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Afro-American Women "Jim Crowed" By Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley, President of the Frederick Douglass Center Who Is of the Opinion That No Matter "How Highly Educated Colored Women Are They Are Incapable of Leading Off In Any Reform Movement"—Neither Do They Serve As the Heads of It's Departments. Vol. XI Afro-America "Jim C By Mrs. Celia Parker of the Frederick Who Is of the O ter "How High Women Are The Leading Off In ment"—Neither the Heads of It's Several of our good Afro-American friends who are very prominent in the affairs of the Frederick Douglass Center, have for the past few weeks, had their backs up like tom cats, and one or two of them, have declared that the writer ought to be "run out of town for misrepresenting the facts concerning the "Center" and Mrs. Woolley, and we again say, that if, we have so far stated things which are devoid of the truth respecting the "Center" and in reference to the views of Mrs. Woolley, as to her conception of the true status of the Afro-American in this city, they are freely welcome to all the free doings they want in the columns of this paper. In order to put us right in this matter. In moving onward it must be admitted that many of the Colored ladies and gentlemen who are affiliated with the Frederick Douglass Center, are so short sighted that they readily jump at hasty conclusions, and are incapable of reasoning from cause to effect, which fact incapacitates them from weighing or measuring the far reaching statement made by Mrs. Cecilia Parker Woolley, not so long ago, when she did not hesitate in declaring in the presence of one of the most honorable and fair or high minded Afro-Americans, in this city or the west that "it makes no difference how highly educated Colored women are they lack executive ability and are incapable of leading off in any reform movement, or serving as Presidents of the various departments of the Frederick Douglass Center." These or similar expressions fell from the lips of Mrs. Woolley, on the occasion referred to, in reference to the lack of executive ability on the part of Afro-American women whom she had so far come in contact with. Without the least doubt if any Colored man or woman would have been bold enough to have heaped such a burning and everlasting insult upon the best women belonging to the race, the majority of the Colored members of the Frederick Douglass Center would have been in favor of mobbias and lynching them, or forever branding them as being enemies and traitors to their race. But it seems that the child like or the simple hearted Colored ladies and gentlemen who have rallied to the support of Mrs. Woolley, have utterly failed to make the slightest outcry against her views or remarks in this direction, and after forty years of freedom, progress, and education on the part of the Negro, they are willing to drink in this fearful indictment of Mrs. Woolley, that the race in this city, where it has supposed to reach high-water mark in everything which is conductive to the highest state of mankind, has failed to produce one woman who is capable of leading off in any reform movement! If this is true then the race is eternally lost, and right now it might as well give up the struggle of endeavoring to reach the highest goal in civilization. There must be some truth in the statement that Mr. Woolley, has no confidence in the ability of "Columbus Instead of these ladies with all their wealth and education, expending a portion of their time and energy in an honest effort to elevate Colored Women through their Clubs, seemingly they would rather play second fiddle in the clubs conducted by White ladies who are loth to admit that Colored Women, no matter how highly educated they are, they are incapable of teaching them anything, and in order to encourage Mrs. Woolley in her work of "Jim Crowing" the very best Afro-American Women who frequent the Frederick Douglass Center, Mrs. F. B. Williams never makes any bones in proclaiming that "Colored women and their clubs are no good, that they are not nor cannot accomplish anything for the race, and many other Colored ladies and gentlemen who are heartily ashamed of their race, who are endeavoring to get away from it and long to be white, and boss and make their living by robbing or cheating the poor Negro at the same time, roll their own brazenness, and say Amen! CHICAGO, JULY 7, 1906 1 HON. FRANK WENTER. Former Member of the Board of Drainage Trustees, Who Was the Successful Campaign Manager of Mayor Dunne's Political Contest in 1905, and Who Has Been Selected by His Honor to Succeed Mr. Joseph W. Errant as a Civil Service Commissioner. Amen! to the views uttered by Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Woolley, like the White slave masters and mistresses of olden times, thoroughly understands how to handle Colored people, for some how or other she has successfully learned this one undisputed fact namely, that "the more any person clothed in a white skin belittles the biggest men and women belonging to the Afro-American race, as long as the white person will