The Broad Ax

Tuesday, December 2nd, two days after Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray (who has no more moral right to stand up in his pulpit and raise his hypocritical voice to the living God than the devil has in conducting a Sunday School) declared that before the next Sunday he "would redden his large corn field or cotton picking hands in our blood" or words to the same effect. We called on Richard E. Moore, who claims to be the superintendent of the Sunday School of Bethel church, and one of its head or shining lights, because he is a big Mason, you know, in his mind, for the express purpose of learning the actual facts respecting the part he played in attempting to incite or cause the members of Bethel church and the rable who attend it to mob and lynch Julius F. Taylor. It did not phase nor embaras us to approach Mr. Moore, even if he does happen to be the President of the American Express Company, and after exchanging greetings with him, we intimated to him that our object in calling was to learn just what he himself and Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray had said and done in Bethel church Sunday, November 30th, in reference to ourself and The Broad Ax. At the same time we informed Superintendent or President Moore that it was our intention of writing a full account of the most remarkable scenes which were witnessed in Bethel church, that there was no desire on our part to place him in a false light before the public. Very guardedly President Moore responded to our interrogations, then finally we asked him "if he had read a copy of The Broad Ax, which touched upon "Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's black or unsavory record in Indianapolis, Ind., and in this city." President Moore replied in the negative, then we wanted to know if he would consent to peruse it providing we would place a free copy of Money Circulation. The money in circulation in Europe and the United States ought to be at least six to eight billions of dollars, and in increasing. It is presumed to be gold for every dollar is payable in gold. But where is the gold to redeem with? All the gold stock of the world outside of Russia is held by the Rothschilds as security for the bonds of England, France and Germany and Austria—owned by that House. Is that house going to release the security and hold the paper only? Never. Not one man of all our thousands of politicians ever think of or suspects that grave fact that one House holds all the gold as security for some few billions of Government bonds owned by the House. But it need only be mentioned whereupon it becomes self evident. Holt. Responsibility of the Negro. (Kansas City Star.) The Negro is responsible, to a regrettable degree, for the "nigger." There is too much of a disposition among decent black men to shield the bad representatives of their own race. The public officers continually complain of this tendency and they testify that it increases the difficulty of enforcing the law. This feeling of sympathy is probably a natural heritage of the days when the Negroes were generally persecuted and oppressed, but there is no necessity for it now. The Negro in Kansas City and everywhere else owes to himself to cast out the vagabonds and criminals of his own color who bring reproach upon him and who keep alive the prejudice against the race. Rev. George W. Gaines, St. Paul, Minn., who has no love for Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray tor he knows that he is without honor, was visiting his friends in this city last week. Miss Maud Bush, who is teaching school at Baldwin, La., is visiting with her aunt Mrs. B. A. Lewis, 3120 Indiana avenue. Miss Bush, who is very beautiful and quite talented, will in the near future become a resident of Chicago. the paper in his hands containing the article. He responded that "he would so on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at half past twelve o'clock we stood in the presence of President Richard E. Moore with the paper containing the said article and in handing it to him we stated that we had two plain or straightforward requests to make of him. "First, that we wanted him to read the article over very carefully and if he found in it one line which tended to slander or to vilify all the women members of Bethel church or all the women belonging to the Afro-American race, as stated by Rev. Longgreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, then we would want him to drop us a line setting foth the fact that the article did cast aspersions on all the women connected with Bethel Church or belonging to the Afro-American race, then we would send the officers of Bethel church the sum of five dollars, which sum was to be used or expended in helping to send the writer to Jail." "Second, that in reading the article over if he failed to find one line wherein we had slandered all the women belonging to Bethel church or the Afro-American race, then we requested him to drop us a few lines to that effect and to stand up in Bethel church the next Sunday and inform the people that their pastor had departed from the truth, while he was engaged in denouncing us from the pulpit, and declaring that he would murder us for stating the plain truth." President Moore unhesitatingly declared that "he would comply to our request. That was on the 3rd day of December, but up to the present time we have failed to receive one line from President Moore, which proves that he failed to keep his word with us, that he is a sneaking coward and not above prevaricating even if he does.happen to be Superintendent of the Sunday School of Bethel Church, and President of the American Express Company. A BRILLIANT FUNCTION. Chicago elite was at its best Wednesday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Beauregard F. Moseley, who entertailed at luncheon in honor of the wife and leading lady of Mr. Williams, of Williams and Walker, the famous stars now touring the west in "Dahomey." In fact the interior of the Gatorville home in act 2 seem to have been transferred, so complete and exquisitely gowned were the ladies, and the splendid and neat appearance of the gentlemen in full evening dress assisted one to conclude that the Negro is there, off the stage as well as upon it; and if this was not suficinet the elegant and seasonable repast, to which the 30 guests were seated, with the perfect and up-to-date service, was proof convincing of the Race's firm hold upon society's requirements. Mrs. Williams was in the best of health and spirits and her evening gown of rare lace fabrics appropriately beset with jewels made her look every inch a leading lady, if not a Queen. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. Ed. H. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wells, Maj. and Mrs. R. R. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Schreves, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Turner, Mrs. Belle Patton, Mrs Maud Odom, Miss Alice Gridley, Messrs. Rufus Estes, A. Malone, Chas T. Hammond, Isaac Reid, and W. B Patton. —M. Rev. W. R. Cassada, a white minister, was arrested down in Kentucky last week charged with selling whisky without a license. He was dragged from his pulpit by the officers of the law. We must remember that he was a white man but if he had been a Negro preacher charged with the same crime the sisters and brothes would have exclaimed that "our preacher and the whisky both belong to God and the mean officers of the law have no right to arrest him." HEW TO THE LINE. [Name] And then do not question but go thy way. And brighter and better will be thy day. Cora J. Ball. Mesdames Susie and Fanny Monroe and Amanda Smith gave a reception at the home of the last named in honor of Chicago guests The large parlors were elaborately decorated and the service irreproachable. The ladies were most exquisitely gowned and the whole affair was of such a nature as not to be easily forgotten. The Paul Laurence Dunbar Club presented a drama at Roger's Hall on New Year's night which was a decided success. The title of the play was Major Relerford's Conspiracy. It was written by the president of the club, Mrs. Fanny Munday, whose ability as a playwright is of no mean order. Mrs. Violet Ball and her daughter, Miss Cora Ball, entertained visitors from Oklahoma at luncheon on New Year's day. The Carnival at the Tenth Street Baptist church was a very successful affair. The friends of Miss Lelia Howard are very glad to welcome her back to her home. The young lady has been completely restored to health. The popular principal of Lincoln School, Prof. Malone, spent his holidays away from the city. Mrs. Tate of North Tenth street died last week and leaves many friends and relatives to mourn her loss. Mayor Carter H. Harrison made a wise selection in choosing Julian W. Mack as the new member of the Civil Service Commission. For Mr. Mack is not only an able lawyer but is also a polished gentleman of wide attainments and he will reflect credit upon the commission. COMMENDS THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BROAD AX. Law Offices of Dan Morgan Smith, 85 Dearborn St. Jan. 7, 1903. Dear Sir:—The Christmas edition cf your paper was received, read, and pasted in my scrap-book. Typographically, it was as neat a paper as I ever saw; the "get up" of the paper cannot be excelled, and I have to add that it pleases me to see such evidence of the progress the Negro has made in a short lifetime of freedom. It demonstrates what he is capable of; it encourages his friends in their belief in his ultimate success. I congratulate you and your race, and bespeak for you the success your efforts deserve. WILL THE LADY PLEASE SEND HER NAME? Several weeks ago we recived a rich and racy letter from a lady in this city with a request to publish its contents, that if we did she would stand by what was stated in the letter after it was in print. This we cannot do, but if the lady will send her name and address we can show her how she can accomplish the object that she desires to accomplish and at the same time aid or assist the writer and protect her own name and reputation. If you will send your name we will pledge or word and honor that it will not be devulged to a living soul without your consent. Mrs. Minnie Cox, who has for a few years very creditably served as postmistress at Indianola, Miss., resigned as such recently on account of race prejudice for she is a worthy member of the Afro-American race. It is thought at the present writing that Mrs. Cox, will be permitted to resume her duties as postmistress; it all so appears that many of the whites in that section of the South are endeavoring to have the colored mail carriers dismissed from the