The Broad Ax

VOL. V. THE UNITED BROTHERHOOD. In the organization under the laws of this state of the United Brotherhood, which is a new fraternal and beneficiary society, the Afro-Americans throughout the United States as well as those of other nationalities will be enabled to obtain life insurance on far superior, or better and more reasonable terms than they have heretofore. This new company has just opened up an elegant suite of offices in the Quincy building, 113 Adams street, and it will be the main office of the United Brotherhood. The offices of the imperial council are as follows: Hon. Alexander Miles, Duluth, Minn., capitalist; S. Laing Williams, attorney; Daniel H. Williams, M. D.; E. H. Morris, Esq., Hon. Edward H. Wright, county commissioner, Chicago; Rev. W. H. Weaver, D. D., Maryland, Hon. J. Frank Wheaton, member of the Minnesota legislature, and M. H. Seely also of Duluth, Minn. The United Brotherhood cannot be otherwise than successful, for it has some extraordinary brainy men at its head. Mr. Miles is well known to all the financiers and business men throughout Minnesota and the northwest. For years he has been a member of the board of trade of Duluth, and has accumulated a handsome fortune in dealing in real estate. He, in connection with Mr. Seely, imperial secretary of the United Brotherhood, who also is widely known as a gentleman of great executive ability and much force, have expended almost two years in perfecting all the plans and minute details of the company. Mr. Seely and his ancestors have long been the earnest friends of the colored race and he is the only member of the white race, who is actively connected with the organization. He is a firm believer in the equal rights of all men before the law and that each and every man, regardless of his color or previous condition of servitude, should be permitted to enjoy unhampered to the fullest extent all the rights of American citizenship. Hon. J. Frank Wheaton, grand organizer for the United Brotherhood, stands high at the bar of Minneapolis, Minn., and he was the only Afro-American elected to the legislature of that state in 1898. His integrity and ability is unquestioned, and the company was fortunate in securing his valuable services. The standing of those residing in Chicago, connected with the United Brotherhood, is so well known that any further reference to them is unnecessary. The insurance policies which will be issued by the United Brotherhood contain many commendable features and no plan of insurance that has ever been started is as liberal or as broad as it is, for the company will know no creed or color. This new Afro-American enterprise is unlike any other ever started in this country and the United Brotherhood should be hailed with great joy by the ten million Afro-Americans, for they can now secure first-class life insurance as reasonable as the whites. For literature and other information concerning the United Brotherhood address J. Frank Wheaton, organizer, of M. H. Seely, imperial secretary, 113 Adams street. We have received an extract of the great speech of Congressman William Sulzer of New York on, "The Trusts Must Go." The congressman kicks out against the trusts in every direction, he quotes from Andrew Jackson and his argument and his logic cannot be brushed aside. In closing he says: "In this war of extermination against the octopus or the trusts which are enslaving our industrial masses and destroying our free institutions, we should envoke the aid and the support of every lover of liberty." Congressman Sulzer has a brilliant future before him in the political world and The Broad Ax would like to see the national ticket read, for President of the United States, Colonel Wm. J. Bryan of Nebraska, for Vice President, William Sulzer of New York. Mrs. L. A. Davis, president of the Hart, called on their numerous friends Phyllis Wheatley Club, and Mrs. J. B. New, Year's day, which seems to be a revival of the olden custom. We have all along been sympathizing with Brigham H. Roberts of Utah, the Mormon satesman whose right to a seat in Congress has been disputed because he has three wives. We are still his sympathizer. Roberts married his wives according to the accepted tenets of the Mormon Church of which he is a leading member. When Roberts married the three women Utah was a territory and the plurality of wives was a recognized part of the territory, except perhaps among a few Gentiles, who composed the most insignificant part of Utah. When Utah was admitted as a state it was with a constitution prohibiting polygamy and the Mormon Church did all in its power to enforce the new constitution. Mr. Roberts was among the few who thought it dishonorable to desert the women to whom he had been lawfully married. For this he deserves the credit of all decent Americans. The very men who are hounding Roberts for having three wives to whom he is legally married have half a dozen to whom they were not married and an additional two dozen concubines. There are men in Congress, there are bishops of the Methodist church, other ecclesiastics, merchants, bankers, and others high up in the social scale of American life who are the keepers of Negro women, and their bastard children are roaming the streets of America. In comparison with these whoremongers Brigham H. Roberts is an angel in morals. But this is not all. News reaches us that the Gentiles of Utah, members of the Salt Lake Turf Exchange, the very men who are passing resolutions opposing Roberts because he is a Mormon, have put up a sign on the walls of the Exchange with this legend, "No colored patronage wanted." If this action of these Gentiles, together with their concubinage proclivities and their burning of their fellowmen at the stake is an evidence of their New Testament Christianity then we prefer Brigham H. Roberts and his Mormonism.—The Standard, Lexington, Ky. Brother Benjamin, you have dealt the hypocrites and pharisees several sledgehammer blows right on the top of their bald pates, and it is equally disgusting to us to see the so-called sanctified and holy men of God fighting B. H. Roberts, who are steeped in sin and licentiousness up to their chins and who would not hesitate for one moment if the opportunity afforded them not only to ruin and debauch the daughter of B. H. Roberts, but any other proposessing female, black or white, whom they could decoy into their meshes. RACE PREJUDICE NORTH AND SOUTH. It will have to be admitted that there is a prejudice against colored men in the skilled trades which must and does inure to their material disadvantage, and which nothing but the lapse of time and the spread of civilapse of time and the spread of education will overcome. There is, to all accounts, less of it in the south than in northern communities. The Negro is better understood in his native habitat than elsewhere, and it is there that he must work out his future destiny and salvation.—Philadelphia Inquirer. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Was very good in its way, but why on earth, he saw fit to be silent on the Negro, who made it possible for him to let the position of President honor him—he certainly does not honor it—is a question. We have never been a McKinley woman from a political view; but we did have some rspect for Mr. McKinley. Now he has proven himself guilty of the mother of crimes—ungratefulness, and we are disgusted with him. The Ship, Bristol, Mo. NOTICE. We will not resume our series of articles on "The political Parties and the Negro," until the next issue of The Broad Ax. Editor and Mrs. Taylor enjoyed the hospitalities of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, 5045 Armour avenue, Christmas night. A very tempting lunch was served by the hostess. HEW TO THE LINE. HON. CARTER H. HARRISON. To show that The Broad Ax was in touch with the Hon. Carter H. Harrison, prior to his first nomination for mayor, and while it was being published in Salt Lake City, Utah, we will reproduce several extracts from it in reference to that gentleman and his candidacy. The Broad Ax of Feb. 27, 1897, after speaking "of our aquaintance with Carter H. Harrison Sr., who was a southern gentleman and the best mayor Chicago ever had, and refering to his well known friendship for the colored race, we said, "that The Broad Ax hopes that Carter H. Harrison Jr. would be elected mayor of Chicago, for we firmly believe that he will prove to be a good friend to our race." It further said in its issue of April 10, 1897, that "Democracy is again triumphant. The election in Chicago on April 5, gave to Carter Henry Harrison a vote of eighty-five thousand plurality over Judge Nathaniel [Name] MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON Who received sixty-five per cent of the Afro-Ameri election. Who received sixty-five per cent of the Afro-American vote at the last election. Sears, the machine Republican candidate for mayor." The whole gang of Republicans, including present office holders and would-be office holders, were loaded on to the Republican boat and sent up Salt River to nurse their wounds. Mayor-elect Harrison said, "The workingmen were with me." Yes, and we are with you, and we congratulate you and the good people of Chicago in this deserved success. Misrule and extravagance are to give way to economy and good government. April 8, 1899, after his last election. The Broad Ax editorially said, "Two years ago Carter H. Harrison, the young giant of Democracy, was elected mayor of Chicago by an unprecedented majority. At that time a very fierce and bitter fight was made against him by two Republican candidates and Washington Hesing, who represented a small faction of the Democratic party, and the great Republican newspapers. But Mr. Harrison like his illustrious father, had the confidence of all classes of his fellow citizens, and he won out against the mighty forces which were solidly united against him." "Mayor Harrison's official conduct during the past two years has met with the very highest approbation, and he was again re-elected on last Tuesday, by a vote much larger than two years ago, showing that the people have not lost faith !n Carter H. Har- rison the second, who will be the next governor of Illinois." So far we have not gone far astray in our calculations, for no mayor of this city since his father's time has given employment to as many colored men as our present mayor and there are now well on to one hundred colored men employed under his administration, and whenever any of our colored citizens enter his office they are accorded the same right and privileges as the whites. These are a few of the reasons why he is beloved by them, and why a larger per cent of them will vote for him than any other man that can be nominated for governor by the great Democratic party of Illinois. The Hon. J. Nick Perrin, of Belleville, Congressman B. F. Caldwell, General Ovendoff, of Springfield, and Hon. Charles K. Ladd, of Kewanee, have also been mentioned in connection with the governorship, and either one of these eminent gentlemen are T. K. M. well qualified for all the honors which can be conferred upon them. But it is our opinion, that Mayor Harrison is in the public eye more than anyone who has been spoken of for that office and is the logical candidate and will be nominated and elected