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DOCTOR FRISSELL TO THE RESCUE. Dr. H. B. Frissell the principal of the Hampton Normal and Agriculture Institute, has addressed a letter to the Transcript for the purpose of defending Mr. B. T. Washington against certain insinuations or impressions contained in the article "Fair Play," published many weeks. ago in that paper. The good doctor is rather late in coming to the defense of the apostle of industrial education. However, we suppose that Mr. Washington thinks that this word of defense and eulogy from his old friend is better late than not to have been sent at all. If these two gentlemen are well satisfied with this sort of thing The Guardian will let them enjoy it to their heart's content. Certainly the dish of praise thus publicly served up will doubtless make Mr. Washington's Thanksgiving turkey taste the sweeter wherever it was eaten. But was the sole object of Dr. Frissell's letter to serve as sauce to Mr. Washington's Thanksgiving turkey? Plainly not. That was an incident only. The real purpose was to administer a crushing rebuke to "Fair Play" and other Colored men of his ilk for daring to criticise Mr. Washington at all, for having the temerity to discover on the face of this industrial sun any spots at all. Well, The Guardian will tell Dr. Frissell that his frowns have no terrirs for it, no, nor the frowns of his idol, backed by such a powerful paper as the Transcript. Dr. Frissell objects to "Fair Play's" comparison of "Douglass' conduct was actuated by principle, Washington's by prudence." Was he not actuated by principle during his long and eventful life? Did he ever count the cost of any action or word of his when the rights of his race were at stake? Did he ever juggle with words or facts, in order to please the enemies of his people? When, where At no time, and in no place did he any of these things. And well do we all know that. Well does Dr. Frissell know that the conduct of Frederick Douglass was always actuated by principle. This he probably does not deny or at least wish to deny. But what he does deny is that Mr. Washington's conduct, unlike that of Douglass, was actuated by prudence? Every unbiased mind which has watched this man's public movements knows that he is the incarnation of this qaulity. He is prudence personified. He always has his glass, always studies his words, his acts, to find out not whether those words, and those acts square themselves with facts, with truth, with the eternal principles of human freedom, but rather how they will strike the South, and the North. His problem is how to sweeten the bitter waters of the race Majah of the South. And into this bubbling spring of race hatred and injustice he throws the most sacred claims of his race, equality of rights, equality of manhood, equality of citizenship—he minimizes the "Jim crow car" outrages, he minimizes the great work of reconstruction, he minimizes the value of the ballot, he minimizes the value of higher education, he sneers at the representatives of that higher education, he makes his race and his own mother objects of ridicule and contempt, he glorifies the revised constitutions of the Southern states, those iniquitous instruments of race inequality and oppression, he habitually misrepresents the real relations of the races in the South, he crawls, he wriggles to propilate the South. And because he does all these things he gets there with Tuskegee, he gets himself and his institution into high favor with that section. He is a success. He is the Negro whom that section loves to honor, (to hold up for the imitation of his race—the Negro who when he sees his race smitten on one cheek, gently advises them to turn to the smiter the other side—the Negro who, when his race is deprived by wicked laws, and a relentless race prejudice of the coat of citizenship, meekly ignores the giving up of the cloak of liberty, also. Of course such an apostle of non-resistance and submission pleases the South, pleases the South mightily. So much for this dance of his to Southern music. He is equally skilled in dancing to Northern music. He glorifies the almighty dollar, he worships the golden calf, he prostrates himself before material wealth, before banks and railroads, before mills and dividends, before sticks and stones, before the gods of Wall and State streets, before oil kings and iron kings, before the rich and the powerful, before the potentates of material progress, before the mighty captains of industrial enterprise and conquest. He dances now on one foot, now on the other, and then on both before this mighty company. And while he dances, he smites the wall, he smites the floor, he smites the huge pockets of the titians of finance, and forthwith there gush from the wall, out of the floor and the huge pockets streams of gold for Tuskegee and for the Wizard of industrial education. He is hailed as the great conollator, the builder of the bridge which spans the bloody chasm, the magic mediator between oppressed and oppressors, between the weak and the strong, between those who are to be exploited and those who are to exploit. Such worship of material things, of material power pleases the North, pleases the North immensely. This is what Mr. Washington has been doing during the last twenty years with increasing success. He has studied his part, has studied his steps, has studied to please the North and the South. He has become a great actor. He sings to please the South, he sings to please the North. He dances first on one foot and then on the other, and then on both together on ropes stretched across the bloody chasm at the bottom of which lie his race in chains and slavery! And as he dances The Guardian hears the hisses of the serpent of race hatred in the South blending anon with the beat of drums at the head of the iron column of industrial progress at the North. It hears all these terrible sounds, but mingling with it all it hears the groans, the stifled cries of the victims at the bottom of the bloody chasm! And it questions whether Washington's conduct after all is actuated even by prudence. Nay, is it not actuated by cunning?—The Gaurdian, Moston, Mass. Monday both branches of Congress met in joint session for the purpose of listening to the reading of President Roosevelt's long message which is by far the tameest document of its kind ever promulgated by the weakest of the presidents. It does not contain an honest or a straightforward expression from beginning to end, and as a dodger of all important issues or questions which the vast majority of the Americans are interested in the "Rough-Riding" President takes the cake, for any ten year old schoolboy can excel him in preparing and handing out a document of its character which will not attract to any considerable degree the editorial attention of the press, nor be read in its entirety by the American people. Andrew Beard, a Negro who has worked in the machine shops of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. in Birmingham, Ala., for 20 years, has just sold a patent for a car coupler of his own invention for $100,000. In addition he is to get a royalty on every coupler made on his model for seventeen years. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, December 12, 1903. M. S. S. Attorney Robert M. Mitchell, who successfully defended Thomas E. Hamilton, who was charged with raping Mrs. Maytie L. Ladd. THOMAS E. HAMILTON WAS NOT GUILTY OF ATTEMPING TO "RAPE" MRS. MAYTIE L. and after making a thorough investigation as to all the facts leading on up to his arrest and imprisonment by For some time prior to August 4th, 1903, Thomas E. Hamilton, who is a nice looking Afro-American, held down a barber chair in Prof. Bowen's barber shop, 182 S. Halsted street. It seems that while he was performing his duties as a tonsorialist he formed the acquaintance of Mr. Arthur L. Ladd, who took a liking to him and they became fast friends. A short time before the date referred to Mr. Ladd, who had just took unto himself a wife, called at the barber shop one evening with his lovely or voluptuous appearing bride and introduced her to Hamilton, and from that time onward they invited him to their social affairs and he was treated by them and their friends as their social equal. He danced and played music with them in their homes, and was a hale fellow well met, and while in their company he did not realize that he was a colored man. This happy state of affairs on the part of Hamilton continued to exist until the 4th day of August. On that date he received a loving note from Mrs. Ladd requesting him to call and see her that same morning at her home, 923 West 12th street. He arrived at her house a little after eleven o'clock and as he entered her flat he found her ironing with a winsome smile; she invited him to be seated. He sat down. He sat in a chair over by the window quite a distance from where she was working. Then Mrs. Ladd ceased her labors and crossed the room to where Hamilton was sitting, planked herself down in his lap, threw her arms around his neck and hugged and kissed him many times before he could free himself from her embrace. The new bride of one month induced Hamilton to remain in her flat from eleven o'clock until half past one making love to him all or most of the time. At that hour while she was in the act of frying him some ham and eggs in order no doubt to induce him to remain longer with her, so that she could love him, some more, someone rapped on the door and when Mrs. Ladd opened it, lo and behold, there stood her mother. Then in order to protect herself and to allay all suspicion on the part of her mother as to her wrong doing she gave expression to that old familiar cry "rape." Shortly