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The Republican Platform and The Afro-American. Hon. Harry S. Cummings Missed The Golden Opportunity To Immortalize Himself. The Afro-American Republicans were numerous and very conspicuous in and around the Coliseum during the sessions of the late Republican National Convention. It is true the cold-blooded managers of the convention allowed many of them to serve as figure heads on some of the committees. They also permitted one Afro-American to second the nomination of President Roosevelt, whose life was saved by the Negro troops at El Carney, and who has succeeded in robbing those same Negro troops of all their military glory and honor and appropriating it unto himself, but when it came down to importuning the leaders and managers of the G. O. P. to set forth in the platform a bold and uncompromising declaration in favor of the restoration of the civil and the political rights to the Negro in the South those Afro-American delegates who had labored on the various committees were insulted and ignored. For sometime before the committee on resolutions was ready to report a committee consisting of Bishop Alexander Walters, Walter L. Cohen, J. Madison Vance, Charles W. Anderson and several other so-called leading colored Republicans appeared in front of the door leading into the rooms occupied by the committee on resolutions and they were kept standing outside the door for four or five hours waiting to get on the inside, before they were informed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the committee on resolutions that there was no room for them in the committee rooms with real blue-blooded white gentlemen, that they must go away back and sit down until near the election then they would be in a position to use them. The object of the delegation in wating to appear before the committee on resolutions was to urge it to incorporate a plank in the platform indorsing "Manhood Suffrage and scoring the Southern Democrats for disfranchising the Negro," but Senator Lodge and the members of his committee were bitterly opposed to doing anything of the kind, and the colored gentlemen were forced to retire from in front of the committee rooms after they had been slapped in the face, insulted and humiliated in the house of their supposed friends. In order to throw a little sop or an old clean picked bone to the Negro after this incident, and after the temporary chairman of the convention has repeatedly declared in many of his public after-dinner speeches that "The war amendments have been a failure, that they cannot be enforced, that owing to race prejudice in less than ten years no colored men will be permitted to hold federal positions in the South." The following plank was inserted in the platform: tion as shall determine whether by special discriminations the elective franchise in any state has been unconstitutionally limited, and if such is the case, we demand that representation in congress and in the electoral colleges shall be proportionally reduced as directed by the constitution of the United States." But this paragraph is perfectly meaningless and it is simply claptrap; it was very skillfully constructed with no other object in view but to appeal to the passion and the ignorance of the poor unlearned Negro. It may not be out of place to again remind the Negro that the late lamented William McKinley, who exclaimed while on his famous Southern trip that "the proudest day of his life was when the ex-rebel soldier pinned the Confederate badge on the lapel of his coat," was not in favor of reducing Southern representation in Congress on account of the suppression of the Negro voter. He therefore favored his disfanchisement. We all know that President McKinley through United States Senator Albert J. Hopkins, who was at that time chairman of the House committee on elections bribed or rewarded the people residing in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Texas and North Carolina by giving them one extra Congressman each because they so successfully succeeded in enacting legislation which disfranchises the Negro and permits ignorant white men to vote. President Roosevelt has always been firmly wedded to this same course or policy in relation to the disfranchisement of the Negro for he emphatically declared in his interview with United States Senators Pritchard and McLaurin, that "he would use all of his influence to check any scheme or effort that may be made by Congress to cut down Southern representation in Congress on account of the exclusion of the Negro vote." Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that President Roosevelt and the other leaders of the Republican party will never favor the re-enfranchisement of the Negro in the South except on paper or platform resolutions, nor take any active steps to accomplish that object until they become absolutely convinced that it is utterly impossible for the Republican party to elect a president of the United States without the electoral votes of the Southern States. No one is more familiar with these facts than the present pigmies, who are endeavoring to lead the Afro-American race. It fell to the lot of Hon. Harry S. Cummings, of Baltimore, Md., to second the nomination of President Roosevelt and being full of the spirit of cowardice and having his eyes firmly rivited on some political job in case Col. Roosevelt is elected, he missed the golden opportunity to immortalize himself and to pose as the HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, July 2, 1904. modern Moses of the Afro-American race. In his oration he elaborated upon the blessings which this government through the Republican party has bestowed upon the poor benighted inhanbitants of the Philippine Islands, but he was perfectly silent as to the many horrible and revolting crimes which the people of this government inflicts every day in the year upon a certain class of its citizens. He failed to hurl it in the teeth of the leaders of the Republican party that they have not kept faith with the Negro; that they have permitted him to be disfranchised, jim crowed, re-enslaved and shot down like common dogs without bringing forth one word of protest on their part and without putting forth the slightest effort to rectify these outrageous wrongs inflicted upon him. That the Negro cannot exist in this, nor in no other country on dead men's bones," that it makes no difference what act was performed by Abraham Lincoln or any one else forty or fifty years ago looking toward the suppression of slavery and the crushing out of the rebellion, but the living and the burning question is: "What does the Republican party propose to do at the present time to benefit the Negro and prevent him from sinking back to the condition of slavery or serfdom." If Mr. Cummings had been equal to the occasion, and gave expression to sentiments similar to these he would have been proclaimed throughout the coming ages as the Demosthenes of the Negro race. Then his name would have become imperishable in the hearts of all those who dearly love liberty and justice! RECENT HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON. Washington, D. C., June 29. Undoubtedly this city is the greatest educational center in this country, and just now the institutions are turning out youthful aspirants for the prizes of life by the hundreds, and the colored people are not one jot behind thier white brethren in this laudable work. Mr. A. H. Grimke, of Boston, was the speaker at the commencement of the Armstrong Manual Training School last week. He pointed out that colored men must usually do twice as much work as white men to get the same money, and be twice as upright to bear as good a reputation. Mr. Grimke said that the field is before us and the goal ahead of every man in this land, but that the colored man simply must travel twice the distance to reach it. The literary contest at the M St. High School was decided by three judges, Mrs. John R. Francis, Mr. A. H. Grimke and your humble servant. The essays were unusually excellent, that of Miss Ada C. Albert was published in full in last Sunday's Post: Subject, "Evidences of Culture among the Colored People of Washington." Among other points made, it was shown by testimony of the officials at the Congressional Library that Colored People read the highest class literature called for in this greatest of libraries. The graduating exercises of the M St. High School were held last night in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, for strange as it may appear, here at the Nation's Capital the Board of Education swear that they cannot obtain a theatre in which these exercises can be held. Cupid has