The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The New Age of Gold Col. Clarke Irvine From the beginning of our nation one party has done all it could to increase the revenues of government and make taxes heavier. Such was the old Tory Federal party, such the Whig, and is now the Republican's policy. Why so? Solely as an excuse for a protective tariff. By this the people pay taxes indirectly on every article of use, except farm products, the cost is dearer. And when we do not tax a product like coffee, we get the nations who raise it to tax it to death so that our home speculators may size up the crop and put their own price on it. Coffee sold all over the United States from 1842 to 1847 at 14 to 16 pounds for one dollar. The growers even now never get over 3 cents per pound for the best. But our government plays into the hands of monopoly by favoring what are called export taxes. This forces growers to put it in their home custom houses so buyers can tell how much there is. But for this every little tramp vessel from every foreign port where coffee is raised would come laden into all our ports and no spy ships of ours to follow and see if they had coffee aboard. Any government can raise all its revenues by furnishing light, fuel, water, express service, telephone, telegraph, and railroad service to its people and that too very cheaply, as do some of the governments of Europe. In this way government would be a blessing to their people. But our own government is the worst of all. For Manufactured Out of Whole Cloth. An obscure paper which is published every two or three weeks, whose so-called editor steals most of the news which appears in it from the columns of The Broad Ax, which shows that he is made up of cheek and brass, last week the editor of this so-called newspaper managed to raise enough money to get out a few copies, and in order to sell them its alleged editor had some one to write an article for him in reference to the wife of a prominent doctor tracing her husband to a cheap hotel at 12th street and Wabash avenue, where she was supposed to have caught her husband in the act of kissing and making love to another woman. The article in question was a base falsehood and it was a black lie manufactured out of whole cloth, for the writer has been informed by the lady herself "that at no time has she ever put her foot on the inside of the cheap hotel referred to in the article, that in the afternoon and in the evening of the day that she was supposed to be chasing her husband around the streets, for the purpose of preventing him from wasting his money upon other women, that the Doctor and herself were both busily engaged in entertaining a number of friends at their home." and as the Assistant State's Attorney, whom the writer of the article claims was called into the hotel with himself by its owner to help to settle the domestic trouble between the Doctor and his wife, states: "That it is a lie pure and simple, that he did not pass that hotel last week and that he was never called into any hotel by someone he did not know, for the purpose of assisting to divide up the property belonging to any Doctor and his wife residing in this city. All the foregoing is sufficient proof that the article is nothing but a mass of lies and that it was inspired by malace and hatred, and that it cannot effect the social nor the financial standing of the Doctor and his loveable wife. it has betrayed every trust reposed in it and sold to slave-holders, railways, express, oil, coal, manufacturers, bankers, etc., all opportunities. It has given away to rich men whole states in land and added hundreds of millions of dollars to the gifts. No wonder that now a few men, not over twenty in all, own and control this government. To add to the infinite scoundrelism of the work they have by a blunder reduced all the money power of this nation into bondage to the one house that owns all the gold stock of the world and that sits behind the throne of the British Empire. This house has of late, after cheating us out of the Klondike range, demonitizing silver, bought Cherry Creek, exterminated the Boers to get their mines, invaded Thibet where is more gold than in all the world besides, has invaded us with gold ships thereby tearing up all the rich gold bearing valleys of California and already have a hundred such land ships, each clearing thousands of dollars per day, each one doing the labor of five thousand men and horses daily and destroying forever, acres daily of the richest soils of earth. See Booklovers Magazine for last October. The writer of this has in person ascertained this to be literally true. And why such enormous efforts? Because this peculiar commodity is the sole legal tender of the fool people and they must keep the price level. See? THE DEMOCRATIC CITY CONVENTION. Last Saturday the United Democracy held its city convention in the North Side Turner Hall, and after a spirited contest between Fred W. Blocki and John E. Traeger, for the nomination of city treasurer, the following ticket was ground out: For Mayor, Judge Edward F. Dunne; for City Treasurer, Fred W. Blocki; for City Attorney, William B. Moak; for City Clerk, Adrian C. Anson. The platform adopted by the convention has the right ring to it. It favors immediate ownership of the street car lines and it is freely admitted by the wisest politicians of both political parties that "if all the leaders of the Democratic party will get together and stop fighting among themselves," Judge Dunne and his associates on the ticket will triumph over their Republican opponents. ST. THOMAS CHURCH. Father Lealted has presented to his grace the Bishop Anderson 24 candidate to receive the apostolic rite of confirmation. The Bishop preached a masterly sermon on "Your Duty as Catholics," and on last Sunday a.m. Father Lealted celebrated a high requiem mass for the repose of the soul of his grace Bishop Edward McLaren, D.D., D. C. L., L.L. D., who for 29 years was Bishop of the Diocese. The funeral was held at the Cathedral of S. S. Peter and Paul. Eight Bishops and nearly 100 Priests, many sisters and an overflowing congregation joined in the solemn service. The approaching Lent will be doubly sad for many a diocese not in Chicago alone, but for all Catolies the world over. Holy Hother, the Church, calls us from the world on next Ash Wednesday, March 8th, to keep the Lenten Fast not with downcast looks and solemn faces, but with searching eyes turned on the soul and life for a closer walk with God and better Christian lives. The additional services and hours at St. Thomas will be announced later. HEW TO THE LINE. ```markdown ``` THE LATE GEORGE S. BOUTWELL. Ex-Governor of Massachusetts, Author of the Fourteenth Amendment and One of the Greatest Champions of the Civil and the Political Rights of the Negro. Ex-Governor George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, passed away from among his friends at his home in Groton Monday. In his death the Afro-Americans lose one of their most consistent champions of their civil and political rights. Mr. Boutwell was 86 years old, and throughout his long and stormy political career; in season and out of season, his voice was ever raised in behalf of the poor and oppressed of every land. eminently correct, and time will prove that he was one of the wisest, and most far-seeing statesmen of his day and generation. One year ago he delivered before a large audience of colored people in Boston the greatest speech of his life against the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South and at the same time he severely arraigned the present administration for falling or refusing to enforce the federal election. Mr. Boutwell was one of the greatest men in this country, and as a public official he was honest to the backbone. In 1851 and 1852 he was elected governor of his native state by the Democratic party. From 1856 to 1861 he was Secretary of the State Board of Education; from 1850 to 1860 he was a member of the board of overseers of Harvard College. He served as the first internal revenue commissioner of Massachusetts under President Lincoln. Later on he was elected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses. As a member of congress he was the author of the 14th amendment. He was the most conspicuous leader of congress at the time impeachment proceedings were instituted against President Andrew Johnson. After making for himself an imperishable record in the lower hall of congress, he became secretary of the treasury under President Grant and finally succeeded Henry Wilson in the United States Senate. In 1877 he was chosen commissioner to revise the federal statutes. In 1880 he was selected to appear before the international commission on the famous French claims as counsel for the United States. There was no such thing as compromising with injustice in the makeup of Mr. Boutwell and as a member of the "peace" congress in 1861 he shocked the South and the entire country by declaring that "there could be no compromise with slavery, and the only way to save the union was to free the slaves and to invest him