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THE BROAD AX Caustic Attorney Edward H on Booker T. Wai on the "Religio Neg Caustic Review Attorney Edward E. Wilson Comments on Booker T. Washington's Article on the "Religious Life of the Negro." The Broad Ax with commendable enterprise recently Published an article in full written for the North American Review by Booker T. Washington. Whatever the merit of articles written for magazines by colored men, such articles or as much of them as possible, should appear in colored papers of large circulation in order that persons who do not read the great monthly periodicals or who happen to overlook something of interest concerning the Negro, may keep themselves informed. Mr. Washington's article taken as a whole was far from a happy one. He showed a startling poverty of ideas on a subect with which intelligent colored men are most conversant—ideas most wretchedly expressed. He simply rehashes the white man's idea of the Negro as expressed in the newspapers, tells his inevitable Negro jokes, drags in Tuskegee and its doings, and bows away with a self satisfied smirk. A man of acute intelligence might read Mr. Washington's article over and over again until the reader knew every word of it by heart and yet he would not have the slightest idea of the religious life of the Negro. Prof. Washington begins by saying that it seemed to him that writers on the subject were too much disposed "to treat of it as something fixed and unchangeable." In the very next paragraph he says that when the Negro came to America he was a pagan. Now if the idea entertained by the Whites, of the religious life of the Negro is unchanged then the whites think the Negro a pagan in religion still—an assertion that few sane men would make in view of the fact that even Southerners boast as Mr. Washington does that Slavery gave the Negro "one great consolation, namely, the Christian religion and the hope and belief in a future life." And it would not be out of place to remark just here that Mr. Washington has clate years become enamored of the beauties of religion. Most of us can remember the time when he thought it highly original and witty to say that the Negro had too much religion; that he was getting Jesus and the white man was getting all the world. Yet it is no small credit to the keen scent that Mr. Washington has to changing public sentiment and the main chance that he at this time uncheathes his sword to do battle to the death under Christian banners. This talk about the Negro's coming in contact with the Christian religion is merely a sop to the descendants of the men who with a cruelly unequalled in the world dragged helpless men and women from their homes and sold them into a slavery worse than hell. I, for one, believe that the Negro would have been better off left alone to develop whatever there was in him than to have been made the subject of white men's greed and lust, Christian white men at that—through three centuries of brutality. It is too well known for comment that wherever this same white man's Christianity has come in contact with backward races it has destroyed and corrupted them. In America white Christians have so corrupted the Negro's blood that the race is no longer a homogeneous one but a race of many colors. As said above Mr. Washington never fails to drag in his "nigger joke." The whites have become so accustomed to hear him make fun of his own people that no article or speech from him would be complete without a stunt in low comedy. This squares with the white man's idea that the Negro is a joke, without a serious thought; a light, brainless animal created to furnish fun for his superl- Vol. X ors When the white man's vanity has been thus tickled he does not mind writing a check to teach the Negro to work and to keep him in his place. Men who are but slightly acquainted with the rules of logic know that you can prove nothing from a single example; but in this article on the Negro's religion, Mr. Washington seeks to prove by the language of some old Negro in slavery days that colored people in some communities believe that immorality and Christianity go hand in hand; or in other words that the profession of Christianity in no way shapes the Negro's conduct. Suppose this were true, even, would the Negro be any worse than his white Christian brother whom Mr. Washington worships? Of course one wrong does not justify another; nor would the fact alone that the white, dominant race falls far short of living up to Christian principles justify the Negro in doing the same thing. Yet it is just here that Mr. Washington always leaves out the human equation in talking about the Negro. He applies to his poor black brother a standard of perfection, forgetting all the while that the great white man is everywhere exhibiting the very weakness for which Negroes are being taken to task. Without going outside the question of religion to call attention to the Alabamian's vagaries in other fields I think it fair to say that what is to be gathered from his rather hazy article on the Negro's religion is that religion does not shape the white man's conduct. Is the white man any nearer a Christian according to the principles laid down by Christ than the Negro? Has the white man forgiveness, or does he seek vengeance at every turn? Has he humility, or is he not puffed up and intolerant? Does he aid the weak, or does he ride rough shod over them; stealing their rights form them, murdering them, maiming, outraging their homes and refusing them justice in the courts? Letting alone the white man's wars of aggression, what of the corruption in every city, county and state on America, not only in politics but in business of every kind? Could these things be if the white man shaped his conduct according to Christian principles? And is this the religious conduct that Mr. Washington asks the Negro to emulate? Oh well he may say I ask the Negro to follow true Christian principles. Why, I ask should the Negro with his limited opportunities be asked to do better than the whites with all those centuries of civilization that so dazzle Mr. Washington's eyes? The truth of the whole thing is that the limelight of criticism is turned on the Negro and faults in him exaggerated which are left alone in other peoples and are regarded as defects necessarily resulting form imperfect human nature in an imperfect world. The wonder of it all is that a Negro who has been advertised to the dignity of leader is willing for a modicum of cheap notoriety to drag out and hold up to a derisive public the authority of his own people. What Mr. Washington says about Negroes' getting property is all well enough as is also his talk about too much emotion. Even here, however, a little wider knowledge of the peoples of the world and their religions and condition would have saved Mr. Washington from some slips that will appear humiliating to him some time in the future. I almost forgot one thing I desired to call attention to and this is that the newspapers north and south delight to print any utterances derogatory to HEW TO THE LINE. P. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The great wizard of Tuskegee, who does not claim to be a business man, but an educator, therefore he is simply using the National Negro Business League, to further his personal asperations. The great wizard of Tuskegee, who does not claim to be a business man, but an educator, therefore he is simply using the National Negro Business League, to further his personal asperations. the Negro. Following in the trail of Mr. Washington you find now and again some ignoromus with his picture in the newspapers because he has had something to say funny or detractive of the Negro. We have a number of such ninies in Chicago. Unlike Mr. Washington they get no money for their efforts—only some transient notoriously. Mr. Washington is careful to throw some sop to the A. M. E. and A. M. E. Zion churches. They are too strong to be ignored. But how he reasons that money raised by them shows that less money has been spent for whisky and "gim cracks" would puzzle the most acute logician. Unless, indeed, Mr. Washington would have us believe that the money collected by the churches would surely have gone for these vain things and for nothing else had it not been so collected. active into everything they do." I wonder would he say that it enters into buying gim cracks," giving dances, ex curtions and picnics, things that Mr. Washington as well as others has condemned and deplored. Again the wizard gets off this astounding piece of triteness: — In this great modern world, where every individual has so many interests and life is so compicated there is a tendency to let religion and life drift apart." Here he confirms what I said that it was not the Negro's conduct alone that was not informed by religion. Again Mr. Washington says:—"They (referring to colored people) are realizing that God has assigned to their race a man's part in the task of civilization. Think of it a race having a man's part! But what's the use. The Negro's thoughts, feelings, hopes, and aspirations will never be known by the white One can easily discover from a number of paragraphs in Mr. Washington's article why he said so little about the real religious life of the Negro. The wizard (to use a soubriquet invented I believe by an admiring coadjutor) was anxious to tell about Tuskegee. That was on his mind, and broke on his thoughts, when perchance he might otherwise have been coherent. What Tuskegee had to do, with the religious life of the Negro on this great continent would be interesting to know. Its best wishers will hardly claim that in this country it is revolutionizing the religious life of Negroes. Nobody can blame Mr. Washington for loving the child of his creation but he should be wise enough to take warning from troublesome prattle of various other fathers about the particular brightness of their children. One would hardly like to say that Mr. Washington used his opportunity of giving the public some valuable information on the Negro's religious life, to advertise further his much over-advertised institution. At all events, one can rejoice that the wizard did not drag in his business League. Of course he forgot as usual that there were hundreds of other schools in the country begun years ago on a Christian not a material basis. Dr. Washington always presents a pathetic figure when he tries to philosophize. He is at his happies on materialistic subjects or when cracking jokes on the Negro for diversion of white audiences. He should take the advice he gives to the Negro, not to leave the field for which he is best fitted. A sample of his philosophy which is nothing more than arrant commonplace, is as follows:—"It is one of the compensations which hardships bring that the race problem is a thing so real and so present to the Negro people that it enters as a mo- tive into everything they do." I wonder would he say that it enters into buying gim cracks," giving dances, excursions and picnics, things that Mr. Washington as well as others has condemned and deplored. Again the wizard gets off this astounding piece of triteness: — In this great modern world, where every individual has so many interests and life is so complicated there is a tendency to let religion and life drift apart." Here he confirms what I said that it was not the Negro's conduct alone that was not informed by religion. Again Mr. Washington says:—"They (referring to colored people) are realizing that God has assigned to their race a man's part in the task of civilization." Think of it a race having a man's part! But what's the use. The Negro's thoughts, feelings, hopes, and aspirations will never be known by the white public until that public learns to give real men a hearing in its press and magazines. Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, the Hustling Pastor of St. Stephens Church. No preacher in this city is performing a greater work for their followers than Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, the hard working and the hustling pastor of St. Stephens Church, Austin avenue and Robey street. He is completely remodeling and enlarging it and when finished it will compare favorably with any church owned by the Afro-Americans in Chicago. Rev. Brooks saved $800 over the price wanted by the contractors by giving the workman so much per day and he himself assisted to carry the brick and the hod, which shows that he is not afraid of hard work and that he is the right preacher in the right place. Mr. William H. Bannister, 6216 Justine, departed this life Wednesday night, Aug. 2. The funeral was from the residence Saturday. Burial at Mount Greenwood. Mr. McKinney, 6039 Loomis street, has suffered another attack of paralysis and is in a serious condition. The rally at Shiloh Church last Sunday netted more than the amount asked for. Mr. Lloyd Smith has been appointed representative for The Broad Ax in Englewood. "Four Years Among the Mormons." Sunday afternoon, August 13th, at 4 o'clock, Julius F. Taylor will address the "St. Mark Literary," 47th and State streets, on "Four Years Among the Mormons." EDWARD E. WILSON. ENGLEWOOD NEWS. News and Comment On Our Yankee Metropolis The Negro National Business Men's League Convenes Here Greater Part of Next Week. Notes on Our Professional Men. "The Broad Ax" New York representative attended the services at St. Mark's Church Sunday evening, and was deeply impressed, even thrilled with the excellent recital of Rev. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's in W. 53rd street, which was a stand, and a plea, yea, a demand for justice (not revenge) to the colored Americans who, as victims of the recent race riots (a deplorable and an inexcusable condition to arise in this, the first city of the Western Hemisphere) and a curse to our civilization. Dr. Brooks can not receive too must support in this effort to have justice meted aut to our people here, many of who, though innocent of even a thought of doing harm, have been taken from their peaceful labors (in the heat of these devilish and fiendish multims) and torn to pieces, shot, kicked and even clubbed to death, by vicious Irish Hounds and (not Irish gentlemen) are never given a fair show before the corrupt judges and grafting lawyers and deceitful two-faced cowards (adorned in the majestic blue uniforms of the law's service) who are nothing more than confidants of grafting hypocrites, under whom they serve. The whole police organization of New York needs a cleaning out and real men who have the interests of all the citizens (regardless of color or religion) at heart, should be substituted for those we now stand for, and who have brought such a stain on our fair city's name, and who have ruined many innocent men for life, physically. The head of the police department, Mr. McAdoo, has promised Rev. Brooks to take hold of the matter and correct and punish all who were found guilty of starting or taking part in the recent local troubles. Rev. Brooks is to be congratulated upon progressing so far in this local fight for justice and manhood's rights. It is to be hoped that Dr. Johnson, collector Anderson, Rev. Hutchens, C. Bishop and our countless other prominent and public men will rally to the call of Dr. Brooks until he secures the majority of the race's support, in the vital cause, which is the cause of humanity, and without the disgulse though of less proportion is the real cause of the persecuted Hebrews in demoralized Russia to-day. "He who would be free" or free his fellowmen, should be the first to strike the blow. We never can secure our genuine manhood's rights until we lay aside our petty prejudices, organize as a manly unit, and demand justice, and a square deal. The National Negro Business Men's League convenes in this city August 16, 17 and 18, and may extend the convention a few days longer. It is sincerely hoped that our Western and Southern states will be amply represented, especially Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, and the several other states as well. Come on, ye kings, and prospective kings of commerce, and of industry, and make this the greatest convention the League has had. Watch The Broad Ax's specia letter on the convention's deliberations, etc., etc. According to a message from Mount Lanel, Va., (Hallifax county) a searching party has been formed and sent out to capture a colored man, named Early Mosey, who it is claimed, beat an old, white "hoodoo" woman to death. As is generally the claim, this Comment Our Metropolis Normal Business Men's Times Here Greater Week. Notes Professional Men. Negro (who happens to be missing) is said to have confessed his guilt before he left. (?) A report from Elizabeth, N. J., says a reward has been raised from $300.00 to $500.00 for the capture of Chas. Long, a colored man, who it is said, murdered Matthew Cunningham, of Trenton, N. J. Chas. King told the authorities he saw a Negro disappear into a Dismal Swamp, between So. Plainfield and Rahway. Perhaps Long believes in that late yet timely ejaculation: "Taint no disgrace to run," etc. Our popular and able young physician, Dr. Gustavus Henderson, M. D. paid the New York editor of The Broad Ax a very pleasant call. He is established in an elegant suite of offices at 202 E. 99th St., Manhattan, and can always be found to consult or treat patients from 8 to 10 a. m., and 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p. m. In the several years the Doctor has been practicing he reports a steady increase in his patients at the same time having effected cures in many seemingly hopeless cases. Dr. Henderson reads this journal. Messrs. C. King and J. Young, the well known tonsorial artists are now proprietors of the hair cutting parlors formerly owned by Mr. L. L. Williams. There are four first-class attendants ready to serve you with their skilled art from 7 a. m. until 8 p. m. A pleasant and experienced lady manicure artist always is in attendance. There is also an electric face and body massage department with a clever masseur to render you almost new after a siege of business care, etc. And The Broad Ax is always on sale at "King and Youngs," 107 W. 32nd St., Manhattan. It can also be had at J. Jones, barber shop, at 109 W. 31st St., also at the N. Y. office of The Broad Ax, 57 W. 134th St., Harlem. Five cents per copy. Secure sample copy free, by personal or written application, addressed to Mr. C. B. Cooke. Rev. S. Timothy Tice, presiding elder of the A. M. E. Church, N. Y. (Dist. of G. N. Y.) has appointed Rev. P. E. Batson, to assume the duties of pastor of Bishop's Chapel in 134th St., Harlem. Rev. Batson succeeds J. C. Ayler, the former pastor. Cards have reached us announcing the Eleventh Annual "Summer Nights Outing" and picnic of the famous Hotel Bellman's Beneficial Association, at 126th St. and 2nd avenue, N. Y., Tues. eve, Sept. 12th. The New Amsterdam M. A. Band and H. L. Anderson will furnish music alternately. Popular bellmen have been invited from Philadelphia, Boston, Washington City and Dear Old Chicago. Many of the latter have promised to attend. Mr. Ernest Hogan and his winning Nashville students are still headliners at The Paradise Roof Gardens, where they have been a continuous hit all summer. It is said that many of the ideas used in the production of this musical act were originally suggested by our popular mandolin soloist and teacher, Chas. Croley, who organized the well known musical four known as the Monarch String Quartette. Young Croley has entertained in most all the exclusive resorts and hotels, private clubs, etc., in Greater N. Y., and is deserving of more consideration than is conceded to him. from many of those whom he first made it pos. (Continued on page 2.) THE BROAD AX Caustic Attorney Edward B on Booker T. Waw on the "Religi Neg Caustic Review Attorney Edward E. Wilson Comments on Booker T. Washington's Article on the "Religious Life of the The Broad Ax with commendable enterprise recently Published an article in full written for the North American Review by Booker T. Washington. Whatever the merit of articles written for magazines by colored men, such articles or as much of them as possible, should appear in colored papers of large circulation in order that persons who do not read the great monthly periodicals or who happen to overlook something of interest concerning the Negro, may keep themselves informed. Mr. Washington's article taken as a whole was far from a happy one. He showed a startling poverty of ideas on a subect with which intelligent colored men are most conversant—ideas most wretchedly expressed. He simply rehashes the white man's idea of the Negro as expressed in the newspapers, tells his inevitable Negro jokes, drags in Tuskegee and its doings, and bows away with a self satisfied smirk. A man of acute intelligence might read Mr. Washington's article over and over again until the reader knew every word of it by heart and yet he would not have the slightest idea of the religious life of the Negro. Prof. Washington begins by saying that it seemed to him that writers on the subject were too much disposed "to treat of it as something fixed and unchangeable." In the very next paragraph he says that when the Negro came to America he was a pagan. Now if the idea entertained by the Whites, of the religious life of the Negro is unchanged then the whites think the Negro a pagan in religion still—an assertion that few sane men would make in view of the fact that even Southerners boast as Mr. Washington does that Slavery gave the Negro "one great consolation, namely the Christian religion and the hope and belief in a future life." And it would not be out of place to remark just here that Mr. Washington has clate years become enamored of the beauties of religion. Most of us can remember the time when he thought it highly original and witty to say that the Negro had too much religion; that he was getting Jesus and the white man was getting all the world. Yet it is no small credit to the keen scent that Mr. Washington has to changing public sentiment and the main chance that he at this time uncheathes his sword to do battle to the death under Christian banners. This talk about the Negro's coming in contact with the Christian religion is merely a sop to the descendants of the men who with a cruelly unequalled in the world dragged helpless men and women - from their homes and sold them into a slavery worse than hell. I, for one, believe that the Negro would have been better off left alone to develop whatever there was in him than to have been made the subject of white men's greed and lust, Christian white men at that - through three centuries of brutality. It is too well known for comment that wherever this same white man's Christianity has come in contact with backward races it has destroyed and corrupted them. In America white Christians have so corrupted the Negro's blood that the race is no longer a homogeneous one, but a race of many colors. As said above Mr. Washington never falls to drag in his "nigger joke." The whites have become so accustomed to hear him make