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. RECONSTRUCTION AND NEGRO SUFFRAGE. The "Indianapolis Journal," which was the personal organ of Gov. Morton, was bitterly opposed to the policy of Negro suffrage and many other leading Republicans papers followed in the same wake, nevertheless the question of Negro suffrage and reconstruction was brought directly before Congress the later part of January, 1866, by the report of the joint select committee on that subject, submitting the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment. The second section of the Amendment, as we will observe, was a measure of compromise, and it attempted to unite the radical and conservative wings of the Republican party by restricting the right of representation in the South to the basis of suffrage instead of extending that basis in conformity to the right of representation. It has been said that no political party ever proposed or concocted such a villainous scheme. It was a proposition to the ex-rebels that if they would agree that the Negroes should not be counted in the basis of representation, that the leaders of the Republican party would hand them over, unconditionally, to the tender mercies of their old or former masters. By attempting to deny the right of representation to the ex-slaves simply because of their race and color shows that the Republicans were perfectly willing to strike at the fundamental principles of Democracy. It was nothing more than a cold-blooded scheme full of treachery and ingratitude to the Negro race, which had furnished nearly two hundred thousand soldiers to the armies of the Union, and among whom no traitors had ever been found; but this plan of reconstruction was urged as a means of securing equality of white representation in the government. But if we mistake not that object could have been attained by a constitutional amendment, arming the Negroes of the South with the ballot, instead of wanting to have them under the absolute power and control of those who were politically unfriendly to them. Without arguing the question further it is enough to say that no man nor set of men could afford to vote against the proposition to cut down what was called rebel representation to the basis of suffrage. But it does appear to us that it would have been entirely wrong to confer citizenship upon those who fought against the government and at the same time make political outlaws of the Negro. The conservative policy which had so long sought to spare slavery, was obliged, as usual to feel its way cautiously, and wait on the logic of events, while the Negro, as we shall show, was finally indebted for the franchise to the desperate madness of his enemies in rejecting that dishonorable proposition of his supposed friends. As the question of reconstruction became more and more engrossing, it became evident that a great fight would be made in the halls of Congress, over the question upon what terms should the rebellious states be re-admitted into the Union. Some were in favor of reducing them to territories, they saw that states must grow, and could not be suddenly constructed where the materials were wanting, and that mere forms and all laws are worthless in the hands of an ignorant mob or mass. The territorial theory was objected to on the ground that it would be arbitrary and would lead to corruption and tyranny, like the pro-consular system of Rome. All of these great and far-reaching questions and interests which were at stake were made the sport of politicians and disposed of in the light of their supposed effect upon the ascendancy of the Republican party, and as time has proven, their theory of reconstruction, which was inaugurated in the South by the carpet-baggers, was and continue to prove fatal to the best interests of the colored race. As we have heretofore stated that if the South had not rejected the VIV. Constitutional Amendment, and enacted black codes the work of reconstruction would have ended without confering the ballot upon the Negro, but in this instance, as in that of President Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation, for it was rebel desperation in both cases which saved the Negro and no one conversant with the facts can deny it. "DEMOCRATS AGAINST NEGROES." The Conservator, in a long editorial in its last issue, severely arraigned and took The Broad Ax to task for stating recently, that "John R. McLean, who ran for Governor of Ohio, last year, received almost half of the forty thousand colored voters of his state and the same thing can be repeated in Illinois, in the interest of Samuel Alschuler, if the leaders of the party will wake up and get a hustle on themselves." "That which is most characteristic of Democratic principles in this extract is the groundless assertion that twenty thousand Negroes voted the Democratic ticket in Ohio last year. It is characteristic of the Democrat to assume all and claim everything. If The Broad Ax was called on to show by facts and figures that twenty thousand Negroes voted the Democratic ticket last year in Ohio, it would not attempt it." Elder Wilkins! upon what grounds or theory do you construct your baseless assertion that twenty thousand colored men residing in Ohio did not vote for John R. McLean? Do you do so upon the theory that because you are the alleged representative of a so-called religion, whose advocates and devotees delight in crushing out the rights of all who differ with them religiously, and believe in a white heaven? Is this the reason why you are so dogmatic in your statement that twenty thousand colored men did not throw off the political yoke of the Republican party and vote according to their honest convictions. Being aware of that fact that your profesion does not permit you to hew close up to the line and tell the truth on all occasions. Therefore, it is not strange to us that you seem willing to pervert the truth in reference to the Ohio election last year. Studying and reading the returns, and from coming in close contact with several gentlemen who were closely interested in the election of that state last year. We again repeat without the slightest compunction, that twenty thousand Afro-Americans voted for John R. McLean. Another groundless assertion is made by you when you assert that already eighty thousand Negroes in N. Caroline have been disfranchised. Certainly you ought to know that in this instance you have grossly, and it seems to us, wilfully, distorted and perverted the truth, which we assume you did solely for political effect. But as a matter of fact, you and every intelligent man, knows, or at least ought to know, that every Negro voter residing in N. Carolina had the undisputed right, not only to vote at the last election in North Carolina, but they will be permitted to vote at the November election for Congressman and President of the United States, and in addition to that they will be permitted to vote at the final ratification or rejection of the amendment, which does not go into effect, if adopted, until the 19th day of July, 1902. If it is true that all Democrats are natural enemies of the Negro, why did The Conservator urge all the colored voters of Chicago to vote for Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Sr.? Why did it support John P. Hopkins for Mayor and advice every Negro to rally around the banner of Democracy? If all Democrats are against the Negro, what excuse has The Conservator to offer for supporting an dendeavoring to compel every Negro to shout and vote for the late Frank Scales, whom we all know was a Democrat? The Conservator seems to be very much troubled in spirit because The Broad Ax is advocating the idea of "turning liberty-loving Illinois over to the Democratic party. But The Conservator seemingly does not understand the meaning of the word, liberty, in its fullest sense, for if you did, then you could not help from observing that here in liberty-loving Illinois, as you call it, which gave Major McKinley one hundred and forty thousand ma- CHICAGO, AUGUST 18, 1900. jority we have observed within the last three years, Republican officials, in defiance of all law and order, clubbing Negro children away from the public school houses and establishing separate places of instruction for them which is contrary to the letter and spirit of the law. We have also observed, John R. Tanner, the mis-governor of this state threatening to march to its border line and with gatling guns blow to pieces every Negro who attempted to seek an honest days work within its limits, and his hired minions shot down innocent and law-abiding citizens for no other reason than that they were black men. They were murdered in the streets of Carterville last fall and he only winked at it. Let us, Brother Conservator, before we rush to the South to reform it, assist to make it possible for colored men and honest women to live decently in Illinois. [Name] JAMES A. ROSS. Editor Globe and Freeman, Buffalo, N. Y., Chairman National Association of Negro Democratic Clubs and Secretary of the Negro National Democratic League. THE NEGRO DEMOCRATS OF WEST VIRGINIA. The revolt against McKinley and Hannaism among the Afro-American voters is spreading to all parts of the country and there is not a day but what we receive letters and information setting forth the fact that influential colored men in their respective communities are cutting loose from the grand old party which is now engaged in establishing slavery and polygamy in the new territorial possessions and shooting liberty and civilization into the Philippino. The following letter is one of the many we have lately received: Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 12, 1900. Julius F. Taylor, Esq., Editor of The Broad Ax. Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir—Please send to our headquarters some of your papers. As you can see by our headings, we have organized to support Democracy's principles and would be pleased to circulate some of your valuable papers among our people here in the East, who want to know the proceedings going on in the West. Will be pleased to hear from you at your earliest opportunity as we are tired of bossism in this part of America. Hope you also agree with us. JOHN PATTON, Chairman State Committee of Negro Democrats of West Virginia. Elijah Hurt, Vice Chairman; Allen Dehoney, Secretary; Prof. Barnett and Spencer, Hayden, Huntington. Chales Baines, McDowell, Wm. Hayney, Point Pleasant; Charles Smith, Anthony Harris, Andrew Jefferson, Wm. Brannon, Floyd Hairston and Feyton Carr, members of the State Committee. The above men are some of the most substantial Afro-Americans of West Virginia and the letter speaks for itself. They have opened headquarters at 15 Summers street, Charleston, W. Virginia, and from now on until next November they will put forth their best endeavors to secure the majority of the nine thousand colored voters of West Virginia for Bryan and Stevenson. Brother Patton and gentlemen of the committee, we are poor in purse, but whether the national or any other committee sees fit to aid us in our work of helping to liberate the minds of our race from political slavery. We intend to furnish your committee each week until next November one hundred copies of The Broad Ax. GEO. W. CHIVIS PLEASE STAND UP AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. Did you, or did you not attend the Republican national convention at Philadelphia, and while stopping at the Lafayette Hotel, palmed yourself off as an alternate from Indiana? When you were discovered in doing so, did not Mr. Durbin, chairman of the Indiana delegation and the colored delegate whom you misrepresented forcibly eject you from his room? While you were in attendance at that convention did you not praise and laud President McKinley and company? Upon your return to Chicago, Mr. Chivis, did you not write a letter to the Hon. John G. Johnson of the Democratic national committee, wherein you said, "that 60 per cent or thereabout of the colored voters throughout the United States would vote the Democratic ticket, owing to the platform adopted by the Republican party at Philadelphia?" Does not this prove, Mr. Chivis, that you desire to be in a position to say "good Lord and good devil?" In other words: Is it not the height of your ambition to hoodwink and soft soap the Democratic candidates for lucre, and then turn around and milk the Republican heifers for campaign money? Was it not your object in attending the Kansas City convention to work and play everybody to a dead finish? and did you not after securing the Negro National Democratic badge call upon the chairman of the Tammany delegation, chairman of the West Virginia delegation, and chairmen of other delegations and solicit money in behalf of the Negro National Democratic League, without being requested or impowered or authorized to do so? John Patton of 15 Summers street, Charleston, W. Va., informed us, that he was occupying a seat in the West Virginia headquarters when you rushed up to its chairman for money. Is this true or false. Mr. Chivis? Not desiring to do you an injustice, but was it not your desire to ride in an open carriage at the head of the colored Democrats, on the night of the parade at Kansas City, so that you could inform the world that you was the great leader of Negro Democracy, and did not S. A. T. Watkins of this city, Col. James Beck of Kansas and ourselves prevent you from doing so? Did you not call us vile names and use dirty and indecent language, because we refused point blank to stand for or to march behind sandbaggers? Last Monday we came in contact with you, in the Democratic National headquarters at the Auditorium Hotel, and after using language that no gentleman would care to use or repeat, and after showing your ignorance and monkeyism, you informed us, that our room around the Democratic national headquarters was better than our company, that the article in The Broad Ax could not hurt you because no one read it, and it had no circulation. That you intended to wring our neck the next time you discovered anything in its columns pertaining to yourself. If The Broad Ax has no readers and no circulation, why did you, Mr. Chivis, kick like a blind mule, cuss and dam, and show your niggerism in the presence of gentlemen? As far as threatening to wring our neck is concerned, and cowering us from uttering the truth and nothing but the truth, we desire to say, Mr. Chivis, that any time that you or any one else attempts to wring our neck or lay hands upon us, you and they will certainly get into trouble. For we do not fear a thousand devils, confidence men, scoundrels or hell-hounds. Mrs. L. A. Davis, who has been spending the past three weeks with friends at Lawn Ridge, Ill., where she went for rest and recuperation, returned home Saturday, much to the delight of her husband and many friends. THE NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN CONUCIL August 28th and 29th, the National Afro-American Council convenes in Indianapolis and judging from the reports and indications, its sessions will be quite lively, very stormy and noisy. In the past few days we have received a letter from one high up in its councils, stating that the forces of President McKinley will present Editor E. E. Cooper of Washington, T. Thomas Fortune of New York, Jesse Lawson of Washington, Geo. Knox of The Indianapolis Freeman, and his other servile rooters with a $10,000 check, if they can succeed in getting the Council to endorse him and his administration, so there is going to be a great fight in the Council over McKinley, and McKinleyism as it has been displayed against the Negro. The Broad Ax is not in favor of the Council endorsing President McKinley nor Col. Wm. J. Bryan and if Messrs. Cooper and Company should prosecute it to the extent of whitewashing President McKinley,then we are in favor of busting up and shattering The National Afro-American Council, for it nor its officers will not deserve the respect of honest men. COLORED DEMOCRATS. The Colored Democratic marching club of this city held an enthusiastic meeting at Conkling's hall on Fifth street last night. The club has over fifty members enrolled and the officials anticipate having over 100 before the campaign is over. A number of good speeches were made last night and were heartily received. Among those who spoke are the following: Charles Nelson, Mark Anthony, David Moton, Cass Moton, Y. Johnston and R. E. Carroll.-The State Register, Springfield. Ill. CHIPS. Mr. Thomas Dent, of Natchez, Miss., is a visitor to our city. Dr. Hiram E. Connor, formerly of this city, but now located at Brookhaven, Miss., spent a few days in town this week. Miss Edythe Mottell, of Baltimore, sister of Mrs. Noah D. Thompson, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hackley Smiley. 3505 Dearborn street. Misses M. Elizabeth Davis, Lilly Murphy, Ella Brown and Rosetta Murphy, of Baltimore, Md., are visiting the city. They are the guests of Mrs. J. S. Tandy, 5145 Armour avenue. All the Negro institutions in North Carolina, such as the asylums for the insane, the blind, and the deaf mutes, and the normal schools, will hereafter be managed by Negroes exclusively. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Minne of Cincinnati, Ohio, who have been recently united in marriage, are spending their honeymoon in Chicago and visiting their old time friends, Prof. and Mrs. Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes avenue and Miss S. Francis Lewis, $116\frac{1}{2}$ Fifty-first street. Mrs. Minne is highly accomplished and very handsome she is also a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Sister Duckett, of The Afro-American Advance, Minneapolis, Minn., talks like a woman who has become divested of her pants, when she asks the foolish question: "Has the Negro a right to be a Democrat." We will answer that question for you sister Duckett, by saying: The Negro has the same right to be a Democrat as he has to be a Republican, a Populist, a Prohibitionist, a Methodist, a Baptist, an infidel or a what not. The Topeka, Kansas, Plaindealer continues to be effected with the rabbies and it is positive there are no Negro Democrats, yet it is like a blind bat, which strikes out at all imaginary objects. The Plaindealer has nothing but bitter words to utter against all Democrats, but it has failed to tell its readers anything about the Jim Crow treatment accorded the colored gentlemen who were on the McKinley notification committee. Monday night the Cook County Alschuler Club met at the Sherman House. President Maj. Lawrence M. Ennis presided Capt. H. C. Carter. A. J. Toolen, Chas. K. Chamberlain and several other gentlemen delivered short and enthusiastic addresses. An executive committee was selected, composed of all nationalities. S. A. T. Watkins will represent the Afro-American Democrats of Cook County on the committee. The Cook County Alschuler Club looks as though it means business and it does not draw the color line and for that reason we believe it can perform effective work in behalf of the national, state and county ticket. President Geo. E. Taylor, who is one of Col. W. J. Bryan's greatest and most devoted admirers, has composed a campaign song book, which contains some of the best songs of the season in addition to this he has summed up and condensed the issues of the campaign in such a way that anyone can get all the thunder they require to make speeches during the struggle. The little song book can be obtained by addressing Geo. E. Taylor, Oskaloosa, Iowa. In 1896, Herr Most, the rank anarchist, supported Bill McKinley and his bill, but because he did so the Negro editors refuted the idea that all Republicans were anarchists, that in case Major McKinley was elected Herr Most would