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THE BROAD AX Doctor H.C.Cress, Is Not the Rev. Archibald James Carey's Pliant Tool. Vol. VIII. Not many hours after The Broad Ax made its appearance last Saturday morning, many of the members of Quinn Chapel where up in arms, some of them were good and ready to lay down their little Jesus in order to whip us for referring to the actions of Rev. Archibald James Carey, during the sessions of the St. Paul-Chicago Sunday School Conference which was held at Milwaukee, Wis., lately. In this connection it may not be out of place to state that on Thursday evening, July 9, which was after the close of the conference referred to, Mr. T. J. Hunter, whom we have been acquainted with for some time, called at our unpretentious home and intimated to us in the plainest language that "he was or is a member of the official board of Quinn Chapel, that its members had met and after much deliberation on their part, they finally decided to select him to call on us for the purpose of urging us not to have one word to say in the columns of The Broad Ax respecting Rev. Archibald James Carey and the Milwaukee affair; that the Rev. gentleman had recently declared that "from henceforth he would refrain from drinking anything other than tea and coffee," that we could make ten or twenty times more money by not publishing anything in connection with Dr. Carey and the Sunday School conference than if we should happen to publish it; that the money would be forthcoming at once if we would accept it; that Rev. Carey was willing to aid us politically or in any other way within his power; that Mrs. Carey knew nothing of his doings at Milwaukee, and if she should read of it in The Broad Ax it would kill her." When Mr. Hunter concluded his plea for Rev. Archibald James Carey we very distinctly informed him that the more he talked about paying us money to keep quiet the more he would endanger his cause, that we could not think of accepting any sum of money great or small for the purpose of covering up or over the disgraceful acts of public men, that at all times it is the true mission of the newspaper to condemn the bad acts or deeds of men and praise them for their virtue and nobility. Mr. Hunter withdrew from our presence, after we had assured him that nothing would appear at that time concerning the matter, and on Thursday night, July 16, he again called on us with a gentleman whom he introduced as Dr. H. C. Cress, who also stated "that he was a member of the official board of Quinn Chapel." Both gentlemen dwelt at great length on the Milwaukee affair, they did not hesitate in asserting that Rev. Carey had promised to reform, that nevermore would he permit himself to drift into any predicament unbecoming a Christian minister of the gospel. Dr. Cress referred to the nervous condition of Mrs. Carey; that "she would be greatly grieved if any thing should appear in the newspapers respecting the actions of her husband at Milwaukee." That the rally was then in full blast at Quinn Chapel, that its members wanted to get all the money they could while it was on and if Rev. Carey should be handled in the newspapers without gloves it might prevent some of its white friends contributing money to it; that money would be turned over to us if we would not write anything in connection with Rev. Carey and the Milwaukee conference. It was 11 o'clock p. m. before they ceased their conversation; then both gentlemen spoke up and said: "Now, Mr. Taylor, we have done all the talking while you have not had one word to say, and we are waiting to hear from you." Very cooly we informed them that there was nothing to say on our part, that it was utterly impossible for us to pledge ourselves as to what we would or would not write about; that we could not use any of Rev. Carey's money nor his friends' money in our business; that regardless of the consequences, it is our conscientious duty to help to pull the hypocritical mask from the faces of all immoral whisky drinking preachers; that it makes no difference to us whether or not they are rich or poor, high or low, black or white, that all bad preachers look alike to us. Dr. Cress and Mr. Hunter then bade us good night and we did not lay our eyes on him again until 3 o'clock last Sunday afternoon. At that hour he called at our home in company with a little snipe of a fellow who goes by the name of Henderson. They found us reading the Bible, and Dr. Cress was very much offended because we had referred to him as Rev. Archibald James Carey's pliant tool. We admonished him to keep cool; that it was too all-fired hot to get so warm in the collar on the "Lord's Day," that we did not mean to convey the impression that he would commit a wrongful act in behalf of Rev. Carey; that as far as we knew he was a Christian gentleman; that we were aware of the fact that he was President of the Y. P. S. C. E., assistant superintendent of the Sunday School, class leader and member of the official board of Quinn Chapel, and it is said by some of those who worship at Quinn "that many times Rev. Carey has asserted from his pulpit "that no man nor woman can become a member of his official family unless they are at all times in complete haromny with him and are willing to follow him in all things pertaining to the affairs of the church;" but we do not wish to imply that Dr. Cress nor any one connected with Quinn Chapel is the pliant tool of Rev. Archibald James Carey. As Dr. Cress left our little home he declared "that if we cast any reflections on his honesty or reputation he would not seek the courts for redress but he would give us a dose of his own medicine." Attorney Robert M. Mitchell arrived home from Florence, Ala., Wednesday morning, where he had been watching by the bedside of his sick mother for the past three weeks. She departed this life Sunday. She was more than eighty years old and was highly respected and much beloved by both races. Mr. Mitchell says "that thousands of colored people are leaving Alabama every day and are wending their way to the north and other sections of the country. That hundreds of Afro-Americans who are worth from three to ten thousand dollars are not permitted to vote in Alabama, that Peonage, the new form of slavery still exists in that state. That broadly speaking the Negroes and the whites cannot make any permanent progress in the south until the present social system is over turned and a more humane or liberal system is erected on its ruins." Mrs. Archibald Goode, 3233 Prairie avenue, her daughters, Miss Inez Goode and Mrs. Stella Brown, leave for St. Joseph, Mich., Sunday night to be present at the marriage of Miss A. Phillips to Mr. Peoples. Miss Edna Goode, who has been spending some time at Dismond Lake, Mich., will act as maid of honor and later on she and her sister, Miss Inez, will spend three weeks with friends at Marion, Ind. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, AUGUST 29, 1903. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND HIS BUSINESS LEAGUE. Booker T. Washington and his Business League was on the billboards at Nashville, Tenn., last week and from start to finish Booker T. was the whole cheese. This would-be new moses of ten million People, thrown his same old sop out to his weak-minded dupes in delivering his set speech before the members of his League he exclaimed that "it is much wiser for us to emphasize opportunities than grievances. The world soon gets tired of the man or the race with a grievance. The Negro business man is an indication of growth which is more potent and helpful than much abstract argument. While we are in many cases surrounded with disadvantages, when we compare our condition and opportunities with those of the Jew in many parts of Europe, it is easy to see that almost every opportunity denied the Jews is open to us." This is some of the rot handed out by Booker Washington at Nashville, and it shows that he is willing to justify slavery or peonage right by the gates of Tuskegee and all the other oppression or persecution or abuse which is constantly being heaped upon the Negro by his so-called best friends, that no Negro has the right to speak out against these wrongs inflicted upon the race, that if he does it may hurt Prof. Washington's chances of obtaining money to buy whisky for old Drunken Tom Fortune. Notwithstanding the fact that Booker Washington is in favor of re-enslaving the Negro by advocating his disfranchisement. Still there are many fool Negroes who are willing to aid him in his mad effort to distroy the manhood rights of the Negro, simply because they receive their share of booty which he gathers in while he is traveling over the country in Pullman cars begging money at the expense of ten million People so as to enable him to maintain a fine Summer home near Boston, Mass. The time will surely come when the Negro will learn that he is paying a terrible or a woeful price for Booker T. Washington's leadership. The following officers were elected: President—Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. First vice-president—G. L. Knox, Indianapolis. Second vice-president—J. E. Banks, Little Rock, Ark. Corresponding secretary—Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee, Ala. Recording secretary and organizer— F. R. Moore, New York. Treasurer—G. C. Harris, Boston. Compiler—S. L. Williams Chicago. Registrar—P. J. Smith, Boston. Transportation agent—C. r. Adams, Washington. The following executive committee was chosen: Old Drunken Thomas Fortune, chairman, Red Bank, N. J.; S. E. Courtney, Boston; T. W. Jones, Chicago; W. A. Beasley, Macon, Ga.; S. A. Furniss, Indianapolis; J C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn.; W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va.; M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla.; J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Ky. THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. The Rev. Mr. Lucky of South America will preach Sunday morning. Sunday school at 1:30 p. m. In the evening at 8:00 p. m. the prelude to the pastor's sermon will be delivered by Mrs. D. L. Lee. The