condescend to appear in public with them once and a while, the better they like them, and by reason of this fact, Mrs. Woolley is ena- bled to stand up in the Frederick Douglass Center, and plainly indicate that "the best educated Colored women lack executive ability, that they are incapable of heading any reform movement." And strange to say, the leading Colored doctors, lawyers and their devoted wives, and other Colored men and women who claim to be full of race pride, whom Mrs. Woolley, regards as mere little children in her sight endorse her views or actions in this respect, and are ever ready to contribute their money to assist to maintain her in a comfortable home. THE EVENT OF CENTURIES NOT YEARS. The presentation of a loving cup to Col. Robert T. Motts, proprietor of the New Pekin Theatre, well deserves the echoes and aught to be reechoed from sea shore, to sea shore from the northern extremity of our land, to the extreme point of our southern country. Such events are not only seldom seen in our times as the true history of our future social record. But has never been recorded at any place in the annals of secular or profane history. A theatre the most cozy, the most beautiful, the most complete, the most orderly with the best of decorum. Every man and woman employed at their best, playing well their part. What more could the Negro of intellect ask? What better place for recreation and amusement would the cultured like to go? Nowhere on earth than the place prepared for you and yours by this progressive Negro of the 20th century, R. T. Motts. The committee, Geo. W. Henderson, Albert Sexton, Jas. H. Porter, Mark Cowan, Jos. Hughes. B. F. Moseley, Jos. Dunn, Wm. Weller, Noah D. Thompson, John Garner, deserves everlasting applause and honorable place in the hearts of the American Negro for the splendid effort and noble service of appreciation in behalf of the citizens of Chicago for the design and valuable memento, for so worthy a benefactor. The human mind cannot conceive at this time what this man has done for the Negro, how he has lifted high the flag of honor in the world of fame by giving to us a theatre of our own, conducted and managed by Negroes with merit and ability, which will compare with the best services rendered in the theatrical business. Here a husband can honestly take his wife, here a wife can honorably take her husband, here mothers can take their children and be proud of the occasion and inspire them for their future station in life. bled to stand up in the Frederick Douglass Center, and plainly indicate that "the best educated Colored women lack executive ability, that they are incapable of heading any reform movement." And strange to say, the leading Colored doctors, lawyers and their devoted wives, and other Colored men and women who claim to be full of race pride, whom Mrs. Woolley, regards as mere little children in her sight endorse her views or actions in this respect, and are ever ready to contribute their money to assist to maintain her in a comfortable home. You do not have to sit in the rear seats here as you do at The Great Northern, The Alhambra and other places of amusement, to your discontent, but it is your privilege to sit where your future calls from the front door to private box or stage. If you will go to shows, and you must attend thetheatre, then spend what you have to make this man king of his profession. You should go to this theatre because this man Robert T. Motts is giving more employment to our people than all the Negro business men in Chicago together. He is demonstrating the ability of the Negro in the trades as well as in the theatrical profession. His place is the eighth wonder of the world. Nothing in Japan or China is more beautiful than the internal part of this building. The asbestos curtain and exits are equal to those of any theatre in this city, and the theatre is perfectly safe for the patrons. What more could we ask, what more could we desire? Now, honor this house, making sacrifices to attend, to make his effort succeed. Pack the house to its utmost capacity until you will make him erect a still larger one, for I tell you if the Chicago Negroes hold up his hands nothing will be too good or artistic, for this large hearted patron will do and give to his kith and kind. During the enthusiasm of the show the committee proceeded to the stage with the loving cup covered with Jackulon silk, ready to be presented to its recipient by the Hon. Beaulargard F. Moseley, who honored the occasion as none but Moseley can. The master of ceremonies was Mr. James Hale Porter, who never undertook to do anything without its accomplishment. He said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate the honor in no uncertain tone of the friendly influences of this occasion and the part "The Slave of Murillo" An Interesting and Thrilling Story, Written Expressly for The Broad Ax By Colonel Clarke Irvine, Oregon, Missouri. CHAPTER I. The following pathetic story of the origin of one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance age is literally true: Sebastian Gomez was a Negro and the slave of the great painter, Murillo, of