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Rev. T. J. Smith, better known as Broad-Axe Smith, was born at Sandy Lake, Mercer County, Pa., on the 29th, of December, 1838. He entered the ministry at the age of seventeen, and was connected with the Underground Rail Road. He embarked on the sea of Journalism with twenty-five cents in cash, borrowed money, in 1881. He first published the "Colored Citizen" and as it seemed the Colored Citizen had no rights which its subscribers were pecuniarly bound to respect, it went to the bottom of the sea. Shortly afterward he started the daily Wasp but got stung so badly that he had to hew it to death with a Broad-Axe. The Broad-Axe still lives, hewing to the line, letting the chips fall where they may.

John M. Clark, one of the proprietors and publishers of the Broad-Axe, was born at Drummonsville, Ontario, May, 1850. He started life as a butcher, and afterward went into the horseshoeing business. He is now a contractor and one of the editors of the Broad-Axe.

J. C. Delphy, A. B. was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on July 14, 1857. Shortly after graduating from Howard University, Washington, D. C. in 1881, he became correspondent for the