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THE AFRO-AMERICAN VOTERS TO THE RESCUE. Vol. IX The report of the congressional committee on the Danzler-Lever disputed election case ought not to be forgiven or forgotten by the Colored voters of this country. The committee was, of course, Republican. The elderly Negro, Danzler, has succeeded in getting before congress squarely the question as to the violation of the re-construction acts, so-called, by the southerners in passing their iniquitous revised constitutions. Yet the committee refused to give aid and redress. When Danzler's state re-entered the union after the rebellion it agreed never to so alter its constitution or laws as to bar men from voting because of race or color or previous condition. Danzler argued that the constitution of 1895 did so bar men, differing thereby from the constitution of 1868, and that therefore Lever was not legally elected. The committee ruled that Danzler was not elected, but did not say whether Lever was. It reported that if it should unseat Lever because the present state constitution was in violation of the reconstruction acts of congress, then in case of a contest nearly every southern congressman could be unseated. Further, that no one could be elected to congress until the state constitution was changed. "And therefore," the committee refused to give a decision, declaring that the question was a judicial one. This case makes the issue clear. A Republican congress refuses to render a decision because it might embarrass the white southerners! The white southerners are Democrats; they give the Republicans no support. The Negroes of the south are almost wholly Republicans, and have been so at the greatest cost, even of life itself. Yet the Republican members of congress refuse to discommode the southern whites in favor of the southern Negroes, even when the federal law is plainly on the side of the Negros' desire. This is certainly a case of a real test being applied as to whether the Republicans are going to restore the ballot to the Negro. They flatly refuse to do so, even when it is plainly their constitutional duty. What boots declarations for an equal ballot in state or even national Republican party platforms What do Republican denunciations of southern Democrats for "nullifying" the amendments to the constitution amount to? Are they not "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals" to a race that sternly wants their liberty, of which they are unlawfully deprived? And what has the Negro with the Protective tariffs were born of warfare that obstructed the ports of enemies by blockades. Blockades forced the blockaded nations to manufacture somewhat. Peace opened the ports again to commerce. Then private greed sought to re-blockade the ports by tariff obstructions. This is the origin of our first tariff, miscalled protective. They have cost us billions of dollars directly. Indirectly they have cost us far more than we can conceive of. This class of laws has forced labor and money outside of channels demanded, into others foreign to our needs. We should have devoted the billions we have thus lost and thrown away into public works badly needed. Were all the host of labor that are now engaged in manufactures and mining and wasteful depreciating and humbugery—in a word, in occupations not needed here for a century to come, placed at work on rivers, harbors, roads and in agriculture, how much better for all. It is a fact that more people should be engaged in some few occuptions now comparatively neglected ballot to say to this? Is he going to bow and scrape and beg and be fooled with an actual weapon of power in his possession? Surely, this is a time for strong protest. It's as true as gospel that if the Negro will quietly submit to this treatment by those to whom they give their votes, these politicians will no more do anything actual to destroy disfranchisement than a man would pay for the air which he can get without cost. Are we in earnest? Do we realize that with the southern Democrats, whom we are opposing ourselves, avowedly against us, and emboldened, as in Maryland, to extend disfranchisement because a Republican supreme court refuses to meet the issue if it can help it, that if we give the Republicans all the support we have without insisting on their taking active measures to destroy the southern revised constitutions, that disfranchisement is certain, and that we are in part responsible for it because we have failed to force any relief by our ballots? The leading white papers of the country admit we have the balance of power, admit that we can decide whether certain congressmen get their seats or not. Are we going to feel satisfied to listen to eloquent defences of our race in Republican conventions and meetings? Are we going to fool ourselves into believing that speeches favoring our rights in congress or not will stop disfranchisement? Or are we going to put every congressman we vote for on record. Are we going to publicly declare our intention of voting for no man who will not pledge himself absolutely to rule against these disfranchising laws if the whole of the illegally elected southern congressional delegation is unseated, and remain vacant for all time? Now is the time or never. Now, or deserve to be enslaved, and to deserve it. The Boston Suffrage league has been formed for just this purpose. It is honest, non-party, racial and devoid of self-seeking. It is clean; its platform is what every platform must be that is guided only by a desire for liberty, regardless of all ties of party or personal friendship. There are kindred leagues all over New England, and in fact, over the country. It has a national organization. Let every honest Negro join it, and hold up the hands of the men who are willing to make the sacrifice, and to make the fight. This is no time for useless division. Use the organization that is already formed. Old men, young men, society men, business men, laboring men, all Negro men, wake from your lethargy, cast off suspicion, join with your fellows. Strike, strike a blow for liberty!—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. than are now in the mines and factorie or are wandering over the country or crowding into cities as tramps. The very fact that in such a land as ours such swarms of human beings idle, criminal, vagrant, are crowding into slums and alleys of towns tells in burning words the wretched results from such damnable legislation at the behests of private greed. Holt. Col. T. W. Jones, who was mixed up in a church fight some years ago, in Quinn Chapel, at which time razors and revolvers flew through the air, contends that "none of the Afro-American newspaper editors who are opposed to the "Jim Crow ideas advanced by Booker T. Washington, possess the ability to write an article intelligently." It would seem that that is a rather broad assertion for Co. Jones to make but come to think of it crack brained fools whose moral lives cannot stand the light of day, are never responsible for their frothing at the mouth. CHICAGO, April 23. 1904. [Name] Candidate for Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, who should receive the nomination at the June convention. In the April number of The World To-day, Dr. W. E. B. Dubois contributed an interesting article on the race question under the head of "The Parting of the Ways." Among many other things, he observes: "The points upon which American Negroes differ as to their course of action are the following: First, the scope of education; second, the necessity of the right of suffrage; third, the importance of civil rights; fourth, the conciliation of the South; fifth, the future of the race in this country. The older opinion as built up under the leadership of our great dead, Payne, Crummell, Forten and Douglass, was that the broadest field of education should be opened to black children; that no free citizen of a republic could exist in peace and prosperity without the ballot; that self-respect and proper development of character can only take place under a system of equal civil rights; that every effort should be made to live in peace and harmony with all men, but that even for this great boon no people must willingly or passively surrender their essential rights of manhood; that in future the Negro is destined to become an American citizen with full political and civil rights, and that he must never rest contented until he has achieved this. Moreover, notwithstanding speeches and the editorials of a subsidized Negro press, black men in this land know that when they