governor of the third state in the Union. The last issue of The Ship, of Bristol, Va., which is edited by that brainey and noble woman, Mrs. C. C. Steward, contains a well written article on Congressman Brigham H. Roberts of Utah, which should be read by the narrow-minded and would-be pious men and women who are opposed to B. H. Roberts taking his seat in Congress. Dennis J. Hogan, Mayor of Geneva, Ill., and member of the Democratic State Central and Executive Committee is one of those big hearted men who does not believe in holding onto and squeezing a dollar until the eagle squeakes, but he believes in helping to keep money in circulation and recognizing the value of newspapers, he has therefore become a reader of the Broad Ax. B. F. Nash, of Champaign, Ill., has come to the city to reside with his sister, Mrs. Patterson, 5058 Dearborn street. Mr. Nash is a promising musician and intends to persue the study of music at the Chicago Musical College. County Commissioner Edward H. Wright was elected president of the Sumner Club Tuesday night. $110 was paid in by the eleven new members who joined the organization. John E. Fitzgerald, Sachem of the 20th Ward, is in line for nomination for either clerk of the circuit or superior court. Mr. Fitzgerald has been a hard and active worker in the past for the success of the party and his claims cannot reasonably be ignored. Colonel Wm. J. Bryan, Governor McMillin, of Tennessee, Mayor Carter H. Harrison and several other distinguished gentlemen, will be the guests of honor at the Jackson celebration which will be given by the Bryan League of Cook County at the Tremont House. Saturday evening. Jan. 6. T. J. Calloway, Esq., who has been commissioned to act as special agent on Negro education and exhibits at the Paris Exposition, spent several days in Chicago this week. Mr. Calloway informed us that he felt highly encouraged over the prospect of making a creditable exhibit at the exposition. The Negro has for many years stood in his own light. He has allowed himself to be humored and petted by political highwaymen who are Republicans for no other reason than a chance for office. He is beginning to get over this foolishness and straighten up his spinal column.—Ex. Several friends and admirers of The Broad Ax in Utah, remembered Mrs. Taylor and ourself on Christmas by forwarding several choice presents. These torkens of friendship, coming from old acquaintances, are highly valued, and we shall always treasure up in our hearts kindly feelings for the senders. Hon. M. J. Butler, member of the state legislature and president of the 30th Ward Democratic Club, will more than likely become a candidate for the state senatorship. Mr. Butler is very popular with all classes and if he should should decide to accept the nomination he would be elected without a doubt. J. N. Blackshear has passed the civil service examination and has temporarily been assigned to duty in the city collector's office. Mr. Blackshear is an Afro-American and he with pleasure states, that "City Collector Brandecker, who is a broad gaged Democrat, and his assistants treat him with much consideration." Congressman George P. Foster passed the holiday season at home and left for Washington to resume his labors in Congress Thursday night. The congressman has the interest of the people, not only of his district, but of the entire city and the great state of Illinois as well, at heart, and there is no valid reason why he should not be re-nominated and re-elected. Fredrick L. McGhee, the leading Afro-American lawyer of St. Paul, Minn., and the great expounder of Democracy passed through the city the past week on his way to Washington, D. C., where he attended a meeting of the executive committee of the Afro-American National Council, of which he is a member. Mr. McGhee will return home by way of New York City. Vincent H. Perkins: "I have perused with much interest from time to time the articles contained in The Broad Ax, and I desire to say, that if the members of your race would accept one half of the advice which you impart to them through the columns of your paper they would be immeasurably benefited in many ways. Continue in your good work for Democcy and success will be yours bye and bye." The Phyllis Wheatley Club gave an open meeting Wednesday night, and it was addressed by W. H. A. Moore, who gave a very short but very practical talk on the Negro race and his relation to other races. Wednesday night, Jan. 10, the Phyllis Wheatley Club will give a musincale at their rooms, 5058 Dearborn street. Admission 10 cents. The proceeds will be applied on the payment of its new piano. George E. Brennen, Esq., ex-assistant secretary of state, has been urged NO. 11. by many substantial citizens of the 30th ward to become a candidate for state senator. Mr. Brennen has a clean record behind him and he has the reputation of being a fighter from away back. It is more than likely that whoever is pitted against him for the nomination will realize that they are not fighting any man of straw. Mrs. George J. Terrell, of 4632 Armour avenue, gave a New Years' diner in honor of her husband's birthday. The repast was simply elegant in every detail. Mrs. Terrell is a very neat housekeeper and an extraordinary good cook. Those who were present on the occasion were: Mrs. Yales, Mrs. Maurey, Mrs. Terrell, mother of George J., the two Misses Terrell, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney S. A, T. Watkins, Mr. Brown and the editor of The Broad Ax. Thos. J. Nerney, who is an honored citizen of the 30th Ward and secretary of the Citizens Brewing Company, is widely known as a lover of freedom and liberty, and is always ready to assist his fellow men. Mr. Nerney will take part in the great mass meeting at Central Music Hall, Friday evening, Jan. 5, under the auspices of United Irish Societies, whose aim and object is to raise contributions to aid the brave Boers in their fight against the English army. All the smart and would-be leading Afro-American Republican politicians adorned their manly forms with big red Tanner badges, and went down to Springfield, yelping and shouting for that gentleman, but Judge Hanecy walked away with the pudding, and the Tanner colored shouters were dumped into the pit. Judge Hanecy is the best and cleanest man the machine could unite upon. But he will be knocked out by Mayor Carter H. Harrison, for this is a Democratic year. The Broad Ax of Chicago continues to strike at all unpleasing things. We would like to meet The Broad Ax man, as he appears to be on the reform list, and we are sure that no other instrument would be more desirable for clearing the way than The Broad Ax.-The Palladium, St. Louis, Mo. Editor Cooper and Manager Wheeler! We hope to have the pleasure some day of making the acquaintance of you gentlemen, for it is our opinion that the Palladium stands for the best interests of the race and is a red-hot reformer. LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. Dear Sir-I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform principles. That platform stands for such a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such a government will prove a blessing to the great majority of the people. Headquarters of Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois, Sherman House, Chicago, Oct. 5th, 1899. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—a publication of this city devoted to the interests of the democratic party, and an able exponent of democratic principles—comes to us highly recommended, and I therefore take pleasure in commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. Chairman Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois. Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this city well recommended, has begun the publication of "The Broad Ax," which, I am informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankind in general. While he is thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty support of all loyal and true friends of Democracy. Respectfully, THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of labor, Infidels, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; write only on one side of the paper. One Year..... $2.00 Six Months..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application Address all communications io JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. AMERICANIZING THE PANAMA CANAL The information that an American corporation, specially organized for the purpose, has acquired the interests of the French Panama Canal company and intends to push the enterprise with characteristic American vigor, is of obvious importance and interest. That the Panama project would have to be reckoned with has been certain for some time, and, in fact, the new canal commission appointed under a resolution of the late congress was specially instructed to inquire into the present conditions and future prospects of the Panama canal, in addition to its re-examination of the Nicaraguan route and the various problems connected therewith. The report of this commission will not be ready for many months, and in some quarters there has been a disposition to urge congress to act without further delay. But the latest news puts a new face upon the situation. EUROPEAN WAR CLOUDS It is beginning to look more and more as if the European powers will come together in a clash of arms over the Transvaal problem. Surface indications are that France is getting her superb navy into fighting trim, and Russia's Black sea fleet is also getting ready for business. Great Britain is massing her best fighting ships close to home. Germany is as yet inactive. The slightest move on the part of the latter will be the signal for France and Russia to attack England, as it is known that Germany is not unfriendly to Britain. The immediate casus belli may be Delagoa bay or some other trivial matter, but the real cause is the determination of Russia to wrest India away from Victoria. France wants Egypt as her share. It is believed that long before the South African war has run its course all Europe will be disturbed by the greater conflict—the greatest that the world has ever known. GREAT RAILROAD'S PENSION SYSTEM With Jan. 1 the Pennsylvania Railroad company began a system of pensioning its old employes. The road has 950 employes over 70 years of age. The pension is to be equal to 1 per cent for each year of continuous service of the average salary of the last ten years of a man's employment. The pensions will continue during the lives of the retired employes, provided the total amount does not exceed $300,000 a year. When this sum is exceeded a readjustment of the roll on a basis of a lower percentage will be made. It is estimated that about the lowest pension an old employee can expect is $16 a month. Men physically disqualified who have been thirty years in the company's service and have reached the age of 65 are also to be entitled to pensions under the scheme. THE OLD CROP OF INDUSTRIALS. The English have lately been getting in the annual reports of the many industrial companies of the United States which were promoted, financed and floated in the London market in the boom years of 1888 to 1891, and the result is a chorus of lamentation in all the financial publications of the United Kingdom. Principal