Seville, Spain, who also owned his father. The surprising genius of the little fellow was first discovered under the circumstances herein related. His master cherished him, emancipated both him and his father and ever afterwards held him as a son of his own. CHAPTER I. The sun had just risen and all slept in the city of Seville, Spain, when several young men of ages from sixteen to over twenty years met together one morning in the month of June of the year 1558 at the door of a beautiful mansion situated in the square of the little cloister of St. Francis. They were named Tobar, Villavi, Raba, Menetes, Souares, and Cordova. So they addressed each other in bidding "good morning." Then one of them having struck on the outer door, a gigantic and aged Negro man opened it. "Good morning, my ancient Gomez," cried they all together, lively and laughing like boys as they were; "Is the master up yet?" "Not yet, my young gentlemen," replied the Negro, in a tone low and gutteral. "And his son, is he up?" "The young signior, Gaspard, smokes a cigarette in the garden with the signior M. Ozorio," said he, still lowering his voice. "As you say that, Gomez," said Raba to him, "one would think that you are yet asleep." "Damn! Signior Rabe, I am not sure that I am yet awake." "Lazy one!" cried several of them, while precipitating themselves into the ateler or work room and each one directing himself towards his own seat and easel. "Lazy one! Idler!" repeated the old man, following them into the room. "Idler, lazy! I don't know what it is to be so, my young gentlemen, but I do know well that if the good God had made me born master instead of slave I would have passed my life in sleep. Sleep! Ah, it is so good!" "By St. James of Compostello," cried Souares, who had opened his box and taken up his palette, "who of you all, Monselgeeurs, was the last one in this room yesterday eve?" "Are you like old Gomez, still asleep? Souares! Don't you remember how we all went out together?" "Gomez!" exclaimed Tomar, as he looked at his easel," who entered this room last night after we left it?" "There!—some trick again of the Zombi" (demon), muttered the old man with all the symptoms of alarm. "The Zombi! O, the Zombi!, said Souares with some show of laughter, "if I once catch your Zombi I will whip him over his shoulders to make him confess his true name. "Tis a poor trick to play on me—especially on me who, of all the members of this class, cleans most carefully his palette. My pencils are as dirty as if I had just been using them." "Hold!" cried Mendis, "here again is a little face on the corner of the canvas," as he held up his easel. "Look," said Cordova, "it is the very portrait of the old Canon Isarts! See!" "It is true!—perfect!—a speaking CHAPTER I. "And his son, is he up?" of Murillo" Thrilling Story, Writ- or The Broad Ax Clarke Irvine, Missouri. likeness," cried all as they surrounded it. "And see! On my canvas a head of a child that is not bad at all," said Dacorta, who had come in later. "Oh thunder! It is time this should end. Such trickery grows disgusting." "Again the Zombi!, growled old Gomez in his base voice. "My faith! If it is the Zombi of Gomez who makes all these pretty little figures we find every morning on our canvases," said Villavi, "he ought, seeing he meddles so much, to make on my picture of the descent from the cross the Virgin's head. I can't succeed in giving to her that expression of chastity and of goodness that the mother of our blessed Saviour should have. Gee! For eight days I have labored during all the hours on that face, only to efface it with disgust at night. All my work is for nothing." As Villavi said that he came up to his easel carelessly—then uttered a cry of surprise and stood pale and astonished before it. "Look at Villavi," cried Raba, "He has just been changed into a statue." Then, as Villavi still kept silence and preserved his air of amazement, all the students advanced one after the other and all remained astonished. In the middle of the canvas of Villavi, at the foot of the cross, and where the young man had on the evening before effaced his head of the Virgin, there had appeared another as if by a miracle, sketched only, but with an expression so divinely ravishing, with such perfect purity in the lines, so graceful in tona and chaste in expression, in the midst of all the surrounding figures, it made, so to say, a point in the picture. "How beautiful it is," cried all the young men together. "I do not see who could have done it, unless it was Gaspard," said Souares. "Here," said gaily a youth of about seventeen years, entering the gallery, followed by a man of a certain age whom the scholars saluted as Signior Ozorio. "That sly Gaspard," said Raba. "His father complains that the only study he pursues is literature, and contrary to everybody else he does his painting at night and the literary work by day." "Who says I paint of nights?" said the laughing Gaspard. "Hold," said in one voice all the pupils whose canvases had been increased by faces, heads and arms. Signior Ozorio looked and cried out in a serious tone: "Boys, upon my soul this work was never done by Gaspard!" "On what do you found your opinion, Signior?" asked Cheves. "On this, that Gaspard is utterly incapable of it." "Incapable of the trick, do you mean?" said Tobas. "Of doing it so well," added Ozorio. They all broke out into a peal of laughter at this. "Then it must have been yourself, Selgnor," said they. "I should not deny this touch," he replied, "but 'tis not mine. I am not of the age for me to get up at night without necessity, nor to pjay tricks—" "Who, then, could have done it?" "The Zombi," muttered in a low, solemn-tone old Gomen. (Continued on Page 2.) No. 37 THE BROAD AX JULIUS F. TATLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago R., as Second-class Matter. 