The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. DEV. ABRAHAM LINCOLN MURRAY PREACHED DEMOCRATIC POLITICS IN BETHEL CHURCH Vol. VIII. It seems that for several weeks prior to Sunday evening, April 5, Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray had been endeavoring to blow hot and cold at the same time along political lines. It also appears that he in company with Rev. Archibald James Carey, S. B. Turner, E. H. Wright, B. F. Moseley, and others formed themselves into a self constituted committee, and to a man up a tree it looked like a grafting or a touching committee. This committee which represented nobody but its own members called on Graeme Stewart for the purpose of ascertaining what consideration would the churches receive in case he was electer mayor? And right here we must remember that for some years Perry Hull always permitted the pastors of Bethel and Quinn Chapel to name two persons each for positions in the South Town office, and it has been said and never denied "that the pastors of these two churches have at various times had their names placed on the pay-roll and drew as much as $30 per week for five or six weeks without performing any service whatever for the money which they were supposed to have received. But let us return and briefly review the suspicious actions of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray. It appears that before his committee which had not been created to act for any one had waited on Mr. Stewart that Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray had called on Mayor Carter H. Harrison in the City Hall and by some kind of slight of hand performance Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray was induced to pull off his Republican coat and to jump into a new coat which had been bought with Democratic blood-money. So, on Sunday night to the surprise of many who doubted the statement which appeared in The Broad Ax one week before that time which intimated that Murray was figuring on selling out to the Democrats, he stood up in his pulpit in Bethel church, and the first thing he did was to utter a lie. He declared that "he was too full to speak," presumably with the holy ghost and Democratic money, therefore Rev. McCracken would preach in OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH STANDS BY REV. E. J. FISHER. We, the members of Olivet Baptist Church, 27th and Dearborn streets, ask for space in your paper that we might put a few facts before the public, as shown by the following resolutions: Whereas we were like sheep without a shepard, and whereas we were fortunate in securing the service of Rev. E. J. Fisher, D. D., and whereas he came to us highly recommended by the Mt. Olivet Baptist church, Atlanta, Ga., which he pastored eleven years, and received one thousand five hundred persons into its membership, and payed the debt of twenty four thousand dollars, and whereas he was also recommended by the white ministers' conference, also the colored ministers' conference, and also the State Convention of Georgia, and whereas he was recommended to us for both white and colored conferences from Nashville, Tennessee, and also in church there, and whereas we have found his deportment to be that of a Christian gentleman among us for the five months he has served as pastor, and whereas his plans have been simple, plain, reasonable and Christian, and whereas his teaching is according to Baptist principles, and in keeping with the principles laid down in the New Testament, and believed by Baptists, therefore be it. Resolved, that we, the members of Olivet Baptist Church, are with the pastor, Dr. E. J. Fisher, and agree with him in every move he has made since his call to the pastorate of the Olivet Church. Resolved further, that we pledge to Dr. Fisher our highest confidence in him, as a Christian gentleman and his stead, and when Rev. McCracken concluded Murray, who showed by his looks that he wore a quilty conscience came down out of his pulpit, stood in front of the altar, and started in to talk by saying "that if the members of Bethel did not like what he was going to say that he could resign, that he could go out into the world and make his living." Then with much bad English he devoted one-half hour in delivering a Democratic speech, after he had stated that he was too full to talk. While he was engaged in transforming Bethel into a Democratic political hall and putting his big feet on the necks of its members, as much as to say, "I have got mine, now youse go out and vote the way I tell youse to vote." Ex-Senator T. T. Allain, who is one of the officers of Bethel, rose up in his seat to ask Murray a question but Murray glared at the Senator like a fierce bull-dog and with more bad English bawled out "I don't want to hear you, if you don't like what I say I am ready to resign." Many called on him to resign, while the poor, ignorant wash or scrub women clapped their hands together and flocked around Murray as though he was a King over in Africa, and had something concealed somewhere about his person which they wanted him to give them. The question which Ex-Senator Allain wanted to ask Murray, who sold out to the Democrats in Indianapolis after he had been fed and petted by the Republicans, was simply this, "had not the members of Bethel passed a resolution two weeks prior to Sunday night, April 5, to the effect that "no more political meetings should be held in it and no politics should be preached from its pulpit?" Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, who came to Bethel under a very black cloud, acted as if he would like to give Senator Allain a black eye or punch him in the snoot. He failed to respond to his question and he let it be known that there is one immoral preacher who is ready and willing to swap political horses while crossing a stream if some of the longgreen was in sight. will give to him our hearty co-operation. And be it further resolved, that we recommend him to the esteem and confidence of the city and public. Since his call to the pastorate of our church last October more than two hundred persons have joined our church, and the debts to the amount of eleven hundred dollars have been paid, aside from pastor's salary." The above done by Olivet Baptist church here assembled, 27th and Dearborn streets. The foregoing resolution was duly adopted by a unanimous vote of the congregation of Olivet Baptist church at a regular meeting held at the church, Dearborn and 27th streets, Chicago, Friday, April 3rd, 1903. Attested by Stephen A. Griffin, Chairman Richard A. Williams, Clerk. Mrs. Agnes Moody, 48th and Dearborn street who is one of the oldest members of Quinn Chapel closed her eyes in death Wednesday morning after a long and painful sickness which consisted of dropsy and heart trouble, Mrs. Moody was highly respected and connected with many of the women's clubs and societies. She attended the Paris Exposition and became quite noted on the two continents. Her funeral services were held at Quinn Chapel to-day. Judge Hanecy it seems granted Mrs. J. C. Snowden who sued Col. Samuel R. Snowden for separate maintenance a divorce instead of Col. Snowden who must pay $5.00 per week for the support of their son, court costs and fifty dollars for attorney's fees. [Name not provided] ..Ernst Hummel the new city treas-urer of Chicago who is the strongest and most popular German American in Cook County. The Old Church Organ Sold Out to the Democrats. From July 15th, 1899, F. L. Barnett, who has never made one vote for the Republican party, and who misrepresents the honest, intelligent and respectable Afro-American race of this city and county in the State's Attorney's office, and his side partner, Rev. D. R. Wilkins, have denounced and vilified us because we have written in favor of the true principles of Democracy and at the same time each week they have fastened all the ills which have inflicted the Negro upon the Democratic party and upon all Democrats. They have taught the Negro to believe during all those years that every Democrat has always and is the natural and avowed enemy of the Negro. That only colored gamblers, saloon bums and worthless cusses generally could see any good in any Democrat. But lo and behold the managers of the Old Church Organ have completely made themselves out the blackest kind of liars in this respect, for Rev. D. R. Wilkins has admitted that just as soon as he ascertained that he could not succeed in obtaining any money for the alleged influence of his Old Church Organ from the Republican campaign committee he sold out to the Democrats, advocated the election of Carter H. Harrison as against Graeme Stewart. Some claim that Rev. Wilkins received from $25.00 to $200 for publishing the mass of lies against Mr. Stewart and in favor of Carter Harrison. Be that as it may there is one thing that we do know, namely, that Chairman Thomas Carey wanted to give or pay us the sum of $25 for performing the same service for Mayor Harrison which was rendered by the Old Church Organ, but we politely informed Chairman Carey "that he had better donate that enormous sum of money to some whisky drinking immoral jack-leg preacher who was willing to transform himself into an undescribable creature for the sake of a little money." And now what does The Old Church Organ stand for? It stands for gamblers, cut-throats, thieves, grafters, boodleism and Democracy in its lowest and vilest form. The colored Democrats of New York are led by a respectable leader in the person of John J. Bell, who travels through the eastern States and lectures to the best class of Afro-Americans on the true principals of Democracy. But the colored Democrats of Chicago are dictated to and controlled by gamblers and their allies. For George J. Woods the boss Afro-American Democrat gambler of this city was or is chairman of the campaign committee and all decent colored men who desire to espouse the cause of Democracy were forced to bow down to him or be pronounced a traitor to the Democratic party However, hundreds of self respecting colored Democrats failed to do so and we also must be numbered with the traitors. REV. GEORGE W. DICKEY ENJOYED HIS BIRTHDAY. Tuesday evening many of Rev. George W. Dickey's friends and admirers assembled in his Burning Bush Tabernacle, 47th and Armour ave. and presented him in honor of his birthday with a nice little sum of money to aid him to purchase a new spring suit. Those who contributed