The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. V. WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA FOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS. THE NEGRO NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE Against the advise of Edward E. Lee, A. E. Manning, James A. Ross, J. Milton Turner and many other Afro-American Democrats as well as some of the white leaders of the Democratic party. Secretary Geo. E. Taylor could not be deterred from calling a meeting of the members of the said league to assemble in national convention at Kansas City, Mo. at the same time of the Natinol convention, and time has proven unmistakably that all who opposed it upon the theory that it might prove to be a failure or unsuccessful were laboring under misapprehensions and that Mr. Taylor was absolutely correct in calling it to meet at Kansas City, Mo., July 4 to 6. The convention was held in one of the large court rooms. Representatives were actually present from 30 states and territories. Men of standing in the race participated in its deliberations from as far east as New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As far South as West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, and as far West as California, Idaho, Indian Territory, Montana, Minnesota, S. Dakota and Nebraska and it simply means that Colored men residing at those remote points who paid out their own money for railway transportation and other expenses in order to attend a convention of Negro Democrats are in earnest in their loyalty to the cause of Democracy, if they were not so, it does not stand to reason that they would spend their time and money in that direction for the fun of it. Wednesday morning July 4th, the first session of the 6th biennial Negro National Democratic Convention was called to order by Geo. E. Taylor its retiring secretary who very briefly reviewed its history since his connection with it as secretary. At the conclusion of his address, Lawrence A. Newby of Chicago read the Declaration of Independence and acted as assistant secretary, W. T. Scott of Cairo, Ill. was chosen as temporary chairman and his address was full of good common sense. He said "There are men who are political cowards, who have not the manhood and courage of their convictions. They still fear their political masters. My advice to you is to be governed by the great issues now confronting the American people and devide your vote, as other nationalities and vote for the best interests of all concerned. "The Constitution is broad and strong enough to protect the humblest citizen when properly enforced as it will be by the party of the people. I make the statement here to-day, without fear of successful contradiction that ninty five per cent of the intelligent Negroes of the country are against Wm. McKinley and his administration, for the manner in which they have been treated by said Imperialistic administration. This league with its thorough organization in each state as it will be headed by an acknowledged leader and organizer, will cast seven hundred thousand votes for that matchless statesman and advocate of the common people, Wm. Jennings Bryan our next President." At the mention of Colonel Bryan's name a prolonged shout went up from the throats of the 300 and over delegates present. The other temporary officers were W. J. Johnson, Secretary, Topeka, Kans.; Col. James Beck, Fort Scott, Assistant Secretary; Theodore Frye, New Jersey, Sergeant-at-Arms; Geo. J. Therrell Illinois; Edward Thompson and B. B. Tully, Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms. J. Milton Turner, Esq., addressed the convention and before it ajourned F. L. McGhee, of St. Paul, Mlnn., also spoke at considerable length and urged that a committee of 25 be selected to prepare an address setting forth the reasons why the Af o-Americans should no longer blindly follow the Republican party. H. C. Carter, Illinois, J. H. Lynch, Montana; J. Girder, Missouri; J. W. B. Grant, Kansas and L. T. Allen, Iowa, composed the committee on credentials. The committee on permanent organization consisted of A. E. Manning, Indianapolis, Ind.; Julius F. Taylor, Chicago; H. R. Graham, Kansas City, Mo.; J. L. Edmonds, Los Angeles, Cal. and R. W. Lester, Gelena, Kans. The resolution committee composed J. H. W. Howard, Harrisburg, Pa.; S. A. T. Watkins, Illinois; C. J. Walker, Kansas City, Mo.; F. L. McGhee, St. Paul, Minn. and James A. Ross, Buffalo, N. Y. The night of July 4 the greatest and most magnificent parade in the history of Kansas City, or in any other city west of Chicago, occurred, and the part which the members of the Negro National Democratic League played in it, will not be forgotten as long as Kansas City stands and as long as their is one single individual left to record the deeds and acts of men. According to the Kansas City times and the other papers which contained accurate reports of the number of men composing the various clubs which participated in the parade 310 Afro-American Democrats with badges on the lapels of their coats marched in the procession headed by a colored band of 22 pieces. Geo. E. Taylor, W. T. Scott and two friends rode in an open carriage, holding aloft a large-sized picture of Colonel Bryan, and it was the most striking feature of the entire parade. For over five miles as the parade wended its way through the human banks of people, they continued to applaude the Negro Democrats and the portrait of Bryan, and we felt that after all of these years of persecution and abuse which has been heaped upon us, and on all other Negro Democrats, that we had been transported to a new world and had caught a faint glimps of a brighter and more glorious future for our race, and from that night we took a sacred vow unto ourselves that nothing or no obstacle could prevent us from continuing to assist in eradicating from the minds of the race the idea that they must continue to be the slaves of the Republican party. The election of officers occurred on Thursday, Geo. E. Taylor of Oskaloosa, Iowa, after a spirited contest was elected President by acclamation; W. T. Scott, Cairo, Ill., Vice President; James A. Ross, Buffalo, N. Y., Secretary; Lawrence A. Newby, Chicago, Assistant Secretary; J. L. Edmonds, Los Angeles, Cal., Treasurer. Friday, the last day of the session, the nomination of Bryan and Stevenson, were ratified. The platform was indorsed in its entirety. A resolution was passed thanking J. C. Chastine, publ'sher of The Messenger, the leading colored Republican newspaper of Missouri, for courtesies extended to members of the league. President Taylor, in his closing address thanked the city press for its generous treatment and spoke in flattering terms of Kansas City, as an entertainer. He said none of the delegates in attendance had any occasion to find fault with the treatment received by the Democratic convention management, as it had passed a resolution in favor of J. Milton Turner, a member of the league, addressing it. In short, M. Taylor was informed by Hons. Chas. A. Walsh, J. G. Johnson and other members of the committee that all colored men and women wearing badges, and their friends, would have free access to the convention hall during all of the sessions. Thursday night and Friday morning the delegates attended in a body. The next session of the league will be held at Ottumwa, Iowa, two years hence. The session just closed was by far the most largely attended and most successful in the leagues history and President Geo. E. Taylor is deserving of the very highest commendation for its success. Too much praise cannot be given to Prof. H. R. Graham, C. J. Walker, Chas. W. Lee, H. H. Johnson, James R. Gordon, L. M. Scholl, J. S. Harris, Ben, McKay, J. B. Gibba, Dr. J. C. Williams and Attorney P. S. Umbles. The last two gentlemen were not on the arrangement committee, but they did everything in their power to assist it in helping to entertain the visitors and in behalf of the Negro National Democratic League, The Broad Ax desires to thank the committee of ar- rangement and all others for favors shown its members during their more than pleasant visit to Kansas City. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. It is almost beyond our ability to convey to the readers of The Broad Ax. the immensity of the late Democratic National Convention. The hall in which it was held seated no less than 25,000 to 30,000 people. It was gorgiously decorated with the national COL. WM. Unanimously nominated for President Democracy assembled in National con M. COL. WM. J. BRYAN. Unanimously nominated for President of the United States by the united Democracy assembled in National convention at Kansas City, Mo., July 4th. Unanimously nominated for President of the United States by the united Democracy assembled in National convention at Kansas City, Mo., July 4th. colors and it was a grand sight to gaze upon those assembled within its walls. Many were there from all parts of the Union and from the isles beyond the seas. At 12 o'clock noon, July 4, the great convention was called to order by Chairman James K. Jones. Secretary Chas. A. Walsh, read the call and Governor C. S. Thomas, of Co'orado, was chosen as temporary chairman. The Declaration of Independence was read, which was a new feature and it caught the people. Governor Thomas delivered one of his master orations and it thrilled the immense audience with patriotism and loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. But, the greatest oratorial effort during the convention was made by Hon. James D. Richardson, of Tennessee, who was selected as permanent chairman and those who heard him can never forget the honest expression of his countenance as the eloquent words rolled out of his mouth like burning brands of fire, which electrified the people and caused them to break forth in long and loud applause. When nominating speeches were in order for President, Mr. Oldham, of Nebraska, nominated Colonel Bryan, and we have never witnessed any scenes heretofore, which would compare with the scenes enacted by the people in that convention hall during the deliverance of his nominating speech. The people were so carried away and swayed by his matchless eloquence that they marched around the hall shouting and yelling for Bryan, tossed their handkerchiefs, canes, hats and coats high up in the air, and almost one hour was consumed by them in giving expression to their unswerving faith in the new leader of Democracy, and as the roll call proceeded the enthusiasm continued and was unabated and the noise and commotion arising from the overjoyous multitude could be heard many miles away from the convention. The nomination of Colonel Bryan was seconded by the favorite sons of of many other states and it seemed --- that all who possessed the gift of oratory and those who did not possess it wanted to throw boquets at his feet, Prince David, the colored delegate from the Hawaiian Islands, also seconded the nomination of Col. Bryan and when he did so ladies stood up in their seats, waved their parasols and expressed their approval of his remarks. To make a long story short, Colonel Bryan received every vote of the 936 delegates present and he was declared J. BRYAN. Sent of the United States by the united vention at Kansas City, Mo., July 4th. the unanimous nominee for President of the United States. A lively contest was had over the selection of a running mate for Colonel Bryan, as there were so many able and brilliant men seeking the honor. But a happy selection was made in the person of Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, who commands the respect of both wings of the party, and his nomination on the first ballot was favorably received by the delegates and the vast number of people who attended the convention. The sons of Illinois have a right to feel proud over the part they played in the Democratic National Convention of 1900. The Broad Ax also feels proud, for the reason that it was the first newspaper away back in 1895 to mention Colonel Bryans name in connection with the Presidency and in the nomination of Bryan and Stevenson, who are both ideal Americans and persistent defenders of the common people the silver Republicans, Populists and other reform elements can unite upon them and assist in aiding the leaders of the Democratic party to flood the country with a light of glory unequalled since the Declaration of Independence made the morning stars sing together. The cotton Boll of Concord, N. C., in a recent issue has this to say of The Broad Ax man of Chicago. It is the refinement of irony and sarcasm. "Julius F. Taylor, the Negro who aspires to be the next C. H. J. Taylor in the democratic ranks, says in the last issue of The Broad Ax that Col. Bryan remarked, "that with the aid of The Broad Ax he would pull through next November," and Taylor didn't have sense enough to keep that to himself. That is the reason Bryan failed before. He selected The Broad Ax for his mouthpice instead of John McLeans' paper."—The Colored American. Mr. Cotton Boll you are not in a position to state, what paper Col. Bryan used as his official organ in 1896. For at that time those who are now connected with your paper were either picking cotton, craking a whip over a mule team or preaching the gospel which is one and the same thing. Can you see the point Mr. Cotton Boll? THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY Throug the kindness and generosity of James J. Gray, North Town Assesor and member of the board of Assessors of Cook County, we were able to accompany the Cook County Marching Club on its triumphal tour to Kansas City. Last Monday exactly 3 minutes past 2 o'clock the three hundred and odd members of this famous organization and its invited guests boarded the special train over the Burlington route, bound for the convention city, and the trip will long be remembered by all those who were fortunate enough to participate in it as the most successful heretofore made by it. The train consisted of 14 palaces on wheels and it glided over the track so smoothly that is was hard to realize that you were traveling on the cars. The first stop was made at Aurora and there amidst the cheering of several thousand people who had assembled on the platform and around the depot, the Hon. Samuel Alschuler the next Governor of Illinois boarded the train and as he did so three cheers were given to him and the marching club by his fellow citizens. Immediately upon boarding the train, Mr. Alschuler was escorted through its entire length by Mayor Carter H. Harrison, and upon entering each car the Mayor introduced Mr. Alschuler to its occupants as the next Governor of Illinois and suggested that he be given three cheers and a tiger. Before the words were scarcely out of the Mayors mouth everybody was on their feet and heratily complied to his request. Mr. Alschuler seemed very much pleased at the warm reception tendered him. All along the line from Chicago to Burlington thousands of people congregated around the depots and stations to get a glimpse at the members of the club whose coming had been heralded far and near. Burlington, Iowa, was reached at 8 P. M. where a stop was made until 10 o'clock. Its city officials and the citizens generally turned out in mass to honor and receive the advance guard of Democracy of Cook County. The streets were brilliantly illuminated for the occasion and the beautiful girls attired in their best finery followed the band and club which was led through the streets by the home band. Grand Marshal James H. Farrell was at his best and the excellent marching of his forces brought forth warm applause from the onlookers. Several of the citizen of Burlington informed us that it was the greatest event which has occured in that city in many years and that the citizens of Burlington were always ready to greet the members of the Cook County Democ-acy. Tuesday morning about 9 o'clock with banners flying. The train rolled into the Union depot at Kansas City and it was met by chief Hayes and the Kansas City Marching Club. As soon as the procession could be formed, the march began through many of the principal streets and the music from De Baugh's Band of 60 pieces woke up the town. Marshall Farrell never looked better nor felt better than he did on this occasion and we know he could not help from feeling proud and gratified over the entusiastic reception tendered to the club by the vast concourse of people who witnessed its marching, and it is admitted by all that no other club visiting Kansas City during the convention was drilled as well, marched as well or was composed of finer and nobler looking men, than the Cook County Marching Club. In addition to their rich and elaborate badges, each one wore a souvenir badge with the seal of the State of Illinois was Chicago engraved upon it which was presented to the Cook County Democracy by the Geraghty Mfg. Company, Chicago. Much consideration was shown us by the members of the club and Captain Farrell, Secretary R. E. Burke and their assistants left no stone unturned in looking after the wants and com- NO. 37. forts of those composing the party and we feel safe in saying that none who accompanied it regrets at having made the trip. For it was certainly highly enjoyable and the club has plucked new laurels to entwine around its reputation as being the most famous marching club in the world. THE LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION. Saturday, June 30, the Watita League club rooms were filled with delegates who were in attendance at the legislative convention. Thomas Vaughn, a delegate from the 30th ward, spoke as follows, in favor of the nomination of John E. Doyle: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention. Only a few moments ago at the request of a number of the delegates from the various primary districts, I consented to place in nomination for Representative, one of the most worthy and brilliant young democrats in the 30th ward. He has been a loyal and tireless parytman—always true to the party and the precepts of Democracy, and yet he never sought or received a political favor, until prevailed upon to make the race for this nomination. My friends, you will not be obliged to introduce him, as he is a native born, I might say, in the district, already well and favorably known to every Democrat within its boundary lines. He is a clean-cut businessman—with a business reputation to sustain, and stands for good government and all the principles which good citizens hold dear. He is an alround favorite with the young element of the party, and it is no wonder, because, he lacks none of the sagacity and practical understanding so essential to the success and greatness of a statesman. He is the right man to send to Springfield, as he will feel equally obligated to all the people of the district, and will command the otes and support of the respectable—regardless of party. He has no political debts to pay and will be found the ceaseless reputation of all and the enemy of none. My friends-if service is to be recsognized; if loyalty to the party is to receive its reward-place upon your ticket, for representative from this district, the name of John E. Doyle and victory is assured. NOTICE We will not resume our review of "The Political Parties and the Negro" nor publish "Facts for Afro-Americans" until the next issue of The Broad Ax. CHIPS. Mrs. L. A. Davis has been on the sick list for the past week, but she is now rapidly imp-oving. John J. Feely has received the nomination for Congressman in the Second Congressional District, and we wish to assure Mr. Feely that he will receive the support of the Broad Ax. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, won new honors for himself while in attendance at the national convention. He was a member of the committee on resolutions and no member of it worked any harder than Mayor Harrison. Among the number of beautiful Afro-American women whom we met while visiting Kansas City none left a better impression on our mind than Miss Maggie L. Robinson who is one of Kansas Cities most popular school teachers. Hon. M. J. Butler, was named for State Senator from the 4th Senatorial District by the senatorial convention which was held at the Watita Club recently. The 4th Senatorial District has no stronger or better Democrat in it than M. J. Butler and he will be elected. Mrs. Geo. E. Taylor of Oskaloosa, Iowa, accompanied her husband to the Kansas City Convention, and in company with Mrs. Ben McRay whom we had the pleasure of being presented to attended a number of sessions of the convention, Mrs. Taylor is well educated and being handsome she posses all the qualifications which go to make up a true woman. 7 WIP promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. Some girls are tailor-made, but the one who seeks an offer of marriage is ready-maid. The new pension legislation will add 20,000 pensioners to the rolls, and involves an expense of $2,500,000, according to the estimates of the pension commissioner. A church bell cracked in ringing at the village of Schleithein, near Schaffhausen, Germany, a few days ago. When taken down it was found to be of the year 1452. Consular officers are expressly forbidden by regulations to report to private inquirers concerning the financial standing or commercial repute of business men or houses in their districts. The rifle club movement is being taken up with great enthusiasm in Australia. In Victoria alone, according to the acting adjutant, between January 1, and March 31, 16,000 application forms were issued to prospective riflemen, and a large proportion of these were returned to headquarters filled up by men desirous of joining clubs. Paris hotelkeepers are waxing fat over the exhibition. As an idea of the rush for apartments, one wealthy lady pays 300 francs a day for a small suite near the Arc de Triomphe; and a rich brewer has engaged a more pretentious suite in an hotel for 1,500 francs a day. The cost of seeing all the attractions within the exhibition grounds is 600 francs. Henry Smith, aged 94 years and 7 months, died at South Deerfield recently of old age. Mr. Smith was born in Palmer, Oct. 12, 1805. The family went to South Deerfield in 1819 and located in Mill River on a farm. Mr. Smith was married Jan. 1, 1828, to Pattle Clapp, who was killed by a fall from a wagon in August, 1880. He leaves, besides nine sons and daughters, 32 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. A Sicilian woman, Madame Granata, has just given birth to five little girls, thus increasing her family to the extraordinary figure of forty-two children. Madame Granata, who is quite a young woman, was married at the age of sixteen, and in the first year of her marriage became the mother of a fine girl. This she followed up in a space of ten months by presenting her husband with five boys at a birth, and she has gone on increasing her family by threes and fours up to the present time. The recently published diary of the Duchess of Fife contains this remarkable quotation from Queen Victoria, a signal-flag for young and old: "God has been so good to me that now, in my old age, I want to confess that I have not any dislikes." One of the greatest generals of Victoria's whole reign, Charles Napier, once made a similar statement: "I never feel angry at any one—beyond wishing to break their bones with a broomstick!" Then, as if repenting of even his laughing exception, Napier added: "That was not my mind that spoke. I am a child in the hands of God." "I named my son for Colonel Blank," said a father one day, "before certain chapters in his history were written, or I should not have done so." His was not an unusual experience. Not only is a man's record constantly changing while he lives, but the opinion of him in the early years after his death may vary much from the world's final estimate. Senator Hoar doubtless had this idea in mind when he said, on the occasion of the presentation of a statue for Statuary Hall, that the state giving it had done well to wait until its subject had been dead for fifty years. He wished it might be the rule with every state in selecting from among its distinguished sons those whom it would honor in this way. Real worth lasts. One of the most romantic marriages that has occurred in Bowling Green, Ohio, for some time took place a few days ago, when Harrison Cheney, who is about 70 years of age, was married to Miss Agnes May, aged 18 years. The marriage was in the way of the fulfillment of a promise made many years ago. Cheney, when a young man, living in a Pennsylvania town and was a lover of one who married another. She took sick afterward, and upon her deathbed asked Cheney to look after a little daughter. This he did, and she in time grew up and was married. She was taken sick with consumption, and too, passed away, but not before she had pledged Cheney to look after her little girl, then 2 years old. His devotion to the little child culminated in the event above A Singular Disease That Prevalied on Early Battleship. Probably the most striking event in the history of naval architecture is the substitution of metal for wood as a material for ships. The Monitor, in the days of the American civil war, not only demonstrated the advantages of iron over wood for purposes of war, and revolutionized the methods of naval architecture, but also furnished a marked example of how sanitary ideas in shipbuilding have had their birth. In the fight between the Monitor and Merrimae it was found that there was not sufficient air in the turreted steamer for the crew, and that the suffocating gases generated by the explosion of gunpowder found their way below and rendered it practically impossible for the men to work. Necessity, therefore, compelled the introduction of some apparatus for artificial ventilation. The old method in vogue for hundreds of years, had been retained, even under new conditions, and but for the striking exhibition of direct interference with fighting capacity would have remained for many years longer. It was in the early ironclads that a peculiar disease developed which, being confined to those vessels, was soon designated ironclad fever. In this affection the initial symptoms were much like those of typhus, but in a short time severe occipital pain was followed by complete aphonia, and this by coma and death. The introduction of ventilating appliances caused the disappearance of this singular disease, and in time these metal boxes, almost entirely submerged, came to be regarded as probably the most salubrious vessels afloat.—Cassier's Magazine. I AME IN A SINGLE WORK. Stephen Crane, the American novelist and war correspondent, who died recently at Baden-Weiler, Germany, gained his fame in a sing's work, and although a prolific writer he will be generally remembered as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, the story of the experiences of a recruit in the civil war. His pen picture of a battle was so vivid in this work, that critics who did not know the author declared that it must have been drawn by a war veteran. On the strength of the story Crane was sent to the Graeco-Turkish war in 1897 as correspondent for the Westminster Gazette of London. During the Spanish-American war he was in Cuba as correspondent for the New York papers. It is the generally expressed opinion that Mr. Crane was not as strong in his descriptions of actual war scenes as he was in the imaginary scenes of the novel that brought him fame. While acting as war correspondent he was noted for his reckless bravery, often being exposed on the firing lines. While in Cuba he contracted the fever which eventually caused his death. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, N. J., in 1871, and was the son of a Methodist clergyman. At the age of A STEPHEN CRANE. 