever ready to do a little preaching if he can pick up a little change, feels it must grunt in order to stand in with Hopkins and his disfranchising gang, and if Old Ben Tillman with his blood-red record should happen to wear the Republican collar the Old Church Organ would be for him just the same. Six weeks prior to the late election Col. John R. Marshall, who was defeated twice before—once when he ran for South Town clerk, and while he was seeking legislative honors—exclaimed while he was in conversation with two men whom he did not think were friendly to us, that "one day after the election no one would ever hear of The Broad Ax, that it would bust up before it could defeat or prevent him from being elected County Commissioner," but up the present time The Broad Ax is still running and Col. John R. Marshall was not elected county commissioner. The Guardian, Boston, Mass., was one year old last Saturday, and we heartily desire to congratulate Wm. Monroe Trotter, its managing editor on the great success which has attended him in piloting The Guardian through the sea or journalism, and all honest men must admit that The Guardian has out-stripped Tom Fortune's paper The New York Age, The Freeman, and Ed. Cooper's paper The Colored American, and it is the best Afro-American newspaper in this county. The Freeman, Colored American, Telephone Main 751 CHARLES L. WEBB Court Reporter, 311 Ogden Bldg. 34 Clark St., General Stenographer Chicago. shall, and one of its high officials pulled a copy of The Broad Ax out of his pocket, and read the account of his black-balling, and after doing so this high Odd-fellow contended that "The Broad Ax was a little sheet that no one read it, that it was always roasting somebody." At that one or two members spoke up and declared that they knew better for they had not only read about Col. Marshall and the black-balls but they also knew of hundreds of others who had done the same thing." That statement seemed to stun that big Odd-fellow who at that time was engaged in reading The Broad Ax in the presence of almost one hundred Odd Fellows. Col. James H. Moody and his former Lady Love Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, had their day in court at the 35th St. Police Station last Monday. Major F. A. Denison and Edward H. Wright defended Col. Moody, who was afraid to go on the witness stand in his own behalf. It leaked out during the trial that one year ago Mrs. Robinson and Col. Moody had a fight and a gun was mixed up in it. At that time their woes and troubles over the money which the Col. bamboozled her out of was alred in the Harrison street police court, but it was kept out of the newspapers. Mrs. Maggie Giles, 3207 Armour avenue, who gives massage baths, was Col. Moody's star witness. She was very lovingly leaning on his manly arm the Monday evening he and Mrs. Robinson got tangled up with the revolver and the cane at 32nd and State street, and Mrs. Robinson's lawyer asked Mrs. Giles "how often did Col. Moody call at her house each week and if she gave massage baths to both men and women," she turned real red in the face. At the end of all the testimony Justice Hurley said "he was confident that Col. Moody had tricked Mrs. Robinson out of her money and that she attempted to get revenge by shooting at him." Therefore he washed his hands of the Moody-Robinson mess or shooting affray by permitting Mrs. Robinson to go free after she had signed a peace bond. 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 av, City. From on and after this date The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following places: William Goetz, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 411 E. 36th street. A. G. Marshall, news stand and book store, 3604 State street. 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. J. A. Geary's Confectionery and Cigar Store, 4800 State St. Mrs. Lillian Bell, Fancy Dress Maker, 137 W. 47th St. J. E. Webb's Cigar Store, 280, 29th Street. Turner William's Cigar and News Stand, 2903 Armour Ave. J. F. Bradbury's News Depot, 2970 State Street. Corrigan's Cigar Store and News Stand, 3304 State street. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. SURTE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sts. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law. 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, DUTTER 621 ANILAND BLOCK, 80 S. Clark Street, CHICAGO 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 Mc'NERNEY LAWYER SUITE 708-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE OHICA Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St. Down Town Office 260 S. Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 2553 Harrison. ISRAEL COWEN ATTORNEY AT LAW 615 TACOMA BUILDING 'Phone Main 717. 