after this occurrence, Hamilton was arrested and lodged in the Cook County Jail, and on several occasions while in jail he assured us that he was not guilty of raping Mrs. Ladd." He was indicted by the September Grand Jury, his bond was fixed at five thousand dollars. He was unable to furnish such a large bond and he remained in jail from that time until the first of the present week. Attorney Robert M. Mitchell was engaged to handle Hamilton's case and after making a thorough investigation as to all the facts leading on up to his arrest and imprisonment he had his case brought up before Judge Gary, Tuesday morning. No time was lost in selecting a jury, all eyes in the court room were riveted upon Mrs. Ladd when she ascended the witness stand. She is a beautiful woman, weighing well on to one hundred and fifty pounds, with an abundance of blond hair, and being rigged up in fine duds she makes a striking appearance and most any man would naturally fall in love with her, while her husband is a little soft insignificant looking fellow and plainly showed it while on the witness stand that he is no good to her, but Mrs. Ladd's long tale of her love making to Hamilton and his alleged attempt to "rape or ravish" her did not seem to leave a very favorable impression on the mind of the Court nor the Jur.y Doctor Henry W. Ludwig, who has had twenty years' experience as a Doctor ,was Mrs. Ladd's main witness. He testified that early in the evening on August 4th, he made "an examination of Mrs. Ladd, that he found her virgina or womb hot and dry, that she had a slight scratch on the thick part of her thigh and one or two scratches on her breast, which she evidently made with her own hands for the purpose of conveying the idea to her mother and husband that she had been assaulted or raped by Hamilton. Mrs. Lizzie Morrison, Mrs. Jennetta Short, who was born and raised in Old Kentucky, Mrs. Annatta Evans, her husband, Mr. Hesler, and Mr. Reed of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, all gladly and willingly testified as to the good character of Hamilton and his gentlemanly conduct. The ladies declared that one night while they were dancing together and having a high old time "that they observed Mrs. Ladd with her arms around Hamilton's neck as though she wanted to kiss him right in their presence and that when one of the Southern gentlemen witnessed that sight he was completely unnerved and horrified," but they said that "he was afraid to open his mouth." Col. Mitchell presented his side of the case to the court and the jury in an intelligent manner. The venerable Judge Gary was very fair in his rulings. The fact that Hamilton is a colored man and all the others are white cut no ice with him. But Assistant State's Attorney Fake made a monkey of himself throughout the trial. He referred to Hamilton as "a goodlooking or handsome darkey," and intimated that "Niggers or darkies have no right to have their day in court" and so on. He endeavored to sway the jury by appealing to their race prejudice. In this he was unsuccessful, however, for after carefully weighing the evidence in the case it decided that Thomas E. Hamilton was not guilty of attempting to rape or ravish Mrs. Maytie L. Ladd. At the regular meeting of Hannibal Lodge, No. 6, Knights of Pythias, last Tuesday night, Dec. 8th, 1903, the Lodge unanimously voted to defray the expense of prosecuting Officer McNamara, the private watchman at the Great Northern Theater, who shot and killed R. Elbert Dennis on Sunday evening, Nov. 29th, 1903, at the Quincy street entrance to the theater. A committee consisting of Bros. R. A. Ware, G. A. Nevels, H. V. Champion, Geo. M. Crisup, and Edward Farrell was appointed to co-operate with the Chancellr Commander, Lawyer Albert B. George, in gathering evidence and taking the proper steps to bring McNamara to trial and punishment. To show how thoroughly it believes in the innocence of Dennis, who had been a member but seven months prior to his death, the Lodge unanimously voted the usual funeral expense, and Dennis was honored in death after the custom of Pythian Knights. His body was sent to his former home in Knoxville, Tenn., where it was received by his father, Mr. George Dennis, and funeral services conducted by Toussaint L'Ouverture Lodge of that city. Bro. Dennis was a young man of quiet and peaceful habits, hard-working, and faithful to his obligations as a member of this order. His death came as the result of a misunderstanding about his seats at the theater, and after he had been ejected from the theater by three employes, and while he was in the street. It seems clear that McNamara shot Dennis without any just provocation and without reasonable suspicion, as Dennis was unarmed and was but a boy in appearance. Hannibal Lodge, which is the largest Lodge in the State of Illinois, feels that when such outrages are perpetrated right at our own door and among our own members, action, and not resolutions and speeches, is called for; and the members are ready for action, in the name of their order and their race. W. Death of Mrs. Frederick Douglass. Mrs. Helen Pitts Douglass, widow of Frederick Douglass, quietly folded her arms in death at her home, "Cedar Hill" Anacostia, Washington, D. C., last Tuesday. Mrs. Douglass was in her sixty-fifth year, dropsy was the cause of her death. She was a white lady of very brilliant attainments, and could trace her ancestry back to the colonial days. She taught school in her native city, Troy (New York), before she became a clerk in the Recorder's office at Washington, D. C., where she met and married Mr. Douglass in 1884. Since his death in 1895 she has devoted her time to lecturing and writing on the "Race Problem," and in every way she was thoroughly interested in the elevation of the Afro-American, so much so, that she became flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone in all things. It can be truly said that there are very few Afro-American women who have made as many sacrifices and worked as persistently to right the enormous and gigantic wrongs inflicted upon the race like Mrs. Douglas has for the past twenty years. She endured all the insults heaped upon her on account of her marriage to Frederick Douglass without ever uttering one word of complaint and at all times she deported herself like a highly cultivated lady. May her ashes rest in peace; and if there be Gods; may her soul which was always kindly disposed to her fellow creatures, regardless of their humble station in life find favor in their sight. Ex-Congressman John J. Feely, the middle member of the Legal firm of Blake, Feely & Raney, who occupy the best suite of rooms on the 14th floor of the Unity Building, has within the past two years bought over two thousand new law books and there are a mighty few lawyers or law firms in the city that has a more extensive collection of law books than Ex-Congressman John J. Feely. CHIPS. Mr. Freeman, of Paris, Ill., is in the city stopping at the home of Mrs. Anna L. Newby, 2628 Wabash avenue. A hotel for colored people at Evansville, Ind., bears the very appropriate name of the Black House. Elizabeth Smith was the first colored woman teacher in Boston under the system inaugurated after 1854. Mr. John J. Fowler, father of Stuart D. Fowler, and Mrs. J. C. McKinney, is seriously ill at their residence, 5119 Grove avenue. Mrs. Anna Burrell, of Rockford, Ill., formerly of this city, spent the past week in visiting at the home of Mrs. Emma L. Stevens, 4844 Dearborn St. Captain James H. Farrell who has the prettiest strut of any man in this big town, wasn't in it last Sunday during the election at the County Democracy headquarters. Mrs. Ida Hopson, Alexander, Minn., niece of Mrs. J. Q. Grant, 3232 Wabash avenue, will spend the holiday season in visiting at the home of the latter lady. J. C. Blaney, chief boiler inspector of the city of Chicago, returned to the city Wednesday from West Baden, where he spent ten days in rusticating. Mrs. T. Washington, 4902 Dearborn street, is on the sick list, but the Doctor says "it will not be long until she will be able to be on her feet again." Rev. R. C. Ransom, who has run the spiritual end of Institutional Church for some time will return to his labors from Dwight, Ill., where he has been resting up for awhile. The African Lodge of Boston was the first organized lodge of colored Freemasons in this country, securing a charter from the Grand Lodge of England 121 years ago. Prince Hall was the first grand master. Mrs. Horace Clinton, 444 State St. is a warm admirer of The Broad Ax and like her husband she "thinks it is doing a vast amount of good in keeping the preachers in the middle of the road." Miss Jessie Hudson, late of St. Louis, Mo., will on Wednesday evening, December 23rd, became united in marriage to Mr. Benjamin Lucas. The wedding will occur at the home of Mrs. P. B. Kopperl, 4762 Armour Ave. Lawrence A. Young, Ex-President of the Washington Park Association should be urged to accept the nomination as one of the Superior Court Judges in 1904, for Mr. Young's legal training well fits him to be elevated to a judicial position. The Triangle and Inner Circle Clubs will give their annual Christmas ball at the First Regiment Armory, 16th street and Michigan Ave., Friday evening, December 25. Music by N. Clark Smith's Symphony Orchestra. Miss Prim A. Fitzbutler, daughter of the late Dr. Henry Fitzbutler, is a leading teacher in the public schools of Louisville, Ky., and an honor graduate of the National Medical College of that city. She is a young lady of rare accomplishments. The white Republican citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, are up in arms and threaten to defeat the re-election of Congressman Hull because he was in favor of permitting Negro troops to occupy the new $1,000.00 army post in that city. Mrs. Minnie Barber, who is a bosom friend of Mrs. Anna L. Newby, 2628 Wahnsah avenue, is a delightful lady to converse with, and with much ease she leaves the impression on the minds of those who cultivate her acquaintance that she knows a thing on two. Harry Neale, colored, has been appointed messenger to Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of the House of Representatives. He has been employed in this capacity for nearly thirty years, having served under Speakers Randall, Keifer, Carlisle, Reed, Crisp and Henderson. THE CITY OF NEW YORK Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Prints, Infidels, Fermans, Single Taxes, Republics, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long on 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 6040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. Magistrate—How do you know this gentleman was drunk when you arrested him? Policeman—He was talking about his wife, and he said she didn't care what sort of dresses she had so long as she was comfortable, and she didn't get mad about the furniture when the neighbors had better, and she didn't care for a fine house, and didn't want a carriage, and she would rather do her own housework than bother with servants.