The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Secretary Seward was so eager and willing to avert war that he was in favor of abandoning Fort Sumter and other Southern forts, as part of a scheme of pacification looking to an amendment of the Constitution in the interest of slavery. The secretary also declared in his letter to W. L. Dayton of April 23, 1861, that "the rights of the States and the condition of every human being in them will remain subject to exactly the same laws and forms of administration whether the revolution shall succeed or whether it shall fail." Secretary C. B. Smith had previously exclaimed in a public speech, that "this is not a war upon the institution of slavery, but a war for the restoration of the Union," and that "there could not be found in South Carolina a man more anxious, religiously and scrupulously, to observe all the features of the Constitution, than Abraham Lincoln." He was very bitterly opposed to the arming of Negroes, to fight for their own freedom, he contended that "it would be a burning disgrace to the people of the free States to call on four millions of blacks to aid in putting down eight millions of whites." Similar avowals were made by other members of Mr. Lincoln's cabinet. Notwithstanding the very strange course which the leaders of the Republican party proposed to persue and the feebleness and indecision of its leaders, the warfare against James Buchanan was never intermitted and it was prosecuted with constantly increasing vigor by the adherents of the Republican party to the very day of his death and even after that, but in time history will prove that James Buchanan was ridiculed and relentlessly vilified by his political opponents for the reason that they desired to cover up their shortcomings and cause their own acts to stand out more prominently. Again it must not be forgotten that at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation calling for 75,000 troops no blacks were wanted, and none were permitted to enlist in the army or to take part in the war until it had lasted almost two years. As the war progressed Mr. Lincoln inaugurated his "Border State Policy" and on all occasions tenderness was shown to slave-holders and to slavery. The commanding generals were requested to capture and return all fugitive slaves to their rebel masters and everywhere "abolitionism" was condemned and denounced by prominent Republicans. Prior to the first battle of Bull Run General Mansfield issued an order declaring "that fugitive slaves would under no circumstances whatever be permitted to reside or be harbored in the quarters and camps of the troops serving in his department" and in order to adhere to his orders, many of his soldiers used the points of their bayonets upon the Colored people who sought the protection of the Federal troops. At the termination of that battle both houses of Congress promptly and with great emphasis declared that "the purpose of the war was not the conquest or subjugation of the Southern people, nor for the liberation of the Negro, but for the preservation of the Union," and that "as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease," but Mr. Lincoln and both houses of congress continued to play with fire regardless of the fact that it was utterly impossible to save the Union without destroying slavery. August 31, 1861, a new war policy was inaugurated by the proclamation of General John C. Fremont, giving freedom to the slaves of rebels in his department, which was greeted by the vast majority of the people of the North and the leading Democratic and conservative papers, as the "Chicago Times," the "Boston Post," the "Detroit Free Press," and the "New York Herald," applauded it. It is said that during the ten days of its life all party lines seemed to be obliterated in the fires of popular enthusiasm, which it kindled." "That the feeling seemed to be universal that the policy of war on peace principles had come to an end." But in the midst of all the rejoicing and general exultation President Lincoln annulled the proclamation because it was at variance with his "Border State Policy" and offensive to the loyal slaveholders. We learn from one of the greatest Democratic orators and statesmen of that time who stood, by Mr. Lincoln from the day he entered the white house, until his remains were layed at rest at Springfield that by "revocating General Fremont's proclamation caused the pro-slavery re-action to follow it. It balked the popular enthusiasm, which was fast drawing along with it multitudes of conservative men. It caused timid and halting men to become cowards outright. It gave new life to slavery, and encouraged fiercer assaults upon abolitionism. It revived and prolonged the conflict and aggravated its sorrows; while it repeated the ineffable folly of still relying upon a policy of moderation and conciliation in dealing with men, who had defiantly taken their stand outside of the Constitution and laws, and could only be reached by the power of war. Chicago has no more enterprising and go ahead business man than Barney Benson the house and fire wrecker and mover of all kinds of heavy machinery. He also makes a specialty of erecting smoke stacks, cupolas, monuments, hoisting and placing all kinds of beams and girders for architectural work. In the busy season Mr. Benson very often works 150 to 200 ment. He gives constant employment to from 10 to 15 Colored men, which shows that he is a wide gauged and liberal minded Democrat. For he belongs to the party of Thomas Jefferson and that is one of the reasons why he believes in advertising in The Broad Ax. Mr. Benson has many friends who on account of his great business ability would like to see him become one of the Commissioners of Cook County. Some of the would-be leaders of the Colored Democracy are very much put out because we have given L. A. Newby candidate for County Commissioner a little more publicity than the others. But we desire to inform them that Mr. Newby so far is the only one professing to be a Democrat who has manifested the slightest disposition to assist in helping to increase the circulation of the Broad Ax. Shortly after we began its publication here, he in person went with us to the City Collector, F. X. Brandecker; Dr. A. R. Reynolds, Health Commissioner; E. B. Ellicott; City Electrician, John J. Harkins and others and Mr. Newby informed these gentlemen that The Broad Ax was published in the interest of Democracy among the Colored people and each one of them upon his recommendation paid their regular subscription to it. Hence The Broad Ax is halfway friendly to L. A. Newby. The members of the Colored Democratic League met at the South end Dancing Academy, 3347 State street, Sunday, and they consumed all the time from 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 7 in the evening in endeavoring to elect a President nad Secretary. Evidently they must of had a monkey and parrot time. In the wind-up Mr. S. A. T. Watkins was chosen as President and R. B. Cabbell was retained as Secretary. Sunday, June 10, they will re-assemble at the same place to select the remainder of the officers and to elect delegates to the Colored Democratic State League Convention, which will convene at Springfled June 26. The leaders of the Democratic party of Sangamon county, this state, believe in encouraging Negro Democracy. They have one serving as Deputy Sheriff and three are members of the County and City Central Committees. They take an active interest in all the affairs of the party and participate in all of its conferences. It was largely through their influence that turned the tide in 1898 in favor of Hon. B. F. Caldwell, who publicly states that without the Negro vote, he would have been elected to Congress. CHICAGO. JUNE 2. 1900. It is unnecessary to enter into a long rigmorow to relate the career of Adam Ortseifen in the business world. He was born in Germany some forty odd years ago, and came to Chicago when he was in his teens. Engaged in a small way in painting and decorating, and by hard work and strict attention to business, he soon succeeded in forging ahead. Some years ago he became associated with the McAvoy Brewing Company and after serving in various capacites, for his keen business sight and generalship he was selected vice president and general manager of the company in the early 90s and he still diligently Adam Ortseifen, Chicago's honored choice for [Name] Adam Ortseifen, Chicago's honored City Treasurer and Cook County's choice for Governor. discharges all the duties in connection called civilized or uncivilized countries with his responsible position. in the world. From his youth Mr. Ortseifen has affiliated with the Democratic party. He has liberally contributed of his means to further its cause. He never sought office. But in the spring of 1899 its leaders called upon Mr. Ortseifen to become its candidate for City Treasurer. He responded to the call, and since he assumed the duties of that office, he has conducted it to the entire satisfaction of all the people of this great city. At the earnest solicitations of his tried and true friends and the leaders of Cook County, Mr. Ortseifen has decided to seek in an honorable way the nomination for Governor and we confidentially believe that if he is nominated and elected he will give the people of Illinois a good clean business administration such as we have not had in many years past and such as we will not have in many years to come. In conclusion, we desire to say to the credit of Mr. Ortseifen that he is kind and generous and considerate with all he comes in contact, and we take pleasure in speaking these few words in his behalf: Joseph A. McInerney has recently fitted up a very fine suite of law-offices on the seventh floor of the Chicago Opera House Blk. Mr. McInerney is doing a rushing business, and some of his clients are composed of many of our best Colored citizens. The Afro-American of Madison, Ark., which is profusely illustrated with the cuts of a number of Jack-leg preachers. Without the least modisty reproduced one of our entire articles on "The Political Parties and the Negro" without giving The Broad Ax or any other source credit for the same. We admire brass, but the outfit running The Afro-American seems to have tons of it in their possession. ```markdown ``` ENGLAND AND THE NEGRO. Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell who claims to hail from South Africa, has been lecturing at various places during the Methodist Conference here on "The War in South Africa". The Boers, their treatment of the Negro and the relation which England has sustained to him, and one would think by reading after Bishop Hertzell or hearing him speak that England has always been the friend of the Negro. But such is not the case, and if there is any truth in history, it shows, than England has accumulated more money or wealth by buying and selling Negroes or Slaves than all the other so City Treasurer and Cook County's Governor. called civilized or uncivilized countries in the world. We cannot give a minute description of the African Slave trade and the relation which England sustained to it. But suffice it to say that from 1626 to 1664 Queen Elizabeth, the Stuarts and many English Lords, noblemen and ministers of the Church of England were patrons and partners of Slave vessels. They advanced money for outfits and received their proportion of the profits. In 1669 an agreement was entered into, between England and Spain, whereby the English obtained the complete monopoly of importing slaves from Africa to the West Indies and America and in thirty years England brought over one hundred and forty-four thousand slaves to this country and sold them to the highest bidders for cash and merchandise. Queen Anne and her highly enlightened christian subjects received three fourths of the profits, and Phillip V. the christian ruler of Spain one fourth. At the solicitations of Messrs. Talbot and York, the solicitors of the British Crown or for Queen Anne induced the Lord Chief Justice of England to render an opinion to the effect, that Negroes or slaves, were nothing more than other species of merchandise, and he was the first Chief Justice in the world to place Negroes on the same footing with animals. After that decision and until 1808, England and a few other nations kidnapped and stole over forty million human beings from Africa. Those poor unfortunate creatures were driven to the seacoast, where they were marked and loaded on vessels to be shipped to the various portions of christendom. They were packed on the lower decks like herring in a cask. They often refused to eat. Then the Englishmen forced open their mouths with an instrument known in surgery as speculum oris, and by that contrivance, they were made to eat against --- 1 their will, still many of them would not do so, and sulked themselves to death, and whenever they were indulged with an airing on deck, thousands of them jumped overboard into the raging sea, as they sank beneath the waves, they waved their hands in triumph at having made their escape. So far Bishop Hartzell has failed to aquaint his hearers with the fate of the Negroes who fell into the arms of the English troops at the close of the Revolutionary war in this country. It appears that Lord North and the other leaders of the English troops promised to liberate all the slaves who would fight on the side of Great Britain, but instead of doing so, the English soldiers after they were defeated forcibly captured thirty thousand Negroes who had assisted them and loaded them on board of vessels and shipped them to the West Indies where they were exchanged for rum, molasses, fruit and sugar. That was another case of Englands great (?) love for the Negro. One of England's greatest historians informs us, that dogs and horses now receive more and better protection in the British Dominions, than Negroes received in the last century that infidel France liberated all the slaves in her colonies in 1794, and that christian England did not set the slaves in her possessessions free until 1839 or 1840 and to the very last she was actively engaged in the African slave trade. Slavery still exists on British soil in a form similar to that which is in existence in the Hawaiian Islands and it receives the official sanction of the British government. Some two years ago, 200,000 inhabitants of South Africa, known as the Beckwana were disposed of by England, in other words she sold them for the cold cash. She decided to open a slave market at Cape Town and the natives were brought there in batches of some 200 at a time, and sold for periods of five years, to those who wished cheap labor. Able-bodied men were sold for ten shillings a month or $2.50. Women and youths brought 7 and 6 pence a month or $1.87. All the money derived from the sale of these blacks has gone into the British treasury. Some claim and Bishop Hartzell among that number no doubt, that all the foregoing is not an evidence of England's hostility to the blacks, that it is a sign of her friendship and that it is done for the advancement of civilization and Christianity. But we do not believe it. For since the dawn of history, England's strong arm has always been raised against the weak and the defenseless and she has always delighted to crush out the rights and the liberties of the weaker races and nations under the iron heel of tyranny and oppression. The guns of her soldiers have never been raised on the side of the struggling masses, but in favor of the classes, she favored the South as against the North during the war of the rebellion, for the reason that she wanted to buy cheap cotton, which was produced by slave labor. Within the last thirty years, she has deliberatly and in cold blood murdered almost thirty million human beings, belonging to the dark skined races, and yet, our Colored ministers and Bishop Hartzell would fain make us believe that all this has been accomplished for the glory of God and in the interest of the religion of the cross. If so, then we take pride in the fact of being a heathen from heathensville. How has England treated the natives of India? Does not her aristocracy own and control the greater portion of the land there, and do they not exact an extortionate rent from the natives for the same, which is payable in wheat and other products? Hence they are starving to death by the thousands. What shall we say of her treatment of those sturdy men and women of the Green Isle? Has it been fair and just? We think not. The Boers may not treat the native blacks right. But they are no worse than England. We suppose that Bishop Hartzell accounts for all these things the same as John Weseley the founder of his church accounted for earthquakes, when he insisted, that "they were produced by the wickedness of men and the only way to prevent them was for every body to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." NO. 32. LOOK OUT FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE BROAD AX. IT WILL BE RED-HOT. Last Sunday closed the season of The Men's Sunday Forum, and it will not reopen until the 3d Sunday in September. Mrs. L. A. Davis her mother, Mrs. S. J. Lindsey and Mrs. Battles visited the Amanda Smith Orphan Home at Harvey on Decoration day, and a pleasant trip was reported. Alderman Thomas Carey, is being urged to enter the Congressional race in the 2d district. He stands away up with The Broad Ax and if he enters the race, it will be with him. Lawyer Albert Sharffner who is a possible candidate for the Legislature from the 3d district, has become well established in his profession, and has nicely fitted up rooms in the Unity Bldg. Justice John Fitzgerald, of the old Town of Lake, ought to be in line for a Superior Court judgeship nomination. The Justice is all right and he knows how to mix mercy and justice together. Thos. Byrne, Esq., has been working very hard lately to get everything in ship-shape order in the 30th ward before the primaries and he has now succeeded in getting all the machinery in thorough working order. Henry McDonald, of 3234 Wentworth avenue, is one of the saddle-horses of Democracy of the 5th ward. He is an up-to-date business man, kind and generous to the poor, friendly to the Afros-Americans, and The Broad Ax would like to see him honored with the nomination for County Commissioner. Mayor Hogan of Geneva did not succeed in getting Hon. Samuel Alschuler's gubernatorial headquarters at the Sherman House open until Thursday morning and they have been crowded each day by the big leaders of the party. Mayor Hogan feels highly encouraged over the situation and believes that he has a dead cinch on landing Mr. Alschuler. Cigars, which are furnished free by Theodore Nelson, and ice water is always on tap for the newspaper men. The Democratic party of Illinois is blest with plenty of good material for Governor, including among the number Gen. Alfred Orendorff of Springfield, ex-vice-President A. E. Stevenson of Bloomington, Hon. Chas, K. Ladd of Kewanee, Hon Samuel Alschuler of Aurora, Judge Worthington, Peoria, Mayor Carter H. Harrison and Adam Ortseifen of Chicago. All of these favored Sons of Democracy are eminently capable of occupying the Governor's chair. The weather is as uncertain as the age of a woman between thirty and forty. The war tax on cigars may end in smoke, but the tax on whisky will be kept still. The milk of human kindness is often churned before being dispensed by the well-bred. Time tells on a man—but he doesn't seem to care just so it doesn't tell his wife. The best way to remove superfluous hair is to send your well-filled mattress to be done over by a tricky upholsterer. The wind may be rude during the winter months, but it always turbs over a new leaf with the advent of spring. A good book and a good woman are excellent things for a man who can appreciate their value, but too many men judge both from the beauty of their covering—Chicago News. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A man's heart is generally where his old shoes are. A man never accomplishes much till he has got something behind him to be ashamed of. A good many husbands get their only view of their wives' new Easter bonnets while they are in the jackpot. The average woman thinks most about her soul and next about her husband and which side to part her pospadour on. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Parmenors, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of l'chor, Includes, Normons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. CANADA HELPS FISHERMEN. Canada has established refrigerators for the storage of fresh bait in cooperation with associations of fishermen along the coast. Complaint arises season after season that bait is scarce just when it is most urgently needed, yet such bait can, as a rule, be obtained in abundance early in the season when the men are not in need of it. An appropriation of $25,000 has enabled the department of agriculture to remedy the difficulty. The dominion government assists the fishermen's bait association to the extent of 50 per cent of the cost of building the freezers and by the payment of a portion of the cost of operating the freezers. Each local association is required to receive, freeze and store for each shareholder a quantity of bait up to 400 pounds for each share held and to furnish it during the fishing season as it is needed. Each fisherman pays a nominal charge for freezing and storage and the association has the option of storing surplus bait and of disposing of it on terms agreed upon by the association. AFTER THE ICE TRUST. AFTER THE ICE TRUST. The attorney general of New York, after examining the briefs and arguments in the case, has concluded to take action against the American Ice Company, alias the ice trust. As the corporation is a foreign one, organized under the Maine laws and doing business in New York under a certificate, proceedings will be instituted for the revocation of this certificate and the exclusion of the company from the state. Of course, it must be shown that the company is guilty of violation of the state law. It must be convicted of a conspiracy in restraint of trade and competition. It must be proved a party to an agreement or combination for the purpose of engrossing and monopolizing business to the public detriment. The mere increase of the price of ice, however unwarrantable, is not a crime in the eye of the law. The increase is only criminal. when the result of a deliberate agreement to plunder the public. PLANS FOR A NEW WHITE HOUSE. It is generally conceded by all persons who have examined the subject that the government must soon build a new house for the President. The building that has been occupied by the chief magistrate of the nation for nearly one hundred years is inadequate and unsatisfactory. It is neither convenient for the occupants nor attractive in appearance. Congress has taken the first practical step toward housing the President in a manner suitable to his high office by authorizing the President to appoint a commission to report upon plans for the improvement of the White House and for the treatment of that part of Washington lying between it and the Potomac River. After protracted debate the Reichstag has passed the bill excluding American canned meats, sausages and sausage meats from the German market, and it is expected that the measure will pass the Bundesrath and become a law. On the items named, of course, this is a triumph for the Agrarian party and a blow to the export trade of American packers. But when one comes to count up the actual damage done it is not so serious as might be supposed. Canned meats and sausage meats are far from being the most important items in our German provision trade. Lard and bacon are much more important and these are untouched by the bill. THE BREVET BANK Every sane military thinker will hope that the list of names of some six hundred army officers recently announced for brevet rank will be allowed to sleep peacefully for all time in the pigeonhole where it has been placed by the Secretary of War. Brevet rank in the United States army has come to be as meaningless a thing as is the prefix "Hon.," which is tacked on to his name by nearly every American civilian who rises to the dignity of poundmaster in his native town.—Chicago Tribune. METHODIST ITINERANCY. The rule limiting a Methodist pastor's stay in one charge has been in force so many years that its abolition by the general conference will seem a startling innovation even to many Methodists. In fact, the church has simply returned to its own earlier practice and again made the pastor's tenure entirely dependent on the bishop's judgment. A Methodist preacher may now remain in one church all his life if successive bishops believe the interests of religion are served by --- OUTINGS ARE NECESSARY. Change Is at Once Bestful to Women and Good for Women. When your nerves are taut and rough-edged and axar, when you know that, though your family and friends may excuse you and give the trouble some softer name, you are simply unbearably perverse and as cross as a fretful baby, do not resort to drugs. A fatal error of many a woman is to try this soothing powder, that alleviating pill, the other persuasive potion, and float out on the fulling waves of sleep into a sea of beautiful dreams. Neither stimulants affording a temporary crutch nor narcotics with their transient and delusive aid should be taken by women on their own suggestion, or taken at all, except when ordered by a trustworthy physician. Try change. More immediately restful than any other step you will find an ocean voyage. Marvelous is the tonic of the sea. Once cut loose from the land, from the mails, from your friends, from domestic cares for a week's or a month's voyage, you are without your own effort or volition made over into a new creature. A mother hesitates to leave her children, not realizing that occasionally the best gift she can bestow upon them is her absence. Everlastingly at home, one's horizon narrows; one loses the sense of perspective. Dear as children may be, so unutterably dear that to lay down one's life for them would be easy, there are times when the dictate of unselfish love is not to die for them, but to live for them, and to live not a half-toned, sighing, fluttering existence, but a large, wholesome and rejoicing life. If the wearied woman can compass an ocean trip she will find nothing in nature's wide pharmacopoeia more successful in uplifting her from her slough of despond, says Harper's Bazar. Everybody can not afford a prolonged jaunt, and many women, looking at the meager purse from which the means for travel must be extracted, shake mournful heads at the mere hint of going away from home. Everybody can manage a day's outing, and whether our home be in town or country a little resolution, a little previous planning and a decided acceptance of the worth while of endeavor will start us on the journey. The thing to do is to take the road. We may have the big carryall brought to the door, the horses harnessed, the good man on the seat and the back of the carriage filled with picnic baskets and presents for mother and Aunt Jane, and off we may start to try being girls again at home. UGLY GIRL'S ADVANTAGE. As an Actress Her Merit Is Acknowledged. To a beginner with any serious ambition, beauty gives her a prominence which her inexperience and incomplete art can not justify, and when, with years of hard work, her latent talents reach their dramatic fulfillment, her recognition as an artist is likely to be much more grudgingly given, because, forsooth, a beauty, and therefore, presumably, a fool, says Maxine Elliott in Leslie's Weekly. "The ugly girl, who begins her career at the same time, possessing no more ability than the beauty, has the advantage of working out her salvation in comparative obscurity—that is, she has no unfavorable impressions to efface from the public mind, because it has never noticed her struggling up, step by step, in the same little parts the beauty played with more or less adverse comments. "Finally, the chance that is worth while comes to the ugly girl when she is properly equipped to take advantage of it, and lo! an artist is recognized, and the credit due her work is given to it. Fools do not whisper in her ear, 'I loved you in the part, you looked so beautiful.' Emphatically, looking beautiful never made an audience love a player, and she can lay the flattering unction to her soul that something better than that brought forth the compliment, even though the giver did not recognize the fact. Beauty is a fact that will not let an actress go far unless supplemented with the temperament, intelligence and industry required. Dispense with beauty altogether, and the last three qualifications mean success." Nepotism in Public Service. An Auburn, Ind., correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that the State Fee and Salary Commission, by the reports it requires from county officers