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REDUCING SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION. Vol. IX The action of the Union League club of New York in calling for a reduction of southern representation has been viewed by some people favorably and by others unfavorably. The latter class include the white south on one side and on the other side northern advocates of industrial education of the Negro, like Mr. Ogden, the president of the board of trustees of Hampton Institute and by all these northern people represented by him and who imagine that the Negro problem can best be solved by eliminating the Negro with his rights and wrongs from politics. They admit that the Negro has rights of which he has been deprived, and wrongs which were he white would be regarded as intolerable. But being themselves white and in full possession of their rights as American citizens, suffering no wrong of which they do not suffer in common with other white people, they cannot put themselves in the Negro's place, and are consequently in excellent position to give him wise advice in respect to submitting patiently to oppression and the duty of effacing himself politically for the good of the white people of the country. The reason for southern opposition to any movement to reduce its representation in congress is obvious. At present it sends to the lower branch of the national legislature forty or fifty congressmen to which it is not entitled under the 14th amendment. They represent, or rather misrepresent, the number of her male population twenty-one years of age and upwards deprived by it of the right to vote on account of race and color. That section has denied to these Colored citizens the right to vote for president of the United States representatives in congress, the executive and judicial members of the legislatures thereof. The 14th amendment provides that no state shall so deny to any portion of its citizens their right to vote for the above named officers without suffering a corresponding reduction of the basis of its representation. The south has reduced the number of its voters, but has so far escaped the constitutional consequences of this action. It is better off to-day under the present political order which it has created in violation of the fundamental law of the land than it was under the old political order which enabled it to count five slaves as three freemen. For to-day it counts five of its disfranchised Colored citizens as five freemen. The old three-fifths slave representative clause of the constitution became early a cause of difference and strife between the northern and southern halves of the union. And no wonder. For it was manifestly undemocratic to bestow upon a southern man who happened to own five slaves a voice in the government four times greater than that of a northern freeman. It was a feature aristocratic in its nature and tendency and operated always to the harm of democratic ideas and interests. It gave rise to the slave-power which dominated the union from the adoption of the constitution to the disruption of the union by it in 1861. When slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment the south for a short space imagined that it had got rid of the slave-power at the same time. This illusion was speedily dispelled by the action of Andrew Johnson and the reconstruction of the old slave states by the master race. It was seen as this work progressed that slavery, like Proteus, possessed the ability to change its form without changing its nature; that Negro serf- dom was taking the place of Negro slavery under the new social order and that a serf-power was destined in due time to succeed to the position in national politics once occupied by the old slave power. It was plainly perceived then that the new power was greater than the old one and therefore more dangerous to freedom and northern interests as five is larger than three. It is impossible to exaggerate the gravity of the crisis for the situation was full of peril. The national army had dealt what was considered to be a killing blow to slavery and on the head of the slave power at the same time. But hardly had the destroying blow fallen when the double-headed evil which had disappeared in one shape was seen to be reappearing in the same place in another and more dreaded form. If Negro slavery was to be succeeded by Negro serfdom and the slave power to give place to a serf-power in national politics, then the struggle of seventy years between the north and the south which was supposed to have ended forever with the close of the war of the rebellion and of necessity to be renewed and with added dangers to free institutions. To meet this emergency, to avert that peril, the 14th amendment was incorporated into the constitution. As the evil at which it aimed possessed two heads, the amendment struck at both heads. First in order to prevent forever the creation of a serf-class in the republic, it raised all persons born or naturalized in the United States to the plane of citizenship; and second, to hinder effectively a revival of the old slave-power in the guise of a new serf-power it established a new rule for the apportionment of representatives among the states. Under the old ante-bellum rule five slaves counted the same as three freemen, but under the new one five ex-slaves were to be counted as five freemen, with a proviso. This proviso forms the nub of the question today as it respects the south. For when a state denies to any of its male inhabitants, twenty-one years of age, the right to vote, the new poll directs that the basis of its representation "shall be reduced in proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state." This was a wise and statesmanlike meeting of the danger on the part of the great men who reconstructed the union a generation ago. They did their part like men. Has the present generation done its part like men also? They have not. For the South has been allowed to violate both the letter and the spirit of this great amendment, and it has been allowed to do so with impunity. The penalty which is provided for such a violation has never been made to operate against that section, i. e., it has deprived the Negro of the right to vote without being deprived in consequence of a single representative congress under the new rule of apportionment of representatives among the states. Is it fair or just to the north, and the Negro? Is it safe for the whole country, for our American democracy, or is it fraught with increasing peril to both?—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. Miss Margaret Johnson, the up-to date clerk for Wm. Dixon, 2638 State St., who is selling all the leading race papers and magazines, is quite popular with the young men, and that anables her to sell many more cigars and tobacco to Mr. Dixon's patrons who delight to drop in and chat with her. CHICAGO, January 6, 1904. ```markdown ``` HON. WILLIAM C. CROLIUS. The popular and broad-gauged mayor of Joliet, whose candidacy tor governor is well received by the leaders of Democracy throughout the state of Illinois. Last week Judge Chytraus issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Little Whisky Bill Ward for refusing to make a proper settlement with Mrs. Agatha Jakson, who resides on Dearborn street near 24th street, who so it is said, at one time fed and gave Little Whisky Bill a bed to sleep in when he was down in the heel. It seems that Mrs. Jackson, who is an honest old lady, had a damage suit against the city which was settled for her by Little Bill for five hundred dollars, and after settling it he offered her the small sum of one hundred dollars, which sum she refused to accept, then he and his whisky began to abuse Mrs. Jackson, and with much bad english he informed her that "if she did not take the one hundred dollars she would not get anything," or words to the same effect. Mrs. Jackson made up her mind that she would not be robbed out of har money nor bulldozed by the likes of Little Whisky Bill Ward, so she went into court and stated her case to Judge Chytraus, who institucted his clerk to have Little Bill brought before him immediately. When he was brought into court Judge Chytraus ordered him to make an accounting to Mrs. Jackson, and state his reason for refusing to turn over all the money to her which justly belonged to her. His explanation was not satisfactory to the court and Judge Chytraus held him over to the Grand Jury, and being unable to furnish a bond for one thousand dollars he was marched off to the Cook County jail, where he was welcomed with a shout of joy by many of its prisoners whom he has skinned out of much money in the past. A little over one year ago Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, and Little Whisky Bill appeared before the Grand Jury for the purpose of getting us indicted while Elder or Col. Wilkins stood on the outside of the Grand Jury rooms and did the cussing or the praying until his two chums emerged from there, shortly after they had accomplished their object. A great meeting was held in Bethel Church, it was addressed by Ben. Moseley, who will always be remembered in connection with some school funds down in Louisiana, and others. Little Whisky Bill was also up in the pulpit on that occasion, and it was freely predicted by Ben. Moseley, Elder Wilkins, Archibald James Carey, Old Pap Jasper F. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln Murray and many others that "Little Whisky Bill would send Julius F., Taylor to jail without delay," but it seems that Little Bill made a home run and landed in the Cook County jail ahead of the writer. A PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT This never was a people's government. From the start it was a slave traders' government. Far better had it started as a despotism, for then the people would have been jealously suspicious of all its motives. But, called people's government the poor, silly masses have ever been hoodwinked. No matter what outrages and abominations it has done, "well, its our government and must be right." "We, the people, rule anyhow." History proves that the great langer to public freedom comes from too much trust by the public in the rulers. Republics always become despotic for this reason. There is not one thing on this earth that remains still. Change is the fate of everything from grass to trees from grains of dust to mountain masses. The day a government is begun it starts toward its opposite. Despotism moves toward republican, or menarchal. No government ever changed as fast as our own. MAJOR JOHN C. BUCKNER ENTER TAINED HIS FRIENDS AT A STAG. Saturday evening last, Major John C. Buckner, 3638 Dearborn St., gave a stag in honor of the officials and leading members of the Triangle and Inner Circle Clubs. It was a swell affair. Eight courses were served by Smiley, the popular caterer. Seated around the banquet table were Messrs. Camp, Sutton, De Priest, Cuffee, Carr, Seals, Kelley, Moore, 47th St. Johnson, Geo, Snowden, Noah D. Thompson, T. J. Napier, George Turner, Jackson and Parks. Mr. Robert McAllister acted as toastmaster. Toasts were responded to by Messrs. Cuffee, Buckner, Thompson, De Priest, Camp, Seals, et al. Mr. Cuffee was elected president of the joint clubs for the ensuing year. Major Buckner covered himself all over with glory in getting up the stag for his friends, and club members and before dispersing for their homes they all declared that he is entitled to wear the belt as a royal entertainer. Rev. H. B. Frissell, principal of the school for Negroes at Hampton, Va., says it requires $80,000 a year for the support of the school. There are 1,200 scholars living on the ground and between 3,000 and 4,000 coming directly under his care. An Open Letter From Rev. J. W. Robinson. To the Editor of The Broad Ax: You have been publishing in your paper for some time an advertisement of the American Mutual Plantation Company, 431 Stock Exchange Bldg., giving as a reference "Rev. J. W. Robinson, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church." Now, as a minister should be very careful in allowing his name to be used in connation with any business enterprise, I believe it is due my friends that I give a statement of my reasons for being willing to have my name used. In the first place, the company was brought to my notice by a Presiding Elder in my church, a man for whom I have the highest respect. In the second place, I found upon reading the list of directors, that another Presiding Elder, Dr. C. E. Mandeville, was on the Board. Both of these men are above reproach in every way. Further investigation revealed that fact that Bradstreet, R. G. Dun & Co., The International Mercantile Agency, The Investor's Advisor, all gave the American Mutual Plantation Company high rating. In fact, from all sources I am assured that this company is worthy of any man's respect. The agents of the company Barker & Taylor, are honorable men, and I am pleased to aid them in any way by giving all information in my possession regarding their company. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Received More Presents. Owing to the popularity of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 5434 Normal Ave. who celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary recently, they are still receiving presents from their numerous friends. The following tokens of friendship have been received by them within the past weak: Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Sadler, salad dish. Mr. and Mrs. Worley, plate. Mrs. Hase, chocolate pot Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Baker, Washington, D. C., silver cake plate. Mr. and Mrs. McNary, tea pot. Mr. and Mrs. B. Collins, plate. Notes From Normal. Ala. Dr. C. O. Booth, who was former chaplain here, but now connected with the school at Tuskegee, spent a few days at Normal last week, he preached a most excellent sermon Sunday morning also delivered two interesting and helpful lectures during his stay. His visit was greatly enjoyed by all here, and he expressed himself as having felt like being at home. Mr. J. W. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American, Baltimore, Md., peeped in on us and gave some very encouraging words last week. New Year's Day was appropriately and delightfully observed, all were up to watch and welcome the New Year at twelve o'clock sharp; the campus and every dormitory was beautifully lighted, the band played and all were happy. Mrs. Walter Gray, 5139 Indiana Av. who was a prominent member of the Order of Eastern Star and other secret societies and clubs, expired very suddenly the latter part of last week. Funeral services were held over her remains by Rev. Braddon, Monday. Interment at Oakwood. The floral offerings were the finest ever seen in Chicago. They consisted of a pillow of natural flowers which was designed by Mrs. J. J. Manley. A large Maltese cross, presented by Mrs. Frank W. King. A broken wheel, from the ladies' club. Mrs. Gray's shroud was composed of the finest cream colored chiffon, and in her right hand was placed a large bunch of American beauty roses. The casket and the other trimmings was furnished by Porter & King, and it was very elaborate. No.12. Be sure to read the advertisement of the American Mutual Plantation Company, suite 431-435 Stock Exchange Bldg. Mrs. B. F. Titus, 629 W. 54th pl., has two finely furnished rooms which she will rent reasonable to first-class gentlemen. J. H. Washington, brother of Prof. Booker T. Washington, has been appointed postmaster at Tuskegee, Ala., and yet Prof. Washington still insists that he is not in politics. Miss Lucy Churchill, 421 34th St., was united in marriage Thursday evening to Mr. Edward Henderson by Rev. A. J. Carey. The bride and groom received many lovely presents from their hosts of friends. Attorney J. E. White, 59 Dearborn St., is one of the most honorable Afro-American lawyers in Chicago. Any legal business intrusted to his care is always transacted by him in a business like manner. The Knight Templars will give their grand charity ball at the Coliseum Annex Monday evening, Jan. 25th, and if the weather is not bad all the sports and richly dressed people in this town will be there. Rev.. Pie-eating Hubert, who has a great mouth for gab, beer and chicken, has become the business manager of the Second Church organ, and he had his ugly mug in its so-called "Christmas edition," which was more than enough to spile the whole thing. A young girl of Afro-American extraction, but so fair that even she had no knowledge that she had African blood in her veins, committed suicide at Dunkirk, Ind., last week becausea she was called a "nigger." The Phyllis Wheatly Woman's Club meets at the home of Mrs. J. B. Hart, 4841 Armour Ave., next Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 20, an interesting program will be rendered. All ladies, whether members or not, are corollally invited to attend. Bradstreet, R. G, Dun & Co., the International Mercantile Agency, give the American Mutual Plantation Company excellent rating. Write for full information to Barker & Taylor, suite 431-435 Stock Exchange Bldg. Noah D. Thompson left Friday night for New York City, where he will meet Mrs. Thompson, and before returning home with her they will visit Boston and other eastern points. Mr. Thompson will be absent from his desk in the office of the United States Express Company for fifteen days. The Democratic National Committee met in Washington, D.C., Tuesday and after a spirited contest between St. Louis and Chicago, tha first named city knocked the latter out and the next Democratic National Convention will convene in the World's Fair City Wednesday, July 6. Mr. Firdinand Morton, a colored boy, has been selected to represent