10 he began to write for the newspapers, after completing his education in Lafayette. Old Saddler's Wells, the oldest theater in London, is now, it seems, to disappear, and to be pulled down for residential flats. The place dates back to 1663, when the original John Saddler, surveyor of highways, built a music house, which was more than once "presented" as a disorderly house, or place where unlicensed entertainments were carried on. The "Wells," which were vainly enough reputed to be medicinal, whereas they were, of course, derived from the New River head adjacent, were supposed to be discovered about this time. The place became fashionable and attracted the attention of the light-fingered brigade, so that the advertisements of the period announced that a horse patrol would be stationed along the new road to protect the quality on returning to town from the theater. Later on it got a license, and in 1766 the father of Grimaldi, the clown, was chief actor there. Then it was a circus, and then the celebrated Mrs. Siddons became proprietor. In the second decade of the present century, the water shows, which were long a feature, began; and the "Battle of the Nile," with real water, derived, of course, from the adjacent New river, became a great attraction. The palmy day of Saddler's Wells were, however, in the forties and fifties, when Messrs. Warner and Phelps made it a home for the "legitimate" comedy and drama.—New Castle (England) Chronicle. German Hen's Loving Capacity. The common German hen lays about 500 or 600 eggs in ten years. In the first year the number is only ten to twenty; in the second, third and fourth, 100 to 125 each, whence it again diminishes to ten in the last year. HANNA IS THE MAN. THE ONLY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. The McKinley-Roosevelt Ticket Redeemed —The Great Promoter of Trust Legislation the Whole Thing—The People Not Blind. The Republican national convention has met and done its work. President McKinley, as was expected, has been re-nominated, while from among the numerous candidates for vice-president Governor Roosevelt of New York was selected by acclamation. The platform is a sort of an excuse for the misconduct of the Republican party and a series of promises to do better. Senator Hanna was the guiding spirit in the whole affair, and his absolute control of the party was so evident as to be offensive to even the federal office-holders composing the convention. The nomination of Roosevelt was intended to keep alive the war spirit and to fire the hearts of the young men of the country who are supposed to love military heroes. The ex-press censor of the rough riders is expected to offset the unpopularity of McKinley and substantial statesmen were set aside in order to give him a place on the ticket. Under the circumstances it made little difference as to who was nominated for president or vice-president or as to what the platform contains. The people in their hearts look on Hanna as the real candidate and on the record of the party under his direction as the real Republican platform. Hanna is the whole thing. There is nothing to the Republican party except his boss-ship and his wishes. The Democrats accept the issue. PAST AND PRESENT. Cuban horrors at our doors and the murder of American citizens by the soldiers of Spain could not move the administration, and it was not until the destruction of the Maine aroused the whole people that McKinley and the Republican congress could be forced to take action in defense of our national honor. At that time the trusts and the Republican bosses were timid and did not appreciate the full advantage of a war in the way of army contracts during its prosecution and of carpet-bag government in the conquered territory. Now there is trouble in China. Without waiting for any authority McKinley has ordered ships of war to take joint action with those of the European nations and American troops are on their way to help in the scheme of grabbing slices of the Chinese empire in due proportion to the injuries received by each nation. The ostensible motive in these acts is to protect the lives and property of American citizens in China, but the imperialist administration would hardly take such prompt measures if it were not for the fact that China is considered the richest of all fields for conquest and that all the powers of Europe as well as Japan are after the choicest bits. THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. Gen. Grosvenor, McKinley's spokesman in the house of representatives, is frothing at the mouth over the republican platform. Over his own signature he accuses ex-Congressman Quigg of New York of having "driveled" all the life, meaning and angularity out of that fateful instrument. He states that a plank declaring that congress has full power to legislate over the annexed territories without constitutional limitation had been approved by the president and by the committee on resolutions, but that Quigg, to whom was given the duty of "boiling down" the platform, purposely omitted it. He is accused of giving the same treatment to the plank declaring in specific terms in favor of the ship subsidy bill. Quigg, of course, denies any underhand action on his part, and says that what he did met with the approval of the sub-committee on resolutions and then in turn of the full committee. But these planks are gone, and Grosvenor is filled with wrath over the emasculated platform. He declares that the speeches of Walcott and Lodge will constitute the real platform on which to go before the country. The platform praises what the administration has done to lift public credit, because it has floated a 2 per cent thirty-year gold bond at par, but it fails to state that the bond is at par because it carries the privilege of drawing its face value in bank notes from the treasury as a premium. If, for comparison, a government bond carried the privilege of a free pass on every railroad in the country for its bearer, a 1 per cent bond could be put to a premium of 300 per cent. It is the privilege and not the security which has put the 2 per cent bond at par. The platform "weasels" a plank on the trusts, but two republican congresses have failed to pass anti-trust legislation, and the republican senate deliberately side-tracked an amendment to the Snerman act. The platform prates about the welfare of the annexed territory, but it is silent on the subject of "our plain duty," which the president set forth in his message about Porto Rico. The president is praised for securing to our undivided control the most important island of the Samoan group and the best harbor in the southern Pacific." This is deliberate falsification of the record. The harbor of Pago Pago has belonged to the United States for more than twenty years in exclusive possession, and the island of Tuituila is the least important of the three principal Samoan islands in population, in material resources, in size, in commerce, in location. The platform declares for the construction, control, ownership and protection of an Isthmian canal. Yet the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which takes away from the United States the power to protect the Nicaragua canal, is still before the senate as an administration measure and the Nicaragua canal bill itself, which passed the house by an overwhelming non-partisan vote was blocked in the senate by Mark Hanna at the instigation of the Pacific railroads. The platform favors the policy of reciprocity, but the administration cannot point to a single one of its reciprocity treaties which has not been held up by republican opposition in the senate. The platform is for the protection of free labor against contract convict labor, yet a bill to that end is hung up in the senate by republican opposition. At every point the republican declaration of purpose can be confronted with the republican record of failure. · OUR PAUPER LABOR. About 5,000 women and girls in New York are employed in making artificial flowers. All grades are made, from exact imitations of the most exquisite French productions to the very cheapest violets. The branching and other difficult parts of the work and some of the finer grades of flowers are done in the factories, but fully two-thirds of the flower-makers are "outside workers." Most of these home women are Italian women and children. Wages range from $1.50 a day, which the most expert brancher in a factory earns during the busy season, to the 40 cents a day which the "outside worker" considers very good. The flower-makers work by the piece. They receive from three cents to a dollar a gross. The cheapest flowers are the violets, daisies, and wreaths of small flowers for children's hats. The price for a dozen wreaths is $5½ cents. Each wreath consists of thirty-nine flowers, 468 flowers in all. A little Italian girl who takes this work home, with the assistance of her mother, her sister aged 12, and her 9-year-old brother, can make a dozen of these wreaths, $5½ cents worth, in two hours. For the cheapest violets 3 cents is paid for 144 flowers. A mother and her little daughter, working together make two gross in an hour. These are facts and need no comment.