The Broad Ax

THE MORAL MAXIMS OR PRECEPTS EMBODIED IN THE HEATHEN OR THE ORIENTAL BIBLES SURPASS THOSE CONTAINED IN THE JEWISH OR PROTESTANT BIBLE. From our boyhood days until we were able to reason from cause to effect, and to become in a limited degree familiar with the laws which govern or regulate the boundless universe regardless of our likes or dislikes, we had been taught or led to believe by the defenders, the upholders and the expounders of the Bible, that it was impossible for persons to form any higher conceptions of morals or morality outside the morality or the teachings pertaining to the moral laws contained within the lids of the Bible. That if we reject its ideals or standard of morality there is no way whereby we can become cognizant of the fact that it is absolutely wrong to prevaricate, steal, kill, or to commit other crimes. While we have the highest or the most profound respect for those who may entertain these ideas, nevertheless we must not lose sight of the fact that morals or the practice of morality is universal while on the other hand Christianity and those believing in the teachings of the Jewish or the Protestant Bible are local. As we have heretofore stated, it is far from our intention to cast any reflections upon those who have implicit faith in the teachings of the Bible but at the same time we must not fail to take into consideration the fact that the greatest or the most beneficent moral maxims or precepts have been handed down to us through other channels than the Jewish or the Protestant Bible, and if all the bibles which have been in existence and which are in existence to-day were distroyed morality would still exist in the world independent of them all. The first Heathen or Oriental Bible to come under our observation is the kig-veda (Bible) which was composed 2,400 years before Christ. The morality or the moral precepts which it contains surpass in beauty of expression the sentiments in the Jewish Bible. Its teachings about sin, its revelations, its belief in the ability or the Gods to forgive, its belief that its Bible came from God, its rigid code of morals, its prayers, hymns, offerings and sacrifices are all rigidly believed in and lived up to by more than two hundred million people. Many students of history are familiar with the Brahmin's ideas respecting the trinity which corresponds with the ideas which are taught to the people at the present time, pertaining to the trinity. The Brahmin Bible (the Yend-Avesta) is more than twelve hundred years older than Christ, or the Jewish, or the Protestant Bible. It is full of many beautiful moral maxims or precepts. Its adherents believe in a supreme being, in Gods and demons, who interfere with the affairs of men in this world, and who are ever at war with each other. Zoroaster, its great prophet, promulgated many commandments which are similar to those in the Jewish Bible. He taught that he was in direct communication with the Lord. His creed and faith are of the simplest kind. It is "to fear God, to live a life of pure thoughts, pure words, pure deeds and to die in the hope of a world to come. It is the creed of those who live nearest to the Gods and serve them the faithfulest in every age, and wherever they dwell who accept it and practice it they bear witness to that which makes them children of the Gods and brethren of the prophets among whom Zoroaster was not the least." It is well to bear it in mind, that the Jewish people were carried away as captives to Babylon some six hundred years before Jesus was born, and during the seventy years of their exile there in that land which was the mother of science and civilization, they came in contact with the Persian religion and derived their ideas from it or the Persians pertaining to the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, which prior to that time was entirely new to the Jewish people, for their own religion did not teach it. They, the Jewish people, also borrowed from the Persian religion their belief in a multitude of angels, and in Satan, as the ruler of the evil spirits, and it is a historical fact that up to that time no Jewish writer of any note nor the Jewish people had the faintest idea or conception of heaven or the infernal regions or the plurality of worlds. Buddha, the awakened, whose followers number more than other religious faiths or systems in the world, is more than five years older than Christ or the Jewish Bible. The Bible which was constructed by him or his disciples bristles with many lofty and elevating moral precepts or maxims. It contains nothing to shock the minds of little children nor to blunt the finer sensibilities of men and women. Buddha taught that "nothing on earth is stable, nothing is real. Life is as transitory as a spark of fire, or the sound of a lyre. There must be some supreme intelligence where we can find rest. If I attained it I could bring light to men. If I were free myself I could deliver the world." He also said: "The succoring of mother and father, the cherishing of wife and child, the following of a lawful calling, this is the greatest blessing. The giving alms, aid rendered to relations, blameless acts, this is the greatest blessing. The abstaining from sins and the avoiding mein, the eschewing of intoxicating drinks, diligence in good deeds, reverence and humility, contentment and greatfulness, this is the greatest blessing. Those who having done these things become invincible on all sides and attain happiness on all sides. This is the greatest blessing." "He who lives a hundred years vicious and unestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting. Let no man think lightly of evil saying in his heart, it will not come near unto me. Even by the falling of water drops a water pot is filled, the fool becomes filled with evil if he gathers it little by little. Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate! Let us dwell free from hatred among men who hate, and not commit any sin, to do good and purify one's mind." After these most wholesome maxims there follows ten commandments of which the first five apply to all people everywhere. They are not to kill, not to lie, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to get drunk, etc. Buddha taught that it was the duty of all men to honor their parents and care for their children, to be kind to the sick and the poor. We must remember that he lived more than five hundred years before Christ that the rites and ceremonies which were performed by his priests, have been with slight modifications adopted by the Catholic and the Episcopal churches. Buddha also held religious councils and sent ou missionaries to all parts of the east. Confucius, the great moral teacher, and Philosopher of China, lived 551 years before the Son of God came into this world, gave us the Golden Rule. Among other wise and moral things Confucius said was "Coarse rice for food, water to drink, the bended arm for a pillow—happiness may be enjoyed even with these. But without virtue both riches and honor seem to me like a passing cloud." Mohammed, who claims that his Bible, the Koran, was written in heaven, and it is a great pleasure for anyone to peruse it for it is universally admitted that it is written in the most elegant language, and from beginning to end the beautiful sentiments respecting our moral conduct which it sets forth, are far more enobling than those contained in the Jewish Bible. Mohammed counseled his followers "to live good lives and to strive after HEW TO THE LINE. the mercy of God by fasting, charity and prayer." He said: "A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. When he dies people will ask what property has he left behind him? But the angels in heaven will ask what good deeds has he sent before him? He enjoined upon his adherents to show mercy to the weak and the orphaned, kindness to brutes, to be honest in their dealings with their fellowmen, and to abstain from gambling and the use of strong drinks." Out of the one billion and six hundred million people who are scattered over the face of the earth more than eleven hundred million, are followers and believers in the teachings of the great moralists, and philosophers whom we have referred or alluded to. In passing we cannot refrain from referring to Egypt or the Egyptians, those strange or wonderful people who have for many centuries inhabited the beautiful valleys of the Nile, can trace their history back 5,550 years before the Christian era. The morality, which they practiced and the moral laws which they placed upon their statute books cannot be equalled. For instance, if the master of a slave, caused the death of his slave, the owner was also put to death. No other so-called Christian or civilized country in the wide world ever enacted such a law. Here in America where all the slave holders were firm believers in the Jewish Bible, and devout Christians, the slaves were not in the possession of any rights which their master were bound to respect. It is also admitted by all who are familiar with Egyptian history that the ten commandments which Moses, and the Jewish people claim were written by the finger of God upon two tablès of stone on Mount Sina, came from Egypt. Therefore it must be perfectly apparent to all that morality or moral maxims, and percepts are not dependent upon the Jewish nor the Protestant Bible. Our chief objection to the bible is that it places a premium on vice and crime, while at the same time it puts its everlasting seal of condemnation on all honest and upright men and women who do not accept it as the infallible word of an all wise and merciful God. It teaches that slavery and polygomy are of devine origin; it teaches that a mother can be happy in heaven while her sweet little children, her own flesh and blood must or will suffer all the misery, anguish and pain in hades, throughout eternity; it teaches that Noah, the old drunken reprobate placed his curse upon Ham, his son, and that that curse will remain on the Negro race for as many billion years as there are grains