with citizen rights." Mr. Boutwell regarded the warfare waged against the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands as ungodly and unholy, and he therefore spoke and fought against the election to the presidency of William McKinley in 1900 and Colonel Roosevelt in 1904, for he was firmly convinced that the policy or course which had been pursued by the Republican party in dealing with the brown people in those islands, has been instrumental in forcing the Negro back to an inferior position, civilly and politically, in the estimation of the American people. eminently correct, and time will prove that he was one of the wisest, and most far-seeing statesmen of his day and generation. One year ago he delivered before a large audience of colored people in Boston the greatest speech of his life, against the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South and at the same time he severely arraigned the present administration for failing or refusing to enforce the federal election laws and to uphold the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States. In the closing of his long and honorable public career humanity has lost one of its noblest and most valiant champions. JAMES A. LOGAN, JR. Should be Given the Full Penalty of the Law for Deliberately Murdering Mrs. Tracy. The people residing in the vicinity of 55th street and Monroe avenue were startled and horrified Tuesday evening by the shooting to death of Mrs. Delia Howe Tracy by James A. Logan, Jr., a young colored boy only 17 years of age who had no other motive for committing the crime than highway robbery. Young Logan, according to his own statement, trained with a gang of tough school boys, who delighted in committing all manner of crimes at night when they should have been home with their parents. And his ending should be a sad warning to parents both black and white to curb their boys and not permit them to prowl around the streets at all hours of the night and transform themselves into midnight assassins. Logan claims that he stole the revolver which he used to deliberately murder Mrs. Tracy with before she had time to hand her purse over to him which he demanded. She was a hard working woman trying to support herself and little child as best she could. Her purse contained no money, and when Logan found it was empty, so he says, "he threw it away and after he was arrested he informed the officers where they could find it. James A. Logan, Sr., his father, deserves to be highly commended for promptly turning him over to the police authorities, as soon as he had learned of the black and diabolical deed which his son had committed, and it conclusively proves that Mr. Logan was not in favor of shielding criminals even if the crime was committed by his own son. There are a very few white men in this country who would have persued such a course. As an object lesson to other wild and desperate boys, young Logan should be given the full penalty of the law. ST MARK LITERARY. (47th and State street.) Last Sunday was Washington's birthday exercises at the St. Mark Literaly. Mr. R. A. Cralley was the orator of the day. Elliott Washington gave a fine recitation and Mrs. Kopperl sang a very beautiful solo. The others who took part in the exercises were Messrs. B. F. Smith, H. D. Smith, S. D. Fowler, W. H. A. Moore and Miss Auna Murphy. Next Sunday afternoon the program will be in the order of a "farewell" to Rev. Robinson. There will be ten minute addresses by the former presidents of the literary. Among those who will speak are Messrs. S. A. T. Watkins, S. D. Fowler, R. G. Bell, S. B. Emmick. The musical numbers will be rendered by Mrs. Mamie Wilson, Mr. J. M. Henry, and Miss Ida Pierce. The St. Mark orchestra will render a selection. CHIPS A colored Catholic church is being established at Dallas, Tex. Mrs. Wm. F. Taylor, 29th street and Armour avenue, is confined to her home by sickness. Miss Edna Oliver is confined to her home, 3552 Dearborn street, with La Grippe. Attorney James G. Skinner will make the race for Alderman in the 32nd ward and he should be elected. former Alderman Fred A. Hart will put Little Alderman Pete Wendling to sleep in the 29th Ward. N. A. Harbin, the right-hand lieutenant of Governor Deneen, is holding a clerkship in the State Board of Health at Springfield, Ill. Col. J. R. Marshall fears he will have to miss the inauguration this time on account of an operation which he must undergo. Rumor has it that Mr. Robert Taylor, telephone operator of the election commissioners office, is to be married in the fall. Mrs. William Bell, 5026 Armour avenue left Thursday morning for Wheeling, W. Va., in order to be at the bedside of her sick mother. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Tyler, 5026 Armour avenue, will leave on Sunday morning for Hot Springs, Ark., New Orleans, La., and Palm Beach, Fla. They expect to be absent one month. Mrs. Jamison, who has been residing at the home of Mrs. James Green, 5054 Armour avenue, has gone to St. Louis, Mo., where she will reside in the future. Miss Inez - Parker, a colored Missouri poetess, has had an excellent dialect poem published in the columns of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mrs. Garrett C. Smith returned to her home in Detroit, Mich., last Saturday, after a pleasant visit with her friend Mrs. Higginbothan, 2225 Dearborn street. Charles C. Buell, 100 Washington street, who never will earn his salt hanging around law offices, is thinking about moving out into the country and following the plow of some farmer. Col. Poney Moore, one of the leading sports in the "Red Light District" is visiting his wife and baby, are spending the winter with his father-in-law, mr. Carrington, Austin, Tex. Miss Elizabeth B. Slaughter, who has spent several weeks at her home in Louisville, has returned and is at her aunt's, Mrs. R. A. Williams, 3544 Dearborn street. Last Monday evening some of the friends of Mrs. Sadie Scott, 135 W. 51st street, ladened with bundles broke into her home and treated her to a surprise party in honor of her birthday. The Oregon legislature adjourned on the 18th, after a forty days' session. Many bills of minor importance were passed, but those disgraceful black laws still remain on the statutes of Oregon's constitution.—The Advocate, Portland, Ore. Mrs. Jos. Kelly, 435 E. 35th street, entertained the S. S. S. Whist Club last Tuesday afternoon. Five games were played after which the ladies did justice to a very elaborate spread of all the delicacies of the season. Mrs. Clarkston, 3118 Wabash ave., still has one or two elegantly furnished rooms, with bath, gas and steam heat, which she will rent reasonably to first-class persons. Mrs. Lizzie McDay was buried from the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs. Samue. Evans, 2919 Armour avenue, Wednesday, afternoon, March 1. Mrs. McDay dropped dead in Bethel Church Monday evening while attending a concert. Alderman Bill Dever wanted the nomination for City Attorney, but the leaders of the party would not hand it to him for they feared that The Broad Ax would put him out of business. Alderman John Burns and Edward M. Cummings will both put up a hot fight in all parts of the 30th Ward from now until the 4th of April and it is hard to tell how the scrap will end. Mr. John F. Connery, president of the Miami Coal Company, Old Colony building, is one of Chicago's shrewdest business men, and under his management his company transacted an enormous business the past year. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, Miss Gertrude Irene Howard, Mr. W. Kemper, Harreld, Miss Estelle C. Bonds and Mrs. J. Doyle were the leading stars in a high-class "musicale" given at Berean Baptist church, 4838 Dearborn street, Monday evening, and it was a grand success. Dr. George C. Hall arrived home last Saturday from an extensive tour through some parts of the Southland. While absent Dr. Hall performed several important operations and delivered a course of lectures to the students of Tuskegee, Prof. Booker T. Washington's school. Last evening from 4 to 11 a farwell reception was tendered to Rev. and Mrs. John W. Robinson, 4752 Armour avenue. Their hosts of friends who called all expressed the hope that his conference would return him to St. Marks where he has labored early and late for its upbuilding or assign him to another charge, equally as good. Mrs. Simon Ford, 5042 Dearborn street, who will in the near future present President Roosevelt with an exquisite and artistically made bedquilt, all the work on it was executed by Mrs. Ford, who has been seriously ill recently, but she is again improving in health, which is very gratifying to her many friends. Mrs. Elizabeth Mead, 5247 Dearborn street, who was one of the oldest residents of the city, departed this life last Saturday. Funeral services were held over her remains Tuesday at Grace Presbyterian Church, Rev. Moses M. Jackson officiating. She was laid to rest in Oakwood. Leonard E. Henderson, the five-months-old grandson of Mrs. Lucy Churchwell, 3445 Armour avenue, who is one of the most highly respected citizens of Chicago, will no doubt win the prize in the baby contest which is going on at Bethel Church and will terminate and be decided Easter Sunday. Assistant County Attorney Louis B. Anderson, shot a "hold-up-man" Tuesday evening. Mr. Anderson regrets the occurrence very much, but had to protect himself against the two cowards who tried to take advantage of him alone in the dark. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principle of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, and Religious, but Public, Public- lance, Rights of Labor, or any one else can have that any, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is bread enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year . . . $2.00 Six Months . . . 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 5040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS T. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill. as Second-class Matter. Desert Telegraph Line. Desert Telegraph mark It is not generally known that there is a telegraph across the southern desert land of the Australian continent, 2,000 miles in length. It runs partially through an uninhabited country and long tracts of waterless desert. While it was being constructed more than 2,000 tons of material had to be carried far into the interior, and many of the iron and wood poles were conveyed 400 miles. A recent report says that the wear and tear of this telegraph construction has been inconsiderable, but there is great difficulty found in supplying the stations across the desert with operators. Pork Rolls. Cut cold roasted pork in thin symmetrical slices; season well with pepper, cover with minced onion and chopped parsley, roll up tightly and tie with a bit of clean wrapping twine. Dredge each roll in sifted flour, and fry brown in butter. To the gravity left in the pan add a little stock or milk, season with salt and epper, boil up once, pour over rolls, from which the strings have been removed, and serve at once. —Good Housekeeping. In Vaudeville The Dutchman—Vat's der difference between a man vat reforms at New Year's und a chap vat goes oud during our act? The Irishman—I give it up, Dutchy. Shoot away. "Vun turns a leaf, und der other leafs a turn." "All right, professor, a little music, if yez plaze."—Louisville Courier-Journal. National Airl. The national airs of great countries are short, while those of little countries are long. "God Save the King" is 14 bars, the Russian hymn is 16 bars and "Hail Columbia!" has 28 bars. Sam's national hymn has 76 bars, and that of Uruguay 70. Chili 46, and so on. San Marino has the longest national hymn, except that of China. Noble and Difficult Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirits always sweet, and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability—that is an idea as noble as it is difficult—Edward Howard Griggs. Fitted for Better Place One of the most remarkable prisoners in the United States is a convict in Sing Sing, who edits the prison paper, the "Star of Hope." He is there for burglary, but in his time has been lawyer, reporter, confidence man, secretary to a khedive of Egypt, preacher, forger and politician. Woman's Progress This invasion by women in all departments of work seems to be as inevitable as doom itself. It is not to be frowned upon or resisted. It has to be accepted. Women not only have come to the good places, but evidently have to stay—Galicago Chronicle. Cream Cheese Sandwich A delicious sandwich is made with cream cheese in which is mixed finely chopped black walnuts. A little salad all may be used to bind the two together. Butter thin brown bread and spread with the mixture. Salt liberally.—N. Y. Post. Ernie—So Helen is married at last! Did her father make any demonstration? Eva—I should say so. You could hear him whoooping and dancing for a block. —Chicago Daily News. Household Hint Never use white canton flannel or white tissue paper for wrapping silver articles in. Blue paper and gray flannel are best, as the white contains a chemil which will blacken the silver in time. —N.Y. Post. Catnip Farm. Near New York city there has been started a catalm farm which is proving a profitable investment. The product is shipped to New York animal dealers, and sold to the owners of cats. Where Ignorance Isn't Bliss. Mrs. Homer—Our hired girl can't read a word of English. Mrs. Caller—What! Not even the bargain advertisements!—Chicago Newn. "Run away and play," replied his ma, "your stomach's fast."—Philadelphia Ledger. [Picture of a woman with a hat and a dress]. MISS GERTRUDE IRENE HOWARD. The Profficient and Popular Cornetist Who Took Part in the Musicale held at Berean Baptist Church Monday Evening. Very Lively Swine. A hog in Arkansas had always fed under the cars loaded with grain. Last summer, while eating under a car, the train started and caught him, cutting off one leg. Several boys amputated the crushed leg and bandaged it, and when healed got a piece of rubber hose, sewed the bottom end, and filled it with sawdust. They then attached the hose to the stump and the hog can now be seen running around the cars at Malden, Mo., as lively as ever. Premature Burial Bare Although premature burial is extremely rare, except perhaps on the battlefield, the possibility of such an occurrence cannot be denied. It is well known that, owing to this possibility, remote as it is, many otherwise strong-minded persons have lived under the shadow of a great fear, and have in their wills directed payments to be made to physicians who should be willing to run the risk of homicide to prevent live burial. Dog-Watch Dog-watch is a corruption of dodgewatch, and is the name given to two short watches of two hours each on shipboard—one from four to six p. m. and the other from six to eight p. m. The dog-watches were introduced to prevent the same men from always keeping watch at the same hours of the day; hence on these occasions the sailors are said to dodge the routine, or to be doing dodge-watch—Boston Globe. War "Insanity." What has been called "war insanity" manifested itself among the population of London and its neighborhood during the Boor war and afterward. A number of persons were admitted into asylum believing that they were pursued by Boers, especially Kruger's relatives. The name "Splon kop" seemed particularly to fascinate persons with morbid fancies. King Finds Husbands. Girls who are not married in Siam before they reach a certain age are put under the care of the king and he finds a husband for them. This is a simple thing to do, for he goes through the list of prisoners in the jails, picks out one man and tells him he can have his liberty if he will marry one of these girls. Sea-Air for Tuberculosis It is proposed, says the London Lancet, to attempt a new departure in the treatment of tuberculosis by sea voyages. A large sailing vessel will leave England for a long voyage in warm latitudes, and will be prepared to convey a number of consumptives, inebriates and "other invalids." Just Out of College If it wasn't for the young man just out of college the rest of us wouldn't realize how little we really know." Herbert Spencer maintained that some things are unknowable. The average young man just out of college will, of course, dislike this—Philadelphia Record. Land Owners in Denmark In Denmark there are 224,000 rural landowners. More than half have not more than one acre, 96,000 have less than four acres and only 2,000 have more. The small landowners mainly occupy themselves with the egg and fowl industry. Not a Sign of Spring. A man who saw snakes the other day says it is a sure sign of an early spring; but there are others, particularly the medical gents, who will beg to file a dissenting opinion.—Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Words in Bible. The precise number of words in the Old and New Testaments is 773,692 and by reading something like ten minutes a day at a pace of 200 words a minute one could read the Bible through in a year. "Blue Moon." The London Lancet says taint "Once in a blue moon" does not mean never, but seldom. The last blue moon in England was on December 10, 1883. Its color was due to atmospheric conditions. Pensions for Workmen Dr. Tillan, of Paris, whose death was recently announced, has be queested $20,000 to a fund for providing old-age pensions for workmen. If your husband it does, asked the caller at the door. "Sure and he's not," said the big, red-faced woman who had opened the door. "You see, madam, I am a traveling phrenologist, and I'd like to examine the bumps on your husband's head." "You're too late. We did have a bit of an argument this morning, and my husband's gone down to the doctor's to have him examine them."—Yonkers Statesman. Life on the Moon! Prof. Max Maushofer, of the University of Berlin, believes that life, animal and vegetable, is not extinct on the moon. Water probably exists underground, and the last of the Selenites may dwell in pits, craters and caverns, fly or move by means of wings and live upon worms. They dare not face the sunlight as we do, and their eyes are like those of bats or owls. It would be interesting to know their ideas about ourselves.—London Globe. Uniform for Church Of all the impracticable suggestions ever made by man as to what woman should or should not do one of the most amusing is that recently made by an English writer for all churchgoers to wear a uniform costume, in order to eliminate the element of snobbery from the exercise of religious duties. How long would it take a modern ingenious dressmaker to evolve an expensive and distinctive style of sackcloth coats? The Too Careful Eater When we see an otherwise sensible man take for his entire luncheon day after day that which would not satisfy a cat, those of us who are under the impression that the organs of the body were made to work, and not to loaf, are apt to reflect that many men do a deal of worrying over things that nature is perfectly competent to take care of.—N. Y. Medical Journal. Russian "Babists." At a recent meeting of the Imperial Geographical society at Weadikawakas. Russia, the explorer Arakelyani made some interesting statements about the religious sect of the Babists. This Mohammedan organization was founded in 1844 by the Persian Mirsa All Mohammed, and now numbers about 5,000,000 members. Life's True Wealth The only wealth is life; the only way to make the best of this world is to make the best of the other. For the two are one. The highest gleams ever through this lower. The pilgrim to the better country is the man who, living or dying, knows the bliss of perpetual youth.-J. Brierly. A Little Slow. Far eastern punctuality was illustrated the other day by the viceroy of Wu Chang. China, who had an appointment to review 5,000 school children at 8 a. m. and appeared, smiling, on the review ground at 2 p. m. The children had waited for him six hours. Plantation Flour. Banaharina the new flour of fine quality from the plantain, is reported to have proven an agreeable and healthful food. In Venezuela, where it seems to be gaining favor, it is especially recommended as a nutritious food for children and invalids. Malicious Rumor The absurd tale that Lady Hopton Wood's pretty little Manx cat was suffering from diseased liver has no foundation in fact. The liver was perfectly good, and similar to that usually supplied,—London Punch. Medicinal. Carrots may be advantageous eaten by those with a tendency to gout. Celery is said to be excellent for those afflicted with rheumatism, as it contains so much sulphur.—Detroit Free Press. Money Difficulties Canadians who travel in the United States and Americans who travel in Canada alike complain of the embarrassments incident to the different money issues of the two countries. Diamond Drill Work It is calculated that when every precaution has been taken, a diamond drill working in rock of average hardness will near away about one carat for every 15 feet bored. The Undeveloped South. The south is practically a new country in its agriculture. Scarcely one fourth of its arable lands are in cultivation.-Southern Farm Magazine. No Birds on Hats The Arkansas legislature has recently passed a law which makes it possible to fine any woman wearing a stuffed bird on her hat from $25 to $50. The diamond yield of South Africa, which began with $2,500 in 1867 and reached $18,000,000 in 1888, was $24- 500,000 last year. Slow Growth of Trade Within the last 30 years the trade of the United States with South America has increased only five per cent. Something Harder Many a man with an iron will find it crumpled against a woman's granite "won't."-Chicago Tribune. Young Jap Brides It is stated that not one bride was over 22 years old in the 346,590 marriages in Japan last year. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 1516 St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 123d St. and Armour Ave. CHJCAGO Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street Hours: 9 to 12 A. 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Finally, the Scotch Water Power syndicate is peering round in quest of waters that it can imprison at lofty levels and so generate electric power. From Loch Sloy, 757 feet above Loch Lomond, it is going to get 6,600-horse power, and at Ardul, higher up, it proposes to get further energy. Even a modest stream that drops several hundred feet may be a source of power. UMBRELLA A. WIRY THING. If Not Attached to Owner by a Chafn It May Disappear with an Entire Etranger. Umbrellas are proverbially a hard thing to keep, says the Illinois State Journal. They have such a way of making up with an absolute stranger and walking away with him. No matter how much a man may be attached to an umbrella, if it is not attached to him with a chain he may as well bid it an affectionate farewell whenever he puts it down in a corner and turns away to transact some business. However, this rule, hard, fast and inflexible as it is, does not apply unless the umbrella is new and shiny and cost more than 39 cents at retail. To keep an umbrella on down through the years and have it on hand to will to your grandchildren, select one with a cracked handle and a hole in the cover as large as a boilermaker's hand. Then you can't lose it, or if you do after repeated attempts a small boy will be around at your door with it in the morning claiming a reward for his honesty. JAPAN AS OUR CUSTOMER. England and the United States Are Favored in Trade of the Insular Country. According to an article in the German Export Review, quoted in the consular reports, the materials needed for shipbuilding are bought in England. Even big ships built for Japan in Germany years ago were ordered to Armstrong's in England for their armament. Recently Krupp and the French firm of Schneider are preferred. The fact that England and the United States are favored is shown by the purchase of material for the Yokohama waterworks. In calling for bids it was provided that the cocks come from England and the water meters from England or the United States, the names of firms even being specified. Locomotives for the railroads in Japan and Korea are bought exclusively in the United States, presumably because they are more quickly obtainable there. The friendship for the United States is increasing. BUSY LAKE SEASON ENDS. More Traffic This Year on Great Bodies of Water Than Ever Before. "The great lakes are about to see the close of one of the busiest seasons they have ever known," said a lake captain in the Washington Post. "A large number of immense new vessels were added to the carrying fleets this year, but the increase in capacity was not sufficient to meet the increased demand. No vessel, no matter of what class, ever had to be without a cargo. One of the big steel vessels of to-day carries as much as 45 or 30 vessels of the type in use a few years ago, and they make their trips in about one-fourth or one-fifth the time. Why, we had to depend on the old-timers, the great lakes would have to have more ships, numerically, than there are on all the seas in the world." THEATER ON MOUNTAIN TOP Opera House at Thale, Germany, Is the Most Novel Resort in the World. Probably the most novel theater in the world is that which was recently opened at Thale, in Germany. The theater is on the summit of a mountain, and is surrounded on all sides by steep rocks; the seats for the audience are hewn out of the rock and accommodate 1,000 persons, and the stage, which is also hewn out of the rock, is 80 feet long by 54 feet wide. No artificial scenery is used, but the background is formed by the dense forest and by the outlines of the mountains in the distance. The dressing-room for the actors is close at hand in the forest, but completely hidden from the audience. The theater is fully protected from the wind, and its acoustic properties are so excellent that every word is heard. New Baggers Deserving New Bogart's "I have never known a deserving case of street begging," was the remarkable statement Sir Eric A. Buchshank, secretary of the London Mendicity society, made the other day. Elderly ladies find the soft scarf very becoming, and now that lace is so much in vogue no better gift can be offered at this time than that modeled after the design in the accompanying cut. A piece of fine net the desired length should be edged with lace braid; and the ends ornamented with lace fashioned from the same braid. The lace design here shown is a comparatively simple one; includes what is frequently called the simple lace stitch, the wheel or spider, and in the stem pattern the single bar is used. If preferred, the lace and net idea may be carried out in stock or turn-over collar instead of the less A NEAT LACE SCARF END. common scarf. Speaking of collars, there comes to mind a dainty bit of neckwear recently seen in the shops, and which could easily be made at home; one of the revised old-fashioned sort, a lay-down collar to wear with an old-style brooch. Sew together three strips of fine insertion, finish with a frill of lace, fasten upper part of collar to a neck band. This may be made by the home needlewoman for a few cents, but costs dollars when bought down town. HAND-SEWING REVIVED. All Kinds of Hand-Made Things Now Much in Esteem, Especially Fine Needlework. Needlework as an art has long been despipped, but is now being revived. The day will soon dawn when, once more, a girl will blush to have to own that she cannot stitch, sew, tuck, hem, gather, whip, and fell linen into beauty and usefulness. Hand-embroidered and crocheted, knitted or netted lace, lasts for years, and puts the machine-made imitations to scorn. With clever fingers a very little money suffices to render a house beautiful, and the pleasure derived from the work of one's hands is priceless. Curtains of serge or velvetteen may be transformed into splendor by embroidery and stitchery. Tablecloths that would cost ten times the money in a shop can be made and embellished at home. Pretty underclothing is a necessity to every nice girl, and it is prettiest when she makes it herself in dainty shapes and with fine trimmings of frills, lace or embroidery. A girl never looks sweeter than when occupied with a feminine handicraft. There are the poor. "Blessed are they there are the poor." Blessed are they wives with what delight tired mothers of the people buy cheaply good and beautiful clothes for their bairns and themselves, there would be more ladies' handicraft clubs. These clubs are formed by a number of girls who meet one afternoon or evening at a member's house or the clubroom and work for the poor. No garment or article is given away. The workmen's wives and mothers pay a low price for each, covering the cost of the material. The club members give the time and work. The garments are simple, but beautiful in shape and make, the aim being to show that plain clothing need not be ugly or gaudily vulgar. Handicraft clubwork is not limited to the needle. Small bookshelves and cupboards, fret work, poker work, leather work, curtain work, ribbon work, bent-iron, metal and bead work, are all useful. FOR THE NEEDLEWOMAN. Pretty jabots are made from fine lace handkerchiefs. Gilt threads are used with good effect in embroidering white linen collar and belt sets. Pretty plaited waists of sea-green albatross figure among the least expensive blouses. The new-old and exquisitely beautiful ribbon embroidery appears on collars, cuffs, belts, bags and gowns. An ingenious woman made an old white lace shawl into a beautiful evening wrap by lining it with innumerable frills of white chiffon. Some of the lingerie petticoats have flounces and ruffles cut out in deep scallops, tiny ruffles of narrow lace set on the under ruffle and showing in the fan-shaped spaces. Embroidered brussels lace cravats are among the pretty models that may be easily constructed at home. They may be of white, cream or black net and the embroidered done in geometrical designs. A newspaper-cutting book can be contrived by making an outer cover of cartridge paper and inserting between it a blank paper writing pad from which the leaves are loosened all but an inch at the left side. You can paste your paper cover on to it and paint on the outside a large cluster of many-colored pansies to represent the inclosed "thoughts," painting in gold the word "peeees" under the flowers. A Kitchen Necessity. Borax is a useful thing to have in a kitchen. Add a little to the water when boiling out enameled蒸cepans and it will help to cleanse them. IF added to the water dish clothes are washed in it will help to keep them a nice color. RETURN DAY IN DELAWARE. Old Election Custom Observed at a County Seat—Populace Assemblies and Hazes Losers. Sussex county Delaware, on the day after election, as for a century past it has done on the Thursday following a big election, gathered at the county seat to celebrate the return day. The actual reading of the returns from the courthouse steps, the hazing of losers and the congratulations of the winners have passed with the birth of telegraph, telephone and newspapers, but with true Delaware exclusiveness the county clings to its unique post-election festival. Every man, woman and child in lower Delaware who could scour up a conveyance was there, says the New York Sun. Every one was in holiday attire and the horses were gaudy with flags and bunting. Thousands picnicked in the courthouse square and did everything, from talk politics to swapping horses. The negro, who forms a large percentage of the county's population, was out in force. He had money—he always has had since Addicks was in politics—and he will willing to barter his money for the cup that cheers. Frequently the colored brother started out to hunt trouble and always got it from the nearest citizen. Sometimes his ardor was cooled with a fist, at other times a club or an iron hitching weight was used. The remedy was always effective. The prevailing trend of conversation was that votes had brought a higher figure than ever before and that immediate prosperity was assured. FORTUNES MADE IN RUBBER King of the Belgians Is Waxing Rich in Central Africa—Carnegie's Prophecy True. The prophecy made by Andrew Carnegie that the coming men of power would be rubber millionaires is already being fulfilled. The late Henry M. Stanley left a fortune, accumulated in spite of his disregard for wealth, consisting largely of his interests in rubber plantations in central Africa. Stanley's dream was of building a great empire, but it never occurred to him to build it for himself, else his estate would have been infinitely larger than that of Cecil Rhodes. But the king of Belgium is a man of different mold from Stanley, and this royal rubber merchant is working innumerable thousands of acres of trees in the land where Stanley meant to erect a state, and amassing a fortune which will be simply stupendous in its figures. His enterprise is at the cost of whole races of nations, and of the trees, but such ruthless destruction is neither wise nor necessary, and civilized powers will yet put a limit to such inhumanity. Carnegie is right. There are millions being made, and yet to be made, in rubber, but it will be by the preservation and cultivation of both the rubber trees and the people who plant and care for them. GEMS AND WEATHER AGREE Up-to-Date Girl Inaugurates Fashion of Having Jewels and Forecast Match. The up-to-date girl no longer wears her rings to match her costumes, but to match the weather, says the N. Y. Sun. During the hot summer she discarded her diamonds and rubies for topazes, moonstones and turquoises. She declared the more ardent stones made her feel warmer than the weather. With the nippy fall days she puts on her emeralds and sapphires. On a bright, sunny day she wears pearls, but never on a gloomy day, for she says pearls are nothing but tears anyway, and the combination of pearls and clouds would be too depressing to endure. On rainy days she wears opals because they promise brightness and clear days to come. Her rubies, garnets and diamonds she saves for winter weather. The diamond is a good cold weather stone, even if it is somewhat stately, because it is constantly giving out flashes of brilliant color. Amethysts are always suggestive of thick clothes, and should be worn just as summer is changing into fall. Bounty for Porcupines The governor and council of Maine are very busy preparing vouchers resulting from the enactment of the porcupine bounty law for presentation to the next legislature. This will be one of the first bills before the coming session, and will probably result in the immediate repeal of the act. At the last session an act was passed providing for an appropriation of $500 to be paid as a bounty on porcupines, 25 cents being paid on every animal killed. The returns to the state show that a total of 60,000 porcupines have been killed in the year of 1903, and the appropriation has been exceeded by $14,500. High-Priced Dirt The highest priced real estate in London is near the Bank of England. Land sells there at the rate of $275 a square foot—$160,250,000 anacre. From this center the price diminishes in a receding tide, rising again in the Strand to a price of from $60 to $100 a square foot. In Bond street, in the West end, a still higher price of $175 a square foot or more than $7,500,000 an acre, has been reached. The Double Cocoon The latest breeding freak is a double-cocoon race of silk worms, which has been bred in Japan. Exempt from Service. Public officials and merchants are not obliged to serve in the Japanese army. DOG FINDS RICHES IN GEMS Canine Gets Mixed Up in Rapids and Is Disentangled with Pearls Clinging to Him. Two French Canadians and a "blue-nose" citizen of New Brunswick, who have been hunting along Lobster stream in Maine for three weeks with small success, returned to Bangor, carrying half a pint of pearls, all of them taken from Lobster rapids one rainy morning in a manner described below. Up to the present time these three have all been citizens of unimpeached veracity. They had taken a setter dog to camp to help them in shooting partridges, but they found so many fleas upon him that he was compelled to stay outside in disgrace. One morning about a week ago they heard the dog yelping for help from the stream. On going to his assistance they discovered that he was attached to some object under water which threatened to drown him. It required a strong pull to free the dog from the rocks. On taking him to camp the party discovered that his long, red hair was thickly spattered with the shells of mussels, which had closed upon his coat so tightly that he could not get free. On opening the shells in order to free them from the hair, they uncovered nearly 50 large pearls, all of good color, and fairly free from blemishes. At the lowest estimate the citizens think that the pearls they have secured will sell for $500, enough to pay for hunting trips for several years. SMALL FISH KILL A HORSE. An illustration in Youth of the danger that sometimes lies in small fishes is the case of a fish which is common in the rivers of South America, the serrasalmo. It is probably the most fearless of all fishes, very small, of peculiar shape, with powerful jaws, so strong and sharp that they can bite a piece out of an animal as neatly as though it had been done with a pair of scissors. In some places it is impossible to fish, as the moment a fish is hooked thousands of, these vicious creatures flock to the spot and tear it to pieces before it can be brought to the surface. The fish apparently does not know what fear is, and has in more than one instance jeopardized human life, if not destroyed it. A traveller fin crossing a river on horseback was attacked by these fishes, the blood from his horse's legs attracting them in such multitudes that the animal was devoured as it swam. The rider leaped from its back and swam to shallow water surrounded by the throng. Though protected by his clothing he was bleeding from a hundred wounds, and had not the shallow water been near he would have shared the fate of his horse. CORSETS FAD OF ANCIENTS Oxford Man in Unearthing Palace Smashes Theory of Uncramped Women of Long Ago. Arthur Evans, the Oxford Archaeologist, who has made so many interesting discoveries in the so-called palace of Minos, in Crete, has found in a subterranean sanctuary certain very ancient, small earthenware statues, representing some goddess and two of her servants. The dress of the figures is said to be highly modern. The goddess, we grieve to say, wears a corse, just such a carset as contemporary man shyly wonders at in the windows of a department store. The skirt of the robe of the goddess is "in Louis XV. style." Her jacket is "exactly as is worn in the present day." Styles of say 2000 B. C., styles of 1904. Unless some humorist has "salted" the excavations, you are forced to hold, remarks Everybody's Magazine, that much nonsense has been written about the splendid, free, uncramped bodies of the female ancients. And "we shift and bedeck and bedrape us" much as our esteemed ancestors did in the morning of the world. Told by Truthful James. A more or less truthful Australian relates that he put an unusually large porcelain egg in the nest of a hen and found that the next eggs she laid were of increased size. Then he put a goose egg in the nest. The hen laid an egg just as large. He was so pleased with the scheme that he put a whitewashed football in the nest. When he went the next time to search for eggs he found one as big as a football, but no hen in sight. Securing the egg, he saw engraved on it, by hen protography, these words: "I'm no ostrich, but I've done my best." Later he found the hen inside the egg. Bows as Kitchen Servants The servant girl problem has been solved by University of Nebraska students, many of whom have taken the place of the kitchen maid in a number of homes. This is because young men students at the university have taken up domestic science in the classroom, and are applying the knowledge thus acquired to earn college expenses. Sanitarium in Polar Regions. A Russian physician is talking of establishing a sanitarium for consumptives in the polar regions. He thinks it would be a success, because he has observed that the members of polar expeditions who succeed in getting home are always in good health. This is so because of the pure air and the absence of all microbes. Along the Killing Idna. It is said in Maine that the first deer killed this season was shot by a woman. A man killed the first human being. OPALS NO LONGER FEARED Superstition That the Stone Brings Bad Luck Passing Away—Strenuous Life the Cause. Superstition fades away in the strenuous life of the twentieth century. And the return to common sense has shown itself in the modern fancy for opals. Sir Walter Scott was chiefly responsible for the idea of bad luck being connected with this stone, as will be remembered by readers of "Anne of Geierstein." And others declare that, as the word opal is from the Greek ops (the eye), the gem shares evil influence with a peacock's feather. However, women have lived down all this and opals are the lucky stone for autumn and have been worn by recent brides. But even now stories are told of the uncanny influence of the opal. Alphonso XII. of Spain presented an opal ring to his young wife, Mercedes, on their wedding day and her death occurred soon afterward. Before the funeral the king gave this ring to his sister, Maria Del Pilar, and she also died a few days afterward. The king then presented the ring to his sister-in-law, Princess Christian, and she died in the course of three months. Alphonso, distressed at these fatalities, resolved to wear the ring himself, but he did not wear it long, as his unhappy life shortly came to an end. The queen regent then attached the fatal ring to a gold chain, which she hung around the neck of the Virgin of Almudena in Madrid. NUDENESS JARS JAPANESE. Severe Shock Is Administered to the Islanders by This Form At the St. Louis fair a Japanese merchant was praising the exhibit of Japan. "We shall undoubtedly get a number of awards, prizes, medals and diplomas," he said. "I hope that on none of these will appear drawings containing nude figures. We are a modest people; nude figures shock us. A number of Japanese manufacturing concerns that took part in the Columbian exposition received diplomas, suitable for graming, whereon there were drawings of nude women. These concerns, with some misgiving, hung their diplomas in their factories at home. Hence a great deal of scandal, and the diplomas had to come down. There was one firm, a rice-polishing firm at Takamatsu, that came near incurring serious trouble. Its diploma, very nude indeed, was hung in the hall of the factory and the women hands refused to go to work the morning it appeared. The men, taking the matter up, refused to work either. The factory, had not the Columbian exposition's diploma been removed, would have had to close its doors. In Japanese art the nude never appears. The human figure is always draped. Foreign artists should remember this in work intended for Japan." WARMS NOSE WITH CIGAR. New York Man Holds Fire End Close to Face and Then Takes Snuff. Many and varied are the ways and means adopted by people these days as a protection from the cold, but one of the oldest schemes is that of a man who uses his cigar to warm his nose. While on the street he invariably smokes a cigar, and at frequent intervals he removes it from his mouth and holds the lighted end close to his nose, which happens to be an organ of uncommon size, says the New York Times. Some years ago this gentleman froze his nose, and ever since it has been extremely susceptible to cold. "Moreover," explained the man, "there is a considerable amount of heat radiated from the fire end of a cigar, much more than you would naturally suppose; yet I admit in extreme cold weather it is not sufficient to keep my nose comfortable, and at such times I have snuff. The resultant sneezing amply serves the purpose." CALLS SUN A BINARY STAR Prof. Bigelow Expounds Ideas About Old Sol and Laws Govern- "The sun should be regarded as an incipient binary star," says Prof. Bigelow, in the Weather Review. Recent scientific work in investigating the circulation of the solar atmosphere in accordance with the laws governing the convective and radiative action of a large mass of matter contracting by its own gravitation, have led Prof Bigelow to the hypothesis that "the single fiery envelope conceals two disks." A series of observations extending over many years on the period of solar rotation at various points in the surface shows that "the same meridian of the sun is seen twice in a single rotation of the entire mass, first as the eastern limb, and second, 13 days later, as the western limb." Therefore the sun has a dumbbell figure of rotation. Diplomat a Fine Pianist Theodore Hansen, first secretary of the Russian embassy in Washington, is an accomplished musician, being devoted especially to the piano. Most of his spare time is passed fingering the keys of a concert grand, which he has in his apartments. But he is haunted by street pianos, which seem to have an atonic propensity for cutting loose just in front of wherever he happens to live. Three times he has changed his quarters on this account, and he solemnly declares that unless he can effect permanent escape from the torment of "popular music," he may be driven to resign his position. TELEGRAPHY IN AUSTRALIA. Railroads and Other Improvements Are Unusually Extensive in That Country. The circumstances of Australia, and the conditions of its settlement, have had the effect of making both its railroads and its telegraphs unusually extensive in comparison with the numbers of its population, and this is markedly the case with its mileage of telegraph lines, writes Hugh H. Lusk, in the North American Review. At present the great island is only settled on a strip of country bordering on the coast, and even that strip does not include the more northern shores either on the east or west, and takes in no part of the north side at all. The consequence is that a line of telegraph which connects the settlements of Queensland on the northeast of Australia with those of West Australia on the west coast—a distance, in a direct line, of about 2,500 miles—covers fully double that distance from the necessity of keeping in touch with the settled districts. There is, indeed, one line of telegraph which of necessity ignores this rule, and passes for nearly its whole length of about 1,700 miles from the south to the northwestern corner of the island, through an unsettled country. The purpose of this line is to connect settled Australia with the rest of the world by way of Java and India, and it passes through great districts of the interior which were first explored for the purpose of its construction. TANGIER NIGHT FASCINATES Writer Declares That Nothing Is Quite So Beautiful as Moorish Evening. Tangier is most fascinating at night; then the clear moon of the south throws a veil over the city; the browns become softened, the shadows deepened; the shrouded women looking down from the roof tops appear as pale and lovely ghosts, writes Martha Lowell, in the Four-Track News. It is at night that the Moor goes to some cafe, joins the circle of his brethren seated around a lighted brazier, smokes and hears the musicians sing of valor and of love. And if the musicians sing well, a wealthy Moor may throw some rare incense upon the brazier, and the air is then filled with a wondrous perfume, such as is found in no other country in the world. It is at night that the wedding processions march through the winding streets. A band of men, singing the weird wedding song, accompanies the bride. She rides in a covered palanquin mounted on a mule. She has never seen the man whose wife she is to be. If he isn't pleased he will return her next day together with the scornful gift of two chickens. MAKE GEMS FROM QUARTZ. Rock Crystal, Purest Form of That Stone, Employed in Manufacture of Diamonds. Diamond cutting up to a recent time was nearly all done abroad, Holland being the chief center of the industry for some centuries, but of late a good deal of it has come over to America, where electrical machines are used in the work to great advantage in all ways. European work has always been done by hand, as it still is, and the lapidaries there are only just waking up to the knowledge that artificial power can be applied. Besides cutting real gems, the machinery employed here turns out great quantities of artificial ones, which now rule the markets of the world. They are so brilliantly cut and polished that only experts can distinguish them from the genuine article. Rock crystal, the purest form of quartz, is employed in making artificial diamonds, and this can only be worked to advantage with the electrical machines, hand work leaving no profit in the business, besides turning out inferior results. NO BOUNDS TO HIS LOYALTY Balloon Vender Celebrates Recognition by Duchess by Throwng Wares Away. A pretty little incident was recently witnessed in Moscow in connection with the imperial children of Russia. While driving in the fair ground with her sisters Grand Duchess Olga esplied a peasant offering colored balloons for sale. Giving an order to stop the carriage, she called the man to her side and selected several balloons for herself and her sisters, for which she rewarded the astonished peasant with a ten-ruble piece. The gratified moujik in vain endeavored to stammer out his thanks to the little princess and at the same time, in the characteristic Slavonic manner, he crossed himself and called on all the saints to witness his good fortune. Then, in a sudden excess of loyalty and abandonment, he cut the string which held the remaining balloons together, and allowed all his stock in trade to float away together. Wooden Russia. Few people who have not traveled about the Russian empire can imagine how boundless is its wealth in timber. "Wooden Russia" is the name applied to the vast forest areas of Russia in Europe, which cover nearly 800,000 acres, or 38 per cent, of the entire area of the country. In Russia houses built of any other material than wood are almost unknown outside the cities, and wood constitutes the principal fuel. The forest belt called the "Tniga," in Siberia, stretches in a direct line from the Urals to the Pacific for 4,000 miles, and is in many parts 500 miles broad. All this is the property of the ear. CHiPs. Mrs. Jane Fans, aged 73, has grad- ‘uated from the elementary grade, Hill- house Evening school, Boston, with honors. She is an ex-lave. Anxious to Jearn to read, she recently applied for instruction. With 2 child's primer she made good progress, and can now read the bible anu newspapers. She secured ‘the prize awarded among 250 pupils. ‘Mrs. Edward Ford of New Orleans, La, who has spent the past four months with friends in this city, left for ber home in the South the first of the week. Mrs. Ford is a most charm- ing lady to meet, and she will be wined and dined by her many friends when she revisits Chicago next sum- mer. ‘Thosmas E. Barrett, the popular high sheriff of Cook County, is looking and feeling better than he has for many years. He was greatly benefited by bis trip through the South and since his return home he has set the pace for all the boys around the Sher- iff's office, in dispatching business in connection with that office. Sheriff "Barrett is firm in his opinion “that Judge Dunne is a winner and that he will be tue next Mayor or Chicago.” One of the many lady friends of this paper who is full of “Race Pride” needed the services of a lawyer last week and she was on the eve of en- gaging Little Ed Alexander to transact some law business for her, but when she learned that he is dishonest and that he hung us up for five dollars, the lady backed back and declared “that she would not permit rascals claiming to be lawyers to handle one cent of her money.” ‘Herman Molner, Democratic candi- date for Alderman in the 15th Ward, is am uptodate business man. Mr. Molner is President of the Illinois Moulding co. manufacturers of pic- ture frames, mouldings and art nov- cities, Wes: 22nd street and Western avenue, and be will make a useful member of the new city council. ‘State penator Edward J. Rainey, who’ is a thorough gentleman and a practical man of affairs, was this week selected by the majority of the Judges of the Uircuit Court as South Park Commissioner. The citizens gener- ally shoud feel proud of the fact that a gentleman like Senator Rainey will be permitted to serve them in such an honorable capacity. Alderman Stanley H. Kunze: “I want to say right now that Judge Dunne, ana his running mates on the ticket wul be elected by forty to fifty thousand majority.” John M. Harlan wili not be in it, and the boys can make lots of easy money by bett- jng on .-e Democratic standard bear- aa The ladies of the Order of the Eastern Star, who had charge of the refreshment end of the last Knight Templars Charity Ball, have through the secretary of the committee, Mrs. Louise Webb, 4712 Armour avenue, caused to be written a letter of thanks to The Broad Ax for the publicity it gave to the affair. More than forty dollars was cleared by the ladies on that occasion. ‘The members of the Appomattox Club gave a masquerade ball at their club rooms, Monday evening. Col. B. F. Moseley was masked as Johan Hoch, who has been married to more wead- minded women than any other gentle. man in this country, and who should be given his Mberty, owing to the record he has made in this respett, and Mrs. V. N. Blackwell, who is so Yair and voluptuous, clung close to the side of Colonel Moseley, so that he would not flirt too strongly with the other lovely ladies who flocked around him. F. L. Barnett, who jumped over a dead man and his coffin while attend- ing a wake, a few years ago in order to get put of the way of some of the relatives of the dead man so that they ‘would not ask him for some pension money, wants to become minister to ‘Bayt. If President Roosevelt should decide to select old man Barnett for that position, many of the Senators ‘would be- forced to rush out of the panes shatter and beA emoliiar hat. leur ‘THIS OUT AND PASTE IT ‘sae Genin teat, It is worth anyones time to famil- larize themsel¥es with the latest post al laws pertaining W newspapers: Newspaper Law. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to continue sub- scriptions. 