The Broad Ax

Booker T.Washington IS OPPOSED TO MIXED SCHOOLS. "By a great price obtained I this freedom," said the Centurion, and so says every Negro man today, whether son of the bond woman or of the free, respecting the right of suffrage, equality befor the law, the privilege of like enjoyment in our common school system, and all the rights and privileges and immunities of American citizens. Do we overstate the case when we say that the one man who is doing most to barter away those rights and put them in the most difficult place for recovery is Mr. Booker Washington? Rightly does he now call himself Taliafero, for in keeping with the derivation of the word, he is bodily bearing away such things as will take us years, if not generations, to regain. He has ridiculed the high right and privilege of suffrage, until every southern state has passed laws disfranchising Colored men; he has belittled the abominable effect of the separation of passengers on common carriers and Jim Crow cars roll into and about the capital on all sides without let or hindrance; he has found so much to praise in debasing human slavery that peonage and other involuntary servitude are fast becoming the rule rather than the exception in the practice of southern states; he has sneered at higher education until state after state has indicated its purpose to limit the education of Negro children to the most rudimentary branches of knowledge. Having thus, as far as lay in his power, aided and abetted the closing of the door of hope and of high opportunity to the Negro race south, he comes now on a similar mission north, and taking up his abode in Massachusetts, has begun his crusade first against our mixed school system. We desire to entirely fair about this matter, but what excuse under heaven is there for Mr. Washington seeking out last Monday every Boston paper of which there are some ten or a dozen, to deny at length Richmond Hobson's midnight ravings at the recent Democratic convention, that he Washington, stood for mixed schools and churches? What occasion was there for reply at all to Hobson's bandage in killing time, while the Democratic presidential candidate escaped the hoodoo of a Friday's nomination, except as Mr. Washington purposely chose to take advantage of this obscure opportunity to tell the north, and through the Associated press to inform the south that he was not in favor of mixed schools, which ought to obtain everywhere in the country. Over in Cambridge not long ago, at the death of Charles Theodore Russell, the elder, perhaps outside of his immediate family, there were no more sincere mourners in all that great company of bereaved ones than the Negro youth graduates of our Massachusetts schools, who had gone to pay their last tribute of respect to their sincere friend, champion and advocate. They remembered, as their fathers before them, and as their children's children will remember, that the elder Russell, father of the late lamented governor, was the author of our mixed school system, which he held to be the best, not as the aristocratic President Elliot and as Mr. Washington, who did not care to rebuke him, would have a thoughtless and heedless world believe, because the fewness in number of the Negro children north made their presence a negligible quantity—not at all, but because he, as all true Americans believed that one school for all the children was of the very essence of democratic institutions. Guardian readers know too well all about the long, bitter contest for mixed schools in Boston, and consequently in Massachusetts, to need a reminder now. Instantly there are suggested Charles Sumner and "Bob" Morris, taking the case of the child of Roberts the well known printer, through all the courts; then the adverse decision of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, then the appeal to the people, who make and unmake courts, rule and over-rule judges and their decisions, and finally the coming victory crystalizing in the laws of our commonwealth, the admiration of the civilized world. And yet the camp followers of Washington, the most hurting obstacle to Negro progress today, say to us that we should cease our opposition to him. We shall cease when the sweet salt sea ceases to dash the shores of our bay yonder. By a great price obtained we this freedom, and no man shall barter it away.—The Guardian Boston, Mass. Booker T. Washington evidently came into this world with a black veil or shadow over his face, for whenever a fire eating unreconstructed exrebel of the south points his finger at him or takes him to task for some of his alleged utterances on the "Race Problem" he trembles like a leaf and turns white or much paler in the face. This has been clearly demonstrated time and time again, for shortly after he lunched with President Roosevelt the southern people sent up a mighty howl and claimed that he was in favor of putting himself and the rest of the "Niggers" on a social equality with themselves. In order to pander to their prejudices and their half-drunken ravings in this respect Booker Washington urged them to select a committee of real southern gentlemen, who had nursed at the breasts of their black mamles and who were ready to cut their throats or the throats of any decent Colored woman who dared to assert her womanhood, to visit Tuskegee and ascertain for themselves whether or not he was in favor of putting his students or the Colored people on the same plane and level with the whites. After the committee had made a thorough examination of the teachers, students and most especially the beautiful