English ventures were in the way of food products—mostly in beer, meat and flour—and as these concerns fail to earn a dividend in the recent good times in the states, the editor is constrained to reply that the ventures were grossly overcapitalized, and that so much money and ingenuity constantly seeking profitable employment a company cannot long earn large dividends on watered stocks unless it has some peculiar advantage in its trade. FOR BETTER CONSULS The executive committee of the National Business league of Chicago, working in conjunction with a committee of five of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, is preparing a bill to be introduced into congress which, if adopted by that body, will completely revolutionize the present methods of appointing consuls to other countries. So many complaints have been made regarding the inefficiency of the majority of the present consular representatives and the detrimental effects which the commerce of this country eventually will feel as a result of this that the members of the business league say they have been forced to take the steps they have. MISSION OF THE MONTGOMERY It has just developed that the United States cruiser Montgomery has been on a s.e.c. et mission to Liberia, Africa, performed, it is believed, with a view to displaying the American flag in Liberian waters, and the location of a site for an American coaling station on the La Porta, Texas. The progress of the construction work at La Porte, Texas, the future great deep-water shipping point at the head of navigation on Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, is progressing favorably. The wharves and switching tracks are nearing completion and the work on the streets and on the sewerage and water systems now under way. Mr. I. R. Holmes, the general manager of the La Porte Improvement Company and the La Porte Wharf and Channel Company, is personally superintending the improvements. Mr. Holmes makes his headquarters at the Sylvan Hotel and visitors to La Porte during the next six weeks and before the time of the first general La Porte sale, which will be held in February, 1900, should introduce themselves to Mr. Holmes and allow him to extend to them facilities for getting a thorough understanding of the conditions surrounding the La Porte enterprises. His Dying Thought. From the Argonaut: An old bedridden fisherman at a Scotch watering place was frequently visited during his last illness by a kind-hearted clergyman, who wore one of those close-fitting clerical waistcoats which button behind. The clergyman saw the near approach of death one day in the old man's face, and asked if his mind was perfectly at ease. "Oo, ay, I'm a richt," came the feeble reply. "You are sure there is nothing troubling you? Do not be afraid to tell me." The old man seemed to hesitate, and at length, with a faint return of animation, said: "Weel, there's just a thing that troubles me, but I dinna like to speak o't." "Believe me, I am most anxious to comfort you," replied the clergyman; "tell me what it is that troubles and perplexes you." "Weel, sir, it's just like this," said the old man, eagerly; "I canna for the life o' me mak' oot hoo ye manage tae get intae that weskit." Solid Trains to Northern Michigan Solid Trains to Northern Michigan. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway is now running solid trains of palace sleeping cars, dining cars (serving meals a la carte) and first-class day coaches, through from Chicago to Calumet, Houghton, Hancock and other points in the Copper country without change of cars, with direct connection for Marquette, Negaunee, Ishpeming, etc., and passengers from the East, South and Southwest will find this a most desirable route. All coupon ticket agents sell tickets via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Acquitted. "Remember," said the young man with the downy mustache and the foreign title, "I am not a fortune hunter." "No," answered Mr. Cumrox, gloomily, "I discovered that shortly after I became your father-in-law. You propose to sit still and have the fortune walk into your bank account You wouldn't do anything so fatiguing as to get up and hunt it."—Washington Star. Harmless and Useful. That a volunteer soldier may be a harmless and useful member of society was proved the other day by the sight of a man in the familiar blue uniform and campaign hat who cheerfully helped his wife to carry a big clothes basket. He on one side of the dainty heap of linen appeared big and brave and happy, and she on the other side seemed business-like and entirely unconscious, though every one that passed them smiled. Use of the Zebra. From Sydney Town and Country Journal: A little boy, writing a composition on the zebra, was requested to describe the animal and to mention what it is useful for. After deep reflection he wrote: "The zebra is like a horse, only striped. It is chiefly used to illustrate the letter Z." An Unfortunate Recollection. "Whom did you marry, Billy?" "A Miss Jones of Philadelphia." "You always did like the name 'Jones;' you used to tag round after a little snub-nosed Jones girl when we went to school together." "Yes; she's the girl I married."— Detroit Free Press. THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE Of the Lake Shore Book of Trains is something entirely out of the ordinary in the way of railroad literature and will be of interest to all. Copy will be sent to any address on receipt of 4 cents in stamps. F. M. Byron, G. W. A., Chicago; A. J. Smith, G. P. A., Cleveland. One Secret She Kent From Melbourne Weekly Times: Grumpy—"Pshaw! Women can never keep a secret." Mrs. Grumpy—"Can't, eh? Perhaps I haven't guarded the secret that the wedding ring you gave me was plated." Cheap Texas Lands The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway covers central and south Texas. Good lands, reasonable prices, mild and healthful climate. Address E. J. MARTIN, Gen'l Pass. Agt., A Sure Sign. "Those people next door are newly married." "How do you know?" "I see the husband helping with the housework."—Ohio State Journal. A French scientist has found that some kinds of mushroom afford a vaccine against the venom of snakes. The juice of the mushroom renders a person immune against the poison for a month or two. When a man is rich enough to afford a luxury it ceases to be a luxury. THE PRESENT PANIC. THE PRESENT PANIC. ASCRIBABLE TO THE GOLD STANDARD ALONE. A Learned Presentment of the Case from the Atlanta Constitution-There Is Not Enough Money in the Country to Sustain Genuine Prosperity. Our gold standard friends seem to be in a tremendous pucker over the wreck and ruin that visited Wall street and they are very busy assigning causes for it. This they find very difficult to do. Each one has his particular pet theory. One says it is due to overspeculation, another declares that it is the outcome of the over-capitalization of trusts, another says it is the "result of well-known conditions," and still another darkly hints that the collapse was brought about by a well-known banking firm which is interested in preventing the completion of certain railroad deals in the south; whereas, in point of fact, the very firm that was placed under the accusation was the first to come to the rescue of the street by loaning a million of cash at 6 per cent, when brokers were eager to pay as high as 125 per cent. Now the fact that very few of our gold standard friends agree on any theory, however plausible, is a certain sign that they have been taken off their feet by the sudden developments in Wall street—that the collapse came upon the stock exchange like a clap of thunder from a clear sky. One very shrewd editor who perceives that it is necessary to forestall public opinion in this particular vows that those who see any connection between the collapse and the adoption by the house of the gold standard measure are wilfully blind. So be it; put us down among the blind and then, send us in raised letters some plausible explanation of an event of which one gold standard editor has been moved to say: "It swept like a tornado through the stock list, and made havoc with fortunes that a week ago seemed substantial. No one will ever be able to estimate the ruin and wreck it has caused, for the area of its influence extends over the whole country, and includes all classes of people." In regard to panics that are past and gone, we have never seen any plausible explanation that separates the panic of 1873 from the surreptitious demonetization of silver, or the panic of 1893 from the closing of the Indian mint to the free coinage of silver. Nor do we perceive any material difference between the conditions of 1893 and the conditions of 1899, except this, that last Monday's panic was more ruinous than that which preceded the depression in 1893. Prosperity prevailed then, prosperity prevails now; the first note of the panic then was the failure of the cordage trust company, and the first note of the panic last Monday was the failure of a trust company. We hope, indeed, that we shall not have a repetition of the various and manifold disasters of 1893. The country has been adjusting itself all along to a lower plane of living and to less expensive business, and we are confident that whatever stroke is in store for the country, it will not fall as heavily or be as disastrous as that of 1893. There is but one augury of evil in sight, and that is the enormous overcapitalization of the trust companies that have been formed. These present to the ax of the gold standard a vast broadside of wind and paper, folly and credulity, and when the paper bubble bursts there will hurrying to and fro, and loud wails from those who have been induced to invest in wind. It is this event that is most to be feared, for when the wind and paper trusts begin to explode the spectacle will create consternation even among those who have nothing to lose, and this means the loss of confidence and the restoration of conditions that are neither happy nor desirable. But the real evil, the evil which will remain with us until the people rise up and put an end to it, is the fact that the gold standard places it in the power of a dozen men to control the available capital of the country. This dozen men can put a quick end to industrial development at any hour of the day or night, and they can wreck any system or any organization that presumes to compete with concerns in which they have placed investments. So far as the actual scarcity of money is concerned, the technical authorities are at one in ascribing it to the demand for cash created by increasing business and the expansion of industrial development. This means that we have outrun or are about to outrun the limits set by the gold standard. When prosperity comes to a standstill, it ceases to be prosperity; its own growth and development are what it feeds on. Deprived of this food, it perishes. On this expansion in business and industry the various movements in Wall street are based. When the concerns whose stocks and bonds are listed in Wall street are prospering and earning dividends the securities that represent them rise in value; but money and plenty of it is just as much needed to give buoyancy to trade in the street as it is to support business throughout the country. When, from