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THE BROAD AX The Democratic State Convention of Illinois Controlled by John P. Hopkins Ex-Judge William Prentiss and Mayor Wm. C. Crolius Withdrew as Candidates for Governor. The Delegates to the St. Louis Convention are Instructed to Vote for Wm. R. Hearst for President of the United States. Vol. IX The Democrat State Co Controlled by J Ex-Judge William Prentiss and Mayor didates for G The Delegates to the St. Louis Conv R. Hearst for President of the Tuesday, June 14th, at 12 o'clock, the machinery of the Democratic State Convention of Illinois was put in motion by John P. Hopkins, Chairman of the State Committee, who in a very few words introduced Hon. Frank J. Quinn of Peoria as the temporary Chairman of the Convention. Later on he became its permanent Chairman and then the fun and the tumult began in real earnest but by vigiously pounding the desk or stand with his huge square mallet, the Convention was able to proceed with its deliberations in the midts of much noise and great confusion. It was evident from the very first show down in the Convention that it would be run or controlled by John P. Hopkins and his followers, and by combining them with the supporters of William Randolph Hearst, Mayor Carter H. Harrison and his adherents had no voice whatever in running it, and after coolly sizing up the situation his Honor, or the man of "Distiny", departed for Chicago Tuesday afternoon. A few minutes after Chairman Quinn announced that the next order of business was the nomination of a candidate for Governor, Ex-Judge William Prentiss stepped to the front of the platform and made a fierery, and patriotic speech in withdrawing his name as a candidate for Governor. Mayor William C. Crolius of Joliet, did likewise. Then followed the most dramatic and exciting scenes enacted during the Convention. Almost one hour elapsed before order could be sufficiently restored to permit it to proceed with its work. It seems to us, that if the nine-hundred and thirty-six delegates who supported the Darrow substitute resolution instructing the delegates to the St. LETTER CARRIERS WILL PICNIC Members of the National Association Members of the Letter Carriers' National Association have completed arrangements for a huge picnic, the date selected being Sunday, June 19, Santa Fe Park being chosen for the scene of the festivities. Trains will leave Polk Street Depot every half hour from 9 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon, thus assuring ample accommodations to all desiring to attend. The committee of arrangements has provided many novel and attractive events for the entertainment of their friends, and a day of fun is assured the many friends attending. While music and dancing will be features, an extensive programme of games and races has been arranged, including two games of baseball, monring and afternoon. Valuable prizes will be awarded and a good time is assured. The outings of the letter carriers have always been most enjoyable, and every effort will be made to have the forthcoming demonstration excel the former very successful by the association. The committee of arrangements embraces the following: Thos. F. Hanrahan, chairman; Jas. W. Murray, secretary; D. J. Geary, Axel Thompson, Peter Youngren, Thos. Judge, Edw. Louis Convention to vote for William Randolph Hearst, first, last and all the time, were loyal to his interest that they possessed the power to force the nomination of either one of those two gentlemen, whom we highly esteem, and it may be possible that they acted a little hasty in withdrawing from the race. When order was restored, the following ticket was nominated: For Governor—Lawrence B. Stringer of Lincoln. For Lieutenant-Governor—Thomas F. Ferns of Jersey county. For Secretary of State—Frank E. Dooling of Springfield. For Auditor—R. E. Spangler of Chicago. For Attorney-General—Albert Watson of Jefferson county. For State Treasurer—Judge Charles B. Thomas of McLeansboro. For Trustees of the University of Illinois—Mrs. Hannah Jane Sullivan of Chicago, Fred B. Merrill of St. Clair county and Theodore C, Loehr of Carlinville. John P. Hopkins, Samuel Alschuler, Aurora, A. M. Lawrence, Chicago, and B. T. Cable, Rock Island, were chosen as delegates at large to the St. Louis Convention, and they with the other delegates were instructed to vote for William Randolph Hearst for President of the United States as long as he was a candidate for that high and honorable position. Much bitterness was expressed on the part of some of those who participated in the convention, over the results which flowed from it. They must remember that at the very best politics is a fierce or cut-throat proposition. Therefore they should take their medicine like men and fall in line for the ticket. Kalser, Peter Thompson, Jas. Manning, Jas. Murphy, J. J. Brennan, Wm Lawder, Chas Hunt, Wm. Coty, Wm Murphy, Wm. Ashby, and John Schmitz. Miss N. Grace Irrmann, the highly accomplished; intellectual and youngest daughter of Ex-County Commissioner and Mrs. Irrmann, 196 W. Madison st., graduated from the West Division High School with high honors. She was the validictorian of the graduating class. Miss Irrmann is in her 17th year. She will devote her energies and talent to journalism and she has promised in the near future to write an article for The Broad Ax. Mr. and Mrs. Irrmann have succeeded in giving all their children a first class education. They are justly proud of them, for none of them have caused them, to regret the many sacrifices which they have made to accomplish that object. NOTICE. The Trip to Musicville. Sketch arranged by Mrs. Marion Adams Harris, some of Chicago's famous talent will participate June 30th, 1904, at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church, 24th st. and Wabash ave. A couple of Chicago's young soprano's will be introduced upon this occasion. Don't forget the date. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, June 18, 1904. [Name] The Liberal Minded and Popular Democratic Mayor of Springfield, Who Has Appointed More Afro-Americans to Office than any of his Republican Predecessors. Charles W. Chestnut on the Disfranchisement of the Negro. Booker T. Washington Hit in the Neck. Charles W. Chestnut, the famous Afro-American novelist recently delivered an address on the subject of the "Sufferage" in Washington, D. C., and we gladly reproduce a portion of his clear cut utterances on that vital question. So with the question of sufferage Concede the justice of limiting the franchise by anything but manhood, sanity and honesty, and you concede the right to fix any limitation. A man is not a fool because he cannot read; some of the greatest men of history could neither read nor write. An educated man will, other things being equal, make a better citizen. But is a man, whom misfortune has deprived of a privilege, to be therefore denied a right? A poor man is not necessarily a fool; he needs just laws, and a voice in making them, through those whom he selects, far more than the rich man does. The rich have other means to defend themselves; the poor have only the ballot. If you admit that a voter should own $300.00 worth of property, why not make it $600.00 or $6000.00? Had old Judea been a republic and had such a qualification of the franchise existed, our Lord himself could not have voted, nor any of His disciples, unless perhaps Judas, who seems to have been a thrifty soul. I think if Judas had lived in our day, he would probably have been in the Senate from South Carolina; or perhaps in the National Convention as a "lilly-white" Republican delegate. I am a believer in manhood sufferage; nobody had ever seriously questioned it in this country except for the purpose of disfranchising the colored voters, and no attempt has been made to limit it elsewhere, nor I venture to predict, can any such attempt be successful. If some white men have been disfranchised in the South, it was incidental to the main purpose, which was to disfranchise the colored men. The imposition of a poll-tax as a prerequisite to voting is thoroughly undemocratic. It rests upon the assumption that a man who has no money and owns no land contributes nothing to the support of the State. Nothing could be falser. Every man who pays taxes; the taxes are paid out of the rent he pays. Land is nothing without labor; the man who works it and makes it productive earns the money that pays the taxes. Every bit of sugar or tobacco, or liquor, and every tariff-burdened product we consume, pays taxes to the general government. Every one of our leaders who, for any reason approves these unjust qualifications, is doing his race more harm than any temporary advantage he may gain can offset. Then again our leaders toady too much; they assert that we cannot live without the friendship of the white people, which must be had at any price. Let us admit that their friendship is desirable and that we owe much to it; that we need it, and would seek it by all proper means, and