control his every action. But these same ignoramuses would like to make their readers believe that if Col. W. J. Bryan should be elected Ben Tillman would be the whole cheese. Many of our Republican Afro-American editors do not know any more about logic than the devil does about running a Sunday school. For instance, they say because Ben Tillman is a lowbred fool all Democrats are low-bred fools and are enemies to the Negro. The same chain of reasoning could be used thusly. Theodore Roosevelt, Republican candidate for Vice President, is a rank and bitter enemy of the Negro race. Therefore all Republicans are rank and bitter enemies of the Negro. Monday morning bright and early Julius F. Taylor, accompanied by Lawrence A. Newby, Assistant Secretary of the Negro National Democratic League called at the Auditorium Hotel to pay our respects to Col. W. J. Bryan, who cordially received us and read the article in The Broad Ax in reference to himself and was much pleased with it. He expressed his approval of our editorial on "The North Carolina Election." The Colonel feels highly encouraged over the outlook for his election. Mayor Thomas Taggert of Indianapolis, Ind., spent Monday and Tuesday in Chicago. The Mayor stands at the top notch of the Democratic party of his state and he is making a reputation as one of the great national leaders of the party. He has the honor of being the first Democrat in Indiana to appoint a colored man to office. He has done more in winning colored voters over to the party in Indiana, than all the other Democrats put together, and he thoroughly believes that an organized effort should be put forth to secure the Negro vote for Bryan and Stevenson and if Indiana goes Democratic Mayor Taggert will be elected United States Senator. Wednesday morning Geo. E. Taylor of Oskaloosa, Iowa, president of the Negro National Democratic League; Lawrence A. Newby, its assistant secretary; Capt. H. C. Carter, member of the campaign committee; Geo. J. Woods, and Julius F. Taylor, also of the campaign committee called at the Democratic National Headquarters and had a long consultation with Chairman James K. Jones, relative to making out and carrying on the work among the Afro-Americans in the central middle states. The committee, representing the Negro National Democratic League, through its president, endeavored to impress Senator Jones with the importance of the work which the League has performed in the past. for the party and which it is ready and willing to perform at the present time. He that conquers his own temper is greater than he that taketh a city, and as rare. Some people never think what they say, and some never say* what they think. Mirrors are like men, when they reflect others the reflections are reversed. A dog is man's faithful friend, but the reverse is not always true. THE BROAD AX. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 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 else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Additional communications to Funyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" was recently translated into Chinese, with curious illustrations by native artists. Before the Boxer outbreaks began the volume was in great demand in Pekin. A camel, with an ordinary load of 400 pounds, can travel twelve to fourteen days without water, going fourteen miles a day. Camels are fit to work at five years old, but their strength begins to decline at twenty-five, although they live usually until forty. They are often fattened at thirty for food, the flesh tasting like beef. An Arizona editor has a neat way of expressing himself. Referring to a recent lynching in Skull Valley, a local paper thus quietly chronicled an important event: "There was no regular trial in the case of Denver Jones. He had a brief interview with a few friends in the woods, and it is certain that hereafter he will not interfere with his neighbor's horses." Dr. Lasar of the Hygienic Institute, Konigsburg, Germany, calls attention to the remarkable power of lemon juice in destroying the diphtheria bacillus. Out of fifteen cases of acute diphtheria and eighty other cases of throat disease, for which lemon juice was used as a gargle, only one case proved fatal. Lemon juice must be diluted when used as a gargle. An affecting incident occurred at Sioux City. George Denison, aged 8, and George Lewis, aged 12, were bathing, when the former was attacked with cramps and screamed for help. Lewis tried to save him, but both were drowned. The father of Lewis came on the scene, but did not know who the lads were. He dove after them, and became crazed with grief when he discovered that the body he brought up was that of his own son. That there is true "sporting blood" in Central America is attested by the following advertisement spread across the top of a page of The Guatemala Herald early in June, before the Republican National Convention met: "A gentleman desires to wager 10,000 pesos that William McKinley will be elected President of the United States at the election to be held in November next. No wager for less than 500 pesos accepted. The money has been placed in the hands of W. J. Rhyder and will be deposited in any of the banks of the city, persons accepting this offer having the privilege of naming the depository." William G. Royal, a wealthy resident of Georgetown, Penn., who died on May 31 and whose will has been just probated, devised his entire estate, valued conservatively at $50,000, to the Woman's Branch of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Royal devises to his widow, Emily L. Royal, his "horses, dogs and any other animals I may possess. But should my wife be so situated at any time as to make the care of said animals inconvenient or burdensome, then and in that case it is my wish that upon her request the care or custody of said animals shall devolve upon the Woman's Branch of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals." A discharged soldier recently returned from the Philippines tells a tale of a shirt which is too good to be lost. His company was returning from a long and tiresome scouting trip, in which most of the men had lost the greater part of their wearing apparel, when he saw on a clothes line in the ground of a residence adjoining a big stone church two very good shirts hung out to dry. As he had at the time only half a shirt to his back, he proceeded to help himself to a whole one, whereupon a woman came out of the house and said to him, in passable English, "You will pay for that on the Judgment Day." "Madam," he replied, "if you give such long credit I will take both shirts," which he proceeded to do. A German engineer has hit upon a very happy use for the phonograph instead of a guide at exhibitions. The new device will be used for the first time at the automobile exhibition at Berlin; any visitor to the exhibition will need but to call the attendant, who will put the roller containing the description of the exhibit in question into the phonograph, and he will then be able to learn, "by word of machine," all the details of the object, he is desirous of enquiring into. The apparatus will not repeat a long, monotonous harangue such as one is accustomed to hearing from guides at exhibitions and in cathedrals; the visitor can break off his conversation with his unseen guide at will, and have any remark repeated as often as HONOR TO AN ENEMY --- ABANDONED AMERICA TO GAIN SOCIAL FAME. The story of William Waldorf Astor, who grossly offended English society a short time ago by insulting Sir Archibald Milne, a particular friend of the Prince of Wales, and who is now ostracised by the smart set, which basks in the prince's favor, is that of a man without a country. He began life with unlimited wealth and boundless ambition. He still has both, for the latter has never been satisfied. About twenty years ago a group of young men among the rich New Yorkers were starting out in life, all with some political ambition and all backed up by an old family and a big rent roll. None of them promised so much and failed so dismally as William Waldorf Astor. He intended to be President of the United States. He is now a man without a country, disappointed, cynical, with no future before him at 50. He was the son of John Jacob Astor A. WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR III, the head of the great family who came from the little village of Walderf, Germany, about 120 years ago, and started in life as butchers and fur traders. When William Waldorf came into the world the Astors owned nine per cent of the real estate in New York city, and had taken social precedence over the old Knickerbocker families, who once held themselves aloof from a man who peddled furs on his back. Astor was educated at the law school of Columbia University. He imagined himself a second Disraeli and began simultaneously a career in politics and in literature. He was elected State senator. He ran for Congress to succeed Levi P. Morton and was defeated by the late Roswell Flower. He was appointed minister to Italy by President Arthur. He distin- When Count de Villebois-Mareull, in Paris, was officially informed of the death on a South African battlefield of his distinguished brother, who had died there fighting for the Boers, he set about the preliminary steps to have the body brought back to France for interment. A legal formality, however, required an examination of the dead man's will. The instrument was opened before the court, and the first line of the document was as follows: "I desire to be buried where I may die." In the face of this specific declaration no option was left to the relatives, and the gallant soldier—to ALA MEMOIRE DU CONTRE-VILLEUR DE MURDAL ANCIEN COLONEL DE LA LIEUR STRAKEERS EN FRANCE GENERAL DU TRANSMISAL. MONT AU CAMP D'HONNEUR- PRES DE BROCHER LE 8 AVRIL 1800. DANS SA JUSI AMER R.L.B. whose valor the opposing British troops paid military honors—will be left to rest on the African plains where he fell. The British paid the brilliant French soldier a marked token of respect, General Methuen effecting a neat monument over the grave where he lies buried, near Boshof. A War That Makes 'Appy 'Omen. Some persons look at the effects of the South African campaign in one way—some in another, says a London newspaper. One of the oddest is surely that of the widow of a certain Tommy who fell at Colenso. A lady visitor wont to condole with her, when she looked up with a smile and sald, with an air of mingled deference and confidence: "Oh, mum, do you trouble about 'lm? 