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Booker T. Washington AND The Real Southern Situation. Vol. IX While Mr. Booker T. Washington is giving the impression wherever he speaks in the north that the relations between the races in the South is steadily improving, and that the Southern Negro as he gets industrial education, and acquires property will get what belongs to him as an American citizen, and Southern white men when they speak at the North have been giving the very opposite impression. The relations of the races do not improve in proportion as the Negro gets industrial educaiton and acquire property in the South. Here is what an ex-governor of North Carolina has to say on this phase of the subject: "The truth is that the Negro is going to fare best and be happiest when his position is most subordinate. Financial and industrial equality is as bad in the eyes of the whites as social equality. The Negro who gets very prosperous is to be pitied, for straightway he is in a situation where danger confronts him. Let him but own a fine farm, blooded horses and cattle and dare to ride in a carriage, and if I were an insurance agent I wouldn't make out a policy on his life. "In plain English, to get above his ordained station in life is, generally speaking, to invite assassination." This is brutally frank, but it is true, every word of it—a thousand times truer than Mr. Washington's misrepresentations on the same subject. Ex-Governor Russell is no friend of the Negro, although he was elected to the governorship of North Carolina by Negro votes. He knows the real inwardness of the white people of the South better than Mr. Washington does. But the North prefers to believe Mr. Washington's falsification of the facts in the case. Philanthropy at the North is in its sybaritic stage. It wishes a little more closing of the eyes, a little more slumber, a little more peace. It prefers to listen to Mr. Washington's lullaby of deceit and falsehood to the trumpet tongue of truth, but the trumpet tongue will not be silent because philanthropy prefers to hear the soft music of lies. Again for the facts. Hear what Gov. Aycock has said on this subject. He is the present governor of North Carolina and knows whereof he speaks. The Negro "may eat rarely of the cooking of equality," says this champion of the white man's domination in the South, "but he will always find when he does that there is death in the pot." What kind of equality is this that the Negro is warned against eating? Is it political? Yes, for the governor of North Carolina confided to his auditor's North Carolina's way of solving the race problem, which was "first as far as possible under the Fifteenth Amendment to disfranchise the Negro," to let him "learn once for all that there is an unending separation of the races," and to "let the white man determine that no man shall by act, or thought, or speech cross this line, and the race problem will be at an end.' Take this view of the subject with that of Gov. Russell's, that "Financial and industrial equality is as bad in the eyes of the whites as social equality," and we have the Southern situation in a nutshell as it suspects the Negro, and the bitter and determined opposition which faces him not only as a citizen, but as an industrial factor in the South. His disfranchisement, the infamous Jim Crow car laws of the South, the rising sentiment there against his equal education with the whites, the custom of terrorizing him by lynching bees on the slightest provocation, all speak in trumpet tones of the determination of the South to keep him forever a subordinate and servile race. Mr. Washington denies what a fool with eyes can see, but philanthropy at the North shuts its eyes to everything which is happening in the South but what he chooses to reveal; stops its ears to every sound, but the one sound of a man who is afraid to tell it the phin truth, who does not dare to show it the South as it is. When it has praised this man, has called him great and Christlike, has laughed at his funny stories, told at the expense of his race, and given him money for the support of Tuskegee, it thinks that it has done its duty by the Negro and the nation, and tells the newspapers to write it down that industrial education is solving the Negro problem, that industrial education of the Negro is the Messiah of the Republic and that Booker T. Washington is its chosen prophet and high priest. This is the way that descendants of the old abolitionists, sons and followers of Wm. Lloyd Garrison have elected as the only way to continue the battle of freedom and equality in a land given over to Mammon-worship and government of some of the people, for some of the people, and by some of the people. Oh! for one trumpet blast from the dead lips of Garrison, Sumner and Phillips! But though the field is lost, all is not lost. The colored Americans themselves are twelve million strong. It is left to them to save themselves and their posterity from subordination, industrial serfdom and slavery. They must insist on the full rights of American citizenship, upon equal suffrage, on liberty first and all the time. Their slogan must be the ballot and freedom, without which there can be no security, no enduring progress. The Guardian Boston Mass. REV. DAVID RANTING WILKINS Headed Toward the Cook County Jail. Col. S. B. Turner last week had Elder or Col. David Ranting Winkine, who is connected in some way or other with the Old Church Organ, arrested for criminal libel. The case came up before Justice Rhodes, 39th and State st. Tuesday, and judging from the number of lawyers the fighting Col. from Kentucky, who sometimes totes his big revolver around in his hip pocket, had to represent him, he is fearful that he will land in the Cook County jail. Among his leading attorneys, who went up against Justice Rhodes in his behalf, were Cols. Edward H. Morris, Louis B. Anderson, who will be nominated for county commissioner, providing Morris can run the county convention; John G. Jones, the biggest mason in the world, and James A. Scott, late of Mississippi, and our good friend and highly esteemed fellow citizen, the Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, was on hand to offer up spiritual advice for his bosom friend Wilkins, who seemingly dislikes to have his toes held to the red hot fire. Col. Turner was represented by Cols. B. F. Moseley and Edward H. Wright. For more than two hours the lawyers fought and wrangled over the libelous matter which has appeared from time to time in the columns of the Old Church Organ in reference to Col. Turner and his wife. Once or twice it looked as though Cols. Morris and Moseley, who were the leading counsel on each side, would lock horns or come to blows right in the court room, and Justice Rhodes was kept busy in reminding them that they were in a court of justice and not in Col. Bob Mott's crap-shooting resort, or words to the same effect. Finally Col. Morris, after he had exhausted the patience of the court with his unheard of objecions, moved that his client be discharged, but Justice Rhodes, who was very fair to both sides in his rulings, shook his head as much as to say that he had already made up his mind to hold the saintly and the unfrocked preacher from Kentucky over to the Criminal Court under a good heavy bond, and the case was continued until 2 p. m. Tuesday, March 22nd, at which time the attorneys will make their final arguments before the court. Hon. William H. Weber, the popular Secretary of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, and ex-Sheriff James Pease, are managing States' Attorney Charles S. Deneen's gubernatorial boom, and both gentlemen feel cockure that the handsome State's Attorney will win out in the state convention and that he will be the next Governor of Illinois. ADAM WOLF. Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, who would make a first-class candidate for State Treasurer of Illinois. Separate Pullmans For The Races. What has become of the bill offered in the Legislature requiring separate Pullmans for the races in Virginia? The bill should be pressed unless the Corporation Commission is empowered, as we believe it is, to regulate the use of Pullmans so that a railway company cannot put both races in the same cars. It is certainly an absurdity to have a law upon the statute books compelling the railway companies to supply separate day coaches for whites and blacks and yet permitting the Pullman monopoly to mix up the races in its already malodorous sleepers. No self-respecting Southern white man would sleep in a bed that he knew had been occupied by a Negro, but yet the Pullman monopoly is permitted to rent its beds in cars to Negroes and whites quite impartially in the State of Virginia, and a white man has to coevr himself with the same unwashed blanket used by a Negro. This is not merely disgusting but dangerous as well, and if the law can reach the Pullman monopoly th abuse should be stopped and stopped promptly.—Norfolk Journal of Commerce. The above specimen of editorial rot from Norfolk is a fair sample of what is usually seen nowadays whenever race separation is discussed. And yet, it is an open secret that the man who writes the rot doesn't practice what he preaches nor even believes what he writes. It is simply a play upon words, mere rot dished up for the diseased palate of the "nigger hater"—especially the folks who hate Negroes in public, and associate with them in private. Would to God that some law or something could happen which would keep the "self-respecting Southern white man" from sleeping in a bed occupied by a Negro. This is a consummation most devoutly wished. But even with "jim crow" cars and "jim crow" boats, white men deliberately leave their cars and occupy those set aside for Negroess. The "Pullman monopoly" is of but small concern, it is the Norfolk "monopoly" and this same "monopoly" extending all over the Southland, this "monopoly" which has produced eight hundred thousand mulattoes passing as white, and millions of mulattoes called Negroes it is this "monopoly" caused by white men covering themselves with the same unwashed blankets used by Negroes, against which we utter our strongest and most sincere protest. So let there be separation, not only in the Pullmans, but in the houses as well.—Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, in The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. Mrs. C. P. Woolley addressed the Phyllis Wheatly Woman's Club Wednesday afternoon, which met at the home of Mrs. Dora Fisher, $524 Dearborn st. BEECHER'S GRANDSON IN JAIL Young Man Arrested for Offense Committed in Southern College. Knoxville, Tenn., March. 12.—The report comes from Maryville that W. K. Beecher of Rochester, N. Y., a grandson of Henry Ward Beecher, is under arrest at Birmingham, Ala.. He is charged with assault on 6-year-old Felicia Knight of Maryville, where he was in college. This is all the space the leading white newspapers throughout the land could devote to the brutish acts of W. K. Beecher, and he will become a prince among the ladies, for many of them admire men like Beecher, who has mastered the art of raping young girls; but if he had been a Negro these same papers would have urged the Christian mob to lynch and burn the body of the "burly black brute at the stake." On last Monday evening at a meeting of Sahara Court Daughters of Sphinx, Mrs. Irene L. Andrews, worthy Grand Matron, Mrs. Maud Triplett, Worthy Vice Matron, Mrs. Clara Powell, Recorder, Mrs. Martha Cranshaw, Guardian, Mrs. Georgia Ball, First Conductress, were appointed as a committee to make arrangements for the installation of officers of Sahara Court, Daughters of Sphinx and also arrange for an entertainment, which will take place on Monday evening, March 21, at 2821 State st. The officers of Sahara Court will be installed by Mrs. S. J. Gray, Most Worthy Supreme Grand Matron. Addresses will be made by several of the members of the order. "Old Foxy Whiskers" of the Conservator does not refer to us any longer as Bro. Turner, so we must find some other appellation for him besides Bro. Wilkins. Old Foxy seems to be a little sore these days because we called attention to his love for whisky and mentioned incidentally that he slipped in McNally's side door on 30th street to get it instead of boldly walking in the front door of some colored man saloon. Why don't you be a man, Rev. Whiskers? If you want whisky don't be ashamed to go to a colored man's place for it, even if you do come right out and go to the pulpit and commence preaching and praying.—The Illinois Idea. When Bishop Brown of the Episcopal Church of Arkansas said: "It is the height of a colored girl's ambition to become the mistress of a white man," he knew his statement was a delibereate lie. We don't see he can escape the pangs of an everlasting hell-fire for making such an unprovoked and unjust attack upon the whole race of Negro women.—The Watchman, Austin, Tex. If the Negro preacher, whose vote made it possible for Brown to become one of the Bishops in the Episcopal Church and the other Afro-Americans of Arkansas had any manhood or backbone they would lay their hands on him and compel him to swallow his infamous lie. CHIPS. Hon. John P. Hopkins is still our choice for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, for he is one of the shrewdest political organizers and managers in this country. Mr. George W. Claussenius, member of the Board of Education is a thorough gentleman, is popular with all classes of his fellow citizens, and he would make an ideal candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1905. Alderman Thomas J. Dixon, who has the confidence of all the voters in the 2nd Ward, will be re-elected to the City Council, and the chances are that he will be nominated by his party for Sheriff of Cook County in 1906. Ex-Mayor D. J. Hogan, Geneva, Ill., was in town Monday visiting his daughter who has been confined in the hospital from sickness for the past six weeks, but she is improving and will shortly be able to return to her home. Col. Isaac P. Rivers has launched his boom for county commissioner, and the Col. feels that he will have a strong following in the Republican County Convention. Nicholas Hunt, Inspector of Police in the Hyde Park District, has a long and honorable record behind him, and he is amply fitted to superintend the entire police force of Chicago. The "S. S. S." Whist Club entertained their husbands Friday evening, March 11, at the home of Mrs. Noah D. Thompson, 6351 Rhodes avenue. A pleasant evening was spent by all present. Miss Josephine Sullivan, cashier for the Afro-American news office, 3105 State street, knows how to transact business just like a man, and she is becoming more popular each day with its patrons. Mrs. Catherine Gillespie has had Col. or Elder David Rantling Wilkins, who is connected with the Conservator, better known as the Old Church Organ, arrested for criminal libel, and they will come to a show down in Justice Jandus' court, 39th and State sts., next Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Jackson Gordon, 4135 Berkley avenue, arrived home from Shelbyville, Mo., last Wednesday, where she attender the funeral services of her aged mother, who was highly respected by the members of both races. Down in Kemper County, Miss. The white Christians who desire to be permitted to handle or settle the "Negro Question" to suit themselves; are buying and selling men and women the same as they did prior to the war of the Rebellion. But they are, so it is claimed, the Negroe's best friends. Alderman Thomas Rooney and his strong following in the 5th Ward are doing everything in their power to further the election of ex-Alderman James J. McCormick, and Alderman Rooney, and his friends believe that he is a winner. Dr. Edward H. Lane, 115 E. 33rd street, is meeting with success since he began practicing medicine in Chicago, and he is fast forging to the front as one of its successful physicians. B. A. Clark, son of Rev. T. A. Clark, and