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THE BROAD AX VOL. V. THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE NEGRO XVIII The Confiscation Act, which was enacted by Congress the latter part of August, 1861, was in line with all that had gone before it, in reference to slavery. Section 3 of that act was only intended to "free the slaves employed against the government by the rebels in their military operations," and it was criticised by its opponents as an attempt to "bribe the slaves to fight against the North and not in its favor." For if they engaged in the war at all, they were compelled to do so as enemies of the government; but if they remained on their master's plantations and assisted in raising provisions for the rebel armies, they would have the protection of both the loyal and the confederate governments. So the policy of both parties to the great struggle was thus subordinated to the protection of slavery. Secretary of War Simon Cameron, however, pretended that he favored an anti-slavery war policy but that was false, for at that very same time he ordered General Halleck to restore to her master a slave girl who had fled to the camp of Colonel Brown of the Twentieth Indiana, who had refused to give her up, and after the order from Secretary Cameron, the girl was returned to her Christion master. President Lincoln in his message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1861, deprecated "radical and extreme measures," in conducting the war, and he recommended some plan of colonization for the slaves made free by the Confiscation Act, because Mr. Lincoln firmly and honestly believed that it was utterly impossible for the two races to dwell harmoniously together upon this continent, and for that reason and for no other he was loth to confer freedom upon the Negro. The Committee on the conduct of the war which was appointed shortly after the 1st of January, 1862, and which was composed of Senators B. F. Wade, Z. Chandler, and Andrew Johnson and Representatives M. F. Odell, John Conode, D. W. Gooch and George W. Julian, inform us that "slave-catching continued in full force and the conservative war policy was adhered to until that great and illustrious Democrat Edwin M. Stanton of Pennsylvania succeeded Simon Cameron as Secretary of War, and from the very day Edwin M. Stanton assumed the duties of his office until the close of the war he urged and implored Mr. Lincoln to show no mercy to those who were bent upon disrupting the Union. In the meantime the strife between the radical and conservative elements in the Republican Party, continued Dec. 20, 1861, the radical wing introduced a resolution in the Lower House instructing the judiciary committees to report a bill so amending the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, as to forbid the return of fugitives without proof first made of the loyalty of the claimant, but on the 26th of May, 1862, the House, then overwhelmingly Republican, voted down a bill "declaring free the slaves of armed rebels." On the ninth of June, 1862, a resolution was submitted instructing the judiciary committee to report a bill repealing the Fugitive Slave Act which was passed by the Whig Party in 1850, but the bill was laid on the table by the Republicans. The indifference as to the fate of the Negro was further illustrated by Mr. Lincoln promptly revoking the order of General Hunter, declaring free the slaves of the States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. General Hunter labored under the impression that the war was being fought for the purpose of liberating the Negro but he learned to his sorrow that it was not. It is worth noting that Gen. John C. Fremont was suspended from the army for liberating the slaves in his military department and he was never restored to his nor to any other command by Mr. Lincoln. August 19, 1862, Horace Greeley, who was one of the best men that has ever trodden upon the sacred soil of our forefathers—whose sympathies for the human race were as vast as the universe, dipped his pen in fire and wrote his letter to Abraham Lincoln, entitled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions." President, there is not one disinterested, determined, intelligent champion of the Union cause who does not feel that all attempts to put down the rebellon, and at the same time uphold its inciting cause, are preposterous and futile—that the rebellion, if crushed out tomorrow, would be renewed within a year if slavery was left in full vigor—that army officers, who remain to this day devoted to slavery, can at best be but half way loyal to the Union—and that every hour of deference to slavery is an hour added and deepened peril to the Union. I appeal to the testimony of your ambassadors in Europe; it is freely at your service, not mine. Ask them to tell you candidly whether the seeming subserviency of your policy to the slave-holding interests is not the perplexity, the despair, of statesmen of all parties, and be admonished by the general answer! I close as I began, with the statement that what an immense majority of the loyal millions of your countrymen require of you is a frank, declared, unqualified, ungrudging execution of the laws of the land: more especially of the confiscation act. That act gives freedom to the slaves of rebels coming within our lines, or whom those lines may at any time inclose. We ask you to render it due obedience by publicly requiring all your subordinates to recognize and obey it. The rebels are everywhere using the late anti-Negro riots in the North—as they have long used your officers' treatment of Negroes in the South—to convince the slaves that they have nothing to hope from Union success—that we mean in that case to sell them into a bitter bondage to defray the cost of the war. Let them impress this as a truth upon the great mass of their ignorant and credulous bondmen, and the Union will never be restored—never! We cannot conquer ten millions of people united in solid phalanx against us, powerfully aided by northern sympathizers and European allies. We must have scouts, guides, spies, cooks, teamsters, diggers and choppers from the blacks of the South—whether we allow them to fight for us or not, or we shall be baffled and repelled. As one of the millions who would gladly have avoided this struggle at any sacrifice, but that of principle and honor, but who now feel that the triumph of the Union is indispensible not only to the existence of our country, but to the well-being of mankind, I entreat you to render a hearty and unequivocal obedience to the laws of the land. THE COLORED EDITORS AND COL BURKE COCHRAN In 1896 Col. Burke Cochran, of New York, exclaimed: "Heretofore I have been a Democrat, but henceforth I am a Republican, and there is no such thing as a gold-bug Democrat or a silver-bug Republican." Mr. Cochran was welcomed into the McKinley and Hanna tent by all the Colored newspapers which are published in the interest of the grand old party of God and plunder. But since Colonel Cochran delivered his speech before the Alabama Race Problem Conference, advocating the repeal of the fifteenth amendment, these same mutton-headed editors who praised him in 1896 for supporting McKinley are now engaged in condemning him, but we never did take any stock in Colonel Cochran, for he is a big wind-bag, who is ever ready to talk on either side of all questions, providing he gets his price. Consequently he is without influence and no one pays any attention to his vaporings for they amount to no more than a fly on a cart-wheel. Some of the leading Colored Republicans met in Philadelphia the other day for the purpose of organizing throughout the country a national colored political party, and they intend to nominate colored men for president and vice-president. If this movement will tend to pull the Negro away from the grand old party of Cuabian defalcations, then we favor it. But if it is only gotten up with the intention of pulling the legs of the campaign managers for money then we do not approve of it. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, JUNE 9, 1900. PRESIDENT McKINLEY RIPPED UP THE BACK. The Colonial Baptist Association of New England comprising thirty churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts convened recently at Hartford, and before adjourning it adopted resolutions strongly criticising and condemning President McKinley and his administration, because of the treatment of colored men in the South. It denounced imperialism and lauded Grover Cleveland as a man who did his duty. It declared that the blood of Baker, "the murderede post-master of Lake City, S. C., and his child, is upon the skirts of President McKinley." COL. W. J. (The second Thomas Jefferson, who bore the law, who wrote us a letter to Mayor Carter H. Harrison, and to lead the party on to the white house 22 COL. W. J. BRYAN. (The second Thomas Jefferson, who believes in the equality of all men before the law, who wrote us a letter of introduction and commendation to Mayor Carter H. Harrison, and the Colonel is the only man who can lead the party on to the white house.) The Freeman, of Indianapolis, Ind., has frothed and foamed at the mouth, like a big mad dog, because the Afro-Americans composing that body possessed the moral courage to speak the truth in reference to President McKinley. Between its howls and snaps The Freeman says, "We are chagrined and surprised that a body of colored men hailing from that section of the country which has been heralded far and near for its enlightenment should thus bluntly assail the administration. We agree with them that there are fearful wrongs perpetrated on the race, which Mr. McKinley a Christian gentleman as he is, would correct at once, of he could see it possible." No one has attempted to deny, that President McKinley is not a good imitation Christian. But that has nothing at all to do with discharging the duties in connection with his office, and enforcing all the laws of the land, not with blatant speeches but with actual efforts in that direction. Did not President McKinley say, in his inaugural address in 1897, that mob and lynch law and all forms of lawlessness must stop and that they would not be tolerated in this great and civilized country? But as a matter of fact mob and lynch law and all forms of lawlessness have increased at an alarming rate, under his administration. Simply because he has lacked the courage to speak out in condemnation of those who commit the crimes, and violate every established law of the land, and by remaining sl'ent, he encourages them to continue in their course. Therefore, it is the duty of the Negro race to repudiate Bill McKinley and his bill. for he has proven false to his trust. The Negro made him President and to reward them for doing so, he sits still with folded arms and his sanctimonious eyes turned --- heavenward, while thousands of them are being ruthlessly tortured, murdered; mobbed and lynched, burnt at the stake and abused in every other manner by some of the white men whom McKinley has elevated to office. What claim has McKinley got on the Negro? We answer, none, and the Negro had better learn this, before it is too late and before he is swallowed up in the political waters of oblivion. The Freeman and other McKinley organs please copy. THE NEGRO NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE. OFFICIAL CONVENTION CALL Having recently been advised by the Hon. Edward E. Lee, president of this BRYAN. believes in the equality of all men be- r of introduction and commendation the Colonel is the only man who can e. League, that he is not in favor of holding the next biennial convention of the League July 4th, 5th etc., and in lieu of the fact that the League in convention assembled, did on the 10th day of August, 1898, unanimously adopt a resolution directing the president and secretary to, in due time, "issue a call for the next biennial convention to meet at the time and place of the holding of the regular democratic national convention in the year 1900," I the undersigned secretary, by virtue of authority vested in me by the constitution of the League, do hereby issue this OFFICIAL CALL To the members of the Negro National Democratic League, and to all Negroes of the United States who oppose the reelection of President McKinley: Notice is hereby given, that the next annual biennial convention of the above named League, will be held in the city of Kansas City, Missouri on the 4th, 5th and 6th of July, 1900. Among other important measures which shall come before the convention are the following: The election of president, vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer, the appointment of an executive committee and a literary bureau; also, a campaign committee. Under the constitution the term of all offices and committees is two years. The maximum number of delegates to which each state is entitled is twenty-four, (24); the maximum number of delegates allotted to each territory is ten, (10) and the District of Columbia is entitled to six (6) delegates. The first session of the convention will open at 12 o'clock, noon, July 4th, for enrollment, after which adjournment will be taken until 9 o'clock a.m. of the day following the --- adjournment of the regular democratic convention. Respectfully, GEO. E. TAYLOR, Secretary Negro National Democratic League. Dated at Oskaloosa, Iowa, May 24, 1900. CHIPS. Hon. Wm. L. Martin has removed has law offices to 59 Dearborn street. The Misses Kelly, of Cartondale, are visiting Mrs. Dr. A. Lane, of Archer avenue. Mrs. America Brown, of 5121 Armour avenue is entertaining a friend from Des Moines, Ia. The congregation of Bethesda church, which burned down last week, worshipped in Grace Presbyterian church last Sunday night. Dr. Loring B. Palmer, of 22d and Wabash, has returned to the city from a visit to his mother, who was quite ill at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. The Woman's Club of Hyde Park, gave an enjoyable open meeting Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Amanda Bell, its president, 5429 Jackson avenue. Dr. F. G. Snelson, lately a missionary in Africa, spoke at Quinn Chapel last Sunday, on "The English and the Boer." He will lecture at Bethel tomorrow night. Hon. Samuel Alschuler, has put in a busy week at his headquarters receiving his friends who believe that he is o nthe track which leads to the governor's mansion. Clayton E. Crafts, of the 7th legislative district intends to roll up his sleeves and fight for the nomination and as he is a powerful fighter he is liable to be victorious. The annual conclave of the Knights of Pythias will be held in Peoria next week. A special train will carry the Knights, headed by Dr. Wm. F. Taylor, to the convention city. Professor Stuart D. Fowler, of 5119 Armour avenue has returned from his two weeks vacation, which he spent in Missouri. The Visitor, of which Mr. Fowler is editor, will make its appearance at Grace church tomorrow. The Cook County Democracy will give its annual picnic at Burlington Park, Saturday, June 16. An immense concourse of people will attend it and it is expected that Col. Wm. J. Bryan and several other notables will be present. The Enterprise of Omaha, Neb., reproduced our article in full on "The Colored Democrats of New York." Also The Negro World, of St. Paul, Minn., which shows that The Broad Ax is performing a good work in behalf of Democracy. This evening a large number of Alderman C. J. Boyd's warm admirers and friends, will present him with a gold star set with diamonds. The presentation will occur at the Watita League club roms, 47th and Halsted street. Mrs. L. A. Davis, State Organier of Colored women's clubs of Illinois, is in attendance at the Women's Federation in session at Milwaukee. She has greatly enjoyed observing her white sisters fighting and fussing with each other like cats and dogs over the color line. Last Monday morning, at the bride's residence in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Edward E. Wilson, a young lawyer of this city, and Miss Hattie Henderson, were united in marriage. The happy couple arrived in town Monday night, and are at home at 3626 Dearborn street. Attorney M. Emmet Clare, one of the New Assistant rPosecuting Attorneys of Chicago, is rapidly acquiring the reputation of being a forcible and brilliant orator. Mr. Clare in connection with Roman G. Lewis, is cozyly domiciled in his law offices, 65-66 Hobbs bldg., 97 Washington st. Adam Ortseifen's gubernatorial boom seems to be growing in size. Tuesday the City and County Central Committee met and endorsed Mr. Ortseifen's candidacy and a steering committee was selected to look after his interest The Cook County delegation and his friends and workers will go in a body to the Springfield convention. NO. 33. Gen. Alfred Orendorff of Springfield, has spent the larger portion of the week in the city, but left Friday night for his home. He will return Tuesday or Wednesday. Mr. J. W. Yants, who is looking after the general's interests, feels sure of his nomination, providing he is not euqered out of it