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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Fred A. Busse Elected Mayor of Chicago Mayor Dunne Slaughtered By Irish-American Democrats THOUSANDS OF RESPECTABLE AND INTELLIGENT AFRO-AMERICAN VOTERS WENT DOWN TO DEFEAT WITH HIM. JOHN E. TRAEGER ELECTED CITY TREASURER. GOVERNOR CHARLES S. DENEEN RECEIVED A BLACK EYE TUESDAY AND WILL SINK INTO HIS POLITICAL GRAVE. HARD TIMES AHEAD FOR DEMOCRATIC OFFICE HOLDERS AND POLITICIANS WHO FAILED TO GET SOME OF THE REPUBLICAN COIN APRIL. Vol. XII Fred A. Busse Mayor Mayor Dunne Slaug By Irish-A THOUSANDS OF RESPECT AFRO-AMERICAN VOTE FEAT WITH HIM. JOHN E. TRAEGER ELECTE GOVERNOR CHARLES S. DE EYE TUESDAY AND WI CAL GRAVE. HARD TIMES AHEAD FOR D ERS AND POLITICIAN SOME OF THE REPUBLI Tuesday Fred A. Buse, under the banner of the lily white Republicans, traitorous Democrats, and the corrupt and debauching money power, marched on to victory, while Mayor Edward F. Dunne, with the plain or the common people at his back marched on to defeat. It is safe to say that the mayoralty contest which came to a close Tuesday evening was the most exciting and the most momentous in the history of Chicago, and after the political waters which had been lashed into a mad fury for the past five weeks settled down between its banks, it is as plain as your nose on your face that the Republican politicians and many of the Irish-American Democratic politicians had entered into such a strong compact or combination against Mayor Dunne that it was impossible for him to be re-elected Mayor of Chicago. This assertion can be easily verified if any one will take the trouble to carefully read over the returns from the various wards, they can see how Mayor Dunne, and his Democratic running mates aside from John E. Traeger, were bodily and boldly sold out to the Republics by the Irish-American Democratic politicians. To illustrate for many years the 1st ward which is absolutely owned and controlled by Alderman Mike Kenna, has always rolled up large Democratic majorities, on last Tuesday gave Mayor Dunne less than eight hundred majority. The same thing is true in other strong Democratic wards, the 14th ward owned and controlled by Roger C. Sullivan, two years ago gave Mayor Dunne seven hundred majority, but on Tuesday this Democratic vote was by some means or other switched over into the Republican column and Fred A. Busse received seven hundred majority. Alderman John J. Brennan of the 18th ward and John Powers of the 19th ward, permitted the large Democratic majorities, to run down so low that it was hard to find them with a fine tooth comb; Ex-Alderman J. Daily in the 4th ward and Old Foxy Charley Martin in the 5th ward turned the same "Irish," trick, and Col. William Loeffler, who owns and controls the 9th, 10th and 11th wards, in order to be regular. Let the immense Democratic majorities in his three wards drop down to almost nothing; in the 21st, and 25th wards and in fact all the wards where Democrats are supposed to reside the Irish-American Democratic politicians played into the hands of the Republicans. Such traitorous conduct on the part of the Irish-American Democratic politicians is most reprehensible when we take into consideration the fact that within the past few years this same class of "Dirty politicians," have made millions of dollars by wearing the cloak of Democracy and the Democratic party never will amount to anything in this city, the State of Ill., nor the nation at large as long as its so-called leaders are always more than willing to sell it out to the Republicans for a mess of pottage! Thousands of respectable and intelligent Afro-Americans in all parts of Chicago openly and above board recorded their votes in favor of the re-election of Mayor Dunne, who owes his defeat to the leaders and members of his own nationality and not to the Afro-American voters and those composing the other nationalities in this city. General Young was placed on the Republican ticket for City Treasurer to please Governor Charles S. Deneen, and since his defeat by John E. Traeger, the handsome Governor not only received a black eye but from henceforth he will sink into his political grave, for mayor-elect Busse, Congressman Bill Lorimer, Fred M. Blunt State Senator Dan Campbell, former United States Senator William E. Mason, William H. Weber, Oscar Hebel, Fred Upham, August W. Miller, and their bunch of eminent statesmen will be on top in Republican politics in this city and the State of Ill., as long as they are able to dig up some money to buy a little oil to grease up their political machine. So Gov. Deneen had better make up his mind right now to become a prominent member of the down and out club. Hard times are ahead for Democratic office holders and politicians who failed to get some of the Republican coin April 2nd, for just as soon as Fred A. Busse, lands in the mayor's chair for four years, he will start in to rid the city hall of Democratic office holders, and drive them out in the cold which is the proper thing to do for we firmly believe in that good old Democratic doctrine "to the victors belong the souls." It was a sickening sight on Tuesday, to behold so many Colored men, in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd wards selling their votes to the Republicans for cash. As the time drew near for closing the polls, it was no uncommon sight, to observe long rows, of worthless and seemingly respectable Negroes, lined up in front of the various polling places, and they received from $1.00 to $5.00 for their votes. While passing the corner of 29th and State streets, we heard one loud mouthed, ignorant Negro exclaim, "I received $5.00 and a bottle of whisky, for voting for Fred Bus." Still another one declared, that "He got enough money for his vote to get his washing out of the laundry and to pay a weeks room rent, and that he did not care anything about the Street Car Ordinances or who was elected mayor of Chicago." Even some Negro lawyers and preachers, who claim to be independent and honorable men, sold their CHICAGO, APRIL 6, 1907. FRED A. BUSSE. The new Mayor elect of "Greater C chicago." votes for $5.00 and $10. The Negro Republican politicains who assist to debauch the electorate, to such an extent, should be convicted of bribery and sent to the pen at Jollet. In conclusion, now that Fred A. Busse will soon become Mayor of Greater Chicago, it is the duty of all good citizens, regardless of their political affiliations to assist him, morally, and otherwise to carry to completion, the many improvements which are so much needed in the great city of Chicago. THE GERMAN-AMERICAN POLITI CIANS ARE ON TOP IN COOK COUNTY AND CHICAGO. The past year, many strange things have happened among the Irish-American politicians and the German-American politicians in Cook County and Chicago, and the result is, on the one hand, the German-American politicians, have by becoming united, cleaned up everything politically before them, while the Irish-American politicians, have practically, lost everything they have striven after. In other words. In 1904, the Republican party nominated Peter M. Hoffman a German-American, for Coroner of Cook County, and elected him. In 1906, the same party nominated Christopher Strassheim, another German-American, for Sheriff of Cook County, and elected him. In 1907 the Republican party nominated Fred A. Busse also a German-American for Mayor of Chicago and he made a successful race. The Democratic party nominated John E. Traeger, one of the most popular German-Americans in Cook County, for City Treasurer, and of course he was elected. Therefore, the four most important offices in Chicago and Cook County, namely, the Coroner, Mayor, Sheriff and City Treasurer, are in the hands of the German-American politicians. Three of these big officials are Republicans, the other Democratic. As further proof, that the German-Americans will always look after their own, regardless of their politics, Tuesday almost the entire German-American vote was cast solidly for Fred A. Pusse a Republican, and then these same German-Americans, also recorded their votes in favor of John E. Traeger one of their kind and a Democrat, and both of their countrymen won out, one defeating a full fledged American, and the other routing an Irish-American. This should be an object lesson to those composing the other nationalities in this city and county, and it simply demonstrates this one undisputable fact, that while the Irish Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, during the last three elections in this city and county, have been cutting each other throats, figuratively speaking, because they were not all engaged in killing snakes in Ireland at the same time. The German-American politicians, have entrenched themselves in power from which they cannot be dislodged for many years. MOULDERS OF SENTIMENT. The Colored man might as well stop being surprised at the white press, when it refuses to devote space in its papers to speak of the good things being accomplished by the Afro-American, as was once the case. The editors of the white press, with few exceptions, throughout this country have ceased to advocate the cause of our race, unless they receive some consideration in return. The Negro may as well settle it down in his heart that it is now a matter of business and no longer sentiment that runs this country. As a race, we might as well buckle down and get our own newspapers, through which to create a healthy public sentiment among all classes of people, and the sooner this is done, the better, for the Negro need hope for nothing (only in very rare cases) from the white press to tell of their good deeds and advancement. The Negro newspaper is the only hope and salvation left us, and since this is the case, why not the Afro-Americans throughout the length and breadth of our great country, learn to support their reputable newspapers. This done it would enable them to become strong, vigorous and influential. In every city of this country where there are as many as twenty thousand Negro inhabitants, a good daily journal could and ought to be supported by the race, and if the proper amount of race pride is manifested, together with a united effort by our leaders for race progress, this could easily be done. Let the business men throughout the country wake up on this important subject. —The Reformer, Richmond, Va. Every word stated above is the gospel truth, and the Negro, never will get public sentiment, in this country on his side, until he renders hearty support to his own newspapers whose editors are continually fighting in his behalf—Editor. Alderman John Burns, was put out of the running in the 20th ward by former Alderman M. McInerney, who was elected by 712 majority. Placing the Responsibility of the Brownsville Raid MAJ. PENROSE ACQUITTED AND GUILT IS STAMPED UPON THE FOREHEAD OF EVERY NEGRO SOLDIER. A COMPLICATD MIX UP. The final decision in the trial of Major Charles W. Penrose, at San Antonia, Texas, in connection with the "shooting up," of Brownsville, Texas, on the night of August 13, 1906 has been rendered, and Major Penrose has not been court-martialled, for failing to do his duty in any respect. The following are the court-martial findings: "Charge: Neglect of