W. F. Hayes, have opened up a creditable grocery store at 114 51st street, between State and Dearborn streets. They will sell fancy groceries and meats at the very lowest prices. Alexander S. Pushkin, born in 1799, died in 1837, is the greatest poet of Russia. He inherited his African blood from a maternal ancestor. It was Pushkin who gave Russian Prose its highest degree of perfection. His epigrams are among the best ever produced in any language. Mrs. Carrie Warner, 5033 Grove avenue, returned to her pleasant home Tuesday, from St. Louis, Mo., where she spent one month visiting with her mother and sister. She greatly enjoyed her visit to the world's fair city, and she lived so high while absent that she was sick for one week. Those giddy young women who purposely walk twisted, lop sided and bent forward, calling it the kangaroo style, and think it is pretty and graceful, would doubtless quit and walk erect if they could hear the ridiculing remarks that sensible men make about it. No.21 The Legislature of Maryland has passed the bill proposing a constitutional amendment, limiting the franchise in Maryland so as to eliminate the vote of the Negroes, and the bill is ready for the signature of the Governor. Thus under Prof. Booker T. Washington's leadership, one by one the Southern states are making rapid progress in disfranchising the Negro. Alderman Bill Dever, who is seemingly built of cheap material, will no doubt be returned to the city council from the 17th Ward, but it is too bad that the people residing in that Ward do not chose someone to represent them in that body who is not afraid to open his mouth during the sessions of the council. Col. Edward H. Morris, it is claimed, is or has been for many years one of the regular attorneys for Weber Brothers, the loan sharks, and the Jewish pawn brokers, and come to think of it, Weber Brothers are behind the Prosecution of Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz, and Col. Morris, is her attorney. Little Whisky Bill Ward, W. W. Johnson, and fatty Edward G. Alexander, who is one of the best liars in this big city, when he is pressed to pay his honest debts, are still at large, endeavoring to catch onto suckers, but it's only a question of time until they will be compelled to leave Chicago between the setting and the rising of the sun. Robert Marshall, a saloonkeeper at 2830 State street, shot and killed Jefferson Carpenter, who resided at 2810 Armour avenue, Tuesday night, it appears that Marshall and Carpenter had a misunderstanding over Miss Lena Simpson, 2723 Dearborn street, who was in or near the saloon at the time of the shooting and cutting between the two men. Horace W. Nichols, Jr., Dan Morgan Smith, and Bertrand F. Lichtenberger, have formed a co-partnership for the general practice of law, with offices in the Association Building, 153 La Salle street, rooms 507-8. All the members of this new law firm stand well at the Chicago Bar, and their friends predict for them a lucrative practice. Henry T. Elby, and Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz, stuck by Col. Edward H. Morris until they were both landed behind the bars in the Cook County jail, and if the so-called editor of the Old Church "Rag," sticks to Col. Morris in his fight against S. B. Turner, he will soon be ranting or snorting to the prisoners in chrage of Jailor John L. Whitman. Henry T. Pelkey, 2622 Wabash avenue, who has been in the Pullman palace car service between this city and Boston, Mass., for the past ten years, is one of our warm friends. He is getting along very nicely and is educating his two bright little girls in an eastern college, and they are making great progress in their studies. Success to him and his girls. The Eureka Club will celebrate its opening with a grand prize ball, at Central Hall, 22nd and Wabash avenue, Monday evening, March 21st. Many prizes will be given to those selling the highest number of tickets. Music by Boarman's Orchestra, Prof. Hall Prompter. Admission 35 cents. Chas. Gaskin, president; Tap Watkins, vice-president; W. M. Perry, secretary. Even the lily white Republicans are trying to politically disfranchise the Negroes who have voted for them every year since they were given the ballot, for the Louisiana Republican state convention barred them a few days ago and the leading Democratic paper of that state styled it "a body of respectable citizens." Ingratitude is the blackest passion of the human breast—Ex. Now that Grover Cleveland has published it to the world that "he did not dine with an Afro-American in the White House, it is time for his admirers and supporters in the South to shed a little more light in relation to Richard M. Johnson, of Ky., the ninth Vice-President of the United States, who was united in marriage to a colored woman, and was the father of two or three little black children. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Farmers, Slaghe Taxes, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., as Second-class Matter. Another Libel on the Sex. "Laura," said Mr. Ferguson, "do you suppose your mother would like to go with us to the concert to-morrow night?" "I am sure she would." "I might call her up by telephone and ask her. . . . Now, Ruggles," he said to the friend that had called in, "we'll have a smoke. It takes two women half an hour to finish a talk over a telephone."—Chicago Tribune. At the War Game "The hostile colonel was two hours late in marching!" "Yes, but considering the jag he lead last night that's not to be wondered at!" "He's likely to find himself cashiered for it." "Nonsense! With his influential relatives the army board will consider the delay a well-planned tactical maneuver!"—Simplicissimus. Cause and Effect "John," said Mrs. Goodwin, "we will have to get rid of that parrot." "Because why?" queried her husband. "Because his language is getting to be simply awful," she replied. "Well, it's your own fault, my dear," said John. "I told you not to hang his cage where he could hear the remarks the neighbors made about him." —Cincinnati Enguirer. A Way Out. Wife—Darling, we dined at the Squatson's just one week ago to night. Do you realize that we must make our dinner call? Husband — Suppose we don't. Wouldn't they like it? Wife—Why, they never would forgive us—I'm sure they would never ask us again. Husband—Good! Then we won't go.—Brooklyn Life. The Usual Way. "Time is precious," said the moral bear. "It is," rejoined the demoralizer, "and I've wasted lots of it." "By indulging in foolish pleasures, eh?" queried the party of the preface. "No," replied the other, "by being punctual in keeping my appointments with others."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Ought to Be. "That pass is no good," said the conductor, handing it back. "It's ten years old." "Well, it ought to be good," grumbled the passenger, paying his fare with great reluctance. "Your old road is ten years behind the times."—Chicago Tribune. Slipped the Hook. Mamma—Even if he was wealthy you should not worry so. You know there are "Just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught." Daughter—Yes, mamma; but you know goldfish are not caught in the sea—Chicago Daily News. True Devotion "What sized letter do you want me to use for the inscription?" asked the marble cutter. "Oh, use the largest possible," replied the widow. "Poor John was awfully nearsighted."—Cincinnati Enquirer. After the Honeymoo She—You are like an old rooster. You crow over everything you do. You never hear me crow. He—No, dear; you only cackle. Yonkers Statesman. Future Ability. "That so? Run by a spring?" "No, by air. It's a girl baby."—Cincinnati Times-Star. The candidate is a jolly sir, He vows he has no thought of pelf, Yet when for place he makes his quest He 'picks the one that pays the best. —Washington Star. Bulldog Scared Away Guests. A writer tells how a bulldog scared away the guests bidden to a lady's reception. "The hostess was waiting in her parlor. She heard carriages arrive, heard the front gate open, but no guests appeared. "The situation became puzzling. At last the lady of the house went out to see if perchance the paving and the steps had suddenly crumbled away and left an aching void. Not at all. 