The Broad Ax

Ex-President Grover Cleveland and the Negro Ex-President Grover Cleveland, at one time in his public career was thoroughly indifferent to private or public criticism, and after he had made up his mind that he was right on any proposition he was never known to change his honest opinion to gratify the whims, the prejudices and the clamor of the turbulent element of society. But as the great ex-President, who for a long time towered far above the heads of his fellowmen on account of his strong individuality, advances nearer and nearer to the edge of the grave, his ponderous brain becomes softer and softer, and the result is that the former, plain and simple Democratic President, has turned summersault and completely reversed himself in this respect, for he has become so sensitive to public or private criticism, that within the last fortnight he has written a letter which has found its way into the public press denying the fact "that he had lunched with an Afro-American in the White House, while serving as President of the United States." It is beyond our comprehension how ex-President Cleveland could work himself up to the point to repudiate the fact that he came in close social contact with Negroes while occupying the White House, for at that time the late C. H. J. Taylor, let it be known that he had dined with President Cleveland, in the White House, and this fact was also recorded in the public print at that time. Later on Frederick Douglass and his white wife, received an invitation from President Cleveland to attend a reception and diplomatic dinner at the White House, which was given in honor of the foreign ministers and the high dignitaries of this country, and it is recorded in the history of this land "that Mr. and Mrs. Douglass freely mingled with the President and Mrs. Cleveland and their distinguished guests with the greatest ease, and the President showered his attentions on them." But what difference does it make whether Mr. Cleveland has ever sat down at the same dinner table with C. H. J. Taylor or with any other colored man or not? for if he did do so he was not the first Democratic President to entertain colored people in the White House, that honor must be credited up to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Banneka, author and publisher of one of the first American almanacs, who was one of the most profound scholars, astronomers, and mathematicians in the United States, was the Negro who had the pleasure of enjoying a repast with President Jefferson, but in these latter days while the wave of race prejudice is sweeping over the country against permitting the Afro-American to enjoy his civil and his political rights, Grover Cleveland is not favorably impressed with the old fashioned Democracy as promulgated by Thomas Jefferson, and we are forced to assume that he simply penned his letter in order to satisfy the vaporings of the Southern people as to the "social equality bugbear." The letter by Mr. Cleveland is in keeping with his wonderful and we might say startling or ation which he delivered in Madison Square Garden last spring when he declared that "there is a woeful amount of ignorance, laziness and shiftlessness among the Negroes, that the Negro should surrender for the present his civil and his political rights and that the patriotic, the liberty loving white men of the South—the best friends of the colored man (in your mind), should be permitted to settle the "race problem" in accordance with their own ideas or inclinations, that those white men who expended their best energies and money for the purpose of bursting up the Union, to enable them to perpetuate slavery, knew the Negro the best, that the kind treatment which they bestowed on him in the past, convinced him that they would gently take him by the hand and treat him as their brother in the future," by putting two and two together it is clearly demonstrated that Mr. Cleveland is fishing for the Southern delegates to the St. Louis Convention. Volumes VIII. and IX. of the messages and papers of the Presidents' pages 302 and 390 contain the inaugural addresses of ex-President Cleveland, and there is no way to measure the contrast between them respecting the citizenship of the Negro, and his Madison Square Garden speech. In his first inaugural address President Cleveland gave expression to these sentiments which seemed to take full possession of his then great soul. "In the administration of a government pledged to do equal and exact justice to all men, there should be no pretext for anxiety touching the protection of the freedmen in their rights or their security in their enjoyment of their privileges under the constitution and its amendments. All discussion as to their fitness for the place accorded to them as American citizens is idle and unprofitable except as it suggests the necessity for their improvement. The fact that they are citizens entitles them to all the rights due to that relation and charges them with all its duties, obligations and responsibilities." From his second inaugural address: "Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land. The enjoyment of this right follows the badge of citizenship wherever found and, unimpaired by race or color, it appeals for recognition to American manliness and fairness." Contrast these quotations with his Madison Square utterences on the Negro and the inferior or the secondary position he should occupy in the affairs of this Government, and it is plainly evident that in his declining years, Grover Cleveland is drifting far, far away from his high Democratic ideals, that he is worshiping at the shrine of Imperialism and disfranchisement, for the Negro, that he believes in taxation of one class of citizens on account of the color of their skin without representation, that the whites of the South should be permitted to arbitrarily rule or dominate over the Negro without his consent, that the Negro should be perfectly contented to remain at the bottom of he ladder and continue to be the hewer of wood and the drawer of water. Rev. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Evanston, Ill., recently has been shooting off his poorly informed head or mouth on the "formation or the development of the brain of the Negro, and his capacity to acquire knowledge after he arrives at the age of fourteen years and over." The Chicago Chronicle of Tuesday, March 8, contains a reply to some of his mis-statements by Julius F. Taylor. McClure's Magazine for March contains an article on "The Negro, the Southerner's Problem," by Thomas Nelson Page. The article is interestingly written, but is full of sophistry and it proves that the opponents of the Negro are driven to desperate trails, in order to bolster up their case against him. However, we hope the readers of this paper will peruse his article as he will continue it in the April number of the same magazine. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, March 12, 1904. THOMAS CAREY. The rustling Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Cook County, who will be re-elected to the City Council from the 29th Ward without any opposition. SOME GRAVE CONSEQUENCES. In the natural world each kind reproduces after its kind. Men do not gather figs from a thorn bush, or thorns from a fig tree. Like begets like. Such is the law of nature in the natural world. Like begets like in the moral world also, each seed, good or bad, reproduces in this world like nesses after its kind. Men do not expect to receive love and confidence where hate and fear are planted. If they do expect to gather a crop of the first from ground wherein are sown the last, their expectation will not be realized. For love and confidence spring only out of love and confidence and hate and fear can yield in return only hate and fear. The south can change the constitution of the nation where the Negro is concerned, it cannot change the constitution of nature where he is concerned. All powerful to change the laws of the land, it is powerless to change the laws of human nature in the slightest particular. And so when a southern mob goes forth to sow, as the Roanoke mob went forth the other day, pray what for nearly three weeks did that mob sow? Did it sow love and confidence in the breasts of the Colored people of that town, whose souls it harrowed with deeds of infernal violence, whose minds it tortured with the dread of rameless horrors, whose hearts it stuck full of the memories of bitter suffering during those 16 days of hell, when every day brought forth to them fresh wrongs and every nightresh terrors? Long after the mob as virtually become a thing of theast will the people of Mr. Howard's burch forget how it hunted their pastor through the town and out of it? Will the Colored people of Roanokeoon forget the horror of that pooroman's death, whom the mob had rightened into spasms? Will they ot hear in their sleep the frenzied outcries of that man, whom it tied to an electric pole, and beat, stripped to the bare back, with electric wires? Will they forget the terrible hue and cry of it, as it sped by them or over them in the track of fleeing men and women by day and by night? Will they forget how Colored women were stoned in the open day and in the open street by this number—half brute, half devil—called a southern mob? Will they forget those terrible experiences soon, will they forget them ever? Or will they forget how, when helpless, and hunted, and terrorized, they found no place in that town, which was their home, no place where they could hide them and be safe from the wildcat-like brute which had taken possession of the place and was breathing out against them destruction? Will they forget how they turned in their extremity to the law, to the constituted authorities for protection, and how for them there was no law, were no constituted authorities, because of their race and color? Neither Christianity nor civilization existed for them, because they happened to be black and the mob white. Will they forget that bitter fact, that bitter experience, were God to lengthen their joint lives to the years of Methuselah? Not if they are built like white people in the human parts where color somehow does not seem to count. Evil produces evil in blacks when in them it is sowed, just as it produces evil in whites when in them it is sowed. What, then, is to come out of all the lawlessness and violence which southern mobs are sowing? What out of all the cruelty and thirst for blood of which the Negro is the victim? What out of all the terrible wrongs and deeds of vengeance which he has suffered at the awful hands of the mob? Are they teaching him to be law abiding, to respect the powers that be? Are they teaching him to be kind and forgiving, to love and trust the white race? Are they, the evil which white men have planted in their breast, going to produce the good and not the bad? Not if human nature is human nature under a black skin as under a white skin. Not if God is God, and the devil is the devil. What men plant that shall they surely gather. As the south is sowing the storm, the whirlwind it must some day reap.