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WHAT A REPUBLIC AND WHAT REPUBLICANS Vol. IX WHAT A REH WHAT To day of Christian nations, there is not on earth any less advanced in true republican principles and sentiments of higher civilization than we, the people of the U. S. There is ingrained and thoroughly kneaded through the body politic, a deep attachment to old customs and opinions. Why wonder at it? Our course in morals and politics from 1787 up to 1862 was back into the Dark Ages. Pircery and slave trading were openly advocated and every opportunity was held out to laud monopolists and usurers by state and nation. Truly did one of the foremost statesmen of the time in 1843 declare that the whole time of the government was taken up with the interest of Wall street and tariff speculators, and not one hour for the people. During and since the war the case has been worse. Public lands equal in area to 8 states like New York have been given to Raldroad managers. Every device of legislature has been created to encourage the rifling of our mines and forests and of the pockets of the poor people. The love of war is fostered, implanted in the breasts of all youths by Pension and Bounty laws. "Go into the army for two or three months and you are sure to draw a pension at a certain age." It is plain that this law will soon be amended most liberally. State militia are now all U: S. soldiers at the President's order. Color the march of labor in the past is despised. Public revenues the very extracts of labor its sweet tears, deprivations, are swollen to enormous sums, the Governor Durbin Talks Nonsense At Quinn Chapel. Monday evening Gov. W. T. Durbin of Indiana spoke at Quinn Chapel, and while addressing those in attendance at the General Conference, he gave expression to some very good ideas, while at the same time he uttered some sentiments in relation to the so-called "Race Problem," which we cannot subscribe to. Gov. Durbin declared that "after all, the race problem is simply the sum of the problems confronting every black man, as they do every white man, and which every man must solve for himself. Brooding over wrongs however real, revolting against conditions, however harsh, crying out against discriminations, however apparent—this in itself will not accomplish anything for the colored people of this country," the foregoing seems to indicate that Gov. Durbin is of the opinion that the Negro must not complain if he is trodden upon like a common worm, that he must remain happy and contented while he is being disfranchised right and left, that he must pay taxes without representation, that he must smile and at the same time permit white men to debauch his wife—his daughters and his female relatives—to drive him from his home, to mob and lynch him without a just cause, and to treat him at all times as an alien in a country which his labors have unmeasurably added to its untold wealth. It is asking too much of human nature to expect the Negro to remain quiet and not cry out against such intolerable conditions which he will sooner or later rebel against in no uncertain manner. If Gov. Durbin had talked his nonsense in this respect at the time those patriotic and liberty-loving men threw the tea overboard ```markdown ``` wonder of the world! the object of our own admiration and high laudation! Surely grievance like this is the curse of the universe. And the days have arrived. Nay! They have come and we are neck deep in their midst, spoken of by the illustrious Sidney Smith in that immortal discourse of warning prophicy to us beginning—"permit me to inform Brother Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory. 'Taxes' a list covering pages. Taxes from cradle to grave, till the last spadefull is clattered upon his tomb, "when he gathered to his father to be taxed no more" Since that day what a fearful change has come over us. The daily press daily tells of hundreds of crimes now for one committed then. There are hundreds of pretentious papers from cities and places like Augusta Me.) Grand Rapids, Mich., devoted wholly to advertising for fraudulent concerns in every kind of business. Universal education and labor saving have induced or driven hundreds of thousands of our youth to living by their wits, as well as by theft and murder. The vast number of wonder curers is amazing. There are so called fraudulent institutes in every city and towns some of which receive tons of letters daily. Once they get a name of some sick one and every county has their agents, they persist in following him up. Some of these frauds are making millions of money. In the vast army of idlers composed of government servants, their aids, police, spies, tramps, swindlers of all kinds, speculators, gamblers, etc, at least one third of the able bodied males are enlisted. Judging from the facts and signs. One half of the the whites do no kind of useful or productive labor. HOLT into the Boston harbor, they would have hung him up to a tall tree as a traitor to his race, for did not they revolt against the harsh treatment which they received from the hands of King George? and to-day all the world glorifies them for possessing the courage to do so, and we all know what they accomplished after a long struggle for their rights as freemen. Notwithstanding these undying truths, Gov. Durbin had the audacity and the effrontery to stand up in the pulpit at Quinn Chapel, and endeavored to make those who heard him believe that in all the ages of the past no race of People had ever accomplished anything by protesting against the wrongs inflicted upon them, therefore, the Negro must be perfectly contented with his present condition. Such nonsense on the part of Gov. Durbin, is more than enough to cause the forefathers of this great Republic to turn over in their graves and exclaim, "Traitor! Traitor! to the cause of Liberty and Justice!" Mr. J. H. Murphy editor of The Afro-American Ledger, left Chicago Thursday evening May 19th. for Somerset, Pa., where he will visit his daughter, Mrs. J. Purdy. Mr. Murphy will also visit many of the agents of his paper in various cities, on his way home to Baltimore. Mrs. J. Albert Johnson, Mrs. Hurst, and Mrs. Handy, all wives of methodist ministers, and citizens of Baltimore, Md., were entertained at an informal "lunch" on Wed. May 18th, at the home of Mrs. Noah D. Thompson, 6552 Champlain ave. These ladies are dear friends of Mrs. Thompson's mother, and were pleased to see how comfortably their friends daughter is situated in this "wild western city." HEW TO THE LINE. FLORENCE DAVIS Who has been selected out of 93 of her classmates as the valedictorian of the South Division High School graduating class this year.. Miss Davis is one of the brightest and most remarkable Afro-American young ladies in the city.. She is only in her 16th year and from her youth up she has been a hard student. She resides with her parents at 3007 Dearborn St. MR. WASHINGTON IN BOSTON. A national man loves his home. He feels he has a right to resent and oppose even strenuously, even bitterly, any man or movement whose influence or whose effect it is to injure his home, if there be any chance of class feeling. How would this be with reference to Mr. Booker T. Washington and a Boston Colored man and woman, especially one born and reared in Boston? Three situations or occurrences that have happened recently or recently came to public notice will serve well to test this matter. At a recent meeting of the Boston Suffrage League a Colored citizen of Boston, a well known caterer by business, openly declared that at the meeting of the local branch of the National Negro Business League two years ago, Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, a man who once was one of the most active and most able white champions of the Negro race against wrong, told him that he intended to refrain from speaking against the way the south treated the Negro because Mr. Booker T. Washington had asked him not to do so any more, because it injured the southern Negro and disturbed friendly relations between the races. Mr. Garrison said he intended to try Mr. Washington's advice. And since that day Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, son and namesake of the elder Garrison, Abolitionist, has not made a speech in public against the wrongs suffered by the Negro. Another instance: A speaker at the last meeting of the Boston Literary association, a Colored person, who, by the way, might easily be taken for white, told from a personal experience of the present week that a white man who has a carpet-cleaning establishment in Boston refused to solicit and trade from Boston Colored people on the ground that their carpets would be so soiled he did not want them in his place. To prove his statement he said: "You know what Booker Washington says about their not keeping good homes." He offered no other evidence. Once more. Last week a debate was held by the Boston Y. M. C. A. on the question: "Is the movement of the south to disfranchise the Negro justifiable?" The affirmative won the decision. Some of the counts were that the revised constitutions were fair efforts to prevent an ignorant electorate, that the Negro should apply himself now to industry, that the Negro himself was benefited by being shut out from politics. A Colored man of standing in Cambridge, was on the losing side. This man needs not be regarded as biased, as he recently condemned The Guardian in a meeting for its assaults on Mr. Washington. He said to the writer that on their counts the affirmative quoted Gov. Aycock, Gov. Vardaman and Booker T. Washington, by speech or book and page. The judges said they gave the decision to the affirmative because of the high authority they quoted to substantiate their views. About 500 white youths were there and heard the debate. And what of it? Just this. The Negro by whose advice a great agitator against injustice to our race is persuaded to become silent through a period when the persecutions of the Negro and the agitation against him have been worse than for a generation, a Negro who is quoted to prove that Boston Colored people live in filth, and quoted by a carpet-cleaner; a Negro whose authority decides a debate in favor of the southerner's movement to disfranchise his race, a monstrosity of race treason in the eyes of every Colored man and woman born and bred in this home of liberty. The opposition to him as ever a spokesman for Boston Negroes or the race in general, will never die out in Boston. The attempt to put him over the politics of Boston Negroes or of the race in general will be resisted eternally and at every cost. He will be an issue until he confines himself to his own state and school. For though he speak with the voice of an angel Boston Negroes know what he stands for with the white public and will never trust him with their racial or political interests.