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Christmas Or the Holiday Season Jesus of Nazareth Was Not the Founder of a New Religious System. Vol. X Once more all the people inhabiting all parts of the so-called civilized or the Christian world are in the midst of the holiday season, for tomorrow is Christmas, and with joyful hearts and good feeling many of them will celebrate Chrismastide in honor and in commemoration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, who was born in the land of Judea over nineteen centuries ago. From his great contemporaries, Philo and Josephus we learn that Joseph, his father, and Mary, his mother, who was also the mother of three or four other children aside from Jesus, "that they were extremely poor, and were unable to give him any educational advantages, that all but eighteen months of his life was devoted to working at his trade, that of a carpenter." Consequently Jesus grew up to manhood totally unacquainted with any of the rudiments pertaining to an education; it is true that when he began to preach the people were attracted to him by the wonderful magnetism which he possessed and the bold stand he assumed against the Priesthood, for Jesus was the greatest socialist or anarchist of his day and generation. It is also true that Jesus was unlike Moses, Buddha, Zeno, Mahomet, Confucius or Socrates, for all those great moral teachers or philosophers were the founders of new religious systems, but Jesus did not give expression to one single new thought or truth during the eighteen months of his ministry. Even the golden rule which his followers claim that he was the author of was promulgated by Confucius, the great Chinese law-giver and philosopher, five hundred years before the Christian era; it was the mission of the meek and lowly Jesus to re-clothe and re-voice those touching and ennobling sentiments which had become dim in the hearts of the multitude at the time he walked and talked to those who had gathered around him. What Jesus desired principally to do was to reform the Jewish Priesthood and for endeavoring to perform that act, the Jewish people finally succeeded in persuading the Roman authorities to arrest Jesus for violating the Roman laws. He was tried, found guilty, according to the Roman, and Jewish laws and customs, and forty days after his death upon the cross the Church of Christ was established in the holy city of Jerusalem, and the elders of that church were all uncircumcised Jesus. That new sect did not progress very rapidly and at the end of two hundred years it had almost become extinct. Its adherents were at first very meek and humble—they were very careful to refrain from impressing their religious ideas upon the Gentiles and the Pagans, but as time went by Constantine, the Great, Emperor of Rome, who murdered his wife and children, became a convert to the teachings of the religion of the cross, and he adopted it as the religion of Rome, then its adherents became bold, dogmatic and extremely revengeful to those who refused to march under its banner. Tertullian, one of the Latin fathers of the church at that time and a devout follower of the sainted Constantine, exclaimed, "I expect the greatest of all spectacles, the last and eternal judgment of the universe. How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs and fancied gods, groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates who persecuted the name of the Lord. Liquifying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against the followers of Jesus; so many sage philosophers blushing in red hot flames with their deluded followers; so many celebrated poets trembling before the tribunal, not of Minos, but of Christ." To a greater or less extent the adherents of Jesus, in this, the twentieth century, entertain the same bitter ideas and hatred against those whose religious views are contrary to their's and to a large extent their sentiments are in harmony with the sentiments which Tertullian entertained against that same class in his day and time. It is, therefore, a remarkable fact that the five hundred million people who profess to have the name of Jesus encircled in their hearts will wrangle for their religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, and endure any and everything for it, but they utterly refuse or fail to live for it. Many of the theologians, and the other followers of Jesus have for almost 2,000 years continued to rail against the Jewish people or the Roman authorities for causing his death. They seem to loose sight of the fact that if he was sent to this earth from his heavenly father for the special purpose of judging the living, and the dead, and to redeem mankind from sin and corruption, it made no material difference whether he embraced death upon the cross or died from some disease, for he was subject to all the laws of nature, and none of nature's laws were suspended when he entered nor when he left this world of pain and sorrow. Every rational being is willing to agree with the theologians that Jesus suffered intense agony while he was upon the cross, but that suffering or pain only lasted a few hours, and it was nothing in comparison to the honor and the glory which has been and will continue to be heaped upon him by his five hundred million followers, for it must be admitted that Jesus is ten thousand times more alive today and a million times more beloved since his death upon the cross. There is no disposition on our part on this occasion to enter into a long discussion on the merits or demerits or the superiority of the religion founded by the followers of Jesus, who boast that it excels in purity, morality and benevolence all the ancient or older systems of religion. Suffice it to say on this point that wherever the religion of the cross has prevailed, race prejudice, slavery, immorality, misery, poverty, degradation, drunkenness, vice and crimes of every description have always flourished like a green bay tree. And more evil and injustice exist in the world today than existed prior to the advent of the Christian religion. On tomorrow, Christmas day, no doubt the various churches will be crowded to hear songs and praises chanted unto Jesus, but the religious exercises will be entered into more from custom and formality than anything else. Loudly and over-dressed women will be in evidence, and they will be so busy in inspecting each other's new bonnets, rich silk dresses, diamond rings and long automobile coats, that they will be unable to inform anyone what the preachers were talking about. The gentlemen who happen to drop into the churches, will be engaged in figuring up how to make ten or twenty million dollars the coming year by increasing the prices on all the necessities of life, thereby squeezing the very lifeblood out of their unfortunate fellow-creatures, that the remarks of the ministers generally speaking will not leave a lasting impression on their minds. The remainder of the holiday season, the theatres, the ballrooms, and the banquet halls, will be crowded, and the Christians or those who pretend to reverence the name of Jesus will vie with the ungodly, the Jew, the heathen, the freethinker, and the infidel, in indulging in social excesses, eating, drinking and in celebrating his death upon the cross in grand Bechabalian style. They will cling to that olden idea, "eat, drink and be merry today, for tomorrow you may die." In the midst of all these social gayeties, wealth and elegance, the needy, the poor widows; the little orphans, and the outcasts, will be almost ignored and forgotten, for there are numerous homes and hovels throughout the Christian world where the bright sunlight never enters and hope has never been. Where day follows day in never changing toll and life HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, DECEMBER 24, 1904. ALD. JOHN J. BRADLEY. Who is Growing More Popular each and Every Day with the Afro-Americans in the Town of Lake, and many of His Strong Friends. Among Them Hopes He will Make the Race for Congress in the 4th Congressional District in 1906. Who is Growing More Popular each and Every Day with the Afro-Americans in the Town of Lake, and many of His Strong Friends. Among Them Hopes He will Make the Race for Congress in the 4th Congressional District in 1906. leads only to the prison or the workhouse or the grave. Realizing the truthfulness of these reflections let each and everyone of us from henceforth embrace the "Religion of the future, the religion of love, reason and humanity! TWELVE HONEST JURORS In Judge Barnes' Court Declared that Doctor A. Beatrice Schultz Was No Guilty of Purchasing Two Diamond Ringa Stolen from Louis Weber & Company. Then without any selfish motives, we will feel that we can not perform any holier or higher duty for the gods or for suffering humanity, than to cheer the faint-hearted, raise the fallen, administer to the sick and the afflicted—throw our protecting arms around the motherless and fatherless little children—scatter flowers and sunshine into every