The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Revs. Abraham Lincoln Murray Archibald James Carey and Benjamin F. Moseley, Dislike to Pay Their Honest Debts. Vol. VIII. Revs. Abraham Archibald Ja Benjamin Dislike to Pay Th Col. Edward H. Morris was for some years prior to the middle of 1902 attorney for Bethel Church, Quinn Chapel and Olivet Baptist Church. He also transacted the private or the special law business for Revs. Abraham Lincoln Murray, Arehbald James Carey, Jasper F. Thomas and Benjamin F. Moseley, and as time moved onward these preachers, their churches and Ben. F. Moseley became indebted to Col. Morris for legal services rendered in behalf of the whole shooting match. Then the officers of the churches mentioned, their pastors and Ben F. Moseley absolutely refused to pay him, and in order to collect his fees Col. Morris was compelled to bring suit against them in Justice Thomas Bradwell's court, 128 Clark street. The records in Justice Bradwell's court show that in the latter part of December, 1902, judgments were entered up in favor of Col. Morris against Olivet Baptist Church for $50 and costs; Quinn Chapel, $50 and costs; Bethel Church, $25 and costs; Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, $25 and costs; Archibald James Carey, $30 and costs; and Benjamin F. Moseley, who always murders the English language whenever he attempts to whitewash rotton or immoral preachers, $50 and costs. After Col. Morris had succeeded in obtaining judgments against these would-be spiritual and moral leaders of the Afro-American race in Chicago they all laughed in their sleeves at him and vowed that he could never force them to pay their honest debts; but Col. Morris kept cool, laid low and sawed wood, and on the 26th of February, 1903, Louis Greenberg, the bad or the notorious constable, started southward well fortified with writs of execution. Constable Greenberg had four or five big strapping tough individuals to accompany him, who entertained no fear for man, god nor the devil. They were perched on the seats of two large furniture vans. Constable Greenberg and his caravan made their first stand or halt in front of Ben, F. Moseley's downtown law office, 260 S. Clark street, and after a whole lot of crawling on his part he dug up the money and paid Col. Morris for persuading Judge Dunne not to send him to jail for assisting some unknown constable to get away with the household goods belonging to a poor woman. well appointed law offices, unload, and make a bee line for the palatial home of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, 2806 Wabash ave. At first Brother Murray endeavored to fall back on his old con racket or game while parleying with Constable Greenberg, by telling him all about Jesus and his wonderful works, but Constable Greenberg made up his mind that "as long as Jesus had failed to line his pockets with money or the long green he had no time to waste on him," and he chocked Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray off, by phoning to his assistants to move on towards "the home of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray with the vans that he was unwilling to part with the long green," but when the big fisted or footed pastor of Bethel church beheld the vans backing up in front of his home, the men all anxious to lug off his fine furnishings, he fished up the money or long green for Col Morris, then Constable Greenberg and his men huged and kissed each ther like women, and sent up a mighty shout for they well knew that Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray always dislikes to pay his honest debts. There was only one more world left to conquer and Constable Greenberg and his strong arm men lost no time in arriving in front of the richly furnished home of Rev. and Mrs. Archibald James Carey, 3153 Forest ave. Rev. Archibald was inclined to treat the constable with scorn and contempt. He stated "that he would call on Col. Morris himself, within a day or so and fix the matter up, that he could rest assured that everything would be all right," but Constable Greenberg took no stock in his song and dance and he ordered his drivers to back the vans up in front of the house. Then Mrs. Carey, who never likes to worship in colored churches, fainted away like a large snowball under the rays of the scorching sun and Rev. Archibald grew red in the face and acted very much like a drunken Irishman. When he realized that he was up against the real thing he ran to his desk, pulled out the money which had been left with him by the officers of Quinn Chapel to pay its debt to Col. Morris, and used it to square his personal account with Col. Morris. Constable Greenberg chuckled to himself but he did not say one word, he, however, was determined not to be out generaled nor permit Rev. Archibald to play him for a greenhorn, so he commanded the drivers of his vans to move on in the direction of Quinn Chapel, for it was his intention of pulling the fine organ out of Old Quinn for Col. Morris. HEW TO THE LINE. The only capital is labor. Capital, in the sense we employ it, is neither more nor less than usury for money, the instrument of exchange. So rent is usury, for land, air, water are the three great opportunities. Labor is the only capital. It creates the wages to pay itself and all other products. Usury is the great abuse. No capital is needed to employ labor-I mean capital in the sense used. All the implements, plants, etc., were created by labor. Any community can begin and complete any work if it has the labor and the opportunity. As Mill says, all the so-called capital of the world is soon consumed by time. Labor alone creates and repairs and creates its own subsistence meanwhile. The English people of the country about 1843 began and built railroads and ran them over the country till their cost exceeded the national debt. They built where not needed to this day, not using a cent of so-called capital till the roads began to take in money. It was the wildest, reckless speculation ever seen. Year after year the usurers looked on amazed The people supplied all the labor and materials, using railroad shares for exchanging. Laboring men took shares and grew rich. It went on till so overdone that some roads began to fail paying dividends. Then a panic ensued, of course, and then capitalists -i. e., usurer's—saw their chance and bought up everything. But the mighty work was done. The collapse came by gross mismanagement. But ten thousand times has this fact, that labor is the only capital, been shown. Do we not know that any government can subsist great armies for years in war by using its own acceptances for taxes, as Napoleon did as First Consul and as we did with our acceptances till the usurers got hold of the government and disgraced the greenbacks by the indorsement, "not good for customs duties and interest on bonds." The Mormon Church built its great Temple by acceptances for tithes. Kansas City and St. Joseph kept their acceptances for revenues out for years and did great works. If capital is needed to employ labor pray where did the first capital come from? Labor was first and made the capital. The great crime began when the instrument for exchange was made out of a wasting metal that gave excuse for demanding usury for the wear and waste. You must return my gold piece just as you got it. Then the usurer got the privilege to issue his notes, 3 to 1, for the gold he had on hand. He slyly let out 6, 8, 10 for 1 under the present of deposits. Then the poor labor had to pay usury for his home and for the very wages he had created by his labor, under color of the instrument he exchanged for subsistence. In this way all soon fell into the hands of a few idlers. Labor became a pauper. The common labor, the hard drudgery, which is the most necessary of all, was discriminated against. Who can not see that this is so? Gods! how unjust is this! Yes, the so-called lowest, meanest labor is the only labor absolutely essential to our lives. Finally the foulest labor of all each man and woman must do for themselves, unless kind charity may do it for them. HOLT. PROGRESS—WHITHER? Back in the '40s (1840-50) there was much talk about the wages of Congressmen—eight dollars per day during a limited term of about 100 days, or $800. People rolled up their eyes and exclaimed with wonder at such wages. Slowly but surely the mice got into the cheese, made room for the rais, and soon nothing but bare walls will be left, at present rates. For example, the civil-miscellaneous list that used to cost $5,000,000 is now well up to $100,000,000. Congressmen's pay of $800 is now well up to $10,000; the President's salary, once $25,000, now $50,000, is proposed to be raised to $100,000, and so all through. At one session of Congress each Senator had several tons of ice for his own use. The little parquisites bill, of some $55 for each Congressman, is now some $3,000. So we go. The servants and officers of a great Democracy are just as good and great as those of any vile monarchy and really ought to be paid bigger wages. -Cranks and kickers! Get thee behind us! Scoot! Git! Skedaddle! DEATH OF POPE LEO XIII. Monday, July 20, Leo XIII., the venerable Pope of Rome, passed away after much suffering. He was the greatest diplomat that ever sat in the chair of St. Peter. During his long life he accumulated a vast fortune, and even in his 93d year he was, by his wonderful will power, able to exert a great influence over the minds of men in all parts of the world. His death has brought forth kindly expressions from rulers and potentates in all sections of the earth, and many of them are not of his religious faith; which would seem to imply that a more tolerant spirit is pervading the religious world. His funeral will be the most imposing ever held, in the city of Rome. The following are the most interesting events in his career: Born at Carpineto, March 2, 1810. Entered college in Rome, 1824. Entered College of Noble Ecclesiastics, 1832. Ordained a priest by Cardinal Odeschalchi and aided in superintending cholera hospitals during scourge, 1837. Papal Nuncio at Brussels, 1843-'45. Decorated by King Leopold with Grand Cross of order founded by King. As Archbishop of Perugia prevented an outbreak at death of Gregory XVI, 1846. Created Cardinal, December 19, 1853. Created Cardinal Camerlingo to Pope Pius IX, July, 1877. Elected Pope after three ballots, February 20, 1878. Revived Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland, March 4, 1878. Founded college for Armenians in Rome. Gained diplomatic victory over Prince Bismarck and re-established friendly relations with Germany. Chosen to settle quarrel between Germany and Spain over Caroline Islands. Recognized unity of Italy, October 7, 1883. Celebrated golden jubilee of his accession to priesthood, 1888. Celebrated fifth anniversary of his accession to the Episcopate, 1893. Issued appeal to England for reunion of Christendom, April 14, 1894. Celebrated sixth anniversary of his first mass, February 13, 1898. Created eleven new Cardinals, June 19, 1899. Celebrated twenty-fifth anniversary of his Pontificate, March, 1903. Received King Edward in April and Emperor William in May, 1903. STATES WITHOUT A LYNCHING. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Utah are the only states in which there has not been a lynching. The record from 1885 to 1900 shows that there were 2,516 lynchings, 1,678 being Negroes, 801 white, 21 Indians, 9 Chinese and 7 Mexicans. Rev. Archibald James, Carey, who, if he would, can tell an interesting story respecting his trip to Milwaukee, Wis., recently, declares that "he does not want anybody in the pulpit at Quinn Chapel whose morals are not pure." This is enough to cause the very devil himself to laugh long and loud, for it is not so very long since we observed Rev. Pleating Hubert, who is one of the most notoriously immoral rascals in the United States; Elder or Col. D. R. Wilkins, Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, and several other preachers and preachers who cannot pass muster as moral saints, all up in the pulpit at Quinn, and around its altar assisting to dish up the Lord's Supper; and if Rev, Archibald contends that all of the gentlemen referred to possess pure morals, then he should request some one to give him a dose of "knockout drops," before he is struck dead by his Lord for lying. ```markdown ``` To the Editor: Rev. W. C. McCracken, whose calling I take to be of a minister of some Christian church, in discussing the status of the Negro in the South in the Battle Ground of the 5th inst. makes several assertions which it seems to me are exceedingly inconsistent with his profession and as a believer in the infallibility of the Bible, like all other orthodox ministers. In Acts xvii, 24, 26, Paul says: "That God made the world and all things therein and hath made of one blood all nations of men (Negro not excepted) to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation." Also in x. 34, 35, it says: "Then Peter opened his mouth and sald, of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons (does not discriminate), but in every nation he that worketh righteousness is accepted with him." Yet in the face of these Bible quotations, the truth of which he dare not deny, he has the audacity to assert that the Negro is of an inferior race—"that the white race is dominant and must stay so; that the Negro must be accommodated to that fact or be deported from the land." Now what I want to know is, how does Mr. McCracken reconcile his discriminating assertions with the undiscriminating inspired assertions of Paul and Peter. If the assertions of the reverend gentleman are true, as he affirms, it must follow that those of the inspired apostles are false. Which horn of the dilemma will he choose? As the late Col. Ingersoll used to say, "Let us be honest." SAMUEL ROBERTS. —From the Record-Herald, July 12. This reply to Rev. McCracken is further proof that Mr. Roberts is o. k. on the "Race Problem." CHIPS Attorney R. O. Lee gave $25 to Rev. W. S. Brooks during his grand rally at St. Stephens Church, Sunday, July 12. Mrs. E. F. Earley, 2031 State street, will spend the next two weeks in visiting in St. Louis, Mo., and Springfield, Ill. The Men's Club of St. Thomas Episcopal Church gave a picnic at Bosch's Grove July 22, which was largely attended. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Coppage, 231 West Forty-sixth street, lost their second little baby last Saturday night. It was buried Tuesday at Mount Greenwood. The Appomattox Club picnic was a financial success. There were quite too many full coaches to be a social success. So say some of the lady patrons. Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, who is always looking for something, film-flamed his washer women and his other dupes who attend Bethel Church out of $1,500 last Sunday. The lawn fete given by the men for Grace Presbyterian Church was a grand success. The ladies turned out in great style. About a hundred dollars was realized toward the building fund. Alderman Bathhouse John J. Coughlin, Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Howard S. Taylor, Esq., Charles Alling and Thomas J. Dixon were on the program to assist Bishop Grant to run Bethel Church last Sunday. Joseph H. Hudlun, the chief fanitor in the Board of Trade building, has got lots of money in the bank, and later on he may decide to erect a large flat building on his lot at Fifty-first and Dearborn streets. Imperial Grand Potentate John G. Jones of Chicago, who was in Boston attending the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, was tendered a banquet at the Hotel Maceo in New York on July 2. The most prominent Negro Maasona in America were present. It is said to have been the grandest event given in Masonic circles in many years.— Ex. Rev. Mrs. Mattle Johnson, $125 Dearborn street, is putting on lots of style these cool summer days. She has had her house newly painted, which has improved its appearance, and Mrs. Johnson is even better looking than she was before the painters finished their work. T. W. Mackey, who is ever ready to labor night and day in behalf of the Democrat party of the 30th Ward, says that "The Broad-Ax is not as large as the big daily papers, nevertheless it is one of the best papers in Chicago." Mr. Mackey, The Broad-Ax will stand by you to the last ditch. Mayor Carter H. Harrison's Presidential boom fell mighty flat last Saturday, and judging from the actions of those who assembled in Brand's Park they concluded that "Our Carter" will be compelled to employ about two thousand wet nurses in order to get the sickly thing on its hind legs. Col. I. P. Rivers: "The Broad-Ax is growing better each and every issue. Your articles on Booker T. Washington and his Jim Crow ideas have been strong and quite pointed, and they suit me to a T. Keep up the good work for the betterment of the race, and by and by you will receive your reward." Last Saturday evening Young Armant, brother of Prof. Armant, engaged in a quarrel with Walter Perlman, 2840 State street, and the former cut the latter all to pieces with a razor. Young Perlman was conveyed to Provident Hospital and Drs. A. B. Schultz and Dan Williams are endeavoring to save his life. Rev. Archcibald James Carey needs money to pay $35 per month rent for his elegant home at Thirty-first street and Forest avenue, so he wants each and every member of Quinn Chapel to give him $5 at the grand rally Sunday, so that he can continue to live on Easy street and put on more style than his rich white neighbors. Rev. George W. Slater, of Hyde Park Chapel, and his flock, are in a peck of trouble. It appears that Mrs. Ida Boyd and Mrs. Perkins have not been on friendly terms for some time with their pastor and the latter part of last week these two faithful sisters took the bull by the horns and locked Rev. Slater out of the chapel. Then he busted in the door, put a new lock on it and secured warrants for the arrest of Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Perkins, who are members of the board of trustees, and it is hard to tell how or when this church fight will end. According to the press dispatches the Negroes near Lake Butler, Fla., mobbed and lynched a Negro last Saturday who was charged with assaulting a colored woman. It is said that "they cut the body of their victim into shreds." Colored men at Brooklyn, Ill., Sunday morning also attempted to lynch a Negro by the name of William Carter who was accused of attempting to assault a colored woman. If colored men are unwilling to permit the law to take its own course in dealing with Negroes who are charged with committing crimes, but instead thereof favor lynch law, then they have no right to complain if they are mobbed and lynched by white men. The Old Church Organ lately has been publishing society news or items which are two or three weeks old at the time they appear in its columns. It announced that it would contain a full account of the Johnson-Brent wedding, but as a matter of fact it was unable to get a line on that swell affair, and The Broad Ax was the only paper in town that was enterprising enough to secure and publish the details of that great social event. If the outfit running the Old Church Organ would cut loose from Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray and Jule Avendorph and law away from one or two of the short or kinky haired sisters for a little while, then it might be able to obtain some fresh society news. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and so all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Farmers, Single Texans, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is based enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Advertising rates made known on application Address all communications to JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., as Second-class Matter. THEATER AND OPERA. Some valuable manuscripts of Palestrina have been stolen from the church of St. John Lateran in Rome. Among the missing documents is the original score of the "Improperia," first performed in 1560 before Pope Plus IV. Word comes from France that a posthumous work, a mass by Ponchielli, the composer of "La Gioconda," has recently been performed in Geneva with pronounced success. The composition was left uncompleted, but was finished by Lorenzo Parodi. The latest addition to worthy dramatic literature is entitled "Draga of Servia," and has to do, of course, with the recent tragedy at the royal court at Belgrade. The play is in four acts, and Adolph Pierra and Barney Gerald take the responsibility for the authorship. Queen Draga is the principal character. The Art threater in Moscow is giving special attention to the production of Shakespearean pieces. The actors of this theater have been required to study not only the plays, but the pictures, costumes, and customs of the Elizabethan period. More than $150,000 has been assigned by the directors of this theater for the purpose of staging the plays. In these latter days, when managers love to dwell on the big box office receipts of stars, it may be interesting to recall that in the fall of 1886, at the Chicago opera house, Edwin Booth played to $20,849 one week and $20,913 the second week of his engagement. His receipts for that season were estimated at $400,900. During the Chicago engagement Mr. Booth played but one matinee a week. It is said that Mascagni seeks dramatist's laurels. The composer has written a three-act comedy, which will be staged in October. A Rome newspaper, the Menestrel, is quoted as making the following very discourteous comment on the composer: "Composer, leader, newspaper man, lecturer, professor and conservatory director without a job, likewise playwright, Mascagni would hap around St. Peter's on one leg if he could get an audience." FACTS FROM AFAR Fully 2,500 persons commit suicide in Russia every year. There are six canals connected with the Thames, which extend altogether 834 miles. The provision officials of Prussia have been petitioned to have eggs sold by weight instead of by number. In the central provinces of India 512 persons were killed last year by wild beasts and 1,304 by snakes. The number of domestic animals thus killed was 12,000. According to statistics just issued by the Rheims chamber of commerce, 22,- 523,746 bottles of French champagne have been exported during the last 12 months, while only 14,011,856 bottles were sold in France. Two men were fighting in a town in southern Italy, and when bystanders attempted to part them one of the men threw stones at them. The crowd retaliated in like fashion, and the man was literally stoned to death. For swearing a jury at an inquest at High Wycombe, Mr. Charsley, the coroner for South Bucks, England, recently used a New Testament printed in the year 1798. The book, which has been in constant use by Mr. Charsley, his father and grandfather for 105 years, and is still in good condition, originally cost 9d. At the lowest computation the volume must have been kissed 10,000 times. WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING. Women only are now to be employed as officials in the Roumanian prisons for females. The richest young woman in Germany is Miss Bertha Krupp, daughter of the late millionaire gun manufacture of Essen. By a new law a German woman's earnings are now absolutely her own, and she cannot be compelled to give her husband money unless he is an invalid. Mile, Caushet, a young lady living in Montmarte, France, has toured the world, paying her expenses by lecturing and by giving lessons in French. She went first to Belgium and then to London, Dublin and Glasgow. Subsequently she visited America, Africa, Australia, China and Japan, and returned to Paris via Russia and Germany. New York is to have a "beer queen." A brewery worth $5,000,000, producing 500,000 barrels of beer annually and yielding $500,000 in profit is to be owned and managed by a woman. After years of litigation Mrs. Josephine Schmidt has been awarded full possession of the immense property left by her husband, and she will personally conduct the business. Positively Brutal "There!" exclaimed Mrs. Lashem, upon her return from the dentist's, "I'm glad that tooth is out; it will never ache again." "Of course, not," replied the heartless other half of the combination. "It's beyond the reach of your tongue now."—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Nature of the Beast. The Philosopher—Well, what is the matter? The Man—Jones and I had a difference of opinion, and he called me a mule. The Philosopher—Well? The Man—So I kicked him, and— This Philosopher—Thus proved him correct.—Ally Sloper. I don't see why my sister Luce Should say that I'm a big disgrace And scold and raise the very deuce When I have powder on my face. —Judge. WANTED THEM FOR NUNKY. A man is giving a hand to two children. Kid—Ma wants a nickel's worth of pills for dyspepsia. Druggist—Anti-bilious? Kid—No, uncle is.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Always the Wrong Way. If "wealth has wings," As some folks say, We wonder why it does not fly Sometimes our way. —Philadelphia Press. As Explained. Brownovitch—Old Blowitz never attends church, does he? Smithinsky—No. It isn't necessary. Brownovitch—Because why? Smithinsky—Oh, he's one of those self-made men who are always praising their maker.—Cincinnati Enguirer. Meanest Man on Record "That's the meanest man I ever ran across," said the book agent. "What has he done?" "Kept me calling day after day, and finally said he didn't care anything about reading, but he enjoyed hearing me talk."—Tit-Bits. At the Soda Counter She—They say the eyes are the windows of the soul, I believe. He—Yes; and when a man goes into a drug store and shuts a window quickly, the clerk knows just about what the poor soul wants—Yonkers Statesman. He Was Pressing. "What's the business of that young man I saw with you in the parlor last evening?" asked her father. "He's a press agent," replied the girl. "I could see that myself," returned the father-grimly.—Chicago Post. Where It Is Strength "Mamma," queried little Mary Ellen, "is the pen mightier than the sword?" "Of course it is," replied the wise mother. "Your father couldn't sign checks with a sword."—Chicago Daily News. Willie—Papa, is mamma superstitious, that she picks up pins so much? Papa—Yes; she knows that if the baby finds them there is likely to be a death in the family.—N. Y. Herald. A Tragedy. Olive—So that ocean liner really ran down old Parvenoo's yacht, eh? Minton—Yes; mistook Mrs. Parvenoo's diamond earrings for a flash beacon—N. Y. Herald. Her Fear Husband—That new bonnet of yours just makes me tired. Wife—I feared that it would. You never did like cheap things, you know. N. Y. Weekly. I spent three-fourths of my life making a million dollars. The other fourth will be devoted to trying to get an appetite to enjoy it.-Atlanta Constitution. "Understand, Clotilde, if you leave this house to-night, you leave it for good!" "No, dear, for better."—St. Louis Republic. "Rich? Why, he's so rich he daren't look twice at a girl for fear she'll bring a breach of promise suit."—N. Y. Times. Timidity. He—Why won't you put your head on my shoulder? She—I'm afraid you won't know what to do afterward.—N. Y. Herald. Mentally Deficient. "Is young Tutter so entirely foolish?" "Well, he hasn't sufficient mental equipment to ever be in danger from paresis."—N. Y. Times. The University Graduate. "Want a job, eh? What can you do?" "Well, I can do a hundred-yard dash in 16%."—N. Y. Journal. Logical. Ella—Don't you hate to see a man make a fool of himself? Stella—Yes, if it's about another woman—N. Y. Herald. --- NEW IN SONG BOOMING. Quintet of Singers Concealed in the Audience Is the Latest Boosting Scheme. The demonstrator is the latest aid of the song publisher, and appears in varied forms. He journeys through the rural districts singing gratuitously for the delight of the natives the songs that his employers publish; and he is also known in more metropolitan circles, says the New York Sun. New York has seen the demonstrator in theatrical performance, and has not always recognized him. His most popular incarnation several years ago was in the form of some lusty youngster who shouted vociferously from his aerial perch in the gallery in the chorus of the latest popular song. His salary was usually paid by the publisher of the song, and his presence was agreeable, of course, to the singer and the management, as he helped along the song and the show, until he became such a bore that he had to be suppressed. Now the demonstrator has appeared in a new and more virulent form. In a current musical farce there is a tough song of no particular attractiveness. Its first verse and chorus pass with little applause. Then five persons seated in the fourth row of the orchestra solemnly rise in their places, and, turning to face the audience, begin to sing the refrain. Two are girls, quietly dressed, rather pretty and quite inconspicuous. The three men with them are always in evening dress. The appearance of the party would not attract the attention of the audience under ordinary circumstances, and their sudden rising to burst into song is the more surprising for that reason. MOVING BY CASH CARRIER. St. Louis Hardware Merchant Uses Novel Method to Transfer Goods to New Store. We have heard of many novel uses to which the overhead carrier system has been put, but