postal service. The time will yet come in the South when the liberty-loving Negro will be compelled to shed his blood as free as water in order to enjoy his civil and political rights. Mr. John M. Langston, grandson of the late Hon. John M. Langston of Washington, is one of the instructors at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. FURTHER APOLOGY OR EXPLANATION. In elaborating upon "Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's black or unsavory record in Indianapolis, Indiana, and in this city" in The Broad Ax, November 15, 1902, so eager were we in cr honest effort to review his immoral acts, that we used or referred to the name of Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, in such a way as to make it appear that she decended from the high plane of the purest and noblest womanhood in her dealings with Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and in order to clear or rid our mind of all doubt in that respect the past six weeks we have made a thorough investigation along that line and find that we have done Mrs. McDonald a great injustice in connecting her good name with that of Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray's in the manner in which we did, and humbly do we apologize to her for so doing. For we now firmly believe that in everyway Mrs. McDonald, is too high or pure minded in all things to be mentioned in the same breath with Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, or with that of any other preacher black or white who trains with gamblers and low dive keepers, who will not pay their honest debts, who mistreat or abuse their good wives, who force low or immoral women to hug and kiss them and sit on their laps in the studies of their churches, and who wear the cloak of religion for the purpose of covering up their black or hellish deeds. It may be interesting to state that one of the preachers who attended the September conference in 1901, which tried Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, for the many immoral acts which he had committed up to that time, stated that "he heard all the testimony covering or embracing all the charges preferred against him" that he offered no defence, that he admitted that they were true that he had no witnesses to disprove them, that even Bishop A. Grant admitted that Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, is or was a very dangerous man to run at large among the women and so on." Our friend the preacher, is ready and willing at any time to go into any court and testify in our behalf, also stated that Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and his hired minions scoured this city from one end to the other in a vain effort to find something that they could bring forward to blacken the character or reputation of Mrs. McDonald, but they were unable to do so and she had more steadfast friends at the close of the conference than she had before it convined and came out of it with clean or spotless skirts. According to our friend the preacher, she proved with a number of white and colored witnesses everything which she started out to prove against Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray; it was proved in the open conference that he had disgraced his sacred calling, his God, and his race. In conclusion we feel it our duty to simply refer to these things for they show that we had been mislead or misinformed at first respecting the action of Mrs. McDonald, in her dealings with Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, and we hope she will pardon us for our ungentlemanly conduct in that direction for we believe that she lives the life of a good honest woman, one who is putting forth her best and noblest efforts without pay to raise fallen humanity. Last week we offered to give the officials of Bethel Church two new silver dollars if Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray would stand up in his pulpit and pronounce the name of the fine looking lady whom he stood on the corner of Madison and Dearborn streets with one night last summer at twelve o'clock. This week we will increase the jackpot to $5.00 if Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray will repeat the name of the lady from his pulpit whom he dined with at the Gennessee Hotel, Buffalo, during the Pan-American Exposition. Mrs. A. Wilson, 2252. Indiana avenue, returned home last Monday from Indianapolis where she went to attend the funeral of her father. No.11 Nashville, Tenn., has a colored military company which is said to be excellently drilled and admirably officered. Through the influence of Jackson Gordon, Adam Horn was appointed assistant door-keeper at the State House at Springfield. A. L. Williams, who has been for some years one of the leading AfroAmerican Republicans of Hyde Park, was recently appointed to a good position in the office of the County Treasurer. The Political Pot is beginning to boil over and up to the present one hundred and fifty prominent Democrats have openly come out in opposition to the re-election of Mayor Carter H. Harrison. Hot times are ahead for the political boys this spring. Mrs. Louise Webb, 4712 Armour avenue, who stands at the head of the order of Eastern Star, has been knocked out with a very bad cold for the past week. At the present time, however, Mrs. Webb is recovering from its effects and is able to perform her household duties. Cards have been issued by Mrs. Jas. A. Joyce, 2923 Dearborn street, announcing the marriage of her daughter Miss Estella Joyce, to Mr. Carl J. Turner, Wednesday evening, Jan. 28th, at half-past eight o'clock. The reception will be held at the home of Mr. Turner, 364, 27th street, from 9 to 11 o'clock. The other day a lady friend of this paper suggested to a lady friend of hers that "she ought to read The Broad Ax. Her chum who wears a red cloth around her head declared that "she knew that everybody read The Broad Ax but she was afraid of the "little nigger paper for it was stirring up so much stink with her preacher." The Seventh Anniversary and holiday number of The Broad Ax reached our office yesterday. It was an eightpage illustrated, with half tone cuts of many of the leading Chicago professional and business men. It is printed on good paper and well arranged from a mechanical standpoint We congratulate Editor Taylor for his success.—The Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. Max Stern and Co., printers, 85, 5th avenue, will give the officials of Bethel Church the sum of five dollars if Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray and W. W. Taylor, who got up a Directory of Bethel, Quinn Chapel, and Olivet Baptist Church in 1901, would be so kind as to call in and see them on business of importance. Attorney J. A. Tribue, has for the past three months worked very hard to secure the release of freedom of Bessett Rolooger, who is deaf and dumb and who is charged with shooting Lee Robinson, the barber, and James Jefferson, at Polk and State streets last April. Wednesday Judge M. F. Tuley refused to release Rolooger, upon a habeas corpus petition, and he will have to stand trial as to his sanity. Mr. Tribue, is of the opinion that Rolooger, is and was insane at the time he murdered the two men referred to. If we were as mean and shortsighted as the editor of The Chicago Broad Ax is, and got as much pleasure out of abusing the bright and leading men and women of the race as does, it occurs to us that we would go out in the Jersey pines some stormy night and hang ourselves. But "A man's a man for a that," and the same rule is applicable to a fool. The editor of The Broad Ax is not man by a heap.—The Mail and Express, Red Bank, N. J. The two braying she donkeys who attempt to run the Mall and Express do not like us because we referred to the fact that Old Tom Fortune, while attending the sessions of Prof. Booker T. Washington's Business League in this city in 1901 filled up on fighting whisky, and staggered through its streets locked arms with the (?) great wizard of Tuskegee, but as far as we are concerned we pay no more attention to the likes or dislikes of the two bushwhackers who conduct the Mall and Epress than we do to a New Jersey bull pup. SITE OF NAVY YARD. Known in Washington Records as Reservation No. 14. St Has an Interesting History Which Is Most Interestingly Related by an Old District Res- ° ident. ~~ = ees eee HIS is the story of “Eeservation I 14,” as described on the origi- mal maps of the city of Wash- ington, by the engineer L'Enfant, in 1798, confirmed by Wesbington, March 2, 1797, and adopted by congress in several epactanenis. The various land reservations pro- posed by the wonderful genius who planned this beautiful capital city are numbered on the maps, and their pro- posed uses described in voluminous notes which accompanied the draw- ings. “Reservation 14” was set apart for # navy yard, and it was the pur- pose of the delineator that there should also be located there ship- building plants of magnitude befitting the great nation which he believed would grow upon this continent. The navy yard has always been and is yet located on “Reservation 14,” and there is there in operation a splen- did gun factory; but the ship build- ing of the nation has almost always been done by contracting parties in other seacoast cities. “The eastern branch of the Potomec, where the navy yard is located, is nowadays so shallow that it would not float a mod- ern cruiser, while a battleship would have a hard time coming any further up the river than Alexandria. This reservation is about a mile and ® quarter southeast of the capitol building, and was originally in the tract known as “the Proutfarm;” but, when the yard was authorized, under an appropriation made in 1799, addi- tional land was found necessary and the two triangular squares westward, numbered 883 and 884, were purchased of the commissioners, Scott and Thornton, for $4,000. The conveyance recited that the land was “for the sole use and behoof of the said United States forever.” There is an impression that some of the officers’ residences in the yard were once connected with the Prout farm, but, as will be seen by the dia- gram, but two of the buildings of Mr. Prout came within the navy yard line, and these disappeared years ago. The first building for officers was erected in the yard im 1901, and for many years | was occupied by Capt. Cassin, and is known now as “the captain’s house.” The residences for the commandant and other officers were built in 1804. The mansion house of William Prout was a large brick fronting on Eighth street, north of M street, originally two stories in height and 42 by 43 feet im size. The barns were of frame, one 4 by 24 feet, another 40 by 24. The mmaller buildings were built of logs. Many old citizens remember the man- sion as having been the home of the Otterback family for years, it having been purchased of Mr. Prout in the thirties; but the site is now used for ® car barn by the Capital Traction company. The graveyard was in Geor- gia avenue and M street, 29 by 61 feet im dimensions, and from the stories told by old men, who as boys played about the tombstones, it was well pop- ulated. It will be observed that in the form of square 930, in the cut, the lower angle does not appear, and the explanation is that'the graveyard was ee best GSS: | ale PS mot 4 Pe fenced in when the city was laid out, and the commissioners planned to leave it undisturbed. Tens of thousands of visitors to the national capital view the navy yard, are guided through the great gun fac- tory by officials, and have the public places explained to them, but very few ever have the opportunity to talk to “the oldest inhabitant;” the man who knew all about it almost a century ago, st a time when the navy yard was thing of the imaginary future, as was also the capital city. And, for that matter, in those days the success of the republic itself was problematical. William Birth, 95 years of age, deaf as & post, who can learn nothing of modern things except through his eyes, is an interesting conversationalist. ie says: .