duty, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in violation of the sixty second article of war. "Specification 1. In that Maj. Charles W. Penrose, 25th United States Infantry commanding the post of Fort Brown, Texas, after being, on the morning of August 14, 1906, between 1 and 2 a. m., duly informed by the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, one Dr. Combe, that soldiers of his command had shot and killed one civilian of the city of Brownsville, Texas, and badly wounded a lieutenant of police of that city, did immediately thereafter and until daylight wholly fail and neglect to take or order sufficient measures or action, or by prompt inspection of guns or pistols or otherwise, and due exercise of discipline and to detect the men engaged in said attack and killing or any of them, or to restrain or bring them to justice for said crime." Finding of the first specification, "Not guilty." "Specification 2. In that Maj. Charles W. Penrose, 25th United States infantry, being aware of the feeling of resentment in his command toward citizens of Brownsville, as a result of assaults upon certain individuals of the command, and having been notified by a Mr. Evans of Brownsville about 5 p. m., August 13, 1906, of an attack upon his wife by a soldier of the command, and knowing the inflamed feeling existing in the town toward the soldiers as a result therefore, did, nevertheless, fail to give any orders to Capt. E. A. Macklin, 24th infantry, officer of the day, requiring special vigilance on his part, or that of the guard, or to make frequent inspections, or and inspection, during the night after 12 o'clock; and did wholly fall and neglect to take or order sufficient measures or precautions to hold at the post the men of his command, or in any manner to watch, restrain or discipline said men, by reason of which failure certain men of his command, to the number of twelve or more, were enable to assemble and did assemble, armed with rifles, and did proceed to the town of Brownsville, Texas, and did then and there shoot and wound and kill certain citizens thereof." Finding of second specification: Gulty except the words "being aware of the feeling of resentment in his command toward citizens of Brownville," and of the word "infamed" and of the words "special vigilance on his part or that of the guards; or to make," and of the words "and did wholly fall and neglect to take or order sufficient measures or precautions to hold at the post the men of his command, or in any manner to watch, restrain or discipline said men by reason of which failure," substituting therefor the words to the number of twelve or more, were enabled to assemble, and;" of the excepted words "not guilty" of the substituted word "gulty" so that the specification in its amended form will read as follows. Amended Specification. "Specification 2. In that Maj. Charles W. Penrose, 25th United State infant- Attack is Related. esponsibility ownsville Raid D AND GUILT IS STAMPED OF EVERY NEGRO SOLDIER. try, have been informed by a Mr. Evans of Brownsville, about 5 p. m. August 13, 1906, of an attack upon his wife by a soldier of the command, and knowing of the feeling existing in the town toward the soldiers as a result therefore, did, nevertheless, fail to give any orders to Capt. E. A. Macklin, 25th infantry, officer of the day, requiring frequent inspections, or any inspections during the night after 12 o'clock, after which certain men of his command did assemble, armed with rifles, and did proceed to the town of Brownsville, Texas, and did then and there shoot and wound and kill certain citizens thereof." And the court attaches no criminality thereto on his part. Of the charge, not guilty, and the court does therefore acquit him, Maj. Charles W. Penrose, 25th infantry. In the foregoing case, the proceedings, findings and acquittal are approved. (Signed) WILLIAM S. McCASKEY, United States Army, Commanding the Division. Immediately after Major Penrose, had received his coat of whitewash, he proceeded to Washington, D. C., to testify before the committee on military affairs. To an unbiased mind, it is evident after carefully reading all the testimony adduced in reference to "shooting up Brownsville," that that act was not accomplished by members of the 25th Regiment, but, by the Negro prejudiced, white citizens of that Southern Burg. Recently Macias G. Tomayo, a Mexican testified before the committee, that on the night of August 13, he was an eye witness to everything that happened in connection with the "shooting up" of the town, that the shots came from Brownsville and were not fired from the Fort by members of the 25th Regiment. Part of his testimony was as follows. "When the shooting began on the night of Aug. 13, Tomayo was working in the rear of B barracks, he said, and the first shot caused him to straighten up and listen. He said that it came from the alley about half a block from the reservation, between Elizabeth and Washington streets. Another shot was fired almost immediately and Tomayo quickly extinguished his lantern for fear of being made a target. He says there followed a fusillade of shots and the bullets whistled over the barracks as if fired toward the administration building. Heard About Twenty Shots. He thought there were about twenty shots in the fusillade. After the volley he said he got on his cart and drove out between B and D barracks toward the administration building. The remainder of his story was in the relation to the call to arms and the formation of the companies, which he saw incident to the completion of his scavenger work. During the time of the firing, Tomayo says, he is certain that soldiers did not leave the barracks to enter the town or enter the barracks from the town, but on cross examination he would not say that it would have been impossible for soldiers to have hidden along the wall in the rear of the outhouses and wood sheds. He was absolutely certain, though, that soldiers could not have fired from the barracks into the town without his seeing the flashes of the guns and hearing the reports of them. On these points he was closely cross questioned by Sena- (Continued on page 2.) No. 267 THE BROAD AX. PUBLISHED WEEKI Y. Will promulgate and at all times sphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Praetext, Infidel, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republicans, Knight Labor, Labor, or any one else can have a back language is proper and responsibility is fired. The Broad. is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. THE BROAD AX 5040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago ill as second-class Matter. 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. 'BACK TO AFRICA' PLAN NOT LIKED BY NEGROES. Proposition of Governor Broward of Florida That Colored People Be Deported is Called Absurd and Impossible. Governor Broward of Florida has advised the members of the legislature of his state, to urge the United States Congress to pass some kind of a measure in favor of deporting all the Negroes from the United States, or to locate them all together on some territory in some part of this country where they will not come in contact with the whites. The following are the expressions of Rev. D. P. Roberts, and Bishop Fallow, against this proposed plan of Gov. Broward: "It could not be carried out declare el Rev. D. P. Roberts, Pastor of Quinn Chapel, "even if the Florida legislature, as advised by Governor Broward, should memorialize Congress, I do not believe that body would pay any attention to it. The plan is absurd and impossible. The sentiment of a majority of the • people, whether southerners or northerners, blacks or whites, would be overwhelmingly against the acceptance of any such solution of the race problem. The Colored people are here to stay. They have inallenable rights of property and citizenship. They are loyal American citizens. "When the obstacles they have overcome are considered it must be admitted they have advanced amazingly as a race. With the modern opportunities open to them for higher education and intellectual and material development they will soon be in the front rank of good and useful citizens." "I fear Governor Broward's plan would never work," said Bishop Samuel Fallows. "It was proved some years ago when Bishop Turner, a Colored prelate, advocated the 'back to a popular referendum on the Colored race on the question, that the Negroes themselves were overwhelmingly opposed to it. Besides, I don't believe the white people of the South would accept that solution of their most troublesome problem, as they need the labor of the Colored folks for cotton gin and plantation." Gov. Broward belongs to that unreconstructed class of Southern gentlemen who entertain the idea that the Negro is still a slave, and that he is in the possession of no rights which other men are bound to respect, but some day Gov. Broward and men like him will wake up and learn that they have been simply dreaming. NEGROES BARRED FROM U. S ARMY. St. Louis, Mo.—Lieutenant, Colonel William R. Hamilton, in charge of the United States army recruiting office in the Old Custom House, has received a telegram from Washington ordering that no more Negroes are to be enlisted for service in the regular army. Dispatches say that all Negro troops in the United States will be dispatched forthwith to the Phillippines. This new movement, in refusing to permit; Colored men enlist in the United States army is in keeping with the new policy adopted by the head of the war department, for lately Secretary Taft, issued an order directing that 76 member of the Ninth Calvary proceed to West Point, and while stationed there those famous fighting Colored troopers must clean the horses for the white cadets, and act as their servants. No Democratic President, nor Secretary of War, could humiliate the Negro soldiers to any greater extent than Secretary Taft, and President Roosevelt, and yet if either one of them run for President next year, the so-called leading Negroes, as well as the most ignorant ones will be in favor of mur- dering every Colored man who intimates that he cannot vote for either one of them.—Editor. HEARKEN, THEODORE ROOSE- VELT. Theodore Roosevelt, this is the chance of your career. You have done wrong. This is not strange. So have others, high and low, thousands and millions before you. You have acted hastily, impulsively and doggedly. So all men act who think strongly and feel deeply. But slowly, surely the wrong you have done a hundred black men and their ten million fellows has struggled doubtingly, determinedly to the light, and sits today in silent judgment on your soul. I will not say that the Twenty-fifth infantry have absolutely proven their entire innocence, but I do say, and the whole country agree, that they have raised a doubt as to their guilt—a doubt so real, so firm, so reasonable that no court in Christendom would convict them in the fact of it. You have convicted them. You thought them guilty. Their guilt is today unproven. You know it is unproven. You know that their innocence is so near proven that the nation sits dumb before their testimony. The nation is watching you. The black millions are waiting. Theodore Roosevelt, are you an honest man? If you are, speak!