darkened home. In conclusion, from the bottom of our warm, sympathetic heart, we wish the numerous friends and readers of The Broad Ax, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Remember It One of the wiest and best of England's scholars and statesmen McCauley, said that "the good old institutions have no more dangerous enemies than the bigots who refuse to adjust them to new conditions of society." And history proves this to be true. We see today what mighty changes have taken place through inventions that are displacing laborers more and more. The times demand some new, thorough adjustments and changes to adapt the masses to these great inventions on the old order of things. The wastes and burdens of governments must cease. Opportunity must be laid open to all. The enormous wealth has gleamed off the products of labor through usury, rent and taxation must end. And yet the men at the head of the government go on wasting more, neglecting all means of reform and looking on to military force to hold down the multitudes that yearly grow more and more restless and unquiet. Remember that the laboring people never revolt until they become desperate under discomforts and wrongs. The great fault of the people is they love their government too much," said Machiavel. The Bystander, Des Moines, Ia., displayed great enterprise in getting up a holiday edition, which was fully illustrated with cuts of many of the representative Afro-American men and women of that city. The holiday number of the Bystander shows what could be accomplished in the newspaper world if the colored people would promptly come down with the coin. In Judge Barnes' Court Declared that Doctor A. Beatrice Schultz Was Not Guilty of Purchasing Two Diamond Ringa Stolen from Louis Weber & Company. Tuesday morning for the second time Doctor A. Beatrice Schultz had her day in the criminal court. She had been charged with buying two diamond rings, knowing the same to be stolen from Louis Weber & Company. At her former trial before Judge Gary one year ago, Edward H. Morris conducted her case. But it was learned that he was closely associated or connected with Weber & Company as one of their regular attorneys, which fact was not denied at the trial just closed. The case at that time was adverse to Doctor Schultz. She appealed it to the Supreme Court of this state and for the first time in twenty-five years that high tribunal reversed Judge Gary's decision, weak rulings and faulty instructions to the jury. That great victory gained by Doctor Schultz she dispensed with the services of Lawyer Morris in the second trial and secured as her attorney's own bosom friend Col. A. D. Gash, and James H. Hooper, who skillfully conducted or handled the case from beginning to end, and they kept Assistant State's Attorney Fake, with all his policemen with their reprehensible methods employed to land Doctor Schultz in the penitentiary at Jollet, his pole-cat thieves, and criminals for witnesses, on the dead run from start to finish. The case came to an end Thursday evening, and after the jury had attentively listened to an eloquent and a masterful oration by Col. Gash, it returned a verdict of "not guilty," and there was much rejoicing on the part of Doctor Schultz who thanked and shook each juryman by the hand and her friends. A more extended report of the trial will appear in the next issue of The Broad Ax. Judge Barnes, who was so fair and honorable in his rulings and instructions to the jury throughout the trial of Doctor A. Beatrice Schultz, will spend his Christmas in the East with his aged mother. Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 5434 Norman av., has been for the past week indisposed from the effects of a very severe cold, but she is regaining her health and expects to be able to enjoy her Christmas turkey. The Other Side of the White Cap Question. By ROSCÔE CONKLING SIMMONS. In Copiah and Lincoln counties, Mississippi, (the county seat of the latter is Liberty) Afro-American men have not only been rudely shot away from their homes, but have been forbidden to purchase additional land and advised by illustration neither pleasant nor deserved, to dispose of what holdings they already have obtained by the sweat of their races. The present administration is responsible for this condition. James K. Vardaman, who represents the aristocracy of his state, and who was a convict guard in Leflore county twelve years ago, and of questionable moral parts, a reputation which has followed him into the crumbling and despicable mansion at Jackson, in his campaign of last year invoked the wrath of God upon educated "saddle colored teachers and and preachers of the 'Nigger' race," and advised "all white men to gain the ground and hold it" even at the "expense of the 'Niggers'" heads." Immediately torment obtained in Copiah, and horges whose ears were pricked to the blood, in order to make them snort loud and long, were obtained; and mounted white men, dressed in red garments; with white hoods, rode through these counties, slaying innocent colored men, and ravishing their homes and families. When true history is written, and I confess it cannot be written if left to the white south, for nothing good can come of that Nazareth, the cruelty so incessantly practiced by and inherent in, the blood of these white men, will read like imaginary tales, written to appease the blood-appetite of American children. There is no more liberty for Afro-Americans in Mississippi than there is room in glory for John Sharp Williams and James K. Vardaman, and I am almost constrained to say St. Clair McKelway, their friend and supporter. Willis E. Mollison Isalah Montgomery, with their brains and money are treated with no more civility, nor as much, by white Mississippi than the worst criminal that graces the chain gang of old Isaquena. Which proves conclusively that in the south character and money do not count as far as the colored man is concerned. There is an aspect of this "white cap" and peonage business which, however disgusting, is very humorous. It not only shows the ignorance of the colored man, but portrays the absolute dishonesty of southern white men. It not only proves the generosity of Afro-Americans to their known and self-declared foes, but reflects suspected inclination of the parasitic white south, which is cruel to him not so much because the Afro-American is free, as because he is no longer a slave, upon whose toll the south rested in voluptuous revelry, and whose labors the southerns would again enslave. Foremost amongst the speakers and schemers of the last legislature of Mississippi, which framed and passed the "Jim Crow" street car law, was a representative of one of the white cap counties. No man was more eloquent in his denunciation of Afro-American men and women; none more assiduously concerned about the passage of the Jim Crow bill; none more courted or received more applause from the galleries and praise from the press. When the bill had become a law it is said that the gentleman became intoxicated from an admixture of Jackson "blind pig" whisky, and praise from his countrymen. I know a colored man who fled for his life from Amite county, and who, at that time, held this modern Cicero's note for $300, which the statesman borrowed to make his campaign for the legislature, where he took much pleasure in informing an ignorant world that the man of whom he had borrowed, or more likely, from whom he had extorted sufficient money to pay his primary expenses, was hot good enough to ride in a street car beside him. I know a colored man who would not discount that note for $200. Is gratitude still the basest of sins? Or is it a sin at all? The white man in the south regards neither ethical nor moral laws, to say nothing of the laws of Christ, when dealing with Negro men and women. In this same county is a grocery firm, perhaps the largest in the county, one of the members of which is a rampant whitecapper, who would rather terrorize Afro-Americans than weigh sugar or sell standard oil at twenty-five cents per gallon, the price invariably charged ignorant Negroes: I know an Afro-American who holds this firm's note for $1,200. No longer than October last, this whitecapper begged this Afro-American who left his hundreds of acres of land because there was no peace, to extend the note for six months. For brazen effrontery, for wicked imposition, for hypocritical denunciation the white south has the world stood and cornered Poor Warren Coleman, dead now, provided at least for a half dozen white people, distantly related, who passed for aristocracy, entertained royal, and traveled extensively on this Afro-American's money, but thought themselves too good to dine with him or ride in a common carrier with him. He died almost broken-hearted because a business which he fostered had failed. Those who had lived on him, and enjoyed the money he had labored for, were the first to point the finger of derision, and set up that because they had splurged on Coleman. Negroes are incapable of