The Broad Ax

REV. ARCHIBALD JAMES CAREY. Boasts that the Blood of Napoleon Flowed Through the Veins of His Father-in-Law. Vol. IX REV. ARCHIBALLE Boasts that the Flowed Through His Fathe Not so long ago Madison Davis, father of Rev. Mrs. Archibald James Carey, departed this life down in Georgia, and before Mrs. Carey was willing to start South for the purpose of attending her father's funeral, she expended several hundred dollars, so it is said, at the store of Marshall Feld and Company for fine or expensive toggery. The first Sunday evening that Mrs. Carey was absent in the South, Rev Archibald appeared in his pulpit, his sleek round and pretty fat face was as red as a blood-red beet. He was rather shakey in his under-pinning and several of the good sisters exclaimed, "for the land sakes, Brother Carey acts like a half-witted or half-drunken Irishman. Large stirs—we mean tears—appeared in his eyes just as he was ready to speak, and he declared that he was too full to preach. Then he jumped in and for the next hour and a half talked or blowed about the greatness of his dead father-in-law. Rev. Archibald declared that Madison Davis was a great man down in Georgia where he used to feast on sowbelly and hominy, that "he was a member of the Legislature of that state at the time all the Afro-American members were forced or kicked out of it. That his father-in-law was so white that the whites belonging to the Legislature decided that he was no "nigger;" that he was as white as they were and that he could remain in his seat, draw his pay and freely mingle with them." He next related how his father-in-law became postmaster at Athens, Ga., and how he stumbled onto Mrs. Carey while she was serving as assistant postmistress, that she was so beautiful that he fell desperately in STRANGE SILENCE. It is strange how reticent is the press upon the cause of most of the great movements of the various nations at this day. The press merely records them as though they were matters of course—never suspecting there is an underlying cause. Why, for example should so many states seek to divide Africa, who go into the business of colonizing all at once after England's example? Why again are so many picking at China all at once? Why did all stand aloof and permit England to wipe out the Boers? And so of many other matters. As to colonizing we can see that the same cause that has induced England for more than a century to hunt for colonies is now driving France, Germany, Austria, Italy into the like policy. It is debt. Debt forever increasing and the need of finding some relief from the pressure now becoming intolerable. There must be some outlet for discontented populations and some means of forcing other people to help pay the interest. England has long been trying to force the millions of wretched Hindoos to help pay the cost of her awful extravagance. But above and behind all governments sits a secret dark, greedy monopoly composed of a few persons whose throne is at London, determined to hold the world in its grasp through an economic superstition more fatal than ever was that religious one seated at Rome. That superstition is a false creed as to money—that money is the substance of the things we handle—is a commodity called gold; that gold and money are identical and the law is invoked to make it the sole legal tender. This has given to those who own the gold a power never suspected, and as of late gold like silver threatens to decline in price through superabundance, first, our through love with her the first time they met, that he bought her a lovely diamond ring which cost one hundred dollars, that just as soon as they became united in marriage he would not consent for his handsome bride to lick stamps and hand out the mail to the "Po white trash." He wound up along this line by exclaiming that "the blood of Napoleon the Great flowed through the veins of his dead father-in-law." He intimated that no one must think that Madison Davis was a common Negro, for how could he be common when he was almost white? Some of the sisters maintained that while Mrs. Carey was in the South that Rev. Archibald was well cared for, that Sister A. set before him dishes of the best in the market, Sister D it is claimed, kept house for him and had things done up brown when Mrs. Carey returned, but the ladies all say that the favorite Sister in the Carey household is Mrs. M. R. a white lady who is married to a colored gentleman, that the doors on their fine Forest avenue home always swing both ways for this white sister and that the darker sisters must take a back seat whenever she hoves in sight, that if she fails to blow into Rev. Archibald's home two or three times a week he will wend his way to her home in order to consult with her about the affairs of Quinn Chapel. It seems from the actions and the utterances of Rev. and Mrs. Archibald James Carey that they still have an itching desire to "play white," that they are not horsing to have the Jark complexioned brothers and sisters belonging to Quinn Chapel to frequent their Forest avenue mansion. greenbacks and silver were attacked; then Cripple Creek and other rich mines are monopolized; then that richest one ever found was got under control by annihilating the Boers, and finally one-third of the human race the most busy, active, incessant retail traders in the world whose sole legal tender money is a little bronze piece with a square hole in it—the Chinese, must be whipped into our European and American ring of slaves to the "gold power." The greenback and silver being destroyed and China forced to use gold will keep the price of our peculiar property—the money of the world safely up. Such is the bold declaration of this money power. Yet our press never remarks upon it. The gold monopoly is bold in its declaration. But were they not, the circumstantial evidence is powerful as any like testimony that ever deprived an accused of liberty or life by the verdict of a jury. Go back a little and see if the facts do not clear up the dark mystery of their policy that there has been a secret power behind the thrones of Europe greater than all the thrones has long been felt. Bazaar at St. Mark's Church. Beginning Tuesday evening, Dec. 1, and continuing each night to Dec. 7, a Bazaar will be held at St. Mark's Church, 47th and State streets. Armant's Orchestra will be present on the opening night. The third night of the bazaar Madam Liagvine Garnett will appear in the comedy of the Rose. She will be assisted by Miss Cora Brown and Prof. Morris. From present indications it looks as though the bazaar will be a great success and that much money will be realized for the benefit of the church HEW TO THE LINE. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale background with no discernible features. Andrew J. Ryan, Ex-City Attorney of Chicago, Who is In Favor of William Randolph Hearst for President of the United States. H. R. Eagle, the wholesale and retail grocery merchant, Adam Ortselfen, president of the McAvoy Brewing Co., Thos. E. Barrett, Sheriff of Cook County, James J. Gray, member of the Board of Assessors, John E. Owens, ex-city attorney, M. J. Moran, Jimmy McShane and a number of other prominent Democrats of this city, recently organized the William Randolph Hearst League, with the sole object or the express purpose of booming him as the pre-eminent leader of the Democratic party, and as the person best or most fitted to be selected or nominated for President of the United States in 1904. There cannot be any doubt as to the honesty of these gentlemen in supporting William Randolph Hearst for the presidency, but it would never do in this world to honor him with the nomination, for within the past year many so-called editorials have appeared in his various newspapers over his own signature respecting the civil or the political status of the Negro, and he is in favor of permitting the whites in the South to disfranchise the Negro, and still continue to represent him in the halls of Congress. In numerous ways he has endeavored to inflame or poison the minds of the people of the South, and also of the North, against the Negro by appealing to their race prejudice. He has strongly advocated the idea that/the Negro is not in the possession of any rights which the half-baked whites, the ignorant foreigner or the rag-tag element is bound to respect. Therefore William Randolph Hearst cannot be regarded as a broad or as a liberal minded writer or statesman. He is simply a Demagogue, and it will never do to nominate him for the presidency of the United States. It is said that while Mrs. Lena Harrison, daughter of Mrs. E. F. Early, 2933 State street, was engaged in rehearsing with the choir at Quinn Chapel, Monday evening, November 16, for the Christmas Cantata, "that Robert McCoomer, superintendent of the Sunday-school, walked up to her, snatched the book from her hands in the presence of the other men and women, at the same time declaring in a loud voice "that he did not want her to take part in any of the affairs of Quinn Chapel, not that she had done anything wrong, but that he and Rev. Carey did not like her mother and every time they saw her or any of her kith or kin, it caused the devil to raise up in them. Rev. Archibald James Carey, who must have plenty of the wet Holy Ghost, and the superintendent