of sand on the sea-shore. JEFFERSON'S RELIGION How every now and then a story goes the rounds to show how very religious Jefferson was. No wonder Priestcraft loves to claim such a splendid character. Let them alone and in time they will have Jefferson and Lincoln to have been shouting Methodists of forty gallen Baptists. Alas for them Jefferson has left imperishable records of his new beliefs and of his beliefs in a letter to Dr. Rush, page 479, vol. 4 of Washington's edition of his life he says: I am a Christian in the only sense in which Christ wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence and believing he never claimed any other." The word human he himself italicised. So there we have it, volumes could not change this. Holt. Owing to the unprecedented demand for the last issue of The Broad Ax, we are compelled to reproduce our article on Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray. For some of the copies of the last issue of The Broad Ax containing it sold for 10cts, a piece and it set this big town on fire. D. A. M. City Clerk William Loeffler who has been the controlling power or factor in the Democratic party on the West Side for many years, has declared his intention of quiting the political field and devoting all his time to his extensive business interests. JUDGE GIBBONS THREATENED TO SEND REV. JASPER F. THOMAS, AND CO. TO JAIL FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. Last Sunday night Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Pasty Dean Murray, gave it out in Bethel Church that Rev. Jasper F. Thomas, who (if he had his just dues would be wearing a stripped suit and doing time in the Pen at Joliet, and who went and prayed with Mrs. Rebacca Springstine in order to induce her to lie against us in judge Dunne's court), that "the courts had decided that Rev. Jasper F. Thomas and Co. were at the head of the rightful or lawful Olivet Baptist Church," and we presume that Rev. Holy-High ball Andy Carey, did Likewise in Quinn Chapel, however that may be, when Col. Ed. Morris, "Grand Attorney for the Gamblers Trust" appeared in Judge John Gibbons, Court Monday morning in behalf of Rev. Jasper F. Thomas, and his thick-headed crowd, his honor Judge Gibbons informed Col. Morris. "That there is only one Olivet Baptist Church that it is located on the cornor of 27th and Dearborn Sts. and not in Arlington Hall, 31st, and Indiana ave., that unless Rev. Jasper F. Thomas and Co. obey the orders of his court, he will send him and his whole shooting-match to jail for A MAD WOMEN WITH A REVOLVER. Shortly after Mrs. Perry Bates moved to 5001 Dearborn St. last Spring, Mrs. Stella Taylor, 5005 Dearborn St., who seems to get a little off her base once and a while, began calling on Mrs. Bates, and pouring into her ears all kinds of tales or reports about the other women in the neighborhood, until finally Mrs. Bates informed Mrs. Taylor, "that she had no time to waste in listening to her rot." Then sister Taylor, who is a good christian, began abusing Mrs. Bates, and when the latter lady remonstrated with her, which made her much worse, and last Monday thier unpleasant affairs came to a climax, when Mrs. Taylor appeared at Mrs. Bates' back door with a big revolver, which she pointed at Mrs. Bates, and she threatened to end her life. The language which was used by Mrs. Taylor, while she was flou- contempt of Court," or words of the same purport. The subjoined statement covers the court Proceedings. This is to certify that the injunction hertofore issued in the case of Olivet Baptist Church vs. J. F. Thomas at. al. by the Circut Court of Cook County is still in vogue, and that at the hearing before his honor, Judge Gibbons, on Monday, November 17th, 1902, the defendants were cautioned through their counsel, Edward H. Morris, that said injunction had to be obeyed and that if the defendants J. F. Thomas at. al. used the name of said church that they would be punished for a contempt of court; that the members of said church who desired had the right to follow J. F. Thomas if they saw fit, but that they could not use the name of Olivet Baptist Church, and that the use of said name would be a violation of the injunction and that if the injunction was thus violated the violators would be sent to jail as for a contempt. Very Respectfully, Beauregard F. Moseley, Solicitor for Olivet Baptist Church ishing her double barrelled revolver, was very bad. After Mrs. Bates, had recovered from the effects of her encounter with Mrs. Taylor, she obtained a warrant, and had her arrested. Her case came up before Justice Quinn, at the Hyde Park Police Station last Thursday. Lawyer J. E. White represented Mrs. Bates, and Geo. Jack Terrell, who beat The Broad Ax out of three dollars as subpt. to it who is not worth going to a dog fight with appeared as attorney for Mrs. Taylor, and when the trial was all over Justice Quinn said, "ten dollars and cost," and he made Mrs. Taylor give or sign a peace bond in the bargain. Mrs. Bates, whom we have favorably known ever since we have resided in this city, has the reputation of being able to live in peace with her neighbors and this is the first time in her life that any of them wanted to fight or lick her. No. 4. Attorney P. J. O'Keeffe, Ashland Block, left for New Orleans, La. last night he will be absent for ten days. Mr. Charles F. Cooke, secy. of the Cooke Brewing Co., would make a first-class City Treasurer of Chicago. State Senator and Alderman Stanley H. Kunze, is sporting a fine corp of whiskers these lovly autum days, and they give him a fatherly apperence. County Commissioner Rollin B. Orgon,would make a first class assistant sheriff of Cook County, for he is made of the right kind of stuff for that position. Big prize fighter Dan Jackson and Col. John R. Marshall, were defeated for captains of their respective precincts Tuesday night and from henceforth they are both dead ones. Hon. Wm. E. Mason should receive the votes of all the Democratic members of the Legislature and then there would be no doubt about the next United State Senator hailing from Cook County. Hon. Thomas Gahan, member of the Democratic National Committee, will be a Powerful factor in the make up of the new County committee and he stands close up by the side of Sheriff Thomas E. Barrett. Samuel Alston, who was the victim of a huge joke which was practiced on him a few days ago in the city Hall, maintains that "The Broad Ax is the best and most fearless Afro-American newspaper in the U. S." The wedding of Mr. Frank W. King to Mrs. Hattle Blackstone, occured Nov. 9th at the residence of the bride, 450 37th St. Rev. Jackson performed the cermony. It was a private affair, only sixtxeen guests being present. Rev. I. N. Daniels seems to be doing good work for his Lord at Evanston. Rev. Daniels, so far has not been mixed up in any church or women scandals and as long as he walks in the middle of the road he is fit to serve his Lord. Alderman H. L. Fick, still rushes around the City Hall with his big diamond stud projecting in front of him. Alderman Fick, is ever ready to look after the interest of his constituents even to the extent of getting their dogs out of hawk. The Glena Club of St. Thomas Church is presided over by Mrs. Carrie Warner, gave a delightful party Monday night at the home of Mrs. Powell, 5617 Wabash Ave. and Mrs. Warner, says: "a nice sum of money was pulled or racked in for the church. Ex-Alderman P. F. Haynes, 26th Ward, worked like a beaver for the election of Thomas E. Barrett, who is an old friend of the former handsome Alderman of Lake View and sheriff Barrett will take care of one or two of the friends of Ex-Alderman Haynes. The Forum Club Institutional Church will on Dec. 2 celebrate John Brown's birthday by giving a dinner at that church, on which occasion oratory and water will flow. Tickets to the feast will be sold for 50 cts. and all male admires of "Old John Brown", whoes soul is still marching on can participate in the celebration. The "Broad Ax," published by Julius F. Taylor, Chicago, is the hottest thing that reaches this office in the way of a newspaper. The way he goes for the preachers of that city is something awful. How they manage to stand it is a question which we confess we are unable to handel. Not long ago they stirred him up against the courts, and he had to furnish grist for the mill, but yet he is doing business at the same old stand. Truthful of otherwise it is pretty hard on those whom he takes a notion to write up. a notion to write up.—The Afro-American Ledger Baltimore, Md. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Farmers, Single Taxers, Republicans, 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. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. HEALTH OF THE ARMY. The Medical Department has succeeded in Eradicating One of the Most Dendry of Diseases. The strenuous efforts of the medical department of the army have resulted apparently in the practical eradication of that trying disease, dysentery, which has caused the American troops in the Philippines so much suffering and so many deaths, says a Washington report. During the campaigning in the Philippines, as has been the case in every war, hundreds of men have died from this disease, and others have been discharged because of total disability. Dysentery is more prevalent and severe in the Philippines than in this country, but the enforcement of strict sanitary measures, including the boiling of all drinking water, rules for bathing and especially the washing of the hands before handling food, has caused the disease almost to disappear. The "adobe itch," another disease which caused the army great annoyance, has also been successfully dealt with. While this disease is not fatal, it attacks men, women and children alike. Microscopic examinations and study of this disease developed that it was caused by a parasite, as in dysentery, and it appeared that it was communicated by the careless methods employed by the Chinese in doing laundry work. They were in the habit of drying the clothes by spreading them on bushes and on the grass, and ironing them with a cold iron. Under the belief that the parasite came from the vegetation, and was communicated to the clothes from the bushes, orders were issued that the clothes would be hung on lines to dry, and ironed with hot irons instead of cold. As a result of this practice the disease disappeared. According to reports received by Surgeon General Forward, typhoid fever is on the decrease in the Philippines, and when the heavy rains come on a complete eradication of this disease is expected. PRINCE CHEN WAS JARRED. Was Greeted with the "Oilmen National Anthem" Until He Got Thred of It. Prince Chen, the Chinese prince imperial, who lately visited President Roosevelt at his country place at Oyster Bay, was recently extensively entertained in Brussels by the city fathers, says the San Francisco Argonaut. But the pleasure of his stay there was marred by the monotonous music which was played in his honor everywhere he went, whether visiting buildings, monuments, museums or dining and reviewing. After awhile, it is said, it jarred so on his nerves that he asked his interpreter to inquire what the composition was. "The Chinese National Anthem," was the reply of the somewhat surprised burgo master of Brussels, Mr. De Mot. "But we have none," was the response made by the royal guest to the embarrassment of the entourage. It seems that a wily European some years ago composed a sort of tum-tum, with an accompaniment, and called it the "Chinese National Anthem." This the gullible city fathers have used on all occasions when Chinese dignitaries were being entertained. It remained, however, for Prince Chen to expose the composer, who had already made a neat little sum out of his composition. Nineteen states and Canada have within a few years, boosted the oyster industry from something over five billion bivalves annually to a production of over twelve billion. At the average retail price of one-half cent per oyster, it will be seen that it probably costs us at least $60,000,000 per year to indulge in the luxurious sea fruit, particularly when most of us have to pay 25 cents for a "stew" or "shell" of six oysters, says Harper's Weekly. Delaware bay, by the way, has apparently wrested the oyster championship for production from Chesapeake bay. Therein the oyster grounds cover over 220 square miles, engage over 600 vessels and employs over 7,000 men. Every acre of Delaware oysters is estimated to pay an annual profit of $60, so your Delaware oyster farmer sniffs contemptuously at his brother of the ox and the hay. The capital of this industry is fitly called Bivalve, with Venetian stresta, all debouching on water fronts, wharf lined, and covered with steel rails by railways which wrest what traffic they can from the sail and steam craft. REV. LONGREEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN MURRAY'S BLACK OR UN SAVOURY 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 set 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 Pulpits. With these Preliminary remarks, we will proceed with our task of attempting, to touch upon Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's "Black or unsavoury Record in Indianapolis, Indiana, and in this city," and while we may not be able to to tear or pull the mask off his hypocritical face, but we do expect to shake him up just a little bit. It seems that away back in 1896 or 97, Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, was holding down a small church or Pulpit in Marion, Ind., at that time he was nothing but a big Green County Preacher, and he was perfectly contented to smile on the good-looking sisters, to tell a lie once and a while and devote the rest of his time in feasting on chickens, and eating water-milions. As time moved onward Bishop Arnett, concieved the idea of transfering Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, from Marion to Indianapolis, Ind., and placing him in charge of Allen Chapel, which is the oldest and one of the best churches in that city, and according to the most reliable reports from some of its old members who reside in this city, and from Preachers, and other Persons who still live in Indianapolis. Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, was scarcely installed as Pastor of Allen Chapel, before he plunged head-long into immorality or Licentionuness. He did not realy have time to get the country dust removed from his large shoes before he had a down-fall, which brought disgrace on all the highly respectiable members of Allen Chapel, both men and women, and as their place of worship was free from debt they did not want no one to Preach to them who disregarded his marriage vows one who could be observed in the dark hours of the night chaseing around after other women, while his good wife was home Praying to her God not to hurl her husband on account of his many black deeds head-long into the bottomless Pit of hell. So in time the great majority of the decent members of Allen Chapel highly resolved that they would not permit Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, to Preach for them any longer, and they took steps to remove him from his Pulpit, at that juncture Bishop Arnett journied to Indianapolis, a meeting was called or held in the Chapel for the purpose of sheading new light on Rev. Longreen. Bishop Arnett called the meeting to order and occupied the Pulpit during its progress. Rev. Longreen sat on his right side in the Pulpit, and while some of the members of Allen Chapel were Protesting against Rev. Longreen and filling charges against him. Bishop Arnett placed his hand on his head and proclaimed in a loud voice that "Abraham Lincoln Murray, is my Son that he will and must stay as Pastor of Allen Chapel, that no one can dispute my authority nor set my decision aside". It is true that Bishop Arnett, and his saintly Son Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, did gain a temporary victory over the honest men and women belonging to Allen Chapel, who were not contented to have their Pulpit polluted with a Preacher whom they claimed was tangled up with two or three Lewd women at the same time. They, the members of Allen Chapel, would not be out done for they were fully determined to rid their House of God, of Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and they began Legal Proceedings against him in the courts. Then Bishop Arnett, in order to save and Protect his loving and dutiful Son, we don't think Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, had the September conference of 1900, to transfer him from Allen Chapel, to Bethel Church, Chicago. To show that there is much truth in what has so far been stated respecting "Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's Black or unsavoury Record in Indianapolis, Ind.," we will quote from a letter which is before us from one of the cleanest and most upright A. M. E. Ministers in this country and it speaks for itself. Indianapolis, Ind., May 12th 1902. Jullus F. Taylor, Esq., 5040 Armour Ave., Chicago, Ill. My Dear Sir: "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 synenim 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 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, buoncled into the parlor, walked up in front of Mrs. Dean, and the gentleman, and disappeared like Bancno'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 Thursday evening November 6, 1902, at twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock, a lady very stylishly dressed who resembled Mrs. Dean, emerged from a well furnished flat on Dearborn street near 46th street. This lady who was the very picture of Mrs Dean, walked to 46th and State street, boarded a north bound car, and when the car arrived at 30th and State street, she left it and walked west on 30th street as far as Bethel church. A bright light was burning in the room used for the study; as she approached the door leading into the church or study it was opened by a large dark complexioned man who looked like Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and the lady disappeared within the church, this was twelve o'clock at night, whoever this lady was and whoever the gentleman was that let her in the church at that hour of the night, neither one of them observed the man standing in the alley who wore a light overcoat; neither did they notice the stout man standing right straight in front of the church on the opposite side of the street; neither did they see or know the small lady who looked right square into the faces of both the lady and the fat gentleman as he stood peeping out of the door. In conclusion it is still fresh in the minds of the people of Chicago how Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, who is connected with some of the courts, all hung around in the study at Bethel church at all hours of the night, how Rev. Carey, and his fleek of Quinn chapel rushed in to assist in giving Rev. Longreen a thick coat of white-wash after his scandal became a stench in the nostrils of all decent people; how some of the followers of Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray threatened to murder Mrs. Lee, if she did not close her mouth in reference to her misconduct with Longreen; how Bishop A. Grant came to this city for the purpose of hushing up the scandal; how he gave up the idea of trying Rev. Longreen in Bethel church for the reason that many of his adherents or supporters were bent upon bloodshed, and were marching on Bethel church armed to the teeth with razors, revolvers, and other deadly weapons; how the September conference of 1901, which convined in St. Stephen's church on the West Side exonerated Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, after Mrs. McDonald, and one or two other women had testified that "they had swapped spit with him in his study in Bethel church. Does not all the foregoing demonstrate that Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, is wholly unfit to expound the everlasting gospel, or to pose as a great moral leader of