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THE BROAD AX DOCTOR E. R. ROBINSON And His Ten Million Dollar Law Suit HE HAS A LONG ROAD TO TRAVEL BEFORE HE COMES INTO FULL POSSESSION OF THE MONEY. MANY POOR, IGNORANT COLORED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DUMPING THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY INTO A RAT HOLE. ATTORNEYS BANNING AND BANNING FURNISH INFORMATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE BROAD AX AS TO THE STATUS OF THE CASE. Vol. XII DOCTOR E. R. And His To Dollar L HE HAS A LONG ROAD THAT COMES INTO FULL POS MANY POOR, IGNORANT CO BEEN DUMPING THEIR INTO A RAT HOLE. ATTORNEYS BANNING AND FORMATION TO THE E AS TO THE STATUS C That a Negro plaintiff has actually won a ten million dollar verdict seems altogether too good to be creditable. That such a victory has been scored by a young Negro lawyer and from the South at that, is now a fact of history, averl able mirabile dictu. Ten years ago Dr. E. R. Robinson, of Chicago, sued the American Car and Foundry Company for infringement upon his patent rights for "casting composite and other wheels." Seven years battling in the courts exhausted the patience and resources, it is said of about a score of white lawyers, when the Negro Blackestone, J. Gray Lucas, of Chicago leaped in the arena and after a three years' battle royal secured the enormous verdict of ten million dollars from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals on a writ of error. The printed opinion was handed down by the court and filed January 2nd this year. The money will be collected as the corporation sued is vastly rich and worth $60,000,000. When it is recalled that the court that gave this verdict to a Negro against white men is composed of white men and that the man who conducted the argument that won it is a Negro, the victory becomes one of race-wide, proportions and twelve millions of Negroes should jubilate over the verdict. The sense of right and fair play after all is imbedded in the heart of the American people and work, right and merit will win for us in the end. Congratulations to Dr. Robinson and Lawyer Lucas, the two black millionaires—Ex. Similar misstatements like the above have been sent from Chicago, each week for the past two months, to the editors of Afro-American newspapers, concerning the winning of the ten million dollar verdict by Doctor Robinson and his attorney, for the express purpose of decelving and hoodwinking the poor ignorant Colored people who know nothing as to the true status of the case at the present time, and it would seem on the surface that large sums of money which has in some way or other been shook out of the pockets of many poor dupes has been paid out to the editors of the papers referred to with no other object in view than to secure their aid, in helping to scatter a down right falshood throughout the United States. Being somewhat familiar with the crooked methods employed to boom the so-called patent car wheel case through the columns of the Afro-American newspapers, with the single object in view to have big bundles of money to roll into the pockets of the high priest of the scheme, so as to enable him to blow it in at his sweet will for fine wine, good eating silk dresses and other finery. Several weeks ago, a comment appeared in these columns in reference to the celebrated patent car wheel case, and at that time the important point was made by us that the case had not been decided in any of the courts, and that the chances were that a million years would pass, or into eternity before Dr. Robinson would come into full possession of his ten million dollars. Our views in this respect did not seem to suit Mr. Robinson and last week the good doctor took exceptions to them through the columns of an obscure newspaper, the columns of which are always loaded down with "fake," ads, in the following manner: Dr. Robinson, the Wheelman. Ex- I do not care to answer anything that may appear in The Broad Ax at all, but for the benefit of its readers I have this to say, that the Appellate Court, which is the highest in patent cases or, in other words, final, has done this: "The declaration (which is the bill) avers the proper granting of the patent. That fact carries with it the presumption of the patents validity. The plea (which is the defendant's answer) neither tenders a present issue respecting validity, nor alleges that such an issue between these parties had theretofore been adjudicated against the plaintiff. As between the declaration and the plea, therefore, the validity of the patent stands confessed." I am not speaking of any one who thinks they understand law in its fullest terms, but I am speaking of lawyers that have practiced in the highest courts and have been successful and are able to understand the above. The language of the court above shows that the patent stands valid forever. And no lawyer of the latter class spoken of will dispute this. Now, this settles the validity of the patent by the highest court in patent cases. Now, the court went further, on infringement, when it said: "The legal effect of any former decrees that may be brought into the record of this case. It should be needles to say, will depend upon what court rendered them, nor upon what inferences the parties may have drawn from expression of judges who enter such decrees." The court below had entered a decree against Robinson in favor of the defendant, in terms that decree killed his patent. But when I was able to convince the Circuit Court of Appeals that no such record follow such decree below, the said court said this: "The judgment is reversed." Except the parties agree to amend, this case ends here. Now, we do not intend to amend anything, and the other side cannot amend. This being true, you can see that I get the judgment on the face of the bill, which is for $10,000,000. I do this for the public, and the same is not my doings, but the sayings and doings of the court. The public will see I have copied it from the opinion of the court. Now what lawyers or editors, can dispute the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals and not Robinson? I remain your humble servant. Dr. E. R. Robinson.—The Conservator. March 9 1907. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, MARCH 16, 1907. J. MILES J. DEVINE Ex-City Attorney of Chicago, who should be nominated for one of the Municipal Judges in 1908, and who is warmly supporting Mayor Dunne in his fight, for re-election, and Mr. Devine is of the Opinion that "the Mayor will be a sure enough winner." There has never been the slightest intimation on our part of being a first-class or even a "Jack leg," lawyer, but we are more than willing to put up our last summer's straw hat against a diamond ring that the above article which is so artfully thrown together, for the sole purpose of pulling the wool over the eyes of the suckers, who may have a little more money to turn over to the chief promoter of this great race "Enterprise," did not evolve from the weighty or the ponderous brain of Dr. Robinson but everything in connection with it, seems to indicate that it was gotten up by some lawyer who understands how to cut and shuffle the cards to the queen's taste and after imparting the finishing touches to it he simply signed Mr. Robinson's name to it as it has often been stated, although it may not be true that, the good Dr. does not take any stock in any lawyer, if the lawyer pretends to know more about the law than he does. On Monday morning after reading the foregoing article with Dr. Robinson's name affixed which in the very nature of things was written by some lawyer, we addressed a letter to the law firm of Banning and Banning, Marquette Building, attorneys for the American Car and Foundry Company, requesting them to enlighten us as to the true status of the case at the present time, and the following letter speaks for itself: Chicago, March 13, 1907. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor & Publisher of The Broad Ax. 5040 Armour avenue. In reply to your request for information concerning the present status of the Robinson patent car wheel case at law, we have to say that the defendant, the American Car & Foundry Company, sometime ago filed a plea in answer to Robinson's declaration which alleged damages to the extent of $10,000,000, in which plea the defendant set up the defense that the decision of the Court of Appeals in Robinson's previous suit against the same defendant had served to invalidate his patent and that therefore in the present case at law Robinson had no valid patent upon which to base a suit. In the plea which was filed by the defendant, the statement was made that the record in the previous suit, when examined, would show that the validity of the patent had previously been in issue and that the patent had been invalidated by the action of the court in the previous suit. The only question at issue in the present case was as to the sufficiency of Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:— the allegations of this plea. The Court of Appeals held that the plea did not sufficiently point out the portion of the previous record relied upon by the defendant and that the plea was insufficient to enable the Court of Appeals to pass upon the question of whether or not the patent had been invalidated, as alleged. In concluding its opinion, the Court of Appeals stated, however, that it gave the defendant leave to amend the plea by the inclusion of additional matter, if desired, and the plea has already been amended by the defendant in accordance with the statement contained in the court's