The Broad Ax

RADICAL ZION C Colored Orator Bitterly Criticism of Black Avenue Church Conde RADICAL TALK AT ZION CHURCH Colored Orator Bitterly Assails Roosevelt for His Criticism of Black Soldiers at Columbus Avenue Church - Washington Condemmed. President Roosevelt was attacked and the doctrines of Booker Washington assailed in a lecture, "The Toddlings of an Infant Race," delivered by the Rev. W. E. Mask at the Zion M. E. church, South End, Monday night. The Rev. Mr. Mask is pastor of the A. M. E. Zion church of Media, Pa., was one of the two colored members of President Roosevelt's notification committee in 1900, is a prominent Colored orator and politician and president of the McKinley National league, a political organization claiming control of over 30,000 Negro votes. Mr. Mask referred with bitterness to an article written by President Roosevelt that appeared in a recent issue of Scribner's Magazine in which the president criticised the action of the Colored regiments during the Spanish-American war. In reference to this article Mr. Mask said: "President Roosevelt not only hurt the brave Colored Spanish-American war veterans, but he insulted every Negro in the United States when he said that the Colored regiments were cowards at San Juan Hill. History will prove to the world that Roosevelt, literally owed his life to the great courage of the Colored 9th and 10th United States cavalry in the famous rush they made up the hill. "It is well known that the president was loud in his praise of the Colored men's valor when he first returned from the war. For reasons best known to himself he has suddenly changed his mind, and now he calls the same black men cowards." Mr. Mask also said: "The Republican party is not the same party it was in the days of Lincoln and Grant, because it has forsaken the ideas of those who placed it in power for the love of dollars and cents. "Booker T. Washington wants the Negro to give up the ballot. Booker Washington does not believe that, but that is what he teaches. He is playing policy. "The Negro in 1804 will not submit to the old story that 'we freed you,' but he will demand his rights, not as a Negro, but as an American citizen, one who fought, bled and died for the stars and stripes, which to him were bars and stripes." The building in which the meeting was held is the one in which the riot occurred a year ago, when Booker Washington last spoke in this city. Such was the account given in the Boston Herald of a lecture given by the eloquent Rev. Mask, a prominent figure in Mississippi political Mr. Charles H. Seales presided. Rev. McMullen insisted on making reply to the speaker although Mr. Seales stoutly protested that it was not a debate. The speech made a sensation. Rev. Mask also said: "The seeker for cheap press, notoriously at once declared the Negro unequal to the task of self-government, charges him with crimes unmentionable, huris vile epithets into his face, denies him the right of franchise and styles him the "white man's burden!" Then Rev. Mask gave a masterly summary of the Negroes' achievements in war, science, art, literature and oratory. Then Mr. Mask launched into a keen and searching criticism of Booker Washington. He said: "Dr. Booker T. Washington said he would blow color prejudice to atoms by the power of industrialism, but when he thought Vol. IX his plans were laid and was ready to show the world a pyrotechnic display of his wonderful reasoning power, the labor unions north said we will not work beside the Negro. Then said the apostle of industrialism, we will stay in the south and make ourselves felt and be men. But the southern white man says, you shall not vote." Then the Rev. Mask said: "It is the duty of every Negro in this country to vote, when we give up the ballot, we give away the most powerful weapon within our grasp. It cost this nation the lives of a million of men, rivers of tears and billions of dollars to give the Negro the right of suffrage. Exercise it!" "If the American Negro is to be disfranchised because of the complexion of his skin, then the 'Declaration of Independence,' most sacred by the blood of the Pilgrim Fathers and Crispus Attucks whom we delight to honor, is a farce. But right is right, since God is God and right, the day will win. Some day, not in the far distant future, the sable sons of Ham, members of this once infant race, will get their just deserts at the bar of American justice." Rev. Mr. Mask scored the country for its indifference to the Negro when he said: "We now stand listening to the attacks made on the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution, and gazing at the retreat of our northern friends as they are swallowed up in the whirl-pool of southern duplicity, wondering at the impotence and dilly-dallying of 55th, 56th and especially the 57th congresses. With a safe majority of both houses our friends (?) have refused to pass any legislation bill for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro in the South." The Guardian, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Frank Makeel, 3918 Lake avenue, has returned to her home from St. Louis and has asked the forgiveness of her husband for her rash conduct, and she has promised him that she will never again stop in a hotel run by colored people in St. Louis, nor in any other city with her ex-colored coachman as his wife nor enter wine rooms and sit down and drink with him on social equality and pay a little colored girl to sing songs for them while they were having a good time in getting on the outside of wine and beer. Later. Attorney Frank B. Makeel has carefully read the report brought to him by the detective whom he had sent to St. Louis to investigate into the doings of Mrs. Makeel, and James Prather, her colored lover, and he is now convinced that she had more warm love for James than she had for him, and he has decided to cast her aside, to break up his home and retain their beautiful daughter. Mrs. S. C. Tyler, 5026 Armour avenue, gave a three o'clock dinner last Saturday in honor of Mrs. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Mrs. Doctor Porter, Mrs. Edward Blackwell, Mrs. Sam Hatcher, Mrs. Joe Adams and Mrs. O. D. Charleston of St. Paul, Minn. The latter lady has spent the past two weeks in visiting with Mrs. Tyler. The repast was served in a most tempting manner and it was greatly enjoyed by her guests. NAMAN One of the leading Afro-American K. P's in the west, whose domestic troubles are being aired in the courts of Cook County. COL. LAWRENCE A. NEWBY A little over one year ago Col. Lawrence A. Newby, who is one of the leading Afro-American K. P.'s in the west, and his former wife, Mrs. Anna L. Newby, who is successfully conducting a first class rooming house at 2628 Wabash avenue, separated, and Col. Newby, who is very handsome and takes well with the ladies took up his abode elsewhere. It was so, it is said, mutually agreed between them that he was to contribute twenty-five dollars per month out of his eighty-five dollars which he receives each month for his labors for the city, towards her support, and at the end of two years she would secure a divorce from him on the grounds of desertion, without causing him any disgrace or humiliation. It appears that Col. Newby, for some cause or other failed to live up to his part of the agreement, and the result was that Mrs. Newby, through her attorney, J. G. Lucas, was forced to go into court and have an order entered up compelling him to pay her $16 per month until future orders from the court, and $25 for solicitor's fees, after that event Col. Newby laughed real loud, for being smooth enough to hold on to the bulk of his salary, so that he could expend it in other directions, and whenever Mrs. Newby called to collect her little mite she claims that he always had a hard luck story on tap to tell her. She drank in his many hard luck stories allright enough until last Saturday morning, although she was unable to pay her bills with them, and on that bright morning she marched to the city hall to ascertain if he had received his wages, and when she learned that he had she made a bee line for his law office, 119 La Salle street, after she had entered his office she informed him that she wanted the money which the court had allowed her. The Col. declared that he had not received his pay yet, and requested her to call back in two or three days from that time. Mrs. Newby very mildly informed him that she had just come from the city hall, that she cared nothing about his hard luck or cock and bull stories, that all she wanted was her money. Thereupon Col. Newby hauled off with his fist and dealt Mrs. Newby a heavy blow in the right jaw which came very near putting her to sleep for a few moments, finally she came back to this old world where grass widows seem to flourish, look happy and contented, then she grew exceedingly warm in her collar, she backed herself up against the door on the inside of his office, locked it, put the key in her pocket, and would not budge until the Col. dug up all the money he owed her. His friends, J. Q. Grant and some fellow by the name of Wilson, who got mixed up with a hundred dollar bill belonging to Old Man Woods in some kind of transaction on the Board of Trade, endeavored to rush into the room to assist the Col., but they could not get in, neither could he escape from it, for Mrs. Newby, whom we are willing to employ to do a little collecting for us, held the fort, and the Col was forced to cough up twenty-three dollars, and fork it over to her, she then withdrew from his office with her money in her inside pocket and dis- appeared through the crowd which had collected around the door to witness the free show. Three or four days after passing through those exciting scenes Mrs. Newby appeared in Justice Underwood's court and swore out a warrant for his arrest. J. Q. Grant signed his bond for five hundred dollars, and they will have their first day in court Thursday, June 9th. "CARRY THE BAIT." Dr. Booker T. Washington in one of his speeches illustrated by the following homely tale how the black man can win the respect of all. "In no way that I know. can I better illustrate to my people how they can secure the co-operation of the white race than by telling a certain story." "An old darkey, fishing on the river bank, saw the boy that was with him fall into the stream, and plunged in after him. After a heroic struggle he brought the youngster to shore. As he lay on the bank, panting, a white man rode up. "That was a brave deed of yours, uncle' said he. 