The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. RUTHLESS RUIN. From its discovery the soil of America has been the object of ruthless depredation: First the discoverers dragged from it all they could find of curious or useful. Then Colonies were promoted to continue the work of destruction. Since then the labor of their descendants, slave or free, has been exploited in rifling the mines, exterminating forests, exhausting soils solely to increase the sum of exports convertible into paper bonds or coin (coined of bullion exported.) Our people are taught to despise the immorts and that the less we get for exports the richer we are. But this reckless waste must have a sad ending ere long. Rich as our soils may be we should know there is no superfluity. Because the treasury is well stored is no excuse for the fearful waste going on, even if no more people were ever to be here. But, at present increase, over six hundred million souls will be here by the end of another century. Yet already the very cream of all our permanent resources in mines, forests and soils has been wasted—eventually gathered up and carried to Europe and there exchanged for waste paper—bonds to exact mere waste—and not one newspaper all over these states ever denounces this destructive process. No body is to live here a century hence who may need timber or coal, gold, silver or copper. In our county every little patch of timber, every ravine among the hills is invaded to destroy trees that formerly escaped. No one dreams of that, while usury can eat up the world why save anything by labor processes. Why plant trees when you can lend dollars? One hundred loaned at low interest leads to over three thousand in fifty years. Why do any useful things when you can set a trap and just draw out of humanity its last gasp? And so long as things are thus and made so by statutes individuals will go on in the same blind strife for dollars. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH COL- ORED MINISTERS. It is indeed a great surprise to us the way that the Chicago Broad Ax goes after some of the so called big Chicago ministers. We have never read such bold statements and such terrible things that Editor Taylor allege that those ministers are guilty of. This week's issue of The Broad Ax gives a three column writeup on the black and unsavory record that Rev. A T. Murrav had while in Indianapolis and also in Chicago now. 1* those things are true his license to preach ought to be revoked. we believe that the pulpit ought to be purified and kept pure. Broad Ax, you may be right but you have a big task we know.—The Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. We do not expect, Brother Bystander to make much headway in purefying the ministry during the remainder of our days on earth. Nevertheless, we shall keep up the fight along that line and sow the seeds of reform in the ministry for those to harvest who will come after us, for, you know, at the present time the vast majority of those composing the Afro-American race are not sufficiently advanced in ethical culture or civilization to distinguish the difference between immoral, whisky-drinking, snorting preachers and those who are honest, moral, upright in every respect, who appeal to their reason and intelligence. ING FEAST. According to The Inter Ocean, which os a good Republican paper, Col. James H. Moody, was arrested last Wednesday by constable Frank McDonald, shortly after he became united in marriage to Mrs. Maggie Giles, 8207 Armour avenue. Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, who claims that "he skinned her out of eight hundred dollars or enough money to start his little church organ," swore out the warrant. ATTORNEY J. GRAY LUCAS FREED HIS BOYS. Recently three colored boys whose ages range from 15 to 21 years were arrested charged with highway robbery, and when they were brought before Judge Brentano for trial. Harry Taylor, was defended by W. S. Elliott Jr., whom they claim maintains Elliott's row in the pen at Joliet, and young Taylor was sent to the reformatory at Pontiac, where he will have to remain for a long time. The other two boys Eugene Curl and Wm. Mann, were defended by Attorney J. Gray Lucas. The white ladies swore that they were the boys who had snatched their pocket books, bu Attorney Lucas, convinced his honor Judge Brentano, and the jury, that the ladies were mistaken and his clients were set free. This goes to prove that some of our Afro-American lawyers are 'just as good as the ablest white lawyers. BLACK BEN TILLMANS. Nothing shows more how the times are changing than the fact that recently in Columbia, S. C., a Negro Democratic club of five hundred members was organized and asked for recognition at the hands of the Democratic leaders. The Negro is ubiquitous. He is in and of everything. There is a Negro Black Patti, a Black Spurgeen, a Black Bill Nye, and now five hundred Negroes are trying to be black Ben Tillmans. Verily the times are changing and men change faster.