The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX AFRO-AMERICAN BISHOPS AND MINISTERS. We have been very creditably and reliably informed that during the Presidential election of 1896 Bishop B. W. Arnett, while attending a general conference at Peoria, Ill., stood up in the midst of the brethren and pulled two large handfuls of Maj. McKinley's buttons out of his coat pockets, laid them on the table and commanded each (?) servant of the Lord present, not only to pin one of the buttons on and wear it, but to take some of them along home with them and see, that those under their charges who were actively connected with the church did likewise. It's also well known, that throughout that campaign, Bishop Arnett threw his ministerial robes aside, and sank below the level of a common pot-house politician, and whenever the opportunity presented itself he preached politics from the pulpit, instead of religion. He has tagged around at the heels of Maj. McKinley and the great boodler, Mark Hanna. He endeavored to poison the minds of all negroes against all Democrats and the Democratic party by appealing to their prejudices and passions and, after the election of Maj. McKinley. He induced poor old ignorant Colored wash-women by plying upon their religious superstition and sentiments, by making them believe, that the Lord would bless them (which is all rot) if they would contribute a part of the hundred dollars to purchase the Bible which Mr. McKinley kissed when the oath of office was administered to him. The bishop received the honor and the glory, of that little transaction. But the money came out of the pocke's of the extremely poor and hard working people, who could ill afford to spare it. But that was neither here nor there with Bishop Arnett, and he was rewarded for the part he played in presenting the Bible to President McKinley by securing the appointment of his son as chaplain in the regular army, and the President still looks upon Bishop Arnett as the great leader of the Negro race, and he feels confident, that the bishop will not hesitate to use his religious influence in his behalf, during the coming presidential campaign. Numerous other Afro-American bishops and ministers, have for many years past perished in turning their churches into political halls, and preaching politics from the pulpit. They assume that they are all wise in all things, but as a matter of fact, they are unwise in all things and they prove that this is true whenever they attempt to proclaim politics from the pulpit, or permit their churches to be used for political purposes, which the people have been taught to believe were dedicated unto the Gods, and before going any further we want to enter our solemn protest against this practice, not because the political meetings which are generally held in the interest of the Republican party, but we are opposed to holding such meetings in churches in the interest of that party, the Democratic party, the Populist party or any other party, as we believe it is entirely wrong in theory and principle, and if there is any virtue in the new-fangled religion. If it tends to make men and women better in every way, (which we doubt) then it is just as hard to mix it with politics as it is to mix oil and water. The question has been asked a great many times, within the last few years. Why is it, that the ministers do not command the respect of those who think for themselves, and exert the same amount of influence for good, that they did in years that have gone by. The answer is simple. They can never hope to exert the same influence nor to command the respect of the masses until they absolutely refrain from deceeding from their pupils on the slightest occasions, and transforming themselves into walking, blustering cheapskate politicians. Politicians who do not scruple, at committing any fraudulent act or performing any dirty piece of political work, in order to carry a point and earn a dishonest dollar. Whenever this class of Negro bishops and ministers, who claim to be holier than others, request honest and self-respecting men to come to Jesus they generally receive the reply, "Go to thunder." These are some of the reasons why most of the ministers and churches have lost the potent influence which they have always exerted over the masses. These are a few of the reasons why the great reading public take no stock in the pulpit utterances of Negro ministers. These are some of the reasons why our churches contain so many disreptible characters, and why notorious courtesans and blacklegs who dress well, and who acquire the money to do so by dishonorable and reprehensible means and methods are wellcomed with a shout of joy into the churches and, assigned to prominent seats in the amen corner, while those who are unable to contribute as generously to the support of the Bishops and ministers are compelled to remain in the rear. The Negro race has been afflicted and loaded down with many ills and he has had many obstacles thrown across his pathway to prevent his onward march. But of all the obstacles which he has had to contend with the Bishops and ministers exceed and overbalance them all. They have been for years the great load-stone around the Negroes neck and so far they have retarded his advancement more than all other agencies combined. Their standard of excellency is very shallow to say the least and the result is that they have invariably taught the Negro a false morality and philosophy. They have led him to believe that he can do everything which is wrong throughout his natural existence and at the very last moment repent, and throw all the sins upon the innocent Jesus to bear and at the same time he will become a pure white and shining angel by instructing the Negro along these lines the bishops and ministers encourage him to commit crimes. To lead immoral loose and reckless lives which means that they are putting a premium on vice and crime. To illustrate, several years ago a half drunken miserable wretch residing in Indianapolis, Ind., shot his wife without a just cause and sent her into the next world, without a moments warning. He was arrested and placed in jail. When the ministers heard of it they rushed to the prison to offer him spiritual consolation. They read chapter after chapter of the Bible to him. Still, he cursed and swore and rejected their teachings. But when the day arrived for his execution and every thing was ready, the ministers walked up to him and urged him to say that he believed one dorp of the Lord's blood would wash away all his sins. The murderer studied a moment then at last he said: "I believe it with all my heart and I am going on to glory and dwell forever with the purified Angels." We fancy that those who witnessed the execution of that red-handed murderer could faintly hear the Angels in Heaven softly singing: "Swing low sweet charlot we are coming to carry you home." Such teachings as the above will always tend to cause men to do wrong and commit crimes, and as long as the bishops and ministers continue to preach politics from the pulpit and to encourage the Negro to believe that he can commit any crime and not lose his passport to Heaven. We repeat it. Just as long as they preach this doctrine the Negro will continue to go backward in all things which tends to perfection instead of moving forward and upward. The election returns show that a great blunder was made in nominating John L. Floersch for Collector of the Town of Lake. He was the only man on the ticket defeated, and Murphy the Republican candidate plurality over him was 1,751 votes, which shows that the people rejected Floersch on account of his inability to fill the office. The Mothers Council had an unusual intreesting meeting last Monday at the home of Mrs. S. J. Harts, 4841 Armour ave. Miss Watts and Mrs. Fower of the Baptist Training School address1 the meeting and sang several songs. Both these ladies have very sweet voices which blend most harmoniously together. CHICAGO, APRIL 7, 1900. A DISGRACING SPECTACLE. Never before in the history of nations has such a disgraceful spectacle been present as that presentd by them today. The world of nations stands aghast, mute, paralized at the sight of one of its assumed greatest empires assaulting one poor little republic in a corner of earth, thousands