'E was allays a bad 'un. gulshed himself there by scattering golden scudi with a lavish hand. Incidentally he got along with his ministerial duties without discrodt to the government. Nothing came up to demand diplomacy, and Mr. Astor was equal to the situation. He returned home and threw himself into politics in New York State. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that he threw himself at politics. He worked very hard, and he was very much in earnest, but his efforts came to nothing. He gave his money freely and he gave his time without stint. But he failed to connect with the people, and that is an essential element to success in American politics, as Mr. Astor found out. He wrote a novel called Valentino, and followed it with another Italian romance called Sforza. In the judgment of critics they had considerable literary merit. There was a lack of the two great things, power and imagination. There were polish and scholarly ability to a good degree. But here again Mr. Astor failed to connect with the people. To crown his political and literary disappointments a dispute arose as to whether Mrs. William Waldorf Astor or Mrs. John Jacob Astor was entitled to be called "Mrs. Astor." In short, was John Jacob Astor or William Waldorf Astor the head of the family? Society settled the question in favor of the popular John Jacob, and William Waldorf, in pique, built next door to his cousin the big and fashionable hotel, the Waldorf-Astor House. Then he gathered up his household goods and moved to London. He disposed of as much of his property in America as he could and invested his money in England. He rented his residence and declared publicly and often that America was not his country. He became a naturalized Englishman and for a couple of years was apparently an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales. It was rumored that he was to be given a peerage and marry a daughter of the prince, for he is now a widower. Then gossip connected his name with that of Lady Randolph Churchill, and recently with that of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, of New York. All the time Mr. Astor has attempted to secure a firm footing in English society. He bought the Pall Mall Gazette and Pall Mall Budget, and started the Pall Mall Magazine, all ultra-Tory and catering to the smart set. He bought from the Duke of Westminster, the richest man in England, the handsomest seat on the Thames—Cliveden. Then Mr. Astor built a high walk around the park, stationed guards, and warned the public to keep off of his grounds. Such a thing is not usual with English country gentlemen and everybody bristled with indignation at the American snob, as they called him. Gradually Mr. Astor has become the "bete noir" of pretty nearly all classes of Englishmen. He is 10,000 miles from a peerage, and probably now fully as far from a royal drawing-room. His conspicuous use to-day is as a warning to Americans who will not keep in touch with their countrymen. AN ENEMY I've got a nice lot of money from the newspapers and other kind friends—enough to keep me comfortable. Oh, mum, this 'ere war's made a lot of 'appy 'omes, it has." Colonel John W. Geary, the last alcalde and the first mayor of San Francisco, has been invited to take part in the semicentennial admission day celebration. San Francisco's first city charter was adopted on May 1, 1850, and Alcalde Geary was elected mayor under its provisions. He refused reelection and in 1852 left the Pacific coast for Pennsylvania, where he is now living. 331 B. C. Two thousand inhabitants of Tyre crucified and 8,000 butchered by the soldiers of Alexander the Great. 105 B. C. Celts kill 8,000 Roman soldiers at Auransio, on the Rhone. 102 B. C. Slaughter of Teutons near Aix, in which 200,000 barbarians were slain. 70 A. D. Destruction of Jerusalem. Above 1,100,000 Jews put to the sword by Roman army. 115 A. D. Several thousand Greeks and Romans murdered by Jews under Andrae, leader of revolution. 1189. A. D. Massacre at Acre of 6,000 Mohammedans by order of King Richard L., in the crusades. 1260 A. O. Slaughter of the inhabitants of Aleppo by the Mongols. 1262 A. D. "Sicilian Vespera." About 8,000 French killed in Sicily. 1572 A. D. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 100,000 men, women and children Huguenots in France. 1592 A. D. Turks slaughter 65,000 Christians in Croatia. 1780 A. D. "No popery" riots. Mob led by Lord George Gordon killed 450 Roman Catholics in London. 1884 A. D. Chinese murder 24,000 Christian at Kuang-Tsi, in Annam. In Cochin-China the same year 22,000 native Christians were massacred. 1895 A. D. Turks kill between 3,000 and 5,000 Armenians in Asia Minor. 1900 A. D. Boxer rebellion, having for its object the extirpation of native Christians and all foreigners. Mr. Smuts, Dr. Leyd's successor as State Secretary of the Transvaal, is only 21 years old. He was educated at Cape Town University and at Cambridge. He is a lawyer and a newspaper man. "HE'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR US ---" "--- SO HE MUST BE GOOD!" INQUIRY INTO AN IMPORTANT PROBLEM. An Analysis of the Game by Which Producers Are Piundered to Keep in Luxury the Exploiting Classes of the Old World. In our trade with the world, who sets the price on our exports? England, as the clearing house or credit center of the business world, sets the price. How do you know? Taking a sample case and follow it, like a wild weast, to its lair. Grain is a chief export. A farmer comes to the station with ten wagonloads, or a carload of wheat. Does he fix the price? No. He asks the price? Yes. Of whom? The grain buyers. How does "he" get it? By telegram from Chicago. How does Chicago fix the price or the buyer and the farmer? Chicago gets it from New York. How does New York fix the price of wheat for Chicago, for the elevator man and the farmer? New York Board of Trade gets it by cable from London, where is starts at 10 o'clock in the morning and (owing to the difference in time) it reaches New York and is repeated through Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Omaha, to Boggtown crossroads before 10 o'clock the same day. How does London fix the price for How does London fix the price for New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha and Boggtown crossroads? All the nations of the world owe London, the Rothschilds, the credit center of the world. London wants foodstuffs, and will take her pay on OUR indebtedness in either gold or grain or other products. The debt calls for "gold"—gold dollars containing a fixed number of grains of GOLD. If the coins are light through wear, they are rejected, so in the final analysis our debt is named in the law as a fixed "weight" of "gold." Our debt owing in London (or Europe, of which London is the clearing house) is so large that it would take more than our entire stock of gold to pay the INTEREST. Therefore, if we would keep "gold" here for "money" we MUST pay in products. How is the price of products fixed by the debtor (United States) or creditor (Europe)? By the creditor, of course. The debt is due him in "gold," and if he "kindly condescends" to accept payment in anything else he must and does and will in future fix the price at which he will "kindly" and "condescendingly" accept payment that is due in "gold," and you can either furnish the products at HIS price or PAY THE "gold"—as named in the "bond." London, Rothschild, Europe, our creditor, needs food and clothing, and London says she is willing to pay us the same price for wheat that she has to pay in Russia, India and Argentine. So yesterday she cabled for the price of grain in the cheapest, poorest paid pauper labor country in the world, and today informs us she will "accept" our grain at "that" price or we must pay her the "gold"—as named in the bond—and she will buy the grain over there. That is how the "price" is fixed in London fo New York, Chicago, Omaha and Boggtown crossroads. How is payment made? Don't Europe pay us gold for grain and meat and cotton? No, Europe does not pay us "gold." On the contrary, while we send abroad a thousand million of dollars' worth of products a year, instead of getting pay in gold, we send some gold and silver along with the goods. What! and get nothing in return? Precisely. We get "nothing" but the interest coupons clipped from the bonds held abroad, which clipping in no degree reduces the principal or pays the debt, but after we have annually poured our thousand million dollars' worth of products into the lap or maw of London for one hundred years, we find that this entire vast export has not paid the interest, and the debt has grown larger by the sum so unpaid. But look here, the Republican party has been telling us that this vast excess of exports constitutes a "balance of trade" in "our favor." Is not this true? And if so, how do you reconcile it with your statement above? It is not true. "If" we took into account ONLY the goods exported and the goods imported, and "If" we received cash for the excess exported, we might properly say the balance of trade was in our favor, and this half-told story is what the Republican editors, orators and spell-binders are peddling for the truth, when in reality