'Is that your son?' "No suh, he ain't no son 'o mine.' "Neighbor's boy, then?' "No, suh he hain't no naybor's boy.' "Well it's all the more praise-worthy that you should risk your life for a boy you don't know. You understand that don't you uncle?' "Well, Ah doan know as Ah perzackly un'erstand yo' but Ah do know he done have all de bait in his pocket!" "I say to you my people put the bait in your pocket. Make yourselves so valuable that the white man must have you. Don't try to do the fishing yourselves—be satisfied if you can carry the bait which will make them need you. Prof. Booker T. Washington has been relating this old story to the determent of the Negro for the past ten or fifteen years. By carefully persuing it, it is not difficult to observe that higher ideals are entirely foreign in the make up of Booker Washington that he is incapable of believing that individuals can or will perform heroic acts except from mercinary motives as in this case, he puts words in the old colored man's mouth which causes him to exclaim, that the rescuing of the fish bait was his only reason for saving the life of the boy, which is proof positive, that the great wizard of Tuskegee only looks at human life and the unselfish actions of some men through the moneytary eye. It will be noted that he advises his People not to aspire any higher than to carry the bait for the white man and that is the best method for the Negro to adopt in order to become valuable and influential in the community in which he resides. He makes no provision for the colored man, who by his own thrift and industry has accumulated enough of this world's goods to buy his own bait and to do a little fishing for himself, instead of carrying the bait for the white man. If this is not the very essences of the doctrine of inferiority on the part of the Negro, then we are will- ing to admit that we are incapable of reasoning from cause to effect or arriving at a logical deduction. Such illustrations as the above, unfits Booker T. Washington, to become the leader of ten million people. By DR. M. A. MAJORS. Chicago, June 1, 1904. Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ae Dear Sir:Some strangers within our gates seem inclined to criticise the Chicago Negro as being in a pitiable condition, in fact they seem to wish to dub him a bad fellow. I have lived in this city nearly three years, during which time I have studied race affairs earnestly and with marked enthusiasm.-I have found many rough problems among us which theory nor the applied principles of higher civilization could ever thwart, but on the other hand I have found in a remarkable degree some real nobility of character in a remarkable number of men and women here in Chicago, whose heart interest pulsates in every movement that insinuates race advancement. In strangers assuining that the Negro is in the bad reputation for hold-ups, immorality, and thug depravity does not mean that they know what they say. There is not a city in America where the Negro is so near in social equality with that high spirit of respectability permeating his entire being as there is in Chicago. It is true there flourishes here the indifferent indecent element that is found in every large city, but it is, respecting the Negro in so hopeless a minority that it sounds very ugly for strangers to call the attention of the better element to the existence of such. The potent influences of the fifty Negro churches, thirty-five physicians, forty or more lawyers, three or four Negro newspapers, a hundred business men high in the affairs of Chicago, are in a great measure the cause of so much stalwart honorableness in the men and women of the race. We have ideals that bear no plots, and he who comes within our welcome, need have no fear, if he treads the narrow path. From all appearances the Negro is getting along very well. Appeals for charity are made by less Negroes than by any other race. The vagabond, the tramp and the hold-up man is a poor specimen of industry and meets with alarming disproval by that element who with no possible means of a livelihood play policy and shoot craps, play the races and incidentally gamble. There is a throng of elegantly dressed fellows along States street, whom the stranger would suppose to be dudes, corner loafers etc.; who in truth represent in part the Pullman porters, who by hundreds reach Chicago every day from long runs, and are merely standing on the corner for an airing, meeting and greeting friends, and living a life of self importance, they feel themselves to be, for in truth the Pullman Porter makes it possible for thousands of people in Chicago to keep elegant homes. There is no spot on earth where there are so many beautiful women, God bless them, who contribute in their lovable way to the races social functions and affairs of clubs and churches, and veritably help Chicago to outshine other cities of this republic. There is no city possibly absolutely free from the debris of humanity, some of it has been dumped on Chicago, but it is not of a pervading nature, it is narrowly confined to the area of its ilk and essays not to rear its perfidious head among the self respecting populace. The Negro is doing well in Chicago. Sometimes rights are abused and carried too far, but the lady and the gentleman suffer not affronts and indignities, and it may be truly affirmed that those who occasionally run smuck, get what they are looking for. Yours for the race, M. A. Majors, M. D. 3503 State street. No.32 M. & F. COLLEGE NOTES. Hopkinsville, Ky. Preparations have already been begun to make ready for our opening, Sept. 1, 1904. We look forward to the most successful year in the history of the chool. Prof. P. T. Frazer is now at Normal, Ala., attending the closing exercise of the A. & M. College, of which Prof, W. H. Councill is president. He writes that, he is very favorably impressed with everything. Misses B. L. Johnson, and S. W. MeGall, are also there. We have heard from the following students who reached home safe and are preparing to return, bringing others with them:—Misses L. A. Lauderdale and L. O. Hammock, Hickman, Ky., and Miss Lydia L. George, of Princeton, Ky. Misses Isore R. Garrett and Mary L. B. Samuels are still with us. Mr. Jno. J. Caudle is very busy arranging and caring for the garden. We have put in lately, 500 sweet potato plants. Visitors:—Rev. L W. Majors, of Trenton, Ky. City Callers: Mrs. Mattie Winston. THE AZURE HUE. Dedicated to Wm. Latham. The Azure hue, so beautifully blue, Descended on Water and Earth, Reflected back to the Heavenly track, The Azure hue had birth. The sky so blue, of Azure hue, Remains in the Heavens above, Water and Earth alike had birth, By that same Great power we love. This Ranaka Boo, of radient hue, Refera to Water and Earth, How little he knows of that element that flows, Ever since the day of his birth. He reflects on the sky with a twinkling eye. Where myriad stars peak through, This remnant of gush and consumer of lush, Makes one sick of this Ranaka Boo. H. C. LUNT, The Chicago Post Office Laureate. CHIPS. CHIPS. Mrs. L. Arms, 5050 Dearborn street, will shortly leave for an extensive visit to her old home in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Anna L. Newby, 2628 Wabash avenue, has two well furnished rooms which she will rent to gentlemen. Mrs. Dovie Joyce, late of St. Poul, Minn., has again returned to the city, and is residing at 3727 Dearborn street. Jacob Joven, is suing "Mushmouth" Johnson for $20,000, said to represent savings of three years lost in poker at 464 State street. Mrs. Minnie Nelson, 3632 State street, will become a blushing bride the middle of June, and she has promised us a slice of the wedding cake. Hon. John J. Feely, who is one of the brainy lawyers of Chicago, would make a winning race for State's Attorney of Cook County. Representative John E. Doyle has many stanch friends all over the 11th senatorial district who are working tooth and toe nail to secure his renomination at the coming senatorial convention. Mrs. Doctor C. D. Trice, 2902 State street, has been on the sick list for the past month. But to the delight of her devoted husband, little son and friends she is regaining her health. Mr. Albert S. Gage the popular boss of the Wellington Hotel, is one of the true Jeffersonian Democrats, and for that reason Mr. Gage has always gave employment to Afro-Americans, and treated the worthy members of the race with consideration. Col. Edw. H. Morris and Louis B. Anderson, assistant county attorney, left for Washington, D. C., Monday, where Col. Morris will deliver the graduating address to the law students of the Howard University. RADICAL TALK AT ZION CHURCH President Roosevelt was attacked and the doctrines of Booker Washington assailed in a lecture, "The Toddlings of an Infant Race," delivered by the Rev. W. E. Mask at the Zion M. E. church, South End, Monday night. The Rev. Mr. Mask is pastor of the A. M. E. Zion church of Media, Pa., was one of the two colored members of President Roosevelt's notification committee in 1900, is a prominent Colored orator and politician and president of the McKinley National league, a political organization claiming control of over 30,000 Negro votes. Mr. Mask referred with bitterness to an article written by President Roosevelt that appeared in a recent issue of Scribner's Magazine in which the president criticised the action of the Colored regiments during the Spanish-American war. In reference to this article Mr. Mask said: "President Roosevelt not only hurt the brave Colored Spanish-American war veterans, but he insulted every Negro in the United States when he said that the Colored regiments were cowards at San Juan Hill. History will prove to the world that Roosevelt, literally owed his life to the great courage of the Colored 9th and 10th United States cavalry in the famous rush they made up the hill. "It is well known that the president was loud in his praise of the Colored men's valor when he first returned from the war. For reasons best known to himself he has suddenly changed his mind, and now he calls the same black men cowards." Mr. Mask also said: "The Republican party is not the same party it was in the days of Lincoln and Grant, because it has forsaken the ideas of those who placed it in power for the love of dollars and cents. "Booker T. Washington wants the Negro to give up the ballot. Booker Washington does not believe that, but that is what he teaches. He is playing policy. "The Negro in 1904 will not submit to the old story that 'we freed you,' but he will demand his rights, not as a Negro, but as an American citizen, one who fought, bled and died for the stars and stripes, which to him were bars and stripes." The building in which the meeting was held is the one in which the riot occurred a year ago, when Booker Washington last spoke in this city. Such was the account given in the Boston Herald of a lecture given by the eloquent Rev. Mask, a prominent figure in Mississippi politics. Mr. Charles H. Seales presided. Rev. McMullen insisted on making reply to the speaker although Mr. Seales stoutly protested that it was not a debate. The speech made a sensation. Rev. Mask also said: "The seeker for cheap press, notoriously at once declared the Negro unequal to the task of self-government, charges him with crimes unmentionable; hurls vile epithets into his face, denies him the right of franchise and styles him the "white man's burden!" Then Rev. Mask gave a masterly summary of the Negroes' achievements in war, science, art, literature and oratory. Then Mr. Maak launched into a keen and searching criticism of Booker Washington. He said: "Dr. Booker T. Washington said he would blow color prejudice to atoms by the power of industrialism, but when he thought his plans were laid and was ready to show the world a pyrotechnic display of his wonderful reasoning power, the labor unions north said we will not work beside the Negro. Then said the apostle of industrialism, we will stay in the south and make ourselves felt and be men. But the southern white man says, you shall not vote." Then the Rev. Mask said: "It is the duty of every Negro in this country to vote, when we give up the ballot, we give away the most powerful weapon within our grasp. It cost this nation the lives of a million of men, rivers of tears and