the Afro-American race? P. S. Mr. Dean, of Indianapolis, Ind., the former husband of Mrs. Pasty Dean, was in Chicago October 12, and he talked very freely in reference to Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and his rascality while he was preaching in Allen Chapel in that city. WEARINESS OF WEALTH. "Godless Magnificence and Selfish Prodigality of Some Rich New Yorkers. The very rich men of the world are growing exceedingly tired of the vast wealth accumulated. In New York scores and hundreds of men to-day are paying anywhere from $9,000 to $16,000 a month rent for suites of rooms, not homes which they have built for their families, but simply apartments which they have rented for awhile, says a writer in Homilitic Review. The godless magnificence, the selfish prodigality, the overwhelming ostentation of the wealth of New York in certain circles cannot be described; but it is all an indication of the fact that the climax has well-nigh been reached in the display of what wealth can get. The world is waiting now to know what wealth can give. It is the nemesis of vast wealth that it brings its own retribution, and that retribution is the weariness of being unable to find happiness in merely having things. THE LITTLE FINGERNAIL It Was Worn Long Many Years Ago, But Now It Is Carefully Manhoused. Forty years ago in certain parts of the United States it was the custom to grow long nails. I well remember some of the swells and puffers who devoted more attention to their little finger nails than they did to their teeth, and often have I seen the fifth digit with a claw on it an inch and a quarter in length. The nail was carried in a stall, and on occasion was split after the manner of a steel or quill pen, so that its wearer could sign his name to a check with it, says a writer in the New York Press. The trimming of nails to-day is an art which gives employment to many pretty women who style themselves manicures. Nearly every first-class, up-to-date barber shop has its manicure, who delights the man needing a shave or hair cut with an innocent flirtation. She dresses garishly and has a strut on her that would arouse the envy of a saddle-astride fox chasers. The National Dressmakers' association will hereafter endeavor to find husbands for worthy seamstresses who are unable to conclude matrimonial negotiations without help. This is a praiseworthy enterprise, says the Chicago Record-Herald, and should be looked into by all bachelors who are charitably disposed. Tourists in Italy. Of 954,000 foreign tourists who visited Italy during the year ended June 13, 65,000 were English. It is estimated that the visitors spent $70,000,000 during their stay in the country. In Northern Norway. Trondtjem, the northernmost town of any size in Norway, is as far from Berlin as Rome is. AN HONEST PORTER. He Helped Himself to a Tip of Ten Dollars for Being Accommodating and Honest. "The tip-exacting Pullman car porters are the recipients of a good many knocks from press and public, but they are not the worst in the world," remarked a commercial traveler to a Washington Star man. "They may have a pretty fierce way of drilling for tips, but when it comes to the matter of honesty I know one of them that's there with the goods, as the saving goes. "I left San Francisco, or, rather, Oakland, on the Santa Fe line for Chicago at 8 o'clock in the evening a couple of weeks ago last Sunday. The gang that I met in 'Frisco had been rather too enthusiastic in giving me a good time of it out there on the day of my departure, so that when I woke up on the train along toward 7 o'clock the next morning the sleeper bunk felt pretty warm and my coppers a whole lot warmer. The nearest, in fact, the first stop at which I would have a chance to fix those hot coppers out was Mojave, and so I hustled into my clothes to be ready to hop off the train during the stop at Mojave for one of those catzenjammer alleviators. "I asked the Pullman conductor how long the train would stop at Mojave, and he replied that the stop would last ten minutes. I raced into the station cafe when the train pulled into Mojave, and instructed the man in charge of the bar to rig me up one of those long, long damp things. He went at the job in a pretty scientific manner, and the piece of wet work that he set before me was a rare thing to find right alongside of the California desert. It was such a fine and effective creation, in fact, that I asked him to frame up another one, and I got away with this with equal joy. Then I leisurely strolled to the door to take a look at my train—and saw the end of it curling away in the rarefied distance on its way toward the land of the rising sun. It had pulled out without notifying me. I hustled into the ticket office to ask the man in the window when I'd be able to corral another eastbound train, and he said that it 'ud be along at 8 o'clock the next morning—the mate to the train that had departed without me; there was only one of the overland 'expresses per diem. So there I saw myself stuck in Mojave, Cal., the most miserable little sand dune on the globe, for a full twenty-four hours. "But that wasn't the worst of it. I had left my Gladstone bag wide, open on my bunk, with my wearing apparel thrown around the section every which way, and in the bag I had placed, on the night before, $200 in gold coin, the stuff being too heavy to carry around in my pockets with any comfort. "I've got a chance of getting the bag back,' said I to myself, 'but what the black porter'll do to those $200 in gilt money will be something swoopingly scandalous.' "I had no idea on earth that I'd ever see a dollar of that money. I figured it all out that the porter would corral the money and then stuff my wearing apparel into the bag and hand it over to the conductor. I knew then I wouldn't be able to prove any such fact that I had $200 in gold money in the bag, and I gave it up for gone. I told the station agent at Mojave about the bag, and he immediately telegraphed to the next station to be made by my lost train along the line, a place called Barstow, N. Mex., directing that the bag be shipped back to Mojave on the west-bound overland. "The bag was returned to Mojave on the west-bound late that night, and I eagerly opened it up to see what I had left in the bag. Everything was there, including the stack of gold money. I counted the gold roll, and it amounted to an even $190. The porter, I felt certain, had appropriated just one of the $10 gold pieces to compensate him for his trouble in packing the bag, and I afterward found out that I was right in this supposition. "I caught the train east on the following morning, and when I got to Kansas City I got off to take a bit of a rest at a hotel. As I was getting off I met the porter of the train that had left Mojave without me. He was walking about the station, waiting to go aboard his car for another western trip. He saw and recognized me as soon as I recognized him, and he grinned broadly when he saw me. "Boss,' said he, coming over to me, 'Ah suah did look eve'ywheah fo' dat othuh ten dolluh gol' piece, but Ah suah couldn't fin' it nowheah,' and then he burst into a happy darky laugh and slapped his thigh joyously. I told him how welcome he was to the $10 piece that he had pinched out for himself, and I'm not certain that I didn't give him another couple of dollars to show my appreciation of his honesty. It might not sound like honesty to speak of his swiping $10 from my Gladstone bag, but under the circumstances, considering the chance he had to grab it all, and considering, too, the nature of Pullman porters as they're supposed to be, I think he was a paragon of honesty." Chocolate Wafers. One-half of a cupful of light brown sugar, as much granulated sugar creamed with one-half cupful of butter, one well beaten egg, one-half cupful of grated chocolate, one and one-half cupfuls of flour, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Mix all together to a soft dough, roll out a little at a time very thin and cut into circles. Bake in a moderate oven.—Detroit Free Press. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The municipal expenses of New York are approximately $100,000,000 a year. Of 23,000 children placed in families by the Children's Aid society. only 60 have been arrested and sent to reform schools. While London has 47 telephones per 10,000 inhabitants, Paris, 71; New York, 150, and San Francisco, 706, Stockholm reaches the figure of 980. Berlin has its first female barbers—the wife and daughter of a hairdresser. In Bohemia, Hungary and Scandinavia there are many women barbers. In the year ending April 1, 1900, Berlin imported from Italy 50 car loads of cherries, 357 of table grapes, 245 of summer fruits, etc. In the following 12 months the business doubled. A Leipsic physician expresses the opinion that on account of their delicate sense of touch blind persons are specially qualified for practicing massage. In Japan this is done very largely. In the clear atmosphere the other day Bostonians could see from Boston two mountains, Wachusett and Monadnock—that is, those Bostonians who took the trouble to climb Mount Bellevue, West Roxbury, could. If all the reports that have reached the police within the past few days are true, diamond stealing by servants has reached the proportion of a mania in New York. Three young women employed in as many fashionable homes in the up-town section are now under arrest on this charge. A Vermont town supports two papers which live in friendly discord. The Herald printed a meaningless item about one Slaets S. Weneht, a Syrian, and the News copied it, without the formality of giving credit. Gleefully the Herald now points out that the fictitious Syrian's name spelled backward proclaims the truth, well known locally that "the News steals." WOMAN A PESSIMIST. After a Certain Age Their Face Show Signs of Mental Worry and Distress. The average woman is a dyed-in-the-wool pessimist. Almost every woman over 30 years of age looks distressed. Her brows are bent, her mouth drawn into a