The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX OUR TICKET. For President—Col. Wm. J. Bryan, of Nebraska. For Vice-President—Congressman Wm. Suizer, of New York. OUR PLATFORM Equal and exact justice to every man, woman and child—special privileges to none. Down with trusts, monopolies, unlawful combinations, mob and lynch law, militarism, imperialism. Secret alliances with foreign countries. America for the Americans, Cuba for the Cubans and the Philippine Islands for the Filipinos. THE MEN'S SUNDAY CLUB. ADDRESSED BY DR. HOWARD S. TAYLOR. Dr. Howard S. Taylor, City Prosecuting Attorney, delivered the address before the Sunday Club at Quinn Chapel last Sunday. The audience, though largely republican, heard Mr. Taylor with great attention and frequently applauded the lecturer although what he had to say was, in effect, a strong indictment of the present administration. Mr. Taylor said that his topic, Washington's Farewell Address, was a somewhat belated topic; but that the recent celebration of Washington Day had filled the newspapers with a deluge of mere adjectives and rhetorical platitudes utterly barren and profitless, while the deep, practical wisdom of the great man who was "First in war and first in peace" had apparently been forgotten. The speaker held that at no time in all his distinguished career had Washington rendered a greater service to his country than when he penned his Farewell Address. That Washington meant it to be useful was evident from the great deliberation with which the document was written and the frequent revisions he made in the text. Its admonitions come to us ladened with all the solemnity of one who is taking his departure from all public life and who had concentrated in that majestic paper the powers of a naturally great mind broadened and enriched by a vast experience—an experience which included eight years in a commander's sadrie and eight years in the presidential chair. "But," said Mr. Taylor, "Washington has a still greater claim to the reverent and affectionate hearing of this particular audience. At a time when negro slavery was almost universally regarded as a natural and even a divine institution Washington was an emancipationist. He predicted calamity to the country if slavery should continue, a prediction sadly realized in the miseries of our Civil War. In several of his letters he solemnly urged legislation to abolish the evil as it then existed, and, in his last will and testament he liberated every slave under his control and out of his estate set apart funds to maintain the aged and infantile who in their new condition might not be able to care for themselves. A weighty message of advice from such a source must challenge your attention. You, at least, cannot reject the counsel of one who was the moral progenitor of Lincoln, Sumner and Phillips and who wrote these lofty words of patriotic warning in order that the liberty which our fathers won in the field might not be lost by us in the hrestings. What I have to say may not be entirely pleasing to you as partisans but as patriots you must hear and heed what comes to you in the very language of Washington, himself." Mr. Taylor then opened a little book and read from time to time in the course of his remarks certain extracts from the Farewell Address, making the following points. 1st.—Washington's advice to Americans to "avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." The speaker quoted from Dr. Warren, Josiah Quincy and Thomas Jefferson to show that the Revolutionary Fathers were all agreed in regarding a standing army as a menace to the republic, and he quoted Lincoln and Sumner to the same effect. He then called attention to the swift change that has come over the country, the new spirit of militarism, the ambition to be a "world power," to conquer remote territories and to force open doors of trade in the antipodes. He called attention to the fact that the Secretary of the Treasury in his estimates for the coming year has asked for a larger appropriation for our military establishment than France has asked for hers; and he affirmed that this is but the beginning of a policy whose wretched course will year by year lead us farther and farther away from the serene wisdom of Washington. 2nd.—The speaker read from the Address Washington's warning to his country to "avoid the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned—not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden we ourselves ought to bear." He said that Hamilton and Jefferson were both advisers of Washington; but Hamilton was the author of the phrase "a national debt is a national blessing," while Jefferson believed that a national debt would eventually destroy the liberties of the people by creating a class of tax-payers on the one hand and tax-eaters on the other. In the last great official act of his life Washington followed the philosophy of Jefferson rather than that of Hamilton. The speaker pointed out that our national debt is increasing, a class of bondholders has been developed who gorw more voracious and arrogant from year to year. The recent finance bill passed by Congress authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds practically at will; our taxes are multiplying in every direction and we are rapidly becoming reconciled or at least resigned to a spirit and a condition like that of Europe "Where wealth accumulates and men decay." 3rd,—Mr. Taylor read Washington's appeal for a strict adherence to the Constitution—"If the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates; but let there be no change by usurpation." He quoted the recent utterances of the President, Secretary Hay and Senators Ross and Foraker claiming that the United States may govern the recently acquired islands without restriction or limitation by the Constitution; and he challenged his hearers to judge between Washington and the new school of patriotism at the Capitol," a school which fears God and worships the trusts!" 4th—He read from the Address advice concerning our foreign relations— "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." The speaker showed how little by little we have departed from this Washingtonian policy. How year by year we have yielded to the commercial and financial schemes of England and how at last we have gone into a secret deal with Grat Britain which Joseph Chamberlain in his Leceister speech called "a union, an alliance if you please, an understanding between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race," a declaration which our Minister to St. James, Mr. Choate, confirms by babbling an after-dinner sentiment about "hands across the sea!" Mr. Taylor noticed that the President and Secretary Hay had denied the existence of such an alliance but called these denials an evasion, and quoted Congressman Dolliver's recent speech in the House in which Dolliver confessed that America had entered into a diplomatic arrangement to aid England in obtaining an "open door" in China. The speaker denounced these sordid, secret cabals and insisted that our new militarism and our secret alliance with England are the two halves of one malign policy which is sufficiently pursued will eventually lead us, after destroying the liberties of others, to suffer the loss of our own. We have 18 Afro-American women who are competent land surveyors Exchange. HEW TO THE LINE. THE ALDERANIC AND TOWN CONVENTIONS. Saturday, past, conventions were held in the various wards and towns for the purpose of nominating members of the City Council and town officials, and in most cases clean and acceptable men were selected including such men as Alderman Chas. F. Gunther, 2d ward, D. Van Ness Person, 2d ward, A. A. Ballenberg, 4th ward, Chas. Martin, 6th ward; Henry L. Fick, 7th ward; Chas. J. Byrne, 9th ward; Wm. F. Brennan, 10th ward: Nicholas R. Finn, 11th; Stanley H. Kunze, 16th; Wm. F. Dever, 17th; John F. Minwegan, 24th; Frank McCarty, 28th; Thomas Carey, 29th; Chas. J. Boyd, 30th; Harris F. Williams, 32d; Patrick C. Finerty, 33d; and Herman Getze, 34th. The result of the town conventions were as follows: West Chicago, John J. McLaughlin, supervisor; assessor John J. Klein; collector, V. E. Cerveny, clerk, Edward B. Warwick; South town, collector, Chas. Calleran ;supervisor Edward Maher; clerk, John B. Ryan. North town, assessor, James J. Gray; collector, Julius Solomon; supervisor, Vincent H. Perkins; clerk, Fred Rinderer. Hyde Park, assessor, John C. Behler; collector, John Hanswrith; supervisor, A. M. Glasgow; clerk, A. E. Eckerly. Town of Lake, collector, John Floersch; supervisor, Al. F. Gorman; clerk, John Smolka. Both the 30th ward and the Town of Lake conventions were held in the Watita League Hall and were well attended. Alderman Boyd was unanimously renominated and the town ticket was selected by acclamation. Alderman Thomas Carey made an extended speech and urged the voters of the ward to stand