—The Horizon. NEGRO DEPRAVITY. We hear much nowadays about criminality and especially about the moral depravity of the Negro people; and the constant reiteration of the charges is having the direful psychological effect of making the thoughtless among us believe that there is foundation in fact to the charges. In 1860 we were slaves and by force of circumstances there were few legitimate homes among us; but in 1900—according to the last census—there were 373,450 homes owned by Negroes in this country. (Challenged history is silent for a duplicate). When we read Lecky, Mulhall and others on the subject of morality in European countries among the peasant, we are veritably surprised to see to what heights the Negroes have attained in morality: Mulhall, in his Dictionary of Statistics, gives us the following figures as to illegitimacy: For every 1,000 births in Leipzig 211 are illegitimate; in Paris, 268; in St. Petersburg, 236; in Copenhagen, 279; in Prague, 439; in Munich, 439; in Vienna, 449; in Stockholm, 396; in Moscow, 300. We are by no means the only pebbles on the beech, and we do not care for the dishonor—Ex. PLAN FOR GRAND JURY CHANG ES At the meeting of the Grand Jurors' association of Cook county, which will be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the lecture room of the Methodist Church block, corner of Clark and Washington streets, a number of eminent speakers will be present to discuss the proposed "Modification of the Present Grand Jury System." Among the speakers will be State's Attorney Healy, Judge McEwen, J. P. McGoorty and others. Afterward the subject will be open for general discussion. This question has a considerable bearing on the subject of criminal jurisprudence. INDICTED BY "JIM CROW" LAW. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hardin, 6349 Rhodes ave., entertained at dinner Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wadsworth Holmes the Easter bride and groom. Rev. A. Lealtad of St. Paul, Minn., was one of the honored guests also. PLACING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BROWNSVILLE RAID. (Concluded from page 1.) tors Warner, Frazier, Foster and Overman, but he could not be shaken." Captain Edgar A. Macklin, of Company C. 25th infantry, was among the many white officers, to testify before the senate committee on military affairs, and without the least hesitation, he declared, that "The Negro soldiers were not guilty of "Shooting up" Brownsville." The majority of the witnesses who have appeared before the committee on military affairs, white and Colored, have arrived at the same conclusion. Notwithstanding this fact, all the members on military affairs, aside from Senator Foraker, are making an extraordinary effort, to fasten this crime on the Negro soldiers, in order to vindicate President Roosevelt and to justify him in branding them, as a band of midnight assassins. Stanley H. Kunz, made a home run and was returned to the city council from the 16th ward. JOHN E. TRAEGER. The new City Treasurer of Chicago. The only Democrat elected to an important office in this City or Cook County. The Pekin is progressing. If there is any doubt in your mind see the new production, "Doctor Dope," Stanley Wood's three act creation, a legitimate musical comedy with a strikingly operatic tine. The humor is refined and elevating, and something out of the ordinary in musical comedy. It is real humor—good wholesome humor. One of the most surprising features of this production is the fact that the Colored players demonstrate that they are perfectly capable of adapting themselves to high class work. Further than this they act with a fine intelligence as to the meaning of their lines and get everything out of them possible. The story of "Doctor Dope," is simple but logical and the music drops into place naturally. There are 15 musical numbers and every one of them was written and composed especially for this production. They sit in and add to the unfolding of the thread of a plot. This is rather unusual in musical comedies but none the less to be especially noted. Harrison Stewart who has made all the southside his own has the leading comedy role and demonstrates that he is as versatile as he is amusing. He is a natural comedian and the part he essays in this play is a natural one, therefore he finds himself at home and leaves that impression on his audience. Jerry Mills ably seconds Stewart as a venerable Captain of the militia. Don Wormley as a lieutenant, Charles Gilpin as a corporal and J. F. Mores as a sergeant of the Captains' company all act and sing intelligently. Louis Pennington, Audrey Lyles, George White and Mat Marshall have congenial roles and acquit themselves with credit. Lottie Grady has the leading female role and makes a great hit with her songs. Nettie Lewis, the dainty soubrette of the Pekin Stock Company is always pleasing and Pearl Brown in an original character part acts with her accustomed force. Joe Jordan and James T. Brymu are responsible for the music of this production and they have outdone themselves in this regard. In fact the music as well as the production in its entirety marks a distinct advance. Among the numbers that pleased the audience most may be mentioned, "My Congo Lily Girl," "That Dinner Horn," "Youth Must Have Its Fling," "You, Dear," "There's a Star That Shines For Me," and "Who's Got the Lemon." The staging of this production is under the personal direction of Mr. J. Ed. Green who has brought all the resources of his original and inventive mind to bear in order to bring out the effects and he is to be credited with much of the success of the current production of this house."-D." Mrs. Clara Green-Lowe, died at Provident Hospital last Saturday, after a short illness. Mrs. Lowe was a talented dramatic reader, and a writer of some ability. Funeral services were held over her remains Thursday at St. Mary's church which was largely attended. Rev. Saunders assisted by Rev. Jesse Woods said the last sad rites. F. A. Rawlins undertaker had charge and she was laid to rest in Oakwoods. The Republican boys in the 31st ward were redhot after Alderman P. J. O'Connell, nevertheless he pulled through by 287 majority, showing that Alderman O'Connell, is still popular with all the voters in the 31st ward. THE PEKIN. The new Negro theatre at New Orleans is now open for business. Alderman Dan V. Harkin put up a great fight in the 14th ward, but he went to the bad by 127 votes, and at last James H. Lawley has butted into the City Council. Dr. W. H. Davis, 3226 Prairie ave., is home again after spending two weeks in Frederick, Md., and Washington, D. C., His father returned with him and he will make his home in Chicago. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 6130 Ada street, has just returned home from Mamouth, Ill., where she spent two weeks conducting a most successful revival. She is looking well and is enthusiastic over the work she accomplished while absent. A Missouri women is very angry with her home paper, because in writing her husband's death, the editor said: "He has gone to a happier home." This creates doubt as to where she thinks the deceased really went. Either place might be happier. —Ex. The Annual Easter Ball given at the Armory, Thursday evening by the Triangle and Inner Circle clubs for the benefit of the Home of the Aged and Infirm Colored folks, was well attended. These clubs should always be encouraged, for they help our dependable institutions. The Woman's Club entertained at the Frederick Douglass Centre, Thursday evening, Mr. W, L. Benson, of Kowaliga, Ala., and Mess. Cole and Johnson of the "Shoo Fly Regimeat Co." The Colored business men of the city were also the guests of the club. Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett had charge of the arrangements. Last Thursday night Mr. and Mrs. Moses Ratcliff gave an informal reception at their home 4850 Dearborn st. to welcome Rev. W. C. Stovall and his accomplished wife, the new pastor of St. Mark M. E. Church. The hostess was assisted in receiving her guests by Mrs. Birdie Jones. About fifty guests were present. Choice refrehments were served. Dr. A Wilberforce Williams, left for Kansas City, Mo., last evening, on a ten days business trip. While absent he will inspect the gas wells near Chanute, Kans belonging to the Black Dismond Development Company. Fred A. Wescott, Secretary of the Black Diamond Development Company, spent several days this week in Pittsburg, Pa., and on Sunday evening, he will make another trip to the oil and gas regions of Kansas. Mr. John Hodge, 3423 Dearborn st. is confined to his home sick. The Easter Ball given Monday evening at Odd Fellows Hall, by "the Chicago Patriarchie No. 10 and The Grand Master's Council No. 20 of the G. U. O. of O. F. in America," was a grand success. This is the first of a series of entertainments which these branches of the order will give in order to obtain money enough for the grand celebration of Odd Fellows which will take place in Springfield, Ill., in May. CHIPS 一 Now that the election is over, the many subscribers to the "Barnett Election Contest Fund," will anxiously await the verdict of the promised contest. For many dollars were subscribed to the Colored Republican Club for the specific purpose of contesting the election which ended so disgracefully for the Negroes, and unless there is a contest, the money subscribed should be refunded. Some two or three weeks ago, at Monroe, Louisiana, two Colored men were lynched by a mob of Southern Christains, for an alleged criminal assault upon a white woman. It is said after the lynching a placard was attached to their bodies and inscribed thereon a warning to all Negrees, and by threats of lynching and burning every Colored person in that "hell-hole," was compelled to leave their homes and gaze upon the mutilated bodies of the dead men. Comment is unnecessary. — The Advocate, Portland, Oregon. No, satisfied with sending all the Colored soldiers to the Phillippe Island, except the sixty-five or seventy detailed at West Point, where they are practically to act as servants, the Government has transferred Major Lynch, the only Negro paymaster in the service to the Philippines. The presumption is that as all of the Colored soldiers are to be together, naturally they need the services of a Negro paymaster. Many things are happening under the reign of Theodore L. that never happened before. The Atro-American Ledger, Baltimore, Md. Admitting editor Murphy, that President Roosevelt, has in many ways treated the Negro most shamefully the most important question is whether or not you would urge every Negro to vote for him if he should run for President in 1908. Those Modern Flats. "What! Seven biscuits a week for a place like this? Why, there ain't room to swing a cat here"—Once a Week. Strenuous Task. Mrs. Newed-John, dear, have you decided where we shall pass the summer? Newed-No, darling. I have begun to peruse the summer resort literature and I expect to finish the job by the 1st of November.-Houston Post. In Days of Old. The baronet strode up to the hostelry in high disdain. "What wishest thou of us this day?" they asked him. "What do I wish this day?" he repeated. "Why, a knight's lodging"—Baltimore American. Just What He Wanted. Mother (to future son-in-law)—I may tell you that, though my daughter is well educated, she cannot cook. Future Son-in-law — That doesn't matter much, so long as she doesn't try.