by the manipulators of the machine. John P. McGoorty, who made a lasting name for himself in the last legislative session of Illinois, is being strongly urged by the leaders of the party of Cook County, to accept the nomination for Probate Judge. Mr. McGoorty is a first class lawyer and possesses all the qualifications to serve the people in that capacity. Daniel Herlihy secretary of the Board of Exemining Engineers, is almost persuaded to accept the nomination of County Commissioner. Mr. Herlihy is a splendid type of true manhood. He is honorable and capable in every way, and The Broad Ax would be delighted to see him selected as one of the next Commissioners of Cook County. The Broad Ax is glad to note, that James B. McDonald, ex-Assessor for the Town of Lake, is more than likely to be selected as a member of the Board of Assessors. Mr. McDonald has always in the past been in close touch with the laboring or the middle classes, and his nomination would be hailed with great joy and delight by them. James T. Bransfield is making a creditable canvas for Drainage Trustee. He is a civil engineer and is well acquainted with the needs of the canal and the duties to be performed in connection with the office which he seeks. He favors the employment of citizens only to perform the work and believes in paying them $2.00 per day for eight hours work. Ex-Lieutenant and brother Harvey A. Thompson, who is an active candidate for County Cimmissioner, erroniously labors under the impression, that because he knew a Colored newspaper man while residing in St. Louis, Mo., who lived on liver and whisky, that it necessarily follows that all other Colored men engaged in the newspaper business exist upon the same diet. But we do not. The Hon. S. A. T. Watkins, whom we highly esteem, is of the opinion, that by inserting L. A. Newby's cut in the Broad Ax that he certainly must own and control it. But he is in error, and Mr. Newby who is a candidate for County Commissioner and who supported Col. W. J. Bryan in 1896 and not Major McKinley, does not own and control The Broad Ax, or its utterances, nor no other man black or white. We wish to assure Mr. Watkins, that he himself, or any one else, who are not professional gamblers, sand-baggers, grafters, notorious libertines and jack-legged preachers can have their cut and a write-up in The Broad Ax. Henry Stuckart, the best Assessor the South Town ever had, turned the city hall upside down last Monday, by launching Mayor Carter H. Harrison's Vice Presidential boom. Mr. Stuckart had all of his pockets full of jack-knifes which had the profiles of "Col. W. J. Bryan and Mayor Harrison, Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Trusts" engraved on the blade and he has received more free advertising by the press and all the politicians than any other person, for conceiving this new and novel idea in launching booms for political aspirants. Mr. Stuckart, is a cracker-jack, and some day he will be either Mayor of Chicago or Minister to Germany. Thomas J. Nerney continues to grow in favor with the people of the Second Congressional district as the most solid and substantial man to nominate for Congress. Mr. Nerney stands for the highest ideals in politics. He does not favor the idea of either party permitting the riff-raff or the irresponsible to control the affairs of the parties. But he believes it is the duty of all good citizens to take an active part in everything pertaining to the best welfare of the people or the community in which they reside and for these and many other reasons The Broad Ax is more than convinced that Mr. Nerney should be selected to sit in Congress from the second district. MISERABLE You’re not feeling just right this spring, are you? Somehow, you haven’t your old-time strength, cannot take hold of things with your usual push and energy. You just drag around, fairly well one day, not so well the next. You are wretched, disconsolate, discouraged; you are miserable. That’s Nerve Poverty To be rich in nerve power you should take a good spring medicine, something that will give you pure and rich blood. A perfect Sarsaparilla will do this every time; not a cheap Sarsaparilla, not one that promises you a great deal of bulk for your money; but a highly concentrated Sarsaparilla, one that has more cure in it than any other Sarsaparilla in the world. That’s AYER'S "The only Sarsaparilla made under the personal supervision of three graduates: a graduate in pharmacy, a graduate in chemistry, and a graduate in medicine." $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. "For thirty-five years I have used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. There are many other kinds on the market, but I have great faith in that word "Ayer's." — N. Musesick, St. Anthony, Iowa. PISO'S CURE FOR OURS WHERE ALL FINE FALLS. Just Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by Groutista. CONSUMPTION Not the cheapest but the best Buggy our factory can build for the money. $4.47 buys the buggy here illustrated, fully equipped, with heavy rubber or drill top. End springs. Painting, gear, dark Brewster green, body black, with very fine finish. Kerotel leather trimmed. The best hickory sorewed rim wheels, 1-inch tread. Full length Brussels carpet. Boot, storm apron, whip socket, full drop back, toe nail, nickel line rail, leather trimmed shafts. We have vehicles from $8.66 up, including Road Carts, Road Wagons, Surreys, Phaetons, Traps, Spring Wagons and Business Rigs. Shipped C. O. D. east of the Rocky Mountains on receipt of $6, subject to examination. Send 20 to pay postage. T. M. ROBERTS' SUPPLY HOUSE GILLETI A GOLFER. Hon. Fred H. Gillett, the Springfield, Mass., congressman, used to be a staid bachelor, given to serious conversation and avoiding society as though it were smallpox and yellow fever combined. Now Gillett has changed. He has drunk deeply at the spring of social joy and has become intoxicated. He frequents debutantes' teas, and is a welcome guest at debutantes' dinners. Golf is his great delight. He is a constant visitor at the Chevy Chase club, and in the sparkling repartee of social small talk is unexcelled. Where dusty law books were once his inspiration, the "Dolly Dialogues" is now his daily companion. All this was unknown to his constituents until the other day, when a Massachusetts farmer, a man of much plainness, but of substance and influence, came to Washington. He went to Gillett's hotel to see the congressman. He had to wait three hours, but he did not regard the time as ill-spent, for he knew that Gillett was somewhere struggling with grave problems of state. Finally Gillett appeared. He was clothed in all the beauty of a fashionable golf suit, he was singing an air from an opera, he wore a jaunty hat. "Frederick," said the old farmer, "I never thought this of you." Gillett said never a word. Explanations would have been useless. And since the old farmer returned home, the firesides of the Massachusetts farmhouses have echoed the sorrowful tale of Gillett's fall.—Washington Post. Try Maple City Self Washing Soap for washing woolens or lace curtains. It is unequalled for washing ladies' shirt waists. Hooks in Closeta. So often when cleaning closets we and it would be especially convenient to have an extra hook or two. It is such an easy matter to put up the new wire hooks, that there is little excuse for one not always keeping a supply on hand. This is the one I have in mind, and they come in bronze wire at twenty cents per dozen and brass lacquered at thirty cents per dozen.—Boston Journal. A Chemist's Discovery A Dutch chemist in Java claims to have discovered a process by which starch may be converted into sugar at half the present cost of sugar. The two substances are composed of the same chemical elements. ```markdown ``` HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS Via Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad On the first and third Tuesdays of June, July and August the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad will place on sale Homeseekers' Excursion tickets to various points in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indian Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. One fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. Tickets are limited on going trip fifteen days from date of sale with stop over privileges in Homeseekers' territory. Returning tickets are limited twenty-one days from date of sale. Remember that we now have in service a new wide vestibuled train between Chicago & Waco & Ft. Worth, Texas, leaving Chicago daily at 1.50 p. m. Through Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars. For further particulars call on or address any agent Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad or C. L. Stone, G. P. T. A., Chicago. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. Creeping Rails. The Eads bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis has always been subject to the phenomenon known as "creeping rails." The creeping occurs always in the direction of the traffic, and varies with the amount of tonnage passing over the rails. Ladies Can Wear Shoes. One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N.Y. A new educational plan is being tried in Copenhagen. No books are used, but the boys are instructed orally when they perform at the same time some light manual labor. Many a man dresses more expensively than the men to whom he owes money. In the grounds of the Duke of Athol and near Blair castle, England, stands a high, rocky crag named Craigie-barns. It looked grim and bare in the midst of beauty and its owner thought how much prettler it would look if only trees, shrubs, etc., could be planted in its nooks and crannies. It was considered impossible for any one to scale its steep and dangerous activities and no other way was thought of to get seed sown. One day Alexander Nasmyth, father of the celebrated engineer, paid a visit to the duke's grounds. The crag was pointed out to him and he was told of the desire of the duke regarding it. After some thought he conceived how it could be accomplished. In passing the castle he noticed two old cannon. He got a few small tin canisters, made to fit the bore of the cannon, and filled them with a variety of tree, shrub and grass seeds. The cannons were loaded in the usual way and fired at the rocks from all sides. The little canisters on striking the rock burst, scattering the seeds in all directions. Many seeds were lost, but many more fell into the ledges or cracks where there was a little mess of earth. These showed signs of life and in a few years graceful trees and pretty climbing plants, all sown by gunpowder, were growing and flourishing in nearly every recess of the formerly bare, gray crag, clothing it with verdant beauty.—New York Press. Important to Mothers. Bramine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitchus In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Big catches of shad are reported along the coast. In our opinion boneless shad will be the very crown of Yankee ingenuity.—Boston Journal Moves the bowels each day. In order tobe healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Representative Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts says there are too many bachelors among the younger members of the house. THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of labor, Insidels, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; write only on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance); One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5040 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. The object of the federal census now being taken are of three kinds: To furnish a basis for the apportionment of representatives in the lower house of congress; to ascertain the growth of the United States in numbers, wealth and industry, and to investigate the social organizations and institutions which determine the growth of population and wealth. The first is a constitutional necessity, the second a study of facts, and the third a study of causes. Probably no social institution is so intimately connected with the growth of population as that of marriage. Investigating material conditions the law requires about each person a statement whether he or she is single, married, widowed, or divorced; if married, how many years the marriage has lasted; if mother, how many children she has had, and how many of these children are now living. From the answers to the questions it is possible to determine the birth rate, the prevalence of marriage, the proportion of women and children to the whole population, the duration and fruitfulness of marriage. So far as the power and importance of nations are dependent upon the size of the population, to that extent is the accurate determination of these questions a matter of public necessity. In the United States there would seem to be little danger of a decline in the population. But even when we are sure that the population is growing, it is still necessary to know how it is growing. The millions of India are increasing,but it is by a process of many births and many deaths. In good years millions are born; in times of famine millions die, the population increasing because a few more are born than die. It is growth, but savage growth. There is a more excellent kind of progress, that resulting from the combination of a moderate birth rate and a small death rate. The marital statistics collected by the census are in many respects very interesting. Thus, the extent and power of the anti-marital forces can be estimated in a way by ascertaining the proportion of people between 55 and 64 years of age who have never been married. Census statistics show that the proportion of unmarried females between these ages is greatest in the East, in North Carolina, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, for instance, while the proportion is smallest in the West, South Dakota, Utah and Oklahoma bringing up the rear in the order named. Men, on the contrary, are far more likely to remain single in the West than in the East. The proportion of unmarried men between 55 and 64 is lowest in the Southern states, e. g., Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia, and greatest in the block of Western states west of the Mississippi. In Nevada 38.2 per cent of the males between 55 and 64 have never been married, Idaho coming next with 32.4 per cent, Montana next with 29.5 per cent, etc. That marriage is still pre-eminently the sphere of women seems to be indicated by the fact that more women marry than men, and they marry at earlier ages. Thus, only 31 per cent of females 15 years of age and over are unmarried, while among males of the same ages the proportion is 41 per cent. Taking girls and boys between the ages of 15 and 20 years of age, it is found that one out of every ten girls is married, while among the boys the proportion falls to one in two hundred. These were the proportions in 1890. Whether these conditions have changed since then is a question that can only be answered by the census of 1960. FRANCE SENDS US GREETINGS. FRANCE SENDS US GREETINGS. Vendome, France, unveiled a statue of Rochambeau Monday and the people of that municipality, through Ambassador Porter, sent fraternal greetings to the American people. Lafayette, Rochambeau and De Grasse are names equally cherished by the great republic of the new world. It was Count de Grasse's fleet of twenty-eight ships of the line with 4,000 infantry on board that blockaded Cornwallis by sea at Yorktown and thus made his capture possible. It is possible that of recent years America has been somewhat too forgetful of the great aid France rendered it a hundred years ago. GOLF KNEE. A New Allment with Which Our Doctors Are Wrestling. At a recent meeting of a certain medical club one of the members read a paper on the subject of the "Golf Knee." Among other things he said: "In all seriousness, 'golf knee' is a pretty common thing to see among golfers. It resembles a bad case of 'knock knee,' and it is caused by the position assumed in driving. We all know how the tyro is taught to stand for a driver, with the knees close together and one foot stuck upright into the earth by the toe. That is a dreadful knock-kneed pose, but it's very golf-like, and artists always draw the golf player in it; so the fellow likes it, and from the force of habit assumes it not only on the links, in driving, but at home, at the club, in the office, before the bar, while tossing off a lemonade, and in many other unlikely places. People say of him that he is knock-kneed. He isn't though, really, for the bones of his leg are still straight. He has 'golf-knee,' which, if he is under 30, with bones still soft and malleable, would change to 'knock knee' but for medical interference. That consists of exercises that tend to cause 'bow leg,' and in quasi-hypnotic suggestion of the ungainliness of the golfer's driving pose and the absurdity of assuming it on every occasion. With children and youths, whose bones are soft, a year or two of strongly marked 'golf knee' ends just as surely in 'knock knee' as constant horsebacking with the very young ends in 'bow leg.' I have on my list of patients now four children of fashionable parents in the last stages of 'golf knee,' who are threatened with the permanent deformity of 'knock knee' itself. But I hope to cure them.