loose the ballot they lose all. They are no fools. They know it is impossible for free workingmen without a ballot to compete with free workingmen who have the ballot; they know there is no set of people so good and true as to be worth trusting with the political destiny of their fellows, and they know it is just as true to-day as it was a century and a quarter ago "that Taxation without representation is tyranny." Finally, the Negro knows perfectly what freedom and equality mean—opportunity to make the best of oneself, unhandicapped by wanton restraint and unreasonable prejudice. For this the most of us propose to strive. We will not, by word or deed, for a moment admit the right of any man to discriminate against us simply on account of race or color. Whenever we submit to humiliation and oppression it is because of superior brute force; and even when bending to the inevitable we bend with unabated protest and declare flatly and unswervingly that any man or section or nation who wantonly shuts the doors of opportunity and self-defense in the faces of the weak is a coward and knave. We refuse to kiss the hands that smite us, but rather insist on striving by all civilized methods to keep wide educational opportunity, to keep the right to vote, to insist on equal civil rights and to gain every right and privilege to a free American citizen. But, answer some, you can not accomplish this. America will never spell opportunity for black men; it spelled slavery for them in 1619 and it will spell the same thing in other letters in 1919. To this I unswervingly reply: I do not believe it. I believe black men will become free American citizens if they have the courage and persistence to demand the rights and treatment of men, and cease today and apologize and belittle themselves. The rights of humanity are worth fighting for. Those that deserve them in the long run get them. The way for black men to-day to make these rights the heritage of their children to struggle for them unceasingly, and if they fail, die trying.—Ex. Mrs. Anna L. Newby, 2628 Wabash avenue, who conducts one of the most fashionable rooming houses in Chicago, has a lively bunch of real live grass widows, domiciled in her home. They consist of Mrs. Minnie Barber, who is pretty as a beautiful peach, Mrs. Edward Tidrington, who will not experience any trouble in drawing to herself another husband Mrs. Marshall, who can pass as a queen every day in the week, and the last but not the least, Mrs. Newby, is also a dashing grass widow and whenever she is ready to take another dive into the sea of matrimony, we know of a fine looking gentleman who is ready and waiting to step forward and ask he to become his bride. Mrs. Bass is the only old fashioned widow who resides at Mrs. Newby's house, an old maid whose name we are afraid to mention is also on the market for this is leap year and if a man cannot find a wife among those ladies he is mighty hard to suit. Julius F. Taylor Selected as Sargeant At Arms. Judge Kersten swore in the April Grand Jury last Monday morning. In doing so he admonished each one of its members to do their duty without fear or favor. Mr. Garrett Burns, manager of the Thalmann Printing Ink Company, 415 Dearborn street, was chosen by the court as its foreman. Judge Kersten being free from race prejudice, a broad and liberal minded Democrat, he unhasitatingly selected the writer as one of its members, and according to the daily newspapers no other Afro-American has served in a similar capacity for many years. The Grand Jury consists of the following up-to-date business men: Garrett Burns, 6258 Stewart avenue, foreman G. F. Gartung, 386 N. Ashland ave. Thomas Latto, 6824 Justine St. W. D. Falk, 549 Orchard St. William Foster, 6427 Stewart Ave. John S. Woodruff, 5735 Monroe Ave. F. M. Nillis, 795 W. 22d St. Robert B. Peattie, 7660 Bond Ave. F. M. Kluge, 1399 Ogden Ave. G. M. Henning, 3114 Wallace St. R. R. Griffith, 4604 Union Ave L. G. Lambert, 1099 Millard Ave. C. M. Morgan, 306 Hampden Court. H. J. Illett, 642 W. Adams St. Jesse B. Hannum, 1330 Ogden Ave. Otto Guenther, Jr., 1704 Kenmore Ave W. J. Manning, 889 W. Erie St. M. E. Finan, 325 W. 65th St Otis Howard, Glencoe J. B. Hellman, 44 Lexington St. Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour Ave. John Humphrey, River Forest. P. L. Boller, 808 N. Fairfield Ave. Immediately after assembling in the Grand Jury rooms, Otto Guenther, Jr., was unanimously elected to discharge the duties as Secretary, and Julius F. Taylor was selected as Sergeant-at- Arms, and long before the lunch hour on Monday the April Grand Jury was running at full blast, and turning out indictments right and left. In this connection it affords us much pleasure to state that never in the history of our life have we come in contact with a finer body of gentlemen than those composing the Grand Jury—that each and every one of them—Assistant State's Attorney Blair, Capt. Wm. F. Knoch, Quartermaster of the 1st Infantry, Ill. U. S. and Clerk of the Grand Jury, and the other gentlemen in and around the Grand Jury rooms treat us with the greatest respect and consideration, and we deem it a great honor to be associated with them for the purpose of assisting to bring criminals to justice. M. & F. COLLEGE NOTES. Hopkinsville, K Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D., pastor of Mh. Olive Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn., and chairman of the National Baptist Publishing Board, visited us last Friday and addressed the school at length in a manner that captivated all present. Dr. Clark was enroute to Princeton, where he preached Sunday, He returned Monday, and we all went out to hear him at Virginia St.-Baptist Church Monday night, at which church he was greeted by a crowded house of every denomination and walk of life. The people were not disappointed for they heard one of the most timely, logical, and spiritual sermons it has been our pleasure to listen to for some time. Our Choral Class furnished the music. We expect to have an excellent garden this year. Messrs. Joe Marshall and David West were around last week and put the ground in a first class condition. It is the best plowing that has been done here and the Brethren have our thanks. The First Preparatory Grade highly entertained us last Friday and their last public exercise will long be remembered. Miss S. W. McCall, the teacher, deserves much credit for the excellent program. Donations—Rev. C. H. Clark, D. D. one dollar ($1.00; Rev. G. W. Clark, fifty cents ($50). No.26 Our commencement this year will begin May 18 and continue to May 24. Friends are cordially invited to be present. Miss Arletta Vaughn, Russelville, Ky., Educational Missionary of the First District Sunday School Convention, visited us this week and addressed the school. Miss Vaughan makes an excellent missionary and we hope may speak in interest of M. & F. College. The Rev. Miss Mary Mimms, Evangelist and preacher, visited our praise meeting last Sunday and all enjoyed her talk upon the subject for general discussion. The Graduating Class of the Preparatory Department, is taking the final examination this week. The students for graduation are required to make an average of 70 in all the studies of this department. Col. Robert E. Burke Is Still In the Saddle. Over two months ago an effort was made to oust Col Robert E. Burke and his followers from the headquarters of the Cook County Democracy by Senator John Powers' faction of the same organization. In order to be on the safe side of the law, Col. Burke refrained from resorting to physical force to regain possession of the headquarters. On the contrary, through his attorney, Ex-Judge Wm. H. Barnum, he appealed to Judge Brentano for protection, who permitted the two contending factions to have their day in court the latter part of February, and a few days ago his Honor handed down a decision to the effect that "Senator John Powers and his fighting followers had violated his former injunction; that from henceforth they must make themselves mighty scarce around the premises of the County Democracy. That if the attorneys for Senator Powers had not imparted to him unsound legal advice, he would send him and his brusers to jail for contempt of court. It seems that State Senator Thomas J. Dawson, who totes a large head around on his shoulders, with nothing in it, advised Senator Powers to bust into the headquarters. The fight is all over for the possession of them, and Col. Burke is receiving the congratulatinos of his friends in the way it terminated. CITY HALL FACTION. The committee men identified