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REV. W. A. BARTLETT MOB AND LYNCH LAW. Rev. W. A. Bartlett, of this great city, is such a thorough Christian that he believes he is discharging his highest duties to his God, by advocating "Anarchy, Mob and Lynch Law", from his pulpit. This holy man of God is so constituted that it is very hard for him to digest these propositions that "whoever scores a point against the right or the truth loads the dice against himself." That the greatest enemy to the truth is prejudice; that its greatest friend is time and honesty. That whoever commends the brutalities either of the past or the present assists in sowing the seeds for future crimes." Therefore Rev. Bartlett must naturally or from necessity be classed with that peculiar class of individuals who are enemies to society, law and order for no real man whatever his calling in life may be, can be of the slightest benefit to the human race who urges its members to over-ride or trample the established laws of the land under their feet, and resort to anarchy mob and lynch law for the sole purpose of wreaking vengeance upon a certain class of individuals for violating the laws. Probably the Rev. gentleman accounts for his advocacy of anarchy, mob law and lynch law on the same theory or ground that John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church, used when he insisted that "earthquakes were produced by the wickedness of men; and the only way to prevent them was for everybody to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." But let us proceed more seriously and endeavor to convince Rev. Bartlett that it is impossible to let down the flood-gates of anarchy, mob and lynch law, in order to speedily dispatch one class of criminals out of the world without engulfing and pulling down the entire civil or social fabric of the Republic; that if we follow his line of reasoning to its logical conclusions wherein he declaims against the evil of "letting the law take its own course," but instead thereof to permit every man or any number of unresponsible men to usurp the functions of the courts, and set themselves up as the judges of the law, jurors, prosecuting or torturing witnesses, and subject the victim which they select to the most brutalizing treatment without permitting the accused to prove his innocence," such a theory is repugnant to the letter and spirit of the law; nevertheless Rev. Bartlett is of the impression that "such a course is far superior, or more preferable, than the olden or the established method of "letting the law take its own course, that the burning of human beings at the stake, the torch and the rope, are all evidences or proof of a higher civilization." Rev. Bartlett is so full of the spirit of anarchy, mob and lynch law, that he entertains the foolish idea that it can be adopted or resorted, to, to punish individuals for committing one offense and then stop right there, but that is a feat impossible to accomplish; and if Rev. Bartlett and his adherents justifies anarchy, mob and lynch law in one instance they are forced or compelled to justify it in all instances, and what would such state of affairs mean? It would simply mean that every hour of the day throughout the entire year, anarchy, mob and lynch law would be stalking throughout the land, burning, butchering, mobbing and lynching its victims whether they were guilty or not. For every hour in the year, yes, almost every minute in th day men deviate from the law, and if Rev. Bartlett's theory is to prevail, then all these men would be subject to anarchy, mob and lynch law. It is said by Rev. Bartlett "that the sacredness of the home and womanhood must be protected." That is too true, for no man entertains a higher regard nor a more exalted opinion for honest, pure and respectable women, be they white or black, than ourself, but can Rev. Bartlett and his followers say as much? Have they one word to say against the awful invasion of the homes of virtuous colored women by white men? No! Would they be perfectly willing to burn at the stake the very lowest white wretch for raping or ravishing a virtuous and highly respectable Afro-American woman? No, not in twenty thousand years! These are some of the things that Rev. Bartlett and his supporters fail to take into consideration when they are engaged in urging their hearers to burn Negroes at the stake for doing the same thing that the white men have been resorting to for centuries. Again, we want Rev. Bartlett to distinctly understand that we have not the slightest sympathy for any Negro who really assaults a decent woman; but in most cases there is always a reason, or cause, or an impelling motive which leads vile and vicious creatures to commit such crimes, and some Negroes who have been robbed and unmercifully abused by the whites, seek revenge by attacking the female members of the family. Other Negroes observe white men consorting with Negro women and they make up their minds to mingle with white women, then a lynching bee occurs. The very same white men who spend much of their time in associating with Negro women will help to mob, lynch and burn the Negro at the stake for embracing white women. Now, as we have stated many times before, that "if white men would set the example and hold themselves absolutely aloof from associating with Negro women, they would then have some justification for cutting off the nose, ears, hands, limbs, and the other appendages of the Negro, selling them to the highest bidders for cash, and burning him at the stake, for assaulting white women. This, however, has always been the characteristic of the white man, for from time immemorial he has experienced much pleasure or delight in degrading and debauching the females belonging to the darker races, but whenever the males of the darker races attempt to follow his example then he transforms himself into a hideous monster and conducts himself like the hell-hounds who have just stumbled across a new victim, and no one is more familiar with these facts than Rev. Bartlett. Many of the best citizens of these United States attempt to justify anarchy, mob and lynch law, on the ground that "the courts are too slow, that under the present laws it is impossible to try the accused the same day the crime is committed, that mobs seldom make mistakes," that they never error if their victim happens to be a Negro, but that is not always true for there are many white men residing in certain sections of this country, who have painted their faces black and have gone forth and committed assaults upon their own female relatives and friends, and after satisfying their brute passions in that respect they have joined in the "Nigger hunt," and assisted to mob, lynch and riddle the body of some Negro with bullets who was entirely innocent of committing the crime. No one who knows anything about the history of anarchy, mob and lynch law can deny the truthfulness of these statements. In conclusion, Rev. Bartlett whines and draws a vivid picture of the crowded court room, the accused gloating over his crime, and the criminals going free, and being furnished with flowers and delicacies." That is generally true when white men are on trial charged with assaulting white women only, but it is untrue as far as the Negro assaulter is concerned, for he never has the money to enjoy such delicacies and respectable colored people never furnish women ravishers with such luxuries. Therefore Rev. Bartlett must refrain from inti- HEW TO THE LINE. [Name] mating that the courts would be too merciful to the Negro who would be charged with actually assaulting white Doctor Howard S. Taylor the Able and cago, Who Believes that in All Case Take Its Course; That It Will be This Country to Permit Anarch Administer MEETING OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL. Last week the Afro-American Council held its annual session at Louisville, Ky., and during the meeting the leaders of the two factions who were endeavoring to get control of it hurled many vile epithets at each other, and it came near breaking up in a riot. It appears that those who tag after Booker T. Washington because he favors the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South, started the row or fight by placing his picture on the stage and to make the grand stand play more effective Washington sprang forth on the stage just as his picture was being held aloft by one of his brainless followers; then the fuss, fight and confusion, began which was kept up until a picture of the late J. C. Price was displayed by the side of Washington's picture. At that point William M. Trotter, editor of The Guardian, Boston, Mass., arose and made a bitter attack upon Washington, and the slaves of the Wizard of Tuskegee, who hate every honest man or woman for adhering to the truth respecting Washington, and his false teaching, rushed to the defense of their master and for a time it looked as if there would be much bloodshed. The opponents of Washington ought to have displayed the picture of Prof. Du Bols, who is a live one and who stands for the best interest of the Negro, instead of displaying the picture of a dead one. The same old gang with one or two exceptions were declared elected officers for the coming year. Old Tom Fortune, who brands all Afro-American Democrats "as curs" and who is always sure to disgrace himself and his race, was re-elected president. Bill Pledger, W. H. Steward, J. Q. Adams, James H. Guy, James Lewis, A. D. Griffin, W. H. Lewis, R. J. Jeffery, vicepresidents. Cyrus Field Adams secretary. Mrs. F. B. Williams corresponding secretary; John W. Thompson Treasurer; L. G. Jordan, chaplain; Emmett J. Scott, Booker T. Washington's head chamber-mald, chairman of the executive committee. This latest deal shows that the AfroAmerican Council, the Afro-American Press Association, and the Negro National Business League are all one and the same thing, that they are owned and controlled by Booker Washington, old drunken Tom Fortune, and company, that from henceforth they can be of no practical benefit to the Negro race. --- women, for if he does, then it is evident that he is a fit subject for the insane asylum. 