—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. There seems to be some foundation for the statement, that Prof. Booken T. Washington has implored, Wm. Lloyd Garrison Jr. and many other men who have heretofore boldly spoken out in behalf of the Negro, to remain quiet or to modify their views respecting the position as to his citizenship rights which he must occupy in this country. No one knows the underhanded methods which Booker Washington has resorted to in order to change the sentiment of the leading men of the North in this respect. To make a long story short we honestly believe, that, the great Wizard of Tuskegee has sold out his race, body and soul for a mess of pottage, simply for the enrichment of his own pockets, so as to enable him to maintain a fine summer home near Boston, Mass., and to educate his own children in the best white colleges and universities in the East and in Europe.. Two preachers who are attending the General Conference rushed into a saloon a few days ago, on-29th st. near State, and they called for two drinks of whisky but the owner of the resort informed them "that he was a wicked man, nevertheless no Preachers could if he knew it, be served with hard or soft drinks in his place." At that point the Preachers hung their heads like sheep killing dogs, and left his saloon without having one word to say. Graduating Exercises at Normal 1875, 29th, 1904, Annual commencement Agricultural and Mechanical College, Normal, Ala., Bishop Evans Tyree will preach the Baccalaureate Sermon, Sunday, May 29th, 11 a. m., literary graduating exercises, Monday, May 30th 7:30 p. m., annual address, Col. Pettibone, 8 to 10 p. m., May 30th, Industrial graduating exercises Tuesday, May 31st, 9: a. m. Free Barbacue, 2 to 3 p. m., May 31st.; 126 graduates in all Departments. Among other distinguished speakers who will deliver addresses, are Rev. Sutton E. Griggs, Nashville, Tenn., Hon. Joseph T. Settle, Memphis, Tenn., and Hon. H. V. Cashin, Receiver U. S. Land Office, Huntsville, Ala. Summer school from June 20th to July 30th. Reduced rates on all railroads. Send for Announcement of summer school. W. H. Councill, President. CHIPS. Bishop and Mrs.B. T. Tanner, were entertained at dinner last Saturday by Mrs. L. A. Davis 5012 5th Ave. Mr. Lawrence A. Young, President of the Washington Park Club, would make an ideal candidate for one of the Judgeships of Cook County. Revs. Abraham Lincoln Murray, Archibald James Carey, and R. C. Ransom, have for some cause or other, been mighty quiet during the sessions of the General Conference Mrs. Maggie Toler-white, 4928 State st. has been seriously sick for the past two weeks but her many friends will be delighted to learn that she is gradually improving. Mrs. Frank J. Ryan, 6828 Bishop street is a warm admirer of The Broad Ax and from October 1st, 1899, down to the present time she has persued its contents each week. Mrs. Sadie Scott, 135 west 51st. street continues to make rapid progress in her musical studies, and her instructor Prof. Lee, says, "she is an apt pupil." Ex-Alderman Cerveny, is still a power in politics in the 12th ward. He demonstrated that fact at the late primaries, for the delegations to the various conventions are under his control, and in casting their votes they will be guided by his judgment. Mrs. James D. Bryant of 6432 Champlain ave., entertained, Thursday evening in honor of Miss Gaines of Atlanta, Ga. About one hundred guests called during the evening to honor Mrs. Bryant and her guest. The American Mutual Plantation company, with offices at 108, La Salle street, has commenced issuing a monthly publication, and the May number is full of interesting notes pertaining to the productness of the soil of Mexico. I recognize the importance of the revolt from the awful dogma of predestined happiness for the few and damnation for the many. Slowly but surely the dreadful barrier of this old belief is being lifted from the heart of humanity.—Whittier. The doctrine of the average preacher is "Seek first the kingdom of the church." Never mind where the money comes from, so long as the coffers of the missionary society are well filled, then will we rejoice. —The Toiler. Justice John Fitzgerald who hands out the proper kind of medicine to the viloaters of the law at the Stock Yards Police station, has had his court room enlarged and fitted up with new seats and it is as neat as a new Parlor. Little fatty Edward G. Alexander, who is as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and who can out-lie the very devil himself, when it comes to paying his newspaper bills, has bought a new cheap blue spring suit, and now he is unwilling to look an honest man in the face. No.30 Society is barberous until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.—Emerson. Congressman George P. Foster, has become resident vice-president and manager of the Empire State Surety company, with offices on the 12th floor of the First National Bank Building. The Empire State Surety company are to be congratulated in securing Congressman Foster to represent their company in this city. The Bystander of Des Moines Iowa, which is ably edited by our good friend J. L. Thompson, in its last issue quoted the article in full. "The Opening of the General Conference," by L. W. Washington, and it gave The Broad Ax credit for it, but The Brotherhood of Cincinnati, O. ran the same article through its columns as original matter which proves that The Brotherhood is ever ready to steal something good. The Rev. Mrs. Lena Mason, the well known Evangelist is holding a series of meetings at the A. M. E.-Z. Church, 38th and Dearborn Sts. On Sunday evening her subject will be "Son of Man Goeth." A cordial invitation is extended to everyone to come and hear this wonderful Evangelist. D. W. Thomas, Secy. Eugene V. Debs, who is making the race for president of the United States on the Socialist ticket should receive the votes of two or three hundred thousand colored men, for he is one of the greatest champions of the civil and the political rights of the Afro-American, and by doing so the Negro would show to the world of mankind that he is not the abject slave of either one of the great political parties. Mack Wiley, who killed George Airey, the chief of Police of Morgan Park last fall, was re-sentenced by Judge Smith last Saturday, and instead of hanging on the gallows he will spend the remainder of his life in the Pen at Joliet. His sister Mrs. Hattie Payne was also sentenced to an indeterminate term in the Pen at Joliet. The outcome of the trial of Hattie Payne, should be a warning to other women both black and white, not to dress up in men's wearing apparel and parade the streets on Halloween nights. Col. Edward H. Morris, whom it is alleged collected well on to sixty dollars from Dr. A Beatrice Schultz, for the purpose of paying his expenses to Springfield to enable him to argue her case before the Supreme Court, and then failed to go, permitted Col. Bob. Motts, to put him to sleep in his primary district, and he was unable to head Frank Lowden's delegation to Springfield, and the eminent attorney for the "Gamblers Trust" is beginning to learn that he is not the only cock on the walk in the 2nd ward. Booker T. Washington is constantly talking about "the members of the Afro-American race must stand together and help each other in business, but whenever he strikes Chicago he always stops at the Palmer House, and he never thinks about spending one dollar with the members of his own race in the city, who conduct first-class and up-to-date rooming and boarding houses, there are also many of the best families in Chicago who would cheerfully provide accommodations for him, and permit him to occupy an elegant bed in their front parlor if he would consent to patronize his own people to that extent, for the fifty or hundred dollars which he throws into the coffers of the Palmer House, everytime he visits this city, would assist some member of his race to buy their winter coal. Again if Booker Washington is satisfied with the "Jim Crow" treatment which he receives at the hands of his best friends in the South and as long as he preaches the doctrine that "the two races in the South must forever remain seperate and distinct along civil and political lines," why does he desire to rub up against white ladies and gentlemen in the leading hotels in the North. We will permit some of his shouters and retainers to answer these questions. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Freak, Infidel, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republics, Knights of Latter, contrary one else can have their sage, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$0.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago III., as Second-class Matter. SAUERKRAUT EXPERIENCE. Some Difficulties Encountered by Men Who Stored or Sold It in Large A farmer who raises cabbage and manufactures sauerkraut on a large scale was trying to sell 50 barrels of that delicacy to a Front street dealer. The dealer, says the Portland Oregonian, did not appear eager to buy. He said he could hardly get rid of so much sauerkraut before summer, and it was dangerous stuff to have around in hot weather, for it was likely to ferment in the barrels. He said his partner and another dealer on the street had a deal in kraut some years ago which was not profitable. They both had a big lot of the stuff, about 80 barrels in all, on a lower wharf on the city front and did not know what to do with it, as the weather was becoming warm. Finally they agreed to play cards to see who should have the whole, and his partner, who was a crackerjack at cribbage, won. They decided to ship it to San Francisco, but the next day one of the barrels exploded, threw down part of the warehouse and plastered everything within gunshot with the seething, fermenting, nasty-smelling stuff. After cleaning up, the remaining barrels were placed on a steamer and sent to San Francisco. The night after they were landed the warehouse in which they were placed was burned, and they lost the whole lot and narrowly escaped a big damage suit, as it was charged that the fire was caused by the spontaneous combustion of the kraut. Since that time he takes his allowance of cabbage after being cooked with corned beef and well saturated with vinegar. WORLD'S RICHEST FAMILY A writer in the Tattler, a London publication which is nearly always bright, and often very well informed, argues that however great the riches of the American millionaires may be, there is no family in the United States which approaches the wealth of the Rothschilds. He makes a good case. It appears that careful estimates of the possessions of the French branch of the family place its riches at or above $300,000,000. The British Rothschilds are rated still higher in the financial world. The German members of the family which won its first success in that country are also very rich, and there are other Rothschilds still to be reckoned with. Altogether, it is claimed that the wealth of the entire family is not less than $1,500,000,000. If that sum is anywhere near the marks, then it follows that there is no American family anything like so rich as the Rothschilds. They can easily outweigh any other house in the extent and value of their property. And most of it is very solid and safe. From the first, the Rothschilds have bees careful and shrewd in handling their immense wealth. No one can set a limit on its probable accumulations a generation hence. Few Paupers in Japan. There are very few paupers in Japan, because old age is revered there. No parents or children come to want there unless all their natural protectors are dead or disabled. The Herreros, whom the, Germans are now fighting in Southwest Africa, number 20,000 fighting men, of a class far superior to most of the African native races. A century ago boot blacking was made of lampblack mixed with rotten eggs. This evil-smelling compound was applied with a sort of paint brush. The Austrian government has recently adopted a mixture of powdered aluminum and nitrate of ammonia as a bursting charge for projectiles. There are in use in the United States 1,400,000 miles of telegraph wire. A State Hotel. One of the interesting experiments in municipal ownership made in Australia is the establishment by the state of Western Australia of a hotel at Gwalla, a mining town in the gold fields, says the New York Mail. The manager is paid a fixed salary and is under orders not to push the sale of liquors. The food is the best and the service far above the average in a rough country. So far the experiment has been a success, and there is a strong movement on foot to establish other hotels in similar places. JAPS ORDERLY DURING WAR Mayors of Principal Cities in Island Declare Normal Conditions Are Prevailing There. A cablegram has been received by the Japanese minister from Tokio to the effect that the mayors of the principal cities of Japan have been receiving for some time past letters from all parts of the world inquiring as to the condition of affairs in Japan. These letters usually come from prospective travelers who desire to know whether or not it is safe to visit the country. In response the mayors have issued the following statement: "In answer to inquiries too numerous to be individually responded to, and in the hope of correcting erroneous impressions that may possibly exist abroad, we, the mayors of the principal cities of Japan, beg to give assurance that normal conditions prevail throughout the empire. Japan in war is as orderly as Japan in peace. Business men and travelers who contemplate journeying to Japan will encounter no inconvenience and will be exposed to no danger. The ordinary means of communication by land and sea are not and will not be interrupted. Japan and its territorial waters are not within the zone of hostilities, and the position and the advantages of our fleets and armies insure the empire against invasion." SUICIDES' CLOTHES GOOD. Women Who Seek Self-Destruction Always Array Themselves in Their Best. Women who are driven to suicide presumably lose most of their ambition before taking the fatal plunge, but there is one feminine trait that they retain to the end—namely: pride in clothes, says the Chicago Tribune. "Seldom," says a doctor whose position has required him to perform post-mortem services for many of these unfortunates, "have I seen a woman who did not go to her death as well dressed as her circumstances would allow. The published reports of these tragedies confirm my observation. Read in the papers the account of a suicide, and nine times out of ten it will wind up by saying 'the woman was well dressed,' or at the least, 'her clothing was neat and clean.' "Unless these women belong to the dregs they are found dressed in the silk skirt and silk waist, which have become the inevitable garb of the suicide of moderate means. At the last the true feminine instinct seems to assert itself, and, although the woman will not be here to read the account of the tragedy, she wants to die in the blessed satisfaction that she will be written up as a well-dressed member of society." CHAUFFEUR'S NEW DISEASE. "Motorpathea Cerebralis" the Latest Ailment to Which Auto Drivers Are Subject. "Motorpathea cerebralis," the new disease to which chauffeurs are subject, is diagnosed by the London doctor who has discovered it as producing "temporary disorganization of the mental functions" and "derangement of the equilibrium of the nervous system." The disease will explain many things about chauffeurs hitherto not quite understood. As, for example, how the 50-mile-an-hour galt of the clubhouse story falls to 15 when sworn to in court. The "derangement of equilibrium" has, of course, disturbed the narrator's sense of time. Similarly, in putting the blame on the other fellow after an accident, in direct contradiction of the policeman's testimony, the chauffeur is not necessarily untruthful, but merely suffering from temporary derangement of his veracity. "Speed madness" may be traced to a like disturbance of equilibrium. Automobilists are reported as amused at the doctor's discovery. When penalties are made harsher they may have occasion to feel grateful for the means provided for an acquittal. GLORIFIED BY SHACKLES. The cost of constructing some of the little "jerk-water" lines in Peru is enormous. One contractor had 6,000 laborers die while he was building 115 miles of track through a swamp. The handling of this mongrel labor is an intricate problem. If you beat them it does little good. They would get up after a thrashing and kiss your hand. If you put them in chains they feel like martyrsa. Instead of feeling disgraced the shachles seem to add to the native's sense of importance. He feels that he must be a bold, bad man to be treated in such a decisive way. It rather glorifies him in his own estimation. He Didn't Own It. "They're forever talking about their brother who was killed in an automobile accident." "Yes, they're anxious to give the impression that he was thrown out of the machine, whereas he was merely hit by it."