“I used spectacles from the time I-was 50 until I was almost 70 yearsold; and then my eyesight came back to me. For more than 20 years | hkeve used no spectacles. My eyesight is es good as that of any young man or_woman on carth. I was bragging that I was growing young again, when a of discerning epost power me, Sat {reed all of dhe Qaily = : papers, anc 1 know a thing or two, anyway.” ‘This wonderful old man is as love for he thinks and speaks only in lov- ing tones of all mankind, and of all things on earth. His scrap book of drawings, covering all of the old land- marks of this city, is particularly in- teresting when exhibited in his parlor, on a winter evening, and explained by him in his vivacious manner. He says: “I have often laughed at the officers of the old times, who used to think that because the navy yard was two miles and a half from the white house and navy department they could do as they pleased without any of their con- duct or misconduct being found out. “When Commodore Goldsborough was in charge of the navy yard, al- though he resided in the northwest, he knew what was going on as well as any modern sleuth. He went to the quarters of the commandant ev- ery day to attend to official business. ie yO “REPORT ‘THEM DRUNK, SIR.” One morning he called for the chief surgeon and handed him the daily re- port, saying: “Take that back, and make out an honest report.’ The sur- geon protested that all of his reports were honest, but the commodore in- sisted that they were not. Finally the surgeon told the commodore that he ‘exceeded his authority, as well as his knowledge, in telling a surgeon how to make outa sick report. Thereupon the old commodore almost took him off his feet, by roaring out: “*Take this sick report and make it out honestly, or I will get @ sur- geon who will make an honest report. Take out all of these lines telling of officers who have dyspepsia, indiges- tion, gastric irritation, gastric fever and all that kind of rot. Make out the report that these officers are unfit for duty to-day, because they have been “drunk over night.” This sick list has got to be cut down.’” “Down east of the navy yard reser- vation,” continued Mr. Birth, “were Widow Wheeler’s possessions. Al- though her mansion was only 18 by 41 feet, it was located on a small run emptying into the Anacostia river, and the widow was sought by many who believed in marrying land and a woman at the same time. She had several small sail boats and a number of row boats, and was fond of picnic- ing and excursions; but not one of her numerous suitors ever made any prog- ress. The naval officers flashed their brass buttons on her, but she would have none of them. Brass buttons were not as potential in the matri- monial market then as they are to- day. “Just beyond this reservation 14, along the river front, is the congres- sional cemetery, and the remains of Christ church still stand near by. This plot of ground was given to the congress by the widow of William Young, and it was the intention of having all congressmen buried there who might die if this city. It was in- tended to be a great honor, although I never heard of any congressmen dying just for the sake of being buried here. Mra. Ruth Young, owned more land than did Widow Wheeler, and she also was sought by the brass but- tons from the navy yard, but she re- mained true to the memory of her first husband and loyal fo the land that he left to her. She owned all of the land set aside for the congression- al cemetery, and also about 80 acres of what now seems to be the most desir- able part of east Washington, but it was all farm land then. “When I was a young man there was pot a session of congress that did not bring some persons here applying for the privilege of putting up a big ship- building plant. There must have been wise men in the congresses of those days. All of these people who came begging for the franchise of govern ment ship building were turned down; and the main argument of the ob- structors was that ‘the time will come when there will not be enough water here for a navy yard and shipbuilding plant.” And they were right.” ‘This is interesting news from the past century. Those statesmen of a | hundred years ago, and up to 50 years ago, must have been farseeing and sci- | entific men. Moreover, they must have been patriotic, because Mr. Birth says that he very frequently heard it stated that “substantial inducements were offered to influence legislation.” But, in those days, even the St. Louis aldermen were honest. “The sailing vessels of the navy used to come to the navy yard,” continued plete the ning of the civil war I have often seen our battleships here at anchor, and we were very proud of them, for we be- lieved them to be the terror of the seas until the confederate Merrimac tammed and sunk them down at Nor- feightened = all in this ae. we were fs = the awful news broke upon us apparently invincible batteries, had been hammered or ot ashen ew monater the seas.” ee, Se se ee ga | Ee SpaoMansy “py A PR BONS 4 > —/ MAGAZINE \—) GIRL SAILED AS BOY. | CHASING DISH COOKERY. Esther McEwen, the 15-year-old Scotch girl who has just got back home after making her third sea voy- age, dressed as a boy, says she was in- spired to become a sailor by reading @ novel about a girl who did so. Es- ther says the story was an exciting one, but it is doubtful if its heroine had a more eventful experience than that which befell her flesh-and-blood emulator. The girl first made a trip all around the Scotch -oast. Then she shipped for a long cruise to Valparaiso. After that she “signed” for a voyage to the east, visiting France and Spain and finally brought up at Alexandria. She would have continued her wanderings | se " aes Mie oe hea oe JP eet 4 3 e i ac Ce apes: HP ‘ 4 a 7 # Ke j a ak & if having to undergo a medical exami- nation had not forced her to admit that she was a girl Her captain brought her back as a cabin passenger to England, where she fell into the hands of the police, as “having no vis- ible means of support,” and has just been released. Esther ran away from home because her half-sister, with whom she used to live, treated her unkindly. Her par- ents were dead. Big, strong and healthy, she had been working in the fields up to the time when the book about the sailor lass fell into her hands. Then she decided to cut loose. ‘First she went to a barber and wftht out a tremor told him to take off her long black hair. She had him crop it close to her head. Then she got a suit of boy’s clothes and left the little village, Wishaw, where she was living, for Glasgow. She got into an empty “compartment” and changed her clothes between stations. Soon after she had reached Glas- gow she pgstponed her plan of going to sea for awhile. Instead she worked as a boy in a colliery. Wandering about the streets one night in her male get-up, somebody offered her a chance in the mines. She took it, and for three months worked in her shirt sleeves beside the men and earned six dollars a week. One day, however, part of the colliery roof underneath which she worked fell in, just missing the girl and killing the man next to her. This scared Esther so badly that she quit the coal business. Her first plan of going to sea came back to her, and leaving Glasgow for Ayr on the seacoast, she prepared to carry it out. Esther didn’t find much difficulty in getting a “berth” on board ship. She signed as cabin boy on a vessel called the Discovery, and it was on this craft that she took her trip around the Scottish coast. She called herself Al- lan Gordon. She was paid off at New- port, England, and promptly found a place as cabin boy on a ship bouad for South America. After this voyage was over she found herself in Cardiff with about $13 in her pocket. The ship in which she set off for Alexandria was named The Gem, and the girl worked as a steward aboard of her. When at the eastern city the word was passed round that a doctor was com- ing to examine the entire ship’s com- pany, she went to her captain and con- fided in him. Fortunately for her he proved to be kindhearted and immedi- ately told her that he would take her home and see that she didn’t suffer cn the way. “He treated me like a fath- er,” Esther said. Of course it got out that there was a girl on board dressed as a boy—for the sailor-lass had not been able to any other clothes—and when the Lp reached port a policeman heard some of the men talking about Esther and forthwith made it his business to ar- rest her. The girl was released after a day or two, one of her sisters having turned up and claimed her. Esther says she doesn't like the sea at all, and that she didn't have a good time on ship-board, for the men’s ways displeased her. Of course, she didn't care ee ee -they mopish a “bad Sener teades Letter in Detroit Free Press. Recipe for Lavender Water. For fine lavender water use two ounces of finest ofl of lavender, one ounce essence of musk, one-haif ounce essence of ambergris, one-half ounce oil of bergamot and one-half gallon of rectified spirits. Mix the ingredients, keep in a-demijohn for several days, shaking occasionally. Then filter and bottle CHAFING DISH COOKERY. Proper Setting of the Table le Quite an Important as Correct Prep- aration of Feod. If the dining-room is to be the scene of a chafing dish feast usea bare table, with a handsome luncheon cloth or linen