been at work with a vengeance round here, and as a result many blushing maidens are hiding themselves in their sacred bowers until they come forth this week to the altar. Miss Alice Waring, a daughter of the veteran Baptist preacher of that time honored name, will be married to Lawyer Welfred Holmes, of Pittsburg, by me on Thursday night of this week. A very amusing incident happened in Eastern journalism a few days ago. The B. T. W. face making organ of expression in Boston entitled the Boston Citizen, but could more accurately be designated the Boston Citizen-ship-Betrayer. produced a spirited editorial under the caption "Face the Facts." The challenge was at once taken up by the Rev. G. F. Miller, of Brooklyn, one of the best equipped men intellectually, morally and spiritually, in the Ministry in this land. The "Facts" were sent on to Boston and the Citizen(?) faced them mit his back. In fact he would have none of them, they were not the "Facts" he had in mind. Accordingly the courageous Guardian took them u and published them to the world. The "Fact" is that on the momentus question of Citizenship the Washington plum eaters have no argument, and the only "Facts" they stand for are "Self-effacement, Retreat and Surrender." THE AMERICAN AND THE CHICA GO WAITER. (By L. W. Washington.) I am glad to know at this writing, that the headwaiter of the Hotel Vendome, has given orders that there shall not be allowed gambling upon the premises, and on behalf of The Broad Ax we say, thanks for the reformation. You next, Bro. Casey. The writer was told that the least that was passed upon the hands by the boys the other evening was $200; how much of this the protector of the game received was not given, but we must admit this to be a fact, that gambling cannot go on in any of the houses among the boys without the sanction of the headwaiter and he gets his, says the waiter in the game. Mr. James S. Davis of Mobile, Ala., is very popular with the waiters of that city. My last report of him was that he was now interested in the newspaper world. Success to you. Editor Cozart of the Waiters' column, in the Ind. Freeman, seems to be very much grieved over the fact that the colored head and secondwaiters' Mutual Benefit Assn. has not been able lately to ingratiate themselves into the good graces of the hotelmen. What is the trouble Bro. Cozart? Mr. C. R. Johnson headwaiter at the Pullman cafe takes the position of The Broad-Ax that to force men who are in the employ of a hotel or a cafe to turn over half of his earnings to his superior officer to hold his position, by having to room with him, whether he wanted to or not. Mr. Nixon, the gallant headwaiter of the Palmer House, is a prince among the boys, is highly respected by his crew; because by his oath and obligation he is one of them. He is a member of the Waiter's Union. Local 509. The question may be asked, What are our headwaiters doing to advance the services of their dining departments? What are they doing to advance the cause of the waiter? Is it right to give your time and money to advance the cause of every other institution but your own? you must consider "that the interest of one is the concern of all. Local No. 183, of Boston, Mass., is fast becoming a factor in the labor movement in that city. Press on! Success to you. Mr. Fisher, of the Briggs House cafe, is in charge of one of the best European dining rooms in the north west, and is one of the most respected gentlemen holding a headwaiter's position in this city.. He was one of the headwaiters who was not afraid to ally himself with his fellow craftsmen. He walked out and returned with the boys during the last strike, and his employer said to him: "Fisher, I think more of you and your crew today than I ever did before." A labor demonstration was held last Sunday afternoon at Bethel A. M. E. Church under the auspices of Waiters' Union Local 509. Leaders of the Chicago Federation were in attendance. The members of the Waiters' Union received $16,556 more than they received before their agreement was made. It is time for the restaurant men to wake-up to the fact that they must sustain themselves by organization. THE JOHN JONES CLOTHES CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT Last week the John Jones Clothes Cleaning establishment, 119 Dearborn street, which was established by John Jones in 1845, and for many years conducted by Lloyd G. Wheeler and his dude son, was forced to the wall by its many creditors and the Wheelers have no connection with it. It is now owned and controlled by a white gentleman by the name of Edward Hering who purchased the stock, good will and fixtures from Mr. Hall, who had been acting as receiver this week. Thus after many years of hustle on the part of John Jones, who was an old and highly respected citizen, the prosperous business established by him, through reckless management, has passed into the hands of the whites. We fancy we foresaw this result though for nearly every Sunday afternoon we were passed and repassed as we strolled along the boulevard by the youngster whose expenditures for carriage hire far exceeded the salary of many of those to whom he should look for patronage in business. When our young men who are fortunate enough to get a good start in life, learn that there is nothing in business "four-flushing" they will be able to keep their business from passing into the hands of the whites: for constant use of double teamed carriages had a tendency to drive business—to the other fellow. CHIPS. The big politicians came and went, their behavior was much better than that of the preachers. M. P. Byrne, the successful contractor has removed from 5312 Aberdeen street to 5435 May street. Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz, much to the gratification of her friends has been granted a new trial by the Supreme Court of Illinois. Mr. Hugh Burkett,' of Balto, Md., visited a number of his old friends in Indianapolis Sunday. He will leave Chicago for Balto next Tuesday. Hon. Harry S. Cummings, of Baltimore, Md., and Judge Raymond, of Atoona, Pa., left Chicago for their respective homes Tuesday morning. Rev. and Mrs. Lealtad celebrated their 10th marriage, anniversary Tuesday evening, June 28th. About 400 of their friends called to wish them well. The fear of the wrath of an angry God, and Hellfire, has kept the people down on their knees to king, priest and oppressor. Hon. James J. Gray, the present efficient member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, will be re-elected to the same position this coming November. Mrs. L. A. Davis, 5012 5th, leaves for St. Louis, Mo., Monday where she will attend the sessions of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs which meets in that city July 11th. St. Thomas Espiscopal church has at last secured its new organ—it is a small pipe organ—and their little organist bids fair to handle it in great shape after a while. Hon. and Mrs. James C. Napier, of Nashville, Tenn., where the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Williams, 3149 Forrest Ave. during the Republican convention. Joseph A. O'Donnell is an estimable gentleman, an excellent lawyer and he will make a successful race for one of the Superior Court Judge ships of this city and county. According to the evolution theory it takes a million years for a monkey to make a man, but a man can make a monkey of himself in less than two minutes.—The Million. Alderman John J. Bradley has opened up a new real estate office cor. of 51st St. and Wentworth Ave. and right from the start he is doing a nice business. Harry Hildreth is one of the clean cut business men of South Chicago. He is very popular with all classes, and we confidently predict that he will be the next Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook county. to and carry, the p ins offor of be over the H cred tle succ the and of to mer wn in the Rep to s s w n be ent n? using been min refl crac ance see d s did. in ibo emo d p show trit the hide an the o o-A ng m le no ave re i ten and Wil est f ing ten s w mo g M , L bo The H me new est app No. 36 phia. It is an excellent likeness of the President in a characteristic pose. John Oehman will make the race for Congress in the 1st Congressional District, and if he puts up a lively fight and makes friends with the Afro-American voters in the District his race will not be in vain. John E. Traeger will be re-elected Coroner of Cook County for he is more popular than ever and as he has always been with the people the people will stand with him next November. If all the groans and misery produced by the capitalist system could be bunched together and put upon you, perhaps you would begin to realize what an accursed, man-crushing system it is.