—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. White. Masons With John G. Jones, 33. John G. Jones, 33, of Chicago, and Sovereign Grand Commander of the United Supreme Council, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of the 33d degree of the United States of America and jurisdiction and imperial Grand Potentate of the Imperial Grand Council of the Mystic Shrine of North and South America, received last week the report that Ill. Deputy W. H. Nelson, 33, of 55 Griggs street, Cambridge, Mass., that he Sollomon Consistory of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons and Mecca Temple of the Mystic Shrine. This consistory and temple is composed entirely of white Masons and the best citizens of Cambridge Mass., who are prominent in the Masonic order. They took out a charter from the Supreme Body, which is presided over by Ill. John G. Jones, of Chicago. They recognize him to be the only legitimate head of authority in the United States of the Mystic Shrine and Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Mrs. E. F. Early, 2933 State st., was recently united in marriage to Mr. William Morgan of Springfield, Ill., Rev. A. L. Murray performing the ceremony. This being leap year no doubt Mrs. Early thought it was the proper time to grab onto a real live man, one that she can adore and put her trust in like Rebecca of olden times. Her marriage will be a great surprise to her many friends. None of the wedding cake has come our way; nevertheless, The Broad Ax extends its congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan and hopes that they will enjoy their wedded life. TWO THOUSAND CHRISTIANS OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, MOB AND LYNCH RICHARD DIXON, AND SET FIRE TO THE HOMES OF MANY COLORED PEOPLE. Last Sunday night Richard Dixon, an Afro-American, residing in Springfield, Ohio, and his lady lover had a misunderstanding, and after fighting with each other he called in a policeman to assist him to remove his things from their quarters, and while doing so he and his lady friend renewed their quarreling, then Dixon fired into her person with his revolver, and the policeman shot at Dixon, then in turn, Dixon shot and killed the policeman, and forthwith he walked to the police station and gave himself up. He was placed in jail, where he remained until Monday night. It seems, from all the reports, that the sheriff of Clark County, and the officials of the city of Springfield stood in with the mob of Christians, who on Monday night, without one shot being fired into them by the officers of the law, to repel its attack, battered in the doors of the jail without any trouble, made its way to the cell occupied by Dixon, dragged him forth then those mighty enlightened Christians knocked him in the head with guns, jumped onto his body, kicked and cuffed it around as though he was only a common mad dog, and after otherwise satisfying their brutish and savage natures in this respect, and displaying their inborn race prejudice they fastened a rope around the neck of Dixon and dragged his body through the streets for the edification of the Christian Multitude, and finally it was swung up to an electric light pole and over two thousand Christians emptied their revolvers and guns into his dangling form. Their flendish work did not cease, however, for they marched through the streets, after enacting those horrible and revolting scenes, and began shooting at every colored man, woman and child they came in contact with, who had nothing whatever to do with the murder of the policeman, and many of the homes of the colored people were destroyed by fire and the men were compelled, so it is said, to leave their wives and children behind them and flee to the woods. Three White Men Rape Colored Girl. Read this. Last Wednesday night week at Madisonville, Texas, Bill Bruce, Hunter Gibbs and Al Brown, three white men, ravished a colored girl in the presence of her father by holding him at bay with revolvers. Brown is in jail under a $2,000 bond, while the others have not been are rested yet. The vigilant associate press and daily papers seem not to have heard of this. Had it been three Negroes committing this crime on the opposite race the whole world would have heard of it and the entire Negro race charged with being rapists. There are plenty of Negro fathers who, giving a loud laugh of nickel-plated defiance, would have found some way to rescue their daughters and fed with cold lead the rapists before they could have ended their hellish deeds. This poor colored father was afraid of death.—The Star of Zion. The Star of Zion failed to state the reason why the Negro has degenerated into such a moral coward that he will not defend his wife and children and home from the assaults of vicious, bloodthirsty and lawless white men. It is all on account of his religious training or teaching. For he has been taught to believe that he must endure agony and suffering of every description in this world in order to receive his reward in Heaven. This fallacious doctrine is largely responsible for the moral cowardice of the Negro and he must be taught that Jesus, God or the gods are utterly powerless to stretch forth their hand or hands from the Heavens and strike the shackles from the limbs of t he slave, to release the prisoner from his dungeon, or to redress the wrongs which may be inflicted upon any race of people. That from the beginning of the world down to the No.20 present time each and every individual has been compelled to rely on his own strong arms to right the wrongs imposed upon him. That in the language of Andrew Jackson, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Therefore if the Negro desires to be a freemen in every sense of the word, he must himself strike the first blow.! CHIPS. Mrs. Simon Ford, 5042 Dearborn st., is a very tidy housekeeper and she is a warm admirer of The Broad Ax, not with her mouth alone, but her money. The Eureka Club, under the direction of Chas. Gaskin, will give a grand prize ball at Central Hall, 22d and Wabash ave., Monday evening, March 21. J. J. Hennessey, Justice of the Peace, 6301 South Halstead st., and Police Magistrate Englewood Police Court, continues to strike terror into all the crooks, who are brought up before him, and in the discharge of his duties Justice Hennessey plays no favorites. Rev. Archibald James Carey is bracing up and he is refraining from fighting the wet Holy Ghost while he is getting ready for the General Conference. Martin Flanley, 4141 South Halstead st., runs one of the finest buffets and restaurants in the town of Lake and he always greets his numerous patrons with a pleasant smile. Congressman James McAndrews spent Friday and Saturday of last week in this city, for the purpose of mending his political fences. He returned to Washington, D. C., Sunday morning. B. W. Pitts, the hustling printer., 2803 State st., has been confined to his bed from sickness for the past ten days, but he is regaining his strength and he will soon be able to turn out more work than ever. County Commissioner Timothy Cruise always conducts himself like a cultured gentleman, and he will again be re-nominated and re-elected as one of the commissioners of Cook County next November. Mrs. F. D. Berry, 5025 Armour ave., is an enthusiastic admirer of The Broad Ax, and she is firmly convinced that it is one of the best defenders of the civil and the political rights of the Afro-American. Chas. Gaskin has succeeded in reopening his buffet, billiard and pool rooms at 2940 State st. Mr. Gaskin will conduct a first class resort and carry nothing but the best grade of wines, liquors and cigars. B. C. Evans, president of the Old Hickory Club of the 31st ward, would make an ideal candidate for commissioner of Cook County, for he is a level headed business man, and the leaders of the party should not pass himb by in the county convention. Mrs. A. Wilson, 2252 Indiana ave., is an up-to-date business woman. She conducts a first class rooming house without any assistance from any man. Her twelve neatly furnished rooms are never vacant and she is able to lay away a little money each month for a rainy day. Rev. A. L. Murray is the busiest divine in town these days, for he is assisting to make all the preparations to entertain the leading churchmen, who will attend the General Conference, which will be held at Quinn Chapel, from May 1st to June 1st. The Wasatch Wave of Heber City, Utah, last week reached its fifteenth year in the journalistic world, and under the editorship and management of our old esteemed friend, William Buys, it has forged rapidly to the front, and it is now one of the best and newsiest newspapers published in Utah. Little Whisky Bill Ward, W. W. Johnson, who beat us out of one dollar as subscription to The Broad\Ax, All Mouth Ben Moseley, and Flat-headed Edward G. Elexander, who held up one of our friends for six dollars, should be drummed out of town, for they are a burning disgrace to the decent and the honest Afro-American lawyers of Chicago. John C. King, 87 Washington st., the noted criminal lawyer, is the choice of many of the leaders of the Democratic party for State's Attorney of Cook County, and if nominated for hat important office, there are thousands of Afro-Americans, who would gladly help to land him in the State's Attorney's office, for he is sound as the manhood rights of the Negro. Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 5434 Normal ave. has been of great assistance to her husband in acquiring their beautiful home. For over three years Mrs. Stewart has dressed the hair for thousands of the most fashionable women in the United States at Gibson's Art Gallery, Adams st. and Wabash ave. She is a good financier and always pays her debts, including her newspaper bills, promptly. Such women as Mrs. Stewart are a great credit to any race of people. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can move their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be made in advance. THE BROAD AX 6020 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. SAUERKRAUT EXPERIENCE. Some Difficulties Encountered by Men Who Stored or Sold It in Large A farmer who raises cabbage and manufactures sauerkraut on a large scale was trying to sell 50 barrels of that delicacy to a Front street dealer. The dealer, says the Portland Oregonian, did not appear eager to buy. He said he could hardly get rid of so much sauerkraut before summer, and it was dangerous stuff to have around in hot weather, for it was likely to ferment in the barrels. He said his partner and another dealer on the street had a deal in kraut some years ago which was not profitable. They both had a big lot of the stuff, about 80 barrels in all, on a lower wharf on the city front and did not know what to do with it, as the weather was becoming warm. Finally they agreed to play cards to see who should have the whole, and his partner, who was a crackerjack at cribbage, won. They decided to ship it to San Francisco, but the next day one of the barrels exploded, threw down part of the warehouse and plastered everything within gunshot with the seething, fermenting, nasty-smelling stuff. After cleaning up, the remaining barrels were placed on a steamer and sent to San Francisco. The night after they were landed the warehouse in which they were placed was burned, and they lost the whole lot and narrowly escaped a big damage suit, as it was charged that the fire was caused by the spontaneous combustion of the kraut. Since that time he takes his allowance of cabbage after being cooked with corned beef and well saturated with vinegar. WORLD'S RICHEST FAMILY. A writer in the Tattler, a London publication which is nearly always bright, and often very well-informed, argues that however great the riches of the American millionaires may be, there is no family in the United States which approaches the wealth of the Rothschilds. He makes a good case It appears that careful estimates of the possessions of the French branch of the family place its riches at or above $300,000,000. The British Rothschilds are rated still higher in the financial world. The German members of the family which won its first success in that country are also very rich, and there are other Rothschilds still to be reckoned with. Altogether, it is claimed that the wealth of the entire family is not less than $1,500,000,000. If that sum is anywhere near the marks, then it follows that there is no American family anything like so rich as the Rothschilds. They can easily outweigh any other house in the extent and value of their property. And most of it is very solid and safe. From the first, the Rothschilds have been careful and shrewd in handling their immense wealth. No one can set a limit on its probable accumulations a generation hence. MERE MATTERS OF FACT. The majority of the Swiss parliament are averse to Sunday hunting. The average yield of wheat in Russia is less than half that of the United States. The treasure hunting craze has invaded Vienna, and thousands of Viennese are now digging all over the place. Of the 4,000 white settlers scattered among the total population of 200,000 in German Southwest Africa, not much more than 2,000 are at present German, and these are very largely composed of the military and official element. Adult suffrage was tried for the first time in the commonwealth of Australia in the federal elections held upon December 16, 1903. The total number of voters registered was 1,700,000, of whom in round numbers 700,000 were women. At the recent banquet of the Pilgrim's club in London cable communication was arranged with Delmonico's, New York, where Sir Mortimer Durand, the British ambassador, was dining with some friends. A telegraph instrument was placed in each dining-room, friendly greetings being exchanged at intervals throughout the evening. Five pensioners are on the roll on account of the revolution, 1,116 on account of the war of 1812, 4,734 on account of the Indian wars, and 13,874 on account of the Mexican war. The great bulk of the roll is as follows: Civil war, invalids, 703,450; widows, 248,390; Spanish war, invalids, 9,200; widows, 2,662; regular establishment, invalids, 9,170; widows, 2,938. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL It is believed that the Rothschild family as a whole is worth about $1,500,000,-000, the French section being represented by about $350,000,000 and the English branch by considerably more. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Zimmerman, of 4068 Finney avenue, St. Louis, celebrated their wooden wedding a few days ago, on which occasion their friends presented them with a pretty frame cottage, which had been erected on a lot some distance away owned by Mr. Zimmerman. The couple knew nothing about the matter until the house was complete in every detail. Gen. Nelson A. Miles is at the head of a syndicate which will carbonize crude oil, converting it into a hardened form resembling coke, in the Osage and Cherokee oil fields. Upon his recent southwestern trip Gen. Miles not only visited the Texas field, but investigated the Indian Territory field carefully, and was fully satisfied with conditions. In the industry referred to Gen. Miles is in partnership with eastern capitalists, who have successfully developed a plan by which the crude oil may be carbonized. Lloyd Morgan, professor of mineralogy in the University of Oxford, tells with delight how a great English merchant came to consult about the instruction of his hopeful son and heir who was some day to run the vast business interests from which "the pater" had made his wealth. "But mind you," said he, "I don't want him to learn about strata or dips or faults or upheavals or denudations, and I don't, want him to fill his mind with fossils or stuff about crystals. What I want him to learn is how to find gold and silver and copper in paying quantities, sir—in paying quantities." IN THE REALM OF SCIENCE. The Bulletin des Sciences Pharm. says that the numerous assays which have been made of coffee berries, etc., have shown them to contain on the average about one per cent. of caffeine. Sven Hedin has furnished additional evidence of the Chinese invention of paper. On his recent journeys he found Chinese paper that dates back to the second half of the third century after Christ. Signatures are being secured by the Records of the Past Exploration society, to a petition which they will present to congress this winter providing for the protection of historic and prehistoric ruins of this country. It is said that Prof. Markwald has discovered in pitchblende minute quantities of a new radio-active substance associated with tellurium. He has named the substance, on account of its association, "radiotellurium." It seems to be even more difficult to extract than radium, on account of its much smaller quantity. A reddish ring enclosing a whitish glare was seen around the sun after the Krakatoa eruption in 1883, and has been named Bishop's ring. Keen observers have noted a similar appearance in recent months. This ring had a diameter of 70 degrees in August, 1902, but had diminished to 20 degrees in December, 1903, although settlement of coarser dust was expected to make it larger. FOR READER AND WRITER. A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends.—Langford. A $150 book has been published in London that the author may convince his readers that Columbus was born in 1451. A monumental work of reference, an encyclopedia of 16 large volumes, is just being published in New York city. Whether by design or accident, not a page is numbered. New Books and new editions published in this country in 1903, by the Publishers' Weekly count, numbered 7,865, as against 7,833 issued in 1902. Of the new books, 816 ranked with fiction; of the reprints, 644. In 1902 the figures were 838 and 959. Miss Edith D. Lawrence, now a teacher in a missionary school at Tabriz, Persia, writing to friends in Oklahoma and telling of a shipment of books, etc., received from home, said: "Last night I picked up an American history and found 40 pages about the revolution torn out. They will not allow anything like that to pass through. The sultan will not allow such Sunday school lessons as Absolom's rebellion to be studied. Instead of publishing such lessons they put in a lesson from a psalm." SOME RAILROAD RUMBLES. During the month of January the Canadian Pacific railway sold 116,840.78 acres at a total value of $386,642.88. In Europe there are companies which rent pillows to railway passengers. The charge is 20 cents a pillow for the trip. The railroads of the country in three years have increased the amount of their outstanding bonds and have stock no less than $1,150,000,000. A 100-ton electric traveling crane lifts in 80-ton locomotive in the repair shops of the Lake Shore railroad at Collinwood, O., said to be the largest locomotive repair shops in the world. The construction of the great Transiberian railway, comprising a length of 5,995 miles, has cost $484,554,415, or an average of $81,326.84 a mile. The loss endured through the disorders in China is estimated at $5,150,000. CYNICAL LITTLE JIBES. All things come to those who stop waiting and go after them. A good son maketh a good husband—but he is worthy of a better fate. A woman never really enjoys hurting a man's feelings unless she loves him. A sensible woman seldom wastes her time on a handsome man—Philadelphia Inquirer. One of the most interesting birds known to science is the hoatzin, say Jerrard Grant Allen and Leonard Buttress, in an article on "Bird Babies," in Pearson's. Indigenous to South America, this precocious youngster has made itself famous by the arboreal feats which it performs while yet at a very tender age. On the "thumb" and "forefinger" of the young hoatzin's wing appear tiny claws, and, armed with these, the tiny creature crawls out of its nest and clambers about the boughs of trees, using them as hands, by means of which it hooks itself along. The progress, indeed, exactly corresponds to the early pedestrian efforts of the human baby, whose first perambulations are made with the assistance of friendly chairs and other furniture. These little claws of the hoatzin are used only in infancy, dropping off as soon as the power of flight has been attained. The chief interest of the species, however, attaches to the fact that it is one of the most primitive forms of bird now in existence, and affords an important link with the ancestry of the fowl of to-day. Originally, as is generally known, birds were evolved from the lizard family, and the hoatzin forms a comparatively early step in the progression from reptile to bird. Even when its wings are full grown, so imperfect are they that no upward soaring can be negotiated, and their only use is in making short flights from a higher to a lower branch, while the ease with which the hoatzin climbs affords another indication of its proximity to the lizard tribe. SPREAD PLEASANT ODORS. The use of perfume as a disinfectant is well known, and the "scented dandy" has perhaps more hygienic wisdom than his detractors give him credit for, says the London Express. It is he who is trying to revive the use of the perfumed fountain ring, an article de luxe