Harvard of Cambridge in its annual debate with Yale in place of Mr. T. H. Reed whose health is broken by over study. Mr. Morton won on his merits. His home is in Washington, D. C., and he is a graduate of Phillip Exeter Academy. A man who claims to know, says it takes a man with a bank account to draw a check; a pretty woman to draw attention; a horse to draw a cart; a porous plaster to draw the skin; a toper to draw a cork; a free lunch to draw a crowd and an advertisement to draw trade. Col. Robert E. Burke, John Haderlein, Albert Schonbeck and P. W. Fitzhugh have been displaced as members of the Democratic Central Committee of Cook County and James A. Quinn, City Sealer of Chicago, Oscar F. Mayer, A. J. Ford and August Klaproth will succeed them from their respective wards as members of the committee. Mr. Waring is a prominent lawyer of the Ohio bar, the first colored attorney to argue in the United States Supreme Court, and the only colored man who ever sat on the beach in the State of Ohio. As teacher, editor, federal officer, lawyer, orator and sholar Mr. Waring is known through the United States. He is the athor of "The Race Problem Unmasked." THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Prison, Indefinite Farmers, Single Taxes, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibly 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 One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. MEN YOU HAVE HEARD OF. Gov. Brodie, of Arizona, is a native of New York state, and went to West Point in 1866. He became a mining engineer after serving several years in the army. Secretary Hay has in his possession the Panama flag in which was wrapped Panama's treaty with the United States on its trip from Washington to the Isthmus and back again. The flag was presented to him by Minister Bunau-Varilla, who himself kept the American flag, which was also wrapped about the treaty. Though a very busy man, President Diaz, of Mexico, rarely if ever refuses an audience to American visitors. Usually a letter sent a day or two ahead is sufficient to secure an interview. The general's knowledge of English is hardly more than rudimentary, so he always has an interpreter at hand on such occasions. Grover Cleveland has lived in the time of more administrations than any other citizen who has ever been president, beginning with that of Martin Van Buren and coming down to that of Theodore Roosevelt—In all 18, exclusive of his own two. He has also lived to see six vice presidents succeed to the presidency, three of them, Johnson, Arthur and Roosevelt, coming to the white house through the assassination of their predecessors. The others were Van Buren, Tyler and Fillmore. Rear Admiral Schley desires to become a voter in his native state of Maryland. With the view of aiding him some of his friends in the legislature are considering the introduction of an enabling bill. Some lawyers say that such a course is not necessary, holding that a sailor retains his former domicile until by actual residence elsewhere he loses his right to vote. In any event, the admiral is likely to cast his first vote at the presidential election next fall. The Schley family has been identified with Maryland for over 150 years. Senator Reagan, of Texas, when he was in the senate, was one of the men who strongly objected to being interrupted. On one occasion Henry W. Blair, then a senator from New Hampshire, tried to ask Reagan a question during the latter's speech. "I do not want to be interrupted," said Reagan, "but I will listen to a question." "It is not exactly a question, but a statement," said Blair. "Then I refuse to yield," said Reagan. "Well, the senator has missed an opportunity of greatly improving his speech," remarked Blair, as he ambled toward the cloakroom. GERMAN AND RUSSIAN TRADE It is believed that the artificial camphor now being made in Germany will prove particularly useful in the manufacture of safety explosives. The German-Russian association, at Berlin, whose mission is to increase German exports to Russia, has 257 German business and manufacturing firms and 42 German chambers of commerce among its membership. A special bureau has been established to collect information on all matters pertaining to grain in different parts of Russia, and an arbitration and supervisory committee, composed of the most reputable merchants of Odessa, has been appointed to inspect grain shipments, decide disputes, adjust claims, etc. The produce exchanges of the Russian Black sea ports-Odessa, Nicholaiev and Rostoff-intend to locate agents at the ports of Hull, London, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg and Marseilles for the purpose of watching the arrivals of Russian grain cargoes and frustrating the fraudulent practices which have brought Russian grain into disrepute. MUNICIPAL MATTERS An agitation has been commenced in New York for a more uniform system of tea inspection. Chester W. Kingsley, of Cambridge, Mass., who died recently, left $150,000 to the charities of the city. His wife, who was buried the day before his death, also bequeathed her individual fortune to benevolent purposes. Lewis P. Abbott, for 30 years a member of the Boston fire department, a part of that time holding the office of district chief, retired on a pension of $1,000 yearly on New Year's day. He has missed but four fire in his district during his term of service. Mrs. Mary Conway has been appointed tax collector of Gordon, Pa. She is a widow and a school teacher, and she is the first woman ever appointed to a position of this kind is that section. Collection of taxes in Gordon is very difficult and carries little enoument, and no male resident could be found to undertake the work. Not Worth Mentoring. It was a case of love at first sight. They met, loved, and were married in an incredibly short time. "Forgive me, d—darling," sobbed the sudden bride, as she fell somewhat excitedly on the bridegroom's neck; "but I k—kept a s—secret from you. I can't cook!" "Oh, that'll be all right," replied the masculine part of love's sweet illusion; "I forgive your secret, dearest, because I'm a poet—consequently there won't be much to cook."—Tit-Bits. Combination of Solos. "You called those men playing on the street a band, pop." "Yes, my son." "They're not a band." "Why yes, my son." "What is a band, pop?" "Why, it's a number of men who play together." "Well, pop, I'm sure no two of those men were playing together!"—Yonkers Statesman. A Poor Guess. Son—What does Congressman Popullem mean by saying that the money of the country is unevenly distributed? Father (a carpenter)—Don't know exactly. Maybe he means that it isn't right for a blatherskite like him to be drawing $13.50 a day, while a carpenter like me is often thankful to make that much a week.—N. Y. Weekly. Cropper. Annie Seed—Oh, Mr. Tallyheau, you should have seen Mr. Seldham-Hunt take that high hedge. Mr. Tallyheau—The idea! I didn't think the horse he rode was much of a jumper. Annie Seed—Oh, the horse didn't take the hedge. Mr. Seldham-Hunt did it alone.—Philadelphia Press. The Moving Jarred Him. "I never saw any one in such a horrible humor as Townley was yesterday." "Well, well; and yet they say he is not easily moved." "That's the whole trouble. Somebody bought his house over his head and he had to get out yesterday."—Philadelphia Press. Foreign Visitor—To what do you ascribe the remarkable inventive ingenuity of Americans. Host—Puritan mothers. "I do not understand." "A boy with that kind of a mother has got to cultivate his inventive faculties if he is going to have any fun."—N. Y. Weekly. Appreciative. "Do you believe that the American people like to be humbugged,?" "No, sir," answered the sturdy patriot, "but when they find any one smart enough to do it they can't help takin' off their hats to him."—Washington Star. Rule Safe to Break. Guest—I understand this club has a rule that there shall be no feeling the waiters. Waiter—Yes, sir; but we never think of reporting when the rule is broken. Town Topics. Sportsman (wishing for fresh fields to conquer)—I should like to try my hand at big game. Fair Ignoramus—Yes; I suppose you find it very hard to hit these little birds. —Judge. Hopeless. "Would you be happy if you wereguaranteed $10,000 a year for life?" "No. My wife would worry me into a lunatic asylum trying to make me get it raised to $15,000.—Chicago Record-Herald. How the Disaffection Began. Mary had a little lamb Which she warmed up in mince, "Twas "not as good as mother's." And there's been a coldness since. —N. Y. Times. A He—What a splendid disguise your husband has adopted. She—Disguise? He—Yes; as a bear. She—I don't call that a disguise.—Ally Sloper. An Easy Winner. The porcupine may have his quills. The elephant his trunk; But when it comes to common scents, My money's on the skunk. —Cornell Widow. Looking Forward. "You must not monopolize all of the conversation, Gertie." "When shall I be old enough to, mamma?"—Yonkers Statesman. A Biased Opinion. She—I think it's so silly of lovers to quarrel. He—Yes; the making up is so expensive.—Brooklyn Lite. All Modern Improvements. Yeast—Is your barber up-to-date? Crimsonbeak—Sure; he's got four assistants, besides a phonograph—Yonkers Statesman. He Was Interested. Wife—You seem to find something very interesting in that paper. What are you reading? Husband—The Woman's Page. "Well, I am glad you have at last awakened to the vast importance of woman's place in civilization." "Yes, indeed. I've struck some mighty fine cooking recipes."—N. Y. Weekly. Tmetless. The Grasshopper—What was the matter with poor Papa Spider? Why did he kill himself? "The Potato Bug—Why, his wife is a woman of no tact. When he came home the other night she blurted out that the children all needed new shoes.—Brooklyn Life. No Dry Measure. "Waters is trying to sell his property," said the first resident of Swamphurst. "Of course, he is," remarked the other. "But I mean he's actually advertising it in the papers." "The idea! How much does he ask for it per gallon?"—Philadelphia Press. Human Nature. When either fools or wise men Buy something nice they show it; But when they buy experience, They don't want folks to know it. —Cincinnati Enquirer. WORKING ON TIME. K. Stork—Say, Monk, what's become of the cuckoo bird that used to live in the third bough back? Monk—Oh, he's moved to the city. He's got a job as model in a clock factory.—N. Y. Sun. An Iowa Classic. Way up here in Iowa We've had a kind o' blizzard; It's cold enough both night and day To nearly freeze your gizzard. —Sumner (Ia.) Journal. Platform Repartee "Did you ever see a chimney sweep?" asked the golemn man with the black cane. "No," responded the conductor of the car, "but I've heard a college yell." Chicago Daily News. A Born Diplomat "Can you tie a true lover's knot?" asked the coy maiden. "Not me," replied the young man, "but I know a clergyman who would be only too glad to do it."—Cincinnati Enquirer. "Hazel came over to-night to study with me," exclaimed Dorothy. "And did you do much studying?" "Well, we would have, if there hadn't been so much to talk about."—Chicago Post. No Respite. "I Cannot Sing the Old Songs," warbled the young woman at the piano. But this was small relief, for the new ones she sang were even worse. Chicago Tribune. New Maid—Is the missus hard to please? Old One—Yes, indeed! If you don't tell her every day in the week how beautiful she is, she's as cross as a bear.—Chicago American. Cholly—It seems to me I have tried every way I know to gain her affections. Ethel—They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Try that for a change.—Judge. Fruitless Quest "Worry," said the author is the plague of genius, but it hasn't reached my brain yet." "Perhaps," suggested a listener, "it got tired looking for it."—Augusta (Ga.) Terald. The Better Way. "Sure, an' I hate to be lavin' ye, Dinnis." "Och, Nora, me darlint, I can't bear the siparation. If we must part, let's go t'gither."—Kansas City Journal. Principal Party Weakened. "How did that last 'endurance contest' of piano players come out?" "It ended, I believe, at the fourteenth hour. The neighbors interfered."—Chicago Tribune. Good Adives. Gertrude—Uncle, what would you advise me to do to find a husband? Uncle Gayboy—Let the husbands alone, my dear. Go after a single man. Boston Globe. "He's a gay dog; likes all women but isn't engaged to any particular one." "I should think not. What particular woman would have him?"—Brooklyn Life. "An enthusiastic hatred is almost as healthful as a great love." "You're looking well. You must be married."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in.. COAL & WOOD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 51st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 52nd St. and Armour Ave. CHJCAGO NOTARY PUBLIC. 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The boys caught on as boys will and from that day to this he has been known as "Dry Dollar Tim." Since that memorable day Tim Sullivan has learned a great deal about the medium of exchange. He has over a million and a half of dry dollars now. He owns theaters, race horses and race tracks and he is as well known in the sporting world as in politics. Most of "Dry Dollar's" education he picked up in the streets. His school days were few. He began to make money by selling papers and most of the information he picked up was gathered from the papers he sold and from the racy talk of the streets. To this day he says his reading is confined to the newspapers. He buys a lot of them and reads them all. When he is through with them he has little time for anything else. A Massachusetts Character -Sam Powers, of Massachusetts, is going to retire from congress at the end of his present term. That will be sad new for younger men in the house and for many of the older men, too, for that matter. But Powers thinks he can make a good deal more money by going back to his profession and he says that the life of a representative is dreary and unprofitable. S. Powers is a man of ability and he is also a thoroughly good fellow. He is one of the few members who has managed to attract the attention of the house during his first term in congress. When he landed in Washington to begin his congressional career the first thing that impressed him was the utter insignificance of the new member under the hard and fast system of preferment which prevails. He lay around for a few weeks, wondering why he ever consented to come to Washington at all, and calling himself all sorts of names. He talked around among some of the other new members and found that most of them felt about as he did. He organized the new members into a club, which he called the Tantalus club, because it is the fate of the new member to be constantly hoping to get somewhere and never reaching the goal. He got them all together for a dinner. He was made president by acclamation, and the first dinner was such a success that they had another and another. The beauty about the dinners was that the members who would never get a chance to talk in the house under the rules could be recognized and show what there was in them. The Tantalus club dinners became a feature of Washington. Everybody wanted to go to them and nobody could get in. The old members for once had to take a subordinate position. Powers became the best of all the new men and he speedily became a factor to be reckoned with. If he were to stay in congress he would cut a big figure, but he is going to leave. Beveridge, of Indiana, is coming back to the senate at the expiration of his present term. That is one of the things that seems to have been settled by the recent republican love feast at Indianapolis. It is a good thing for Beveridge and it is a good thing for Indiana. ```markdown ``` Beveridge is one of the most promising men in public life to-day. If he hardles himself Senator Beveridge handles himself right it is hard to say where his ambition will carry him. For he has plenty of ambition and he has plenty of capacity. He has an acute mind. He has ample assurance. He has industry. He has a wonderfully attractive personality. If Beveridge were not in politics he could make a handsome living with his pen. It is possible, too, that he might make a great success in business. His closest friend is George W. Perkins, of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. Beveridge ran into George W. Perkins in Indianapolis when both were ambitious young fellows with their way to make in the world. They met for the first time on a trial trip that was made on an Indianapolis trolley line and they were attracted to each other at once. After that trip one of the big financial magnates of Indianapolis asked Beveridge what he thought of his new acquaintance. "I believe," said Beveridge, who was then a boy lawyer, "that Perkins will be the most powerful financial figure in the United States." Perkins was then a life insurance man and there was no superficial indication of his future. But before long he was called to New York and he is rapidly advancing to the position which Beveridge picked out for him. The two are great chums now. They spend all the time together they can, and each goes to the other for advice, but neither ever asks the other for a favor. That is the compact between them. LOUIS A. COOLIDOM. MEN OF WASHINGTON Distinguished Characters Found at the National Capitol. But Few of Them Are Now to Be Found in the Senate or House- Some Picturesque Charac- ters in Congress. Washington.