is bringing to light some strange conditions. It has been found that nepotism prevails to an astonishing degree in the county public service in Indiana. The commission will not name the counties, but it does give the instances. In one county the clerk employs his father, his wife and his son as his deputies, and a Recorder has appointed his son and his daughter his assistants on regular salaries. The daughter is said to be the most efficient officer of the three. It is nothing uncommon, the secretary of the commission says, for county officers, particularly clerks and recorders, to employ their wives and daughters to assist them. Several recorders have their wives for deputies, and other clerks have their sons in their employ. The commission has no fault to find with the work done in the offices, it says, and it cannot apply a remedy. It may, however, mention the condition found when it makes its report to the next legislature. The Prompt Encounter "Billy, can you always meet your expenses on time?" "No; but my expenses always meet me on time." Probably the dog didn't want to go into the ark because he had a bark of his own Is a Hundred Years Old and Was Under 15 When He Enlisted—Sixty- Three Years on a Farm Near the Town of Western. One hundred years ago—a life as long as the century—is something that can be said of but a privileged few. Among those to whom such an age can be credited is Hiram Cronk of Dunn Brook, Oneida county, N. Y., and to him belongs the additional honor of being a veteran of the second war with Great Britain, the war of 1812, and, in fact, according to the report of Hon. H. Clay Evans, United States commissioner of pensions, the only veteran of that war on the pension rolls. Mr. Cronk first saw the light of day on April 29, 1800, at a humble home in the town of Frankfort, Herkimer county, N. Y. He came of sturdy Holland Dutch stock, of the family which has become famous through its litigation to regain the Cronk estates in the fatherland. In the early childhood of Hiram the family removed to Wright settlement, about two and a half miles from the city of Rome. There the family lived for about ten years, Hiram attending school and assisting about the "chores" on the farm. From Wright settlement the Cronks migrated to a farm near the town of Western, then practically in the wilderness, and in that vicinity the subject of this sketch has spent the greater part of his life, having, in 1837, purchased about 110 acres of land, on which he erected the house wherein he HIRAM JURAM CRONK HIRAM CRONK. now resides with his only living daughter, Mrs. Sarah A. Rowley. While Hiram was still a beardless youth, and not yet 15 pears old, his spirit was aroused over the issues of the war and he, with his father and two brothers, John and Jeptha, enlisted in the United States army and went to Sackett's Harbor, where he served for about 100 days. Hiram was so young and of such slight build that the other soldiers tried to joke with him, saying that if need be his father could pick him up and carry him to a place of safety. Such an act was, however, unnecessary, for in a skirmish with the British the youthful soldier carried himself so well and with such a military bearing that Capt. Davis, who had command of the troops, said that if he had a regiment of such soldiers he could go into Canada and fight the enemy on their own grounds. For his services Mr. Cronk receives a pension of $8 per month. After the hostilities had ceased the Cronks returned to their home and Hiram took up the trade of an itinerant shoemaker, going about the countryside and repairing the footwear of the people at their own residences. He generally made the trip twice a year, and thus kept the farmers' pedal coverings in condition. At the time of the digging of the Erie canal, Mr. Cronk was employed on the work, and later was employed on the construction of the Black river canal, which joins the Erie canal at Rome. When Marquis de Lafayette visited this country in 1825 he passed through the state on a barge on the Erie and stopped at Rome, Mr. Cronk stating that carpets were spread in the streets for the distinguished guest to walk upon as he landed at the wharf. When 25 years of age Hiram met his fate and married her in the person of Mary Thornton, and for sixty years they lived happily together, her death occurring in 1885. Six children were born to them, five of whom are living, one son having lost his life in the civil war. Of grandchildren and great-grandchildren Mr. Cronk has ```markdown ``` (Rome, N. Y., Letter.) about a score. To reach an advanced age seems to be the rule rather than the exception in the Cronk family. Out of a family of nine children, Hiram being the only surviving one, one sister died at the age of 98, and four brothers at the ages of 75, 59, 93 and 97, respectively. Mr. Cronk is still hearty in appearance, and gets about the house as easily as many men thirty years his junior. He is quite deaf, but his eyesight still remains good, and up to several years ago he could read without using glasses. He is almost constantly chewing tobacco, and has had the habit nearly all his life. Mr. Cronk cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and has continued to vote for the Democratic ticket on down through the years. He is a devout Methodist, and often while in conversation will start out in a fairly clear voice on some old familiar hymn. It gives him special pleasure to have any one listen to his story of his conversion, and it is one well worth the time. He was a suave, diplomatic, quickwitted, daring fellow, was this adjutant. This is how he proved it when he was in Frankfort recently. He was invited to dinner one evening and the invitation had already been accepted, when strict orders were issued, and he found himself confronted with the fact that it would be impossible for him to obtain leave of absence. But the prospect of a dinner served in courses was too much for him to resist, and he finally concluded to pass the pickets, attend the dinner, and then hurriedly return. He arrived at the home of his host without mishap and was ushered into the parlor. "I am so glad that you came," said the host; "you major will be here, and I know that you will en- CRONK. joy your visit." Now if there was one man that the adjutant did not want to meet it was his superior officer, and he was endeavoring to convince his host that it would be impossible for him to stay when the major was announced. The latter advanced to the adjutant, and, after both had saluted, said: "Why, adjutant, you came without the formality of asking for permission, did you not? I supposed you were in camp." The adjutant was taken aback, but only for an instant. Then, with the same salute, he answered: "Major, I came to ask your permission in person." He got it. Buffalo News. "I was at a restaurant out in Arizona once," said a salesman for a well-known revolver corporation, "and was looking over the bill of fare. It gave a better description of some features of the country than a whole volume. For 10 cents you could get some delicious lamb chops and fried potatoes. But bread and butter were extra, while a dish of milk toast was 15 cents. You see that meant that they raise cattle out there for their meat and not for dairy purposes. Milch cows were scarce and dear. But the Chinese broil beefsteak by frying it and then making the marks of the griddle with a red hot poker." From a Scene of War "It makes me shudder," said the Filipino, who, having nothing else to do, was leisurely retreating, "to read about these fights in Kentucky." "Yes," replied his companion, "and these lynchings in Texas." "And these garrotings in Porto Rico." "And these attempted assassinations in Europe." "And other disturbances too numerous to mention. Brother, I sometimes fear that we do not appreciate the benefits of our lot. Truly, this condition called 'peace' must be a fearful thing." The thought of future life cannot be driven from men.—Rev. George P. Perry, Baptist, Troy, N. Y. Adjutant's Ready Answer. An Arizona Hill of Pare METEORIC FAME. LATELY ACCUMULATED BY A MERE INKEBPER. Dopaw's Rival After-Dinner Speaker—Within Six Months Simeon Ford, & New York Hotel Man, Has Made Himself Famous Chauncey M. Depew, whose fame as an after-dinner speaker is world-wide, has a rival in New York city in Simeon Ford, a plain, ordinary, every-day hotel-keeper. He is more sought after in New York today than Mr. Depew himself, in spite of the fact that this new star in the oratorical sky was practically unknown six months ago. It is possible that Mr. Ford's life work has molded him into an after dinner speaker of the first water, for hotels are frequently the scenes of dinner parties. Or is it possible that his business has had nothing to do with the polishing up of his ability to the point where is gleams like a diamond. No one is quite able to say just how it all came about. But come about it has, and New York is proud of the occurrence. Mr. Ford is in charge of the Grand Union hotel, and became interested in that hostelry first in 1883, when he SIMFON FORD SIMEON FORD. married Miss Julia Shaw, daughter of the Grand Union's proprietor. In appearance Simeon Ford is tall and thin, with a solemn face, which he knows full well how to keep under perfect control. He is 43 years of age, and was born in Lafayette, Ind. He studied law for awhile, but his success was poor, and he didn't bother with legal quips and quirks very long. Mr. Ford is the saddest when he is saying the funniest things, and, strange to say, his conversation is just as amusing as his prepared speeches. He is a great deal like Mark Twain in that he excels in the art of