which may either be used as an ornament or as a means of a pleasant disinfectant in stuffy underground trains or in insalubious districts. The ring is an ordinary gold one fitted with a ball at the back. It is filled by pressing the ball nearly flat, and dipping the ring into a cup of scent, when the elasticity of the ball draws the perfume into the interior till quite full. By the least pressure the wearer of the ring can cause a jet of scent to shed its refreshing aroma any moment he pleases, and he may thus act as a benefactor or a nuisance to those in his vicinity. The perfume lamp may also be used as another pleasant method of disinfecting a room. A ball of spongy platinum is placed over the center of the wick, and is fixed in its position by a thin glass rod, which is inserted into the wick. The lamp is then filled with any scented spirit, and when lighted is allowed to burn until the platinum gets red hot. The flame is then blown out and a pleasant odor fills the atmosphere THE GREAT HORNED OWL It Has Been Known to Kill a Large Tom Cat in Pitched Battle The cruel and powerful great horned owl is a bird of the eastern states, but its brothers—the western horned owl. Arctic horned owl and others—are found in the west and north. It has been known, says Woman's Home Companion, to kill a large tom cat in pitched battle, and on one occasion, while I was handling an owl of this species, it drove its talons through two thick pairs of leather gloves, and deep into my hand. I have seen one break the back of a squirrel at a single bite, and only last January I learned of another, which picked up and carried a full-grown struggling grouse over a hill for a distance of more than 50 yards before devouring it. The great horned owl nests very early in the year, sometimes even in February, utilizing the deserted nest of a hawk, crow or squirrel. It lays two or three eggs, which, like the eggs of all other owls, are white. Woe to the small boy who ventures to take these eggs or the downy white nestlings which come out of them. I have known a man to be nearly scaled by the parent birds while trying to steal young horned owls. Coal Lands in New Mexico. The area of proposed coal lands in sight in New Mexico is 1,493,480 acres, with 8,000,000,000 tons of coal, estimated to be worth $10,000,000. In spite of the want of water New Mexico has ready for the market 1,123,000 head of cattle, 37,500 horses, 113,000 goats and 5,674,000 sheep, with a wool yield of 20,000,000 pounds annually. The agricultural productions of the territory are valuable. Over 1,100,000 acres have been taken up since 1900 under the homestead act, increasing the number of farmers and ranchmen by nearly 90,000. Is Brute Creation Wiser ? Every living bird and beast strives its utmost to cram itself with food before retiring for the night, and this food is digested as the night progresses. The evening feed is the feed of the day with the brute creation, and yet the doctors tell us to refrain from eating heartily at night and even advise us to retire to rest with a more or less empty stomach. Are we following nature when following this advice?—Country Gentleman. Rents in Berlin. The average yearly price for apartments paid by laboring families in Berlin is $72. Established 1877. Phone Oakland 1550-1551 John J. 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On opening the front door she found herself confronted with the cause of the phantom visitors—Rex, in his most amiable and complacent mood, sitting, peaceful and majestic, on the top step, whither he had dragged his kennel, a featherweight to so powerful a creature, after him. No pedestrian visitor, no cardladen delegate of 'carriage folk,' had ventured to affront that lordly presence." Thank goodness there will be no conflict between France and Siam, where the pepper comes from. Hate to see anybody tangled up with the king of Siam, says the New York Telegram, and then there's so much going on now we can't watch all the rings. True Name of Corea. The true name of Corea is "Choson," meaning "land of the morning sun." It is by this name that the country is designated in diplomatic papers at the state department at Washington. --- The American Mutual Plantation Company The American Mutual Plantation Company To the readers of The Broad Ax: You have all doubtless read the advertisement that we have been running in The Broad Ax for some weeks past. Some of you may have been interested in our statements published in that "Ad" and may be even now considering seriously making an investment with us. (If you did this, you would be in excellent company for some of the brightest and shrewdest business and professional men, both white and cedar have made this investment and are thoroughly pleased with it.) Some of you may have thought our statements extreme. You may have considered that we were exaggerating and consequently you have decided, temporarily at least not to invest with us. You are right in being careful; in fact, that is exactly the type of man we want to reach, the careful, thoughtful man who investigates, goes slowly and knows what he is doing when he makes a move. You have all have been running past. Some of statements publish now considering us. (If you pay for some and professional this investment. Some of you may. You may have and consequently not to invest with in fact, that is reach, the career goes slowly and a move. As to the question would like to hear who thinks we know that it is its treatment that can proposition as open to the chair proposition, that IS WONDERFUL the truth. AS STATEMENTABLE RESULT AMERICAN MEN HAS BEEN OVERSATED. Now, the only it to you and to you must come If you care for from 10 to 50 speculation but certainly look whether we are have you inquire the International in fact, we want AMERICAN BAY 431-435 Stock America President and Vice- MAKES COMMON 5th and Yards run with the out of Winter Yards out of Summer Yards Teleph You have all doubtless read the advertisement that have been running in The Broad Ax for some wv past. Some of you may have been interested in statements published in that "Ad" and may be now considering seriously making an investment in us. (If you did this, you would be in excellent company for some of the brightest and shrewdest business and professional men, both white and colored have made this investment and are thoroughly pleased with some of you may have thought our statements extra. You may have considered that we were exaggerated and consequently you have decided, temporarily at least not to invest with us. You are right in being careful in fact, that is exactly the type of man we want reach, the careful, thoughtful man who investigates slowly and knows what he is doing when he makes a move. As to the question of over-stating our proposition, we would like to have a good serious talk with every who thinks we have made any over-statements. Do know that it is exceedingly difficult to write an advertisement that comes anywhere near the facts in such proposition as ours, a Tropical Plantation, and not open to the charge, made by people uneducated in the proposition, that one has exaggerated. The TRUTH IS WONDERFUL and so wonderful that people do the truth. AS A MATTER OF FACT EVEN STATEMENT EVER MADE BY US AS TO PROBABLE RESULTS OF AN INVESTMENT IN THE AMERICAN MUTUAL PLANTATION COMPANY HAS BEEN RATHER UNDERSTATED THAT OVERSATED. Now, the only way we can prove this to you is to put it to you and to do that we should meet you; to do you must come and see us or we must go and see you. If you care for an investment that will surely bring from 10 to 50 per cent in a proposition that is not speculation but a plain, cold business matter you should certainly look us up and decide for yourselves and whether we are stating facts or not. We would like have you inquire of Bradstreet, R. G. Dunn & Co., the International Mercantile Agency as to our rate in fact, we want you to know all about us. AMERICAN MUTUAL PLANTATION CO. BARKER & TAYLOR, General Agent 431-435 Stock Exchange Bldg., Chicago, Ill. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER. Secretary, WILLIAM SULLY. As to the question of over-stating our proposition; we would like to have a good serious talk with every man who thinks we have made any over-statements. Do you know that it is exceedingly difficult to write an advertisement that comes anywhere near the facts in such a proposition as ours, a Tropical Plantation, and not be open to the charge, made by people uneducated in the proposition, that one has exaggerated. The TRUTH IS WONDERFUL and so wonderful that people doubt the truth. AS A MATTER OF FACT EVERY STATEMENT EVER MADE BY US AS TO PROBABLE RESULTS OF AN INVESTMENT IN THE AMERICAN MUTUAL PLANTATION COMPANY HAS BEEN RATHER UNDERSTATED THAN OVERSATED. Now, the only way we can prove this to you is to prove it to you and to do that we should meet you; to do that you must come and see us or we must go and see you. If you care for an investment that will surely bring you from 10 to 50 per cent in a proposition that is not a speculation but a plain, cold business matter you should certainly look us up and decide for yourselves as to whether we are stating facts or not. We would like to have you inquire of Bradstreet, R. G. Dunn & Co., and the International Mercantile Agency as to our rating; in fact, we want you to know all about us. AMERICAN MUTUAL PLANTATION CO. BARKIER & TAYLOR, General Agents, 431-435 Stock Exchange Bldg., Chicago, Ill. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFACTURERS OF Common and Sewer B Office and Yards: 5th and Robey Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. of Winter Yards ..... 14 of Summer Yards..... 3 Telephone Yards 12 45th and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... 1440.0 per day Output of Summer Yards..... 3040.0 per day Telephone Yards 128. JOHN A ORB, President. W BH CO WEST SIDE BREWERY COMPANY, CORNER AUGUSTA AND PAULINA STREETS. Monroe 1567—TELEPHONES—Monroe Old Undercof Monroe 1567—TELEPHONES—Monroe Old Underroof Monroe 1567—T E L E P H O N E S—Monroe 1573. If your physician recommends the use of a stimulant, there is no whisky in which so many desirable qualities are contained as in Old Underoof Rye and it has the least reactive effect. Because it is made right and is aged right. CHAS. DENNEHY & CO. CHICACO Newer Brick wards: Jobey St summer, equipped golf Dryer. 140,0.0 per 300,0.0 per wards 128. WILLIAM LEGNER, Vice Pres. & Treas. SIDE ERY NY, S. A. CHICAGO, U. S. A. N E S——Monroe 1573. Washington.