The Broad Ax

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Great Beggar of Tuskegee IN HIS SO-CALLED LECTURE AT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH CONDEMNED AND ADVISED HIS HEARERS NOT TO READ NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE. THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE EDITORIALLY JOINS IN DENOUNCING NEGRO EDITORS WHO POSSESS THE MANHOOD TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE INJUSTICE HEAPED UPON THE NEGRO IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE. Vol. XII BOOKER T. V. The Great Begg IN HIS SO-CALLED LECTUR CHURCH CONDEMNED AND ADVISE READ NEWSPAPERS PUIL OF THE AFRO-AMERICA THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE DENOUNCING NEGRO ELE MANHOOD TO SPEAK O TICE HEAPED UPON THE OF LIFE. Last Friday morning Booker T. Washington, the great beggar of Tuskegee, Ala., struck town, with two secretaries, little Emmett J. Scott, and A. E. Manning, and the new Moses and political boss of ten million people, and his two lackies, while in the city occupied the finest suite of rooms in the Palmer House, which is not the place for a beggar to stop, especially for one who believes in "Jim Crow," laws for all Negroes, aside from his family, and one who is afraid to stick his head in any first-class hotel run for the whites south of the "Mason and Dixon line." That same Friday evening the greatest of all beggars attempted to deliver his so-called lecture at Olivet Baptist church, and throughout his talk he unbosomed himself of nothing new; he had on tap his same old stock of stale "Darkey Stories," in order to throw dust in the eyes of his hearts and to win them over to his side, the great beggar or wizard of Tuskegee, paused in the midst of his rambling lecture and exclaimed: "I am proud of being a Negro; if the good Lord were to take me to heaven or some other place, and offer to make me over according to my own wish, I would say, "Lord, please make me black," many of the ignorant and thoughtless people who heard these sentiments fall from the lips of Booker T. Washington labored under the impression that he is honest, and as he had tickled their prejudice and appealed to their emotional religion, many of them arrived at the conclusion that he is much wiser than Old Man Solomon and all his wives and that he possesses more wisdom and is far greater in every way than God Almighty Himself. It is beyond our ability to figure out how Booker T. Washington can honestly claim that he is a black man, for in his book "Up from Slavery," he asserts that his father was a white man, and if his father was really a white man, how can he be a full-blooded black man? Now as a matter of fact he is not a black man, but a yellow man, resembling a smoked Irishman, with African features and it does seem that it is high time for Booker T. Washington to ring down the curtain on this old chestnut, about wanting the good Lord to permit him to remain a black man." Smarting under the criticism of five or six newspapers published in the interest of the Afro-American race, whose brave and courageous editors he cannot buy with money nor control, the slick beggar of the Southland who continues to grow richer and richer each day, from the money he receives for selling out the civil and political rights of the Negro, and who is living on the fat of the land all the time, by simply spending a small part of the pension money which rolls into his pockets from Andrew Carnegie, vented his bitter spleen against the Negro newspapers, and in attacking them, Booker T. Washington who is the warm friend of John Temple Graves, Jeff Davis, James K. Vardaman, Thomas Nelson Page, Hoke Smith, Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., and who is also friendly with all the other rank enemies of the Negro; declared that "Negro newspapers are not needed; that they should not emphasize the wrongs inflicted upon the race; that they hold up our difficulties; that Negro parents should not let their children read them; that they see in them too many accounts of Negro oppression and we do not want our children soured by reading such accounts. In concluding his condemnation of Negro newspapers and advising the people not to read them and most especially that class of Negro papers whose editors will not fall down on their knees in front of him and lick the dust from his shoes for a little money, many of his hearers heartily applauded him for belitteling the struggling newspapers of the race, but they would have done the same thing if he had advised the good looking women who sat under the sound of his voice, to go and sell their virtue to white gentlemen for a few dollars. The Associated Press gladly took up Booker T. Washington's condemnation of the Negro newspapers and flashed it to all parts of the world. The Chicago Chronicle editorially last Sunday commended bim in the following manner for condemning the editors of Negro newspapers, who cannot refrain from speaking out against the unspeakable and monumental wrongs which are constantly being heaped upon the Negro. "People get tired of hearing the woes of other people continually dinned into their ears. Even the most deserving petitioner for right and justice can prejudice his case by eternally proclaiming his wrongs from the housetops. Therefore Booker Washington is exactly right when he tells the Negro newspaper editors to stop harping on the wrongs of the Negro race. Everybody knows that the Negro suffers some injustices, but white people also have their wrongs. Neither race has any business to be forever wailing over its misfortunes. Such lamentations make the world tired." Evidently, the editor of The Chronicle, like Booker T. Washington, has become drunk with his own greatness, for such things happen when men become bloated millionaires. In invariably they assume a lofty attitude, and look down with scorn and contempt, upon the poor unfortunate creatures, whom they consider are far beneath them in every way. The Chronicle intimates, that the world soon becomes tired of having the woes of any race of people pumped into their ears, but it fails to mention the fact, that for thousands of years, the members of the white race have been pouring their wrongs, into the ears of men composing all the other races on the face of the earth, and that there is no middle ground between right and wrong. Therefore it is the solemn duty of the editors of Negro newspapers, to assist, as best they can, to right the wrongs, which are continually being inflicted upon the sons and daughters of humanity! HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, APRIL 13, 1907. P. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The great beggar of Tuskegee. The warm friend of Messrs. Ben Tillman, Jeff Davis, Hoke Smith, Thomas Nel son Page, John Temple Graves and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., who condem ned and advised his hearers not to read Afro-American newspapers in his so-called lecture at Olivet Baptist hurch Friday evening, April 5th. DENOUNCES FLORIDA PLAN TO DEPORT NEGROES. . . Rev Duncan C. Milner, Pastor of the Logan Square Presbyterian Church, this city, gave expression to the following sentiments, in the Record-Herald, the past Sunday, on the "Race Question" in the South, and it is self evident that Rev. Milner wants to be fair in dealing with his fellow men: "The proposition of the governor of Florida to memorialize Congress to purchase territory and transport to it our Negro population is a wild dream. The idea of deporting eight millions of people! They are American citizens and the proposition is without their will or without any condition of crime to compel them to leave their homes and go to a place chosen for them by other people. The colonization idea was one of the old methods of settling the slavery question, before the days of emancipation, but the plan died of its own weight. I have just spent two months in the South, most of the time on the gulf coast of Mississippi. The race question is ever before the people. You can hardly talk with Sanchez people but in some way they will bring up the matter. The newspapers give it large space. It is discussed in the pulpit and on the platform. There are great differences of opinion among the people of the South as to what should be done. The extreme representatives of the fire-eating, "Nigger-hating" people do not fairly represent the South. That class of persons who have concluded that it does not pay toeducate the Negro are there but are rot as yet in power. A distinguished Southern minister recently declared in the pulpit that "The overthrow of the present labor system in the South, whether by slaughter, voluntary emigration or enforced deportation, would bring bankruptcy and cause untold poverty and suffering. The livelihood of the South is still bound up with the cultivation of the soil. The destruction over night of the laborer of the South would cripple us as fearfully as a pestilence." I heard an intelligent, educated southern gentleman declare: "We can call the Negroes lazy and trifling, but they do the work of the South, and if it were possible to remove them by any process our prosperity would collapse and our country would be a desolation." The sober opinion of the most thoughtful people is that the work of educating the Negro must be undertaken in a far more extensive and thorough way than has yet been done. There must also be a revolution as to the training and character of the preachers of the gospel. There are some noble, educated Colored ministers, but too many, alas! are not fitted by education or moral character to be leaders