—Two great soldiers have passed away in the death of great soldiers in the deaths of Maj. Gen. Longstreet and Gen. Gordon—two of the greatest soldiers in the history of the republic. [Illustration of a man with a long beard and a mustache, wearing a suit and a hat.] Of the generals of the confederacy Longstreet ranked easily among the first three, and in the opinion of military experts there were not more than that number of commanders. Gen. Longstreet than that number of commanders on the federal side who excelled him. Yet for the greater portion of the time after the close of the civil war until his death his fame rested under a cloud among some of his own people, because after swords were transformed into agricultural implements he allied himself with the opposition party. At the close of the war Longstreet became a republican and he remained a republican until the end. Some of his neighbors, forgetful of the splendid services he had rendered the confederacy in the field, ostracized him. They refused to recognize him at the reunions of confederate veterans and for years he lived as a stranger in a strange land. Now that he is dead perhaps his reward may come, but the tragedy of his life cannot be obliterated. Oflateyears he has been a resident of Washington occupying the sinecure position of railroad commissioner, which was occupied before him by another confederate soldier, Joseph F. Johnston. There is little in the physical appearance of the gray-haired old man to remind one of the dashing corps commander of 40 years ago. The inevitable ear-trumpet and the sightless eye were pathetic reminiscences of a heroic past. Dwindling Ranks. The departure of Longstreet and Gordon serves to call attention to the rapidly dwindling group of former confederate officers who remain in public life in Washington. A. B. There are still a good many confederate veterans in congress, but very few of them held conspicuous rank. There was a time not so very long ago when the visitor to the senate galleries looked down on an historic group of southern military heroes. There were Wade Ham-ton and M. C. Butler, those fine types of the "rebel brigadier" about whom Ben Butler used to storm; Isham Harris, of Tennessee; Mahone, of Virginia; John B. Gordon and Colquitt, of Georgia; Walthall, of Mississippi, whom Lamar used to say would have succeeded Lee if Lee for any reason had fallen by the wayside, and whom Senator Hoar describes as the finest type of southern statesman; Zeb Vance, of North Carolina, the idol of the old north state. In the senate now there are only three or four. Cockrell, of Missouri, had an enviable record. So had Morgan and Pettus of Alabama. Another interesting survival is Bate, of Tennessee. Bate limps about on a shortened leg to show for his experience in fighting the battles of the confederacy. Bate is known among his colleagues and has been known for years as the man who never smokes a lighted cigar. He is never without a cigar in his mouth, but it is always what is known as a dry smoke. There is a reason for this to which the Tennessee senator rarely refers. During the civil war he was riding into action once with his brother by his side. He was smoking a cigar. A bullet sped by, caught his cigar from between his lips and speeding past killed his companion. From that day Bate has never lighted a cigar. And he never will. Bate rarely opens his mouth in the senate, but he is now one of the most experienced members of that body. He is serving his third term. A picturesque figure in the house is the new member from the Bowery dis- trict in New York, Tim Sullivan. Sullivan is a Bowery boy and is proud of it. He has fought his way up from the bottom and at 40 years he is one of the most influential democrates in Greater New York. Over on the East side nobody would think of speaking of him as Con- A. B. gressman Sullivan. They all call him "Tim" or "Big Tim" or "Dry Dollar." "Dry Dollar Tim" is perhaps the DAINTY CORSET COVER Made of Two Ordinary Embroidered Handkerchiefs and Finished in Lace and Ribbon. This novel and dainty corset cover is made of two ordinary embroidered handkerchiefs. Cut one of the handkerchiefs in two straight across from corner to corner thus forming two large triangles; then cut one of these pieces in two in the middle, again forming two equal triangles. Now take the second handkerchief and cut it in two big triangles in exactly the same manner. You now have one handkerchief in two pieces and one in one large and two small triangles. Take the three large triangles, put one in the center with the pointed end up, and one on either side of this with the pointed end down. Join these with strips of lace insertion. Now take the two small triangles that are left and join them with insertion for the fronts in ```markdown ``` HANDKERCHIEF CORSET COVER. the manner shown in the illustration, being sure to have the points up. Run insertion and ribbon beading and edging down each side of the front and around the neck and armholes, which, by the way, are cut in the big triangles in each side, of the back, the straps over the shoulders being formed of lace and insertion. Gather the triangular piece in the middle of the back just a little in the center and also the two pieces on each side of the front and put a piece of wide beading around the waist to hold the broad ribbon. The corset cover shown in the illustration requires besides the two handkerchiefs, one piece of baby ribbon, two yards wide ribbon, $4 \frac{1}{2}$ yards lace insertion, four yards beading and three-fourths yard wide beading.—Boston Globe. Cocoa Growing in Favor. Many persons use cocoa instead of chocolate for fudge and also for cake frosting. The Perfect F An Expert Fixes the Ide What Glove The Perfect Feminine Hand An Expert Fixes the Ideal Dimensions and Tells What Gloves to Wear. INTERVIEWED by the Boston Globe of what the perfect hand should be like. Mr. Frederick Penberthy had some interesting information, and quickly destroyed the popular belief that it is the smallest hand that is the ideal one. Apparently the ideal size is that which a 6½ glove will fit, and Mr. Penberthy thinks that a well-shaped hand in this size locks as elegant as it is possible to look. The ideal hand must be fairly fleshy, with tapering fingers, and such a hand as this will show off a glove to the best advantage, filling out every E 4 3/4 D 3/4 G 5 3/4 F14 3/4 C 5/4 B 7/4 E 43/4 D 3/4 G 5/4 THE DIMENSIONS OF THE PERFECT HAND. A signifies round the knuckles; B, round the hand and ball of thumb; C, round the wrist; D, length of second finger; E, length of first finger to fork of thumb; F, length of thumb from base to tip; and G, measurement from wrist to top of little finger. part of it so that there is not a crease or a line to be seen. The measurement round the wrist at the first button should be 5% inches, round the knuckles at the base of the fingers 6% inches, round the hand at the ball of the thumb 7% inches, from the base to the top of the thumb 4% inches, and from the top of the second finger to the fork 3% inches. The other fingers in proportion. The lady who can show these measurements can safely lay claim to an ideal hand which will compare favorably with any other. possible to tell it from the real article is another new thing which has the recommendation of being at any rate very clever. Winter gloves are being made in much the same shapes and colors this year, but the style illustrated is particularly elegant. They are made of fine buckskin in two colors only, tan and slate, and are fastened in a very easy and uncommon way, while the lining is woolly and warm, and a squirrel fur belt round the wrist adds to the comfort and effect. The fashion in gloves, although it is of course bound to vary in certain details of cut and style, is always more or less of a fixed quantity. The latest tendency toward a change is in the direction of a shortness. Four-button gloves are fast going out of date, and two and three buttons only are being used. Another de- FOR THE COMPLEXION. Some of the Things Which Women Who Care for Their Health and Looks Should Not Do. Don't eat when very tired, if you expect to get any good from your food and preserve your beauty. Don't eat more than one hearty meal a day. This is the secret of good looks, health and long life—a secret which if every one followed the doctors could not make a living. Don't eat much meat in warm weather if you would keep your skin free from eruptions. Don't eat hot or fresh bread if you want to be healthy and beautiful. Don't eat cold, starchy foods, like potato salad and cold porridge, unless you have strong digestive organs. Don't eat ice cream too fast. Eaten slowly and allowed to melt in the mouth it can do no harm. Don't drink ice water. Cool water quenches thirst much better than ice cold fluid. Don't drink much water at meals, but take a glassful the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. Don't drink too much coffee or tea unless you want a complexion like leather in color and texture. Don't eat potatoes, peas, macaroni, cream, olive oil, pastry and bonbons if you want to lose flesh. Don't go to bed hungry. A glass of milk or a cupful of chocolate will refresh you. Don't think you can eat too much spinnach, lettuce, watercress, dandelion or carrots. They are complexion beautifiers.