—Flegende Blatter. As to Skeletons His Wife—They say that the family next door have a skeleton in their closet. Her Husband—Well, that is better than letting it run around loose.—Detroit Tribune Waiting to Fix 'Fm: "Father says will you please lend him your automobile." "Not today, my son. Tell him I've a few enemies of my own who are coming to visit me." - Atlanta Constitution, Incomplete "Not quite," answered the genius. "I've got to invent some way of getting people to subscribe for stock in it."—Washington Star. Rejected. Gerald—I'd like to be your father's son-in-law. Geraldine—I don't know how it can be arranged. I haven't any sister.—New York Press. Hard Luck "So," said the poet's friend, "the editor didn't like your 'Rippling Brook.'" "No," replied the young poet, "the damned it." -Philadelphia Press. All the Varieties Hewitt--Gruet can be more kinds of a fool than any other man I ever met. Jewett--Yes. He's sort of fool package in assorted sizes.--Puck. L. W. Washington, General Agent for The Broad Ax In the Hyde Park District. From on and after this date until further notice to the contrary, L. W. Washington, 5613 Jefferson avenue will act as the general agent for The Broad Ax, and news items and advertisements left with him not later than Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning prior to the day of publication, will find their way into its columns. CHOICE MISCELLANY Fur Coated Fish Indians fishing at Moochelide about last Christmas time were meeting with satisfactory success when suddenly one of them hooked a grayling which had on a fur overcoat. This statement, though it may not appear so at first, is literally true. The fish had all over its body a soft dark brown fur, and the Indians, fearing that this perceived some great and sudden disaster, quit fishing and went to praying. It may be that in all the experience of the aborigines they had never seen or heard of anything like this before, but it does not follow that because an experience with fish is new it is there fore incredible. New things are happening in the fish world all the time. Is it not a fact that nearly every season some hitherto unregulated fish stories are brought to our attention and added to our cherished collection? This fur overcourt story is really no more surprising than the news that Missouri river fish at certain seasons of the year wear overall to keep the dust. Different conditions bring about different habits in the fish family.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Soft Shelled Ears It is generally believed that the soft shelled egg occasionally hold the beak is due to deficiency of lime in the food. Some experiments carried out at the experiment station, Kansas, however seem to indicate that this is not the right explanation. It rather appears to be a case of arrested development due to nervous shock, and to be analogous to abortion in mammals. Soft shelled eggs were laid at the experiment station by hens subjected to nervous excitement. And it is shown that on an ordinary diet a hen's system normally contains enough lime for the shells of five or six eggs. If lime is withheld then, after laying these five or six the hen will cease laying. But if lime in limited quantity be given the hen lay eggs in proportion to the amount given, though the shells on investigation are found to be somewhat thinner than normal—London Globe. A New Theory as to Iron Bust It has long been generally supposed that iron rust was caused by oxidation, though many chemists have been opposed to that view. The theory of oxidation has now, it would appear, been quite upset. The chemical societies of London have decided that the formation of rust is chiefly due to carbonic acid. The first phase of rust consists of the formation of carbonate of iron by the action of the carbonic acid of the air on metal. The carbonate of iron is turned into ferric by droxid, or rust. Recent experiments made by G. T. Moody prove that if it is possible to prevent iron from coming in contact with carbonic acid it the iron so sheltered or protected can be near water for an indefinite time and there will not be the least trace of rust seen on it. No Old Glory on Bottled Beer In a decree which patriotic Americans will receive with grateful approval the supreme court of the United States has squarely affirmed the right of a state to enact laws to prevent the desecration of the United States flag. The matter came up in an appeal from a decision by the courts of Nebraska, which held that the use of a reproduction of the national emblem and the words "stars and stripes" on the labels of bottled beer amounted to a violation of the state law against flag desecration. The Army and Navy Journal urges that every state in the Union shall pass such a law—and enforce it. Butte Now Beautiful. "The city of Butte is no longer plagued as it was some years ago by the fumes of sulphur that arose from the copper plants, destructive allike to all forms of vegetation and obnoxious to the olfactories of the people," said Dr. John M. Scanland of that town to the Washington Herald. "All the smelters save one owned by Senator Clark are now at Anaconda, and the local plant has a smokestack of such tremendous height that the injurious vapors are carried off. Now we are beginning to have green lawns and leaves on our trees at last." New York's Working Girls When one stops to consider the great part the working girls of New York city alone play in the trade and commerce of this country one sees her as a cogent factor in the national welfare in very truth. She sews on the buttons of a continent. Her handiwork is displayed on the counters of village stores from Mexico to Maine. By the activity of her nimble fingers great dry goods emporiums thrive and countless village stores do business.—Van Norden's Magazine. Collecting the Seeds A novel method of collecting the seed of flowers for the manufacture of medicines and for other purposes has just been patented. Twigs and branches are cut off and placed in a tank of water so that the heads, or seed bearing portions, overhang the edge of the reservoir. The flowers are made to bloom in this posture, and the seed falls on to a sheet of paper as the ripening process is completed. Amazing Motor Figures. The impressive disclosure of latest motor figures is that whereas in 1901 France, the pioneer manufacturer of automobiles, built 23,397 more automobiles than did America, in 1906 America turned out 5,000 more than France. And the still further impressive element of this showing is the jump by America from 314 cars in 1901 to 60,000 in 1906.—New York World. WASHINGTON LETTER [Special Correspondence] Gifford Pinchot, the chief forester of the agricultural department, is likely to be very much in the limelight during the coming summer on account of the forest reserve order of the president issued just before the expiration of the Fifty-ninth congress adding some 30,000,000 acres to the forest reserve of the country. The detail work of carrying out President Roosevelt's order in this connection will all be under Mr. Pinchot's immediate direction. Our Great Forest Reserves. The office of chief forester is a comparatively new one in the United States. Germany and most of the European countries have had chief foresters for generations, but it is pointed out that Chief Forester Pinchot will have charge of more acres of forest than probably all the foresters of Europe combined. The forest area under Mr. Pinchot, it is said, equals in extent the area of France and Germany. Mr. Pinchot is comparatively a young man and is one of the president's close associates. More Pay For Postal Clerks First Assistant Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock has made a compilation showing how many clerks in postoffices and letter carriers will be affected by the increased pay recently provided for them by congress. The additional pay will begin July 1 next, the beginning of the new fiscal year. The total number of clerks promoted at that time or as soon afterward as they shall have completed a year's service in the grades in which they now are serving will be 19,900. Of these 338 will be advanced from a salary of $400 to a salary of $600, $83 from $500 to $600, 3,834 from $600 to $800, 4,026 from $700 to $800, 4,955 from $800 to $900, 3,473 from $900 to $1,000 and 2,381 from $1,000 to $1,100. New Scale For Letter Carriers. The letter carriers, many of whom now are receiving nearly the maximum salary provided by law, will be promoted in the same way. The increase will affect 24,227 carriers throughout the country. Of this number 1,810 will be promoted from $600 to $800, 8,835 from $850 to $900, 1,073 from $800 to $1,000 and 12,500 from $1,900 to $1,100. The increase in the aggregate will amount to nearly $4,500,000 a year. The new scale under which the postoffice clerks and carriers will operate was worked out carefully by Mr. Hitchcock, and congress adopted it in its entirety. Thirty Thousand Dollar Rose. Thirty Thousand Dollar Rose. Conspicuous among the exhibits at the recent flower show here was the famous Queen Beatrice rose for which Mr. F. H. Kramer, a florist of this city, paid the sum of $30,000. It is believed by many experts to be the finest rose ever grown. It is a cross between the Liberty and Mme. Chatenay, both hybrid tea roses, and is classed by Mr. Kramer as a tea. Its color is a peculiar shade of pink, with a touch of crimson, when in the bud. None of the beauty of its rare coloring is destroyed either in natural or artificial light. Added to this is a delightful fragrance believed by many lovers of the rose to be fully equal, if not superior, to that of the famous American Beauty. Its habit, too, is something like the American Beauty, as it grows on long, straight and sturdy stems from two to three feet long and is well filled out with leaves up to within six inches of the flower. In Memory of Pulaski. As soon as St. Gaudens, America's most famous sculptor, shall have approved the model prepared by Casimir Chedzinski, a Polish-American sculptor of Chicago, the statue of Count Casimir Pulaski will be completed as suggested in the model in question. Congress appropriated $50,000 for the work, which is to be expended under the direction of Secretary of War Taft and the chairmen of the library committees of senate and house. The act in question provides for the erection of a statue to "Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski of Poland, who came to America and, after declaring his intention to become a citizen of the republic, offered his sword to Washington, under whose leadership in the great struggle for American independence he lost his life at the siege of Savannah Ga., Oct. 11, 1779." An Equestrian Statue. The Pulaski model, which has been received with great favor by the members of the commission, shows the Polish general in the hussar uniform of his native country seated on the back of a horse of unusually excellent mold. The horse's head is uplifted, with nostrils dilated and ears erect. His right fore foot is raised and his tail streams outward. The rider presents a martial and picturesque appearance with his long military cloak thrown back gracefully from his