of their people. I found some very excellent southern people who profess to be friends of the Negro and I want him treated in a right manner and educated, and yet are so haunted by the ghost of social equality that they do little that is practical for the uphift of the Black man. As far as I could learn the educated Negroes who have become teachers or are following other professions are not troubling themselves about social equality, but only ask for their people a fair chance for the things that make life worth living. A Colored school-teacher of good education and standing well with the white people said that whenever a black man was convicted of a crime and said he could read and write it was said: "There's your educated Nigger." He claimed that this was unfair, as a white man who could only read and white is not called educated. He also said that investigation has shown that of all the Colored graduates from the colleges not one has been convicted of a serious crime. This great question can only be settled on the basis of right and justice. Education of the head, heart and hand, with the influences of religion and the elements of time must all enter into this settlement. Beginning with the next issue of The Broad Ax, "The following of the Color Line," by Ray Stannard Baker, will be reproduced in these columns for the benefit of its many readers. "The following of the Color Line," is the first of a series of articles by this gifted writer which began in the April number, of "The American magazine, and as the first installment of the article is quite lengthy, it will be run through the columns of The Broad Ax in three sections, and we would especially admonish all to preserve each copy of the paper containing it as much valuable light is shed, on the true racial situation in the South. Mr. Baker who is fair in his deductions, clearly proves, that-Booker T. Washington is talking through the top of his hat, when he maintains, that "the white Christians in the South, never molest nor murder peaceable and law-abiding Colored men and women. ADVANCE NOTICE. The Lily White Leaders of the Republican Party IN PENNSYLVANIA TURN AGAINST THE NEGRO THEY FAVOR "JIM CROW" LEGISLATION TO RETARD HIS PROGRESS. WHAT AILS THE KEYSTONE STATE? Something like one year ago there was introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature a bill to prohibit the marriage between members of the white race and members of the Colored race. As we recall it, this bill was killed only after creating a sharp discussion. We confess to having paid but slight attention to the measure at the time, for we regarded it more as a joke, or the work of a man who could find no other way in which to employ his time. But last week Mr. Ramsey, of York, introduced in the Legislature another bill of the same nature, and the conviction slowly dawns upon us that such a law is more than an idle dream to a large number of legislators in the enlightened state of Pennsylvania. Just why such persons feel called upon thus to interfere in the private rights of individuals is beyond understanding. No one is so guileless as to suppose that such legislation will decrease in one iota the presentage of mixed blooded persons. Men of the capacity to introduce and support such measures show how utterly devoid of fairness and reason a certain type of white men are. Such laws are ever aimed solely at Colored men with reference to white women. The truth of this assertion is evinced by the fact that in the South, where such laws are in full blast, no attempt is ever made to curb the open concubinage of white men and Colored women while neither honorable nor dishonorable relations are by law permitted between white women and Colored men. We do not believe that the crave for intermarriage between the races is so great on either side as to cause any alarm. But where there is such a mutual desire, it must be apparent that legislative interference will tend only to demoralization. A class of white men profess to believe that the lowest type of white women looks with disdain upon the highest type of Colored men. If this is true, why make laws to restrain white women from that against which their very souls revolt? Like the bugaboo of "social equality," it the supposed desire of Colored men to marry white women is one-sided, it should excite only the indifferent contempt of white women and white men alike. Or if such laws are really intended to protect white men from Colored women, (Colored women need no protection, in the eyes of such law makers) why not make it unlawful for white men to live either honorably or dishonorably, with Colored women? The entire scheme is centered in hostility toward the contempt for the Negro. And the Colored man has himself to blame for much of such legislation. Only a few weeks ago Edward De V. Morrell, a good Republican Congressman of the city of Brotherly Love, as one of the ten members of the Committee on the District of Columbia warmly urged the passage of a measure preventing marriage between whites and Negroes in the District of Columbia. The trouble with Colored people is that they have licked the hand of the regular Republicans whenever it smote them, never once availing themselves of an opportunity to show their independence, when such action could be taken without in any way giving support and encouragement to the Democratic party. The result of this short-sightedness has been to place Colored people between the D. and the D. S. More and more are Republicans showing their contempt for the wishes, and Leaders Republican Party BURN AGAINST THE NEGRO. LEGISLATION TO RETARD NE STATE? --- feelings of their Colored followers (we were about to say slaves) because they know that for Negroes to go to the Democrats for refuge would place them in the position of the man of whom Solomon spoke, who fled from a bear and met a lion. Such laws against Negroes as the one introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and the one just killed in Washington, are not due, as is the case at the South, to Negroes not being allowed to vote, but rather to the fact that they so seldom vote with intelligence and discrimination. That breed of Republicans of the Morrell and Ramsey type will continue to multiply and show their contempt for Negroes till they are made to feel the political effect of such injustice.—The Pilot, Philadelphia. So after all the lily white Republicans of Pennsylvania, and not the Democrats, are the first to start the ball to rolling in favor of "Jim Crow" legislation for the Negro. It will be recalled that the Republican legislature of Kansas in 1905, passed a law separating the white and Colored children in all the high schools in all the towns and cities of the first class, and before the measure became a law delegations of prominent Colored men and women from all parts of the Sunflower State called on Governor Hoch, who was also elected on the Republican ticket, and urged him not to approve of the separate school law, but he paid not the slightest attention to their bitter protests, at the same time gladly signing it, and in spite of this fact he was renominated and re-elected Governor of Kansas in 1906 by the same Republican party. The most discouraging feature of the whole affair was that for a little money, or for a few cheap political jobs, the vast majority of the Colored people voted for him on the ground that as long as he belonged to the party of Abraham Lincoln, he had a right to insult and humiliate them, and these same Negroes, were in favor of mobbing and lynching every manly and self-respecting Negro who failed to shout and vote for Gov. Hoch. To our mind, the handwriting on the wall seems to indicate that it will be only a question of time until the lily white leaders, of the Republican party, in every Northern state will be in favor of enacting some kind of legislation to retard the progress of the Afro-American race, and this condition of affairs has been brought about by the slavishness of the Negro to one political party, and by the preachment of Booker T. Washington. DEATH OF DAVID SCOTT Early Thursday morning, David Scott 5042 Armour ave., closed his eyes in death. Mr. Scott, was one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens in Chicago. He was a prominent mason, and one of the first founders of Quinn Chapel. For many years he stood with his express wagon at the end of the old Court House corner Clark and Washington streets, and was well known by all the old timers white and Colored in the down town district. Mr. Scott is survived, by his son John Scott, Mrs. Julia Bryant and Mrs. Mary Kirkling. Funeral services, will be held over his remains at Quinn Chapel, Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock which will be conducted by its pastor, Rev. Roberts and the Masons. THE BROAD AX BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Great Beggar of Tuskegee IN HIS SO-CALLED LECTURE AT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH CONDEMNED AND ADVISED HIS HEARERS NOT TO READ NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN RACE. THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE EDITORIALLY JOINS IN DENOUNCING NEGRO EDITORS WHO POSSESS THE MANHOOD TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE INJUSTICE HEAPED UPON THE NEGRO IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE. Vol. XII BOOKER T. V. The Great Begg IN HIS SO-CALLED LECTUR CHURCH CONDEMNED AND ADVISE READ NEWSPAPERS PUJ OF THE AFRO-AMERICA THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE DENOUNCING NEGRO ELE MANHOOD TO SPEAK TICE HEAPED UPON THE OF LIFE. Last Friday morning