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THE BROAD AX JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS AND RICHMOND P. HOBSON Vent their Spleen Against the Negro in the St. Louis Convention. Judge Alton B. Parker and Ex. Senator Henry G. Davis Nominated for President and Vice-President. Vol. IX JOHN SHARR RICHMOND Vent their Spleen in the St. Lo Judge Alton B. Park Henry G. Davis President and The Democratic National Convention convened in St. Louis from Wednesday July 6th, to Sunday morning, July 10th. In many respects it was the most peculiar convention ever held by any political party in this country. The radicals or the adherents of Col. William J. Bryan, who have controlled the national machinery of the party for the past eight years were completely overwhelmed by what is called the conservative element or the reorganizers who are now in absolute control of the national organization. Consequently, they dictated the construction of the platform and engineered the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, for President, and ex-United States Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia for Vice-President. Both nominations were made on the first ballot, early Saturday morning and late in the same evening. John Sharp Williams of Mississippi served as temporary chairman of the convention and Champ Clark of Missouri was permanent chairman. In his opening speech Congressman Williams displayed his ignorance and race prejudice and proved to the world of mankind that his little.brain is so warped and shriveled up that he is incapable of rising above the gutter-snipe politician; that the South is incapable of bringing forth any great Statesmen to preside as a temporary or permanent chairman over any national convention. Our contention is well fortified in this respect by the following utterances and the spleen which Congressman Williams poured out against the Negro during the delivery of his speech: Race Crusade a Bad Move. "The republican platform, to sum it all up, obeys the pledge to 'stand pat' in every respect except one, and that is a respect in which well enough might very well have been left alone. That is the plank in which this language is used: 'We favor such congressional action as shall determine whether by special discrimination the elective franchise in any state has been unconstitutionally limited,' followed by the promise made, in that event, to reduce southern representation in the house of representatives and in the electoral college. The pledge is to reduce representation if it is found that the suffrage has been unconstitutionally limited.' "The only unconstitutional limitation would be in violation of the fifteenth amendment, 'because of race, color or previous condition of servitude.' 'Unconstitutionally limited.' The adverb 'unconstitutionally' is useless and fools nobody, especially when one remembers that the author of the phrase or, at least, the voice that read it, was the author of the old 'force bill.' "Whether or not the suffrage has been unconstitutionally limited is a matter for the courts to determine ```markdown ``` and a report of a republican committee on elections in the last congress so confesses it. If a man be 'unconstitutionally' denied the right of suffrage, then, after a determination to that effect, he can vote—that is his remedy and the right remedy. Having voted, of course, there could be no reduction of representation on this account. But all this deceives nobody, as I said. The real object of the republican party, in so far as that plank is concerned, however specious the phraesology in which it is clothed, is to reduce southern representation without reducing that of Massachusetts, Connecticut and other states, wherever in the south Negroes are disfranchised, not as such, but because of ignorance, by an educational qualification or because of any other reason, in any other unconstitutional way. Disfranchisement of a Negro in Mississippi for ignorance is a horrible thing; disfranchisement of a white man for ignorance in Massachusetts or Connecticut is a part of New England 'higher education.' Trouble in South Sure. "Let not the business interests of the country deceive themselves; let those controlling them prepare, if Roosevelt is elected on this platform, for another period of uncertainity, unrest, business disturbance and race war in the southern states, instead of that peace and prosperity which both races now enjoy and which have been rendered possible only by home rule and white supremacy. Let the south not deceive itself either. If the republican party were sincere in its proposition to reduce southern representation on the ground of disfranchisement or pretended 'unconstitutional limitation itself,' it would accompany that proposition with another, to-wit: The proposition to reeal the fifteenth amendment. "Their duplicity is shown in this: They wish to maintain the fifteenth amendment, which forbids the Negro for racial reasons from being disfranchised, and yet on the pretense that he is for racial reasons disfranchised they would have the Negro not counted as a basis of representation in the southern states, where he chiefly resides. It is not the white man, as a white man, who is injured by a recurrence to the tendency of force-bill days—he can and always will maintain himself—it is business, commerce, manufacturing, agriculture and the Negro himself. Commercially and industrially the white men of the south will not be much more injured by this sort of agitation than the northern people will be. The mercantile class would be the first to suffer, but as they owe debts to the north and buy from the north, and as nearly everything they sell is manufactured in the north they would not be alone in their suffering. "This is but the entering wedge to a new period of 'southern reconstruc- HEW TO THE LINE. tion.' It is the beginning over of the old scheme, revived for political advantage, to retain as a republican as not the solid Negro vote in Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey and like-conditioned states—this time without price in money paid—by disturbing all over the southland peace and order; by demoralizing reviving industries, unsettling business and labor, disintegrating society and as a remote effect if successful, hybridizing the race there and Africanizing its civilization. That is the ultimate significance of it all, if, indeed, it be not merely a 'voice in the wilderness,' crying out empty promises to the Negro voters in the doubtful states. I wish I could believe it was only that. I would believe it but for th opinionated and superstrenuousness character of 'the man in the white house.' "How small in comparison would be the immediate and ultimate significance of a mere partisan victory either way compared with the necessary and natural results of this agitation. To say the least it was wholly out of place for John Sharp Williams to vent his venomous spleen against the Negro in the manner in which he did and on such an occasion; it simply shows that he is an illbred misshapen creature who is utterly devoid of all the finer instincts which are in the possession of all polished gentlemen. He plainly demonstrates that it is impossible for him to rise to the dignity of a statesman when it comes to dealing with and discussing important national questions. True to his poisonous nature he could not touch upon the "Race Problem" which is the only "Problem," the pin-headed statesman, and the rank and file of the so-called white race know anything about in the south. Without referring to the colored people as "Coons" and yet he is sure he is a gentleman but no cultured gentleman would be guilty of using such language in the presence of a great national gathering of representative Americans, and this fact further stamps him as a low and as a cheap grade politician who is unfit to formulate the policy or to voice the public sentiments of any political party. Congressman Williams was anxious to make it appear that he depreciated the idea that the leaders of the Republican party were in favor of forcing the "Race Question" to the front at the present time, although there is not one word nor one line in the Republican Platform which indicates that such is the case. In an indirect way reference is made in it in favor of cutting down representation in Congress for certain states, for certain reasons. But the word Negro does not appear in any section of the platform, this being true John Sharp Williams is not justified in maintaining liams is not justified in raising what he calls the "nigger question" which he declares is a dead issue? Is it because he knows deep down in his heart that no question is ever settled until it is settled right? To tell the truth, Congressman Williams and Richmond P. Hobson, who exclaimed in the convention "That no colored man could stand up before a white man, look him in the face and live," and who also unbosomed himeslf of much rot of the same kind, which was enough to make a black cat sick at the stomach, had more to say in relation