The Broad Ax

Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray And His Many So-called Immoral Acts Held Up to the Light of Day by the Old Church Organ. The Nameless Colored man held Rev. A. J. Carey's Toes to the Fire. Richard E. Moore Called Down for Voting Against the Christian Lady. It was our intention at first not to pay the slightest attention to the long three column attack on us which appeared recently in one of the Old Church Organs, but after reading the following comment which may be found in the columns of the Old Church Organ of Saturday September, 1, which appeared in connection with what the Pioneer Press Martinsburg West, Va., and the Sentinel Penacola, Florida, had to say in reference to the fight which the nameless Colored man started on us, we have now fully made up our mind to continue this fight to the bitter end, whatever the result might be, for the purpose of proving beyond a reasonable doubt, that the nameless Colored man and his Old Church Organ, were the very first, to start the fight against the most prominent Afro-American Preachers in this city. The comment referred to is as follows: "Julius F. Taylor is the chap who writes the stuff that appears in The Broad Ax, a Chicago sheet which bears a wide-spread reputation for its vilifying propensities, and thusly the nameless Colored man grabs at the small crumbs thrown at him by these sheets which seem to be run solely in the interest of Booker T. Washington: "All that we have sailed of Taylor and his sheet are true, and scores of other things which stamp him as an open enemy of all Negro churches, preachers etc., which we could not spare the space to publish. The half has never been told." "There is not a white man that reads and believes that paper that thinks a Negro preacher can be honest and moral and that a Negro woman devoted to church work is not either criminally related to the preacher and officers or is a silly fool being robbed by smarter Negroes. This is the reputation this paper has been trying to make for the best Negro people for the past seven years with his white Democratic readers." In order to prove that the nameless Colored man, continues to run off at the mouth, like a braking, snapping, mad, dog, and that he is lying ten thousand times faster than the boss devil can run, we will proceed to dig up some more of his filth, and nastiness which he took so much pleasure in squirting over Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, Rev. A. J. Carey, the members of their official boards, and one or two other preachers, which finally forced Bishop A. Grant to Journey to this city and order a church trial for Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray. Richard E. Moore was a member of the official Board of Bethel Church, at the time the Old Church Organ accused Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray with attempting a criminal assault on one of its most respectable female members, and the nameless Colored man or the Old Church Organ bull-raged Mr. Moore in the following manner: "Brother Richard E. Moore was there, too. He has two daughters and a wife. Suppose some man had mistreated either his daughter or his wife as was described in the charge against Preacher Murray, do you think there would have been any church trial? Oh! No. Bro. Moore would have laid his religion on the shelf and "Went gunning." Bro. Moore believes in protecting his family. But how about other families, Bro. Moore? You have heard the charge the wife of one of your brother members on the Board had been indecently assaulted. Did you say it was a serious charge and vote for investigation, or did you think that because it wasn't your wife you didn't care, and so voted against her?" "How about you, Bro. Fletcher People believe you are a straight man, of course you are getting pretty old now, you can't be very crooked. But how did you vote? You have known the wrongd woman who made the charge for a dozen years. You know her conduct has been that of a Christian and lady. You have met her in the church, talked with her at class meeting, and partatken of sacrament with her at the altar. Now when those charges were read, didn't you think that if they were true the Preacher was a disgrace to the pulpit? Did you vote to make her prove the charge, or did you "back back and go the other way?" "And then there were your sisters on the Board. How did you vote? You are women, wives and mothers, you ought to have sympathy for women, certainly you would defend a sister. You heard the charges, you know were made by a decent, respectable, upright Christian woman, a friend and co-worker in the church, you know that if the lowest prostitute in town was to make those charges in any court in town, the man charged would be arrested in an hour's time, you know that many a man has been killed for a much less serious charge than that made last Monday night. Well when your sister made the charge, and was then put out of the room so you and the preacher could discuss the question whether you would investigate the matter or not, what did you do? Did you demand that your wronged sister be heard, or did you vote to "stand by the Preacher?" "The Old Church Organ, ran in under Rev. A. J. Carey, and his official Board of Quinn Chapel, for the part they played in assisting to throw a thick-coat of whitewash over Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray in the following manner: "What business has Dr. Carey to meddle with another Preacher's fight. Why does Dr. Carey think it is his duty to take the official Board of Quinn Chapel, and without even an invitation go to another church and take part in an investigation' which he knows was a face? Carey is no fool. He knows that the only official way to investigate charges against a preacher is for the Presiding Elder to call a council, name its members from officers of sister churches, sum- HEW TO THE LINE. [Name] mons witnesses to appear before the council, and there face to face with the minister who is accused, produce the evidence in the case. Dr. Carey knew that, and he knew that any other kind of an investigation was a No. 1, first-class fraud, just such a piece of "con game" trickery as you would expect from a lot of pot-house politicians. Yet knowing all this, Dr. Carey took his thirty-one members, went up to Bethel to adopt a set of cut and dried resolutions, and then call it an investigation and a vindication." homes, and I will use the C and tell the people what kind of preachers they should keep out of their pulpits, I threw one brick three weeks ago and heard a howl, I three another last Saturday and I hear "howling to beat the band" all week. But the bricks are not all gone. have one which I call my prize brick It is wrapped in fine paper, tied with silk ribbon and labelled. And the bel reads, "For the man who come after it." While you are around hung ing for trouble. Doctor, if you com "Now, what does Dr. Carey take us for any way? Has he an idea that he can put up such a job as that on Chicago people and get away with it? Does he think the folks in this town don't know the difference between a church trial and a whitewashing machine? He must think we are "dead easy." Well, maybe we are sometimes, but this time we are "next." That kind of a cheap trick might win in the backwoods of Ga., and perhaps the distinguished Doctor was "fry" enough to work it on the Alligators when he was preaching down in Fla., but you can bet that sanctified smile of yours Dr. that you are "up against the real thing," when you try to bump our heads in Chicago." "And right on this question we want to say a word for ourselves, because the resolutions which Dr. Carey chamioned and which we heard he wrote, were intended to make it appear that all churches, had been attacked. This ever fair person knows is not true. Not a line or word in any of my articles attack the churches, but every word and line is intended to attack immoral reprobates and hypocritical scoundrels. Dr. Carey, knows that and he knew the resolutions state a plain, bare-faced lie, and if he voted for them he voted for a lie. "Now, we want to give the Dr. a tip. He can take it if he wants to or he needn't. It is all the same, but we want to say to him that it does not always pay to go out hunting for trouble, and if Dr. Carey is jealous and wants a little scandal of his own, we think he ought to be accommodated. After my first article a committee of Quinn Chapel members called on the editor to say that it did, not refer to Dr. Carey. After considering the reasons urged, the editor thought it would be fair to say so, and he did. That was more than, would have done, and it was more than was asked for any other minister in Chicago. And now he comes forward and jumps in to an affray from which he was specially excluded. "Now, if you timer that is healthy, Doctor. Just made in. You use your palpit to denounce the C——and people want sand of paper they should keep out of their homes, and I will use the C—— and tell the people what kind of preachers they should keep out of their pulpits, I threw one brick three weeks ago and heard a howl, I threw another last Saturday and I heard "howling to beat the band" all week. But the bricks are not all gone. I have one which I call my prize brick. It is wrapped in fine paper, tied with silk ribbon and labelled. And the label reads, "For the man who comes after it." While you are around hunting for trouble, Doctor, if you come across any one who is itching for that brick, just send him my way and you can bet your small change that he will get it." (From the Old Church Organ, May, 4, 1901.) THE MEMBERS OF THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT IN CHICAGO AND THE NAMELESS COLORED MAN One of the Church Organs in this city, contained a very long article last week on what "the members of the Niagara movement have accomplished in Chicago within the past year," and among the many wonderful things which they have performed, which have never been heard of nor have ever struck the light of day, was the securing of the appointment of the maneless Colored man, as a member of the Charter Committee. The nameless Colored man, leads up to this incident something like this. "It was the Niagara movement in its secret meetings which originated, conceived and worked up the notion of getting the Mayor of Chicago to place a Colored man on the Charter Committee. It was after this movement worked it up and revealed its purpose that others became interested in making the selection" and the nameless Colored man was appointed "Dr. A. A. Wesley was considered and suggested to the mayor by a committee, but as we had been an advocate of Mr. Dunne's candidacy for mayor and had contributed largely to his election by speeches and writing, the other Colored men who had stood with the mayor in his fight insisted that the appointment should go to him, and it was done." As the Old Church Organ was dead to the world at that time, the nameless Colored man, it is true wrote an article in favor of the election of Judge Dunne, but he was unable to induce any newspaper to publish it, and finally he gave the article in question to William H. Clark, who brought it to the writer, and requested us to publish it, and after planning it down a little bit and touching it up in several places so as to make it read smooth and have the right ring to it. The Afro=Americans Are Admonised to Grasp the Passing Opportunities to Comemorate the Memories of Those Noble Men and Women Who Have So Unselfishly Championed the Cause of the Race In the Past. An Eloquent Article by Attorney Walter M. Farmer. Juhus F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad AX:— Lately, The Niagara Movement held its Second Annual meeting at Harper's Ferry, W. Va. This place was chosen because of the sacred memories that clustered around it. On this spot, John Brown, and his band of faithful followers had offered up their lives as sacrifices for our people. And up from this place the spirit of this good man swept over this great country, giving courage to the timid, strength to the weak, and confident assurance to a cause that had the sanction of high Heaven. In the address to the country, among others we find these words:—"We do not believe in violence but we do believe in John Brown, in that incarnate spirit of Justice, that hatred of a lie, their willingness to sacrifice money, reputation and life itself." The sentiment is indeed a beautiful one; admirably expressed and worthy alike of the great Martyr and of the Movement that sent it forth. No better place could have been chosen for an intelligent and earnest consideration of the many serious questions that confront the Race. It was inspiring and strategic and furnished an excellent opportunity for the Race to indicate in a modest way, its deep gratitude for the man who had done so much and sacrificed so much for our well being. And may we not hope that this meeting will serve to remind us that there are others whose hearts are responsive to our cry for deliverance and whose labors and sacrifices entitle them at least, to a grateful remembrance. The Abolition Period is rich in noble and sterling manhood and womanhood. No other period in our country's history has produced such high and unswerving Statesmanship; such broad and beneficent philanthropy, in falling to keep fresh the memory of these Race Benefactors, the Negro overlooks telling opportunities for showing his gratitude for their sacrifices as well as for molding public sentiment in his behalf. it appeared in the last issue of The Broad Ax. Just before the election, and if any one will take the trouble to look it up, they will find the strong Democratic article on the front page of that issue of The Broad Ax, with the name of the nameless Colored man signed at the bottom of it. On that same Saturday evening the nameless Colored man attempted to deliver a Democratic speech at 4902 State St., and as he entered the room, he was handed a copy of The Broad Ax containing his article by us, and he seemed to be very much pleased to receive it, and if the nameless Colored man is honest with himself, he must admit the truthfulness of this statement namely, that not one single Afro-American in this city, nor in the State of Ill, outside of William H. Clark, and Julius F. Taylor, called on Mayor Dunnie, in his behalf and urged his Honor to select him as a member of the Charter Committee. The great contest today between the Negro and his enemies is for the mastery of public sentiment. It is to our advantage to properly comprehend the situation that we may be able to do our part in turning the tide of public sentiment in our favor. In this contest we can not afford to concede one point to those who seek to discredit the Negro in the eyes of the world. If there are criminals in the race, they are simply a part of criminal humanity. The Negro has abolied no new offenses in the category of crime. To be sure he is contributing a great deal more than we would have him contribute (For we would have him even like Caeser's wife, above suspicion) nevertheless, in obedience to his frailities and environment, he is committing no more crime, nor is he menacing society any more than other people in his class or group. THE BROAD AX. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the treaty between France, Indole, Parmenon, single Turco, Rephillah, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and correct. The Bond is a promise whose platform is broad enough for all, ever, claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. JULIA F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Retired v the Post Office at Chicago Mt. 