The Broad Ax

REV. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY. Pastor of Quinn Chapel, and His Family Are Endeavoring to Play White. Vol. VIII. Somehow or other our white and black rabbit's foot mysteriously disappeared from our left side hip pocket the latter part of the past week, and the result was that money was as hard to find as hen's teeth; and last Saturday evening, after squaring our account with our office devil, and turning over enough money to Mrs. Taylor to buy a little corn beef and cabbage for our Sunday dinner, it became necessary for us to go forth, after enjoying our evening repast and endeavor to rustle up a little more money, in order to have enough to last us over the day we are taught to keep "holy." The first hault or stop made by us while in quest for more money was a. the home of one of the oldest members of Quinn Chapel, who resides on Dearborn street, near 36th street. Upon entering the house the lady member of the household presented us to three other ladies who are also members of Quinn Chapel, and just as soon as they learned that they were conversing with the editor of The Broad Ax, they were ready to tear us to pieces for referring to Rev. Archibald James Carey and his hurrah trip to Milwaukee, Wis. At that point we begged to be excused for a few moments, then we made a bee line to the nearest candy store where we bought five cents worth of sweet meats, and upon returning to the house the candy was passed around among the ladies. That act on our part caused them to smile—their hearts warmed up and they one and all thought that much good was being accomplished by The Broad Ax in pitching into Rev. Archibald James Carey and all other preachers who fail to live up to their teachings. Each lady without any further ado gave us one dollar which they had saved up to pay into Quinn Chapel as their "Dollar Money," and after assuring them that we would not publish their names in connection with this article, they spent the remainder of the evening in relating to us how Rev. Archibald James Carey and his family are endeavoring to pass for "white folks." It was freely asserted by the ladies "that when the Careys moved from 24th and Dearborn streets several years ago to 3151 Forest avenue, that Mrs. Carey declared that "she was so happy or so glad to get away from the "niggers," that now she could rest her weary bones in peace because she was at last able to live among the rich white folks on Forest avenue." One of the sisters let it be known that she did not object to Mrs. Carey living on Forest avenue if Quinn Chapel did not owe twenty-five thousand dollars, and as long as it was so heavily in debt it showed poor judgment on the part of its officers to pay thirty-five dollars per month rent for the elegant house which is occupied by the Careys. She also maintained that inasmuch as the house at 24th and Dearborn streets was good enough for Mrs. Rev. G. C. Booth, and all the wives of the other pastors of Quinn Chapel to live in, it was plenty good enough for Mrs. Carey. One of the other sisters said that she is sure that Mrs. Carey feels her oats since she moved onto Forest avenue, and she gave her reason for arriving at her conclusion in this manner. It seems, according to her story, early in July 1901, Col. S. A. McElwee, whose family was highly esteemed by the best people in Nashville, Tenn., and other sections of the South, moved next door to Rev. and Mrs. Archibald James Carey, 3153 Forest avenue, and shortly after that event Mrs. Carey became deathly sick, so much so that they feared she would die and be transformed into a bright shining angel without any further delay. At that critical period in her illness, so our lady friend says, Col. McElwee, who is a faithful member of Quinn Chapel, urged his good wife to call in and see Mrs. Carey, as the doctor had de- clared "that she was not long for this world." At first Mrs. McElwee did not want to comply to the request of her husband. She declared that it was Mrs. Carey's duty to cali on her first as she was the first on the ground. However that may be, all the ladies at that juncture chimed in by saying that their good brother Col. McElwee put his foot down real hard and he again reminded Mrs. McElwee that it was her duty as a good Christian to call in and see Mrs. Carey, and they claim "that she finally consented to do so. She spent some time by the bedside of Mrs. Carey and freely proffered her services. Then Mrs. McElwee tripped into her own home feeling in her pure and clean heart that she had obeyed her kind husband and conducted herself like a true Christian. The ladies asserted that Mrs. Carey received and dismissed Mrs. McElwee very coldly, and from that day to this Mrs. Carey has not returned the call nor spoken one word to Mrs. McElwee, neither has she exchanged pleasant greetings with her two lovely daughters; so say the ladies. They also stated that Mrs. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, who lives on the other side of Rev. Archibald, is just as light or as white as the Careys; that Mrs. Williams has been treated with the same contempt by Mrs. Carey which she has heaped on Mrs. McElwee. These and many other incidents have lead our four lady friends to believe that Rev. and Mrs. Archibald James Carey are endeavoring to play white Jacob L. Parks, 3155 State street, is the only Afro-American undertaker in this city who holds an undertaker's license from the State Board of Health of Illinois, and it is intimated by some of the friends of Mr. Parks that "there is no one doing an undertaking business at 2804 State street known as Emanuel or Daniel M. Jackson, who are supposed to be the greatest or the leading Negro undertakers in the United States," and in looking the matter up it seems that some man or woman who goes by the name of R. or Robert Jackson, Pittsburg, Pa., is engaged in business at 2804 State street, but according to the undertakers' guide or directory, D. M. or E. Jackson are not undertakers, for in no form or fashion do their names appear in the guide or directory referred to. Some claim that so many judgments are hanging over the heads of Emanuel and Daniel M. Jackson that they can not conduct the undertaking business under their own names; hence it is run under the name of R. or Robert Jackson. Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz, 2719 State street, who owns over three thousand dollars' worth of first-water diamonds, was contemplating buying another diamond ring a short time ago from a colored man of the name of Wilkerson who is accused by the police of the Harrison street station of aiding in the robbery of Louis Weber & Co.'s store, corner of Clark and Harrison streets. Last Friday morning the case against Dr. Schultz for attempting to purchase the ring from Wilkerson came up before Justice John R. Caverly. She waived examination and was held over to the Grand Jury, but so far the police have not carted off any diamonds belonging to Dr. Schultz. Many Afro-Americans walked side by side with their white comrades in the great Labor Day parade Monday. That was as it should be, for the laboring classes can never make any headway against the rich, the highborn or the cold-blooded millionaires unless they all unite under one head, and the Labor Day demonstration in this city on Monday and in many other sections of the country indicated that the white and the colored brothers are getting together on this HEW TO THE LINE. BOOKER WASHINGTON'S LEADERSHIP REPUDIATED. President Roosevelt Warned by Suffrage League of Boston Against Making Him a Political Dictator. The Suffrage League, which was organized some weeks ago in this city for the purpose of regaining the Negro his political and social rights. held a meeting at 79 Sawyer avenue Tuesday evening. A large number of leading men were there. Speeches were made by Granville Martin, J. W. A. Shaw, E. T. Morris, I D. Barnett, J S Gaines, ex-Councilman Charles A. Hall, Rev. W. H. Scott and others. All emphasized the need of action now or never to stop the onslaught upon the race's liberty. The organization is made up of men of every party and of no party who are determined to henceforth use their ballots for the Negro's protection. In the course of the evening it was pointed out that President Roosevelt, though he has taken a manly stand for the Negro, has injured the race by making Booker Washington the race's dictator. Washington has ever since called into consultation been using his influence to get his followers into office. Montgomery in Mississippi, Crum in South Carolina, Terrell in Washington, Lewis in Boston, Durham in Pennsylvania, Fortune in NewYork and all the officeholders in Alabama are cases of public reward for private friendship. The last case of his beneficence at the public expense is the appointment to office of R. W. Thompson, who, since Christmas, has been editing Tuskegee copy for all the Negro papers which Booker has pensioned off, to use it for his defence. Thompson left Tuskegee, two weeks ago to take a place in Indiana in the war service. The League wants colored men appointed and recommended to office like all other men, by their Congress delegation, not by Booker Washington of Alabama, who does not and can not vote in his own State but wants to supervise other Negroes a thousand miles away. These resolutions published in full in the Boston Globe of Tuesday were unanimously as follows: The Warning Note. "Since the feeling hostile to liberty and equality of rights for the colored Americans has become so strong and widespread as to be positively alarming, we, the Suffrage League of Boston, organized for the purpose of fostering and protecting the welfare of all colored citizens, declare it to be our firm conviction that unless immediate action is taken by the colored Americans themselves to stem the tide of oppression and injustice, their utter undoing is inevitable. Such is the situation with respect to the Negro. What is the remedy? The ballot in the hand of the Negro voters of the North. And how is that weapon to be used effectively? By Negro voters for the Negro race, regardless of party. Therefore, this vote must be cast always against parties, measures or men hostile to the Negro race. It can under no circumstances be cast for any man who is silent when he ought to speak out, who is cold when he ought to be on fire with the wrongs of this much-oppressed people. This vote ought to be cast for the outspoken and courageous friends of Negro freedom and equality. "Inasmuch, therefore, as Booker T. Washington has glorified the revised constitutions of the South, has minimized the Jim Crow car outrage, has attacked the wisdom of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the constitution, has depreciated the primary importance of the ballot, has preached to the colored people the silent submission to intolerable conditions, and makes his people a byword and laughing stock before the world, he is not a fit leader for the colored voter of the North. "Therefore, since President Roosevelt has given him charge of the appointment of all Negroes of whatever State in the Union, and has made him the Negro adviser as to all policies affecting colored Americans, in the interests of our race we call upon President Roosevelt to dispense with Mr. Washington as our political spokesman. "We desire to record our profound dissatisfaction with the Republican party for its silence and inaction in respect to the destruction of our constitutional rights by the Southern oligarchy."—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. CHIPS. Rev. R. A. White, pastor of the Stewart Avenue Universalist Church, has arrived home from spending his vacation in the East. Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blake, 4916 Armour avenue, gave a lovely reception in honor of Mrs. Nellie Lamont Smith, Terre Haute, Ind. Col. Charley S. Deneen's gubernatorial boom is on its last legs, and they say that the "handsome State's Attorney has made up his mind that his head is too small to serve the people as Governor of Illinois. Dr. Charles E. Bentley, 100 State street, who is one of the leading Afro-American dentists in the United States, has been appointed chairman of the committee on clinics for the great international dental congress which will be held in St. Louis in 1904. The white man who murdered his Negro paramour in Donaldsonville, about fifteen days ago, was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree within a period of ten days. All praise to such a community and its efficient officials.—The News, Shreveport, La. "Socialism and the Negro Problem," by Rev. Charles H. Vail, is one of the best little pamphlets that we have read on that subject in many a day. It sells for the small sum of five cents and it can be secured from the Comrade Publishing Company, New York city. Col. W. J. Coelho, attorney-at-law, Honolulu, T. H., who is on his way home from attending the big function given by the Knights of Pythias at St. Louis, Mo., last week, will spend several days in Chicago, and S. A. T. Watkins is showing Col. Coleho its many interesting sights. Hons. Samuel Alschuler, Elmore W. Hurst, Rock Island, Ill., and Congressman James R. Williams, Carmi, are at present the three leading Democratic candidates for the nomination for the Governorship of Illinois in 1904, and either one of these distinguished sons of Democracy will skin little Dick Yates in a slow walk. Tuesday evening, Sept. 15, the United Brotherhood will give a Charter Day celebration and reception at its hall, 3245 State street. Dr. D. H. Williams, J. S. Madden, A. P. Perry, D. H. Weir and S. Laing Williams will have charge of the affair, and the many friends of the Brotherhood are cordially invited to join in the celebration and reception. Revs. Abraham Lincoln Murray and Archibald James Carey are on the outs. A little over two years ago Archibald took the members of his official board and made a hot-foot run to Old Bethel in order to help to whitewash its pastor; but now, for some cause or other, they do not speak as they pass by, and they are good and ready to cut each other's throats. Miss Grace Knighton, who has spent the past five years in Naples, Italy, is visiting her mother, sisters and brothers, who reside at 2826 State street. It is a pleasure to converse with Miss Knighton respecting the many beautiful scenes she has beheld in sunny Italy and in the other sections of the old world. During her residence abroad Miss Knighton has mastered the Italian language,which she speaks quite fluently. Two years ago Lena Gannon disappeared from her home at Gaskins, Ind., and from that time until a few days ago her mother, who had lost all hope of embracing her sixteen-year-old daughter again, had lost all trace of her. She did not know whether the girl was alive or dead. In the mean time the mother besought Mrs. E. McDonald, 3032 Dearborn street, who is doing so much good in her rescue work, to find her daughter for her, and after much hard work on her part Mrs. McDonald finally succeeded in locating Lena Gannon in this city, and last Saturday she bought her a railroad ticket, put her on the train and sent her home to her mother. Rev.Geo.W.Slater Dilates on the Immoral Conduct of the Three Leading A.M.E. Preachers of Chicago. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax: "With malice toward none and charity toward all," I write another article. The notorious preachers of the large churches, together with Rev. Jessie S. Woods, A. B., pastor of Grace A. M E Church, and of Lincoln Memorial A M. E Church fame are denouncing me for having the audacity to draw the curtain just a little and to let the public take a peep at their perfidy. Jessie is not notorious as a culprit, but he has fallen down in the vomit of old drunken preachers, licking their wayward feet until his soul stinks like an old whisky barrel. Jessie was a great man once. I admired him and helped elect him delegate to the General Conference. But Jessie's head, heart, hands and the great $150,000 Lincoln Memorial A. M. E. Church (on paper) in Springfield got all inexplicably mixed up and Bishop Arnett batted him right between the two eyes with one of those proposed hard pressed bricks. Jessie and his Lincoln Memorial A. M. E. Church all fell down together, and great was the fall thereof. For five years, more or less, Jessie tramp-preched it over the Northwest until at last, by licking the feet of dirty preachers, he fell into Grace A. M. E. Church. O. Jessie, where is your manhood? Grace Church may think they have a great and wonderful man, but they haven't. He's simply Old Jessie Woods—that's all. Now, as to the notorious prelates. All I have to say is that "the hit dog yelps." If they are not culpable that Financial Report must be explained away. Those Missionary Preachers and Mite Missionary Women are "cursing them away down by the big gate." But some day openly they will make Rome howl with those miscreants. On Wednesday night, Sept. 2, Dr. Booth, by Rev. Tillman, sent for me and I met him at my father's house. He urged that I had misunderstood him all the way through; that he was my friend, and disposed to give me fair play. He also said that he got only $800 instead of $900 salary last year. And that, in fact, he did not get that, as he reported more money than he actually received, and that while at Conference he was without money and had to borrow. I am not disposed to dim any, at the least the lustre of the name of this noble old Roman, nor take one star from the crown of his aged glory. If I have misunderstood him and done him an injury, I beg his pardon. I wish to do right only and wish to be treated right simply. I suppose, as far as Dr. Booth and myself are concerned, this fixes the matter all up between us. But how about Rev. Thompson who got $959 salary, owns a house and lot from which he receives rent, and has a neat little bank account? And what has Father Malone to say, who fixed himself during the early days of Western African Methodism and has property and money to burn? How about the rest of the clergymen who got money they should not have had, while their needy brethren got very little and some none at all? Mr. Editor, there is no public character wielding as much influence for good or bad as a gospel minister. Neither the lawyer, physician, merchant, teacher nor politician possesses such influence. What the Negro is, is largely due the character of the Negro ministry. What the Negro ministry has been or will be shall not occupy our attention at this time; but what he is now in Chicago. This is of vital interest to us at present. If I should say that the ministers of our three large churches (I speak of them No.46. W. Slater moral Conduct of ading A. M. E. of Chicago. as I know them best) are unholy and ungodly, no one who is at all conversant with the facts and situation will say I either belie their reputation or traduce their character. That they are bold, bad men is manifest at home and abroad. From children to the aged, conservative citizen their conduct is a subject of discussion. They are disgracing African Methodism, making ashamed thoughtful citizens, polluting the streams of socitey and belittling the whole Negro race in the eyes of those who are weighing us in the balances. Their conduct is known to Bishop Grant and the presiding elder. Knowing this and yet not using their great power to move these ministers, the Bishop and presiding elder stand condemned before a disgusted righteous public sentiment as "particeps criminis." They are as deep in the mud as those preachers are in the mire. Such perfidy in the name of Christianity is making backsliders, skeptics and infidels. Every home ruined, every life blighted, every struggling man or woman striving up out of debauchery sent back to misery and hell by such ungodly men, as little as the Bishop and presiding elder may think of it, they are a party to their damnation. My God! My God! Shall our mothers be contaminated, our daughters be polluted, our wives be lured from the path of purity and fidelity, our best men be driven to drink, destruction and death by the waywardness of their women-folks, enticed into lewdness by bad preachers? O Bishop and Presiding Elder, where is your godly conscience and courage? Your love for the church and the race? You may say these men are successful. But in what? In material matters only, while they are failures in spiritual things. There are preachers who are purer, stronger intellectually, as successful materially, and who would lift this great mass of colored people up to God and righteousness. Recently one preacher staggers intoxicated in the pulpit and is put to bed dead drunk; another sends his officers to implore an editor not to publish his bad conduct, while in a neighboring city known for its free beer, and another rebukes one of his stewardesses because she repulses him when he is desirous of hugging her, saying that "she is no better than the rest of the sisters." An indignant, disgusted public awaits the appointments this fall. Judge M. W. Thompson, at Danville, Ill., the first of this week sentenced Mrs. Bessie Dodge and ten men to indeterminate terms in the Penitentiary at Chester, and Thomas Bell was sent to the Pontiac Reformatory. Mrs. Dodge and her companions were convicted of attempting to batter down the doors of the Danville jail on Saturday night, July 25, in order to mob and lynch James Wilson, the Negro who was confined in the jail at that time. All honor to Sheriff Whitlock and Judge Thompson for possessing the courage to uphold and enforce the laws of Illinois! Special Notice The next issue of THE BROAD AX will contain an article "On the Mixing or the Crossing of the Races," by Attorney P. J. O'Shea, in reply to the article which appeared in its last issue signed by "The Doctor." Splendid Opportunity for Lady Manicurist. A first-class lady manicurist, either white or colored, can find a splendid opportunity to engage in business for herself with Mrs. Carrie Warner, 138 State street, fourth floor. For further particulars call at the above number. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the first principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Farmers, Shingle 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. Advertising rates made known on application Address all communications to THE BROAD AX JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., as Second-class Matter. A Slight Sarcasm. "Is your son going back to college?" "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel. "Doesn't he know enough?" "Yes; he's got book learnin', but from the way he?' been helpin' around the place this summer I reckon he needs a few more athletics."—Washington Star. No Judge. Young Artist—It's an outrage to have such an ignoramus as Puffers on a hanging committee. Friend—No judge of art, eh? Young Artist—He is a half-Idiot. Why, sir, he thought my cows were horses.—N. Y. Weekly. Sure to Agree. New Girl (timidly)—I s'pose you are a fine cook, mum? Young Mistress—Bless me, no; I don't know a thing about it. New Girl (relieved)—Then we'll get on famously, mum. I don't; either.—N. Y. Weekly. As to Pluggins. "Yes, Pluggins has risen in the world, I know, but it's all due to his wife. She spurs him to action." "Well, any man with a particle of spirit will get up when his wife uses spurs on him, won't he?"—Chicago Tribune. Then the Smile Faded. Crusty Old Gentleman—Your singing Miss Taylor, is like attar of roses— Old Gentleman (continuing)—A little of it goes a very long way.—Tit-Bits. Will Come in Handy. He—Now I guess that Phister girl's knowledge of fencing and boxing which she got at school will come in handy. She—Why so? "She's going to be married!"—Yonkere Statesman. Enjoyed the Making Up. The Husband—We must break this habit of constantly quarreling with each other, even if we have to separate. The Wife—But I can't live without you.—Town Topics. That Mary's lamb was dear to her 'Tis very safe to bet; But when the meat trust sent it out That lamb was dearer yet. -Washington Star Often the Case. She had fifteen million dollars, Placed in bonds, and shares, and rents He had fifteen million dollars, So they merged their sentiments. Now they've raised a son who's valued At exactly thirty cents. -N. X. Commercial-Advertiser. Rather Egotistical. "I never argue with fools," said Crankleigh. "Because why?" asked the bartender. "Because when they don't agree with me I feel sorry for them," replied the home-grown philosopher; "and when they do agree with me I feel sorry for myself."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Knowing One. "It seems to me," said the auburn-haired damsel, "that it is only the men who never marry who know all about women." "Or, in other words," replied the cynical bachelor, "it is only the men who know all about women who never marry."—Chicago Daily News. Success Assured. Jaggles—The members of that exploring party seem confident that they will make wonderful scientific discoveries. Have they good reasons for thinking so? Waggles—The best. They have taken a press agent along.—N. Y. Times. "No," he answered, "but I can hold you up while you're trying to learn." "That is all that is necessary," she cried, joyously. And so they went into the water.—Brooklyn Eagle. "There are always two sides to a question," said the broad-minded man. "That's true," answered Senator Sorghum, "and the question must always be carefully studied to ascertain which side is going to pay the best."—Washington Star. Payment by Proxy. Neighbor's Pretty Daughter—How much is this a yard? Draper's Son (desperate "spoons" on her)—Only one kiss. "If it's so cheap I will take three yards, and grandma will pay you."—Tit-Bits. Pete—Dey tell me dat bully was always coming around here looking for scraps. Did yo' accommodate him? Sam—Should say so. Ah hit him wid a bowl ob hash.—Chicago Daily News. BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Tom Moore is to be admitted to the "English Men of Letters" series, and his biography is to be written by Stephen Gwyn, a brother Irishman. It is said that in working upon the biography of Mr. Gladstone, which will soon be published, Mr. Morley and his secretaries have examined about 400,000 documents. The narrative, by the way, is to include copious extracts from Mr. Gladstone's journals. William Watson, the English poet, has been having much trouble with his eyes of late. Fears are expressed that his sight is on the point of giving out, in spite of the fact that he is only 46. Watson's last published poem was his "Ode on the Coronation of King Edward VII." which was admittedly one of his most notable productions of recent years. A German writer, Miss Anna Wagemann, has written a book to prove that King Charles I. was the Man in the Iron Mask. She argues that he was not really beheaded—a faithful adherent, who resembled him, having offered himself for execution in his place—but succeeded in fleeing to France. It is argued that he was taken captive in Dunkirk and imprisoned until his death by Louis XIV., wearing the mask aforesaid. Kipling throws a good deal of his work into the waste basket, but it is some time since any of it went into such a receptacle owned by some other person: He feels that, having won a reputation, it is his duty to write up to it. On one occasion, when in a heroic mood, he destroyed a whole book. The title of this unborn book was "Forty-Five Mornings." after it was finished he asked Robert Barr to read it. "As good as 'Plain Tales,' was Mr. Barr's verdict. "Not better?" said Kipling. "I don't think it is," answered Barr. "Then'it will never be published," was Kipling's unexpected reply, and it was destroyed forthwith. CHURCH AND CLERGY. There are 1,933,000 Roman Catholics in Great Britain. The Roman Catholic population has been practically stationary for a score of years. England has over 1,500 Roman Catholic churches and chapels, and a population claimed by that church numbering upward of 1,400,000. Willis G. Wiser, the policeman having supervision of the campus at Yale university for several years past, has resigned his post and will enter the ministry of the Presbyterian church. During his leisure moments for several years he has been studying theology under the tutorship of a professor in the divinity school. The pastor of the Amyand Baptist chapel at Twickenham, England, Rev. Henry Smith, is a negro, born in southern states, but educated in Europe, and well educated, speaking French fluently, and an accomplished singer—a fact of great value to him in the evangelistic work he has carried on in England and the Channel islands. He is a man of fine personal appearance, but shows his race. When he took charge of the church a few months ago a reception was given him at which not only the Baptists, but Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Methodists were present. CAVES AND CAVERNS. Until recently no method has been devised for measuring upward into cave domes otherwise inaccessible. This summer was demonstrated the practicability of such upward measurements by means of small balloons. Little Bat avenue, in Mammoth cave, ends in an ugly black hole called the Crevice pit. Sparks avenue, on a much lower level, leads to the Mammoth dome, which opens upward through the Crevice pit. That is to say, Crevice pit and Mammoth dome are identical. The "Cave of Giants" is the name which has been given to a new mammoth cave discovered in southeastern California in the heart of the Providence mountains. The cave was discovered by George L. Berg, to whom its existence was revealed by a native Indian who lives on the west slope of the range. Mammoth cave is really a congeries of caverns whose walls and floors have broken through into each other. It is excavated from the St. Louis limestone, overlaid by the Chester sandstone, and exists in five tiers between the sandstone and the drainage level. While the general openings are in long halls and avenues, now and then widened into spacious chambers, there are occasionally vertical chasms, which are styled "pits" or "domes" according to the point of view. BRITISH BREVITIES. Colchester has its annual feast of oysters; Yarmouth has adopted a sprat banquet; and now Clacton-on-Sea boasts an annual whiting feast. Forty thousand pounds in salvage and prize money was paid by the British government between April 1, 1902, and March 31, 1903. "Two Lancashire holidays will build a warship," it has been said, the meaning being that Lancashire operatives, for their annual holiday, spend every year about half a million of money. The autumn exhibition and sale of the Irish Industries association will be held this year at Windsor about, the middle of November, when the court will be in residence. A party who has just returned from a delightful holiday spent in the Shakespeare country relates that the chief amusement of the natives of Stratford-on-Avon is watching the American pilgrim in his or her efforts to snaphot Miss Maria Corelli. Miss Corelli, since she took up residence at Stratford, has been often seen about, but she invariably carries an umbrella or a parasol, which "goes up" the instant the authoress spies a camera fiend making toward her. Amended Law in Michigan Specifier Distinctly What Relations Are Prohibited. Under the amended marriage law of Michigan the marriage of "cousins of the first degree" is prohibited, and it will become the duty of the county clerk to ascertain whether such relationship exists between the candidates for marriage, reports the Detroit Tribune. The law which is now amended to include first cousins specifies distinctly what other relation, in law or consanguinity, are prohibited from wedding with each other, and to make positive that no illegal marriage occur through his fault, the careful county clerk, before issuing a license, should inquire: "Is this woman your mother, grandmother, stepmother, grandfather's wife, son's wife, grandson's wife, wife's mother, wife's grandmother, wife's daughter, wife's granddaughter, or your sister, brother's daughter, sister's daughter, father's sister, or mother's sister, or cousin of the first degree?" Reversing the sexes the same questions apply to the woman. It is recalled that Rev. Father Ternes, of Detroit, one day had a room full of lawyers busy searching the authorities to discover whether a man could marry "his widow's niece." The investigation had proceeded some time when it suddenly struck one of the "learned counsel" that a wife could not be a widow until her husband's death, and the laugh was on the lawyers. PROPER AUTOMOBILE TEST. Trip Made by Two Men from San Francisco to New York Without Accident. A new transcontinental record for automobiles has been established by two men who drove a comparatively small machine of American make from San Francisco to New York, says the Brooklyn Eagle. They left the former city on June 20. They arrived here muddy, tired, but not materially the worse for their uncommon experience. They averaged about 80 miles a day. They crossed mountains. They traversed deserts. They trundled over all kinds of roads in all sorts and conditions of weather. And through it all their machine met with no serious mishap, a fact which will help reduce the automobile joke of the funny papers to its proper level of inconspicuity. Once before the continent was crossed by an automobilist, but he did not make as good time as did these two people. This most recent test of endurance is worth a great deal more in the development of the motor car than all the homicidal road races that have ever been arranged in Europe or elsewhere. Eighty miles a day is not a high average, and it could doubtless be bettered by larger cars and by more reckless drivers, but it is fast enough to show what the automobile is capable of in the way of endurance. And endurance, or the capacity to wear well, not speed, should be the first essential in the construction of a motor car. INDIAN NATION IS NO MORE. Last Chief of the Once Great Cherokee Has Been Chosen to an Empty Honor. The last Cherokee election has been held; the last chief of the Cherokee nation has been chosen, now a nation no longer but in name—swallowed up by the great American union, its name and identity lost forever, reports the Kansas City Journal. Monday, August 3, 1903, will be a memorable day in Cherokee history. The sun rose clear and shone with resplendent beauty over the Cherokee land, from the plains of Kansas on the north to the hills and woods of Arkansas on the south. All was stir and bustle among the Cherokees that day, for it was their last tribal election. There were two candidates for chief, one representing the so-called progressive party and the other the nonprogressive element, mostly the fullblood Indians, to whom it was a solemn occasion. All day long from morn till sunset the battle of the ballots went on, each side striving for mastery; and when the sun went down that night the star of Cherokee tribal government had set forever—the progressive party had won, and the last hopes of the fullbloods had vanished. Henceforth they would be subjected to the white rule, and as a nation and separate people realize that they no longer existed. - Longest Baseball Throw. The longest distance a man has ever thrown a baseball is a little more than 381 feet. The record for women was held, until recently, by a Vassar champion, who threw a ball 181 feet. There has now arisen in Tacoma, Wash., a young woman who beat that record by 24 feet. Anatomists have frequently explained that the formation of a woman's shoulder-blades prevents her from throwing straight and far; but the Tacoma record, 205 feet, is just about the distance from the deep outfield to the home plate. Evolution seems to be at work producing shoulder-blades that will enable the American girl to share the delights of the national game. Can't Blame Him. A German actor has been sent to jail for getting off stage jokes about the emperor. If they were anything like the American stage jokes, says the Chicago Record-Herald, we can't blame the emperor for shutting him up. A Sure Cure, But A Kansas man could not eat because he had dyspepsia, so he fasted in order to relieve himself of the disease. The treatment was a success, remarks the Chicago Tribune, but the patient died of exhaustion. PEOPLE OF MEANS. Frederick W. Vanderbilt has adopted a new idea in the construction of private houses. He is having a fireproof staircase of steel and concrete built in his Fifth avenue residence. Nearly all the big houses along Fifth avenue have rather too much wood in them for safety and it is likely that Mr. Vanderbilt's plan will be adopted by others. Senator Depew's "discovery" that Aixles-Bains has named a boulevard after Pierpont Morgan recalls the fact that the Germans have incorporated the name of the great American promoter into the language of their country The term "Morganismus" is currently used in Germany to describe the "trustification" of industry. Mrs. John Jacob Astor is believed to own the most costly ring in America. It was made in Paris and has three large emeralds surrounded by diamonds. The entire ring is encrusted with tiny diamonds and the emeralds are declared to be as nearly perfect as any ever seen in Amsterdam. A flawless emerald is the rarest of gems. The ring is valued at $10,000 by experts. William Waldorf Astor recently bought Hever castle and in so doing he came in possession of an idea for a story which he has since printed in the Pall Mall Magazine. It is an unusually good story and Mr. Astor is getting credit for having done a piece of thoroughly good literary work. That other eminent millionaire, Mr. Carnegie, has limited himself of late years to founding libraries, instead of writing them. It is said that when Mr. Gladstone read a book by Mr. Carnegie he remarked that he admired the courage of the man who, without knowing how to write, wrote on a subject of which he knew nothing. QUEENS WHO SMOKE. Former Queen Natalie of Servia owns a magnificent jeweled smoking outfit, and is very partial to the habit. The queen of Italy seldom smokes, but the mother of the king of Spain consumes a large number of Egyptian cigarettes every day. The czarina smokes cigarettes now and then, and on her desk there are always a couple of golden and engraved cigarette cases, a silver ash tray and a malachite matchholder. Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who was assassinated near Geneva, used to smoke 30 to 40 cigarettes daily, either Turkish or Russian, and used also to indulge occasionally in small Italian cigars. At the English court the ladies are strictly prohibited from smoking by Queen Alexandra, who will not allow smoking in her presence. Many fair members of the English aristocracy are far from pleased thereat, because among them are many confirmed smokers. The queen of Roumania, Carmen Sylvia, also owns a large number of gold and silver cigarette cases, but she does not much like the aroma of tobacco. The queen of Portugal, on the other hand, is an ardent lover of the weed. She prefers a special brand of German tobacco which is sent to her specially from Dresden. Her mother, the countess of Paris, occasionally indulges in an Havana cigarette or two.—N. Y. Press. IN CHURCH CIRCLES. Rev. Samuel Murray, of Irvington, Ind., is the oldest minister in the Dunkard church, both in years and term of service. He has just passed his 97th birthday and has preached fifty-five years, retiring from the pulpit two years ago. Third Baseman Bagsby, of the Augusta, Ga., baseball club, filled the pulpit of the First Baptist church of that city recently. Mr. Bagsby is a theological student and is paying his way through college by the salary he derives from playing ball. There seems to be a surplus of Congregational ministers. The Lear Book reports that 2,047 ministers are without pastoral charge. The denomination's gain in ministers during the last thirty years has exceeded the gain in churches by 250. Most of the English pulpit orators who came over to this country lecturing had a very moderate success. Dr. Parker's tour was cut short. Rev. Dr. Watson, was the only British preacher to have a striking success in the United States. His prices were high and he went home well content with his profits. Dr. Watson, however, had the double advantage of being both pulpit orator and popular writer. PERTAINING TO ROYALTY. Photography has for a considerable time been Princess Victoria's favorite pastime. The emperor of Japan married when he was 17 years of age. The empress, to whom he is devotedly attached, and who takes an active share in the government of the country, is a keen horsewoman and, strange to relate, a fairly proficient gymnast. In the royal palace is a well-appointed gymnasium in which the empress takes constant exercise. Mrs. Astor has lately developed a fad possible only to a woman of her wide foreign acquaintance. It is the collecting of autograph photographs of royalty. A signed portrait of the king and queen of England is the latest addition to her gallery of sovereigns and a tetea-tete picture of the duke and duchess of Orleans is another cherished souvenir of her European travels. There is no European sovereign quite so unconventional as Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, who is credited with knowing personally everyone of his adult subjects. He is always accessible to the meanest man in his principality, and during his walks abroad rarely passes a subject without pausing for a chat, usually leaving him the richer by some useful counsel or gift of money. "Yes," he said, "it will rain next Thursday evening." "Do you set yourself up as an infallible weather prophet?" some one asked. "Certainly not," he replied. "Yet you speak confidently of what the weather will be four or five days from now." "Oh, well, there are some signs that never fail, and my wife has planned a garden party for that evening."—Chicago Post. Friend—Why do you kill off so many people in every act? Dramatist—The company is small, and that is the only way I can work in all the characters.—N. Y. Weekly. Mrs. Myles—Does your new girl answer all your purposes? Mrs. Styles—No; she doesn't even answer the bell half the time.—Yonkers Statesman. Stella—Did he get down on his knees when he proposed? Bella—Yes; but papa won't set him on his feet.—Puck. 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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 AGO WILLIAM LEGNER, Vice Pres. & Treas. SIDE EVERY ANY, PAULINA STREETS. MONES—Monroe 1573. nly Place U CAN FIND AT THE CHICAGO RESIDENCE 337 Burling Street AIRSHIPS ON TRIAL Washington Is Center of Activity for Flying Machine Inventors. BERLINER MODEL THE LATEST Built on the Plan of a Bird-Everybody May Be Using Wings Before Long-Other Notes of Washington.—This seems to be the season for flying machines. It is the one great ambition of inventors all over the world, and especially in the United States, to bring to a successful conclusion the experiments which have been going on for years in the direction of transportation through the air. The air literally seems to be full of schemes and projects, so that many scientists believe that the conditions are ripe for the discovery of a practicable method. It is as it was with the steamboat, the locomotive, the telegraph, the telephone, the Roentgen ray. When the successful invention or discovery in each of those cases was announced it was learned for the first time by the ```markdown ``` public that many inventors and scientists had been working along toward the same results and on parallel lines so that it was almost a matter of chance which among them should succeed in the first discovery. It happens that Washington has been a center for experiment in the development of the flying machine. Prof. Bell and Prof. Langley are known to have advanced far in the direction of the aeroplane; and now comes another inventor—Emile Berliner, who obtained the first patents on the telephone transmitter—with the announcement of a successful test of a flying machine model on a plan not hitherto considered by anybody else. Berliner has constructed a model of a flying machine which even at this early stage lifts in flying a weight of over one pound for every square foot of horizontal area at a speed estimated at 20 miles an hour. The inventor confidently expects that with increased speed the best performance of birds which is the flying of two pounds weight for every square foot of horizontal area, will be considerably surpassed. If this becomes true people before long will be flying around like birds, because two wings each five by 21 feet would then carry a person of average weight together with a small propeller driven either by foot or by machine. Mr. Berliner has been at work on the flying machine proposition at intervals for 30 years and has only just reached anything approaching success. He analyzes a bird's flight as having two principal actions—the production of a current of compressed air by the beating of wings and the lifting forward on this air current of the body of the bird. This lifting forward, kite fashion, is greatly helped by the tail or by back wings taking the place of the tail. In his opinion therefore flying machines will be possible with a structure which when moved forward horizontally will produce a current of compressed air, with a tail surface for lifting the structure and combined with these a sufficiently light motor moving the whole rapidly forward. A THE BERLINER MODEL READY FOR FLIGHT. model built on these lines has lifted itself from the ground and in perfectly steady flight has reached a height of eight feet from the ground. It has also maintained itself for 50 feet at a height of three and one-half feet from the ground. The model is altogether different from either Langley's or Bell's. The main body consists of arches something like a funnel in shape, open below to catch the air, and sloping down in the rear, where wide tall ends are attached. The arches in moving forward produce a current of compressed air and at the same time exert a parachute action to support the structure and to facilitate gentle landing. It is not strange that Washington should have the distinction of being most conspicuous in the matter of the development of the flying machine. For Washington is becoming more and more the home of scientific men and the center of scientific thought. For years the tendency has been for men who loved study and research to make Washington their home. The Smithsonian institution, the geological and coast surveys, the other scientific bureaus of the government have attracted men of learning, and to add to these there have come a number of educational institutions which are doing remarkable work. So great has been the influx of men of scientific attainments in the past 20 years that there has been established a social club primarily intended for them. The Cosmos club has a distinction which belongs to no other social club in the United States. It has in its membership more men of national and international reputation than any other social club on the face of the earth. It is by far to-day the most important social club in Washington, though others may lay claim to greater wealth. Presidents of colleges, professors, investigators, writers, are numbered in its membership. Nobody is even considered for admission unless he shall be shown to have accomplished something which entitles him to public consideration or to the regard of men of attainment which is a higher test of accomplishment. President Roosevelt and his family will return to the white house on the 26th of September. They will find as usual that it is not the same white house which they abandoned to painters and decorators earlier in the summer. It is a peculiarity of the executive mansion that no matter how much money is spent on its preservation just about so much additional money has to be spent every summer while the president and his family are out of town. The white house is in a constant state of repair. Only a year ago more than half a million dollars was expended in restoring it—bringing it back to the condition in which those who first designed it planned that it should be. The results were gratifying. The tawdry "improvements" of decorators and architects for a generation of presidents were calmly thrown aside and a scheme of architecture was adopted which reestablished the simplicity and dignity of an earlier day. But even with all this the experimenters cannot let the old mansion alone, but must repaint and readjust and change just because the president's family is away and the way is clear. In spite of all the refurbishing the white house remains as it always has the most dignified official residence anywhere to be seen. As soon as Lieut. Gen. Young is retired from the service he will be succeeded by one of the most gallant and modest soldiers in the American army. Maj. Gen. Chaffee is one of the fighting men who carry with him the U MAJ-GEN. ADNA R. GHAFFEb finest traditions of the military service of the United States. He has a record which is not excelled for efficiency by any officer in the service. First, in the civil war he served in a subordinate position, doing his duty faithfully and well and coming out of it with all the credit that belongs to a determined fighter. Then there were long years of thankless service on the plains fighting the Indians, in engagements where splendid valor met with insignificant reward. The war with Spain was an opportunity and the training Chaffee had received in Indian campaigns served him well, for the fighting at Santiago was much like that which he had encountered in the rough west. But Chaffee's greatest service, or rather his greatest distinction, came to him in the Philippines and in the march on Peking, when he showed a military capacity which compelled the admiration of the military authorities of the old world. Chaffee is a plain-spoken soldier who acts without talking and who hates, above all things, the glamor and prestige of dress parade. It is not often that a federal statute justifies its enactment so speedily as the law passed by the last congress for the restriction of the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The manufacturers of oleomargarine have been utterly unable to devise any scheme for successfully evading the law. They cannot by chemical experiments secure the color which is necessary if their product is to pass muster as pure butter, and so they have been compelled to abide by the law. The government reports show that in the year just preceding the one in which the new law changing the oleomargarine tax went into effect there was manufactured and sold 126,315,427 pounds of oleo. Under the new law the production fell the next year to 71,211,-244 pounds, a decrease of 44 per cent. It is said by the dairymen that this reduction in the production of oleo resulted in an additional consumption of butter to a value of over $11,000,000, placing the average price of butter at 20 cents a pound. They say that the decrease in the manufacture of oleo equals the output of 650 creameries. HEROINE OF THE JUNGLE. American Woman Shot the Biggest Tiger Ever Killed in the Wilds of India. Few women can boast of killing two tigers, three bears, two panthers, and a number of smaller animals. This is the record established by Mrs. James C. Donnet, daughter of John H. Whitehouse, of The Larches, Irvington-on-Hudson. Mrs. Donnet went to India some time ago with her husband, who is an officer in the British army, and her surprised and delighted parents have just received from her a letter which shows that their delicately nurtured daughter has been teaching the athletic British girls a few things in the art of killing wild beasts in their native jungle. The letter is in part as follows: "I am the proud slayer of the largest tiger ever shot in India, and he fell at my first shot. He measures ten feet eight inches, has a perfect coat . and teeth two inches long. It took 16 men to carry him into camp and I did it all myself and it was such a difficult shot. I am a sort of big bug in camp now. The natives bow down and kiss the hem of my dress, for I am the first lady who has ever shot in these jungles. Ah, I am a lucky beggar. So just listen while I tell you about it: "We heard a tiger had killed a lot of deer in a piece of bamboo jungle about six miles off, so I got about 40 beaters together and took up our position near an open space, while the beaters went into the jungle with drums and horns, driving six buffalo in front of them and making hideous noises. After about half an hour, when the beat was nearly up to my tree, I saw a huge tiger. He was going full bat, so I saw it was a case of then or never, and although it was a very blind shot I let blaze at the vanishing stripes as they flashed through the bamboos. "A roar and rush told me the monster was hit, but I could see nothing, as the jungle was so dense. When the shikar came up I told him where I had fired and got down and with loaded rifles we approached the spot where, about ten yards from where I fired, lay the very finest monster I ever saw and his great striped body did indeed look like a slain king of the forest. The shikar and I all but hugged in our excitement. The monster was indeed glorious with his ten feet eight inches spread out in their full, his gums rolled up, showing his enormous teeth and his skin in its prime, and oh, so beautifully black and yellow. "I had already shot three bears, two panthers and a tiger, besides all sorts of deer and other smaller beasts, and when I saw that monster lying there slain by my own hands it was the proudest and happiest moment of my life and I shall never get over the feeling of exultation." TO REMOVE A RING. A Needle Flat in the Eye and a Bit of Thread Will Do It in a Few Seconds. Most girls have had trouble in removing rings from their fingers. "There is really no necessity for all this ado about removing a tight ring," said a jeweler. "In that, as in everything else, the secret of success lies in knowing how to do it. Here is a recipe that I have found unfailing for removing a tight ring, and there is no painful surgical operation involved, either. Thread a needle flat in the eye, using a thread that is strong, but not too coarse. Then pass the head of the needle under the ring. Care, of course, must be used in this, and it would be best to soap the needle before beginning. The needle, having been passed through, pull the thread through a few inches toward the hand—so." By this time the jeweler had passed the needle and thread under the ring on his own finger and was prepared to illustrate the little lecture. "Wrap the long-end of the thread around the finger toward the nail in this manner. Then take hold of the short end and unwind it—so. The thread, thus pressing against the ring, will gradually remove it, however tight or swollen the finger." Power of Gentleness. No bad man is ever brought to repentance by angry words, by bitter, scornful reproaches. He fortifies himself against reproof and hurls back foul charges in the face of his accuser. Yet, guilty and hardened as he seems, he has a heart, and may be melted to tears by a gentle voice. Who, therefore, can restrain his disposition to blame and find fault, and can bring himself down to a fallen brother will soon find a way to better feelings within. Pity and patience are the two keys which will unlock the human heart. They who have been most successful laborers among the poor and vicious have been the most forbearing. N. Y. Weekiy. FUSINESS IS FATAL Tact and a Calm, Easy Manner Are the First Essentials of Really Good Manners. Etiquette is not a mere code of formal, useless rules; it comprises the whole range of good manners, and consequently good breeding, tact, politeness and charm. We begin to learn etiquette when we are told to eat with a fork in preference to a knife, or our fingers; to sit with our feet under the table, instead of on it. Many persons have an idea that perfect manners, and a knowledge of how to act under all circumstances, is born in those called upon to move in good society, and that it is snobbish to try and obtain it through books. Than this there can be no greater mistake. The children of the most cultured must submit to a long education in etiquette. Much, of course, comes to them almost as naturally as speech, through the knowledge their children possess; but then the parents must have knowledge in the first place. It is the perfect acquaintance with what is good form, the consciousness of feeling perfectly at ease in whatever situation one may find herself, that gives the easy air of good breeding so full of charm, so well worth attaining. Natural tact, innate refinement, go far, but they do not take one all the way, any more than a naturally clever child can get on without any teaching whatever. But one thing is certain—it is only those who are naturally refined, and possess an inborn tact, who can ever hope to attain perfection of manner, for the foundation of all good breeding is tact. A tactful person grasps a situation in an instant, and is at once prepared to speak and act correctly, no matter what company she may be in. She is neither too familiar, nor too reserved. Next to tact, a calm, easy manner is absolutely necessary to the attainment of an air of good breeding. Fussiness is fatal. An over-accentuated politeness and desire to please is more to be commended, certainly, than the lack of both, but it is almost as far removed from the ease of good breeding.