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THE BROAD AX Judge Alton B.Parker Accepts the Nomination for President of the United States. An Able Oration from the Great Jurist. Vol. IX Judge Alto Accepts the tion for of the Sta Stands by the Fou and Condem An AbleOr the Great Wednesday the members of the Notification Committee called on Judge Alton B. Parker at his home at Rosemount, New York, and officially infomred him of his nomination for President of the United States by the St. Louis Convention. In the midst of a large concourse of people he accepted the high honor conferred upon him by his party. Judge Parker's letter of acceptance will go down in history as one of the ablest and soundest orations so far deliveried by any of the Presidential candidates. It clearly indicates that he is endowed with great wisdom; that he possesses the moral courage to set forth in a classical manner, his honest convictions on all questions effecting the best interests of all the American people. On the threshold of his reply to the Notification Committee the eminent jurist stands by the Fourteenth Amendment, in unmistakable language. He declared that, "Liberty, as understood in this country, means not only the right of freedom from actual servitude. imprisonment, but the right of one to use his faculties in all lawful ways, to live and work where he will, and to pursue any lawful trade or business. These essential rights of life, liberty and property are not only guaranteed to the citizen by the constitutions of each of the several states, but the states are by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbidden to deprive any person of any one of them without due process of law." In another part of his letter of acceptance he exclaims. "If we would have our government continue during the ages to come, for the benefit of those who shall succeed us, we must ever be on our guard against the danger of usurpation of that authority which resides in the whole people." His reference to mob law is as follows: "Within the past few years many instances have been brought to our attention where in different parts of our beloved country supposed criminals have been seized and punished by a mob, notwithstanding the fact that the Constitution of each state guarantees to every person within its jurisdiction that his life, his liberty or his property shall not be taken from him without due process of law." The idea which he wishes to implant into the hearts and into the minds of the people are that in every instance all the laws must be sustained or upheld by an enlightened public sentiment. Therefore he is opposed to mob law and in favor of the orderly administration of justice. His views on the high protective tariff, which is the worst system of highway robbery ever fostered upon the people, are sound and to the point. There is no reason in th world why the great bulk of the American people should be taxed well high unto death for the sole purpose of maintaining infant industries, which are capitalized for many hundred million dollars, whose billionaire owners contend that the people have no rights which they are bound to respect and that " they be damned." It is pointed out by Judge Parker that no relief can come to the people in this direction by continuing the Republican party in power. His views on trusts and monopolies and other important questions are in keeping with his high sense of honor and duty. He refers to the policy pursued by the managers of the Republican party respecting the rights and liberties of the Filippinos in no hesitating nor halting manner. He is in favor of granting them their full rights and liberties just as soon as they are prepared to exercise them properly. He contends that "We cannot hope to instill into the minds of our descendents reverence and devotion for a government by the people while denying ultimately that right to the inhabitants of distant countries whose territory we have acquired either purchase or by force. Can we say to the Filipinos: "Your lives, your liberty and your property may be taken from you without due process of law, for all time," and expect we will long glory in that future of Magna Charta which has become incorporated in substance and effect, into the Constitution of every state, as well as into the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States? "Can we hope for the respect of the civilized world while proudly guaranteeing to every citizen of the United States, that no law shall be made or enforced which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or deny to every person the equal protection of the laws and at the same time not only deny similar rights to the inhabitants of the Philippines and take away from them the rights of trial by jury and place their lives and property in the hands of those whom this government sends to govern them?" Judge Parker declares in the most emphatic language that "if elected President he will not seek the office the second time; that no man can do so and weigh and decide all important questions to the best interest of all the American people. This is the best part of his letter of acceptance, and if elected President, we honestly believe the constitutional rights of all the people will be safely guarded by him. Mr. and Mrs. Dickens, 5027 Dearborn street, entertained in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Ellis, of Grand Rapids, on last Monday evening. The house was prettily decorated in choice cut flowers and every one present spent a pleasant evening. Among those present were: Mrs. Ellis, Misses Mayme Smith, Maude Roberts, Grace Mack, Mayme Porter, Hattie French, Victoria Johnson, Laura Cotton, Lloyd Bowman, Elma Jones, Mrs. Tory, Mrs. Manden, Mrs. Bresler, Messrs. Ellis Jackson, Wood, White, Thornton, Mitchell, Dudley, Arnold, Jackson and Dickens. The Fellowship Club's annual picnic at Glenwood Park, Tuesday, was the most enjoyable outing affair of the season. Sixty-eight couples made up the grand march, led by the president, Dr. Perry and his wife, after which the club guests were made welcome by a very neat little speech by the president. Every table on the beautiful grounds was elaborately spread with an abundance of the best of everything good to eat. The dance program was the best ever; but unfortunately there was not enough gentlemen to go 'round, consequently a number of ladies were forced to "sit out" many of the good numbers thereon. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, August 13, 1904. Accepts, the nomination for President of the United States, and in doing so his sensible remarks raised him very high in the estimation of thepeople. Chairman Taggart. The people of Indianapolis, irrespective of party, are pleased to know that Mr. Taggart has been selected as Chairman of the National Democratic Committee. They feel this as a matter of local pride, and they know that so far as the effect on Indiana is concerned, no better man could have been selected. Tom Taggart has a way of doing things and getting results that is pretty well known. He does not make enemies by his conduct and manner. He has no quarrel or harsh and abusive word for those who do not agree with him politically. His characteristic smile is not only for personal friends—it is for everybody. This is what makes him a dangerous factor to the opposition where he is known; and he is known in Indiana, and Indiana is of some importance in the coming campaign. Hence, what? We do not betray any secret when we state that the colored voter has for some time been much dissatisfied by the manner in which he has been treated, politically by those who owe some consideration. That this vote him some consideration. That this vote ent from the fact that Republican success in this state is impossible without it. This condition is well known and Mr. Taggart is just the man to attempt to profit by it. Of course there will be appeals to voters on legitimate grounds, and there will also be appeals that are not so legitimate. The latter is to be regretted, for the ultimate result cannot be helpful to good government. We most respectfully suggest to Republicans that if they are to counteract the immediate effect of this method on the colored voter they should admit to the councils of the party such men as voice the best sentiment of the colored people, and that they be permitted to become more than local politicians. Let us have representation in the higher councils of the party at all times if continued loyalty is to be expected.—The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. C. P. O. King, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Liberia, Africa of A. F. & A. Masons, died last week at Monrovia, Liberia. Selina Chapter No. 3, of the Eastern Star of Chicago, met and dedicated their hall on last Tuseday evening at 2974 State street. Over thirty-five members were present. The ceremonies were beautifully conducted Mrs. Minnie E. Jackson, the Royal Matron, and assisted by several others who are prominent members of the order. There are now sixty-five thousand Colored Masons in the United States of America. George S. Thompson, 33, a prominent Mason from Ft. Niobra, Neb., is in the city. Sergeant Thompson is in the 25th United States Infantry, and is regarded as a gallant soldier. Sir Knight H. C. Scott, of Washington, D. C., Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templars of the District of Columbia, will on August 16th organize several commandries of Knights Templars in the State of Massachusetts. Mrs. S. J. Gray, of Chicago, the Most Worthy Supreme Grand Matron, has just returned home from Pittsburg, Pa., where she organized in Pittsburg, Pa., Selina J. Gray Court and Royal Court of Daughters of Sphinx. John A. Bell, Deputy Grand Commander of Knights Templars of the State of Michigan, now residing at Grand Rapids, Mich., will in the early part of next month organize a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and a Grand Commandery of Knights Templars at Lansing, Mich., for the state of Michigan, as there is no Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons or no legal Grand Commandery of Knights Templars now in that state. Mrs. Ada Braddock, of Jacksonville, Fla., has been re-elected Most Ancient Grand Matron of the Grand Court of Heroines of Jerico for the state of Florida. The so-called Grand Court of Heroines of Jerico that is allied with one J. H. Dickson, is not considerd legal and is not recognized by the Supreme Grand Court of the United States and Canada of Heroines of Jerico. The Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the State of Illinois and Jurisdiction, will meet in annual session August 29th at 12 o'clock, at 2974 State street, Chicago. Ill. THE REASON THEY CELEBRATE THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST. Several white gentlemen, requested us a few days ago to state the reason why the colored people celebrate the first day of August? They observe the first day of August as a holiday in consideration of the fact that on that date, in 1838, all the slaves in the British possessions acquired their freedom. THE SECOND OUTING BY THE ENGLEWOOD LODGE. Saturday evening, August 20, Englewood Lodge, No. 4230, G. U. O. of Fellows, will give its second trolley party or summer outing to Gardner's Park. Seven beautifully decorated trains, with brilliant lights and music, will leave 63rd street and South Park avenue at 7:30 p.m. Last train at 9 p.m. Tickets for the round trip, including admission to the park, 35 cents. Music by Prof. N. Clark Smith's orchestra. Prof. J. W. Hall master of ceremonies. It is needless to say that all who join in this outing will have a jolly good time. Booker T. Washington is to take the stump to inveigle the colored folks to support the Republican ticket, Why? Because he and Teddy ate lunch together. That will perpetuate the present condition which means that the colored people are to remain cheap wage slaves, and do the drudgery for the whites, while living in shacks and hovels. They got a few dinky offices, such as scavengers, dog catchers, and occasionally a police job to pay them for their large vote. Still the lynchings and barbacues with colored people as the central figure goes on.