The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX VOL. V. Towards the close of James K. Polk's administration, David Wilmot, of Pa., who was an unyielding and unbending Democrat formulated and introduced into the Lower House of Congress his more than memorable Proviso for the interdiction of slavery in all territories belonging to the United States at that time and which were likely to come into its possession, and the Wilmot Proviso or measure received the hearty support of a large majority of Democrats from the free states. It is worth while to note in passing that Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia favored the Wilmot Proviso, and when the "Clayton Compromise," which passed the Senate submitting the whole question of slavery in all our Territories to the Supreme Court of the United States, he assisted in defeating that proposition. When it reached the House of Representatives, he voted to lay it on the table. He also voted for and favored the proposition or the bill, granting Oregon a territorial form of government, which excluded slavery. Thus showing that as a southern man, whose influence could not be measured, he had the courage to separate himself from the great body of the leading men of the South. No other legislation was attempted or proposed in reference to slavery and as the Presidential election of,1848 was approaching the Thirtieth Congress adjourned, much to the gratification of the leaders of both parties. The Wilmot Proviso caused many of the ablest statesmen of that day to completely change fronts respecting the immediate annexation of Texas. The followers of ex-President Martin Van Buren were not in favor of it for Mr. Van Buren was earnestly in favor of seeing freedom triumph in the organization and government of our Mexican acquisitions. This question tested the virtue and courage of the politicians and in many states old leaders who could not stand the test were relegated to the rear, and in many instances new and younger men were thrust into prominence. Speaking against the Wilmot Proviso Daniel Webster uttered these words: "Did I not commit myself to that in the year 1838, fully. I do not consent that more recent discoverers shall take out a patent for the discovery. Allow me to say, sir, it is not their thunder." "Free soil is a distinctive Whig doctrine, and the gentlemen who have joined this new party, from among the Whigs, pretend that they are greater lovers of liberty and greater haters of slavery than those they leave behind them. I do not admit it. I do not admit any such thing. I think we are as good Free Soil men as they are." On another occasion Mr. Webster, the great leader of the Whig party, who had fixed his heart on being elected president of the United States, said while referring to the higher law. "It is an absurdity. What is the higher law?" Said he, "how high is it? Is it higher than the Blue Ridges? Higher than the Allegheny Mountains?" He violently denounced David Wilmot, the abclitionists and the leaders of the anti-slavery party and declared them a "rub-a-dub" party, and it is fair to assume that he and the others who shaped or controlled the policy of the Whig Party were men heartily in favor of extending slavery into all the territories, and maintaining it by all means where it existed. (To be continued.) There was not a very large attendance at the regular Wednesday meeting of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, but the program was a most instructive and interesting one. President L. A. Davis read a very admirable paper on the subject, "Lend a Helping Hand," Mrs. Dr. Daniel H. Williams gave a very instructive talk on how to instruct the children of the sewing school in a more systematic and methodical way and showed the ladies samples of the work done in the sewing schools of Washington, D. C. Mrs. T. Cooper spoke most interestingly on "What Constitutes a True and Noble Woman," Miss Amelia Scott favored the ladies with a very fine piano solo, and Miss Clara Green read her spicy Chronicle. THE SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE. For many years we have been a firm believer in the ideas and principles advocated and promulgated by the Ethical Culture Societies, which are attracting the attention of the brightest minds and the greatest humanitarians in the various parts of this country and Europe. Its aims and objects comparatively speaking are unknown to the unreading and the unthinking public, but they are the highest and most ennobling. They teach brotherly love and the brotherhood of all mankind. The society which holds services every Sunday morning at the Athenaeum Building, 17 East Van Buren street. is conducted by some of the best known people of Chicago. T. B. Tobey, of the Tobey Furniture Company, is its president; J. F. Turner, treasurer; J. W. Allinson, recording secretary; G. Packard, Esq., secretary; C. S. Schoenmann, F. A. Winslow, H. C. Seymon, Miss Mira Booth, and others are members of the Board of Directors. W. H. Winslow, H. C. Lytton, proprietor of "The Hub," outfitters for all mankind, A. H. Wittstein, vice presidents. Joseph W. Arrant, the well known attorney, superintendent of Sunday school. The lectures delivered by Prof. Wm. M. Salter are gems of the very highest and purest order, and it is well worth any one's time to attend and listen to his brilliant and edifying lectures. Some of our readers may be curious to learn something about the aims and objects of the Ethical Culture Society or movement. They are (1) to interpret morality in the light of science, to give it reverence and devotion, and to make it a ruling influence in the lives of men. (2) We recognize the truth that the well-being of the state in which our interests are so vitally concerned is intimately bound up with the well-doing of its individual members. We wish in every possible way to strengthen and deepen the foundations of virtue in the private heart. (3) We consider just and rational views of our relation to the universe in which we are placed, to be obviously essential to the proper comprehension of our duty. Having constantly before us the spectacle of debasement and misery resulting from the violation of the general physical life through ignorance and realizing how inadequate the methods heretofore employed to remedy or to cure these evils we feel that a sacred duty rests upon us, while we seek to correct our own lives in whatever may be amiss, to do all in our power to help the suffering about us and to lift society to higher levels. "With these convictions we heartily envoke the co-operation of all who earnestly feel and think with us, sincerely trusting that our union may become an instrument of lasting good in the community in which we live and may at all times faithfully serve the best interests of mankind." Believing as we do that the old superstitions and religious ideas have outgrown their usefulnes inasmuch as they have utterly failed to inculcate the true principles of morality and benevolence, therefore, if we had the power, we would turn all the orthodox theologicians out to grass and transform their churches into Ethical Culture society halls, where the children could be instructed in all that is beautiful, grand and elevating—where they could learn the first rudiments of moral philosophy—where they could be taught to be more considerate and humane in dealing with every species of the animal kingdom, and by a long process of education in this direction, they will learn to love and adore their fellow creatures as themselves, and that happy day will surely dawn upon us, through the efforts and teachings of the Ethical Culture Society. E. E. Hazen, Treasurer of the Castoria Company, 531 Wabash avenue, was one of our friends while he resided in the Northwest, and he is one of the strongest Republicans in Chicago. Therefore, he could not be induced to subscribe for any other paper than The Broad Ax. Mr. Hazen and his associates are meeting with great success in the manufacture of Castoria, and they are shipping it to wholesale dealers in all parts of the country. HEW TO THE LINE. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Sunday afternoon, Jan. 14, Prof. Booker T. Washington, head of the great industrial and training school of Tuskegee, Ala., lectured at Bethel church. He was warmly greeted by a vast audience, partly composed of the best brain and the best thought of both races. Professor Washington's talk was devoid of all oratorical flights, but plain, practical, timely, logical and very sensible and just the kind of talk the race at large is sadly in need of, and we believe his presence here will be productive of much good to the race in general. His recital of the many hopeful signs and indications of a peaceful solution of the strained relations which has and is still existing to a considerable extent between the two races of the South, were glad tidings to his hearers, and while he was dwelling on that point he emphatically declared that "many of the best and bravest Democrats throughout the entire South are boldly standing up in favor of the equality of all men before the law, and are fearlessly expressing their bitter condemnation and opposition to the cruel treatment which has been accorded the Negro." Mr. Washington has raised himself in our estimation a thousand fold, and we are thoroughly convinced that he possesses the key which will unlock the solution of the problem which confronts the white man and the black man, not only of the South, but also of the North, and his philosophy is sound. He referred to the fact that in the North the school doors fly open to our colored boys and girls, but after they graduate with all the highest honors and seek honorable employment in stores, banks or factories, with few exceptions the doors are slammed in their faces. He deprecated this fact and reminded the whites of the North that they were lacking in many ways in discharging their full duties to the blacks whom they profess to love so well. The advice of the Wizard of Tuskegee to the parents of children was worth its weight in gold. He admonished them to keep close to their children and keep strict watch over their boys and girls every hour in the day and in the night, and prevent them from keeping company with the vile and vicious associates—prevent them from roaming the streets at all hours of the day and night—keep them out of saloons, gambling hells and brothels; where from there is only one step into jails and penitentiaries. He said that "it is an admitted truth that more vice and crime surrounds our race in the large centers of population in the North than in the South, and that doctors state that owing to their dissipation and criminal practices they are dying off more rapidly than the whites." The Afro-Americans were likened unto crabs by the Professor. He related a story in connection with a lot of crabs which he observed in a tub of water and whenever any of the crabs succeeded in climbing up near the top, the other crabs would jump up and catch them by the legs and pull them back in the water, and Mr. Washington cautioned his hearers, and especially the Negroes, that in the future they must cease from acting like crabs and whenever they saw one of their number ascending upward, ten thousand, or a hundred thousand or ten million must not catch him by the coat tails and pull him down, but must assist him in every way to ascend on upward. He pleaded and urged us to have more confidence in each other and to encourage and support with our money every worthy institution or enterprise conducted for the benefit and the upbuilding of the race. A society that levels all barriers of race and proclaims that art knows no nationality has just been formed in London under the name of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. Its first exhibition, now open, is one of the most interesting in the art world, for the works of the artists of the day are there seen, and the finest specimens of the painter's and sculptor's talent that dazzle the eyes of the visitors.—Ex. Jesse Sherwood, of Greer, Mills & Co., live stock commission merchants, Union Stock Yards, is a Missourian by birth, and when the Civil War broke out, Mr. Sherwood enlisted in the Union army, where he served very creditably for four years, and several years after he returned home. He was the first Democrat in many years to be elected Mayor of his native city, and he frankly admits that the colored voters rallied to his support and enabled him to defeat his Republican opponent. At the present time Mr. Sherwood is a member of the Board of Education, and he is well known and well liked by all the Afro-American residents of the Town of Lake and the South Side. Through his efforts recently extra facilities were provided for them at the Harvard School. If Mr. Sherwood should decide to accept the nomination for drainage trustee or commissioner, he can rest assured that many colored voters would cast their ballots for him. For the race has no better friend than Jesse Sherwood. RAG-TIME MUSIC AND CAKE WALKS. The two above named past-times are disgusting—ridiculously disgusting! It is the great way of entertaining and being entertained in some section of the country. Why mothers of refinement and proper training allow their young,pliable, easily impressed daughters to indulge in any such devilment and monkey shines, is a mystery to the writer, who would far prefer washing her daughter's face and following her to the cemetery to see her going to hell, in dancing cake-walks, indulgin rag-time music, and other such deviltry. We delight in good music of the right sort and approve quadrilles, germans, schottisches and the like; but this bowing, bending and the like from them—good Lord deliver us! The Ship, Bristol, Va. CHIPS Col. B. F. Moseley, has returned from Jacksonville, Ill., where he was engaged four or five days in legal business. The German-American Democratic Club of the 30th Ward, at its meeting last Sunday declared in favor of the renomination and re-election of Alderman Chas. J. Boyd. C. J. Buhmann, superintendent of the bureau of maps does not believe in codfish aristocracy, but he is a plain everyday Democrat, who is affable to all he comes in contact with. County Commissioner Edward H. Wright, has fully decided to seek the renomination for commissioner, and as he generally gets what he goes after, it is reasonably certain that he will outstrip all his rivals. Tom Harris, (colored) on trial in Colsicana, Texas, for rape, the alleged victim being Miss Lee Rodgers, a young white woman, has been given his liberty. No evidence upon which to hold him was adduced.—Ex. There will be a mother's meeting at the home of Mrs. Eliza Harris, 4764 Armour avenue, Monday afternoon, Jan. 22, at 2 o'clock. All who are interested are invited to attend. Good speaking and music will be a feature of the meeting. United States Senator Joseph L. Rawlins, of Utah, has favored The Broad Ax, with President McKinley's message and we desire to extend our thanks to the Senator for all past favors and for those he may have in store for us in the future. M. J. Butler: "When you first began publishing your paper, I was under the impression it would only appear once or twice and then fizzle out. But I am glad that you are meeting with success and I am willing to assist you in your efforts in behalf of Democracy." George F. Mulligan, of Dillon & Mulligan, attorneys-at-law, Ashland block, is not only well equipped to ply his profession, but he is also a thorough student in every other way. It is a source of extreme pleasure to converse with him on the various economic subjects and historical events. John Long, Esq., President of the Gaffney and Long Construction Co., Contractors, feels confident that his company will come out with flying colors and that the investigation which Alderman Fowler has been urging against some of the work performed by the company for the city will go up in smoke. Mrs. Booker T. Washington has recently made a valuable gift to the reading room of Fisk University, her Alma Mater. The gift consists of sixty volumes of histories of various countries. Mrs. Washington was formerly Miss Maggie Murray and graduated from the college department at Fisk in '89.—Colored American. The colored republicans of Atchison, Kansas, are "in a frame of mind" because the newly-selected Sheriff William: Kiff secured a solid Negro vote on the assurance that Eugene Bell would be named as a deputy, and thus far he has failed to keep his word and shows no disposition to do so. The usual threats are made.—Ex. Clark Hampton, the wonderful young colored artist, has placed a life size picture, "The Pointers," on exhibition in the Circuit court at Cincinnati. The judges were so impressed with the picture that they offered to have it hung in their private room. The late Miss Christine Sullivan said, two years ago, when Hampton but nineteen, that he did not have an equal in the West. Ex. From now on the contest in the 30th ward between Alderman Boyd and Frederick A. Hart to control the primaries will wax hotter and hotter and some of the big guns who claim to be on the inside are willing to bet $100 to $30, that when the final round up and shake down occurs that F. A. Hart will be the big Injun and that Alderman Boyd will not be in it nor renominated. St. Louis has two very wealthy colored people, Mrs. Amanda Larbadie pays taxes on $100,000, and Alfred White, a caterer and confectioner, has made $75,000 at his business.—Ex. Slavery and polygamy are again sheltered by a solemn compact by our republic. Well is it for William McKinley that the pen of William Lloyd Garrison has been dropped and the voice of Wendell Phillips hushed forever!—Ex. While Mrs. Taylor and ourself were engaged in conversation with Prof. Booker T. Washington during his visit to the city, he expressed his highest approval of The Broad Ax, and stated that he carefully read it each week, when at home. It may not be inappropriate to say here, that ever since May, 1896, we have contributed ten to fifteen copies of The Broad Ax each week to Mr. Washington's institution, and it is always on file in the library of Tuskegee. The Negro newspaper is the black man's only forum where an impartial hearing is guaranteed. It is not a luxury, but one of the most pressing necessities of this age. The Negro who refuses to sustain an honest race journal is blind to his best interests.—Col. American. More than that, Brother Cooper. A Negro who refuses to sustain an honest race journal is, more often than otherwise, not only blind to his best interests, but so prejudiced and chock full of cussedness that, even if he sees the good in a Negro journal, he pretends that he doesn't see it, and is never so happy as when engaged in the nefarious work of crippling the influence of the paper and speaking ill of the men who make sacrifices that the race may have this most effective champion of the rights and liberties of a long oppressed and proscripted people.—The Progress. NOTICE. All friends and readers of The Broad Ax, who have relatives or friends visiting them, or if you give or attend social functions either at home or abroad. If you journey to other towns or cities on business or pleasure. If you know or hear of a marriage, birth or death. Or in short, if you know anything of interest pertaining to the doings or the movements of the people adduce such facts and figures as briefly as possible on postal cards or letters, and address them to The Broad Ax, and all such news items will find their way into its columns. But do not send us anything in reference to cake walks or Jim Crowism. If you give swell parties and receptions and desire that the same should receive mention, send invitations or tickets and a representative of The Broad Ax will endeavor to be on hand, otherwise no one should, marvel, if they fail to observe a notice in The Broad Ax. 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. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. July 15th, 1899. 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. 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. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. Flatirons, when new, must be heated very slowly, or they may crack. New York spent $200,000 last year in inspecting and cleaning bakeries. All fruits are better if sugar is added when they are first put on to cook. Milkmaids get more money in Switzerland if they have musical voices. A patent glove-buttoner is bringing $5,000 a year to its woman inventor. Lamp chimneys are better if cleaned with alcohol instead of soap and water. In France the long rubber tubes to infants' feeding bottles are prohibited. To restore frozen vegetables place them in cold water for an hour or two. Vinegar left over from pickles may be used for flavoring stews and hashes. Scientists say that wheat is as nearly the perfect food as any one article can be. Good crabs and lobsters are heavy and stiff. If light or limp they are stale. Never scrub linoleum. Instead wash it with soap and water and dry with a cloth. If you want a good complexion eat plenty of fruit and take plenty of exercise. France employs 5,000 women in her civil service, telephone, and telegraph offices. Beattle, Kan., has a municipal government of women, including a woman mayor. Good meat is elastic to the touch. If wet and flabby it should be discarded. The annual production of cheese in this country is about 280,000,000 pounds. If a woman has a tendency toward a double chin, she should sleep without a pillow. Blonde women need a little borax to keep their locks golden; brunettes ammonia. There's a double sugar bowl, designed for holding both powdered and lump sugar. A man's handwriting changes with his character, and character changes with age. This fact induces some banks to require depositors to sign their names every time their pass books are balanced. spin ae Pe Are pres Rea ee ee = , e , eo 2 me , | | eee St | = . : ; : PUBLISHED WEEELY. LLLP L LLLP LLLP wi sete pl a fee ere re SSiguass is proper and renpeusibiligy ie xed. Spe Diet Ass « arenpsoer whem etic broad for claiming Saiteciel right fospeak sows. Lecal communication will have attention; write only on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): YORE.... 2+ 20000000 -seceiserercecess coos Advertising rates made known on application, Address all communications io THE BROAD Ax, 5040 Armour AvENvE, CaIcaso. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. CURRENT TOPICS SOUTH AFRICA. Almost the only news allowed to come regularly from Ladysmith through British sources relates to the ravages of enteric fever, the intestinal @isease that follows a defective food supply and insanitary conditions. Ac- cording to the bulletin the deaths from the disease in Gen. White's force for the six days preceding the battle of last Saturday were thirty-three, and on the latest day reported numbered ten. When the British public finds the war office bulletining this news and nothing else they are warranted in taking it as an admission of the grave if not desperate situation of Gen. White’s army. No doubt hundreds of his men are down with the fever, and all must be reduced in health by the siege, which has now lasted fifty-five days. The strain throughout has been far more severe than ordinary service at the front. Indifference may be bred as to the frequent rain of shells, but the utmost vigilance is necessary, es- Pecially at night. Much of the time mast be spent in trenches or burrows. Rations lack variety and freshness, for mothing comes from the outside. Long ago the men ran out of tobacco, which, next to food, is a necessity to the soldier. He can exist without it, byt in a state of constant discomfort. ROFR SINNED OF WAR, Active recruiting for the Boer army in various parts of the world, as well as the presence at the front of numer- ous educated soldiers of various na- tionalities, indicates that the Trans- vaal war chest is well filled. Two classes of men outside can be secured ‘by the Boers. These are the adventur- ous spirits ready to accept a bonus for any sort of dangerous service, and the others are the haters of England. The question is how are they to reach the burgher lines, and the English are kept busy watching the different avenues. Once tne two republics in South Africa were poor. But of late years few gov- ernments have been as well supplied with revenue. The most productive gold mines in the world are in the ‘Transvaal republic, and the greatest existing diamond mines just beyond the western border of fhe Orange Free State. These have attracted a large population. The two little republics control ali the details of taxation, and have secured an ample share of the extraordinary stream of nature’s treas- ure. OUR Navy. W. R. Hearst, the former editor of the New York Journal, has written an able editorial designed to show the meed of a large navy. He assumes that ‘we cannot avoid raising a navy to equal to whip Great Britain. He makes a specialty of our lake cities. He thinks some 300 gunboats and torpedo boats could be sent into the lakes through ‘Canadian canals before we were up in the morning, to demolish Chicago and other lake cities. This is somewhat feverish. It supposes that we must be taken by surprise. It presumes we are of no account along our borders, for preparation or retaliation. What would such a fleet do with our forces occupying. any of the riparian Cana- dian borders? Great Britain does not throw away fleets that way, certainly mot all she has of any one class. DOMESTIC SCIEXCE. ‘The Illinois Asssociation of Domestic Science was organized two years ago, and now extends to fifty counties in that state. It was organized “to meet the domestic needs of women on the farm.” The association meets from time to time at various places and opens a school for a few days. Each county has the privilege of sending one girl to study cooking and other items of domestic economy under the instruction of experts. These young ‘women are supposed to carry the light back to their homes and neighbor- hoods. Besides these are subsidiary ‘clubs in counties and townships, where further instruction is given. The praiseworthy feature in this seems to be. not the domestic science taught, but the social life obtained in the clubs. EIS RUSSIA'S MENACK TO EXGLAND. . ‘The movement of a Russian army corps from Tifi.s to Koshk, which gets Russia a little nearer to Afghanistan than she has hitherto: been in force, is naturally attracting a great deal of mttention throughout Europe, especial- ly in England. England promptiy de- manded the reason of the movement, and Russia suavely but promptly de- clared it was for the purpose of .test- ing the capacity of its new railroad, and the result, as the diplomats of that country say, has fully equaled all ex- pectations as to the value of that road @» means of conveyance. This is Russian answer with a vengeance, BUN WORSHIP AND SACRIFICE Forbid the Latter. “I think,” said Raja Sivaprasad {p the Nineteenth Century, “that cun worship was the original worship o: both the Persians and the Hindus. 1 have even seen animals as the sun rises gaze on it with awe, which is per- haps the first beginning of this feeling of reverence for the source of light. The Vedas are full of sun worship But the priests of the Hindus gave ut the simple, direct worship of the sun. and brought in by way of sun offer- ings animal sacrifices consumed ~ by fire, for they looked upon fire as part of the sun. In course of time people began to think and to question with regard to this sacrificial worship. Then came Buddha, and Buddha, being a good and great man, when he saw the animals’ throats cut, thought: ‘How can good possibly come of doing evil?’ And the first thing he did was to for- bid sacrifice and say: ‘Not hurt any creature is the best virtue.’ Buddha went out from his home and medi- tated. Then he came back to Benares, and at Sarnath argued with the Brah- mans, who justified their sacrifices on the authority of the Vedas. But Bud- dha said: ‘What are the Vedas but the work of munis and rishis? There is nothing supernatural about them.’ And so the great schism arose, Bud- dha against the Brahmans and the Brahmans against him. Many of the rajas and maharajas came and heard him and were converted, till at last Buddhism was in the ascendant, for we have in India a saying, ‘As is the king, so are the people.’ Then came King Vikramaditya, in whose honor a new era was founded, reckoning by which we are now [this was in 1892] in the year 1949. King Vikramaditya was a Kshatriya, and believed in Brahman- ism, and with his reign Brahmanism and Vedic religion began to revive. After many centuries appeared Sanka- Tacharya, a Brahman, who undertook to persecute and drive out the Bud- dhists. He said: ‘These people do not believe in a Creator. How can they possibly be tolerated?’ And he drove) them out, and re-established the Vedic | religion. By this time the disapproval of animal sacrifice had become firmly rooted. And as sacrifices were enjoined in the Vedas, Sankaracharya got over the difficulty by saying that it was only in the golden age, when the ani- mals slaughtered could be restored to life, that sacrifices were required; there was no need to sacrifice now. To this day animal sacrifice is dis- pensed with among the majority of the Hindus, although not so among the Kshatriyas and among many of the Sudras.” Catting. The law court is the modern substt- tute for the tournament, and a pretty good substitute it proves when a bat- tle is on between rival lawyers quick- witted and outspoken. The late Col John Atkinson was opposed in an im- Portant case by another able lawyer, James H. Pound, and they were fight- ing like giants for every point of ad- vantage. Pound had won a majority of the jousts; the colonel was nettled, and was lying low for a chance to de- liver a swinging blow. “It came,” said the judge, “when I decided a point against Pound. It had been fiercely argued by both attorneys, and in de- ciding it as I did, I stated my reasons at length, giving authorities. I saw Pound sbake his head at one of my conclusions; his lips moved, and I suppose be made some comment, sec when I concluded my decision, I asked: “What did you say, Mr. Pound?’ Quick as shot, and in his most cutting tones of intense sarcasm, the colonel replied: “Mr. Pound did not speak, your honor. He merely shook his head. There is nothing in it.’” Fatal Consequences. “Be careful how you invoke a force that may destroy you,” says a writer, “whether it be the force of electricity, the force of habit or of appetite.” For- ward tells of two chickens who in- voked a power unconsciously. The other night all the electric lights in & certain city suddenly went out, and after a minute came on again. Pretty soon an odor like that of an over cooked dinner filled the power-house, and on examination it was found that a couple of chickens had stolen in and gone to roost on the main wires. All went well with them until Chanticleer, who was perched on one wire reached across to give a good-night kiss to his dear Biddy, on the other. The moment their bills touched the current of thou- sands of volts was short-circuited through their bodies, and the kiss end- ed in a lightning flash and burnt feathers. A Fish Story, Here is a chap from lowa who goes the Rod and Gun contributors one bet- ter and raises the limit on fish stories: “We wet our lines in Shell Rock river, a few miles below Cedar Fails, and caught a catfish weighing 190 pounds Being without fish, fiesh or fowl at the camp.we put a poie through its gills and shouldered it a half-mile for din- ner. On opening it we found it had swallowed a smaller cat that weighed about fifteen pounds, so we said we'd eat the latter for dinner instead of the big fellow, as it was perfectly fresh. But when we opened No. 2, there was @ still smaller cat im his gullet, one that weighed five pounds, and as the party consisted of only three, we made a dinner on that. I have abundant witnesses.”—New York Press. Wreee Gece’ in Finnegan—It's a wonder Clancy don't get killed, the way he lets his tongue run on. Morilarity—He would, begorrah. only the way he lets his lege run of.—Judge. $300,000,000 IN GOLD. LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN FROM OUR SHORES. Another Chapter in Our Fisancial His- tory That Shows Futility of Mata- taining General Prosperity and the Gold Standard at th: Same Time. The Louisville Courier-Journal, in its issue of Dec. 22, ult., brushes aside as a mere bagatelle our shipments of gold to England. “The gold reserve in the treasury,” it says, “was $241,- 423,427 yesterday, and the total amount of coin and bullion was but a little un- der $400,000,000." This, with $141,000,- 000 in the banks and about $500,000,- 000 in the country, in circulation, is as- sumed to be a splendid showing, and to elevate the United States to the front rank as a gold country. But now comes a circular from the directors of the mint to the manufacturers of jew- elry, gold leaf supply houses, and all dealers and manufacturers who use the precious metal in their work. The Chicago Tribune gives the substance of the circular in the following succinct language: “Lost or strayed—$300,000,000 in American gold coin. Any person who has information of its whereabouts will please communicate with the director of the mint.” The truth is cropping out that we are short of our gold cir- culating medium the enormous sum of $300,000,000; it is lost. Not from the treasury, but from the circulation among the people. This means that there are $300,000,000 short in our mon- ey, and when we add to this shortage the sum of $241,423,427 in coin in the treasury, and the bullion to make up $400,000,000, we have a shortage of $700,000,000 of gold coin on our total stock of gold coin. It appears that Prof. Faulkner doubted whether the stock of coin outside the treasury was what it was assumed to be, and the director of the mint has been so im- Pressed by the professor's statements that he is going to try to find out. The treasury department knows how much money the treasury contains, and the banks certainly know how much money they hold, but all our officials have been going upon the theory that our gold coin in genera! circulation is exactly the difference between the amounts in the treasury and in the banks, and the public have been fed with that idea until they have been al- most made to believe that we have plenty of gold coin. Even the Courier- Journal, usually so careful in its cal- culations, has been deceived by offi- cial reports. Under these circum- stances, therefore, it does not make a vast difference to the public welfare whether we ship gold coin to England or not. It may transpire that we are not so heavily laden with cir- culating medium as we have been as- suming; indeed, the recent stringency appears to demonstrate the fact that we are short, and short $300,000,000. From this may be deduced the actual fact of the necessity of using billions of make-shift money, usually termed “industrials,” but all speculative, and the further fact of the positive recur- rence of panics accompanied by the demands upon the United States treas- ury to rush to the aid of the market. We do not believe that Director Rob- erts can ascertain the whereabouts of this lost money, for it does not exist, except in imagination, unless it be in old stockings and teapots. FALSE PRETENCES. _ It is beginning to be made clear that ‘William McKinley owed his election to his pledge of international bimetallism, which held enough silver Republicans in line to insure his election. In his recent annual message he comes out for the absoiute gold standard, thus manifesting his deceit and duplicity in 1896. Congressiaan Champ Clark of Missouri, in the debate on the currency bill, said: “He not only recommends it, but he urgently recommends. The chances are a thousand to one that had he uttered that sentiment in the campaign of 1896 he would not now be in position to send a message to congress and there would be no gold standard congress to receive it. It was the pledge in the St. Louis platform to secure bimetallism by international agreement that landed him in the White house. So says Hon. John M. Thurston, Republican senator from Nebraska. The pledge of an inter- national bimetallism held enough sil- ver Republicans in line to give the election to Mr. McKinley.” By what subterfuge Mr. McKinley expects to be re-elected in 1900 nobody seems to know, but even the devil has persuasive way of quoting scripture which deceives the children of light, and it is presumable that some great fraud, or fake, will be dressed up in attractive colors like circus posters to draw the crowd. Forestalling an evil is better than repenting for its exist- ence, and a political evil must be fore~ stalled. This is an occasion when the Personnel of Mr. McKinley is invoived, and he is too much mixed up with grievances that go to the destruction of the public welfare to make a desirable candidate on any He would betray every plank & he were told to do so, and his is of that suspicious character that s pels one to hold his nose while ig his presence. It is corrupt, and not be its own master if it wished for it is in che power of British | ciers. STATISTICAL LiEs. The ordinary weapons formerly used by the father of lies to entrap mankind are effete and childish. He has, how- ever, invented a new device, which op- erates upon men like fiy-paper on flies —it catches them every time. In “sta- tistics” modern man will find his down- fall, particularly in that branch of sta- tistics known as “financial.” The dev- il scatters them in our midst, and we struggle and grasp after them like drowning men at straws, and every man seizes upon the wrong fact, and, of course, makes a wrong application of it. Anent this new disposition to get wrong and then stick to ‘t in spite of the truth, the Louisviile Courier- Journal is a living example and a warning. “During the past twenty-nine months there has been an international trade balance in our favor upon the mer- chandise and gold movement of $1,- 190,000,000, or about $492,000,000. To this must be added silver exports of $25,000,000 yearly. This produces a net apparent value of considerably over $1,200,000,000, but this is subject to the invisible movement of exchange in- volved in the payment of interest abroad, freight charges, travelers’ ex- penses, and so on. “How much of this has been settled by the return of our securities from abroad we cannot say. The amount is large, but it cannot be figured out with precision. Beyond question the debt to us is large, and as we are in- creasing our merchandise exports and only moderately adding to our im- ports, there is no chance that we shall become embarrassed even by the loss of $40,000,009 or $50,000,000 on this movement.” | The vinegar in the molasses, the trap, the pitfall and death blow to the statistics is labeled with “How much of this has been settled by the return of our securities from abroad we can- not say.” The truth is, our tremen- dous balance of trade has been wiped out by the return of»“our securities,” and instead of being a creditor nation, we are a debtor, and paying our debts in gold. Moreover. our debts are al- ways increasing. We are worse off than the little Argentine republic, which actually receives its balance of trade in cash and not wind, and what is paid her in gold is recouped by drawing on us. We are the scape- goats, the holders of the sack which the whole world draws from and gives us back “our securities.” THEY WILL NOT FORGET. “The voters of this country will not forget the multitudinous scandals and violations of platform pledges, the in- credible incredse in public expenses, and the peril in the tendency of af- fairs,” says the Helena Independent. “They will keep their wits about them from this time forth. There never was a time when so many voters knew so much about the history of their coun- try, and so much of the science of political economy; every year the number grows. These voters will know, most of them know already, that “booms” are ephemeral affairs, and that over-capitalization of trusts and monopolies must react upon somebody, and they know full well that the work- ingmen will be the “somebody” upon whom the reaction will fall. “Not a voter will go to the polls next November without having studied the question of the menace of militar- ism in a free country, the deception and treachery practiced by the admin- istration toward silver, the violation of the pledge to improve the civil service, the departure from the teachings of Washington and the fathers on the subject of foreign entanglements, the operations of Gage and the United States treasury at the demand of stock gemblers and a favorite money clique. “Panics have been coming so fast as a result of Republican legislation that temporary conditions of boom will not convince the intelligent voter that reaction will never come. They will not forget.” REASON FOR SUSPICION. There appears to be grave reason for the suspicions of the Kansas City Times in referring to the great bank, the National City bank, which is to receive all of the govern- ment’s internal revenue receipts, mak- ing a clear profit of about $18,000,000 out of the fund. Added to it is the other suspicion anent Mr. Gage resign- ing his present office as treasurer of the United States and taking upon himself the presidency of that ner bank in which are Hanna, Rockefeller, Morgan, Sloane, McCall, Schiff and others. “Yet,” says the Times, “why should not Gage, at the beck of the president, afford them the opportunity of manipulating the millions of reve- nue taxes, wrung from the people for the purpose of promoting the growth of militarism and pro:ecuting the plan of imperialism now in process of de- velopment in the Philippines? Have not these men given freely of their money to the Hanna slush fund, by whose potent hocus-pocus William L (of Asia and America was chosen to sit on the throne? And, shall our noble executive be recreant to the trusts which elevated him? Shall he prove ungrateful to his benefactors? Shall be not so distribute his favors that no worthy and contributing plutocrat shall ever become impoverished? “This bread which he now commands his secretary of the treasury to cast upon the waters will return to him be- fore many days, when the presidential campaign begins to warm up. Then will the coal off trust and its moneyed following throw into Hanna’s slush fund a liberal percentage of the mil- Mons that Gage’s philanthropy has de- livered into the vaults of the big bank- ing institution owned by the Standard Oil magnates, trust monarchs and rail- way barons, who are the main bene- ficiaries and chief owners of Republi- cam prosperity and sole proprietors of prosperity’s advance agent.” NO CAUSE FOR GRIEF. Se the trusts are on the point of moving intoCanada? That fs the report, and it bears the impress of truth from the statement of a representative of the dominion government, who reeent- ly went to New York to confer with several trusts having their main offices in that city. Broadly stated, the rea- son given is: “Proposed anti-trust legislation and the rapid spread of the anti-trust spirit.” “We despair,” say the aggrieved benefactors of the public, “of obtaining favorable treatment through the en- actment of federal laws, for the rea- son that it would be necessary to amend the constitution of the United States before this could be done.” This is certainly a deplorable condi- tion, but if the trusts will possess their souls in patience, Mr. MtKinley, should he be re-elected, will at least attempt to secure an amendment to the con- stitution which will give the trusts more latitude. At present he is doing everything in his power to accommo- date the trusts by overstepping the constitution. But the downtrodden trusts go on with their declaration of grievances. “We are harassed and subjected to petty annoyances in various states, and by obtaining national charters from the Canadian government we would free ourselves from state in- terference, and could be sued in thts country only in the United States courts.” Here is a threat that unless the peo- ple of the United States totally sur- render to the grasping monopolies they will go to Canada and put themselves beyond the reach of any interference. | What a commentary upon the servility | of the federal judiciary! What an apt illustration of the encroachments of McKinleyism, which is another name for American imperialism! It is the same subterfuge, a deception and a de- lusion, as McKinley's attitude in favor of silver. In a short time the Repub- Hean press will be dampened | tears at the wicked trusts, and holding up the good and benevolent trusts for our worship and to get votes. Does | any one suppose that a single trust will move to Canada to avoid the anti- trust spirit? Not as long as McKinley is president and Mark Hanna his chief counselor. The more one thinks the | matter over, the more he is persuaded that it is one of Mark Twain's witti- | cisms. American Feudalism. Napoleon destroyed the old feudal- ism, which was the slavery of the ten- ant to the owner of the soil. Then he established in its place a military aristocracy and the feudality of the sword. Our Napoleon has discovered a new feudalism which the Los An- geles Herald thus defines: “It may with equal truth be said that, to the aspiration in this country for equal opportunities to earn a live- lihood and a comfortable competency, capital has replied by creating cor- Porations, syndicates, trusts and mo- nopoly, to shut the door to competi- tion and to hold a position through which the class of dependents can be enlarged and the labor of the masses exploited. Instead of feudalifm based upon land ownership, the country is rapidly becoming subjected to the feu- dalism of money. ° “The policies of the government, un- observed by the masses, but not the less surely, have promoted the growth and maintenance of capitalistic feudal- ism. Unless the trend in that direc- tion is speedily checked the system will become absolute and irremovable. Through the increase of dependents and of political corruption capitalism seeks to become the feudal lord of the nation.” Senator Aldrich, in discussing the gold standard bill from the Republican standpoint, uttered the following re- markable thought: “No sane man believed for an in- stant that the opening of our mints to the free coinage of silver at the ration of 16 to 1 would raise the value of sil- ver bullion from its current commer- cial price to its mint price.” When it comes to “value,” there is no intrinsic value of any kind of bul- lion converted into money, not even gold. In trust circles the “value” of a thing is the price that can be ob- tained for it. So the wuole of the senator’s argument amounts to the cu- rious supposition that, with silver bul- lion raised to $1.29 per ounce at the mint, people would still sell their silver bullion at 60 cents. This is what the silver producer is now woing, and it is what the Democratic party protests against. If it be insanity to desire an advance in the price of our most*val- uable product, then the sooner we all become insane the better for the coun- try. The professions and Practices of the president have become so mixed that the average citizen can hardly tell whether he is speaking politically, morally, or just for effect. In his an- nual message he proclaims the fact that we are at peace with the whole world, and then he wants a large standing army. At the last session of congress Senator Cockrell stood up like @ true American citizen and declared that no such undemocratic statute should be engrafted upon our legis- lature to shame our institutions, bur- ved weStoes png ge menace the perpetuity of our of government, if he could prevent it by the exercise Clon ertmge mate resource of opposi- tion wit power. The senator hes again beclered bi, Ghnrasnaatt to set his face against the schemes of the imperialists, and, with his strong Personnel and dogged determination, something will have to yield cece TO EVERYBODY. The microscope and chemical analy. sis have proved beyond the question of a doubt the presence of disease germs in the bicod, differing in shape and appearance, according to the nature ot the disease. Anything relating to their presence, or, better still, their ‘removal is consequently of interest to our readers and we therefore call! at- tention to a very interesting little book, recently published by M. R. Zaegel & Company, in which the au- thor clearly demonstrates the cause of these little enemies of mankfnd, ang gives a practical home treatment by which, without impairing the health of the smallest child, they can be re- moved from the system. As this book- let will be mailed free to any reader of this paper, tcgether with a free sample of enough roots and herbs for two weeks’ home treatment, we advise all to make application at once by writing to M. R. Zaegel & Co., P.O. Box 831, Sheboygan, Wis., enclosing in their letter one two-cent stamp to pay the postage on the free sample. Following the rules of health laid down in this book, and using the roots and herbs as directed, means the eradication of disease germs from the blood, the presence of which cause rheumatism, headache, stomach, liver, kidney and bowel complaints. | Our Modest Presidents It is rather curious that while every president to whom the project of add- ing to the white house has been men- tioned has been favorable to such a thing, not one has given his consent to the introduction of a bill for that pur- pose. President McKinley has recent- ly requested Senator Cullom to re- nounce his intention of fathering such a bill. There Is a Class of People. Who are injured by the use of coffee. Receatly there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents ami 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. Several hundred thousands of Amer- ieans find the American Monthly Re- view of Reviews very useful and help- ful reading. In the political year it becomes fairly necessary. In no presi- dential year will this be more true than in 1900, with the many import- ant problems created by the country’s new colonial duties. In Dr. Shaw's editorial survey of the month, in the timely contributed features, in the de- partments reviewing the other maga- zines of the world, the alert reader finds each month a full and accurate presentation of the political news, with able discussions of the economic and social questions which are inter- esting everybody. The authoritative character-sketches of the presidential candidates and other notable figures appear at the hour when public inter- est is greatest in these subjects. The Portrayal of current history in the best caricatures of each month is not the least attractive of these many helps to a right understanding of one’s own times, and one’s own public duties. Each number is illustrated with nearly a hundred timely pictures. The new theatre which Messrs. Hay- man and Davis are now erecting in Jackson boulevard will be called The Illinois. After many names had been Proposed and their suitability thor- oughly considered, The Illinois was de- cided on by a majority of those inter- ested in this new theatre for Chicago. From every point in the state, as well as from prominent people in the city of Chicago, Manager Wil! J. Davis has received congratulations upon the hap- py selection of the name Those who at first objected to the name have, after consideration, come to view it with favor, and it is now almost be- yond the question of a doubt that the beautiful structure will be known throughout its existence as the Illinois Theatre. Mr. Francis Wilson has met every- where he has presented “Cyrano,” his mew comic opera by Victor Herbert and Harry B. Smith, with his custom- ary success. Since it was produced at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York, it has been entirely rewritten and now it is classed with Mr. Wilson’s greatest successes. Reports come from Philadelphia, Boston and Washington that Mr. Wilson has been greeted by the largest audiences that he has ever played to. The advent of the opera and Mr. Wilson’s forthcoming engage- ment in the Columbia Theatre, Janu- ary 28, his first engagement in this house, is one of the features of the sea- son’s attractions, pores ee Improvements on Nataecs Celery is derived from smallage. Fiiberts, etc., are improvements of the hazelnut. ne. % De Seen Sucesaan tess See Teltiebaum, Treasurer, East Las Vegas, N.M. ert The trip by motor car from Cairo to the pyramids is made in fourteen min- utes. —$——___ THE GRIP CURE THAT DOES CURE. 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S. government is completing a deep water channel through the bay to the gulf, which will soon bring the largest ocean liners to La Porte docks and wharfs. 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. Florida, West Indies and Central America The facilities of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for handling tourists and travelers destined for all points in Florida, Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America, or for Nassau, are unsurpassed. Double daily lines of sleeping cars are run from Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago and St. Louis through Jacksonville to interior Florida points, and to Miami, Tampa and New Orleans, the ports of embarkation for the countries mentioned. For folders, etc., write J. K. Ridgely, N. W. P. A., Chicago, Ill. The Land of Bread and Butter is the title of a new illustrated pamphlet just issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, relating more especially to the land along the new line it is now building through Bon Homme and Charles Mix counties in South Dakota. It will be found very interesting reading. A copy will be mailed free on receipt of 2-cent stamp for postage. Address Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. Neck of the House. 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The Best Evidence That the Celestial Is Becoming an American-It Is Called the Oriental and Occidental Yat Po Which Means the Daily News. The Chinaman has worked his way into a prominent place in the life of the Pacific coast and is no longer regarded with the intolerance which marked the days of Dennis Kearney. The intervening years since the man Kearney waved a hangman's noose before a savagely-delighted army of malcontents and preached the doctrine of Chinese extirpation, and the present day may be called the period of reconstruction of the outraged law, and great has been the transformation. In deference to popular will, lawfully expressed, national legislation has shut off Chinese immigration in a large measure, and time has shown the wisdom of the act. But the 100,000 Chinese then and now within the state of California have, by the laws of absorption and amalgamation, as they apply to commerce and trade, gradually merged their interests with those of leading American houses, and their world-wide reputation for business honesty and sagacity has won for them fast business friendships which all the demagogues on earth could not break or make. Steamship lines and brokerage and banking are largely in Chinese hands, and the stated clearing houses of San Francisco passes upon such a volume of Chinese commercial paper as to surprise those who do not keep pace with the wonderful progress of this people. Having such great interests in financial circles, the Chinese merchant needs a daily adviser and counselor, just as his Caucasian neighbor does, and so the great innovation of the nineteenth century follows—a Chinese daily newspaper in San Francisco. The new paper is called Chung Sai Yat Po, which means Oriental and Occidental Daily News. It is a four-page, six-column sheet, and is the only Chinese daily in the world outside the Celestial empire. The promoter and editor of the paper is Rev. Ng Poon Chew, pastor of the Presbyterian Chinese church, and his staff of writers embraces some eminent Americans. The common enemy of civilization among Chinese is superstition. The existing weekly papers pander to this weakness in the common horde and thus perpetuate hatreds and racial prejudices which often find utterance in the bludgeon or pistol of the highbinder. To wipe out this cause of trouble will be one task of the Ching Sai Yat Po, and all the Christianized energies and learning of its reverend promoter will be turned into this needy channel. News and comment will be up to date and a faithful transcript of what the Associated Press furnishes for morning readers. It may surprise many to learn that Chinamen follow great national subjects closely. The recent Jeffries-Sharkey fight was as eagerly watched from a Chinese bulletin board as from those of the leading American dailies, and as many dol- A. Hanging Rees in Pennsylvania. More men are under sentence of death in Pennsylvania than at any prior period in its history, and the probability is that 1900 will be the banner year for executions in the nineteenth century. So far Gov. Stone has in his possession documents indicating the conviction of fourteen murderers, the date of whose execution he is required to name. To these must be added the names of Michael Baronsky, Andrew Coress, Anthony Machulas, Joseph Sachinsky, Peter Stenkewicz, Andrew Stenkewicz and John Stenkewicz, of Schuylkill county, who were found guilty of the murder of Joseph Rutkowski. This is the greatest number of men ever found guilty in this state for the murder of a single person, and probably the largest in the United States. If they are made to pay the extreme penalty of the law they will constitute the greatest number ever executed in the state at one time for the same offense. The nearest to this was a former trial in Schuylkill county, when five men were found guilty and executed for the murder of Policeman Yost of Tamaqua in 1877. The Germs of Cancer. Dr. Behla, a member of the sanitary council of Luckau, Prussia, has discovered that man can take the germs of cancer by eating vegetables growing in a soil watered by a sewer. The garden truck that grows in the suburbs of that city is watered from a ditch that gets its supply of water from a sewer. The folk in this city eat their parseley, cucumbers, peas, onions, garlic and strawberries raw, in which state the germs seem to be carried easily. MAYOR OF BOSTON. The victory in Boston, which makes Thomas N. Hart mayor, was a surprise. Boston is nominally Democratic, the party's nominee for governor at the last election having carried the city by 6,000. The candidate for mayor was Gen. Patrick A. Collins, the distinguished lawyer and intimate friend of Grover Cleveland, who was consul general to London during the latter's last administration. This was deemed a strong nomination and so poor was the outlook for Republican success that the men who run the machinery of the G. O. P. gave the nomination to Thomas N. Hart, whom they disliked because of his independence during previous incumbency of the position. They thought Hart would be beaten, but Hart stands well with the taxpayers and this fact, together with a split in the Democratic ranks, gave him a majority of nearly 2,000. The disaffection among the Democrats was due to the defeat of John R. Murphy, by Gen. Collins, in the nominating convention, and Murphy's friends retaliated. It was alleged against Gen. Collins that he was J. THOMAS N. HART. not in accord with the Chicago platform. Hart served as mayor some ten years ago. OUR KINSMEN. THE BOERS. There Is a Tie Between Them and Our Country's Early Settlers. Reminded incessantly of their kinship with the English, Americans are not often asked to remember their kinship with the Boers. And yet the tie is a close one. The Boer is a transplanted Dutchman, and the influence of Holland in shaping the destiny of this country is ranked by historians as second only to that of Great Britain. In contemplating the Transvaal war it is well not to forget what the Dutch did for America. The Pilgrim Fathers, having been driven out of England, found a refuge in Holland, until they sailed for the New World. Holland was in that age the cradle of religious liberty. It was one of the world's great states, and its people had won greater freedom than those of England. During their sojourn there the refugees learned to admire and love many Dutch institutions, and they carried these feelings with them across the Atlantic. In the very foundation of the American commonwealth there was a stratum of the elements that are present in the fighting Boers. Hendrik Hudson, when he sailed his boat, the Half Moon, through the Narrows, in 1609, was, though English himself, in the service of the Dutch East India company To Holland, therefore, belongs the honor of the discovery of the Hudson river and what is now the port of New York. England claimed all the territory on the Atlantic coast from the bay of Fundy to Florida, but did not oppose the colonization of the territory discovered by Hudson. Hudson named the region New Netherland and established trading posts on Manhattan island and at what is now Albany. The first Dutch colonists arrived in 1623 and settled on Manhattan island, which they named New Amsterdam. Holland claimed all the territory from the Delaware to the Connecticut. To stimulate colonization the Dutch West India company offered a tract 10 miles along one bank of any river or eight miles along both banks to anybody who would transport fifty colonists from the old country. Among these brave pioneers were the forefathers of many who now look upon themselves as the aristocracy of New York. In just this way did the Dutch colonize South Africa and found the nation that is now fighting desperately for its freedom. So that there is cousinship of race between many in the Four Hundred and the stern farmers who obey Oom Paul. But intermarriage on this side has modified the original type, whereas the Boers in their jealous isolation have preserved the pure, strong, rugged race. A Noted French Woman. The Duchess D'Uzes, who has indignantly repudiated the statement that she is backing the Boer recruiting movement in this country, with which her name has been associated, is one of the wealthiest aristocrats of France and one of the noblest. She is the owner of the famous vineyard and champagne plant of Cliquot, which she inherited from her maternal grandmother. She maintains several immense establishments, the most important of which is that in the old ultra-fashionable quarter of the Faubourg St. Germain. Her great hunting estate, with its chateau, at Bonhelles, near the forest of Rambouillet, is one of the most magnificent properties of its kind in France. The duchess is a daughter of the family of Rochehouart-Mortemart. She was married at 19 to the Duc d'Uzes, one of the most celebrated statesmen of his time 30 FEET OF BOWELS 5 4 3 1 2 9 10 11 6 1 12 7 8 13 14 THE ALIMENTARY CANAL. 1. Lower end of esophagus (meat-pipe) which conveys the food from the throat to the stomach; 2. Cardiac end of stomach; 3. Pyloric end of stomach; 4. Duodenum; 5. Gall bladder; 6. 6. 6. Small intestines; 7. Cecum; 8. Vermiform appendix; 9. Ascending colon; 10. Transverse colon; 11. Descending colon; 12. Sigmoid flexure; 13. Rectum; 14. Anus. The duodenum is continuous with the small intestines. The small intestine empties into the large intestine or colon at the cecum. The arrows indicate the direction of the bowels must take in waste through the alimentary canal. Made CLEAN and STRONG by Cascarets Get the genuine if you want results! Tablet is marked "CCC." Cascarets are never sold in bulk, but only and always in the light blue metal box with the long-tailed "C." Look for the trade-mark—the C with a long tail—on the lid! BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS CCC This is the genuine tablet, never sold in bulk. To any needy mortal, who can't afford to buy, we will mail a box free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. AN APPEAL TO HUMANITY GENERALLY. We need your assistance in announcing to the world the greatest remedy that Science has ever produced, and you need our assistance to secure relief for yourself and friends through Swanson's "5-DROPS." A REMEDY SUPREME. As surely as the American Navy has conquered and will conquer all that opposes it, so will "5-DROPS" unfallingly conquer all disease like Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Kidney Troubles, Lumbago, Catarrh of all kinds, Asthma, Dyspepsia, Backache, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Heart-Weakness, Toothache, Earache, Creeping Numbness, Bronchitis, etc., or any disease for which we recommend it. "5-DROPS" is the name and the dose. Trial bottles 25c. Large bottles, containing 300 doses, $1.00 prepaid by mail or express. Six bottles for $5.00. Why suffer pain and agony when for such small amount you can obtain the relief for which you have been so long waiting? Don't wait! Write now, and the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., 164 Lake St., Chicago, Ill., will immediately give your order attention. The Black Cat Fad. The latest idea in the way of a portebonheur is to carry a tiny puss of wondrous goldsmith's work swinging as a pendant from the end of your lorgnette chain. The cat is made of black enamel upon metal. Its eyes have a metallic green gleam. Are they not tiny catseyes? The sapient puss wears a collar of brilliants set close about her furry neck. This, it seems, is the very "latest." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Latest in Stews A cadaverous looking man went into a restaurant and took a seat at a table He coughed feebly out of a hollow chest and beckoned to the waiter. "Bring me a little milk toast," he said in a husky voice. "Graveyard stew," yelled the waiter back to the kitchen. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. An Universal Language. At a recent meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences Professor Dills advocated the use of English as a universal language for men of science. Coughing Leads to Consumption Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. When a man is engaged to a woman he thinks of her half the time he doesn't see her. After they get married he thinks of her half the time he sees her. The professional picture-hanger is now a regular adjunct of art stores in large cities. Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cures.—George W. Lotz, Fabucher, La., August 26, 1895. Think well of no young man whom the old men do not find polite. When All Else Falls. Try Yi-Kl. Cures Corns and Bunions without pain. Never falls. Drug stores or mall 15c. Yi-Kl Co., Crawfordsville, Ind. A woman never knows what it is to have a wife. The Largest in the World. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., and the largest Mirs. of Cocoa and Chocolate in the world. Suspense is the most trying of all emotions. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wind colic. 20c a bottle Coe's Cough Balsam is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable. Try it. When we love it is the heart that judges. If you had rather be sick than well, don't use N. K. Brown's Iron and Quinine Bitters. 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 ock Block, Chicago, Ill., or Everett & Kantz. Fort Wayne, Ind. LAPORTE Situated on Galveston Bay, is destined to be the TEXAS NOST PROSPEROUS CITY on the Gulf of Mexico It possesses unexcelled NATURAL advantages which coupled with the BACKING of wealthy and influential men assures a brilliant future. The U. S. Government is now spending a large amount of money in Harbor improvements. La Porte is the natural seaport for the products of the entire Middle, Northern and Western States and for Houston, the great railroad center of Texas. Excursions at reduced rates will be run twice a month. Write for FREE NAPS, DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE and full particulars to AMERICAN LAND CO., 188 Madison St., CHICAGO DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH CURES COUGHS AND COLDS. PREVENTS CONSUMPTION. All Druggists, #5e. KILLER CARTER'S INK Has the endorsement of the U. S. Government and all the Leading Railroads. PENSION JOHN W. MOBRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. 3 yrs in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS treatment TURK. DR. H. H. GRANKEN'S SONS. Box K. Atlanta, Ga. --- are packed away in your in order and doing business. It's a long way, with the refuse and clog the cleaned out every day. When this long can trouble—furred tongue, b yellow spots, pimples and b food after eating—an all-ar are packed away in your insides and must be kept clean, in order and doing business. It's a long way, with many turns and pitfalls to catch the refuse and clog the channel if not most carefully cleaned out every day. When this long canal is blockaded, look out for trouble—furred tongue, bad breath, belching of gases, yellow spots, pimples and boils, headaches, spitting up of food after eating—an all-around disgusting nuisance. Violent pill poisons or gripping salts are dangerous to use for cleaning out the bowels. They force out the obstruction by causing violent spasms of the bowels, but they leave the intestines weak and even less able to keep up regular movements than before, and make a larger dose necessary next time. Then you have the pill he than the morphine and whi The only safe, gentle b sweet, fragrant CASCAR out the foecal matter with w the whole 30 feet of bowel and restore healthy, natural (Look out for imitations and results. Cascarets are never trade-mark, the long-tailed find that in an entirely nat promptly and permanently must take in de CLEAN and STRO Then you have the pill habit, which kills more people than the morphine and whiskey habits combined. The only safe, gentle but certain bowel cleansers are sweet, fragrant CASCARETS, because they don't force out the foecal matter with violence, but act as a tonic on the whole 30 feet of bowel wall, strengthen the muscles and restore healthy, natural action. Buy and try them! (Look out for imitations and substitutes or you can't get results. Cascarets are never sold in bulk. Look for the trade-mark, the long-tailed "C" on the box.) You will find that in an entirely natural way your bowels will be promptly and permanently Wind is not wisdom. WESTERN CANADA SALZER'S 3 EARED CORN This new, earliest, corn will revolutionize corn growing, yielding in 1800, in Minnesota, 400 bus. per acre. BIG FOUR OATS yields 121 bus. per acre, and you can beat that! SPELTZ 60 bus. per acre. Greatest grain and hay food this side of the earl BARLEY, BEARDLESS, yields 121 bus. in N.Y. Wonderful RAPE 25c. A TON Given rich, green food for cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc., at 12a. a ton. We sell nine-tenths of the Rape seed used in the U.S. BROMUS INERMUS Greatest grass on earth. Grows to perfection in America everywhere. Salzer warrants it! THE MILLION DOLLAR potato is the most talked of potato on earth, and Salzer Six Weeks; both will make you rich. Largest grower of Potatoes and Farm Seeds in the world. VEGETABLE SEEDS Largest, choicest list in U. S. Onion Seed, 80c. 1b. Everything warranted to grow. 35 pkgs earlest vegetables, postpaid, $1.00. FOR 10c. STAMPS and this notice, we mall great Seed Catalog and 10 pkgs Farm Seed Novelties. Catalog alone, 5c. postage. www. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. LA CROSSE WIS. 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. ASTHMA POPHAM'S ASTHMA SPECIFIC Gives relief in FIVE minutes. Send for a FREE trial package. Sold by Druggists. One Box sent postpaid on receipt of $1.00. Six boxes $6.00. Address THOR, POPHAM, PRILLA, Pa. OSTEOPATHY is a method of treating disease, without drugs, by manipulation, the result of which is to restore the normal con- tion of nerve control and blood supply to every organ of the body. Examination free. Write for Booklet. Columbian Institute of Osteopathy, 84 Adams Street, Suite 73 Dexter Building, Chicago. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 3, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Slocum's ANTI-DYSPEPTIC WORM CAKES For the expulsion of all kinds of worms, excepting the Tape Worm (for which we have a special remedy), and without the use of other medicines, giving health and vitality to the disordered stomach and bowels. They are pleasant to take; acting as a mild cathar ic, they cleanse the stomach, giving tone and vigor to the system. Price 25c. at all druggists. Sole Proprietors. FINNEY & SLOCUM CHICAGO AND NEW YORK. OWELS insides and must be kept clean, many turns and pitfalls to catch channel if not most carefully al is blockaded, look out for bad breath, belching of gases, boils, headaches, spitting up of around disgusting nuisance. habit, which kills more people diskey habits combined. but certain bowel cleansers are ETS, because they don't force violence, but act as a tonic on el wall, strengthen the muscles al action. Buy and try them! and substitutes or you can't get er sold in bulk. Look for the ("C" on the box.) You will natural way your bowels will be <> SS SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1900. ODDS AND ENDS. Columbia; S. C., bas an ordinance which requires that gates should swing inward. . Stain of 4anana juice is almost In- delibie. It does not proceed from the stalk or plant. but exists in the green fruit as well. Many comets will be seen during the twentieth century. The most interest- fing is Halley’s—last seen in 1835. It ‘Ys due in 1910 or 1911. A clever rascal recently succeeded in selling to the peasants of a remote town in Russia tickets which purport- ed to admit them to Paradise. Congress will be asked to establish @ national park“in the southern Alle- ganies, probably in the Blue Ridge or Smoky mountains, western North Car- orina. The latest ban-le charm worn in Paris ie a ufan’s little battered-in tall hbat—a not particularly creditable sou- venir of the Longehamps-Loubet inci- dent.—Paris Letter. Freddie—“There is one thing I'd like to know.” Cobwigger—“Well?” Fred- die—“Why is there no use asking San- ta Claus for the things you don’t want me to have?”"—Judge. The state forestry commissioners of New York have just purchased 40,000 acres of land in the Catskill moun- tains, making the holdings of the state in that region aggregate 300,000 acres. Sailors’ trousers, or “trombone pants,” as they have sometimes been called, expand in beil-shape at the bottom so as to be the more easily kicked off in case of the wearer's fall- ing into the water. Seventy-seven per cent of the men enlisting in the army during the past year were native-born Americans. Five years ago our soldiers were principally men of foreign birth,Irish and Ger- mans predominating. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. An immense inverted syphon, six feet in diameter and 1.780 feet long. takes water from one side of a river in Idaho and discharges it on the oppo- site side of the river. The difference in elevation between intake and dis- charge is 35 feet. Jersey City will build a dam 100 feet high to flood 852 acres, for a supply of 7,000,000,000 gallons of water. it will be reached by two miles of tunnel,three and one-half miles of masonry aque- ~duct and sevénteen miles of steel pipe ‘capable of delivering 50,000,000 gallons a day. An ingenvous Frenchman, M. Albert Jagot, has constructed a perpetual! cal- endar, which indicates automatically without any attention save winding the day of the Week, the date and the month. It shows the 29th of Febru- ary every four years, besides suppress- ing it in the continuing ycars that are not leap years and showing it in those that are. A German doctor has devised a plan for massaging rheumatic joints. He takes the patient’s hand and puts it in a Geep glass which is two-thirds full of quicksilver. The mercury ex- erts an equal pressure on every por- tion of the fingers and the pressure increases rapidly as the fingers sink further into it. The hand is alter- nately plunged and raised about twen- ty or thirty times at each treatment, and after a second visit there is a marked diminution of the swelling. SHORT SERMONS. There are critical moments in every life when we must act and act quick- ly,—Rev. D. C. Garrett. God stands at the beginning of life, the first, simplest, sweetest of all knowabie things—love—Rev. Frank ‘Crane. If we wou'd have that charity of which St. Paul speaks, we must come very meat to our Divine Lord.