humorous anti-climax, and also a great deal like Artemus Ward. The nasal drawl which is the stock-in-trade of every American humorist is his, and he knows how to use it to the very best advantage. Speaking of himself the other day, Mr. Ford said: "I am very nervous for two weeks before making an after-dinner speech. It is a very serious matter with me. You have to study the question about which you are to speak from every side, and it keeps you awake nights thinking of good things to say. "The idea prevails that all an after-dinner speaker has to do is to assume a full-dress suit and slowly rise up when called upon and captivate the audience with wit and eloquence. "If the after-dinner speaker told the truth, he would acknowledge that for two long, sickening weeks his wife and children have been made wretched by listening to recitals, and that he has had suspicions aroused as to his sanity, by muttering it in public places. "It is awful to think that after-dinner speakers are to be brought into competition with living pictures, skirt dancers and Little Egypts. This is a serious matter, and I tell you the people who arrange these programs for after-dinner speeches should not place Chauncey M. Depew in competition with the Barrison sisters. Let a man in a moment of temporary aberration of the mind make a successful after-dinner speech and his peace of mind as well as his digestive organs are irretrievably ruined. Years ago I made a speech, which, surprising as it may seem, was regarded as a model. Up to that time I had been a merry, laughter-loving youth, and carking care rested but little upon my clustering curis. Now look at me—'sicklled o'er with a pale cast of thought.'" Sir G. Warren's Bath. There is something extremely English in the story of Sir Charles Warren "doing trimbics," as Bouncer expressed it, in the open air on the battlefield of Vaal Kranz. Sir Charles, under no circumstances, intermits his morning bath. On the occasion of Buller's last effort to relieve Ladysmith Sir Charles found it impossible to leave his post, so when day broke on the battlefield he ordered his servant to bring his bath with sponge and towel, and then and there, in the open air, Sir Charles Warren, commanding the Fifth division, proceeded to take his bath, sublimely indifferent to the fire of the enemy. The enemy were, perhaps, too much astonished at the British eccentricity of bathing at all, much more of bathing in this extremely public fashion, to attempt any violent interruption.—London Daily News. "Going to the Paris show?" "No, I compromised with my wife, and we're to stay at home and study French."—Philadelphia North American. Morning Is a serious complaint. It's a warning that should be heeded. It is different from an honest tired feeling. It is a sure sign of poor blood. You can cure it by making your blood rich and pure with Hood's Sarsaparilla. That is what other people do-thousands of them. Take a few bottles of this good medicine now and you will not only get rid of that weak, languid, exhausted feeling, but it will make you feel well all through the summer. Tired Feeling-"I had that tired feeling and did not have life or ambition to accomplish my usual amount of household work. Hood's Sarsaparilla gave me relief and also cured a scrofula tendency." MRA R. MERRITT, Dowagiac, Mich. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Best Medicine Money Can Buy. Souvenir Shell's Work. Mrs. Mehitable Luke of Snydertown, near Midland Park, N. J., has been cured of the souvenir craze. She visited friends at Pompton Lakes several months ago. During her stay an explosion took place at the Smith Electrical works, in which six lives were lost. Hundreds of charged fuses were strewn about the countryside, and persons picked up the loaded shells, ignorant that they had not detonated and were very dangerous. Mrs. Luke one morning returned home with a loaded shell in a hand satchel. She believed it harmless, and when her little daughter demanded it as a plaything gave it up with the intention of replacing it later. It was swept by the servant girl into the coal scuttle with refuse, and landed in the kitchen range. The girl was hanging out washing when an explosion wrecked the kitchen and killed the family cat. New York Herald. 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. Personal. Not Mutual. "How solemn the Fitz-Smiths look; I believe they've had a quarrel." "No; perhaps they've only taken off their flannels too soon, and are trying to keep it from each other."—Indianapolis Journal. 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. Wagering on the result of an election in New South Wales is punishable by a fine of from £5 to £50. Do your clothes look yellow? If so, use Maple City Soap. It will make them white again. Sold by all grocers. Don't refuse ungraciously when some one offers to do you a favor. 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. $\frac{1}{4}$ 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. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Grant Good See Poo-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION Priced at $20 each | Purely Vegetable | Grant Good CURE SICK HEADACHE. $5.00 A DAY! We pay $5.00 a day to Man or Woman with rig to introduce our goods in the country. Write International Mfg. Co., Parsons, Kana. PISO'S CURE FOR CHRIES WHERE ALL BLEE TAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Thinest Good. Use in Haze. Sold by Grassle. CONSUMPTION --- MEN TO BRAVE DEATH. THEY GO TO THE DEADLIEST SPOT ON EARTH. England Sends Them to Their Puts—Experiment to Be Tried in the Interest of Science—Hope to Escape Death. The British government has just begun as strange an enterprise as ever was recorded in its history. The other day it sent two men to the deadliest spot on the earth with instructions to stay there all summer and see if it kills them. If they come back unharmed, then the world's most fatal disease next to consumption will be at the mercy of science. If it does kill them—well, the government will pay the funeral expenses and an interesting theory will have to be proved all over again. Dr. Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the colonial office, is engineering the plan. A long time ago he said that a certain brand of mosquitoes BEEBOON DR. PATRICK MANSON. killed more people off by malaria every year than cholera or bubonic plague or any of the other scourges, except consumption. The theory has been proven to the satisfaction of most men of science; but the government wanted to make the proof so thorough and popular that every one could be sure of it and make use of it. Hence this final demonstration. The first step was to find the deadliest inhabited place on the globe. That proved to be the Roman Campagna, where no man can stay on a summer night without contractig malaria. Then, from the London School of Tropical Medicine, recently established by the colonial office, two volunteers were chosen for the mission—Dr. Sambon and Dr. Lowe. And the final step was to build a mosquito-proof house, which the men could take with them, and in which they will stay in the hours when the malaria-bearing mosquitoes are about. If the men can manage to live and keep their health, the case against the mosquito will be considered complete and the government will set about prosecuting the pest throughout British dominion. The Campagna is a stretch of low country some seven miles from Rome, and known to all experts on the subject of disease as the deadliest spot in the world. It consists of a rolling waste of barren soil, dottted with occasional patches of stubbble and with pools of stagnant water that comes from the mountains and volcanic hills round about. Here mosquitoes abound. To compare the mortality of the Campagna with that of other unhealthy places in the world is difficult, because it is practically uninhabited. In the hills live a poor race of folk who raise cattle, and these men come down to the Campagna in the spring and plant crops. It is when they return in the fall to reap their harvest, not a rich one, that they contract the malaria that kills them off in shoals. The two doctors who are to be experimented upon will not be allowed to take quinine or other precautions against illness-only against mosquitoes. They will mix freely with the people in the Campagna,practically all of whom have malaria fever. In Italy 2,000,000 suffer from the disease every year, and of these 15,000 die. In the center of this delectable locality the two volunteers will settle down. It is realized that even though the men come out in health after six months in the wretched place some people will say that they shut out some other cause of malaria in guarding against the mosquito. So they will make another test. They will get some mosquitoes' eggs and raise insects from them. When they are fully grown, 30 or 40 of them will be allowed to bite a malaria patient—one suffering from only a mild form of the disease. Then these insects will be fed on vegetable matter until the germ has been nurtured in their bodies, and they will be sent by mail to England. There is no malaria there. The mosquitoes will arrive hungry, and will be set free in a room where there will be sleeping several students who have never been out of England. If those students actually show symptoms of the disease, the argument will be proved beyond a quibble. The light form of fever that they will exhibit can easily be cured with quinine. 