—A great many people are surprised that Senator Hanna's available wealth at the time of his death should have been only $3,000,000. In some way the impression had gone out that he was worth a great deal more than that. But impressions about money are pretty sure to be exaggerated in these days when men talk about millions as they used to talk about thousands ten years ago. The Late Senator Hanna Senator Hanna, of course, was a successful man of business, just as he was successful in everything, else he undertook, but after he had accumulated enough to insure his own financial permanency and the permanency of his family's financial interests, he was indifferent to whether any more came to him or not. He never cared for money in itself, nor cared to pose as a man of wealth. What he did prize was the feeling of security and power which the possession of money gave him. And still more he prized the fact that his own business success enabled him to command the confidence and friendship of far wealthier men and through them to accomplish results in business and politics which would have been impossible for one whose own business experience did not inspire respect. It was this reputation for business acumen which stood him in good stead as chairman of the national republican committee, but it had an even greater influence upon his career in the senate; for it gave impressive weight to the opinions he expressed in debate upon such distinctively business propositions as the ship subsidy bill and the Panama canal. Something Like Hanna. Former Gov. Crane of Massachusetts, whose name has been mentioned more frequently than any other as Hanna's probable successor in the chairmanship of the republican national committee, is in some respects like Hanna in others strikingly unlike him. M. B. Like Hanna, he is a successful business man, whose own success and recognized acumen have given him un- have given him unusual influence Ex-Gov. Crane. among men of greater wealth and of more far-reaching personal interests. Like Hanna, he has never met with failure in any undertaking, and, like Hanna, he is intensely loyal. Like Hanna, he inspires the confidence of laboring men as well as capitalists, and some of his most important achievements have been in the direction of bringing labor and capital to a better understanding. It was Gov. Crane who first suggested to President Roosevelt the idea of inviting the coal operators and the representatives of the Miners' union to Washington to talk over their differences—an invitation which resulted in bringing the anthracite coal strike to an end, when it had reached its most threatening stage. The suggestion came to him from his own experience as governor of Massachusetts when he brought the striking freight handlers and their employers together for a conference in the state house and ended a strike which had tied up the business of Boston. Unlike Hanna, Gov. Crane will never develop into an effective debater or stump speaker. He has an unconquerable aversion to public appearances of that kind, and it is characteristic of him that the few public offices he has held have been forced upon him by other party leaders against his own inclination and in spite of his protests. He has a genius for politics, is absorbed in it, and is recognized by men who stand very high in public affairs as a wise and safe political adviser, but he hates above all things the idea of holding a political office. He likes to accomplish results, but he doesn't care at all for the glamor of the reputation for having done it. Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, was asked by President Harrison to be chair- man of the republican national committee in 1892 when Harrison was running for reelection. Harrison asked him first by wire and Spooner declined by wire. Then Harrison asked him to come to Washington and he came. But no pleading could induce him to take the place. PETER G. GREENE Finally Harrison asked him why. "I'll tell you," said Spooner, frankly. "In order to run a campaign now the chairman of the national committee in either party has to raise so much money that if he wins he is sure to be called a boodler. If he loses he is called a chump. I don't care for either reputation." Upon that Harrison let him off without further urging. It is a fact that a great deal more money is used now in the legitimate expenses of a national election than was the case in the earlier days. Of men now living, probably, William E. Chandler has had more experience in the management of national campaigning than anybody else. He was connected with the national republican committee continuously from 1860 to 1880, and during a good part of that time he was secretary of the committee. He was especially active in the historic campaign of 1876. Yet in all his experience he never heard of a campaign fund approaching a million dollars. Prior to 1880 the largest fund raised was by Henry J. Raymond, chairman of the committee in 1864. He is understood to have had $500,000 with which to manage the campaign for the reelection of Abraham Lincoln. The fund for Garfield's election in -1880 was somewhat larger than this, and in 1884 both national committees had funds which were regarded as generous in comparison with what had gone before. The first fund running up into the millions, however, was in 1888, when M. S. Quay, as chairman of the republican national committee, induced the great manufacturers of the country to contribute generously to prevent the reelection of Cleveland. In 1892 the democratic committee had a campaign fund larger than the republicans had in 1888, while the republican fund was very small. In 1896 and 1900, the republican fund mounted high, but even in those years with Bryan as a candidate the democratic fund was larger than any republican fund had ever been before. The republican campaign fund in 1904 promises to be small. Senator Hoar is greatly concerned lest he shall be charged with criticising the administration when in reality he intended simply to call attention to certain transactions which he thought needed looking into. A. H. There is probably no other man in public life who would draw so fine a distinction between an attack on an administration policy and an tion policy and an Senator Hoar. attack on the administration itself. But Senator Hoar is a law unto himself and his fellow senators are coming to recognize that his treatment of public questions is not to be considered exactly as it would be in the case of anybody else. Senator Hoar has two distinct points of view for every political problem that comes to the front. First he looks at it from the viewpoint of the historian, then from the viewpoint of the practical statesman of to-day. Not infrequently he finds that the results do not harmonize and then he generally acts in accordance with the apparent necessity of the hour, while placing himself on record according to his judgment of the verdict of history. He is getting to be an old man now, and he appreciates the fact that he will probably not long remain on the public stage. He does not want the closing years of his career to be stained by what he fears his biographer may regard as a questionable act. And so he places himself on record in such a way that after he is gone there can be no doubt about his own personal views without regard to what he may have been impelled to do in a national or party emergency. In what he says there is no personal feeling and there is no politics in the ordinary sense of the word. He does not think, for an instant, how any position he may assume will affect the political prospects either of himself or of anybody else—even his most intimate friends. Ages in the Senate. There are some wonderful old men in the senate. Hoar is one of them. Platt, of Connecticut, is another of a distinctly different type hard-headed, practical, farseeing, progressive. Morgan and Pettus, of Alabama, each in his own way, is a marvel. Morgan even now having passed his eightieth year has limitless endurance, and Pettus, the oldest man in the senate, is one of Platt, of Connecticut. the youngest in his disposition. Then there are men whom we never think of as old—Quay, who is over 70; Platt, of New York, and Chauncey M. Depew—of equal age, each past his three score years and ten. Frye and Hale, of Maine; Proctor, of Vermont; Cullom, of Illinois, and Allison, of Iowa, are all in the class of 70—but they class themselves as youngsters. Harry-I wish some one would invent an alarm clock which kindles the fire. Harriet — Oh, pshaw! What the world needs is a machine that can get up and get the breakfast—Detroit Free Press. MAGIC MEAL CHEST. How a Humble Piece of Pantry Furniture Become Bewitched Under Strange Circumstances. It was in the latter part of the seventeenth century that the meal chest which has always been in the Spofford family and now owned by Mrs. Orin Spofford, of Georgetown, Mass., became bewitched under the most peculiar circumstances. The meal chest is an ordinary one and was kept in the attic of Mr. Moody Spofford's house at Rowley Hill, filled with meal which was used in the family. Hannah Hasen, who was employed in the family, was of good, respectable family and lived in the town, the only thing known against her being the information obtained from the children that she had been trying to coax fortune, through experiments practiced by the old-time superstitions. The statement of the proceedings has been extracted from a written account of Dr. Jeremiah Spofford, who was asked to prepare it, and which was corroborated by a dozen witnesses, all of whom were present. It was one afternoon, while Hannah sat in one of the chambers quietly spinning, that she became annoyed by strange sounds, which seemed to come from the side of the house, and for which she was unable to account. They seemed to be from the sides of the walls, and responded to each and every pound of her fist on the laths. She became so frightened that at last Moody Spofford, who was passing the house was called in, and he in turn was amazed at the sounds. He carefully examined the walls, striking them with a hammer to see whence came the sounds, but finding no loose lath, was perplexed all the more, as every blow which he gave was followed with another of equal sound. The jar of the spinning wheel was incapable to produce the noise, and, at last, unable to fathom the mystery he gave it up and left for his home. He had, however, not been long home before he was for the second time called to the house, but again was he baffled. Had this happened during the time of the witchcraft excitement, Hannah's chances of dying a natural death would have been small, but as it was the mystery only excited the curi- A Woman Spinning HANNAH WAS FRIGHTENED. osity of the neighbors, for when later she was sent to the attic on account of the trouble down stairs, to sift meal, to her amazement the chest, which was filled to the brim with meal, commenced to jog away two inched at a time, until it had reached the corner, and after a little it