lack of money, the Coxey yeil is heard echoing in those precincts, it means that serious complications will ensue unless the necessary money is forthcoming. What those complications are at their worst may be seen in the accounts of last Monder's panic. In brief, a fall in the value of the securities in which Wall street deals tends to make it more difficult for the concerns represented by the depreciated securities to borrow money; and this tendency, like prosperity, grows by what it feeds on. Whether the collapse in Wall street is to be followed by a movement on the part of the banks to call in their loans and take the profits that are always ready to the hand of money owners at the beginning of a panic remains to be seen. It is certain that they cannot afford to continue indifinitely their present methods, and it is equally certain that unless our present business and industrial expansion comes to an end, the demand for money will continue to be more and more insistent in Wall street. If there were fresh supplies of money coming in from any source, we should have a different report to make; the whole situation would be different; but money, in spite of the demand for it in New York to sustain values, is going out, and the prospects are that it will continue to go out. It is plain to all who understand and keep up with the undertow of the financial situation that our gold standard friends are merely whistling to keep their courage up. Without any well-grounded assurance of their own, they are striving to assure themselves and the rest of the country. We sincerely hope their efforts will be successful, but the most that we provincials can do is to look abroad and report facts as we find them.—Atlanta Constitution. A TRADE REVIEW IMPOSTURE. In the weekly trade review of Dun & Co., of December 23, the most astonishing cause of the recent Wall street flurry is given a deluded public: "The worst day in Wall street for years was in part the legitimate result of the best year in business ever known. Because the country had prospered so greatly and had so expanded its business, it could no longer afford to have many millions locked up in carrying stocks representing imaginary values. The question was not one of monetary supply. When the country found ample use for its capital in regular trade and productive industry a contraction of loans became necessary, which would only have been more painful if the volume of stocks carried had been larger. Reckoning from the highest general average last spring, industrial stocks had fallen at the close on Monday 23.27 per cent; street railroad stocks, 38.90 per cent; and other railroad and telegraph stocks only 6.70 per cent." In other words, the most disastrous panic Wall street and the country generally ever knew, one which depreciated values in securities of all sorts by nearly $400,000,000, and caused a financial loss to thousands and ruin to many, was merely the result of a highly prosperous business expansion and the consequence of a plethora of money. It is impossible for the people to be deceived by such specious excuses, or gulled by similar commercial reviews. The truth is that when the Standard Oil Company desires to obtain possession and control of the New Amsterdam Gas Company, or any other trust wishes to force any other property to yield to it, it is legitimate to create a money stringency and ruin the people by compelling them to sacrifice their securities. It is incredible that the people "who have many millions locked up in carrying stocks representing imaginary values" can lose those millions and still consider themselves prosperous. It gives one the impression that our whole monetary system is a delusion and a snare. A LOST PROP. . The main prop to our commercial agency manufactured prosperity was knocked out on the now historical black Monday, December 18, 1896, when leading industrials shrunk in value nearly half a billion dollars. The Louisville Dispatch in puncturing this "Phase of Trusts." wisely observes: "Many of the trusts have been organized purely for speculation, and some as legitimate investments and for profits out of the conduct of the business involved. But all are more or less drawn into the speculative field. Even the most substantial stocks do not always stand on their merits. When industries are combined to cheapen production, the consolidation adjusted upon a fair basis and the business involved honestly conducted, it has some defense in equity and in morals. But when combinations are effected to list watered stock for the purpose of speculation, when such stock is given a fictitious value because of the supposed power of the combinations to exact exorbitant profits, if they succeed they rob the public, and if they fail they disturb the business world. This is the worst feature of the trust movement." This goes to the root of our whole pernicious trust system. Since it is in the power of the "prosperity boomers" to destroy whatever prosperity does exist by a twist of the stock market, depreciating values far below any possible gain from legitimate commercial profits, it is time to throttle the dragon. Death of Organized Labor The American Federation of Labor at its recent meeting in Detroit declared that "Territorial expansion meant the death of organized labor." What else is likely to follow from the amalgamation into our citizenship of a horde of cheap labor Malays and Hawaiians? There are many other things at work undermining organized labor as well as reducing the average American citizen to the condition of a serf. The federation recognizes trusts as one of those agents. As Mr. Max S. Hayes said, speaking upon the resolution of the federation: "The middle class will be abolished. They will be forced to become wage-workers, trade-unionists." Then "the working people will have become nearly the whole people. They will control the government, and the plutocrats will be powerless." Still, there is the alarming growth of militarism, our curious financial system, and the utter destruction of the rights of the individual, the concentration of money in the hands of a few, and many other things that are so many preparations to destroy organized labor and the rights of humanity. It is well to "unite in opposition to expansion regardless of party allegiance," but with the Republican party advocating all of the evils complained of, and the Democratic party standing against them all, it is easy to see where the "party allegiance" should be manifested. There is no forlorn hope; the correction of the evils denounced may be effected with a united effort now. FOREIGN PAUPER LABOR. One of the essentials of the Democratic party is its opposition to foreign pauper labor, and the consequent protection of American workmen by its exclusion. It is the one competition against which American labor cannot compete. Yet we learn that there is a horde of foreigners brought into this country from Italy, Austria and China, under the noses of our officials, in pursuance of slave contracts, and who remain slaves for an indefinite number of years. Says the Chicago Tribune: "It is a notorious fact that Chinese are brought here in this way, and, while a number from Austria are brought over on the same terms. Italy furnishes the largest proportion of those who are virtually treated as slaves. Many employes of iron works throughout the country are secured in this way, most of them coming from Austria. At Avon, N. Y., there is a colony of 270 Italians who are under the direct control of one man, who hires them to farmers and fruit growers and takes most of their earnings, while those who perform the labor get little more than enough to eat, and are housed in buildings little better than cattle sheds." Our boastful Republican administration does not seem to be even a mongrel watch dog, either of the treasury or of the rights of American laborers. Its sole and only purpose and intent at the present time seems to be to curry favor with the sultan of Jolo, establish some sort of an unknown sovereignty in the Philippines, assist the speculators with the people's money, and re-elect Mr. McKinley. We have, for the first time in the history of this great republic, a president who reigns, but does not govern. THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII. The Hawaiian Gazette of Honolulu complains that the Portuguese and Japanese are taking up the best lands in the Hawaiian islands, to the exclusion of Americans: "What is the situation? What is the outlook there? The Portuguese have settled on this land and are doing well. Many, it is said 500, Japanese have taken land in Kula and Makawao, and are making excellent profits out of their agricultural work. Out of some hundreds of settlers are there any Americans? No. Yet the profits of agriculture in that section, today, would open the eyes of the small farmers of America. While there is much waving of the flag over the island with the patriotic shout that the islands must be Americanized, day by day, step by step, the men of other nationalities are becoming the bone and the sinew of the people. One looking upon these prosperous people preoccupying the land, must regard the case of American settlement in this region as almost hopeless. It is simply idle to say that the American farmer can or will supplant the Portuguese or the Orientals." When the Gazette wakes up to the fact that the acquisitions made by the McKinley administration are for the purpose of speculation and not for the benefit of American citizens, unless combined in a trust of some sort, there will not be any further editorial worry. That Mark A. Hanna is a good man, nobody within reach of his benefaction will deny. So when a pious gentleman, the other day, at a church fair, fervently ejaculated, upon receipt of a generous donation, "God bless you, senator," our eyes are moist through sympathy. But do not let this sanctimonious gallery play go any further, lest the senator be moved to join the church and publicly confess his short and long comings and goings. We have too much personal respect for Mr. Hanna to have him locked up in jail for the public safety, as was the self-confessed pickpocket at a religious revival in New Jersey the other day. By what strange conceit was Secretary Gage impelled to say in his recent address at Orange, N. J.: "It (the government) allows the institutions thus under its patronage and protection (the national banks) to take under control some $2,000,000,000 of the people's money, while in its own fiscal operations the government itself will not trust the best of them to the extent of one dollar." In vino veritas—that is to say, the truth is brought out at a banquet. Who can trust a bank after such a certificate of suspicious character emanating from so high a source? In the years 1832 to 1891, England lost 14,000,000 of its population by emigration. Germany lost 5,000,000 between 1832 and 1891. ZAEGEL'S SWEDISH ESSENCE A LIFE PRESERVER REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The great blood purifier Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life is to be given away free to readers of this paper. This remarkable medicine has an action that affects the entire system. It tones up the stomach and creates an appetite; works on the liver and has a mild, continuous effect