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 pres- A bell with a remarkable history is to be presented to the state of Illinois by St. Joseph's church, a congregation of Tazewell county. The bell will be a fitting companion in point of historical interest to the famous wooden leg of Gen. Santa Ana, captured during the Mexican war, and which now is the object of such curious interest in company with other relics, in Memorial hall, Springfield. The prospective companion to the leg is a bell cast in Valladolidid, Spain, and captured a few days before the leg and by the same Illinois soldiers. They packed the bell in a hogshead of straw and directed it to Pekin, where it arrived several months later. At that time Pekin had no railroads and its traffic with the outside world was by steamboat. The bell fell into the hands of the captain of the Prairie State. He needed a bell and mounted it upon his boat, where it sounded for several years. Then one day the Prairie State got into a race with another river steamer and blew up near the Pekin landing. A dozen people were killed and the bell blown off into the river. It rested there a couple of years until it was found by youngsters in swimming. The next heard of the bell it was over a little frame Methodist church. After the lapse of several years the congregation built a new and larger church and the bell was sold to the St. Joseph's parish, which was erecting its first church. Now the latter parish is erecting a fine new church and the bell will go to the state. LETTER FROM JEFFERSON. Oklahoma Indians Have Treasured Document Written by President of the United States. An autograph letter from Thomas Jefferson, written 100 years ago to the Indians of the Louisiana purchase, has recently been unearthed from the archives of the Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. The Indians in whose possession the document as been for a century have not known its value, but intuitively they have carefully kept the letter during all their migrations. The letter, which is quite long, reveals Mr. Jefferson's astuteness in dealing with the Indians. At his invitation several powerful chiefs journeyed from west of the Mississippi river to Washington and were entertained at the nation's capitol. When they started on their journey home they carried the president's letter. In the letter Mr. Jefferson called attention to the long journey they had made through the white man's territory and to how the white men had improved the land during the short while they had been in possession of it. The letter tactfully showed to the Indians how hopeless would be a contest against the whites. Jefferson in the letter called the Indians his children and advised against tribal wars. THE JAPANESE CURRENCY When the public reads that 100,000,000 yen have provisionally been set apart by Japan for war purposes it may perhaps put an exaggerated estimate on that amount, says the London Chronicle. Although Japan has a gold standard, the yen is a silver currency, and fluctuates with the price of silver, so that at the moment 100,000,000 of them means scarcely more than $59,000,000. But even this is an immense amount in a country in which the wages of a skillful artisan are often not more than three yen a week. The Japanese currency system is decimal. Thus the yen, or dollar, is divided into 100 sen or cents, the sen into ten rin, the rin into ten mo, the mo into ten shu, and the shu, finally, into ten kotsu. Government accounts do not take account of any value smaller than a rin, but estimates by private tradesmen often descend to mo and shu, which are incredibly minute fractions of a farthing. No coin exists, however, to represent these lilliputian sums. A Great Object Lesson As a conqueror of obstacles the railway is a great object lesson, says FourTrack News. The youth of the country should learn from the railway the lesson of enterprise and pluck. If, in its prescribed course, a railway encounters a deep ravine it bridges it; it spans seemingly impassable barriers with a trestle or a bridge and goes on its way. If it finds a mountain in its path it does not say: "I can never get over this!" It bores a tunnel through it and comes out on the other side. If it finds cases where trestles and tunnels do not serve its purpose it executes a loop, or inaugurates a cog road, by which it climbs the heights as if to defy every obstacle. If, in our everyday course, we surmount all obstacles with as great a determination as the railroad leaps across canyons, or bores through mountains, the word success would be more in evidence, and the word failure, that is now so overworked, would have a needed rest. Much Changing of Hands. Port Arthur was named by the English, fortified by the French for the Chinese, captured by the Japanese "leased" to the Russians, and is preparing again to hang a sign that "This Place Has Changed Hands." London Theaters. The 25 largest London theaters seat 28,000 people and earn $30,000 a night. Extraordinary Announcement. 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COST OF LIVING IN ASIA. Old Days of Low Prices for Food and Baiement Are Passing Away Economic Conditions. During a recent tour in Asia of nearly 16 months (from February, 1901, to June, 1902), in which I visited Japan, Corea, China, the Philippines, Cochin China, Siam and Laos, the Straits Settlements, Burmah, India, Syria and Palestine, says Arthur Judson Brown, in the Century, I found everywhere a deep interest in the changing economic conditions. The common people in Asia care little for politics, but the price of food and raiment touches every man, woman and child at a sensitive point. Almost everywhere the old days of cheap living are passing away. Steamers, railways, telegraphs, newspapers, labor saving machinery, and the introduction of western ideas are slowly but surely revolutionizing the orient. 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CHICACO JOHN A ORB, President. WILLIAM LEGNER, Vice Pres. & Treas. SOME TIMELY GOSSIP FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITOL It Headed a Report of the Post Office Department and Caused Commotion in the House Other Items. Washington.—Members of the house of representatives have been greatly excited by the action of the house post office committee in publishing Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow's response to the committee's demand for information in regard to increases of allowances for clerk hire and for post office rentals granted on the request of members of congress. Hon. Joseph L. Bris tew. The excitement is an indication of the sensitiveness of statesmen at the capitol just now to any development which might seem to connect them, even remotely, with the irregularities in the post office department. It is due largely to the officiousness of somebody in the government printing office who for the lack of any other headline manufactured for the document the title "Charges Concerning Members of Congress," when, in fact, there were no charges whatever and the document consisted simply of a compilation of routine letters, such as any congressman is writing daily to department officials, on all sorts of matters affecting his district. In the entire list of congressmen whose names were published there is not one who is properly open to criticism for anything that he did, for there is no intimation that any one of them profited directly or indirectly through the advances they secured in the allowances for post offices in their districts. In almost all the cases the sums involved were small, amounting in only two or three instances to more than $100 a year, and in almost every instance all that the congressmen did was to forward with his indorsement the local postmaster's request for an advance. Mr. Overstreet, the chairman of the post office