—Harper's Bazar. The comment needed is, that we had better change this sad state of affairs before we take such a civilization to distant islands and shoot it into the natives. OURFORMERPLACEINSHIPPING Says the Chicago Chronicle: Our republican statesmen do not venture to say a word about shipping bounties or subsidies, but they bravely declare for "legislation which will enable us to recover our former place among the trade carrying fleets of the world." They are after our "former place" in this respect. What was our "former place?" What party was in power when we held it? What is our present place? How did we get there? During the three fiscal years immediately preceding the first republican administration—the years ending June 30, 1861—American vessels carried from 70 to 72 per cent of all our exports and from 50 to 67 per cent of all our imports and exports combined. In 1862 American vessels carried 50 per cent of the total and in three years following their share fell below 28 per cent. That we may lay to the civil war. But after that there was only a partial and temporary recovery, reaching a maximum of less than 36 per cent in 1870. Since 1870 there has been a pretty steady decline, running down to barely 11 per cent, from which figure there has been no recovery. In fact, in 1898 the share of the American vessels had shrunk to 9.3 per cent. Our republican statesmen do not trouble themselves to call attention to the fact that all this decline has occurred under republican administrations and laws, except that there was a democratic administration of republican laws for a short time. They are too modest to tell us that. A Good Bet. A commercial traveler with a boil on his jaw met another of the same profession out of employment through the organization of a trust. "How are you?" said the man without a job. "In pain," said he with the boil. "You can get rid of it if you follow my advice." "How?" "Bet your boil on McKinley's election," said the man of leisure, and then they both abused the trusts for awhile and swore at themselves for having voted for McKinley in 1896. Cost of Congress. Nominally the cost of the recent session of congress was a little over $700,000,000, or more than twice the cost of government during Mr. Cleveland's administration; but really the figures in the long run will approximate $900,000,000, because appropriations of neary $175,000,000 were dodged and put over to the short session, which will be held after the presidential election. Should the Republicans win in November, the delayed appropriations will swell the actual total of this profligate congress to $2,000,000,000. Adairsville, Ky., will build an elec tric-light plant. Carlisle, Ky., is considering the construction of waterworks. struction of waterworks. Franklin, Tenn., is thinking of spending $25,000 for waterworks. Waynesville, N. C., will have a city waterworks and electric-light plant. An ordinance has been introduced in the Kansas City council for the expenditure of $125,000 in the building or purchase of an electric light plant. In buying the water plant from a private company the first thing Talldega, Ala, will do is to spend $15,000 in overhauling it and installing an electric-light plant. This through the incentive of public ownership! Do you see it. Mr. Privateincentive? France has municipal savings banks in 458 towns and cities. They have 6,000,000 depositors and over $960,000,000 on deposit. Besides offering the depositors an absolutely safe bank they effect a great saving to the cities, which are thus better able to borrow money for municipal improvements. A London cablegram to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says: "A movement has been started by the London municipalities to follow the example of Glasgow and Nottingham to insure themselves municipally. Fifty-five out of seventy-six local authorities in London pay $58,000 annually to fire insurance premiums on municipal property, while the total losses by fire in five years have only been $30,000. The scheme is to pay the amount of the last five years' premiums into a common fund, the after an infinitesimal annual contribution being sufficient to provide against loss. The net income of the Toledo, Ohio, waterworks department during the last fiscal year, recently closed, was $7,680.85 over any previous year. The net total profit of operation was $92,243.71, not counting $33,145.71 turned over to the sinking fund trustees for interest. All this is public money still in the public hands, not in the private pockets of some capitalists. In addition—which you can wager would have mostly been in subtraction under private ownership—over 154 miles of new pipe were laid and thirty-six new hydrants were put in to each four miles of pipe laid the previous year—as a Toledo paper says, "every department of expense shows that the waterworks people have been very busy in making necessary improvements for the city." The bureau maintained by the holders of public franchises for the purpose of discouraging municipal ownership in this country has been talking about the "antiquated" street railway system owned by Nottingham, England. The bureau has been extremely careful not to tell the whole truth. The system is fearfully antiquated because it was lately owned by a private company. As soon as the municipality assumed control a large number of new employees were given work and new cars and horses were purchased. These improvements were pending a change to a modern system of electricity which will give Nottingham heavenly service compared to the old private regime. To quote the words of the U. S. consul at Nottingham (June Consular Reports, page 184): "No expense will eventually be spared in creating a modern street railway system, with a central depot and adequate suburban service." Nicaragua must be the richest country on earth. Dispatches tell how the people down there have put a tariff on American goods that will make them all very wealthy. The duty on whisky is $16 a gallon; on a $16 enameled bedstead it is $150; on a $7 ice box it is $48; on butter, 40 cents. As the foreigners pay the tariff in this country, so the foreigners must pay the Nicaraguan tariff, and such a tariff will soon make all the people down there rich if they are wise enough to import enough goods! That is what the Republicans taught me when I was one of that party—that tariff was paid by the foreigners and protected the American laborers. It certainly must work the same way in Nicaragua. Or else the Republicans lied to me. REAL ESTATE AND PROSPERITY A prominent real estate dealer remarked the other day, "I voted for McKinley and I thought for some time afterwards that we were going to have real prosperity, but I must say that I have been disappointed. We are having a certain trade activity—there is no question about that—and we doubt some people are reaping a profit under present trade conditions, but that our prosperity is genuine or lasting, I cannot believe. I have noticed that the activity and price of real estate indicates the most plainly the general condition of the people. When the whole country is prosperous—that is, when the great mass of the people are doing well, there is a demand for real estate due to the home seeking feeling and home building feeling, which always comes to the prosperous people. This demand for real estate naturally increases the price, or at least maintains it, and I always feel that a steady maintenance or a steady rise in the value of real estate indicates not only a profit to employers in business but good wages to employes. Now real estate in both the city and country is steadily falling in price. While no general figure can be given, yet my experience in both city, suburban and farm properties leads me to believe that there has been a decrease in the value of real estate during the last four years of 20 to 25 per cent, and in many localities the decrease has been the greatest during the past two years. I would like for some political economist to explain this matter." COAL PRODUCTION. United States Now the Greatest Producer of This Fuel. The scarcity of coal in Europe and many inquiries about American coal that this has caused, and the new export trade to some extent that has resulted, emphasizes the fact that this country is now the greatest coal producer in the world. The production for 1899 is estimated by the Engineering and Mining Journal to have been 244,581,875 tons. The statistician of the Geological Survey estimates that it was 258,539,650 short tons, which is an amount far in excess of the production of any previous year, and probably greater than the production of Great Britain. In 1889 the production of bituminous coal in this country was 95,685,683 short tons. Ten years later it had risen to 198,219,255 short tons. In 1889 the anthracite production was 40,714,721 long tons. Ten years later it was 53,857,496 long tons, an increase of about 32 per cent. The value of the production of 1899 is estimated at $260,000,000, about $51,000,000 more than that of the production of the preceding year. One of the encouraging features of this increase of production and the increase of trade that it indicates both at home and abroad, is that with the exception of Pennsylvania anthracite, the coal deposits of the country are practically inexhaustible; that the known deposits have scarcely been "scratched on the surface." Pennsylvania is still the leading state not only as the producer of anthracite, of which she has almost a monopoly, but also of bituminous coal. Illinois is next, West Virginia is third and Ohio fourth.—IndianapolisPress. "Bread Upon the Waters." The reward of a generous deed seldom comes more opportunely than it did in an instance reported by the Cleveland Leader. It appears that a prominent Cleveland named Cole who has recently died, was forced to leave Cornell university, at the close of his sophomore year, for lack of funds. He went to New York, and began a canvass of mercantile houses and offices, in search of a position. Among many others, he visited the office of a produce merchant, who seemed greatly taken with his personality. The result of the interview was that the merchant said to Mr. Cole: "Young man, go back and finish your college course, and I will foot the bill." Mr. Cole accepted the offer, completed his course with credit to himself and his strangely found friend, and at once entered upon a business career. It was not long before he prospered in a business venture, and found himself able to repay the sum advanced for his education. He went to New York, sought out the office of his friend, and stepping up to his desk, laid down seven hundred dollars. "Mr. Cole," said the old merchant, "if it were not for this money my credit would have been dishonored today. Maturing obligations would have gone to protest. You have saved me."