The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. While so many facts are alleged by Democrats and several eminent Republicans and Populists as evidence of McKinley's inconsistency, it is singular that so little attention is called to the quarrel between a few of his supporters and the main body of his church as shown in the "New Voice." It is well known that McKinley posed as a Methodist of Methodists during his campaign for the Presidency. A large number of Methodist bishops and ministers hoped their church would have another such experience as it had during Grant's terms in case McKinley was successful. So the church went almost bodily for McKinley. Now the "Voice," at that time, was owned by the great publishers, Funk and Wagnalls and was exclusively Prohibition. As the Methodist church is the most positively temperance of all churches the Voice became indignant on learning that McKinley, the great Methodist and consequently temperance candidate, was indirectly running a whisky saloon at his own town of Canton, Ohio, being the owner and renter of the property. It proved it beyond the shadow of a doubt. All may recall the sensation caused by the exposure. Many bishops and other holy men came to the rescue and the subject was for a time smeared over and whitewashed. But "The Voice," held to its pursuit of McKinley and warned the Methodists, that if he should triumph they would be disappointed in him as he would abandon all his professed principles and would prove a sham to his church. After the election the Voice was transferred to a Methodist firm at Chicago, who have continued it as a temperance paper. The next scene we have is McKinley at banquets drinking liquors. No man can remain a Methodist and drink intoxicants. But McKinley boldly and above board keeps up. The New Voice reluctantly exposes him and the great body of Methodists have, it seems given him up to his idols. But worse remains and the Voice has begun a war to the knife in him. Congress passed a law for blocing the sale of liquors to soldiers—known as the anti-canteen law. McKinley, instead of vetoling it gets his Attornel General to decide the law to be a nullity. What a revolution in our government. Not only supreme courts and U. S. petty distract judges have the veto power, but any jackleg lawyer, who might become a U. S. Attorney General by the favor of an accidental President has also this power. The Voice keeps up a splendid fight. In self defense McKinley sends out to generals, colonels and 500 noncommissioned officers for opinions on the subject of the army grog shop called the "canteen" and requests his Sec. Root to report these opinions to congress. But no report was made public, The Voice, determined to find out why. In a late number it shows why. Nearly every opinion is adverse to the saloon except those of three generals—Egan of embalmed beef—Merrit of Idaho Bull Pen and Wade, who is a self-acknowledged liar. While so much is said to show McKinley's utter want of principle on so many important questions—here is this side issue in full blaze before the Prohibitionists and Methodists evidently were privately annoying to the pretended Methodist and temperance man McKinley and giving him more terrible stings than all the more public censure. Up to this time we have never had a really weak unprincipled man for President. Grant was imposed on by his friends, for whom he had a weakness, but all who really knew him declared he was really a pure, simple plain citizen of very great executive ability. Johnson talked too much and became eccentric from drink, but was a solid man. Never before have we had a man for President where want of fixed principle might prove dangerous to the whole nation. Under such a one any kind of bill may become law, and any conduct precedent. The curse of party rule is in this—that whatever unlawful acts by the party in power are done to enhance the assets of its successor, who will covet them as eagerly as did the evil-deer who created them, and reform is hopeless. H. JAMES J. GRAY. The popular and efficient North Town Assessor, who can always be relied upon to look after the interest of the common people. JAMES J. GRAY. Without any design on our part to indulge in flattery, nevertheless, it can be truly said, that none of the men, holding public offices, either appointive or elective, perform or discharge their trusts or duties more faithfully than James J. Gray, the North Town Assessor, and the only Democratic member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County. Mr. Gray was nominated and elected to the last named office in the fall of 1898, and upon assuming his place upon the Board Jan. 1, 1899, he was favored by the God of Democracy, with the long straw, or in other words, he will serve out the six year, or the long term. There is a disposition on the part of the majority of men who seek the votes of their fellow-men, prior to their election, to hug, to make a great to-do, laugh and show their teeth to every voter they meet. But if they succeed in being elected, they immediately swell up like a big baloon. Their heads all at once, grow so large, that they are unable to find a hat big enough to fit them, and they assume an air of dignity and become so cold and distant that an ordinary person is almost compelled to crawl upon their hands and knees if they desire to approach them. But without possessing the slightest inclination to pump any hot air The popular relied upon to lo into James J. Gray, we can happily state, that he does not belong to that class of officials whom we have alluded to. For it is a great pleasure for the humblest citizen of whatever race or nationality, to come in contact with Mr. Gray, and when they have occasion to enter his office he cordially recieves them an makes one feel that they are standing in the presence of a plain straight-forward highly educated and cultured gentleman. APRON BAZAAR Wednesday and Thursday, May 9th and 10th, the ladies of the Phyllis Wheatly Club will hold an apron bazaar at its club rooms, 5063 Dearborn street. Some of the very best musical and literary talent of the city has been secured to take part in the program afternoons and evenings. Choice refreshments will be served. A large and fine collection of aprons for men, women, boys and girls will be on sale at reasonable prices. This is a good thing and let everybody assist in helping to push it along. ```markdown ``` ENTERED THE COLORED COACH. Winnie Smith, a colored woman, has brought suit against the Louisville & Nashville road for $10,000 damages. The amount is claimed on an alleged violation of the separate coach law. The plaintiff claim that recently she purchased a first class ticket, and on getting on the train took a seat in the coach set apart for colored people. At Bardstown, it is claimed, a number of white men came into the car and smoked, drank and used profane language in her presence, and that notwithstanding she protested to the conductor, they were permitted to remain. CHIPS. CHIPS Ex-Corporation Council Chas. S. Thornton, who is one of the wheel horses of the Democratic party of the 1st ward is getting himself in good trim to take an active and prominent part in the coming political struggle, and Mr. Thornton is of the opinion that the party will be successful in Cook County. Col. R. O. S. Burke, "Your address on 'The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson,' is exceedingly interesting and instructive and I desire to commend you for endeavoring to refresh the minds of your readers with the achievements of Thomas Jefferson for JAMES J. GRAY. and efficient North Town Assessor, w ook after the interest of the common peo he was one of the greatest men the world has produced." John J. Feely, of the Old Hickory Club has become a candidate for Congress, and he is making an active canvas among his many friends to enlist their aid and support. Thomas Byrne, M. J. Doherty superintendents