committee in the house, is a man about whom a great deal will be heard before the close of the year. He was made chairman of the committee by Speaker Cannon because the speaker knew him to be able and honest and because a man was needed in that position who could be depended upon to handle post office affairs Make Pledges to Themselves in a clean and intelligent manner. It was all the greater compliment because he had never been connected with the committee before and had no special familiarity with postal affairs. He has made a record already for efficiency which gives him a rank among the real leaders of the house. Overstreet is still a young man, only a little over 40, but he is serving his fifth term in congress and he is likely to serve a good many more before he gets through with politics. In several recent campaigns he has acted as secretary of the republican congressional committee, so that he knows the political end pretty well and understands how to get along with the level-headed statesmen whom he runs up against in the course of his legislative activities. He comes from Indiana, which is a hotbed of politics where some kind of political fighting is going on from one year's end to another. Babcock, of Wisconsin, has been chairman of the congressional committee for the last ten years. He and Overstreet make an efficient pair. At the beginning of every campaign they have got together, solemnly shaken hands and pledged themselves not to have anything more to do with the congressional committee. Then the party leaders come at them and they go back on their promises to each other, take off their coats and settle down to work as usual. This year they got together in the same old way and, after talking the matter over, decided that they would not make any rash pledges about the future. The Smoot Investigation. For the last two or three weeks the senate committee on privileges and elections has had a pretty good opportunity to size up the leaders of the Mormon church, from Smith, the chief revelator, down the list. Of all the men who have appeared before the committee the Prophet Smith is by far the most interesting partly by reason of his official position as ```markdown ``` head of the Mormon church and partly on account of the delightful frankness with which he confessed to the attitude of the church leaders on the question of plural marriage. Smith does not look like either a prophet or a preacher; he does not even have the appearance of a hard-headed business man which a Mormon leader is very apt to be; in his face and bearing he is more on the order of a pedagogue who has been accustomed to give instruction on elementary subjects without having his statements called in question by anybody. While he was seated at the head of the committee table, replying to the questions showered on him by the investigating senators, one might have imagined that he was an old-fashioned college professor delivering a lecture on the rudiments of the Mormon religion and looking down from a superior height upon the ignorance of the pupils who were unfortunate enough not to understand clearly all the intricacies of the subject of which he was an easy master. The question of the eligibility of Reed Smoot to a seat in the senate has become so complicated with religion, politics and morals that the committee on privileges and elections are going to have a hard-time in coming to a conclusion and the senate may have an equally hard time in acting upon the committee's report. The far western senators, both republican and democrat, are very much stirred up about the business. They say that if Smoot is permitted to retain his seat it will not be many years before every one of the Rocky mountain states will be represented there by a Mormon, so great is the spread of Mormonism through all that part of the country. New Seat for Beveridge Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, will occupy a seat in the senate which was let a seat in left vacant by the death of Mark Hanna. That will bring him for the first time since he came to Washington over on the republican side of the chamber where he belongs. Ever since Beveridge has been in the senate he has had a place away over on the outer edge of the democratic side. For a Senator Beveridge. time he had as his companions there. Foraker and Depew, and he leaves among the democrats a number of republican unfortunates. The howling for desirable seats in the senate is about as lively as anything that happens in that staid and dignified body. It is always a case of first come first served. Favoritism or influence count for nothing. Whenever a senator is approaching the end of his term and there is any question whatever about his reelection some one of his associates who happens to be less fortunately placed in the chamber is sure to file an application with the sergeant at arms for the seat which may be left vacant. The first man who gets his application in gets the seat. There is never any other outcome. Instances have been known where senators have filed applications on the seats of venerable or invalid associates whose days on earth were supposed to be numbered. That sort of thing is not apt to make a man popular at the time but nothing succeeds like success and after a little while a break of this kind is pretty sure to be forgotten. "King Row" in the Senate. The second row from the front on the republican side of the senate is known as the "king row." Here have been established time out of mind the men who have generally controlled the destinies of legislation, and it is to this row that every young senator aspires. BABY SLEEPING Adjoining the middle aisle in the "king row" sits Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin. That is the seat which Dreams of a Seat in King kw. was once occupied by Dawes and Conkling and Sumner. It is the most desirable seat in the senate. Next in order are Allison, of Iowa; Proctor, of Vermont; Hale, of Maine; Hoar and Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Burrows, of Michigan. Gorman, of Maryland, occupies the conspicuous seat in the king row on the democratic side. Aldrich, who is usually regarded as the floor manager for the republicans, has never chosen a seat in the king row, but has a place just behind, and Hanna's place adjoined that of Aldrich. Frye, of Maine, and Platt, of Connecticut, are in the very front row, although Frye's place is usually occupied now by John Kean, of New Jersey, while the Maine senator presides over the senate. So long as the republicans have so pronounced a majority in the senate it will be the fortune of some of them to be isolated in the corner of the democratic section of the chamber. Just now there are enough republicans over there to form quite a respectable group—Dryden and Kean, of New Jersey; Long, of Kansas; Ball and Allen, of Delaware, and Dick, of Ohio. The section corresponds to what is known in the house as the "Cherokee strip," where in past congresses some of the leading republicans have been forced to choose seats-Hitt, of Illinois, and Hepburn among the others. The Cherokee strip received its name away back in the Fifty-second congress, when the democrats had so big a majority that many of them had to go over on the republican side. That was when the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma was being opened to settlement. PALACE CARS FOR HORSES Animals Traveling by Rail Have Fine Accommodations-"Double Deck- American railroads have almost as many different kinds of cars for carrying animals as they have cars for passengers. One kind of car that is used for shipping horses is known technically as a palace horse car, and, excepting for fine woodwork and brasswork, it is a palace car, giving horses fine accommodations. Each horse has his own stateroom, so to speak, for the car is fitted with independent stalls. Each stall has manger and water trough, overhead are racks for holding extra feed. Sheep and hogs are often carried in cars with two stories. These are known as double-deckers, and