probably the most ingenious of them all is that of a St. Louis hardware merchant, who moved the greatest part of his stock from one store to another, which was located on the other side of the street, almost directly opposite, relates the Scientific American. A steel cable one and one-half inches thick and tested for 600 pounds, was thrown across the street from the window of one establishment to the other, a span of 81 feet. On this there was strung a steel box and as the goods were taken from the shelves in one establishment they were placed in boxes and marked. These were loaded into the cage. Gravity carried the load across the street, and the box was brought back by the aid of a hand windlass. The steel box made a round trip every minute, and the daily average was 500 per day. The average load was 300 pounds. In this manner all the shelf goods were handled, and the operation was performed without the slightest confusion, the goods practically going direct from the place in the old store to their permanent location in the new establishment. UNWRITTEN FICTION. The Peacefulness of Gulliver's Slumber Marred by the Court Jester of Liliput. Soon after his arrival in Liliput, Gulliver, tired and hungry, stretched himself out upon the ground and fell asleep, relates the New York Sun. While he was asleep the Liliputians discovered his presence. After a short consultation hundreds of them swarmed upon him and securely bound him with miniature ropes. They were overjoyed at having thus captured a giant so many times their combined size. Several of the more enthusiastic of them, unable to contain themselves, broke into a delirious thimble-thimble (ie., Liliputian for cancan) upon his waistcoat. "Hey, stop that this minute!" yelled the court jester of Liliput from below. "Don't you know any better than to jump around that way on an empty stomach?" But his warning was unnecessary, for just then something caused Gulliver to groan in his sleep, and the frightened revellers scrambled to the ground for safety. A VEGETABLE LAMB. Wonderful Species of Fern in China Which Is Believed to Destroy Other Plants. There is a wonderful species of fern that grows in China, called the Tartarian lamb. Under this name it was first described by Sir Hans Sloane, who not unjustly claimed that it much resembled that four-footed bit of gentleness. In fact, the plant does illustrate a most peculiar form of vegetable growth, says the Brooklyn Eagle. The underground root is thick and decumbent, while the great stem is pushed horizontally out of the ground by four inferior branches of this root, which answer, of course, to the lamb's four legs. Besides holding the same position as the body of the lamb, the stem is covered densely with a soft and pale, yellowish wool. Toward the end which would answer to the neck of the lamb, this stem is declined as though the creature were browsing. In China there is rather an unecanny sentiment associated with the Tartarian lamb, as it is believed to destroy all other plants within its vicinity. Wireless for Coast Vessels. Negotiations are in progress for fitting a certain number of light vessels round the coast of the British Isles with wireless telegraphy. Imperfect Man. Only 79 times had he whispered: "I love you, dearest." Only 79 times had she murmured: "My heart is yours." They were sitting with not even a sofa pillow between them, when he varied his refrain with: "Oh, darling, you are perfection!" "Ah, no," was the prompt reply; "a man never gets so near perfection."—Brooklyn Life. The Presents. Mr. Gadd—The Poormans celebrated their silver wedding last night, didn't they? Mrs. Gadd—Oh! no; I saw all the presents. Mr. Gadd—What do you mean? Mrs. Gadd—It seems to have been a silver-plated wedding. —Philadelphia Press. Caution "Don't you think you'd better speak to papa to-night, George?" the girl suggested. "He's just come in, hasn't he?" asked George. "Yes." "Well, I thihk I'll give him time to get his slippers on."—Chicago Post. The Man for the Place. Some time after the new chaplain in a lunatic asylum had entered upon his duties one of the inmates came up to him and said: "I like you better than the other one." "Why?" asked the preacher. "Because you are more like us," answered the lunatic.—Tit-Bits. Buncoed. First Farmer—Say, Zeke, who wuz that feller doin' all that laughin' 'cause you bought a gold brick? Second Farmer—He's the city galoot that thinks he is gittin' healthy on the sulphur spring water that he's buyin' a barrel at a lick from my mill pond.—Philadelphia Telegraph. A. Feminine Marvel Chief Millikin—That female witness is the most peculiar woman I ever encountered. Inspector Casey—So? In what way does she differ from most women? Chief Millikin—Why, when she hasn't anything to say she doesn't talk.—Cincinnati Enguirer. Altruism When they reproached the reformer with the dowdiness of her gown she smiled sadly. "Oh, how can one think of one's own clothes when there are so many statues and paintings and pictures without any clothes at all!" she exclaimed, with emotion—Puck. Frankness. "Now tell me honestly," said Gazzer, interrupting himself in the narration of a story, "have you ever heard this before?" "Yes, I've heard it before" replied Lysner, frankly, "but I'll acknowledge I never heard it told worse."—Town Topics. She Was Very Sorry "Didn't see you at the function, last evening," said the first matron. "No, I was so awfully busy. I'd had to have broken my neck to have gotten there!" "I'm sorry you didn't get there."—Yonkers Statesman. Resented. "Didn't you once say that your wife was the making of you?" "Only once," answered Mr. Meekton. "Henrietta heard it and said it was very unkind and unjust to blame her in that manner."—Washington Star. Now a Wallflower Her past discouraged sultora. Though Her past held nothing wrong, It scared away each gallant beau Because it was so long. —Catholic Standard and Times. ADDICTED TO THE HABIT. A Old Gent—Don't you know that is a very bad habit? Tommy—I know it is; I've tried for years to break myself of it—but it's no use.—Ally Sloper. "Certainly the rich will not object to the single tax, once they understand it well." "One would suppose they'd rather have only one tax to dodge than half a dozen."—Detroit Free Press. Strong Habit. Cumon—Did your friend Tanker succeed in breaking his terrible drink habit? Bangs—No; the habit succeeded in breaking him—Baltimore American. Rivals. Percy—My papa owns a newspaper! Jimmie—Dat's nuthin'; I buy and sell 60 of 'em every day!"—N. X. Times It's the Only Place AFRO-AMERICAN NEWS STORE 8104 State Street WISDOM COMES BY READING 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. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. SOME DON'TS FOR SUMMER. Sapient Suggestions Which May Help to Make Life Tolerable in Don't you wink at the soda fountain man. Winks have gone out of fashion, says a wise contemporary. Don't hitch along on an open car. It is easier to let people climb over your knees. Don't ask a fat man if this is hot enough for him. He'll think there's a joke in it somewhere. Don't take it out on the ice man. If it wasn't for him we'd have to cuss the coal man the year around. Don't try to cool off on cocktails or warm up on ice-cold lemonade. There's a philosophy about such things. Don't imagine that the fellow in the white duck suit is looking for a red-hot coal stove. He's got the same feeling down his back that you have. Don't get up arguments about ice cream. It may kill, but if it does our loss will be your gain. Don't tell anybody that at this date last year, when you were up in the mountains, you had to sleep with three blankets over you. You are thought to be a liar as it is. Don't talk politics, and feel under obligations to call some one a liar. Let him escape until the frosts come again. Don't swear off on anything, and thus perturb your mind, and add another burden. A good case of prickly heat is enough for one person to lug around. CHURCH ECHOES. One thousand acres of land in Australia have been bequeathed to the Salvation Army. New Zealand Christian Endeavorers now number 10,000. They publish a handsome quarterly. The pope is the head of over 250,000,000 human beings, or nearly one-seventh of the population of the globe. Books to the value of about $30,000 were distributed last year by the Christian Literature society for China. St. Andrew's is the oldest Presbyterian church in South Africa, and it has for nearly 75 years been the garrison church for Presbyterian soldiers in Cape Town. It is proposed to erect a building to seat about 1,200 people. The American Presbyterians have established a new mission on the Sobat river, beyond Khartoum, and 2,000 miles below Egypt. It is an uncivilized region, and the language has nothing in common with the Egyptian Arabic. The Indian Witness believes that it would be well for future lecturers to reside in India a full year before they intend to take the platform, that their expositions of Christianity in relation to Indian thought might have more point. The native agency in the missions of the American board has increased in number during the last decade from 2,600 to 3,581. This is in accordance with its settled policy of raising up native teachers to spread the Gospel among their own people. One of the unique institutions of Boston is the General Theological library, a collection of books on theological and Biblical and other religious topics, designed for the use of clergymen, Sunday school teachers and all others interested in such books. During the last year 640 new books were added to the library and 400 free cards were issued to clergymen of Greater Boston. WHAT THE LAW DECIDES Delivery of a telegram, directed to a person in care of a railroad company at a certain place, to the ticket agent of the company thereafter making extensive