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THE BROAD AX THE AFRO-AMERICAN In Business In the North and In the South Extracts From Booker T. Washington's Oration Delivered Before the Negro National Business League THE AFRO In Business In the the So Extracts From Be ington's Oration Before the tional Busine It was the burden of Booker T. Washington, and the majority of those whom he permitted to speak or orate at the meeting of his Negro National Business League, that while the North may furnish us with an opportunity to gain an education, it is the South that gives us the opportunity to use it; that the South is the only place where the Negro can succeed in business." Only those who were able or willing to give expression to sentiments like these or similar to them, were accorded the highest consideration by the high priests of the League and by some hook or crook it was so arranged that with few exceptions, the delegates or those in business in the South performed all or the greater part of the speech-making during the sessions of the League. No attempt whatever, was made by anyone connected with it, to inform the world as to the number of Negro men and women who are successfully engaged in almost every branch of business in all the large cities, and smaller towns, throughout every section of the North, and many of them are well patronized by the whites, at least no detailed report of such a character has so far been published by the officials of the League. Dr. Macon Webster, of Brooklyn, New York, was really about the only prominent delegate north of the "Mason and Dixon Line" to raise his voice in behalf of the Northern Afro-American business men. His talk was a complete surprise and revelation to those who heard him. His subject: "The Negro Business Interests of Greater New York and Vichinity." "In New York in 1848 there were three Colored wlg makers, one medical doctor, one druggist, three boot makers, a number of chimney cleaners and white washers. Now the Negro is engaged in 51 different employments. There are five incorporated Negro business corporations with a capital of $1,500,000. He also gave a list of unincorporated businesses in New York. The Negro has 10 printing establishments in New York. There are seven drug stores in Greater New York: 25 cartering establishments." These figures by Dr Webster are indeed very refreshing and as stated before, they plainly indicate that the Negro in the North, is accomplishing something, and is making some headway in the business world, as well as his brother in the South. Regardless of these facts, and many others which could be adduced as to the substantial progress the Negro is making in the North, East, and West, Booker T. Washington had the gall and the utter ignorance to stand up in the Auditorium in this city in May, 1904, and exclaim in the presence of those who filled the room, with the expectation of listening to something new on the "Race problem," but were greedily disappointed: "That the whites of the North could serve his race the best by urging or advising all the Negroes, scattered throughout the North and West to return to the South; that the Negro must come up through the swamps, the woods, the mire, the ditches, the rivers, the tobacco rice or corn fields, and the sugar cane breaks of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina." Suppose that the whites in Chicago who employ Negro men and women would have permitted themselves to have been swayed or influenced by Prof. Washington's unsound logic or sophistry, in this respect, and had discharged all the Colored people in their service: think of the untold misery and suffering they would have had to endure before they could have successfully established new homes in the South. It is appalling in the extreme and any man who will advocate such a theory or doctrine, cannot be regarded as the true friend of the race which he claims to represent. At that time, well on to 5,000 Colored men were employed at the stock yards earning from $2.50 to $3.00 per day and hundreds of other Negroes were holding positions which paid them $50 to $75 per month, which is by far more actual money than 75 per cent of the laboring class of Negroes in the South will receive for their year's labor. In keeping with his determination to create an unfavorable sentiment against the Negro, in the North, and to have them, confined in the South, so that his best friendly friends can exploit or rob and dehumanize and brutalize them to their hearts content. He declared in his address before his League that: "For the buying of homes there is no place in the United States so advantageous as the South. We should let no influence turn our eyes from the fact that the Negro in the South is dependent upon the white man. Those who light the fire of race feeling should go into the South and take the consequences with the helpless masses. Those who stir up strife are the very ones who are the first to flee. It is an unwise policy to urge our people to leave the South unless it is positive they will better their condition." Very few men who aspire to become leaders could work themselves up to the point to give expression to such sentiments on such an occasion, and in being able to do so, Booker T. Washington, has proven himself the greatest wonder of the 20th century, in respect to buying homes in the South he has failed to be guided by his own advice, for he has bought for his own family one of the very finest homes in this country near Boston, Mass., where they and he, himself, spend most of their time, therefore if the South is the only or the best place for the Negro to invest his money in property, why it is that he prefers to chuck his money into property in the North, where he can live like a prince beside the white millionaires? We earnestly hope that some of his blind wershippers will answer this question. With a great flourish of trumpets he declared "that the Negro in the South is dependent upon the white man." while at the same time all the world knows that the whites of the South are absolutely dependent upon the Negro, for the vast majority of them are too all fired lazy to work; they prefer to sit around on dry goods boxes, pass their time away in whirling sticks, chewing tobacco, meditating over the fortunes they lost in slaves and the rest of their time they spend in training their bloodhounds, so that they will have no trouble in tracing or running down Negro men, women and children, who are innocent of violating their more than savage laws HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 23, 1905. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. HON CHARLES M. WALKER. and burning them at the stake, upon trumpeted up charges, and if it was not for the unceasing labor on the part of the Negro, in the past and at the present time, the South would be a howling wilderness, and that part of its inhabitants who claim to belong to the superior race, would be contented to live in caves or dugouts, feast on the raw flesh of wild beasts, like their ancestors, and no one knows this better than Booker T. Washington. Our modern Moses has proven himself to be nothing more, than a pusillanimous nonentity, by proclaiming that those who are contending for the manhood rights of the Negro are in favor of lighting the fire of race feeling or hatred. suit of happiness," of the ballot and education, how can we expect the Negro to progress? Adrian, Mich., Sept. 12. J. W. HELME. Mr. Helme is one of the most prominent democrats in Michigan.—Ed.