The Broad Ax

SOME GOOD REV. FATHER SOME GOOD ADVICE REV. FATHER LOCKMAN Rev. Father Lockman, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church at Marinette, Wisconsin, has sounded an alarm which should be heard in every home in this country, as every word of what he says is true and he is to be commended for having the courage to attack a social evil which is undermining the morals of the youth of this nation. Father Lochman says: "After twenty years' experience in the confessional I have come to some certain opinions on the question of dancing and courting among the young people. I know that the practice of "keeping company," as they call it, among children below 18 promotes immorality and leads to intimacy that should not exist. Boys should be by themselves and girls also by themselves during their school days. They will attend to their studies much better. "I have seen the young people going home," he continued, "the boys and girls hand in hand, thinking not of the things that ought to occupy their minds. These love affairs also disturb the work of the classes and generally have a demoralizing influence. There cannot possibly any good come of it. It is seldom that courtships formed in school result in marriage. The young people soon grow tired of each other. All courting ought to be with the end of marriage in view. Therefore I do not believe the time of the young people should be taken up during their school days in the manner I have spoken of. THE JACKSON BANQUET BY THE JOLIET DEMOCRATIC CLUB. Wednesday evening the wide awake and progressive members of the Joliet Dmocratic Club gave a grand banquet or love feast in honor of Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, who was the first person in the United States to confer the title of Major upon a Negro. The ceremonies were held in the Masonic Temple, and without the least exaggeration it was the greatest event in the history of Democracy in Joliet. No less than 450 to 500 persons were seated at the long banquet tables and they were served with the very best of everything in the way of eatables, with plenty of wine and other wet goods on the side. City Attorney C. E. B. Cutler, the hustling Secretary of the Club, in a very neat speech introduced Mayor William C. Crolius, who served as Toastmaster, and when he arose to perform his part of the program, he was greeted with three mighty shouts, "Hurrah for the next Governor of Illinois!" Shortly before the introduction of Mayor Corlius as Toastmaster, several of the prettiest female waitresses pinned a lovely bouquet and a purple and gold badge on the lapels of the coats of the banqueters, bearing the inscription "For Governor Wm. C. Crolius," and his governortorial boom took like wild fire. The majority of the speakers throughout the evening contributed their mite to push his boom along which will soon spread to all parts of the state. Mayor Crolius who is a first water prince, introduced the speakers in a happy vein; who spoke to the following toasts: "The Joliet Democratic Club," John W. Downey; "Democratic Opportunity," Senator Lawrence B. Stringer, Lincoln, Ill.; "The Democratic Party," Congressman J. R. Williams, Carmi, Ill.; "Jackson, the Patriot," ex-Congressman John J. Feely, Chicago; "Fundamentals and Non-Essentials," Hon. P. Nick Perrin, Bellville, Ill. Who was the father of May- --- Vol. IX And just, as demoralizing is the custom of school children attending dances. They ought not to be kept up late hours. The time they spend in the dance hall might better be put on their studies. It is my observation that many a young girl has been corrupted by the evil influence of the dance. It is soon enough for the young people to think of dancing after they leave school, and I believe they would be as well if they never danced If the mothers and fathers who think their children entirely innocent could listen to some of the things that come to my ears as a priest they would shed bitter tears. I have nearly 500 children in my parish school, and I intend to enforce to the letter the order that there will be no courting or dancing. The first one that breaks this rigid rule will be expelled without a hearing. I have taken this stand after a long consideration of the subject, and I believe it is one that will benefit the children most and assist in maintaining the discipline and scholarship of the schools. I am intrusted as much with the spiritual as the mental welfare of the children, and I am taking the action that I consider necessary. I believe that if the testimony on the teachers in other schools was taken they would coincide with me and lastly there is another practice that I condemn strongly, and it is that of school children running the street after dark. They ought to be home at that time and it is on the street that many of them learn the things which result in their moral downfall. or Crolius' boom for Governor, select reading, James K. Finn, Chicago; "The Old and the New," Hon. P. J. Lucey, Streator, Ill.; "Jackson's Ideal America," Hon. Daniel R. Burke, Ottawa, Ill. Short toasts were also responded to by State Senator Edward J. Rainey, Chicago, Elmer W. Hurst, Rock Island, Ill., Captain A. C. Anson, Chicago, and others. Hon. Lawrence E. McGann was present to act as the God-Father of Congressman J. B. Williams' boom for President of the United States. It was our pleasure to be present at the banquet and marked consideration was shown us by Mayor Crollius and the other distinguished gentlemen who were present on this glorious and long to be remembered occasion, and if Mayor Crollius should be honored with the nomination for Governor by the Democracy of this state, The Broad Ax will climb in his band wagon and ride with him to the Governor's mansion at Springfield. THE INNER CIRCLE CLUB'S New Year's Ball Was a Fine Affair. Friday evening, Jan 1, 1904, The Inner Circle Club gave its annual grand charity ball at the First Regiment Armory, 16th street and Michigan avenue, for the benefit of the Old Folk's and the Amanda Smith Homes. In every way it was a grand success. The grand march was led by President James W. Camp and Mrs. Oscar DePriest, who were followed by more than three hundred couples who were the best and most richly dressed men and women that have so far assembled together on any similar occasion in this city. The music by N. Clark Smith's