—Soc. Dem. Herald. Miss Leila Mechlin, the author of the article on "A Gallery of Popular Art" in the July number of The Booklovers Magazine, is in charge of the art department of the Stuart School in Washington, D. C., and has been, for the past four years, art critic of the Washington Evening Star. John S. Clark has no superior as an honorable business man for that reason the people, regardless of their politics, are more than willing to assist to elect him Clerk of the Superior Court, for they fully realize that he will be the right man in the right place. Mr. Chas. Cockrell and Miss Blanche Woolridge were united in wedlock Wednesday evening, June 29th at St. Thomas Episcopal church. Many friends of the contracting parties attended the reception at the home of the bride's parents, where many presents had been left. Congressman George P. Foster, is the only Democratic member of Congress in Chicago to be honored with a renomination, and he will clean up everything before him in the 4th District next November, and after that date he will continue to represent his old constituents in the halls of Congress. The many admirers of Congressmen James McAndrews and Wm. F. Mahony very much regret that they did not stand for renomination in their respective Districts. Mr. Charles J. Vopicka will succeed the former in the first District, and Willim Preston Harrison will ride the winning horse in the eight District. Arthur Thompson, a Negro, shot and killed a white man named Dudley, down in Georgia last week. Nobody knew the cause of the difficulty, but a mob of "determined white men" broke into the jail, lynched the Negro and filled his body with bullets. This is a fair sample of the treatment that is given the Negro. The Southern law is that a Negro who strikes a white man, must be lynched. Mr. A. H. Wittstein member of the firm of Schrader-Wittstein Co., Manufacturing Jewelers, 103 State St. which is one of the oldest and most reliable houses in its line in this city, will in the near future depart on his annual vacation trip, through the East. Mr. Wittstein, is no politician, he is simply a first-class up-to-date business man, but he snatches enopgh time each week to persuse The Broad Ax. There is nothing in the Republican Platform for the colored man to go wild over. Its utterances on the franchise question in the South are disappointing. The remedy proposed does not restore to a single citizen who has been unlawfully disfranchised the right to vote, but on the other hand is a skillful evasion of that responsibility.—The Planet, Richmond, Va. Little Miss Phyllis Wheatly Green, who is quite popular with the members and those who attend St. Mary's Church is bound to make her mark in the world. She is far beyond the average girl at her age. She is not over 12 years old, and she makes a profound impression whenever she recites in Public. Last Friday Miss Green took part in the Graduating exercises at the Coleman School, and she recited "Only a Smack at School" with great success. Patriotism is the slavery of the mind of man to the State. Religion is the slavery of the mind of man to the State of God.-Free Society. Don't condemn a person because he don't go to your church. Better study his ways. Perhaps you can learn some good thereby.-Thoughts of the Hour. The chances are ten to one, if you are both intelligent and honest, that you will be so much benefited that you will drop the whole filthy, hellfire murdering, blood-drinking, flesheating, charity fed, church hypocrisy. No intelligent person can belong to church and be honest.—Higher Science. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, 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 Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. THE BROAD AX 6040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago III., as Second-class Matter. FOR THE TOILET TABLE. Articles of Utility and Ornament Now Found in My Lady's Collection. Powder puffs for the bath have leaped from an ordinary-sized puff that a child could manipulate to a puff the size of a man's head. With one dab of this puff one can powder half the body and another dab will complete the task of powdering the whole, says the Washington Star. These puffs are of soft, white elder-down, like their little predecessors, and are finished at the bottom with shirred silk or satin and ivory handles. As time-savers they are worth their price. Another fad for the bather is a small tub of clay, decorated on the outer side and looking like a homely cousin to the Mexican earthern bowls used as decorations. In this tub is a big flat cake of soap that fits in the bottom of the tub, is pink or grayish white in color and apparently a sort of scented castile. With the tub comes a sort of broom, like a small scrubbing broom. It is made of long fiber from East India, and the fiber is doubled so that the ends meet and are trimmed smoothly off. The place where they double is wrapped with more fiber and forms a handle. In completed form this stiff, but not harsh, brush is 12 or more inches long, and its appearance is sufficient guarantee of its ability to cleanse. This tub and brush arrangement is English, but a sort of general bath article is the big square sponge of a dark brown color in its holder of barrel metal—silver preferred—which hangs on the edge of the bathtub. For the bath come bran bags of cheesecloth filled with bran scented with orris and some other perfume that the bather fancies. Bags made of cheesecloth and filled with oatmeal are perfumed in the same manner, and are particularly fine for the skin and complexion. Corn meal, too, is highly recommended by physicians for whitening and softening the skin, so many women have little bags of perfumed corn meal made for face, neck and hands. Paris sends over all manner of bath bags guaranteed to do all manner of wonderful things to the complexion and skin. These all have their devotees, but to the average woman unable to pay big prices for these dainty, imported bath bags, bottles of wafers come with all the leading perfumes, and a wafer or two is dissolved in the tub while the water runs. This is the day of fads for the bath, and the woman who cannot buy the latest fads has the satisfaction of making them cheaply from a few cents' worth of oatmeal and her favorite perfume, with a little orris powder mixed in the whole. YELLOWNESS OF VISION. Condition of Mind That May Be Fittingly Termed Mental Jaundice. There are some people who have mental jaundice. That is to say, they see everything yellow. Physical jaundice produces yellowness of the eyes. A great many cases of jaundice actually color the aqueous humor of the eye. This produces a condition of the eye which makes the patient see everything yellow. In fact the patient is looking out on the world through yellow fluid, and, of course, everything looks yellow, says Medical Talk for the Home. Now there is a condition of mind which might be likened to yellow jaun-dice. A person gets yellow in his mind, he is yellow clear through to his soul, and his soul is yellow also. Then he looks out upon the world and discovers that everything is yellow. Every publication is yellow, every enterprise, everything is yellow but himself, whom he fondly imagines is not yellow, simply because he cannot see himself. Mental jaundice is still worse than physical jaundice. No drug can cure mental jaundice, and there is no rational treatment for it. The patient never knows that there is anything the matter with him. His friends and neighbors know that there is something wrong, but they can never make the patient believe it. A person might a great deal better have something the matter with his liver than something the matter with his mind by which a concentrated bile of distrust and hatred is imparted to the soul. Mental jaundice is a great deal worse than physical jaundice, as the bile that covers the eye in mental jaundice is wholly imaginary bile, which also clouds the judgment and impairs the feelings. The civil service commission has furnished to the house committee on civil service reform a statement snowing that the total number of ex-soldiers and ex-sailors of the civil war employed in the executive departments at Washington is 2,175, and the widows of veterans so employed 388. The information was asked in view of complaints that there are many superannuated clerks on the pay rolls. The largest number of veterans—641 employed in the interior department, while the treasury department carries 553 and the war department 347. There are only 23 veterans on the navy department roll and only seven in the state department. The ages of the old soldiers and sailors vary from 50 to 82 