pastor will preach a special sermon to strangers and visitors in the city. All of whom are cordially invited at the evening hour. All members and friends are urgently requested to hand to the pastor one dollar, dollar money as conference is near at hand. Sterilized milk may be obtained at the Institutional Church any day including Sunday. Our employment bureau can find work at good wages for all who apply. Mrs. Nellie LaMont Smith, Terre Haute, Ind., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blake, 4916 Armour Avenue. REV. GEORGE W. SLATER, OF HYDE PARK CHAPEL, Accuses His Brethren of Jugling with the Mite or the Dollar Money at the Iowa Conference, 1902. JULIUS F. TAYLOR. Editor of The Broad Ax: In my article of last week, I said something about Dollar and Mite Missionary thieves. Is there any ground for such a remark? If you take an Iowa Conference minute report of September 17-21, 1902, and turn to pages 57 and 58 you find the finance report signed by nine of the most prominent ministers of the conference. On page 58 about the middle of the page you will find an item saying "To Missionary Pre. Elders $75.00" Now, the fact is we have no Missionary Presiding Elders in the Iowa Conference. Dr. G. C. Booth, Rev. H H. Thompson, and J. W. Malone are the Presiding Elders, and received respectively $900, $959, and $700 last year as salary. Now, if you will look above and in the first column you find the real missionaries and what they received. Not one of them got over $15.00 and many of those missionaries received less than one third of the salary of these Presiding Elders. Also look at the list of widows and orphans. The highest amount paid to any one of them was $30. They should have had as much again. The Dollar and Mite Missionary money was not raised for presiding Elders. They received $9,000 salaries from the various charges. Well, how did it come that they got this money? If you will look at the bottom of this report you will find that these Presiding Elders head the committee. On the one hand this looks like highway robbery on the other hand clandestine robbery as they evidently tried to cover up their tracks by hiding the beneficiaries of their generosity. Down the column a little yet you will find an item which says: "To the Institutional Church $50." What right had this committee to give the Institutional Church $50? The general connection gives the Institutional Church $3,000 annually. Why $50 more? I wonder if the records of the Institutional Church show they received that money? Then a little lower down another item "To Bishop's Traveling Expenses $30." Where did he come from to make such an enormous traveling fare when he travels for half-fare? I am sure $5.00 would have covered all expenses Another item is "To Conference Stenographer $25." My! My! What? Over $6.00 a day, and also $10 to Rev. Geo. F. Woodson, private secretary to the Bishop. Rev. Woodson is Dean of Payne Theology Seminary and not a member of the Conference. If the Bishop needed a private secretary we had many men in the Conference capable, and needed the $10.00. Well, did any of them need the money? I saw big men crying because they didn't have sufficient money to take them to their various charges, and for some I went to the Bishop and committee that they might get home. In summing the accounts up about $200 of Dollar and Mite Missionary money was mis-appropriated. FIENDISH WORK OF CHRISTIANS 2,000,000 butchered in the wars against the Pagan Saxons, Sarmations and Scandinavians; 1,000,000 in the wars against the Arian heretics; 5,000,000 in the Crusades; the Waldenses, the Netherland insur- the Spanish Saracens; 1,000,000 in the man hunt against the Albigenses, extermination of the Spanish Saracens; 1,000,000 in the man hunt against the Albigenses, Hugeuenots, Hugeuenots, Waldenses, the Nethergents and the Thirty Years' War; 1,000,000 by the Holy Inquisition; 9,000,000 for witchcraft; 12,000,000 natives of the New World, all slaughtered through the flendish and hellish hate of the plious bigots who wield the sword of Christ—Ex MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TENDERLOIN DISTRICT Monday Bethel Church gave its annual picnic at Mill Creek, and as usual the toughest men and women belonging in the tenderloin district freely mingled with Sunday school teachers and the leaders of the goode-goode set. While on the picnic grounds, many of these tough or desperate characters wandered forth in quest of spoils and whisky, and some of them entered on the lawn of Mrs. George Burton and began to pluck the flowers therefrom and otherwise deface its beauty, and when she remonstrated one of the women struck her in the face, which was a brutal act to say the least. An officer was summoned and after he had arrested the woman and was on his way to the jail with her, he was set upon by other picnicers who beat him into insensibility and the woman escaped. Then Sheriff Burke of Kane county and his deputies started in pursuit of them and they searched the train from end to end. The woman was found in company with her companion, so the officers claim on the rear platform of the last car. In the mean time Deputy Sheriffs had been stationed in each car with drawn revolvers to hold the picnicers at bay. The greatest confusion and excitement prevailed. The man and the woman who were found hidden away in the rear of the last car resisted arrest and they were severely clubbed by the Sheriff, dragged from the train and placed in jail at Geneva. If she is the woman who really struck Mrs. Burton in the face she should be sent to jail for six years at least for persuming to destroy other people's property without their permission, and if she was not guilty of committing the act, it would have been no trouble for her to prove her innocence in the courts of Illinois where every person stands equal before the law. For such acts on the part of those who attended Rev. Abraham, Lincoln Murray's Sunday school picnic at Mill Creek brings disgrace and reproach on all decent Afro-Americans. SOMEONE HAS LIED! "The community does not fear, as a rule, the vote of the man, no matter what his color, who is a large taxpayer." — Booker T. Washington's speech at Nashville printed in Boston Transcript. The above is a leading statement in the qusetion of southern disfranchisement. Those white southerns who wish to convince the north that the south is just to the Negro and that the desire is simply for a good electorate claim the above. Mr. Washington claimed this also when he said the revised constitutions put a premium upon thrift and property. Is it true? That is what the northern white man and the northern Negro want to know and have the right to know. Practically all other southern Negroes except Mr. Washington state that many Negroes who own property are disfranchised in fact that, as a rule, property holding and tax paying are no guarantees of securing registration under the new constitutions. Mr. Jas. Summers, editor of the Jersey City Appeal, a native of Alabama, in his open letter refusing to be subsidized by Mr. Washington declared he found Negroes owning property in Alabama, relatives of his, and graduates of Tuskegee disfranchised. Mr. Howard Sprowl of Portland, Ore., long a native of the south, declared in a letter printed in our last issue, that his brother in Alabama, who is worth $5,000 in property and a graduate of Tuskegee is not allowed to register. These witnesses could be multiplied. Especially do all the southern Negroes who oppose disfranchisement state this. Even Mr. James H. Hayes, the Virginia Negro, who is now electionering assidiously for Mr. Washington, declared in Faneufi hall. Boston, that rich Negroes were often barred. To be sure the public doubted his assertion because of Mr. Washington's famous counter assertion. Mr. Jackson W. Giles of Alabama, corroborates Mr. Hayes denial that No.44. property means having the franchise in the south. Mr. Manning, a white Alabamian living near Tuskegee, stared in a public speech that propertyholding Negroes in Alabama were disfranchised by the wholesale. Northern papers friendly to the Negro, the New York Evening Post, state likewise. What are the facts? Who is telling the truth? Hayes, Jackson and Manning or Booker Washington? Some one has lied.—The Guardian Boston, Mass. CHIPS. Miss Mamie Bradley, Memphis, Tenn., is in the city visiting her friend Miss Hattie Turner, 364 27th street. Lynch Wormley, who was connected with the South Town office for many years, left Monday night on a long trip to California. Hon. Benjamin M. Mitchell, member of the Legislature of Illinois, would make a splendid clerk of the Superior Court of Cook County. The Sumner Club gives its first annual Picnic Monday, August 31, at Rasch's Grove, from 12 m. to 12 p. m. Dancing will begin at 4 p. m. Mrs. Dr. F. A. Lindsay, Zenja, Ohio, who has spent several weeks with her friend, Mrs. L. A. Davis, 5012 5th avenue, left for her home Wednesday morning. Mrs. Louise Montgomery, 4743 Shields Avenue, was in St. Paul, Minn., last week and attended the session of the Grand Chapter of the order of Eastern Star. Mrs. J. L. Parks, 3155 State street, left for Detroit, Mich., Tuesday evening to attend the funeral of her Uncle James Arms, who was buried in that city Thursday. Dr. M. F. Murray, 1935 State street, has many Patients among the Afro-Americans, and they always receive the best attention and the highest consideration from his hands. "Joe." Healy, 436 West 47th street, who is one of the Popular citizens of the Town of Lake, is having the interior of his drinking resort painted and otherwise improved. John P. Hopkins, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Illinois, and Roger C. Sullivan, returned to the city Tuesday from a business, or a Political trip to New York City. Attorney P. A. Hines, Chamber of Commerce Building, is spending part of his vacation with friends at Peoria, Ill. Later on he will sojourn at Colorado Springs Colo., for three weeks. P. J. Carey will resign as Assistant State's Attorney, Sept. 1, and he will open up a law office in the Ashland Block. At some future date The Broad Ax would like to see P. J. Carey become State's Attorney of Cook County. Mrs. Turner, 364 27th street, is home again from her visit to Milwaukee, Wis. While in that city Mrs. Turner induced her warm friend, Mrs. M. Jackson, 288 6th street and several other ladies, to become readers of The Broad Ax. M. P. Byrne, one of the most successful contractors in the Town of Lake always has a big roll of the long green in his hip pocket and owing to the rush of business this season he will be unable to journey out of the city during the vacation season. Miss Harriet A. Weir, one of the charming belles of Minneapolis, Minn., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Weir, 3605 Forest avenue. Miss Weir has more than enjoyed her short stay in this city, and she thinks Chicago cannot be surpassed as a summer resort. Lawyers Henry E. Murphy, P. J. O'Shea and E. G. Stockert, Suite 1444, Unity Building, are well grounded in the law; they are also capital story tellers, and they always have a job-lot of good fresh stories on hand to regale their friends with during these vacation days. . When the pastor of one of the A. M. E. Churches of Chicago is seen jumping from the second story window of the home of one of his lady parishioners, at 3 o'clock in the morning, with his clothes in his hands, the law of Illinois will not presume that he went there for the purpose of administering spiritual consolation. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Farmers, Single Taxes, 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 broad 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. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Adverising 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. Her Own Secret. "A woman can never keep anything to herself," said Danboy to his wife, who had been repeating something he didn't want known. "Oh, yes, she can," said Mrs. Danboy, sweetly. "I'd like to know what it is," he growled. "It's her real and private opinion of her husband."—Tit-Bits. Difference of Opinion. "What is genius?" asked the man who has a liking for abstruse questions. has a hint for abstract questions. "There is a difference of opinion on that question," answered Mr. Sirius Barker; "some people think that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains; others that it is the ability to get on without doing any work worth mentioning."—Washington Star. Quite Surprising. Subbubs-I bought some chickens yesterday and started a poultry yard, and early this morning there were two colored men hanging around my place. Col. South-Yo' don't say, suh? And do yo' really hang 'em up hyar merely fo' stcalin' chickens? - Philadelphia Press. Clearly Not That "Are you sure, Mr. Spoonamore," she asked him, after a moment's pause, "it isn't my $25,000 legacy, instead of me, that attracts you?" "I am, Miss Higgsworthy," he answered, with strong feeling. "I thought it was ten times as much as that!"—Chicago Tribune. "I understand the people concerned are almost heartbroken." "That's true. It was a dreadful humiliation to them to find they didn't have enough influence to keep it out of the newspapers."—Washington Star. Cause and Effect Teacher was telling the class about the collar bone, and little Lucy's chubby hand went up to ask permission to speak. "I know, teacher," she lisped; "I know what people has when they break the collar bone—they has the cholera morbus!"—N. Y. Times. Explaind. Willie (who has attended three rainy Sunday school excursions)—Mamma, why does it rain every day? Mamma—Well, Willie, I think that all the farmers must have prayed for rain, and God has been answering each prayer separately.—N. Y. Times. His Greatest Need Servant—There's a beggar at the door, sir. Goodart—Well, see that he gets what he is most in need of, and— Servant—Do you mean that I'm to make him use your bathroom, sir?—Philadelphia Press. About the Size of It "Say, pa," queried little Johnny Bumpernickle, "what's a test case?" "A test case, my son," answered the wise parent, "is a case brought up in court to decide whether there is enough in it to justify the lawyers in working up similar cases."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Rush Guess One-half her life she hides her loves—the other half her age. Detroit Free Press "Not in the least," answered Miss Giggins. "I used to be, but, do you know, I found that whenever I got to believing in signs I had bad luck."—Washington Star. Got a Life Customer. "You haven't charged me nearly as much for half soling these shoes as I expected." "No, ma'am. We charge according to size of shoe."—Chicago Tribune. Simple—I wonder why fishermen always exaggerate so terribly about the fish they catch? Sharpe—Because it's a lot easier to lie than it is to catch fish.—Ally Sloper. Marvel of Consistence. "Oh, he was a born debater!" said one friend to another the other day. "There is nothing he likes better than an argument. He won't even eat anything that agrees with him."—Tit-Bits. Hard to Follow. Mother—When you get angry with Bobby Jones you must stop and count 20. Son-I tried that once, and he hit me so hard I counted 20 stars.-Judge. Defied. "What is your idea of a popular tune?" "A popular tune," said the man who takes music seriously, "is one that gets to be universally disliked."—Washington Star. ```markdown ``` TITLED MOTOR CAR AGENTS. The automobile craze has opened a new field for the impecunious woman in high society, and many are making much money acting as agents for the various makes of machines, says a London report. A certain woman of title is known to have sold, within six months, five high power cars and 14 smaller ones, and made in commissions about $15,000. There was no trouble in making the transactions, for all she had to do was to tell her wealthy friends that her car was the best on the market, and give her card to the intending purchaser, to be presented to the maker. To help his titled agent, the manufacturer places a car, sometimes two, at her disposal, usually at her country house, sends down competent chauffeurs in smart uniforms, and keeps the cars in thorough going order, knowing well that a good run is more likely to influence a prospective purchaser than most things. She manages to get some wealthy friends for a visit, and then talks motor from morning to night, and gives them rides until they are fit subjects for buying. Some of the smart women make additional profits by selling the cars placed at their disposal on the spot for $500 more than the price, and then paying for the machines so sold, at their leisure, at the regular price, less the commission. DEAF-MUTES NEVER GIDDY. Vertigo Seems to Be One of the Ills to Which They Are Never Subject. It is a singular fact, vouched for by those who have investigated the subject that a deaf can whirl around interminably without seeming to suffer in any way from vertigo. "I have seen them do it repeatedly," said a physician long connected with a deaf and dumb institute, "and their performances bear out a theory of Dr. William James, the Harvard psychologist—the brother, you know, of Henry James, the novelist. There is a certain tube, connecting with the ear, that is the seat, according to William James, of our sense of dizziness and vertigo. In deaf-mutes this tube is deranged. Therefore, according to James' theory, deaf-mutes should be incapable of suffering vertigo. "The psychologist experimented on this matter at Harvard; he had hundreds of deaf and normal persons spinning round like these children, for him. And the result of the experiment bore him out. Out of a large number of mutes most were proof against vertigo, and the balance only suffered it slightly. Of 300 Harvard students submitted to the same test, but one showed vertigo in a very marked form. Thus James proved that the deaf are immune to dizziness. The boys at the Mount Airy institution prove the same thing." THE MEANING OF MUSIC. Tones Have Their Specific Expressions Just as Much as Spoken Words. "Music is a science more exact than most people suppose," said a violinist, reports the Philadelphia Ledger. "You can't, for instance, say different things with the same tones in music any more than you can say different things with the same words in English or French. 'Black' means 'black' in English; never under any circumstances can it mean 'white.' In the same way, in music, a major third expresses an interrogation or an appeal, never anything else, and this appealing quality becomes exceedingly marked in the fourth descending, while the fourth ascending advances from interrogation to affirmation and finally to command. Major and minor fifths travel by regular gradations from prayer to desire, and from desire to menace. Sixths express passion—all love music is written in sixths. To a semi-tone higher, and this love, this passion, becomes a painful, an emmous, an ill-starred one. Sevenths express grief, tragedy. Perhaps you think I am exaggerating here, but I assure you I am not. What I claim you will find claimed in many treatises on music, and if you will study the works of the composers, you will find that they, too, bear me out." Make the Tropies Contribute. Development of the great natural resources of the tropical belt of the earth is in the opinion of Hon. O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics, a necessity for the future progress of the world. Although this belt contains practically one-half of the land area of the globe, it now contributes but one-sixth of the exports which enter into international commerce. With the growing population of the world, and the increase of facilities for transportation, a change should be wrought in this respect. Science has shown how life and health can be protected in the tropics, and India, southern China, and other oriental countries contain populations capable of laboring, and willing to labor, in the tropics. Finally, Mr. Austin points out that in comparatively recent years practically all the tropics, except tropical America, have been brought under the control of temperate-zone countries. Electricity in Dentistry. It is proposed to use currents of electricity in place of anaesthetics for operations on the teeth. One pole is connected to an electrode molded to fit the tooth and lined with wet asbestos to counteract any heating effect on the tooth itself. Five minutes suffices to render insensible a tooth with a single fang. British Colonial Territory. Three-sevenths of the total colonial territory of the world, Egypt and the Sudan included, belongs to Great Britain. PURELY PERSONAL. Secretary Cortelyou has transferred the statistical work of the immigration bureau to the census bureau. His policy is to make the census bureau the one great statistical bureau of the government. Dr. C. M. Mills, curator of the Ohio State Archaeological society, has discovered a prehistoric village on the Gartner farm, a few miles south of Chillicothe, O: He has made excavations, which disclose many valuable relics of the ancient people who wandered over the country ages ago. Paul Deschanel, ex-president of the French chamber of deputies, is regarded as a coming president of the republic. It is said that he entertains that opinion himself. He is young, rich, clever, the most well-groomed politician of his party, a favorite in society, a member of the academy and high in the favor of the czar. Dr. James Sully, the eminent Washington psychologist, claims to have proved by long observation and a series of mechanical experiments that society's ban against hearty laughter as "bad form" is producing a mirthless and sourvisaged race. People in the "smart set," says Dr. Sully, do not laugh as their forefathers did because they think that to do so would be quite vulgar. Sir Henry Irving has been chosen president of the British Empire Shakespeare society, an organization which aims to help the rising generation "not only to study Shakespeare's works, but to love them." The bishop of Ripon is one of the vice presidents, and numerous notables in the theater world are prominently associated. The society has about 1,000 members, its programme being lectures, reading and presentations of entire plays. TOLD BY PHYSICIANS Owing to the cool weather of July the death rate in the large cities is ten to 16 per cent. less than the average for that motnh. An attack of typhoid fever, of pneumonia, or of erysipelas that would be mild in a sober man would kill one addicted to alcohol quickly. A circular has been issued by Paris physicians taking the radical ground that alcohol is never and never can be of any use whatever to the organism. A motor fan should be placed near an open window or other opening where it can draw fresh air. If in a corner or center of a room it simply stirs up foul air. A new improvement of the microscope made at Java university consists in so arranging the illumination that no light can enter the objective except that reflected by the object under examination. This, it is claimed, brings into view objects about half the size of those formerly, proving the limit of minuteness. In order to secure certification of his milk by the milk commission of New York city, the dairyman must have a clean cement floor stable, with whitewashed walls and abundant windows. Cows must be sponged and their tails scrubbed before each milking. White suits must be worn by attendants, bottles and utensils scalded, and filled bottles kept on ice and shipped in refrigerator cars. LEGAL RULINGS. A business is held, in Sawyer vs. Com. (Mass.), 59 L. R. A. 726, not to be property within the meaning of a statute providing a jury trial to determine the damage in case of injury to "property" by the exercise of the right of eminent domain. Reading the Bible, offering prayer and singing hymns during school hours in the public schools, in accordance with the usages of sectarian churches, is held, in State ex rel. Freeman vs. Scheve (Neb.), 59 L. R. A. 927, to be an infringement of the constitutional guaranty of religious freedom. The pendency and dismissal of a former action are held, in Rodman vs. Missouri Pacific Railroad company (Kan.). 59 L. R. A. 704, not to extend the time for bringing an action under a statute which gives a right of action for damages for death by wrongful act, which did not exist at common law, but provides that it shall be commenced within two years The flowing of land by a dam for manufacturing purposes is held in Avery vs. Vermont Electric company (Vt.), 59 L. R. A. 817, to be a taking within the meaning of the constitutional provision regulating the taking of land by right of eminent domain. An extensive note to this case collates all the other authorities on liability for damming back water of stream. BRAIN LEAKS Sourness is not sanctification. The man who whistles at his work seldom slights it. The man who forgets easiest has the clearest conscience. Only fools envy the man who is the slave of his money. When money talks it seldom has any trouble in finding a listener. A man usually has to work doubly hard for two weeks after a vacation in order to get rested up. The boy who never had a grandmother is going to miss some precious recollections when he is a man. Some men look upon home as being merely a place where they can rest up for the next day's work. There is plenty of room at the top. The trouble is in the awful jam around the bottom of the ladder. If the average man could do as much work as he thinks he can there would be little demand for labor-saving machinery. The trouble with the "trustees of providence" is that they want to claim all their successes as their own and blame their failures on providence—The Commoner. JUSTICE QUEERLY DISPENSED. English Magistrate Encourages the Belief That Malefactors Would Better Be Drunk. Being under the influence of drink is usually considered no excuse for having committed a crime, but it would seem that one magistrate is inclined to be an exception to his brothers on the bench in this direction, says Cassell's Journal. Recently a justice of the peace had two young men before him on a charge of theft. They pleaded gulity, and as this obviated the necessity for evidence being given, the magistrate was somewhat in the dark as to their culpability. "Well, sir," he said, addressing one of the prisoners, "have you anything to say in extenuation of your offense?" The prisoner hung his head, and replied meekly: "Your worship, I was drunk when I did it." "Drunk!" exclaimed the magistrate; "that makes the offense all the worse. You will go to prison for three months. And you, sir," he continued, addressing the other prisoner, "what have you to say for yourself?" "Nothing, your honor?" was the reply. "Were you drunk?" pursued the justice. "No, your honor; I was never drunk in my life." "Indeed!" exclaimed the magistrate, raising his eyebrows in affected astonishment. "Have you not even that excuse? Then you will go to prison for six months!" MASOUERADING FRUITS. Nuts and Seeds That Resemble in Form Certain Animals and Insects. Of fruits that resemble animals, the buffalo-headed nut, trapa bicornis of China, is perhaps the most astonishing. Nothing is more curious than its resemblance to a buffalo-head, horns, eyes and nose. It is an aquatic plant, with dissected submerged leaves and a tuft of aerial broad leaves. The nut contains a sweet edible kernel, and a species in Cashmere is a staple food. One species has been naturalized in our Concord river. These nuts are also known as water caltrops, in allusion to the spiked balls, formerly used to impede cavalry. The imitative shape has no supposable use, except as the horns may hinder animals from swallowing it. Some seeds resemble insects. Thus, the husk of biserrula pelecinus suggests a caterpillar or a centipede; the seed of the castor-oil plant a beetle, and, still more, a jatropha would easily be mistaken for a beetle, showing thorax and two elytra with their lines of ornamentation. A low leguminous plant of the Mediterranean region, scorpiurus subvillosa, has a pod that resembles a worm or a serpent more than a scorpion's tail, which is the meaning of the generic name; but in scorpiurus vermicullata the likeness to a caterpillar is so striking that the pods are sometimes laid upon salads to test the nerves of guests; the latter is called the caterpillar plant. POTATOES A GREAT CROP. Value of the Tubers Exceeds That of Any Other Single Product of the Farm. The opinion generally prevails that wheat or corn—in some regions one and in others the other—constitute the crop of greatest value to the world. Such is not the fact. The potato leads all other staples, being produced at the rate of 4,000,000,000 bushels a year, while the wheat yield is only 2,500,000,000. Europe produces seven-eighths of the world's potatoes, but it is little Ireland which eats most of them, averaging four pounds of potatoes a day per capita. The United States is on record as the greatest meat-eating country in the world, 11,000,000,000 pounds yearly being consumed here. There are physiologists who ascribe to this her power on land and sea. Johnny Bull has the sweetest tooth among the world's children, heading the list of sugar consumers at a yearly rate of 3,000,000,000 pounds of sugar. Of tobacco, however, the average in Belgium is 110 ounces per capita, in the United States only 43 ounces. But in the matter of beer the United States again takes the lead, showing a record of 30 gallons a year for each inhabitant, distancing even Germany herself. MESSAGE ROUND THE WORLD. Time Spent and Cost of Telegraphing Two Words Forty Thousand Miles. A Paris correspondent of Nature writes: "July 3 the Temps resolved to send a message round the world by telegraphy, using the Anglo-French system of transoceanic cables. The message was sent from Paris at 11 a.m. and consisted of the two words 'Temps, Paris,' with the indication of the route, via Malta, Aden, Singapore, Brisbane, Vancouver and French Atlantic cable. As the indication of the route is not paid for, the cost of the experiment was only $3.28. No previous explanation or preliminary notice had been served to the several companies, but the organization of the Anglo-French system is so perfect that the message arrived at the Temps office at 5:30 p.m. The time spent had been six hours for traveling about 40,000 miles, a measure of the commercial speed of electricity on the occasion of the inauguration of the American, Sandwich, Philippine and Hong-Kong system." Signs for Cows. A certain justice of the peace in Maryland evidently imagines that cows can read big print. He recently gave a verdict against a railroad company for killing a cow near a road crossing for the reason that "the defendant had no sign up at the crossing." "Why is Emily so anxious to hurry up her wedding day?" "She told me George was the anxious one." "George! Why George said he'd wait for her any length of time—no matter how long it was." "Did he?" "Yes. He said he'd wait for her seven years, and if that wasn't long enough he'd wait seven years longer." "Clever George. Of course that was just the way to make Emily determine that she'd marry him at once."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Not a Game for the Fidgety. "So you're learning to play chess," said Maud. "The moves must be very difficult." "Yes. But the worst part isn't the moving. It's the keeping still."—Washington Star. No Use. This life is mournfully unjust. It is a world of woe. The more we kick about a trust The higher prices go. —Washington Star. He Took the Hint. The bashful lover drew his breath And made an effort grand; "I wish I were the glove," he cried "That rests upon your hand!" 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Some of the Chapter Headings 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 C. Mayer THE PEACE Legal Documents Drawn ections Promptly Attended to GO WILLIAM LEGNER, Vice Pres. & Treas. INSIDE ERY ANY, By W. E. B. DuBois RESIDENCE 337 Burling Street WASHINGTON EVENTS STRONG MAN OF THE CABINET lias Restored the War Departnient te Pprominence—Able Sueccesser Will Be Found in Goy. Tat— “Datto Pershing.” . Washington.—Of all the happenings of the Ronserstt: Sseteuntien thine Rone is JS tikely ae a aa sreater influence on en its fortunes than Z = ae 3 ——4 ment of Secretary 5 <4 Root, which will Bt 1H take piace at” the = ee beginning of the A 4 new year. Outiide AS the president him- yi self the secretary 3 ofwarhas been the | strong man of the Elibu Root administration, the most forceful per- sonality and clearest intellect. He was all that with McKinley and perhaps more, for McKinley leaned on him even more than Roosevelt and depended in large measure on his initiative and ex- ecutive ability. It is a striking elreumstance that two presidents of dispositions so different ‘should have placed dependence on the same man and that both should have found in him just the qualities which appealed to each. No matter what view may be taken of Root’s policies and politics nobody will deny him the possession of intellect of a high order ani a capacity for accomplishment which has been possessed by few. A fact not generally known was re- valed a few nights ago by Postmaster General Payne at a dinner party given to the retiring secretary at the Country dub near Washington. The postmas- ter general, who was very close to the inside of the campaign of 1900, de- dared and produced the documents to show that he was right—that when re- publican leaders were looking around for a candidate for vice president to run on the ticket with McKinley their choice fell on Root and that it was the presicent’s desire that Root should be selected, but that Root refused to let his name be used, as he preferred to stay in the war department and com- plete the work there he had Begun. Regains Lost Prestige. Owing to developments since the war with Spain the secretary of war has come to be again one of the ff] = three great mem- —& Vib a bers of the cabi- Hii Gy Sore) net. Theothertwo C3 v a a a of state an eo a a secretary of the 4 |S treasury. It was ee the originalscheme | Xiu of the government fs Mf: i] that this should be jaime Fi) w, but in the pyr TG course of time with Hl \ t \} oN Ba thecreationandde- The Olid Time Secretary velopment of other Ver departments the war department sank into a subordinate place, and in the whole history of the United States there are only two war secretaries who had great reputations in office prior to 1898—Edwin M. Stanton and Jefferson Davis. Devis as secretary conceived and ex- ecuted the plan of seacoast fortifica- tions which, for that day, was the most complete and up to date of any country in the world. He did a great work which ought not to be altogether for- gotten in the later treason. Stanton ‘was, of course, a real war secretary With all that the fide implies. But with those exceptions, up to 1898 the Secretary of war was regarded as one of the minor positions in the cabinet, *0 far as work and influence were con- cerned. It was a position where every- thing went by routine gnd where there Was little for a secretary to do except Occasionally to assert his dignity and Prerogative against a commanding gen- eral Among the later presidents it Sew to be the practice that the poll- ticlan of the administration was put at the head of the war department be- cause his official duties were less likely there to interfere with his political Work than in any other place. . The war with Spain changed all this. The enlargement and reorganization of the army, the acquisition of distant Possessions requiring @ certain degree of military supervision, and the thrust- ing forward of the United States into ® Position among mations where she was more likely to become an object of envy and attack have combined to make it essential that the secretary of war shall be a man of the very highest ability and that he shall attend to busi- ness. Root has filled the bill. Root's Probable Successor. When Root goes out.his position will be filled by Governor Taft, who has Pe made such a rec- ————==§ ord as to convince ae ithe administration 3 ‘== that he is just the S s man for the place =F} =] in the cavinet = =—4 which requires es- Sete Fs pecial executive = =} ability. Taft is a S Sy very different kind ® of person. from Root. For one S thing he fs 20 years ‘younger. Wien H Tag - BOOt_has already a ord as to convince I a the administration 5 tej that he is just the S x man for the place =F] =] in the cavinet = 4 which requires ¢s- Sete Fs pecial executive = =—4 ability. Taft is a S Sy so ert / Root. For one ‘ thins he fs 20 years younger. Witem Tag Boot _has already tis Ney To ee as just graduating from aft is Soe ee ee ee eae alight of figure, and in- clined to haughtiness and reserre on Sovt with those whom he knows inti mately. Taft is a “mixer.” Root is the averse. But Taft is a master of the law, as Root is, and he is an fatigable worker, as Root is, inde Te is safe to say that it Taft becomes Swimming, Tar be will get along with every officer, high or low, who understands his business for he has consummate tact and hey § faculty of getting all the work out of ® man there is in him with any heartburnings. That has been his in the Philippines, and it was Bis record when he was in Washing. ton during Harrison's administration JaneciteF Beneral of the department of Justice. ‘ant 25 88 solicitor general that Taft rat had an opportunity to distinguish himself. He was a young fellow then in the early thisties and be had not been in office six months before he was one of the best known and best liked officials of the government. He had the faculty ofmaking friends in an.extraor- dinary, degree and yet at the time ‘he was winning his way amone the leaders and establishing himself as a lawyer of unusual promise. The Promise he displayed ‘then he has more than fulfilled. : Datto Pershing’s Philippine Record. A modest hero whose name has not deen equal to his deserts, registered a few days ago as - “John J. Pershing, [WY , U. 8 A, on leave until October 30.” fa A ‘That isthedescrip- TY 4 re tionofCapt. Persh- [9 =! the young offi- a oe ios a such brave things © in Mindanaowhere A he has brought the AY fierce Moros into subjection. What Pershing did in iL fad Gn, y.E Ay SMn¢anao =6wOuld The Moro in Subjection havemadehisname ring throughout the country if it had been done two or three years ago, when attention was centered on hostilities in the Philip- pines, but Pershing’s opportunity came after the novelty of the Philippines experiment had worn off and while the eyes of the world were turned another way. That does not diminish the cred- it of his achievement in the eyes of his official superiors, and it will not diminish his reputation when history comes to write about hm. Until Pershng came on the scene the ‘Moros had the reputation of being in- ‘Yincible. Spain.had held the ‘Philip- Pines for centuries without undertak- ing to subdue them, and it seemed as though they might hold out against civilizing agencies for a century more. He was only a captain, graduated at West Point in 1886, and he had a small force at his command, but he fought his way through the ‘wilderness of the island, beating back the savage band that opposed his progress and then having whipped everything in sight he set to work to win the natives over to the idea of American sover- eignty. He learned their language, he studied the Koran, and he made repeated ex- Peditions through the island telling about the wonders of America, im- pressing the natives with a sense of the power of the United States and in- spiring them with a hope that some- thing of all these stories was corhing to them. They called him “Datto Pershing,” and looked up to him with reverence. “Datto Pershing” is on leave now for the first time in years, but he won't talk about what be has done. ‘ Cabin John Bridge. Eight miles from Washington, up the Potemer te “ahin John, which not only has a history, but which is one of the most strikingly is i beautiful spots to i SS be found anywhere. y The place is called So Sf Cabin John because EL WEE\G there used to be a i Seed cabin on the spot, Fi ——a——~ | owned and ~man- i ’ esque character <a named John where it was quite the ma cela | GB be i of good esting te drive for.a supper. Since then the place has had its vicis- situdes, but the permanent interest of it lies in « remarkable bridge erected across the creek at.a height of over