superb orchestra was extremely classical. The best of order was maintained throughout the evening and the members of the famous Circle Club who donate their proceeds to the charitable institutions already mentioned are deserving of the greatest amount of praise over the success of their annual New Year charity ball. ```markdown ``` BY HEW TO THE LINE. Celebrated Their Twentieth Wedding Anniversary. Little Miss Beatrice Lewis Robinson, 4752 Armour avenue, received ever so many nice presents during the holidays, when she woke up on Christmas morning she found a little white muff and hood hanging on the Christmas tree, and she is very much in love with those two presents. NEW YEAR'S CALLS. Our record in making New Year's calls is very hard to surpass, for the following calls were made by us: Mrs. F. D. Berry, 5025 Armour Ave., Mrs. S. A. Tyler, 5021 Armour Ave., Mrs. Carrie Warner, 5133 Grove Ave, Mrs. Lizzie White, 5147 Grove Ave., Mrs. Perry, Bates, 5224 Dearborn St. Mrs. Simon Ford, 5042 Dearborn St., Mrs. Gso. W. Henderson, 5016 Dearborn St., Mrs. Emma L. Stevens, 4844 Dearborn St., Mrs. T. Washington, 4902 Dearborn St., Mrs. Robt. B. Jones, 4747 Dearborn St., Mrs. Marshall Drish, 4613 Dearborn St., Mrs. Louise Webb, 4712 Armour Ave., Mrs. J. W. Robinson, 4752 Armour Ave., Mrs. P. B. Kopperl, 4762 Armour Ave., Mrs. James H. Harris, 4764 Armour Ave., Mrs. J. B. Hart, 4841 Armour Ave., Mrs. Jessie Johnson, 4848 Armour Ave., Mrs. Mae Blake, 4916 Armour Ave., Mrs. Louise Montgomery, 4743 Shields Ave., Mrs. L. A. Parker, 4781 Shields Ave., Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, 4602 Armour Ave., Mrs. Emma Stewart, 3450 State St., Mr. and Mrs. Dan Macon, 3435 Armour Ave., Mrs. J. T. Robinson, 450 35th St., Mrs. T. J. Hunter and Miss Carrie Roberts, 3149 State St., Mrs. J, J. Manley, 3119 State St., Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 3032 Dearborn St., Mrs. W. K. Crampton, 2912 State St., Mrs. Anna L. Newby, 2628 Wabash Ave. and Mrs. Minnie Howard, 3210 State St. Some of the ladies were absent from home, others had made no preparations to receive callers, and they did not know it was New Year's day. One lady began to dress for the ball at six o'clock and she could not be seen but when she arrived at the First Regiment Armory at 10 o'clock she did not have on much after all. Another lady who claims to be up to date exclaimed when she came to the door: "My God! Have you come to collect for The Broad Ax today?" We admonished her to keep on her shoes and socks, that we were simply out making New Year's calls and was not drumming up business for The Broad Ax. Another lady who claims to be up to the snuff begged to be excused on account of baking corn bread for dinner. Mrs. Perry Bates, Mrs. Geo. W. Henderson, Mrs. Robt, B Jones and Mrs. Louise Webb were about the only ones whom we found were up to date for they had nice home made cake, wine and egg-nog which they served with a lavish hand. Mrs. Jessie Johnson threw open her lovely home to the members of the Phyllis Wheatly Club, to receive callers and when we arrived there in the evening her parlors were thronged with ladies and gentlemen. She freely served dainty refreshments to all callers, which proves that Mrs. Johnson is all right. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS. The holiday season has closed and there are very few Afro-American editors in Chicago who received more presents than the writer. As usual State Senator M. J. Butler forwarded to us one quart bottle of old guckenheimer pure rye whisky and one bottle of port wine for Mrs. Taylor, one bottle of sherry wine from Joseph J. Healy, 436 W. 47th street, a check for $5 from an admiring friend whose name we are not permitted to publish, three brand new $5 bills from another Irish-American friend whose name has frequently appeared in the columns of this paper. Many other presents too numerous to mention were also received by us and they cause one too feel that there is nothing as valuable in this world as true friends. Alderman William H. Ehemann, who is one of the most practical and successful builders and contractors in the city, had the honor of being the last person in 1903 to pay two dollars as his subscription to The Broad Ax! Denny J. Rierdon, Supt. of the 30th Ward, who may also become a candidate for Ald., was the first honest man in 1904 to turn over his indebtedness to The Broad Ax to us, and the second person in 1904 to follow suit was Mrs. J. T. Robinson, 450 35th street. The National Colored Republican League of the United States, Organized in 1901. The Executive Committee consisting of James A. Monroe, of Greensburg, Pa., Rev. M. S. Kell, of Johnstown, Pa.; John G. Jones, of Chicago, Ill.; A. J. Riggs, of Springfield, O.; Robert J. Fletcher, of Sacramento, Cal.; C. R. France, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Green A. Curran, of Dover, O. T.; J. E. Hawkins, of Seattle, Wash.; have called a meeting of the National Colored Republican League of the United States, to meet in Chicago, Ill., on June 21st, 1904, at 9 o'clock A. m., at the Institutional A. M. E. Church, 3825 Dearborn St. Each Republican club that has been organized for a period of one year will be entitled to one delegate to the convention. CHIPS. CHIPS. Mrs. William T. Payton, Louisville, Ky., is visiting her old friend, Mra. W. K. Crampton, 2912 State St. Dr. C. D. Trice, 2902 State street, has established a branch office on the North Side at 478 Wells street. --- Luke Kalas, ex-police inspector, has opened a fine buffet, corner of Robey street and Webster avenue, and he is doing a flourishing business. Dr. Dickinson of New Bedford, Mass., spent the holidays in Chicago with his old friends, he departed for his home Tuesday night. Mr. Byron Webster of Deluth, Minn., formerly of this city, made a flying visit to his mother, Mrs. J. T. Robinson, 450 35th street, and grand-mother, during the holidays. Hon. John J. Feely, was boomed for State's Attorney of Cook County by Mayor Crollius at the Jackson banquet, and there is no doubt of it, the ex-Congressman would make a very strong and a popular candidate. Prof. Booker T. Washington, who spends the money he begs from the gulible whites, who imagine that they are assiting to solve the "Race Problem," in the South as liberally as a lord, spent the holidays at his summer castle, near Boston, Mass. Col. Edward