Booker T. Washington, the great beggar of Tuskegee, Ala., struck town, with two secretaries, little Emmett J. Scott, and A. E. Manning, and the uew Moses and political boss of ten million people, and his two lackies, while in the city occupied the finest suite of rooms in the Palmer House, which is not the place for a beggar to stop, especially for one who believes in "Jim Crow," laws for all Negroes, aside from his family, and one who is afraid to stick his head in any first-class hotel run for the whites south of the "Mason and Dixon line." That same Friday evening the greatest of all beggars attempted to deliver his so-called lecture at Olivet Baptist church, and throughout his talk, he unbosomed himself of nothing new; he had on tap his same old stock of stale "Darkey Stories," in order to throw dust in the eyes of his hearers and to win them over to his side, the great beggar or wizard of Tuskegee, paused in the midst of his rambling lecture and exclaimed: "I am proud of being a Negro; if the good Lord were to take me to heaven or some other place, and offer to make me over according to my own wish, I would say, "Lord, please make me black," many of the ignorant and thoughtless people who heard these sentiments fall from the lips of Booker T. Washington labored under the impression that he is honest, and as he had tickled their prejudice and appealed to their emotional religion, many of them arrived at the conclusion that he is much wiser than Old Man Solomon and all his wives and that he possesses more wisdom and is far greater in every way than God Almighty Himself It is beyond our ability to figure out how Booker T. Washington can honestly claim that he is a black man, for in his book "Up from Slavery," he asserts that his father was a white man, and if his father was really a white man, how can he be a full-blooded black man? Now as a matter of fact he is not a black man, but a yellow man, resembling a smoked Irishman, with African features and it does seem that it is high time for Booker T. Washington to ring down the curtain on this old chestnut, about wanting the good "Lord to permit him to remain a black man." Smarting under the criticism of five or six newspapers published in the interest of the Afro-American race, whose brave and courageous editors he cannot buy with money nor control, the slick beggar of the Southland who continues to grow richer and richer each day, from the money he receives for selling out the civil and political rights of the Negro, and who is living on the fat of the land all the time, by simply spending a small part of the pension money which rolls into his pockets from Andrew Carnegie, vented his bitter spleen against the Negro newspapers, and in attacking them, Booker T. Washington who is the warm friend of John Temple Graves, Jeff Davis, James K. Vardaman, Thomas Nelson Page, Hoke Smith, ```markdown ``` Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., and who is also friendly with all the other rank enemies of the Negro; declared that "Negro newspapers are not needed; that they should not emphasize the wrongs inflicted upon the race; that they hold up our difficulties; that Negro parents should not let their children read them; that they see in them too many accounts of Negro oppression and we do not want our children soured by reading such accounts. In concluding his condemnation of Negro newspapers and advising the people not to read them and most especially that class of Negro papers whose editors will not fall down on their knees in front of him and lick the dust from his shoes for a little money, many of his hearers heartily applauded him for belittling the struggling newspapers of the race, but they would have done the same thing if he had advised the good looking women who sat under the sound of his voice, to go and sell their virtue to white gentlemen for a few dollars. The Associated Press gladly took up Booker T. Washington's condemnation of the Negro newspapers and flashed it to all parts of the world. The Chicago Chronicle editorially last Sunday commended bim in the following manner for condemning the editors of Negro newspapers, who cannot refrain from speaking out against the unspeakable and monumental wrongs which are constantly being heaped upon the Negro. "People get tired of hearing the woes of other people continually dinned into their ears. Even the most deserving petitioner for right and justice can prejudice his case by eternally proclaiming his wrongs from the housetops. Therefore Booker Washington is exactly right when he tells the Negro newspaper editors to stop harping on the wrongs of the Negro race. Everybody knows that the Negro suffers some injustices, but white people also have their wrongs. Neither race has any business to be forever walling over its misfortunes. Such lamentations make the world tired." Evidently, the editor of The Chronicle, like Booker T. Washington, has become drunk with his own greatness, for such things happen when men become bloated millionaires. In invariably they assume a lofty attitude, and look down with scorn and contempt, upon the poor unfortunate creatures, whom they consider are far beneath them in every way. The Chronicle intimates, that the world soon becomes tired of having the woes of any race of people pumped into their ears, but it fails to mention the fact, that for thousands of years, the members of the white race have been pouring their wrongs, into the ears of men composing all the other races on the face of the earth, and that there is no middle ground between right and wrong. Therefore it is the solemn duty of the editors of Negro newspapers, to assist, as best they can, to right the wrongs, which are continually being inflicted upon the sons and daughters of humanity! HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, APRIL 13, 1907. P. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The great beggar of Tuskegee. The warm friend of Messrs. Ben Tillman, Jeff Davis, Hoke Smith, Thomas Nel son Page, John Temple Graves and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., who condem ned and advised his hearers not to read Afro-American newspapers in hi s so-called lecture at Olivet Baptist hurch Friday evening, April 5th. DENOUNCES FLORIDA PLAN TO DEPORT NEGROES. Rev Duncan C. Milner, Pastor of the Logan Square Presbyterian Church, this city, gave expression to the following sentiments, in the Record-Herald, the past Sunday, on the "Race Question" in the South, and it is self evident that Rev. Milner wants to be fair in dealing with Jus follow men: "The proposition of the governor of Florida to memorialize Congress to purchase territory and transport to it our Negro population is a wild dream. The idea of deporting eight millions of people! They are American citizens and the proposition is without their will or without any condition of crime to compel them to leave their homes and go to a place chosen for them by other people. The colonization idea was one of the old methods of settling the slavery question, before the days of emancipation, but the plan died of its own weight. I have just spent two months in the South, most of the time on the gulf coast of Mississippi. The race question is ever before the people. You can hardly talk with San Francisco people but in some way they will bring up the matter. The newspapers give it large space. It is discussed in the pulpit and on the platform. There are great differences of opinion among the people of the South as to what should be done. The extreme representatives of the fire-eating, "Nigger-hating" people do not fairly represent the South. That class of persons who have concluded that it does not pay toeducate the Negro are there but are not as yet in power. A distinguished Southern minister recently declared in the pulpit that "The overthrow of the present labor system in the South, whether by slaughter, voluntary emigration or enforced deportation, would bring bankruptcy and cause untold poverty and suffering. The livelihood of the South is still bound up with the cultivation of the soil. The destruction over night of the laborer of the South would cripple us as fearfully as a pestilence." I heard an intelligent, educated southern gentleman declare: "We can call the Negroes lazy and trifling, but they do the work of the South, and if it were possible to remove them by any process our prosperity would collapse and our country would be a desolation." The sober opinion of the most thoughtful people is that the work of educating the Negro must be undertaken in a far more extensive and thorough way than has yet been done. There must also be a revolution as to the training and character of the preachers of the gospel. There are some noble, educated Colored ministers, but too many, alas! are not fitted by education or moral character to be leaders of their people. I found some very excellent southern people who profess to be friends of the Negro and I want him treated in a right manner and educated, and yet are so haunted by the ghost of social equality that they do little that is practical for the uplift of the Black man. As far as I could learn the educated Negroes who have become teachers or are following other professions are not troubling themselves about social equality, but only ask for their people a fair chance for the things that make life worth living. A Colored school-teacher of good education and standing well with the white people said that whenever a black man was convicted of a crime and said he could read and write it was said: "There's your educated Nigger." He claimed that this was unfair, as a white man who could