of miles from its capital. All newspaperdom is utterly silent as to the true cause of this wonderful assault and warfare carried on by Great Britain, on a little people at a cost of about one million dollars per day and immense loss of life. The brains are out and yet like Banquo the great editors hold their stools and are silent upon the cause of this amazing phenomenon. How strange it is! Little Switzerland has been able to live as a free republic for centuries in the midst of monarchies and empires and millions of aristocrats hostile to her principles. She has ever been a very thorn in the side of monarchs and despots. But whenever attacked some monarch has come to its rescue. Holland, another little republican state, has never been attacked without rousing against the assault some power in defence. Colonies rebelling against their owners have been encouraged by great monarchs contrary to their true policy. Pagans and Mohamedans when assailed by some great power have ever been protected by most Christian kings or Catholic majesties—and these same kings and majesties when being resisted by their distant colonies found their neighbor kings were lending a help to the rebels whenever called upon. When Russia fell upon Turkey, both France and England took a hand in aid of the polygamous slave holding Turk. When the Turk invaded Greece all the big nations around interposed only the other day. When France fell upon Mexico we ourselves were about to declare against France. During our secession war when the North was at its lowest ebb, both Englanl and France were boldly giving aid an comfort to the South and Russia suddenly filled our New York harbor with her war vessels as the friend of the North and forced old John Bull to turn tail and vanase an ranche. We shall be quite safe in asserting that never until now has a great power fallen upon a weak one to oberwhelm and destroy it, but other great powers interpersed. Today that mighty empire Great Britain under circumstances most aggravating, after having driven the Boers twice from their homes again has pursued them to their far off homes to exterminate them as an independent people. And all the nations, our own conspicuously, stand silent, sad, but not daring to interfere. Why? This is not the golden age—but the age of gold. But for that wonderful mine within their borders, the people of Transvaal might have lived for centuries unnoticed, unknown to Great Britain. What mighty effects often flow from very trivial causes. Long ago it was predicted that if ever some new cheap process for extracting gold should be discovered—one that can not be monopolized—it would destroy the monopoly of quicksilver and force it into owning or at least controlling the richer gold mines. The discovery of the new cheap process was made. Then the quicksilver monopoly bought up the great Cripple Creek mines and became active in Alaska. Then reports of the fabulous capacity of that mine in the Transvaal came out. By intrigues, by frauds, by war, if necessary, or by assassination—in some way that mine must be controlled by the power that controls the money of the world. Never before the discovery of the cynnide process did the gold monopoly evince the slightest interest in owning a gold mine. From first to last the history of that gold monopoly is the history of a conspiracy. From the day it secured the leases of the Clunehan mines down to the day it induced every government to declare gobld the sole lawful tender and to demontize silver the secret hand of its power can be traced. Church and state, aristocracy, democracy, monarchs, despots, captains, generals and armies—all institutions and orders bow before it. Its ramifications are ubiquitous and infinite in number. Let nations and individuals beware! Run like one of these suffered dead ones. hanging or lying in the way it renders you helpless, dead alive in its infernal grip. All the bonded wealth—all the multi-millionaire fortunes in the world, consisting of bonds and sheaves can be reduced to nothing in one day by this dread power. Every government can be made bankrupt—whole nations converted into beggars vainly asking a loan in gold. At one stroke they could free themselves by remonetizing silver, repealing the gold legal tender act and using their own acceptances to the full amount of their annual reenues for a home currency. Will they ever do this? Not until the people awake to this, the mightiest question for them the sword hath pleaded or trumpet hath proclaimed. Was there ever such a world-wide slavery over mind and body as that of this gold monopoly? Seated at London, it is the power behind the throne of Great Britain, greater than the throne itself. It directs her policy, fights her battles and binds all nations through their financial leaders, who are supple, trembling tools of this golden bondage. HOLT THERE INDUSTRIAL SECTION. There was a good attendance at the meeting of the Phyllis Wheatly Club last Wednesday. After the usual business, a good program was rendered under the charge of Mrs. Dunmore of the Industrial Section. Mrs. Alice Flower read a paper on "Industry" in which she paid a beautiful tribute to the lately deceased member of the club, Mrs. Mary Randall. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor also read a paper on "Should the education of the Negro be wholly or chiefly industrial" which was discussed at length. Miss Dr. Cooper a visitor at the club, participated in the discussion and she stated with much emphasis, that one of the, greatest difficulties is that "The Negro will not as a general rule patronize those of his own race who engage in business and if they wish to succed in the various professions which they engage in they have to depend largely upon the support which they recieve from the whites." Others expressed similar views. One of the most enjoyable features of the program was the classical selections on the piano by Miss Gertie Jackson, one of the most talanted musicians among our Afro-American women of the city. J. N. BLACKSHEAR. One of the most successful Afro-Americans who has passed the rigid Civil Service examination is J. N. Blackshear who was born raised and educated in the State of Georgia. For four months past Mr. Blackshear who is a first class pennman and a good book keeper was employed temporarily in the City Collectors office and City Collector Brandecker and his entire office force speak of Mr. Blackshear in the highest terms. We believe Mr. Blackshear is the only Afro-American who has passed the Civil Service examination to be temporarally assigned to a clerkship by the present administration and we would like to see him succeed in securing a permanent clerkship in some of the departments for he is worthy of it and exerts considerable influence among a large number of voters who have previously trained with the Republican party. Mr. Blacshear's permanent se'ection would greatly aid the cause of Democracy among the Afro-Akmerican voters of Chicago. We will not resume our reviews of "The Political Parties and the Negro- untill the next issue of the Broad Ax. Alderman Boyd should certainly feel highly flattered at the handsome vote which he received Tuesday. His majority over all candidates was greater than two years ago, and it shows that the people of the 20th ward are satisfied with his past record and were widing to reward him for his faithful services in their behalf. It is practically admitted that ex-City Attorney Miles J. Devine can secure the nomination for States Attorney if he will accept it. Mr. Devine is a gold lawyer and we believe he could beat all opposition if he was nominated for that office. Thos. Byrne, Esq. will return from Texas Sunday morning Admiral Dewey's presidential boom has died a bornin, and he will require the services of a dozen big fat wet nurses to revive it. W. C. Gunn, of 48443 Armour ave., who has been visiting in San Antonia, Tex. since last October returned last Saturday much improved in health. Hon. Chas. K. Ladd, of Kewanee, Ill. spent several days in the city the past week. He still seems to be in the lead for the nomination of governor. John Nugent Dealer in Imported and Domestic Wines, Liquours and Cigars, 5300 Union ave., has one of the finest resorts in the Town of Lake, and being quite popular, he is a drawing card among