with the City Hall pay roll faction will have their troubles delivering the goods May 2d, for the first time in many years. The rank and file and the plain citizen, is going to the primary to vote, and vote for delegates that will support Wm. Randolph Hearst for the Presidential Nomination. The laboring man, the department store clerks, the small merchant, all combined form a most powerful Alliance that can overthrow any obstacle placed in their way by a lot of politicians. If their efforts are thwarted or any foul play practiced on them, they will go to the polls election day, as firmly united and vote against the Democratic ticket. Now then Mr. City Hall Pay Roll politician, you had better deal fairly with the plain people, or else goodby to the candidate you place on the County ticket. Some of our present Democratic officeholders and prominent in politics, no doubt seeking re-election, are professing friendship and loyalty to Mr. Hearst, Let's see, Mr. Traeger, Mr. Flannagan, and Mr. Gray where you stand in the convention there is where your loyalty will be tested. If you are not on the square you will be trimmed up most beautifully on election day. The shrewd, far seeing politician will be with Mr. Wm. Randolph Hearst on May 2d. Get in the band wagon, boys. I. P. Jones, 3537 Dearborn street, who is one of the active solicitors for the H. C. Haynes Razor Strap Company, is meeting with much success. He makes a specialty in exchanging or trading razors, shears, hones and so on. Mr. Jones transacts business with many of the leading white barbers of this city and being progressive he will continue to push his way to the front. THE BROAD AX Will prosecute and at all times uphold the true principle of Honour, but Obedience, Fairness, Friend, Kindle, Fairness, Single Taxon, Respectful, Knights of Loyal, or any one else who bears 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. JULIEUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., as Second-class Matter. TO WORRY MEAN CREDITOR Ordinarily, when a debtor appears before a long-time creditor in Chicago, there is no questioning of the United States coin in which the debt is to be paid, but the wide possibilities possessed by an arbitrary creditor in stipulating just what coins and in what amounts he will receive payment are enough almost to discourage even borrowing, says the Chicago Tribune. You can't force a mean creditor to take more than 25 cents' worth of nickels or 25 cents' worth of copper cents. If you could get as much as five dollars' worth of old silver three-cent pieces of another generation, you could unload five dollars' worth on him, just as he would have to take five dollars' worth of the silver five-cent pieces and five dollars' worth of the obsolete 20-cent pieces, which made so much trouble in the late '70s. But you can pay out ten dollars in silver dimes, and silver quarters, and silver half-dollars; the trade dollar—of which there are a few still coming into the treasury of the United States for redemption—are worth nothing, while the standard dollar is an unlimited legal tender, as is the old "dollar of our dads," the first of which was coined in 1794, and the last in 1873. Coins that virtually have disappeared from circulation are gold three-dollar and one-dollar pieces, the trade dollar of silver, the nickel three-cent piece, the copper two-cent piece and the copper half-cent, and silver three and five-cent pieces. DANGER SPOTS IN A STORM Places One Would Do Well to Avoid While the Lightning Is Playing Pranks. Now that the season of thunderstorms is approaching, people should understand what spots to avoid, in order to reduce to the minimum the chances of being struck by lightning. Out of doors trees should be avoided, and if from the rapidity with which the explosion follows the flash it is evident that electric clouds are near at hand, a recumbent posture is the safest. It is seldom dangerous to take shelter under sheds, carts or low buildings, or under the arch of a bridge, and a distance of 20 or 30 feet from tall trees or house is an eligible situation, for should a discharge take place these elevated bodies are most likely to receive it. It is well, also, to avoid water, for it is a good conductor, and the height of a human being near the stream may determine the direction of a discharge. Within doors we are tolerably safe in the middle of a carpeted room or when standing on a thick hearth rug. The chimney should be avoided on account of the conducting power of the carbon deposited in it and gilt moldings or bell wires are sources of risk. In bed we are tolerably safe, since blankets and feathers are bad conductors. It is injudicious to take refuge in a cellar, because the discharge is often from the earth to a cloud, and buildings frequently sustain the greatest injury in their basements. DISEASE GERMS IN CLAMS. Don't Stop Eating Your Shell-Fish, But See That They Are Thoroughly Cooked. The infection of the few oysters that are cultivated near the mouths of sewers, and their share in conveying typhoid fever, is now an old story. The harm done, though relatively small, is real and serious. It is now said that slam beds are also in danger of contamination from the same cause. Of course, the proportion of clams which are exposed to disease germs is exceedingly small. All the same the fact is not to be ignored by wise people. However, the proper way to overcome the danger is not to stop eating clams or oysters, but to see that they are well cooked. A German bacteriologist, Dr. Klein, who has been looking into the matter, says that the common practice of dipping the clams (inclosed in a net) into hot water for a moment is not enough to kill the germs if any are present. He advises boiling more thoroughly and longer. Dr. Klein also recommends cooking by steam. He says that if three layers of them are cooked at the same time, ten minutes are sufficient for the lower layer and 15 for the two others. Bacteriological investigation has demonstrated that after steaming clams for the length of time mentioned no living bacteria introduced into them before was found. SCIENCE OF ROYALTY. Prince Eitel Pritz, second son of Kaiser Wilhelm, will make a'visit to England shortly. Peter of Servia has had a crown made, said to be one of the finest in existence, from an artistic standpoint. King Edward has conferred the rank of royal highness upon the children of his brother, the duke of Connaught. Prince Celewayo, grandson of the famous Zulu king who was captured by the British in south Africa 22 years ago, is a student in London, devoting much of his time to law and history. He likes England and the English, he says, but hates their way of dressing. The immaculate trousers, frock coat and tall hat are to him a sore affliction, but he finds relief at night, when he strips and rolls himself in a blanket. Andrew Carnegie has the best collection of autographs of crowned heads and famous persons in contemporary history. These are frequently not only signatures, but also letters written to him on various subjects. He has compiled them with a great deal of care and they form one of his most valued possessions. Nothing has ever been learned of what became of the collection of the late Dr. Evans, of Paris, which was one of the most extensive in Europe. Princess Maria del Pilar, the little 13-year-old princess, whom rumor has assigned as a fiancee to the young king of Spain, is the third child of Prince Louis Ferdinand, of Bavaria. Her mother is Princess Maria de la Paz, an infant of Spain, so there are already close ties of kinships between the two. The pretty little girl princess is, however, still in the schoolroom, and several years must elapse before she blossoms out into a full-blown young lady. The crown prince of Germany and his younger brother, Prince Eitel Fritz, are much dissimilar in character and disposition, the latter being extremely retiring and greatly impressed with the necessity for complying with parental authority. The crown prince, on the contrary, on several occasions has suffered through disobeying his august father. The headstrong heir apparent once told a friend that Prince Eitel was "a very good boy, but not the stuff that kings are made of." WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? A man knows how to make excuses with success. Women want much in the way of polite consideration. To the industrious man holidays come in the nature of toil. The man who tells fancy stories has no idea of the value of time. Some women have an odd way of showing affection for a man. When a woman can't have her own way she shows her displeasure. Some men carry their business into all their dealings with others. A woman likes to feel that her social movements are worth noticing. Men of good standing pay close attention to correct correspondence. Take a woman's word in a love affair and you are bound to be confused.