be grateful for it when offered. But if we must choose between their friendship and our natural and constitutional rights, we will take our rights, and take our chances on their friendship. Equality of rights is the only safe basis of friendship; and in the long run the existence of colored people in this land must depend, as is well put by Mr. Washington—and in this article of his creed I heartily concur—upon their usefulness to society. But this usefulness will depend upon the extent to which they enjoy the opportunities of organized society. Rights must come first, before there can be social efficiency. Do we need schools? Give us our rights, and the State will furnish them, if not adequately, at least such as the State can afford; and all men will share them alike. Our young men would not need to go to New England to seek the higher education, but could find it in their own universities. And private philanthropy, which bears to large a part of the burden of education, would scarcely ask us to give up our rights in order to share in its benefits. To do so would be to sell our birthright and that of our children for a mess of pottage. Frankly, I believe that the right to vote, acknowledged, protected and exercised, is worth more to the Negroes of the South today than all the schools that can be established from now to doomsday, without the right to vote. What is the object of education? To enable men to utilize their liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Give men liberty, and they will protect their rights; lessing, the narrow prejudices of the South which are asserted so loudly and which seem for the moment to prevail. must yield, sooner or later, as did slavery, to the advancing tide of human progress; and the time will come—and your rights will not be secure until it does come—when the people of the United States shall be, if not all of one complexion, at least all one people, and the color of a man's skin shall be of no more public concern than that of his eyes or his hair. To remain a separate people is to remain an inferior people; there are too many odds against any other result. A word, before I close, as to leaders. We hear much about leaders. Conventions are held and debates that end in roits, about who are or who shall be the leaders of the colored people, or rather the Negro—as though the race were a bull or bear, to be led by a ring through the nose. Real leadership does not need to be argued; it asserts itself. THE AMERICAN AND CHICAGO WAITER. By L. W. Washington. Some of Our Headwaiters. If gambling is prohibited in public places, it ought not to be tolerated by our headwaiters as it is to-day in some of the departments in hotels. Those who tolerate these things are worse than the man who runs the dive, or the biggest hypocrite in an honest church. The employer does not know this, for they do not deal with the situation. But quite often do they have in their employ, bad men, who are not fit for any man's dining room, or fit for the association of a good crew. The reason this is so, is, that these headwaiters will invariably crowd their best men to the wall, and allow the careless, and indolent waiter to do as he please. They delight in making it hard for a man with some responsibility upon him, and are constantly letting the waiter with no pacific purpose in life have the best of everything. They will give them the best tables in the room hide their many faults, and allow the fellow that only cares to get by, the greatest liberty. They are so weak until they do not have the manly courage to protect their men when they know that the are right, when a proper and intelligent defense would save many a good waiter's position and relieve his family from a cruel want. The public do not know, neither can they conceive with what duplicity some of our headwaiters carry out their various plans to get rid of a man, in order to make their position stronger with some scoundrel, who has not even sympathy in his heart for a cat, much less a human being, and more often the poor waiter is falsely accused, and fired, when he is right. The reason why this is so, is that, very few of our headwaiters have the ability to mediate the cause of his men as it should be done, they are too aafrdi of their position, and yet I have never seen a brave man that was not respected by guest, proprietor, and crew, and very few of them, that is, those men of whom my subject treats, would pass an examination of a second grade course. The time has come, and is now, when a halt should be called upon these mistreatments and abuses. There are one or two hotels where these kind of headwaiters get a take off in poker and dice games, they are always trying to give the man who advocates the cause of his union his time, but lets the fellow that is "just borely" alone. I have it from very good authority that Bro. Casey of the Delprado gets his $10.00 monthly rake off, and our former Bro. H. W. at the Vendome has his percentage from the dice table. These men would destroy the principels of honest labor, and place a premium upon crime. It has been the tolerations by such men that is filling our jails and penitentiaries. We shall keep hammering away at this evil, or some of these so called good headwaiters are indicted. In every hotel there are signs prohibiting gambling of any sort. But the headwaiter who wants to get rich quick, runs the game himself or receives so much for the toleration or protection of the fellow who runs the same. I have known men to loose their whole month's wages in these games, let these headwaiters take warning. A good headwaiter should be honored for his sterling worth, but these headwaiters that are degrading their positions, should be made to do better or go out of the business. No. 34 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cavanaugh Celebrated their Tenth Wedding Monday evening, June 13, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cavanaugh, 1205 State street, celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary, and the following are some of their many friends who greeted the host and hostess on that delightful occasion. Prof. and Mrs. J. W. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hawkins, Mr. Ben. Rickets, Mr. and Mrs. John Howell, Mr. Wm. Waddy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lainer, Mr. and Mrs. O. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. James Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson, Miss F. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Smith Mr. L. M. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Eastilian, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Simpson, Mr. C. Bender, Miss Estella Casey, Miss Grace Todd, Mrs. P. B. Koppel, Mr. Shepard Crump, Mr. J. H. Harris, Miss Margaret Robinson, Mr. Aurtha Henry, Mr. Wm. Carr, Miss Lula Chase, Mr.F. W. Boyd, Miss Grace Pointer Mr. General Anderson, Mr. McEllis, Miss V. J. Parker, Miss Woods, Mr. J. Mercer, Mr. David Rollans, Mr. London Smith, Mr. Henry Griffin,, Mr. and Mrs. R. Young, Mr. Robert Van Stockton, Mr. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. L. Goodgame,, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Cavanaugh, Mr. Will Bailey and Mr. Dave Harvey. Mrs. P. B. Koppel, 4762 Armour avenue, had charge of the affair, and the guests showered. bouquets upon her for managing it so successfully. CHIPS. The S. S. S. Whist Club will give a series of outdoor entertainments when the weather permits. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Pickett of Washington, D. C. are stopping at number 6450 Champlain ave. They expect to remain in Chicago until Fall. J. L. Moss (White) died recently at Uniontown, Ala., and left his colored daughter two valuable building lots and $10.000, in money. Miss Ada R. Morton, 5045 Amour ave., will on Monday evening, July 4th, become united in marriage to Mr. Frank Trammal. Congressman J. R. Williams, laid his presidential boom away in a nice soft bed at the Springfield Convention, until 1908. Mr. B. V. Baranco, of Baton Rouge, La., a delegate to the National Republican Convention is stopping at No. 2617 Wabash Ave. Mr. Julius W. Fields of Denver, Colorado, spent a week, in our city, on his way home from a two weeks visit to the Fair at St. Louis. Little swelled up fatty Alexander is still running at large and so far no one has caused his arrest for refusing to pay his honest debts. The Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Register of the United States Treasury is stopping at McCoys Hotel. Mr. Lyons is the only Negro member of the National Republican Committee. Jackson Gordon of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, has been appointed one of the assistant doorkeepers of the Republican National Convention. Representative John E. Doyle of the 11th Senatorial District will come out the winner in the scrap in the Senatorial Convention this coming week. A high class musical entertainment will be given by the I. B. W. Club at Mrs. Shives, 214 E. 28th