—Youth's Companion. The Crafty Ants Build a Road. Something new and interesting about ants was learned by a Mount Airy florist. For a week or so he had been bothered by ants that got into boxes of seeds which rested on a shelf. To get rid of the ants he put into execution an old plan, which was to place a meaty bone close by, which the ants soon covered, deserting the box of seeds. As soon as the bone became thickly inhabited by the little creepers the florist tossed it into a tub of water. The ants having been washed off, the bone was again put in use as a trap. The florist bethought himself that he would save trouble by placing the bone in a center of a sheet of fly paper, believing that the ants would get caught on the sticky fly paper while trying to reach the food. But the florist was surprised to find that the ants, upon discovering the nature of the paper trap, formed a working force and built a path on the paper clear to the bone. The material for the walk was sand, secured from a little pile near by. For hours the ants worked, and when the path was completed they made their way over its dry surface in couples, as in a march, to the bone.—Philadelphia Record. Packing Was Valuable. "Here's my bonnet, just come home." said the publisher's wife. He watched her open the box, and remove layer after layer of tissue paper. "Gee whizz!" he exclaimed, "now I understand why it cost so much." He had had some experience with the paper trust himself.—Philadelphia Press A Millionaire Teacher. By a decree of the supreme court of Mexico the claim of Mrs. Mary D. Grace, principal of the Tompkins school, Syracuse, N. Y., to the Vacas and Bismarck mines in Durango, worth $7,000,000, is affirmed. The decision puts Mrs. Grace in full possession of the mines, said to be the richest in Mexico. Another golden eagle has been shot by a gamekeeper on the Hill of Rottal, Glen Cove, and sent to Kirrlemulr to be stuffed. It is stated that there are only two or three more of these birds left in Scotland now. The Biggest Simpson The largest sturgeon on record was caught in the North sea. It weighed 525 pounds, but the delight of the fishermen was tempered by the fact that it did $750 worth of damage to the nets before it was killed. It isn't the man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth who makes the most stir. 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. Betrayed. "You have seen a total eclipse of the sun?" artlessly spoke up the girl in the pale blue taffeta shirt waist. "What is the sensation? Is it anything like being in a railway train when it plunges suddenly into a tunnel?" "Not the least in the world," replied the girl in the Eton jacket, blushing vividly the next moment.—Chicago Tribune. MEDICAL BOOK FREE "Know Thyself," a Book For Men Only, sent Free, postpaid, sealed, to any male reader mentioning this paper; 6c for postage. The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise, the best Medical Book of this or any age. 870 pp., with engravings and prescriptions. Only 25c paper covers. Library Edition, full gilt, $1.00. Address The Peabody Medical Institute, No. 4 Bulfinch St., Boston, Mass., the oldest and best in this country. Write today for these books; keys to health and vigor. Missionary Inquired. Missionary Inoculated. Mrs. Ella May Clemmens, sister-in-law of Mrs. Howard Gould, who has been acting as a missionary among the Chinese of San Francisco for some months, was inoculated against the bubonic plague last week, and is now ministering in the quarantined district. 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. Positive people are generally most emphatically positive about the things they don't know anything about. Thousands of Beautiful Articles in high-class jewelry. Send 10 cts to factory for sample package containing one or more articles. If not more than you expected return with 2 ct. stamp and get your money back. Sterling Art Metal Co., Woonsocket, R.L. Roasted grasshoppers are still esteemed a great delicacy by the natives of Morocco. To Make Clothes Sweet and Clean Use Maple City Self Washing Soap. It makes washing day easy. All grocers. The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.—Leighton. OF A FAMOUS FAMILY. She Is the Youngest of Sixteen Children Her Recollections of Her Brother His Famous Raid Was Made for the Purpose of Stirring Up Sentiment. The sole surviving member of a family famous in American history is Mrs. Martha Davis, of St. Johns, Mich., sister of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame. She is the youngest of 16 children and her recollections of her early association with her widely-known tack on Harper's Ferry was not induced by the belief that he could conquer the south all by himself and thus free the slaves, but that he did it to crystallize sentiment into activity and arouse the north to the wrongs of slavery. She has strong faith that her brother will be judged in the future far differently than he has been and that eventually he will be ranked as a courageous character who believed that the only solution of the slavery V. MRS. MARTHA DAVIS. problem lay in war, which he brought about to a great extent by striking a blow. The form of Mrs. Davis is now somewhat bent by the 68 years she has lived and the burden which she has borne. Every dark hair has been silvered; the mouth is firmly set, but the eyes which have beheld so many tragic scenes and the mind which has carried for forty years the memory of her brother's dramatic deeds and tragic death, are as bright as on that day when the national arsenal at Harper's Ferry was taken. She lives her quiet life on a farm three miles from town, with no revengeful thoughts to embitter her declining days. There, interested in the common pursuits of life, keeping herself informed concerning the best thought of the times, lives the youngest and the last of that historic family which provided that first aggressive martyr who carried war into the southern states, and with but twenty-one other men captured and held a United States arsenal for two days against state and national troops. TRAPPING A VILLAIN. A writer on Klondike customs and dangers says, in the Independent, that there is here, as everywhere, a class of ex-criminals whom the lone voyager must guard against. Last year, he says, the man who went out with the first mail after the closing of the river, fell in with a traveler, hungry and cold, stumbling along the unbroken trail. The messenger took pity on him, shared his food with him, made a fire and warmed his half-frozen body. All day they traveled over the ice, and at night the messenger made the man lie down to sleep, while he watched to scare the wolves away and keep the fire burning. It was long past midnight when he woke the sleeper and asked him to watch, so that he himself might snatch a nap before setting out again on the long journey. The messenger was sleeping soundly, when he was startled by a blow on the head. He leaped up, and was terrified to find that his companion was standing over him, striking at him with an axe. The messenger dropped to one side and threw off his sleeping robe and the fur cap that had saved his life. Then the would-be murderer was plainly embarrassed. To be sure, he had the axe, but it is not easy to kill a man when he is looking. He hesitated, and in that second the messenger conceived a brilliant thought. "Ah, poor old chap!" said he, pathetically, as one conciliates a snarling dog. "Cold and hunger has driven him crazy!" The man let the axe fall. He almost smilled. It was so well to be out of a nasty job! Yes, he would be crazy. Appearing to forget the matter, he left the axe where it had fallen, and began to rummage in the grub-sack. The dogs awoke, and the two men breakfasted and started long before the dawn. That day the messenger carried the axe, and insisted that the madman should walk in front. At the next mounted police station, the man, much to his surprise, was handed over to the officer in charge. Now his efforts to play "crazy" were a sad failure. He was taken to Dawson, tried and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment—Youths' Companion. Electricity or Compressed Air. The question whether a street railroad in Berne, Switzerland, should be operated by compressed air or a change to electricity made was recently decided by a popular vote. There were 1,964 votes cast for electricity and 1,772 in favor of compressed air. THE HOME FORUM BENEFIT ORDER. The Home Forum Benefit Order of Chicago, Illinois, has closed its year's business for 1900 with a very excellent showing. It is one of the new organizations and has excellent men at its head, among whom are Dr. P. L. McKinnie, of Chicago, Illinois, president of the organization; Col. Frank Clendenin, of Joliet, Illinois, secretary, and Col. Thomas W. Scott, of Fairfield, Illinois. It has written over $100,000,000 of insurance within the past six years, $45,000,000 of which has been written within the last two years. It insures both men and women