to the Negro than all the delegates put together who attended the Republican National Convention. The temporary chairman sought to play upon the race hatred or prejudice of the delegates by reminding them that two little white girls and two small colored boys appeared on the same platform, at the same time in the Republican convention, and that that simple scene meant that the Negro was seeking social equality with the white man, and wanted to marry his daughter. But Congressman Williams who proved himeslf to be nothing more than a common blackguard was very careful not to mention the fact that for many years his kind have sought the society of colored women, that thousands and thousa of the leading white men in the south spend much of their time in the company of their colored fem lovers. That at the present time those same whitemen are succeeding in bring'ng forth a brood of half white and half black Negro children which is unequaled in the history of the world. Therefore Congressman Williams should hang his head in shame and he ought to be the last person in the country to blow or whine about the Negro seeking social equality with the whites. Let Messrs. Williams, Vadaman, Tillman and their associates and sympathizers remember that justice moves with laden feet and strikes with an iron hand. That the time will come when a second Nat Turner or Toussaint L. Ouverture w leap forth in the south and lay it in a heap of ruins and be willing to wade in human blood up to their knees in order to avenge the many crimes, wrongs and insults which its people have heaped upon the Negro for the past three hundred years. NORTH AID TO NEGRO Writer Objects to .Giving South Greater Credit for Friendship. RECALLS DAYS AFTER THE WAR Holds Northern Philanthropy in To the Editor:—In her article dealing with certain phrases of the Negro problem Fannie Barrier Williams, I fear, misinterprets her facts, and therefore writes in such a way as to lead her readers to draw unwarrantable conclusions from the facts, and I am not sure she is altogether logical herself in some of her deductions. The facts which she cites are: That everywhere in this country the Negro encounters race prejudice. That the race has achieved its highest and best things in the South. That prominent and influential southern men in every walk of life, have recently "given expression to sentiments that could not have been heard and would not have been tolerated twenty years ago." These facts may be more or less true, but it would be highly illogical to infer from them that the southern whites are the Negro's best friends. The reasons why "the race has achieved its highest and best things" in the South are not to be sought in the superior friendship of the South for the Negro. What he is and has achieved there has been in spite of the hatred and repressive measures of the South. The race's advancement in that section is due chiefly to three reasons, which Mrs. Williams seems to overlook, or which possibly never occurred to her, as they have not to many writers far more superficial than she evidently is. NORTHERN PHILANTHROPY. First of these reasons is northern philanthropy. It was the great heart of the great North that prompted her to lay her wealth in the lap of the churches for the Christian education of the teachers and preachers of the race—who have been for the most part the best leaders of the people. Ninty-nine per cent of the colored men have risen to prominence in the South and in the eye of the world have been educated, and trained in Christian schools established and maintained by northern benevolence. These schools, planted in the very heart of the South, where they were most needed, at first and for a number of years encountered the bitterest opposition from the southern whites and their noble band of teachers, from beautiful homes and congenial associations, endured the cross and despised the shame that they might help God uplift a needy people. If it be said, as is often done, that the South deserves a large meed of praise for its part in the education of the race, I would say, let it have due and grateful credit. Justice, however, demands that in our endeavor to secure the friendship of the southern whites we should not turn our backs on facts that point in other directions for some of the credit for what the South claims to be doing. In the first place, the South—meaning the whites—does not contribute so much toward the public school funds as it would have us believe. The fact is, the Negroes themselves are larger contributors, in an indirect manner, to the school fund than the South is willing to acknowledge. For nearly 300 years they have by their labor produced the largest part of the wealth of the South, and they have never received in wages their proportionate share of the products of their industry. If they have created the wealth and that wealth is taxed for school purposes, then by every law of sound political economy they are contributing their full share to the support of the public schools. And even the public school system itself, of which the South is so fond of boasting and of which she is justly proud, is an importation from the North by carpet-baggers during their regime in the period of reconstruction, for bereore the war there was in a majority of the slaveholding states no such thing as a system of free public schools. SPIRIT OF THE OLD SOUTH. The second reason for the Negroes' material advancement in the southland is due in no small degree to the influence of the spirit of the old South. In the old antebellum days the man who did not own land and Negroes to cultivate it was a nobody. Under the influence and inspiration of that spirit, when freedom came to the Negroes, one of the first things some of the more thrifty of them aspired to was the ownership of so much property, real and personal, as would make them men of importance among their fellows. A third reason for the marked advancement of the race in the South is found in a law of progress, the high importance of which the Negro, though he has unwittingly profited thereby, does not yet estimate at its full value, namely, that men develop along the line of opportunity. In the South the Negro lawyer could find clientage and the Negro physician a paying practice among their own people. Hence they could develop along those lines. The educated Negro could find employment in the colored public schools and in the acedemies, colleges and universities established and maintained by northern friends. And, then, too, the Negro constituting the rank and file of the Republican party in the South, the more intelligent and favored among them came in for a large share of political appointments, and thus into prominence and respectability. In counties and districts where the Negroes had a clear majority of voters they elected members of their own race to county offices, state legislatures and to Congress. Let the race in every worthy way seek the friendship of the southern whites and accord them due credit; but in the one case, not by the surrender of any ascertained right or principle, nor in and cringing spirit, which always invites contempt rather than respect, nor in the other by doing any violence to historic truth or in such manner as to savor of ingratitude to others, who thus far are more deserving of praise. Charles G. Lennox. Mount Pleasant, Iowa.—In the Record Herald, Sunday July 10. For many years the vast majority of the Afro-American writers and orators, have endeavered to ignore the great and the everlasting work performed by the liberty-loving whites of the North, in behalf of the colored race in the South. They seem eager to make it appear that the Southern whites have been the best friends to the Negroes along educational lines, which is not true, and by pursuing this course they have caused many whites residing in the North, to refuse to extend any further aid to the Negro, and it has also caused them to become cold and indifferent as to his civil and his political condition in the South. Mr. Lennox has performed a great service to the race by calling the attention of Mrs. Williams to these facts. we to and ry to of be ver he he to en rn in nin ep s m be nts ing ec ing d n ou hoo po ou rib to en nd of An re lea ce ela in imp se illi T brid M b ace w ou Se Mix Jr Low n, eooh oh s ver s by ed l ub t f tre le t to " No. 38 CHIPS. Did you notice them turning anybody away from the "swell" picnic Monday? Mr. George Williams, Commissioner of Public Buildings, being an expert builder and contractor himself, he continues to discharge the duties of his office with rare ability. Col I. P. Rivers, spent several hours this week in the penitentiary at Joliet, and he came in contact with Henry T. Elby, late Treasurer of Olivet Baptist church, who is serving as messenger to Warden Murphy. Now that the Chicago Chronicle has floped over to the Republican party, it will have to eat a whole lot of black crow in order to support Col. Charles S. Deneen, for Governor of Illinois. Mr Theo Jones Jr.; is spending part of his vacation visiting the Fair at St. Louis, after which he will return to Chicago and remain until it is time to take up his studies at Ann Arbor again. Will Prof. and Mrs. Emanuel give us the annual moonlight cutting this summer? We hope so; for we really enjoy ourselves on their trolley parties, which are always attended by folks whom we know, and with whom we like to associate. "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God," and quite a good many folks have said in their heart and with their tongues there is, and we would like to know how we are to tell which fool to believe.