the animals are shipped in both stories. They have room to lie down in and water is supplied to them from pipes. Horses and cattle are sidetracked at intervals if the cars are making a long run, and the beasts are led out and allowed to run around for exercise. Then they are driven back to their cars and resume their journey. Sheep are often unloaded within a few miles of, their destination and turned loose to rest and feed until they are in good flesh. This is not done merely from motives of humanity. It has been found that the sheep are so much improved by it that they bring higher prices when they reach the market. GEMS IN UNITED STATES. One Regard in Which Our Natural Resources Are Deficient-Fine Stones Scarce. "It is a little strange," said Irving L. Russell to a Washington Post reporter, "that the United States, so far ahead in national resources of every other part of the globe in all essential things, should be so deficient as a producer of precious stones. I am of the opinion that there will be a big discovery some day of the most valued gems, probably in some out of the way corner of the land. "I do not mean to intimate that we are exactly destitute of fine stones, but that those found are mostly of inferior quality as compared with the output of the old mines. In North Carolina a good many emeralds and rubies and sapphires are to be had, but they are of not sufficient value to warrant cutting. Some very fine pearls have been taken out of the shells picked up in the streams of Arkansas, and at one time the search for them down there amounted to a craze. Pearls, by the way, have gone up in price from 200 to 300 per cent. in recent years. "A great many semi-precious stones are mined in California, the turquoise found out there being especially beautiful, but lacking in hardness. Tourmalines also come from California in abundance." PROSPERITY'S BAROMETER. Salesman Says the Common Paper Bag the Grocers Use Is Reliable Trade Index. "The paper bag, the kind the grocers use, you know, is the best barometer for registering the rise and fall of general prosperity," said the city salesman the other morning. "I have been selling paper bags for 26 years, and can refer to my old order books and tell you just about how much money there was in general circulation at any time since I have been tooting that old paper case about the city. "In 26 years I have closely watched the sales, and I want to say that I am selling bigger bags to grocers now than ever before. Along about 1894, and for three or four years afterward one pound and two pound bags were the most used. I now sell ten times as many eight pound bags as I did even six or seven years ago. "You see, it stands to reason that when people have little money they will buy their groceries in small amounts. When there is plenty of money people buy more at a time. Of course, when the larger paper bags are sold it means that I won't sell so many of them, for people don't trot to the groceries so often." Convict's Discovery Several months ago a man named Kurzpeski, having committed a serious offense, was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in Germany, and since then the public heard nothing about him until the other day, when the news spread that he had discovered a cure for consumption which he claimed was infallible. In a letter to the minister of the interior, Kurzpeski gave a glowing account of the new remedy, stating that it had worked wonders on himself and others who are imprisoned with him at Luneburg, and requested to be set at liberty for a time in order that he might continue his investigations in a properly equipped laboratory. With this request the minister has not yet seen fit to comply, but he has thought the matter of such importance that he has instructed a committee of scientists to go to Luneburg and make a thorough test of the alleged remedy. Lighthouse in a Desert There is at least one lighthouse in the world that is not placed on any mariner's chart. It is away out on the Arizona desert and marks the spot where a well supplies pure, fresh water to travelers. It is the only place where water may be had for 45 miles to the eastward and for at least 30 miles in any other direction. The "house" consists of a tall cottonwood pole, to the top of which a lantern is holsted every night. The light can be seen for miles across the plain in every direction. He Found Fault. He Found Fault. "He criticised me for almost nothing!" moaned the wife. The friends sought to comfort her; but she was not to be soothed. Between her sobs she told how her husband had expressed very unfavorable opinions of her new ball gown. "But you said he criticised you for almost nothing," argued the sympathizers. "So he did." Here she gave way to a fresh outburst of sobs. "He—he said I was wearing it."—Judge. Must Have Been Detained. "I don't suppose you ever remained in one place for a week!" said the exasperated lady to the girl who was leaving. "Indeed, I was in my last place four months," replied the girl. "What hospital were you in, pray!"—Yonkers Statesman. "Now, boys," said the teacher, "can you tell me what it is that follows the flag." "I can," said one of the bright ones. "Well, Tommy, what is it follows the flag?". "An auction, ma'am." — Yonkers Statesman. Yes, "asters by the brookside Make asters in the brook." But cook books in the kitchen Don't always make a cook, -N. O. Times-Democrat. A Cook—I wonder what would happen if tradesmen allers told the truth? Housemaid—Why, there soon wouldn't be no tradesmen, of course.—Ally Sloper. A man who bought stock in a co. Inquired if its value would jo. They told him it could, And it probably would, Provided the price didn't slo. —Life She Knew Him. We've got to economize,' he said. "Do you mean that literally?" she asked. "Of course," he replied. "Well, I'm glad of that," she said, "for you usually mean that I've got to economize when you say 'we.'"—Chicago Post. Defined. "Dad," said little Reginald, "what is a bucket shop?" "A bucket shop, my son," said the father, feelingly, "a bucket shop is a modern cooperage establishment to which a man takes a barrel and brings back the bung-hole."—Town Topics. A Public Reader Church-That young man is a public reader. Gotham—He doesn't look it. "Well, he is, just the same; he goes around and reads the gas meters every month."—Yonkers Stateman. War's Horrors Mrs. Highmore—Isn't war a dreadful thing? Mrs. Gaswell—It's perfectly horrid. The papers were so full of it this morning that they only had room for five or six lines about my party last night. -Chicago Tribune. Another Kind of Jam Haskell—What's Bobby crying for? Mrs. Haskell—Oh! the poor boy caught his finger in the pantry door. Haskell—H'm! He evidently didn't get the jam he was looking for that time. —Tit-Bits. Asked and Answered. "Is there any way to make a woman stop talking?" asked the newly married man. "Yes," answered the home-grown sage, "but somehow a man hates to hit a woman with an axe."—Chicago Daily News. Charles—My wife's handwriting is awful! Just look at that letter. His Friend—How do you manage to read it? "I don't. I just send the cheek."—Detroit Free Press. "And are you still keeping boarders?" asked Mrs. Flatleigh. "No," replied Mrs. Hashem. "I've got it down to a point where the boarders are keeping me."—Cincinnati Enquirer. "We are told to 'cast our bread upon the waters.'" said a young wife. "But don't you do it," said her husband. "A vessel might run against it and get wrecked."—What to Eat. A Brilliant Suggestion. Pat—Ol'd wroite to Caliahan fer a job if Ol knew his address. Mike—Phy don't yes wroite to him an' git his address?—Judge. Housakeeper—Do you love children? Applicant—It all depends on th' wages, mum!