conducting large undertakings. Of course they are, if they must care for their white wards, who are too proud to work, but must answer the demands of vanity. And so it goes. The Afro-American is subject to merciless criticism, rebuked by the north for failure to gain the land upon which he lives, and persecuted in the south if he does. If the Afro-American is the lazier man, the southern white man is the greater parasite. If the Afro-American does not deserve equal rights and every social courtesy, the southern whites, in face of the evidence, and their constancy towards Afro-Americans who have and have achieved, should be the last to deny them. It is neither right nor decent for these southern whites, under the false leadership of St. Clair McKelway in the north and Edgar Gardner Murphy and John Sharp Williams in the south, to turn loose the war dogs of the Confederacy behind the Afro-American people so long as they house and clothe many leading statesmen and fashionable leaders of society. St. Mark Literary. (State near 47th Sts.) Last Sunday afternoon the program was very interesting at St. Mark Literary. The subject was "The Progress of the Negro." Rev. J. W. Robinson, Rev. Mr. Brown, L. A. Meeks, Q. E. Whaley and H. D. Smith made fine addresses. The following program will be rendered next Sunday afternoon: Baritone Solo, L. Randolph; recitation Miss Bertha Brown; solo, Miss Consuella Tolor; paper, Miss M. A. St. Byere; solo J. A. Washington; paper, Mrs. M. A. McCoy; baritone solo, R. A. Cralley. Justice Hartman this week rendered judgment for two hundred dollars in favor of John G. Jones against David Ranting Wilkins, late editor of the Old Church Organ, and the other owners and managers of the Conservator. The judgment was obtained for services rendered in behalf of Colonel Wilkins in several justice court cases instituted against him last spring for criminal libel. No. 9 THE BROAD. AX. . PUBLISHED WEEKLY. _ — eee =m SoS = = ae Ears a See amemes Witecalyo: oeadsctiepaer Subscriptions must be paid inadvanee. a a ee Advertising rates made mown on application. THE BROAD AX 40 Armour Avenne, Chicago. sous F. TAYLOR, Balter and Publisber. Eatered xt the Post Office at Chicago, > Th, as Second-class Matter. “WAR ON SOUTH ENDED.” Prescot USS NOL SUppert rien Ww Cut Representation in Congress. Reduction of the southern represen- tation in Congress has followed tariff revision into the subcellar of the Re- publican party, where it will remain with other political junk created by the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Representative Crumpacker of Indiana, who has been fighting for this alleged reform for several years, announced today that he had given up the fight for this session of Congress. It is understood that Judge Crumpack- er is very much discouraged at the sudden lukewarmness of the President on this subject. He was equally dis cowraged because of the lack of .co- operation on the part of the Senators. But the greatest disappointment to Mr. Crumpacker has come from the President. Mr. Roosevelt is not will- ing to take an emphatic stand on this question, and it is becoming clear that the resolution adopted at Chicago was only put through as a makeshift for the purpose of capturing the col- ored vote in the so-called doubtful states. At least, that is what the Re publican representatives who were in- terested in the matter intimate. Senator Dick of Ohio, Senator T. C_ Platt of New York and Representative Morrell and Olmstead are still in the field, but there is practically little sen- timent-for any of the bills these men are supporting. Southern Democrats were feeling jubliant today over the knockout given the scheme to cut down representation because of the suppression of the colored vote.” This information from the seat of government is a verifycation as to what was said in the first issue of this paper, after the adjournment of the Republican National Convention, last June, respecting the “Negro plank in the Republican platform.” It will be remembered that our con tention was that reference was only made in its platform in favor of cut- ting down southern representation in Congress for the purpose of throwing sop or dust in the eyes of that class of Negroes who are supposed to ve intelligent, but in reality they do not know that Abraham Lincoln has been dead for almost forty years, and throughout the campaign, they and the colored Republican mush or pin- headed editors bitterly denounced us because we had clearly sized up the situation, and refused to fall down and worship at the big feet of the Rough Riding President, who, to come rignat down to hard tacks, entertains no love for the Negro, and is not interested in his welfare and his progress along civil and political lines. The Lily White Leaders of the Re publican party knew that we were tell- ing the truth in relation to their dou- Die dealing record respecting the Ne groe, and they are simply letting the “cat out of the bag.” LONG TERM TO WHITECAPPERS Ten Staygre of Negroes Are Sen tenced by Mississippi Judge. Brookhaven, Miss., Dec. 20.—Ten men who were proved guilty of out rages against Negroes were sentenced today to jon” terms in prison by Judge Wilkinson, who recently de clared that the full penalty of the law would be imposed against whitecap pers, even if it made every woman in Rississippi a widow. Oscar Frankilix was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Hii Hilson, a Ne gro; Will Franklin, D. W. Smith, Elias Smith, R. L. Smith and Elbert Gil were given fifty years each in the pen itentiary for manslaughter in the kill ing of Henry List,.a Negro, and San Possy, another whitecapper, mus serve twenty years. John Smith ant §obn McNulty; Negroes, who wer convicted of murder, received lif sentences. Mrs. Anna L. Newby. First class furnished rooms fog, rent to gentleman, with bath and gas 2628 Wabash avenue. MRS. A WILSON. Nicely furnished rooms to rent for gentlemen. Reasonable races, 2258 FRUIT TREES FROM EAST. Lynn, Mass, Man Was the First to .op>Entroduce Industry Into E Galifornis. it was a Lynn (Mass) man who eerried to California her first fruit ‘trees. E. A. Ingalls, a '49-er, took from Lynn to California 56 years ago the shipment of cultivated fruit trees that started the states great fruit- growing industry. When the gold fever broke out Mr. Ingalls, @ young man then, took passage round the Horn. The voyage required 133 days. All the pioneers carried such things as they thought would be useful and profitable to sell or trade, but Mr. in- galls’-luggage was the most cumber- some of any, for his fruit trees were numerous and of all sorts. He dis- posed of these trees at a good price, and then set_out for the interior to find gold. He found none. His luck was miserable. So he returned to Lynn again and there his life was as successful as in California it had been unsuccessful. Mr. Ingalls was alawyer, and a business man in Lynn and his is one of the most honored names in the town’s history. It should be one of the most honored names in California’s history, too. It was no small thing to have started that great state on her magnificent fruit-growing career. SEA HAS GROWN DEEPER. Level of the Mediterranean Nine Feet * Bbove That During Old Boman Times. | The phenomenon of the changes in the level of the sea is one which is well shown in the case of the Mediterranean. M. Ph. Negris, in a recent brochure presented to the Academy of Sciences, furnishes interesting information on this point, it being apparent that the sea has greatly increased in depth as compared to ancient times. Formerly a bridge 3,000 feet long united Leucade to the continent. ~To-day it is sub- merged, but the foundations of the work were discovered, 11 feet beneath the surface. It may therefore be concluded that since the construction of the bridge the sea has risen ut this point over @ine feet At Itea, in the Bay of Amphissa, there has been observed a mole that is also over nine feet beneath the surface. At Rhenee there has been found a com- pletely submerged dock, evidently of Roman construction, the depth of the sea above the dock at places being fully nine feet. From all of these facts one may conclude that there has taken place an important increase in the depth of the sea eince the Roman period, the Mediterranean having risen at least nine feet in 2,000 years. TOLSTO! BOYS FIGHT JAPS. Although the Count Is Denouncer of Present War, Sons Are with Russians. Count Tolstoi, social reformer, ab- hors all wars and denounces the par- ticular war which is now raging be- tween Russia and Japan, yet three tons of his have quit the wolf trails to go man-hunting in the far east. ‘The eldest boy and a brother are camped with the army of Kuropatkin, having been at the front for several months. The youngest~ som not long ago declared his intention of vol- unteering and already may have donned the uniform of a soldier of the czar. This action has affected the aged count greatly and he has been seen to weep. The war has brought unusal family dissension into the