fun of his own people that no article or speech from him would be complete without a stunt in low comedy. This squares with the white man's idea that the Negro is a joke, without a serious thought; a light, brainless animal created to furnish fun for his superi- Vol. X ors When the white man's vanity has been thus tickled he does not mind writing a check to teach the Negro to work and to keep him in his place. Men who are but slightly acquainted with the rules of logic know that you can prove nothing from a single example; but in this article on the Negro's religion, Mr. Washington seeks to prove by the language of some old Negro in slavery days that colored people in some communities believe that immorality and Christianity go hand in hand; or in other words that the profession of Christianity in no way shapes the Negro's conduct. Suppose this were true, even, would the Negro be any worse than his white Christian brother whom Mr. Washington worships? Of course one wrong does not justify another; nor would the fact alone that the white, dominant race falls far short of living up to Christian principles justify the Negro in doing the same thing. Yet it is just here that Mr. Washington always leaves out the human equation in talking about the Negro. He applies to his poor black brother a standard of perfection, forgetting all the while that the great white man is everywhere exhibiting the very weakness for which Negroes are being taken to task. Without going outside the question of religion to call attention to the Alabamian's vagaries in other fields I think it fair to say that what is to be gathered from his rather hazy article on the Negro's religion is that religion does not shape the white man's conduct. Is the white man any nearer a Christian according to the principles laid down by Christ than the Negro? Has the white man forgiveness, or does he seek vengeance at every turn? Has he humility, or is he not puffed up and intolerant? Does he aid the weak, or does he ride rough shod over them; stealing their rights form them, murdering them, malming, outraging their homes and refusing them justice in the courts? Letting alone the white man's wars of aggression, what of the corruption in every city, county and state or America, not only in politics but in business of every kind? Could these things be if the white-man shaped his conduct according to Christian principles? And is this the religious conduct that Mr. Washington asks the Negro to emulate? Oh well he may say I ask the Negro to follow true Christian principles. Why, I ask should the Negro with his limited opportunities be asked to do better than the whites with all those centuries of civilization that so dazzle Mr. Washington's eyes? The truth of the whole thing is that the limelight of criticism is turned on the Nergo and faults in him exaggerated which are left alone in other peoples and are regarded as defects necessarily resulting from imperfect human nature in an imperfect world. The wonder of it all is that a Negro who has been advertised to the dignity of leader is willing for a modicum of cheap notoriety to drag out and hold up to a derisive public the weakness of his own people. What Mr. Washington says about Negroes' getting property is all well enough as is also his talk about too much emotion. Even here, however, a little wider knowledge of the peoples of the world and their religions and condition would have saved Mr. Washington from some slips that will appear humiliating to him some time in the future. in the future. I almost forgot one thing I desired to call attention to and this is that the newspapers north and south delight to print any utterances derogatory to Negro." P BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The great wizard of Tuskegee, who does not claim to be a business man, but an educator, therefore he is simply using the National Negro Business League, to further his personal asperations. The great wizard of Tuskegee, who does not claim to be a business man, but an educator, therefore he is simply using the National Negro Business League, to further his personal asperations. the Negro. Following in the trail of Mr. Washington you find now ard again some ignoromus with his picture in the newspapers because he has had something to say funny or detractive of the Negro. We have a number of such ninnies in Chicago. Unlike Mr. Washington they get no money for their efforts—only some transient notoriety. live into everything they do." I wonder would he say that it enters into buying gim cracks," giving dances, excursions and picnics, things that Mr. Washington as well as others has condemned and deplored. Again the wizard gets off this astounding piece of triteness: — In this great modern world, where every individual has so many interests and life is so compl Mr. Washington is careful to throw some sop to the A. M. E. and A. M. E. Zion churches. They are too strong to be ignored. But how he reasons that money raised by them shows that less money has been spent for whisky and "gim cracks" would puzzle the most acute logician. Unless, indeed, Mr. Washington would have us believe that the money collected by the churches would surely have gone for these vain things and for nothing else had it not been so collected. One can easily discover from a number of paragraphs in Mr. Washington's article why he said so little about the real religious life of the Negro. The wizard (to use a soubriquet invented I believe by an admiring coadjutor) was anxious to tell about Tuskegee. That was on his mind, and broke in on his thoughts, when perchance he might otherwise have been coherent. What Tuskegee had to do, with the religious life of the Negro on this great continent would be interesting to know. Its best wishers will hardly claim that in this country it is revolutionizing the religious life of Negroes. Nobody can blame Mr. Washington for loving the child of his creation but he should be wise enough to take warning from troublesome prattle of various other fathers about the particular brightness of their children. One would hardly like to say that Mr. Washington used his opportunity of giving the public some valuable information on the Negro's religious life, to advertise further his much over-advertised institution. At all events, one can rejoice that the wizard did not drag in his Business League. Of course he forgot as usual that there were hundreds of other schools in the country begun years ago on a Christian not a material basis. Dr. Washington always presents a pathetic figure when he tries to. philosophize. He is at his happies on materialistic subjects or when cracking jokes on the Negro for diversion of white audiences. He should take the advice he gives to the Negro, not to leave the field for which he is best fitted. A sample of his philosophy which is nothing more than arrant commonplace, is as follows:—"It is one of the compensations which hardships bring that the race problem is a thing so real and so present to the Negro people that it enters as a mo- tive into everything they do." I wonder would he say that it enters into buying gim cracks," giving dances, excursions and picnics, things that Mr. Washington as well as others has condemned and deplored. Again the wizard gets off this astounding piece of triteness: — In this great modern world, where every individual has so many interests and life is so complicated there is a tendency to let religion and life drift apart." Here he confirms what I said that it was not the Negro's conduct alone that was not informed by religion. Again Mr. Washington says:—"They (referring to colored people) are realizing that God has assigned to their race a man's part in the task of civilization. Think of it a race having a man's part! But what's the use. The Negro's thoughts, feelings, hopes, and aspirations will never be known by the white public until that public learns to give real men a hearing in its press and magazines. Rev. W, Sampson Brooks, the Hustling Pastor of, St. Stephen's Church. No preacher in this city is performing a greater work for their followers than Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, the hard working and the hustling pastor of St. Stephens Church, Austil avenue and Robey street. He is completely remodeling and enlarging it and when finished it will compare favorably with any church owned by the Afro-Americans in Chicago. Rev. Brooks saved $800 over the price wanted by the contractors by giving the workman so much per day and he himself assisted to carry the brick and the hod, which shows that he is not afraid of hard work and that he is the right preacher in the right place. Mr. William H. Bannister, 6216 Justine, departed this life Wednesday night, Aug. 2. The funeral was from the residence Saturday. Burial at Mount Greenwood. Mr. McKinney, 6039 Loomis street, has suffered another attack of paralysis and is in a serious condition. The Barbecue given by the Presbyterian church was a grand success. The rally at Shilloh Church last Sunday netted more than the amount asked for. Mr. Lloyd Smith has been appointed representative for The Broad Ax in Englewood. "Four Years Among the Mormons." Sunday afternoon, August 13th, at 4 o'clock, Julius F. Taylor will address the "St. Mark Literary," 47th and State streets, on "Four Years Among the Mormons." EDWARD E. WILSON. ENGLEWOOD NEWS. News and Comment On Our Yankee Metropolis The Negro National Business Men's League Convenes Here Greater Part of Next Week. Notes on Our Professional Men. "The Broad Ax" New York representative attended the services at St. Mark's Church Sunday evening, and was deeply impressed, even thrilled with the excellent recital of Rev. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's in W. 53rd street, which was a stand, and a plea, yea, a demand for justice (not revenge) to the colored Americans who, as victims of the recent race riots (a deplorable and an inexcusable condition to arise in this, the first city of the Western Hemisphere) and a curse to our civilization. Dr. Brooks can not receive too must support in this effort to have justice meted out to our people here, many of who, though innocent of even a thought of doing harm, have been taken from their peaceful labors (in the heat of these devilish and fiendish timults) and to to pieces, shot, kicked and even clubbed to death, by vicious Irish Hounds and (not Irish gentlemen) are never given a fair show before the corrupt judges and grafting lawyers and deceitful two-faced cowards (adorned in the majestic blue uniforms of the law's service) who are nothing more than confidants of grafting hypocrites, under whom they serve. The whole police organization of New York needs a cleaning out and real men who have the interests of all the citizens (regardless of color or religion) at heart, should be substituted for those we now stand for, and who have brought such a stain on our fair city's name, and who have ruined many innocent men for life, physically. The head of the police department, Mr. McAdoo, has promised Rev. Brooks to take hold of the matter and correct and punish all who were found guilty of starting or taking part in the recent local troubles. Rev. Brooks is to be congratulated upon progressing so far in this local fight for justice and manhood's rights. It is to be hoped that Dr. Johnson, collector Anderson, Rev. Hutchens, C. Bishop and our countless other prominent and public men will rally to the call of Dr. Brooks until he secures the majority of the race's support, in the vital cause, which is the cause of humanity, and without the disgulse though of less proportion is the real cause of the persecuted Hebrews in demoralized Russia to-day. "He who would be free" or free his fellowmen, should be the first to strike the blow. We never can secure our genuine manhood's rights until we lay aside our petty prejudices, organize as a manly unit, and demand justice, and a square deal. The National Negro Business Men's League convenes in this city August 16, 17 and 18, and may extend the convention a few days longer. It is sincerely hoped that our Western and Southern states will be amply represented, especially Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, and the several other states as well. Come on, ye kings, and prospective kings of commerce, and of industry, and make this the greatest convention the League has had. Watch The Broad Ax's special letter on the convention's deliberations, etc., etc. According to a message from Mount Lanel, Va. (Hallifax county) a searching party has been formed and sent out to capture a colored man, named Early Moseley, who it is claimed, beat an old, white "hoodoo" woman to death. As is generally the claim, this --- No.42 Negro (who happens to be missing) is said to have confessed his guilt before he left. (?) A report from Elizabeth, N. J., says a reward has been raised from $300.00 to $500.00 for the capture of Chas. Long, a colored man, who it is said, murdered Matthew Cunningham, of Trenton, N. J. Chas. King told the authorities he saw a Negro disappear into a Dismal Swamp, between So. Plainfield and Rahway. Perhaps Long believes in that late yet timely ejaculation: "Taint no disgrace to run," etc. Our popular and able young physician, Dr. Gustavus Henderson, M. D., paid the New York editor of The Broad Ax a very pleasant call. He is established in an elegant suite of offices at 202 E. 99th St., Manhattan, and can always be found to consult or treat patients from 8 to 10 a.m., and 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. In the several years the Doctor has been practicing he reports a steady increase in his patients at the same time having effected cures in many seemingly hopeless cases. Dr. Henderson reads this journal. Messrs. C. King and J. Young, the well known tonsorial artists are now proprietors of the hair cutting parlors formerly owned by Mr. L. L. Williams. There are four first-class attendants ready to serve you with their skilled art from 7 a. m. until 8 p. m. A pleasant and experienced lady manicure artist always is in attendance. There is also an electric face and body massage department with a clever masseur to render you almost new after a siege of business care, etc. And The Broad Ax is always on sale at "King and Youngs," 107 W. 32nd St., Manhattan. It can also be had at J. Jones, barber shop, at 109 W. 31st St., also at the N. Y. office of The Broad Ax, 57 W. 134th St., Harlem. Five cents per copy. Secure sample copy free, by personal or written application, addressed to Mr. C. B. Cooke. Rev. S. Timothy Tice, presiding elder of the A. M. E. Church, N. Y. (dist. of the G. N. Y.) has appointed Rev. P. E. Batson, to assume the duties of pastor of Bishop's Chapel in 134th St., Harlem. Rev. Batson succeeds J. C. Ayler, the former pastor. Cards have reached us announcing the Eleventh Annual "Summer Nights Outing" and picnic of the famous Hotel Bellmen's Beneficial Association, at 126th St. and 2nd avenue, N. Y., Tues. eve, Sept. 12th. The New Amsterdam M. A. Band and H. L. Anderson will furnish music alternately. Popular bellmen have been invited from Philadelphia, Boston, Washington City and Dear Old Chicago. Many of the latter have promised to attend. Mr. Ernest Hogan and his winning Nashville students are still headliners at The Paradise Roof Gardens, where they have been a continuous hit all summer. It is said that many of the ideas used in the production of this musical act were originally suggested by our popular mandolin soloist and teacher, Chas. Croley, who organized the well known musical four known as the Monarch String Quartette. Young Croley has entertained in most all the exclusive resorts and hotels, private clubs, ets., in Greater N. Y., and is deserving of more consideration than is conceded to him, from many of those whom he first made it pos. (Continued on page 2.) THE BROAD AX. » POLISHED heprensoal . na Sea as Sa Sree Wieaiyeroaisctiepec. Subscriptions mast be paid imedvense, =| ee ‘aggernng rats made tows on epplcetin. THE BROAD AX 10 Armour Avenue, Cleags. SOLIS F. TAYLOR, matter and Putiicner. Batered vt the Post Office at Chicago, @ Th, as Second-clam Matter. —_— Ee Es THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT. ‘The Niagara Movement comes in the fullness: of time. The old apolo- getic Afro-American council is dying of inanity, the Booker T. Washington “Iay low and keep dark” policy has nauseated the manly Negro, and the lack of proper leadership was falling like a pall upon the race. Compromis- ing never wins; expediency at the sac- rifice of principle, is but short-lived at best. Trimming sails may succeed for personal aggrandizement. For great movements we need men of courage, not men who seek office or political influence. The Afro-Amert- an council was weakened with office. seekers. The man that eaters the Niagara Movement needs leave all hope of officegetting behind him. Leave that to Booker T. Washington and his disciples, or to the inane Afro-American council. We have in Prof. DuBois the most magnificent result of Negro ability and manhood; a finished product of Negro culture, a character with no political spots, a mind that has scaled the gamut of human experience, thought and conditions; a man like Moses, who, though he lives in Egypt, has, again and again, gone. to the court of Pharoah and told him to let his people go. It has been said that a Negro can not live in the south ana »pean vu. like a man. DuBois can do it, am. Goes do it. The enemies of the race respect him more than the man who sickens them by bis patronizing policy. He has dignity. He don’t tickle them with silly “nigger anecdotes." He is as earnest as Garrison, as cultured as Sumner and as unyielding as Doug- lass. The heart is in the DuBois move- ment, let the purse be where it may. He does not beg for money, he de mands his rights. Labor will bring the one, justice will secure the other. Kossuth stood for Hungary; O'Con- nell stood for Ireland, so DuBots stands for the Negro. It is no time for child's play, cracking jokes or presenting the ridiculous side of tne Negro. We can not laugh when the courts in a dozen states are closea against us; when oathbound anti- Negro organizations dominate whole counties with rapine and murder, when our schools are being crippled, our franchises destroyed and our pos- sessions are held only at the suf- refance of oppressors. Stand up with DuBois for manaooa suffrage, for the abolition of caste dis- tinctions in the administration of law, for the highest and best in the oppor- tunities and blessings which the gov- erament should impartially bestow upon all its citizens—The Advance, St. Louis, Mo. MEETING OF THE’ GRAND CHAP. TER, ORDER OF THE EAST- ERN STAR. ‘The Grand Chapter, Order of East- ern Star, held their 16th Annual Grand Session in the City of Rock Island, TL, last week. ‘There was quite a large delegation present there being in all about thirty chapters represented. Mrs. M. E. Davenport the G. R. M. “Of Chicago, and Prof. J. C. Lewis G. R. ?. of Cairo, Ills., with the assistance Of the other Grand OfMicers present, conducted the business of the Order in @ very creditable manner j ‘All the members of the order with ‘tue visitors present visited the New Prince Hall Masonic Widow and Or Phau Home located in Rock Island. ‘Tne Home is a monument to the Ma- sonic Fraternity of the Illinois Juris diction and only those who have seen ‘tt cam speak for it. Adah Chapter "No. 10 Rock Istand, spared no pain in making evergthing agreeable for the Tepresentatives and visitors present On Tuesday afternoon the election ‘Of officeds took place; and the fol lowing officers elected for the ensuing year. For G. R. M, Mrs. Kittle Terrell St. Paul; G. RP, J. C. Lewis, Cairo ls; G. A.M. Hattie Woolrige, Chica po, UL; G. A. P., J. H. Ingram, Mo “Mme, IL; G. Treas, Lain Lee, Cham paign, UL; Gr. Secretary, Louis ‘Webb, Chicago; Lourie Mitchel “Metropolis; G. Cond., Lulu Slaughtes “Rock Island; Grand Lecturer, Molit Green, Chicago, Hil.; Grand Chaplam, F. & Washington, Galesburg, Il. § On Thureday evening the installa- tion took place at the Armory, the Grand officers being installed ‘by Gr. Master of the State, Henry B. Burris of Rock istand. ‘The next Annual Grand Session will be theld iin the City of Quincy, Ill, the Ast Tues. én Aug. 1906. es DENVER, COLORADO. @mecial te The Broad Ax Mise Atholene Peyton, Mrs. Geo. Bland and Miss Georgie Nugent have gone to Colorado Springs for a week's visit. - ‘Among the many entertainments given in Denver in honor of Miss Pey- ton and Nugent are the following: Mr. and Mrs, Fisher, formerly of Indianapolis, gave a splendid lunch- eon. Mr, Hardy and Miss Bettle Thomas entertained and gave beautiful Colo- rado scenery as souvenirs. Mr. Conway entertained at the beau- tifal home of Mrs. George. Souvenirs were given. Miss Nugent received a beautiful fanand chain, Miss Peyton, Peyton, an elegant cologne bottle. Miss Lillian Page entertained the Misses Peyton and Nugent, of Louis- ville, Ky., at the residence of Mrs. Thomas. Miss Peyton is the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Bland, who ‘have given her several entertainments and made her visit one round of pleasure. “Nemo.” ———— COLORED PRIVATE SECRETARIES. Messrs. Walter B. Wright of Cleve: land, Obio, is private secretary to the president of the Nickel Plate Railroad and Charles Smith of the same city is private secretary to the chief of police. ee CHIPprs Miss Rolston, 342 Zist street, Is on the sick list. Mrs. C. C. Lewis will be in the “Smiley party” in thelr eastern trip. Mr. Geo. Walker, of Evanston, left for New York Aug. 8th, for a few weeks’ visit. Mr. and Mrs. S. Laing Williams left August 12 for New York for a two weeks’ visit. Mr. James A. Clark, of Cincinnati, is in the city stopping at the Key- stone Hotel. Mrs. W. C. Jefferson of Vicksburg Miss., is in the city stopping at 3235 ‘Wabash avenue. Dr. A. B. McKissack, 163 State st., will visit Richmond, Va, for a few days next week. Miss Bessie Brody and her sister, “Patsy,” have gone to New York to join the Williams & Walker Co. Mrs. W. Young, Cincinnati, Ohio, is visiting her friend, Mrs. Wi H. Hay- man, 3236 Wabash avenue. About 300 members of the Elk Lodge will visit Washington, D. C., during encampment there August 24. Mr. Wood Knox, proprietor and ed: itor of the “Freeman” is spending a few days in the city visiting old friends. Mrs. Florence Smiley, 3852 Dearborn street, has returned to New York City after a pleasant visit in the Windy City. Mr. James Johnson, Chicago's blind pianist, was appointed piano-tuner of the Chicago public schools at $1,000 per year. Dr. L. W. Lewis, 4711 State street, left for New York August 12, to at- tend Business Men's League and visit friends. Mr. Theodore Johns, 442 37th street, who has been spending ‘the past six weeks in Detrolt, Mich., has returned home. ‘Mrs. W. H. Stokes and daughter, Miss May, .Muncie, Ind., are the guesta of Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, 5840 Lowe avenue a Mrs. C. H. Smiley, 2111 Indiana av- enue, entertained a few friends at whist August 8 in honor of Misses Paul, McClain and Simpson. ‘Mrs. Henri Woode and children and Mrs. Reuben Brooks, of Vicksburg, Miss., are visiting in the city, stopping at 3225 Wabash evenue. Dr. John Hall spent two days in the city on his way to Boston from New Orleans, the guest of Dr. Geo. C, Hall, 5738 Rosalie Court. ‘Mr, and Mrs. Solomon Taylor, 38r¢ Boul. and Rhodes avenue, entertatned Iast Wednesday evening in ‘honor of ‘the visiting Jadies of Lolisville, Ky. The Pienic at Rasche’s Grove, Mon evening, given by the -Prairie Club, was @ social success. Ev verybody enjoyed the-ride and dancing John French, 3635 Vernon avenue. Miss Masie McClain, of Philadel ‘pia, is in the city the guest of Mrs ‘8. S. Paul, 3505 Forest avenue. Mrs. Ida Clark, Grenada, Mies., 1 ‘4m the city. visiting with her soa, ané daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Clark. 4747 Dearborn street Rev. and Mrs. W. 8. Braddan 5008: Sth avenue, left Sunday evening Yor Colorado Springs, Col., where the: ‘will spend several weeks with thel old friends. Rev. R. C. Ransom, who is holdin: forth at St. Charles Church, Boe ton, Mass., will preach all day Sun day at Bethel Church, 30th and Dear born streets ‘The Woman's Aid, will give @ pie- nic and dance, for the benefit of the Old Folk’s Home, at Rasch’s Grove, Monday evening, Aug. 14, Admission Zbcents, Joshua Temple No. 68, K. of T. will give a grand entertainment and in- stallation of officers, at K..of P. Hall, 2821 State st. Monday evening, Aug. ua. Mayor Edward ¥. Dunne, returned home Thursday, morning from his swing around the circle through the east, and the politicians are red hot after him for more easy jobs. John E. Traeger, City Collector of Chicago, after under going two oper- ations at the Union Hospital, Engle wood, is to the gratification of his hosts of friends regaining his health. The Old Settlers will hold_their Annual Reunion at the home of Mrs J. H. Hudlun, 115 W. 51st street, be- tween State and Dearborn streets, Tuesday evening, August 15th. Dr. Ida Gray-Nelson, 3642 Wabdasu avenue, left last Saturday afternoon for Sdratoga Springs, New Yorn, where she will delightfully spend the ‘remainder of the summer. Mrs. Robert Harper, 2324 Wabash avenue, entertained a number of young Jadies August 7, at a dove party in honor of Miss Ophelia Garrett and Allie Simms of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. S. S. Paul, 3605 Forest avenue, entertained Monday evening, in au informal dancing party in honor of her three guests, Misses Paul, Simp- son, and McClain. Rev. Archibald James Carey is a much better man in every way since The Broad Ax straightened him ap, has, with his family, gone on » Jong vacation trip through Canada and the east. Mrs. Henrietta Wilson returned to the city 3211 Wabash ave., after bury- ing her mother at Edwardsville, Mo. | Mr. Paul Mosby, of St. Louis, spent a few days in the city last week the guest of Mrs Sol. Taylor, 3223 Vernon avenue. Mrs. Richard Pinn, and daughter, 4836 State street, left Thursday ev- ening for New York City to attend the meeting of the National Negru Business League, and to spend the Test of the summer with friends in Atlantic City. Prof. 8. Levi, 6046 Armour ave, and his Picaninny band, returned last Sunday from LaSalle, Attowa and other points in Illinois where he has been charming the citizens of those places with some of his fine music. | Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Johnson, 2712 State street, will leave this evening on an extended trip through the east. ‘They will visit Buffalo, N. Y., Niagara Falls, Boston, New York City, Phila. delphia and Atlantic City. They will be absent until September 1. , The colored citizens of Memphis, ‘Tenn., have raised a fund of $5,000 for the purpose of contesting the constitu. tionality of the Jim Crow car law lately put into force in that city. They propose to carry the fight through all the courts on up to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hockley Smiley and party will leave for New York City Tuesday, Angust 15, While east they will visit Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Boston, re turning to Chicago about the last of ‘The Negro World, of Cary, Sst» gave its many readers the benefit of our article on “The Oddities and Be- centriciics of the Afro-Americans in relation to the trce Mission of News: pepers” published in the interest of the race, by dishing it up to them in its last Issue. Julius N. Avendorf, who is always tooking after the interests of his friends, has arranged m “subscription dance” for the benefit of the many strangers in our midst. The affair which will take place at Oakland Mu- sic Hall, Tuesdey evening, Aus. 22nd, jooks fair to be the most select and gay of the season. Mr. Avendorf has taken upon himself its entire manage“ ment. The Watchman, Topeka, Kansas, which is one of the best edited papers in the west, In its last issne repro-| duced our ariicie in full on “The Emo- tonal Religion of the Negro and His: Terrible or Appalling Fear of Death,” which proves that Brother Paul Jones ‘its able and brilliant editor, who 1s putting up a strong fight against Gov. Hoch, and his “Jim Crow oa Law,’ is chuck fall of progressiv ideas. Lawyer J. Gray Lucas, 167 Dearborn street, recently defended John Hen- derson, an ex-convict, wherein he was charged with shooting a private citizen while doing duty as a police- man during the teamsters’ strike, and when Mr. Lucas demanded pay for his. services he ignored him and then he attached dais salary and on last Thurs- day evening, without the slightest warning, and while Mr. Lucas had his hands and arms full of law books and papers waiting for the elevator on the sixth floor of the old Stock Ex: change building, Henderson viciously assaulted him, with a pair of brass knuckles for simply demanding his pay. Henderson displayed a large re volver and made good his escape from the building and up to the present time the police have been unable to capture him. The third Church Organ has been running in this city 12 weeks, and during that time it has run the cuts of Prof. Booker T. Washington and Judge Edward H. Wright in its col: umns seven times, and it would seem that its editor and general supervisor is unable to pull their legs for some of the long-green. Within the past two weeks this same Church Organ No. 3 has been so anxious to earn a little “easy money” that it had the audacity to hold Col. Robert T." Motts up to the public gaze as the biggest Negro, and as the. greatest benefactor of his race in the world. Therefore it is not strange that the great wizard of Tuskegee is unwilling to cough up to Church Organs which persist in comparing him with gentlemen who have made the most of their money In the past by successfully conducting extensive gambling estahUishments. Furnished Rooms to Rent. ‘Neatly furnished rooms, all modern improvements, to rent to single ladies: and gentlemen or married couples. Mrs. Mallvine Vaneer, 2806 Wabash Ave., ‘phone 5354 Calumet. | SS To Rent. | A large basement with furnace hest. Suitable for living rooms for a small family. Cheap rent. 3236 Wabash ave. FURNISHED ROOMS TO RENT. First class furnished rooms to rent, 137 E. 34th street, between Vernon and Rhodes avenue. ——_+re_—_ Sold His Hat. A clergyman at Yarmouth, England, who was attending a “rummage sale” that was being held for a charity laid a ew straw hat on tfe stall, and when he turned around to get it a minute or two later found that the energetic stall- Keeper had sold it for four cents to an uaknown purchaser. : Bhocked the Lion A story with « moral comes from Uganda. A lion, thinking it about time to lunch, seized white man and bit him. His teeth went through a bottle of whisky which them an was carrying in his pocket, and this gave him such @ shock that he turned tail—London Gwe German Housekeeping Schools. A report on the German traveling schools for teaching scientific house- ‘Keeping, cooking and farm work to the ‘women connected with the agricultural districts of Baden, Bavaria, Thuringen and Hesse declares them to have given great satisfaction. Gentlemen. It has been legally decided in England that a man who works for his living is not # gentleman. This is rather rough, but let us give the English court credit for one thing. It didn’t decide that men who toll are genta—Chieago Record- ‘Herald. ‘Students in Blind Asylums. Students in blind asylums now take part in foot races, football, aud many other outdoor sports. “in the races the competitor# do net rap towards a tape, a2 do those who can see, but towards s bell which is kept constantly ringing. SS ea ee NEW YORK NEWS AND COMMENT «Continued from page 1.) ‘sible for them to get im, where they would be allowed to make good. | Phe Smart Set Co. under the me ‘sical direction of Prof. Timothy Brym. returned from Lon- (who but recently = ‘Eng.), began rehearsing on new score for next season, this fore noon and it was gratifying to note the interest @isplayed by the chorus in general at their first rehearsal o the season. It is said that all the incidental music will be changed this coming season in “The Smart Set’ Composet Brym stands high among the younger set of composers, and we may look forward to some surprisingly good numoers in “The Smart Set” during their tour the coming season. All those who visit New York City and who are interested in the profes- ‘sion, will be pleased to learn of the {incorporation of the Attucks Publish- ‘ing Co. and the Gotham Music Co. ‘who are now located at 42 W. 28th ‘St., in elaborate and cleverly appoint. ed headquarters, and are now known to the pubic as the Gotham-Attucks Co., with Mr. Geo. W. Wilken as pres- ident, and Mr. Egbert A. Williams as vice president. Mr. Earle Jones is ‘manager of the professional depart- ment, and R, C. McPherson is assist- ant business manager. Mr. Alex Rog: ers and Jesse Shippe, Esq., are aise members of the new firm. ‘The Gotham-Attucks are éxtremeiy fortunate in having published about 9 songs this summer that are really “hits” with the public. It is the first colored American music publishing house properly established and man- aged that is deserving of the name. ‘Most all the compositions handled by the firm are the fruit and product of Negro brain and creation. Be sure and visit the Gotham-Attucks Co., when in the metropolis. Announcements aie out for-a dra- matic and musical concert, given by Prof. Bryan C. Buck under the aus pices of the S. S. Circle, at St. Mark's M. E. Church, 231 W. 53rd street, on the eve of September 4th, 05. The subscription is twenty-five cents. Prof. Buck will be supported by some excellent local artists. The rising young South American portrait artist, Senor M. DeLe’gama, 4s establishing an excellent reputa- tion as a painter of portraits, and on French enamel, pastel, water colar, and in oils. He is overwhelmed with orders just now, and judging from his work he realy deserves all he can secure. His studios are located at 86 134th St., Harlem. The African Trading Co., are handl- ing some excellent teas and coffees and are general purchasing agents. All kinds of merchandise. The com- pany is located at 58 W. 135th street, and are special agents of Hatien and Liberian high grade coffees, teas ana spices. Their head office as per add. above, is four doors east of the new 135th St. Subway Station. And such a firm as this is deserving of our trade and iaterest. They are incor- porated under the laws of New York State. CARLE BROWNE COOKE, N. ¥. Journalist for “The Broad Ax.” Address: 42 W. 28th St, Manhattan. Harlem address: 57 W. 134th St. ! Phone. 9017 Harlem Mingniar Bequests. ‘There is story of an American mur- derer who left $250 by his will to his executioner. This tale is now matched by one from Paris. A wine merchant of that elty face to face with financial ruin planned suicide, but first set aside a dozen bottles of wine for the under taker. Gomes’ Reprimand. = ‘The Iate Gen. Maximo-Gomes oiice caught one of his brigadiers selling brown sugar to the Spaniards. Gomez stripped the traitor of his stars and said: “From this time forth you are Brig. Raspadura,” which, translated, is Brigadier Sugar Cake. ‘To Cana for Water. ‘The bay had to describe our Lord's firatmiracle. The-turning of water into wine, he wrote, was the first miracle and it happened at Cana. Then he add- ed: “And after that everybody went to Cana for water.” ‘Warning to Be Headed. On the beach near an English town a sign bearing this legend was nailed to-m post: “Notice—Any person passing beyond ‘this point will be drowned. By order of the magistrates.” a. oa A crow hunt was recently held by 39 hunters of Elgin and Kane eounties, Tilinols, lasting two days. Their rec- ord was 1,131 crows, besides 50 butcher birds and five hawks. ‘The score of sides was 671 and 560. Foxy Pa. “Pa, why do you always insist on my singing when Mr. Spoosleton comes here?” “Well, I don’t Ifke the fellow, and yet I hate to come right out and tell ‘hm to g0."—Chicago Record-Herald. ‘Musicians Play Chess. In & London theater, at which ‘musical play is having a long run, the ‘members of the orchestra play chess on miniature boards during the waits between aca. at ‘Woman Awheel. “Tt takes nerve to ride @ wheel down town nowadays,” said s New York stenographer. .““A woman on a bicycle now is such @ rare spectacle that peo- ple stop and look at her. Only a few years ago any number of young women employed downtown rode their wheels to and from work, and found the exer- cise pleazant and healthful. The ap- pearance of automobiles has had great deal to do with the disappear- ance of bicycles. The eternal vigilance necessary to keep from being run down fs too trying.” Bmallest Coins. ‘The natives of the Malay peninsula have in use the very smallest current coin in the world. It is = sort of wafer, made from the resinous juice of a tree, ‘and is worth about one ten-thousandth of 8 penny. The smallest metal coin in circulation at the present day is the Portuguese threereis piece, worth twelve onehundredths of a penny. ‘The smallest coin circulating officially im any parc of the British empire is the five-millesima piece of Gibraltar, worth about half a farthing. Covote Scalvs. Sedgwick county pays $1” for each coyote scalp that is brought to the county clerk's office at the courthouse. The scalp is « circular piece of skin taken from the head of the animal, with ‘both of the ears attached. The ears must be intact or the scalp is worthless. A strange fact is that the receipts from these scalps are increasing, showing that the animals are successfully com- dating the march of civilization. —Wich- ita (Kan.) Beacon. Royal “Snuffers.” Women of quality about a century ago would not stir without their snuff- boxes, beautiful enameled receptacles of perfumed miil rappee. Lord Bol- ingbroke said of Queen Anne and her grace of Marlborough: “The nation 4s governed by a pair of snuffers. No wonder the light of its glory is ex- tinguished!” Limited Qualification. Young Chinese who have some smattering of English are opening what they call “Anglo-Chinese schools” fn Shanghai and the neighboring towns. One of the schools is frank enough to advertise that it teaches English “only as far as the letter G” at present. Sein te Whales Mast. Newfoundland is developing @ new industry, in the form of selling whale meat in place of beef. One of the deal- ers says that the new meat tastes more like venison than beef, and plans are already being made to ship some to England, where it is expected that it will sell for at least 12 cents a pound. Lynx Darkens Three Towns. Virginia City, Carson and Reno were all in darkness last night becausealyax climbed an electric pole between Vir- ginia City and Reno and caused the burning out of the electrical machinery fm the three places, Twenty thousand ‘volts passed through the animal's body. —Sacramento Bee. Rockefellers Gifts. John D. Rockefeller’s known gifts are now totaled at $51,272,666. The two largest items are the. $13,000,000 which he has given at one time and another to Chicago university, and the $10,000,- 000 gift to the general education board announced the other day. Preparing a Southern Breakfast. “What's that pounding in the kitch- en?” asked the boarder. “Trying to make my steak tender?” “No,” replied the landlady; “the cook discovered some microbes in the meat, this morning, and she’s trying to kill ‘em!"—Yonkers Statesman. So with All Suicides. A man who stands before # mirror to kill himself makes a coroner’s jury unnecessary in his case. No matter what the means, morbid egotism was the cause of death.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. ‘Wot Much? ‘The London World declares that “It {fs @ masculine delusion that women ‘are ready or ever will be ready to sur- render thetr liberty and indulge in the ‘vulgar chase for husbands as did their torbears.” So Sweet! Lawson—What kind of a fellow is Cholly Sawfter, anyhow? Dawson—Well, all I need to say is that Cholly's nightshirt has lace and pink ribbons on it—Somervilie Jour- nal ; Great Dante Library. ‘Leonidas Leonell of Undina, Italy, bas the largest Dante library in the world. It comprises more than 3,000 publications of all languages relating ‘to the poet. ‘Too Careful. _ “I ike @ keerful man,” said Uncle Eben, “but I hates to see anybody so akyaht o” gettin’ cheated fat he goes wifout things he actually needs."— Washington Star. Bariy Culture in Peru. ‘Recent discoveries in Peru would seem to indicate that a high degree of culture prevailed in that country as early as 1,500 years B.C. Out-tiraftine Gratters. ‘There are numerous indications that & good many are making a lot of graft out of the grafters.—Chicago Chroai- o. ‘How Could They? Cigarettes do net affect the brain— for obvious reasons.—Chicago Daily ‘News. Cheap Crematicn. ‘The cost of cremating a body in France 4s only three francs. _ Smart Dog Takes Long Journey to Find the Friend of His Youth. A family living in Vermont removed from their long-time residence to another village, some 40 miles away. They took with them a Scotch collié of unusual intelligence, but left behind the family cat, says the New York Times. The collié and the cat had been warm friends for several years and had fought each other's battles with courage and impartiality. After the family reached their new home the collie was evidently lonesome. One evening as the family was gathered about the open fire some remarks were made about this, and the man of the house, patting the collie on the head, said: "I am sorry that we did not bring George with us. You miss your old playmate, don't you?" The next morning the collie had disappeared. Three days afterward he came into the yard in a state of great enjoyment, indicated in the usual dogway, followed by George, the cat. Both seemed somewhat excited, and the collie showed marks of battle. Each seemed greatly delighted in the company of the other, and the old-time status quo was at once resumed. Out of curiosity inquiry was made by the family, both at their old residence and along the line of the main highway between the two places, which developed the fact that the dog appeared at the old home, very deliberately and very distinctly induced the cat to start on the journey with him and had protected him en route, with a clash of arms for nearly every mile. Of course, the question arose as to the language by which he told George his wants and what inducements were offered to go with him on the hazardous journey. GROWING JET-BLACK ROSES Florists in New York were greatly interested in the recent announcement that an Englishman has discovered how to grow jet black roses, a feat which has been vainly attempted for many years. If a dozen of them could be offered for sale to-day in the city, says the Baltimore Sun, leading florists agreed that there would be no difficulty in obtaining $1,200 for the bunch. On a few estates along the Rhine practically black roses have been grown for the last ten years, but all efforts to eliminate a reddish tint in the center of the bud have so far failed. No secret has been more closely guarded by the German gardeners than this one of developing even a comparatively black flower. Visitors are allowed to look at the bushes and buds on special occasions, but what ingredient has been put into the soil to bring about the abnormal color has not been told even to close friends. In California a specialist has also been partly successful in producing roses practically black, but, according to announcement in London, it remained for a peddler of shoelaces to attain perfection. It was said to-day by New York florists that undoubtedly the color is the result of a chemical introduced in the soil. The same principle, however, is said to be involved as in the development of blue hydrangeas, which are produced by putting iron into the soil in which the plants are grown. The black blossoms would be most popular as indications of mourning, but it was agreed by florists that the day is yet distant when any one of the freaks will be seen in their windows. WERE NOT DESIRABLE LOTS Man Put in Extra One in Trade and Was Afraid of Getting It Back "There is a little town up the coast that bears the name of Ocosta," remarked Jere T. Burke, of the Southern Pacific law department, while in a reminiscent mood, relates the San Francisco Chronicle. "It lies just back of Gray's harbor and is the largest town in that neighborhood. However, that does not mean very much. I visited Ocosta a little while back, and while I was in town a certain fellow traded a town lot for a horse. After closing the deal the fellow that had acquired the horse hurriedly took the animal to a blacksmith shop and asked the blacksmith to shoe him in a hurry. The blacksmith seemed in no hurry, however, and the owner of the horse made two or three trips outside of the shop, looking nervously up the road. "Can't you hurry that job?" he said to the blacksmith. "I never was in such a hurry in my life." "Say," declared the blacksmith, "did you steal this horse?" " 'No, I didn't steal the horse,' replied the owner reassuringly. 'I traded a lot for the horse, and by mistake I put two lots on the deed instead of one Now I am afraid the other fellow will discover the mistake and come back to demand the horse.' Arkansas River. The Arkansas river is the only water course in Oklahoma ever navigated by steam. It has diminished year after year by pouring its waters into the irrigating ditches of arid and western plains, until now often in the summer solstice it is possible for a pony to pass from bank to bank without wetting a saddlegirth. India's Foreign Trade. India has three and one-third times as much foreign trade as Japan; three times as much as China, easily beating Italy and Austria, also Belgium, and surpassing the Russian empire by $300 million. Actions of the Skunk, Coon and Otter Are at Times Very Interesting. Own cousin in foolishness to the rabbit is the skunk. Confident of his awful weapon of defense, a skunk is only equaled in reckless bravery by the porcupine, and both are too stupid to take any warning, says a Washington Star writer. Around army camps, where the cooks cut open canned food with a hatchet, it is not an uncommon thing to catch skunks near by. The top of the can being cut in quarters by two blows from the hatchet, it is emptied of its contents and thrown on the waste pile. If that can happened to have held salmon, it is irresistible to any skunk or coon that passes to leeward of it. A little investigation locates it, a paw is tried and then a nose. The yielding top allows an entrance, for forbids an exit, and so, with the can as a hood, the prowler falls a victim to those in the camp. It is interesting to note the actions of an otter when he finds the tracks of a man near his home. He stops and his hair bristles up and he casts a furtive look around as if he had been caught in the act of stealing chickens. Little by little he edges away, and if he has a wife and children, sneaks off to them and hustles them out and away from the place. He knows the dangers of civilization. The wildcat and mountain lion, after one experience with a trap, become very wise and hence correspondingly hard to trap, but a strange thing about most animals that are wise in avoiding steel traps is that they seem to know that when a trap is sprung it is no longer dangerous and will go right up to it and eat the bait. So it is with all wild animals I have seen on the plains. The horse and the dog of civilization may be mighty intelligent and smart, but those animals that are compelled to live by their wits are not very far behind if at all. TALE OF A FICKLE SAILOR. Used as an Example to Illustrate the Instability of a Politician. Mayor Weaver, of the awakened city of Philadelphia, was talking to a reporter about a very suture and wily politician, relates the Buffalo Enquirer. "It is difficult," said the mayor, "to get this man to do anything he doesn't want to do. Cornered, he advances argument after argument against the course you desire him to pursue. He begins with weak arguments. You think you've got him. But just as victory appears assured, he puts forth a final argument that is insuperable, a final argument that floors you thoroughly. "The fellow is like a fickle sailor of the old romance. This sailor was strong, handsome and gay. The girls liked him, and he, I fear, lliked the girls. The following conversation, one moonlight night, in the tropics, passed between him and a young woman: "Then, Jack, when shall we be married? "But I promised my wife, sweetheart, that I would never marry a second time. "The young girl, beautiful in the flattering moonlight, murmured: "Would you cast me off for the sake of a promise to a dead woman? "But she isn't dead yet, said the fickle sailor." How the Various Species Manage to Escape Extermination by Natural Enemies. How is the balance of life on the globe maintained? Why have not species exterminated species? Why have not the birds exterminated the insects, and the hawks and owls exterminated the birds? Because the insects are so much more prolific than the hawks and owls. The hawks and owls are also more restricted as to food. The more adaptive an animal is the greater are the chances of surviving, writes John Burroughs, in Outing. If wolves and foxes could browse like deer and sheep and rabbits, they would be as numerous as these latter species. The potato bug has unduly increased in the east because its food is abundant and its enemies have not appeared. The forest worms threatened to destroy the maple woods of some sections till its enemy, the johnsumon fly, appeared. Rabbits have increased unduly in Australia because their natural enemies have not kept pace. Secret of Violin Varnish. It has long been suspected that the master makers of violins in Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries knew of some remarkable gum which they employed in making the varnish for their instruments. Mr. George Pry, of the Chemical society, London, who has carefully investigated the subject, concludes, after showing that the varnish exercises a decided influence over the tone of a violin, that Stradivarius and other famous makers probably used only linedeed oil and resin rather than some mystical gum. The resin was oxidized with nitric acid. It is doubted whether the popular idea that age is advantageous rather than detrimental to a violin is well founded. Youth's Companion. Couldn't Identify Himself. The body of an unknown man was found in Carthage, Mo., recently. It was hastily identified as that of a certain Carthaginian. He was a man of grim humor. Hearing the report, he went to the morgue, looked at the body with care, then solemnly and positively declared the dead man was not himself. N. Y. Tribune. "A collection of buttonholes was the pride of a certain queen in one of Stockton's fairy tales," said a Milwaukee millionaire. "I collect the next thing to buttonholes, namely, buttons. And I can tell you when buttons and buttonholes first came into use, who invented them, how they spread gradually over the world, together with many other things of interest." The millionaire's glass cases contained many beautiful, many historical buttons. He turned to the case labeled "Chinese." "Here," he said, "are the buttons which the mandarins of China wear on their caps to indicate their rank. This silver button is the emblem of the mandarin of the ninth class—the lowest class. The plain gold button denotes the eighth class mandarin. The seventh class wears the gold button to the right, the one ornately carved. That beautiful button of jade belongs to the sixth class, and the fifth wears a button of pure rock crystal. The fourth class mandarin's button is that one of dark purple crystal. The third class' is the sapphire. The second's is coral red. "With each of the buttons an official bird goes. The bird is embroidered on the breast of the official coat. The mandarin of the second class has for his bird the cock; the third class has the peacock; the fourth has the pelican, the fifth has the silver pheasant, the sixth has the story, the seventh has the partridge, the eighth has the quail and the ninth has the sparrow." FASHION'S COLOR FREAKS. Transformations in Woman's Complexion Productive of Connubial Confusion. "I'm glad I'm not my wife," said the dyspeptic, according to the Philadelphia Record, as he settled down to his hygienic luncheon of rare roast beef, creamed onions and boiled rice; "I'd be dead if I were. I have trouble enough keeping alive as it is. Fancy the shape I'd be in if I had to change my spots—I mean my color—as often as sickle fashion dictates. Why. I've forgotten what color my wife originally was, she's undergone so many beauty transformations. And now she's got to do it again. A friend just back from the other side has told her that though red hair continues to be the proper caper it must now be backed up by green eyes and a dead white skin. The hair and skin are easy enough, but eve my wife is a little afraid of the beauty specialist who is willing to undertake to make her eyes look green. There's just one grain of comfort in it all for me—though she achieve the pallid skin, the green eyes and the red hair it will not give her a temperament to correspond. I shall yet enjoy the modicum of peace it is in her capricious nature to allow me." HER MANNER MAY CHANGE When a Woman Is Displeased She Is Not Forgetful of Society Manners. She was plainly irritated about something and sat pouting as she ate in a downtown restaurant, and not saying a word to the man with her, evidently her husband, relates the Chicago Tribune. Before the luncheon was finished another man came in. The husband knew him and called him over to their table and introduced him. The woman was then all smirks and smiles. Her anger disappeared completely, and she even included her husband in her sunny views of life. "That's society manners all right," said a girl at another table, "but did you ever see anything so foolish. It's a good guess she wants a hat or money to buy something of the sort from her husband and is going to pout till she gets it, but what a contrast her manner is to the man she's never seen before and isn't likely to see again! It must look as absurd to the husband as it does to us. If ever I have a husband I'll not set about it that way when I want to get something out of him." Bridling the Tongue. There is more than mere cynicism in Talleyrand's remark that "speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts." If we are to live in peace and harmony with our fellows we must conceal many thoughts, unless we are endowed with a mind in which no unkind or unpleasant thought can find judgment. We may think that Neighbor X is more agreeable than Neighbor Y, and that Mrs. A's daughter is more beautiful than Mrs. B's, and that Dr. Pill is a better physician than Dr. Pellet; but what unpleasantness it would create if we were to say these things to Dr. Pellet, or to Mrs. B, or to Neighbor Y! - Youth's Companion. Spain's Linguistic King. King Alfonso has a fair claim to be regarded as the best educated of our crowned heads. He is a linguist, being familiar with French, Italian, German and English. He never travels without Goethe, Schiller and the Austrian poet, Grillparzer, whose name will be new to most people. Of the ancient classics King Alfonso prefers Horace, many of whose odes he has translated into Spanish. Moreover, he revels in mathematics and history, and adores drawing. What attention he has paid to English literature is not made public—London Chronicle. Easily Arranged. "The lady ain't got the money now," said Bridget; "but ye kin 'ave the ice an' she'll pay on Saturday." "But," protested the new iceman, "p'posin' she ain't got the money then?" "Well, if she ain't ye kin take yer ice back." -Philadelphia Press. Expressing and Moving to Any Part of the city. 139 WEST FIFTY-FIRST STREET Between Dearborn and Armour Ave. Phone 3804 Gray Residence 5050 Dearborn st. Tile and Slate Hauling a Specialty. COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2540 State Street Tel. 699 South CHICAGO Peoples Pharmacy Pure Drugs and Chemicals 29th St. and Armour Av. Phone 526 South CHICAGO Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. 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COOK WAITERS AND COOKS Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found by experience that they are the most satisfactory and econom- ical goods on the market. Our Complete Catalogue— a correct guide to proper dress in the Dining Room, Kitchen, or Bar will be sent free on application. Write for catalogue and full instruc- tions how to order. Margaret Ruben (Inc.), 300 State St., Chicago ETIQUETTE OF CALLS KINDNESS THE FOUNDATION STONE OF SOCIAL EDIFICE. May a Man Ask Permission to Call? If the Caller Is Bashful, Believe Him of His Hat—The Minute Con- versation-Drage, Depart—The Hos- tess May Not End a Call—Driblets of Talk Unnecessary on the Door- Sill. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. (Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowlen.) I am often asked by young people who are anxious to do just right, whether a lady should invite a man to call upon her, or whether he should ask her permission to call. In ordinary intercourse the matter is not momentous. If two persons meet casually, find each other agreeable, and wish further acquaintance, they usually find a way of bringing about what they desire. According to strictly conventional rules, the gentleman should seek the acquaintance of the lady, and he may properly pay her the homage of asking if he may call on her, or he may suggest to a friend who knows her that he would like to be taken to call. There are no insurmountable barriers in a country like ours, to prevent the pleasant social mingling of those who are mutually attracted. Nor is there the slightest reason why, in most cases, a young woman should hesitate to say, frankly: "I will be pleased to see you at my home if you have an evening free," or "Mother will be glad to meet you at any time," or "Mother and I are always happy to see our friends," or any other formula that is sincere and cordial. Girls are learning the true value of mothers. In the more exclusive circles of society mothers spread protecting wings over their unmarried daughters till the latter have evidently and definitely entered on the privileges of spinisterhood. A young woman who has reached her thirtieth year no longer needs the hovering pinion of maternal supervision at every step. Girls, however, are saved many embarrassments and rescued from many predicaments by treating their mothers with consideration, and putting them as a shield between themselves and any confusing situation. The days are over, I trust forever, when on the announcement of a masculine caller, a callow youth or boy about as old as her own son, a mother scuttles out of the parlor like a frightened hen and leaves the entertainment and the field. to her daughters. She may not wish to give up her entire evening to the boy or the man, but if she be well-bred, she greets him and stays awhile, and retires in no disorder. Nor, while she remains, is her presence a handicap on the group. Her girls wish mother to know their friends. How late may a man linger when he calls is another query solicitously propounded. Of course the length of a call depends somewhat on the familiarity of the caller in the family. An intimate friend will not trespass against any accepted code if he remain until almost the ordinary bedtime of the family. This time, as everyone knows, differs widely in different households. Ten o'clock is late for some. Others do not break the evening camp until 11. But, broadly speaking, few callers should stay beyond half-past ten, and ten is the better hour for leave-taking in most instances. A first call should not be more than a half hour long. From eight to nine o'clock in town calls are in order. In country homes calling may begin and end an hour earlier than is feasible in town. Never protract a call after it grows wearisome. When conversation drags like a sleigh on bare ground for pity's sake arise and depart. Don't monopolize the conversation, you who receive, or you who call. Good talk is not a monologue. It must needs show fair play. "Shall I relieve a young man of his hat, his stick, his umbrella?" inquires a young woman, whose earnest desire is to be courteous. Fashion says, let a man look after his parapherna himself. The duty of a hostess does not oblige her to take any trouble in the matter. But here intervenes common sense. Should you happen to have a bashtall visitor, or a near-sighted one, why not tell him that there is a table, a hat-rack, or some other convenient place where he may lay his outdoor things? The clever guest, accustomed to society, will need no such intimation, and the instinct of amiability is to assist the opposite one, whose shyness is making him wretched. There are men who cling desperately to hat and stick, as if should they let them go they would be unarmed in a hostile country. By all means let such sufferers possess their souls, and their hats, too, in peace. In the case of an aged or infirm visitor rules are laid aside. Such a one is to be cared for and aided in every way. Before age and weakness politeness bows the knee. Indeed, the foundation stone underlying the social edifice and holding it up, is kindness, and hard by that is another stone, called common sense. If you build your good manners on these you will not be found wanting in a king's court, or in a rear tenement. "May the hostess terminate a call?" Certainly not, unless she has some excellent reason for doing so, as, for instance, illness in the family, a child with the croup, a husband with rheumatism, a hungry man waiting for his supper, when the maid is cut 14 Carefully Led Up To. "Yonder," said the party of the first part, "is the house in which I was born. We lived on the first floor. McBooth Bantington, the great tragedian, occupied the upper apartments. He was not only a famous actor, but a singularly fortunate man." "Then," responded the party of the second part, "you were born under a lucky star, eh?" N. B.—The management bogs to state that it considers this one of the most elaborately worked-out jokes we have produced this season.—Pittsburg Post. Startling Result. "Hold up yer hands!" demanded the footpad, suddenly emerging from an alley. The victim lost no time in complying. "Great Scott, old chap!" exclaimed the footpad, lost in wonder and astonishment as he looked at the hands, and forgetting entirely the object of the meeting, "What baseball club are you ketchin' fur?"—Chicago Tribune. In England Also. Evidently the servant problem is driving people crazy in England, too. The following advertisement is from the London Morning Post: Wanted—Immediately for Brighton, a superior old-fashioned woman as cook; age between 30 and 45; wages £28 to begin with, washing money, but no beer; Protestant; also for the same situation a strong between maid; age about 18; wages £12 and rise, washing money. Free Lunch in Church. After having long been monopolized by the corner saloon, the "free lunch" has been adopted by a church in Cripple Creek, Col. The pastor of the First Christian church places among his Sunday noises the following: "Lunch will be served immediately after church, in the Endeavor rooms. Free to all who attend services." Talented Princess It is said that Princess Charles of Denmark can bind a book, steer a boat, pull an oar, knit a stocking, take a photograph, play chess and speak five languages. We would be obliged to the princess if she would kindly find some word to rhyme with silver.—Chicago Record-Herald. Qualified. Chief—So you want a place on the police force. What are your recommendations? Applicant—I've been henpecked for 20 years, and can listen to troubles by the yard, without ever turning a hair. Detroit Free Press. Experience to Come The man who invented negligee shirts with cuffs attached never lived in a warm climate. But he will, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Yes, and when he gets there he will be received by the man who invented the bell top trousers. Cause of the Delay Friend—Haven't you named the baby yet? Proud mother—No; we must be very careful to give him a nice one, because there will be so many named after him when he is president.—N. Y. Sun. Plenty There. Noting the fact that the sultan has ordered a pack of British man-tracking dogs, with which to chase animals in Turkey, the London Globe predicts that the poor animals will be worked to death in a week. If She Had Known. No doubt if Pharaoh's daughter could have foreseen that Alma Tadema was going to get 14,000 pounds for his picture of "The Finding of Moses" she would have primed up a little more for the occasion.—Kansas City Star. Mutual. Servant (on the stage)—Madam, the marquls is without and desires an audience. Star Actress (surveying a nearly empty house)—So do I.—Chicago Journal. Poor Treat. A Hamburg school teacher treated her pupils to a dinner in a restaurant the other day, and then found she had forgotten her purse. So she and they were locked up in the nearest prison. In Munich. A six-year-old girl, the daughter of a stage manager, failed to obtain admission to a Munich girls' school, because her father's profession is considered "immoral." Drink of Savages. A ceremonial drink called assine of the American Aborigines was prepared by the women in stone vessels, and boiled by means of heated stones. His Last Hope. Nickler—So Henpekt is going to sue for breach of promise? Bocker—Yes; Mrs. H—once promised to marry him—N. Y. Sun. Knocks the Proverb. A statistician affirms that the majority of people who attain old age have kept late hours. Land in Italy. In Italy the value of much of the land is reckoned at nearly 34 times the annual rental. No Trouble. It is dead easy to keep up a $10 appearance on an $18 salary.—Chicago Daily News. Probably the most remarkable shoes ever produced within recent times were those worn at a function in London the other day by a woman well known in society. In keeping with a gorgeous gown, which is said to have cost a fabulous sum, she wore a pair of shoes that were literally covered with flashing jewels—diamonds, rubies and pearls. The style of decoration was of a remarkably striking character. Five hundred dollars was the price of each shoe. Seventeen Wills. Mrs. Eliza Roche, widow of a bank manager who resided at Kildorey, County Cork, had £2,700 to dispose of at the time of her death. During five years before her demise she made as many as 17 wills, and the last will, being contested in court, probate has been granted on terms of a settlemnt. All of which goes to prove that man proposes and the court finally disposes. Nothing New. Is the phrase "nothing doing" slang? In the "Crevy Papers," edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, there is a letter written to Thomas Creevy by a Dr. Currie, dated May 1, 1803. He is referring to Napoleon: "We are all cursed flat three about the spunnet negotiations. Nothing doing. Everything stagnated. We shall have war, because it is just the most absurd thing in creation." Only a Slight Difference. A northwest automobile enthusiast has returned from a visit to the Fiji islands and says that the natives prostrated themselves before the machine and called it the "father of all devils." The only difference between us and the natives is that we leap sidewise when we denominate it. -Minneapolis Tribune Beards in Birmingham Mr. Holyoke, a British writer, remembers a time when "only four men in Birmingham had the courage to wear beards," and only military officers were allowed to wear a mustache. In the good old days, one pump in a yard had to serve working class families. Thoroughbreds. Major Rippah—You can lead a hoss to water, suh, but you can't make him drink. Colonel Cyatah—Yes, suh. That is the reason hesses are so popular in Kalntucky, suh. A noble and sagacious animal!—Cleveland Leader. Florida Coffee. "The coffee has run out," said the Florida boarding house woman, as the New Yorker passed back his cup for more of the beverage. "Indeed," said the boarder; "I didn't think it was strong enough for that!" —Yonkers Statesman. Survival of Children. Out of every thousand children born, 889 survive their fifth year in New Zealand, 850 in New South Wales, and 844 in Victoria, as against 837 in Ireland, 762 in England and Wales, 751 in France, 614 in Austria and 571 in Spain. "Alphonse the Brave." Since his return to Spain, King Alfonso has become popularly known among his subjects as "Alfonso the Brave," on account of the coolness with which he behaved when the bomb was thrown at him in Paris. Wonder! When a man is thinking of all the mean things he can say in his bill for divorce does he ever remember the nice things he said before marriage? One is probably as true as the other.—Detroit Free Press. Electric Mail Wagons In Paris the post office department is now using several electric mail wagons which are designed to transport the mail matter in larger quantities and at a greater speed than the old horse-drawn vehicles. Quicker Than Thought The eyelids close involuntarily whenever the human eye is threatened with injury. 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