—N. Y. Weekly. A Glorious Victory. Mrs. DeStyle—I've got ahead of Mrs. DeFashion at last. Husband—How? Mrs. DeStyle—At Mrs. DeFashion's last party, two of the guests fainted; but at my grand reception last night the crush was so great six of the ladies had to be carried out and one had to have a doctor.—N. Y. Weekly. She Declides for Him. Jobberwok—Your friend Meekerton appears to be a man of very decided views. Dinglebatz—Yes, did you ever meet his wife? Jobberwok—No, I believe not. Dinglebatz—Well, when you do you will understand why he has them.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Layzee—My wife isn't exactly an anarchist, but she annoyed me this morning with one of her incendiary speeches. Jenks-You don't say so? Laylee—Yes, she said; "Henry, get up this minute and make the fire."—Philadelphia Ledger. "Do you believe that every man has his price." "I won't discuss that," answered Senator Sorghum; "but I will say that the reason some men stay honest is because the price asked is so much higher than the price bid."—Washington Star. "You should speak when you're spoken to, my son." "Yes, pop, but I can't be talking always." "No, of course not." "Well, ma's speaking to me nearly all the time."—Yonkers Statesman. Family History "Both of my grandparents on my mother's side were nonogenarians," said Mrs. Oldcastle. "Is that so?" replied her hostess. "My folks was all Baptists, but Josiah comes from a Methodist family.—Chicago Record-Herald. Farewell. "Why do you call this a farewell concert? You know the chances are that the singer will return as usual." "Yes, but this gives the purchaser of a seat such an admirable opportunity to say farewell to his money."—Washington Star. Between Friends. Phyllis—I would go to Mme. LeFrizzle's often to have my hair dressed, but one has to wait so awfully long. Eloise—Why don't you leave it, dear, and have them send it home when it's finished?—Cincinnati Enquirer. "Have I any rival in your affections?" he demanded, fiercely. "No-o," replied the lovely girl thoughtfully. "At least, I cannot think of anybody else I regard with equal indifference."—Town Topics. An Illusion. For self man resolutely schemes, Despite the wealth that he secures; The other fellow's dollar seems At least three times as big as yours. —Washington Star. He—I'm sure I can marry any girl I please. She—Yes, but could you please any? —N. Y. Times. "He seems to be a modest, unassuming man." "He is. Why, he actually admits that he might not be able to run an automobile that he never saw."—N. Y. Times. "Oh, I don't know! It's worse to have a lot that you simply have to pay." —Philadelphia Public Ledger. A Model of Industry. "Claudia, is the young man industrious to whom you are engaged?" "Industrious? Why, papa, he intended to propose to me a month ago, but was too busy."—Tit-Bit. Easy People. First Statesman—You have, sir, absolute confidence, then, in the people? Second Statesman—I have, sir. I have made all my money out of them. ```markdown ``` NO MORE RED TROUSERS. Radical Change in the French Infantry Uniform—Beautiful Gives Way to the Expedient. It is a matter of more than passing interest that the French infantry uniform, made familiar all over the world by paintings of famous artists, is to be changed, says the Chicago Tribune. The baggy red trousers are to go out. The French ministry has decided that they make too good targets for German or other sharpshooters. The "plou-plou," as the French infantry man has been affectionately called, was as much a landmark of Paris in his blue jacket and baggy red trousers as the Arc de Triomphe or the Madeleine. The gay capital will be sadly changed when the legs of its defenders are incased in something more inconspicuous, La Presse, of Paris, mourns the loss of the gay plumage, saying: "In depriving our soldiers of their red trousers Gen. Andre has deprived them almost of their excuse for existence. To deprive an army of its distinctive signs is to show that he wishes to attack it in its vital principle." Although the Presse in its excess of despair exaggerates the case when it argues that the change almost deprives the army of its reason for existence, and certainly strikes a blow at its vital principles, yet one can understand that journal's grief. The French are a historic and artistic people, and the placing of a somber olive on her soldiers' legs will depress Paris for many hours. Yet such is the inexorable march of progress. The beautiful gives way to the expedient. YOUNG MEN IN CONGRESS. Crop of Embryo Statesmen Whose Ages Range from 28 to 32 Coming to the Fore. "The Fifty-eighth congress will be remarkable for its membership of young men, who are notable, not only in point of numbers, but conspicuous for ability. Some 50 members of the new congress have emerged from kilts since the last bullet sped at Appomattox. "In official and congressional life," says Mr. North Overton Messenger, in Pearson's, "a man at 40 years of age is considered young, and the graybeards look upon the fellows of 35 as mere striplings; but here comes on a crop of embryo statesmen whose ages range from 28 to 32. Who can say that a man who possesses ability enough to push him through the stirring competition of these times into a seat in congress before he is 30 years old, may not within the next decade take his place among the most brilliant statesmen of the land? "With a president in the white house, who, as the head of the government, took the executive chair at 43 years of age, there is a following of young men in important positions throughout the various branches—legislative, executive and judicial—which emphatically marks this as the age of young men. Behind this army of aggressive, ambitious, energetic, and competent men is a solid backing of experienced legislators, jurists and executive officers who will furnish the fly-wheel, the governor to the engine, so to speak." IN INTEREST OF INFANTS. Battersea Sells City Milk to Mothers and Records Weight of Their Babies. Battersea mothers are taking a lively interest in the weights of their babies. A weighing machine has been added to the municipal milk depot established by the borough council for the better feeding of infants. The shell-shaped scales in which the infants are placed are similar to those used by grocers for weighing flour. At the last fortnightly weighing day large numbers of proud mothers compared notes after the ceremony. One lusty infant, which kicked vigorously, had gained nearly two pounds since the previous weighing day. The champion baby, aged eight months, weighed 28 pounds, and the puniest three-weeks-old infant turned the scale at six pounds. Municipal milk, sterilized and humanized, is being served to 400 mothers daily. It is sent out in neat-looking cruets, and the total cost of one child's daily allowance of six, eight or nine bottles, according to age, is six cents. The milk has worked wonders with the infant health of the neighborhood. The death rate among Battersea infants has declined from 710 to 96 per 1,000 since the establishment of the milk depot. Alcohol and Exercise In La Nature is an interesting article on the influence of muscular energy in eliminating alcohol which has been introduced into the blood. M. Grehant made a series of experiments, dosing with alcohol, and then examined the blood after a varying number of hours. He found that under ordinary circumstances the elimination of alcohol was extremely slow. He then had constructed a wheel, three meters in diameter, into which a dog could be placed and kept moving. Alcohol was introduced into the stomach of the dog, and after five hours in the wheel its blood was examined, when it was found that the alcohol had diminished much more rapidly than when the animal was not exercising. M. Grehant commends the result of his experiment to the consideration of men who have somewhat overindulged, and suggests that experiment might show beneficial results from carriage riding when the degree of "ivresse" was too great for walking. American Progress. There were 9,700 American tourists in Switzerland last summer. American Tourists. American shoe stores are being opened in all the cities of Germany. JOY OF EIRDS Gander Wags His Tall When Happy There Are Birds That Blush When Angry. A writer in an English publication declares that birds wag their tails when they are happy. "The gander," he says, "when he has to his satisfaction driven off a dog from the presence of his spouse, returns to her craning his neck toward her and wags his tail with pleasure. Our jackdaw—or rather jilldaw, as it is a female—on our return a few days since after two months' absence, cried out lustily to us from the bush where she was perched, and on our going to greet her she received us with profuse tail wagging to show her pleasure at our return. She always greets her particular friends in the household by wagging her tail, crouching on her perch, and cawing in an undertone." Another 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 disregarded, 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 beak, whenever it is angry or excited." OUR GREAT COPPER WEALTH, Michigan Led in Production of the Metal Until Montana Assumed That Honor in 1892. In an article on Modern Methods of "Finance," in the Pearson's, Mr. Henry George, Jr., speaks of our great copper interests as follows: "Modern copper mining began in the United States about 1845. In that year our total production was estimated to be about 100 tons. More than a tenth of this was produced in Michigan. Copper mining in many of the states rapidly developed, but nowhere so rapidly as in Michigan, which in 1880 yielded more than four-fifths of the output of the country. "Then it was that Montana began its phenomenal mineral development. By 1892 its copper production exceeded that of bountiful Michigan. Arizona's copper development came later. Toward the close of the nineties, the copper mined in the United States exceeded annually $80,000,000 in value, which rivaled our gold yield and far surpassed our petroleum. We had come to produce more copper than all the rest of the world combined, and hence our product commanded the world's market. "This country's enormous copper yield came mainly from three districts, in the following order. The Butte region, Silver Bow county, Mont; the Lake Superior peninsula of Michigan, where it is richest; and the triangular region of southeastern Arizona marked by Clifton, Bisbee and Globe." DISEASE IN THE MINES. Profuse Use of Water Spraying in Collieries Has Assisted in Introducing Serious Disorder. The profuse use of water spraying in mines has unfortunately assisted in the introduction of a most serious disease into collieries, viz: "ankylostomaliasis," which is at present mostly confined to Austrian, German and Hungarian mines, but has been discovered in some mines in Cornwall, and also in Australia, where those suffering from the disease are called "earth eaters," says Mines and Minerals. The higher the temperature and the greater the point of saturation the more easily is the parasite propagated, and therefore its favorite habitat is in the damp and badly ventilated places. The larvae can exist in any temperature above 48 degrees F., and have been found on the higher parts of props and bars, but not near the floor. Fortunately, the first accounts are believed to have exaggerated the danger, and were incorrect in stating that the infection could be carried through the air; but later investigations seem to point out that it can only be taken in through the mouth, and, therefore, clean hands and clean water, when partaking of foods, are the principal safeguards. SIZE OF RUSSIA'S ARMY. Actual Number of Troops the Czar Has In or Near Manchuria Kept a Secret. No one outside the Russian war office knows the actual number of troops the czar has in Manchuria or within reach of it, writes O. K. Davis, in Everybody's Magazine. The Russian army in point of number is the largest in the world. Nearly 900,000 young men reach their majority in Russia every year, and each is bound by law to spend five years in the army. If all were taken they would make an army too large even for Russia, so only 219,000 go to the colors with the army or the fleet, and the rest go to the reserve. The lowest peace strength of the Russian military establishment, therefore, numbers more than a million men, with 42,000 officers. In war time practically all these young men join the colors, swelling the army to the stupendous figures of 4,500,000 men, and 75,000 officers, for whom there are provided 560,000 horses. Men who are in position to guess shrewdly say there are more than 300,000 Russian soldiers in Manchuria or near it now. The number that can be put in the field there is limited only by the will of the government. Balance of Trade. The balance of trade in our favor nearly equals, and occasionally exceeds, that of all other favored nations on the map. GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP. Someone complained to Pinero, the London dramatist, that in the case of his latest success the curtain rose too early for those who dine at the usual fashionable hour. "Then postpone dinner until after the play," said Pinero. "Sit down to a square meal about 11. What dreams may come will be dreams of the play, and even nightmare may prove an advertisement for me." London papers tell of a queer "first night" which took place at Wallingford recently. It was the initial production—for copyright purposes only—of "Merely Mary Ann," the new comedy by Israel Zangwill. The novelty of the production lay in the character of the company. Jerome K. Jerome, Sir Conan Doyle and other well-known literary men were in the cast "just for a lark," and as they merely read their parts instead of having to memorize them there was a refreshing originality about this performance. Mr. Zangwill was present as a quiet but interested spectator. Anthony Hope was "leading man," and his acting is said to have been simply unmentionable. Henry Irving once preached quite a terse sermon on appropriate dressing. A clever young woman belonging to his company appeared at rehearsal one morning dressed in a lovely gown and a stunning hat. Irving commented on the unusual splendor of her getup, whereupon the actress explained that she was going to a swell luncheon that afternoon, and had saved time by dressing in advance. "Then run away to the luncheon first, my dear young lady," said the star. "Just now your mind, too, is dressed up for the luncheon and not for work. When you come for rehearsal come-looking the part." The young woman, who is now a star, never forgot the lesson which she learned that morning. GLEANED ABROAD. Several slight cracks having been noticed in the dome of the Pantheon at Rome, the government has ordered an inquiry by experts. Six hundred cases of tiles, reliefs and other objects which once decorated the palace of Nebuchadnezzar have been shipped to Germany from Babylon by Dr. Koldeway. Knoedler, Roux and other prominent art dealers of Paris say that the financial situation in England and the United States is having a baneful influence on the art trade and is likely to have for some time. One of the great stones of the portico of Octavio in Rome fell recently in consequence of a storm. The report was for a time current that the whole monument was threatened. There is, however, no danger of further damage. Mild indignation has been caused at Southport, England, because a statue of Queen Victoria was cast by a firm of German bronze founders. The statue has not yet been unpacked, and speculation is rife as to which part of it will bear the inscription "Made in Germany." SOME NECROLOGY OF 1903. Captains in charge of troops who captured Jeff Davis, four. Lieutenants in charge, five. The last one died the other day. The last man who hanged John Brown, two. Last survivors of Waterloo, nine. Last Balaclava men, three. Last men who saw Napoleon, two. This does not include the men who have written about him, none of whom has died for several years. Last women, who, as flower girls, were kissed by Lafayette, thirteen. Last men who shot Wilkes Booth, six. The original McKinley man has not died so often during the year as formerly. All of the original Roosevelt men are still living. There has been a noticeable falling off in the men who knew Lincoln before he was president. The last man who voted for Andrew Jackson has died once this year.—N. Y. Sun. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. France exported $5,832,341 worth of automobiles last year, while spending only $206,000 in imported ones. Agricultural implements exported from the United States last year amounted to $21,000,000 in value. The Canadian plan of preferential tariffs in favor of Great Britain and the British colonies is now being adopted in the British colonies of South Africa. The imports into Germany from Ceylon amounted to 7,400,000 marks ($1,761,200), consisting of corpra, graphite, oil cake, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee and tea; the return exports to Ceylon amounted to 1,040,000 marks ($247,520) made up of assorted goods. The average annual importations of foreign corn into France for the last three years were 14,000,000 bushels, of which the Argentine Republic furnished an annual average of 4,250,000 bushels, Roumania 3,000,000, and the United States 2,800,000 bushels. ADVICE TO SMOKERS. [Dr. Caze, a well-known French physician, lays down the following rules for smokers, and maintains that those who observe them need have no fear that tobacco will do them any harm.] 6. Do not chew the end of a cigar. 7. Use a cigar holder or cigarette holder and line it with cotton, for the nicotine will cling to the latter and will only penetrate in very small quantities into the smoker's system. 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. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 368 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. 