of Streets, Aldrman Thos. Carey, Justice John Fitzgerald and M. P. Byrne, have gone to Louisville, Ky., to witness the Derby. They will all return by way of west Baden Sunday or Monday. Col. John R. Marshall and the entire membership of the 8th Illinois Regiment and in fact the Knights of Pythias and the other societies and organizations who participated in the Dewey parade loomed up splendidly, and they reflected credit upon the entire Afro-American race. Attorney Wm. H. Barnum, of Barnum & Barnum, 9155 and 916 N. Y. Life Building, is an honored member not only of his profession, but also of the party of Thomas Jefferson, and hereafter Mr. Barnum will be a reader and a supporter of The Broad Ax. Alderman Chas. Werno of the 21st ward has served his constituency well and faithful and they have no kick coming; this being true the Alderman naturally feels that he wil be in the swim next spring. The Old Hickory Club of the 30th ward at a meeting recently endorsed Alderman Chas. J. Boyd and B. H. Heide to succeed Justice John Fitzgerald and M. P. Byrne as members of the City Central and County Committee. Its members believe that the Germans are entitled to one of the committeeships and with that end in view the Old Hickory Club proposes to fight to secure the election of B. H. Heide to represent the Germans. All Mouth Old Jim Miller, who furnishes straw-bail for the blacklegs, dead-toughs and criminals at the 35th street police station likes to consider himself a great big man, but he is not, for last October while in the presence of S. A. T Watkins, and several others he requested us to send him the Broad Ax, which we did, but when we requested him to settle his account, he replied by saying, "I never pay for nigger newspapers." Lookout Jim, old, boy, we are after you. Wednesday evening, May 9, Augustine Talton Court, of the Woman's Catholic Order of Foresters, No. 391, will give a reception and ball, at the South End Dancing Academy. $347 State stret. It will be under the man- who can always be people. agement of Mrs. Cora Spriggs, Miss Rose Edie, Mrs. Ella Davis, Mrs. Martine Armour, Mrs. Mathilda Davis and Mrs. Henrietta Hagen. Sprigg's Orchestra will furnish the music;admission 25 cents. Thomas J. Nerney, who is one of the tried and true citizens of the 30th ward, has an army of good and influential friends, who are urging him to seek Congressional honors. Mr. Nerney is an orator with much force and ability and if he was nominated to represent the people in Congress residing in the 2d Congressional district no mistake could be made and The Broad Ax believes that he would be elected. The Broad Ax has been honored with an invitation,to attend the graduating exercises of the Training School for Nurses, of The Freedman's Hospital, Washington, D. C., which will be held at the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in that city, Wednesday eve., May 9th. Dr. A. M. Curtis, Rev. Alex. C. Garner, W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education. Miss Louise R. Hamer, Hon. John W. Ross of the Board of Com- --- NO. 28. missioners, Rev. J. E. Rankin and others will take part in the program. Ex-Collector John E. Traeger, of the Town of Lake, has been urged to become a candidate for Coroner, and his candidacy is taking well among the people. Mr. Traeger is one of the leading German-Americans of the 30th ward and his nomination will add strength to the ticket. The Broad Ax regrets to announce the resignation of Edw. Carroll from the Civil Service Commission. For he was one of the most popular commissioners and was ever ready to assist all who sought his aid, and as the 30th ward is entitled to the commissionership, man yof its citizens favor the selection of Fredrick A. Hart for the position whom they believe is thoroughly fitted for it. A political meeting was held in the interest of Judge Carter Wednesday night at Bethesda Baptist church, 34th and Armour avenue. It was addressed by W. F. Taylor, Albert B. George, and others, and right here we would urge upon everybody to read the next issue of The Broad Ax for we intend to go after the political preachers and those who favor the plan of turning churches into political halls. Tuesday night an indignation meeting was hld in Olivet Baptist church, 27th and Armour avenue, to protest against the loose characters from the levee district locating in the vicinity of that church. In the neighborhood of one hundred Afro-American delegates are in attendance at the Methodist Conference, which is being held in the city. These delegates are endeavoring to have their white shouting brethren to select the Rev. J. E. W. Bowen, of Atlanta, Ga., as a bishop. They think they must have a black bishop to look after the Colored Methodist. If it is necessary to do this here below, then the same thing will have to be repeated in Heaven. But we have been informed that only one Negro ever succeeded in entering the kingdom of Heaven and as soon as he obtained his dinner he was put on the outside of the pearly gates. The grand reception and ball, which was held at the 1st Regiment Armory; 16th street and Michigan avenue, last Wednesday night, was not as largely attended as it should have been. But it was a brilliant affair in every particular. Col. Benjamin G. Johnson, W. G. Anderson, Noah D. Thompson and the other members of the reception committee did everything in their power to make it befitting the occasion Armant's orchestra furnished the music and it was of a high order. In the Catholic church the Negro worshipper has always been welcome. No discrimination or mark of inferiority is imposed upon him. In the large cities where there is a considerable Negro population, Catholic churches have been established for them, but white people worship there in large numbers. The parishioners of the colored Catholic church in Washington, D. C., are among the most prominent of the race. The church is an imposing edifice. Parochial schools and orphan asylums are established in St. Louis, Mo., Baltimore, Md., and a colored person is never discriminated against in any elemosynary institution of the Catholic church. Archbishop Ireland has taken especial pride in building up the colored Catholic organization in many cities of this country.—Exchange. No one can form any idea of the hardships which the American soldiers have to endure in the Philippine Islands. Two years ago many of them thought it would be great fun and sport for them to go to those far away Islands and shoot down without any justification the half-civilized "Niggers," as they call them to show their patriotism. But many of those same soldiers who have assisted in murdering innocent women and little children are now being brought home raving maniacs and Gen. Otis has recently ordered one thousand pair of handcuffs, to be used in handcuffing the large number of demented soldiers and bring them back to this country. The Gen. says in his report, that "from May, 1898, one thousand men have been breft of their reason and almost one hundred so far have taken their own lives. All this tends to prove the Gods of War are not smiling upon the American troops. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of labor, Inclu- dels, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application Address all communications to JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Matthew S. Quay will remain an expenator. This was decided by the United States senate on Tuesday when by a vote of thirty-three to thirty-two the report of the committee was adopted, declaring that he was not entitled to a seat on credentials from the governor of Pennsylvania, the legislature having failed to make a choice when in session. The vote was a surprise to the country, and none was more completely surprised than members of the senate themselves. For not until the last name was called and the last vote recorded did the members know what the result would be. And the vote was a surprising one in every way. It was a tribute to the personal popularity of the Pennsylvania "boss" among his former colleagues that five Democrats voted in favor of seating him. Party lines counted for little, thirteen Republicans, fourteen Democrats and six Populists voted against the ex-senator, and twenty-seven Republicans and five Democrats in his favor. But there was such a scurrying to cover on the part of some of the senators who didn't want to vote either way as has not been seen for a long time. Senator Hanna, who had all along been counted a friend of the "boss," hastened away to the Ohio Republican state convention, pairing with Depew of New York, his vote to go against Mr. Quay's being seated. COMING OF THE JAPS. Pacific coast residents are just now beginning to realize that a movement likely to create no end of trouble and which must add to the industrial problem in this country is finding its center there. We have been reading with a proper degree of pride that American tourists in Japan number three times the total of all other foreign travelers, and that they are well thought of by the Japanese, but the obverse side of the picture is not so happy. A dispatch from Seattle declares that hordes of Japanese immigrants are crowding into the country; that since February 1, 2,700 have been admitted and that steamers to leave Japan within the present month will bring in at least 2,000 more. The really startling fact in this connection is that there is evidence that these children $X$ the sun are being imported for the purpose of displacing American labor, and the local representative at Seattle of the Federation of Labor makes the charge that wholesale violations of the contract-labor law are being made in the admission of these people, declaring that contractors have supplied each immigrant with the necessary $30$ to show the authorities in order to pass official scrutiny. AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION. The Australian colonies are loyal to England and rest content as colonies now because the cord that binds them to the mother country hangs loose. Let it once be tautened and it will break. Today England maintains an expensive diplomatic consular service which is at the disposal of her Australian subjects. The great navy and the army of Great Britain serve to protect Australia in the event of foreign threat, with little expense to the colonies. For all that Australia gets, nothing to speak of is paid, except the small luxury of some colonial governors who serve well as social centers. Australia can well afford to accept such a situation on her own terms. But Great Britain is in a puzaling situation. If the present federation bill is accepted, she has no hold left on the "imperialism" idea. If she refuses the bill, the resentful Australian may go farther. The rejection of the bill would incur the delay, expense and rancor of another long campaign and plebiscite, and the result might be even worse for the imperial policy. GATES' DARING GAME. If the business world was shocked by the action of Chairman John W. Gates in closing down the mills of the American Wire and Steel Company last week, it was doubly so when the directors of that company voted to sustain their chairman's radical action. This because it was accepted either as an admission that Mr. Gates' allegations concerning the actual state of the iron trade were true, or that his colleague had joined with him in an attempt to depress the stock of the company and assist in the game of "freeze-out" believed to have been started by Gates. Directly the announcement of Mr. Gates' closing-down order was made, iron men all the country over hastened to deny his statements. Members of his own company denied them and they hastened to New York, swearing vengeance upon the man who had sold them out. ```markdown ``` The cutting of the ice on a pond is an interesting process, and the equipment is peculiar and varied. All the call and winter, until the harvest is closed, men and horses, after every snowstorm, scrape the ice to the glare with anow scrapers. When the cutting begins a horse draws a marker across that portion of the pond immediately to be cut, leaving a light, straight incision along the surface. This is repeated until the surface is all marked off one way, each line being 24 inches apart. Then the groover goes over the same course making the incision deeper and broader. The process is repeated, except that this time the mark goes at right angles to the lines drawn first and at a distance of 36 inches apart. Then the course is gone over by the plows, until the lines each way are cut to a depth of nine inches. The ice gone over for the last time is ready for the "canal." After the last passage, of the plow which makes the narrow goove, a few quick, well directed blows from an ice chisel in the hands of a skilled cutter, and a large "float" containing 100 or more of the ordinary 24x36 cakes is broken from the field. Ready men with pikes at the end of long poles push it through the open water to the vicinity of the elevator. The "canal," of course, is longer the farther away from the elevator the men are cutting. The course must be kept open and should it freeze during the night the new ice must be broken. The first men who receive the float at the elevator break it with their chisels lengthwise, and the smaller piece is sent under the plank bridge, where the cross sections are broken off, each cake is then at hand ready for its upward journey. The "feeder" drives it with his plike to the proper position, when it is caught by a section of the endless chain and up, up, up it glides. The feeder must be careful and quick of eye, to see that every piece of the 40 each minute that passes through his hands is whole, of the right size, and gets its correct position upon the chain. A cake askew might wreck the whole elevator. The cakes are kept stored in rooms until wanted. SHOULD BE KING OF ENGLAND At Least That Is What Jacobites Claim for This Bridegroom to Be The bethrothal of the handsome Princess Mathilde of Bavaria to Prince Louis of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is of double interest, inasmuch as the princess is the daughter of the Stuart queen, "Her Christian and Catholic majesty Queen Mary IV. of Scotland and III. of England" (as her adherents contend), and the prince a member of the royal house to which our prince consort belonged, now represented by Duke Alfred, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, who should some day ascend the throne as "King Ludwig III," is the eldest son of Prince Luitpold, the prince regent, and was born Jan. 7, 1845. He is a general of Bavarian infantry, and married at Vienna, Feb. 20, 1868, the Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, who is the lineal descendant of Henrietta Maria, eighth child of Charles I., while Queen Victoria claims only descent from a daughter of James I. The princess, who is just 50 years of age, is the "legitimate" queen of these realms, and her eldest son, Prince Rupert, the "pretender" of the Jacobites. Still, he will some day rule the solid, beer-drinking Bavarians, and, like his mother, does not seem to aspire to the honors thrust upon them by their Jacobite partisans.