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THE BROAD AX VOL. V. OUR TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS BOMB NO.2. It may be the unmaking of us politically for standing up for the truth, right and justice, but our motto has always been, to hew close up to the line and let the chips fall where they may regardless of consequences. Therefore under these conditions we are compelled to set forth our reasons why we are unwilling to accept J. Milton Turner as the foremost leader of the Negro Democrats of the United States, and in doing so we honestly believe that we are simply voicing the sentiments of thousands of colored Democrats residing in all parts of the country who do not look upon Mr. Turner with any considerable amount of favor. It cannot be denied by any one who is familiar or conversant with him that he has displayed any generalship in the past. He was not selected as a delegate to the late Negro National Democratic Convexion, held at Kansas City. But out of courtesy Geo. E. Taylor extended to him an invitation to attend its sessions and just as soon as he got in the room he wanted to run the convention and everybody else simply because he had been minister to Liberia under President Grant, and he believes that he can live on his past reputation, but that does not go now days. Its very hard for him to realize that 'has beens' do not amount to anything and it is impossible to run the mill with the water that has past, and after every honor had been shown to Mr. Turner by the league, he made up his mind that he should be selected as its President and that Harvey A, Thompson, his pal and cronie, should be chosen as its secretary, but a majority of the respectable members of the league did not deem it wise to elect either one of them. Then Mr. Turner after being turned down had himself introduced to the national convention as president of the Negro National Democratic league. Thus showing that he was willing to steal and wear honors which did not belong to him, but which rightly belonged to George E. Taylor, and from that day to this Mr. Turner has done everything in his power to discredit the actions of those who refused to vote for him, and at the same time he has possessed a sufficient quantity of unadulterated gall, to assert that he is the only Negro sufficiently qualified to conduct the campaign in behalf of Democracy among the colored voters. No one knowing him believes that he has the executive ability to do so. If he has he never displayed it in the city of St, Louis where he resides, nor in the State of Missouri. He made a failure in 1892 in stumping this State for Cleveland and Stevenson as Hon. Ben. T. Cable of Rock Island will attest while on the other hand Geo. E. Taylor, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, made a brilliant canvas of this State in the interests of Cleveland and Stevenson and we consider Mr. Taylor the superior of Mr. Turner intellectually, morally and every other way, he can deliver speeches on the live issues of the day while Mr. Turner is deficient in this respect. Mr. Taylor was a delegate to the Democratic National convention of 1896 and seconded the nomination of Col. Wm. J. Bryan. He made many speeches for him. He was chairman of his county delegation at the last Democratic State convention of Iowa He has wrote over twenty articles for the daily and weekly newspapers, deseminating and advocating the principals of Democracy since the Kansas City convention. He is president of the Negro Knights of America, and the Colored People's Protective association which shows that he must possess some influence and standing. He does not approve of sand-bagging and political touchers while it is well known that Mr. Turner has surrounded himself largely with that class of Negroes who are always looking for new victims to bleed and skin. Inasmuch as Mr. Turner cannot set fourth the issues of the campaign through the columns of the newspapers and inasmuch as it is hard to tell where he is at and as long as he does not represent Progressive Negro Democracy we cannot and we will not accept his as our leader. THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE NEGRO. XXIX Within a very short time after the adoption of the three amendments to the Constitution of the United States that pre-eminent statesman whose remains have crumbled int dust and have become a part of the monumental elements of the universe—Charles Sumner, who had been assaulted and stricken down in the United States Senate by Preston S. Broks, for advocating the freedam of the Negro, traversed all portions of the North and the South, and proclaimed to the Negro that he had now been "chained on to the American car of Liberty, and from thenceforth he must not permit himself to become the mental nor political slave of either one of the great political parties.' But the vast majority of our race have totally disregarded or refused to adhere to the advice of Charles Sumner, who was our very best friend, who possessed sufficient acuteness to penetrate or see far into the future, and the result is that the leaders of the Republican party naturally assume that it is their solemn duty to abhor and frown upon all Negroes, who possess the manhood and the courage to accept the advice and to follow in the footsteps of Charles Sumner. In 1872, Mr. Sumner, became thoroughly disgusted with the leaders of the Republican party so much so that he severed his connection with that great party and cast his political fortunes with his old friend Horace Greeley, who was the Democratic candidate for President of the United States and all who had the courage to raise their voices in behalf of the candidacy of Mr. Greeley were subjected to unspeakable insults they were designated as "renegades," "apostates," "dead beats," "sore-heads," and "rebels." United States Senator Oliver P. Morton was in the saddle in Indiana and he made the poor, ignorant and deluded Negroes of his state believe that if Charles Sumner was successful in electing Horace Greeley, they would be re-enslaved, and the names of Sumner and Greeley became a hiss and a byword in the mouth of every Negro throughout this broad land, and on numerous occasions during that excitable campaign the Negroes were wrought up to such a high pitch of excitement by Senator Morton and other leaders of the Republican party that it was very difficult to restrain them from assaulting the supporters of Horace Greeley. When Mr. Greeley realized that he had been overwhelmingly defeated by General Grant he became reconciled to his fate and before passing to the unknown world he said to a friend: "I was an abolitionist for years, when it was as much as one's life was worth even here in New York to be an abolitionist, and the Negroes have all voted against me. I even made myself ridiculous, in the opinion of many, whose good wishes I desired by showing fair play and giving a fair field in the 'Tribune' to woman's rights, and the women have all gone against me." After Horace Greeley had been hunted to his grave by his political assassins, whose calumnies broke his worm heart, that same class of demagogues, who had denounced him as being an enemy and a traitor to his country, joined with the most hypocritical divines in pouring out their eloquence at his grave. Charles Sumner was strongly rebuked by the members of the Massachusetts legislature for espousing the candidacy of Horace Greeley and although all the Negroes had deserted him, nevertheless he continued to champion his cause to whose service he had so unselfishly dedicated his life, and while the Negro was engaged in condemning and denouncing Mr. Sumner, for asserting his political rights and for re-affiliating with the Democratic party his first love, that great stateman very suddenly expired and his dying words were "Don't let the civil rights bill fail." Ah! My brethren, when that most illustrious stateman disappeared below the horizon wrapped in the mantle of the New Democracy, then you and all of us lost our greatest champion. (To be continued.) HEW TO THE LINE. [Name] PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Presidest of the New National Negro Business League, which was launched lately in Boston. Mass. SLICK POLITICS. The managers of the Democratic National committee and mayor Thomas Taggart. of Indianapolis, Ind., forked over $177 to Jack Milt Turner and hold up Harvey Thompson and two or three other uninfluential and unrepresentive Negro Democrats who are out for the boodle to enable them to attend the Afro-American council at Indianapolis and these wise guys were instructed by the committee not to permit the council to pass any resolutions commendary of President McKinley and his administration, but lo and behold while Milt Turner and company were either fast asleep or out indulging in an ice-cold glass of lemonade. Louis PROF. BOOKER T. Presidest of the New National Ne; launched lately in B. Anderson, of this city, assistant county attorney who does not claim to be a politician drew up a resolution which passed the conference thanking President McKinley for slightly saying something about mob and lynch law three or four years ago, which was only a round-about way of endorsing the McKinley administration. This was slick politics and after it was accomplished, Turner and company kicked and squeeled very loud and long, but it was then too late, and it seems to us that the national committee in this transaction, at least, paid very dear for its whistle, and we