the boys. Hon. C. Porter Johnson the silvered tongued orator of the Town of Lake delivered several brilliant speeches in favor of the re-election of Alderman Chas. J. Boyd a pleasing speaker and he always draws a large audience. R. R. Wright Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., who is attending the Chicago university will address the mens Sunday club at Quinn Chapel at 4 p. m. Sunday afternoon, April 8. Subject "Booker T. Washington's New Book." John Parker a wealthy colored man of Ripley, Ohio, died last week, and his body was cremated in Cinsinnati. It is said to be the lrst case in the United States of a Negro body being cremated. Mr. Parker was 70 years of age. M. E. Austin, Pres. of the 5th ward Democratic Club worked very hard to secure the election of ex-Alderman Kent. Mr. Austin who has been mentioned as an available candidate for County Assessor has proved to be a splendid political general. F. W. Solon, assistant superintendent of streets is one of those men who does not get exited and fall all to pieces like a women if things happen to go wrong. But he is evenly balanced and always greets those who call upon him with a smile. "The political parties and the Negro" is an interesting subject that is now being published in the Broad Ax at Chicago.-The Free State, Brandon, Miss. Thanks! Brother Johnson, we are glad to learn that you take pleasure in perusing our articles. Kelley & Malloy who conduct one of the finest sample rooms in the down town district are ever wide awake and watchful to make it pleasant and comfortable for their many friends and patrons. Their Sample room is located at 79 S. Clark st. opposite the City Hal, and it is frequented by many of the lealing politicians. The Henry M. Turner Grocery Store will open up for business at 3448 and 3450 State st. April 15th. This C mphany is composed of Afro-Americans, and they propose to conduct a first class store, and carry a full line of groceries, provisions and meat. They should recieve the patronage and encouragement from the general public. There is still much political contention in the state of Louisiana between he Lily White Republicans and the Negro Republicans. The former want to get away from the latter, but hang on to the Republican emoluments, while the latter want them to get away, if they so desire, but leave the offices behind them. Not being able to decide on the division of the spoils they continue unyilling political bad follows. The woman Club of Hyde Park was organized by Mrs. L. A. Davis last week. Some of the leading women of Hyde Park have become connected with it. Its aim and object is to improve in every way the condition of those residing in their midst. The following were chosen as officers: Pres., Mrs. Amanda Bell; vice Pres. Mrs. M. B. Jackson; Rec. Sec., M'ss Minnie Duncan; Cora. Sec., Mrs. Gracie Trevann; Treaa, Miss Elli Graam. The election passed oc quietly all over the city, and the West. North and Town of Lake Democratic tickets were successful, except the collector of the last named town. The Republicans captured the South Town offices and knocked out Alderman Chas. F.Guntter in the 2d ward, which is greatly regretted by all who are in favor of good government, and it seems that the people of the 2d ward do not want a first class business man, to represent them in the council. Mrs. Mary Randall departed this life for the beautiful realms above last Monday at her home, 5038 Dearborn street. Mrs. Randall was 74 years old. She was a most energetic club woman, being a member of the Phyllis Wheatly Club and nine other women's clubs and societies. The funeral, which was largely attended, was held at Quinn Chapel Friday. Daniel McKee Jackson had charge of the funeral. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. The interment was at Graceland. The members of the Phyllis Wheatly Club attended in a body and presented the family with a set of resolutions. SCIENTIFIC NOTES Almost all the towns in Siberia are having arc lights for street use and incandescent lights for houses, and the larger proportion of the people in Siberia have never seen gas, which they regard as an illuminant of a past age. A new railway bridge is in course of construction over Loch Etive, at the Falls of Lora, in Scotland. When completed, its span of 500 feet will be the second largest in Europe, coming next to that of the Forth Bridge. It is designed by Sir J. Wolfe Barry. Fish scales are being utilized in France, where a chemist has discovered that the scales may be used in the manufacture of artificial pearls, and the United States consul at Lyons has found that the supply is inadequate and that there is an actual demand for large quantities of the scales in his consulate, where good prices are paid for them. The clinker from the refuse destructors at Bradford, England, which in 1894 cost nearly $5,000 for carting and dumping, is now turned to profitable purpose in mortar and concrete making. Ground and mixed with cement, it has been found to give excellent results for the formation of reservoirs and inverts. During the winter months screening clinker has found favor for sprinkling on roads made slippery by the frost. The pine needles of South Oregon are being utilized. The needles are first boiled and then run between horizontal wooden rollers, which extract the juice. This is called pine needle oil, which is supposed to possess medical properties. The pulp is used as a medicated material for upholstering, and is also said to be a good substitute for horsehair. It is said that insect pests will not live in furniture that has been upholstered with pine needles. YOUR EYES AND OTHERS' EYES Upturned eyes are typical of devotion. Wide open eyes are indicative of rashness. Small eyes are supposed to indicate cunning. Side-glancing eyes are always to be distrusted. Brown eyes are said by occulists to be the strongest. The downcast eye has in all ages been typical of modesty. People of melancholic temperament rarely have clear blue eyes. The proper distance between the eyes is the width of one eye. eyes is the width of one eye. Eyes of which the whole iris is visible belong to erratic persons. Eyes with long, sharp corners indicate great discernment and penetration. The white of the eye showing beneath the iris is indicative of nobility of character. Gray eyes turning green in anger or excitement are indicative of a choleric temperament. An eye the upper lid of which passes horizontally across the pupil indicates mental ability. When the upper lid covers half or more of the pupil the indication is of cool deliberation. Unsteady eyes, rapidly jerking from side to side, are frequently indicative of an unsettled mind. Eyes of any color with weak brows and long, concave lashes, are indicative of a weak constitution. Eyes that are wide apart are said by physiognomists to indicate great intelligence and a tenacious memory. Wideopen, staring eyes in weak countenances indicate jealousy, intolerance, and pertinacity, without firmness.—St. Louis Star. Easy Enough. "Johnnie, how would you divide thirteen apples among fourteen boys?" "Make 'em into apple sauce, sir!" 