—London Sketch. A Safe Fire Escape Most of the fire escapes installed in hotels and similar buildings, where they are required by law, are simply makeshifts, hardly suitable for women or children to manipulate, as they usually require some dexterity and considerable muscular exertion on the part of the user. In a fire escape recently invented by Louis N. Duquette of Southbridge, Mass., the descent to the ground from a window or other egress opening can be made comfortably and without exertion. All that is necessary is to seat oneself on a bench which has previously been hooked to the window ledge or other convenient point, and grasp two handles at the sides. Mechanism concealed in the box underneath plays out the rope from two reels or drums, which are so arranged that the rope on each side will be played out at a uniform rate to prevent the tilting of the boxing or casing. The gripping tubes at the sides of the box, through which the ropes pass, permit the control of the rate of descent. Kinged Mr. Cleveland's Hand "It has been my pleasure to meet newspaper reporters in all the cities of Ameriea that I have visited since my residence in this country, and but once have I had any occasion to regret my contact with them," said Rt. Hon. Charles B. Cahusac. "This was in Washington, D. C., when, by some chance that to me is still a dark and unfathomable mystery, a reporter learned that I was presented to President and Mrs. Cleveland, and that, ignorant of American customs, for it was the first time that I had been presented to the executive of a republic, I went down on my knees before Mrs. Cleveland and kissed her hand. Imagine my chargin the next day, when, upon picking up the paper, my eye fell upon a headline reading, 'He Kissed Her Hand. A Titled Englishman Kneels Before Mrs. Cleveland.' Now, as I say, I did not know but the customs of Europe prevailed here."—Denver Republican. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION BEN R. TILLMAN South Carolina JOHN R. MCEAN Ohio C.A. WALSH Iowa J. G. JOHNSON Kansas GEORGE F. WILLIAMS Massachusetts SENATOR JONES Chairman JAMES M. GUFFY Pennsylvania DANIEL J. CAMPAU Michigan W.J. STON.E Missouri KANSAS CITY JULY 4 1900 Chairman Jones and some of his Lieutenants DEMOCRATIC PARTY. HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE MORE THAN A CENTURY. Record as the Anti-Federal Party 1780- 1800—How It Became to Be Called Republican Party 1800-1824 — Its Greatest Leaders. It may truly be said by any Democrat that the party to which he adheres is as old as the republic. It began with the Declaration of Independence, there being an opposition manifested to all that that document contained. At that time those who favored the declaration, in the form in which it was finally adopted, were known as radicals, those opposed were known as conservatives. By the time that the Constitution became the topic of discussion the radicals and conservatives began to assume the proportions of political organizations. The conservatives became known as Federalists the radicals as anti-Federalists. Alexander Hamilton became the champion of the Federalist cause. Thomas Jefferson became the leader of the opposition. The followers of Jefferson wrote the constitution to their liking, fully incorporating the doctrine of state rights. This insured its ratification by the several states. The Federalists made no opposition. ANDREW JACKSON. It was not until 1790 that the anti-Federalists became known as Republicans. The war between England and France had stirred up much feeling, the sympathy of leading Federalists then in power being with the former. Inasmuch as France had greatly aided the States in their war with England, she found much sympathy, especially among anti-Federal- ists led by Jefferson. The Federalists became known as monarchists at this period and in contradistinction the antis took the name of Republicans, for the reason, as Jefferson stated, they stood for a republic, not for an empire. It was this anti-monarchial spirit that greatly aided the Republican victory in 1800 that made Jefferson president. But curiously enough the money question was up for discussion, the Federals championing the issuance of bonds by the national government to pay the war debt. The Republicans held that the war debt should be paid by the several states without recourse to bonds. The defeat of the Federalists was overwhelming. Ten of the thirteen states voted for Jefferson. In 1804 again Jefferson won another splendid victory at the polls. In 1808 Madison won under the Republican banner. Again he won in 1812, and by a larger majority than four years before. Then came James Monroe, the father of the "Monroe doctrine." Monroe also received a larger vote his second term than for the first Next came another illustrious name that awakens enthusiasm in the Democratic breast, Andy Jackson. By this time the Federalists were thoroughly disorganized, but a few of their leaders joined with the anti-Jackson Republicans and nominated John Quincy Adams on a so-called National Republican ticket. Although Jackson received a popular majority party leaders conspired with the opposition and Adams was declared president. The National Republicans while in power appropriated the party name. The people became greatly angered at so-called White House pomp and public meetings were held. The promoters of these meetings called themselves democratic Republicans and finally Democrats. The Republican party, led by Jackson in 1824, accepted the title of Democratic party. As such Jackson was nominated in 1828, and carried every state in the union. Jackson's fight with the bank of the United States with its tentacles in every community, its hand at nearly every throat in the land, makes a bright page in the nation's history. A manufactured panic ensued but this did not deter the president from vetoing the bill right in the heart of the presidential campaign of 1832, when Jackson and Clay were the opposing candidates. The popular majority for Jackson was even greater than before and he soon thereafter finished the banking monopoly. Another panic was precipitated but the people stood by the party in 1836, when Van Buren was chosen president with a clear majority of 25,000 votes over four opponents. About this time the Republican party became known as Whigs. Van Buren was not entirely sound on the money question and when the Whigs nominated Gen. W. H. Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe, in 1840, it was a foregone conclusion that Van Buren would be beaten. And so he was by 150,000 majority. The Democratic sentiment of the country lost little by the defeat of Van Buren. Harrison had been an Andy Jackson Democrat, while Tyler, the Whig candidate, agreed with Jackson on the money question. When Tyler became president by the death of Harrison he carried out Democratic principles. James K. Polk was the next Democratic candidate and was chosen in 1844. Four years later Lewis Cass of Michigan, was defeated by Taylor, Whig, with Martin Van Buren a third candidate. The latter drew enough votes from Cass to elect Taylor. Then came Franklin Pearce and James Buchanan, two more illustrious Democratic names, both being elected by a majority of popular vote. Next came the gap filled by the long line of Republicans that began with Lincoln. HARVEY T. CANNON. Democracy's Debt to Tammany. According to Prof. Alexander Johnston it is to Tammany Hall that we owe the first suggestion of a nominating convention, and that so long ago as the year 1613, when such an organ was proposed for nominating a democratic candidate for governor of New York. Though nothing came of it for that year, the idea was soon revived. A TAMMANY HALL and ere long the nominating convention became as we shall see, a prominent feature in state politics throughout the union. Kansas City's Big Hotels. Here is a list of the big hotels of Kansas City: Midland, Coates, Baltimore, Savoy, Victoria, Washington, Blossom house, New Albany, Transit house, Centropolis, Virginia, Ashland and Metropolitan. Just as surely indicates that the blood is lacking in vitality and the elements of health as does the most obstinate humor that the vital fluid is full of impurities. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures that tired feeling by enriching and vitalizing the blood, creating a good appetite and invigorating every organ of the body. Hood's Sarsaparilla "I had that tired feeling all the time. Was as tired in the morning when I rose as I was when I went to bed. I took four bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla and it made me feel like a new man. I could work hard and not feel tired. I recommend Hood's to all who need a good medicine." A. P. CHARTER, Creston, Iowa. Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists. Get Hood's and only Hood's. Hid By Cromwelt's Troops. A remarkable discovery of coins has been made at Hoghton, midway between Blackburn and Preston, at a farmhouse belonging to Mr. Thomas Crook, near Hoghton Tower, the seat of Sir James De Hoghton, and the scene of one of the Cromwellian advances. The coins, which number fifty-five, are of silver, varying in value and dated near the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth century. They were discovered under the thatch of a roof, where it is conjectured they were placed for safety from plunder by Cromwell's troops. They are in a remarkably good state of preservation, and were in a curious bag of wash leather.—London Leader. Checking Ticket Speculators There is a stringent ordinance in Atlanta, Ga., against speculation in tickets to places of amusement, and one of its violators came to grief during the recent engagement of Richard Mansfield in that city. The speculator was arraigned before the city judge, the case proved against him, and he was promptly fined $100 and sentenced to thirty days in jail. The latter part of the sentence was afterward remitted. Mr. Mansfield expressed pleasure on being informed of the sentence. He said his own agents charged the public for admission as much as they were able to pay. Are You Eating Allen's Foot-Ease? 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. Spring Styles "Hennicks has become a perfect mirror of fashion of late—changes his clothes five times a day. What did he have on when you saw him last?" "He had a jag on."—Philadelphia North American. 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. Pores in the Human Skin . From microscopic observation it has been computed that the skin is perforated with 1,000 holes in a square inch. Men and women, boys and girls, all over the United States. Big money, easy work. Valuable prizes in addition. Write C. H. Marshall & Co., Dep't 10, Chicago. A shell fish, known as the planna in the Mediterranean, has the curious power of spinning a viscid silk, which is made in Italy into a regular fabric. Try Grain=0! Try Grain=0! 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 soal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. 1/4 the price of coffee. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Tastes like Coffee Looks like Coffee Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O Accept no imitation. TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL The Best Saddle Cost. SLICKER Keeps both rider and naddle perfectly dry in the hardest storms. Substitutes will disappoint. Ask for 1807 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker—it is entirely new. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. WILLIAM H. Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor, Deputy Auditor for the War Department, in a letter written from Washington, D. C., says: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from one bottle of Peruna. One week has brought wonderful changes and I am now as well as ever. Besides being one of the very best spring tonics it is an excellent cataract remedy." Very respectfully, Dan A. Grosvenor, Hal P. Denton, Chief National Export Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa., writes: "I was completely run down from overwork and the responsibility naturally connected with the exploitation of a great international exposition. My physician recommended an extended vacation. When life seemed almost a burden I began taking Peruna, and with the use of the fifth bottle I found myself in a normal condition. I have since enjoyed the best of health." Almost everybody needs a tonic in the spring. Something to brace the nerves, invigorate the brain, and cleanse the blood. That Peruna will do this is beyond all question. Everyone who has tried it has had the same experience as Mrs. D. W. Timberlake, of Lynchburg, Va., who, in a recent letter, made use of the following words: "I always take a dose of Peruna after business hours, as it is a great thing for the nerves. There is no better spring tonic, and I have used about all of them." For a free book on "Summer Catarrh." address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. THE FREIGHT BUSINESS. Net thes"Go-as-You-Please" Hap-Hazard Thing Many Suppose. Most people have an idea that freight is the last thing that railroads look after. Many profess to believe that a piece of freight once started on its journey is allowed to loaf along at its own sweet will and pleasure, stopping where it wishes, and staying as long as it likes, and only bringing up at its destination when there is nowhere else to go. When you have waited day afl day for that piano which was shippea month ago you are ready to adopt that opinion. But don't be in a hurry. When that piano box shows up in Poughkeepsie at the time it should be in Portland, the Poughkeepsie agent does not uncase the instrument and give a series of boxcar recitals for the next two months. You may think he does, but he doesn't. Not a bit of it! There is no welcome anywhere for the wandering Willies of freightdom. No agent wishes to be caught with missing freight piled up in his yard or house. The truth of the matter is, the railroads are continually punching laggard freight in the ribs and admonishing it to move on. After you have listened to a freight agent's description of the elaborate plans taken to look after freight you will marvel that a single package ever goes astray. But—the man who is waiting for that piano knows that it does.—Lewiston Journal New Ead in Hair Dressing How fashions change! Not long since there was a fad for wearing one large rose, with the hair dressed low. The wreath of tiny flowers is an exceedingly pretty style, and the hair may be dressed very high in the center. The tendency of hairdressing today is toward negligee style. There is a studied carelessness and grace. The waves of hair at the back and sides are full and in broken lines, rather than set curls, as formerly, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The curled fringe bang is not nearly so popular as a series of full loose poufs, as the Francais say, consisting of large waves of light rolled curls. A very new method is to part the hair at the side and bring it across the forehead in a loosely waving mass. The hair is dressed very high for evening wear, and if there is not sufficient natural hair, special coils, attached by a tortoise-shell pin, are readily adjusted. The coils and puffs must be very slim, rather than broad as formerly. Hunting Big Game in Africa. An expedition has just left England with the object of ascending the Nile as far up as possible beyond Khartoum and exploring the country on both sides of the river south of Fashods, which is said to teem with big game of all kinds. Almost nothing is known of the zoology of the region of the upper Nile and the expedition will devote most of its attention to this subject, making extensive collections as it works its way up. Distorted by Glamour "What is the honeymoon, pa?" "Well, the honeymoon is the only period in a man's life during which he considers it funny to come home and finds that his dear little wife hasn't dinner ready on time." PECULIARITIES OF PLATT OF CONNECTICUT. A Modest Man, Rarely Heard of P Public, Who Sways the Senate When He Speaks-A Veteran Legislator-Not a Flowery Speaker. There are two Platts in the United States senate and they are men of widely different characteristics. One is Thomas C. Platt of New York; the other Orville H. Platt. If there is any relationship between them it goes far back beyond present family records. Aside from their names, the two Platts have hardly anything in common. The New York senator is a great political leader—one of the most