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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Afro-Americans Are Meeting With Success In the Real Estate Business In Chicago SEVERAL OF THEM HAVE CUSTOMERS AMONG THE WHITES.—MANY COLORED PEOPLE ARE BUYING PROPERTY IN ALL SECTIONS OF THE CITY—THEY MUST BE TAUGHT HOW TO MAINTAIN THEIR OWN PROPERTY IN FIRST CLSS SHAPE.—ALSO NOT TO INJURE OR DESTROY THE PREMISES WHICH THEY RENT. Vol. XIII Afro-Americans With Success Estate Bus SEVERAL OF THEM HAVE WHITES.—MANY COLONIAL PROPERTY IN ALL SECOND MUST BE TAUGHT HOW PROPERTY IN FIRST COME INJURE OR DESTROY THE RENT. Several years ago, comparatively speaking, it was a mighty hard task to find one Afro-American, either man or woman, in this city with sufficient nerve or backbone to even think of engaging in the real estate business for a livelihood, and the result was that the white real estate agents had a monopoly in this line of business among the Colored people. These white real estate agents sold them all the property which they bought, and rented them all the flats and houses which they occupied. But to-day the situation in this respect is entirely changed, for at the present time there are some ten or twelve Afro-Americans engaged in the real estate business in this city, and many of them are meeting with great success, and are doing a rushing business. First on the list of the Afro-American real estate agents in this city is Jesse Binga, 3637 State street. Mr. Binga has successfully worked his way up from the bottom of the ladder within the past three years, and now he has three or four assistants, a lady stenographer and bookkeeper, and he handles much property for some of the leading white citizens in Chicago. Mr. Binga transacts all his business right up to the handle, and whenever he is presented with a bill he will write you a check on the First National Bank so quick that it will make your head swim. Neighbors, Merriweather & Co., 3916 State street, come next on the list. Mr. W. D. Neighbors is the guilding genius of this firm. He is a graduate of the Illinois College of Law, highly polished in his manner, a keen business man, with no foolishness and from the very day that he and his associates threw their doors open for business they have met with flattering success, and Mr. Neighbors transacts much real estate business among the whites, and many of the best Colored people in the city are numbered among his customers. He employs a lady stenographer and other assistants, and he is ever ready to sell you good snaps in real estate on easy terms in any section of this city. Palmer and Marshall, 2960 1-2 State street, are among the Afro-Americans who are meeting with success in the real estate business. Mr. Palmer and Mr. Harshall are both shrewd business men. They employ a lady stenographer, and as they have the reputation of transacting business on the square, they have succeeded within the past few months in selling several fine houses to Afro-Americans east of State street. Faulkner & Broxley, 2935 State street, have been engaged in the real estate business for some time, and as they have never been known to misrepresent the facts while endeavoring to sell property, they have succeeded in working up a nice business. D. C. Smith, 3128 State street, started in the real estate business four or five years ago, and by everlastingly sticking to it and by treating his customers right he has met with success. Henry T. Wells, 3222 State street, who with his family resides in an elegant home of their own, corner 65th and Evans avenue, has been more than successful since he engaged in the real estate business. T. A. Clark, who is well known among the members of both races in this city, launched out in the real estate business the past summer at 3345 State street, and so far he has sold three or four houses to Colored people east of State street, and he is fully convinced that success awaits him in buying and selling real estate. L. B. Barefield has been in the real estate business for many years in the downtown district. His office is in the Oxford Building, 84 LaSalle street, and at all times he has transacted a great deal of real estate business among the whites, which proves beyond a doubt that the whites will do business with Colored men and women if Colored men and women know how to do business. William R. Cowan, who is one of the newly elected directors of the Black Diamond Development Company, and a heavy stockholder in the same company, and who owns some fine income property on Forest avenue, between 36th and 37th streets, which he keeps up in first-class shape, and his brother, Mark C. Cowan, started out in the real estate business last spring at 260 South Clark street, as Will Cowan is a hale fellow well met, and very popular with all classes of his fellow citizens, he is meeting with success. He collects all the rents for the owners of the Imperial and the Traders Buildings, and as he is thoroughly trustworthy in every respect, the owners of these buildings permit him to shoulder the responsibility of keeping the rooms well filled up with good tenants and to pay all bills in connection with running the buildings, and so far Mr. Cowan has succeeded in landing some good real estate bargains for some of his friends in the various parts of this city. James Nott, 35th and Dearborn street, continues to do well in the real estate business, and he has closed many good real estate deals for Colored people the past year. The Centeral Bureau of Real Estate, Renting and Loans, 81-83 South Clark street, suite 26, is the latest to enter this field, and its manager, Mrs. L. H. N. Coleman, is very well known, and also the daughters of Mr. Goode, who are connected with it. They feel that in a very short time they will get their share of everything going in the real estate business. With so many Afro-Americans in the real estate business, they naturally draw a vast amount of business away from the white real estate agents, who are anxious to enter into partnership with some of the Afro-American real estate dealers in order to hold their trade among the Colored people, who are buying property every day in the week in all sections of the city. It is the duty of the Afro-American real estate agents, as well as it is the duty of the preachers, to admonish the Colored people that they must keep their property up in first-class shape even if it should happen to be located on Dearborn street. Armour avenue, or on some of the streets or avenues east of State street. The Afro-American real estate accounts must also assist in helping to CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 23, 1907. The Popular and Efficient Coroner of Cook County, Who Will be Recognized and Re-elected to His Present Responsible Position in 1908. The Popular and Efficient Coroner of Cook County, Who Will be Recognized and Re-elected to His Present Responsible Position in 1908. teach the Colored people that they "must not injure or destroy the premises which they rent, nor to permit them to remain in an untidy or unsanitary condition, and whenever the Afro-Americans, either property owners or those who live in rented houses or flats, make up their minds to be guided by this simple advice, and give up the foolish idea that "they cannot be decent or respectable unless they reside on certain streets east of State street." The whites will not then be in a position to set up the hew and cry, that wherever Colored people, from the highest to the lowest live, they destroy the value of property." THE PRESIDENT AND THE NEGRO. The installation of the new president of Howard university, devoted to the higher education of the Negro was the occasion of significant addresses of President Roosevelt, Ambassador Bryce and Mr. Carnegie. Of the three addresses that made by the president was the most notable, not merely because of his administrative position but because of the hopeful practical way in which he treated the Negro problem, and the emphasis he laid upon the material factors in that problem. The progress of the Colored race during the forty years since the establishment of the university was a matter of congratulation, and nothing impressed the president more significantly than the fact that the race now owns $350,000,000 worth of taxable property in this country, and owns and occupies 500,000 homes. This of itself was proof positive that the Negroes "have made long strides along the path of good citizenship." Coupled with congratulation he also impressed upon his hearers "A peculiar burden of responsibility rests upon you not only as an educated American citizen but as an educated member of a race that is struggling toward higher and better things." The president's words should be a strong incentive for the Negroes, especially those who will leave this university as teachers of their own race. "I know of no men graduating from any college in the United States who have a heavier load of responsibility than you have, and, after all, there is no greater privilege given to any man than to have such a load to carry if only he carries it well." Many of the leaders of the black race are carrying the load well, and although we do not hear as much of the quiet, patient work and the practical results they accomplish as we do of the evil accomplished by lazy, shiftiness, and dissolute Negroes, there is no doubt that in the end "they will reap the benefits of their labor, which already begin to appear in the establishment of homes and the acquisition of property." The congratulations of the president are both timely and encouraging to those who are helping their people on the way to better and higher life.