years. There are 217 who are 61 years old, while those younger form the next larger class, 197 in number. Nearly two-thirds, or 1,388, are from 58 to 65 years of age. Those over 70 years of age number 226, and of this number 11 are over 80. The veteran with the longest service is 77 years old. He has served 52 years. Nearly two-thirds, or 1,332 of the 2,175 veterans, receive salaries ranging from $1,200 to $2,500 per annum, while 66 receive more than $2,500 per annum. Those receiving $840 or less number 476. The veterans and their widows constitute ten per cent. of the number of persons employed in the departments and government printing office in Washington. SAVES BONES OF CHINESE. San Francisco Celestial Makes Living by Removal of Remains to Far Cathay. Lee Chung, of San Francisco, makes a good living by a peculiar employment. Some years ago he entered into contract with the Six Companies to exhume the bones of all Chinamen who had died in this country. The Six Companies found that it was hard to induce Chinamen to come here unless it was stipulated that in case of death their bones should be finally buried in China. So they engaged the service of Mr. Chung as their agent in the carrying out of this agreement. He keeps track of the remains of all the clients of the Six Companies that have died and sees to it that they are carefully boxed up and sent back to China. His duties take him to all parts of the country and he has subagents in all the large cities where Chinamen have settled. His contract makes it incumbent upon him to prevent the bones from being mixed. They are separately packed in white muslin bags, and no bone must be broken or sawed. Each set of bones is labeled and carefully recorded in the Six Companies' office, when and where buried, when exhumed, when shipped to China, and the account finally closed with the receipt for the bones from the dead man's relatives. MAKE PENCILS OF CHURCH. Tennessee Landmark Will Be Dismantled to Furnish Material for Sawmill. The high prices paid for cedar timber in Marshall county have led to the dismantling of one of the landmarks of Tennessee, near Nashville, Round Hill Presbyterian church, and the sale of the logs to a pencil factory. Heretofore fences, outhouses and barns have been sacrificed to the needs of the pencil makers, but this is the first noteworthy building that has been sent to the sawmill. The Round Hill church was erected somewhere between 1820 and 1825, being a branch of Bethbirei or Rock Creek church, as it was then called. Father Hall was the founder and pastor of both churches in the early days of their history, continuing as pastor until there came a split between the old school and the new school members of the congregations. The old school faction held Round Hill church, finally selling it to a negro congregation. The tempting offers of the factory buyers for the fine, well preserved logs of which the church was built moved the negroes to sell, a very considerable sum being realized, which was invested in a white church building of later construction. Owl and Duck Share Nest. An incident which will be interesting to naturalists is told in a recent number of the Scotsman. One of the foresters in the employ of the marquis of Lothian was returning from his work when he noticed a wild duck flying from a larch tree. On close examination he observed a common brown owl looking down from what appeared to be a nest in the cleft of the tree, about 30 feet from the ground and apparently near the place from which the duck had flown. Curiosity prompted him to climb to the place, which he did with great difficulty. The owl on his approach flew off, and to his surprise he found in the nest two eggs—an owl's and a wild duck's. It is not uncommon for both owls and ducks to build their nests high up on trees, but it is unheard of for one nest to be appropriated by both birds. Valuable Catalogue. The most valuable book ever published by a private citizen was probably the catalogue of the Walters collection of pictures and ceramics in Baltimore. Only 100 copies were published, which were presented to the great libraries and museums of the world. This small edition cost more than $100,000. The bride and groom sat side by side. "Dearest," he said, looking up into her eyes, for he was smaller, so that he really and truly looked up and into her eyes. "Yes, love," she responded in soft, frightened mouse tones. "If I had known that tunnel was that long I would have kissed you." "Didn't you kiss me?" she asked with much surprise. "No," he replied. "Well, somebody did."—Cleveland Leader. Her Pipe Went Out. "He comes so often to call upon me," she mused, "that I can draw but one inference. Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire." Two weeks later she was abashed to learn that he was going to marry another girl. "The smoke I saw," she reflected, "must have been that from a pipe dream." Slang is sometimes a balm to a broken heart.—Life. An Awful Thought. I often long to put away The burdens fate has piled on me And lag me down to sleep for aye, From tolling and from trouble free. But then there comes this awful thought Which makes me brace myself and bear The ills I have at present: What If men must still work over there? Chicago Record-Herald. BASEBALL SCHEDULE OF GAMES "How're the chances of the team this season?" "Fine! We've got a new college pitcher who can cuss at the umpire in seven different languages."—Farm and Fireside. An Important Distinction. The diplomat doth toll in state And carefully dissimulate. With lesser plans and smaller wit He would be called a hypocrite. —Washington Star. Asked and Answered. "What is love?" asked the sweet girl who was looking for a chance to lean. "Love," replied the old bachelor, "is a kind of insanity that makes a man call a 200-pound female his little turtle dove."—Chicago Daily News. Self-Convicted Wife—Percy, if a man were to sit on your hat what would you say? Husband—I should call him a confounded silly ass. Wife—Then don't sit on it any longer that's a dear.—Chicago Journal. Reminder of Wall Street Mrs. Banker—Oh, come out to the barnyard, William, and see the farmer watering his stock. Mr. Banker—No, Julia, I came out here in the country to forget business.—Yonkers Statesman. Not Vicious Enough He—Like all young men, I have my faults. She—Yes, but they are so insignificant that no self-respecting girl would feel justified in marrying you to reform you.—Town Topics. Mamma—I'd hate to think that you would throw yourself at young Shortstop. Daughter—I don't see why. He's the best catch on the local ball team.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Dawn of Reasoning. "Pa," asked the little Wise boy, "what is a buttery?" "A buttery, my son," explained Mr. Wise, "is where people make butter." "Then do they make augers in an augury?"—Judge. Mrs. Church—Has your child got an ear for music? Mrs. Gotham—No; I think it was ruined when she was quite young. My husband used to sing to her.—Yonkers Statesman. "I see Jennie Gayleigh is to undergo another operation." "Dear me! Appendicitis again?" "No. She's going to have her husband amputated."—Town Topics. Idiomatic English. Hojack—Well, the company has gone under? Tomdik—What sank it? Hojack—Its floating debt.—Town 'opics. Speaking with Authority. Meeks—The man who tries to change a woman's views is a fool. Weeks—How do you know? Meeks—My wife told me so.—Tit- Bits. "A lady, my son, is a female who does not have to insist that she is a lady."—Cleveland Leader. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 151st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 52nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO A REAL CHANCE ENTERPRISING CANVASSERS The demand for Professor W. E. B. DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk has been so remarkable, especially among those who do not buy many books, that we have just issued a Special Subscription Edition This powerful study of the Negro Question stands ahead of all others. Every one who has the future of the colored race at heart will want to buy it and read it. 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WILLIAM LEGNER, Vice Pres. & Treas. T SIDE VERY PANY, D, U. S. A. AND PAULINA STREETS. $3.75 GEO. HIGHT CHICAGO FIGHT AT BULL. RUN FALL ARMY MANEUVERS TO OC CUR CN OLD BATTLE GROUND. OLD SOLDIERS TO ATTEND Hundreds of Them Will Be Present as Critics for the Regular and National Guard Forces—Other Washington Gossip Washington.