The Broad Ax

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DEALS IN MORE FALSE LOGIC It is indeed startling or astonishing to every enlightened or reasonable person to observe how well Booker T. Washington, succeeds in dealing in "False Logic," in his onward march in undoing the Negro and placing him in a false light or position before the American people. In order to avoid discussing the pernicious or the demoralizing effect of compelling highly refined colored women, many of them school teachers, who would in every way be a great credit to any race of people, and many other Afro-Americans who are cultivated and well-mannered in every way, to ride in "Jim Crow cars" whenever they travel throughout the Southland, Booker T. Washington delights in exclaiming, "I am not so much concerned about the Jim Crow cars as I am that there should be no bestial Negro in the Jim Crow car. If decent colored people object to riding in Jim Crow cars, let them become stockholders in the railroads, then they can ride in palace cars." It seems to be a difficult task for Booker T. Washington to comprehend the fact that he is dealing in false logic, that even if he is more concerned about the bestial Negro, in the Jim Crow car, than he is about the Jim Crow car itself, still that signifies nothing, for there are thousands of Afro-Americans in all parts of the South who are not bestial in their habits, nevertheless, those respectable colored men and women, who are striving to elevate themselves and their fellow-creatures, must feel that a great honor has been conferred upon them whenever they are permitted to ride in Jim Crow cars. In other words Booker T. Washington labors under the hallucination that it is conducive to the highest morality to force or compel cultured or refined women and children to ride in Jim Crow cars, which are frequented at will by half drunken white men who utter the most violent oaths, spit tobacco juice and gulp down their rot-gut whisky in the presence of the best men, women and children belonging to the Afro-American race, that those men, women and children must submit to such brutal treatment as long as there is one-bestial Negro in the South, or become stockholders in the railroads and travel in palace cars; a blind man can readily see that Booker T. Washington is dealing in false logic, for the members of all other races of people in this country whether they are respectable or disrespectable are freely accorded their civil rights in all public inns without the necessity of becoming stockholders in the railroads in order to enjoy these privileges and why should the Negro be an exception to this rule. Prof. Washington? On more than one occasion Booker Washington has cried aloud from the mountain tops, yea, from the highest pinacle thereof that "whenever the Negro has five hundred dollars to loan the white man will gladly borrow it from him and give him a mortgage on his house as security for it, that whenever the Negro in the South owns a bank account, prejudice on the part of the white man against the Negro will disappear." These two statements by Prof. Washington appear to be very reasonable but after all they are based on false logic, for within the past month all the banks in Savannah, Ga., have arranged separate windows for the white and black people and it would be considered a burning disgrace or a grave crime for any Negro in that Southern city, no matter how much money he may have, to attempt to rub up against a white gentleman while depositing or when drawing his money from the banks of Savannah. Therefore we must assume that if the white man's race pride will not permit him to deposit his money in the bank at the same window with the Negro, he will never consent to borrow money from the Negro and give him a mortgage on his house as security for it. Is not this sound logic. Prof. Washington? The great (?) wizard of Tuskegee deals in more false logic when he proclaims to the world that "Every revised constitution throughout the Southern states has put a premium upon intelligence, ownership of property, thrift and character." If Prof. Washington is really honest, and if he spoke the truth when he gave expression to those words, then he must admit that his educational efforts in the "Black Belt" of Alabama have been a dismal failure, for in the county in which Tuskegee is located, less than one hundred colored men were permitted to vote at the last election held in that state and less than three thousand Afro-Americans were permitted to vote in the entire state of Alabama, notwithstanding the fact that Tuskegee has been running in that state for twenty-two years, that. Alabama has over one thousand colored male school teachers, besides merchants, bankers, doctors, editors, ministers and other professional men that would aggregate near on to five thousand. In addition to those mentioned there are many thousand colored men all over the state of Alabama who own their own homes and are of good character but those property-holding and tax-paying Negroes were treated like so many tramps, or villians by the registers and they were disfranchised simply on account of the color of their skin, while ignorant white men who have never been able to raise enough money to pay their poll or dog taxes were and are accorded the right to vote in Alabama. Moreover 25 per cent on every hundred dollars paid in as taxes by the colored people of Alabama is expended by the whites to assist in paying a pension to the ex-confederate soldiers, who rushed into the rebellion for the sole purpose of shooting some of those same tax-paying Negroes back into slavery. Does not all the foregoing seem to indicate that it is the intention of the majority of the Southern whites to disfranchise the Afro-Americans by wholesale regardless of their ability to become property holders and tax payers? With these plain facts before us, Prof. Booker T. Washington in his mad rush to grow wealthy at one bound at the material welfare of ten million people, still possesses an unlimited quantity of unadulterated or monumental gall to contend that "every revised constitution throughout the Southern states has put a mium upon intelligence, ownership of property, thrift and character on the part of the Negro." That the Negro ought to tamely submit to being taxed without representation, to enable him to easily acquire money to live off the fat of the land and to conduct his school in which each and every pupil pays dearly for the little instructions received therein. False logic seems to be Booker T. Washington's stock in trade, and he deals it out in extensive chunks while he is engaged in begging money. He brawls out in his so-called lectures on the "Race Problem." "Let the leaders of the race advocate more --- CHICAGO, JUNE 6, 1903 work and less politics. The one thing which the Negro race is in need of now is, not more politicians, but more skilled laborers." The Negro may not be as skilled or as scientific as other workmen, but that does not prevent him at the present time from performing four-fifths of the agricultural labor in the South and practically all of the unskilled labor is performed by him; but Prof. Washington is desirous of convincing the American people that "all the Negroes are lazy, that all of them are ready to retire from work and devote all their time to politics." This proves that Booker Washington is so full of false logic that he is unable to converse intelligently on any logical proposition. Then in the next breath he exclaims, "I am no politician, but an industrial educator!" Now, if Booker T. Washington received his commission from on high to teach industrialism, then let him expend all his energy and talent in that direction and absolutely refrain from contending that the Negro has no right to participate in politics; that it will redound to his benefit if he is disfranchised. Our eyes may be closed in death before the time comes, but mark our words; the time will surely come when the Negro will wake up from his long slumber. Then he will repudiate Prof. Booker T. Washington and his false logic or theories pertaining to the highest development of the Afro-American. WHAT IT IS. When a member of any Legislature votes to spend money for any purpose he is voting a tax upon his fellow citizen's What does that mean? It means an order to hand out money much upon the citizen, an order that holds the property of the citizens as security. It is a despotic command to hand over dollars and cents. No matter how little the amount. It is too great to be given to any set of men and see how it is abused. Gold plated spittoons in the offices at the Capitol of the Nation. Seventy thousand spit taxes in the Capitol bends several gold plated ones not included! Were women legislating there, not one would be neded! In view of such abuses what man will oppose the demand for the Referendum by which no tax can be imposed but by the vote of the people themselves. Then, if they desire their servants to have golden spittoons it will be their own folly and no crime against their political constitution, HOLT. FOR THE REFERENDUM. There ought to be some way to properly punish officers who go beyond their legal power. There was such a thing as impeachment about a