—The Informer, Detroit, Mich. REV. JOHN W. ROBINSON .WELCOMED BACK TO ST. MARK. Thursday evening the members and friends of St. Mark's church 47th and State st., tendered its former pastor Rev. J. W. Robinson a warm welcome and reception. There was speech making, singing and recitations, at the conclusion of which those present joined around the hensut table which was beautiful LEFT NAKED TO ENEMIES. Ex-Senator J. W. Helme, of Adrian, Says Deprivation of the Ballot Has so Reduced the Negro, in a Letter ... to the News. "The Whole Trend in Legislation in the South in Recent Years is to Virtually Restore Slavery." Advocates Federal Legislation to Crush Southern Nullification of Fifteenth Amendment. To the Editor: I am glad to see you take up the subject of Negro outreges in the southern states. The burnings and lynchings that have disgraced our country indicate a decline of civilization and a lapse into the barbarism of the middle ages. As long as there is no pretense that the courts in the southern states fall to punish crime, there cannot be the slightest excuse for such atrocities. When a man's political rights are taken from him, his liberty soon follows. Depriving the Negro of his ballot by ingenious laws has left him naked to his enemies. Congress should make lynchings and burnings offenses punishable in the federal courts with the right to change the venue from the southern states when necessary. necessary. The nullification of the fifteenth amendment should be crushed by federal legislation and if necessary by constitutional amendment. The whole trend in legislation in the south in recent years is to virtually restore slavery. The south proposes to confine the Negro to the cotton field and to menial service Already, in Mississippi the cry goes up against any education for the Negro. The southern leaders, whose hearts bleed for the liberty of the Filipinos should look at home. Deprived of "the right to life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness," of the ballot and education, how can we expect the Negro to progress? Adrian, Mich., Sept. 12. J. W. HELME. Mr. Helme is one of the most prominent democrats in Michigan—Ed. The Informer, Detroit, Mich. REV. JOHN W. ROBINSON WELL COMED BACK TO ST. MARK. Thursday evening the members and friends of St. Mark's church 47th and State st., tendered its former pastor Rev. J. W. Robinson a warm welcome and reception. There was speech making, singing and recitations, at the conclusion of which those present joined around the banquet table which was beautifully decorated and presided over by the ladies who had charge of the affair. Rev. Robinson spoke in the very highest terms of the new pastor of St. Mark Rev. Vaughn and the work he had performed while located at Covington, Ky., prior to coming to St. Mark. He also related, that he and his family were received with open arms, by the people of Covington, and that after meeting with such a warm reception on the part of his friends here in Chicago, he feels that his labors; in the Lord's vinyard, has not been in vain. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Taylor seemingly have arrived at the parting of the ways. For a long time he successfully conducted the drug store, corner 29th street and Armour avenue, and he also owns a house on Langley avenue near 39th street, which brings in a good rent. Recently he decided to dispose of his drug store and engage in the same line of business at Calro, Ill. At the time he decided to do so, Mrs. Taylor was visiting her mother in W. Virginia, and when he called at her sister's house, Mrs. Lawrence P. Jones, 2923 Armour avenue, to bid her goodby, he learned so it is said, that his wife had been back in the city five days and had failed to inform him of that fact. He implored her to accompany him to their new home, but she flatly refused to accede to his request. He went away, consulted a few friends in relation to his domestic affairs and we are informed they advised him to make a second effort to induce his loving wife to accompany him to Cairo, that she emphatically refused, that he was compelled to depart for Cairo and leave her behind. And the leaders of the 400 are on tips wondering what will be the outcome of the estrangement which has sprung up between Mr. and Mrs. William F. Taylor. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY Of Maryland Under the Leadership of Charles J. Bonaparte, Has Declared Against "Negro Domination" 'Negro Social Equality" and It Has Cast the Afro-American Overboard Into the Political Sea (From The New York Sun.) When, about two years ago, Mr. Ellhu Root said frankly at the Union League club in New York that the experiment of the precipate admission of the emancipated Negroes to suffrage had proved a failure, he expressed a sentiment which now prevails throughout this country among both Republicans and Democrats. Moreover, Mr. Root merely recognized a fact. In practice the experiment of giving suffrage to the emancipated slaves has proved unsuccessful. It has broken down completely. In the south, where are nearly 9-10ths of the Negroes, laws and state constitutional amendments have practically disfranchised them. Yet the Republican party which gave to them an amendment to the federal constitution inflicting the penalty of a reduction of representation in states which "in any way abridged" it, has looked on and done nothing to protect its Negro followers against such discrimination, and it becomes more and more evident every day that it will do nothing in that direction. When federal troops were withdrawn from the south as protectors of Negro voters at the polls, and when the Force bill failed of enactment, Negro suffrage was doomed, at least for the present generation. The attempt of the Republican party to assure itself for all time the electoral votes of southern states by means of Negro suffrage not only failed utter', but was also the means of assuring a Democratic solidity of the south which will probably long continue At the Maryland Republican convention on Wednesday, presided over by Mr. Bonaparte, a member of the cabinet of President Roosevelt the platform adopted contained this declaration: "The Republican party of the state of Maryland favors no social equality among the races, favors no Negro domination over the white people here or elsewhere, and can be depended upon to guard against the establishment of either of these conditions here in Maryland." It is understood, too, that Sec. Bonaparte had a chief hand in the construction of this platform. It is notable also that there were only eight Negro delegates in the convention, though at the convention of two years ago their number was ten times as great. This is of capital significance. It indicates that the Republicans have found Negro suffrage to be an intolerable incubus on their party rather than a help to it, at least in the southern states. Moreover, the Negro population of Maryland was less than a fifth of the total in 1900. Of all the states in which slavery formerly existed, with the exception of Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia, so largely northern in character and political sentiment, Maryland has the smallest percentage of Negroes, and reason for dread of "Negro domination" would seem to be small there if not infinitesimal; yet, even the Maryland Republicans are forced for self-preservation to come out squarely against "social equality" for the Negroes. This declaration, made by a Republican convention presided over by a cabinet officer in a Republican administration, reaches out in its principle to the great body of Negro citizens in states of the north where they now exercise the privilege of the suffrage without restriction. If the Negro of the south is unfit to be trusted with the franchise is not the northern Negro equally untrustworthy as a voter? If it is right and just and necessary to take away the suffrage from the one, should it not be reduced from misuse by the other? In the very states where the electoral votes are pivotal for the Republican party in a close presidential election the Negro population is large numerically—In New York and Ohio about 100,000 each, in Illinois about 90,000 in New Jersey about 70,000 in Indiana and Kanasas somewhere about 60,000. In Massachusetts and Connecticut there are enough Negroes to make their votes decisive in a close election. They may turn the scale in California. If, then the Republican party abandons the Negroes of the south and connives at their practical disfranchisement on the ground of their inherent unfitness for the franchise, what reason is there for the northern Negroes remaining in allegiance to it? It accepts the principle urged by the whole white south, that the Negro is intrinsically disqualified for the responsibility of voting, whatever the constitution may enjoin. It discards Negro suffrage as an experiment which has failed. The Negro question, therefore, is now settled by the substantial agreement of both parties to it. At the south and at the north the Negro accordingly no longer has any reason for looking on the Republican party as his champion. The actions of the leaders of the lily White Republican party of Maryland, under the guidance of Charles J. Bonaparte, verifies everything which has been said in these columns in the past in relation to that party endeavoring to cast the Negro overboard. A. Delightful Surprise Party. There was a surprise party tendered Mrs. Dawson Edwards of Montrose, Pa., last Monday evening, by Mrs. Alice Boyd and Mrs. Georgia McGill at their homes on Armour avenue near 47th street. Mrs. Edwards is visiting Mrs. Hattle Jarvis, 4840 Greenwood avenue. Among those present at the most enjoyable surprise were Mr. and Mrs. H. McCray, Mr. and Mrs. McGill, Mrs. Jessie Tobias, Mrs. L. Warne, Mrs. Y. A. Newson, Mrs. May Ledell, Dr. A. Wooldridge, Mr. D. A. Bethea, Miss Victoria Johnson Mrs. Ida Horde, Mr. J. R. Mitchell, Mrs. M. L. Crenshaw. White Man J-Jled for Marrying Negro Woman. Chas, schuchardt, a white man, was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, last week, for marrying Mary Meyers, a Negro woman. He is in jail in default of $500 ball—Austin Watchman, Tex. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true faith of our students. We are Priests, Inmates, Farmers, Single Texters, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Art is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial integrity of the newspaper. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the book. THE BROAD AX 804 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill. as second-class Matter. CHIPS Mrs. Sudie Smith 3246 State st., is spending her vacation in Denver, Colo. Mr. G. C. Martin 2625 Wabash ave., is on the sick list. Mr. Harry Garnes, 419 E. 37th st. is spending a few weeks in Columbus, Ohio. Hon. Frank Wenter is sure of election as President of the Sanitary Board of Trustees. Monday evening the members and friends of Quinn Chapel will tender a reception to Rev. D. P. Roberts. Mr. Phil R. Miller who has been in the east for the past year is again residing at 2808 Dearborn St. Mr. Fred Fannon, 3120 Dearborn St. left for Denver Sept. 21, where he will spend the winter. Dr. A. W. Mercer 671 Grand ave., is visiting his relatives at Stubenville, Ohio. Mr. Robt. Harper 2318 Dearborn St., who has been confined to his bed with illness is very much better. Mr. Frank Corbin 2625 Wabash ave., who has been employed in the Post Office died Sept. 18. Mr. Harry Buster 2315 Wabash ave., who has been very ill is again able to be at work. Mr. Joseph Lattimore, trainer for Northwestern University was drowned in a lake near Waukesha, Sept. 16. Dr. M. J. Brown, 3011 Dearborn street, is meeting with success right from the very start, and he is on the go in looking after his patients. Mrs. R. Pinn and daughter 4836 State st., are home again after a long visit to New York City and Atlantic City, N. J. Don't fail to attend the song recital at Bethel church Monday evening Oct. 2nd, if you do, you will miss a rare musical treat. The Gazette, Charlotte, N. C., in its last issue contained a half column comment on our article "Booker T. Washington and his Negro National Business League." Attorney Albert B. George will address the young folks of Borean Baptist church, 4838 Dearborn street, at 3:00 o'clock, Sunday afternoon. His subject, "May be the Ladies." Last evening Mrs. Louise Montgomery, 4743 Shields avenue, gave a largely attended reception in honor of her guest, Rev. John W. Robinson. Miss Peaches Parker of New York City will spend the winter in Chicago the guest of Mrs. Will Anderson 503 E. 45th st. Hon, James J. Gray is doing everything in his power to further the reelection of Thomas J. Webb as one of the Trustees of the Drainage Canal. Mr. Thos. Mazee 2314 Dearborn St. left Sept. 21, for Nashville, Tenn., where he will spend the winter in study. Attorney William A. Doyle, who is very popular with all the members of the bar of Cook county, will be one of the new Circuit Judges, of Chicago. Mr. Harry Jenkins and his mother, Mrs. Mary Jenkins, of Uniontown, Pa., are visting Mr. Lawrence Jenkins, 3241 Calumet avenue. Prof. N. Clark Smith will give a song rectal at Bethel Church Monday evening Oct. 2nd. The recital is for the exclusive benefit of Trustee debt. Admission 25 cents. Rev. John W. Robinson, of Covington, Ky., late pastor of St. Mark's church, will address the Literary at that church, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Louise Webb, 4712 Armour Avenue, is home again after a pleasant visit to Rock Island, Ill., where she was elected most Grand Worthy Matron of the Daughters of Heroines of Jericho. Mrs. Robert H. Hardin, 6347 Rhodes avenue, who was taken seriously ill on the train enroute to Chicago from New York, is improving in health and expects to be out again in the course of a week. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Avendorf, 6454 Greenwood avenue, celebrated the 5th anniversary of their marriage, Tuesday evening, September 19th. A large number of relatives and friends called to wish them continued happiness About 60 men met at the Appomattox Club Tuesday Eve., Sept. 19, and organized a duplicate whist club. The officers elected were:—M. F. Hussle, Pres.; Dr. A. D. C. Bosnes, Vice. Pres.; Dr. A. B. McKissack, Sec'y.; R. R. Jackson, Treas.; Adelbert Lee, Steward. Miss Annie Mae Alford, of Montgomery, Ala., has brought suit against the traction company of that city for $5,000 because one of its conductors thought she was a Negro woman instead of a white gal, and he forced her to ride in the "Jim Crow" end of the car Seven of the members of the Phyllis Wheatley Club escorted by their President, Mrs, L. A. Davis, visited the Old Folks Home, last week, 610 Garfield Blvd., and while there they preserved one bushel of peaches for the old folks to feast upon, the coming winter. A large number of our representative male citizens organized, on last Thursday evening, at the Douglass Centre Club House, a club to be known as "The Forum.' It is their intention to wear away a portion of the long winter evenings debating the "whys and wherefores" of all questions concerning the race. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wells, 6638 Champlain avenue, are thinking seriously of leaving Chicago altogether, and taking up a residence at an eastern summer resort, where they can make it a business to look after the comforts of the colored swells who seek "ocean enjoyments" in hot weather. James M. Wells, of the 27th Ward, manager of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, has been selected by the Cook County Democratic committee, instead of Dr. O. W. Lewke, to make the race for Trustee of the Drainage Canal. Mr. Wells being a first class business man will greatly add to his chances of election. Attorney William L. Martin, 155 Washington street, recently returned from Kansas City, Kan., where he spent two weeks visiting with his mother. Mr. Martin, who enjoys a good law practice, was much benefited by his vacation trip, and he is ready for the rush of law business for the September term. Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Deppe, of Hickory Run, Pa., have just had the sixth pair of twins born to them, and they are now the mother and father of twenty-three children. They have been married twenty years and are not yet forty. If they keep it up for the next twenty or thirty years, they will have one hundred children to their credit. On Tuesday morning, September 19th, J. D. Thompson, 157 Emerson avenue, departed this life. For 23 years Mr. Thompson was chief engineer for Fuller and Fuller, wholesale druggists, corner of Randolph and Franklin streets. A wife and son survive him. The funeral took place from his residence at 11 a. m. Friday, Rev. Jackson officiating. Interment at Rose Hill. Joseph Grein, City Inspector of weights and measures, is looking after the interest of the citizens of Chicago. Last Saturday he entered Rubel and Allegretti's Candy Store, 179 State street, to purchase a pound box of candy and the salesman or the manager thought he was from Missouri, and sold him 14 ounces. Then Mr. Grein pulled the store and the owners were fined $25.00 and cost for dealing in short weights and measures. The weekly Conservator, Sedalia, Mo., reproduced in full York Hall's article entitled "Oddfellowship and its Origin Among Men," which appeared in The Broad Ax several weeks ago, and gave it full credit for the same. The Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla., published half of it without crediting it up to this paper, which shows that Brother Lewey is willing to do a little stealing from newspapers who refuse to join with him in worshiping the great Wizard of Tuskegee. Col. Richard W. Thompson, in his long letter to The Sentinel, East St. Louis, Ill., last week, declared that "Dr. Booker T. Washington had reached the point where he is not called upon to explain." This may sound very well to the mullet-headed, pigmies who read Brother Thompson's rot, but all the world knows that Prof. Washington has been writing letters to the white newspapers of the South and doing everything in his power to explain his reason for dining with John Wanamaker and his family. The Democratic Committee of Cook county met, Wednesday afternoon at 122 La Salle street, and completed arrangements to open up the campaign at once, and make an honest effort to elect every candidate on the ticket. Headquarters have been established at 70 Washington street. The Socialists met in convention at Brand's Hall, Wednesday evening, and nominated the following ticket. For Circuit Judges—T. J. Morgan, Samuel Block, W. H. Taft, Peter Sissman. To Fill Vacancies—Seymour Stidman (for Judge Dunne's former place), Marcus Hitch (vacancy caused by death of Judge Shepard). J. W. Johnston (colored) for President of the Sanitary Board. For Trustees—J. H. Greer, C. E. Kirkland, to serve five years; John Caulfield, J. A. Prout, J. Winnen, to serve three years; J. P. Lynch, Dr. Isaac Sissman, A. Lafine, to serve one year. It appears that the Boston Guardian and The Broad Ax of Chicago never tire hewing at Bro. Booker T. Washington. For argument's sake, admit that Mr. Washington has made mistakes. we fall to see what is to be gained to the Negro by this ceaseless clash between its would-be leaders.