shoulders. The group stands on a high granite pedestal suitably inscribed Record Cabinet Service. Rumors of Secretary Wilson's retirement from the cabinet have appeared from time to time, but if a remark attributed to the president recently accurately represents his views on the matter Wilson's tenure in the official household of Mr. Roosevelt is certain. According to the report, Mr. Roosevelt said that he had but one request to make to his successor, and that would be to continue Mr. Wilson at the head of the agricultural department for a few months, so that he could break all records for the length of continuous service in the cabinet. The record, it appears, is now held by Albert Gallatin of Pennsylvania. He was appointed secretary of the treasury on Jan. 26, 1802, by Thomas Jefferson, was reappointed by President Madison and served until Feb. 9, 1814. CARL SCHOFIELD BREVITIES THE HALL OF FAME Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court is the best speechmaker among the nine members of that distinguished body. It is the boast of United States Senator Blackburn of Kentucky that he never in his life wrote a speech, an article or an editorial. A feature of the ninety-eighth birthday celebration of Colonel Luther Haymond of Clarksburg, W. Va., recently was the exhibition of a cake presented to him Christmas eve, 1829. Perhaps the youngest express agent in the country is Everett M. Mower, Jr., of Augusta, Me. Although only seven years old, he is fitted out with the express company hat and regulation overalls. Although blind, C. Brown of Cincinnati is a traveling salesman, and a good one too. He carries with him one big trunk and several cases of dry goods and notions. Mrs. Brown travels with him. Melody Choir, as he called himself, his real name being Melchoir, died in Seattle, Wash., recently, a bachelor, and left $150,000, all of which is to be expended, according to a 145 page will he left, in the erection of a mausoleum. A graduate of the class of 1844, which makes him the oldest living graduate of Yale and one of the organizers of the famous Scroll and Key fraternity, is living in Denver. He is Frederick A. Woodson, aged eighty-three. Captain J. O. Livingston, who has held the office of fence viewer in Montpellier, Vt., for twenty-five years, was re-elected recently. Captain Livingston has not had more than a dozen cases to work on since he has been in office. Fred Ireland of Detroit, an official stenographer of the house of representatives in Washington, is almost the exact double of Senator William Alden Smith. Even in Detroit, where both are well known, Mr. Smith is often spoken to for Mr. Ireland and vice versa. Leon Dunn, a fourteen-year-old Byron (Me.) lad, with the help of his seven-year-old brother, has built a sawmill. The water wheel, which is four feet in diameter, generates one and a half horsepower. The mill room contains a saw room and a turning lathe. J. A. L. Waddell, a bridge engineer of Kansas City, Mo., has received from the Grand Duchess Olga, sister of Emperor Nicholas of Russia, notification that he has been elected a member of the Society of Benefices because of his services in connection with preparing plans for the Transalaska-Siberian railway. The duchess founded the order. SHORT STORIES. A Dallas cutlery man says there is no longer any demand in Texas for the bowie knife. The world's production of gold is still growing. In 1905 it was $375,000,000; in 1906, about $400,000,000. It is said that the government receives $68,000 each working day from customs collected in New York city. Marriages between whites and Indians are void in the Carolinas and Oregon and in the territory of Arizona. Argentina has $106,000,000 gold in its conversion office as a retirement fund for its paper money. For every $100 paper added to the country's currency $44 is added to this gold stock. The largest mechanical ventilating plant ever placed under a single roof is that constructed for the Carnegie library at Pittsburg. It has an aggregate capacity for moving over 600,000 cubic feet of air a minute. A young Scottish lady who was on the first floor of a shop in Kingston, Jamaica, at the time of the shock rushed to an open window and jumped from it to a tree on the path in time to escape the fall of the roof. PITH AND POINT.. If any one gives you more than he gets in return, rest assured it is counterfeit. About the only thing people borrow which they are not expected to return is trouble. When a man has bad luck his friends think they have done their duty when they say, "It's too bad." It occasionally occurs to a man that all he gets for doing a thing well is to see a lot of encouragement given his imitators. Are you one of the kind of people who know it all? Then you may depend upon it that you get it good and proper behind your back. The first day we know a secret we are high minded and wouldn't tell it for the world, but after a week or two we usually don't think it amounts to very much. Atchison Globe. MONEY. The first English coins were minted in 1257. The first American coins were made in England in 1812 for the Virginia company. In 1631 the invention of milling the edges of coins, to prevent clipping, was introduced. English coin was first made a legal tender in 1216. Before this rents were paid in produce. The coinage of trade dollars began in 1874 and was discontinued in 1878. They were originally intended for use in commerce with China, India and Japan. NEW SHORT STORIES This story was related of Secretary of War Taft by a prominent senator at the capitol recently: It seems that a fortnight or so ago the senator who relates the incident, catching the big secretary in the senate chamber one day, asked him to send him certain documents from the war department. Mr. Taft made a note of the request and promised to send the documents desired forthwith. Several days elapsed and nothing from Mr. Taft arrived in the senator's mail. Having need of the documents in a sneech he was pre P "THAT WILL DO," SAID TAFT. paring, the senator made a special journey to the war department to get them. When he was ushered into the secretary's office he inquired after the documents. "Sure you never received them?" said Mr. Taft, with his blandest smile. "Quite," was the reply. Mr. Taft pushed a button and a colored messenger appeared. "Do you remember," said the secretary to the messenger. "my telling you to wrap up such and such documents and send them to Senator —?" "Yes, sir; yes, sir," said the messenger, bowing. "You are certain you sent them, are you?" said Mr. Taft, with a touch of sternness in his voice. "Yes, sir. I remember distinctly sending them to the senator," replied the messenger, looking straight at the secretary. "That will do," said Taft. "You see, senator, the documents have been sent and ought to reach you soon." When the messenger had left the room Mr. Taft turned to the senator and said: "To be perfectly frank, I forgot all about your request for those documents, and they were never sent. I only called the messenger in to show you what a perfect system we have up here. "Now," the secretary continued, with a cluckle, pushing another button. "I am going to see that you get the documents." A Royal Joke Spain's twenty-year-old king is still it seems, very much of the boy. Every once in awhile he drops unexpectedly into the unconventional in a way productive of much embarrassment to his entourage. His latest prank was played in the great cathedral at Leon, to which, with his queen, he recently paid an unofficial visit. He had gone alone into the organ loft and had begun to play a chant—for Alfonso's education has made of him an organist of ability as well as a linguist—when with no warning whatever he switched off into a sharp military march, at the same time calling out in a loud voice: "Attention! Quick step! Forward!" Attention: Quick step. Forward. Priests and suit were for the instant too surprised to do anything but gasp, and the next minute there was the solemn strain of the chant again, with the laughter of the king heard beneath it.-Harper's Weekly. Not a Nautical Sharp. While Senator Tillman is generally regarded as the old man of the senate by many persons whose ideas of government and business he does not indorse, he showed in a little pop-up speech in the senate a few days before adjournment that he is not acquainted with the significance of nautical terms. In attempting to get more light from Senator Aldrich on the Rhode Islander's elastic currency bill Mr. Tillman exclaimed: "If the senator from Rhode Island will give me the desired light I may be able to cast anchor to leeward on this side of the chamber." "Tillman," afterward said Senator Frye, who is something of an ancient mariner, "don't you know that if you should cast anchor to leeward in a storm you'd play the mischief with your ship?" The South Carolinian acknowledged that he did not. III Advised. "That speech was ill advised," said Senator Cullom, referring to a colleague's too outspoken address. "It reminds me of a speech that a widow made to her new husband on the honeymoon. "Oh,' she sighed, throwing herself in the man's arms, 'how happy poor, dear James would be if he could only know by what an agreeable gentleman he has been replaced!" HUMOR FOR A PRINCIPLE. The Only Reason She Tried So Hard to Be Identified. When Mrs. Hammond entered the library, rubbers and all, and sank into the first chair her husband knew she had passed a trying afternoon. As the rubbers began to ooze muddy snow, unnoticed by her, his sympathy was fully roused. “What’s happened?” he inquired in his most cautious tone. “Anything I can fix up?” “No, it’s all fixed now,” said Mrs. Hammond, wearily closing her eyes. “I went into Brown & Hobart’s to get a dustpan, and I saw the loveliest tegown you ever laid your eyes on, Ed ward.” “In the tin de”—began Mr. Hammond unwisely "I always make it a point to see what bargains are to be bad, or I couldn't dress on my allowance," said his wife, "and please don't be dippant, Edward. I tried the tea gown on, and it was just right, only then I saw some walking suits, and I knew I needed one more than the tea gown. I had nothing but a check with me, but I said the young lady in the trimming department I always buy of could identify me, but she had gone off with a toothache. "You know, I haven't any account there, but I knew certain clerks, so then I told them of the young man in the furniture department that I bought baby's crib of and had to change it three times. But when we'd got down there he had been called off for somebody's illness, and nobody knew when he'd be back. "And then at last I thought of the young woman in the photograph department, in the sixth story, and you walk about half a mile. And she was there, and she remembered me perfectly." "So you got your suit at last?" said Mr. Hammond. "Of course I didn't." And the eyes opened to give a glance of reproach at one so dense. "There wasn't time for me to do anything but rush for the train by the time she identified me. But I was determined they should know I wasn't an impostor, if I never bought anything again in this world." - Youth's Companion. The Servant Problem. A Washington man was telling some one of the trials of his wife, an excellent housekeeper, with reference to the servant problem. Just about the time the mistress would get a new girl broken to the ways of the household and she would bid fair to become a model servant she would decamp or enter the service of a neighbor. One of these, a Mrs. B, had incurred the especial emunity of the first woman, for she had lately taken two servants from Mrs. Brown. One night in the winter Brown was aroused from his slumbers by queer sounds in the kitchen. "Burglarls!" he hoarsely whispered in the ear of his spouse as he prepared to tumble out of bed and proceed downstairs. "Edward," calmly observed the wife, "I'd give anything to possess your optimistic nature. Always looking on the bright side. I'll wager anything it's that odious B. woman trying to get Mary away from me." — New York Times. Another Slight Jolt Sapleigh — Weally. Miss Cutting, I dawned so stenwously in that last waltz that me head feels light, doncher know. Miss Cutting—Indeed! I supposed that sensation was so common with you that you had ceased to notice it.