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. To the Friends of Right and Justice. I have no gall for enemies, nor bitterness for foes, but peace and goodwill for everybody. I am prompted to address you these few words, not as a strike-back, not as a defense, but to express my feeling after a most severe denunciation. I have seen all in the life of the Negro since the firing of the first gun on Fort Sumter to the present day; and I am forced to say, that the recent expressions of displeasure show more clearly the capabilities of the Negro race at invective and incidently the race's educational forces and powers, than anything else that has occurred since the bloody guns of Fort Sumter called the nation to battle, which resulted in the annihilation of human slavery on the American Continent. For forty years without intermission, I have labored in the schoolroom for the advancement of my people—thirty-two of these forty years being spent here at this place with the same Board of Trustees, making "bricks without straw," out of which has grown Normal. Through all of the years of my life to the present, from the Pine Groves of North Carolina, through the Richmond Shave Pen and the Cotton Fields of Alabama, I have been true to my race. My ears have been open to the cries of the needy; to the struggling school boy, whether from the distant jungles of Africa, or the swamps of my own country; the pulpit; undenominational or inter-denominational; orders and societies of every description, my heart has throbbed in unison with their cause and to their call wherever I saw aspiration or inspiration for the uplift of the Negro race. To every cause and everybody I have divided my strength and substance as God has vouch-safed, ungrudgingly, my strength and substance to me, and without respect to race or condition, but with respect to my conception of God's generosity which dispenses to all as freely as the common air is given. I have tried to be courteous, kind and helpful to everybody, regardless of race or condition and God alone knows how well I have done my duty. This characterizes my dealing toward all men, white and black, of every condition and station. I give to each justice, truth and right, as well as the goods of this world, as God enables me to see it. In the great battle for human rights, and, especially, the rights of the Negro, we have no forces to spare. The united Negro race can sooner come into the recognition of the civilized world than a race full of the energy of intercinec strife and interracial destruction. With malice toward none and charity for all, I am. Yours truly, W. H. COUNCILL, Normal, Ala. ST. MARK LITERARY 47TH AND STATE. The subject of Rev. J. W. Simpson's address next Sunday afternoon will be "The Three Problems." The music will be rendered by Mrs. Jessie T. Smith Mrs. D. M. Good, Mrs. E. D. Gairy, Miss Nettle Saxon, Miss Harris, and Mrs. J. H. D. Randolph. The programs are very interesting each Sunday. The Event of Centuries, Not Years (Concluded from Page 1.) It will record in the history of to-morrow. While the Clansman is trying to contaminate the minds of the good citizenship of our people, this event dwindles the attempt to a mere atom. I take great pleasure in introducing to you Mr. Hugh Buchanan and Mr. G. W. Henderson, who sung to the delight of the multitude with no cessation of recalls. Miss Gertrude Jackson accompanied upon the piano with her usual ability. The introduction of Mr. Moseley was next, whose address was as follows: "Ladies and gentlemen: Of all the events of history to me, this seems the most sublime. It is an inspiration of the future. It is a lasting impression that will cause my head to be lifted up, and my encouragement to go forth to a new born race. The chief and grandest traits in an individual's making are emblems of success, good intentions, and esteem. All have been demonstrated here to-night by Chicago, whose citizens pay you this tribute. This emblem, this loving cup, represents by its chemical element and metal the strength of your people's relationship for your sagacity and prowess. You have done so much until you cannot tare it to. Friend Motts! Be it as it may, this emblem is a token of their friendship and esteem. This, sir, The Slave of Murillo." (Concluded from Page 1.) "To work, boys! To work," said Gaspard, raising his gaze to the ceiling. "I hear the master getting up—his dressing is soon done. For me, I—I save myself." "Where go you then?" "With Ozorio to read to him some verses I made." "I am born a victim to father and son," said Ozorio, laughing. "Being small, Murillo himself tickles or pounds me to make me laugh or cry; and as I am his elder my ears must be scorched by his poetry—Gaspard's. Au revoir, my children." "Sebastien! Sebastien! Sebastien!" At this cry, repeated a hundred Echoes of the Curtis-Hall Wedding Many sores and heart-burnings still linger with some of the four hundred in connection with the Curtis-Hall wedding, which set the town on fire last week. As a result of this bitterness and soreness, the members of the Fellowship Club slapped Dr. J. B. Hall square in the face, by absolutely refusing to give a stag in his honor, after his bride and her head managers had failed to honor its members with invitations to the wedding reception. Entertained Dr. A. M. Curtis of Washington, D. C., brother of the new Mrs. J. B. Hall, by giving a stage in his honor last Friday evening. The thing was to come off on Thursday night, but its members held it over until the first mentioned evening in order to give Dr. Hall and his charming wife enough time to jump out of town, as they left for Boston Thursday evening. Some of the snobs and weak-minded leaders of the four hundred in this city are firmly of the opinion that inasmuch as Miss Hattie Curtis or Mrs. Hall, who has in the past been glad to accept of hospitalities from cheap janitors and their wives and take them on social equality with herself, "never progressed any further nor higher in her educational effort than the fourth or sixth grade in the common schools in this city," and inasmuch as she never knowingly received private or public instructions in music nor in the higher branches of learning, that "she is amply qualified to become the head leader of the four hundred of Boston." BETHEL LITERARY AND HISTOR ICAL CLUB. Programme for Sunday July 8th. After this meeting the Club will adjourn for two months, resuming its meetings on the second Sunday in September. As this is our last meeting before adjournment we have arranged a general programme which promises to very interesting. Each of the following speakers will be limited to ten minutes each on their various subjects. Dr. Cress: The Relation of the Cianman on the public mind. Dr. Brown: The Good that can be accomplished through Clubs such as ours. Prof. M. L. Benson: Roosevelt's charge at Tuskegee to the students. Rev. W. H. Griffin: Relation that Literary Clubs should bear to the church. Abner Jones: Synopsis of the Clubs financial condition. Music arranged by Ms. Weeks itself is a compliment of your test and genius. What you have done for us all you have done successfully. I now present this token of esteem to you, prompted by the people of Chicago, white and black. Hoping the New Pekin may become the best and the grandest in the west, I thank you." Mr. Motts accepted the cup amid showers of applause and continuous ovations. All honor to him is due. He is worthy of it all. This scene I shall never forget, as he stood there making history which The Broad Ax will record, as he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot make a speech and never made a speech, but I feel tonight that I must, for none can make it for me. My speech to you is this: I wanted to help the race and at last thought I would try it. I have done the best I could. It is for you to judge. Words cannot express my appreciation for you and the people of Chicago tonight. It will be an inspiration to me in the future to advance the commercial enterprise of my people. I thank you thrice, I thank you." You can imagine this picture, this scene; rising out of the dreams of Madam Tyler's fancy scenes bearing the impress of love and devotion, the effect of that song and chours, "The Poor Old Slave Has Gone to Rest," with the presentation of this $500 cup, made of sterling silver, lined inside with gold with a new page in history made. L. W. W. times and in all tones, a little Negro came running into the gallery. "Here I am, masters!" said he in a trembling tone. "Sebastien, a new canvas," said one. Another exclaimed, "For me, good fat oil!" A third demanded his mahl-stick; another asked for yellow to be ground well; Naples yellow; another cried, "For me, slenna yellow;" "Ochre for me," says one; "Vernillion here," says another. All cry, "Run, boy, run quick!" And to all these demands that grew and hurtled around the poor little chap, not knowing whom to obey, he strove, sweat, jumped about, serving one here another there, and not able to wait on all at once, received scolding and rebuffs from all. (To be Continued.) A KIND ACT. Dennis Hayes 69 Clifton ave., who has served on the Police Force for quite a number of years, spends his vacation each year with friends in Evarheart; S. D., and while on a visit there recently, he met a Colored man by the name of Zeake Harris who was sadly in need of a pair of crutches, and officer Hayes Informed Harris, that on his return to Chicago, he would send him a pair, and true to his word last Saturday morning, he walked into the U. S. Express Co., 87 Washington street, and paid the express charges on a pair of new crutches which were forwarded to Mr. Harris which was a kind act on the part of Mr. Hayes. CONGRESS AND THE COLOR LINE In the enabling act which has been signed by the president, admitting Oklahoma and the Indian Territory as the 46th state of the Union, under the name of the State of Oklahoma, the act specifically permits the new State of Oklahoma to separate the Negroes from the other race in the public schools. Separation means discrimination and it takes no prophet to see what treatment will be accorded the Negro when in the very foundations of the state, discrimination against the Negro is permitted. And this, too, by the Republican party!—The St. Luke Herald. 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 an- nouncements 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 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 entitling 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 Silone-Yates, 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. CHIPS CHIPS Mrs. Frank Gellespie, 32nd st., spent Sunday with her husband in Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Elsie Oliver Keen, who has been very seriously ill is improving at Provident Hospital. Dr. J. Arthur Cotton, 233 22nd st. is kept very busy in looking after his numerous patients. Mrs. Frank Smith of Rockford, Ill., Ill., spent the 4th in the city the guest of Mrs. Jas. Smith 4421 State st. Mrs. J. H. Coleman, 2540 State st., is on a two months visit with friends in several points in Ohio and Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Eva Woods, 5327 Calumet ave., who underwent a slight operation in Provident Hospital able to be among her friends again. Mrs. Cordelia West, 3220 Wabash ave., will leave July 9th for Detroit, Mich., where she will attend the National Woman's Federation. Prof. Pedro Tinsley entertained the members of the Choral Study Club at the Institutional Church, July 3. Mr. Jas. Bryan of Millwaukee, Wis., spent the 4th in the city, the guest week the guest of his uncle, Mr. Jas. Bryan, 5929 Wabash ave. Mrs. N. Clark Smith and daughter, 3608 State street, have gone for a few weeks' visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Young, of Wichita, Kan. Mrs. Jacob L. Parks 3159 State st. in Detroit, Mich., visiting her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Slaughter and friends she will return to the city in about ten days. Mrs. Susan Rider, a wealthy .egro woman of Atlantic City, N. J., will build a public park on property owned in that city by herself, at a cost it is said, of $15,000, for the pleasure of those of her race. Mrs. Dr. A. M. Curtis for some cause or other failed to arrive in town last week from Washington, D.C., until one or two days after the Curtis-Hall wedding, which was mighty strange to say the least. Colored people of Austin, Texas, are making preparations to begin an automobile service when the Jim crow street car service goes into effect. A joint stock company will conduct the business. The City Council will adjourn after its meeting Monday evening until the middle of September in order to give the city daddies a chance to draw their pay while enjoying their vacation. Miss Margaret Bryant and Miss Nellie Tompkins of Balto, Md., spent Wednesday the 4th with Mrs. Mary A. Williams 6618 Vernon ave., many friends called during the afternoon and evening to meet them and an enjoyable time was spent. The members of the City Council Monday evening, by a vote of 40 to 2%, laid former Fire Marshal Camplion on the shelf for keeps, and he will retire from active service on half pay. Thomas Carey, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Cook County, has clear sailing, and he will be elected to Congress this fall from the 4th Congressional District George J. Terrell, general manager of the Democratic headquarters, 70 Washington street, has blossomed cut as a full-fledged notary public, and he has been doing a land office business with the various candidates who have had their petitions sworn to, as to their correctness prior to filing. On Wednesday July 4th Hon. Oscar DePriest escorted Misses Lottie M. Cooper of N. Y.; Geo. C. Hall, Misses N. Curtis of Washington, D. C.; Hazel Hart of Indianapolis, Mess. W. R. Sobers, and Noah D. Thompson to Dunning, Ill., where they were introduced to Mr. Smith the manager of the County Institutions by him, shown through the many departments supported by Cook County. HUMOR WHY PRICES WENT UP. Some of the Curious Effects of the Recent Boom In the Cost of Ice. We went over to the "parlor" across the way and called for a "brick" of mixed and put down the price we had paid always before. The young lady chirped, "Five cents more, please." We asked why and wherefore. "Ice has gone up," she said. Ah, yes, so. Ice up from $3 to $5 a ton, ice cream from 35 to 40 cents a quart. Exactly. This led us to investigate. We found the following facts-approximately, allowing something, of course, to a deep inward activity of feeling: Our beef went up because of increased refrigeration cost. A bunch of radiates cost 2 cents more. Oranges jumped and all