street, Monday evening, June 20th. Admission 10 cents. Col. Lawrence A. and Mrs. Anna L. Newby failed to show up in Justice Underwood's court rooms Monday afternoon, June 13, and their case was kicked out of court. Ex-Judge J. E. Ricketts, 145 La Salle street, possesses a well-trained legal mind and the County Convention would stick a large feather in its cap by nominating him as one of the Superior Court Judges of Cook County. Race Horse Chas. W. Anderson of New York will orate at Quinn Chapel Monday evening on "The Lily-White Republicans of the South, and should the Republican party be controlled by them.' Will promulgate and as all three uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indies, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Brood Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever, claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 8040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as Second-class Matter. Hungarians Getting Wise. Owing to the numerous cases of embezzlement which have taken place recently in Hungarian banks, and which nearly all were traced to losses on the race track, the Hungarian Agrarian Banking company has issued an order forbidding all its employees to attend horse races under penalty of instant dismissal. The government is said to be considering the advisability of issuing the same order to employes of all government institutions.-Detroit Free Press. Fishing for Plunder A visitor to one of the hotels of Peking was awakened during the night by the noise caused by the fall of a roll of paper. Getting out of bed, he saw with astonishment a pole, to which was attached a fish line, moving about the room, collecting various objects and removing them through the window. Upon going downstairs he was heard by the burglarious Chinaman outside, to whom the rod belonged, and who escaped, leaving his fishing line behind him.—London Mall. Parish Without Inhabitants. Few people are aware that there is a London parish that does not contain a single inhabitant. This is the parish of St. Christopher-le-Stock, which extends over the open space in front of the Madison house and the royal exchange, and includes the corner of the Bank of England. Its electoral lists and valuation lists have to be made up and duly signed, just as in the case of other parishes. A Delictous Omelet Beat separately the whites of six eggs. Mix with the yolks any flavor you desire and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Add the whites to the yolks, and beat well. Mix in four or five tablespoonfuls of milk, with a little salt. Cook like an ordinary omelet. Turn over in the dish, sprinkle with powdered sugar, pass the salamander over and serve.—Woman's Home Companion. The Vulgar Present List French society has begun to rebel at the printed list of wedding presents. It is no longer good form, in certain sets, to run down the gamut, in public print, of the parental check down to the fish carver of the servant's hall. The custom has become very ostentatious, and given rise to much vulgzr speculation and mental arithmetic. To Clean Porcelain. A porcelain saucepan that has become stained should be half filled with water, into which a tablespoonful of powdered borax has been put. Let the water boil briskly for awhile. Should all the stain not come off, wet a cloth, dip in borax and scour the spots.—Detroit Free Press. Paternal Duty. "Blank is a very effeminate sort of fellow, isn't he?" "Yes; you see, his wife is such a strong minded personage that he feels it incumbent upon him to preserve the fine balance of the family for the sake of the children."—Detroit Free Press. Pay of London Police Including the higher officials, London has over 16,000 persons on its police force. A policeman's pay is at first only six dollars a week, rising to eight dollars. Inspectors get $1,000 a year; the commissioner's salary is $12,500. Sharks in the Baltic For some unknown reason the shark has returned to European waters. In the Baltic, for example, where sharks had been extinct since 1759, they have made their appearance in considerable numbers.—London Tit-Bits. Record for Descendants. One of the most remarkable records for numerous descendants of any person in the United States is that held by Mrs. Jacob Dearinger, who lives in Taylorsville, Ill. She is 87 years old and has 271 descendants. Sycamore is an exceedingly durable wood, and a statue from it now in the museum of Gizon is reported sound and natural in appearance, although nearly 6,000 years old. The robbery of graves is the only crime under Chinese law for which the thief may be justly killed on the spot by anyone finding him to be guilty.—London Tit-Bits. Among the allegations of cruelty made by an English husband, who wants a separation, is that his wife makes him wear gloves at breakfast. Electricity is not life, but it stimulates life in plants. Its adaptation may yet revolutionize horticulture. In our homes lighted by electricity the conservatory becomes an experimental garden. We modify the lights with shades suited to the needs of the different potted plants. The sick ones are revived by a course in electric therapeutics. The pots are placed near the incandescent or arc lights according to the amount of light and stimulation they need, and under their powerful influence they revive, and their diseases are destroyed.—Chicago Post. Quick Work on Shirts. The up-to-date song of the shirt lasts just six an done-half minutes, according to a factory inspector for whose edification the foreman of a shirt factory started a piece of cloth on the rounds and made it come out ready for a customer's back before the second hand on a watch had revolved seven times. In this time seven girls had contributed their efforts to the finished product. One machine in this shop makes 16,800 buttonholes a day, or.28 in a minute, and in a ten-hour day a man can cut 250 dozen shirts. Beautiful Bible The most beautiful volume in the congressional library at Washington is a Bible which was transcribed on parchment by a monk in the sixteenth century. The general lettering is in the German text, each letter is perfect, and there is not a scratch or blot from lid to lid. Each chapter begins with a large illuminated letter, in which is drawn the figure of a saint, some incident of whom the chapter tells. Electrocute Sharks In th British navy the engineers have a curious way of killing sharks. They seal up a dynamite cartridge in an empty can, and put the can inside a lump of pork. The pork is thrown overboard on a wire, which has been connected with an electric battery. When the shark takes the bait the engineer presses a button, which explodes the cartridge and kills the fish. Women Voters. The Isle of Man, of all places, granted the electoral suffrage to women in 1880. The Madras presidency recognized female votes in 1885. New Zealand gave its womenkind the electoral franchise in 1893. Victoria has passed a women's suffrage bill. And women have a right to sit in the federal house in Australia—London Tit-Bita. Infants and Marriage The chances at birth that a baby will eventually marry are nine in twenty, or rather less than one-half. This result may seem surprising, but it is largely accounted for by the great mortality of persons under marriageable age, especially of infants up to the age of five. Boston Budget. Mammoth Sawlog. What is said to be the largest log ever floated in Puget sound has been towed into the Capital box factory pond. It is a 40-foot spruce log, nine feet through at the small end and 14 feet through at the large end. It was cut on the Skagit river banks. The Personal Pronouns Teacher—What are three personal pronouns? Pupil—He, she and it. Teacher—Give an example of their use? Pupil—Husband, wife and baby.— N. Y. Sun. Patriotic Englishmen. A London laborer has collected many hundreds of Union Jacks of all shapes and sizes. Every table, bed and pillow in his house has its covering of bunting. The very shirt this man wears is a red, white and blue one. An Ancient Ad In the British museum is an advertisement of a reward for a runaway slave. The "ad." is written on papyrus and is 3,000 years old. It was exhumed from the ruins of Thebes. Biggest Lump of Coal The biggest lump of coal ever dug out of the earth is that raised from one of the Wiggan collieries. It took nine months to hew it out of the seam, and it weighed over 12 tons. About Volcanoes There are about 350 volcanoes on this earth that have performed in modern times. There are many hundreds more that have long been extinct.—Boston Budget. Japan's Railroads Japan has only half as many miles of railroad as New York state, although it is three times as large and has six times its population. Sunlight on Jewels. The emerald improves in color on exposure to the light. Pearls kept in the dark lose their luster, but regain it on exposure to the sun. In Cairo at the present time there is an endowment in operation founded expressly for the lodging and feeding of homeless cats. The man who has a good opinion of himself generally finds it difficult to get other folks to share it.