1896 among the governmet servants in the Gold coast. Of 176 European officers, 25 were invalided to Europe, 10 died in the colony and 5 of those invalided died after leaving the colony in consequence of diseases contracted there. Thus, between death and invaliding the services of over twenty-eight per cent. of the colonial officials were lost to the British government. The death rate was about 1 in 10. To Great Britain this means—and will mean to the United States—that owing to death and invaliding two men have to be employed to do the work of one, and that to induce them to accept such employment these two men have each to get double pay. It means that continuity of work and accumulation of experience, which are so necessary for successful administration, are almost impossible. The government is robbed of its best servants just as they are becoming valuable. It can readily be seen, therefore, that the outcome of this experiment in the Italian Campagna means much to England, America and the civilized world at large. CHURCH AND SHOPS. Town Has Unique Combination of Business and Religion. There is probably no stranger place of worship in this kingdom than is to be met within the little country town of Richmond in Yorkshire. Trinity church, which stands in the market place there, is a perfect example of what a church ought to be, as far as the edifice itself goes, says Golden Penny. The nave of the church is actually divided from the tower by a dwelling house, while the chancel has disappeared altogether! The south aisle has been destroyed and in the arches that separated it from the rest of the building there have been inserted windows to give light to the church's nave! But even this desecration—bad as it is—is nothing compared to what the north aisle has suffered, for that has acutely been divided into two stories, and the lower story has been again split up into various tenements, now occupied as shops. Thus the visitor gazes with mingled feeling of wonder and annoyance at the strange spectacle of a tobaccoist, a tailor, a butcher and others carrying on their trades in the house of prayer itself, so to speak. Below, the windows are full of all kinds of merchandise; above, there are the "storied windows rightly light." What a medley! This Trinity church is very old. It goes back at least as far as Norman days. It contains a curious and ancient curfew bell. The part of the church above the shops has in recent years been used as a place for keeping the wills of the north riding and as a consistory court. The visitor may here brood among dusty parchments and documents enough to last him for a lifetime. Strange changes and curious uses has the church been subjected to almost all through its career. For here the sessions used to be held and all business of the corporation was transacted here until 1759. In fact, it would seem that so many secular uses had the church served, even up to that time, that the people had almost forgotten that it was a church at all, since services were not held in it for many years. In the middle of last century it was leased to a barber, and was mentioned as "the waste land of Trinity church." Later, however, proper attention began to be paid to the disgraceful state of affairs respecting it, and the place was restored and again used for service. The shops bring in £100 a year rent. BARRIE IN POLITICS. James Matthew Barrie, whose reputation as the author of "The Little Minister" has become world-wide in extent, is a candidate for election to parliament as the representative of Edinburgh and St. Andrew's universities. Though Mr. Barrie is chiefly 193 JAMES M. BARRIE. known through the work of his pen in the field of letters, he is not without peculiar gifts which specially qualify him for participation in public affairs. He began his career as political editor and leader man on a Nottingham paper. Then he became a London journalist, and was a keen student of politics and parliamentary activity for some years, trumpeting his views on political economy and legislation through the columns of St. James Gazette, the National Observer, the British Weekly and the Speaker. He wrote his first book in 1887, and that was not a novel, but a satire on London life, entitled "Better Dead." The creator of "The Little Minister" is not a tyro in politics. Besides, he is said to be very popular with the university commons. Of late Mr. Barrie's reputation has been considerably enhanced by his two recent creations, "Sentimental Tommy" and "Tommy and Grisell." IN THE LAKE COUNTRY of Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, there are hundreds of the most charming Summer Resorts awaiting the arrival of thousands of tourists from the South and East. Among the list of near by places are Fox Lake, Delavan, Lauderdale, Waukesha, Oconomowoc, Palmyra, The Dells at Kilbourn, Elkhart and Madison, while a little further off are Minocqua, Star Lake, Frontenac, White Bear, Minnetonka and Marquette on Lake Superior. For pamphlet of "Summer Homes for 1900," or for copy of our handsomely illustrated Summer book, entitled "In The Lake Country," apply to nearest ticket agent or address with four cents in postage, Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Old Colony Building, Chicago, Ill. FERTILE COLORADO. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad has just published a second edition of "THE FERTILE LANDS OF COLORADO," which gives a concise description of the vast area of agricultural, horticultural and grazing lands located on its line in the state of Colorado and the Territory of New Mexico, and full information as to the stock interests, the sugar beet industry and farming by irrigation. It is a truthful representation of the numerous and wonderful products of the soil in that portion of the country and is of especial interest to all who are interested in agriculture or kindred pursuits. Copies of this book will be sent free on application to S. K. Hooper, G.P.A., D. & R. G. R. R., Denver, Colo., or any official of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Second Marriages. "Aunt Ann I am surprised to hear you say you are in favor of second marriages. How can you justify them?" "Why, my dear young widow, if your first marriage was a happy one you will never be happy until you are married again. If it was a failure you are entitled to another trial."—Chicago Tribune. WESTFIELD. MASS.. Nov. 27, 1899. THE GENESSEE PURE FOOD Co., Le Roy, N.Y. Gentlemen:—Having used your GRAIN-O for the past three months, I thought I would write and let you know how much good it has done me. When I was away on my vacation last summer, the people I visited asked me to try some GRAIN-O, and I drank some, but I didn't like it at all, but the more I drank it the better I liked it, and now I wouldn't drink anything else. I never weighed over 106 pounds, and last winter I was down to 103 pounds; now I weigh just 120, and I never felt better in my life. It gives me an awful appetite, and makes me strong. It is doing me more good than anything I ever took, and I would recommend it to every- body. Very truly, MRS. GEO. B. BROWN. The Usual Result She (wearily)—My head aches awfully. He—What have you been doing? She—I've been trying to decide whether that bargain I got today at a bargain counter is a bargain or not. The Washington Mutual Mining Investment Co., Mutual Life Bldg., Seattle, Washington, guarantees 6 per cent interest on all investments, and equal participation in profits made in mining in Alaska and elsewhere. Great advantages to small investors. Write for circular. Highest references. An issue of postage stamps will take place in connection with the approaching nuptials of his imperial highness, the crown prince of Japan. Two bars of Maple City Soap will do as much washing as three of any rosin-filled soap and do it better and easier. All grocers. Most outward gains are obtained at the expense of inward losses. ZAEGEL'S SWEDISH ESSENCE A LIFE PRESERVER REGISTERED TRADE MARK. The great blood purifier Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life is to be given away free to readers of this paper. This remarkable medicine has an action that affects the entire system. It tones up the stomach and creates an appetite; works on the liver and has a mild, continuous effect upon the bowels, thus cleaning out the entire system; it makes new, rich blood, regulates the heart and kidneys and rids the body of all waste matter. It also induces a gentle perspiration, thus preventing fevers and congestion. Rheumatism, backache and headache, biliousness and all nervous diseases are rapidly cured, as well as all diseases of women. No one need trouble themselves to doubt whether this remedy will do all these things, for you can have a free trial package first and see what it does for you. Zaegel's Swedish Essence is so well known that probably quite a number of our readers are already using it, but this makes no difference, as a free trial package will be sent to everyone who writes. Do not neglect to get in your application at once. The best way is to sit down this minute, write a letter to M. R. Zaegel & Co., P. O. Box 831, Sheboygan, Wia., 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. IT STANDS TO REASON ers of Vehicles and Harness in the world selling to the consumer exclusively. For 27 years we have conducted business on this plan. We give you better quality for the same money, or the same quality for less money than the dealer, jobber or supply agent. MUST NOT IMITATE CURE. Joseph W. Burgess of the firm of Burgess & Van Horn, chemists, and Harry Lay and W. T. Fuge, barbers, were arraigned in the criminal court at Kansas City, May 2, on the charge of refilling bottles which originally contained Coke's dandruff cure with a spurious article and passing it off for the genuine. They pleaded not guilty and were released on bonds of $500 each to appear for trial May 24. It is understood that other arrests will follow and that the cases now pending will be vigorously prosecuted. Leaves It to Captain. Master-Describe the route you would have to follow to get to the Martinique islands. Pupil-I first proceed to Southampton-."Well, and then?" "Then I go on board a steamer, and leave the rest to the captain, who knows the way much better than I do."