—Cincinnati Enquirer. INTERNATIONAL TENNIS Match Will Occur in Hoboken for the Davis Challenge Cup. Almost positive confirmation has now reached the American authorities from England in regard to the expected international lawn tennis match for the new Davis International Challenge Cup, and there seems little doubt that the match will be held at Hoboken, beginning on July 31. Persistent rumors declare that the famous Doherty brothers and H. S. Mahony, who was here three years ago, will make up the challenging team, and they are expected to arrive in New York late in July. If the British team is made up as expected, the Doherty brothers will represent England in the doubles, and the older brother, Champion R. F. Doherty, and Mahony in the singles. This team would be the strongest that Great Britain could possibly produce, and the American experts would find it a difficult task to keep their new international trophy at home. A recent issue of the official organ of the lawn tennis players announces that unless some new man upsets all present calculations between now and the middle of July, or one of the old veterans shows unexpected form, the American team will be composed of Champion M. D. Whitman and D. F. Davis, the donor of the new cup, in the singles and Davis and Ward, the national champions, in the doubles. If this should prove to be the composition of the home team it will be curiously like that of the challenging visitors, as it will include the national champions of both countries in both singles and doubles, and the next best players in singles to help out the champion in their section of the contest. Neither side will be able to offer any excuse for defeat if the teams are made up in this way.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Getting Rid of Him. It was in the North of England, and the owner of some large manufacturing works was competing for a seat in the house of commons. He was not a favorite among the several hundred of hands whom he employed, so the term "doubtful" might have been appropriately used in defining his chance of gaining their votes. Consequently his opponent was smiling up his sleeve at the idea of a certain "walk over." But on the result of the poll becoming known the countenance of the latter can be better imagined than described, for the employer of labor had beaten him by a majority of nearly 800. Anxious to know if there had been any bribery in the affair he employed an agent to sift the master out The agent's first move was to the manufacturer's foundry works, and there the following conversation took place: Agent—How was it that you voted for your master, when you all have such a bad opinion of him? One of the workmen blurted out: "Wee! ver see, mon, we voted fer 'im so as he cud put hisself away in the house. We don't want him here!"—London Tit-Bits. Horse Sense. The men standing about the horse that had slipped and fallen on the wet granite block pavement were encouraging the animal to get up by kicking him vigorously. "Yet why should I complain of their treatment of me," soliloquized the horse. "That is the way they treat one of their own kind when he is down!"—Chicago Tribune. It spreads. Examiner—Now, children, who can tell me what an epidemic is? What! None of you? Let me prompt your memory. It is something that spreads. And now—ah, I see one of you knows What is it, my little friend? "Jam, sir."—Tit-Bite SOLD HIS BODY TO DOCTOR In the office of an old physician in St. Joseph there hangs the skeleton of a man and with it there hangs a tale that is somewhat grewsome, but nevertheless true, says the St. Joseph (Mo.) News. The physician bought the man's skeleton before he was dead, paid for it, and it was delivered to him after death by the man's wife, according to contract. The man who used the bones first and to whom they belonged in life was a Doniphan county farmer, living across the river from St. Joseph. He was in bad health and needed money. In fact he had to have money to keep up his life insurance and there had been a partial failure of crops that year. The farmer knew the end of his life was not far off and he must have money at once to pay up his life insurance. He had a wife and children and he would not mortgage the farm. One day he came to the city and said to the physician, whom he knew very well: "Doctor, what will you give me for my skeleton?" It was a startling proposition at first, and the physician shrank from making such a purchase, but after the farmer had explained his situation it did not have such a bad appearance. The sale was finally made, the contract drawn and signed and the physician paid for the skeleton of the living man. The amount paid was more than enough, the farmer said, to pay for the life insurance as long as he would need it. He lived longer than he expected, however, and came back again to see the physician. He had spent part of the money for other purposes, and another payment was almost due on the life insurance. "I am still using these bones, doctor," he said, "and came over to see if you could not afford to advance a little more money on them." The physician demurred, but finally made another small advance, over and above the price he was to pay. Soon afterward the farmer died, and his wife delivered the body to the physician. It was dissected in a medical college and the physician still has the skeleton. It was a grewsome bargain, but it was business. The Kansas woman still has the coffin in which her husband's body was brought to the city. Mosquitoes in Arctic Regions Mr. H. J. Pearson, in his book "Beyond Petsora Eastward," gives us this picture of traveling in the Arctic regions in summer: We had to force our way through long stretches of dense birch scrub, under a burning sun, and without a breath of wind to clear away the mosquitoes. They settled on every particle of exposed flesh, and the thousands who failed to find room there covered our caps and backs till the color of the cloth was hidden. My neck and wrists were swollen up with lumps the size of sparrow's eggs. Unfortunately, our mosquito nets had been left in camp, as we had quite enough collecting gear and guns to carry, and expected to be home hours earlier. Oil of lavender gives temporary relief from persecution, but its effects soon pass off. A mixture of half turpentine and half olive oil is also useful in ordinary cases; but when the enemy are brought into good working order by a hot sun and calm day nothing stops them except a veil. This desire of the mosquito for blood is a strange puzzle. Not one in a million, nor any of his ancestors for generations in the Arctic, can have tasted it; yet all rush for the first human being or reindeer they meet. I have heard of the Samoyeds being driven mad by their bites. Automobiles at Washington. If the craze for automobiles continues they will, before long, entirely supersede the use of the horse at the nation's capital, for not only have they become a fad with society people, but the shops, the express companies and the transit companies are rapidly adopting them. Dublin's Temporay Gateway A suggestion has been made that the temporary gateway at Dublin at which Queen Victoria received the city keys from the lord mayor and corporation should be erected permanently in stone as a memorial of an historic event. If you don't feel well today you can be made to feel better by making your blood better. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the great pure blood maker. That is how it cures that tired feeling, pimples, sores, salt rheum, scrofula and catarrh. Get a bottle of this great medicine and begin taking it at once and see how quickly it will bring your blood up to the Good Health point. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Blood Medicine. Save the Labels and write for list of premiums we offer free for them. HIRES Rootbeer The favorite summer drink Chester Hire Malvern Par LAST OF A FAMOUS GROUP OF STATESMEN. They Were James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, David Davis, Dan Voorhees, Hannibal Hamlin, Justin S. Morrill, Allan G. Thurman and a Few Others. There is considerable national interest in the announcement made recently by Senator George Graham Vest that he will retire from public life at the end of his present senatorial term. The senator is almost the last of the famous group that was for years the chief part of American official life. They were Conkling, Blaine, Bayard, Thurman, Voorhees, Beck, Cockrell, Vance, Hamlin, Morrill, Ingalls and David Davis—all giants representing a variety of ideas, many sections, and millions of people. Senator Vest has long been rated as one of the famous senatorial debaters of all American history. His sharp and ready tongue, brilliant in partee, terrible in invective, and classic in certain phases of his humor, has been a delight to his friends and a plague to his enemies. A story told about Senator Vest and a boy is somewhat illustrative of the senator's methods in getting close to the people. The time was not more than ten years ago, when his senatorial seat was not in danger. The boy was an 18-year-old reporter on the Kansas City Times. The youngster had neither vote nor influence. One SENATO day when Senator Vest was in the office somebody introduced the two. The youngster, unused to greatness, was so much awed by Mr. Vest that he could not find words. The senator took the young man by the arm. "Come," he said, starting for the elevator, "are you going out?" The young man was not, so far as he knew, but the senator's persuasion and gentleness changed his mind. "Let me see," the big, little man went on, "don't I know your father? I think I met him last year when I was making a speech up the country." As the elevator went down the youth regained some of his composure. He managed to answer the senator's question. At the bottom the two stopped. There the senator, tilting his hat over his eyes and putting his hands in his pockets, leaned his roly-poly form against the wall, and began to ask questions: "Have you been in this town long? Do you like the newspaper business? Where did you go to school? Do you know about your country's history? Do you expect to become a great man?" In the course of ten minutes the young man felt that he amounted to something Senator Vest has never been closely allied to a church, writes a Washington correspondent. In Missouri the senator's great following has not regarded him in a religious relation; yet, with all his apparent indifference, the senator has long been a student of the Bible and a most tolerant observer of religious faith and form in others. Two years ago, Col. John Carroll, solicitor for the Burlington railroad system, while in Washington on business, called on the senator at his home. Mr. Vest sent word to have Col. Carroll come up to his room. When the caller entered he found the senator lying in an easy chair with a Bible on his knees. He had been reading the Twenty-third Psalm. "That's a beautiful thing, John," he said; "and let me tell you—that's a mighty fine book." "I'd like to get a picture of you just now," said Col. Carroll, "to show to the folks in Missouri." The senator smiled. "It might surprise 'em," he said; "but I have never cared to talk much about my religious ideas." Mr. Vest was educated at Center College, Danville, Ky., an institution that has graduated forty-four college professors, twenty-six congressmen, four United States senators, seven governors, two vice-presidents of the United States, one justice of the Supreme court, forty-nine editors and thirty-hine circuit judges. In the early fifties Mr. Vest married Miss Sallie Sneed of Kentucky. The two set out for California, with never a thought of becoming residents of the Mississippi Valley. The lumbering vehicle was not in good trim. A breakdown occurred at a small village—one of the qualnt, ugly, irregular antebellum settlements of the new southwest. The place was Georgetown, and there it was that young Mr. and Mrs. Vest found themselves at the mercy of a broken wheel. While the stage passengers were thus awkwardly waiting, an old negro approached the young lawyer and asked his assistance. The black man explained that he had a son who was accused of murder. Feeling against the boy was very strong and the father pleaded with the traveling attorney to stop and lend his assistance. Mr. Vest concluded to allow the stage to proceed while he undertook the task of helping the negro and his boy. When the trial was over the boy was acquitted. A mob was speedily formed, the young man was taken from the jail, and in a little while he was dead. Because of his connection with this case Vest was not particularly popular; and for this reason, as much as for any other, he concluded to become R VEST. a Missourian and stand his ground. He at once began to secure a following, and in a remarkable short time he was rated as one of the important lawyers of the section in which he lived. In sunshine and storm his sense of humor has always been one of his excelling qualities. As a candidate before the people his speeches brimmed with quaint story and allusion. In Wayne county, Missouri, in the early seventies, when Vest was a candidate in opposition to a wealthy citizen, he summed up his claims in a few words in one of his brilliant speeches. "The gentleman who opposes me," he said, "is a man of wealth and position. I am only a poor, ragged, ex-Confederate soldier. I ask for your support." "One afternoon, driving along a Washington street, he compared his state of health to that of a certain ancient negro. "See here, Sam," asked the negro's friend, "what's, the matter with you?" "Don't know, boss," said the old darky, "but I think dat I am a-sufferin' wif anno domino." Hint to Fruit Men. "I got a letter from a friend today," said an American who was born in England, but who has been in this country a good many years. "She spent several weeks over here, and when she was ready to sail for her home in England again I saw her off. On my way to the pier I bought a big basket of fruit, such as you can get on any of the good class street fruit stands. There were some apples, some pears and a few things like that. That was about three weeks ago. Well, in her letter to-day she tells me she took most of the basket to her home in London and the family had a great treat. The fruit was all sound and splendid. Then she laments and she says that her family and friends who enjoyed the basket all lament their inability to get such fruit in the London market. Now, that is inexcusable, you know. Where the fruit can be had in such quantities here and so cheaply, there is no reason on earth why the same thing can't be had in the English market. Undoubtedly there is demand there for it, and it seems to me that some of our fruit merchants in the fruit exporting business would do well to look more sharply after the business." --- The only reason that we could possibly obtain this twine was that a party needed spot cash. We had no expectation of being able to get any twine at anything like this price, for if you will just think of it a minute IT IS 1-8 OF A CENT LESS THAN OUR FARMER FRIENDS PAID TO THE PENITENTIARY PEOPLE A FEW WEEKS AGO. We always believe, when we get a bargain, in dividing it with our friends and customers, feeling that when they know that we are always willing to treat them right and give them the benefit of our one basis on which we do business, namely large sales and small profits, that they will appreciate it, and in the end we will make more by favoring them with something of this kind than we would by charging them the regular market value. Consequently we divide this profit with you and will simply say that when this twine is cut you can rest assured that we will try to make you as low prices as possible, but, nevertheless, we would suggest that you get your order in at once for any part that you may want of this lot. We will be able to ship by May 30th, as the twine reaches us by fast freight. The above telegram was received May 22. Send for agricultural implement catalogue. T. M. ROBERTS' SUPPLY HOUSE, 717-719-721 NICOLLET AVENUE, 718-720-722 FIRST AVENUE S., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Let us take a pound of what we will call average coal, containing, say, 10,000 heat units. This would be somewhat smaller in size than a man's fist. A pound of this coal, if expended in mechanical work, would give us 236 horse power. Imagine at the time of the Pharaohs two long lines of men, extended over half a mile, all pulling steadily at the command of the taskmaster, at a great rope to raise some huge obelisk, and as you see them sweeting, tugging and straining, think again of this small lump of coal in which nature has placed an equal amount of power. In some countries men who have been specially trained as porters to carry heavy loads on their backs will, as a full day's work, carry a total of from 350 to 600 pounds a distance of one mile. And yet each has expended but one-third of the power stored up in this pound of coal. An exceptionally strong man has been known to do one-half horse power of work as his mightiest effort, but in two and one-half minutes' work at this rate exhausts his muscular force. Let us suppose 100 such men putting forth such extreme effort at rope or crank or crowbar; as they fall back, red-faced and puffing, to catch their breaths, we might imagine this little black lump saying to them: "I can do as much as your whole company, and then can stand it for fully two minutes longer before I am exhausted."