upon the bowels, thus cleaning out the entire system; it makes new, rich blood, regulates the heart and kidneys and rids the body of all waste matter. It also induces a gentle perspiration, thus preventing fevers and congestion. Rheumatism, backache and headache, biliousness and all nervous diseases are rapidly cured, as well as all diseases of women. No one need trouble themselves to doubt whether this remedy will do all these things, for you can have a free trial package first and see what it does for you. Zaegel's Swedish Essence is so well known that probably quite a number of our readers are already using it, but this makes no difference, as a free trial package will be sent to everyone who writes. Do not neglect to get in your application at once. The best way is to sit down this minute, write a letter to M. R. Zaegel & Co., P. O. Box 831; Sheboygan, Wis., and say that you want a trial package of Swedish Essence of Life. This will be sent you by mail and is large enough to convince you of the merit of this celebrated household remedy. A 2-cent stamp should be enclosed in your letter to pay the postage on this free sample. The Theory of Play. Professor Groos, the well-known author of "Games of Animals," has just given to the public an account of the games of children and adults which is of use to the psychologist as well as the anthropologist. His treatise shows that he is as much at home in the nursery as in the gamblers' den or on the football field. He believes that the "surplus activity" theory of pay does not give sufficient justice to the pastimes of adults, while the "recreation" theory errs in not sufficiently considering the games of children. His own view is that play is, biologically, the great perfecter of imperfect instinct. Winter In the South. The season approaches when one's thoughts turn toward a place where the inconveniences of 3 Northern winter may be escaped. No section of this country offers such ideal spots as the Gulf Coast on the line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad between Mobile and New Orleans. It possesses a mild climate, pure air, even temperature and facilities for hunting and fishing enjoyed by no other section. Accommodations for visitors are first-class, and can be secured at moderate prices. The L. & N. R. R. is the only line by which it can be reached in through cars from Northern cities. Through car schedules to all points in Florida by this line are also perfect. Write for folders, etc., to J. K. Ridgely, N. W. P. A., Chicago, Ill. Winter Excursions. The Southern Pacific Company and its connections operate the best first and second-class service to California, Arizona, Texas and Mexico. Through Pullman Palace Sleepers and Tourist Sleepers from all principal eastern points. Personally conducted Tourist Excursions from Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, etc. For particulars and descriptive literature write W. G. Neimyer, Gen'l Western Agent, 238 Clark St., Chicago; W. H. Connor, Com'l Agent, Chamber Commerce Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio, or W. J. Berg, Trav. Pass Agt., 220 Ellicott Sq., Buffalo, N. Y. New England Thrift The New England woman had been telling how much money she had made during the summer in eggs. Someone expressed his surprise that she could do that and have a houseful of summer boarders besides. "How did you manage?" he said. "That was easy enough," she replied. "I just sent all those fresh eggs away and sold them at 35 cents a dozen and then went to the store and brought limed eggs at 25 cents. The summer boarder doesn't know the difference." Do You Sufer from War Or other stomach troubles? SLOCUM'S ANTI-DYSPEPTIC WORM CAKES are sold under positive guarantee to cure or money refunded. At all druggists, 25c. Insist on getting the genuine. Once Removed. Raynor—I hear there is a new baby next door to you. Shyne—You don't hear it half as often as I do.—Chicago Tribune. The B. & O. R. R. has placed an order with the Pullman's Palace Car Company for 1,500 box cars, and with the South Baltimore Car Works for 1,000 box cars. The cars are to be built according to the B. and O. standards. This makes a total of 8860 box and coal cars ordered for deliverey within the next six months. What we call liberaltly is often but the vanity of giving, which we more like than that we give away.—La Rochefoucauld Ayer's 20th Century Almanac (Not the ordinary kind) A handsome year-book filled with beautiful illustrations, and a complete calendar. It is sold on all news-stands for 5 cents, and it's worth five times that amount. It is a reliable chronology of the progress of the 19th century and a prophecy of what may be expected in the 20th. Here are a few of the great men who have written for it: Secretary Wilson, on Agriculture Sen. Chauncey M. Depew, on Politics Russell Sage, on Finance Thomas Edison, " Electricity Gen. Merritt, " Land Warfare Adml. Hichborn, " Naval Warfare "Al" Smith, " Sports You will enjoy reading it now, and it will be a book of reference for you through the years to come. Sixty-four pages, printed on ivory finish paper. If your news-dealer cannot supply you with it, cut out this ad. and send it with three one-cent stamps and receive this elegant book free. Address J.C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Advice of the Experienced Shoemaker. "People would find less difficulty in suiting themselves with shoes," said an experienced shoemaker, "if they would stand up to have them fitted. Nine persons out of ten require a particularly comfortable chair when they are having shoes tried on, and it is difficult to make them stand for a few minutes, even when the shoe is fitted. Then when they begin to walk about they are surprised that the shoes are less comfortable than they were when first fitted. The reason is simple. The foot is smaller when one sits in a chair than it is when one is walking about." Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Where the Trouble Lies. "Don't you have a horror of lending books?" "No; I haven't any horror of lending books, but I have a horror of not getting them back again."—Chicago Record. When a man is tried by adversity, he is always found wanting—something. Go to your grocer to-day and get a 15c. package of Grain=0 It takes the place of coffee at 1/4 the cost. Made from pure grains it is nourishing and healthful. Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O. Accept no imitation. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE. It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Crown, Influenza, Whoooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in First stages, and a cure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the First dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bettles 25 cents and 60 cents. VANDERBILT, HERMIT MEMBER OF FAMOUS FAMILY ON MOUNTAIN PEAK. Lives in a Lonely Cottage and Has for His Friends Spiders and Creeping Things—He Is as Happy as Can Be in His Lonely Home. Once a year old John Vanderbilt of Hexankopf, Cal., comes barefooted down the mountains to Lower Sancon, and buys a mess of coarse cornmeal. This he packs up the steep slope to his hut, to form his main food supply for a twelvemonth. Cooked with water in hoe-cakes flavored with sassafras root, it forms strange enough fare for a wealthy member of the richest family in America. Old John Vanderbilt went to the Hexankopf, or Witch's Head mountain, many years ago and bought a JOHN VANDERBILT. tumbledown brick dwelling of considerable size, which, because of its condition, was sold to him with several acres of almost worthless mountain land for $450. It stands on the top of the mountain, screened by dense foliage from observation—though no observer ever passes that way save out of curiosity, and the nearest neighbor, Mr. William Raudabach, lives a mile away. Mr. John Vanderbilt bears well his more than 60 years. He is erect and vigorous, nearly six feet high, and bears a striking resemblance to the old Commodore Vanderbilt, of whom he is a relative. He is not a recluse; he goes often to the post-offices of Iron Hill, Wassergras and Lower Sancon, receiving mail at the former office and sending it from the latter. He buys supplies and pays cash. He has mortgages on houses in South Bethlehem and receives rentals from property in New Brunswick and Bound Brook, N. J. The former town is the source of the powerful Vanderbilt family, the early home of the old commodore. In his way John Vanderbilt is a kindly man. A great spider has spun its web across his doorway; he stoops on entering that its home may not be destroyed. A few children are his only friends, chief among these being Elmer Kunsman, son of a farmer living on the only road that approaches the place. Elmer keeps a careful lookout down the road, and when strangers approach the boy scampers through the woods to warn Mr. Vanderbilt. Efficient Postal Service. The annual report of the third assistant postmaster general contains strong testimony in favor of the honesty and efficiency of the postal service, writes William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record. During the past fiscal year the postmasters of the United States and their assistants handled $196,653,544, of which $95,021,384 was receipts from the sale of stamps, boxes, money orders, etc., and the balance was disbursed for various expenses. Of this enormous sum the entire loss to the government by burglary, fire, bad debts, embezzlement and all other forms of carelessness and dishonesty was only $19,358. I doubt if any private firm, bank or corporation, or any institution in the world that receives and disburses money, can show so good a record, and yet we keep talking about the inefficiency and corruption of the public service and other evils of partisan appointments. It may be said, too, that the customs collections and the business of the internal revenue office will show similar evidence of honesty and efficiency in our public service. Dictates the Price of Wheat. Samuel Greeley, a commission merchant of Chicago, testified before the National Industrial Commission in session in that city, that a combination of five wealthy grain men, of which Philip D. Armour is the directing genius, control the price of farmers' products. It is Armour who has concocted the foremost competition destroying combination in the West. He can dictate his rate of freight on any railroad in or out of Chicago. This combination between railroads and elevator operators has practically killed competition in the grain market in the West, and has left its promoters with a monopoly of the market. By hoarding immense quantities of grain in the market center it has given rise to the professional bear speculator, whose business it is to hammer down the market, and has brought into existence and made safe the bucket shop. Thus the railroads, who own many of the elevators indirectly, get in league with a class of operators who ought to be in the penitentiary. FOR THE 7-11 FOLK. Some Bets on Dice-Shaklag and Some Deductions Therefrom. One evening, several weeks ago, a group or racehorse men were chatting in the St. Charles rotunda, when one of the party produced a miniature silver dice box, which he had picked up somewhere as a curiosity. It contained three tiny but perfectly made dice. "I'm superstitious about this box," said the owner, smilingly. "I believe it brings me good luck." "Well, just to cure you of that idea," said a horseman from St. Louis, "I'll bet you $10 I can beat you throwing the dice." The proposition was accepted, and the owner of the box threw three fours, which, oddly enough, were also thrown by the man from St. Louis. Upon that a dispute arose, the St. Louis turfman claiming that the tie should be "thrown off" and the other man that he had won, because his hand had not been beaten. Some of those present took one side and some the other, and, after a heated argument, it was agreed to leave the question to a New York daily newspaper regarded as an authority on sports. He is the way the question was stated: "A bets he can beat him throwing dice. B bets he can not. Result a tie. Who wins?" On Sunday the answer was printed, as follows: "Neither. When B takes A's bet he virtually bets that he can beat A." Upon this decision the money was handed over, not only on the original bet, but on several side wagers afterward made. It did not end the argument, however, but, on the contrary, started it afresh, and it still rages. Most local authorities disagree squarely with the New York referee. "The decision was all wrong," said a veteran New Orleans sportsman. "Here is the case in a nutshell: A says to B, 'I'll bet you $10 I can beat you in a throw of dice.' B accepts the wager and throws three fours. Now the only way in which A can make good his original assertion that he could beat B is to throw something better than three fours. He said 'beat you,' remember, not 'equal you.' He then throws a duplicate hand, which certainly does not beat, but is merely a standoff, consequently he loses. That is as plain as the nose on an elephant. The paper says that in taking the wager B virtually bets he can beat A. He does nothing of the sort. He bets that A can't beat him—quite a different proposition."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. How Dewey's Ship Was Named. The name Olympia was given Admiral Dewey's flagship as a compromise. Ex-United States Senator Squirrel of Washington told a reporter how it happened. "When I was in the senate," he said, "Benjamin F. Tracy, then secretary of the navy, sent for me. I called on him, and he said: "Senator, we have a new cruiser, and we want to name it after one of the cities in your state. Will you make the selection?' I thanked Mr. Tracy, and said: 'Mr. Secretary, you have given me a very delicate task: I live in Tacoma. If I say Tacoma, the people in Seattle, a larger municipality, will be sore. Spokane might do, but she is a rival for both Tacoma and Seattle. I'll tell you what I'll do. Olympia is a nice little place, and the people there will appreciate the compliment. Then, too, neither Tacoma, Seattle, nor Spokane can find any fault. Call the new cruiser Olympia.' 'All right, senator,' replied Mr. Tracy, 'Olympia it shall be.' And that is how the famous ship came to be named." Sickroom Don't. Sick people don't like to be stared at. They are morbidly sensitive. To look surprised at the change sickness has wrought is annoying, and, worse than that, it is disheartening, and makes invalids imagine their case to be worse than it is. Therefore, don't stare at a sick person, and don't stand at the back of the bed to make him turn his eyes round to see you. Always sit by the bedside, for the patient feels more at rest than if you stand up tall before him. And don't whisper; don't talk in a low voice; don't follow the doctor or caller out into the next room. The invalid will be absolutely certain that you are discussing him. Don't wear garments that rustle or are made of rough clothing, to come into contact with hands made tender by sickness, and don't wear creaking boots or thick-soled boots.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Fresh Air for Consumptive Patients. In the London Hospital for consumption the basis of treatment is rest in the open air, graduated exercise, and good feeding. No window in the openair wards is ever closed, and during the cold weather the consumptive patients are kept warm with extra clothing and artificial heat. It is encouraging to note that practically all the early cases and 70 per cent of all cases improve considerably under the openair system. It is not uncommon for patients to enter the hospital with extensive signs of the disease, and to leave after nine or ten weeks with no sign of acute disease, and an increase of a stone in weight. None of those who markedly improved and followed out the hygienic principles taught there have shown any signs of relapse. The Early Bird. First Wanderer—Dis coal pile is de hardest bed I ever slept on. Second Wanderer—You're jist right; but Ragles over dere seems ter like it; he'd sleeping fine. First Wanderer—Course he is; de greedy pig got here fust, and picked out de bin wid de soft coal is it—Harper's Bazar. Jaggles—"Why were you called an amateur lynching party?" Waggles—"Because they lynched the right man." TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. Sc. E. W. Grove's signature on each box. The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.—De Quincey. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kiline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatie. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Any man may make a mistake, but none but a fool will continue it.—Cicero. Cured After Repeated Failures With Others I will inform addicted to Morphine, Landanum, Oplum, Cocaine, of never-failing, harmless, home- sure. Mrs. M. H. Baldwin, Pox 1212, Chicago, Ill. The large family always seems en- viable until you see the shoe bill. We will forfeit $1,000 if any of our pub- lished testimonials are proven to be not genuine. THE PISO Co., Warren, Pa. 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"Star" tin tags (showing small stars printed on under side of tag), "Horse Shoe," "J. T.," "Good Luck," "Cross Bow," and "Drummond" Natural Leaf Tin Tags are of equal value in securing presents mentioned below, and may be assorted. Every man, woman and child can find something on the list that they would like to have, and can have Special Notice! Plain "Star" Tin Tags (that is, Star tin tags with no small stars printed on under side of tag), are not good for presents, but will be paid for in CASH on the basis of twenty cents per hundred, if received by us on or before March 1st, 1900. BEAR IN MIND that a dime's worth of STAR PLUC TOBACCO will last longer and afford more pleasure than a dime's worth of any other brand. MAKE THE TEST! Send tags to CONTINENTAL TOBACCO CO., St. Louis, Mo. will be made by every buyer of La Porte property. First general sale in February, 1900. La Porte, Texas, is destined to be the future greatest seaport of the Gulf of Mexico. Every farmer, merchant and manufacturer of the United States west of the Mississippi River is directly interested in La Porte. A small investment will return handsome profits. Write for FREE Folder, Maps and Art Book to AMERICAN LAND COMPANY, 188 Madison St., CHICAGO. 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE MILLIONS of acres of choice agricultural LANDS now opened for settlement in Western Canada. Here is grown the celebrated NO. 1 HARD WHEAT, which brings the highest price in the markets of the world; thousands of cattle are fattened for market without being fed grain and without a day's shelter. Send for information and secure a free home in Western Canada. Write the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, or address the undersigned, who will mail you atlases, pamphlets, etc., free of cost. C. J. Broughton, 1223 Monad-rock Block, Chicago, IL, or Everett & Kantz, Fort Wayne, Ind. I have the largest stock of Evergreens in the United States. Pines, Spruces and Arbor Vites, 10 to 12 in., $4 per 100. Also Hardy Fruits, Shade and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, etc. Everybody wants Evergreens. Write at once for agency. THE ELGIN NURSERIES. Elgin, Ill. DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH KILLER CURES COUGHS AND COLDS. PREVENTS CONSUMPTION. All Druggists, 25¢. PENSIONS Get Your Pension DOUBLE QUICK Write CAPT. O'FARRELL, Pension Agent, 1475 New York Avenue. WASHINGTON, D. C. PISO'S CURE FOR BEST WINE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. One in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Personally Conducted California Excursions Via the Santa Fe Route. Three times a week from Chicago and Kansas City. Twice a week from St. Paul and Minneapolis. Once a week from St. Louis and Boston. In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars. Better than ever before, at lowest possible rates. Experienced excursion conductors. Also daily service between Chicago and California. Correspondence solicited. T. A. GRADY, Manager California Tourist Service, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; 109 Adams Street, CHICAGO. Send at once for this new two-step march. It has the full swing and the air is catchy and equal to Sousa's. Send 10 cents in money or stempe to George C. Johnston, Allen Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. CARTER'S INK Is food for thought. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; given quick relief and cure works cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAY'S treatment FREE. DR. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, Box K, Atlanta, Ga. PATENTS B. H. EVANS, 1010 F St. Washington, D.C. As vice as to patentability free. No attorney's fee until patent is allowed. Circulate free. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900. SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. It is said that successful trials of a telephonic apparatus without wire have been had in Italy. The instruments were installed on moving trains. The details of the experiments and apparatus are meager. One hospital in New York has adopted a camera to record minutely the action of patients, and many moving pictures have been taken, showing the movements in walking of persons afflicted with locomotor ataxia. They are produced slowly on the screen, so that physicians are enabled to study the symptoms carefully. Moving pictures have been taken in Vienna showing operations being performed by great surgeons. Barometric readings reduced to true atmospheric pressure are now required by the weather bureau, the approximate corrections for gravity being applied to all barometric readings. This correction applies to all mercurial barometers and is nearly constant at any one station. The corrected reading is a standard measure of atmospheric pressure and can be compared to similar corrected readings made at any place in the world. Several of the largest abandoned copper mines in eastern Maine will again be operated. The Maine copper mines were in successful operation in 1879 and showed good profits while copper was quoted at 14 cents. The mines could also be operated on a paying basis with copper at 12 cents, but the crash came when the Wisconsin mines put down the price of copper to eight cents. Now that copper is so high, it will be very profitable to mine it. A central station for the production of acetylene gas is being tested at Tata-Tovaros, Hungary, a city of 12,000 inhabitants. Five miles of pipe covers the city and furnishes gas to 158 street lights and 250 burners in houses. The generating station is located over 600 feet from the nearest house. The gas is produced in four generators by the fall of the carbide into the water. The gas for each group, on leaving the generators, passes into a cooler and then into a purifier, and finally into two gasometers of 106 cubic feet capacity. The generating plant requires the services of only two men, and the total cost of the installation was $30,000, of which $19,000 went for the pipe system. TOLD BY FIGURES. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without interruption. Nine men constitute a jury in Mexico, and a majority gives the verdict. If the jury is unanimous there is no appeal. The bank of England destroys about 350,000 of its notes every week, to replace them with freshly printed ones. One evening in each week is set apart for the making of this expensive bonfire. The year 47 B. C. was the longest year on record. By order of Julius Caesar it contained 445 days. The additional days were put in to make the seasons conform as nearly as possible with the solar year. Russia's czar has an income of $1,000 per hour, the sultan $850, the emperor of Austria $500, the kaiser $450, the king of Italy $330, Queen Victoria the same, the French president $250, the king of the Belgians $85, and the president of the United States $7.50 per hour. Paris has the largest library in the world. It contains upward of 2,000,000 printed books and 160,000 manuscripts. The British museum contains about 1,500,000 volumes, and the Imperial library at St. Petersburg about the same number. These are the largest libraries in the world. Greatest density of population in the world is claimed for the city of Bombay, and is disputed by Agra only. The population of Bombay amounts to 760 persons per acre in certain areas, and in these sections the street area occupies only one-fourth of the whole. If the entire population massed in the streets for any purpose, the density would equal 3.040 persons per acre. An average waltz takes a dancer over about three-quarters of a mile; a square dance makes him cover half a mile. A girl with a well-filled program travels thus in one evening: Twelve waltzes, nine miles; four other dances at half a mile apiece, which is hardly a fairly big estimate, two miles more; the intermission stroll and the trips to the dressing room to renovate her gown and complexion, half a mile; grand total, eleven and a half miles. LABOR NOTES Carpenters of Dallas, Tex., have notified employers that after May 1, 1900, they will demand the eight-hour workday. Inquiries for space are larger than was expected by the management of the printing exposition to be held next May and June in Grand Central palace, New York. The progressive Typographical union in New York is having trouble over the issuance of a label said to resemble closely that of the Allied Printing Trades council. London authorities will devote $50,000 to a building for families of workingmen whose houses are in process of disinfection incident to health department rules. The fear of the Lord takes away the fear of man. No man is so weak you can afford to oppress him. We all spend more or less time in trying to figure out what we would do in case of an attack by burglars.—Tacoma News. Prisoner—"I was quietly attending to my work when this man arrested me." Magistrate—"What is your business?" Prisoner—"I am a burglar."—London Chronicle. Jimmy the Tough—"Say, Bill,what'll I do wid de mun drawer?" His Pal—"Why don't you pry into it?" Jimmy—"What about de safe?" Pal—"De safe be blowed." Jimmy—I believe it's cracked, anyway."—Detroit Free Press. Brown—"I don't want anything more to do with burglar alarms. I put one in my house last week, but I am having it taken out in a hurry today." Jones—"What's your objection to it?" Brown—"Some one tried to get in the house last night and the blamed thing went off and woke up the baby."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Two burglars, after working on a safe all night, finally acknowledged themselves completely baffled by the new combination and were gathering up their tools in disgust. "Say, Bill, I'll tell yer how we kin make some out o' this job." "W'at yer mean?" "Let's hunt up the manufacturer of this safe an' sell him our testimonials."—Detroit Journal. First Burglar—"Now, if de women talks loud wot will I do—tell 'er t' stop?" Second Burglar—"Say, youse ain't been in de perfesh long has y'? If a woman gits started t' talkin' youse couldn't git a wurd in edgeways. Push a piller in 'er face er say t' 'er if she don't keep mum you'll tell ever'body in de ward 'at she wears false teeth an' a switch."—Washington Star. FROM VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. What we place most hopes on generally proves most vital. The loss of fortune only serves to increase the pride of the worthy. Those who would know the miseries of the poor must see life and endure it. Olivia vanquished by a single blow, Sophia by efforts successfully repeated. Cheerfulness was never yet produced by effort, which is in itself painful. Every man has a thousand vicious thoughts, which arise without power to suppress. We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place. Scarcely any virtue is found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation. No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it. I view those faces with delight which never felt the deforming hand of ambition or distress. He loved all mankind, for fortune prevented him from knowing that there were rascals. The opinion a man forms of his own prudence is measured by that of the company he keeps. If I am to be a beggar, it shall never make me a rascal, or induce me to disavow my principles. Adulation ever follows the ambitions, for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery. For the first time the very best may err; art may persuade and novelty spread out its charms. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES Little Clara—"Dr. Cubebs is often at our house, but I never see him at yours." Little Bessie—"Of course not. We don't owe him anything." "Mamma," said 3-year-old Flossie, "didn't Mrs. Jones say I got my eyes from you?" "Yes, dear," was the reply "And did you used to have four eyes, mamma?" queried the little miss. "Now, Tommy," said an anxious mother to her small son, "the minister will be here to dinner today and you must be sure to wash your face clean." "All right, mamma," answered Tommy, "but suppose he doesn't come?" "Tommy," said a mother to her 4-year-old hopeful. "don't you think it rather extravagant to eat butter with your jam?" "Of course not, mamma," replied the little diplomat. "You see one piece of bread does for both." "You should be more careful of your toys, Johnny," said a mother to her small son. "Look at Willie Brown; he seldom breaks any of his." "Yes," replied the wise youngster, "and I'll bet that's why he don't get half as many new ones as I do." "I don't love you any more, grandpa," said 4-year-old Nellie the other day. "Why not, Neilie?" asked grandpa, in surprise. "Because," replied the little diplomat, "I love you so much already that I haven't room for any more. Please give me 5 cents to buy candy with." Truth-What people believe last. Consistency-Whose name is not legion. The Three Cs of Success—Chase, catch, conquer. Contradictory—A man who is not nervous is said to have lots of nerve. Woman—Some things, many things, all things, according to the man; but never no thing. CANDY.... Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the be t in the city for 15c., 25c and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes, suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. W. W. JOHNSON LAWYER. 125 Clark Street, - Chicago. .....Room 58..... Tel. Wentworth 516 Office Hours: 8.30 a. m. to 8.30 p. m BEAUREGARD F. MOSELY LAWYER BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS A SPECIALTY. SUITE 1 AND 2 6256 HALSTED STREET CHICAGO GOR. HALSTED & 63RD STS. MRS. LAURA F A'LEY. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR STRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good accommodations. 506 State St., 2d floor, Chicago, Ill Room 28. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago P.J.FLYNN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HARD and SOFT COAL WOOD AND KINDLING YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R. Branch Office, 5301 Wentworth av. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, 1/2 mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surrounding buildings, which consist of 8-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chicken house and poultry yard. Fine hog house and other outbuildings. 25 acres in crop this year. Hay, corn, oats, potatoes and beans. Price clear of incumbrance $4,000. Buildings alone cost $2,500. Will exchange for clear property in Chicago. If you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. 24 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. Three miles from Geneva Junction, six miles from Lake Geneva. six miles from Lake Geneva. 94 acres in Walworth county, lies all in cultivation, good house, barn and outbuidings. 20 head milch cows. 20 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys. 50 ducks, 3 hear horses, all farming tools and this years crops. Price $75 per acre. Crops last year over $1,200 net. Crop this year over $1,500. Sell cream $5 per day now. If you desire to purchase this elegant farm so indicate by addressing The Broad Ax. FOR SALE. A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh. Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax. 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. SOLID SHOTS. Serve and deserve. Alms inspire psalms. Poverty and piety are not synonyms. Toll is the toll at the gate of success. Two fools do not make one wise man. The richest grain is often sown in storm. The love of the law gives true liberty in life. There can never be a fat life on a lean soul. ```markdown ``` 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul.. CHICAGO. J. F. KENNY, 5533 Green St. Tel. Yards 663 KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery, Open Day and Night. Lady Assistant . . . 5438 SOUTH HALSTED ST. Estimates and Specifications Furnished . . . Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. Telephone Yards 797 Residence, 113 Garfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, COOK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, ROOM 616, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. ...TELEPHONE SOUTH 382... THE FALSE STAR. The agitation of the Mormon question has naturally aroused some interest in the minds of all classes of people throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, on Utah and the Mormons. The latest literary contribution in that di- THE FALSE STAR THE FALSE STAR By A. D. GARM rection is "The False Star," by A. D. Gash, which deals with Mormonism in all of its ramifications. We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and sells for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere. Address all communications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCH FREE Anyone sending us ten yearly subscribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 subscribers for six months, we will present them with this beautiful goldfilled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies' or gents'. NAPOLEONT This is a splendid opportunity to catch on if you desire to obtain a gold watch free. In all cases the cash must accompany the list of subscribers. Send for sample copies of The Broad Ax, go to work and earn a watch. Address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave., Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. W. J. Bryan's new book should correspond immediately with the publishers. The work will contain An account of his campaign tour . . . His biography, written by his wife . . His most important speeches . . . The results of the campaign of 1896. A review of the political situation . . AGENTS WANTED Mr. Bryan has announced one-half of all royalties bimetallism. There are a mous sale. Address W. B. 