it presents an entirely false conclusion, for we do NOT get cash for the surplus of exports, but the account is balanced with interest coupons which represent "nothing," and is only a diplomatic varnish for the unpalatable truth that we have tied our financial system to the wheels of Rothschilds' golden chariot and are paying "interest" for the use of his gold or credit, when we should have established a system independent of him, and then, when he became hungry and wanted our foodstuffs, he would have had to pay "our" price, which we could have fixed for ourselves if we owed no foreign debts. COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON. Collis P. Huntington, the railroad millionaire, says that he "never won or lost a dollar on a horse race or any game of chance." Of course he didn't; he always wants a sure thing. There is no chance about his dice—they are always loaded. He plays no game except those in which he is sure to win and the other fellow is sure to lose. He would bet on a horse race if his horse was a good one and the opposing nag had only three legs. He also said "that he never went hunting or fishing a day in his life." Poor fellow, he is much to be pitied. He never had any genuine fun. What good is all his wealth if he don't play poker, run horses, fish for suckers or hunt fackrabbits? We wouldn't begin to trade places with you, Collis. We wouldn't exchange our enjoyment of life for all your millions. You are very old. You are almost dead. You will shortly go to—well, somewhere, and leave all your millions behind you. It is just as well, too, for the gold might melt and the bank bills would be sure to burn. BRIVAN OR M'KINLEY. The middle-of-the-roaders in Nebraska are demoralized. Their state convention at Grand Island has proved to be a boomerang and it has flown back and killed its inventors. The honest men in that crowd are repudiating the whole business. The evidence of Republican management and Republican money was too strong to be resisted. All the true reformers among them are coming back to the regular party organization. As between Bryan and McKinley they will choose Bryan every time. The middle-of-the-road movement has already spent its force. It was conceived in sin, brought forth in iniquity, and it has died the death of the wicked. There will not be a corporal's guard of the malcontents this fall. They will not carry a township in the state. The people will vote for Bryan or McKinley and will not waste their time on side issues. THE GORED OX. The same papers that were lampooning Carl Schurz four years ago because of his refusal to swallow 16 to 1 are now devoting columns of eulogy to his backsliding. But all they say cannot make less convincing the arguments of four years ago, proving the folly of following the free silver statesman.—Republican paper. And the same papers that lampooned Senator Hoar a few months ago and called him an imbecile and a blundering old idiot, now say that he is a conservative, intelligent and patriotic statesman. The reason is that the senator has recently said that he would support McKinley for president, although he said last winter that on account of the president's course in the Philippines the destruction of the American republic would begin with the administration of Wm. McKinley. Outstanding Ear. The disfigurement of outstanding ears should be checked in early childhood, otherwise it is apt to be an obstinate matter to overcome. Various simple little expedients may be resorted to in order to accomplish the end aimed at. For instance, a broad elastic strap or webbing band, passed from the lower part of the back of the head obliquely across the ears to the top of the brow, will help to conquer this disfigurement. This band can be worn at night or for an hour or two during the day, or as an alternative there is the special ear cap which has been invented with the object of encouraging the ears to lie close against the head. The muslin caps which years ago babies used to wear acted in a great measure as preventives against obtruding ears. Co-Education at Low Ebb. A peculiarity of the attendance in the public schools of Manila is the great excess of boys over girls, this being true of the high schools as well as those of lower grade. It is a manifestation of the local belief that while education may be desirable for boys, it is of little use for the girls. All they need to know is their catechism. This disparity in the school attendance of the sexes may be lessened, however, before the next school term, as the authorities are planning for a system of compulsory attendance. When a preparation has an advertised reputation that is world-wide, it means that preparation is meritorious. If you go into a store to buy an article that has achieved universal popularity like Cascarets Candy Cathartic for example, you feel it has the endorsement of the world. The judgment of the people is infallible because it is impersonal. The retailer who wants to sell you "something else" in place of the article you ask for, has an ax to grind. Don't it stand to reason? He's trying to sell something that is not what he represents it to be. Why? Because he expects to derive an extra profit out of your credulity. Are you easy? Don't you see through his little game? The man who will try and sell you a substitute for CASCARETS is a fraud. Beware of him! He is trying to steal the honestly earned benefits of a reputation which another business man has paid for, and if his conscience will allow him to go so far, he will go farther. If he cheats his customer in one way, he will in another and it is not safe to do business with him. Beware of the CASCARET substitutor. Remember CASCARETS are never sold in bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed "C" on every box and each tablet stamped C. C. Q. Queer Combination of Names. Some queer combinations of names arise in cases at law. A Mr. Driver in a southern state was accused of stealing hogs from a Mr. Pig. There was a witness of the name of Hamm and lawyers with the suggestive names of Miles and Chew in the case. Another recent case was headed "Bridge vs. Ford." Others bore the titles "Bridges vs. Shallcross," "Just vs. Wise," "Tanner vs. Skinner." Best for the Bowels No matter what alls you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. The Catchy Color. "By gum!" said the old citizen, as he threw the sensational sheet aside, "that paper's yellow enough to catch flies!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Maple City Self Washing Soap, not only saves the wear on your clothes, because less rubbing is required, but it saves fully half the labor. All grocers sell it. The lord mayor of London wears a badge of office which contains diamonds valued at £120,000. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—W.M. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The chronic loafer is a man who sticks to one thing until he fails. You Try Ki-Ki—lou. Cures Corns and Bunions. No pain. No poison. Never falls. Drug stores, 15 cents. Man's inhumanity to man enables the policeman to draw his salary. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fummation, allays pain, cures wind colic. So a bottle. Some men work harder to borrow a dollar than they would to earn it. "MY OWN SELF AGAIN." Mrs. Gates Writes to Mrs. Pinkham, Follows Her Advice and is Made Well. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—For nearly two and one-half years I have been in feeble health. Aftermylittle child came It seemed I could not get my strength again. I have chills and the severest pains in my limbs and top of head and am almost insensible at times. I also have a pain just to the right of breast bone. It is so severe at times that I cannot lie on my right side. Please write me what you think of my case."—MRS. CLARA GATES, Johns P. O., Miss., April 25, 1898. I have taken Lydis E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as advised and now send you a letter for publication. For several years I was in such wretched health that life was almost a burden. I could hardly walk across the floor, was so feeble. Several of our best physicians attended me, but failed to help. I concluded to write to you for advice. In a few days I received such a kind, motherly letter. I followed your instructions and am my 'old self' again. Was greatly benefited before I had used one bottle. May God bless you for what you are doing for suffering women."—MRS. CLARA GATES, Johns P. O.. Miss.. Oct. 6. 1899. TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL The Best Saddle Cont. SLICKER Keeps both rider and saddle per- fectly dry in the hardest storms. Substitutes will disappoint. Ask for 1895 Fish Brand Pommel Slicker— it is entirely new. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. The director-general of the Pan-American exposition, to be held in Buffalo next year, is Hon. William I. Buchanan, who resigned from the office of United States minister to the Argentine Republic to take up the burdens and responsibilities of the management of the exposition. Mr. Buchanan, who was a national commissioner from Iowa to the World's Columbian exposition, was the first chief of department selected at Chicago, where he not only directed the affairs of the departments of agriculture, forestry and live stock, but was a most sagacious and helpful adviser in the general management of the exposition. In the early part of President Cleveland's second administration Mr. Buchanan was appointed United States minister to the Argentine Republic—a mission that he filled with great distinction to November 1, 1899. As a diplomatist he is more widely and favorably known throughout the LatinAmerican countries than any other rep- A. HON. WILLIAM I. BUCHANAN HON. WILLIAM I. BUCHANAN. presentative of the United States. During the latter part of his diplomatic service the Argentine Republic and Chile were brought to the brink of war by a long standing boundary dispute. For a time a peaceful adjustment appeared to be hopeless. Finally a scheme of arbitration was devised, and Mr. Buchanan was made the arbiter, whose decision was accepted as binding on both parties. The facts regarding this happy outcome of an international quarrel that had long excited the countries of the southern continent, made a strong impression on the people of those countries, and earned for the United States minister an enviable reputation throughout South America. Among other results of his diplomatic service at Buenos Ayres was the successful negotiation of an extradition treaty and a commercial convention between the Argentine Republic and the United States. VALUE OF SLEEP. It Is of Utmost Importance to Preserve Good Looks. Sleep, the rest which holds the eyelids down, is of the utmost importance in good looks. There is no means, aid or condition so productive or preserving of a pleasing appearance as proper and sufficient sleep. Nothing will promote brightness and vivacity like this death-like rest which nature demands once every twenty-four hours. This fact is ignored by many of the most intelligent men and women. They know it, but they don't seem to know it well enough. Every walk in life seems too full—there is so much to do—"the world is too much with us," there does not seem time enough to sleep, says Health Culture. When a halt is called and we are forced to learn that we can accomplish much more by reason of stronger nerves, granted by the proper amount of sleep, we are on the way to successful accomplishment of our heart's desires. Our cities are filled with tired eyes and faded complexions from lack of sleep. Our country places offer tired countenances from overwork. Society women consume their evenings in social affairs and their days in the duties incumbent upon their position and wonder why they fade. The farmer's wife works all day and half the night, arising in the morning unrested and unrefreshed, and wonders why she ages faster than her husband, whose work is done at dark. Youthful strength and comely appearance are absolutely dependent upon sufficient sleep. The woman who will consider this fact as positive will give the subject of sleep as much attention as she will that of diet or dress, or any other requirement of existence. Those who have been neglectful of this important function should arouse in themselves first a determination to grant sufficient time from pleasure or duty for its full need. Then go to bed with the intention of sleeping—make your preparations by removing every garment worn through the day, putting on a loose single garment which has comfort for its recommendation. Do not sleep on feathers. This style of bed is a remnant of ignorance—a cotton or wool mattress is a good bed. Have your pillow just high enough to raise the head a little above the level of the body and place the pillow under the head—not under the shoulders. Sleep between two sheets and under light but warm covering. Do not place your bed directly in a draft, but be sure to have an open window in your room; night air is only fresh air and it is necessary during sleep as at any other time. EXTRACT OF BENNE PLANT. First used by the Mississippi river steamboat men in the "early forties," who drank their "Benne Teed" from the hands of the colored "aunties." They steeped the leaves in hot water, and the verdict of these steamboat men was that it "did the business." In 1841, James and Constance Maguire secured some of these miraculous leaves, and, upon investigation, discovered that they are identical with the Sesam. Ind. (Benne-Leaves), and as the same indicates, native of India, containing a mucilaginous substance of soothing and healing properties. Nature here furnished a remedy for diseases such as Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery and kindred ailments. After experimenting, the Messrs. Maguire succeeded in chemically combining the use of the Benne-leaves with other vegetable substances, and so furnished a remedy that has saved thousands of lives. Prepared by THE J. & G. MAGUIRE Prepared by THE J. & G. MAGUIRE MEDICINE CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. Birthplace of Dr. Johnson. The announcement that the Lichfield City Council has purchased the birthplace of Dr. Samuel Johnson, in Market square, is not the first sign of the town's appreciation of its most illustrious son. In 1767, at a common hall of the balliffs and citizens, it was ordered (without solicitation) that lease of the ground upon which the house stood should be granted to the doctor for a term of ninety-nine years at the old rent, which was five shillings, and that no fine should be paid. Johnson also had a high opinion of his native town. "Sir," he said to Boswell, "we are a city of philosophers; we work with our heads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." It was in Lichfield, too, that Johnson fell in love with an actress who played Flora in "Hob in the Well." A BANKER'S DISCOVERY. What to use when you are sick is a very important subject. In a large number of cases it is far better to call a physician than to experiment with a large number of remedies now on the market. There are remedies sold, however, which produce wonderful results, far surpassing any doctor, but to separate these from the worthless class is a very difficult task. In Topeka, Kansas, there is perhaps one remedy which is revolutionizing the practice of medicine. A gentleman by the name of Dr. W. W. Gavitt, who for a number of years has been in the banking business, has been experimenting and has made in the last few years, it is said, some most wonderful discoveries for old chronic diseases, especially kidney, liver and stomach troubles. The western papers are full of comments. It is causing a great sensation with the doctors and invalids. A two cent stamp would likely bring you all the particulars. Chilean Government Funds Up to May 1 there was deposited of children government funds in London at 3 per cent the sum of $15,000,000. A sum of $5,169,517 has been invested in hypothecary bonds. The mint holds in gold coin and bullion $2,699,635. At the end of the current year the conversion fund will amount to $27,699,-635, exclusive of accrued interest, and to $7,160,000 invested in bonds. With these sums and the $16,500,000 provided for the estimates for 1901, there will be more than enough for the redemption of the $50,000,000 of notes. The mint has been instructed to purchase bullion and to coin.—Robert H. Reid, in Chicago Record. More Cheap Excursions to Colorado. Special Trains, one night out to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo via the Great Rock Island Route, will leave Chicago August 21, Sept. 4 and 18, at 4:45 p. m. On these dates excursion tickets from Chicago to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, will be sold at rate of one regular fare plus $2.00 for round trip, return limit Oct. 31, 1900. Tickets also good on regular trains. For full information, berth reservations and beautiful book "Colorado the Magnificent," sent free, address JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A. Chicago. Daisies in the South. A southern man says the daisy was never known in the south until after the war. Now every part of the south visited by the Union army is covered with dalsies. "Sherman brought them to us," he said, "and the march to the sea can be followed in the summer time by keeping where the daisy grows. The seed seems to have been transported in the hay that was brought along to feed the horses. That is the only explanation that has ever been made of it." How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and muscous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 10 per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The massive gold cup presented to the city of Dublin by Queen Victoria, in commemoration of her recent visit is of gold throughout, weighs 160 ounces, and stands two feet three inches high. The pedestal is of block marble inlaid with gold. One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Rase, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mall. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. To count but few things necessary is the foundation of many virtues. F. W. Newman. THE BOXERS OF CHINA are attempting to solve a gigantic problem, but they are going about it in the wrong way and will never succeed. Some people, in this country, seem to think that they have as great a puzzle on their hands in selecting a location for a home. They will certainly go about it in the wrong way unless they inspect the beautiful farming country on the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in Marinette county, Wisconsin, where the crops are of the best, work plenty, fine markets, excellent climate, pure, soft water; land sold cheap and on long time. Why rent a farm when you can buy one for less than you pay for rent? Address C. E. Rollins, Land Agent, 161 La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. Homeseekers' Excursions via Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. On the first and third Tuesdays of July and August the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad will place on sale Home-seeker's excursion tickets to various points in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. One Fare (plus $2.00) for the round trip. Tickets are limited on going trip fifteen days from date of sale with stop-over privileges in Homeseeker's territory. Returning tickets are limited twenty-one days from date of sale. Remember that we now have in service a new wide vestibulued train between Chicago and Waco and Fort Worth, Texas, leaving Chicago daily at 1:50 p.m. Through Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars. For further particulars call on or address