cénterpiece for floral decorations to rest on. A doily should be at each cover, with a plate, knife and fork and whatever glasses are necessary. Make the table as inviting as possible. A lit- tle smilax or greenhouse asparagus is inexpensive and adds to the attractive- ness of the supper. Authorities differ as to the mixing of a Welsh rarebit. Each man is a law unto himself and is quite sure that he makes a better rarebit than his neigh- bor. The following recipe is for six persons: One pound of cheese, as rich and new as possible, cut into small bits. Place a tablespoonful of butter in the chafing dish. When hot add the cheese; as this melts stir all the time. Season with plenty of salt and cayenne pep- per and a pinch of dry mustard. When it is well heated through and cooking, add about half a pint of beer. Watch carefully and stir constantly, and when thoroughly melted serve on thin slices of hot toast or square biscuits. Seotch woodcock is another savory dish. First prepare the toast, cut- ting the bread thin and toasting an even brown. Butter when hot, and spread with anchovy paste, leaving it on a hot plate to soak into the toast. Cut bacon in the thinnest possible slices, Have the chafing dish hot, and put in the slices of bacon. As soon as they look trans- parent turn them over, and as the edges curl they are done. Put a slice on each bit of toast. While this is being prepared scrambled eggs should have been made in an- other blazer and poured over the anchovy toast and bacon, and the Scotch woo lcock is complete. Four eggs are enough for six persons. Break them into a dish and beat un- til as light as possible. Add a cup- ful of milk or cream and season with salt and pepper to taste. Have the chafing dish hot and place in it a tablespoonful of butter. Pour in the egg and stir constantly.—N. Y. Herald. e DUCHESS OF ORLEANS. Should Republicanism Fatl im France Her Husband's Rank Might Make Her a Queen. It is a common saying in Europe that one can never tell what will hap- pen to-morrow in Paris. Of late the royalists have been very active, and the faithful followers of the house of Orleans are shouting for the duke of Orleans—in the secrecy of their pal- aces on the Faubourg Saint Germain, of course. Should they attempt to shout on the streets their aristocratic (. ND \ a ~ » SN 2 fF a oe ” a ie : be | = \ oe ey Sa , £ ae j ri P DUCHESS OF ORLEANS. persons would quickly find lodgment in a jail. Should republicanism fail in France, however, the duchess of Or- leans, whose latest picture is herewith presented, might become a French queen. Her recent retura with her husband to England was aotable be- cause it was the first time that the couple had been allowed to land in that country since the duke wrote to a French artist, complimenting him on caricatures of the late Queen Victoria. The duchess, before her marriage in 1896, was Maria Dorothea Amelia, @aughter of Archduke Joseph, of Aus- tria. The dpke is the great-grandson of the last of the French kings, Louis Phillippe, who abdicated the throne in 1848 in favor of his grandson, the count of Paris. French royalists, as many 8s could be gathered, were pres- ent at the wedding. Duke Robert was born in 1869, and succeeded his father, the late count of Paris, in 1894, as the head of the royal family of France. His mother, who is still living, was the Spanish in- fanta Louise, of Montpensier. He has one brother and four sisters, the eld- est of the latter being the charming =." Portugal, and the second, is married to the duke of Aosta, the heir-presumptive to the throne of Italy. " Mevelty in Tea Trays. ‘The newest and prettiest tea trays sre oblong, with brass or wooden han- dies and a glass bottom which may be removed to admit a piece of burnt leather or rich fabric, racing print, or Other decoration. COMMERCIAL PROFESSIONS. Men of Money Who Labor to Tarn ‘Their Business Into Institutions ef Usetulness. The truth is, we hear too much about the commercialism of the pro- fessions. There are men who vulgar~ ize them all, no doubt, and who sell their craft-right for a mess of mil- Hons, for there have always been such men, says World’s Work. But there fs another tendency of our time that is far stronger than the tendency to get wealth; it is the ten- dency to establish, to build, and to maintain institutions—institu- tions of any useful and honorable kind. Men give themselves in the most unselfish way to build up colleges and universities, hospitals, museums, clubs, associations for the advance- ment of trades and professions, libra- ries—there is no end of the list. Men labor to turn their business into insti- tutions. Many founders of great com- mercial houses work for their honor- able perpetuity. Many manufacturers plan their fac- tories so as to give them an institu- tional character and value. The naturally conservative tendency of an active people is toward institution building. Strong men in almost every department of work show such a ten- dency, often as a dominant trait of character, and this is a stronger mo- tive than the mere wish to be rich. The rich man who stands alone, who has not established something, who is not identified with some great in- stitution, commercial or public, is not envied. He is more likely to be pitied. PERILS OF THE TRAPPERS. How the weoanaecicaael Many Oth- ers Went to Their Deaths on the Platte River. In the United States the free hunt- ers approach the mountains by three main routes. It was coming down the Platte that poor Scott’s canoe was overturned, his powder lost and his rifle rendered useless, relates Outing. Game had retreated to the mountains with spring’s advance. Berrfes were not ripe by the time trappers were descending with their winter’s hunt. Scott and his famishing men could not find edible roots. Each day Scott weakened. There was no food. Final- ly Scott had strength to go no further. His men had found tracks of some other hunting party far to the fore. They thought that in any case he could not live. What ought they to do? Hang back and starve with him, or hasten forward while they had strength to the party whose tracks they had espied. On pretense of seek- ing roots, they deserted the helpless man. The next spring when these same hunters went up the Platte they found the skeleton of poor Scott 60 miles from the place where they had left him. The terror that spurred the emaciated man to drag himself all this weary distance can barely be con- ceived; but such were the fearful odds taken by every free trapper who went up the Platte, across the parched plains or to the headwaters of the Missouri. VENEZUELA IS DECAYING. German Traveier States That Mixed Negroes and Indians Are Get- ting an Upper Hand. Dr. Passarge, the noted traveler, who has just returned from Venc- zuela, says, according to a Berlin re- rt: PecPresident Castro is a full-blooded Indian and an energetic man without political wisdom. He rose suddenly from magistrate tf a remote village at the foot of the Andes to the presi- dency, and his rapid rise made him overconfident. “The present situation is due ‘to two facts: Germany suddenly sus- pended the pressure of the early part of the war, which diminished the re- spect in which she was held by Presi- dent Castro; secondly, the attitude of the officials of the great Venezue- Jan railroad toward President Cas- tro. Germany’s first principle must be not to meddle in the internal af- fairs of Venezuela. But the railroad officials forgot this.” Dr. Passarge describes the state as drifting to certain decay and as fol- lowing a steadily downward course since Gen. Blanco’s presidency. The color question plays an important role in political tendencies. The mixed negroes and Indians, ete. are getting an upper hand in society and politics. WHERE DWARFS ARE MADE. Children in Madras Stunted and Dis- terted for the Purpose of Put- ting Them Oat to Beg. Some interest has of late been aroused in Madras by the exhibition of two dwarfs who are alleged to be over 50 years of age, and are brother and sister. These beings are not only small but distorted. It is believed that dwarfs are “manufactured” in Indian. There is a practice extant in the Punjab of elongating infants’ heads so as to render them out of al: proportion to the body. The effect of compression on the brain renders the wietims idiotic, says the London Ex- press. ‘They a@re sent around to beg, and in their peregrinations visit the Madras and Bombay presidencies. An instinct akin to thet of an animal, however, still lives in the distorted beings, and invariably brings them back to their masters. They are known as “Shah a from the name of the temple they are manufactured. The children, it is stated, are vowed to the temple by fanetica] women. ae RED, BLACK OR BLOND, Oark-Hatred Children Fave the Wey Imagination, But Red-Headeg Get the Geed wari. Some curious statistics r¢) hair have been collected by ae authorities at Lille. It is ‘oun suburn-haired boys are general the head of the recitation classes’, blonde girls come out highest snare meticians. But in composition they @re nowhere, says the London & press. The dark-haired children of bog sexes have the quality of imagination, and in their composition: KNOW hoy. not to fatigue the attention, and y compared to the auburn and Dlondy are born stylists. I dare say the auburn boys ay blond lasses in the Lille clementay schools are of Flemish—that i to say, phlegmatie—race. Their braing & not grow at once congested when they stand up to recite, and for that Teo, they keep the mastery of the vocal, gans. In short, they continue to know what they are about. The dark ay dren are probably of Celtic—thatigty say, Gallic—origin. The blood comy with a rush to their brains, and they grow confused, splutter and break down. If they could only be aughtty remain silent for a few moments they would be all the better for this mg as the confusion would have pass away, leaving only stimulated menty organs. Finally, on the subject of hair, say a writer in Truth. I am sorry to say that the red-headed boys and girls iy the Lille schools are at the bottomig everything, save in good condnet marks. Nor are they remarkable for good health. The dark boys behay better than the auburn or the fair, ang are more sensitive to praise or blame CAMEL A CURIOSITY. One with Two Humps Creates a Sex. aation Among the People of Cairo, Egypt. One would hardly expect to hear of a camel being an object of publie at- traction in Egypt. That such is the case, however, is vouched for by the Egyptian Gazette. “The ship of the desert,” or the one-humped drome dary, is very common in the streets of Cairo and other parts of the Nil country, but when the zoological gar- den at Ghizeh secured a specimen of the two-humped Bactrian camel there was indeed a sensation. The double-decked ship of the des- ert was the most interesting animal in the menagerie to the native Egyp tian who had been familiar all his life with the one-humped variety. Strange as it may seem, this particu- lar specimen was bred and secured from the Rotterdam zoological gar- dens, where the well-known Swiss nat- uralist, Dr. Buettikofer, is rearing the species with success. What the dromedary is to Sahara's parched sands, says the Philadelphia Record, the Bactrian camel is to the dreary stretches of Asia. As the dromedary may be likened to the swift and safe passenger ship, so may the patient Bactrian beast be referrerd to as the slower but all the more impor- tant deeply laden merchantman, for centuries on centuries, generation after generation, these patient crea- tures have been transporting the wealth of China, farther India and the orient generally to Russia and thence throughout the occident. ENGLAND’S GREAT BACHELORS. Four Leading Men of the British Kingdom Are Unmarried at Middle Age. This is the age of bachelors in Eng- land. The women are discussing with keen interest the fact that four of their great men are unmarried. Arthur Bal- four is a bachelor, and indeed the first bachelor to become premier since the time of William Pitt. Lord Kitchener. England’s most not- able soldier, and Lord Milner, her most prominent administrator, are both un- married. Completing the notable four is tbe bishop of London, who is not far from being the most prominent men in the church. ‘The men on the other side, says the Philadelphia North American, are de claring that France “has lorg bee® cursed with petticoat influence in poli- ties, and England has had some ¢X perience of the plague of women be- hind the seenes at the war office” They believe that “the triumph of tbe four great bachelors points toa quiet and effective revolt of man.” Egyptian Pepyri. _ The National museum at Washing- ‘ton helps with funds to support the, explorations in Egypt which Dr. Flix- ders Petrie, the great Egyptologist, is making. As its share of this year’s finds it has just received ten papyT’* manuscripts, dating from about the birth of Christ. They are mostly bills of lading for camel trains, receipts for goods, ete. Industrious Indians. Col. R. H. Pratt, head of the gover?” ment Indian school at Carlisle, Ps. reports that the enrollment of Indian students there this year has reached the high-water mark of 1,073. Thestt dents are encouraged to earn money by hiring out during vacation, and they made nearly $32,000 that way last year. Blectrical Power Carried Fs* _ The problem of the conveyance electrical power is no barrier to the California electrician. San Jose bes just been equipped with « syste™ of electric lighting the current for which is carried for a distance of 173 miles. from s point in the heart of the Sier™® Savada mountains. VIGOROUS APPLE TREES. im Connecticnt That Were Blows Down, But Survived for qwaree Score Yeare After. - In the yeer 1727 an apple tree was ted in Connecticut, near Ston- mn. Three years afterward it grafted, as is supposed, with from @ Roxbury russet tree. the great September gale of 1815 tree was blown over, but lived threescore years longer before body succumbed to decay. At same time one of the branches touched the ground took root a vigorous sprout grew up. Grad- y the old trunk decayed and ten later was entirely rotted away, ie, like the mantle of Elijah fall- on Elisha, the whole treetop was resting upon the young sprout, its new, strong roots. The tree, its prolonged life of a century three-quarters, is, or was re- tly, flourishing with renewed vig- and bearing fruit. The orchard of the writer's father tained an apple tree which was ted in the same memorable of 1815, says a Hartford corre- ent of the Farmer, but a mass earth which was torn up adhered the roots. This kept them from ing up to some extent and socn _« roots were thrown downward the tree tenaciously retained its id on life. The writer well remem- rs of eating, when a boy, the large heeked apples which it bore, of own name. The tree “survived e fall” and for many years yielded much fruit as any in the orchard. it had one merit, at least—no ladder s required from which to gather a *ruit. THE SMELLING EXPERT. Valeable Man in the Perfumery Line Earns His Living by Fol- . lewing His Nose. One of the curious trades of New York is that of the smelling expert, s man who earns his living literally by following his nose. He is em- ployed by manufactarers of perfum- ery. It is his business to judge of the character, quality and value of the materials that go to the making of perfumes, says the New York Sun. Much of the perfumery made in this country is imported from France in the form of pomatums, and extracted lwith alcohol. The smelling expert ages the quality of pomatums. An- other and even more remarkable part f his business is to examine a popular ported perfume, determine from e smell of what it is made, and en- ble his employer to produce it here. Like the experts of the distillers, ho will take any given wine or spir- its, and after examination produce a erfeit which only a connoisseur uld detect as such, the smelling ex- rt by means of his unerring nose es possible the production here of y perfume that it is desired to imi- te. Possessed of so valuable a nose, he takes the utmost care of it. He does his best to avoid taking cold, end guards himself with special care when the influenza comes round. A single bad cold may disable his nose for weeks and throw him out of employ- ment. He avoids also, as far as possi- ble, all strong odors, good or bad, to preserve the delicacy of his olfactories. The profession on the whole is less injurious to health than that of the tea taster or the wine taster. | WHAT REAL PROPERTY IS. Picees of Paper in a Bank Vault or Deposit Book Are Equal to Land is Heldizng. What a wonderful change has passed over our entire conception of the word “property!” The writer is old enough to remember when noth- ing except land and houses was re- garded as true property; but now a man may be a millionaire and own nothing that he can see, says the Lon- don Spectator. A few pieces of paper in a box at his banker's, or better still, an inscription in a book of which he knows nothing except that it exists, constitute him a man rich beyond the dreams of avarice, and, moreover, & man who has not to guard his prop- erty, and who can realize it—which the rich men of old could not do—in half an hour. It is a very curious change, and one the full results of which we have yet to perceive; but we suspect that among them will be an immense increage in the amount of wealth at the disposal of industry and enterprise, and an astonishing de- crease im the permanence of the wealthy families. It is so easy to Spend shares or bonds, and there are 80 few to notice whether you spend them or not. It took years to spend @ great landed estate; but a fortune in bonds may disappear, as many Ger- men families have recestly lootned, Se & year of unlucky speculation, or the early lifetime of one spendthrift American Astronomers. Within 25 years American astrono- mers have won as many annual med- als of the Royal Astronomical soci- ety of England as astronomers of all other countries, except England, com- binea When Cigarettes Ge Out. An anti-cigarette orator predicts that the cigurette will be extinet in ten years. And by that time a good many of the boys who smoke it will be Sttinct, too. oi eat nari Thirty-one huge exceedingly strong Hevana cigars is the daily al- lowance of King Carlos, of Portugal, the biggest and the fattest of all the Teigning monarchs of the old worki. — FOUL AIR IN RAILROAD CARS. Something Which Affords Experts on Ventilation an Opportunity to Distinguish Themselves, A great many people have a way of talking of how sleepy traveling makes them. They say that they cannot be Jong in a railway train and remain aweke. This phenomenon is attrib- uted somehow to the act of travel- ing, but the plain fact is that it is due to more or less asphyxiation, says the Hartford Courant. The car needs not to be in motion. It is emough to enter it and begin upon the experience. Whoever-does travel much has to be struck with the shocking condition of the atmosphere in whatever car he may enter. It is the first thing one thinks of when he passes the door. Then he looks about and sees how many of the passengers are drooping in their seats, more or less doped, and all of them used up. _ Now the whole trouble is with the Ventilation of @he car. There is no other human habitation, not even the theaters and the churches, that begins to be so ill or so little ventilated as the railroad car. This is not right. For much of the time the car is in mo- tion, and there must be some easy way to change the air ina moving chamber. The closeness and discomfort of the Pullman are attributable to the indi- rect influence of the warm climate of Africa. That country is put in con- trol of the car, and proceeds to estab- lish the African climate there. But other cars fare little better. They are all of them devoid of ventilation, ai of them stuffy and unhealthy, and all of them a discredit to the makers and managers. There ought to be some sensible crank on ventilation (most of the ventilation cranks are so ultra as to escape the charge of being sensible) to open a reasonable agitation on the subject that shall compel attention to the present pernicious conditions and secure improvement. VIRTUES OF THE ESKIMO DOG. An Invaluable Servant and Food Re- serve to the People of the Frosen North. Of the Eskimo dog I could write a book. In ell probability descended from the wolf, it is the Eskimo’s one domestic animal, but is of as much val@e to him as all the domesticated animals of more favored races put to- gether, writes Commander Robert E. Peary, in Leslie’s Monthly. It drags him and his family and their chattels from place to place, hauls to his door the meat of seals or walrus; leads him with unerring scent to the tiny ori- fice in the snow, which indicates the breathing hole of a seal; drags him for miles in pursuit of the bear, and finally brings the huge brute to bay; rounds up the musk-oxen till his mas- ter can come up for the kill, and then, perchance, in the darkness of some long winter night, when the hand of hunger grips the settlement relent- lessly, he yields up his life to feed his master and his family, and ‘his coat to keep them warm. Though mixed now with other strains, so that black and reddish and spotted dogs are to be seen as well as the pure-blooded grays and whites, this animal still retains to a large degree the strength, endurance and fierce lust for blood when in pursuit of game