of his Sunday-school, hate Mrs. Early and Mrs. Harrison, simply because they freely pay out their money to assist to support The Broad Shortly after six o'clock Monday evening, November 23rd, George W. Hardy, 5025 Dearborn street, who was well and favorably known throughout the Town of Lake, passed on into eternity after suffering intense agony and pain for almost seven months. Mr. Hardy was in his 54th year. He leaves a devoted wife, five children, a brother, John W. Hardy, and many long and steadfast friends to mourn his death. He was a good husband, a kind father and devoted to his home and family. His funeral services, which were conducted by Rev. Braddon, pastor of Berean Baptist Church, and Rev. John W. Robinson, of St. Mark's Church, who very fittingly spoke in behalf of the K. P. Lodge, which Mr. Hardy was a member of, was held Thursday afternoon from his home. His lodge presented his family with a beautiful floral offering, "Gates Ajar," which was furnished by Mrs. J. J. Manley. Mrs. W. H. Bomar and Mrs. L. E. Washington rendered music on the piano and songs befitting the occasion. His remains were laid to rest in Oakwood cemetery. WHAT THE NEGRO SEEKS. The Negro seeks justice before the law, before the bar of public opinion. The Negro seeks equality before the law, equality for making a living, equality for making a life. The Negro seeks the rights, privileges and communities of American citizenship. The Negro seeks the help and cooperation of those who are more favored than he, not a beggar but as one struggling against countless hindrances to stand on his feet. The Negro seeks to gain whatever position worth entitles him to. Finally the Negro seeks to be a man, being all that the word man implies, and to be recognized as such and to be treated with whatever consideration and respect manhood commands.—Texas Guide. There are now, according to the federal census, more than 5,000,000 women in the United States who are forced through necessity, to work for wages. Does Teddy, the "trust buster," and spiked club inventor, want this army of female wage slaves to resolve themselves into concubines to populate the earth with a new edition of their kind, to make profit for dividend foragers? Does he want these millions of petticoat serfs to carry weightier burdens on their shoulders, to appease the ravenous appetite of the proprietors of mills, factories and department stores? How would the "first gentleman" of the land appreciate his adored daughter Alice slaving in a mill, factory or department store, and when her paltry wages forced her to ask for increased remuneration to be told by the boss to hustle for a "friend?" Is the Roosevelt beauty, whom a lunatic recently longed to snare in the coils of matrimony, a lovelier and more fragrant flower from the garden of femininity than the daughter of an honest man in wage servitude? Is her virtue more sacred and valuable than the virginity of the woman who in wage slavery, is told to become familiar with a "friend?" Does the advocate of prilotic reproduction entertain the opinion that the pauperized millions of men and women of this nation are going to shackle themselves in wedlock, to produce progeny that will be starved into criminals to fill jails, prisons, poorhouses and dens of prostitution? Does the Yellowstone Park explorer hug the delusion to his bosom that working men and working women are going to rear sons to be drafted by a president, and daughters to be dishonored through destitution and hunger?—Miner's Magazine. CHIPS. It is reported that W. H. A. Moore has assumed the editorship of the Conservator. Frank W. King, the undertaker, 3119 State street, will eat roast shoat for his Sunday dinner with Mrs. King at Galesburg, Ill. S. A. T. Watkins, the Supreme Attorney of the Knights of Pythias, made a short trip to St. Louis this week on business for the Order. Mrs. J. T. Robinson, 450 35th street is as sharp as a steel trap, she is very industrious and always has plenty of money on hand to pay her subscription to The Broad Ax. Rev. Archibald James Carey was unable to occupy his pulpit in Quinn Chapel all day Sunday and some of his friends claim that he was knocked out by the wet Holy Ghost. Mrs. Dr. W. A. Buckner, 2842 Armour avenue, was greatly benefited by her late trip through the East. She now possesses nice rosey cheeks and is the very picture of health. Mrs. Birdie Swazee, 2717 La Salle street, will shortly be honored with a visit by her brother Mr. Williard Mack of New York City, who is the most prominent Afro-American Democrat in that great city. Prof. Booker T. Washington is urging President Roosevelt to appoint Judge S. Laing Williams, Minister to Haiti, and Mrs. F. B. will become his Private Secretary so that all the money can be retained in the family. Ex-Judge J. E. Ricketts, 145 La Salle street, should be nominated as one of the Superior Court Judges of Cook County, for in every may he is qualified to weigh out justice in the highest courts in this country. Col. Louis B. Anderson, Assistant County Attorney, wants to become County Commissioner, but he can never land the nomination, for lately he has been laying up to close by the sides of the shooting or the whisky drinking preacher. "Thomas Jefferson is the only president we have had who refused to make a fool of himself by issuing Thanksgiving proclamations. During his eight years' incumbency of the office, not a single religious proclamation was issued." No. 5. Mr. J. Twyman, who thinks there is nothing on earth as sweet as a fine looking lady, had the pleasure to dance with Mrs. Minnie Howard, during the Knight Templars' Ball, and Mr. Twyman says that "Mrs. Howard is a Queen or a thoroughbred. John E. Treager will in 1904 succeed himself as Coroner of Cook County, for so far honest John Treager has conducted the affairs of his office in the interest of the people and not for his private gain, and this fact causes him to stand ace high with the taxpayers throughout Cook County. Mrs. Pauline S. Johnson, of Topeka, Kan., has the honor of being the only Afro-American woman, or any other woman for that matter to appear before the State Board of Pharmacy of the Sunflower State and pass examination. When the State Board met last week she attained a higher grade than an other candidates. Mrs. S. C. Tyler, 5021, Armour vaenue, last Thursday evening entertained a few of her friends in honor of Mr. Charles E. Charleston of St. Paul, Minn. Luncheon, whist playing and dancing was in order during the evening. It as freeley conceded by all that Mrs. Tyler, understands the art of making her friends feel happy. It is said that Col. Theo. W. Jones, Rev. Archibald James Carey, S. Laing Williams, Col. or Attorney Robt. M. Mitchell and company will soon start a newspaper which will exclusively contain each week their efusions in favor of Prof. Booker T. Washington and his jim-crow ideas pertaining to the manhood rights of the Negro. If God is author of good, he is also the author of evil. If he is entitled to our gratitude for the one, he is entitled to our hatred for the other. The same arguments which prove that God is the author of food, life, and light, prove him also to be the author of poison, darkness, and death. —Shelley. Col. A. D. Gash, Oxford Building, has many warm friends who are importuning him to become a candidate for State's Attorney in 1904. Col. Gash, would be just the man for State's Attorney, and as such he would not appropriate unto himself fees which he was not entitled to. Like some of the other corrupt State's Attorneys of Cook County. A National Negro Suffrage Convention will be held in Washington, D. C., Dec. 14 and 15, 1903, the indications are the delegates will be present from most of the states in the Union, its chief aim and object is to devise and put into operation such means as will break up Southern disfranchisement, and preserve the full and equal civil and political rights of the American citizens regardless of color or race. Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, Atlanta, Ga. author of "The Souls of Black Folk," will speak in this city the latter part of December, those who will have charge of the meeting should spare no pains nor expense in securing a suitable hall for him to speak in, for he is the foremost Afro-American to-day in the United States, and his admirers should not think of resorting to some church to hold the meeting like the cheap supporters of Booker T. Washington. The cussing or the shooting preacher who is greatly in love with Mrs. H—, and Miss C—, is of the opinion that all "preachers have the right to set in judgment on the moral conduct of every man, woman and child," but it seems that if any one should happen to pull the curtain aside and peep at the preacher making love to the little widow trotting after several other sisters, and drinking lots of whisky at the same time, he would be eager to shoot them to death, for the preacher, who reminds one of an old granny, wants to pose as the head cock of the walk. Sunday evening Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 3032 Dearborn street, gave a 6 o'clock dinner in honor of a few of her friends. Those present were J. E. Moorland, Secretary International Committee, Young Men's Christian Associations, New York City, and Washington, D. C. John H. Hamilton, B. E. instructor of elocution and physical culture at Institutional Church, B. E. Johnson, Miss Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Julins F. Taylor. The dinner was artistically prepared and served with great taste. Mrs. McDonald performed the part of hostess to perfection. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholicism, 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 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. About Her Value "It was a brave and manly act, young man," said the millionaire. "At the risk of your own life you rushed into the burning building and saved my only daughter from a horrible fate. How can I reward you?" "Oh, I don't know," replied the hero. "Do you think a couple of dollars would be too much?"—Cincinnati Enquirer. She Didn't Care. Jack—My darling, I want to tell you something. I have deceived you. I am not rich. Will it make any difference to you? Ethel—Not the slightest, Jack. "I am so glad. Are you quite sure it will make no difference to you?" "Quite sure; I can marry old Mr. Moneybags."—Tit-Bits. Cut It Out. If you have an evil thought, Cut it out; If to you some scandal's brought, Cut it out; Should you like this sort of verse, If you think it's not "so worse"— Cut it out! —Yonkers Statesman. "There are no birds in last year's nests," But many a closet shows. Small winged things in last year's vests And coats and other clothes. Philadelphia Press. As a Matter of Form. Mother—If you hadn't encouraged the young man he wouldn't have kissed you. Daughter—O! mother, I told him to go away. Mother—You did? Daughter—Yes. I said, "now, you go 'way'" every time. Philadelphia Press. A Disagreeable Habit. Old Grumpps—Sure that girl loves you instead of your money? Old Grumpps—Hum! That's bad. She may keep it up after marriage.—N. Y. Weekly. Confession. "Mistah Pinkley," said Miss Miami Brown, "you sings jes' like you was a bird." "Deed, Miss Miami," was the rejoinder, "if I was a bird I reckon I wouldn't be able to sing. I'd be a chicken hawk."—Washington Star. Mental Reservation. Madge—It isn't long ago you told me you'd never again wear any but common sense shoes. Dolly—But I didn't know then, my dear, that high heels would be in fashion again.—Town Topics. How It Happened. "Yes; he disregarded the doctor's orders and is now in the hospital." "Is, eh?" "Yes; the doctor told him not to work so hard and the chump went on a vacation."—Puck. In After Years. "When you were courting me," said the annexed rib, "you said life was only a lovely dream." "Ah, yes," sighed the ex-dreamer, "but what a rude awakening I had!"—Chicago Daily News. Wanted to See the Stork. Nurse—Tommy, dear, do you want to come with me and see the sweet little sister a stork has left for you? Tommy—Naw. I don't want to see a sister—I want to see the stork.—Town Topics. A Daring Man. "He's the kind of a man who courts danger. I understand." "Well, I should say so. Why, he doesn't hesitate to open a flirtation with any young widow he meets."—Chicago Post. Comforting Conviction. Bessie—What! Don't you ever take up any collections for the neathen at your church? Kitty—No: we never have any heathens at our church.—Chicago Tribune. Great Success. He—Do you suppose their married life is a happy one? She-Why, of course it is. Haven't they had the same cook now for over a year!-Syracuse Herald. Things to Be Avoided. She-I don't think a man should smoke when he is with a lady. He—And I don't think a lady should fume when she is with a man.—Yonkers Statesman. Not Necessary. Teacher—Ah! Another apple for me, my dear! Scholar—No-o-o, mam! I know my lessons to-day.—Chicago American. Above and Below. He—You haven't a mind above a new hat. She—And you haven't any mind under yours.—Tit-Bits. TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN. Ex-Convicts in England Who Can Al-ford to Ride in Carriages to Report Their Whereabouts. A. Stratford (England) magistrate says he knows ticket-of-leave men who drive up to the police station in carriages to report themselves, leaving the offices with smiling faces. The police, who should know, say they would like to see them. "Most of these ex-convicts reporting their whereabouts to us come to the station wearing odd boots," said a city police officer. "They scarcely have the money to pay for a drink, much less a cab, while a carriage is out of the question." While such cases may be uncommon, however, the fact remains that there are men who, leaving a penal establishment, return to enjoy ill-gotten wealth and to partake of the pleasures of idleness, says the London Mall. Three years ago a business man who had suffered imprisonment for serious charges of fraud drove up to a police station to report himself, leaving in a smart brougham outside his two well-dressed daughters, and wearing the tall hat and frock coat of respectability. He asked for the superintendent in the airiest of manners, saying he had to see him on "a matter of private business." Only the severe and gruff manager of the station sergeant, who recognized him, brought him to realize his position. The man whom the Stratford magistrate sent to jail for his failure to report himself every month said that he had been turned away from his work and lodgings on two occasions when it was discovered that he had to call at the police station periodically. He could scarcely have known that with the home secretary's permission exconvicts are allowed to report themselves by letter. AN ODD CASE. This Mcn Learned to Spell Three Times and Can't Spell Now —His Curious Story. "Think of a man learning how to spell three times and then not being able to spell correctly," said an observant man who takes an interest in subjects of this sort, according to the New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and you will have my case summed up exactly. I am not what you would call a bad speller by any manner of means. But I stumble now and then, and stumble badly. Why is it? It is the simplest thing in the world. I grew up in the country, attended a country school, and my first spelling was under the rules of the old-time school teacher. I learned how to spell on my feet. It is a curious fact that for a long time I could not spell the simplest words unless I stood up. Standing I could spell anything, and, in fact, was always the winner in the spelling bee. No one could 'turn me down,' as we used to say in the country. Well, after this I learned how to spell with my pencil. All my spelling talent went into the pencil. My tongue forgot the art, and whether standing or sitting, I could not spell a word unless it belonged to the simpler kind without using my pencil. Now I began to use the typewriter, and consequently I had to learn how to spell again. Ask me how to spell a word now and I will have to go to the typewriter unless the word is a very simple one. My tongue won't spell it and my pencil will refuse to write it. So I have learned to spell three times, and as I said before I am not a good speller yet." DESERT NOW A GARDEN. Southwestern Colorado Redeemed by Irrigation—Fine Crops Raised on Land Once Barren. The popular belief, dating back for 50 years, that the slopes of the Rockies and the intervening valleys were fit for nothing but mining enterprises and would never be of agricultural value would be severely shaken if the old-time pessimists could travel for a week through this portion of the San Juan country, says a Durango (Col.) dispatch. For many miles in all directions flourishing fields are literally blossoming like the summer rose. All of the cereals do well in the neighborhood and the root crops are of the finest quality. Irrigation, which has done so much for other sections of the formerly unproductive west, has worked wonders in this part of Colorado and the possibilities of irrigating ditches, fed by the inexhaustible snows of the mountains, are just beginning to be fully understood. Considerable capital will be invested in irrigating works in this country during the next two years. Military Magpie. Emperor William has lately reviewed a feathered veteran of the German army. One of his regiments has a pet magpie, which is full of militarism and very proud of its parade step. When the kaiser visited the regimental quarters recently he asked for this accomplished bird. A French illustrated paper publishes a picture of the incident. There is the kaiser sitting sternly in the saddle and there is the magpie with its martial stride and there are the officers of the regiment with mingled anxiety and pride plainly marked on all their faces. The novel house of Eugene Petit, a French architect, turns to the sun at the will of its occupants. It is mounted on a steel platform, which is rotated on ball bearings by a pinion geared in a circular set of teeth. An ordinary three-story dwelling can be turned by two men. Water, gas and electricity are brought in through a central passage and sewage finds its exit in a similar way. Houses of this kind, costing not more than ten per cent, above the ordinary, are required for the patients of Dr. Pellegrin, the advocate of hell- AMONG WELL-TO-DO PEOPLE. The duchess of Westminster lately purchased a flexible ribbon of diamonds, paying $100,000 therefor. Morris Williams, of Wilkesbarre, who has just been appointed president of the Pennsylvania Coal company, started his work about the mines as a breaker boy and has risen through all the grades of mining to his present position, where he controls millions of dollars' worth of property and commands 10,000 men. Just to prove that her husband, Edwin D. Mooers, is fully able to pay $8,000 a year alimony, Mrs. Mooers had introduced in a New York city court the testimoney that his liquor bill alone amounts to $400 a month. The defendant is the son of a Texas millionaire and is said to own mining stock valued at $700,000. James Stillman, president of the National City bank of New York, is a man of few words, but he makes those few count. A famous tip that he is said to have given a friend two months ago has leaked out in Wall street. The friend in question wrote to him, asking for advice concerning the market. He had $500,000 and wanted to make it a million. Here is the reply of Mr. Stillman, written in lead pencil on a sheet of paper 3x4: "Polo ponies, steam yachts and Newport villas are the best short sales in the world." What the Rothschilds are to Paris and London, so are the Bleichroeders to Berlin—that is, a power in the financial world. The ladies of the great financial families of Europe enjoy all the privileges and have none of the crushing responsibilities of royalty. Almost invariably they rise to the occasion and the charitable works organized by them may be said to be as limitless in number as they are in scope. This has always been as true of the wives and daughters belonging to the house of Bleichroeder as it is of the women who bear the honored names of Rothschild, of Goldsmid and of Mocatta. Chauncey M. Depew recently said that one of the narrow escapes of his life was when he refused, some 30 years ago, to advance $10,000 to help Alexander Graham Bell and his father-In-law, the late Gardiner Hubbard, to develop the newly invented "talking telegraph." Mr. Depew was then counsel for the Harlem railroad and Mr. Hubbard a railway mall inspector. "Had I accepted the proposition," Mr. Depew said, "I would be worth to-day about $30,000,000, or my estate would, for with this vast wealth I should have had no incentive to healthy work, I should have deteriorated and should probably now be dead and forgotton." WAY STATIONS A scheme has been prepared for carrying out an underground railway in Manchester, England, with connections with the principal out-districts. Our 200,000 miles of railway transport $00,000,000 tons of original freight, not including duplications, and pay 800,000 operatives, exclusive of officers, $650,-000,000. Nottingham, England, a city of 250,-000, has owned its street railways for two years and at a fare of two cents a mile made a profit of 11 per cent. per annum on the capital invested. There will be 36 tunnels on the route of the new Denver, Northwestern and Pacific railway within a distance of 26 miles, through the Rockies. It is estimated that it will require 600,000 pounds of powder to blast $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles of this route. Four-Track News. The Highland railway company of Great Britain announces that it has completed arrangements for telephonic communication between trains and stations on its line, thus not only greatly lessening the danger of wrecks on the road but also enabling its passengers to communicate with friends and business associates while traveling from place to place. At the beginning of the last century the royal college of Bavarian physicians sought to forbid steam railway travel, because it would induce delirium furiosum among the passengers and drive the spectators crazy; while an English quarterly said that it would as soon expect the people to suffer themselves to be tied to one of Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of a locomotive going at the prodigious rate of 12 miles an hour. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Borrowed trouble commands the highest rate of interest. An absent-minded woman forgets everything—except herself. When the members of a woman's club quarrel they call it a debate. Some theories are like gunpowder most useful when exploded. No amateur play is satisfactory unless all the feminine parts are heroines. The average girl believes the proper time to marry is the first time she's asked. The dog is man's best friend. When a man has a cold the dog never tells him what to do for it. It's as difficult to see how money makes the man as it is to see how some men make their money.—Chicago Dally News. PROVERBS UP TO DATR. "Nothing comes of nothing," but you had best not quote this to the father of a worthless son. "Let the shoemaker stick to his last," but he had best know something about collecting bills. "Birds of a feather flock together," but a blond woman usually considers a brunette her best foil. "The cracked pitcher goes most often to the well," and the prima donna's last public appearance is a big house filler. "The eyes are the windows of the soul," yet a lover is satisfied as he gazes into the "dark depths" of my lady's eyes—N. Y. Herald. No Need. Spokesman (of committee)—We want you to come to the meeting of our society to-morrow evening and give us an address about an hour long. Eminent Lecturer—To-morrow evening? That will not give me time to prepare myself. Spokesman—You'll not need any preparation. What we want you to talk about is "How Our Newspapers Ought to Be Conducted."—Chicago Tribune. "I know, I know," interrupted the friend. "You mean to say that, when you get right down to it, the ills that are the easiest to bear are the real, rather than the imaginary ones that seem so great." "On the contrary, I mean that the ills that are easiest to bear are the ills of other people."—Chicago Post. Not in the Mood. The Deacon—I thought you intended to preach on the evils of profanity this morning. Why did you change your mind? The Parson—Well, I dropped my collar button while dressing for church, and I didn't feel that I could do the subject justice.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Something Exceptional. Tess—She's a remarkable woman; not like other women at all. Jess—Why, I've never noticed it. Tess—I have. I watched her making bread the other day, and all the time she had her hands in the dough she didn't have to scratch her nose at all.—Philadelphia Press. Good Advice. "What am I going to do?" he cried as he emerged from the water. "A thief stole my clothes?" "Well," replied the stranger who happened along and naturally noted his condition, "I can't think of anything better than to go back in swimming again."—Chicago Post. "He used to kiss me every time we passed through a tunnel before our marriage," said the little woman, with sad reflections. "And does he do so now?" asked the bosom friend. "No, he takes a drink."—Spare Moments. Ought to Be. "I don't understand," remarked Smithers, "what Peary wants to be always going after the north pole for. It must cost a lot to live up there." "It does, generally speaking," replied Smuthers, "but just think how cheap ice must be!"—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Fly in the Ointment. "You kill time with your motor car?" A shadow fell on Mildred's finely chiseled face. "Yes, but the more time, the fewer people," she replied vexedly.—Detroit Free Press. As He Wandered On. Weary Wilkins—Lady, I seen jus' such women in me dreams. Mrs. Coldphiz—Go on; this is interesting! Weary Wilkins—Yes'm, an' den I signed de pledge.—Cleveland Plaindealer. Fred—I stole a kiss from Miss Peachly the other evening, and now she won't speak to me. Joe—Why didn't you apologize? Fred—I did. That's what made her mad.—Cincinnati Enquirer. 'Twas Ever Thus. Alas! man's cup of sorrow Is ever filled with woe; When the ice man disappears The coal man gets his dough. —Cincinnati Enquirer. TO BE QUITE EXACT A The Sweet Maid—It must be awfully dangerous to go up in an airship. The Inventor—Not half as dangerous as coming down.—Chicago Chronicle. Needs the Dough. Old Jones—Do you play cards for money? Daughter's Lover—Y-yes, sir; but—Old Jones—Well, let's have a game. I'm about busted.—Judge. Sure to Get It. Higbee—All that Larks needs is experience. Dyer—Well, he's just been married and has bought an auto, so I guess he'll get it.—Town Topics. Still Grieving. "So she lost her husband? Has she recovered from her grief yet?" "Not yet. You know how slow these insurance companies are in settling."— Judge. Just So. Little Elmer—Papa, what are follies? Prof. Broadhead—Amusements that we have grown tired of, my son.—Puck. AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. From on and after this date The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following places: The Afro-American News Office, 3104 State Street. A. F. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. 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That is about as gratifying news as is likely to come out of congress this session. Two big, manly, breezy fellows have been hating each other pretty cordially for three or four years back—all on account of words unfitly spoken in debate. A. H. Since Reed went out of congress Cannon and Hepburn have shared the laurels of debate between them. There has been nobody else who could quite touch either of them; and they were a fairly even match. It was inevitable that the two should not clash; and the row came in the heat of debate. Hepburn thought Cannon made his remarks needlessly personal. Cannon couldn't see it in that light, and so for many months these republican gladiators never spoke as they passed. It looked as though the feud would be a lasting one; but a year ago when Cannon announced his candidacy for speaker Hepburn, like the big-minded fellow that he is, walked into Cannon's headquarters one day, held out his hand and exclaimed: "Joe, I'm going to vote for you." That was one of the early things that set the tide flowing toward the Illinois man, and now that congress is at work and he has achieved the ambition of his life he signalizes the reconciliation by asking Hepburn to put him in nomination in the house—which, of course, Hepburn does cheerfully. There was a significance in the incident that was not generally understood, but it meant a great deal for party harmony during these coming two years. Hepburn will come very close to being the republican leader on the floor. He's a little outside the organization, just as Cannon was during the Henderson regime; but Cannon was the real leader then in spite of his isolation. There are a good many youthful members of the new house. One of the most interesting of them is Butler Ames, the grandson of Benjamin F. Butler, who represents the same district the doughty old general represented for years just after the war. He is not only the grandson of Gen. Butler, but he is the son of Adelbert Ames, who was a major gen- Hon. Butler Ames in the civil war, and was afterwards provisional governor of Mississippi in the reconstruction period and a United States senator from that state. Young Ames has just a shade of resemblance to his grandfather, and he has the old general's faculty for attaching friends to himself. Young as he is he has a record in which he ought to take a good deal of pride. He was a lieutenant in the Massachusetts militia when the war with Spain broke out. He went to the front with his regiment and came out of the Porto Rico campaign a lieutenant colonel. Then he went home and served three years in the legislature, and now he is in congress. When Ames was stationed at Camp Alger early in the spring of 1898 he was engineer officer of the camp, and in the course of his duties he had a good many scraps, owing to the fact that, though merely a lieutenant, he sometimes had to give directions to officers of regiments of much higher rank. One of his troubles as with Representative Dick, who was lieutenant colonel of an Ohio regiment. The two had not met since till the opening day of congress, when they happened to sit side by side in the street car leaving the capitol. They matched pennies for the fare and made up for good. J. Adam Bede, the new member from Minnesota, promises to be one of the striking figures in the Fifty-eighth congress. He is an Ohio farmer's boy in the beginning, and he shows the marks now of the hard knocks he had to put up with on the farm. He has run up against all sorts of experiences since those days and he knows the world pretty well now. ```markdown ``` winters and working through the summer to support himself. He learned how to set type in the old days before the type setting machine came into vogue, and so drifted naturally into newspaper work. He came to Washington in the course of his wanderings and got a place as a reporter on the Evening Star. After working there a few months he suddenly took it into his head to strike west again, and nobody in Washington heard a thing from him until 1894, when word reached here of the eccentricity of a person of the same name who, wishing to be appointed United States marshal under the Cleveland administration, had written his application on a piece of birch bark. The novel petition was granted, but Bede soon gave up the job because he couldn't stand for the proposition that a government official must give up active interest in politics. Bede was a democrat then of a pretty stiff type. He resigned his place and put in a lot of hard work for sound money. In 1896, when the Chicago convention was captured by free silver, he became a republican, and he has been one ever since. Bede has one distinction for a new member. He got a fine piece of patronage before he had warmed his seat in the house. He was on deck when the vacancy came on the civil service commission through the resignation of Commissioner Foulke, and he promptly secured the appointment of a constituent of his to the vacancy. Speaker Cannon is planning to throw open the speaker's lobby, which has been closed to everybody except members of the house ever since the Reed regime. I The marble room, which corresponds in the senate to the speaker's lobby in the house, has always been open to favored visitors, and senators have received their callers there; but this privilege has never been accorded in the house, except for a short time under Speaker Reed. The privilege then was abused so that the lobby had to be closed again, but Speaker Cannon believes he can restore the privilege under restrictions which will make it generally acceptable without abuse. At present members of the house are in an embarrassing position frequently through the absence of any retiring room where they can receive callers. If one of them receives a card from somebody whom he wishes greatly to see he must go out into the public corridor, where he is apt to be set upon by dozens of individuals whom he has been trying to avoid. There is no compromise. Either he must give up the caller he wishes to see or else take his chances with the crowd. Speaker Cannon proposes that hereafter when a member wishes to see a friend he can invite his caller into the speaker's lobby, where both can sit at their ease, while the undesirables storm and fret outside. Only a few days ago William Alden Smith received a card from a person who was described to him as half seas over. He sent out word that he could not be found. A little while later a card came from a constituent whom he was anxious to see. He went out to meet his caller and ran plump into the arms of his drunken friend, who promptly flashed a William Alden Smith campaign: button he had been wearing fourteen years and proceeded to borrow two dollars on the strength of it. There is great curiosity in Washington to see the new British ambas- sador, who is expected to arrive almost any day. Sir Mortimer Durand—for that is the name—seems to be a little different order of diplomat from any other who has been sent here from the court of St. James. His predecessors have all been what are known as "foreign office men." That is, they had worked Sir Mortimer Durand their way up through service in the office at London, or in minor places in legations. Sir Julian Pauncefote, when he came to Washington, had never held a real diplomatic post in his life. He had grown gray as an under secretary in the foreign office and was strictly an office man. Sir Michael Herbert likewise, although he had served as secretary of legation both in Washington and Paris, had spent years in the foreign office; and he had never served even as minister before he came to Washington as an ambassador. Sir Mortimer Durand, on the other hand, has had a strictly diplomatic career of the strenuous sort. He has trained his mind and sharpened his wits by conflict with the machiavellian intellects of the Orient, and Washington is by far the most civilized post that has ever fallen to his lot. Sir Mortimer comes from a family that has been in the Indian service for generations, and that doubtless accounts for the bent of his mind. His training will stand him in good stead in Washington now, for questions affecting oriental countries are coming more and more to the front in American diplomacy. LOUIS A. COOLIDGE HEART DISEASE AND WORRY. Overexertion, Either Physical or Mental, Endangers Life in Case of Cardiac Trouble. The influence of mental emotion on the heartbeat needs no special proof in our everyday experiences. When the organ is healthy the palpitation is the ordinary response to an extra stimulus and is necessarily transient in duration. In confirmed cardiac disease in which the valves are damaged or the heart walls dilated and weakened, there is often great danger to life by overexertion, either physical or mental. It is the degree and continuousness of excitement which thus work so disastrously. The young school-teacher of Greenpoint who fell dead at the end of his first day's duty is a case in point, says the New York Herald. He was evidently overwrought with anxiety, and his crippled heart was unable to bear the constant strain. Unlike mere muscular exertion, the mental excitability was beyond control, especially when the new environment was the persistent disturbing element. This happens sometimes in the pulpit, on the lecture platform, and even before the footlights. Numerous examples have been noted from time to time. The preventives are in the line of avoiding all overexcitement and of heeding all ominous warnings. This is most difficult obviously with mental emotions, as they are not always under the control of the will. The man with a weak heart who is running for a train is compelled to stop in time for want of breath and thus remove the exciting cause of his palpitation, but continual and profound mental perturbation is, alas, too often beyond his ken. Alas! there was no one near the poor teacher to tell him not to worry. QUEER WEATHER STATION. Shaped Like a Shell and Is Visible from a Great Distance Out at Sea. One of the sights of Atlantic City is the peculiarly shaped structure at the foot of Pennsylvania avenue, on the ocean side of the Boardwalk, says the Minneapolis Tribune. It is the new weather station erected by the government, and its plan is so odd that it is regarded as a most attractive curiosity by the countless number of visitors who flock to the seaside during the warm months. It is said to be the most queerly constructed building ever erected by Uncle Sam. It has been popularly named the shell, on account of its likeness to the growth of the sea so commonly found on the sands. This oval structure, formed of steel and galvanized iron, has been completed at a cost of $3,000. It shows the colors so dear to the heart of an American, having been painted in red, white and blue. The exterior and the fancy cornice are of blue, the interior is of white and the ribs are of red. The structure is so conspicuous that it can be seen for many miles up and down the coast, and is visible from a great distance at sea. A huge weather map, with glass front, on which is traced daily the changes of the weather, the direction and velocity of the wind, the temperature, etc., as reported to the central weather bureau at Washington, and now telegraphed daily to the state observatory now located at Atlantic City, has been installed. Visitors will have the opportunity to observe the weather at all times whenever they are in the neighborhood of the "shell" station. DEATH THAT IS PAINLESS Many Tramps Who Take Their Last Sleep on Burning Culm Banks in Pennsylvania. Death comes in many forms in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania, but only one form is painless and pleasant, and to only one the victims go unconsciously. It is the death of the burning culm bank, says the New York Sun. Many times during the year is such a death recorded when one of these great culm banks is burning. The fire is not seen in the daytime, and at night it shines only with a faint glow through the layers of ashes which separate the live coals from the outer air. To these burning banks tramps and other unfortunates, forced to spend a night in the open air, go when the nights grow chilly. The warm breath of the culm lures them on with a promise of a warm bed for the night, and they lie down to sleep in the comfortable atmosphere of the bank and never open their eyes again. The noxious gases emanating from the bank waft over them so softly that they are soon asleep, and in many cases they never awaken, being suffocated during the night. Some months ago the city fathers of Marseilles, eager to beautify their ancient town, deliberated and concluded that a good foundation to its "show" street would not be amiss. In consequence there came men with odorous blocks and much tar and after many weeks the work was over. And all the citizens found it very good. Only one, a confectioner, with rooms on the route, is unappreciative. He has a grievance. The tar, he says, gave its unavoidable odor not only to his rooms, but to his cakes, his ices and the other wonderful creations of the French "patissier." His clients first complained and then went elsewhere and a new locality had to be sought for the preparation of his delicacies. It is for this reason that he is now seeking to get damages to the extent of $60,000 from his city and the suit is arousing much interest on account of its unique nature. HAD NEVER BEEN KISSED. Neglected Ten-Year-Old Lad Could Not Remember Ever Having Received the Tender Caress. I once made a tour of the almshouses of the state of New York, describing them exactly as they were. Every emotion that can be awakened by sorrow was felt during the trip, writes Julius Chambers in the Reader Magazine. The most pathetic incident occurred at the poorhouse of Essex county, located in the hills beyond Whallonsburg, near Lake Champlain. I should say that the trip was made at the request of a state commissioner of charities, who desired that the truth should be told. After inspecting the wards for the aged women and insane, I walked across an open court, deep with mud, to visit the children's quarters. While there, a small, red-faced, red-headed lad attracted my notice. I patted him on the shoulder and asked his name. He gave it promptly, told me he was ten years old and that his father and mother were dead. I felt deeply touched by the child's words. Soon after I left the miserable shed in which these children were herded together and started to recross the yard. I felt a tug at my coat and found my little friend behind me. His eyes looked up into mine so pitifully that I asked: "What can I do for you, my boy?" "I never was kissed in my life!" When I came to write that story for publication I developed its full pathos, giving the name of the fatherless and motherless lad. As a result he was adopted by a wealthy family near Saratoga; he has been well raised, given a college education and is to-day heir to a fortune. AUTHOR'S ODD EXPERIENCE. Emerson Hough, Who Wrote "The Mississippi Bubble," Meets Descendant of Hero of His Book. Emerson Hough, who, by his striking characterization of John Law in "The Mississippi Bubble," has made that picturesque gentleman alive for all time, was surprised out of his usual calm by the appearance at his office door of a dignified and impressive stranger who announced himself as John Law. As soon as Mr. Hough realized that the vision before him was corporeal and not the cheating fancy of his brain, he set out the easy chair and bade the welcome guest tell him the story of his life. John H. Law lives in Chicago and is the resident manager of a big insurance company. He had read "The Mississippi Bubble" and had called to pay his respects to the man who had given the world an honest picture of his great ancestor. Mr. Hough learned that the family on coming to this country settled first in Georgia, that one of its members was a brigadier general in the confederate army, and that after the war the Laws moved to Cincinnati where one of the brothers still lives in a country place which he calls Lauriston after the ancestral home in Scotland. The author and the descendant revealed in the family history for hours, and when they parted to meet at dinner the next night Hough said he felt as though he had shaken hands with the hero of his romance and had looked into the face of the man who for one historic moment had seen all Europe at his feet. RADIUM EMANATIONS Scientist Thinks the Wonderful Substance Can Be Used to Cure Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Frederick Soddy, who was Prof. Rutherford, assistant at McGill university, in Montreal, has suggested another use for radium. He argues that as it has been found to cure consumption of the skin (lupus), it should also cure consumption of the lungs, if its rays can be brought to bear directly on the diseased lung tissue, without any intervening substances, such as the chest wall. At first sight, says the Scientific American, this seems rather a difficult thing to do, as it is, of course, out of the question to place any solid mass of radium within the lungs themselves. But recent studies have shown that radium in a solution gives off a gas and that this gas is itself radio-active. So all that is necessary to subject the internal lung tissue to the direct action of radium rays is to breathe a mixture of air and the radium gas. By this means Mr. Soddy believes a new and valuable remedy for consumption will be available to the pathologist. The rays from radium have already proved useful in the treatment of several forms of skin disease, and it has been suggested that the insertion of minute particles of radium in the interior of a cancer is worth trying. It should be remembered, however, that even if radium proves valuable in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, its cost is so high—several hundred dollars a grain—that it could not come into general use under present conditions. An observer finds that some birds blush. He writes: "We have a very fine specimen of the blue and yellow macaw which displays this trait—not often, for he is remarkably good tempered—and the 'blush' is an invariable sign of anger; so much so, that we warn all friends that while his cheeks remain white all attacks are feigned and in play and can be dhregarded, yet if the 'danger signal'—red—shows, to look out and keep out of reach." The owner of a blue and orange macaw says that its white, parchment-like face becomes bright pink, especially above the peak, whenever it is angry or excited. Alaskan Salmon. Alaska now supplies half the salmon of the world. Relation Between a Nation's Food Bills and Its Commerce Shown by Statistics. Statistics have been collected to show that the measure of the prosperity of a country is the amount of food consumed by its inhabitants—in other words, that diet and commerce go hand in hand. The countries which consume the largest amount of food and drink per capita are the countries which have the largest surplus for export to other lands; the countries which are abstemious or moderate in their consumption of food and drink have little surplus to send away, says the New York Sun. The average cost of food per capita in the United States is 60 cents a day; the United States stands at the head of exporting countries with an average of $1,250,000,000 in a year. The average consumption of food and drink in England is 50 cents per capita, and England stands second on the list of exporting countries. Germany is the third with an export trade of more than $1,000,000,000, and 45 cents a day the average per capita spent for food and drink (beer included). France has an export trade of $800,000,000 a year and the average expense to each inhabitant for food and drink is 40 cents a day. Russia, with an export trade of $375,000,000, expends 20 cents a day on food and drink per capita, and Italy with $275,000,000 of annual exports, spends 18 cents a day, in macoroni, wine and other articles of diet. All of which convinces statisticians who have unearthed this notion of the relation of productiveness to diet that "three meals a day for each inhabitant" is the open door to world power in commerce, manufactures and the surplus products of a fertile soil. FOOTBALL ACCIDENT. Emphasizes Fact That Only the Strongest and Physically Fit Should Be Allowed to Play. So many accidents have been laid to the game of football and so many lads have been crippled thereby that we seldom hear of the injuries and deaths that might have been avoided. The death of a young medical student of Baltimore during a contest, but at a time when the ball was not in play, says the New York Herald, affords a striking instance of an easily preventible accident. The victim had been a sufferer from heart disease for a long time and yet was allowed to take active part in the game. His condition should have been, if it was not, known to his medical associates. There is no account of his having received any injury previous to the time he was stricken with collapse. No better proof of his unfitness for any extra physical exertion can be given than the suddenness of his death while he was merely resting. The lesson of the sad story is emphatic and convincing. There is no game that requires more careful and systematic training than football and only the strongest are capable of bearing the strain. If there is any physical weakness in the candidate it becomes quickly manifest as he goes on with his exercises, and why such incapacity could not have been discovered in time to have saved the unfortunate youth is difficult to imagine. TOLD IN ENGLAND. London Publication Again Resurrects the Mythical American Who Toadies to Royalty. A continental hotel keeper, says a writer in the London Truth, recently confided the following story to a friend of mine: Some years ago, after Queen Victoria had been staying at a certain hotel, a wealthy American called on the proprietor and signified his desire to sleep if it could be managed, in the same apartments, the same bed, and if possible, the same bed clothes, as those which had held the sacred person of her majesty before they had been sent to the wash. Money was no object to him. What would it cost? The hotel proprietor was equal to the occasion. He thought it could be arranged for £20. A bargain was struck on these terms. The millionaire duly arrived, and retired to the royal couch. No doubt he thoroughly enjoyed his night's rest, and the prospect of subsequently electrifying his friends with the story of his regal experience. His pleasure must have been somewhat marred when he discovered later on that her Britannic majesty always traveled with her own bed and bedding. Galileo and Urban VIII. Galileo's wit got him into trouble when he put into the mouth of Simplicio, the foolish opponent of the Copernican theory in his "Dialogues," an argument that Pope Urban VIII had himself devised, and insisted on Galileo incorporating in the work. Galileo made Simplicio quote it as an argument he had from a "very eminent and learned personage." The enemies of Galileo persuaded Urban that he had been "made game of," and this was the offense of which Galileo was guilty. It was not for upholding the theory that the sun stands still and the earth moves that Galileo was tried by the inquisition. Urban himself had supported the Copernican doctrines, both as cardinal and as pope. The United States now produces more hops than any other country. Of the world's crop of 1,760,000 hundredweight, the United States furnishes 462,000 hundredweight. Insurance Slot Machines. London has accident insurance slot machines. The device defies fraud and has the appearance of a clock. OF FOREIGN INTEREST. Reformation of vagrants by longer imprisonment is under the consideration of the British authorities. The Belfast city corporation has decided to place shelters for consumptives in one of the public parks. Protest meetings are being held. According to a report from St. Petersburg, the Russian government intends to send 500,000 emigrants to Manchuria. It is stated that they will be allotted land along the route of the railway. A national pantheon is being erected by the Mexican government in the City of Mexico, the estimated cost being $5,000,000. It is to be at once a memorial and a sepulcher for Mexico's great men. M. Combes, who is about to write his name on the very short roll of French republican premiers who have quit from choice and not from necessity, is of English ancestry, quick and alert in motion, by profession a physician, and has been called "the best hated man in France." He has astonished Europe by his masterful energy, but, being 68 years of age, he thinks he has earned a rest. "Chief dairy maid to the king" is the official title of Miss Mary Childs, a pretty young woman who has just been installed in King Edward's home farm at Windsor. The position is by no means a sinecure, for the chief maid must supervise the butter and cheese making industry under royal patronage. Her principal duty is to serve up for the royal table two pounds of butter every morning and supplies of cream cheese and thick cream as needed. ARMY AND NAVY. A protest is raised against the punishment of military and naval prisoners in Ireland. Admiral Bowles is to receive $25,000 a year from the private ship building concern with which he is to be connected. As chief constructor of the navy his salary was $5,500 a year. Watchdogs are to be employed to guard the German dockyards. A dog is to accompany each sentinel, and the animal will be set upon any stranger who fails to respond to the challenge. The Russians are experimenting with a "water-clad" battleship, which has an upper deck of cork and a second deck of armor. The space between the two can be filled with water; then the ship floats a foot under the sea's surface. The new Belgian military system, established on the basis of voluntary conscription, has already proved a failure. Notwithstanding the active efforts of the enlistment committee but few volunteers have come forward during the last year. Gen. Joe Wheeler is an enthusiastic believer in the value—the "incalculable benefit" is his own phrase—of the army maneuvers. "Many things," he says, "that are necessary in actual warfare are being attempted now in these experiments, and when one side or another falls the failure shows what may be expected next time. In other words, to learn why you have failed or succeeded in a thing is just as important in warfare as in anything else." FINE POINTS OF LAW. Appropriation of considerable quantities of water in seasons when that may be done without sensible injury to lower owners is held, in Meng vs. Coffey (Neb.), 60 L. R. A. 910, not to give a prescriptive right to divert the whole stream in dry seasons. The financial returns which a water plant can be made to bear are held in Kennebec water district vs. Waterville (Me.), 60 L. R. A. 856, to be necessarily considered in determining the value of the franchises of its owner when taken by right of eminent domain. Receiving the premium after the destruction of all the insured property, so that nothing remains to which insurance might attach, is held, in German Insurance company vs. Shader (Neb.), 60 L. R. A. 918, to waive a provision in a policy that the insurer shall not be liable for loss occurring before payment of the premium. An agent who is authorized by his principal to sell or exchange the property of the latter upon specified prices and terms is held, in Holmes vs. Cathcart (Minn.), 60 L. R. A. 734, to be in duty bound, upon learning that a more advantageous sale or exchange can be made, the facts concerning which are unknown to the principal, to communicate the same to him before making the sale as expressly authorized, and his failure to do so held to amount to a fraud in law. SONG AND MELODY. Prince Ludwig Ferdinand, of Bavaria, has finished his music drama, "Gyges." Sarasate, the noted violinist, will be 60 next year. His curls, which 20 years ago were black as a raven, are now as white as carded wool. He is still a bachelor, and his income from his work averages £10,000 a year. Mile. Delna, the finest contralto in France, was discovered by Saint-Saens, and he looks upon the day when he heard the prima donna for the first time singing a music hall ditty as she washed up her dishes at a village inn near Paris as the happiest one in his life. Richard Strauss—now, since his recent degree in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg, "Dr." Richard Strauss—is to be the editor of a new magazine soon to make its appearance in Berlin under the title of Die Musik. It will be devoted to musical aesthetics and biography. Frau Cosima Wagner, widow of the great composer, is believed to be drawing about $120,000 a year in royalties from her late husband's operas, in spite of the fact that he squandered his copyrights in many cities. From the Paris grand opera alone her annual receipts are about $20,000, and the Baireuth profits are close to $50,000 every year. 4 Many of the leading citizens of Montgomery County, Ga., who have been regarded as the very best friends of the Negro, have been indicted by the United States Grand Jury for buying and seiling, whipping and killing up Negroes who were not charged with raping white women, nor with violating any of the other laws of Georgia. Will Prof. Booker T. Washington, who wants Cola. Theodore W. Jones, Robert M. Mitchell, S. Laing Williams, Rev. Archibald James Carey and all other Negroes residing in the North, to return to the swamps of Georgia and Alabama please stand up and lead us in prayer? The leading politicians in the Town of Lake admit that Congressman Geo. P. Foster, will have a hard time to land the nomination in 1904, that, so far he has failed to accomplish anything for his district except to send a few packages of garden seed and some books on how to raise hogs and chickens to some of his constituents residing in the city. Those who are not favorable to the re-nomination of Congressman Foster, are urging Attorney P. A. Hines, Chamber of Commerce Building, to become a candidate. Mr. Hines is an able lawyer, and being full of energy and ambition he would make an ideal Congressman for the 3rd Congressional District. MATCH WOULD BE IDEAL Bumer Has It That German Crown Prince May Wed Princess of Cumberland. Again is the gossip revived in Berlin that Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has smoothed away the obstacles that have stood between the crown prince of Germany and Princess Alexandra of Cumberland, and that the Hanoverian girl has good prospects of becoming empress of Germany some day. The fact is that whereas the crown prince is now of marriageable age, the crop of princesses suited to him in years, health, religion and politics is extremely limited. Two or three English princesses are available and suitable, and rumor has repeatedly engaged him to one or the other of them, and Emperor William is understood to be rather in favor of such a match. But the emperor remembers the unpopularity of his mother in Germany, and the rooted objection of the German public to have an English empress. So it is that the name of Princess Alexandria comes up again. If the crown prince of Germany marries Princess Alexandra of Cumberland it will be a romantic match, for there has been a bitter feud between the Hohenzollerns and the Guelphs of Hanover for the last 35 years. In the war of 1866 the king of Hanover, the groundfather of Princess Alexandra, was led by his warm friendship for Emperor Francis Joseph to take the losing side, with the result that when Prussia had crushed Austria he was dethroned and his dominions added to the Prussian crown. There is still a Guelph party in Hanover and every year on the duke of Cumberland's birthday a deputation comes to Gmunden to bring him the greeting of his "loyal subjects in Hanover." The Guelphian movement in Hanover, however, is suppressed with an iron hand by the most approved German police methods. Since the crash, the royal family has lived in Austria, at Penzing, near Vienna, and at Gmunden in upper Austria. The head of the family uses his English title, Cumberland, but keeps up all the state and ceremony of a king at his residences. Princess Alexandra is a tall, pleasant looking girl, but not particularly beautiful. She is an enthusiastic yachtwoman and sails her own boat over the waters of the treacherous Gmunden lake. She has been much at the Austrian court where the Cumberlands take the precedence of every one and are treated as a reigning family. She is a Protestant and therefore religiously eligible to be the German crown prince's bride. SHYNESS AND BLUSHING. Two Trying Defects Which Have Their Origin in a Lack of Self-Possession. There is probably no defect which causes so much anguish of spirit and discomfort as shyness and blushing. Nobody who has not personally suffered from it can even begin to conceive what torture it may cause. Shyness may proceed from one of two causes—the one physical, the other mental. It is often an affair of health. The nerves are out of order, and the will becomes weak. People shrink from their fellow-creatures, and are filled with an unreasonable horror of meeting or speaking to them. This is often the case after an illness, or when one has been overworking, and strained the physical powers too much. The best cure for this kind of shyness is fresh air, exercise and cheerful society. so overcome anyness and blushing there is nothing on earth like going a great deal into society, and every effort possible should be made to achieve this. This does not merely mean social life, but intercourse with one's fellow creatures. Force yourself to speak to every one you come in contact with, no matter what it costs you at first. Go on bravely; never mind how much you may blush and stammer. Persist in it, and it will grow easier and easier. Never shrink from putting yourself into positions which may draw attention upon you.—N. Y. Journal. Hasiest Task in the World for the Wife Who Knows How to Conduct a Campaign. "Why is it?" asked the young wife, "that a man will never take his wife's advice?" "He will," replied the more experienced wife. "Mine won't," replied the other. "I advised him yesterday to give up the house and take a smaller and less expensive one, in which, with the servants we are able to keep, we could be more comfortable, and he just looked at me over the top of his paper and said he guessed he knew what we could afford to do and what we couldn't. But I know he is running behind." "Suppose," said the elderly matron, "you had drawn your chair up beside his and said, as sweetly as you could: 'George, can you spare me a moment?' What would he have done?" "Why, he'd have laid aside his paper and said; 'Why, certainly, my dear; what is it?" "Exactly. Now suppose you had told him that his judgment was always A woman in a long dress stands beside a table adorned with flowers and a teapot. TACT IS HER ONLY WEAPON. so true that you wanted to ask his advice about something. What would he have done? "I think he would have kissed me and asked me what worried me. He is always considerate when I am troubled." "Quite right. Next suppose you had asked his advice about letting one of the servants go. What then?" "W-e-l-l, I think he'd have asked if I could run the house with only one servant." "Then suppose you had said: 'Well, the house is pretty large, and it would be pretty hard; but if you advise it I'll try. When I picked out the house, I did not think—" "But I didn't pick out the house." "Of course not; but suppose you had made the error of judgment yours nevertheless, and said that you hadn't realized how hard it would be to run it in proper style. Would he have suggested a smaller house?" "He might have. Yes, I think he would. He grumbled once about getting lost in it. He'd probably have asked if I could manage with one servant in a smaller house." "And then suppose you had clapped your hands and exclaimed: 'Just the thing! How clever of you to think of it. Why, we can afford to keep both servants in a smaller house, too, and we can be as comfortable as with six here.' Then suppose you had kissed him and said that he always did know just what to do. What would have happened next?" "Why, we'd be looking for another house now." "On his advice or yours." "His, I suppose." "Really?" "Well, I don't know. He'd think so, anyway." "Precisely, my dear, precisely. Your idea, his advice. Always let him put the advice in words. There's nothing like understanding a man. Now, run home, dear, and let him advise you what to do."—Brooklyn Eagle. KEROSENE FOR THE HAIR. Seems to Be a Rough Treatment, But Its Results Have Proved Entirely Satisfactory. A woman recently asserted that the fine appearance of her hair was entirely due to a persistent and thorough treatment with the familiar kerosene of the corner grocery commerce. It was applied regularly once a fortnight in the following way: A little was poured into a saucer and rubbed with the fingers into the roots of the hair. The application was slow and thorough, the gentle massage of the roots with the finger tips being needed to open the pores for the absorption of the oil. The treatment was usually made at night, and the hair afterward tied up in a silk handkerchief. The silk handkerchief is recommended by hair dressers as useful in retaining the natural electricity of the hair. By noon of the following day the odor of the kerosene had disappeared, and in another 12 hours the oiliness that followed its use had also gone. The effect of this treatment on the hair was promptly noticeable, the failing out stopped, and some new short hairs were found all over the head. As the kerosene application was continued the hair became thick and smooth. 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