Tolstoi household. The countess is ut- terly at variance with her husband on account of his denunciation of the con- flict. Only Tatyana, the eldest daugh- ter, adheres to her father’s views and seeks to give"him solace. Tatyana is &@ gifted woman. The Tolstoi essay against war, published in the London Times, was only sketched out by the count. His daughter filled out the draft and gave it the literary finish. PRINTS PHOTOS ON APPLES Portrait of Edward VII. on French Fruit Arouses Interest—The Methed Explained. A firm of fruit auctioneers at Covent Garden recently received from France ® remarkable consignment of apples. On each apple was a portrait of King Edward VIL The fruit created a great sensation in the market, and brought a big price. The apples were of the Peasgood Nonsuch variety. A Photographic film was fixed on them just before they colored, and the foliage was fastened away from them to insure full exposure to the sun. The portrait of his majesty was put upon these first fruits, because the French peasants consider the “entente cor- Giale” greatly due to the king. Doubt- less in future years many will emulate the example of the ingenious French cultivator and produce portrait fruits As advertisements they would be ver) valuable. Winter end Gammer Stemnc The post office department is sending out its winter stamps now. Few know that there is a difference between winter stampe and summer stamps. In thecold months the gum on the stamps is a lit- tle thinner and softer, while that on those to be used during the and Sa coaneedgashes" Ss sak ab alley a fected by heat. Queer Names in Town. Fremantle, West Australia, has some queer names. The mayor isa Cadd, the bief printer is Cant, & contractor ‘Thick has just sued a local soup-pre- serving company, and a man named ‘Offspring Webb was fined recently fos keeping an unlicensed dog. In selecting a whiskey three quali- ficatiotions should be considered — the age, the purity and the flavor. Underoof Rye Possesses these qualifications in a greater degree than : any other whiskey | CHAS. DENNEHY & COMPANY, oe = A Shy St Home Mrs. Jason Gause, a demure littl Quaker Jady of Lyon county,” says the Kansas City Journal, “certainly'ts un- Tivaled*in her record for staying a home. ‘She has just returned from ¢ visit to @ daughter in ‘Tt was her first ride on a railroad t 7 was the first time in nearly 60 years she had been outside of Lyon county, For 23 years she had passed but one night away from home. She“is’ the mother of Prof. Gouse, of the State Normal school.” etn ee Private Graveyard se ‘The family of a member of pariia- ment from Yorkshire has «a private graveyard and has had it for several generations. The founder of it was s Quaker, and the rector of the parish in which he lived said to him after s dispute on religious matters: “Well, if you don’t come to church when you are alive, you will when you -are degd.”* But the Quaker thought oth- erwise, and founded the burial place, which is-used to this day. a —__—_ Games of the Czarina. ‘The czarina has, from early childhood, been naturally clever with her pencil, and possesses a rare ability for pictorial portraying, with just a touch of humor- ous exaggeration, little personal pe- culiarities of those around her. It is said, though, that none more enjoy an inspec- tion of these caricatures than those who are the subjects of them. ————————— A Rethhouse Mistake. Around Stockholm there are many suburban resorts where sea bathing is indulged in when the weather is warm enough. At one of these resorts a vis- itor observed a large signboard at a gateway, reading “Dam Bad Haus.” This notice gave him quite a shock, un- til he found it meant, “Ladies’ Batb House.”—St. James's Gazette. ——— Bicycles in France. According to an official statement Just published, 1,310,223 bicycles were taxed in France in 1903, being 103,481 more than in 1902. The department of the Seine (Paris) had the largest num- ber (244,386), and Corsica the small- est (337). The number of motor cy- cles was 19,816, and of automobiles 19,886. Sincine Insects. Among the natural curiosities of Ja- pan are its-singing insects. The most prized of these tiny musicians is a black beetle named “susumushi,” which means “insect bell.” The sound that it emits resembles that of a little silver bell of the sweetest and most delicate tone. Largest Beehive. The biggest beehive in the world 1s @ natural one in Kentucky, known as the “Mammoth beehive.” It is in real- ity a huge cave, the main compartment ‘of which is 150 feet high, the floor cov- ering ten acres in extent. ——————— No Thanksgiving Day. In Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Okla- homa and Utah, Thanksgiving day finds no place in the list of holidays by proclamation of their respective governors. Siecnifies Death. ‘When a person dies in Switzerland his relatives put outside the house a little black table, covered with a black cloth, and having on it a black jar. Into this jar friends and acquaintances drop black-edged visiting cards. A Warning. ‘The secret service officials announce the appearance of a new counterfeit $10 Dill. Don’t accept bills of any small- er denomination than twenties.—Cleve- land Plaindealer. ‘Warmed-Over Dish. 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"Well, you see I have been the means of taking several men off it, and then I have placed you upon it." The men who left the bench on account of Mr. Roosevelt, were Judge Parker, Judge Van Wyck and Judge Herrick, all of New York, and all members of the New York judiciary. Judge Parker resigned to accept the democratic nomination for the presidency and run against Mr. Roosevelt. Judge Herrick resigned to become candidate for governor of New York against the republican candidate, Lieut. Gov. Higgins, and it is well known that he was selected because it appeared that Mr. Roosevelt's popularity would increase the vote of the republican candidate. Judge Van Wyck resigned to run against Mr. Roosevelt for governor of New York in 1898. So that the president in his political career caused three vacancies on the bench. Mr. Roosevelt will have further opportunity probably of placing men on the bench before his next term is concluded, as there will doubtless be several changes in the federal judiciary from members of the district court up to the supreme bench. Justices to Retire T HERE is considerable talk of retirements from the supreme bench at an early day. Chief Justice Fuller has reached the age when, under the law, he can retire from active service and enjoy full salary the rest of his life. The law permits a supreme justice to retire when he reaches the age of 70 or when he has served 20 years. Chief Justice Fuller will be 72 years of age next February. He was appointed chief justice in April, 1888, and although he has not served 20 years, he is still eligible for retirement on account of age. It is understood that the chief justice has not been in the most robust health and is thinking of giving up the arduous work of his position. Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan is another member of the supreme bench who is eligible for retirement, both for age and for length of service. He was 71 years of age last June, and took his seat on the supreme bench in December, 1877. He will have completed 27 years as a supreme court justice on the 10th of December. He has been one of the strongest men physically of all the justices, but is now beginning to show his age. He has been an exceptionally hard-working member of the bench, and is still insistent on doing his full share of the duties of the court. He has led an active outdoor life, which accounts for his fine physical condition, and still at his advanced age is one of the most enthusiastic golf players at the national capital. There has been considerable talk of his retiring, but unless advancing years should tell on him more rapidly than they have, he may remain to complete 30 years of service. The next one of the associate justices who can retire for age in the near future is Justice Brown, who will be 70 years of age on March 2, 1906. He has been on the supreme bench for 14 years. Then comes Justice Brewer, who will reach the age of 70 in June, 1907. He was commissioned an associate justice in December, 1889, and has 15 years to his credit. Associate Justice Peckham was appointed in 1895, and will reach the age of 70 in November, 1908. The other members of the court are comparatively young men. Justice McKenna is 61, Justice White 59, Justice Holmes 63 and Justice Day 55. Senate Committee Changes. HE death of Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, the election of Senator Fairbanks to the vice presidency and afew other changes in the senate that have resulted from the recent election will bring about a reorganization of that body. It is HE death of Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, the election of Senator Fairbanks to the vice presidency and afew other changes in the senate that have resulted from the recent election will bring about a reorganization of that body. It is probable that the full rearrangement of committees will be postponed until next congress, but the vacancy at the head of the judiciary committee caused by the death of Senator Hoar will be filled by the designation of Senator Orville H. Platt, of Connecticut. Mr. Platt has for many years been the ranking member next to the chairman on this committee, and his preeminent qualifications for the chairmanship is recognized by everyone. He is one of the solid, conservative and able statesmen whose record is absolutely clear and of the highest grade. He is not one of the orators of the senate, and does not trouble that body with many lengthy speeches. When he does make an address, it is full of meat and not a lawyer in the body leaves the chamber during its delivery. Mr. Platt is known internationally as the author of the "Platt amendment" which has been incorporated in the organic law of the republic of Cuba and which virtually gives the United States a protectorate over the island. It permits the United States to prevent Cuba from swamping herself in debt, and prevents her forming an alliance with any other foreign power. The Connecticut senator has been chairman of the committee on Cuban relations, but as most of the important legislation concerning the relations between this country and Cuba has been accomplished, the position of chairman of the committee on the judiciary will be more commensurate with his ability and experience. Senator Platt is a typical New Englander, tall, angular and cold on the exterior. He is a warm-hearted gentleman, however, to those who have penetrated his New England reserve. He is a fisherman and a hunter of note, and has a lodge in the Adirondacks to which he retires every year to indulge in his favorite recreation and rest from the grind of senatorial duties. Cortelyou in Demand ATIONAL Chairman Corselyou is now paying the penalty of greatness. After several months of close application and arduous work he believed himself entitled to a vacation. He laid his plans for an immediate trip abroad. but found that there were demands upon his time that compelled him to indefinitely postpone the rest he contemplated. He then arranged to take a hunting trip as a diversion and dream of a few weeks' quail and deer shooting in Virginia. The republican leaders, however, had other plans such as jubilee dinners and meetings at which he was expected to be present. As national chairman he could not decline these entertainments, and again his programme of rest was interfered with. Mr. Cortelyou takes everything philosophically, and lives on the hope of some time getting away from political worries and really enjoying a period of rest. Such an experience will be rather odd for him, as since 1897, when he became assistant secretary to President McKinley, and a year later secretary, he has had very little opportunity of enjoying the recreation and rest which ordinary mortals account as necessary. He has been in the habit of devoting from 16 to 18 hours every day to his work. That application did not seem to have any effect upon him, for he would show up at the white house at nine o'clock in the morning as fresh and energetic as though he had retired at nine in the evening, instead of two hours after midnight. The long strain, however, is telling even on Mr. Cortelyou, and the tremendous work he performed during the late campaign has added five or ten years to his age. If Chairman Cortelyou can get away he will either go to the West Indies or Europe, and remain there until the 4th of March. He will then enter President Roosevelt's cabinet as postmaster general. If he desires to indulge his appetite for work, he will not be disappointed in that position. Of all the heads of departments in Washington the postmaster general is the busiest and, if so inclined, can put in more hours of work than any of his colleagues. The Jefferson Bible. HERE is a tremendous demand upon congressmen just now for copies of the "Jefferson Bible," as it is called, or to be more accurate "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth." This is a work of Thomas Jefferson, and is T now the property of the United States national museum in this city. At the last session of congress a resolution was adopted to print a facsimile of this interesting book for the use of congress. The photolithographic process was used, and 9,000-copies of the book, as prepared by Mr. Jefferson, were printed, 3,000 for the use of the senate and 6,000 for the use of the house. The volume is an exact facsimile of the one found in Jefferson's library and is bound in full red leather. It contains two manuscript leaves in the handwriting of Jefferson, and the title page in that stateman's own handwriting which reads: "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, extracted textually from the Gospel in Greek, Latin, French and English." The compilation consists of parallel columns of extracts from the Gospels in the original Greek, the Latin, the French and English. There are no comments, and the book is of use only to those versed in these languages. It is generally valued, however, as a remarkable curiosity, and the demand for it is something unprecedented in the history of government documents. Right at Hand, the Country Girl Has Materials for Beauty The girl living on a farm has so many materials at hand with which to make acceptable gifts to city friends, and not the least of these are the ingredients for harmless but helpful cosmetics. And, by the way, asks the Pilgrim, did you know that word cosmetic was derived from a Greek term signifying skilled in the art of decoration or ornament? From the first, rhubarb sprouts and lettuce leaves on through spinach (for coloring creams and lotions), strawberries, cucumbers, watermelons and quince, with honey and milk and nuts, the girl on the farm has the best and purest materials to choose from and work with. An expensive Italian cream is made from the ground green seeds of cucumbers, melons and pumpkins made into flour which is slightly perfumed and made into a paste with sweet cream. The basis of nearly all washes for chapped hands is quince seeds, so one can make their own at slight expense by adding extract of witch hazel to the emulsion. With care the girl living on a farm should have the proverbial rose leaf or peaches and cream complexion until she is at least 75 years of age. The juice of cucumbers enters largely into the preparation of many face creams and watermelon juice is a famous southern face wash. Tomato juice is fine for an oily, greasy skin and the acid of strawberries rivals that of lemons as a bleaching agent. The basis of the most satisfactory cream is clarified mutton tallow, which, made creamy with almond oil, sweet with your favorite perfume and colored with the juices of lettuce, spinach, rose petals or currants, will give both beauty and pleasure to the recipient. Try out mutton suet in a double boiler just as lard is rendered, and when it is cold use the top portion, melting it in a bowl set in hot water, strain through a hair sieve, then through cheese cloth, and heat in the almond oil or other ingredients while still creamy. The addition of one dram of tincture of benzoin or one-half a dram of salicylic acid will prevent the emulsion from becoming rancid. HOW TO USE OLD CHINA. A Novel Way to Change Broken Bits Into a Decorative Piece. The next time anyone in your family breaks a piece of china do not throw away the pieces, but save them carefully. If the piece broken should be a large plate, it will be especially valuable to you, although anything of the sort will be of use. If you have no paints of your own, wait until the family have some painting done about the house. Then get a little of the paint and a small brush. For five cents you can buy at any grocery store a small package of NOVEL CHINA PIECE. china cement, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. This will fasten together the edges of the broken china until the plate or other piece looks as good as now. However, it would not do to use it as if it had never been broken, for a very little use would smash it altogether, but for ornamental purposes it is all right. Cut from any old magazine the prettiest figure you can find. It must be a shilhouette figure; that is, full profile. You will find a large variety, especially in the advertising pages. Paste several of these figures lightly all over the bottom of the plate, or if the object broken be a pitcher or cup, all over the outside surface. Now paint over the whole thing, pictures and all, with your paint, putting on a good, thick coat. Before the paint is dry, loosen with a pin the edges of the figures you have pasted on the china. Now strip them all off, being very careful not to smudge the edges. Of course, there will be no paint on the china where it was covered by the picture, and the outline of the picture will show in white again its surrounding background of paint. The plate, thus prepared, will make a very dainty and attractive ornament, and you will find it lots of fun making this novel use of old bits of china. THE WOMAN'S CORNER A PRETTY DAISY PILLOW. Crochet Work Employed for This Novel Pillow, Which Can Easily Be Made. Any little girl who is able to crochet can easily make this pretty gift for mother, says the Boston Globe. First draw two circles any size you wish (18 inches in diameter is a good size) on paper. Cut out circle and lay on square of sage green denim (18x18 inches), and cut the denim into a circle the exact size of the paper circle. Then buy one spool of white silk finished cotton, one spool of dark green (for the leaves), and one spool of yellow. Crochet the daisies and leaves according to the following directions: For the daisies make four chain, using the yellow silk-finished cotton. In the first ch, make as many s c as are required to make a perfect circle. Break the silk and tie in the white; * ch 10, work back 10 s c in the ch just made, and fasten down with sl st. Pass to next st of center, and repeat from *; repeat all around. The flowers seen from the side are A DAISY PILLOW. made as follows: With the yellow silk make one-half circle, and work petals around the outer edge, as directed above. To make a side vein, showing the under side of flower, make a quarter circle with the green silk, and work petals around the edge as before directed. If you wish to vary the length of the petals you may do so by making some of the chains shorter than others. For the leaves, work 4 ch with the green silk, 3 d c in the first ch; turn and make 2 d c in the last st of the round just made. Work 2 sts in the next 2 sts of the last round; turn, make 2 d c in last st of last round, 3 d c in next 3 sts; turn and repeat for next row. Now narrow 1 st in each round till there are but 2 sts left. Insert the hook in both sts, and draw the silk through both sts; this points the end of leaf. Vary the size of leaves by making more or less sts at the beginning, widening and narrowing as directed for first leaf. Sew the flowers and leaves on the pillow as shown in accompanying illustration and draw with lead pencil the stems. Outline stems with the green silk. It is a good idea to buttonhole the leaves and flowers onto the denim. When this side, is completed cut another circle of denim the same size, for back. Around the edge you may use a cord, a ruffle of ribbon or a ruffle of the denim with a herring bone stitch around edge of ruffle. This is also very pretty made with yellow daisies with brown centers on brown linen. Care of the Hands. When washing the hands always use a pure soap containing no free alkali and rinse the soap thoroughly away. Chapped hands are common to individuals with poorly circulating blood, and also to those who frequently immerse their hands in either hot or cold water. This cosmetic jelly should be used frequently as a preventive of a rough, sensitive surface. Thirty grains of gum tragacanth, seven ounces of rose water, one-half ounce of glycerin, one-half ounce of alcohol, one teaspoonful of pure borax and two drops of oil of rose. Let the tragacanth stand in the rose water for three days, strain and add other ingredients. This makes a delightfully lovely clear jelly, which dries immediately upon application and which never leaves the skin oily. It can be used on face or hands. The Lemon Bath. A lemon bath is considered a daily necessity in the West Indies. Three or four limes or lemons are cut into the water and allowed to lie for half an hour, so that the juice may be extracted. Such a bath gives to the skin a delightful sense of freshness and cleanliness. Apple Gelatin. Make an ordinary apple sauce, having it rather thin. To every pint of this add a tablespoonful of soaked gelatin, beat hard and set aside to cool. Serve with rich cream or heap upon it uncooked meringue, sweetened.—Marion Harland. INGENUITY TEST OF MIND. Inventive Ability, Says Professor Thomas, Is a Sure Sign of Mental Soundness. Another test of mental ability which deserves special notice is mechanical ingenuity, says Prof. W. I. Thomas, in the Forum. Our white preeminence owes much to this faculty, and the lower races are reckoned defective in it. But the lower races do invent, and it is doubtful whether one invention is ever much more difficult than another. On the psychological side, an invention means that the mind sees a roundabout way of reaching an end when it cannot be reached directly. It brings into play the associated memory and involves the recognition of analogy. There is a certain likeness between the flying back of a bough in one's face and the rebound of a bow, between a serpent's tooth and a poisoned arrow, between floating timber and a raft or boat; and water, steam and electricity are like a horse in one respect—they will all make wheels go around, and do work. Now, the savage had this faculty of seeing analogies and doing things in indirect ways. With the club, knife and sword he struck more effectively than with the fist; with hooks, traps, nets and pitfalls he understood how to seize game more surely than with the hands; in the bow and arrow, spear, blow gun and spring trap he devised motion swifter than that of his own body; he protected himself with armor from the hides and scales of animals, and turned their venom back on themselves. That the savage should have originated the inventive process and carried it on systematically is indeed more wonderful than that his civilized successors should continue the process; for every beginning is difficult. JAP WROTE POEM IN BLOOD Handkerchief Found on Person of Dead Islander Contains Verse Telling Loyalty. On my way to the rear, after the battle of Nanshan, writes a Japanese officer, in Leslie's Monthly, I came suddenly upon a couple of soldiers with a lantern. They were about to take the lifeless body of one of our officers from the hostile trench. The uncertain light of the lantern fell upon the pallid face of the lifeless officer covered with blood; in the dead man I recognized one of my own friends. Thrusting my arm under his head, I took him in my arms. Tied around his brow was a piece of cloth, a towel, perhaps a handkerchief. It was stained with blood from the fountain that a Russian bullet had opened at his temple. I untied the-piece of cloth around his head. In the light of the lantern which the soldier held always beside me I saw the round sun of our imperial standard. It was not a towel, then, not a handkerchief. Beside the sun of our national flag, in spite of blood stains, I saw something on this flag that made me frown. I made out two lines of writing upon it, evidently a classic couplet. The rusty red of the letters told me that it was written in blood. In spite of the blood-stains I managed to make the following couplet: "Forever shall we guard the august standard of our sovereign-prince. Even though these, our lives of earth, should vanish with the dews of the should vanish with the dews of the morrow." ROMANCE OF SUMATRA LEAF Many Little Episodes Are Attached to This Unique Tobacco Plant. The story of Sumatra leaf tobacco, as grown under cheese-cloth in Connecticut, is one of the romantic episodes of agriculture, says a writer in Country Life in America. A Florida fruit grower had some tobacco plants that got into his pineapple shed by accident, and he noticed that they were taller and of finer texture, under the lath shade. The bureau of soils, while surveying the Connecticut valley, found a soil that was practically the same as that of Sumatra, on which the famous tobacco is grown. (The bureau has samples of soil from almost every important agricultural region of the world.) The government got an expert to start an industry, and the first two years some of the growers made over 100 per cent profit. The industry, as a whole, is successful. A large company with plenty of capital is necessary, for it costs $650 to cover and grow an acre of this tobacco. The growers receive from $1.20 to $2.50 per pound for the product. The imported article brings $2.50 to $3, and we have been importing about $6,000,000 worth a year. Costlier Than Champagne. Although champagne is called the "wealthy water," there are few hotels in the country where one can pay more than four dollars a quart for it, while, on the other hand, there are hundreds of places where Burgundy is sold as high as $35 a. quart. At one hotel the menu advertises a special brand of this fine wine for $25 a bottle. There are any number of Rhine wines which cost above eight dollars, and there is a big demand for them. Champagne does not improve with age as the other wines do, and this probably accounts for the difference. No Scar Under Red Light As a result of experiments made in some of the hospitals in Paris, it is stated that vaccination performed under a red light leaves no scar and causes less pain. The patient is vaccinated in a room where the only light is an incandescent lamp with a red globe. Athletics Beneficial Only When Applied Properly and Judiciously, Says Physician. After an exhaustive examination of the case for and against athletics, Dr. Robert E. Coughlin, of Brooklyn, N. Y., comes to the following conclusions: "The prime object in athletics is improvement of the general health. Each writer has said that health, like happiness, does not exist. Each has a goal or limit which, while seemingly attainable, eludes perfect possession. The body consists of a number of mechanisms which have the closest and most exact relations, and as they approximate to harmony there is health, but when disordered there is ill health. To obtain good health muscle-building is not a necessity. One cannot judge of a person's health by the size and hardness of the muscles. We have seen that the converse may be true. To obtain health one must not be in a perfectly trained condition, owing to the effects of severe training on the nervous system. There is no evidence to prove that athletics and muscle-building improve the constitution. One should always keep in mind the fact that built-up or hypertrophied muscle has a tendency to degenerate. The heart being a muscular organ shares in this tendency. Although the evidence for and against athletics is contradictory, the whole subject may be summed up by saying that athletics are beneficial when properly and judiciously applied, and highly injurious when the precautions above mentioned are ignored or carelessly regarded." BLACKS MORE CONSUMPTIVE Increase of Disease Among Negroes Since Emancipation Is Becoming Noticeable. According to Dr. Thomas J. Mays, of Philadelphia, pulmonary consumption was comparatively unknown among the plantation slaves of the south before the war, while in the large cities of the south it was no more prevalent among them than it was among the whites. In Charleston, S. C., the negro death rate of consumption in 1860 was the same as among the whites—viz. 1.75; in 1876, whites 2.00, negroes 6.95; in 1890, whites 3.55, negroes 6.86; in 1902, whites 1.43, negroes 5.74 Before the civil war insanity, like consumption, was comparatively rare among the negro slaves. According to Dr. T. O. Powell this disease increased 705 per cent. among these people from 1870 to 1890 in Georgia. The same is true of North Carolina, for Dr. J. F. Miller, superintendent of the eastern insane hospital of that state, declares that from 1885 to 1896 insanity increased 256 per cent. among the colored people in that state. The conclusion of Dr. Mays, which was presented to a recent medical congress, was that slaves as property were better cared for than free negroes care for themselves. As to the future, a "campaign of education" is suggested. POSTMAN FOR EACH TONGUE Cosmopolitan Letter Carriers Are Now Employed by Authorities of Singapore. It is in Singapore where the British post office authorities employ letter carriers for each language. In that city there are so many different races who receive correspondence addressed in their own native language that proper delivery is extremely difficult. In several districts it has been found necessary to send the postmen upon their rounds in sets of three. One of these, a Malay, in charge of all packets for Europeans, Jews, Armenians, Malays, Arabs, Parsees and Japanese, which are presumably addressed in European script or in writing akin to it. The second of the tro is a Chinaman, who deals with correspondence bearing ideographic characters, while the third is a Tamil, who delivers letters addressed in the writing of his own race, as well as any in Telegu and southern Indian writing. These cosmopolitan postmen have, of course, often to consult each other as they deliver the mails, but sometimes even their varied linguistic attainments have to be supplanted by a Sikh who understands Hindostani, Persian and the characters of northern India. Had His Own Burial Place. The family of a member of parliament from Yorkshire has a private graveyard, and has had it for several generations. The founder of it was a quaker, and the rector of the parish in which he lives said to him after a dispute on religious matters: "Well, if you don't come to church when you are alive you will when you are dead." But the quaker thought otherwise and founded the burial place, which is used to this day. Number Six Glove Larger Number Six Glove Larger. Glove manufacturers say that they now make a No. 6 woman's glove larger than they did five years ago. This is because women have become more athletic and thin hands have accordingly grown larger. But they won't acknowledge it, and still insist on wearing the same numbered glove. Our National Industry. There were 60,000 divorces in the United States last year, or an average of nearly seven every hour of the day and night, Sundays included. The business of making and unmaking misfit marriages appears to have become a great national industry. Too Severe. A California man who has beat his mother-in-law, a member of his household, has been sentenced to solitary confinement. That is what most men would call capital punishment. S. A. T. Watkins leaves for Cincinnati, O., Monday morning, where he will spend several days in the interest of the K. P.'s. Mrs. Carrie Warner, 5223 Dearborn street., will eat her Christmas dinner in St. Louis, Mo., with her mother and sister. Alderman William J. Moran, will have no trouble in being returned to the City Council next spring from the 19th Ward. James A. Quinn, City Sealer, of Chicago, left Tuesday evening for West Baden and the East and he will be absent until the first of the New Year. James B. McDonald who is already a dead one, E. M. Cummings, J. A. Hearney and one or two other politicians of more or less note, are the leading candidates for aldermanic honors in the 30th Ward. Alderman William H. Ehemann, has in the past acted fair with all his constituents in the 24th Ward, and next spring they propose to return him to the City Council without opposition. Dr. Daniel H. Williams has recently sold his home, 32d and Forest ave., and has purchased a new one at 42d and Vincennes ave., and when the improvements are on it are completed, the doctor and Mrs. Williams will have one of the most beautiful homes in Chicago. Bethel church has in the past 20 or 30 years collected in more than two hundred thousand dollars, and the most of that vast sum has been squandered by its officers and preachers in buying homes for themselves and in fast living, and after all these years Bethel still owes more than fourteen thousand dollars. Mrs. Geneva Smith, 4764 Dearborn street, departed Tuesday evening on a prolonged visit with her friends and relatives in Atlanta, Ga. She will not return until the latter part of March and will be greatly missed in the smart set in the Town of Lake. Each week Mrs. Smith will read of the doings in Chicago while in the south in The Broad Ax. The Triangle and Inner Circle Clubs will give their annual Christmas charity ball at the First Regiment Armory, 16th St. and Michigan Ave., Monday evening, Dec. 26th. Prof. N. Clark Smith's orchestra will furnish the music. These clubs give more for charitable purposes than all the other social clubs in the city, and that is the main reason why their charity balls are always well patronized. Rev. Archibald James Carey, who declared in Judge Dunne's court in the latter part of July, 1902, while in conversation with Little Bill Ward, "that in less than two weeks from that time he would put The Broad Ax out of business." can receive five dollars from the writer without delay if he will write an article for this paper setting forth everything he knows respecting the five hundred dollars given to him by Mrs. Anderson for the benefit of Quinn Chapel. Will you favor The Broad Ax with the article Rev. Archibald James Carey? The Old Church Organ in its last issue says that Rev. Abraham Lincoln Dr. Murray "spent four years looking after the spiritual side of the work in Bethel Church, but unfortunately leaving the Church about two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) deeper in debt than when he took charge of it. When the members several months ago began to realize that their indebtedness was increasing rather than decreasing, they began an investigation and found that large sums of money were being borrowed to meet the running expenses of the church, and in many cases the church was paying 60 per cent on these loans. If Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray left Old Bethel in such bad shape by simply looking after the spiritual or the sister side of the Church, it is to be hoped that Rev. Archibald James Carey will slack up on the (?) Holy Ghost side of the church. If the members had not joined hands with Revs. Murray, Wilkins, Carey, Thomas,, Little Bill Ward and had refrained from turning over five hundred dollars to several grand rascals to be expended for the purpose of landing us in jail for publishing the truth in connection with their rascality, they would not be forced to pay 60 per cent interest for money to run their church. Every individual will be the happier the more clearly he understands that