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A medical journal calls attention to the general neglect of sanitary and hygienic methods in the management of sleeping-cars. There are stringent regulations about the transportation of dead bodies in baggage-cars, but there is no adequate and systematic provision for protecting living travelers from exposure to infection, although many passengers must leave disease-producing germs in the bedding or upholstery. It is customary to cleanse the blankets and cushions of dry dust andinders by subjecting them to powerful currents of air, driven by steam, but it is said that they are seldom so thoroughly treated as to remove the danger of infection. Unless railroad authorities take prompt measures, it seems to be the duty of state boards of health to interfere for the safety of the traveling public. This is only one case among many in which "new occasions teach new duties." Almost every invention or advance in modern life creates situations which require the fresh application of old, eternal principles. It requires the strong pressure of law or of public opinion to secure the adoption of new and needed methods, even when health, comfort and life are at risk. Only the nimble-minded can keep up with the incessant demands for readjustment. A GREAT MISSIONARY CONFERENCE A GREAT MISSIONARY CONFERENCE An "Ecumenical Conference" on foreign missions is to be held in New York, beginning April 21 and continuing until May 1. "Ecumenical," or world-embracing is a large word, but its use is justified by the fact that the conference will include representatives of the different Protestant denominations in all parts of the world. Nearly forty missionary societies are represented in the general committee, and it is expected that 2,000 delegates will be present. Among them will be missionaries from the more important foreign fields. The chief purpose of the conference is to collect facts and compare methods. The reports, addresses and papers will be a treasury of missionary information for a long time to come. It is expected that the conference will stimulate interest in foreign missions among the churches and lead to a more generous support of them. In most of the denominations the gifts for the purpose, although large in the aggregate, are small in proportion to the membership. There are many would-be missionaries waiting to go out who cannot be sent for want of money to support them. RUSSIA'S AGGRESSIVE ACTIVITY. RUSSIA'S AGGRESSIVE ACTIVITY. From Kobe, Japan, is cabled the report that Russia and Japan are agalu at odds regarding the former power's insistent demand for a Korean port. Some time ago Japan prevented the cession of such a port to Russia. Referring to this controversy, the dispatch says that the question has been reopened by the admiral in charge of the Russian squadron at Port Arthur. The Kobe correspondent adds: "This demand has accentuated the differences between Russia and Japan. The situation is serious, and there are frequent conferences between the Japanese ministry and the war office at Tokyo." At the same time there comes from Sofia a cablegram announcing that the Bulgarian war minister has suddenly departed for St. Petersburg. It is believed at the Bulgarian capital that the war minister is engaged in "concluding a treaty with Russia defining the terms on which the Bulgarian seaport, Port Bourgas, is to be ceded to the government of the emer, and that the convention will provide for the union of the Bulgarian army with the Russian forces." In No Shape to Enter Upon a National Campaign, Its Leaders Now Preely Admit Near Accedency of the Democratic Party. (Washington Letter.) Success of the fusionist forces in the coming campaign is conceded in Washington at present. President McKinley and his Republican congress are in a very gloomy state of mind. They fail to satisfy the trust interests, whose dictation is responsible for many of their troubles, and the whole country is making its revolt against imperialism felt. President McKinley changes his mind with every new shade of public opinion that presents itself. That pliability of his is very trying to his followers. Each one has a different story to tell when he comes from the White House. The administration's immediate official family are not a source of comfort. Secretary Hay is said to be positively ill over his flasco in the HayPauncefote treaty. Secretary Gage is wondering if the Republican majority can shield him from further investigation of his deals with the Standard Oil bank. Secretary Root is in Cuba trying to persuade the Cubans to be good children and not bother the administration just now, and so it goes. Without doubt the administration now wishes that it never whipped its followers into voting for a Puerto Rican tariff, and it certainly wishes it never heard of the Philippines. Then, too, a wrathful delegation of Idaho miners, ex-prisoners of the "bull pen," went up to the White House the other day and told the president what they thought of his scheme of martial law in Idaho. His courteous manners and soothing remarks did not soothe these indignant citizens at all. They wanted to know what he proposed to do about it. So really the president is not happy at the moment nor does he see great promise of re-election. It is significant of his depression that he no longer talks in high-sounding platitudes about his imperial mission. The gloom from the White House affects congress too. The opposition have good reason to be cheerful. Their Republican colleagues are hoisted with their own petard, and if the sensation is not pleasant they have only themselves to thank. The Republicans are so thoroughly disorganized that they are only thinking how quickly they can adjourn congress and get away from Washington. Their lesson on the Puerto Rican tariff bill has not given them the courage to confess their error and come out and stand by the constitution. Their only notion of repairing the blunder is to pass a bill keeping Puerto Rico and the Philippines under military law, and then depend on inventing some explanation that will satisfy the people. The failure of any legislation for the new possessions will not offend the trusts, for it will leave the Dingley duties in force. The Republicans are so tied up in trust control and so dependent upon them for the financial part of the coming campaign that they cannot stand out for principle and the rights of the people. The opposition have a clean and consistent record from the beginning of congress. They have stood for the constitution and for the protection of the people against the trusts. The Democrats pointed out some time ago that the popular sentiment was growing against imperialism and the trusts. It is useless to beat about the bush. The Republicans are in power and are going to be held responsible for every omission of duty as well as for the positive injury done along certain lines. The table of our exports to the Philippines for the last seven months shows only a million and a half of dollars for the total. This is entirely for the army. In fact, not all of the supplies for the army are sent from this country. It costs about $10,000,000 a month to carry on the war of subjugation in the Philippines. Every time you help pay the war taxes you can reflect that, even commercially considered, we get back about one dollar in ten that is expended. Spain used to sell Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines an aggregate of about $40,000,000 in normal times. Our total trade to these islands falls far short of that even when we count the expenditure for our big army. This idea of trade following the troops seems to be a bit expensive. Representative Fitzgerald has offered a resolution in congress calling attention to the enormous dividends paid by the Standard Oil trust, and suggesting an investigation of its methods. He submits that the retail price of oil has risen about 3 cents per gallon to the consumer recently. He might have added that in Idaho the trust charges 45 cents a gallon for the precious fluid. This Republican congress does not intend to encourage that sort of thing. It has pigeon-boiled a half dozen resolutions by Representative Richardson, asking for information about trusts. It will be entirely satisfied if it can pass the ship subsidy bill, with its absurd prattie about not being for the benefit of a trust, and then let the whole question go over until after election. Under cover of Representative Ray's proposed constitutional amendment restraining trusts, the administration will wax eloquent and claim that it was waiting for permission from the people before disturbing such a big evil. It is more likely to get permaission to go back to Canton and stay in seclusions while Bryan and a Democratic congress show what legislation against trusts means. "Militarism" is the one word with which a well-known official of organized labor sums up the policy of the Republican majority of the military committee which is investigating the application of martial law in Idaho. The testimony shows that military power was applied in the most despotic fashion to innocent citizens. Representative Dick, who is the Republican leader in the national committee, is doing his best to so obscure the issues that the Republicans can evade responsibility on this question. Representative Lentz, however, and his Democratic colleagues are bringing out startling and undeniable facts. No evasion of the issues will square the Republicans with the people on this matter. JACKSON DAY. "Plain Duty" Must Prevail. The Philadelphia North American, commenting upon the opinion of President Schurman of Cornell university concerning our "plain duty" in Puerto Rico, says: "It is his judgment that 'the American people will not tolerate any paltering with solemn obligations.' The Puerto Rican question has 'stirred to the depths the national heart and conscience, and legislation inspired by a breach of good faith will bring a terrible Nemesis.'" This is Prof. Schurman's language: "We are bound to this course by solemn promises. The supreme and irresistible reason for removing all customs barriers between the United States and Puerto Rico is the promise made by Gen. Miles, when first landing American forces on the island, that the Puerto Ricans should enjoy the same rights and immunities as the people of the United States. On this understanding the Puerto Ricans accepted American sovereignty, not only without opposition, but with joyful trust and confidence. The present issue is simply this: Shall we repudiate, or shall we fulfill, the national engagements? Shall this great republic break faith with the little island of Puerto Rico? Having secured the fruits of Gen. Miles' promise, shall we now renounce the promise?" Speaking from the record of the Republican party, so far as it has got, we probably shall renounce everything the trusts indicate A Trust Represser. The hugest joke of the year is the amendment to the bill for the ship subsidy steal which proposes to bring shipping trusts under the Sherman anti-trust law, by a declaration that the provisions of that law shall be "specifically applicable to the builder, owner, or either or both of them, of any vessel entering into any contract provided for by this act, and any such vessel is hereby declared to be property in the course of transportation within the intent of said law." Mark Hanna must have devised this scheme. Nobody else in the country would have the cheek to take up a law that has been utterly discredited, and shown not to be effective for repressing any kind of trusts, and offer it as a preventive for a new trust. To go to the people on that sort of a proposition is to rely on their lack of intelligence. If the republican party in congress have any desire to prevent a shipping trust from gobbling up the $9,000,000 a year which this bill filches from the pockets of the people, it could tastily put an effective anti-trust provision in the bill instead of this ridiculous pretense of one. But it has no such purpose. The ship subsidy steal is for the special benefit of a trust. It is made to enable a trust to collect tribute from the people just as the provisions of the Dingley bill were prepared for that purpose.—Indianapolis Sentinel. Striking Coincidences. This is an era of coincidences. Last December a bill looking to the final and permanent enthronement of gold in this country was introduced at Washington, and on the same day "call money" commanded interest at the rate of 187 per cent a year in Wall street. Call money soars only when there is a stringency, and the more acute the stringency, the higher it goes Last Tuesday the bill introduced in December passed congress with unimportant amendments; on Wednesday the president signed it, and on Thursday it was recognized as the law of the land. Coincidentally the local bank reserve was wiped out. The News said recently that "call money will go higher." This is as certain as the final arrival of the oncoming equinox. There is a stringent money market now, and it is likely to be more stringent before the refunding operations about to take place are consummated. The lesson is this, keep out of Wall street. Do not speculate.—New York News. Wen't Get Off. Count Leo Tolstol says that the rich are willing to do pretty much anything for the poor except get off their backs. This is illustrated beautifully by the course of this country toward Puerto Rico.—Cleveland Recorder. The secret of Ellhu Root's appointment as secretary of war is out at last. He showed himself to be a brilliant strategist when he secured $2,000,000 of the State Trust's money as attorney for an office boy who worked for $15 a week.—New York News. William S. Witham of Atlanta, Ga., is president of twenty-seven banks. THE REPUBLICAN FINANCIAL POLICY. That the national bankers are a favored class is made apparent by even the most cursory examination of their position. Under the new currency act they will be able to take out $1,000 worth of notes for every $1,000 worth of bonds that they deposit with the treasury, so that they practically will do business on the credit of the government alone. The money originally invested in the purchase of the bonds is again on hand in the shape of notes. On the bonds deposited as security for the notes the bank receives interest, and the notes it loans out at interest also, so that on the money invested in the business double interest is received, thanks to the kindness of the government. Were the government to issue its own notes direct to the people it would save the amount it pays to the banks as interest on the bonds, and it could even require the banks to pay it for the use of whatever notes they might need for their customers. The only thing that makes the notes of the banks valuable is the guaranty of the government that they shall be redeemed, so that the banks are actually being paid for making use of something for which they ought to be obliged to pay. This is the Republican financial policy in a nutshell. A huge money trust is maintained at an enormous cost to the people without any corresponding benefit, but, on the contrary, with great danger to their liberties and their prosperity.—New York News. "IT IS CONSUMMATED." The gold-standard bill, which qualifies itself with a clause purporting to urge international bimetailism, passed the house of representatives yesterday by a vote of 166 to 120. It was the conference report, which had already passed the senate, that the house adopted. The gold standard, which Republicans have been claiming has been in actual operation since 1834, may now be said to be established beyond question. The Republican father of the financial measure, Mr. Overstreet, declared that there was absolutely no hope of international bimetailism after the passage of the bill. The banks have been conceded all they have requested, the creditor instead of the debtor may exercise the option as to the coin of payment, and the consolidated wealth of the country from April 1, 1900, can exercise more arbitrary power than any sovereign of the earth. "I demand the double standard" McKinley is about to give his assent to the most gigantic swindle of the American people that has been perpetrated since the days of Nicholas Biddle.—Buffalo Times. Silver Not Dead. The currency bill that has just passed congress fastens us to the financial system of the old world and subjects us to all the disturbances which affect them while it places the control of the volume of paper money in the hands of a bank trust, which will be as merciless to the people of this country as Weyler was to the reconcentrados. The fight for bimetallism at the ratio of 16 to 1 has not been lost. The increased production of gold has shown the advantage of more money and has answered the argument so often made that the parity could not be maintained because of the overproduction of silver. The fight against bank-note circulation will grow stronger as the big banks swallow up the little ones, and as the people learn that a permanent national bank-note circulation, secured as at present, necessitates a permanent and increasing national debt.—William J. Bryan. "A Debased Currency." The following item is traveling about among the newspapers, presumably to show our manufacturing genius: "Over fifty kinds of woods are used to manufacture paper, besides banana skins, bean stalks, pea vines, cocoanut fiber, clover and timothy hay, freshwater weeds, sea weeds, and over 150 kinds of grasses; also hair, fur, wool, asbestos, hop plants, weeds, husks and stems of Indian corn, all kinds of moss,sawdust, shavings, thistle,thistledown and tobacco stalks." Think of all this rotten stuff converted into bank notes redeemable in gold coin, while silver is rejected as a dismal horror! The Man to Blame. The temperance sentiment of this country has been greatly stirred up by the reports of the enormous amount of intoxication in the Philippines since the army went there; and members of congress are said to be flooded with petitions and remonstrances on the subject. But so long as the Philippines are under martial law these documents should be addressed to President McKinley, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, for only the military authorities can regulate or suppress the sale of intoxicants in the islands under their control.—Albany Argus. We are sagely told that the administration wants the French reciprocity treaty to become law. Then why does not it send for the congressional managers and threaten them as it did in the Puerto Rican tariff case? It has the power of coercion, which is better than a constitutional right, because it is one capable of being respected under a Republican administration.—Washington Times. Every one expects to be remembered after they are dead, and yet not one in a million can give any good reason why. Sarsaparilla In the spring those Pimples, Bolls, Eruptions and General Bad Feelings indicate that there are cobwebs in the system. It needs a thorough brushing, and the best brush is Hood's Sarsaparilla, which sweeps all humors before it. This great medicine eradicates Scrofula, subdues Salt Rheum, neutralizes the acidity which causes Rheumatism in short, purifies the blood and thoroughly renovates the whole physical system. "We have used Hood's Sarsaparilla and it has given the best of satisfaction, especially as a spring medicine. It builds up the general system and gives new life." DWIGHT C. PARK, Whiteland, Indiana. Resourceful "You think I had better simulate insanity?" said the accused man. "I do," answered the adviser. "What's the best way?" "Well, you're no actor, of course. If I were you I'd get some South Africa war maps and repeat the geographical names over and over. In the course of a short time I don't believe you'll have to pretend at all."—Washington Star. GHOST OF THE GLACIER and Other Tales, including Making a Revoiution, Susquehanna Trail, Sculpture of the Elfs, Once a Pillar of the World, Feathers of Fashion, and others. A delightful volume, beautifully illustrated. Ready for distribution about May 1. Send 10 cents to T. W. Lee, General Passenger Agent, Lackawanna Railroad, 26 Exchange Place New York City. Edition Limited. Self-Evident. "I hear about the fool-killer sometimes. Who is he?" asked Cholly. "There isn't any fool-killer!" replied the other man, savagely.—Chicago Tribune. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. It costs $4,400,000 a year to maintain the twenty-four palaces of German's emperor. Old as the Hills are the pains and aches of RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA SCIATICA Sure as taxes is the cure of them by St. Jacobs Oil LABASTINE is the original and only durable wall coating, entirely different from all kalsomines. Ready for use in white or fourteen, beautiful tints by adding cool water. ADIES naturally prefer ALABASTINE for walls, and ceilings, because it is pure, clean, durable. Put up in dry powdered form, in five-pound packages, with full directions. LL kalsomines are cheap, temporary preparations made from whiting, chalks, clays, etc., and stuck on walls with decaying animal glue. ALABASTINE is not a kalsomine. EWARE of the dealer who says he can sell you the "same thing" as ALABASTINE or "something just as good." He is either not posted or is trying to deceive you. ND IN OFFERING something he has bought cheap and tries to sell on ALABASTINE'S demands, he may not realize the damage you will suffer by a kalsomine on your walls. ENSIBLE dealers will not buy a jawsuit. Dealers risk one by selling and consumers by using infringement. Alabastine Co. own right to make wall coating to mix with cold water. The salient fact that presents itself in taking a birdseye view of the Canadian West, is that of intense activity in every department. Whether the glance be turned upon the district east of Winnipeg, the Red River Valley south or north, the Dauphin and M. & M. W. district, the Southwestern, or whether it take in the great central division along the main line of the C. P. R., stretching away out to the Rockles and from there bending north and south to Prince Alberta and Edmonton, McLeod and Lethbridge—whether the examination be made in any of these directions the same activity, growth and hopefulness are observable. The Canadian West is not only a good place to locate permanently, but it is also a good place to invite one's relatives and friends to come to. This is the spirit that seems to animate the West at the present time, and its effects are to be seen on every hand. To enumerate the towns where handsome and substantial blocks and residences have gone up this year would be simply to give a list of the towns and villages along the railway lines. And this movement has not been confined to these centers of population, but in many cases it has been overshadowed by the improvement in farm buildings. So far as one can see, this is no passing phase, no repetition of any temporary boom following a period of good crops and fair prices. It is a movement more spontaneous, more general, more marked than anything that has gone before, and seems to indicate that the great West, like Samson, bursting the encompassing bands, has awakened to a period of activity and development that will surpass anything we have known in the past and which will only be paralleled by the opening out of some of the most fertile of the western states of the union. Look at some of the figures. Over a thousand schools in Manitoba, and the number going up by leaps and bounds; something like 500 schools in the territories. Winnipeg as representing the gateway of the West, the third city in the Dominion in regard to bank clearings, postal business and probably in regard to customs, the customs return at Winnipeg running about 30 to 40 per cent greater month by month than in the fiscal year of 1897-8, the largest previous year for actual business entries, when over $900,000 was paid through the Winnipeg office for duty; the C. P. R. and Canada Northwest land sales together running over $1,500,000 for the year. These and a thousand more signs show how the West has leaped into new life. This is an inspiring and cheering spectacle, but it brings with it great responsibilities. The business men realize this, the banks realize it and have spread their agencies through every bustling little town clear out to the coast; the churches realize it, and one denomination alone has opened an average of about thirty new stations in each of the past two years, and will increase this in the year now entered upon; the government departments realize it, and there is talk of redistribution and additional members. The educational branches realize it, and new schools are springing up everywhere. Over 12,000 settlers came in from the United States alone last year, and these, with the people who came in from the East, prove the most rigorous westerners. They lose no time in developing their farms, in filling their grazing lands with stock, and in every district is to be found evidences of thrift and prosperity. "Sometimes," said the man who doesn't care how disagreeable he is. "I met a very charming young human being yesterday." "Where?" Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. You have heard of Swanson's 5 DROPS Rheumatic Cure, still you are suffering from Rheumatism and other diseases that this remedy so surely cures. Many of your friends have advised you to use it, and yet you hesitate before giving it a trial. Why delay any longer, and why waste any more money and time? You will certainly find what you have sought in vain for, and we are confident it will do for you what it has done for others similarly afflicted. If all knew what thousands know of the efficacy of 5 Drops as a curative as well as preventive of any ache or pain known to the human body, there would not be a family in all America without a bottle of Swanson's 5 DROPS Rheumatic Cure. You can try it for the small amount of 25c, on receipt of same will send you a sample bottle; or, send us a Dollar and we will send you a large bottle prepaid by express, containing 300 doses. 5 DROPS is the name and dose. Free from opiates in any form. Absolutely harmless, a child can use it as well as an adult. For further particulars write Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., 160 Lake St., Chicago. If you want to open a door, you don't smash it with a crowbar, but open it with a key. It's easier and less destructive. When you are costive, or bilious, or constipated, don't take an old-time dose of physic, throw your bowels into spasms and turn your liver inside out, as long as everything can be set right, in a nice, gentle, quiet, positive, natural way by Cascarets, the ideal laxative. We have all found out that persuasion is stronger than violence. Instead of trying to force your disordered organs to do their duty, Educate Your Bowels and make them act naturally by using Cascarets, Candy Cathartic, so pleasant to the taste, so mild, so effective. They are guaranteed to cure any case of constipation or money refunded. Buy and try Cascarets to-day. It's what they do, not what we say they'll do, that proves their merit. All druggists, 10c, 25c, 50c, or by mail for price. Send for booklet and free sample. Address, Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can; or New York. Two Weeks' Treatment Free. The great blood purifier Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life is to be given away free to readers of this paper. This medicine cures Rheumatism, Stomach, Liver and Bowel Complaints, by removing disease germs from the blood. 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. A LIFE PHILIPPINES Just Like Brave Bill Anthony During a fire drill at the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., Cadet Stephen P. Rowan fell and the steam engine ran over him and broke his arm. Rowan, after he had fallen, forced his head and body out of the track of the moving engine, otherwise the accident would probably have been a fatal one. As soon as the engine had passed Rowan jumped to his feet, saluted Lieutenant-Commander Stoney, the officer in charge of the drill, and said: "I have broken my arm, sir." $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrch. Hall's Catarrch Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrch being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrch Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Obedient Bobby "Bobby, didn't I tell you not to go in the parlor when Mr. Hopkins comes to see your sister?" "Ma, I didn't go in. Ijes' stuck my head in the door and made some faces at him."—Chicago Record. 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. The Tables Turned. "Weren't you kissing my daughter when I came in?" "Yes, sir. Have you any apology to make?" IRRIGATED LANDS. For full information, for individuals and colonies, regard.ing the greatest irrigated district in America, especially adapted to the growth of live stock, alfalfa, sugar beets and cantaloupe, address A. E. Bent, Lamar, Colo. God means to have worldly-mindness removed from His people so that they may shine as a light among men.—Rev. Dr. Landrum. To him nothing is possible who is always dreaming of his past possibilities. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS WILL CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY NOTE—Laxative Bromo-Quinine which is advertised on the large banner over State Street, Chicago, as represented above, is the only exclusive cold prescription sold by every druggist in the United States, Canada and in England. This is the signature of the inventor and plainly appears on every box of the genuine article. It is sold for 25c a box, and all druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. A French scientist charges that alcoholism threatens the entire civilized world, and in France it has wrought its greatest mischief. The life of France is being sapped by the scourge. It has already resulted in a frightful increase in suicides, the insane and criminals. In 1898 France consumed over 53,000,000 gallons of alcohol. This was an average of nine pints for each inhabitant of France—men, women and children. As three-quarters of this alcohol is consumed by one-tenth of the inhabitants, one out of every ten Frenchmen drinks 200 pints of brandy each year, or 11 ponies every day. In this estimate no account is taken of the alcohol contained in lighter liquors, such as wine, cider, beer, etc. If this be considered the average consumption of alcohol in all forms rises to twenty-eight pints of alcohol instead of nine. This tremendous consumption of alcohol has developed only within a few years, for in 1851 the consumption was but three pints per capita. Within the last ten years the consumption of absinthe has increased to such an extent in France that five times as much alcohol is used for the manufacture of the "green serpent" as was used ten years ago, while the population has not increased in the meantime. Tennyson and His Pipes During the past season much has been written about Li Hung Chang's method of smoking. The peculiarity in this habit of one nearer and dearer to us—Tennyson—is decidedly unique. A writer says of the great poet: "The common clay pipe was his choice. His den was at the top of the house. When he sat down to work in the morning a huge tobacco-jar, big enough for an ancestral urn, was at his feet, together with a box full of white clap pipes. Filling one of these, he smoked until it was empty, broke it in twain and threw the fragments into another box prepared for their reception. Then he pulled out a fresh pipe, filled it, smoked it and destroyed it as before. He would not smoke a pipe the second time." In the "Studies from the Psychological Laboratory of Chicago" there is a short report by Prof. Buck on the overestimation of vertical as compared with horizontal lines. The overestimation was found to be slightly increased by placing the observer on his side, so that the head and eyes were at right angles to their usual position. This is regarded as an argument against the explanation of the illusion by eye movement. EDUCATE YOUR BOWELS. Thousands of Premature Deaths Caused by Neglect. This is the CASCARET tablet. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascarets bears the magic letters "C C C." Look at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imitations and substitutes. CCC Bitter truth is sweeter than flattery. PERUNA PROTECTS OUR HOMES. The Roberts Family, of Falls City, Neb., Are Healthy and Happy—A Rare Sight in These Days. They Say, "We Think Peruna Is The Greatest Medicine On Earth." No man is better known in the State of Nebraska than Mr. Carl T. Roberts, contractor and mason. A typical American—active, shrewd and full of business sagacity. He is not only a provider for his family, but a protector. In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman he writes among other things, as follows: It is the greatest medicine on earth." —C. T. Roberts, Falls City, Nebraska. Hon. William Youngblood, Auditor for the Interior, writes from Washington, D. C., to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, as follows: "I've often port that I am better than I have been for many years. I believe Peruna is without a doubt the best medicine that ever was used in a family. It has cured my nervousness, with which I had been afflicted for a great number of years." "Our boy, James, had the membranous croup and repeated attacks of lung fever. Our boy, Charlie, was also subject to attacks of pneumonia and pleurisy. Our third boy, John, was subject to fever and ague (malarial) and liver trouble. Your remedy, Peruna, cured my boys entirely, and now I have three of the healthiest boys in the State of Nebraska, which I attribute to your medicine. My wife had a stomach trouble which Peruna also cured. Altogether for my whole family we have used nineteen bottles of Peruna, and have thus saved $500 in doctors' bills. I am a contractor and mason by trade, and am known all over Nebraska. I have had a stomach trouble, which has been greatly relieved by your remedy, Peruna, for which I am still taking it. We think FOR 14 CENTS We wish to gain this year $200,000 new customers, and hence offer 1 Pkg. City Garden Beet, 10c 1 Pkg. Earl's Emerald December 15c 1 " La Orosse Market Lettuce, 15c 1 " Strawberry Melon, 15c 1 " 11 Day Radish, 15c 1 " Early Ripe Cabbage, 15c 1 " Early Diller Onion, 15c 1 " Brilliant Flower Seeds, 15c Worth $1.00, for 14 cents. $1.00 Above 10 Pkg. worth $1.00, we will mail you free, together with our great Catalog, telling all about SALZER'S MILLION DOLLAR POTATO upon receipt of this notice & 14c, stamps. We invite your trade, and know when you once try Salzer's seeds you will never do without. Please contact Salzer! I most cannot earliest Tomato Giant on earth, wn— JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., LA CROSS, WI. LEARN THE Business MIXER Something really new that pays big money. Fortunes made every year. MIXER'S GUIDE teaches how. Send 100 for 3 month subscrip- tion and premium book "Sby Dollars." Pro- spectus free. MIXERS GUIDE, Powellton, Ill. ARTICHOKES! 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It has proved all you have claimed for it, and I take pleasure in recom- M. B. B. pleasure in recommending it to anyone who is afflicted with catarrh." Peruna has become, in a multitude of households, absolutely indispensable. Mr. T. G. Walker, Carneiro, Kansas, writes: "It is with pleasure that I re- EXCURSION RATES cially conducted excursions will leave St. Paul, Minn., on the first and third Tuesday in each month, and specially low rates on all lines of railway are quoted for excursions leaving St. Paul on March 25 and April 4 for Manitoba, Assinibola, Saskatchewan and Alberta. C. J. Broughton, 1223 Monadnock Blk, Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Indianapolis, Ind., or T. O. Currie, Stevens Point, Wis. AGENTS WANTED In every county in the state. A salary of $10 per week will be paid, if agents will guarantee one sale of $12.50 per week. Or a commission of 70% will be allowed on each sale made. Actents' outfit and one for yourself, which sells for $12.50 to the trade, will be sent you on receipt of $1. The article can be sold to any one, and as many as 5, 10 or even 50 can be sold to one family. Address. W. B. HERBERT, SCO., CLARK & RANDOLPH STS, CHICAGO port that I am better than I have been for many years. I believe Peruna is without a doubt the best medicine that ever was used in a family. It has cured my nervousness, with which I had been afflicted for a great number of years." It is a fact of ever-increasing astonishment that so many otherwise sensible and provident people will, for the neglect of so simple a precaution as to have a bottle of Peruna at hand, bring upon themselves the needless suffering and foolish expense that a practitioner of medicine is forced to witness every day. As soon as the value of Peruna is fully appreciated by every household, both as a preventive and cure of these affections, tens of thousands of lives will be saved, and hundreds of thousands of chronic, lingering cases of disease prevented. Peruna is the household safeguard. A complete work on chronic catarrh sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Worth $4 to $6 compared with other makes. Indorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers. The genuine have W. L. Douglas' name and price stamped on bottom. Take no substitute claimed to be as good. Your dealer should keep them—if not, we will send a pair on receipt of price and asc. extra for carriage. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. British agriculturists are slowly waking up to the advantages of scientific methods of dealing with diseases of crops. The product of the potato farms in Detroit in 1899 was 10,420 bushels, produced at a cost of about eight cents a bushel. The state immigration agent of Washington estimates that 30,000 perms have moved into that state during the past year. The Afghans never leave their homes without having an arsenal of weapons in their belts. Arms are their adornments. The civil code of Alaska is that of Oregon, which was taken bodily and dumped on the territory without regard to application. Sandy Pikes—What did yer feel like when de farmer pulled yer out of de wall? Billy Coalgate—I felt like I wuz brought up on a farm.—Chicago News. Milan newspapers report that the unusual cold in the mountains is driving many wolves into the valleys, to the great damage of sheep and goat owners. A St. Louis judge has ruled that if a husband be locked out by his wife he may, chop down the door, if necessary, to gain entrance—but he has to pay for the door. The coal famine in Russia, is so serious that the minister of finance has persuaded the emperor to permit foreign coal to be imported free of duty for the use of the railroads. New York wants a museum of "Living History and a Court of All Nations," to cost several millions, exhibiting contemporaneous art and manufacture from every country in the world. UNCLE BSEK'S WISDOM. It is not power, but the balance of power, that wins. All knowledge begins in doubt, and much of it ends there. The fox carries the bad news, while the turtle crawls with the good. Nature can make absolute laws, but she can't break the least of them. Familiarity is not friendship; puppies end all their frolics in a quarrel. Civility is the lowest price we pay for things, and repentance the highest. The best man living cannot give an undoubted bond for his good behavior thirty days from date. My friend, if you want to make people think as you do, let them have their own way; nothing else will tire them out so soon. Men often climb half-way up the ladder and stay there; but it is seldom they fall half-way down and stop short of the bottom. The line between folly and wisdom so uncertain and indistinct that the philosopher and the fool are often seen prospecting on each other's claims. ```markdown ``` 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. 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 princi- ples. 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. Youra truly, W. J. Bryan. July 15th, 1899. To whom it may concern: 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 H. 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. Respectfully, Chairman Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois. 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. 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. THINGS HERE AND THERE. Auburn, N. Y., churches have united to war on the treating habit. There are 120,000 more bachelors than spinsters in New York state. Chilean wine growers are trying to popularize their product in Europe. William S. Witham of Atlanta, Ga., is president of twenty-seven banks. Wisconsin starch factories will grind up 300,000 bushels of potatoes this year. The United States produces about 65 per cent of the total production of the world. Drilling deep wells for water is pro- 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 PROCREDINGS A SPECIALTY. 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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 outbuildings. 20 head milch cows. 20 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys, 50 ducks, $ 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 cozy 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. Mexico has sixty turquoise mines, whose output last year was valued at $525,000. There are 32,000 small farms in Porto Rico devoted to fruits and miscellaneous crops. The average salary paid to Methodist ministers in this country last year was $470.25. KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery, Open Day and Night. Lady Assistant . . . 5438 SOUTH HALSTED ST. Estimates and Specif- cations Furnished . . . 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We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and sells for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere. Address all communications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCH FREE Anyone sending us ten yearly subscribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 subscribers for six months, we will present them with this beautiful goldfilled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies' or gents'. WATERLOO 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 subscribes. Send for sample copies of The Broad Ax, go to work and earn a watch. Address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave, Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. W. J. 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