—Washington, and for that matter the soldiers of the entire country, are taking more than a passing interest in the coming battle maneuvers scheduled to take place on the historic Bull Run battlefield this coming autumn. For this series of maneuvers troops will be drawn not only from the regular army at the eastern posts, but from the national guard of the eastern and New England states to the number of about 25,000 men, and they will be under the direct command of Maj. Gen. Henry C. Corbin, commanding the department of the east with headquarters at New York. Of this force some 18,000 will be militiamen, and regular army officers, especially those assigned to general staff duty, are anticipating a golden opportunity of studying the soldiers of the guard of the various states. But not only will the officers of the regular service be present in considerable numbers, but the young soldiers will have as critics many hundreds of civil war veterans, many of whom fought over this same ground during that conflict. One reason for the great interest shown in the maneuvers by the old CHANDRE CHANDAE change been offered him. As it is he is now given an opportunity to secure a place more to his liking, and because of the amount of litigation ahead and opportunity for active work in the courts which is pleasing to him. Joseph H. Choate, the amoassador of the United States to Great Britain, was also being talked of, and the president is represented as desiring to have Mr. Choate enter the cabinet in some capacity. Mr. Choate, however, is well pleased with his present position, soldiers is that solved by the the movements of 40 years ago, we are made neces arms and battle neuer ground some 50 square vers will be the this country. There has been physical aspect which is now b A. SECRETARY MOODY. which suits his tastes and inclinations, and there is every prospect that he will remain in England as long as Mr. Roosevelt is president. Gov. George H. Carter, of Hawaii, who visited Washington a few days ago, traveled in greater style than is usual with executives of American states. His journey from San Francisco was made in a private car, with all the luxurious appurtenances that goes with such a mode of traveling. Gov. Carter's luxuries, however, are not charged to the government. He draws a comparatively modest salary of $5,000 a year, which is, however, larger than that paid half the governors of the states in the union. The honor and influence attached to the position is of far more value to him than the salary, as he is a wealthy man, with many financial interests both in the islands and in the states. The outlying territories have added greatly to the work of the administrative departments of the government. From the departments of war and justice especially they take a vast amount of attention. Every day brings with it some problem for solution. On the same day of Gov. Carter's visit, which among other things was to discuss with the president the availability of men for territorial judges, of which seven new appointments must be made in the near future to fill existing vacancies, Beekman Winthrop, the new governor of Porto Rico, talked with the president about affairs in that island. Winthrop goes to Porto Rico early in July, where he will succeed William H. Hunt, who is to return to become judge of the United States district court of Montana. ```markdown ``` back to Jackson's brigade throughout the war, and it certainly is the name by which its first commander will always be known as one of the most brilliant and formidable of American soldiers. The Battle of Bull Run has been classed as one of the decisive battles of the late civil war. As the pitched battle—the first trial of strength between the north and south—its inception and issue were pregnant with grave consequences to the future of a struggle in which the two combatants were yet hesitating to engage. It is purely military results; it has been well said that "the cannon of Bull Run echoed henceforth on every battlefield of the war." The meeting of the The meeting of the national conventions has so far over-shadowed the cabinet changes as to leave the latter almost entirely without comment. Corporations' interests have been far more interested in the successor of Attorney General Knox than in the man who is to be the future head of the department of commerce and labor. These interests would have preferred some man outside of the cabinet, and are said to have presented the names of several big New York lawyers for the position, arguing that New York would be left without representation in the cabinet upon the retirement of Secretary Cortelyou. The president, however, did not look with favor upon the men proposed and will undoubtedly name Secretary Moody for the place in the near future. Moody is a lawyer of exceptional ability, and one who knows the purposes and policies of the administration. He has announced his desire to retire from the cabinet on several occasions and take up again the practice of law. This he would probably have done had not this opportunity for a opportunity for soldiers is that the problem to be solved by the troops will follow very the movements of Gens. Lee and Pope 40 years ago, with the exceptions that are made necessary by the change in arms and battle formations. The maneuver ground will cover an area of some 50 square miles, and the maneuvers will be the largest ever held in this country. There has been little change in the physical aspect of the old battleground which is now being surveyed and the chief points marked out for the coming conflict. A sparsely settled community is embraced in the territory covered by the battleground, which is a succession of beautiful valleys, intersected by small streams of water, irrigating farm land. Many crossroads are encountered over the old battlefield, which lead to hills running up the sides of the Blue Ridge mountains. Bull Run gets its name from a small river in eastern Virginia, which joins the Occoquan, a tributary of the Potomac river, 25 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Near it occurred two important battles in the American civil war. The confederates, under the immediate command of Beauregard, about 31,000 in number, defeated the federals, under McDowell, about 28,000 strong, July 21, 1861. The loss of the federals was nearly 3,000; of confederates, 1,752. This battle of Bull Run was called by the confederates the first battle of Manassas. The confederates under Gen. Lee, about 40,000 all told, defeated about 35,000 federals under Pope, August 29, 1862. The loss of the federals was about 15,000 men; of confederates, 8,400 soldiers. This was called by the confederates the second battle of Manassas. The battle of August 29 is sometimes called the battle of Grave- During the first battle of Bull Run Gen. Barton Bee, of the confederate forces, selected a position on a large hill south of the turnpike, known as the Henry House hill. This house received its name from its original owners, and to-day still stands as a monument of two great conflicts. This hill, on which the old Henry house stands, lies south of the Warrenton turnpike. On the east it slopes down to an affluent of Bull Run and not far from it, known as Young's branch, and on the west it is bounded by the road which runs south from Sudley Springs to Manassa. In the western corner of this field, a third of a mile from the turnpike, but very close to the Sudley road, stood the Henry house. The confederate officers endeavored to establish a connected line, in a general way, but this was a difficult matter to effect. It was during this battle of Bull Run that Jackson received the epithet "Stonewall." Probably no chance word was ever uttered on a field of battle which became more famous than when Gen. Bee, referring to Gen. Jackson, used the expression "standing like a stonewall." The epithet "Stonewall" ```markdown ``` Mr. Subbubs—So one of your farm hands has a great reputation as a weather prophet? Does he often get it right? Farmer Hayrick—He hits it right nine times out o' ten. Mr. Subbubs—How does he manage to do it? Farmer Hayrick—Wa-al, he goes the exact opposite of what he sees in the "weather probabilities," by gum!— Judge. Warned in Time Old Dumpps—A penny for your thoughts. Young Gumpps—I am trying to remember what it was my wife wanted me to bring home. Old Dumpps—My! my! Don't do it. Remembering the things a wife wants you to bring home is a mighty bad habit. By the time you've been married ten years, she'll be giving you a list as long as the tariff law.—N. Y. Weekly. That's What. The man who really knows it all, And never tells it, we adore; But he who only thinks he knows And tells it is a bore. —Cincinnati Enquirer. FOR SELF-PRESERVATION FYLTE Miss McFlirter—Isn't it strange how the young men gather 'round me? Miss Smartsett—Not at all; they probably think there is safety in numbers.