his vocation consists, not in exacting service from others, but in ministering to others, in giving his life the ransom of many. A man who does this will be worthy of his food, and not fail to have it—Toletis. Thibetan Superstition. A queer bit of Thibetan superstition came to light when the much-talked-of treaty between Thibet and England was drawn up. The powers at Lhassa refused to sign the first draft of the treaty because it covered several sheets of paper, so the treaty had to be engrossed on one huge sheet. The orientals thought it would bring them bad luck if they put their names to anything which covered more than one page. Graham Puffs. Sift together one and one-half cupfuls graham flour, one-half cupful of white flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and a pinch of salt; add one pint of milk, the beaten yolks of three eggs and two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Beat rapidly for a few moments, then add the stiff whites and whip the batter. Turn into a well-greased muffin tin and bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven. —Household. Willie's Treatise on Girls. Girls is a human bein' that shreeks when there's nothin' to squeel at; but boys is difrunt, for they just holler. Girls grow up to wimmin and like dolls, but boys grow up to men and like balls, and when my pa read that he said, "Hyballs, I s'pose you mean, Willie," and then he laft, but ma said, "For shame, Joseph!"—Sunset Magazine. Gem Short Cakes. Make a batter of medium stiffness from one egg, one cupful sweet milk, one tablespoonful butter and one-half teaspoonful of salt. Just before cooking the batter, add a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder and beat briskly for a moment. Bake in hot, buttered gem pans and when done, split open, butter and serve with fruit sauce.—Household. Sentence for Perjury. A judge in New York sent a convicted "straw" bondsman to prison for 14 years for committing perjury, refusing clemency on the ground that perjury had become too common a crime and needed stern dealing with. A few more such sentences would have a wholesome effect in any large community.—Baltimore American. Embarrassments of Fine Clothes. People are afraid of buying good clothes, says a well-known tailor, for fear of having to live up to them. The man who wears a new 30-shillings overcoat cannot go to the ninepenny gallery or argue with a waiter about being charged for bread when he has not had any.—London Globe. Thibetan Bible. The Kahgyur, the Bible of the Thibetans, consists of 108 volumes, or 1,083 books. The whole consists of 108,000 pages printed from wooden blocks, which are kept in a big row of houses at Lhassa. As many as 7,000 oxen have been traded for one set of the book. Illuminated Slang Dr. Wiley, of the department of agriculture, says the bulk of the whisky consumed in America has prune juice as its base. Hereafter we shall understand the literal significance of the hitherto vague expression, "full of prune juice." Atlanta Constitution. Jap Jackies. The average age of the Japanese naval crews is lower than that of the men in any other navy. No one over 20 years old is accepted for enlistment. The average height is five feet four inches—less than that of any other navy. Georgia Potatoes. Boil sweet potatoes until nearly done, pare and slice into a baking dish. Sprinkle bits of sugar among the slices, dust with sugar and turn a wineglassful of sherry over them. Bake until a rich brown.—Home Magazine. What Then? Mr. Goodman—Remember, my son, if your enemy smites you on one cheek, turn the other to him. Willie—But, supposin' he soaks you on both cheeks at once?—Philadelphia Press. Chess is still included in the curriculum of the Russian schools. It teaches the boys to move when young, and is a great advantage in times of war, says a foreign paper. Mechanical Wonder. A recent mechanical wonder is a telegraphic instrument that sends 1,000 words a minute a thousand miles in length. A human operator can transmit 50 words a minute. Poor English Butter The real reason why English butter-making is on the decline in that the average quality of butter made in England is about the worst in the world Country Life. The eastern marketmen have paid $30,000,000 to the melon growers of Rocky Ford, Col., since the discovery of the famous melons there. France, with a population of 38,000,000, has a fighting force of 2,000,000 men, able to appear in the field at very short notice. Use of Meat Scraps. Small bits of roasts and fried or boiled meats can be prepared nicely when run through a machine.—Boston Budget. High Cost of Living. Tinker—Some of the politicians are forever crying against the high cost of living; but I guess there's nothing in it. Hayens—Think not? Tinker—No, I do not. Why, only yesterday a little boy begged me to give him a nickel to buy his father a pair of pants. If clothing is really as cheap as that, I don't see any sense in talking about the high cost of living.—Boston Transcript. Relics for Sale. In strong contrast to the ceremonies lately taking place in Belgrade is the pilgrimage to London and Paris of the ill-fated Queen Draga's nephew, a young Servian officer, George Petrovich, who is endeavoring to dispose of the Alencon lace wedding gown and much of the jewelry that belonged to his aunt. He was on the black "list list" on that fateful June 11, and owed his life to the fact that the soldiers sent to arrest him mistook his address. Vast Riches in Corn. The greatest hoard of the yellow metal ever gathered in any country could not buy one year's harvest of the American corn and wheat. To buy one season's corn crop would take all the gold minted in this country in six years. In the last seven years all the gold mines have produced only enough to buy one year's yield of our six leading cereals. Good Thing—Push It Along. Properly cooked corn is an excellent and healthful fool. It is a cheap substitute for wheat flour, which the speculators are doing their best to put out of the reach of modest livers. Our housekeepers would do well to make a study of the hundreds of ways in which corn yields itself to the demand of appetite when suitably solicited.—Philadelphia Record. Be Optimistic. You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong. Honor that, rejoice in it, and, as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.—Ruskin. Italian Enterprise The interest shown by the Italian government in various ways in alding the different branches of industrial production in Italy in order to enable them to carry on international competition and to satisfy the home market has been made the subject of an interesting report from the Austrian consul-general at Genoa. Fruit Soup. One chopped pineapple, two chopped oranges, one pint of canned strawberries (whole), one cupful of powdered sugar, half pint sherry wine, mix well together and serve very cold in punch glasses. Just before going to table add a covering of chopped ice.—Good Housekeeping. Some of Us Use It There is still another agitation in Washington in the interest of better drinking water. This seems to be an indication that water is used as a beverage in Washington to a greater extent than the rest of the world had supposed.—Scranton Tribune. Rich Woman's Fad. The duchess of Manchester, formerly Miss Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, is spending large sums on her pet dogs, and now has taken up the fad of having her pets manicured several times a day. Too Boisterous. "Yes, but his trouble usually is that he doesn't use 'air,' but 'wind' for that purpose."—Philadelphia Press. New Marine Reptile A new marine reptile has been discovered in the Hosselkus limestone in the upper triassic of Shasta county, California, by Miss A. M. Alexander, an enthusiast on the subject of fossils. Restricted Applause Music hall audiences are very much restricted in Glasgow. In one of them a notice on the walls says that "Whistling or cheering with the feet is strictly prohibited." Cotton enough in the country to cover us, corn enough to feed us, and fiddles enough to keep the whole state dancing.-Atlanta Constitution. Ruse Failed. Ruse Failed. Four Chinese attempted to get over the North Dakota boundary line recently by impersonating Japanese. Their ruse failed and they were deported. GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LA N Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suits 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. MELIS J. DEVING BRIANH R. O'CONNELL DEVINE & O'CONNELL ATTORNEYS AT LAW SURTE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington St. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 898 | CHICAGO PHONES { Office, Main 1157 Res. Brown 42 STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS LAWYER Suite 200, 128-125 La Salle Street CHICAGO Telephone Tards WV Rockefeller, MD Garfield Dd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE CITY B. HALLOWEEN BURNER, CHICAGO Phone 1864 Central JOHN G. 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