—Dickens (Iowa) Leader. Rev. R. C. Ransom, who has run the Institutional Church for the past four or five years, will locate in Newport, Rhode Island, the 1st of Aug. so it is said, where he will have charge of one of the churches in his connection. The Democratic Convention of North Carolina, killed by the overwhelming majority the resolution demanding a division of the school funds between the races on the basis of taxation, thus putting themselves on record as favoring he education of the Negro. Miss Eleanor Curtis, one of Washington's young belles, is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. A. W. Curtis, of 5757 Lafayette ave. Miss Curtis has just left St. Louis where she has been attending the World's Fair. Monday August 1st. the Illinois Company No. 4 Drill Team, the champions of the World will give an excursion to Joliet, Ill., the train will leave the Polk Street Depot at 10 a.m. sharp. The Eighth Regiment Band will furnish the music. Fare for the round trip, 75 cents. A voter is a man who by reason of false teaching and that innate love of ease which is natural to slaves, will put a piece of paper in a box as a man will put a nickel in a slot machine hoping that a dollar will come out, and gomble for "Justice.' Poor fool.—Free Society. Robert Lincoln Taylor, who is connected with the Board of Ection Commissioners, leaves to-day for St. Paul, Minn., where he will join a party of friends and spend his six weeks vacation with them, in camping, fishing and hunting in that section of the North-west and in northern Wisconsin. Thomas J. Hunter, who is one of the shining lights of Quinn Chapel, who busted up in business recently, and who was unable or unwilling to pay his many creditors, says in the last issue of the Old Church Organ, that "he will pay ten dollars to any one who will bring-the dirty-hearted liar to him, who started the rumor concerning Prof. N. Clark Smith and his family or wife." If Mr. Hunter, who is a prominent Odd Fellow, will only give us nine dollars out of his ten spot, it will cause us to feel mighty happy, and then we would be bound to regard him as an honest Christain Gentleman. 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. 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 5040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill. as Second-class Matter. Invasion of China. Here is a Woo-Sung milk "ad" from the Shanghai Times: "We open at Woo-Sung in the south of the telegraph company for sale the foreign milk, the taste are sweet, the milk are pure and the price are just. We haven't put any water in it, if examine out, won't pay a single cash. If you want to buy so you will know the foreign cows shop. Gen Sung Kee." Wouldn't that curdle you!—N. Y. Tribune. Fine Climate. For a winter climate Colorado Springs has a reputation second to no locality in the United States. During the winter of 1903-04 hundreds of robins, bluebirds, Spanish sparrows, orioles and turtle doves made their homes in that vicinity, and there was no weather during the whole season so severe as to harm them. There were 317 clear days in the year. Keep Tab on Him "Mrs. Chellus looks bad, doesn't she?" "Yes, and no wonder. She's been awake every night for a week past." "The idea! What was the matter?" "She discovered about a week ago that her husband talks in his sleep, and, of course, she had to listen."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Apple Water Ice. Pare and core some fine apples, cut in pieces into a preserving pan with sufficient water for them to float; boil until reduced to a marmalade and strain. To one pint of apple water add one-half pint of sirup, juice of a lemon and a little water; when cold, freeze—Boston Budget. Ask Shakespeare. Little Willie—Papa, do they have doctors to treat pigs? His Papa—Yes, my son; only they are called veterinary surgeons. Why do you ask? "I was just wondering who cured bacon!"—Stray Stories. Emotions in Fish Change of color is one of the best indexes to the emotions of the fish. When the fish is sick its color is apt to be faint, while when in health, angry or breeding the colors stand out brightly and vividly.—Nature. For Our Good. Sometimes, when it seems that our own particular little world has been knocked into chaos, and all things for us have come to an end, it is merely that we are being born to better things.—Cora Lapham Hazzard. Electrical Pumps. Electricity carried overland by wire some distance is being used in Oregon to pump water in irrigating farms. If the experiment proves successful, the system will be developed further. Japanese Fare. The Japanese cuisine does not include butchers' meat, bread, butter and potatoes. Rice is not, as commonly supposed, the daily food of the poor, but can be afforded by the well-to-do only. School Children in Syria According to a recent Russian consular report, six years ago 9,000 children attended the Russian schools in Syria. The number is now 20,000. Aid to Digestion Plain soda water, taken in moderation, often aids digestion, but soda water with fruit sirups is bad, for a weak stomach.—N. Y. Post. Good Old Summer We are now getting around to the days when a man really feels more negligee than he looks—and that's a plenty.— Indianapolis News. Breaking Loose. "You smoked only ten cigars on your wedding trip—that's one a day." "No—ten on the last day."—Harper's Bazar. Keeps Off Flies. Flies will not settle on windows that have been washed in water mixed with a little kerosene.—Good Literature. Timber is now vulcanized in England by forcing a boiling solution of sugar into its pores. Cost of German Army. To keep the whole German army in the field for one week would cost $30,000,000. There are cases on record of rumination, or cud-chewing, in human beings. Nurses are among the heroic fighters of the world. The Contagious hospital at North Brother island, New York, has recently been the scene of a brave sacrifice on the part of a young nurse who displayed that love than which no man hath greater. She gave up her life to save that of a child. The New York Sun tells the story: At the Polyclinic hospital a little girl developed an alarming form of scarlet fever. It was necessary to remove her to North Brother island, and Miss Mahler, a graduate of the Rochester university and the City Hospital Training School, volunteered to go into exile with her. At the island diphtheria developed and the case seemed hopeless. For two weeks, night and day, the untiring nurse fought, single-handed, and through her wonderful skill and unselfish devotion, at the end of that time the little patient was out of danger. Then the two grim diseases attacked the faithful caretaker, and worn out by the long and ceaseless vigil, she had no strength with which to resist them. She refused to be removed to better quarters, and there, in the very place where she had conquered for the little, unknown girl, she fought another battle, and this time was overcome. Like every brave nurse, she had taken the risk, knowing and counting well the cost, and she accomplished her purpose, for the child was saved. HOW OIL PIPES ARE CLEANED Conduicts on Becoming Incrusted Are Cleaned by a Revolving Knife Passing Through Them. The long pipes that carry crude petroleum from the oil wells to the refineries many miles distant are cleaned by an ingenious device, says the Omaha Bee. As the oil flows through these underground conduits some of the paraffin in the fluid incrusts the sides of the pipe and proves a serious hindrance to the free passage of the current of oil. The device that is used to remedy this evil is a knife about two feet in length, with a sharp edge, constructed like the thread of a screw; indeed, the knife resembles a huge headless screw. It is, of course, slightly smaller than the pipe through which it is to pass. When the thickness of the crust of paraffin renders a cleansing necessary this instrument is inserted in the pipe at the oil fields. The pressure of the stream of oil drives it forward, revolving rapidly as it hurries along, and scrapes the channels clean. It turns and twists and cleanses in this manner throughout its whole journey, and finally drops from the pipes in the midst of the vast stream of petroleum that empties into the receiving tanks. Its edges are duller than when it set out on its journey, but otherwise it is in perfect condition. It is at once shipped back to the oil wells, where it is sharpened and laid away until its services are again needed. JAPAN'S LITERARY LIKINGS. Subjects of the