century ago and Presidents and Governors and Judges trembled at the word. Many times big officials were held up by impeachment and this was a warning and a terror to the little ones. But now it would seem that Judges make laws and execute them. Presidents give orders as party bosses Legislatures laugh at our restraint, and all together ignore such instruments as Constitutions. Harper's Weekly, the New York Sun; one or wo other Eastern and Southern newspapers all regard Prof. Booker T. Washington, as the greatest or as the only leader of the Afro-American race, and at the present time these same newspapers are clamoring for the repeal of the Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution and also that part of the Fourteenth amendment which refers to the restriction of the representatives in congress from states in which its citizens may be or have been disfranchised: if Prof. Washington is permitted to preach his disfranchising doctrine much longer all the newspapers both North and South, will advocate the repeal of all three of the amendments to the Constitution and if that should come to pass then the Negro would revert back into slavery. [Name] George W. Faulkner the Live and the Leading Afro-American Real Estate agent of Chicago. The real estate situation concerning the 30,000 Colored citizens of Chicago is radically different now from what it has been. They are inquiring for bargains, and a large number are purchasing homes on installment. The renting condition is such that it has naturally stimulated purchases on the part of a large number of those that are now investing in real estate. The most encouraging thing however, is the fact that a great many have been able to save money during the last few years with which to buy their own homes. Many persons who are working as porters and waiters have saved up a considerable sum of money; which they have been holding with the end in view of investing in real estate. They are afraid of other classes of investment, but real estate appears to them more tangible. Many Negroes during the last few years have decided that it was time for them to own their homes instead of continuing to pay rent, the result is beginning to be felt this year. They may have reached their conclusion a year or two ago, but were deterred from taking the step by reason in the increase in the price of building materials. Now they realize that the prices are going to remain the same and that there is nothing to be gained by waiting. While many of the persons who belong to this class have been holding their money expecting to build a house on a lot which was purchased some years ago, find that the necessary outlay will be something in excess of what they had anticipated. They can buy a city home by paying $500 as first payment, and the balance in monthly instalment same as renting, they are going forward with no hesitation buying homes before the opportunity passes. "Not only are they taking hold of the inducements that are offered in the city for properties, but they are also closing deals on bargains that are offered every day in the various suburbs of the city, where fine dwellings, and cottages are being sold for $500 and up, on easy terms. The outer localities of Chicago are the most profitable parts of the city for Colored citizens; to purchase real estate, as the vaule of these districts are rapidly increasing and the time is not far away, when all those who do not own their homes will be forced to leave the city districts, just in time to find the condition of the surburban properties as difficult as it is in the city now. The following are bargains offered in lots size: 25x125 ft. at Blue Island and East Chicago, for $100, $10 down and $4 per month without interest. It can easily be noticed that the residents districts of Chicago where Colored citizens reside is gradually being assumed for wholesale buildings and factories. This is why most of the whites are sacrificing their resident property in these localities. They are securing homes in the outer dis tricts which is more desirable for living purposes. At the present time there are 25,000 Colored families in Chicago. The number is increasing at a rapid rate, which is due to the large number of Colored people coming to the city yearly. I think I am safe in saying the average of increase per year among the Colored people will run close to 5000, and 50 per cent of the new people coming to the city make the acquisition of a home their first object. Indications points also to a large increase in Negroes this season from the south. Already; many correspondents have been received by Colored citizens sent from their relatives in different parts of the south and west. These new people are of a desirable class. Most of them are young, under 40 years of age, and consequently will be abundantly able to provide for themselves as soon as they reach the city. The cencius up to 1900 gives Chicago 200 Colored property owners, the number has greatly increased; and is now increasing, but yet I do not think the number compares with the great inducements that have for years been offered for Chicago real estate. Hyde Park News. Quarterly Meeting at Hyde Park Chapel next Sunday. Rev. Morton of Georgia will preach in the morning. Dr. Geo. C. Booth, Pre. Elder, will preach at night when the communion will be served. In the afternoon, communion will be served at Harvey. The Hyde Park Chapel is planning for a big entertainment on the 18th, and a big Trolley Party to Harvey on the Fourth of July. Mr. S. B. Bridges has moved to Harvey and taken a position with The Buda,Mfg. Co. Also Mr. Johnson has got moved, and another lady of Hyde Park has already rented in Harvey and will move soon. The White people of Hyde Park are organizing for the purpose of bettering the conditions on Lake ave. What are the Black people doing? Some are thinking, others are working, while others are going from house to house—well, you know. God help them. That Negro hating sheet the Chicago American is setting up a great hue and cry in relation to some one over in the 18th Ward endeavoring to buy a few votes last Monday for fifty cents a head but the American and the ungodly crowd of reformers did not think it was harmful or morally wrong for Mayor Carter H. Harrison's agents at the spring election to buy thousands of voters for 25 and 50 cents per head, such saintly Negro hating reformers as the outfit which runs the American causes a tired feeling to come over us whenever they blow about the purity of the ballot CHIPS. Mrs. E. T. Earley, 2931 State street, arrived home Tuesday from Springfield, Ill., where she spent the past two weeks in visiting with her friends. Mrs. E. McDonald 3032 Dearborn st. will spend the next two weeks in visiting with several white ladies at Rockford Ill. who became admires of hers through her good work in the Juvenile Court. Rev. R. H. C. Mitchell, of Harrisburg, Ky., has accepted a call from the Bethesda Baptist church of this city and he will without any delay begin his labors for the Lord at Bethseda. James H. Harris, 4764 Armour Ave., who is a member of the John Brown Post of the Grand Army is one of the many sturdy Afro-Americans in the Town of Lake Mr. Harris resides in his own home and he puts in his spare time in beautifying it. C. E. Hunter who was for some years in business on 51 st near Dearborn st. lately opened up a new cigar tobacco, confectionary store, ice cream parlors, and soda fountain at 4503 Wentworth ave., and with the assistance of Mrs. Hunter, he conducts the finest place of its kind in the city. Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz, 2719 State St., who obtained Judgment against the city of Pittsburg and its Police authorities, for over two thousand dollars, for false arrest and imprisonment, is having a dog collar made which will be set with very large diamonds and it will cost three thousand dollars. Miss Carrie Hall Peoria Ill. niece of Mrs. L. A. Davis 5012 Fifth Ave., will pass the Summer in Chicago for the purpose of taking a course at the Chicago Kindergarten College. Miss Hall is quite intellectual and very preposesing and in the near future Mrs. Davis will give a luncheon and reception in her honor. The Broad Ax felt sure that four of its candidates for judicial honors, namely, Messrs. Black, Barnum, Collins, and Hirschl, would land on the inside of the breast-works for they are all high grade gentlemen and would make first-class Judges but some how or other they were unsuccessful in their race, and we very much regret it that they were defeated. Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams and her husband, S. Laing Williams, dined last Sunday with Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, of Evanston. On that day Mrs. Williams spoke in one of the churches on "Some Problems of the Colored Race," and among other good things Mrs. Williams said: 'the much talked of right to vote is not nearly as important as the right to be educated." Mrs. Anna Sadler Ford, 5045 Armour avenue, gave a chicken breakfast to a few of her friends Sunday morning, and it so happened that we arrived on the scene just in time to assist to devour the four chickens which had been prepared for the occasion: Mrs. William Trent, Mr. Jasper Ford, his brother and Mrs. Ford composed the breakfast party. B. C. Reichwald, of Reichwald Bros. commission merchants 141 S. Water st., cor. Sec. of the American Secular Union and Free Thought Federation, says in a letter to The Broad Ax recently "that it is doing a great work in exposing fakes and frauds." and Mr. E. P. Peacock 1?9 S. Clinton St. and one of two of Mr. Reichwald's friends are so well pleased with it that they have become regular subscribers to it. Mr. Samuel Roberts, 949 Rookery Building,delivered a lecture recently before the "Men's Club of the Universalist Church, 65th and Stewart avenue, on the "Race Problem." Mr. Roberts displayed great ability in handling or discussing this much talked of "Problem," and as it is being sent out in pamphlet form we earnestly hope it will fall into the hands of millions of Afro-Americans for it will furnish them food for thought. ce nates Pens 3 | Be pees ee Bae ae prior. oe es ee ase yee es ee ree am : SSS es es ; = = ee é a ‘ <a ‘ e ; A ; = Ed Bs: ’ e ‘ i ‘ oar t Ee . . 2 ee ‘ a ee i. ae : Bre « ao + PUBLISHED WEEELY. earns cos sich wal nates 2 et oe aren tee. Bubscriptions mast be paid in advance. S és =a So SULIUS ¥. TAYLOR, Béitor ond Pubiisher. Sen? Ge, Pat Oe « Gin, = eons | Sore ie welt tea Seite ree | men” to. cld, swe taccanterel a Rerrible storm. Came up very stiddet- ly, tog, didn’t it?” _ . “Very,” she answered wearily. «nd yhan’t imuch more luncheon down before =p" Chicago Post, os : Mucapet & tif Sewie. ae See Peer koe and the woman ‘most killed me with Snnwtasc “$1 wos jus’ thinkta’ Wut an escape Ehad. She wiight “s-took « fancy to @ie and married me.”—N. Y. Weekly. Ae BRettenh. Sy ES Bere lies 2 man Of wisdom shy, ‘Who nature's laws defied; He undertook to shee a mule— ‘That's all. Hie simply died. BeQuAL TO THE OCCASION. a os | ‘a iJ f ee y sy Ae . a 7 at Ae rN fa / La. x, ° wig f RX. ‘ oe \ f iN ho a ! | : “You owe $50,000, you say, and yet you want to marry my daughter?” “Sure; unless you know of some other way to get me out of the hole.” —Fliegende Bilaetter. Advertising It. -ber finger—dainty thing— cee ae Rae Reagent thst won't comet. Farewell. . “So this is to be s farewell tour?” “tt is,” answered the prima donna. ges to Cease singing in pub- Be: “Not at ali. Merely that people are to have another opportunity to say farewéll to their money.”—Washing- ton Star. 2 “Say, pa.” queried little Johnny Secrertakigs enh te experience?” “Experience, my son,” replied the irs vee oS eee Make use of fr" tecence En- quirer. ot en -0F Scale 59 Seciies | WHAT PHYSICIANS SAY, « “Death months” are March and pil for adults and July and Av- fist for duldren unter Sve year age; according to the statistician ‘A Wreshly cut slice of ‘pineapple isid on a picce of beefsteak will in a comparatively short time cause soft- ening, swelling and partial digestion of the meat for @ considerable depth ‘The government of the Punjeb hai undertaken to fmmunise 700,000 in- habitants against the plague. The laboratory of Bombay has been aie rum to the physi- : serum lens of the Punjab. _ : ‘Tuberculosis was not known among tation Schleswig-Holsteins begay. 3t*then spread so rapidly that « ‘quiicament coukutiulian widels taste Sole Seok ih echeeetin Sons e in three affected. } ‘. The deaths from pneumonia 30,000 éf population in 1860 ae 4.40; im 1870, 10.24; im 1880, 12.58; in 1890, 18.84; im 1900, 19.78—an aggre- ete increase of 349.6 per cent. of Paetrionia, as compared with en ag- sgrégate Gecrease of 39.5 per cent. consumption. ‘The so-called “defective classes sockety"—the feeble minded, peoeasens, habit immoral, : ee - to re amas 5 See . wo aaa coe de on ee gerne would past oe td | ‘Uptdn—How fs Bitton getting slong oy cs ya sage Sia Ip ole f imsking money hand over fist. Zaut time I saw him he was on his way to Kentucky to start a fac- “Hum! What did ie titéend to man- ufacture?” “Corkscrews.”—N. Y. Weekly. “Yes,” said the critic to the aspir ing young playwright, “there are great possibilities in this play of yours.” “Thank you. It is very kind of you to say so.” “But there will be greater possi- bilities in the fellow who is clever enough to find get them cuties Bec Rere hentia, der go,” said the the bank. every man has et legst one bed hab- ‘it, and, as I can’t that he has any other, I'm afraid he'll steal.”— Chicago Post. are een ae “I suppose,” said young Mr. Kallow, “that you always retouch all photo graphs before you finish them.” “Ob! yes,” replied the photographer “your photograph wilkplease you, I'm sure.” “ “Well—er—don't be afraid to darken the mustache « little.”"—Philadelphia Press. Guessing at Men's Ages. “What are the respective ages of the father and the son?” “Well, I judge the former is over 50, because I noticed he likes to be eatied ‘my boy,’ and that the latter is under 25, for the reason that it pleases him to be addressed as ‘old man.’ ”—Tit-Bits. Im Moose Meadow. “Bo Sue Perkins has accepted that feHer from Podunk?” “Yes; but I don’t b’leeve she knows much about him. She only met him day before yesterday.” “Qh, well, that’s long enough fer Sue Perkins to find out all about him and everybody else in Podunk.”—Judge. Leoking for a Chance. Mrs. Gobang—This paper says that &@ Kansas man sold his wife for eight dollars, Gobang—I wonder if it will ever be my luck to run across « fellow who is throwing money away!—N. Y. ‘Times. A Frank Suiter. “He's a remarkably frank man.” “How so?” “Why, thé heiress asked him if he ‘was sure he could take care of her when he proposed, and he said he was sure he could if he had her money to do it with."—Chicago Post. A, women's aim is ‘tis said. ae And throws herself at some man's head She landeth at his fest. Philadelphia Press, NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. bag ——— . Cia \ b Ao {||| a =S— Soh cS Se ~ }~ eS jaa a : B,// ee SS z G «cs \ i \ SSS ‘The Wife—Come out from under.the bed, I tell you. What are you afraid of? Didn't I protiise at the altar to love, honor and obey you? — Bogton Globe. * PS SC pry She smiles and laughs the livelong day. Pray, Go not think her simple! me Recause-she has x Ginpie a Catholic Standard and Times, ——_—___,| . —. ee here eee ee Bridget—No, mum, they're all out 5 and I. tolme.—Brooklyn Life. Unele Reuben Says: Most of us tike to be deceived now gn’ den. If we found all men honest We'd hev a0 little to kick about dat fe would be monctonous—Detroit Free Press. : “So Madge ix to be matried. 1 Wii nant “Of course’ she will She's “going to have = wedding gown from Paris.” —Chiecago American; _-- When Dizon, . ‘a rece in the that would the ne of n Re per oa - ee the sweeping.” es bishop Ryas, of Philadelphia, 1s r ~ Whe “ : > gy Of aes prem should be tpn bay yeaa te tomar cod hast table affairs. The archbishop wrote him, giving some details regarding his ter thus: “The lady these ‘virtues treats her esbees “tite a brute. P. 8—She is very fond of brutes, being an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals.” George Francie Train sat one spring morning in Unton square, New York, as was his custom, surrounded by chil- dren, to whom, contrary to his atti- safe Sound en TS he was always and ible. On the outside of the_group serrounding Mr. Trein aemal bs mad girl looking wist- at the children who were all his attention and hear- tug his wonderful tales. After they bad as and Mr. Train was alone the bi girl advanced timidly and ssid to him: “Do you love children?” Looking at his questioner in some sur- prise, Mr. Train admitted that he did. Then in a low voice she said: “Iama child.” At La Plata, Mo., the other day, Cole Youngér did something original, es- pecially for a showman and an ex- bandit, A patron of his wild west show told Youtiger that he had been short charged out of five dollars by an employe of the show. He pointed out the man and Younger went to the employe and said: “Give thie man his money back.” “What money?” asked the man, feigning surprise. “Did you hear me?” returned Cole. “Give this men his money.” The employe com- meneed to expiain. “I don’t want any explanations,” said hisemployer, “pass that money over and pass it over quick.” The money was handed over and the dishonest employe discharged then and there. Frank James, who stood ‘by, approved the action of his partner. THE LAW DECLARED. Forbidding the employment of fe males in certain establishments more than ten hours a day is held, in state vs. Buchanan (Wash.), 59 L. BR. A. 342, not to deprive them, unconstitution- ally of life, liberty or property. Ovens, engine boilers and shafting placed by a tenant in a leased building for carrying on the bakery business with the intention of removing them, are held, in Baker vs. McClurg (IIL), 59 L. R. A. 131, to be removable as trade fixtures. The right of a riparian owner to use @ navigable stream for floating logs is held, in Hutton va. Webb (N. C.), 59 L. R. A. 33, not to be derived from the state; and it is held that he ean not be deprived of such right without just compensation. 