The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. The Palace Theatre Has Failed to Open It's Doors COL. (PONY, MOORE AND WALTER BACON HAVE COME TO A STANDSTILL IN THEIR MANDAMUS SUIT AGAINST THE CITY. THE LAKE SHORE AND ROCK ISLAND OFFICIALS ARE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO THE NEW SPORTING RESORT BEING LOCATED SO NEAR THE 31ST STREET STATION. Col. "Pony" Moore, who could if he would tell a mighty interesting story in connection with Miss Dotty, has for the past month been running his handsome face in the columns of two or three Church Organs in this city and in The Freeman, Indianapolis, 'hearlding the fact to the world "that within the next few days his Palace Theatre, 359 31st st., between Dearborn st. and Armour ave., would throw its doors open to the public," but all his well-laid plans have failed in this direction. Even last Saturday evening, Col. "Pony" loudly proclaimed it from the house tops "that everything would be wide open on that evening, as several barrels of heer and a full line of other wet goods had been dumped into his new do-drop-in resort, which if he succeeds in opening will soon become the hanging out place or headquarters for all the tin-horn sports and White and Colored lady mashers in town, but not being able to obtain a saloon license, everything was dark and goomy around the Palace at nine o'clock on that evening and it is gradually dawning upon the mind of Col. "Pony" that at least one or two other men hang cut in this town aside from himself. True to his nature he started in to bluff his way through the Mayor's and Chief John M. Collins' offices and allowed in mighty course or rough language what he would do to them if they refused to issue him a theatre and a saloon license, but when he was finally turned down cold, he began mandamus proceedings in the Circuit Court, in the name of Walter Bacon, to force or compel Mayor Dunne to sign his name to a saloon lincense for him. For some cause or other with all his bluffing and blowing Col. "Pony" is afraid to go ahead with his mandamus suit for someone has intimated to him "that if he should happen to knock the city out and force Mayor Dunne to issue him a license that the police would be on his neck or trail night and day, and that they would not permit him to have White and Colored women and young school girls hanging around his new resort which in time would become much worse than the more disgraceful resort he ran so long on 21st st., which was a safe retreat for gamblers, and the violators of all the laws of decency and morality, for it seems that Col. "Pony" has never been able in the past to successfully conduct any business in this city, except in the interest or for the benefit of the lowest and the vilest element of society. Being thoroughly convinced that he is unable to bring enough influence to bear to secure a license in his own name, Col. "Pony" has decided to throw Walter Bacon into the breach, and to use his as a "cat's paw" to pull the license out of the fire for him. It appears that Walter Bacon was one of Col. Walter Bacon was one of Col. "Pony" right hand men on 21st Street, and questions may be propounded to him touching upon his past and present mode of living, which may not look well in print. The property at 359 31st street belongs to John Condon, and it will be no trouble to prove in open court that he had the lease made out in the name of "Pony" Moore and not in the name of Walter Bacon, and that Col. "Pony" has invest to cough up six or seven thousand dollars of his own money to expend in any direction. It is the duty of former Judge Edward T. Glennon, the able attorney for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and B. S. Cable, the up to date attorney for the Rock Island road to assist to carry on the fight to the bitter end against permitting Col. "Pony" Moore, or Walter Bacon, who are one and the same thing, to open his Palace Theatre which is located so close to the 31st street station of the roads which they soably represent, for if they should succeed in opening its doors, it is freely predicted "that a crowd of white and colored loafers will be continually standing around its entrance, cussing and daming everybody who does not act and think like them, and passing insulting remarks in relation to all the ladies who pass up and down that thoroughfare on their way to and from the depot, and Attorneys Glennon and Cable should leave no stone unturned in an honest effort to restrain Col. "Pony" or Walter Bacon from operating their new resort right under the wings of the 31st Street Station. As further proof that Col. "Pony" Moore is not the proper person to hold a saloon license from the great city of Chicago, we will for the edification of those Christians who delight to speak one word for their so-called God, and three for their devil at the same time, and who labor under the impression that because Col. "Pony" is a life member of Booker T. Washington's Negro National Business League that he is a first-class Christian gentleman reproduce an extract on him from Clifton R. Woolridge's famous "Book Hands Up! in the World of Crime.' "On May 24, 1900, detectives Conick and Culhane visited Moore's place 173 21st St. and found 125 pieces of cut glassware. the value of which was $2,500. The raid was the result of complaints made by a number of the large uptown stores that shoplifters had been systematically robbing them. Moore was arrested, and on the same day the officers and witnesses went before the grand jury. As a result "Pony" Moore Herman Boppart, alias "Kid" Kelly, and Bessie Mitchell were indicted. "Herman Boppart was located in New York the latter part of May, 1900, and brought back by Detective Conick. Boppart was the chief operator in the gang of shoplifters. Bessie Mitchell was in Paris enjoying the exposition at the time of Boppart's arrest. "The glassware recovered consisted of various pieces including valuable vases and a punch-bowl so large that it seemed incredible to the police that it could be taken out of a store unnoticed. "Marshall Field and Company, Burley and Company, Pitkin and Brooks, Mandel Bros., Schlesinger and Mayer, W. S. Thurber, and J. D. O'Brien's art store were the victims of the shoplifters. Among the property recovered were four valuable picture frames two of them the property of Burley and Company valued at $500 each. "Mrs. Jessie Pretty went into Moore's saloon between two and three o'clock on the morning of April 9, 1901. Moore invited her into a wine room, Moore, and James Pollett CHICAGO, APRIL 14, 1906 The new clerk of the Circuit Court, who has been in the past one of the most popular, honest and most gentlemanly public officials. To the great delight of his thousands of warm friends and admirers, James J. Gray was on Monday selected by the judges of the Circuit Court to succeed John A. Linn as clerk of that court, who has pled guilty and sentenced to do time in the penitentiary at Joliet, Ill., for robbing and plundering Cook County out of some 30,000. Mr. Gray is so well and favorably known that nothing can be said to add to his unattained reputation for honesty and straightforwardness in dealing with his fellow men of whatever nationality or complexion. Prior to 1898 Mr. Gray honorably served as North Town Assessor and also as Clerk for the late Judge M. F. Tuley. In the year mentioned he was elected as drinks were being prepared, Mrs. Pretty took her diamond earrings, brooch, and finger rings off placed them in her handkerchief, and then concealed them about her person. a member of the Board of Assessors, Cook County and with credit to his self he served in that capacity to January 1st 1905. Then he was selected by Jud Kersten as his Master In Chancery, who law offices in the Ashland Block. He has been head of the law firm Gray and Moran for the past seven eight years. From October 1st, 1899, down to the present time, Mr. Gray has been a scribeer and a loyal supporter of The Broad Ax and as it has unbounded faith in his honesty and entegrity. It joins hands with his numerous friends in congratulating him on the new honors which have been thrust upon him by the judge of the Circuit Court. witness stand and ruin him, and the other ladies end-avowed to drag the man from Mo down to the same level with themselves. (To be Continued.) "Moore wanted to take them for safes keeping but she said they would be safe with her. After drinking the woman became unconscious and was taken to a room over the saloon, where she remained in an unconscious condition until eight oclock the next evening. "When she awoke she was alone and her jewels were gone. The matter was reported to the police and officers Do Lacy and' Ptacek arrested Moorse and Pollett, who'were held to the grand jury for the larceny of the jewels which were valued at $800. Moore was indicted, but Pollett was released, as the Police and think that he was guilty. The case is still pending trial." "His place on Twenty-first street was the resort of depraved women, both white and black. *It was also frequented by Chinamen and Japanese." Therefore it is our honest opinion that if Col. "Pony" is connected in any manner, shape or form with the Palace theatre and its finely furnished wine room or parlor, where white men for no good purpose are more than likely to be knocked down to some of the best single and married colored ladies in this fast town, it will not be one whit better than the resort be conducted on 21st street P. S. The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain a mighty interesting chapter, on "How Little Sham Reform, Ed. Wilson, Col. 'Pony' and Miss Grace Raymond, 2965 State St., who at one time ran some kind of a fancy house for the Col. at 2100 Dearborn court, and a member of the Board of Assessors c. Cook County and with credit to him self he served in that capacity to January 1905. Then he was selected by Judge Kersten as his Master In Chancery, with law offices in the Ashland Block. He has been head of the law firm of Gray and Moran for the past seven or eight years. From October 1st, 1899, down to the present time, Mr. Gray has been a subscriber and a loyal supporter of The Broad Ax and as it has unbounded faith in his honesty and integrity. It joins hands with his numerous friends in congratulating him on the new honors which have been thrust upon him by the judges of the Circuit Court. witness stand and ruin him,' and two other ladies end-avowed to drag the man from Mo down to the same level with themselves. (To be Continued-) SULZER, ROOSEVELTISM AND THE REPUBLIC OF RUSSIA THE REPUBLIC OF RUSSIA. The fate of modern civilization and the fame and future of Sulzer, the Jeffer sonian Secular Social democratic states man of New York, are equally bound up in the fate of the Republic of Russia. This makes him the conspicuous antagonist of Rooseveltism in the arena of American politics. The guards has been thrown down in the face of the world. Sulzer cannot now flinch. As the conflict with Rooseveltism develops it will be found to embrace also a life and death conflict (now raging in France) of the fundamental principles not only of American civilization, but of modern progressive civilization against the reactionary forces of ecclesiasticism (union of church and state) in Government. As the successful reorganization of the National Democracy can only come as a Jeffersonian democracy of which the secular principle in Government is the foundation stone, not only the foundation stone, but the very life and soul. It will be seen. What Sulzer begins to loom up on the political horizon as a star of the first magnitude, possible another Abraham Lincoln, to meet the new national crisis. The overthrow of the arrogant military ecclesiastical bureaucraticabal now enthroned at Washington City on the ruins of the liberties of the Americanized people, is of fact, the supreme need of the hour. To this patriotic work all other issues must be held subordinate until Flourshing A Big Revolver GREEN SMITH, A WOULD-BE POLICEMAN, MAKES A MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON DR. A. B. McKISSACK. WILLIAM L. MARTIN AND HALE.G PARKER ATTORNEYS FOR THE OPPOSING FACTIONS. IT WAS BROUGHT OUT IN THE TESTIMONY THAT MISS SMITH WORKS FOR EVELYN SISTERS IN THE "RED LIGHT DISTRICT." A GREAT SENSATION CREATED IN THE COURT ROOM. On the 27th day of March, 1906, Green Smith, with a revolver, made a deadly assault upon Dr. A. E. McKissack at the Doctors office 3247 State Street. The doctor had Smith arrested upon three complaints, charging him with disorderly conduct, carrying conealed weapons, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Last Monday before Justice Keeney the cases were called for trial and Smith plead not guilty. The doctor testified that Green Smith came to his office during the night and was received by the doctor as a prospective patient. Smith said "Is your name Dr. McKissack?" "Yes, what can I do for you?" "You insulted my sister over the phone" and without revealing his name or the name of his sister, made a murderous assault upon the doctor with a revolver and drove one of his eyeglasses through his left eye and then ran out of the office and evaded the police. The doctor did not know who Smith was and with the assistance of the police force was unable to ascertain the name of his assailant until the next afternoon. Mr. Smith testified that he struck the doctor with a pair of dental forceps and denied having a revolver, but a little German boy who was being surgically treated by the doctor and in the office at the time, testified that Smith did not tell the doctor his name, or the name of Smith's sister and that he saw Smith have a revolver in his hand, struggling with the doctor. Miss Fannie Smith, the sister of Green Smith, and who was the cause of the trouble, testified that she was asked over the telephone to call at the Dr.'s office at 8 o'clock, and that she knew his patients would be gone by that time and she said that she called the doctor down and said she would tell her brother about it, and then hung up the receiver. She also stated that Mrs. Morris, wife of Joseph Morris, the mail carrier, was listening over the telephone and heard all of the conversation. However, Mr. Smith's lawyer, Hale G. Parker, refused to have Mrs. Morris or her husband, testify. Upon the cross examination Miss Smith was very much embarrassed. It was shown that Smith's care and protection for his sister was not so sincere as he would have the public to believe, as he allows her to work on Dearborn Between 21st and 22nd in the Evelyn Sisters house of prostitution. This fact which was brought out by counsel for the doctor upon cross examination, created a great sensation in the court room. Miss Smith on the Witness stand told an entirely different story from what she told to others and the doctor has instructed William L. Martin, his attor- Republic is settled and settled right. I propose with consent of editor of The Broad Ax, to discuss this great matter, including the place the Republic of Russia holds in the world's progress, in a series of letters to that paper. The discussion will be along broad, tolerant, liberal unsectarian lines, but fearlessly progressive and American just the same. Is the editor of The Broad Ax, and its readers, ready for the discussion "Will Sulzer Stand by His Guns?" An old American Diplomat and Jeffersonian Democrat. Charles Gato Baylor, Providence, R ney, to have her arrested for perjury. A complaint charging Smith with perjury in denying that he had a revolver has been made by the doctor and Smith will again be arrested before the next hearing of the case. The doctor alleges that had Smith been truthfully informed he would have never made he unwarranted assault. Smith's friends and certain powerful influences are constantly importuning the Justice in an effort to have him persuade the doctor to compromise the case and allow Smith to be discharged. The doctor says there is nothing to compromise, that the assault was cowardly and that the new story and version of the affair as testified to by Miss Smith was not only perjury, but was a desparate attempt to shield her brother and to protect Joseph Morris, whom the doctor blamed for the whole affair. It seems that Mr. Morris had gone to the doctor's office prior to the time the assault was made and complained because the doctor had offended Morris's wife in a conversation over the telephone and Mr. Morris found that the doctor had never talked to his wife over the phone and John Leflet admitted that he had and stated what he said, and Mr. Morris took no exceptions to the conversation and went away seemingly satisfied. It now appears that Morris has been an old enemy of the doctor's and telephoned to Smith and made certain charges against the doctor and worked Smith up to a frenzy which resulted in the assault upon the doctor. The testimony revealed the fact that Smith was temporarily on the police force during the last strike and now an applicant for an appointment as patrolman. Charges will be filed against him before the Civil Service Commission as being a person unfit to act as a protector of the people. The doctor is determined to go to the bottom of everything, and his lawyer in laying a foundation for the impeachment of the testimony of Miss Smith, may cause her fearful embarrassment and she will have no one to blame but her brother and Mr. Morris. The doctor has sent a man to Cincinnati to find out the family history and is otherwise looking up the record of the Smiths. Suit for slander and arrest for libel will be made by the doctor against a certain physician who has been talking unguardedly about the episode in an effort to injure the doctor's reputation. The case was continued to Wednesday April 18th, at three P. M. when further, testimony will be heard. One thing sure, the doctor is a fighter and in this case a merciless fighter and he has a lawyer who never quits.-J. S. D. Rev. R. L. Dickerson, late of Cleveland, Ohio, has been selected by the Lexington M. E. Conference which met at Columbus, Ohio, as the new pastor of St. Mark church, this city. Its former pastor Rev. Vaughn was compelled to resign on account of poor health. Rev. I. E. Redmond of Atlanta, Ga., will be in charge of Scott's Chapel, on the West Side and its late pastor Rev. D. H. V. Prunell will put in his time at the Amanda Smith Home. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago H. as Second-class Matter. NEW NURSES TO GRADUATE. The trustees and board of managers of the Provident Hospital and Training School respectfully invite you to attend the graduating exercises of the Nurses of the Class of 1906 at Quinn Chapel, 24th st and Wabash ave., on Monday, April 16th, at 8 p. m. Graduates. Jessie Annabelle Moore, Annie Elizabeth Lyle, Marie Johnstone, Alice Helen Barnett, Ella M. Bland, Maud La Monte, Emma Mae Irwin, Eva Elizabeth Tibbs, Selvina Christiana Jackson. Programme. Prayer, Rev. H. E. Stewart; President's Address, Mr. George H. Webster; Vocal solo, "Nightingale Song," Miss Kiturah Beers; Secretary's Report, Dr. Chas. E. Bentley; Violin solo, (a) overture, ((b) Humererke, Mr. W. Kemper Harreld; Accompanist Miss Estella Bond; Address, Dr. A. A. Wesley; Vocal solo "You and I," Miss Kiturah Beers; Charge to Nurses, Miss Harriet Fulmer; Presentation of Diplomas and Pins; School Hymn; Benediction. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIAL SETTLEMENT, 3825 DEARBORN ST. Minister and Warden, Rev. H. E. Stewart, D. D.; Organist and Choir Director, Ed. F. Morris; Prof. Johnson, Violin, Schiller Emerson Piano. Easter Pogamme Sunday School exercises at 9:30 A. M.; Morris Lewis Supt.:(1) Chanting of the Te Deum by the school; (2) Lord's Prayer (kneeling); (2) Exercise by the Primary Classes, Recitations, songs. etc.; (4) Responsive Reading by the school led by the Supt.; (5) Song by the School Sweet Easter Bells; (6) Recitations; (7) Song by the School "Bring the Lilies"; (8) Some facts about our foreign missions; (9) Song by the School, etc., etc. Programme at 7:30 p.m. (1) Organ Voluntary, Ed. Morris; (2) Doxology "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow," Choir, and Congregation; (3) Selection by the Choir, "Gloria." Gilchrist; (4) Choir, "Te Deum"; (5) Solo, Incidental, Mrs. Riley; (6) Choir, Jubilate (Schmeckes); (7) Solo, Incidental, Russel; (8) Choir, Sanctus; (9) Solo Incidental, Mr. Hutchison; (10) Address, by the Pastor; (11) Offertory, Organ March, Festival, Lemmens; Postlude, B flat, West. (1) Organ Voluntary; (2) Doxology, Choir and Congregation; (3) Prayer (all kneeling) Decalogue (all standing); (4) Anthem by the Choir, "He is Risen," West; (5) Incidental, Solo, Mabel Bryant; (6) Soprano solo, "The Great Day" Milzner Marie Burton; (7) Anthem, by the Choir, "Resurection," Stainer (8) Baritone solo, "Awake Thou that Sleepeth, Holden, Mr. Morten; (9) Sermon, by Rev. H. E. Stewart, The Ressurection; (10) Soprano solo, Easter Bells, Bartlett, Clara Jackson; (11) Offeratory, Organ Grand Chorus, Guilmant; Postlude, F major, Best. Special effort is to be made to make this day one of helpfulness to all who desire to worship at this church. The church will be filled with flowers and birds to assist in your welcome. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER, 3052 WABASH AVE. Sunday 3 p. m. there will be an Easter-program. Mrs. Woolley will read Tennyson's In Memoriam. Vocal solos by Mrs. Martha B. Anderson and Mr. J. Gray Lucas. Mr. Kemper Harreld and Mr Jordan Travis will give a violin number with Miss Estella Bonds to The Men's Forum will meet Monday evening The address to be given by Mr Arthur Dana Wheeler, Pres. of the Chicago Telephone Co., Subject, "The Future of the American Negro." This paper has had a wide hearing in Chicago and has received many warm praises for its just and sympathetic treatment of its subject. A cordial invitation is extended to all Tuesday 2 p. m. the Woman's Club will meet. Subject, "The Neighbors" an organization conducted by the Center at Trinity Mission. Wednesday 2 p. m. the Phyllis Wheatly Club meets in charge of the Home Section. Thursday 2 p.m. the I. B. W. Club meets, at 4 the Girl's Club and at 8 p.m. the Fiction class will have a paper "The Humor of George Eliot" by Mrs. Woolley. Friday 8 p.m. the Lyceum will meet . Saturday to a.m. the sewing class, at 4 p.m. the Boys' Club and at 8 p.m. the English. Last Friday evening a very interesting meeting of young men and friends of the Center discussed its work and enjoyed a social hour. Mrs. George C. Hall assisted in receiving. "D" .. PREDICTS AMALGAMATION. Greensboro, N. C., April 10—In an interview here to-day, Jerome K. Jerome, the author, said: "I believe that three generations hence will witness social equality between the White and Black races in the south. The present feeling against the Colored man in the south is due to prejudice, which is fast being wiped out. "The future will no longer know the black man, as I predict that there will eventually be an amalgamation of the White and Colored races, due to the low moral code of ethics that now prevails. "No English gentleman would refuse to sit at the same table with a Negro and the time will eventually come when the same thing will prevail throughout America and the southland."—Ex- INTERNATIONAL THEATRE, CHI CAGO W. S. CLEVELAND'S GREATER VAUDEVILLE. The International Theatre announces one of the greatest all-star bills ever offered to Chicago vaudeville patrons. Beginning Monday April 16, a gala Easter week program will be inaugurated at this popular playhouse. W. S. Cleveland's original greater vaudeville show has many special features. Hal Davis and Inez Macauley, supported by their own clever player of players will be seen in their great melodramatic success entitled "Pals." The play, which has just closed a remarkable record-breaking run in New York will be brought to Chicago in its entirety. A feature of this great success is the thrilling fight climax. Another star act will be furnished by Barney Fagan and Henrietta Byron, who have always been big drawing cards throughout the country. They will offer remarkable singing and dancing specialties which have made them famous. Daisy Harcourt, an English stage beauty of renown, and one of the season's greatest successes will be seen in his inimitable songs. A laugh provoking act will be furnished by Walter Hawley and Nathalie Olcott in their London hit "Just Married a Week," while Carrollton and Hodges, the best known minstrel team on the stage, will have capital black face fooling to offer. The four Dancing Harris' are also billed, and Naiada and her company will bring direct from Paris the spectacular "Nymph of the Sea" and "Queen of the Air." The Three Great Girdellas, and several other big acts will complete the most expensive show ever presented in Chicago at popular prices. Mrs. Chas. Ellington of 3228 Dearborn street, is confined to her bed in Provident Hospital. Miss Isabelle Whitted, 421 36th street, will spend Easter Sunday in Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Theo. Mazee, 2318 Dearborn st. left Monday to spend a month in California. Mr. Peter Laudry of New Orleans La., is spending a few weeks in the city, 3228 Armour ave. Ar. Claud Bell has accepted a position with Rankin & White, druggists, 36th and State Sts. Mr. Edwards Hawkins of Boston, Mass. is in the city spending a few days, stopping at 5110 Dearborn st. Mr. Fred Logan, who has been traveling through Mexico and the West for the past two months has returned to the city. Mr. Earl Williams, a student of Meharty Medical College is in the city, spending his vacation, stopping at 3401 State St. Dr. J. C. Tucker, Hannibal, Mo., is in the city taking a postgraduate course in medicine, stopping at 3229 Wabash ave. Mrs. Harry H. Boger, 3511 Indiana ave., left the city Monday for French Lick Spings, where she will spend a week or ten days. James A. Quinn, the headlight among the politicians in the 21st Ward, still wears a smile which will not come off since the defeat of Harry R. Eagle, who was unable to break into the city council. The Anderson-Parker wedding will be celebrated in Spokane, Washington, early next Fall. Mr. Henry Anderson, 6448 Champlain ave., who has been laid up with a sore hand will soon be able to resume his duties on the road. John B. Hart, 4841 Armour ave., will on Sunday evening deliver a lay sermon 21 St. Mary's church, 49th and Dearborn st., on "The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus." Miss Grace Knighten, who has been visiting her mother and sister, Mrs. A F. Tervalon, 2826 State st., for some time left 4onday morning for New York City where she will sail for the Continent. Rollin B. Organ, who was one of the best Commissioners Cook County has ever had, has become a candidate for State Senator in the Third Senatorial district and Mr. Organ is the right man to send to Springfield to help to make laws for this State. We are told that the White City Management will engage more Colored help this year than last. We hope it is true. Cards are out announcing the Mav-Ball of the Triangle and Inner Circle Clubs for May 3rd at the Armory. Everybody will have their spring togs by that time and be happy. Wednesday morning, Undertaker A. B. Perrigo dispensed with the valuable services of Miss Blanche Wright, which is self evident that he only gave her employment with a selfish purpose of endeavoring to catch the Negro vote for him. Alderman Thomas J. Digon is still confined to his bed and home, 3132 Calumet ave., from the effects of tramping on a nail, which has caused his foot to swell up so large that he cannot use it and it has been very painful, but at the present writing the swelling is receding and Alderman Dixon hopes to be able to be out the middle of the coming week. Mrs. Sadie Norman, who was a prominent member of Bethel church, this city, at the time Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray held forth in it and who was one of his best lady friends is now residing at Atlantic, N. J., where the former king among the women also resides. It is not cur purpose to infer that there is anything strange in connection with her following him to that city. William H. Clark, who has for a long time been connected with the Corporation Counsel's office and Attorney J. Gray Lucas, last Tuesday evening visited and inspected the new Palace Theatre, Sam Snowden's old place on 31st street, between Dearborn and Armour ave., and they both say that it is a gem and that it deserves to be supported by the cream of the, 400 or words to the same effect. The Tuskegee Jubilee seems to have given a much desired opportunity to some of our big statesmen great capitalists and profound scholars and philosophers to expatiate on the Negro problem. Three million dollars to Tuskegee is a good thing for Tuskegee Institute, and doubtless a very good thing to advance the facilities of the race for industrial education, but, that three million dollars back of a movement to suppress the mob, to stop burning men alive, to punish men who are still maintaining a system of slavery in the south would achieve grander results, open more doors for individual advancement of the race and help remove the stain from our national character which to other nations has become a stigma of disgrace. Money cannot rote for these grievous race wrongs. The only atonement is the suppression of the evil—The Advance (St. Louis, Mo.) Deeply Interested His Wife—Have you had a bad day, dear? The Financier—Yes; I lost over $25,000. And the worst of it is that nearly $100 of that was my own money!—Life. Food Helps Growth Measurements made in London schools show that the children's stature, as well as their weight, increases regularly in passing from the poor to the well fed and well clothed. Big Benefit A ball was given in the Mechanies' pavilion, San Francisco, recently, for the widows and orphans' aid fund of the police department, and realized $21,000 net. World's Pig Iron: The London Statist estimates the production of pig iron of the world in 1905 at 53,118,000 tons, an increase of 8,000,000 tons over 1905. Dried currants given to horses occasionally, instead of cats, are said to animals powers of endur A new variety of slate has been discovered by Prof. T. Nelson Dale, of the United States geological survey, in the town of Forks, somerset county, in central Maine, between the Kennebec and Piscataquite rivers. The slate crops out in the bed of Holly Brook, where it is exposed for a thickness of 30 feet or more across the cleavage. The nearest railroad is the Somerset railway extension at Mossquito Narrows, six miles distant. The slate is blush black and fine texture, with a cleavage surface which shows less luster than that of the Brownville slate, but is still bright. It is graphitic, contains a very small amount of magnetite, has no argillaceous odor, does not effervesce in cold dilute hydrochloric acid, is sonorous and is readily perforated. The ledge does not show discoloration nor do fragments that have been exposed for 15 years. The constituents of this slate, arranged in the order of their abundance, appear to be muscovite, quartz, chlorite, pyrite and graphite, with accessory tourmaline, zircon and rutile. This Pleasant Pond slate, to name it after the nearest topographic feature, would prove suitable either for roofing or mill stock purposes. Another ledge of similar slate has been exposed by trenching about a third of a mile away, but this slate shows some false cleavage, at least at the surface. Should that feature continue into the mass the slate would have little or no commercial value. The slate of the Holly Brook outcrop is free from that undesirable characteristic. SUNDAY LAWS IN VIRGINIA. Liquid Refreshments Not to Be Had Unless One "Knows the Ropes." "Down in the qualit old seaport of Norfolk a few days ago I saw a beautiful example of the workings of a strict Sunday law," said W. L. Rodgert, of Baltimore, according to the Washington Post. "It was not possible to get any liquid refreshments in the hotels and the saloons were hermetically sealed. "Strolling along one of the principal streets my attention was attracted to a crowd of men who swarmed in and out of a place as if it possessed a magnet. Sure enough it did, as I found by joining the crowd. The place was dingy and unattractive, but it had a bar in full blast and the man behind the counter couldn't dish out the liquor fast enough. I called for a drink, too, but the bartender, instead of waiting on me, asked me for my ticket. I told him I had none and he proceeded to explain: "This is a clubroom and we don't serve drinks to any except members. However, there is the secretary and you might ask him." "At this the person pointed out as secretary came up and repeated what the other had told me. "We have to comply with the Virginia law,' said he, 'or risk going to jail. But you look all right and I can make you a member of the club. The fee is 20 cents.' "I paid it without a murmur and thought it a pretty cute mode of selling a drink for 35 cents." TREASURE-LADEN BURROS. Train of Donkeys Loaded with Gold Fall Into Mexican River and Are Lost. The American owners of the Guadalupe de los Reyes mines, situated in the state of Sinaloa, are still mourning the loss of $100,000 of gold and silver bullion which was lost several months ago in a remarkable manner, relates the Mexican Herald. The train of donkeys, loaded with bullion, were on their way to Mazatlan, at which point the precious cargoes were to be shipped to San Francisco by water. The animals were going along a narrow trail bordering high above the Plaxia river, when the roadway, softened by the rains, suddenly caved into the river, the animals and bullion and a number of the Mexican drivers disappearing in the current. As soon as the news of the heavy loss reached the owners of the mines, a large force of men was sent out to search for the treasure, a search that has been in progress for some time, but not a single bar of the bullion has been recovered. It is supposed that the animals with their freight were swept down the river into the Pacific obean. The hunt for the bullion is still on, and a group of employees of the mines are patrolling the river day and night for a distance of more than 100 miles, to keep outsiders from searching and getting away with the treasure. Leaves as Medicine Grape leaves are the sovereign remedy in Switzerland for cuts and fresh wounds. Decoctions of the juice of the leaves are used in poultices. An agreeable tea is a so made from the leaves, which is said greatly strengthen the nerves. The leaves are also excellent food for cows, hogs and sheep. The "tears" of the vine (used medicinally) are a limpid exudation of the sap at the time the plant begins budding, and are found on the vine where the slightest wound occurs to the plant. The liquid is collected but cutting off the ends of the canes, bending them down, and sticking the ends into the neck of the bottle, which will be filled in a few days. The wood and branches are used in the manufacture of baskets, furniture, rustle work; bark for tying material, etc., and, when burned, potash and salts. DREDGING FOR HUSBANDS. How London Social Gravel Is Baked for Matrimonial Nuggets of Value. Dredging for a husband is a development of the times which causes much amusement to the observant, says Truth. A girl who occupies a good position in "society" and is intelligent soon discovers that the number of rich bachelors of her own standing in life is very limited, that most of them are almost captured already, and that many of them will have little to do with her. She then commences to "dredge" the bed of the social stream. Buried in the gravel of this are many rich men, the sons of still obscure financiers, manufacturers or merchants, and careful dredging often brings some of them to the surface. Then the connections are generally cast back into the water, and only the valuable elder son retained for use. "Dredging parties" have recently become the rage. An expert "dredger" spends the winter in gathering the necessary material in hotels on the continent and in other directions, and in the spring and summer gives a series of at homes to West End "customers," charging a commission on each completed transaction. Thus a "customer" captivates a "dredged" bachelor, and becomes engaged to him. If his income is £10,000 a year, the percentage is capitalized, and the amount is paid to the "dredger" on the wedding eve by the parents of the girl. The "dredgers" have hitherto mostly been the divore wives or widows of knights or baronets, but as the business is so remunerative many of the best known women in London are adopting it, for it is obvious that a duchess would be able to rake the "social" deep much more effectively than can even a lady who has made one reputation in "society" by losing another in the divorce court. BALLOON IN FRENCH COURT Aeronaut Is Seized and Arraigned for Knocking Over Chim- The balloon is now fighting its way for a standing before the French courts. Though it appears to have become as established a fact as the bicycle or the automobile, nevertheless the idea is too new and original for the courts to have many precedents providing for aerial navigation as a method of transit, says a Paris report. However, the subject of ancient lights and ancient rights of air, etc., promises to some before the courts of France in hundreds of different ways in the not far distant future. The first balloon case of the kind has just been before the court for adjustment. The suit grows out of a balloon accident of last year. An aeronaut named Bacon was passing in his balloon over Paris when he unexpectedly came to within a few yards of the roofs. Finally he knocked down a chimney pot. Thinking him in danger some people promptly seized the dragging guide rope and in spite of the aeronaut's protest hauled him down into the street. He therefore had no choice except to order them to shut their windows while he deflated his gas bag. The gas entered a house through a window carelessly left open and caused an exposition in which a man named Gouzeau was killed. The question at issue was as to whether the aeronaut having been an unwilling sufferer himself was responsible for the situation created. The courts finally decided against the aeronaut and sentenced him to pay damages to the amount of $1,000 to the widow of Gouzeau, the man who was killed. SKEEING IN THE HIGH ALPS Expert Jumpers Sometimes Make Phenomenal Leaps from the "Hop." In Technical World Magazine, Fritz Morris describes the use of skees, for both business and pleasure, in all the European mountain countries. In Norway one of the great events of the year is a national meet of skee-runners and jumpers. "The skeeing track lies on the face of a hill rising from a frozen lake to a height of nearly 160 feet. The length of the track, on the slope, is 190 yards; and the "hop" or platform from which the leap is taken is located about two-thirds of the way down. The angle of the hill above the "hop" is about 15 degrees, and that of the lower portion 24 degrees; and the time occupied in descending from summit to base, when the snow is in perfect condition, is about 15 seconds. On a recent occasion one man, a noted jumper, Olaf Tandberg, made a grand leap of 102 feet—the longest on Holmenkolen track—but fell. The best "standing jump," by which is meant one in which the man keeps his feet on alighting, and continues to the end without falling, was made by Leip Berg, who covered 93 feet. On such a day the falls, as might be expected, were numerous. During the first run, in which 140 men took part, only 64 kept their feet after leaping." Doubling Up Battleships First England, as a result of observations of the Russo-Japanese war, began building an 18,000-ton battleship. Next Japan laid the keels of two such vessels. Then France decided that she would have three of them. Now we are told that Germany will increase to that size two which she is about to build. As our readers will recall our having observed before, the era of big battleships does not seem yet to be past.—N. Y. Tribune. Royal Couple Live in Accordance with Severe Lessons of Economy. Romans have one criticism to make of their king, Victor Emmanuel III. It is that he does not live like a king. His wife's democratic manners form a strange contrast to the etiquette which still surrounds her mother-in-law Queen Margherita, while the king himself, when he appears in public usually does so with a lack of ostentation which causes the admirers of his father, the late King Humbert, to shake their heads in mournful prophecy. As a matter of fact, Queen Helen learned the severe lesson of economy at the frugal court of her father, Nicholas of Montenegro, while the king had too many shocking examples of prodigality left him by his father and grandfather ever to feel inclined to follow in their footsteps. Just now, King Emmanuel is being blamed by the Romans for having shirked the first of the two court balls which he annually holds, at the Quirinal. The censure is unjust, for the court went into mourning on account of the death of King Christian, and the king was not to blame if the first ball had to be postponed. It was later given, but with less than the usual ceremony. The second ball also took place as usual on the last day of the carnival but the voices of pessimists continue to be heard. SEA GULLS AS PIRATES. They Will Steal Like Politicians and Commit Murder Like Sea There may be an advantage in birds living in caves, but I cannot see how any other birds would want to live near a colony of gulls, says a writer in The World To-day. A gull in his own country will steal like a politician and murder like a pirate. They swarm about us like vultures after a battle. The minute our approach drove a murre or cormorant from its nest, the saintly looking scalawags swooped down to eat the eggs and young. While the gulls are freebooters and robbers on the island, it is only when other birds are frightened from their nests that they have a chance to carry on their nefarious trade. Eternal vigilance is the price the latter pay for their eggs and young. Except when they are frightened by approach of some person, their possessions are never left for an instant without a guard. But the fittest manage to survive on the rocks, and these gulls are the most useful birds in the bays and rivers about the waterfronts of our cities. They are valuable as scavengers and should be protected in every way. Three of them are equal to a buzzard. Ten of these gulls are equal to a plg. TYPEWRITERS CATCH COLD Machines Soon Get Out of Order If Left in a Chilly Atmos- phere. The employer looked on with a puzzled expression while the new stenographer carried the typewriter across the room and placed it on a chair in the immediate neighborhood of a steam radiator, says the New York Press. "I'll be ready in just a minute, Mr. L," she said. "The typewriter got cold while the heat was turned off and it sticks dreadfully." "Does the cold affect them?" he asked. "That's something new." "Yes, sir. I find that it does, very much. Some machines regularly take cold if left long in a cold room. It's especially hard on old machines that are pretty well worn, making them very unmanageable sometimes. I've known the cold to remain in an old one until it had been several hours in a warm room, when it gradually became better; but usually a machine yields to three or four minutes of warmth." Weighing the World. This world is to be weighed once more, doubts being entertained by scientists as to the accuracy of previous estimates; but whether the error be a case of short weight or overweight has yet to be settled. An expedition is to set out to Egypt, where the great pyramid will be utilized by the investigators. First, the weight of the pyramid will be ascertained, and then the weight of the earth estimated from its proportionate size. The swinging of pendulums will be the gauge. From the force exerted by the pyramid in pulling the swinging pendulum from its natura. course the weight of the pyramid can be estimated, and that of the earth—the exact size of which is known, can then be calculated easily. Demand for Laborers Labor is so scarce in New Zealand that the government of that colony has asked its high commission in London to find in England and send out 1,000 laborers for the construction of a new railway in the North island. Three years' work are guaranteed, and inducements will be offered them to remain permanently. There is also great demand for agricultural laborers in western Australia. London Telephone Calls. Presiding at the half yearly meeting of shareholders in the National Telephone company Sir Henry Fowler said the number of messages transmitted during 1905 was 1,053,000,000. To understand these figures shareholders should know that the number of inland telegrams transmitted by the post office was only 88,000,000. PRESIDENT DENOUNCES THE SENSATION MONGERS. THE PEOPLE ARE DECEIVED Uncle Joe Pleased to Hear of the "Congressional Song Service"—The Bucket - Shops Catch the Government Clerks. A SH I N G T O N.—President Roosevelt has no use for the sensation monger and for the indiscriminate attacks made upon public men, particularly upon the senate and house of representatives. He has taken occasion more than once to express W his disgust with certain magazine articles which represent the government to be honeycombed with corruption and members of the senate to be criminals who ought to be behind the bars. The president has already established beyond all question that he is the sworn enemy of the grafter, but he has no patience with the writers and magazines that would give the impression that every other man in the public service is a grafter. He regards the indiscriminate slander of public servants as nothing less than a crime, and recently declared that men who would deliberately misrepresent other men and attack public officials without the warrant of facts were no better than criminals. "I if I had to choose between a thief and a liar," he said recently, "I believe I would choose the thief, for you would know where to find him, but you don't know where to locate the liar and the damage he can do." The president is in the habit of comparing the writers of anonymous and unfounded attacks upon the senate and other government bodies to the character in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress who wielded the muck rake. They gather all the dirt and filth and can see none of the good that surrounds. They delight in besmirching characters and writing sensational stories in order to sell their papers and magazines. This class of writers, the president declares, is doing more harm to the cause of eradicating graft from public life than any other force. A Rule Not Observed. NO SMOKING V SITORS at the capitol will notice in the elevators and in the corridors placards bearing the legend "No Smoking." They will then see men passing through the halls puffing cigars and cigarettes with as much freedom as they would on the street. If they examine a little more closely they will find instructions to the police and other employes in the capitol to see that there is no smoking, but they will never see one of these employees interfere with the smokers. The fact is this rule at the capitol is a dead letter. It is one of the relics of a great reform worked by the late Speaker Reed in the fifty-fourth congress when he drove out of the capitol corridors apple women, curio sellers and newspaper stands. He also had a rule adopted that smoking must be prohibited in the corridors and in the elevators, and for some years this rule was religiously kept. In latter times, however, it has passed into innocuous desuetude. Sometimes a new employee takes these instructions literally, but he usually discovers that he is expected to wink at the smoking. The other day a doorkeeper, who had just been put on, noticed a nice looking old gentleman marching through the corridor puffing at a big, black cigar. "Excuse me," said the doorkeeper, "but do you see that?" pointing to the sign. "Yee; isn't it all right?" "We can't allow that here," explained the doorkeeper, pointing to the sign again. "The rules are that we mustn't allow it here," insisted the empleo. "Oh, well, if they think the sign is doing any harm here take it out. I don't care. It doesn't look any more indecent to me than some of these pictures that they leave on the walls; but there is no accounting for tastes," and the nice old gentleman, chuckling, passed into the senate floor and the new employee realized that he had been "joshed" by one of the senators. He has not been so eager to stop smoking in the corridors since. Every Sunday Evening. I F ANYONE imagines that congressmen spend their Sundays and Sunday evenings in sleep or frivolous diversion he ought to visit the lobby of a certain hotel in which a colony of these statesmen dwell. Every Sunday evening after dinner the congressional guests gather about the reception room and lobby and insult in a service of sacred songs. The exercises started some weeks ago by Representative Otjen of Wisconsin, who had the orchestra play a familiar hymn self and started the words himself. He had sung but a verse or two before two or three other voices joined in, other hymns were started and it was discovered that a village choir was not in it with the sweet-voice group of statesmen. The next Sunday evening this performance was continued, and there were a number of recruits to the chorus. A wider selection of hymns was made and the song service was continued for over an hour. On the third Sabbath one or two brought hymn books with them and the service took on a more formal character. It is now the regular thing to have this Sunday evening service of song, and the porters of the hotel arrange chairs and distribute hymn books among the audience, so that everybody can join in. There are evidences, however, that the congressmen are wearying a little of the good work. The ladies at the hotel were charmed with the scheme and they joined in in goodly numbers, until now there are not enough male voices to counterbalance the sopranos. Much Speculating Much S F OR its size the city of Washington is said to contain more speculators and patrons of the "bucket shop" than any other place in the country. There are in active operation here about 25 brokerage houses, of which probably five are straight exchange houses with the best outside connections. The remainder are what are known as bucket shops. This is a pretty good number for a town of about 300,000 inhabitants, of whom 100,000 are negroes who are not permitted to indulge in speculation in these places. The large number of government clerks here who receive a stated salary probably accounts for the patronage of the bucket shops. They are sure of their pay and squeeze out a few dollars every week or month to "throw at the bird" in these places. There is no anti-bucket law in Washington, but the practice of clerks speculating in them is frowned upon by the higher officials in the departments. That makes no difference, however, as the clerks claim they have a right to do what they please with their own money. At noon, when a half hour is given for luncheon, hundreds of clerks can be seen rushing out of the big government buildings to the nearest bucket shop and taking a whirl at the market. There have been some sensational runs of luck on the part of government employees who "pike" along on a few dollars and one per cent. margins. About ten years ago a little group of these every day clerks began playing in the bucket shops and later went to the legitimate exchange houses. One of them began with a $10 bill, which in the course of four years had run up to $1,000,000. This is a historic case and has inspired more patronage for bucket shops than any other incident in the history of the city. This man's money could not stay with him, however, as he dropped his whole amount in the Northern Pacific squeeze a few years ago and he is now an ordinary "piker," but without a government job. An Age Limit G1 ONGRESS is wrestling with a most puzzling question just now, and one that is causing wrath, fear and anxiety among the federal employer in this city. The wise men in the house and senate are endeavoring to devise some scheme whereby government employees who have reached an age where their usefulness is impaired can be separated from the government pay rolls. Chairman Tawney, of the house committee on appropriations, and his colleagues have worked out a scheme which prevents the paying of employees over 65 years of age more than $1,000 salary. It further provides that after the year 1913 no one shall be employed as a. clerk who has reached the age of 70 years. This looks like a harsh and cruel measure, but investigation of the department has revealed a large number of superannuated clerks who are really a detriment to the service, but who are drawing good salaries. There is such a decided opposition to the establishment of a civil pension list that it would be useless to attempt to put such a proposition through congress. This is realized by the leaders; and they have substituted the other scheme of reducing the pay of old clerks and cutting them off after reaching 70 years of age. They have fixed the year 1913 in order to give the clerks who are approaching 70 or who have exceeded that age a chance to make some provision for the time when they will be separated from the government service. This effort to get better service from the clerks and to eliminate those who are useless has aroused an intense feeling among the 25,000 government employees in this city. The local papers are filled with letters giving instances where men over 70 are the most efficient employees of the government. They also call attention to the fact that the effective men in the senate and in other branches of the government are those who have passed the allotted three score and ten. THE MORNING START EARLY SCRAMBLE BODES ILY FOR DAY'S SUCCESS. Schoolgirls Have Trouble Getting to School in Time—Habit of Sitting Up Late in Warm Boom, Talking, Singing, or Perhaps Studying Makes One Drowsy Next Morning—Haste Will Upset the Calm of a Whole Day—Begin the Day Leisurely—Take Plenty of Time to Dress and Eat Breakfast. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. (Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowies.) Penelope came in with a frown on her brow. Her pretty face was puckered. Her mouth drooped at the corners, and she had almost the effect of being in a very bad temper. Penelope is one of my greatest favorites, and I was sorry to see that with her the wind was in the east. "What on earth has gone wrong, my dear?" I said, anxiously, "With whom are you vexed, and why are you out of sorts? Have you lost your purse, or your place in the class, or fallen out with your chum, or are you convinced that you never will conquer irregular verbs, or what is the matter?" "the matter," said Penelope, "is my monthly report. I am awfully disturbed about it, and ashamed to show it at home, and I am angry at Miss —, who might have made it a great deal better if only she had chosen, but I am not one of her pets. I have had good marks in French and in astronomy, in algebra and geometry, some days, anyway, if not every day, and here I am marked B and C and C minus, and I have not a single A in the whole month. My teacher handed me this very reprovingly, and said that such a report was as great a mortification to her as it could possibly be to me, and she trusted I would do better another month, and not have to take such a record home again. "Possibly, Penelope,' she said, 'you are, graded too high and would better drop some of your work and fall back into a lower class.' Do you wonder," stormed Penelope, "that I am furious? Who wouldn't be?" "I hardly see, dear child," I answered, "why you should be furious, as you call it, although I think your unfortunate teacher has every right to be indignant. What is the reason that you have done so badly? The work is not too much for you, your health is perfect, and you ought to be at the head of your class, bringing home reports sprinkled all over with A's, like stars in the sky or daisies in a meadow in June. You must be shockingly careless, or you would get on in school as well as anyone else. Where is the loose plank? Something is wrong in your way of working. If we could find out just what it is and where it is we might mend it. Don't you think so?" "You are very cross," said Penelope, "and not a single bit sympathetic, and I wish I hadn't come. But maybe I might get on, as you call it, a little better if it wasn't such hard work to start in the morning. I am so sleepy that I cannot wake up when I am called; then I have to soramble through dressing and breakfast and fairly fly to reach school in time. Very often when there I find that I have forgotten a book that I need, or my pads and pencils, and I am so upset that it takes me almost an hour to feel quiet and composed. My day somehow runs off the track every morning and does not get back until the afternoon." By this time Penelope's scowl had vanished and she dimpled and blushed and finally laughed, like the sweet, good-tampered girl she is. "You dear," I said. "You have put your finger right on the weak spot. Your whole trouble comes from not beginning the day aright." So many schoolgirls have exactly the same trouble that I wonder very much why it is that their mothers and teachers do not help them out of it, and that their own good sense does not come to the rescue. The truth is that a successful day for a schoolgirl begins at nine o'clock the night before. At that hour she should say good night to everybody and go to bed. If she has had dinner early and feels a bit hungry, it will do her no harm to take a very simple luncheon of bread and milk before she goes to her room. Then without undue delay, she should undress, say her prayers, put out the light and go to bed and to sleep. It is the wretched habit of sitting up until half-past ten or 11 in a warm room, with the family talking, singing, playing games or the piano, or perhaps studying too late, that makes girls drowsy in the morning. Sleeping in an ill-ventilated room helps along. Be very sure that you have fresh air to breathe while you are asleep, and protect yourself against cold if necessary, by wearing a garment of outing flannel or of some woolen stuff instead of too thin a night dress. If a girl goes early to bed and sleeps soundly all night, she will be able to rise as soon as she is called. Haste in the morning upsets one terribly, and literally pursues one like a flend all the rest of the day. Rise in time to take a sponge bath from head to foot, to arrange your hair, and to have a few tranquil moments for devotion. Never think of leaving your room to begin any day without kneeling in prayer to the Heavenly Father Who has watched over you during the night, and Who will guard you during the day. Est your breakfast slowly, gather your books and papers with deliberation and set off to school with a light heart. Hurry and worry devour one's ease of mind and make it impossible for one to do justice to her own powers. I think I can tell in looking around the group of girls which of them are in the habit of beginning the day in this leisurely and sensible manner, and which tumble out of bed and into their clothes and lose their wits and their tempers before they have attacked the day's business. An ancient philosopher once said that there was everything in keeping an even mind. Those of us who have a good deal to do in the course of a day or a week, are weil aware that we accomplish nothing if we lose our heads and rush where we should instead go slowly. So great a thinker as Francis Bacon, who was a very learned man, said in an essay an Dispatch "that above all things order and distribution and singing out of parts is the life of despatch. For he that doth not divide will never enter well into business. To choose time is to save time, and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word when he saw men hastening to a conclusion, stay a little that we may make an end the sooner." If so great a man as Sir Francis Bacon thought it well to act with deliberation and map out his days with forethought, do you not think that schoolgirls like Penelope and her friends may as well do the same? After my talk with her I had it out with myself. I said: I wonder if I, too, cannot turn a new leaf here. We older people may as well be frank. We do not always set the girls the best example when the matter is one of beginning the day. There is great comfort in doing our best and leaving the rest. As Longfellow says, pithily: "Trust no future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead; Act, act in the living present, Heart within and God o'erhead." FOR A SCALY SKIN. Virtues of the Oil Bath—How to Use and Make a Good Skin A dry scaly skin indicates that the skin and tissues are in need of nourishment. This may be supplied by the use of a good skin food for the face and neck, and after your bath an oil rub. There is nothing more beneficial than an oil bath; it tones up the whole system. It is not necessary to use more than two or three tablespoonfuls of oil at one bath. Be sure and get a pure oil. Rub on with the hands, and until it is mostly absorbed, drying off with a heavy soft towel. Massage the skin food well in the face, using the cocoa butter skin food. It can be easily prepared, and if properly used the results are very good. Prepare as follows: Lanolin, nine ounces; cocoa butter, one-half ounce; white wax, five ounces; spermaceti, one-half ounce; almond oil, six ounces; water, nine ounces; borax, 50 ounces; three drops of oil neroli. Fuse the lanolin, cocoa butter, white wax, spermaceti and almond oil, being careful not to get too hot; test by touching the finger to it; dissolve borax in the water, pour into the oils, and beat with Dover egg beater until creamy; add neroli, beat until cool, and pour into jars. A GAME OF STATES. Game of States May Be Used to Pain Partners and Is a Good Guessing Contest. Here is a clever game which can also be used as a novel way to pair partners. On cards write the following: the key is given below. 1. What is the most religious state? 2. What is the most egotistical state? 3. The father of states? 4. The state where the untidy should live? 5. The maidenly state? 6. The state for students? 7. The best state for miners? 8. The most unhealthy state? 9. The state to cure the sick? 10. The decimal state? 11. Best in time of floods? 12. The state of astonishment? KEY. 1. Mass.; 2. Me.; 3. Pa.; 4. Wash.; 5. Miss.; 6. Conn.; 7. Ore.; 8. Ill.; 9. Md.; 10. Tenn.; 11. Ark.; 12. O. BORDER AND CORNER. This Sort of Needlework Is Again in Vogue and May Adorn a Variety of Articles. Here is a simple design to be used as a border for any article such as toilet-mats, table-cloths, tray-cloths, etc., where a corner is also needed. CROSS-STITCH. The corner is shown at the right-hand end of design, the border being continued on the second side like the first. It may be repeated to any length. You can prepare a very good toilet water of 30 drops each of oil of lavender, oil of bergamot, oil of lemon and orange flower water, half pint deodorized alcohol. Cork and shake well. The Visiting Card. Black, either plain or shaded, plain script, French script and shaded old English lettering are all fashionable types for the engraving for the present visiting card. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. 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The same man's taste will vary according to circumstances." "I suggested that, and he agreed with me. He said that if a man found himself on a desert island with nothing to read except my story and a back number, city directory, he might read my story." - Stray Stories. Benignant Soul The following advertisement recently appeared in a London paper: "Milk-If the individual who stole the milk off my doorstep this morning will be good enough to knock at the door on the occasion of his next professional visit I'll give him a drop of rum to put in it. Milk taken neat on cold mornings and an empty stomach is likely to injure the internal economy of outdoor workers. Address, etc." Chinese Millionaire. Foon Chuck, a naturalized Chinaman in Mexico, is estimated to be worth over $1,000,000 in gold. He went to Mexico from California 20 years ago with less than $20, and went to work as cook for the railway construction company. He now owns three truck farms and raises all vegetables used in his line of hotels. He also owns a farm of 11,000 acres in the state of Tamaulipas. He employs 100 Mexicans and 25 Chinese coolies. Aid to Swimmers. A new float in the form of a tube, three yards long, is inflated by the swimmer and wound around his body. At each end is a tube which is stopped up with a plug, and a leather strap, which serves to fasten the float to the body. It is wound around the waist, then the neck, and finally around the arms. First Wall Paper. The manor house, at Saltifeet, Lincolnshire, England, has what is said to be the first wall paper used in England. The paper, which is like blotting paper in texture, and has a cream-colored ground and chocolate design, is fastened to the wall with small tacks. Post Mortem Arrest. A splendid funeral procession was proceeding from Hongo, Japan, to bury the rummings of Taroff, the head of a gambling den, when the police stopped the ceremony, as the dead man was believed to be an escaped convict. This was found to be true, and the body was taken to the prison burial ground. Stimulate Sickness Many animals feign illness. In military stables cases are recorded of horses pretending to be lame in order to avoid going to a military exercise. A certain chimpanzee had been accustomed to receive cake when M. After his recovery, he often reigned coughing, in order to procure dainties. Sacred Gata. When the prince and princess of Wales desired the other day to inspect the golden temple, at Amritsir, in the Punjab, the sliks declined to allow them to enter the main gate, because they were not sliks, but said they could enter by a side door. The offer was declined. Girl Lineman. Miss Grace Brenneman, of Lindsey, O., is a telegraph fineman. She can spice, put on a new insulator, replace a fuse or repair a dropped switchboard. Climbing a pole is child's play to her. She is just 20 years old. President's Gravat M. Falliere, the new president of France, were a butterfly the fastened to his collar button with a piece of elastic. He says that he has worn that kind of tie for 30 years, and is not going to change, presidency or no presidency. Getting Flippant. "London," says the queen, "formerly splenetic and morose, has totally changed its character. Everything it looked at lightly, airily, and we make fun even of such tragedies as our climate and the county council." Big Come-Down. Occasionally a woman marries her ideal man, but in most cases it is not long until her aircastle is transformed into a flat. The voracity of the eagle is a well-known fact, but it has been left to a Swiss hunter to define exactly the variations which take place in its daily menu. In a nest in the Alps, side by side with an eaglet, he found a hare, freshly killed; 27 chameis' feet, four pigeons' feet, 30 pheasants' feet, 11 heads of fowls, 18 heads of grouse, and the remnants of rabbits, marmots and squirrels. Coin for Mexico. The Mexican government lately concluded a contract with the Philadelphia mint for the coinage of about $4,000,000 worth of gold which Mexico has been accumulating for about two years. The mint has already begun coining $1,000,000 on a rush order. Since the establishment of the gold standard in that country the capacity of their mints has been overtaxed. Nearly a Ton. A reunion of the Weeew family was held recently at the home of Leonard Weeew, west of town, reports the Rushville (Ind.) Republican. There are nine brothers, and their aggregate weight is 1,780 pounds, an average of 178 pounds to the man. All are six-footers. This is probably the "largest family" of boys in this country. Isolated Danish Colony. A curious circumstance in connection with the death of the king of Denmark is the fact that one of the Danish colonies, Greenland, would not learn the news for three months, owing to the difficulty of ships reaching the land. In ignorance of the event, the Greenlanders will celebrate King Christian's birthday on April 8 in the usual manner. New Lawnmower. A lawnmower has made its appearance built on the lines of the agricultural reaper, which in itself suggests to the average mind the familiar barber's clippers. It is said for this machine that it does not mutilate the grass so much as the usual rotary knife lawn mower, which has a tendency to drag the roots and feeders. Got Chummy. Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Jamestown exhibition, told a congressional committee about his audience with King Edward. He said he and the king had a very pleasant talk. "As near as I can gather," said a committee member, "the king was calling him 'Tuck, old boy,' before he left." Naturalistic Notations Fishes have no eyelids, and necessarily sleep with their eyes open; they swallow their food whose, having no dental machinery. Frogs, toads and serpents never take food except that which they are certain is alive. Serpents are so tenacious of life that they will live for six months or longer without food. Crater-Dwellers About 20,000 people live in the crater of an extinct volcano, 30 miles from Kumamoto, Japan. They dwell in this pit-like town, surrounded by a vertical wall 800 feet high. The inhabitants rarely make a journey into the outer world, and practically they form a little community all by themselves. Scotland's "Plighting Stona." The "plighting stone" was used until quite recently in parts of Scotland. Troths were plighted by grasping hands through the stone. These troths and promises were involate in matters of love, business and all social relations. Limedrop's Finish. "So Smitherby married Lmedrop's widow. Good friend of the husband's wasn't he?" "Yes, indeed. Said he couldn't bear to see him suffer, and, the widow being willing, euthanazilated him"—N Y. Times. Getting Dangerous. The market for American poker chips is said to be seriously threatened by undervaluation of the Japanese article. Many patriots will now begin to believe in the reality of the yellow peril. creeping steadily away, "I expected you would be," rejoined the caliboy, making a bolt round the back of the stage—Stray Stories. She Turns to Whining. "Many a marriage turns out a failure," said the philosopher, "mainly because the winning ways of the sweet-heart became the whining ways of the wife." The Real Thing. The Real Thing. "Do she' noil financier," said Uncle Blenn, "is de woman wif only a two dollar bill an' a family of eight to market fur."—Washington Star. Sousa's Short Speech. Sousa, the famous conductor, hates public oratory and never, if he can help it, makes a speech in public. After one of his performances in Cork his audience kept clamoring for a speech and refused to be satisfied with the usual bow. Finally Sousa stepped to the front of the platform and, raising his hand, said impressively: "Ladies and gentlemen, can you all hear me?" There was the usual "Yes." "Then I wish you good-night." When Conversation Lagged. They were at the theater together, and conversation lagged. At last, during the entracte, he turned to her and ventured: "Don't—don't you think the acoustics here are very bad?" She hesitated an instant. "Why, no," she said, a little uncertainly. "I don't smell anything."—N. Y. Times. Tommy (at the breakfast table)—I dreamed last night I found a bag of gold in a cave. Mr. Tucker—And just as you were about to grab it you woke, did you? "Bet your life I didn't! I kind o' thought it was a dream, and I just kept on dreamin', and had a mighty good time with that money 'fore I waked up."—Chicago Tribune. Dickens Character Dead. Dickens Charmant Joseph Jennings died lately at Colchester, England, at the age of 100 years. A lawsuit in his family over a disputed will was the foundation of Dickens' "Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce." On the tombstone of one of the litigants, in a Colchester churchyard, is the text from Jeremiah: "Though decent, they refused to know me." Olvtve Oil in Algiers. Consul Johnson, of Algiera, writes that the adulteration of olive oil with cottonseed oil has caused a law to be promulgated there requiring all admixtures to be so marked, plainly, and with the proportions of adulteration. Any deception in its sale will be punished according to law. In Their Own Tongue Tourist (after shouting "Hello!")—Well, there is an echo, but it isn't intelligible. "You don't understand the language, sfr. These are Welsh mountains, yknow."—Philadelphia Press. Bat-Catching Horse. There is a horse that catches rats and mice in Manchester, England. 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