—Charleston Messenger. If the Negro had only had sense enough years ago to have studied the political issues of the day and devied his vote like other American citizens, and ceased from voting for one political party simply because there was a war in this country forty years ago, he never would have been insulted or humiliated by the leaders of the party, which he has served like slaves, for so many years, neither would he have been disfranchised in any state in this Republic. SHREVE WINS CAPTAINCY. SHREVE WINS CAPTAINCY. One of the hardest fought contests in Tuesday night's precinct elections was in the $3rd precinct of the 2nd ward, where the candidates for president of the club where Joseph H. Shreve, Jackson Gordon, and W. V. Jefferson. When the vote for president was cast and the count had commenced Gordon, who has held the office of president for several years, started to turn out the lights preparatory to breaking up the meeting. But Shreve, who is a veteran politician and one who is not easily outdone, stopped him promptly and relit the light that had been turned off. After this trouble had been overcome the counting was continued and when it was finished it was found that Mr. Shreve had received a majority over both his competitors. Mr. Jos. F. Burns was then elected vice president and Mr. Paul E. Van Valkenburgh was elected secretary. M. THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BROADCAST It is with pleasure that we are all anniversary or the Christmas edition of thousand copies. It will be printed on contain articles on the "Race Problem subjects by Doctor Howard S. Chicago. Prof. W. H. Councill, normal A Chicago Woman's Club. Theodor W. J. Miss Cornelia Bowen, Principal of the Ala., Col. Clark Irvine Oregon, Mo. M the Association of Colored Women's Candidate for Congress in the 3rd Congen. It will contain short sketches of se can business and professional men c in on the ground floor and secure ad Seventh anniversary or Christmas ed high water mark in Negro journali Mr. Alfred R. Porter who will begin his duties as clerk of the Appellate Court, Monday Dec. 1st. THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OR THE CHRISTMAS EDITION OF THE BROAD AX. It is with pleasure that we are able to announce that the Seventh Anniversary or the Christmas edition of The Broad Ax will consist of ten thousand copies. It will be printed on fine aberdeen book paper. It will contain articles on the "Race Problem in this country" and other interesting subjects by Doctor Howard S. Taylor, Prosecuting Attorney of Chicago. Prof. W. H. Councill, normal Ala. Miss Ida C. Sweet, Ex-Pres. of the Chicago Woman's Club. Theodor W. Jones Ex-Commissioner of Cook County. Miss Cornella Bowen, Principal of the Mt. Meigs Colored Institute Waugh, Ala., Col. Clark Irvine Oregon, Mo. Mrs. L. A. Davis, National organizer of the Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Dan Morgan Smith Jr. late candidate for Congress in the 3rd Congressional District, and others. It will contain short sketches of some of the most prominent Afro-American business and professional men of this city. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor and secure ad-vertising space and writs-ups in the Seventh anniversary or Christmas edition of The Broad Ax, for it will reach high water mark in Negro journalism in the West. That Little Old snake-in-the-grass or political harlot from Mississippi, whom Boss Robert E. Burke, placed on the city pay roll in the City Boiler Inspector's office simply because he is or was able to drink one gallon of whisky each day, who also promised to pay Mrs or Miss Rebecca Springstine, who for a long time lived or worked in a fast house at 21st and Dearborn street five dollars if she would go into Judge Dunne's court and lie against us, wants to become Deputy Sheriff of Cook County, This same old thing has in the past spent much of his time in O'Brien's tough saloon, State and Spring streets, where he smiled on Miss Bessie the low white woman who has acted as O'Brien's head chair-warmer. If Sheriff Barrett should select this little rotten captain from Mississippi as one of his aids all decent people would have to hold their nose every time they went in or out the sheriff's office. The Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club, meets at St. Mary's Church, Dearborn street, near 49th, Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at which time its members will be addressed by one of the prominent members of the Chicago Woman's Club. Dec. 2, the sewing school of the Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club, will give an oyster supper for the benefit o the club, at St. Mary's Church, 49th and Dearborn streets, from 12 m. to 11 p. m. Admission ten cents. Thornton Taylor, who was in the saloon business at 2812 State street, and who was one of the head men in the Cook county colored Democracy, was shot to death early Thursday morning by James Johnson, in the home of Miss Dora Parker, 2813 Dearborn street. Walter T. Stanton, Ex-attorney for the Town of Lake, was lately appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Chicago, and he will hold forth at the FOR THE CHRISTMAS EDITION OF OLD AX. able to announce that the Seventh An- f The Broad Ax will consist of ten ten fine aberdeen book paper. It will be in this country" and other Interest- Taylor, Prosecuting Attorney of Chil- la. Miss Ida C. Sweet, Ex-Pres. of the ones Ex-Commissioner of Cook County. e Mt. Meiga Colored Institute Waugh, rs. L. A. Davis, National organizer of lubs. Dan Morgan Smith Jr. late can- cessional District, and others. time of the most prominent Afro-Ameri- lf this city. Now is the time to get vertising space and writs-ups in the ition of The Broad Ax, for it will reach m in the West. Mayor Carter H. Harrison and his forces, and Sheriff Thomas E. Barrett, and his adherents are lining up in great shape and both sides claim that they will win out in the fight for the control of the new County committee when it meets Monday, Dec. 1. Many of the far seeing politicians maintain that ex-Alderman John J. McGillen, will win the chairmanship of the committee in a "cake-walk," others assert that Alderman Thomas Carey, will