The Broad Ax

THEODORE W. JONES ROLLS UP HIS SLEEVES AND GOES AFTER S. A. GRIFFIN AND REV. E. J. FISHER OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. To S. A. Griffin: Chairman Board of Trustees of Olivet Baptist Church, a corporation. Whitten demand is hereby made upon you as Chairman of said Board of Trustees, and through you upon the officers and members of said Olivet Baptist Church, for the immediate payment to the undersigned of one hundred and sixty-five dollars ($165.00) borrowed money, and for the restitution of a paid up subscription amounting to twenty dollars ($20.) more. Total one hundred and eighty-five dollars $185.00). No demand is herewith made for an additional twenty-five dollars ($25) given at various times. Mr. Chairman, I wish to call your attention to the fact that notwithstanding the above amount of money was advanced several months ago, there has not been shown any disposition on the part of the officers of said church to pay a single dollar. But, instead thereof, the Board of which you are chairman, has given away, or stood supinely by while the Pastor has given away, the people's money with the recklessness of a spendthrift. Let me mention a few instances of your liberality, as custodians of the people's money. Not satisfied with giving Rev. E. J. Fisher more money per month than the Sabbath collections amount to, you were further inspired, not long since, to make him a present of nineteen dollars (19.00) more in cash. You gave, or permitted the Pastor to give for you, fifty dollars ($50) to Mrs. G. M. Faulkner to take to Africa, with orders to "draw on Olivet for more." At the personal solicitation of the Pastor you handed over to Rev. James D. Bryant one hundred and five dollars ($105) for spending ten days of his vacation in this city, assisting in a protracted effort, when twenty-five dollars ($25) would have overpaid him. You gave Berean Baptist Church a donation of thirty dollars ($30) which is all right, except that charity should begin at home. You are today giving Rev. Fisher the fabulous sum of one hundred and sixty dollars ($160) per month, while a very large proportion of his time the Reverend gentleman spends in the At the conclusion of the tug of war between Col. Samuel R. Snowden and Mrs. J. C. Snowden, before Judge Haney a few weeks ago, his Honor called the attorneys in the case messers Edward E. Wilson, and Little Billie Whisk Ward, to his side and informed them, that out of "consideration for the boy he would not give either side the best of the bargin," and at the same time the court requested the two lawyers to get "together and agree on some kind of a settlement." It seems that Mr. Wilson, who represents Col. Snowden, was willing to be governed by the suggestions of the court but it was not so with Little Billie, and when he called on Mr. Wilson, Monday, he was very extravagant in his demands so much so that Mr. Wilson ordered Little Billie out of his office and when he refused to go, attorney Wilson got him up in the collar and dragged him to the door; in the meantime Little Billie begged his antogonist not to kick him in the rear while he was lugging him to the door. South. You will have given him, March 15, seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars ($789) for preaching on less than two dozen Sabbaths, and for publishing one poorly written newspaper article. Little wonder is it when a scant hundred dollars is all that can be paid on account to the leading attorney, who saved your church, and by whose grace you are what you are, and at the same time seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars ($789) is paid to a preacher for doing comparatively nothing. Now, Mr. Chairman, since your board can afford to make these liberal awards, I take it that the said board can well afford to refund the money borrowed with which to meet the following obligations: September 20—Costs of Injunction $ 35.00 September 29—Attorney's fees 40.00 October—Rent of Church..... 35.00 October 31—To apply on rent of Church ..... 25.00 December 2—Attorney's fees .. 30.00 $165.00 The twenty dollar ($20) subscription which must be added to the above amount is money that I gave to Rev. Fisher for the sole purpose of helping to lay a new floor in the church, after the Rev. gentleman had given assurance upon his word as a Christian minister, that the floor would be laid on New Year's day, 1903 and that the twenty dollars subscribed and paid in by me would be expended for that purpose and for no other. Since New Year's day has come and gone, and the floor is not yet laid and perhaps never will be, and since the seven hundred and thirty-three ($783) raised for that identical purpose has long since been spent, two hundred and forty dollars of the amount going into the pocket of Dr. Fisher, public notice is hereby given that unless the said twenty dollars shall be returned instanter, legal proceedings will be at once instituted for collecting and receiving money under false pretens- Respectfully submitted, THEODORE W. JONES, 2209 Cottage Grove Ave. SWEEPS AWAY RACE LINES. Rev. R. C. Bryant of Rockford Wants Black and White to Marry. (Special.) Rockford, Ill.—Opposite views of the race problem has led to a controversy between two of the leading clergymen of the city, Rev. R. C. Bryant, pastor of the Church of the Christian Union, and Rev. N. B. Clinch, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal church. The former in an address said: A young Negro man, especially a mulatto, if he has intelligence and character has no difficulty in marrying a white girl if he wishes to do so, for there are many girls who would rather marry a Negro of good character than a white man of bad character. And so would you or I, no doubt, if it came to be a question with us. As for myself, I feel that the castle lines and the race lines must be swept away, and the future of the Negro as well as of all other races must be the same. Let us not attempt to check the mutual progress of life according to the divine purpose. Rev. Mr. Clinch, who is a Southerner by birth, declares with some warmth that the idea of the Negro and the white man intermarrying is abhorrent to human sentiment and nature's laws. The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain an article on "Booker T. Washington and the Disfranchisement of the Negro in the South." HEW TO THE LINE. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a person's face, but the details are not clear. Michael Molnersey, Who Will Succeed Himself in the City Council As One of the Wide Awake and Big Hearted Aldermen of the 30th Ward. A "NEGRO PROBLEM" CONFERENCE. A member of the Wisconsin state senate has introduced a joint resolution looking to a national conference on the "Negro problem." The resolution authorizes the appointment by the governor of ten persons to attend such a conference at Atlanta, Ga., and requests him to address other governors suggesting the appointing of a like number of delegates by them. Not much good is likely to result from a movement of this kind. The resolution is based upon the assumption that there is a "Negro problem" to be solved, that something must be done for the Negro or with the Negro and that the problem what to do is one demanding the immediate attention of those who have studied the "problem" and are ready to offer solutions. A conference growing out of that assumption is pretty sure to come to nothing, because it starts upon a false premise, and the participants are likely to be only those who accept that premise. It is not necessary to do something for or with the Negro any more than it is necessary to do something for or with the white man. In fact, the conditions out of which the alleged problem arises are mostly created by white men who nullify the laws or deny to black men the equal protection of the laws. Whatever problem there is, therefore, is what to do with or to white men who nullify or override the laws. There ought not to be much of a problem about that. The only thing to be done is to enforce the laws and take care that all men, black and white, enjoy alike and equally the protection of the laws. That may not be an easy thing to do in the southern states or in many places in the northern states, but there is not much of a problem about it in the proper sense of that word. hardly be made up of men of the right stamp. It is not necessary to do anything with, to or for the Negro more than the white man. Give him a fair chance, let him have the equal opportunity and protection now guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws, and on the other hand show him no special favors—in short, treat him exactly the same as other men are treated—and leave him to stand or fall on his own merits. If he is the hopelessly inferior animal that some people say he is they need not have the least fear in the world that he will ever rule over them politically, industrially or in any other way. If he is so inferior it is not necessary to jump on him and put him under a hydraulic press to keep him down. He will stay down simply because he is incapable of rising. On the other hand, if with equal opportunity to rise and no favors shown he rises intellectually and morally no possible harm can result. Only good will result from raising the general level of intelligence and morals.