—The Reporter, Staunton, Va. The warfare will continue against Booker T. Washington until he places himself fair and square in favor of the manhood and rights of the Negro, and ceases to use the entire race as a stepping stone to pile up untold wealth for himself. Through the untiring efforts of Aldermen John J. Bradley and John Burns, the two best city fathers the 30th ward has ever had, Wentworth avenue will be paved with dressed granite blocks from 39th street to Garfield Blvd. The Aldermen have secured a reduction to the property holders of 15 per cent, which amounts to about $35.00 for each twenty-five feet. Nevertheless there are several snide lawyers endeavoring to induce the owners of property along the avenue to fight this proposition, claiming that they can go into the courts and save them thirty-five per cent, but they fail to say anything about where their fees are to come from, by fighting or opposing the improvements. This is something for those interested in the matter to think about, and it is our opinion that it is the best for all parties concerned to join hands with Aldermen Bradley and Burns and heartily assist them to improve and beautify the 30th ward. There has just been issued by The Public Publishing Company, First National Bank Building, Chicago, the first edition of a descriptive catalogue of the books it publishes and sells. This attractive pamphlet, with index to titles and authors, lists a remarkably interesting collection of books. They are books about which every man and woman who wishes to come in touch with the spirit of democracy in the fundamental sense of that word, or desires real political and economic freedom will be glad to know. The catalogue describes, with concise comment, the works of Henry George, often called the economic torch-bearer and pathfinder of democracy, and books about him and his work; the works of Tolstoy, that marvellous novelist, humanitarian philosopher and the foremost citizen of the world, and books about him; the writings of Walt Whitman, the great American poet of the democratic spirit; of Henry George, Jr.; of Louis F. 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The Public Publishing Company is devoted entirely to the promulgation of the most important and inspiring literature relating to that real or fundamental democracy on which the welfare and progress of humanity depend. The catalogue will be sent to any address on request accompanied by a two-cent stamp. P. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTRE. A large attendance greeted Mrs. Laura Dainty Pelham at the meeting last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Pelham gave a delightful account of Eugene Field and his work reciting several of his poems. The music furnished by Mr. J. Gray Lucas at these meetings has been of a high order and has added greatly to the entertainment of those present. Mr. Samuel S. Greeley will speak next Sunday at 3 p.m. on the "Chicago Fire." The second meeting of the Committee on Sanitation and Housing, Dr. Geo. C. Hall, Chairman, will soon be held. Further notice will appear later. The Kindergarten is now housed in quarters of its own in a pleasant room in the basement. Friends interested in this work are invited to visit the school also the sewing class which meets on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Redfield Plummer has returned from her summer home in Pennsylvania and will be heartily welcomed back by her friends in the Centre. D. A class in plain sewing, underwear, aprons and dressing sacks, will open Thursday, the 28th, at 2:00 p. m. in charge of Mrs. A. E. Hampton, Fee, 10 cents Those who wish to get the full benefit of this class should join promptly St. Thomas's. The Convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, which met in the Chicago University Building Sept. 20th to 24th, brought together men of all races for a common cause, i. e., "the spread of Christ's Kingdom." Bishops, priests, deacons and laymen unite with one accord, and at 7:30 Sunday there will be a plain celebration and Father Bennet, of Washington, D. C., will preach the sermon at 11 a. m. Offertory selected. Also a special meeting at 8 p. m., at which time several delegates from other parishes and cities will speak. On Monday eve St. Thomas Chapter of the Brotherhood and the Men's Club will entertain the delegates visiting St. Thomas. Calendar for week: Sept. 24th, 14th Sunday after Trinity. Sept. 26th, St. Cyprin, A. B. P. A. D. 258. Sept. 29th St. Michael and all angels (color white). Sept. 30th, St. Jerome, A. D. 420. Englewood Notes The St. John's A. M. E. Church tendered a farewell reception to Rev. Higgins, last Monday evening. The Presbyterian church held a barbecue, Saturday, Sept. 23 on their lot at 61 and Ada streets. Miss Laura McCloud, 6236 Peoria street, is sick with typhoid fever. brake tests. At a recent official brake test in Toulon, France, the results showed that at 11 miles an hour a horse required 26 yards to come to a full stop, while an automobile traveling at the same rate of speed came to a standstill in two and three-quarters. Tests at other distances showed similar results. Tale About Queens It used to be said of Queens Mary II and Anne of England that they were granddaughters of a washerwoman; that the mother of Anne Hyde, their mother, had been a laudress before she married a brewer and afterward earl of Clarendon. This Jacobite story did not hurt the queens' popularity. Two in a Sentence A double bull in a single sentence was perpetrated by the late John Hollingshead, an Englishman. He wrote: "When Lord Mohun was killed he was living in Macclesfield house, Gerrard street, Soho, at the back of Leicester house, a site now occupied by the defunct Pelican club." Electricity and Dyspepsia A scientific han in Buffalo proclaims that he has discovered that working about high voltage electric apparatus results in "grave disturbances of the digestive organs, loss of appetite, distress after eating," and a whole train of dyspeptic symptoms. Enamel on Cards The enamel of address cards is produced by rubbing over the card a mixture of Kremnitz white, which is a fine variety of white lead. When dry the surface is rubbed with flannel dipped in powdered talc and polished by vigorous rubbing with a hard brush. No Distinction "I am proud to say that my grandfather made his mark in the world," observed Mrs. Newriche. "Well, I suppose he wasn't the only man in those days who couldn't write his name," replied Mrs. Upplish.—Stray Stories. DEPOPULATING ENGLAND. The Craze There for Extensive Game Preserves Is Driving Out the Farmers. There has been for many years a tendency to increase the size of farms by throwing three or four into one and pulling down the superfluous buildings. Farmers and land owners alike promoted this disastrous policy, says the Independent Review. In the fat years farmers competed wildly with each other for every vacant farm; it was easier to collect rent from one farmer than from three or four; but, above all, I think, in many places the growing love, not of "sport" in the old sense of the word, but of preservation of game on a huge scale, as an attraction to the squire's sporting friends, was the chief incentive to this truly unpatriotic procedure. A large head of game is much more easily kept up when farms are large, farmers few, and cottages far apart, than when farms are small and habitations near together. Wealthy men can afford to let farms on very easy terms to tenants who will help to preserve the game and make no "fuss" about its ravages. The only rural employment in which the number of those engaged has increased of late years is gamekeeping. In all others it has decreased largely. Very high rents are paid by rich men for a mansion with first-class shooting for the season. This often pays the