only read and white is not called educated. He also said that investigation has shown that of all the Colored graduates from the colleges not one has been convicted of a serious crime. This great question can only be settled on the basis of right and justice. Education of the head, heart and hand, with the influences of religion and the elements of time must all enter into this settlement. Beginning with the next issue of The Broad Ax, "Tne following of the Color Line," by Ray Stannard Baker, will be reproduced in these columns for the benefit of its many readers. "The following of the Color Line," is the first of a series of articles by this gifted writer which began in the April number, of "The American magazine, and as the first installment of the article is quite lengthy, it will be run through the columns of The Broad Ax in three sections, and we would especially admonish all to preserve each copy of the paper containing it as much valuable light is shed, on the true racial situation in the South. Mr. Baker who is fair in his deductions, clearly proves, that-Booker T. Washington is talking through the top of his hat, when he maintains, that "the white Christians in the South, never molest nor murder peaceable and law-abiding Colored men and women. ADVANCE NOTICE The Lily White Leaders of the Republican Party IN PENNSYLVANIA TURN AGAINST THE NEGRO. THEY FAVOR "JIM CROW" LEGISLATION TO RETARD HIS PROGRESS. WHAT AILS THE KEYSTONE STATE? Something like one year ago there was introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature a bill to prohibit the marriage between members of the white race and members of the Colored race. As we recall it, this bill was killed only after creating a sharp discussion. We confess to having paid but slight attention to the measure at the time, for we regarded it more as a joke, or the work of a man who could find no other way in which to employ his time. But last week Mr. Ramsey, of York, introduced in the Legislature another bill of the same nature, and the conviction slowly dawns upon us that such a law is more than an idle dream to a large number of legislators in the enlightened state of Pennsylvania. Just why such persons feel called upon thus to interfere in the private rights of individuals is beyond understanding. No one is so guileless as to suppose that such legislation will decrease in one iota the presentage of mixed blooded persons. Men of the capacity to introduce and support such measures show how utterfly devoid of fairness and reason a certain type of white men are. Such laws are ever aimed solely at Colored men with reference to white women. The truth of this assertion is evinced by the fact that in the South, where such laws are in full blast, no attempt is ever made to curb the open concubination of white men and Colored women while neither honorable nor dishonorable relations are by law permitted between white women and Colored men. We do not believe that the crave for intermarriage between the races is so great on either side as to cause any alarm. But where there is such a mutual desire, it must be apparent that legislative interference will tend only to demoralization. A class of white men profess to believe that the lowest type of white women looks with disdain upon the highest type of Colored men. If this is true, why make laws to restrain white women from that against which their very souls revolt? Like the bugaboo of "social equality," it the supposed desire of Colored men to marry white women is one-sided, it should excite only the indifferent contempt of white women and white men alike. Or if such laws are really intended to protect white men from Colored women, (Colored women need no protection, in the eyes of such law makers) why not make it unlawful for white men to live either honorably or dishonorably, with Colored women? The entire scheme is centered in hostility toward the contempt for the Negro. And the Colored man has himself to blame for much of such legislation. Only a few weeks ago Edward De V. Morrell, a good Republican Congressman of the city of Brotherly Love, as one of the ten members of the Committee on the District of Columbia warmly urged the passage of a measure preventing marriage between whites and Negroes in the District of Columbia. The trouble with Colored people is that they have licked the hand of the regular Republicans whenever it smote them, never once availing themselves of an opportunity to show their independence, when such action could be taken without in any way giving support and encouragement to the Democratic party. The result of this short-sightedness has been to place Colored people between the D. and the D. S. More and more are Republicans showing their contempt for the wishes, and No. 27 Leaders Republican Party BURN AGAINST THE NEGRO. LEGISLATION TO RETARD NE STATE? feelings of their Colored followers (we were about to say slaves) because they know that for Negroes to go to the Democrats for refuge would place them in the position of the man of whom Solomon spoke, who fled from a bear and met a lion. Such laws against Negroes as the one introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and the one just killed in Washington, are not due, as is the case at the South, to Negroes not being allowed to vote, but rather to the fact that they so seldom vote with intelligence and discrimination. That breed of Republicans of the Morrell and Ramsey type will continue to multiply and show their contempt for Negroes till they are made to feel the political effect of such injustice.—The Pilot, Philadelphia. So after all the lily white Republicans of Pennsylvania, and not the Democrats, are the first to start the ball to rolling in favor of "Jim Crow" legislation for the Negro. It will be recalled that the Republican legislature of Kansas in 1905, passed a law separating the white and Colored children in all the high schools in all the towns and cities of the first class, and before the measure became a law delegations of prominent Colored men and women from all parts of the Sunflower State called on Governor Hoch, who was also elected on the Republican ticket, and urged him not to approve of the separate school law, but he paid not the slightest attention to their bitter protests, at the same time gladly signing it, and in spite of this fact he was renominated and re-elected Governor of Kansas in 1906 by the same Republican party. The most discouraging feature of the whole affair was that for a little money, or for a few cheap political jobs, the vast majority of the Colored people voted for him on the ground that as long as he belonged to the party of Abraham Lincoln, he had a right to insult and humiliate them, and these same Negroes, were in favor of mobbing and lynching every manly and self-respecting Negro who failed to shout and vote for Gov. Hoch. To our mind, the handwriting on the wall seems to indicate that it will be only a question of time until the lily white leaders, of the Republican party, in every Northern state will be in favor of enacting some kind of legislation to retard the progress of the Afro-American race, and this condition of affairs has been brought about by the slavishness of the Negro to one political party, and by the preachment of Booker T. Washington. DEATH OF DAVID SCOTT Early Thursday morning, David Scott 5042 Armour ave., closed his eyes in death. Mr. Scott, was one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens in Chicago. He was a prominent mason, and one of the first founders of Quinn Chapel. For many years he stood with his express wagon at the end of the old Court House corner Clark and Washington streets, and was well known by all the old timers white and Colored in the down town district. Mr. Scott is survived, by his son John Scott, Mrs. Julia Bryant and Mrs. Mary Kirkling. Funeral services, will be held over his remains at Quinn Chapel, Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock which will be conducted by its pastor, Rev. Roberts and the Masons. --- THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times sphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecost, Infidelity, Farmers, Single Taxes, Deprives their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. 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. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. JU I I U S F T A Y L O R, Editor and Publisher. Entered the Post Office at Chicago II, as Second-class Matter. PERSONAL MENTION. Walter M. Farmer, for 16 years and honored member of the bar in St. Louis, Mo., is now engaged in the general practice of law. Suite 708. 171 Washington street, Phone Main 4153. Residence 4856 Langley avenue. Phone Drexel 6302. THE OFFICIAL COUNT GIVES FRED A. BUSSE 12,923 MAJORITY OVER MAYOR DUNNE. The election Commissioners completed the official count in the mayoralty contest between Fred A. Busse and Edward F Dunne, last Saturday, and the first mentioned person received just 12.93 more votes than the latter, a variation of only 80 votes over the police returns. This is interesting to note, when we take into consideration the fact, that last November, the police returns gave F. L. Barnett 500 majority over and above his nearest Democratic competitor for Judge of the Municipal Court, and when the leaders of the Rpublican Party learned this fact, they began to figure, and they continued to figure, until they had figured Barnett out of his 500 majority, and added it on to the coulmn of Thomas B. Lantry, giving him almost 400 majority, thereby changing, and shifting, almost a thousand votes from the black man to the white man. And as there was only a difference of 80 votes in the last election over the police returns, in over 3,000,000 votes cast, it clearly shows how F. L. Barnett was cheated and swindled out of his Municipal Judgeship. Not withstanding this insult heaped upon the entire Negro race in Cook county, Oscar De Priest, S. B. Turner and many other small fry Colored Republican Politicians were engaged in the late election, in denouncing all many Negroes who refused to, in someway or other, to permit themselves to be bribed with money to shout and vote for Fred A. Busse. MINISTER CHARGED WITH DRUNKENNESS. Hopkinsville, Ky.