search for the sendee, is held, in Lefler vs. Western U. Teleg. Co. (N. C.), 59 L. R. A. 477, to relieve the telegraph company from further liability. One who negligently inflicts injury on another is held in Maguire vs. Sheehan (C. C. App., 1st C.), 59 L. R. A. 496, not to be able to escape any part of the loss caused thereby for the reason that because of the condition of the injured person, produced by his voluntary use of alcohol, the shock of the injury brought on delirium tremens, which retarded his recovery. An ordinance requiring all street railways to pave, repave and keep in repair the space between their tracks and between the rails of the tracks and for the space of one foot outside of each outer track, is held, in Fielders vs. North Jersey Street Railway company (N. J. Err. and App.), 59 L. R. A. 455, to be an invalid assumption of the power of taxation and not to be sustainable as an exercise of the police power. Preventing the use, during court hours, of a pavement newly laid in a street adjoining the courthouse in such a way that the noise of the traffic thereon interrupts the business of the court, is held, in ex parte Birmingham (Ala.), 59 L. R. A. 572, to be within the power of a court both at common law and under a statute giving it power to preserve order so far as is necessary to prevent interruption and disturbance of its proceedings. The Souls of Black Folk A REMARKABLE BOOK that is provoking much discussion because of the wonderful eloquence with which the author pleads for right and justice to his people. In these days of increasing agitation over the "negro problem" this passionate human document can neither be overlooked norignored. Aside from its remarkable presentation of facts it holds the reader—prejudiced or not—by its fascination of style and overpowering pathos. Some of the Chapter Headings follow: OF OUR SPIRITUAL STRIVINGS. Some of the Chapter Readings follow: OF OUR SPIRITUAL STRIVINGS. OF THE DAWN OF FREEDOM. OF MR. WASHINGTON AND OTHERS. OF THE MEANING OF PROGRESS. OF THE TRAINING OF BLACK MEN. OF THE BLACK BELT. OF THE SONS OF MASTER AND MAN. OF THE FAITH OF THE FATHERS. OF THE PASSING OF THE FIRST-BORN. OF ALEXANDER CRUMMELL. OF THE COMING OF JOHN. OF THE SORROW SONGS. 3d Edition $1.20 net Published by A.C. McClurg & Co.,Chicago 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. The Gem Shoe Shining Parlor, 336 30th, near State street. A. F. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 368 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. 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. Whiteley Bros., 2724 State street, cigars, and news stand. J. New 131 W. 51st street, cigars, tobacco and confectionaries. C. E. Hunter, 4503 Wentworth ave., cigars, tobacco, news stand. Wm. Dixon 2638 State Street cigars, tobacco, and news stand. Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and stationery, 3149 State St. Joseph Haywood, 29601-2 State street, new stand, and confectionary store. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. TALKED OF IN WASHINGTON A Budget of Interesting Gossip from the National Capital. Death of Harriet Lane Johnston Recalls the Buchanan Administration—Would Make the City the Most Beautiful in the World. Washington.—Harriet Lane Johnston, who died a few days ago, was a grand dame who typified everything that was gracious and charming in the woman of Washington before the war. She was the niece of James Buchanan, and when a little girl she was adopted by her bachelor uncle, having been left an orphan with ample fortune. She lived with Buchan- M. an until he died, and she was with him first when he was secretary of state, then as minister to England and finally as president of the United States. It was a rare experience for an American girl in those days—or in any days for that matter—and Harriet Lane—for that was her name—lived fully up to it. While her uncle was minister to England she was a fascinating figure in London society. When Buchanan was given the degree of LL. D. at Oxford on the same day with Alfred Tennyson, the great demonstration of the day was directed toward the beautiful niece of the American minister. During President Buchanan's residence in the white house, Albert Edward, prince of Wales, was a guest there for five days, and in remembrance of those days Edward VII. sent to Mrs. Johnson last year a special personal invitation to his coronation. Harriet Lane was faithful to the fine old gentleman whose official position had given her these social opportunities, and she remained with him to his death. Then, in 1868, she married Henry Elliott Johnston, of Baltimore, to whom she had been engaged for a long time. His death and the death of her two sons after many years left her alone in the world, and she has lived the life of a gentlewoman in a fine old mansion in a historic quarter of the national capital ever since. The old house contained many interesting souvenir sof her career and was a quiet retreat for the declining years of a woman who in her day had played a brilliant part in the affairs of two nations. To Command the Navigator That President Roosevelt and Senator Moody believe in the selection of fight- ing men to command fighting men is shown in their appointment of Col. George F. Elliott to be commandant of the marine corps. Col. Elliott is one of the two real fighting heroes of the marine corps. The other is Lieut. Col. L. W. T. Waller, of Chinese fame. Elliott is Waller's Col. G. F. Elliott. superior in years and rank, and so he was chosen. Elliott was at Guantanamo with the gallant little band of marines which charged a superior force of Spaniards and his superior officer commended him in these terms: "Capt. Elliott's cool advance up a rocky, steep mountain path under fire for 20 minutes, without being able to return it, and the gallantry and skill displayed by him throughout this affair were essential to the great success attained by the expedition." Again in the Philippines Elliott showed his fighting quality-at Novaleta and elsewhere, and he received the commendation of the officers of the army and of the secretary of the navy. He was broken down by his service in the Philippines, and he is still pretty badly shattered in health. But he has a chance to gain new distinctions as head of his corps. John Barrett, who has just been appointed United States minister to the fore the American Argentine Republic, is a very good example of the pushing young man who keeps steadily in view what he wants to accomplish, and who finally arrives. Barrett is a good deal under 40, but he has managed to keep himself prettily be- Hon. John Barrett. Hon. John Bartlett. public for several years in all sorts of ways. His first venture was as a youthful aspirant for office under the second Cleveland administration, when as a newspaper reporter he had gained some prominence in democratic politics in Portland, Ore. Cleveland liked his assurance and asked him to become minister to Slam—not a place of any great importance, but one which gave Barrett an opportunity to acquire a reputation as a diplomat and an expert in Asiatic affairs. Just after his term of service in Siau came to an end, the war with Spain broke out, the American flag was raised over the Philippines and Barrett was on the spot. He wrote letters from Mahila about expansion and American destiny and developed into an ardent republican and imperialist. He came home and Mark Hanna put him on the stump in 1900. He was in all sorts of places at opportune moments, was stopping at the same house in Vermont with Roosevelt the day McKinley was shot, and thus gained the notice of the coming president, who offered him first the Japanese mission and has now given him the Argentine mission. Some time in the uncynical future a proper tribute will be paid to the genius and foresight of Franklin W. Smith, who for 30 years has devoted time and life and fortune to a project which he believes will vastly enhance the beauty and significance of Washington. ```markdown ``` Mr. Smith is an old man now, but he started in his self-imposed labor self-imposed labor A National Agora while still in the vigor of young manhood, with a fortune gained strenuously in the pursuit of trade. He was a successful merchant of Boston, with ideas far beyond the usual mercantile mind, and since he retired from business he has given his life unreservedly to the achievement of an idea. He believes that Washington is destined to be the most superb capital of the world, and he conceives that its architecture should be founded on the highest of classic models. He would turn the Potomac Flats, with all their unsightliness, into rustic arbored terraced promenades, modeled after the Nola Bella on Lake Maggiore, Italy. He would demolish interior blocks of wooden shacks and shanties, rotten and ragged stables and fences and put in their place structures of concrete and embedded metal, overhung with Boston ivy. He would redeem all that section south of the avenue between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall, and erect there porticos and terraces, promenades and colonnades. He would turn another unsightly division of the city into a great historic park devoted to historical, industrial and artistic institutions and exhibitions, with national galleries of history and art. He would erect a granite shaft to Lincoln to balance that already erected to the memory of Washington. Lastly, he would construct a national Agora, annihilating 15 acres of slums within a few blocks of the white house, with halls for the states, a grand assembly hall, a rostrum, a mammoth tower—the century monument of the United States. Smith has spent a fortune building models, scouring the earth for antiques, in order to bring his ideas home to congress. His scheme would cost millions of dollars. It may