—Ex. No.42 THE AMERICAN WAITERS OF CHICAGO. (By L. W. Washington.) Mr. Sims, a strike breaking headwaiter from Albany, Ind., was killed BROAD AX—TWO ROUSSEAU at the Stock Yards lately by Davis, of this city, a strike breaking waiter. "The mills of the gods grinds slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine." Sims has lost his life, Davis his liberty, in the attempt to destroy effective organization, and J. Ogden still lives with the least thought of them having ever lived on earth. Mr. Reuben Trogman is at the Louisville Cafe, Louisville, Ky. We are glad to note the recovery of Mrs. W. D. Samuels from being effected by the hot July sun. Mr. Geo. Mims is at South Bend, Ind. Mrs. Frank Williams, of this city, has missed her boy since Tuesday afternoon. The police have been notified, without any discovery. It will be very sad indeed when Mr. Frank Williams who is working at the Grand Hoted at Macinac Island; hears this news. Mr. Geo. W. Fields has just returned from the World's Fair city, St. Louis, and will tell us in the next issue of The Broad Ax what the waiters are doing there at present. Mrs. Cora Henderson is visiting her sister and brother, Mrs. Florence Jackson and Joseph Cram at the Jackson residence, 5306 Dearborn street. The many friends of Mr. George V. Davis will be surprised to learn that he is now working at the Plankington House, Milwaukee, Wis. Unity of hearts, unity of hands, unity of thoughts makes a unity of organization. Mr. C. R. Johnson, headwaiter of the Pullman Cafe, is all right, he says you have to drive and beat a plug horse to get him to go, but a thoroughbred horse you have to tighten up the reins to hold him in check. Like horse like men. Some know their duty and will perform it without being driven; others have to be "driven like cattle." Can you deny it. I think not. May I ask which one, dear waiter, do you belong to? The first strike called by the colored men in this country was called by the Kimball House waiters in 1876 at Atlanta, Ga., and this is the way it was done. A number of waiters got together and agreed that they were not getting paid for their services and that $15 per month was too small an amount to purchase their labor for. So they gave a stag and invited all of the other waiters down to enjoy the repast. After the feast that afternoon the sergeant-at-arms locked the door and refused to allow a man to go out. So when the hour come for services, instead of the crew appearing in the dining room a committee waited upon the proprietor and demanded more money for their services; of course there were none to take their places and they received $20, and increase of $5, which has been the wages from that time until today, and the proprietor is an honorary member of the oldest waiters' union in the United States to-day, and an honor to the Negro waiter of America. There is a factional fight on between the eastern members of the C. H. S. Waiters M. B. C., of America, the east controlling all of the national officers and the west have nothing which has caused a bad feeling which ought not to be. Brethren should dwell together in unity, for in organization there is strength. We should not offend our white brother workmen, but rather be friendly toward him, because it will pay you in the long run. "If by eating meat," says St. Paul, "will cause my brother to offend, I will eat no meat as long as the world shall stand." If by taking the places of any honest toiler will cause their families to starve and suffer we should rather perish than be guilty of such treason. Mr. and Mrs. J.Hockley Smiley have gone to the country for a months' stay, where they hope their daughter, Hockleyetta will be greatly benefited by the fresh air, pure country milk etc. 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 6004 ATmour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., as Second-class Matter. Madame Pousep, of Riga, After Much Pleading, Becomes a Member of Russian Regiment. While the thought of a woman taking a belligerently active part in warfare 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 accounted one of the best horsewomen in Russia. She is expert with rifle, revolver and sword, and her powers of endurance are such that for many years she has taken part in the annual cavalry maneuvers of the Vyazensky regiment. Madame Pousep, first by the energy of her belief, maintains that patriotism 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 intention 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 Alexander III., and is, contrary to expectation, 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 employees 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 public service persons in petticoats, owing to their superior aptitude for certain kinds of work, have entirely driven out the men, who are unable to compete with them. The highest salary paid by the government to a woman is drawn by Miss Estelle Reel, who is superintendent of all the Indian schools. She is a remarkable woman, and the supervision which she exercises over the rising generation of the nation's wards has already revolutionized, to a great extent, the system of management adopted. Miss Reel gets $3,000 a year, plus her expenses, the latter being a considerable item, inasmuch as she spends most of her time in traveling about from one school to another, utilizing almost every known means of transportation, and when stage coaches fail, frequently riding on horseback for hundreds of miles. HUMBUG IN LITERARY WORLD "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 the concern's check for that amount. He showed us the check of one other magazine which he had already secured. When asked what he wanted the check for he made no boxes 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 accommodate 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 declare that he was writing over a nom de plume." 