any agent Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, or C. L. Stone, G. P. & T. A., Chicago. Last Year of the Switch Back The two and one-half mile tunnel of the Great Northern Railway, under the Cascade Mountains, will be completed in October, 1900. This summer offers to passengers to the Pacific Coast their last opportunity of crossing the Cascade Mountains on the world-famous Switch-Back, one of the great engineering triumphs of the century. Write for booklet, "Last Year of the Switch-Back," to F. I. Whitney, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn., or to any agent of the Great Northern Railway. VISIT THE PACIFIC COAST. Cheap excursion tickets, good for three weeks, on sale via Great Northern Railway Aug. 21, Sept. 4 and 18, Oct. 2 and 16. Inquire of the railway ticket agent, or write F. I. Whitney, Gen'l Pass, and Tkt. Agent, St. Paul, Minn. Now is your time to go. The August number of the International Magazine, Chicago, makes no boast of "special midsummer story" features, but its five short stories are of the best. They are: "The Serpent and the Gem," by Maitland Leroy Osborne; "The Scratch on the Mahogany Table—A Domestic Sketch," by Harrie de Levant; "The Recluse," by Wayne Pouchee; "The Queen of Home," by Charles Hanford, Jr., and "Music Mysterious," by Charles F. Welles. Ex-United States Senator James W. Bradbury retires after forty years' service from the board of trustees of Bowdoin college. Try Maple City Self Washing Soap for washing woolens or lace curtains. It is unequalled for washing ladies' shirt waists. Every brave man shuns, more than death, the shame of lying.—Corneille. Coe's Cough Balsam is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable. Try it. Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgments.—Middleton. ```markdown ``` FULL COURSES IN C'lassics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Architecture. Thorough Preparatory and Commercial Courses. Rooms Free to all Students who have completed the studies required for admission into the Junior or Senior Year, of any of the Collegiate Courses. Rooms to Rent, moderate charges to students over seventeen preparing for Collegiate Courses. A limited number of Candidates for the Ecclesiastical state will be received at special rates. St. Edward's Hall, for boy's under 18 years, is unique in the completeness of its equipments. The 57th Year will open September 4th, 1900, Catnologues Free, Address REV. A. MORRISSEY, C. S. C., President ST. 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CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitchner In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the fastest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. Black cigars are the very latest in wildowers' weeds. If you want your clothes to be clean and white, use Maple City Soap as directed on the wrapper. All grocers sell it. Home influence makes or mars a child's character. When cycling, take a bar of White's Yucatan. You can ride further and easier. Happiness is the best elixir of life. 900 DROPS A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS: CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alc. Sinex Bacchille Seltz Anise Seed Peppermint Di Carburet Seltz Worm Seed Charlotte Sugar Wintergreen Pillar Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Plattetter NEW YORK. A 16 months old 35 Doses - 35 CINES EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. IOWA'S BEST valley, the richest soil and the best corn land in the state. 160 Acres Missouri Valley land, with two sets buildings, level land, fine soil, good windmill and tank, 4 miles from town; 880 per acre. 800 Acres Missouri Valley land, 1½ miles from railroad town, 200 acres under cultivation, balance pasture and hay land, small house and barn, 160 acres fenced, windmill, tank, etc., prices 883 per acre. 747 Acres, 400 acres cultivated, 9-room house, fair barn, all fenced, 4 miles from town, 625 per acre. The Missouri Valley is narrow and only a small portion of the first bottom land that is for sale. I have about twenty pieces that are genuine bargains. If you want the best see this land. Clear titles. No trades. HILAND P. LOCKWOOD, Sloux City, Iowa. ARTISTIC AND FASHIONABLE RUSTIC WORK of every description—Settees, Tables, Chairs, Vases, Summer Houses, Log Cabins, Etc. Rustic Hanging Baskets hung at windows or on verandas are very attractive looking and add greatly to the ornamentation of country houses. On receipt of $1.00 we will send a hanging basket similar to one shown in this Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Buriona. 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. Without the earth the brickmaker would have to give up his occupation. Avoid baldness, gray hair, dandruff and thin locks by using PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 150s. Unselfishness is the mother of many virtues. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat H. Flitchus In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM ONE FARE for the ROUND TRIP TORONTO EXPOSITION AUGUST 27th to SEPTEMBER 8th, 1900. Tickets on sale at Chicago August 25- 28, inclusive, good returning to leave destination up to and including Sep- tenber 10th. For information write to nearest Grand Trunk Agent, or J. H. BURGIS, C. P. & T. A., 249 Clark St. CHICAGO. Corner Jackson Boulevard. NEBRASKA THE LAND OF PLENTY NEBRASKA THE LAND OF PLENTY I wonder why it is that so many men spend their days working hard on rented farms, barely making enough to get along, with no great prospect ahead of owning their own homes, when within a few hours' journey is a land of plenty Nebraska—where all kinds of grain and fruit can be raised with the least amount of labor; where cattle and hogs fed on corn bring a handsome profit; where the climate is healthful and churches and schools abound; where land is cheap and can be bought on very easy terms. Think of this, and if you want information about the country send to me for "The Corn Belt," a beautifully illustrated monthly paper that tells all about Nebraska, and also for "The West Nebraska Grazing Country," an interesting illustrated booklet containing a large sectional map of Nebraska. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month during the balance of this year cheap excursion tickets will be sold over our road to Nebraska, so that people may go and see for themselves. Ask your ticket agent about this. P. S. EUSTIS, Gon't Pass'r Agt. C. B. & Q. B. B. CHICAGO, ILL. LADIES! When doctors and others fall to re-lieve you, try N. F. M. B.; it never fails box free. Mrs. B. L. Bawas, Milwaukee, Wis. TOE-GUM Cures Corns 150; all Druggists (If it falls—it is free.) afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 83, 1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Big Fortunes in the Purses for American Harness Dresses What American harness horse will race for this year in stakes and purses is shown approximately here. These figures are estimates based on the returns of last year, to which has been added 10 per cent, that being, in the opinion of horsemen, the general average in the increase of purses for this season. All the estimates are given in round numbers, and only cities where purses are offered aggregating in value $5,000 or more are specifically mentioned: Baltimore, Md., $12,000; Bothwell Ont., $5,500; Syracuse, N. Y., $5,500; Sangus, $10,000; Bethlehem, Pa., $11,000; Brooklyn, N. Y., $6,500; Hartford, Ct., $60,000; Dover, N. H., $12,000; Goshen, N. Y., $11,000; Detroit, Mich., $53,000; Peoria Ill., $16,000; McKee's Rocks, Pa., $7,500; St. Mary's, Pa., $5,500; Des Moines, Ia., $10,000; Freeport, Ill., $12,000; Davenport, Ia., $6,500; Readville, $70,000; Saginaw, Mich., $6,500; Pontiac, Ill., $9,000; Dubuque, Ia., $66,000; Hedrick, Ia., $7,500; Sioux City, Ia., $9,000; Ottawa, Ill., $12,000; Evansville, Ind., $14,000; Hamline, Minn., $19,000; Cleveland, O., $40,000; Columbus, O., $34,000; Fort Erie, Ont., $21,000; Glens Falls N. Y., $23,000; Portland, Me., $17,500; Lewiston, Me., $7,500; Milwaukee, Wis., $6,500; New York, $55,000; Providence, R. I., $42,000; St. Louis, Mo., $7,500; Santa Rosa, Cal., $15,500; Springfield, Ill., $8,000; Terre Haute, Ind., $13,000; Wichita, Kan., $7,500; Allentown, Pa., $6,000; Brockton, $6,500; Norfolk, Va., $6,000; Trenton, N. J., $6,000; Albany, N. Y., 8,000; Dallas, Tex., $6,000; Indianapolis, Ind., $8,000; Lexington, Ky., $105,500; Los Angeles, Cal., $13,500; Mineola, L. I., $7,500; Newark, N. J., $7,500; Sacramento, Cal., $22,000; Stockton, Cal., $7,000; Windsor, Ont., $6,500; Aurora, Ill., $5,500; Emeryville, Cal., $12,500; Utica, N. Y., $5,500; Denver, Col., $13,500; Elkhorn, Wis., $8,000; other meetings, numbering more than 1,000 (estimated), $1,000,000. Total, $2,016,000. A WILD BEAST FARM Where Animals Will Be Raised for Managers. A novel farming scheme is on foot. Its object is to raise wild animals in captivity, so that circus managers may not have to scour foreign lands to procure them. Wild animals in tropical countries are fast decreasing in number, and it is feared that hunting and the increase of population will soon exterminate them. The idea is to provide a regular farm for the raising of animals that hitherto have been procured only from hunters. More than two years ago a thousand acres of land was purchased in Southern Florida for the carrying out of the scheme, but the whole country round about was roused to indignation at the thought that ferocious wild beasts were to be turned loose in the neighborhood. The scheme was consequently abandoned, so far as that location was concerned, but negotiations were entered into for the purchase of several small islands not far from the Florida coast. The war with Spain delayed the completion of the purchase, but eventually three islands about six thousand acres each were secured. They are ideally