never materialize, in whole or even in great part; but the educational work he is doing deserves gratitude and reward. Demand many signatures. The principal function of some government officials is to sign their names to sign their names to approve documents. The treasurer of the United States has few duties except those of the most routine character. He has no questions of administration to decide, and very little important work of any kind to do; but he is kept busy all the time attaching his signaand bonds which Just Signs His Name The same is true of the registrar of the treasury. Lucius Chittenden, who was registrar of the treasury in 1862, holds the record for continuous signing. A bond issue of $10,000,000 was made necessary by the effort of Charles Francis Adams, our minister to England, to prevent the delivery to the confederacy of two ships which were building in England, that amount being needed as security against damages in case the seizure of the two ships should come before the courts and the decision should be adverse to the United States. Chittenden was notified on a Friday noon that he must have the bonds ready for a special train to New York at four p.m. the following Monday. He did not leave his desk, but slept there and ate there; nor did he take food except in liquid form. After the first 12 hours an army surgeon was detailed to care for his arm. He signed his name 12,500 times, and during one period of seven hours he attached his signature 3,700 times—a speed of over ten signatures a minute. LOUIS A. COOLEDGE. Buttermilk a Liquer Care. Buttermilk a Liquor Cure. A buyer for one of the largest importing liquor houses in New York, who is compelled to sample enough wine and spirits every day to put an ordinary man out of business, says that buttermilk is his salvation. "I not only buy five or six glasses a day at the dairy restaurants or street stands," he says, "but I drink it all the time at home, instead of tea or coffee. I never touch beer or anything like that. I keep a stone crock of buttermilk in the cellar, and let it get just a little stale. It is better then than if taken fresh. A man who insists on drinking liquor will find very little trouble if he takes plenty of buttermilk. If he wants to swear off, buttermilk will help him. It is a splendid stomachic. Two quarts of good buttermilk a day will cure any case of nervous indigestion." "Do you know her well enough to talk to her?" "More. I know her well enough not to talk to her."—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. Ther is one locality in France where the infant mortality is truly frightful; that is at Saint-Pul-sur-Mer, in the Pasde-Calais district. Here out of every two children born one is fated to die during the first year of its existence, a mortality exactly double the general average for the whole of France, which is, moreover, unusually high—200 to 250 per 1,000, says an article in L'Illustration, translated for Public Opinion. We have been skeptical of leagues in general, but the league against infant mortality has proved its right to exist. The members of the league have succeeded in creating at Saint-Pol-sur-Mer what is called a "goutte de lait" (drops of milk). At present each child born of poor parents receives a box of linen at the time of its birth. Assistance is given the parents in the form of bread, meat and coal. Mothers who cannot feed their children receive bottles of pasteurized milk, which has been sterilized one hour after being drawn from the cow. The assistance given the mother is such that she does not need to return to work until her child is four months old. The result of these efforts has been marvelour; whereas down to a year ago 50 out of every 100 children died within a year, during the last eight months (the time the work has been in operation at Saint-Pol-sur-Mer) only one child died in its first year. WHAT AMADOU IS. Spongy Tissue of Certain Fungi Much Used Before Matches Were Invented. "Amadou" is rarely heard of nowadays. A hundred years ago, however, it was a great article of export from the continent of Europe to this country. From France alone England used to buy $120,000 worth yearly, says Stray Stories. Amadou is merely the spongy tissue of certain fungi which grow on the oak, horse chestnut, poplar, pear and willow, and from which the touchwood used in the days of flint and steel was prepared. When matches were invented it seemed as if "amadou" as an article of commerce was doomed. That there is still considerable trade in this substance is due to the efforts of a German who invented a process for converting it into a material resembling chamois leather, and of which caps and cleaning cloths can be made. Another use found for "amadou" is that of stanching blood. The latest fungus invention is a razor strop made from one of the tough tree fungi found in England. There is indeed no substance from skim milk to bad eggs and from human hair to old lobster shells, with which the inventor does not experiment, and usually succeeds in the long run in turning to good account. Theatrical Celebrities Have Not the Rights and Liberties of Former Times. Stars of the new school do not attempt to deceive even themselves as to the difference between their rights and privileges now and those of a star 15 years ago, or even ten years ago, says the New York Sun. The position of the star was very different then. The star does not know nowadays in what play he is to act until the manager gives it to him in the fall. He may have a part not in the least suited to him, but he cannot help that in case the manager has decreed that he must act it. Then there are very few stars nowadays who can give out seats and boxes to any extent. In the old days the star could present half the house to his friends, if he wanted to, because he was the whole thing. But nowadays the average star has to ask his manager for seats, and doesn't always get them. Nor do the young stars of the day have the right to bring friends into the dressing room as those of the old times could. The younger brood must follow the rules of the theater just like the other actors. Thus have the privileges of the star been curtailed. RADIUM CURE FOR CANCER. An Interesting Case Recently Reported to the Vienna Society of Physicians. Medical circles in Vienna are greatly interested in a report communicated to the Viennese Society of Physicians and read at a recent meeting of the Imperial Academy of Science, to the effect that a long-standing case of cancer was cured by radium rays at the clinic of the late Prof. Gussenbauer. The patient, who was 61 years of age, had long suffered from cancer of the palate and lip, and had repeatedly been operated upon fruitlessly, until the autumn of 1902, when the physicians of the Viennese hospital declared it was absolutely useless to operate again. One physician determined, as a last resort, to try radium rays and treated the afflicted parts by exposing them to the light of radium bromide, the strongest radium preparation in existence. He was rewarded by a gradual and complete disappearance of the tumors. Physicians at the same meeting reported that radium rays had cured a case of melanosarcoma (a tumor containing a black or other dark-colored matter), and several cases of red mole. John Elliot's Bible. John Elliot's Indian Bible, of 1655, was an exhibition at the woman's board meeting in Boston, having been loaned by the Town of Nantlek, by which it is owned. The book is in an excellent state of preservation. Two other copies of this Bible are in existence, one in Connecticut, the other in Europe. J INSTRUCTORS FOR DOGS. What next? The dogs who walk in the best tailor-made attire, and whose family trees are usually far more genuine and impressive than those of their owners, now have their own governess. In winter she lives in New York; in summer she follows her charges to a famous and fashionable seaside resort. She is paid by the hour to come to the house of Fido's adoring mistress and broaden Fido's mental horizon and develop his latent genius. She teaches the dear little fellow to sit up and bark and sneeze and beg for sugar plums; to turn somersaults; to shake hands and faint, and otherwise prove his claim to an intellect of no mean order. Furthermore, the governess takes Fido walking every day. His mistress is often too busy or too tired to accompany him during his hours of exercise. She does not trust her servants with the duty of serving as his escort, so the governess is paid to accompany the little dear during his walks abroad. Her business is to keep him amused and guard him from low company. Last winter the governess tutored more than 30 dogs. At a certain hour every morning she takes ten or 12 proteges out on their leashes. She keeps the peace among them, sees that they have a good scamper and a roll on clean grass, teaches them to swim, fetch and carry, and guards against their contact with curs that might infect them with mange, distemper or rabies. MANY BOOKS FOR THE BLIND. The United States Is Doing Much to Provide the Sightless with Helpful Literature. "I went into the free library the other day," said the Observant Citizen, in the Philadelphia Press, "and wandered into the department for the blind. I was amazed to find the number of works it contained, and some investigation gave me a lot of very interesting information. "I find that there are about 100,000 blind persons in the United States and that the printing of books for them has reached such proportions that a bill was introduced into congress a few months ago providing that these works shall go free through the mails. "More than that, I learn that the government has already made an attempt to help this class by annually giving the interest on $250,000 to the American priniting house for the blind at Louisville, Ky. I have seen a statement by Mr. Boutell, of Illinois, in which he says that this yearly sum of $10,000 is used, for printing these books and distributing them among thirty-two public and five private schools for the blind. The principals of these schools form a committee which decides what works shall be published. "A dictionary makes 18 volumes and costs $50; a Bible 11 volumes for $7, and an English grammar sells for $10. "I find also that there are three weeklies and one monthly paper for the blind." QUEER FREAK OF NATURE. A freak of nature has been found by workmen who were cutting timber a short time ago on a large tract near Benham, Ind. The tract belongs to Isaac F. King and the freak is the intergrowth of two kinds of timber, says a local report. A young, thrifty poplar tree, some 15 inches in diameter, has, as viewed from a short distance, apparently what is an elm limb of nearly half its own girth growing from the trunk about eight feet from the ground. A careful examination of the base of the tree reveals elm roots and the body of the elm springs directly from the body of the poplar. A slight ridge in the poplar trunk, which winds from the elm roots to the point from which the elm leaves it, hows how much more vigorous its growth has been than that of its companion tree and for some feet the poplar has completely swallowed the elm. About 20 feet higher the two seem to have become attached again and in time may form another combine. The poplar has attained a height of about 100 feet and the elm is somewhat shorter. Just how it is possible for the elm tree to thrive, in spite of the fact that it has been encased by the poplar for many years, is not clear. Saw Peter the Great. Leading Russian journals are now proudly drawing attention to the fact that there has been for some time in the hospital at Tomsk a man who has lived for more than 200 years. Knowing well that the public would be loth to believe such a story unless ample evidence of its truth were forthcoming, they further point out that they have carefully examined his birth and marriage certificates and can testify that his married life lasted 47 years and that he has been a widower 125 years. This wonderful man has been bedridden for some time, but his brain is as clear as ever it was, and nothing pleases him more than to tell visitors how he once had the good fortune to see Peter the Great and Queen Catherine. A curious wedding took place recently at the parish church of Aylestone, a village adjoining Leicester, England, the contracting parties being Ben Moore, a shoe hand, aged 30, and Mary Ann Fell, a laundry girl, aged 24. The bridegroom is a cripple, who has to use a hand-propelled machine as a means of locomotion. He was whisled into the church and up to the chancel steps, and remained seated throughout the ceremony. At the conclusion he was wheeled out beside the bride. TUNIS MARRIAGE FAIR. An English Traveler's Observations at the Famous Matrimonial Mart at Menguelet. A famous marriage fair, or mart, is held yearly at the village of Menguelet, in the well known oasis on the Wady Jemala, in the Kabyle district of Tunis. It takes place at the end of the harvest season, when the ingathering of the crops is finished, the produce disposed of and the tribesmen of the country, flush with money, as money is reckoned thereabouts, think of adding a wife to the other purchases they always make for the ensuing 12 months. Being within 30 miles of the Alt at the time of the market, I rode over to see how such a show was organized and managed. In the open space the ```markdown ``` EN ROUTE TO MARRIAGE FAIR damsels were ranged ready for inspection in the marriage market. There they face the visitors, separated from the noisy part of the fair, ranged in four separate rows and numbering, I should say, between 600 and 700. Each damsel is seated on a small, bright colored carpet spread upon the ground, and each has a negafa—a sort of nurse, attendant and duenna combined—seated beside her. Conspicuously displayed in front of each, moreover, is a big roll of woven stuff. This roll of material plays an important part in the marriage negotiations, and is always woven by the girl herself. The young women are attired in the most expensive and richest garments the parents and relatives can secure. They are painted, patched and powdered, as is the invariable custom of Kabyle belles, and wear sufficient rings, bangles, bracelets, chains and brooches to stock a small-sized jeweler's shop. These jewels are not by any means always the property of the girl or her friends. In fact, they are mostly borrowed or hired for the occasion. As there is a good deal of rivalry between the different deheras and kebails in regard to the appearance of their damsels in the marriage market, there is no difficulty in getting on loan as much ornament of the kind as the girl can carry on her person, especially if she is at all good looking. It is not easy for a stranger to decide upon the beauty of the Berber maid, for she tatoos the face as well as paints it. How is sale and purchase effected? In the simplest way imaginable. The would-be buyer has only to walk up to the carpet upon which the girl he wishes to own is seated, touch with his finger the roll of woven stuff in front of her and ask the price. If the young woman, on looking over the inquiring tribesman, is satisfied with him, she names a very low figure, the small sum of ten pieces, which is agreed upon among the several clans at the equivalent of acceptance. If not, she merely quotes a high price, something up in the hundreds, and it is then understood that the offer is respectfully declined and a deal is not likely to be effected. The actual money price to be paid for a girl depends upon the standing of her family and the kebal to which they belong. It is fixed, moreover, by immemorial usage, so that every young man knows pretty well what he will have to pay for a wife. Hence only those who have the requisite means can venture to make an offer for any lot placed on view. It should not, however, be supposed that these young Berber beauties are by any means prepared to yield themselves to the first comer who can afford to pay the recognized equivalent to the parents. Kabyle women are anything but the docile and obedient drudges many western readers imagine. They enjoy a good deal more freedom, in many respects, than a European wife in a like rank of life. They unquestionably rule the domestic roost, and know how to use the wooden clogs, the kabkab, with convincing effect upon the bare pates of their spouses—London Chronicle. Embroidery Rules the Day. The love of embroidery of all kinds seems to be on the increase rather than on the wane. Wise women are bringing out long-hoarded treasures of stitchery and having them fashioned into revers, collars and similar-adornments. Motives of richly colored Chinese embroidery are distinctly decorative when applied to a Brussels net collar, and an old piece of embroidery or brocade of which the ground is worn may have its pattern used in this way very successfully. Liberty is using Chinese embroidered sleeves for bell-pulls. The sleeves are joined into one long strip, stiffened, and a quaint brass handle or ring makes the necessary finish. Our good drapers are selling some Smyrna embroidery just now which consists of several strips of red and blue and multicolored embroidery on a cream ground.—Chicago Daily News. THE CHEERFUL PERSON. He or She Who Cultivates a Happy Spirit Is Sure to Make Hosts of Friends. Cheerfulness is an amulet, a charm to make for us friends and to render us permanently contented and happy. A cheerful man feels well, does well, and loves those things which are good, while he who is always sad doth ill in the very sorrow he evinces. Long-faced, sanctimonious people are generally avoided, and very justly so, for who wishes to partake of their malady? while those who are accustomed to look on the sunny side of life are courted for the genial spirit which they impart to all about them. Undoubtedly the keenest weapon against misfortune is a bold and cheerful spirit. It was good old Izaak Walton who said: "Every misery that I miss is a new mercy"—a saying worthy of the profoundest philosopher. It is only too true that evils come to us on wings, but retire with a limping pace, and yet most people are ready to meet calamities half way, and thus to indirectly welcome them. There is scarcely an evil in life that we cannot double by pondering upon it. A scratch will thus become a serious wound, and a slight illness even be made to end in death by the brooding apprehension of the sick; while, on the other hand, a mind accustomed to look upon the bright side of all things will repel the dampness of care by its genial sunshine. A cheerful heart paints the world as it sees it—like a sunny landscape. The morbid mind depicts it like a sterile wilderness, and thus life, like the chameleon, takes its hue of light or shade from the object upon which it rests. The world is almost universally a mirror, which reflects back to us the picture of the substance we present to its surface, showing us the aspect of our own breasts, either tranquil or troubled, as the case may be. If the eye is jaundiced, the landscape will be robbed of its beauty, and our own morbid spirit will turn fertile fields into sterile plains. One of the grand secrets of this life, as it regards our own happiness, is to learn to accommodate ourselves to circumstances, not grumbling at every mischance, but pleasantly putting the best aspect up, whatever may happen. Open, unrestrained merriment is a safety-valve to the heart, carrying off the noxious vapors of care and unhappiness. It is the part of the true philosopher to jest as well as to preach, and, indeed, he will be found enforcing some of his most valuable truths by appealing to our natural sense of the humorous. We don't like to see people going through life ever with a frown upon their faces and a sigh on their lips. Such persons do not realize that there is to this life of ours a sunny side.