decision. At the proper time the amended plea will be argued. Trusting the above information covers the points you desire to know, we remain. So it appears that some one has misstated the facts by maintaining that the other side in this so-called patent car wheel case cannot amend, and it is evident that, that falsehood has been setforth for the purpose of enabling some one to continue to rob the poor hardworking Colored people out of their money which they need to pay their honest debts and to maintain their homes. MAYOR DUNNE OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION, HIS MEETINGS ARE LARGELY ATTENDED AND VICTORY SEEMS TO BE IN THE AIR. Wednesday evening, Mayor Dunne opened his campaign for re-election at Forum Hall, in the sixth ward; he was warmly received by a great multitude of people who filled the hall from end to end, Mrs. Dunne, and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Roche, accompanied Mayor Dunne, on his speaking tour and the ladies were heartily greeted in the good old Democratic way by the thousands of voters who honored the Mayor with their presence. On Thursday evening Mayor Dunne and the following speakers addressed a great meeting at Arlington, Hall, 31st and Indiana ave., John E. Traeger, candidate for city treasurer; Thos. F. Little, candidate for city clerk; William E. Dever, candidate for judge; William W. Witty, candidate for judge; Alex. S. Wisnlewski, candidate for sanitary trustee; Frank L. Childs, Edward F. Bogart. Each and every meeting addressed by Mayor Dunne, those who listen to him seem to be in accord with his views on the traction question; and he feels dead sure that he scents victory in the air at the coming election. Yours very respectfully. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Admonished by The Journal, Atlanta, To Cease From Dabbling In National Politics THE WHITES IN THE SOUTH WARN HIM FOR HIS OWN GOOD NOT TO ATTEMPT ANY LONGER TO SET HIMSELF UP AS THEIR POLITICAL BOSS. THEY ARE OPPOSED TO HIM POSING AS THE UNITED STATES SENATOR AT LARGE AND WANT HIM TO DEVOTE ALL HIS TIME IN LOOKING AFTER THE AFFAIRS OF HIS SCHOOL. Senator Foraker gave us a new phrase when he sarcastically alluded to Booker Washington as "the third senator," from Ohio, apropos of the rumor that the Alabama educator was being consulted as to the appointment of a Negro collector in Cincinnati, but if rumors be true, the president's friend must be regarded as practically a senator from the United States at large. "Greatest Interest" in "Booker's" Dic tation in Southern Federal Political Appointments. The special telegram from our Washington correspondent in Sunday's issue of The Journal, to the effect that Booker was being consulted about appointment to the new Federal District in Alabama and that his advice was being taken rather than that of the United Congressional Delegation from that state, was read with the greatest degree of interest. "People Entitled to Know Something More of the Matter"—A Real Boss. It is pointed out that the men slated for the judgeship and the attorney generalship of the new district are not only unacceptable to the general, but even to the members of their own political party; in fact, that they practically have no support except that of the Tuskegee College president. If this is true, the people are entitled to know something more of the matter. One would think that the incident in which Booker Washington figured some time ago, even though, as subsequently explained, the luncheon was a very informal affair at which no one but the president and his guest was present, would have taught Roosevelt a lesson. Indeed, there seems to be something of cheap bravado in the wilfulness with which he goes out of his way to consult Washington about appoinments to positions in Ohio and Alabama. Congressional Rule Quoted on Booker When He Meddles in South. We certainly have no call to defend Fire Alarm Foraker, and the records indicate that as a usual thing he is quite able to take care of himself, but it is an unwritten law that the representatives of the Sovereign States shall be consulted in these matters, and the presumption is very strong and very logical that on the whole they know best whom it is wise and safe to appoint to office. Calls it "Slopping Over on Booker" When Latter Bosses Smith's Politics. The president has been venting his personal spleen in ignoring Foraker and Dick, and now, in consulting Booker Washington as to appointments in Alabama, accepting his advice in preference to that of the united delegation from that state, it looks very much like "slooping over," on the Brooker Washington question. If Booker Was Attending to His No. 24 WASHINGTON e Journal, Atlanta, from Dabbling al Politics TH WARN HIM FOR HIS ATTEMPT ANY LONGER TO MEIR POLITICAL BOSS. HIM POSING AS THE UNITED LARGE AND WANT HIM TO BE IN LOOKING AFTER THE OL. --- School He Would Know Little of Politics. The fact of the matter is that if Booker is attending to his business as he should, and is administering the money and discharging the high duties placed in his hands as efficiently as he should, he knows a little bit less about politics than anybody in the state. "Iinjuring School by Mixing in Such Matters"—Vanity Carrying Him Away. Certainly he is injuring his own cause and that of the people whose welfare he is supposed to have in guardianship by getting mixed up in affairs of this kind. He is either allowing his vanity to carry him away or he is allowing the president of the United States to do him a grave injustice by bringing him into the limelight so frequently and so unfavorably. If there is to be a Senator from the United States at large the President had better make another choice, or else assume the role himself among others he has appropriated in the course of his autocratic career.—The Journal Atlanta, Ga. DUNNE HAS DONE IT. Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, has been re-nominated in spite of the opposition of Carter H. Harrison, who at one time was a Democratic idol in the Windy City, and who subsequently had presidential aspirations, but who on falling to win out in the Democratic primaries dropped out of the contest. The citizens of Chicago who will elect Mayor Dunne by an increased plurality over his last election are to be congratulated on their wise selection. No act of Mayor Dunne since he has been Mayor of Chicago places him in the lime light so much as his refusal to preside over a meeting at which Ben Tillman, the one-eyed monster from South Carolina, was to lecture, on the grounds that Tillman was stirring up strife between the white and black citizens of this country and for that act alone he will get at least seventy-five per cent of the Colored vote of the city and the well wishes and moral support of the Colored people throughout the United States.—The Republican Seattle, Washington. Mayor Dunne of Chicago has been renominated by the democrats it is said that there is no question of his re-election, on account of near the unanamous support of the Colored voters. Mayor Dunne has proved his friendship for the race and we are glad to see that they show their appreciation of the same.—The Plain-dealer, Helena, Montana. Mrs. J. C. Clark 6510 St. Lawrence ave., is on a visit to Salt Lake City, Utah, where she will remain for several weeks, she was called to her former home owing to the sudden illness of her sister Mrs. Annie Burns, who passed away before the arrival of Mrs. Clark. THE BROAD AX. Will complete and at all times uphold the truth in all matters of Democracy. Bust an attorney, Protestants, Society Indicates, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republican boughts of Labor, or any other one can have their language is proper and be properly sized. The Board is a newspaper whose platform is sought to work its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Attention on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. June Year. $2.00. $1.00. Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to Entered at the Post Office at Chicago IL, as second-class Matter. PERSONAL MENTION. Walter M. Farmer, for 16 years and 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. CARICATURES AROUSE IRISH Demand Objectional Post Card Be Barred From Mails. Pictorial postal cards picturing a native of the emerald island kissing a Negro, with the words "Nothing Too Good for an Irishman" underneath, aroused the indignation of 400 members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians gathered at the quarterly meeting at Dore's hall, Halsted street and Archer avenue, last night, and resolutions were passed to carry the matter to the attention of the postmaster general. "This is the worst insult ever offered the Irish people," asserted John T. Keating, father of the movement. "It must be stopped. The Irish must not be slurred. What's more, they will be taken to the postmaster general and an order demanded barring these caricatures from the mails." A committee, with Mr. Keating as chairman, was appointed to present the protest at Washington. It is also proposed for the members of this committee to visit every shopkeeper in Cook county with a request not to handle these objectionable postals. "Those who refuse to heed on request will find themselves boycotted by all true Irishmen," said one of the Hibernians. "They must be brought to understand that the Irish will stand for no insults."