have no trouble in holding onto the chairmanship. One thing can be said in favor of John McGillen, when he was chairman of the County Central Committee some years ago he did not run the committee nor the Democratic party of this county in the interest of the Republican party; all who maintain that this is "treason" they are at liberty to make the most of it. It may not be true but some say that George J. Woods, who runs a gambling club on State street near 30th, with George Jambree Terrell, who skinned The Broad Ax out of three dollars as subscription, and who is always connected with some kind of dancing or gambling club, Bille Piper, who persists in conducting one of the worst dives in Chicago, and his tough place on 47th street near Armour avenue, is frequented by young girls, Jim Miller, who was never known to pay his honest debts for he beat The Broad Ax out of one dollar, and who got tangled up in a bolt of black silk while he lived down in Ohio, W. H. Clark, and the old political bum or captain from Mississippi, who for years lived off the earnings of a poor old wash woman who dled with a broken heart because he refused to marry her after robbing her of her money, and one or two other men of the same stamp are all candidates for Deputy Sheriff. At this time we have only one thing to say, namely, that if Sheriff Barrett confers any political honors on the above individuals he will incur the everlasting displeasure of the many thousand respectable Afro-Americans who cast their votes for him. for him. Mrs. A. Wilkerson, 6408 S. Carpenter street, left for Los Angeles, Cal., Monday night where she will spend the winter. James E. McGirt of New York is the new Negro poet of the race. His poems are declared to be among the best written of the age. Mr. W. R. Lover of Philadelphia, Pa., has been appointed to the Department of city treasurer of that city, being the first colored man ever appointed in the department. Last evening Mesdames H. M. Clinton, M. Price and Stevens, served a fine luncheon at Stephen's cafe, 2832 State street, to the members of Elective Chapter No. 4. Miss Cora Ball, Quincy, Ill., for the past two months has been visiting with her brother, Captain Fred Ball, Jr., returned to her home on the Mississippi river Wednesday evening. Miss Isabella Horton, a colored girl preacher, is touring the country. She is said to be a gifted woman and the Indianapolis papers speak in high terms of her recent evangelical work in that city.—Ex. Mrs. B. A. Lewis, 3120 Indiana avenue, returned last Thursday from an extended visit with her mother and many friends in Atlanta. Ga. Mrs. Lewis is looking well and she greatly enjoyed her visit. The knowing politicians give it out that Stephen D. Griffin will succeed Mr. A. R. Porter as clerk of the Drainage Board, that either Hon. Thomas A. Smyth or William Legner will be its new president. Lawyer William Howard Fitzgerald, Reaper Block, states that "The Broad Ax is one of the best weekly newspapers in this part of the middle west, that he could not thing of getting along without it." Mr. A. W. Miller, member of the Board of Assessors of Cook county, is very popular with the leaders of his party, and they would not make any mistake if they nominated him for City Treasurer in 1903. There are two Negro officers in the regular army who have risen from the ranks to commissioned officers. Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis of the Tenth cavalry and Lieutenant Green of the Twenty-fifth infantry. Rev. C. Williams, 2400 Wabash avenue, who was formerly a Free-will Baptist, is still laboring for the "up lift" of his fellow men, and quite frequently Rev. Williams preaches in the best white churches in Chicago. John P. Hopkins, chairman of the Democratic State committee of Illinois, who is one of the best political managers in this county says: "That John J. McGillen, will be elected chairman of the new county committee next Monday." Doctor H. C. Faulkner, who was located at 63rd and Halsted streets, will sail from New York City for Africa on December 13th where he will act or serve as a medical missionary for the Baptists who want to enlighten the natives of Africa. Mondav, Thomas E. Barrett, takes charge of the sheriff's office and one of the first things he should do is to remove Jailor John L. Whitman, and select a new jailor, one who will not draw the "color line in the Cook Country jail." nor starve the prisoners to death like Whitman, the humbug reformer. Mrs. Perry Bates, 5001 Dearborn St., who is a warm supporter of The Broad Ax, not with her empty mouth but with her money, was tickled to death when it was announced that Thomas E. Barrett had winged Old Dan Healy, and Mrs. Bates believes that Tom Barrett will make a good sheriff. United States senator Wm. E. Mason still feels that he will snatch the senatorial prize from Albert J. Hopkins, who should never be sent to the U. S. senate for he is unfitted by nature to hold the position, then, come to think of it, he is a Negro hater, and he should be sent to the wilds of Africa instead of the United States senate. Judge Willard M. McEwen began his duties in the criminal court Wednesday and as he has proven himself to be a first-class lawyer and an honorable gentleman The Broad Ax is positive that he will make an ideal judge. Judge Adams, who conducts himself like an old time crank, recently reversed the decision of the Circuit court which awarded. Mrs. Annie Douglass judgement for $10,000 against the Chicago City Railway Company, but Col. John F. Waters, attorney for Mrs. Douglass, will continue his fight in the courts for her regardless of the decision of cranky Judge Adams. Burrows, a town in Chatham county, Ga., ten or twelve miles from Savannah and which has been incorporated by the state legislature, has its entire city government, mayor, chief of police, postmaster, etc., under the control of the Negroes. It is an orderly town and the moral sentiment of the place is very good.