Mikado Show Decided Preference to the Writings of Carlyle. The most widely known English writer in Japan is Carlyle. Next to him comes Macaulay, says the Dundee Advertiser. "Emerson is admired by some of the English students, and we see the influences of his writings among many Japanese journalists today." Mill and Herbert Spencer "have had a tremendous influence upon the thought of modern Japan." In poetry, Tennyson, Longfellow—his "Evangeline" is "heard from the lips of any little girl in a girl's seminary in Japan"—Wordsworth, Byron and Milton; and in fiction, Irving, Thackeray and Dickens are best known. "Othello," "Macbeth' and "The Merchant of Venice" have been transiated by Prof. Yuzo Tsubouchi. Tolstoi has many worshippers, and no one who is not acquainted with German is regarded as a scholar. Rousseau's "Contrat Social" was the book which "first taught the Japanese the idea of civil right and liberty." A translation of it "has been circulated in every Japaness home." The writers of French fiction and drama, on the other hand, "do not seem to find many friends in Japan." "Fossil Rain Drops." In slabs of Triassic rock little depressions are often seen which have been called "fossil rain-drops," the idea being that they were formed by showers on muddy sea beaches, and preserved by being covered with a layer of mud at the next high tide. But a correspondent of Nature, in England, suggests in view of recent observations of his on a flood plain in the Dorn valley, that the supposed impressions of rain-drops may really be due to pittings formed by bubbles in a film of mud at the bottom of shallow water. He has watched the formation of many such pittings, and found that after the mud has dried they exactly resemble "fossil rain-drops." Warning to Farmers What has been called the "ginseng craze" has been so prevalent among farmers in many districts of the United States that the department of agriculture has considered it expedient to sound a note of warning. Previous to 1902 China imported from this country only 172,000 pounds of ginseng in four years—a quantity which could be raised on a single farm of 75 acres. "Let ginseng alone. It is a delusion and a snare," is Secretary Wilson's advice to farmers. Mr. Nuwed-Gracious, dear! Where did you get these peaches? Mrs. Nuwed—Why? What's the matter? Mr. Nuwed—They don't taste like the best in the world. Mrs. Nuwed—They must be. I picked them out myself. The picture on the can was prettier than any of the others.—Philadelphia Press. Five Hundred Thousand. Tess-I can't understand what he saw in her. Her face is decidedly plain. Jess-Yes, but the figure she has makes up for all that. Tess — Figure? She's positively scrawny. She has no figure. Jess—You're mistaken. She has six figures, and the first one's a five. Philadelphia Press. Her Resentment Tess—Jack Hansom isn't fat, is he? Jess—Not at all. He's quite graceful and muscular. Why? Tess—I happened to mention him to Miss Pechis, and she said: "Oh, isn't he disgustingly stout?" Jess—Ah, yes. She rejected him some weeks ago, and she's mad because he didn't pine away.—Colorado Springs Gazette. Obeyed Instructions A gentleman bought a new variety of potatoes, and told his gardener to be sure and plant them far enough apart. "Well, Sam, did you plant the potatoes far apart, as I told you?" Sam—I did, sir. I planted some in your garden, and some in mine, so they are four miles apart.—Tit-Bits. Retribution. "I had a horrible dream last night," said Huddleson, when he came down to breakfast the other morning. "What was it?" asked his wife. "I dreamt that I was in purgatory, and was made to do all the things I had told my friends I would do if I were in their places."—Brooklyn Life. Commutation of Sentence. Mr. Bacon—I think we ought to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of our wedding, dear. Mrs. Bacon—What are you talking about? Why, we've only been married 18 years! "Well, don't I get anything off for good behavior?"—Yonkers Statesman. Her Age. "How old would you say she was?" "Well, let's see. When we were in high school together she used to snub me because I was a kid. Now I'm 37, and um-m-m-well, I should say she was about 28 by this time."—Town and Country. Provided For. "Why don't you employ a stenographer?" "Don't need one," answered Mr. Cumrox. "Mother and the girls can criticise my grammar and spelling all that's required."—Washington Star. Certainly Certain He—I suppose Miss Elderleigh is what you would call a girl of uncertain years, is she not? She—No, indeed. She has been the same age for at least ten years.—Chicago Daily News. Handicapped. Bifkins—I know one girl who doesn't try to conceal her age. Mifkins—What's the explanation? Bifkins—She has a twin brother.—Columbus Dispatch. His Wisdom. The silent man doth wink again. His thoughts, he won't betray 'em. He thinks mistakes like other men. But is too smart to say 'em. -Washington Star. CAUTION REQUIRED. Voy "Do you think it's right for a man to put so much money in his clothes?" "It depends upon how sound he sleeps—and how noiselessly his wife can walk."—Chicago Journal. Our Old Friend. Now comes the eager fisherman Who down the stream will plod. He'll reel his fish in by the inch, His lies off by the rod. Indianapolis Sun. His Experience. riage is a failure? Wedderly—No; merely an assignment in which the wife is a preferred creditor.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Depends on Circumstances. Howell—Do you think it pays to put much money into clothes? Powell—Not if you have a wife to go through them.—Town Topics. Why? Awkward Brute-What a grand floor this is! I could dance on it all night. The Victim-Then why dance on my feet?-Ally Sloper. 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HIGHT CHICAGO “Alt SHOUTED FOR TEDDY maroon, A STRENUOUS WESTERNER Typical of @ Class "That Roosevelt Likes—The New Western Cab- inet Officers — Strenuosity Seems to Be the Thing. Washington.—While the funny men of the newspapers may go to extremes im caricaturing YF the strenuosity of Es: President Roose- 3 cA) velt, there can be Wide W) Bo doubt of his yf 4 “Strenuosity.” He ma U3 simply has to “do SAA things.” He is not : (4/7, of the kind that (/« £7“) can be waited up. SAP Bm effectively. —| & It is this desire KUL. to move that x caused him to like = the west, where Insistently Shouted vor xeady Bis strenuosity Gen ey Aft: ONS <8 Insistently a a | es It is the same characteristic that caused him to make of western men his closest friends, and for the west- erners to take to him. No meident of the Chicago conven- tion was more greatly enjoyed by the president than one in which one of these western friends played a promi- nent part. The friend in question was Seth Bullock. He was a delegate to the convention from the northwest, and his tall, sparse frame loomed up on the horizon and emitted shouts for “Teddy” at €very opportunity. Bot even his western ardor did not seem to dispel the frost in the atmosphere, and Bullock determined to demand eastern assistance. His style called for cheers, bands of music and action, and he could not understand why New York the state which claimed “Teddy” as its own, did not awake to the necessity of the occasion. The first day passed without a demonstration such as suit- ed Bullock, and at its close he was disgusted, but determined that an- other should not pass in the same way. Taking with him that unmistakable air of the west, he walked over to the headquarters of the New York deiega- tion and announced: “I'm Seth Bullock from Deadwood. Tm for Teddy. I'm from the west. You fellows from New York are frosty— you're good only for icing tea. We've got mosquitoes in the Black Hills that have more blood in them than you fellows. Now you whoop her up to- morrow or I'll make trouble. Get ac- tion.” New York woke up the next day. It takes electoral votes to elect, and the eastern states have the votes, but Roosevelt would rather have the friendship of men like Bullock than of the magnates of Wail street. The Story of Bullock. Seth Bullock is well known among the politicians from the northwest who come w y, Washington. They know that he can ( get closer to "7 Roosevelt thaa ° the majority of Fi men who wear . a senatorial togas. Henry Barrett _&®8 chamberlain, the Zs editor of the Ss Voter, tells his story as follows: Danced to Bullock’s Bullock was the of (84) § Se Music. first sheriff of Helena in the pioneer days and th first sheriff of Deadwood, when the Black Hills contained as picturesque & set of cut-throats as ever existed. Bullock is now the government's for- est reserve representative of South Da- kota, a man of means and calm. He has the voice of a woman, the garb of a minister, the silence of 4 conidential cler. of Morgan or Rocke- feller. Yet in the bes: of his days, when he represenicd ise first law and order introcuced to tte mining camps of the Hilis (where by the way most of the fortune of Mr. Hearst has come from) Buliock as a sheriff put, as Iam told, some 25 men out of existence. He kept no notches on his gun nor do } know that be has ever