H. Morris left on a visit to the East Monday, while absent he will deliver an address in Washington, D. C., against the false or jim crow theories respecting the manhood rights of the Negro, which are advanced by Prof. Booker T. Washington. --- Rev. Father M. J. Dorney, who is much beloved by the people residing in the Town of Lake, for his many kind and noble deeds, was highly pleased with the "Eighth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax," and he declared "that much enterprise was displayed by us in getting it up so nicely." Miss Etka F. Braboy of Kokomo, Ind., passed the holidays in visiting with her cousin, Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, 5840 Lowe avenue and both ladies took in the sights of the charity ball given by the Inner Circle Club, at the First Regiment Armory New Year's night. Alderman William J. Moran of the 19th Ward, was on Christmas day presented with an elegant diamond and gold star by his many admiring friends and constituents. The star is very dazzeling to behold and this valuable token of friendship on the part of his constituents is highly prized by Alderman Moran. Mrs. Louise Montgomery, 4743 Shields avenue, entertained the following friends at dinner on New Year's day: Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Watt, Mrs. P. B. Kopperel, Miss Mary Fields, Mrs. Titus and Mr. Fields. The hostess was highly praised for serving such a sumptous repast. James H. Harris, William Nelson, Doctor Anna R. Cooper, Mrs. Ida M. Bell, John G. Jones, Miss Lu Hamp- ```markdown ``` No.11. ton, Zenia O. Doctor Wm. H. Davis, Lulu Morgan, Wm. White, Miss Hattle Utley, late of Louisville, Ky., G. W. Green, Miss Anna Whitley, Wm. Graham and Arthur Dortch were among the many callers on Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor New Year's day. The Metropole Hall, 31st street near 5th avenue, is one of the few public halls in the city so far to pass rigid inspection by the commissioner of public buildings, who has pronounced it O. K. or absolutely safe to hold or conduct entertainments in at the present time and in the future as in the past Prof. Alex. Armant and Horace Clinton will on each Tuesday and Friday night continue their dancing program. *** Mrs. Marshall Drish, 4613 Dearborn street, received a small bag of black eyed peas from one of her lady friends who came from behind the sun down in Tennessee; with the request that she should cook and eat them all on New Year's day; if she did so she would have plenty of money all the year round. We are not in a position to state whether Mrs. Drish followed her friends advice or not. *** Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L. Parks, J. Gray and Mrs. Lucas, Miss Inze Goode, Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz, Mrs. Robert B. Jones, Miss Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Sadler, Mrs. Lulu Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Porter, Mrs. Minnie Howard, Miss Lena Pickett, Mrs. T. J. Hunter, Mrs. Doctor Jefferson, and Mrs. Lottie Blanche Taylor, were some of the many society folks who took in the sights at the Inner Circle charity ball at the First Regiment Armory last Friday night. *** Little Whisky Bill Ward, who in company with Col. or Elder D. R. Wilkins, of the Old Church Organ, Ben Moseley, Col. Abraham Lincoln Murray and Company, had the thing all set to send us to jail without delay, fell into the clutches of the law himself this week for Whisky Bill has been arrested for refusing to turn the money to Mrs. Agatha Jackson which was coming to her in a damage suit. It was reported around town that he remained in jail Wednesday night, that after Col. S. B. Turner had signed his bond that "he skipped out for parts unknown." Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, Jan. 28th, 1902, borrowed $100 from Mrs. Lena B. Jackson, 3630 State St., who is a widow with five little children for 90 days. He gave her his promisory note and when it came due he failed or refused to pay it. Mrs. Jackson has employed Maj. Franklin A. Denison who will leave no stone unturned in his effort to collect this money for Mrs. Jackson; for she has not one dollar to pay house rent and her landlord has threatened to set her things out in the street. Mrs. Jackson belongs to Bethel Church and, like many other silly or weak minded men and women, she has looked upon Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray as a moral or honest saint. Mayor Carter H. Harrison has appointed the following members of the city council, Messrs. Jones, Mavor, Ehemann, Friestedt, O'Connell, Dougherty and Maypole to investigate into the cause of the Iroquols theatre disaster in which so many people were shuffled off into eternity with all of their imperfections resting on their heads. Whatever the cause was that caused the slaughter of more than a half thousand men, women and children in the twinkling of an eye may not ever be known, but it does seem that there was gross carelessness on the part of some one either connected with the theatre or with the city administration, which caused the loss of so many lives; which also scattered misery, woe and anguish throughout this city and to various sections of the country as well. All this fuss and feathers on the part of certain individuals since the burning of the Iroquols theatre reminds one of the old farmer who went and bought a fine new padlock for his barn door after some one had stolen his horse. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indelda, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have Our ear, 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. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., as Second-class Matter. THEATRICAL NOTES. The real name of Gabriele d'Annunzio, whose "Mitta Corta" has been prohibited by the censor, is Gaetano Rapagnetto. The dramatist is a son of Duchas Maria Gallese de Roma. He is a musician as well as a playwright, and has a son who has certain celebrity as a mandolinist. Albert Carre, of the Paris Opera Comique, has begun war on the theater ticket speculators. The fight was brought about by the speculators suing Carre because he refused to accept their tickets at the theater. He has sued them in turn and the chances are favorable that he will win his fight. Blanche Weaver was playing in "The Lady of Lyons" with E. H. Sothern in a city not far from here some time ago. One of her speeches ended with the words, "No divorce can separate a mother from her son." One evening an absurd transposition suggested itself, and before Miss Weaver could get rid of the notion she had said in her most loving tones: "Ah, Claude, no divorce can separate a Sothern from his mon." The audience smiled, snickered, roared in wild crescendo, and it was some minutes before the play could proceed. M. Mounet-Sully, the famous tragedian of the Comedie Francaise, is applying for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts. The actor states that he is starting his candidature for a seat in the academy mentioned by way of test. He says that in old times some actors were members of that body, but after Grandmesnil's death, in 1816, no more players were admitted. M. Mounet-Sully now wants to see if an actor like himself, honorably known, as he thinks, an officer of the Legion of Honor and senior member of the Comedie Francaise, cannot raise a claim to enter the Academie des Beaux Arts division of the French institute as well as painters and composers. MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE The French ambassador and Mme. Jusserand will go to New Orleans soon, when there is to be a celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the transfer of Louisiana from France to the United States. It has been remarked that few men who come to congress from the Pacific coast are natives of that region. One of the few is John Newton Williamson, of Oregon, whose wife was also born in the thirty-third state of the union. Very few are aware that William H. Taft, prospective secretary of war and now governor of the Philippines, got his start in life through performing the dangerous feat of whipping an editor. His father, after a distinguished public career, had just formed a law partnership in Cincinnati, when a weekly paper attacked his private life in a scandalous way. The young man, fresh from Yale, at once called at the newspaper office and in a few minutes had polished off his man in fine style. Sir Mortimer Durand, the new British minister to this country, seems to be somewhat democratically inclined. In New York on Thanksgiving day, he went to a popular "dissenting" church with an American friend, instead of going to Sir Percy Sandergon's stately pew in Trinity. He walked to church across Central park and later joined his friend in a walk to Gen. Grant's tomb. Sir Mortimer impresses one as being a whole-hearted fellow, in many ways resembling Sir Thomas Lipton. BRAINS AND EXERCISE. William M. Evarts, who died at a very old age, attributed his long life to the fact that he never exercised. The philosopher, Leibnitz, who lived 70 years, passed most of his days sitting in a chair. He didn't believe in taking exercise, and after a walk of a mile he was unable for two or three days to get his mental powers into proper working order. Joseph Chamberlain doesn't believe in physical exercise. He never walks when he can ride; he doesn't play golf; there are no Indian clubs or dumb bells in his room and he declares that he never feels well after indulging in physical exertion of any kind. Mr. Chamberlain was born in 1836, and looks to be about 40 years of age. There is not a more athletic figure in all the senate than that of Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island. He is always trained down to fighting weight; his step is as quick and elastic as a boy's; his bearing that of a muscular man. So easily active and unconsciously strong is the Rhode Islander that there is a fascination in watching him on the senate floor. The secret is said to be in his devotion to the ancient game of golf. Near his residence in Providence he possesses expansive acres on which are his own private links. Many a morning during the long summer and autumn months finds him bright and early whacking the elusive ball and chasing it up hill and down dale. . DANGER IN SLEEPING CARS. 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, stolidly 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!'" Curious Savage Custom. Maj. Powell-Cotton, who recently explored a part of central Africa never before visited by white men, writes: "Among the Kimager 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." 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. FACTS AND FIGURES. Of the 333 candidates on the New York ballots voted for recently 80 were college graduates and 98 were lawyers. Only 29 were liquor dealers, four of these being on the ticket with Seth Low. John Palmer, a full-blood Ponca Indian, who has been admitted to the bar in Oklahoma, will be one of the speakers at the next session of the Oklahoma Bar association. Palmer is located in Pawhuska, 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 a 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 Raymond 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 innovation 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 Joseph Thomas, who lives in the Nineteenth 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. The election 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 Fulham, England, for shipment to South Africa, is one of the largest ever cast in England. It is 14 feet high and weighs over five tons. Dr. E. Guglia calls attention in a Viennese journal to the fact that the city of Danzig, in which Schopenhauer was born, has no monument of him, nor has it even named a street after the great philosopher. Vienna has a Schopenhauer-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-fangled substitute for fleischhauer (butcher). The ship canal from Lake Huron, in Georgian bay, almost due south to Lake Ontario, near Toronto, upon which work has been in progress for several years, will shorten the lake route 250 miles. The highest point is 600 feet higher than Lake Ontario, and a drop of 66 feet in four miles, at Peterboro, made necessary the building of the largest locks of the kind in the world. They are now completed. CLEANING METALS. To clean tinware, rub with a damp cloth or paper, and soda, polish with dry paper. To clean copper, scrub it with salt and vinegar, then rinse it 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, half a pint of distilled water, and four ounces of Spanish whiting; rub on with a sponge, and wipe well with a cloth. Rub tarnished or rusted brass with a cloth dipped in diluted acid, such as sulphuric, or even 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 oil is also used, polishing off with a chamols.