9 CHICAGO WILLIAM RITCHIE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. Suite 819-520 Oxford Building 84 LA SALLE ST., CHICAGO Telephone Main 1646. Telephone Yard 707 Residence, 120 Garfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 478C &. HALSTED STREET, ....CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bldg 59 Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. Phone Randolph 55 S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 708 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tul. M. 2020. EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 880 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2020. CHICAGO. Geraghty Mfg. Co. Manufacturers of CAMPAIGN BUTTONS AND BADGES..... 61 La Salle St., CHICAGO Telephone Main 4498 Coal, Wood, Feed Ice Terms Strictly Cash on Delivery 137 W. 47th St., - CHICAGO Telephone Blue 284 ALEX I. WYATT, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN Manufacturer of OPTICAL AND REFRAOTING GOODS Watches and Jewelry Repaired, Prices Reasonable. Eyes Tested Free. ---- 98 E. M11111 near Dearborn Chicago BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, FEL. 973 Harcison, 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. This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It 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. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions to every bottle. Only $0 cents. Sold by druggers 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 alike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has been on the market for so long that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use on their hair. It is most delicately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fall 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. Three story brick building, lot 25x 125, vacant lot adjoining same length, brick cottage rear of corner lot. Rent $80 per month. This property is located on Halsted street near 35th and it is a great bargain at $13,000. 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. 1994 N. Western Ave., Cl N. Western Ave., Ch 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. HOHENADEL BR HENADEL BR HOHENADEL BROS. 211-213 Madison Street CHICAGO Telephone Main 3300 Manufacturers of ... UNIF Pollicemen, Firemen, Letter Carriers, Elevatormen, Janitors, Wagonmen GEO. C. CAL PRODUCE C Butter, Poultry, Eg 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, JACOB F Market an Telephone UNIFORM CAR FOR Firemen, Barriers, Railormen, Janitors, Wagonmen, Street Car Employees, Telegraph Messeng, Railroad Empl, Bellboys, Wat GEO. C. CALLAHAN & CO. ODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Eto. WATER STREET, COB FEINBEN market and Grocer Telephone 565 South Manufacturers of... UNIFORM CAPS Pollicemen, Firemen, Street Car Employes, Letter Carriers, Telegraph Messengers, Elevatormen, Railroad Employes, Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Watchmen, Eta PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Eto. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery 31st and State Sts. 226 East 25th Street F. W. BOYD COAL, WO MOVING AND EXPRESSING All Orders Promptly Attended Telephone Blue 28g 4656 Arme Jas. J. Mc SAMPLE IMPORTED A WINES, LIQUOR 8463 SOUTH HALSTED STREET A. JOSEPH GREAT NO SALE AND EXCH Driving, Draft and Gen Always o 1107 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. BARNEY House and F MOVER of A HEAVY MA Smoke Stacks, Cupo Erected. Hoisting kinds of Beams architectu Office, 31 South TELEPHONE Higginbothan Mason General Co. 25th Street - - - CHI W. BOYD DEALER WOAL, WOOD AND EXPRESSING Promptly Attended to Cash on Deliver 4656 Armour Avenue, CHI as. J. McCormick SAMPLE ROO IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HALSTED STREET. GREAT NORTHERN AND EXCHANGE STA iving, Draft and General Business Horse Always on Hand Avenue. Near Robey St. The West, 1028. BARNEY BENSON Fire and Fire Wreck MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY. Stacks, Cupolas and More Hoisting and Placing of Beams and Girders architectural work. 31 South Canal St., C TELEPHONE MAIN 4028 COAL, WOOD AND ICE MOVING AND EXPRESSING All Orders Promptly Attended to Cash on Delivery Telephone Blue 28g 4656 Armour Avenue, CHICAGO. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLE. BARNEY BENSON, 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 4028 AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to engage agents and regular correspondents in all the leading cities and towns in Illinois and throughout the other sections of the country. The highest commissions paid to live hustlers. Sample copies furnished. For further information address Julius F. Taylor 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` --- n Ave., Chicago DEL BROS FORM CAPS FOR Street Car Employes, Telegraph Messengers, Railroad Employes, Bellboys, Watchmen, Etc. BLLAHAN & CO. COMMISSION Gge, Game, Veal, Eto. CHICAGO EINBERG and Grocery 565 South DEALER IN FOOD AND ICE Cash on Delivery our Avenue, CHICAGO. McCormick, THE ROOM AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND CIGARS T. OHICAGO JOSEPH STRAUS NORTHERN CHANGE STABLE. General Business Horses On Hand OHICAGO, IL BENSON, Fire Wrecking. All Kinds of MACHINERY. Dolas and Monuments and Placing of all and Girders for rural work. Canal St., Chicago 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. --- CHICAGO Mason and General Contractor