—The Chicago Chronicle, March 11. Of course it may not be any great crime to represent an Irishman kissing a Negro, for no doubt in the past, in some parts of this country, Irish gentlemen have kissed Colored women. But there is one thing which we have always greatly admired about the Irish people, and that is, they are ever ready to rebuke all kinds of insults which may be attempted to be heaped upon them and to fight to the death for their civil and political rights, and if Colored men would follow in the path of the Irishmen in this respect they would raise themselves in the estimation of all liberty loving people throughout the civilized world. COLORED WOMAN MAKES COMPLAINT. Washington, D. C.—Georgie Edwards, a Colored woman living in Chattanooga, Tenn., has filed a complaint with the interstate commerce commission against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company, operating the Western and Atlantic Railroad, stating that the passenger coaches furnished pasengers purchasing first class tickets on the Western and Atlantic road are dirtv and filthy. The plaintiff asked that the company be directed to furnish Negro passengers with suitable cars and accommodations in consideration of the first class faree paid. Prof. Booker T. Washington and the other big leaders of the race, have been too cowardly to protest against the filthy condition of the cattle cars which the respectable Colored people are compelled to ride in while traveling through the South, and it remained for a woman to protest against the Jim Crow car law. All honor to Mrs. Edwards for starting the ball to rolling in this respect. THE STROTHER VERDICT. Extraordinary interest attaches to the Strother verdict in Virginia because of two other cases involving the "unwritten law" which have attracted public attention. One of these is the Thaw case and the other the Favrot case, in Baton Rouge, La. These three cases, however, present a difference in degree and might be compared to three hurdles in a hurdle race. The Strother case was the lowest hurdle, because there had been criminal intercourse, producing indelible disgrace and social ruin. The jury vaulted over it almost without noticing it. The next higher hurdle is the Favrot case, in which a family physician merely slandered a woman patient and refused a retraction and apology. This case has been halted by a plea in abatement and an appeal, but nobody who is acquainted with public sentiment in Louisiana doubts that the jury will jump this hurdle as easily as the other. The highest hurdle of the three is the Thaw case, in which a husband took the life of a man who wronged his wife five years before he, with a perfect knowledge of this fact and of her subsequent intimacy with this man, married her. This is a pretty high jump, and New York is not Virginia nor Louisiana but the expectation is that the jury will clear this hurdle also. The "unwritten law" seems to be in great favor just now. By a ghastly coincidence it is being reasoned out and fought out all over the country at the same time, and no one has a word to say against it. On the other hand, it has for the first time been eulogized from the bench. Said Judge Harrison after the acquittal of the Strothers: "Law books may lay down correct doctrines, but American jurics will not punish a man who kills another if that other, by aggravating and damnable treachery, invades the sanctity of the home circle and destroys its peace. I am proud of the fact that you come from a county in my circuit, and I thank you for your verdict." The "unwritten law" is like all other lawlessness. It seems admirable until, as is inevitable, it is perverted and abused. There have been many cases already in which women deceived men and brought bogus charges against them in order to give their husbands a justification for shooting them down. Just as bad is the case in which a jealous husband murders a man for whom his wife has no liking because of her relations with this man years before, in which everything they had done together had been amiably condoned years before the marriage. This is the "unwritten law" run mad, and if it is sustained in this shape by judge and jury civilize cities are no better than mining camps and the abode of savages.—The Chicago Chronicle. The whole ground respecting the unwritten law, which at best is nothing more than mob and lynch law and anarchy turned loose, has been thoroughly knocked into a cocked hat by this short and logical editorial in The Chronicle. PRESIDENT GIVES BIG JOB TO SCUTHERN DEMOCRAT. Rewards Sen. Blackburn for Rallying Southern Democrats Against Colored Soldiers—Gives Him Place on Panama Canal Commission—President Redeems His Bribe. (Springfield Republican.) Those who are guessing the reason for Senator Blackburn's lift into the Panama canal commission may have forgotten the assistance the Kentucky senator brought to the president by his Blackburn amendment to Mr. Foraker's Brownville inquiry resolution. The minority leader rallied his party to the side of the president in that case with real effect, and, as it now appears, with substantial personal results. WHITE HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WELL CARED FOR. The black men elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress are again frozen out, because the Republican majority on the committee on elections have not the courage of their convictions. A carload of the sand would do them good.—The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. CLIFTON P. WOOLDRIDGE. Chicago's famous detective, who rendered the people of the United States a lasting service by trapping and exterminating "wildcat insurance companies. Clifton R. Wooldridge, Chicago's famous detective, who is known throughout the entire length and breadth of the United States and whose reputation as a trapper and catcher of thieves, and "con men" has extended to the uttermost parts of the earth. has been a live member of the Chicago Police Department for the past fifteen years, and all these years he has rendered a good account of himself. Without fear or favor, through rain and sunshine, he has worked day and night through all those fleeting years for the suppression of gambling at parks and other places of amusement; the inspection and supervision of picture exhibitions in penny arcades and museums, and the inspection and supervision of illustrated postal cards sold throughout the city, for the purpose of preventing the exhibition, sale and circulation of vulgar and obscene pictures; the work of gathering evidence against and the suppression of dealers in "sure-thing" gambling devices, viz. loaded dice, marked cards, roulette wheels, spindle faro layouts, card holdouts, nickle slot machines and many other devices. As a result of his labors in this direction lately five of the leading manufacturers of the above described devices in Chicago have been arrested and indicted and now await trial. Paraphernalia valued at $12,000, seized by him is held as evidence. Detective Wooldridge has within the past year investigated and made reports to Chief John M. Collins, concerning the following questionable businesses: Brokers, Wildcat Insurance, Fake Mines and Oil Wells, Turf Swindles, Home Buying Swindles, Fake Bond and Investment Companies, Bucket Shops, Blind Pools in Grains and Stocks, Pool Rooms, Hand Books, Fake Mail Order Houses, Ordinary Gambling Concerns, Matrimonial Bureaues, Fake Book Concerns, Fake Underwriting, Fake Banks, Collecting Agencies, Fake Medicine Companies, Clairvoyants, Fortune Tellers, Palmists, Bogus Charities, Wire Tappers, Fraudulent Employment Agencies, Fake Doctors, Air Line Railroads and Land Swindlers. It is freely conceded that Detective Wooldridge has accomplished a wonderful work along these lines, but it is our candid opinion that his fame as a wide awake detective will rest on his more than successful effort in trapping and exterminating the numerous wildcat insurance companies which flourished in this city for many years. He successfully prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary at Joliet, and to the Chicago House of Correction: Dr. S. W. Jacobs, Charles J. Van Anden, E. A. Shanklin, Charles J. Russell and "Deacon" Wallace A. Lowell, who were the head and the front of the "Wildcatters" and who were making more than sixty million dollars a year by writing worthless fire insurance premiums, and at the time this notorious gang was engaged in raking in money by the millions, it had a string of suckers extending all over this country and in driving the wildcat insurance companies and many other fraudulent concerns out of business Detective Wooldridge has rendered a lasting benefit to the people of the United States! A Good Home for Children Wanted children, either White or Colored to board and room, they will receive the care of a good mother; charges reasonable. Mrs. L. Coleman, 280 Armour Ave. 2d flat NOTES FROM PHILADELPHIA. The Afro-American Realty Company of Philadelphia, with a capital stock of $50,000, has declared a dividend of 6 per cent to all stockholders of record, March 1, 1907. The company is only a year old, and in that time has acquired properties in Philadelphia and other places. It has recently purchased one hundred lots in Ancostia, Washington City, D. C., near the old home of Frederick Donglass, which it proposes to sell to first class people and develop a model community. It is gratifying to note the success of this company which has gone ahead without horn-blowing and made good to its investors. It scored another point for the race. Drs. O. L. Blackwell, J. S. Lennon and H. T. Kealng, are the active officers in charge of this company. NEGRO IS RHODES .. SCHOLAR Harvard Senior Will Represent Pennsylvania at Oxford. Pennsylvania at Oxford. Philadelphia, Pa. — Special. Allan LeRoy Locke, Colored, of Philadelphia, who will be graduated from Harvard university in June, has been awarded the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford university, which this year was allotted to the state of Pennsylvania. The selection was made by a committee headed by Provest Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania. Locke was chosen over four other candidates. THRCWS A BOMBSHELL Prof. W. E. B. DuBois threw a bombshell into the ranks of the white people of New York when he told them in a lecture a few days ago that Alexander Hamilton, Robert Browning and Gen. Lew Wallace were of African decent. We are waiting to see some one who knows what he is talking about deny these facts. Well informed Colored men have known of them for some years. The color of a man's skin may be the cause of his being denied opportunities, but it does not operate to dim his intellect. Of this fact all men who are not fools are aware.—Phila. (Pa.) Odd Fellows' Journal. $5,000 TO FEAST Montgomery, Ala., March 12.—The fact that Booker T. Washington spent $5,000 for the entertainment of President Roosevelt last summer is the only thing criticised as a result of the examination of Tuskegee Institute made at the request of the Legislature. This is a matter about which there seems really no complaint, save it is thought by some that the figure is rather high. The $5,000 which Booker T. Washington expended to entertain President Roosevelt at Tuskegee, greatly assisted the president in his annual message to congress to brand Negro men as ravishers of white women, and on the next trip the president makes to Tuskegee, the chances are that he will proclaim to the world in a special message to congress, that Negro women assault white men, force them to spend their time with them and that accounts for the fact, for the south being filled with half white and half black children. Van Houten, a white man, was arrested in this city this week on the charge of having criminally assaulted his own 10-year-old daughter. If he is found guilty, no punishment will be too severe. Crimes of this kind are on the increase, and as yet it confined to the white race.—The Advocate, Portland, Oregon. What grew my hair where it was not and covered up a bad bald spot, Farmer's Hair Tonic and Cream. FARMER'S HAIR TONIC AND CREAM When all else fails try Farmer's hair tonic and cream. 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BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Now Out of the Woods and On Its Feet for Good This Company after passing through a long period of uncertain and strenuous efforts to raise enough money to develop its resources and put it on a paying basis, by offering its stock way below par to a skeptical and prejudiced public, has at least succeeded in placing all of the stock it has for sale at the present upon the market and has thereby realized all necessary money to fully develop its properties and market its products. To the many persons who have doubted both the genuineness of the enterprise and the ability of the company to accomplish what it has now absolutely demonstrated. To these persons it has now been made plain that they were in error. All investors can now rest easy and securely while their money in this Company will be working for them while they are awake and while they are asleep, as it will not cease to work while the gas holds out to burn. We have many more wells to drill. We have only drilled one-fifth (1-5) of the number intended. But the income from those already drilled will furnish in an increasing ratio ample means to bore the remainder and complete the development in any conceivable way in a short while. There will be an increasing surplus going into the dividend fund, which will be declared in a reasonable time within the discretion of the Board of Directors. A. Wilberforce Williams, Pres. REV. A. J. CAREY, WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT MAYOR DUNNE. It was stated in The Chronicle Friday morning that "Rev. A. J. Carey, Pastor of Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn sts., had deserted the Dunne camp and joined the forces of Fred Lusse. This is not true; but it is true however, that on Thursday, after receiving many invitations to do so Rev. Carey called on Mr. Bussie at his home, and on arriving there, he was meet face to face with all the leaders of the Republican party, and one by one they requested him to state in his own way why the Colored people were so unfriendly to the Republican candidate for mayor. Rev. Carey very plainly informed those present at the conference that "the Colored Republicans continued to feel highly insulted over the shabby treatment which F. I. Barnett, received at the hands of the leaders of his party and the Republican newspapers, and owing to this fact, Rev. Carey declared right out in open meeting that nothing could be accomplished to prevent thousands of Colored Republicans from voting for Mayor Dunne, that if he lived he himself would record his vote in favor of the present Mayor, that he believed in voting for men who would treat his race the best, either Democrats or Republicans, and at this time he was firmly convinced that Mayor Dunne, was the man to stand by, as he was in favor of giving the Colored people a square deal. Former Judge Haney, who was present at the conference highly commend Rev. Carey, for speaking the truth, and for assuming a manly stand, and Judge Haney declared that "it would be well indeed if all Colored men who claim to be leaders of their race, would set forth at all times their honest convictions pertaining to the civil and the political rights of the Afro-Americans." HANDING BUSSE A LEMON: On Wednesday evening a small number of Negroes representing various wards and precincts throughout the city, assembled at the Third ward Republican headquarters 3641 State st., in response to a call issued by County commissioner DePriest, who stated that he and state central committeeman at large Edw. H. Wright had been delegated by the Republican "county central committee" to feel" the Negroes of the city regarding their attitude towards the republican nominees for the spring election. That the recent ignominious treatment of Mr. F. L. Barnett by the white republicans throughout the city is not forgotten by the Negroes and that the Negroes, intend to show their resentment by casting a solid vote for Mayor Dunne, the democratic candidate for mayor was evident from the expressions of all who were fortunate enough to gain the floor. The men who spoke in favor of Busse were the men who are now feeding at the public crib and those who have hopes of securing a position in the event of Busse's election. Even these men showed a lake warm feeling towards the republican nominees who are everything else save loyal when it comes to supporting a Colored Candidate for office. County Com. DePriest served the committee as chairman, Louis B. Anderson as secretary, Mr. F. L. Barnett, Major, Jno, C. Buckner, Col. Jno, R. Marshall, Edw. Green, Del. Roberts and several others were present to swell the attendance but had very little to say in support of the ticket.—"T." CHIPS Gladys Walters 3240 Armour ave. has been ill for the past week. Annie Busl 3443 Dearborn st. is confined to her home with scarlet fever. Mrs. Valetta Dresden, 3528 St. Lawrence ave., has been on the sick list for the past week. Mrs. Fred Pratt, 3123 Wabash ave. left the city Monday to spend a month in Cedar Rapids, Ia. Mr. Chas, L. Lewis, 3439 Durham st., expects to take up the role of dentistry in the near future. Mr. Ferdinand Owen, 6132 Av. arrived in the city from New York Team, where he has been attending school. Mr. Wm. Smith of Portland, Ore. is spending a week in the city, having his old friend Andrew James, Dearborn st. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simmons, the Evans ave., entertained a number of friends at their home. The children at whist and dancing. Mrs. Minnie Pace, 2741 Butler was cut with a razor Weinstein her husband and is now in Boston hospital in a critical condition. Three white men in L. D. Are convicted of manslaughter for killing a Negro child were given twelve hours in jail. All three are pronounced men. Mr. and Mrs. John Parter, 433 W Lake st., entertained a number of young folks. Wednesday night in honor of their daughter Bertha's birth day. Dr. Fisher, 2940 S. Park ave. pastor of Olivet Baptist church who suffered an attack of heart failure on Sunday last while in the pulpit he was much improved under the medical care of Dr. M. J. Brown. John Alexander Dowie who departed this life early last Saturday morning, was buried Thursday, at Zion City which he had founded with all his faults and the many mistakes which he had made during his journey through life, he was a most remarkable man, for he was absolutely free from race prejudice, this applied to the Negro as well as to men of other nationalities. He had the courage not only, to voice his honest convictions in public in this respect, but he also reduced his ideas to practice, and whenever his white robed choir assembled to sing unto the Lord, Colored men and women sang side by side with the whites, which was evident that John Alexander Dowie, knew no one by the color of their skin and this will always be to his everlasting credit. Notes Concerning The Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club. The eleventh anniversary sermon of the Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club will be delivered by Rev. H. E. Stewart at the Institutional Church, 3825 Dearborn street, Sunday, March 17th at 8 p. m. The public are cordially invited to be present. The