The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS. If all the Afro-Americans and all others could banish from their minds all prejudice and false ideas pertaining to Abraham Lincoln, they will observe that President Lincoln gave Jefferson Davis and his associates one hundred days to consider whether or not they would accept his (the President's) proposition, which reads as follows, that if the people residing in the states and parts of states, which were then in rebellion against the United States, would be represented in both branches of the United States Congress by the first day of January, 1863, by representatives chosen thereto at elections prior to that time, namely, January 1, 1863, that they, the people residing in such states and parts of states, would be permitted to retain their gloves and resume all of their former constitutional relations with the Federal Government. To us it is just as plain as the nose on your face, that Mr. Lincoln had no more idea or intention of liberating the slaves at that time, September 22, 1862, than he had of taking wings and flying to heaven, and it is the height of presumption upon the part of those who endeavor to impress the idea upon our minds that President Lincoln issued his first and second proclamation for no other purpose than to proclaim freedom to all the Negroes. For history proves to the contrary, and it informs us that during the intervening time, that is between Sept. 22, 1862, to Jan. 1, 1863, Mr. Lincoln tried every imaginary scheme which his great mind was capable of conceiving, and he worked day and night for the purpose of getting Jefferson Davis to accept his proposition. But he was unsuccessful in all his negotiations with Mr. Davis and his associates, and the result was that President Lincoln was compelled to give up all hope of saving the Union without interering with slavery. Therefore, if the members of our race who are scattered throughout the civilized world conscientiously believe that they are really under lasting obligations to some one for the freedom which they now enjoy, they had better bestow the greater portion of their gratitude and affection upon Jefferson Dais, for it was owing to his bullheadedness that the Negro finally succeeded in becoming a full fledged American. At the expiration of the one hundred days, or Jan. 1, 1863, Mr. Lincoln decided to adhere to his policy of endeavoring to save the Union by giving freedom to part of the slaves, and allowing the others to remain in bondage. The second proclamation which went into effect Jan. 1, 1863 did not liberate the slaves of West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, or Delaware. Neither did it confer freedom on the slavse residing in fourteen parishes or counties in Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans. Nor did it change the status of the slaves in the seven leading counties of old Virginia, including the cities of Portsmouth and Norfolk, and it is fair to assume that more than one half of the slaves did not gain their liberty through President Lincoln's proclamation. There is another very important points which we must not lose sight of, i. e., the President did not fail to inform the world in plain black and white, that military necessity compelled him to turn against his white brethren of the South. And it was not on account of the great love which he entertained for the Negro. It must also be remembered that President Lincoln was very hostile to the idea of permitting the ex-slaves to become an integral part of the government, and in accordance with his views in that respect shortly after the first day of January, 1863, he requested the members of Congress to aid him in his colonization schemes, and Congress acceded to his demands by appropriating $100,000. That vast sum was to be expended in helping to colonize the ex-slaves. But the greater portion of it was squandered by the President's political schemers and speculators, who succeeded in coaxing a few deluded blacks to accompany them to a new land, which flowed with milk and honey, and those poor, misguided people were transported to a wretched sand pit, known as Cow Island, on the coast of Hayti, and there they ended their miserable existence. That was the practical finale of Abraham Lincoln's great colonization scheme Before proceeding further we must return to the commencement of the war at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers, the prejudice was so strong against the Negroe in the North that they were prevented from enlisting to fight for their freedom. But in the South is was entirely different for at the very outset of the rebellion the Confederates formed troops from among the Negroes and they were used for the defense of Richmond and building fortifications. The third and fourth regiments of Georgia showed one Negro company as they passed on to Richmond, and free colored men enlisted on the Confederate side at New Orleans and Memphis—they were highly spoken of by the Southern papers. The Legislature of Tennessee, and of several other Southern states passed measures favoring the employment of Negroes as soldiers. But during the enactment of all those scenes in the South the majority of the people residing in the North, including President Lincoln, honestly believed that to put the Negro in the Union blue would disgrace that uniform. (To be continued.) ALEX J. JONES. As we have heretofore stated on several occasions that it is the right of every man to either subscribe or not to subscribe for any newspaper. But it is our opinion that when men are elected to office and receive from $6,000 to $8,000 per year by virtue of being elected to that office as in the case of Mr. Alex J. Jones, that it is their duty to subscribe to papers which are engaged in advocating their political views and principles. But Mr. Jones contends that he is too big a man to read or to pay out any money for small newspapers. He likes to draw the salary and get rich from the voters, but he is not in favor of encouraging the papers who help to make the voters. The idea of a public Democratic official drawing $6,000 to $8,000 per year from the public crib, and is so penurious and stingy that he cannot afford to pay out $2.00 a year for a newspaper, shows that his head needs tinkering with and that his heart and liver are composed of solid chunks of ice and iron. However, Mr. Jones states, that he does enough work for the Democratic party without subscribing to weekly newspapers. But the only work we have ever heard of Mr. Jones performing in behalf of the party is to hold office, rake in the dough and stand around and look wise and spit, while uncle Tom Kelly shoves the tobacco in his mouth. Mr. Jones, The Broad Ax has existed in this city for one year without your subscription, and it does not take any stock in your candidacy for Drainage Trustee. Judge Henry M. Coburn, Unity building, states open and above board that "The articles appearing in The Broad Ax from week to week entitled: The Political Parties and The Negro, are of a high literary order and the information they contain is of great value to both the whites and the blacks, and that no other Democratic paper in Chicago has attempted to get right down to the facts in relation to those questions which are discussed in the articles the same as The Broad Ax." We thank you Judge, for the high compliment. John E. Traeger, of the 30th ward, candidate for Coroner of Cook County, continues to perform yeoman service for the party. Mr. Traeger's heart is as big as his feet and he is bound to be elected. HEW TO THE LINE. FACTS FOR THE AFRO-AMERICANS. And now upon the heels of many shallow predecessors comes from somewhere a Reverand Dr. Frank to denounce the freed people of the African race as unworthy of that priceless boon of liberty they have gained after ages of patient waiting and toil. He speaks out boldly as though inspired by his own name and declares that the race should be re-enslaved—if truly reported. That idea is too absurd for consideration. But anything may be said by people who are ignorant of the subject they write and talk on. It is a misfortune that so many people who write and speak for the public are entirely ignorant of old books. All their information is derived from late publications. There are a few old works that contain more facts and wisdom than do all the millions of publications of the last two hundred years. Take any subject for example, say philosophy. A scarcely learned professor of some college or academy will publish a book on it—a shallow affair—all confusion and without system. It becomes the authority in a hundred or two colleges. After a decade of years some other professor whose knowledge of the subject is derived from the book will get up a new book (not work) on it—possibly inferior but a little different and so it goes until we have new books crowding out the old and gotten up by men who are just as capable of getting up books on a dozen subjects. And yet there are old works on the subject and old sources of information to be found—the labors of men who elevated their lives to the subject. In this way truths well established ages ago are finally buried in oblivion and are occasionally lit upon and proclaimed to the world as wonders to be marveled at. Thus Siberia has been lately discovered to be not entirely worthless and unfertile. Strange to say it was discovered and proclaimed to the world by English travelers, by French and German sojourners there some two hundred years ago to be one of the finest regions on the globe, with great rivers and lakes, ranges of mighty mountains between which are vales and platous big enough to contain several states like Ohio, and enjoying the best climates in the world. So of China we get shallow accounts by persons who have never been beyond Canton of Pekin, where ages ago travelers who had lived there and gone all over it published minute accounts of every thing there of interest. The very titles of these books are lost as are the authors names. Out of print the volumes can only be found in venerable libraries. The art of printing instead of preserving the knowledge and gathered wisdom of ages has come to the point where it is crushing out all old records.. It is to history what labor saving inventions are to labor. There are two acts I would like to impress upon our Afro-Americans: First—That no people have ever been able to maintain themselves by those bracing, staying qualities necessary, unless they have come up through the discipline of slavery. The Normans, the Goths, the Kelts or wild Irish of South Ireland, the Basques, the Mantchoo and