—Loulsville Courier-Journal. Cleaning Paint Made Easy. To clean paint smear it over with whiting mixed to the consistency of common paste with warm water. Rub the surface to be cleaned briskly and wash off with clean cold water. Grease spots and grime of all sorts will quickly disappear under this treatment and the paint will retain its fresh appearance. Remember in washing paint do only a little bit at a time and to dry that thoroughly with soft cloths before going on further. When Furnishing Bedrooms. When furnishing use the same pattern carpet in all bedrooms; then, when the carpets begin to wear or you move to another house, the best part of one or two can be joined together and will make quite a presentable carpet. Threading Machine Needles. A sewing machine needly may be more easily threaded by a person with failing sight if she places behind it a piece of white paper. The white background makes the eye of the needle much easier to see. Feminine Hand Real Dimensions and Tells ves to Wear. parture which is by way of being a novelty in the washing kid, which may be washed with soap and water instead of being cleaned, and comes out of the ordeal with all its old polish and smooth surface, while more important still is a discovery which has just been made of a method for manufacturing suede gloves in all shades which will wash in the same way without losing the fine smooth surface which is so essential in this style of hand covering. An imitation doeskin made of cotton so closely woven, so finely cut and so carefully finished that it is almost im- B 7 1/4 C 5 1/4 possible to tell it from the real article is another new thing which has the recommendation of being at any rate very clever. Winter gloves are being made in much the same shapes and colors this year, but the style illustrated is particularly elegant. They are made of fine buckskin in two colors only, tan and slate, and are fastened in a very easy and uncommon way, while the lining is woolly and warm, and a squirrel fur belt round the wrist adds to the comfort and effect. Nearly all the hand-stitched gloves worn in this country are made abroad in France, Vienna and other places, but to such perfection have the stitching machines been brought recently that very nearly as fine work can be done by them, and there is a tendency, accordingly, for the work to be kept at home. ```markdown ``` ROADS PAVED WITH GLASS. Tombstones Used for Sidewalks in Some Parts of England—Curious Mosaic Pavement. Streets paved with glass are not by any means unknown, says Stray Stories. The famous Rue de la Republique at Lyons is a notable example. Here the pavement is laid in glass blocks, eight inches square, which are so symmetrically fitted together as to prevent the possibility of water passing between the interstices. An Italian nobleman has lately had the courtyard of his palace paved with slabs of marble, granite and other stone, every one of which has been brought from a different land. Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia have all supplied materials for this curious mosiac, which is composed of over 500 pieces, each engraved with the name of the country from which it came. Tombstones are not infrequently employed in different parts of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire for the purpose of paving; a year or so back the inhabitants of the Vale of Belvoir raised a vehement protest against their being used for a pathway leading to the parish church. The local authorities, however, endeavored to excuse themselves on the ground that they had plenty of old gravestones on hand, which, if utilized would assuredly save the ratepayers' pockets. DON'T WANT TO LEARN. Spanjards Spend More to Support Bull Rings Than the Schools-A Significant Comparison. Schoolhouses are very scarce in Spain. More money is paid to support bull rings than the schools. It is estimated that more than $5,000,000 is expended on bull fights during each year, while in 1901 only $1,617,314 was expended for public education, says William E. Curtis, in Chicago Record-Herald. There were more students in the university of Salamanca alone 400 years ago, during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, than are enrolled in all of the nine universities of Spain to-day, and, by the census of 1896, more than 68 per cent. of the population is illiterate. The exact figures show that 6,104,470 can neither read nor write, 3,417,855 can read a little, while 2,686,615 can read and write a little. The act of July, 1902, requires a school for every 500 population, and the minister of education is required to examine teachers to see that they are qualified, and to inspect the schools for sanitary reasons and for discipline, but the law is not enforced. A few days ago Senor Silvela, recently prime minister, in explaining his retirement from political life, declared that he had reached the melancholy conclusion that his country was not interested in agriculture, industry, trade, public works or public instruction. THE GRAPE CROP. United States Raises 750,000 Tons of the Fruit-Comparatively Little Wine Made Here. The cultivation of grapes for the market, for raisins and to make wine has become an important business of the United States during recent years, says the National Geographical Magazine. Two hundred million dollars of capital are invested in this and dependent industries. California supplies the people of the country with practically all the raisins that they eat 100,000,000 pounds, and the same state, with New York and Ohio, produces annually 24,000,000 gallons of wine. The annual grape crop, before any of the grapes are changed to wine or raisins, reaches $15,000,000 in value and nearly 750,000 tons in weight. The amount of wine made in the United States is, however, very small compared to that produced in the countries of Europe. Even Turkey, whose Mohammedan population drink little wine, produces nearly twice as much wine as the United States. France in 1901 produced 1,523,233, 200 gallons of wine, while this country produced 29,500,000 gallons. But California alone has a grape and wine producing area almost equal to the whole of France, so that some idea can be formed of the great possibilities of this important industry. Leather Railway Ties. Railway ties have been made from steel, iron, glass, stone and of grass and sawdust composition. The newest invention for that purpose is a cross-tie of leather. The scrap leather from shoe shoes is taken into a disintegrator, ground very fine, subjected to a refining process and molded. The tension of the molding machine can be so regulated that ties hard enough to take a spike or ties through which a spike cannot be driven can be turned. The three great essentials in a cross-tie are apparently found in this leather sleeper, for it is guaranteed to hold a spike, the fish-plate will not splinter in it, and it will not rot. It is expected to stand service for 35 years. From London Chimneys. A recent chemical examination of the black deposit, resembling boiler scale, that has formed to a thickness of three-quarters of an inch under the coping of the balustrade surrounding the "Stone Gallery" at the base of the dome of St. Paul's cathedral, reveals the curious fact that it is essentially a calcium sulfate collected from the air. In two centuries the smoke and gases from London chimneys have charged the rains with sufficient sulphurous and sulphuric acids to cover the stone with a deposit that strikingly resembles calcareous tufa. It is thickest on the under side of the copings, because of the draining of the rain. THE DIMINISHING FALLS. Niagara Not What It Once Was—Immense Power Canals Detract from Its Magnificence. People who saw Niagara falls long ago witnessed a greater flow of water than will ever again be seen at the famous cataract. The most stupendous spectacle of its kind on earth is gradually growing less tremendous, though the change is not yet apparent to the eye, says the Cleveland Leader. Two companies are pushing forward work on the immense power canals on the Canadian bank of the Niagara, and the success of the completed enterprise of like nature on the American side, leaves no room for doubt that the canals will all be utilized to the utmost. It is calculated that this drain on the Niagara will take about 24 per cent. altogether, of the water in the great river. That large proportion will be diverted from the falls and will be discharged into the deep gorge below them, at various points and in such a way that the scenic effect of the water so used will be very small. Of course, the depth and weight of the flood poured over the rock cliff which makes the name of Niagara famous throughout the world will be seriously diminished. However, the rapids between