—Houston Post. The Law's Delay The Major—The fair name of our state will be hopelessly stained. Here's an account of another hanging by a sheriff! The Colonel—Well, what can you expect, suh? The last man wasn't lynched till three days afthah the crime.—Puck. Pertinent Suggestion "I've got a large stock on hand," said the merchant. "I wish I knew how to get rid of it." "Well, don't advertise," replied his friend the sheriff, "and I'll do the rest."—Chicago News. A Pointed Remark. Thread — You think you are very sharp, but you couldn't do without me. Needle—Oh, I don't know! I notice that whenever you get into a hole I have to pull you out. — Philadelphia Press. A Boomerang. "What makes everybody seem to dislike her so much?" "Envy. She won a prize in a voting contest for the most popular girl."—Washington Star. WOMAN AND FASHION Small Girls' Millinery. Never were the hats and bonnets for children more varied and more picturesque than this season. The lingerie hats have taken on new charms, and the number of changes rung upon the one theme of a full crown and frilled or corded brim is really amazing. The hats of plique or linen with straight brims, embroidered or plain save for an embroidered scalloping around the edge and with slightly full crown butting to the brim, are as popular as ever for common wear. But a great A LINGERIE HAT. amount of handwork is lavished upon some of the more pretentious models, and it is possible to pay an extravagant sum for the wee girl's lingerie hat if one is inclined to extravagance. This does not mean that the expensive hat will be too old or too striking for good taste. Each year the standard of taste in children's attire is higher, and while much money is spent by some mothers for the wardrobes of very small daughters, overdressed children are far less numerous than they were a few years ago. The money now goes into exquisitely fine materials and dainty handwork rather than into showy effects. Dedicate hand embroidery ornaments many of the lingerie hat crowns and brims, and inset lace is combined with the embroidery or takes the place of it. Some of the full crowns are tucked finely, and the full brims are tucked and bordered with frills of lace. Others have metallics of beautiful embroidery set into the crown center and full brims of embroidery eliding, with lace frills next to the face. The hat is made of very fine linen lace, with a full embroidered crown. A pale blue satin ribbon surrounds the crown and is tied in a large bow at the right side. Take Time In Dressing. Never let it be your boast that you can dress in five minutes. No woman who has any respect for her appearance or her clothes will attempt to dress in even double that time. It is as true in dressing as in anything else that where there is the more haste there is the less speed. It is particularly trying for a woman to dress in a hurry. She gets furried, and in her attempts to fasten her brooch the pin sticks into her finger. She gets cross over this, and then everything goes wrong. Buttons come off shoes or laces break, gloves and veil are not to be found until boxes and drawers have been turned upside down, and then the missing articles have been found on the dressing table. When she does at last get ready she is conscious of appearing at her worst, being hot and angry with herself and everybody else. Smart Spring Suitings. The favorite spring suitings are the checks and the plaids made up with other materials, though there are some very smart plaid suits made up with skirt and Eton effect. One very neat plaid is made of rough silk in two shades of green and white. The skirt is paneled with the plaid and piped with plain green silk, while the Eton jacket is bordered with a tiny frill of green silk. Beautiful lingerie waists are worn with these brilliant rough plaid silk suits. Springtime Fashions. Every one of these pretty ties may be made at home by the woman with clever fingers. The stiff collars, of course, one will have to buy, but any of the embroider- NEW COLLARS AND CUFFS. ed linen ones can be designed and fashioned by the clever needlewoman at a very small cost. Fine handkerchief linen is the material used. On the little bows the edges are trimmed with fine valenciennes lace. White ties of all styles are more fashionable this season than the bows of plaid or colored ribbon. They are worn with every style of shirt waist and are extremely smart. The new plain shirt waists both in silk and linen are made with clusters of tucks and the ruffled box plait down the front. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Watson, Arlington and Whitelaw are the three comedians featured in the new production of "Me, Him and I." An interesting racial event is the establishment in East Broadway, New York, of the first Yiddish school of acting. Joseph and William W. Jefferson, the two youngest sons of the late Joseph Jefferson, have joined the ranks of the "independents." Alderman Phelan says in "The Man of the Hour," "When my best girl treated me all right I was in heaven, but when she threw me down my address was No. 23 Lemon street." It is understood that the new play on which Belusco is engaged at present it intended for David Warfield and will probably be the one which will inaugurate the opening of his new Stuyvesant theater in New York. Margaret Drew succeeded Grace Fikkins as Bella Crosby in "The Daughters of Men" recently, scoring as great a success as her predecessor, who retired from the organization to become a member of Eleanor Robison's company. Digby Bell, who has been appearing for three seasons in Augustus Thomas' "The Education of Mr. Fipp," will soon close his season. Mr. Bell will immediately commence rehearsing a new comedy which has been written for him by Augustus Thomas. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. In Derbyshire county there is a subterranean road seven miles long. It connects two mines. The Bank of England stands in three parishes, and its buildings cover two acres three rods. The tablet at Oxford commemorating the founding by the late Cecil Rhodes of the Rhodes scholarships was unveiled by Lord Rosebery. In the Royal Artillery museum at Woolwich may be seen an eight chambered matchlock revolver, dating from the time of Queen Elizabeth. Five different boys have been created baronets before reaching fifteen years of age. The las, case was in 1801, when Sir Coleridge Kennard was created a baronet. His age was then five. In the forty years between 1752 and 1882 there were outstanding notes of the Bank of England, presumed to have been lost, amounting to about $8,500,000, every cent of which was clear profit to the bank MODES OF THE MOMENT. Buckles are worn both at the back and front of the belt. There is a slight leaning toward larger hats, and it is more than likely that the tendency will increase as the season advances. Pongee cloaks will be worn a great deal over thin frocks this summer. Both in traveling or dust cloaks and in dressier designs there are many good models. Drape brape, a slightly transparent cloth, with granite like surface and rather a loose weave, is employed equally for dressy house wear and for simple street toilets, depending on its mode of trimming to determine its use. The new three piece suit models are not by any means confined to the Eton coat, shirt waist and skirt combination of past seasons. The latest effects show the cutaway and blazer coats, the jumper waist made as elaborately or as simply as may be desired. —New York Post. FACTS FROM FRANCE. France to clarify her wines uses 80,000,000 eggs a year. France's importations of coal for 1906 exceeded those for 1905 by $16,000,000. A French professor is the owner of a collection of 1220 human heads, representing every known race of people on the globe. A Parisian newspaper usually has a director as well as an editor. The director lays down the political "which the organ is to follow. In France the servant question has reached a very acute stage. In ten years the supply of women domestic servants has decreased by some 200,000 individuals. "But," says a Frenchman, "though now fewer in numbers than formerly, those that remain to us are certainly greater in efficiency. ORIGIN OF CUSTOMS. Men bare their heads because they had to unmask in the days of chivalry before the queen of beauty. We bow the head in passing others because our ancestors were wont to bow before the real yoke of the oppressor. We sit up with our dead because long ago our ancestors kept watch by night lest evil spirits come and bear the body away. We shake hands with the right hand because that is the dagger hand and means that we disarm ourselves in the presence of a friend. EDITORIAL FLINGS. If every cloud had a silver lining there would have been a cloud trust long ago.—Philadelphia Telegram. Future geographers may be tempted to define a canal as an imaginary body of water surrounded by troubles.—Baltimore American. Why not let the railroads alone long enough to introduce a bill in the state legislature compelling plumbers to carry their tools with them all the time?—Leavenworth (Kan) Post. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 1st St. & L. S. & M. S. 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First orders in will get the low numbers in rotation except No. 1, which goes to Mrs. Serccombe. Address TO-MORROW MAGAZINE, For the Sequenza and Improvements and The New Civilization. 