regular meeting of this club will be held at the Frederick Douglass Centre Wednesday March 20, at 2 p. m. Program under the auspices of the Phyllis thropic Section, Mrs. Fannie Battles, Chairman. THE HALL OF FAME. Nicola Puccini, the Italian composer, holds the record of having written no fewer than 134 operas. He was born in 1728. F. H. Brown of Montpelier, Vt., has a "banjo clock" 105 years old, invented by the Willards of Boston. After a twenty-six year res$^1$ the clock is keeping excellent time. H. W. Potter of Kingman claims the record for log hauling in eastern Maine. On Jan. 12 he hauled with seventeen teams 52,700 feet, which made an average of 3,100 feet per load. A recent old folks' concert in Brockton, Mass., had as a feature the singing of Ellis Holmes, who is in his ninety-second year. For a large part of a century Mr. Holmes has been a bass singer. John Stevens of Washington, Pa. was forced to dig his way through a solid wall of coal and debris twenty feet thick in order to escape from a mine in which he was imprisoned. His only tool was an iron pointed pick handle. Professor Kuno Fraucke, curator of the German museum at Harvard university, has received information from the German embassy at Washington that Emperor William has conferred upon him the Order of the Crown of the Second Class The elder Salvini has just had judgment confirmed in the New York courts by which he recovers $20,000 from the managers who failed to make good their contract with him for a tour here in 1904. Salvini is now seventy-eight years of age. William P. Letchworth, whose gift of 1000 acres at Portage Falls, on the Genesee river, for a public park has been accepted by New York state, is an adopted member of the Seneca tribe of Indians and bears the tribal name Hai-wa-te-is-tah (The man who always does the right thing). Henry Squires, who recently died in Burlington, Ia., was at one time recognized as the greatest tenor singer in America. He began his musical career in Burlington, Vt., in 1825, and sang in numerous grand opera troupes and traveled all over the world. He sang in concert with Jen Lind and in opera with Carlotta Patti. Living together on a farm at Putney Vt. are three brothers whose ages aggregate 250 years. They are Ira, aged eighty-six; William, eighty-three years old, and Willard Smith, who has lived eighty-one years. These brothers are living on the farm where they were born and none of them has ever been more than thirty miles from Putney. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. London's imports by sea are over 174. 000,000 tons yearly. The average life of a London house is at the outside two centuries. Before the Norman conquest Winchester, not London, was the capital of England. It is quite legal in England for a child to be christened by a single letter instead of a name. The wives of knights and baronets have no right to the title of "lady," but have the designation of "dame." A London firm of electroplate makers has in its service eighteen men and women who have been working for it from fifty-six to sixty years. Under the Black Prince officers received 4 shillings a day and common soldiers twopence. The purchasing power of money was then about fourteen times what it is now. Prior to the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. sixty-four abbots and thirty-six priors sat in the house of lords, and spiritual peers entirely outnumbered the temporal. MONEY. Norway even now uses corn for currency. Absolutely pure gold is twenty-four carats fine. Sheep and oxen among the old Romans took the place of money. In India cakes of tea pass as currency, and in China pieces of silk. In some districts of New Guinea female slaves form the standard of value. Seashells were the earliest forms of money, the skins of animals coming next as a substitute. It is an interesting fact that the Japanese coins in the matter of fineness are superior to all others. The Icelandic and Irish laws yet have traces of the use of cattle for money. Many Teutonic fines were paid in cattle. In the days of 1849 of California the ounce of pure gold ($16.50) formed the common medium of exchange. Another interesting form of money was a lump of gold, called a slug, equaling just $50. OLD FASHIONED. What has become of the old fashioned man who called it "stone coal?" An old fashioned woman has very little confidence in medicine that tastes good. What has become of the old fashioned girl who was ever ready to "faint away?" What has become of the old fashioned woman who always opened the tremolo stop of her voice when she sang? What has become of the old fashioned man who went into a grocery store and inquired, "Is your scales right?" -Achilson Globe. THE PRESAGE OF GREATNESS. My frand, you say "Hallo!" to me Een soocha kinda way I know dat you are gona be Da greata man som' day. You are so smarta 'Merican, You need no speak at all To poor old dumba Dago man, Baycause he ees so small Een deesa beega ceety. Steell You smile an' speak to me, An', oh, my frand, you mak' me feel So proud as I can be! Wan time w'en I am younga man An' leeve en Eetaly Ees 'nudder man dat shaka han' An' an' "Hallo!" to me Now, what you *poss* have come of dees Gran' man I know at home? Gran' man I know at home? He sees me in the house he ees Da greata poe ecn Romt' Da greata poe ecn Romt' -T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard and Times. A Memory Test Indeed! Golfer (who rather fancies himself)— I suppose you've been round the links with worse players than me, eh? The caddy takes no notice. Golfer in his loudest voice)—I say, I suppose you've been round the links with worse players than me, eh? Caddy—I heard verra weel what ye said the first time. I'm just thinkin' aboot it. The Bright Side. Mr. Jurgins had been suddenly afflicted with a stiff neck. Not only was it a painful stiffness, but it caused him to twist his head around until he seemed to be trying to look behind him over his left shoulder, and his head was rigid in that pose. "Of all the confounded trials a man was ever subjected to," he said, "this is the limit. They say to look on the bright side of our afflictions, but I'd like to know how I could make use of this stiff neck." "My dear friend," said the optimist, "think what a golden opportunity this is to sit for your picture without having to allow the photographer to twist your head around that way and Jab those ice cold tongs into the back of your neck."—Judge. The Conclusion. A group of workmen were arguing during the dinner hour. A deadlock had been reached when one of the men on the losing side turned to a mate who had remained silent during the whole of the debate. "I'Ere, Bill," he said, "you're pretty good at a argymen'. Wot's your opinion?" "Iain't a-goin' to say," said Bill. "I thrashed the matter out afore with Dick Grey." "Ah," said the other artfully, hoping to entice him into the fray, "an' what did you arrive at?" "Well, evenchually," said Bill, "Dick e'arrived at the 'orspalt an' I arrived at the perilice station!"—London Tit-Bits. Self Appreciation. "Why don't you go to work?" asked the severe looking woman. "Lady," answered Plodding Pete, "I'm surprised at you. De way tings is goin' youse tiffy members of de middle classes ought to be grateful to me fur not bein' an insurance grafter or a bank robber."—Washington Star. His Preference. "Always do right, young man," said the parson, "and your friends will stand by you." "Yes; that's always the way," rejoined the young man, "but what I want is friends who will stand by me when I go wrong."—Chicago News. In a Hurry. Little Dimpleton—How long will it take you to give me a working knowledge of jiu jitsu? The Professor—Oh, say two weeks. "But, heavens, man, I can't wait all that time to get rid of that cook"—New York Life. Family Greetings A countryman meeting a pretty peasant woman leading a donkey said in passing, "Good day, mother of the donkeys." "Good day, my most beloved son," was the instant reply.—II Diavolo Rosa. An Insinuation Feared. Clergyman — Madam, you must be consololed with the thought that your husband is at rest. Widow—Do you mean that he didn't have any before he died?—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Net Particular. "Doctor, how can I ever repay you for your kindness to me?" "Doesn't matter, old man. Check, money order or cash." - Milwaukee Sentinel. HUMOR HIS MEMORY RETURNED. He Wanted a Snow Shovel, as Surmised by the Storekeeper. He stopped in front of a hardware store for a moment and locked all around and then carried his hand to his head like a man who had forgotten something. Then he slowly entered the store and looked around and shook his head. "You want something?" observed the clerk as he came forward. "I do." "But for the moment you have forgotten what it is?" "That's exactly the case. I knew when I left the house, but it has gone from my head now. If you'd offer me a hundred dollars, I couldn't remember what I started after." "We have lots of such cases, and we solve them in a moment. Here is what you want." And he passed behind a lot of stoves and dragged out a big snow shovel and placed it in the other's hands and said: "Thirty-five cents, please, and you'll find the material of the best." "By George! By George!" exclaimed the customer. "But that's exactly what I wanted. What a curious thing memory is. I wanted a snow shovel, and now I'll take it home and put it in the cellar, and if my neighbors don't keep their walks clean I complain to the police." -Chicago News. Did Not Count. There is a small boy in Pittsburgh who is intensely patriotic and who is, as a rule, a very well informed Sunday school student. Not long ago there were some visitors, and Tommy's teacher, wishing to show off her class to the best advantage, called upon him to answer a series of questions. All went well until the very usual one, "Who was the first man?" "George Washington—first in war, first in"—Tommy began enthusiastically, but the teacher hastily interrupted. "No, no, dear! You mean Adam, don't you?" "Oh, if you are talking about dagoes, I s'pose he might be," admitted Tommy.