a hundred feet, through which runs the ‘acqueduct which for many years sup- plied the city of Washington with wa- ter. This bridge was constructed by Gen. M. C. Meigs, and is a work of engineer- ing which is hardly surpassed any- where. It is a monument to the skill of the engineers of the United States army. Although it was finished 44 years ago, {it remains to-day the greatest stone arch in the world, and such it is likely to remain, for stone construction has now given place to steel and it is not probable that any other stone arch will ever spring into existence to compete. The bridge was begun when Jeffer- son Davis was secretary of war in the pdministration of Franklin Pierce. It was completed ten years later, just at the beginziing of Abraham Lincolz's administration, when Simon Cameron was secretary of war. A tablet was affixed to the side.’high up, commem- prating these facts, but a few wcsks after it was put im place Davis became president of the Confederacy and his meme Te coer ot Seats all oo ef out ‘The mutfiated tablet still re- maine = arts A COOLIDGR. | One Great Advantage. A Jonter i#never interrupted —Washy imeton (Ia.) Democrat. ‘VIRGINIA HOSPITALITY. — Ht Ie Manttestea tm @ Singular Wa? wen ee ah Sportsmen. The proverbial Virginia hospitality is again in evidence. ‘That state has 9 new game law this year, of which one feature is @ non-resident license x Asat first adopted, all ~onibene other than non-resident children of resident landowners, were req to take out & license, but the ok at hospitality which is linked with the nameof Virginia Yecotled from this. From a time be- yond which the mind of man runneth not to the contrary, it has been 8 fashion with Virginians to invite their friends from other states to visit them for shoot- ing, and it was perceived that the new law would put an end to this pleasant custom. A modification was thereupon demanded and granted, says Forest and Stream. As it now stands, the non- Tesident law expressly exempts the vis- itor, the text reading that the non-rest- dent guest of a resident landowner shall be allowed to hunt on the lands of his host, as though he were a resident of the state, when accompanied by the host or a member of his family, and pro- vided that the host receives no compen- sation from thé guest. This is excellent in so far as Virginia hospitality is con- cerned; but we fail to appreciate the logic which finds it reasonable to tax one_sportsman who is obliged to pay board in Virginia, while exempting him who {s so fortunate as to have friends there who may entertain bin. HEROIC SELF-SACRIFICE. | Conspicuous Instance That Came Un- der the Observation of a Navy Officer. _ “Speaking of heroism,” said a navy of. ‘ficer at his club a few evenings ago, re- Rorts the New York Tribune, “it is rare that such an example is seen as that of an old associate at the naval acad- emy, Hynson, who was a passed mid- shipman at Vera Cruz, in 1846. It was really more than a bit of herotsm; it was fortitude, passive courage, that con- fronted @ peculiar danger, a self-sacri- fice that was most conspicuous. “Our fleet was off the harbor on block- ade duty when one day a Spanish mer- chant vessel managed to slip in without being discovered. Hynson conceived the idea of capturing the vessel by a night at- tack, and he succeeded in doing so. But as he could not take the vessel out of the harbor, for the reason that she was un- der the close range of the enemy's guns and forts, Hyson set fire to the vessel. In doing so he burned both his arms so badly that he carried them in slings for several days. While in this disabled condition a terrific squall came up and played havoc with several of our little vessels, and the one on which Hynson ‘was serving was capsized. Hynson and one of the other officers managed to get hold on a floating spar, but as it was not sufficient to keep them both afloat, Hyn- son let go his hold, and ina few moments sank to his death.” / BREECH-LOADERS ARE OLD. Bronze Cannon of That Make Were im “Use in Spain Some Centeries Age. That there is very little new under the sun has once more been proved at Tobermory bay, Mull, says a London paper, where Capt. Burns, of Glasgow, has, with the permission of the duke of Argyll, been searching for the relics of the Admiral of Florence, one of the ves- sels of the Spanish Armada, known to have been blown up in 1588 in that far- away water. With the aid of an old chart the diver went down into 12 fath- oms and came across a bronze breech- loading cannon four and one-half feet long, eight ‘inches in diameter at the breech and bearing the date 1563. The divers also discovered a pistol heavily incrusted with lime, a sword blade and a kedge anchor. Breech loading in artillery and small arms is popularly supposed to be an in- vention of the middle of last century, but such is by no means the case. Ina Dublin gunsmith’s shop at Cork Hill is a breech-loading rifie, which was of- fered to the British war office at the close of the eighteenth century and re- fected, as it was considered to need too much ammunition. Unfeeling French Reporter. Immediately after the assassination of King Alexander of Servia—in fact, on the very next day—a French reporter went to the residence of the dead king’s mother, Queen Natalie, and asked to ‘interview her. An attendant was sure that she could not be seen, but out of courtesy took the insistent message to the bereaved woman. In a moment the answer was brought back: “The queen pities anyone who could try to force his Seen seen heat Serra es The Pope's Titles. ‘The official designation of the head of the hierarchy of the Catholic church is as follows: His holiness, the pope, bisi- op of Rome and vicar of Jesus Christ, successor af St. Peter, prince of the apos- tles; supreme pontiff of the universal church, patriarch’ of the west, primate of Italy, archbishop and metropolitan of the Roman province, sovereign of the temporal dominions of the holy Roman aa p42. Heated Clothing. . Clothing heated by electricity will be worn by the duke of Abruzzi during his next polar excursion. The heat will pass through « network of asbestos-covered wire arranged in the lining of his ap- parel. His bedding wil be warmed in the same way. Sensitive Instrument. The electronometer is‘ so acutely smattive thet Xt wil detent 10 one ute an amount of which mast there is enough of it to affect the most eansitive chemical balance. ~ FRACTION OF TIME LOST. Scientists Are Making an Expensive Search for Missing Sixteenth ef « Second. A sixteenth of a second is missing, &nd despite the work of scores of learned Scientists no one can tell where it has gone. . A search for this minute fraction of Ume that is costing hundreds of thou- sands of dollars is under way, and it Will be continued till the lost is found, for its recovery is of world-wide im- portance, states the New York World. | If one grain of sand on the shore of the ocean were lost and scientists were to spend years in trying to find it, their search would seem to be little more hopeless and unimportant than this task, upon which the leading astron- omers of Engiand and France are now working. *The sixteenth of a second is missing between the sun’s time ag recorded at Greenwich and as understood in Paris. The failure to discover the discrepancy in observations may change the nation- ality of thousands of people. Longitude is calculated on the basis of Greenwich time. The boundaries of countries are determined by the cal- culations at this famous observatory. If the Paris calculations and not the Greenwich observations are found cor- Tect, boundaries may be moved miles. Se rn nine sutred to trace the fraction. A special build- ing has been erected at Paris, costly in- struments installed, a corps of skilled mathematicians engaged and a process that may take years to complete has been commenced. MASSAGE BY THE BLIND. Lendon Institution to Open New Oec- eugation for Which They Are Peculiarly Adapted. | There is to be a very new*field of work opened for the blind by the Lon- don Institute for Massage by the Blind, Which is about to be started under a com- mittee that includes many representa- tive medical men. It is not an experi- ment. It has proved that the blind can become expert in the practice of mas- sage, which in Japan is commonly rec- ognized as their work, repdrts the Phil- adelphia Press. The occupations open to the blind are few and rarely remuner- ative. The difficulty is one of the gravest obstacles to the improvement of the condition of this afflicted class. There are already several blind masseurs in that country. Some £500 is needed, and central rooms are then to be secured under a hospital matron. Blind stu- dents must obtain first-class medical cer- tificates in an art which is daily more used, especially by surgeons in sprains and bruises, and masseuses will be al- lowed to treat only women and children and masseurs only men. The whole scheme needs only to be mentioned to be Se It is also worthy of note that blind are usually endowed with a sense of touch exceptionally fine, so that here, and perhaps here alone, is a field in which they may surpass their seeing brothers, massage being depend- ent for its success upon the nicety of its application, dependent in its turn on iin Na cin gah teil. CHEESES OF ALL COUNTRIES. Some Familiar Kinds That Have Be- come Well Liked im the United States. Each country has its favorite cheese. The Swiss make the gruyere cheese. It is made of goats’ milk, and is full of holes, caused by the gases in fermenta- tion. The typical English cheese is the cheddar, first made in the English town after which it is named. Brie is a popular French soft cheese; and camembert, originating in Nor- mandy, is another. These cheeses are cured in caves, where the temperature never rises above 12 to 14 degrees. Roquefort, a celebrated French cheese, is made from the mingled milk of goats and sheep that browse on the thyme-clad banks of the Arno. These cheeses are also ripened in caves, but the temperature is képt at 40 degrees. Akin to the roquefort cheese is that called gorgonzola, made in Italy after similar processes. It is milder than roquefort, and not quite so good; but it sold much cheaper. Another Italian cheese, the parmesan, is very hard, and is usually grated. Limburger cheese, so beloved by the Germans, originated in Belgium. It is extraordinarily rich, being allowed to ripen by putrefaction, hence its hor- rifying odor to unaccustomed nostrils. _ Some persons have a saying: “Gor- gonzola is a cheese to swear by, lim- burger to swear at!” Name Famine tn Denmark. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Berliner Tagebiatt has sent his paper an interesting article on the “name famine” in Denmark. In no nation, he says, is the choice of the family name 80 limited. It very often happens that four persons unknown to each other ‘sit down to a game of whist, and later présent themselves, respectively, as ‘Hanesn. He proves this statement by quoting Dr. Krak, the compiler and pub- lisher of the Copenhagen Weegweiser, ‘the largest Danish street directory. Ac- ‘cording to Dr. Krak, out of a population of 500,000 in the Danish capital, 42 per cent. end their names with “sen.” Some 50,000 are named Hansen, which is used by the largest number of persons. Qeeer Underciothec Eskinfo women wear the most curi- ous kind of underclothing, its peculiari- ty. being that it is made of the skins of Dirds. These skins before being sewed afe chewed well by the women in order amake them soft About a hundred are required to make a shirt, and ‘labor of chewing the skins which form their garments is quite enough to jaws of Eskimo SENTIMENTAL JEWELRY. “Dearest” Pendant and “Good Luck” Bangle Are in’ Astonishing Demand Just Now. Sentimental jewelry is in vogue just ow, or perhaps it would be more cor- rect to say that sentiment is finding expression in the productions of the Jewelers and goldsmiths to a greater degree at the present time than for some seasons past. , Witness the popu- larity of the heart-shaped bangle and pendant, the fancy for, the miniature adorned brooch, and various orna- ments and trinkets introducing the true love knot or some similar senti- mental device. Now somes a new claimant for consideration, and from an English source, namely, the “Dear- est” pendant reproduced here. The significance of the sentimental desig- uation is found in the gems that em- bellish the ornament, the initials of which spell the word “dearest.” The stones used are diamond, emerald, am- ethyst, ruby, sapphire and topaz, the emerald appearing twice. A brooch on the same order is also to be had and likewise a ring, with cluster stone ‘ie ahs Zo = A r @& F Ss Px a o , ——— A “DEAREST” PENDANT. settings. The most recent “Dearest’ Production is a padlock bracele formed of gold links; at regular inter. vals the gold chain is separated by seven small gold hearts and in the center of each heart flashes one of the gems included in the “dearest” group. Anything more sentimental in the jew- elry line would be hard to find. Those to whom the dearest combination does mot appeal may find an opportunity for reveling in sentiment in a bracelet and doubiless also in pendant and brooch. with the word “remembrance” spelt out in jewels. Or some particular Christian name may be indicated. Less frankly sentimental and yet be- longing to this special group in jewel- ry is a noveliy known as the “gooc luck” bengle, with a beautifully enam- eled shamrock as the distinctive fea- ture. A chain composed of shamrocks. lady birds and pearls in aliernating sequence is the accempaniment of this bangle when worn as a neck ornament. —Brooklyn Eagle. SOME BOUDOIR DON'Ts. Simple Things for the Complextos Which Are Worth Knowing and Putting in Practice. Don't be afraid of sunshine. Cura- tive powers are in the chemical rays o! the sun, and they rejuvenate. Don’t think of the complexion only and fear tan and freckles; they can be removed. The sun is one of the most efficient of all surgical methods in the treatment of morbid growths as warts. moles and all parasitical skin diseases. Don’t use borax and rose water to re- “move fan and freckles without putting on a@ little cold cream afterward, for borax makes the skin dry. Don't use cold water when giving the face a cosmetic scrub. Warm water, followed by a dash of cold water, is bet- ter. Don't despise the humble lemon. With the juice of a lemon and the beaten white of an egg, milady, brush in hand may touch up her freckles in the seclu- sion of her boudoir and no one be the wiser. 3 Don’t forget that vinegar will eradi- cate yellow stains from the face. Bathe the bruise at once with vinegar and dis- coloration will be prevented. Don’t have a shiny nose and forehead Decause it is warm weather. Use a lit- tle cologne or spirits of camphor in the water when bathing the face. puck ssareheapnieneg pear e) the moment you reach a washstand if you have been traveling. Remove traces of dust and smoke with cold cream, and wipe off with a soft towel. Don’t expect to cure an eruptién on the face by an external application only. A hot foot bath containing washing soda will often cure this trouble. Don’t use tincture of benzoin on the face unless the skin is dry. It is detri- mental to an oily one. This is an in- stance of a preparation excellent in itself but not suited to every complex- fon.—Chicago Record-Herald. Value of Pennyroyal Oil. “Bits of raw cotton or wadding sat- urated with the oil of pennyroyal, and placed in corners or closet shelves and in boxes, will drive away several kinds of objectionable insects, cockroaches, ants, ete,” sald an entomologist of the agri- cultural department to a Washington Star man. “Placed in a saucer in the window it will help to drive away the flies. I have teen told that it does so completely. Saturated pads of the pen- nyroyal placed between the mattress and around the bed will drive away the plague not given in the list of those with which Egypt was scourged for her sins. For this dreadful pest another excellent preventive and cure is an application to infested places of equal parts of kero- sene and spirits of turpentine. Put the solution in the joints and the cracks of the bed, about the surbase and in any other place where the insects have found lodgment, and fill all cracks with bard soap that can be so treated. This i#an old-fashioned and reliable remedy.” _ THE LATEST WRINKLE. Everything in the Way of Gifts Has Reference to the Recipient's Birth Month. Many a girl is busy nowadays deco- rating her room, her personal belong ings and herself with the flowers, gems and colors which have reference to her birth month, and in making presents to her friends she gives them also the same significance. : For the last few years there has been an increasing attempt to make gifts which recognize in sore way the recipient’s pet fads. As this is an athletic age, all sorts and kinds of things have been made having refer- en@s to golf, tennis, bicycling, riding and driving. Now the fad is to utilize the symbols of the birth month. For herself the girl uses chiefly the flowers for the month in which she was born. These she cultivates, if she has a garden, and wears. She decorates her room with them in draperies, bed covers, upholstery for reed or willow furniture and hangings for her win- dows. There are so many pretty things in floral designs that every purse finds something desirable within reach. The girl even embroiders her handkerchiefs and lingerie with her flower, though it must be said that she does not put much work into the lat- ter unless it is for a trousseau. In this outdoor age she cares more for sports than for needlework, and she can buy her underwear for less than she can make it. Here are the three chief emblems for the several months—gems, flowers and astral colors: January—White onyx, snowdrop, brown, silver-gray and black. February—Amethyst, frimrose, pink, blue and Nile green. March—Bloodstone, violets, white, pink, emerald and black. April—Diamond, daisy, white and rose. May—Emerald, hawthorn, red and lemon yéllow. June—Pearl, honeysuckle, red, blue and white. . July—Ruby, water Hily, green and russet brown. August—Moonstone, poppy, red and green. September—Sapphire, morning glory. gold and black with blue dots. October—Opal, hops, black, crimson and light blue. November—Topaz, chrysanthemum, golden brown and black. December—Turquoise, holly, gold and brown. : There are gorgeous things in the way of birthday pillows ready made or ready stamped at a low price tc make up in birthday.designs. These have not only the appropriate colors, flowers and jewels, but the signs of the zodiac for the month. The birth month colers or flowers are also pul into picture frames, handkerchief and tie or veil cases, cushions and bureau covers. The imitation jewels can be bought ‘to sew on. Birthday spoon: with the appropriate flowers can be found, some with the gems set in, and rings with both flowersand gems. For the children there are pencils and pen holders set with imitation birth stones.—Washington Star. BAY TREE AND TUB. Hints for Housekeepers Who Are In- terested in Outside Ornamen- tation of Their Homes. Why is it that the square tub is not more often used for such subjects as bay and orange trees? The use of these plants for outside ornamentation of residences has greatly increased of re- cent years, and there is every indica- “AU Feel ~~ =a] i2 = te __ a SQUARE TUB IS THE THING. tion that the demand will become greater yet. The bay tres are imported from European nurseries and come across in round tubes, in which they remain, merely getting a coat of paint. Of course, there is the decided advan- tage of ease in handling that goes with the round tub, and it will, therefore, endure undoubtedly, says American Gardening. ' But as a matter of harmony and bal- ance a square tub is greatly to be pre- ferred. At its very best the bay tree is very formal, and its true use les in conjunction with buildings of a formal character. This is especially the case with standards.. In conjunction with the straight lines of the buildings and their appurtenances, such ag piazzas, etc., the square tub fits the picture bet- ter than the round one and serves to ac- centuate the more the round head of the tree iteelf. In the square tub the tree top has a distinct character of its own which stands out prominently.