the falls and Lake Ontario will receive the full volume of the river's natural current. They will continue to be one of the most splendid spectacles of the world, and there will be no impairment of their force and grandeur. Nor will the Niagara cataract itself ever be less than sublime. THE SNOW-CAPPED PEAKS. impression That Their Grandeur Made Upon Practical Farmer—View of Lookout Mountain. Lookout mountain presented the impressive spectacle of a "snow capped monument of God," and a great many people turned their gaze up in that direction, in surprise and admiration, says the Chattanooga News. There was nothing down here in the valley to suggest that three inches of snow had fallen within easy range of vision. And then it brought out the features of the mountain in unusual distinctness; made it look larger, even, and more majestic than it really is or seems in ordinary garb. It was the rugged, the grand, the sublime, clothed in the beauteous raiment of purity. It was grandeur crowned with beauty; the majesty of the eternal embraced by a fleeting moment, a straying cherub of time, pressing a gay kiss upon the brow of age, and gazing witchingly into the eyes that have seen the events of centuries upon centuries. It reminded me of the sentimental lady who saw just such a sight in a different latitude, went into raptures over it, and asked a farmer of the region if he didn't think it glorious to live amid such environments and be permitted to witness such inspiring sights, at times. "Yes, mum," said he; "it's right handy to us farmers, for when we see the snow on the top o' that air mounting, we know it's time to kill hogs." SIZE OF CZAR'S ARMY. No One Outside the Russian War Office Knows Number of Troops in Manchuria. No one outside the Russian war office knows the actual number of troops the czar has in Manchuria or within reach of it, says Everybody's Magazine. The Russian army in point of numbers 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. Men Houseservants. Male "housemaids" are the most recent contribution to the solving of the servant problem in Great Britain, it seems. Several thousands of foreign young men have recently been transported to London to engage in general domestic work in British households. So far nothing but commendation is heard on the subject. These menservants, say their employers, do the work that has generally been allotted to women in a cleaner, quicker and more thorough fashion than the sex they have displaced. They waste less time, have no grievances, no "visitors," ask no high wages, and do not bother about "evenings out." Altogether, if the future carries out the prophecy of the present it will not be long before the reign of the women workers in the "essentially womanly field of housewifery" will be quite eclipsed by the masculine superiority therein shown. Industrious Fisher. The white tern has the curious habit of never bringing less than two fish at a time to its young. It carries the fish crosswise in its bill and sometimes returns from its excursions with no less than four fish thus carried. It is easy enough to understand how it captures the first fish, but naturalists are unable to comprehend how the bird manages to retain it while securing additional ones. Its ability to hold three fish in its bill and still capture a fourth is particularly remarkable. The Broad Ax comes to us this week, eight pages upon fine book paper, faultless of error, makeup or otherwise, brim full of news and advertisements, which demonstrates that its editor and his staff knows what is necessary to constitute an up-to-date journal. The Idea has nothing but admiration and respect for an enterprise that is an enterprise upon its merits and not sympathy.—The Illinois Idea. Monday evening, February 1st, the Inner Circle of Crispus Attuck Club will give a grand masquerade ball at Central Hall, 22d St. and Wabash Av. Music by Prof. N. Clark Smith's full orchestra, assisted by Prof. C. L. Hill. Admission 35 cents. Five cash prizes will be distributed. A. F. Tervalon, B. S. Duncan and E. S. Kimbrough will have charge of the affair, who will be assisted by a reception committee. Politics in the 30th ward are beginning to warm up just a little bit, but it seems that ex-Alderman Chas. J. Boyd, Dennie J. Reirdon and Harry J. Rogers are kinder resting on their cars as it were, until they ascertain just how Alderman John J. Bradley and his aldermanic cat will jump, for when he starts out to fight he makes the fur fly in every direction and all the boys fully realize this fact. It is true that wa do not believe in praying like many good Christians or so-called Christians whom we are acquainted with. But so far we have not been guilty of flimflamming a poor widow woman and her five little children out of $1,00 or any other sum of money. Will Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray please stand up and lead us in prayer? We really sympathize with the men who were so green as to believe in Sham Prosperity. No man likes to be played for a chump. In the words of the parody oh "Maud Muller:" "Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these; what a sucker I've been."—Ex. After praying for forty years for a baby, a couple, I am told, placed a small want advertisement in a newspaper, and that same night a bouncing boy was left on their doorsteps. Prayer is all right if you are not in a hurry, but for quick results use printers' ink.—Ex. One year ago the wash and scrub women belonging to Bethel church contributed $100 of their hard-earned money to Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray for the purpose of aiding him to send Julius F. Taylor to jail for telling the truth. and we wonder if this some class of women are willing to assist him to raise $100 for Mrs. Lena B. Jackson, 3632 State St., so that she and her five children will not be turned out in the streets of Chicago by her landlord because of her inability to collect the $100 form Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray to pay her three or four month's back rent. Louise M. Kirkling, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Scott, 5045 Armour Ave., departed this life Tuesday morning after a long illness. She was in her eleventh year and was very bright for one so young. She was deeply loved by her school and playmates for she possessed a loveable disposition and was well mannered at all times. Funeral services were held over her remains at St. Mary's church, 50th and Dearborn St., Thursday, which were conducted by Rev. Jesse Woods. Little misses S. Pitts, Lulu Young, Rose Bridges, Carrie Morton, N. Clark, and Lena Webster acted as pallbearers. The floral offerings were many and very beautiful, and she was laid to rest in Oakwoods. Dr. H. R. Butler, of Atlanta, Ga., whose article appeared in "The Eighth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax," on "The Evil Effects of the Jim Crow Car Law," is one of the most prominent Afro-Americans in the South. He is Grand Master of the M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of the State of Georgia. As a doctor he ranks with the best in this country. He is also well known in the newspaper world, for many of his manly articles on the "Race Problem" in the South have appeared in the leading white journals in that and other sections of the country. Mrs. Butler is also well known in the literary world, for she possesses very high attainments, and is a writer of much force and originality. Therefore it would be hard for us to conceive of any higher products of the Afro-American race than Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Butler. The Church Organ No. 2, whose alleged editor beat a dark, soft-brained widow woman out of enough money, under the guise of marrying her, to start his unknown Church Organ, made a weak attempt to put forth a Christmas edition of it, but it was not in it with "The Eighth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax," for it was printed on very thin or poor paper, which cost the Chicago Newspaper Union about 1 cent per pound, whereas the paper consumed in "The Eighth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax" was bought by us from the J. W. Butler Paper Company, and it cost five and one-half cents per pound. Six reams was used in getting it up, and whenever the three or four editors and managers of the Second Church organ and the handsome sidewhiskered preacher of the Old Church Organ, want a few lessons on "how to get up special editions of their Church Organs, we will give them to them, provided they are willing to pay us one thousand dollars each for our valuable information. The Pope Bicycle Daily Memoranda Calendar The re-issue of the Pope bicycle daily-leaf calendar may be considered the opening gun proclaiming the natural and healthful return of bicycling. Col. Albert A. Pope, the founder of our bicycle industries and the pioneer in the