Moguf conquerors of China and India—all great savage conquerors and all sunk and lost amid the very people they conquered. The Gothic conquerers of Spain, the Normans of England, the Mantchoos of China, are three famous examples of this. Their language, customs, their very names lost forever in the multitudes of descendents from the enslaved peoples occupying and delving in the soil. Rome and her colonies swarmed with slaves at the time when countless multitudes of barbarians overrun that empire. The savages established themselves as rulers all over Italy, Spain, France. Amid such mighty shocks and vast revolutions the slaves as of course became free. Their discipline gave them a cautiousness, dexterity and a suppleness that enabled them to hold on and to the soil, increase and multiply, whereas the savage conquerors, ever restless, disdaining labor and impatient illustrated the old maxim; "the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." The forefathers of all the great ruling peoples of Europe were slaves. Within our own time the last German slaves were made free and the Czar of Russia by his proclamation freed twenty million slaves who are the bone and sinew of all agricultural labor in that country. I particularly mention these facts because there is a feeling of resentment among our freemen and their descents on account of their having been enslaved, as though some special injury had been done or stain put upon them. Enslaved! what of it? you happen by chance to have been among the last to be enslaved. Why? Because you are the youngest of races. Everything in the nature and conduct of the Negro proves him to be the latest development of humanity. His cheerful spirit, love of music and sport, his lively sociability, all show him to be the youngest born of races. Contrast him with the Jew, Chinese, Arab, Hindoo, and you can perceive what I mean. In the vast social movements the review of man's history shows an overruling intelligence leading us to that, "One far-off divine event." One far-on divine event, To which the whole creation moves." and causing us to build "wiser than we know." It is certain that every kind of white or red men degenerates in the hot lands of the globe, if they livelong enough and that the Negro believe that two centuries hence it seems built to withstand heat and malaria. Those regions comprise one third of the choicest lands of earth. It has always seemed to me that our Afro-Americans who have been disciplined, like all other races now acting as masters in the great role of civilization, under the domesticating influences of slavery among the highest types of Anglo-Saxon society have been developed to serve one of the supreme designs of that guiding intelligence that rules the destiny of mankind. They are to accomplish on those hot regions of earth what the puritans and other descendents of the Teuton race have done in these United States. They are the seed of future settlements, whence shall develop grand empires of civilization. The foundations even now are being laid. The domesticated man never reverts to the savagery of his ancestors, whereas the savage man though taken in youth into civilized society and carefully educated even till late manhood is still at heart a wild man and prefers the life of savagery. It requires centuries of slavery to breed out of us this savage instinct and even after that we are found clinging to many of the worst customs of barbarism in the management of nation affairs. Now the Afro-Americans are the inheritors of the highest civilization to which man as yet has ever attained. Everything that human art, skill, genius, toil and care have evolved for humanity is as much theirs as ours. They are in, and of the highest enlightenment that has ever dawned upon the world. They are Anglo-Saxon Americans the same as all the remainder of us. And there are ten millions in number and increasing pro-rata with all other occupants of this country. They are not French, Spaniards or Portuguese Negros, but the Yankee Negros. How much they may become mixed up with the whites in time is a question, but I believe that two centuries hence it shall be difficult to find a pure blooded black man on this continent. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands will have made settlements and founded colonies in other lands and will be accomplishing the grand destiny of the race. Hudreds of ambitious leaders will go thither eager to immortalize their names. And it may become the case that this last race shall be first. Who knows? Bear in mind that since all recorded time no other race black or white has had such an education as yours of the Anglo-Saxon Negro people. You have been developed out of savagery along with enlightened Christianity, free institutions, railways, telegraphs and all the supreme inventions labors and arts of man. And these are all your very own. I desire to continue this in another article devoted to the second point I referred to. And I hope that such men as Booker T. Washington and the edit- or of this paper and others will cast any portions of them upon the attention of the masses of their people, if they shall see fit. For I believe the masses have little idea of the importance of their position. They should be proud of it. CHIPS. The trolley party which is to be given by the Lyceum of Grace Church next Tuesday night promises to be a very swell society event. The ladies of the Phyllis Wheatly Club and their friends will picnic at Washington Park Thursday, July 19. A delightful time is anticipated. Miss Susie Brent, a popular school teacher of Quincy, Ill., is in the city, visiting her brother, Mr. Joseph Bren' of 593 Fulton street. Mrs. Moore, of 5115 Armour avenue, was removed to her former home in Ohio last week, in the hope of recovering from her illness. Mrs. Ella Darling, 4840 Dearborn street, has been seriously ill for the past two weeks. Her many friends hope to see her restored to health soon. Emil Hoechster, the old Democratic war-horse, of the 6th Congressional District is again in the saddle, and this time he feels sure of riding into Congress. Last Friday, the 8th Battalion of Illinois National Guard, under Major John R. Marshall, left for the annual encampment at Springfield. They will return to the City today. Rev. R. C. Ransom, pastor of Bethel Church, has been appointed by Bishop Grant, superintendent of the Institutional Church, on Dearborn street, near 38th, recently acquired by the A. M. E. connection. There are a lot of numbskulls, who don't seem to understand the true meaning of 16 to 1. That is just as esimple as rolling off a log. It means 16 votes for Col. Wm. J. Bryan and 1 for President McKinley. John E. Doyle, nominee for member of the Legislature, is one of the best and brightest young business men of the 30th ward, and he will make a very creditable legislator. Mr. Doyle is engaged in the real estate business on Halsted street, near Garfield bou. Frank D. Comerford, who has been nominated for State Senator from the Second Senatorial District is well known to the people residing in his district. Mr. Comerford is a clean and useful citizen and if elected he can perform good service for the state. Congressman George P. Foster will again return to Congress from the Third Congressional District. The Congressman has made for a new member of that body a good record and in the next House he will be in a better position to stir the brethren up. Last Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Wells, celebrated the 20th anniversary of their wedding at their residence, 5059 Dearborn street. Many valuable gifts in china were received as tokens of congratulations from the hosts of friends who were present. Leon Horstein, of the 34th ward, is one of Chicago's ablest lawyers and he has been nominated to make the race for Congress from the 1st district and while Mr. Horstein has many odds against him, nevertheless he will make a persistent effort to win out. D. C. Dunbar, County Clerk of Salt Lake County, Utah, who stands high in the councils of the Democratic party, attended the convention. Mr. Dunbar is one of our old friends and we were delighted to see him selected as a member of the Democratic National Committee. The Negro National Democratic League at its convention at Kansas City passed a resolution instructing President Geo. E. Taylor to write a letter warning the public not to pay any money to Geo. Chivis, who claims to reside in Chicago or Indianapolis, Ind., on account of the league. Mr. Chivis has collected money from var- NO. 38. ious persons by using the league's name, and hereafter President Taylor and the other officers will make an effort to check him up. The Visitor, of Grace Presbyeian Church for July, contained an excellent cut and sketch of the popular baritone, Mr. Pedro T. Tinsley. Next Tuesday, a special train over the Rock Island railroad will carry the Knight of Pythias to their annual conclave at Peoria. Judge Samuel R. Thurman, of Provo, Utah, who is a friend and reader of The Broad Ax, attended the Kansas City convention. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1896 and he has not lost faith in our Ax, nor in Col. Wm. J. Bryan. United States Senator J. L. Rawlins, of Salt Lake City, Utah, led the Utah delegation at Kansas City, and he was an infledgeable worker. He was a member of the committee on resolutions and his council and advice was sought by his associates. The Senator is looking well and he stands will with The Broad Ax. Willis J. Abbott, head of the Democratic National Press Bureau, made many friends during his visit to Kansas City, and he was a familiar figure to all who frequented the national committee rooms and the convention hall. Mr. Abbott was very much pleased with the showing made by the colored Democrats. Last Tuesday evening, the young ladies and gentlemen of class No. 4, of Grace Presbyterian Sunday School, held a class entertainment at the residence of Mrs. Laura Dyson, 3715 Dearborn street. A thoroughlhy enjoyable evening was spent. Credit for the success of the affair is due Miss Sadie Richardson and Mr. George Ayers, who managed it. James McAndrews will go to Congress from the 4th district, Mr. McAndrews is one of the best members of Mayor Harrison's cabinet and while he will be greatly missed around the City Hall. But his friends will have the consolation of knowing that with his great ability he can accomplish much good for Chicago in the hails of Congress. Miss Laura French who has been visiting in England for the past year, has returned to the city, and is at home at 4838 Evans avenue. Among the graduates of the Art Institute of Chicago at Fullerton Memorial Hall recently, was Miss Minnie C. Kelly. Miss Kelly is a native of Paducah, Ky. and a graduate of Tuskegee Industrial Institute. Before taking up her studies in Chicago Miss Kelly lived in St. Louis. J. B. O'Connell, of the great legal firm of Devine and O'Connell, Reaper Block, is one of the best friends of the Afro-American race, while Mr. O'Connell was assistant city attorney he showed his friendship for the race in mnay ways and was ever ready to assist them in getting out of truoble, and The Broad Ax hopes to see him honored politically by the party, for he is a good lawyer and loyal Democrat. It appears that most of the leading colored Republicans of this city, who attended the Philadelphia convention acted as servants while in the city of brotherly love, and yet they desire to set themselves up as leaders of the race. It can be said however that none of the colored Democrats of Ch'cago, who visited Kansas City during the convention played the part of servants outside of one individual, whose name we will not mention here. Wednesday night of the national convention, after everybody had become exhausted over the excitement over the nomination of Col. Bryan and while there was a lull in the prose dings a white lady, very handsamely costumed occupied a seat in front of us in the convention hall and to our great surprise she unfolded The Boad Ax, containing the portraits of Col. and Mrs. Bryan and in the midst of 30,000 people she sat there and real it. It was our intention of presenting the lady with our card and ascertaining her name. But our modesty forbid us doing so. Will 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. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. To meet the great demand for new guns the royal gun factory of Woolwich, England, is being enlarged. A war balloon, such as is used at the present operations, can be inflated and floated in not more than twenty minutes. Owing to the stubborn resistance of the Sultan the cities of the west coast of Morocco are still without telegraphic connection. A special service for the detection of gambling has been organized by the police of Vienna, Austria. The police seek for offenders not only in cafes, but also in clubs and private apartments. Reports just received from the White-House-Harrison expedition to Abyssinia, which safely returned to Mombasa, on the east coast of Africa, on June 10, shows that the explorers found the districts around Lake Rudolph and Stephanie deserted, and that the inhabitants had either died or left the country. It is added that the kraals were discovered to be full of skeletons. Scientists are much perplexed over the finding of a curious chain in the ruins of a house at Pompeii, and none of the wise men has as yet been able to give any idea as to the uses of the article. Further research may show that the Roman matrons were accustomed to chain their husbands to the wall when the Gracchian League of Advanced Femininity held its weekly meetings. The first place at which one of the census-takers in the District of Columbia called on the morning of June 1 was the executive mansion. The president's secretary was prepared to tell him Mr. McKinley's age at his last birthday, his color, occupation, and whether he could write and speak English. The president is one man in the country whose census questions a great many other people could answer for him with reasonable accuracy. Nine out of ten travelers would tell inquirers that the roughest piece of water is that cruel stretch in the English channel, and nine out of ten travelers would say what was not true. In reality the "wickedest bit of sea" is not in the Dover straits; or in yachting, for example, from St. Jean de Luiz up to Pauillac; or across the Mediterranean race from Cadiz to Tangiers. Nor is it in rounding Cape Horn, where there is what sailors call a "true" sea. The "wickedest sea" is encountered in rounding the Cape of Good Hope for the eastern ports of Cape Colony. According to the annual report of the British comptroller-general of patients, a number of new acts have been passed in Japan to amend the law of patents, designs and trade marks. Under these acts the duration of a patent is fixed at fifteen years, and of the copyright of a design ten years, subject to the payment of annual fees. The term of protection obtained by registration of a trade mark is fixed at twenty years, except in the case of trade marks previously registered abroad, where the term is the same as that for which the original registration is valid. M. Leuret, the French manufacturer of artificial pearls from fish scales,says that he will come to the United States and erect works as soon as he hears of a locality where the right kind of scales can be had in large quantities. It is suggested that a suitable place might be found on the St. Lawrence river, among the Thousand Islands. The scales should be small and have a silver sheen. The brighter they are the higher price they will command. The scales should be removed while the fish are alive if possible. Twenty-five thousand pounds of these scales can be used a year. It is anticipated that twice that quantity may be used in a few years. A timely warning is sounded against any wholesale rush of fortune-seekers to South Africa. The ending of the war and the absorption of the Boer states into the British Empire will doubtless stimulate migration to those regions and will also increase the opportunities of profitable settlement there. But it will not be prudent for any one to go thither without some capital, or at least sufficient resources to maintain him for some time in independence of anything he may or may not do there. It is an expensive country to live in, and the gold mines and other sources of profit can be worked only at considerable expense. It is a country in which capital will find profitable investment, but not one in which the penniless adventurer is likely to A scene in real life recalling in some respects the famous divorcement depicted by Israel Zangwill in his "Children of the Ghetto," was enacted in Baltimore when Mrs. Lena G. Wolf was granted a divorce according to rabbinical law from her husband, Maurice Wolf, says the Baltimore Sun. The trial took place at 653 West Lombard street, the residence of Rev. Dr. S. Shaffer, rabbi of the Green street synagogue. A suit for divorce between the couple is now pending in the civil courts of that city. The old Talmudic law, however, requires those persons who have been married according to the orthodox Hebrew ritual to be divorced also by the religious law. For this reason Mrs. Wolf inclested on securing the religious divorce. Had Mrs. Wolf neglected to get the religious divorce she could not be remarried by an orthodox rabbi, even if the divorce had been granted in the civil courts. The judges were assured that the action in the civil courts would result in Mrs. Wolf being granted a divorce. Mr. Wolf was much affected by the proceedings, and, before the trial was concluded, was so overcome that he fainted. Ten persons are required to be present at the trial for a religious divorce. Three of them serve as judges. The judges at the trial were Rev. Dr. Shaffer, Rabbi H. Bearman and Mr. L. Strauss. The law requires also that the writing of the divorcebe in ancient Hebraic characters. As Mr. Wolf was unable to perform the task a skilled Hebrew writer, Mr. Isaac Cohn, wrote the decree. One of the remaining persons served as a substitute for the husband in delivering the writing of divorcement from him to his wife. Two of the witnesses were required to sign the decree, and the three remaining persons served as witnesses. The judges did not hear the evidence in the case in detail, but confined themselves to accepting the general statement made by the wife, who said she had found it impossible to live with her husband. The husband assented to the granting of the decree. After considering the case the judges decided to grant the divorce. If a civil decree is also granted both will be permitted to marry again. The trial lasted about two hours. A WONDERFUL MEMORY. What is undoubtedly the most remarkable memory on record is that of R. C. Gill, the veteran superintendent of models in the patent office at Washington. Mr. Gill has charge of 400,000 models of United States inventions granted during a period of over 100 years. These embrace the most complicated pieces of machinery and the most fanciful and intricate novelties, the workings of any half dozen of which would tax any ordinary brain to remember, yet Mr. Gill has such a wonderful mind that he not only comprehends immediately the mechanism of any intricate model whenever it is brought into his office, but he can also describe off-hand the mechanism of anyone of the old models when he is called upon to do so. Not only this, but almost invariably he can tell without consulting records, the name of the inventor of each model and in what year it was patented. Mr. Gill has been in the patent office for more than a quarter of a century, and has written a number of useful pamphlets about inventions. He has served in every commission which the United States has appointed within the past twenty-five years to prepare patent 1 R.C.GILL office exhibits for different world's fair expositions which have taken place within that time. Liability Insurance A striking feature of the recent development of the insurance business is the expansion of casualty and liability insurance. The New York Commercial in a recent issue enumerates some of the principal departments, including employers' liability insurance, fidelity and trust, public liability insurance, elevator liability, horse and vehicle liability, sprinkler insurance, health insurance, plate glass, burglar and steam boiler insurance. The employers' liability insurance is the most important of these, one company having written policies last year aggregating more than $275,000,000. There are forty such companies, with gross assets of $50,000,000, which is an increase of $28,000,000 within five years. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, when asked recently what he had been reading of late, replied: "For serious work, David Harum'; for light reading and amusement, I've been going through Gibbon again." WHY ALL THIS FUSS OVER IN CHINA. England's Chestnuts Simply Being Raked Out of the Fire by Uncle Sam's Soldiers—Missionaries Are Far Away from the Seat of War. (Washington Letter.) The Republican platform lamely excuses the refusal of the administration and the Republican party to express sympathy for the Boer republics struggling to maintain their liberty, by claiming that it has been the unbroken policy of this country not to intervene in European controversies. It was the first time in American history that a republic struggling to maintain its liberty or any people struggling for independence against despotic power has failed to receive the official assurance of American sympathy. But how does it compare with the administration's interference in China? The weak excuse is put forth that American troops and ships are being sent there to protect the lives of American citizens and to protect American interests. But the cold fact is that the lives of American missionaries have been more endangered by the attempt of foreign troops to force their way to Pekin than by the Boxers themselves. Practically all of the American missionaries took timely warning and escaped to the coast. Nine-tenths of the American missions are far remote from the points where the troops are operating. It is recognized that it is the duty of this government to protect the lives of American citizens abroad, but there are over two hundred claims of American citizens against foreign governments for injury to person, for loss of life and for destruction of property. These claims are sleeping on the dusty shelves of the state department. The fact is that this excuse of protecting American interests and American lives is the veriest mask of hypocrisy. McKinley has gone into China to help save Great Britain's waning prestige. Outside of her naval forces, Great Britain hasn't a regiment of white troops in China. Her forces are practically all troops from India, and even these are limited owing to the imminent danger of a tremendous racial revolution against British rule in that unhappy plague and famine-stricken country. Every paper in Europe points out that the American forces in China are acting under orders from London rather than from Washington. The force that was intrusted to the leadership of Admiral Seymour to go to the relief of the legations at Pekin met the usual fate of British generalship, and blundered into an ambuscade of Boxers. It was finally forced to retreat on Tein-Tsin. As it was, the foresight of the American commander, Capt. McCalla, saved the whole brigade from annihilation. He insisted on taking two weeks' supplies for his forces, while the rest had but five days' provisions. These supplies were all that enabled the troops to withstand the fifteen days of marching and fighting to which they were subjected. It is apparent that every effort is being made, especially by Great Britain, to keep the actual facts from the public, and to furnish garbled, distorted and colored reports. The cables are all under British control, and the same game is being played over the Chinese situation that has been played for the last twelve months in South Africa. All the viceroys of China have united with the imperial government in pointing out the danger of this foreign invasion, yet the protest is treated with contempt, and Secretary Hay outHerods the English by storming at Minister Wu, the most intelligent; and cultivated Chinaman ever accredited to the United States, and has threatened to send him his passports. There are Chinese ministers at every European court, but no European power has made such a threat to them. Why all this truculence? It is necessary to save McKinley's face, and to play politics by distracting public attention from the troubles in the Philippines, in Cuba, in Porto Rico and at home. McKinley has gone to Canton and Hanna announces that the active Republican campaign will not begin before August. There is reason for this. In the first place, he wants to fry a lot of fat, and he wants to have the political situation clear up. Prosperity is the principal card in the Republican program, and prosperity is waning with great rapidity for everybody except the trusts. The iron market, which is always the best indication of commercial and industrial activity has slumped to the bottom. Pig iron has dropped from $26 a ton to $17, and scarcely a purchase is made at the bottom figure. Over thirty furnaces have gone out of blast, and twice as many more will shut down in July. Wheat has gone up because the crop in the three states of Minnesota and North and South Dakota has practically been destroyed. Cotton has gone up because the tremendous floods and rains of southern Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi have reduced the crop prospects a million bales. The shoe business is the best possible barometer of individual prosperity, and it is in worse condition than any time in ten years. It is estimated that over one-third of the shoe shops in the United States are now closed down. It is a well-known fact that inter national industrial and trade disturbances always react on the party in power. The country has all three, and it is a bad year for McKinley. JACKSON DAY. NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM, "To ten millions of the human race there was given 'a new birth of freedom' and to the American people 'a new and noble responsibility.'" Sounds well, doesn't it? It's out of the Republican platform. But is it true? Has a new birth of freedom been given ten millions of the human race? If there has, and Mr. McKinley did it, he deserves re-election. But let's see if he did. To begin with Porto Rico. That island was peaceful. It did not rebel at Spain. It was accorded representation in the Spanish cortes. It had municipal home rule and a home government of the province. It enjoyed free trade with Spain, and the country was prosperous. When Miles landed he was welcomed by the populace. He promised them American liberty under the American flag. Gen. Miles was conscientious and is not to be blamed for the outcome. But what have we given them? We have quartered our troops on them without their consent. We maintained our military satrapy, which has taken place of their provincial government. We have denied them representation in our American congress. We refuse them a territorial government, and, as a crowning infamy in the chapter of tryannies, have impoverished their people by a discriminating protective tariff. What crmes have been committed in liberty's name! If this is the freedom which the Republican party claims to have extended to ten million people we don't wonder they cry out against it and sigh for the days of Spanish oppression once more. Our treatment of this unfortunate island people is no whit better than was George III.'s of the American colonies. It is no wonder the added ten millions don't appreciate the "liberty" we are giving them, and that our army of 65,000 men is needed to keep them in possession of this "liberty." In Cuba, we have not yet kept our promise of independence, and in the Philippines government by force has taken the place of government by consent. But even when peace is thoroughly re-established, who could hope for a better state of affairs than has come about near at home, where the people were passive and accepted our rule? In view of these facts the boast of giving liberty to ten millions will certainly be received by the country as falsehood and hypocrisy. The Democrats should demand that the liberty be actually given both in letter and in spirit and it will not only save the honor of our country, but prevent any recurrence of such criminal procedures.—Knoxville Sentinel. SCANDALS GROWING. The Cuban scandal grows. The secretary of war's official statement to congress of the public receipts and expenditures of the island during last year shows that out of the total revenue of $14,000,000 over $4,000,000 was disbursed for salaries, and $1,377,000 more on the "labor pay roll." This enormous disbursement of more than $5,377,000 was entirely for civilian employes and laborers, and does not cover the pay of the army officers in Cuba. And it is to be remembered that our government in Cuba has been in theory at least a military government. A mass of items footing up a total of nearly $500,000 are charged as "extraordinary expenses ordered by the military governor," but just what they were incurred for is not stated. Behind these figures many secrets are concealed. Among them are Estes J. Rathbone's gorgeous life in one of Havana's finest mansions, conducted on a scale of $20,000 a year; Charles W. F. Neely's sudden rise from poverty in Indiana to affluence and grandeur in Cuba, and, more splendid still, the career of the North American Trust company, the government's "fiscal agent for Cuba," with Fletcher S. Heath, brother of First Assistant Postmaster General Heath, as one of its directors. No wonder senators at Washington are amazed at the size and plain significance of these figures. No wonder there is a demand for a thorough and rigid investigation. The looting of Cuba is the scandalous climax of an administration that has been most prolific in scandals. New York World. The Way Hanna Does It From the New York World: Chairman Mark Hanna of the Republican national committee is not forgetting the postmaster's mites. By a scheme centered in this city each postmaster throughout the United States is being asked to see that $5 is sent to the National Commercial and Industrial league, with offices in the Bowling Green building this city The national committee expects to realize half a million dollars by this plan from fourth-class postmasters alone. To each fourth-class postmaster is sent ten tickets for membership in the league with instructions to dispose of them for fifty cents each and remit the proceeds to Mr. Corey. The plan was conceived to get around the law which prohibits assessment of government employees for political purposes. Subsequently the high salaried postmasters will be made to contribute and it is estimated that they will bring in three times as much as the little fish, or two million dollars in all. The lawyer who attends to his own business is a sort of legal tender. THE CUBAN GARRISON. There are nearly 12,000 federal troops in Cuba, and it is somewhat difficult, now that the municipal elections in the island are over, to find employment for this large body of soldiers infantry, cavalry and artillerymen. The newly chosen local authorities and the courts of justice are quite capable of maintaining order, and the federal regiments and squadrons only represent the real ruling power in the island, with no duties to perform. It costs the government between $16,000,000 and $17,000,000 a year to keep this large garrison in Cuba. With vast schemes of imperialism on hand elsewhere, the administration could scarcely be expected to take note of the surplusage of soldiers in a country which we are pledged to surrender to its people when pacification shall have been declared complete. Many things might happen at Havana and in the outlying insular provinces that would render necessary the prompt employment of a considerable federal force. The rein is to be held tightly, lest the spectacle of a diminished array of soldiers in the island should suggest to the American people the near approach of the time for redeeming the national pledge to "leave the government and control of the island to its people." Before the municipal elections the federal military authorities at Havana estimated that during the summer the number of troops stationed in the island might be reduced by one-half. The absolute quiescence of the people in a season of political agitation and the overwhelming predominance in public affairs of the Nationalist party, with which the former insurgents are affiliated, afford additional evidence of the peaceful and stable character of the methods of civil administration in the Cuban provinces. In addition to the unquestioned evil effects of military occupation of a peaceful country the federal authorities have also to consider the risks of malarial epidemic diseases run by our soldiers in Cuba. Yellow fever is an enemy more to be dreaded than hostile troops, and flight is the best defense against it. At least 5,000 of the federal garrison now in Cuba should be released as speedily as may be from service in the island. There should be no playing politics in that quarter with the lives of American soldiers as counters.