5 Confinirfg the right to act as agent for foreign insurance companies to residents of the state is held, in Cook vs. Howland (Vt.) \59 L. R. A. 338, not to be an unconstitutional impairment of the privileges and immunities of citizens of other states, A judgment of divorce rendered in a state in which the wife has acquired & separate domicile, an¥ valid there, is declared, in succéssion of Benton Ga.), 59 L. R A. 136, to be valid in other jurisdictions. With this case is an extensive pote reviewing the au- thorities on conflict of laws on the subject of divorce. A street car passenger who is eject- ed from & car to which he is trans- ferred because of a mistake not no- ticed by him im the transfer slip given him by the sonductor to whom he paid bis fare is held, in Lawshe vs. Tacoma R. & P. company (Wash.), 59 L. R.A. 350, to be entitled to recover substan- tial damage from the company. IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. | The salmon can, for short distances, travel at 25 miles an hour; the swift- est of marine creatures are those of the whale family. Mosquitoes are known to live through the winter, awakening with the first warmth. A late investigation by Mr. John B. Smith proves that cer- tain species hibernate in the adult state, others in the larval state, also others only in the larval state, and some in the egg. Many larvae survive repeated freezing and thawing. A scientist once put an automatic music-box on the lawn and spent many hours watching the robins, blue tits and other birds githering about it. A looking-giass put up where the birds can see themselves in it fs aleo very at- tractive, while a combination of « san bee and 8 looking-glass| pleases birds more than anything else one could put out for their amuse- ment. The gradual disappearance of locusts in Rhodesia and other parts of South Africa is attributed by Mr. J. M. Orpen, a writer on the agriculture of the re+ ian. fo » sanity grveteg teat. ‘The r seeds are scattered by the witid, and in favorable weather the’ growth attacks apd destroys vast eae eee Sines its dis- covery during Jocust invasion, Shanon ers “ae GRUSE OF EDUCATION -Pzot. Hibry 8. Gravel, diréetor of Secad 0S the abet na a be fitestry schools and m ae Se may, Austris, Hun- nry Walters tes fires to aividon ot etn eis See wet i lade by the late Fria yee pei 8 sent by_the go t 1851 to make a trénty with that 7. college at Salem, Ve. which has had more foreign students then any other college in the south, will this> year graduate the second Corean to take the degree of bechelor of arts age in the world, the frst being Kin Beung Strh, who re- ceived his A. B. at Roanoke in 1898 and his A. M. at Princeton in 1899. Kinsic Kimm, who will be graduated this year, is so good a speaker that he won ype in déclamation several years ago. Booker T. Washington was much overcome Whén he heard of Carnegie’s gift of $600,000 to the Taskegee insti- tute. The millionaire's letter requests that. “the modern emancipator” be re- lieved of further pecuniary cares. It also eS that i TE isa second ae people toa better condition. ye,” said the recipient 6f the compliment, “but rll differ from my firedecessor in this—I'll not burden my people with another set of commandments. The original ten will suffice.” ii Gen. John B. Sanborn, of St. Paul has been elected president of the Minnesota Historical society to suc ceed the late Gov. Alexinder Ramsay. Gen. Sanborn has been a resident of ‘the state since the early '50's. Joseph H. Perkins, the veteran coin collector and relic hunter of Syracuse, N. Y., will publish a work of eight vol- umes, containing the biographies of nearly 50,000 centenarians and photo- graphs of 600. He has been collecting them all his lifé. He says that there are at present 4,000 centenarians in the United States. The oldest man in the world, he says, is Manuel del Valle, a Mexican living near San Francisco, who is 157. All parts of the world are in- cluded in this collection. Sioux City is much wrought up over 8 squabble now guing on between the principal shoe dealer of the city and the wholesale grocers. To boom his trade the shoe dealer decided to have a coffee sale, and he advertised large quantities of the berry at five cents a pound. After a few days the wholesal- ers refused to sell to him, and he bought of the retailers. Now the wholesalers have gone into court to ask for an injunction to prevent him from selling a coffee for its than the market prices. CHURCH AND CLERGY. Phonograph cylinders which repro- duce the pope’s “solemn papal bene- diction” are being advertised for sale in Paris at £2 each. It is stated that the Presbyterian board of foreign mission is hampered in its plans for the coming year more by lack of men than of money. It has appointed 47 missionaries and has as yet work and means for 34 more. Bishop Alexander Le Roy, who founded a chain of Christian villages reaching almost across the continent of Africa, hes come to the United States for the purpose of studying the negre problem as it is presented here. The Jesuit, Peter Zottoli, whodiedat Shanghai at the age of 76, was e lead- ing authority on the Chinese language and literature. For many years he had been at work on # dictionary, which, completed, will comprise 10 or 12- volumes. The recent report of the American eae aera io Moxie hope a working force at present of 256 Mex- ican preachers, 350 Sunday schools and 10,000 scholars, and a church member- ship of nearly 17,000 communicants and 50,000 adherents. IN ENGLAND’S CAPITAL. London's water companies suppiy daily 6,172,326 people. The houses of parliament at West- minster cover fully ‘nine acres of A : of the unceeupied h: in count ie ouses London show 40,069. That is one house in 16 of the whole city. Bedsteads with alarm clocks as part of the headrail are being made for south London early risers, "The Londoner will be greatly an- rE ee ee waitin canoe mane 0 eerereend = and tu’- penny tube railways. will be five cents for any distance; there will be no first, second or third class; the Bn ee meeaeeeer, and twenty-second limit to stops will give him @ Chicago education in movement. IN THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE. The Hisper Pass in the Himalayas has the longest glacier in fhe world. It is 90 miles in length. The latest name added to the chemi- cal nomenclature of Germany is Tetra- ahanten@icwn Mee Natron. Owensboro commandery, Knights ayo of Owensboro, Ky. con- the Knight Templar degree on the smallest mason in the United States. W. D. Everly,.of Island, Ky.. the other night. He is 40 years old and is 39 inches tall, et Natiral History. Sh Fatt and remarkable curiosity. ‘the shape of thé fii ge in th iad ie exhibition. fe - ath ¢ ibe bird King- ‘ of ‘ Mike cles peek, wes . in Gotnparatively recent times, and nothing but its fossil eggs and fragmentary remains of the skeleton can be found. From the jength snd size of the limbs and feet the birds are said by scientists to have been probably twice or.three times the height of an os trich, of which they are supposed to be a distiiiet grotip, They were pow- Se A pe Nee S ches toed human Tt is related that they @atried off cattle dnd sheep and the white inhabitants had to walk about with tame tigers to guard and pro- tect themselves from their attack. The extraordiiiary sige of the égzg, which ig nearly @ foot long by ten inches in diameter, is vividly shown by comparison with a hens * egg. which seems nothing but s mere speck in comparison. Nearly helf a hundred hen ofgs could be packed inside, says the New York Commercial-Advertiser. Only a few perfect eggs have been found. They ‘comand a high prixe, owing to their scarcity, averaging from $100 to $500 a piece. QUEER KIND OF THEFT. Mexican Heotel-Keeper Tapped Elee- trie Light Company's Cabré @ Save Cost. A botel keeper in the City of Mexico, whose place was always brilliantly lighted by electric lamps, apparently without regard to cost, has recently been convicted by a local judge for stealing from the electric light com- pany the current with which bis hos- telry was lighted. He was con- demned to a year’s imprisonment and a fine of $33.70, and, as an additional penalty, was “disqualified for aJl kinds of public honors and employments,” reports the Chicago Chronicle. ’ The landlord who attempted to evade the electric company’s charges wired his house and made a connection with the company’s cables, with the intention, as he pleaded, of calling at the office of the company and explain- ing the matter ata later day. He also declared that he had used the cur- rent for “only @ month.” The com- pany had its suspicions aroused and applied to the court for authority to make an examination of the hotel lighting system, which was granted, with the result of revealing the fraud. The legal point of interest in- volved in the case hinged upon the definition of the word “robbery,” which the distriet code thus eluci- dates: “He commits robbery who possesses himself of a movable thing belonging to another, without right and without the consent of the per- Son entitled by law to dispose of it.” EXCHANGE OF CHILDREN. Where City Parents Trade Their Of- spring with People from the Country. A curious arrangement, called “The Exchange of Children,” was adopted by some charitable people of Berlin last summer, and will be re- vived this spring, says the New York Tribune. The promoters arrange for the temporary interchange of city and country children. Children of working people there begin to con- tribute