1930 Fearless Prosecuting Attorney of Chies the Law Should be Permitted to Detrimental to the Best Interest ofists, Mobbers and Lynchers to Its Laws No land on Earth has so many persons trying to live by their wits as has the United States. And this is the result of an universal education and labor saving. All the professions were long ago overcrowded. Now the papers and magazines and everything is crowded with advertisements to swindle the unwary. The fellows in the business seem to have agents at every post office to give names of all who are sick or lame. And they act all so alike that often it would seem as though they formed the great trust and are employing all the skill and ingenuity of the Devil to bate and catch people. "Send no money" is their grand motto. But just try one of them once and you will never get free of them. They will send you trial packages, or by express C. O. D. after inspection. They will keep after you and scold you for not being cured or satisfied, propose compromises and threaten you. Send to one and you shall soon hear from others. What is to become of us? HOLT. NOTES FROM NORMAL, ALA. The Normal Summer School opened June 22, 1903, with a good attendance. The number is increasing and interest growing. Normal is situated on the Southern slope of a beautiful mountain, with a broad, fertile valley, bounded by a chain of verdant mountain peaks, extending far in the distance, which affords a prospect most enchanting and inspiring to students of nature. The absolute pure water and salubrious atmosphere are most bracing. Thorough instruction is given by an efficient corps of teachers in Pedagogy, Language, Mathematics, History, Science, Book-keeping, Typewriting, Stenography, Art Painting and Instrumental Music. Student work is encouraged. Special inducements are offered for July. We extend a cordial invitation to all to spend a July at Normal. The many friends of President W. H. Councill will rejoice to learn of his constant improvement and the great benefit which he is receiving at Hot Springs, Ark. Major John C. Buckner, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector of Chicago, is laboring night and day at the present time in order to furnish "Uncle Sam" with a complete report of all the affairs of the office up to July 30th. --- Former governor Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, is visiting his brother, Mr. Bartlett S. Johnson, at his residence Eutaw Place extends, on his way to New York. He is accompanied by Mrs. Johnston. Governor Johnston last night talked interestingly to a reporter of the Sun of the conditions in the South, and particularly in reference to the Negro problem and the work that is being done by Booker T. Washington's Industrial School for Negroes at Tuskegee. According to Governor Johnston the beneficial effects of this institution and the influence of Washington for good upon his race are very greatly overestimated and exist largely in the minds of Northern philanthropists, who are without practical experience with the real Negro. "While governor," said Governor Johnston, "I visited the Tuskegee Institute, and while I think that to teach the Negro a trade is better than teaching him Latin, Greek and higher mathematics. I do not believe that the work of the institute is doing good to either the Negro or the state. From my own observation I know but one student of the school who ever amounted to anything at all long the lines in which he was instructed. The trouble about educating the Negro is that while you may give him a little knowledge you in no wise raise his moral standard. As a rule the Negro is laking in morals, and while sometimes you find one who has the proper ideas they are very rare. "For instance, a Negro has served a term in the penitentiary not only resumes his former place in society when he is released, but there is not the slightest stigma of shame attached to him in the eyes of other Negroes. In fact he is a sort of a hero. "It is a tremendous problem this Negro question, and to my mind it is an individual one which the Negro must work out for himself. I read with interest the editorial in the Sun this morning, advocating the colonization of 500,000 'cottonfield' Negroes in the state of Massachusetts, and I want to say that I most heartily approve of the idea and wish that it could be done. We can not only spare that many in the South, but I believe that after a brief experience that those well informed persons in Massachusetts who are so fond of advising the South how to deal with the Negro question would change their ideas on the subject. The experiment would be watched with interest throughout the South, and I think the people of Massachusetts would begin to look at the whole question in a new light. Let them colonize the Negroes there in sufficient numbers to make them a factor in the politics of the state and perhaps they would conclude that in some things they had mistaken. "As for Booker Washington, he is an exceedingly cleaver Negro, but in my judgment his work in Alabama has done very little toward what is commonly called the 'uplifting of his race.' nor has he any great influence even among the Negroes. They will flock to hear him speak, but as for following his advice and doing as he tells them to do, they do not do it. He has been successful in obtaining money for his school, and he has made it a sort of a fad, but I cannot see that it has done much good. Certainly its work has been vastly overestimated by people outside of the state." Governor Johnston said that the appointment of Negroes to Federal positions in the South by President Roosevelt and the overthrow of the "Lily Whites" has had the effect of causing unrest throughout the state among the Negroes, who are being led to believe that they are a factor in the politics of the country and must insist upon their rights."—The Sun, Baltimore, Md. Grace Harrison is the only colored girl who ever graduated from the Los Angeles State Normal School. Rev. Graham, New Orleans, La. and attorney J. Gray Lucas dined with Mrs. E. McDonald, 3032 Dearborn st., Wednesday evening. Mrs. Frank W. King, 450 37th street, left for Oxford, Ohio, the first of the week, where she will spend one month in visiting with her many friends. Miss Marguerite Britton, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Britton, was quietly married to Mr. Samuel S. Hudson, Monday, June 29th, at the residence of the bride's parents. Lost.—$10.00 reward on ladies' Waltham gold watch, between 26th and 35th streets, on State or Dearborn streets, engraved N. E. Bryant on case. Finder will please return same to 3448 Dearborn street, or 3104 State street. F. W. Wills, the popular tonsorial artist, 288, 29th St., conducts one of the best establishments in his line in the city. His shop is always neat and clean; his assistants are trim and tidy, which is evident that Mr. Willis is an up-to-date business man. Mrs. Mary A. Williams and daughter, Miss Gladys, Baltimore, Md., arrived in the city Wednesday, and will remain six weeks in visiting at the homes of her brothers, S. W. and Noah D. Thompson. Last Friday evening, Miss Leeanna Jones, one of the hard missionary workers of Institutional Church and many of her friends gave a surprise party at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald,3032 Dearborn st. Miss Jones and party took entire charge of Mrs. McDonald and her home and they ran everything with a high hand throughout the evening. Doctor Francis Dickinson is a strong advocate of women wearing socks instead of long stockings. For she contends they will be much healthier by doing so, and the lower extremities will always be nice and cool in the hot season. For fifteen years Doctor Dickinson has worn socks and she likes them for the reason stated by her. Ex-alderman Wm. F. Brennan, who was never known as "hot stove." Brennan, Deputy Commissioner of Public Works, has disposed of his lovely mustach and now all the beautiful ladies who have any business to transact in the Department of Public Works fight shy of the efficient Deputy Commissioner since he lost his nice blond mustach. John J. Geary, assistant sheriff of Cook county, is having the sheriff's inner office and the other rooms in connection with it beautifully painted or decorated, which greatly adds to the appearance or the surroundings. John Geary, and the other able assistants of Sheriff Barrett's are all onto their jobs, and they are discharging their duties in connection with the sheriff's office like honest men. The professed friends of, the Bible are its worst enemies. The charge it with containing monstrous accounts of slaughter of human beings, robbery, etc., etc., while no such human events ever happened, and the writers did not mean that they did; and yet every story was true and is yet—the events are annually occurring as of old. But this does not mean that the Bible is of superhuman origin, infallible, moral, chaste in language or suitable to be read by school children, but the exact contrary.—The Humanitarian Review. The Booklowers' Magazine for July contains an able article on "The Possibilities of the Negro or The Advance Guard of the Race," by Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois, the article is illustrated with the portraits of Booker T. Washington, Granville T. Woods, the electrician; Edward H. Morris, Henry O. Tanner, the artist; Dr. Daniel H. Williams, Charles W. Chesnutt, the novelist; Kelly Miller, the mathematician; Francis James Grimke, the clergyman; Paul L. Dunbar, the poet, and Prof. Du Bois. 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"You are going too far!" vows Estella in haste, As I clasp her soft hand in my own, While my disengaged arm slow encircles her waist— And her voice has reproof in its tone. That she's wrong in thus thinking I try to make clear, And this is my reasoning's plan: "It's certain I'm not going very far, dear, When I'm sitting as close as I can!" -Town Topics. A Feelers Case "A case came to me this morning," said the great lawyer, "that I propose to handle without gloves." "What kind of a case is it?" asked the human interrogation point. "A case of soap," replied the legal luminary with an open-faced grain.—Cincinnati Enquirer. An Unnecessary Sacrifice. Paul—What in the world made him marry her? Sanford—Her wonderful skill in playing the piano. Paul—Didn't he know there were self-playing pianos in the market?—Brooklyn Life. "If it wasn't for me, sir," cried old Gayman, "you'd be the most forlorn and disreputable creature in this community." "That's right, pop," replied young Gayman, "I won't be able to claim first honors till you die."—Philadelphia Press. Speaking of Whoppers Mrs. Brown—Do you really believe the story of Jonah and the whale? Mrs. Green—Why not? My husband comes home and tells me bigger fish stories than that and expects me to believe them.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Its Significance Booth—Say, what does ova mean? Garrick—It is Latin for egg. Garrick—It is Latin for egg. Booth—Ah! Now I understand what the paper meant when it spoke of that shower of eggs I received as an ovation—N. Y. Times. The Only Class Left Him. "I really believe I was born great." "Indeed?" "Yes. There doesn't seem to be any prospect of my achieving greatness or having it thrust upon me."—Philadelphia Ledger. It All Depends. "Have you any idea what time my wife will return home, Hortense?" "No, sir, I can't tell. I know she went shopping, but I don't know how much money she had."—Chicago American. The Absent-Minded Man. "A bright spring day," she said, "makes me like a girl again." "You don't look it," returned the absent-minded man, who wished to be complimentary.—Brooklyn Eagle. One Way. Somerset—What's the best way to tell a gentleman? Bingham—Wait till he dies; then, see if the newspapers publish a list of the clubs he belongs to.—N. Y. Sun. She-What would be the result if women were to get their rights? women were to get their rights? He—Well, my private opinion is that more men would die old bachelors.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Johnnie—I see by the papers that diamonds are going to be much dearer. Flossie—They could never be dearer to me.—Town Topics. No Option Admissible. Jill—Why do so many little men marry big women? Jack—Ohl The big women marry the little men.—Puck. She Tried to Be. Maud—So Jack is engaged, is he? And is Lucy the bride to be? Irene—No; she's the tried-to-be.—The Lyre. IN MILITARY CIRCLES On the army this year we shall spend $130,000,000; on the navy, $85,- 800,000. The civil establishment will cost $126,000,000. A torpedo which can be steered and exploded by wires from a warship has been invented in Pittsburg for destroying submarine craft. During the Spanish-American war it was estimated that only three per cent. of the shots fired by American gunners hit the enemy's ships. In the recent quarterly target practice of the north Atlantic squadron 51½ per cent. of the shots hit. The first of the new 16-inch guns was satisfactorily tested at Sandy Hook with a charge of 642 pounds of powder and a 2,400-pound shell. The power chamber pressure was 38,000 pounds to the square inch and the muzzle velocity 2,306 feet a second. It is stated that when Lord Roberts comes to America in August it will be in his official capacity. King Edward has expressed a wish that his trip shall be regarded as an official one in return for the recent visits of distinguished American military officers to Great Britain. The McLean automatic one-pound gun, which is used in the navy, and which Gen. Miles says is "the deadliest weapon" he has ever seen, has been improved. The new gun was recently tested at Sandy Hook. It weighs about 450 pounds and discharges 25 one-pound projectiles with one pull of the trigger. It can fire 800 shots a minute. Last year the United States government ordered from the Uraga Dock company for service in the Philippines five gunboats. After the first boat was delivered at Manila structural defects of a serious character were discovered. The United States authorities insisted on the entire rebuilding of the remaining four boats, though they were already half-completed. AUTHORS AND BOOKS. In the printed records of Boston in the public library the birth of Ralph Waldo "Emmerson" is entered. Wireless telegraphy has already been made the subject of a book of 525 pages, with 259 woodcuts, by two Italians named Righi and Dessau. At the recent commencement exercises of the Columbian university at Washington the honorary degree of doctor of letters was conferred upon George Horton, the well-known author, formerly of Chicago, who is now pursuing literary and philological studies at the capital. John L, Griffiths is at work on the life of the late President Harrison. All the private papers of the president, including some unfinished manuscripts, have been turned over to him. Mr. Griffiths was closely associated with Mr. Harrison for many years. He is at present at Indianapolis. Hall Caine recently completed his first half century. While he is chiefly known as a novelist and dramatist, he is a man of many energies. He spent five years as an apprentice in an architect's office in Liverpool, but the technical knowledge he acquired he used mainly for themes in his early writings. WORTH THINKING OVER. A woman stops insisting on having her own way when you insist on her having it.—Chicago Journal. A little enthusiasm greases one's elbows and lubricates the whole mental machinery.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Jealousy and love cannot live long in the same heart. Soon one must be annihilated by the other.—Town Topics. To be perfectly just is an attribute of our divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.—Addison. If a man draws a blank in a lottery, he can tear up the ticket, but it's different in the matrimonial game.—Chicago Daily News. The chiefest action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still.—J. Webster. FEMININE HITS Edith—"I dreamed last night that I was going to be married." Kitty—"Funny, what absurd things come to us in dreams, isn't it, dear?"—Boston Transcript. Tess—"He's a gay Lothario. He tries to flirt with all the pretty girls in our street." Jess—"I've seen him trying to flirt with you, too."—Philadelphia Press. "The fools are not all dead yet," said the angry husband. "I'm glad of it, dear," calmly replied the other half of the combination. "I never did look well in black."—Stray Stories. Miss Parcavenue—"Are you going to the musical at the De Squalle's tonight?" Miss Utaplace—"I don't know. Are they going to have music or is Gwendolyn going to sing?"—Baltimore American. VARIOUS LITTLE MATTERS. On the last day of April there was in London a total of 108,685 paupers. Automobile owners are so numerous among the guests at Atlantic City hotels this year; that special storage and repair quarters have been arranged by several of the hostelries. It is probable that ere long an Italian company will establish a steamship line from Venice to Calecutta. At present Italy holds only one per cent. of the East Indian foreign trade, and most of that is carried on in foreign vessels. HEADS OF FOREIGN STATES. The sultan of Turkey and the queen of the Netherlands are the only total abstainers among European sovereigns. The empress dowager of China is selecting 14 princes of her own blood for study in Europe, America or Japan. Queen Helena of Italy has been elected a member of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome. She is the cleverest artist of any royalties. The prince of Monaco, who was prevented by a motor cycle accident from delivering his lecture at the Royal institution of London, is perhaps the first of living oceanographers. When the British association last met in Edinburgh the royal scientist drew large audiences to hear his accounts of his experiments upon the routes followed by the waters of oceans themselves, as distinguished from the voyagers upon them. The gambler at Monte Carlo would thus seem to serve science. La Figaro of Paris states that the members of the Jockey club of that city have a serious affair to settle with Leopold II. of Belgium on his next visit to the French capital, which will occur toward the end of the present month. It seems that when the king was last there, in February, he dined at the club off a "canard aux navets," which he pronounced to be the finest he had ever eaten, and the next day the chef of the club disappeared. It was later learned that he had been kidnapped by the Belgian monarch and is now in charge of the royal kitchens at Lachen. Then the Jockey club met and resolved some disagreeable things about the old royal roue, with more to come. RAILROADS AND THE COURTS Trackmen charged with the inspection and repair of the tracks and roadbed are held, in Smith vs. Erie Railroad company (N.J. Err. and App.), 59 L. R. A. 302, not to be fellow servants of a trainman so as to absolve the master from liability for injury to the latter by the negligence of the former. A railroad company is held, in Frost vs. Washington County Railroad company (Me.), 59 L. R. A. 68, to have the right, under legislative authority, to close the entrance to a navigable cove without making compensation to the owners of property on the cove, the value of which is thereby diminished. Evidence that additional precautions were taken, after an occurrence resulting in injury, to prevent others from being likewise injured, is held, in Georgia S. & F. R. R. company vs. Cartledge (Ga.), 59 L. R. A. 118, not to be competent as an admission of negligence on the part of one sought to be held liable for the injury. A railroad paymaster, traveling upon business of the company from station to station, and stopping between stations for the purpose of paying off emplies wherever they may be, is held, in Travelers' Insurance company vs. Austin (Ga.), 59 L. R. A. 107, not to be, while so doing, a "passenger" within the meaning of a policy of accident insurance granting double indemnity to the insured, if injured while riding as a passenger on a passenger car using steam as a motive power. MEN IN OFFICIAL POSITION. Paul Desmuke, of Amphion, Tex., who was recently elected justice of the peace, is without arms, but performs wonders with his feet. With them he handles a knife and fork with dexterity and writes with ease. For six months he was county clerk, kept the records accurately and they are models of neatness. James E. Burke, recently chosen mayor of Burlington, Vt., is a blacksmith. When notified that the supreme court had decided his election legal—it had been contested by the republican candidate—he was in his shop shoeing a horse. He finished his job before making any reply to the congratulations of his friends. The New York World asked young Gov. Beckham of Kentucky to communicate to it (and the public) his plans for putting a stop to the feuds. He telegraphed back: "When you succeed in evolving a real good plan for successfully stamping out sin and crime in New York please let me know what it is and I will try it in Kentucky if necessary." FROM THE NEW BOOKS. When prudence and reticence are off guard the man himself, past, present and future, comes into view.—Kent Fort Manor. You never could bet on that woman. If there was one or two things she'd be likely to do she wouldn't do either of them.—Tioba. Things always run in streaks; don't matter whether it's politics, love, farmin' or war. They don't travel alone.—Before the Dawn. Success undoubtedly often covers mistakes, but human nature is on the whole generous, or at least good-tempered.—Retrospect and Prospect. SCHOOL INTERESTS. Eighty-five per cent. of the children of Japan are now in school. The University of Zurich is about to establish a chair for journalism. Berlin has 540,000 school children, but only eight public playgrounds for them. Dr. Conradi, of the University of Leipsic, who has accepted a professorship at the Chinese Imperial university of Peking, is the first foreign scholar invited to teach Asiatic languages at a Chinese institution. He is 39 years old. Qualities That Neither Wealth Nor Education Can Invent Archbishop Temple, the recently deceased primate of the established Church of England and a man of the highest character, gave a short time before his death the following outline of what he considered really gentlemanly conduct: "The man who is thoroughly unselfish in all small things, he is the man in regard of whom it is quite impossible for you not to feel, that man is a gentleman. Let his rank in society be what it may, let him be ignorant of the ordinary conventionalities of social intercourse, still, if the man is truly self-sacrificing, if in his ordinary relations with his fellows there is true and genuine unselfishness, it is impossible for any man who has much to do with him not to feel 'That man is a gentleman.' I don't care whether he is learned or not, whether he is educated or not; I don't care how ignorant he may be, or how low he may stand; I don't care if he be ever so poor; the man who constantly shows that he is giving himself up for the sake of other people, that man is at heart and in reality one of nature's gentlemen and this is the way in which he shows it." RACE SUICIDE IN AUSTRALIA Birth Rate Has Dropped to Small Figuure and Marriages Are Few. A colonial newspaper has drawn attention to features in the affairs of Australia that are calculated to give pause to those who are looking forward to the future of this dependency, says London Sketch. One of these is what he calls the total arrest of immigration, and the other is the steady shrinkage of the birth rate. He puts the point very cogently thus: "Here is a continent equal in area to the whole of Europe, if Russia in Europe is omitted; it is only a little less than the United States." The richness of the country does not require to be enlarged upon, "yet," our correspondent goes on to say, "at the end of nearly 120 years of colonization, its population is less than 4,000,000, or about equal to that of a couple of London suburbs." The annual increase of population has fallen from 11 per cent. to two per cent. The marriage rate has shrunk from 8.64 to 6.87, and, while the average number of children for each marriage used to be six, it is now only a little over four. AN EAR FOR MUSIC. Unconscious Relations That Exist Between Musical Art and the Human Organism. According to a new theory advanced by Fere and Jaell, two French investigators, the influence of musical tones and intervals on the physical organism is exactly the same with all persons, says Success. The only difference between a musical and an unmusical person is that the former is able to realize the esthetic relations of these reactions, while the other is not. By means of Mosso's "ergograph," a sensitive device by which the exciting or depressing effect of any influence on the organism can be measured, the experimenters have ascertained which are stimulating combinations of sounds and which are depressing ones. Thus they find that a discord has just the same depressing physical effect on a person who "has no ear" as on one who is exquisitely sensitive to tones. "These experiments seem to prove," says the writers, "that our musical culture makes more and more perceptible to us the unconscious relations that exist between musical art and the human organism." UNCLE SAM'S GIRL ARMY. Five Thousand Young Women Work at Typewriters for Him Every Day. From eight o'clock in the morning until close to six in the evening there are 5,000 typewriters grinding out letters for the United States government. During these hours there are, of course, 5,000 typewriter girls busily hammering the machines, says the Chicago Tribune. Uncle Sam is the largest employer of typists in the country and should be the patron saint of the typewriter girl. The amount of manuscript his workers turn out would make even Clyde Fitch look dizzy. Uncle Sam is the nicest kind of a man for typewriter girls to work for. He pays large salaries and he supplies his workers with everything they want. If a girl expresses a preference for a certain kind of a machine she gets it. She does not have to sit down and try to pound a typewriter she does not like. Whenever a new typewriter girl is employed in one of the departments she names the machine and it is purchased for her. It is understood that the duke of Argyll has sold Iona island, Hebrides, to the Carthusians, who were recently expelled from the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in France. The terms of the sale provide for the preservation of the sacred and historical associations of the island. The Caper of Commerce. The caper tree is a bush which is grown in some parts of Spain and in Algeria, as well as in this portion of France. The commercial caper is the flower bud, which is gathered before its development and preserved in vinegar. It's the Only Place IT'S THE ONLY PLACE JUST LOOK WHAT YOU CAN FIND AT THE AFRO-AMERICAN NEWS STORE 8104 State Street WISDOM COMES BY READING Here all the best and leading weekly journals and magazines from all parts of the U. S. can be found every week including all other standard monthly, weekly and daily publications. A Full Line of Stationery, Cigars and Tobacco Papers sent by mail to any part of the country. Give us a call and see for yourself if we haven't what you want. Leave your order and we will get it for you. Remember the name and place AFRO-AMERICAN NEWS STORE 8104 State Street E. H. FAULKNER, Manager Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8403 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. THE LOBSTER'S ENEMIES. "The lobster," said an old fisherman, according to the New York Sun, "has no greater enemy than the bottom-feeding fishes—blackfish, codfish, haddock, and so on. "They eat the lobster entire when they find one that has just shed its shell, when it is not only soft but powerless, and they may disable a lobster and then destroy it even when it is in fighting trim. Half a dozen blackfish, for instance, might come across a lobster and manage to bite off its legs and so partially disable it. "The lobster is agile, a quick and long jumper through the water, but the blackfish is quicker and it can easily keep up; and the lobster finally disabled, it quickly finishes it. In this way a blackfish might get away with a lobster of considerable size. "The codfish gets many—very likely the codfish knows the haunts of the lobster better than men do. The skate, clumsy as it is, gets some; if it can blanket a lobster, get one of its big flap-like pectoral fins over it, the skate gradually works the lobster up to its mouth, and holds it so while it eats it. The skate gets crabs in the same manner, and there is a fish called the crab-eater. "In fact, there is constant warfare going on at the bottom of the sea among the dwellers there in the struggle for existence, and the lobster among them has no greater enemy than the bottom-feeding fishes." Sad Discovery. Lawson—You know young Jenkins and his wife thought before they were married that their life was going to be one grand, sweet song. Dawson—Yes. Lawson—Well, they can't either of them sing.