—Ex. The colored Odd Fellows of Ruston, La., are preparing to erect a hall in the near future.—Ex. What has become of Col. Ed Morris, attorney for the "Gamblers Trust," and the Odd Fellows hall which he was going to erect at 43rd and State streets, in the spring of 1901. Is the Col. and his gambling friends unable to skin the suckers out of enough money to erect the building? Mrs. S. B. Emmick, 4812 Armour avenue, died at Wesley Hospital last Saturday morning, and she was burried from St. Marks's M. E. Church, 49th and State streets, Wednesday. Her funeral was attended by those belonging to the household of Ruth Reys, Robinson and Braddon spoke of the good life she had led. Her remains were laid to rest in Oakwood cemetary. One of the so-called prominent AfroAmerican Democrats who wants to become Deputy Sheriff of Cook County, is the proud dady of a blind baby, and another one is kept up by a white woman. If immoral skunks like these will persist in seeking public office, The Broad Ax will be compelled to publish to the world the contents of several letters which would be mighty interesting reading. One of Ed Morris' fool friends or slaves intimated to us a few days ago that "The Broad Ax was unable to prevent him from being elected to the legislature." That is true, but we must remember that the "gamblers attorney was turned down cold all through the "black belt," and if it had not have been for the cheap white gamblers and the Democrats Ed Morris would have been the hind dog in the race. Col. James H. Moody, who stands at the head of the Junior Church Organ, declared last Saturday in the presence of Attorney Edward H. Wright and several other gentlemen, "that the writer was a coward and would not fight." It is true we do not profess to be a bully nor a slugger, neither have we ever pounded a woman over the head with a cane or held one up for enough money to start a newspaper. It is claimed that Revs. Jasper F. Thomas, who left one wife behind him down in Old Kentucky, Andy Carey, who delights to wrestle with the wet holy-ghost, Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, who never ceases from being hot on the trail of the sisters, and Company will start a newspaper so they will be able to kick back at The Broad Ax. Go right ahead, boys, and start your paper for we are ready for the fight. It was very pleasing to the many friends of Doctor A. Beatrice Schultz, 2719 State street to learn that a jury in the United States court at Pittsburg. Pa., last week rendered a verdie in her favor for over $12,000, against ex-Chief of Police O'Mara, of that city, who falsely caused her arrest more than one year ago. Dr. Schultz asserts that she "will bring suit against Chief O'Neill, Inspector Shea, of this city, and their sleuth-hounds, for attempting to assist the police authorities of Pittsburg to blacken her character. Will promiguate and at all times uphold "he true principles of Democracy, but Custolles, Protestants, Priests, Infections, Farmers, Single Tanners, 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. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communication to Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. HEALTH OF THE ARMY. The Medical Department Has Succeeded in Eruditioning One of the Most Deadly of Discussion, 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. 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 burgomaster 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. THE OYSTER INDUSTRY. Over Twelve Billion Billion Divers Communed in a Year in This Country and Canada. Hineteen 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 scores us at least $60,000,000 per year so indulge in the luscious sea fruit, particularly when most of us have to pay 15 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 Oceansake bay. Therein the oyster grounds cover over 220 square miles, engage over 600 vessels and employ 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 fairly called Bivalve, with Venetian streets, all debouching on water fronts, wharf lined, and covered with steel rails by railways which wrest what traffic they can from the rail and steam craft. - SLOW PHILADELPHIA The Funny Flings at the Quaker City Not All Well Founded. Those who have grown accustomed to the almost proverbial expression, "As slow as a Philadelphiaian," have never gone beyond the humorous consideration of the matter, writes Dr. William Ellis Trings, in the Chicago American The newspapers have made it the brunt of humorous thrusta, the theme has furnished food for caricaturists on occasions when more momentous problems have lain in slumbering quiescence, lecturers have scored introductory points about it, and knights of the "heel and clog" have come to resort to it as a vindication when old and memorable gray-haired jokes have failed to find market in the playhouses of the beautiful city of homes. So far has this over-indulgence of a well-taken criticism extended, that one may hear in England and as far away as the orient, stories invested with ridicule for patient Philadelphia, the long-suffering and never-complaining home of as lovely and loving a community of people as God ever made. A certain lecturer in Scotland, commemorating the disposition of his