—Philadelphia Bulletin. FASHION'S FANCIES. Last year's gowns will not be worn this season. The popular fad of putting a No. 4 foot in a No. 2 shoe is still with us. For very little boys there are belts in green apple tints, with lining of paregoric brown. A new fabric known as eggproof scenery material is being introduced in theatrical circles. The complete automobile costume this season calls for oiled fingers as well as gasoline on the handkerchief. The newest lace collars are accompanied by an extra section, making it possible to use them as table doilies. Chicago Tribune. NOTABLE WOMEN. Miss Eleanor Wallot has given 200,000 marks to the University of Heidelberg for the higher education of woman in Germany. Mrs. Rachel Albright, granddaughter of Betsy Ross, who made the first American flag, lives at Fort Atkinson, Ia., and is a flagmaker. Mrs. Herbert Druce, of San Francisco, has aided in reviving private theatricals in Paris. She has performances once a week at her home in the Rue Herran. Mrs. Helen G. Craig, who died recently at Asbury Park, N. J., was selected, because of her beauty, to present a laurel wreath to Lafayette when he visited Boston in 1824. SCRAPS OF FACT Letter boxes with electric bells in them as letter-thief telltales are shortly to appear in Paris. The government of Greece has authorized the English Institute of Archaeology to carry out excavations in Lakonia. Chief Justice Alton B. Parker, of the New York court of appeals, says that "to the best of my knowledge and belief" he was born in Cortland, N. Y. "Old Friendship," the fire engine George Washington aided in pulling through the streets of Alexandria, Va., will be exhibited at the St. Louis fair. IMPERTINENCES. When a man is really hungry, his wife is apt to be a good cook.—St. Paul Globe. "A friend in need is a friend indeed." "I suppose so; a quit claim deed."—Brooklyn Life. "Some folks' idea of bein' busy," said Uncle Eben, "is standin' aroun' an' findin' fault wif yuthuh folks dat's workin'." —Washington Star. When you lose a dollar somebody else finds one. But when somebody else loses a dollar you do not find one. Thus do we detect the wabble in the scales of fate. —Chicago Tribune. WOMEN YOU READ ABOUT. Barbora Honora Venus Brown-Ryan, a Boston character for many years past, was arrested for vagrancy the other day, and upon being searched $6,000 was found concealed in her clothing. She was permitted to depart from the court room in peace, but with a warning to keep off the streets. London women of high rank have taken to fencing, and leading physicians are doing all in their power to make the fad last as long as possible. A grand assault at arms was held recently, the duke of Connaught and a number of other distinguished members of the aristocracy being present. The neatness and grace of the girl competitors won hearty applause from the spectators, most of whom were women. Probably the two most learned women in the world, certainly the foremost women Biblical scholars, are Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis and Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, of Cambridge, England, who have just discovered what is known as the Sinalitic pallimpsest, the oldest known manuscript of the four gospels. This is the most important discovery of Biblical manuscripts which has been made in modern times. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie cares little or nothing for jewels. When she goes out to a function or to the opera she sometimes wears pearls, but these are not of fabulous size or price. They are extremely modest and afford quite a contrast to the jewels which some women wear. At best Mrs. Carnegie does not care for functions or society in general. She makes a delightful hostess at Skibo castle, where she has received royalty, and these are qualities which always win with the higher classes abroad. IN CHURCH CIRCLES. China proper has a population of over 400,000,000. Protestant Christian communicants number 112,808. Prof. Harnack, a widely known and liberal professor of theology in the University of Berlin, has made a collection of the sayings of Christ not contained in the New Testament. The year 1903 in the Presbyterian mission in Canton, China, was the best in its history. To the 20 churches there were 1,098 additions, and the local contributions amounted to more than $8,000. Up to the present time Plus X. has been regarded by orthodox Catholics as the two hundred and sixty-fourth bishop in direct succession from St. Peter. But the lately issued Gerarchia Cattolica, or Papal Blue book, sets him down as the two hundred and fifty-eighth. Monsignore Duchene, director of the French academy at Rome, has for some time contended that half a dozen of the traditional popes never existed, and this act of the newly-elected prelate shows that he accepts that decision. Miss Mary B. Robinson, of Pittsburg, Pa., is the richest woman evangelist. She is the niece of John G. Robinson, secretary of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railway; has a fortune of $500,000 in her own right and owes one of the most luxurious homes in the smoky city. She is young, pretty and has such a glorious voice that an impresario offered her $10,-000-a year to sing in public. Friends and relatives oppose her purpose, but she has decided to enter the field of evangelical work and devote her life to teaching the moral law and trying to save sinners. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Some men lose their hair by butting in at the wrong time. It is the grave cases of a physician that benefit the undertaker. If a man loses all his money he also manages to lose nearly all his enemies. An ounce of get-up-and-get is better than a pound of that "tired feeling." A true hero is a man who flights for his country and refuses to scrap with his wife. A fool refuses a paying job to-day because he has a thankless one for to-morrow. Only a woman is capable of arriving at a conclusion without using either reason or judgment. After a man has paid a woman a few compliments he will be voted a "mean thing" if he suspends payment. It is said that distance lends enchantment to the view, but the theory falls down when applied to a man's view of pay day. Now there are rumors of a boardinghouse trust abroad in the land. Boarding houses that will trust would fill a long-felt want.—Chicago Daily News. MILADY'S MILLINERY. Straw sailor hats for the children's wear come in red, brown and blue. A hat in red straw is trimmed with great clusters of cherries and is very chic-looking. Hats are shown trimmed with grapes apples and oranges, and many others are trimmed with grapes and cherries. Nearly all the hats have rich lace veils which hang down in the back in a curtain effect. One handsome white chip hat in round shape has a low crown surrounded by pale pink roses and over this a rich lace veil with a heavy border which falls behind in a rather square effect. AT THE PLAY T. R. Benson will give another series of dramatic performances at Stratford-on-Avon, this time during the festival of 1905. "I have met people who roll their eyes to heaven and rave about Shakespeare and yet they won't go to see Shakespearean plays," says a popular actor. And that, no doubt, is the reason why a well-known manager said recently, or was reported as saying: "There's no use talking about it; this man Shakespeare is played out." Wanted No Men with Jama. Wanted No Men with Ideas. The late duke of Cambridge looked upon all innovations in army discipline with great suspicion, and it was only with the utmost difficulty that he could be induced to make changes. A story illustrating this is now affloat in London. An appointment in the horse guards was vacant and a certain captain was suggested as suitable. The duke said: "I know his name quite well, but isn't there something against him? Didn't he write a book on the army?" He was assured to the contrary. "I feel sure he has written a book or something," insisted the old man. "Is he one of those fellows who have ideas?" "Oh, no, your grace, absolutely none," answered the military secretary. "Very well," said the duke, "he may be given the post." Alum in Colorado. Alum is one of the latest mineral substances of value to be added to the list credited to Colorado. A blanket deposit, four feet thick and of great width, has been discovered a few miles east of Florence, and it is pronounced to be of high commercial quality. This is the first discovery of alum in Colorado. 