by Alderman Boyd and the Town ticket, which he predicted would win out on the day of election. John J. Feeley, the leading orator of the Old Hickory Club, was urged by the delegates to orate to the convention and he did so with much zeal and fervor. Mr Feely stirred them up in good shape when he declared that the men selected were clean and honest, young and faithful workers for the best interest of the party and the people and that the work of the convention was well done and the ticket would be triuhphantly elected on the 3d of April. THE TAMMANY SOCIETY. The sevenh annual marsked carnival, given by the Tammany Society of Chicago at Tattarsall's, Saturday evening, was a huge success in every way. The commodious structure contained not less than eight to ten thousand dancers and spectators who greatly enjoyed and joined in the merry making. Alderman Thomas Carey Grand Sachem, of the Tammany braves led the grand march and he did it to perfection. Andrew J. Ryan was the king of the festivities, and Attorney James F. Todd acted as the velled prophet, who predicted that Col. Wm. J. Bryan woul dbe elected president and that Mayor Carter H. Harrison would be the next Governor of Illinois. The arrangement committee, consisting of E. M. Cummings, chairman, Thomas M. Ryan, Frank J. Kilcrane, M. W. Gleason, John E. Fitzgerald, Thomas J. Qugley, F. W. Brenckle, James Maher, B. M. Mitchell, Al Kenny, Thomas A. Smyth and Grand Sachem Thomas Carey, who honored us with a ticket, spared no pains in looking after the wants of the guests. The L. B. W. Woman's Club held an informal reception at their club rooms 350 Dearborn street, Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Agnes Moody, chairman of the race section, who sails for Paris March 28. After an animated comparison and discussion of the lives and character of Toussaint L'Overture and Napoleon Bonaparte, light refreshments were served, while members and frinds paid tribute and bid farewell to Mrs. Moody. NOTICE. We will not resume our review of "The Political Parties and Negro" until the next issue of the Broad Ax. Attorney B. F. Mosely has accepted the invitation to address the City Central Republican committee of Peoria on the 15th of March. Subject, Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipator. SYMPOSIUM A large and appreciative audience attended the symposium at The Phyllis Wheatley Club rooms Wednesday evening. Dr. James R. White told the members in a very interesting manner of the value of sanitation. Dr. Jos. Jeffrey's talk on biology was treated in his usual scientific manner. Dr. A. W. Williams warned those present of the dangers of consumption, and told them how to avoid that dread disease. Dr. Geo. C. Hall in his own imitable style gave a practical talk on Pure Food, among other good things the doctor said, if he succeeded in impressing the women with one thing he hoped it would be the importance of knowing how to cook and how to cook well. Miss Amelia Scott and Mrs. Ward entertained the members with excellent musical selections, while Miss Effie McQuan sang in her usual sweet manner. These open meetings are a great benefit to the community and should be well attended each month. HON. H. C. BELL One of the leading attorneys of Sprinfield has become a candidate for state's attorney and, he is making a vigorous campaign. Mr. Bell is well known to the people of Illinois. He was born and raised in the state. He enlisted in the Union army during the War of the Rebellion, when he was only sixteen years of age. He served as Deputy Commissioner of pensions under President Cleveland from 1893 to 1897 and while serving in that capacity many Colored men served under him J. W. Cole an Afro-American was his chief clerk. Mr. Bell has always shown his friendship for our race and every Negro voter of Springfield and Sangamon County should turn out on the day of the primaries and vote and use their influence for Lawyer Bell, for he is not only the Colored man's friend, but is qualified in every way, and is deserving of the position which he is seeking CHIPS. Mrs. J. Q. Jackson is the only colored lady physician in the state of Alabama. Negroes are always organizing but are never organized except against each other.—Ex. Bishop Grant's lecture on Africa was well attended at Bethel church Wednesday night. Mrs. L. A. Davis, state organizer of the N. A. C. W. left for Peoria, Ill., last Saturday to spend a week with her mother and friends in that city. Dr. M. F. Murray, 1935 State st., corner of 20th ,is one of the most popular physicians and surgeons on the South side. His services are greatly in demand by all classes. A large number of ladies attended the reception given for Mrs. Arnett at Bethel church Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Simons of Springfield, was in the city this week visiting his daughter at 14609 Vincennes avenue. J. N. Kemp, 819 E. Washington st., Springfield, Ill., serves the best 15-cent meal in that city. He is a wide awake Afro-American and is patronized by many of the whites, who will hereafter have the pleasure of perusing The Broad Ax. The Frederick Douglas Council of the United Brotherhood, was organized at Douglas League Hall, 5058 Dearborn street, last Saturday night, and some of the most prominent men res'ding on the South side have become connected with it. It is claimed that some of the political enemies of Alderman Chas. Martin of the 6th ward, attempted to poison him, and as a result he has been compelled to seek medical aid. It is hoped by his many friends, that he will be speedily restored to good health. The State Committee met at Springfield the past week, and decided to hold the State Convention in that city June 26. The following were some of the prominent members of the committee who were present: Hon. Thos. Gahan, Robert E. Burke, Fred. E. Eldred, M. F. Dunlap, Mayor D. J. Hogan, M. J. Roach, Theo. Nelson, Frank J. Quinn, and City Clerk Wm. Loeffler. There was much talk around the St. Nicholas Hotel favoring the nomination of Hon. Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora, for governor and Fred E. Eldred for State Auditor. The regular weekly meeting of the Mothers' Council met with Mrs. S. J. Hart, 4841 Armour avenue. Monday Mrs. L. A. Davis presided. There was a good attendance and much interest was manifested on the part of the ladies in the work which the council is trying to accomplish. James A. Quinn, city sealer: "The Broad Ax is up-to-date and is doing a good work for the party and every true Democrat ought to subscribe for it." Mr. Quinn, you are all right and The Broad Ax would like to see you selected as a delegate to the next Democratic national convention. Col.Beauregard F.Mosely: "Your articles entitled 'The Political Parties and the Negro' are ably written and contain historical information, which cannot be found in any of the great daily newspapers and each issue containing the series of articles is worth a year's subscription to The Broad Ax." Henry Stuckart, one of Chicago's brightest and best business men, has announced his intention of becoming a candidate for member of the Board of Review. Mr. Stuckart's candidacy should be hailed with delight by all the leaders of the Democratic party throughout the city and county, as his nomination would greatly strengthen the county ticket. John F. Winwegan has been nominated for alderman in the 24th ward. Mr. Winwegan is a first class, clean business man and he will be elected. He is very friendly to the Colored race and over fifty Afro-Americans residing in his ward worked and did everything in their power to further his cause at the primary election and they intend to stand by him on the day of the election. Frederick A. Hart has fully made up his mind to become an independent candidate for alderman of the 30th ward. He has circulated his petitions, which have been signed by over four thousand voters urging him to make the race. At the present time it is hard to tell what the result will be. For Mr. Hart is very popular and he may succeed in catching the aldermanic plum. Ladies of culture know that the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow is the purest and best remedy to straighten the hair and make it pliable and beautiful. Sold over forty years and has never disappointed the most fastidious. Try a bottle and you will appreciate its superiority. Only 50 cents per bottle at druggists. Beware of imitations. The genuine and original is made only by Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago. Evidently President McKinley failed to consult his God before he set forth his views in relation to the tariff, which should be imposed upon the products of the Porto Ricans. For it seems that every time he changes his base he puts his foot into his mouth further and further and he is coming up to our expectations, for we have always regarded President McKinley as a tenth rate politician, one who lacks the brain to think intelligently and to evolve a sound governmental policy. Just outside of Boston, in Cambridge, lives a young Negro girl. Her name is Ardena White. She comes from Cincinnati, and was born at New Richmond, Ohio, near the birthplace of General Grant. The girl is plain looking, and is coffee-colored. Her father is a cook on an Ohio river steamboat. He moved his family to Cincinnati soon after Ardena was born. The girl is a wood carver, and came here in hopes of earning money enough to take lessons at the Boston School of Art. She is making money enough and orders are pouring in upon her at such a rate she has no time for school. The girl says that back two or three generations there is a strain of Indian blood, but so far as is known is no admixture of white. She designs and carves exquisitely beautiful things in cedar and cak. None of her people knew anything about art, and her own work is largely natural talent, as she has had but little opportunity for technical instruction. Her designs have a quaint originality that pleases the art lovers of Boston, and she has become quite the fad. Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Negro poet, was born at Dayton, Ohio, so that the Buckeye State may claim two colored people of genius.—Ex. NO. 21. POST-NUPTIAL PARAGRAPHS, A St. Louis man has been jailed for calling his wife a "rubber-neck." When he heard the sentence he remarked, "Well, I swan!"—New York Press. Thorne—"Do you think there will ever be such a thing as universal peace?" Bramble—"I am sure there will not be. My wife would never agree to it."—New York Journal. "Don't you often long for the freedom of your former life?" asked the visitor at the prison. "Not much," replied the convict. "I was sent here for having four wives."—Philadelphia North American. "Can you forgive me and love me still," said the newly made bride, "when I confess that my teeth are artificial?" "Thank heaven!" cried the groom, as he snatched off his wig, "now I can cool my head."—Answers. "George," murmured the young wife, "am I as dear to you now as I was before we married?" "I can't exactly tell," replied the husband, absentmindedly; "I didn't keep any account of my expenses then."—Detroit Free Press. Judge—"You say that words passed between the accused and his wife. Did you hear what they were?" Witness—"No, I didn't hear them, but I saw them." Judge—"Saw them?" Witness—"Yes; they were in the dictionary that he threw at her."—Boston Transcript. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. To learn of a fault is an opportunity to add a new line of beauty to the life. He who seeks after what is impossible ought, in justice, to be denied what is possible. We cannot avoid having a reputation; it is for us to decide what sort of a reputation it shall be. He who has a high standard of living and thinking will certainly do better than he who has none at all. Few of us gain by the mistakes of others, but he who fails to profit by his own mistakes will soon be bankrupt in knowledge. Try throughout life to make friends. Enemies will make themselves. And the truest companion is he who most enjoys solitude. With averted eye we let the golden moments pass us by. Time's foolish spendthrifts, searching wide and far, for what lies close at hand. Friends are few in this weary life; those whose touch upon one's heart strings produces harmony instead of discord are practically unknown. The keenness of life in this atmosphere of love and power is unimaginable to those who have never tasted its sweetness. To experience it fully is to be alive indeed. WHAT THE WITS SAY. That only 1 per cent of wealth is real comfort. Planning to meet a note is mature deliberation. That some men would rather hunt work than find it. That in a happy household there is no room for doubt. A hungry parrot comes very near being a hollow mockery. That a woman never quite forgives a man for kissing her on the nose. That it doesn't keep one dry to know that behind the darkest cloud the sun is shining. That the man who boasts that he pays as he goes sometimes has a reputation for staying. That a woman doesn't mind if her new photograph doesn't look like her provided it is a pretty picture. The rate of vibration of the rattlesnake's tail is said to be sixty per second. If you doubt it count for yourself. That a minister doesn't always take it as a sign of approval when he sees members of his congregation nodding. —Philadelphia North American. HIGH LIGHTS. Our hereditary traits are those which we pick out to blame on our ancestors. Let us live for each other, but not so energetically as to become meddlesome. It depends on what we do whether we are really industrious when we are busy. Imagination is that faculty by which we describe beautiful sunrises without losing sleep. As soon as the winter days get longer some women begin to morry about flies and mosquitoes. Blood Humors Are Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla "I always take Hood's Sarsaparilla in the Spring and it is the best blood purifier I know of." Miss PEARLE GRIFFIN, Baldwin, Mich. It Purifies the Blood. "Eruptions that came on my face have all disappeared since I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. It cured my father of catarrh." ALPHA HAMILTON, Bloomington, Ind. Cures All Eruptions. "I had scrofula sores all over my back and face. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and in a few weeks I could not see any sign of the sores." Otho B. Moore, Mount Hope, Wis. Eradicates Scrofula. LOW RATE. Home Seekers' Excursions. The Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route are now running a series of excursions to the West and South-West, tickets on sale March 6th and 20th, April 3rd and 17th, at very low rates. Maps, folders, time cards and illustrated pamphlets on the various states mailed free on application to H. C. Townsend, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis. Fearful Mortality. Among the Mohammedans of Calcutta the infant mortality reaches the enormous figure of 634.5 per 1,000 births. $25.00 A WEEK AND EXPENSES Can easily be made by anyone handling our goods in country towns. Write International Distributing Co., 5th Ave. and Harrison St., Chicago, Ill. The first law in tarltans is that every stripe of whatever breadth or color must be the same in both the length and breadth of the web. Ask you Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. the price of coffee. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cores Colde, Coough, Sore Threat, Group, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents " SNAKE RIVER VALLEY RICHEST FARMING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. A Complete System of Irrigation Relieves the Anxiety About Rain That Prevails in Other Parts of the United States—East and West Compared. We are permitted to publish an extract from a private letter written by a gentleman who has recently been devoting his time to the personal investigation of practical farming by irrigation in the west. His vivid portrayal of the advantages of that system will no doubt interest our readers. He says: "There is a vast, an immeasurable difference between farming in the east and farming in the west. If the farmers of the east could only be made to understand the advantages enjoyed by their western brethren, I verily believe there would soon be no land for settlement in the great irrigation states. The irrigation farmer has absolute certainty of crop, and certainty of its perfect maturity. He never plants that he does not reap, and when I say reap I don't mean the reaping of scattered stands of half matured grain such as the eastern farmer cuts at the close of a dry season; but the reaping of fields that frequently average 50 bushels of wheat to the acre—every grain of which has reached the perfection of development. There is no anxious scanning of the skies for the 'cloud no larger than a man's hand' and fervent prayers that it may envelop the heavens and send down water to the thirsty fields. The irrigation farmer never thinks about rain. He watches his growing crops, and the day and the hour moisture is needed, he is out with his hoe flooding his fields with water from canals that skirt them. "Everything grows in the west that grows anywhere else in the United States north of Tennessee. Potatoes frequently yield 500 bushels to the acre, and barley is grown far better than any raised in the east. The fruits are delicious. I never saw any to compare with those grown in Idaho, where apples, peaches, plums, cherries, pears, apricots abound, and where there are thousands of acres of Italian and German prunes which I am told have made fortunes for their owners. "To my mind, Idaho is the best watered and most inviting grid state in the Union. I made a careful investigation of the great Snake River valley in that state, along and tributary to the Oregon Short