—Cassier's Magazine. Proved Too Much. The troubles of housekeepers with their "help" are endless, and many that actually happen are quite as funny as those that find their way into print through the active imaginations of the gifted young men who write for the comic journals. The mistress of an establishment went into the kitchen one morning to see how her new cook was getting along. There was a wash-basin in the sink, half-full of water, and a cake of soap was floating in it. "This is wasteful, Keturah," she said. "When you wash your hands, always take out the soap and empty the water." "I haven't used that wash-pan at all today, ma'am!" replied Keturah, indignantly. The next day Keturah was hunting for a new situation.—Youths' Companion. If you want your clothes to be clean and white, use Maple City Soap as directed on the wrapper. All grocers sell it. Attaching Shades to Rollers. By a new method of attaching shades to the rollers the cloth is not injured, and the shade can be adjusted as to length without cutting, the roller having a metallic strip inserted in the side and held in place by clamps to grip the shade. 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. A Great Bandit. The death of Bellacoscia ought to revive some lively tales of the Corsican banditti. Bellacoscia was by so far the greatest of Corsican bandits that he divided with Napoleon the affections of all true Corsicans. Cheap Binder Twine Our readers will do well to write T. M. Roberts' Supply House, Minneapolis, Minn., before buying. See offer in another part of this paper. The firm is thoroughly reliable. Siberia at the Fair. Siberia is largely represented in Paris—the first time at any exhibition. The new railway and the lands it has opened is fully represented. Although a "first book," The Sea-Farers, by Mary Gray Morrison is a novel of unusual strength and merit. It deals with life in a New England seashore town, covering the period just before and just after the Civil War, and presents very strikingly in the course of the narrative the spirit of those changing times, and the contrast between the merchant princes of former days and the settlers of the New West. A dramatic portion of the story introduces a band of pirates on the Mediterranean—the fact that piracy did exist as late as the date of this tale being well authenticated. An accurate and intimate account of the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds that nest in the Eastern United States is given in "Bird Homes," by A. Radclyffe Dugmore, recently published. It is the first time that this fascinating subject has been adequately treated for the general reader, and the book is a revelation of bird "personality" in many ways. The notes on bird photography and on the rearing of birds give information not attainable elsewhere and of great interest to nature levers and students. 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. All life is a ladder to him who does his duty. 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. It is the bounden duty of every man to look his affairs in the face and to keep an account of his incomings and outgoings in money matters.—Samuel Smiles. The one serviceable, safe, remunerative quality in every study and pursuit is the quality of attention.—Dickens. Maple City Self Washing Soap, not only saves the wear on your clothes, because less rubbing is required, but it saves fully half the labor. All grocers sell it. Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.—Beecher. 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. The production of rice in the United States is becoming quite an industry. Falling of the Hair is caused by dandruff. Coke Dandruff Cure will stop it or money refunded. $1.00. If you heat your knife slightly you can cut hot bread or cakes smoothly. Some articles must be described. White's Yucatan needs no description; it's the real thing. The raising of the edible nuts is one of the great industries of China. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. The girl who doesn't wish to see callers must expect to be found out. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wind colic. 250 a bottle The women who are born to command always get married. When All Else Falls, Try Yl-Kl. Cures Corns and Bunlons without pain. Never falls. Drug stores or mail 15c. Yl-Kl Co., Crawfordsville, Ind. The chronic borrower invariably draws the line at trouble. 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. That is the best friendship which makes friends better. Keep looking young and save your hair, its color and beauty with PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDEBOORNS, the best cure for corns. 15cts. The love that departs from duty knoweth not God. A Book of Choice Recipes Sent free by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester. Mass. Mention this paper. It is useless to advertise for a lost opportunity. The contented liar uses a soft mattress. Brown's Teething Cordial is warranted, and is never returned as worthless. Bicycle Send us a postal card and we will send you a Bicycle ices,1900 model, at $7.47; new $20.00 bicycles at $11.47; and a bicycle as good as you can buy for $50.00 or at an in this line in this catalogue. Send postal card at once bicycles and repairs. Also gun and fishing tackle cat T. M. ROBERTS' SUPPLY H Bicycle CATALOGUE Free! Send us a postal card and we will send you a Bicycle Catalogue Free. This catalogue prices new $15.00 Bicycles,1900 model, at $7.47; new $20.00 bicycles at $11.47; new $30.00 bicycles at $16.47; new $35.00 bicycles at $17.50 and a bicycle as good as you can buy for $50.00 or at any price, we sell at $22.47. Bicycle repairs and everything in this line in this catalogue. Send postal card at once for this bike catalogue. It will save you money on bicycles and repairs. Also gun and fishing tackle catalogue free. Ask for each. BILE BILE BLOAT ```markdown ``` you naturally and easily and without gr a week and help the liver clean up the face look clean, eyes bright. Get a 10c cured or satisfied you get your money ba poisons out of the without gripe or pain. Start to-nip up the bowels, and you will feel Get a 10c box of CASCARETS, take money back. Bile bloat is quickly CURED BY ocar you naturally and easily and without gripe or pain. Start to-night-one tablet-keep it up for a week and help the liver clean up the bowels, and you will feel right, your blood will be rich, face look clean, eyes bright. Get a 10c box of CASCARETS, take as directed. If you are not cured or satisfied you get your money back. Bile bloat is quickly and permanently CURED BY CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. FREE GOVERNMENT LANDS. There are still thousands of acres of government lands in the states of Washington and Oregon, also prairie and timber lands near railroad or water communication, that can be bought for $5 per acre and upwards. Finest climate in the United States. No failure of crops. If you wish to raise grain or the finest stock on earth, you will find locations in these two states where you can do this to perfection. Take your choice. I have no lands for sale,but if you want information where it is best to locate, call on me when in St. Paul or write me at corner Third and Rosabel streets, St. Paul, Minn. Her Exact Words. Housekeeper—How's this? You promised to saw some wood if I gave you a lunch. Tramp—I recall no such promise, madam. "The idea! I told you I'd give you a lunch if you saw some wood, and you agreed." "Pardon me, madam. Your exact words were: 'I'll give you a lunch if you saw that wood over there by the gate.'" "Exactly. That's just what I sad." "Well, madam, I saw that wood over there by the gate, as I came in." A SENATOR'S LETTER. Peruna as a Nerve and Catarrh Tonic the Talk of the World. ```markdown ``` Hon. W. V. Sullivan, U. S. Senator from Mississippi. Hon. W. V. Sullivan, United States Senator from Mississippi, in a letter recently written to Dr. Hartman from Oxford, Miss., says the following: "For some time I have been a sufferer from catarrh in its most incipient stage, so much so that I became alarmed as to my general health. But, hearing of Pe-ru-na as a good remedy, I gave it a fair trial and soon began to improve. Its effects were distinctly beneficial, removing the annoying symptoms, and was particularly good as a tonic. "I take pleasure in recommending your great national catarrh cure, Peru-na, as the best I have ever tried." "W. V. Sullivan." Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna has no substitutes—no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O., for a free book on catarrh. Puffs under the eyes; red nose; pimple blotched, greasy face don't mean hard drinking always as much as it shows that there is BILE IN THE BLOOD. It is true, drinking and over-eating overloads the stomach, but failure to assist nature in regularly disposing of the partially digested lumps of food that are dumped into the bowels and allowed to rot there, is what causes all the trouble. CASCARETS will help nature help you, and will keep the system from filling with poisons, will clean out the sores that tell of the system's rottenness. Bloated by bile the figure becomes unshapely, the breath foul, eyes and skin yellow; in fact the whole body kind of fills up with filth. Every time you neglect to help nature you lay the foundation for just such troubles. CASCARETS will carry the poisons out of the system and will regulate Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Weary Women Rest and help for weary women are found in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It makes women strong and healthy to hear their burdens, and overcomes those Ms to which women are subject because they are women. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is known from coast to coast. It has cured more slok women than any other medicine. Its friends are everywhere and they are constantly writing thankful letters which appear in this paper. If you are puzzled write for Mrs. Pinkham's advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass. She will charge you nothing and she has restored a million women to health. BATTLEorMANILA BATTLE OF MANILA Wabash Ave., S. of Auditorium, Chicago. A wonderful reproduction of the greatest naval victory in history. Dewey's voyage from Hong Kong across the Chinese sea. A tropical sunset. The Chinese typhoon at night with new and startling electrical effects. The American fleet engaging the Spanish batteries at the entrance of Manila Bay. The Bay of Manila by moonlight. The wonderful lighting effects in Old Manila and Cavite at night. Tropical sunrise. The discovery and complete destruction of the Spanish fleet off Cavite. Open from 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. J. THOMPSON & SONS LIMITED WILL SCOUR IN ANY SOIL. MANUFACTURERS GENUINE NORWEGIAN PLOW THREE WHEEL SULKY PLOWS, CULTIVATORS, HARROWS. BELOIT, WIS. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau 3 vrs in civil war. 15 adjudicating claims, atty since W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 28, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper Mr. P. T. Tinsley will give a song recital at Grace Presbyterian church next Monday evening. He will be assisted by Miss Gertie Jackson, soprano. Some of the songs that he will sing are written by P. Lawrence Dunbar, and the music by S. Coleridge Taylor, the colored poet of London. Mrs. J. Frank McKinley is the accompanist. Sol Livingston, Captain 1st precinct, 30th ward, performed heroic services for the party at the spring election. Heretofore the fist, has invariably been carried by the Republicans, but Mr. Livingston wiped out the Republicans and rolled up 28 majority in favor of Democracy and he is with the ward organization from start to finish, because he believes by presenting a solid front the party is bound to win out. A very creditable minstrel was given at Central Hall last Monday evening by the Chicago Amatuer Minstrel Club. Master Hugh Buchanan, the boy soprano, was the star attraction. Mr. Richard B. Harrison, interlocutor; bones, Charles Clifton and Joey Crum; tambo, and Joey Shoecraft. The singing of George Henderson and David Lawrence deserves mention. A large audience was present. Dancing was indulged in until 2:30. Armant's orchestra played. The Women's Federation which is now in session at Milwaukee, continues to wrestle with the color line. But they had better be spending their time in devising a way to prevent their white sisters, comprising the four hundred of New York from drinking whiskey and going to the devil. All honor to those noble and broad-minded white women of the fair state of Utah and of the other sections of the country who have possessed the courage to stand by Mrs. Josephine Buffin the colored delegate. MICROBES IN HOLY WATER. The Rome correspondent of the Lancet recently made the suggestion that the salt which from the earliest ages has been mingled with the water used for ceremonial purposes should be modified so as to make it a true disinfectant. Salt, as the best known and probably the earliest used substance for preventing decay, was most likely added originally purely from its symbolic meaning, though possibly the symbolism, as in so many other instances, grew side by side with the literal meaning, says the Lancet. According to the Catholic Times of Dec. 29, 1899, the Osservatore Romano does not fall in with our correspondent's suggestion, avowing that the water, being holy, needs no human treatment, and has never hitherto been regarded as a channel of disease. The Catholic Times goes on in the following eminently sensible fashion: "God has given us intelligence to use, and even when He blesses requires us to take the ordinary precautions which reason suggests. The argument that no change is necessary because the necessity for it has not been suspected before now cuts at the ground of improvement." We are glad to be able to note these remarks in our contemporary as showing the accordance of common sense lay opinion with that of scientific men. We have previously pointed out how the church has always taken cognizance of men's bodies as well as their souls. There must be no standing still in either religion or science, for in both the intellect is striving to reach heights at present beyond it, but which shall one day be attained, and that which is now dark shall be made light. GUARANTEES OUR TEA. Importation of Impure Article Prohibited. Few of the millions of tea drinkers in the United States know that the quality of the tea they use is guaranteed by their Uncle Sam. On May 1 went into effect the regulations of the Treasury Department which were formulated under an act of congress approved on March 2, 1697. The object of this act is to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome teas. The standard is fixed by a board of seven members, all of whom must be tea experts. Once a year this board is appointed by the secretary of the treasury, to whom the standards are submitted for approval. In comparing with standards examiners test all the teas on these points: For quality, for any foreign matter on the surface of the infusion, sometimes called scum, and for quality of infusion. Quality is ascertained by drawing according to the custom of the tea trade with the weight of a half dime to the cup. The quality must be equal to standard, but the flavor may be that of a different district as long as it is equal in sweetness. As an illustration, a Teenkai may be equal to a Moyune, but a distinctly smoky or rank Fychow or Wenchow of sour character will not be considered as equal to the two first mentioned. Rejected teas either are exported—sent to some other country—or they are destroyed. Qualified examiners are stationed at the ports of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Tacoma and St. Paul. If the decision of the examiners is adverse to the importer, he may call for a re-examination—New York Press. ..... 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. 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 Democacy. Respectfully, Carter H. Harrison. Headquarters of Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois, Sherman House, Chicago, Oct. 5th, 1899. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius F. 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