—N. Y. Weekly. PRETTY OUILT BLOCK. Pattern Can Be Used to Advantage in Carrying Out a Neat National This design I "stole" from a quilt I saw hanging on the line at my next door neighbor's the last time she aired her bedding. It is different from anything I have ever seen, and I thought some one else might like to make a quilt like it. It was very pretty, and used quite small pieces in the making. Very little need be said, as the cut shows the design so plainly. Three colors are used in each block. A pretty thing would be to make such an one of red, white and blue. The corners of blue calico, the squares of STAR CENTER QUILT. white muslin (or white calico with very small red or blue figures)and the cross of red. Any house were there are many children would be apt to furnish easily the blues and whites, and even if the red had to be bought for the purpose the cost would be very slight. A cushion cover would be pretty if formed from five blocks like this, and four of plain goods, put together in "nine-patch" fashion, one patchwork square in each corner, one in the middle, and the four plain ones in the remaining places. A charming national color scheme could be carried out as follows: Have the plain blocks of dark blue and the patchwork ones like this: Red in the corners, white in squares; and blue in the cross. Or a very unique pillow would be all in yellow and black, black in all the shaded portions and yellow in the white part as the cut appears. A pillow 14 inches square could be entirely covered with one huge patch in this design, in any colors desired. Or have a 12-inch patch with a one-inch strip around the edges. In fact, I can think of a dozen ways to use this pretty pattern, and hope it may prove of interest to some of the housewives who read this paper.—M. French, in Farm and Home. Ordinary Paper Is Unsafe. Articles of food that are damp or juicy should never be left in ordinary paper. Paper is made of wood pulp, rags, glue, lime and similar substances, with acids and chemicals intermixed, and when damp is unfit to touch things that are to be eaten. cHiPrs. Gita weace “ertler to be Glected delegate to u that be should be selected as a dele Site and Murray thinks that he the proper person, owing’ to his im- moral character, to be chosen as & delegate. But The Broad Ax will en- Geavor to preyent both of these so- called divines from sitting in the con- ference as delegates, for neither one of them is worthy to have such high honors thrust upon him. < Mayor Carter H. Harrison is filling the various positions within his gift like sheep crossing the river—one or two st a time Monday night he made the following appointments: L. & Gosselii, deputy comptroller; William F. Brennan, deputy commis- Sioner of public works; William L. O'Connell, city gas inspector; James ©. Dooley and James M. Doyle, police magistrates, Desplaines Street Sta tion; Max Bberhardt, A. J. Sabath, Maxwell Street Station; Q J. Chott, Warren Avenue Station. And still there are more to follow, but so far aan er colored brothers whom he claims were responsible for his re-election, and he bas failed to give them any consideration. wren, Ramee ty Readian: Stop! Don't worry your friends and neighbors about what happens and ‘what will take place in the future. Read good books and papers and learn for yaurselé it is a wise thing to do. You can find the best WEEKLY JOUR- NALS 4nd MAGAZINES from all parts of the United States at the famous Afro-American News Office, 3104 State ‘street. You can find each month the Colored American Magazine from Bos- ton, Mass.; the Colored Home Journal from Pittsburg, Pa., and « full line of stationary, inciuding assortment of choice cigars and tobaccos. Cali and see our display of race journals and library pamphets that are edited by the race. If you don’t find what you want, leave your order for if, We are reliable and the only place of this kind. Remember the name and place— the Afro-American News Office, 3104 State stret. B. H. FAULKNER, Manager. UNCANNY MEX'CAN PLANT. a a oo ef Their Senses. The Institute Medico, of Mexico City, mays the Mexican Herald, will send to the St. Louis world’s fair an exhibit of about 50 medicinal plants of the cout- art ae products oe orn a i Acrompenying aoe proctéure for eg ee into es Sent of .. The Indians claim th-* ores ther qnic? a wood ot. Hae ae ‘ie Op, bed oe oro ‘to return to thelr fie ort thefy, destination Ul they cease, == 5 pe ppt io siete gree a - Saeco men oes Se fees men of the plant. it has been further ile pecallar plant tp Nia Dtiowh bas bow west Lar . quaatitie .s ae _ E> pega ae oe Pe gor pede Rio my opin Sie eae Glee , Ta ofdet that he may, encos eae othe ms tant ate ct ead hstenovssbe United States, See as Pa ee FIFTY CENTS FOR TWO : COPIES OF THE BROAD AX. Pitly cents for two copies of The Broad Ax. In order to complete our fies 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. Thé papers must be in good condition and the money wil’ be forwarded for the same upon receipt of them. IN WAR AND PEACE. Great Britain’s ninth submarine boat ‘was launched at Barrow the other day. It is in contemplation to remove the saluting guns at the tower of London and substitute forty-pounder breech- loaders. | According to the official reports since the German government has reduced its -term of compulsory military service from three years to two, the annual ra- tio of criminal! offenses in the army has been reduted one-third. Admiral Cotton, commanding the American squadron recently received with high honor by the German emperor and navy at Kiel, is a native of Milwau- kee, in which city he spent his boyhood. He is about to receive a mark of unusual distinetion 4 the ae govern- ment, which admit his squadron to the inner harbor at Portsmouth, where no-foreign warships ever yet have been permitted to go. Don’t imagine that you are the only rag on the ling, The rest of wsare in it with you, and feel just the same over it, and any little trust in icebergs will bé promptly nipped in the bud and frozen out ARABIC PROVERBS. ga eee va S Rese Te the dog who has money men say, “My lord dog.” Consult thy wife, and do the reverse of What she advises. Joy lasts for seven days, but sadness endures for a lifetime. ‘When the moon is with thee of what account are the stars? He who has gold is beloved, though he be a dog andthe son of a dog. ‘Those who are learning to shave = upon those of the or- ‘The beauty of 4 man lies in his in- telligence; the intelligence of a woman fs to be found in her beauty. When thoy seeat two people in con- stant converse thou mayest know that the one is the dupe of the other. one. NS she sin. be stn om ts thee; in world hé cannot serve thee, and in that which is to come he cannot intercede in thy behalf. Land Scheme tn Seotland. og baeatel ent any cote ena have been obtained in Blairgowrie to emable Scottish peasants to try the Trish scheme of small holdings, but Without aid from taxation. Fruit-grow- ing and fowl-raising are to be insist- ed on. Indiana Forestry Reserve. Indiana will have « forestry reserve <f.5,000-seeme woe which tence will be Sr he cervaon cf vnc oe estry. ‘ dens aren reem—Why not? My bua So ec ig nis ; “es Stenlnanes. ‘Boath—Say, what does ova mean? Seal T fo Lot 6 Sees es SOBs mets tien —®, ¥. "Spon tee lade wife will return home, Hortense?” “Mo, str, T chart tel. ree ae r vps i e = again.” ie See see ate ee Oe dlubs he belongs fo-—N. ¥, Bup. "Sie" ay erate opnen a that aa Th OF ss, Sopnalg—t seo by the papers Tae aaieieeete to m: wn Topic : ‘Me Option Admissible. ———a 2 ‘The f ; ayn Sar py =e | Mamd—Bo Jack is engage, is het seve Sree DEVINE & O'CONNELL ATTORNEYS AT LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK :- Clark and Washington St. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO A. D. GASH - _ See te | en eee ee, Telephone Main 3077, FREDERICK W JOB ome TE eacanl ‘TRLEPBOWE Mane sq FEDERICO M. BARRIOS - Attorney & Counsellor at Law Seite 501 Firmenich Bldg. LAWRENCE A. NEWBY ATTORNEY AT LAW Room 42, 119 La Salle Street CHICAGO : LAWYER Rem 402 Reger Bac, = GED POSTS ESTE T STS CTT e Tere Pephks (pee ee eer STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS LAWYER Suite 200, 128-125 LA Salle Street CHICAGO Cietette Batsemeeeaee, - SOHN FITZGERALD WSTICE OF THE PEACE TS 6 BALGTED OTEME, —OEICACO J. GRAY LUCAS © ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bidg 58 Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. Phone Rasdolph 55 J. J. HENNESSY, Justice ofthe Peace, 6301 S. 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For further particular- aidress THE DAVIES INVESTMENT COWPARY 614 First National Bank Bldg , Chicago HOHENADEL BROS. _ 211-213 Madison Street “a UNIFORI1 CAPS "Phone Central 3025. Face Massage, Shampooing, Scalp Treating Mrs, Warner Chiropodist and-Manicuring Removes Corns Without Pain Medicated Foot Baths and Foot Massage 138 State St, 4th Floor, Chicago Telephese Biue 4632 ‘Wort Called for £35.42 )¢ 5% and Delivered... A. HOFFMAN, CLEANER, DYER AND PRESSER. Suits Sponged and Pressed s5¢ st25 State St. 9 Susur JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery : Telephone 565 South 81st and State Ste. CHICAGO Mrs. Florence Miller FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED PRICES REASONABLE 315! State Street CHICAGO. John J. Bradley Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Property managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal papers prepared. CHARLES L. WEBB COURT REPORTER 77 South Olark St., Room 9 CHICAGO. General Stenographer T. J. 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