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. Mental or Political Slavery Is the Greatest Curse to the Negro. Without any question, mental or political, slavery is by far the greatest curse to the Negro. In numerous instances he has demonstrated his ability to rid himself of many of the evils which are more than likely to impede his progress upward and onward. This is truly gratifying to those who are or have been interested in his development along moral and educational lines. They have, however, been sorely disappointed in him so far as politics or political affairs are concerned, for in this particular field he has made no progress whatever, for at the expiration of almost forty years he is still the mental or the servile slave of the Republican Party, which is his greatest curse. It is incomprehensible to us how the Negro can work himself up to the point where he is willing to trifle with his soul's salvation, for he is willing to forfeit his chances of arriving within the pearly gates of heaven (if there is such a place, which we doubt), by affiliating with all the wildcat churches in existence. He will become a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Mormon, Christian Scientist, Dowieite, and freely follow the religious leaders of all other denominations, and hazzard his chances of striking the straight and narrow path, which is supposed to lead to paradise, for it is expressly stated that there is only one true church, that all who fail to march under its banner are eternally lost. With this terrible warning or admonition hanging over his head he is perfectly willing to traverse various roads in order to find a resting place with his imaginary gods throughout eternity. All this is readily changed with the Negro when it comes down to politics, which only deal with the temporal affairs of men and not with their spiritual welfare, and by permitting the wily and demagogic leaders of the Republican party to mix up his religion and his politics together for him; he has naturally arrived at that mental condition which forces him to believe that he must continue to blindly vote solidly for the party of Abraham Lincoln, regardless of the fact that men and political measures have changed within the past forty years. His blind or unreasoning attitude in this respect has reduced him to his present deplorable political condition, and if he will persist in adhering to his present course it is only a question of time until he will cease to be a factor in the political affairs of this country. As it is he can never regain any of his lost political power or prestige until he refrains from permitting any one to tell how he is going to vote simply on account of the color of his skin. The members of no other race of people in America claiming to be civilized, would permit themselves to pursue such a ruinous course of policy. The members of all other races and nationalities look upon politics as a cold business proposition, and the vast majority of them cast their ballots for the men who will best serve their interests, regardless of their politics, and enable them to enrich their pockets. While on the other hand the Negro continues to live in the dead past, and is ever ready to continue to vote for dead ideas or sentiments. His mental disease in this regard is his greatest curse. He is tolerant or friendly disposed to any Exchange of Confidences. "Instead of being a millionaire," conided the young man at the seaside hotel to the beautiful heiress, "I believe it is only honest, now that we are engaged to tell you that I am the floorwalker at Catchem & Skinem's dry goods emporium." "I thought there was something familiar about you," answered the beautiful heiress. "I am in the ribbon department there."—Tit-Bita. "I understand James Jawbone Bigmitt was looking for the editor this morning!" "Yes; the editor wrote an article in which he referred to him as 'our star bruiser.' " "But I don't see anything in that to get wrathy over." other Negro who may happen to differ with him along religious lines, but he places his Republican politics ahead of his Lord and his religion, for with a few honorable exceptions he is willing to tear to pieces every Negro who assumes an air of political independence, that is one who fails to blindly vote and act like himself. Those who are constantly giving expression to the shallow and fallacious idea that it is un-natural for the Negro to be anything else in politics but a Republican, and that the leaders of that party must forever be permitted to use and vote him like a lot of sheep, for no logical reason whatever, fail to take into consideration the fact that they are simply assisting those who contend that the Negro was not cast in the same moulds with the other races of men, that he wears the stamp of inferiority upon his brow, that it is un-natural for ten million people to solidly aline themselves with any political party on all questions and issues for a long period of years, that these tendencies seemingly render him incapable of becoming a full fledged American citizen. In this connection it may not be impracticable to state that many honest men and women residing in all parts of the world, have been taught to look upon physical slavery with horror, but physical slavery with all its demoralizing and heartrending scenes, is nothing to compare with mental or political slavery, for in the majority of cases individuals and whole races of mankind, regardless of their color, have possessed the manhood and the strength to break the chains of physical slavery and ever afterward stood erect and defied their former owners or oppressers to re-enslave them; but mental or political slavery dwarfs or shrivels up the mind or intellect to such an extent that it is very seldom that those who are affected with it can ever escape out from under its blighting and pernicious influence, for it causes whole races of men to become mental or political cowards and servile slaves. This is true of the Negro to a greater or less extent, for he has permitted his blind leaders to enslave his mind to the one sole idea that for no plausible reason he must forever remain the mental or the political slave of the Republican party; by systematically interjecting these false or erroneous ideas or impressions into the mind of the Negro has been the means of causing him to feel entirely