astute politicians of whom American history has carried any record. The Connecticut man is about as indifferent to the machinery of politics as any man can be who figures in public life at all. The Connecticut Platt is less widely known than the other; but within the narrower bounds of his reputation he ranks high. He is never carried away by popular clamor or by the emotions of the hour; but he knows instinctively what the average man is thinking about and what the average man would like to have done. He is the kind of person who would be selected for trustee of an estate; he would insure it a CIA ORVILLE H. PLATT. steady income and would never take undue chances. He never undertakes to discuss a public question until he has studied it in all its phases, and so he is not one of those who rush promiscuously into debate. When he addresses the senate he is always sure of close attention. He is nothing of an orator. Public speaking has no glitter or charm for him. He speaks only when he feels that he ought to, and not because he likes the sound of his own voice or looks for the responsive tingle of popular applause. Gen. "Joe" Hawley, his colleague, is an effective public speaker. He has a genius for swaying audiences, for stirring the emotions and for inspiring applause. Platt recognizes this as a gift which he does not possess. Among his friends he sometimes talks about it, occasionally with regret, but never with even an infinitesimal touch of jealousy or envy. "I am not like Hawley" he says, "and it is just as well to recognize the truth. I always hesitate to get on my feet in public. I know that there will never be anything especially entertaining in what I say, and I feel that I am tolerated rather than admired. The best I can do is to talk along without any oratorical frills and without expecting to get anybody excited. I usually say what I want to say, and I try to tell the truth. I haven't any pretensions beyond that. Hawley can't even walk to the platform without bringing his auditors to their feet yelling and cheering. It is 'Hip, hip, hurrah, for Joe Hawley!' from the minute he puts in an appearance until he gets through. That is the genius of the man. It's something I never had and never can have. I am sorry, but what's the use of worrying about it?" Mysteries of a Rollet. Every man has a theory against and an apparent abhorrence of a woman's use of artificial means in the way of producing a bloomy complexion, and yet as surely as the needle to the magnet you will invariably find him gravitating toward the girl or woman with a made complexion. The fact of the matter is men don't know face powder and rouge when they see it, they are not prone to recognize it even on a face as near as that of their own wives. So despite that much is being said and more written about the latter day woman's frank use of rouge, powder and pencil, as long as one of her most appealing charms is vested in a rose and cream complexion, just so long will she make use of the means whereby to build it. At the present time the extent of ocean cables is nearly 200,000 miles. The total distance of all wires it is impossible to state with exactness, but it is rather more than ten times the total for the cable systems. In the United States alone there are about 300,000 miles of wire in use.—Ainslee's Magazine. An excitable resident of Boston raised a great commotion at the office of the board of health of that city, a few days ago, by reporting the discovery of a case of leprosy in one of the most densely inhabited sections of the Huh. Investigation proved that the supposed leper was suffering only from a severe cold. In San Rafael, Cal., it is illegal to carry with a rope or maga- The largest arched bridges on the continent of Europe, which span the Rhine, represent a type of bridge which, although very popular on the continent for large spans, has not found much application in Great Britain, although it originated in the cast iron arch of the Coalbrookedale bridge of 1779, over the Severn, which has a span of 102 feet. Up to 1898 the Dom Luiz bridge over the Douro, with its arched span of 565 feet, was the largest bridge of the kind in the world. The Bonn mild steel bridge, with its one arch of 616 feet span, and the Dusseldorf bridge, with two arches of 594 feet 8 inches span, now rank first in Europe. But the Nlagara and Clifton bridge of 1898 surpasses them all with its span of 840 feet. The Rhine, according to Engineering, has but few bridges, considering its great length. At Bonn the river is 450 yards wide, and although the town has 50,000 inhabitants, and Poppelsdorf, adjoining, 22,000 inhabitants, there is no bridge. Railway lines run along both banks; but up till recently there was no bridge on the reach between Coblentz and Cologne, a distance of 55 miles, and the cross traffic depended upon ferries, and further upon a railway traject, two miles above Bonn, consisting of three ferryboats, each carrying 200 tons, worked by engines and cables. Caesar's much disputed wooden bridge is now supposed to have been, not at Bonn, but considerably higher up the river, near Welsseenthurm, where important Roman fortifications have recently been discovered. The ferryboats and the pontoon bridges of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Bonn was still the residence of the sovereign archbishops of Cologne, suffered much during the recent wars. The French revolutionary army of 1795 requisitioned all the ships of the district and placed a bridge over them, over which the army crossed the Rhine—to return a few days later and to destroy their work. WOMEN WEAR TROUSERS. And Men Must Wear Shirts to Be Respected in China There is everything in the point of view, says Youths' Companion. In China it is considered very unwomanly for a woman not to wear trousers, and highly indecorous for a man not to have skirts to his coat. It is no wonder that the Chinese look askance at the ordinary American or European who comes among them. To the Chinese, says the author of "Intimate China," it seems very unfitting for a lady to go out unattended by a woman, and for a woman to stand firmly on her feet and walk on them like a man is shocking. Thus there are great difficulties for the traveler to get over. The garment that seems most essential to the Chinese woman is a pair of trousers, and she thinks it highly improper for a woman to indicate by a belt that she possesses a waist. "Do you really eat with your waist girt in like that?" she asks of a foreign woman. A man's dress, as we know it, is a still greater scandal in China; and to the Chinese the only explanation of it is that the poor fellow has not cloth enough to cover himself properly. Nevertheless, nearly every foreigner, after spending much time among Orientals, admits that the dress he has grown accustomed to at home is lacking in grace and elegance. COCKRELL'S LIFE SAVERS. Eating apples for lunch has become a fad in the senate, and Senator Francis M. Cockrell of Missouri is responsible for its introduction. For some time it has been the custom of the Missourian to steal away from the senate chamber after the morning hour and go to the democratic cloak room for a lunch. Upon the senator's midday menu there is just one article of diet, and that is apples. At 65 Senator Cockrell displays a capacity for work which is the marvel of the senate, and he attributes his splendid health largely to his free use of apples and especially to his daily lunch on apples exclusively. Taking notice of the Missourian's good color, steady nerve and notable endurance, other senators have adopted the apple habit and find it beneficial. Senator Cockrell is one of the veterans A. B. SENATOR FRANCIS M. COCKRELL of congress. Jones of Nevada and Allison of Iowa are the only senators who outrank him in length of service. The senatorship which he has filled since 1875 is the only public office which he has ever held. He was probably the foremost lawyer in Missouri at the time he was elected to the senate. A woman's view of society depends on whether she is outside or inside. GIVEN AWAY FREE Trial Packages of Genuine Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life. KNOWN FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AS THE GREATEST OF ALL TONIC REMEDIES. Every Reader of This Paper should be Sure to Get One of These Free Samples. The great blood purifier Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life is to be given away free to readers of this paper. This famous remedy comes as near being a bodily restorer as we are ever likely to find. When taken into the stomach it acts so pleasantly upon the digestion that a good healthy appetite results; and the liver, bowels, kidneys and bladder all come in for a share of the new strength and vigor. Rheumatism, backache and headache, billiousness and all nervous diseases are rapidly cured as well as all diseases of women. 