became so excited that when her dress touched it it flew to the ceiling and also went over the stairs. This was too much for the family, and the children fled in fear to the neighbors, telling them the wonderful feats that were happening to the house. Curious people gathered in large numbers and soon grew so excited that poor Hannah was set to work touching everything to see how it worked. The door latch flew up with great rapidity when she touched the door, and even the farmer's heavy workbench when touched jogged rapidly over the floor. When, however, a horseshoe was fastened over the door the latch stopped its antics and the table ceased to move. Excitement was at its height when the owner of the house walked in, disgusted at the commotion, sent the neighbors to their homes, summoned the ministers and had prayers said over the girl. The next day was the Sabbath, and all was quiet in the household. Monday, as soon as Mr. Spofford had left the house, the neighbors for a second time gathered and the same performances were gone through, this time three large men, Dr. Amos Spofford, David Thurston, Esq., and Capt. William Perley, all sat on the chest, and yet with their united weights did it rise nearly to the ceiling and start to turn a corner. The master of the house, suspecting that the work might be renewed, came home, and the ministers were for the second time called for prayers, and the matter was stopped through the sending away of the girl who was at the bottom of the trouble, and who seems never afterward to have been gifted with the same power. Ever after the chairs, tables and meal chest kept to their own places, and although the matter was quieted down, yet the witnesses could not be silenced through its being an optical delusion which had occurred while they were in the room.—Boston Globe. Mildew stains can be removed from black woolen goods by washing in a diluted solution of javelle water. Try a sample of the goods first in order not to get the solution too strong, otherwise it will take the color out along with the stains. Restoring Luster to Silk. To make silk that has been washed look like new put a teaspoonful of methylated spirits to a pint in the rinse water and iron while damp. LATEST ENGLISH KINK Bridesmaid's Muff Supplants the Bouquet That Has Been in Use for Many Years. If we cannot have brand new ideas to meet the demand of this novelty loving age we can have adaptations of old fashions that answer the purpose just as well as if they were really new comers. Such an adaptation—and a pretty one, too—is that of substituting a muff of dainty design and elaborate workmanship for the regulation bouquet, which for many a day has been dutifully carried by the bridesmaids at fashionable weddings. The custom, S BRIDESMAID'S MUFF. which originated a century or more ago, was revived this season, meeting with especial favor in King Edward's land. Things of beauty, indeed, are these bridal muffs, delicately perfumed and harmonizing with the color scheme and accessories of the wedding. Sometimes they are of a choice variety of fur, but as often as not fur is introduced to produce an effect of contrast or is omitted altogether, satin, soft and lustrous, mingled with embroidery and frills of chiffon or lace being substituted. Heart shape is the preferred one for muffs of this sort, the accompanying sketch showing the effect. Fashioned of pearl white satin, the outline is accentuated and softened by full frills of mousseline de sole, large bows of satin ribbon adding the final decorative touch. A handsome chain lends an extra touch of the glorification to the bridesmaid's muff. The muff is of ordinary shape, particularly the "granny" type in vogue at present, is adapted to this form of embellishment and garniture, satin as a background or hand painting serving admirably for foundation material. Brooklyn Eagle. THE WIFE'S ALLOWANCE Necessity of Asking for Every Penny She Spends Is Humiliating to American Women. Next to love, the most important, often the most importunate, question between a man and his wife is money. To the young and romantic this may seem a sordid condition. Love, in their view, means bonbons and long-stemmed "American beauties." Later on, when they learn that it also means taxes and coal bills, shoes, pew rent and groceries, they will see why it is that the most beautiful superstructure must have a firm financial foundation. Then will come, or at least ought to come, the question of an allowance for the wife—a very modern question in the opinion of the many, and a foolish one in the view of the old-fashioned and conservative. It is true that it is raised more often than it used to be. The reason is that women's views of life, especially of married life, have advanced. Many were self-supporting before marriage, and many more might have been so if they chose. To them the exchange of financial freedom for absolute dependence is not attractive. They had the control of money before marriage; they reasonably desire the control of at least a little after marriage. To men of sympathetic imagination this question may never present itself. They supply unasked not merely the wife's known and expressed needs, but, realizing their own fondness for a new tie or the occasional entertainment of a friend at luncheon, they appreciate a woman's need of funds for which she need not account. The other type of man—the type which pays the regular bills and takes no thought of extraneous wants—should remember that married life is often compared to a partnership. It is not necessary that both partners draw equal sums from the profits of the business, but even the junior partner expects to use his small share as he pleases. If he is worthy to be a member of the firm he will not take advantage of his position, nor draw more than the business will stand. The Youth's Companion truthfully says that the necessity of asking for every cent she spends is humiliating to any woman of sensibility. She wants her allowance, as Burns said of wealth: Not for to hide it in a hedge, or for a train resplendent. But for the glorious privilege of being independent: and if she has it she will use it, in most cases, wisely, and both she and her husband will be happier. How to Tell Fresh Eggs. To ascertain the freshness of eggs without breaking, fold your hands around an egg, hold the egg between the sun or a bright light and yourself and look through it. If the yolk appears round and the white surrounding it clear, it is fresh. A good egg will also sink when dropped into a bucket of water; if it topples around in the water, apparently standing on its end, it is fairly fresh; if it floats, beware of it. The shell of a fresh egg looks dull and porous; that of an old egg thin and shiny. When eggs are kept any length of time they lose water by evaporation through the pores of the shell, and rattle or shake. This is not a sign of particular staleness, although stale eggs rattle. ELUSIVE ART OF THE SKEE. Of all the elusive arts, declares Mr. G. M. H. Hewitt, in "The Pedagogue at Play," the art of the skee is the most irritating. It is not that one falls often, it is not that one usually hurts himself severely, but it is that one falls so inextricably. You generally roll over with your head downhill, says Mr. Hewitt. One arm is pinned by the heel of one of those lengthy strips of wood, the other arm by the toe of the other. After a few minutes of prostrate and irritated inertness, you make up your mind where the disentanglement is to begin. So far so good. That arm is free. Then the other is slowly liberated. Now you realize that you are sitting on your own heels, and you can't get up because you are on the down-hill side of your center of gravity. You can't reverse yourself and get your feet below your head, because you are sitting on your feet. What to do? I have often been reduced to lying there and bellowing for help, and people are singularly unsympathetic; also they often come with a camera. Then when you are half-way up, out goes one of your feet, dragging you after it into a fresh entanglement. Once fallen, you may put in the greater part of the morning's exercise for body and tongue in getting fairly righted again. But if you do happen to get the snow in perfect order and hit on the proper equilibrium, then it is the best form of motion that you can possibly imagine. Down-hill you fly, with your heart in your mouth, but still keeping your feet, with a little spurt of snow spraying away from your pointed toes a yard away in front of you, past prostrate forms shouting for help, past admiring friends with now welcome cameras. You glide on to gentler slopes, where you can stand more erect and look around you serenely happy, until the approaching fence or ditch or road warns you to turn your course diagonally across the slope; then you gradually come to a graceful stop, or sit quietly down, thankful that you are safe. SHUN CRIPPLES' SCHOOLS Teachers of Public Schools Dislike to Teach Unfortunates - Special Training Required. That the public school-teachers of Chicago who now have positions in the elementary grades do not fancy the work of teaching in the schools for crippled children is evident from a bulletin sent out by Superintendent Cooley, says the Post. The positions in the schools for crippled children pay $200 more a year than teaching in the elementary schools, but it is said that teachers do not like the work, because it is too difficult. Superintendent Cooley's bulletin to school principals is to the effect that the principals confer with the superintendent of schools concerning teachers whom they consider specially fitted for the work, so that these teachers may be encouraged to make some special preparation Three new schools for crippled children will be opened next year, and teachers will be needed for these schools. It is required that teachers in schools for crippled children should have one year's special training in such teaching. Arrangements have been made by Superintendent of Schools Cooley to have special training in the work given in connection with normal extension classes. FOREIGN WARES IN CHINA Asiatics Are No Longer Content with the Simple Surroundings of Their Ancestors. The Chinese peasant is no longer content to burn bean oil, says Arthur Judson Brown, in the Century; he wants kerosene. In scores of humble Laos homes I saw American lamps costing 20 rupees apiece, and a magistrate proudly showed me a collection of 19 of these shining articles. The narrow streets of Canton are brilliant with German and American chandeliers, and myriads of private houses throughout the empire are lighted by foreign lamps. The desire of the Asiatic to possess foreign lamps is equaled only by his passion for foreign clocks. The demand for clocks is insatiable. I counted 27 in the private apartments of the emperor of China, and my wife 19 in the bedroom of the empress dowager, while cheaper ones tick to the delighted wonder of myriads of humbler people. The ambitious Syrian scorns the mud roof of his ancestors, and will be satisfied only with the bright tiles imported from France. Danger of Cremation Dr. Braunstein, of Wepperfurth, according to the Loudon Mail, has been arrested on a charge of murdering his wife; whose body was cremated by his instructions. In November the doctor married a lady in Halle, her fortune amounting to £7,500 in ready money. Immediately after the wedding the couple left Halle for a trip abroad, and shortly afterward news was received that the bride had died suddenly. Suspicion was aroused, and the doctor is now accused of poisoning his wife. Owing to the cremation of the remains, however, there is no possibility of the body being examined for traces of poison, and the charge being thus either substantiated or refuted. Our Exports. The value of the exports of the whole country in 1903 was 58 per cent, greater than in 1883; but the gain in New York was only 31 per cent, and the gain at New Orleans was 69 per cent, at Galveston 239 per cent, and at Mobile 423 per cent. Capable of Charging Water with Radio-Activity-Opens Up Interesting Possibilities. The latest marvel reported by the patient and ingenious students who are exploring the mysteries of radium comes from Ann Arbor, where a professor of the University of Michigan has found that by surrounding a little radium with pure water the fluid is soon charged with radio-activity to such an extent that it stops the pain of cancers almost instantly, and it seems to promise the healing of several cases which are being treated with water so energized. Obviously, it is too early to make very positive claims for radium as a curative agency, but the indications are very auspicious. The certainty is that radium is no different from other substances and other forces that accepted views of the physical world must be revised, and unknown and unmeasured possibilities are larger and more impressive than they seemed not many months since, in the eye of science. What has been learned of radium is simply enough to prove that very little is yet understood of the earth beneath our feet. We are still only experimenters, touching the dim edges of momentous truths. Every point of vantage gained widens the fields yet to be won. Here's a New One. A new swindle is being worked by a pair of strangers in southern Michigan, according to the Auburn (Ind.) Dispatch. A stranger appears on the road apparently searching for a lost valuable diamond ring, but leaves after getting some responsible person interested, offering $100 for the return of the ring. Soon after his departure a tramp appears and picks up what appears to be the missing ring. The person who has been offered $100 reward for its return sees an opportunity to make a stake by giving the tramp a liberal sum for it, but fails to find the owner. He then consults a diamond expert and learns that the sparkler is worth about 15 cents. A Japanese Holiday. Most of the people one meets on the Japanese New Year day are carrying a squashed salmon, with a piece of paper tied round its waist by a paper string which holds a little gold paper kite. That kite means that the thing is a present and has not to be paid for. Those who are not carrying crushed salmon or taking up the street in giving correct New Year's salutations are playing batteldore and shuttlecock. The Kink That Won't Come Back. You can make your hair just as straight and smooth as you want to by using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, and the kink that was there before will not come back. The Ozonized Ox Marrow also keeps the hair from falling out, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. It never falls. One bottle does it. Sold over forty years to ladies of refinement all over the country, giving perfect satisfaction. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. THE BROAD AX. Is for sale at the following news stands: The Afro-American News Office, 3104 State Street. A. F. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 398 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. Turner William's Cigar and News Stand, 2903 Armour Ave. Mrs. B. Williams, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 486½ State street. Frank H. Hart, 354-31st street, cigars, tobacco and Laundry office. Mrs. E. F. Early, groceries and notions, 2933 State St. H. Winston's Cigar Store and Newsstand, 280, 29th St. The Stationery, 2970 State street. J. C. Campbell, 145 W. 47th street., Cigars, Tobacco, Staple Groceries. Wm. Dixon 2638 State Street cigars, tobacco, and news stand. Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and stationery, 3149 State St. Wm. Goetz, News Stand and Laundry Office, 411 E. 36th st. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. LEGAL NOTICE. J. Gray Lucas, 59 Dearborn St. STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF COOK, ss.—Circuit Court of Cook County. To the Mar. Term A. D. 1904. Missouri Belle Cooper vs George Cooper 248,530. Notice is hereby given to the said George Cooper that the above named Complainant heretofore filed her Bill of Complaint in said Court, on the Chancery side thereof, and that a summons thereupon issued out of said Court against the above named defendant, returnable on the first day of March term of the Circuit Court of Cook County, to be held at the Court House in Chicago, in said Cook County, on the third Monday of March, A. D. 1904, as is by law required, and which suit is still pending. J. Gray Lucas, Complits Solicitor. John A. Cooke, Clerk. The exercises of the third and fourth year preparatory last Friday closed their series of public rhetoricals for this year. The members of the class acquitted themselves very creditably. We were glad to have present last Friday all the members of the teaching force of the public school with one or two exceptions. All enjoyed the very timely and historical address of Prof. J. W. Bell, the principal of the school. He lectured before the Literary Society, upon the subject of "Advantages of Disadvantages." The second year preparatory exercises Friday night were very creditable, and were duly appreciated by the large crowd present. Prof. C. W. Mason deserves much credit for the excellent programme rendered. We enjoyed a very pleasant visit at the services of Lane Chapel, of which Rev. L. Thompson is pastor. Rev. Thompson also visited the school last week and his visit and talk were very much enjoyed by the teachers and students. Prof. Horace D. Slatter, Decatur, Ala., formerly secretary and teacher in our school, spent Monday morning with us and addressed the students and teachers in chapel, at which period an appropriate programme was rendered. We were all glad to see him and to know from his speech, that he held M. & F. College in such high esteem. Miss Ophelia O. Oilphant, Boulder. Col., visited us yesterday, accompanied by Miss Agnes L. Bovd. city. At our regular faculty meeting last Tuesday night, we decided to have our commencement exercises from the 18th to the 24th of May. 1904. We also elected the annual speakers and the following have accepted: Rev. O. Durrett, pastor Pleasant Hill Baptist church, Hickman, Ky., preacher of annual sermon, May 22, at 3 p. m., Pres. W. H. Councill, Ph. D., A. & M. College, Normal, Ala., public address, Tuesday night, May 24, 1904. The third and fourth preparatory classes are preparing to present a few scenes from Henry VIII, on the 8th of April. Excellent music will be rendered. Admission will be ten cents. The exercises will be in the College chapel. The exercises will be in charge of Miss Isora R. Garrett. John B. Stetson & Co., celebrated hats are sold at Gallagher's hat store, 250 West Madison st., for less money than they can be bought for at any other establishment in Chicago. Buy your spring hat from Thomas Gallagher, 250 West Madison st., for he carries all the leading styles and shapes at the lowest prices. Ex-Alderman James J. McCormick, carried everything before him with a high hand at the primaries in the Fifth Ward, and he is successfully headed toward his old seat in the City Council. It is said that colored women who are criminals are put on the chain gang and worked on the streets at Jackson, Tenn., with the men. What an outrage! The white officials of that city or State would not dare treat white female criminals that way. Read and subscribe for The Broad-Ax. For the next thirty days, you can obtain a copy of Prof. W. E. B. DuBois' new book, "The Souls of Black Folk," and The Broad Ax each week for six months for $1.50. See announcement in another column of this paper. Alderman P. J. O'Connell, W. T. Maypole, Henry L. Fick, V. E. Cerveny, Stanley H. Kunze, M. C. Conlon, Nicholas R. Finn, M. J. Dougherty, E. F. Herrmann, Thomas Carey, John J. Coughlin, Thos. J. Dixon, B. W. Snow, William C. Kuester and John J. Bradlay will be re-elected to the City Council from their respective wards. It is all over with Alderman John J. Bradley but the shouting. He carried every primary district in the 30th Ward except one, which was captured by Denny J. Rierdon. Ex-Alderman G. J. Boyd was not in it a little bit. But the Ex-Alderman Harry J. Rogers. Ex-Alderman Mike McInerney, Denny Rierdon and the rest of the bunch of the politicians in the ward will all pull off their coats and help to roll up a big majority for Alderman Bradley. The old side-whiskered preacher, who was run out of Baltimore, Md., for monkeying with another man's wife, still has his back up like a Tom cat, simply because he, in company with old Pap Jasper, F. Thomas, Ben Moseley, Little Whisky Bill Ward, and several other immoral, whisky drinking preachers failed to put us in the pen at Jollet, where each and every one of them should be serving time for their many misdeeds. Miss Ida Traeger, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Traeger, 1017 W. 54th place, died Thursday mgrning, after a long illness which was brought on from a fall which she received some time ago. Funeral services will be held at the home Sunday morning. Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Traeger have the sympathy of their friends in the Town of Lake and all over Cook County in the loss of their daughter, who was just blooming into womanhood. Less than two years ago the so-called editor of the Old Church "Rag," who, if he had what is justly coming to him, would be doing time in the Pen at Jollet, called on his whisky drinking god and his fighting and cussing whisky to assist him to paint his good brother, Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, blacker than the hinges of hell. But now this same old rotten polecat is of the impression that Bro. Murray, who thinks that The Broad Ax is one of the best race papers in this country, is a fit subject without a moment's warning to be transformed into a white robed angel. For first class and up-to-date hats at rock bottom prices, call at Gallagher's new hat store, 250 West Madison at. A report was sent out last year that the Negroes would get no recognition at the World's Fair in St. Louis. It may have been a cock and bull story, but the Negro will get recognition, for July 6, 1904, will be known as Fisk University Day. The white man in that Fair without the Negro would have been simply a 9 with the tail cut off.—Ex. No doubt the pay roll editor of last spring's Carter Harrison organ, the Conservator, is right in calling certain conferes skunks, but there are certainly a lot of them in town, and from what we conceive to be a proper definition of this term, is a man who wears side whiskers, drinks bad whisky at Mulviel's, goes to church and prays fervently until the spirits die, supports Democratic candidates for filthy lucre, criticises Booker T. Washington for having accomplished something, boosts "Little Louie' for County Commissioner every time he buys the drinks at Hannah & Hogg's, and otherwise makes an ass of himself.—The Illinois Idea. ODDS AND ENDS OF FACT. Forty-five only of the crew of the liner Kaiser Wilhelm II. are ordinary sailors, the remaining 555 being mechanics, etc. In 1900, according to the census, there were 877 gas plants in the United States, and the number was not growing. They earned an income of $75,000,000. The emperor of Japan has never been outside of his own country. His son, the crown prince, though in this twenty-fifth year, has also refrained from traveling. Alston Gibson, on of Andrew Jackson's favorite jockeys, is living quietly at Calera, Ala., having nearly reached the age of 116 years. He was born July 4, 1788, in South Carolina, and there is documentary evidence of his great age. The old man still takes much interest in racing matters. The negro cooks of Hartford, Conn., decided some three months ago to give a grand ball, and their president, A. W. Gibson, conceived the idea of making the occasion a brilliant one. He accordingly sent letters of invitation to Pope Plus X., King Edward of England, President Roosevelt and other dignitaries. In due course of time replies were received from these notables regretting their inability to be present, and wishing those present a pleasant evening. At the dance the replies, with the envelopes in which they came, were on exhibition in a large glass-covered frame. They are written on official paper and bear every evidence of being genuine. FOR THE FEMININE EYE. At a recent fashionable wedding in London the hats of the bridesmaids were trimmed with natural flowers, and it is predicted that the style will be popular next summer. The dowager empress of China enjoys the distinction, rare among Chinese women, of being able to read and write. Her chief recreation is card playing with the ladies of her court, and large sums of money are sometimes staked. Hawaii is to have an organization of women styled the "Daughters of Hawaii." The objects of the society are to "perpetuate the memory and spirit of old Hawaii and to preserve the nomenclature and correct pronunciation of the Hawaiian language." Mra. Catherine K. Steele, who died recently at Lyndeborough, N. H., aged nearly 103 years, was a cousin of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States, and was the oldest Daughter of the American Revolution in her state. Her father, then scarcely more than a lad, fought at Bunker hill, in Starke's brigade. For a time temperance workers in New York were much worked up over reports that a bar was to be established in the Martha Washington hotel, which is reserved for women guests. Now it has been decided that for the present at least such a step will not be taken. Miss Helen Gould is said to have contributed largely to preventing the undesirable innovation. FOR THE CHURCH GOERS. The Church of England enjoys an income of about $1,000,000 a week. There are nearly 500 Christian churches in Japan and over 1,000 missionaries. Count Albrecht Von Meran, a nephew of Archduke John, has entered the monastery of the Benedictines in Leca. The count, who has been an officer in an Austrain dragoon regiment, one day heard a Jesuit priest preach; this made such an impression upon him that he decided to become a monk. In commemoration of the Indian Princess Pocahontas, who died at Gravesend, England, when about to sail home to Virginia with her husband in 1616, St. George's church in Wapping is to have a pulpit made of wood brought from Virginia. Pocahontas is buried in the chancel of St. George's church. In less than ten years the number of women Congregationalist ministers has doubled, there being now in different parts of the United States 53 who have been regularly ordained by councils of Congregational churches and who are doing practically the full work of the ministry. They are found in 20 states and territories, with a preponderating number, however, in the western states. "Why, one that says 'And so they were married and lived happily ever afterward.'"—Chicago Post. The hippopotamus is doomed. The regulations drawn up some time ago to control big game hunters in the Soudan are to be revised shortly, and the "hippo"—whose hunter and killer was taxed when the Soudan was first opened up—the "hippo," as aforesaid, is doomed to "a sort of" extermination. "Because," said Sir Harry Johnston, the noted African explorer, in conversation, 'it's all very well for people to talk about extermination in regard to the hippo,' but it will prove a very difficult matter to get rid of him. There are vast marshes in Africa to which he can and will resort, and from which he will only be driven at last by a well-organized, well-equipped and determined body of men. "I am perhaps a little fanatical with regard to the preservation of lower animal life," went on Sir Henry, "but I should not carry my passion for it so far as to let a lion loose in England. And the 'hippo' in the rivers of Africa is as dangerous as the lion would be on dry land. Let the lion alone, and he lets you alone—especially has he a terror of a white man's face—but the 'hippo' causes more deaths annually in Africa than the lion and the leopard together. He constantly attacks boats from which he has received no offense, killing or mauling their occupants, and he destroys fields and gardens by the score. What he does not eat he sits on." WALKING STICK CUT LONG. Fashion Also Decrees Its Return to Earth-No Longer Carried as a Battering Ram. The fact of the return of the walking stick to earth is a very remarkable one, for it must be approaching 15 years since walking sticks were used, and not worn or merely carried, says the Court Journal. With the disappearance of the "crutch" the walking stick left the ground. At first it was carried in the right hand, considerably nearer the ferrule than the "top," and, held in this position, was flourished in a most dangerous manner. Before long the hand traveled more amidships, when the action, from fial-like, became a ramming one. Then suddenly the stick was thrust under the left arm, where it remained some years. The advent of the curved or crook handle had its inevitable result. Instinctively man wants to hook it upon something, and, finding his left arm close at hand, straightway hung it up and created a fashion after the unconscious manner of his kind. Why the walking stick has once more come to the ground, thus to discover the perforated condition of the West end pavement, it is at present impossible to say. It will no doubt be remarked, however, that the king has for a year past generally been seen using a walking stick of rather more than usual length, and all sticks are now cut long. You Bet He Does. "Mamma," asked small Floramay "Mamma," asked small Floramay, "does a lawyer know everything?" "No, dear," replied her mother, "but he thinks you think he does."—Cincinnati Enquirer. NATIONAL NEGRO SUFFRAGE LEAGUE CONVENTION. Second Meeting. Commencing June 20th, 1904, Chicago, Illinois. OBJECT. The object of the Convention is to invoke the aid of the Republican Party in National Convention assembled to the end that Southern Disfranchisement may be broken up. REPRESENTATION. . . . Each state will be entitled to a representation equal to the number of her Congressional representation. RATES. Delegates attending this Convention will be able to avail themselves of the rate to the National Republican Convention, one fare for the round trip. The National Negro Suffrage League operates at Washington, D. C., a Bureau of Publicity and Promotion, from which a campaign will be directed against Southern Disfranchisement. President, James H. Hayes, Va. Cor. Sec'y, Jas. E. Dixon, R. I. Rec. Sec'y, W. T. Ridley, Pa. Treas., Rev. J. A. Taylor, Washing- ton, D. C. Eastern Organizer, Rev. J. A. Churchman, N. J. Western Organizer, J. C. Leftwitch, Oklahoma. For further information address JAS. H. HAYES, Attorney-at-Law, Washington, D. C. LEGAL NOTICE. To Whom It May Concern: The firm of Wilson & Duncan, composed of George A. Wilson and George D. Duncan and formerly doing a business at the Imperial Bldg., Room 16; City of Chicago, is hereby dissolved; and all persons having done or contemplating doing any business with the said firm are duly notified as above. This March 5th, 1904. 3601 Wabash Ave. Suite 200. 128-125 Lil Salle Street CHICAGO Telephone Yards WT Residence, 130 Garfield Nd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4797 S. HALFORD STREET, ...CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bldg 79 Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. Phone Randolph 55 J. J. HENNESSY, Justice-of-the-Peace, 6301 S. Halsted St. WILLIAM TREXLER, CLERK. TELEPHONE WENTWORTH 4403. Police Magistrate Englewood Police Court. Telephone Main 3553. P. J. O'SHEA ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1444 Unity Building 79 Dearborn St. Chicago. Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO WILLIAM RITCHIE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. Suite 610-620 Oxford Building 64 LA SALLE ST., CHICAGO Telephone Main 1644. J. E. JONES LAWYER 79 Clark Street Room 9 Chicago ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. HILLMAN'S 112-114-116 STATE STREET. Dry Goods and Everything to Wear for Man, Woman and Child Notary Public Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Property managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal papers prepared. 4709 South Halsted Street Chicago Theodore C. Mayer JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Metropole Hall M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO