The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Negro Newspaperdom The Charleston Advocate on Race Journalism. How May Negroes Be Made to Better Appreciate Their Own Papers? How About the Financial End? When Will the Average Race Journal Become the Recognized Power in the Community That it is Designed to Be. Vol. X How may Negroes be induced to read their own newspapers? How may the editorial utterances of race papers be brought to the attention of white people? In what way or ways may the influence of the Negro journal as a moulder of public opinion be extended? How can the Negro journal be made a paying business investment? These are the questions uppermost in the minds of our three hundred or more editors and managers to day We have no dearth of capable writers. They are saying good things every week in the columns of our papers and the pages of our magazines' saintillate with their bright thoughts. But, do they go beyond the borderland of our intelligent working, uplifting forces, who are already redeemed? We fear not. Those who stand in the greatest need of wise council and a rosy picture of Negro progress seldom see one of our papers and few use those they do get for any purpose loftier than to wrap up a shirt or to cover a shell in the kitchen cupboard. The unambitious, Negro upon the street, the poor family in the alley, the crap shooters in the too prevalent saloons—how can the preachments of the Negro editor be brought to these poor, degenerate classes? It is a question of infinite concern to the educated classes, because through the irony of fate it is the lower classes who are most conspicuous in the eyes of the whites and their misdeeds are given far more space in the white dales than the good deeds of the worthy, and by them the civilization of the entire race is measured. The judgment of the average white man concerning us is fixed by the vicious types among us—rarely is it changed by the respectability of the highest. The schools, churches and newspapers fail to reach and lift up our "submerged tenth" what are we going to do about it? White people do not read our papers and magazines, except in rare instances. Caucasan papers do not quote us save to demonstrate some theory to our disadvantage or to score a selfish political point. They will not discuss with us in serious ven the relation of the Negro to problems of national concern. The fugitive articles that are accepted by the great magazines on sociological themes are persued by white people with the same emotion that rise within them when they encounter some strange animal that has somehow acquired the gift of speech and whose instinct has been cultivated to seem almost like human intelligence "This is not the reasoning of a Negro" says the Caucasian reader of a deep treatise by a talented black man. It is the views of a white civilization engrafted upon an exceptional Negro, rather more gifted than his fellows, in aping the wisdom of the superior race about him. He is not the real Negro—the Negro who menaces the peace of the continent by his impossible pleas and complaints." "Prof. Smiths" are too few to be dangerous. The Buck Smiths, Tobe Jones, and Pet Browns, who figure in the annals of the police court, constitute the Negro known to the makers of the "Jim crow" law's and disfranchisement statutes. Is any considerable number of persons influenced by the editorals found in our papers. We want to think so to justify our own feeble efforts in the line of journalism, but we have our doubts. At certain periods, in heated campaigns and under extraordinary circumstances, a flaming article, widely circulated, has worked great good to those favored and untold damage to the cause that it antagonized. We wish there was more examples of changes in public sentiment wrought by race journals that we now recall. We would like to see the Negro paper in a community of as many as 3,000 Negro population looked upon as the politican and publicist regarded Patrick Ford's "Irish World in its palmy days, and as the Staats-Zietung is regarded when they essay to do business with the Germans as a class. To be respected as the inspired voice of a thoughtful, dignified people is the rightful aim of the Negro newspaper. How it may induce the governing classes to value its support or fear its enmity are problems upon which we would be pleased to find light? As a business investment the Negro paper is in its swadding clothes. Many are "getting out" by the hardest, and there is scarcely a calling on earth that draws more heavily upon one's energies, resources and brains than running a Negro paper, and now yields such meager returns. A handful of our journalists are earning perhaps a little more than bare living, the vicarious sacrifices for the future greatness of their people—for which they are deserving of more praise than they receive. People who are able to pay, do not pay for these papers. The bulk do not care, and the unselfish ones "who go down into their jeans" are just sufficiently numerous to keep the publishers out of the alms houses. But their is a glamor—a fascination about the work a hope, perhaps — that hold good men in the harness when they might do better financially in other fields. A true journalist never gets entire out of business. He will haunt the outer edges of the pool if the water in the center is too deep or too cold. May be there is a brighter day coming. With our growth in culture, wealth, race pride commercial importance and general intelligence, may we not expect journalism to share in the feast of such prosperity? We are hopeful but these reflections must give us pause, and an answer should be sought. We must have a wider circulation among both races to weld any helpful influence upon either. A campaign for subscribers should be vigorously pushed in every city and town. We must secure more generous financial returns to keep the right kind of men at the head of our representative journals. A Negro paper should be in every neighborhood not as a luxury, but as a necessity. We must take a stand upon all public isues and seek to place good men in power and keep bad men out. We must reach our lawless classes for the sake of the race's family reputation and change the verdict that the jury has rendered by reason of the preponderance of shiftlessness brought into HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, AUGUST 19, 1905. [Name] REV. W. SAMP SON BROOKS. The Honest Pastor of St. Stephens Church, who should be permitted to serve its members until he completes their house of worship, and frees it from debt. The Honest Pastor of St. Stephens Church, who should be permitted to serve its members until he completes their house of worship, and frees it from debt. evidence. Let us contend for law and order, civil equality and recognition of worth regardless of color. Let us continue to stand up like men for purer homes, better schools, more powerful churches, a self-respecting society for dignity of labor and for a stronger material development. Perhaps our questions may cease to be pertinent if all unite to at once answer them, diligent and prayerfully. THE ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LAW Opening of Its Fall Term, Sept. 3rd The Illinois College of Law, 301 E Erie street, Tel. North 862, open September 3rd, with almost two hundred students. It ranks among the best law schools in this state or the country at large. Tuesday afternoon and evening, the Old Settlers held a reunion and more than brilliant reception at the home of Mrs. Joseph H. Hudlun 115 W. 51st street. The affair served for two purposes one, to afford the old settlers to mingle together and to chat with each other over ye olden times, and to relate how some of them escaped from slavery or bondage to freedom and the second was in honor or in commemoration of the escape of Joseph H. Hudlun from his slave master in Missouri and landing in Chicago where he was received with open arms by its Colored population 51 years ago on the 15th of August. Here it might be well to state. That Mr. Hudlun was for many years, prior to his death, chief janitor of the Board of Trade Building. That he was held in the highest esteem by all of its members. That his picture hangs on the same wall in its office, side by side by its former presidents. On Tuesday evening the house was decorated with many rare and beautiful flowers and Mr. Hudlun's picture was draped with the old flag belonging to the Board of Trade Battery and also with the flag which he obtained at the time President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Refreshments were served and Mrs. Ida McIntosh-Dempsy as President of the Old Settlers Club assisted Mrs. Hudlun, who is remarkably agile and active for a lady of her years, to receive her troops of friends who honored her with their presence. It was in every respect a most brilliant affair and more than two hundred of the best members of the race called during the reception hours to pay their respects to Mrs. Hudlun and many of the former old settlers of Chicago, who are now residing in other sections of the country, journeyed many miles in order to be present and to greet their old friends. The majority of the ladies, old and young wore pure white evening costumes which added beauty to their many charms. THE ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LAW. Opening of its Fall Term, Sept. 3rd. The Illinois College of Law, 301 E. Erie street, Tel. North 862, opens September 3rd, with almost two hundred students. It ranks among the best law schools in this state or the country at large. Its building and grounds which are owned by the College are located away from the noise, yet within a short walking distance to the business center of the city and all places of interest and amusement. Its college library which cannot be surpassed, and study rooms are open both day and evening for the use of students and the resident alumni. Seven Afro-American law students will attend the Illinois College of Law this coming term which is a larger number than are enrolled in all the other law schools in this city. They are as follows: William C. Smith, Warra Kibbey, Augustus L. Williams, Eugene H. McGee, N. D. Neighbors, Albert G. Barnett, son of Assistant State's Attorney Barnett, and Milton T. Bailey, head of the True Reformers of Illinois. The Board of Trustees of the Illinois College of Law and the officers of Administration are among the most substantial citizens of Chicago. Howard N. Ogden is its President, Prof. Albert H. Putney, one of the best authorities on Constitutional and International Law, and equity, jurisprudence, is its Treasure, and Dean of the faculty. Many of the most eminent lawyers in this city will lecture before its students for the term of 1905-1906, and as the Illinois College of Law knows no color line, we take pleasure in commending it to all Afro-Americans and others who contemplate studying law AN ERROR IN ATTORNEY EDWARD E. WILSON'S REVIEW OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE NEGRO Somehow or other an error crept into Attorney Wilson's splendid review of the "Religious Life of the Negro," by Prof. Booker T. Washington, which was as follows: "Without going outside the question of religion to call attention to the Alabamians vagaries in other fields I think it is fair to say that what is to be gathered from this rather hazy article on the Negro's religion is that religion does not shape his conduct in everyday life." Whereas it read that religion does not shape the white man's conduct. Aside from this slight mistake it was a very smooth article, and it has attracted wide attention. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Prevented An Afro-American From Being Appointed Supervisor of Racing Accounts of New York State. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE BROAD AX. Meddlesome Politics, or the Curse of Disunion. New York, August 17, 1905. We have recently gone through an experience here that should prove to be a solemn lesson to us the country over, for it has resulted in an irreparable loss to our race and people. Mr. Geo. E. Wibecan, the president of the Henry Highland Garnett Republican Club of Kings County, was a candidate for the position of Supervisor of Racing Accounts of New York State, which was filled for several years by the Hon. Chas. W. Anderson. Mr. Wibecan has been a faithful worker for twenty years in this county, was endorsed by the colored and white people of the county and state, moreover, the position, which pays a salary of $2.500 with $500 for expenses, was promised to Mr. Wibecan's friends, by the Governor, we are credibly informed. Behold! Mr. Booker T. Washington, unable to let so important, whose business it was to look after it, crosses the state line, and in a whirling campaign, raises aloft his banner in the candidacy of his henchman and organizer in this State, Mr. Fred. R. Moore, an estimable messenger in a New York bank. Very slyly, Mr. Washington did not mention the position of Supervisor in his letter to the Governor at the psychologic moment, when that place was vacant, recommended his friend, Mr. Moore, to the Governor for an appointment. There was a covenant in the Garnett Club to the effect that when a man was endorsed by the Club all others were in honor bound to keep out of the contest. There was an additional covenant between the Garnett Club and the Republican Machine to the same effect, and this compact was made with the Machine through Mr. Moore some time ago in behalf of the Club of which he was thought to be an honorable member. Evidently, Covenants like John Y. McKane's Injunctions THE SUDDEN DEATH OF LOGAN WEBB. Last Tuesday Logan Webb 4712 Armour ave., who had hosts of warm friends among all classes of his fellow citizens, expired very suddenly at Minneapolis, Minn., from heart failure. Mr. Webb was in the service of the Pullman Palace Car Company for many years, and left on his regular run on Monday evening, appearly, in good health, after recovering from a severe spell of sickness and undergoing several operations. His remains were brought back to his late home last evening and the funeral services will be held at St. Thomas church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment Oakwood. Mr. Webb was married 23 years this coming November, and he leaves a devoted and loving wife two daughters and two sons, and numerous friends to mourn his death. He was 47 years old and was an honored member for many years of Western Lodge No. 30 Masonic and its members will have charge of his funeral, which will be held at the house prior to the 2 o'clock services at the church. Mr. J. Hockley Smiley, Secy.Treas. of the Smiley Catering Co., was unable to attend the Business Men's League in New York because of the pressure of business here at home. A better report cannot be made by any of the delegates to the convention. WASHINGTON man From Being Appointed ing Accounts of k State. don't go with Messrs. Washington and Moore. Of course Mr. Washington was able to marshal to his candidates aid the moneyed interests of the City, who have their millicans invested in Southern mines and cotton mills, and who utilize his valuable services to keep the Negro in his place. Meantime, the Governor was more and more pained(?) to note such lack of unity among his colored friends because it might finally compel him to award the plum to one of his white friends. So the battle waged between the two colored factions, Mr. Washington, the influential stranger and his white friends, on one side, and Mr. Wibecan, the home worker, minding his own business in his home, with his friends, on the other side. Finally, when it looked a through Mr. Wibecan would win in spite of Mr. Washington's gratuitous interference, a gentleman was sent to Albany to play the old familiar plantation dodge, to say to the Governor, that Wibecan was not a humble enough Negro to be placed in a position where he would be brought in contact with white people, that he would not understand as Mr. Anderson had so well understood that, when he was invited to any function to which he was entitled to go by reason of his official position, he was always to invent a convenient bit of the truth to the effect that he was so importantly engaged that he could not go. In other words, he would not please these people as the Charlotte, N. C., daily paper says Mr. Washington pleases the South. "He is a good enough nigger for us." The result of this whole miserable business was just what we might have expected, the Governor selzed the opportunity to give the position to one John Shea of Emerald memories, and another loss is chalked up to the Race through the middle omeness of this peripathetic, ubiquitous omeness of this peripathetic, ubiquitous, self-constituted, white supported universal leader. Let us hope that Mr. Washington is greatly pleased with the result, for we are convinced that it is useless to expect him to change his ways. OWEN M. WALLER, M. D. WHISKY AT CHURCH SOCIAL. Jesse Jay, a Negro, and His Wife Explain a "Hunky Dunk." "Your honor, we was having a 'hunky dunk,'" said Jesse Jay, a Negro, to Justice Mayer when they were arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct. "A what?" asked the justice. "Jes' a hunky dunk." "I have heard some hard conundrums in this court," said Justice Mayer, "but this one takes the cake. Tell me what a hunky dunk is." "Everyone must get drunk and fight," replied Jay. Jay was arrested on complaint of his wife, Mary Jay. She declared that Aug. 2 a church social was held at their home, and that whisky was sold at 10 cents a drink. "Do they sell whisky at church social," asked Justice Mayer in surprise. "Well, this was for charity," said Mrs. Jay. "Well, they say that charity covers a multitude of sins, Go on." "After everyone had left," said Mrs. Jay, "my husband beat me." "Well," said Justice Mayer, "I do not know what I'll fine you." "I did not strike her," said Jay. "Let me have a continuance and I'll bring witnesses to prove it." One of our beautiful Afro-American ladies who claims to be in business down town, and who resides on Dearborn street, near 49th street, caught onto a handsome new beaux last Friday evening while returning home on a State street cable car, and she seemed to enjoy his company. 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C., spent Thursday in Chicago the guest of Mr. Chas, Pickett. Mr. Geo. Bynum, 2917 State street, returned from St. Paul where he has been visiting for the past week. Mrs. T. Crawford, 3123 Armour avenue, who recently underwent an operation is again able to be out of doors. Mrs. Arthur Wells, 6624 Champlain avenue, joined the Smiley party in their eastern trip Monday. Col. Robert M. Mitchell returned Monday from a month's visit with friends in Alabama. Mrs. Doctor Miller, Greenville, Miss., is in the city visiting with Mrs. Emma L. Stevens, 4844 Dearborn street. Dr. and Mrs. Jas. R. White, of 5808 Michigan avenue, left the 17th for a month's vacation in Northern Michigan. Miss Isabella Whitted, Asst. Supt. of Provident Hospital, was called to her home at Rockville, Ind., by the death of her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose A. Clark, of St. Louis, is visiting the city the guest of Mrs. Jno. French, 3635 Vernon avenue. Mr. Harvey McGee, 3638 Dearborn St., who has been ill for the past two months, left for San Antonio, Texas, August 9th. Mrs. E. Louise Austin, and her dutiful husband have removed from 4853 Armour avenue to 4764 the same avenue. Mrs. Boger of Aurora, Ill., is in the city visiting her son and daughter in law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Boger, 3511 Indiana avenue. Mrs. Theo. Lee Purnell of Lor Angeles, Calif., is visiting her mother and grandmother Mrs. John Jones, 43 E. 29th Place. Miss Vella Crawford of St. Louis spent a few days in the city last week the guest of Mrs. Newby, 2628 Wabash avenue. Miss Mary Hopewell, 3032 Dearborn street, and Miss Atkins, left the 16th to spend two weeks vacation in Milwaukee. Mr. Elwood Knox of Indianapolis, Ind., who has been visiting the city was called home by the illness of his mother the 13th. Mr. Wm. Morse of the Chicago Post Office, left Chicago for Baltimore, Ma., where he will spend his vacation with his mother and other relatives. Mrs. Chas. Davis of Cincinnati, O., and Misses Bertha and Lylla Rickman of New Albany, Ind., are visiting the city stopping at 2617 State street: Mrs. Frank Waring, 35th and Dearborn street, left for Quincy, Ill., the 15th, where she will attend the meeting of the Women's Federation. Dr. and Mrs. Robt. Hardin are making great preparation for an extensive trip to the principal cities of the easy next month. Mrs. Thomas A. Motley, 2623 Washash avenue will leave for Richmond, Ind., Monday morning where she will spend one month with friends. Wednesday evening a. largely attended reception was held at Institutional church in honor of its former pastor, Rev. R. C. Ransom. The West Side Young Men will give a subscription party August 25th at Ackerman's Summer Garden. Dave McGowan, Ben Simpson, and Dr. Lewis Committee. Miss Mabel Wheeler, who has been taking the summer course at the University of Wisconsin, is in the city the guest of Mrs. J. P. Stewart, 3222 Vernon, avenue. Miss Ophelia Garrett and Miss Ollie Simms, who have been visiting the city the guests of Mrs. Turnbal, 764 E. 42nd street, returned to their homes in St. Louis August 15th. Great preparations are being made by the Baptist churches for the entertainment of the delegates to the S. S. Convention to take place in this city the first week in September. Mr. Maxwell of St. Louis of the firm of Sexton & Maxwell, photographers, spent a few days in the city last week. He has established a Chicago branch at 3018 State street. Alderman J. C. Patterson has completely recovered from his long spell of sickness and his numerous friends are greatly pleased to see him around the City Hall again. Mrs. Geo. W. Hamilton, 6516 Evans avenue, entertained fifty ladies Wednesday afternoon and evening in honor of her sister, Mrs. Jackson, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. James E. Thompson, 73 E. 22nu street, entertained Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. Rosa Lively and Mrs. Florence Woodward at lunch Wednesday afternoon. Miss Lou Hamilton, school teacher of Bay City, Mich., will return to her home the first of next week after an eight weeks' visit with her sister, Mrs. Jackson, 3617 Dearborn street. D. A. Bethea, the able President of the St. Mark Literary, is progressing nicely, with his Colored People's Blue Book and Business Directory, and it will be ready for delivery by September 1st. Mr. Alfred Anderson, song composer and secretary of the Provident Hospital, will leave for New York on business about the first of next week. Hibrother, Dr. H. D. Anderson, will accompany him. Miss Frances Murphy of Baltimore, Md., after a ten days visit with Mrs. M. Williams, 6552 Champlain avenue, left Chicago Monday for Brazil, Indiana, to be the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Oliver until September 1st. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Clark of New Orleans, are visiting the city stopping at 2232 Wabash avenue. Miss Bertha Thomas of 4630 Dearborn street, is very ill at Provident Hospital. Mrs. C. L. Maxwell of Xenia, O., wife of Hon. C. L. Maxwell, ex-council general of San Domingo, is in the city the guest of Mrs. C. H. Anderson, 4206 Langley avenue. Miss Minnie Maxwell will join her mother on the 22nd inst. Mr. and Mrs. D. Lawrence Lee, 4630 Drexel avenue, gave a wrist party Wednesday evening in honor of her niece Miss Mason, of Minneapolis, Minn., the first prizes were won by Mrs. Edward S. Miller, and Mrs. George C. Hall, an elegant luncheon was served by the hostess. Sandy S. Butler, 4731 Armour avenue, passed on over into the next world Sunday evening. Funeral services were held at St. Mark's church 47th and State streets, Thursday afternoon, which were conducted by Revs. Vaughan and Woods, his remains were laid to rest in Oakwood. John Henderson, the desperate character who assaulted Attorney J. Gray Lucas lately, in the hall-way leading into his office, 167 Dearborn street, has been arrested and he will have a hearing before Justice John R. Caverly at the Harrison street police station Monday morning. If you are entertaining a visitor, notify the "Society Editor" of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, and we will let the folks know about it through our Chips column which is so eagerly looked through and read more than any other paper in Chicago. Mrs. Henri Woode and children, who have been the guests of Mrs. J. Q. Grant, 3232 Wabash avenue and Mrs. Ruben Brooks and Mrs. Jefferson, the guests of Mrs. Smith, 3228 Wabash avenue, all of whom are from Vicksburg, Miss, left the city the 16th to spend a month in Waukesha, Wis. Mrs. J. C. Snowden, 115 W. 51st street, Mrs. Albert M. Smith, 2974 Wabash avenue, and Miss Gertrude B. Smith, 748 Austin avenue, are the three Afro-American women who successfully passed the Civil Service examination, and they will be assigned to duty as Probation Officers of the Juvenile Court. J. M. Higginbothan, the successful contractor, 225 25th street, fell from a scaffolding while working in Olivev Baptist church last Saturday severely injuring his face, and other portions of his body. So far he has been under the medical care of Doctor A. Beatrice Schultz and he is getting along very nicely. Prof. Booker T. Washington, the great Wizard of Tuskegee, dined with John Wanamaker, the great dry goods prince of Philadelphia, his daughter, Mrs. Barclay Warburton, and Mr. J. A. E. Roberis, at the United States Hotel Saratoga, N. Y., Monday. Prof. Washington escorted Mrs. Warburton to the table, and yet he is continually preaching against social equality. Attorney John C. King, 8? Washington street, has so much law business on hand this summer that he will be unable to take his annual vacation. At the present time he has more than five hundred cases hanging fire in the various courts of this city and county, and he is keeping ordrud, county and he is kept busy in rounding or cleaning them up. The little friends of Miss Dolly Scott 5042 Armour avenue, tendered her a very pleasant surprise on Friday evening last in honor of her 15th birthday. Music, both instrumental and vocal and a general good time was the pastime of the evening and when the guests departed for their homes all wished Miss Dolly many happy returns of the day. T. B. Hall, dealer in gents' furnishing goods, 281 29th street, and who in connection with his son Will Hall, conducts Hall's Laundry, 2975 and 2977 State street, is a practical business man. In return for the large patronage which he receives from the Colored people, he gives constant employment to two or three Afro-American women in his laundry and they receive the same consideration and wages received by the white help. Mrs. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, 6510 Langley avenue, and her sister, returned home Friday morning from mtheir visit to Buxton, Iowa, and the ladies will keep house, and Dr. A. W. will lease this evening for Richmond, Va., where he and Dr. George C. Hall will attend the Seventh Annual Session of the National Medical Association which convenes in that city August 22, 23 and 24, both of them will read papers for the enlightenment of their brethren. Dr. M. A. Majors, who has made the ignorant Colored people believe that "he has traveled in all parts of the world and studied under Dr. Hazen, who for many years was court physician to King Kalalaus of the Sand-Sandwich Islands," has been running off at the mouth lately through the columns of white newspapers "that civilization has hurt or blighted the Negro, mentally and physically," is now putting in all his time in denying the sum and the substance of the rot which he has been spewing out upon the public. IMPORTANT! To Our Friends and Well Wishers of the Order. We wish to inform you that the so-called Manhattan Association which is advertising the Pittsburg Trip has no connection whatever with the Excursion run by the First Regiment, Union Rank, Knights of Pythias, One Guy L. Brown is a suspended member of the Order, and any concessions or representations made to you by this man as a Knight of Pythias is false to the core. Our Excursion, two special trains, leave over the Wabash Railroad, Polk Street Depot, Sunday night, 9:00 o'clock sharp. Let us for once, as colored people, stick together and defeat this movement to injure our standing. MAJOR R. R. JACKSON, GENERAL G. A. NEVELS, COLONEL R. A. WARE, MAJOR A. F. TERVALON, Committee. ST. MARK LITERARY. Last Sunday afternoon quite a goodly number of people attended the St. Mark Literary 47th and State st. which was addressed by Julius F. Tay on "Four Years Among The Mormons" at the conclusion of which, Prof. R. R Wright the well known educator of Georgia and his son R. R. Wright, Jr., the founder and the pastor of Trinity mission 18th and Dearborn streets and Rev. Vaughan and addressed the Literary. A rising vote of thanks was extended to all the speaker. Fewer People. "Of course, there will always be some tubucular ailments," said the conceited young physician, "but if people would only take my advice there would be fewer." "Yes," replied Knox; "Tewer people."—Philadelphia Press. How Could They; Cigarettes do not affect the brain—for obvious reasons.—Chicago Daily News. Cheap Cremation. The cost of cremating a body in France is only three francs. COLOR OF BLUE LOBSTER. It Is Fast, Notwithstanding the Appearance of Wearing Away. "Is it losing color?" asked a visitor at the New York aquarium of one of the attendants, referring to the blue lobster, which seemed to him to be losing its color. "No," was the answer, "it simply needs dusting off. That dark color on its back is caused by a fine, velvetlike marine vegetation that has settled there out of the waters of the tank and had a chance to grow and spread because the lobster here cannot well keep itself clean. "Plenty of lobsters have been captured with barnacles growing on them, attaching to them just as barnacles attach and grow on turtles and on ships, and plenty of lobsters have been taken with marine vegetation attached to and growing on them. I knew of an old lobster, weighing about 25 pounds, that had attached to it, growing in this manner when it was captured, sea grass two and a half or three feet long. "But lobsters with such growth on them would be most likely to be found on rocky bottoms; on sandy bottoms lobsters are likely to keep themselves elan." "If this blue lobster was free and on a sandy bottom, it would bury itself in the sand and rub itself in it, as a chicken rubs and wallows in the dust, and so keep its shell smooth and free from growths. But we couldn't give this lobster sand here, because if we did it would keep itself out of sight more or less, and we keep it here to be seen. "No, the blue lobster is all right; all it needs is a little grooming." STOUT WOMAN REVENGED. Street Car Passenger Had a Way of Getting Eyes with Annoying Man. It was a rainy, sloppy day. In a Lexington avenue car a man gave up his seat to an old woman who had just clambered aboard and could not reach the hanging strap. That is, relates a New York exchange, he intended to give up the seat to her, but a stout woman sitting beside him grabbed a six-year-old girl, who was standing at her knee, and lifted her into the seat. "I intended my seat for this lady," said the man, helping the old woman to get further away from the crowd at the door. "My child has paid her fare," snapped the stout woman. "The seat ceased to be yours when you gave it up." "Oh, never mind; I would as soon stand," said the old woman. "It's selfish women like you that prevent men from giving up their seats in cars to others of your sex," said the man, who was evidently in the mood for a discussion; and talked so that everybody in the car could hear him. The woman flushed and turned to the girl. "Trixie," she said, "you may kneel on the seat if you want to, and look out of the window." Trixie did, and for the five blocks wiped her muddy shoes on the self-sacrificing man's trousers. The stout woman smiled. She was revenged. BERLIN'S BIG HOSPITAL Immense Institution Will Require 750 Persons on the Medical Staff. "Health at wholesale" might well be the cry of the new Rudolf Virchow hospital in Berlin, which is now approaching completion, for 2,000 patients may be cared for at one time, in addition to those treated in the outdoor department. Seven hundred and fifty persons will be required upon the staff of this immense institution, and every appliance known to science will be installed, including a special building for one of the most complete X-ray equipments in the world. There will be an anatomical laboratory, a medicomechanical department and one of the largest drug departments in Germany. When it is known that the next largest hospital has but 1,600 beds and that most of the larger hospitals are prepared to care for only 700 or 800 patients some idea of the immensity of this new institution may be gained. It is the idea of the founders that here shall be centered the medical progress of Europe, and upon the list of surgeons will be found the names of many of the famous investigators in leading lines. Cow Sense "I used to think," said a city man, "that the cow was an animal of a very low order of intelligence, one that, so to speak, wouldn't know enough to go in when it rained; out now I think differently. Coming from Boston recently, on one of those melting hot days, I saw from the car window, in a pasture field, four cows standing under four trees. The trees were all very small, none of them casting a shadow much bigger than a cow, which those cows apparently had the sense to know; for they had not all tried to crowd under one tree, but each cow had taken one of the little trees."—Ny Y. Sun. As Others See Us. Jimjones—What is your opinion of Windig's veracity? Samsmith—Well, if he was to call himself a liar I wouldn't believe him—Chicago Daily News. Furnished Rooms to Rent. Neatly furnished rooms, all modern improvements, to rent to single ladies and gentlemen or married couples. Mrs. Malline Vaneer, 2806 Wabash Ave., 'phone 5354 Calumet. THE PROHIBITION POLICY. But a Single Break in Thirty Years in the Record of Standing Alone. It has been for more than 30 years the assertion of the prohibitionists that the solidity of their party lines is due to the policy of "standing alone and standing together." Whatever concessions to expediency other parties may have made by the nomination of candidates belonging to other organizations, the prohibitionists have consistently since 1872 nominated only members of their own party, entirely regardless of the vote which they could poll. The single break in this record of consistent nomination of candidates foredoomed to defeat was in New York in 1902, when, under unusual circumstances, the prohibitionists for the first time put an opponent on their state ticket, nominating John Cunneen for attorney general. He was the democratic candidate for that office, and the prohibition vote of New York in the election, which was 20,000, was sufficient to secure the success of Mr. Cunneen and thus break the prohibition record. In the next year, 1903, there was no state election, and in 1904 the prohibitionists resumed their former policy of nominating only their own candidates and had a nominee of their own for attorney general against Mr. Cunneen, whom they had supported at the previous election. This prohibition candidate, MILHman by name, polled 21,027 votes, the full prohibition strength, and the Cunneen nomination became in fact a closed episode. The apprehensions of some ardent prohibitionists that it would weaken the temperance cause in this state were not realized. It did not affect the prohibition vote a particle, neither increasing nor diminishing it. COUNTRY BEHIND GLASS. Florists Bring In Bits of Field and Forest for Window Dis- In the midsummer the town florists keep their shop windows just as attractive as in spring. In one window, filled with field flowers, noats at will a company of bees and butterflies. Thudding of the black and yellow bees against the glass draws attention to the window that has not already been won by country bloom or light inden butterfly wings. Thoroughly pleasing is the window which has been converted into a garden of decided landscape pretensions. Grass seed is sprouting over the gently undulating lawn that covers the entire floor of the window. A grove of dwarf maple trees flourishes in the background. Below the grove lies a lake. On the water float various kinds of little water plants. About the rim of the lake runs a border of shrubs and vines. A picturesquely arranged pool of water is a favorite ornamental device in window arrangement among the florists at this hot season. The pool of one window is surrounded by palms. One palm is tipped forward so that a great leaf dips half way into the water. Green is the keynote of all the windows. Ferns fill the background and sides, cover the flooring and hang suspended from the ceiling. The pots of the ferns do not show from the street. The effect is one mass of unbroken green. STRAWBERRIES AS A CURE. Contrary to Tradition the Fruit Is Said to Be Efficacious in Rheumatism That strawberries are injurious to rheumatic persons is as old a tradition as that tomatoes (love apples) are conducive to love. But against science no tradition is safe. It is now asserted that the strawberry is the "real thing" in food for rheumatics. Linnaeus, it is said, kept himself free from rheumatism by eating strawberries. Fontenelli, another naturalist, attributed his longevity to strawberries. He resorted to them as a medicine and would frequently say: "If I can but reach the season of strawberries!" Borheave is said to have classed the strawberry with the principal red fruit remedies containing iron as well as phosphorus, salt, sulphur and sugar. It has long been a tradition that the chief demand for horse chestnuts has come from persons who believe in their efficacy as a eure for rheumatism, or at least a palliative in rheumatic affections. Strawberries have heretofore been barred, but if they have all the merits now claimed for them, or indeed any of the merits, the bars will be down and will stay down permanently. Soft Wood Made Hard Soft woods can be made into hardwoods for all practical purposes of industry, since a Frenchman has shown the world how to overcome the supreme difficulty which put the ban up on the soft woods. This difficulty is the rapidity with which wear and decay occur around the spikes and bolts. The invention by the French engineer is of exceptional merit in overcoming this by a device consisting of a screw dowel composed of a cylindrical piece of wood formed into a screw with an exceedingly wide thread. A hole is bored in the center to admit either a screw bit or ordinary spike. The dowels are made of well seasoned and cressted beech or birch wood. What She Thought Mrs. Jenks- For a poet there isn't anything very poetical about his talk, is there? Mrs. Malaprop—No; his talk's kind o' Passiac, isn't it? -Philadelphia Ledge Some Notes on Dame's Decrees That Are Followed at Tail-End of the Season. A coffee colored pongee is a useful thing to buy for an outing. It is made with full skirt laid in three or four deep tucks around the foot. There are embroidered dots in navy blue and there is a deal of English eyelet work. Big holes are profusely embroidered in blue wash silk. A deep blue silk petticoat is worn underneath the dress, letting the color show through. The waist is a mass of tucking and navy blue embroidery. Chiffon hats are scarce and apparently nobody seems to care, but chiffon and maline are used with charming effect when combined with straw and lace. Plateaux are among the most favored styles, as they admit of so many artistic curves and angles. Some are built on frames, others where the plaque effect is desired on a bandeau. Horsehair, crin, chip, milan, lace braids, besides muslin and linen are among the materials employed for the plateau hat. A smart little frock seen lately was a sort of old rose taffeta. The skirt just escaped the ground and was gathered just once at the waist line, most of the gathers being at the back and only a few at the front. Six inches above the deep hem of the skirt was a three-inch, flat puff of the silk, bordered on each edge with an inch-wide double plaiting of the silk, and eight inches above this was another similar puffing. The top looked like a bolero with sleeves; it was really one of the shaped capes, so cut that the side sections fall in deep points over the arms and in at each side. One of the newest devices in the way of lingerie ought to be widely adopted. This is none other than a silk flounce, India or taffeta, to button on a white petticoat at the knee. In the shops a few of these, with triple pinked flouces, are to be purchased, but the more satisfactory ones of chiffon taffeta have been made to orler. The advantages of the attached ruffle are first of all coolness, and the lightness which comes of dispensing with one petticoat. The economy of the fa hion is another strong recommendation. One may have several matching flouces to one petticoat. TO SAVE THE DRESS. This Sensible Garment Is Recommended for the Young Girl at Studio or Cooking Class. Holland or linen should be used for this overall, which will be found very useful for girls taking cookery lessons; or it is suitable for studio wear. It has a deep square yoke, which is in double material. The skirt part, which is full, is honeycombed at the top, and is set between the double edge of yoke. The foot is turned up with a hem two inches wide, and is machine-stitched twice. Into the armholes of the yoke straps are fixed, two long and two 1 AN OVERALL short into each. These are stitched at the edge, and have buttons sewn on the ends. The full sleeves are gathered into straight wristbands, and at the top are cut into four points in which are worked buttonholes to fasten to the buttons on straps. The back is fastened by buttons and buttonholes, and a sash of ribbon or the material is tied round the waist. Material required: 3 yards 36 inches wide. The Eyebrows. Tonic ointment for scant eyebrows: Two ounces of red vaseline, one-eighth ounce of tincture of cantharides, 15 drops of oil of lavender. Mix and apply twice a day until the growth has been sufficiently stimulated. This will not do for the eyelashes. Any oily substance will cause the eyes to become inflamed. Retard Gray Hair Daily scaip massage and a good tonic, such as eau de quinine, will put your hair in better condition and may check gray growth. Brush out the dandruff with a stiff brush, penetrating to the scalp, once a week, but do not use the fine comb unless you are skillful with it. Some girls look trimmer in a simple waist ribbon than others look in the latest highfaluting and expensive belts. SECRETARY BOOT IS REMARK- ABLY YOUNG LOOKING. "UNCLE JOE" IS INCENSED Hospitality That Counts a Good Deal in Legislation — President Disap- proves of Growing Bureaucracy in Navy Department. W A S H I N G T O N.—Secretary of State Root did not stay in Wash ington long enough to warm his desk chair after taking oath of office. Nevertheless he is secretary of state and the country feels easier. The people are perfectly content that he should go away off to Labrador to get a complete rest from a hard year's labor in his profession, gain that physical tone that is so necessary to a public man and come back like a young man of 30 to take up diplomatic and state puzzles with a zest. Mr. Root is the youngest looking man there ever has been in the public service, and he will come back from the wilds of Labrador looking little more than half his age. There was a general approval throughout official circles when Mr. Root was named by Mr. Roosevelt as premier of his administration. No one had guessed this able statesman, who had a little over a year before resigned from the cabine because he wanted to get back into the profession of law, where he could earn a competence before he grew too old. Few believed that, with all the enormous fees he had won in that short time, that he had acquired a sufficient fortune with which to return to public ife. But it appears that within that time Mrs. Root has fallen heir to several millions, and her distinguished husband can follow the bent of his ambition in a political way. "I guess I was bitten by the diplomatic bug during our trouble in China over the Boxer uprising," said Mr. Root the other day, when he admitted that he wanted to be secretary of state. Mr. Root conducted much of the diplomatic business of that period. Secretary Hay being absent from Washington He ran both the war and state departments, and his promptness and decision counted for much. Better Estimate of Canada. CE PRESIDENT Fairbanks seemed to strike a popular chord in his address at Sault Ste. Marie a few days ago when he spoke of the similarity of purposes between the United States and Canada and the harmony that existed between the two countries. Mr. Fairbanks has seen a great deal V of Canadians during the seven years he has been a member of the high joint commission whose object has been the settlement of a few troublesome questions between the countries. The vice president, as everyone knows, is not given to the expression of very decided views on any subject, but he said the other day to a friend: "It would be a good thing if the people of the United States had a closer knowledge of their neighbors to the north. Let them go up into the broad wheat lands of that mighty country stretching west from Winnipesq to the Rockies and they will find a pretty good lot of Americans there." This opinion is agreed to by a group of Washington correspondents who recently made a tour of Canada from Montreal to Victoria, spending a week in the great northwest wheat field. The people met by the Washingtonians and what they are accomplishing were revelations. Some of these newspaper men had never gotten rid of their school geography ideas that a few miles above the international boundary began the reign of eternal snow and ice. They knew, of course, that the Canadian Pacific railway ran clear across Canada, but without a practical view of what this railroad had accomplished they could not realize the possibilities and greatness of the country. When they found good farmers from the United States raising as high as 40 bushels of wheat to the acre as far north as Edmonton they reformed their ideas of geography and their estimate of Canada. NCLE JOE" CANNON, the genial speaker of the house of representatives, declares it is all a double blanked lie about his washing his fingers in the public drinking glass on the platform table at the Portland exposition and sneaking a piece of ice out of the pitcher with which to cool his being a lie, so also story that the wife U of the president of the exposition reprimanded him and told him that a man of his age and position ought to have better manners, or words to that effect. The whole story is declared by "Uncle Joe" to have been a fabrication which did a great injury to a refined, gentle lady. He does not care for "fakes" about himself, but his native southern chivalry—he was born in North Carolina—simply resents the slightest afront to a lady The speaker was in Washington a few days ago and took a look around. He was so many years at the head of the house committee on appropriations and has been speaker of the house, that he feels a semi-paternal interest in everything the government does in the way of spending money. His paternal instincts prompt him to teach economy, and above all strict adherence to the letter of the laws making appropriations. He was not particularly well pleased, then, to find that congressional restrictions had been ignored in digging foundations for the new agricultural department building, and that they had been established in conformity with the plans of the trio of landscape architects whom the senate employed some years ago, instead of following the directions of the law that the new building should be where the present one stands. Congressman "Joe" Siblev. S PEAKER CANNON growled at this evasion of the will of congress, muttered a few remarks that might be interpreted to mean a good many things, among others some difficulty for the sponsors for the department building when they come before congress for more money next winter. Then he whirled away in a "red devil" automobile, caught a fast train and hurried to the coolo shores of Lake Champlain, where Congressman "Joe" Sibley awaited him in a beautiful summer cottage and soon made him forget the annoyances he had encountered in Washington. Congressman Sibley is the rich oil man and stock raiser of Pennsylvania, who has been a republican, a prohibitionist, a populist, a democrat, and then a republican again, but who is the most universally liked man in the house of representatives. And why should he not be popular? His three big touring car automobiles are at the command of his friends. He gives on an average two sumptuous banquets each month during sessions of congress in the marble mansion on K street built and occupied by the late John Sherman. These dinners cost about $25 a plate, and Sibley is not niggardly with his invitations. He has a swift yacht on Lake Champlain and a summer home where his congressional cronies are entertained in royal style. Sibley's popularity is not confined to his own side of the house, but all the democratic leaders are his guests at some time during the session, and the influence he can exert in a social way counts for a good deal in legislation. Sibley can speak on the floor, but his big-hearted hospitality is his greatest card. The War and Navy Departments. THERE is a great scurrying among officers and employees of the war and navy departments nowadays. These two departments are about the only ones that have not figured largely in "graft" discoveries and army and navy officers are wondering how long they will escape the general scandal. The Bennington disaster, in which 65 sailors lost their lives, may draw the navy department into a general investigation, as President Roosevelt is very much wrought up over it, especially as there are hints that red tape and official delay are responsible for the explosion of the boiler. It is hinted that had prompt attention been given to reports concerning the conditions of the boilers the accident would not have occurred. There has been up in the war and navy department, particularly the latter, a bureaucracy that President Hoosevelt is endeavoring to uproot. Bureau acts independently of each other, and there are constant jars and friction over nearly every detail of the service. The president learned of this condition at first hand when he was assistant secretary of the navy, and endeavored to check it by centralizing power and responsibility as much as possible. The condition still exists, however, to a considerable extent, and the efforts of what is known as the Keep investigating committee, a special commission with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Keep at its head, will be directed toward curing the evil. The president is also determined to weed out of the department in Washington army and navy officers who have secured assignments here but who are really performing civilians' work. They will be sent to sea or to their posts on land. The navy is short of officers to man the ships now in commission. Marked Perfect. Johnny—It's when a feller says he loves his teacher—Cleveland leader. CROCHETED TRIMMING. With the Revival of All Handwork, Our Old Friend the Crochet- Hook Comes to the Fore. This design, which is suitable for chemise trimming, should be worked in fine cotton (No. 36 Chadwick's is a nice size) and with a fine steel hook. Commence with six chain, join round. First row: Six chain, one double treble into the ring, *, two chain, another double treble into the ring, keep repeating from * until there are 12 double trebles in the ring counting the first four of the starting chain as one double treble, join round with a slip-stitch. Second row: A double crochet in each stitch all round (36 stitches). Third row: Four chain, one double treble into the nearest stitch of the previous row; do not complete the stitch but leave the last two loops on the hook, a double treble in each of the next two stitches, still leaving the last loop of each stitch unworked (five loops on hook), cotton over and draw through all the loops at once, *, five chain a double treble into the same stitch as the last double treble of the previous group, a double treble in each of the CROCHET AGAIN IN FASHION. next three stitches, still keeping the last loops of each stitch on the hook, draw through all these loops at once and repeat from * until there are 12 groups of double trebles round the star, join the last five chain to the first group with a slip-stitch. Fourth row: Twelve double crochets under each chain loop, all round, fasten off. All the other stars are worked in the same way, but the two middle stitches of each of the two first scallops are caught to the corresponding stitches in the preceding star. The illustration will show where the corner ones are joined. For the top: First row: Work chains from the middle of one scallop to the middle of the next (just as many stitches in each loop as will let the work lie flat), using double trebles where the long stitches are required. Second row: One treble in first stitch, *, one chain, pass over one stitch, one treble in next, repeat from * to end of row. See illustration for corner of each row. Third row: A row of crossed trebles; three chain, pass the first two stitches of the previous row, one treble in next, five chain, a treble into the top of the treble just made, * cotton twice over the hook, pass the hook through the next stitch of the previous row, cotton over and draw through this stitch, cotton over and draw through two loops, leaving three loops on the hook, cotton over, pass two stitches, draw through the next (five loops on the hook), draw through these two at a time until only one loop is left two chain, one treble into the middle of the last-made stitch, and repeat from *. This row should be threaded with ribbon. Fourth row: Two double trebles under the first chain, loop four chain, two more double trebles under the same loop, pass to the next loop and repeat. Fifth row: Ten double crochets under each chain, loop all round. Work round the lower edge like rows one and two of top. To Clean Canvas. White leather belts and shoes are not unalloyed joy, for they're constantly getting dirty, and, like everything else white, they must be irreproachably white to be acceptable. Gasoline cleans them more easily than anything else—belts regularly washed in it, or rubbed with a cloth wet in gasoline, and shoes cleaned by the latest method. If you use the purified gasoline, that unpleasant odor about cleaned things, often noticeable when they've been most carefully aired, will be avoided. And be careful about the use of gasoline—a warning that can't be too often repeated—don't rub too briskly, or the friction will result in an explosion, nor in a room where there is an artificial light or a fire. Freckles. A simple lotion for the annihilation of freckles is made by combining one dram of borax, one-half fluid ounce of diluted acetic acid, one-half fluid ounce of rose water. Apply at night. When freckles are decidedly obstinate a good proprietary bleach can now be bought and will do away with freckles without separating one from one's face—after the manner of some bleaches. To Remove Pimples Pimples on the face or any part of the body are most unclean and unpleasant. Bathe your arms with tepid salt water, using flesh brush, drying and rubbing afterward with listerine. This will surely heal the wretched little blotches and bumps. Velvet Ribbon Trimming. Particularly is velvet ribbon for trimming in high esteem. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. BALL YARDS: 151st St. & L. S. M. S. Ry. 25nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO J. W. ARMS —DEALER IN— Coal & Wood Expressing and Moving to Any Part of the city. 139 WEST FIFTY-FIRST STREET Between Deartorn and Armour Ave. Phone 3804 Gray Residence 5050 Dearborn st. Tilean 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 Prescriptions Promptly Filled at All Hours 29th St. and Armour Av. Phone 526 South CHICAGO Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street Hours: 9 to 12 A. M. Hours: 9 to 12 A. M. 3 to 5 and after 6 P. M. CHICAO Telephone South 1579 MORGUE C. JOHNSON UNDERTAKER, EMBALMER, AND LIVERY, 2712 State Street CHICAGO Private Chapel in Connection WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIVE, AFTER TREATMENT FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or shiny hair look so soft. It shakes the scalp, the hair from failing hair and the hair grow long and silky. Sold over 45 years, and used by thousands. Warranted for 10 years. Sold for strengthening kinky hair. Beware of sold for strengthening kinky hair. Beware of original Ongiised Ox Marrow is put up only in fifty cent size, made only in Chicago. Unleses Ford, Pansy, on- each package. Do not be misled by substitutes that claim to give Fond's as it never fails to keep getting Fond's as it never fails to keep giving it that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for all. It is not performed. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with instructions and dealers or send us 56 cents for one bottle, or send us 10 cents for one bottle. We pay all postage and express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please write your name and address plainly to 74 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. WONDERFUL GROWTH OF HAIR. "I had typhoid fever and my hair" "all came out. I used three bottles of" "Ford's Original Oxonized Ox Mar" "row, and now my hair is nine inch" "es long and very thick and nice and" "straight. Most every one seeing" "how good the Oxonized Ox Marrow" "done my hair, they to are anxious" "for it. My hair is an example to" "everyone." "319 S. Matlack St., West Chester, Pa." March 30, 1905. Ford's Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has many other good qualitels, too. See their advertisement in this paper. Price only 50c a bottle at druggists or dealers, or send us fifty cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to engage Agents and regular Correspondents in all the leading cities and towns throughout the country. The highest commissions paid to live hustlers. Sample copies furnished free, For further information, address Julius F. 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COOK JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found by experience that they are the most satisfactory and economical 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 instructions how to order. Marcus Kuben (Inc.), 390 State St., Chicago Eye-Glasses and Romance. It is curious to observe that even the greatest realists do not venture to bestow eye-glasses on their heroes. It is rather odd, too, seeing how many charming women do in real life wear them, and are not debarred by them from the most dramatic careers and the most pliant emotions. But while the modern novelist has bestowed eye-glasses on everybody else he has not yet had the hardihood to put them on the nose of his heroine. Why?—Mrs. John Lane, in London Outlook. Queer Russian Tax. Russia has probably the most curious tax in the world. It is called the "amusement tax," and was instituted a year or two ago to found an institution for the poor, under the title of the "Emperor Marie Foundation." The tax is laid on every amusement ticket sold, and the managers increase the price accordingly. Already more than 1,000,000 rubles have been raised in that way. Fearless Duke The duke of Abruzzi is fearless. He has been shot over a hedge while motoring; he has listened while the ice pack cracked his ship's ribs in at Prince Rudolph island and escaped with the frost bitten fingers; he has surveyed the world from his balloon and attained points on the Alps before unexplored. Size of Raindrops. The largest raindrops are about one-fifth of an inch in diameter. To determine the size rain is allowed to fall into a thick layer of flour, each drop forming a pellet of dough, and these pellets are compared with dough pellets obtained from drops of known size delivered on the flour by artificial means. Where Twilights Meet In midsummer the twilight of evening meets the twilight of morning, in the extreme northern parts of the United States, the light of the sun, while that orb is far below the horizon, being reflected from dust particles in the upper atmosphere. Cumulative Sentence Sir John Madden, chief justice of Victoria, has discovered a new plan of punishing old offenders. He adds up all their previous terms and makes the total their sentence. The other day he sentenced an offender to nine years and one month—his aggregate record. Rural Postal Privileges in France. Inhabitants of the rural districts of France may now obtain from the postmen on their rounds postal orders, etc., and may hand them money for deposit in the savings banks, thus avoiding the trouble of going to the nearest post office for these purposes. Chinese Want to Enlist Claiming the right to serve as British subjects, 20 Victoria (B. C.) Chinese have applied for enrollment in the Fifth regiment, Canadian artillery, in that city. The commander has referred the matter to the minister of militia at Ottawa. No Friend. Bacon—I saw a friend of your family sitting on your stoop yesterday when I went by. Egbert—Oh, that wasn't any friend of my family; that was my wife's mother—Yonkers Statesman. Thus We See. How vain and fleeting is epitaphy. In a Philadelphia cemetery founded 80 years ago scarcely a line of the glowing words grawn on the headstones remain for the edification of visitors. Time's ruthless paw plays tricks with fiction. Titles Huckstered Advertisement in the London Times: "Titles of Nobility—Foreign Decorations and Orders procured for Gentlemen of means without publicity; replies by letter only requested from serious persons. Apply, etc." Vanity of Man. A man never gets too old to believe that with a little practice he can still play baseball as well as when he was on the college team.—N. Y. Commercial Injury from Radium Edison admits that he has found radium a dangerous substance to experiment with. It has injured one of his eyes seriously and had a pad effect upon his stomach. Comrades. She—I shouldn't be surprised to hear of another engagement—John and Cella are such close friends. He—Yes, comrades in arms. —Yale He—Yes, comrades in arms. —Yale Record. The Result "Mr. Tawxem, the orator of the evening, exhausted his topic, no doubt." "No," answered Miss Cayenne, "only his audience." —Washington Star. From the French The word "adieu" is purely French. In its original form it was "a Dieu," "to God," but in its full meaning expressing "I commend you to God." Lots of "Done" Part of the cargo of the steamship Korea, which arrived at San Francisco on July 11, was $344,500 worth of opium. Big Load of Dust. The steamship Zealandia arrived at Seattle from Nome on July 8, bringing $1,500,600 in gold dust—Nome's record shipment. Just for Fun. People who get married just for fun generally get divorced for a little of the same—Chicago Record-Herald. Ancient English Battlements Ancient English Battlements. Great Britain's government has decided to secure and protect for the nation the ancient ramparts erected by Edward I. around the town of Berwick-on-Tweed. These ruins are of, great antiquarian and historical value. They form one of the most interesting monuments of the bitter strife that existed for centuries between England and Scotland, as they are situated right on the border. The walls include the old bell tower, from which a flaring beacon gave warning to the English farmers of the approach of the bands of marauding Scots. "Is You or Ain't You." This conversation is said to have taken place between a Guthrie ball player and a bartender: "Is you got any smokin' tobacco?" asked the ball player. The bartender did not reply at once, and question was repeated. "I ain't said I ain't," retorted the bartender. "I ain't ast yo' if yo' aint. I ast yo' if you is. Yo' is ain't yo'?"—Kansas City Journal. Open Air "Why at this time of year, Pat, a man never feels as comfortable as he does in the open air." "Faith, is that so? Well, I'd have you to know that the day I wint up with the blast I was in the open air for tin minutes, and I was niver so uncomfortable in me whole loife!"—Yonkers Statesman. Big African Gone "Ye that have tears to shed prepare to shed them now." Tippo Tib is dead. In days gone by he was monarch of all he surveyed in Central Africa and started several cemeteries to prove his prowess as a warrior. Eventually the roller of civilization assimilated his tribe and crushed poor Tippo Tib. Lofty Lineage. Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, now the duke of Connaught's son-in-law, is a great-grandson of the German Emperor William I. and his ancestors include Gustavus III. of Sweden, King George II. of England, grand duces of Baden and highnesses of Bevaria and Wurtemberg. Sheep-Killing Wolves A Lafayette county (Kan.) farmer, whose sheep were being killed by wolves, covered a lamb's carcass with strychnine one night and left it outside his sheep pen. The next morning nine dead wolves were found within 60 feet of the carcass. Needed Clean-Up Each person in the Dog Hill congregation is requested to bring his hoe with him to church next Sunday. There will be no preaching, and the time will be spent in chopping down the weeds around the front door.—Murray (Ky.) Monitor. Like Down-Easters Not only the nasal sounds, but many American phrases, are quite common in Suffolk, England, among the farmers and the peasantry, and a stranger passing an afternoon in Woodbridge market might fancy himself in Massachusetts. The New Religion A noted Hindoo is here in the interest of the unification of religions and the establishment of a world's faith. Bless his oriental heart, it's here already, and is generally known as the dough.—N. Y. Telegram. Historic Town. Kustenji, the Roumanian port in which the mutineers of the Kniaz Potemkine surrendered, is the ancient town in which the poet Ovid was banished by Emperor Augustus, and where he died. An Americanism The use of the word "yesterday," in connection with the preposition "on" seems to be confined to America. "It happened on yesterday" would sound strange to English ears. Books for Japan Japan in 12 months was supplied by Germany with 96,394 books, Great Britain being second with 87,608. This was in 1901. The following year England supplied Japan with over 315,000 books. "Yes; but her age is telling on her at last." He—I was an intimate friend of your late husband. Can't you give me something to remember him by? She (shyly)—How would I do?—Punch. Slam at the English. To an Italian charged in a London court with drunkenness, the magistrate said: "Italians don't often get drunk. Don't get English ways." Arabic Word. Alcohol is the English form of the Arabic "alkohl," spirit or essence. In the original the word corresponds exactly with our word "etheral." Not So Humble. Personal contact with the alleged "humble opinion" is apt to show that it is quite stuck on itself.—Puck. Camels in Hungary. Camels were used as beasts of burden in Hungary up to the twelfth century. Dryden's Word. The poet Dryden is said to have invented the word "witticism." It is hard for many persons to grasp the fact that a bullet dropped from the exact height at which a rifle barrel is fixed, in a horizontal position, will strike the ground at precisely the same instant that another bullet will hit the earth if fired from the most powerful military weapon. The force of gravity acts with exactly the same force, independently or in conjunction with other forces. Terrified Terrier A singular instance of a dog being fascinated by terror is recorded from Nottingham, England. A terrier wandered on to the railway line when an express was approaching. It was so fascinated at the sight of the monster that it stood stock still, and the train thundered over it at 50 miles an hour. The dog was found unhurt, but shivering with fright. Where Hypnotism Fails A Boston scientist says that hypnotism can develop only natural instincts, and that the best hypnotists in the world cannot make a really moral person do wrong. From experiments he has made he believes that 75 per cent. of the human race, if unrestrained by family pride and other like considerations, would steal. Big Request to Servants Lady Diana de Vere Huddleston, who died in London recently, left a will bequeathing $90,000 to her servants and directing that her ashes after cremation should be placed in the oak shrine awaiting them at Courts' bank and buried with those of her husband, which she had carried with her wherever she went for 15 years. Auto Invention. Inventors are now turning their attention to the smaller details of the automobile. One of the most recent patients is applied to a wire frame arranged to sweep the rubber tires. This, it is claimed, will avoid many punctures, since it will remove tacks and bits of glass as soon as picked up. Pessimistic Russian. Admiral Rojestvensky, the Russian admiral, has always been considered a pessimist. In response to an English girl's request for an autograph, he wrote: "Life is stupid. A little gayety, a little weariness, and then — good night." New York's Venice. New York has its Venice in a little shack village built along the water between Manhattan and Coney Island. While the buildings bordering the waterway lack the elegance and historic beauty of the palaces on the Grand canal, they are comfortable quarters. Bright Girl. Dr. W. D. Grace, England's most famous cricketer, recently gave a little girl his autograph. She returned for another, and in explanation said: "I gave the other in exchange for two bishops." She got her second autograph. Poor Husband! In northern New Zealand recently a native woman deserted her husband and ran away with another man. A native court fined the deserted husband horses, cattle and money for "lack of marital authority in not being able to retain his wife." Suffering Dumb Animals Not only do misused horses suffer throughout the heated months, but in many parts of the city dogs and cats abandoned by owners who have gone out of town supply a melancholy illustration of inhumanity.—N. Y. Tribune. London Lacking Horse ambulances are still a "crying need" in London. The other day a man, taken seriously ill in the street, had to wait where he was four hours before a conveyance could be obtained to take him to a hospital. Courageous. In Atchison a man called another man a liar recently, and the accused replied: "I know I am a liar, but I thought you were too much of a gentleman to refer to it." - Kansas City Star. Lake Turns Red Lake Morat, in Switzerland, has the curious property, every tenth year, of turning red, owing to the presence of certain water plants, which are not found in any other lake in the world. Good Authority "Who was the originator of the folding bed?" said the furniture man. "Lazarus," replied his son. "History says that 'he folded his bed and walked away.'" —Detroit Free Press. Healthy Occupation Healthy Occupation. Workmen attending the pans in salt works are never known to have cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever or influenza. "Here's Looking at You." A great many men keep themselves poor, says Uncle Hiram, buying so many looking glasses.—Kansas City Drovers' Telegram. Too Bad. He—I only know that I love you. She—Oh, dear; I thought you knew all about an automobile, too!—Smart Set. Money Wasted. Buying experience doesn't mean learning from it by a long shot.—N. Y. Press Cement Destroyer. 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