kinds of fruits. But we did not see just why kindling wood went up 25 cents a barrel. Of course it was easy after we found it out. It cost more to supply the kindling splitter with ice water. Then bricks went up 40 cents a thousand. The owner of the brickyard ran the ice plant, and the rise in bricks was a purely sympathetic movement, like the inflammation of the eye because the other has got a clinder in it. Then we discovered that a corner lot we wanted had gone up $100. This stumped us until we learned the intimate connection between this corner lot and ice. The lot owner, it seems, had got shut up for three hours in a refrigerator, and contact with ice had imbued him with the idea that everything was going up. But the most singular effect of the ice boom came out as follows: We asked for an increase of salary and got the frosty face, the glacial glance and the ice eye all in a moment. Then we realized that ice was up, and it was costing more to coneal employing interiors, leaving just so much less for the interiors of the submerged classes.—Judge. Chemistry and Lot's Wife. A professor of chemistry in one of our prominent colleges asked his pupils to bring original questions on chemical changes as part of their next day's lesson. When the time arrived the professor asked the pupils how they succeeded. One young man, with a twinkle in his eye, raised his hand. "Well, what is the question?" asked the professor. "What two chemical changes did the wife of Lot undergo?" The professor, who prided himself on his knowledge of chemistry, was puzzled. At last he confessed that he did not know. "First she turned to rubber and then she turned into a pillar of salt," said the funny student.—Judge's Magazine of Fun. Even at Last. "In the dark, still hours some one shouted 'Burglar!'" "You don't say!" "Yes, and then we all rushed out of our apartments and down the steps. In the shadows of a corner we saw a crouching figure." "Gracious!" "And we pummeled him until he was black and blue. Then the lights were turned on and everybody gave a cheer that could be heard a block." "How exciting! And it was really the burglar!" "No, it was the janitor. We had made a mistake, but everybody got the chance to settle up an old grudge."—Detroit Tribune. Rural Logic Uncle Hiram—Brother Eben's son has stained glass winders in his new house. Aunt Samantha—Yew don't tail! That comes from marryin' one uv them good for nothin' city gals. I rockon she's too peeky lazy to wash th' stains off—Chicago News. WOMAN AND FASHION For Warm Morning. The breakfast jacket is a delightful garment at all seasons of the year, but especially so during the warm months. Here is one that is suited to all the lawns, muslins and materials of the like and which can be varied in ser. B LINGERIE BREAKFAST JACKET. eral ways so that it practically becomes two or three in place of one. In the illustration it is made of dotted batiste and is trimmed with frills and bandings of embroidery, the neck being finished with a big flat collar, but if something simpler is desired the collar can be omitted and the neck can be finished either in V shape or cut out to form a small square. Again, in place of confining the entire jacket at the waist line the fullness at the back can be held by a band on the under side, while the fronts are left free. Materials Coming. Stripes are already pushing checks aside with the elect in France, and the peking-black and white—make some of the smartest costumes, especially for matrons who like a certain dignity in their costumes. Volles with line effects and heavier serge and other wool weaves show this tendency toward stripes. Combinations of silk and velvet and velvet and wool in the same weave are a noticeable feature of fall goods. Grape Negligees. Crapes, plain or flowered, are always popular with the designers of negligees, and many of the best models are carried out in this favorite material. Combinations of valenciennes lace and embroidered batiste or of valenciennes and cluny are the usual thing for trimming such gowns and matinees, and the popularity of cluny is noticeable throughout the province of the negligee, as in all departments of woman's dress this season. Concerning Hatplus. There is a fashion in everything and a craze for novelty. The latest is to wear the very biggest ornamentation in the way of hatpins. The favorite pin of the moment is a huge amber ball, although many tortoise shell ones are also used by those who can afford them. Light tortoise shell is worn in preference to the darker tone. Fashionable Summer Silks. Seldom has summer seen such a variety of suitable, attractive and altogether charming silks as at the present time. Here is a costume that shows a combination of plaid skirt with plain jacket that is exceedingly chic and A COMBINATION COSTUME. smart. The skirt is the new sun plaited one that is cut in circular shape, with a seam at the center front, and is trimmed with bands of velvet ribbon, while the coat is made of plain taffeta, with collar and cuffs of the plaid and trimming of velvet ribbon that matches that upon the skirt, the two combining to make an exceedingly desirable effect. The little coat is well fitting, jaunty and altogether smart and can be worn closed or open, as may be liked. Both will be found suited to a variety of materials and can be made to match in place of in contrast if better liked, volle and all similar materials of lightweight wool being quite as appropriate as silk. 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-bee 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 paraphernails 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. Fined the Contractor. Earthquakes, fire and accidents by blood 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 cigar 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 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 gase at the sun until relatives brought the necessary amount of rubber as redemption. Separate. 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 talkt, 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. Rem 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 $350. 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 $9,000,000,000 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 $200,000 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.-LeLaille's Weekly. A Quaint Old Book A descendant of the ancient Babylonian, Mrs. Amie 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 18 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 Babylonians. 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 vit alm姆mobiles, an' the next'd be a big diamin' in me shirt front. Phwat'd ye be after doin', 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 marinn.' "'An phwat'd ye be doin' at 6 in the marinn' 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 gip up!''" Paderewaki's Bell Boy. Rosamund 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 Paderewski, 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. "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. American Brick Co. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. 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URERS OF Sewer Brick BREVITIES THE HALL OF FAME. Sir Gilbert Parker, the novelist member of parliament, does most of his writing nowadays while standing up. Asa Dekluge, who has been chosen chief of the Apache Indians to succeed Geronimo, is a graduate of the Indian school at Carlisle and has great influence with his tribe. 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, Balsaz, 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 Leipsi 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 82,850 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 avoir-drops weight, the former containing 420 grains, the latter 457.5 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 entmudgeon-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—Fomerville 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 heretette—New York Evening Mall. Most names have come from trades, as Smith, Singer, Fisher, etc, and yet, strangers to say, we have nobody by the name of Graffter—Galveston Newa. Visitors to the country this year will undoubtedly miss the straw rides of happy memories. Unde Sillas has nothing in the line of a pleasure vehicle now but a swift automobile—Buffalo CHOICE MISCELLANY 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 lumberings, 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. Scientific slaughter屋 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 meet 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 Dismatch. Making Floor 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 10 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 lastly or also 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 in- A Midsummer Night's Outing Englewood Lodge No. 4230 G.U.O.O.F. AGAIN INVITES YOU AND FRIENDS TO ATTEND ITS SIXTH ANNUAL Trolley Party Saturday Night, July 14th, 1906 Six beautiful, well-lighted and decorated Trains leave 79th St. and Went- worth Avenue for CALUMET GROVE at 8:20, 8:40, 9, 9:10 and 9:20, P. M. FARE, ROUND TRIP, 35C. GOOD MUSIC. REFRESHMENTS. A GOOD TIME. For further particulars see committee, Beauregard F. Moseley S. J. Manning Henry Regland R. Woodfolk Thos. M. Lanier J. C. Elliot A. J. Brown John Wilbert, ex-off. Drew Sims Jas. Bennett MODES OF THE MOMENT. Collars of cream lace worn with semitallored frocks give a pretty finish to them. Tuftata as a suit material seems to be rather out of the running this season, the softer silks and the linens and cottons 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 stump back. Devoted as we are to the separate blouse, we must admit the superior beauty and becomingness of the shirt suit. At any rate, whether we will or not, 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, said 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. 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. The reason a good many of us do not shdv 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 ball 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 air 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 Magazine. 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