owner much better than farms let to progressive and hard-working farmers would do. So it comes about that covers are planted, cottages pulled down, land let go to gorse; and the heritage of the people becomes the playground of the rich. SOMEWHAT OPEN QUESTION The Chasm May Have Been Like Aunt Elizabeth, a Trifle Weary. Ever since the time of the famous "traveled parson" stay-at-home folks have had their doubts at times about the desirability of having globe-trotters for friends and relatives, says the New York Times. Old Miss Stanton, after sending her nephew Edward through college, next supplied him with funds for a year's travel abroad. On his return the young man was possessed by a praiseworthy zeal to entertain his venerable and generous aunt, as well as to make plain to her that he had profited by his advantages. Especially had he during his visit of a month at Miss Stanton's expatiated on the magnificence of Switzerland's scenery, until that lady found herself actually cherishing a grudge against the Alps. "There I stood, Aunt Elizabeth," said the long-winded young man impressively, "the there I stood, and, beneath me that stupendous abyss was yawning!" The long-suffering old lady broke in at this point. "Edward," she said crisply, "are you prepared to say whether that abyss was yawning before you got there, or did it begin shortly afterward?" HAS FEWER ANARCHISTS. Public Feeling Has Driven Most of the Murderous Sort from The attempt on the life of the Dowager Queen Margherita has filled Italians with horror and indignation. Since the assassination of her husband, the unfortunate Humbert, the horror towards anarchists has been more intense every day, and public opinion is strong in its denunciation of that moral scourge. Strange to say, and against the universal belief, there are probably fewer anarchists in Italy to-day than in any other country of the world. It is true that a majority of the anarchists are Italians, but, as a rule, they do not operate in their native land. The United States and Spain offer the anarchists a much better field than italy, where the police has made a special and constant duty of the prosecution of anarchists. Up to the time of President McKinley's assassination America was the greatest anarchist center of the world. Of late, however, the reds have pitched their camp in Barcelona and other cities of Spain, and it is there that plans are made and from there that orders are given. American Women as Teachers American Women as Teachers. Four-fifths of the teachers in the United States, according to a recent census bulletin, are women and there are more teachers in this country than there are clergymen, lawyers and physicians together. In the proportion of women teachers employed the United States leads the world, although in nearly every civilized country the greater part of the teaching is done by women. This is in line with the general tendency toward the advancement of woman to a better place in this country. In 1890 the number of women in paying positions in this country was 3,914,571, and in 1900 this number had increased to 5,329,807. However, as the number of men in paying positions has also increased in the same time, it must not be accepted as certain that women are going to crowd men out of positions in intellectual employment altogether. Tough Luck. "Luck never manages things just right," said the irritable man who dislikes music. "It might just as well have been the other way round, but it wasn't." "What is the trouble now?" "My daughter who plays the piano has a sore throat, and the one who sings has a sore finger." THROUGH AN ALLIGATOR. Singular Source of Pollution of the Water of a Central American Town. Here is an incident that illustrates the unexpected difficulties which enterprise has sometimes to face in certain regions of Central America, says the New York Herald. An alligator was the innocent cause of the misfortune, and it lived in a large lake whence an important town drew its supply of water. By means of powerful steam driven pumps the water was drawn from the lake through a strong iron pipe, which, after running some 80 or 90 yards into the lake from the shore, ended in an upward turn, a short arm bent at right angles to the pipe and rising to within a few feet of the surface. Suddenly an epidemic visited the town in question. The company's reputation being threatened, it was decided to straightway pull up the streets and expose the main pipes and conduits. The entire system was laid bare, from the outskirts of the town to the very shores of the lake, but the minutest examination failed to reveal any suspicious feature. Then, almost at their wits' end, for the epidemic was raging as badly as ever, the officials entered upon the last lap and turned their attention to the submerged portion of the conduit, and here it was they found the cause. A huge alligator had been drawn toward the mouth of the main by the very strong influx and, being unable to release itself from the suction, had remained there until it died, and thus, for goodness knows how long, all the water consumed in the town had first filtered through the decomposed carcass of the alligator. OUR ENORMOUS EGG CROP Over Forty-Three Million Crates Are Produced in the United States Annually. The egg and poultry earnings of the United States for one recent year amounted to $280,000,000. Such an amount is sufficiently amazing as it stands, but you don't get its full significance until you study the relative financial values of other "industrials," says Franklin Forbes, in Success Magazine. We find, for instance, that the total value of gold, silver, wool and sheep produced in America during the year in question was $272,434,315. The sugar production of the country the same year was but $20,000,000. That part of the wheat crop used at home, which many consider the most valuable of all our agricultural products, was worth $229,000,000. The great American hog, as consumed at home and abroad, brought $186,529,035. The value of the oat crop was $78,894,900. Potatoes grown in the United States were valued at nearly as large a sum as were the oats. The product of tobacco plantations was estimated to be worth $35,579,225. Cotton, the dethroned king of staples, could show only $259,161,640, as against the magnificent earnings of its feathered rival. The crops of flax, timothy, clover, millet and cane seeds, broom corn, castor beans, hay, straw and so forth, couldn't, all told, come within a measurably distant of many millions of the poultry earnings. The hen's eggs produced in this country annually would fill 43,127,000 crates, each of the latter holding 360 eggs; also a train of refrigerator cars to carry these eggs would be nearly 900 miles long. Furthermore, it would take 107,818 such cars to make up this train. RATHER HARD ON HOST. How a Willing But Inexperienced Waitress Made a Very Bad Break. William W. Russell, the new minister to Venezuela, was being congratulated on his appointment, relates the New York Tribune. "Thank you," said Mr. Russell, "I appreciate your good wishes, and I will try to do well in my new place. "In new places," he went on, "we all, with hard work, may do well. Now and then, before unexpected and unprecedented crises, we may err, but there is no need for us to err greatly—to err, for instance, as did the new waitress of a friend of mine. "This waitress was willing, but inexperienced. The first day all went well. The second day, having developed a good deal of faith in her, my friend gave a dinner party. "She was, it seems, a little short of forks. After each course the waitress should have taken the soiled forks and washed and dried them in the pantry. "But, instead, the waitress, as she removed the plates after the fish course, said to the assembled guesses in a loud, authoritative voice: 'All keep yer forks.' His First Rain. "Those who are not accustomed to rain are frightened by it." says a writer. "I once saw an Arab rained on for the first time. He was abjectly terrified and demanded to have his passage paid from the country—Sicily—in which the dread phenomenon occurred. He had been conveyed from the Sahara, I think, by a European, whose servant he was, and he evidently thought his master was behaving abominably to him in permitting him to get wet. By the first steamer returned to his native desert, abandoning excellent wages, and shaking the raindrops furiously from his slipped feet." Qualified. Stranger-I am told, sir, that Jimpson, your neighbor, is the leading farmer in this community. Farmer Hornhand (guardedly)—Well, it dee-pends right much on which way th' farmers in this neck o' th' woods is headed—up er daown.