located for animal farms. There is no fear of the beasts crossing over to the mainland, and the islands are far enough apart to deter the inhabitants of any one island from paying an unwelcome visit to another. It will thus be easy to divide the animals into three classes according to their ability to get along together, and to give each class an island to itself. It is said that when the scheme is perfected the farms will be as homelike as it is possible to make them, and that experts will be in charge of each. The animals will be America, and turned loose in their new homes. Parts of the islands are wooded, and in some there is thick undergrowth that will make a fair imitation of a jungle. An animal hospital is part of the scheme. Already expeditions are being fitted out to search for the animals. Chinese and Japanese Merchants Japan, from her proximity and kinship to China, ought to have the advantage in competing for the trade of China, but Japanese merchants and manufacturers suffer from inexperience and also from a streak of dishonesty and unreliability which greatly impairs their credit, not only in the east, but also in Europe and America. For this reason Japan is doing her exporting and importing with European countries and America through foreign houses resident in Japan. The Chinese merchant, on the other hand, is famous throughout the east for his commercial honesty. He may cheat you in making a bargain, but once his contract is made he holds to it, whether written or oral. This commercial integrity in a country where the government is so corrupt is due to the fact that in China, unlike Japan, merchants have always been near the top of the social ladder. A Tracer of Pedigrees. Thomas Dutch Lord, who died the other day in Boston, was a graduate of Brown university and came of one of the oldest Boston families. For many years since he lost his fortune he has made a good living by tracing the pedigrees of others. A woman at the Newberry library here is kept busy doing the same thing. The bigger the time, the longer it takes to get over it. Don't be fond of people; it is a weakness that will only make you trouble. If you feel that perhaps you are something of a bore, that settles it; you are a big one. You can't tell about marriage; the happiest couple we ever knew made the worst wreck of it. If a widower would admit how soon after the funeral he began thinking of other women, what a scandal would result. When a man admires a woman, he wonders that all other women are not like her; it seems so easy for a woman to be patient, amiable and agreeable. The elocutionist who "breaks down" in doing her act, should console herself with the thought that every one is rejoicing that at least one number will not be encored. If a man knows enough to earn the money to buy a lot of useless forks and spoons, his women folks should not be hard on him because he doesn't know how to use them. Something is wrong. The times are producing girls and boys heavier and larger than those of ten years ago, but cherry tree branches have not grown proportionately stronger. When a woman brings out only one glass, calls it a loving cup and asks all her guests to drink out of it, there is always a suspicion among those not posted on social customs, that she hasn't enough glasses to go around. Within a month after a woman begins thinking a lot of a man, she begins making him trouble. The first trouble a man and woman have, is over another woman; a woman becomes jealous first, but a man seldom complains of another man inside of five or six years.—Atchison Globe. THOUGHTS AND APHORISMS. I believe there are hearts that could cut diamonds. The extravagance of the poor is sometimes more pitilable than poverty itself. Dust covers everything except wit and feeling. He who wishes to learn all his faults must become poor. No one holds the position which he thinks he deserves. The art of society is dissimulation. In his will even the miser gives all he can. For the rich the poverty of others is a law of nature. Love requitted is often nothing but grateful vanity. He who flatters begs. Society is like a masked ball where nobody unmasks. Our first schoolmaster is superstition. Sociability is the pleasure of getting rid of self. There is but one love that lasts—unhappy love. We humble ourselves before others, not for others. Disinterestedness moves our distrust like an eccentric approaching us unexpectedly.—Emanuel Wertheimer in the Universal Magazine. LOST CHORDS. "Sevendick sings his own songs, doesn't he?" "Yes; you don't suppose he could get any one else to sing them, do you?"—Philadelphia North American. Tess—"She says she's saddest when she sings." Jess—"Nonsense! She may be sadder when she sings, but it's her audience that's saddest."—Philadelphia Press. "Do you think he has wonderful control over his voice?" said the young woman. "No," answers Miss Cayenne, "I can't say I think that. He sings every time any one asks him to."—Washington Star. Daggs—"I think Miss Hinote's vocal solos sound better when one is some distance off." Waggs—"Undoubtedly now the farther away from her I can get the better I enjoy her singing."—Ohio State Journal. Wife (reading the paper)—"Now, here is a young girl who has actually climbed Mount Blanc and sung 'Because I Love You' while she was on top." Husband—"How considerate of her. Usually they do it in the next flat."—Baltimore News. MUNICIPAL MATTERS. The City of Mexico maintains sixteen parks. Effingham, Ill., has a novelty in a college for teaching photography. Fargo, S. D., with a population of less than 11,000, has eighty-eight secret societies. Boston has pronounced the Pingree plan of growing potatoes on vacant lots a failure. New York city consumes daily the milk from 140,000 cows. It is brought from farms in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts. July 15th, 1859. To whom it may concern: Julius F. Taylor, who comes to this city well recommended, has begun the publication of "The Broad Ax," which, I am informed, will disseminate Democratic principles and contend for the higher intellectual development of the Afro-American race and mankind in general. While he is thus engaged I bespeak for him the hearty support of all loyal and true friends of Democracy. Respectfully, Carter M. Harrison. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 40 S. Clark Street, - - CHICAGO TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE OHICAGO. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2025. — TELEPHONE 813 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 48g8 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. 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 privately. 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. MBS. LAURA DAILEY. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR STRANGERS & TRAVELERS THEATRICAL HEADQUARTERS. Cheap rates and good accommodations. 506 State St., 2d floor, Chicago, Ill Room 28. 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 an LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Az. Bear 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, 1899. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Mr. Julius P. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax—a publication of this city devoted to the interests of the democratic party, and an able exponent of democratic principles—comes to us highly recommended, and I therefore take pleasure in commending him to the favorable consideration of democrats with whom he may come in business contact. Respectfully. Walter Watson. Chairman Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois. 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. G. E. CARLMORE GEORGE 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 Specifi- cations Furnished... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing 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. OTTO V. MUELLER Real Estate, Renting, Loans ... Insurance ... 646 W. Sixty-Third Street, - Chloage. Telephone Yards 797 Residence, 113 Garfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, COOK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, BOOM 616, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. KENNY & CO. Undertakers and Livery 5438 SOUTH HALSTED ST. THE BROAD AX. Published Weekly, will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, priests, infidels, farmers, single taxers, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One year .....$2.00 Six months .....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5040 Armeur avenue. Chicago. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor, Assistant Editor. (Entered at the postoffice, Chicago, Ill., as second class matter.) WONDERFUL DISCOVERY they will make straight by TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. OZONIZED OX MARROW THE ORIGINAL—COPYRIGHTED. 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Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ava., Chicago, Ill. Hon.W.J.Bryan's Book 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 his intention of devoting one-half of all royalties to furthering the cause of bimetallism. There are already indications of an enormous 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. 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Beware of imitations. The genuine and original is made only by Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago. 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, 5049 Armour avenue, Chicago. 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 cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. Labor lifts life. God betters our best. Better slow than sorry. Grumbles grow to giants. Fortune follows faithfulness. More meditation means lighter labor. Pleasure in prayer, power in prayer. Sentiment is steel; sentimentality is straw. Faith in one's self is born of faith in God.