—Somerville Journal. Mrs. Bacon-I understand if men were relatively as strong as beetles they could juggle with weights of several tons. Mr. Bacon—Well, doesn't the coal man do that same thing?—Yonkers Statesman. 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. J. E. Webb's Cigar Store, 280, 29th Street. Turner William's Cigar and News Stand, 2903 Armour Ave. M. H. Watts, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3742 State street. The Stationery, 2970 State street. J. C. Campbell, 145 W. 47th street., Cigars, Tobacco, Staple Groceries. Wm. H. Monroe, cigar and news stand, 486 State street. L. Levy, 506, 37th Street, dealer in Cigars and Tobacco. Geo. Blaine, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3420 Dearborn street. Whiteley Bros., 2724 State street, cigars, and news stand. Mrs. Florence Granger, 2940 Dearborn Street. Cigars, Laundry Office and News Stand. J. New 131 W. 51st street, cigars, tobacco and confectionaries. J. W. Hutchinson, 371 Dearborn street cigars and news stand. C. E. Hunter, 4503 Wentworth ave., cigars, tobacco, news stand. 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. WON HER OWN PROMOTION Young Woman Who Has Been Appointed to Office in the Philippines. One of the recent appointees of the department of justice is that of Miss Floy V. Gilmore to be an assistant attorney in the office of the attorney general of the Philippines. She is the first woman ever appointed by the department to such an important position. She owes her distinction entirely to her ability and ambition. She was born in Indiana and is 28 years old. Army officers who knew her in the Philippines say she is very pretty, says a Washington report. Miss Gilmore was clerk and secretary to E. Finley Johnson when he was professor of law at Michigan university. She devoted her spare time to studying law and graduated from the university law school. When the Philippine judiciary was established in 1901 Prof. Johnson was appointed judge of a court of the first instance. Miss Gilmore went with him. She took the civil service examination and was appointed stenographer in the attorney general's office. There she displayed such marked legal ability that Gov. Taft appointed her to her present position and she was unanimously confirmed by the commission. Her salary as stenographer was $1,400. She now draws twice that much. BOARD ON HOUSEBOATS. Accommodations Offered New Yorkers Who Like to Live on the Water. The fact that board can now be got on houseboats near New York puts the bachelor maid and the single man boarder in a position to test a new order of domestic accommodation, says the New York Sun. Two sorts of houseboats offer summer accommodations to boarders. First, there is the boat of comparatively primitive description, which does not rent for a large sum, on which the boarder gets merely a berth and a locker, and all the furnishings in the various departments are of the simplest and plainest. Then there is the houseboat of high class English pattern, with all modern house conveniences, antique fittings, library, staterooms, etc., and a liberal amount of deck room. The rates of board on the two kinds correspond with the accommodations offered. The water facilities for houseboating within 25 miles of New York are such as to arouse enthusiasm for this sort of summer lodging. Doubtless in addition to houseboat boarding colonies there will soon be houseboats offering furnished rooms and apartments to the public and others making a specialty of providing meals for the neighboring roomers. Cartridges as Currency. Emperor Menelik has had a curious experience in his efforts to replace barter by metallic currency in Abyssinia. The Maria Theresa thaler has for years been current, but for want of a smaller coinage salt blocks became the standard of exchange, and resisted all efforts, even of the emperor, to replace them by new currency coined in Paris some years ago. The salt blocks have given way, but not to the new coinage. The new standard of values is the rifle cartridge. Mite of a Salary. The smallest salary paid by the government of the United States to any public servant is received by Charles Henry Gibbs, of Nantucket, R. I., keeper of the "Bug Light." This lighthouse has been put out of commission because the shifting sands outside of Nantucket harbor have made it useless, but the government allows Mr. Gibbs, an ancient mariner, to live in the place, to protect the property, and it pays him one dollar a year. His Explanation. "That politica! rival of yours went so far as to intimate that you would sell your influence for money." "Professional jealousy, my friend," replied Senator Sorghum, soothingly. "He's cross because he hasn't any influence to sell."—Washington Star. Sete £ESe eee. pus : E} : > tere? Things on the Move, Detalcation by District of Columbia Omicial—Maj. Gen. Heywood to Postal Seandal Gossip. Washington,—The District of Co- tombia has ‘had a shock from which it Will not recover Wi for a long time. HH) Thieving has air & been discovered in i Wa the offices of the District of Colum- FF bia, and the cir- cumstances are so extraordinary that A) Wik the worthy citi- al! ‘ zens who have “ . been congratulat- , ing themselves for fj yearson the im- maculatencss of nee) James M. A. Watson, Jt. the municipal gov- ernment are rubbing their eyes to find whether they are awake. A young man named Watson, just barely of age, has been in charge of a fund in the auditor’s office which re- sulted from payments made by citizens obliged to pay one-half the cost of lay- ing sidewalks in front of their houses. This sum is pretty large, but it seems to have been shoveled into a drawer and into the bank and out again with hardly any record except what young ‘Watson chose to keep. A few days ago it was discovered that he was supposed to have made omer We Tt and now hé js in-jail. ¥ : The disquieting feature of the case, however, is the fact that this young man, when appointed to office,-is said to have already had a criminal record. It is said that as a boy of 17 he was eonvicted. of forgery and sentenced to two years in the reform school. This seems to have been known to the Dis- trict officials, and yet he was intrusted with the care of the funds, and no check whatever was put on him. He hada salary of $1,400 @ year,and on this salary he supported a wife, played the races, and cut a dash with a red devil. He was known as one of the liveliest and most extravagant sporting charac- ters in Washington; and yet though his superiors knew he was doing all ‘this on. $1,400 a year, and that he had a shady record té boot, they never sus- pected anything wrong until the $70,.- 000 had disappeared. ; ° Gen. Heywood to Retire. The United States marine corps is abont soot See geet ficer whose mission dates far- Ais ther back than the ! commission of any , > i other offlcer of Nor the military or | naval service. vw a Maj. Gen. Hey- ry wood entered the Pa ) service before the | civil war, and has “3 <A servéd _ continu- , pay 6 ously ever since with a-record for / gallantry not sur- - naceed in the M- Gen Haywood PAY zy Bas / eZ To | “Maj. Gan. Haywood. a Se eee corps. Gen. Heywood has seen the ma- rine corps gtow’from a small body lit- tle regarded by the other bragches of the service into a body ofsiearly 10,000 men,.standing on a level in the public regard With the army and the navy, The greater part of this growth has come since he was promoted to the head ofthe corps, tem years ago. The corps is thfee times as large as it was then. His own rank was that of colonel. It has been raised succes- sively. by congress to brigadier general and major general: Gen. Heywood, in person, has had more to do with the advancement 6f- the corps from its small estate than any other man. He has commanded the respect of congress and successive administrations, and he has ‘een regarded as a soldier not involved in any schemes and plots for personal advancement. The marine corps takes pride in its fighting record. . It has seen service in every war entered into by the United States, and in proportion to its numbers it has acquitted itself with extraordi- nary credit. Its enlisted men have the reputation of being better drilled and of preserving better discipline than the enlisted men of any other service. In Col. Waller the corps has one of the few really distinguished fighting heroes of the United States, and it is due to Gen. he bas cherished that «much of the re- cent laurels have been won. Gen. Carter ep the Staff. Brig. Gen. William H.. Carter hes ‘Deen named one of the three general of- ficers of the new general staff of the army. That is 6t- ting, if there is as- sumed to be sny “merit in the gen- _eral staff, for, with the exception of Secretary Root, Garter is responsi- die for its creation more than any other one man. Carter is not an HiLify genefal staff of the | if army. That is 6t- | \ ting, if there is as- | — any = merit gen- Aa } eral staff, for, with PS the exception of » iq Secretary Root. ~ Carter is responsi- bie for its creation more than any other one man. Carter is not an in the newspapers. He pever seems to have had the faculty of getting that par- ticular kind of fame, and he warded in the war. as in Sa eeeee: and after with |e Gen a) B a ee ae outh: a peOr ‘to be brigad! mand F he to be one of th one 8 measure to his in!