—The Chicago Chronicle. The whole question respecting the civil and political status of the Ne Negro in this country is covered by this article from The Chronicle. The Negro does not want any special legislation enacted in his behalf, neither does he desire any measures placed upon the statute books which are intended to mark him out as a special object of hatred and contempt. All he asks for is that he may be permitted unhampered to enjoy the same rights and privileges accorded to other American citizens. NOTES FROM NORMAL, ALA. Among the recent arrivals at Normal are two young men from South Africa, who have entered the literary department and also the industrial classes. The young men expect to be in school a number of years and are very well pleased with their surroundings. Both of them formerly held government positions in Cape Town. Dr. J. S. Hathaway, president of the State Normal School of Frankfort, Ky., is spending a few very pleasant days, inspecting the work at Normal. The Doctor has recently visited several of the Negro schools and colleges of the South. He delivered a spicey address to the teachers and student body, which was full of sound advice and encouragement. All were delighted with his visit and he likewise expressed himself as being pleased with the work. Quite a number of white friends have been inspecting the work during the past week and expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the progress being made. L. A. MITCHELL COMMENTS ON OUR ARTICLE "BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN AND THE NEGRO." Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax: Dear Sir:I have read with considerable interest the leading article in your issue of March 7, "Benjamin R. Tillman and the Negro." On the whole it is good in so much as it sets forth the facts as they are known to exist, but like all other writings on the subject of the "Negro Problem," it offers no remedy for race hatred and prejudice, and therefore can only leave the reader heartsore and more perplexed than ever. Now let me try to bring out one or two facts that you have so beautifully touched upon. First—this trouble "is not really skin deep, that the two races are simply kept apart by force or by artificial means." In support of this let me cite the fact that the Negro, man or woman, is good enough to serve the white man in any capacity so long as they only seek to be merely servants, but as soon as they try to do something for themselves they come into competition with the people who have always been their masters. This is the secret of the whole trouble. (There is no "Negro Problem" nor any other race problem. It is an Economic Problem, pure and simple. At the bottom of every real quarrel is the Class Struggle for the possession of the means of life. Now let us suppose that every white man in the South could get a job the compensation from which he could supply absolutely all his needs for two or three hours' work per day, and that he can only get these benefits by abolishing the profit system; and granting to the Negro the same rights and opportunities he asks for himself. This is what Socialism offers to every worker, and with it goes the opportunity for every one to become a worker. This, therefore, can do no injustice to any one. I know that as soon as the great common people of the South, both white and black, understands what Socialism stands for, they will accept it as being just what Frances Willard, the great temperance worker, claimed for it, viz., "The only thing that can bring the glad day of universal brotherhood," and that "it is the very marrow of Christ's gospel." You make one more proposition that is more far reaching in its effect than appears on the face of things. You state "We maintain that if the Negro must or shall be deprived of the ballot on account of his ignorance that at the same time it should be stricken from the hands of the ignorant white man." The only trouble with this is you ask Mr Tillman to do too much at once. He knows what his class wants and it cannot all be done at once. This is a Class Struggle and Not a "race war." They will first dlafranchise the ignorant Negro and then make that law apply to the whites afterwards; next it will apply to the propertyless Negro, and then they shall later apply it to the propertyless whites also. When the economic No. 20. on the South Side. I submit this to the consideration of all that have the interest of humanity and their own welfare at heart. Yours for Socialism, L. A. MITCHELL. 662 Austin Ave. CHIPS. Joseph P. Junk will put up a stiff fight against Alderman Fred Hart, at the primaries in the 29th ward. Ex-Alderman James J. McCormick feels positive that he will win out in the 5th ward, with both hands down. Major John C. Buckner, has spent the past two weeks on his vacation. He will resume his labors for Uncle Sam Monday. Col. A. D. Gash is good and ready to go forth and do everything in his power to assist in re-electing Carter H. Harrison mayor of Chicago. Edward J. Maher, the young hustling politician of the 5th ward, asserts that "he believes his friend Edward J. Kelly will secure the nomination for alderman in his ward." Mr. W. B. Getty, exsuperintendent of the second-class malls of Chicago, spent a few days in town this week. Mr. Getty is now in the postoffice department at Washington, D. C. James A. Quinn City. Sealer of Chicago, has no doubt in his mind as to the outcome of the Spring election for he is cocksure that mayor Harrison, and his running mates will win out. THE BROAD AX. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and as all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Priests, Indulges, Furniture, Single Tense, Republics, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. One Year..... $2.00 Six Months..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Enlisted at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. SEAMLESS TOY BALLOONS. An American Novelty Lately Added to the Long List of the Street Trade. "Look at that," said a wholesale dealer in street novelties. "The very latest and newest and biggest thing in the market to-day." He picked out of a box on the counter a little, loosely folded rubber bag about two inches long and having at one end a little neck, which he drew over a nipple on a machine something like a bicycle pump, and expanded the bag into a red rubber globe; it was a child's toy balloon, and a perfect sphere in shape, says the New York Sun. "There it is," he said, "a seamless gas balloon, the first ever made anywhere, and this produced in the United States. Up to now all the toy balloons sold in the world have come from Belgium, France and England. We import, all told, a million gross a year, and these ballons all have seams in them. They are made in sections and united on a machine something like a sewing machine, except that instead of needles it has little hammers which hammer the seams together. "There is a certain percentage of loss on them. Now, these modern American balloons, seamless, perfectly round, are not only superior in every way to the foreign balloon, but they can be made cheaper, and are far more durable, and I expect we shall put the English, Belgian and French makers of toy balloons out of business. We are already turning these new balloons out here and there's a factory for making 'em with a capacity of a thousands hands, now under way. "That's the high novelty in this trade to-day, the American seamless toy balloon." THE RED MAN'S AUTOMOBILE. Big, Fat Indians Pushed Around in Baby Carriages by Their Long- Sufering Squaws. This is the season of the year when the Indian chiefs come in from the reservations to see the Great Father, says the New York World's Washington correspondent. There are a score of them in the city now. A group of half a dozen standing on the curb watching an automobile recalled to some Texans who were passing the story Col. Bill Sterrett used to tell about the man who went into the Indian Territory to sell baby carriages. Everybody said he was crazy. It was admitted that there was a fine crop of babies in the territory, but no one could see what the squaws, who were used to packing their offsprings