—Cincin- nati Commercial Tribune. Geed Dressiag fer Barus. For burns use a dressing of saturated soda or equal parts of linseed oil and lime water, vaseline, sweet oil, butter— any biand of!—but on no account glycer- in, which is irritating. Salt Bath for the Eres. Never neglect to bathe the eyes ccca- sionally in salt water. A weak solution is best. More pure religion. More honesty; more real estate; more education; more sticking together, will do the race more good, than ten thousand jack-leg preachers.—Ex. Ex-Senator T. T. Allain, who is as honest as the day is long, has resigned as a member of the official board of Bethel Church, because he could not or would not stand for the dishonest method adopted by Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray in conducting its business. Mrs. Louise Webb, 4712 Armour Avenue, returned home last Tuesday from St. Paul, Minn., where she attended the session of the Grand Chapter of the order of Eastern Star. Mrs. Webb was wined and dined by the best people of the twin cities of the Northwest and she will long remember her trip to the capitol city of Minnesota. Mrs. E. McDonald, 3032 Dearborn street, has a little baby at her home which she took from its mother, Miss Luckets, who holds forth in Miss Hattie Stanton's fancy bawdy house, 2111 Armour avenue. Mrs. McDonald is accomplishing much good in her rescue work and she should receive much better support than she does from that class of men and women who profess to stand for decency and morality. Attorney William Ritchle. Oxford Building. "I am a Southern man to the backbone, and I admire you and your paper because you have the courage to stand up for the manhood rights of the Negro. I also firmly believe that law-abiding colored People should be permitted to enjoy the same civil rights and privileges accorded to other American citizens. Booker 'T Washington may be doing a good work in his school, but it is my opinion that he can never solve the 'Race Problem' by traveling over the country urging the Negroes to bow down to the whites in all things, that the Negro can never rise any higher in the scale of civilization as long as he is taught that he is an inferior being. On the contrary he must be taught self-respect, and that he is as good as any other American; as long as he conducts himself like a decent and Patriotic citizen." The state of Georgia is in a ferment because a few days ago a white female prisoner at Milledgeville who enraged the wife of the warden of the prison by refusing to work as ordered in the field in the broiling sun with Negroes was given 40 lashes on her bare back, several blows striking her on the breast. Her cries were heard several hundred yards away and she finally fainted. A bill has since passed the Georgia senate forbidding the whipping of female prisoners at State prisons. If the bill will also apply to colored women, it will be a blessing in disguise. The Richmond St. Luke Herald says "the whipping of a white woman broke up the whipping post in Virginia; the attempt to make a white man support a black child by a Negro mother caused the repeal of the bastardly act; and the shooting of a white boy at the stockade prison of Andersonville, S. C., caused an investigation of prison affairs there." "It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good."—The Star of Zion, Charlotte, N. C. Wisdom Comes by Reading. 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 yourself it is a wise thing to do. You can find the best WEEKLY JOURNALS and 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 Boston, Mass.; the Colored Home Journal from Pittsburg, Pa., and a full line of stationary, including assortment of choice cigars and tobaccos. Call 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 it. We are reliable and the only place of this kind. Remember the name and place—the Afro-American News Office, 3104 State stret. 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. Those Tell-Tale Eyes. Mrs. Jaggs—My husband's eyes in the morning are an open volume to me. Mrs. Swagg—How do you mean? Mrs. Jagg—They are red.—Comfort. Wise for Him. "Was her marriage a wise one?" they inked of the heiress. "It was for him," was the reply.—Chi- sago Post. SEEN IN THE SHOPS. Some of the latest handbags that are shown have trimmings of metal tassels. Dainty chiffon veilings are shown having small bow knots sprinkled over their lovely surface at wide distances. Diminutive sunshades are again fashionable for carriage use and the shops are showing some very lovely ones. An odd and attractive paper weight shows three pert-looking fox terriers sitting in a row, as like as three peas in a pod. Convenient scrapbooks are on the counters which have three pockets across each page into which the scraps can be placed with the titles out. Among the dishes that help to make one feel cool are those decorated entirely in pale green. They are very pretty and cool-looking on the summer table. Yak lace, which is a wool lace in geometrical designs resembling a coarse torchon, is to be among the modish laces of the fall and winter and is to be obtained in almost all the colors. Slowly but surely the pretty dainty summer things are being relegated to the bargain counters and the prominent places hitherto occupied by them are being filled up with heavy, rough-looking winter fabrics, while furs of all styles are filling the shop windows. Fringe is to be extremely modish this coming season and the Tom Thumb fringe will be much used to edge flounces, capes and boleros, while many of the wider and handsomer varieties will be used as decoration on skirts and bodices. The shops are now showing some splendid designs in netted and knotted fringes. IN OTHER QUARTERS. Every Frenchman is born with a febt of $150 on his shoulders. Between January 1 and June 30, 1903, $6,480 persons sailed from Hamburg to countries overseas. Essence of orange leaves is much used in parts of South America as a healing ointment and a hair tonic. One of the latest penny-in-the-slot machines introduced in London supplies handkerchiefs at two or four cents apiece. When accomplished, the Romanization of the Japanese language will put the final touch of victory to the revolution begun 40 years ago. Owing to the prevalence of rabies among the cats of Amberg, Bavaria, the authorities gave orders for a massacre, and not a single cat has survived. With its fine public buildings, harbor works, and railway Jibuti, the French port on the Red sea, is described as being incomparably the superior of Aden. In the British house of lords recently when the subject of automobiles was being debated a peer told this story: "A Perthshire farmer was driving sheep across a road, when a motor car dashed on the scene. The car injured one of the animals so severely that it had to be killed, while the automobilist hurried on his way. The farmer sent the carcass to the market and was fined for selling diseased meat." SCRAPS OF INFORMATION. So far $8,500,000 has been expended in the St. Louis world's fair enterprise. Chess, specially adapted to the use of the blind, was in use as early as 1756. At present several systems are used. The unicorn, so long regarded as a fabled creature, was a horse-like beast with a single horn sticking out straight from its head, and it has been supposed that it was suggested by the rhinoceros. Prof. Wilhelm Boelsche points out that bones of a huge, horse-like beast that actually did carry such a single straight horn are now known. It is called elasmotherium, and it was a contemporary of the mammoth in the Rhine valley and in Siberia. Gov. John Green Grady, of Alaska, is in St. Louis arranging for an exhibit from his territory at the world's fair next year. This is his advice to young men: "Get married and go to Alaska. The territory is usually pictured as a land of ice and mountains. We have both, but we also have vast areas of fertile soil. We need railroads and settlers, and I won't even except the wonderful Mississippi valley when I say that Alaska is the best place on this continent for a young couple to carve out fortune." LETTERS AND LITTERATEURS. Prof. Mommsen expressed the opinion in a recent private letter that German students and young folks in general grow old too soon, in learning as well as in life, and need rejuvenation. The movement for a Bret Harte monument is taking form rapidly in San Francisco, and Robert Aitkin has been selected as sculptor. It is said "The Luck of Roaring Camp" has suggested the prevailing idea. Charles Belmont Davis, who is beginning to make his way in the magazines, is the fourth of his family to achieve literary reputation. His father is L. Clarke Davis, the Philadelphia editor and fisherman friend of Grover Cleveland; his mother, the novelist, Rebecca Harding Davis, and his brother, Richard Harding Davis. Fifty years ago the population of England and Wales was divided equally between city and country; now 77 per cent. of it is urban. In Russia 2,810 men in every million are annually called into the army; in Germany 4,120; in France, 5,620. To get so large a number of Frenchmen weaklings have to be taken. This makes the mortality in the French army 3 1/2 times that of the German army. SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sta. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suits 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. FREDERICK W. 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It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. It was the first preparation ever designed to alleviate kinky hair. Beware of limitations. Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful, giving it that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed, wing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to separate equal to it. Full directions with a bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this product ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. MRS. A. WILSON. 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