—Chicago Chronicle. Well. What of It? The melancholy days are always here. For man will rall, no matter what his lot. This week he kicks because it's wet and cold. And next he'll kick because it's dry and hot. She—Do you remember the first night you called? He—Oh, yes. "I had some sort of a flower in my hair, didn't I?" "Yes; and I had some sort of flour on the lapel of my coat when I got home."—Yonkers Statesman. His Record. "I stand squarely upon my record," said the political candidate. "Well," yelled the little man at the rear end of the hall, "you can hardly be blamed for wantin' to keep the blamed thing from bobbin' up."—Chicago Record-Herald. His Nickname. "Why do you call your little baby brother Radium?" asked the presocious boy's uncle. "Because father and mother think he's worth about a million dollars, but nobody else does."—Washington Star. Another Lie Nailed She (a bride of six months)—Everybody says you only married me for my money. He—Everybody is wrong, my dear. I know you look it; but, honestly, I didn't—Indianapolis Sentinel. Easily Kent Up. Church—It is impossible to keep an umbrella up in a high wind. Gotham—Oh, I don't know. I saw one go up in a high wind, the other day, and I guess it hasn't come down yet!—Yonkers Statesman. Ugly Little Thing "Everybody says the baby looks like you. Doesn't that please you?" "I don't know," replied Popley, "but I tell you what; I'm glad nobody thinks of saying I look like the baby." Philadelphia Ledger. Whyness of the Wherefore Fred—I always enjoy conversing with a spinster at a social gathering. Joe—Because why? Fred—She never bores one half to death by talking about old times.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Avoiding a Crush Bacon—They say when that Mormon elder was married the last time he did not have his other wives present at the ceremony. Egbert—No; it was said that he hates crowds.—Yonkers Statesman. Her Error. First Society Woman—What is the matter with her? Isn't she a social success? Second Society Woman—No. She doesn't seem to know what the public wants.—Brooklyn Life. He Knew Her. Wonder—Why on earth did you allow your daughter to marry that fellow Bounder? Old Crosscut—Because I hated him so.—Ally Sloper. Willing Victim. She—When I set my face against anything I mean it. He—Would you—er—mind setting your face against mine?—Chicago Daily News. --- Disinterested Advice. "I am very much bothered. I can marry a rich widow, whom I don't love, or a poor girl that I do love. What shall I do?" "Listen to your heart and marry the one you love." "You are right, my friend. I shall marry the girl." "Then can you give me the widow's address?"—Fliegende Blaetter. Heard on the Veranda. A gentleman complimented a lady on her improved appearance. "You are guilty of flattery," said the lady. "Not so," replied the gentleman, "for I vow you are as plump as a partridge!" "At first," said the lady, "I thought you guilty of flattery only, but now I find you are actually making game of me."—Tit-Bits. An Ingenious Plea "Your honor," said the confidence man, "the man who tempts another man to do wrong is as bad as the man who does wrong, isn't he?" "I believe it has been so held." "Well, then, send that hayseed to jall. He's such a fool that he just tempted me to flimflam him."—Chicago Post. Under Cover. Youngun—When did you see Miss Carmine last? Oldboy—I haven't seen her face for years. Youngun—I thought she had supper with you last week. Oldboy—So she did, but I didn't see her face, nor did anyone else; she uses too much make-up for that—Ally Sloper. Knew the Sex. "Your wife is a very sick woman," said the grave old physician, "and while I do not wish to alarm you, I have my doubts as to her recovery." "Oh, she'll pull through all right, doctor," replied the wise husband. "Her dressmaker sent home a new gown yesterday and she hasn't tried it on."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Why She Was Disappointed. A small miss who had but recently mastered her catechism confessed her disappointment with it thus: "Now, I obey the fifth commandment and honor my papa and mamma, yet my days are not a bit longer in the land, for I'm put to bed every night at seven o'clock just the same."—Tit-Bits. The Voice of Flattery. Judge (to old offender)—Have you anything to say? "Only this, my lord. It comforts me to know that one wise man on the bench can undo much of the mischief wrought by 12 idiots in the jury box." The minimum sentence was passed by his lordship.—Tit-Bits. No Trouble About That "How do you account for the fact," asked the doctor, "as shown by actual investigation, that 32 out of every 100 criminals in the country are left-handed?" "That's easily accounted for," said the professor. "The other 68 are righthanded."—Chicago Tribune. Not the Same. Ghumley—Oh, we can't hold our concert in that hall. The acoustic properties are wretched. Dumley—That ain't one of the Koostick properties; it belongs to old man Jones, and he's all right.—Philadelphia Press. A Similarity. The race horse and bland politician Finds life but a chance at the most. Sometimes he wins out with precision And sometimes he gets left at the post—Washington Star. QUITE DIFFERENT. A Binks—How does Jones' wife treat him? Banks—No; poodle.—Chicago Daily News. Highly Successful. Jack Sprat took Anti-Fat, His wife took Anti-Lean, And so to-day the both of them Are sleeping in the green. —Lippincott's Magazine. Optimistic. Optimistic Hewitt—What sort of a fellow is Gruet? Jewett—The sort that thinks he can live a strenuous life on eight dollars a week.—Brooklyn Life. How the Tiff Started. He—Wasn't it brave of Farragut to tie himself to the mast? She—Oh, I don't know. I tied myself to a stick, but nobody gets excited over it.—N. Y. Sun. Mother—Yes, children, you may run out and play on the railroad tracks, but be sure and keep off the street or the automobiles will get you.—Puck. Discouraging. He—Did you read my last book of smart sayings? She—I hope so.—Detroit Free Press. COLLEGIAN HAS BEST SHOW the Assertion. The United States bureau of education estimates that of the 14,794,403 men over 34 years of age in this country 1,757,023 are without education, 12,054, 335 have had only a common school education or its equivalent, 657,432 have received a high school training in addition, and 325,613 have had college training. The brief biographies of over 10,000 men commonly considered successful collected by "Who's Who" afford an opportunity for comparison of the men mentioned in "Who's Who" not one enrolled himself in the first class—the 1,757,023 without education. From the second class came 1,368, or one for every 8,812, and of these 24 reported themselves as self-taught, 278 as privately taught. From class three came 1,627, or one for every 404, and from class four, 7,709, one for every 42. The conclusions drawn by the compilers of the statistics are that the boy of no education has hardly a chance of honorable distinction; that the lad with a common school education has one chance in 9,000, the high school course increases the lad's chances 22 times, and a college education gives the young man ten times the chance of a high school boy and 200 times the chance of a boy whose training stops with the common schools. The college graduate is preeminently successful and the self-educated man inconspicuous. FRIENDLY BIRDS OF PREY. Every farmer and gamekeeper, says Forest and Stream, should have a copy of the biological surveys report on the stomachs of birds of prey. Besides immense quantities of mice hawks and owls kill snakes, rats, weasles, skunks and squirrels, all of which species destroy more or less young game birds and the eggs of game birds. Therefore it becomes necessary to know whether the bird of prey himself or all these other enemies kill the most game before judging of his harmfulness. The killing of hawk or owl is probably almost always the killing of one of your game preservers, whether or not he takes some game in pay. You might as well abolish policemen because they sometimes offend. Sportsmen wage war against herons, kingfishers and fish hawks. Now, since it is well known that the main devourers of trout spawn and fry, for instance, are not any kind of bird, but certain species of fish, you are probably helping thin your trout by removing these birds, since the latter doubtless prey more on the spawn devourers than on the trout. This is plain, because trout are swifter and hence harder to catch and live commonly in deeper water than any other species; so that what the heron and king fisher get are no doubt generally the enemies of your trout. ECONOMICAL MILLIONAIRE. Wealthy Arizonian Lives on $30 a Month and Gives Much to Needy Miners. Pat Driscoll, of Arizona, known as the most economical millionaire in the world, says he is surely coming east to the St. Louis exposition. He had decided, says the New York World, to attend the Chicago fair when President Cleveland made his public declaration against the coinage of free silver. Driscoll is a silver miner and the slump in silver, which reduced his income about five per cent., made him abandon the journey as extravagance. Driscoll's income is at least $50,000 a year. His cost of living he limits to $30 a month. Yet he is by no means a miser, and many gifts of thousands have gone from him to poor miners and their suffering families. The old miner experienced all the prospector's poverty and hardships until he was past middle age, and when he did strike it rich he never changed his habits of living. Now 60 years old and in the best of health, he lives alone in a little log cabin, cooks his own meals—of napjacks, salt pork, beans and oatmeal—and sleeps on a wooden bunk filled with straw and covered with a blanket or two. The Light of Crystals. All diamonds do not shine in the dark after exposure to sunlight or electric light, but some do to a remarkable degree. A diamond rubbed with a woolen cloth, or against a hard surface, will sometimes shine brilliantly. The emission of light is a property belonging to many, if not all, kinds of crystals. A variety of white marble found at Hastings-on-Hudson gives out a flame-colored glow when pounded, and bright flashes when scratched with steel. In northern New York is found a kind of stone, known locally as "hellfire rock," which exhibits bright sulphur-colored streaks when scratched in the dark. Pieces of rose quartz rubbed together exhibit brilliant flashes, sometimes bright enough to illuminate the hands of the person holding them. Smoked quartz and other varieties sometimes show a similar phenomenon. Courtship by Handkerchief. Whenever a single woman, amongst a powerful tribe in the Persian mountains, wishes to get married, she simply sends a servant to pin a handkerchief on the hat of the man of her choice. He is obliged by tribal laws to marry her, unless he can prove himself too poor to pay the "compensation" her father requires. Cheers Up a Plant. 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. the mem ry sk- pay me n't dritt u s offa lea h g as nd ber est ince lish do ays have paso he H to is ow id eser wn'1 disi s be ani res ocr ran bee in d e s did in abo memo d p hou tril e to den and e of -Am re lea o o e b ela in ampu so Willia Tuc friend Ma be ce was unter Some isse Jack well H ador me an thing left re the pic re hey ses boys heir ough ked and our ers ers and the high 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. 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, 2104 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, 358 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, 486½ State street. Frank H. Hart, 854-31st 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. The choral study recital at the Institutional church Monday evening was a social and financial success. The chorus work was well done. Miss Banche Wright, soloist, was at a great disadvantage because of a severe cold, nevertheless she showed wonderful training of voice and her ability to commit to memory such difficult music is remarkable. Mr. Frank B. Waring's articulation is all right, but he isn't the songster he used to be away back in the 80:s. Former President Grover Cleveland, and Col. William J. Bryan, Judge Alton B. Parker, Congressman William Randolph Hearst, Cong. Wll Mayor George B. Mclellan, of New York City, are being boomed in connection with the nomination for President of the United States and the chanses are one of this number will be selected to head the ticket by the Democratic National Convention which convenes in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday July, 6th. The false prophets, by getting up learned essays on what has happened in the past, have changed religion into some hocus-pocus, jack-o-lantern, ignis fatius sentimentality, away off in some other realm, when what concerns us, and all that concerns us, are the questions and issues that we have a hand in making or unmaking; the past is written for our example, and it will be time enough to tackle the issues in the skies when we get there and learn the lay of the land.—Henry George. Saturday evening, July 2, a grand trolley party will be given by Englewood Lodge No. 4230 G. U. O. O. F., to Calumet Grove. The first train will leave South Park avenue and 63rd street at 7:30 p. m., the ast train at 9:00 sharp. Tickets for round trip, 35 cents. Music by N. Clark Smith's orchestra. Prof. Hall will have charge of the dancing. Dr. William Powell Wilson, the author of the article on "The Philippines at St. Louis," which appears in the July number of The Booklovers Magazine is the founder and director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museums. He is a graduate of Harvard and of Tubingen, and has been an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. As chairman of the Philippine Exposition Board Dr. Wilson has had an important part in the collection and arrangement of the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis Fair. Mr. Weir, President of the Choral Study Club was presented with a very fine silver mounted cane by the members of the club, Monday evening. The presentation was not on the program and Mr. Weir was very agreeably surprised. Both Mr. Weir and Mr. Tinsley deserve great credit for their efforts to furnish our music lovers with recitals of the vey highest order. That our best people appreciate the best of everything and will pay for it, was evidenced by the great number who had reserved seats Monday evening, when the singing began. The delegation of colored men representing the Afro-American League at the Republican National convention in Chicago who wanted those Negro disfranchising schemes investigated and who wanted to enforce its demands upon the committee on resolutions, were ignored. Judging from the comment made by some of them they were somewhat surprised and sadly disappointed. They were unable to get off their oratory with a silver lining on the committee, and insist upon having the rights guaranteed them under the Constitution of the United States. They shouldn't have been a bit surprised. During all these years that these disfranchising schemes have been in successful operation in many States, what have the Republicans done to stop them? Not one solitary thing. What has the party done to curtail the infamous "Jim Crow" car laws enacted and aimed directly at the better class of black people, simply to humilate them and to crush out their ambition? Nothing. Then why should they be surprised at the treatment received at the hands of the Republican committee on resolutions at the Chicago convention?—The Mail And Express, Red Bank, N. J. Notwithstanding these facts Bro. Summersett, the vast majority of the Afro-Americans who are utterly incapable of thinking for themselves when it comes to the treatment and insults heaped upon them by those who control the Policies of the Republican Party, in relation to their citizenship rights, will as the present campaign progresses want to mob and lynch every Negro who fails to throw up his hat for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. OPPORRTNITUY FOR YOUNG COLORED LADY TO LEARN MANICURING. A neat, young, colored lady can receive instructions in manicuring and chiropodisty by Mrs. warner, 182 State street, room 44. An apt pupil can become proficient in foot work in six weeks. A good position guaranteed Sept. 1st. Must be NEAT. For further information call or address the above number. Canned-Corn Patties. Take one can of best sweet corn and chop fine in a chopping tray. Add two beaten eggs, to which has been added two tablespoonfuls of milk, a tablespoonful of salt, a half tablespoonful of pepper and two even tablespoonfuls of flour. Beat well and fry on a griddle in a tablespoonful of mixed lard and butter, dropping one spoonful for each patty. Fry brown on both sides and serve hot—Boston Budget. Women's Names. Flower names have always been in favor, but at present the names of precious stones run them a good second. Lord Edward Churchill's daughters are Ruby and Beryl; there is Miss Pearl Finch, daughter of Mr. George Finch, of Burley-on-the-Hill; Miss Frances Wolseley, only child and heiress of Lord Wolseley, has also the name of Garnet, and the new Lady Hardinge, whose husband has recently been appointed ambassador at St. Petersburg, owns a beautiful baby named Diamond.—London M. A. P. Quear Gravevard Customs. Queer Graveyard Customs. In the Athens cemeteries graves are rented for a term of years, just like the habitations of the quick. Only the wealthy own burial lots. This is invariably an evidence of wealth or aristocracy. The poor seldom dream of buying a lot or tomb. Such purchase would be deemed among them an unnecessary luxury. At the end of the term for which a grave is rented the bones are dug up, placed in a bag, labeled with the name and date, and deposited in a general receptacle. Dust in the Dining Room. Germs are in dust everywhere. But it is in the dining-room that they get into our food and thence into our bodies. The dining-room of all rooms should be kept free from dust; should have nothing in it to catch and conceal dust. It should be a plain room, as devoid as possible of frocks and frills.—Cooking School Report. Mummify Corpses In recent European experiments corpses have been kept for a certain length of time in a bath of chloride of calcium heated to 123 degrees, then taken out and steeped for 24 hours in a cold solution of sulphate of sodium. The bodies are transformed into perfect mummies, which may be kept indefinitely. Moth Destroyer. To keep moths out of furs and flannels, sprinkle spirits of turpentine over sheets of paper. Place a sheet between each garment. The turpentine will evaporate when exposed to the air. The odor may be more agreeable to some than that of the camphorated tar balls.—Buston Budget. The Difference Scolding Female (to husband No. 2)— Oh, if you only knew the difference between you, wretch, and my first husband! Husband—I do know the difference. He is happy now that he has left you, and I was happy before I got you.— Chicago Journal. No One to Take Offense Fuller—I understand you said I looked like a monkey? What do you mean by saying that? Waller—Oh, it's all right; no harm done, you know. There wasn't any monkey within hearing when I said it. —Stray Stories. How About This? The London Express learns that "it is proposed in America that the prefix 'Mr.' should be abolished by act of congress, and every man should be known by his trade or profession, as 'Draper Jones' or 'Attorney Smith.'" Restaurant on Ship. Passengers on the enormous new steamer now being built at Stettin for the Hamburg-American line, will be allowed, if they prefer, to pay for the passage only, taking their meals in the restaurant on deck. Wrong Either Way You are up against it when people praise you. If you agree with them they think you are conceived; if you do not agree with them they think you are a bigger fool than you look.—Chicago Tribune. Crab Cheese Pound some good, rich cheese with a little mustard, oil, vinegar, capene and salt until the consistency of cream of crab. Serve in a fancy dish with thin fingers of crisp toast.—Washington Star. Probably the actress who objected to her audience's eating peanuts at a performance of Ibsen thought it was playing the shell game on her.—Chicago Journal. Between 1896 and 1903 Uncle Sam increased his national wealth from $70,000,000,000 to $100,000,000, an increase of $30,000,000,000.—Des Moines Capital. Russian Horses. During the last three years Germany imported from Russia 112,616 horses, valued at over $10,600,000. Russia has now prohibited this exportation. French Coast Going. The sea is said to be gradually eating away the French coast, having within the last five years swallowed up no less than 460 acres. Instances of extreme old age are more common among those engaged in the exercise of gardening than in any other employment. DYSPEPSIA FROM BAD TEETH Bicarbonate of Soda in Solution Recommended as a Good Mouth Wash. The close connection between decayed teeth and diseases of the oligestion is pointed out by a medical writer. The presence of free acids in the mouth is particularly harmful. These may come from various sources, but most commonly from the acid fermentation of the carbo-hydrate food lodged on or between the teeth at the gums, and due to the action of microrganisms present in the mouth. Normally the saliva is alkaline, and any acids produced in the crevices of the teeth are thus neutralized and decay prevented. There are two conditions under which the saliva is unable to neutralize the acids produced locally—namely: First, when it is deficient in alkalinity, and, second, when it is deficient in quantity. As to the former it is well known that the saliva becomes less alkaline or even acid in any condition of prolonged gastric digestion, a phenomenon which occurs in nearly all cases of dysphonia. Moreover, the teeth when decayed further tend to keep up the state of chronic dyspepsia by rendering mastication imperfect. A vicious circle is thus established. To obviate this form of dental disease the teeth should be washed frequently with a solution of which one of the ingredients is bicarbonate of soda. This may prevent one of the mouth disagreeable results of the disease—facial neuralgia. YOUNGEST REAR ADMIRAL Officer Possessing Distinction in the United States Navy Is Forty- Three Years of Age. The corps of naval constructors, United States navy, is remarkable in that its ranking officers are so very young compared with the line of those of other corps. This is explained, according to the Washington Post, by the fact that those who make up this corps are constantly being offered greater inducements by large shipbuilding companies to leave the service for which they were educated. This partly accounts for Washington Lee Capps, the present chief of the bureau of construction and repair, being at its head at the age of 43, the youngest officer ever having the rank of real admiral in our navy. As his name might indicate, Read Admiral Capps was born in and appointed from Virginia. He entered the Naval academy in 1880, and graduated in 1884, high in his class, for by the act of congress, August 5, 1882, only ten of each class were then retained in the service. After a tour of two years' sea service he entered the construction corps, where he was advanced from the bottom to the top. While Rear Admiral Capps entered the service as late as 1880, all of the 27 rear admirals of the line can date their service to before or during the civil war. IMPROVES FLAVOR OF CIGAR Original Process by Which Pittsburg Man Obtains More Satisfaction in Smoking the Weed. Lighting a new Havana, a downtown professional man, after taking a few whiffs, blew into his cigar, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, and forced a lot of smoke out of the fiery end. Then he laid it aside and permitted the spark to die out. When asked for an explanation he said: "Well, I learned that habit some years ago, and I find that a cigar which has been lighted and then allowed to go out makes a much better smoke. I take several vigorous draws in order to bring the heat well through the weed. If a cigar becomes cold while it is saturated with smoke it has a musty odor; consequently, it is necessary to blow steadily and quite hard before extinguishing the spark, in order to clear out all the smoke that has been drawn between the layers of tobacco. After permitting the cigar to lie 10 or 15 minutes, or even half an hour, I find on re-lighting it that the flavor has greatly improved. The why and wherefore I am not philosophical enough to explain, but I know it makes a cigar better. It also improves a toby. Try it and you'll agree with me." Consumption Statistics. General statements as to the progress made in checking the ravages of consumption are always interesting, but it is much better to have specific statistical information upon the subject. Vital statistics have been taken in Massachusetts since 1842. In all the years before 1857 the annual death rate from consumption was nearly or quite 4,000 to 1,000,000 inhabitants. The rate has declined almost steadily ever since. It was about 3,200 to 1,000,000 in 1882, less than 2,500 in 1892, and less than 1,600 in 1902—the lowest point reached up to that time. Corresponding figures for England show a similar decrease. The system of keeping vital statistics has not been general enough to make sure that all the states can present as good a record of progress as Massachusetts, but all the facts that are available are encouraging. Matrimonial Brokerage in Italy. In Italy there are any number of matrimonial brokers, and the business is quite a regular institution. In their offices there are books with the names and particulars of all the marriageable girls, rich or poor, who live in the district, and the brokers go about endeavoring to arrange engagements in exactly the same way as they would do ordinary trading business. It depends entirely upon their success whether they receive any payment for their efforts or not. Joseph A. O'Donnell Henry D. 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