—Puck. ONLY NATION OF HUSTLERS. No Other People Work with the Fever lash 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 embouched 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 gung, and the notes of an Aeolian harp. guns, and the notes of an Acoustic 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 fall to observe. Stock speculation, on the contrary, says Lealie'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. Settled Old Account 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. The bill was sent him and he sent a check for the amount. Only 54 per cent. of Germany's young men are fit for military service. Dr. Stricker finds that heart disease has increased 300 per cent. in a decade. Real Damage Silas-By heck! I think the society for the preservation of American forests should get after those city hunters. Cyrus-You mean the society to prevent the extermination of game. Silas-No, they don't hit game. They take all the bark from the trees. Chicago Daily News. "She claims to be a poet." "Oh, that's impossible! All poets are males." "How do you mean?" "Well, you know the old saying, 'The poet is born, not maid.' "—Philadelphia Ledger. Didn't Know How to Use It. Miss Howjames (at the opera)—Hasn't she a marvelous technique? Mr. Cahokia—Yes, but she doesn't—er—seem to know how to manage it gracefully. She gives it a sort of kick when she turns around.—Chicago Tribune. "You say that when she married she got a title?" asked the sweet thing. "Yes," answered the most popular girl in the neighborhood. "Countess, duchess, or what?" "Mrs."—Portland Oregonian. Positive Indications. Mabel—Did Gladys have a fashionable wedding? Maude—Very. Why, her wedding- dress was nearly torn off before she got inside the church.—Judge. Devotion. He paid her compliments before, But now he pays her bills. Is't just to say that marriage A man's devotion chills? —Puck HE KNEW. A Edith—Did you speak to papa? Edward—No use to try; I wouldn't find him in. Edith—Why not? Edward—He owes me $10.—Chicago Journal. Epitaph. Percy studied chemistry, Studied long and late. Percy breathed some chlorine gas, He'll not graduate. —Cornell Widow. Church-You can't tell what's in a man until he's tried by fire. Gotham-The same thing can be said of a cigar.-Yonkers Statesman. "Did you ever notice," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "how busy a woman can keep idle words?" —Yonkers Statesman. 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 fails. 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, 368 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. ee a tg eine ee aa bow SE ae eae Se ee enna tts “antver en Bistate loctare on He “‘Chareh on Sunday, the 20th inst. st “finan y Interested in Mexican in- = y inte i tekthiee ‘In all probaility « member of that ‘will be an excellent opportunity for ‘questions as to this company’s stand- ‘Ex-President Cleveland denies din- ‘mg Hon. C. H. J. Taylor (deceased), ‘er any other Afro-American, st the ‘White House. He did, however, en- “tertain atone or more of his social functions in the White House, the ‘Hon. James Monroe Trotter (deceas- ed), his recorder of deeds of the Dis- trict of Columbia, end also Mrs. B.-K. Bruce—if memory serves us correct- ly. Mrs, Bruce assisted the presi- dent's wife “receive."—The Gazette, ~Cheveland, Obio. John B. Stetson & Co., celebrated hats are sold at Gallagher's hat store, 250 West Madison et., for less money than they can-be bought for at any other establishment in Chicago. “The Southern politicians are whoop ing and yelling over the latest decision of the United States supreme court im the case of Giles, the Alabama ‘Negro, who having been denied regis- tration by the board of registration of Montgomery, was suing for bis consti- tutional rights, The adverse decision gives them license to go on with the “grandfather clause” and make the ‘Negro a political slave in the South. ‘This government cannot continue to prosper unless it does right by all of its citizens —The Star of Zion. Buy_your spring hat from Thomas Gallagher, 250 West Madison st. for he carries all the leading styles and shapes at the lowest prices. Governor Vardaman, who makess & mendaciouss nuisance of his mouth when abusing the Negro, bas an art- icle in Leslie’s Weekly opposing Negro ‘education. He says: “I am opposed to the nigger’s voting, it matters not what his advertised moral and mental qualifications may be.” -Such preju- dice to the Negro regardless of moral and mental qualifications is the gate cway to the broad road through which millions are passing to the retribution of despsir—Ex. ; Aldermen Henry 1. Fick, 9th Ward; Bernard W. Snow, 7th Ward; W. EB. Cerveny, 12th Ward; Albert W. Beilfuss, 15th Ward; Stanley H. Kunz, 16th Ward; Nicholas R. Finn, 20th Ward; Ernst F. Hermann, 23rd Ward; H R. Butler, 27th Ward; Wal- ter J Raymer, 28th Ward; Thomas Carey, 29th Ward; John J. Bradley, 80th Ward; P. J. O'Connell, ist Ward, and ‘Thomas M. Hunter, 35th ‘Ward, are all tried and true city fathers, and the voters in the various wards should see to it that each one of these gentlemen -are returned to the City Council for they are always on the side of the people. John Brown, 385 Dearborn street, the popular barber, says that the art- icle which appeared in The Broad Ax recently, “Booker T. ‘Washington. Forced to Protest Against the Burning of Afro-American Women at the Stake by the Christians of the South,” was one of the best be has ever read on the subject; but Mr. Brown is one of those peculiarly “constructed colored gentlemen who labor under the impres- | sion that no Negro can write as weil | as any white man, and that the editor | of this paper employed some such per- | son to write it for him. Col. Edward H: Morris, the eminent | attorney: for the gamblers Trust, who aspires to become the Frederick Doug- | lass of the Afro-American race, for} the reason that he has never been |; known to blow in his money to elevate | it, asserted. many times that he did not.care “what little (nigger) news-| papers said about him,” but at the/ present time it seems that whenever |, eny of the little (nigger) newspapers | refer to him in uncomplimentary |’ terms he runs and ducks his head un-|' der tho short haired widowed wings | of the alleged editor of the Old Church |, Reg” : s cen IN eHOP Wwinnowe | Hatpins having hand-painted chins heads are among the pretty things one Bee A pretty shirt waist suit is made of 2 Gark-red soft silk and is decorated with smal] silk-covered buttons, tucks and strappings. " Among the prettiest hats shown are those of red chiffon or net thet ar: shirred and puffed in a wonderfully be Broad belts of scft leather that fall in folds wher placed about the waist are ‘popular ané come in red, brown, black. « An°0dd teapot seen in a Japanese de Eee aie nee ¢ this teapot is also.a grimacing face. 5 : . E palte eas, Cat Saye Seat yree co ab aa ae Saeed etic ; 4 Seen _ paar ewoliene bs a with the extent to which the ot ‘Cials. He was asked to recommend ¢ ‘man for appointment in the treasur) department. “Bat “he plays poker,” protested the senator. “That makes a “ anid Senator Pettus. “Ti the poker players in Washinktos ‘were to lose their jobs on that account there wouldn't be enough of us left tc organize a debating society.” Since Mr. Depew's ualve admission im the senate chamber that there are two Chauncey Depews—one who sayt what he has considered carefuHy and ‘another who ts not so particular—hie colieagués have had lots of fun with him. Even Mr. Hoar, who’ usually frowns down levity, has had a whack at the New Yorker. The two met on Pennsylvania avenue. “Good morning, Mr. Hoar,” saluted Mr. Depew. Grave- ly adjusting his glasses and looking around, the Massachusetts statesman eyed the New York man sternly and replied: “To which Depew am I speak- ing—Jekyll or Hyde?”