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O N E S——Monroe 1573. ommends the use of no whisky in which ties are contained as and it has the least use it is made right EHY & CO. co The Value of Asker Hinds-Indiana Prominently Figures in National Legislation - Hands of Important Committees. Washington.-The indispensable man is not numerous, but scarce as he is one is to be found in the speaker's room in the house of representatives. Asher Hinds has been clerk at the speaker's table ever since Tom Reed began to wield the gavel away back in the Fifty-first congress He came here from Maine where he had been writing editorials on the Portland Press and he slipped right into the czar's hap PAWLIA RENTARY LAW Popular Conception of Popular Conception of Mr. Hinds Portland Press and he slipped right into the czar's habits and moods. He is a young man still, considerably under 40, and when Reed picked him up he was barely more than a boy; but he hadn't been in the harness a single session before he was looked upon by the older members as an authority on parliamentary law; and before two congresses had passed there was nobody else about the capitol who could compare with him. Reed himself depended on Hinds absolutely. The great speaker was not much of an adept in the intricacies of parliamentary law and didn't pretend to be. He was concerned in reaching results and having made up his mind what he wanted to do he had a way of turning to the experts about him for information as to how he might do it. Hinds was always able to find a way and the speaker never hesitated in following out Hind's suggestions no matter where they might lead. There has not been a republican speaker since who has not been even more dependent on Hinds than Reed was. When Reed was in the chair he noticed that whenever the house got into a parliamentary tangle Hinds would hit himself to the speaker's room and hurry back with some loose sheets of paper, upon consulting which a way out was sure to be found. This had happened several times when it aroused Reed's curiosity. He inquired about it and discovered that his clerk had spent his spare hours collecting all the precedents and decisions of speakers from the beginning of the government—work which nobody had ever had the intelligent industry to undertake before. Hinds had a drawer full of these papers and as soon as the house leaders found out about them they passed a resolution to print them and put them in permanent form. Hinds' book is now the standard work on parliamentary precedents. A Reincarnation of Reed. It is a frequent subject of remark among habitues of the house that Hinds seems to be almost a reincarnation of Reed. It may be simply the strain of common ancestry among Maine seafaring folk, but there are certainly several striking points of resemblance. Dos o Repartidor Stu Hinds is not quite as big physically as Reed was, but he is plenty big enough; and to look at him from the rear as he ambles up Pennsyl- the rear as he ambles up Pennsylvania avenue one might well imagine himself watching the resurrected speaker's rolling gait. Hinds has the same easy drawl supplemented by the same hard sense and delicious humor. His face is of the keen Yankee type, so that here the resemblance ceases. Nobody who remembers Reed can ever forget the vacant moon-like expression which used to characterize him in his moments of repose. At home during the recess of congress Hinds not only writes the editorials for his paper, but he occasionally hustles out on an important local assignment. Last summer he thought he would look after the army and navy maneuvers, which centered about Cushing's Island in Portland harbor. Indiana in the House. Indiana is to play an important part in the house of representatives as long as Cannon is speaker. The old stand-bys, like Payne, Dalzell and Grosvenor will still continue in their positions won by seniority, but a new element has come in of younger men who have been loyal adherents of Cannon and who will be his counselorsnow. Conspicuous among these are Hemenway and Overstreet of Indiana. Hemenway Cannon Is Kind to Indians is to be chairman of the appropriations committee and Overstreet is to be chairman of the reorganized committee on post offices and post roads. But their influence does not arise from their chairmanships. It arises from their close personal relations with the speaker and his confidence in their judgment. When the speaker came to look over his committees almost the first thing that struck him was the necessity of completely reorganizing the postal committee, the chairman of which had failed of reelection and the other members of which were almost without exception subject to some falling which made is inadvisable to put them at the head of a committee which was destined to handle a very knotty and disagreeable situation. So he decided to go outside the committee for a chairman. He didn't have to look long before he hit on Overstreet. Overstreet was secretary of the republican congressional committee last year when the figures he made before election were almost exactly verified by the results. He is a mighty gool politician, as well as a very clean-cut fellow every way and one of the most popular men in the house. The Appropriations Chairman. Hemenway is a different type, with fewer popular qualities and less of the political politician's art. Cannon's confidence in him has grown through years of intimate relationship while both were members of the appropriations committee. 7 For several congresses Hemenway has been Cannon's right hand man on that committee and he possesses some of the sterling-qualities that have gone to give Can- gone to give Cano non so high a place in the esteem of the house. He has the Indiana faculty for close calculation. He is not a chummy fellow and for that reason he may never gain a popular hold on his party, but he is bound to grow as long as he remains a member of the house and he will become more and more a factor in legislation. Hemenway will hardly develop into a floor leader, for he lacks the snap and pugnacity of a born debater, but he will always be looked upon as safe. He, too, is young enough to look forward to a career, but his ambition lies in the direction of the senate or the governorship of his state. Hemenway and Overstreet come from adjoining counties. The Laudis Brothers. Two other Hoosiers who are going to attract attention are the Landis broth. Brothers of Different Physique ers. One of them has been in the house for three congresses and is known as a witty and formidable debater and a thoroughly good fellow. He went to Boston two or three years ago and made a hit there before one of the political dining clubs of that town, which is even now remembered. He has a faculty for telling stories that them can by any nobody who hears them can by any possibility forget. His brother, who is just beginning his first term, is like unto him in mental alertness, though there is little resemblance physically between the two. Charlie, the older, is a little over 40, stocky in build with iron gray hair. Fred, the younger, is the baby of the house, with his 29 years. He is tall, angular and thin as a rail. He had already made a reputation as a story teller and wit. His quaint expressions are quoted in the republican coat rooms. There is another brother, Kenesaw, who used to be private secretary to Walter Q. Gresham, when Gresham was secretary of state in Cleveland's second administration. The way Kenesaw shook up the dry bones of the state department during his brief incumbency was a caution. He is a lawyer now in Chicago and he can hardly have more friends there than he left in Washington. Both Charlie and Fred Landis are newspapér men. Two New York Hotels. Only two hotels in New York refuse to keep their register of guests open and publicly accessible. These are the Fifth Avenue and the Waldorf-Astoria. The Fifth Avenue is a favorite resort of politicians, and its guests sometimes prefer not to have it known that they are there. The Waldorf-Astoria has made its way with leaders in haute finance, with important and unimportant persons, diplomats and men like Dr. Amador and M. Varilla with republics in their brains. The books are not accessible to the public; lists of guests cannot be transcribed. This is not only intended as a protection to the guests, but as a protection to the office staff. Many business houses send circulars to "hotel arrivals" when they can get the names, and at the Waldorf this would mean each morning the sorting of some 1,500 additional pieces of mail. The law only requires that a register shall be accurately kept, so that the police or authorized officers of government may consult it.—N. Y. Post. American Capital in Canada. American capital is rapidly invading part of the dominion near Sherbrooke, and the near future will see the erection and equipment of many large manufacturing plants, which will greatly increase the wealth and business of the section and promote trade with the United States. Berths Scored as Filthy and Disease-Laden by American Health Association. The filthy and disease-laden sleeping car has been duly scored by the American Health association. At the meeting in Washington, says the Star, the subject was very thoroughly discussed from a sanitary standpoint. Although the facts regarding the culpable uncleanliness of berths are admitted by the public, their rehearsal from time to time helps to emphasize the necessity for reform. The railroad companies are always ready with excuses against bettering conditions. Their business is to avoid trouble and save expense. The casual traveler may growl as much as he chooses, but is oftener contented to submit to an infliction rather than suffer the humiliation of a fruitless appeal to authority. No one needs be told that the ordinary heavy curtained and ill-ventilated night car is a veritable propagator of infectious diseases. What better could be expected when the nightly used blankets, as claimed by one speaker, are cleansed but once in six months And, pray, what power exists to call officials to account? What is the real guarantee for the sleeper that he is absolutely safe from the germs left for him from the previous customer? The only remedy rests in the ordinary honesty of the common carrier. One of the railroad experts rather plausibly claimed that it was not fair to require railroads to spend large sums of money for sanitary purposes until they knew where they stood. As if, in truth, there were any doubts concerning the efficacy of absolute cleanliness, perfect ventilation and thorough disinfection—all easy enough of application when there is a will for the way. CAUSE OF BAD SPELLING. Repetition the Only Secret of Learning to Spell for Persons with Average Memories. Probably it is a mistake to say that any person with an average memory cannot learn to spell. As there is a lack of analogy in the spelling of words, learning to spell is chiefly a matter of memory. Repetition is the only secret about it, says the Philadelphia Record. There are some aids, but it is the words to which there is no guide which are the common source of trouble. Persons who do not spell well have simply neglected the study of orthography and are not entitled to sympathy. Operators of typewriting machines who have considered themselves the victims of a defective orthographical memory have often become good spellers through practice. In a vast proportion of cases bad spelling may be traced to wrong pronunciation, which is even more frequent than is wrong spelling. Probably the modern methods of instruction have something to do with the number of bad spellers among fairly educated people. The old spelling-bee system insured repetition. In recent years the writing of the spelling lesson has in many schools taken the place of the oral system. The men and women who had gone through the district school of half a century or more ago were almost invariably good spellers. If, as the Evanston councilmen maintain, spelling be a gift, it is apparent that it is not bestowed on man as liberally as formerly. GUN-MAKING IN CHINA. Every Form of Munition of War, from Rifles to Heavy Artillery, Made by Natives. A correspondent of the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette visited one of the Chinese arsenals and thus put down his impressions: "Finally we were taken among other places, to the great Chinese arsenal some way beyond treaty limits, where every form of munition of war, from rifles to 45-ton guns, was being made. We wandered through a wilderness of factories, covering acres of ground, and were shown the whole process of manufacture. And there were powder factories and other institutions not far away which we had no time to visit. That was, perhaps, the most significant experience of all. You may have seen gun factories before, but have you seen a place turning out great guns by the dozen, and machine guns by the hundred, perfect in design and construction, run, from coolie to head mandarin, entirely by Chinese, and with only a couple of Englishmen engaged solely in consultative supervision? Have you seen a roomful of Chinese draughtsmen and designers in pigtails and blue gowns solemnly, stolldily and assiduously getting out the drawings for a new gun? It is a sight that furnishes food for thought. And as you leave you ask yourself the question: 'If these men can make guns, why may they not work them some day!' " Maj. Powell-Cotton, who recently explored a part of central Africa never before visited by white men, writes: "Among the Klmager the women go completely naked, but the men are clothed. I secured some photographs of a tribesman and his two wives hoeing the family plot. One of these shows a curious fashion of skin decoration in vogue among the womenfolk. It is a raised pattern wrought on the body when they are young. Small incisions, geometrically arranged, are made in the skin and into these ashes are inserted. The wounds heal in permanent raised lumps." We Take More Than Half. The United States uses more than five-eighths of the diamond output of the world. In two years the total advance on small stones has been 20 per cent., and on large stones 25 per cent. Increased Sales of Razors Indicate That More Men Than Ever Before Shave Themselves. "There are sold in this country today," said a cutlery man, according to the New York Sun, "a hundred times as many razors as were sold here 40 years ago. "Some share of this increase is due, of course, to the advance in population, but the greater part is due to the large increase in the proportion of men who shave themselves. More men than ever before now possess this polite art. "With a greater number of individual users of razors there are, of course, many more razors now sold. And, of course, plenty of men own more than one razor; everyone ought to own two, at least, as many men do. One good razor properly cared for might serve its purpose continuously and well for a long time without regrinding or honing, but an accident might happen to it, and against that a man guards by having at least one extra razor. "Many men buy sets of seven razors, one for each day in the week, and there are men who have sets of 31 razors, one for every day in the month. And travelers going to distant countries and into regions where facilities would be lacking buy cases of razors to take with them. A traveler starting out with a case of half a dozen razors in perfect condition would have a razor outfit that, with such care as he could bestow upon it himself, would serve him well for years. "The best razor that can be made can be bought with a plain handle for two dollars; anything more than that in the cost of it would be in the mounting—in pearl handles and so on. You can buy a case of seven fine razors, simply mounted, for $12, or you can pay $50 or more for a case of razors with the same blades, but with fine mountings and in a finer case." WE CAN'T EAT CELERY NOW. Doctors Have Cut Off Another Article of Diet-Vegetable Said to Carry Typhoid Germs. Now the physicians are said to have forbidden another relish nearly as popular as oysters at this time, says the Washington Star. Celery has come under the ban of the doctors, who saw that it is equally well adapted to transmitting the poisonous elements of the soil and carrying the germs of typhoid. The disease can be acquired only by introducing the microbes into the system in food or drink, and for that reason advice against certain kinds of food is always likely to be regarded. But to what extent this may be carried is well understood by the proprietor of one hotel, who has seen oysters during the past three weeks disappear almost entirely from the orders of his guests. Some weeks ago a well-known man died of typhoid fever. He had lived at a large hotel, and the report went about that he had got his illness there. "Whatever you do, don't eat oysters at that hotel," was the advice that one friend was giving another, based on the belief that this man had died of a disease contracted in the hotel dining-room, where the chances were immensely in favor of his having got the fever somewhere else. If they keep on there will be nothing left for us to eat except fish and fritters, and the latter will probably be cut off soon and pills substituted. SOLD HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE How a Southern Woman Made a Profitable Speculation on a City Cemetery Lot. "One of those things which go to show that where there is a will there is a way is well exemplified by a happening in a certain southern city," said a well-known former railroad man in the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "A man before his marriage had purchased a beautifully located lot in the city cemetery and paid $100 for it. After awhile he married and some ten or twelve years afterward died and was buried in the aforesaid beautifully located lot and his grave was carefully attended for awhile by his widow. "When the big show came off in Chicago and all the world was en route to that mecca the widow took a notion she must see the show. As a result of long cogitation over ways and means she had the body of her deceased husband exhumed and railroaded 50 miles away and reburied at a cost of about $75, when she sold the cemetery lot for $600 and had a good old time at the big world's fair. Somewhat of a financier, wasn't she?" Glass-Making in Japan. The art of making glass was introduced into Japan about 150 years ago by a Hollander, who settled at Osaka. For several generations the knowledge of the process was confined to a single family, and it was not until about 1879 that the employment of coal instead of charcoal, and the construction of brick chimneys, enabled the manufacturers to introduce improvements which placed the industry on a substantial basis. Osaka has continued to be the center of the industry, and now manufactures for export besides supplying the home demand. Some butchers of Frankfort, Germany, evidently find it cheaper to be fined small sums for using boracic acid in the manufacture of Frankfort sausages than to be haled up for selling meats affected with trichinae or allowing the dearer meats to spoil in other ways. John Klein, a butcher, followed the example of many others recently and was fined only $2.36. If this sum were paid every day in fines, the loss caused the butcher would not be so great in a year as the loss from meats undoctored with the chemical. They Are Very Pretty and No Clever Girl or Woman Need Be Without One. Shoe-string belts may be made of white, colored or checkered lacings. White belts can be cleaned with a brush after soaking for a few minutes in soapsuds. Five pairs of lacings are required for a belt of medium width. Run a large safety-pin through each lacing, about one inch from the end, and fasten the pinned ends to a table, or shut them in a bureau drawer. The strings must lie flat, and should be numbered in order, beginning at the right. Take No. 1, holding it flat between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, turn it over toward the left, until the part that was underneath lies on top; pass the string over No. 2, under No. 3, over No. 4, and so on, weaving it over and under the strings alternately to the end of the row, No. 10 coming above No. 1. Take No. 10 in the left hand and turn it downward and over toward the right, and pass it under No. 1. At the right hand take No. 2 in the same way, pass it over No. 3, under No. 4; continue in this manner to the end of the row, where No. 1 holds the last position. Take No. 2 in the left hand, turn it downward and toward the right, and pass it under No. 1, over No. 10, working toward the right. Take No. 3 in the right hand, and use it in the same manner as you used No. 1 and No. 2; at the end of the row take the string in the left hand, and work it toward the right. Continue the work to the desired length and add about three inches to the usual waist measure to allow for crossing the ends. When braiding, give each string a slight pull, in order to make the work close and even. At the beginning of each row at the right-hand side, take the string as it lies flat, and turn it upward and over SHOE STRING BELTING. (First Cut Shows Method of Braiding Second the Finished End.) toward the left; and at the beginning of each row at the left as you take up the first string as it lies flat, turn it over and downward toward the right. To finish off the ends of a belt, arrange the ends in pairs, take the righthand string, and tie it in a knot that will include the left-hand string. When the knots have been tied at one end, remove the other end of the belt from its fastening, and tighten up the end, braiding one side of it so that each side will be of the same length, then tie the knots to correspond with the other end. Cut off the surplus ends, allowing about one and one-half inches for the fringe. Take a large pin, and fringe out the ends.—Lillian Kempton, in Modern Priscilla. HOW TO RETAIN YOUTH. Work with Discretion, Get Plenty of Beauty Sleep and Never Lose Temper or Patience. Keeping young looking depends very much on yourselves. Here is some good advice once given by a beautiful woman to a girl admirer who asked her for her recipe of remaining "such an ever-green." "Never work on till you are seemingly at the last gasp, whether at your business or your pleasure, but rest as you go along. If you forego rest till your work is done the chances are that you will then be too tired to take it. Get all the beauty sleep you can. Remember that late hours are fatal to good looks and health and don't commit the folly of working far into the night and then wondering why your work is not well done and you feel so good-for-nothing next day. Shield your nerves and don't let them become too sensitive. Make yourself take life calmly. If you lose a train don't pace the platform wildly, but inquire when the next comes in and sit down calmly to wait for it. That's just what most women don't do; they sit down, perhaps, but they tap the floor with their feet, clinch and unclinch their hands and are apparently in a fever heat of excitement over the arrival of every train that comes in, even though they have been assured that theirs is not due for another half-hour. That half-hour of waiting means to them a frightful wear and tear of nerves and they are practically weeks older for it. Try to cultivate calm, but if you cannot do that all at once you can keep your face still. It need not record all your emotions of anger, worry and perplexity. Biting your lips and wrinkling your brows will not help you and the indulgence in these tricks will add ugly lines to your face, making you old-looking before your time."—Chicago News. The use of the corset is to transmit the pressure of the skirt bands to the hips and the ribs, and so to protect from their pressure the organs in the region of the waist. The conclusion is that so long as skirt bands are fastened round the waist corsets should be worn. They should be stiffer than usually made if they are effectively to protect the soft middle portion of the body from the pressure of the waistband. The front should be quite straight, and the waist measurement should be at least as large as the wearer's waist, measured over a single soft garment—Chicago Post. Bacon Fat Imparts Flavor. Bacon fat imports a delicious flavor to chicken if used for basting or frying. WILL BE A COUNTESS. Lady Deerhurst, Who Was Virginia Daniels, Will Lead American Peerage in England. American peeresses in Great Britain and the half-American children will have high and mighty English titles if they live. The elevation in rank of a number of daughters of Columbia who have married heirs to great names will have taken a big step ahead by the time another coronation in Westminster abbey lines up the whole gorgeous assortment of peeresses before the public eye. One of the most notable of these is the lovely Lady Deerhurst, of Dynes hall, Halstead, Essex, who is destined --- LADY DEERHURST. to become the countess of Coventry. become the countess of Coventry. Lady Deerhurst was Miss Virginia Daniels, although prior to her marriage she was more frequently known as Miss Bonynge, the name she took as the stepdaughter of Charles Bonynge, the mining millionaire, formerly of California and New York, and now of Prince's Gate, London. Princess Christian, the king's sister, is devoted to Lady Deerhurst, and stood sponsor for her little girl, while the king himself is godfather to the Deerhurst boy, aged two. In spite of the money in the Deerhurst marriage there was and is much love as well. Lady Deerhurst, being one of the most amiable as well as beautiful of women, is really adored by her husband. The future earl is cheerful, placid, prosperous. He is brother to the dashing Capt. Coventry, who is one of much courted society beaux. Lady Deerhurst is said to love the name of "Deerhurst," subsidiary title in the Coventry family, and in no hurry to change it for Coventry. But when she does her dignity as a countess will place her well to the front as a grande dame among American women in English society. WINDOWS OF THE SOUL Eyes Have Always Been Recognised as the Mirrors of the Character Beneath. The most important of all physical faculties is sight. The eyes, the window of the soul, are the chief avenue of communication between the inner nature and the external world. Therefore, they should be carefully guarded. However trying other physical disadvantages must be, such as premature wrinkles, baldness or loss of teeth, yet, compared with the great calamity of failing eyesight, they are featherweights in the balance. Science can help us successfully hide the loss of our hair and teeth, and, if powerless to hide the wrinkles, at any rate aids us to bear them with philosophy. But the veriest suspicio not failing eyesight is quite sufficient to bring terror to the bravest soul. Our vision is as precious to us as life itself. Our intellectual enjoyments, our outlook on God's beautiful world—nay, in most cases, our very bread, and butter—depend on the clearness of our eyesight. There is no possession more coveted by women than a pair of beautiful eyes. Yet the owner of the ugliest or most repelling eyes imaginable is more to be envied if she can lay claim to better vision. The eyes which possess clear sight, whatever their color may be, are verily the windows of the soul. What instinctive confidence we place in a frank, sincere gaze! We feel that those eyes which spell goodness, and even holiness of life in every glance, are the faithful mirrors of the character beneath. In the same way all the great generals or leaders of men have possessed in a preeminent degree the calm magnetism of eye, sure symbol of the iron will of their owner. Great orators have swayed vast audiences quite as much by the fairy magnetism of the eye as by the golden harmony of language.—N. Y. Weekly. Hints on Care of Infants. An infant should be given no food containing starch until it cuts its teeth. Starchy foods include biscuits, corn, flour, tapioca, sago, rice, potato, etc. An infant cannot digest any of these until its teeth are cut. Violent noises and rough shakings or tossing are hurtful to the baby, and should be avoided as much as possible. Infants should never be put into a sitting posture until they are at least three months old, when they will probably sit up of their own accord. They should be carried flat in the nurse's arms, as, if the little back is at all curved, it may lead to curvature of the spine or chest disease. Until children are six or seven years old they should have 12 hours' sleep every night. In addition to this, a nap for two hours, either in the morning or afternoon—especially in hot weather—will do a great deal toward keeping them bright and well. As a Rule. "Pa, what's platonic love?" "It's generally a bunch of trouble in disguise."—Chicago Record-Herald. Sg: tO _ fa industrial Home for colored peo- ple, started ‘by the colored women of Philadelphia, was opeaed to the pub- lie November 5, 1903. ese ‘Tiree weeks ago The Broad Ax pub- Mshed John G. Jones’ reply or opex letter tg H. & Burris, but the oll thing or’ Organ which is ever ready to whitewash bad or rotten preachers @id not publish it ontil iast - week which ‘shows that old uncie Rip was. @ long time in waking up. ‘days owing to the fact that his wife lias presented him with a fine baby boy for a Christmas gift and Mrs. ‘Turner and Carl J. Jr. are both do ing well and will be able to enjoy their Christmas dinner. se 8 ‘The cussing or the shooting preach- er has bis back up like an old he ‘tom cat and he is so mad that he re- - fuses to speak to the writer whenever it is our pleasure to pass him, or it might be that some of the stones owhich we slung lately struck the Preacher between the eyes and kinder dimmed his vision. . . . Right now The. Broad Ax wants to serve notice op all. the politicians that it-is in favor of the renomin- ation and the re-lection of Jacob B. ‘Thielen as one of the commissioners of Cook County. For the past four four years Commissioner Thielen has stood by the people and that is the Treason why The Broad Ax will stand hm - : . . . J. W. Adams of Montgomery, Ala, has a very Jong rambling communica- tion im the last issue of the “Free mat,” Indiansipolis, Ind., in defense of Prof. Booker T. Washington, and his false teaching respecting the man- heod rights of the Negro, and no one outside of Mr. Adams himself and Col. Jite-Grow Kuox can form the slight- est Wes of what he was endeavoring to say in Debaif of the Wizard of “Tuskegee. | . 2 ° ‘The first Negro Catholic church to be efected im this state was dedicated at Pine Blof’, Arkansas, on thé 2d of November. Tle services were con- ducted by Father Dorsey, the second Negro in the United States to be or- dained tb thie Catholic priesthood. St. Peter's church is the result of the work of Pather Ferdinand, by hard work he was enabled to collect suf- ficient subseriptions from local sources. and from abroad to build the church. ee Prot. W. & B. DuBois of Atiaata, Ga., lectured last night at Ali Souls Church, Langley avenue and Oakwoo! Bivé, on “The Development of A. Race.” The Equal Opportunity League endeavored to secure Prof. DuBois to deliver # free lecture or address un- der % auspices while.in the city, bat Her. Lincoin Lioyd Jones who fattiered the expenses of Prof. DuBois to Chicago nipped their scheme ia the bad. Bvidently the members of the Equal Opportunity League, who ever they may be, are troubled with the shorts. : see Mra. Jack Gardner, one of the lead- fs of the smart set of New York City and Boston, claims that “short, fat, plump wirls or women can in- crease their height two or three in- ches by having their limbs or legs stretched, that short pudgy girls can- ‘mot get husbands with the ease of their taller sisters, that men prefer tall gitls and the short ones are passed. by.” if this is true no doubt there are thousands of short fat giris or women residing in all parts of this country who will not refrain from in- ducing their husbands, lovers, or dear Sugar lumps to engage in the leg pull- ss? _ James A. Scott, late manager of the am@ who held down a good to coe Seenenee oF Get trend St oer ees eee = arrested Monday evening while ing and turned over to Sheriff A. 5S. who Clninte cleven’ years ago SAAR ek Mee cae ee ee Re ae. : eal ealh eee Aa 8 : child. “He wes’s 1 on & fugitive bevenidt count ont ad eee ee oe at gerd paneate. ile sx, eee ad re mora frost = } cansed a a i ae aie eee Oe ee ee ee ae Pea aoe permensen yA SF For general housework. Must furn- ish figet cies reference, good wages paid. Call at 14 Marquette Terrace. ibe poe eon $0 were col eh anneen were lawyers being on the ticket with Seth Low. John Palmer, a full-biood Posca In- Gian, who has been admitted to the bet in Oklahoma, will be one of the speaker: at the next session of the Oklahoma Bar ee Palmer is Jocated in Paw- b ‘and is considered one of the best orators In the territory. ‘The space filled by the French exhibit at the Chicago world’s fair was 35,387 ‘square meters. That nation will make an exhibit at the St. Louis fair covering & space of 74,951 meters, making it one of the greatest exhibits ever made by any government at any exposition — ‘Four-Track ews. At the wedding the other day of Ray- mond’F. Barnes’ and Miss Adelaide ‘Weeber in New York a man took the place of the maid of honor. There were six bridesmaids, but the bride insisted on the imnovation mentioned, saying that she and the “man of honor” had been acquainted all their lives and had always been the best of friends. One vote cast in New York recently cost the city $300. It was that of Jo- seph Thomas, who lives in the Nine- teenth election district, comprising one block. Last year the registration there was 332. Since then nearly all the houses in the district have been torn down to make way for St. Gabriel’s park, the result being that Thomas is the only voter left there. Theelection machinery had to be kept running just the same. ‘When the polls closed the vote stood: Low, 1; McClellan, 0; scattering, 0. ALL SORTS. One of the modern conveniences is a trunk rest on which to set your trunk so that you can pack it without the fatigue of stooping to your task. The bronze statue of Cecil Rhodes, which was recently completed at Ful- ham, England, for shipment to South Africa, is one of the largest ever cast in Engiand. It is 14 feet high and weighs over fivetons. - Dr. E. Gugtia callsattention in a Vien- nese journal to the fact that the city of Dantig, In which Schopenhauer Was bora, bas no monument of him, nor has it even named a street after the great philosopher. Vienna has Schopen- hauer-strasse, but it is frequently chiefly by market women, who wondered much ‘what the new name meant and finally concluded that it was some new-fangied substitute for fletschhaver (butcher). ‘The ship canal from Lake Huron, tn Georgian bay, almost due south to Lake Ontario, near Toronto, upon which work has been im progress for several years, will shorten the Inke route 250 miles. The highest point is 600 feet higher than Lake Ontario, and a drop of @6 feet In four miles, at Peterboro, made necessary SEE meer cdeaiee. kind in ‘world. They are now com- CLEANING METALS. Clean sinc with kerosene ofl. ‘To clean tinware, rub with a damp eloth or paper, and soda, polish with dry paper. . ‘To clean copper, scrub ft with salt and vinegar, then rinse ft off with cold water, rub again with sapolio and wipe dry with flannel. Soda is also good. To clean silverware, mix one pint of alcohol, half a pint of ammonia, balf a pint of distilled water, and four ounces of Spanish whiting; rub on with 2 sponge, and wipe well with a cloth. Rub tarnished or rusted brass with @ cloth dipped in diluted acid, such as sulphuric, oreven in strong vinegar, then wash off with hot water, and polish with dry whiting Brass kettles may be scoured with ashes, then with salt and vinegar. Bronzes may be cleaned by plunging into boiling water until warm, then washed with soap suds, and dried with old linen cloths. If this is ineffectual, try beeswax and turpentine, rubbed on and off with clean, soft cloths. Sweet ofl is also used, polishing off with a chamois. —Home Magazine. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. The native agency in the missions of the American board has increased in number during the last decade from 2,600 to 3.581. The authorities of the Iowa State university have declared a boycott against boarding houses which refuse to conform to certain regulations promul- gated by tle dean of the woman's de- partment. On his seventieth birthday Dr. Horace Howard Furness, of Philadelphia, re- ceived from Prof. Haupt of Johus Hop- kins a congratalatory message inseribed on a cracked clay tablet in the cuneiform characters of old Assyria. The Young Men’s Christian asrocia- tion, of Brockton, Mass., has established & mew feature at its meetings It en- courages the exhibitions of new inven- tions by the inventors, and at a recent meeting « number of interesting me- chanical novelties were shown and the impovation has proved to be a welcome ona. a ‘MONETARY FACTS. ‘The total income of all American oe See eee: Six million operatives in the United States anvusily sign pay rolls aggregat- img $3,000,000,006. paranen int tn expr of te Oo gem pict ges om ‘There are now accounts with the Bank of Eagiand on dividends capital 5 ee ami bere mana oom DEVINE & ty ATTORAEYS AT LAW SUITE 316-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Se. , Telophoos, Hsia 98, cmCAee, | A. D. GASH . ~ | er Ta t 84-86 La Salle Street, Chiceeo. Suite 615 619, ;' Telephone Main 3077, FREDERICK W. JOB - ATTOREEY At Lava EEE “cememecen CHICAGO TRLErmowE Maw 2805 ee FEDERICO M. BARRIOS Attorney & Counsellor at Law Saite 501 Firmenich Bldg. ee Chicago. 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OZONIZED OX MARROW ie conte a erm he wl eaira eters 2 eee Penaneess a Saree onthe wera Ss teers aan oe acne aaa ie aa iN De se 0s che ar Sp ne sta ey Metropole Hall FOR THE SEASON 1903-4 | ' auat 5. and sth Ave. | Every Tuesday and Friday Under New Management | Mr. Alex. Armant ana 2 Mr. Horace Clinton Every Tuesday and Friday Evenings | MUSIC BY ARMANT’S ORCHESTRA ; PROF. HALL, Dancing Master. Admission 25c. | Ks Brew . M, JUNK, Proprietor J JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street _ and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street __ = Seago F. W. YD —dEAteR iN a Weetees AND ICE Tee |e ot SS ___ 4656 Armour Avenue, CHICAGO. MRS. A. WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates, 2252 Indiana aveuae. Mrs. Anna L. Newby. First class furnisbed rooms, for rect to gentleman and ladies, with bath ‘and gas. 2628 Wabash avenue. ; ‘Mrs. J. J. Manley. Florist. | Puneral designs of every descrip- jon, istest and. most stylish decora- for churches snd weddings. to rent for all sotiat functions, | Roome for Rent. w Kia~ ‘Eiegantiy furnished ooms for rea! ‘ith ‘bath and gas et 2233 Wabasn avenve. 4