female students, it decided that Booker Washington did not teach social equality. That none of the students intimated that they were as good as the whites and that Booker Washington could still be regarded as a loyal and good white man's "Nigger." In keeping with his long career in this respect, just as soon as Richmond P. Hobson, who had spent considerable time in St. Louis in fighting with Missouri whisky, asserted in the Democratic National Convention that Washington favored the mixing of White and Colored people in the schools and churches in the south, this modern Moses rushed into the public press to deny or correct the statements of the unresponsible Hobson, for he was afraid if he did not do so some of his best white friends in the south would administer to him a good flogging when he returned to Tuskegee from his fine mansion near Boston, Mass. And now the great wizard has gone on record in opposition to mixed schools; notwithstanding the fact that all his children have been and are being educated in the best white schools in the north. HEW TO THE LINE. JOHN G. JONES. Lawyer, Ex-Member of the Legialature of Illinois and one of the most eminent Afro-American Masons in the world. Ninety-eight representatives from the states of Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, New Mexico, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, District of Columbia, Vermont Rhode Island, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arizona, Indian Territory. West Virginia, assembled in Pittsburg, July 12 and 13, 1904. John A. Bell of Grand Rapids, Mich., was elected president and T. Webster Brown of Chicago, Ill., was elected secretary of the General Masonic Congress. Several speeches were made on the legal conditions of Freemasonry among the colored subordinates and Grand Lodges in the United States. A resolution was adopted that the Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of Illinois, of which Wm. Gray is Grand Master, and John G. Jones is Grand Secretary is the only genuine and lawful colored Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. masops in the State of Illinois; and that the Grand Lodge that H. E. Burris is Grand Master of in the State of Illinois is a clandestine and bogus body and is not entitled to be recognized by any legitimate body of Masons in the world. A committee was appointed to adjust the differences between the two Grand Lodges in the State of Pennsylvania and they reported that both of the Grand Lodges in the State of Pennsylvania should meet on or about August 15 in Pittsburg and organize one Grand Lodge out of both of them. The report was adopted. A resolution was adopted that the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts that B. C. Hazen is styled as Grand Master of was a clandestine and unlawful Grand Lodge, it having been instituted with only one subordinate lodge and then afterwards connected themselves with the Clandestine, Nationa. Compact Grand Lodge of North America, and therefore is not entitled to any Masonic recognition or standing as a Grand Lodge in the Masonic family. Much other important business was transacted and after hearing the reports of several committees the General Masonic Congress of the United States adjourned to meet in Washington, D. C., in October, 1905.—L. C. B. Mrs. Jenkins, the highly accomplished wife of the late S. J. Jenkins, who was for seven years superintendent of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum at Austin, Tex., arrived in the city recently, and she will spend the next two months in visiting with her sister, Mrs. Doctor C. D. Trice, 2902 State street. It was our pleasure to be presented to Mrs. Jenkins this week and she is a charming lady to meet. In my first article entitled "Clippings of Newport News" I failed to locate our city, which might be of interest to those who have never been here for their benefit I give this before I attempt to inform you further of our industries. Our city is only 30 miles from the historic Jamestown, where the first Negroes were landed and exchanged for food and reduced to that most miserable life of slavery. Seventy-five miles from Richmond, Va. the confederate capitol which fell rather than give up the institution of slavery, 10 miles from Old Point Comfort, an important naval station of Uncle Sam's, 11 miles from Buckroe beach, one of the finest watering places of the Atlantic seaboard; 195 miles from Washington, D. C., and 522 miles from Boston, Mass. After leaving the boat or train perhaps the first thing to attract your attention would be our wharves. The C. & O. Railway connects with half a dozen lines of steamers, which contains ships that sail to all parts of the world; so immense is the vast quantity of freight that many men are employed day and night the year round. The first object to be seen as you approach Newport are two huge elevators, extending about 200 feet above the level of the river. These large elevators are used for transferring grain from the cars to the ships through which millions of bushels of grain pass yearly. Much other freight is disposed of here from great heards of cattle to vast quantities of naval stores; in fact you may judge for yourself from the ship lines that operate here at present. Such as The U. S. Shipping Co., Holland-American Co., Merchant & Miners, The Old Dominion line and the Clyde. This being a fact I believe I would be safe to say without these industries our progressive city would not be. Men's day at the Afro-American Church will be long remembered. Rev. Spiller of Hampton and his choir rendered a most efficient service. May they come again. In the evening Judge Arrington, a most splendid Afro-American lawyer, spoke with force and eloquence; also Lawyer Clark and others did likewise. Truly this was a literary treat. The writer was censured last week for saying he did not believe in Negro men marrying white women, as it showed that they thought women of color inferior by nature to white women, thus degrading himself and race. For saying this I could not understand why Christ commanded Peter, who was a Negro "to get behind me satan" and it is even so in all Christian countries, by the white man and Negro to this day is this what Christianity means, it seems so from that point of view, according to the limited knowledge of the writer. A. L. P. THE AFRO-AMERICAN WAITERS OF CHICAGO. By L. W. Washington. Don't be a strike breaker, for they are to be pitied more than sensured for their lack of self esteem and manly principles. What can any man win for hsi people if he is constantly seeking to destroy the advantages of a mother. It is time for the Negro to consider earnestly what it means to his children to widen the gap that enables them at present to cross at their pleasure. Spite work does no fool any good. "Vengence is mine saith the Lord' I will repay." Not you. We shall regain what we have lost by patient endurance, and perserverance, being constant in season and cut of season. Waiters be men. A tattler is to be despised and dreaded by friend and foe. One of our prominent headwaiters caught one of his men who had been a common carrier of news to him, acting as a common carrier to the employer against him, so he immediately gave him his time, remembering that the old proverb is a true one." A dog that will carry a bone, will bring one." I am in receipt of a communication from Geo. W. Harris of Ottawa Beach, Mich., assisting Mr. Chas. Allen, headwaiter in charge of the Ottawa Beach Hotel. He states that "The boys are delighted with their trip and are getting along nicely." Mr. A. Tucker, of Hyde Park says that he is well pleased about the way The Broad Ax went after John Sharp Williams of Mississippi and Richard Hobson of Alabama, and says what our colored weeklies should do it to "Hue to the line." Mr. A. W. Staten, the orator of orators makes the prophecy that within six month The Broad Ax will be read by every intelligent waiter in this city which means an increased circulation of 1.000 copies. Since the advent of the "Unknown" Black-Pearl, Mr. Bowman of the Palmer House has to take a back seat. But Mr. Bowman feels that if they went the limit, he would be declared the victor. The Palmer House Quartette has just organized and will be open for engagements within a week, it is composed of th following persons: Mr. W. D. Samuels has been offered a position by the politicians of the South side. Well may they respect the waiters strength. Boys the more you are united, the more recognition you will receive. Mr. Samuels refused because the position would not pay him as much as he is making at his present occupation. The loud and boisterous waiter, is fast being relegated to the rear, and the quiet, unassuming thoughtful fellow who feels the weight of his position and handles it with care is constantly filling his place. The waiter who thinks, is the successful dining room servant of to-day. Local 509 meets every Monday night at 2958 State st. All members should attend. Mrs. Frank Brown and daughter of this city are visiting their friends in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Long are now keeping house at 5501 Lake ave. There are now running in Chicago some 25 or 30 resturants employing 130 to 150 colored employes. They should be patronized whenever convenient by colored people. Mr. Samuel Davis, formerly of the Palmer House is now employed at the Auditorium Grill Room. A new cafe is to be opened soon on Madison street, with colored boys. A member of Local 509 is booked for headwaiter. Boys you that are behind with your dues and assessments, pay up and be men, don't allow the man side you to carry your load and you share of the responsibility at the same time. Mr. A. G. Hatherway was unfortunately set upon and slugged at the Chicago Federation, Sunday, by the thugs that ought not be allowed in any union in this country. These are the brutes that will, and are im- No. 39 pedeing the progress of the working man. Mr. James Miller seems to have taken the place of Curry and has become the noted Black-Curry, the strike breaker. This may be profitable to Mr. Miller, but it means nothing to the race. We can't afford to antagonize the good spirit of our borther workmen, so let us be the last to admit that wage slavery is good for any man. Mr. Steve Griffin, the affable head bellman of the Chicago Beach Hotel, holds his own with much credit to himself and crew, he is a gentleman always, and is respected as such by the guests of the hotel and the bellman under him. He is sober and industrious, ever at his post of duty. He is a success. It is a constant annoyance to the proprietor of an establishment to have his waiters jumping down and out all of the time. It pays in the long run to stick and save your money. Clear, cut and Sound Reasoning. That suffrage plank in the Republican platform doesn't seem to have the right ring to it. There is something wrong about it. How many disfranchised Negroes would be allowed to vote if the representation in their States were cut down? Some Negro papers are praising the Republican party to the skies because of the insertion of this meaningless plank in their platform. These editors have not reflected over the matter. The Democrats in some of the States have disfranchised the Negro because he has been too narrow to vote like white men do. Now the Republicans have simply endorsed what the Democrts did. We have always contended that in this game the Republicans were about as deep in the mire as the Democrats were in the mud. It seems to us that Colored people in all the States would be a thousand times better off if they distributed their votes with both parties. What difference does it make to the ordinary citizen who is president of the United States?—The Mail and Express Red Bank, N. J. Brother Summersett let some of the thick skulled and stupid Afro-Americans editors who are growing red in the face in shouting for the leaders of the Republican party, for no other reason than because they have been slick enough to fool them in relation to the disfranchisement clause in the platform, stand up and attempt to brush aside your clear cut and sound reasoning. Birthday Party. At a birthday party of Mr. Williams of Carroll ave, West Side, last Tuesday evening a large crowd of friends celebrated his 27th birthday. Many were present, the house being beautifully decorated in the absence of the host. Among his presents was a handsome walking cane, gold mounted umbrella, gold watch and fob. Some of the ladies present were the Misses Jones Thomas, Reed, Smith, Jackson, Johnson, Wilson, Ford, Lowell, Hutchinson Messrs. T. Johnson, F. Seirs, Fred Anderson, Theodore Fields. Wm. Martin, Arthur Holmes Simms, Wm. Nelson, Carl Jones and George Brown. A pleasant evening having been spent, the guests left for home wishing many happy returns to Mr. Williams. Many of the fast ladies attended the exclusive or the invitational picnic given by the Appomattox club recently at Santa Fee Park, and they sat on the tables with their dresses pulled up very high so that the boys and the rounders could see their fancy colored socks, some of the tough characters who belong in the "Red Light District" freely mingled and danced with the cream of the four hundred, minus their coats and collars and with cussing, drawing of revolvers at the drop of the hat, fighting and with much beer drinking by both the men and women it looked as though all the colored people in and around Chicago act and look alike. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Infidels, Farmers, Single Taxers, 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 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. "You smoked only ten cigars on your wedding trip—that's one a day." "No—ten on the last day."—Harper's Bazar. 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. Human Cud-Chewers. There are cases on record of rumination, or cud-chewing, in human beings. ```markdown ``` 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 translated 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 Japanese 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 1802 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. 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 Dally 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. 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. V. P. "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. Singleton—Do you believe that marriage 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. Awkward Brute—What a grand floor this is! I could dance on it all night. The Victim—Then why dance on my feet—Ally Sloner Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 51st St. & L. S. & M. S. 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Soldiers' Superstitions. Among the numerous superstitions of the Cossacks there is none stronger than the belief that they will enter Heaven in a better state if they are personally clean at the time they are killed. Consequently, before an expected battle they perform their toilets with scrupulous care, dress themselves in clean garments, and put on the best they have. This superstition is not confined to the Cossacks alone, but is widely prevalent in all branches of the Russian army. Mustard Paste. For a mustard paste take one-half flour and one-half mustard and blend thoroughly before adding water. Apply between linen or flannel cloths. When the paste begins to redden the skin, remove and rub the affected part with sweet oil. Then replace the plaster. If this method is followed the mustard may be left on without injury to the patient for a considerable length of time. This is a physician's prescription.—N. Y. Post: Butter Test. To determine whether one has purchased butter or oleomargarine, put a little in a small tin and set over a burner. If it is butter, it will bubble up and burn, giving off a sweet, fresh odor as it burns, while oleomargarine will simply boil.—Chicago Post. The individual who possesses both dollars and sense is pretty well equipped for the battle of life.—Chicago News. The toys used by Queen Victoria when a child will be on exhibition at the world's fair at St. Louis. Wrong Inclination. Spring lingered in the lap of winter and summer in inclined to linger in the lap of spring.—Washington Star. Teeth Extracted Without Pain TED SANED STICKERSON DENTISTS STICKERSON DENTISTS 246 OUR LOW PRICES UNTIL JUNE 30. Set of Teeth...$2 Porcelain Crowns...$2 Best Set of Teeth...$3 Gold Fillings, 50c to...$1 22k Gold Crown...$3 Silver Fillings, ...25c to 50c Our plate work is unexcelled. When others fail call on us. 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FURNERS OF Sewer Brick and Yards: Robey Sts. and summer, equipped ed Wolf Dryer. 140,000 per day 300,000 per day Yards 128. WILLIAM LEGNER, Vice Pres. & Treas. SIDE VERY ANY, U. S. A. O PAULINA STREETS. $3.75 GEO. HIGHT CHICAGO SHOUTED FOR TEDDY Typical of a 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 in caricaturing Sy the strenuosity of a , President Roose- ANH? / A veit, tnere can be ey a>. Bo doubt of his Le | NPs = “strenuosity.” He haa ee simply has to “do AI ck things.” He is not PAA\INIGSY7, of the kind that f és ) can be waited up- AGP. 01. effectively. = 7 4 It is this desire Oey to move that SUE] caused him to like the west, where Tnsistently Shouted _. for Teddy. 218 strenuosity eet 3 Ls ee Wes AN 1) oo ip SN) Tnsistently Shouted 2 for Teddy. 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 incident of the Chicago conven- tion was more greatly enjoyed by the President than one in which one of these -western friends played a promi- ment 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 every opportunity. But even his western ardor did not seem to dispel the frost in the atmosphere, and Bullock determined te 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 delega- tion and announced: “I'm Seth Bullock from Deadwood. I'm 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 ip 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 Builock than of the magnates of Wall street. The Story of Bullock. Seth Bullock is well known among the politicians from the northwest who come wo y, Washington. They know that he can ( get closer to ‘7 Roosevelt thao - the majority of Zl who wear F _ Senatorial togas. Henry Barrett 4 &*® chamberlain, the yh/_- editor of the a Voter, tells his AS -— —_—___ story as follows: ef Ce, J rg Paencec to Suucceks HDuUUOCcK was the seate: first sheriff of Helena in the pioneer daya and the 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 a confidential clerk of Morgan or Rocke- feller. Yet in the best of his days, when he represented the first law and order introduced to the mining camps of the Hills (where by the way most of the fortune of Mr. Hearst has come from) Bullock as a sheriff put, as I am told, some 25 men out of existence. He kept so notches on his gun nor do 1 know that he has ever talked of his past duties as a sheriff—but he got ac- tion. I have been told by oid residents of Deadwood who remember the days of "76 and “77 that when the citizens’ committee called for Bullock to come to Deadwood that he arrived in the garb of a circuit riding minister—no pistols fn sight, no display of leather breeches or bespangied sombrero. Wild Bill was at that time in his prime and it is said that Bullock asked: him: “Td lice you to be my chief depu- vy.” To which Wild Bill replied: “I can't do 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 ‘ld guich of Deadwood and had ais coat and his boots spat upon by indig- nant stage robbers, gamblers and mur- ‘SUD he remained calm: But when he started on his return trip through the guich where now is @ prosperous and ‘his hands cr tt hs ove cat tad See Pe noon Os’ tren, ere le leliberately i. ecatiee tee 4] ao aaa er Wo ee oe Sk ee ee ees akon oe a cal aa a alien A _ ‘The next day, having information of the proposed hold-up of the Deadwood stage at Lone Tree by bandits, he vis- ited the 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 gulch a respector of the law. He killed only when it was nec- essary to uphold the law, and in all that time they tel! me his voice never rose above the tone level of a wom- ans. Strenuous Cabinet Officers. Roosevelt's preference for the men who do things is weil illustrated by his choice of new cabinet officers. Paul Morton, the new secretary of the navy, has been . y “doing things” ef- ¥ J fectively all the P 47 years of his life, In his chosen field he made a ¥ success that might WHIM MA fee |. well be envied by BH / any man. With- out the assistance ———— ot prestige he be- = 2 be as y NY De hoe Secretary Morton. career as a clerk in the land office of the B. & M. railroad of the Burlington system at Burlington in 1872. An 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 again to the paa- senger department as general passen- ger agent of the Burlington system and ending his career with the Bur- 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 tc places of prominence in other large corporations as well. It was Morton’: strenuosity that accomplished these re- sults, and it was his strenuosity thai attracted President Roosevelt to him when he was in need of a cabinet offi- cer. Victor H. Metcalf is another type of the strenuous westerner. Though of 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 are to be found among the spe- cialists of the gov- ernment depart- ments; men of un- usual ability who have buried them- selves in a bureau where they lave for years followed without molesta- tion the bent for which they were pecullarly adapt- ed. Adolph Linden- kobl, 71 years of age and a German Ae UeM aay Li oy eee ea ee re ae @ naturalized citizen of this country since 1854, died recently. He was the senior draughtsman of the coast ani 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, ocganography and deep sea tempera- tures, densities and currents. Numer- ous articles upon these subjects were written by him and have been pub- lished as appendices to the coast and geodetic survey reports, in Poter- mann’s Mitteilungen and in the Amer- ican Journal of Science. He was al- ways much interesied in geographical exploration and spent a good 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 ee ea which distinguished his career. ing the civil war, from 1862 to ‘64, he was detailed to serve with the union army as topographer. Mr. Lindenkohl was a member of the American Associatien for the Ad- yancement of Science, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Ph‘losophi- cal Society @f Washington and the National Geographic eociety. Original. Mrs. Smith—Have you named your twin girls, Lucy? Lacy—Yessum; we'se done name ‘em “Flops'm” an’ “Jeps'm.” Power- ful pooty names. Dave, my ol’ man he done got dem names outen ds rivah colyum—Cincinnati Commer- cla) Gazette. Not the Real Thing. Husband—You say this is venison? What induced you to buy it? ‘Wife—Well, the butcher said it was cheap and— Husbend—If he “had told you it wasn't deer he would have been near- er the truth—Philadelphia Ledger. ‘The Best Policy. ommended?” | — 7 at bis last place."—Puck. HIGH ART IN~ GARNISHING. How to Make Plain Dishes Appetizing * Is 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, if the housekeeper has suffcient judg- ment to 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. or Aspic jelly molded in fancy 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 fan- ciful shapes, etc. Fish is set off with strips of fried potatoes forming 3 nest, slices of lemon, cucumbers, pars- ley, olives, green peppers or cress. Tomatoes make a piquant addition in 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 grapes 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 liable 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 them aside in a bor 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. Thiz 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 with a 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 PITTING ON A BANDAGE | white powder, in warm water. Even a strong solution of this is not harm- ‘ful. | No matter hi small a cut ‘or bruise may be, always best to thoroughly cli d- bandage it. Many a limb and y a life has been sacrificed to the most innocent- looking little wounds. To dress an ordinary small wound, proceed as fol- lows: Make up a solution of car- ‘bolic acid or creolin, a teaspoonful to a@ 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 (3 around the injured part, using thre2 or four iayers. 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 middle, cross the two ends so made, and use them as strings to tie on 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 A Drop of Olive Oil. . Rub a drop of olive ‘oll om your knives and forks, before putting away,’ and they Will retain their brightness. ané be free from rust Pe WHEN {S A BABY NORMAL? 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- 2orm creature with the most intense enxlety. 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, notMing to guide it to a conclusion. A few glances may tell that the baby’s body has all the outward evidences of being normal, but the par- ents’ endeavors to understand the slow- ly-awakening mind prove futile. “How much’ greater would be my joy,” a mother often says to herself, “if 1 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 mentai symptoms of the baby may even be re- duced 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 = aS es | Ss Ti) } # W Perret ii | i \ ee Tih hl \ Wii aging Yip) 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 walksat the age of 15 months. “At this period he also laughs, smiles, gives a kiss, repeats syllables and un- derstands a number of words. From the twentieth to the twenty-fourth month 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 whole situation—he is different from normal.” According to available statistics, says Dr. Bryson, there are two feeble-minded persons to every thousand inhabitants, and to every 500 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 @ backward, of 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- ered that it is not how a child looks that ‘classifies him. but what he does, what he is, what he loves dnd seeks.” Hymn on a Grain of Corn, Ap engraver of Odessa has engraved the entire Russian national hymn upon @ grain of corn, and recently he pre- sented the curiosity to the czar. His majesty has now forwarded to the man, through the ¢ivil governor of Odessa, & gold watch and chain, with his thanks for ¢arryipg out such a laborious under- taking. 5 . Brown, Flaky Crust for Pies. "To give a ple beautifully brown, ee tae a when the ple ‘s { to bake, put about one and a tablespoonfuls of sweet milk or p om the top and spread it over surface. No more white crusts WOMAN IN COSSACK BAND. Madame Pousep, of Riga, After Much Pleading, Becomes a Member of Russian BEegiment. While the thought of a woman tak- ing a belligerentiy active part in war- fare is repugnant in the extreme, says the Illustrated 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 in 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 cay- 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 ITI., and is, contrary to ex- pectation, a highly cultured and refined woman. 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. So far as wages‘are concerned, Uncle Sam recognizes no distinction of sex, and in some branches of the pub- He service persons in petticoats, 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 $3,000 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, toa 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 tne concern’s check for that amount. He showed us the chéck of one other magazine which he had al- ready 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 viume.” “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 in its barracks, standing off the attack of several hundred of Filipinos. Fi- nally the Filipino commander ordered his band to turn itself loose, which it did, with some Spanish airs. Mean- while the firing went an. 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. As a Profession. , One of the most remunerative call- ings in America is that of the window Gresser. So much latitude is allowed him, that a guarantee is required on his engagement to secure the proprie- tor against careless or unskilfal han- dling of arly 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 « yoar. The Difference. Scolding Female (to husband No. 2)— Oh, if you only knew the sey ope tween you, wretch, and my bus 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. a How About This? The Londoa Express learns that “It is proposed in America that the pre- fix ‘Mr.’ should be abolished by act of congress, and every man should be known by his trade or profes-ton, 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 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 witha little mustard, oil, vinegar, capene and salt until the consistency of cream of crab. Serve in « fancy dish with thin fingers 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 mo less than 460 acres. Lone-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 day for a nap. ee MRS. A. WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable rates, 2252 Indiana aveuae. 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 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- dresg Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wa- bash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. THE BROAD AX. ts 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 stréet. Edward Felix’s Cigar Store, 348. 20th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Launéry office, 281 29th St Turner William’s Cigar and News Stand, wus Baer: Ave. Mrs. B. , Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 486% State street. ¥rank H. Hart, 354-3ist street, ck gars, tobaceo and Laundry office. Mrs. W. H. Moore, 4942 State street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. C. J. Chambers and Conrpany, desk’ ers in fine cigars, 2958 State street. Mrs. EB. F. Early, groceries and no tions, 2933 State St. The Stationery, 2970 State street. __,P. 3. Hotehkis’s Cigars, Notions and ‘News Stand, 131 W. Sist Street,” _ Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and ‘stationery, 3149 State St. 25 fe a Sek Sige eee News items and advertisements tat feto the columns of The Broad 4x. CHIPS. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett is spending the summer in Glencoe, Ill. Mrs. Cora Turner, 364 27th street, left for St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday where she will spend the next two weeks in visiting with friends. Mrs. Stewart D. Fowler, 5119 Grove av., presented her husband with a fine baby boy last week, weighing 9 1/2 lbs. Mrs. Fowler and her first child are getting along nicely. Miss Rose Murphy of Baltimore, Md., is attending the Chicago University. While here she will stop with her sister, Mrs. Noah D. Thompson, No. 6552 Champlain ave. It will do you good to visit the neighborhood of the Chicago University and see the large number of our race attending the "Summer School" there. The picnic given for the benfit of St. Thomas Episcopal Church at Rashe's Grove Monday evening was a financial success, judging from the large crowd which attended. Mrs. Frank Armstrong, 227 25th street, is among the fashionable dressmakers of this city, and in spite of the dull season she is kept busy all the time turning out fancy dresses for her many customers. Mayor Carter H. Harrison is trimming his sails for the purpose of coming forth as a fifth term candidate. It seems that his Honor does not propose to give up sucking the public tit without a hard struggle. Mrs. Joseph Turner and Mrs. T. R. Hickman, St. Paul, Minn, are visiting their highly esteemed friend, Mrs. C. S. Tyler 5026 Armour av. Both ladies are on their way to the World's Fair at St. Louis. Booker T. Washington, who continues to labor to establish "Jim Crow" laws for the Negro, has , so it is said, been engaged by the national committee to stump the state of Virginia for Col. Roosevelt. Hon. George Mills Rogers has many friends. Among the Afro-Americans throughout this city and county who are willing to do everything in their power to assist him to make a successful race for one of the Superior Court judgeships of Cook county. George W. Henderson. 5016 Dearborn street, who has held a firstclass position with the Phenix Insurance Company for many years, is one of the most progressive and wide-awake Afro-Americans in the insurance world. It is reported that "Little Bob" Wheeler has left these parts for Honolulu. Should you run across him in the neighborhood of Tuskegee don't be surprised, for his dad is there and we are sure the chief janitorship of the Tuskegee buildings has not yet been awarded. Mrs. John Jones, wife of the late John Jones ex-county commissioner, and establisher of the John Jones clothes cleaning and repairing establishment at No 119 Dearborn St., has returned to Chicago after and extended and pleasant visit to her grand daughter, Mrs. Theo Lee Purnell in California. In the selection of John J. Hayes as one of the new members of the Board of Educatlon, Mayor Harrison displayed very sound judgment, for Mr. Hayes, is an honorable business man, and it is eminently right and proper that such men as he should assist to improve the public schools of Chicago. Mr. Oscar F. Mayer, candidate for President of the Board of County Commissioners, is one of the highclass and well-known sturdy German-American business men of the North Side, and James A. Quinn, City Sealer of Chicago. is positive that Oscar Mayer will land the presidency of the county board with both hands down. Honest John Traeger who in the midst of all the horrible disasters which have swept over this city in the past three years, has kept a cool head and steady nerve and those qualities have added to his popularity which means that the people are good and ready to re-elect him coroner of Cook county. The Virginia Passenger and Power Company, which operates "Jim Crow" street car lines in Richmond and in several other cities in that state, has been placed in the hands of receivers. For the past three months the self-respecting colored people of Richmond refused to ride in its "Jim Crow" cars and the result is that it is unable to pay its many debts. Col. Poney Moore is week-known to all the sporting men and women in the "Red Light District" and Miss Edna Alexander, who sings so sweetly in the choir at Quinn Chapel, greatly admire each other, and it is clalmed that Col. Moore treated Miss Alexander to several glasses of bottled beer at the swell picnic given by the Appomattox Club. Col. Jim H. Moody, who is sure that no one reads The Broad Ax must be troubled with the shorts these awfully hot summer days, for his Church Organ No. 2, is only making its appearance every other week and it looks as though Col. Jim will be forced to call on Cols. Robert M. Mitchell, Theo. W. Jones, Judge S. L. and Mrs F. B. Williams and the other windy supporters of Booker T. Washington to help him out. A very pleasant evening was spent at a social given for the benefit of Provident Baptist church at the home of Miss Mable Tucker, 313 Lake street. on the West Side on last Monday eve. The programme rendered was unsurpassable. Miss Brook's reading, Miss Tucker piano soloist, Mr. Stout singing and other numbers. A large number were present among whom were Misses Johnson, Forbes, Brooks, Williams, Bous, Messrs, Stout, Frank Rhines, Tom Gilmer, Wm. Nelson, Arthur Holmes Simms, T. Anderson and others. Refreshments were served and all present had a pleasant time. The swellest affair of the season, the reception in honor of Mrs. Louise Smallwood-Pickett at the palatial residence of Mrs. George Cleveland Hall, 5736 Rosalie court, Wednesday afternoon was undoubtedly the swellest affair ever given in Chicago. From 4to 7 o'clock beautiful Rosalie court was filled with carriages from all sections of the city, loaded with handsomely gowned women of the "Upper Ten Class." Many strangers from all parts of the country were present also to pay their respects to the hostess and their honored guest Mrs. Pickett of Washington, D. C., a June bridge, who is spending a six months' honeymoon visiting this and other western cities. The Hall palace was beautifully decorated with palms and wild flowers banked so as to hide the orchestra which played soft sweet music throughout the entire receiving hours while Caterer Smiley took charge of the guests upon entering the spacious dining apartment. 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?" "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 jail. 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. Just How Stubborn a Mule Is. A story comes from the Elmdale flood about a stubborn mule. He is said to be a $1,500 jack. In attempting to lead him out of the flood he had to cross a little ditch that would almost swim him. Several men got on one side of the ditch, the mule on the other, and they all tugged away at the halter rope, but the mule would not budge. He stood there several hours until the water got up around his neck and he decided to move. Nothing less serious than a prospect of drowning could have budged him.—Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. 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. 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 lefthanded?" "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. Paper hanging in all its branches neatly 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 loathsome diseases that human flesh is heir to. Should he succeed in demonstrating that the snake poison will cure this plague, rattlesnakes would at once become commercially valuable. The market 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 preserving 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 imported 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. Bovs' 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 each boy pledges himself to abstain from littering the streets, while he also promises to persuade others to do as well.—World's Work. Hospital 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 national schools receives from 100 to 150 specimens of four different kinds of plants for use at botany lessons. Hail in Germany. How great is the damage done by hall in Germany is shown by the fact that in Bavaria alone, last year, it amounted to more than $5,000,000. The number of fields damaged was 70,439: In southern Bavaria 42 per cent. of the agriculturists 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 It Is in Missouri. Newly Afflianced 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 slipper.—Chicago Journal. New Kansas Grass. A new species of grass now cultivated in the droughty regions of Kansas has roots 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 single ton for one mile. Doing Paris in Two Days. 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