—Philadelphia Record. PUBLIC OPINIONS. A permanent increase of the regular army to 100,000 men, if not a higher number, now seems to be the inevitable result of the policy of "imperial expansion" to which we have been committed. The fact must be faced before long, and it is better that it should be faced and clearly understood before the country has drifted into a situation where intelligent consideration and deliberate judgment in the matter is no longer possible.—Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dem. The issues which the McKinley administration has forced on the people go to the very foundations of our government. They require a decision whether all that has made the United States what it is shall be thrown away. The patriotic gold man is saying that he prefers a bimetallic republic to a gold empire. The patriotic bimetallist is saying that he prefers a gold republic to a bimetallic empire. When the question of the fundamental principles of our government is seriously raised, in a way to menace them, mere economic questions must give way.—Indianapolis Sentinel. Dem. After Hanna got his national chairmanship back again yesterday, he gave it out that Roosevelt is to have no voice in the conduct of the campaign. He will not be consulted on any important matters of policy. He is to be sent where Mark Hanna wants to send him. Hanna's defiance and vindictiveness are topics of current discussion among politicians. He has now determined to make the candidate for second place absolutely subservient to himself as the party's boss. The governor is not to be permitted to pose as the savior of the Republican party or to become conspicuous. That would be distasteful to the McKinley idolators.—Paterson Guardian. If a Republican congress would pass a law putting on the free list articles on which trust monopoly has raised the price 100 per cent then the country might have some belief in the sincerity of an anti-trust plank in the Republican platform. As things have gone, the people will simply regard such a plank as a display of Republican buncombe.—Kansas City Times, Dem. One Havana college professor was drawing a salary f $24,000 per annum to teach one pupil one branch.—Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Party Humiliation From the Boston Globe: The only attempt made at legislation affecting the new possessions we acquired through the treaty of Paris related to Porto Rico. The history of those "plain duty" proceedings is still fresh in memory. Such a humiliation never before befall a political party looking for reinstatement at the hands of the people. It is bad enough to see a congress dictate to the president, but the servile surrender of the latter in the face of his own announcement of "plain duty" in order to keep the wheels of the party greased for the coming election is an exhibition that is liable to prove too much for even partisan stomachs not in the regular business of politics. ROWED IN 200 RACES NED HANLAN AGAIN LOOKING FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. He Has Just Issued a Challenge to His Former Antagonist, Jake Gaudaur to Scull for World's Leadership—Story of His Victories. No oarsman on this side of the water ever became so well known as Edward Hanlan, former champion sculler of the world, and one of the best men who ever sat in a shell. Interest is now revived in the ex-champion from the fact that he has issued a challenge to his old antagonist, Jake Gaudaur, for a race in Boston. Although many years at the game Hanlan is still able to do a fast sprint. Ned Hanlan is now 44 years of age. J. EDWARD HANLAN. (As the once famous oarsman appears today.) He was born in Toronto, Ont., and learned to row almost as early as he did to walk. His racing career dates from 1872, when he won two single scull races. Hanlan rowed his first race out of his own country in 1876 at Philadelphia, and won three heats in as many days. He also cut down the record for the three-mile course to 21m. 9s. In 1878 he won the championship of America by defeating Evan Morris over the Hulton course at Pittsburg. He also defeated Charles Courtney the same year. The next year Hanlan journeyed to England and Africa. He surprised the people of the other side by defeating their crack professionals, Hawdon and Elliott. In England, in 1879, he gave his first exhibition as a sculler. Over a five-mile course he cut the record from 35m. 10s. to 33m. 5614a. The next year Hanlan won the championship of the world and the cup. The next year he won from Laycock of Australia, previously defeated by him, and became the owner of the famous Sportsman's cup. In July, 1883, he broke the world's record for four miles, making it in 27m. 57½s. In 1884 Hanlan met his first defeat at the hands of Beach, losing the championship of the world through the interference of the steamer Tonki. He was defeated for the second time by Beach the same year. Hanlan went after the three-mile record the next year and succeeded in lowering it from 19m. 54s. to 19m. 23s. In 1887 Hanlan lost the championship of America to Gaudaur at Lake Calumet, Pullman, Ill., A return match was later made with Gaudaur and again Hanlan won the championship of America. Going to Australia once more, Beach again won from him and turned the title over to Kemp, who was successful in defending it. Since 1893 Hanlan has done little rowing, barely enough to keep himself in condition, most of his time being devoted to coaching. He is now coach for the Union boat club of Boston. During his career as a sculler Hanlan has rowed in 200 races, and of these only four were lost by him through out-and-out rowing. In nearly every case in which he failed to finish first it was through some accident. In Australia he was defeated by Beach, but the latter was so rowed out at the finish that he was carried from his boat, and this in his own climate and on the river in which he had been accustomed to row. Nearly 100 of Hanlan's races have been for the championship. In these matches alone his earnings were over $80,000, and these and other races and exhibitions netted him at least $350,000. Spain and South America. Much interest will center in the proposed Spanish-South American congress which is to meet, as now planned, in Madrid in October next. The political results of such a gathering will not be serious enough to arouse any excitement or affect the policy of the United States, but it will be interesting to note how close in sympathy and political alliance the South American states can get to the mother country, now that so many years have elapsed since they took the sword and cut the apron strings. Englishmen have declared that the school histories of the United States are responsible for the fact that Young America continues fighting John Bull at Concord, an operation that never fails to revive old animosities. Fashionable Jewelry. Earrings have become quite the fashion, but they are very small, and, if not in screw form, set very close to the ear. The only bracelets possible with the long sleeves are those of the loose, flexible kind, with pendant hearts, charms or other drooping ornaments. Brooches are still of the long pin type, or in Louis Seize designs, with fine lattice work set with tiny gems. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS How d' do, little men, and women, too? I have come to play with you. I am June; you can guess By my flower-spangled dress And its petticoat of green And my airy cloak of blue That I'm fond of being seen. Or, I'm just the vainest thing! And I flout about, and sing Ev'rywhere, I'm so brimming full of Follow me, you barefoot boy, And I'll show you to a pool Where the fishes have a school Such a perfect place to swim, Full of water to the brim, Laughing as it calls you in. Take my hand, little maid; I will lead you to a glade Pink with roses wild and bright, And a flutter with delight; Where he bumblebees are met, Sipping nectar cool and wet As they mumble, I'm afraid, Like old topers at an inn. Take my hands, one and all June has come to make a call! Story of a Papoose. By Hulde T. Hollands Our house stood on the brow of a hill, just on the edge of the apple orchard, which reached from the back dooryard fence to the river shore. A great spreading russet tree grew near the bank, and it was under this tree that the Indians used to camp when traveling up and down the river. We were well acquainted with some of them, and would run down the hill the minute we saw the smoke from their fires or caught a glimpse of their wigwams through the trees. One morning mother came to the foot of the stairs and called us to breakfast. The first time she called we just opened our eyes, threw the bedclothes partly off, turned over, and went to sleep again. But the second time she called us she told us that the Indians were in the orchard, and we were wide awake in a moment. We jumped into our clothes and started on a run for the wigwams, forgetting all about our breakfast and everything else. We rushed along the path through the rye that grew on the flats, slipping and sliding on the windfalls that