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But a properly written advertisement placed in these columns, backed up by honest goods and right prices, will surely prove a paying investment for modern merchants. TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. OZONIZED OX MARROW THE ORIGINAL—COFYRIGHTED. This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes the skinly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands, Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, that makes your hair to keep the skin healthy and beautiful. A toilet quality for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Fall direc-tively with every bottle. Only 40 cent. sold by dealers on behalf of B.L. 40 Postal or Express Money Order for 8 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL. MARROW WRIGHTED. is the only safe makes kinky hair curishes the scalp, out and makes it used by thousands. monials free on re- tion new sold for of upto £10. When two women are said to resemble each other both are secretly vexed. A. B. NEW YORK TIMES This "ad." this very moment, are you not? You KNOW it is an advertisement, yet you read it; we all read it. IF YOUR "ad." occuples this space it would be read and bring you good results. Try it and be convinced. ee ee een 8 gr en ]S>- SS SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900. SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. “Tt is said that successful trials of a telephonic apparatus without wire dave been had in Italy. The instru- ments were installed on moving trains. ‘The details of the expetiments apé @pparatus are meager. _ “One hospital in New York has adopt- e4 a camera to record minutely the action of patients, and many moving pictures haye been taken, showing the movements in walking of persons af- ficted with locomotor ataxia. They ‘are produced slowly on the screen, 80 that physicians are enabled to study ‘the symptoms carefully. Moving pic- tures have been taken in Vienna show- ing operations being performed by Great surgeons. Barometric readings reduced to true atmospheric pressure are now required by the weather bureau, the approxi- mate corrections for gravity being ap- plied to all barometric readings. This correction applies to all mercurial bar- ‘meters and is nearly constant at any one station. The corrected reading is @ standard measure of atmospheric pressure and can be compared to sim- ilar corrected readings made at any place in the world. Several of the largest abandoned copper mines in eastern Maine will again be operated. The Maine copper ™mines were in successful operation in 1879 «ad showed good profits while copper was quoted at 14 cents. The mines could also be operated on a pay- ing basis with copper at 12 cents, but the crash came when the Wisconsin mines put down the price of copper to eight cents. Now that copper is so high, it will be very profitable to mine it. A central station for the production of acetylene gas is being tested at Ta- ta-Tovaros, Hungary, a city of 12,000 inhabitants. Five miles of pipe covers the city and furnishes gas to 158 street lights and 250 burmers in houses. The generating station is located over 600 feet from the nearest house. The gas ig produced in four generators by the fall of the carbide into the water. The gas for each group, on leaving the gen- erators, passes into a cooler and then into a purifier.and finally into two gas- ometers of 106 cubic feet capacity. The generating plant requires the services ef only two men, and the total cost of the installation was $30,000, of which $19,000 went for the pipe system. TOLD BY FIGURES. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 with- out interruption. Nine men constitute a jury in Mexi- co, and a majority gives the verdict. If the jury is unanimous there is no appeal. ‘The bank of England destroys about 350,000 of its notes every week, to re- place them with freshly printed ones. One evening in each week is set apart for the making of this expensive bon- fire. ‘The year 47 B. C. was the longest year on record. By order of Julius Caesar it contained 445 days. The additional days were put in to make the seasons conform as nearly as pos- sible with the solar year. Russia’s czar has an income of $1,000 per hour, the sultan $850, the emperor of Austria $500, the kaiser $450, the king of Italy $330, Queen Victoria the same, the French president $250, the king of~the Belgians $85, and the president of the United States $7.50 per ‘hour. Paris has the largest library in the world. It contains upward of 2,000,000 printed books and 160,000 manuscripts. ‘The British museum contains about 1,500,000 volumes, and the imperial li- brary at St. Petersburg about the game number. These are the largest Ubraries in the world. Greatest density of population in the world is claimed for the city of Bom- bay, and is disputed by Agra only. The population of Bombay amounts to 760 persons per acre in certain areas, and im ‘these sections the street area occu- ‘pies only one-fourth of the whole. If ‘the entire population massed in the streets for any purpose, the density ‘would equal 3,040 persons per acre. Am average waltz takes a dancer -over about three-quarters of a mile; a = dance makes him cover half a ni a with a well-filled program ‘travels in one evening: Twelve cwaltzes, nine miles; four other dances at half a mile apiece, which is hardly enon on aol : the t stroll and the trips to the dressing room to renovate her eg -and complexion, half a mile; _— ‘total, eleven and a half miles. LABOR NOTES. Carpenters of Dallas, Tex., have no- tified employers that after May 1, 1900, they will demand the eight-hour work- Gay. Inquiries for space are larger than ‘was expected by the management of the printing exposition to be held next May and June in Grand Central palace, New York. ‘The progressive Typographical union im New York is having trouble over $e a coat oe the Ale Printing ple closely that of the Allied Printing ‘Prades council. ~Egndon . authorities . will devote $56,000 to a building for families of swerkingmen whose hoases are in process of disinfection incident to ‘Realth depart rules. ene Fer ne oe net pee Romer he, cs tt e eee te Spt yen gan ose BURGLAR BRIEF. “We all spend more or less time tn trying to figure out what we would dc im case of an attack by burglars.—Ts. coma News. Prisoner—“I was quietly «ttending to my work when this man arrested me.” Magistrate—“What is your busi- mess?” Prisoner—“I am a burglar.” —London Chronicle. | Jimmy the Tough—“Say, Bill,what’ll Ido wid de mun drawer?” His Pal— “Why don’t you pry into it?” Jimmy —“What about de safe?” Pal—“De safe be blowed.” Jimmy—tI believe it’s cracked, anyway.”—Detroit Free Press. Brown—“I don't want anything more te do with burglar alarms. I put one in my house last week, but I am hav- ing it taken out in a hurry today.” Jones—“What's your objection to it?” Brown—“Some one tried to get in the house last night and the blamed thing went off and woke up the baby.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Two burglars, after working on a safe all night, finally acknowledged themselves completely baffied by the new combination and were gathering up their tools in disgust. “Say, Bill, I'll tell yer how we kin make some out o’ this job.” “W’at yer mean?” “Let's hunt up the manufacturer of this safe an’ sell him our testimonials.”—De- troit Journal. First Burglar—“Now, if de women talks loud wot will I do—tell ‘er t’ stop?” Second Burglar—“Say, youse ain’t been in de perfesh long has y’? If a woman gits started t’ talkin’ youse couldn't git a wurd in edgeways. Push a piller in ‘er face er say t’ ’er if she don’t keep mum you'll tell ever’body in de ward ‘at she wears false teeth an’ a switch.”—Washington Star. FROM VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. | What we place most hopes on gen- erally proves most vital. ‘To make laws complete they should reward as well as punish. The loss of fortune only serves to increase the pride of the worthy. Those who would know the miseries of the poor must see life and endure it. Olivia vanquished by a single blow, Sophia by efforts successfully re- peated. Cheerfulness was never yet pro- duced by effort, which is in itself painful. Every man has a thousand vicious thoughts, which arise without power to suppress. We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place. Searcely any virtue is found to re- sist the power of long and pleasing temptation. No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it. I view those faces with delight which never felt the deforming hand of am- bition or distress. He loved all mankind, for fortune prevented him from knowing that there were rascals. The opinion a man forms of his own prudence is measured by that of the company he keeps. If I am to be a beggar, it shall never make me a rascal, or induce me to dis- avow my principles. Adulation ever follows the ambi- tions, for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery. For the first time the very best may err; art may persuade and novelty spread out its charms. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES Little Clara—“Dr. Cubebs is. often at our house, but I never see him at yours.” Little Bessie—“Of course not. We don't owe him anything.” “Mamma,” said 3-year-old Flossie, “didn't Mrs. Jones say I got my eyes from you?” “Yes, dear,” was the re- ply “And did you used to have four eyes, mamma?” queried the little miss. “Now, Tommy,” said an anxious mother to her smal! son, “the minister will be here to dinner today and you must be sure to wash your face clean.” “All right, mamma,” answered Tom- my, “but suppose he doesn’t come?” “Tommy,” said a mother to her 4- year-old hopeful, “don't you think it rather extravagant to eat butter with your jam?” “Of course not, mamma,” weplied the little diplomat. “You see one piece of bread does for both.” “You should be more careful of your toys, Johnny,” said a mother to her small son. . “Look at Willie Brown; he seldom breaks any of his.” “Yes,” re- plied the wir youngster, “and I'll bet that’s why he don’t get half as many new ones as I do.” “T don’t love you any more, grand- pa,” said 4-year-old Nellie the other day. “Why not, Neilie?” asked grand- pa, in surprise. “Because,” replied the little diplomat, “I love you so much al- ready that I haven't room for any more. 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