that characterizes its wild ancestors. Combined with these traits are an intelligence and faithfulness that make many of these animals the peer of any of their more favored brothers in more genial climates. ALMOST A NONDESCRIPT. When a Second Licutenant Gets Mar- ried His Standing with Superior Officers Saffers. To the commanding officers, the married second lieutenant is almost a nondescript. There is never the in- terest felt in the youngster there would be if he were free or without @omestic entanglement. From the start they know what his trials are to be. They know he has all he can do without having the attentions of high- er officers directed to his struggles. They do not take the same interest in his advancement, because they know full well there is the weight of outside cares that will interfere with the single interest which every com- manding officer desires in the career of the young officers, says Town Top- ies. It is enough that they learn first how to be soldiers without learning at the same time how to be husbands. They think one “boss” is enough for the little lieutenant. The orders of one are bound to conflict with the or- ders of the other. The military “boss” will not go to the domestic boss to see that orders are carried out, but the domestic boss never hesitates for a minute to go to the highest ranking general if she feels that her rights are trodden upon. It is sometimes very wonderful, the colossal courage of the young wife who is just lears- ing military discipline. She dares to do and to say what the older cam- paigners never dream of doing or saying. And thst is another block in the career of the infant officer. A Polish War Fund. It has just been discovered that there exists at Rapperswyl, Switzer- land, a fund consisting of nearly. $50,- 000, which has been subscribed by Poles in various purts of the world for the purpose of waging war on Russia when a propitious time shall arrive. Cuba's Corn Crops. Four crops of corn are produced yearly in Cube. The first crop is planted in December, and the fourth ‘crop is harvested in December. OLD MAIDS AS LISTENERS. Patiedt Souls Inte Whose Bars the Countless Confidences of Oth- ers Are Poured. The good listeners, om the other hand, are the old maids to whose speech nobody pays any attention, yet to whom everybody talks, writes Miss Lillie Hamilton French, in Cen- tury. And I wonder, considering how many confidences men have poured into their ears, and how, many other things men have found to say about them, that not a gentleman has yet been found good and gener- ous enough to pay tribute to this surpassing excellence in spinsters— an excellence so dear to the mascu- line mind. How many old-maid aunts, indeed, have nephews not be- guiled? How many old-maid sisters have not opened their ears to the self-praise of their unsuccessful brothers who have missed a hearing at the bar, or in the pulpit, or wher- ever there was competition among men? Patient souls, these old maids, lis- tening to each of us as a mother only listens to her own, and who have listened so long that at last they have the air of never expecting anyone to pay attention to them. They venture into speech on their own account, as timid mice into par- lors, ready on the instant to whisk about and seek cover again. These, though, are the old maids for whom corners are never lacking, so eager are the very least among men to assure themselves of a hearing some- where. ORIGIN OF “CHESTNUT.” ‘The Term May Be Traced to Edwin A. Abbey, the Celebrated Portrait Painter. The word “chestnut” as an expres- sive bit of slang has been of doubtful origin ever since it was first intro- duced into the English language a dozen or fifteen years ago, and, al- though the Century dictionary gives it a place, and numerous explanations have been offered in extenuation of its existence as a credited word, its origin has ever been in doubt, says the Phila- delphia Record. According to a Phila- delphia art patron the use of the word as typifying a passe story may be traced to Edwin A. Abbey, the artist, who, since studying at the academy of fine arts in this city, has arisen to the prominence of painting a picture of the coronation of King E@ward VII. at the king’scommand. After leaving Philadelphia for New York Mr. Abbey was @ prominent member of the Tile club, and at the meetings he always tolé the same story. It was a point- less story about a man who had a chestnut farm, who never made any money because he couldn't resist the temptation to give his cropaway. Mr. Abbey always began this story in a different way, but would gradually lead up to it until his hearers would recognize it and cry: “Chestnuts!” And in that way, according to the art patron, the word gradually assumed its slang significance. ANTIPATHIES OF PEOPLE. Strange Effects of Certain Sensations and Sights Upon Nervous Persons. “Unaccountable,” said a physician, according to the Philadelphia Record, “are the antipathies of some people. Do you know that I have had for pa- tients a dozen men who would faint on being shut up in a room with any sort of large bird? “There is a certain odd nervous dis- ease which creates an aversion to eggs —so strong an aversion that an egg placed on the skin of one of the af- flicted persons brings on convulsions. “On some highly-organized consti- tutions nose-bleed is produced in the strangest way. The medical books tell of Chesne, secretary to Francis L., who bled at the nose on sight of an apple, and of Diego Rodriguez, a Cuban recently deceased, who would bleed at the nose whenever he smelt the flower of the heliotrope. “The sight of raw fish gives some people a fever. The proximity of acat gives some a headache. The sight of blood—but this is common—makes some swoon. The touch of velvet gives some a violent chill. “These cases I have cited are well authenticated. They are interesting. We doctors are always very glad to come upon them.” CONDUCTOR’S HONEST RAKEOFF Takes In Many Coins with Premiums on Them and Turns Them to Geeod Account. A conductor of a Sixth avenue car, during a lull in the ringing of fares, stood passing coins from one hand to the other, turning up the date of each coin as he did so, relates the New York Times. “There are more ways of making money than by ‘knocking down’ fares,” he remarked, noting the inquiring look on a pas- senger’s face. “Any greenhorn can pocket a dozen nickels in collecting 120 fares in a car built for 48 pas sengers. but a man has got to know something to spot a coin that has a premium value. It’s surprising how many more or less rare coins pass current without falling into the hands of some one who knows their value. This was suggested to me one day, and I took to studying the catalogues of dealers in rare coins and memorizing the dates of those that are worth more than the prices stamped on them. Since then I have picked out of the money I have taken in fares several hundred coins with a premium value ranging from a few cents to five dollars, and have re deemed them with my own money and sold them to dealers in coins.” MARRIAGE MAKES DIFFERENCE The Timid Wife Is Cherished, But the Timid O14 Maid Is Laughed Ac. Marriage, indeed, does make a dif- ference to women, and we who are the old maids might just as well learn, writes Miss Lillie Hamilton French, in “My Old Maid’s Corner,” in Century. My own first awakening came when I saw my married sisters calling to their stalwart young husbands to help them over some puddles in the road. And what a fuss they made! When they had been helped over, they went on and left me, the youngest, behind. I called for assistance, too, it seemed 8o agreeable to command it. One of my sisters, her hand still in that of her husband's, looked back and said: “Tt’s easy. Step on a stone and jump.” Then cuddling closer to her husband, she walked on, not turning again. I can remember, too, the wife of some college professor who had been asked to meet me when I was perhaps 28. “Why, I thought you were mar- ried,” she gaid to me as we shook hands. “If I had known you were single, I never would have worn a long dress.” It was her only long dress, I learned afterward—that was why she said “a” and not “my”—a black silk dress, by the way, which she had worn for years, and whith she made “low neck” for dinner parties by unfasten- ing the few top buttons. These early experiences, and my having married sisters, taught me much. Probably every other old maid has learned, too, that timidity and helplessness, for in- stance, so engaging im wives, are con- sidered ridiculous in spinsters. Is not a timié old maid laughed at the world over, and is not a timid wife cher- ished? THE BEGGARS OF PARIS. Deputy Plays Detective and Makes Extraordinary Discoveries Among Them. M. Paulian, one of the permanent secretaries of the chamber of depu- ties, has carefully studied the word “paupericulture,” invented by Abra- ham Dreyfus, and has, in various disguises, followed the profession of beggar all over Paris, says a Paris letter to the New York Times. According to M. Paulian, the beg- gars of that city make an average of nearly 20 frames a day. They are di- vided into district guilds, their cen- tral authority being represented by two lithographed sheets entitled “Le Grand Jeu” and “Le Petit Jeu,” which gives lists and special coun- sels to subscribers. Some of these are humorous and instructive. One rich patron can only be softened by the plea of no rent and threatened expulsion. Another gives no money, but never refuses clothes. The clergy and pious peo ple can be got at with babies await- ing baptism, and young people re quiring the clothes to make their first communion. A wealthy repub- lican, on the other hand, only gives to those who are sharp enough tc explain that they are the victims o! the cures. The acknowledged patriarch of the beggars is a Populo, whose auxiliary is the former proprietor of an an- archist paper. His chief task is tc write clever begging letters or sham recommendations to influential per- ian ein. STREET CAR BROKERS. Not im the Classified Trades Direc- tory, But Dealing in Second- Band Cars Right Along. New lines of industry are constant- ly springing up suggested by all sorte of modern improvements, and it is hard to keep track of them. There is the street car broker, for instance, says the Philadelphia Record. You probably won't find him classified under a separate heading in the business directory, but he exists. In the current issue of a trade journal devoted to transportation are the ad- vertisements of men who deal in sec- ond-hand street cars. One dealer an- mounces “a special bargain lot of six 40 feet long over all, seating 40 passengers on cross rattan walk-over seats, with electric motors in good shape, and