-Somerville Journal. For wearing a crest upon a finger ring without a license a man was fined $5.75 in a London court the other day. How does the bulb of the common lawn lily get deeper and deeper into the ground each year? asks a writer in Country Life in America. Why does the ginger root hide its blossoms when nearly all other plants flaunt theirs? Why do the roots of trees now through the ground like "runnels of molten metal," often separating and uniting again, while the branches are thrust out in right lines or curves? Why is our common yellow birch more often than any other tree planted upon a rock? Why do oaks or chestnuts so often spring up where a pine or hemlock forest has been cleared away? Why does lightning so commonly strike a hemlock tree or a pine or an oak and rarely or never a beech? Why does the bolt sometimes scatter the tree about and at others only plow a channel down its trunk? Why does the bumble bee complain so loudly when working upon certain flowers? Why does the honey bee lose the sting when it stings a person, while the wasp, the hornet and the bumble bee do not? How does the chimney swallow get the twigs its builds its nest with? From what does the hornet make its paper? I have never been greatly interested in spiders, but I have always wanted to know how a certain spider managed to stretch her cable squarely across the road in the woods about my height from the ground. NUMBERS IN EARLY DAYS. In a paper read before the Philological society of the University of Michigan recently Prof. George Hempl commented upon the forerunners of our present system of numeration. Some two years ago, in seeking the origin of the Runic letters (the first letters used by the Germanic races), Prof. Hempl discovered the primitive Germanic numeral notations. This threw new light upon the early Germanic numeral system, as well as upon the primitive Indo-European numerical system and upon the development of the Greek alphabet and the Greek numerical notation. The primitive Indo-European numerical system was a mixture of the decimal and the sexagesimal. The first large number was the "shock"—that is, 60—and the next large number was the "hund," or "hundred," that is 120. Between 60 and 120 there were no numbers like our 70, etc., 70 being "a shock and 10," and 80 being "a shock and 20." The introduction of our present numbers between 60 and 120 arose out of the introduction of the decimal hund or hundred, that is, 100, in distinction from which the old hundred (120) was called the duodecimal hundred, or the "great hundred," which is still used in Iceland and parts of England. MEN WHO BURN MONEY. Few Smokers Indulge in Cigars Costing $2 Each—Correct Price for a Good Smoke. "There are not many men who smoke cigars at two dollars each," said the cigar man in a down-town restaurant much patronized by customers who do not have to worry about the cost of their luncheon; "but we have to keep them in stock. When they are called for, it is usually by a couple of old chums who are lunching together after a long parting, who are feeling good, and who want a heavy smoke after a liberal meal. As a matter of fact, most men think they are burning money when they pay one dollar for a cigar. Sixty cents for one cigar, and from that down to three for 60 cents, is considered about the right thing. We sell a good many cigars at 35 cents each, or three for one dollar. In fact, they are the standard thing in high-priced cigars. Occasionally a customer will buy a box of two-dollar cigars, or even more expensive than that, for a birthday present, or to send to some friend going to Europe. These cigars are made only by skilled workmen, and represent the highest perfection in cigar making." About 40.000.000 Melons Some one who is fond of statistics has taken some trouble to tell us a few facts about the watermelon crop in Texas. Last year the melons were a great success as to numbers, and on this output the statistician has based his calculations. If a monument were built of the 40,000,000 melons raised there last year, they would make a column 1,223 feet high, 146 feet at the base. In the bottom layer there would be 24,528 melons, occupying 21,462 square feet. This is averaging the size of the melon at 14 inches long and 9 inches in diameter. These 40,000,000 melons would weigh in the aggregate the enormous total of 800,000,000 pounds. It would require 30,000 cars and 1,200 full trains to transport them. The trains, with not a foot of space between them, would cover a distance of 170 miles. High-Grade Anthracite High-Grade Anthracite. The heating power of coal is measured by the amount of carbon contained in a ton or a pound. Anthracite coal is found in many countries, but it is only in the United States and in England that the article is high grade—92 per cent, or better. Even our coal differs widely in its constitutional elements. One kind holds more ash than another. Still another variety holds more clinkers, in spite of repeated burnings. The best coal leaves no clinkers and makes very little ash. Bread and Rice as Food. Only one-third of the world's population use bread as a daily article of food. Nearly one-half of the people of the world subsist chiefly on rice. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 51st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 52nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO A REAL CHANCE ENTERPRISING CANVASSERS The demand for Professor W. E. B. 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Washington.—Recollections of the extremes to which some of the car- toonists of the country went during the last presidential campaign has brought a protest from Secretary Shaw against the use of what he calls "anarchy breeding pictures" in the coming campaign. He believes that these pictures, where they go to extremes A. H. tremes, as many of them do, are but food for the firebrand, and insists that some means should be found for stopping their publication. "These pictures often carry a joke too far," he says and to illustrate his point he tells a little story of an instance which happened in Iowa when he was a boy: "There was an old judge on the bench in my town who was something of a humorist in his way. One day he heard a case in which a new attorney appeared for the defendant. The young lawyer pleaded his case most eloquently, but the burden of proof was against his client and he lost. After the judge got home that night he received a call from the counsel for the defence. " 'Judge,' said the young lawyer, 'you ruined my life to-day. I am starting out on my legal career. I had a good case, and before I went into it I told my client that I would win. It was my first case, judge, and if I had won it it would have done me a world of good. As it turned out, I am a ruined man.' " 'Oh, don't feel that way about it,' replied the judge. 'Just go to your client and tell him that it was all my fault. That it was the instructions I gave the jury that lost you the case.' "The next time the judge stepped out of the house he found the defendant in the case waiting for him with blood in his eye. 'I'll teach you to instruct the jury to defeat justice!' he thundered, as he pitched into his honor. "So you see a joke can be carried altogether too far. I think some of the funny picture men are overdoing it." Hear Favors the Printers Senator Hoar has for years been looked upon as the guardian of the government printing office. The big print shop has been a sort of hobby with him, and he never tires of visiting it and watching its wonderful machines turning out countless thousands of government printing office. The big print shop has been a sort of hobby with him, and he never tires of visiting it and watching its wonderful machines turning out countless thousands of pages of official publications from every department of the government. Though not a member of the senate committee on printing Senator Hoar has nevertheless shown a greater interest in the printing office than members of that committee, and records his vote for every appropriation for its maintenance or expansion. He was strongly in favor of condemning the old government printing office and erecting a new one, and urgently worked for that end before it was finally accomplished. In some respects Senator Hoar is like Lincoln. He has a way of illustrating a point with a story. To illustrate the condition of the old government printing office he has several times told the following story, which is an incident of his early law practice: "I am reminded," said he, "of something that happened in the supreme court of our state some years ago. They held court at Northampton and went over to Mount Holyoke, where there is an elevator which takes travelers up the side of a steep rock a hundred or two hundred feet to avoid the difficulty of climbing. "The judges, as judges are apt to be, were, nearly all of them, rather corpulent men. They saw that the rope that held the car in which they went was very much frayed, and they asked the manager if he did not think it was a little ungade. "Yea," said the manager, "it is wholly unsafe and likely to break every minute, but we are going to have a new one next Monday." A Useless Printing Press. Some of the most remarkable printing machines in the world are to be found in the government printing office. They are such marvels of ingenuity that they seem almost human. But the most ingenious of all these machines is the great perfecting press which has stood in the press room for half a year waiting for experts to determine why it would not run. It was bought especially for printing the Congressional Record and will, if ever put in running order by the makers, cost the government $38,750. For six months a mechanical sharp from the factory has been going over the mammoth machine, and, although he has declared time and again that it was in "the pink of condition" and "ought to run like greased lightning," there has been a hitch somewhere in its metal anatomy that prevented it from reeling off the "Records." The new press is known as the "Pride of the Printshop." It is a monster, 20 feet high and 35 or 40 feet long, and when it gets to working will dash off more than 200,000 pages of "The Congressional Record" an hour. All the other presses in the biggest printing office in the world look like pygmies beside it. The guides who steer visitors about the works always stand awestruck before it when they get within sight of its polished arms, bright plates and monstrous rollers. In tones appropriately hushed, as though in the presence of majesty, they describe the workings of the great cylinders, the powerful motor and almost human intelligence of the parts that count the sheets, fold the leaves or stop the whirl of the giant wheels when anything goes wrong. "It'll be the most wonderful press in the world—when it gets to working right," the guide remarks as he passes reluctantly on to some smaller piece of machinery. The government will not pay the $38,750 that the press is supposed to be worth until it works perfectly. At present the experts who have been toiling over it for half a year to discover what was wrong say that a little pin no larger than one's finger is missing, and as soon as it is made and put in place, the whale of the printery deep will be able to swim. Quay's Successor. Who will succeed to Quay's place in the senate is a question in which many people in Washington are interested. If Washington were consulted in the matter it is probable that Attorney General John P. Elkin would be the man, but Mr. Elkin is the candidate for the supreme bench in Pennsylvania, and has announced that he is out of The Late Senator Quay. The Late Senator Quay. active politics for good. It is not probable that Pennsylvania will soon have another man in the senate like Quay. He was one of the worst hated and best liked men in Washington. Though he figured prominently in national politics and was considered as one of the leaders of his party, he has but few notable achievements to his record as a legislator, and never played a conspicuous role in the deliberations of the senate. It was but seldom that he was to be found in the senate chamber, nor did he give greater attention to the meetings of the appropriations committee, of which he was a member. As a story teller Quay could always secure an attentive audience, though there were but few outside of a coterie of intimate friends who were privileged to listen to his tales. One of the last stories he told in Washington was related while standing in the senate cloakroom, and was intended to illustrate the high standard of morality in the Keystone state. According to Quay an old Pennsylvania Dutchman, a thrifty but not wealthy farmer, was elected to the legislature. Several "meaty" railroad and other corporation measures came up for consideration, and after the session had closed the old farmer surprised everybody by buying and paying cash for property worth $30,000. Some one asked if a fortune had been left to him. "Oh, no," was the reply. "I have just been saving money while in Harrisburg at the legislature." "Why, Hans," said his friend, "you could not save $30,000 in three months when your salary was only three dollars a day." "Ah, but you forget," explained the old man as he stroked his beard complacently, "my wife didn't keep a hired girl all the time." Fighting Cortleyou. An echo of Quay's political influence is found in the fight that is developing against Secretary Cortelyou as the national republican chairman. Quay is said to have started the opposition to the selection of the young secretary of commerce and labor, and but a few hours before his death sent Secretary Cortelyou. [Name] word to President Roosevelt that he was making a mistake. The message was sent by Don Cameron, who received it from the lips of the dying senator. "I want you to tell him as soon as possible," Quay is quoted as saying. "Probably I should have no voice in the selection, but tell the president that he is surely making a mistake. "Don," he is reported to have said further, "the coming campaign will be a hard one. It will be one of the hardest fights in the history of the republican party. The opposition is strong and it may grow stronger, and on this account the new chairman should be a man who has had the greatest political experience that it is possible to obtain" Senator Penrose is also supposed to be opposed to the selection of Secretary Cortelyou, and is said to be making an effort to unite eastern republicans on some other candidate for the place. Rumor has it that the choice of this dissatisfied element has centered on Senator John Fairchild Dryden. It is said the opposition to Cortelyou results from a lack of consultation on the part of the president with recognized leaders of the party before his selection, but the president and his friends seem not to fear the result at the coming convention. A NOVELTY FOR SUMMER. The fashionable stiletto work, or English eyelet embroidery, forms the design upon the shirt waist here illustrated. Firm texture linens for this purpose come stamped in a variety of patterns, the one shown being very simple and easy to embroider. The marked rings indicating where the stiletto is to ```markdown ``` STILETTO WORK WAIST. be used are first run with a thread of mercerized cotton, after which the hole is punched and the ring is overcast—not buttonholed. The stitches are taken very close together and yet must not overlap. The floral design is padded lengthwise and worked across—in the mercerized cotton, either white or colors. The edges of the turnover collar and cuffs are scalloped and buttonhooled, and a stiletto pattern is set in above. CARE FOR ORIENTAL RUGS. They Require Treatment That Would Not Do for Wilton or Brussels Floor Coverings. The oriental rug is improved by frequent sunning and also by an annual or semi-annual bath. The colors made of vegetable dyes cannot fade, and the process of washing only improves the texture of the wool. Even a new rug is washed by the Turkish woman to better bring out the luster of the material. In the orient these rugs are cleaned entirely by shaking and washing, but are never beaten. When beating is necessary it should be done on the face side, as there is danger when beating on the wrong side of breaking the threads. The best plan is to lay right side up on the grass and to beat thoroughly with light rattan beaters. After the dust is taken or beaten out small rugs can be put in tubs of plain cold water. Then the surface may be gone over with a brush and sandsoap, always being sure to rub with the warp. Large rugs can have the garden hose turned on them with wonderful cleansing effect, after which they should be dried in the sun. In winter an excellent plan is to sweep them on the snow, scattering it over them and sweeping it off again several times, always working with the threads. The sweeper should always be used in the same direction, never turning it backward. This process of cleaning is much safer for these rugs than sending them to the steam cleaners, where the threads are in danger of being snapped by the rapidly turning machinery. HOW TO WASH FLANNELS. Few Housewives Know How to Do It Although It Is a Task That Is Easily Mastered. Flannel. underwear is warm and comfortable, but if we do not wish to find the suit that was purchased for the father shrunken to the proper size for the son after a few washings, we must see that the work is done properly. When the soiled garments are gathered together, look them over, darning the tiny breaks and replacing missing buttons. Shave a bar of white soap thin, put in a pan with water enough to cover, and set it on the fire to melt. Yellow soap should not be used, as it contains resin, which hardens the wool. Have an abundance of salt, hot water in which powdered borax has been dissolved, using a quarter of a pound to a boilerful, and have everything in readiness before you begin. Fill a small tub half full of water and pour enough of the melted soap in it to make a strong, foamy suds. Stir it well, and after shaking the clothes to remove the dust put them in. Rub and press them lightly between the hands, then fold each piece and press it through the wringer into a suds prepared like the first. After washing through this, rinse well and hang up to dry. Never rub soap directly upon flannel. Keep the water the same temperature throughout the process, and do the work quickly. White flannels do not turn yellow if borax is put in the water in which they are washed, and it cleanses them quickly. Take them from the line and press before they are quits dry.—Milwaukee Sentinel. How to Wash Thin Curtains. Very thin curtains, or those whose day of service is very nearly over, will stand the ordeal of washing much better if care be taken to baste them upon sheets of cheesecloth first. This relieves them of much of the strain of wringing and prevents them from being whipped to pieces by the wind in drying. After the Cakes Are Baked. To prevent a cake from becoming heavy when taken out of the oven always allow the steam to escape from it. This can be done by putting the cake on a wire meat stand. THE HAIR AND THE SCALP. To Take Good Care of Them Should Be the Aim of Every Woman, Old and Young. Too much cannot be said against the practice of dyeing one's hair. It is never satisfactory, and, once begun, it must be kept up, as the hair lengthens from the roots, and the natural color will inevitably show itself there. Then, too, the dye will fade more or less, and generally the hair will be rendered stiff and harsh-feeling from its use, to say nothing of the disagreeable odor which many dyes carry with them. It is much better to give the hair good care in the matter of dressing, brushing and massaging the scalp, and let it color to suit itself. No one in bad health can have as nice hair as the one who has no allment. Some diseases affect the hair more disastrously than others, and when trying to improve the hair one must also try to improve the general health. The use of hard water is also to be avoided, and care must be taken in the use of the various drugs recommended for shampooing. It is not necessary to wash the hair every day, or ordinarily oftener than once a week, while in some cases once a month is too often. When washing is done, the hair should be thoroughly dried before being "done up," and in many cases the scalp alone should be shampooed, wetting the hair itself as little as possible. There are dry shampoos, as well as wet ones, and their tonic effect is quite as valuable. One of the best is to rub fine table salt into the hair close to the scalp, and then brush it out. A simple tonic which has been used with good effect to retard the coming of gray hair, arrest the falling and stimulate the new growth, is made of green tea and fresh dried sage, two ounces of each, put into an iron pot and three quarts of boiling water is to be poured onto it; cover closely and let simmer until reduced one-third; take off the fire and let stand in the iron pot for 24 hours; strain and bottle for use. Wet the scalp thoroughly with this lotion every night, applying early enough so as to allow of drying before going to bed, as the liquid will stain the pillow-slip. Thoroughly brushing with a good brush will benefit.—The Commoner. DINING TABLE DECORATION. Combined Candelabrum and Vase Produces an Effect That Is Extremely Pleasing. Flowers and softly shaded candles are so essential an accompaniment of the modern dinner or luncheon table, particularly on formal occasions, that any new idea or suggestion for candle or flower holder is sure of attention and recognition. The two branch candela- 1 TWO BRANCH CANDELABRUM brum is an old favorite, but it is capable of assuming a new form and also of serving as flower vase as well as candlestick. As here pictured, the combined holder is of silver in the fashionable French gray finish and richly engraved. From either side of the silver standard branches out a silver vase graceful in outline and large enough to hold a cluster of roses or other blossoms with stems of moderate length. The candles in the illustration are of a delicate shade of pink, with shade to match, while La France roses in the vases carry out the color scheme, the soft tone of the gleaming silver blending admirably with the hue of blossoms, candle and shades.—Brooklyn Eagle. Vinegar Cure for Headache. Vinegar is fairly good for some forms of headache, and as a stimulant in fainting; in each case it is to be employed outwardly. In headache it may be applied to the forehead; but in fainting it should be held against or brushed over the nostrils. If your child is suffering from excessive perspiration during the night you may apply vinegar to the skin. Should the skin be too sensitive, dilute the vinegar with an equal quantity of water. Let the skin remain wet for two or three minutes, and then gently wipe it dry. Be careful to avoid much friction. A similar lotion will lessen the very distressing moisture of feet from which so many adults suffer. Retrothed in Their Infancy. In some parts of West Africa the girls have long engagements. On the day of their birth they are betrothed to a baby boy a trifle older than themselves, and at the age of 20 they are married. The girls know of no other way of getting a husband, and so they are quite happy and satisfied. As wives they are patterns of obedience, and the marriages usually turn out a success. An Ounce of Prevention. It is a good plan to partially fill valuable china vases with sand or to place shot in them, for thus they are rendered too heavy to be easily upset. An Adamless Eden is said to exist somewhere in the Caribbean sea, but just where it is located no one is able to tell. There is an old legend in the West Indies which has been handed down from the time of Columbus to the effect that somewhere among the numerous cayes of the Caribbean sea there exists an island inhabited only by women. The aboriginal Caribs and Ararwaks found it inconvenient to have women around in times of war. Usually when the enemy conquered a number of the tribe's fairest maiden were carried off. So goes the story. The deplorable possibility of losing all the women of the tribe was averted, however, by the prompt action of the chiefs, who ordered all of the remaining female element to this unknown island in the Caribbean. According to the legend the place is copiously watered by ideal streams, overshadowed by breadfruit, mango, plantain and all the necessaries to life and poetry. The husbands and lovers were allowed to visit the island paradise not more than twice a year in times of peace. But it is further handed down that all the men of the tribe were eventually wiped out in an Indian war, and that all trace of the isle of women was lost. According to Washington Irving, even Columbus made vain efforts to find it. OUR INDIRECT TAXES. Almost Half of Our Government's Total Revenue Is Obtained in This Manner. Seriously considered, the justification offered for indirect taxes is a most curious commentary upon our system of self-government, writes Wintrop M. Daniels, in Atlantic. In the United States, for example, not far from half of the government's total revenue is obtained by disguising taxes in the prices of merchandise, either duty-pald imports, or liquors and tobacco freighted with the weight of the internal revenue. Despite the incidental advantages such taxes afford in consulting the convenience of the payer as to the time and the amounts of particular payments, the great reason for the existence of these taxes in every country is their power to conceal from the governed the real cost of supporting the government. The people, in whose interest the government supposedly is conducted, must be induced to pay their taxes in an unconscious condition, "lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted" to a belief in another than the dominant programme of expenditure. JAPAN'S NEW RELIGION Mikado's Subjects Are Endeavoring to Spread the Gospel of Rational Ethics. "Our empire has salted all the seas that have flowed into it," said a Japanese university professor to me, writes Harold Bolce, in the Booklovers Magazine. "The west cannot hope to Christianize Japan when our ambition is to Japanize Christianity, and to carry the new doctrines, the gospel of rational ethics, to the millions of Asia, and, in time, to all the world. We shall go to China—in fact, we are already there—with a harmonious blending of the best precepts in Buddhism, Confucianism, Bushido, Brahminism, Herbert Spencer, Christianity and other systems of thought, and we shall, I think, have little trouble in awakening the natural agnostic mind of the Chinese to the enlightenment of modern free thought. What the far east needs is a religion as modern as machinery. We have had more gods than were good for us." WHEN A WOMAN SINGS. Her Mouth Invariably Becomes Crooked, Says a Choir Master of Long Experience. "Just watch the prettiest girl and see if she does not open her mouth crooked when she sings," said a choir master of long experience, says the New York Sun. "I have noticed that thing again and again in my chorus choir. "The women almost invariably twist their mouths to one side when they sing. I haven't the slightest idea why they do it, unless the muscles of one side of the face are stronger than those on the other side and in the effort to sing the stronger muscles do the most work. "Of course men do the same thing, but often they have mustaches to cover their mouths. As a matter of fact no one looks very pretty when he is singing. "Just watch, and see if you think a pretty woman makes herself any prettier by stretching her mouth in song." Japs Defy Emperor. One of the most striking features of the correspondence of Japanese leaders during the present war is their defiication of the emperor of Japan. After one attempt to bottle up the Port Arthur fleet Admiral Yamamoto, minister of marine at Tokio, wired to Admiral Togo: "Result splendid. While attributable to the emperor's illustrious virtue, the loyal and gallant actions of officers and men play a conspicuous part." Admiral Togo, not to be outdone as a humorist and courtier, declared that "the fact that not one man was injured in these attacks must be attributed to his majesty's glorious virtue." Mole Pelts Are Dear Two cents apiece used to be paid for the pelts of moles in France before they became a fashionable fur. Now they fetch four times that sum. One dealer bought 1,300,000 pelts in six weeks. "Have you called on the new elergyman's wife yet?" "No; but I expect to soon. I don't want to have to tell her who my dressmaker is until after I get my spring sewing done."—N. Y. Herald. African Cotton. A syndicate with a capital of 500,000 lire ($96,500) has just been formed at Milan, Italy, by some of the most important cotton brokers, in order to foster the growing of cotton in East Africa. Country of Churches. Australia has 210 churches to every 100,000 people—a larger number per capita than any other country. England has 144 and Russia only about 55. Church Eclectic. Falcons in the Army. Trained falcons, to carry dispatches in the time of war, have been tested in the Russian army. Their speed is four times as rapid as that of carrier pigeons. Women Medical Officers Women serve as medical officers in the Russian army. In no other country in Europe is such employment given to the sex.—Tit-Bits. For the Asthma It is said that a muskrat skin, worn with the fur side next to the lungs, will bring certain relief to asthma sufferers. The most remarkable thing about fish stories is that they are sometimes true.—Indianapolis News. Ice in Jerusalem The manufacture of ice in Jerusalem has grown in three years to be a large business. A map of Jerusalem in Mosaic, over 1,500 years old, has been found in Palestine. A cozy corner is a place for the hired girl to sweep dirt into.—Chicago News. Mind Expands. It has been ascertained that memory is stronger in summer than in winter. Pleasanter. Inquiring Bore—And you come down the same way you go up, Mr. Sandbag? Balloonist—No, sir; I try to come down feet first.—Stray Stories. Goats of Nubia. A French expert-maintains that the best goats are found in Nubia. Grief was born that Joy might appreciate herself.—Chicago Post. Egyptian cotton is used only for high-priced goods. Meditation is the mold of character.— Chicago Tribune. When Fish Bite. The early worm baits the hook. MRS. 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, 2508 $ \frac{1}{2} $ 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, 368 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. Turner William's Cigar and News Stand, 2903 Armour Ave. Mrs. B. Williams, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 486 $ \frac{1}{2} $ State street. Frank H. Hart, 354-31st street, cigars, tobacco and Laundry office. Mrs. W. H. Moore, 4942 State street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. C. J. Chambers and Company, dealers in fine cigars, 2958 State street. Mrs. E. F. Early, groceries and notions, 2933 State St. The Stationery, 2970 State street. P. S. Hotchkis's Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st Street. Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and stationery, 3149 State St. Woodfolk and Mitchell Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 4902 State Street. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. ```markdown ``` CHIPS Mrs. Mary C. Terrell left for Europe on June 1. She will go to Berlin, where she has been invited to address the International Congress of Women on "The Progress of the Colored Women in the United States." James J. Gray who has served as an honorable member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County for the past six years, Should without fail be nominated for the same position by the County Convention, June 20th. Our town is chuck full of big Negro politicians from all over the country, this week. Watch and see if they don't behave better than the preachers did, during the A. M. E. convention season. Col. Robert E. Burke will eat chicken for his Sunday dinner after attending the derby in his red wheeled buggy, for he ran all over his political friend and neighbor, in the Democratic State convention at Springfield the honorable Carter H. Harrison. Coroner John E. Traeger will without the slightest doubt be renominated by the County Convention. For he has been the best and the most efficient Coroner that Cook County has ever had, and there will be no doubt of his re-election. The County Convention will not do its duty if it fails to nominate Rollin B. Organ as one of the commissioners of Cook-County, for Mr. Organ is still popular with the masses and his nomination would be hailed with much joy. The latest annual report of the American Banker's association, held in San Francisco, Cal., has on its list of banking institutions the Capital Trust and Investment Company of Jacksonville, Fla., a financial institution whose president, treasurer and secretary are all Afro-Americans. The Afro-American Republicans, who swarmed around the money-bag of Col. Frank O. Jim Crow Pullman Palace Car Lowden, like Irishmen around the bunghole of a whisky barrel, are still kicking because he failed to receive the nomination for governor of Illinois. County Commissioners Jacob B. Thielen and Timothy Cruse should by all means be re-nominated by the Co. Convention, June 20, for both of these commissioners have served the people well and faithfully in the past, and by again honoring them with a re-nomination will strenghten the ticket in all parts of this city and county. FOR SALE—Nice eight room house, large yard (100×100ft.), furnace, bath and all conveniences; fine location, high class neighborhood, splendid opportunity for one who desires the influences and surroundings of an intelligent, refined community. Public and private schools. Price $5,000; $3,500 cash, $1,500 payable in three years, 6per cent interest. If interested, address, care of Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour Ave. Alderman Thomas Carey, James A. Quinn, City Sealer of Chicago, Col. Edw. M. Lahiff, Billy Loeffler and many of the other big leaders of the party in this city; patted Mayor Harrison on the back last week and urged him to stand pat, that he would be the next member of the Democratic National Committee of Illinois. But it seems that at the Springfield convention; most of his friends and supporters ducked out from under him, and left his Honor hanging high and dry in the air. Mrs. Hannah Elias of New York whom John R. Platt the millionare called his queen of Sheba and who cleaned him up for $700,000 while he was making love, to her, has been freed by the courts of that city from blackmailing him out of his money. Mrs. Elias admits that she belongs to the Afro-American race. But she says, "she is sorry that she does, that she wants to hide her racial identity. That she wants to appear as nearly as a white woman as possible. That she hates Negroes, and would not have them even for servants." So the loyal members of the Afro-American race need not shed any tears over the rough treatment which Mrs. Elias has so far received from the hands of the officers of the law. The Republican National Convention commences in this city June 21, and President Roosevelt, who declared that he had to threaten to blow "the heads off the 'nigger' soldiers at San Juan Hill before they would do their duty," will be nominated for the Presidency without opposition, and the chances are that United States Senator Fairbanks of Indiana will be his running mate. When the G. O. P. stood for the manhood rights of the Negro, no less than fifty to one hundred and fifty Afro-Americans attended its conventions as delegate but now the Grand Old Party of greed and gold has practically forsaken the Negro, although he is too thick headed to realize it. Not over twenty or thirty Negro delegates will sit in the Republican National Convention of 1904. The following persons have been mentioned in connection with the County ticket, which will be nominated Monday: For states attorney—John J. Feely, A. A. Sabath, Moritzz Rosenthal, James Todd, Thomas J. Dawson. For recorder—William H. Ehemann, Peter Reinberg, John Minwegen. For assessor—James J. Gray. For member board of review—John W. Eckhart and John J. Bradley. For coroner—John E. Traeger. For clerk of the circuit court—Harry Hildreth, P. J. O'Connell and Henry B. Chamberlin. For clerk of the superior court—W. A. Kuflewski, Joseph Helmute. For judges—Philip Stein (to be renominated), Hiram T. Gilbert, George Mills Rogers, Joseph A. O'Donnell, William H. Sexton, Thomas M. Hoyne, Ross C. Hall. Vigilance of Nations. How closely nations 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 Nervés. 