family said: "I have three children living, and one in Philadelphia, Pa." A well known long distance walker athlete, losing the championship in a time walk from Washington to New York, consoled his defeat and amused his admirers by declaring that he was far ahead of his old-time record, when, on arriving in the city of Philadelphia, his feet went to sleep, and he was unable to proceed further with his acustomed agility. The members of a flourishing baseball team, on alighting from the train, each appeared armed with a gigantic alarm clock which they proceeded to carry about the town to keep them awake. A still more unfortunate, but actual occurrence is the one recorded in the undertakers' journals that Philadelphia is the only city in the world enjoying the distinction of having had one of its citizens run over and killed by an undertaker's hearse. Actors appease the fancy's fickle foibles by informing us that they come to Philadelphia and tell jokes one season, returning the next to find they have just penetrated the slumbering perceptions of the easy-going citizens. And thus, Philadelphia becomes the poet's theme, the joker's jest, the caricaturist's hope, while its unavenging millions are born, live and die in the deepest affection for the place, unmindful of the thrusts, and not infrequently enjoying them. I have seen consumptives deliberately refuse the offer of home and comfort, with an almost indisputable assurance of restoration to health and, certainly a longer life, in the mountainh of the south, southwest and Colorado, that they might remain in the city of their love and die there—seemingly perfectly contented. In two cases particularly I know that each could have had every luxury that wealthy and anxious friends and relatives would have tendered to go away into the land of oxygenous air and balmy sunshine, but they refused to leave—the one dying when the winter came, and the other lingering to-day, held by the barest thread of existence that is worse than death. Now, there is a serious and a scientific side to the fact of Philadelphia's slowness as a body of people. It is noticeable that the men who control wealth, who handle great corporations and engage in vast business enterprises therein, are alive to their business' best interests, and comprise as wakeful a set of men as one wishes to find in any municipality in the world. This is particularly noticeable in the political affairs of Philadelphia. Those who engage in the actual control of the vast city's interests take occasional opportunity to assure the world that there is nothing slow about the politicians of that town. The voters are just the contrary—let a man in authority betray every sense of honor and fidelity to his constituency, and they will re-elect him as long as he shows his allegiance to the powers that be. This signifies subserviency—service submission—whether it be good or bad. The same is true in business. While it is not done, I add, to the honor of Philadelphia business men, yet a business man who desired could exact almost any honest condition of employment from his hard-worked artisans, and they would humiliatingly submit to it rather than run the risk and dread of a lost position. This is said in no disparagement—it is simple truth. Domestie Point of View. If there was anything upon which Mrs. Upjohn prided herself it was her coffee. It was always rich, black and strong, and she trusted the making of it to none but her own fair hands. This is why the visitors in the parlor, from whose presence she had excused herself for a few moments, distinctly heard through the partly open door the loud, horrified voice of the kitchen girl: "Ter goodness' sake, ma'am, you're not goth' to feed the company on the horrid black stuff you drink yourself, are ya?"—Chicago Tribune. In the Mountains. He—Now that we are engaged, won't you kiss me, sweetheart? She-I never kissed a man in my life. "Nor I."—N. Y. Herald. HOUSEHOLD TALKS. ninty Dishes That Are Delighted on a Hot Day-May Be Made at Any Time of the Day. A housekeeper suggests the following dishes for a cold luncheon on a hot day, says the New York Tribune. With such a bill of fare the meal may be prepared long before the guests arrive: Sandwiches spread with chopped meat, veal loaf, deviled eggs, vegetable salad, cottage cheese, gelatin with cream, custard or ice cream and angel cake. Olives and radishes may accompany both courses. Maple fudge is liked better by many persons than chocolate. Put into a saucepan one-half cupful of granulated sugar, 11/2 cupfuls of scraped maple sugar and a cupful of milk. When the sugar's melted and the mixture hot add two tablespoonfuls of butter and boil for 20 minutes. When it hardens in cold water, it is done. Upon removing it from the fire add a teaspoonful of vanilla. Begin to beat as soon as it comes from the fire. When it shows signs of granulation turn into buttered, shallow tins, and when cool enough mark into squares. Two tablespoonfuls of grated cocoanut and a cupful of walnut or hickorynuts may be added, if they are wanted, with the vanilla. Mint bags for the linen closet are liked by some persons. Put into little silk bags a mixture made of a pound of dried lavender, an ounce of thyme, an ounce of mint, an ounce of ground cloves and caraway seeds and a table-spoonful of dry salt. A woman who has tried it avers that a watermelon may be kept for any length of time by varnishing its en tire surface, leaving no spot untouched and open to the air. Panned tomatoes are an excellent accompaniment for a roast of lamb or veal. Peel and cut in two six plump tomatoes. Put them