Line Railroad, and saw there evidences of prosperity such as I have never seen elsewhere in the United States. This wonderful valley is said to contain over 3,000,000 acres of arable land. It is threaded with great irrigation canals in every direction, and there are vast tracts awaiting only the touch of the farmer to make them productive. The sun doesn't shine on finer or more fertile land. When I saw the happy homes, the well filled granaries, the sleek, fat stock, and the smile on the face of nature reflected in a smile of contentment on the faces of the farmers, my heart went out in pity to the thousands in the east who are struggling along from year to year, tolling against adverse climatic conditions, and never knowing how soon a drouth will wipe out the profits of prosperous years. "Lands can be had in this Snake River valley almost for the asking, but they are going, day by day. The Oregon Short Line is making extraordinary efforts to bring the advantages of Idaho to the notice of eastern farmers, and is flooding the country with conservatively written descriptions of the state. Write to the General Passenger Agent of this Railroad at Salt Lake for printed matter about Idaho, and read it carefully. It will be a revelation to you and I sincerely believe will end in your removal to the west." An Incandescent Alcohol Lamp The Welsbach incandescentl gas burner is now pretty well known. Some attempts have been made to apply the same style of burner to a kerosene lamp. Still another use for it has been sought by a Frenchman, M. Denayrouze. He is one of the leading spirits in the introduction and application of the incandescent gas and oil lighting systems, and has lately explained to the French Society of Civil Engineers a system of incandescent lighting in which alcohol furnishes the heating flame. While, as is well known, alcohol under a Welsbach mantle produces a brilliant flame, it is not an economical one; but M. Denayrouze's plan is to charge the alcohol with hydrocarbons, in solutions, to such an extent that the carbon in the flame and deposited on the mantle adds greatly to the light without causing any increased consumption of alcohol. C. P. R. Immigration Literature The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has just issued two excellent immigration pamphlets for 1900—"Western Canada" and "British Columbia"—which contain a great deal of useful and accurate information about the country west of Lake Superior, and are of special interest to those who contemplate settling either in the Canadian Northwest or British Columbia. Large editions of these pamphlets are distributed gratuitously in Great Britain and the United States, as well as throughout the Dominion, and are eagerly read by those who are seeking a new home and desire to know something of the best country in the world in which to find one. For pamphlets and further information address J. Francis Lee, Genl. Agt. Pasa Dept., 228 So. Clark st., Chicago, Ill. A literary man is a bald-headed writer with long hair. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of labor, Inclides, Mormons. Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; write only on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): One Year..... $2.00 Six Months..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application Address all communications io JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Advices received by New York banking interests from small towns and villages throughout the United States indicate that state banks in all sections of the country are preparing to take out charters under the national system as soon as the currency bill becomes a law. It was estimated today that any one with $3,000 capital could start a national bank under the new system. All that is required is $25,000 in 2 per cent government bonds, which could be secured at ruling rates for about $27,750. These, representing the capital of the bank, could be sent to Washington, and circulation for the full amount of the capital immediately taken out. The organizer of the bank then has $2,750 tied up in the enterprise, but could take deposits in the regular way. Whether the system can be properly safeguarded under such requirements is not known. THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. The last rails have been laid on the trans-Baikal section of Russia's great Siberian railway. This establishes complete steam communication between St. Petersburg and the extreme eastern limits of the Russian empire on the Pacific coast. The section just finished is about 700 miles long, and it runs from the eastern shores of Lake Baikal to Stretensk on the River Shilka, which is a tributary of the Amur. Trains are carried across Lake Baikal by an ice-breaking ferryboat. From Stretensk the river route must be used to reach Khabarovsk, and thence the Usuri section of the railway runs to Vladivostok. It is reported that considerable portions of the sections first built must be relaid with heavier rails. RECALLS TROOPS FROM MANILA By direction of Acting Secretary Meiklejohn instructions have been sent to Major-General Otis to return to the United States some time in May one battalion of the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantries. The withdrawal of these troops was recommended by Major-General Miles, who pointed out that the three regiments designated would have been two years in the Philippines in June next. There is no doubt that the decision to withdraw three battalions, which number more than 1,200 men, is influenced to some extent by the disorganization of the rebel army, and the prospect that the American troops will no longer meet with resistance from an organized force. INDIA'S GREAT FAMINE. The famine in India now affects a population of 60,000,000, of whom about 3,750,000 are already in receipt of relief. The viceroy, at a recent meeting of the Indian council in Calcutta, expressed fears of cattle, water and food scarcity of a terrible character. He promised that the government would spend its last rupee, if necessary, to save life, but intimated that India would have to struggle with her difficulties alone, as the attention of all Englishmen was concentrated on South Africa. Three years ago, when similar distress prevailed, large contributions were made by Englishmen. A relief fund has been opened in London, but it grows slowly. THE GOVERNMENT OF HAWAII The bill for the government of Hawaii, reported to the house of representatives by the committee on territories, proposes a territorial organization closely modeled upon that of existing territories. The plan includes the appointment of a governor and secretary by the president, and of other executive officers by the governor, the election of a legislature by the people, and representation in congress by a delegate. All classes of the population, except the Chinese and Japanese, are to be given rights of citizenship. The bill makes the islands a customs and revenue district, and places them under the tariff laws of the United States. THE GOLD STANDARD. The senate passed the gold standard bill by a vote of 46 yeas to 29 nays. The vote was a strictly party one, except that one elected republican, Mr. Chandler of New Hampshire, voted against the bill, and two elected democrats, Mr. Caffery of Louisiana and Mr. Lindsay of Kentucky, voted for it. A free silver substitute was rejected by a vote of 28 yeas to 47 nays. The populists and all the democrats except Messrs. Caffrey and Lindsay voted for, and all the republicans against it. UNIQUE HAND-WRITING. Roumanian's Nervous Malady Compels Him to Write Backward. An almost unique case of nervous disease was investigated at the last sitting of the French Academy of Medicine. The patient is a young Roumanian, whose malady has been observed by Dr. Marinesco of Bucharest. The most curious manifestation of his disease takes the shape of what is known among scientists as "mirror-writing," which means that the characters are written backward, so that when reflected in a mirror they are to be read in the ordinary way. Dr. Marinesco had observed that the hands of his patient, when unoccupied, were affected with a nervous trembling, which ceased to a great extent when they were used for a definite purpose. Wishing to see what effect this symptom of the malady had on the handwriting Dr. Marinesco asked the patient to write a few lines from dictation; to his astonishment he found that the entire passage had been written backward with absolute accuracy. The experiment was repeated several times with exactly the same result, and it is, in fact, impossible for the patient to write otherwise. When asked to trace a word with his foot on the ground it, too, was found to be written backward. The patient being a Jew, a final experiment was made with Hebrew. This language, as is well known, is always written backward, but the patient, reversing, as usual, the normal process, can only write it from left to right. Partial cases of mirror writing have been observed before, but none in which the tendency was so irresistible.