on their backs, could do with baby carriages. Still, orders began to come back, first for dozens, and then for car loads, and finally Sterrett went up to investigate. He went into one of the Indian villages. "And I'll be dashed," said Col. Bill, "if I didn't see a dozen big, fat Indians sitting in baby carriages, all scrouged up, while the squaws were pushing them around. The baby carriage man had made the Indians believe that baby carriages were the right kind of pleasure rigs for the noble red man." PACIFIC'S GREATEST DEPTH. Five Miles of Rope Required to Sound a Spot One Hundred Miles from Guam. The soundings made in the Moser Basin and in Tonga-Kermadec Deep, were accompanied by great excitement. It was on a beautifully clear day, the twentieth of February, that the Albatross approached within a little more than 100 miles of Guam, reports Leslie's Monthly. The vessel lay to, and preparations were made for one of the frequent soundings. At length, the silence was broken by a brief order and the tinkling of a bell. Slowly the machinery of the engine began to work and slowly the tough wire rope began to sink beneath the water. Foot by foot, fathom by fathom, it slid from the ship. One thousand, two thousand, three and then four thousand fathoms disappeared. The record was passed. Five miles of rope! It was an anxious moment, for the strain caused by the immense length and weight of the wire rope on the machinery was tremendous. But everything held firm; and at length, when the mark recorded 4,813 fathoms, or 33,678 feet, practically the height of Mount Everest, bottom was touched. It was an added triumph for American geographical science. LIFE OF PUR TRAPPERS. They Have Plenty of Pure Air, Wholesome Food and Good Times in Their Camps. "You admire furs," commented an old trapper, as he sat contentedly smoking his pipe, relates the New York Tribune; "you should go where we get them. Ah, that is the life--pure air, plain, wholesome food, and then, after the season's work, that brigade of fur-loaded canoes going off down the lakes. Every canoe is loaded, you know, almost to the gunwale, and they string out one behind the other, a long line of them. They usually start out early in the morning and paddle, paddle, paddle, hour after hour, down the stream, through that lake, and so into civilization. "But they don't forget to eat—oh, no! About noon they go ashore. They 'snub' the canoes to overhanging trees and hunt around for a good flat rock on which to start their fire. But those fellows don't take an hour for luncheon. Time is too valuable to them. They take a drink of tea, a bite of pork—that is about all. Then they are off again. The men spell each other at the paddles, and occasionally the canoes are bunched by steersmen for a good smoke. "When night comes the brigade goes ashore and pitch their camp. Tents are put up, camp fires lighted and the supper prepared, great clouds of black flies and mosquitoes hovering around. Some of the men busy themselves preparing the great brown flapjacks for the next day, while others dry their moccasins or get their blankets ready to bunk in. Perhaps a canoe has to be patched the next morning before the start can be made. "Oh, it is a great life up there in the wilds of Canada, where they get the furs. You should try it." AN ARCTIC MEAL. The Eskimo Method of Preparing a Supper on a Polar Sheet of Ice. Dogs were unhitched and fastened, as usual, and then each of the Eskimos climbed over the icefoot with his snow knife and disappeared behind the parapet, where the other two were already cutting snow blocks. I fastened my dogs, got out their ration of pemmican, cut it up, and fed them, standing up with whip in hand to see that there was no bullying, and that each dog got his share, says Outing. Then I unpacked the cooker, oil can and kitchen box, passing them up the icefoot as high as I could reach. I did not wait for the completion of the igloo to commence my preparations for supper, but with a few strokes of the spade excavated a niche in the snowbank, put the cobker in out of the wind, filled the lamp with oil and the boiler with ice, placed a few snow blocks around it for still better shelter, and lighted up. By the time the igloo was completed I had enough water melted for the tea, and supper was entirely ready by the time my men had fed the dogs; and they lost no time in freeing their clothing of snow and joining me in the igloo. Still less time was consumed in putting away the tea and biscuit and penmican, and less again in falling off to dreamless slumber. OPENING "BUCKING" SAFES. Professionals Who Right Matters When the Strong Boxes Get Out of Order. The broncho buster of the western plains has a counterpart in New York, though his business is not to tame recalcitrant mustangs, but to open "bucking" safes, says a New York exchange. Every big concern dealing in strong boxes employs a professional safe breaker against those frequent and often costly occasions when the safe sold to some consumer "gets out of whack." The work of opening a bucking safe is usually a matter of minutes with the professional, but occasionally he is obliged to send for a half ton of tools before he is enabled to procure the magic sesame. Often a half hundred clerks are kept idle for hours and business managers spin around like tops while the safe breaker leisurely pothers about with the combination. When the safe or vault is finally opened it is usually discovered that some one connected with the firm is to blame for altering the combination and then keeping the matter to himself. The professional safe opener frequently has calls from out of town, and on these occasions he usually finds that some merchant who has just bought his safe changed the combination and then forgot it. Cost of Wireless Messages. The average rate of transmission by Atlantic cable is 34 words a minute. Marconi promises 200 words a minute through the air. The cable companies charge 25 cents a word. Marconi's contract with Canada stipulates ten cents a word as the maximum cost, and his prophecy is that the rate will be one cent. America Invades India. The Times, of Bombay, India, says: "Already there are signs, very distant that the Americans have commenced their invasion of the commerce of this country in earnest. To every department of commerce America is contributing her quota. She has already laid the foundation of a prosperous business." Kitasato, a Japanese microscopist, first showed that the pin-shaped microbe of lockjaw lives in the earth. In order that it may multiply and poison the blood It must be deep in a wound so that air does not reach The burglar softly opened the door of the suburbanite's sleeping apartment, slipped inside, and searched the room thoroughly, but found nothing worth stealing. "Darn him!" he soliloquized, "I'll get some satisfaction out of him, anyway!" Thereupon he set the alarm clock on the bureau for the hour of three and softly departed.—Chicago Tribune. It's Often So "I understand that old Goldust carries $80,000 in life insurance." "I shouldn't wonder." "He must consider his life of very great value." "Quite likely; but that doesn't make it so." "No?" "Oh, no. It merely shows that he is worth more dead than alive, so far as the community is concerned."—N. Y. Herald. Sadling Under False Colors. Church—Who is that who just went into the room? Gotham—That is my wife. "That's what I said." "But your wife used to have dark hair, and the hair of that woman who just sailed into the room is light." "Yes; my wife seems anxious to sail under false colors."—Yonkers Statesman. A Reasonable Suggestion "Good gracious!" exclaimed Mrs. Snarleton, throwing down the paper, "they've printed a picture of that homely Miss Ramsey under the head of 'Popular Society Beauties.'" "Humph!" replied Mr. Snarleton, "it was reported some time ago that her father was working on a scheme from which he expected to make millions. He must have carried it through."—Chicago Record-Herald. Uncle Reuben Says: It seems to be one of de easiest things on airth to mortgage a piece of land and spend de money in gwine to de circus an' eatin' fried chickens, an' I reckon dis world would come powerful near bein' Heaven if de interest on dat mortgage didn't suddenly fall due an' bump a man all over to once an' make him realize dat dis am a vale of tears.—Detroit Free Press. Farming in the City. Teacher (trying to enlarge Johnny's vocabulary) — Now, Johnny, what is the name of the place I told you about awhile ago where your father sends cream to be made into butter? Johnny — The creamatory!—N. Y. Times. The Genesis of a Name. "Why," asked the daughter with the dreamy eyes, "why do they call it the honeymoon, mamma?" "Because," answered the mother with the drawn lines about her mouth, "because it is a sort of sweet lunacy, I suppose."