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This will be sent you by mail and is large enough to convince you of the merit of this LANGELS AND ESSENCE A LIFE · PRESERVER celebrated household remedy. A 2 cent stamp should be enclosed in your letter to pay the postage on this free sample. WOMEN AND EATING. Serious Results May Follow Carelessness of Diet Women are notoriously careless about their own food. One could wish that those who neglect the duty of properly and efficiently nourishing their own bodies would study the statistics of insanity and its increase among us. The old Latin proverb tells us that our aim should be to keep a sound mind in a sound body, says the Philadelphia Ledger. "Drink and hurry and worry send most of the men to an asylum," says a doctor, "while love affairs, combined with a lack of food, throw most of the women off their balance." The love affairs would have but little influence over them if they were properly fed, but among the illusions in which girls and women indulge is, that, as they care very little about their food, so the lack of it can not have much effect upon them. They rather despise men for being careful to have regular meals, whether business presses or not, and are inclined to vaunt their own superiority in such respects. But if this disregard of the natural instincts of hunger leads us in the same path as "drink and hurry and worry" leads men, and if we are to be humiliated by hypersensitivness in love affairs, how pre-eminently does male common sense stand in the matter!" One-Half the Money Wasted. The great machine,L'Assistance Publique, which dispenses charity to the Paris poor, undoubtedly is the richest charitable establishment in the world. It draws from real estate investments $480,000 and from the government investments $712,000, making an income of over $1,200,000.. It is an enormous sum to dispense in charity and it would seem sufficient to make it certain that nobody need go hungry in Paris; but the complaints are constant that worthy people are refused assistance and that the poor die of starvation, and L'Assistance Publique is accused of squandering its millions of francs. It is charged that five-ninths of the income is spent in paying the functionaries who handle this great sum. The Voice and Altitude. Generally speaking, races living at high altitudes have weaker and more highly pitched voices than those living in regions where the supply of oxygen is more plentiful. Among the people living on the plateaus between mountain ranges the men have voices like the women and the women like children, and their singing is a shrill monotone. Tribunal of Last Resort Maxon—Did you tell your wife about that California decision that a man had a right to be out all night and give no account of himself. Waxon—I did. Maxon—Then what did she say? Waxon—That the decision was reversed.—Puck. AGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY handling our household articles. They sell on sight. Big prizes given. Write at once. G. H. Marshall & Co., Dep't 10, Chicago. Reference: Any Bank in Chicago. The Japanese House of Representatives has passed a regulation to prohibit boys under 20 years of age from smoking. 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. A Little Sermon. Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.—Greville. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. In the process of the manufacture of cordite the constituents are thoroughly kneaded for seven hours. The Maker's of Carter's Ink Say: "We can't make any better ink than we do; we don't know how to. We can make poorer ink, but we won't." Carter's Ink is the best. Switzerland uses more postal cards in proportion to its population than any other nation in Europe. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Klina's Great Nerve Kestorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treator. Dm. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Many a man has acquired a reputation for honesty by concealing the truth about his actions. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. One year's sweepings of the British mint yielded over $5,000 in particles of gold and silver. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c. It was probably a spinster who originated the saying, "One man's as good as another." $25.00 A WEEK AND EXPENSES easily made by agents handling our goods. Sell on sight. Write J. C. PAUL & CO., Chicago, IL. The locomotive of today weighs about 120 tons, and hauls from 1,200 to 1,180 tons. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 250 a bottle. The occupants of a balloon a mile high command a radius of ninety-six miles. When All Else Falls. Try Yi-Kl. Cures Corns and Bunions without pain. Never falls. Drug stores or mail 15c. Yi-Kl Co., Crawfordsville, Ind. The number of languages and dialects spoken in the world amounts to 3,064. 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. Some men have no taste, but if the color is all right they take chances on it. As a dressing and color restorer, PARKER's HAIR BALSAM never falls to satisfy. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15cts. Opportunity often goes past the door where the knocker is kept too bright. Send for "Choice Recipes," by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Masa, mailed free. Mention this paper. Some folk never give his satanical majesty his due while they live. N. K. Brown's Essence Jamaica Ginger is pure, strong and reliable. None better made. Too frequent collections are sure to thin the congregation. Manlove Self Opening Gate, Catalog free. Manlove Gate Co., Milton, Indiana. There is no sex in soul. Double Trouble The complication of SPRAINS and BRUISES is a very sore trouble, but doubly, or separately, as sprain or bruise, there is no remedy known the equal of St. Jacobs Oil for a PROMPT, SURE CURE ALABASTINE Is a durable and natural cement-base wall coating. in 5 lb. paper packages, made ready for use in white and fourteen beautiful tints by mixing with cold water. It is a cement that goes through a process of setting, hardens with age, and can be coated and recoated without washing off its old coats before renewing. ALABASTINE Is entirely different from all the various kalsomines on the market, being durable and not stuck on the wall with glue. Alabastine customers should insist on having the goods in packages properly labeled. They should reject all imitations. There is nothing "just as good." ALABASTINE Prevents much sickness, particularly throat and lung difficulties, attributable to unsanitary coatings on walls. It has been recommended in a paper published by the Michigan State Board of Health on account of its sanitary features; which paper strongly condemned kalsomines. Alabastine can be used on either plastered walls, wood callings, brick or canvas, and any one can brush it on. If admits of radical changes from wall paper decorations, thus securing at reasonable expense the latest and best effects, Alabastine is manufactured by the Alabastine Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Interactive and interesting booklet supplied free of charge. DO NOT APPROACH "DEAR MES. PINKHAM:—Before I commenced to take your medicine I was in a terrible state, wishing myself dead a good many times. Every part of my body seemed to pain in some way. At time of menstruation my suffering was something terrible. I thought there was no cure for me, but after taking several bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all my bad feelings were gone. I am now well and enjoying good health. I shall always praise your medicine."