—The Colored people of Hopkinsville have been considerably stirred up over the Parker-Brown libel suit, which was instituted several weeks ago by the Rev. G. Cornelius Parker, a minister in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, against Phil H. Brown, editor of the Morning News. Brown wrote a severe editorial accusing Parker of drunkenness and immorality, which occasioned the suit. At the examining trial considerabel testimony was introduced showing Parker to have been mixed up in several shady transactions, but the case was held to await the action of the Grand Jury. Parker himself admitted that he drank whisky and several other Negro preachers were implicated. The Grand Jury adjourned yesterday and failed to return an indictment against Brown. The case brought against Brown by Rev. T. J. Moppins, pastor of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church here was also dismissed. Both the preachers occupy prominent stations in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. Editor Brown's experience with those two preachers reminds us of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray's tussel with The Broad Ax, when those belonging to Bethel Church raised five hundred dollars for the purpose of paying two lawyers to assist the states attorney to send the writer to jail for publishing the truth on him. DON'T WANT NEGRO PORTERS. Arkansas Senator Says His Wife Is Afraid of Them. Little Rock, Ark., Apr—Senator McKnight introduced a bill in the senate recently, making it unlawful for Negroes to wait upon and seve persons as porters on trains, as barbers or as waiters in restaurants or hotels and rendering it equal unlawful for white servants to wait upon Negroes. Senator McKnight made a strong plea for the measure, denying that the prime object was to prevent Negroes from serving white people. It is to prevent Negroes from taking white women about the waist and helping them off the trains, he said. "My wife is afraid to come to town alone because she is waited upon by these blacks." The bill was referred to the committee on agriculture.—Ex This is the limit. It would be a mighty good thing if white gentlemen in the South would be seized with such a fear that they would refrain from consorting with Colored women in the dark hours of the night. THE CAUSE OF MAYOR DUNNE'S DEFEAT. Editor Julius F. Taylor: Permit me to have my say through the columns of The Broad Ax in relation to the recent political upheavil in Chicago, which brought about the election of Fred Busse and the defeat of Mayor Dunne: The cause which led to Mayor Dunne's defeat was due to the active support of the Democratic Politicians especially those in control of the Wards that here-to-fore have returned large Democratic majorities especially the 1st, 9th, 10th, 11th, 18th, 19th, and the 21st Wards. You could hardly expect the leaders of those Wards just mentioned to support Mr. Dunne when Bill Hearst and the Independence League virtually controlled his campaign. Mr. Hearst never allowed an opportunity to escape to villify Loeffler, Breman, John Powers, O'Malley and Quinn. He has called those Politicians every vile name he seems to be so well supplied with. Last fall the Independence League defeated Gibbons for Sheriff. Had Mr. Dunne succeeded at the polls the Independence League, a corporation, incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois with Cob-pipe Nelson, Sister Andy Lawrence and Dan Healy, a Republican would have dominated the affairs of the Democratic party for the next two years and regulated the County Central committee to the rear therefore any man who is capable of adding two and two together can see from a practical standpoint why it was necessary to eliminate the Independence League and Mr. Hearst as Political factors by defeating Dunne. It will be a warning in the future for those who receive favors from the Democratic party not to allow outsiders to interfere with "Home Rule." Brennan, Powers and Loeffler et al did their work well and show that they are capable of playng a Political game very successfully and to their successful efforts the Independence League and Mr. Hearst were ditched most beautifully. OLD "DAN SULLIVAN." MOUNT GREENWOOD CEMETERY DRAWS THE COLOR LINE. The officers of the Mount Greenwood Cemetery Association, April 1, sent the following circular letter to all the undertakers in this city: "Notice regarding Colored cases." "Mount Greenwood Cemetery is maintained for the entirement of persons of the white race." "The prices for Colored cases are as follows: Adults, Colored persons $30.00; Colored child, $20.00; Vaults and other charges in proportion." The prices of single graves for persons of the white race remain unchanged as follows: Adults, $12.00; Child, $8.00 F. A. Rawlins, the up-to-date undertaker, 4834 State street, and all the other Afro-American undertakers have been furnished with a copy of the above letter, and the officials of the Mount Greenwood Cemetery Association, are frank to admit that even in death they propose to discriminate against the Negro. THE CHARITY BALL BY THE PHYLLIS WHEATLY WOMAN'S CLUB UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE BACHELOR CLUB, WAS A FINANCIAL SUCCESS. Last Monday evening the Phyllis Wheatly Club, under the auspices of the Bachlor Club, gave a dancing party, at the Douglas Club House, 3518 Ellis ave. and the affair was a great financial success. The members of the Phyllis Wheatly Woman's Club are purchasing a home at 3530 Forest avenue, for self supporting girls, where they may be safely housed and protected until they secure employment. The home will be opened early in June. A woman's exchange, classes in domestic science, mother's meetings, etc., will be some of the activities. As the club is striving to accomplish a worthy object, it is deserving of all the contributions and considerations which may be showered upon it. Donations in the way of money and so on will be received by its president, Mrs. L. A. Davis, 3226 Prairie ave. The officers of the Phyllis Wheatly Club are as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, president; Mrs. Lula M. Farmer, Vice-president; Mrs. Jessie Taylor Johnson, Recording Secretary; Mrs. L. Q. Dean, assistant recording secretary; Mrs. Sara Chillis Hart, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Cassie Payne Roberts, treasurer; Mrs. Wm. Fisher, chairman executive board. Mrs. D. Young, entertained a small party of ladies at luncheon Wednesday afternoon at her home 6616 Vernon ave. THE LEGEND OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER WESTERN RIVER WESTERN RIVER COL. B. F. MOSELEY. The prosperous lawyer, real estate owner and popular citizen, who may be selected by Mayor Busse as one of the Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys of Chicago. BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY BRINGS IN ANOTHER GOOD GAS WELL. The Black Diamond Development Company has just received a telegram from the Kansas gas field announcing the "bringing in" of well No. 7 which proves to be larger than any of the other gas wells. This well is located on one of the new properties purchased by the Company on last November, as was likewise No. 6, and substantiates the judgment of the Board of Directors regarding the 550 acres which they purchased. No. 8 is now being drilled and will be "brought in" the early part of next week. The following article copied from the Chanute Dally Sun will be interesting to the stockholders of the Black Diamond Development Company, as the Kansas Natural Gas Company referred to in this article is the concern who has contracted for the entire output of Black Diamond Development Company's Gas. Kansas Natural Has 66,000 Gas Con sumers. At the annual meeting of the Kansas Natural Gas Company, held in Pittsburg, Pa., last week, the financial statement to stockholders showed gross earnings for the year to be $2,000,000; net earnings, $773,100.85; surplus $632,289.75. The company is 3 years old and has as yet paid no dividends. It has a capitalization of $12,000,000 and bond issues of $7,800,000. In his annual report President T. N. Barnsdall announced that the company now has 1,033.60 miles of pipe and 284,174 acres of oil and gas lands under lease; 301 gas wells and 40 oil wells with a daily capacity of 600 barrels. A total of 66,101 consumers are being supplied with gas, of whom 27,861 were added during the year. The pipe lines run through the lead and zinc districts of Missouri and Kansas and touch Kansas City, Topeka, Joplin, Leavenworth, Atchison, and St. Joseph. Kansas City has not been developed and is expected to be come an important source of revenue during the present year. The board of directors and officers were re-elected.—Chanute (Kan.) Daily Sun. For the benefit of activities of the Institutional Church and Social Settlement given by Mrs. Martha B. Anderson assisted by some of the best talent in the city, Monday night, May 6. The Minister and Warden and Workers are making a special effort in presenting some excellent things for the enjoyment of the public. This will be the best of the series to be given. William F. Taylor, who ran the drug store corner 29th and Armour ave., for a long time, and who is now conducting a drug store, in Cairo, Ill. is doing a fine business, obtained a divorce from his wife Mrs. Marie M. Taylor, in Judge Barnes' Court March 25th, Attorney Albert B. George looked after the law end of Mr. Taylor's side. Mrs. Taylor is residing with her sister Mrs. Lawrence P. Jones 3519 Calumet ave., and it is rumored that Dr. B.— is contemplating making her his wife. 1000 MILES OF PIPE. SONG RECITAL. CHIPS CHIPS Mr. Hugh Merrill, 3230 State st. was on the sick list last week. Mr. E. M. Blackwell will move his undertaking parliors to 3228 State st. Mr. Sherman Blackwell will open a first class buffet at 3334 State st., May 1. Mr. Walter Quinn of Jersey City, spent a few days in the city last week on route south. Mr. Jas, Allen who foam rly conducted a cafe at 3332 State st., left Tuesday for New York City. Mr. Mannin, of Indianapolis, spent a few days in the city this week stopped at the Keystone Hotel. Mr. Wm. Savire Phy., of Nashville, Tenn., is spending the summer in the city taking past work in chemistry. Mr. Bob Cole, of Cole & Johnson, left the city, Sunday, to spend a few days in Jamestown, N. Y., on business. Mr. Iles, Sheeercraft 3449 State st., who for the past two months has been visiting New York has returned to the city. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, 3632 Calumet ave., entertained a small party of friends at Whist Saturday evening. The "Amanda Smith Home for Orphans," will be the benficial of the lecture by orator Mason at Quinn Chapel, Monday evening, April 22. W. H. Sparrow, Jr., is the only recognized Colored compositor and linotype operator of Typographical Union No. 6, now on the New York-Tribune. Mrs. Florence Johnson formerly of the north side will be in the city next week from New York, the guest of her niece Miss Daisy Hawkins, North Clark st. Mr. John French of Tuskegee, formerly of our city is here on the sad mission of burying his mother, who departed this life Sunday morning, April 7th. Invitations are out for the private Subscription Dancing Party to be given April 24th, at Rosalie Hall. Mr. Julius N. Avendorph has charge of the arrangements. Miss Mabel Wilson the popular society belle of Park Manor left Chicago Tuesday evening for Colorado Springs where she expects great benefits for her health. Mr. Jullus B. Street the Beau Brommel of the North Side was very active in the recent campaign, for Mr. Bussa. Mr. Street should be well taken care of by the administration. The many friends of Mr. Robert Williams 3544 Dearborn st., are greatly concerned over the condition of his health. Mr. Williams has been confined to his bed for a long while. The "Big Negro," republican leaders have already begun to fight each other over the few jaintorships which the lily-white republicans may alot 一 them for their hustling during the recent campaign. Mr. Emmet J. Scott and Mr. Julius Cox, Private and Travelling Seretaries to Dr. Booker T. Washington, were entertained informally at lunch Saturday afternoon by Mr. Noah D. Thompson. Mr. Julius N. Avendoph will present Mr. Felix Weir the popular violinist and Mr. George Bainbridge the fine tenor in recital here on the 29th inst. Watch these columns for further particulars concerning this high class musical event. Major Franklin A. Denison, who has never been able to be selected, as a delegate, to any Republican convention, and who has never been in a position to control ten Negro votes, is figuring on becoming the first assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago. Sandy W. Trice, I have the extreme pleasure to state that "Booker T. Washington visited our department store last Saturday and made several purchases, which is much more than many of the prominent Negroes have done, and we all felt highly honored with his visit." Chief Fire Marshal Horan, has clearly proven his unfitness for his present position, for he has permitted a company of firemen to sway him from discharging his sworn duty. This company of firemen, marched into his office the first of the week, and threatened to strike, if he persisted in appointing John R. Jackson, Colored, as a member of their company, and the chief weakened, yielded to their race prejudice, and has selected Jackson as a driver of a supply wagon, which is a minor position. Chief Horan should be called in and removed from office, for he has proven himself a weak sickly baby, by permitting himself to be dictated to by a lot of subordinates, whom he shall or whom he shali not assign to duty, as firemen in the various engine houses throughout the city. Briggs: "Wonder how Stover is doing nowadays?" Griggs: "Oh, he must be doing finely; must be making no end of money. You know he has always been troubled more or less with rheumatism. Well, he now call it gout." "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. Aa 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 'Em "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 "Is your invention complete?" "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." -Philadephia 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. CHOICE MISCELLANY Fur Coated Fish. Indians fishing at Moosehide 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 portended 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 seer or heard of anything like this before, but it does not follow that because an experience with fish is new it is therefore incredible. New things are happening in the fish world all the time. Is it not a fact that nearly every season some hitherto unrelated fish stories are brought to our attention and added to our cherished collections? This fur overcoat story is really no more surprising than the news that Missouri river fish at certain seasons of the year wear overalls to keep out the dust. Different conditions bring about different habits in the fish family.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Soft Shelled Eggs It is generally believed that the soft shelled egg occasionally laid by the hen 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 lays 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 Rust. 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 hydroxid, 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 lie 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. 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 alike 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 handwork 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 bearers, 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 smecstel Copemenionen> 1. Oe eS ee ae oe fhe forest reserve order of the presi- gent issued just before the expiration of the Fifty-ninth congress adding Come 39,000,000 acres to the forest re- ferve of the country. The detail work of carrying out President Roosevelt's Gréer in this connection will all be un- ger Mr. Pinchot's immediate direction. Our Great Forest Reserves. The office of chief forester is a com- peratively new one in the United States. Germany and most ef the Eu- ropean countries have had chief foresi- tr for generations, but it is pointed Got that Chief Forester Pinchot will pave charge of more acres of forest than probably all the foresters of Eu- rope combined. The forest area under Mr, Pinchot, it is said, equals in ex- tent the area of France and Germany. Mr. Pinchot 4s comparatively a young quan and is one of the president's close associates. More Pay For Postal Clerks. Fint Assistant Postmaster. General Frauk H. Hitchcock has made a com- pllution showing bow many clerks in postoitices and letter carriers will be ‘affected by the increased pay recently provided for them by congress. The fdditional 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 ther shall have completed a year's service In the grades in which they row are serving will be 19,900. Of these 358 will be advanced from a sal- ary of $400 to a salary of $000, 883 from $00 to $600, 3.834 from $600 to $800, 4.026 from $700 to $800, 4.995 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 maxi- mum salary provided by law, will be promoted in the same way. The in- crease will affect 24227 carriers throughout the country. Of this num- ber 1810 will be promoted from $000 to $800, 8,835 from $850 to $900, 1,073 from $800 to $1,000 and 12,500 from $1,000 to $1,100. The increase in the aggregate will amount to nearly $4,500,000 2 year. ‘The new scale under which the post office clerks and carriers will operate was worked ont carefully by Mr. Hitchcock, and congress adopted it in its entirety. 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 by brid tea roses, and 1s classed by Mr Kramer as a tea. Its color is a pe culiar 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 t¢ be fully equal, if not superior, to that of the famous American Beauty. It: habit, too, is something like the Ameri can Beauty, as it grows on long straight and sturdy stems from tw: to three feet long and is well fille 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 ap proved the model prepared by Casimt Chedzinski, a Polish-American sculpto of Chicago, the statue of Count Casimi Pulaski will be completed as suggeste: in the model in question. Congress appropriated $50.000 for tb work, which is to be expended unde the direction of Secretary of War Taf and the chairmen of the library com mittees of senate and house. The ac in question provides for the erectior of a statue to “Brigadier General Coun Casimir Pulaski of Poland, who cam to America and, after declaring bis in tention to become a citizen of the re public, offered his sword to Washing ton, under whose leadership in th great struggle for American independ ence he lost his life at the siege © Savannah, Ga., Oct. 11, 1779.” An Equestrian Statue. The Pulaski model, which has bee received with great favor by the mez bers of the commission, shows the Po ish general in the bussar uniform 6 his native country seated on the bac of a horse of unusually excellent mok The horse's head is uplifted, with no tls dilated and ears erect. His rigt fore foot is raised and his tail stream outward. The rider presents a martis and picturesque appearance with bi loug military cloak thrown back grac fully from bis shoulders. The grou stands on a high granite pedestal suit: Lis inseribed. Record Cabinet Service. BREVITIES. rate Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme court is the best speechmaker among the nine members of that dis- tinguished body. It Is the boast of United States Sen- ator Blackburn of Kentucky that he never in his life wrote a speech, an article or an editorial. A feature of the ninety-eighth birth- day celebration of Colonel Luther Hay- mond of Clerksburg, W. Va., recently was the exhibition of a cake presented to him Christmas eve, 1829. Perhaps the youngest express ‘agent in the couniry is Everett M. Mower, Jr., of Augusta, Me, Although only seven years old, be is fitted out with the express company hat and regula- tion overalls. Although blind, C. Brown of Cincin- nati is a traveling salesman, and a 00d one too. He carries with him one big trunk and several cases of dry goods and notions. Mrs. Brown trav- els with him. Melody Choir, as he called himself. his real name being Melchoir, died tn 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 or- ganizers 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 Mont- [pelier, Vt, for twenty-five years, was reelected recently. Captain Living- ston has not had more than a dozen eases to work on since he has been in office. Fred Ireiand of Detroit, an official stenographer of the house of represent- atives 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-yearold By- Ton (Me.) lad, with the belp of his sev- en-year-old brother, has built a saw- mill, The water wheel, which is four feet in diameter, generates one and a half horsepower. The mill room com- tains 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 Em- peror 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 rail- | way. 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 re- ceives $668,000 each working day from customs collected in New York city. Marriages between whites and In- dians 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 cur- rency $4 is added to this gold stock. The largest mechanical ventilating plant ever placed under a single roof is that constructed for the Carnegie li- brary at Pittsburg. It has an aggre- gate 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 rush- ed 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 be gets in return, rest assured It is coun- terfeit. 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 be 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 de pend upon it that you get it good and proper behind your back. ‘The first day we know a secret we are bigh winded 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. eee een 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 & legal tender in 1216. Before this rents were paid In produce. ‘The coinage of trade dollars bezan In 1874 and was discontinued in 1878. They were originally intended for use in commerce with China, India and Je- pan. NEW SHORT STORIES System Worked Without a Hitch. 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 reques 4nd promised to send the documents desired forthwith. Several days elaps a and nothing from Mr. Taft arrived in the senator's mail. Having need of the documents In a speech he was pre Spay Ar) \ paring, the senator made a special journey to the war department to get them. ‘When he was ushered into the secre- tary’s office he inquired after the docu- ments. “Sure you never received them?” sald Mr. Taft, with his blandest smile. “Quite,” was the reply. ‘Mr. Taft pushed a button and a col- ‘ored messenger appeared. “Do you remember,” said the secre. tary to the messenger, “my telling you e ‘wrap up such and such documents and send them to Senator —?" -— “¥es, sir; yes, sir.” sald the messen- “get, bowing. “You are certain you sent them, are you?” said Mr. Taft, with « 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 sald: “To be perfectly frank, I for got all about your request for thos documents, and they were never sent Tonly called the messenger in to show you what a perfect system we have uy here. “Now,” the secretary continued, witt ® chuckle, pusbing another button, “1 am going to see that you get the docu ments.” A Royal Joke. Spain's twenty-year-old king fs still. tt seems, very much of the bos. Every once in awhile he drops unexpectedly into the unconventional in a way prv- ductive of much embarrassment to bis entourage. His latest prank was played in the great cathedral at Leon, to which, with his queen, he recently paid an unofi- cial visit. He had gone alone fato 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 warn- ing whatever he switched off Into a sharp military march. at the same time calling out in a loud voice: “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, witb the laughter of the king heard beneath it—Harper's Weekly. Stet o Mention! Ghare. While Senator Tillman is generally regarded as the old man of the senate by many persons whose ideas of gov- ernment and business be does not in- dorse, 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 Island- er’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.” “Tiliman.” afterward said Senator Frye, who Is somethinz 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 acknowledzed that he did not. Mt Advised. “That speech was ill advised.” said Senator Cullom. referrinz to a cok Jeague’s too outspoken address. “Tt reminds me of a speech that a widow made to her new husband on the honesmoon. “Oh; she sighed. throwing herself in the man’s arm, ‘how happy poor, dear James would be if be could only know by what an agreeable gentleman be has been replaced!” By ond Nees liuHORS ga Ss FOR A PRINCIPLE. The Only Reason She Tried So Hard to Be Identified. When Mrs. Hammond entered the Ubrary, rubbers and all, and sank into the first chair her husband kuew she had passed a trying afternoon. As the Fubbers began to ooze muddy snow, unnoticed by her, bis sympathy was fully roused. “What's happened?” be inquired in his most cautious tone. “Anything I can fix up?” “No, it's all fixed now,” sald Mrs Hammond, wearily closing her eyes. ~! ‘Went into Brown & Hobart's to get ¢ dustpan, and I saw the loveliest tev gown you ever laid your eyes on, Ed ward.” “In the tin de"— began Mr. Ham ‘mond unwisely. “I always make It a point to see “whut bargains are to be had, or I ‘couldn't dress on my allowance.” said his wife. “and please don't be flippant, ‘Edward. I tried the tea gown on, and it was just right, only then I gaw some walking suits, and I knew I needed one more than the tea gown. I bad nothing but a check with me, but I said the youns lady im the trimming department I always buy of could iden: tify me, but she had gone off with a toothache. “You know, I haven't any account there, but I knew certain clerks, 80 then I told them of the young man in the furniture department that I bought baby's crib of and had to change i three times. But when we'd got down there he had been called off for some body's iliness, and nobody knew when he'd be back. “And then at last I thought of the young woman in the photograph de Partment, in the sixth story, and you ‘walk about half a mile. And she was there, and she remembered me per. fectly.” “So you got your sult at last?” said ‘Mr. Hammond. “Of course I didn't!" And the eye: ‘opened to give a glance of reproach at ‘one so dense. “There wasn't time fo me to do anything but rush for the train by the time she'd identified me But I was determined they should know I wasn't an Impostor, If I never bought anything again tn this world.’ —Youth’s Companion. ‘The Servant Problem. A Washington man was telling some one of the trials of his wife, an excel- lent housekeeper, with reference to the servant problem. Just about the time the mistress would get a new girl bro- ken 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 enmity 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. “Burglars!* he boarsely whispered in ‘the ear of his spouse as be prepared to tumble out of bed and proceed downstairs. “Edward,” calmly observed the wife, “I'd give anything to possess your op- timistic 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. Aacther Slicht Jolt. Sapleigh — Weally. Miss Cutting, 1 dawnced so stwenuously in that last waltz that me head feels light. doncher know. Miss Cutting—Indeed! 1 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 # sheriff! ‘The Colonel—Well, what can you ex- ‘pect, suh? The last man wasn’t Iyneb- ed till three days aftah 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. A TE ae [| SAA CVI pe eee Y Poy PSPS SE SoS s ‘Thread — You think you are very sharp, but you couldn't do without me. Needie—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 dis- Uke her so much?” “Envy. She won a prize in a voting contest for the most popular girt."