—N. Y. Herald. Puzzling. "Now, phwat wud ye do in a case loike thot?" "Loike phwat?" "Th' walkin' diligate tills me to sthroike, an' me ould woman orders me to ka-ape on wur-rkin'."—Woman's Home Companion. His Proposal. He didn't fall upon his knees When his love he went to proffer, But stood erect with manly ease, And made a standing offer. -N. Y. Times. "Why do they call him 'judge?' " "He once acted in that capacity in a horse show."—Louisville Courier-Journal. And That's No ... We often wished that I might be Passed down to fame in sculptured stone; I've often been passed down, but, ah! Each chap's a sculptor of his own! —Baltimore News. Johnny—'Sposin' I should accidentally tip over a jar of preserves, would it be wrong if I ate 'em? Mother—Johnny, bring me my slipper.—Chicago American. Seasoning. "Does your cook season things highly?" "I should say so. Even her conversation is peppery."—Philadelphia Bulletin. And the Girl Turns the Crank. Softly—Love makes the world go round! Snortly-Yes, there's no crank equal to a lover.-Harvard Lampoon. Mrs. Gobang—Not a word. His father died of dy. epais.—Brooklyn Life. Reliable Advice. "Do you know what I can take for indigestion after dinner, doctor?" "Yes; pie."—Yonkers Statesman. Included All the Days. Little Johnnie had been told to write a short composition in which he should say something about the days of the week. The little fellow thought a few minutes, and then triumphantly produced this: "Monday father and I killed a bear and there was meat enough to last over Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Experience "No lady barber, please, for me," He sighing said; "I do not care For such a service now--you see, My mother used to cut my hair." Chicago Record-Herald. THE RIVALS. Long Man—She's accepted me. Short Man—What, a lanky fellow like you? Long Man—Well, you see, I was on my knees at the time.—The Sketch. The Likeness. The portrait tumbled from the wall And hit the young man's head. "A striking likeness!" That was all The rueful punster sald. -N. Y. Herald. Change in Prospect. Hayes—I hear that pretty little widow across the way has changed the epitaph on her late husband's tombstone. Dayes—Going to marry again? "Looks like it. She has cut out the words 'Parted but for a time,' and substituted 'Parted forevermore.'"—Philadelphia Telegraph. Entitled to the Beat "Why don't you give us a little Greek and Latin occasionally?" asked a country farmer of the new minister. "Why, do you understand those languages?" No; but we pay for the best and we ought to have it."—Tit-Bits. Unintentional "Charley says that I make biscuit just like his mother used to make," said young Mrs. Torkins. "Indeed!" said the thoughtless woman; "I always understood that his mother was a very inferior cook."—Washington Star. Incurable Case. Husband (vituperatively)—I was an idiot when I married you, Mary. Wife (quietly)—Yes, Tom, I knew you were. But what could I do? You seemed my only chance, and I thought then that you might improve a little with time.—Tit-Bits. Concentration. "Then," said his friend, "a number of trusts will be consolidated into one?" "Exactly," replied the magnate. "We might as well dispense with superfluous trusts."—Brooklyn life. Why He Went. Gladys—Papa read your book of poems and wept over every line. Her Afflianced—He did? Gladys—Yes. He said he couldn't help but weep to think such a lobster was coming into the family.—Judge. A Case for Sympathy. "And she refused him? Does he seem much depressed?" "Oh, yes! He told my brother it was the turning point in his career." "Yes? The turning-down point!" —Puck. His Judgment. "I've been told," said the amateur, "that I'm a good actor. What do you think of that?" "I think there are some awful liars in this world."—Chicago Post. The Same Old Blug "Do you really believe you are the only girl he ever loved?" "Of course not, but one has to pretend to believe those stories, you know."—Chicago American. Varleus States of Felicity. Eustacia—How pleased Eleanor looks to-night. Edmonia—Yes; she's either had a proposal or some man has sent her a box of candy.—Detroit Free Press. Knew the Sex. Wife—I found out something to-day that I promised never to tell. Husband—Well, go ahead; I'm listening.—Chicago Daily News. The Point of View. Mike L. Gettacan—There's a man can drink a gallon of whisky a day. Bush Kettle—Geel he must have money.—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. A Frank Opinion. Mrs. Server—What did you think of the eggs on toast? Mr.' Honcstboarder—I felt sogry for the toast.—Brooklyn Life. --- CURIOUS LITTLE TALES. "Jake," said one of those impecunious old friends who haunt the corridors of the Washington hotels to Representative Ruppert, of New York, "I wish you would lend me $10." "M-m," said Ruppert, "where will you be in half an hour?" "Right at your elbow," replied the impecunious friend, "unless I should drop dead meantime." Andrew Carnegie is reported to have said that some years ago he wanted to cross a mountain in Pennslyvania and a youngster offered to take him over for 50 cents. Mr. Carnegie thought the price was too great, but, after long argument, paid it, "not because the trip was worth it," as the story goes, "but because I had to get on the other side of the mountain. Mr. Carnegie said: "I predicted that the boy would some day make a fortune and he has. His name is Charles M. Schwab." Someone called up the French embassy in Washington by telephone and said he wished to know something about Marquis De Chambrun's wife. He was informed that there are four De Chambruns and he answered that he meant the one who married an American girl. The conversation proceeded thus: "Three of them married American girls." "I'm after the one who married a girl from Cincinnati." "Two of them married girls from Cincinnati." "Great heavens! Which one is coming here to join the embassy staff?" "The Marquis De Chambrun." "I mean his wife." "He hasn't any wife; he is a bachelor." Little love is lost between Paderewski, the famous pianist, and Moritz Rosenthal, his professional rival, who continues to amaze German audiences by his wonderful command of the instrument. Rosenthal is called "the demon pianist" because of the astonishing speed with which he plays. Paderewski once heard of a particularly brilliant performance given by Rosenthal. He smiled serenely and said: "Oh, yes, but any conservative pupil with a good technique can do that." Of course this remark was repeated to Rosenthal, who some time later heard a talented amateur was playing in London. "Oh, that must be Paderewski," he said, calmly. AMERICAN PROGRESS. The Homestead mills produce, with about 4,000 men, three times as much steel as the Krupp works produce with 15,000 men. One hundred and seven thousand tons of American peanuts were bought at Marseilles in 1902 for use in making olive oil soap. Marseilles the great market for olive oil, imported in December 2,909 tons of cotton seed oil. Nearly all of it was from the United States. The total value of the 1902 exports of manufacturers, as shown by the figures of the treasury bureau of statistics, is $410,650,967, against $305,104,030 in 1901, an increase of $105,546,946. An American professor, after visiting a large technological institute in Germany, said that the school and its equipment was ahead of anything at home. When this compliment was repeated afterward to a prominent instructor in the institute he replied: "Why, that is exactly what I said of your technical schools after my trip to America, and that is the only way. I could get the money to make ours what it is to-day." The electrical fan is increasing in popularity as a purveyor of comfort, both at home and in the equatorial regions, so that the American output for the coming summer is estimated by the Electrical World at 150,000. Not only does it serve to mitigate the heat of summer, but in a great many instances it answers the purpose of sanitation and ventilation so economically and efficiently that few other appliances can compare with it. TOLD OF THE LADIES. A Berlin woman bequeathed her property to a cat. Worcester has 703 women who make needles, and 1,044 female nailmakers. Mrs. L. Goodman, the oldest living woman artist, is 90. She has painted upward of 1,200 portraits. For the first time on record a young lady has won the literary medical scholarship at Queen's college, Galway. A German professor has been investigating the causes of insanity among women and has come to the conclusion that if women are admitted into competition with men the inevitable result will be a tremendous increase of insanity among the women. He finds that the percentage of women teachers who become insane is almost double that of the men teachers. IN THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE Glaciers are the largest bodies of crystalline structure known. The largest armor-plate ever rolled was made by the firm of Krupp, at Dusseldorf, last year. It weighed 106 tons. Strophantidin is said to be the most deadly poison on earth. It is made from an African plant by ether and alcohol. The largest negative ever taken of a sitter was 64 inches by 33 inches, or practically life-size. It was the work of a Dublin firm. The largest estate sold last year in the United Kingdom was that of Glenapp, in Ayrshire. It is 8,600 acres. But the most expensive was Battle Abbey, in Sussex, for which was paid 4200,000 FROM A DOCTOR'S NOTEBOOK. The ordinary weight of a human heart is nine and a quarter ounces. The record weight is 40 ounces 12 drams. A French physician has successfully used hypnotic suggestion to cure the vices of idiots. The end of cholera infantum waits upon the growth of the simple practice of sterilizing baby's milk and bottle. Tests in tenement houses show that in five minutes after sweeping 2,500 germs settled on a saucer three inches across. In the same length of time before sweeping 75 germs settled on the saucer. A writer in Charities places the number of crippled children who applied for relief at the New York hospitals during the visit of Dr. Lorenz at 8,000, nearly all of whom were sent away because of the inadequacy of the hospitals for their care. A simple method of taking castor oil, according to Medical News, without producing any nauseating effects, is to instruct the patient to wash out the mouth with water as hot as can be borne, and then swallow the oil, and follow this by rinsing out the mouth well with hot water. The first swallow of the water cleanses the mouth, makes the membranes hot, so that the oil does not stick and consequently slips down easily. That the diphtheria anti-toxin serum is specific for that dread disease is a fact which has for some time rested upon a broad basis of satisfactory experience. As much, unfortunately, at this time cannot be said for any of the other serums. The serums for erysipelas, lockjaw, pneumonia, and puerperal fever have, by no means, risen to the expectations of the physician, and tuberculin, perhaps owing to the difficulty in getting it free from bacteria, is little used except in testing cattle for tuberculosis. RAILWAY RUMBLES. On the railroads in Canada it is necessary to keep over 600 snow plows in operation every winter. The Illinois Central railway has paid to the state in taxes under its charter, which calls for seven per cent. of gross receipts, $20,589,166 since completion of the road in 1855. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has ordered 5,000 tons of nickel steel rails. These will cost about $74 a ton, while ordinary or standard rails cost $28 a ton. There rails are to be used on some of the heavy curves in the Alleghany mountains, Pittsburg division and the middle divisions. P. A. B. Widener, the Philadelphia traction magnate, controls thousands of miles of steel railroad in America, but he cannot ride in a trolley car without suffering from an exact imitation of seasickness. Once he made a desperate effort to overcome this weakness. Accompanied by W. L. Elkins, his partner, he went for a 12-mile ride and stuck at it until the trip was ended. By that time he was in a state of complete collapse. He came back on the steam railroad and has not ventured on a trolley car since. IN OUR LARGER CITIES. The official valuation of the Philadelphia city hall and grounds is $13,604,000 The St. Louis public library has 48 branch stations, Boston's 21, and Chicago's nearly 70. An abstract of the recent New Orleans census develops the fact that there are 15,000 more women in the city than men. The valuation of the park lands of the Greater New York is now put at $300,000,0000; of Chicago, at $65,000,000; Boston, $53,000,000; Philadelphia, $22,000,000; San Francisco, $12,000,000; St. Louis, $8,000,000. Sheriff Dickmann, of St. Louis, has refused to issue permits to citizens to witness executions in the jail of that city, and hereafter all executions will be conducted in private, only the number of persons required by law to be present being permitted within the jail precincts on such occasions. THE ODD AND CURIOUS Soldiers are employed in Jerusalem as tax collectors. As a rule gray horsesattaina greater age than those of any other color. The word post can be transposed more times than it has letters—viz., post, spot, stop, pots, and tops. In North Wales the Welsh word for "now' is "rwan." In South Wales it is "rwan" spelt backwards—viz., "nawr." Personally fitted dog blankets of sealskin can now be had for $50 each in New York if made without handkerchief pocket. Through mice nibbling a hole in a gaspipe in an aviary nearly the whole of a valuable collection of birds was suffocated at King's Lynn, in England. CANADIAN INTERESTS The Manitoba potato crop amounted to 3,459,325 bushels, and the root crop to 3,230,995 bushels. There are 1,624 threshing outfits in the province. Senator Wark, who is a member of the Canadian parliament and who expects this year to attend to his legislative duties, as he has annually for over half a century, is probably the oldest legislator in the world. He is in his one-hundredth year and has been one of the legislators for the province of New Brunswick for upward of 60 years. He was an old man when the provinces were confederated into the dominion. by Spring Styles Give Promise of the Near Advent of Many Charm- ing Novelties in Gowns and Fabrics. (Special Chicago Letter) FASHION is truly a veritable wheel, ever revolving with more or less rapidity. Again and yet we are past eras revived only to place in turn to styles peculiar mother and often a far more period. Just now fashion- I A HANDSOME STREET GOWN. kers seem to have returned with a degree of enthusiasm to the paint and fetching styles of the seventh century. The gauged art, the flowing sleeve and pointed vice all belong to that far-away life. The wide bertha and fichu of the period are also in vogue, but ingenious authorities have so changed them that they give a rare appearance to the shoulders head of the slope which, though charming where it suits, makes the women look terribly dowdy still-dressed. One cannot help to observe, however, the distinct use of individuality seen in all the clothes, which speaks particularly well for both the modistes and their clients. he craze for black and white is creasing instead of abating.ough serges, cream cloth zibelines and etamines are tremendously in hand and will be the popular maitals during March and April. he will be more worn than ever, sh crochet and thick Italian lace ing the favorite trimmings on both and silk. Velveteen will continue he worn for another two months, after all, there is nothing more durable than a velveteen gown in a a March wind and a searching light, we want to look smart and up-to- and yet are shivering with cold. we velveteen gowns are mostly used with chinchilla or mink fur,ough not a few very handsome sets are decorated with narrow in of taffeta silk in a correspond-color. are is no longer the least doubt the bright shade of green we ```markdown ``` AN EARLY SPRING MODEL. I all loved so dearly and so long routually giving place to other Pastel shades are again com- into vogue, and very, very beau- they are. Soft shades of brown much in demand, while gray is a favorite color in the Lenten sun, as are also certain shades of blue and violet. everyday wear skirts are now really fuller, and trains are no The change has been so slow coming in; and at the same time mostly becoming are these soft dresses and tuckings that with one we have fallen in with Dame Dame decree without a murmur. you must not for one moment see that the really short skirt suit for dress-up wear. Skirts for formal occasions are cut quiteaches on the ground, but fall and alike; that is, the back is really no longer than the front. really, I cannot see that they are any easier to hold up than the long trained skirt, but somehow there seems much less to manage. For weddings, receptions and smart wear generally, they are cut much longer, with full spreading trains, which hang in the most graceful manner. In the world of tailormades there are interesting things galore to tell about. Buttons, for instance, are playing an important part in dress. Quaint enamel, old silver and beautifully chased gold buttons abound on many of the smartest tailor-made bodices and coats. Fringes, too, find much favor in the eyes of the up-to-date tailor, and certainly make a most effective trimming when used with a sparing hand. Embroideries are also much used by fashionable tailors, some of