- As nd assistant adjutant Gen. Carter maée himself indispensable to Secretary Root. Whenever Root wanted to do anything Carter was the low who told him just how it could be done. ‘That sort of assistant always endears himeelf to his superior. When the idea of a general staff came up—no- body Enows exactly whether Root haa the idea first or Carter—the assistant adjutant general worked out all the de- tails with vist industry and splendid skill. He was sent to the capitol by the secretary to explain the bill to senators and representatives, and it is due large- ly to his clear, cold intelligence that the measure finally became a law. Carter is not by any means an “office soldier.” He had years of the hardest Kind of service against ti Indians on the frontier, and he is booked to go tc the Philippines very soon. Of course, he is not altogether popular among hi: military associates. Men of his char. acteristics who have been noticeably successful seldom meet with the entire | approval of former equals whom the; have passed in the race. And there are insignificant majors of the line wh graduated from West Point in thé same class with Brig. Gen. Carter. Troubles of the Postmaster General Just at the present moment Postmas concentrated at- tention than al- most any other man in the United States. Mr. Payne is conducting one of the most search- ing and effective investigations that has ever. been con- ducted by a public officer, and the re- ‘salt of which will be to purify and establish on a more businesslike footing the most he ie we Y extensive business department of the government. It is the irony of fate that the man under whose auspices this is being done should meet with wide- spread criticism because he doesn’t hap- pen to be doing it in exactly the way some of the critics might like. To read some of it one would imagine that the postmaster general- were the principal culprit instead of the prosecuting offi- cer. Henry C. Payne is one of the best liked men personally who is prominent fm republican politics. He is regarded by all his associates as one of the very shrewdest and brightest political man- agers in the United States. Mark Hanna says he is the very best—and Mark Hanna is a pretty good authority on that question. He calls Payne and the two are as fond of each other as if they were brothers. ‘The “ost Office Sleuth. ‘There is another man in the post of- fice investigation who is of quite. dif- ferent ‘ype trum Payne. That is the fourth assist- ant postmaster seneral, who hap- pens to be at the “head of the corps of- inspectors to whom it has fallen to carry on the in- quiries. There is hothing of the politician about Bristow, although he was for awhile date, 2 oa ey ca aid ‘i eS Kansas republican state committee. He fe @ young.man, hasdly 40—without a particle of camaraderie, bent merciless- ly on the prosecution of his work. Probably Bristow is personally the least. popwar man in the government service. Members of congress for years have been complaining that they could not “get things” out of his division in the post office department. But Bristow hasn’t minded a bit. He has courted the distinction, if anything, and he takes delight im hewing straight to the line in everything official. Bristow is a born sleuth. He re- joices in the scent of crime, and he will pursue a trail leading up to it with the relentlessness of a Javert. It isa rath- er curious thing that just at this time there should be at the head of the corps of inspectors so typical a hunter-down of wrong. It is quite probable that if the present inquiry had not been started Bristow would not have retaffted_nis position in the department long, for be had lost his political backing at home, and tere were scores of members of congress who were Gemaniing his re- moval or transfer. But it would be 2 rash politician who would venture to Sean fo the pee ee ath dispense with the services of his fourth Gtnpowder and Gardening. . Nasmyth, a landscape painter of repute, helped to compose some of the’ finest park and forest scenery in Great Britain. The estate of the duke of Athol was disfigured by an unsightly crag, the rocks of which were inaccessible to climbers Nasmyth determined to make bold bid for success with # cannon, which was athand. By hia advice tin canis- ters were prepared and leaded with tree seeds, Fired from the cannon’s Ter oem sae i ae SO ee hae of ‘clothed with trees of Tuxuriou: [Tins astronomer, sa Dar ame fa said to have megebel = ts ar a Ht Is ® Subject im Which the Homss- wives otbtines tavenell ene try Are Deeply Interested. is 2 question, while Acide” Une ot time aguin po Seite eee o are ‘the housewives of the country. atte Gear oseed good sable wages cause for so many people living in flats and hotels, and there is no immediate prospect-of a change in this direction, &s good domestic servants are becom- ing more and more difficult to obtain. In view of this fact, it is interesting to look at the question as it is handled in other lands. Great Britain claims to be the best country in the world for good servants, from both points of view. A leading English journal states that “Englend’s greatest industry is domestic service.” The statement sounds untrue, and yet the returns of the board of trade vouch for 1,700,000 female domestic servants in England and Wales, as against 1,400,000 men engaged in min- ing, while farming lags far behind and the rest of the trades are nowhere. And there is no fuss. All the scrub- bing of floors, cooking of meals and making of beds are done without any of the banners, processions, oratory, strikes or lockouts of other employ- ments. The “servant problem” vexes the soul of many an English housewife, but to learn the value of the British domestic ane must go abroad. In the households of the czarina of Russia, the German empress, the queen of Sweden and Norway and the young SS SNe ‘Oa : cI X of _ ae IS eee Helena of Italy, the English nursery governess is a power behind the throne, and pretty nearly every Teigning sovereign of Europe seems to ee been nursed and taught by an English maid before he passed on to the throne. __ But with all the foreign demand for ‘Boaglish maids, there are conditions in ‘many countries from which the most @aring would shrink: ~ ~~" ~~ Even a downtrodden “stop-gap” would not go to France at the French wages of £5 a year for the good do- mestic or the fourpence an hour of the visiting maid, who corresponds in Paris with our Satufday charwoman. The French maid is very clever, and if she can get permission to pay the weekly bills, collects five per cent. commission from all.the tradesmen. But English wages would seem to her a fortune. Only in wealthy households has she a chance to get plump. : Rural England scarcely knows_such tragie poverty as that which drives women from many parts of Europe to abandon their own children and seek employment as nursemaids jn the cities. The mountain women of the Pyre- nees have a monopoly of nursing the children of the rich in Madrid, the girls from the valley of the Spree supply the like want in Berlin, and Breton or Norman women are the nurses of Paris, while Montenegrin peasants swarm to Rome. In Paris one may know. the nursemaid’s prosperity by the length and splendor of her cap ribbons, trailing to the heels, and in the other capitals they wear beautiful peasant costumes. These “costume nurses,” however they may have suf- fered by the wrench which tore them from their native districts, have s very good time in service. By doctor’s or Gers the “nurse” must not be crossed or contradicted, so rules both her mis- tress and the household with iron rigor, making herself as disagreeable asshe pleases. She adopts the chil- dren, who are barred by etiquette from knowing their own mother ex- cept as a visiting stranger. — The quaintest of all domestic service is in Russia, where the peasants have only lately been released from slavery, and for fear of starvation in winter flock to the houses of the nobles, where they smash the crockery in grateful The Russian lady, always merciful to ‘the poor, finds her house eit eae useless but humble retainers swarms of children. and when she hopes to rest there is sure to be a for- lorn maid scratching the door Itke s little rat-because she dare not knock. To stop the seratebing she is admit- os ae on 1g with the foot of the mistre ee ‘wrong .to boll: potatoes in s silver a ie eed = si - DN rcaa plle> CR OR PEE Fone aang pe. 1 io ee Ie res ears her - b= Regen en pug Rag Sage te «Be ~ tay te aotipy ae vein eo Se eee ““GBNUINE “Wash LADIES.” Hew Two Chicage Sisters Who Had te Barn Thetr Gwn Living Made Both Eads Meet. Among the lucrative and very pri- vate sources of income discovered by breadwinning women none has proved more interesting and profitable than that of dainty laundry work. Two women, sisters, who occupied a tiny Spartment and found themselves sud- denly obliged to earn their own sup- port, discovered to their ‘dismay that their =k Simos. talent was & prof. | know! of the bigh art of clear starching, Jace cleaning and fine ironing. Even this accOmplishment didn't look exactly valuable -until a well-to-do friend volunteered to send them all the exceedingly fine laundry work that their hands eould do and their kitchen could accommodate. The sisters agreed to make the experiment, and the first week from her own ward- robe and that of a few interested intt- mates the helpful friend sent them five dozen. very fine handkerchiefs, a dozen or two sets of sheer lawn and lace cuffs and collar bands, and a set of rarély beautiful dotlies. The laun- dry ladies took ‘the sfock under con- sideration, boiled, blued, starched and ironed the articles,.and were sur- prised at the profits of the week's work. At the end of three months their fame had spread far and flatteringly in aristocratic circles. Not only were they overtaxed with orders, but they were able to raise thetr prices and em- Ploy.a couple of assistants.to do the heayy Jabor and a-boy with a pusb- cart to gather up and deliver the. ders. With trate lace Sat cuffs, doilies and small pieces of extra fine underwear they also admitted babies’ clothes untjl now their very exclusive little establishment ifs known best as the Bables’ Laundry. No expert French or Swiss cleaners can starch or iron caps and bibs, pet- ticoats and fine white dresses, as do these two American spinsters, whp are now busy training a couple of good country girls to follow in their foot- steps and devote artistic thought and care to the get-up of the-dainty gar- ments. These genuine wash ladies have now -been practicing their new-found pro- fession fora full year. They have dis- covered that it not only suffices 10 ‘support them in comfort, but at pres- ent tempts them to expand their very modest plant into larger quarters, where they will be able to reap even- tually the really ample profits that are waiting them in this purely feminine enterprise.—Chicago Inter Ocean. OLD MEXICAN VASE, The Most Magnificent Specimen of An- clent American Ceramics So Far Discovered. Among the strange and valuable ob- jects which have been reeently in- Stalled in the Mexicam hal? of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, of which Mr. Marshall H. Saville is curator, is a wonderful terra cotta jar, designed and decorated in imitation of aturkey. This is con- sidered the most magnificént speci- men of ancient American ceramics so far discovered. Besides the striking and artistic turkey head handle, the most extraor- dinary feature of the jar is its orna- mentation of solid gold leaf, with which it was profusely decorated in former times, many layers of which stiH remain on the jar. It is consid- ered to be a priceless example, illus- trating the culture and workmanship eae é: et SSS ee, ee Oo ae pee sot ke eg Wipe, Hcebss ¥ ai Seeks | eae . Pet 4 =< se rs) a asta va ca oer 4 —_ |. ws: Es tit ee 3s Ben sae . ¢ e AE aS 4 J lest ciate ee ee _ Ss oa aN ae ——— eee = of that mysterious civilization which flourished a thousand years ago in The jar is thought to have been a funeral or votive offering, says the te York Herald, which was one of essential mortuary rites of the people of that time. Its age cannot -be accurately stated, but it probably reaches back for a thousand years or more. It was found by Carl Lom- holtz during one of his exploring ex- peditions. It came to light while dég- in a private garden in the City of Tepic, which had evidently been in-remote times the site of some tem- ple or wealthy burial place. Two, skeletons were unearthed. the neck of one were found 2s of solid gold, also a. large ; ornament of gold. . C ‘Zee Cance of Blackheads. Blackheads are a mass-of congest- leet oeags sot totems ae cure restored cir- culation of the arene ot. the face—nothing but friction and clean- Hiness wil) prevent thelr return. Often they are the result of @ disordered emacticln Canton *< and attention should be re to the laws of hygiene. “Daily are necessary. =e ‘TO FIGHT THE CODLIN MOTH. The Department ef Agriculture Will ‘Bxperimest with Birds in Califernia. Now it is the birds that are to help im the destruction of the codlin moth —that little insect that is doing so much harm to the apple orchards of California. Down at Watsonville, where the big orchards are, the an nithological department of the it- ed States department of agriculture, under the supervision of Dr. E. L. Beele, is working in conjunction with Prof. C. W. Woodworth and Warren Smith, of the University of California, to exterminate the moth, and just now they are installing a lot of bird cages as part of the work, says a Berkeley report. These cages, of which there are to be 12, will be large enough to envelop a fruit tree. Into them it is purposed to put 30 varieties of California birds, including canaries, bluejays and lin- nets, and then to watch them closely to discover upon what they feast most. At certain times the birds will be killed and their stomachs exhaustively serutinized by the ornithologists. In this way it can be determined ac- curately what the proportion of fruit the birds eat is to the insects they con- sume. And then from this it will be determined what birds are most de- structive to the codlin moth and the other destroyers of plant life. If the experimenters are Incky enough to find a bird that makes the codlin moth its prey, that species will be propagated in large enumbers and distributed over the state. It 1s tHought they can be kept in the or- chards by attractive baits. UNITED STATES IN MINIATURE Unique Feature of the St. Louls Ex- position Showing Products of the Different States. Assistant Secretary Brigham, of the department of agriculture, has se- cured the use of a sunny slope of ground of about ten acres near the government building at the St. Lovis exposition, and this will be laid off as a miniature reproduction of the United States, says Bradstreet’s. The several states ard territories will be clearly defined, the boundary lines of each being made up of pathways, so that visitors can walk around each separate commonwealth. The pred- ucts of each settion will be repre- sented in the various states, and, if the skill of the department's experts ean accomplish the desired results, will be growing in the state to which they are native when the exposition is formally opened on May 1, 1904. For instance, miniature fields of rice will, be growing in Louisiana, Texas and the Carolinas, with the other products of these states; Mis- sissippi, Florida, Alabama and Geor- gia, the Carolinas, and Texas will have fields of snowy cotton, green wheat, and waving corn; Virginia and the golden tobacco belt of North Carolina will show the plant in all its varieties, while Maryland, Arkan- sas, Missouri and other states will afford a bird’s-eye view of the diversi- fied crops grown within their bor- ‘en . a eee Irishman Mad a Case Which He Coulda’t Get a Lawyer to | Jake Inte Court. Samuel Davis, court stenographer of the Second circuit, relates the Kansas City Journal, says that an Irishman who several years ago tried to en- gage the legal services of his father had the oddest ground for a lawsuit he has ever heard of. The Irishman wanted .to sue his landlady for $15. Be explained that he made a contract to pay her three dollars a week for board, but she was to deduct 25 cents for every meal he missed. Having got the contract duly signed, Pat began to board elsewhere and charged the lady with whom he had contracted 25 cents for every meal he missed. He figured out that by managing this way he missed $5.25 worth of meals each week, for which his contract required him to pay only three dollars, so that by staying away he made $2.25 clear. Phe ladlady refused to pay him his “prof- Its,” and he wanted Mr. Davis to bring suit against her for him. “Father laughed at him a bit,” Mr. Davis says, “and he got indignant. ‘A conthractis a conthract,’ said Pat, ‘and she ought to be made to live up to her’n just as well as me to mine.’ There were sev- eral other .wyers in town, and some of them were pretty hard up for cases, but I don’t know of anybody that took that one efter father turned it down.” “ao Amertean Tropical Laboratory. One of the characteristies of mod- jern selentific progress is the extab- lishment of laboratories and observa- tories of various kinds at points where phenomena of great interest can best be studied, although such points may be remote from centers of human population and from ordi- nary lines of travel. Just now an ef- fort is making to establish « scien- tific station at the Tortugus Islands near the coast of Florida. A consid- erable number of naturalists have expressed interest in the “scheme. Some think it would be an excellent point from which to observe the mi- gration of birds; others that a bio- a Se rea Give tich results. It is pointed out that we now know more of the life’of the Red sea than we do of that asic; Tying iment st our doors: es ‘Steskeata Riches $20,000, te aye pee, or eeriy, tives oe hs Find New Field for Their Abilities im Fernishing Testimeny in Lawsaits. It will come as a surprise to many People to know that there is a great deal of ‘character in typéwriting. Were half a dozen operatdrs to use the same machine, == and actual words, each printing off a dozen sheets, and were all these ‘to be mixed up indis- criminately, a practiced eye could dis- tinguish each operator’s work instant- ly, says the Chicago Tribune. In a recent law case, where 8 lengthy typewritten document of many sheete was in question, it was alleged that one of the pages included had been substituted for another sheet. Although to a casual eye all the sheets seemed to be the work of one hand, experts showed that the spacing was quite different, especially between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another, and on the substitute sheet the new paragraphs began in quite a different position on, the lines, and the letters were shaky instead of upright and firm. Andéhe pungtuation—the crucial test—was wholly different. The experts were unable to trace the person who had done the bogus type- writing, but they agreed that it was & woman, young, andlonly a beginner at typewriting; that she was nervous, not strong, and that her education was only moderately good. =f The writer of the other sheets com- prising the document was defined from the evenness, correctness and firmness of the typewriting to be an experi- enced “tvnist.” INVENTOR OF THE SCYTHE. ace Was Joseph Jenks, of Lynn, Mass., Whe Lived Two and a Half Centuries Ago. In rummaging among old papers a Lynn gentleman has discovered the complete pattern of the American scythe, which was invented 2% cen- turies ago by Joseph Jencks, an iron- worker of Saugus, Mass. The inven- tion of the scythe, says the Boston Record, is referred to in Lewis and Newhall’s “History.of Lynn.” This scythe took ‘thé place of the English “bushwhacker” scythe, made of a piece of thin steel about 18 inches long and three inches wide. Jencks more than doubled the length of the scythe, reduced its width to 1% inches and stiffened it by welding a square bar on the back.” : The patent was, by enactment of the Massachusetts general court, as fol- lows: 1 “May 23, 1665: Itt is ordered that Joseph Jencks, senr., and his assigns, only, shall haue liberte graunted to them to make that engine the said Jencks hath proposed to this Court for the more speedy cutting of grasse, for seven yeares, and that no inhab- itant or other person within this jurisdiction during that time shall make or vse any of that kind of engine without license first obtained from the said Joseph Jencks, on the poenalty of five pounds for euery such engine so made or vsed, to be recoueredatany Court in this jvrisdiction by the said Joseph Jencks, senr., or his assignes.” VERY LONG SIGNATURES. / Message of Ten Words Followed by Title Nearly Ten Timea as Leas. _ The Duc de Veragua, says & French journal, while traveling through America entered one day a telegraph office in Chicago and asked how much it would cost to send a message containing ten words to Co- Tambus, 0. = “Twenty-five cents,” replied the clerk. “Does that include the signature?” asked the duke. “Yes,” was the answer. “But suppose the signature is- rath- er long?” asked the duke. . “That doesn’t make the Slightest difference,” answered the clerk. The duke wrote the ten words which formed the message, and then signed his nams as follows: “Cristobal Colon de Toledo y Lar- reategui de la Carda Ramirez de Baquedano y Gante, Almirante y Adelantado Mayor de las Indias, Mar- quis de la Jamaica, Duc de Veragua y.de la Vega, Grande de Espana, Senador del \Reino, Caballero de Is Insigne Orden del Torson de Oro, Grande Cruz de la Concepcion de Vil- laviciosa, Gentil Hombre de Comara del Rue de Espana.” z ‘The clerk, it is said, almost fainted when he saw this signature. Floating Island fn England. There is a Roating island in Der- wentwater, England, not far from Lodore «falls. Its travels are re- stricted to alternations between the bottom of the iske and the surface. When moved to retirement it sinks and remains in watery seclusion for periods which vary from « few months to as long as seven or eight years. Its existence above or below water eppears to bedetermined by «he pres- nse Sin, She Se AS eae ee quantity governs its buoyancy. Esth- ‘waite lake, in the same. neighbor- hood, boasts s not less puzzling but more amenable island. This has served az a ferryboat to conduct. as many as 15 persons ato time scross the bosom of the water upon which it rides. : oe By Afr te Mout Biace. A project is on foot in Geneva for the establishmentof serial excursions to view the summit of Mont Blanc. A captive balloon, controlled -and lowered by: hydraulic power, is to be re Fares £1 per he #1,000 insurance polley against accidents. FIFTY CENTS FOR TWO COPIES OF THE BROAD AX. Fifty cents for two copies of The Broad Ax. In order to complete our files to date, we will cheerfully pay twenty-five cents each for two copies of The Broad Ax, dated December 29, 1900 and July 13, 1901. The papers must be in good condition and the money will be forwarded for the same upon receipt of them. Ald Bradley is hustling 43rd street improvements through in good shape. It came up for confirmation in the county court July 6, and did not meet with any opposition as the Union Stock Yards and packers and horse dealers have donated $20,000 or 1-3 of the total assessment towards improvements. When this is completed it will make one of the best streets in the 30th ward. If alderman Bradley should decide to become a candidate for re-election to the city council next spring, he will not have much opposition for he is ever awake to the best interest of all the people of the 30th ward and they will want him to continue to serve them in the city council. After Elder or Col. D. R. Wilkins who lit out from Jacksonville, Ill. on a dog-trot a few years ago, F. L. Barnett, who is unable to look an honest man straight in the eye, Revs. Abraham Lincoln Murray, Archibald, James Carey, Little Whisky Bill Ward, Loud-Mouthed B. F. Moseley, and all the other members of their immeral or ungodly crowd failed in sending the writer to jail or to the pen at Jollet. Elder D. R. Wilkins, who delights in white washing jack-leg or immoral preachers and gamblers, has the audacity to say through the columns of his old church organ that "The Broad Ax is sound on all questions touching the manhood rights of the Negro." Slavery now exists in Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana. You find Negroes working on convict farms under the pretense that they have wronged some white man. Does President Roosevelt know this?—The Plaindealer, Topeka, Kan. You can bet your-last dollar Mr. Plaindealer, that President Roosevelt, and the other leaders of the G. O. P. are not ignorant of the fact that slavery exists in the states mentioned, for the dashing President, who declared that "he came near being forced to draw his pistols and blow the heads off the Negro soldiers before they would do their duty, at El Carney," and his assistant managers of the G. O. P. rewarded these same states, by giving them one extra congressman each for disfranchising the Negro, and reducing him to a condition of abject slavery. The Afro-American Press Association which is run for the special benefit of Cyrus Field Adams, who has no love for his race unless he can be at the head of something, Booker T. Washington, Old drunken Tom Fortune and company met at Louisville, Ky. Last week as a side show to the Afro-American Council, which never has and never will accomplish anything which will be of lasting benefit to the race, and as usual the same old gang of vampires and papsuckers were re-elected officers of the Press Association. Cyrus Field Adams who receives two thousand dollars per year as a clerk in the Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.; William A. Pledger, Vice-President who is a hanger on around the White House; William H. Steward, Louisville, Ky., who is Booker T. Washington's shoulder and boomer, treasurer, and Little Emmet J. Scott, Booker Washington's chief valet, secretary. Executive Committee: Tom Fortune, Chairman, J. Q. Adams, M. M. Levey, John R. Clifford, H. T. Johnson and Charles Stewart. Before it adjourned it passed a resolution indorsing President Roosevelt, and Old Tom Fortune who is always half full of cheap fighting whisky, declared while attempting to address it "that all Negro Democrats are curs", but Old Tom is the greatest or the biggest cur of the whole bunch of curs that has ever disgraced the name of man for not many moons ago he sold out to the Democrats of New York City for three thousand dollars. IN THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE. Glaciers are the largest bodies of crystalline structure known. The largest armor-plate ever rolled was made by the firm of Krupp, at Dusseldorf, last year. It weighed 106 tons. Strophantidin is said to be the most deadly poison on earth. It is made from an African plant by ether and alcohol. The largest negative ever taken of a sitter was 64 inches by 83 inches, or practically life-size. It was the work of a Dublin firm. The largest estate sold last year in the United Kingdom was that of Glen-app, in Ayrshire. It is 8,000 acres. But the most expensive was Battle Abbey, in Sussex, for which was paid £200,000. Explanation. "Why is your country board so highly" The farmer's wife drew nearer And answered, with a little sigh. "Canned goods are getting dearer." —Washington Star. L. "Now, look at those birds! And some people say that I'm a scarecrow!"— Meggendorfer Blaetter. Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and stationery, 3149 State St. Joseph Haywood, 2960 1-2 State street, new stand, and confectionary store. A Gentle Hint. He had taken the curtain lecture meekly, but at the conclusion he remarked casually: "Now, there's the case of that woman who was accidentally pushed under water while she was in bathing." "What of her?" his wife demanded. "Why, if she had learned to keep her mouth shut," he answered, brutally, "she wouldn't have drowned before help reached her."—Chicago Post. Ambiguous. A faithful Irish maid called upon her, former mistress, who had recently lost her mother. "Och, mum!" Nora began, "an' th' shwate lady 's gone. Shure, Oi niver knowed it till a wake afther th' buryin'. She wuz loike wan av me own, an'"—with a fresh burst of tears—"there wa'n't nobody Oi'd rather hov seen dead than yure darlin' ould mother."—Judge. Its Capacity. Little Clarence—Pa, what is a volcano? Mr. Callipers—A volcano, my son, is a cramped and feverish mountain which belches forth fire, smoke, lava, statistics, adjectives and "copy" for the magazines, for two years or more after the first eruption, and beggars description every time it is described. Puck. Only a Little More So Stranger (in mining village)—I used to know a fellow in the east named Cull Boffum that moved out here ten or 15 years ago. The people were mighty glad to have him go. He was dead tough. Comanche Jim—Well, he ain't changed no great deal. He's a dead tough now.—Chicago Tribune. Sure to Move Them. Traveler—Deadlock in your state legislature. "Introduce a bill to raise salaries." —N. Y. Weekly. "I never knew her to quarrel in my life. She merely announces what she wants, and that's an end of the matter."—Washington Star. Knews What Is Coming. Mr. Bacon—By means of an ingenious instrument, the hrydroscope, the human eyesight can penetrate the ocean depths and clearly distinguish objects over a mile below the surface. Mrs. Bacon—Now look out for some startling new fish stories—Yonkers Statesman. Severely Unsympathetic. "Mister," said Meandering Mike, "if I was to tell you dat I had seen better days would you believe me?" "Certainly," answered Mr. Leander Scragga; "this is one of the most unsatisfactory days that our versatile climate has yet produced."—Washington Star. A. D. 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