billions of dollars to give the Negro the right of suffrage. Exercise it!" "If the American Negro is to be disfranchised because or the complexion of his skin, then the 'Declaration of Independence,' most sacred by the blood of the Pilgrim Fathers and Crispus Attucks whom we delight to honor, is a farce. But right is right, since God is God and right, the day will win. Some day, not in the far distant future, the sable sons of Ham, members of this once infant race, will get their just deserts at the bar of American justice." Rev. Mr. Mask scored the country for its indifference to the Negro when he said: "We now stand listening to the attacks made on the 14th and 15th Amendments of the Constitution, and gazing at the retreat of our northern friends as they are swallowed up in the whirl-pool of southern duplicity, wondering at the impotence and dilly-dallying of 55th, 56th and especially the 57th congresses. With a safe majority of both houses our friends (?) have refused to pass any legislation bill for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro in the South." The Guardian, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Frank Makeel, 3918 Lake avenue, has returned to her home from St. Louis and has asked the forgiveness of her husband for her rash conduct, and she has promised him that she will never again stop in a hotel run by colored people in St. Louis, nor in any other city with her ex-colored coachman as his wife nor enter wine rooms and sit down and drink with him on social equality and pay a little colored girl to sing spongs for them while they were having a good time in getting on the outside of wine and beer. Later. Attorney Frank B. Makeel has carefully read the report brought to him by the detective whom he had sent to St. Louis to investigate into the doings of Mrs. Makeel, and James Prather, her colored lover, and he is now convinced that she had more warm love for James than she had for him, and he has decided to cast her aside, to break up his home and retain their beautiful daughter. Mrs. S. C. Tyler, 5026 Armour avenue, gave a three o'clock dinner last Saturday in honor of Mrs. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Mrs. Doctor Porter, Mrs. Edward Blackwell, Mrs. Sam Hatcher, Mrs. Joe Adams and Mrs. O. D. Charleston of St. Paul, Minn. The latter lady has spent the past two weeks in visiting with Mrs. Tyler. The repast was served in a most tempting manner and it was greatly enjoyed by her guests. NAMAN One of the leading Afro-American K. P.'s in the west, whose domestic troubles are being aired in the courts of Cook County. A little over one year ago Col. Lawrence A. Newby, who is one of the leading Afro-American K. P.'s in the west, and his former wife, Mrs. Anna L. Newby, who is successfully conducting a first class rooming house at 2628 Wabash avenue, separated, and Col. Newby, who is very handsome and takes well with the ladies took up his abode elsewhere. It was so, it is said, mutually agreed between them that he was to contribute twenty-five dollars per month out of his eighty-five dollars which he receives each month for his labors for the city, towards her support, and at the end of two years she would secure a divorce from him on the grounds of desertion, without causing him any disgrace or humiliation. It appears that Col. Newby, for some cause or other failed to live up to his part of the agreement, and the result was that Mrs. Newby, through her attorney, J. G. Lucas, was forced to go into court and have an order entered up compelling him to pay her $16 per month until future orders from the court, and $25 for solicitor's fees, after that event Col. Newby laughed real loud, for being smooth enough to hold on to the bulk of his salary, so that he could expend it in other directions, and whenever Mrs. Newby called to collect her little mite she claims that he always had a hard luck story on tap to tell her. She drank in his many hard luck stories allright enough until last Saturday morning, although she was unable to pay her bills with them, and on that bright morning she marched to the city hall to ascertain if he had received his wages, and when she learned that he had she made a bee line for his law office, 119 La Salle street, after she had entered his office she informed him that she wanted the money which the court had allowed her. The Col. declared that he had not received his pay yet, and requested her to call back in two or three days from that time. Mrs. Newby very mildly informed him that she had just come from the city hall, that she cared nothing about his hard luck or cock and bull stories, that all she wanted was her money. Thereupon Col. Newby hauled off with his fist and dealt Mrs. Newby a heavy blow in the right jaw which came very near putting her to sleep for a few moments, finally she came back to this old world where grass widows seem to flourish, look happy and contented, then she grew exceedingly warm in her collar, she backed herself up against the door on the inside of his office, locked it, put the key in her pocket, and would not budge until the Col. dug up all the money he owed her. His friends, J. Q. Grant and some fellow by the name of Wilson, who got mixed up with a hundred dollar bill belonging to Old Man Woods in some kind of transaction on the Board of Trade, endeavored to rush into the room to assist the Col., but they could not get in, neither could he escape from it, for Mrs. Newby, whom we are willing to employ to do a little collecting for us, held the fort, and the Col was forced to cough up twenty-three dollars, and fork it over to her, she then withdrew from his office with her money in her inside pocket and dis appeared through the crowd which had collected around the door to witness the free show. Three or four days after passing through those exciting scenes Mrs. Newby appeared in Justice Underwood's court and swore out a warrant for his arrest. J. Q. Grant signed his bond for five hundred dollars, and they will have their first day in court Thursday. June 9th. "CARRY THE BAIT." Dr. Booker T. Washington in one of his speeches illustrated by the following homely tale how the black man can win the respect of all. "In no way that I know can I better illustrate to my people how they can secure the co-operation of the white race than by telling a certain story." "An old darkey, fishing on the river bank, saw the boy that was with him fall into the stream, and plunged in after him. After a heroic struggle he brought the youngster to shore. As he lay on the bank, panting, a white man rode up. "That was a brave deed of yours, uncle' said he. 'Is that your son?' "No suh, he ain't no son 'o mine.' “'Neighbor's boy, then?' "No, suh he hain't no naybor's boy.' "Well it's all the more praiseworthy that you should risk your life for a boy you don't know. You understand that don't you uncle?" "Well, Ah doan know as Ah perzackly un'erstand yo' but Ah do know he done have all de bait in his pocket!" "I say to you my people put the bait in your pocket. Make yourselves so valuable that the white man must have you. Don't try to do the fishing yourselves—be satisfied if you can carry the bait which will make them need you. Prof. Booker T. Washington has been relating this old story to the determent of the Negro for the past ten or fifteen years. By carefully persuing it, it is not difficult to observe that higher ideals are entirely foreign in the make up of Booker Washington that he is incapable of believing that individuals can or will perform heroic acts except from mercinary motives as in this case, he puts words in the old colored man's mouth which causes him to exclaim, that the rescuing of the fish bait was his only reason for saving the life of the boy, which is proof positive, that the great wizard of Tuskegee only looks at human life and the unselfish actions of some men through the moneytary eye. It will be noted that he advises his People not to aspire any higher than to carry the bait for the white man and that is the best method for the Negro to adopt in order to become valuable and influential in the community in which he resides. He makes no provision for the colored man, who by his own thrift and industry has accumulated enough of this world's goods to buy his own bait and to do a little fishing for himself, instead of carrying the bait for the white man. If this is not the very essences of the doctrine of inferiority on the part of the Negro, then we are will- ing to admit that we are incapable of reasoning from cause to effect or arriving at a logical deduction. Such illustrations as the above, unfits Booker T. Washington, to become the leader of ten million people. By DR. M. A. MAJORS. Chicago, June 1, 1904. Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax. Dear Sir:—Some strangers within our gates seem inclined to criticise the Chicago Negro as being in a pitiable condition, in fact they seem to wish to dub him a bad fellow. I have lived in this city nearly three years, during which time I have studied race affairs earnestly and with marked enthusiasm.—I have found many rough problems among us which theory nor the applied principles of higher civilization could ever thwart, but on the other hand I have found in a remarkable degree some real nobility of character in a remarkable number of men and women here in Chicago, whose heart interest pulsates in every movement that insinuates race advancement. In strangers assuming that the Negro is in the bad reputation for hold-ups, immorality, and thug depravity does not mean that they know what they say. There is not a city in America where the Negro is so near in social equality with that high spirit of respectability permeating his entire being as there is in Chicago. It is true there flourishes here the indifferent indecent element that is found in every large city, but it is, respecting the Negro in so hopeless a minority that it sounds very ugly for strangers to call the attention of the better element to the existence of such. The potent influences of the fifty Negro churches, thirty-five physicians, forty or more lawyers, three or four Negro newspapers, a hundred business men high in the affairs of Chicago, are in a great measure the cause of so much stalwart honorableness in the men and women of the race. We have ideals that bear no plots, and he who comes within our welcome, need have no fear, if he treads the narrow path. From all appearances the Negro is getting along very well. Appeals for charity are made by less Negroes than by any other race. The vagabond, the tramp and the hold-up man is a poor specimen of industry and meets with alarming disproval by that element who with no possible means of a livelihood play policy and shoot craps, play the races and incidentally gamble. There is a throng of elegantly dressed fellows along States street, whom the stranger would suppose to be dudes, corner loafers etc.; who in truth represent in part the Pullman porters, who by hundreds reach Chicago every day from long runs, and are merely standing on the corner for an airing, meeting and greeting friends, and living a life of self importance, they feel themselves to be, for in truth the Pullman Porter makes it possible for thousands of people in Chicago to keep elegant homes. There is no spot on earth where there are so many beautiful women, God bless them, who contribute in their lovable way to the races social functions and affairs of clubs and churches, and veritably help Chicago to outshine other cities of this republic. There is no city possibly absolutely free from the debris of humanity, some of it has been dumped on Chicago, but it is not of a pervading nature, it is narrowly confined to the area of its ilk and essays not to rear its perfidious head among the self respecting populace. The Negro is doing well in Chicago. Sometimes rights are abused and carried too far, but the lady and the gentleman suffer not affronts and indignities, and it may be truly affirmed that those who occasionally run amuck, get what they are looking for. Yours for the race, M. A. Majors, M. D. 3503 State street. No.32 M. & F. COLLEGE NOTES. Hopkinsville, Ky. Preparations have already been begun to make ready for our opening, Sept. 1, 1904. We look forward to the most successful year in the history of the chool. Prof. P. T. Frazer is now at Normal, Ala., attending the closing exercise of the A. & M. College, of which Prof, W. H. Councill is president. He writes that, he is very favorably impressed with everything. Misses B. L. Johnson, and S. W. MeGall, are also there. We have heard from the following students who reached home safe and are preparing to return, bringing others with them:—Misses L. A. Lauderdale and L. O. Hammock, Hickman, Ky., and Miss Lydia L. George, of Princeton, Ky. Misses Isore R. Garrett and Mary L. B. Samuels are still with us. Mr. Jno. J. Caudle is very busy arranging and caring for the garden. We have put in lately, 500 sweet potato plants. Visitors:—Rev. L W. Majors, of Trenton, Ky. City Callers:—Mrs. Mattie Winston. THE AZURE HUE. Dedicated to Wm. Latham. The Azure hue, so beautifully blue, Descended on Water and Earth, Reflected back to the Heavenly track, The Azure hue had birth. The sky so blue, of Azure hue, Remains in the Heavens above, Water and Earth alike had birth, By that same Great power we love. This Ranaka Boo, of radient hue, Refers to Water and Earth, How little he knows of that element that flows, Ever since the day of his birth. He reflects on the sky with a twinkling eye, Where myriad stars peak through, This remnant of gush and consumer of lush, Makes one sick of this Ranaka Boo. H. C. LUNT, The Chicago Post Office Laureate. CHIPS. CHIPS. Mrs. L. Arms, 5050 Dearborn street, will shortly leave for an extensive visit to her old home in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Anna L. Newby, 2628 Wabash avenue, has two well furnished rooms which she will rent to gentlemen. Mrs. Dovie Joyce, late of St. Poul, Minn., has again returned to the city, and is residing at 3727 Dearborn street. Jacob Joven, is suing "Mushmouth" Johnson for $20,000, said to represent savings of three years lost in poker at 464 State street. Mrs. Minnie Nelson, 3632 State street, will become a blushing bride the middle of June, and she has promised us a slice of the wedding cake. Hon. John J. Feely, who is one of the brainy lawyers of Chicago, would make a winning race for State's Attorney of Cook County. Representative John E. Doyle has many stanch friends all over the 11th senatorial district who are working tooth and toe nail to secure his renomination at the coming senatorial convention. Mrs. Doctor C. D. Trice, 2902 State street, has been on the sick list for the past month. But to the delight of her devoted husband, little son and friends she is regaining her health. Mr. Albert S. Gage the popular boss of the Wellington Hotel, is one of the true Jeffersonian Democrats, and for that reason Mr. Gage has always gave employment to Afro-Americans, and treated the worthy members of the race with consideration. Col. Edw. H. Morris and Louis B. Anderson, assistant county attorney, left for Washington, D. C., Monday, where Col. Morris will deliver the graduating address to the law students of the Howard University. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 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Unfortunately he touched a spring, the visor shut down suddenly, and, being alone in the studio, he could not free himself from the medieval head covering without help. At last he ran into the street, where his appearance created considerable amusement till a charitable passerby managed to set him free.—Hour Glass. Twenty thousand quarts of skimmed milk a day are used in Austria for making substitutes for horn, ivory., amber and such like things. The casein in the milk is precipitated by a chemical process and then mixed with formaline. This produces galsaith, or petrified milk, a hard, elastic, insoluble substance that is easily worked. The Austrian dairy experts think that the demand for the skimmed milk for this purpose will be great enough to increase the profit in the butter-making business by producing a ready market for the by-product. A. Hygienic Hint. Many housekeepers do not know that the tiny black specks seen on almost every lemon are the eggs of an insect. If the grated rind is used these eggs become an unwholesome element of the dish. Lemons should be dropped into water as soon as they come from the store, then scrubbed with a little brush, dried with a cloth and hung in a net in a cupboard until used.—Detroit Free Press. Not a Successful Woman He—I wonder Mr. Feldspar doesn't go about more with his wife. She's such a nice woman, too, and so economical. They tell me she makes all her own gowns. She—It's nice to have such a wife as that, but a woman who makes her own clothes isn't the woman the average man likes to be seen with in society.—Boston Transcript. Weakness in Wickedness. In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by anything lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the and be shaped into a deformity and guided to wreck and ruin.—Alexander McLaren. Rat Meat In an article on the eating of rats and mice the London Medical press asserts that, "apart from prejudice, there is no particular reason why we should not feed on our domestic rodents." The editor seems to have the courage of his convictions, for he adds: "Their flesh is delicate and savory." Queensland possesses the largest colored population in the commonwealth. The latest returns show that there are within the limits of that state 10,047 Chinese, 8,563 Kanakas, 2,153 Japanese, 1,059 Hindoos and Cingalese, and 1,864 miscellaneous Asiatics. She Wondered. "The Japanese are a wonderful nation," said the thoughtful woman. "Yes," answered the woman who thinks of nothing but dress. "It seems such peculiar taste for people to have their eyes cut bias."—Washington Star. For Blistered Feet. A good remedy for blistered feet which result from long walking, is to rub the feet when going to bed with spirits mixed with tallow dropped from a lighted candle into the palm of the hand.—Chicago Daily News. Will Come Soon Enough. There can be only amazement that no Napoleon of the tobacco industry has yet arisen to put a Kuroki or a Togo brand of five-cent cigars on the market. Kansas City Star. A woolen felt made in Leeds is being much employed for giving elastic foundations and reducing the noise of machinery and railway trains. Industrial Journal. Since the campaign entered upon by the health authorities against the hordes of rats at the London docks, 255,372 have been destroyed.—London News. Table Hint. Sugar or cream will not drip from a pitcher on the tablecloth if the nose of the pitcher is rubbed with butter.—Home Journal. ```markdown ``` THEY COULDN'T BEAT THIS. They were talking of the sagacity of dogs. "My Irish setter saved me a curtain lecture by posting a letter for me the other day," said Longbow, going the last speaker "one better." The others tried to look as though they believed him, for Longbow was paying for the drinks, relates the New York Times. "Fact," he continued. "Wife gave me a letter to post at breakfast. Told me it was very important. Warned me not to put it in my coat pocket, (calls my pocket her dead letter office). Well, I didn't. I left it on the hall stand. Remembered it when I got to the office. Called up the maid. Told her to send Major to the telephone. 'Hello, Maje,' I said. 'Get the letter off the hall stand and give it to the postman.' Maje recognized my voice, barked comprehension of the message, took the letter in his mouth and went and stood by the nearest postbox until the postman came to collect the mail. Wife got an answer that night, and never suspected I'd forgotten to post it." "Say, Longbow," remarked Jones, "the next bottle's on me." A SEVEN WIFE RELIGION. A Doukhobor named Vazoff, who was disappointed with the doings of his fanatical sect in Canada, and returned to Russia, has just been arrested and sent to prison, wires the Moscow correspondent of the London Express. Vazoff aspired to be the Joseph Smith of Russian Mormonism. Having quarreled with the Canadian Doukhobors, he returned surreptitiously to his native country, boasting that he would found a sect ten times as numerous as theirs. Arriving at Odessa he tramped inland, announcing to the peasants a new revelation, according to which all true Christians were in future to have seven wives, "as was the case with the good Canadians." The villagers of Ilovo passed a resolution accepting Vazoff's doctrines, but when the mayor, his two sons and seven or eight rich peasants put the tenets of the new religion into practice there was a loud outcry, and the young men of the district raided the mayor's house and nearly killed his sons. Vazoff fled, but was pursued to a neighboring village, where he was captured while haranguing the moujiks on the virtues of polygamy. X-RAYS AND PEARL OYSTERS At a time when considerable attention is being paid to the pearl industry of Ceylon, and the government is taking extensive measures to protect the oyster fisheries there, it is of interest to record a discovery recently communicated to the Paris Academy of Sciences by M. Dubois relative to using Roentgen rays to examine oysters. It has been found that these rays enable an observer to determine at once whether a living oyster contains a pearl or not without injury to the animal, and in case the pearl is small the oyster may be replaced in the bed until further growth takes place and the desired size is reached, says Harper's Weekly. In the scientific examination of the pearl oysters of Ceylon it has been ascertained that the popular belief that the nuclei of pearls are formed by minute grains of sand or other particles holds good in but few instances, and that in most cases the pearls or pearly excrescences are produced by the irritation of boring sponges and burrowing worms. The best germs result from the stimulation of a parasite worm which becomes incased and dies. SPEED OF TORPEDO BOATS. "Put a 30-knot destroyer into a rough sea," says William White, "and the limit of speed she can make is what she can bear—what the people on her can bear." Traveling at a 30-knot speed is going at the rate of a little over 34 miles an hour, says the Boston Globe. You can travel at that speed in a railway train with comfort—in fact, it is about the speed of the ordinary train. But imagine a runaway horse dragging your carriage over a rough country road at 34 miles an hour and you will get an idea of what it means to go 30 knots an hour in a torpedo boat. Good for the digestion, maybe, but rough on the nerves; and if anything gives way, disaster complete and overwhelming. The average age of the commanders of the battleships in the United States navy is about 51 years. In selecting officers to command torpedo boats it is endeavored to get men of about 30 or under. Torpedo boats are the bucking bronchos of the sea, and it takes a young man to ride them successfully. Women Clerks in Meat Markets. Five hundred women are employed in the provision stores in New York, cutting meat and waiting on customers. They are as skillful as men, and their employers say that they attract custom because of their neat appearance. They wear black gowns and long white aprons. The most difficult thing they have to learn is not to wipe their hands on their aprons after cutting a slice of meat. One woman, after cleaning her hands on a towel behind her block, remarked to a customer: "It took me two weeks to remember that." Cutting Trees by Electricity. It is reported in the German press that successful experiments have been made in various forests of France in cutting trees by means of electricity. A platinum wire is heated to a white heat by an electric current and used as a saw. In this manner the tree is felled much easier and quicker than in the old way, no sawdust is produced and the slight carbonization caused by the hot wire acts as a preservative of the wood. The new method is said to require only one-eighth of the time consumed by the old sawing process. —Chicago Post. A Washington newspaper man has a little girl who gets some original sayings. A few days ago she asked her mother to hear her Sunday school lesson. The mother smilingly assented and, taking the book, asked: "Who was the first man?" "Adam," was the quick response. "And who was the first woman?" "Adam's mother, of course." It required some time to convince the little one that she was in error.—Washington Times. Painless Chinese Dentistry. When a Chinaman wants to have a tooth drawn he feels no nervous apprehension of pain, for the excellent reason that he knows his dentist will not inflict any. The latter simply rubs a secret powder over the tooth. After about five minutes the patient sneezes and the tooth falls out. Many attempts have been made by Europeans to get some of this mysterious powder, but no one has yet succeeded. Yorkshire Biscuits Two pounds of flour, a quarter of a pound of butter, one pint of rich milk, half a pint of yeast, two eggs; beat the eggs very light, and mix them with the other ingredients into a dough; let it rise and then work it over, and make into cakes; place them on tins to rise again; when light bake in a quick oven.—Philadelphia Press. Fatality of Pneumonia Pneumonia is pronounced by the state board of health in its general report for 1903, which has just been sent to the governor, to have taken first place as a fatal disease, outstripping pulmonary consumption, which heretofore has led all other diseases in modern times as a destroyer of life.—Hartford (Conn.) Times. Poor Little Dog. "You had better have Hannah, the cook, feed that lap dog of yours something besides breakfast food and cream," growled Mr. Flatington to his wife. "I found him on top of the dresser this morning gnawing up my bone collar buttons." — Cleveland Leader. How It Goes. It is usually the young woman who wouldn't have the best man in the world who snaps at the first offer, and the man who is the most cynical about matrimony is pretty sure to propose to the first woman who gives him an opportunity.—Boston Transcript. Rose Leaf Pillows Rose petals make a delightful filling for sofa pillows. Save them from withered bouquets or from fresh flowers and dry them. They may be treated as for pot-pourri or used with their own delicate perfume only.—Household. Marie—No; he insisted on her keeping her engagement when she had a better offer.—Stray Stories. Unduly Cautions Since the discovery that applejack is a cure for rabies, the Jerseyman no longer fears mad dogs. Many are even taking the cure as a matter of prevention.—N. Y. Tribune. High-Priced Pen One hundred and sixty dollars was paid recently for the pen used by the emperors of Prussia, Austria and Russia in signing the holy alliance treaty. The wool on the back of a sheep is a shepherd's barometer. 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"You know, we are told the dogs did not touch the palms of her hands. Well, that convinced me of the truth of the narrative, for we never eat the palms of the hands in my country. They are too bitter."—N. Y. Tribune. Could See Behind. Mace, the Paris detective, who died recently, is said to have worn a pair of spectacles of his own invention. The lenses were divided into two parts, through one of which he looked ahead upon the ground and with the other saw the people behind him. This is an old idea. Many mothers and grandmothers had something of this kind before the detective was born. They called their perception "seeing through the back of the head." Many of us have been detected ourselves, and we know. Youth's Companion. Antiquity of the Bonnet Antiquity of the Bonnet. The oldest bonnet was found upon an Egyptian mummy, that of a princess who was interred about 2,000, B. C. Hold Your Mines. Seven million dollars was refused the other day for an Arizona mine which sold for $6,500 six years ago. No Doubt About It. Opportunity makes more thieves than necessity.—Houston Post. An Essential. Wood is more largely used for fuel than coal by the French. Natural Sequence. Maids, matrimony and millinery money.—Houston Post. Rich Product. Gold is the principal product of Ashantea. 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. Teeth Extracted Without Pain RESTAURANT OUR LOW PRICES UNTIL MAY 31. Set of Teeth...$2 Portcolain Crowns...$2 Best Set of Teeth...$3 Gold Fillings, 50c to...$1 22k Gold Crown...$3 Silver Fillings...25c to 50c Our plate work is unexcelled. When others fail call on us. We will make a beautiful, substantial and perfectly fitting plate, one with which you may enjoy a good meal. Our gold crowns guaranteed equal to any high-priced dentist's. Ten years' guaranty on all work. Consultation and examination free. WE TRUST THE PEOPLE and have gained their Confidence. Our $3.00 and $3.75 Gold Crowns and Bridge Work per Tooth are what you are paying elsewhere $5.00 and more per tooth. 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Washington.That Secretary Cortel you will make an ideal chairman of the republican national committee, just as he has made an ideal secretary to two presidents and an ideal cabinet officer is one of the things that are set down as certain in Washington without the formality of argument. 11 The rise of this young man has been told so often that it may seem a been told so often that it may seem a waste of words to say anything about it again, but there are some features of his extraordinary career which will bear repletion now in connection with his latest assignment to duty, because they bear especially on the question of his his qualification for the position. In the first place Cortelyou is not a novice in politics nor inexperienced in the ways of national committees. The secretary to a president must, as a matter of course, come constantly in contact with every political phase and become acquainted with every man of political consequence. Cortelyou was with McKinley for five years, and he has been with Roosevelt for nearly three, first as secretary, then as a member of the cabinet. There is no other man in the United States who, from the nature of his experience, has so wide an acquaintance among public men. During the campaign of 1900 he was in hourly communication with Chairman Hanna and with the other officials of the national committee, and there was little about the machinery of the campaign with which he did not become familiar. He will represent in the new committee, if he becomes chairman, all the latest sentiment for the martyred president which is still so strong a force in the republican party. In addition he will represent all the new sentiment which may have come to the party during the incumbency of President Roosevelt. Ability of Cortelyou. After all, next to acquaintance with political affairs, the most essential qualities in the chairman of a national committee are force, tact and organizing ability, and all these Secretary Cortelyou has shown that he possesses in abundance. No man without force and tact could have made his way in ten years from a position as stenog- man of a national committee are force, tact and organizing ability, and all these Secretary Cortelyou has shown that he possesses in abundance. No man without force and tact could have made his way in ten years from a position as stenographer to a place in the cabinet, and no West to White House a Stenographer. man without force and fact could have shown the organizing ability which Cortelyou has shown both in the executive offices and in the department of commerce and labor. When Cortelyou went to the white house from the post office department in Cleveland's second administration he was known to the president only as a capable short-hand writer and a republican at that. He hadn't been in his new place a fortnight before he began to systematize the white house work and to organize the clerical force. Where before there had been haphazard confusion, there appeared an orderly method of doing business and the beginning of a system which, elaborated under McKinley, has developed marvelously. Nobody who frequented the white house under the administrations preceding Cleveland's second term and who had not since been in Washington would recognize the executive offices. They have become to all intents and purposes a new and admirably conducted department of the government; and the work was practically begun and completed by Cortelyou. He perfected also the system under which a president can transact the business of his office as quickly and satisfactorily 3,000 miles away from Washington as he can in the white house itself. The journeys of, McKinley and Roosevelt would have been impossible had it not been for Cortelyon's organizing ability—an organizing ability that would have been invaluable to any business concern. Should Secretary Cortelyou leave the department of commerce and labor it will be a blow to the young men who have been connected with the upbuilding of the department and who have worked for a year with an enthusiasm solemn equalled, if ever, in the history of the government service. Has Put in Double Hour been more hard, work put into the new department than in any other department of the government during the past 12 months. For an example, the chief clerk of the department, Frank Hitchcock, may be taken. Young Hitchcock when he was selected for his present position was at the head of the division of foreign markets in the agricultural department. He was put in charge of principal administrative division of the new department last spring and from that day to this he has been tied to his desk practically every waking hour. The only time he has been away was when he went home to vote last fall. Sundays and holidays have been indistinguishable for him; but, more than that, he has doubled the hours of labor every day, working almost invariably till midnight, so that the watchman of the building began to keep track of him and found by actual count that in the course of the month he gave to the government 23 extra days of labor, counting by the regular department scale. That is one of the hard features of department life. Hitchcock, I have no doubt, toled as he did, not altogether from love for the work, but partly because he felt that he was earning the recognition of his superiors. But now the one man who knows what he has done and how much it has meant takes his departure and there is nothing to do but run the chances with a new secretary who, whatever his intentions, can never understand all that has been gone through. Yet that is in a way what happens every time there is a change of administration here and a new lot of officers come in unfamiliar with what they have to undertake. The Case of Ned Monaley Ned Moseley, the secretary of the interstate commerce commission, has just received a vindication of which he has a right to be proud. He has been secretary of the commission ever since its establishment, nearly 20 years ago, and he has become identified with it until he almost seems to be a part of the machinery. He looks on it almost as his own child. A About six months ago a couple of employees who were about to be discharged thought to clear themselves by bringing charges against the secretary of irregularity in office. An investigation was ordered. Moseley did not wait to be asked to give up the keys to his office and his desks with all his papers and on a moment's notice turned the entire establishment over to the investigators. He gave them access not only to the papers at the commission, but to all his private papers, his safety deposit boxes and his correspondence. It is doubtful whether the public and private business of any man was ever more closely scrutinized. The secret service agents were put to work and his life for 20 years was laid bare. The result of the investigation was made public a day or two ago. It was a complete exoneration. It could not be found that a thing was out of the way in Moseley's conduct from beginning to end. The commission has made a report to that effect and the president, who carefully examined all the papers himself, showed his appreciation of a faithful officer by himself adding his approval and directing that the vindication be given the fullest publicity. Resignation of Clara Barton. An extraordinary career comes to a close with the resignation of Clara Barton from the presidency of the American National Red Cross. This was to have been expected, because Miss Barton, now over 80 years of age, could hardly have hoped to continue much longer in active work. A. Miss Clara Barton Barton's creation. She took hold of it 23 years ago, at the instigation of President Garfield, who had been watching for years her work among the poor and suffering, and who knew of her association with the International Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war. When our civil war broke out Miss Barton was in Washington, teaching a colored school—she had been a school teacher in Massachusetts—and when the Sixth Massachusetts arrived at the station in Washington after the assault upon it in Baltimore, she appeared at the station with her colored pupils and refreshed the tired and wounded soldiers with coffee and food. That was the beginning of her work among the soldiers. She went into the army as a nurse and she has devoted her life ever since to the alleviation of suffering wherever found. In all this time she has never received a cent of remuneration for her services, and she is as poor to-day as she was 40 years ago. Crookedest River in the World. Hitherto the Jordan has been accounted the most crooked stream in the world. But it cannot compare with the White river, Arkansas, which travels 1,000 miles in traversing a distance of 30 miles as the crow files. Many Theaters in London. In London there are 43 theaters where display plays are regularly presented, and 43 music halls devoted to vaudeville performances. How closely nation? watch one another and how quick they are to learn of one another has been demonstrated in the United States senate. When the naval appropriation bill came up, the item of expense for the construction of new battleships was opposed almost wholly on the ground that Japan in her present war with Russia had demonstrated the superiority of small vessels like torpedo boats, and had shown the impotence of battleships in modern naval warfare.—Washington Star. All in Vain. An American girl in London had talked horse, coaching, tennis, golf and vaudeville to the Englishman who had taken her in to dinner, without rousing him to an expression of interest. He was very quiet and gentlemanly and obviously bored, and with our characteristic American frankness she remarked: "You Englishmen are so hard to entertain!" To which he replied, in slow surprise: "But we don't want to be entertained!" Tree Explosions A grove of aspens in Manitoba grows in a region of intense frost. The straight, tall trunks have frost cracks in the bark near the ground, where the sap is yet to be found in the time of severest cold. All who have camped in the north during the coldest weather will recall readily the sharp explosions that are heard during the making of these cracks.—Country Life in America. Common Failing. One of the writers of popular songs says that his method is to jot down a jumble of meaningless words to fit the meter of his melody, and then afterward to substitute sense for the nonsense of the first draft. A good many song writers seem to follow the same procedure, without taking the second step.—Indianapolis Journal. Trying on the Nerves. It was testified in a London police court recently that lunatic asylums contain a larger percentage of piano tuners than of representatives of any other trade. Anyone who has been forced to listen to a piano being tuned can understand the nerve-racking nature of such a business.—Philadelphia Record. Want Good Men. A noteworthy feature of the applications this year to the bureau of self-help for graduate service is the demand from corporations for Yale men to take permanent positions, many of them well paid. Several of the calls for teachers are for positions paying $3,500 a year or more. Wagonless Syria Carts, wagons, drays, trucks, etc., are not employed largely in Syria and Palestine. On the farms a wagon of any description is hardly ever seen. Grain is brought in on the backs of camels and donkeys. Delivery wagons are unknown in Syrian cities. No Grohan Asyluma Australia has no orphan asylums. Every child who is not supported by parents becomes a ward of the state, and is paid a pension for support and placed in a private family, where board and clothes are provided until the fourteenth birthday. To Foil Mica Food can be protected from the ravages of mice by placing it on a table covered with an enamelled cloth set in the center of a room. The wily rodent cannot climb up the slippery surface.—Household. Hard to Understand A London doctor has figured it out that tall homes, such as apartment houses, has caused a reduction in the size of the heads of children and made them less intelligent. Savages at the Circus No doubt we are all quite civilized and refined, but the big act in the circus is the one in which the performer appears to incur a wanton risk of life. Washington Star. Those who have wondered why they never hear anything from Gen. Coxey nowadays will understand when they learn that he has made a fortune. Boston Globe. "Yes. Isn't it too bad? She never will be able to talk of love in a cottage without making people laugh."—Chicago Post. The world has a way of believing that the man who is always puttering around can't do anything else.—Chicago Record-Herald. Thibet is larger than France, Germany and Spain combined, but has only a population of 6,000,000.-Tit-Bits. It is strange, but people never come to speak of you "as a friend" about anything but your mistakes.—Chicago Tribune. Age of an Ostrich. Thirty years is the average age of an ostrich and the annual yield of a bird in captivity is from two to four pounds of plumes.—Nature. France's Smallest Conscript. Joannes Chaboud has the distinction of being the most diminutive conscript in France. This was discovered drawing by lots for service in the army. Chaboud hails from the canton of Verpilliere, in the department of the Isere, and measures about two feet 11 inches, while his weight is only $69\frac{1}{2}$ pounds. In appearance he is exactly like a child of five years of age, although his birth certificate proves that he was born on January 9, 1883.—Detroit Free Press. In late years the first session of congress has usually lasted long into the warm weather, even in "presidential" years. The adjournment of the Fiftyeighth congress this year was unusually early. The Eighth congress closed its first session on March 27, 1804, more than a month earlier. But then, a country of 80,000,000 people has more business for its legislators than a country of 6,000,000.—Youth's Companion. Use of Asphalt. Asphalt was first used for street pavements in Paris in 1838, and since then the demand for this purpose has warranted an annual production throughout the world of 450,000 to 500,000 metric tons of asphalt and bituminous rock. The consumption in the United States alone in the year 1903 was over 250,000 tons, which is equivalent to more than one-half the average production in the world.—Industrial Journal. His Graduation Exercises Asked, the other day, as to the absence of a youthful member of his flock, Brother Williams replied that he was "in his graduation exercises—in prison. You see," he explained, "hit wus disaway: He started humble—in de chain gang; but, by'perseverance en strict attention ter business, he finally graduated ter fed'rul prison of de United States!" Atlanta Constitution. Reclaiming Land. The island of Nordstrand, the only portion of once fertile North Friesland which is yet unreclaimed, is now to be saved from the sea by the construction of a large dike. The island was first separated from the mainland by a terrific storm in 1634, during which over 6,000 persons were drowned.—Geographical Journal. Coffee Making Hint Putting ground coffee to steep in cold water the night before will be found to result in economy and richness of flavor for the breakfast beverage. Enough coffee should be used to allow one tablespoonful for every cup and ah extra one for the pot.—Chicago Dally News. Wooden Highlanders The custom of tobacconists exhibiting effigies of Highlanders outside their shop doors originated in London, and, though at one time it was greatly in favor in both Scotland and England, the custom is now gradually dying out.-London Mail. New Style in Umbrellas Transparent umbrellas are a late novelty in London. The substance of which they are made has the color of ivory, and its constitution is a secret of the inventor. Collisions are thus rendered unlikely. Patriotic to the End. A Japanese murderer, condemned to death, had a dollar left on the eve of his execution, out of the money that had been sent him by his friends. The jailer advised him to spend it in one last luxurious meal. But he sent it to the war fund. "Forget my bad habits," wrote a despondent man in New Jersey, just before committing suicide. That's what many of us want our friends to do, instead of trying to break them off ourselves.—Boston Globe. Some After Thoughts. We learn from a delayed-in-transmission edition of the Congressional Record what a whole lot of members would have said if they had said it. Washington Post. Recent medical articles have contained an account of the acarus scabiei, which is gravely described as a parasite that attacks the palms of the hands and makes them itch. Mrs. Newcome—Wasn't that a nice, genial gentleman we met on the train? Mr. N.—I thought him only congenial.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. "As long as a man is willing to let his money do the talking nobody is going to make fun of his grammar."—Washington Star. Easy on the Skin. Don't rub the face with two coarse a towel. Treat it as you would the finest porcelain—tenderly and delicately.—Household. Good for Stings. Mix common earth and water to the consistency of mud and apply to a wasp or bee sting.—Chicago Daily News. Sometimes. Loss is sometimes gain—as when Adam lost that rib.—Indianapolis Journal. One Advantage. Russia is particularly lucky in having all the room in the world to retreat in. A New York pawnbroker recently told me of a scheme resorted to by many washer-women which may be of interest to those housewives who have noticed that their finer garments and household linens are slow in getting home from the wash. He says that these washerwomen make a regular practice of raising money on their patrons' better classes of linen. "For instance," said he, indicating a large package neatly done up, "that contains some very fine garments and a lot of household linen. The whole is worth perhaps $40. At any rate, I lent $20 on it. You see, the washerwoman takes the things home with her, washes them at office, and instead of returning them to their owner, brings them here and gets money, which she can use for at least a week, and sometimes much longer. By the time she has to take these out for delivery she has another lot which she can bring here in its place. Thus she keeps the money indefinitely. A washerwoman with a large number of such patrons can keep $200 or $300 in the air all the time and still get the goods back in time to satisfy those people who have sufficiently large reserve stock on hand." BIG ENGLISH HOMES. Wentworth-Woodhouse Said to Be the Largest of Its Kind-600 Feet Long and Contains 183 Booms. Knowsley, where Lord and Lady Derby have been entertaining King Edward, is no doubt a very roomy dwelling-house, but it is scarcely, as stated by a contemporary, the largest in England, says the Westminster Gazette. This proud position is generally accorded to Lord Fitzwilliam's Yorkshire seat, Wentworth-Woodhouse. Of this house it is said that the three principal entrances are so far distant from each other that visitors are advised to bring three hats with them, one to be kept at each point of egress. This is, of course, a needless counsel; but a house which is 600 feet long, has a hall into which two average suburban villas could be comfortably placed, and boasts a room for every two days of the year, is certainly large enough to satisfy any reasonable ambition. Of other commodious residences, Farnham castle has corridors over a mile in aggregate length; Blenheim palace stretches over 348 feet, and has 15 staircases; Mount Stuart, Lord Bute's Rothesay seat, is said to cover an acre and to have cost £2,000,000. Castle Howard has 125 rooms, and Raby castle stands on nearly two acres of land. A MONSTROUS IOWA GOOSE Harry Pinkham, a Nevada (Ia.) horseman, owns a Toulouse goose which is a monstrosity, and which has attracted a great deal of attention on account of its great size. The goose weighs 144 pounds, stands over two feet high, and lays an egg as large around as an ordinary carafe. The fowl has been exhibited by Mr. Pinkham at several of the live stock shows, and has always attracted attention. It is the intention of Mr. Pinkham to take the goose to the St. Louis exposition and have it exhibited, with the great poultry exhibit to be arranged during the summer. The weight of this goose was so great that the web feet became crippled, and in order that the fowl might easily walk over the frozen ground this winter Mr. Pinkham had made for it a pair of rubber shoes which had been made to fit exactly upon the two web feet, and with this artificial aid the goose gets about on the ice and the hard ground quite well. With one of the eggs which the goose recently laid a Nevada boarding house keeper made fourteen custard pies. JAP GIFTS IN WHITE HOUSE. The Japanese diplomats in Washington are welcome guests at the white house, and Minister and Mme. Takahira have contributed greatly to the pleasure of Mrs. Roosevelt and the children of the president. There is a Japanese corner at the white house for which these foreigners are responsible. They have presented Mrs. Roosevelt with a collection of Japanese dolls, dressed to represent court ladies and various types of high life in the Land of the Rising Sun. Instead of sending this gift to the nursery, where Ethel, Archie and Quentin maintained they should go, Mrs. Roosevelt showed her appreciation by giving them a place of honor in the red parlor. Arranged in a gilded cabinet, they form an attractive decoration, their gorgeous robes of bright colored brocade and gold embroidery artistically blending with the brilliant furnishings of the room. Tourists are always attracted by the souvenirs from Japan, and many make inquiries as to their origin. The Harm Noise Does Noise is an undoubted factor in impairing the tone of the nerve centers. Whether we are conscious of it or not, it hurts the brain and has a deafening, dazzling, bewildering effect on the mental processes. It tires the brain and tends to produce cerebral hyperemia. To live in a noisy atmosphere is to shorten one's days. Irritability, nauseathesis, insomnia are common afflicts. London Family Doctor Origin of the Muff. The muff when first introduced was the exclusive property of the nobility and originated in Venice. These muffs were very small, and consisted of a single piece of velvet, brocade or silk, lined with fur, and the openings fastened with rich jewels. Such arrangements came in during the early part of the seventeenth century, but in the previous century the ladies frequently carried a piece of rich fur, which they used either as a muff or a neckpiece. Camels Not Superseeded Owing to heavy port charges at Beirut and relatively high freight rates on the Lebanon railway during the harvest, some 4,000 to 6,000 camels, each with a burden of 500 pounds of grain, daily pass between the interior of Syria and the sea via Nazareth. The camel driver, however, claims half of the load as his reward, and the farmer, after paying taxes, for seed, etc., has scant compensation for his labor. Romance in Real Life Tennyson's poem, "The Lord of Burleigh," was founded on a romance of real life which had for its hero a former marquis of Exeter. As Mr. Henry Cecil he fell in love with a cottage girl named Hoggins and, pretending to be a poor and humble man, he wooed and won her. She was the Sarah, marchioness of Exeter, who died on January 18, 1797. Population of Brazil. The population of Brazil is 16,000,000, of which 1,500,000 are Italians, 1,000,-000 Portuguese, 25,000 Germans, 4,000 English, 400 Americans and about 20,-000 of various other nationalities. The average number of immigrants is about 3,000 a year, the Italians predominating; the German immigration is about 200 a year. Quite an Idea Mrs. Subbubs—I see by the papers that that big fire was started by "spontaneous combustion." Mr. Subbubs—Well? "I was just thinking how nice it would be if we could only buy some of it for use in the furnace in the cellar."—Philadelphia Press. Bad Betting. "I have bet a slik hat with that man five times in the last year, and he has never paid me one of them." "That so? I didn't know he was in the habit of breaking his word." "Oh, he isn't; he won the beta."—Cincinnati Times-Star. FRESH FEMININE FINERY. Old English embroidery is to have an all-summer run. Hyacinthine blue looks well on both blondes and brunettes. Some of the new jackets have two graduated tucks up the back. Very many evening dresses have long sleeves, full at the elbow. Silk lace grenadines in lovely colors are the most attractive of new fabrics. The most gorgeous plume of all is all red one side the quill and all creamy yellow the other. Coats to the linen and pique costumes vary from the three-quarter Norfolk to the very short eton. It's a comfort to know that walking skirts at least will be exempt from the craze for skirt fullness. MR&.A. WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates, 2252 Indiana aveune. The Kink That Won't Come Back. You can make your hair just as straight and smooth as you want to by using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, and the kink that was there before will not come back. The Ozonized Ox Marrow also keeps the hair from falling out, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. It never fails. One bottle does it. Sold over forty years to ladies of refinement all over the country, giving perfect satisfaction. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. THE BROAD AX. Is for sale at the following news stands: The Afro-American News Office, 3104 State Street. Alton H. Blake, shoe shining parlors, 2508½ State street. J. C. Campbell, cigars, tobacco and fancy groceries, 4710 State street. A. F. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 363 20th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. Turner William's Cigar and News Stand, 2903 Armour Ave. Mrs. B. Williams, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 486½ State street. Frank H. Hart, 354-31st street, cigars, tobacco and Laundry office. Mrs. E. F. Early, groceries and notions, 2933 State St. The Stationery, 2970 State street. P. S. Hotchkis's Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 181 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 Az. oe aS ce ee Ge | See oa Thats Werte, ee pave Ee saph Ser soneeet: 3% Fey ee Pie Ch a eee oT BE ee a es at Alexander, who train ~ wit le 3 Ward, _ and — |W. W. Johnson, ts one “ap with the five doliarsy’ which we let “WH, Clark, who ‘has been connec “flee for the past stx or siven years, ‘bas, by his genticmanly conduct, won "the high esteem of all those who have ‘basiness to transact in that depart- met ‘Mrs. Clara EB. Bowles, 4765 Dear born street, who with her husband owns their nice home, is making elsb- orate preparations to take in the “sights of the World's Fair at St. Louis the latter part of June. ~ Mrs, Emma L. Btevens, 4844 Dear Dorm street, the fashionable dress- maker, is looking ever so lovely; these cool summer days, and some of her friends suspect that her best beau will con strike town after spending the winter in California ana in Old Mex- ico. Alderman Heary L. Fick, who sports & big diamond. ring which sheds more light than the headhght of a loco- motive, says ‘The Broad Ax is not worth a tinker’s damn since it stopped fighting the Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, and ‘the other preachers. Kalaspa Park, 47th and Robey streets, under the management of Horace Clinton, and Edward Tiding- ton, opened up last night for the sea son of 1904. Dancing and vaudeville performances will be the leading feat- utes.every Tuesday and Friday. The Metropolitan orchestra will furnish the music. Admission 25 cents. ‘When the Northerrers believed the Southern twaddle about the opposi- tion to the Negro was based on his ignorance, they decetvet themselves. _When they proposed the names of educated, cultured, well-to-do Negroes | to hold office, they undeceived every) white man of intelligence in the north | and-made Tillman how! until he split |’ his throat and damaged his judg- ment. ; - . According to the last reports the ' physicians had him in hand, the under- |, taker was.anxious to register his |, transfer, while the Devil was expect: | ; ataly awaiting his grrivel in the other | world. —The ‘Planet, Richmond, Va. Alderman John J. Bradiey continues to make @ ‘first class record in the |! ity council.as the able chairman of |? the Police Department and the’ Bride- | ‘ well, and by working night and day |. lately he has succeeded in getting the | 5 both ward cleaned up in good shape. Rey. W. Sampson Brooks has re urned from his trip to Africa, Rome, | , Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land, | ¢ snd che will lecture Wednesday eve- | ing, June Sth, at Quinn Chapel, sub-/ ‘ ect, “The Black Pilgrim.” Admis-|! ion 15 cents. ‘Miss Bertha Morgan, who spent the jest. winter in visiting at the home of | } ire. R. B.