in a pan with a tablespoonful of melted butter, and cook slowly on top of the stove for ten minutes. Then brown in the oven. Arrange the tomatoes on a hot plate and serve with a sauce made in the pan in which they cooked. For the sauce put another tablespoonful of butter into the pan, and when it has melted cook in it for four minutes two tablespoonfuls of flour, stirring it constantly. Then add two cupfuls of milk, salt and pepper, and turn it over the tomatoes. Some housekeepers vary the flavor of potato salad by boiling the potatoes for it in stock, or, if it is more convenient, in the soup kettle. Dainty and seasonable sandwiches may be made of thin slices of brown bread with mayonnaise and separated by a thin slice of a tart apple. Stewed okra is one of the dinner possibilities. Select the small green pode, and remove the stems and discolored tips. Put into boiling salted water and cook until tender. It will take about half an hour. Then drain; add a heaping tablespoonful of butter and a tablespoonful of vinegar, and season with pepper and salt. Simmer until the butter is absorbed, and serve hot. Experiments in canning peas reported in a government bulletin show that heating under pressure to secure a higher temperature than the ordinary boiling point, 212 degrees Fahrenheit, is necessary to insure keeping. Where a temperature of 242 degrees Fahrenheit was maintained for about 30 minutes very few swelled cans resulted; at 232 degrees a much larger number spoiled. This shows that it is hardly wise for the average housekeeper to attempt to can any of the fruits and vegetables most liable to spoil. Value of a Hole The allurement of the bargain-counter works its spell not upon the well-to-do shopper alone. In a Salvation Army rummage store a certain sign reads: "Shoes with hole in sole, five cents; shoes without holes, ten cents. Wrappers, moth-eaten, ten cents; not moth-eaten, 15 cents. Stockings without holes, two pairs for five cents; with holes, three pairs for five cents." Could even the champion golfer tabulate more accurately the value of a "hole?" New Interpretation of the Flag. Rabbi Isaidore Myers, of San Francisco, in addressing a meeting of the Federation of Zionists, gave a new interpretation of the design of the American flag. Most of his hearers were Jewish immigrants, largely Russians. He said: "Do you know why the stars and stripes are in the flag? I will tell you why. They show that America has stars for those who behave themselves and stripes for those who do not." TO RAISE COTTON IN EGYPT. British Spinners Hope to Make Themselves Independent of United States Supply. The British Cotton Growing association, which, with the hearty cooperation of the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, is trying to render the British empire independent, of the United States so far as raw cotton is concerned, is now paying special attention to upper Egypt. Maj. Count Gleichen, secretary of the sirdar of the Egyptian forces, Maj. Gen. Wingate, addressing the association of Manchester recently, said the experiments now concluded on the banks of the Nile show the quality of the cotton grown there to be the equal of any in the world. There are available 15,000,000 acres of irrigated land, and the only difficulty is the labor supply, the dervishes having denopulated the Sondan, but the completion of the Snakim-Berber railroad is expected to solve the problem, besides furnishing an outlet for the crop. Much Better Than the Average Britsher of London Has Any Idea Of. The ordinary Londoner who has not had the good fortune to cross the Atlantic is wont to picture his American cousin wearing a goatee and a victim to the constant chewing of tobacco and liberal expectoration. On arriving in New York he is amazed to discover that the goatee is conspicuous by its absence, tobacco chewing unnoticeable and expectoration practically unknown. In this respect he finds the New Yorker far more cleanly in his habits than the Londoner, more especially on public cars and in public places, says an eastern exchange. The unrestrained indulgence of spitting on and off the tops of buses and in railway trains, and the random chewing and smoking of tobacco in and around London are simply odious, and make traveling intolerable and ofttimes disgusting even to a smoker. Here the strange prohibition against spitting in public places and the sensible regulation as to smoking are so thoroughly observed that traveling becomes a pleasure. If London would only copy the most admirable example existing in New York in this respect the English metropolis would soon be rid of a most unwarrantable and filthy habit. CHINA MAKING PROGRESS. Industrial and Commercial Growth of Asia's Greatest Country Is an Assured Thing. Europeans and Americans who have lived long in China are quite unanimous in the opinion that the greatest country of Asia, taking account of area, population and natural resources, is making steady progress industrially and commercially, and the general belief is that more rapid gains are assured for the next few years. Statistics of exports and imports tell the same story. So does the development of railways and telegraph lines. The world-wide importance of this progress is not easily exaggerated. It promises to insure the existence of the Chinese empire as an immense independent state, for it lessens the force of such pretexts as might have been discovered or invented for dividing or seizing the country. It also makes the international importance of China so evident and so great that no one European power is likely to find the way open for the absorption of so rich an empire, while the more progressive the Chinese become the less chance there will be for an agreement between the leading nations of the west as to the terms of a possible partitioning of the middle kingdom. 