—The Chicago Tribune, November 17, 1907. Reply of John G. Jones, 33, of Chicago, to Samuel R. Scottron, 33, of New York, on the Origin and Legitimacy of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry Among the Colored Masons. Letter No. 4. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Among the Colored Men in the United States. It is well understood, I presume, by everyone that there is now in the United Stats of America among the Colored Masons, five Spureme Councils of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and each one of them is claiming and asserting that it is a regular and legal body. I shall take them up each one and discuss their origin and history, and will give the facts as I have found them relative to their legal existence when I come to them. In referring to the proceedings of the Council of Deliberations that was held in New York City, January 13, 1881, by a number of Representatives of five Supreme Councils of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite among the Colored Masons in the United States, a copy of these proceedings at that Council of Deliberation I have now before me, as they ANTI-INTER-STATE JIM CROW CAR BILL WHICH THE NEW ENGLAND CONSTITUTION AND SUFFRAGE LEAGUE PROPOSE TO HAVE INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS AND PASSED AT COMING SESSION. PREPARED FOR LEAGUE BY HON. ALBERT E. PILLSBURY ENDORSED BY A MASS MEETING HELD RECENTLY AT FANEUIL HALL. The New England Constitution and Suffrage League recently held a great meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., which was addressed by William Lloyd Garrison and prominent men of both races, and the following Anti-Inter-State Jim Crow Car bill was endorsed by the mass meeting, and the members of the League will have it introduced in Congress at the coming session, and endeavor to have it become a law: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:— Section 1. In the transportation of passengers by common carriers thereof between the States and Territories of the United States or between any place in the United States and an adjacent foreign country, any discrimination against any passenger on account or by reason of his or her race or color is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful. Section 2. No common carrier of passengers as described in section one o fan act entitled "An Act to Regulate Commerce," approved February fourth eighteen hundred and eighty-seven is now amended, including sleeping car companies, and no officer, agent or servant of such carrier, shall exclude or expel any passenger traveling from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other such State or Territory or to such District or between any place in the United States and an adjacent foreign country, from train, car or boat or part thereof, or compel or require any such passenger, as a condition of transportation, to ride in a particular were taken down and printed, now after a period of twenty-five years has passed away. I find that the minutes of that Council of Deliberation that was held in New York City, January 13, 1881, has been lately doctored, twisted and changed to satisfy the Individual from New York, who delights to parade himself before the public by making unwarranted statements, and if possible gain some notoriety in his effort to give life to a Dead and Bogus Supreme Council which went to pieces by the exposure of its illegal methods and establishment a number of years ago, which was almost forgotten. One of the articles of agreement was of the Council of Deliberation that was held in New York City January 13, 1881, was that the two Supreme Councils at Philadelphia, Pa., and the one in New York City was to meet in Philadelphia, in convention, and organize one Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite out of these two at Philadelphia, and the one in New York City. The agreement was signed by P. W. Ray, John S. Chase, Samuel R. Scottron, all of New York City, and members of the so-called Supreme Council that was organized by Debulow in 1864, and according to that agreement and arrangements made, by these three Supreme Councils the Convention was called in Philadelphia, Pa., to consolidate these Three Supreme Councils into one as agreed upon. Doctor W. H. Marshall, 3432 State street, is one the sick list. --- train, car or boat or part thereof, on account or by reason of the race or color of such passenger. Section 3. No such carrier, and no officer, agent or servant thereof, shall refuse or deny to any passenger traveling as aforesaid any accommodation, privilege or advantage or in any manner discriminate against such passenger, on account or by reason of his or her race or color. Section 4. Every such carrier and every officer, agent or servant thereof violating any provision of this Act shall be liable, jointly and severally, to the person or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of such violation. Section 5. Every such carrier and every officer, agent or servant thereof of violating any provision of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any Circuit or District Court of the United States within the district in which such offense was committed or was begun, continued or completed, shall have jurisdiction thereof, such carrier, being a corporation or association, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year for each offense. Section 6. The remedies provided by this Act shall be deemed cumulative, and shall not be held to impair or affect any other legal right or remedy; and in construing or enforcing the same, the acts of any officer, agent or servant of any such carrier, within the scope of his employment, shall be deemed to be the acts of such carrier as well as of such officer, agent or servant. HOME COMING DAY AT BETHEL CHURCH. Sunday, November 24, will be known as "Home Coming Day" at Bethel Church. Bishop A. Grant will preach at the morning services. In the afternoon all the city pastors will assist Rev. A. J. Carey to conduct the services, at which time there will be a reunion and renewing of old friendships and a general handshaking and so on. It is expected that all the old members of Bethel—those belonging to the other churches, and those who have not come into the fold will be present at this "Home Coming Day" at Bethel. On Monday evening Bishop Grant will deliver a lecture in Bethel on "Living Issues." Booker T. Washington, Jr., the fast son of Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama, who was dismissed from Philips-Exeter Academy, near Boston, Mass., on account of his wild conduct, is now a student at Fish University, Nashville, Tenn., and young Mr. Washington is learning how to mingle with the members of the Colored race. Attorney Timothy J. Fell, whose finely furnished law offices are located on the 13th floor of the Chamber of Commerce building, would make an ideal candidate for judge of the municipal court in 1908. Alderman Joseph F. Kohout, who has always proven his friendship for worthy Afro-Americans, is in line to be renominated, to make the race for municipal judge, at the next judicial election. THE BROAD AX. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, Gandhi, Protestants, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad 14 is a newspaper whose platform is tread enough and even claiming the editorial board is his own mind. Year. $3.60 Month. 1.60 Advertising rates made known on application. BELIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago M. as Second-class Matter. THE BEST PHYSICAL CULTURE Roller Skating. Now that the Leland Giants Pase Ball & Amusement Association have established an up-to-date Rink, where our People can enjoy the Physical exercise of the roller skate without prescription, it will be an evidence of mental derangement on the part of those who patronize rinks where prescription is indulged or tolerated: by reason of race proclivities the Giants rink at 5324 State street has all of the latest equipments together with a first-class restaurant in connection, good music and excellent decorum. There can be no excuse for those who wish to skate for not patronizing it and it is only one of the several interprises of this kind that the Association proposes to establish in this and other cities. The human race is nothing if not devoted to pleasure, and our race leads as it were in the field, making it opportune for the removal of all barriers to their full and complete enjoyment of life in this regard. Heretofore, we have furnished the patronage for others who exploited and left us. Now, through this association, conditions have changed. We furnish both, the patronage and the enterprise. It is ours, all ours, and should be supported; in fact every man who would like to make a safe investment and at th esame time do a good turn for the race, should buy stock in the association, for just as soon as the association is strong enough if will purchase a first-class hotel at 31st and State street, where every want of our exacting public can be supplied without proscription of any kind. Don't fail to patronize this enterprise by a visit to the rink and the ownership of some of its stock."F" UNIQUE THANKSGIVING ENTER- TAINMENT. The Neighborhood League wants everybody to attend an entertainment at the Institutional Church, Thanksgiving night. First, because it is for the benefit of the Golden Rule Social Settlement, 61st and Ada streets, which needs the help of every race lover, for this settlement is trying to help our children in a practical way by providing recreation and occupation for the boys and girls. Second, because we want the people to hear Mr. and Mrs. C. Elias Winston's renditions in Negro poetry and music. You will hear more artistic singing, and recitating and have more genuine fun and hearty laughter than at any high priced theater in town. Their rendering of Negro melodies is most effective. They must be heard to understand why they have such a vogue with the white churches of our city. is is their second appearance in one of our churches. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, Chairman. Mrs. F. B. George, Secretary. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTES Sunday Service—Bishop C. T. Shaffer will preach at 10:45 a.m. The rite of baptism will be administered at the close of the sermon. There will be given at night a song service; some of the very best talent in the city will appear on the programme. Services will begin promptly at 7:30. A platform meeting will be held at 3 oclock every Sunday afternoon during the month of December, consisting of a religious musical and literary character. A big Thanksgiving dinner will be given at the Institutional Church. Meals served from 1 p. m. to 6 p. m. Turkey dinner. Thanksgiving Service—At 10:30 Thanksgiving morning there will be a special service in the church. The first part will be of a musical character choir and congregation. Service—Subject, "What Has The American Negro To Be Thankful For? A big concert in the evening given under the auspices of Mrs. Ida Barnett for the benefit of Miss Callie Ward's Industrial School—"S." Misses Pearl and Carrie Meredith who have been entertaining large audiences at one of our local theaters this week, were formerly Chicagoans. Since entering the show business, the young ladies have appeared before drown-heads in Europe and made for themselves a large host of admirers in both hemispheres. DOCTOR DANIEL H. WILLIAMS, One of the Prime Movers in Arranging for the Grand Charity Ball, to be Given for the Benefit of Provident Hospital, Who Has Been Visiting in the South for the Past Two Weeks, Where he Performed Many Important Surgical Operations. SPECIAL CLINICS AT MERCY HOSPITAL Dr. D. H. Williams, One of America's Greatest Surgeons, Attending. Dr. John A. Kinney, of Tuskegee, Present. The largest clinics ever held in the history of Nashville, are being conducted this week at the Mercy Hospital. While there are only two visiting surgeons here at present, there are possibly fifty very important cases in the hospital being attended to. The famous Doctor, Dan Williams, whose reputation with the knife is second to none in the United States, is the center of attraction. He did not reach Nashville until Monday, but he came directly from Chicago and began his work early Monday morning. The medical profession in Nashville is practically a unit in their support, and the scenes in and about Mercy Hospital for the past week have been busy ones. Dr. John A. Kinney, a man of prominence hailing from the famous Tuskegee, is here with Dr. Williams. Both of them are busy from early morning until late in the evening trying to finish and leave the best report ever left by visiting surgeons. This is Dr. William's seventh year in succession to give these clinics in Nashville. Hence his name is a familiar one in this city. One of the most important operations performed successfully this week was the removal of a forty-pound tumor, which of itself is a record-breaker. After these gentlemen have finished it is expected that within the next month or two, Drs. Curtis and Hall will be here. Thus Nashville is fast coming into prominence as one of the important centers in the surgical world, attracting the attention of the leading surgeons of the country. There are cases in the hospital now from all parts of the South, brought here by physicians to get the benefit of these skilled men in the profession.-The Globe Nashville, Tenn., November 16, '07. BLACK DIAMOND STOCK FOR SALE BY JULIUS F. TAYLOR. The second annual meeting of the stockholders of the Black Diamond Development Company, was recently held at Odd Fellows' hall, 3335 State street, and after the reports were read as to the condition and progress of the company in which it was set forth in the reports that the company seased selling treasury stock, the first of last April, and that no more of its stock would be offered for sale by the company under no condition, and that the stock is now worth 50 cents a share; that ten wells so far have been brought in and are in full operation at this date November 23. With these facts before us and with the further fact that Revs. J. F. Thomas, A. J. Carey, W. L. Taylor, of Richmond, Va., and other well known citizens have recently visited Chanute, Kans., and inspected the property belonging to the Black Diamond Development Company and they have all brought back such glowing reports as to the bright prospects of the company that its stock is in great demand and as the company has none for sale the undersigned has entered into a deal whereby Black Diamond stock in blocks of 50 to 5,000 shares or more, can be secured a little below the present market price of 50 cents. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor and secure some stock in the Black Diamond Development Company, for it is a winner. For further information call on or address Julius F. Taylor, editor The Broad Ax, 503 8armour Ave. A PEKIN TREAT. Proprietor Robert T. Motts announces that on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 20th a special matinee performance will be given at the Pekin theater, at which time, "Captain Swift," a powerful four-act comedy-drama will be produced by the Pekin Stock Company. This announcement will be of special importance of theater-goers who have watched with interest, the wonderful progress of the stock company and who have been desirous of seeing the members in something more serious than musical comedy. It is the intention to produce one of this class of plays every month during the season, and it is expected that the plan will meet with a hearty response from theater-goers generally. Mr. J. Ed. Green, whose reputation as a sterling actor of classic roles is firmly established, will have the setlla part in "Captain Swift" and he will be ably supported by the following members of the Pekin Stock Company: Jerry Mills, J. F. Mores, L. E. Chenault, Charles Gilpin, H. D. Coleman, Lottie Grady, Nettie Lewis, Mae White and Pearl Brown. Mr. Green will have entire charge of the production and promises a perfect performances down to the last detail. Seats are now on sale at the box office, and should be ordered early—"T." FINE MODERN BRICK TEN-ROOM HOUSE ON WABASH AVE., FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS. If you are looking for a home or an investment in Chicago real estate, you cannot do any better than secure the modern brick ten-room house, with all modern conveniences and in good repair; good stable in the rear. This fine property is located on Wabash Ave., near 34th street and at present it is rented for $50 per month. Price $6,000, and it can be secured by paying $500 to $1,000 in cash, rest on easy terms. If you want to buy call on the editor of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour Ave., and he will escort you to the owner of the property. MODERN BRICK AND STONE FRONT HOUSE ON RHODES AVE., FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS. Now is the time to buy a modern nine room brick and stone front house on Rhodes Ave., near 32nd street. This lovely building which at the present time rents for $30 per month can be secured by paying $500 down and the remainder on easy or monthly payments, $4,000 is the reasonable price for this property and it is worth a great deal more, but the owner is hard up and must sell. If you are interested dear reader in this dandy bargain call on the editor of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour Ave., and he will put you next to the owner of the property. HOME MADE QUITS FOR SALE. Some lovely home made quilts for sale, by Miss G. Battise, 5003 Armour Ave. Walter C. Cole Colored Walter C. Cole, Colored, has been appointed meat inspector under the United States Bureau of Animal Industries and is now in charge of several of New York's largest wholesale beef houses, including Swift's and Schwarzchild & Sulberger's. Rev. Moses Jackson is reported convelesent. The People's Saving bank, a Negro institution, has just opened in Philadelphia, with ex-congressman Geo. H. White, president. Doctor W. D. Langford, has met with the greatest success, since he began the practice of medicine at the old stand so long occupied by the late Doctor A. F. Perry, 2353 State street. Alderman Henry L. Fick, will spend the next two weeks at West Baden, where he will spend most of his time in bathing and eating rich country food. Miss Minnie Sledge, who spent the past summer in visiting at the home of her bosom friend, Mrs. Geneva Smith, 5363 Dearborn street has returned to her home in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Henry Williams formerly of Chicago, is spending the week here from New York City. Mr. Williams owns property in the great metropolis and is well known here. Prof. Five Dollar, Mr. Kemper Harrel, who spends much of his worthless time around the Douglass Center, takes on a sheepish look, if anyone mentions the fact that he ought to turn over five dollars for newspaper advertising. Geore Powell, one