to the support of the family sooner than in this coyntry. The lit- tle ones all have their tasks. This is true in the country, as well as in the citiés, but the labor performed by children in the towns is very dif- ferent from that on the farm. Hence some charitable women of Berlin organized a fresh-air scheme, bl we aa ong lead re may Places for a few sidlstis te te tener. Those from the farms come into the city, which is = valuable educational experience for them, and those in the city have an opportunity to enjoy a little country life, without depriving the parents of either of their assistance. Families who are willing to make such exchanges are invited to report at the headquarters, where an ex- change is arranged. Highest Waterfall. While mining im Mexico, William P. Dunham, of Denver, visited what ‘ts considered the highest waterfall in the world, It bears the Indian name of Bassaseachic, and is located about 190 miles west of the city of Chihua- hua, near the summit of the Sierra Madre~mountains. The elevation of the mountain is 6,500 feet sbove sea tort, The. conse Salle: 208 test. pene Large Artificial Like. Inag of tock little more than 200 toot wide the Usted tates nor ernment has decided to construct a dam of solid masonry, the first under pe yes ees ape at Basin create ante today ot te oak Oe ficial lake in the world. It will trri- gate 200,000 acres. sree maces ‘Beck on the Show. I A‘nisn in Skowhegan, Me., recent- ly sold his. Beloved pig to raise money to take his family to the cir- cus.. The next week he asked the town for financial aid, as he claimed that the hog was his entire capital ween tt. ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD TROOPS a Date Their estay. nt them the Tine bi of. the househoig . ae te ia being called inte from the estab. of the regiments from I i, according to the London A. fortiight before hig from Holland he selected so ca’ ef gentlemen, and formed them into &@ corps + Banas guards, under Lord Gerard. reased to 600 me: they formed the king’s bodyguard, and escorted him into his own again, Parliament disbanded the Ironside army, but an outburst of fifth men archy fanatics in January, 1661, af- forded Charles a pretext for main- taining troops for his personal pro- tection. Out of Monk’s disbanded army the king increased the life guard by 500 men, raised a regiment of foot guards, transformed th Cold- stream regiments into a second corps 6f foot guards, and converted troops of Cromwellian cavalry into royal horse guards. The Third regiment of foot ards was established in 1713, in Hondr of the union with Scotland. Tlie earl of Linlithgow’s tusiliers were brought to London and converted into “Scott’s guards.” These five regiments formed the nu- cleas Of the British army. CAMELS IN LOUISIANA. Said to Have Been Introduced There ‘by & Lumberman as Far Back as 1842. James Boardman Cable, of Long- each, Miss., is authority for the statement that his father, the late George W. Cable, imported a herd of Camiéls for utilitarian purposes in 1842, reports the New Orleans Pica- yane. He, was engaged in the manu- facture of-lumber under the firm name of Cable & Simpson, in the vi- einity of Covington, in St. Tammany parish, La. St. Tammany parish has a very sandy soil, and Mr. Cable con- ceived the idea of using camels in the hauling of logs. That was long before the days of the logging steam train. Horses and mules were unserviceable, because of the sandy soil. In 1842 a herd of camels was imported from Arabia, through New Orleans, and put to work hauling logs to the saw mill. The venture was a big success. The queer-looking beasts, with their slouchy gait, hauled logs to the mill and hauled the lumber to the river, which led to Lake Ponchartrain, over which the lumber was carried in schooners to New Orleans. Some years after the firm dissolved, and the camels were sold to a man out west. That was the last of the herd, so far as Mr. Cable knows. ANIMALS ON ANIMALS. Parasites That Take Up Their Lodg- ings on the Bodies, Beasts, Birds and Fishes. Ali animals both great and small, suffer as severely as mammals in the matter of parasites, says Leslie's Monthly. The parasite of the ostrich is a formidable-looking example. The most interesting of the pigeon’s para- sites is the one known as the slender Pigeon louse, which is supposed to do good service to the bird by thinning its body plumage as the weather grows hot. Fish also have parasites. The legs of one variety which inhabits the cE and pike are attached to the pos part of its anatomy, ard con- stitute paddles by means of which the organism can change its host and de- part to pay its attentions to another fish, Two dark spots in the forepart of the creature represent the first pair of legs, which have been convert- ed into suckers, by means of which the organism retains hold of its host. There is good reason to believe that this “pike louse” is not a parasitic tor- ment, but rather a desired attendant. In all probability it derives its nour- ishment from the mucous products se- wea tetas skin of the fish. And the toilet of one fish ry en, it for another which neéds its help. WHEN MILES WAS DEFEATED. Irish Weodchopper Was More Than ®@ Mateh for the General in Repartee. | Gen. Miles is quoted by a fellow of- ficer as telling the following story on himself: -_ “It was during our pursuit of Chiet Joseph,” said the general. “One ex- ceedingly stormy-night we encountered on our march in the Bearpaw moun- tains a few woodehoppers’ cabins. The woodsmen were not inelined to be very hospitable, but we finally induced them to share with us the protection their hute afforded. “They consented, however, only upoa condition that they should not under any circumstances be compelled to give up their beds. It feli to my lot to share the bunk of the boss, « very stern Irishman, who was not delighted with his guest. z “Hoping to establish an entente cor- Gale I said, banteringly, as we were preparing to retire: “Come now, Patrick, you know you'd be # long time in Ireland before Oud Ket & hance to sleep with a gen- eral.” a ’ pee ae opto tame ‘that you'd a long time in Ireland before you'd iver be made a general.’” @uly One Arsenal. Canada’s only ‘arsenal fis at Quebec. Her main artériés run lode to our frontier, - and in case ‘of wir could easily be-cut by raids, says & British CONVENIENCE IN THE PANTRY The proper location for a pantry is near the kitchen range, and near also to the dining-room; but, beyond the mere matter of location, the interior arrangement is an important factor in lessening or increasing the labor of housework. The point to be especially aimed at is such an arrangement of the pantry fittings as shall bring every article needed in cooking within easy reach of the KNEADING BOARD ON HINGES. housewife's hand, with as little moving as possible. It is the constant hurrying from one point to another to get this article here and that there that makes housework hard. It is well therefore to have the pantry as nearly square as possible. A square pantry gives the shortest distance from any point to that point where the kneading board is located. In one of the four sides will be located the doorway. The best arrangement for the other three sides, to my mind, is suggested in the accompanying illustrations. The kneading board should be located in front of the window. A most convenient device for securing the full advantage of this location is shown in Fig. 1. On the right of the window is a set of drawers, the uses of which will be obvious to any housekeeper. To the left of the window is a cabinet into which two barrels of flour can be rolled for bread and for pastry. The top of the cabinet is movable to give access to the flour. The cover of the barrel next the window is made of just the right KITCHEN CABINET. length so that it will span the space in front of the window, and upside down it serves as a kneading board. When replaced in position over the barrel, the kneading surface will be underneath, which will keep it wholly from the dust. If shelves over the position of the barrels are desired, the kneading board cannot be hinged, but must be lifted and placed in position. At right angles to this arrangement for flour barrels, gueading board and drawers, may well be placed a cabinet for holding all kinds of groceries need CHARTS HER FIGURE An anthropometric chart is a necessary possession for the young woman who is striving for classic proportions in her figure. The woman who does not number such a chart among her possessions is quite behind the times, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. The height, the breadth, the depth, the girth of the anatomy, each must come in for a share of attention. Calipers, a breadth stick, a height stick, and a steel tape measure are needed. In making inventories of one's inches, it is necessary to take each measurement with the body in the same position and in the same way. The following are founded on the classic ideal: Height, 5 feet 5 inches; weight, 138 pounds; waist, 27 inches; bust, 34 inches; arm, at the shoulder, 13 inches; wrist, 6 inches; ankle, 8 inches; calf of leg, $14\frac{1}{2}$ inches; thigh, 25 inches. The arms extended should measure the height from the tips of the third