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THE BROAD AX Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray Intimated That "The Nameless Colored Man Endeavored To Shake Him Down For Some Money." The Old Church Organ Turned the Light On the Baptist Preacher. Vol. XI Rev. Abraham Intimated That Colored Man Shake Him D Money." The Old Church the Light Preacher. What has been said in the two last issues of The Broad Ax and what will be said in this issue in reference to the nameless Colored man or the Old Church Organ, and the Preachers and the churches ought to be sufficient to convince even a blind mule that the nameless Colored man was the first to lead off in the fight against the Preachers, and that he is loaded down with his nerve, and lots of green gall when he contends otherwise, and endeavors to convey the impression that "the writer was the first to sit in judgment on the immoral acts of some of the Preachers who were and are at the present time occupying some of the pulpits in Chicago." The following quotatoins from the Old Church Organ are more than ample to bear out our contention: In speaking of the immoral acts of one of the Baptist preachers in this city at that time the Old Church Organ referred to him as follows: "Will the Colored ministers in Chicago protect their church as did Dr. Hillis, or will they get a pail of whitewash, smear over the monsoon conduct of a lecherous hypocrite and declare he is fit to teach other people to be virtuous and clean! And if they do, which one of Chicago's preachers will handle the whitewash brush? We bet it will be one who knows how it is himself. You watch and see. "For instance, there is one Baptist preacher who is the best fitted man in Chicago to defend pulpit infamy, for he has spent his life as a living lie on the Christian religioin and a standing disgrace to the pulpit. Why, nearly twenty years ago this champion of religion was a pastor of a big Baptist Church in a sister city. He preached honor, talked about virtue, and pounded his Bible almost to pieces talking about the purity of the home, and then took another man's wife and ran away with her. Then he lived with her for years part of the time consorting with other women, part of the time beating her like a dog, and all the time pushing his vile hulk into the pulpit and preaching to sinners. Then when his wife got old, he abandoned her to live or starve—he does not care which, just so he can give all his time to ruining women and defending other preachers of his own style and class. "Nice defender of the faith, isn't he? We have known him to go from the church pulpit straight to a saloon and guzzle whisky like any other old drunkard. And swear! He can outswear any sailor that ever struck this town. No half-way swearing. Not a bit of it, but oath after oath, until his anger cools, and then without washing his foul mouth, steps into a pulpit to lead sinners to repentance. "Of course he defends the church, because the church permits him to use its garments as a rag to cover his vile character. The preachers know he is a whisky-swilling hypocrite; they know he is a wife-beater; they know he is an adulterer; they know he is a political prostitute, and yet they let him crawl into their pulpits and blaspheme in the sanctuary by pretending to preach. Why? We don't know. Ask them. "What church is he in we don't know and don't care. He is in any church that will serve his vile purpose best. First, he was a Baptist, then he was a Methodist, things didn't come his way fast enough and he turned Baptist again. Now we understand he is back in the Methodist fold again. Baptist one day Methodist the next day, but a lying, swearing, whisky-drinking, home-destroying hypocrite all the time. And if Elder Gaines does call a council to investigate any pulpit desecrator in Chicago, this past-master of debauchery will be one of the first men who will try to get a seat in the council "Perhaps, when he reads this, he will fume and snort a little on his own account. He has held such a high hand in spite of his villainy that he thought he was just the man to attack me because I denounce crime. But he needn't fume, and no bluff goes. If he wants names and dates and places, let him say so. I've got his record down pat. "Meanwhile, if any preacher in town needs a defender, I pity his cause if he has to rely upon a preacher who sings and swears, prays and curses, mixes his religion with State street whisky, and who, by reason of his monumental record, is entitled to be President of the Fraternity of Wife Beaters and Grand High Priest of the Independent Order of Debaucheers. "But while I hate the man who lies to blacken my race, I just as intensely despise the man who lies to cover up the infamous practices of those reprobates who are ruining the race. You can't cure a festering wound by simply healing it over. You must clean it out. The race cannot have a pulpit which people will respect so long as we tolerate in our pulpits preachers whose moral characters are worse than that of the levee tough. We must admit that there are vile men who pollute our pulpits, and the man who loves it is not the man who hides villiany and white-washes moral lepers, but the man who scourges the monsters from the house of God. "And that is a duty which the people of Chicago owe to themselves—the protection they owe to their women and children, and what we have done, and what we propose to do, is to defend wives, mothers, and daughters, confiding husbands and peaceful homes from the assaults of the reprobate preachers who use their holy calling to secure the confidence of their congregations in order that they may be better able to carry on their schemes of lust and debauchery." The Old Church Organ, or the nameless Colored man, each and every week continued to fire into Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, and hold what it or he considerel his immoral acts up to the public gaze until finally the daily papers took up the gled refrain and joined in roast- HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 22, 1906 [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit, facing forward.] DR. HOWARD S. TAYLOR. Prosecuting Attorney of Chicago, a true friend of the Afro-American race, who is one of the prominent members of the Independence League. ing and painting the pastor of Bethal Church as a black villian who was unworthy to come in contact with deceit men, women and children, and at last Bishop A. Grant was forced to come to Chicago and order a church trial for Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray. The trial was finally set for Wednesday morning July 17, 1901, and in common with the rest of the newspaper men the writer arrived at Bethel Church, quite early on the morning of the trial, and just as we were in the act of entering the Church Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray and Bishop Grant approached us and the Pastor of Bethel introduced us to Bishop Grant, at the sametime he intimated that "The Broad Ax was a great newspaper, that he desired to become a regular subscriber to it, that he thought it could aid him in his fight against the Old Church Organ whose editor or manager had endeavored to shake him down for some money, and was endeavoring to turn over heaven and hell for the purpose of getting him unhorsed as the Pastor of Bethel Church, and lastly he heartily thanked us for refraining from joining in the fight against him." We then and there informed him that "up to that time The Broad Ax had not said one word either for or against him that it would not have anything to say until after he had his church trial. Owing to the excitable condition of the people Bishop Grant postponed the trial of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray until the September Conference, and on leaving the Church we walked around on State street in company with Col. James H. Moody, Dr. A. B. Schultz, and the nameless Colored man, and when we had arrived in front of the office of the Old Church Organ, the nameless Colored man invited us to step inside, and after compiling his request. Then he wanted to know "what The Broad Ax would have to say respecting the postponement of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray's trial." In response we stated that we had not fully made up our mind what we would say, that we would not say a great deal either for or against him until after the September Conference." At that point in our conversation the nameless Colored man declared in the plainest and in the very strongest language that "Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray is the blackest and the grandest rascal in this country, that he had an affidavit signed by a married woman who swore that "Rev. A. L. Murray called at her home in this city and broke her piano stool while endeavoring to get at her for the purpose of hugging and kissing her." Here is what The Broad Ax said in Here is what The Broad Ax saik in (Continued on page 2.) SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR COLORED STUDENTS. There is no trade or profession that is so largely patronized by the Colored people as the photograph business, and at the same time there is no class of people whose patronage is so little appreciated among photographers as that of Colored people. Of the few schools in America that instruct and professionally teach Photography in all of its branches there are none whose doors are open to the Colored student. Why can we not have photographers of our own? The Shepherd Photo Co., whose palatial studio, located at 3018 State street, has attracted the admiration of thousands, is now undergoing preparations to accommodate a limited number of students who may be attracted by the extraordinary offer that will be given its first pupil. The school will be under the direct management of Harry Shepherd, whose twenty years of successful operation in St. Paul, competing with the leading studios of the Northwest, has established for him an enviable reputation among the foremost Photographers of the country. The management has also secured the service of Albert Sexton, founder of the Sexton and Maxwell studios in St. Louis and Chicago, who needs no introduction to the Colored people, as the Sexton and Maxwell photos are scattered in the homes of more Colored people than those coming from any other studios in the country. Our entire force of instructors will be thorough and efficient and it will be our purpose to adopt the very latest and improved methods in training the student that they may be thoroughly able to conduct a business of their own within three months' time. We teach you the art complete for One Hundred Dollars and privilege you to remain with us until you are confident of your ability. Could any offer be more reasonable? To those who may be skeptical we would advise you to write for a catalogue of the Effingham School of Photography, Effingham, Ill., and compare their terms with ours. Of course they do not admit the Colored applicant, but we refer you to this school as it is one of the most reasonable we know of. Any information cheerfully furnished on application to those who may be interested to know the expense necessary in conducting a photo business and the profits of same. Remember our capacity for accommodating students is limited to a few and those interested in learning Photography as a business should apply at once. THE INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE Nominated A Full County and Municipal Court Ticket. Jas J. Gray Candidate for Sheriff Its Motto Is "Down With the Political Bosses and Tricksters--Doctor Howard S. Taylor and Other Prominent Citizens Join the Movement. The leaders of the Independence League, Tuesday evening met at Music Hall, Fine Arts building, and a full county ticket was nominated the candidates had already been selected by a committee consisting of Col. A. D. Gash, William Ritchie, Samuel B. King, Simon Armstrong J. Lebosky, R. D. Keehn, Col. Dan D. Healy acted as chairman of the meeting, and during his remarks he let it be known that 'the time had arrived for the political bosses of both political parties to be put out of business and laid on the shelf,' Col. A. D. Gash, Samuel King, John E. Owens, William Ritchie and Dr. Howard S. Taylor, furnished most of the oratory for the occasion In his warm flings at the bosses of the Democratic party, Dr. Taylor, exclaimed that "the people did not want to reach or enter the new Municipal Court rooms through the Bull pen of the Harrison street Police station." He also contended that none but first-class or able lawyers should be lected as Judges of the Municipal Court. At the winding up of the speechmaking and in the midst of just a little bit of confusion and soreness, the following ticket was nominated: Sheriff.....James J. Gray, D. Treasurer.....F. B. Macomber R. County Clerk.....Fred C. Bender, R. Clerk Circuit Court Charles C. Case, D. Clerk Prob. Court F. J. Schwindler, D. Clerk Crim. Court.Oscar S. Fleger, D. County Superintendent of Schools... ...Orville T. Bright, R. Judge County Court ... ...Andrew B. Doughan, R. Judge Probate Court ... ...Myer S. Emerich, D. County Assessors ... ...A. W. Schwane, D. ...Dr. B. S. Turner, R. Member Board of Review ... Dr. P. J. H. Farrell, Ind. President County Board ... Robert Lindblom, Ind. COMMISSIONERS—CITY. Robert Lindblom, Ind., Frederick Heven, R.; Henry N. Miller, D.; C. W. Carr, D.; Wales Nichols, Ind.; Chas. G. Dixon, Ind.; Philip Moran, D.; Stephen C. Sumner, Ind.; Olof H. Jourls, Ind.; Thomas Tobin, D. COMMISSIONERS COUNTY. Patrick W. Dunne, D.; George B. Winter, D. (Three vacancies). SANITARY DISTRICT. Robert G. Fisher, D.: Floren Holek D.; Wm. A. Dudley, D. MUNICIPAL COURTS. Chief Justice .....Gwynn Garnett, R. Chief Clerk .....Christ. M'Gurn, D. Chief Bailliff .....Joseph Gerlin, D. ASSOCIATE JUDGES. The field for operation is a large one, and no trouble would be experienced in securing a location that would bring you quick and gratifying returns on your investment. Our School opens October 15, 1906: Harry Shepherd, Conductor, 3018 State St., Chicago, Ill. No.48 DENCE LEAGUE Full County and urt Ticket. Candidate for Sheriff "Down With the ses and Trick- Howard S. Tay- Prominent Citi- Movement. son, D; E. W. Adkinson, R; I. T. Greenacre, D; C. D. F. Smith, R; Lawrence P. Boyle, D; SpencerWard, D; K. B. Czarnecki, D; Howard O. Sprogle, R. Four-year Term. Chas, H. Mitchell, D; William Dillon, D; Robt. R. Jumpolis, D; John A. Watson, R; Thomas Marshall, R; Andrew J.Hirschl, R; G. B. Anderson, R; Francis S. Wilson, D; James Fraka, R. Six-year Term. John P. Ahrens, R.; W. Elliot Furness, R.; T. E. D. Bradley, R.; E. F. Msaterson, D.; Elmer E. Beach, R.; N. A. Partridge, R.; Geo. E. Dawson, D.; Geo. W. Warvelle, D.; Joseph W. Errant, D. The leading Democratic and Republican politicians, at first did not think this new movement would amount to anything, but it is quite a distinct loss to both parties when such men as former Judge Garnett, Orville T. Bright, James J. Gray, Dr. Howard S. Taylor, Joseph Grein, Andrew J. Hirschl, Col. A. A. D. Gash, John E. Owens, N. A. Partridge, and many others equally as honorable brake away from their party moorings and their former political associates, and friends. There is no disguising the fact that the leaders of both the Republican and the Democratic Parties would much prefer not to see this new or third ticket in the field. James G. Gray the Independence League candidate for Sheriff has a clean private and public record behind him and being very popular and having many warm friends in all parts of Cook County, it will make a might interesting race between him, and Harry R. Gibbons, and Christopher Strassheim, and the interest of the public will not suffer in the hands of either one of these three candidates, for each and every one of them, are more than capable of dischaging the duties of Sheriff of Cook County. It is too bad that the eminent leaders of the Independence League failed to nominate a worthy Colored man for municipal Judge or for County Commissioner, in their failure to do so simply shows that they are not up to snuff, and are very poor or short sighted politicians, for Colored men need educating along independent political lines as well as the so-called highly educated white men, and a great mistake was made by not placing a Colored man on the ticket, and making an honest effort, on the part of the members of the League of endeavoring to capture a portion of the Afro-American vote, and then they would have proven themselves much better politicians than the leaders of the Democratic party in this city and County. Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 5434 Normal avenue, is spending her three weeks' vacation with her friend, Mr. E. J. Allen, Marion, Iowa, and she is having a delightful time in fishing, gathering walnuts and picking fruit. ‘THE BR ‘BROAD AX rt PUBASNNRD WHEE F- Yi promulgate and ef all times By ree Saas ot the paper. | Bebsertptions must be paid in advance. a See THE BROAD AX (Me Armenr Avenee, Obicage. ‘FELIS F. TAYLOR, Balter and Publisher. —————— ‘Eotered vt the Post Office at Chicage, Whee Secont-clas Mater, —_—_—_——_—_—_——____ ‘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 adver- tisements 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 708, 171 Washington street, Phone Main 4153. Residence 4856 Langley avenue, Phone Drexel 6302. ‘WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COL- ORED CRIMINALS? ‘We congratulate Dr. J. A. Merriman of Portland, Oregon, for his over- whelming answer in the Oregonian to & mean article published in that paper against the Colored people of the South by a white man who admitted he was from the South. The heading ‘to the article of Dr. Merriman was “Negro Growing Better—All He Asks From the White Man is Civil De- cency.” This is quite a relief from Dr. Washington's talk of the instance of Negro Criminality. Another excellent article by a Mr. ‘Will A. Duncan in the same paper in answer to this same article by Good. rich carries a heading, “Is Lawless- ness Not an Inheritance.” He says in one place: “He fails to note that when the Civil ‘War was going on, when every white man and boy was called to arms, to clinch the bonds of slavery tighter ‘than before, that that very same slave was kept on fieli and by fireside as protector and provider for the homes and families of his oppressor. And not 2 single instance is on record where that slave and (so-called) ra. pine ever betrayed his trust.” And again he says: “He says nothing of the seven- tenths of the present Colored popula. tion of the. South who are octoroons, quaiiroons, etc. {a result of forced amalgamation of the races) who are ilving testimonials of a condition that existed during the days of alavery, when for a female slave to deny her master his will was to incur increased servitude, ashes upon the naked back and possibly sold to the “nigger traders” of the faroff South. “He says nothing of the tear- @renched furrows that were being tilled by the wee;ing mother for the ‘babe that was torn from her sorrow- tug breast, says cothing-of the fugi- tive ‘slave whose blood-stained foot- ‘steps had been traced over hills and ‘through swamps by bloodhounds apd finally returned to their master’s homes, tobe jashed, hated and de- spised. Is it © wonder that a person bred under such conditions, born and reared with such assocation should develop into rapists, libertines and moral degenerates when the same had been their masters, advisers and pos- sity their fathers.” _ This raises ‘the question as to whether the white or Colored people are responsible for the criminals in ‘THE BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOP. ~~ ‘ENT COMPANY. ‘This coming Tuesday evening Prot. Kealing of Philadelphia, Pa, eastern Tepresentative for the Black Diamond Development Company, will attend a ‘mibeting of its Wirectors in the lecture foom: of Bethel Church 30th and Dear- ‘born street, and speak on the rapid progréss of the work in connection ‘Bt this meeting the full report will Det eet forth on the coming tn of well ‘No, 8 and the commencement of wells ne. 43 md 5, with bright prospects of ringing them i ‘November ist. “Gtock in the Black Diamond Devel. oe Asst ihe lowest poist, 30.cents per chare. Now, is the to get in on the ground Boor and fore it jumps up to the $1 eter er tnt RB Sy ANF ‘MENT. Beginning with the next issue of ‘The Broad Ax, that brilliant, interest img and venerable writer, Col. Clarke Irvine, Oregon, Mo., will paint or por- tray the trae story of “Benjamin Bennaker the Negro Mathematician and Astrotiomer.” ‘There are a mighty few men belors ing to the Anglo-Saxon race who are as familiar with the history of the Negro race, and thuse among it, who have distinguished themselves like unto Col. Irvine and we admonish the many readers of The Broad Ax, to pre serve each copy containing the story, for Benjamin Bennaker, the author of the first American Almanac, was as great a genius, In the world of science as Sebastien Gomer, “The Slave of Mu- rillo,” was in the world of art. BECAUSE BLACK GIRL REFUSED TO LIVE WITH HIM WHITE MAN SHOT HER. Mobile, Ala, September 16.—Jack Campbell, a well known business man of Evergreen, Ala., killed Abbie Kemp @ Negro woman, last night because she refused to go to Montgomery and live with him. He called the woman to @ restaurant door and shot her six times, death ensuing immediately. Campbell escaped and officers are on his trail. THOMAS CAREY FOR JAMES J. GRAY FOR SHERIFF. Thomas Carey, Ex-Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Cook County, is out red hot, for James J. Gray, for Sheriff, and he may manage his successful campaign. THE NAMELESS COLORED MAN AND REV. ABRAHAM LINCOLN MURRAY. (Concluded from page 1.) reference to the trial of Rev. Murray, July 20, 1901, “not being in a position tovknow, we do not pretend to say whether all the evil reports which have been floating around respecting the actions of Rev. Murray, are false or true, but there is an old saying which contains much truth namely: where ever there is so much smoke there is always bound to be some fire. So this applies to Rev. Murray, if he is not guitly of departing from the straight and narrow path which al! preachers should walk in that is pro- viding they are eager or anxious to command the respect of honest men and women, but unfortunately for ‘Rev. Murray, he permitted himself so it appears, to mingle too freely with some of the females connected with Bethel Church, and as it always turns ‘out with those who go too far with some women—those women entangled him, in their nets—hence the great ‘scandal which has raged around Beth- ‘el Church for the past four months.” ‘The September Conference brushed ‘aside all the black charges which had deen preferred against hjm, and the Old Church Organ or the nameless ‘Colored man, was seemingly as mai as an old wet hen for he cussed and damned and snorted long and loud, and declared “it was another case of whitewash,” but finally no doubt for the few crumbs which happened to fall from the table of the Pastor of Bethel, Church and a little money he, swallowed all the black crow in Chica 80, ran his cut in the columns of the Old Church Organ, and the nameless Colored man branded the Christian lady, whose word he had said “was as good as her bond” and all others as bare-faced liars, and as open enemies to all the churches and preachers, who failed to bow down with him; and worship at the feet of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray! Mr. W. Barley, rear 1732 Mich. ave.. Las just finished drawing plans and getting figures for extensive improve. ment on Mr. MeCoomer's private res- idence, and @ store at Slst ait State st, for Mr, J. L. Clay. eee New system of dressmaking taught ‘at Institutional Church, $10,00,. Ten dollars for the entire course—to be- Bin the first of September. eee Institutional Church 3825. Dear born street, August, 1906, The Class im Millinery will begin its ‘work the first of September. The cost for complete instructions is in the reach of all Day Nursery ts in operation every day but Sunday from 6:20 a. m. to 6:30 p.m eo eee EMANUEL’S WONDERFUL » Foot Lotion—Otntment cures corms and perspiratoin. Sore feet, etc. Ask the druggist, ointment 5@ cents, per Dox, Lotion per bottle 50 cents. TWO FURNISHED ROOMS TO RENT ‘Two nicély furnished rooms to rent, gas and bath, Orsi fat, 5742 Grove ant ie CHIPrs Se i ge ee land, Cal, last week. ¥ Mr. Joseph Jenkins, 4715 Dearborn street, has been confined 1 his home for the“ past two weeks sick, ‘Mrs. Mary R. Tivbs, mother of Mrs. A. W. Williams, 6510 Langley ave., left for her home Danville, Ky., Wed- nesday evening. ‘Walter E. Schmidt the present ef- ficient assistant treasurer of Cook county, will be elected as a member of the Board of Assessors. Mr. 8. S. Paul, 3605 Forest avenue, who has been spending his vacation in the east returned to Chicago Satur- day. Justice Theo. C. Mayer, will on Tuesday, November 6th, come in under the wire, as one of the Judges of the new Municipal Court. - Miss Lizzie Bontee, who bas been visiting Mr. and Mrs, Alex Armant, 2963 Armour avenue, for the past two weeks, left ThursJay for her home in Montreal, Canada. Mr. Arthur Woodard, 3846 Dearborn street, will entertain about thirty gen- tlemen at a stag party Monday even- ing, September 24th, in honor of Mr. Charles Pickett, of Washington, D. C. Mr. Henry Goodloe, special messen- ger in the United States Express of- fice, returned to his work after a ten days’ vacation spent visiting friends and friends in Michigan. Mrs. C. Rhodes and son of Wash- ington, Iowa, on their way home from Louisville, Ky., stopped over for a week in Chicago, the guests of Miss Lucie Lindsay, 4110 Calumet avenue. M. J. Doherty, Superintendent of streets, is getting nimself in good shape to put in many hard licks for the entire Democratic ticket of Cook county. ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. Williams, 6610 Ver- bon avenue, entertained a small num- ber of their friends Thursday evening in honor of a number of their assocl- ates in their ‘Chautauqua work. Mr. W. H. Jackson, 435 36th street, is making vast preparations to go to Richmond, Va., where he will repre- sent Golden Fleece Lodge No. 1615 of the G. U. 0. O. F. as a delegate to the B. M. C. ‘The Liberty Pleasure Club, will give its third annual complimentary ball, Coliseum Annex, Monday even- ing, October 15th Music by the Eighth Regiment Orchestra. Prof, Albert H. Putney Dean, of the Tl College of Law, lus been selected by the leaders of Democracy to make the race for Congress against Henry Sherman Boutell, in the 9th Congres- sional District. : John P. Hopkins returned home the latter part of last week, from a rtip to Europe, and he fs just in time to take a hand in the red-hot political fight which will be on the bill boards until the 6th of November. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson, 4851 Dearborn street, visited his mother, ‘Mrs. Susan Wright at La Grange, IIL, Tuesday. They spent a most injoy- able time and dinner was served by Mrs. Wright. Honest Ernst Hummel, after all that is sald and done, will be the next treasurer of Cook county, for he tow- ers for capability and honesty, head and sholders above his competitors, who are seeking that responsible po- sition. August W. Miller, who is one of the most popular captains in the ‘Second Regiment [Illinois National Guards, who has faithfully served the people in his official capacities, will be reelected as a member of the Board ‘of Assessors of Cook County. _ ‘Mrs. Augusta Hawsins, 4640 Dear born street, has accepted a position as manicurist in the office of D. R. ‘Congressman William Sulzer has many strong and influential friends in New York City and throughout the state, who are working hand in hamt to bring around his nomination. for Governor of that state, ami if they succeed in doing so there Is no doubt of his election, for he is one of the most popular men within its borders. Mrs, Precilla Thomas.of Kansas City. Kans, has been the guest of her daughter, Madam Hagans, the up to date hair dresser 5031 Shields ave.. for the past six weeks, While in the city Mrs. Thomas has been royally entertained by Mrs, Joe Scott, of West Pullman, Mrs, Sara Washington, of Harvey, and many of her other warm friends. She will return to her Kan- sas City home this week. The past week several prominent white railroad contractors at Knox- ville, Tenn.. have been indicted by the United States grand jury, charg- ing them with peonage. It is said that the members of the grand jury have listened to horrible tales of slavery and cruelty practiced at the various camps, Negroes have told of the guard line, which was the dead line for any attempting to escape. They have also told of perhaps a doz- en Negroes killed and their bodies thrown into the river. PLAYS Aliv (4 VERS. Julia Nellson, the English actress, is to be starred in this country next sea- Bon. “His Honor the Mayor” is a hit at the New York theater, where it may re main all summer if the weather man turns out to be favorably disposed. ‘There is a possibility that Sarah Bernhardt may appear in “Tess of the @Urbervilles,” in which Mrs, Fiske ‘won one of her most notable triumphs. George A. Stone and Frederick James Nice have been engaged for the parts of the Scarecrow and the Tin Wood- man in “The Wizard of Oz” for next season. Joe Weber bas engaged to appear next season at his New York music hall Lillian Blauvelt, the concert and operatic singer, whose name is known to music lovers all over the world. Cyril, Maude and Winifred Emery, the English players recently engaged for an American tour next season, will bring a new play that is to be written ‘especially for them by a leading Lon- don dramatist. Lena Ashwell, one of the most popu- lar of the younger English actresses, ‘bas been engaged by the Shuberts to bring her entire company to America next season for a tour of the independ- ‘ent theaters in “The Shulamtite.” MODES OF THE MOMENT. Mercerized cotton volles come in Diack and white checks and look like ilk. Sporting blouses of white flannel, pel- ka dotted in color, have turndown col- lar and cuffs of solid color to match. Deep yellow, with a shot of flame red in its lights aud shades, ts the latest fastsotable color, known as Ve- suvius, Lingerie belts of tnsertion are much in favor for morning wear; also the broad belts of loosely woven basket weave braid, which washes splendidly. One of the newest methods of garni- tare is the application of large colored flowers and scroll patterns cut from different material—lawn, linen or wash silk. For coat and skirt or cloth or silk gown girdles to match or in black and white are used. While many of these are shaped, they are not so high in the back as last season. FISH TALES. A sturgeon caught on one occasion in the Volga weighed 1,700 pounds and ‘was valued altogether at $400. A goldfish craze has grasped a large number of wealthy New Yorkers. Sin- gle specimens often bring $25 and $50 to the dealer. One wealthy bachelor paid $10,000 for « marble receptacle in which to hold his pets. An enormous ran eating shark was caught in San }"edro, Cal, the other day. It was hargooned by some fisher- men outside the harbor and towed in. ‘The shark was thirty-two feet long and weighed over 5,000 pounds. ‘The shad 1s doomed to extermination, according to John Titcomb, in charge of the hatching service of the United States fish commission. The greed of fishermen in scooping them up by thou- sands as they enter fresh water is re- sponsible for this condition, he says. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. London has 1.028 postoffices and 2,438 public telephone stations. Dartmoor, which occupies one-fifth of the ares of the county of Devon, is the largest tract of uncultivated land in England. ‘Nelther male nor female convicts in English prisons are permitted to see a mirror dteing the period of their incar ceration. ‘The new regulations in the British army that “no relaxation of the eye sight test can ever be allowed” is ro- garded as marking the disappearance of the eyegiaes among the officers. A widow living in the Brightlingses Sinotiots bivthdny Dy inviting to me two old sweethearts. One of them was - cx e WASHINGTON LETTER [Bpecial Correspondence.) In point of architecture Washingtow will soon be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is not far away now. The dream of the great man for whom the national capital was named will practically be realized. In buildings and bridges now under construction Washington is spending $50,000,000, Others which will cost $20,000,000 are projected. The senate and house office buildings will repre- sent an expenditure of $7,000,000. The eastern front of the capitol Is to be extended in marble at a cost of $1,- 830,000. Supreme Court Building. ‘A fine building for the supreme [court is in contemplation. ‘The rail | roads are expending $12,000,000 on a | magnificent union passenger depot. ‘Two steel bridges are to be thrown ‘across the Potomac river, and the largest cement bridge in the world will span Rock creek. There will be a | new war college for the army and sev" eral imposing university buildings, and extensive improvements are to be | made at the navy yard and the sol- | diers’ home. When the house and senate office buildings are completed the plaza east ‘of the capitol will be néarly surrounded | by one of the most magnificent groups |of public buildings in the world. | When the supreme court building goes | up it will probably be without a rival. | ‘The Capitol Kitchens, | During the last session of congress | Elliott Woods, superintendent of the capitol, got from the senate rules com- | mittee an appropriation of $17,000 with which to go abead and make of the senate kitchen and restaurant a ‘cleanly and sanitary piace. He also got from the powers that be in the house permission to spend a tidy sum for the overhauling of the house | kitchen and its enlargement to twice its present size. ‘To Banish Rats. | Some idea of the conditions under which the senate cooks prepared the viands In the past may be given when it Js stated that the senate kitchen was a regular paradise for rats. Now it has been decreed that the rats | must go. To accomplish this a new floor, composed of broken glass, a sprinkling of lime, over that four Inches of cement ing, will be laid. No rat, it ie lated, could bore through the couibination. The plumbing and sewerage will also be done over. There will be a cold stor- age room built, ten feet square, and In this all the perishable supplies for the restaurant will be kept. An Ice Making Plant. | In connection with the cold storage |room an ice plant will be installed | with a capacity of two tons. This will be the first ice making plant installed In the capitol and will add the duty of | manufacturing ice to the many other | activities of the capitol caretakers. It | will also presage the building of a still | larger ice plant for chilling the air clr- | culated in the house and senate cham- |bers through ventilating shafts. Big six foot ventilating fans will bring |fresh alr into the kitchens. An tmpor- |tant addition will be a bakeshop in which fresh bread and pastry may be cocked every day under government supervision. i Government Mapmakers. | United States geological party un- der the direction of Charles Hartmann, |Jr, Is now at work completing the sur- vey of an area of about 220 square miles between Hanover and Wood- stock, N. H., undertaken largely ‘through the efforts of Senator Proctor ‘and Dean Fletcher of Dartmouth col- lege. At the conclusion of that work ‘surveys near Lake Winnepesaukee and Squam lake will be taken up. This ‘work will not be completed this year. ‘The taaps will be useful to those Inter- ested in forest preservation, to Dart- ‘month college, railroads and power companies. Surveying Maine. A field party in charge of Hersey ‘Munroe is now at work on topographic surveys of portions of Kennebec, An- Groscoggin, York and other counties in Maine. ‘The party is now engaged in ‘mapping an area of about 220 square ‘miles about Lewiston, and on the ‘completion of this work will take up and finish mapping an area between Auburn and Poland. That work ac- complished some preliminary surveys will be made about Fryeburg and Hiram, including surveys of the roads. Elevations will also be ascertained Preliminary to the work of mapping this section topographically next year. It fs believed that the maps made as the result of these surveys will be helpful to tourists, to railroad and Power companies, to the state in its Work of improving the highways, to cities and villages as well as to pri- vate citizens. They will be engraved ‘on a scale of one mile to one inch and will show all differences of elevation for every twenty feet of rise above sea level. Every road and house will be shown and the shape of every ‘ill out- National art Gallery. By a decision of Justice Stafford in the district supreme court it has been determined that this country already possesses a national art gallery. This decision is interesting, frst, because no ne realized that there was such a thing as national gallery in this coun- try and, second, because it brings to the government and incidentally to ‘Washington the Harriet Lane Jobn- ston art collection, which Is intringical- ly valuable, very beautiful and will et aoe around which « real tion eventually ‘be bait ep. ‘he pictures have font bese | transferred to the custody of the st eh om aap i. ~ CA SHOFIELD. _ ACONFESSION. ~~ I bear with me where'er I go ‘The image of a lady fair. "Tis not my wife's: she does not kivw ‘How much for that bright face I cary ‘oe take it = and gaze Tapture on its perfect lines It has inspired my happiest lay<; ‘My sun of fortune in it shines. © classic head with fillet grace O Grecian nose! O dimpled chin! © lps so exquisitely traced! © silvery hair and polished skint Yes; silvery hair, though still s9 young ‘And scarcely changed by lapse otk This maiden fair whose praise I've sing ‘Beame on me from a treamred din Nathan Haskell Dole in. Livsenuve ‘Magazine. Settling It, se Ge, ©) 1 PA ae } Sr ba F i % fa 7 eae 5 he a) Ana Pte Oe Pa One of the Doctors — Gentlemen, since we cannot agree upon a diasue tls and as it is getting somewhat lato I propose we draw lots.—Woman's Home Companion 1t Was a Good Thing. “Excuse me, madam,” said the agent, addressing the lady of the house. “int T'd like to show you a little device hat 1 am Introducing. All you have to do {s simply place it in your refrigerator and it will save half the ice.” “Indeed!” exclaimed the lady. “Aud do you guarantee that it will save half the Ice?” “Certainly, madam,” answere! the agent. “Then I'll take two,” said the prac tical 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 ded, and pop married agen. I made uy me mind to skip, and so I ran an’ rau tll I was near dead, an’ ”— “Simply couldn't go a step farther en?” “Nom. It was the stepmother I couldn't go."—Philadelphia Press. ‘What Fiatters Them Most. In her trim little bathing suit she sat on the White sand. “I adore intelligence,” she cried. “So do I,” sald 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 2 couple of years ago he declared he couldn't live with- out her. Jones—And did he marry her? Smith—Yes, and now be is trying to get a divorce on the grounds that it's impossible to live with her—Detrolt ‘Tribune Enough Said. “But,” said the old lawyer, “why do you admit that your client will lose his case? Have you exhausted all the meatis at your disposal to”— “No,” interrupted the young lawyer, “but [I've exhausted all the meaus at his disposal.”—American Spectator. Sure Enough. “Cheer up,” said Kwoter, “there aro fish in the sea good as ever were caught.” “There must be better.” repliel Crabbe, “because the fishermen iusist that the biggest ones always get away.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Synonymous. An exacting housekeeper was scold- ing her housemaid one morning. “Mary,” she declared, “your work has no finish.” “Dat's de trufe, ma'am,” Mary re- plied. “It sho’ nuff doan’ ha’ no end.” —Harper's Weekly. ~ A Case In Point. “Do you believe all geniuses are eg>- tists?” “No. Look at me. Ever since I can remember I have kept myself back by Placing too light an estimate on ™y importance and ability.”—Chicago Rec- ord-Herald. ‘wheediein ‘The Tragedian—Our comedian is * bumorous chap. ‘The Property Man—How 0? ‘The Tragedian—He thinks we ought to pay him the salary the press agent claims we do—Brookiyn Eagle. ‘A Nuisance. “Why is Smartly so unpopular?” “He is one of these people who come around every day and tell you it Isn't the beat that causes the discomfort, but the humidity."—Wasbington Star. ap Imagination. ‘Mra, Boreing—Imagination! What 's ‘magination? ‘Mr. Boreing—It ts that faculty, mY Gear, which makes men believe that marriags is bliss.—Jndge. eae a Preevatifies Idec. ‘Mrs. Bacop—Is 2 hundred pounds of feo much, Willem? $t—Yenkers Statesman ee —__.. asiecrrt 1 Anwmy “CHOICE MISCELLANY oo a moth Pepper Tree. eet ae in the southern part of Sante Bar pera county, close up to the foothills of brsanta Yoes mountains that almost Sound the valley of Campenteria, Sere stands a specimen of the pepper Se that Is interesting owing to ite Escsive proportions. It adorns the Pine of Gideon E. Franklin, one of Renta Barbara county's citizens. ‘The gee was planted hy a former propeie- ty of the estate quout twenty years Ep. Ove foot above the ground the Sfant trunk measures tweive feet tn eivumference. It soon divides iteelt {ato three well developed bodies which have respectively an Individual girth vf four feet elght inches, four feet nine aches, and six feet one inch, or # com- bined circumference of fifteen feet six inches. The longest boughs have an most uniform reach of thirty-three feet, giving 2 nearly clreular diameter treisty-six feet. Some fifteen feet of dhe longest limbs have been cut off in trier to preserve the regularity of its form. The height of the tree is be- treen forty and fifty feet. ‘The tree ts Sipposed to be the largest of Its kind {fn the state—Los Angeles Times, wee ane on The popular science Of Urs. ACRES ani Bevan Lewis, who tell us to sleep fr long as we can, makes more talk quan anything else read before the British association and deserves to do eo. There is a great deal about it In fhe papers, too, cordially written by weary journalists. The Daily Tele- grapli mentions a well known judge Sho Is over eighty and looks young as ‘a consequence of always taking @ nap “when so disposed,” and a gallant offi- cer of seventy who fs taken for fifty- fre, vot “in the dusk with the light pebind him,” but on the flerce parade ground. There is also the case of a “hardworking literary man"—the ad- jective is redundant—whose wife says that whenever he grows sulky or de- presse or dyspeptic she “lets him le an hour or two longer fn bed. It never falls to cure him.” This is suggestive, going beyond what was sald by the doctors, Let us sleep and cultivate good temper. Miners Using Automobiles. “People around here look on the au- tomoluic as a rich man's luxury,” said J. L. Marker of Chicago at the Plank- foton, “but out in the new gold camps of Nevada it is a common carrier. Be- tween Golifield and outlying camps. Bullfrog and Tonopah, regular automo- bile lines are doing the work of carry- ing pessengers that a few years ago would have been handled by stages. Any kind of travel In the sagebrush and alkali of the desert 1s 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 bad scarcely a building in it that rose to the dignity of a real residence.”—MIl- ‘Waukee Sentinel, ‘i Silene ial An apparatus for measuring the sev- enty millionth part of an inch has been made by Dr, P. Shaw of Notting- ham university, England, says Tech- nical World Magazine. It works upon the principle of electric, touch and con- ‘ists of a fine micrometer screw and six levers. ‘The apparatus is so sensi- tive 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 dis- tance that this mechanism measures is About the distance between a solid and £ liquid molecule. Dr, Shaw's inven. tion was first made in 1900, but ite feat improvement of late has made it the wonder of physicists throughout the world. Melsypon In Enciesd. Maizypop in London ts the product of the latest American invasion. It is asserted, says What to Eat, that the Tecord for such introductions has been broken in this case, for it took Just ne week to form a company, to regis- ter the trademark and to lease a build- ing. In the second week the finished Product was being turned out. Maizy- Pop is simply popcorn as we are fa miliar with It In pink and wit:te cakes rapped in oiled paper. The name is a concession to the language of England Where corn In known as maize. The two Americans who bave started Baizspop upon its career first bought the foreign rights for popeorn machin @y, then arranged to control the ex. ort of shelled corn from the United States for ten years. A Relistess Masco. For twenty years EL B, Satith's horse has carried its owner to the Congregs- tions! church at Monterey, Mass., o Sundays. Mr. Smith being ill recently, the animal was turned into a pasture to exercise. When the church bells Tang the horse cleared the fence in 2 dound and trotted to the house of Worship. It remained patiently tn the St te wanted Soe ion the began when ft trotted back home at a sedate Saddath gait. Bebites an % an ees A Bowdoinbam business man cashed © check a short time ago that had been out twelve years without being- re tuned. The interest om it, if it had bean computed, would have amounted {> twothirds of the face value, The holder of the check lost 68 per cent of ‘fe face of the check in interest. The maker of the check willingly cashed ft, ‘though a check is legally outawed fx _ tix yeara—Kennebec JourmaL. «| NEW SHORT STORIES ‘Twe Brvan Stories. ‘The English and continental newspe- ‘Pers are still publishing stories regard- ing Willism Jennings Bry.u, whose American originality and good natare ‘appear to have broken the ice of old ‘World formality. For instance, the London Daily Express, without men- tioning names, the custom in Europe ‘more than America, shows how Bryan 4m one of his hours of good humor told the newspaper men many inter- esting csmpaign stories. Among other things, according to the Express, the American campaigner sald: “During @ great campaign I prac- tically lived on the railroad, traveling 18,000 miles in less than three months. My highest record of handshakes 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 O CQa aad i hw er Ly} | BK ia 8 a e 4 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 hor- ror 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 mo- ments and then, selzing me warmly by the band, 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 bad in my life. On the other hand, I consider the greatest compli- ment was that paid 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 con- clusion he exclaimed: “*Phat was the bulliest speech I ‘bave ever heard. I could see your back teeth all the time.” | alin iain eins a ‘The stagecoach that carries the mail between Kent's Hill and Redfield sta- tion, in Maine, drew up along the road- side, and the driver accosted a little old man working in a field, says Every- Dody’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 ‘9 letter for ber.” “B, you say the middle letter ts B, do you? I know a whole lot of Browns 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? Sbe lives over"— “No, it's Abby B. Brown. We'll find her somehow. Thanks.” ‘The stage driver started bis horses, but before the corner was reached s faint “Hello!” caused the passengers to turn around. The old man, hoe ir hand, was pursuing the stage. “Brown, Mrs, Abby B. Brown, di you say? Why, I know her. She’ my wife.” . ne. thee Seeeaie ‘When King Edward visited ®* of Man a year or more ago he was es- corted 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 pho- tograph be taken of the royal family ‘and fts 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 st ‘this, end Mrs. Caine chided her boy, but he stoutly said: “But, mamma, I watched the king, ‘and as be kept his hat on I followed suit"—Pittsburg Press. Hopetel. ‘Wiliam Allen White says that the most ammsing personal note that be ‘ever came across in a country Rewspe. per was that which Inst year caught ‘aye while. reading # Wisconsin pe pa eae wes os pa ‘Anderson met with a painful ‘celdent last week, = Sabbook bectrs Esko me Pare wil come est al right."- FACTS IN FEW LINES A Winthrop (Me) man celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday the other day by leaving off using tobacco in any form. He bad 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 al- ready bas a large and prosperous pub- Ushing house. « The largest and costliest building thus far undertaken in New York, the city of immense structures,- is the magnificent $10,000,000 Episcopal Ca- thedral of St. John the Divine, now being erected on Morningside heights. Among the curiosities of church ar ehitecture In America may be men- tioned the fact that in Santa Rosa, Cal, is a church with a seating capac ity of 200 which is built entirely of timber sawed out of a single redwood tree. The big elm tree known as the La- fayette elm, where Lafayette met his New Hampshire soldiers in the Revo- lution, 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 re- ceived his greeting from Granite State people. There seems to be a pan-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 1s said they have been invited by Shelk U! Islam, who 1s the Moslem archbishop of Turkey, to confer with him on the extension and propagation of Mohammedanism in Asia. Relic hunters in New York have whittled up a dozen or more tables in the Madison Square roof garden, think- Ing they have secured pleces of the ta- ble at which Stanford White aat when Harry Thaw shot him. The attendants place a new table on the correct spot as soon as ith predecessor has been 80 chopped up that It will not longer stand. Chairs are going about as rap- idly. 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 demesne, the home of Mr. Parnell, are now the property of the govern- ment and are used as a school of for- estry by the Irish department of agri- culture. | King Leopold of Belgium, on coming out of the water after a bath at Biar- ritz, chanced to collide with a man who evidently did not know the king | in a bathing sult. “What do you mean, sir?” be snorted savagely. “Be more | careful! I would have you to know that I am a member of the Paris city counellf” “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 num- | ber of papers is about 180. Besides, of course, the “national” language, with its wide divergencies from Spanish, there are papers published in Castilian, |] in Catalan, in Italian, French, German | and English; in Basque, In Norwegian -] and in Danish; in Arabic, Syrian, He- | braic, Servian and in several dialects. | President Roosevelt has an account ‘jat the Riggs National bank in Wasb- }} ington. The bookkeepers have no end of trouble keeping the president's bal- |ance straight, beause 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 dollar ‘| are saved by him every year. ‘| Ever since 1840 the skull of Sit ‘| Thomas Browne has been on show in ¢ ,| museum at Norwich. It has now Deen restored to the vault whenc it was taken. Sylvanus Urban in th |Gentieman’s Magazine condemns this | morbidness and that of certain people who proposed to have Shakespeare's | skull similarly examined. “Let sucl , | ghoulishly inclined busybodies,” ; | says emphatically, “confine their atten tion to the anatomy of Jonathan Wild. ‘Winston Churchill, who triumphant ly carried through the parliament jus e| adjourned the bill for s constitutior | for the Transvaal, has been given th y| sobriquet of the “Blenbelm pup” sn s| for several reasons. One is the fac e| that be is a Churchill, a descendant 0 | the great Duke of Mariborough wh y| humbled the pride of the French 2 ff] Bienbelm. Another is the bulldo 4) fashion in which he fights his politics s| patties. His face is said also to hav 4| bulldog look. He won his victor g| tor South African autonomy as unde ~ Walters Wanted. ‘We are constantly in need of first- class waiters at the Windermere Ho- tel, a high-class family hotel In Hyde ‘Park. Call Head Walter, Phone 508, A Good Home for Children. Wamed children, either White or Colored to board and room, they will receive the care of a good ‘mother; charges reasonable. Mrs. L. Coleman, 28399 Armour Ave., 2d fiat. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. ‘The Broad Ax desires to engage Agents and regular Correspondents tn all the leading cities and towns throughout the country. The highest commissions paid to live hustlers Sample copies furnished free, For further information, address Julius F. ‘Taylor, 5849 Armour avenue, Chicage @nestel 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 mat- ter and reach the editor no later than ‘Thursday morning of the week in. tended 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 mat: ter must reach us either on Wednes day evening or early Thursday morn- Ing in order to find its way into the ‘columns of this paper the same week ft is written, Write plainly on one ste of the paper only, and address all communt cations to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, HUMOR OF THE HOUR Ne Job For a Boy. An Irishman one day went into a barber shop to get shaved. 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 bar- ber 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 latbering 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 contala- tng nearly a hundred checks that had never been written on.—Chicago News. Om the Rialto. “There's plenty of snap and go in this new play of ours,” said the first actor. “The acts are short, and so are the Intermissions; no long walts at _ “Indeed? Not even for salary?” in- quired the other.—Philadelphia Ledger. ‘Trouble Ahead. 6p Rha ares (4) PU PLE wy Yea } ane Be Ny ry a NYE Y ae i J tM he y/o C7 Wg WS ‘The Fortune Teller—I see a dark ‘woman. She is stout and imperious. You will have trouble with her. ‘The Victim—There! I just knew I'd have to fire the cook—Philadelphis aa gate ‘Time For Disappearing. ‘It was 10:10 by the cuckoo clock. “Father,” said the dear girl, “used to be a crack football player.” “[—er—guess I'd better be going,” rejoined the young man. “He's rather nearsighted, I believe, and might mis take me for the ball”—Houston Post. ESTABLISHED 1678. LM Mire ?. @ surrs ¥. M SMITE. ¥.c orm -LMLSMITH& BOL -F Insurance and Loans he ieacr ic tigrenton ates - American Brick Co. - President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. View President, JOH oT TA SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Gommon and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: : é 45th and Robey Sts. — caer ot Nae Oe oo ee nS. Telephone Yards 128. Jas. J. 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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., is 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 Eugene went to Ischi on a matching 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 unabashed. 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 Lafeyette artillery company of Lindenboro, N. H., is 103 years old and has the queer 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 Pea Cove booms in the Penobscot river, Maine, has been held. There were 350,000 feet of logs in the lot, and they were sold for $13 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 zinc on the one hand and almost stone color on the other, holds the premier place in fashionable favor. Very smart are the smooth brown linen skirts cut en 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 revived and is here in all its pristine glory, as shapeless and ungraceful 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 193 telephones. Today it has 35,000. Hamburg uses $7,500 worth of blueberries 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. In the town of Klingenberg, Germany, taxes are unknown. This year $50 was paid to every citizen from the profits of the municipal brickworks. A dozen golden cups and other valuable articles have been found in the Rhine in the Binger Loch, where Dr. Heinsius long ago maintained that the Nielsen treasure had been deposited. 13 SELECTIONS HEROIC TRAINING. Fierce Ordeal the Chinese Military Code Precieses. 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 grewsome sight. The men came forward in threees, stripped to the waist, having tied their turbans tightly round their waists. 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 flat iron tied together. The operator, having made his bow to the commanding officer, seized the truncheon in one hand, swung it round, gave a snort 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 driving 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. 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 somewhat surprised that the tusslation 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 Bordeaux, 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. Washerwomen from the country monopolize the washing business, gathering the solled linen one week and returning it the next. They boil 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. M. Pierre Samois, 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 buoys, through which the arms are passed. A belt connects the buoys, which are constructed in such a way as to be practically unsinkable. M. Samois' 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. Cheapness 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 800 calls, and for excess calls all you pay is 1 cent each." 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, McKeesport, Pa., announces that she is under contract with the Kirk La Shelle 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 Denny, 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 theaters, has been engaged for an ingenuine role in "The Strenuous Life," the farce in which Joe Weber is to star William Norrils. 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, "Rosencranz 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 czar 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 Sloux 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 sixpence each for regular church attendance. The Bank of England employs about 1,000 people, paying £250,000 yearly in wages and £35,000 yearly in pensions. 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 travelling to Lourdes. The destiny of the population of Paris is astounding. In 1878 there were 254 inhabitants per hectare $(2\frac{1}{2}$ acres); today there are 322. Count de la Vaulx at Paris recently, in the course of his ascent in his new balloon, established a dirigible record by remaining eight hours in the air over the Bois de Boulogne. For six months since his arrest for uttering counterfeit coin a man in Paris has feigned dumbness, but when his case came up for trial he spoke in his own defense. He was sentenced to penal servitude for life. OLD FASHIONED. What has become of the old fashioned woman who told fortunes by coffee grounds? What has become of the old fashioned man who said he could whip his enemy on a sheepskin? An old fashioned man the other day met a small boy smoking a very large cigar. "Hello, cigar," the man said, "where are you going with that boy?" What has become of the old fashioned woman who "dressed up" for going downtown, summer or winter, by putting a shawl over the dress she happened to have on?-Atchison Globe. FRENCH PROVERBS We pardon in the degree that we love. It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. J. A. O'Donnell, H. D. Coghlin, O'Donnell & Coghlin Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph Sts. 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