Good Roads Movement, is again at the head of the bicycle industry. Upon the 366 calendar leaves are freshly written lines, from the pens of our greatest college presidents, doctors, clergymen, statesmen, and other eminent men and women, all of them enthusiastically supporting bicycling. Half of each leaf is blank for memoranda. This calendar is free at the Pope Manufacturing Company's stores, or any of our readers can obtain it by sending five 2-cent stamps to the Pope Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Conn., or 143 Sigel Street, Chicago, Ill. MONUMENTS AND STATUES. Kentucky democrats will erect to the late Gov. Goebel the handsomest monument in the state. It will be of bronze with a pedestal of Vermont marble and will stand in Fankfort. Paul W. Bartlett's heroic statue of Gen. Joseph Warren is being exhibited in New York and sculptors of that city pronounce it one of Bartlett's best works and a strong and attractive statue full of character. So liberal has been the response to the proposal to place a monument of the late R. D. Blackmore, author of "Lorna Doone," in Exeter cathedral, that the committee is able to provide a memorial more imposing than had been anticipated. Two more plaster models for the McKinley monument—one weighing half a ton and the other 300 pounds—have been received at the Canton office of the National McKinley Memorial association. It is said that no meeting of the trustees of the McKinley Memorial association will be held until the committee on designs, which was appointed at the last session in Washington, reports. Twenty designs have been submitted. MUSIC AND DRAMA Joseph Jefferson has declined to visit Australia, where, 40 years ago, he made a great hit with "Rip Van Winkle." Wagner's widow draws about $120,000 yearly in royalties, despite the fact that her husband squandered his copyright in many cities. It is said that the widow of the late Max O'Reil will return to the stage. She was once well known in comic opera as Beatrice Ereasham. She is now preparing in Paris for her appearance. Henry Irving tells with glee of an incident which occurred after he had made his name famous the world over by a series of successes in the Lyceum theater, London. He was standing in the portico of the theater one day when he saw passing an old friend with whom he had played in his days of struggle. Stepping forward Irving grasped the old actor by the hand, saying: "Smith, my dear fellow, I'm glad to see you. How are you getting on?" "Oh, so so," was the reply. "I've been over the country with a rather poor fit-out for the past year, and how about you, old man? Are you doing anything?" ODD HAPPENINGS. The bite of the mosquito was charged to be the cause of the death of Carl Stromquist, of Chicago. Prof. G. Stanley Hall, of Clark university, Boston, not only proposed a tax upon bachelors, but declared that coeducation was a bar to matrimony. Henry Bliss, of Chicago, was arrested and locked up because, in inviting Miss Ida Lee to accompany him to the theater, he used a revolver to persuade her. Hairpins from the heads of women passengers in a Columbus (O.) trolley car saved a carload of belated people a long walk in the snow after a fuse had burned out. Arthur Van Meter, a prominent merchant of Salt Lake City, suffered from dropsy, and, after a fast of 40 days, in which he took nothing but water, he found himself cured. Russia has recently taken new interest in electrical appliances. Domestic telegraph business in Germany in 1902 was 43 per cent. above 1892, but business of, stock exchange houses fell off 18 per cent. Arrangements have been made for telephonic communication between various towns of Lancashire and France. French legislative sanction is awaited. The Block Island Wireless, a little sheet issued by the Providence Journal, gets all its news by wireless telegraphy. It is the pioneer wireless newspaper of the Atlantic coast. No Other People Work with the Feverish Industry of Americans-Fact Suggests a Question. We are the only nation of hustlers, and the idea suggests itself that all the rest of the world cannot be entirely wrong and we alone right in the conduct and object of life, says the Hartford Times. The Germans and the French work for a certain number of hours with a steady but not a feverish industry, and then they enjoy themselves in what we would consider a rather childish way. They gather in their cafes or beer gardens with their families and chat good-humoredly about trivial subjects. Even the English, though abounding in physical energy, take life easily. They seem to us to make too much of their leisurely game of cricket. But all these nations have accomplished great things, not only in science, art and literature, but in the material advance of civilization. They do not expend nervous energy as rapidly as we do, and in consequence the period of life work among their men is longer. They do not consume life so fast. May it not be that they, in their old-fashioned way, are wiser than we? They have embowed their views of life in proverbs like these: "More haste worse speed." "He who goes slowly goes far." "It's the pace that kills," and others to the same purport, and proverbs are entitled to respect, because they embody the wisdom of humanity. There is no proverb enjoining the necessity of continuous restless activity. HOW SHELLFISH TALK. Warn One Another of Danger by Weird Clicking Sounds, Says a Distinguished Naturalist. Most seamen will tell of curious clicking sounds heard on calm nights at sea, and the origin of the noise seems so altogether unaccountable that it has often created some alarm among superstitious fishermen, says the Chicago Tribune. A distinguished naturalist made a careful study of the sounds on many occasions, and found that it was not a sustained note, but made up of a multitude of tiny ones, each clear and distinct in itself, and ranging from a high treble down to a bass. When the ear was applied to the gunwale of the boat the sound grew more inense, and in some places, as the boat moved on, it could not be heard at all. On other occasions the sound resembled the tolling of bells, the booming of guns, and the notes of an Aeolian harp. For a long time he was unable to trace the cause, but at length discovered that the sounds were made by shellfish, hundreds of them opening their shells and closing them with sharp snaps. The noise, partly muffled by the water, sounded indescribably weird. He was finally led to the conclusion that, as the shellfish made the sounds, they probably had some meaning, and that the clicks might possibly be a warning of danger when the shallow water was disturbed by the boat. GAMBLING AND STOCKS. Stock Speculation Is Outwardly Respectable But Just as Certainly Brings Final Financial Ruin. The very fact that the professional gambler is to a large extent a social outcast, plying his craft at night and behind steel doors and only then with the purchasable connivance of the authorities, is in itself a warning that not even the stupidest can fail to observe. Stock speculation, on the contrary, says Leslie's Monthly, hangs out the banner of respectability—which a great many unthinking persons have somehow come to confound with morality—and under its protection, carries on its traffic night and day, in city streets and village lanes, in parlor and boudoir, in store and in factory—in short, wherever it can find a single human being possessed of this mania for getting something for nothing. Men who would scorn to cross the threshold of a gambling house, gamble openly in stocks and are not ashamed to discuss their ventures in the presence of their own children. When Wall street ruins a man, it strips him of everything that he possesses—destroys his business, places a mortgage on his home, eats up the trust funds of which he was custodian and leaves him naked to the world. Fear of Microbes Fear of microbes seems to have spread to the possessors of old furniture, which during a long life and unknown experiences may have collected the germs of disease. Recently a cautious lady in London who had been studying the medical warnings inherited a Sheraton table. She would not admit it to her house, but sent it off to a cabinet maker's with orders that an exact replica be made, the original table being offered in payment. If this lady's craze for new and innocuous furniture spreads there should be good times in store for the cabinet makers, as well as for collectors who prefer the risk of microbes to the certainty of shoddy. A letter was received at the East Dorset (Vt.) post office a few weeks ago postmarked at Spokane Falls, Wash., and directed to Benjamin Ames or any of his descendants. It proved to be from a man who 60 years ago boarded with Mr. Ames for a time and left without paying his board bill. He said that he was now 83 years old and wanted to pay. 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