them being very rich and beautiful indeed. There is no doubt, however, that it is on pale shades of cloth that these embroideries look their best. On rough tweeds and serges they seem quite out of place, to say the least, although some tailors are using them in this manner with an altogether too liberal hand. The smartest tailormade gowns seen thus far are generally in pale shades, with a short costee and a handsome blouse beneath. Fashion makers seem unable to provide a satisfactory substitute for the lace and chiffon blouse, or that made of cream tinted satin covered with lace, which looks so delightful when worn under a fur or velveteen coat or with a tailormade gown. A good many women are wearing charming little fronts of lace and chiffon which show to particular advantage when the coat is worn open, but as a general thing we are glad to seek the cozy warmth of the buttoned coat until the chilly days and storms of April are past. The new pointed bodice or blouse for in these days they are one and the same-made of brocaded satin is really very lovely. I might mention, as an interesting item of fashion news, the growing fancy for brocades of all kinds and descriptions. The preference is given at the present moment to the old AN EARLY SPRING COAT. French patterns, brocaded on satin so stiff and heavy as almost to stand alone. While brocades of this description are very beautiful, they are also very expensive, and for this reason some of the best dressmakers are employing thinner makes in the construction of many of their handsomest waists. Satin of a rather thick weave, but with a soft finish, makes ideal waists. Fancy gauzes, too, are delightful for this purpose and later on will be much in evidence. Some of the new shirt waists show many radical changes from those of other seasons. Yokes of all kinds pointed, round and square—have come in with a vim, and I miss my guess if their popularity is not wonderfully increased before the shirt waist season is in full swing. A few desirable models are seen without yokes, but in the majority of cases shirt waists of this year's vintage boast a yoke of some kind. It is a little early to speak of spring headgear, although within the week I have seen some truly charming examples of the milliner's art. Large toques, mostly adorned with bright floral decorations and chiffon, are to be counted among the most admirable models. Many of the handsome picture hats for Lenten wear are entirely of white tucked chiffon, veiled under black chantilly lace, encrusted with jet and silver. Worn with these are large flat stoles, made of black and white chiffon. Of course, the all-black hat is never out of favor with fashion's devotees. Here, again, is jet being utilized, but only with the sparing hand. In direct contrast with the heavy hats and toques worn throughout the seasons of fall and winter, the spring millinery will be very light in both weight and appearance. Now a word about the fallals of fashion, as they are called, and I am done. Lace and embroidered collars, berthas of real and very good imitation lace, net fichus, lace sleeves and yokes, belts to suit all figures, sashes, ties, stocks, veils, etc., which go to complete the toilette of my lady of fashion, are beloved and desired by the majority of womankind, chiefly because most of them are what might be called extras and not necessities—things which, in many cases, our consciences tell us we should do without, and still they are so bewitching that unless one possesses an iron will the temptation to buy is almost irresistible. The study of slang in the making has always been hampered by the fact that no investigator ever sees the inventor at his work. In some college student's room, behind the screens of a drinking hall, or among the roustabouts of the levee the words and highly colored phrases taken up by the world so readily have probably first been altered. Where lived the man who coined word "chump?" asks the New York Evening Post. Who first thought of saying to his rival: "Go 'way back and sit down?" No one seems to know, and the inquirer has to be contented with inferior specimens for study. One of these has just come to light in Chicago. It is not one of the elusive sort, full of fancy and inspiring suggestions. But it has the merit of having been designed, as it were, before our eyes, like the wheat cakes which the white-capped cook makes in the window of a dainty restaurant. It is the word "seg," which is applied to the young women now attending the University of Chicago. Since coeducation has been abolished it is obviously inaccurate to call them coeds. At the same time, the west does not take up the less complimentary terms which the young men in some eastern colleges apply to their feminine fellow students. The new word is certainly as euphonious as the old (more so, if anything, because it has no hiatus), it is highly descriptive and not in the least uncomplimentary. NEVER VICTIMS OF CUPID. There Are More Bachelors Than Old Maids in the Census Enu- It is estimated that there are now in the United States 2,500,000 more single men of marriageable age than there are single women, the official figures being as follows: Unmarried men, 10,448,153; unmarried girls and women, 7,573,819. The male population of the United States, through the excess of male immigration and the higher male birth rate, is more than 1,000,000 in excess of the female. The span of life is on the average, longer for a woman than for a man and the marriageable age for women is several years younger than the average for men. As a consequence of this the number of widows is very largely in excess of the number of widowers, the figures being 2,700,000 and 1,200,000 respectively, says the San Francisco Argonaut. There are more divorced women who have not remarried than there are divorced men, and for all these reasons the number of the single men of marriageable age is larger than the number of single women. In New York it is 240,000, in Pennsylvania 180,000, in Ohio 120,000, in Illinois 200,000, in California 150,000, in Texas 150,000 and in Kansas 75,000. In Massachusetts the number of unmarried men exceeds the number of unmarried women by only a few thousand. In Utah there are 35,000 unmarried men and 23,000 unmarried women of marriageable age. In Washington. the capital, the number of single men is 42,000 and of single women about the same. MODERN CARTHAGE. Where Stood the Famous Ancient City the Stalking Camel Now Draws American Plows. For the first time in many centuries something modern has appeared on the site of the ancient city of Carthage. Here, where once flourished the arts of war and peace, is a vast, lonely plain. Of the streets through which the conquering Hannibal marched in triumph nothing now remains but the shadeless wheat-fields. Popular Mechanics describes the stalking camel plodding along drawing the modern American plow or cultivator. The soil is as rich as it was on the day when the Phoenicians founded the city, and the American and his industries have found their way to the historic spot where the Romans wrought such devastation in their conquests. Americans, in charge of native workmen, may be seen directing the use of the modern farming implements in harvesting or tilling the soil. These machines are a source of wonder to the natives, who for generations employed only the crudest of farm implements. The place is on the northern coast of Africa, about ten miles from the present city of Tunis. Americans find the market there for their inventions a lucrative one. THE RETORT COURTEOUS. One Messenger Boy Who Was Not Slow in Countering on a Famous Wit. George Ade is an expert at badinage, but in Chicago one day a little messenger boy got the better of him, says the New York Tribune. Having only a few minutes for luncheon, Mr. Ade had gone to a cheap place, and was sitting on a stool before a marble counter when the messenger boy entered, took a place beside the humorist, and ordered a piece of apple pie. As he ate the pie the fact became evident that his hands were dirty. There was on his plate a piece of cheese—a piece of very yellow, hard cheese, cut with mathematical precision, so that it resembled a cake of soap. Mr. Ade pointed to it and said: "Here, boy, take that and go wash your hands with it." The boy answered: "You take it, and go share yourself." There was no possible rejoinder, for Mr. Ade's heart was indubitably of two or four growth. HUMAN AND ANIMAL MIND. The fact may not be flattering to the human race, but it is nevertheless true, as recent scientific investigation proves, that there is very little difference between the minds of animals and those of men. Those variations that exist are those of degree rather than of quality. On the whole the investigator