2238 Gelman Ave. Chicago, Ill. 10 CENTS THE COPY. $1 A YEAR. FACTS IN FEW LINES The temple of Diana at Ephesus was 425 feet long and held 27,000 people. The alphabets of the various languages of the world vary from 12 to 202 letters. The Jews were banished from England in 1290 and not recalled until the time of Oliver Cromwell. Iceland ponies are a fad in England. They are in great demand among the British who can afford to indulge their whims. It is doubtful whether the frigate bird or the Alpine swift can fly faster. Both are credited with a possible speed of over 150 miles an hour. The Blaine donkey, once the property of James G. Blaine, still roams around the outskirts of Bar Harbor. He is said to be over forty years old. In the coke ovens and blast furnaces of England, Germany and the United States the gases that go to waste represent at least 1,000,000 horsepower yearly. A Stockbridge (Mass.) man buys each day a quart of milk and a pound of crackers, which is his sole diet, but in summer he includes apples and berries. He is a bachelor. T. N. Witherell of Essex Junction, Vt., has a newspaper that has been preserved in his family for over a hundred years. It is the Ulster County Gazette, published in Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1800. Two-thirds of all the sulphite digestors used in the United States are built by a Portland (Me.) company. From eighty to a hundred orders a day is the usual record found on the company's books. In sending his yearly subscription to one of the Winnipeg newspapers a Manitoba farmer wrote: "Dear Sir—If you see any women that want to get married send them this way. I want a wife myself and a good many more." Twenty-four patients in a ward of St. Rochus hospital, Budapest, declared they would take no food or medicine until a certain nurse was removed. After the strike had lasted nearly twenty-four hours the director yielded. Not less than 370,000,000 pounds of copper wire were in use on the telephone lines in America last year. This year there is expected an increase of 53,000,000 pounds. Considerable quantities of copper are used in the manufacture of brass for telephone instruments. The ownership of the national banks of the United States is not in the hands of the rich few, as is commonly supposed, because fully one-half of the banks have a capital of less than $100,000 each. Twelve per cent have capitalizations of from $100,000 to $250,000, while only 7 per cent range between $250,000 and $1,000,000. A foreign exchange in a story from Rome says that the chief maid of the Dowager Queen Margherita makes about $5,000 or $0,000 a year by the sale of her mistress' castoff gowns. She holds a sale twice a year, and among her best customers are American women, who are willing to pay high prices for these souvenirs of a queen. John William Hollins, probably the smallest adult dwarf in England, recently died at Stoke. Some years ago he refused Barnum & Bailey's offer of $1,250 for exhibiting him. Though twenty-six years old, he was only three feet four inches high. His parents and six brothers and sisters were persons of normal stature. He was active and lively. Domestic servants at Wellington, New Zealand, have formed a union and demand that their work on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays shall cease at 7:30 in the evening, on Thursdays and Sundays at 2 in the afternoon and on Wednesdays at 10 p. m., all domestics to be home by 10 o'clock except on Thursday, when they may stay out till midnight. A French mariner thinks advantage may be taken of the favorable winds at the edge of a cyclone for facilitating navigation. By means of observations with the barometer and other instruments he would ascertain the direction in which the storm is going and so shape the course of the ship that it would be carried along by the sweep of the atmosphere without becoming involved in the dangerous center of the storm. Investigations of the scientists at Washington have recently developed the fact that at present the area of the Dismal swamp is slowly sinking, and Lake Drummond, in its center, is growing larger. Similar changes have occurred in the past, periods of elevation and subsidence gradually succeeding one another. The average elevation above sea level is so slight that natural drainage is insufficient to remove the rainfall. Hollow tile was first used in this country in the Vancolea flats, New York city, erected about thirty years ago. It was the first tile of that style made in the United States. The experiment was successful, and in 1877 there were 100,000 tons of hollow tile fireproofing material sold in the United States. Today the output exceeds 2,500,000 tons a year, a plant at Perth Amboy alone having a capacity of 20,000 tons a month. Psychologists have undertaken the scientific study of dreams. When the olfactory sense of a sleeper is stimulated by an odor, such as that of hellotrope, not only does he dream of "smelling violets," but visual images of flowers appear to him. If the experiment is prolonged, the dream visions become complex and filled with strange imagery. A vibrating tuning fork held near a sleeper's ear made him dream of a lion roaring, and when a little salt and water was put on his tongue he dreamed that he was eating olives. BREVITIES THE HALL OF FAME. The empress of Russia is gifted with a 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 book 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 Siliccia, has been in the service at Rogliano 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 WANT ED TO SELL THE BROAD AX. 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. 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Hadley, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 110 W. 47th street, near State. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. The Informer News Co., 188 Bandolph St., Detroit, Mich. The Standard News Co 131 W. 53rd st., New York, City, N. Y. News items and advertisements will find their way into the columns of The Brond An. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J. J. Bradley BRADLEY & CO. REAL ESTATE, AND INSURA 4709 S. Haisted Street Sandy W. Tri 2918 State St New Department Why don't you get in the habit of doing you are? Every Tuesday and Friday special salen Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtw s. A spendiid assortment of Shoes. Hosier ces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and We make a speciality of Men's Balbriggan lstcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby H A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Sh A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchie See our Novelties In Jewelry, Watch-chain Safety Pins. Sandy W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street W. E. Carlmore & Co. REAL ESTATE LOANS AND FIRE INSURANCE Money Lonned on Mortgages OFFICES 120 W. 51st St. 5252 State St. 4901 Dearborn St. CHICAGO L. L. JONES. S. GRAY. Why don't you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New Store? 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 Concepts. A spendiid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses. Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. 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 out of Winter Yards out of Summer Yards Telephone Yard ILLINOIS BRID - American Brick Co. Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. Output of Winter Yards ..... 1,400.0 per day Output of Summer Yards ..... 3,000.0 per day ILLINOIS BRICK CO. 94 N. Western Av 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. unk's Bro Telephone Yards 718 Junk's Brewery Lanouist&Illsley.Co. General Contractors M. JO 3700-3710 and M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO --- 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 315-330 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND ;BLOCK Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO Telephones Oakland 1489, Gray 3331, Blue 3983 The Twentieth Century Barber Shop Agent for the Black Diamond De- velopment Company. Stock for sale now 50c Per Share. Fine Stock of Cigars. 3842 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 4314. A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street Hours: 9 to 12 A. M. 3 to 5 and after 6 P. h. CHICAG SOUTH SIDE TAILORING CO. Not Incorporated. George M. Oatts, Prop. SUITS made to Order $15.00 up. PANTS made to Order $4.00 up. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing. Strict Attention paid Ladies' work. Telephone Hyde Park 5927. 3444 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE 5501 LAKE AVE. CHICAGO Special Announcement From on and after this date all announcements of entertainments, etc., for which an admission is charged, will be considered advertising, and will be charged for at the rate of 12 cents a line, seven words to a line. The money must accompany the matter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week intended for publication. This rule will also apply to all personal items and matter for which no charges will be made. In other words, all news matter must reach us either on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week it is written. Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communications to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. D. M. Stronach, a native of Forres, and until lately employed by G. S. Nicoll, Glasgow, has been entertained to dinner in the Grosvenor Hotel on leaving for Africa, a large number of his fellow-employees attending to do him honor. 383 NORTH CLARK STREET.....CHICAGO WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Telephone Yards 693 BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE listed Street CHICAGO Dy W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street Department Store If you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New by 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. Is a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. Is a line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. Line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs Ins. BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE American Brick Co.. President 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. Water Yards ..... 14,400 per day Summer Yards ..... 30,400 per day Telephone Yards 128. INOIS 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 G. HUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. Telephone Yards: 718 k's Brewery J. M. Fields CHICAGO Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 151st St. & L. S. & M. S. RY. 152nd St. and Armour Ave. CHJCAGO 50,000 BOOKS FREE By Mail treating on all the 50,000 BOOKS FREE By Mail THIS BOOK contains many illustrations and is a guide to the basic facts of what happens to who are suffering from excesses, lost vitality, nervous disorders, blood poison, stomach, and more. How can you can successfully cure yourself at home. DR. JOS. LISTER & CO. 40 Dearborn St. A-10. Chicago, Ill. Tile and State Hauling a Specialty. COA1. J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van-Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2540 State Stree Phone 699 Calumet CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1328 UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4834 State St., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 ICE CREAM CIGARS, TOBACCO SHIRT WAIST$ KIMONAS MRS. A. E. BAKER NOTIONS 419-36TH STREET Underwear a Specialty CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 325 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO McCall Paterson sold in the United States than of any other make of pattern. This is an amount of their style, accuracy and simplicity. McCall's magazine is unique in that any other Lester Magazine has harsher quality than any other Lester Magazine. One year's subscription (in number) costs 50 cents. Latest issue may be subscribed to by another gets a McCall Pub- lum Free. Subscribe today. Lady Agents Wanted. Handmade programs so literal cash commission. Pattern Catalogue of 600 da- rks and materials. Mail to: THE McCall Co. New York COOK Waiters and Cooks Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. READY 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. Serccombe, Editor To-Morrow Magazine, Chicago. Only a limited edition of this remarkable book will be printed. Each copy will be signed by Serccombe Him- self and automatically num- bered from 1 up. First orders in will get the low numbers in rotation except No. 1, which goes to Mrs. Serccombe. TO-MORROW MAGAZINE, For the Supreme and Superworth and The New Civilization. 