were; Rev. A. Brown, Mrs. Burr, W. M. Dunington, Mrs. A. Lacey, Lawyer Robt. M. Mitchell, Mrs. Rudd, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. G. Benbow, Mrs. M. Taylor, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Smock, John Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Smalley, Mr. and Mrs. Horton, Mrs. Dilhay, Miss Hattle Williams, Archie Waldron, Miss A. Coppage, Mr. Connors, Mrs. Theme, Mrs. Paxton, Mrs. Mattle Thomas, Messers Williams, Thompson, Simons, and Gill, Miss Coppage and Mrs. Pinn, rendered selections on the piano, Mrs. Burr and Mrs. Thomas favored those assembled with select readings. The presentation speech of of the purse to Rev. Dickey was made by Julius F. Taylor, who highly appreciated it and responded in a happy vain. Mrs. Dickey served choice refreshments and everyone present greatly enjoyed the occasion. HYDE PARK NEWS. Infant Baptism at Hyde Park Chapel Sunday morning. A fine Easter programm at night. Rev Slater preached from the nature last Sunday. Masters Sloan an subject, "The Preversness of Human Nature last Sunday night. Masters Sloan and Logan played a Trombone and Violin Duett.. Miss Irine Howard and Mr. Logan will play next Sunday night in the Easter Services. Mrs. Emma Whittaker has taken charge of the singing at Hyde Park Chapel Sunday School. Miss Pearl Lott is the organist. Mrs. Ida Boyd has returned and taken her little infant class to the delight of the children. Mrs. Mattle Bunch had a sinking spell last Sunday morning. Mrs. Howell by her industry and frugality has bought a lot and is building a house on it in Blue Island. Two years ago the writer delivered six speeches in the 30th and the 31st. wards, for Carter H. Harrison and the Saturday before the election we sent free copies of The Broad Ax containing an article on Mayor Harrison and his cut into the home of every colored person residing in the 27th and 28th Precints and urged them to record their votes in favor of Carter Harrison and the result was that the 28th Precint which we reside in gave him 49 to 50 majority, the 27th did almost as well: but this year we did not spend five dollars of our money in the interest of Mayor Harrison. Like we did in 1901, and the election returns show that the 28th precinct gave Harrison 123, and Stewart 123; the 27th precinct gave Harrison 100 and Stewart 125: Billie Piper who runs a low dive on 47th street, is the manager for Mayor Harrison and company in the last named precinct. REV. E. J. FISHER IS STILL HELD ON THE RACK BY THEODORE W. JONES Having agreed to examine the record of E. J. Fisher, D. D., of Olivet Baptist Church, from A to Z and to give the public the result of such examination, I wish to say that many letters have been received, already, some containing things possible and others impossible, of belief. But living witnesses in the city have been questioned regarding E. J. Fisher's conduct in the south, and it has been stated that not only are the charges already made in The Broad Ax true, but that other and more serious accusations could be made. Hence the church is only at the beginning of discoveries. While waiting authentic information from the South, through those who know him best, I have decided to push to logical conclusions one or two issues already advanced. I understand that Dr. Fisher now claims that he did not set any price on his services as Pastor of Olivet; that the Deacons "were so well pleased with him that they voluntarily advanced the salary, step by step, until it reached the munificent sum of $5.71 per day, Sundays and holidays included, or $40.00 per week, work or play; and this goes on unceasingly, whether the preacher is present in Chicago, or absent in the South. Never was there a more unmanly attempt made to shift the responsibility for this salary business. The whole crew would like to purge themselves of blame, but men have been trying to wash their hands of complicity, conspiracy and guilt ever since Pilate washed his hands saying, "I am innocent," but they have not always succeeded. But Fisher insists that the officers of the church seduced him from the path of rectitude by their flattering offers; that he had resolved to ask only a fair compensation for this services, but the liberality of those custodians of the people's money, swept away his resolutions like chaff before a mighty wind. Hence the unique defense is made by Fisher that, if the church pays more money for salary in one day, than the pastor is worth in a week, the deacons are to blame for bidding too high, not the poor weak preacher, who merely accepts the award. But, on the principle that the receiver of stolen property is as guilty as the thief, it must be assumed that the minister who receives an exorbitant and unearned salary, is as guilty of greed, corrupt and ignoble motives, as the reckless and unwarranted givers. I wish to say that, as a public man, I have been brought in contact with the masses of my fellow men in all circumstances, conditions and callings in life for many years, and I give you this experience. I have known of designing men to bid for woman's character, raising their desperate bids higher and higher until they were sufficiently large to seduce her from the path of rectitude. I have seen men bid for horses on the auction block, raising their bids, dollar by dollar, until they become the highest bidders. I have seen turkeys gambled off in saloons to lucky winners, and dogs raffled off at County Fairs to holders of favored tickets. But I never before heard of the services of a professional christian minister being sold to the highest bidder. Certainly one is justified in assuming that as long as Dr. Fisher worships the golden calf, by making the chief aim of life the getting of dollars and cents, just so long will men continue to lay siege to his integrity. Another peculiar element of interest at Olivet just now is a rally in progress disguised under the appellation of the Spanish-American War. Dr. Fisher is the author of the gigantic scheme to raise $2,000 and his explanation respecting this new farce is wordy, foolish and tedious. There is to be no drama, no characters, no conquest, no heroism, no inspiration, no No.24. moral, not even a motto in connection with this child's play; and the whole thing is silly and absurl—the product of a weak intellect. No reasons are given for the necessity of a rally at this time. Since the indebtedness of the church has been arranged and ample provision made, where is the need of distressing the people by a rally now? No explanation is made as to where the $733.00 has gone that was raised in the last rally, for the specific purpose of laying a new floor in the church on last New Year's day. The floor is not laid, but every dollar of the money is gone. Each member of the church is assessed $5.00 whether on the Spanish or the American side. It makes no difference whether this fool play appeals to their reason, intelligence, or contempt; whether they can well afford, or ill afford to pay, they are ordered to step up to the captain's office and hand over the cash.. Notwithstanding the fact that most of those who have given their names have done so willingly, Dr. Fisher says that, "Every member of his church must take part; that a hint to the wise is sufficient." Now I should like to ask this "Bull-dozer" what will happen if some refuse? Will their names be put on the black list, or will they be dismissed from church for refusing to be bled in order to create a fund from which Fisher may draw his salary? This Spanish-American war racket is the richest "hold-up" scheme that has been launched in years. It beats holding up a train, because it is safer. Cowards never relish taking risks. This is a sneaking attempt to whip the devil around the stump by ordering a rally fort he purpose of creating a large surplus that Fisher may be sure of getting $160.00 per month without depending upon the efforts of the Pastor's "Helping Hand," Socities the interests of which are on the wane. It may not be far amiss to reckon the weekly salary of a majority of the male members of this church at $10, 00 and the women who work at $6.00 per week. If these hard working people do not wish to contribute from their small earnings $5.00 to help make up $40.00 each week for Fisher they need have no fear of being excommunicated from the church, or of any plague coming nigh their dwellings. The minister for whose personal benefit money, is extorted from the poor and needy, under the guise of a rally, a war, whether Spanish-American or other kind, is no less a wrong doer, than the theft who attends directly to the business of picking your pocket. This man's "salary grab" as well as his subsequent actions, clearly denote that he has made preaching a business; that he is in the ministry for "the loaves and fishes;" and that if Fisher had lived in the days of the disciples, the words of Christ would have fallen upon deaf ears when He "Commanded that they should take nothing for their journey save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse." Fisher is evidently imbued with the ideas of the "money changers,' the speculators and the "get-rich-quick-men." From his point of view the members of Olivet are not so much expected to work for themselves and their families, as to work for Fisher—to contribute money to promote his real estate speculations on South Park Avenue. Aside from being troubled with an "itching palm," the chief characteristic of this preacher-lawyer is a consuming ambition to become a leader. I find no fault with a worthy aspiration. A desire to become great and useful is commendable. But leadership to this man consists in running everything his own way, right or wrong, in capturing and directing to his personal profit, every interest of the church, and every interest of her people, in so far as he is able, even if this has to be consummated by the basest lies. Theorodre W. Jenes, 2209 Cottage Grove Avenue. ip nh, Sp RR GN BR An en Saecess Sigs oer tence bore OS Sate Maa ae Gutemriptions mest be paid tn efvance. SS 3 Adyertiiing rates made Enews on application. THE BROAD AX M0 Armour Avenue, Chicago. Enteted at the Post Office at Chicago, IIL, as Second-class Matter. MEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE. Should Senator Allison serve out the term for which he was recently elected ‘he will have broken all rec- ords of service in the United States senate, having been a member of that-august body since March 4, 