—Philadelphia Ledger. In the United States there are upward of 20,000,000 families and at least 5,000,000 places of business, making a total of 25,000,000 opportunities to place telephones. Of these about one-eighth are now equipped. A prize of $400 offered annually to the student in a Presbyterian theological seminary who passes the best examination, has been won this year by a negro, a student at Lincoln university, Pennsylvania. NEW YORK'S CHILD FARMER'S One hundred and twenty-five farmers cared for their plots during the first season, but in the following spring, so many requests for "farms" were received that the park authorities decided to enlarge the space allotted, so that nearly 300 boy and girl farmers, varying in age from eight to 18 years, were happily employed during the second summer—that of 1903, says a writer in Review of Reviews. Through the long, hot days of July and August you might see them watering, weeding, hoeing or quietly sitting around the central flower plot listening to a nature study talk by the attendant teacher. Improvements upon the surrounding land followed rapidly in the wake of those upon the farm. Toward the east the park department had placed a huge open-air gymnasium and playground. Toward the west a tiny country seat, with a 12x18 foot farmhouse, a green lawn and flower beds, a pavilion, a pig pen and a chicken house had been added to the farm property. Still farther west stood a sand tent, and a second canvas formed a resting place for tired mothers. A typical afternoon might have shown 80 or 100 children busy in the garden; in the pavilion, a sewing class and a group weaving baskets for farm produce; in the tiny house tea being served by neatly aproned housekeepers, while on the lawn the boys played croquet. CONSIDERATE OF PASTOR. Former Bodyguard of Rockefeller Tells Humorous Story of Vermont Minister. Capt. George Archer, who recently gave up his post of bodyguard to John D. Rockefeller, heard, during his 19 years of service, many interesting and odd things. "Yes," he said the other day," according to the Chicago Record-Herald, "I had some strange experineces while I was working for Mr. Rockefeller. I halted a good many queer people at Mr. Rockefeller's outer door. "I remember a Baptist minister, I held up there last year. He hailed from a little town in Vermont, and he talked like a brother to me. He told me all about a minister's life in the country. "It isn't an easy life. You'd be surprised to hear how some country people treat their ministers. Why, this man said that one cold winter night he was hustled out of bed by a woman he didn't know and ordered to come right away to her house, two miles off, because her son was sick. "But I don't know you,' the minister grumbled. 'Are you a member of my church? Am I your pastor?' "No,' said the woman, I'm a member of Mr. McWade's church. Mr. McWade is my pastor. I don't care about calling him in, though. My son's case is contagious.'" LADY CURZON A DETECTIVE Former Chicago Girl Disguised in Native Dress Solved Indian Murder Mystery. Lady Curzon, who was Miss Leiter, of Chicago, is a clever detective, and this incident could be made into an absorbing story by either Conan Doyle or Rudyard Kipling. A retired Indian judge tells it. He was dining at the viceregal lodge one night, and the conversation turned upon a sensational murder trial which he was conducting at the time. After dinner Lady Curzon drew the judge aside and said: "I know as an absolute fact that the man who is charged with that murder is innocent. Send a detective to me and I will direct him to the house where the real murderer is now hiding. I only discovered the fact this afternoon, when I was down there in disguise with one of our syces." Sure enough, the murderer was caught, as Lady Curzon had said, and the innocent man was released. This incident, becoming known, has made her very popular with the people of Calcutta, who are not used to English "mem-sahibs" taking so much interest in their humble lives. Female Measurements Larger A woman's periodical published in London is worried at the size of the modern woman. 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Municipally owned plants furnish two-thirds of the electric lighting in Great Britain and only about five per cent. in the United States. The importation of raisins, which formerly amounted to about 2,000,000 boxes a year, has been reduced to almost nothing by the California crop. Immense quantities of sand equal to that imported from Turkey especially for glass makers have, according to the Westminster Gazette, been discovered not far from London. The Umschau claims for the newly-invented process of milking cows by electricity (rubber caps being attached to the udders) the advantage of superior cleanliness, and adds that the cows more readily yield the milk than when the hands are used. A machine has been invented which is capable of splitting wood two feet long and eighteen inches thick. It is run by a three-horse-power gasoline engine and consists of a huge knife which works through the knottiest wood at the rate of 60 strokes a minute. Steps are being taken to develop valuable deposits of fullers' earth, near Buelah, Pueblo county, and near Akron, Washington county, in Colorado. The few deposits of this substance already located in the Centennial state are said to be among the purest found anywhere in the world. One of the largest and most expensive mineral collections in existence, owned by John F. Campion, Leadville, Col., forms part of Colorado's mineral exhibit at the St. Louis world's fair. The collection is valued at $250,000, the bullion value alone being $80,000. It has never before been placed on exhibition. A method of producing soft zinc has been patented in France. Equal parts of zinc and aluminum are melted, to which a small amount of bismuth is added to molten zinc until volatilization ceases. The zinc is heated to a temperature of from 900 degrees to 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit. It is stated that the soft zinc so produced is of 90 per cent purity. FLOATING FACTS AND FIGURES. The wolves of the Russian forests devour about 300 human beings yearly. Twelve years ago there were 2,000 Japanese in the United States. To-day there are 24,300. Every square mile of the sea is, approximately speaking, inhabited by 120,000,000 living creatures. During the next six months the coal barons will graciously permit the law of supply and demand to operate automatically. In 1882 the deaths from typhoid fever In Paris were 142 per 100,000 inhabitants; to-day the proportion is only ten per 100,000. The aggregate weight of snuff consumed in the United States for one year is 18,000,000 pounds. Snuff-taking is increasing at the rate of six per cent. per annum. Russia wouldn't have believed in January that a war with Japan could go on for more than two months without a single Japanese coast city being bombarded. Russia has the most rapidly increasing population of any country in the world. The growth during the last 100 years has been a fraction less than 1,000,000 annually. 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For many years Columbian university has been one of the institutions of the national capital. It has been better known on account of its school of law than for any other reason, but some other of its departments have been doing memorable things in various lines of scientific research. The members of its faculty are men of national reputation and they have added the luster of distinguished names to the record of the university. It is now proposed that the undergraduate department of the university shall become more conspicuous and that the institution shall take rank among the great institutions of learning which hitherto have been magnets for the ambitious youth of the country. In order that this mission may be fulfilled the name of the university will be changed, not because there is any inherent objection to the present title, but because of the confusion which necessarily arises between the Washington institution and the Columbia university of New York with older traditions and greater achievements. The new site for the university is to be on the banks of the Potomac not far from the Washington monument and very near the place which Washington himself selected over 100 years ago as the site for the national university which he believed should have its home in the national capital. Washington set forth his ambition in several letters as well as in his will. His motive was one of patriotism rather than personal sentiment or local pride. "It is my ardent wish," he wrote, "to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away with local attachments and state prejudices as far as the nature of things would or indeed ought to admit from our national councils." To this university he planned that the youths from all parts of the union might be sent "for the completion of their education in all branches of polite literature, in the arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government" and "as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment by associating with each other and forming friendships be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which carried to excess are never falling sources of disquietude to the public mind and pregnant with mischievous consequences to this country." The Presidents Plans. President Roosevelt expects to spend about two months at Oyster bay this summer, and the force at the white house are already planning for the flitting back and forth. The president will leave Washington about July 1, remaining here until the Chicago convention shall have done its work. Then he will go to Oyster bay for a month or so; return to Washington about August 1, which is the time usually set for the beginning of the active work of the campaign and remain here long enough to welcome visiting delegations and confer with party leaders. After that he will return to Oyster bay again for a stay of another month and come back to Washington as the weather begins to grow cool. He will receive the news of the election at the white house. All this is giving the workers in the executive office a good deal of worry. A great quantity of office stationery, records and implements will have to be carried back and forth every time the president changes base and to effect the transfer smoothly and expeditiously will call for all the executive capacity which Secretaries Loeb and Barnes possess. Secretary Cortelyou for years under McKinley and Rosevelt managed these presidential marches with a skill almost amounting to genius and Secre- tary Loeb thus far has displayed equal talent. But all the same he does not relish two fittings within a short time. The president does not expect a great many people at Osyter bay. The facilities there for entertaining strangers are very meager and it is both the regard for his own comfort and for that of the people who wish to see him that he has decided to make his headquarters during a good part of the campaign right here in Washington. Dares Defy Congress. There is one reservation in Washington which is to all intents and purposes outside of the jurisdiction of the United States government. The National botanic garden just at the foot of the capitol where Pennsylvania avenue runs up against the capitol grounds, is presided over by William R. Smith, the superintendent, who is a law under himself. Smith is a Scotch gardener with a pronounced burr, who got his early training in the Kew gardens in London and he has been in command in his little domain for so many years that members of congress, who are nominally his superiors, would not think of interfering with the old man's wishes. So it happens that with the exception of the white house grounds the botanic garden is the only public reservation in Washington which is now enclosed by a fence. Years ago high iron fences surrounded every park and public place in the national capitol, but by order of congress they were taken down one by one. Congress finally landed on the botanic garden and somebody thoughtlessly considered in an appropriation bill a provision for tearing down the fence. Smith calmly ignored the law. When the officials came to him to carry the law into execution he ordered them off and informed them that so long as he remained superintendent of the botanic garden it was going to be enclosed by a fence as it had been ever since he was put into control. When congress came back they received the old man's ultimatum with amused tolerance and he received assurances that he would never be annoyed again. But a few years later somebody else absent-mindedly inserted a second provision for tearing down the fence and again the canny Scotchman ignored the law of congress. This time the thing went so far that the members of the appropriations committee who were responsible for the slip came down to the botanic garden and apologized for their mistake. The Botanic Garden. There is no more interesting spot in Washington than this same botanic garden which Superintendent Smith guards so jealously. There is a flavor of old time about it which makes it different from any other spot and which the fond superintendent protects with all of his might. Every tree in the place has a history. Most of them were set out by distinguished people to whom the old Scotchman has taken a fancy. One magnificent water beech was planted 35 years ago by John A. Bingham of Ohio, nearby it are two poplars, one of which was set out by Edwin Forest, the tragedian, the other by his friend, John W. Forney. The wife of Jefferson Davis dedicated one tree still standing when Davis was secretary of war. In short there are not many men who have gained great distinction since Smith has been superintendent of the gardens who have not been flattered by him with an invitation to plant a tree. Of equal interest with the garden itself, as may be imagined, is the old Scotchman who is its presiding genius. Not only is he a horticulturist of rare devotion, but he is religiously attached to his national songster, Robert Burns, and he possesses the finest collection of editions of Burns' works which can be found in the United States. To the mind of Superintendent Smith the greatest of all public men within his memory was William Pitt Fessenden of Maine. He ranks Fessenden on a level with Lincoln as one of the two men who saved the nation at the time of the civil war and he has a standing grievance against every other native of Maine because none of them has yet shown sufficient devotion to Fessenden's memory to write his life. In Smith's mind the greatest achievement of the Maine statesman was in securing an appropriation for erection of the conservatories in the garden, which are the apple of Smith's eye. Fessenden was chairman of the library committee in the senate just at the close of the war. When Smith went before the committee timidly to get a small appropriation to begin the work, the Maine senator bluntly asked how much it would cost to complete the job and then insisted on making the entire appropriation of $35,000 at once. LOUIS A. COOLIDGE. There is one feature of Bagdad life which, though apparently small in itself, assumes a real importance to those who live in that oriental town, says a writer in the National Geographic Magazine. It is the Bagdad boil. This boil deserves a more serious name, for it is generally more inconvenient and disagreeable than a carbuncle, for it often attains unusual proportions and commonly lasts for eight or nine months. Every inhabitant of Bagdad is said, sooner or later, to suffer from one of these boils. Europeans and Arabians alike being susceptible to it; and so universal is it that old inhabitants of the region say that they can always tell whether a man has lived in Bagdad or not by the scar which it leaves somewhere on his body. In order to have a definite idea of its nature, the writer called at the Turkish hospital and interrogated the Turkish doctor in charge as to its nature. After very politely exhibiting a number of cases he gave me his opinion as to its cause: "It is the water, the climate and the sun, monsieur." In the opinion, however, of Dr. Ramsey, the resident English physician of the place, this Bagdad boil is an infection arising from the sting or bite of an insect which he describes as a species of fly, and he recounted his own personal experience, in which he was conscious of the bite of this insect on the very spot of his forearm where the boll ultimately developed. FAMOUS BEAUTY IN MISERY. Earoness, Once Pet of Half of the Capitals in Europe, Is Ending Her Days in Want. The strange and sad romance of a beautiful woman, Baroness de Rahden, who was once the spoilt child of half the capitals of Europe, has just come to light in Paris, says the Chicago Tribune. Owing to her father's financial reverses she joined a circus troupe, being an accomplished rider, and while at Riga married the baron de Rahden. When she was at the height of her success, idolized and wealthy, her husband, whom she adored, died suddenly, and she returned to her former profession. One morning on awakening she found that she had become totally blind. By a coincidence she was to ride a blind horse in the arena the same night, and attempted to go through her performance. The animal, however, noticed something was wrong, became restive, and bolted, throwing his rider against a pillar and fracturing her skull. After wasting the little money that remained to her on specialists who could do her no good, the baroness is now plunged in the blackest misery in Parts, blind, ruined and forgotten. FAD FOR RUSSIAN ANTIQUES Craze Started About Ten Years Ago Reaches Height—Factories Supplying Demand. Among the more recent fads is one for Russian antiques, and more particularly those of copper and brass, writes Bertha Smith, in Four-Track News. The fad started perhaps ten years ago when American travelers began to bring home from Russia certain pieces gathered on their journeys to the land of the czar. As usual, it was slow of growth and has only in the past year or two reached its height. That it has reached its height is evidenced by the fact that the factories in Russia have turned their attention to supplying the demand; and, since it is known that Americans, as a rule, use the pieces merely as ornaments, there is a cheapening of the quality, and, unfortunately, an attempt to vary the design in order to present novelties, with the result that the value and beauty of the original style is being sacrificed. The same thing has happened in the Turkish rugs and draperies, in Chinese and Japanese bronzes, cloissonne and porcelains; in fact, wherever any have thought to cater to American trade. Temperance Camp in Alaska Commissioner Hugh J. Lee, the newspaper man of Meriden, Mass., who two years ago went to Wales, Alaska, for the United States government to look after the reindeer and the natives there, has established a temperance camp there. In a year there has been but one case of drunkenness there. Before his arrival, he says, the natives were a lawless set, given to drinking, but in his first experience as a justice of the peace he sent one transgressor to the federal jail for three months and since that time law and order have prevailed. Profanity Bad for Horses. An owner of race horses, not at all a sentimental person, says a writer in Country Life in America, recently made an order forbidding his employees to talk in loud tones or to swear in the stable. "I have never yet seen a good-mannered horse," he says, "that was being sworn at all the time. It hurts the feelings of a sensitive horse, and I'll keep my word good to discharge any man in my employ if I catch him swearing within the hearing of any horse in this stable." Rapid Handling of an Army. During the German army maneuvers there were moved over one railroad in two days, without suspending its regular traffic, 56,000 men, 5,200 horses, 223 wagons and 590 tons of baggage. American Flour Driven Out. Flour from Harbin, Manchuria, is driving American flour from the far eastern market. ORIGIN OF MONETARY NAMES "There has been a scarcity of small change of late," said C. M. Binghamton, for 40 years with the United States treasury department, to a Louisville Herald man recently. "All sorts of reasons are assigned to explain this condition, but, whatever the cause, it is vexatious However, it is not as bad now in the way of exchanges as it was in the olden times. "The early Italians used cattle instead of coin. A person would sometimes send for change for a thousand-pound bullock, when he would receive a 25-pound sheep, or, perhaps, if he wanted very small change, there would be a few lambs sent back. The inconvenience of keeping a flock of sheep at one's banker's led to the introduction of bullion. "People often wonder where certain monetary names came from. I'll tell you a few of them. "Formerly every gold watch weighed so many 'carats,' from which it became usual to call a silver watch a 'turnip.' "'Troy weight is derived from the extremely heavy responsibility which the Troians were under to their creditors. "The Romans were in the habit of tossing up their coins in the presence of their legions, and if a piece of money went higher than the top of the ensign's flag it was pronounced to be 'above the standard.'" BE KIND TO THE PANTHER. Has Become an Oft-Quoted Poem Books on Nature Nearly All Entertaining. Not the least remarkable demonstration of this return-to-nature enthusiasm is the outbreak of "nature" books, says a writer in the Reader Magazine. Now with skill and now with ingenuous ignorance, writers descant upon trees, birds, gardens, roadways, arms, vistas, desert islands and deserted farms. These books are nearly all entertaining, well illustrated and full of verve, and lose nothing whatever from the fact that almost without exception they are prepared in a city apartment. The magazines, too, have been lavish with nature articles, and have acquainted us with many charming secrets of burrow, nest and lair so that our sensibilities have grown to be almost morbid in regard to the wild brothers of field and fen, and "Be kind to the panther" has become an oft-quoted poem. A lady in Chicago, who has profited not a little by the very informing articles in the magazines, proposes writing one on her own account, and thinks of giving it the title: "How to Tell the Wild Flowers from the Birds." WHALES A FACTOR IN WAR. Cetacean Monsters Resemble Torpedo Boats and Terrify Inhabitants of Russian Towns. Whales are giving a great deal of trouble at Vladivostok. One of them exploded prematurely a torpedo, which otherwise might have destroyed a Japanese warship, and how a school of whales has taken on the semblance of a fleet of Japanese torpedo boats, and terrified the inhabitants of Askold island. Decidedly the port commander of Vladivostok should take every measure to hunt all whales from the coast waters. The presence of a casual party of whales on the coast leaves the Japanese free to direct the northern mosquito fleet upon other fortified points. Conversely, by a proper concentration of whales upon the channel all the Rusisan mines might be exploded, with no harm except to the cetacean monsters. Yet before a quip is launched at the affrighted citizens of Vladivostok, it behooves Americans to recall the frequency with which phantom fleets were sighted off all our watering places in the early summer of 1898, says the New York Post. Had our shores at that critical time been beset with whales we possibly might have given no better account of ourselves than the Askold islanders. MARKS LEFT BY CIVIL WAR. Trip Through Country Affected by Rebellion Recalls Many Exciting Incidents. The great battle fields of the South do not, as a rule, lie along the railways. This is especially true of the Wilderness, that bloody scope of country where Grant and Lee contended for the mastery in the eventful spring of 1864, writes Thomas C. Harbaugh, in Four-Track News. A jaunt through this region today is both pleasant and exciting, for the battle fields there remain just as the armies left them, torn by shot and shell, and, here and there, marked by tablets and monuments appropriately inscribed. It is a pleasant ride by rail from Washington to quaint old Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock, where Burnside, one December day, left 12,000 of his men before the impregnable confederate entrenchments on Mayre's Heights. Fredericksburg, with its narrow streets, its shot-torn houses, its great national and confederate cemeteries, and the home and monument of the mother of Washington, interests one from start to finish. The war left its mark there, and the horrid autograph of Mars will long remain visible on the old city. Life can be sustained for something like 30 days on water alone; with but dry food one could live but a quarter of that time. Native Yankee Stock Dying Out. Among the people of native stock in Massachusetts there are each year 12,000 more deaths than births. They were discussing domestic matters with masculine confidence. "There's only one way to keep a cook," asserted one. "But suppose you're already married?" "Easy again. Any time that you can't make the cook your wife, why, make your wife the cook."—Brooklyn Eagle. Forging the Fetters Mrs. Enpeck—I think, Henry, that our daughter has made a very satisfactory marriage, and that she will succeed very well in the management of her husband. Henry Enpeck—Why do you think so? Mrs. Enpeck—I overheard her talking to him this morning, and she got him to agree to a proposition like this: "If you will do as I want, I promise to do the same."—Tit-Bits. Not True to Nature. A visitor to a museum reports that he saw a countryman standing before the bust of a woman in a collection of statuary. The woman was represented in the act of coiling her hair, and as the visitor came up the countryman was saying to himself: "No, sir; that ain't true to nature. She ain't got her mouth full o' hairpins."—Tit-Bits. One Occasion. . "There was one occasion," said the enthusiastic fisherman. "when we turned the tables." "When was that?" "When the whale who swallowed Jonah had to return and tell his incredulous associates how he caught a remarkably big man, but let him get away."—Washington Star. The Obedient Wife. First Man—Does your wife do everything you tell her? Second Man—Well, she obeyed my orders last night, anyhow. "How was that?" "Well, I told her to go to bed, and she said: 'I won't.' Then I told her to sit up, and she obeyed me."—Tit-Bits. Wisdom of Experience. "This roast beef is badly burned," said the waiter to his employer. "It's useless to cause trouble by trying to serve it." "Take it over to that bridal couple by the window," said the restaurant proprietor. "They will never know the difference."—Chicago Daily News. Still Unsettled. Fred—Were you at the wedding of young Softun and Miss Leaderer? Joe—Yes; it was quite a swell affair. Fred—Who was the best man? Joe—As the honeymoon isn't over, I hardly think it is settled yet.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Just a Scheme. Mrs. Gaussip—I think you ought to know this, Mrs. Subbubs. Your husband kisses your cook! Mrs. Subbubs—Yes, I told him to do it. You see the cook thinks she is getting ahead of me in that way, and so she never thinks of leaving.—Philadelphia Press. Windig—Smith formerly opposed my views, but now he agrees with me in everything. Biffem—Yes. Did you convince or make him weary?—Cincinnati Enquirer. A pretty girl; a crowded car; "Please take my seat," and there you are A crowded car; a woman plain;; She stands—and there you are again. —Cincinnati Enquirer. 10 Mr. Bore (12:05)—I must go; it's getting late. Miss Caustique—Better late than never. There is a policeman's college in St. Petersburg to train applicants for the force. In a museum connected with the schools the pupils make themselves familiar with the tools of criminals—jimmies, drills, chiseis and contrivances for robbing collection boxes. The Russian passport system is studied in detail. The duties of the dvorniks, a sort of assistant police, are taught. They keep watch on the residences, report on the habits of the tenants and their visitors, examine the papers of newcomers, and direct them to report themselves at the police station. No Melody in Japan. Protagonists and antagonists of what is miscalled "Japanese" music assert that it out-Wagners Wagner in descriptiveness—that there is no such thing as "music" in Japan. The Japanese themselves say with the utmost complacency that they have possessed since the eighth century (when to Corean "melody" was added the Chinese scale and notation) "the perfect music." There is no such thing in Japan as melody for itself—as we know it in the west—and that is what an occidental thinks of when he speaks of music. Earthquakes and Skyscrapers Earthquakes and Skyscrapers. In speaking of the probable effect on New York city's skyscrapers, had the recent earthquake in New England extended a little farther south, Prof. James F. Kemp, head of the department of geology at Columbia, said: "Steel structures are much better calculated to withstand an earthquake shock than buildings composed entirely of masonry or wood. The steel frame of a building would behave much like a wicker basket. It would bend and vibrate, if the shock were strong enough, but the chances are against its falling." When You Go to Florida. "It's a mistake to think that the visitors to Florida get the early vegetables," said Mr. Thomas H. Benson, of New York. "The fact of the matter is that the new vegetables go to New York and other northern cities, and the visitors get the aftermath. The only thing Florida has is climate. It has a corner on that, and visitors are expected to pay for it. They do."- Washington Post. Passes for Railway Men. More than 1,000 engineers and conductors on a southern railway are subject to the following orders, recently issued, regarding passes: Men who have served five years will receive passes over their own division; ten-year men annuals over the system east of the Mississippi river, and 15-year men are entitled to one that includes their wives. Tailor—The postal service is in a wretched condition. Friend—Never noticed it. "Well, I have. During last month I sent out 180 statements of account, with requests for immediate payment, and so far as I can learn not more than two of my customers received their letters."—New Yorker. Servants in Japan. The Jpaanese women have no servant problem to solve, simply because they do not look down on servants as such. Visitors bow as low to servants as to their mistress, and if the mistress is away, the servants serve tea and entertain the visitors. MRS. A. WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates. 2252 Indiana avenue. 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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, 4861/2 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. P. S. Hotchkis's Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st Street. Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and stationery, 3149 State St. Woodfolk and Mitchell Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 4902 State Street. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Av. CHIPS Mrs. Carrie Knight, Princeton, Ind., mother of Mrs. Rev. J. W. Robinson, 4752 Armour ave. has been visiting her daughter and twins for the past two weeks. Mrs. Knight will return to her Indiana home Monday morning. Genuine uncalled tailor made suits, light colored, for $7.50. See them.—Wm. A. Kirchberger & Co., 189 So Clark Street, Chicago. The following persons have been elected as officers by the General Conference: John H. Collett, D. D., Baltimore manager of the book concern, Philadelphia. H. T. Johnson, Philadelphia, editor of the Christian Recorder. E. W. Lampton, D. D., Greenville Miss., financial secretary. John R. Hawkins, A. M., secretary of education. H. B. Parks, New York city, mission. Elegant Spring suit to order. Fine made trim etc. for $15.00. William A. Kirchberger & Co., 189 So. Clark Street, Chicago. A. L. Pearson of Newport News, Va. forwarded his check last week in payment of one years subscription to The Broad Ax. Mr. Pearson states in his letter that "he is most favorably impressed with its tone and the attitude it assumes in relation to Booker T. Washington and his unsound theories as to the permanent solution of the "Race Problem." He further states that "it cannot be overestimated as to the amount of good The Broad Ax is doing in battling for the civil and political rights of the race, and that whenever any race of people without a struggle surrender their political power which is their greatest weapon for self protection, then all is lost with them."Mr. Pearson is one of the substantial citizens of Newport News and we are glad to number him among the new readers of The Broad Ax. Do you wear a frock suit? If so, see what we sell you for $5.00, worth at least $15.00.—Wm. A. Kirchberger & Co., 189 So. Clark Street, Chicago. Thomas Davis a white gentleman of Danville, Va., who works for the Norfolk and Western Railway company at that place, while on a drunken spree Tuesday entered the home of W. E. Pearson, near Ridgeway and attempted to committ an assault on Mrs. Pearson. For his offense Mr. Davis who must be a perfect white gentleman was arrested, and placed in jail, and on Tuesday night a mob of defenders of the virtue of women forced their way into the jail and led Davis out of it, gave him a sound thrashing, then they placed him in jail again. No attempt was made to mob and lynch him and burn his body at the stake, but if Davis had been a colored man how different his fate would have been. This incident shows that Southern white men do not think much about the virtue of their women as long as they are assaulted by gentlemen belonging to their own race, and as long as they can reserve the right to assault and outrage colored women. Canada's Large Imporis. The total value of all merchandise imported into Canada for consumption during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, was $233,790,516, of which $136,-796,665 was dutiable, and $96,904,451 was non-dutiable, the dutiable goods paying $37,110,354, based on a 27.1 per cent. duty. Wooden Corsets In 1585 the corps pique (a corset) was a hard wooden mold into which the wearer was compressed and suffered from the splinters of wood that penetrated the flesh. It took the skin off the waist and made the ribs ride up, one over the other. Strong Current of the Tigris. The current in some parts of the Tigris river is so strong that the British steamboats running on it with the consent of the Turkish government; sometimes can make no headway for hours, and are occasionally turned around completely. The tracks of the Siberian railway are laid on the ice across Lake Baikal. During the month of March there were carried over the temporary line 1,693 freight cars, 673 cars of soldiers, 25 cars of officers, and 65 engines. Andrew Carnegie has the best collection of autographs of crowned heads and famous persons in contemporary history. There are frequently not only signatures, but also letters written to him on various subjects. The returns of the work at the Paris mint in 1903 show the value of gold coins struck off for France and its colonies as $17,822,620; silver, $316,760; nickel, $990,000; and bronze, $108,790. Heathen Business Methods Business among the Chinese, according to a Russian traveler who has just returned from Manchuria, is on a cooperative basis. There are neither proprietors nor employees, but all who work in an establishment are partners. From time to time small allowances are doled out to them—barely enough to live on—but at the end of the year all the profits are divided. The Chinese merchants are so honest that among all the ten branches of the Russo-Chinese bank located in China there has been no record since their establishment of a single protested note.—N. Y. World. Mothers' Vocal Duties. Mothers and those who have the education of children in their hands are chiefly responsible for our abuse of the English language and our elocutionary shortcomings. A mother should make it a special duty to correct every mistake in the sound of her child's voice and in its choice of words; and if voice production, the right pronunciation of words, and distinct reading aloud, were made part of a child's training, we would soon become an intelligible and musically-volced people. Unchecked, we shall ultimately bark. Natural Inference Jennie's mother was expecting company, but just before train time a telegram arrived, which read: "Missed train. Will start at same time to-morrow." Jennie rushed home from school expecting to see the guest, but instead was shown the message. After reading it laboriously and carefully through she exclaimed: "Why, mamma, if she starts at the same time to-morrow, she will miss the train again."—What To Eat. Sinking and Rising Seas. The recent news of the sinking of the level of the Sea of Azof, threatening some of the commercial interests of Russia, is supplemented by a report that the Aral sea and Lake Balkash, the first 1,000 and the second nearly 2,000 miles east of Azof, are rising, although up to 1891 the Aral sea had for many years been sinking. Some geologists think these changes are due to slow upheavals and subsidences of the earth's crust. Obliging the Curate. One evening a young curate entered a rural station in England. He was much shocked to see a drunken man lolling on the platform. He approached the solitary porter and asked: "Are drunken persons allowed here?" "Weel, no, sir," was the rejoinder, "but if ye stan' round th' corner in th' shadow, nae body 'll notice ye!"