—Baltimore American. NATION'S CAPITAL A CHILLY PLACE TO HEROES. A HISTORIC OLD TAVERN Odd Bits of Information from Utter-most Parts of Earth in Present Consular Reports — The Commissioner of Internal Revenue. WASHINGTON—The citizens of Washington, as a rule, are the most undemonstrati v o lot in the country. They are most phlegmatic in sentiment. It has been frequently remarked that noted men and be WASHINGTON—The citizens of Washington, as a rule, are the most undemonstrati v e lot in the country. They are most phlegmatic in sentiment. It has been frequently remarked that noted men and heroes who have received the most enthusiastic receptions in other parts of the country have met with only a Chautauqua salute in the national capital. The cause of this seeming indifference undoubtedly lies in the fact that great men are as common in Washington as blackberries. Despite this apathetic air the people of Washington propose to wake up and show the country that they are not indifferent to their own distinguished citizens, among whom they always claim the president of the United States. They now propose to give Mr. Roosevelt a fitting reception upon his return to the capital on September 30. They do not intend to have the garish display that other cities might get up for such an occasion, but the plan is to have the citizens assemble by the thousand along Pennsylvania avenue from the railroad station to the white house and applaud the president as the latter drives from the train to his official home. There will be no military display and no firing of cannon, but just such a reception as the rehearse populace of this ultra conservative town might be expected to give. The Chautauqua salute was first discussed, but a compromise has been suggested which is likely to be adopted and that is to use small American flags instead of handkerchiefs in waving the salute. There will be no speeches at this reception much to the regret of the honorable commissioners who are gifted in this line. It is remembered that two years ago when a similar demonstration was gotten up to welcome the president home from a western tour, the official orators drew up before the executive as he alighted and prepared to deliver a formal speech of welcome. Mr. Roosevelt waved them aside, sprang into his carriage and at once entered upon the drive to the white house. There will be no wasted efforts on oratory this time. The Prince at Newport. HERE will be a gay old time at Newport the latter part of this month, or early in October, when Admiral Prince Louis of Battenburg with the second British North Atlantic squadron visits that noted resort. To have a member of a royal family T and especially of the British royalty as a guest "in their midst" is a sensation that will bring the Newporters back to their summer haunts. The time of Prince Louis' visit will be after the regular Newport season closes, but arrangements are already being made to reopen some of the most fashionable and gay houses on the island. The royal guest will not want for entertainment and his staff of naval officers will be given a sample of genuine American hospitality. Officials of the navy department will welcome all social attentions that can be accorded the British sailor men. They desire to have returned to the latter some of the courtesies that have been showered upon American officers abroad. To avoid an embarrassing contretemps, the ceremonies of reinterring the body of John Paul Jones have been postponed from this September 23 to April 24 of next year. The first date had been selected as it was the anniversary of the greatest exploit of the intrepid Jones when he whipped the Serapis with the Bon Homme Richard. Unfortunately this date would fall about the time Prince Louis visits this country and it might have been just a little embarrassing to him to have that little affair of the revolution recalled. The date next April is the anniversary of the captures of the British ship Drake by Commodore Jones and will answer just as well for the cere monies. Memento of George O GE Washington NE by one the old landmarks and historical places about Washington are removed or changed but one interesting old tavern seems destined to remain for some time as a memento of George Washington's time. An idea to call the attempt was recently made to sell the historic building but no one appeared to bid what it was worth and it has been taken out of the market. This is an old frame building in West Washington, or what is better known as Georgetown, and is said by antiquarians to be what was once the famous Suter tavern. One hundred and fourteen years ago Suter was host to General Washington and Mr. Jefferson at this old building. The "Father of his Country" often refreshed himself at Suter's tavern when he was engaged in securing for the government the land that eventually became the District of Columbia. He spoke very highly of the food and drink to be obtained at the old hostelry. Suter was a Scotchman and imported his whiskey directly from his native land. He got his rum from Jamaica and his brandy from the London docks. In spite of the ascetic look on Thomas Jefferson's face, the original democrat was a judge of good living and of good liquors. When he was minister to France he visited the celebrated wine vineyards of Europe and selected choice vintages for his own cellar in America. His tribute to old Suter was therefore worth something when he said: "No man on the Atlantic coast can bring out a better bottle of Madeira or sherry than old Suter." M BUSINESS WORLD AJOR JOHN M. CARSON, for over 30 years one of the best known of the corps of Washington correspondents, now at the head of the bureau of manufacturers, in the department of commerce and labor, has brought his old newspaper and editorial instincts into ser- vice in editing the daily consular reports which have become so valuable to the business world. Our consuls have developed the writing habit to a greater extent than formerly and are encouraged by the state department to send in reports on all matters of general business interest as well as the odd and interesting things they run across in their duties. Maj. Carson takes these reports and with a trained mind is able to extract from them the paragraphs that are of especial value to American readers. He has also changed the form of the daily publication so that it conforms to some extent with the daily newspaper in makeup, the arrangement of heads, subheads, etc. The pamphlet is still of the mallable size, 6x9, but it has been very much improved in typographical appearance and in the readable character of its contents. Some queer bits of news come out in Maj. Carson's little publication. News from the uttermost parts of the earth appears and the land of mythology and ancient history is made to contribute to the daily melange. A recent contribution came from the far off land of Mesopotamia, a name that brings up Sunday school days and scriptural jaw breakers. We are informed by the correspondent from that land of dim history that great improvements are going on there, just as we might hear of developments in the wheat country of Canada. Mr. Yerkes of Kentucky. F John W. Yerkes, commissioner of internal revenue, does not land in President Roosevelt's cabinet it will not be the fault of an army of good friends who are continually holding him up as the ideal man from the south for such a position. M r. THE SOUTH Yerkes is not bothering his head about any such preferment. He is eminently fitted for the place he now holds and has made an enviable record as the head of this most important bureau in the government service. He is one of the most affable men in the public service and it is the delight of his newspaper friends to gather in his office in the treasury building and listen to his fund of Kentucky stories which he tells in most charming and effective manner. Mr. Yerkes is a Kentuckian and no son of that state, renowned for her fast horses, beautiful women and chivalrous men, is prouder of his birthright. He is a Kentucky republican of the most aristocratic class and of the type of Justice John M. Harlan, of the supreme court, who is known as Kentucky's "grand old man." Mr. Yerkes is a splendid type of the tall Kentuckian. He is a little over six feet in height, well proportioned and as straight as a pine. He is of ruddy countenance, has soft brown wavy hair and a sweeping dark red mustache. He attracts attention wherever he is seen by his carriage and distinguished air. He is well balanced intellectually and has a fine reputation as a lawyer. The south has been claiming that she is entitled to representation in the cabinet and will not accept Secretary Bonaparte, of Maryland, as altogether filling the bill. She wants some one from the real south and the friends of Mr. Yerkes want to know why he will not meet requirements. President Roosevelt has a way of filling cabinet vacancies himself without much regard to what friends of available timber may say, and he has given no intimation that Mr. Yerkes has been in his mind for a place at his council table. THE CHILD'S WALKING. Positions Followed by Little One Should Be Carefully Observed and Corrected If Wrong. The acknowledged best position for the feet is not the one accepted of old—"heels together and toes turned out"—but one in which the feet are nearly straight, one a little in advance of the other, and with the body's weight full upon the balls of the feet, the heels hardly touching the floor. All this preparation is necessary precaution against, or remedy for, the bending of the soft bones of the back, or the legs from throwing too much weight upon them. This is the danger of first walking. The carrying of undue weight upon the heels and bone-structure not only bends the bones of the back and legs, but it so overpresses the joint cartilages as to stiffen and enlarge and irritate the joints, while it reduces the body's height. If a child holds itself freely and strongly and flexibly in poise, with all muscles doing their share of the work, whether the body be supported on the ```markdown ``` TO KEEP A CHILD FROM GROWING BOW-LEGGED balls of one foot or on boun feet, it is ready to walk easily and successfully. The next point in learning to walk well, after strength and poise and easy balance are well secured, is to induce the leaning of the body's weight (chest first) so far forward beyond the supporting foot that the back leg must swing forward to meet the advanced need of support. This makes the difference between good walking, with chest leading and legs serving, and bad walking, with feet first. To teach good walking, one must induce the leaning of the weight further and further forward on the forward foot, making sure that the heel of the supporting foot is well lifted, and all the weight on a strong, springy, rolling ball of the foot, and so lifted that when the weight gets so far forward that it needs support still further forward, the idle foot at the back can swing easily ahead to meet the necessity. This is the fundamental mechanism of good walking. POLITENESS IN CHILDREN. Reasons for Social Usages May Be Given, But Courtesy in Family Life Strongest Influence. Eleanor Davids, writing her experiences with a child taken from a "home" in "The Note-Book of an Adopted Mother," has this to say on the teaching of gentle and polite manners: "Perhaps the reason why it is so hard to inculcate politeness in children is that it is difficult to explain the reason back of many small refinements of life," remarks Mrs. Davids. "Conventionality is in almost constant conflict with a child's instincts, and yet, if we are not afraid to think, or too indolent to explain, we can generally make children understand that there is a good reason for all social usages. Then they see some sense in observing them. "I have never read anything on the cultivation of politeness in children which impressed me as more practically suggestive than an incident in the papers some time ago. A small boy's manners improved so after he entered school that his mother cross-questioned him to find out what the teacher did to secure such results. 'Nothing,' was the indignant reply. "She surely must do something, persisted the mother. "I tell you she doesn't do nothing," persisted the boy. "She just walks round and is polite, and it makes us feel as polite as anything." leer as polite "Courtesy and consideration will never become natural to a child, will never be anything but a veneer added for the sake of policy, unless he has witnessed and experienced the results of politeness at home while still in the plastic period of life." the plastic person. Another idea that Mrs. Davids tried to develop in her home was that the people we love, and with whom we live every day, are as just as much entitled to courtesy as guests; in fact, she says that if any difference is to be made it should be in favor of those deserves to us. Quite the reverse of this is, unhappily, too often the family rule. A. White Throat. Its first secret is massage. If the skin is too plump and the throat lined, take off the collar and set to work bathing the neck in clear, warm water. 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Two or three live, active and wideawake lady agents, either white or colored, wanted to solicit for a high class Toilet Preparation in connection with The Broad Ax. If you mean business, call or address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. COOK WAITERS AND COOKS Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found by experience that they are the most satisfactory and eco- mical 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 instru- tions how to order. Margaret Kuben (Nice.), 330 State St., Chicago --- Increased Demand for Light Increased Demand for Light The development of any new illuminating process appears not to affect the demand for light in other forms. The electric light, both arc and incandescent, has been added to gas rather than substituted for it. More gas has been burned in proportion to the population of American cities, since Brush and Edison made their discoveries than formerly. The use of oil for lamps increases, notwithstanding gas, electricity, acetylene gas and devices such as the incandescent burner, which produce far more light with a given quantity of illuminating fluid.—Cleveland Leader. Auto Auctions. In London the business of auctioning off automobiles of all vintages has been established for more than two years and the scale on which it has been done is eye-opening. The extent of such transactions may be imagined from the fact that it is said that one house alone in the world metropolis shows an average weekly turnover of $50,000. The establishment in question seldom houses less than $100,000 worth of cars at a time, all of which are on view at the bi-weekly sales. Japan's War Fund. All told, foreign loans, domestic loans, war taxes, increased customs duties, etc., Japan has raised nearly $850,000,000 for war purposes. As wages in the United States are at least six times higher than in Japan, the amount raised by that country is equal to our raising $5,100,000,000. Further, as the population of Japan is only 48,000,000, while ours is 84,000,000, we should really have to raise about $9,000,000,000 to equal Japan's effort. One Cargo a Year. It is possibly known to a few people in the Keystone state that Erie is a port of entry each year for a cargo of turtles. This statement is given upon the authority of the Erie Times, which chronicles the fact that the schooner Bertha Wallace, Capt. Winne had arrived from Port Clinton with a cargo of the reptiles, whose total weight was 2,700 pounds. Awfulv Noisy. Mrs. Rounders—O, that's my husband dressing to go downtown. "Indeed! I've heard folks say that he was a loud dresser, but I had no idea it was anything like that."—Lippincott's Magazine. Shopper's Comfort "What a comfort the exchange system is," exclaimed one woman shopper to a friend she met in the elevator of a big department store. "Yesterday I bought a hat which I didn't like after I got it home, so to-day I brought it back and got three pounds of butter and a mousetrap for it." Submarine Forest By means of glass-bottomed boats it has been discovered that the bottom of Monterey bay, California, is a beautiful submarine forest of sea oranges, green ribbons, horse tail, sea pompoms, etc. Some of the plants are 30 feet in height. Once Owned by Sherman. The other day suit was brought in San Francisco over title to a lot sold by the late Henry Meltggs to the late Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, then a San Francisco banker, and ex-captain in the United States army. That Croquet Again Long after a man decides that he is too old to play baseball, ride a bicycle or make a billiard his wife will be found driving the wooden ball through the iron hoop with a hammer. Golf and Profanity Golf and Profanity. An Iowa preacher claims that he can play golf without using profane language. He probably got his preliminary practice on the croquet grounds—Detroit Free Press. Before and After Before marriage a young woman is satisfied to live on fudge and love, after marriage she insists on three squares daily with the fudge thrown in—Detroit Free Press. New Town. A central Missouri editor who said: "The Missouri river continues to rise at intervals," received a note from one of his subscribers asking where Intervals was. Must Learn Early Must Learn Envy. The archbishop of Canterbury recently said in public address: "The child who has not learned obedience at the age of two never learns it." Mutual Envy. Business Man—I wish I could write your poetry! Poet—And I wish I could write your checks!—Detroit Free Press. Fourth in Line. Norway's shipping is exceeded in tonnage only by England's, Germany's and France's. He'll Hurry Back. If you hast a lettering servant, send him of thy servant just before his dinner—Willie. Source of Blue Coral. Blue coral, which is probably the most precious kind, is fished up in the Bay of Benin. Costly War. Germany's African war has already cost the taxpayers nearly $50,000,000. 1 Safety in Numbers. A worldly father, after the style of Lord Chesterfield, was giving good advice to his son, who was about to enter society. And above all, avoid flirtations; but if you must flirt or fall in love, sir, be sure that it is with a pretty woman. It is always safer. "Why?" asked the young man. "Because some other fellow will be sure to be attracted, and cut you out before any harm has been done."—Stray Stories. Guns for Africans An article in a recent number of the Birmingham (England) Mall states that a factory in that city is turning out weekly about 1,200 flintlock muskets, and that a large number of this antiquated firearm are also made at Liege, Belgium. These guns are sent to Central and East Africa for use by the natives, to whom the possession of modern firearms is denied by statute. To Make a Front "Yes, sir," said the jeweler, "this is the largest and purest diamond stud we have. It's worth $7,500." "I'll take it," said Nuritch, "if you kin cut the price on it." "No, sir, that's positively the lowest—" "Aw! you don't know what I mean. I want yer to carve the price on the stone so people kin see it."—Philadelphia Press. Novel Scarecrow Passengers from the White mountains are remarking on the ingenuity displayed by a New Hampshire farmer who has a cornfield near the tracks up in the middle of the state. Instead of an upright scarecrow, this man has placed his on its knees, in a position which indicates that the "man" is busy weeding corn. The deception is said to be the most perfect yet conceived. Salt Water Beer. A firm of brewers at Surfeet, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, has had to destroy 6,000 gallons of beer, it being found that the water used in the manufacture was impregnated with salt. The water was obtained from the River Glen, into which salt water from the River Welland had found its way. Frogs' Legs on Toast Miss Frog—That chap I went to the hop with last week was awfully stuck on his shape! New Suitor—Yes, if he hadn't paraded himself so much, he wouldn't have ended up in a cafe. I understand his epitaph was written on the bill of fare—Detroit Free Press. Autos in Kaffirland. The automobile is making its way to the ends of the earth. In the upper part of Transkie (Kaffirland) a service of motor cycles has recently been established, ridden by natives, to carry the mails from Mount Frere to the outlying stations, and on up to Kokstadt, a distance of 70 miles. The Go-Between "I feel so sorry for that poor woman! But I never know what to say to people in trouble," said Mrs. Richly. "Why don't you send her a check, and let the money talk for you?" suggested her friend. — Detroit Free Press. Sole Massacre Survivor. Mrs. Abbie Gardener Sharp, the sole survivor of the Spirit Lake massacre of 1857, is living at Pillsbury Point, Lake Okooboj, Ia. With the proceeds of the history of that event she purchased her home on the lake. Bets Close School Thousands of bats took possession of a schoolhouse in Redding, Cal., the other day, and the school had to be closed by means of burning sulphur, etc. All in the Family. Broadway restaurants are now referred to as "lobster palaces." They get the name from two distinct species of the lobster family.—Chicago Record-Herald. Fire Insurance Congress Milan, Italy, is to have next year as an international congress at which questions relating to the extinguishing of fires and to fire insurance will be discussed. Fitting Grave Mark. In the churchyard of Grimston, Norfolk, an avail may be seen at the head of the grave of a local blacksmith. Attractive Products. The products of Scotland county are chiefly melons and pretty girls, says the Haleigh News-Observer. What a fine place to go for a vacation. Mean Thing! Mrs. Gates—My new dress is a poem. Mrs. Yates—I understand that poetry is rarely paid for.—Stray Stories. Ancient Shipyard. A shipyard at Ominato, Japan, still in operation, was established 1,900 years ago. Thinly Disguised. "Pa, what is a repartise?" "Ohl merely an insult with its dress suit on, my son."—Stray Stories. Transparent Lake. Lake Balkhash in Asia is remarkable for the transparency of the water, the limit of visibility being $0 feet. --- Why She Wanted Work. Why she waited. "There are a lot of queer people in this world," said the man in charge of the book department of a large store the other day. "This morning a young woman came in here and applied for a position selling books. I explained that there was nothing I could give her. Then I said, pleasantly: "I'm awful sorry." "Oh,' she said, turning to go, 'you needn't be sorry. I really don't need the money. I simply wanted to work here so I could read the books.'"—Kansas City Times. Heard the Report A few days after the battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor, and the whole world was excited over the event, a Frenchman came out of a lumber camp in New Hampshire and made his appearance in Gorham depot. Stepping up to the station agent in a state of great excitement, he asked if Maine had blown up. The agent replied that it had. Tears came into the poor fellow's eyes as he said: "I got a sister; she live down to Rumford Fall; I suppose she blow up with him."—Boston Herald. Plug Tobacco. "I live in a town which is the greatest seat of the plug tobacco industry in the world, the town of Winston Salem, N. C." said Hon. J. C. Buxton, of the Old North state. "Last year, as the records will show, there was a production of 32,000,000 pounds of plug tobacco in the factories of Winston Salem. Doesn't look as if that much plug could be chewed up in a decade, eh? But somebody must get away with it, for the output is constantly increasing." Tunnel Under Thames London's newest transportation idea is a footway tunnel under the River Thames at Woolwich, where the council's free ferry is now the sole dependence of vehicles and pedestrians, and which suspends its operations entirely during fog and bad weather, being incapacitated for a part of each of 26 days during last year. Pathetic and Humorous. It is a pathetic as well as a humorous remark that Laurence Hutton in his reminiscences attributes to John L. Sullivan. When the news came of the death of Edwin Booth, the great fighter, in sincere sorrow, remarked: "Well, there are only a few of us left!" Flying Frog. A species of frog found in Borneo has very long toes, webbed to the tip. This creature can leap from a high tree, and, by spreading its toes, be supplied with four little parachutes, which enable it to easily descend Hence it is called "the flying frog." Wood Staining. Wood is now stained before it is seasoned, instead of making the artificial coloration the last process. The sap is driven out of the wood under pressure, and it is forthwith transformed into mahogany, rosewood and walnut before it dries. Peking University The oldest university in the world is at Peking. It is called the "School for the Sons of the Empire." Its antiquity is very great, and a granite register, consisting of stone columns, 320 in number, contains the names of 60,000 graduates. Woman Artist's Offer. Mrs. Ellis Rowan, the famous flower artist, has received an offer of $75,000 by the German government for her 500 Australian flower pictures, the condition being that she shall take up her residence in that country and devote her talents exclusively to Germany. Few Qualified. There were 28 vacancies in the grade of assistant paymaster of the navy. For those positions 2,000 young men applied. Only 24 stood the various tests and received their commissions. Railway Progress. Only 70 years have elapsed since the first railway in the world was finished. During that comparatively brief period over 400,000 miles have been constructed. Father's Trials The parlor baritone and the dining-room joker are two of the tribulations that a man with a marriageable daughter has to stand for. 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