1873. He and Senator Jones took their seats at the same time and the lat- _ter’s term would also have been ex- tended six years more had he con- sented to serve. Consul George. Sawter went to Guayaquil, Ecuador, to take the post left vacant by the death of Thomas Nest. Arriving there, he discovered that yellow fever was raging and immediately took passage back to the United States. On landing in New York he found that another of- fiee had been seeking him in his ab- sence. While still at sea he had been nominated by President Roosevelt as an assistant appraiser of merchan- dise at the port of New York. - Secretary Cortelyou is one of the few remaining men in public life who affect the pompadour style of brushing the hair. Fifteen or eight- een years ago it seemed as if all mankind had the pompadour craze. When “Pompadour Jim” came on the stage every sport that was a sport wore his bristles rampant. The style is very becoming to Cortelyou. It enables him in serious refiection to run his fingers harrowlike over his head without disturbing its contour. Several senators were talking in Mr. Hoar’s committee room, the sub- ject. being Senator Morgan’s wonder- ful ability as a long-distance talker. One man expressed the opinion that the aged Alabama statesman was about “talked out,” but Mr. Hoar scouted the notion, saying: . “Why, show him a penknife and he'll talk for en hour about it.” Just then Mr.; Morgan came in and one of the num- ber showed him a curious knife. Sure enough, the old man began a long discourse on the subject of knives, continuing until all slipped away except Hoar, who was nodding in a chair. Men Teachers Searce. ‘The number of men employed as teachers in the public schools of this country is slowly but steadily decreas- ing. According to William T. Harris, United States commissioner of educa- tion, the percentage of male teachers in the public schools in 1870 was 41 per cent. In 1900 the percentage was only 29. The reasons for this decrease are easily found. The work does not offer as great inducements to men as it once did. Teachers in secondary schools are now required to be specialists, and the salaries are not enough to attract men to make a life career in this field. Women in increasing numbers have gradually taken their places. In point of training they are as well fitted for the work, and in point of tempera- ment better adapted to handle chil- dren. - /Slenahéer of Birds. Forty thousand birds, mostly sand- pipers, are reported to have been killed recently on the North Carolina coast for millinery purposes. GLIMMERLINGS Ur wai.. Bad blood may be shown, but it is a.crime to spill it. Men who stop to count the cost are slow to propose. . It is better to be handsome in deed than in photograph. ~ Much optimistic talk is used as a eover for perplexity. ies Every man is an idiot who pursues his own way in spite of us. It seems impossible to train the young idea without using a stick. ‘The advantage of the smile culti- vated by women is that it does not interfere with digestion—Sionx City Journal E i” ohn “Now, Johnny, can you' tell me who vale ie ack * ee oo” a ee ee _give Jobuny the prizé picture “You are discharged,” said Judge Henpeck to the bigamist in the dock. “The pobsession of two mothersin- law is, in the opizion of this court, suf- ficient punishment for your crime.— N. ¥. Herald. : mies fern as ‘The ‘Women ere not Guyer—Eviden Jou've never ‘MR. ROBSON’S START. ‘Pamous Comedian Began Life as | Page. Boy in Congress. Owed His Appointment to Robert ‘Toombs and the Fact That He Stumbled Over Gen. Scott's Ample Feet. 1 believe it, you can count it up on /__ your fingers. rue S ‘The difference between the Thirtieth congress and the Fifty-ceventh cop (gress, is 27 congresses; and, as each congress endures two years, the dif- ference in time between the Thirtieth and Fifty-seventh congresses is 54 By this simple method of calculation we reach the conclusion that Stuart Robinson, the comedian, is growing old; in fact, is already an old man, for he tells the narrator that he was @ page boy in the Thirtieth congress. He is now nearing his seventieth year. No one would believe it to see and hear him on the stage. It would in- deed be easy to make one believe that his voice was only born last night, or early this morning; it is such a little bit of a thing. “I was a page in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first congresses,” says Mr. Rob- son, “It was not an easy matter in those days to secure such an appoint- ment, and I had a great struggle be- fore success came. ‘I was born in An- napolis, and raised in Baltimore. My parents had no political ‘pull,’ and they were too poor to have any influence so- cially. Father and mother and! each thought of a dozen different things which I might or ought to do, to help the family along. Finally 1 went toa ‘distant relative named Reverdy Jobn- ‘son, then a prominent man, who gave me a letter to a friend in Washington; and I came to this city. Nobody had hired a hall for me, and my name was noton thebill boards. The hotels were not begging for my patronage. No- body seemed anxious to see me or heas me. “Well, after many ups and downs of 8 few weeks, I secured from Mr. Jeffer- son Davis a letter to the doorkeeper of the house of representatives. With that letter as my sole reliance, I wait- ed on the doorkeeper, camped in his of- fice, followed him to his home, nagged his family, and finally secured his promise that I should be appointed as substitute for the first boy that should be absent sick. The very next morn- ing a boy was reported sick’ I collared the doorkeeper just in the nick of time. He hed made the same promise to about 50 other boys; but all of them had homes in Washington, while I had none. I was the first to demand the témporary appointment, and 1 secured it. When the house met, I was ordered on the floor, and I must have had a hundred eyes in my pead. Every time anyone called for a page, I was first to answer the call. I wanted to do all the work, and the other boys seemed quite willing to let me do it. Howell Cobb was speaker/of the house, and Alex H. Stephens and Robert Toombs, of Georgia, were members. Inasmuch as Mr. Toombs had signed my applica- tion, [kept my eyes ophim all the time, and never missed an opportunity of jumping to his desk to serve him. “Late in the afternoon while Mr. Toombs and Mr. Stephens were con- versing, there came in an awful big man, a giant with the biggest feet I had ever seen. I thought them the biggest /feet in all the world. While I was looking at those feet « member back of Mr. Toombs clapped his hands for » page, and I immediately rushed im his direction. In passing that pon- See ‘| F <4, i i a ae e ro a . ae ei LF i, y 4 . ey Pes A ——eo ., STUMBLED OVER SCOTT'S FEET. derous man with the feet I stumbled over him. I guess I must have jarred his bunions dreadfully, for he gave me his elbow in my ribs and nearly knocked the breath out of me, as he shouted: ‘You careless little rascal; can't you see where you are going?” “Mr. Toombs laughed very heartily, but I was greatly chagrined over the incident. Having completed my er- rand for the member who had called me, I returned to my seat below the desk of the speaker. In a few minutes the big man slowly rose and left the floor of the house. Mr. Toombs called me and said: ‘In ali ofthe Mexican war not all of the enemies of his coun- try ever jarred Gen. Winfield Scott as you jarred him justnow.’. 5 “I trembled fh my little knee paagsoel apcoee aptaly- Breet ; great soldier, and fejt that I ee ee merce oe off of the t. But I was soon reas- sured by M yombs, who said it was a. good jokes ited out a member sized feet, hep nag ‘would go and stumble over them he would ‘give me a dollar; but I declined the money, much as I needed it. “Mr. Toombs then asked me if I wasn't @ new boy on the floor, and I gave him my name, reminding him that he had been one of my indorsers on ac- count of Reverdy Johnson. In reply to numerous questions, I told him all about myself, and how I happened to be on duty for only one day. He took an immediate interest in me, and went to the doorkeeper with me, to whom he said: ‘Mr. Horner, I've recommend- ed this boy, and I want toknow why be isn’t on the regular roll.’ The'door- keeper explained that he was s0 crowded with applications that he could not find a place for me, but he promised Mr. Toombs that I should —S eee “So, falling over the feet of Gen. Win- field Scott proved to be the beginning a Su aia rhea —/ | “IS SENATOR DOUGLAS INT” of my successful career as a page boy, for it attracted the personal attention of the great Robert Toombs, of Georgia, who became my firm and help- ful friend. “Inside of another week I ascer- tained that one of the boys was about to be taken off, by his parents, and I tackled the doorkeeper for the place. He put me off with the story that he was under so many other ob- ligations that he could not take care of me. In great haste I reported to Mr. Toombs that the doorkeeper had refused to keep his promise and give me the first vacancy. “ ‘The devil you say,’ remarked the statesman. ‘I'll see for myself wheth- er he puts you on or not.’ Taking me by the hand he led me to the doorkeeper’s room, and said: ‘Why don't you put this boy on, as you agreed to do?” “‘My dear Mr. Toombs,’ he replied, ‘I cannot do it. I have made some other promises that I must first ful- fll’ “*The thunder you must!’ said Mr. Toombs, most emphatically. ‘You'll either put this boy in, or I'll put you out.’ “And that settled it. I was appoint- ed, and from that day I was a page in the capitol until I got so big that I had no business there. And, until the day of his death, I retained the warm friendship of the great states- man from Georgia; and, moreover, I had the honor of his presence several times after I had achieved reputation and success on the stage.” One of the most interesting of the hundreds of interesting reminis- censes of this quondam page boy, is the following: “The first $25 that I ever made ex- tra was well earned. Henry Clay's compromise bill was taken up unex- pectedly and was about to be passed when nearly all of the opponents were absent. To kill time, some one was put up to make a speech, while the pages were sent hunting the ab- sentees. Mr. Jeremiah Clemens, of Alabama, came to the house, and of- fered $25 to any boy who would find Senator Douglas, of Illinois. I had just come in from an_ errand, and asked all of the boys where they had been. I suggested half a dogen places, but the boys had been there. Finally I got an order for a horse, secured a skinny old nag, and went galloping up the avenue, a mile and a half away. Knocking at the door of a private residence, I asked if Sen- ator Douglas was there, and was in- formed that he was, I said: “Yell him the Clay compromise bill will pass unless he gets to the capitol and prevents it.’ “‘Great heavens!’ exclairaed Sen- ator Douglas, as he appeared in the oer ‘Let me have your horse, “I started to walk back to the capitol and had not gone far when L was passed by Senator Douglas mak- ing for the capitol as fast as the animal could go. It was one of the funniest things I have everseen—that large man, with immense body and little, short legs, riding down Penn- sylvania avenue, and sitting his awk- ward. mount in the most awkward manner. I took my time walking back to the capitol and received my $25 for bringing the great Illinois statesman into the debate on that compromise bill. a “I onee had a great scare. You see the page boys were required to do all sorts of stunts in those days. The , of members were. kept in the Riggs’ bank, and I was sent there one day with an order for $2,000, It was given to me in two. Serot gold loosely tied at the ends. sone st a cigar shop, got twine and aa oney, and I never lost a single ‘If & boy should have such en acci ent today, bed Tone allot" TR PRARE 2. oo Saw tgp. See BL BA erg PURELY PERSONAL. W. B. Crowninshield, a brother of the admiral, who recently resigned from the navy in a huff, is a day laborer at Bluffton, Ind. where he works as a horticulturist. The city councilors of Belfast have declined the offer of some of the king’s swans from the Thames. Their refusal, accompanied by “loyal thanks,” is based on the fact that they have already “an ample supply of swans.” Pa Dr. Van Dyke was one examin- {ng 2 class of boys on their acquain- tance with Bible characters. “And who was Esau?” he asked. For a yungest son of Mrs. Malaprop Sats “Esau wrote a book of fables and sold the copyright to Messrs. Pottage.” It is reported in Boston that Lieu- tenant General Nelson A. Miles will again make that city his home upon his retirement from active serv- ice in August next. He was a clerk in a store in that city from his 17th to his 22d year and left there for the south as captain of a company in the Twenty-second Massachusetts Gov. Andrew at the outbreak of the war in 1861. Some more of Rev. William Archi- bald Spooner’s absurd transpositions are printed in M.A. P. Among them are these: “There came up grasspil- Jars and catterhoppers innumerable,” “shoving leopard” for “loving shep- herd,” “and now I see through a dark glassy,” I must return to Oxford by the town drain” (down train), “I stopped for a few minutes to boil my icicle” (oil my bicycle.)” Judge Leslie W. Russell, of Jersey ‘City, who died not long ago, left a will which seems to indicate a belief on his part that brevity is the soul of ‘safety when an estate is to be dis- posed of by testament. It was in these words: “I give everything I have to my wife.” Then, instead of half a dozen or more pages of “in the event of” this, that or the other, he added: “With reversion to our children.” Joseph Chamberlain was showing a lady over his conservatories at High- bury. His guest remarked: “One need not ask you, Mr. Chamberlain, whether you are fond of flowers.” To which the English statesman made this characteristic reply: “Oh, I don't know that I am particularly fond of them, but when I started growing them I made up my mind that no one should have better flow- ers than I.” CURIOUS FACTS. Lapps have the shortest heads of any nation, not excepting Eskimos. England was first divided into shires during the seventh century,A.D. — Last year the United States postal department handled 19,954,437 pieces of mail which were incorrectly or im- perfectly addressed. The forests in South Africa are com- posed principally of stunted and gnarled native trees, fit only for wagon making and fence building. The priests and monks of Italy live longer than any other professional men in that country. Fifty-seven per cent. live beyond three score and ten. Sig. Zanardelli, the prime minister of Italy, says that at present foreign tourists annually spend in Italy $60,- 000,000. Rome almost entirely lives on her foreign and provincial visitors. The solar system is drifting through’ space at the rate of 1,000,000 miles a day, more or less., Is this a drift or is it part of a regular rotation of the universe about a well-defined center? This is another question. Spiders are met with in the forests of Java whose webs are so strong that it requires a knife to cut through them, we are told. A spider weigh- ing four pounds, which has taken up her residence in a cathedral at Munich, regales herself with a large supply of lamp oil. A Texas spider weaves a balloon four feet long and two feet wide, which she fastens to a tree by a single thread, then marches on board with her half-dozen little ones, cuts the thread, and away goes the airship to some distant point on the enefiete BRITISH BREVITIES. There are 10 Jewish members of parliament. There are seven dioceses in the Episcopal church of Scotland. In London there are 700 fire-alarm call-points. They vary from 200 yards to 400 yards apart. . The bishop of London has no fewer than 142 livings in his gift. There are altogether 570 benefices in the dio- cese, and 1,147 clergy. Engiand and Wales are divided into 54 judicial circuits, each presided over by a judge, who must be a barrister of at least seven years’ standing. There have been 93 archbishops of Canterbury, dating from St. Augus- tine, who became archbishop A. D. 02. Of these one (Stigand) has been deposed; one (Archbishop Laud) be- headed, and one (William Sancroft) Five parliamentary commissioners were appointed during 1902. They wexe those to consider alien immi- gration, arsenical poisoning, physica) training in Scotland, military sen- tences in South Africa, and events of There are at present 239 railway companies in the United Kingdom with lines actually in existence, but many of these are leased to or stock to 107. ena land and Wales, 16 in Ireland, 7 Scotland, 2 in the Isle of Man, and 2 im the Isle of Wight KAISER’S BANDLESS BALL. Dance in the German Royal Castile That Went On Witheat the Customary Music. When a noble and brilliant gather- ing had come together in the white hall of the royal castle for the sec- ond rehearsal of the last ball and the dancing was about to begin silence fell upon the ladies and their cavaliers, and consternation was depicted in the faces of all, says the London Daily Telegraph. It seems that the princes, princesses and other representatives of rank and fashion had teken up the positions assigned to them for the minuet, when the kaiser and kaiserin arrived and entered the neighboring apartment. Then the signal'was given for the dance, but it elicited no re sponse. On inquiry it was found thet the band of the Guards, which should have been on the spot, had not ar- rived. Some one ran to the telephone, called up the band director, and learned that he had been mistakenly ordered to eome on the following day. On learning that he was wanted at once, he dispatched express messen- gers for his musicians and drove over himself in a cab, taking with him the fiddle which he had formerly received as a present from the emperor. The dance in the palace now began to the straine of a solitary violin; somewhat later on the trombone arrived, but found he could not well chime in with the fiddler, but the flutist was soon on the scene, and by the time the minuet was over two-thirds of the or chestra were in their places. The em- presses’ gavotte was danced to the music of a*full orchestra. HOW ANIMALS ACT AT FIRES. Not All of Them Show Fear, Alffough the Majority Do Not Like Flames. Most animals are afraid of fire and will fly from it in terror. To others there is a fascination about @ flame and they will wall into it even though tortured by the heat, says the Chicago Chronicle. Some firemen were talking the other day about the conduct of ani- mals during a fire. A horse in a burn- ing stable, they agreed, was wild with fear, ‘but a dog was as cool in a fire as at any other time. A dog, they said, keeps his nose down to the floor, where the air is purest, and sets himself calm- ly to finding his way out. Cats in fires howl piteously. They hide their faces from the light and crouch in corners. When their rescuer lifts them they are as @ rule quite docile and subdued, never biting or scratching. Birdsseem to be hypnotized by fire and keep per- fectly still; even the loquacious parrot in a fire has nothing to say. Cows, like dogs, do not show alarm. They are easy to lead forth and often find their way out of themselves. Rodents seem never to have any difficulty in escaping from fires. The men said that in all their experience they had never come upon the burned skeleton of a ret ora mouse. 7 - CHURCH GETS WINNINGS. Poker Game Played by Phliadeiphia Men of Wealth Benefits Re- ligious Cause. There are five men of wealth “and prominence closely identified with a certain up-town church who met once week to play poker. All aremen well along in years and all have never lost their love for the great American game of draw. They realize, says the Phila- delphia Record, that it would be incom- patible with their positions as pillars of the church to gamble, and yet they play a 25-cent limit game for “real money. There is just this difference: The winners turn over to the treasurer all the money that they have won from the losers and every six months this fund is expended on some deserving charity. In that way, while the player who is really ahead of the game doesn’t really profit, yet he isn’t losing any- thing, and the loser has the satisfac tion of knowing that his money is go- ing to a good cause. The element of chance is not eliminated; each man plays his best, there are four hours of excitement and the players do not feel that they are beating the devil about the bush. Exodus of the Cowboy. An indication of the rapidity with which the country west of the Missis- sippi is being reclaimed and settled is to be seew in the project of the eattle- men of Dakota and Montana to trans- fer their business and their herds bodi- ly toSouth America. The great ranges of the northwest are being cut up into small farms and the area of public grass land is diminishing rapidly. The eattlemen are looking for ranges in Chili, Brazil and the Argentine, and if they cannot find large unbroken areas of grass land in those countries, or are unable to make satisfactory terms, they intend to try Africa. On = Golden Pilate. President Roosevelt recently re- ceived an invitation on @ gold plate. It was not political, but it asked him to attend the mining congress in Lead, 8. D., next September. The plate was not big enough to eat a dinner from, as it measured two and three-fourths by five inches, but it was large enough to show what kind of gold the Black Hills produce. What « “Samp” is. A sump is the bottom of a mine shaft which is excavated a few feet below the floor of the bottom or lowest level to catch the seepage water. It is at this point that the pumps are con- nected. Ss pa Sap = Eres. ; Paraguay a tree whith yields a kind of vegetable silk. It can be woven into thread, but is used chiefy for gtufiing quilts and cushions. = a WOMEN WEAR SHABBY GLOVES They Are Not as Particular Abdou ‘Their Band-Covering as the Mea Are. “Did you eversmotice how much better men’s gloves look than wom. en's?” aske @ writer in the New York Times. “Go into any public convey. ance and look at the gloves of the passengers and you will be impresseq by the superior condition of those worn by men.