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. For further particulars call on Long and McDonald, Room 410, Reaper Black, Tel. Central 858. Mrs. Anna L. Newby. First class furnished rooms, for rent to gentleman and ladies, with bath and gas. 2623 Wabash avenue. Mrs. J. J. Manley. Funeral designs of every description, latest and most stylish decorations, for churches and weddings. Palms to rent for all social functions, 3119 State St., Chicago. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates, 2252 Indiana aveune. Established 1877. Phone Oakland 1550-1551 John J. Dunn Wholesale and Retail Dealer in... COAL & WOOD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 151st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 52nd St. and Armour Ave. CHJCAGO A REAL CHANCE ENTERPRISING CANVASSERS The demand for Professor W. E. B. DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk has been so remarkable, especially among those who do not buy many books, that we have just issued a This powerful study of the Negro Question stands ahead of all others. 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Because it is made right and is aged right. CHAS. DENNEHY & CO. CHICACO WILLIAM LEGNER, Vice Pres. & Treas. ABOUT MEN AND EVENTS aT THE HATIONAL CAPITOL NO SYMPATHY FOR BURTON ‘His Associates in the Senate Wish He ‘Would Resign—A Bit of His- tory—Problems for the ‘War Secretary. ‘Washington.—There is no sympathy whatever among Senator Burton's as- Sociates in the senate for the he finds himself, owing to his taking .a retainer from a concern which had busi- mess before the x post office depart. ment. There is Senator Burton. 0t @ man in the ; ; Senator Burton. party who does not wish that Burton would resign and thus relieve what is Sapidly becoming a very embarrassing situation. At the same time the sen- ate is not likely to take any steps in the case until after the courts have finally passed on the question of Bur- ton's guilt or innocence. To expel him from the senate now, as some would like to do, would be te prejudge @ case which is coming be fore the higher courts on appeal, and the older senators in the body do not want to do anything like that, A good many senators are sore because Burton in his defense declared that he had done no more than his asso ciates and therefore could not prop erly be blamed. A little over a year ago Burton went to one of the oldest and most highly esteemed republican senators ‘and told him he wanted a piece of ad- vice. He said that a sanitarium in Kansas had asked him to examine its literature with a view to determining ‘whether it was lable to be excluded from the mails and to prepare litera- ture which would safely escape the critical eye of the postal detectives. He said that he was going to receive & generous fee for this work, but he ‘was in doubt about the legality of it abd feared it might be in violation of Section 1,782 of the Revised Statutes. ‘The older senator asked him to bring the Revised Statutes and together they studied carefully the section in question. Finally the older senator said that if Burton had correctly stated the nature of his employment by the sanitarium it did not come un der the class of work forbidden by the statute. At the same time he told Burton that a question of propriety ‘was involved and that so far as he not ‘of accepting such employ. ment, however every senator must de cide for himself as to the propriety of his conduct. That was the last heard of the business until Burton ‘was indicted, when the old senator ‘was mildly surprised to have Burton come up to him in the chamber one day and calmly assert that he ha¢ mever before heard of Scetion 1,78: under which he was indicted. He said nothing about it, but he was anything but pleased later to learn that in his testimony at St Louis Burton ha¢ sworn that he accepted service with the Rialto company after consultation with this senator, when as a matte! of fact the Rialto company had never been mentioned between the two. The War Secretary. Secretary Taft is already extremely popular both in the senate and in the house. He spends more time at the capitol than all 2 the other mem- Aaa bers of the cabi- net, and he is 3 rapidly, assuming r something of the q position which Ea Vice President x, Hobart filled so successfully dur- & ing the first Mc a Kinley adminis tration—an inter- mediary between Secretary Taf 11. executive and EZ congress, familiar with both ends o: Pennsylvania avenue, and as well liked at one end as at the other. The secretary of war, under the new order of things since the ecquisition of the Philippines and the reorganiza tion Of the army, to say nothing of the beginning of work on the Panama canal, has become the most important member of the cabinet. More weighty questions from now on will come up before him for settlement than before any other of the president's counsel lors. All problems growing out of the new acquisitions of territory as well as out of the construction of the canal must be considered first by the secre tary of war, and in the last few weeks it has been a rare day that the secre- ‘tary has not been summoned before seme qomition or other tn eter clear up a question. oo: ‘2 tion * exten sion of the Philippines’ law ia its pro ‘visions concerning the application of a val adhim ¢ os a alate. | = ae nee ae anal str 2 with ‘it oe a de een ating t s eek ieee de da hare aS een iy te to dot inet Geet eee pe noe eae ee ee ee ‘Taft proves himself most Valuable at ties greet weight. It ts in the consid. eration of party policies, in which the President and members of the senate and house aré mrutually iterested, that calls into play his most. valuable qualities of tactfulness and politica! sense. Taft is filling the place left Vacant by Elibu Root in a manner tc command universal approval. Army General Stef. ‘The general staff of the army is rapidly making itself obnoxious at the ‘capitol The military affairs commit tees of the ‘senate and house resent what seems to be a growing disposition om the part of Gen. Chaffee and his subordinates to control absolutely all ‘questions relating to military adminis tration. Congress feels that the dis position of the army is @ matter which can be properly supervised by congress with the assistance of a civilian sec retary, and it is not exactly clear why the little group of army officers com prising the general staff should be the ultimate court of decision. Under Secretary Root, to whose abil ity and urgency the creation of the general staff is due, there was less dis position to control the whole business, and Gen. Young, in the beginning, a! any rate, was inclined to recognize the superior authority of the civilian sec retary. When Mr. Root went abroad te serve on the Alaskan boundary com mission, however, the general staff be gan gradually to absorb the function: of the secretary of war and to encroach upon the duties of the civilian admin istrator of the department, so tha‘ when Root returned he fourd the staf in the saddle. He had so little time to serve that he did not undertake curb the staff but left that unwelcomé task for his successor, who, of course lacked the prestige of having brough the staff into existence. Secretary Taf will have a merry time on bis hand: when he fairly gets to work to brin; the staff to a realization of the true ad justment of its relations to the un! verse. The Record Division. Brig. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the record and pension division of the war department, becomes a major ‘ general with the —* passage of the act combining the rec- ord and pension di- vision with the re- cording bureaus of Aa the adjutant gen- Gised eral's office, the . De new division to be Le under the control | of Gen. Ainsworth Neen ti ti as military secre- pues! tary. This is an Bem Ateeencesth et ed ee ee tinction for a man who has won his way to the confidence of successive secre- taries of war and members of congress of both parties by an exhibition of ex- traordinary executive ability. - When-Gen, Ainsworth came to the war department about ‘a dozen year: ago the records of the department were im a state of chacs. It took days ané sometimes weeks for the pension office which was dependent upon the depart ment of records in the adjudication of the claims .to find out just what was the record during the war of any giver soldier. Gen. Ainsworth, by the adop tion of a system of his.own and by weeding out the superannuated and lazy clerks in the department, bas made it possible to find any giver ‘record within half an hour, and the extraordinary thing about it is tha’ ‘he has vastly increased the efficiency of the division while actually decreas apagdl Joe Cannon’s Cousins. Uncle Joe Cannon hardly sees a day pass that some visitor does not enter the sp eakers room and claim erally on such fetched assump tions that Uncle Joe cannot see the connection a? all. A day or two ago, however, Hallie Erminie Rives, a southern writer, aston ished the speaker oe \ > ee card on which she had described her self as his cousin, and when he saw her she still further astonished him by proceeding glibly to recite facts in the family history of the Cannons -of which the speaker supposed no- body was aware except a few of his most intimate family connections It seems. that the Cannons and the Riveses intermarried away dack in the early part of the century in North Carolina and that the young Virginia writer is actually what she assumes to be—the speaker's second cousin. | Speaker Cannon's southern ances ‘try is a thing about which he rarely speaks and about which comparatively few people know. But he is really a genuine ‘southerner, having gone from North Carolina to Illinois as a boy, and he-hax never lost some of his southern traits. Uncle Joe was of Quaker descent and he retains to day many of the simple, direct charac teristics of the society of the Friends. It has been noticed more than once during his political career that be has Sree ns etaeatie south of Mason and Dix to fall in to support ection bill away beck tm the Pitty. frst congress, sad be Bas seve "ts redace the representation a the south on secount of distrancht 4 Nursery Table Cover __._in Applique and Embroider: oi a ) ‘ PARASOL DAYS ARE COMING Next Summer's Sunshades Are Mo ticesble for Their Novelty and Real Artistic Worth. Parasol Guys seem pretty far distant gust now, but the shop folks believe in ‘anticipating the calendar, and in the ‘sunny south, whence so many north- ‘erners have gone, the parasol is as nec- essary as the furs that the New Yorker ‘Gnds so comfortable. From Paris have come this season many charming su®- ‘shades, and a particularly attractive type is illustrated in the accompany- ‘Ing sketch. It ts of white taffeta silk, with frill of filmy lace headed by an ap- plique of La France roses and foliage im panne velvet in natural hues. A fuffy bow and long ends of chiffon adorn the handle of light tinted wood. In parasol handles, the detachable kind that has come to us from the French capital and is among the essen- tial accessories of the modish woman, are novelties more noticeable as novel- ties than for their artistic worth. Two are shown here. Both are of crystal with magnifying qualities. The round top on one handle incloses a tiny av- temobile, perfect in detail—a minia- ture toy—while within the transparent SS a > eee? YT ah $ af Ae erence sphere surmounting the other handle is to be seen the realistic head of a pug dog. From another glass handle of this sort peers the head of a bulldog as unprepossessing as in real life. Popu- larity is not predicted for handles of this sort, hut the woman who likes to advertise her fondness for dogs or au- tos, or to have something different from the ordinary type in the way of @ parasol, is likely to take a fancy to the novelties Brooklyn Eagle. Parker House Potatoes. | For a luncheon dish, “Parker House potatoes” will be appreciated. Add to a pint of hot mashed potatoes a beaten ‘egg and a tablespoonful of flour. Roll out with a bread roller andécut into large circles. On each piece lay a little minced veal or lamb, and turn over the other half of the potato, pinching the edges together, exactly like a parker house roll. Lay on a buttered pan and bake brown. Serve with a brown gravy or with a meat sauce made from other fragments of yestérday’s roast veal-oriamb.~ —- Bleck Spots on Dishes. Salt rubbed on the black spots on dishes will remove them, and salt placed over a fresh claret stain on the table linen will assist it to disappear whex washed. 4 ie authorities responsible for some of the best needlework de- signs have at last learned that the women of to-day prefer to spend their time and ingenuity upon pieces of good neediecraft which are quickly and ef- fectively accomplished; and a glance around any of the exhibitions where specimens of the latest needlecraft oc- cupy a prominent place is sufficient to show that applique work, aided by ¢f- ‘fective embroidery stitches, is becom- ‘ing more and more popular,” says the Ladies’ Field. | “This vastly interesting work is in so many simple forms that it is passing easy for the beginner to select a sub- ject which may be carried out without the dread of failure ever before her eyes. Perhaps the simplest designs are these in which outline plays the more important part. The accompany- ing design illustrating s nursery table- ‘cover, would be most useful and effec- ‘tive if arranged in various colored applique upon a pale bine lines ground. The birds, expressed in bright Zod then when paced spon the ground ee ot : if outlined by a narrow > BAINTY CASE FOR RECIPES. Mpyings Laid Within Its Fuids Ave Accessible Than If Placed 3 i in a Drawer. . Wot those who have felt the need of @ome little article which will hold the new recipes that promise so well, yet must be Isid aside until a convenient ‘me! comes for trying them, there is provided a holder shaped like a minia- ture portfolio. The outer case is made of water-color paper, cut as indicated rel in the accompanying diagram, gummed on the flaps and folded in the middle. Clippings laid within this folded paper, which is then slipped inside the case, are more readily accessible than when taid on a shelf or in a drawer or with- im the leaves of a cook book, and they never slip out of their own accord and disappear, with apparent malice, as clippings have a habit of doing. By way of showing the use for which it is intended, suitable cooking utensils are marked in ink and tinted in color on the case, and its top is cut on their out- Himes. The inner paper is finished tc correspond, and as it is a trifle longer than the outer case, a prominent uten- sil serves as & handle to withdraw it when necessary. The illustration show: the finished case, also the separate parts.—Agnes Warren, in Modern Pris cilla. An Teland of Women. On a small island in the Greek archi- pelago there is a colony which is com- posed entirely of women. It is a sort of religious order, which considers it & disgrace for one of its members to even look at a man. When a fisherman ap- proaches the islands the women pull the gray cowls of their cassocks over their heads and turn their backs. Provisions are never imported, as the women raise their own products, being strictly vege- tarians. Only the matron, who is an- nually elected head of the colony, isever allowed to leave the island. The others remain on the island all their lives, tak- ing their turn at tilling the soil, wash- ing, housekeeping and fishing. Makine a Real Lace Gown. Darned lace is greatly esteemed by connoisseurs. A whole dress made in this way is very beautiful. Take white Brussels net or point d’esprit for a foun- dation and make a princess gown well fitted to the figure. Cut a paper flower— 8 daisy shape is a good model—pin it on ‘the net, and run a white silk outline around the edges. This may be done at intervals all over the net, the interven- ing spaces being afterward connected by a running line. After the flowers have been sketched in, so to speak, with the needle, the petals may be darned solid with coarse whiie embroidery silk, leav- ing a round center to be filled in with several French knots.—Chicago Post. ordinary satin stitch; the birds’ mark- ings, however, need to be carefully traced in fine lines of shadings. “The quaint Noah’s ark-looking sort of trees may be treated im quite the same fashion, viz, the stiff upstanding foliage being cut in one piece and then outlined with a darker green cord, and their branches also expressed in satin stiteh. The frogs can be made very ‘decorative by being treated In a judi- cious mixture of applie® work and darn- ing. Carried out in brown frog color with black and yellow markings they would be a delight to little eyes. It will naturally suggest itself to workers that in carrying out this sketch a great deal of individual taste and skill may be exercised, and almost any amount of detail may be introduced. For instance, @ little filoselle introduced here and there in birds and frogs will be found bo ong agian alr ggptel ge stitch lies purely at the will of nen skilful—or less patient—work- “might carry out this good nursery design almost entirely m with feet, bills of birds. ‘and all 0 treated. even to ‘eediework existence to filing THE WIFE OF THE MIKADO. ‘Her Name Is Haruko and She Belongs te One of the Noblest Fam- 4 {iles of Japan. ‘Fhe empress of Japan, Haruko (pop- Qlarly named the “Empress Spring”), is a daughter of the noble house of Ich- igo, 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 im the strictest seclusion in the old capital, Kiote, and received the custom- ary education of a daughter of a princely daimio. Great pains were taken to teach her Herature, to develop her artistic taste and to school her in the writing of grace- ful 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 meg- aki’s son. “Empress Spring” has been truly a helpmeet and an inspiratiof to her hus- band. She caused the first Japanese girls tc be sent to America, in 1871, to aequire 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 na tional 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 int those of the emperor. The state apartments are furnished ir European style. The palace, built iz 1889, is in the old native style of archi tecture, but is equipped with the “mod- ern improvements” familiar to the wes —water, electric lights and heating ap- paratus. The ladies of the court livé in a sepa rate building, from which a covered gal- Re RN ‘ be r we Mud ra) 2 Fe Ze XS GL \ SSS Yio SSsss Ye SSS Vie 2 SSS Vago ‘ SS) BS ao =~ \ ; oP me * ws fy y NS ae a THE EMPRESS OF JAPAN. (Her Name Is Haruko, Which Means “Empress Spring.”) ery leads to the palace. Japanese eti- quette 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 conserva- tive grandmothers. There are women lawyers in Tokio, and although their en- trance 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. FAILURE IN MARRIED LIFE. Much Unhappiness Is Caused Because ‘Men and Women Fail to Har- monize Their Tempers. Unless tempers can be harmonized, no marriage can be truly happy. Somemay 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 coun- selor. However hard the struggle may be, it is sure to lead to wonderful ‘re- sults; and as nothing in this life is gained without struggle and persistent effort, married touples who are not happy only because they cannot har- monize their tempers, will find that the struggle, even if it has taken years and years, will be worth the effort. ‘The importance of harmonizing tem- pers in married life is not less than that of marriage itself. Peopleseem to resort to marriage because they can picture atandé of unalioyed happiness in which they may dwéll. After one or two years of married existence the dream is shat- tered. Pride alone then bids many 4 man and wife to live together in Inhar- monious union. They have a reasonable share of the comforts of life, but most ic oe. have too much of one thing— temper.—N. Y. Weekly. Catzut for Stringing Beads. ' ‘The best thing for stringing beads, gold or coral, as well as giass bead chains, is catgut. Next to that dental floss is to be preferred. Never use thread. = REASGN FOR EARTHQUAKES Time, Says Professer, Is Accountabie for Shrinkage ta 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 per- fect 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 com- municated itself to the land.” A. W. Grabau, professor of paleon- tology, 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 con- ‘tinued, gravely. “The last voleanic eruption here- abouts was the one that made the pall- ‘sades on- the Hudson, and that was back in the trisssic perfod. 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 ac- tually made themselves.almost indispen- sable in the homes of the wealthy. The Malabar monkey is of the fine species known es the langur. It is very warm in Malabar, and there is a fan called the punka, which used to be kept in mo- tion by a slave. It required a slave to work each punka, but now every punka ir Malabar is worked by a monkey. It was an English officer who con- ceived the idea of making the langur work in that manner. The fan isamov- able frame, covered with canvas and suspended from the ceiling. The motion is caused by pulling acord. 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 iast, 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 thesky, meeting at the zenith in a perfect and glowing with beautiful colors, the’ shafts being bright ruby-colored at top, but changing in hue as they scended through purple and green gold at the bottom. Objects halfa away were evidently beyond the shafts, and indeed some of these were only few yards distant, and seemed to 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 Ozon- ized 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 satisfac- tion. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Ad- dress Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wa- bash Avenue, Chicago, Il. THE BROAD AX. Is for sale at the following news stands: The Afro-American News Office, 2104 State Street. A F. Tervalon’s Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward. Felix's Cigar Store, 258 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. Ball'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% State street. Frank H. Hart, 3543ist street, ci- gars, tobacco and Laundry office. Mrs. E. ¥. Early, groceries and no tions, 2933 State St. - The Stationery, 2970 State strest. 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 Lau» Office, 411 E. 36th st. News items and advertisements sft at these places will find their way {to the cofumns of The Broad Ax GHIPSs. Sareea the eam | e ve Ra “make s-winning race for State’i At ees boast Sst Bee “ter, 250 W. Madison street, should re petro the nomination ax one of th "For first class and uptodate hats at rock bottom prices, call et Galla- “gher’s new bat store, 250 West Madi mon at , : “he will return home Im time to be present “at the meeting of the city “eouncil Monday evening. "Some people who live in a palace in this world will be lucky when they ‘peach the next if St. Peter: assigns them to s room in the garret—The ‘Mirror. Society folks are making great - preparations for the ball to be given on Friday evening, April 29, by The ‘Storks, at the Douglas Clubhouse. Miss Josie Hubbard was called frem Oberlin ‘Colloge, Oberlin, Ohio, to the @eathbed of her father, Mr. Theo. Hubbard, an old and very highly re spected citizen of Chicago. * 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 ‘Many wagers were made that our Editor could not serve on The Grand Jury, as summoned. Prominent, sens- fble men are always wanted, hence he had to serve. Alderman Bill Dever is seeking the nomination for State’s Attorney of ‘Cook county. If he should happen to receive the nomination The Broad Ax wouldn't do a thing to him. Nit, cheap Bill. It is the Zend-Avesta which says: “The damsel who, having reached the age of 18, shall refuse to marry, must remain in hell until the earth is shat- tered.” This reminds one of another wise old saw: “Heaven for climate, hell for society.” Judge Kersten displayed his legal wisdom when he selected Mr. Garrett Burns as foreman of the April Grand Jury, for Mr. Burns is a highly pol- ished gentleman, a thorough business man, one whom The Broad Ax would cheerfully support for President of the Board of County Commissioners. Attorney M. J. Stanton of Sims & Stanton, Stock Exchange Building, who is one of the leading Democratic politicians on the West Side, left for Chiapas, Mexico, last Monday, where he will spend one year in the interest of the American ‘Mutual Plantation Company. Buy your spring hat from Thomas Gallagher, 250 West Madison st. for lhe carries all the leading styles and shapes at the lowest prices. ‘William H. Brown, sergeant-at-arms of the city conncil, who always makes & favorable impression upon all who have the pleasure of coming in con- tact with him, was recently presented with a very beautiful gold star by the attaches of the city clerk's office. It is needless to say that Mr. Brown highly appreciates it. ‘Strange, but true, there are a great many nice fiats owned by colored men, who prefer renting tiem to darkey- hating whites than to the most re- -Spected and abletopay of their own Face, for this reason some of our best _ citizens will have to break up house- seeping for @ while at least, since the white landlords will not rent them a - place to live in. If Mr-Cleveland will condescend to Tead pages 646, 647 and 