—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 promulgated by the dean of the woman's department. On his seventieth birthday Dr. Horace Howard Furness, of Philadelphia, received from Prof. Haupt of Johns Hopkins a congratulatory message inscribed on a cracked clay tablet in the cuneiform characters of old Assyria. The Young Men's Christian association, of Brockton, Mass., has established a new feature at its meetings. It encourages the exhibitions of new inventions by the inventors, and at a recent meeting a number of interesting mechanical novelities were shown and the innovation has proved to be a welcome one. MONETARY FACTS. The total income of all American farmers last year was about $5,500,000,-000. Six million operatives in the United States annually sign pay rolls aggregating $3,000,000,000. It is estimated by the treasury department that the exports of the United States for the current year will reach the great total of $1,500,000,000. There are now 8,897 accounts with the Bank of England on which dividends accumulate automatically, and the amount of capital is £1,801,810. A year ago the figures were 8,514 accounts, and £1,722,627 capital. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 51st St. & I. S. & M. S. Ry. 52nd St. and Armour Ave. CHJCAGO NOTARY PUBLIC. Office Phone, M. 751 Residence Phone, Blue 5385. W. G. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. J. Q. GRANT & CO. SUITE 61,119 LA SALLE Residence, 3232 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. --- The Souls of Black Folk A REMARKABLE BOOK that is provoking much discussion because of the wonderful eloquence with which the author pleads for right and justice to his people. 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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 hab- PARLIA MENTARY LAW Popular Conception of its 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 hie 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 parilamentary 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. Does u Reportorial Stun Now and Then 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- vania 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 counselors now. Conspicuous among these are Hemenway and Overstreet of Indiana. Hemenway BANK OF THE UNITED STATES KANNON is to be chairman of the appropriations committee and Overstreet is to be SHOE-STRING BELTS. Rady 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 right-hand 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 evergreen." "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. Bronzer Use of the Corset. 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 imparts a delicious flavor to chicken if used for basting or frying. Personal Characteristics of Congressman Williams and Senators Aldrich and Gorman—How They Rule Their Parties. Washington.—John Sharpe Williams in Sharpe Williams the most efficient leader the democrats in the house have had since the days of Crisp. In some respects he is better than Crisp, for he can keep his temper under provocation and that is what Crisp could never do. Besides, Williams has the faculty of getting a long personally with the leaders of the opposition. He is about as well Hon. John Sharpe Williams liked on the republican side of the house as he is among his own party followers. Williams and Speaker Cannon have become decidedly chummy. Williams appreciates the courtesy shown him when Cannon permitted him to pick out the democratic members of the committees and he doesn't hesitate to show his gratitude on all occasions when a matter of party advantage is not at stake—and there are plenty of opportunities during a session when the legitimate business of the house can be impeded or expedited according as the rival leaders are in a mood of mutual good fellowship or not Both Williams and Cannon have an abounding sense of humor. When they are together they call each other "John" and "Joe" and they crack jokes and tell stories with as much gusto as if they had never had a political difference in their lives. The democratic leader likes nothing better than to stroll into the speaker's room and go over the points. But when he gets on the floor in debate he is as spunky as a game cock and nobody would ever imagine that he had a republican friend in the world. There is nobody in the house who can tear passion to tatters more effectively. An Old-Time Leader. One of Williams' predecessors, a democratic leader who was a national figure when Williams was a boy, died only the other day. William M. Springer during the past ten years had not figured in politics; but prior to that time he was regarded as one of the democratic reliabilities in the house for almost a generation. [Illustration of a man with a long beard and a suit jacket.] After he left congress Springer was for a time a judge in the Indian terri- gress Springer was The Late William M. for a time a judge Springer in the Indian territory. Of late years he has been a lawyer here in Washington, scarcely more than a memory of the robust congressman who contested the nomination for the speakership with Crisp and Mills, and who afterwards stirred the economies with his famous series of pop-gun tariff bills carrying out the democratic scheme to revise the tariff one item at a time. Personally, Springer was a lovable man, without even a remote sense of humor. Probably it was the latter falling that made him one of Tom Reed's pet aversions when the great speaker was the leader of the republicans in the house. Two of Reed's most famous shafts were thrown at Springer. One was in a debate while Reed was still holding a secondary rank in the house. Springer, who was a rather ponderous speaker, had made the remark that he would rather be right than be president. Reed, standing in the middle aisle, drawled back: "The gentleman need not be alarmed. He will never be either." The other was a conversational quip: "Springer never opens his mouth that he doesn't subtract from the sum of human knowledge." It is not to be wondered at that there should not have been any great sympathy between two men of such widely opposed temperaments. It was