—N. Y. Weekly. NOVELTY IN MIRRORS. Glass Retains Its Transparency, But Possesses Reflection Properties of Looking Glass. Here is a glass which apparently can be used either as a mirror or window. It resembles a mirror because it has the ordinary silvered surface, yet it is unlike a mirror, because it is transparent. On the back of the transparent or translucent plate is a coating which consists of a silvering material, amyl acetate, gun cotton and fusel oil. This coating ```markdown ``` BOTH MIRROR AND WINDOW. is also transparent or translucent, and by means of it the plate is made reflective. Thus the glass, while retaining its transparency, possesses all the reflective properties of a mirror. No notable improvement has been made in mirrors for a long time, and for this reason the news that a new method of coating them has been discovered is of more than passing interest. Detroit Free Press. HOW TO PRESERVE EGGS. Keeping Them in Water Glass Is an Effective Method for the Average Housekeeper. Now and then a housekeeper wants to know of some reliable way to preserve eggs in time of summer plenty for the midwinter season of scarcity, when eggs are so much in demand for holiday dainties. Most methods are somewhat uncertain and some really affect the taste of the eggs even if it "keeps" them in a general sense of the word. Those who are studying the subject of egg preservation otherwise than by cold storage and in large quantities agree that nothing is better than water glass. This is a solution of silicate of soda which has a consistency something like oil. If but a few pounds are needed the price is about 25 cents a pound. But as it is to be diluted nine times its bulk with cold water, and one pound will cover about 150 eggs, the cost is not so great. The eggs must be perfectly fresh, not store eggs, then stored in a cool, dark place, and experience proves that wood or earthenware is better than metal, because after a time water glass will corrode metal. The theory of preserving eggs in any solution is to keep the contents of the egg from evaporating through the porous shell or to prevent air from entering through the shell to the contents. Anything which completely closes the pores of the shell if it be harmless itself is a good preservative. Some of the substances used are too expensive even if efficient; water glass is both effective and inexpensive. How to Keep Lemons. Lemons will keep better in cold water than on a shelf. ARE SET AGAINST BEER Illinois Farmers Make Short Work of a Cold Storage Plant and Its Contents. "If there is any place in the middle west where the people are out and out against the saloon business it is down in the central Illinois corn .belt," said a drummer the other day who knows every merchant in the state south of Bloomington. "The farmers and wise men of the little towns don't mind taking a nip of whisky whenever they get the chance, but they're set against anybody handing it out over a bar. "I was down at Murdock, a little burg in Douglas county, only a few miles from Tuscola, a couple of weeks ago, and I saw an exhibition of the rural dislike for beer that is to be sold. It seems that some man had erected a storage plant there and had shipped in about 40 cases of beer. It wasn't being sold there, I believe, but was being shipped to other little towns—Newman, Camargo and Hume. Well, when the Murdock people learned there was a booze joint in their town they armed themselves with axes, crowbars and what not and attacked the cold-storage plant. They ripped off the roof, tore down the doors and smashed things in general, and when they were through there was a mud puddle of beer about the place. Some of the fellows gazed sadly at the wasted beverage, but not one of them had dared to suggest distributing the contents of the cases. No, they're set against beer down there, but they all like a nip occasionally." FISHMONGERING RAILROAD. New Hampshire Line That Used to Supply Customers at All the Stations. While looking through a pile of old papers the Exeter correspondent came across the following article in a New York paper of the date of February 6, 1859, under the caption of "The Smelt Railroad," says the Manchester Union. "It is well known that the Portsmouth railroad has to turn everything to account to pay running expenses, and many are the jokes they perpetrate upon the conductors in reference to their shifts to get a living. It is said that one of them last year was accustomed to bring fish from Portsmouth and peddle them out on the way to Concord. "One day he brought along smelts, dealing out to customers at every station, till he got to Suncook, where he blew his horn and an old woman came out and wanted six, 'just a pattern—all I've got left, you're in the nick of time,' said he, and he began to count them and found only five. 'How's this? I should have six,' and he began to count his fingers, and reckon over how he had disposed of the four dozen he had started with. After awhile, 'I have it; hold on a little while and I'll be back,' said he; and he ran the train back seven miles to a place where he had let a woman have one more than she had paid for, got it, came back to Suncook and let the old woman have the six she wanted, and then the 'amelt' train went to Concord." ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS. Be Brief Till You Have Made a Reputation, Says the Literary Agent "If you have a good incident about which to group a story," said one of the literary agents who undertake the job of selling the young writer's copy, according to the New York Sun, "that incident is worth a certain amount of narrative. It may be equal to 1,500 words or it may be strong and intense enough to make 3,000 possible. Young writers over-elaborate. One came the other day with a story more than 6,000 words long. I told the author that the central idea was good and the story readily marketable if he reduced it to 1,500 words. Of course, he was furious and will send around the story to the magazines. After it has been refused by all of them he will condense it to 1,500 words and bring it back to me. "And how he will criticise the tastes of the magazine readers which compel him to condense his story. He will say that he is not allowed to put in character, observation, wit or anything but the skeleton of his plot. "That is unfortunately true so far as the beginner is concerned. In his case the editors want a story quickly told. After he has acquired a reputation it may be possible for him to digress from the facts of his plot. But he must stick to business until he is well enough known to make people read whatever he writes, whether it is interesting or not." Electric Cars on Ice. One of the winter sights of St. Petersburg is a system of electric tramways on the ice in the Neva. One runs from the left shore of the river to the island of Petrowsky and another from the English quay, opposite the Senate house, to the island of Basilio, near the Academy of Fine Arts. Wooden posts solidly embedded in the ice support the trolley wires. Besides these tramways many wooden roads, intended for pedestrians, cross the water in various directions. In summer bridges of boats take the place of the roads on the ice. Cake-Walk Called Monkeyish The German Dancing Masters' association, at their annual meeting at Dresden, have made an energetic protest against "that monkeyish and indecent dance, the cakewalk, which no dancing master of refinement should tolerate." In Memory of Nelson. The black silk handkerchief which British bluejackets wear was first tied around the sailor's throat in mourning for Nelson, and it was never dropped. PASSING OF THE PANAMA. Their Vogue in England and America the Past Two Summers Merely a Crase. Strangely enough Panama hats are not much affected by Englishmen resident in the lands where they are produced. Their vogue in England and the United States for the past two summers was merely a craze. They were worn by many persons who should have known better, says the London Outlook. Panama hats go naturally with white-duck clothing and soft shirts. Cricketing or boating flannels will do well enough, but a stiff linen collar or patent-leather boots bring discredit upon themselves or upon the Panama hat. Neither does the Panama go well with a fair complexion and light-colored hair. Your swarthy skin and dark hair carry the Panama best. Girls who would wear them should have well-formed heads and a saucy air. Strict decorum and the Panama hat go not well together. Fat men who perspire steadily and readily should eschew them, for fat or slim will not wear them much longer. The Panama hat is dying. Any specimens which cost three guineas or over may be kept as a curiosity. Under that price they may be burned or converted into baskets. THE WOMAN OF THIRTY. At That Age She No Longer Masquerades and Has Reached Her Highest Capacity. Keith Clark remarks in the Reader that when one knows the age of a woman one knows the woman. The very fact that she permits you to know her age exhibits her character. She no longer masquerades. She has lost a certain uncertainty, an evanescent delicacy, that was irresistible charm. Women, like philosophy, are divided into two classes, the knowable and the unknowable. Also like philosophy, it is the unknowable woman who is the speculable. Therefore, to get her at her highest capacity, she must be unmarried and about 30. The married woman presents certain inescapable telltale data. She has children, and those children have apparent ages, two facts which go far in determining her annals. If she is unmarried, and not "about 30," she is under 30, again an indefinite fact. Being "about 30" is indefinite. She may be more or less. No one hazards a guess. There is a delightful vagueness in being "about 30." It has nothing to do with dates; and many of us who from our youth up have felt no attachment for dates can forgive the unattached their confessed indifference. THE CIRCUIT BARBER. Takes Temporary Quarters in Each Village Twice a