648 of Fred. _ Pougiasz’ autography he will find how “be -was complimented im inviting his. (Cleveland's) own hand to his so- deed Cleve ; told “By Tom ‘Watson of Georgia—ex. — a a © +7 etccme r alled editor or preacher of the Qld Church Organ is convinced &t Prot. Booker T. Washington will : me ® “greater leader of his race under like himself” This 2 ) is 6 worm of Re a rg ne eee ee ie fae See et Serres oe : out fort, ¢ sagt Mas Po iatn ar Sage ge hk ie et ott ‘Ward, and W. W, Johnson, and those duties eve in. the past thrived dy who have fell within the clutches of the law, and they. and Alexander for their many dishonest deeds. ‘The Afro-Americins of Richmond, ‘Va., pay taxes on more than one mil- Hon dollars worth of property, but that-fact does not prevent their best white friends In that city from es- tabiishing “Jim Crow cars” for those decent property holding, tax-paying colored people to ride in. There is only one thing for the self-respecting Negroes of Richmond to do until the owners of its street cars comes to their senses and that is to walk! State's Attorney Charles 8S. Deneen will control the majority of the dele- gates in Cook county to the Repub lcan State Convention, which con- venes in Springfield May 12. His headquarters in the Grand Pacific Ho- tel are crowded all day long with the leading men of his party—men who always deliver the goods in the way of delegates, and they all predict that Col. Deneen will receive the nomina- tion for Governor of Illinois. Mrs. Fred D. Berry, 5025 Armour avenue, has broke up housekeeping ‘nd for the next two months she will spend with her sister, Mrs. Johnson, who resides in Ashtabula, Ohio, who has been dangerously ill for some weeks. Before taking her departure Mrs. Berry spent several days in vis- iting with Mrs. James Green, 5054 Armour avenue, and she has many ‘warm ‘friends who will greatly miss her while absent from the city. Mrs. Jackson, 3630 State street, who has been a member of Bethel church for many years, and who loaned Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray one hun- @red dollars two years ago, which amount he has never refunded to her, bad all her things and ber five fatherless children set out in the street for not being able to pay five months’ rent, which she owed ow- ing to the fact that she has not suc- ceeded in collecting the one hundred dollars from her pastor. The Supreme Court of Illinois, this week for the third time set aside the findings of the Circuit Court of Madison County, respecting the sep- aration of the white and colored children in the public schools of Al ton and & new trial must be granted. ‘The judges of the Supreme Court in this celebrated case, have not per- mitted themselves to be bullied or Seasull ley aiies ‘pestallas aud ict in| favor of upholding and interpreting the present state law as it applies to white and black children, receiving ed- ucational instructions, on equal terms, im the same public school buildings. William Harrah, official stenograph- er’ in the city council rooms, and Police Officer James Brouder, who always straightens the city fathers out when- ever they start on the warpath, are both of the opinion that'it would add to our appearance and dignity if we would dress up in a shining black plug hat. If several thousand readers of this paper should happen to think likewise, and some of them would send in their unpaid subscriptions it would enable us to come into posses- sion of such a hat; it is barely pos- sible that we might be induced to wear it. What do you say, Mr. Reader? Are you in favor of the Editor of The Broad Ax wearing a stovepipe hat? are upper and lower. Pai, bel ane whang are white, Diack and yellow. 'Suifizes are more numerous and famil- far. Kiang, bo tchuan, ula, muren and tchu each and all mean river. Thus Yalu Kiang and Liao Ho are simply Yalu tiver and Liaoriver. Shui, kou, thsuan, ‘hi, gol and ussu are unfamiliar terms, ‘meaning a brook or small river. Hu, aor and omo mean lake,as in the well- known Lob Nor and Kosso Gol. Po, ts and tien mean a small lake or swamp, or @ town situated near such a place. Gal means sea; thus Whang-Hai is the Yellow sea, Tung-Hat is the Eastern sea and Nan-Hai is the Southern sea. Tao and sometimes shan means island, but sham more often means a mountain range. Ling is a pass over a mountain range. le ieee le mine a ‘The fact that compression or bend- img causes « substance to emit X-rays has suggested to M.D. Lepinay that vibrations producing sound should have the same effect, as the sounding body andergoes slight but rapidly repeated rains. Experiments with a tuning fork, a bronze bell, a large steel cyl- inder and siren proved this to be true, and the phosphorescent screen showed that the air slso produces as weil as Se ates an, Another investi- gator, M. Meyer, has discovered a similar parts of the plant giving the most in- HEARD AT THE. CAPTTOL eee nen te s ue Jocosely. . “I haven't eon te m in 20 yeare.”, ‘to Washiugton he wes unacquaintes pease in shed tc coon ae ‘poker was played by o off. clals. He was asked to t caon Ricsacectauael ty Dao tee department. “But he plays poker,” iil the poker players tn Washingtos in there wouldn't be caough of te laf t there wouldn't be enough of ts te organize a debating society.” Since Mr. Depew's naive admission im the senate chamber that there are two Chauncey Depews—one who says what he has considered carefully and another who is not so particular—his ree i Se ee him. Even Mr. Hoar, who frowns down levity, has had a whack at the New Yorker. The two met op 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 ‘Teplied: “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 othes youthful statesmen. He was standing close to the spesker’s desk one day ‘when one of the reading clerks, mis- taking him for a page, said: “Run ané bring me that paper that is lying op Gen. Grosvenor’s desk.” Smiling aif the clerk’s error, the Georgian did as 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 liad performed messenger duty a shor time previous, arose and delivered 8 long speech on the race problem ‘ir the south. SOME NOTABLE CHILDREN. The richest baby tm the world is saic to be the little son of the late Haroli Brown, of Providence, R. I. The death within a few days of each other, of Bis father and his uncle, left this youngstes ‘the possessor of a fortune which is es timated at between $40,000,000 and $50,- 000,000. The youngest general in the world’ ts ‘Sultan Ahmed Mirza, youngest son of the late Shah of Persia and brother ot the present shah. He was born in 1891 and is, therefore, only 13; but he is s full general in the Persian army and bas 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 fs Daudi Chua, king of Uganda, who is now about eight. He holds his court seated on a scarlet throne with a Jeopard 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 pariia- ment, which he opens regularly with much pomp. ‘The ‘youngest professional organist in the world is Kathleen Mills, who presides over the great organ in the Catholic church at Ongar, Essex, Eng- land. The regular organist falling iil, little Miss Mills took her place and played for several Sundays with such skill on the instrument that all the people were astonished when they found out that a child of 11 years was nmresidinge over the kevs and stons. NOTES OF THE RAILWAYS In order to get at the grain raised in Lee county, Ill, 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 half 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 undivided control. 4 ‘The Southern railway proposes to fur- nish to engineers and conductors annu- al passes of the road on the basis of serv- lee. Thowe who have teen dive years the service are to be given annuals, over the division on which they are em: ployed; those haying ten years to their eredit are to receive annuals good the entire Tine, and the wives of thoes who have served 15 years will be in eluded in the privilege. ee THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD, Hamburg’s ocean traffic has 1 from 6:78 vensle in 1885 to 14078 ae ‘Reries 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 last year ‘from the United States. Siberia exports about Sue worth of butter a year. The i very rich, only about 20 pounds being needed for a pound of butter, as against ee S73, Russian government intends Seti nce temas os poh of : / as a subsidy to private ers on the rivers Amur, Petchora ¢ Betta rhe nnnorain 2 oe eo) ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. DEVINE: & O'CONNELL . 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