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 Orphan Asylums 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 Mice. 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. Cozey nowadays will understand when they learn that he has made a fortuna—Boston Globe. French Fried Toast. For many French fried toast is too rich and indigestible. A palatable and wholesome way of preparing it is to bake it instead and omit a great portion of the butter necessary in the frying process. Dip the slices in milk (after alightly toasting), then in beaten egg, and sprinkle with powdered sugar as soon as the egg begins to turn a light golden color. The toast must be watched carefully after the sugar has been added, as it is apt to scorch suddenly.—Chicago Daily News. The Care of Dainty China. In Holland the good old custom still obtains among ladies of washing the china and silver after breakfast and tea with their own fair hands. This they do in the presence of the family and any guests who may be there, and the fashion has lately been revived in some American households, partly because it gives a touch of homely simplicity and partly because a lady's gentle handling is needed if the delicate china and glass are to be preserved for any length of time.—Chicago Dally News. Left Him a Fortune. Gregoria Zelich, keeper of a restaurant in Oakland, Cal., taking pity upon the apparently urgent needs of an old Mexican, Magin Castro, gave him food and a place to sleep for a considerable time. Castro died the other day, and in his will bequeathed to his benefactor all he possessed, which proves to be a large interest in an estate in Mexico valued at several hundred thousand dollars. Odd Way to Make Money. A young New York broker, whose father has dropped two fortunes in Wall street, about a year ago fell heir to $30,000 from the estate of an aunt. He at once employed an expert and purchased at pawnbrokers' sales and elsewhere diamonds that took his whole fortune. The other day he sold the whole lot at an advance of $9,000.—Chicago Chronicle. Novel Map. A map of the state of Arkansas, worked in the form of a silk quilt, is exhibited in the Arkansas building at the St. Louis world's fair. This unique piece of work was executed by Amanda Stephens, a native of the state, aged 75 years. The map is absolutely correct as to scale, and shows all the railroads, rivers and county seats worked out in colors. Coffee Test. A test to discover whether coffee is pure or adulterated is to hold a little in the palm of the hand after the coffee has been ground, and press firmly. If the coffee is pure it will fall loosely apart when the hand is opened, but if adulterated it will cake.—Chicago Post Severe Marriage Laws. The Austrian marriage laws are very severe. They prohibit marriage between Christians and Jews and between Christians and infidels. A marriage between a Protestant woman and a man who said he had no particular creed was lately annulled by the supreme court. Tree Planting at Night. It has been found that trees may be transplanted in full foliage in May or June with little or no injury if the moving is done at night. This has been demonstrated to the entire satisfaction of prominent French horticulturists. Effect of the Dose A little Jersey girl recently swallowed a quantity of gasoline in mistake for water. She was not seriously inconvenienced, but could not help wanting to speed down the pike like an automobile.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Korean Houses. The average Korean lives in a thatched cottage having three rooms in a row. The kitchen fire is at one end and its chimney at the other. The flue passing through the rooms warms them. Nothing Else. Every man who meets the candidate assures him of his support. Is it strange then that the candidate who received but one vote thinks all men are liars?—Houston (Tex.) Post. Insanity of Jael. Jael had driven the nail into Sisera. "The poor woman had been housecleaning and imagined she was putting down the carpet," they explained. N. Y. Sun. Royal Typists. It is said that Princess Christian, Princess Charles of Denmark and the princess of Wales could earn their living as stenographers were it necessary. Seems Reasonable. Bjinks—Time runs on, eh? Now, what makes time run on? Bjunks—The spur of the moment, I a'pose.—Pittsburg Post. One press notice won't make you famous, but proper advertisement will take you a long way up the ladder. Chicago Post. Even on Corners. The man that is always standing round is seldom square.—Indianapolis News. Radio-Active Substances. About 60 different kinds of substances are known to be radio-active. Joseph A. O'Donnell Henry D. Coghlan O'Donnell & Coghlan Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph Sts. DEVINE & O'CONNELL ATTORNEYS AT LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sts. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suits 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW BUS MARGUETTE BUILDING Telephone 2310 Central CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 823 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTNAL 098 CHICAGO PHONES { Office, Main 1157 Rea. Brown 42 STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS LAWYER Suite 200, 128-125 Lil Salle Street CHICAGO Telephone Tardis WI Residence, 129 Garfield Dd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 G. HALSTED STREET, ....CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Suite 412 Real Estate Board Bldg 79 Dearborn St. Cor. Randolph CHICAGO. J. J. HENNESSY, Justice of the Peace, 6301 S. Halsted St. WILLIAM TREXLER, CLERK. TELEPHONE WENTWORTH 4403. Police Magistrate Englewood Police Court. P. J. O'SHEA ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1444 Unity Building 79 Dearborn St. Chicago. Robert M. Mitchell Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark S4. CHICAGO WILLIAM RITCHIE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. Suite 80-820 Oxford Building 84 LA SALLE ST., CHICAGO Telephone Main 1646. ALBERT B. GEORGE 428 Ashland Block, Chicago. Diamonds in This Country. The value of the diamonds in the United States is estimated to be $500,- 000,000. Of this amount $170,000,000 worth are owned by residents of New York. Boers Object to Census. The Boers resent an attempt to take a Transvaal census. They consider it an intrusion into their private affairs. --- ILLINOIS BRICK CO. ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., C N. Western Ave., Ch 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. JACOB F. Market and Telephone 81st and State Ste HILL 112-11 STATE Special Sales Throughout Tel. Yards 693 John J. Real Estate, Ins Property managed. Abstracts exam 4709 South Halsted Street Theodore JUSTICE OF Mortgages, Deeds, Notes and Acknowledged. COB FEINBERG Market and Grocer Telephone 565 South d State Sts. CHI HILLMAN'S 112-114-116 STATE STREET Special Sales in Summer Throughout the Store. John J. Bradley Estate, Insurance and Managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal pap in Halsted Street Theodore C. May JUDICE OF THE P Grages, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents Acknowledged. Room 22, 27 North JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery HILLMAN'S 112-114-116 STATE STREET Special Sales in Summer Goods Throughout the Store. John J. Bradley Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Property managed. Abstracts examined. Renting. Legal papers prepared. 4709 South Halsted Street Chicago Theodore C. Mayer JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Mortgages, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents Drawn and Acknowledged. Room 22, 27 North Clark Street. POLICE MAGISTRATE East Chicago Ave. Police Court Opening of SEAS CHICAGO ing of Kalaspa SEASON 1904 Opening of Kalaspa Park SEASON 1904 Every Tuesday and Friday Metropole Dancing Club METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA, Prof. J. W. Hall and all the old favorites Take 47th St. Cars to the Gate 47th and Robey ADMISSION 25 CENTS Opens June 2nd, 1904 M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. BERG cery CHICAGO N'S ner Goods store. Notary Publicdley