dependent upon some one else to fight the battle of life for him. What the Negro needs above all things is to be taught manhood and political independence, then he will be able to free himself from the cold and deadly embrace of mental and political slavery. Then he will learn that the supposed freedom which was conferred upon him by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Amendments have been to him more of a curse than a blessing, for they have led him to believe that he could or can come into the full possession of the priceless jewel, Liberty, without paying the full price which she demands. Then he will realize that Liberty never descended from the starry heavens arrayed in her native purity for the special benefit of any one race of people, but all who desire to enjoy her fruits to the fullest extent must raise themselves up to civil and political Liberty! "No; but the compositor made it read 'star boozer.' "—Houston Post. "Doesn't it sound ridiculous to say: 'The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world?' What does that mean, anyway?" "Well, the hand usually belongs to a nurse or servant girl, and you known how servant girls boss things."—Catholic Standard and Times. 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It gives great pleasure to you and your friends. You can entertain and please your lover or sweetheart with it and spend many a pleasant hour, all for a few cents. Sent boxed, prepaid for 50c in postage stamps. Money or express order. Manufacturers' Wholesale Supply House, 410 Ashland block, Chicago, Ill. Dept. No. 6. $3.75 GEO. HIGHT CHICAGO MORGUE. CHICAGO 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 Mahier, 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. 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 crase" 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. 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 dressing will be found under the hand, if the housekeeper has sufficient judgment to recognize its possibilities. For a dish of lobster salad there are lobster claws, lobster coral, cress, and, for all salads, radishes and beets cut into flowers, curled celery and celery tips, spirals of olives, and fancy shaped wafers. 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 lettuce, lemons cut as flowers or as pigs, cucumbers, hard-boiled eggs cut in fanciful shapes, etc. Fish is set off with strips of fried potatoes forming a nest, slices of lemon, cucumbers, parsley, 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, raisins, ginger and bonbons. White grapes or slices of orange or pineapple, dipped in white of egg and powdered sugar are pretty for gelatins, rice or farina. WHEN AN ACCIDENT OCCURS This Article Tells You Just What Is to Be Done Before the Surgeon 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 bandages ready for use. Sometimes the simplest precautions before the arrival 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 bandages 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 box out of the dust. You will be surprised how many serviceable roller bandages can be made from an old sheet. They may also be bolled, washed and ironed out for use after being solled. 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 trouble. Probably the best all 'round antiseptic is carbolic acid. Get the strong carbolic and use a teaspoonful of this in a quart of warm water. This is a safe strength for any part of the body except the eye. If by accident 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 water 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 harmful. 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 small wound, proceed as follows: Make up a solution of carbolic 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 it around the injured part, using three or four layers. Select a bandage of suitable width and apply it neatly, using plenty to cover. Fasten the bandage 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 bandage over all. The next day the wound may be dressed by simply washing and wrapping with dry bandage only. A Drop of Olive Oil. Rub a drop of olive oil on your knives and forks, before putting away, and they will retain their brightness and be free from ash. Why She Was Disappointed. A small miss who had but recently mastered her catechism confessed her disappointment with it thus: "Now, I obey the fifth commandment and honor my papa and mamma, yet my days are not a bit longer in the land, for I'm put to bed every night at seven o'clock just the same."—Tit-Bits. The Voice of Flattery. Judge (to old offender)—Have you anything to say? "Only this, my lord. It comforts me to know that one wise man on the bench can undo much of the mischief wrought by 12 idiots in the jury box." The minimum sentence was passed The minimum sentence was passed by his lordship.—Tit-Bits. No Trouble About That "How do you account for the fact," asked the doctor, "as shown by actual investigation, that 32 out of every 100 criminals in the country are left-handed?" "That's easily accounted for," said the professor. "The other 68 are right-handed."—Chicago Tribune. Not the Same. Ghumley—Oh, we can't hold our concert in that hall. The acoustic properties are wretched. Dumley—That uln't one of the Koostick properties; it belongs to old man Jones, and he's all right—Philadelphia Press. 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 alds 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." Keeps Off Flies. Flies will not settle on windows that have been washed in water mixed with a little kerosene.—Good Literature. Vulcanized Wood. 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. 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 enhearten dispirited soldiers. A band has often saved a battle. But the Filipinos 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. Finally the Filipino commander ordered his band to turn itself loose, which it did, with some Spanish airs. Meanwhile 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 Americans were all Texans or Tennesseeans. With a yell and a howl they burst out of their barracks and swept the insurgents out of the town. Mrs. Smith—Have you named your twin girls, Lucy? Lucy—Yessum; we'se done name 'em "Flops'm" an' "Jeps'm." Powerful pooty names. Dave, my ol' man. he done got dem names outen de rivah colyum.