Week and Does His Work. The circuit preacher everybody has heard of, but the circuit barber is surely something new, says the Detroit Free Press. "Out on the road the other day," said a man who had been out painting signs in the small towns, "I saw something unusual. Of course, I always read every sign I come to; it is my business instinct. "On one front window of an empty, battered old house, at the end of a village street I read, in great white letters, the word 'Saturday.' Wondering what this meant, I glanced at the next window, on a side porch, and there were printed on the panes of glass these words: 'Shave, five cents—hair cut, ten cents.' "It puzzled me to connect the empty house and the word 'Saturday' with the other notification. Then I decided that it meant that some traveling barber would receive men of the village and the farmers round about on Saturday. In the village I was told that my guess was correct. The barber was a young farmer in the neighborhood; and on two other days in the week he visited two other villages in the country, on the same errand of scissors, lather and razor." TWO-FOOT DRAGON-FLY. The Longest Insect Known Is One That Is a Native of Which is the largest insect is not an easy matter to decide, as the question of shape has to be taken into account, says Nature. The longest known insect is undoubtedly the stick insect of Borneo. Specimens 13 inches in length have been captured. It is an interesting example of mimetic coloring, resembling in a remarkable manner a piece of rough stick. On the bough of a tree it is extremely difficult to distinguish between the insect and the bark. Borneo is also the home of one of the largest specimens of dragon-fly. A specimen of the sub family Aeschna measures six inches and a half from wing to wing, and is endowed with a correspondingly strong body. Another giant insect is the Hercules beetle, found in the West Indies, which rivals a sparrow in size, and might turn the scale against one in weight. Some tropical butterflies measure from 10 to 12 inches across their wings, as does the great owl moth of Brazil. The largest insect of antiquity was a species of dragon-fly, which measured more than two feet across the expanded wings. It flourished during the carboniferous period. Density of City Population. Although there is a certain area of about three and a half acres on Manhattan Island where the density of population is at the rate of 630,000 to the square mile, yet the city of Paris shows a far greater average density of population than New York, the figures for Paris being 79,300 per square mile, and for New York city proper 40,000 per square mile. The average density of London's population is 37,000 per square mile, and that of Berlin 67,600. Mrs. H. L. Pride, who is a keen business woman from start to finish, is getting up an Afro-American Directory. She expects to have it completed by the first of November. Early and late Mrs. Pride may be found at her office, 3129 State street, and she is as busy as a little bee. The ministers all claim that they "have been called on or selected by God to preach." If this is true then their God is a mighty poor judge of human nature and he can not be regarded as a shrewd business man, for many of those who stand up in the pulpits and raise their voices in his behalf are the worst liars, scoundrels, whisky drinkers and libertines that have ever disgraced the name of man. The cheek of Dr. Booker Washington is simply intolerable. Does that little manikin ...agine that the Negro race is going to let him exploit their liberty for his private benefit? When he says he builds $20,000 buildings "while other Negroes are attending to other people's business" he seems to think that because the race has allowed him to clap-trap their rights away heretfore, it now has no right to stop him.—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. Years ago no newspaper in this country contained as many strong or logical editorials in defence of the manhood rights of the Negro as the Freeman of Indianapolis, Ind., but since that paper began to wallow in the dust at the feet of Booker T. Washington it has ceased to contend for the civil and the political rights of the Negro. It is wonderful how Dictator or Political Boss Washington can close the hungry mouths of the great majority of the Afro-American newspaper editors with his money. What with the killing of his coadjutor, L. A. Planving, at Oscar, La. and the offer of a bill by a white Tuskegee neighbor of the Alabama legislator to take away from his institution the $15,000 appropriated by that State, both happening in the same week, Mr. Booker T. Washington is likely to feel that "things are not what they seem." Stifling grievances and emphasizing opportunities have their beauty in abstraction, but will be found fruitless in view of the present trend of events.-The S. Reporter, Charleston, S. C. The ungodly outfit who are running the Old Church Organ are not in love with Rev. Geo. W. Slater, simply because the reverend gentleman has never been found in the bedroom of another man's wife minus his clothing. Like one of the side-whiskered preachers of Chicago, who tore up the cabbage patch while he was making good his escape from the outraged husband, who was dead anxious to cut the immoral preacher in the jaw with his big knife, in every way Rev. Slater is a cleaner and a better man than those preachers who are barking at his heels. And Sold Them. "Scientists," remarked the man who reads on the train, "have discovered a way to make gold-out of silver." "That's all right," replied the man with the loud necktie, "but I knowed a feller in N'york onct what discovered a way to make silver and gold and paper out of plain brass. He molded the bricks himself."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Qf Earlier Origin. Cholly—I tell you I keep a sharp lookout for automobiles whenevah I cwoss the sweet now. Miss Pepprey—Why? Cholly—O, didn't you hear about it? One of them knocked me silly— Miss Pepprey—Nonsense! Automobiles weren't invented that long ago.—Philadelphia Press. Hicks—O, I never even notice him any more. Wicks—Is that so? Hicks—Yes; nothing disgusts me more than a dead beat. Wicks—O, they don't bother me; it's the live ones that make me tired.—Philadelphia Ledger. 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, $104 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 tobacco. Call and see our display of race journals and library pamphlets 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, $104 State stret. E. H. FAULKNER, Manager. 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 lebt of $150 on his shoulders. Between January 1 and June 30, 1903, $6,480 persons sailed from Hamburg to countries oversea. 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. Official figures put the present population of Norway at 2,263,010. In England and Wales from 16 to 17 per cent, of the women do not marry. In London the percentage is 20. 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 81% times that of the German army. DEVINE & O'CONNELL ATTORNEYS AT LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sta. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suites 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LIN 882 MARQUETTE BUILDING Telephone 2810 Central CHICAGO FEDERICO M. BARRIOS Attorney & Counsellor at Law Suite 501 Firmentch Bldg. N. E. Cor, Fifth Avenue and Washington Street Chicago. LAWRENCE A. NEWBY ATTORNEY AT LAW Room 42, 119 La Salle Street CHICAGO William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Room 402 Reeper Block. CHICAGO PHONES Office, Main 1157 Res. Brown 42 STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS LAWYER Suite 200, 123-125 Lä Salle Street CHICAGO JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 & HALSTED STREET, ....CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bldg 59 Dearborn St. Cor. Bandolph CHICAGO. Phone Randolph 55 J. J. HENNESSY, Justice of the Peace, 6301 S. Halsted St. WILLIAM TREXLER. CLERK. TELEPHONE WENTWORTH 4403. Police Magistrate Englewood Police Court. Notary Public. 5072 Central. EDWARD G. ALEXANDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO WILLIAM RITCHIE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. Suite 819-830 Oxford Building 84 LA SALLE ST., CHICAGO Telephone Main 1646. J. E. JONES LAWYER 79 Clark Street Room 9 Chicago S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 96 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 706 Ogden Building Residence, 3158 Forest Av. ALBERT B. 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Elegantly furnished rooms for rent with bath and gas at 3232 Wabash avenue. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to engage agents and regular correspondents in all the leading cities and towns in Illinois and throughout the other sections of the country. The highest commissions paid to live hustlers. Sample copies furnished. For further information address Julius F. Taylor 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Ave., Ch 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. HENADEL BR HOHENADEL BROS. 211-213 Madison Street CHICAGO Telephone Main 3300 Policemen, Firemen, Street Car Employees, Letter Carriers, Telegraph Messengers, Elevatormen, Railroad Employes, Janitors, Wagonmen, Bellboys, Watchmen, Eta JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery John J. Bradley Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Property managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal papers prepared. 4709 South Halsted Street Chicago T. 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