tight line, and there are deep furrows down her cheeks. She looks exactly as if she were considering how to provide a dinner for 25 cents that will satisfy twenty-five small children, when in reality she may have nothing more serious on her mind than buying a pair of socks for George. No wonder women grow old faster than men, for they hug their worries to them and let them show in their faces. There was once an elderly servant who was superstitious to a degree and who always expected the worst to happen. Did she find a needle on the floor, did a picture fall in the house or a bird fly into one of the rooms, she was instantly plunged into woe. "We're going to have a heap of bad luck!" she would say, and then she'd be lachrymose until some one had the toothache or the cows got into the corn, when she would consider the demon luck exorcised or satisfied for a time and grow as cheerful as it was her habit to be. Some one once asked her if she did not have any good-luck signs. "Why, certainly," she replied, "but they don't count—I don't believe in the good-luck ones," which, by the by, is thoroughly characteristic of the sex. Here is a woman who suffers—suffers is the word—from insomnia. "I can't imagine why I don't sleep," she says to her friends. "I'm sleepy as anything when I go upstairs, but then I begin to wonder if my son Arthur, who travels for a drug firm, is on a train, and in a minute I see him just as plainly bleeding and mangled in a wreck. When I decide that he is really dead, I think of John, and worry because he hasn't a better position. Then Molly comes into my mind, and I feel sure that one of her children must be ill, I feel so blue about her. I fret over Lucy's throat a bit then, and by this time I'm wide awake. It's the strangest thing! I don't understand why I should be so wakeful!" Her physician does, however, and now he's prescribing for her a course of cheerfulness and of "looking for the best." It's a medicine that most women need—their faces show it—but there are few who are sensible enough to take it. Death Caused by Mosquito. Mosquitoes are now charged with communicating erysipelas as well as malaria and yellow fever. A New York physician has issued a death certificate in the case of a 14 months' old babe, in which he says "Death was caused by erysipelas due to the bite of a mosquito." It is only fair to the mosquito to record that the board of health officers refused to accept the certificate until a coroner's physician had investigated and concluded that there was no other apparent cause for the death than the mosquito bite.—Youth's Companion. "Coffee Heart" in the Latest. Medical examiners for life insurance societies have added the term "coffee heart" to their regular classification of the functional derangements of that organ. Its effect is in shortening the long beat of the heart. Coffee toppers, they say, are plentiful, and are as much tied to their cups as the whisky toper. The effect of the coffee upon the heart is more lasting, and consequently worse, than that of liquor.—Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, London. Interesting ruins which point to the existence of a buried city have been found in the woods of Charbonnierre, near the chateau of that name, some miles distant from Organsa. Two tombs composed of monolith stones, in one of which the remains of a skeleton were reposing, have been found under ancient oaks. They were at a depth of 30 centimeters below the soil. It is estimated from the nature of the stones, their dimensions and form, that the tombs date from the sixth, seventh or eighth century. According to a local tradition on this site, which was formerly crossed by a great Roman way, many centuries ago an important city stood, of which the ruins still exist, though crowded and crushed under the earth long ago by wood cutters and excavators. This tradition attributes to this buried city the name of Sergy. It is probable that these tombs are not the only relics in this place, and that a well-conducted search would reveal an entire cemetery, whose extent would give an idea of the importance of the buried city. BLIND GIRL'S POWER. The Detects Absence of Fliers from Dining Room the Moment She Enters. There is a wealthy young woman living in Philadelphia, says the Times, who has the misfortune to be blind. When traveling as a young girl she contracted Roman fever in Italy and lost her sight. She is the only living member of her immediate family now, and occupies a handsome house in the residence part of the city. She has a companion who seldom leaves her, but the ability she shows for conducting her own affairs in spite of her misfortune is wonderful. Her remaining senses are marvelously acute, and it seems to people who are not well acquainted with her almost uncanny her cognizance of everything going on around her. On one occasion recently, when her companion was away at dinner time, the butler, either by intent or carelessness, failed to place flowers on the dining table, according to his custom. If he expected to evade the duty he was mistaken. The mistress of the house had hardly entered the dining-room when she discovered the omission. "James," she said, "you have forgotten the flowers to-night." IT IS KNOWN AS SOLANINE. Chemical examination has revealed the fact that a poisonous alkaloid known as solanine is contained in potatoes. Little of this poison is found in new potatoes, but even fresh potatoes which have grown about the surface of the soil and have a green skin are generally known to be poisonous, says a scientific authority. When potatoes are kept a long time they contain a large amount of this poison, and many cases of serious poisoning have occurred in late summer from eating old potatoes. About ten years ago many soldiers in the German army were ill from an unknown cause. They suffered with headache, colic, diarrhea, vomiting, weakness and slight stupor, and in some cases dilation of the pupils. The matter was investigated and it was discovered that the men had been eating potatoes which had been kept for a long time in a damp place until they had begun to sprout. These potatoes, a chemical analysis showed, contained as much solanin as is found in new potatoes. HAD A CHINESE NAME. In the household of a prominent Bostonian is a Chinese servant who was brought east by the family several years ago from California, where he had ingratiated himself during a winter sojourn at Pasaena. Recently a young man named Archibald has been visiting the family, and the Chinaman seemed to take a strange fancy to him. He is called Archie for short, and every time the name of Archie was mentioned the Mongolian would grin and beam at the guest with a pride that seemed little less than paternal. That it was at least fraternal was disclosed one day, when he said: "Why for you have name allee samee like Chinaman?" Archibald was rather taken back. "What do you mean?" he asked. "Why, you name," replied the Chinaman, according to the Philadelphia Record. "When they talkee to you they callee you Ah Cheel!" Sweet-Voicead Kansas Squeakers Following is the unique advertising letter of a Eudora (Kan.) hog farm: "To our friends, the farmers and stockmen everywhere: You are invited to attend our free open-air concerts, given every evening at five p. m., under the direction of Mr. E. W. Melville. We guarantee to you that we have 200 of the sweetest voiced squeakers in the country. No such an aggregation of male and female voices was ever got together under one management, and you will be highly entertained and pleased if you will attend one of our concerts. Reserved seats free for everybody. Special programmes will be arranged if you will but notify us come out and hear us squeal. We will take special pains to please you. You're till dead. —" BEGINNING OF OSTRICH FARMS Fifty years ago, the domestication of the ostrich was an idea scouted by most of the zoologists who had given time and thought to the subject. The young, it was believed, could not be raised in a state of captivity. The great demand for ostrich feathers was then met by hunting and killing wild birds, and there were indications that the species would soon become extinct. But in the early sixties, a French scientist named Gosse issued a pamphlet in which he argued that the domestication of the ostrich was feasible and practicable, and not long afterwards a brood of ostriches was reared in the city of Algiers, says Success. Gosse's pamphlet and news of the experiment in Algiers became familiar to two farmers in Cape Colony, who determined to undertake the domestication of ostriches in South Africa. Beginning with two birds, which they caught and placed in an enclosure, in a twelvemonth they had a brood of 80, which marked the birth of a new industry which has played a potential part in the development and commerce of a vast region. Large tracts of land in South Africa, which could not be profitably used for any other purpose, are now devoted to this business, and feathers to the value of $6,000,000, from nearly 400,000 domesticated birds, are now annually sent abroad from Cape Colony. RETURNING TO INCINERATION. The Disposition of Human Dead by Cremation Becoming General in Civilized Countries. Recent statistics show that there is a constant and growing tendency to return to the custom of cremation, that prevailed throughout the civilized world before the Christian era, excepting among the Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews. The disposition of the human dead by incineration has been meeting with more and more favor, that has in no wise been retarded since the first cremation society was formed, in London, in 1874. That same year a crematory was erected in Milan, and two years afterwards one was built in Lodi, Italy. In two years more there was one in Gotha, Germany, and afterwards they began to appear in all lands. The first one in this country was erected in Washington, Pa., in 1883, and the one in Fresh Pond, L. L., came two years afterwards. In this latter eight bodies were cremated the first year