of the most prominent Afro-Americans of Flomaton, Alabama has become a steady reader and supporter of The Broad Ax, not with his empty mouth but with his money. Mr. Powell is a 33d degree mason, and a wide awake citizen in every respect. Because he attempted to put her out of the house, then struck and knocked her down, Ethel Webb, a Colored girl 18 years of age attacked Alexander Turner, presumably white, of Wilmington, Del, with a butcher knife, and cut his face, neck and arms to ribbons. A news item has been going the rounds of the Afro-American press to the effect that Mrs. C. P. Woolley, head of the Douglass Center, 3032 Wabash Ave., has succeeded in having a large number of Colored girls placed in one of the big State street department stores as first-class clerks. This may be true and if it is true it is news to the vast majority of the people in Chicago. Agents Wanted. To sell Sa-ban-dy hair dressing Good commission. Send 10 cents for sample and terms. Geo. W. Fields & Co., 3916 State Street, Chicago, Ill On Conclusions. It doesn't pay to jump at conclusions. Once we had a dog that had a bad habit of jumping at conclusions. When he had no other animal's conclusion to jump at he would go round and round in a circle for an hour at a time trying to reach his own conclusion. That puppy would wait until a cow had gone past and then jump wildly at her conclusion. As is the custom of people similarly afflicted, once he reached a conclusion he hung to it till he was kicked loose. As is usual also with people of similar proclivities, he was a dash gummed nuisance. But one day that hasty pup jumped at a big, thoughtful bay mule's conclusion, and the next day he had to get a brand new dog. The old one wasn't even worth repairing. No; it doesn't pay to jump at conclusions. Why Not? There recently entered the service of a Cleveland family a domestic of Scandinavian origin. She had never seen a refrigerator before, and the lady of the house, after initiating her into its mysteries, instructed her never to leave anything old or left over in the icebox, but to keep the refrigerator perfectly clean and fresh by throwing the old things away each morning. The very next day the mistress, looking out of the window, observed something peculiar in the yard. "What is that, Sophie?" she asked. "And how did it get there?" "That is old ice, ma'ma'," was the proud response, "left over from yesterday. I trew it away lak you tol' me."-"Harper's Weekly. Thought He Proposed The day of the lady cop had arrived. "Halt!" exclaimed one of the gentler guardians as she stepped in front of the speeding automobile. "Will you take my name, miss?" asked the courteous young man in the big machine. She blushed to the roots of her hair. "Take your name?" she chirped. "Why—why, this is so sudden."—Chicago News. "Of course," said the analytical questioner, "there is a great deal to be said on both sides of the question." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "Too many of us are getting the idea that all a public question is fit for nowadays to is serve as the topic for a good talk."—Washington Star. A Music Lover "Do you think you will give any musicales this winter?" "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox. "I like them. They give me a chance to keep still instead of inviting criticisms of my grammar from mother and the girls."-Washington Star. GREATEST OF PORTS. New York Has Four Hundred and Four Miles of Dock. More than twice as many vessels clear the port of London, to be sure, one every four to ten minutes as against one every half hour for New York, but the average cargo value is only $47,242, whereas that of New York is $92,307. In point of tonnage New York exceeds London by 1,000,000. This is due to a difference in the character of the ports that must be borne in mind in comparing them. London is England's one commercial center and aside from Liverpool its only great place of export and import. On the other hand, New York is not the commercial center of America. When the manufacturer of shoes in Boston sends his goods to Baltimore he either sends them by rail or by vessel direct without entering New York. If he wants to send his goods to France or Germany he sends them from the port of Boston. That is, the chief ports of the Atlantic coast, New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, Norfolk, Philadelphia and Boston, engage in a coastwise and foreign trade in entire independence of New York. Less than 28 per cent of New York's tonage is represented in coastwise trade, Fully 50 per cent of London's commerce, amounting to $1,370,000,000 annually, or $685,000,000, represents foreign trade, whereas of New York's $1,200,000,000 annual commerce $864,000,000 represents foreign trade, or an actual excess over London of $179,000,000. To accommodate this enormous trade New York has 404 miles of improved water frontage—that is, 404 miles of docks. This is half the distance between New York and Chicago. London has less than 200' miles of similar water frontage. Liverpool has less than 100 miles, while Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam or Havre has each less than Liverpool. Practically all the available water frontage of these foreign ports has been absorbed by their docks, while New York has improved only a little over one-half of its available shore. When all the available coast is improved, as it must be rapidly, it will measure nearly as many miles as lie between the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi river.—Broadway Magazine. When the Elevator Stops In some of the downtown skyscrapers the elevator service is suspended on Sunday, and the jailors and their families, who in many buildings are quartered on the topmost floor, have to descend and climb from twenty to thirty flights of stairs whenever they want to get in touch with the outside world. In one building, which is twenty-four stories high, the ten-year-old daughter of the jailor makes three round trips each Sunday—one when she goes to church in the morning, one when she attends Sunday school in the afternoon and another when she goes to meet her playmates after dinner. Each flight consists of twenty steps, making 960 steps to a round trip. Three trips make it 2,880 steps, a mountain climbing record—New York Tribune. Short on Princesses By the birth of the little son and heir to Prince and Princess Alexander of Teck the number of unmarried English princes is now increased to eleven, and if to these are added the two sons of Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg there may be said to be thirteen princes for whom wives will have to be found at some time. It is not worthy that at the present time Europe is suffering from a dearth of young princesses. Of late boy babies have appeared in all the royal families, and even as matters now stand it is difficult to see how these little princes are to be mated in the future. Such princesses as there are likely to be seem too old for the small boys who are coming so quickly on the scene. Santos-Dumont Makes a Bet. M. Santos-Dumont has made a bet that in eight months he will have constructed a hydroplane capable of traveling at a speed of sixty miles an hour. This idea of a gliding craft or hydroplane is no new one. So long ago as the year 1831 a Frenchman named Garpon built a sort of flat bottom boat for river navigation which was to all intents and purposes a hydroplane, in that it drew less than an inch of water. Its means of propulsion, however, consisted of small, old fashioned engines working a ridiculous apparatus at the rear that resembled a fish's tail and fins combined. London's American Colony. A correspondent writes: "The consular estimate of the number of citizens of the United States permanently resident in London either for business, pleasure, profit or because generally they prefer to live outside the United States is 5,000. Of these the names of 3,500 are known to be in the London directory; about the remaining 1,500 there is more uncertainty, and the number itself is an approximate calculation—London Times. Mason and Dixon's Line. Fine distinctions in American geography are not always observed by foreigners. Le Tour du Monde contains this enlightened remark upon the present prohibition movement in the south: "If in America one draws a straight line from the city of Mason to the city of Dixon, soon everything south of that line will become total abstinence territories." CATTLE SHIPPING. How Animals Are Loaded on Board Vessels In Hawaii. Afterward I was taken to Kawaihae where I saw cattle loaded in a most cruel manner. It was a little after o'clock when I landed on the beach among a lot of cowboys and half naked natives. The cattle were corralled under the trees, and when one was ready to be taken aboard a rope was tied about its horns. A cowboy on horseback then rode into the surf, dragging the frightened steer into the water. The rope was tossed to a half naked native who was swimming, and he inurn carried it to the men waiting in a small boat. These men pulled the animal, which must now swim or drown, to the boat and tied him by the horns to its side. After eight steers had been tied up in this manner the engine on the steamer was set to work and the boat pulled alongside by means of a rope. The cattle were then hoisted on board by the use of a bellyband. The method of handling these dumb animals is brutal, and, while the men seem to use as much care as possible in moving them about, their piteous bellowing caused by fear made as pathetic a scene as I have ever witnessed. Thousands are shipped every year, and it seems that some more humane method of putting them aboard might be adopted. The Japanese sailor on these ships is said to be the best for keeping the ship clean, while the native excels in handling the boats, especially in rough water. The Hawaiian is a born swimmer, and native boys will follow these vessels for several hundred yards as they are leaving Honolulu, swimming alongside and diving for coins thrown overboard by the travelers. The passage on these boats is always rough, and on the Ewalani, as the ship lay at anchor out in the channel, the nights were intensely warm. Freighting in this way is necessarily expensive, but those in authority say that it is the only way practical, as no wharf could withstand the lashing of the waves caused by the mad fury of the winds during the winter. At that season it is often impossible to make landings along the rocky coast of Molokai.