- Two-thirds of the ‘women you meet cover their hands with suedes and dogskins that are shockingly soiled and worn. It is not only women of generally shabby ap pearance who are guilty of wornout finger tips and ragged seams; many who are otherwise well-groomed ang who could afford to put on a fresh Pair of gloves every day are equally culpable. Men would be ashamed to go on the street wearing such dis. reputable things, but women flaunt them unblushingly.” “That sweeping condemnation jy unfair,” protested the woman. “The condition is easily explained. Women wear their gloves'much more than men and besides it is awfully destruc tive to finger tips to dig around in purses for change and samples and to handle candy, to turn over books and to examine dry goods.” “Now you have jumped the sub. ject,” said the man. “I am not talk- ing about cause, I am talking about effect. The majority of men certain- ly do wear better gloves than the majority of women. You cannot deny that.” “That is true,” the woman admit- ted. “I cannot deny it; they can bet- ter afford it also.” THE TELEGRAPH HABIT. One Who Had Contracted it Had Message Delivered to Him im Chureh. Many men have the telegraphing habit, as others have the telephoning habit. They send “a wire” with and without provocation. Even where time is not an object, and a letter would do much more good, they call for a blank and scratch off 20 or 40 words, says the New York Press. There is a young lawyer here whose career has been greatly accelerated by a judicious em- ployment of the telegraph. In some way he always manages to receive two or three messages wherever he hap- pens to be—in a hotel, theater, muse- um, chureh, opera house or jail. When he crosses the ocean next month ona big liner he will have half a dozen marconigraphs a day by wireless. He is confident of the success of keeping himself in the public eye, no matter what the cost. One Sunday he re ceived a message in church, and, qui- etly rising to his fullest stature to give the congregation opportunity to view him, he stalked out satisfied that he had made an indelible impression. The message consisted of five words— “Read Reffections of a Barrister.” TRAINING OF A SALESLADY. Seme Points That Are Essential to Her Popularity with Her Employer. The business education of shop girls is continually stimulated by means of lectures given by the buyer, who is the real boss, says Les- lie’s Monthly. “Try,” he says, “to make your customer take the goods with her, to avoid deliveries; but don’t earry this out too strictly, for if your customer is the right sort it is well to accommodate her.” ~ “Try to have as few C. O. D. sales as possible,” is @ phrase frequently dinned into our ears. “Try to sell hard selling goods,” is another fre- quent remark of the buyer. Each department is under supervision of a buyer, who not only buys the goods, but also sees that the girls sell them. At the end of the season, if any particular department is not 6 success, that department may be abolished, and the buyer will be out of a job. He is, therefore, very anx- fous to get rid of the goods, par ticularly of the hard selling ones— more-anxious, perhaps, than the firm Tteelf. IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF. Dauseal Precaution Taken by a Mas Whe Thought He Might Tears Up Missing. “I suppose every trade has peculiar customers,” said the head man in a big retail shoe house, relates the New York Sun, “I had onein-herea fewmoments ago who. wanted buttoned shoes. Nothing particularly strange in that —we have "em, but after he had tried on several pairs and none just suited, I suggested that we might please him i lace shoes. “He shook his head and put up bis hands. ‘i “Excuse me,” he said, ‘wouldn't wear lace shoes if you gave me every peir in your house. Did you ever notice” he continued, ‘that every man or wom- an reported to the police ss missing is described as wearing lace shoes whe? Inst. seen?” “I had never noticed it, but this ms> Nee ie aaa expected to turn up missing. said he might, and if he did he wanted aeeatien cent i one. “That was his notion, and it seemed to be fixed, for he went out.” Makes More Readers. The educational side of rural free delivery comes out clearly im the ste- tinties of one western route, on which there are 109 mail boxes. When the route was established the number of daily papers taken in the district was five. Now the number is 65, and most of the papers eéme from one or the ether of two large cities. If Given Fads Notice He Will Not Carry a Passenger Beyond the Crossing. "People who complain that the car isn't stopped just right for them at the crossing," said a motorman, according to the New York Sun, "may really have themselves to blame for it. They don't give the conductor notice and so the conductor can't tell the motorman time enough ahead. When he can the conductor gives the motorman ample notice of the street at which he is wanted to stop; he may pull the strap for the next block almost before the car has got fairly well started from the last, but the man likes ample notice. The rails may be slippery and it may on some days require more space to bring a car up in that it would on others. But the motorman can stop the car anywhere under any conditions with the rear step square across the crossing if you can him a chance. "So as a general proposition I should say it would be wise for the passenger who wants to get off at the next block and who doesn't want to be carried beyond the crossing, not to wait too long, but to tell the conductor early, and he will tell the motorman and the motorman will do the rest, or come mighty close to it." STONES THAT ARE ALIVE. One Species That Shows Positive Evidence of Being Possessed of Animation. It is generally known that stones possess a species of life in at least that they grow from small beginnings frequently to enormous size. There is one stone in particular, however, that seems endowed with a greater degree of life than others. It is called "the living stone" and is found in the Falkland islands. Those islands are among the most cheerless spots in the world, being constantly subjected to a strong polar wind, says Nature. In such a climate it is impossible for trees to grow erect, as they do in other countries, but nature has made amends by furnishing a supply of wood in the most curious shape imaginable. The visitor to the Falklands sees scattered here and there singular shaped blocks of what appears to be weatherbeaten and moss covered bowlders in various sizes. Attempt to turn one of these "bowllders" over and you will meet with a surprise, because the stone is actually anchored by roots of great strength; in fact, you will find that you are fooling with one of the native trees. No other country in the world has such a peculiar "forest" growth, and it is said to be next to impossible to work the odd-shaped blocks into fuel, because the wood is perfectly devoid of "grain" and appears to be a twisted mass of woody fibers. ODD MESSENGER OF LOVE. Manitoba Widow Writes on an Egg and Gets a Husband from Liverpool. Among the weekly consignments of eggs lately received by a Liverpool, England, warehouseman was an egg bearing this message: "Packed by Mrs. Meade, a lonely widow, age 30, on Meade's farm, Belleview, Manitoba." The warehouseman was a widower, his age was 42 and he was decidedly lonely, being without kith or kin. He decided to try his luck with the lonely widow. He wrote to her, told her the story of the message having reached him, sent her his photograph, described his own loneliness in a big city and hinted that they might neither of them continue pining for companionship, reports a London paper, if they once met, and giving references to several responsible persons who knew his character. In less than three weeks he received a cable. It merely said: "Come out." He went out. The lonely ones met—and they are lonely no longer. Missionary Work in China. Rev. Dr. Ryan, for 17 years a Baptist missionary in China, who has just arrived in San Francisco, reports that no serious trouble from insurrection is to be feared in that part of the empire. The missionaries, however, have most to fear from disturbances in northern China, where the hatred for foreigners is intense, says the Chicago Chronicle. In southern China there is almost a friendly feeling for foreigners, and a disposition to accept some modern ideas from them. The chief desire of the municipality of Baro, in Chili, is to have their town known as a second London, and within the last decade much money has been spent to make it an exact replica of the British capital. The streets have been laid down and named after those in London. This country invented the parlor, sleeping and dining cars, the pressed-steel freight car, many of the best features of the modern locomotive, the air brake, the automatic coupler and a host of related devices, and it runs the fastest long-distance train. AMAZING STATISTICS. The Tremendous Monetary Force Wielded by United States Insurance Companies. Probably very few people who live and work outside the money markets have ever paused