-Harper's Weekly. Which? Once upon a time two young women came to a wise theatrical manager and applied for positions as stars. "It is not our custom to engage stars who have had no dramatic experience," he said. "And neither of you has been on the stage? "No, sir," they replied. "Then what qualifications do you possess?" "I, sir," said the first young woman, "have ambition and a future." "I, sir," said the second young woman, "have ambition and a past which would make copy." And so the manager made out a contract for one of them--Judge. Terrible Revenge Mme, Labarlue-I saw Mme, Paul having a great altercation with your cook this afternoon. Mme, Vincent-Yes; I am not altogether surprised. Just fancy, she had the nerve to copy my last new hat! Mme. Labarne—Well, what did you do? Mme. Vincent—I gave mine to the cook—Fele Meli. The Joy of It. Miss Jenks—I don't see why you consider it a pleasure to hear him preach. I understand he always talks about fire and brimstone. Miss Farrasy — Exactly! And it's such a pleasure to think of what's in store for some people, you know.—Philadelphia Press. Hitting Home. Goodley—Oh, come, now! I wouldn't call him a cad. Boorisch—No? Well, what is your idea of a cad? Goodley—Well, usually it is a fellow who is forever calling somebody else one—Catholic Standard and Times. Comforting Thought! "Shocking weather, Giles." "It be main bad, squire, but better than none at all, say Oi!" Misanthropic Bliss. "I don't possess," the cynic said, "A single friend on earth." And yet he lifted up his head And smiled in chilly mirth. "I hear no scandal," he explained; "I get no tips that fail; I mourn no comradeship disdained; I hear no hard luck tale. "From crowds in the department store I turn with footsteps free. I make no gifts—not any more— And none make gifts to me. "I hide away lest I may strike Some folly or some sham And live quite happy—happy like An oyster or a clam." FACTS IN Few LINES Spain is having millions of nickel coins made in Germany. More than 6,000 women are said to be engaged in the Russian secret service. The life of the baby rhinoceros in the New York zoo has been insured for $3,000. Canada's trade with the United States is now nearly three times greater than her trade with the mother country. In Turin a paper used to appear eight years ago which was printed in luminous ink, so that it could be read in the dark. The Chinese claim to be the originators of the newspaper. The Imperial Gazette of Peking is said to have been published over 1,500 years. Italian widows are compelled by an old law to remarry on Saturday. Sunday is the usual day selected in Italy by those who have never been married before. There are nearly twice as many dogs in France as in the United Kingdom, France having seventy-five dogs to every 1,000 people and Great Britain thirty-eight. A private Japanese company is arranging for the establishment of a Japanese colony in Alberta, northwest Canada. It will be the first Asiatic colony in western Canada. The Koh-i-noor is not nearly so valuable a diamond as several others in existence. It is valued at £140,000, but the Pitt is valued at £400,630 and the Russian Orlof at £200,000. Lake Morat, in Switzerland, has the property every tenth year of turning red, owing to the presence of certain water plants, which are not found in any other lake in the world. The first trial for breach of promise of marriage in England was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. France and Belgium had no legislation on the subject until about fifteen years ago. If the northern valleys of the Pyrenees were dammed and the water used electrical power to the extent of 10,000,000 horsepower could be obtained—that is, twice as much as is used in all the factories of Europe. An oak spinning wheel that has been in the Sibley family, West Sutton, Mass., for 150 years is still in perfect condition. All the yarn for the woolen garments worn in the family in three generations was spun on the wheel. To have all his hair turn gray at the early age of six years with no apparent cause has been the lot of the son of John Ertwine of Bloomsburg, Pa. The boy's parents first noticed that his hair was turning about a year ago. Lewelyn Wilkinson of Groveport, O., has a cat that is a perfect "pointer and retriever." When he discovers a quail he stands up on his hind legs and remains there until his master comes up. The cat has retrieved 154 birds this season. The sacred fires of India have not all been extinguished. The most ancient which still exists was consecrated twelve centuries ago, in commemoration of the journey made by the Parses when they immigrated from Persia to India. One of the most interesting little charities is that of a Yorkshire (England) station master, who every week of his life makes a toy railway engine. At the end of the year he sends the lot to a hospital for the use of the boys in the institution. The original charter of the town of Dunstable, N. H., granted by Benning Wentworth, royal governor of New Hampshire province under King George III., July 1, 1746, has been placed in the Nashua library. The charter was bought at auction for about $100 in Boston last year. After reading Indian tales James Woods of Skelton, Conn., decided to do some shooting on his own account, so he armed himself with bow and arrow and went out in the woods. Not long afterward the boy returned with a good sized fox. A well directed arrow had pierced the animal's eye. Director Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke of New York's Museum of Art thinks that Pierpont Morgan's great collection, now at South Kensington, may be brought over here eventually. He speaks of a celebrated Eros, a bronze Cupid of large size and one of the most beautiful examples of antique bronze known, said to have cost $30,000. A telegraph clerk at Turin has invented a new system of telegraphing on trains in motion whereby messages are exchangeable not only with other trains, but also with all the stations along the line and the central telegraph offices. Experiments carried out at Domodossola surpassed expectations, and greetings from a fast express were wired to King Victor Emmanuel. Like the old Ferris wheel of the Columbian exposition days, the great wheel of Earl's Court, London, will never revolve again. It is being taken down and the steel in it sent to Wales, where, mixed with plg iron and iron ore, it will be converted into steel bars for tin plate making. Biscuit, tobacco and mustard cans will be manufactured from these. The steel of the British warship Montagu will undergo the same fate. The possibility of life without mind, while not subject to positive proof, is a theory that has gained considerable strength recently through its advocacy by Dr. L. Laloy, librarian of the Academy of Sciences, Paris. He believes that many of the smaller living organisms, as insects, are mere moving machines, having no more intelligence than may be ascribed to plants. He refers to the well known fact that insects are attracted by light, often to their own destruction, and ascribes it to the same cause that inclines the plant to grow toward the light. SELECTIONS TRAIN NUMBERS. How They Are Used and How They Grow So Large. Travelers and commuters have often to consider the trains as numbered in what appears to them inexplicable ways. For example, a request at the information bureau of the Grand Central station will elicit the reply that train No. 470 will not stop at Peekskill or on the New Haven line that train No. 570 will stop on Saturdays at Cocoa, but not on other days; that on the Pennsylvania train No. 634 will stop at Metuchen, but not at Rahway; that on the Delaware and Lackawanna train No. 410 is an Easton express, and that train No. 239 is the millionaires' special to Bernardsville and will stop only at Newark. The traveler knows, of course, that there are not so many trains and only identifies them by the hour of departure and arrival, so this information is usually vague enough as given by numbers to him, although relevant enough to railroad men, for it tells of the history of the trains. When the railroads were new they put on a passenger train numbered 1 and 2 and a freight train numbered 3 and 4, and they increased this service according to the demands of traffic, raising the numbers consecutively, the even numbered trains running one way, the old numbered trains the other. As the exacting demands of new business developed trains were increased, and some of the old ones were dropped, but their numbers, which still lived in the minds of the operatives, could not really be duplicated, and they named them with still higher numbers until their numerical titles have lost relation to their source except in the minds of employees. But as the railroads extended themselves and a generation of employees passed they returned to the primal numbers for their important trains, so that trains 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, etc., are on nearly all railways the expresses. But the original trains, by shifting of time or other causes, run under titles of 400, 500 or some numeration that means nothing to the traveler, but to the railroad man reveals its history from origin to date.