fingers. The hand in length should measure one-tenth of the height. The length from the elbow to the middle finger should be the same as from the elbow to the middle of the chest. From the top of the head to the chin should be the length of the foot. The height of the head should be just four times the length of the nose. From temple to temple the measurements should equal the length of the face. The stretch of the thumb and second finger should just measure the face. The stretch of thumbs and first fingers should exactly circle the throat. Measured by heads, the eight parts ed in cooking. Ordinarily such groceries are kept in bags, or in paper, tin and wooden boxes, upon open shelves, one behind another, entailing much trouble and occasional spilling when getting one receptacle out from behind another. With such a cabinet as that shown in Fig.2, everything is by itself and instantly available, without the disturbance of any other article. The large closets in the lower part of this cabinet accommodate iron and large tin utensils, and jugs containing molasses, vinegar, etc. On the side of the pantry opposite the window is the dumb-waiter, and also open shelves for dishes (Fig. 3). If the pantry is in a city home, where ice is a necessity, the space occupied by the dumb-waiter may be used for the refrigerator; but in the country home, where ice is not used, a dumb-waiter is of the greatest importance. Articles that must be kept cool in warm weather can be placed upon its shelves, run down into the cellar with the motion of a hand, or drawn up as easily from that cool place, without the repeated and fatiguing ascending and descending of cellar stairs, which is one of the most distressing factors in many housekeepers' daily lives during the hot days of summer. The building of such a dumb-walter as that figured is not a difficult matter DUMB-WAITER AND SHELVES at all. A rectangular closet is constructed, the floor being cut out beneath it. On either side, within, a strip of pine board is fastened. These strips extend down through the floor to the bottom of the cellar. A little space is left behind each strip for the pulley cord to run, and on the inner surface of each strip there is a groove running from top to bottom for the projections on the side of the dumb-waiter to slide up and down in. At the top of each strip are inserted stout window pulleys, over which the cord passes and is attached to the sides of the dumb-waiter. This is simply a set of shelves with side pieces firmly attached. Four shelves in the dumb-waiter will be sufficient, and above them may be two stationary shelves at the top of the closet. Glass doors may be provided for these fixed shelves, and two narrow wooden doors for the lower part. All the woodwork should be thoroughly oiled, to prevent swelling. When one is building or remodeling a house, the pantry should, if possible, be placed upon the northern side of the house. If it is necessary to locate it upon the northeast or the northwest corner, let the window be upon the northern side, so that the room may be kept as cool as possible in summer.—Country Gentleman. which make the height of the classic figure divide up in this fashion: Height, one head from crown of head to bottom of chin to breastbone; one-half head from top to bottom of breastbone to the middle of abdomen; one head from the middle of abdomen to beginning of lower limbs; one head from beginning of lower limbs to middle of thighs; one half head from middle of thigh to top of knee; one-half head from top of knee to bottom of knee; one and one-half heads from bottom of knee to small of ankle; one-half head from small of ankle to soles of feet. Two Ways of Serving Eggs Here are two good ways of serving eggs. For creamed eggs, boil four or five eggs hard, cut them lengthwise and pour over them a white sauce made of one pint of milk, one tablespoonful of flour and one tablespoonful of butter. For baked creamed eggs, poach six eggs, put them on a deep platter, grate over them a little cheese and cover with a white sauce made of one pint of milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour. Bake for five minutes in a quick oven. Excellent Furniture Polish. To make a cheap and excellent furniture polish take one ounce of white wax, one ounce of castile soap, half a pint of turpentine, two ounces of beeswax, half a pint of soft water. Dissolve the white wax and soap, which must both previously be cut into fine shavings, in the water on the stove and dissolve the beeswax in the turpentine. When nearly cold mix these ingredients together and the polish will be ready for use. Oldest Dressmaker's Bill. Among the many tablets found in Chaldea is what has been termed "the oldest dressmaker's bill." It dates from 2800 B. C., and is an itemized list of garments given by the king to the priests and priestesses of one of the temples. proper restriction of the phagoctyte." Very few nonprofessional men know what a phagoctyte is, and even numerous physicians try to get along without having made its acquaintance, while most medical handbooks ignore the thing, and the few dictionaries mentioning it describe it wrongly. Here is Prof. Metschnikow's definition: "Phagocytes constitute the police of the human body. As a big city cannot get along without officers of the law to keep crime and vice under control and the moral atmosphere pure and wholesome, so health is impossible unless the phagocytes exercise their proper functions in the streets and channels of our interior. "Phago means eat, devour, absorb; cyte is the Greek for cell. The phagocyte, then, is an absorbing or eating cell; one might term it the scavenger of the human body. So much science recognized long ago; also that its main food consists of bacteria, the elements of organs peculiar to the larvae stage and other noxious matters." The author continues, according to the Indianapolis Journal: "The above, my biological and bacteriological investigations and experiments proved correct, but science's further argument, namely, that the phagocyte, after performing this most important office for the youthful body, becomes itself food for the developing organs of the adult,' is a serious mistake." JAPAN A CURIOUS LAND. "There is no land that I have ever seen so curious as Japan," said Robert W. Brinkley, of Yokohama, to a Washington Star reporter recently. "I have lived in Japan for the past 22 years and it is to me still a sort of wonderland. "One of the strange features of the country is that all crops and fruits are almost certain to deteriorate. I have seen beautiful peaches grown the first year from stock imported from the United States. The second year they were still fairly good; the third season poor and after that unfit to eat. Nothing in the vegetable world would seem to retain its excellence for any length of time. It is a bamboo country and everything reverts to the bamboo. Beautiful lush grass covered many a plain and yet it gives no nutriment to cattle. Garden vegetables look as fine as any grown in the United States, but when cooked they have no taste. The flowers are of gorgeous hues, but they are without perfume. "But even with these imperfections it is a very interesting corner of the earth and many things recommend it. Its inhabitants are in their way a fine people. In the rural districts particularly the natives are the most honorable beings I ever met. In the cities they are sharper mentally, but not nearly so scrupulous." WILL STUDY OLD RUINS American Savants on the Way to Explore Remains of Civilization in Russian Turkestan. Raphael Pumpelly, who has been charged by the Carnegie institution with the exploration of Russian Turkestan has arrived at St. Petersburg with his son, B. W. Pumpelly, to procure the necessary permission. They will join Prof. W. H. Davis and Ellsworth Huntington, of Harvard, and Prof. Richard Norton, director of the American school of classical studies of Rome, at Baku. The party will search for remnants of the once flourishing civilization of the basin of the Sea of Aral, will investigate the climatic changes that have taken place there in historical times, and will seek to discover whether such changes have been sufficient to cause the present decline of this region, and whether equal if not greater importance should not be attributed to economic and political changes, such as the interruption of the old caravan route by the Arabs and Turks the devastation of the country, the settlement of a population unused to agriculture and the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to India. The party will remain several months, some of the members perhaps longer, future work being determined by the results of the present reconnaissance: Will Be Bride of n Peer. Lord Monson and Mrs. Turnure, daughter of Gen. Roy Stone, U. S. A., will be married soon, according to announcement made at London. Lord Monson is the nephew of Sir Edmund Monson, the British ambassador to Paris, and was at one time intended for the diplomatic service. He was appointed to the household of the late duke of Saxe-Coburg, but by the death of his father in 1900 he found himself a peer of the realm, the owner of the country seats and entailed estates. He s 34 years of age. Big Wild Animal Trade