on the same terms and also carries an accident permanent disability benefit. It was chartered in 1882 and has paid to its members more than $1,000,000. It has 40,000 members in good standing. Its rates are very low and the management economical. Its membership comprises good people. It is licensed in twenty-four states and has been examined by five different state insurance commissioners, who have commended its policy, promptness in paying claims and management. There are over 2,000 local lodges within its territory. The principal office of the organization is at No. 56 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Cheap Excursions to Colorado, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah, will leave Chicago, June 20; July 9 and 17, and August 1st, via GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE. Rate of one regular fare, plus $2, for round trip. Return limit October 31st, 1900. Special trains one night to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, will leave Chicago at 4:45 p. m. Tickets will also be good on regular trains. For full information and free book, "COLORADO THE MAGNIFICENT," address John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago. The Popular Science Monthly,which was established in 1872 by the Appletons, and which has at present the largest circulation of any scientific journal in the world, is now being edited by Professor James McKeen Cattell of Columbia University, and published by McClure, Phillips & Co. Professor Cattell is well known as a psychologist and as the editor of "Science." A Fitting Retort. "That's a nice new piece about the blue and gray,' said the mother-of-the-girl-who-thinks-she-can-play. "My daughter bought a copy to-day and tried it on our piano." "Yes," replied Mrs. Nexdore, who can not help but hear, "and it was a wretched fit, wasn't it?"—Philadelphia Press. 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. Most Valuable Book. The most valuable book in the world is the Hebraic Bible. At the vatican in 1512 the Jews tried to buy it of Pope Julius li for its weight in gold. It is so large and heavy that two men can hardly lift it, and it would have brought $100,000 if the pope had consented to part with it. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it A Far Cry. We scarcely think the energetic empress dowager of China will lie awake nights because of threats of an uprising which come from the president of a secret society of Mongolians dwelling in the capital of Montana.—Boston Globe. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. 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Many swallows of HIRES Rootbeer are best for a spring tonic—and for a summer beverage. 5 gallons for 25 cents. Write for list of premiums offered free for labels. Charles R. Hires Co. Malvern, Pa. --- New Railroad to San Francisco Santa Fe Route, by its San Joaquin Valley Extension. The only line with track and trains under one management all the way from Chicago to the Golden Gate. Mountain passes extinct volcanos petrified forests prehistoric ruins Indian pueblos Yosemite, Grand Canon of Arizona en route. Same high-grade service that has made the Santa Fe the favorite route to Southern California. Fast schedule; Pullman and Tourist sleepers daily; Free reclining chair cars; Harvey meals throughout. General Passenger Office The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R'y, CHICAGO. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 27, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. ETCHED wealth, old "Money Bags," pps tec The Colored American and The that Geo, A. Myers, of Cleveland, 0., is _@ Breat leader of the race, because neo mien Mark Hanna's snoot and pull his boo- le ‘nose. Mr. Myers no doutt is a amake him a leader of the race by no .- WOTES OF THE DAY. ‘= The coal production of the world ‘Bmounted to 60,000,000 tons for th ‘Year. 1898. ; A striped waisteoat worn by Rober ‘Burns was sold in London the othe: ae ee. = It is estimated that the number of Germans and their descendants In the United States is 15,000,000. = Under British rule the cotton crop o! Raypt bas doubled, and now amounts P'tseten bes 13501, paleoo * bas 13,564 policemen, o1 Jhineteen to the square mile. Sixty * The Foundland sealing season ‘ty-five years, 375,000 seals having been captured. _ Residents of Atianta hope that cir- eee ee ne sine te has been reduced from $1,000 to 9500 2 day. © Ab official return from the British ‘War office shows that the distinctively ‘Scottigh regiments in the war contain 20,000 men. A woman who wears a stuffed bird ‘on her hat is liable to a fine of from $25 to $50 by a law recently passed by the legislature of Arkansas. . The North German Lloyd is about to Start a steamship line on the Yang- ‘tee-Kiang river, in China, to connect at Shanghai with the ocean ships. - , The biggest nugget yet found in the was picked up on Gold hill coo It weighed seventy-seven ‘ounces and was valued at $13,000. Long before school boards were es- tablished in’ England Canadian chil- @ren were instructed free of cost be- tween the ages of 7 and 12. This edu- tation is compulsory. ‘The government of Greece is now more liberal with mining concessions, and as a result mines are being worked in the provinces of Attica, Thessaly. Milo and Boeotia. WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION. The most thankless task in the Jworld is explaining a joke to a person ‘who has not seen it.—Woman and Ar- tist. _ “Speaking sharp seldlom does so much good,” sapiently remarked Mrs. Bateman, “except to them as speaks.” —The Farringdons. In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both partners can withdraw their funds at Precisely the same time.—The Touch- net es as aloof from the scholar and recluse as the rings of Saturn or sun of Aldebaran.—The Waters of ‘What woman can withstand the fas- of a lover's faith that she is sean” if a man is fool enough to it, why undeceive him?—Un- leavened Bread. @epredations of neuralgia, are apt to to our countenances a more Eteuae ase oe cee ef love-—The Garden of Eden. A profound knowledge of human na- enunciated the decree, “Thou Tesebated the beighhors wife to's e ed the neighhor’s wife to a ‘stock.—Diana Tempest. CHALK AND WATER. A suburban paper, giving the details of & wedding, anys: “Mrs. Chalkey, the wife of our enterprising milk mer- ehant, was decomingly atfifedt in “wa- tered siik.”—Baltimore News. “Of course I wouldn't ery over spilt "anid the milkman. “I guess I answered that fool question a times. I would simply chalk ft up to profit and loss.”—Indianapolis Press, . » Bditor—“You sem to have used poor ‘te writing up that little ar- om Milkman Chalker's election to Reporter—“How so, sir?” You state that he has reached high water mark of his career.”— Free Press. > “I gm going to a masquersde ball ‘this evening and I want an appropriate iss," he said to the costumer. “What yO ae “©, I am 2 milk- map Cae oe eens =f Yeunewite—“Some ot the mete r me you_ shways _put Goatk in milk.” Milkman—“Tbet ‘ie't a0, indy.” Mrs. Youngwite—"You ar : L awe have to once in ay instance, after ‘2. heavy ‘Buin when the water's so muddy.”"— - ifs SeizF HISTORY. Fs. iy eg gegen out to see the world. % pis cash. guve out and he had to BARGAIN DAY BRIEFS. ‘Teas—isn't she a peculiar girl? She ‘Wouldn't look at him when he was Tih, but now, after he’s lost all his money, she accepts him. Jess—Oh, ‘well, you know how crazy every wom- an is to ge anything that’s reduced. —Philadelphia Press. In the-rush at the bargain counter @ woman faints. The other women fe- gard her interestedly, but with no- ticeable. aversion. “How extremely mannish!” they exclaim, and shrug their shoulders, and proceed with their shopping. For after all it is the thor- oughly womanly woman who’ com- mands the esteem of her own sex.— Detroit Journal. “Went home on Thursday night and found my wife ill. Symptoms alarm- ing. Dosed her best I could. On Fri- day morning she was no better. Felt worried. Wife dull and stupid. No life to her. Started for doctor. Struck by happy thought. Turned back. Cure complete” “What was it?” “Simple as pie. Just said, “Too bad you have to be sick on bargain day, ‘my dear.’ She bounced up. ‘What!’ she cried. ‘How stupid of one to for- get!’ In five minutes she wes up and @ressed and friszing her hair.” “Woyldn't it have been cheaper to have fetched the doctor?” “By Jove, I guess it would!”—Cleveland Piain Dealer. - PLU SSA. FP SSSt om s There are race horses, horse races and owners. _ Every cloud has a silver lining; the trick is to detach it. All play and no work. makes Jack as dull a boy as all work and no play. It’s a long lane that has no turn- ing, but some turn so much they waste space. There are three things that need to be well trimmed—a lamp, a lawn and a woman. There are some men on earth to whom even hades will be a paradise— if you believe them. There is only one box a man gets into that he does not ask his friends to get him out of, and he would then if he could. 5 : Because a man earns money by it, does not make it work; because he does not, does. not make it play. | THE BROAD aX. ‘Published Weekly, wil! promulgate and at all times uphold fe true prin- ciples of Democracy, but Catholics Protestants, priests, infidele, farmers. ingle taxers, Republicans, Knights 0! Labor,,or apy one else cam have thei: ‘say, as long as their language is prop- ‘er and responsibility is fixed. _ The Broad Ax is @ newspaper whost 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 in ad- vance. Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communica- tions to . ; THE BROAD AX, 5040 Armour avenue. Chicage. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor,Assistant Editor. (Zukered at the postofiice, Chicage, , sovnd te matin) ce | LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1898. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Az Dear Sir—i am gisd to learn of the work that is being done by your paper tm behalf of Chicago platform prin- ciples. _ That platform stands for euch a government as Jefferson ané Lincoln favored, namely, a 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, W. 3. Bryan. Headquarters of Democratic State Cea- tral Committee of Illinois, Shermas House, Chicago, Oct, Sth, 1899. ‘To whom it may concern: ‘This is to certify that Mr. Julius P ‘Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—s pub- Heation of this city devoted to the in- terests of the democratic party, ané aa able exponent of democratic prinel- ‘ples—comes 7 us highly recom- mended, and I therefore } Se commenting Sam-s0'eat Gocean consideration of democrats with whom be may come in business contact. . Respectfully, Walter. Wateon. - Chairman Democratic Stete Central Committees of Iitnois. ot * July 28th. 1908. ‘Te whom it may concern: Julius F. Taylor, whe comes to this @ity weil recommended, has begun the pebiieation of “The Broad Ax,” which, I om _isformed, will disseminate ie © intellectual developssent of the race an@ mankind ta gmeral. While he is thus engaged = bespeak for him the hearty suppert ef all loyal and true friends of Demos / > @iirter Mi. Barrisse, ‘Resiwence, 954 Tumer Ave. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Lav, Suite 726 Opera House Biook. & W. Corner Clark and Washington Su. TeLerunns Maw 1782. ‘Tet HaRnison 51. ry Thomas F. Soully, Attorney at Law, ‘70 Clark Street, - - - CHICAGO. | Room 14. : JOHN E. OWENS . Attorney at Law, Surrz 621 ASHLAND BLock, BO S. Clark Strett, - - OHICAGO- Tacersons Express 672. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY | LAWYER Surre 708-78 Curcaco Orzra HovsEe OHICAGO. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAW YER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel M. 9685. — ‘Tetarzorn £13 Yarps. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeoa, 8 Dearborn Street, camcaao. Boorse: 8-10. m., 24,68 p. m. Telephone 185 South. Dr. Anna R. Cooper, PRACTICE LIMITED # st TO DISEASES OF WOMEN , 2970 StateSt.,, (Eee) 7 ro DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, | TREATMENT PAINLESS. —, Attention given to Calls st Your 6012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago | Tirs. J. W. Ward, MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR Thoro' lessons given u| the er at Studio or ame ately. Terms reasonable. 3341 State St., Chicago. ‘Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for IBc., 25e. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beastiful boxes, eee. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. MRS. LAURA DAILEY. FURNISHED ROOMS PESTRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates ané gee! sccommecations. 506 State St, 2d oor, Chicage, Ili Room 23. < 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 Ere onihand Gesters RR Branch Office, 1801 Wentworth av. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, %mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surrouné- ing buildings, which consist of $-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chiekea house and poultry yard. Fine hog house snd other outbuildings. 25 acres im crop this year. Hay, corn, ona, potatoes and beans. Price clear of tneumbrance $4,000. Buildings alone cost $3,500. ‘Will exchange for clear property in Chlcago. If you Rave anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 6040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to secure activs agents and correspondents in all sec- thons of the country. Libsral commis- sions will be paid. For terms asd Pelephanc Tard: 2 | Retabdiished ist? JOHN J. DUNN, Seo Goal - and - Wood, ieee Ateome.. Residence, 9065 Michigaa Boul, —_—_—_—————= . E. Cantmors rao CARLMORE, HIGHT & CARSON, Sample Room, 120 Fifty-First Street. Wr Roous. Corner,Dearborn Wines, Ligeoas & Croaxs, CHIOAGO. Siticos'Furnisuca.'. Given to Jevbing c.J.BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter fren aoa Tuo Drainage == + ‘Telephone Yards #14 _ 709 WEST 47TH STREET- HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE ¢ ¢ «- 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. EEE EEE eee NOTARYPUBLIC Telephone Wentworth 671 OTTO V. MUELLER Real Estate, Renting, Loans ... Insurance... 646 W. Sixty-Third Street, - Chicago. ‘Polepbone Yards 9 Residence, 113 Garilald Ba, JOHN FITZGERALD MUSTICE OF THE- PEACE: Te aes @. GC. MciNTOSH, cook COUNTY SUSTICE... ome ES eee == —eee_—e—ceeeeee—— 2. ¥. Kumrr, 608 Green 81. ‘Tel Yards om KENNY & CO., Undertakers and ees enry zsntoe §438 SCUTH HALSTED &srT. IN A NUTSHELL By a recent militia order British in- fantry battalions will henceforth be regiments. Spain has more sunshine than any country in Burope. The yearly aver- age is 3,000 hours; in England it is 1,400. The government of Greece is now more liberal with mining concessions, and as @ result mines are being work- ed in the provinces of Attica, Thessaly, Milo and Boeotia. At a funeral of a girl of sixteen in New York city recently eight young misses, her schoolmates, dressed in white and carrying bunches of lilies of the valley, acted as pall-bearers. The British consul at Amsterdam has received instructions from his gov- ernment to buy Dutch books for the Boors at St. Helena. He was allowed 600 florins ($125) for the purpose. “There are no faults in the Other comalee of ms poe. sitio servation of » Irv selves are afflicted with.”—Indianapo- lis News. HEALTH NOTES. A cup of very hot milk taken at bedtime will effectually prevent sleep- lesaness. Typhoid fever is due largely to choked drains both within and without the boay. ‘ The most easily digested meats are cold mutton, mutton chops, venison, sirloin, toast beef and chicken. Green vegetables. and gpod fruit contain certain salts and acids which may be called nature's medicine. A prominent physician declares that & plentiful diet of onions, served in various ways, will protect children from many ills. An old physician once said: “If peo- Dle fully realised what it meant to themselves to laugh, and then laughed as they should, 90 per cent of the doc- tors would have to go out of the business.” POINTED PARAGRAPHS. To quiet a crying infant put it in a baby carriage and keep the baw! roll- ing. Many a woman has secured a life- Jong job by marrying a man to reform him. Y : “The man who never forgets that tie fa a gentleman also remembers that there are others.—Chicago News. P. «) ee a ee. 6 Lae 3 a Hon. W. J. Bryan’s Book ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon, W. J. Bryan’s new book should correspond im. mediately with the publishers. The work will contain An account of his campaign tour. . . His biography, written by his wife . . : The results of the campaign of 1896. A ceview 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 enor 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 Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. - Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago. TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. | ) The Mutual Reserve | Fund Life ot Hew Work... OVER $41,000,000 PAID IN LOSSES. Insurance for the Protection of the family at actual cost E. P. Barer, M’g’r. Juxius F. Tartor, Special Agt. 410 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St. 5000 Armor Ave. — re — UY LIRECT (FROM THE fACTORY- SS ||]— HONEST MACHINES AT HONEST PRICES Sia oC Sees 12 Our machines are the ? Se a St, our prices the i- 4 lowest. Soytee 4 a eS En WRITE fair wanting fae oaviniobae sith CHICAGO SEWING MACHINE 6. Ladies of culture know that the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow is the purest and best remedy to straighten the hair and make it pliable and beau- titul. Sold over forty years and has never disappointed the most fastidi- ous. Try a bottle and you will appre- ciate ite superiority. Only 60 sents per bottle at Griiegists. Reware of imitations. The genuine and original is made only by Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight E a 7® 0 HONIZED OX MARROW Eee Seeiee fesee ae ce Se eee ES = ca is HE Jee | THE FALSE STAR. The agitation of the Mormon ques- tiom has naturally aroused some inter- tere raph throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, om Utah and the Mormons. The latest literary contribution im that di- = | IME TALSE STAR | me | va “oe | - | | | is rection is “The False Star,” by A. D Gash, which deals with Mormonism in all of its ramifications. We will send this wonderful book, which is printed by the W. B. Conkey Company, and sells for $1.25, and The Broad Ax for one year to any address im the United States, for $2.50. Agents munications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Az, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. FOR 4415 iggeronemeenta, located lot 95 byeaas, om Blisabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh. Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to quit purchaser. This is @ bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy Uttle home should avail themselves of