practically new.” An- other says he has six varieties to choose from, and from 12 to 20 in a lot. Still others advertise that they will either buy or sell second-hand street carg. This vousiness, accord- ing to one of the officials of the Phil- adelphia Rapid Transit company, is assuming quite ‘arge proportions. Improvements in the rolling stock of the trolley lines, particularly in the larger cities, have become so rapid that within a short time a car is out of date. These cars, which are gen- erally still good for general use, come im handy for the companies op- erating in the small towns, and that’s where the car broker comes in. Railway to Build Huge Hotel. It was learned to-day on the Vest authority that the plans of the Pennsylvania railrosd for its new certtral station in the heart of Man- hattan include the construction of a huge skyscraper hotel, which will probably be the biggest of the many grand hostelries projected in this city. Four square blocks of city property owned by the railroad company are available for this sta- tion hotel, but only two of these will be utilized. ‘The Shab Cash. It is said that the shah of Persia has more hard cash put by than other sovereign. kdestgebens ahs the “king of kings” oN pei have a sum estimated at in ONE MAN'S HOBBY. Se Thinks That No Child Should Be Given More Than One Nameand Gives Reasons. “I have a friend, a most amiable and accomplished man, who has a hobby that he seems never to tire of,” said Mr. W. A. Villiers, of New York, to a Washington Post re- porter. “His hobby is that no child should be given a double name. He says that two given names are not only unnecessary, but a positive handicap in the battle of life. He will talk all day long on this head if he can only get an auditor, and will reenforce his argument by instancing departed great ones who only bore one name. “George Washington, Thomas Jeffer- son, James Madison, Alexander Hamil- ton, Benjamin Franklin, and scores of others, are cited to prove that the single name suffices. and that in fact it is vastly to be preferred. A man who is very much in earnest and who can make a good presentation of his cause never lacks disciples, and so my friend has created an im- pression in his circle of acquaint- ances by reiteration of his theory. In fact, not long ago quite a worthy citizen, who fell under his spell, be came convinced of the danger of the double name and concluded to elimi- nate one. Those of us who are ip doubt are waiting to see if any good luck will follow the amputation, and should it, we may conclude to do Hieewies * LEFT-HANDED BARBERS. Most Men Have a Creepy Feeling When Under the Edge of Their Rasors. “I have struck all kinds of barbers im my trips about the country,” said the man who travels, relates the New York Times, “but the one kind that always makes me feel as if 1 was balanced on the very brink of eterni- ty is the left-handed barber. I have been shaved by several of their class in the past year. They have been good barbers, too, every one of them, but no matter how well they knew their business they always gave me a bad turn, and every time they drew the razor across my face I felt as if life and I were about ready to part company. Of course it is foolish, but nowadays when I find myself assigned to a left-handed barber | leave the shop on some pretext or other and go elsewhere to be beauti- fied. Other men whom I have sound- ed on the subject have confessed to the same weakness, and women have told me that they have a like unexplained dread of left-handed hairdressers. In tne dressmaking business, too, I am told, a left- handed cutter and fitter is pretty sure to give the customer a crop of goose flesh, while even a harmless occupation like manicuring can al- ways be relied on to produce real shivers if pursued by a person whose cleverness lies in her left hand.” ICONOCLASTS IN HAVANA. ‘The City’s Old Landmarks Are Glv- ing Way to Many Moderna Im- provements. The city of Havana is rapidly being made a modern city in such a way that it will soon be so that the many sights which draw tourists from the United States to Cuba will be removed, says a correspondent of the Baltimore American. The old landmarks, such as the old city walls, which are always a sight of great interest to all tourists as showing old Spanish architecture, and are almost worth their weight in gold to the city as drawing cards to tourists, are fast being removed, and the’ stone sold for a mere pittance to contractors. At the present time the old city wall et the Punta and its sur- roundings known as Lon Fosos, where the reconcentrados of Gen. Weyler were herded together, are being re- moved. This always used tocommand the attention of tourists, and none ever left the city without insisting on see- ing the Fosos. Now nothing remains of the place but a modern driveway, a thing that can be seen in every mod- ern city in the United States. The old city walls between Zulueta and Monserrate street are also being rap- idly removed and being sold for build- ing stone. MOSQUITOES HARD TO KILL. Eges That Have Been Deposited iz Ponds That Dry Up Live tor Many Months. Dr. T. W. Dupree, who has been mak- ing investigation of mosquitoes in Louisiana, has reported to the Louis- iana Society of Naturalists that he has found that the eggs of mosquitoes often hatch months after they are laid, especially if they are deposited in ponds which subsequently dry up, re ports the New York Sun. The conclusion reached by Dr. Du- pree is that the methods which have been used in getting rid of the mosqui- toes by oiling or otherwise treating the ponds during March and April, when the eggs are supposed to be hatching, are productive of little ben- efit, as the hatching is going on all the time. Dr. Dupree found 24 varieties of mosquitoes in Louisiana ponds, most of them in the same ponds. The spe- cies vary from year to year, some va- rieties being abundant one year and others the next. @Geed. for an Maditer. An Indianapolis editor lately shot 2 large deer in the Maine woods with ar old-fashioned shotgun which he had in a spirit of fun loaded with a good charge of powder and a few pebbles picked from the bed of « stream. JAPANESE FORESIGHT. Three Thousand Yen Invested for @ Period of 250 Years to Pre- duce 1,206,411,179. The Dai-ichi Cingo in 1900 -re- ceived a deposit of 3,000 yen which will remain fixed for 250 years, from Mr. Goichi Abe, dealer in coal and eoke, at 4 Minami Shimboricho Ni-’ chome, Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo. The bank has contracted to pay the sum of 1,208,411,179 yen at the end of 250 years, dating from 1900 inclusive, re- ports the Tokio (Japan) Times: The father of the depositor was a 'rkisha- man, and he himself was an iceboy some 20 years ago. Then his mother was seriously ill, and three days be- fore her death she said that she would like to eat soba, which is a cheap dish, but a luxury for the poor. He, then only eight years old, pur chased some from the sale of ice, and was carrying it home when he was encountered by his father. He and his mother were then scolded for their luxuriousness. His mother died and he was employed as an er rand boy for the next six years by 12 different masters. Meanwhile the father and son did not know of each other’s whereabouts. It was only by accident that the son read in a newspaper that his father, who was named Ki-ichi Abe, was employed by Mr. Soichiro Asano. The son searched for his father, and was able to find him out again. After this the son was given a place in Mr. Asano’s establishment. Lately the father lost a ship (he had become ‘rich enough to own a ship) in & storm. The ship had been insured for 3,000 yen. The fact of the insur- ance was unknown to him, for the | policy-holder was the son. But the father and son settled between them- selves that the money should be de posited on behalf of their posterity, and hence the long term contract. BREEDING ARMY HORSES. England to Establish Immense Stock Farms in Australia and Pretoria. The British authorities have decided to have immense stud farms here, be- ginning with horses and afterward ex+ tending the breeding establishments to cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and mules. The first order for brood mares will be given in this country to the military authorities, who will sell them to the civil authorities. It is ascertained that 4,000 mares are thus to be acquired with, of course, stal- lions. After a time these will be im- ported from good stock, but there is plenty of blood in the country tomake a beginning, writes a Pretoria corre- spondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. The mares to be handed over by the military authorities are mostly ac- climatized now. Many of them will be of the Boer mare breed, a hardy light little animal which breeds well and@ is very useful in the long grass and stony veldt and kopje—just the animals, in fact, to carry @ man around his farm and brizg his produce to market in quick time over long distances. One of the largest breeding estab- lishments will be at Standerton. Brit- ish and Australian men versed in horses are to be appointed, and sev- eral of these breeding depots, and sev- eral well-known men who have made the horse a study have already been appointed to select the mare and stab lion grounds for the commencement. PARROT AT THE TELEPHONE. The Sound of Loved One's Voice Sets the Mocking Bird to Talking His Best. Not all parrot stories are pretty, but here is the prettiest that ever was told—and fact, too, says the Boston Transcript. Caddie is the one of all the family with whom the parrot really cares to talk, and to her his confidences and his criticisms of the various members of the house- hold are ever ready and voluminous, Silence, long unbroken, had fallen for days on his corner, and, to tell the truth, was not unwelcome, alto- gether, considering the satirical] rogue’s sneering laughter when out of sorts as he was during Caddie’s absence, or when for any reason a prey to gloomy views of life and its mysteries. At last one day Caddie got back to within telephone range of home, and called up the bird after talking with the rest of the family. The moment he heard her gay and familiar hail the parrot was almost beside himself, fluttering about and rapidly retailing his whole stock of observations, calls, shrieks, whistles and nicknames; all the while he eyed the telephone with that cold air of suspicion and contempt mixed with curiosity peculiar to the oblique glance of the creature, and then pro- ceeded, followed by the family at @ careful distance on the sly, to “rubber” through the various rooms, up stairs and down, in search of the real presence of Caddie. Losses at Sea. The report of the life-saving service shows that there were 388 accidents to registered vessels in this country last year. Out of 23,424 persons in denger only 19 in all were lost, and the prop- erty loss was about $2,300,000. There are 272 life-saving stations, of which 195 are on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the great lakes and 16 on the Pa- cific coast. The cost of maintaining the service was $1,650,000. Gel4 Dredging in New Sealand. There are now at work in the rivers of the middle island of New Zealand about 240 dredges, each costing from $25,000 to $70,000, with the object of extracting gold from the deposits is the beds of streams. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. 45th and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... 140,000 per day Output of Summer Yards..... 300,000 per day Telephone Yards 128. Read and Subscribe for THE BROAD AX, the only live newspaper for the Afro-American Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Oathless, Protestante, Priests, Insulds, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republican, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Axe is a newspaper whose platform is 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 communications to THE BROAD AX 6040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. CHIP8. They say that Rev. Jack-leg Preacher St. David Ranting Wilkins, whose relations with women would not look very well in print, and Mrs. Pasty Dean will appear before the next Cook County Grand Jury for the purpose of getting Julius F. Taylor indicted. Let them go right ahead and our attorneys will warm their jackets if we ever get them on the witness stand. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee, 5709 Grove avenue, have not been able to sleep well neither night nor day for the past two weeks for the reason that some sneak thief stole The Broad Ax from their mail box. If Mr. and Mrs. Lee will both watch real sharp for the scoundel who got away with the last two copies of their Broad Ax we will endeavor to assist them in sending the party or the parties to jail. or Some one has said that our old friend Col. B. F. Moseley received three hundred dollars for freezing Rev. Jasper F. Thomas out of Olivet Baptist Church," but it is claimed that in order for the Col. to do the job up brown he had to call a white lawyer by the name of Miller to assist him. If all reports are true Col. Moseley and Edward H. Wright are the leading lawyers for Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray. # It is said that not a great while ago Alderman "Thomas J. Dixon indorsed a note for one hundred and fifty dollars for Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray which fell due a few days ago, but it is asserted that owing to the last named individual mixing up with so many women he had no money to pay the note, and in order to protect his good name Alderman Dixon was compelled so they say to dig up one hundred cold bucks or dollars and turn them over to Mr. Harper, the holder of the note. or Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray seems to be losing his weak mind, for while he is engaged in snorting and ranting in the pulpit which is mistaken for preaching by the ignorant rable who turn out to hear him. He will stop short in the midst of his ravings and shout out in a loud voice, CHARLESL. WEBB Court Reporter, 311 Ogden Bldg. 34 Clark St. General Stenographer Chicago American President and Treasurer, TH Vice-President, JO Secretar MANUFACT Common and "Walt a minute until I change my voice." Then he will jump up and down like a big white monkey, which will cause some of the poor washwomen who are foolish enough to turn their hard earned money over to him, to exclaim, "God bless Brother Murray for he is so sweet, and is so full of the Holy Ghost that it is running outen him!" Rev. Dan Ranting Wilkins, who it seems has for some time had a hankering after other men's wives, Rev. Longreen Abraham Lincoln Murray, who was never known to turn his back on the lovely ladies or to throw them over his shoulders, Mrs. Alberta Smith, Hale G. Parker, who is ever ready to furnish plenty of wind and water, Richard E. Moore, who could tell an interesting story on "how to make money by manipulating Masonic Lodges," and John G. Jones, were at a meeting held at Bethel Church last Sunday selected as a committee to petition the President and congress to take some action in the way of erecting a building at the St. Louis Fair for Negro Exhibits. Special Notice. We still have a number of copies of the Seventh Anniversary edition of The Broad Ax which will be sent to any address in the United States for 5 cents per copy. J. E. JONES LAWYER 79 Clark Street Room 9 Chicago JAMES E. WHITE LAWYER Residence 4232 Wabash Ave Suite 411-59 Dearborn St. Tel Main 1690 Chicago AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. From on and after this date The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following places: E. H. Faulkner, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3104 State street. A. G. Marshall, news stand and book store, 3604 State street. A. F. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 398 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. Mrs. H. Hart, Cigar and Confectionery Store, 417 E. 35th St. C. E. Hunter's News Stand and Cigar Store, 134 W. 51st St., near Dearborn. 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. William Goetz, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 411 E. 36th street. Corrigan's Cigar Store and News Stand, 3304 State street. C. C. McLain, R. R. ticket broker and News Stand, 428 Dearborn Street. M. H. Watts, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3742 State street. J. C. Campbell, 145 W. 47th street., Cigars, Tobacco, Staple Groceries. Wm. H. Monroe, cigar and newsstand, 486 State street. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. Brick Co. -- THOMAS CAREY. JOHN SHELHAMER, RY, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. TURERS OF Sewer Brick MILES J. DEVINE JEREMIA.1 B. O'CONNELL DEVINE & O'CONNELL SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sts. Telephone. Mzln 940. CHICA00 A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, LUTTE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 60 E. Clark Street, . . 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It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized OX Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Don't imagine that all hair preparations are alike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has been on the market for so long that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use on their hair. It is most delicately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fail to cure dandruff and make the hair straight, soft and beautiful. It invigorates the scalp producing new growth and stops the hair from falling out. Try a bottle and you will be sure to be pleased. Only 50 cents, express paid, to any address in the United States. Druggists also sell it. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. MRS. A. WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates, 2252 Indiana aveune. Mrs. Kittle Scott. Choice furnished rooms to rent to ladies and gentlemen. 2807 Wabash Ave. Rooms for Rent. Elegantly furnished rooms for rent with bath and gas at 3222 Wabash avenue. ROOMS FOR RENT. Two comodious nicely furnished rooms for rent to gentlemen only. Inquire at 2623 Wabash avenue. WILLIAM C. KUESTER SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., C N. Western Ave., Ch 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. HOHENADEL BE HENADEL BE 211-213 Madison Street CHICAGO Telephone Main 3300 Manufacturers UNIF Pollcemen, Firemen, Letter Carriers, Elevatormen, Janitors, Wagonmen GEO. C. CAL PRODUCE C Butter, Poultry, Eg 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, JACOB FI Market an UNIFORM CAR FOR Firemen, Street Car Employees, Barriers, Telegraph Messens Airformen, Railroad Emp Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Wa GEO. C. CALLAHAN & CO. ODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Eto. WATER STREET, COB FEINBER market and Grocer Manufacturers of... UNIFORM CAPS Pollcemen, Firemen, Street Car Employea, Letter Carriers, Telegraph Messengers, Elevatormen, Railroad Employes, Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Watchmen. PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Eto. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery Telephone 565 South 31st and State Sts. 226 East 25th Street F. W. BOYD COAL, WO MOVING AND EXPRESSING All Orders Promptly Attended Telephone Blue 28g 4656 Arm Jas. J. Mc SAMPLE IMPORTED A WINES, LIQUOR 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET A. JOSEPH GREAT NO SALE AND EXC Driving, Draft and Ge Always 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. BARNEY House and F MOVER of A HEAVY MA Smoke Stacks, Cup Erected. Hoisting kinds of Beams architect Office. 31 South TELEPHONE AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. Higginbothan Massey General Co. 25th Street W. BOYD DEALER WOAL, WOOD AND EXPRESSING Promptly Attended to Cash on Delivery 4656 Armour Avenue, CHI as. J. McCormick SAMPLE ROO IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HALSTED STREET. GREAT NORTHERN FIRE AND EXCHANGE STA living, Draft and General Business Horse Always on Hand The Ave. Near Robey St. One West, 1028. BARNEY BENSO Fire and Fire Wreath MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY Stacks, Cupolas and Mo- d. Hoisting and Placing Tools of Beams and Girders architectural work. 31 South Canal St. TELEPHONE MAIN 4028 CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. HOUSE AND LOT F. W. BOYD DEALER IN COAL, WOOD AND ICE MOVING AND EXPRESSING Cash on Delivery All Orders Promptly Attended to Telephone 4656 Armour Avenue, CHICAGO. Blue 28g IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. OHIOA80, BARNEY BENSON, 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 4022 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 DEL BROS. ORM CAPS OR Street Car Employees, Telegraph Messengers, Railroad Employees, Bellboys, Watchmen, LAHAN & CO. COMMISSION Games, Game, Veal, Eto. CHICAGO EINBERG d Grocery DEALER IN FOOD AND ICE to Cash on Delivery our Avenue, CHICAGO. Cormick, E ROOM AND DOMESTIC RS AND CIGARS OHICAGO JOSSEPH SHEAR NORTHERN CHANGE STABLE. General Business Horse on Hand OHICAGO, N BENSON, Fire Wrecking. All Kinds of MACHINERY. Olases and Monuments and Placing of all and Girders for natural work. Canal St.. Chicago MAIN 4028 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. --- CHICAG0 Mason and General Contractor