—Cincinnati Commercial 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— Husband—If he had told you it wasn't deer he would have been nearer the truth.—Philadelphia Ledger. "Did that bank cashier come well recommended?" "Very. He refunded over half what he embezzled at his last place."—Pusk. The Very Best. 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. V "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 iles off by the rod. Indianapolis, Sun. 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 Sloper. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. Bridegroom—Now, Aurelia, we must have a straight division of labor. You look at the sights and I'll keep my eye on the guide book—Tit-Bita. One of the most remunerative callings in America is that of the window dresser. So much latitude is allowed him, that a guarantee is required on his engagement to secure the proprietor against careless or unskilful handling of any goods he may deal with. If heavy responsibilities rest upon the professional window dresser, his emoluments are large also, ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 a year. The Difference. Scolding Female (to husband No. 2)— Oh, if you only knew the difference between you, wretch, and my first husband! Husband—I do know the difference. He is happy now that he has left you, and I was happy before I got you.— Chicago Journal. No One to Take Offense. Fuller-I understand you said I looked like a monkey? What do you mean by saying that? Waller-Oh, it's all right; no harm done, you know. There wasn't any monkey within hearing when I said it.—Stray Stories. How About This? The London Express learns that "it is proposed in America that the prefix 'Mr.' should be abolished by act of congress, and every man should be known by his trade or profession, as 'Draper Jones' or 'Attorney Smith.'" Restaurant on Ship. Passengers on the enormous new steamer now being built at Stettin for the Hamburg-American line, will be allowed, if they prefer, to pay for the passage only, taking their meals in the restaurant on deck. Wrong Either Way You are up against it when people praise you. If you agree with them they think you are conceited; if you do not agree with them they think you are a bigger fool than you look.—Chicago Tribune. Crab Cheese. Pound some good, rich cheese with a little mustard, oil, vinegar, capene and salt until the consistency of cream of crab. Serve in a fancy dish with thin fingers of crisp toast.—Washington Star. Annoying Accompaniment Probably the actress who objected to her audience's eating peanuts at a performance of Ibsen thought it was playing the shell game on her.—Chicago Journal. Smart Old Uncle Between 1896 and 1903 Uncle Sam increased his national wealth from $70,000,000,000 to $100,000,000, an increase of $30,000,000,000.—Des Moines Capital. Russian Horses During the last three years Germany imported from Russia 112,616 horses, valued at over $10,600,000. Russia has now prohibited this exportation. French Coast Going The sea is said to be gradually eating away the French coast, having within the last five years swallowed up no less than 460 acres. Long-Lived Occupation Instances of extreme old age are more common among those engaged in the exercise of gardening than in any other employment. Nap for the Soldiers. Soldiers in the Italian army are allowed 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. You can make your hair just as straight and smooth as you want to by using the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, and the kink that was there before will not come back. The Ozonized Ox Marrow also keeps the hair from falling out, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. It never fails. One bottle does it. Sold over forty years to ladies of refinement all over the country, giving perfect satisfaction. Send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. THE BROAD AX. The Afro-American News Office, 3104 State Street. Alton H. Blake, shoe shining parlors, 25081/2 State street. J. C. Campbell, cigars, tobacco and fancy groceries, 4710 State street. A. F. Tervalon's Cigar Store and News Stand, 2826 State street. Edward Felix's Cigar Store, 368 30th street, N. E. Corner Armour Ave. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 39th St. Turner William's Cigar and News Stand, 2903 Armour Ave. Mrs. B. Williams, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 486 $ \frac{1}{2} $ State street. Frank H. Hart, 354-31st street, cigars, tobacco and Laundry office. Mrs. W. H. Moore, 4942 State street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. C. J. Chambers and Company, dealers in fine cigars, 2958 State street. Mrs. E. F. Early, groceries and notions, 2933 State St. The Stationery, 2970 State street. P. S. Hotchkis's Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st Street. Isidor Jacobson, cigars, togacco and stationery, 3149 State St. Woodfolk and Mitchell Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 4902 State Street. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad An. CHIPS. Mrs. Dennis Tyler is indisposed at her residence 3426 Dearborn street. Mr. Jef. Tolmins, a post office clerk, has gone to the World's Fair, thence to Hannibal, thence to Quincy, Ill. Mrs. Dave Jenkins, 4764 Dearborn street, leaves for Chattanooga, Tenn., and Atlanta, Ga., Monday. Mr. J. H. Shreve left Thursday for St. Louis to meet the Supreme Council of 33 degree Masons, of which council he is a member. Prof. Hope of Atlanta University has joined his wife in her visit to her sister, Mrs. J. D. Bryant, 6428 Champlain avenue. Mrs. Arthur Jackson, 5007 Dearborn street, having spent fifteen days in Springfield, has returned home well pleased. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, of Grand Rapids, returned home after a ten days' visit with their mother, Mrs. Dickens, 5027 Dearborn street. Mr. Wm. Wilson, F. A. Williams and Arthur Holmes Simms of the 8th Regiment I. N. G., leave for Deerfield Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Stephen Hamlet, 5036 Armour avenue, are at home again from their flying trip to St. Louis and Sedalia, Mo. Col. Robert M. Mitchell leaves this evening for Boston, Mass., for the purpose of attending the meeting of the G. A. R. Mrs. Nellie Turner, 657 W. Lake street, entertained at dinner in honor of Mary Green, Ella Moore, W. M. Wilson. The house was prettily decorated and a pleasant time spent. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Morris are spending this week at Hot Springs, Ark., where they hope to find rest, after a very stenuous month of social entertainments, etc. When professed Christian wink at an evil, the ungodly will close both eyes and let the work go on; and the devil will call both classes good fellows.—The Leaflet. Mrs. E. McDonald, who for a long time resided at 3032 Dearborn street, is nicely settled in her new home, 6138 Ada street, where she will be pleased to meet her old friends. Mr. M. P. Byrne, one of the leaders of Democracy in the Town of Lake, is ready to pull off his coat and work for the re-election of Coroner John Traeger and the entire County ticket. Alderman J. C. and Mrs. Patterson, 43 Campbell Park and their two interesting children, are spending the summer at South Haven, Mich., and they are all greatly enjoying their outing. The Chicago Chronicle is making a lot of noise in its support of Col. Roosevelt for President of the United States, but it is not whooping it up in behalf of Col. Charles S. Deneen, for Governor of Illinois. The Inner Circle and Triangle clubs will give their first grand charity ball for the season of 1904-05 at the First Regiment Armory, 16th street and Michigan avenue, Thursday evening, Sept. 1. The net proceeds will be donated to the Old Folks' Home. Congressman George P. Foster will without any trouble be re-elected to Congress from the Fourth Congressional District, for his course in Congress for the past six years has been eminently satisfactory to all the-voters residing in his district. Mrs. Emma Stewart, 3450 State street, the up-to-date dressmaker, and her sister, Mrs. William Giles, leave Monday for Springfield, O., where they will spend two weeks in visiting with friends. September the first Mrs. Stewart will visit the World's Fair at St. Louis. Mr. Edward Hillman, the big State street dry goods prince, returned home last Monday from a five weeks' business trip to London and Paris where he bought several hundred thousand dollars worth of fancy goods which will arrive in time for the fall opening. The many waiters who read The Broad Ax each week can find the best jackets, also outfits for cooks, barbers, dentists, barkeepers and butchers for the least money at Marcus Rubens, 390 State street, who carries the largest stock of goods in that line in the city. Mrs. Maude Triplett is pronounced by some unknown-writer of this city to the Plain Dealer at Salt Lake City, Utah, as one of the most prominent women in Chicago and it must be remembered that Col. Theodore W. Jones and Mrs. Triplett are fast friends. The final report of the twelfth census gives us the number of Negroes in the United States, including the entire area (continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii and Porto Rico), 9,200,531, perhaps a larger number than is found in any country outside of Africa. Eugene V. Debs, candidate for President of the United States on the Socialists' Ticket, has written a new little book entitled, "The American Movement." It deals with social questions. It sells for only five cents and it is published by the Standard Publishing Company, Terre Haute, Ind. Says a moralis: "Never purchase love or friendship by gifts; when thus obtained, they are lost as soon as you have stopped payments." Still a diamond star is no bad introduction to the modern silk skirter, and many a virgin has prostituted herself in the arms of aged Mammon in preference to a man without boodle. The famous Crescent Club, which gave free doings at the Douglas Club House last Christmas Eve night, will give its first picnic at Gardenr's Park, Saturday, August 27. It is expected that Miss Jackson, whose mother beat us out of one dollar as subscription to The Broad Ax, will be present with her paste diamonds. The fellows running the Fellowship Club always want a lot of free advertising, but they never think about sending any tickets around to the newspaper offices. They are on a par with many of the other small-brained fellows who are at the head of the so-called swell social clubs of Chicago. Justice Theodore C. Mayer continues to make a first-class record for himself as police magistrate at the Chicago Avenue Police Court. He keeps the district in which he presides over cleaned up in good shape; for he never fails to strike terror into the hearts of the crooks. In short Justice Mayer is the right man in the right place. John H. Green died July 31 of paralysis at his late residence 4953 Dearborn street. Mr. Green was a prominent member of St. Mary's Church, and was born in Rochester, N. Y., 46 years ago. Funeral was from St. Mary's August 3 at 10 A. M... Interment being at Mt. Greenwood. The services were conducted by Rev. Jessie Woods. George P. Titus, the foreman in the gold refining and smelting department of the Deuber-Hampden watch factory, the largest in the world, has appointed Robert Hughes and Frank Smith as his assistants. Mr. Titus is one of the leading experts in his line, in the gold and watch industry, and probably the only Afro-American in the world holding such a position. Major A. F. Tervalon, president of Prof. Booker A. Washington's Local Business League of Chicago and Cook County, has completed arrangements to run an excursion train to Indianapolis, Ind., during the meeting of National Business League, which will be held in that city August 31, Sept. 1 and 2. Fair for round trip will be $6.70; for further or full particulars see Major Tervalon, 2826 State street. The dancing party at Rasches' Grove Monday evening for the benefit of "The