—Rev. Father York. < We need patience in building charac- ter according to the patterns of right- ‘eousness as it is in Jesus Christ —Rev. John R. Shannon. : Life is a pearl of great price. No man who has ever lived has been rich enough to buy a square inch of it— Rev. Ira Biliman. “The church is the home of mutual soul culture, and an organization of all sorts and conditions of servants of humanity—Rev. A. McGaffin. -. Abiding in Christ fs to be in fel- Jowship ‘with Him and to have the ‘word in ts is to study it, feed upon it, ‘be nourished by it, live it—Rev. 0. C. -Thave known men to take refuge in Fitualism or rigid orthodoxy on the ciple of not letting the left hand } what the right one doeth —Rev. re a. of God’s mind and ind. They gain in ‘charm and b end-pathority by this fact. S POINTED PARAGRAPHS, - ‘The fore fault a man looks for the ‘more he finds. 3 ‘Beauty ‘may be only skin deep, but it te nearly always effective. “Contentment may be betic: than eee Gane 40 go tog +ther. _ Nat after making man, found she "The contents of = bald man's head ay hevaluable even though he bas 8 See te ee} HOME-MADE PHILOSOPHY. ‘Wotever condishun the “best peepul” want, thay encourage the other peepul too demand. A good wife iz like a full purse; a bad wife iz worse than a pocket with a hole in it. A onest man will alerze foller the dicktates ov hiz conschence—prowidin he kin do so and still hold hiz job. Man goze out with a lite hart too wurk; with a desperate hart too plun- der, and with a heavy hart too beg. It duzzent make mutch oddz wot relygyun a man professes, so long az he haz got the love ov yoomanity in hiz hart. The troothfull man iz respected even by the boss liar ov the town, wile the boss liar iz a disgust too even hiz own fambly. Bizness, like a game of poker, makes @ man ware a lie on hiz face; but only the big corporashuns are drawin cards jis now. Nashuns are made up ov indiwid- yooals, and whether thay are wurkerze, plundererze, or beggarze, iz wot makes thare karackter. The man hoo belongs to a perlitickal party, like the dog that belongs too a thief, will defend hiz master even wen starvashun looks in at the winder. Angels will hardly work on earth so long az they must hold up their robes to keep them frum trailing in politickel corrupshun and yooman blud. Sivilized tretchery iz jist az mean and contemptibull az heathen -tretch- ery. A villain in the garb ov a king, iz no better than a villain in the rags ov a beggar. He must be a noble man hoo trize too reform a bad wife, for wen wunst convinced that his wife iz bad, he must be a saint too retain love anuff too tackle the job. Wen the poor man patronizes the nooze paper az well az he duz the bar, and drinks nollege instead ov beer, he'll then begin too bild printin offices insted ov saloons. Man tempers religyun to the con- dishuns he finds in hiz locality. In a land ov peace, God iz love, but in a Jand ov rebelyus slaves, God iz the God of war and biudshed. THINGS HERE AND THERE. _ It is estimated that the population of Italy includes about 50,000 Jews. | The trip by motor car from Cairo te the pyramids is made in fourteen min- utes. _ It is said that worry kills more peo- ple than work—probably because more people worry than work. Chicago, in addition to other dis- tinctions, has that of possessing the only professional teacher of parrots in the country. A fifteen-year-old English girl tried to drown herself in a Wimbledon pond because her mother insisted on her wearing corsets. The largest library of smgli books in the world belongs to a Frenchman, who boasts that he can pack 700 of his pocket editions in a single portman- teau. An entire new glass covering has been ordered for the roof of the Crys- tal Palace, in London. The total glass area to be covered is about fifteen acres. _ (Chicago makes provision for its deaf children in the public schools. There are eleven schools at present scattered through the city, and they contain about 200 children. John J. Johnson. who died in Flu- Yanna county, Va., the other day, was one of the litter bearers who carried ‘Stonewall Jackson from the field when that general was mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. A medical enthusiast on the subject of automobiles says the banishment of horses from cities, with the resulting cleaner streets, will greatly reduce the number of cases. of lock-jaw, typhoid fever, influenza, choleraic diseases and blood poisoning from wounds. There is a man in western Massa- chusetts over sixty years old who lives on the line of the Boston & Albany Toad; he has been in the service of that company for over forty years, and could ride free on its cars whenever he chose to do so; yet he has never visited this city—Boston Transcript. WHAT THE LAW. DECIDES. Constitutionality of attorney's fees allowed by statute for the successful establishment and enforcement of a mechanic's lien is sustained in Dell vs. Marvin (Fia.), 45 L. R. A. 201, on the ground that such claims may be made a class by themselves for such pur- Pose. Exclusion of citizens of other states from the right to dig claims for sale on certain flats, by a regulation re- stricting the right to residents of the town, is held, in Com. vs. Hilton (Mass.),"45 L. R. A. 475, not to be in violation of the constitutional privi- leges or immunities of citizens. Determination of a commissioner ‘ap- pointed by the governor to ascertain en te eee ee ee amendments is held, in State ex rel.-Bott vs. Wruts (N. J.), 45 L. R. A. 251, to be reviewable by certiorari, Botwithstanding a proclamation of the governor, based on their determina- tion, declaring the amendment adopted. A statute compelling the resignation ofall herds of cattle of persons sell- towns and and prohibiting the sale and shipment of mili fm such places from unsanitary premises, is held, fu-State vs. Brosdbelt (Md.), 45 LR. A. 483, to bea. valid exercise of the police power, and not r ee ee Lo CANDY...) Tiy the inimitable fine and pure candies, the be-tin the city for lie., We. and 40. per pound, All put up in beautiful boxes, == suitable for presents. - GUNTHERS CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. ~~ ALBERT B. GEORGE LAW YER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2625.—— WW. JOHNSON, LAWYER, 125 Clark Street, - Chicago. ow-Room 53...... * Tel. Wentworth 516 « Office Hours: 8304. m.to8j0p.m BEAUREGARD F. MOSELY LAWYER Bankruptcy ProcerDINcs A SPECIALTY. Sourre 1 anp2 6296 HaLstep Streer CHICAGO Gor. Hatstep & 63RD Sts. ry | MRS. LAURA DAILEY. | FURNISHED ROOMS FORSTRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and gcod accommodations. = St., 2d floor, Chieage, Ill | Room 28. | 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 II. R.R. Branch Offi:e, 5301 Wentworth av. TeLersoxe 813 YaRps. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Hours: $410 a. m., 2-4, 68 p. m. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 6012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, %mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surround- ing 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, potatoés 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. 94 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. Three miles from Geneva Junctioca, six miles from Lake Geneva. 9 acres in Walworth county, lies all in cultivation, good house, barn and outbiidings. 20 head miich cows. 20 head hogs. 5006 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 ele- gant 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 informa- tion address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to secure active agemts and correspondents in all sec- tions of the country. Liberal commis- sions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ayenuo, Chicago. It ts always so much easier to find a mame for your neighbor's baby than it ‘ts to select one for your own. the same stone twice. When he ponent that way the coond Cime t | Pelephone Yards 72 ——-=stablished 1877 JOHN J. DUNN, ee Goal - and - Wood, Sist Street and Armour Avenue... mee sh Ps eee J. F. Knorr, 5553 Green St. ‘Tol. Yards eas KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery, toa Acoma: 5438 SOUTH HALSTED ST. es SeucasTersamees «Creve attention Cc.J.BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-itter Seaaus ue tone Sees Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. ‘Telephone Yards 79! Residence, 113 Garfield B4 JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, one CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, cooK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, ROOM 616, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE - --- 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. TELEPHONE SOUTH 382 ae THE FALSE STAR. The agitation of the Mormon ques- tion has naturally aroused some inter- est 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- Re) es Pea toes eee Ras Dat | TE! Sars Mabdd SEO DOs cy ee 2th ena Rae St i exe emerson cgi H eso ye i PhO eae oe res oe a ee ee ae eS RR ey - ey eed 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 com- -munications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCi FREE. Anyone sending us ten yearly sub- scribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 sub- scribers for six months, we will pre- sent them with this beautiful gold- filled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies” or gents”. FEL AWS g ) ed SA IAN LORDS cee tS a ee ¥ Be! ea Led Rae . ey ce . er i Bene = Re a ee Ps Se aaa | alee be ae . rm yd] - xT i > = ‘ 4s BAe = Zev re*4 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 sve., Chi- ago, Th Hon. W. J. Bryan’s Book ee ¢ ALLL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. W. J. Bryan’s new book should correspond im- mediately with the publishers. The work will contain An account of his campaign tour. . . His most important speeches .... F } The results of the campaign of 1896. : A review of the political situation . . > AGENTS WANTED <= Mr. Bryan has announced his intention of devoting one-half of all royalties to furthering the cause of bimetallism. There are already indications of an enor mous sale. Address ~ W. B. 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