were scattered under the apple trees, never stopping until we stood, all out of breath, in the center of the camp. There was no one to be seen, and we thought at first that they must all be asleep, but we soon heard strange noises within the wigwams, as though someone were groaning or trying to sing without kncwing how. We were at a loss what to make of it. Always before the Indians had come out to meet us, and seemed very much pleased to see us when we visited the camp, and now we began to feel a little bit frightened. "Let's go home," said Jack; "they ain't our Indians." "Wait till I take a peep," I whispered in answer, as I lifted one corner of the blanket door. But I did not have a chance to see much, for at that very moment a tall Indian, with stripes of red and black paint across his cheeks, and a long knife in his hand, shoved the blanket aside and jumped out, giving a loud whoop as he landed on his feet on the sand. Did we run? Well, now; you should have seen us. We did not wait to follow the path, but took a bee line for the house, straight through the tall rye and the melon patch. Mother saw us coming, and ran out to meet us. "You had better keep away from them," she said, when we told her what had happened. "They have been drinking, and it is not safe to go near them." We kept on the inside of the door yard fence all that day. The next morning the camp was gone. We waited until we were quite sure there were no strange Indians loitering in the orchard; then we went down to the river. The fire was still smoldering on the sand, and there were scraps of dried meat and hulled corn scattered under the tree. All of a sudden Jack cried out: My heart began to thump, for I expected nothing less than to see a big, painted Indian, ready to grab my scalp lock. Jack pointed to the tree over our heads. A piece of birch bark, tled at each end with strings, was hanging to one of the lower branches, swinging back and forth like a hammock. Fastened in it with strips of buckskin was a bundle wrapped in a blanket. We looked at it awhile before we spoke, and had not quite recovered from our fright, when I whispered: "Let's climb the tree, Jack, and see what it is." It did not take us long to get where we could look down on the bundle, and what do you think it was? A real live Indian baby fast asleep in its bark cradle. We did not dare to touch it for fear the Indians might be watching us, but we hurried down as quickly as we could and ran home to tell mother what we had found. "They've gone off and forgotten it, the poor little creature," she said, as she tied on her sunbonnet and went back with us. When we got back the papoose was wide awake, laughing and crowing in fine style. We climbed the tree and untied the strings, walle mother held out her arms and caught it as it fell, cradle and all. It cried a little at first, when it saw the strange faces bending over it, but mother crooned and talked baby talk, and it was soon laughing again. She carried it to the house and fed it, and then we spread the blanket on the floor, and got down on all fours and played with it for a couple of hours. At the end of that time, just as we were in the midst of a grand frolic the papoose stretched out its hands toward the open door and began to cry. We looked around and saw an Indian woman standing there. She walked in, picked up the papoose, wrapped the blanket around it, and walked out again without speaking, and that is the last we ever saw of our Indian baby. Dogs and Cats of the Water In our country ponds and smaller lakes the cat and dog fishes meet upon about the same footing that their namesakes do on shore. The catfish loves to dig around in the mud of a lily bed, and there the dogfish is very likely to be found. The two species fight shy of each other unless the dogfish is much larger than the catfish. In that case the catfish must run for its life, just like the cat out of water. At the breeding time these natural enemies also come into conflict with each other, for both of them have large families, and each loves to feed upon the other's children. Pretty soon now it will be no uncommon thing to see a big mother catfish swimming about near the surface of the water and surrounded by hundreds of little black baby "bullheads." At about the same time you will be likely to see a great dogfish swimming in the center of a school of hundreds of her babies, each one of them looking very much like a tender little sunfish. If you should toss a stick at either of these families the mother would give a great flirt of her tail, dive and whirl about, until the water became muddy and roiled. By the time it cleared there would be not a baby fish, in sight and the mother fish might be seen swimming alone in another part of the pond. Now, evidently, when the mother fish noticed the approach of a human enemy (for the fish have been taught by cruel experience to consider all humans enemies) she said to her little ones: "You are in danger, so when I roile up the water you hide in the mud and keep as still as a clam until I signal you to come to me." This is proven by the fact that the little fishes always bury themselves in the mud until the mother gathers them together again after they have been frightened. How she does this is a secret, but if you keep quiet for a few moments after having disturbed her you will suddenly discover her swimming near the top of the water with a frolicsome crowd of her young ones about her. It is said that when the babies are very young and small they take refuge in their mother's mouth. I know this to be true of certain kinds of snakes. More than once I have seen a hungry-looking dogfish following a school of infant catfish, and evidently waiting for a chance to rush up and get a mouthful of juicy young "bullheads" while the mother was not looking, for the mother cat is a dangerous fish for any other to quarrel with when her family is around her. When the young of the catfish have reached a length of two inches the mother begins to wean them from following her, teaching them to shift for themselves. But she keeps a close eye on them long after and is ready to come to their rescue in time of danger. Fleds in Summer. We always associate sleds with ice and snow, and the idea of people sitting on an ox sled with a canopy over their heads to keep off the rays of the blazing sun, and being hauled over the bare ground by oxen is a queer one. But that is precisely what they do in Madelira and the Philippines. There they have the novelty of a sled ride surrounded by flowers, grass and green trees, with the warblings of birds instead of bells as an accompaniment. In these countries sleds were used hundreds of years before wheeled vehicles were thought of. Dr. Karutz, a noted German scholar, who has been investigating the invention of the sled, explains that primitive man probably arrived at the idea of the sled from seeing trees slip and slide down the mountains. He at first hitched his dog to the deer that he had just killed, and both dragged it toward the cave or hut in which they lived. When he saw logs slide down the mountain the idea of using smooth logs that would slide over the ground easily when drawn by himself or one of his animals was the next step in the development of the sled. Primitive peoples, like the Malays of the Philippines and the unprogressive peasants of Madelira, still use the sleds invented by their ancestors thousands of years ago. Large quantities of Australian apples will be put on the Scotch and English markets this year. Minas Geraes is the most populous state in Brazil. It has 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 inhabitants, and its area is about 222,000 square miles. On account of its elevation the climate is for the most part cool, temperate and healthy. There is no winter in the ordinary sense of the word. The surface is a great plateau with a general height of 2000 to 4000 feet above the sea. It is varied by an extensive river system and mountain chains, the latter rarely reaching an elevation of more than 6000 feet. In the southern part of the state are several lines of railway, coffee is largely exported, immigration has been considerable, and the commercial conditions resemble those of the neighboring states, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The northern part, including four-ninths of the area, is without railways and is more isolated, self-supporting and characteristically Brazilian. In this region are found the diamond mines. It contains a large population, and is one of the most prosperous parts of Brazil. In mining Minas is pre-eminent among the states of the republic. It has produced, and still produces, by far the largest proportion of the mineral output of the country.—New York Press. Sermon in Child's Remark "The weather sometimes played havoc with those necessary concomitants of religious life in the far west—church sociables—if it did not put a stop to church services altogether," writes Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, in narrating his experiences as "A Missionary in the Great West," in the June Ladies' Home Journal. "On one occasion, in one of my missions, we had made elaborate preparations for a great crowd, which was kept at home by a heavy rain. A few of us who had braved the storm were seated in much discontent in the parlor expressing our opinions with the freedom we all use in like circumstances. A small daughter of the house, who had been an interested listener, suddenly remarked during a pause in the conversation: 'Now you're all mad at God because it's raining.'" Masonic Temple Theater Attractions at Temple theater week of July 8th are announced as follows: Camille D'Arville, 3d week, new songs; Papinta, last week; Henri French, direct from London in a European novelty act; Webb and Hassan, athletes; Kelley and Violette in a sparkling musical sketch; Querita Vincent, songs and dances; Diamond Brothers in an interesting bag punching act; Stover with a series of new pictures. At Van Wyck's Expense When Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, met Col. John F. Gaynor the other day, he said: "Ah, colonel, how do you do? I see you and I are getting our names in the paper a good deal of late," to which the quick colonel replied: "Yes, so I-C-E." Mr. Van Wyck did not think this as funny as others who heard it.