- Jones, 4747 Dearborn | * treet, left for her home in Indianap-| § lis, Ind, Monday morning. Her ad- rear in that city is 1932 Alvord treet. The many friends which miss forgan. made in this ‘city will be/|* jeased to learn thot she will aiso|™ pend next winter in Chicago. : ‘Rev. G.'W. Woodbey, of Sen Diego, al, will deliver. lecture in this| “ i] Monday evening, June 6th, at 3245 ubject will be “The Negro in Ancient |¢ at the first five great nations of the orld wore Negroes, ané that the hite race owes its knowledge of iet- | P ra; arts and eclence to the Negro; rs utions of learsing, with-| _ Be eet del made to dis-| . nay Wer aren ene ye Dee _C. Carter, 3 prning, | Kay Bist. His ses i} STR a Gar ey intent = at gt} i eens a co aecameopeins Dee 5 pale ‘tetehien to a! raid which te ai ers eee " ae er © Evening gowns do not have the lace falling far enough Yown to interfere ‘with the movements of the hand. “The woman who went without furs al! ‘winter is now reaping her reward in the big fur reductions fn ai the shops. If you happen to have some mink edging or some sort of fur trimming by you you can make a chaming shortekat- tng frock with ‘corduroy velvet. An ecru batiste, heavily hand-em- broldered with big red and brown pop- pies, is edged with & ruche of red chiffon peeping from beneath the skirt. S0ME HORSE LORE _- Never examine « harness horse to ‘Balter, or one kept for saddling pur. ‘poses in barness. ’ Don’t pass fina] judgment on 9 high- spirited horse fresh from the stable, or one thoroughly tired out. Don't fail to size up the owner or Griver, and draw your own deduction from their statements, substantiated by ‘your own observations of the horses. y “The Age of Chairs. Chairs were in use in Egypt so fong ago as 3399 B.C. The Chinese em- ployed them from ebout 1300 B.C. In India they were used, and are men- tioned as dating from 1100 B. C. House chairs with backs were in use in India A. D, 300, They are known to have been employed in Rome so early as A. D. 70, being mentioned by Pliny at that ‘date. Chairs with foot rests were used in Rome A.D. 150, ‘Unreasonable, To be soured by poverty, or to be hard- ened by it isa mistake—an error of thought. Instead of enjoying our lifewe are cramping ourselves: It is as if we were set at feast and sulkily refused to enjoy a few dishes because we could mot reach everything on the table and make ourselves sick, like foolish chil- Gren that we are—Bliss Carman. Pesch Beam , One cupful peach pulp, oF tiny bits of tender peaches. either the fresh fruit or home preserved, in which case omit the eugar; half cupful powdered sugar, White one é¢gg. Put into large bow! and beat with a silver fork for 30 min- utes. It should then be thick, per- fectly smooth, velvety cream.—Wasb- ington Star. Australia’s Freak Lew. In Australia, under a new isw, no contract can be made for the carrying of mails by any steamship line which allowg @ colored man to work on any of the ships. The mail steamers hith- erto have been largely manned by @ark-skinned British subjects from Indie? > Qrane Foam Put in a sherbet giass two table- Spoonfuls of grape juice; atid to this the white of one egg, beaten stiff, « little scraped ice and sptinkle with Powdered sugar. Serve at once without stifring. Simple, nutritious and deli- ious.— Washington Star. Used to It. “We want a man for our information bureau,” said the manager, “but he must be one who can answer all sorts of questions and not lose his head.” “That's me,” replied the applicant. “T'm the father of eight children.”— ———. Paris Pupils Fed. —_ Every national echool in Paris has a canteen on the premises, where the chil- dren are provided with warm meais, free to those who are too poor te pay. The cost of the food which is thus furnished is about one penny a head. ———— Aged Timeviece. The clock placed in the hall of the Holbron (England) borough council is at least 260 years old, and has been in ‘the possession of the local authorities for ‘that period. It still keeps good time. Climbing Taught. Mountain climbing is taught system- atically at Moedling, near Vienna, ‘where the low but abrupt mountains Present many of the most difficult Ai- pine problems. ee -"- - Me Ads Allowed. 2000 © £15000 by ée- to every year kek uae, ‘cars, which are operated by the city. Sateinieeeioca coat ct ~ Valuable Locks. A lock cf hair trom the head of Prince Charlie, the Scottish pretender, and one from his wife's sold at auction ‘m Londen recently for. $168, a FRB FT PRG : ~When kid shoes have deen wot, and become hardened, clean them at once and reb with castor ofl—Chicago Daily News. E, ever Find a Fit. cured many s man of periodical fits— Chicago Daily News. bites atthe Bt Lociatean . tte reported, wears eyegiiesee” Gost of Parks | It costs New York five times ag mach as it Goce London to maintats parks and Fecteation grounds. E | —eeeemesininaneee: Monument to.an Idea, ‘The Swiss repeblic is about to erect ® menument in heror of the world’s @estal upicm,. = «- = 2.) ve at sa 3 Regions. © Dogs are. bly the most tin Snimals for man in Nis polar expe tions, where: sledges must be dra over the ice of the Polar sea 7 Se te Soeiaaen, 1k BES and they can be easily carried on boats or on ite floes, As the government has forbidden the ¢ tation of dogs from F plorers usually get their dogs BA Reecte Hint + For the expansion of the chest fag better could “be offered than breathing exercise, which should Gone regularly every night € firing. Open the window from three or four inches, them and regularly 25 times. It will be tieed In a short time the neck 1 gin to fill oat and ‘the bones save been the cause of much discom- fort will disappear.—Detrolt Free ‘Press, E ‘Bapid Shirt Making. During a recent visit madé by an ‘English social reformer to a shirt ‘fnc- tory the foreman started a piece of eloth on the rounds and it came out 2 finished shirt in just six and one-hall minutes. Seven girls worked on. the shirt. One machine made 16,800 but- tonholes in 9 day, or 28 a minute. “In ten hours in this shop a man can cut 250 dozen, or 3,000 shirts. Woerldte Pair Ocala, Tp the world’s fair mines and metal- Jurgy palace is exhibited. the mos! ‘wonderful collections of opals ever seen. They are shown in all stages, dust as they come from the ground, and tn every stage of cutting and pol- ishing. These opals, about 200,000 in umber, come from the famous opal fields in Idaho, the richest in the world. Got the Money. : ‘The action of the 13-year-old boy éown in Virginia who discovered a rock om the railroad track and instantly @ashed up the road waving his cap and stopped a coming train wasn’t exactly heroism, but the passengers on the train promptly made up a purse for the boy, without waiting for Mr. Carnegie —Indianapolis Journal. 7 Handsome Table Cover. A handsome table cover to be used for & dinner party bas a border of heavy hand-made lace, imported, of course, Balin i each od othe canlerlece im each end one of those long squares of Turkish embroidery in gold on a white ground ef coarse meshed linen —Boston Globe. To Clean Giass, ‘When there is only a mirror or two or @ pane of glass to be washed. mix a ‘thick cold starch, apply with a clean reg to your mirror or pane and then rub ¢ry with chamois or any cloth that does not lint. It is soeasy todo, yet produces fine results.—Chicago Daily News. Bear for Ship’s Mascot. 7 _ While some of the warships have a @omestic animal like a dog or a cat, or even a goat for a mascot, the Chicago has secured @ black, wooly bear. The Deast is quite tame, is well trained ang seems to enjoy his J anni strange Caution. 5 “Have you called on the new clergy- man's wife yet?” “No; ‘but I expect to soon. I don’t ‘want to have to tell her who my dress- Maker is until after I get my spring ‘sewing done.”—N. Y. Herald. —_—_ African Cotton. e A syndicate with a capital of 600,060 lire ($96,500) has just been formed gt Milan, Italy, by some of the most portant cotton brokers, in order to foste! the growing of cotton in Bast Africa, — , ~ Country of Churches. Australia has 210 churches to every 100,000 people—a larger number capita than any other country. Engionl has 144 and Russia only about 65: Church Eclectic.- = > Falcons in the Army. Tramed falcons, to carry dispatches im the time of war, have been tested in the Russian army. Their speed is four times as rapid as that of cartier pig- eons. ——_—— ‘Women Medical Officers. / ‘Women serve as medical officers the Russian army. Saas ateae Soa in Burope is such employment giver to the sex—Tit-Bits. : For the Asthms. y It is said that a muskrat skin, worm With the fur side next to the ‘lungs, ‘will bring certain relief to asthma guf-. forers. : Ppa ee The most remarkable thing about stories is that they are true—Indianapolis News. ' ‘The manufacture of ice In nae Bronte Ia thoes ones to Bas, ak J me Ancient Map. ; —— et ee Oe Py gees tont nen ee ee 8 Rel - mméenmtis Ark nie Papaa? yo a _ WILLIAM C. KUESTER. » SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery Fo Sie + Telephone 565 South 81st and State Sts. CHICAGO A. D. GAS H 84-86 La tai Siro, ohinge ‘Telephope Maia 3077. UILLMANG STATE STREET Dry Goods and Everything to Wear for Man, COdenan | and Child x John J. Bradley Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Cokes Hien Se ee (Chaghens Verto = Bashdeecs, ED Gantet Bi 4@HR FITZ@ERALD BOSTICE OF THE PEACE | 6781 8 MALSUED STREET, 2 . Theodore C. Mayer JUSTICE OF THE PEACE jhidgiessc teams, Tada dha bia beoei amore and Acknowledged. - Room 22, 27 North Clark Street. thist Chtengir tec Paioan Cece def Sect sient . J, GRAY LUCAS 1 A TTORNEY-AT-Law Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bidg (©® Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. Phone Randolph 55 J. J. HENNESSY, : Justice-of-the-Peace, ~_ 6301 .S. Halsted St. _ WILLIAM TREXLER, CLERK. TELEPHONE WENTWORTH 4403. Police Magistrate Englewood Police Court. — of Kalaspa’ Park te Fie Me Din Ca area Take 47th St. Cars to the Gate 47th and Robey ADMISSION 25 CENTS Opens June Qnd, 1904 Telephone Main 3555. - P., J. O’SHEA @TTORNEY ATOLAW. . Seite r44g Unity Building - 79 Dearborn 8¢. ¢ Chicago. Rebert M. Mitchell _ Aterney at Law Gatto 9, Ne, 77 South Clark $4, CHMiKAGO an Bre WILLIAM RITCHIE ATTORNEY AMD COUNSELOR. ‘Gatee -B8 Oxten Bowe LA SAuL8 ST. cmcaee ‘Vebagieeme Rte 625 - ALBERT 8, @5ORGE oo oo Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM fF, “* Anything for Looks, ; % emntury ago boot peng ye Sn ee is: teal Semeting Charen, ‘The Austrian government has re- perc a) ‘ nitrate of ammonia as Ze tig charge for projectiles. 9 Be a Tee Sa Be ais ie