2230 Columbus Ave. Chicago, Ill. 10 CENTS THE COPY. $1 A YEAR. FACTS IN FEW LINES The temple of Diana at Ephesus was 425 feet long and held 27,000 people. The alphabets of the various languages of the world vary from 12 to 202 letters. The Jews were banished from England in 1290 and not recalled until the time of Oliver Cromwell. Iceland ponies are a fad in England. They are in great demand among the British who can afford to indulge their whims. It is doubtful whether the frigate bird or the Alpine swift can fly faster. Both are credited with a possible speed of over 150 miles an hour. The Blaine donkey, once the property of James G. Blaine, still roams around the outskirts of Bar Harbor. He is said to be over forty years old. In the coke ovens and blast furnaces of England, Germany and the United States the gases that go to waste represent at least 1,000,000 horsepower yearly. A Stockbridge (Mass.) man buys each day a quart of milk and a pound of crackers, which is his sole diet, but in summer he includes apples and berries. He is a bachelor. T. N. Witherell of Essex Junction, Vt., has a newspaper that has been preserved in his family for over a hundred years. It is the Ulster County Gazette, published in Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1800. Two-thirds of all the digestors used in the United States are built by a Portland (Me.) company. From eighty to a hundred orders a day is the usual record found on the company's books. In sending his yearly subscription to one of the Winnipeg newspapers a Manitoba farmer wrote: "Dear Sir—If you see any women that want to get married send them this way. I want a wife myself and a good many more." Twenty-four patients in a ward of St. Rochus hospital, Bulapest, declared they would take no food or medicine until a certain nurse was removed. After the strike had lasted nearly twenty-four hours the director yielded. Not less than 370,000,000 pounds of copper wire were in use on the telephone lines in America last year. This year there is expected an increase of 53,000,000 pounds. Considerable quantities of copper are used in the manufacture of brass for telephone instruments. The ownership of the national banks of the United States is not in the hands of the rich few, as is commonly supposed, because fully one-half of the banks have a capital of less than $100,000 each. Twelve per cent have capitalizations of from $100,000 to $250,000, while only 7 per cent range between $250,000 and $1,000,000. A foreign exchange in a story from Rome says that the chief maid of the Dowager Queen Margherita makes about $5,000 or $0,000 a year by the sale of her mistress' castoff gowns. She holds a sale twice a year, and among her best customers are American women, who are willing to pay high prices for these souvenirs of a queen. John William Hollins, probably the smallest adult dwarf in England, recently died at Stoke. Some years ago he refused Barnum & Bailey's offer of $1,250 for exhibiting him. Though twenty-six years old, he was only three feet four inches high. His parents and six brothers and sisters were persons of normal stature. He was active and lively. Domestic servants at Wellington, New Zealand, have formed a union and demand that their work on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays shall cease at 7:30 in the evening, on Thursdays and Sundays at 2 in the afternoon and on Wednesdays at 10 p. m., all domestics to be home by 10 o'clock except on Thursday, when they may stay out till midnight. A French mariner thinks advantage may be taken of the favorable winds at the edge of a cyclone for facilitating navigation. By means of observations with the barometer and other instruments he would ascertain the direction in which the storm is going and so shape the course of the ship that it would be carried along by the sweep of the atmosphere without becoming involved in the dangerous center of the storm. Investigations of the scientists at Washington have recently developed the fact that at present the area of the Dismal swamp is slowly sinking, and Lake Drummond, in its center, is growing larger. Similar changes have occurred in the past, periods of elevation and subsidence gradually succeeding one another. The average elevation above sea level is so slight that natural drainage is insufficient to remove the rainfall. Hollow tile was first used in this country in the Vancolears flats, New York city, erected about thirty years ago. It was the first tile of that style made in the United States. The experiment was successful, and in 1877 there were 100,000 tons of hollow tile fireproofing material sold in the United States. Today the output exceeds 2,500,000 tons a year, a plant at Perth Amboy alone having a capacity of 20,000 tons a month. Psychologists have undertaken the scientific study of dreams. When the olfactory sense of a sleeper is stimulated by an odor, such as that of hellotrope, not only does he dream of "smelling violets," but visual images of flowers appear to him. If the experiment is prolonged, the dream visions become complex and filled with strange imagery. A vibrating tuning fork held near a sleeper's ear made him dream of a lion roaring, and when a little salt and water was put on his tongue he dreamed that he was eating olives. BREVITIES THE HALL OF FAME. The empress of Russia is gifted with a 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 Silicla, has been in the service at Rogliano 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 WANT ED TO SELL THE BROAD AX. 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, 2508 1/2 State st. Cigars, tobacco and news stand. L. W. Washington, 5613 Jefferson ave., General agent. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street. cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3532 State st. Whitley Bros. 2724 State St., Gent's furnishings and new stand. The Stationery, 2970 State street. Cigars, Tobacco and News stand. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2006 State street. J. H. Hadley, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 110 W. 47th street, near State. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St., Detroit, Mich. The Standard News Co 131 W. 53rd st., New York, City, N. Y. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad An. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J. J. Bradley BRADLEY & CO. REAL ESTATE, AND INSURA 6709 S. Halsted Street Sandy W. Tripp 2918 State St New Department Why don't you get in the habit of doing you more? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwears. A spendiid assortment of Shoes. Hosieries, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan stlstcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hat A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Shirt A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchief See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chain and Safety Pins. TELEPHONE CENTRAL 098 CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Sandy W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street W. E. Carlmore & Co. REAL ESTATE LOANS AND FIRE INSURANCE Money Lonned on Mortgages OFFICES 120 W. 51st St. 5252 State St. 4901 Dearborn St. CHICAGO L. L. JONES. S. GRAY. New Why don't Store? Every ing Stamps wi We carry scts. A spiend Laces, Ribbons We make a Walstcoats, Pa A beautiful Why don't you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New Store? 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 Consects. A spiendid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses. Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waltcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. 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, WILA 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. 45th and Robey Sts. Output of Winter Yards ..... 1440.0 per day Output of Summer Yards..... 3040.0 per day ILLINOIS BRICK CO. 994 N. Western Av 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. unk's Bro Junk's Brewery Lanouist&Illsley,Co. General Contractors M. JO 3700-3710 and M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO --- 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 315-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND .BLOCK Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO Telephones Onkland 1489, Gray 3331, Blue 3983 The Twentieth Century Barber Shop Agent for the Black Diamond Development Company. Stock for sale now 50c Per Share. Fine Stock of Cigars. 3842 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 4314. A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street Hours: 9 to 12 A. M. 3 to 5 and after 6 P. H. CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE TAILORING CO. Not Incorporated. George M. Oatts, Prop. SUITS made to Order $15.00 up. PANTS made to Order $4.00 up. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing. Strict Attention paid Ladies' work. Telephone Hyde Park 5927. 3444 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE 5501 LAKE AVE. CHICAGO Special Announcement From on and after this date all announcements of entertainments, etc., for which an admission is charged, will be considered advertising, and will be charged for at the rate of 12 cents a line, seven words to a line. The money must accompany the matter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week intended for publication. This rule will also apply to all personal items and matter for which no charges will be made. In other words, all news matter must reach us either on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week it is written. Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communications to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. D. M. Stronach, a native of Forres, and until lately employed by G. S. Nicoll, Glasgow, has been entertained to dinner in the Grosvenor Hotel on leaving for Africa, a large number of his fellow-employees attending to do him honor. 383 NORTH CLARK STREET.....CHICAGO WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Telephone Yards 693 BADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Listed Street CHICAGO Dy W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street Department Store It 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 ants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. Line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs Ins. BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE American Brick Co.. Client 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. Water Yards ..... 144,00 per day Summer Yards ..... 304,00 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 G. KUESTBR. SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Avo., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. Telephone Yards 718 k's Brewery Telephone Yards: 718 J. M. Fields CHICAGO