—Leslie's Weekly. The Electro Magnet In engineering works the electro magnet is taking a very prominent place. This device dispenses with hooks, slings and other lifting apparatus. By throwing a switch controlling the current the magnet is energized and thereby attaches itself to the bars, castings, scrap or pig iron which it is desired to lift. The magnet poles are shaped according to the nature of the material to be raised. For heavy rails they are oblong and are slung from the crane hook by a short chain. Castings weighing over two tons are successfully handled by electro magnets. Another use to which the electro magnet is put is in breaking old castings so that they may be melted and utilized. To accomplish this the magnet is made to lift and drop a steel ball weighing from one to six tons. Passing of a Famous Bridge At last the old bridge over the Golden Horn at Constantinople is about to be done away with and replaced by a new structure. An amusing tale is told in connection with the efforts of an American firm to secure the order. With a view to impressing the sultan with the quality of its work an elaborate painting was prepared for presentation to his majesty showing the bridge as it would appear during a storm which would have done credit to the Atlantic. However, the firm was informed that the sultan would be so horrified by this view that it at once prepared a picture showing the bridge as it would appear on a beautiful summer's day. Even this, however, Reuter says, failed to effect its purpose. Picture Frame Reform A campaign against the classical gold frame one constantly sees on pictures is being made by an American artist, Charles Field of St. Louis, now in Paris. He contends that every frame an artist possesses should be especially designed as regards molding and carving to fit a given canvas, so it becomes not only part of the picture, but also the thing that shows it to best advantage. The movement has caused much interest and comment in American art circles. Already John Martin of New York has taken up the new idea, and two of his pictures will be exhibited in the coming autumn salon framed in this way.—Argonaut. Cold Steel A new bayonet and also a new sword have been decided upon, but it is not known when they will replace the present regulation weapons. The sword is designed for thrusting and will be long, straight and narrow, after the pattern of the raplier. The bayonet, too, will be long and thin, so as to give its wielder a good reach. It was said some time ago that the days of long range fighting had made the bayonet almost obsolete, but the Russo-Japanese war proved that hand to hand fighting has by no means been relegated to the past.-London Court Journal. Dangerous Sense of Humor George G. Morton, a machinist residing on Russell street, has very sore ribs and all because he laughed too heartily. He was thoroughly enjoying a joke played on a comrade with a garden hose, and as he watched the sport from a window he laughed with great gusto, so much so that he was seized with pains and had to be helped to a seat. A medical man was called and found that he had fractured a rib and had torn part of the lining about another rib.—Bermuda Royal Gazette. Brevities THE HALL OF FAME. Lord Charles Beresford, the British admiral, so well known to Americans, has given his consent for his daughter's conversion to the Catholic faith. It is said in Pittsburgh that Mr. Carnegie has in view a plan to give substantial aid to the cities and towns that are struggling to support Carnegie libraries. The kaiser has tried pretty much everything but business. He is a composer, a painter, a sculptor, a maker of armles, a preacher, and now he has an art store. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada, on his retirement from office will write a history of the Dominion. In his early years he did considerable newspaper writing. He is a master of the English language. Louis Madelin, lecturer of the Alliance Francaise in the United States for the coming year, will lecture in the United States and Canada on historical subjects at the leading universities and expects to return to Paris in May. Clark Williams, who has been appointed by Governor Hughes as superintendent of banks of New York state, is vice president of the Columbia Trust company of New York. Mr. Williams was graduated from Williams college in 1892. Rev. John Green Brady, three times governor of Alaska, has lost what money he had, and at fifty-eight he has got to begin again. He risked his all in the Reynolds enterprises in Alaska, which were wrecked by the failure of the Reynolds bank at Valdez. Abbas II., the khedive of Egypt, is one of the most cultured of oriental rulers and is thoroughly European in his tastes and habits. He is an expert linguist, a devotee of music, a composer, a practical agriculturist, a teetotaler and about the only Egyptian man who is not a cigarette smoker. Both the president and Mrs. Roosevelt are fond of music, and each of their six children inherits the love and has had the advantages of the best teachers. Mrs. Longworth is perhaps the best musician in the family, being a graceful performer on the piano and able to accompany Mr. Longworth in his almost professional skill on the violin. Louis Gold, one of the best known builders and real estate men in Brooklyn, has had a most interesting career. He was born in the province of Wilma, Russia, and fied Russian persecution and emigrated with a number of others to Argentina. There he was held in peonage, from which he escaped and came to the United States. Today he is rated as one of the Brooklyn millionaires, although he is only thirty-two years of age. NEW YORK CITY. The board of estimate of the city says the municipality will spend $15,000,000 more in 1908 than during the present year. Daily in New York city 49,500 persons pay the street car lines 5 cents for the privilege of hanging fast to straps for from three to fifty miles. Most of the new houses being built in the borough of Brooklyn are of frame construction, costing on an average $4,100 each, while a majority of those in the Bronx are of brick, each one costing about $6,500. What was an almost impassable waste of two miles of rocks and brush a quarter of a century ago is now one of New York's most fashionable throughfares, possessing natural beauties and artistic structures not surpassed in the city. It is Riverside drive.—New York Herald. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. Of London's population 280,000 are members of some sort of clubs. Measurements made in London schools prove that the children of the well to do are better grown for their age than the children of the poor. Asked by a London police court magistrate recently how often her husband assaulted her, a woman replied, "Not very often—only three or four days a week." There are only three engravers of shorthand in England. One lives at Bath. As a joke he has suggested to his two London fellow workers the propriety of a trades union. In England and Wales there are about 1,600,000 persons over sixty-five years of age, and in the course of a year more than a fourth of that number are compelled to accept poor relief. EDITORIAL FLINGS. Mrs. Stuyveant Fish bemoans the fact that it is "so expensive to be rich." If she only knew what it is to be poor!-Detroit Journal. The prices of commodities have advanced to the point at which even wild cats come higher than formerly.—Louisville Courrier Journal. Geronimo is now posing as an old man full of sorrows and regrets. Had he obtained his deserts years ago he would be a dead man full of government lead.—Washington Post. The Beaver County Association of Undertakers has raised the price of funerals 10 per cent. With the cost of living on the jump and the price of funerals increasing, what is a poor man expected to do?