—Buffalo Commercial. Russian Female Students. A Parisian journal says in regard to the numerous Russian female students in the French metropolis that they are for the most part very plain, and without any feminine charms. Most of them are very poor, live in garrets and starve their bodies, while they study hard. Most of them are nihilists. "The Royal Stockjobber." The king of the Belgians is known as "the royal stockjobber." With all his wealth and schemes for the getting of more, the king is not happy. He is forbidden to take any but the most simple fare, and the poorest laborer in his kingdom extracts more joy from life than he. New Kind of Shoe Brush. A fountain blacking brush is the latest addition to the long list of useful appliances that inventive genius has recently contributed to the home. The commendable features of this affair, according to the inventor, include cleanliness and thoroughness. The Book Output A Brussels expert, M. Paul Otlet, estimates that from the invention of printing, in the middle of the fifteenth century, to January, 1900, 12,163,000 different books have been issued. He also estimates that about 200,000 books are now annually issued. Tattoo Records. The members of an African tribe keep their individual records of acts of prowess in war and other matters of personal interest by means of tattoo marks. Preferably, the diary is kept on the body of a wife. Qualifications of Jap Voters. To vote for a member of parliament a Japanese must be 25 years old and pay about $7.50 annually in direct national taxation. This rule shuts out nearly 99 per cent of the population of Japan. Consular Agents. British consular agents differ from those sent out by the United States in being diplomats instead of business men on the lookout for trade chances for their countrymen. Jews in Russia. The Russian law, which compels all Jews to live in the ghettos of cities, is not modified even in the case of invalids, who might save their lives by a change of air. The result of a cricket match in Melbourne was cabled to London, 17,000 miles, through nine relays, in two and a half minutes. English Will Use English. The Britishers are not going to use "chauffeur" or "garage," any more. They will say "motorman" and "motorhouse." London's Unemployed Porters. There are fully 700 cotton porters now unemployed in Liverpool alone, and many thousands of other classes of workman. MEMBERS OF ROYALTY. Archduke Joseph of Austria is building a splendid palace at Buda-Pesth. He is in sympathy with the Hungarlang and has mastered their language. One of the wealthiest heiresses in the world is Lady Mary Hamilton, only daughter of the late duke of Hamilton. She is a charming girl of 19, and in two years will be mistress of £200,000 a year. Emperor Menelik has written a letter to the king of Italy informing him that he will no longer celebrate the anniversary of Adowa by military demonstrations, and will in future commemorate it only by a religious festival in honor of the Abyssinians and Italians who fell on the field of battle. Empress Alix of Russia recently had her portrait painted by Frits von Haulbach. She retains her love for her old German home at Darmstadt, and loves to spend a few weeks there whenever she can. She dislikes politics and public ceremonies, and is of a decitedly domestic disposition. On May 17 Alfonso of Spain was 18 years old, and he has been every year a king. In that respect he differs from Christian of Denmark who, although he celebrated the eighty-sixth anniversary of his birth last month, did not become a king till he was 45 years old. Indeed, Alfonso is perhaps the only donarch known to history who was born a king. 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." The present czar is the first of his race to recognize the legitimate claims of the press. At the outbreak of the present war he granted an interview to Melville E. Stone, formerly of Chicago, and now general manager of the Associated Press. Soon thereafter he received a deputation of St. Petersburg newspaper men, and a week or so ago he gave an audience to an English journalist, Henry Norman, M. P. The last named, by the way, did not find his majesty the mental and physical weakling he has been described so often. Instead, Nicholas seemed to be in the best of health and presented his views on oriental questions in clear and strong fashion. FOUND IN FOREIGN LANDS Some of the houses in Berlin are numbered with luminous figures, which are easily visible at night. The only two great European capitals that never have been occupied by a foreign foe are London and St. Petersburg. Repeated robbing of Paris letter-boxes is responsible for a new device connecting the flap with an electric bell, which rings when the flap is raised, and keeps on ringing until it is lowered again. Doors made entirely of paper are used in some of the modern cottings in French cities. They are finished to resemble any kind of wood, and there is no warping, shrinking or cracking. By an Italian law every circus which does not perform every act promised in the printed programme, or which misleads the public by means of pictures, is liable to a heavy fine for each offense. Male "housemaids" are the most recent contribution to the solving of the servant problem in Great Britain, it seems. Several thousands of foreign young men have recently been transported to London to engage in general domestic work in British households. Soldiers are despised in China. They belong chiefly to the coolie classes. The German officers engaged some time ago by the Chinese government found that their most important task was to overcome the soldier's own feelings that they were a lower order of beings than other Chinamen. There is only one place in the world where the sun sets twice in the same day, and that is at Leek, in England. There is a jagged mountain there and the sun sets behind it and it grows dark. An hour later the sun reappears at a gap in the side of the mountain, and it is light again until the real sunset. SAPIENT SAYINGS. Was there ever a candidate that some one did not call "logical?" A man in criticism, is inclined to lay the stress on the art quality; a woman on the heart Interest. From the way some people use "typical" they must think it refers to divergence from rather than conformity with type. MEN AND MATRIMONY. In real life, a woman's ideal man is either a sycophant or an actor. How supremely happy a man seems the week before his marriage. Married women, no matter how young, like to talk about their courting days. When a man strikes bad luck he indulges in the most glowing of good resolutions. The engaged girl takes delight in telling how long she will be away on her bridal tour. SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington St. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW 902 MARQUETTE BUILDING Telephone 2310 Central CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 998 CHICAGO PHONES {Office, M in 1157 Rs. Brown 42 STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS Suite 200, 123-125 Lil Salle Street CHICAGO Symphony Tardis 707 Residence, 123 Garfield B4 JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 & HALSTED STREET. CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bldg 79 Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. J. J. HENNESSY, Justice-of-the-Peace, 6301 S. Halsted St. WILLIAM TREXUER. CLERK. TELEPHONE WENTWORTH 4403. Police Magistrate Englewood Police Court. Telephone Main 3558. P. J. O'SHEA ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1444 Unity Building 79 Dearborn St. Chicago. Robert M. Mitchell Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St CHICAGO WILLIAM RITCHIE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. Suite 519-820 Oxford Building 84 LA SALLE ST., CHICAGO Telephone Main 1646. ALBERT B GEORGE LA WYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2020. — Fatal Shock by Telephone. A verdict for $15,000 damages has been procured at Media, Pa., in a peculiar suit against a telephone company. The children of Thomas F. Delahunt sued for that sum because of the death of their father from a shock received over the telephone. A heavily charged electric light wire which had fallen across the telephone circuit caused the fatal shock. N. Y. Tribune. ```markdown ``` ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., C N. Western Ave., Ch Telephone Lake View 270. JACOB F. Market a Telepho 81st and State St HILL 112- STATE Dry Goods and Wear for H and COB FEINBERG Market and Grocer Telephone 565 South and State Sts. CHI HILLMAN'S 112-114-116 STATE STREET Goods and Everything Wear for Man, Woman and Child John J. Bradl Estate, Insurance and Managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal paper Halsted Street Theodore C. May VICE OF THE PE Images, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents acknowledged. Room 22, 27 North JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery HILLMAN'S 112-114-116 STATE STREET Dry Goods and Everything to Wear for Man, Woman and Child John J Real Estate, Ins Property managed. Abstracts exa 4709 South Halsted Street Theodore JUSTICE OF Mortgages, Deeds, Notes and Acknowledged. John J. Bradley Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Property managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal papers prepared. 4709 South Halsted Street Chicago Theodore C. Mayer Mortgages, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents Drawn and Acknowledged. Room 22, 27 North Clark Street. POLICE MAGISTRATE East Chicago Ave. Police Court Opening of SEAS CHICAGO ing of Kalaspa SEASON 1904 Opening of Kalaspa Park SEASON 1904 Every Tuesday and Friday Metropole Dancing Club METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA, Pro' J. W. Hail and all the old favorites Dancing and Vaudeville Take 47th St. Cars to the Gate 47th and Robey ADMISSION 25 CENTS Opens June 2nd, 1904 M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO Jas. J. McCormick. SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. Tel. Yards 693 BERG cery CHICAGO N'S thing to woman dley