—Mrs. AMOS FESCHLER, Box 226, Romeo Mich. Female Troubles Overcome "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I had female trouble, painful menses, and kidney complaint, also stomach trouble. About a year ago I happened to pick up a paper that contained an advertisement of Lydia E. 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FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION GENUINE BUY NOW SIGNATURE. Price 25 Cents Purely Vegetable CURE SICK HEADACHE. 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 sgc. extra for carriage. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED 160 ACRE IN FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE If you take up your homes in Western Canada, the land of plenty. Illustrated panphlets, giving experiences of farmers who have be- come wealthy in grow- ing wheat, reports of delegates, etc., and full information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton, 1222 Monadnock Blk., Chicago, or E. T. Holmes, Indianapolis Ind., or T. O. Currie, Stevens Point, Wis. STUMP BLASTING. Farmers: If you want the BEST and most RELIABLE goods in the market, ask your ds less for "AJAX DYNAMITE," and if not sold by them write us for prices and book on Dynamit- and Stamp Blowing that will be of value to you. Do not be deceived by what may be offered you as "Just as Good." Get our prices on Guaranteed goods. AJAX DYNAMITE WORKS, BAY CITY, MICH. LEWIS GAS ENGINES Adapted for All Purposes SIMPLE... ECONOMICAL DURABLE... Send for Catalogue and state your own needs. J. THOMPSON & SONS MFG. CO. Box 501. BELOIT, WI. PENSIONS Get Your Pension DOUBLE QUICK Write CAPT. O'FARRELL. Pension Agent, 1475 New York Avenue. WASHINGTON, D. C. ALUMINUM CREAM SEPARATORS and up to date churns. The 2 separators I have work perfectly. C. Hardy, Alleghey Co. Pa. Circulators free; write quickly. GIVON STEWART MFG. CO., Gibsonia, Pa. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; given quick relief and curse work cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DATE treatments. DR. H. H. GREEP'S SOON. Box R. Allstate, Co. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 18, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Famer. In his life work for Normal Prof. W. H. Council has exhibited a broad and lofty character for practical philanthropy which the Post is glad to note and wish for more men like him to lift up and help both races. Since the establishment of the splendid school, which has been brought to its high and useful standard mainly through his genius and devoted work, he has contributed from his salary over $16,000. That is about $800 a year, for the past twenty years. His salary is not large. And those who are informed, know that he does not live in extravagance, hence he and his family have made sacrifices in order to contribute so liberally to the support and permanent establishment of an institution of practical instruction that has done so much and continues to do more for his race of people. Huntsville (Ala.) Daily Post. A Talented Queen. With the possible exception of Carmen Sylva, queen of Roumania, the most accomplished of European queens is the charming Queen Amelie of Portugal. Queen Amelie, who inherits her literary talents from her father, the late Comte de Paris, author of a history of the American civil war and a history of the English labor party (besides many other books dealing with political and social questions), has taken her degree of M. D., and is now the chief physician of her husband and children. The queen was married at Lisbon thirteen years ago to the then crown prince, duke of Braganza, now King Carlos I. An estate valued at $2,500,000 is disposed of by the will of the late Silas B. Cobb, which has been filed for probate in Chicago. The Chicago Home for the Friendless receives $50,000; the Chicago Orphan Asylum, $25,000; the Old People's Home, $5,000; the Young Men's Christian Association, $5,000, and the American Sunday School Union of Philadelphia, $2,500. Several small bequests are made to nephews and nieces, and the bulk of the estate is to be held in trust until Mr. Cobb's youngest grandchild reaches the age of twenty-five years. William B. Walker, a son-in-law, and Clarence Buckingham are named as trustees. Alliterative Military Titles. A writer in the London Sketch says that apt and artful alliteration appears a sine qua non of the modern military work. "With Kitchener to Khartoum" and "With Methuen to the Modder" suggest "With Plumer Toward Pretoria." "Baden-Powell and the Border Police" and "Kitchener and Krugersdorp." "Roberts' Ride to Rhodesia" could be quoted in a pill advertisement, and why not add to the already long list "With 'Bobs' to Bloemfontein?" querles this enthusiastic Briton. The British ambulance wagons are very inferior to those possessed by the Boers. The latter are made to accommodate eight wounded men, while those possessed by the British troops only accommodate two. Moreover, those of the British are very heavy and without springs; consequently when moving over rough ground, the jolting is very distressing and causes the sufferer a great deal of unnecessary pain. It appears that when Tommy Atkins arrives in India he has one rupee per month stopped out of his pay until 15 rupees have been collected for a coffin. This 15 rupees is invested in the regimental soda water machine, and should he die the machine provides him with a coffin and buries him decently; but should he survive, when he leaves India he receives back his 15 rupees and his share of the profits of soda water. Tooth-Brush Plant of Jamaica. A curious plant is the "tooth brush" plant of Jamaica. It is a species of creeper, and has nothing particularly striking about its appearance. By cutting pieces of it to a suitable length and fraying the ends, the natives convert it into a tooth brush; and a tooth powder to accompany the use of the brush is also prepared by pulverizing the dead stems. The vanity of man is so amazing that when he is past arrogating to himself the attention which is necessary to him as his daily bread he is capable of so demeaning his manhood as to excite interest in his weakness, rather than that he should cease to be the object of any interest whatever.—F. Marion Crawford. 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. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. Dear Sir—I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform principles. That platform stands for such a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such a government will prove a blessing to the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. July 15th, 1898. 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, 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. 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 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. 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Fine hog house and other cutbuildings. 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. Three miles from Geneva Junction, six miles from Lake Geneva. 24 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, 2 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. 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. 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