talked of his past duties as a szerifi—but he got ac- tion. I have been told by oid residents of Deadwood who remember the days of 76 ama ‘77 that when the citizens’ committee calied ior Bullock to come to Deadwood that he arrived im the garb of a circuit riding minister—n0 pistols in sight, no display of leather breeches or bespangied sombrero. Wild Bill was at that time in bis prime and it is saad that Bullock asked him: on eee To which Wild Bill replied: “I can't o it, Seth, because I have friends on both sides. I'm neither for nor against you.” That afternoon Sheriff Bullock walked down the narrow, way of the old guleh of Deadwood and had co coat and his boots spat upon by indis- Rant stage robbers gamblers and mar derers, who resented his appearance. Still he remained calm. But when be started on his return trip through the gulch where now is a prosperous an¢ law-abiding city they say be slipped his back of his clerical coat and began shooting, and when the calm of He deliberately hunted pono, tid to be, asked for their objections, and, when these o 3 eee by « six-shooter be began shooting — marae rennet Beer Spot and put two or three am- Bitious ‘freebooters out of existence. After that he Was recognized as the sheriff of Deadwood. In a year’s time he made the guich a respector of the Jaw. He killed only when it was nec- essary to uphold the law, and in all that time they tell me his voice never Tose above the tone level of a wom- an’s, Strenuous Cabinet Officers, Roosevelt's Preference for the men who do things is well illustrated by his choice of new cabinet Officers. Paul Morton, the 3 Rew secretary of the navy, has been = 9 “doing things” ef- ¥ fectively all the bs 47 years of his life. In his chosen field he made a hi Success that might EN RA well be envied by f any man. With- Out the assistance Secretary Morton, Of Prestige he be- :) Secretary Morton eee ‘career as a clerk in the land office ol the B. & M. railroad of the Burlington system at Burlington in 1872. Ap ‘ability and desire to hustle soon pro- moted him above his fellows, and he was transferred from the land office tc the freight department, where he soon | became assistant general freighi agent. From that azain to theépas- Senge: department as general passen- ger agent of the Burlington system and ending his career with the Buc- lington as general freight agent. In 18 years from his beginning as ar unknown clerk in a railroad office he Tose to one of the most important offi- cial positions on the road, and t Places of prominence in other large corporations as well. It was Morton’: sSirenuosity that acconrplished these re- sults, and it was his strenuosity tha’ attracted President Roosevelt to hir when he was in need of a cabinet off- cer. : Victor H. Metcalf is another type o! the strenuous westerner. Though o! eastern birth he has been a resident of California so long that he has be come thoroughly assimilated, and car ries with him all the breezy hustle that is characteristic of that section. An Interesting Character. Many quaint and interesting charac- ters cre to be found among the spe- cialists of the gov- Nt) ernment depart- 0 : ments; men of up- sy ,| usual ability who Ds, have buried them- KV selves in a bureau Do<]/ where they have 6 Ley for years followed a $4 without molesta- | tion the bent for EN A which they were FUZQTF] reculiariy adapt- ed. ay, Adolph Linden- _ kohl, 71 years of Studied Big Geo- ie aay a SS Oe ee eee | @ naturalized citizen of this countrys since 1854, died recently. He was the senior draughtsman of the coast and geodic survey, and had been connected | with that department for 50 years. | He spent much of his leisure time in ‘studying the vast physical problems | relating to the earth, devoting himself especially to physical geography, oceanography and deep sea tempera- tures, densities and currents. Numer- ous articles upon these subjects were written by him ahd have been pub- lished as appendices to the coast and | geodetic survey reports, in Poter- 'mann’s Mitteilungen anc in the Amer- ican Journal of Science. He was al- ways much interested in geographical ‘exploration and spent a goad deal of ‘time in compiling maps from original ‘sources, unofficially. | ‘His ability was rewarded in the ‘coast survey by promotion through ail the grades of his profession until he became a recognized authority on chart publication. Being endowed with a remarkable memory for facts ‘and dates, his intimate acquaintance ‘with the chart work of the survey dur- ing the 50 years of his service was of very great value in all matters con- cerning the compilation of charts from the older records, and the numerous drawings compiled and made by him during the last half century are said to bear witness to the skill and fidelity which distinguished his career. Dur- ing the civil war, from 1862 to "64, he was detailed to serve with the union army as topographer. Mr. Lindenkobl was a member of the American Associatien for the Ad- vancement of Science, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Philosophi- al Society @f Washington and the National Geographic society. ~ : Original. Mrs. Smith—Have you named your twin girls, Lucy? Lacy—Yessum; we'se done name tem “Flops'm” an’ “Jeps'm.” Power- ful pooty names. Dave, my ol’ man, he done got dem names outen de rivab colyum —Cincinnati Commer- ar. SR I Se | Wot the Real Thing. Husband—You say this is venison? “What induced you to buy it? | ‘Wife—Well, the butcher said it was ebeap and— ; ‘NHusband—if be had told you it ‘wasn’t deer he would have been near- ‘er the truth.—Philadelphis Ledger. ———— ‘The Best Policy. Dia that bank cashier come well ree- ommended?” “Very. ‘He refunded over half what he eesbeusted at bis Inst place.”—Puck. 7 ao / How to Make Plain Dishes Appetizing Ts a Study to Be Taken Up by Housekeepers. Any well-cooked dish, however plain, can be made truly epicurean by the ‘garnish applied. Often, too, exactly the right dress- ing will be found under the hand, i the housekeeper has suffcient juds- ment te recognize its possibilities. For a dish of lobster salad there are lobster claws, lobster coral, cress, and, forall salads, radishes and beets cut into flowers, curled celery and cel- ery tips, spirals of olives, and fancy shaped wafers. _ Aspie jelly molded in faney forms or cut in squares is used on cold meats with mounds of jelly, wreaths of parsley and of cress, shredded let- tuce, lemons cut as flowers or as pigs, cucumbers, hard-boiled eggs cut in faa- ciful shapes, etc. Fish is set off with ‘Strips of fried potatoes forming 2 nest, slices of lemon, cucumbers, pars- ley, olives, green peppers or cress. Tomatoes make a piquant addition im the case of salads and meats. For Sweets there are many trimmings— for example, candied and maraschino cherries, candied fruits, currants, rais- ins, ginger and bonbons. White rapes or slices of orange or pine- apple, dipped in white of egg and pow- dered sugar are pretty for gelatins, rice or farina. WHEN AN ACCIDENT OCCURS This Article Tells You Just What Is to Be Done Before the Sur- geon Arrives. There are a few things which should be in every house where any persons are in any way Hable to injury. Chief among these are one or more bottles of some antiseptic solution, and band- ages ready for use. Sometimes the simplest precautions before the ar- rival of the doctor will save a limb or hand or perhaps life, and aid the physician to an untold extent. _ Orange Judd Farmer says that ban- ‘dages may be made from an old sheet, bleached cloth being preferred. First, it should be clean. Taking the whole length of the sheet, usually at least two yards, tear it into strips of the following widths: one inch, one and one-half, two, two and one-half, three and four inches, having two or three of each. The narrow bandages are most useful, and it is well to make several of these. Now make a tight roll of each strip, or put two of the same width in one roll Put then aside in a box out of the dust You will be surprised how many service- able roller bandages can be made from an old sheet’ They may also be boiled, washed and ironed out for use after being soiled. Have also some absorbent cotton and a few pieces of cloth about 12 inches square. An antiseptic is a solution which kills germs, and germs are the cause of a large part of the doctor’s trou- ble. Probably the best all ‘round anti- septic is carbolic acid. Get the strong carbolic and use a teaspoonful of this in a quart of warm water. Thi: is a safe strength for any part of the body except the eye. If by ac- cident any of the strong acid is spilled on the hand, put pure alcohol on the Place at once. - This neutralizes the action of the acid. Another safe and clean antiseptic is creoline. This is a dark liquid witha tarry odor. A tablespoonful in a quart of warm wa- ter makes a milky solution, which is excellent for cleansing wounds. An antiseptic wash for the eye may be made by dissolving boracic acid, a PUTTING ON A BANDAGE. ’ ‘white powder, in warm water. Even a strong solution of this is not harm- ful. No matter how small a cut or bruise may be, it is always best to thoroughly cleanse and bandage it Many a limb and many a life has been sacrificed to the most innocent- looking little wounds. To dress an ordinary smal] wound, proceed as fol- lows: Make up 2 solution of car- bolic acid or creolin, a teaspoonful to '@ quart of warm water, and using ‘some absorbent cotton, wash the wound thoroughly with the antiseptic, taking care that it penetrates every part, and that all dirt is washed out, If it be a hand or finger, the part may be soaked in the solution for a few minutes. This will often stop most of the bleeding. Soak a piece of the clean cloth in the solution, squeeze it fairly dry and wrap it around the injured part, using thre2 or four layers. Select a bandage of suitable width and apply it neatly, us- ing plenty to cover. Fasten the ban- dage by sewing or pinning with a safety pin, or, when sufficient is ‘wound on, roll off a few inches more, rip it down the middie, cross the two ends so made, and use them as strings to tie om the bandage. If there is much bleeding, it may be necessary to put on some dry absorbent cotton over the moist cloth, applying the ban- dage over all. The next day the wound may be dressed by simply washing and wrapping with dry bandage oaly. A Drop of Olive Oil. Rub a drop of olive off on your knives and forks, before putting away, and they will retain their brightness end be free from rust. Medical Expert Tells How a Mother Can Answer the Question Beyond a Doubt. ‘When a person first becomes a parent he or she watches the little new- .orn creature with the most intense anxiety. The fear sometimes haunts the parent that perhaps the babe is not mentally perfect. The father tries to solve the problem, but his mind has nothing to hold to, notFing to gnide it to a conclusion. A few glances may tell that the baby’s body has al! the outward evidences of being normal, but the par- ents’ endeavors to understand the slow- Jy-awakening mind prove futile. “How Much greater would be my joy,” a mother often says to herself, “if I knew that my baby’s brain is as it should be.” According to some experts, however, this suspense is needless. They declare that the mind of a baby is normal if the child is able to do certain things at cer- tain ages. It is only when the baby acts differently that fear may well seize the mother’s heart, a fear that her babe may be foolish, that only its animal nature | will grow, while the mind remains dwarfed, sluggish, in a sort of continual twilight. | According to specialists, the mental ‘symptoms of the baby may even be re- juced to a catalogue. “A normal | child,” says Dr. Louise Fiske Bryson, in | the Medical Critic, “is sensitive to light when a dayor two old, starts when gently touched at the third day, tastes | at the end of the first week, and strong ‘odors cause contortions during the first hours of life. Food, bath. objects about him, please him dur- ing the first month; tears over- | take the baby when three weeks old, and smiles come shortly after. Music charms during the second month; then consonants are used for the first time: tickling causes laughter, and objects can J 1 pe eo i 4 Ve pgsiaaan. WHEN BABY IS NORMAL At 15 Months He or She Should Walk Something Like This.) be clasped with four fingers. At four months the baby begins to imitate; sits up at the sixth month; stands without support at the ninth month and walks at the age of 15 months. “At this period he also laughs, emiles, gives a kiss, repeats syllables and un- derstands a nuiaber of words. From the twentieth to the twenty-fourth monta he executes orders on command, tries to sing, beat time and dance to music. At the age of three the child walks upstairs unaided and speaks distinctly. He be- gins to ask questions. “The sub-normal child has not devel- oped in this way. ‘He is different,’ say the parents. That sums up the whoie situation—he is different from normal.” According to availiable statistics, says Dr. Bryson, there are two feebie-minced persons to every thousand inhabitarts, and to every 5v0 there are five or six chil- dren not capable of being educated by the ordinary methods of instruction. Feeble-minded children, she adds, are generally fond of music, “can often sing, even when unabie to talk, can play on some musical instrument alone or with others.” For such she recommends spe- cial physical exercises, which tend to awaken the creative faculties of the mind. The symptoms of the sub-normal mind cannot be classified, from the very nature of things, as are the actions of a normal child. “What constitutes a backward, or deficient, child?” asks Dr. Bryson. “How can you tell one when you see one? Not in an offhand way; yet there is something that stamps the child as different from his fellows. The lack of command over himself suggests illness to the inexperienced. Some, per- haps many, of the stigmata of degenera- tion may be present, physical signs of imperfection, that lead the observer to infer the quality of the individual. The roof of the mouth may be high and nar- row, the teeth irregular and misshapen. the lobe of the ear attached to the side of the head, the arms too long in pro- portion to bodily height, or the hands and feet may show abnormalities of structure. “At the same time, it must be remem- bered that it is not how a child looks that classifies him. but what he does, what he is, what he loves and seeks.” Hymn on a Grain of Corn. | An engraver of Odessa has engraved the entire Russian national hymn upou | grain of corn, and recently he pre- sented the curiosity to the czar. His majesty has. now forwarded to the man, through the civil governor of Odessa, &@ gold watch and chain, with his thanks for carrying out such a laborious under- taking. Brown, Flaky Crust for Pies. To give a pie beautifully brown, fiaky appearance, when the pie © ready to bake, put about one and = half tablespoonfuls of sweet milk or cream on the top and spread it over all the surface. No more white crusis it this is done WOMAN IN COSSACK BAND. Madame Pousep, of Riga, After Much Pleading, Becomes a Member of Russian Regiment. While the thought of a woman tak- ing a belligerently active part in war- | fare is repugnant in the extreme, says the Mlustrated Sporting News, yet one cannot withhold admiration for the courage of that fair Russian who has Just enrolled in a Cossack regiment after persistent and earnest petition to the war ministry. Madame Pousep of Riga, being the daughter of a colonel of cavalry, has been reared in a martial atmosphere. From childhood she spent hours daily in the saddle, and is ac- counted one of the best horsewomen im Russia. She is expert with rifle, re- volver and sword, and her powers of endurance are such that for many years she has taken part in the annual cav- alry maneuvers of the Vyazensky regi- ment. Madame Pousep, first by the en- ergy of her belief, maintains that pa- triotism and the right to fight for one’s country are qualities that should not be limited by sex, and so determined was she to take part in the hostilities between her country and Japan that she notified the authorities of her in- tention to go to the front at her own expense and join a regiment in the field if they refused her request. Madame Pousep, who is in her thirty-second year, was a ward of the late Emperor Mexander M1., and is. contrary to ex- pectation, a highly cultured and refined Guiatianah BIG SALARY PAID WOMAN. Superintendent of Indian Schools Draws $3,000 a Year Outside of Her Expenses. Some of the best paid employes of the government in Washington are women, declares the Philadelphia Press. do far as wages are concerned, Uncle Sam recognizes no distinction of sex, and in some branches of the pub- lie service persons in peiticoats, owing to their superior aptitude for certain kinds of work, have entirely driven out the men, who are unable to com- pete with them. The highest salary paid by the gov- ernment to a woman is drawn by Miss Estelle Reel, who is superintendent of all the Indian schools. She is a re- markable woman, and the supervision which she exercises over the rising generation of the nation’s wards has already revolutionized, to a great ex- tent, the ‘system of management adopted. Miss Reel gets $7,000 a year, plus her expenses, the latter being a con- siderable item, inasmuch as she spends most of her-time in traveling about from one school to another, utilizing almost every known means of trans- portation, and when stage coaches fail, frequently riding on horseback for hundreds of miles. HUMBUG IN LITERARY WORLD Asks for Check of Big Magazine with Intention of Keeping Up a Biuft. “The greatest bluffer in the literary game that I ever heard of,” said a man employed in the counting room of a big magazine, to a New York Sun reporter, “was a fellow who probably never wrote a line in his life, but he had some reason for wanting to make some friends think that he was a regular contributor. | “He came into our office and offered us a $50 bill and asked if we would let ‘him have tae concern’s check for that | amount. He showed us the check of one other magazine which he had al- seots secured. When asked what he wanted the check for he made no bones of explaining that he wanted to show it to two or three friends to make them think that the check was in payment for a story. My house declined to ac- commodate him. “We did ask him, however, how he would keep up the bluff if one of his friends happened to ask him to show his story in the magazine. He said that would be easy, as he would de- clare that he was writing over a nom de plume.” “DIXIE” DEFEATED FILIPINOS. Southerners Hearing Tune Played by Insurgents Sweep Them Out of the Town. Music is considered by military men to be the best possible means to en- hearten dispirited ‘soldiers. A band has often saved a battle. But the Fil- ipinos lost a fight by setting their band into operation. An American company was besieged im its barracks, standing off the attack of several hundred of Filipinos. Fi- nally the Filipino commander ordered his band to turn itself loose, which 1 did, with some Spanish airs. Mean- while the firing went on. Suddenly the native band men burst out with an American piece that they had learned in Manila before the war. It was “Dixie.” The besieged Ameri- cans were all Texans or Tennessee- ans. With a yell and a howl they burst out of their barracks and swept the insurgents out of the town. “ a ae Sita,” One of the most remunerative call- ings in America is that of the window dresser. So much latitude is allowed bim, that a guarantee is required on his engagement to secure the proprie- tor against careless or unskilful ban- @iing of any goods he may deal with. If heavy responsibilities rest upon the professional window dresser, his emol- uments are large also, ranging from $2.000 to $6,000 a year. ; Pe oie ‘The Difference. __ Seokiing Female (to husband No. 2)— Oh, if you only knew the difference be- tween you, wretch, and my first hus- band! 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 Ghat “It is proposed in America that the pre- Sx “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 im 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 conceited; if you do net agree with them they think you are a bigger fool than you look.—Chi- cago 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 jfingers of crisp toast—Washington | Star. Annoying Accompaniment. Probably the actress who objected to her audience's eating peanuts at a per- formance of Ibsen thought it was | playing the shell game on her.—Chi- cago Journal. Smart Old Uncle. Between 1896 and 1903 Uncle Sam in- creased 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 eat- ing away the French coast, having | within the last five years swallowed up Ro less than 460 acres. Long-Lived Occupation. Instances of extreme old age are more | common among those engaged in the ex- ercise of gardening than in any other employment. | Nap for the Soldiers. Soldiers in the Italian army are al- lowed two hours in the middle of the! day for a nap. MRS. A. WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates, 2252 Indiana aveune. The Kink That. Won't Come Back. Yoy can make yeur hair just as straight and smcoth as you want to by using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, and the kink that was there before will not come back. The Ozon- ized Ox Marrow also keeps the hair from falling out, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. It never fails One bottle does it. Sold over forty years to ladies of refinement all over the country, giving perfect satisfac- tion. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Ad- dress Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wa- bash Avenue, Chicago, 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% 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, 348 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% State street. Frank H. Hart, 354-3ist street, ci- gars, tobacco and Laundry office. Mrs. W. H. Moore, 4942 Stgte street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. C. J. Chambers and Company, deal ers in fine cigars, 2958 State street. — Mrs. E. F. Early, groceries and no tions, 2933 State St The Stationery, 2970 State street. P. 8. Hotchkis’s Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. Sist Street. Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and stationery, 3149 State St. : Woodfolk and Mitchell Cigars, To baceo and News Stand, 4902 State Street. News items and advertisements sett Qt these placés will find their way Into the columns of The Broad Az ‘The Movements of he Afr-American - "Walters of Chicago. - - By Lo W. Washington: SEE eee as tt ft XS, Me, Breet Simpton is holding © “Park Hotel, and is highly respecte’ by the headwa sr who fs (white) anc Grew. He is capablé of a better post “tion, and is worthy of higher consider: _ Many of the boys were the recip. " fents of Invatations to the wedding ‘of Mr, Job, which occurred, Tuesday “July 12th, at his residence, 5141 Lake “gve. Mr. Job is at present employed “at the Hyde Park Hotel, and ha: opéned a Hyde Park industrial schoo! ‘for the waiters. , Mr. W. C, Clayton on the account of the prominentcy of his position as Gen. Organizer of the Hyde Park dis trict, is Bow conducting The Waiters ‘Headquarters of Hyde Park Men every Wednesday evening. ‘The writer met in the Hyde Park district. Tie writer of “Along the Line” of the Conservetor, and had @ very pleasant chat about the Chi- ‘cago waiter, and the benefits he de- Tived from organization. Let the side wahers be as inter- ested in helping them selves as they are in helping others that do not care one jot for their cauze, and they will receive the respect that -s ‘due them. ‘There is no class of men among us that are patrons of the press as the Colored Waiters, but gentlemen re- member that you have one cf your own... A manly man, is ah honor to any crew, boys that is the key to the situ- ation, be true to your word, say noth- img more than what you mean and, mean what you say. In two words | “Be men,” or remember our moto, | “stick.” | | Boys save your health, | In this, there is wealth, | Cut out disipation, | Ip is the representative of death. | Mr. F. C. Long, Headwaiter of the | Windemere Hote! extended an invita-| tion to the writer by letter to visit | him, which was accepted on last Sat-| urday afternoon, during our contro-| versay, he stated his position, and) plainly made it understood that he was a friend and not an enemy of the | writers union, like wise Mr. De Frees, | the proprietor, and Mr. Moore the! manager. There is nothing like com- ing together in reason and under-| Standing each others position. | I am in receipt of a communication | from Mr. Robert T. Sims of Milwau- |: kee, Wis. General Organizer of Local | 509, "In which “he paid a very high| compliment of Mr. J. J. Miles and/ crew of the Pankington House. me return the compliments with pleasure. || ae | something stirring among the society | ' of our Headwaiters that will be the | sensation of Chicago.. ; ’ Snow wtereerer your ‘nemo suvenrs| be true to your credit, there is nothing |! in four-flushing. manta thakipiant a war De en, demas reapect ‘and receive it without fiattery. Mr. J. W. Redmond ately head- waiter of the Nelson House of Dan- vilie, Ill. has returned to the city and |‘ is now in charge of the Normandy |’ Hotel Dining Room 12th street and |! Michigan avenue. ’ Mr. Henry Russell, formerly of the |‘ kuditorium, whose capacity was that |' yf second under Mr. James Early, |! gas charge of the European Cafe of |* he New Southern Hotel, 13th, and/§ Michigan ave, where white boys held |" way. mi i Mr. N. A. Haniston, Headwaiter of |! he“main dining room of the Lexing- |! on Hotel, 22nd and Michigan ave.,|* was left the city to- meet his family n Virginia, where one of his children | ; was taken suddenly ill while visiting |, er relatives. ‘1 ‘Mr. John Andrews, of the Ravens. |, rood Club, of Ravenswood has been | , ‘stained in his position as second, | , iven complete charge of his depart-|, ment, with increased pay. P ‘This is a political year and editor | , is taking advantage of the/- Hon he bas started a waiter’s|, r in Atlantic City, N. J. The); y thing that Bro. Corzart likes is, |; hat ‘he likes to please the employer | “ mse -of the waiter. ¢ sajoon a half dollar, to “appear big and sporty,and went hungry that night. Profit by this example. _ Remember the ant, whose brain is smaller than a pin'’s point, and yet it labors today—for to-morrow; ‘it 1: better to have less pleasure in sum- mer, and more in winter, than it is to have all in summer and none in winter. CHiPs. | saa , aca SS OE OEE .|"Dea,” Friday the 15th about 30 | |Iadies—in honor of her guest—Miss Dora Needham, of Philadelphia. We |had the pleasure of mecting Miss ,|Needham at the Appomattox Club .|pienic Mondey. She is @ fair repre- ,/sentative of the “F. F's, of Philadel- | | Dhia. '| Alderman Peter Reinberg, who ‘cleaned up everything before him in ‘|the 26th ward last spring, is one of ;the most prosperous florists in the ‘leity. He maintains salesrooms at 51 '| Wabash Ave, and with large green- houses at Summerdale, Ill, he is [amply prepared to supply the maior. ity of the florists in the city with the |sweetest and the loveliest flowers ee | Mrs. Mesala Brown who is a charm-_ ing looking young widow, and who | | received several hundred dollars, be- | |gan housekeeping last week at 3123 | ;Dearborn St. and judging from the | |big arm fall of groceries lugged into | | Mrs. Brown's new home a few days nas br Gt Rennes A Monts, cs} he will be one of her star boarder: and roomers. _ As the Presidental election a ‘proaches, many of the Afro-ameria | | Republicans are loading up their ora- torical guns to blaze away at oa | one eyed Ben. Tillman, but they must not fail to take into consider- ation the fact that the unspeakable Savage of South Carolina, who is the | greatest anarchist in the United | States, “dined with President McKin- ley, in the White House, Jan., Ist, 1901. | : Mrs. Noah Davis Thompson. 1 Mrs. George Cleveland Hall. Mrs. Emily C. Ball. Miss Hattie M. Curtis. ' Miss Jessie F. Gillespie. ‘ Receiving for—Mrs. Louise Small. |! wood—Pickett—Wed. July 20th, four |' to seven p. m., at 5736 Rosedale Ct. |‘ Thus begins the series of social func- tions to be given by the “Smart Set” of the S. E. section of the city this |, summer. 1 1 Since the death of Mrs. Alexander |! Sullivan, who wrote most of the bril- |* ant editorials for The Chicago | Chronicle, that paper has changed its | ; views on the “Race Problem” in the |; South, and it is now of the opinion that the Negro had better remain in the South, where he is wanted as jong as ‘he is a goood white, man’s |' (nigger) and refrain from coming up |‘ North where he is spat upon’ by the |} whites. t t Champ or Chump Clark, and many | ¢ of the small brained politicians’ who were greatly in evidence at the St. Louis Convention put in all their time in railing at or aginst the Negro, | and the restii is that they made aj, botch of the money plank, and the j¢ platform as adopted is silent as to|s free silver 16 to 1, and the singie |? pold standard, and this fact alone may cost the party a half million votes, and defeat Judge Parker, and |, his running mate, ex-Senator Davis, | 5 for President and vice-President of | ; the United States. be E Mr. and Mrs. Jno. D. French, cor. | i Grand Boul, and 35th St., Entertained last Sat. evening, in honor of their fuest, Mrs. B. Bonderant, of Denver. | | Whist was the feature from 8.15 to|) 11.30, after which the guests repaired | 5 to the spacious and beautifully deco- | t rated dining room and enjoyed some | of the good things which made French-The Caterer famous. "Among the guests were: Dr and Mrs. Geo. C Hall. : Dr. and Mrs.Jos, Kelly. Dr. and Mrs. Perry. t Mr. and Mrs. Noah D. Thompson. P Mr. and Mrs. Hampton. Mr. and Mrs. Martin. Miss Parish, and Miss Bonderant. t Jotin P. Hopkins, and his support- | rs floored Mayor Carter H. Harrison, | , und his followers at the St. Louis con- | ¢ renion, for his Hon., and none of his shouters, including Judge Dunne, who wanted to butt into the fight at the ast hour were permitted to sit in the| 3 convention as delegates. It is evi-| = poe See the = influence 6: convention with a high hand, (Col. W. J. Bryan, ride rough-shod imto the St Louis Convention ‘against the combined forces of Jobs 'P. Hopkins, but that great feat could ‘not be accomplished by the man of “Destiny,” and for some years to ‘come he connot expect to become 8 jnational figure in polities, and the ‘best. he can do is to continue as a local political boss. The Grand Encampment of Knights ‘Templars for North and South Ameri- ‘ca, was organized in Pittsburg, Pa., ‘the first of this week. The following officers were elected: . John G. Jones, most eminent grand master, Chicago. R. J. Fletcher, deputy grand master, |Caltfornia. Alexander Payne, grand generalis- simo, Washington, D. C. J. H. Blunt, grand captain general, Arkansas. 8. R. Johnson, grand treasurer, Texas. R. E Jones, frand recorder, Vir- ginia. H. T. Broudus, grand senior warden, Pennsylvania, ~ W. R. Morris, grand junior warden, Minnesota. Thomas J. Riley, grand sword bear- er, Denver Co... PAPER HANGING DONE. PAPER HANGING PROMPTLY DONE. Paper hanging in all its branches meatly and promptly done by L. Tiderington and A. L. Newby, 2628 Wabash avenue. Snake Venom for Leprosy. Prof. Loeb, in Berlin, is experimenting with rattlesnake venom as a cure for leprosy. and he thinks he has hit upon the specific for one of the most loath- some diseases that human flesh is heir to. Should he succeed in demonstrating that the snake poison will cure this plague, rattlesnakes would at once be- come commercially valuable. The mar- ket value of the poison is about $15 per dram. Prof. Loeb get his rattlesnake venom from a man in Colorado, who keeps snakes as pets. Gooseberry Marmalade. Use three-fourths of a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit; put the sugar and fruit in layers in a preserv- ing kettle; heat very slowly, and crush the fruit a little as it heats to extract the juice; simmer very gently until it is a thick mass; it must be stirred frequently and cooked until the skins are perfectly tender. Seal in tumblers, like jelly—People’s Home Journal. < , Breadstuff Imports. Macaroni, vermicelli and al similar preparations constitute, as a whole, the most important item of breadstuffs im- ported for consumption into the United States. In the fiscal year 1902-'03, the combined imports of these products amounted to 29,670,191 pounds, valued at $1,200,419; in the previous fiscal year the imports were 23,780,756 pounds, valued at $974,929. : Boys’ Club League. In 42 clubs, more than 1,300 boys of the East side of New York have been gathered to form the Juvenile City League. Each club represents a city block, and eack boy pledges himself to abstain from littering the streets, while he also promises to persuade others to do as well.—World'’s Work. - Bosvital Flowers. All the hospitals and almshouses in Berlin are regularly supplied with fresh flowers from the public gardens, while twice a week each of the na- tional schools receives from 100 to 150 speciments of four different kinds of Plants for use at botany lessons. Hail in Germany. How great is the damage done by hail 1m Germany is shown by the fact that in Bavaria alone, last year, it amounted to more than $5,000,000. The number of fields damared was 70,439. In southern Bavaria 42 per cent. of the agricultur- ists suffered more or less. . Briton and Boer. In the Transvaal and the Orange River colony, if the present rate of intermarriage between Briton and Boer is kept up, within 20 years .the ‘two races will be so welded together as to be indistinguishable. As Tt Te in Misecuri. Newly Afianced One—Willie, how would you like to have me for your new mamma? Little Willie—I don’t know about that; just show me the size of your slip- per.—Chicago Journal. New Kansas Grass. A new species of grass now cultivated in the droughty regions of Kansas has Toots much longer than the growth above ground, enabling the plant to find and thrive upon moisture deep down in the earth. Strength of Locomotive. ‘The average locomotive will draw 300 tons of goods a mile every three minutes. It would take a man and his team ten times as long to haul a sin- ie ton for one mile. Doing Paris ih Two Days. : -Bridegroom—Now, Aurelia, we must have'a straight division of labor. You look at fhe sights and I'll neep my eye on the guide book.—Tit-Bits. ~ ILLINOIS BRICK CO. a GUPEEINTEADESE. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. JACOB FEINBERG Market and Grocery Telephone 565 South 81st and State Sts. CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Taw, seme yiripary Telephone Main 3077. UJLLMAN'C | ene | STATE STREE F Special Sales in Summer Goods Throughout the Store. | Tel. Yards 693 Notary Pudlio | 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 Tlortgages, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents Drawn and Acknowledged. Room 22, 27 North Clark Street. East Chicago. Aves Police Court 327 Barling Street tl ee ’ CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney at IT. w Suite 614 167 Bee-Ssrn St., Cor. Monroe. Chice go. Tel, Cont, 5768. Res, Tel, Went. 4502. J. J. HENNESSY, Justice-ofthe-Peace, 6301 S. Halsted St. WILLIAM TREXLER, CLERK. _ TELEPHONE WENTWORTH 4403. Police Magistrate Englewood Police Court. 4 Telephone Main 3553. P. J. O'SHEA ATTORNEY ATI LAW Suite 1444 Unity Building 79 Dearborn St. Chicago. Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9. Ne. 77 South Ciark St. CHICAGO ‘Telephone Yards: 718 | k H M. JUNE, Proprietor J JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO WILLIAM RITGHIE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. ‘betes 519-@80 Ox verd Buttes 06 LA SALES ST., cricaeo Tabepinene Mans 1st pects ALBERT 8. GEORGE LAW YER. 423, Ashland Block, Chicage. — & sem. — | Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM "MARCUS RiIBEN, Masefactarer of ‘ Outfits for Waiters and Gooks, | « BARBERS, 3 DENTISTS, BARKEEPERS axp BUTCHERS, 390 State St., - - - Chicago. Phone Harrison 437. s 8