in question thinks that animals certainly have some glimmering of reason. With regard to the senses of hearing and sight he has found that some animals can hear sounds inaudible to us and can perceive rays of light that are invisible to the human eye. Atmospheric vibrations varying from 33 to 30,000 per second strike the human ear and produce the sense of sound. But certain animals can hear vibrations more rapid than this—that is, they can hear higher notes than we can, says Nature. In the same way vibrations of the ether impinging on the human retina produce the sense of color. These, measured on the ample scale of millions of millions per second, vary in number from 400 to 700. By the aid of the thermometer and of photography, respectively, we have discovered the existence of rays beyond the red at one end of the spectrum and beyond the violet at the other. It has been found that animals are sensitive to rays beyond the violet end. It is, therefore, quite possible that the world around us is to animals "full of music which we cannot hear, of color which we cannot see and of sounds which we cannot conceive." MEDICAL PRACTICE IN INDIA. It Has Some Very Curious Sides for Professionals Engaged in Healing. A correspondent has sent us from Calcutta a collection of anecdotes bearing on the supposed efficacy of contact with live animals in the treatment of certain morbid conditions, says the London Lancet. Some 60 years ago, he says, there was a great Kaviraj or Bengali, physician in Nuddea, whose name was either Janardan or Jaggannath. This worthy followed the method of the ancient school of Indian practitioners, and was, moreover, a specialist in the "animal cure." When sent for to attend a young man suffering from asthma he announced that he would employ the "goat treatment." Ghee prepared with goat's flesh was administered internally and a goat which made itself disagreeably perceptible to the nasal organs was brought into the room three times a day. The patient inhaled the odor, made use of the animal as a pillow, hugged it during his paroxysms, and recovered in a few days. The "reptile cure" was prescribed for a patient attacked with a violent headache. A large snake was caught in the jungle and after its jaws had been properly secured it was wrapped round the sufferer's head. The poor snake died in a few minutes, but the patient made a rapid recovery. ABOUT SUBMARINE CABLES How They Have Multiplied Since the First One Was Laid Half a Century Ago. It is more than 50 years since the first submarine cable for commercial use was laid in the straits of Dover, but all the work since 1851 in reticulating the ocean beds with 200,000 miles of cable has been a training for the severer problems of the Pacific, a deeper body of water, with longer spans, than any previously encountered. All the other 1,750 cables, little and big, have afforded lessons of value for this, the boldest undertaking of the kind. As usually happens, the Pacific no sooner has one cable stretching from Asia to North American shores than it becomes possessed of two. Apparently nature abhors a monopoly no less than it does a vacuum. While the $275,000,000 invested in submarine cables pays very well on the whole, says a writer in the North American Review, it may be doubted whether at first the two Asian-American cables can earn much profit. That, however, is not directly the question. When Dewey cut the cable in Manila bay he decided for the United States the point that at least one Pacific cable must land on our shores. HOW ARROWHEADS WERE MADE Indians Broke Flint Rock Into Small Pieces by Heating and Dropping on Water. We did not know until to-day how the Indians made the flint arrowheads that are very often found all over the country. They had no tools to work with, and the question of how they made them was not answered. "Abe" Matheney, who was for many years a heap big chief of the Wahoo tribe, says the squaws broke flint rock into small pieces by putting it into the fire. They then selected a suitable piece for an arrowhead, held it in the fire till it got hot, then put a drop of water on it, which "chipped off" a small particle of the flint, and by this slow and tedious process the squaws shaped the arrowheads, says the Eldorado Republican. A look at an arrowhead will convince one that this was the process adopted to make them, all they all have rough surfaces. Penalty for Tobacco Selling. Returns obtained by the Scottish Anti-Tobacco society show that in four-fifths (or 43) of the United States of America it has been made a penal offense to give or sell tobacco in any form to children. The age limit varies from 14 up to 21. LENTEN FISH STORY. LENTEN FISH STORY. American Fisheries Valued at $60, 000,000 a Year. [Special Washington Letter.] FROM the depths of religious contemplation we must plunge into the depths of the waters of river and sea; because the penitential season of Lent would be wholly incomplete without fish, which is to be a necessary article of diet until the coming of Easter; when we may lay aside our religious cloaks for awhile, and enjoy "the vain pomp and glory of this wicked world" again. Although we have not the congress on our hands at this time, the executive branch of the government is always with us, and society is all agog with its religious duties and the keeping up of appearances for the season. Somber gowns and more somber hats are worn, while the gay gewgawa which milliner and dressmaker are making are kept from view. We must keep up appearances, even with our grocer and green grocer. Therefore, we must have eggs and fish galore on our order books. And this is a good time to make a little study of pisciculture; to talk about fish, "that meager fare" of which the ballad makes the abbot complain. This is to be a fishy tale; but all fish have tails. We are not going to pretend to be learned, and give marvelous stories of experiences with rod and reel—only one fish story. Jesse Sarvis was for 30 years a well-known newspaper man here, and he was also an angler. One morning as Jesse was lighting a cigar in the hotel lobby, the proprietor of the news stand told him about a big catch of fish at Cabin John's bridge, whereat Sarvis smiled and said: "I don't believe it. I don't believe any fish stories. I wouldn't believe a fish story if a preacher were to tell it." Standing near by, also lighting a cigar, was a giant, and a fine-looking one, too. He asked Sarvis if he had understood him aright, when he stated that he wouldn't believe a preacher, if he were to tell a fish story. Sarvis emphatically repeated his remark, and was surprised when the big man replied: "I don't blame you. I'm a preacher myself; and I've told some whoppers in my day." "I'm not a church-goer," said Sarvis, "but I'd like to be a member of your congregation. I'd believe you in the pulpit." You would scarcely believe it likely, without previous reflection, but it is true, that the last census showed a valuation of upwards of $60,000,000 in the fisheries of that year; and these figures only in part represent the catches for private and immediate consumption; the uncanned, unrefrigerated, unsalted. Few realize the enormous extent of the fish product in the food supply of this country. For almost a score of years the federal government has been arduously laboring and patiently experimenting in fish culture. The fish commission has earned world-wide fame. And from it, and its examples, nearly every territory and state has created a similar commission. Canada has also established and maintains a fish commission of exceptional ability; and it now seems very sure that in a short time all of the North American continent will become the scene of extended scientific efforts toward stocking the waters, coast and inland, for the propa- A "IVE TOLD SOME WHOPPERS MYSELF." gation and cultivation of all of the forms of aquatic life which may now be utilized for the food of human beings. There will be a great increase of the food supply, and there will also be a great reduction in prices to consumers. When each community can have its own fish supply at its own doors, there will be a cheaper and better article than is now obtainable, particularly by those who are obliged to pay for transportation, ice, and other expenses, as well as for the food supply itself. One of the best state commissions is that of New York, which, in one year, distributed throughout that state upwards of 35,000,000 eggs and fry, and this does not take into calculation the efforts of numerous private persons who have cooperated with the state commission, nor the labor expended upon oyster culture in the same state at the same time. The fish commission of New Jersey in one year stocked the Delaware river with 60,000 land-locked