-London Tit-Bits. "This is the time," said an archdeacon, when the clergy were going in to luncheon, "to put a bridle on our appetites." "Yes," said Dr. Randall Davidson, bishop of Winchester, "this is the time to put a bit in our mouths." 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. She—I heard about the elopement. Has her mother forgiven them? He—I think not. I understand she has gone to live with them.—Collier's Weekly. 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. A Boston woman sued a Roxbury hotel keeper because, she alleged, she caught pneumonia owing to lack of heating and recovered $1,000. Those who use Maple City Self Washing Soap will usually have no other kind, because it does better work and does it easier. Sold by all grocers. It is more difficult and calls for higher energies of soul to live a martyr than to die one.—Horace Mann. $20.00 A WEEK AND EXPENSES toagents selling our household goods. Sell on sight. Write C. H. Marshall& Co., Chicago. Trifles are the hinges upon which the door of opportunity swings. If You Have Dandruff please try Coke Dandruff Cure. Money refunded if it fails. At Druggist's, $1.00. Don't dress shabbily in the morning because no one will see you. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Charleston is to have an exposition in the fall of 1901. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Worth $4 to $6 compared with other makes. In lored 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 25c. extra for carriage. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAY'T treatment FREE. DR. H. L. GREKK'S SON. Box K. Atlanta, Ga. IT STAN No. 600—Cut under surrey; has long distance axlee, brass bushed rubber head springs, broad cloth trimmings, lamps, curtains, sun-shade, pole or shatters; same as retails for $50 to $75 more than our price. Our price, $110. exclusively. For 27 years we l for the same money, or the sa No. 707—Extension Top Surrey with double fender, lamps, curtaina, storm apron, pole or shafte; is as fine as retails for $30 more than our price. Our price, $90. Elkhart Carriage Pleasantly and economically is afforded by the tourist tickets on sale via the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. on and after June 1st. Chautauqua Lake, Niagara Falls, are among the more important points reached. Summer edition of "Book of Trains" showing specimen tours will be of interest in arranging for your trip. Sent free on application to F. M. BYRON, G. W. A., 144 Van Buren Street, Chicago. Bank Stock Owned by Women. The amount of national bank stock held by women in America is estimated at $120,000,000 and the amount of private and state bank stock, at $137,000,000. In Venice the electric launch is rapidly displacing the gondola and the steamboat. Hall's Catarrh Care Is taken internally. Price, 750. Each act has a moral gravitation like the power that finds planets. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wind colic. Be a bottle. Charity does not consist in calling error truth and truth error. When All Else Fails. Try Yi-Ki. Cures Corns and Bunions without pain. Never falls. Drug stores or mail 15c. Yi-Ki Co., Crawfordsville, Ind. A covetous heart is like Pharoah's lean kine, it devours all. 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. The devil has a mortgage on every boy who smokes. Luxuriant hair with its youthful color assured by using PARKEN'S HATE BALSAM. HINDERCOORNS, the best cures for corns. 15cts. We never miss the water till the well runs dry. Send for "Choice Recipes," by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass, mailed free. Mention this paper. Too much of one thing is good for nothing. Manlove Self Opening Gata, Catalog free. Manlove Gate Co., Milton, Indiann. A scrap of intelligence—a literary debate. N. K. Brown's Essence Jamalca Ginger never falls to give satisfaction. It's a long lane that has no turn. NONE SUCH Nothing hobbles the muscles and units for work like SORENESS and STIFFNESS Nothing relaxes them and makes a speedy perfect cure like St. Jacobs Oil LEV J. THOMPSON & SONS MFG. CO. Box 501. BELOIT, WIS. AN OPPORTUNITY TO Pleasantly and economically is afforded via the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Chautauqua Lake, Niagara the St. Lawrence River and the Atlantic Coast are among the more important points "Book of Trains" showing specimen to your trip. Sent free on application to Remedies For disorders of the feminine organs have gained their great renown and enormous sale because of the permanent good they have done and are doing for the women of this country. If all alling or suffering women could be made to understand how absolutely true are the statements about Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound, their sufferings would end. Mrs. Pinkham counsels women free of charge. Her address is Lynn, Mass. The advice she gives is practical and honest. You can write freely to her; she is a woman. $2500 MACKINAC ISLAND AND RETURN FROM CHICAGO—Meals and Berth. Included—on Steamship Georgia. 7 DAYS TRIP on the Water stopping on route at 16 different ports. Leaves CHICAGO 8:30 P. M. SATURDAY, via Se - WITH THE BLECTRICIANS. 5 Ss pen et copie donna ge team 2 , ho person bas ever committed ‘Suicife by vetuntary contact with an » Tine A telephone line bas recently been extended from Bomba, the capital of the Free State, to the mouth of the Kiva river, about 450 miles. “Whe firs. clecttic rutway car ever eperated in Sastingo de Chili went over the lines on April 1 successfully. a. in the incident is said & ‘Deen Keen. “A “new automatic electric safety ‘lock signal, which will stop a train ‘without the assistance of the engineer or motorman, is now being introduced. Ht is-applicable t0’any style of mdtive power. ‘According to Electricity, work on the cable between Emden, Germany, end New York began on May 1. The German government has given the company 2 sufficient guarantee to war- vant the work, and the contract was fet to a London company. The cable etti conch New-York brug. 1. The Bilectric Railway company of Berlin, Germany, has placed in serv- fee am electrically operated bearee, ‘with compartments for mourners and @rfends. The charge for the use of ‘the car ts about $5. The object of the company car is said to be to lessen ‘the cost of burials for the poorer classes. “The Caracas Construction company of Mew Jersey is transforming the present horse tramways of Caracas, Venesuela, into electric trolley lines. ‘The company will also build an elec- tric plant to supply the city with electric lights. The power house will be constructed at Macuto, seven miles from Caracas. THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE. Many & man comes withip an ace of eeing one. Vested rights are often only inveter- ete: wrongs.—indianapolis News. Persous who boast of their biue blood are often distinguished by red moses. The wire trust has cut its prices 98 per cent. This will, no doubt, aid im the building of some political plat- form. Policeman (to the messenger on a ‘Blorele after dark)—Hi, there! You'll ‘have to light up that lamp. And the ®oy lit up the street. “Haste not, rest not!” which being Snterpreted means either, if you do not “hasten ‘there will be no rest for you; ‘@, if you do not rest you will be un- @bie'to make haste. Again it is asserted that Paderewski is growing bald. And such an afflic- tion, added to the fact that he hms lost, through marriage, much attraction to the matinee girl, somebody is going to discover before long that he can’t olay. » There is nothing more touching than the devotion of lawyers to a precedent, mO matter how old or musty, or how different the conditions of society that produced it. A precedent is a prece- Gent, and it is a bold judge who will @eliberately defy it, while learned counsel will defend it to all lengths. TEN HEALTH COMMANDMENTS 1. Don't leave your rooms in the morning with an empty stomach. 2 Never expose yourself to cold air fmmediately after you have partaken ot 4 warm liquid of any kind. 2%. Don't leave your abode in cold ‘weather without warm wraps around yout shoulders and breast. 4 Begin respiration in the cold by Sreathing through the nose. This will give the air a chance to get warm be- fore reaching the lungs. 6. Never place your back near a ‘heate@ oven or against a wall, warm or “eold. %., Don't stand before an open win- ow: ia o railway. carriage, nor take a ‘Gtive in an open carriage after violent plysicsl exercise. ~ ‘J. Don't remain motionless in a cold room, ané do not stand in an open pace, on ice or snow. ®& “Talk only when you must, for the old phrase, “Speech is silver, si- “hence is gold,” holds good ‘even in hygiene. win the shine ot ape ah a _the skin -is not kept fresh and = cold draws the pores-together \Fou-are rendered susceptivie to ee pn ans nes ane « “a Don't retire with cold or wet dest. Nothing. prevents sleep with so smapch certainty 2s the neglect of your | eseane Don't Eat Meat. «here is no native market in Korea » st, any consequence for foreign meats, dard-or pork stuffs. The diet of the aatiyes consista chiefly of rice, with _frésh_ or salt vegetables, fish—which ee nese sere . ‘Marta Hartmana. of Berlin, ane r @ book im which be poiuts Sut @ poticenble inteliectus! renats- ) im the Mohammedan world as ~- eg ‘We woar away two-inches of shoe eathe: yeas ebet t te taap THR BROAD ax. | * Published Weekly, wit! promuigate ‘ead at all times uphold ‘Nt tre pria- ‘ciples of Democracy, bu Catholics, ‘Provestants, priests, infidels, farmers single taxers, Republicans, Knights of ‘Labor, or any one else can have their say, as long as their language is prop- er and responsibility is fixed. ‘The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever ‘claiming the editorial right to speak ts own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. : ‘Subscriptions must be paid im ad- vance. Advertising rates made known on apptication. Address all communica- tions to . THE BROAD AX, 5040 Armour avenue. Chicage. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor,Assistant Editor. | (Enkered at the postoflice, Chicage, TIL, as second class matter.) Calcago, Sept. 16, 1598. ‘Wr. Jalius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax Dear Sir—I am giad to learn of the ‘work that is being done by your paper fm behalf of Chicago platform prin- ciples. That platform stands tor such @ government as Jefferson ané Lincoln favored, namely, 8 government ef the people, for the people and by ‘the’ people, “and“I believe that such & government will prove a blessing te the great majority of the people. Yours truly, - Ww. J. Bryan. euly soa, Loe. Te whom it may concern: Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this eity well recommended, has begun the publication of “The Broad Ax,” which, I em informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankind tm general. While he ts thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty suppert of ali loyal and true friends of Demoe- macy. Respectfully, Carter H. Harrisea. Headquarters of Demosratic State Cen- tral Committee of Illinois, Shermat House, Chicago, Oct, Sth, 1899. ‘To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius F Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—a pub- ieation of this city devoted to the in- terests of the democratic party, and an able exponent of democratic princi- ples—comes to us highly recom- menéed, and I therefore take pleasure im commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. ‘ Respectfully, Walter Watson. Chairman Detocratic State Central Cammitgee of Illinois. ss NOTICE. All friends and readers of The Broad Ax, who } ave relatives or friends vis- iting 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 bear 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 ttems 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 réceptions and Gesire that the same Bhould receive mention, send invitations er tickets and a representative of The Broad Ax will endeavor to be on hand, otherwise Bo one should, marvel, if they ‘fail to observe a notice in The Broad Ax. . Ladies of culture know that the Original Osonized Ox Marrow is’ the parent ant eet centr an zee ‘the hair and make it pliable and beau- ‘tiful. Sold over forty years and has ‘Rever disappointed the most fastidi- ous. Try a bottle and you will appre- ciate its auperiority. Only 60 cents per bottle at druggists. Beware of imitations.The genuine and original is made only by Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago. FoR sALE A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elisabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh. Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further informa- tion address Julius F. ‘Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue, : iM AGENTS WANTED. "Tht Broad 4x desires to secure active eens 8 a5 toms of the country. Liberal commis- soos will bs paid. - Por terms and ie eee Nee eee Br - Reswence, 954 Turner Ave. : Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Biock. S W. Corner Clark and-Weskington Su. | TELerunns Mam 1782. | TEL. HARRISON St. : Thomas F. Scully, Attorney at Law, 70 Clark Street, - - - CHICAGO. | Room 14 SOHNE, OWENS | Attorney at Law, | Sorrs 621 AsHLAND BLocx, BOS. Clark Street, - - CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2625.—— ‘Tatarzows 613 Yaups. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4338 Dearborn Street, camicago. Hours: 6-10 a. m., 24,68 p.m. ‘Telephone 185 South. Dr. Anna R. Cooper, PRACTICE LIMITED # # ‘TO DISEASES OF WOMEN aa on CHICAGO DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. nen, geen fee .6018 Fifth Avenue, Chicago firs. J. W. Ward, MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR Thorough lessons given upon the piano at Studio or priv- ately. ‘Ferms reasonable. 3341 State St., Chicago. CANDY.... Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for lbc., 25c. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes, suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. MRS. LAURA DAILEY. FURNISHED ROOMS PORSTRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good eccommodstions. 606 State Bt, 24 floor, Chicage, Ll Room 28. Z HORSES. We pay the highest prices for horses for killing purposes. Will call. Telephone South 1005. McDONALD, _ 3234 Wentworth ave. P. J. FLYNN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HARD and SOFT COAL WOOD AND KINDLING YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R: Branch Office, 5801 Wentworth av. FOR SALB OR EXCHANGE. Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicasp, %mile from railroad stations. Fius grove 15 acres surround- ing buildings, which consist of 8-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chicken house and poultry yard. Fine hog house and other outbuildings. 85 acres im 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. 4 If-you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. 4 ACRE FARM FOR SALE. Three miles from Geneva Junctioa. etx miles from Lake Geneva. ' 4 acres in Walworth county, lies all im cultivation, good house, barn and outbildings, 20 head milch cows. 36 head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys, 6@ ducks, 2 hear horses, all farming tools and this years.crops, - ; Price $75 per acre. Cfops"last year over $1,200 net. Crop this year over $1,600. Sell cream $5 per day now. "If you desire to purchase this ele- pe dass neat Ip seins The Broe@ Ax |)lClCtt™!t”” Setephane Yards Bete bisebet 56°7 JOHN. J. DUNN, Se Goal - and - Wood, Sist Strest and Armour Avenue... | Resttonen eo —_—_—_—_—_—_——_ 2. ¥. Kuurr, 5553 Green St. ‘Tel. Yards as KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery, 5436 SOUTH HALSTED ST- ee Siren ts sonueng c.J.BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-itter Snacetue Guinge sso Telephone Yards 14. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. ‘Gelephone Yards 171 Residences, 118 Garfield Ba, JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: 4787 6. HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO —_—— H.C. McINTOSH, cook COUNTY JUSTICE... a HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE - - - - _2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. «++. TELEPHONE SOUTH 382... —E—EE THE FALSE STAR. The agitation of the Mormon ques- tion has naturally aroused some inter- est in the minds of all classes of people throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, on Utah and the Mormons. The latest literary contribution in that di- THE FAuse Star By AD Gane rection is “The, False Star,” by A. D Gash, which deals with Mormonism in all of its ramifications. We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and selis for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere, Address all com- munications te Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. GOLD WATCd FREE. Anyone sending us ten yearly sub- scribers to The Broad Ax, or 20 sub- scribers for six months, we will pre- sent them with this besutiful gold- filled watch, fitted with New York standard movement, and warranted for five years, either ladies’ or gents’. g ) v~ This is a splendid opportunity to catch on if you desire to obtain a goid wate free. In all cases the cash mest aecompany the list of subscribers. Send for sample copies of The Broad Ax, So to work and earn 8 watch. Address ‘The Broad Ax, 5048 Armour are, Chi- cago, Tb ie. +t a. pet eee Se Oe be nd Ce vr Hon. W. J. Bryan’s Book | ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon W. J. Bryan's new book should correspond in, An account of his campaign tour. . | His biography, , written by his wife . , , The results of the campaign of 1896, ; A review of the political situation . , ® AGENTS WANTED < Mr. Bryan has announced his intention of devoting one-half of all royalties to furthering the cause of bimetallism. There are already indications of an eno, mous sale. Address W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Publishers, © 341-351 Dearborn St....CHICAGO. BARNEY BENSON, House and Fire Wrecker MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monumeny Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. | Office, 31 South Cana! St., Chicago, TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. INSURE IN _|...The Mutual Reserve Fund Life or Hew Work... OVER $41,000,000 PAID IN LOSSES. Insurance for the Protection of the family at actual cost E. P. Barry, M’g’r. Juuius F. Tartor, Special Agt. 410 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St. 6040 Armor Ave. Citizens Brewing inane ta Potties athe Ree “ies [chews cont az Buy Direct From THe Factory SS — Honest mactnes at Honest prices STE DEED os) — — er iin | Our machines om the Ve x GaN St, our prices the —_ lowest- eetha Hi mi Acs Macmmes Cuamameta rom 0 Yess iN ESPEEECI\Y, WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOOUE ye) cacaco MACHINE 6. Honest . 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