to consider the tremendous monetary force wielded by the insurance companies of the United States. The amount of money that these concerns handle is enormous, says Success. One may read that at present the 67 leading life insurance companies of the United States hold securities of all kinds that aggregate more than $1,500,000,000. Imagination fails to grasp such figures. It is equivalent to saying that there are 1,500 banks in the country, each of which has $1,000,000 which it must keep invested. Striking as these figures are, they do not include the holdings of the lesser insurance companies, and they pay no heed to the money controlled by the little multitude of large and small fire insurance companies. Of course, the bulk of the money held by an insurance company has to be invested; that is to say, every dollar not needed for running expenses and for the prompt payment of claims. It is like a fairy tale of finance when one reads what use is made of the millions on millions paid to insurance companies. During the year 1901, for example, the total of the incomes of the 67 leading life insurance companies was something like $376,000,000. Of this money about $175,000,000 was paid to policy holders or to their heirs. More than $77,000,000 was disbursed for operating expenses. Still, more than $120,000,000 was left. GREAT MAN'S TEN NOSES Were Made of Silver to Supply the Place of the Natural Organ Lost in a Duel. In his lecture before the last meeting of the Chemical Society of Washington upon the Old Chemical Society of Prague, Bohemia, organized during the middle ages, under the reign of Rudolph II., Dr. H. Carrington Bolton had occasion to call attention to the somewhat well-known fact that Tycho Brahe, who, by the way, was a member of this, the earliest chemical society of Europe, wore a silver nose. It appears that when a young man the great astronomer fought a duel in which he had the misfortune to lose that important member and was obliged to wear a silver one instead, says the Washington Post. "This," Dr. Bolton stated, "he was in the habit of removing at night when he slept, and one night his favorite dog managed to gain possession of his master's silver nose, which, after he had played with it all night long, was of very little service the day following. Tycho was in great distress the next morning when, after an hour' search, he found his precious nose battered and chewed out of all shape and service. In order, therefore, to avoid future accidents Tycho hied him to the silversmith's and had ten silver noses made in place of the one. One of these," said Dr. Bolton, "was preserved in one of the museums of Germany until the beginning of the nineteenth century when, by some mishap, it disappeared and thus far has not been recovered." ELECTRIC ANESTHESIA. Temporary Loss of the Motor Senses Through the Application of the Current. A French investigator has been experimenting with the electric current to produce anesthesia. After duly fortifying himself with a number of experiments upon animals he extended his researches to the human body, experimenting at first upon himself. He finds by applying a current, the exact character of which is not stated, to the body, through moistened electrodes, placed one on the forehead and the other over the small of the back, that with a voltage of 50 complete inhibition takes place. The faculty of speech is first lost, followed finally by the inhibition of the functions of the other motor senses. It is asserted that its only disagreeable feature is that which accompanies the gradual loss of the faculties, resulting in a sensation of a nightmare. The heart is said to be unaffected, but the breathing is somewhat obstructed. The current strength is gradually applied, about five minutes being occupied in reaching the maximum. When the current is switched off the subject awakens at once and with a "feeling of invigoration." Levy Man's Hat Raiser. The newest invention is a hat which salutes ladies automatically. By means of a clockwork, the poor man who is too fatigued to raise his hat to a lady friend is able to escape an imputation of impoliteness. He has simply slightly to incline his head and the hat raises itself gracefully. On his head resuming the perpendicular the hat goes back to its proper position. Of course, the owner has to wind up the hat every night like a watch. In a Reverential Sense. According to President Harris, of Amherst, a word that is looked upon as profanity in Boston may express the deepest sentiment out west, in proof of which he tells the following story: "A rough miner died out west and was laid away by his fellow laborers, with a common slab of stone to mark his resting place. On the stone was this inscription: 'Bill Jenkins; died June 12, 1901. He done his damndest. Angels could do no more.'" A CONVENIENCE FOR FLAT DWELLERS A CONVENIENCE FOR FLAT DWELLERS ```markdown ``` THE HOT-WATER CURE. Nothing So Promptly Cuts Short Sore Throat or Serious Congestion of the Lungs. Hot water is not only a relief for many ills, but from its quick application many cures are effected. It is so easy to obtain hot water in these days of gas ranges that many a severe illness may be averted if the application is only given in time. There is nothing so promptly cuts short congestion of the lungs or sore throat as hot water. The great thing is to apply it in time, and then to be thorough in the application. For a toothache or neuralgia hot water will usually afford prompt relief. A towel folded several times and dipped into scalding hot water, and then wrung out, should be laid upon the painful part. The same treatment acts like magic in applying the heated towel to the stomach for colic. Headaches most always yield to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck. A soft pack is the most effective method known for alleviating inflammation and getting rid or irritation in rheumatic gout. To afford relief every night a piece of flannel should be applied. This flannel should be saturated in brine and then wrapped around the affected joint or joints. The flannel should then be covered with a rubber or oil-silk bandage. Both should be kept on all night.—Cincinnati Enquirer. A WOMAN PRESIDENT. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Has a Dream Which, She Believes, Will Come True. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is still confident that before the end of the century a woman will occupy the presidential chair. She is very much encouraged with recent progress of the woman's suffrage idea and hopes to see still further progress within the next few years. Mrs. Catt, who is now looked upon as the head of the movement, is a college woman and a lawyer. She can also cook, make her own dresses and trim her own hats and is a fine housekeeper. She has been a reporter and an editor. Born of revolutionary stock, she is a native of Ripon, Wis. She was educated in Iowa and was superintendent of schools at M. MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. Mason City. The cases of hardship and suffering among self-supporting women encountered while a reporter first drew her attention to the subject of women's rights, and she went on the platform in their behalf. Ten years ago she spoke for the first time in Boston on the suffrage question, and the young woman from out west electrified her audience. To-day she shows in magnetic persuasiveness, clear-cut logic and irresistible humor the riper power which comes through experience. A CONVENIENCE FO AN ingenious manufacturer has recently evolved the corner wardrobe design here reproduced with the idea in mind of meeting the situation where economy of space is the thing to be considered. In a flat, for instance, where every inch of space is valuable, such a wardrobe might effectually solve the problem concerning closet room, for what THE AMERICAN WOMAN. French Writer Says She Plays a Most Important Part in Shaping World Politics. A new role is attributed to the American woman by a writer in the Paris Gil Blas. In a letter from New York he says American women are no longer content with the money their husbands have toiled to make, but aspire to power, and are entering a new field—diplomacy. "The title of ambassador," says the writer, "is now worth as much as that of prince to the American woman, and that of attache is equal to a German baron." Moreover, he finds that American women, while they marry foreign diplomats, never cease working for the interests of the land of their first affections. He takes the American woman seriously and as a power, and goes on to note the position'she holds to-day. In England Mrs. Chamberland and Lady Curzon wield immense influence. In France the wives of Ribot and d'Estournelles de Constant are called femmes de government of the future, for Ribot is a probable premier and [Image of a woman in a formal dress with a crown and necklace]. LADY CURZON. (American Wife of the Governor General of India.) Constant a coming minister of foreign affairs. While the writer admits the American women have acquired influential social positions abroad through brilliant marriages, he does not consider all such unions dangerous. But the new aspirations toward diplomatic alliances fill him with alarm, as American women now know the secrets of international relations and are working for the benefit of their own country. A friend of the president of the United States, he says, recently said: "Do not worry over the Venezuelan situation—our women are working for us." This mysterious speech, the writer says, is explained when one remembers that the wives of the English, French and German ambassadors, the three diplomats concerned in the Venezuelan affair at Washington, are all American women. If, the writer continues, one were to make a list of all the American women married to attaches and minor government officials with a future before them in foreign countries, one would be astonished. He is more alarmed at the entry of American women into international affairs than at the doings of the American trusts abroad. He evidently considers "Mme. Yankee" capable of everything, a match for the world's best diplomats. Helleu, the French artist, who has returned from America, says that the portraits of the women he sketched while in America will fill a room at the salon, and has asked to have one placed at his disposition for a "beauty display." What impressed him the most was that it was impossible to tell from the appearance of an American woman to what position in society she belonged. DR FLAT DWELLERS apartment dweller ever had sufficient closet room? The piece of furniture in the sketch is of weathered oak, with hinges and door handles of hammered pewter, but the idea is one that might successfully be carried out in any desired variety of wood and ornamentation and fitted up with shelves and drawers according to the will of the possessor. Ap Elaborate Reasoner. "You are base enough to confess that you love her for her wealth!" "My dear sir," answered Count Fuscade, "that is not baseness; that shows my democratic breadth of ideas combined with consistent respect for tradition." "You should love her for herself." "My dear sir, beauty, intellect and refinement are mere accidents of birth, but money is an evidence of ancestral and possibly hereditary foresight and force of character."