largely a matter of taste with each of them, and concerning taste there is no use in arguing. The leadership of Senator Aldrich in the senate has been pretty completely demonstrated more than once in recent years, but never more thoroughly than during the extraordinary session just closed. The republican majority were altogether in Aldrich's hands. What he suggested they did, and sometimes they did it without putting him even to the T trouble or suggesting it. He was one who made the arrangement with the democratic minority by which the business of the extraordinary session was brought to a close and an agreement made by ananimous consent NO MORE RED TROUSERS. Radical Change in the French Infant try 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. LEMON HAS MANY USES. It Is Good for the Stomach, the Threat, the Hands, Finger Nails and the Complexion. The usefulness of the lemon begins in the morning, even before you are out of bed. The juice of half a lemon squeezed into a glass of water and drunk unsweetened the first thing in the morning is an excellent remedy for billious disorders. If girls appreciated the lemon's usefulness as a beautifier, they would always have one at hand. The fingers or finger nails may have stains that refuse to yield to soap and water, in which case a little lemon juice will usually prove successful. Before manicuring the nails you should always soak them for at least five minutes in a basin of water in which are a few drops of lemon juice. The skin which grows so offensively around the nails is pushed back by orange wood sticks first dipped in lemon juice; and as for the teeth, no more effective cleanser or purer mouth wash can be found than a half dozen drops of lemon juice in a wineglass of water. After washing the hands, lemon-juice and water makes a splendid bleach, but one curious thing should be remembered. Lemon juice pure darkens the skin, so do not make the mistake of rubbing in plain lemon-juice, instead of diluting it with water. Lemon juice and glycerine is good for chapped hands. If you have a hoarse voice in the morning, lemon-juice, squeezed on to soft sugar till it is like a sirup, and a few drops of glycerine added, relieves the hoarseness at once, while a cold on the chest, or consumption itself, finds a formidable enemy in the following prescription: Squeeze the juice of three lemons over three whole eggs, shell and all. In two or three days time the shell will have softened because of the effect of the lemon's acid on the lime composition of the shell. Then add a pint of rum and a pound of pulverized brown sugar candy. You can bottle this, and take a spoonful every morning before rising. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. Chicago American. THE MISSION LAMP. Latest Development of a Fad That Seems to Have Taken' the Entire Country by Storm. Mission furniture has become something more than a fad, and its availability for country and city home use has been demonstrated by the many articles modeled on mission lines that have been brought out by the manufacturers during the past year or so, and which have met with the approval of those who seek for chairs, tables, cabinets and the like that differ from conventional productions. The mission lamp is the latest manifestation of the tendency for furniture of this sort, and is portrayed above. In a den or a hall ```markdown ``` ARTISTIC MISSION LAMP. or any room where mission furniture predominates, such a lamp would add to the effect and the original is considerably more attractive than the picture might imply. As a novelty in the lamp line, the mission model calls for recognition, and, as has been said, it is particularly adapted to an apartment wherein the mission idea is the ruling one in furniture.—Brooklyn Eagle. Hygienic Value of Fruit. Hygienists all agree in telling us that we do not eat sufficient fruit, which is infinitely more productive of health and beauty than candy and pastry. Ripe apples are especially healthy, and children may eat them without danger. Some doctors say that an apple at bedtime produces sleep. Pears are more tasty than apples, but not so healthy unless cooked. Prunes have medicinal qualities which cannot be denied. They are better cooked, however. Apricots are also more healthy cooked than raw. Peaches are very healthy. The most healthy of all fruit, however, are grapes. Gooseberries and currants are best cooked. Figs are also excellent; they were in great favor with ancient Roman ladies, who always ate them for breakfast. Pineapples are said to be the best cure for dyspepsia yet known. Nuts of all kinds are indigestible. Oranges are also excellent as a cure for dyspepsia. Lemons produce cheerfulness and prolong life. A professional cleaner says that the best method of cleansing lace curtains at home is to make a suds of warm water, white castile soap and a little borax. If the curtains are very dirty, scrub them gently with a soft scrubbing brush. Lace curtains should never be rubbed between the hands. This stretches the mesh and is very likely to tear holes in it. When quite clean, rinse in clear water to which a little borax has been added, squeeze between the hands, but do not wring, and dry in a sheet. 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 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 Colleries 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 300,000 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. The balance of trade in our favor nearly equals, and occasionally exceeds, that of all other favored nations on the map. The refreshing part of a story which the New York Times recounts is not the stupidity of man in his domestic aspect. The particular man concerned is an actor whose wife—an actress—is an earnest advocate of the theory that food should fit the consumer rather than the reverse. Consequently there are periods when milk flows incessantly through the household menu. Again it is hot water, and at other times nuts, fruits and grains alone are relied upon to nourish genius to its finest flower. Once, in the grain age, the wife was called away to a rehearsal that was likely to last well into the afternoon. She told her husband that he would have to get his own luncheon, and he cheerfully consented to do it. "I had a fine meal of your new cereal," he said, when she returned. "What do you mean?" she