-New York Letter Buffalo Commercial. Soldiers' Homestead Claim The friends of the veterans of the Civil War are complaining of the unfortunate delay of the General Land Office in acting on the applications for soldiers' additional homestead rights. Senators and Representatives in Congress who are friendly to the old soldiers should inquire into this matter. A French Warning. We know where the doctrine of Rome and of Carthage led those two powerful empires. A future, perhaps nearer than is thought, will show us where it will lead the British nation, haunted, almost entirely, by a mad dream of universal domination.—Bordeaux La Petite Gironde. Insurance Investments in Russia. The capital invested by insurance companies in Russia amounts to $209,-000,000. The number of persons insured in 1899 was 21,114, the insurance amounting to $35,500,000. Of the above amount $20,920,355 was received by American insurance companies; the balance by Russian. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. 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Chinese Priesta Wear Yellow. Most Chinese ministers wear black clothes. The Chinese priests stick to bright yellow. People on this side the world signify their sorrow at the death of a relative or friend by putting on black garments. In China the mourning color is white. In the United States most people believe that the living have the first call upon their charity and care. In China more precautions are taken for the preservation of the body after death than before, and a Chinaman will lie down supperless on his mat rather than neglect to light the evening joss candle in honor of his dead relatives. In most countries the deathbed is surrounded by weeping relatives, and often a minister and a doctor are present. In China the dying are carried out of the house and left alone in some vacant space to die. Able Jurist. Dr. Leo S. Rowe, who has been appointed to the commission to compile and revise the laws of Porto Rico, is at present assistant professor of political science in the Wharton School of Finance and Economy of the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Iowa in 1871, removing to Philadelphia in 1879. In 1880 he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He spent the four succeeding years studying international law, comparative jurisprudence and similar subjects in Paris, London, Berlin and Halle, receiving the degree of Ph. D. from the latter university. Bad Soap Ruins Clothes Bad Soap Ruins Clothes But Maple City Self Washing Soap preserves them, whitens them and sweetens them. Try it. All grocers. Nevada has a population all told of 45,761—about one-fourth of the average congressional district. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. 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Roberts' Summy House What to Wear. To stamp yourself and your gown a la mode this summer be sure to include in your wardrobe at least one dress that has the double sleeve. The outer sleeve should be set into the shoulder flatly, with very few gathers, fitted loosely to the upper arm, but flaring away from the elbow and cut short enough to reveal the dainty fluff of lace, muslin, chiffon, or what you will that is frilled about the hand into a narrow band to suggest a real or simulated undersleeve. Lace jackets will help to vary a costume also, and remember to get all accessories with color harmony well in view. For this reason it is much more economical to have one color scheme for the season, as has been suggested. With the details mentioned one's outfit will pass as being quite up-to-date, though it may be neither extensive nor expensive.—Philadelphia North-Ameican. Cheap Excursions to Colorado 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. A Methodist Authority. The Rev. John W. Sheldon, the newly elected Methodist bishop, is an authority on the history of Methodism, and has written a history of the Episcopal board entitled "Lives of the Methodist Bishops." Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Vegetables Seldom Eaten. While a dozen vegetables cover the limit of variety on the average table, the earth is growing hundreds of kinds that are nutritious, delicious and easy to cultivate. Some of the screws used in watches are so small that it takes 380,000 of them to make a pound. It is never difficult to find excuses for doing what we want to do. Rat Feasts on Files. The spectacle of a rat feasting on files may be seen any night in the window of a wholesale liquor establishment in Market street. About 30 o'clock, when the street has grown comparatively quiet, he makes his appearance among the bottles in the window, and the chase begins. There is a large arc light just outside, which supplies the necessary illumination. There are usually lots of files on the inside of the pane, and the rat has little difficulty in capturing them in his paws. Philadelphia Record. One Woman's Letter "I doctored with two of the best doctors in the city for two years and had no relief until I used the Pinkham remedies. "My trouble was ulceration of the uterus. I suffered terribly, could not sleep nights and thought sometimes that death would be such a relief. "To-day I am a well woman, able to do my own work, and have not a pain. "I used four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and three packages of Sanative Wash and cannot praise the medicines enough."—MRS. ELIZA THOMAS, 634 Pine St., Easton, Pa. Mrs. Pinkham advises suffering women without charge. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. New Railroad to San Francisco To the editor of The Broad Ax:A large and enthusiastic audience met at Columbia Hall; 5312 State street, Tuesday, July 10, for the purpose of endorsing the candidacy of John Edward Olis, to the Lower House on the Independent Democratic ticket. Mr. Olis is a product of the North Side, but has spent the greater part of his life on the South Side, he has the support of the younger element of the 30th ward. Yours. PERSONALS. Sir Hartley Williams, senior puisne judge of the colony of Victoria, has created somewhat of a sensation in the colony by making his circuit round on a bicycle. He has been on the bench for 20 years. Mazoomdar, the leader in India of the new Brahmo-Somaj movement, which is somewhat akin to Unitarianism, will visit this country shortly, and will attend the Unitarian anniversary at Boston. Sir George Francis Bonham, the new British minister at Belgrade, is a graduate of Eton and Oxford. He entered the diplomatic service at 22, and has served at Lisbon, Madrid, Rome, St. Petersburg and Vienna. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, who has succeeded Gen. Otis in supreme command in the Philippines, is eight years younger than his predecessor, and is one of the best tacticians in the army, besides being popular among officers and men. The first medal of the Paris salon of 1900 has been awarded to M. D. Despradelles, professor of architecture and design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, for his design for a monument entitled "The Beacon of Progress." Judge William Lochran, of Minnesota, who, since his recent decision regarding the status of Porto Rico, who has been accused of aspirations for the presidency, is ineligible to that office, having been born in Ireland, although he came to this country at a very early age. Prof. Gustav de Schmbiller, whose declaration that Brazil must soon become a great state under German influence, has been the rector of the University of Berlin since 1897. He is one of the foremost political economists of Europe, and for years has lectured in German universities on political science, economics and history. GEMS OF WISDOM. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.—George Washington. With the day the light, with the road the strength to tread.—Samuel Johnson. You never saw a shadow in the dark. There must be light near by or there is no shadow. Get out of the shadow; move over into the light.—Moody. That inexhaustible good nature, which is the most precious gift of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.—Washington Irving. He who walks through life with an even temper and a gentle patience, patient with himself, patient with difficulties and crosses—he has an every day greatness beyond that which is won in battle or chanted in cathedrals.—Dr. Dewey. All things decay with time; the forest sees the growth and downfall of her aged trees; that timber tall, which three-score lustres stood the proud dictator of the state-like wood—I mean the sovereign of all plants, the oak—droops, dies and falls without the cleaver's stroke.—Herrick. You reap what you sow—not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown the seed of life, you reap life everlasting.—F. W. Robertson. Ambidexterity in Mexico In the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, the government has ordered that the pupils in all the official schools shall be taught to write and perform all manual tasks as well with the left hand as with the right. Proprietor Calif of Man. The death is announced of Mr. G. D. L. Cary, proprietor of the Calf of Man, who lived a patriarchal life on his rock-bound domain, and was noted for the tenacity with which he clung to old Manx customs. Studies Queen's Farm. The German Emperor has sent Herr Etszdorf of Elbing to Windsor to acquaint himself with the Queen's model farm, so that some improvements may be introduced in Germany. Milk from 140,000 Cows. The people of New York buy daily the milk produced by 140,000 cows. It is brought from farms in New York state, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The biggest ponteon bridge in the world is being constructed on the Tyne for the Spanish government. It will be in six sections and is capable of bearing up 12,000 tons. The memory of Caesar, a Great Dane that belonged to Mrs. T. B. M. Cardeza, of Germantown, Pa., but which died recently, is to be kept green by a monument costing $200. Caesar was 9 years old and three feet tall and was a great pet among Cardeza's large collection of animals. The dog was buried in a fine coffin, with real silk lining and silver handles. On the monument, which is now being constructed, will be inscribed the following: "Erected to an old and faithful friend." Escaped Into Missouri A conflict of authority between officers of the law led to the escape of a party of inmates of a disorderly house at Galena, Kas., last week, says an exchange. Deputy sheriffs and policemen arrived at the same time, arrested seven of the girl inmates and then went to quarreling over whether they were state or city prisoners. While the quarrel was at its height the girls slipped out and made their way safely across the state line to Missouri. Noisy Times in Warren. George Doersam, our neighbor blacksmith on the next lot, makes merry music sometimes when he shoes a fractious horse. With Neighbor Haefly chopping hamburger steak on one side and Neighbor Doersam pounding an anvil on the other, with good old Postmaster Ki in the alley singing a good old Methodist hymn, we are not lacking for amusement when tired from setting type.