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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Orated at Quinn Chapel Monday Evening. Prof. Booker T. Washington, the great Wizard of Tuskegee, arrived in town last Sunday morning. He was accompanied by his son Booker T. Washington Jr. and private secretary, little Emmet J. Scott. Sumptous and comodious quarters were occupied by them in the Palmer House. Monday evening, Prof. Washington addressed a large gathering in Quinn Chapel. Many white ladies and gentlemen were among those who greeted him. Bishop Abraham Grant presided. Theodore W. Jones read a long untimely and poorly constructed paper on his "Business Men's League," while attempting to read it he bluttered out that "there is more real race prejudice against the Negro in Chicago than in the South!" That vicious and uncalled for statement on the part of Theodore W. Jones is an unqualified libel on the broad minded and liberty loving people of this marvelous city. If Mr. Jones possesses any knowledge at all, he ought to know that there is no organized race prejudice against the Negro in Chicago like in the South. That Colored women are not insulted and clubbed off the street cars as they are in the Southern cities if they attempt to ride on any part of the car other than in the Jim Crow corner. That Booker T. Washington nor no other respectable colored person can stop in any hotel conducted by the whites South of the Mason and Dixon line. If they attempt to do so; they will be shot to death; while he, and other decent colored people can find accommodations in the leading hotels of this city. But Mr. Washington and the same class of colored people as himself can go no further in the way of exercising their civil rights in the South, than the dirtiest crap shooting Negro on the levee in the city of New Orleans. With these uncontridictory facts, which are as patent as the bright noonday sun, staring us in the face; Mr. Jones, still has the affrontery to assert that there is more race prejudice against the Negro in Chicago, than in the South. The Rev. Archibald James Carey had the honor of introducing Prof. Washington, but before doing so he wanted everybody to know that he was the person who presented the distinguished speaker with a large bouquet which was in evidence. Booker T. Washington spoke well on to an hour and a half and he expended about the same length of time in speaking at Bethel church Tuesday noon, and about half that much time was consumed by him in orating at the famous banquet Tuesday evening. In his three set speeches he brought forth no new facts pertaining to the equitable and permanent settlement of the "Race Problem" in America. He had constantly on tap his familiar bunch of stale stories and they were principally related at the expense of the Negro and for the edification of the whites. Reference was made by him in relation to disfranchising the Negro in the South in the following manner: "Any subterfuge, any makeshift in the form of a law that gives the ignorant white man the right to express his wants at the ballot box and withholds the same privileges from the ignorant Negro is an injustice to both races. In most cases such laws give the Negro the incentive to become a voter by getting property and intelligence, but says to the white man, in so many words, remain in ignorance and poverty, and a way will be found for you to exercise the franchise" These sentences contain no clear cut statements like his indorsement of those odious and detestable disfranchising measures, when he declared, "that every revised constitution throughout the Southern states has put a premium upon thrift, intelligence, character and the acquisition of property." This declaration was made by him in November, 1902. So in all fairness to Mr. Washington, we must conclude that he has failed to take one manly or bold step forward in the direction of re-infranchisement of the Negro. His utterances in this respect are nothing more nor less than pure sophistry. Very mildly he condemned the Jim Crow car law which is in vogue throughout the Southern States. But it was nothing in comparison to his commendation of those atrocious and damnable measures, for he declared to the world only a short time ago "that the Negro must learn that it is not so important whether they have to ride in a Jim Crow car as whether there be in the inferior car a superior man, not a beast." "That he was more concerned about the beastly Negro in the Jim Crow car than he was about the Jim Crow car itself." This has been his attitude all along respecting the Jim Crow car until he himself and his family were estoped from riding to and from the North in Pullman Palace cars and the result is that he is forced to ride in the Jim Crow car and now he is able to come in contact with the evil which exists in them; and that is the reason why he is complaining against them. They were all right as long as common colored people only frequented them, but it is an entirely different proposition with him when he has to associate with the common or the unwashed herd. Prof. Washington reiterated that he is not opposed to higher education, although he has on many occasions maintained "that for generations the education of the Negro must be controlled along industrial lines." Mob and lynch law was touched upon by Mr. Washington; and it is becoming apparent that it is gradually dawning on his mind, that whoever commends the brutalities or the crimes of the past or the present, panders to race prejudice, condones injustice and discrimination in any form helps to sow the seeds for future crimes, oppressions and proscription. Is it not perfectly plain to the ordinary person that if Prof. Washington had thundered forth against those things which are detrimental to the progress of any race of people the result might have been entirely different? As it is it will require the united effort of all the lovers of the race for one hundred years, to undo the work which he has performed against his race. It was freely asserted by those who landed him to the skies, that he is by far the greatest personage ever spewed upon the shores of time. In the very nature of things this cannot be true; for great men never submit to ride in Jim Crow cars. The few great men that the world has so far produced, have either by the aid of their pen or the sword, overturned kingdoms and empires, hurled rulers and kings headlong from their thrones, uprooted the foundation of society which rested simply on caste and race prejudice and compelled the rich and the high born to remove their iron clad feet from the necks of the great middle class so that they would be enabled to more fully enjoy their natural and their inherent rights. HEW TO THE LINE. PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Whose Illogical Utterances Respecting the Civil and the Political Rights of the Negro -Will Continue to Retard His Progress Upward for the Next One H.undred years. BANQUET AND RECEPTION IN HONOR OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Col.'s S. B. Turner and James H Moody Ignored. Tuesday evening The Business Men's Afro-American League of Chicago and Evanston tendered Prof. Booker T. Washington a banquet and reception at the Waldorf Cafe, State near 31st street. Judge S. Laing Williams gracefully performed the functions as grand toastmaster. Toasts were responded to by Doctor George C. Hall, Rev. Moses M. Jackson, the Wizard of Tuskegee, Col. Robert M. Mitchell, Judge W. H. A. Moore, Col. Manning, Indianapolis, Ind. A. H. Roberts and Theodore W. Jones, whose toast from beginning to end was confined entirely to roasting Col. Edw. H. Morris. He declared that our eminent lawyer is jealous of the success of Dr. Washington and although he traveled a thousand miles to say mean things about him, he does not believe his own utterances in his lecture on "Shams," which he delivered a few months ago in Washington, D. C. Mr. Jones also asserted that "none of the gentlemen connected with the Old Church Organ or The Conservator, which is constantly parading Mr. Morris' wealth before the public, possess the ability to write and punctuate an editorial properly." Those having charge of the affair are not sufficiently advanced in civilization to appreciate the power and influence of the press, and when Col.'s S. B. Turner and James H. Moody who have both been shouting for Booker T. Washington and those connected with his business league, through the columns of their organs for lo these many years, wanted to have something to say in behalf of what they have endeavored to accomplish towards advancing the cause or the interest of the Modern Moses of the Afro-American race. But they were sat down upon and completely ignored by the gentlemen whose praises they have been so diligently sounding, which caused them to feel mighty sore. The guests were somewhat surprised to observe Col. or Elder David R. Wilkins present as one of their number, praising Doctor Washington and it was maintained that all Prof. Washington did to change the color of Wilkins' coat was to shake him by the hand very coldly, recognize and call him by name. Thus causing him to feel that he is a great big man. Verily it takes but little to satisfy the small or shallow minded men. Doctor Daniel H. Williams, Maj. John C. Buckner, Chas. H. Smiley, F. L. Barnett, Noah D. Thompson, Ex-State Senator T. T. Allain, from La., Oscar De Priest, Doctor N. S. Davis, Jackson Gordon, Doctor Wm. H. Davis, Prof. Wm. Emanuel, and Richard E. Moore, were among the most prominent citizens who were presented to Doctor Washington. Booker T. Washington, Jr., by his private secretary, Emmet J. Scott. In the early part of the evening Bishop Grant, Rev. Archibald James Carey and Rev. R. C. Ransom appeared in front of the Waldorf and peeped in; but they disappeared before the supper was served. The repast was served in ten courses, and Alex. Stephens fully maintained his reputation as the leading caterer in the city in preparing such an elaborate supper, in such an excellent manner for the one hundred guests who were present to honor and shower their boquets of eloquence upon Booker T. Washington. The people of the 30th ward re-expressed their, confidence in Alderman John J. Bradley, by rolling up an unprecedented vote of 2,387 in favor of his return to the City Council for another period of two years. This shows that Alderman Bradley is the faithful servant of the people, honest, straightforward and one of the most popular men in the 30th ward and the Town of Lake The Broad Ax naturally claims some of the credit for his great victory, for it has loyally supported him for the past two years and on last Monday morning the writer engaged Earl and Cliff Levy, 5046 Armour ave., two bright Afro-American boys, to distribute over 500 free copies of The Broad Ax to the colored voters residing on Armour ave., and Dearborn street, between 45th and 51st streets, and this act assisted to swell his majority in the 30th ward. It was too bad that P. J. O'Connell and V. E. Cervney fell on the outside of the breastworks in their respective wards, for both men are worthy gentlemen and they should have been reelected to the city council. Mr. Washington In a New Role. A big Dinner and a Successful Lecture—The White South's Idea of Negro Franchise The Manly and Unmanly Colored Men. Washington D. C. (Special)—The Black Pope has come and gone The dinner and lecture went off very successfully, both were largely attended, and doubtless Mr. Washington's presence at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church netted them a considerable sum. It is alleged that for centuries the power behind the papal throne at Rome has been the awe-inspiring man dressed in black. If I am not mistaken the Superior General of the Jesuits. If it be true that Mr. Washington wields the untold influence with the President, then he may, in all courtesy be called the Black Pope. Your correspondent did not invest the price in the lecture, feeling that he had heard the same speech so often in this and other cities. But many present informed me that it was a little more manly than usual. That he talked eloquently about preparing ourselves to exercise the franchise, tho, we believe, that notwithstanding the fact that he is fully qualified, he dare not cast a ballot in his own home. Besides, while we are engaged in all this laudable primping to vote, the white man is gulping down the apple, and presently he is going to turn round and say: "There aint going to be no core." We feel in duty bound to flatly contradict one assertion of the Black Pope's without any apology, vz. "The people who own the land are the people who exert the greatest influence." This statement can only be true of the people who vote, otherwise of all men, they are the most miserably helpless. What is the use of owning property if you can have no say through the ballot box in the taxation of that porperty? No man can have certain and permanent influence that looks to the regulating of the vital interests of his community who does not share in the government of that community. It is just these high sounding specious, plausable platitudes that Mr. Washington constantly grinds out, that not only deceive the thinking masses of our people, but it is just this sort of utter tommy rot that is blinding our millions of white friends in the North, East and West, which is not our friend, which never has been a friend to a manly, aspiring colored man, and never will be, judging from the signs of the times. The white South tolerates the hat-in-the-hand Negro, and that only because he will work for half the wages the dirtiest outcast from Poland or Hungary demands. He will take more harsh treatment and say thank you too, than a Chinese laundryman, and if the brutish, barbaic bodymutiliating "Best people" of the place kill him for being "Impudent to a white man"—you will find some other Negro like the preacher in Springfield, Ohio, one S. J. Kennedy, whom the Press reports as thanking the Mayor and the good white people of that place for burning out the bad colored people, and commends to his people the nice Central Y. M. C. A. the good whites fixed up to make them good. Certainly the White South is friendly to these types, but are you, O Reader? Here is a sample of Mr.—speech, Thursday night, that lends more than any other influence to cause the supreme Court and the Congress to play battle-dore and Shuttle-cock with our Constitutional rights. "The man who owns land, who has a business, or a bank account—the man who has personal interests in the welfare of the community is the one who in nine cases out of ten will cast a conservative ballot." "Yes, I admit he will if he gets a chance, but it is against just this type of man that the White South is bending its every energy and hurling envenomed darts, and Mr. Washington knows this better No.24 In a New Role. and a Successful White South's pro Franchise only and Un- ored Men. than and man to-day. I can prove this. If the White South is anxious or even willing to help up the aspiring manly Colored man, why does it not allow a graded tariff, why does it insist upon having Jim Crow Cars? Why? But to repress, discourage and ever prevent the clean man from getting away from the dirty man, and to degrade him and make him stay dirty forever. Giles W. Jackson of Alabama, is the type of man Mr. Washington says will cast a conservative ballot, but did he cast it? Why does not Mr. Washington be honest and meanly and in few simple words tell the millions of our former friends his specious platitudes have alienated from us, that the White South would not if it could prevent it, let a Colored man vote if he were as rich as Vanderbilt, as holy as St. John, as learned as Gladstone. Only a few days ago the Public Press reported Gov. Vardaman as saying that he was no more willing for Washington to exercise the rights of a Citizen than he was for his boot-black to do so. I close this letter with one question addressed to the brave corolerd people of Maryland and this land Can you continue to believe that the great majority of the white people of this Country are friendly to the manhood, political and civil advance of our race, forward and upward? With the Jim Crow Cars north of Washington, with lynching and burnings, slavery called peonage, staring us in the face, you answer: "I cannot, I cannot." Why then do these same people idolize Mr. Washington? Because he is the instrument in their hands to rob us of our rights and liberties.—OWEN M. WALLER, M. D. Mrs. Mary Loftis, matron of the women's department in the Cook County jail, is kind hearted and full of sympathy for all the women under her care, and they always worship her like a saintly mother. Mrs. Loftis is in every way well fitted to cheer the faint hearted, the sick, the fallen, and to perform all the exacting duties as matron of the Cook County jail. Coal has been discovered on the plantation of the American Mutual Plantation Company. This will doubtless result in largely increasing the price of the bonds of the company. An expert is being sent to Mexico to make a report on the extent of the coal deposit. Aldermen Thomas J. Dixon, Second Ward; Bernard W. Snow, Seventh Ward; John H. Jones, Eighth Ward; Henry L. Fick, Ninth Ward; Albert W. Bellfuss, Fifteenth Ward; Stanley H. Kunz, Sixteenth Ward; Nicholas R. Finn, Twentieth Ward; George K. Schmidt, Twenty-fourth Ward; Alfred D. Williston, Twenty-fifth Ward; Hubert W. Butler, Twenty-seventh Ward; Walter J. Raymer, Twenty-eighth Ward; Thomas Carey, Twenty-ninth Ward; John J. Bradley, Thirtieth Ward; J. J. Badenoch, Thirty-second Ward; Ernest Bihil, Thirty-third Ward; Jonathan Ruxton, Thirty-fourth Ward; Thomas M. Hunter, Thirty-fifth Ward; William J. Pringle, Third Ward; John A. Richert, Fourth Ward; James J. McCormick, Fifth Ward; Edward C. Potter, Sixth Ward; Rudolph Hurt, Tenth Ward; Peter L. Hoffman, Eleventh Ward; Joseph Z. Uhlir, Twelfth Ward; Fred D. Ryan, Nineteenth Ward; Robert R. McCormick, Twenty-first Ward; Robert Schmidt, Twenty-third Ward; Peter Reinberg, Twenty-sixth Ward, and William J. Roberts, hirty-first Ward, were elected to the city council last Tuesday. ```markdown ``` Extraordinary Announcement. 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And it's our intention to grind up our Ax real sharp so as to be able, this coming fall, to cut some of the politicians in their heels. STILL TELLING "DARKEY" STORIES. Under the caption, "Women Cheer Negro Leader," the New York Sun, speaking of a meeting in New York last Saturday of some white club women reports: "When Robert E. Ely introduced the speaker almost the entire audience stood up to cheer the Negro orator, who has been entertained by the president. He began his lecture by relating as a recent occurrence the story of the "good woman 'way down in Alabama" who asked her guests if they wanted long sweetening or short sweetening. He said he was present when this story was created. "My friend," said he, "took long sweetening, which proved to be a dip of the good woman's finger into the molasses pot, and then a stir in his cup of coffee. I chose short sweetening, which caused the good woman to bite a lump of maple sugar in two and put one piece in my cup and the other in hers. This is to tell you that both my long speeches and my short ones are very bad." "The umbrellas of the feminine audience pounded the floor in approval, and the lecturer plunged immediately into the subject of the education of his race in the south." This is one of the filthiest of the so-called "Darkey stories" that Mr. Washington has been telling all over the north for the last 10 years. It is plain it is told simply to raise a laugh with the white people. The Boston Globe comments on this facetiously. It was taken up by the Associated Press and sent all over the country for the white people to read. Does Mr. Washington realize we have got to live with the white people to whom he tells this revolting story—manufactured we believe—of Negro ignorance and uncleanness? Where is his "change of front"? Did the secret conference exact nothing on this point? The Union League of New Bedford asked of him how he expected to elevate his race by telling these race-be-littling stories. The telling of these stories alone throughout the north has increased tremendously the latent contempt for the Negro, has made the white people of the land up north feel that the Negro is akin to the ape. We declare further that this sort of propaganda creates a latent feeling of the Negroes' inferiority that increases the danger of lynching when one of our race, one of this class, whose "aunties" put their fingers in the tea cups of their guests, and who take sugar out of their mouths and put it in their guests' coffee, inflames the whites to anger by "daring" to assult a woman of their superior race or even to kill one of their men. [Name] COL THEODO RE W. JONES. Main Champion of Booker T. Wash there is more race prejudice ag there is Main Champion of Booker T. Washington who delights in asserting that there is more race prejudice against the Negro in Chicago than there is in the South. Let those who would cease opposing this man Washington, if there be any such, think well 'ere they find themselves stained with the blood of their race by failure to get rid of such a race-bellttler when the time was ripe.—The Guardian Boston Mass. [Name] One of the leading shouters for Booker T. Washington in Chicago, who is rather inclined to justify the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South on the theory that property holding tax paying women and idiots are not permitted to vote. HER MUSICAL EAR. "Have you a good ear for music?" asked a caller of four-year-old Ethel, who was seated at a piano. "Course I have," replied the little miss. "Why, only this morning I heard a man two blocks away playing a tune on a grind organ."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Two two-story houses near the boulevard, 5311 Dearborn street and 5250 Dearborn street. For sale at real bargains. These are two snaps. For further particulars call on Long and McDonald, Room 410, Reaper Black, Tel. Central 858. 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In fact is a local way the next county convention will develop a peculiar condition in the present organisation, may be a new deal. For instance, organized labor will assemble a little in advance and endorse Wm. Randolph Hearst for president, prior to the county convention, this convention selects delegates to the state and the state convention selects delegates to the National convention. The Democrat that will be candidates for the various local county offices without the aid of the labor vote and the support of the Chicago American, Mr. Hearst's paper, which has been the official bulletin of the labor union ever since the Chicago American was established in this city four years ago. Without this condition the County ticket might as well dig their grave in advance. For instance, John Treager for Corcoran, Jim Gray will undoubtedly seek renomination for assessor and many of the county commissioners who are now holding offices. All of these Democrats seeking office and desire the friendship of the laboring man. Bring in your delegation from your respective wards and vote resolutions of loyal support for Wm. Randolph Hearst, after you have done this you will have done your duty and in doing so a novel condition will undoubtedly take place, in this convention to take place some time in June. Up to the present time such leaders as Tom Carey, Timothy Cruise, Dallay and Bowman, Loeffler, Sullivan, Aassessor Gray, Sheriff Barrett, and Commissioner Flannagan, have endorsed Congressman Hearst. Hearst's head-quarters in St. Louis will be the most elaborate in every respect, having engaged the entire first floor or parlor floor, of the New Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis, one of the finest hotels in the country. Extraordinary In order to add several thousand list within the next thirty days The address in the United States each week There is a lively time comin', boys, look out. BILL SKEGGS. Right you are, Bill Skeggs, Old Boy! And it's our intention to grind up our Ax real sharp so as to be able, this coming fall, to cut some of the politicians in their heels. STILL TELLING "DARKEY" STORIES. Under the caption, "Women Cheer Negro Leader," the New York Sun, speaking of a meeting in New York last Saturday of some white club women reports: "When Robert E. Ely introduced the speaker almost the entire audience stood up to cheer the Negro orator, who has been entertained by the president. He began his lecture by relating as a recent occurrence the story of the "good woman 'way down in Alabama" who asked her guests if they wanted long sweetening or short sweetening. He said he was present when this story was created. "My friend," said he, "took long sweetening, which proved to be a dip of the good woman's finger into the molasses pot, and then a stir in his cup of coffee. I chose short sweetening, which caused the good woman to bite a lump of maple sugar in two and put one piece in my cup and the other in hers. This is to tell you that both my long speeches and my short ones are very bad." "The umbrellas of the feminine audience pounded the floor in approval, and the lecturer plunged immediately into the subject of the education of his race in the south." This is one of the flithiest of the so-called "Darkey stories" that Mr. Washington has been telling all over the north for the last 10 years. It is plain it is told simply to raise a laugh with the white people. The Boston Globe comments on this facetiously. It was taken up by the Associated Press and sent all over the