—Philadelphia Inquirer. SHORT STORIES. It is said that there are only two Chinese women in St. Louis. An Indiana judge has ruled that when a woman marries a drunkard she must live with him. A footpat on Taunton, Mass., stretched a clothesline across the street, which tripped up pedestrians and enabled him to rob his victims. There are no grapes to equal those produced at Hoeildert, in Belgium. They are grown under glass, and the vineries are one of the sights of the place. A camera suspended by a cable to a series of kites at a height of 2,000 feet was used at Kansas City to take a 20 by 54 inch photograph of the business district of the city. A Bath (Me.) family holds a remarkable record in the birth of their three children. The date of each birth was July 1, and all were born at the same hour of the day. There was a difference of two years in the last two children. Dr. Charles A. Eastman, the noted Indian author, has just completed a revision of Indian names on the Sioux allotment roll and has given new surnames to 28,200 Indians in the Sioux nation after four years of continuous labor. PLAYS AND PLAYERS Odette Tyler and R. D. McLean are to have a season in vaudeville. Miss Florence Roberts began her tour in "Zira" at Milwaukee recently. Leo Dietrichstein has finished a new comedy in which he himself will play the leading part. The Bernard Shaw comedy, "How He Lied to Her Husband," was recently revived by Arnold Daly, supported by Helen Ware and Holbrook Blinn. Master Gabriel, known for his impersonation of Buster Brown and other juvenile characters, is the smallest Mason in the world. He is twenty-three years old. Robert Courtneldge and A. M. Thompson are authors of the book of "Tom Jones," and Edward German is the composer. They have all come to this country to rehearse their work. Henry Miller is making arrangements to send Henry Woodruff to London next summer in Rida Johnson Young's comedy, "Brown of Harvard." At the same time Mr. Miller and Miss Anglin hope to present "The Great Divide" in the British capital. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE The earth compares with the sun as a pint compares with 3,500 barrels. Streamers of flame 80,000 miles long continually shoot up from the sun, and a solar wind blows at the rate of 360,000 miles an hour. When the telephone wires are overland the speed of transmission is at the rate of 16,000 miles a second. Where the wires are through cables under the sea the speed is only 6,020 miles a second. There are stars many, many times bigger than the sun. The telescope reveals in space 50,000,000 of such vast stars. There must be many billions more in those remote black interstellar spaces that no telescope is powerful enough to pierce. TALES THEY TELL A strange sea monster resembling a snake has been landed by six fishermen at Tacoma. It weighed 700 pounds and looked like wax. Jocko Saladov, a monkey, was before a magistrate in New York on a charge of disturbing the peace by biting a small boy, but was discharged. Mose Nero, an Indian, attended a church lawn party at Muskogee, I. T., wearing a suit of blue underwear and a sack coat, and a religious policeman felt compelled to arrest him. On a wager Meyer Block in New York ate fifteen bananas, fifteen rolls, seven cups of coffee, eight eggs and two herrings and topped off the whole with a bottle of soda water which held a quart. PITH AND POINT. How hard we all work—when we tell it. The man willing to be a scoundrel objects to being called one. Being busy and thinking you are busy are two different propositions. Always remember that knockers are at work on you when you least expect it. No man can do himself any good by criticising others, but any man can accomplish something by criticising himself. You do not dare sympathize with some people unless you wish to spend days, weeks, months and years listening to their tale of woe.—Atchison Globe. GERMAN GLEANINGS. There are at present thirty-two American consuls and consuls general in Germany. In Germany whoh towns are engaged in the preparation of raw skins for the fur trade. Beer mugs in Germany have a sort of Plimsoll mark cut in the side, so you can tell when one is legally loaded. When you get your half liter for 2 cents the foam must be all above the government line. The municipality of Freiburg carries on a pawnshop, an insurance business, a theater, several restaurants and a newspaper as well as the schools. The authorities also own a cemetery, in which the citizens can be interred cheaply. Dr.J.William McDoweH GRAND Physician & Surgeon OFFICE: 3102 STATE STREET. Hours, 8-10 a. m., 2-4 & 6-8.30 p. m. Sundays by appointment. Phones Residence, 4792 Douglas. " Office, 4796 Douglas. Dr. W. E. MACKEY 3111 STATE STREET Phone Dour. 4101 HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M. RESIDENCE: 4842 ARMOUR AVENUE Phone Blue 6571 HOURS: 7 to 9 A. M. and Nights CHICAGO. City Office, 500 Burton Bldg. 39 State Street Hours 4-7 P. M. Phone Central 3207 W.D.Langford, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street HOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264 The Centres (NOT Real Estate, Rent Suite 26, 81-83 SOUTH CLARK STREET Owners and Renters will find it if you want to sell, buy, rent or exe We build, remodel, repair and d Farm Lands a Specialty. Occu We make valuations for fire adj List with us and we will certain entral The Central Bureau State, Renting LARK STREET will find it to their rent or exchange prop repair and decorate at altary. Occupants for f for fire adjustments. will certainly treat you ON US OR US UP TO ON YOU 81 a Tel Opp Real Estate, Renting and Loans Suite 26, 81-83 SOUTH CLARK STREET Phone Central 5337 Owners and Renters will find it to their advantage to call on us, if you want to sell, buy, rent or exchange property. We build, remodel, repair and decorate at the most reasonable prices Farm Lands a Specialty. Occupants for furnished rooms. We make valuations for fire adjustments. List with us and we will certainly treat you right. Phone Oak THE RAIL Imported and D Liquors o Cafe in C N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Phone Oakland 1787. RAILROAD and Domes Laundry & Cigs safe in Connect first and Armour A Imported and Domestic Wines LIQUORS & CIGARS Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. WILLIAM THE FRO CL WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB Leland Giants Base-Ball Now Organizing $100 The Stock-Holders of the Leland included to dissolve that Association in order increased Capital for the purpose of buying Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park Figure Eight, Shoot The Hurley Bus Riding, and all the latest fun making dewger with a First Class Summer Hog guests, at its present location, 79th and ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop Dist The Public is Base-Ball mad, and an value in a single season. Millions can be This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Rac- mense And Well Paying Plant. Wh Be Employed, between May and October out fear and Enjoy The Life and Freed The Answer can only be effectively given it has been made purposefully low so have a Share and Interest in this Twee- Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollar Each Any Holiday around Amusement Park wanted and never welcome. Come! buy the attached Coupon and mail with Ten and Amusement Association. Do it to-day Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement A Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing—Capital Stock $100,000 Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing—Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With Its Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto Riding, and all the latest fun making devices and laugh producing concessions, together with a First Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accommodate 1000 guests, at its present location, ?9th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning and Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in this Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and build one of your own by filling out the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas: which I am sending as Part (or infull) as shares of the Capital Stock of the Lelah Association. I agree to pay $_____ $_____ has been paid certificate. which I am sending as Part (or infull) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association. --- Call Frank H. Lewis, Prop. POOL AND BILLIARDS Phone Calimet 2940 All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Beaugrand F. Moseley, Treasurer, 6558 Halsted Street, Chicago, IL are entitled to preference as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their final remittance of their intentions to apply for employment. For further information, please contact Ball and Amusement Assn. n. 6258 Halsted St. Chicago, IL. EVERY AFTERNOON and EVENING At CHATEAU de la PLAISANCE 5324—26 State Street BEST RESTAURANT IN THE CITY IN CONNECTION MUSIC BY ARMANT ADMISSION 15 CENTS Leland Giants B. B. & A. Assn. 6258 Halsted Street Phone Douglas 2338 T. A. CLARK & CO. Real Estate & Renting Loans & Insurance 3345 STATE STREET CHICAGO,ILL. Telephone Calumet 185 2842 South State Street Cor. Twenty-Ninth CHICAGO Central Bureau (INC.) Renting and Loans TXT Phone Central 5337 to their advantage to call on us, range property. Decorate at the most reasonable prices loans for furnished rooms. assessments. only treat you right. ROAD INN Domestic Wines & Cigars Connection Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. M LEWIS ONTANAC UB and Amusement Assn. —Capital Stock 50,000 Giants Base-Ball Association, has con- tair to give room for the former, with it’s a Permanent Home For The Leland For All The People, The Only First With It’s Theater (Light Opera), Feature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Key, Double Swing, Boating, Auto aces and laugh producing concessions to tell, large enough to accommodate 1000 Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ict in Chicago. Amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in made by those Who Take Stock In The Owning And Operating This Imme- more Than 1,000 Persons Will of each year, where you can come with- m of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed! by subscribing for Stock in this Corpora- tion at All Loyal Members of the Race can with Century Enterprise. Think of it, You Squander More than this amount and Public Places, where you are not and build one of your own by filling out dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball so that we may commence to build. subscription fee for and Giants Base Ball and Amusement per month until the full amount at which time I am to recieve my stock (NOT INC.) SKATING E. A. STACK DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST 81 and 88 S. Clark St. Telephone Central 5387 Opp. New County Building Lou Seldon, Mgr. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS 239 E. 22ND STREET CHICAGO 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, Ill. Enclosed please find $..... SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING The Broad Ax can be bought through the STANDARD NEWS COMPANY, retail and wholesale agents. 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Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO EARTH KNOWING through the STANDARD NEWS COM- PANY. All goods shipped promptly to news, Advertisements, and news they can have their mail addressed COMPANY BUREAU DEPARTMENT. and call and register on our visitors NEWS COMPANY New York City. J. Gary, General Superintendent. Humor Angelina Would Have to Go Hungry if She Married Rastus. As their wedding day approached they sat down one evening to figure a hit on household expenses. He got out pencil and paper and put down coal and wood and gas and rent, but as they came to provisions a worried look appeared on his face. "Ah 'spec' it's gwine ter cost a heap ter feed us, Angelina," he remarked, with a deep sigh, as he paused to sharpen his pencil. "Huh! Doan' you' 'spec' Ah kin cook widout wastin'??" she asked. "Yo Jes' go on now an' put down wot we'll hab fo' one Sunday dinnah, an' yo'll dun see it ain't gwine ter cost sich a heap, 'kase Ah' make wot's left ober las' all week. Go on, Rastus, an' den we'll figger on de price later. Now, one five pound chicken." "Uh-huh, mah ub." "One quart ob potatoes." "Uh-huh, mah empress." "One loaf ob bread." "Uh-huh, angel ob paradise." "One can ob tomatoes." "Uh-huh, mah pearl." "One can ob co'n." "Uh-huh, queen ob kings." "A pot ob coffee." "Ub-huh, mah pink dove." "An' a mince pie. Well, Ah reckon dat's about all. An' now"— "Hol on, dar, Angelina!" he interrupted as he looked over the list. "Yo's dun made a big mistake yere." "How's dat?" she asked. "Why," he said, "yo's only dun; namedot Ah generally eats mahself fo' Sunday dinnah. Wot yo' gwine ter hab?" She looked at him speechless with astonishment for a moment or two; then, realizing that with his appetite they could never marry on $14 per week. she uttered a shriek that was heard all over the neighborhood and swooned at his feet.—A. B. Lewis in Judge. The Fringe of Art Eilhu Vedder, the painter, lives in Rome, where he has a beautiful apartment, and in Capri, where his white villa looks down on the sea. "Eilhu Vedder," said a New York illustrator the other day, "is as bohemian as ever. Fame has not spoiled him. I visited him last year, and his bohemian ways were delightful. "You know they tell a story of a visit that he once paid to Alma-Tadema in London in that glittering house which Mrs. A.-T.'s money, made in grateful, comforting cocoa, bought. "The morning after his arrival, very early, before even the servants were up, Vedder began a thunderous knocking on his host's sandalwood floor. "Alma-Tadema turned in his gold bed, threw back the lace coverlet and sat up. "Who's there? What is it? he cried in a startled voice. "I say, Tadema," shouted Vedder, where do you keep the scissors that you trim your cuffs with?"—Washington Star. Truly Admirable An Illinois politician who once delivered what seemed to him an excellent and striking speech on the trust question was most anxious to ascertain its effect upon the Democratic part of his audience, these for the most part being Irish. "Was the speech to your liking, Pat?" he asked an old friend in the audience. "Sure, it were a grand speech," averred Pat in a tone of such sincere admiration that the politician felt moved to investigate further. "Was there any part of it more than another that seemed to hold you?" the speaker asked. "Well, now that ye ask me, I'll tell ye," responded the Celt. "What took me most, sir, was were perseverance—the way ye wint over the same thing ag'in and ag'in."-Harper's Weekly. Sandy's Opinion. A COLD WEATHER PLAINT. Priscilla Jane's a helpmate, worth her honest weight in gold. A wife who scorns fault finding and who's never known to scold. Of calm and even temper, meek and quiet as a lamb. When sheer the aggravation, never gives the door a slam. Yet her mood doth oft annoy me when from work at night I come And a cold draft from the parlor on the threshold strikes me dumb With experienced conviction, born of my ten wedded years— The furnace isn't working, and Priscilla Jane's in tears! It takes but one wee moment to assure me of the fact That since midday or thereabouts Priscilla Jane's been raked Chilled, worrisome and frozen, soot-gripped and smudged in turn By a cranky furnace fire that would do all else but burn. That first cold draft convinced me, so I feel naught of surprise At her choked, subdued booohooing, with her apron to her eyes. On a cold day I expect it, and there's a fear for tears— That the furnace isn't working, and Priscilla Jane's in tears. The mild warm days of winter never give me great concern. I know such days our furnace, all uncared for, is sure to burn! When it warms for much fire, yet too chill to do without. 'Twill, raging, feed on nothing—sheer perversity, no doubt! But wait until the mercury's at zero or below. And just as sure as preaching when from work at night I go I find a cold reception, and fruition of my joy. Our furnace isn't working, and Priscilla Jane's in tears! —Roy Farrell Greene in Puck. BAN Absentminded Professor—Dear me; I know that one is to remind me to purchase some coffee, and the other is to prevent my forgetting to pay my insurance, but I'm hanged if I know which is which—Harper's Weekly. William G. McAdoo, who is at the head of the company that is digging tunnels under the river to aid in New York's transportation system, does not wish to have his name used in connection with the work. He thinks "Hudson tunnels" is sufficient and more appropriate. Boswell G. Pearce of Flemming, Ky., has been the victim of one of the most novel thefts ever recorded. About 5,500 pounds of tobacco which he had in a barn located about a quarter of a mile from his house was stolen in some mysterious manner, and the thieves left not a single trace. The municipal debts of the country are approximately $1,100,000,000, a sum larger than is owed by the federal government and all the state governments. Of the total it is worth while to note New York contributes, when all sinking fund deductions are made, about one-fourth. Vladivostok is now said to have the appearance of a semi-Chinese town. The higher wages paid in Siberia and in the Amur provinces are attracting the Chinese. As far inland as Irkutsk they are busy as truck and fruit farmers, coming to the railway stations to dispose of their produce to passengers. Bolton, Conn., is without police or fire protection, but there are thirty-seven telephone subscribers in the town, and they have hit upon the scheme of using the phone as a fire and burglar alarm. Eight sharp rings will henceforth bring at least thirty-seven persons to the assistance of a subscriber. Ell Taylor of Fairfax, Vt., accosted Amos Rugg, who was pushing a wheelbarrow, and asked him what he would charge to wheel him home, three miles distant. Mr. Rugg thought $2 would be a fair price, and the offer was taken. Mr. Rugg stopped only once, then to take off his coat, and covered the distance in about an hour. To elderly people London is no longer a pleasant place of residence. The streets have become a labyrinth of horror and difficulty, a region of hideous sounds and foul smells. With motor busses toppling over on the sidewalk and private motors knocking down lampposts and impinging on the shelters, the unfortunate citizen knows not whither to wend his trembling steps. Many women in Munich support themselves by street sweeping. It does not follow that they are lifelong citizens of the city because they brush and carry away the dirt of its streets. The recruits of this army come from the country, strapping daughters of small farmers or laborers, and the task is a coveted one to these stout and wholesome young women, so that there is always a waiting list. They dress in a kind of uniform, Tyrolese hat of green with a feather on the side, blue petticoat, red jacket and a necklace. CHOICE MISCELLANY Contrary to general belief, the old Liberty bell is not the property of the nation or of the city of Philadelphia, but of four sisters who are heirs of John Wilbank, the man who made the new bell shortly after the old one was cracked and who took the old bell as part payment. According to the Home Magazine, three of the sisters—Mrs James B. McClosky, Mrs. G. D. Emerson and Mrs. S. B. Coward—live in Philadelphia. The fourth, Mrs. S. W. B. Diehl, lives in Washington. By an order of the assembly of the province of Pennsylvania the Liberty bell was cast by an English founder in 1751. Soon after arriving in this country the bell broke, but was recast from the same metal in the same form and with the original inscription, "Proclaim liberty throughout the land." The ownership passed from provincial authorities to the state, but in 1818 it was purchased by the city of Philadelphia, together with the old statehouse and grounds. During the celebration over the arrival of Lafayette in 1824 the bell was rung so vigorously it became cracked and a few months later was ordered repaced by a new bell cast by John Wilbank. The latter bell is hanging in the steeple of Germantown hall. Our Navy's Officers. In the eyes of foreigners there are some startling defects in the personnel of our navy. Perhaps the principal one is the age of the flag officers and captains. Not a navy in the world numbers so many men of advanced years in command. All our admirals are between sixty and sixty-two. It is probable that in the event of war lasting a year not one-half of the officers at present in command would possess the physical vigor to remain on active duty. The extreme youth and lack of experience of the main part of the crews of these ships is another weakness. The percentage of veterans in the complement of each vessel is small. Our battleships are much underofficered with experienced subordinate officers, gun division officers particularly. The men-of-war of all other nations carry many more officers than ours and more experienced than the American youngsters now available for such positions. This gap between our veterans and youthful men and commanders is due to the neglect of congress, which permitted five years to elapse after the Spanish-American war before the number of midshipmen was increased at Annapolis. — Broadway Magazine. The Professor's Lot. Only a short time ago a college teacher spoke seriously in public of the banker, the lawyer and even of the burglar as being in touch with life in a truer sense than is the university professor. And the professors' frequent reference to the poor rewards and all the outward hardships of their work indicates some little envy of the goods of life which come to the merchant, the lawyer and the physician. Yet there is no lot on earth that offers greater rewards and greater opportunities. And when an individual has grievances the blame is often placed primarily on the president, since the form of organization encourages the professors to place the responsibility anywhere but on themselves. It would be more fitting if their constitution gave no excuse, but constantly invited each to perceive that with himself it rested whether he would succeed or fall—George M. Stratton in Atlantic. Most Costly Thing In the World. Some idea of the difficulties in the way of extracting radium from the pitchblende waste may be appreciated when we learn that pitchblende, the mineral that is richest in radium, contains but one-millionth part of 1 per cent of radium, less than the proportion of gold in ocean water. We would think it a pretty thankless task to mine gold, or extract it, from sea water. But the work would be far easier, and we would get more gold from a cubic yard of sea water than we would radium from a ton of pitchblende. Perhaps, then, it will not be hard to appreciate how little radium there is in the world—less than twenty grains, certainly not half a teaspoonful of pure radium bromide. A grain of gold can be had for five cents or less. Diamonds are worth by weight much more, perhaps $10 a grain, but the cost of radium is truly fabulous—$7,200 for a single grain—Harper's Weekly. Chinole Bermidges China's Permicious Tax System. Peking is now quite safe for foreigners to go freely in all parts of the city, except in the Forbidden City, where the emperor's palace is situated. The Chinese are developing slowly along the road toward western civilization, but so far they have not attained any great speed. Men who have spent their lives in the east and know the country thoroughly declare that China will not develop materially until she has a good government. The present system of collecting taxes, which has been in vogue for centuries, is the mother of all graft, the incubus under which the nation is suffering, and will keep the country back until the system has been completely wiped out—New York Times. Trying Ordeal For a Hunter While partridge shooting at Buxted a sportsman suddenly had hundreds of wasps settle upon him. They crawled upon his hands and face, but he kept his nerve and did not interfere with them. The wasps scared the gentleman's friends, and they got some distance away, being afraid to go near him. After about ten minutes the wasps flew off in a body without having stung him—London Standard. BUCKING AN ICE FLOE. An Incident in One of Peary's Arctic Exploration Trials. One of the most striking passages in Robert E. Peary's "Nearest the Pole" is his description of the action of an ice floe which threatened his ship. He writes: "Its slow, resistible motion was frightful, yet fascinating. Thousands of tons of smaller ice which the big floe drove before it the Roosevelt had easily and gracefully turned under her sloping bliges, but the edge of the big floe rose to the plank sheer, and a few yards back from its edge was an old pressure ridge, which rose higher than the bridge deck. This was the crucial moment. For a minute or so, which seemed an age, the pressure was terrific. The Roosevelt's ribs and interior bracing cracked like the discharge of musketry, the deck amidships bulged up several inches, while the main rigging shook slack and the masts and rigging shook as in a violent gale. Then, with a mighty tremor and a sound which reminded me of an athlete intaking his breath for a supreme effort, the ship shook herself free and jumped upward till her propeller showed above water. The big floe snapped against the edge of the ice foot forward and att and under us, crumpling up its edge and driving it inshore some yards, then came to rest, and the commotion was transferred to the outer edge of the floe, which crumbled away with a dull roar as other floes smashed against it and tore off great pieces in their onward rush, leaving the Roosevelt stranded, but safe." On another occasion it required thirty-five and a half hours of incessant strain and struggle to clear a way through the obstructing ice floes to the open water beyond. Mr. Peary says: "The Roosevelt fought like a gladiator, turning, twisting, straining with all her force, smashing her full weight against the heavy floes whenever we could get room for a rush and rearing upon them like a steeplechaser taking a fence. Ah, the thrill and tension of it, the lust of battle, which crowded days of ordinary life into one! The forward rush, the gathering speed and momentum, the crash, the upward heave, the grating snarl of the ice as the steel shod stem split it as a mason's hammer splits granite or trod it under or sent it right and left in whirling fragments, followed by the violent roll, the backward rebound and then the gathering for another rush were glorious." At such times the physical tension was intense: "Every one on deck hung with breathless interest on our movement, and as Bartlett and I clung in the rigging I heard him whisper through teeth clinched from the purely physical tension of the throbbing ship under us: 'Give it to 'em, Teddy; give it to 'em!' More than once did a fireman come panting on deck for a breath of air, look over the side, mutter to himself, 'By thunder, she's got to go through!' then drop into the stakehold, with the result a moment later of an extra belch of black smoke from the stack and an added turn or two to the propeller." A. Whirlwind Ship. "Typhonoid," a word derived from a Greek term meaning whirlwind, has been applied to a new type of boat invented by a French engineer, who seeks to do away with the present day screw propeller. The new screw is placed at the bow of the boat instead of at the stern, and it is believed that by it the centrifugal displacement and the central void of the present type are converted into benefits, and the limit to the advantageous increase in velocity of rotation of the propeller is removed. The apparatus is designed to work by suction in the manner of a waterspout. The inventor figures that his boat, with a thirty-two and a half inch screw, will go through the water at a rate of more than sixty-two miles an hour. The Picture Postal Card. The picture or souvenir postal card is probably doing more to make the world known to the untraveled than all the geographies and gazetteers. There is scarcely a village anywhere in the domain of the postal union that has not had its picture taken for a postal card impression in black or white or in colors, and thus its humble fame has been carried over seas and introduced to the four corners of the Union. All the aliens and prodigal sons cannot return for the old home week celebrations, but, thanks to the man who invented the picture postal card, they may be reminded the old home scenes at an expenditure of a few cents—New York Sun. Tough Remedies. Tibet's army is to be modernized, and with it probably will be the grand lama's military medical staff corps. The sick Tibetan soldier, it was reported a year ago, was put through a sort of faith healing process. An army physician of the old school chalked a prescription on a board. The martial patient washed off the lettering and drank the rinsings. The plan of the younger doctor was simpler. He scrawled his prescription on a piece of paper and gave it to the invalid to chew and swallow. Windmille and Electricity. The use of windmills for generating electric current has given favorable results in the tests for the Danish government made by Professor La Cour. The four wing wheel proves to be the best form. 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