—New York Press. Violent Deaths In New York city occur ten violent deaths a day as a direct result of daily activities. In Chicago the number falls to six a day, according to Dr. Thomas Grant Allen. But the storm center of the country is Allegheny county, Pa., in which the city of Pittsburgh is situated, combining steel, iron and coal industries, mills, mines, railroads and building industries. Over 17,000 deaths and injuries a year in all industries is the record for this single county. “Conditions are such that the life of a foreigner employed in the mills is given less consideration than is the life of a horse or mule,” says the coroner of Allegheny county. “During my first month in office I was astounded to find that within the thirty days twelve men were killed in one plant alone of the United States Steel corporation.” “If even the present laws were enforced,” the Hungarian consul has protested, “conditions would not be so bad.”—Everybody's Magazine. Wintering Dahlia Tubers. As soon as the tops are killed by the frost they should be cut off to within six inches of the ground. The tubers may then be dug and inverted in the ground, to permit the sap remaining in the plant to settle without dripping among the tubers, as it is believed the sap is an injury to the roots. After the plants become dry they may be placed in a cellar in boxes or baskets and kept dry, but not permitted to shrivel. Any condition suitable for good care of potatoes is favorable for wintering dahlia tubers. The tubers are very susceptible to injury from freezing.-Country Gentleman. Hardening Arteries Arteriosclerosis, the thickening and hardening of the artery walls, is one of the most common causes of death. It is indicated by increased or lessened blood tension in the arteries, and when the sphygmometer reveals such condition Professor d'Arsonval, the eminent Frenchman of science, applies six baths of a high frequency electric current. Such applications, it is claimed, completely restore the normal blood pressure. The baths, of five or ten minutes each, may be taken three times a week, and they cause no inconvenience or disagreeable sensation. Tea Drinking In China. Nothing tends so much to keep down mortality in China as the habit of drinking hot tea instead of possibly contaminated well water. Tea to a rich Chinaman means concentrated tea, costing 10 cents an ounce; to the poor it is hot water with a few tea leaves dipped in and to the very poor simply hot water. It is significant of the increased wealth in the country that the majority of the lower classes, who heretofore could only afford hot water, are now indulging in actual tea. Soft Woods Give Out Most Heat Soft Woods Give Out Most Heat Contrary to a widespread belief that hard woods give more heat in burning than soft varieties, the scientists at Washington are contending that the greatest heating power is possessed by the wood of the linden tree, which is very soft. Fir stands next to linden and almost equal to it. Then comes pine, hardly inferior to fir and linden, while hard oak possesses 8 per cent less heating capacity than linden and red beech 10 per cent less. FEW CRACK BILLIARDISTS. Schaefer Deserves Most Credit For Improving the Game. The fact that very few first class billiardists have ever been developed is one of the strange features of the game. Vignaux, Schaefer and Slosson have been champions more than thirty years, the only others developed during all this time being Ives, Hoppe and Sutton, a most remarkable show, not to be paralleled in any other branch of sport. Of all the experts Schaefer deserves most credit for the development of the game to its present high standard. He always has been anxious and willing to aid in the development of youngsters, and Ives, Hoppe, Morningstar and Sutton all were his pupils. The balk line nurse, the feature of play responsible for all high runs, however, is the invention of Sutton, and when as a shortstop he first spring it he occasioned great surprise. Schaefer is the father of all the rules under which billiards are played. At various times he has surmounted by his inventive genius the many barriers imposed on experts to decrease their speed and necessitated the making of new restrictions, for the other experts could all take advantage of the new discoveries as soon as they came to know them, and almost unending runs were the result. In a championship contest between Jake and Ives the latter sat down with 14 to go, and Schaefer came to bat with 566 to go. The largest run ever made up to that time had been 288, and the Wizard seemed to have but little show to win. His great inventive genius came to the rescue, however, the ancher nurse was discovered, and Schaefer ran the game out. This was the only time the ancher nurse was allowed in a match game, for Ives after it was discovered could play it as well as Schaefer, and as it made the game too easy it was immediately barred. Incidental to the above game, Frank White, a well known Chicago sport, won a most remarkable bet from Leo Mayer, the well known bookmaker. As Schaefer walked up to the table in the final inning White turned around to Mayer, who was making books on the contest, and said, "What are the odds now, Leo?" "One hundred to 1," said Mayer. "I'll bet you $10," said White. "Done," said Leo. And when the game was over Leo had to settle with the wise Mr. White, who, a billiard player himself, knew that a game was never over until the last point was made.—Washington Post. Painting Barrels. Did you ever see a Standard Oil man paint a barrel? No? It is a revelation. Tricks in all trades. The oil barrels, as every well informed man should know (Standard Oil being the biggest thump in the world), are blue as to blige and bulge and white as to heads. The completed barrel is rolled into the shop by thousands. A man steps up with a brush of white paint and with three swipes executes a design upon the head, then spins the barrel along. It is caught by another man with a brush deeply dipped in blue paint. He takes the rim between his thumb and fingers, gives it a whirl and while that barrel is spinning runs his brush up and down. In less than three seconds that barrel is all blue. Then as it spins along the man with the white paints keels it over and with three more swipes makes the other head white. Talk about your bowling alleys!-New York Press. Blind Football Fans When the 200 inmates of Henshaw's Blind asylum, Manchester, sat down to tea the other evening an officer read out to them the announcement in the Daily Mall of a special edition for the blind. There was a burst of applause when the reading was over, followed by a buzz of animated discussion. "It is surprising," said Mr. M. H. Illingworth, the governor, "what a keen interest the blind take in field sports. They follow the game of football in detail." "Have you ever been to a football match?" he asked a blind youth. "Yes," he replied. "And you know the players?" "Yes, I know them all and everything that is going on."-London Mall, Single and Plural S Germans Single and Plural S Germans. A journalist in Berlin has been exercising his ingenuity in attempts to explain the meaning of the letter S which appears with more or less frequency after the names of German military officers in the records kept at the ministry of war and in the kaiser's military cabinet. He has come to the following conclusions: One S after an officer's name means that this particular officer "sauft" (drinks); SS means that he "sauft stark" (drinks hard); SSS denotes that he "sauft sehr stark" (drinks very hard); SSSS means that he "sauft sehr schnapps" (drinks very hard schnapps); finally, SSSS means that the "schnapps" is "schlecht" (bad). Any officer with five S's is summarily dismissed by the kaiser. 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REAUT FOR THE PRESS CHICAGO CAVE DWELLERS Not for Preachers 320 Pages, Cloth, $1.00 POST PAID A Story of the Underworld and the Overworld By Parker H. Sercombe, Editor To-Morrow Magazine, Chicago. Only a limited edition of this remarkable book will be printed. Each copy will be signed by Sercombe Himself and automatically numbered from 1 up. First orders in will get the low numbers in rotation except No. 1, which goes to Mrs. Sercombe. Address TO-MORROW MAGAZINE, For the Supervisors and Superwomen and The New Civilization. 2238 Calumet Ave., Chicago, Ill. 10 CENTS THE COPY, $1 A YEAR. EDITORIAL FLINGS. Porters on Pullman cars claim that it "galls their souls" to accept tips. The life of the Pullman porter is full of gall.—Youngstown Vindicator. It will be pretty rough on us if the ice freezes so hard and thick this winter that the companies can't cut it, and thus there is another scarcity next year.—New York Tribune. In addressing him as "the beloved, most cherished, exalted, most honored and excellent president," the sultan must think Mr. Roosevelt is at the head of some dinky lodge—Detroit Free Press. They are now talking not only of a national income tax, but of a state income tax as well. A man will only have to lie twice instead of once, that's all. And the same lie at that.—Akron Beacon-Journal. England thinks that the United States constitution needs immediate revision. In fact, there is a lingering suspicion in Great Britain that there should have been no United States constitution in the first place.—Washington Post. A chair of journalism has been established at the University of Missouri, in honor perhaps of Eugene Field, the greatest journalist the University of Missouri ever turned out. She turned him out in his freshmar year.—New York Mail. SHORT STORIES Easter occurs this year on March 31, more than three weeks earlier than the Easter date of 1906. A carved war god, recently discovered in a Colorado cave, is believed to be more than 1,000 years old. There are about 4,000 lepers in Colombia, or one to every 1,000 inhabitants. Most of them are now isolated. Cases are rarely found among the classes living with hygienic care. The Doukhobors of Winnipeg are gradually recovering their senses. They no longer turn horses and cattle loose and harness themselves to the plow, but, on the contrary, are now purchasing horses for farm labor. The obligation to accept American currency as legal tender in Cuba is said to have constituted a part of the dissatisfaction which exists in that island. It is complained that there is not enough of such currency to meet the requirements of trade. NEW YORK CITY. It will cost $11,770,000 more to run the government of New York city this year than it did last year. Every hour there is an average of 146,000 persons entering the surface, elevated and subway cars in New York city. New York city had the first Hebrew cemetery in the United States. It was established in 1656, and a part of it yet remains at New Bowery and Oliver street. "Little Italy," the block bounded by One Hundred and Twelfth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets, First and Second avenues, has grown from 882 inhabitants in 1900 to 4,412. Strangers from villages and small cities wonder why the New York city authorities allow many of the walks of the city to be left uncleaved all winter, particularly where there are vacant lots.—New York Herald. LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS MEN Louis XIV. of France (1638-1715), "I thought dying had been harder." William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British statesman, "Amen." Phillip Blake (1885-1955) Philips Brooks (1835-1883), American clergyman, "I am going home." Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773), English courtier. "Give the doctor a chair." nst conder, Give the doctor a chair. Henry Havelock (1795-1857), English general, "Tell my son to come and see how a Christian can die." William McKinley (1843-1901), American statesman and president: "Goodby. All goodby. It is God's way. His will be done." Patrick Henry (1736-1810), American orator and patriot: "Here is a book (the Bible) worth more than all others ever printed, yet it is my misfortune never to have found time to read it. It is now too late. I trust in the mercy of God." PITH AND POINT. Some dogs, like some men, just naturally can't get along. Not all people can be clever, but most of us can do a little better than we do. When you are so unfortunate as to get into a lawsuit plead guilty unless you get the best lawyer. What a poet calls "inspiration" is probably the same thing the gambling fraternity calls a "hunch." How far can you afford to carry crankiness? Can you afford to carry it to the extent of being impolite? That sort of thing hurts your business, no doubt about that.-Atchison Globe. MODES OF THE MOMENT. Velvet dotted veils with borders of velvet ribbon are pretty and becoming. Among the dark colors which are most popular with milliners is a warm, golden brown, or "mordore," which looks equally well in velvet and felt. Bretelle and suspender effects figure conspicuously in the designs for soft silks, and silks incidentally are enjoying an unwonted prestige for semidress as well as for full dress wear. The vogue for embroidery has spread to headgear, and one of the most recent innovations consists in covering the hat of felt, beaver or velvet with the same embroidery which is seen on the gown. BREVITIES THE HALL OF FAME The empress of Russia is gifted with special talent for caricature. Senator Pettus, the oldest member of congress, sticks to his pet phrase of telling his colleagues how "young" he is when reference is made to his advanced years. Dr. Charles McCutcheon of Tacoma. Wash., one of the most prominent physicians on the Pacific coast, has imported from his boyhood home in Ireland 200 song birds to sing to him in his old age. Sir F. Treves recently told a health society meeting in London that as regards the treatment of our meat before we eat it we have made no advance on the habits of our ancestors, the cave dwellers. Dr. James M. Yeager, formerly president of Drew Seminary For Young Women at Carmel, N. Y., was elected a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives from Mifflin, his native county, at the recent election. Roger Pocock, the founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen, has been in turn cowboy, novelist, poet, missionary and prospector. He led an expedition to the Klondike, served in the mounted police in the northwest and was a scout in the Transvaal war. Vere Goldthwaite, one of the most interesting personalities of the Boston bar, has had a romantic career. He is the son of a well known Boston physician and for a number of years traveled with a wild west show. For a time he was one of the best known cowboys of Colorado. Ex-Senator William E. Chandler is an expert stenographer, having learned the art of pot hook writing early in life. He uses stenography in making all his notes, and when he was in the senate he jotted down many of the speeches in which he was particularly interested and desired the notes for immediate reference. On the occasion of the last birthday anniversary of the king of Italy a letter carrier was remembered with an increase of pay. The man, whose name is Domenico Silicia, has been in the service at Rogilano for the last sixty years, is eighty years old, blind, and still attends to his duties with the assistance of a grandchild. Bright boys and girls can make money in every community by selling The Broad Ax. It will cost you nothing to begin, as we will send you a supply of papers for the first week free. If there are any bright boys and girls in any section of the country who want to start in business for themselves, make money and be independent, write to us at once, and we will send you ten papers free of charge. You can sell them for five cents each, this will give you the capital which you can buy more papers at the newsdealers' rate, allowing you a good profit. Thinking and progressive people read the Broad Ax. Your father, brothers, uncles and friends will buy the paper from you. If you mean business write to Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. THE BROAD AX. Is for sale at the following news stands: George M. Oatts, 5501 Lake ave. Mrs. E. L. Holmes, 2508½ State st. Cigars, tobacco and news stand. L. W. Washington, 5613 Jefferson ave., General agent. L. L. Jones, barber shop and news stand, 3842 State st. A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. 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Every Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trading Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Corrects. A spiendid assortment of Shoes3 Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men's Bailriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains. Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. American Br President and Treasurer, THOMAS Vice-President, JOHN SE Secretary, WILLIAM MANUFATURED Common and Sev Office and Yards: 45th and Rol Yards running winter and sum with the latest improved Wolf output of Winter Yards output of Summer Yards Telephone Yard ILLINOIS BR American Brick Co. Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. Output of Winter Yards ..... 1,600 o per day Output of Summer Yards ..... 3,000 o per day ILLINOIS BRICK CO. 94 N. Western Av 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Yard unk's Bro M. JUNK. Propriet Junk's Brewery M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO --- GRAY & MORAN GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615, 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 823 ABHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 893 CHICAGO Telephone Main 4839 Residence, 6826 Champlain Ave. Tel. Wentworth 2821 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney At Law SUITE 51, 119-121 LA SALLE ST. CHICAGO Tel. 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WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 1st and State Streets Bradley Telephone Yards 693 J. M. Fields BADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Listed Street CHICAGO Lady W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street Department Store If you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New York Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trad- with each 10c purchase. By a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Cor- nidid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses. Ins, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. A specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell rants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. Soul line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. Line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Stude ins. BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE American Brick Co.. Agent and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: H and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Enter Yards ..... 1,440.0 per day Summer Yards..... 30,000 per day Telephone Yards 128. NOIS BRICK CO. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER. Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Telephone Yards 128. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. k's Brewery Telephone Yards: 718 J. M. Fields CHICAGO