salmon, and liberated 1,665,000 shad, hatched in that river; also 250,000 California salmon, 200,000 brook trout and 100,000 whitefish. That is a busy commission, and an intelligent one. When the com- mission liberated 5,000 black bass there was a howl from hundreds who feared that the bass would destroy the young shad. But the commissioners have demonstrated that the bass has no special appetite for shad. On the contrary the bass prefers several other kinds of young fish, and the liberation of the bass has proved to be highly beneficial in the lakes and ponds where distributed. It is surprising how few people know the names of the various fish foods. The federal fish commission is doing a good educational work in teaching people the names of fishes; a task which has been found to be exceedingly difficult. Different names are often given to the same fish, in different localities. For example, take the catfish family, or siluridae. FRESH FISH To Day THE TRUTHFUL DEALER. In Pennsylvania this fish is always called catfish, but in New York it is a bullhead, in Massachusetts, a hornpout, in Connecticut, a bullprout, in Maine a bullplug, and in some parts of the west a sucker. There is a popular saying that "a catfish has a forked tail, and a bullhead a square one," but Fred Mather, a most distinguished authority, shows that this saying is not borne out by the facts. There are more than 20 species of this fish family, and their tails vary from being square to deeply forked. They are all popularly called catfish, only experts and students being aware of the real distinguishing differences in the species. Moreover, they are all good for food, and palatable. The trout served in the eastern restaurants is one species, and that of the English hotels another, while the trout set forth upon the tables of Alabama and Georgia does not belong to the same family, being what we in the north and northwest call black bass. The so-called shad of Lake Champlain is not the delicious fish caught in salt water or in the rivers which flow into the ocean. It is in reality the whitefish of the great lakes. When you hear any person talking of carp, you may inform him that there are over 500 species of carp; and when the word "minnow" is used you may inform your benighted friends that upwards of 1,000 species of denizens of the deep are so named by the uninitiated. Of like vagueness are the terms chub, dace, roach, shiner, killies and sucker. Although these names are most used as convenient terms by boys and girls who know no better, they are too often employed in the same manner by anglers and men of considerable intelligence. For example, the term sucker is applied to at least 50 fresh water species and five salt water ones, which have nothing at all in common. The familiar "frost fish" is a variety of the salmon in northern ponds and lakes. It is a very small sub-species of the cod family on the eastern sea coast. Then again, quite a number of names are given to small fishes because of the manner in which they are prepared for the table, regardless of their correct names. The "panfish" and the "butterfish" are so called because of their relationship to the use made of them by the cook and even they have different names in different localities, because all cooks are not agreed as to the best methods of serving them. During this Lenten season we must have fish for breakfast, fish for dinner and fish for supper; and this also in accordance with our geographical environments. But we need not go to Izaak Walton, Thomas J. Nicholl, nor other piscatorial liars and philosophers, to increase our woeful collection of misinformation about our temporary dietition from the waters. The majority of us will depend upon the always reliable and truthful vendors of fish in the market places, and, after it is all over, we will wonder what ever gave us indigestion. And we will blame it on the cook; or, easier still, on the wife. Speaking of indigestion reminds us that the term is practically unknown in Italy. The late Gen. Sibley, when very venerable, told the writer that after his numerous Indian campaigns he returned to civilization, and became a victim of indigestion. He was fast growing old, and his case seemed hopeless, until a country doctor down in Maine advised him to go to Italy and live in the land of olive oil and garlic. He went, and recovered his health completely. It was the olive oil, and not the garlic, that did it. From a long conversation with the old soldier the writer learned that the best fish of all, for those who are liable to attacks of indigestion, is the sardine; provided he is consumed with all of the oil in which he is packed. Dyspepsia is bad for religion. Argal, sardines for Lent, not tabooing other fish more desirable to individual palates. SMITH D. FRY. CHIPS. T. B. Hall, 281 29th st. does a tremendous business all seasons of the year. He only handles the best brands of cigars, and the highest grades of gents furnishing goods; for the accommodation of his many customers Mr. Hall keeps The Broad Ax on sale and he claims that "it is a first class seller." Earl Hopewell, the only son or child belonging to Mrs. Hopewell, 31st and Dearborn streets, was sent to the John Worthy School last week for a long time for cutting another young lad with a knife or razor. Elder Wilkins, who hangs out or rooms at the home of Mrs. Hopewell, frequently led master Earl around the streets by the hand. Miss Lillian Beasley, the pretty cashier for the Afro-American News office 3104 State St., who is very popular with the two legged gentlemen says "that no one can ever go to sleep while they are reading The Broad Ax, that it sells better than any other newspaper sold by the Afro-American News office." The colored men of this country, if they are wisely guided, will address their appeal for justice to the American people irrespective of party, and not to the republican party only. They need the sympathy of just and right-minded men of all parties. They can hardly hope to win such broad sympathy by espousing the cause of one party and one candidate for the presidency.—Ex. Mr. L. A. Mitchell, the leading Afro-American Socialist of Chicago addressed the men's Forum at Institutional Church last Sunday, on "Socialism" his interesting talk caused a wide discussion on the part of its members. It will be well for the Negro to study socialism and the principles of the socialist party, for in doing so he might find a new political road which will enable him to better his economic or social condition. R. C. Ransom, D. D., E. L Gilliam, D. D., D. E. Skelton, and L. M. Hasgood, M. D., are among the distinguished personages who will furnish the oratory for the occasion. Rev. George W. Slater, of the Hyde Park Chapel, is greatly interested in reform work. Every Monday he assists Mrs. Elizsabeth McDonald in her good work among the prisoners in the Cook County Jail. Under their religious influence recently Leroy Blann and J. L. Johnson, two inmates of the Jail have been converted or induced to forsake their evil ways. Mrs. McDonald states that "after Mr. Johnson accepted the teachings of Jesus, he declared that "a man's life is a complete failure without Christ." Rev. Slater was so impressed with those words that he will refer to them in his sermon Sunday evening. Elder D. R. Wilkins, of the Old Church Organ, on the 6th of last December, endeavored to induce an Afro-American lawyer whose law office is in the Real Estate Board Building to draw up a warrant for our arrest. presumeably for the reason that he did not want us to refer to his record in Jacksonville, Ill. (The lawyer advised Elder Wilkins, not to "secure our arrest without a sufficient cause as it might cause him some trouble". The deceitful Elder acted on his advice but at the same time he assisted Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray and the devil to get us indicted by the Grand Jury. If there is a place called hell, on the Judgement Day it will be chuck full of immoral whisky drinking blackleg deceitful sidewhiskered Preachers. Revs. Archibald James Carey, and Abraham Lincoln Murray, labored under the impression last week that their God had instructed them to go to the Republican city convention as John M. Harlan delegates. So their names appeared on the Harlan ticket in the primary district in which they reside, but those two preachers were turned down flatfooted by the decent voters and they were unable to enter the convention hall as Harlan delegates or as any other kind of delegates. Col. Edward H. Wright San B. Turner, All Hash Roberts, the monkey-headed Col. from 63rd. and Halsted st. and Elder D. R.Wilkins, who declared in his Old Church Organ not so long ago that Rev. 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