and 76 in the second year. In 1900 the total had passed the 600 mark, and during the last year it reached 654. There are now 26 crematories in the United States. In the year that New York's first crematory was opened only 46 bodies were cremated in the entire country, while last year the number was 2,646. A CONVICT IN PRISON. Daily Routine of Life in a Dungeon Call Described by One Who Knows. If I had little work to do in prison, how did I spend the time? At Auburn, where I lived the greater part of my first term, says the Autobiography of a Thief, in Leslie's Monthly, the routine of my life was as follows: After rising in the morning I would sweep out my cell, turn up my bed and blankets and clean up. Then to akfast; then, if there was no work to do, I would go back to my cell and eat a small portion of opium. Then I would exercise with dumbbells and take a sponge bath with cold water. Next would come a nap till dinner time. After dinner I would read and think in my cell until three o'clock, when I would go to the bucket ground or exercise in the yard, in the lock-step with the others, for half an hour. Then back to the cell, taking with me bread and a cup of coffee made out of burnt bread-crust for my supper. The count was made at six o'clock to see that all was right for the night. After that I read in my cell as long as the oil lasted. Clubs, Cabs and Gout. A physician, talking to a reporter of a New York paper, asserted recently that gout is rapidly increasing in that city, as a disease prevalent among the wealthy classes, the increase being altogether out of proportion to the growth of population. He claims that this is largely attributable to the increase in clubs, fashionable restaurants, and cafes, and also to the general use of cabs, even when the distance from the club to the home is only a few blocks. If people would take more active exercise in the open air, they would run less risk from heavy meals. He says that rich foods are more responsible for gout than wine, although practically the two usually go together. Homelia in Siberia. For many years Russia has been deporting to Siberia its men of the most active intellect and turning them loose in a new country to make a livelihood for themselves and for their families. It is not strange, then, to note that universities and museums are springing up in Russia's eastern possessions, nor that many of the men of science and teachers on the staff are exiles. There is scarcely a town of 10,000 inhabitants in all Siberia but it has a public museum, under the care of a learned and competent curator. Pneumatic tubes are used for carrying mail between Paris and Berlin. A letter dropped in a box in Paris can be delivered in Berlin in an hour, sometimes in 80 minutes. Strange fancies sometimes take possession of religious sects, but the strangest of all is probably the distressing mania that has enthralled 5,000 Russian Doukhoborsti, who have located in western Manitoba, says a special to the New York Times from Yorktown, Manitoba. In the Swan river district the government is apprehensive for the remarkable craze that has taken possession of those colonists. A visit to the community showed that the sights, scenes and the horror depicted were almost beyond conception. It is well known that the Doukhoborsti are adverse to shedding blood. This is the reason why they emigrated from Russia, and it is also the reason why the Canadian government exempted them from military duty as inducement for their location on the prairie lands of the west. As to what they should eat, this was purely a personal matter, but, as it appears, it was one of the features that was overlooked by the government that will cause immense trouble. In this country a man may eat what he chooses, and if his religion dictates that he shall conform to a vegetable diet, such beliefs are respected. All might have been well had this state of affairs been confined to vegetarianism, but the Doukhoborsti religion does not appear to be a finished product. It has been constantly undergoing changes. From the belief that it was a sin to eat meat, it seems a long jump to reach the conclusion that it is wrong to eat animal products, but these people have now given up drinking milk, eating butter, cheese, eggs, etc., and the cows, oxen, goats and fowl are increasing and multiplying, and waxing fat, while the people are on the verge of starvation. Having reached this absurd position, it was but a step to another and more ridiculous one. If it were wrong to eat the flesh of animals the same line of reasoning made it comparatively easy to condemn the use of leather harness made from the hides of God's creatures, and then followed the condemnation of woolen clothing, because wool grown on the bodies of sheep, which also belonged to the Lord. The next step was still more sweeping in its effect on their economic condition. It was to make servants of any of the lower animals, to use them for beasts of burden or for any other purpose. They had the courage of their convictions, and at once turned out their horses, cattle and sheep, driving them to "God's Hill," to forage for themselves, placing all the burdens of farm life on their own shoulders. For all drawing purposes, such as hauling heavy loads on wagons, men take the place of horses and oxen. Twelve or 14 men hitched to a plow suffice for this purpose, and it is the only method employed by them in the cultivation of the soil. Women, even, are employed in this manner, though when coming into town men only are seen hauling the wagons and buggies. Every day in the streets of Yorktown dozens of men may be seen drawing wagons, hauling what little produce they may have for sale, and carrying back to their farms flour and other necessities. The Doukhoborsti are clad exclusively in cotton clothes and wear rubber boots or shoes knit or woven with binder twine, which they buy for the purpose. Their food consists of bread and water, and such vegetables as they grow, and wild berries and herbs which they gather. Their farms are neglected and their stock, of which they have much, is running wild in the hills, where it will all die during the winter, or be appropriated by those who are not of their religious faith, and who will at least give the stock shelter. With the advent of cold weather starvation and disease must certainly follow, and they appear to know this, for they have been in correspondence with authorities in southern California, Nevada, Arizona and Australia, with a view to emigration to a warmer climate where the conditions would enable them to subsist on the soil without trespassing on the possessions of the animal kingdom. It is needless to say that no one wants them, as they are still in Manitoba, an elephant on the hands of the government that brought them from Russia a few years ago to develop the prairie land of the west. "It's only a matter of time," remarked the shoe-clerk boarder, who reads the scientific page in a household magazine, "until all our engines and that sort of thing will be run by heat drawn from the sun." "What will become of the poor farmers when that time arrives?" asked the girl with the lemon-colored hair, who presides over the ribbon counter between meals. "Yea," said the fair ribbon demonstrator. "If all the sun's heat is to be used to run engines won't it make the weather too cold to raise eggs and butter and such things?"—Chicago Daily News. So Sudden. Mae—Did he really take you by surprise when he proposed? Ethel—Yes, indeed! Why, I hadn't even looked up his financial standing. —Judge. THE STUDY OF CHINESE. Mr. Charles Neuer, United States consular agent at Gera, in an official communication to the state department advocates the study of the Chinese language as a means of extending American trade in the Chinese empire, says the Washington Star. "While China is considered the land of promise for our farmers and manufacturers," says he, "the importance of the knowledge of the Chinese language is greatly undervalued. I submit the details of a recent interview with a linguist who has given special attention to this subject. It is well understood that in order to enter into permanent commercial relations with a foreign country it is indispensable to know its language. When Russian industries began to develop the Germans recognized that in order to engage in profitable trade in that country it was necessary to learn Russian, and there is now no country where the Russian language is so much taught as in Germany. "The Chinese language is ideographic. It conveys the idea and not the word for the thing, as the figure '8' represents the idea and not the word. The Chinese have invented more than 40,300 marks for their writing. In the opinion of my informant it will require only about 3,000 marks for mercantile correspondence, and it will be easier to learn them than the words of an ordinary foreign language. "Russian is more difficult for Americans than Chinese. It takes much longer to learn the spoken language, because of the variety of dialects; but any one who can learn enough of the writings to answer ordinary purposes in a few months and have his knowledge perfected by a linguist within about a year. An exact instruction in one of the Chinese languages can only be given by a Chinaman. "This method has been adopted in Germany. Besides the professor for the theory of language, there are four Chinese linguists in the Oriental seminary of Berlin teaching the business style and the language of Peking, Shanghai and Canton. It is not intended to fit pupils for the diplomatic service, but for commercial work." HOMICIDE IN AMERICA. Statistics of Crime in This Country Furnish Evidence of a Terrible Tide of Murder. Comparative statistics of murder should teach us some lessons of national humility, because, blink it as we may crime, and especially that of homicide, is a pretty accurate measure of the attainment of civilization. There are about 10,000 murders a year in the United States. Mr. Robert Anderson, of London, has lately astonished his readers by stating that in the 6,000,000 inhabitants of London there are annually on the average only about 18 murders. In a sermon on crime a clergyman of one of our smaller American cities recently stated that in his city (of about 200,000 inhabitants) there were in the last five years an average of nearly 30 homicides a year, says American Medicine. Supposing, therefore, that these people would not become far more criminal when massed together by millions, it follows that if the clergyman's city were as large as London there would be nearly 900 murders a year in it, instead of 18. But, worse is yet to come: Out of the 145 murders in five years there were only 23 convictions, and the very worst is the fact that not one of these convicted murderers suffered the death penalty! Upon one side, surely, the retort no longer holds that the doctors put their bad work beneath the ground and the lawyers hang it up above it. "so much hemp grown, so little used," may be pertinently quoted. ANT HYPNOTISTS. A Science in Medical Science Among Some of the Insects Witnessed by a Student. That ants doctor their sick by hypnotism and magnetism is proved by observation. An ardent student tells how he witnessed what may be termed a seance in medical science among ants. He saw several of these little creatures emerge from the hills and noticed that there were some among them which were weak and emaciated—invalids, in fact. They were accompanied by healthy members of the community, and all made their way toward a distant mound. On following their movements through a glass the observer saw on this mound a big and sturdy ant which made some motions in the direction of the advancing invalida. The latter went up the mound one by one, and submitted themselves to treatment. This consisted in the physician ant passing his feelers over the head and body of the patient in a manner distinctly suggestive of the hypnotizing of nerves and muscles practiced by human doctors. Every one went through the treatment, then the patients went back, and the doctor marched off in the opposite direction. The proverbial "bull in a china shop" would find a rich field for exercising his proclivities could he gain entrance to King Edward's closets. The value of the china at Buckingham palace and Windsor is said to exceed $2,000,000, reports the St. Louis Star. The Sevres dessert service in the green drawing-room at Windsor is valued at $500,000, and the Rose du Barri vases at $250,000. At Buckingham palace there are six Sevres vases which are valued at $25,000 each. OPERATING MARIONETTES. Remarkable Ingenuity and Skill Displayed by One Man in the Business. "The ingenuity of some of the handlers of marionettes," said a showman, "is incredible. I know a man who conducts a marionette theater, wherein an orchestra of eight pieces plays under marionette leadership, while in the boxes a dozen marionette spectators laugh and applaud, and on the stage a marionette drama briskly anacte itself. The conductor of all this stands, exposed to the waist, at the back of the stage, and apparently he is motionless, though really each finger of both hands and the majority of the toes of both feet are working with unexampled rapidity. For each marionette is connected by a string with a toe or a finger of the operator, and this string sometimes has as many as ten or fifteen branches, joined to the manikin's face, body, arms, legs, etc., so that it may dance, smile, wave its arms and do a number of other lifelike things. One of these figures, indeed, is connected by 32 strings to the operator. "It is bewildering to think of the number of strings there must be altogether," concluded the showman, according to the Philadelphia Record, "and really it is impossible to conceive of the dexterity and the thought required in the artistic manipulation of a band of marionettes." INSTINGT OF A MOTHER. Illustrated by the Cow When There Is a Stray Calf in the Western Cattle Herd. It might seem that where half a dozen herds were mingled together, it would be impossible to select the calves belonging to a particular owner with any degree of accuracy, says E. Mayo, writing on "Beef" in Leslie's Monthly, that in the round-up they would become hopelessly mixed. But all this is obviated by a very simple rule, which is that the calf belongs to the cow that claims it, and consequently to the concern whose brand she bears. Long experience has taught the cattlemen that the calf may mistake its mother sometimes, but the cow her offspring never. Of course, in these days of wire fences when the free riders of the range are degenerating to the rank of the eastern "hired man," and each "bunch" is kept to its own territory, there is small occasion for the exercise of this test; but in the old days of the open range it worked perfectly, except in the case of mavericks—those cattle that had grown to be yearlings or over without having passed under the branding iron—and these the impartial law of the time distributed in proportion to the number of each herd participating in the round-up. DICTATING SORE THROAT. A Custous Malady Which Afflicts Many Persons Who Employ Stonegaphers in Their Office. Dictating sore throat is an affection of the vocal cords that business men get from the odd, strained, high voices that they use in dictating to their stenographers. "I don't know why it is," a physician said the other day, "but nearly every man when he dictates puts his natural, easy voice aside and uses a high-pitched, feverish note that plays the very deuce with the vocal cords as it grates over them. A man of big interests will dictate over 100 letters a day at times. His throat is so sore when he is done that he has to take some oleaginous and soothing medicine. "The disease is distinctly a modern one," said the physician, according to the Philadelphia Record, "a sign of these complex modern times, and it has been called, for want of a better name, dictating sore throat. The only cure for it is to teach men to dictate in their natural voices (a thing that seems to be impossible) or to compel them to cease dictating altogether." LEFT IN DEPOSIT BOXES. Some Strange Revolutions Are Made When They Are Opened by Vault Officials. It often happens that deposit boxes rented in bank vaults are opened on account of arrears in payment on the part of the renters, who cannot be found. Then strange are the revelations of a box's contents. A young woman had a box in a downtown bank and failed to pay its second year's rent. As she had disappeared from her former residence the box was opened recently. All it contained was a pair of baby shoes. Another box rented by a man disclosed, on being opened for the usual reason, a diamond brooch worth at least $400. The bank has held the brooch for three months, in the belief that the man or his heirs will one day claim it. Often these boxes contain interesting letters—letters from an aged mother to her son,says the Philadelphia Record, from a young man to his sweetheart, from a grateful pensioner to his benefactor. Cornell's Weil Curb. A curious Egyptian well curb has been given to Cornell university by Ambassador White, says the New York Tribune. The curb is hewn from a solid rock in an elaborate manner. The diameter is two and a half feet, the height about the same, while the sides are six inches thick. The inner surface of the curbing is worn smooth by constant usage. The stone is of a reddish hue, and is said to be a species of granite. The relic weighs about a ton and a half, and four men had difficulty in removing it from the freight van to the university library. What Milady Must Wear If She Would Appear in the Newest Styles. Shirt waists of fancy velvets, velveteens and corduroys are fashionable. Some are made simply, the only trimming being fancy buttons; others are finished with passementeries, lace and moire silk in bands or pipings, says a fashion authority. These have showy buttons, too. Robes are tempting in light-weight cloths, silks and stenciled cloth. Some are beautifully embroidered all over or at the bottom of the skirt and front of waist and sleeves. Two-toned cloths are revived for these, and make up prettily when trimmed with some rich pas- sementarie or velvet. The newest tea gowns are in empire fashion, with accordion plaited skirts beautifully trimmed with lace medallions and insertions. They are finished with handsome collars of lace or embroidery, lace frills edging the collars. Sleeves are elbow length, finished with several lace ruffles. Light colors prevail for teagowns and white is much favored. The fancy for fruit as a decoration has extended to embroideries on dinner and reception gowns. An illustrative gown of black point d'esprit made over white satin was trimmed with embroidery in the form of cherries and their leaves, and had cherry red belt and shoulder straps. Another of pearl gray satin and tulle was embroidered with green grapes. Black grapes were put on a delicate cream lace gown. On sheer gowns are put hand-work embroidery and lace and winter gowns repeat those of summer in these trimmings. Cord braiding is put on the thinnest gauzes with good results and the silver lace that has been employed so much is combined with white lace. Tiny blossoms are set on dainty fabrics in large rings and scarfs of lace, tulle or satin are threaded through them. Scarfs are also drawn through cloth cut in lattices or circles for trimming cloth or wool gowns. Flat trimming is standard for fall and winter hats. These are a trifle larger than those worn during summer, and feathers, breasts, wings and quills are the trimmings. Beaver hats will be fashionable and various tinted velvets are submitted. Hats of silk plush so far are in delicate shades. Black, green, reds, browns and blues are well represented. Blue and green combinations will be numerous and some new fancies in these shades are stunning. Coque feathers are revived in many pretty colorings. Birds are wonderfully tinted, as are breasts. Quills are in black and green combinations. The rolled brim sailor in all shades of felt and beaver will be