—Washington Star. It Might Be Better. How glad a place this world would be If no one here A WISE PRECAUTION. ```markdown ``` I'm taking my umbrella, 'cause perhaps it's going to rain; I heard my papa read it in the papers, just as plain. It tared the indications were, for four an' twenty hours. There'd be some local temperchure an' stationary showers. St. Nicholas. A Bad Habit. The idier with complacence rare Loves to rebuke the toiler's pride. He murmurs: "What you've done is fair, I could do better, if I tried." —Washington Star Talk and Money. "Some of us," said Mr. Straitlace "have had to complain that our preacher is becoming entirely too liberal of late!" "That's funny," said the preacher's friend, "he's been complaining that you people are not liberal enough."—Philadelphia Press. The Vietim. Casey (the store-keeper) — Phwat ails Halloran? Cassidy—Shure, he's a victim av insomnia. Casey—Av phwat? Casey—Av phwat. Cassidy—Insomnia. His woife was awake lasht noight whin he come home full.—Judge. "I've got to give up my place," said the maid. "I'm dying of ennui." "What's the matter?" "Why, the master and missus agree on everything, and there hasn't been a scandal or a row since I've been there."—Chicago Post. Proper Antidote. Nurse—(excitedly)—Oh, doctor, I have just given the patient a teaspoonful of ink by mistake. What shall I do? Dactor (calmly)—Give him a blotter to eat right away.—Chicago Daily News. His Hard Remark Young Wife—That horrid tramps said my biscuits were like cement, and yet he ate them. Young Husband—Cement, eh? Well, perhaps he wanted to make himself solid.—Philadelphia Record. His Relief. "Bread is the staff of life," remarked the man with the quotation habit. "Perhaps it is," rejoined the skeptical person, "but that doesn't justify a man in making his existence one continuous loaf."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Proprieties Fully Observed. "Did any other man ever kiss you?" he fervently asked. "Well," replied the girl, who has spent three seasons at the seaside, "no one that wasn't engaged to me ever did."—Chicago Record-Herald. Fine Distance "You say he married a woman of independent means?" "No; I said he married an independent woman of means."—Chicago Journal. She—Books are a good help to mankind. He—That's what they are—especially bank books and pocketbooks.—Cincinnati Enguirer. "She treats him like a dog—" "Why! She kissed him right before everybody." "Precisely! Like a dog at a dog show."—Puck. Josh—I'spose Silas is mad at the feller that sold him the horse. Hiram—I dunno why he should be. If yer look at the horse yer won't blame anybody fer sellin' him.—Judge. Dropping a Gentle Hint. Timid Lover—Your parents seem to have gotten over their dislike for me. "Yes. When we first met they were afraid it might lead to something." —Life. Jaggles—What did that college do with the money it got from the millionaire? Waggles—Established a chair of socialism.—Puck. Strong Proof. "So you think he's a genuine count. Did he show you his credentials?" "Well—er—he showed me his bills." —N. Y. Journal. ```markdown ``` WHAT THE LAW DECIDES. That witnesses to a will were in the same room with each other and the testator is held, in re Claflin's will (Vt.), 58 L. R. A. 261, not to be sufficient to make the attestation valid, if they were not so in the presence of one another that each could see the others sign. A statute requiring a municipal corporation to refund license taxes collected for the privilege of selling intoxicating liquors outside of, but adjoining its corporate limits, which it had statutory authority to exact when they were collected, is held in Bailey versus Raleigh (N. C.), 58 L. R. A. 178, to be beyond the power of the legislature. A law which exacts from any individual a sum of money as a consideration for the right to take ice from public waters within the state is held, in Rossmiller versus state (Wis.), 59 L. R. A. 93, to be unconstitutional, as an invasion of the right of property without due process of law and a taking of private property for public use without just compensation. Where a testator with three children bequeaths one-half his property to one of them, without mentioning the remainder of the property or the other children, it is held, in O'Hearn versus O'Hearn (Wis.), 58 L. R. A. 105, that no devise by implication arises, but that he dies intestate as to such remainder and that the child named in the will is entitled to share it with the others. A general grant of power to municipal corporations to do all acts and make all rules necessary for the preservation of the public health is held, in state ex rel. Freeman vs. Zimmerman (Minn.), 58 L. R. A. 78, to vest in the public authorities power to enforce, in cases of emergency rendering it reasonably necessary, a regulation requiring children to be vaccinated as a condition of their admission to the public schools. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. We sell Chinese about $5,000,000 a year more than we buy from them. Colorado produced last year more dollars' worth of silver than Alaska did of gold. A full sized quartz mining claim is 600 feet wide and 1,500 feet long, thus being approximately 20 acres in area. The special franchises for transportation and lighting in New York City are valued for taxation at $235, 142,845. The German Cable company has finished laying its second line to New York as far as the Azore islands, 1,200 miles. The average railroad rate across the American continent in carload lots is $15 a ton; the rate on similar goods from London around the world to Seattle is $10 a ton. The number of miles of completed railway in the dominion of Canada is 18,868, an increase of 574 miles over the previous year. There are 558 miles of electric railway. An amusing feature of the present controversy concerning the metric system, in which one party holds to the yard and pound as consecrated Anglo-Saxon standards, is that the United States fundamental legal standards of length and mass are the meter and the kilogram, respectively, and not the yard and pound. The yard is legally expressed as 3600-3937 part of a meter. FACTS WORTH KNOWING. Hernando de Soto, United States consul at Warsaw, announces a demand for sticky fly paper in Russian Poland. The excess of births over deaths per 1,000 native population is the greatest in Utah, 63.1, and smallest in New York, 8.9. Rent from American property owned by foreigners or Americans living abroad is believed to amount annually to not less than $25,000,000. The Birmingham post calls the attention of British manufacturers to the fact that contracts involving the sum of $65,000,000 have been obtained by American interests during the last few weeks for the construction of electric traction systems in England, Russia and Holland. With the exception of the Empresses, built for the Canadian Pacific railroad, there was not until the Spanish-American war a first-class steamer on the northern Pacific. Now the largest steamers ever constructed in American waters, and with one exception, the Cedric, the largest steamers ever built, have been ordered for the Pacific ocean traffic. WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS. Suicide is on the increase, especially among married males. The death rate of married males, from 15 to 44 years of age, is greater than in unmarried males. Artificial stimulation of the gland in the throat below Adam's apple will, it is claimed by French scientists, cause any child to grow to a maximum height. In a trial at Atlanta the fact was elicited that at one drug store in that city more than 3,000 prescriptions for cocaine had been filled within two months. Dr. Calmette, of Lille, by immunizing horses with a mixture of snake venoms, of which cobra venom is the principal ingredient, has produced an antivenomous serum which is reliable in cases of cobra bite. It has been frequently observed that the inhabitants of islands and small peninsulas attain longer life than those of continents. The Barbados, Greece, Madeira and the Shetlands are quoted as illustrations of the truth of this statement. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFACTURERS OF Wm. Dixon has opened up a cigar store, news stand, and shoe-shining parlors, at 2638 State st. The Broad Ax can be found on sale in Mr. Dixon's place of business. Miss Lillian Beasley cashier for the Afro-American news office 3104 State street is on the sick list. She will be unable to discharge her duties as cashier for the next ten days. Mrs. Emma Stewart( 2916 Calumet ave, has removed her dress-making parlors to 3450 State st. second floor where she will be pleased to meet her many friends and customers. On aad after next week Col. George J. Woods, Old Ham Carter, and friend W. H. Clark with the aid of Mayor Harrison will not be able to run nor control the City Attorney's office. The political throats of city attorney John E. Owens and John J. Bohem candidate for city clerk were cut from ear to ear in order to drag the head of the so called Democratic ticket on to victory. There is one thing that we are truly glad of namely, that, Col. Charley Gunther who has made several hundred thousand dollars as city treasurer of Chicago, will not be able to feed at the public crib for the next two years. Major A. F. Tervalon, 2826 State St. sold more copies of The Broad Ax for the month of March than he did of all the others newspapers combined, and he claims that "the boys can not head if off.' Graeme Stewart whom we have always found to be a polished gentleman made a grand run for Mayor of Chicago, and if he could have gotten rid of Bill Lorimer and Judge Pat Hanecy he would have been the next mayor of Chicago. The program which will be carried out by the young people of Grace Presbyterian Church Sunday School Easter Sunday from 12:30 to 2 P. M. promises to be very interesting and it will be worth any ones time to attend and participate in the services. The election returns plainly show that much trading was done in order to prevent mayor Harrison from going down to defeat for who ever heard of a gentleman from Poland running ahead or defeating a gentleman whoes descendants came from Ireland, for city attorney of Chicago? Jeremiah B. O'Connell of the law firm of Devine and O'Connell Reaper Block is composed of the right kind of Juricial material to make a.first class Judge of Cook County and The Broad Ax will feel highly delighted to see him honored with the nomination as such. Doctor A. Wilberforce Williams, has opened a branch office for the convenience of his Englewood patrons at 6258 S. Halsted st., cor. 63rd st. His office hours are from 8 to 9:30 A.M. 5 to 6 P.M. Tel. Normal 2591 Doctor Williams will still retain his office at 29th and State st. L. W. Washington, head of the colored waiters of Chicago, who has been connected with the city Attorney's office will lose his position when the Republicans take charge of that office and if mayor Harrison is so full of love for the Negro or Negro Jack-Leg preachers around about election time let him, chose L. W. Washington as his private secretary. Symposium on Consumption The Physicians Association of Chicago Sunday night, April 19th, 1903, at Quinn Chapel Church 24th street and Wabash ave. This vitally important subject will be discussed by physicians who have given special attention and time to the preparation of papers. The programme will be interposed with good music come early. Admission Free. Prof. N. Schmidt Cornell University lectured last Sunday for the Ethical Culture Society Steinway Hall, 26 Van Buren street on"The Republic of man." His theme was highly enlightening to his cultured audience Easter Sunday morning at 11 A.M. at the same place Prof. Schmidt speaks on "Living with the dead." Classical music will be rendered in connection with his lecture. Alderman M. Zimmer, 12th ward; James C. Patterson, 20th ward; Charles Werno, 23rd ward; William H. Ehmann, 24th ward, William M. Butterworth, 31st ward; Frank L. Race 35th ward, as we stated last week were with the people and would be returned to the city council and sure enough they were; we very much regret that Joseph P. Junk and Michael McInerney failed to land in the 29th and 30th wards but no doubt both of these gentlemen have learned by this time that Politics in Chicago is a cut throat proposition. Now that Mr. Carter H. Harrison has been re-elected Mayor of Chicago, he will be very un-greatful indeed if he falls to select Col. George J. Woods. the boss Afro-American Democrat gambler as comptroller of Chicago for Col. Woods, rallied his crapshooters and loafers together on the day of election just at the right time and their votes made it possible for "Our Carter" to pull through therefore he should do the right thing by Col. Woods, and that is to appoint him city comptroller for he can or could handle that department much better than your Uncle Larry McGann. Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murry's cut, or handsome face, appeared in the old church organ last week and while urging, his members from his pulpit, to buy it he was vain enough to declare "That his picture and his name is in more newspapers than any other preacher in the world. If this is true then it proves that Abraham Lincoln Murray has a very small conception of the immensity of the world, and most of the stuff said about him in the papers in this country has not been to his credit. We cannot speak of the papers published in Africa and their relations to Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray. AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. From on and after this date The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following places: The Afro-American News Office, 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. 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. 86th 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. H. N. Drake, 3246 State Street, Cigar Store and News Stand. L. Levy, 506, 37th Street, dealer in Cigars and Tobacco. The Chicago Shoe Shining Parlor, 3123 Cottage Grove Ave. Geo. Blaine, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3420 Dearborn street. T. H. Smith, 419 36th street, Cigar store store, News stand and Bakery. Whiteley Bros., 2724 State street, cigars, and news stand. Mrs. Florence Granger, 2940 Dearborn Street. Cigars, Laundry Office and News Stand. Mrs. Stephen Doll, cigars and news stand, 4944 State street. Harris & Hallock, cigars and news stand, 2960½, State Street. T. J. Hill, cigars and stationery store., 5220 Lake Ave. Wm. Dixon 2638 State Street cigars, tobacco, and news stand. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. SUITE 3'8-320 REAPER BLOCK Clerk and Washington S's. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN F OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK 59 S. Clark St. OH. CAGO FREDE RICK W JOB 802 MARQUETTE BUILDING Telephone 2310 Central CHICAGO TELEPHONE MAIN 2804 FEDERICO M. BARRIOS Attorney & Counsellor at Law Suite 501 Firmenich Bldg. N. E. Cor. Fifth Avenue and Washington Street Chicago. LAWRENCE A. NEWBY ATTORNEY AT LAW Room 55,155 Washington St. CHICAGO William Howard Fitzgerald Room 402 Reaper Block, CHICAGO PHONES { Office, Main 1157 Res. Brown 42 STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS LAWYER Suite 200, 123-125 Lä Salle Street CHICAGO JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITZ 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE CH10A WILLIAM RITCHIE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. Suite 519-520 Oxford Building 84 LA SALLE ST., CHICAGO Telephone Main 1646. Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St CHICAGO JOHN F. WATERS. C. H. JOHNSON WATERS & JOHNSON Lawyers Practice Limited to the Trial of Personal Injury Cases Suite 801 Kedzie Building 120 E. Randolph St. Telephone Central 4283 CHICAGO Telephone Yard 701 Residence, 120 Garfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. KALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bldg 59 Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. Phone Racdolph 45 J. E. JONES LAWYER 79 Clark Street Room 9 Chicago S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 706 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. ALBERT 8. GEORGE LAWYER. 428 Ashland Block, Chicago. — TOL. M. 2025. — For Sale or Rent. Houses, flat buildings, and lots in city and suburbe, on easy monthly installments. Fire Insurance and Furniture Loans at lowest rates. CEO. W: FAULKNER & CO. Phone 2331 Brown. 2935 State St. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 1st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 2nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Phoenix Oil & Mineral Co. OF ARIZONA $200,000 CAPITAL Pays dividends 1 per cent. monthly or 12 per cent per annum. Stock now selling at 10c per share, full paid and non-assessable. For further particulars address THE DAVIES INVESTMENT COMPANY 614 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago Phone Central 3026, F&c Massage, Shampooing, Scalp Treating Mrs. Warner Chiropodist and Manicuring Removes Corns Without Pain Medicated Foot Baths and Foot Massage 138 State St., 4th Floor, Chicago Telephone Blue 4632 Work Called for and Delivered... A. HOFFMAN, CLEANER, DYER AND PRESSER. Suits Sponged and Pressed 5c 5125 State St. Expert Workmanship Moderate Prices. Mrs. Florence Miller FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED PRICES REASONABLE 3151 State Street CHICAGO. CHARLES L. WEBB COURT REPORTER 77 South Clark St., Room 9 CHICAGO. General Stenographer WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. It was the first preparation ever made for hair. Book of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never falls to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful, giving it that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical item available for hair. Produces a preparation equal to it. Pull 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. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to engage agents and regular correspondents in all the leading cities and towns in Illinois and throughout the other sections of the country. The highest commissions paid to live hustlers Sample copies furnished. For further information address Julius F. Taylor 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. ROOMS FOR RENT. Two comodious nicely furnished rooms for rent to gentlemen only. Inquire at 2623 Wabash avenue. MRS. A. WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates, 2252 Indiana aveune. Rooms for Rent. Elegantly furnished rooms for rent with bath and gas at 8232 Wabash avenue. Mrs. Kittle Scott. Choice furnished rooms to rent to ladies and gentlemen. 2807 Wabash Ave. ILLINOIS BRICK CO. N. Western Ave., Ch 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. HENADEL BR HOHENADEL BROS. Manufacturers of... UNIFORM CAPS Policemen, Firemen, Letter Carriers, Elevatormen, Janitors. Wagonmen, Street Car Employes, Telegraph Messengers, Railroad Employes, Bellboys, Watchmen, Eta JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery 81st and State Sts. CHICAGO John J. Bradley Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Property managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal papers prepared. 4709 South Halsted Street Chicago Ladies' and Gents' Clothing Fashionable Dressmaking, Ladies' Tailoring, Dress Goods and Trimmings Furnished JACKETS AND CLOAKS Phone Calumet 7761 CASH OR FASY TERMS Open from 8 a. m. till 9 p. m. 3285 State Street Chicago 226 East 25th Street - - - CHICAGO MOVING AND EXPRESSING Cash on Delivery All Orders Promptly Attended to Telephone Blue 289 4656 Armour Avenue, CHICAGO. Junk's Brewery M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8403 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 211-213 Madison Street CHICAGO Telephone Main 2300 J.M.Higginbothan Nota y Public dley and Loans rval papers prepared. Chicago ER Clothing mings Furnished AKS OR FASY TERMS Chicago Mason and General Contractor CHICAGO