2. “If subscribers order the discon- tinuance of their periodicals, the pub- Usher may continue to send them un- til all arrears are paid. * 3. Lr suuseribers neglect’ or refuse to ‘take their perioaicals from post office to which they are directed, they are responsible until tney have settled their bills and ordered them discon- tinued. 4. If the subscriber moves to an- other place without informing the publisher, and the papers are sent to the former directions, they are held responsible. 5. The courts have decided that the refusing to take periodicals from post office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. 6. If subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give notice to the publishers, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue tt, otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it, the subscriber will be re- sponcible until an express notice with payment of arrearage is sent to the publisher. 7. The latest postal laws are such that newspaper publishers can arrest anyone for fraud who takes .a paper and refuses to pay for it. Under this law the man whe allows his subscrip- tion to run along for some time, un- paid, and then orders the postmaster to mark it “refused,” and has a card sent notifying the publishers, lays him- self liable to arrest and fine, the same as for theft, etc. Descriptive. Flora—You know I've been so anx- fous to hear from that friend of mine who is on such an interesting trip to Bouth Africa. Dora—Yes. “Well, P've had a long letter from her ‘and all she says is ‘we had a beautiful ‘trip around the Horn.’ All the rest was about a man she had met on Doard!"—Detroit Free Press. . 044 New Toy. ‘The Intest Paris toy is a terra cotta head, on the top of which, and in the place of which the eyebrows should be are furrows. A packet of fine grass seeds is sold with the head. The head ia well wetted and the seed is put in the furrows. In a few days a fine crop of green hair and eyebrows is pro- Guced, to the great delight of all be- holders. ‘Immense Light. St. Catherine's lighthouse has just been fitted with a flashlight which is ‘estimated to be equal to 15,000,000 can- dle power, and on nights when the at- ‘mosphere is favorable its beam is prob- ably visible from the French coast. The old light was of about 3,000,000 candle ' Zeck Guesiclens, A writer in the Boston Cooking School Magazine, says: “In the second semes- ter, at Bryn Mawr, if girl refuses candy, it {e supposed that she is keeping Lent, feat che bas reached the chagiee on ” im Prof. James’ text-book on psychology. Can’t Be Done. California's botanical wizard is too practical to waste time on blue roses. He has already produced many valu- able varieties of fruit and even hopes to improve on the Boston bean.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Barely Possible. ‘Tom—What a soft, liquid voice Miss DeWines bas. ‘Jack—Yes; inherited it from her fath- er, I presume. He used to run a speak- easy in Pittsburg. —Chicago Daily News. Of Course. Bell—Would you allow « man to kiss you? ‘Maud Vim—Well, I think it is our duty to—er—to make allowances for the weaknesses of mankind.—N. Y. Times. ‘When the Hub Speaks. ‘The situation in Russia is to be con sidered st a mass meeting in Boston ‘this week. After that the czar and his ‘advisers will know precisely what to 40.—Prowidence Journal. . | ‘Bo Deserving Beggars. “I have never known a deserving case of street begging.” was the remarkable statement of Sir Eric A. Buchanan, sec- retary of the London Mendicity society, made the other day. ‘Confidence. “He is very optimistic, isn't het” “Oh, yes! He is absolutely certain ‘he can do anything he has never tried to do”"—Smart Set. 2 Coaling Stations. Of about 30 recognized coaling sta- tiohs in the Pacific, Great Britain owns ‘af least 12 and the United States six ‘More Than Pint. A recent weighing of dandelion down ‘has showh that 1,000,000 of the dainty parachutes are needed to make & pound. Collection of Heads, A French professor is the owner of a ‘qallection of 920 humap heads, repre- seating every known race of people, ‘Leng Flight of Pigeons. ‘Right pigeons recently few from Kimberley to Cape Town, 2 distance of ‘S18 miles, tm 14 bourse. + z ‘They All “Look Pleasant.” ‘Mexican photographers bave hit upoo 2 way to make their subjects “look pleasant.” After peering through the apparatus and emerging from under the Diack cloth, the photographer says: “By the way, would you likes drink?” “Well, I don’t mind,” says the maz, with pleased smile. “What have you gotr” “Beer, whisky and wine,” says the photographer, and then, before the man ean say which he'll have, the camera does its duty. The “expression” of his pho- tograph is always “lifelike."—N. ¥. Trib- une. How Rubies Are Made. Artificial rubles are produced in France by reducing small natural rubles into a very fine powder, which is melted in an electric furnace, cooled rapidly and crystallized. The product obtained, from what was of little worth om account of minuteness, possesses a comparatively high value The maiz difficulty encountered is to prevent cavities and fissures in the crystal ‘The new process cannot be employed with emeralds and sapphires, as they Decome discolered by the action of the heat eeninin den ee Bhe—Why did you look so coldly at Mr, Sharp when he came into the car? ‘He—Because I was ip a railroad col- Uision with him the other day, and in the shake-up a whole bunch of derby hats flew off and got mixed up together. I know he got mine,and he knows it, too, but he didn't mention it, an@ 1 couldn't prove it, because my initials weren't in it. He took a mean advan- tage. That's all —Detroit Free Press. ‘Hunting for the Geri. American investigation has shown that yellow fever germs are dissemi- nated by the mosquito, and now the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 1s about to send « second expedition to the Amazon to discover, if possible, the actual cause of the disease. At Para, on the Amazon, the disease is constantly present in a greater or less degree. Never Mind the Old Man. Grayce—Yes, as they neared the fin- ish, Ferdy was about 400 yards in the lead. He looked like a sure winner when suddenly he knocked down and ran over an old man. This careless person's body caused Ferdy's auto to swerve, and Algy shot by and won. Gladys—Now wasn't that tough on Ferdy!—Chicago Sun. Wate) Mistake. A Liverpool man who had been yart- ed from his wife for some years thought be recognized her among the ballet girls on the stage of a theater. He sprang up, pointed to her, cried: “My Minnie,” and fell dead. But he had made a mistake. The woman was not his wife. Same Sensation. Returned Explorer—You don’t seem at all appalled at my description of the way I was chased by 2 boa con- strictor. ‘Miss Fluffy—No; I was chased by ‘& garter snake once, and I know just how you felt—Detroit Free Press. ‘Why, Sure. The Senator—Why mustn't I vote for that bill? ‘Henchman—Because the people don’t want it, senator. “What have the people got to do with ft? Ain't election over, hey?— Chicago Sun. Very Likely. Friené—How do you suppose your baby caught the whooping cough? He hasn't been near any other children, ‘Mother—He probably inherited it from me. I had it when I was just his age—Detrolt Free Press. Striking Similarity. _ @unner—Have you noticed the large ' stamps in the latest issue? _ Guyer—Yes; I call them Jap stamps. | “Why so?” | “They are not easily licked."—Chica- | oun. | Full Deck. | Irate Wife—That's the fifty-second \falsehood you've told me this week. ‘Unabashed Husband—Well, now you ‘can see what is meant by the expres- | sion “a pack of lies.”—Pittsburg Post. ~Won’t It Though. | California announces 15,000,000- | pound prune crop ready for shipment. | It will not make much difference if next summer's strawberry crop is a faflure—Rochester Post-Express, Spanish Swordswomen. All well-educated Spanish women are taught from the earliest years to han- die the sword, and as a result they are noted for their adinirable figure ‘and easy walk. Dias Det “How old did your sister say she is? - -aghteen.” “Hold old is shet’—Houston Post. A good many men would be tickled almost to death for a chance to pay s large inheritance tax. ‘Infurious. ‘When “the good things of life” are our best things they become our worst Chicago Tribune. ‘For Money. ‘The closer a man is the harder it ts to touch him—Chicago Daily News. _ All men have brains, but some baven't sense enough to use them, | eee AC@Dennel. Henry D.Coghlin. O'Donnell. & Coghlin Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Maia Metropolitan Block IN. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph Ste. Chicago pa eee dames J. Gray. * MJ. Moran, GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Bulte 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts, Tel, Central 569. CHICAGO. Se ‘Residence OT Macallister Pisce Telephone Ashland 363 ‘Central us” ‘Automatic 5840 ATTORNEY ATLAW ‘Suite 518-520 Reaper Bleck CLARK AND WASHINGTON 8TS. CHICAGO. aS ‘Telephone Central 3089 Res. 904 W. 12th Street Bivd. Tel. 1628 Morgon ATTORNEY al COUNSELOR AT a 908 Tribune Building 8. E. Cor. Dearborn and Madison Sts. ‘CHICAGO A. D. 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