Kindergarten Movement" was a financial and social success. Fully 300 people attended, and expressed themselves as having had a "fine time." Mrs. Oscar DePriest and Miss Nettle French, managed the business part of the affair, while the social end of it was looked after by the rest of the committee, of which Mrs. Noah D. Thompson is chairman. James Reddick, chairman of the Cook County Republican committee, has made up his list of all the committees for the campaign this fall and after being importuned by the leading Afro-American Republicans to select one of their number to serve on some of the committees, Chairman Reddick absolutely refused to do so, and it is the first time in twenty-five years that the colored Republicans in Chicago have been so boldly stabbed in the back, insulted and ignored by the leaders of the party who boaste that the fought to free the "Niggers." Great advance in deep level mining is the result of the advance in engineering science. Some years ago 3,000 feet was considered a great depth, but this limit has been much exceeded. At Flenu, Belgium, 2,600 feet has been touched, while at Calumet, Hecla and Tamarack, in the United States, mines from 4,500 to 5,400 feet have been worked. The temperature is the great thing to be overcome. Mere man has a few folbles when it comes to dress. His latest whim, as shown in the department store, is for stunning silk garters, made in the everyday sort of way, but mounted with solid gold buckles. Some of these are embellished with precious stones, and even the plainest are costly. DENIED BURIAL IN SIBERIA. Body of Unfortunate Killed on Railroad Travels 11,000 Miles Not Yet Interred. The unidentified body of a man killed on the Trans-Siberian railroad near Tomsk last summer is still unburied. He was believed to have come from Irkutsk, whither the body was sent, only to be returned to Tomsk by the police. Once more it was sent to Irkutsk and once more returned by the police as being unknown in that town. Innumerable telegrams were sent and replied to, no town would receive the body, which was sent hither and thither by railway, always being returned to Tomsk. At last it was offered to the Anatomical museum at Tomsk, where it was preserved for nine months, no one daring to dissect it without permission from the higher government. Now the museum is being rebuilt and the body has been once more handed over to the Tomsk police. They again refuse to bury it without the documents without which nothing can be done in Russia, and the unhappy body, which is said to have already traveled over 11,000 miles, is once more upon its unending travels. Dr. Marchais, of the Paris hospitals, has just submitted the French Academy of Medicine a somewhat novel treatment for the cure of varicose veins in the legs. He had observed that among rural postmen, obliged to go long distances on foot, there were few men who suffer from varicose veins and those who had varicose veins quickly recovered from them. Now, as a rule, patients with varicose veins are advised to walk as little as possible, but Dr. Marchais has changed all this and as the result of experiments he has successfully carried out on 21 patients he asserts that the most effective cure for varicose veins in the legs consists of walking. He shows that, in order to obtain lasting results, it is necessary to go back to the cause of the affliction, which is the hypertension of the blood in the veins. It is, he says, possible even for those badly afflicted to cure themselves by rational daily walking exercises, preceded by massage of the legs. "When I was a cabin boy," said an elderly sailor to a Portland Oregonian man, "I often used to wonder, seein' birds thousands of miles out to sea, what they done for fresh water when they got thirsty. One day a squall answered that question for me. It was a hot and glitterin' day in the tropics, and in the clear sky overhead a black rain cloud appeared all of a sudden. Then, out of empty space over a hundred seabirds came dartin' from every direction. They got under the rain cloud and they waited there for about ten minutes, circlin' round and round, and when the rain began to fall they throwed their heads back and they drank their fill. In the tropics, where the great seabirds sail thousands of miles away from shore, they get their drinkin' water in that way. They smell out a storm a long way off; they travel a hundred miles, maybe, to get under it, and they swaller enough raindrops to keep them goin'." Harvard Professor Tells Story of a Broad Hint Directed at a Bashful Lover. "I heard last week," said Prof. Gates, of Harvard, "a good example of double entendre. There was a man who had been courting a woman for five or six years. This man, it was plain, loved the woman; he called on her five nights in the week, but in that shy mood common in New England he could not bring himself to propose. He sat one evening opposite his sweetheart. He had grown quite bald since his courting had begun and, as for her, little lines had appeared about her mouth and eyes, and she stooped as she walked. Very desperate she was. It seemed to her that they might have been married five years ago. 'I seen,' said the shy lover, 'I seen an ad. to-day for a suit for $10.' 'Was it a wedding suit?' the woman asked in a strange voice. 'No,' he answered nervously, 'it was a business suit.' 'Well, I mean business,' said the woman." Better Than Mere "Thank You." There is something of the German kaiser's character in the young king of Spain, and already his people are well aware of that fact. Recently, when driving through Malaga, a small and ragged urchin broke through the guards and jumped right into his carriage. "What have you to say?" asked the king. "I want a new jacket and shoes, your majesty." "But have you no father?" inquired Alfonso. "Yes," replied the boy; "but he is too poor to give me any." The young monarch thereupon took his address. "Are you not going to thank his majesty?" inquired the aid-de-camp. "No, sir; but may the king live forever!" was the startling reply. Prairie Girl Wearies of Trees. 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