— Washington Star. ~ WOMAN AND FASHION Small Gir's? Millinery. Never were the hats and bonnets for children more varied and more pictur esque 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 pique or linen with straight brims, embroidered or plain save for an embroidered scalloping around the edge and with slightly full crown but- toning to the brim. are as popular as ever for common wear. But a great 6 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 bat if one fs inclined to extravagance. ‘This does not mean that the expen- sive hat will be too old or too striking for good taste. Each year the stand- ard of taste in children’s attire Is bigh- er, 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. Delicate 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. Oth- ers bave medallions of beautiful em- broidery set into the crown center and fall brime of embroidery edging, with lace frills next to the face. The bat is made of very fine linen lawn, with a full embroidered crown. A pale blue ‘satin ribbon surrounds the crown and {s tied in a large bow at the right side. iit iti les Oia: Never let it be your boast that you can dress in five minutes. No woman | who bas any respect for ber appear- ance or her clothes will attempt to | dress in even double that time. It is as. true in dressing as in ansthing else | that where there is the more haste | there 1s the less speed. It ts particu- larly trying for a woman to dress in | hurry. She gets flurried. and in her at- tempts to fasten her brooch the _ sticks into her finger. She gets cross over this, and then eversthing 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, agd then the missing articles have been found on the dressing table. When she does at last get ready she is conscious of ap: pearing at her worst, being bot 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 fs 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- { l HK Ry EY : x P& “Qa ~ ee ed linen ones can be designed and fashioned by the clever needlewoman ‘at a very small cost. Fine handkerchief linen is the ma- terial used. On the little bows the edges are trimmed with fine valen- clennes 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 tp silk and linen are made with clusters of tucks and the ruffled box plait dows the front. PLAYS AKD . LAYERS. Watson, Arlington and Whitelaw are the three comedians featured ia we new production of “Me, Hilm and L” An interesting racial event is the es- tablishment 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 richt I was in heaven, but when she threw me down my ad- dress was “No. 23 Lemon street.’” It is understood that the new play on which Belasco is engaged at present {1 futended for David Warfield and will probably be the one which will inau- gurate the opening of his new Stuy- vesant theater in New York. Margaret Drew succeeded Grace Fil- kins as Bella Crosby in “The Daugh ters of Men” recently, scoring as great a success as her predecessor, who re- tired from the orzanization to become a member of Eleanor Robson's com pany. Dizhy Bell, who has been appearing for three seasons in Augustus Thomas? “The Education of Mr. Pipp.” will soon close bis season. Mr. Bell will im- mediately commence rehearsing a new comedy which has been written for him by Aucustus Thomas. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. In Derbyshire county there is a sub- terranean road seven iiles 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 un- veiled by Lord Rosebery. In the Royal Artillery museum at Woolwich may be seen an eight cham- bered matchlock revolver, dating from the time of Queen Elizabeth. Five different boys have been cre- ated baronets before reaching Gfteen years of age. The last case was in 1891, when Sir Coleridge Kennard was created # baronet. His age was then five. In the forty years between 1792 and 1832 there were outstanding notes of the Bank of England, presumed to have Leen lost, amouuting to about $0,000,000, 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 like ly 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, Drab crape, a slightly transparent cloth, with granite like surface and rather a loose weave, is employed equally for dressy house weat 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 combina- tion of past seasons. ‘The latest ef- fects show the cutaway and blazer coats, the jumper waist made as elab- orately or as simply as may be desired. —New York Post. FACTS FROM FRANCE. France to clarify her wines uses 80,- 000,000 ezgs a year. France's importations of coal for 1906 exceeded those for 1005 by $16.- 000,000. A French professor is the owner of a collection of $20 human heads, repre- senting every known race of people on the globe. ‘A Parisian newspaper usually has a director as well as an editor. The di- rector 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 Freneb- man, “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 op- pressor. We sit up with our dead because Jong ago our ancestors kept wateh 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.—Vhiladeiphia Telegram. Future geographers may be tempted to define a canal as an imaginary body of water surrounded by troubles—Bal- timore American. ‘Why not let the railroads alone long enough to introduce a bill in the state legislature compelling plumbers to car- ry their tools with them all the time?— Leavenworth (Kan.) Post. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. 151st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 23rd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO 50,000 BOOKS FREE By Mail 50,000 BOOKS FREE By Mail treating on all the DISEASES PECULIAR TO MAN. THIS BOOK contains many illustrations and is a storehouse of knowledge for both old and young who are suffering from excesses, lost vitality, nervous disorders, blood poison, stomach, kidney and bladder diseases. 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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 Mauitoba 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 $6,000 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 Vancouche 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 heliotrope, 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 special talent for caricature. Senator Pettus, the oldest member of congress, sticks to his pet phrase of telling his colleagues how "young" he is when reference is made to his advanced years. Dr. Charles McCutcheon of Tacoma, Wash., one of the most prominent physicians on the Pacific coast, has imported from his boyhood home in Ireland 200 song birds to sing to him in his old age. Sir F. Treves recently told a health society meeting in London that as regards the treatment of our meat before we eat it we have made no advance on the habits of our ancestors, the cave dwellers. Dr. James M. Yeager, formerly president of Drew Seminary For Young Women at Carmel, N. Y., was elected a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives from Mifflin, his native county, at the recent election. Roger Pocock, the founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen, has been in turn cowboy, novelist, poet, missionary and prospector. He led an expedition to the Klondike, served in the mounted police in the northwest and was a scout in the Transvaal war. Vere Goldthwaite, one of the most interesting personalities of the Boston bar, has had a romantic career. He is the son of a well known Boston physician and for a number of years traveled with a wild west show. For a time he was one of the best known cowboys of Colorado. Ex-Senator William E. Chandler is an expert stenographer, having learned the art of pot hook writing early in life. He uses stenography in making all his notes, and when he was in the senate he jotted down many of the speeches in which he was particularly interested and desired the notes for immediate reference. On the occasion of the last birthday anniversary of the king of Italy a letter carrier was remembered with an increase of pay. The man, whose name is Domenico Silicia, has been in the service at 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. 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See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. American Brick Co. 45th and Robey Sts. Output of Winter Yards 14500 per day ©output of Summer Yards 30000 per day ILLINOIS BRICK CO. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Junk's Brewery 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 5949 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW J. J. Bradley 323 ASHLAND .BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 998 CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO Telephones Oakland 1489, Gray 3331, Blue 3983 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. The Twentieth Century Barber Shop New Why don't Store? Every ing Stamps w We carry sets. A spi Laces, Ribbon We make Waistcoats, P A beautifu A fancy I See our N 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. M. 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 Speciat 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. Lanouist&IllsleyCo. 393 NORTH CLARK STREET.....CHICAGO WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail J. M. Fields TELEPHONE YARDS 693 BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE CHICAGO Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... 144,00 per da Output of Summer Yards..... 30,000 per da Telephone Yards 128. ILLINOIS BRICK CO. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER. Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Telephone Yards 128. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Avo., Chicago Telephone Lake View 270. Telephone Yards: 718 Telephone Yards: 718