—Pall Mall Gazette, DUTCH STREETS. Delightfully Suggestive of Tranquil Repose and Old Fashion. Commend us to the ever-tranquil Dutch streets with their mellow antique houses, says the Gentleman's Magazine. These mostly follow circles, as is to be expected in a fortified place. But the typical Dutch street, found everywhere, is the line of houses by the canal, a range of old trees in front, shading the Indian red brick behind, with its bright white window sashes, as bright as much polished brass. Nothing is more suggestive of tranquil repose and old fashion. They stretch along the broad canal before them, where bridges cross and barges lie together alongside. Even in very populous capitals we come in the suburbs on some delightful, retired bits of canal, leaving much the same effect as does Church row at Hampstead. Old fashioned, well-to-do folk live here in retirement. There is one such at the entrance of The Hague on the Scheveningen side, where the charming woods begin; anything more old world and solemnly attractive cannot be imagined. We might well fancy ourselves back in the days of Sir William Temple and of William of Orange, who may have strolled along these banks. FIRST WOMAN LAWYER. Two years ago Mile. Jeanne Chauvan of Paris applied to the authorities to be admitted to the bar as a lawyer. she had passed her examinations far more brilliantly than most men and only waited the verdict of those in authority to make her a full-fledged advocate with the right to practice. It was a very sensational scene at the Palais de Justice when the affair was brought up. All the students of the Sorbonne were there and cheered her as she appeared. They admired the J. MLLE. JEANNE CHAUVAN. girl who had been cleverer than they. The verdict was that no woman could practice law in France, and Mlle. Chauvan went out amid the cheers of encouragement, and she has never ceased to press her claims when they would work the most for her good. At last she has succeeded, for recently the courts granted the right to women to practice law with the full honors of men, and Mlle. Jeanne Chauvan is the first to go to the bar. She is also one of the editors and founders of the famous woman's paper of Paris. Driest Spot on Earth. Payta, in Peru, is said to be the driest spot on the face of the earth, as the average interval between two showers of rain is seven years. The flora of Payta consists of about nine species—of these seven are annuals, the seeds of which must remain dormant in the ground for eight years. Notwithstanding the scarcity of rain, the natives subsist by the growth of the long-rooted Peruvian cotton, which is able to maintain itself without rain for seven years in the dried-up river bed, and yields profitable crops of colored short staple cotton.—Cincinnati Enquirer. France makes nearly 26,000,000 pairs of gloves yearly, and of these 18,000,000 pairs are exported. Had Catarrh Nine Years—All Doctors Failed. HON. GEORGE KERSTEN, OF CHICAGO. In a well-known Justice of the Peace, of Chicago, says: Received with Catarrh for nine years. My catarrh was in my head. I tried many remedies without avail- eral doctors, but they were not able to cure me. I remedy, Peruna, through the daily newspapers. After body for 18 weeks I was entirely cured. I consider my self, as it has been two and a half years since I was cured." Hon. Geo. Kersten, a well-known Justice of the Peace, of Chicago, says: "I was afflicted with Catarrh for nine years. My catarrh was located chiefly in my head. I tried many remedies without avail. I applied to several doctors, but they were not able to cure me. I learned of the remedy, Peruna, through the daily newspapers. After taking the remedy for 18 weeks I was entirely cured. I consider my cure permanent, as it has been two and a half years since I was cured." All families should provide themselves with a copy of Dr. Hartman's free book entitled "Winter Catarrh." This book consists of seven lectures on catarrh and la gripe delivered at The Hartman Sanitarium. It contains the latest information on the treatment of catarrhal diseases. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. T HEALER cases age! nce ly its to the rates or the test ent is mental and te! act condition and whether or not your case is curable. d. So do not despair if your physician has failed. Write ead ng symptom and receive a true description of your To each person writing he will also send "Foods for the estimable benefit to every home," and "Woman," a val- address DR. J. W. PEEBLES, 532 Packard St., Battle Creek, Mich. It will cost you nothing to learn your exact condition and whether or not your case is curable. Thousands of so-called "incurable" cases are cured. So do not despair if your physician has failed. Write me at once giving your full name, age, sex, and leading symptom and receive a true description of your case and literature on my methods of treatment. To each person written he will also send "Foods for the Sick and How to Prepare Them," a booklet of inestimable benefit to every home, and "Woman," a valuable booklet which every woman should have. Address DR. J. W. 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Enormous stocks of Grass, Clover and Farm Seeds. Seed this notice and 10c for catalog and 11 RARE FARM SEED SAMPLES. CLOVER JOHN A. SALEZER SEED CO., LA CROSSSE, WIS. WIRE MONEY for OLD SOLDIERS Union soldiers and widows of soldiers who made homestead entries before June 22, 1874 of less than 160 acres (no matter if abandoned or relinquished) if they have not sold their additional homestead rights, should address, with full particulars, giving district, &c. HENRY M. COFF. Washington, D. G. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILLS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION --- Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Peruna is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Peruna not only cures catarrh, but prevents it. THERE is probably no physician living who is curing more cases of Chronic Diseases than is Dr. Peebles. His fame is world-wide and due to his marvelous cures. No disease is really incurable if perfectly understood. Every effect has its cause and if the cause is removed the effects will cease. What is your condition and its cause? It is within your power to know. Write to day. The Greatest Discovery of the Age! Is that of the Psychic Science or the Science of the mind. Mesmerism and Hypnotism are simple stepping stones to this wonderful science. By its aid the physical body becomes an open book to the searchng eye of the psychic physician. He penetrates the hidden past, discovering the real causes for the present condition. Dr. Peebles is the greatest Psychic Physician Living. His diagnoses are equally as associating as his cures. His treatment is both psychic and medicinal. the psychic for the mental conditions and the medicinal for the diseased and weakened tissues. HOT SPRINGS.ARK. ONE Profit. Our High Arm MELBA Sewing Machine has all the Up-to-Date attachments, necessary Attachments, and Accessories, with choice of oak or walnut cabinet. It is furnished with the latest improved AUTOMATIC SELF-STUDIING SHUTTLE. By the movement the shuttle is ready for service. The MELBA has the patent Tbg. MELBA TAKE-UP. Automatic MORBIN WINDER, and a COMPLETE set of best gear attachments, carefully packed in a handsome VELVET lined case. Weight of the machine, weather wrapped and crated, is about 110 lbs. It is shipped at first rate. The freight will average about $1.00 within 30 miles of Chicago. The cabinet work is ornamental, the drawers and corner being HAND CARVED and highly finished, having the heavy NICKEL-PLATED Ring Drawers, etc. Each machine is carefully tested before leaving our factory. A MELBA sale to us means a new friend and customer for our general line of EVERYTHING EAT. WEAR and USE; therefore we can afford to sell it on a close margin and fully GUARANTEE it for TWENTY YEARS. We will ship this machine C. G. B., with examination privilege, to any point in the U. S. on receipt of $2.00 with order. Price of ?-drawer machine, all complete, is $14.25. OUR SPRING CATALOGUE of 1,000 illustrated pages will be sent prepaid on receipt of 15 cents, which pays part of express charges, and will be refunded on receipt of first order. This catalogue quotes wholesale prices on EVERYTHING you EAT, WEAR and USE. Established JOHN M. SMYTH CO.. WORK WORRY WASHED AWAY BY THE STERLING DUPLEX WASHING MACHINE. Has double "washboard" rubbers, runs easiest, lasts longest, does faultless work. Most practical clothes washer made. Don't druge. Use modern methods. If it's not at your dealer's write us. THE EUREKA CO., Dept. H., Rock Falls, Ill. LAMB'S Throat Candy, one of the best confections for vocalists, public speakers, &c. Send me to Lamb Mfg. Co., Ottawa, Canada, for sample box. Half good won't do! A "may-cure" cough medicine won't do. If it will "perhaps" do its work, it's worse than worthless. If it's good, it's worth ten times its price. Do you know where to draw the line between the good and the bad? This testimonial should help. "I had a bad cough for six weeks and could not find any relief whatever. My little girl read about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral being such a wonderful remedy for coughs, so I bought a bottle. It relieved me at once. Before I had taken a quarter of a bottle my cough was entirely cured. I think it is the most wonderful cough mixture ever known."—L. HAWN, Newington, Ont., May 3, 1899. Your doctor or druggist will bear us out. Three sizes: $1.00 size, cheapest in the long run: 50c. size, just the thing for a cold that "hangs on": 25c. size, for an ordinary, mean, disagreeable cold. Farmers in nearly every northwestern state are planting nut trees along with their peaches and pears, and are utilizing the hillsides, where nothing else will grow, for nut orchards. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces for gummation, always pain, cures wind colic. 250 a bottle. As many as 4,000 dates have been found on a single palm. When All Else Fal's. Try Yl-Kl. Cures Corns and Bunions without pain. Never falls. Drug stores or mail 15c. Yl-Kl Co., Crawfordsville, Ind. The famous gardens of Versailles have cost £8,000,000. Loes of hair, which often mars the prettiest face, prevented by PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDECOORNS, the best cure for corns. 15cts. That the greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. 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. Hope is believing that the unexpected will happen. Send for "Choice Recipes," by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass, mailed free. Mention this paper. She who fain would guide must seem to follow. No cross babies or sick babies in families that use Brown's Teething Cordial. Beware the fury of the patient man. NONE SUCH Nothing hobbles the muscles and units for work like SORENESS and STIFFNESS Nothing relaxes them and makes a speedy perfect cure like St. Jacobs Oil Oil hand-painted on canvas for use in theatrical or decorative purposes. MR. WEBSTER DAVIS. WHOSE VISIT TO OOM PAUL CREATED A STIR. He Began Life as a Shoemaker, Then Turned to Law and Ultimately Be came a Power in the Political World —Hia Dis like for Trade. The career of Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the interior, whose recent visit to South Africa and to Oom Paul occasioned considerable comment, is in many respects a remarkable one. He began life as a shoemaker's son in Gallatin, Mo., and his father was barely able to give him the education which town schools afforded. Young Davis, however, pushed on, took a course in the poor boys' school at Parkville, where he received the idea that he was cut out for the ministry. He found his way finally to a religious seminary near Chicago, and there, he A. WEBSTER DAVIS. said afterward, he discovered that the more he learned the farther he got away from the idea. So he went back to his father and set to work at the cobbler's stool. His dislike for the trade did not escape the attention of his father. One day he made a bad job of a pair of shoes, which came to the notice of Judge McDouglass, of Kansas city. "Send him over to my office," said the judge. "He is certainly a poor shoemaker, but he may make a good lawyer." That was the beginning of his climb to the present official position, which he left to go to South Africa. From the beginning he attracted the attention of rich and influential men and they started him for the law school at Ann Arbor, where he completed his course. Upon his return as a full-fledged lawyer, Maj. Warner, one of his patrons, found a place in the office of the surveyor of the port in Kansas City. There he was thrown into contact with politicians and started on this bent of his career. He had a command of language and a fluency which made him what they were pleased to call "a wonderful orator," and he came quickly into demand as a stump speaker. Maj. Warner becoming a candidate for governor in 1892, Mr. Davis took to the field and went up and down the state, and, through Warner's influence, he himself secured the nomination for congress. Both went down to defeat, but Mr. Davis had won fame throughout the state which was to help him in the future. The campaign over, he went to Colorado, thence to Chicago, where he held a position with the Harrison Telephone company during the world's fair. When the company failed he returned to Kansas City. It was the eve of a mayoralty campaign, and, since no one else cared to run, Mr. Davis was easily persuaded to make the race. The Republicans did not expect to succeed. Neither did Mr. Davis. The Democrats said that he had forfeited his residence by going to Chicago, and indulged in several riots before the election was over. Mr. Davis won, to everybody's surprise, including his own. He inaugurated an aggressive policy, began the building of an extensive park system, but went out of office retaining only sufficient popularity to name his successor, "Jimmy" Jones. Upon the election of the president, Mr. Davis had come to be called "the administration orator." Following the election there came a period of inactivity for the orator until 1897, when, under Secretary Bliss, he was made assistant secretary of the interior. During all his career it has been admitted on all sides that his claim to attention is his ability to hold large audiences. He is emotional, tearful, but his speeches do not read so well. Marching While Asleep. "Two days after the battle of Glencoe we were suddenly told to get what things we had, as we were going to march to Ladysmith," writes a British private to London. Tit-Bits. "We had hardly left the camp when the Boers started shelling it again. They did not know we had shifted. The whole brigade was about two miles long. We were marching all night until about 5 o'clock in the morning, when we had three hours' rest, and then started again until five o'clock in the afternoon. On again at night, then another rest. On again at 6 o'clock next morning, till 8 o'clock in the afternoon. Forward again at 6 o'clock, marching all night. The transport kept losing the path, and could not keep up with us. Raining all the time. Through drifts up to our knees, nothing on but khaki. We reached Ladysmith about 8 o'clock next morning, very nearly dead. Most of our fellows were walking while fast asleep. Others fell out and dropped to sleep directly they touched the ground. I don't mind the fighting, but I never want to go through such a march again." AMERICAN TRANSVAAL FUND. To Aid Widows and Orphans of the Boers. A pathetic appeal of the committee of Africander and Bond members of parliament was issued at Cape Town, Oct. 10, 1899, signed by Messrs. N. F. DeWaal, Joseph N. Hoffman, J. H. Hofmeyr, Thomas P. Theron and D. J. A. Van Zyl, which says among other things: "What may, what can, we colonial Africanders do in this sorrowful time? Join in the work of warfare with the weapons? The law and our duty as British subjects forbid this, even should other circumstances not oppose such a course of action. "But what neither the law nor the duty of the subject forbids, and what, moreover, agrees in every respect with all principles of religion and humanity, is the offering of help to the wounded, to the widows and the orphans." In the name of the Africander bond, on behalf of the citizens of the South African republic and their noble ally, the Orange Free State, I appeal to all Americans to show their sympathy with the brave people who are now, in the words of John Hancock, literally offering all that they have, all that they are, and all that they hope to be, upon the altar of their country, fighting to the death the arrogance and imposition of the great British empire, in order to remain free and independent, as did our American forefathers in 1776 and 1812. THERE WILL BE NO BOER WOUNDED ON THE BRITISH-AMERICAN HOSPITAL SHIP. Send to me your subscriptions, small and large, and I will send the amount to Mr. C. C. de Villiers, Cape Town, the honorable treasurer of the committee of the Africander bond, to be expended under that appeal. I sent $2,000 on Feb. 23, 1900. GEORGE W. VAN SICLEN, American Treasurer. No. 141 Broadway, New York City. Feb. 24, 1900. American Shores in Japan Among the well-to-do Japanese a demand is rapidly growing for foreign boots and shoes. Japan, accordingly, offers a promising market in the new future for American manufacturers of these goods, provided that they are specially made for the Japanese trade. The principal requirement is that the toes be wide and roomy, because in childhood the sandals and clogs which are worn give freedom to the front part of the foot. Most of the foreign made shoes hitherto imported have failed to give satisfaction through neglect of this requirement in construction.—Philadelphia Record. To California Quickly and Comfortably Via Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line. "The Overland Limited" leaves Chicago daily 6:30 p. m., arrives San Francisco the afternoon of third day, and Los Angeles next morning. No change of cars. All meals in dining cars. Buffet, smoking and library cars, with barber. "The best of everything." "The Pacific Express" leaves Chicago daily 10:30 p. m., with first-class and through tourist sleepers to California. Personally conducted excursions every Thursday. All agents sell tickets via Chicago & North-Western R'y. For full information and illustrated pamphlet apply to W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Ill. The Great Round World. That interesting, instructive and clean publication, The Great Round World, seems to improve with each issue, not only in its subject matter, but in its growth of circulation and advertising patronage, the issue of January 25th being 21,000 copies. A publication containing the meritorious features of the Great Round World should be encouraged. Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.—Wendell Phillips. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature on each box. Some snakes will eat eggs; others are inordinately fond of milk. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. But few men are proof against the flattery of a pretty woman. I shall recommend Piso's Cure for Consumption far and wide.—Mrs. Mulligan, Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. 8, 1895. Thought alone is eternal.—Owen Meredith. MAN'S MECHANISM Delicate Machinery That Needs Constant Care. Absolute Cleanliness and Regulation as Necessary as for Any Other Kind of Machinery. How to Keep It In Working Order. There's a screw loose somewhere. One little screw in the big machine gets a trifle loose and the whole apparatus clogs, balks and refuses to work properly. A skillful engineer can tell by the "feel" of his engine when there's a screw loose. Occasional constipaton—call it costiveness or billiousness—needs prompt attention. It clogs the whole delicate mechanism of man, and must be removed skillfully without force or shock. Only a vegetable laxative should be used, and Cascarets Candy Cathartic, which you can eat like a piece of candy, are the most agreeable, natural and effective of all laxatives. Cascarets are the only antiseptic cathartic, and not only make the liver lively, remove obstructions in the bowels, strengthen the intestines, but kill all germs of disease in the body. Therefore prevent as well as cure. Buy and try Cascarets to-day. You'll find that it's what they do, not what we say they'll do, that will please you. All druggists, 10c, 25c and 50c, or will mail for price. Send for booklet and free sample. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago; Montreal; Can; New York. This is the CASCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascares bears the magic letters "C.C.C." Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imitations and substitutes. CCC HOMESEEKERS EXCURSIONS. March 6, 20, April 3, 17, 1900, via B. C. K. & N. Rv. On above dates Round Trip tickets, good 21 days, will be sold at rate of a single fare plus $2.00 to all points on this line in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, north of and including Shell Rock, Abbott Crossing and Waverly. Write to Mr. John Dows, Armstrong, Ia. for full information about Maple Hill and Luzon, Iowa, two new towns on our Armstrong-Estherville line, or to Mr. Thos. H. Brown, Sioax Falls, So. Dak., for descriptive matter about Reading and Wilmont, Minn., towns on our line now being built from Worthington to Hardwick, Minn. Special inducements are offered to all classes of business and professional men. Call on nearest ticket agent for tickets and see that they read via the B., C. R. & N. Ry., Jno. G. Farmer, A. G. P. & T. A., Cedar Rapids, Ia. MARCH AND APRIL Are the Most Disagreeable Months of the Year in the North. In the South, they are the pleasantest and most agreeable. The trees and shrubs put forth their buds and flowers; early vegetables and fruits are ready for eating, and in fact all nature seems to have awakened from its winter sleep. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company reaches the Garden Spots of the South, and will on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April sell round-trip tickets to all principal points in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and West Florida, at about half rates. Write for particulars of excursions to P. Sid Jones, D. P. A., in charge of Immigration, Birmingham, Ala., or J. K. Ridgely, N. W. P. A., Chicago, Ill. Advice. Theatrical Manager—"What do you wish?" Actress—"I want to play Hamlet, now that Bernhardt and the rest are playing the role." Manager—"Oh, take my advice and play Hamlet's father."—Jugend. ZAEGEL'S SWEDISH ESSENCE A LIFE PRESERVER REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The great blood purifier Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life is to be given away free to readers of this paper. This remarkable medicine has an action that affects the entire system. It tones up the stomach and creates an appetite; works on the liver and has a mild, continuous effect upon the bowels, thus cleaning out the entire system; it makes new, rich blood, regulates the heart and kidneys and rids the body of all waste matter. It also induces a gentle perspiration, thus preventing fevers and congestion. Rheumatism, backache and headache, biliousness and all nervous diseases are rapidly cured, as well as all diseases of women. No one need trouble themselves to doubt whether this remedy will do all these things, for you can have a free trial package first and see what it does for you. Zaegel's Swedish Essence is so well known that probably quite a number of our readers are already using it, but this makes no difference, as a free trial package will be sent to everyone who writes. Do not neglect to get in your application at once. The best way is to sit down this minute, write a letter to M. R. Zaegel & Co., P. O. Box 831, Sheboygan, Wis., and say that you want a trial package of Swedish Essence of Life. This will be sent you by mail and is large enough to convince you of the merit of this celebrated household remedy. A 2-cent stamp should be enclosed in your letter to pay the postage on this free sample. The Laughter Excusable. Two ordinary nice young women in a Massachusetts town were disciplined out of the church the other day for breaking into laughter at a solemn prayer meeting. This was certainly indecorous, but, when it is understood that a good brother had just arisen with the remark that he was "sitting on a thought when the settee struck him," their merriment was aitogether pardonable.—Time and the Hour. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine it is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonialis free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. An Ant Illustration. An inspector of schools has been giving in the Humanitarian a selection of the leading "howlers" of his acquaintance. The shrewdest of all the answers came from a very small boy, who was asked to give the text which forbade a man to marry two wives. Without a moment's pause he replied: "No man can serve two masters." CALIFORNIA. Special bargains in land. 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Pain So Intense Would Nearly Twist Fingers From Sockets. Hands Puffed Up Like a Toad. Water Ran Through Bandages to Floor. Had to Walk the Floor Until Would Fall Asleep. Fingers Would Peel Like an Onlon. Doctors Could Not Cure. Eight years ago I got sore hands, commencing with a burning sensation on my fingers and on top of the hand. When I rubbed them, you could see little white pimples. I felt like twisting my fingers out of their sockets. I had high fever, and cold chills ran over me, and so I kept it going until I was tired out. Nights, I had to walk the floor until I fell asleep. My hands peeled like an onion, the finger nails got loose, and the water ran out, and wherever there was a little pimple there the burning fire was—that happened at least ten times. I am running a blacksmith shop, horse-shoeing, and I would not shut up the shop for anybody, but it was hard. My hands puffed up worse than a toad. 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O'FARRELL, Pension Agent, 475 New York Avenue. WASHINGTON, D. C. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 10, 1900. Answering Advertisements History Mention This Paper. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1900. WISE OR OTHERWISE Diplomacy is merely the art of concealing our dislikes. A man may shun other men, but he can't get away from himself. The things in life which interest us most are generally none of our business. Unless you make up your mind to do a thing the chances are you will never do it. There is nothing a man does so unwillingly as to acknowledge himself in the wrong. Few people would be conceited if they could only see themselves as others see them. If people could only get rid of their imaginary troubles they would be fairly happy. The man who learns something from each of his mistakes never completes his education. Unless a man has an exceptionally good memory he will never become a successful liar. No man who is indifferent of the happiness of others need expect to be happy himself. Never judge a man by his manner toward his superiors; judge him by his manner toward his inferiors. A few men are ambitious to work for a living, and a great many are ambitious to live without working. A man never fully realizes the wonderful patience his wife has until he gets sick and has to be waited upon. WOMAN'S SOLILOQUY. Rising young men are more appreciated in street cars than anywhere else. A great deal is said of the trials of Job, but his wife, who had to put up with him while he was sick, deserves more credit. A woman, no matter how broadminded she may be, always rejoices that her waist is not in touch with her mental capacity. It is distressing to note at weddings that the women who do most of the weeping are the married ones. It has a wonderfully suggestive look. After a woman reaches the age of 30 she takes especial interest in all articles citing the fascination of heroines in history who were 40 or over. Beloved among women is she who, having warned a friend of consequences to follow rash doings, will, when her prophesies have come true, withhold the triumphant "I told you so!" If you should be dining with friends who serve wine to which you object, a bit of a head shake for the waiter's benefit is quite the antithesis of a wink at the soda fountain. No need for pother. Never is silence more eloquent than when it is preserved toward persons older than ourselves when they voice opinions long since proven erroneous. Age doesn't like to be contradicted, right or wrong. LITTLE CLASSICS. It is the manner of noble souls to do nothing by halves.—Wieland. We pine for kindred natures to mingle with our own.—Mrs. Hemans. It is a part of good breeding that a man should be polite even to himself.—Richter. Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias 40 weeks' silence.—Thomas Fuller. In general, those who have nothing to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.—Lowell. All our possessions are as nothing, compared to health, strength and a clear conscience.—Hosea Ballou. Real ugliness in either sex means always some kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of education.—Ruskin. No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscene, distorted image of a right that he contends.—Carlyle. I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.—Spectator. He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the rattling of his fetters. For, indeed, clothes ought to be our remembrances of our lost innocency.—Fuller. ALL SORTS. A Liverpool physician has discovered the bacillus of pinkeye in horses. In museums the use of formalin as a preservative for specimens is increasing. The world is calling for American manufactures at the rate of over $1,000,000 a day. Denmark claims that there is not a single person in her domain who cannot read and write. The czar of Russia's army is the only one in Europe that can boast of feminine medical officers. Merchandise imports into France during 1899 decreased $51,000,000; exports increased $79,640,000. Two years ago the Boers had in their pay fifteen German officers, forty French and forty Russians. Two recent arrivals at the New York aquarium which attract attention are cat-fish from the Mississippi. A private telephone wire from the war office to Windsor castle conveys to the queen news from the front. THE BROAD AX. Published Weekly, will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, priests, infidels, farmers, single taxers, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One year .....$2.00 Six months .....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5040 Armour avenue. Chicago. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor,Assistant Editor. (Entered at the postoffice, Chicago, Ill., as second class matter.) LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Jullus 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, Carter M. Harrison 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 P. 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. 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. ODDS AND ENDS. Paris needs 700,000 quarts of milk a day. Compared with the thoroughfares on other industrial countries, Glasgow's streets are mean. About 50,000 tons of American coal has been ordered for Italian and other Mediterranean ports. It is supposed that the average depth of sand in the deserts of Africa is from thirty feet to forty feet. In time of war France puts 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the field; Germany, 310; Russia, 210. For calling another man a liar through the telephone, a citizen of Boone county, Iowa, had to pay a fine of $2. There are in Havana more beautiful horses and elegant carriages than in any city of equal size in the United States. Forgery can usually be detected because the imitator has certain characteristics of his own of which he is not aware. Seven shillings a day has been adopted by the New South Wales government as a minimum wage to railway laborers. Read and subscribe for The Broad Ax. Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for 15c., 25c. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes, suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2025. Tel. Wentworth 516 Office Hours: 8.30 a. m. to 8.30 p. m. BEAUREGARD F. MOSELY LAWYER BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS A SPECIALTY. SUITE 1 AND 2 6256 HALSTED STREET COR. HALSTED & 63RD STS. MRS. LAURA DAILEY. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR STRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good accommodations. 506 State St., 2d floor, Chicago, Ill Room 28. P.J.FLYNN P. J. FLYNN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HARD and SOFT COAL WOOD AND KINDLING YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R. Branch Office, 5301 Wentworth av. TELEPHONE 813 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago HORSES. We pay the highest prices for horses for killing purposes. Will call. Telephone South 1005. McDONALD, 3234 Wentworth ave. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, 1/2 mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surrounding buildings, which consist of 8-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chicken house and poultry yard. Fine hog house and other outbuildings. 25 acres in crop this year. Hay, corn, oats, potatoes and beans. Price clear of incumbrance $4,000. Buildings alone cost $2,500. Will exchange for clear property in Chicago. If you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. 94 ACRE FARM FOR SALE Three miles from Geneva Junction, six miles from Lake Geneva. 94 acres in Walworth county, lies all in cultivation, good house, barn and outbildings. 20 head milch cows. 20 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys, 50 ducks, 3 hear horses, all farming tools and this years crops. Price $75 per acre. Crops last year over $1,200 net. Crop this year over $1,500. Sell cream $5 per day now. If you desire to purchase this elegant farm so indicate by addressing The Broad Ax. FOR SALE. A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago. In a saloon in Glasgow is the following notice pasted on the wall: "Discussions on the war and the twentleth century will not be allowed till the close of both." 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THE FALSE STAR The agitation of the Mormon question has naturally aroused some interest in the minds of all classes of people throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, on Utah and the Mormons. The latest literary contribution in that di- THE FALSE STAR BY A.D. GASH rection is "The False Star," by A. D. Gash, which deals with Mormonism in all of its ramifications. We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and sells for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere. Address all communications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCH FREE Anyone sending us ten yearly subscribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 subscribers for six months, we will present them with this beautiful gold filled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies' or gents'. 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