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. 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 chasercress. New Chance for Bachelors. 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. 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'a there with the goods, as the saying goes. "I asked the Pullman conductor now 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 swooningly 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 Wafer. 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. 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" is 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 Charboniere, near the chateau of that town, some miles distant from Orton. Two tombs composed of month stones, in one of which the remains of a skeleton were reposing, have been found under ancient cak. 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 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, at 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. A BLIND GIRL'S POWER. the Detects Absence of Flowers 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. That is the Name of a Deadly Poison That is Sometimes Found in Potatoes. 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 have 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 solanine 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 Pasadena. 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 namee 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 Chee!" Sweet-Voiceed Kansas Squendon. Following is the unique advertising letter of a Endora (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 squealers 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. Yours bill dead." 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 inclosure, 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. 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 2,645. A CONVICT IN PRISON. Daily Routine of Life in a Dungeon Call Described by One Who Known. 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 breakfast; 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, Cubs and Gou. 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. 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 a public museum, under the care of a learned and competent curator. 6 Pneumatic Tubes. 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 50 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 immigration 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. "The farmers?" queried the shoe clerk, after the manner of a person up a tree. "Yes," 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. Ethel—Yeah, indeed! Why, I hadn't even looked up his financial standing THE STUDY OF CHINESE.! Advocated by United States Consular Agent in the Interests of American Trade. 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 40,000 marks for their writing. In the opinion of my informant it will require only about 3,000 marks for mercantile sorrespondence, 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 Purnish 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 unstained 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 science 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 invulids. 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. King Edward's China. 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. "The ingenuity of some of the handlers of marionettes," said a showman, "is incredible. I know a man who conduits 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 enact 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." INSTINCT 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 SORÉ THROAT A Curious Malady Which Attracts Many Persons Who Employ Stoneographers 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 herson,says the Philadelphia Record, from a young man to his sweetheart, from a grateful pensioner to his benefactor. 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. Shirt waists of fancy velvets, velveteans 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 pretty when trimmed with some rich passementerie 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 Seized with Catalogus, Interred, and Suffocates in Her Casket. A letter received in Paris from Buenos Ayres records the death of Mile. 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 Mile. 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. Rev. Sam Tyler, a Negro Baptist preacher of Kirwood, Mo., is in jail in that place charged with killing Logan Flenroy, who, and his pretty wife, were members of Tyler's church, and one morning last week Mr. Flenroy returned home at six o'clock after he had gone to work and he found Rev. Tyler coming out of the bed room occupied by himself and wife and they began to shoot at each other and one of the balls from the revolver carried by that Holy man of God ended the life of Logan Flenroy, who was simply endeavoring to protect his home from beastly and justful preachers. Richard A. Dawson had charge of the literary department among the Affr-American Democrats during the past election and considering that he did not have any funds he made a good showing. He distributed something like two thousand copies of The Broad Ax, which we donated to the committee and he says "that they greatly assisted to elect Thomas E. Barrett sheriff of Cook county." The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain another article on "Rev Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray." Watch for It! A bazar was lately held which excites great interest in north Wales, in aid of the restoration of Wrexham church, one of the finest in the principality. Wrexham contains a monument which has become a sort of shrine to Americans who have been educated at Yale college, inasmuch as it is that of Elihu Yale, and bears a quaint inscription which has become famous. Never was immortality so easily acquired as by Yale. It cost him some chattels, which he sent over to aid, by the request of friends, a struggling college at New Haven, Conn., and which fetched a few hundred pounds; but this in 1718 was such a boon that the college took his name, and is now famous as Yale university, says a London paper. Elihu Yale's daughter married Lord James Cavendish, son of the first duke of Devonshire, and had an only child, who married the son of Dr. Chandler, Bishop of Durham, whom she made take the name of Cavendish. She was a lady of masculine tendencies, and commonly known as "Jack" Cavendish. The Yale students have presented Wrexham church with a handsome visitors' book. NATION ADDING TO NAVY. The United States is rapidly adding to its navy. In three years it will probably have the largest number of ships able to engage in active warfare of any country in the world. Battle-ships, cruisers and monitors are now in course of construction, and will be launched as soon as completed, says a Washington report. The next to take to the sea is the Pennsylvania, which will be launched from Cramp's shipyard next season and christened by Miss Quay, daughter of the Pennsylvania leader, who will break a bottle upon the bow and name the ship with appropriate ceremony. The starting of a ship of war upon its journey is such an important ceremony, and one attended with so many honors, that the greatest rivalry exists for the honor of breaking the bottle. Wires are pulled, plans are laid a year in advance, and often feelings are engendered that are quite the reversed of friendly or patriotic. The selection of Miss Quay has given universal satisfaction in Philadelphia and Washington, as she is a young woman, pretty and accomplished, and already identified in public affairs. DOOMS AS ADOBE THEORY. Field Museum Authority Finds That Hopi Indian Children Funded the Nuports. Dr. George Dorsey, of the Field Columbian museum, has made a discovery in his investigations among the Hopi Indians that overturns many of the old theories of anthropologists in regard to supposed inscriptions on the adobe houses of the tribe. He made the announcement of his discoveries in a lecture to the students of the University of Chicago the other afternoon on "Civilization Among the Hopi Indians." "These inscriptions that the anthropologists have been trying to decipher and read for years," said Dr. Dorsey, "have been found to be nothing more than the scratches made by mischievous Hopi children in the mind of the adobe houses after they have been freshly built. They are not mysterious inscriptions at all. They are only the results of childish pranks. Of course this discovery makes the anthropologists feel rather vexed, but the markings have much resemblance to some kind of picture writing, and may well be taken for some kind of inscriptions." Ostrimale in Buenos Ayres. Buenos Ayres has issued its criminal statistics for 1901. They include 90 murders, 244 attempted assaults and over 6,000 thefts, burglaries and swindles. Telephone Main 751 CHARLES L. WEBB Court Reporter, 311 Ogden Bldg. 34 Clark St., General Stenographer Chicago. 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 Magazine. Quinces 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 sores 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 Pigs in Blankets. 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 Mattle E. Jewell. 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 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. 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. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 388 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. J. A. Geary's Confectionery and Cigar Store, 4800 State St. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th 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. C. C. McLain, R. R. ticket broker and News Stand, 428 Dearborn Street. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. USES OF A BANANA. Many Sources of Revenue to Which This Popular Fruit Is Put. Immense fortunes have been made out of the banana business. Revenues do not accrue alone from the sale of the fruit, for the leaves are used for packing; the juice, being strong in tannin, make an indelible ink and shoe blacking; the wax found on the under side of the leaves is a valuable article of commerce; manila hemp is made from the stems, and of this hemp are made mats, plaited work and lace bandkerchiefs of the finest texture; moreover, the banana is ground into banana flour. The fruit to be sold for dessert is ripened by the dry warmth of flaring gas jets in the storage places in which it is kept, and care has to be taken to prevent softening or overripening. The island of Jamaica yields great crops of this useful and money-making fruit. ```markdown ``` A. D. GASH Attorney at Law. 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suits 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, LUTTE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK. 50 B. OLARK STREET. CHICAGO FREDERICK W. 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