country for the white people to read. Does Mr. Washington realize we have got to live with the white people to whom he tells this revolting story—manufactured we believe—of Negro ignorance and uncleanness? Where is his "change of front"? Did the secret conference exact nothing on this point? The Union League of New Bedford asked of him how he expected to elevate his race by telling these race-be-littling stories. The telling of these stories alone throughout the north has increased tremendously the latent contempt for the Negro, has made the white people of the land up north feel that the Negro is akin to the ape. We declare further that this sort of propaganda creates a latent feeling of the Negroes' inferiority that increases the danger of lynching when one of our race, one of this class, whose "aunties" put their fingers in the tea cups of their guests, and who take sugar out of their mouths and put it in their guests' coffee, inflames the whites to anger by "daring" to assault a woman of their superior race or even to kill one of their men. Main Champion of Booker T. Washington who delights in asserting that there is more race prejudice against the Negro in Chicago than there is in the South. Let those who would cease opposing this man Washington, if there be any such, think well 'ere they find themselves stained with the blood of their race by failure to get rid of such a race-belittler when the time was ripe.—The Guardian Boston Mass. M. COL. ROBT. M. MITCHELL. One of the leading shouters for Booker T. Washington In Chicago, who is rather inclined to justify the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South on the theory that property holding tax paying women and idiots are not permitted to vote. - "Have you a good ear for music?" asked a caller of four-year-old Ethel, who was seated at a piano. "Course I have," replied the little miss. "Why, only this morning I heard a man two blocks away playing a tune on a grind organ."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Bargains in Real Estate. Two two story houses near the boulevard, 5311 Dearborn street and 5250 Dearborn street. For sale at real bargains. These are two snaps. 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Is one of the easiest books to interest people in that has ever been published, and we are anxious to a live, intelligent canvassers everywhere. Send to us for information terms, etc. A. C. McCLURG & CO. Publisher 215-221 Wabash Avenue WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Simple GEORGE Junk's Brewery 3700-3710) South Halsted Street and 897 to, 929) Thirtyseventh Street WASHINGTON GOSSIP IN AND OUT OF CONGRESS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Precedents That Have Established Rules for Proceedings-No Work for Rules Committee of the House. Washington.—For the first time in 28 years a case of impeachment is to r the first time in impeachment is to be tried by the United States senate sitting as a court of impeachment. The judiciary committee of the house has voted to recommend to the house the impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne, of the northern federal district of Florida, and there is little doubt that the Judge Charles Swayne. house will adopt the committee's report. If this happens the house will present the case to the senate and then will follow a trial which may occupy the senate for weeks. The last case of impeachment was that of Secretary Belknap in the Grant administration. The house of representatives in 1876 voted to impeach Belknap, but before the trial came to a conclusion in the senate, Belknap resigned from his position as secretary of war and that was the end of it, although a question arose as to whether the resignation of a government official could properly be accepted in such circumstances. The most famous impeachment case is that of Andrew Johnson in the Fortieth congress, the result of which everybody is supposed to know. Johnson was impeached by the house, but after a long trial the senate failed to convict him, the vote standing 35 ayes to 19 noes, one less than the two-thirds majority required by the constitution. The first impeachment case was that of William Blount, United States senator from Tennessee. He was impeached for violating the neutrality laws of the United States in instigating the Creeks and Cherokees to aid the British in conquering the Spanish territory of western Florida. He was found guilty and expelled on July 8, 1797, but during the trial he was elected to the state senate of Tennessee and chosen its president. All other impeachment cases have affected federal judges, as follows: John Pieckering, district judge of New Hampshire, 1803-04; Samuel Chase, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, 1804-05; James Peck, United States district judge for Missouri, 1826-1831; West W. Humphreys, United States district judge for Missouri, 1861. Impeachment Procedure, Etc. In trying Judge Swayne the senate will have to go back a long way for a though several members of that body are familiar with the procedure against Secretary Belknap through the fact that they were in one or the other branches of congress at the time. Teller of Colorado, Allison of Iowa, Cockrell of Missouri, and Mitchell of Oregon were even then Announcing an Impeachment. senators. Blackburn of Kentucky, Hale and Frye of Maine, Money of Mississippi, Hoar of Massachusetts and Flatt of New York were members of the house. Speaker Cannon is the only member of the house of representatives whose service dates back so far as the Belknap trial. Senator Hoar, now chairman of the judiciary committee, was one of the managers on the part of the house. Should the case come before the senate great interest will be taken in the proceedings on account of their novelty, if for no other reason. After the action by the house a committee, appointed by the house, will proceed to the bar of the senate and there impeach Judge Swayne of high crimes and misdemeanors while in office and inform the senate that formal articles of impeachment will be presented. This committee will be announced by the sergeant at arms, will proceed to the area in front of the desk of the president of the senate, will make its announcement and will demand that the senate take order for the appearance of Judge Swayne to answer the impeachment. The senate will appoint a committee, to which the message of the house will be referred. The house will appoint managers to conduct for it the impeachment proceedings and these managers will proceed to the senate where, after taking seats assigned, one of them will read the articles of impeachment. The president of the senate will then dismiss them, will set a day for a trial and will give due notice to the managers. On the day set for trial the chief justice of the supreme court will be brought into the senate by a committee appointed for the purpose and will there administer to the senators an oath that they will do impartial justice according to the laws. The house will then be formally notified that the senate is organized for the trial and the house managers will be admitted. Judge Swayne will appear at the bar of the senate and will answer to the articles of impenchment by counsel, after which the trial will proceed as in other trials with arguments by counsel and testimony of witnesses. At the conclusion of the trial each senator will answer guilty or not guilty as the case may be. Rules in the House Under Speaker Cannon there is a marked change in the personnel of the Cannon there is a the personnel of the managers of the republican majority in the house. The committee on rules has fallen into innocuous desuetude in striking contrast to its autocratic performances under the administrations of Speakers .Reed Crisp and Henderson. [Image of a man with a long beard and a mustache, wearing a suit and a bow tie. The background is a dark, textured pattern. The name "Barnard" is written below the portrait.] The committee on rules奏 its great importance first under Speaker Reed with the adoption of the new rules of the house, under which all the most important legislation was enacted under special orders adopted by the committee, of course with the speaker's approval. Under Reed the rules committee was kept busy all the time. In the Fifty-first congress Cannon and McKinley were the majority members of it. When Reed came back to the speakership he had with him Henderson and Dalzell. Under Henderson the other republicans on the committee were Dalzell and Grosvenor, and they are now Cannon's associates, but it is noticeable that these two members who, with Henderson, were regarded as the whole thing are not seen in the speaker's room now nearly as often as some of the younger members of the house who, under the old regime, were not highly regarded by the powers in control. Speaker Cannon is getting to learn more and more upon Hemenway of Indiana and Tawney of Minnesota, one of whom, now chairman of the appropriation committee, was in the last congress of importance only as Cannon's lieutenant, and the other of whom was regarded as a "kicker" altogether out of favor with the men in control. For that matter, Cannon himself was outside the breastworks and nothing but his powerful individuality and his position as chairman of the appropriations committee, which could not be well taken away from him, gave him a position of standing and influence in the house. As for the committee on rules it has had very little to do during the present session. It has hardly been necessary to bring in a special order for the purpose of putting through any measure of importance, and without special orders the committee on rules becomes a somewhat superfluous body. Misplacing a Building. Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture, is probably the best of agriculture, is secretary of agriculture in the not very long list, but there are a great many people in Washington who think that as an architect and landscape gardener he is a dismal failure. MUSEUM OF THE ARTS The last congress made an appropriation of about three million dollars for a new building to be used by the agricultural depart- Looking for a Building Site. ment. It was provided that it should be situated in the Mall near the present department and the selection of the site has been left with the secretary of agriculture, who has caused a sensation by picking out a place which will cut off a large portion of the vists between the Washington monument and the capitol that has been one of the greatest beauties of Washington for a hundred years. If congress could get at the thing it would pass a law, with little or no opposition, which would prevent the location of the new building in the place selected by the secretary and would compel it to be moved back a hundred feet or so, thus saving an architectural blunder which could never be remedied. But Speaker Cannon refuses to let any bill of this kind come up in the house and Representative Powers, who has introduced the bill, finds himself helpless. So do the senators who are deeply interested in the matter. "Uncle Joe" has an aversion for architects and all their works. He is especially out-of-sorts with the scheme of the so-called park commission, which would fix permanently the architectural development of the city along the lines of L'enfant, the French genius who first laid out the map of the capital. He is filled with indignation whenever he thinks of the work of Architect McKim, which has made the white house a thing of beauty, and he is determined that so long as he has anything to say about it the architects shall not be given any further leeway in the development of the city. "Uncle Joe" is in a decided minority numerically, in this position, but it happens to be about the only one in which the great majority of congress does not gladly follow his lead, so that he is likely to have his own way about it so long as he remains at the head of the house. In the meantime Secretary Wilson will doubtless go ahead with his plan and will erect on the Mall a magnificent public building, which will destroy for all time one of the most extraordinary attractions of the capital from an artistic point of view. MEN DON'T WEAR CORSETS. If the Absurd Custom Is in Vogue It Is Concaled from the Merchant Tailors. Of late years a great deal of nonsense has been printed about the growth of the corset habit among men, yet there seems to be very little if any foundation for such statements as have been made on the subject. Making due allowances for the reserve with which the tailor might seek to protect his patrons from publicity, it does not appear from interviews with several of the leading custom tailors in this city and other cities that there is any truth in these statements. All of them say they have no calls for clothes to be fitted over corsets, and a leading corset maker for women, purveyor to a high-class custom trade, declares a total absence of applications to make the articles for The tailors estimate that such items as those referred to may emanate from the press agents of corset makers, who would like to increase their trade by making for men as well as women. The masculine figure does not, as a general rule, need a corset. Its only effect would be to repress the stomach and throw out the chest, giving a form which is natural to men of athletic habits, who stand erect, while to men of other habits it would be a constraint that could not be borne with comfort. That the "military figure" for men may be secured without the use of a corset is shown by the cadets of West Point and Annapolis, who, as it has been definitely established, do not use the articles. WERE NOT TRUE ALBINOS Number of White Buffalo Surprised Hunters Until the Phenomenon Found an Explanation. Old buffalo-hunters of the western Kansas prairies used to tell of having seen and pursued white buffalo. There were white buffalo, albinos, such as are found at rare intervals in all the families of the animal kingdom; but the number of those which existed in fact and of those which existed purely in the imagination, says the Kansas City Journal, were in wonderful disproportion In 1873 old Ben Canfield, who roamed the plains with his tall, gaunt wife for a companion, followed a herd of buffalo from the northern edge of what is now Oklahoma to the sand-hills of Nebraska, thinking to kill a big white bull which he had seen in the herd. After three weeks of patient stalking Canfield did kill the bull, only to find that the whiteness of its appearance was due to a coat of whitewash. An explanation of this phenomenon would not be needed by people familiar with the natural lime beds of western Kansas. The habit of the buffalo is to roll or wallow in every pool of water or mudhole to which he comes. Canfield's buffalo had simply been rolling in a bed of the native lime, which, when dried in the sun, coated his hide with a kind of plaster. No doubt these lime-holes account for many of the "white buffalo" so often reported by hunters. ABOUT CHINESE NAMES. Geographical Prefixes and Suffixes Have a Definite Significance in the Far East. A few definitions of Chinese geographical prefixes and suffixes may be of service in elucidating the nomenclature of current war news, says the Boston Transcript. First, prefixes: Ta, as in Taku, means great, and slao, as in Siao-Ping-Thou, means small. Pei or pe, nan, tung and si are respectively north, south, east and west. Thus the Pei-Ho is the North river, etc. Shang and hai are upper and lower. Pai, hei and whang are white, black and yellow. Suffixes are more numerous and familiar.' Kiang, ho tchuan, ula, muren and tchu each and all mean river. Thus Yalu Kiang and Liao Ho are simply Yalu river and Liao river. Shui, kou, thsuan, khi, gol and ussu are unfamiliar terms, meaning a brook or small river. Hu, nor and omo mean lake, as in the well-known Lob Nor and Kosso Gol. Po, tse and tien mean a small lake or swamp, or a town situated near such a place. Hai means sea; thus Whang-Hai is the Yellow sea, Tung-Hai is the Eastern sea and Nan-Hai is the Southern sea. Tao and sometimes shan means island, but shan more often means a mountain range. Ling is a pass over a mountain range. N-Rays and Sound. The fact that compression or bending causes a substance to emit X-rays has suggested to M. D. Lepinay that vibrations producing sound should have the same effect, as the sounding body undergoes slight but rapidly repeated strains. Experiments with a tuning fork, a bronze bell, a large steel cylinder and a siren proved this to be true, and the phosphorescent screen showed that the air also produces as well as transmits the rays. Another investigator, M. Meyer, has discovered a similar radiation in vegetable tissue, the green parts of the plant giving the most intense effect. Visiting with an Elephant. Hunting with an elephant Gen. Sir Montagu Gerard, in a recent volume, tells this story of hunting with an elephant in India: "The best bags I made were 53 brace snipe and some teal one day between one a.m. and sunset and 73 brace and 26 duck and teal for one whole day, besides a couple of hours on the preceding afternoon when reconnoitering the ground. The only retriever one could safely employ was an elephant, not so much for fear of crocodiles as on account of the tangled weeds which wind themselves round the limbs of a swimmer like the tentacles of an octopus." In an article on "Japanese Patriotism," in Pearson's, Mr. Alexander Hume Ford gives an interesting account of an's foresighted policy. He says: "Every year from two to three thousand students are sent to America, and as many go to Europe, to enter the most advanced universities and machine shops of the two worlds. These young men are thoroughly impressed with a sense of their own importance, knowing full well that it is their destiny to return to Japan and carry the country forward along advanced lines of civilization. Their intense patriotism urges them, as a rule, despite the obstacles of a foreign tongue, to seek the honors of their class, and the Japanse students abroad may always be found in the front ranks of American and European colleges. Once graduated, they quickly return to Japan. Search the continent of America never so carefully, and you will not find as many resident Japanese in it as there are Chinamen in the cities of either New York or Chicago; yet no allen law, as in the case of the Chinese, prevents the settlement of the Japanese in our midst. They come, observe, remain long enough to master the workings of our latest inventions in scientific apparatus and mechanics, then return home to adapt to the service of their people all that they have found useful abroad. So to-day, because they have prepared in times of peace, Japanese foundries, shipyards, machine shops and factories are ready to turn out the most modern ordnance, battleships, and firearms fit to do battle with any power that threatens Japanse supremacy in the far east." Jewish Life Writing of the language of Jewish life, in the Lamp, Israel Zangwill says that the modern, progressive Jews of New York and London lead a life not necessarily inferior to a Jewish life, but "a Jewish life it is not. It is the general life of the nation whose language they speak. Scrupulously burled in the same cemetery, they have a common death. But a common life—no, that they have not. Upon the clear mirror of language they produce no breath. If Israel is to live and speak again, it can only be on a soil of his own." Tick-Tock The "tick-tock" that is universally regarded as the sound of both pendulum and spring clocks, has been investigated by Dr. Rosenbach, a Berlin psychologist. He finds that the "tick" results when the right arm of the escapement anchor strikes a cog of the wheel moving upward, while the "tock" is produced when the other arm strikes a cog moving downward. The different conditions give different acoustic effects. Ascending Lightning The idea of ascending lightning is not new, although it is not generally accepted. Insisting upon the reality of the phenomenon as witnessed by Prof. P. Bruhl and himself, Prof. W. H. Everett states that the flashes seen were unbranched, that they rose like rockets from clouds into the clear sky, and that their duration was longer than that of ordinary flashes. Brown Spots on the Hands If there are brown spots on the hands, make a paste of lemon juice and powdered sulphur and apply it whenever possible, allowing it to dry in the sun. Let it remain on as long as you can after each application. This paste will take effect more readily if the hands are soaked in warm water for some time before it is applied. Stiletto Hatpins As a means of defense for women in case of attack from a ruffian, a stiletto hatpin is about to be placed on the European market. It is made of fine steel that will bend but not break, has a fine hardened point and a handle with which to grasp it as a weapon. To Bank the Fire Newspapers soaked in cold water, squeezed, and rolled tightly into balls can be used to bank up the back of a fire that is wanted to burn a long time. Put a good layer of small coal on top. Vinegar. Vinegar should not be kept in a stone jar, as the acid may affect the glazing, and the vinegar be rendered unwholesome. Glass jars are the best vinegar receptacles. Values Values are in the mind alone. If a trinket please you, then you are wise in exchanging for it a world which annoys you.—N. O. Times-Democrat. Chinese Miles. In China a mile is anything from a quarter of a mile to a mile and three-quarters, according to the province in which it may happen to be. Long Novels. The three-volume novel has passed. It takes longer to read a three-volume novel than any novel can possibly remain popular.—Puck. Cremation establishments, under the control of the government, are to be found in the chief cities of Japan. Skin of the Whale The skin of the whale is from two inches to two feet thick, that of a large specimen often weighing 30 tons. WOMAN'S HANDIEST WEAPON The Hatpin Inflicts a Severe Wound and Can Be Got Ready for Action in a Moment. "What shall we do in case we are attacked by some thief or ruffian?" is the question women have asked in every part of the country. The man to whom the question is put will generally answer: "Carry a revolver." But women dread revolvers. Few women possess the nerve necessary to use a pistol with effect when attacked. Then there is the objection to a revolver in the possession of a woman that she would be averse to suspecting the motive of every man she met, and would probably fail to draw the revolver until too late, for fear of making a foolish mistake. What, then, can be provided for her that will be formidable to a foe, yet absolutely safe, so far as she is concerned, and ever ready at hand, whether wanted for use or not? The answer to the puzzle has been provided by those who make women's hatpins. A hatpin has been designed that is intended primarily for use as a weapon of defense. It is in reality a stiletto, masquerading as an innocent hatpin. It is made of fine steel, that will ```markdown ``` INNOCENT LOOKING HATPINS. bend, but will not break, as sharp as a needle, and hardened at the end so that it can be used with deadly effect as a dagger, and a handle that enables a woman to grasp it for use as a weapon and hold it so that it cannot easily be pulled from her hand. There are two ways of holding this hatpin. It can be held with the thumb pressed against the top or with the button grasped in the palm of the hand. In either way it is a weapon not to be despised. The method of using it to the best advantage when attacked is to aim at the face of the highwayman. A woman armed with one of these stilettos is able to do more damage in a few seconds than a man unarmed. The wicked little blade is so small that it is impossible to grasp it to wrench it away from her, and yet so keen is it that, thrust home by a woman frenzied by fear, it is likely to pierce through any ordinary clothing into a vital part of a highwayman's anatomy. There are times in most women's lives when a suspicious looking character comes into the offing and prudence whispers: "Beware of him." While most women would shrink under these circumstances from pulling out a revolver, it is an innocent act to put the hand to the hat and draw out one of her stiletto-like hatpins. With this in her hand the nervous woman is ready for the stranger, whatever his intentions. If he is an honest man he will probably take no notice of the woman's action. If he is a thief, it is more than probable that he will mark the act and let the woman pass unmolested.—N. Y. Tribune. WOMAN'S MONEY HER OWN Arkansas Court Holds That Legal Rights of Wives Make Property Subject to Larceny. It has been held by the lower courts at times that a man could not steal from his wife and vice versa. The supreme court of Arkansas has recently handed down a decision which declares that a man may steal from his wife. The case in which this decision was rendered was that of the state versus J. F. Hunt. Hunt, a saloon keeper, married Miss Maud Nevills, who had a bank account of about six hundred dollars. Almost immediately after their marriage he began to try to get possession of it. Mrs. Hunt, while willing enough to share with him whatever income it might bring, would not give it to him absolutely. He prevailed upon her at last to give him a check for the amount, with the understanding that he was not to use it, but invest it in a piece of property for her. Hunt obtained the money and lost no time in leaving the state with another woman. They went to St. Louis, and were finally tracked to Los Angeles. He was brought back to Arkansas to stand trial. Hunt was indicted and convicted in circuit court for grand larceny and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years. From this he appealed to the supreme court. On the appeal the main question raised by the attorneys for Hunt was that a man could not be technically guilty of larceny of his wife's goods, because the law regards them as one person, and a man may not steal his own. In an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Bunn the court declined to adopt this view, holding that, while at common law the legal unity of the husband and wife made it impossible for the one to be guilty of theft from the other, the effect of the married woman's statutes and the provisions of law enlarging the property rights of married women is to do away with the reason for this rule, to such an extent as to make the property of the wife the subject of larceny by the husband. REASON FOR EARTHQUAKES Time, Says Professor, Is Accountable for Shrinkage in World's Surface That Results in Disturbances. Prof. James F. Kemp, of the chair of geology at Columbia university, had this explanation to give of the New England earthquake: "The earth tends to go more and more slowly as it revolves, on account of the backdrag of the atmosphere, so it tends to become more and more nearly a perfect sphere and less flattened at the poles. "Also there is a kind of interior shrinkage due to loss of heat, and this produces a shrinkage at the surface which may produce the disturbances. The original place of the disturbance was probably under the sea, and it communicated itself to the land." A. W. Grabau, professor of paleontology, said: "I do not believe that the disturbance was of volcanic origin. There have been none such in this part of the world for a fair number of years." Prof. Grabau was asked what he meant by a fair number of years. "Say about 15,000,000 years," he continued, gravely. "The last volcanic eruption hereabouts was the one that made the palisades on the Hudson, and that was back in the triassic period. In New England we are positive there has been no serious disturbance for thousands of years, because there are bowlders there which have not been disturbed within that period." MONKEYS EARN A LIVING. Manipulate Fans in India to Cool Their Masters' Parching Brows —Method of Education. Monkeys are more than pets in some parts of the world. At Malabar, India, they are taught to work, and have actually made themselves almost indispensable in the homes of the wealthy. The Malabar monkey is of the fine species known as the langur. It is very warm in Malabar, and there is a fan called the punka, which used to be kept in motion by a slave. It required a slave to work each punka, but now every punka in Malabar is worked by a monkey. It was an English officer who conceived the idea of making the langur work in that manner. The fan is a movable frame, covered with canvas and suspended from the ceiling. The motion is caused by pulling a cord. The officer tied the hands of the langur to one of the cords, and then by means of another cord put the machine in motion. Of course the monkey's hand went up and down and the animal wondered what kind of a game was being played. Then the officer patted its head and fed it with candy till soon the langur thought it was fine fun to work the punka. The experiment was successful and now thousands of monkeys are in harness. Strange Electric Lights During the remarkable magnetic storm, accompanied by displays of the aurora borealis, on October 31 last, a gentleman driving along a country road at night, near Calgary, Canada, had a singular experience. He found himself surrounded with great-vertical shafts of light, which extended up into the sky, meeting at the zenith in a perfect apse, and glowing with beautiful colors, the shafts being bright ruby-colored at the top, but changing in hue as they descended through purple and green to gold at the bottom. Objects half a mile away were evidently beyond the shafts, and indeed some of these were only a few yards distant, and seemed to chase the observer as he drove on in his buggy. The display lasted but a few minutes. 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, 348 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, 486 1/2 State street. Frank H. Hart, 354-31st street, cigars, tobacco and Laundry office. Mrs. E. F. Early, groceries and notions, 2933 State St. The Stationery, 2970 State street. J. C. Campbell, 145 W. 47th street., Cigars, Tobacco, Staple Groceries. 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. CHIPS Mra. George Berry, Indianapolis, Ind.) is visiting with Mra. F. D. Berry, 5025 Armour avenue. The Triangle and Inner Circle Clubs would be alright if they had a live secretary or assistant secretary. Alderman John H. Jones made a clean sweep in the Eighth Ward and he was re-elected to the City Council with a healthy majority to his credit. For first class and up-to-date hats at rock bottom prices, call at Gallagher's new hat store, 250 West Madison st. Hon. Robert Redfield, the capable attorney for the local board of improvement, could make a winning race for city attorney of Chicago in 1905. Horace Clinton and Edward Tidrington are still meeting with much success in conducting their dances in Metropole Hall every Tuesday and Friday evenings. Municipal ownership was carried by a handsome majority Tuesday and the voters throughout the city are to be congratulated for favoring these propositions. All Hash or all Mouth Roberts, ran out of wind and water while attempting to deliver his long, senseless toast at the Washington banquet Tuesday evening. John Czekala, who is one of the proficient deputy coroners of Cook County, could, if nominated be elected as one of the new commissioners of this county. Buy your spring hat from Thomas Gallagher, 250 West Madison st., for he carries all the leading styles and shapes at the lowest prices. Dr. Alexander Lane, 189 E. 20th street, enjoys a fine practice among both races. The Doctor is full of race pride and he liberally helps to support with his money many of the leading Afro-American newspapers. Col. Edward H. Morris is or was the attorney for Louis Weber and Company, so it is claimed, at the time that he appeared in the Harrison Street Police Station, and in the Criminal Court in behalf of Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz. The Amateur Minstrel's Easter Ball was a failure. This makes the third or fourth failure this club has had within two years. Jule Avendorph, and Frank B. Waring must realize by this time that the dancing public has become sick and disgusted with them. Attorney Charles H. Stevenson, 100 Washington street, is a strong supporter of William Randolph Hearst, for President of the United States, and Mr. Stevenson is of the opinion that he will be nominated at the St. Louis convention. 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. Archibald Goode, the leading and the most successful Afro-American contractor in Chicago, has moved his carpenter shop into the commodious basement corner of Clark and Randolph streets, and he is amply prepared to turn out all kinds of carpenter work in short order. Mrs. Chas. H. Smiley was by far the best gowned lady that attended services at St. Thomas church Sunday morning. She wore a very rich and elegant black velvet dress and a hat trimmed in violets which caused her to look very charming. Rev. H. H. Thompson, 602 West Chio street, presiding elder of the St. Paul and Chicago A. M. E. District, is busily engaged in making arrangements to entertain the large number of preachers who will flock to this city next month to attend the general conference. Wm. A. Kirchberger & Co., the only exclusive "uncalled-for" clothing house, H. C. Blake, manager, 189 Clark street, between Monroe and Adams. We handle all of the returned made to order garments of M. Born & Co., the largest merchant tailors in the world. If the Republicans residing in the Twenty-sixth Ward had not permitted themselves to be bossed or dictated to by Col. Charles S. Deneen, and had honored William C. Kuester, with a re-nomination as alderman he would still be representing the people of that strong Republican Ward in the city council. Miss Sylvine M. J.——, whose mother run over us for one dollar as six months subscription to The Broad Ax, was out to church last Sunday toged up in her Easter duds which were bought on the easy payment plan, and with her new Kangaroo strut she looked plenty good enough for anybody. Mr. Stuart D. Foyler will address the Sunday Literary at St. Mark's M. E. Church, 47th and State streets, to- --- morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. His subject will be "Higher Education of the Negro." Good music will be provided. You are invited to be present. Dr. C. E. Bentley will speak Sunday, April 17th. Ex-Alderman James J. McCormick as predicted by The Broad Ax, made a home run in the Fifth Ward and landed on the inside of the city council. His re-election in spite of the bitter opposition of the Municipal Voters' League, is indeed very gratifying to his many friends and supporters. Col. Theodore W. Jones, who was the head dog in the meat house while Prof. Booker T. Washington was in town, exclaimed from the pulpit in Quinn Chapel "that the white man would rather go to hell than be saved by a black man." This is not true for there are plenty of white men in the North who trust their lives and the lives of their loved ones in the hands of their colored Doctors. Col. Jones should be muzzled before he again attempts to speak to the public. Mrs. Elizabeth Nolls, 3123 Dearborn street, has been visiting in St. Louis, Mo., lately, and she states "that everything is in commotion in the World's Fair city, that it is hard for colored people to find decent houses to live in, for the rents have increased on the houses and flats formally occupied by them from ten and twenty to seventy-five and one hundred dollars per month. Mrs. Nolls is a warm friend of this paper and each week after she has finished reading it she sends it to her daughter, who is residing in Paris. Last spring the whisky gentlemen connected with the Old Church Organ sold out to Mayor Carter H. Harrison, and the other Democrats, for a few silver dollars, and they urged the small number of readers of the Old Church Organ to stand by the Democrats for they were alright, but now they are ready to cuss and damn a Democrat of any kind. Some so-called Negro editors are ever ready to stoop to any low trick in order to earn one or two dollars to enable them to buy a little cheap fighting whisky. Henry T. Elby, late treasurer of Olivet Baptist Church, who was recently convicted for misappropriating $6,000 belonging to the church, was on last Saturday sentenced to the penitentiary at Joliet, from one to ten years, by Judge Chytraus. Jasper M. Higginbothan was the chief witness against Henry Elby, notwithstanding the fact that Elby loaned him money which if we mistake not, he has never refunded to him. By this time many people have learned that there are quite a few rascals belonging to Olivet Baptist church. Dr. Anna B. Schultz is taking life easy in the Cook County jail, she has nice clean quarters all by herself, and Jailor John L. Whitman and all his assistants treat her with consideration. It seems that F. L. Barnett urged Mr. Fake to resort to every sharp practice which is indulged in around the State's Attorney's office in order to connect Dr. Schultz with the diamond ring which was supposed to have been stolen by someone from Louis Weber and Company. Mrs. Barnett also seems well pleased with the outcome of her trial, for when she was in the jail last Saturday morning she was asked if she "did not want to see Dr. Schultz," she haughtily turned up her pretty nose and responded no she did not want to see her. Several white ladies were present and they remarked that from indications "Mrs. Barnett was not in favor of imparting a few words of comfort or encouragement to the women of her race who happen to get into trouble or meets with misfortune." "THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK" AND THE BROAD AX FOR SIX MONTHS FOR $150. For thirty days from March 19th The Broad Ax will be sent to any address in the United States for six months and "The Souls of Black Folk", by Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois, for $1.50. See announcement in another column of this paper. The empress of Japan, Haruko (popularly named the "Empress Spring"), is a daughter of the noble house of Ichigo, one of the fine families of great Kuge, or court personages, from which a mikado may choose his consort. Until her eighteenth year, when she was chosen by her sovereign, she was brought up in the strictest seclusion in the old capital, Kiote, and received the customary education of a daughter of a princely daimio. Great pains were taken to teach her literature, to develop her artistic taste and to school her in the writing of graceful if inane verse. She is 54 years old, a year older than her husband. Having no children of her own, she is content to see the son of a megaki, or concubine, reared as the heir to the crown, and to recognize him as her future lord, if she survives her husband. Monogamy is now the rule in Japan, and the next mikado will probably be the last of left-handed birth to reign. The present emperor is likewise a megaki's son. "Empress Spring" has been truly a helpmeet and an inspiration to her husband. She caused the first Japanese girls to be sent to America, in 1871, to acquire western learning. She suggested the founding of the national normal school, and patronized the establishment of the Japanese Red Cross society. She gives money, time and care to charitable works, visiting the hospitals, especially that for women and children, in Tokio, where she distributes toys and luxuries. She has no companion in the seclusion of her own apartments in the palace of Tokugawa. Here she wears the national costume, in dark-colored silks. Her apartments are simple, in the-style of old Japan, with beautiful lacquered furniture. The floor is covered with spotless white matting, on which she sits or squats. Her rooms open into those of the emperor. The state apartments are furnished in European style. The palace, built in 1889, is in the old native style of architecture, but is equipped with the "modern improvements" familiar to the west—water, electric lights and heating apparatus. The ladies of the court live in a separate building, from which a covered gal R. THE EMPRESS OF JAPAN. (Her Name Is Haruko, Which Means "Empress Spring.") ery leads to the palace. Japanese etiquette is so complicated that these ladies spend a seven-years' apprenticeship to learn their duties. Each has her own apartment and even her own cook. The New York World says that the woman of present-day Japan lives under far more liberal laws than her mother did. There is now a law for divorce by mutual consent. Women lecturers are not unknown. Children of both sexes are educated together in the primary schools, a thing that horrifies conservative grandmothers. There are women lawyers in Tokio, and although their entrance into the medical profession is frowned upon, that prejudice will give way in time. Not only have many Japanese women adopted the European costume, but some even wear trousers. Unless tempers can be harmonized, no marriage can be truly happy. Some may say that to resort to reasoning out every little difference of opinion will lead to an unhappy existence. Reason should never be considered a tyrant, but a counselor. However hard the struggle may be, it is sure to lead to wonderful results; and as nothing in this life is gained without struggle and persistent effort, married couples who are not happy only because they cannot harmonize their tempers, will find that the struggle, even if it has taken years and years, will be worth the effort. The importance of harmonizing tempers in married life is not less than that of marriage itself. People seem to resort to marriage because they can picture a land of unalloyed happiness in which they may dwell. After one or two years of married existence the dream is shattered. Pride alone then bids many a man and wife to live together in inharmonious union. They have a reasonable share of the comforts of life, but most of them have too much of one thing—temper.—N. Y. Weekly. Catgut for Stringing Beads. The best thing for stringing beads, gold or coral, as well as glass bead chains, is catgut. Next to that dental floss is to be preferred. Never use thread. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 in 619; Telephone Main 3077. FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW 802 MARQUETTE BUILDING Telephone 8000 Central CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 088 CHICAGO PHONES {Office, Main 1157 Res. Brown 42 STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS LAWYER Sulte 200, 128-125 La Salle Street CHICAGO Oakpharm Vendor W7, Burlington, MD Garfield D4 JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 & HALFORD STREET, CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bldg 79 Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. 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