inquired. "I haven't any new cereal in the house." "Why, that nutty stuff you left on the dh'ng-room table." The wife sat down suddenly. "You've eaten up my window-garden!" she wailed. "All my petunia, nasturtium and pansy seeds!" STARTING IN HOUSEKEEPING. Young Bride and Groom Borrowed All the Furniture of a Neighboring House. A curious story concerning an easy method of starting in housekeeping comes from Jefferson county, says the Utica Journal. A Watertown woman owns a house in a small village and occupied it prior to May 30 last, but on going to that city to live she locked it up, leaving the furniture inside. A few days ago she went to the village to see how her property was getting along, and greatly to her surprise she found that the furniture had disappeared. A little later, while looking around in the vicinity, she saw a brand new pump, which she had recently purchased, in the well on the premises of a neighbor. Following up this clew, she called at the house, and there found her entire outfit of furniture, carpets and dishes. The dwelling was occupied by a man and his wife who had been married only a couple of weeks, and the former said he had found the house of the Watertown woman open, and, believing that the owner would not object, he had borrowed the goods. He was evidently repentant; readily returned the furniture, and paid the woman (10 for its use. This seems to be an instance where housekeeping is one thing and furniture keeping another. FORTY-YEAR CLOCK. Jeweler Makes a Timepiece That He Will Probably Never Have to Wind Again. A jeweler, calculating that he would in all probability live about 40 years, and during that time spend about 60 days winding the house clock—allowing two minutes each day for the task—decided that he would make a clock which would need winding but once during that period. He spent his odd minutes at the task, and has succeeded in producing a clock which is the only one of its kind in the world, says the New York Herald. This 40-year timepiece is 15 inches in diameter and weighs 75 pounds. The movement is so geared that the barrel wheel, containing the mainspring, revolves only once in 2 1/2 years. When this wheel has made 56 revolutions somebody will have to give the key, 17 turns. The clock will then be wound up for another 40 years. The first wheel from the barrel wheel crawls around at the rate of one turn a year. The dial plate is six inches in diameter. The movement is full jeweled. The cork is put in a hermetically sealed glass case, and it will work in a vacuum, thus lessening fraction and preventing the oil from drying. DEATH IN THE STREETS. Frightful Loss of Life in Past Year in New York as Result of Traffic Accidents. Waste of life in America has often been alluded to, but no illustration is more striking than the fact that in New York city during the last year 538 individuals have been killed in traffic accidents, says American Medicine. How reckless we are as to human lives is shown by the comparative figures for London, where—in a larger city—there have been only 158 deaths in the same way. It is said that the Merchants' Association of New York has resolved to pursue reform work in this matter by all the methods in its power, especially by such devices as may prevent the unnecessary number of accidents. For instance, the use of a new fender on trolley cars, which has been in successful use in Liverpool, England, in to be encouraged. The reckless speeding of these cars should be stopped. The fact that trolley accidents are more numerous in Brooklyn than in Manhattan demonstrates that it is not congestion of traffic alone that is responsible for the fatalities. Grade crossings of steam cars must be abolished, a reform that at once lessens accidental deaths in a marked degree. One naturalist in trying to photograph the nest of a rail stationed his camera not more than two feet away; but while he was in the set of focusing the instrument the bird fearlessly stepped into the nest and began to cover herself with the lining of soft fiber. She was photographed several times, and was then bodily lifted off the nest and carried some distance. The naturalist hastened back to the camera, but before a photograph could be had the rail was calmly seated on her nest again. CHURCH AND CLERGY. Chancellor D. W. C. Huntington, of Nebraska Wesleyan university, is said to have dedicated a church for every year of his life. Rev. Hugh Black says of Gladstone that he altered his opinions about many ecclesiastical things as about things political, but one thing never altered, and that was his personal faith in the verities of the Christian religion. Rev. Victor M. Haughton was installed as rector of Christ Episcopal church at Exeter, N. H., succeeding his father, who occupied the position from 1865 up to a few months ago, when he was obliged to retire on account of failing health. By the death of Mrs. Seth Howard at Phillips, Me., a month ago a pew in the Union church became vacant for the first time since 1835, in which year her husband bought it. Some member of the Howard family occupied the sitting almost every Sunday since that date. Rev. James M. Stafford, who lives just across the river from Petersburg, Ind., preaches, owns a ferry (run by his father), invents things, takes out patients on them, and accumulates worldly riches. He is 27 years old, and the neighbors think he must be worth half a million. Bishop Anderson stated at a meeting held in Brooklyn a few days ago that 3,000 of the young men in the colleges have volunteered for foreign mission work, of whom 3,000 are now in the field, 4,000 are prepared for the work and the others were ready if the churches would send them out. Rev. Clyde W. Broomell, of the Swedenborgian church, West Utica street and Atlantic avenue, Buffalo, for years was a cowboy in the Bear river cattle country of Colorado. At one time he was foreman of a big ranch. Mr. Broomell went west on account of his health, having regained which he entered a theological seminary. He graduated in time to secure the Buffalo pastorate not long ago. Rev. Dr. William Henry Roberts, of Philadelphia, who has been the stated clerk of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church of the United States of America for 20 years, said the other day: "Since I became stated clerk the church, which has now 1,100,000 communicants