—Warren (Ill.) Sentinel-Ledger. Stable for Auto-mobiles When the bicycle came into popular favor many of the new apartment houses were constructed with rooms arranged for storing them, and now plans have been prepared for an expensive new apartment house on the upper West Side which is to have, among other innovations, a store room or stable, as it may be called, for automobiles.—New York Letter. Churches Employ Women The University Avenue Methodist official board of Syracuse has a woman in its employ, Miss Ellen Morton. Her duties consist in the collecting of pledges for the church finances and benevolences, visiting among the congregation and looking up absent and missing members. At two other Syracuse churches women are employed. 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, 5044 Armour avenue. Chicago. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor, Assistant Editor. (Entered at the postoffice, Chicago, Ill., as second class matter.) LETTERS OF COMMENDATION, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. Dear Sir—I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform principles. That platform stands for such a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such a government will prove a blessing to the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. Headquarters of Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois, Sherman House, Chicago, Oct. 5th, 1898. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius P. Taylor, editor of The Broad Az—a publication of this city devoted to the interests of the democratic party, and an able exponent of democratic principles—comes to us highly recommended, and I therefore take pleasure in commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. Walter Watson. Chairman Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois. To whom it may concern: Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this city well recommended, has begun the publication of "The Broad Ax," which, I am informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankind in general. While he is thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty support of all loyal and true friends of Democay. Respectfully, Carter M. Harrison. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 720 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington Sta. TELEPHNNE MAIN 1782. Thomas F. Scully, Attorney at Law, 79 Clark Street, - - - CHICAGO, ROOM 14. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 59 S. Clark Street, - - CHICAGO TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE OHICAGO. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2025. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Hours: 8-10 a.m., 2-4, 6-8 p.m. Telephone 185 South. Dr. Anna R. Cooper, PRACTICE LIMITED TO DISEASES OF WOMEN! Office Hours 9-11 A.M. 2-5 7-9 P.M. Sundays 4-7 2970 StateSt, CHICAGO DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago Mrs. J. W. Ward, MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR Thorough lessons given upon the piano at Studio or priv- ately. Terms reasonable. 3341 State St., Chicago. CANDY.... Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for 15c., 25c. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes, suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. MRS. LAURA DAILEY. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR STRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good accommodations. 506 State St., 2d floor, Chicago, Ill 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 YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R. Branch Office, 5301 Wentworth av. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Forty acre chicken farm, 27 miles from Chicago, 1/2 mile from railroad stations. Fine grove 15 acres surrounding buildings, which consist of 8-room hous, frame, 2 barns, chicken house and poultry yard. Fine hog house and other outbuildings. 25 acres in crop this year. Hay, corn, oats, potatoes and beans. Price clear of incumbrance $4,000. Buildings alone cost $2,500. Will exchange for clear property in Chicago. If you have anything to offer, call or address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. AGENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax, 5060 Armour avenue, Chicago. ```markdown ``` 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul. CHICAGO. G. E. CARLMORE GORGE HIGHT W. R. CARSON CARLMORE, HIGHT & CARSON Sample Room, 120 Fifty-First Street. WINE ROOMS. Corner, Dearborn 15 BALL POOL. WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS. CHIOAGO Estimates and Specifications Purnished ... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. ...TELEPHONE SOUTH 382.... NOTARY PUBLIC Telephone Wentworth 671 OTTO V. MUELLER Real Estate, Renting, Loans ...Insurance... 646 W. Sixty-Third Street, - Chicago. Telephone Yarde 797 Residence, 113 Garfield Bd, JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, COOK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, ROOM 610, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. The lawyer who attends to his own business is a sort of legal tender. In the eyes of the bibulous the fellow who carries a corkscrew is never a bore. The somnambulist who tumbles from a roof is an illustration of one way to fall asleep. No, Maude, dear, people who are regarded as the salt of the earth are not to be found in the cellars. It is a source of consolation to the married man to know that there are lots of bald-headed bachelors. Some men seem to think that when their wives begin to spoon it means that they are expected to fork over. The reason a woman can never hold the mirror up to nature is because she is too busy looking in it herself. Nell—They say she is two-faced. Bell—Yes; I've seen her in the morning before she had a chance to make up. First Doctor—That sick man is a conundrum to me. Second Doctor—What did you do? First Doctor—I gave him up. Blobbs—So Bjones has married his deceased wife's sister. Slobbs—Yes; he didn't want to take chances with a new mother-in-law.—Philadelphia Record. APHORISMS. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.— Hume. There is no friendship, no love, like that of parent for child.—H. W. Beecher. To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.— George Washington. Good humor and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over.—Alexander Smith. To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.—Johnson. A Determined Elopor Kansas men generally accomplish what they are after. At Iola, in that state, recently Mr. McClelland told Mr. Sharp that if he didn't keep away from Mrs. McClelland there would be a murder and a funeral. Whereupon Mr. Sharp caused Mr. McClelland to be lodged in jail on the charge of homicidal intentions, and then proceeded to elope with the prisoner's wife. ```markdown ``` Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book ALL who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. W. J. Bryan's new book should correspond immediately with the publishers. The work will contain An account of his campaign tour . . . His biography, written by his wife . . His most important speeches . . The results of the campaign of 1896. A review of the political situation . . Mr. Bryan has announced one-half of all royalties bimetallism. There are a mous sale. Address W. B. CONKEY CO 341-351 Dear BARNEY House and MOVER of HEAVY M Smoke Stacks, Cup Erected. Hoisting kinds of Beam architec Office, 31 South TELEPHON 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 enormous sale. Address Bryan has announced his intention of devoting all royalties to furthering the cause of there are already indications of an enor- Address B. CONKEY COMPANY, Publishers, ® 341-351 Dearborn St....CHICAGO. BURNEY BENSON, Fire and Fire Wrecker. MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY. Attacks, Cupolas and Monuments Hoisting and Placing of all of Beams and Girders for architectural work. 31 South Canal St., Chicago. TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. The Mutual Reserve Fund Life or New York... 100,000 PAID IN LOSSES. For the Protection of the family at actual cost M'g'r. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Special Agt. dg., 145 La Salle St. 5040 Armor Ave. zens Brewing W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Publishers, $ \textcircled{c} $ 341-351 Dearborn St....CHICAGO. BARNEY BENSON. 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 or New York... OVER $41,000,000 PAID INSURANCE for the PROTEC E. P. BARRY, M'g'r. 410 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St Citizens OVER $41,000,000 PAID IN LOSSES. E. P. BARRY, M'g'r. JULIUS F. 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The genuine and original is made only by Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair down above. It nourishes the scalp, proves that the hair falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 cents and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Worth five or more request. It was the first preparation to be sold straightening kinky hair. Dewalts of imitations. Get the Original Gonzonized Ox Marrow, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its straightening and fasting quality it is the most economical. It is intended to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only $8 cents. Sold by dealers or send to $1.49. Postal or Express Money Order for $8 bottles, express, paid. Write your name and address pleiably to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ava, Chicago, Ill. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale image with no discernible content. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. A. INSURE IN THE FALSE STAR The agitation of the Mormon question has naturally aroused some interest in the minds of all classes of people throughout the United States, and much has been written lately, both pro and con, on Utah and the Mormons. The latest literary contribution in that di- THE FALSE STAR By A. D. Gash 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 in the United States, for $2.50. Agents wanted everywhere. Address all communications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago, Ill. FOR SALE A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh Price, $1,200. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a eosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue