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THE BROAD AX MRS. CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY President of the Douglass Center, Entertained All Night at the Elegant Home of Doctor and Mrs. George C. Hall. She Was Greatly Astonished to Learn That Colored People In This City Could Afford to Live In Such Grand Style. It Appears That She Is Being Thought by the Afro-Americans Instead of Teaching Them. MRS. CELIA PA President of the Dou tained All Night of Doctor and M She Was Greatly That Colored I Could Afford to style. It Appears That She the Afro-America ing Them. Since the appearance of our comment on the banquet and reception tendered to Prof. Kelly Miller by the Frederick Douglass Center, and our last article in reference to its aims and its objects several shallow-minded ladies and gentlemen who are connected with it simply for the social prominence it imparts to them have taken strong exceptions to our comment and the article in question, and they have gone so far as to state that they are not "founded on the truth." As it is far from our intention to raise our little finger for the purpose of preventing truth from getting a fair and square hearing pertaining to all questions of interest or concerning the public, through the columns of The Broad Ax. Therefore if we have been guilty of making any false statements in relation to the exclusive function given in honor of Prof. Miller, or as to the true mission of the Frederick Douglass Center, its friends can have all the free space in the columns of this paper they desire in order to disabuse our mind of some of the false impressions which have been implanted in it respecting the "Center" and its work. With these few side remarks we will proceed. Some of those connected with the management of the Frederick Douglass Center contend that inasmuch as the Colored people have only contributed fifteen hundred dollars towards its support since it sprang into existence that they have no right to find the least fault as to how it is conducted, and that the entire Colored population residing in this city does not help to maintain it. Be that as it may; but we will endeavor to make our point clear in this respect by using a very simple illustration. There are well on to ten million Afro-Americans in this country, and by reason of this fact Booker T. Washington is enabled to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from the high or heavenborn and the millionaires who rob and plunder the common people right and left in order to acquire it, and the great wizard of Tuskegee expends it for the purpose of teaching the Negro to be obedient to his superiors, the whites, in all things, and that he must forever occupy a secondary position in all the affairs in connection with this government. But if the ten million Afro-Americans should suddenly drop out of sight and disappear from the face of the earth, Booker T. Washington would be left hanging high and dry, for his occupation would be gone, and not having a vast horde of lazy, unwashed Negroes at his back, the politicians and the rich nabobs would not accord him the slightest consideration. This illustration is also applicable to Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley and the Frederick Douglass Center, for every dollar contributed to it by the wealthy whites is donated on the theory that it is for the benefit of the real poor Colorel people, and if the forty or fifty thousand Afro-Americans in this city should happen to be caught up in the clouds and wafted on to heaven in the twinkling of an eye, mighty little money would roll into the coffers of the Frederick Douglass Center, so it is not erroneous to infer that directly and indirectly Mrs. Woolley is maintained in a very comfortable home at the expense of the entire Colored population in Chicago. Owing to the unfamiliarity of Mrs. Woolley with the past or the present social status of the Afro-Americans and the progress they are making in this city and in other sections of this country, she can never become a very successful teacher of the best men and women belonging to the race. For it is said that recently she was entertained all night at the elegant home of Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall, 5736 Roselie Court, and that she was greatly astonished to learn that "Colored people in this city could afford to live in such grand style," and after opening her eyes real wide in gazing at the fine and very expensive furnishings of their beautiful home, and after partaking of a sumptuous morning repast she rode by the side of the popular Doctor all the way down town on the street cars, and it is claimed that she informed one of her friends that "she felt somewhat embarrassed while riding on the cars by his side, as it seemed that all the white ladies and gentlemen in the car refrained from reading their books and newspapers and riveted their eyes on herself and Dr. Hall." This is very strange indeed when we take into consideration the plain unvarnished fact that Mrs. Woolley is a most ordinary looking lady, being almost devoid of any outward attractiveness whatever, a highly cultured lady that no gentleman would dare to take undue liberties with. So it seems to be dawning upon the mind of Mrs. Woolley that there are "hundreds of Afro-Americans in this city who reside in homes of their own which are furnished much finer than the beautiful home she gave up when she began, not to do social settlement work among the poor Colored people, but among the wealthiest class residing in this city. As further proof that Mrs. Woolley is unfitted in every way to elevate the real poor and needy Colored people it appears that not so long ago she visited the Trinity Mission, which is located at 18th and Dearborn street, and when she really came in contact with the lower class of Colored people in that section of the city she felt and acted like a fish out of water, for there is quite a difference between those people and those she had been associated with in the parlors of the Frederick Douglass Center, and on her way home, in company with Miss Chapman and Dr. Hall, it has been stated that she was "considerably worked up and very much agitated because the whites in the car would persist in looking at her riding by the side of a first-class Colored gentleman- To our mind this unmistakably indicates that down in the innermost recesses of her heart Mrs. Woolley honestly believes that she is far superior to the best educated, the most intellectual and the wealthiest Afro-American men and women in this country, notwithstanding the fact that thousands of them are able to buy and sell her many times in wealth and in education. Whenever Mrs. Woolley lectures to her overgrown Colored boys and girls, who pose as the great leaders of their race when they are a short distance from the "Center," it is asserted that she invariably refers to them as "you people or your people," which is evident that she does not regard them as HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, JUNE 30, 1906 MR. CHARLES E. RANDALL. An Honorable and a Straightforward Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, Who is Waging a Successful Fight in the Hyde Park District Against John R. Thompson. The political fight between Charles E. Randall and John R. Thompson in the Hyde Park district to control the delegates to the next Republican County convention continues to grow hotter and hotter each day, and the indications are at the present time that Mr. R. Randall will be the winner in the general wind-up and sit at the head of his solid delegation in the convention. Again we admonish the Afro-Americans. Every Afro-American Republican in cans in the Hyde Park district to rally the Hyde Park district should cast his to the support of Charles E. Randall lot with Mr. Randall and his forces, for being a part and parcel of herself. The unnamed Dr. who claims to be unwilling to play the part of flunkey at certain times never objects to such expressions on the part of Mrs. Woolley. Our chief contentions are, first; that instead of Mrs. Woolley teaching the poor, unregenerated Colored people, they are teaching her; second, that there are hundreds of Afro-American women in this city who can outstrip her in every respect, who are capable in every way, to serve as president, and to manage or conduct all the affairs of the Frederick Douglass Center. Charles Stewart Writes On Rev. R. C. Ransom's Conduct at Normal, Alabama. Normal, Ala., June 26, 1906—In a statement sent out from Boston to the various papers of the country, it is charged that Prof. W. H. Councilc. President of the A. & M. College, located at this place for the training of Colored boys and girls, mistreated the Rev. Dr. R. C. Ransom, of Boston, because Dr. Ransom had been ejected from a Pullman car and mistreated by some Southern white men. If this was true President Council deserves the censure of the civilized world. I desire to give the true version of the whole affair, because I was present and was the first to call on Mr. Ransom after his arrival here, hence I am in a position to give the facts in the case. Dr. Ransom came to Normal on invitation from the President and faculty to deliver an address to the graduates. He went to Huntsville and telephoned the College and a carriage was ordered to bring him out, which it did. When I heard that he had reached Normal I went to call on him and found that he was in bed with his shoes, coat and hat on. I spoke to him, as I have known him a number of years. He got up staggering and told me that he had had some trouble on his way here and was upset, therefore wanted some milk. I sent for the milk for him, and told him to undress and go to bed, but he went back to bed as before, only removing his hat and coat. Later the officers of the Alumni called on him, and finding him intoxicated they recommended that he be excused from delivering the address. He was excused and the amount of money which had been agreed upon was paid to him. He was informed that he could have a carriage whenever he desired it to carry him to the city. He got him- he has always championed the cause of the Colored people and has been instrumental in securing good positions for many of them. While on the other hand John R. Thompson is one of those milk and water Republicans who have no love for the Colored people, and no work for them to do in his various restaurants. Again we admonish the Afro-Americans in the Hyde Park district to rally to the support of Charles E. Randall. self together and left for Huntsville, taking the first train from there for home. President Councill did not know anything about the trouble he had enroute to Normal, until after he had been excused from delivering the address, hence did not act on that, but excused Dr. Ransom because he had returned to his old habit—he was drunk. There was nothing else for Mr. Councill to do, and if Dr. Ransom had been allowed to speak in his condition President Councill would have been censured, so you may see the position in which he was placed and allow truth to get a hearing through your columns- CHAS STEWART Special Advance Notice. Beginning with the next issue of The Broad Ax an interesting story entitled "The Slave of Murillo," will appear. It is written expressly for it by that veteran and fascinating writer, Col. Clarke Irvine, Oregon, Mo. It is a pathetic story of a little Negro boy who was a slave of the great painter, Murillo, of Seville, Spain who in time became one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance age. We urge upon the numerous readers of The Broad Ax to preserve their papers from week to week and follow the story from beginning to end, which contains well on to 7,000 words. Rev. W. S. Brooks, pastor of St. Stephens Church, cor. Austin avenue and Robey street, will hold dedication exercises and a grand $3,000 rally Sunday, July 1st. Bishop C. T. Shaffer will preach the dedicatory sermon at 3 P. M., and Presiding Elder G. C. Booth will hold forth at 10:45 A. M. Presiding Elder Timothy Reeves, D. D., will preach at 7:30 P. M. There will be special offerings from all the churches in the connections led by their respective pastors. On Monday, July 2nd Rev. A. J. Carey, pastor of Bethel Church, and Rev. D. P. Roberts, pastor of Quinn Chapel, will be the leading speakers at the exercises, and at 1 P. M. all the pastors and their wives will assemble in the church and partake of a fine luncheon. Hale G. Parker will be master of ceremonies at the dedication banquet on the same evening. Bishop Shaffer and other distinguished guests will speak. It promises to be a grand event for St. Stephens. The Curtis-Hall Wedding Doctor and Mrs. Daniel H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L. Parks, Doctor and Mrs. A. Wilbeforce Williams Received No Invitations To It-Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Lawrence Lee Tur ed Downa Cold After Presenting the Bride-Elect With a Fancy Sofa Pillow. Many Showers and Social Functions Given In Her Honor-Mrs.J. Gray Lucas Entertained In a Most Lavish Manner Many of the leaders of the four hundred among the Afro-Americans in this city have gone the limit within the past three months in making a great fuss over Miss Hattie Curtis, who was united in marriage Wednesday evening to Dr. J. B. Hall, of Boston, Mass., at the Grace Presbyterian Church, Rev. Moses M. Jackson performing the wedding ceremony, which was only witnessed by the pure in heart. Among the first of the leaders of the four hundred to pay court to Miss Curtis were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L. Parks, 3159 State St., who lead off by giving an elaborate eight-course anti-neptial dinner in her honor. Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Washington, Mr. W. R. Sobers and Mr. Albert B. George, were some of the distinguished guests who greatly enjoyed the feast which was fit for the gods, and when Miss Curtis beheld her name beautifully engraved on the menu cards, she gave her host and hostess such a loving or pleasant smile, that they both felt dead sure that they had made a home run and landed two invitations to the wedding, but they were sadly mistaken, for they only received one invitation which entitled them to sit among the common folks in the church, but it did not give them the right to attend the wedding reception at the house It may not be true, but it is maintained that Mr. and Mrs. Parks feel just a little bit sore over the treatment they received at the hands of Miss Curtis and the managers of her wedding. Doctor and Mrs. Daniel H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. J. Shaw, Doctor and Mrs. A. Wilberforce Williams, Doctor and Mrs. Andrew L. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Lawrence Lee, who presented the bride with a fancy sofa pillow, which is said to have cost twelve dollars, and two fine military hair brushes, are a few of the most conspicuous members of the cream of the four hundred who fell on the outside of the breast works, who failed to receive through tickets to the wedding reception. Mrs. George C. Hall was the next leader of the South Side smart set to honor Miss Curtis with a book shower and a dancing party, which set the pace for all its other members. Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, 6626 Champlain ave, followed next and on last Thursday afternoon she gave a miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Curtis, which was a dream in every respect. Her richly furnished flat was decorated with a profusion of choice flowers. The table was embellished with the rarest of cut glass of all colors like unto the tinted rainbow or brilliant diamonds, one of the boss caterers in the city served refreshments, an orchestra discoursed the sweetest of music during the progress of the shower, many richly or elegantly attired ladies filled the spacious parlors, and Mrs. Lucas, radiant with smiles, ablaze with pearls and diamonds, cleaned up and entertained the bride and her other lady friends in a most lavish manner. It is almost useless to state that Mrs. Lucas, who is fast coming to the front as the most bewitching leader of the smart set received two through tickets to the swell wedding and reception. No. 36 Hall Wedding Daniel H. Williams, Mr. L. Parks, Doctor and Reforce Williams Reseations To It—Mr. and Lawrence Lee Turved After Presenting the With a Fancy Sofa Social Functions Giver—Mrs. J. Gray Lucas a Most Lavish Manner Friday afternoon, Mrs. Dr. J. A. Kelley, 450 35th street, and Mrs. George Townsend, gave a cup and saucer shower in honor of Miss Curtis, and some of the ladies say it was not "largely attended and that each lady was called upon to come up with fifty cents to assist to pay for the refreshments." Saturday evening Col. Noah D. Thompson gave a box party at the Pekin in honor of Miss Curtis, Dr. J. B. Hall, the groom, Miss Hattie Curtis, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Geo. C. Hall, Prof and Mrs. Emanuel, Mrs. Lottie M. Cooper, New York City, Mr. S. W. Thompson, Mrs. Philip Green, Mr. Wm. Curtis, Mr. Wm. Harris, New Orleans, La., Mr. Wm. R. Sobers Miss Nomie Curtis. Washington, D. C., and Dr. Dickerson of Boston, Mass. All the ushers were togged up in full dress suits and while the party was at its height the orchestra played some kind of a wedding march and the to-be Mrs. J. B. Hall was presented with a four-pound box of candy by Col. Thompson. That same Saturday afternoon and evening Miss Essie Arnold, 3630 Calumet av., the new queen of the smart set, gave a linen shower and dove party in honor of Miss Curtis, the beautiful bride, and not for the world would the writer say it was true, but several ladies claim that "the old and young doves were not in favor of putting up fifty-cents each to pay for the ice cream, cake and the other refreshments which they consumed." Monday evening, June 26, let us remember the date, the members of the famous Fellowship Club, had planned to give a stag in honor of the groom, each gentleman belonging to it had been taxed for two or three dollars, which was to be expended for the purpose of giving him a good time, but when some of its high rollers had begun to figure that they had failed to receive through tickets to the wedding reception, the big blow out was called off, and Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall, provided a pot luck reception for the groom at their lovely home that same evening. As the social functions in honor of Miss Curtis and the wedding drew to a close, the smart set was cut from four hundred down to sixty or seventy, as that was about the number to be honored with through tickets which entitled them to attend the reception at the house. Monday evening a mass meeting was held at Quinn Chapel to create a sentiment among the leaders of the Republican party in favor of selecting an Afro-American for Judge of the Municipal Court. The meeting was not as largely attended as was expected. Rev. D. P. Roberts, Edward H. Morris, Dr. Charles E. Bentley, S. Laing Williams, Major John C. Buckner, Edward H. Wright, Major F. A. Denison, G. F. Von Chinn and Hale/G. Parker furnished the oratory for the occasion. Justice Theodore C. Mayer has been agreed upon by the leaders of Democracy on the North Side to receive the nomination as one of the Judges of the new Municipal Court. --- THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all three upheld the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, and Episcopalism, Knight of Lobel, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibilities are fixed. The Broad AX is a newspaper whose platform is based on the belief that claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. $50 Year. $2.50 $6 Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 600 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, II, as second-dam Matter. The Call to the Annual Session of the National Association of Colored Women. Waugh, Ala., May 21, 1906. To All Whom It May Concern:— The annual meeting of the National Association of Colored Women will be held in Detroit, Michigan, July 9 to 14, 1906. There will be executive meetings for the transaction of business, Monday, July 9, and Saturday, July 14. To you, the women of the National Association, let us put forth every effort to carry to Detroit a large representation from every State and Local Club. The present urgent necessities of the race, the base slanders placed upon our womanhood, and many other matters of moment demand your presence. Since reduced rates will be secured on the certificate plan, let each woman secure her certificate at the point from which she purchases her ticket, that this certificate may be signed by the Validating Agent in Detroit, thus entilting her to a return of one-third the original fare. Do not fail to purchase tickets as above stated. This is necessary in order to secure the reduction. (Signed). Mrs. Josephine Shone-Fates, President National Association of Colored Women, Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo. Miss Cornelia Bowen, National Corresponding Secretary, Waugh, Ala. Mrs. Booker T. Washington Vice-President at Large, Tuskegee, Ala. Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce, Chairman Executive Committee, 1639 College Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. The Sunday morning services are growing in interest each Sabbath. The Pastor, Rev. H. E. Stewart, will preach at 10:45 A. M. and 8 o'clock P. M. To-morrow's service will be of an interesting nature all day. The choir under the direction of Prof. Johnson is furnishing some very excellent music at each of the services. Theme for the morning sermon: "Rewards." St. Mat. 6:2. Theme for the evening sermon: "Opposition and How to Overcome It." There will be given next Wednesday night the regular monthly sociable and donation to the work. The evening is divided into 1, The Religious Hour; 2, The Business Hour, and the last the Social Hour. There will be an address delivered by one of the Pastors of the city at the religious hour. The anniversary services will be held on the 24th of July. The entire public is invited—"S." L. W. Washington, General Agent for The Broad Ax in the Hyde Park District. From on and after this date until further notice to the contrary, L. W. Washington, 5613 Jefferson avenue, will act as the general agent for The Broad Ax, and news items and advertisements left with him not later than Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning prior to the day of publication, will find their way into its columns. The harmony committee of the Democracy have been meeting from day to day at the Grand Pacific hotel, and so far it has ground out the following candidates who are more than likely to be nominated in the convention: For County Treasurer, Ernest Hummel, Eighth Ward. For County Clerk, George L. M'Connell, Twentieth Ward. For Circuit Court Clerk, John Floner, Twenty-fifth Ward. For Chief Justice Municipal Court, Hiram T. Gilber. For County Judge, M. L. M'Kinley, Twenty-sixth Ward. For Clerk Municipal Court, Michael Zimmer. For County Superintendent of Schools, W. W. Spears, Thirty-second Ward. . CHIPS CHIPS Mr. Joe Snowden, 115 51st street, is on the sick list. Dr. Bass, of Provident Hospital, is taking a two weeks' vacation. It is reported that Henry T. Elby has bought a flat building on Prairie avenue. Mrs. S. A. Buckner, 5801 La Salle street, is entertaining Mrs. J. L. Henson, of New York City. Mrs. Montgomery, mother of Mrs. E. H. Morris, 2710 Dearborn street, is on the sick list. Mr. Wm. Estes, 3117 Armour avenue, is very ill, confined to his bed for the past two weeks. Mr. Wm. Curtis, of St. Louis, Mo. will spend a few days in the city next week. Justice J. K. Prindiville is slated to receive the nomination as one of the Judges of the new Municipal Court. Justice John Fitzgerald will be selected to head the Municipal Court ticket in the Town of Lake. Mr. Theo. Mozee, of St. Louis, Mo. is in the city spending a few weeks, stopping at 4711 State street. Miss Nettie Walsh, 73 Huron street, was given a surprise party by a number of her young friends Tuesday night. Mrs. Fanny Richardson and daughter Myrtle 4719 Armour avenue, left the city Monday for a month's visit in Denver, Colo. Mr. Will Toles, one of Chicago's old boys who has spent the last two years in the West, is visiting friends in the city. It is reported that some lucky young man has won the heart of Miss Josie North, 2314 Dearborn street, and the wedding bells will be ringing soon. Mr. Frank Huyk, of Freeport, Ill., spent several days in the city visiting his aunt, Mrs. Frank Moore, 721 West Madison street. Mrs. Savanah Robinson and Mrs. Hoyt have returned from the South, where they have been spending the past month. Dr. and Mrs. Jno- B. Hall left for their home in Boston, Mass., Thursday afternoon, where they will be at home to their many friends after July 15th. Mrs. F. Nuby, 2436 Dearborn street. is spending a month's visit in the East. The Fellowship Club entertained Dr. A. M. Curtis, of Washington, D. C., with a banquet Friday eve. Mr. William Harris, of New Orleans, is in the city. He was chief usher for his old schoolmate, Dr. Jno. Hall, who was married to Miss Curtis Wednesday night. Mrs. Hart, of Indianapolis, after locating her daughter, Miss Hazel, in comfortable quarters in Chicago, left for her home in Indianapolis Friday morning. John E. Traeger, James J. Gray, Harry R. Gibbons, James McAndrews, Capt. A. C. Anson and John Fitzpatrick, will enter the contest for Sheriff of Cook County. Mrs. Hall and daughter Miss Ida M. Hall, left for Boston, Mass., Thursday. They will be the guest of their son and brother, Dr. Jno. B. Hall, during their stay in Boston. Frank J. Lehr, who was in business for a long time at 5212 S. Halsted street, has removed to 905 W. 35th street, where he will be pleased to meet his old friends. The Colored citizens are preparing to show their esteem for Col. Robert T. Motts by presenting him with a large solid silver loving cup, July 3d is the time set for the demonstration. Mrs. Edw. H. Morris attended the Curtis-Hall wedding Wednesday evening literally covered with diamonds and precious stones. Fifteen thousand dollars would be a fair estimate of the value of the jewels displayed. A Commencement programme consisting of pupils from the high schools, Chicago University and College of Music, is being arranged to be given in one of the churches, notice of which will appear in the next issue of this paper. Mrs. Perry Bates, 6410 Morgan street, returned home the first of the week from Peoria, Ill., where she attended the funeral of her only daughter, who died very suddenly in Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. M. J. Brown, 2842 Armour avenue, holds free clinics at Provident Hospital Free Dispensary every Monday, Wednesday and Friday—hours 2 to 4 p.m. Consult him if your eyes do not serve you well. Eyes tested and all diseases treated free. Commissioner Oscar DePriest, DrDan'l H. Williams and Mr. Noah D. Thompson are soon to be initiated into the mysteries of the Household of Ruth, where there are plenty of good looking sisters who will look after them when sick. Mayor Edward F. Dunne will do the handsome thing by re-appointing Mr.Joseph W. Arrant as a member of the Civil Service Commission. Mr. Arrant has been a useful member of that body for the past two years, and he is highly deserving of re-appointment. The Choral Study Club, under the leadership of Mr. Pedro Tinsley, gave their last recital of the year at the Institutional Church Monday night, rendering Hiawatha's Wedding and the Death of Minnie Ha Ha. The church was packed with Chicago's elite society. Miss Emma Combs, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting her brother, Mr. J. B.Combs, 5030 Armour avenue. She will remain two weeks, and during her stay will visit with friends in Glencoe and other points of interest in and around Chicago. Misses Blanche and Hatie Shelton, 3435 Dearborn street, cousins of Mrs. Sadie Hart, graduated with high honors from the eighth grade of the Keith School last week. They will spend the vacation months with relatives and friends in Iowa, and on returning to the city in the fall, resume their studies in the High School. Last Wednesday Madam Hagan, the fashionable hair dresser, 5031 Shields ave., acted the part of hostess in escorting Mrs. Allen of Kansas City, Kan. to the Art Institute, the White City, and other places of interest in Chicago. Mrs. Allen has been visiting with Mrs. C. R.' Brown, 6648 Evans ave., and expects to return to her home shortly. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Willis, of Portland. Ore., made a pleasant call on the editor of The Broad Ax while passing through the city this week enroute for New York. Mr. Willis is the general advertising agent for The Portland Advocate, and after spending the summer at the various resorts in the East they will return West in the Fall. A Good Home for Children. Wanted children, either White or Colored to board and room, they will receive the care of a good mother; charges reasonable. Mrs. L. Coleman, 2839 Armour Ave., 2d flat. Special Announcement From on and after this date all announcements of entertainments, etc., for which an admission is charged, will be considered advertising, and will be charged for at the rate of 12 cents a line, seven words to a line. The money must accompany the matter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week intended for publication. This rule will also apply to all personal items and matter for which no charges will be made. In other words, all news matter must reach us either on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week it is written Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communications to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. Ambiguous. From her seat in the bow she turned cautiously, giving him a roguish smile. He, from the stern, murmured, "If we were not in a canoe I should certainly kiss you." "Sir," she said, "take me ashore at acel."-Honston Post. To the Point. A Percy Bore—Love you? Why, girl, I love you from the word "go." Miss Sharp—Then please go. The Critic. Assistant Editor—Golly, what a stale one you accepted on Marcus Aurelius! Editor—Well, if I hadn't accepted it the author would have thought I didn't know who Marcus Aurelius was. —American Spectator. Willing to Help. A gentleman in London called on the celebrated editor of a well known newspaper and said: "Sir, your paper has announced that I am dead." "If it is in our paper it must be true," replied the editor. "But it is not true, for, as you see, I am alive." "Well, then, it cannot be helped." "But I expect you to correct the misstatement," said the gentleman. The editor answered: "I cannot do that, for we never recall what is in our paper. I will, however, do everything to bring you back to life. Tomorrow I will place your name in the list of births."—Judge's Magazine of Fun. Favored High Salaries. A country minister was one day talking to one of his flock who ventured the opinion that ministers ought to be better paid. "I am glad to hear you say that," said the minister. "I am pleased that you think so much of the clergy. And so you think we should have bigger stipends?" "Yes," said the old man; "ye see, we'd get a better class of men."—Philadelphia Ledger. An Inference Mrs. McCall-I do wish I could get a good maid. Mrs. Uppisch-You might interview mine. I think she'd be delighted to go to you. Mrs. McCall-But why don't you keep her? Mrs. Uppisch-Oh, she won't stay! She says she wants a place where she won't have so many gowns and hats to take care of.-Catholic Standard and Times. A Reasonable Theory. "How did Miss Dibbleson succeed in getting rid of the hair that persisted in growing on her upper lip? I was noticing her yesterday, and the mustache that used to disfigure her has entirely disappeared." "I don't know how she managed it. Perhaps she tried some kind of hair restorer on it." A Hard Case. He—Do you think it would be foolish of me to marry a woman who was my intellectual inferior? She—I don't know that it would be foolish, but it would be a difficult thing for you to do. A Philosopher. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men," remarked the man who habitually quotes. "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "but the adage has tempted too many of us to measure our wisdom by our capacity for enjoying foolishness."-Washington Star. Wrongly Accused. Magistrate—Next case! Well, what's the trouble here? Mag Muggsy—Why, say, judge, dis guy insulted me. Chimble Tuff—Aw g' on! I didn't insult her. I on'y jist smashed 'er in de jaw, judge, dat's all.—Philadelphia Press. Not a New Idea. "What is your idea of true love?" asked the romantic maid. "True love," answered the practical young man, "is the art of saying nothing and trading kisses"—Houston Post. Pessimistic View. The Parson—I'm afraid you do not look on the sunny side of life. The Deacon — How can I, parson, when I have seven daughters and never a son?—Detroit Free Press. Sweet Innocence Cynical Bachelor—How long do you think the honeymoon lasts? Sweet Sixteen (with open eyed wonder)—Why, forever.—Somerville Journal. He Knew Her "Little boy, you ought not to throw stones at the birds." "I know it, ma'am, but I hain't got no air gun."—Chicago Tribune. Alaz, Poor Sherlock! The Book Reviewer—The plot of this novel was stolen, sure. The Police Reporter-Ah, a second story job evidently!-Puck. Her Comment On "Ethics as a Social Power" She spoke, the sweet girl graduate. Education Progressed, convincing, though ornate. And then imagine the distress To hear her whisper to her chum "Mid the applause, "Say, Bess, I guess That was specifying some!" -Washington Star The Indian empire has the cheapest postal service in the world. A single firm in New Haven, Conn., opened about 70,000 bushels of oysters last season. They were all used by one firm. The ceremonies attending a high class Brahman wedding last a week and are the most complicated in existence. Milton was plain in his eating, as in everything else. His breakfast was a bit of bread and cheese or a chop and a glass of milk. A Dalton (Pa.) man boasts that he can live on $10 a year. He eats but one meal a day, and that consists of raw fruits, vegetables and nuts. Ivy does not make a house damp. On the contrary, its small roots extract every particle of moisture from the brick or stone to which it clings. In the canyons of the Andes bridges from precipice to precipice are made of rope cables joined by smaller strands to make a trough shaped bridge. Ants are extraordinarily fond of liver and may be exterminated by laying raw liver near their haunts. The liver when covered with the insects should be thrown into boiling water. A brood of chickens was the innocent cause of a divorce case in Winsted, Conn. The wife claimed that the husband loved the chickens more than he did her and asked him to move to the hennery, whereupon he left her. While workmen were engaged in cutting railroad ties near Willoughby, Md., they discovered a gold ring in the heart of an oak tree. The ring was in perfect condition except that in sawing down the tree the saw had disfigured the set of the ring. The postmistress of Iron Mountain, Tex., is eighty-four years old, has held the position over fifty-three years and has served under twelve presidents, beginning with President Pierce, and under both the Confederate and United States governments. For thirty-three years there has been no session of court held in Labrador, and in fifty years the only criminal charge which is recorded is that against an Eskimo whose jealousy was aroused against a rival in his wife's affections and who shot the man as he walked with her. A man in Damariscotta, Me., brought a pair of horses from the city for use in the country. The animals were broken to autos, electrics and "every other horrid thing," but they had never seen oxen. The very first time they saw a yoke of the strange animals they ran away. Bangor, Me., is hoping for a revival of the pottery industry in Maine. The substitution of kaolin for clay brought the Maine pottery works to an end a long time ago, but the Bangor people base their hope now on the recent discoveries of clay deposits equaling even the Chinese kaolin in purity. Homer Case of the town of Lafayette, N. Y., willed the church choir there the sum of $100 on condition that the choir should sing "America" every Memorial day. The money is to be invested, and if the choir lets three years elapse without singing the national hymn the money reverts to the estate. Consul Brittain of Keh explains the new method of keeping clean the congested business streets of the larger German cities. Metal tanks are inserted at intervals to the level of the street and covered with iron lids. In these the offal is easily swept. In the night the tanks are hauled to the dumping grounds. There are in Belfast, Me., seven persons representing four generations in direct line who live in one family and eat at the same table. They are Captain and Mrs. Thomas Condon, the daughter Lucy and her husband, Ellsha H. Hanney; the granddaughter Cleora and her husband, Clarence E. Read, and the baby, Master Carlton Arthur Read. Judge von der Meden of Hamburg, who recently disappeared while on his honeymoon at Hanover and was found wandering in the streets of Zurich, has now been declared insane. Among papers found on him was a letter from his wife. On the envelope he had written: "I did not know a man could be so happy. I am so very happy that I think I shall go mad." "Solid alcohol" has been introduced from Belgium. It is in small cubes, just the right size to slip into the pocket and burn under a chafing dish. The body of the preparation is furnished by nitrate of cotton and a little amyl acetate, which takes up large quantities of alcohol and keeps it ready for combustion. The mixture contains 98 per cent pure alcohol. Among the blocks of marble recently raised in West Rutland, Vt., were four weighing from twenty to twenty-five tons each. Each block will furnish one of the lions for the monument to President McKinley at Buffalo. The blocks were so large and heavy that it was found expedient to reduce their weight by trimming them in the quarry to the size actually needed for the figures. The municipality of Orlamunde has just issued a notice to the effect that admittance to all cafes and public houses is henceforth to be denied to all who do not pay their taxes within the legal limit of time. It is not altogether an innovation, for a somewhat similar measure has been in force for a number of years in Switzerland and has answered its purpose excellently. There are indications that the three tapestries representing summer, autumn and winter hanging in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and owned by Mrs. John T. Morse, Jr., are the works of the master, Charles Le Brun, which were mysteriously taken from the Palais Royal in Paris after the fire during the revolution. If this is true they are almost priceless gems of art. Can't go in the parlor now Sence boarders came. Maw gits queer idees sumhow Wen boarders come. Must have my face washt each daw (Gosh, I wish they'd stay away!) Dassent have a word to say Wen boarders come. Got to wear a tie that's knit Wen boarders come. Maw says, "Keep spruced up a bit," Wen boarders come. Paw an' maw an' sis an' I Must eat what's left over—why, I ain't had a piece of ple Sence kingdom come! Dassent go barefoot no more Sence boarders came. Left off the patched jeans I wore Sence boarders come. Got to lend 'em all my things, Traps an' rods an' fishin' strings; Got to show 'em all the springs, Wen boarders come. Wen maw gits vacation crops Of boarder folks Then my vacation stops, 'An' I test coax Her for to let, me go an' stay who is the one we want Where's it quiet, cool, an' they Don't take boarders. -F. P. Pitzer in New York Herald Ambition. A "Traveler wanted for mineral water firm. Steady rise."-Scraps. "Traveler wanted for mineral water firm. Steady rise."-Scraps. Not That Kind of Egg. A vegetarian sitting next to a stranger in a restaurant before long took occasion to advertise his creed by telling him that all meat was injurious and that the human diet should be strictly vegetarian. "But," replied the stranger, "I seldom eat meat." "You just ordered eggs," said the vegetarian. "An egg is practically meat, because it eventually becomes a bird." "The kind of eggs I eat never become birds," answered the stranger quietly. "Good heavens!" cried the vegetarian. "What kind of eggs do you eat?" "Principally boiled eggs," said the stranger.—Philadelphia Ledger. Easy. "Did you sell horses to those two customers yesterday?" we asked of our friend the horse dealer. "Yes." "Make anything?" "Off of Jones—yes." "Jones? Why, Jones was the one that said he knew all about horses." "I know. He was easy. The other fellow didn't know a thing about them and brought around three or four experts before he would buy."—New York Life. Rather Exciting Mother (returning home)—Gracous! Tommy, what means this? The lamp is broken, the dishes are smashed and everything is upside down. Tommy—Why, mother, you said we could play anything we wanted, didn't you? Mother—Yes. Tommy—Well, we played the San Francisco earthquake.—Chicago News. How He Knew. "Is your wife having a good time at the seashore?" "Yes; she's enjoying herself splendidly." "I suppose her letters are very cheering?" "No; she doesn't write at all"—Judge. Cool "Mary," Mrs. Housekeep called from the foot of the stairs, "how about breakfast?" "Oh," replied the new servant, who had overslept herself, "ye naden't trouble to bring me anny. I ain't very hungry this mornin'."—Philadelphia Press. Her Divorce Portion. "Mrs. Jones just got a divorce from her husband for throwing salad in her face," said one. "Did she get alimony?" asked the other. "No," replied the first. "She got the salad."—New York Press. "What's the chief product of Panama?" And the great stateman never looked up from the momentous document as he replied: "Conversation."—Washington Star. Nothing Doing. "Miss May," began Mr. Hoamley, "would you-er-be mad if I were to kiss you?" "Not necessarily," replied the bright girl, "but I would certainly be mad to let you."-Baltimore News. Pe- "Your sister's beau, my son. He is six feet two."—Detroit Tribune. WASHINGTON LETTER WASHINGTON LETTER [Special Correspondence.] Recent investigations by a well known citizen of Washington have revealed the fact that the District of Columbia, the seat of the government, often called the "ten mile square," is not at the present day nor was at the time of its marking ten miles square. If this should prove true, and there is no doubt of it, as the party presents proof of his assertions, the District of Columbia is not plumb and its boundary is untrue. He says the northwestern and southeastern boundary lines of the District exceed ten statute miles by 63 and 70.5 feet respectively and the northwestern and southwestern lines also exceed ten statute miles 263.1 feet and 230.6 feet respectively. These irregularities, he declares, throw the north corner of the District 116.2 feet to the west of the meridian of the south or original stone and also throw the west corner 138.6 feet farther to the north than the east corner. District Milestones. An examination shows that the distances between the successive stones vary considerably from exact miles, and in no instance can a milestone be found placed at exactly a distance of one mile from its neighbor. It is further discovered that many of the stones are out of proper alignment and that the original lines limiting the territory are not at the proper angles. The District of Columbia was established by congress on July 16, 1790, and the original cornerstone was laid April 15, 1791. White House Stables. Owing to the condition of the president's stables all of the horses which belong to Mr. Roosevelt personally have been sent to another stable at some distance from the White House. The White House stables are on low ground and are so damp that several of the Roosevelt horses died from influenza, while others were very ill from that disease and have never fully recovered. Efforts on the part of members of congress to secure an appropriation for new stables have failed heretofore, and opposition in the past has been so marked that there was not even an estimate for the purpose submitted at this session. Only government horses are now kept in the White House stables, and it is understood that if congress next year does not appropriate for new stables to be erected on a healthier site these animals will be sent elsewhere and their present quarters closed. La Follette a Vegetarian. The original anti-beef trust senator is La Follette of Wisconsin. For five years he has not eaten meat of any kind. The Wisconsin man is, in fact, one of the best authorities in the country on gastronomic ailments because when his own gastronomic apparatus went back on him he became a student of such subjects, prescribed a diet for himself and restored his health. But he has never restored meat to his menu. The notion that there is no fighting capacity left in strictly herbivorous animals, however, has received a severe shock in congress since the fact became known that La Follette abstains from meats. Free Lemonade. The free lemonade habit of the senate is as old and respectable as the snuffbox habit. Few men take snuff these days, but the snuffbox near the vice president's chair is kept replenished. Both snuff and lemonade are paid for out of the funds of the senate. Both are of the finest quality. The senate lemonade isn't the thin, watery stuff that one gets even where the price is high enough to justify the use of only the finest materials by the most skillful artist. It is a rich yellow fluid made of mineral water and the juice of many lemons, into which for flavoring purposes are poured the juices of other fruits. It is served out in huge galvanized pails placed at convenient points in the restaurant, the principal committee rooms and the cloakrooms as well as the press gallery. It is free to all comers. Senatorial Overshoes. Another custom of the senate is to provide each of the senators with as many pairs of overshoes as the state of the weather demands. The fathers of the republic, which is the proper name of all those who lived prior to the civil war, introduced that practice as soon as it was shown that shoes made of a mixture of rubber and vulcanizing material were of real value in the exclusion of water. The custom has prevailed so long that no one remembers on what ground the expenditure of public money for the purchase of articles of wearing apparel was justified. Before the advent of Boss Sheppard, the man who pulled Washington out of the mud, the purchase of rubbers might have been justified on the ground that the interests of the public demanded that senators do not risk their lives by venturing out upon the streets without all the paraphernalia for protection against the elements. The same course of reasoning would have justified the purchase of skiffs for senators who desired to navigate Pennsylvania avenue. Fixed the Contractor. FIXED THE COSTUME. Earthquakes, fire and accidents by flood count as nothing at all with the postoffice department. The mails must be delivered or the government must know why. Frank Smith of this city has a number of mail carrying contracts, and one is for San Francisco. His wagons take the mail to and from the postoffice and trains. He was not able to operate his wagons in San Francisco on the day of the earthquake and fire, but he got them going the second day. The postoffice department complimented him for getting the wagons out on the second day, but fined him for not having them at work on the first day. CARL SCHOFIELD. THE MODERN TORPEDO. Its Wonderful Mechanism and How It Is Operated. The principle of the torpedo is the placing of a very large charge of high explosive in a steel case fairly alive with mechanism and so ingenious that the missile fired from a tube with a small charge of cordite or gunpowder will automatically direct itself to a given target and there explode. The Whitehead torpedo of today is a steel cligar or automatic porpoise shaped weapon or projectile from twelve to seventeen feet long and eighteen inches in diameter at its widest. When ready for firing even a small one will weigh over half a ton. They are delivered in five sections, which contain upward of 2,000 pieces of machinery. The wet gun cotton in the "war head" is inserted in slabs, each with a hole in its center to receive the core of dry gun cotton directly connected with the detonating primer, which contains fulminate of mercury and a percussion cap. In front of the primer is screwed the water "nose"—a very sensitive nose—which operates automatically when the weapon strikes and sets off the whole charge. Behind the war head comes the chamber containing the compressed air that drives this singular projectile through the water. Into this chamber is pumped the air at a pressure of 1,500 pounds to the square inch. And this escaping through the valve leading to the little engines provides the motive power. Next comes the mechanism which automatically regulates the depth of the torpedo during its run. This ingenious apparatus has been kept a great secret and sold in turn to the various nations of the world. Not far from the tail of the torpedo are placed the driving engines. There is also a controlling valve, which can be arranged so as to close automatically after the weapon has run a certain distance, thus obviating a futile explosion in the event of the torpedo missing its target. At the end of the tall comes the rudder, which keeps the torpedo straight. But the most remarkable piece of mechanism is the gyroscope, like a child's top. It is set automatically by the release of a spring a moment or two after the torpedo is shot from its tube. It is the duty of this little device to correct the torpedo's course if it deviates in the slightest degree from its instructions. France leads the world with her torpedo flotillas. Great Britain possesses about 110 torpedo boats of the first class, 114 "destroyers," 110 second class boats and 29 submarines built or building. Every nation is giving great attention to its torpedo boats. Even China has 44 of the first class and 50 second class torpedo craft—Exchange. Passing of the Period. "What has happened to our old friend the period?" remarked a man who observes little things and has a habit of reading advertisements. "It seems to have dropped out of use almost completely in the setting up of advertisements lately. And to any one who pays attention to punctuation the absence of the full stop puzzles him a good deal. "Here's a book ad., for instance. Reading it as it is punctuated, it gives you reason to believe that in addition to the author saying several complimentary things about his own story he asks you if you've read it, advises you to and tells you what its price is. Of course I know they want you to buy their books, but I never saw one doing this in an advertisement before. "Printers tell me it's the latest style in composition to omit the period. If it is it's the silliest fashion I've observed in a long while, and I'll bet that when that particular author sees that ad, he'll think so too." - New York Press. Kongo Punishment. A missionary recently returned from the region of upper Kongo, in Africa, says that he saw there a curious platform thirty feet high erected in front of the head sentry's house. The latter informed the missionary that it was a large stage from which to shoot leopards, but natives told him that it was a torture platform. Unfortunates who did not bring in sufficient quantities of rubber were first beaten, sometimes almost to death, and then taken to the top of the structure and compelled to gaze at the sun until relatives brought the necessary amount of rubber as redemption. Sacramento, Who Never Practices. Sarasate, the great violinist, is in one respect very fortunate among musicians. He knows nothing whatever of the drudgery and weariness of practicing. Most well known singers and great executants go on practicing with more or less regularity all their lives. Not so Pablo Sarasate. He takes up his violin for his own amusement, but his fluency and facility are such that he can dispense with the irksome daily task of playing to keep his hand in. Tainted Money. The really unwholesome money, our greasy paper currency, tainted with a tangible and offensively pungent taint, has long been a fertile subject for the pens of public sanitarians and hygienists. The carriage of infectious diseases by these omnipresent and ubiquitous microbe stages, the dollar bills, is far more than a possibility.—New York Globe. The American Jew. Says Jacob H. Schiff of New York, the eminent Jewish philanthropist; "It is my conviction that the crossing of the different types of Jew, particularly of the Russian and the German Jew, now beginning to go forward in this country, is destined in the course of the next fifty years to produce the finest type of all times—the American Jew." SELECTIONS WINDOW CLEANING Item of Expense That Mounts Up In the Case of Big Buildings. The cost of having house or apartment windows of ordinary size cleaned by professional window cleaners is about 10 cents a window. So a man living, say, in an apartment having ten windows would pay $1 for having his windows cleaned; if he had them cleaned twice a month $2 and if once a week $4 a month—not a matter of very serious moment. But when it comes to big buildings, with many windows, the window cleaning question may easily be a very different proposition. The most recently opened of the city's great modern hotels has about 3,500 windows. Obviously if it cost 10 cents each to have these windows cleaned the cost of a single cleaning of them would be $250. If they were cleaned twice a month at that cost the expense would be $700 a month, or $8,400 a year, and to clean them once a week at 10 cents a window would cost annually $18,200. As a matter of fact, the expense is much less than that, but still the actual cost of the work, done partly by contract and partly by the hotel's own labor, amounts to a sum that many a man would be glad to have for a salary or to have added to his annual income. The cleaning of the windows of this great hotel from the ground floor up to and including the parlor floor is done by contract by a window cleaning concern. On the twenty floors above the parlor floor the window cleaning is done by men employed on the several floors, a man on each looking after the windows on that floor. For its part of the work the window cleaning concern sends eight men, and the number of men employed by the hotel that work on the windows on the higher floors is twenty. Thus it takes a considerable part of the time of twenty-eight men to keep the windows of the big hotel in order, and the annual cost of the work of this one simple item of window cleaning is here about $6,500.—New York Sun. The Wealth of Nations. The latest estimate of national wealth by a competent authority was recently given before the British income tax committee by Mr. Mallet, one of the commissioners of inland revenue. Mr. Mallet placed the national income at $8,000,000,000 against the $8,500,000,000 of Prussia. The capital of the United Kingdom he estimated as $42,500,000,000, which was double that of France and four times that of Italy. According to his estimate, the number of persons possessed of fortunes of over $800,000 was in the United Kingdom 80,000, in France 15,000, in Prussia 11,000 and in Italy 1,500. An Englishman with an income of $5,000 pays $250 income tax, a Prussian pays $212.50 on $5,000 of unearned income and $150 in the case of earned income. The wealth of the United States cannot be estimated from any official source, but at the observed ratio of increase noted in 1900 it cannot well be less than $110,000,000,000 and is probably considerably greater.—New York World. The Motor Armchair Anybody who has had a good case of seasickness must have felt that he would welcome the electric chair as a relief. Now an electric chair for seasickness has been tested on an English channel steamer and an ocean liner. You sit in a snug armchair. A motor under the seat is connected with the ship's electric current. You sit and take vibratory treatment. Up and down and crosswise you are shaken. Most sitters need but one treatment. Their tendency to seasickness is vibrated out of them. Some need a second sitting. A few are seasick as soon as their treatment ends. It is a preventive, mark you, not a cure. The theory is that seasickness is essentially a nervous malady, and that vibration reduces the nervousness. Certainly imagination and expectation have much to do with the disorder. Blessings on the new armchair if it can block quick coming seasickness. But many believe and many doubt—Everybody's Magazine. Tough Greenbacks A little incident showing the genuineness and enduring quality of the paper on which our greenbacks are printed occurred up in the Maine woods last winter. Three years ago a lumberman who had been given a ten dollar bill on his wage account lost the money on his way home. One day in January last a friend found the bill in an open field, where it had been dropped, still intact and easily recognizable after having been drenched in the rains, frozen by the snows and bleached in the sun for three years. Being restored to its original owner, the bill was sent to the United States treasury, where it was promptly redeemed in new paper.-Iceless the Weekly. A Gunfist Old Book A descendant of the ancient Babylonian, Mrs. Annie Najarian of Nashua, N. H., has in her possession a book written in the language of the race and supposed by her to be dated many years before the Christian era. The book is 13 inches long, 8 inches wide and 5 inches thick. The covers are made of black walnut covered with leather. The leaves of the book are not of paper, but are made of some kind of skin. The printing is hand work and is legible. The book is believed to be a history and combination dictionary and grammar of the ancient Babylonian. NEW SHORT STORIES Joys Wealth Would Bring. Raymond Hitchcock is telling the following story of two Irish gardeners whom he employed to look after his country place at Great Neck, N. Y. "During the week I was lately playing in Brooklyn I ran down to my summer home, and as I hadn't been there for some months I started to inspect the place. Going into the garden, I came upon two of the men who were pruning the shrubbery. As they were getting paid by the hour they were not killing themselves, but were passing A "PHWAT WUD WE DO, DINNY, ME BY?" the time trying to figure out how they would spend an imaginative $1,000,000. The conversation ran as follows: "Sald Pat to Denny, Phwat wud ye do, Dinny, me b'y, if yez had $1,000,000?" "Phwat wud I do, is it? Weel, I'll till ye. Sure the first thing'd be wan alu thimmerobiles, an' the next'd be a big diamin' in me shirt front. Phwat'd ye be after donn', Pat?" "Weel, I'll till ye,' replied Pat thoughtfully. 'I'd go up to the finest hotel I could an' rint the best room in the house, an' thin I'd go to bed an' till 'em to call me at 6 in the marnin.' "An' phwat'd ye be doin' at 6 in the marnin' wid $1,000,000?' inquired the puzzled Denny. "Will,' replied Pat, 'I'd wait till they'd come an' knocked in me dure, an' thin I'd yell: 'Go to the divill I don't have to git up!''" Paderewaki's Bell Boy. Bosamund Johnson of Cole and Johnson, composers of that once popular song, "Under the Bamboo Tree," once held a position as bell boy in Young's hotel in Boston. This place he once nearly lost through taking the liberty of playing Paderewski's "Minuet," for the great pianist. Paderewski, who was staying at that hotel, had rung for a bell boy, and young Johnson answered the call. Being so fond of music, he made bold to ask the great composer and pianist to play the "Minuet" for him. Paderewski could not understand English then, and the boy thought from his gesticulations that he wished him to play it, so he sat down at the piano and commenced playing. Paderewski's manager happened to enter the room just then and, enraged at the bell boy's presumption, threw him out of the room and went directly to the management and had him discharged. As soon as he learned what had been done Parderewski, who had been pleased with the lad's playing, sent for the manager of the hotel and had Johnson reinstated in his position. — Success Magazine. Congressional Amenities In the house marse Sydney Mudd of Maryland was expounding on behalf of the naval committee the proposed appropriation of $1,250,000 for a floating dry dock. The sum seemed large to John Wesley Galanes. He broke furiously into Marse Sydney's speech, demanding to know under what construction a mere dry dock could be called part of the naval armament. "Do you mean to say it's a ship because it floats?" demanded John Wesley. Marse Sydney explained. At each comma, semicolon and dash John Wesley broke furiously in, until Marse Sydney's blue eyes began to glitter. "Would the gentleman from Maryland," finally shrieked John Wesley, "vote $1,250,000 for the building of a scaffold?" "I would," said Marse Sydney frigidly. "If I could hang thereon certain persons whom I have at present in my mind's eye." And he fixed a long and steady gaze on Gaines—New York Times. A Complete Surprise. P. P. Johnston, president of the National Trotting association, said recently: "All sorts of fakes are adopted by crooks in order to disguise a trotter with a good record. Then the trotter, believed to be a beginner, gets enormous odds, and when she wins—what a surprise." Mr. Johnston lighted a cigar. "It is an unpleasant, an unexpected surprise," he said. "It is like the surprise a friend of mine met with on a train in West Virginia. "As the train traversed Wise county my friend, entranced with the scenery, stuck his head out of the window. "The brakeman hurried to him and said: "Keep your head inside, can't you? "What for? asked my friend. "So you won't damage any of the ironworks on the bridges,' said the brakeman."—New York Tribune American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. 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Dr. Lynn of Pana, Ill., the oldest physician in that state, celebrated his one hundred and first birthday. More than a thousand persons attended a reception given in his honor. Francis MacMillen, the American violinist, who has been playing with great success for many years in Europe, will come to this country in the fall. He left Ohio in his boyhood. Some say that men of genius are always thin, but among the fat and famous may be mentioned Renan, Dr. Johnson, Rossini, Balsac, Henry James, Dumas, St. Beuve and W. D. Howells. Richard T. Greener, a negro, formerly United States consul at Vladivostok, has been given the decoration of the Red Dragon by the Chinese government for his humanitarianism during the Russo-Japanese war. Sir Purdon Clarke, director of the Metropolitan museum, has gone to Europe and while abroad will make arrangements to get copies of certain masterpieces which the museum may never hope to obtain possession of. Professor Wilhelm Ostwald has resigned the professorship of chemistry at the University of Leipsic as a result of his displeasure at the lack of support accorded to his chemical researches. He will establish a private laboratory. Claude Kemper, whose father is a vice admiral of the British navy, has enlisted in the United States marine corps and is now stationed at the Norfolk navy yard. He is twenty-five years old and saw hard service in the Boer war. General J. C. Jamison, a Missouriian of the old school, is probably the greatest bird lover in Oklahoma, his present home, and is advocating that the state adopt as a part of the curriculum the study of birds and their protection in the public schools. Miss Nina Hornady, president of the Daughters of the War of 1812, for Georgia, has discovered in Ocean Park, Cal., Daniel Turner, who, she claims, is the only survivor of the war of 1812. He is a full blooded Cherokee Indian, born in Georgia and fought against the British during the battle of New Orleans. The Rev. John Aldis, once the most prominent minister of the Baptist denomination in England, has reached the age of ninety-eight. He began life in a shoemaker's shop. Afterward he was sent to Horton college, near Bradford, now known as, Rawdon college. Later he became pastor of Maze Pond chapel, London, and in 1866 he was elected chairman of the Baptist union. SHORT STORIES. Watchmakers despite their difficult work rarely suffer from eye trouble of any kind. At the rate of a pint and a half of liquid a day a man drinks 32,850 pints during his life. The income of the average American, according to the United States census, is about $650 a year. The ounce in troy or apothecary weight is not the same as that in avoirdupois weight, the former containing 450 grains, the latter 437.5 grains. The total number of telephone calls made in the United States the last year was about 5,000,000,000, or fifty-four for each man, woman and child in the country. In these days of increasing use of concrete for building purposes it is interesting to recall the fact that the Pantheon in Rome, about 2,000 years old, is covered by a dome over 142 feet in diameter, which is cast in concrete in one solid mass. COMMERCIAL PROVERBS Invest your surplus earnings or your surplus earnings will involve you. No man can withstand the demoralizing influence of idle money. All natural human relations are reciprocal. If you receive you should give. But beware of the speculator, who takes all and gives nothing, destroying the harmony of social relations and spreading desolation. He is a vampire. He who spends freely every dollar he earns is a "good fellow"-avoid him. He who will never pay a dollar that he owes until compelled is a curmudgeon-despise him. He who discharges every sort of obligation with gladness of heart and is always laying by something for emergencies is the useful man—Cent Per Cent. EDITORIAL FLINGS The girl who usually spends all winter learning how to skate frequently spends all summer learning to swim—Somerville Journal. In some of the churches it seems to be getting now so that in order to be orthodox a man has to be a heretic—New York Evening Mall. Most names have come from trades, as Smith, Singer, Fisher, etc., and yet, strange to say, we have nobody by the name of Grafter—Galveston News. Visitors to the country this year will undoubtedly miss the straw rides of happy memories. Uncle Silas has nothing in the line of a pleasure vehicle now but a swift automobile—Buffalo CHOICE MISCELLANY The Forest Floor. As you make your way through the ordinary tract of New England woodland fallen branches are constantly crackling under your feet. Nobody gathers them up, bundles them and sells them as they do in Europe. The fallen debris in time may turn into mold, but pending the conversion it is the always ready kindling stuff for starting or spreading forest fires. The state of Minnesota, appreciating the danger of leaving this sort of material exposed, compels all lumbermen to burn up "the slashings," or trimmings, left after lumberlings, and the forest patrols look to the enforcement of the law. Michigan, less wise, has left the lumbermen to their own devices, and the fires that have swept through her forests are in no small degree chargeable to her failure to imitate the example of Minnesota. Forest fires are estimated to cause damage to the amount of $25,000,000 annually in this country, and much of this loss might be prevented by such a simple and inexpensive measure as cleaning the forest floor of its litter of "slashings" and fallen branches. Foreign countries compel forest owners to attend to this matter themselves, and the thrift of Europeans who are consumers of "fagots" does the rest. Probably Americans for some time to come will be unwilling to submit to an autocratic inspection similar to that European forest guards carry on, but if they simply favored their own pockets by gathering up the fallen boughs and branches that now cumber the woodlands they would so something toward checking the scourge of forest fires.-Boston Transcript. Cheap Globe Trotting. What can be done in the way of globe trotting nowadays by men of limited time and means is really astonishing. Ulysses junior informs us that he is a clerk in the city on a salary of £120 and with a fortnight's holiday in the year, and yet he has, though still in the twenties, explored almost the whole of Europe. "Every year," he says, "I make a point of seeing a new country. So far I have visited every country in Europe, from Norway to Italy and from Russia to Portugal, with the solitary exception of Turkey, and this I mean to do this year. On foot, on bicycle and by train I have traveled over 8,000 miles on the continent. I have seen almost all the more interesting sights, and yet my average holiday expenditure does not exceed £15, or roughly, £1 a day."—Tit-Bits. Medicine For Trees. Often the roots of fruit trees, more exhausted than the parts in the air, refuse to supply the branches with their proper nourishment. To cure or prolong life of trees possessing still a certain vigor a French investigator has injected solutions of sulphate of iron and other chemicals into their trunks. The liquid penetrates into the cells of the trees, but not into the old wood. It follows the young layers, descending into the roots to the depth of three and a quarter feet and rising to the top of the tree with a uniform distribution. Good results are said to have been attained. Scientific Slaughter Houses. Paris, with her genius for organization, probably leads the world in her scientifically conducted slaughter houses. Almost perfect precautions for public safety are taken by means of the rigorous inspection of the meat by the police. There are two immense municipal abattoirs, and the charge for slaughtering, known as the "slaughter house tax," is 2 francs per hundred kilograms, or about $4.22 per ton, which the city sets aside to defray the cost of maintaining and repairing the abattoirs. In round numbers the city receives $760,000 a year.—Public Opinion. Lake Michigan "Seiches." New words constantly assail unfamiliar eyes and send them to the dictionaries for enlightenment—new, not as fresh minted, but new to most readers. Now we are told that Lake Michigan had the "seiches" the other day and its level rose several feet along the west shore. Ordinarily it would be called a tidal wave, but the lakes have no tides. So to the worterbuch. Seiches, pronounced "sash," with the "a" long, is only an extraordinary change in the level of lakes. Thus does our vocabulary grow.—St. Paul Dispatch. Making Flour In London. The metropolis is a growing milling center. Within the last three years its milling capacity has been increased by about 150 sacks per hour. The milling capacity of the metropolis—namely, 550 sacks of 280 pounds per hour—is equal, at 140 hours per week, to a weekly capacity of 77,000 sacks, or an annual capacity of 3,850,000 sacks. Liverpool, the most important milling center in the United Kingdom, has an hourly milling capacity of 650 sacks and a yearly capacity of 4,550,000 sacks. Liverpool Milling. Intoxicated Fish. A stand at a distillery at Frankfort, Ky., broke down the other day, and 16,000 gallons of whisky were lost. It ran into Benson creek. Farmers living on the banks of the stream later saw hundreds of fish either floating lazily or else leaping playfully on the surface and altogether unafraid of the presence of the men. The farmers caught them by the bushel, and it was not until the news of the break at the distillery became known that the mystery was solved. The fish had become intricacied. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. W. H. Crane will next season appear in "Old Grogan Graham," a dramatization of the "Letters of a Self Made Merchant to His Son." "The Prince of India," the most imposing and costliest production of the current season, brought its tour to an end in Baltimore recently. The success of "Brown of Harvard," her first play, has been instrumental in securing for Rida Johnson Young a contract to write a comedy for James K. Hackett. Lotta, the wonderful soubrette, who is even now being persuaded to return to the stage after an absence of years, is rich by virtue of her real estate investments. Sam Bernard, a comedian who has always enjoyed a high salary, is no spendthrift. He has collected some money on the outside by touting for different business establishments. Francis Wilson is one of the actors whose carefulness in money matters is known to all his associates. One result of it is that he owns handsome real estate properties and a magnificent library. MODES OF THE MOMENT. Collars of cream lace worn with semitallored frocks give a pretty finish to them. Taffeta as a suit material seems to be rather out of the running this season, the softer silks and the linens and cottones lending themselves more adaptably to the prevailing styles. High girdles are not worn so much except to give the princess effect, but it is difficult to give a general rule for belts and girdles this year. Like the hats, they depend much upon the individual taste. To use large buttons for shirt waist studs (too large to readily make button-holes for) sew on to the back of each button a small pearl button, wrapping the thread many times to form a neck or stur back. Devoted as we are to the separate blouse, we must admit the superlor beauty and becomingness of the shirt suit. At any rate, whether we will or no, it has gained the ascendency, and the tub suits are considered much smarter than shirt waists and skirts.—New York Post. FACTS FROM FRANCE The manufactory of gobelins in Paris has the authorization to take part in the next exhibition of the salon. This exhibition of manufactured works has not taken place since 1873. The medical faculty of the Paris university plans an international technological encyclopedia. It is to be issued in ten languages, including "Esperanto," the world language. Six Frenchmen who were discovered a short time ago on a remote part of the island of New Britain, in the south seas, say that they escaped from the penal settlement of Noumea on a raft constructed of staves of beer barrels and sailed 2,000 miles on it. A French actress recently rented an apartment in Paris, but found when she entered into possession that it had no telephone and that no mirror had been fixed. She thereupon sued the landlord, who was ordered to pay 100 francs compensation for "deprivation of enjoyments." ENGLISH ETCHINGS. In England a man can take out an insurance policy against twins. Less than $5 per week is earned by three out of every four Englishmen. Fully one-third of the land in Great Britain is owned by members of the house of lords. Great Britain, it is said, eats in thirteen weeks all the 73,000,000 bushels of wheat which it grows. Since the sixteenth century twelve churches, a convent, a hospital and many hundreds of acres of land have been swallowed by the sea in the vicinity of Aldeburgh. For every ton of genuine ivory imported into Great Britain there are imported three, tons of vegetable ivory. The latter comes chiefly from the republic of Colombia, in South America. It is obtained from the seeds of the ivory nut palm. PITH AND POINT. Some people can't listen unless they have their mouths open. It is sometimes easier to figure the other man's profits than your own. Unfortunately a man with an easy going disposition is apt to be "no account." The reason a good many of us do not show bad taste in dressing or do ridiculous things is because we have not the money to spend. One of the things the average girl cannot explain is why when she announces her engagement the world does not stop going around. Children cannot lay claims to having any sense until they admit that their parents know best, and they are no longer children when they admit it.—Atchison Globe. HEALTH NEVERS. Never hammer at a bit of bad feeling in the house till you shape it into a disease. Never ask people if they've ever entirely got over that attack of disease. You might bring it on them again. Never swaddle up a baby in order to keep it warm, so that it will take cold as soon as a breath of sir strikes it. Never "feed a cold" or any other disease. Let your stomach have a rest. You will not starve if you go without food a week—Carleton's Marjorie. J. A. O'Donnell, H. D. Coghlin, O'Donnell & Coghlin Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph Sts. GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1339 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 215-330 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 908 CHICAGO Telephone Yards 6016. John Fitzgerald JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4737 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. Residence 113 W. Garfield Beul. CHICAGO Telephone Main 4839 Residence, 6626 Champlain Ave. Tel. Wentworth 2821 J.GRAY LUCAS Attorney At Law SUITE 51, 119-121 LA SALLE ST- CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO Over Montgomery's Drug Store. DR. J. ARTHUR COTTON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Hours: Office: 9 to 11 a. m. 233—22ND ST. 2 to 4 p. m. Tel: 8243 Calumet 7 to 9 p. m. CHICAGO Phone 194 South Hours: 9 to 12 A. M. 3 to 5 and after 6 P. M. CHICAO MODES OF THE MOMENT Scalloped linen ruching is a novelty. Steel beaded purses are the thing for the gray gown. Paquil green is a dark, heavy looking leaf green, almost the color of ivy. Velvet ribbons of all colors and widths are to be a great deal used this summer. A pretty feature of muslin gowns is the prevalence of little linen jackets to wear with them. Mohair in its soft, improved quality and lovely colorings is one of the best possible choices for a princess dress. A charming little bolero may be made of wide pompadour ribbon, one width forming the jacket fronts and another width the ruffled sleeve tops, the whole edged with finty ruche. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Have a good time, but don't make it your business. Idlers spend their time going nowhere and coming back. Don't expect any man to thank you for trying to induce him to do what he doesn't want to do. Trace your bad luck back a few blocks and the chances are that you will discover it is due to your bad management.—Chicago News. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets BRADLEY & I REAL ESTATE, L AND INSURA RADLEY & FIELD REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Ested Street BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE 4709 S. Halsted Street CHI POLICE MAGISTRATE Hyde Park. 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