and a constituency of 4,000,000, has doubled in membership and in the expansion of all of its interests. The church has missions established in 15 foreign countries." GUIDE TO HEALTH. Don't drink. You'll get thirsty again. Don't remember anything—especially your debts. Don't work. It is very bad for the health to tire yourself. Don't lend—borrow. Don't want anything. If you should want anything, don't buy it; beg or steal it. Don't try to say anything when you talk. It consumes brain power. Don't eat anything. Your stomach may get out of order. Don't wear clothes. They retard the free movement of the body. Don't marry young. Don't marry old. Don't marry at all. If you are tempted to marry, attend court on a divorce day. Don't get sick. If you think you are sick, whistle or turn somersaults. This is nature's cure. Don't go to law. Choose the lunatic asylum. Don't get excited. Keep ice in your mouth. Don't fret, don't cry, don't laug, don't buy, don't sell, don't grieve, don't love, don't play, don't humor yourself in anything, don't breathe. Don't even be displeased. If your favorite corn is stepped on, say: "Thank you." Don't be dissatisfied with anything. If your bank breaks be thankful you didn't have more in it. Don't lose your temper. Nobody will pick it up and bring it home, even if they stumble over it. Don't do anything but die! TRADE AND FINANCES. There were at the time of the last statement 69,955 stockholders in the steel corporation. The largest oil ship in the world, the Narragansett, has just been launched in the Clyde. She will hold 10,000 tons of oil, which can be discharged at the rate of 900 tons an hour. In perfecting plane for a $2,000,000 power plant to utilize the water at the ails of the Ohio river at Louisville, it will be necessary for promoters to get the consent of the war department. The electric power which is now being supplied to many of the poorest families of France to run their looms also supplies light and heat, so that these families are in this respect better off than most of the well-to-do. German chemists have seriously interfered with the business of indigo raising in British India by the production of artificial indigo; the madur growers of France are frightened by the synthetic manufacture of that coloring matter; and now the government monopoly of camphor making in Formosa is threatened by a plant near New York, which is making artificial camphor. HAVE YOU NOTICED The most popular trade mark is the sign of the dollar. A man's greatness depends largely on how extensively it is advertised. Many a fool might pass for a wise man, if he could only hold his tongue. Any old dude is good enough for a woman to walk down the street with, but she is mighty particular about the dog she drags along by a blue ribbon.—Chicago Journal. Young Husband—Bertha, where are my razors? Young Wife—Didn't I tell you? There was a nice looking young man called yesterday, just after you had gone downtown, and asked to see them. He said he was the razor inspector for this precinct. He took them away to get them sharpened. He said he'd bring them back this morning, and—what are you acting that way for, dear?—Chicago Tribune. Small Boy (sulkily)—Zebedee Elisha Jones. Teacher—And who gave you that name? Small Boy—Pap, doggone him; an' I'm a-goin' ter lambast the stuffin' outer him fer it when I get growed.— N. Y. Times. An Optimist. Although 'tis "Infant No. 8," Papa "sets 'em up" and grins; He renders thanks to sickle Fate Because it wasn't twins. —Chicago Daily News. BROADWAY FOR TIME "We l-l-l, when a feller writes for a automobile an' a gun an' gits a handkerchief an' a dinky Christmas card he kinder loses faith in everything."—Chicago American. The Bird Lover's Monologue. "Tis an incomprehensible thing," he confessed, "And often I've marveled thereat—How a girl with a live, warm heart in her breast "I met a young lady the other day," said the bachelor, "who claims to be a mind reader." "Huh! That's nothing," rejoined the married man. "My wife is a mind speaker."—Cincinnati Enquirer. compulsory arbitration. Teacher—And compulsory education. Preacher—And compulsory religion. Old Maid—Yes, and compulsory love. —N. Y. Weekly. No Chance for Him. "I long to make the world better," said the poet. "Well," his wife sadly responded, "It's too bad that there's such a prejudice against suicide."—Chicago Record-Herald. Hungry for Facts. "Are you fond of fiction?" he asked at the reception. "Well, I have been married four times, and I'm rather tired of it," said she, looking about for her husband.—Yonkers Statesman. Too Much Chin. Gasaway—My razor's in pretty poor condition. I believe it's tired. You know they say razors get that way? Sharply (wearily)—Ah! yes, tired of your chin.—Catholic Standard and Times. A Critical Summary. "What do you think of that writer's work?" "Oh," answered Miss Cayenne, "he has said two, or three clever things and several thousand others."—Washington Star. Her View of It. "How did he make his money?" "I'm sure I don't know," replied the girl who was engaged to a millionaire. "I'm principally interested in how he is going to spend it."—Chicago Post. Her Weak Point. "Your hair is always so handsomely dressed, miss. You must devote a good deal of attention to it." "Yes, I must confess my head is my chief weakness!"—Tit-Bits. About the Same. "Look here, you old fraud; that horse you sold me is blind as a bat." "Wal, I guess he ain't no blinder than you was when you bought him." —Chicago American. Then He Left in a Murry. He—Yes, I need only talk with a lady 15 minutes, and I know just what she thinks of me. She—But you must find it very unpleasant.—Tit-Bits. Presence of Mind. He—I understand that you are to be congratulated. She—No, the engagement is broken off. He—That is what I heard.—Somerville journal. The Value at Stake. "You have barely a chance in a million to win her." "But there is a million in that chance."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. His Plaint. "He's a mercenary wretch." "What makes you think so?" "He married Miss Goldie Rox, and I was trying to get her myself."—Chicago Post. ATTORNEYS AT LAW BURTE 318-320 REAFER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sts. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 a 619. Telephone Main 3077. FREDERICK W. 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