A dealer in wild animals in Hamburg collected and sold last year 76 lions, tigers and panthers, 42 bears, 52 elephants, 64 camels and dromedaries, 730 monkeys and a large number of smaller animals and birds. Where Man Is Small. To ordinary eyes a man 1,000 yards away—say, on a rifle range—appears as a dot; he could not be known as a man except as being a smaller dot than a horse. Life on the Ocean Wave Has Its Drawbacks for the Young Navr Recruit. The phrase "acquiring the sea habit," which is frequently used in connection with the training of recruits in the navy, carries to the lay mind something of an impression of a rolling gait, a chronic hitching at the waistband of the trousers, a saline vocabulary and a canny knowledge of the brands of eating tobacco. The navy department knows the epoch as one in which the recruit is learning to make himself comfortable aboard ship, and during which he is liable to fits of depression, in which more things than sea water look blue. It is the period in which the romance of a life on the rolling deep becomes temporarily obscured and life seems hard. During such a period the recruit is likely to write to his family or his congressman in such terms as seem to warrant an abolition of the service, and a considerable part of the work of the navy department lies in assuring inquiring friends that the recruit will feel better when he gets over it. If the investigation which is made in each case of complaint happens to cover some weeks, it is likely to get to the recruit about the time he is beginning to take notice and enjoy himself, and he is quite willing to admit that "things look different." The present conditions of the service which seem likely to be permanent, says the Washington Times, make it absolutely essential that the enlistment contract shall be enforced as strictly as it has been enforced since the date of the executive order which abolished the former privilege of discharge by purchase. WAIL OF A DEPOSED KING. Paris Chef Who Has Cooked for Royalty Tells of the Good Old Days. Casimir, the chef of the Maison Doree, in Paris, which closed its doors some months ago, now describes himself as a king without a kingdom, says the Detroit Free Press. He has been lamenting to a correspondent that the beaux jours have gone forever. He says: "In the olden days—in the days of Rosini and the duke of Hamilton and others, or during the empire—the people knew how to dine. M. Le Bardon would come and consult me five hours in advance and Mme. La Marquise two days ahead. They came down to the kitchens, and we consulted, and a dinner in those days was a poem, not a meal. The kings, alas, have changed all this; ab, they have much responsibility, the kings. "Your King Edward was a customer of mine; but what do you think he preferred? The simplest dishes. And Leopold of Belgium"—Casimir's dark eyes blazed with scorn—"soup, and a slice of beef. Alas, is that a dinner for a king? The king of Portugal is the only one who knows in these degenerate days how to eat. The last time he dined with me he sent for me and pressed both my hands. Tears were in his eyes. He kissed me on both cheeks and assured me that it was not a dinner, but a creation." WHERE ASPHALT IS CHEAP. Indian Territory Contains an Extensive Mine That Is Being Utilized. Not far from the town of Ardmore, in Indian territory, and partly within the corporation limits is an asphalt mine which is thought to be extensive enough to pave all the streets in Indian and Oklahoma territories. Ardmore proposes to build her streets of native asphalt, says a report from that place. She will be prodigal in the use of asphaltum, for the reason that it is more economical than crushed rock and cement. The plan is to take the asphaltum as it comes from the mine and make a foundation six inches thick. This will be pounded and rolled until compact. Upon this will be spread a coating of the same material crushed into coarse gravel size, mixed with the powdered material that results from the crushing. This also is thoroughly tamped and rolled. The last coat is made of the same material ground to a powder and then heated. No wagon ways have been made, but many sidewalks have been built in this manner and they are giving most satisfactory results. The crude asphaltum can be laid upon the streets at about half the cost of crushed stone. Projectiles in Navy. Four classes of projectiles are used in the United States navy—armor-piercing projectiles, for use against armor; common shell, for use against unarmored, or very thinly-armored parts; chapnel, for service against exposed detachments of men a considerable distance away, and canister, which is employed against detachments of men lacking protection within close range. It is claimed by the Draft-Williams method of locating ores by the deflection of electrical currents that not only can deposits be located, but that the extent and depth of the lode can be determined with an accuracy that is quite impossible with any existing system of prospecting. A Film of Oil. According to Lord Rayleigh, a film of oil on water may be so thin that its thickness is no more than one twenty-five-millionths of an inch, which is computed to be, in all probability, the size of a molecule of the oil. TALKED OF IN WASHINGTON Some Interesting Gossip from the National Capital. Strange Faces May Soon Be Seen on Postage Stamps—Precedents That Have Been Established — The Government Printing Office. Washington.—There is a chance that the picture of Napoleon will appear on a United States government postage stamp. If it should it will be in connection with the new issue of stamps to commemorate the Louisiana purchase. C It has not yet been definitely decided that an exposition issue will be authorized, but there is .lit tle doubt about it, for Napoleon doubt about it, for the post office department authorized such issues for Chicago and Buffalo; and St. Louis will hardly allow herself to be ignored. The proposition is to place the head of Napoleon on one of the stamps probably that of the five-cent denomination. This is not the first time that the likeness of a foreign potentate has appeared on an American stamp. Isabella of Spain was celebrated thus in the Columbian series at the Chicago fair. Not much attention was paid to the fact, however, because the royal features appeared on the four-dollar stamp, which never went into general circulation and which was hardly seen except by collectors. Columbus was also celebrated in the same way, but he was on the five-dollar stamp. These are the only historical characters except American citizens who have been honored in such a way. If Napoleon goes on the five-cent stamp, which really goes out into general circulation, it will amount practically to a precedent. The other stamps of the new issue will bear the pictures of Jefferson, McKinley and some other, not yet determined. Jefferson's will go on the two-cent stamps, which is a purely domestic affair, while McKinley's will go on the ten-cent stamp, probably. Precedent Against Roosevelt. An interesting question will arise over the proposition to put the head of President Loubet, of France, on one of the St. Louis series. The plan which commends itself to the exposition boomers is to place upon the four stamps of the new issue portraits of the four representative persons of the two countries involved in the purchase and in the celebration of Président Loubet. the centennial of Louisiana purchase. Thus Jefferson and Napoleon would represent the period of purchase. When it comes to the time of the exposition, however, embarrassment arises. The exposition will be opened by Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States. The president of France is M. Loubet. President Roosevelt's picture cannot go on a stamp; that would be contrary to a post office regulation of such long standing that it now has the effect of law. Instead of Roosevelt's picture, therefore, it is proposed to use the bust of McKinley, which would be specially appropriate, because McKinley was president when the law was enacted giving the government's sanction to the exposition. But if Roosevelt's portrait is barred because the postal regulations say that no living American shall be represented on a United States postage stamp, how about Loubet who, to be sure, is not an American, but who would seem to be less entitled to the honor? To be sure, there is no regulation against it, but the American people who use the stamps will hardly take kindly to the Loubet proposition. There may be a compromise by picturing some typical scene or industry, just as the Buffalo stamp had a picture of a flying railroad train. Up to the present time there is no record of any nation except the United States issuing a postage stamp bearing the effigy of anybody but one of its own rulers. Owners of automobiles in Washington are up in arms because the district commissioners have just adopted new regulations with regard to speed and control. A These regulations are no more strict than those of some other cities, but the speeders are sensitive and say they are unnecessarily harsh. What they object to espe- The Policeman's Copor object to especially is the regulation-that each machine shall carry a number clearly visible on the back and that every driver of a machine shall show a license whenever asked by an officer of the law. The automobilists have been holding meetings where their indignation has blazed out. To number the machines they declare would disfigure them and would subject the owners to a certain amount of humiliation. The most strenuous objection, however, was to the rule requiring the showing of licenses. It happens that a large proportion of the automobilists of Washington are young women who have hitherto enjoyed unhampered the freedom of the asphalt. A good many of them have never thought of such a thing as applying for a license or indeed of taking any other steps to recognize the rights and susceptibilities of timid pedestrians. The indignant automobilists now declare that the only object of the new regulation is to afford fresh and cheeky policemen an opportunity to stop any pretty girl they see with an automobile and under pretense of inspecting her license engage her in agreeable conversation. Suits are to be brought in the courts to test the legality of the new regulations and all sorts of denunciation has been heaped on the unfortunate commissioners; but public sentiment is with them and would like to see even more stringent regulations adopted. The asphalt streets of Washington afford peculiar temptation for the speeding of machines, especially for cutting fancy circles and executing short turns to the demoralization of man and beast. Before congress comes together again the new government printing of- Before congress again the new govor face—far and away the largest establishment of its kind in the world will be occupied and in operation. A WORKER It is not generally known that the United States, amidst its other activities, conducts a printing business which is more than twice as extensive as any other carried on in the world. other carried on The First Government Printer. in the world, either public or private. Hitherto this business has been conducted in a fire trap—a ramshackle white brick building that is in constant danger of going up in smoke or collapsing under its own weight. Four years ago congress after many trials appropriated $2,400,000 to construct a new building which should be somewhat more nearly adequate to the demands. That building is now ready to receive the machinery which is being installed as rapidly as possible. The new office will have a floor space of 14 acres, divided into seven stories with very few partitions. The building will be lighted with 1,500 windows, utilizing one-third of the entire wall space. The walls of the rooms are lined with white enameled bricks which makes absolute cleanliness achievable. The building is fire proof. The outer walls are three feet thick. The floors are constructed according to the engineers' estimates to bear a load of 85,000,000 pounds—40,000 tons. It took 10,000,000 brick to construct the outer walls and the steel frame work weighs 12,000,000 pounds. All the machinery will be run by electricity. Three dynamos of 300 horse power each will run 300 presses, 7,000 electric lights, 11 elevators and all the other devices. There is a system of ventilation which is a marvel. Fans, placed in a loft, driven by electricity draw the air through shafts from the floors, expelling it through the roof with such velocity that the atmosphere of the immense building will be changed once every seven minutes, and each employee will have 3,000 cubic feet of pure air every hour. Rapid Work. Some idea of the great size of the government printing business may be gained from the statement that there are 3,957 employees on the payroll and that these operatives are at work all the year round printing and binding the tremendous mass of publications issued by the United States government. ```markdown ``` Of course when congress is in session the work is In the Government Bindery. congress is in session the work is much greater than at any other time, for there is an immense number of bills, reports and documents of every kind which have to be printed solely for the use of congress. But there is no time during the year when the presses are not rumbling and when publications, sometimes in sets of many volumes and frequently with superb illustrations, are not being thrown off. There is no establishment in the world where finer work can be done in spite of the great mass of it, and the beauty of it is that the work can be done with astonishing rapidity. An extraordinary instance of this was the publication of the report of the Sampson court of inquiry on the destruction of the Maine. That report contained 300 pages and was illustrated with a great many half-tone cuts. It was brought into the senate on the afternoon of March 28, 1898, in manuscript. The next morning it was on the desks of every senator and representative, printed and bound, and thousands of copies had already been struck off. Since that time the government printing office has given many other exhibitions of speed and skill. LOUIS A. COOLIDGE. Thickly Populated Islands. The most thickly populated island in the world is Malta, which has 1,360 people to the square mile. Barbados has 1,054 people to the square mile. It's the Only Place One of the highest honors that can be conferred upon a graduate of the Philadelphia High School for Girls has this year been bestowed upon a young Negro girl. Out of 196 pupils Susan E. Masseaux has been selected as the salutatorian of the class of 1903, which will hold its commencement in June at the Academy of Music. Miss Lottie Smith, teacher of elocution, made the selection. The valedictorian is Carolyn Croasdale, white. Ex. While Prof. Booker T. Washington is engaged in traveling through the country in Puliman Palace cars: with his secretaries distributing money to his broken down gang of alleged newspaper writers or owners, to enable them to devote all their time and space in booming him as the second, George Washington or as the new Moses: they are selling Negroes into slavery right near his school down in Ala., yet this fact does not seem to disturb the peaceful slumbers of Booker T. Washington and his hungry gang of retainers and shouters. One hundred young men and women graduated from Tuskegee Booker T. Washington's school last week and seventy five were turned out at Normal Prof. W. H. Councill's School, if it requires all the noise, puffing and blowing on the part Booker T. Washington and his camp followers in order to learn one hundred men and women how to hoe corn, and make up beds, and if the "Race Problem," cannot be settled until all the Young men and women receive their diplomas from Booker Washington's school, it would seem that the "Race Problem" might be settled within the next ten million years. A very light vote was cast at the Judicial election Monday but ten out of the eighteen candidates whom we named as winners came in under the wires in good shape;they were as follows: M. F. Tuley, Charles M. Walker, Frank Baker, Richard S. Tuthill, Frederick A. Smith, Edward O. Brown Lockwood Honore, Theodore Brentano, George Mills Rogers, and Joseph A. O'Donnell. The election was almost a clean sweep for the Democratic candidates, the Republicans only elected four Judges all told. Judge Elbridge Hanecy was overwhelmingly defeated and cast head foremost into his political grave. T. Thomas Fortune, who filled up on cheap Chicago whisky and staggered through its streets in company with Booker T. Washington during the meeting of his Business League in this city in 1901 and who was appointed by the War Department last year as special Labor commissioner to visit Hawaiian Island and Manila, got into some kind of trouble before leaving Manila for his home in New York city: at the time of his appointment The Broad Ax predicted that the five thousand dollars which he received as salary was not enough money to supply him with fighting whisky that before he returned home he would redisgrace himself, and the entire Afro-American race, and it has come to pass that we were right in predicting as we did. We would suggest to Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad-Ax, of Chicago, that he stop fighting the preachers. Don't find so many flaws in men's lives. Our motto is, "Never strike at any one unless he starts the fight." Then we are able to say, "We must and will defend ourselves." The Palladium St. Louis Mo. We may be wrong, brother Wheeler! However, it is our opinion that whenever men claim that they are DISCOUNT PERIOD. Wards—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8....May 31 Wards—29, 30, 31, 32, 33....June 15 Wards—28, 29, 34 and 35....June 30 F. W. BLOCKI, Commissioner of Public Works. sanctified and set themselves up as the moral and spiritual teachers or leaders of the people, they should practice what they peach and if they fall to do so then it is the true duty or the mission of the newspaper to turn the electric light on them regardless of the consequence. Generosity. The Doctor—You have a bad cold, Mr. Jiggs. I'll give you some pills for it. Jiggs—Oh, never mind, doctor. You can have it for nothing.—Harvard Lampoon. Hardships of the High. Her Fashionable Friend—Why didn't you bring the baby? 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