. Congressman Hardwick, the boyish- looking ‘man from Georgia, has had the experience that has befallen other youthful statesmen. He was standing close to the speaker's desk one day when one of the reading clerks, mis- taking him for a page, said: “Run and bring me that paper that is lying on Gen. Grosvenor’s desk.” Smiling‘ ai the clerk's error, the Georgian did a: requested. Half an hour later the chair recognized “the gentleman from Georgia,” and to the surprise and mor. tification of the reading clerk, Mr Hardwick, the beardless boy, who ha¢ performed messenger duty a shor time previous, arose and delivered 6 long speech on the race problem ir the south. ‘ / SOME NOTABLE CHILDREN. ‘The richest baby in the world is saic to be the little son of thelate Harold Brown, of Providence, R. I. The death within a few days of each other, of hit father and his uncle, left this youngste: the possessor of a fortune which is es timated at between $40,000,000 and $50,- 000,000. ‘The youngest general in the world is Sultan Ahmed Mirza, youngest son of the late Shah of Persia and brother of the present shah. He was born in 189) and {s, therefore, only 13; but he is s full general in the Persian army and hes a regular staff. He holds reviews of the troops and plays soldier with an army corps for a plaything. The youngest king in the world i Daudi-Chua, king of Uganda, who is now about eight. He holds his court seated on a scarlet throne with a leopard skin mat under his feet, and Dearing in his hand a toy gun. The British exercise a protectorate over the young king and his kingdom, and have established for him a sort of parlia- ment, which he opens regularly with much pomp. f ‘The youngest professional organist im the world-is Kathleen Mills, who presides over the great organ in the Catholic church at Ongar, Essex. Eng- land. The regular organist falling ill, little Miss Mills took her place and played for several Sundays with such skill on the instrument thet all the people were astonished when they found out that # child of 11 years was presiding over the keys and stops. NOTES OF THE RAILWAYS. In order to get at the grain raised in Lee county, IL, the Chicago & North- western railroad has contributed $1,600 to help the farmers of that section build a good turnpike. Experiments made by the scientists appointed for the purpose by the French government show that the resistance of the atmosphere to the motion of a high- speed train often amounts to -balf fhe total resistance which the locomotive must overcome. It is apparently the intention of the Turkish government to nationalize, as far as possible, all railways in the Otto- man dominions. Foreigners may be needed to initiate operations, but ulti- mately Constantinople hopes to assume an¢ivided control. The Southern railway proposes to fur- nish to engineers and conductors annu- al passes of the road on the basis of serv- lee. Those who have been five years in the service are to be given annuals, good over the division on which they are em- ployed; those having ten years to their eredit are to receive annuals good over the entire line, and the wives of those who have served 16 years will be in- eluded in the privilege. a THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD. Hamburg’s ocean traffic has grown from 6,798 vessels in 1885 to 14,073 in 1963. ‘On account of the depressed condi- tion of the salmon market, many can- neries in Alaska will not ‘be operated this year. Much use is made in the vineyards of Algeria of sulphate of copper; more than 20 tons were imported Jast year from the United States,” Siberia exports about $15,000,000 worth of butter a year. ‘The milk ts very rich, only about 20 pounds being needed for « pound of butter, as against 28 in Denmark. z ‘The Russian government intends to $150,000 an a eubeidy to privets stsume 2 2 vate : a , Pétchora and Lena, and their Leke Baikal, for the t cn waatter at regular int eee 3 SCIENCE SIF TINGS. = ‘nena itchblande, from radium is ved, for sale | the Austrian mines Og __ Bnglish medical. als look 1 & penal offense for a registered pr Utioner to supply e to his pe tients as “too childishly aieurd for ‘serious consideration.” ~~ = -- “Tt fs stated fn 8 om Rot that the Academy of at ’ has divided the Ballauri prise of $6, between Signor Marconi - Grassi, of Rome, and has awarded the Brasso prize of $1,750 to tae duke ol the Abruzzi. wove Prof. Agassiz of Harvard, has Deen elected a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences, to take the place made vacant by the death of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, This ts con- sidered a distinct honor, since there bave been only four Americans honored with a similar membersbip. One peculiarity of the sleeping sick- ness, which is causing such havoc among the natives of Uganda, ‘fs that for a year or longer the victim may seem perfectly well, and often the dis- ease makes itself first known by, undue signs of exaltation on the part of the patient, who, instead of sleeping, is very much awake. Excavations on the site of an old Roman castle near Weissenburg, middle Franconia, have yielded valuable finds, such as tiles, buckles, rings,.and coins. The most important object found, how- ever, is a jointed Roman measure, ex- actly a Roman foot long, made of bronze. It is said that only one other specimen exists, which was unearthed at Pompeii and is now In the Naples museurn. FOYER AND GREEN ROOM. The manager of a Viennese theater of- fers two prizes of $600 and $400 for good Ifbrettos for operettas. Miss Mignon Palmer, a daughter of Emma Nevada, the opera singer, has en- tered the operatic field and it ts quite lkely that mother and daughter will pre- sent the rare spectacle of appearing on the stage together. It is said that Pauline, daughter of the self-expatriated William Waldorf Astor, has announced her intention to go upon thestage. There was talk of thesame kind about a year ago, but it was set down as idle chatter. This time, however, it is believed that there is something in It. Miss Astor is well known tocherish asp!- rations histrionic. Mme. Emma Calve, the famous sing- er, is one of those people who like to have tiicir tombs ready for them in case anything should happen. Some four years ago the great actress and singer gave instructions toa well known French sculptor to prepares design for, her monument and though at first he thought she was in- jest and hesitated to begin the work, he soon found out she was in earnest. He set to work, therefore, and modele@ a sketch. % MILITARY MATTERS. Russia has 150 regiments of mounted Cossacks, Canada’s standing army averages 25,- 000 effective men. ‘The British military force now in South Africa costs $400,000 a week, it ts officigily stated. ‘The military tribunal at Konigsberg, Prussia, recently had before it a Mev- tenant, only 20 years old, who is accused of maltreatment of soldiers in 70 speci- fled cases. 4 Renewed efforts are being mage to raise money to complete the funé for the erection of a monument upon the grave of Rear Admiral James J. Jouett, U. 8. N., at Arlington cemetery. Another French military invention is on record. This time it is not the ma- chine gun, but the army rifle, and-again the inventor steps out from the ranks. Corporal Grissolange, of the First Colo- nial infantry, has devised a method of greatly increasing the capacity of small arms for rapid firing. NATIONAL NEGRO SUFFRAGE LEAGUE CONVENTION. Second Meeting. Commencing June 20th, 1904, Chicago, - Ulinois, OBJECT. = ‘The object of the Convention is to dmvoke the aid of the Republican Party in National Convention assem- bled Yo the end that Southern Dis franchisement may be broken up. os REPRESENTATION. .,..... Each state will be entitled to a rep- resentation equal tp the mumber of her Congressional representation. RATES, a Delegates attending this Convention ‘Will be able to avail themselves of the rate to the National Republican ‘Convention, one fare for the round trip. i— + HEADQUARTERS... operates at wanna a Bureau of~ Publicity and P from which a campaiga wil . ed against Southern Disfrane it. President, James H. Hayes, E Cor. Sec'y, Jas: B. Dizon, R. 1 = * rt See, hie reas. Rev. J. A. Taylor, Washing Mee BC ee <muen, N.S. Western Organiser, J. ©. Leftites, - Okiahoma = = ea oe a as Ht BAT Eo “5 Attormey-atihawes [ene at ge S a c. ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. Seanrak. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. 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