fashionable for general wear. Hardly a new skirt is lined—among the handsome ones, that is. All have instead the drop skirt of taffeta. This skirt of taffeta is cut like the outer skirt, exactly and finished with a plaiting or a ruffle with a plaiting along the edge. We say the handsome ones advisedly. When the outside is not of good, firm cloth a lining is necessary to help keep it in shape, and when the lining is of some cheap cotton stuff the wearer certainly would not want it hanging loose. It has one thing to recommend it especially. When it is worn out it may be cast aside. In the case of a worn-out lining made in a skirt one must have the whole thing taken apart to reline it, and this is about as much trouble as making a new skirt. With the drop skirt there's only to buy another. It is to be hoped our stores will keep them ready made. WOMAN BURIED ALIVE. Young Lady Soised with Cutulogy, Interred, and Suffoades in Her Casket. A letter received in Paris from Buenos Ayres records the death of Mlle. Cambaceres, a descendant of the famous French general and a member of one of the leading families in the Argentine capital, under most distressing circumstances, says a Paris correspondent of the New York Herald. The unfortunate young lady had just turned 18 years of age, and her birthday was celebrated by a grand reception. All her friends came to offer their congratulations and brought presents. In the evening Mlle. Cambaceres went up to her room to dress for the opera. She was in the act of putting on her hat, when she fell to the ground, apparently dead. The funeral took place within 24 hours, as under municipal law a corpse must not be kept longer, on account of the heat and the danger of decomposition. A few days afterward someone started the theory that Mile. Cambaceres had been poisoned, and the authorities ordered the body to be disinterred and a post-mortem examination made. When the coffin was opened it was found, to the horror of every one, that the veil which covered the face of the unfortunate girl was torn and her face scratched all over. From these facts it appeared clear that Mile. Cambaceres had been buried alive and had torn the veil and scratched her face in her struggle to get out of the coffin. The case, though not reported in the press, has produced a most painful impression in Buenos Ayres, the more so as Mille. Cambaceres was very pretty and beloved by all who knew her. Peel the apples and slice thinly. Take a quart of flour, two eggs, half a cupful of sugar and enough sweet milk to make rather a thick batter. Stir in the sliced apples and fry till brown in boiling lard. Sprinkle with sugar as soon as taken from the kettle-Albany Argus. FOOT BALL! Chicago & Evanston, on Shepard Field, Northwestern University Grounds, Evanston, 2:30 p. m. Thursday, Nov. 27, 1902. Admission 25 cents. 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. Mrs. S. B. Emmick, 1812 Armour Ave., is very dangerously ill. She was removed from her home to Wesley Hospital 24th and Dearborn Sts., Monday where a very delicate opperation was performed on her. The doctors now express much hope of her recovery. If Representative Church and the other Cook County Republican members of the Legislature want the next United States senator to come from this city or County, let them rally to the support of Hon. William E. Mason and stand by him until he is re-elected to the United States Senate. Rev. Father Flanagan, St. Anne's Church, Wenthworth Ave. and Garfield Blvd. celebrated his 63rd birthday Sunday, and hundreds of his friends were present to greet him. Father Flanagan, is beloved by the people of the Town of Lake, and he is a Power for good in the city of Chicago. Our old friend John A. Taylor, Salt Lake City, Utah, is spending several days in this city, visiting with his brothers. He leaves Sunday night for Jackson, Mich., where he will spend some time selling his mining stock for he is President of the Taylor-Maycock Mining Co., Fillmore Utah, and much rich gold and silver ore is being dug out of the ground by his company. Geo. J. Woods who conducts a gambling joint on State street, near 30th, aspires to be the leader of the Afro-American Democrats of Chicago, and some say that he will endeavor to dictate to Sheriff Barrett whom he shall and whom he shall not appoint to office that is among the Afro-American Democrats. But we do not believe that Sheriff Barrett will pay much attention to the advice of any colored man simply because they are able to conduct cheap gambling or crap games. Rev. Thomas Dixon recently took the center of the stage and denounced "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as pernicious reading. The noise caused by this declaration having subsided, the broadminded preacher of the gospel steps to the front with this wild declaration: "My deliberate opinion of the modern Negro in this country is that he is not worth hell room. If I were the devil I would not let him in hell. They will be driven from the south just as surely as they swarm that place now."—Ex. The Old Church Organ, last week contained a rambling article which it called an editorial but which in reality was nothing on "the Fifty-eight congress, and Albert J. Hopkins, if the Old Church Organ is or was opposed to the election of Hopkins, to the United States Senate why dident it fight him prior to November 1st.? If it was or is honest in its opposition to him why did it support Ed. Morris, attorney for the ("Gambler's Trust"). George W. Dixon, and other men for the Legislature whom it knew would vote and work for the election of Hopkins, the arch enemy of the Negro race? Chief Bioler Inspector James C. Blancy, who is one of the high Priests of Carnnaryville which is located in the dead part of the 30th Ward: Denny J. Riordan, Harry J. Rogers, ex-state Senator Dan. Curley, Jimmy McDonald, whose boom last summer for member of the Board of Review died before all the wet nurses in the old Town of Lake could stand it on its feet. Smooth goods Mr. John Breen, Jimmy J. McNarney, who is always there with a smile and the glad hand; Arthur McLaughlin, who is dead willing to bust into the Political game, Charley Boyd, who was passed up by the boys last spring, Tim W. Macky, and honest Tom Tobin are a few of the big statesmen residing in the 30th Ward who are willing to go up against Alderman Michael McInerney in the Spring. Impulsivence. If a thoughtful woman were asked, "What is the greatest curse of your sex?" she might well answer, "Impulse." It is responsible for almost all the mistakes made by the good-hearted among us. May it not safely be said that a few minutes' thought before speech or action would prevent most fatal blunders? Many of us are in positive bondage—quickness to feel, to show our feelings, to retort or to respond. If we are hurt we must immediately "give ourselves away," as the phrase runs, if not by bitter speech, at least by look and manner, yet reflection frequently brings the keenest regret for lost dignity, the betrayed secret or other ill results.—Home Magazina. Quince with Apples. If possible use pippin apples or a variety that is firm and sweet. Take equal quantities of apples and quinces. Pare and cut the apples and quinces in round slices; remove the cores with a small round cutter. Stew the quinces in just enough water to cover them until they are tender; then remove them and put the apples in the same water and cook them tender without breaking them. Place the fruit in separate dishes and cover them with a hot syrup made of one part sugar and two and a half parts water; cover and let them stand over night. In the morning reheat the fruit and syrup and place in alternate layers in glass jars and seal at once.—Washington Star. Little Piga in Blanketa. Large oysters, fat English bacon, pepper and salt, buttered toast. Season the oysters with pepper and salt. Wrap each in a very thin slice of bacon and fasten with a wooden toothpick. Have the chafing-dish very hot and cook the pigs just long enough to crisp the bacon, taking care not to let it burn. Serve hot on small pieces of toast. Garnish with parsley.—Miss Mattie E. Jewell. A Political Definition. A Political Definition. "What's harmony?" asked the politician's little boy. "Harmony," answered his father, "is what the faction of a party that's getting the worst of it yells for loudest." Chicago Post. FRIENDLY ADVICE FREE. From on and after this date all AfroAmericans, 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. AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. 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. 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BARNEY BENSO and Fire Wreath MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY Stacks, Cupolas and M Hoisting and Placing of Beams and Girder architectural work. 31 South Canal St., TELEPHONE MAIN 4928 Pollcomen, Firemen, Street Car Employes, Letter Carriers, Telegraph Messengers, Elevatormen, Railroad Employes, Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Watchmen, Et PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Eto. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO COAL, WOOD AND ICE MOVING AND EXPRESSING Cash on Delivery All Orders Promptly Attended to Telephone Blue 289 4656 Armour Avenue, CHICAGO. SAMPLE ROOM 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 4928 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. --- --- Ave., Chicago. Lake View 270. DEL BROS. ORM CAPS FOR Street Car Employes, Telegraph Messengers, Railroad Employes, Bellboys, Watchmen, Etc. LAHAN & CO. COMMISSION Games, Game, Veal, Eto. CHICAGO EINBERG d Grocery 565 South CHICAGO CHICAGO DEALER IN FOOD AND ICE to Cash on Delivery our Avenue, CHICAGO. Cormick, E ROOM AND DOMESTIG RS AND CIGARS T. OHICAGO JOSEPH STRAUS NORTHERN CHANGE STABLE. General Business Horses on Hand BENSON, Fire Wrecking. All Kinds of MACHINERY. Oblas and Monuments and Placing of all and Girders for ural 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. --- Mason and General Contractor CHICAGO CHICAGO, III