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, 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. PERSONAL MENTION. Walter M. Farmer, for 16 years an honored member of the bar in St. Louis, Mo., is now engaged in the general practice of Law. Suite 705, 171 Washington street, Phone Main 4153. Residence 4856 Langley avenue, Phone Drexel 6302. THE SAYING AND DOINGS OF THE PEOPLE OF HYDE PARK. (By L. W. Washington.) Last week I placed before you the Chicago Beach Hotel and its people. This week I want to present to you the Windemere Hotel 56th st., & Cornell Ave. Since the remodeling of this Hostelry it has now one of the prettiest dining rooms in the city. It employs about 30 waiters, paying them $25.00 per month; 2 private waiters, $30.00 per month. Head and second waiter, making $1,000 per month as what the waiters secure monthly. This house had at one time a Colored night clerk, a Colored assistant steward. It also at one time roomed the Boys but owing to the heavy patronage was compelled to use the entire quarters for the accomoation of her guest. Mr. Long, head waiter is a self made man very little has been said of this remarkable man, simply because he is so unassuming in his manners. But in that quiet easy manner he is entitled to be called the greatest Negro speculator in America. For the last 15 or 20 years Mr. Long has made a study of this art and has quietly gained enormous riches. By his investment in the U. 3. Steel Co., of America he has made nearly $25,000 dollars. He bought this stock when steel sold for $35.00 per share, that is the common stock, and when it went up to 59 or 75 he sold his interest making a small fortune out of the deal. He also held some of the preferred stock purchasing it at $83 per share, which went to $110.00 and sold. This stock went down again to $38.00 that is the common stock. When he immediately bought it in again putting about $7,000 investment in to the common stock of causes this successful magnate, has his eyes on the market with the op portunity of his life. Mr. Long is married and is about 45 years of age, he figures that when he gets to be fifty he will have made enough upon his investment to be able to retire, and live a pleasant life with his companion of course he has lost some in his investment some $3,000, but what is the losses to his gains nothing. He holds 2700 shares at $1.00 per share in the Electric Signograph Corporation paying $2,700 cash for them, he has bought 700 shares in this new Chicago Electrical railway paying $2500 per share he was one of the stock holders out of 5 other who was colored that attended the laying of the 1st 100 miles in Indiana. He has some of the dirt reserved. He has $1,700 invested in this new bank the all night Jennings Bank. He can borrow $10,000 from any bank in town on his attention at a moments notice. Be it remembered that he never invests without carefully investigating. But when once satisfied, in his own mind, as to the safety of his investment he purchases stock in the same way. He is original, and he is successful. Mr. Long has to his credit this fact that no man that works for him over a month can work without saving some of his money for a rainy day. So his men in time are independent. Remember that this speculation does not obb his companions out of any of her pleasure for she has just returned from a 4 weeks vacation going from place to place to visit her many friends. It was through her after Mr. Long had lost his first $1,00 in the bank out west, that he had saved assistance, that he was enabled to save $2,000 more and now she is reaping the benefit. Mr. Long has also provided for his mother in her old age he has to her credit in bank $3,000, or $5,000. Young men who read this article should be encouraged what Mr. Long has done by a study, application of facts, and venture, you can do. Will you do it? INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. The closing services for this conference year, will take place to-morrow, Sunday Sept. 16. Mr. Hayes Wilson of Indianapolis, ind., will sing a base solo. After the morning sermon. Both sermons by the pastor, Rev. H. E. Stewart. THE AFRO-AMERICAN ADMONISH ED TO GRASP THE PASSING OPPORTUNITIES. (Concluded from page 1.) ed for the most trivial offense, our leaders say, "Every one must regret the causes that lead to lynchings," and the lawless mob is encouraged in its work of murder and brutality. There is but one way for a race or people to command the approval of public sentiment and that is by impressing that sentiment with its worth and usefulness. If the race has merit the World should know it, and we should be treated accordingly. We should not hesitate to call attention to the good qualities of the race. It is a mistake to magnify the one vice of the race, while there are ninty-nine virtues standing to its credit. We are the only people who seem to find consolation in calling the public's attention to our weaknesses. In this connection it is well for us to realize that the world is more concerned about our virtues than our vices. It is the man who goes with his head erect, conscious of his own strength, and Jetermned to succeed in spite of obstacles and opposition, that impresses the world with his sterling worth. It is always better to recognise the good in the race and give credit for it than it is to discredit its efforts by adverse criticisms, and, by magnifying its weakness. We are concerned therefore in pursuing some course that will enable us to impress the public with the justness of our cause and turn public sentiment in our favor. I wish to repeat that the abolition period is rich in men and women whose lives and works are highly worthy of our commemorating. Suitable memorials and Anniversaries to these great men and women will afford splendid opportunities for keeping their memories fresh in the minds of the people. An occasional recital of their deeds and sacrifices will not alone influence the public mind and conscience, but will stimulate the race to a greater and more determined endeavor. Our various organizations should arrange to have a day set apart for commemorating the lives and services of such characters as Garrison, Phillips, Lincoln, Sumner, Tourgee, Langston, Douglass, Lundy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many others whose names sape will not permit me to mention. Nor should we fall to note with evidence of appreciation the friendly words and acts of those among whom we live. While there are those who espouse our cause from a keen sense of duty, nevertheless it is true, that aside from the approval of conscience, the highest compensation for sacrifice and effort is a knowledge that those for whom we have labored, appreciate what we have done for them. Again the race should not wait for others to fight its battles. When the race is assaulted, the Negro should be heard in his own defense. It is a mistake to depend on some editor of one of the leading papers to come to our rescue, and then denounce him if he fails to take up our cause in his paper. Let the race be ever alert in defense of its own cause and in presenting its own claim. If our rights are worth having, they are worth contending for. If manhood and manhood are priceless jewels, they are worth our defending at all times. It is in our own power to much towards stamping out race prejudice. In this connection it should be understood that it is not the relation between the races in the South that most concerns us. The south, like Ephiam is joined to its idols, but the awful blight of race hatred, discrimination, and lawlessness should not be allowed to fall on the North, the East and the West, without some strenuous effort on the part of the Negro to stop its onward flow. THE "CHORAL STUDY CLUB" HAS SOME RARE MUSICAL TREATS The management of the Central Study Club" of Chicago, announces the following works to be presented during the season of 1906-7: December 10th—"The Holy City" (Gave). March 4th—"The Rose Malden" (Cowen). June 2nd—"The Hlawatha" (S. Coleridge Taylor). For the first time in the West, the Choral Study Club will render "the Hlawatha" trilogy, in its entirety. Solists to be announced later. THE BLACKWELL'S HAVE COME TO THE PARTING OF THE WAY. Mrs. V. N. Blackwell and her husband, Preston S. Blackwell, have come to the parting of the way, for it is said that this coming week papers will be filed asking the Judges of the Cook County Courts to entirely release them from their many broken matrimonial vows. Mrs. Blackwell at one time sweetly, sang in the choir of St. Thomas Church. She is mighty good looking, and is one of its prominent members and shining lights! "ST. STEPHENS' DAY" AT THE SANDY W. TRICE & CO'S DEPARTMENT STORE. Monday, September 17th, will be "St. Stephens' Day" at the Sandy W. Trice & Co. Department Store, 2018 State street. On that date ten per cent of the gross receipts will go to the above named church, and its new pastor, Rev. I. N. Daniels, is requested to send some of the best lady workers in his church to assist in making sales and to collect in the money. CHIPS Capt. R. P. Byrd of Quincy, Ill., is spending a few days in the city on business. Mr. T. Alfred Anderson, after a delightful trip east, is again to be seen at his desk at Provident Hospital. Dr. D. H. Williams, after a week's vacation hunting in North Dakota, has returned to the city. Mrs. Winslow, 4528 St. Lawrence avenue, fell down stairs and as a result is confined to her bed. Mr. L. E. Baller of Topeka, Kas., will spend the winter months attending Northwestern Medical school. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Cummings, 6444 Champlain ave., entertained a number of friends at Whist Tuesday evening. Mrs. Mary Harsh 2963 Armour ave. is at home again from her visit to Bowling Green, Ky., and Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. T. Edgar Gray, clerk in the postoffice, will take up the study of dentistry at Northwestern University this month. The report is out that one of our dentists on Indiana avenue, is soon to marry a New Orleans belle. The Broad Ax will give details later. Mr. Roscoe Evans, 3327 State street, leaves the city Monday to pay his mother a two weeks' visit in Louisville, Ky. Dr. Richardson and wife, 3154 State street, after a week's vacation in the woods of Michigan, have returned home again. Mrs. Julius N. Avendorf and son returned Saturday from St. Paul, where they have been the guest of Lawyer and Mrs. Fred McGhee. Mrs. Bessie Cotton 4915 Dearborn street and Miss Lillian McCoy, returned home Monday morning from a delightful visit to St. Louis, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. William Bishop 3632 State street arrived home last Saturday morning from their pleasant tour through the east. Mr. Walter Dyson after spending the summer here attending the Chicago University left Wednesday for his home in Washington, D. C. C. F. Taylor, a Negro chauffeur of New York has been engaged to drive Mrs. Daniel S. Lamont in an automobile over Europe. Mr. and Mrs. F. Foster 3543 Armour ave., celebrated their 25th marriage anniversary Saturday evening. Sept. 8. A large number of Chicago representative citizens showered there with silver gifts as tokens of their best wishes for a continued happ- union. Charles Miller, a Negro, twenty years old, accused of attacking a twelve-year-old white girl was taken from officers by a mob near Culloden, Ga. Tuesday. His body was riddled with bullets and thrown into an abandoned well. Mr. Wm. Phillips of the engineers dept. of the C. B. & Q. R. R. spent Sunday in Indianapolis visiting friends. Justices Charles H. Callahan, Theodore C. Mayer, John R. Caverly, John K. Prindville, and John Fitzgerald will put up a stiff fight to be elected Judges of the Municipal Court. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holden, of Jamestown, N. Y., were entertained with a reception Wednesday evening by their hostess, Mrs. Julia Walker, 721 W. Madison street. Correspondence from Mr. Wm. Harper, the artist, states that he is hard at work painting scenery in and about Paris, France. He finds a quick sale for all of his work. Mrs. Crawford of Joplin, Mo., has been paying a pleasant visit to her sister Mrs. Chas. White 5046 Armour ave., she returned to her home Thursday. On Friday evening last Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Miller 3642 Wabash ave., entertained a large number of friends at whist in honor of Miss Smallwood of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Robt. Harden 6347 Rhodes ave. was agreeably surprised on last Sat. evening when a large number of friends and relatives called to shower her with token of their best wishes upon her birthday. Mrs. A. Wilberforce Williams, 6510 Langley avenue, and her mother, Mrs. Mary R. Tibbs, returned to the city Thursday evening after a long and delightful visit with Mrs. Neeley, Buxton, Iowa. Mrs. Belle H. Lane, wife of Dr. Alexander Lane, 1935 Archer avenue, left the first of the week for Lexington, Ky. to visit the home of her childhood. While absent she will attend the Colored Fair. Mr. Robt. L. Taylor has returned from his northern camp, in Minnesota. Hunting and fishing was not as good as anticipated so Mrs. Taylor will remain a little longer in camp and continue the sport. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Palmer 218 E. 28th st., were "at home" Thursday evening Sept. 13th to a large number of their friends in honor of Miss Helen S. Edwards of New Orleans, La. Since this is the "white man's country" why is the Negro so anxious to fight and die for it? Isn't it better to let the white man die for his own country while the Negro bends his energies in something more beneficial?—The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Welsh, Oakland, Cal., brother-in-law of Dr. Edward S. Miller, 3642 Wabash avenue, are on a visit to this city, and while here Mr. Welsh will undergo medical treatment. Mr. Vincent Hunt, stenographer in the St. Paul R. R. office and popular young man about town, leaves the city Saturday to spend a two weeks' vacation in Muskogee and other points in the southwest. Miss Rosalie Marie Eddie, who, for many years assisted the late Dr. Perry in his office, and who is at the present time assisting Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, spent Sunday and Monday with friends at Jefferson, Wis. Mr. W. Barley, rear 1732 Mich. ave., has just finished drawing plans and getting figures for extensive improvement on Mr. McCoomer's private residence, and a store at 51st and State st., for Mr. J. L. Clay. In honor of Miss Gerstha Smallwood of Washington, D. C., Dr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Hall entertained a small party of friends Saturday evening last. Whist and a fine collation was highly enjoyed by those present. Messrs. Alex Beatty, Chas. Hinze, Theo. Mozee, R. A. Dobson, Peter Lundry and Harry Garnes, all young men of the South who have been spending their vacation in and about Chicago, leave the city Monday to resume their studies at Meharry Medical College at Nashville, Teen. The South has driven the Negro out of the legislature, out of Congress, out of office, municipal, state and national, out of citizenship, out of the state militia and now attempts to drive him out of the regular army. Will the South succeed? Judging by what the South has done, we answer — "Yes."—Ex Miss Frances Greenwood 6618 Vernon ave, entertained a large number of her young girl friends at an "informal reception" in honor of Misses Mendel and Overton of Atlanta, Ga. Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Misses Mendel and Overton have been attending the University of Chicago throughout the summer and will leave for their home about the middle of next week. Miss Minnie M. Jacobs 3410 Calu- net ave, assistant Superintendent of Bureau of Personal service and Proba- tion officer of the Juvenile Court, is well adapted for her work, and those in want or distress, and the little child- she comes in contact with are always greeted with a hearty hand shake, and a pleasant smile. The Grand Court H. of J. of Illinois have been holding its sessions this week at Huletts Hall 2712 State street, On Tuesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Grant 3232 Wabash ave., gave a grand reception in honor of the delegates which was one of the most elaborate social functions held this season. The grand installation of officers was held at Odd Fellows Hall Thursday, evening. William Monroe Trotter, the brilliant editor of The Guardian, Boston, Mass., admits that he was in error in stating that "the members of the Niagara movement in Ill., or Chicago, was instrumental in securing the appointment of the nameless Colored man as a member of the Charter Committee," Thanks; editor Trotter thanks! for being honest and owning up to the truth! Miss Margaret Straton an old friend of Mrs. Carrie Warner 5223 Dearborn street died Tuesday morning at the Baptist Hospital from an abcess in the stomach. Mrs. Clifford Johnson 2712 State street had charge of the body which will be shipped this evening to St. Louis, Mo., for burial and funeral services will be held over her remains at St. Paul chapel in that city Sunday afternoon. William L. O. Connell, who succeeded Thomas Carey as Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Cook County, has selected the following named persons as members of the executive committee: Chairman—William L. O'Connell. Vice presidents—F. X. Brandecker. John J. Hayes, John J. Bradley. John J. Coughlin, Peter Foote, John Mack, James Dalley, A. J. Sabath, John Mullin, Stanley Kunz, William Dever, D. J. Herilhy, Joseph Murray, Thomas Gallagher, Thomas Little, Edward Diedrich, William Layman, William F. Quinlan. New system of dressmaking taught at Institutional Church, $10.00. Ten dollars for the entire course—to begin the first of September. Institutional Church 3825 Dearborn street, August, 1906. The Class in Millinery will begin its work the first of September. The cost for complete instructions is in the reach of all. Day Nursery is in operation every day but Sunday from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. What Callers Are For "Now, Hannah, just look at these chairs! There must be an inch of dust on them." "Well, ma'am, you know yourself you haven't had a caller for nearly a week."-Judge. "But food value. Has your compound a food value?" "Certainly. Don't I tell you it can be cooked in less than one minute and eaten in less than another?"—Puck. Accounted For. "Bliggins believes that we are in duty bound to overlook people's faults." "Indeed," said Miss Cayenne. "That accounts in some measure for his self esteem."—Washington Star. An Unnecessary Question. WALK "Is there room for me above?" "You ought to know best about that, guv not."—Tatier. The Time of Terror. "Are you afraid of microbes?" "Not ordinarily," said the unscientific person. "Not until it comes to trying to spell or pronounce their name."—Houghton Dale A CONFESSION. I bear with me where'er I go The image of a lady fair. 'Tis not my wife's; she does not know How much for that bright face I care I often take it out and gaze In rapture on its perfect lines. It has inspired my happiest lays; My sun of fortune in it shines. O classic head with fillet graced! O Grecian nose! O dimple chin! O lips so exquisitely traced! O silvery hair and polished skin! Yes; silvery hair, though still so young And scarcely changed by lapse of time. The smile behind it raisee I've sung Beams on me from a treasured dime! -Nathan Haskell Dole in Lippincott's Magazine. Settling It. One of the Doctors—Gentlemen, since we cannot agree upon a diagnosis and as it is getting somewhat late I propose we draw lots.—Woman's Home Companion. It Was a Good Thing. "Excuse me, madam," said the agent, addressing the lady of the house, "but I'd like to show you a little device that I am introducing. All you have to do is simply place it in your refrigerator and it will save half the ice." "Indeed!" exclaimed the lady. "And do you guarantee that it will save half the ice?" "Certainly, madam," answered the agent. "Then I'll take two," said the practical woman, "so as to save all the ice." —Chicago News. Not Father, but Mother "Really, now," said Mrs. Goodart, "you're a runaway, aren't you?" "Yes'm," replied the youthful tramp candidly. "You see, me mother died, and pop married agen. I made up me mind to skip, and so I ran an' ran till I was near dead, an'" "Simply couldn't go a step farther, eh?" "No'm. It was the stepmother I couldn't go."—Philadelphia Press. What Flatters Them Most. In her trim little bathing suit she sat on the white sand. "I adore intelligence," she cried. "I adore intelligence, she cried. "So do I," said he. "All the same, though, beauty and intellect never go together." "And do you think me intellectual?" she faltered. "No," he confessed frankly. With a faint flush she murmured, "Flatterer."—New York Press. In After Years. Smith—When Green was courting that young widow a couple of years ago he declared he couldn't live without her. Jones—And did he marry her? Smith—Yes, and now he is trying to get a divorce on the grounds that it's impossible to live with her—Detroit Tribune. Enough Said. "But," said the old lawyer, "why do you admit that your client will lose his case? Have you exhausted all the means at your disposal to"— "No," interrupted the young lawyer, "but I've exhausted all the means at his disposal."-American Spectator. Sure Enough. "Cheer up," said Kwoter, "there are fish in the sea good as ever were caught." "There must be better," replied Crabbe, "because the fishermen insist that the biggest ones always get away."-Philladelphia Ledger. Synonymous. "Mary," she declared, "your work has no finish." "Dat's de trufe, ma'am," Mary replied. "It sho' nuff doan' ha' no end." —Harper's Weekly. A Case In Point. "Do you believe all geniuses are egotists?" "No. Look at me. Ever since I can remember I have kept myself back by placing too light an ability."—Chicago Record-Herald Humorous. The Tragedian—Our comedian is a humorous chap. The Property Man—How so? The Tragedian—He thinks we ought to pay him the salary the press agent claims we do—Brooklyn Eagle. A Nuisance. "He is one of these people who come around every day and tell you it isn't the heat that causes the discomfort, but the humidity."—Washington Star. Imagination. Mrs. Boreling—Imagination! What is imagination? Mr. Boreling—It is that faculty, my dear, which makes men believe that marriage is bliss—Judge. Prevailing Idea. Mrs. Bacon—Is a hundred pounds of ice much William? Mr. Bacon—Well, it all depends on whether you're getting it or paying for it—Yorkshire Statesman. In the southern part of Santa Barbara county, close up to the foothills of the Santa Ynez mountains that almost surround the valley of Carpenteria, there stands a specimen of the pepper tree that is interesting owing to its massive proportions. It adorns the home of Gideon E. Franklin, one of Santa Barbara county's citizens. The tree was planted by a former proprietor of the estate about twenty years ago. One foot above the ground the giant trunk measures twelve feet in circumference. It soon divides itself into three well developed bodies which have respectively an individual girth of four feet eight inches, four feet nine inches, and six feet one inch, or a combined circumference of fifteen feet six inches. The longest boughs have an almost uniform reach of thirty-three feet, giving a nearly circular diameter of sixty-six feet. Some fifteen feet of the longest limbs have been cut off in order to preserve the regularity of its form. The height of the tree is in form 'orty and fifty-feet. The tree is supposed to be the largest of its kind in the state.-Los Angeles Times. Sleep and the Temper. The popular science of Drs. Acland and Bevan Lewis, who tell us to sleep as long as we can, makes more talk than anything else read before the British association and deserves to do so. There is a great deal about it in the papers, too, cordially written by weary journalists. The Daily Telegraph mentions a well known judge who is over eighty and looks young as a consequence of always taking a nap "when so disposed," and a gallant officer of seventy who is taken for fifty-five, not "in the dusk with the light behind him," but on the fierce parade ground. There is also the case of a "hardworking literary man"—the adjective is redundant—whose wife says that whenever he grows sulky or depressed or dyspeptic she "lets him lie an hour or two longer in bed. It never fails to cure him." This is suggestive, going beyond what was said by the doctors. Let us sleep and cultivate good temper. Miniars Using Automobiles "People around here look on the automobile as a rich man's luxury," said J. L. Marker of Chicago at the Plankinton, "but out in the new gold camps of Nevada it is a common carrier. Between Goldfield and outlying camps. Bullfrog and Tonopah, regular automobile lines are doing the work of carrying passengers that a few years ago would have been handled by stages. Any kind of travel in the sagebrush and alkali of the desert is terrible at any time, so that people are willing to pay high for getting around quickly, and the fare for a ride of twenty or thirty miles ranges from $10 to $20. But I must say it looked queer to me when I struck that country two months ago to see these big battered machines, dozens of them, scooting around through a town that had scarcely a building in it that rose to the dignity of a real residence."—Milwaukee Sentinel. To Measure Molecules. An apparatus for measuring the seventy millionth part of an inch has been made by Dr. P. Shaw of Nottingham university, England, says Technical World Magazine. It works upon the principle of electric touch and consists of a fine micrometer screw and six levers. The apparatus is so sensitive and delicate that it is impossible to manipulate it before an audience. It is hung by rubber bands, covered with thick felt, and must be worked at dead of night, when there is no traffic or factory working. The smallest distance that this mechanism measures is about the distance between a solid and a liquid molecule. Dr. Shaw's invention was first made in 1900, but its great improvement of late has made it the wonder of physicists throughout the world. Maizypop In England. Malzypop in London is the product of the latest American invasion. It is asserted, says What to Eat, that the record for such introductions has been broken in this case, for it took just one week to form a company, to register the trademark and to lease a building. In the second week the finished product was being turned out. Malzypop is simply popcorn as we are familiar with it in pink and white cakes wrapped in oiled paper. The name is a concession to the language of England, where corn is known as maize. The two Americans who have started malzypop upon its career first bought the foreign rights for popcorn machinery, then arranged to control the export of shelled corn from the United States for ten years. A Religious Horse. For twenty years H. B. Smith's horse has carried its owner to the Congregational church at Monterey, Mass., on Sundays. Mr. Smith being ill recently, the animal was turned into a pasture to exercise. When the church bells rang the horse cleared the fence in a bound and trotted to the house of worship. It remained patiently in the sheds until the last hymn was sung and the worshipers began to leave, when it trotted back home at a sedate Sabbath gait. Holding on to the Check. A Bowdnham business man cashed a check a short time ago that had been out twelve years without being returned. The interest on it, if it had been computed, would have amounted to two-thirds of the face value. The holder of the check lost 66 per cent of the face of the check in interest. The maker of the check willingly cashed it, although a check is legally unlimited in six years. - Kannabee Journal. The English and continental newspapers are still publishing stories regarding William Jennings Bryan, whose American originality and good nature appear to have broken the ice of old world formality. For instance, the London Daily Express, without mentioning names, the custom in Europe more than America, shows how Bryan in one of his hours of good humor told the newspaper men many interesting campaign stories. Among other things, according to the Express, the American campaigner said: "During a great campaign I practically lived on the railroad, traveling 18,000 miles in less than three months. My highest record of handsakes as reported by the American newspaper men was 3,000 in one hour. "During the early days of my career I had violently attacked the governor B "THE GOVERNOR SEIZED ME WARMLY BY THE HAND." of one state. I thought he would kill me on sight. Finally I was asked to speak at a large meeting in his state, and on my arrival I found to my horror that he was in the chair. "The assistant chairman read out my name, and I stepped forward with my heart in my mouth. The governor looked at me fixedly for a few moments and then, seizing me warmly by the hand, said in a voice loud enough to be heard throughout the hall: "Let me see—er—do you sing or speak?" "It was the greatest snub I have ever had in my life. On the other hand, I consider the greatest compliment was that me by an old backwoodsman who had sat solemnly in front of the platform during a two hours' speech of mine. I thought I had made an impression. At the conclusion he exclaimed: "That was the bulliest speech I have ever heard. I could see your back teeth all the time." Recalled the Name. The stagecoach that carries the mail between Kent's Hill and Redfield station, in Maine, drew up along the roadside, and the driver accosted a little old man working in a field, says Everybody's Magazine. "Do you know who Mrs. Abby B. Brown is and where she lives?" The old man considered. "Brown, Abby B. Brown?" he repeated. "You don't mean Mrs. Polly Brown, do you?" "No, Mrs. Abby B. Brown; we've got a letter for her." "B., you say the middle letter is B., do you? I know a whole lot of Brownns that live on the other side of the road, but there ain't any Abby B. among them. You don't mean Abby B. Smith, do you? She lives 'over'— "No, it's Abby B. Brown. We'll find her somehow. Thanks." The stage driver started his horses, but before the corner was reached a faint "Hello!" caused the passengers to turn around. The old man, hoe in hand, was pursuing the stage. "Brown, Mrs. Abby B. Brown, did you say? Why, I know her. She's my wife." Hed a Royal Example. When King Edward visited the Isle of Man a year or more ago he was escorted through parts of the island by Hall Caine, the author. When his majesty was about to depart on the royal yacht it was proposed that a photograph be taken of the royal family and its island hosts. The family of Hall Caine was of course included, and when the prints were shown it was found that Hall Caine's young son had committed the indiscretion of keeping his hat on in the presence of the king. Manx society was much shocked at this, and Mrs. Caine chided her boy, but he stoutly said: "But, mamma, I watched the king, and as he kept his hat on I followed suit"—Pittsburg Press. Hopeful. William Allen White says that the most amusing personal note that he ever came across in a country newspaper was that which last year caught his eye while reading a Wisconsin paper. The item was something like this: "Nells Anderson met with a painful accident last week, a fishhook becoming entangled in his ear. Nells is being attended by Dr. Phil Morton, who says his eye will come out all right"—Kenneth Wade. FACTS IN FEW LINES A falcon has flown from Tenerife to Andalusia, 750 miles, in sixteen hours. From 1606 to 1688 Scottish bankrupts were compelled to wear a sort of convict dress, half yellow, half brown. A Winthrop (Me.) man celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday the other day by leaving off using tobacco in any form. He had used it steadily for eighty years. The national Baptist convention, the largest body of colored Baptists in America, has decided to establish a theological seminary of its own. It already has a large and prosperous publishing house. The largest and costliest building thus far undertaken in New York, the city of immense structures, is the magnificent $10,000,000 Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, now being erected on Morningside heights. Among the curiosities of church architecture in America may be mentioned the fact that in Santa Rosa, Cal., is a church with a seating capacity of 200 which is built entirely of timber sawed out of a single redwood tree. The big elm tree known as the Lafayette elm, where Lafayette, met his New Hampshire soldiers in the Revolution, has been struck by lightning and destroyed. The tree was more than a hundred years old and was planted by a patriotic citizen to mark the spot where the great general received his greeting from Granite State people. There seems to be a pen-Islamic propaganda movement afoot. Mushir Hosein of Oudh and Abdul Kadir of Lahore, who have spent some time in London, are now in Constantinople, and it is said they have been invited by Sheik Ul Ul Islam, who is the Moslem archbishop of Turkey, to confer with him on the extension and propagation of Mohammedanism in Asia. Rellie hunters in New York have whittled up a dozen or more tables in the Madison Square roof garden, thinking they have secured pieces of the table at which Stanford White sat when Harry Thaw shot him. The attendants place a new table on the correct spot as soon as its predecessor has been so chopped up that it will not longer stand. Chairs are going about as rapidly. The last of the estates of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, which have been in the Irish land courts since his death, has been disposed of by the sale of houses situated in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. The Avondale house and demenee, the home of Mr. Parnell, are now the property of the government and are used as a school of forestry by the Irish department of agriculture. King Leopold of Belgium, on coming out of the water after a bath at Biarritz, chanced to collide with a man who evidently did not know the king in a bathing suit. "What do you mean, sir?" he snorted savagely. "Be more careful! I would have you to know that I am a member of the Paris city council!" "Then I offer a thousand apologies," replied Leopold at once. "I am only the king of the Belgians." Buenos Ayres has more newspapers in different languages than any other city of its size in the world. The number of papers is about 180. Besides, of course, the "national" language, with its wide divergencies from Spanish, there are papers published in Castillan, in Catalan, in Italian, French, German and English; in Basque, in Norwegian and in Danish; in Arabic, Syrian, Hebraic, Servian and in several dialects. President Roosevelt has an account at the Riggs National bank in Washington. The bookkeepers have no end of trouble keeping the president's balance straight, because so many people who get checks from the president fall to cash them, preferring to preserve the checks as souvenirs. So many persons are willing to pay from $1 to $10 for an uncashed check signed by the president that hundreds of dollars are saved by him every year. Ever since 1840 the skull of Sir Thomas Browne has been on show in a museum at Norwich. It has now been restored to the vault whence it was taken. Sylvanus Urban in the Gentleman's Magazine condemns this morbidity and that of certain people who proposed to have Shakespeare's skull similarly examined. "Let such ghoulishly inclined busybodies," he says emphatically, "conflue their attention to the anatomy of Jonathan Wild." Winston Churchill, who triumphantly carried through the parliament just adjourned the bill for a constitution for the Transvaal, has been given the sobriquet of the "Blenheim pup" and for several reasons. One is the fact that he is a Churchill, a descendant of the great Duke of Mariborough who humbled the pride of the French at Blenheim. Another is the bulldog fashion-in which he fights his political battles. 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After being properly seated and the lather about half applied the barber was called to an adjoining room where he was detained for some time. The barber had in the shop a pet monkey which was continually imitating its master. As soon as the latter left the room the monkey grabbed the brush and proceeded to finish lathering the Irishman's face. After doing this he took a razor from its case and stropped it and then turned to the Irishman to shave him. "Shtop that!" said Pat. "You can tuck the towl in me neck and put the soap on my face, but, begorra, yer father's got to shave me!"—Judge's Magazine of Fun. Feminine Idea Lola—Young Huggins must have an awful lot of money in bank. Grace—What reason have you for thinking he has? Lola—He showed me a book containing nearly a hundred checks that had never been written on—Chicago News. On the Rialto. "There's plenty of snap and go in this new play of ours," said the first actor. 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Sir Andrew Fraser, governor of Bengal, virtual ruler of 80,000,000 people, is the active president of the Calcutta Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Joseph Corbett of Camden, N. J., in chief assistant to her husband, "Steeple Jack," and works with him at great heights. Captain Sverdrup, the arctic explorer, who recently added 100,000 square miles of ice to the king of Sweden's dominions, spent his boyhood days on a forest farm. The Paris papers still insist that the Empress Engleine went to Ischl on a matchmaking errand. She wants, it is said, the hand of a granddaughter of Francis Joseph for Prince Louis Napoleon. Queen Maria Christina of Spain is said to be the only woman sovereign who has made a balloon ascent. She has a great love for adventurous pursuits, and delights in reading books written for boys. George Irving, the last surviving nephew of Washington Irving, marvelously hale and active at eighty-two, is living in New York. Mr. Irving is practically the sole remaining member of the Irving family. Lord de L'Isle and Dudley has at his Penshurst place a relic that he treasures very highly. It is a stool covered in faded blue velvet, edged with silver cord, and on it Queen Victoria knelt to receive the sacrament at her coronation. The secretary of the treasury has awarded life saving medals to Emile M. Wagner and Harry H. Kittel, cockswains on the battleships Alabama and Kearsarge respectively. Both men rescued shipmates who had been carried overboard. A polo player at sixty-five is P. F. Collier, owner of Collier's Weekly, a man of wealth. Mr. Collier is the most ardent of horsemen and has been playing polo for twenty-five years. Several times during recent years it has been his misfortune to be injured. Once he sustained a broken collar bone. But these mishaps have left his enthusiasm unabated. SHORT STORIES The bust of Socrates in the Capitoline museum at Rome looks like the late Henry George. In Washington county, Me., there are 150,000 acres devoted to nothing but raising blueberries. Spain and Russia are the only European countries which produce more wool than they consume. There are at least six places in New York where macaroni is better cooked than at the best hotels in Venice, Naples, Rome or Milan. The Audubon Society of California has been organized at Los Angeles with about 200 members. The society will be incorporated later. The Lafayette artillery company of Lyndebore, N. H., is 108 years old and has the queen's distinction of recruiting its ranks by handing down positions in the company from father to son. The annual auction of prizes, or unmarked logs, in the Argyll and Peat Cove booms in the Penobscot river, Maine, has been held. There were $50,000 feet of logs in the lot, and they were sold for $18 per 1,000 feet. MODES OF THE MOMENT. Lace is used in every possible way, and on all materials of light texture. White cloth, in all its tones, from pure white, through cream, to sine on the one hand and almost stone color on the other, holds the premier place in fashionable fayer. Very smart are the smooth brown linen skirts cut on princesses, topped with round waists of net made simply with a yoke of insertion bands and with an embroidered linen girdle or perhaps one of dull blue silk to finish. An odd scarf arrangement noticed on an all black mull showed the length wound twice around the waist and brought up diagonally from either side to form two or three graceful loops on the bodice at the point of a lace yoke. The old fashioned dolman has been received and is here in all its pristine glory, as shapeless and ungraffed as ever. Suited it might have been to the Turkish men, with whom it originated, but not at all to the well formed woman of good carriage with no defects to conceal—New York Post. GERMAN GLEANINGS Twenty-five years ago Berlin had 188 telephones. Today it has $3,000. Hamburg uses $7,000 worth of blue- berries every year for changing white wine into red wine. Germany produces about $250,000,000 worth of minerals annually, of which coal and iron are the most important. A dozen golden cups and other valuable articles have been found in the Ehite in the Binger Loch, where Dr. Helmins long ago maintained that the Hilbunz treasure had been deposited 1 SELECTIONS HEROIC TRAINING. Pierce Ordeal the Chinese Military Code Prescribes. Chinese military training of today shows a queer mixture of ancient and modern, methods. A correspondent writes from Human: "I, however, saw a performance which I doubt whether many foreigners have seen. Its object was to make the body strong and also insensible to pain. It was a most gruesome sight. The men came forward in three, stripped to the waist, having tied their turbans tightly round their-walts. Each picked up a sort of iron truncheon about twenty inches long, weighing at least fifteen pounds, there being three sizes. This truncheon was made of two bars of fat iron tied together. The operator, having made his bow to the commanding officer, seized the truncheon in one hand, swudg it round, gave a short and brought it down whack on his chest. The double irons gave a resounding clank. The beads of perspiration oozed out. "Three blows were delivered on the right breast, then three on the left with the other hand. Then the muscles of the arms were treated in the same way. Then both hands were used, and the club was swung over the head down the back. Then the forehead was subjected to three stunning blows. This was followed by subjecting to a similar thumping the extended thighs, where the full weight of the instrument came down, whatever it did in the other parts. "Some added variations and extras, but all finished by taking the truncheon in both hands and thriving the big end deep into their abdomens. This also was done thrice. It was explained to me that if they could stand this infliction of pain, for it was self evidently a tremendous ordeal, they would be unmoved by any ordinary knocking about. This I am willing to grant, but I seriously question whether the human body can go on standing what I then saw."—Chicago News. Russia Moves Slowly. Observers of the west were some what surprised that the dissolution of the douma was not immediately followed by a popular uprising or an immediate panic in Russian securities. They forgot that Russia is an agricultural continent rather than a kingdom, that its capital is fettered in bonds of steel, that its swiftest means of internal communication are in the hands of the government alone, and that, with its douma suppressed, its people, the peasantry especially, have no organ through which their united will can be expressed. From the moment of the convocation of the states general the people of France were never without a mouth, and until the "bronze artillery officer" shot down the "sections" they were never without an "army of revolution." The Russian people move heavily and may take years before their general will is effective, their movement being that of the glacier rather than the avalanche. Still they are moving—London Spectator. Washing In France Only one American washing machine has ever been introduced into Bordreaux, France, according to Consul Murphy. "There was, he says, "one such machine introduced here some years ago, but as it was not properly advertised or presented to the public in an intelligent manner it seemed to make but little impression. Washer-women from the country monopolize the washing business, gathering the soiled linen one week and returning it the next. They boll the clothes, use chemicals to whiten them, rinse them in the nearest stream and spread the articles over grass, hedges and barbed wire fences to dry, which does not conduce to long wear of linen. The cleansed goods are then returned to the families, who send them to an ironer, where they are generally kept another week." Camille Saint-Saens Coming Of the musical events of next season will be the first visit to America of the eminent French musician, Camille Saint-Saens, who is now seventy-one years old and for a number of years has suffered from an affection of the throat or lungs, which has made him spend much of his time in warm climates. He is one of the half dozen or so greatest living composers and a brilliant pianist as well. He will appear at only twenty concerts in this country, so that only the largest cities will be distinguished by a visit. New Life Saying Apparatus New Life Saving Apparatus. M. Pierre Samols, who has invented a new life saving apparatus, went to the Louvre swimming baths a day or two ago to test it. The apparatus consists of two small circular metal buys, through which the arms are passed. A belt connects the buys, which are constructed in such a way as to be practically unsinkable. M. Samols' invention was put to many severe tests by expert swimmers, none of whom was able to remain under water a moment while wearing the apparatus. —London Globe. Chancellor of Swiss Telephones. "I was in Switzerland in June, before the rush set in," said a globe trotter, "and what most struck me there was the height of the mountains and the lowness of the telephone rates. The government owns the Swiss telephone system, and a phone costs only $12 a year. This small fee gives you $80 calls, and for excess calls all you pay is 1 cent each." PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Anna Held will star in "A Paris Model," by Harry B. Smith, next season. Helen Whitman, now playing with the John P. Harris stock company at the Olympia Park theater, McKeenport, Pa., announces that she is under contract with the Kirk La Shell estate for the coming season. Henry B. Irving will open his American tour at the New Amsterdam theater, New York, Oct. 8 in Stephen Phillips' "Paola and Francesca." He will be supported by Dorothy Baird and an English company. Maurice Campbell announces that Ernest Denay, who wrote "All-of-a-Sudden Peggy," which had such a long run at the Duke of York's theater in London last season, will come over for the first performance of the play given in America by Henrietta Crosman. Miss Violet Dale, known well as a mimic in the variety theater, has been engaged for an ingenuine role in "The Strenuous Life," the farce in which Joe Weber is to star William Norris. Scott Cooper also has been engaged for the farce. He was in the original cast of "The New South." Robert Mantell is to make use next season of W. S. Gilbert's burlesque, "Bosencrans and Guildenstern," which the author of "Pinafore" and "The Mikado" wrote as his criticism of "Hamlet." The announcement by William A. Brady adds that Mr. Mantell will appear as King Claudius. EDITORIAL FLINGS. The lid that the scar is compelled to sit upon has all the other lids beaten a verst—Baltimore American. Mr. Upton Sinclair may be a remarkable young man, but he will not solve the servant problem—New York World. A Sioux City prophet predicts a plague of locusts in the west. And then think of the presidential bees!—Baltimore Sun. The king of Spain is to build a yacht for racing, but until he has a special brand of tea to advertise he cannot hope to compete with Sir Thomas Lipton.—Omaha Bee. A current writer says the decay of England is attributable to tea. It might be well to prove the front end of the proposition before bothering with the rest.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Edison says he is going to make it possible to build a $25,000 house for $500 by simply pouring concrete into molds. It isn't likely, however, that this will put an end to unhappiness. People who have $25,000 houses worry because they can't have $50,000 residences.—Chicago Record-Herald. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. Some of the British police wear straw helmets in the summer. At Fulbourn, England, the poor receive sixpece each for regular church attendance. Gramophones are used in English theaters to give "stage shouts," thus saving expense and insuring volume of sound. Worcester, England, has refused to give the government a site for a cavalry barracks, though one of the city councilmen used a strong argument. He urged that the presence of 1,500 soldiers in town would end the prevailing scarcity there of female domestic servants. FACTS FROM FRANCE. The French government this year refused the usual reduction allowed to bodies of sick pilgrims traveling to Lourdes. 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