assume that no member of the committee will obect or find any fault with many hundred half-way respectable Negro Democrats if they stand off and look on and hold smelling bottles to their noses while Uncle Jackey Turner and Hancy--Nanev Thompson perform the chamber work for Chairman James K. Jones. One hundred and fifty odd delegates attended the Afro-American council and it is estimated that it cost the Democratic and the Republican parties $10,000 to send those hundred and fifty would be representatives of the race to the conference. This certainly does not show much progress on the part of the Negro after thirty five years of freedom if we consider the fact that most of the supposed representatives were indebted to their political master for their presence there. Notwithstanding this fact, there are many whose heads are filled up with lead think the brains of the race are centered in all the peanut-headed preachers and politicians who attended the conference. Roscoe Conkling Bruce will address the Men's Sunday club at Quinn Chapel, 24th and Wabash ave., Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Ladies and strangers are invited. Monday, Sept. 3d, was Labor day, which has become a National holiday throughout the country, and the many thousand toilers of Chicago presented a grand appearance as they wended their way through the down town district. To our heart's delight we observed many Afro-Americans marching along with their brother toilers. The parade after being reviewed as it passed the Auditorium hotel by Col. Wm. J. Bryan, Gov. Roosevelt, Hon. Samuel Alschuler, Judge Richard Yates and many other distinguished citizens dispersed. In the afternoon Electric Park was T. WASHINGTON. Negro Business League, which was in Boston. Mass. crowded by toilers who were orated to by Col. Wm. J. Bryan, United States Senator Wm.E. Mason, Sam. Alschuler, Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois; Gov. Roosevelt, and Judge Yates. It was plainly evident to all that Col. Bryan is held in high esteem by the toiling millions. He received more louder and longer applause than the other speakers and if the returns from the election in Vermont indicate anything he will wrench next November this Republic from the hands of those who are endeavoring to launch it upon the mad career of military and Imperialism. THE CHICAGO AMERICAN BRYAN CLUB Another meeting of the executive committee of the Chicago American Bryan Club of the 30th Ward was held at its Club rooms 5551 Wentworth avenue, Wednesday evening, and many of the precinct captains were present for the purpose of forming plans to organize good working clubs in the several precincts so that everybody who believes in the faith of Democracy can be induced to become interested in the work. John J. Feely, candidate for Congress, Second District, addressed those present. He urged upon all to get right down to business and hard work and not to give the corrupt leaders of the Republican party another chance to stuff the ballot boxes in this city the same as they did in 1896. Mr. Feely's extended remarks were well received and he was hailed as the next Congressman from the Second District. Last night a large mass meeting was held at the club rooms which was addressed by John E. Traeger, candidate for coroner. John J. Feely, candidate for Congress, Second District; Hon. M. J. Butler, candidate for State Senator, Fourth District; John E. Doyle and E. M. Cummings, candidates for legislature, Fourth District; M. McInerney, J, Brittian and Prof. Coultas, who is one of the great silver tongued orators of the West. CHIPS. Prof. Wm. H. Dawley, Jr., of Kansas City, was in the city last Monday. W. H. Clark has returned to his duties in the Corporation Counsel's office, after spending three weeks in the East. The Misses Murphy, Davis and Brown, of Baltimore, will return to their eastern home next Monday, after a four week's visit. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Ida May Wiedemer, niece of Hon. and Mrs. E. H. Wright, to Mr. Ruppert of Hartman, Wis. Prof. D. C. Suggs, Vice President of the Georgia State Industrial College, at Savannah, is in the city. He is the guest of Dr. George C. Hall. The United Brotherhood have obtained its charter and this new Afro-American enterprise is now fully prepared to insure the lives of all comers, male and female. Dr. G. W. Bryant, of Washington, D. C., arrived in the city last Tuesday and will remain for an indefinite time. He is stopping with R. B. Harrison, 2806 Wabash avenue. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mr. Julius N. Avendorph and Miss Jennie Claven, at Marquette, Mich., on Sept. 19, 1900. They will live at 6352 Rhodes avenue. W. H. Watkins, President Alexander County Anti-Imperialism and AntiTrust League, Cairo, Ill., and W. T. Scott of the same place, have spent the past week in Chicago. T. Thomas Fortune, editor and publisher of The New York Age, arrived in Chicago Monday and departed for his home last night. Mr. Fortune incidentally informed us that the political situation is a little bit cloudy. Last Tuesday evening the Fellowship Club entertained the strangers in the city at an outing at Gardner's Grove, 124th street and Michigan avenue. Armant's orchestra played. Quite three hundred people were in attendance, and all voted it the finest party of the season. Attorney A. M. Thomas, of Buffalo, New York, who is one of the leading and most substantial Afro-Americans of the Empire State, has renounced McKinleyism and the Republican party and will use his influence to further the election of Col. Wm. J. Bryan. the next President of the United States. The National Negro Business League held its first session in Boston, Mass. recently. It was quite largely attended, every delegate was a business man. They paid their railroad fair and hotel bills like business men and they did not waste any time in discussing politics, but they bent every effort of showing to the Negro the necessity of engaging in business for ourselves. Long may the National Negro Business League live. Negro newspapers must support the Republican ticket without consideration as the committee says, they have no money for Negro newspapers. All that will be spent will be with the white papers of foreign languages and such other papers conducted by friends of the committee in this county. No Negro editor or his associates need apply, for they will not be considered in this campaign by this committee. Neither will we employ any Negro around our headquarters, we want either white males or females to do our work.—The Progress, Omaha Neb. Jack Milt Turner says that he is a gentleman but that signifies nothing for our jails and prisons are full of gentlemen and every old female cat who resides on South Clark street and in the Tenderloin District calls herself a lady. What we want to know is whether Milt Turner is an honest man, for we have a great deal more respect for honest men and noble women than we have for a lot of creatures who call themselves gentlemen, and as long as Mr. Turner did not return the transportation which was sent him in 1898 to enable him to come here from St Louis, and address NO. 46. the colored league we cannot fall down upon our knees and worship him as the new Moses of Negro Democracy. REWARD. Anyone who can give information as to the whereabouts of Adam Horn (colored) who when last heard of was working at the barber trade in this city will be suitably rewarded by Mrs. Sarah Robinson, No. 2 Rector court, Charleston, S. C. THE GREAT LEARNING. From the emperor down to the mass of people, all must consider the cultivation of the person, the root of everything besides. What the Great Learning teaches is, to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people, and to rest in the highest excellence. Things have their root and their completion. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and that being determined a calm unperturbedness may be maintained. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose. In that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified their persons were, cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed the whole empire was made tranquil and happy. The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. It cannot be, when the root is neglected, that what should spring from it should be well ordered. It never has been the case that what was of great importance has been slightly cared for, and, at the same time, that what was of slight importance has been greatly cared for.—Confucius. FROM MANY SOURCES. The coal production of the world amounted to 660,000,000 tons for the year 1898. Last year there were 3,846 fires in London and 191 lives were lost from that cause. Dogs in Hamburg are taxed according to size—the bigger the dog the higher the tax. The lord mayor of London wears a badge of office which contains diamonds valued at £120,000. There were 197 wolves killed in France last year and the bounties equaled 13,075 francs, or £523. Ten thousand cabmen of Naples were out on strike to prevent the introduction of motor cabs in that city. About one-seventh of the cases of illness in Russia last year were due to infections-i. e., preventable—diseases. Spain has more sunshine than any country in Europe. The yearly average is 3,000 hours; in England it is 1,400. The Afghans never leave their homes without having an arsenal of weapons in their belts. Arms are their adornments. Glycerine is a by-product of soap and candle factories, and something like 40,000 tons of this commodity are made yearly. No able-bodied men need be idle in New Zealand. The government gives every applicant work and pays him at the rate of $v. a day. Had it not been for his misadventure, we would not know that Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet, "wears diamonds."—New York Evening Sun. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of labor, Includes, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; write only on one side of the paper. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application Address all communications to JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. The screw in the fourth jewel wheel of a watch is so small that a lady's thimble would hold 1,000,000 of them. The average velocity of cirrus clouds is about 89 miles an hour, while in winter they have sometimes been known to travel at the rate of 230 miles an hour. Mrs. Thomas C. Platt, the wife of the New York senator, gives a great deal of her time to study. Two years ago she took up French and is now especially proficient in that language. When the active service section of the Royal Berks volunteers left Maidenhead recently on their way to the front, each man was presented with a sovereign by Colonel Boxall, with injunctions to spend the same at Pretoria. It is announced that Prof. Charles Eliot Norton and the other literary executors of John Ruskin have determined not to issue a biography of the art critic, considering his "Praeterita" and Collingwood's biography sufficient. But the executors will issue representative selections from Mr. Ruskin's diaries and letters. The foreman of a ranch in California declares that rural free delivery is worth a thousand dollars a year to him personally, because it keeps the hands at home. This suggests one reason why the service should be extended. Restless boys will be less anxious to go to the city, when every day the postman brings the best of the city to them. The Milne-Astor episode dies nard. The finale must be wholly satisfactory to Captain Sir Berkeley Milne—his nomination by the Admiralty as one of three officers sent to represent the royal navy at the funeral of the Duke of Coburg. The selection of Sir Berkeley was intended as a demonstration and it was due to a suggestion made by a royal personage. February 14, 1901, will mark the centennial of the day when John Marshall of Virginia, the first chief justice of the United States, took his seat upon the supreme bench. It is to be commemorated at the initiative of the bar association of the District of Columbia, with the help of the American Bar Association, and ex-Attorney-General Wayne MacVeagh has been chosen to deliver the oration. Mrs. Laura A. Alderman owns the largest orchard in South Dakota. According to W. N. Irwin, chief of the division of pomology of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, she has near Harley, Turner county, 150 acres, in which are 8,000 tress, two acres being given over to plums. Besides the trees there are 1,000 currant bushes, 1,000 gooseberry bushes, 500 grape vines and three acres of strawberries. A trade journal estimates the American "output" of bicycles for the past year at about eight hundred and fifty thousand wheels. More than one hundred thousand were reserved for home consumption. Yet the bicycle is now no novelty. It looks as if the people who have supposed and declared that wheeling was merely a temporary fad would have to own themselves beaten, and aim their dismal predictions at the motor cycle and automobile. Gen. John Watts dePeyster, who declares that the earth is fixed in space and who laughs at those who hold to the Copernican theory of the solar system, is one of the most distinguished veterans of the Civil war and was formerly a military expert of international fame. In his old age—he is now 79—he has turned his attention to astronomy, and has just translated a lecture of a Berlin professor, Prof. Schoepffer, who proves to the general's satisfaction that Kepler, Newton, Copernicus and all their followers are in gross error when they assert that the earth moves around the sun or upon its own axis. The influence which a single person may exert is admirably illustrated in the case of an Indian girl, who in 1871 was carried to Hampton wrapped in a blanket. One of her first acts was to steal a watermelon, a bit of which she immediately offered to the sun god as propotion. For the past four years, however, this refined and charming young woman has served as United States field matron among her own triba. She travels about in a buggy, carrying a wash tub, a wringer and soap, teaching squaw after squaw how to wash, iron and cook, not to hush the baby to sleep with strong coffee, how to heal weak eyes and other diseases common among her people. In the picturesque language of her tribe, Annie Dawson "leaves a trail of light" ARTHUR'S POKER GAME While President Is in Louisville He Courts Flekle Fortuna. The marriage of Chester Alan Arthur, son of the late President Arthur, to Mrs. Andrews, at Vevey, recalls an interesting affair in which his father participated while officiating at an exposition in this country, and which has hitherto escaped publication. Aug. 1, 1883, witnessed the opening of the exposition at Louisville, and the central figure was President Arthur. Upon his arrival on the soil of Kentucky the president was met by the then governor of the state, Luke B. Blackburn, and in response to a speech of welcome by him the president made a gracious reply. The train then sped onward through the state until Louisville was reached. Here the president was met by a delegation of prominent men of the city, headed by the mayor, Charles D. Jacob. At night a banquet was tendered to the distinguished guest at the Gault house, at which he was called upon to respond to a toast. At about 11 p. m. the president, accompanied by the committee appointed to look after his comfort while in Louisville, started for the suite of rooms which had been set aside for him at the Gault house, and after a chat of about half an hour with the members of the committee, which comprised some of the prominent men in Louisville's affairs, excused himself and retired. After the president had withdrawn one of the committee suggested that the party while away a couple of hours with a game of poker. No dissenting voice being raised, the cards and chips were brought forth and the game was on. For a solid hour or more nothing could be heard but the clinking of the chips and the subdued voices of the players as the bets were made. When the game was at its height, and the eyes and the ears of the players were so intently fixed upon the cards and the betting as to be totally oblivious to their surroundings, a tall figure clad in a white night robe appeared from behind the portieres of a communicating room, and, coming up behind one of the players, gently tapped him on the shoulder. To the astonishment of this player, upon looking up he beheld by his side the president of the United States. The president said he had been lying in bed since the game began, listening to the rattling of the chips and the betting, which was going on in the adjoining room, and, though tired, he could not persuade himself to go to sleep until he had taken a hand in the game. With one voice the committee extended an invitation to the president to take a seat at the table and join in the game, which he did. Louisville today has the distinction of having once had a president of the United States while its guest playing a game of poker with some of its leading citizens in his night robe.—New York Herald. PHYSICAL TRAINING Proper Development of School Training by Exercises. In the training of the child he is not to be regarded as a little man, but as an epitome of the race. His mental attributes are, life expressed in consciousness, affection, will, and intellect; and as these attributes have developed in the order of their evolution through the damages of the childhood of the race, so they develop in the child. There is first life, shown in activity; then the instincts of emotion are developed; then the power of choice, of decision; and finally the reasoning powers. The history of the arts show the same order of evolution. The first period was that of life, the whole; the next step was attraction, the striving after effect through the parts of the whole; then the will exercised the power of selection, and showed the use of the parts to the whole; and, finally, the intellect perceived the relation of the parts to one another, and the suggestive period was reached. Physical culture must be based upon these natural laws of evolution. Hence the exercises of each lesson are divided into four parts, which expresses the four attributes of the mind, and correspond to the four periods of development in art. The first part, which corresponds to the colossal period in art, is exercise of whole body; it includes position and posing. The second, which corresponds to the effective period, is exercise of the parts; it includes movements for the feet and legs, hands and arms, trunk and neck. The third, which corresponds to the realistic period, is exercise of the parts with special reference to their effect upon the whole; it includes reaching, respiratory, and arm swinging movements. The fourth, which corresponds to the suggestive period, is the exercise of the parts with reference to their effect upon one another; it includes floating movements. This arrangement follows also the well-known law that all exercise must proceed from gentle to strong, and from strong back to less vigorous movement—Wemert Magazine. "BE FULLY SELF-CONTROLLED" "A Remedy for Nervousness" Children are occasionally troubled with bleeding at the nose, and in some instances this becomes quite alarming, especially when all known remedies fail and the weakening flow still continues, and in this instance, as in many others, the best remedy is one of the simplest that could be tried. A celebrated physician has claimed in one of his lectures that the "best remedy" is a vigorous motion of the jaws, as in the act of chewing. In the case of a child he recommends giving a wad of paper to chew, as the rapid workings of the jaws stops the flow of blood. CONVERTS GOLDBUGS BRYAN'S GREAT SPEECH CONVINCES THEM. Four Boston Papers That Opposed Him in 1896 See the Force of His Argument—They Have Grown in Wisdom in Four Years. Following are extracts from four of the leading newspapers of Massachusetts in reference to Bryan's great speech at Indianapolis. One of these journals has a larger circulation than any other paper in New England. We believe that every one of these papers opposed Mr. Bryan in 1896. A Revelation. Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance at Indianapolis is as great a revelation to his opponents as it is a source of joy to his friends. It is unquestionably the most statesmanlike address that has been made in recent years by a presidential candidate. It is devoted in its entirety to a discussion of imperialism, which by the very force of this speech would be made the issue of this campaign if it had not already been such. The tremendous subject is pursued to its utmost ramifications and the argument and its deductions are in every respect sound and logical. There is no resort to invective and little reliance is placed upon mere oratorial effect. The speech is that of a man thoroughly in earnest and sincerity shines in every sentence. We believe that the arguments advanced against the imperialistic policy of the Republican party cannot be so controverted as to carry conviction to any unbiased mind. Mr. Bryan has taken up Republican claims one after another and with calm but earnest reasoning has torn them into shreds and flung them, valueless, behind him. No adequate idea of the strength and compass of the masterly address can be given in editorial limits. It is one of the greatest and most statesmanlike utterances of our history. It establishes the paramount issue of the campaign and proves that Americans today stand at the parting of the ways. We must either cling to the honored traditions of our forefathers, to the constitution and the Declaration of Independence, or we must follow the imperialistic policy to its inevitable conclusion—to militarism and high taxation at home and to dominating oppression abroad. There is no alternative.—Boston Traveler. Calm and Patriotic. Mr. Bryan was introduced to the country four years ago in a single burst of popular oratory. He has inaugurated his second campaign at Indianapolis with an address which must merit and receive permanent distinction for the calmness of its tone and closeness and sobriety of its reasoning, and for its breadth of statesmanship. The contrast marks and epitomizes the growth of the man. No one ever before nominated for the presidency was so little known to the nation at large as Mr. Bryan was in 1896, but since that day in Chicago there has been a continuous unfolding of a remarkable character under a sunlight as fierce as any that ever beat upon a throne. His rigorous honesty, his constant frankness, his unfailing courtesy, his undaunted optimism, his intense patriotism have availed to penetrate the clouds of partisan and factional prejudice until these qualities are conceded by his antagonists and become the reliance of his followers. While the Indianapolis speech of acceptance is not lacking in skill and elegance, the reader will search it in vain for idle symbols or mere flowers of rhetoric. He will find instead an unbroken thread of earnestness and candor running through it, with no disgressive appeals to irrelevant passions. In it Mr. Bryan has not planted himself upon an epithet but upon a principle. Call the course of Mr. McKinley in the Philippines imperialism or benevolent assimilation, as you please, the Democratic candidate takes his position squarely and boldly in opposition of it.—Boston Globe. Bold and Aggressive The presidential campaign of 1900 was opened boldly and aggressively by Mr. Bryan in his speech of acceptance of the Democratic nomination at Indianapolis yesterday. The occasion was one of much interest, not only by reason of the impressive formalities of the proceedings, and the great enthusiasm of the large assemblage, but because the utterances of the candidate fixed definitely the paramount issue of the campaign which the party in power has done its best to belittle and cover up. Mr. Bryan makes his stand squarely on the issue of republic or empire. In his speech of acceptance the minor and contingent questions of public policy with which this election is concerned do not receive consideration. The solemn duty of the people in the preservation of the principles of our government overshadows everything else at this crisis. It is a question of national life or national decadence, and on this line the great struggle is to be waged. Mr. McKinley has taken up, with his party, the position of defense. Mr. Bryan opens the attack with vigor. The issue of imperialism is discussed in Mr. Bryan's speech thoroughly, with entire fairness, with great force and in a spirit of high patriotism. It is a remarkable address, ranking perhaps higher than any of its author's previous efforts, in that rhetoric is held throughout subordinate to logic, and brilliancy of effect to convincing strength of statement. It is an address which cedes condensation, so compact is its argument, so close knit its premises and conclusions. It is a speech that carries conviction and that impresses the reader, as it manifestly impressed those who heard it, with the entire sincerity of the man.—Boston Post. The Popular Idol. The people's candidate for president has delivered a noble speech, solely devoted to the supreme question. Quarrel with him as we may on other issues, criticise as we may his past treatment of this issue, the fact remains that he rather than McKinley places the paramount issue where it belongs—at the forefront of the discussion. Whatever the past, Mr. Bryan rather than Mr. McKinley has ranged himself and the great party behind him on the right side of the debate. He throws the whole organized power of the Democracy into the fight against the imperialist program.—From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican-Independent. BRYAN'S LOGIC. No man living can say such stirring things in words so free from passion as William Jennings Bryan. He is equally a master of rhetoric and of logic. He is as modest and unassuming as he is inspiring and convincing. If he has an equal among publicists of the day he is easily "first among equals"—primus inter pares. He will take a place in American history with Jefferson and Lincoln, and whether he takes his seat in the presidential chair or not—and it now seems absolutely certain that he will—his fame as one of the greatest interpreters of true democracy and Americanism is assured. He grows in stature with the days, and every speech he makes gives new proof of his fearless candor and intellectual thought and acumen. His speech at Indianapolis was a masterly exposition of American governmental ideals, and his acceptance of the Populist nomination at Topeka, Kansas, on Thursday last, was less great only because it was less exhaustive. Truly it can be said that "only himself can be his parallel," in expounding the great fundamental truths on which our national existence is based, in words as common as they are comprehensive. In accepting its presidential nomination Bryan paid the Populist party, in his opening sentences a high and just compliment for the educational work it has done in arousing the people to a study of economic and industrial questions, for, as he says, "truth grows not in seclusion but in the open field, and it thrives best in the sunshine of full and free debate." It is this free and full discussion that McKinleyism—the bastard Republicanism of the day—most dreads. The men who are striving to make the stars and stripes what Cecil Rhodes called the Union Jack in Africa, a "commercial asset," want no debate. With no more feeling or sentiment than Wordsworth's peasant, to whom the pretty flower on the river's brink, "a yellow primrose was and nothing more," the flag of Washington, of Jackson, of Lincoln, and of Grant, has no glory or meaning in its folds to those greedy and vulgar plotters of force, treason and imperialism. "Old Glory" in Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, and at home, unless they can make it a "commercial asset" is a thing to be furled and especially because of the glowing story and hopeful significance which Bryan waves into its folds. With plunder instead of patriotism as their aim they would make it, as General Halpine wrote in the New York Tribune in slavery days, a "robber rag" like other imperialistic bunting, and if it cannot be so used why, then, in their eyes it is nothing but a "flaunting lie." Mr. Bryan touched on several things, but briefly, at Topeka, which he passed over at Indianapolis. In referring to the currency question the Republican party, he says, "denies the necessity for more real money, while it permits national banks to expend the volume of paper promises to pay money. It is now committed to a currency system which necessitates a perpetual debt, while the Populist finds himself in agreement with the Democrats, who believe in paying off the national debt as rapidly as possible. In sentences few, but clear, he advocates an income tax, the principles of direct legislation, the enlargement of the scope of the interstate commerce art, and the creation of a labor bureau at Washington with a cabinet officer at its head. He favors the exclusion of Chinese and other oriental labor from the United States, and in some trenchant sentences shows the rascality of the trusts. "If, he says, "a private monopoly can suspend production and fix the price of the finished product, the farmer powerless to protect himself when he sells, is plundered when he purchases. Mr. Bryan's treatment of the "prosperity" argument, of the war and its cost to the taxpayer, of imperialism and other issues, leaving nothing to be desired in the way of putting unanswerable arguments in a terse, pithy and original manner. Every true citizen will wish with him in his closing words that "the oppressed o every land will see in our flag the hope of their own deliverance and whether they are bleeding upon the battlefield or groaning beneath a tyrant's lash, will raise their eyes to wards heaven and breathe a fervent prayer for the safety of our republic." WHY HE CHANGED. This is the simple story of how John Smith came to change his party. His father was a Republican. His grand father was a Whig. John himself had always voted just as his father did. From he early youth he had always evinced an interest in politics, but it was a quiet interest. He didn't go much on getting into arguments. He was always content to believe that the Republicans were more right than the Democrats, so he voted a straight Republican ticket every time. John keeps small store in the suburbs of a large city. He sells groceries, oil, candies, stationery for the school children and deals a little in meat, especially in the winter time when it is easier to keep meat than in the summer. John has noticed of late that his profits amount practically to nothing, still he does a fair amount of business, he is steady and does not spend his money extravagantly, tries to buy pretty good things for his store, although he never buys very much and he keeps things neat and clean about his place. A few months ago John got hold of a newspaper with some interesting articles regarding the growth and destructiveness of the trusts. His business was quiet, he had nothing else to read, so he glanced over the article. Very soon he became interested and read them very carefully. As a result he is in a predicament, is worried considerably. He can no longer accept the presentment of the Republican side of the case as he used to. The other day he read in a paper about the great prosperity throughout the country, about the enormous amount of goods shipped and bought by Uncle Sam, of the increased amount of business being done and of the increase in the amount of money in circulation. He does something now that he never did before. He questions the truth of these statements. For instance, he wants to know where the money goes. He is not making any; his friends in business tell him that they are not making any money. Some years ago they used to make money and they used to spend it liberally, too, but now they are forced to play close to the cushion. John is doing a little figuring now all by himself and is doing considerable thinking. He wonders why it is that he and his old friends, those he knows in town, are not making any money. He figures that there are more people around town than there were in the days when business was good. He figures that they should eat as much as ever, in fact should spend about as much money as ever. But do they? He answers himself by saying that he does not spend as much money as he used to spend; he doesn't get hold of it to spend. He figures that what is true of him is true of other people. The question, who gets the money? is what he is trying to figure out. He looks about the store at his small supply of goods and recalls from whom he buys them. Nearly everything he has in stock is handled by trusts. There is no competition. He must buy from that one party or not buy at all. They bull the price. He has to pay a large sum for the goods, but he cannot always charge a large price, because the people won't pay it, for what is equally as bad, they can't pay it! What is the result? The result is that the trusts make the money. The merchant is forced to buy his stock from concerns that tolerate no competition. He is forced to sell his goods in competition with his fellow merchants, owing to the combines that are formed, the profits of the wholesale houses are never cut. If the prices of the goods are raised to the small merchants, it simply follows that its profits are diminished. The merchant's loss is the combine's gain. And it is equally true that the combine's gain is not only the merchant's loss, but the public's as well. This is the fact which John Smith has discovered and about which he is energetically telling his friends and neighbors. And as a result of having at last seen the light upon the trust question he has decided to vote against them by casting a ballot for Bryan. Thus ends the simple story of John Smith. Government by Syndicates. The Philippine Lumber Company, backed by Mark Hanna and managed by Congressman Hull and his son, the latter a federal office holder, has organized a syndicate to control the timber industry of the Philippine Islands. It is proposed to compel all independent shippers of Philippine hard woods to get out of the game. This will easily be done by using the military government at Manila. It will not be a difficult task for Hanna and his associates to quickly suppress all competition. In their new field they intend to have no rivals. The plan for forming this new Hanna industry has been under way for months. It is proposed to employ Filipino and cooley labor, thus the interest of the American workingmen will be taken care of by the trust. It may be added that Mr. Hull, besides being a member of Congress is also vice chairman of the Republican National Congressional committee. Speaking of the new venture Congressman Hull said: "Our capital stock is three million dollars authorized, but it has been necessary to pay in one hundred thousand dollars. We scheme to get hold of very valuable hardwood lumber and gutta percha forests. The scheme is the same for hardwood lumber that was followed in the northwest, in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Already we have titles to property from men who have had them in their families for over 200 years, and we won't need a government concession." So Far the Enterprise Comes Ont with a Deficit. The administration of the Kiel canal, Germany, has lately published a report for the year included between April 1, 1898, and March 31, 1899. The number of vessels which have passed through the canal during that period reached 25,816, of which 11,005 represent steam vessels and 14,811 sailing vessels, etc. The total tonnage is estimated at 3,117,840. These figures show an increase over the preceding year of 2,708 vessels and 648,000 tons. The receipts of the canal during the year amount to about $400,000, which is an increase of $80,000 or 20 per cent., says the Scientific American. As to the different nations using the canal, Germany naturally takes the lead with 87 per cent of the total number of vessels, and 68 per cent of the tonnage; England has about 9 per cent, which is an increase over the preceding year. Denmark and Sweden have respectively 6.9 and 5.7 per cent, showing a slight diminution. Russia, whose proportion was 2.54 per cent in 1897-8, has now 2.29. From a financial point of view, the situation is considerably better than for the preceding period, the deficit being but $108,000 against $245,000. The receipts have increased about 26 per cent and the expenses diminished 9 per cent. The report brings out the fact that as the Kiel canal has been constructed mainly from a strategic point of view it is not to be expected that it will give any considerable profit; nevertheless, the constant increase in the revenue leads one to expect that the receipts may in time come to equal and even exceed the expense of maintenance. A KLONDIKE BRIDE. She Will Take $10,000 to See the Parks Exposition. "Here's $10,000 for vacation money, wifey. Take your mother to Paris and have the best kind of a time you know." That's the kind of a husband that James L. Hall, a Klondike miner, is, says a San Francisco correspondent of the New York World. Lucky Mrs. Hall went to Dawson City last fall as a vaudeville artiste. She was then Miss Lillian Green. Going up the Yukon the boat on which she traveled was nipped in the ice and totally wrecked near Selwyn. After enduring the utmost hardships Miss Green and her fellow-voyagers managed to reach a camp where the crew of another wrecked steamer had found refuge. Standing before the camp-fire with her clothing freezing on the young woman gave such a graphic account of her adventures that she completely won the heart of Miner Hall, the owner of the camp and one of the richest men in the Klondike. "That's the girl for my money!" exclaimed Hall, and that very night he proposed marriage and was accepted. A week later the shipwrecked crews reached their destination at Dawson, where the Rev. Fr. Naylor pronounced a benediction on the union of the pretty little actress and the rugged miner. Mrs. Hall's health failed somewhat under the rigors of an Arctic winter, and ten days ago she came down to San Francisco in company of her mother and sister, with instructions from her husband to go to Paris and spend $10,000 and wire him when she wanted any more pocket money. Besides this Mr. Hall gave his bride a wedding gift of $50,000. James L. Hall owns claim No. 17, on Eldorado creek, which has produced more than a million in nuggets and promises to yield half as much more this year. A MUSICIAN OF NOTE. Miss Ethel Harraden, better known in private life as Mrs. Frank Glover, is a musician who has achieved much distinction as the composer of a number of tuneful melodies. Less well known than her sister, Miss Beatrice Harraden, the author of "Ships That Pass in the Night," she is equally clever in her particular bent. Miss Harraden began composing at the tender age of 5, and was only 7 when her first composition was published. Speaking recently of her work, Miss Harraden said: "Amongst my most successful songs have been 'If at Your Window, Love' and 'As We Love Today,' the poetry of both these being by Mr. Robert Hichens; a setting of Longfellow's 'Rainy Day,' for which I gained the ten-guinea prize; also a setting of Longfellow's words, 'Ships that pass in the night,' which A. MRS. FRANK GLOVER words gave my sister Beatrice the title of her world-famed book; and 'Sweet Amabel,' words by my sister Gertrude. A little one-act operetta, 'His Last Chance,' libretto by my brother Hubert, and music by me, was played at the Galey theater for nine months; and it is still a favorite amongst amateurs, and is frequently being performed. At the London exhibitions, held at Earl's court in 1897, I was invited to send on loan to the section of the 'Woman's Work of the Victorian Era' an original manuscript of a song and orchestral piece." LOW RATE EXCURSIONS. Missouri Pacific By., and Iron Mountain Route, To points in the West, Southwest, and Southeast at half-rates (plus $2) for the round trip. Tickets on sale Tuesdays, September 4 and 18, October 2 and 16, November 6 and 20, and December 4 and 18, 1900. For full information, land folders, etc., address any agent of the above lines, or H. C. Townsend, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis, Missouri. NO TROUBLE TO TRAVEL NO TROUBLE TO TRAVEL. Mrs. Dayton, 85 years, is going to take a trip to Auburn to visit her son. We said to her, "Mrs. Dayton, should think that quite a journey for a girl of your age. Don't you dread it?" "Why no!" said she. "Would just as liv ride on the New York Central as to set in an easy chair in your parlor. I never have any trouble. I have been over the road many times; when I get to Albany I always tell the old fellow at the door where I want to go and he looks out for me, and everybody on the train is always so courteous and obliging,—traveling on the Central is no dread to me."—The Millerton Telegram. Expenses of the Sultan The yearly expenses of the sultan have been estimated at no less a sum than $30,000,000. Of this $7,500,000 alone is spent on the clothing of the women and $400,000 on the sultan's own wardrobe. Nearly $7,500,000 is swallowed up by presents, $5,000,000 goes for pocket money and still another $5,000,000 for the table. It seems incredible that so much money can possibly be spent in a year by one man, but when it is remembered that some 1,500 people live within the palace walls—live luxuriously and dress expensively at the cost of the civil list—it appears a little more comprehensible. Gold Medal Awarded Walter Baker & Co. Paris, Aug. 20.—The judges at the Paris Exposition have just awarded a gold medal to Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., U. S. A., for their preparations of cocoa and chocolate. This famous company, now the largest manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate in the world, have received the highest awards from the great international and other expositions in Europe and America. This is the third award from a Paris Exposition. Ways of Bathing. There are more ways that one of taking a bath—even a sea bath. W. C. Whitney has had built for him a bathing boat, schooner rigged, 54 feet long and drawing 18 inches of water. There are eight dressing-rooms for bathers. In the hold are arrangements for salt water bathing, shower baths, sprays, etc. Provisions are carried, so that the passengers need not go ashore for days at a time. It cost $5,000. A BOSTON INSTITUTION. Among the un que institutions of Boston is the Peabody Medical Institut e, No. 4 Bulfinch St. established nine years before the death of the great philanthropist, the late Mr. George Peabo y, from whom it takes its name. During the past 80 years it has achieved a wide and lasting distinction. The medical publications of this institute have millions of readers, and are as standard as gold. Their last pamphlet for men only, 94 pages, entitled "Know Thyself," is sent free by mail, sealed, on receipt of 6 cents for postage. American Scholar in Japan. Mitsuziro Harada of Japan, who is studying the cotton industry in this country, tells the New Orleans Times-Democrat that Lafcadio Hearn, now professor of English literature in Kobe university, is "the best-liked American scholar in Japan." KIDNEY TROUBLES OF WOMEN Miss Frederick's Letters Show How She Bolled on Mrs. Pinkham and Was Cured. "DEAB MRS. PINKHAM:—I have a yellow, muddy complexion, feel tired and have bearing down pains. Menses have not appeared for three months; sometimes am troubled with a white discharge. Also have kidney and bladder trouble. I have been this way for a long time, and feel so miserable I thought I would write to you and see if you could do me any good."—MISS EDNA FREDERICK, Trov. Ohio, Aug. 6, 1899. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound according to directions, and can say I have not felt so well for years as I do at present. Before taking your medicine a more miserable person you never saw. I could not eat or sleep, and did not care to talk with any one. Now I feel so well I cannot be grateful enough to you for what you have done for me."—MISS EDNA FREDERICK, Troy, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1899. Backache Cured "DEAR MES. PINKHAM:—I write to thank you for the good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done me. It is the only medicine I have found that helped me. I doctored with one of the best physicians in the city of New York, but received no benefit. I had been ailing for about sixteen years, was so weak and nervous that I could hardly walk; had continued pain in my back and was troubled with leucorrhoea. Menses were irregular and painful. Words cannot express the benefit I have derived from the use of your medicine. I heartily recommend it to all suffering women."—MES. MARY BARSHINGER, Windsor, Pa. PISO'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION ROSEBOOM HAS MADE $2,000,- 000 IN TWO YEARS. A Sample of the Men Who Gain Vast Fortunes by Changes and Manipulations of the Market Prices—This Man Started on a Small Scale. W. L. Roseboom, the broom corn king of Chicago, has made almost $2,000,000 in the past two years out of an almost unknown commodity. Compared with wheat and corn and other products which are the mediums of exchange and speculation in large boards of trade throughout the world, the fortune this Chicagoan has amassed out of broom corn is remarkable. Years ago Mr. Roseboom entered the business and became thoroughly acquainted with the broom corn belt of Illinois, which is a tract of land covering approximately a district 40 miles square. In this district upward of three-quarters of the entire broom T. W. L. ROSEBOOM. corn crop of the country is raised. Recently a terrific wind and rain storm did about $1,000,000 damage to growing grain from which brooms and brushes are largely made. When this storm came upon the farmers who cultivate the corn over 7,000 tons of the product was held by a Chicago concern which is controlled by Mr. Roseboom. Conservative estimates place the rise in price at 5 cents per pound, which would not a profit of $700,000 to the Roseboom company. The indications point to a higher rise, and it is considered by experts that the profits will easily reach the $1,000,000 mark for this season alone. For 30 years Mr. Roseboom has been engaged in dealing in the product which has brought him his large fortune. He started out on a small scale, his business taking him through Newman and the other cities in central Illinois which form the principal points in the broom corn country. He has correspondents all through the district, who keep in constant communication with him. The past two years have yielded him the bulk of his fortune, his gains in that period being estimated at $2,000,000. LEATHER OF FISH SKINS. The United States fish commission has been making a collection of leathers made from the skins of fish and other aquatic animals, especially of those which promise to be of practical utility. Several varieties of fish have skins that make an excellent leather for some purposes. Salmon hide, for example, serves so well in this way that the Eskimos of Alaska make waterproof shirts and boots out of it. They also cut jackets out of cod fish skins, which are said to be very serviceable garments. In the United States frog skins are coming into use for the mounting of books where an exceptionally delicate material for binding is required. There are certain tribes of savages who make breast plates out of garfish skins, which will turn a knife or a spear. A bullet will pierce this breastplate, but it is said to be impossible to chop through the material with a hatchet at one blow. Together with such a breastplate, these savages wear a helmet of the skin of the porcupine fish, which is covered with formidable spines. Fastened upon the head, this helmet serves not only as a protection, but in close encounters it is used to butt with. The Gloucester Isinglass and Glue company recently manufactured some shoes of the skins of a codfish and cusk. On the lower Yukon, in Alaska, overalls of tanned fish skins are commonly worn by the natives. Whip handles are made of shak skins and instrument cases are commonly covered with the same material, it being known under the name of shagreen. Whale skins are said to make admirable leather for some purposes, while porpoise leather is considered a very superior material for razor strops. Seal leather, dyed in a number of different colors, is included in the collection of the fish commission. The leather is obtained from the hair seal, and not from the fur-bearing species, and is used to a considerable extent in the manufacture of pocketbooks. The hair seals are still very plentiful in the North Atlantic ocean, and as it is not difficult to kill them they afford a very promising source of leather supply. Walrus leather came into the market recently, but as the animals are being exterminated rapidly it will hardly amount to much commercially. Another kind of leather now seen on sale is that of the sea elephant. Up to within a few years a species of sea elephant was found on the Pacific coast, ranging as far north as lower California, but the animals have been so nearly exterminated that they are now rarely seen. Another species is to be found in the Antarctic seas chiefly on Kerguelan island.—New LATE SUMMER VACATIONS. The Public Escape from Heat Into the Cool Resorts of the Mountains of Colorado. The hot spell has come late this summer, but it has arrived, and thousands of persons have taken advantage of the proximity of the Colorado mountains to escape from the enervating and prostrating surfeit of high temperature. The mountain resorts are more popular than ever and the railroads are doing a heavy passenger traffic, largely of tourists. The Missouri Pacific System, with its Short Line from Kansas City to Pueblo, has been one of the most favored routes, because of its luxurious car service and its rapid time and the desirable route. As the late summer and early fall days are among the most delightful in the mountains, the public still has its face to the West, enjoying release from business and home duties and reveling in the beauties with which nature has so bountifully endowed the popular Rocky Mountain resorts. Pure air and cool breezes work wonders in the way of restoring health, and change of air and diet, with rest, always repay the investment by storing new energy and revivifying force in wearied brain and body. The expense is comparatively small, as special tourist rates are made low at this season. Twenty-four hours places the most eastern dweller of the state right in the heart of the great divide, and he has enjoyed such scenery as wealthy tourists cross the ocean to find. The Denver & Rio Grande road, the Great Scenic Route of the world, takes you at Pueblo or Denver and whirls you through canons where there must have been enchantment, and where giant arms have dashed the boulders into their present resting places. The ride through the Royal Gorge displays the great ingenuity of its engineers and the obstinate determination of its builders. The rails are laid in almost inaccessible places, along the edge of the stream or torrent, which with wonderful skill has been forced out of the way to make room for the rock roadbed and the iron rails. At certain points the torrent maintains its supremacy, but the difficulty is met and surmounted, a set of hangers being made into the cliffs overhead to support the bridge work and track. The stream is still jubilant of its power over man, and laughs, booms and dashes by as the train passes, not caring for the queer shadows that fall into it, if it can only be supreme at this critical point. The canon is one of the grandest in the world, barely wide enough, in certain places, to admit of the stream and the tracks, the granite walls of giant mountains towering above and over all, and giving a still more impressive object lesson of the great force of nature. Especial attention is given to the tourist business at this season, and one may travel with the utmost comforts and conveniences, and at minimum cost. The combination of the Missouri Pacific System with the Denver & Rio Grande Route affords the greatest variety of scenery and the most comforts and conveniences, all of which are desirable adjuncts of a summer outing. If you haven't had your vacation yet this summer, now is the time to secure it, and every man and every woman should take as many days of recreation as can be obtained, especially during this heated term. Soldiers of Japan. In Japan every able-bodied man is a soldier, and even the children know the use of arms. Military drill is a part of the regular education in the schools throughout the empire. Schoolboys dress in a military uniform cut on the pattern of cadet uniforms in Europe and America. Their instructors are regular army officers, veterans of the war with China, and some of them of the Satsuma rebellion of 1877. This has its effect on the youthful mind, ever prone to hero worship and trebly so in Japan. Statistics on Fires. Children playing with matches caused ninety-one fires last year. Cigars and cigarettes caused 912; electrical wires and lights, 750; boilers and engines, 387; incendiarism, 6,744; lightning, 2,760; spontaneous combustion, 1,235; six were due to sun's rays. The cause of 13,127 fires was not discovered. "With Rod and Gun in Arkansas" and "Enroute to the Southland," are the titles of two new booklets just issued by the General Passenger Department of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad for free distribution. The first deals with hunting and fishing on the St. Francis river in Northeastern Arkansas, a region abundantly supplied with game fish, wild fowl, wild turkey, deer and bear. The second booklet contains a description of the points of interest, Chicago to Nashville, historical matter of the early days and many Indian legends common throughout Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee years ago. Both booklets are embellished with many fine half tone cuts and are most interesting. If you desire a copy of either send your address to C. L. Stone, G. P. & T. A., C. & E. I. R. R., Chicago. If necessity is the mother of invention and also the father of lies, how are we to determine the sex? IT WILL BE SENT FREE. IT WILL BE SENT FREE. In Topeka, Kansas, there is a 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 made in the last few years, it is said, some most wonderful discoveries of cures for old chronic diseases, especially kidney, liver and stomach troubles, producing results far surpassing the best doctors. The discoveries are a combination of rare herbs, roots and barks in dry powder form. It's the cheapest treatment known. A twenty-five days' trial test will be sent you on receipt of a two-cent stamp for postage. The Physician's Hint. One day, Mme. Meissonier, the wife of the noted French artist, sent for the family physician, and he hurried to the house, thinking some illness had overtaken the artist. It was not the master of the house, however; it was only the lap dog. The doctor pocketed his pride and most zealously attended the patient, who soon recovered. At the end of the year he sent in his bill, but among the items there was none for attendance of a dog. Mme. Meissonier noticed the omission, and called the physician's attention to it. "You must charge for that, also," said she, "I insist upon it." "By no means," was the reply. "I am not a veterinary surgeon. I was very glad to do the dog a service, but really I can't be paid for it." "But I insist upon it," said the lady. "Well then," returned the doctor, "as the hinges of my gate are somewhat rusty, M. Meissonier may bring his brush and paint them for me." But as every grain of paint from Meissonier's brush was worth more than its weight in gold, the hint was probably not taken. Farmers and Homeseekers Keep your eye on "The Best Country on Earth," in Northwestern North Dakota. The richest grain producing, black loam soil in the world. Good water in abundance, market facilities the best. We have a few farms at present to offer at big bargains. No. 101, 600 acre farm, five miles from good market, seven miles from county seat; 350 acres under highest cultivation, balance can all be broke; 80 acres of fenced pasture. House, 16x 24, addition 12x24, two stories, stone foundation. Barn, 46x56, addition 16x 56, 18 inch posts, stone basement. Blacksmith shop, six granaries and other outhouses, three good wells of water. One mile from schoolhouse, in thickly settled neighborhood. No. 102, 200-acre farm, 90 rods from county seat and market. Population of county seat, 700; 115 acres under cultivation, 30 acres good meadow, balance can all be cultivated. Good black loam and clay subsoil. Good well of water. No. 103, 160 acre farm, all wild, joins the city limits, a county seat. All good tillable land, black loam and clay subsoil, a first-class quarter section. Terms, some cash down, balance, time to suit. Take advantage of this opportunity before it slips away. North Dakota Land & Loan Co., Rugby, Pierce County, N. D. 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 SERASTIAN G. R. A. Chicago JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A. Chicago. An Emerson Anecdote In the English writer Grant Duff's "Notes from a Diary, 1886-88," is an Emerson anecdote. It is related that at a breakfast which included Col. Hay and Frederic Harrison, Mr. Atkinson, "the New England free trader," mentioned that Garfield had told him that the beginning of his intellectual life was a lecture delivered by Emerson at Williamstown, which excited him to the highest possible degree, so much so that when he left the hall and looked at the hill that rises over Williamstown it seemed all in a blaze. He lay awake the whole night, yet the one sentence which had remained in his mind was this: "Mankind is as lazy as it dares to be."—Kansas City Journal. Best for the Bowels No matter what ails 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. Wuze Hospital in Moscow. Moscow has the largest hospital in Europe, with 7,000 beds. There are ninety-six physicians and 900 nurses and about 15,000 patients are cared for annually. THE DEWEY HOMESTEAD. [Portrait of a man in a hat and coat, set against a backdrop of a large house surrounded by trees]. The above picture shows the house where George Dewey was born December 26th, 1837. It was occupied by the Dewey family until after the death of the Admiral's father. It then came into the possession of Captain Edward Dewey, who sold it to its present owner and occupant, T. R. Gordon, Esq., in the summer of 1889. Mr. Gordon moved it to its present site in the following February, 1890, and has occupied it until the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are unfailing in their courtesy to the thousands who visit this shrine, the birthplace of Admiral Dewey. A recent letter from T. R. Gordon to the Peruna Drug M'f'g Co., Columbus, Ohio reads as follows: "It is with great satisfaction that I find myself able, after an extended trial, to write you in this emphatic manner of the good your Peruna has done my wife. "She has been troubled with catarrh from childhood, and whenever she has a cold, or any unusual condition of the weather, it was worse than usual, and seemed more than she could bear. The dropping in her throat at night prevented refreshing sleep; in fact, we had come to look upon it as incurable, and from the many remedies used in vain we had reason to. "We are thankful and happy to say that your 'Peruna' has been of great benefit to her, and I confidently look for a complete and entire cure. High praise is not too much to bestow upon your remedy." T. R. Gordon. The Purple Madjow Co., Columbus, Ohio, for free book on catarrh. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for free book on catarrh. BOOKLETS FREE SIMPLY BOOKED BY WEE 20 J. & C. MAGUIRE'S EXTRACT CURES Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhea, Dysentery and Bawel Complaints NEVER FAILS! In the market since 1841. Recommended by leading Physicians Used by our Army and Navy. J. & C. MAGUIRE MEDICINE CO., St. Louis, Mo. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS Congregational Minister's Salaries. In Massachusetts, where the salaries of Congregational ministers are said to average highest, they range from $300 to $8,000 a year. The most common amount is $800, and more than half of the clergymen receive less than $1,000 a year. MONEY MADE EASY. Hustling man or woman to represent us in all sections. We manufacture the Wanted Liniment, the most powerful and quickest healing liniment in the world. Send 2c stamp for information, or 10c and we will send a trial bottle to prove what we say for the Wanted Liniment. We give control of our goods to one person only in a place. Address: Wanted Preparation Co., 46 Shelby St., Detroit, Mich. It is indeed capital if you have more money than you know what to do with. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Some people who think themselves original are not even good imitations. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins. Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. The directory of Cape May vouches for a Dr. Physick and Dr. Leech. It doesn't pay a man to be honest if he is honest only for pay. Carter's Ink Is Scientifically compounded of the best materials. If your dealer does not keep it he can get it for you. Common sense shines with increased luster when set in humility. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. The population of Finland includes 2,527,800 Russians. 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"Home, Sweet Home," Excursion via Big Four To OHIO, INDIANA and KENTUCKY Tuesday, Sept. 11th, 1900. LOW RATES INDIANAPOLIS and return.....$5.00 CINCINNATI and return.....$7.00 LOUISVILLE and return.....$7.00 DAYTON and return.....$7.00 SPRINGFIELD and return.....$7.00 SANDUSKY and return.....$7.50 COLUMBUS and return.....$7.50 "Come Home." For tickets and full information call on agents Big Four Route. WARREN L. LYNCH. W. P. DEPPE. BATTLE OF MANILA Wabash Ave., S. of Auditorium. Chicago. A wonderful reproduction of the greatest naval victory in history. Dewey's aviation from Hong Kong across the Chinese sea. A tropical sunset. The Chin- ese typhoon at night with new and starting elec- trical effects. The American fleet engaging the Spanish batteries at the entrance of Manila Bay. The Bay of Manila by moonlight. The wonderful lighting effects in Old Manila and Cavite at night. Tropical sunrise. The discovery and complete destruction of the Spanish fleet off Cavite. Open from 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. Use Certain Corn Cure. Price, 15c. afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 36, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BENNE PLANT s. Diarrhoe. Dysentery and Bowel. In the market since 1841. Recom- mended by our Army and Navy. EDICINE CO., St. Louis! Mo. Birthplace of Notables. Twenty-nine historic spots in Portland, Me., were marked with tablets before the return of the absent sons and daughters to Old Home week. They include several noted in pre-revolutionary days, the birthplace of Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow, Thomas B. Reed, Nathaniel Parker Willis, his sister, Mrs. James Parton ("Fanny Fern"), Alexander S. Wadsworth and Sargent S. Prentiss. A Noted Disciplinarian. Lieut.-Gen. Von Lessel, commander of the German forces in China, is a noted disciplinarian of the imperial army, unswerving in his devotion to duty, but beloved by the soldiery for his utter contempt for the hardships of the field or of the march. He is a veteran of 55, who has won his way from a lieutenancy, during which he fought in the Austrian and Franco-Prussian wars. Mrs. Gladstone Had No Title Mrs. Gladstone is the only wife of a prime minister of Queen Victoria who ended her days without a title. No doubt a coronet would have been conferred on her if she so desired, just as one was granted to Mrs. Disraeli. But Mrs. Gladstone was content to remain with the rank in which her husband placed her. Perhaps her eldest grandson will receive a title. Typewriter's Lifting Power. The average typewriter, according to a Philadelphia statistician, lifts 1,200 pounds an hour in simply lifting the carriage of the machine. In a day, he would raise five tons, or considering the distance which the carriage is raised and lowered, over two tons fourteen inches each day. This is more physical work than a coal-heaver does in a day. "Aunt Felix" Dead. Many western people who were students at Heidleberg will learn with sorrow of the death of good old "Aunt Felix" (Miss Felicitas Brunner), who died recently in a neighboring village. She was for a number of decades one of the best liked landladies of students and had kindly and generously assisted many a poor hard-working son of the muses. Fox-Hunting Parsons The type of fox-hunting parsons has not yet completely run out in England, although fox-hunting is not so popular as it once was. Lately the Rev. E. A. Milne has been made the M. F. H. of the Cattisock hounds, making two of his kind in England, the other being the Rev. E. M. Reynolds, master of the Coniston park. P. D. Armour's Education. Philip D. Armour, the Chicago millionaire, expressed himself the other day as of the opinion that a college education was more apt to hamper than to help a man in the making of a fortune. "I myself," he said, "got my education in a little red schoolhouse, except for a few months at Cazenovia academy." Ginagow Buys a Picture The Glasgow corporation has just given $2,000 for a picture, "The Coming of Spring," by E. A. Hornel, the most advanced impressionist artist in Scotland, one of the original members of the "Glasgow School." Mr. Hornel's works are for the most part gem-like color schemes resembling mosaics. The electric fan bids fair to supersede the punkah coolies of India. The regular price for four coolies to divide up the twenty-four hours is 6 cents each. With electrical fans the work can be done for one-third of the cost, and considerable inconvenience may be avoided. Will Breed Alligators A Florida man has purchased 300 acres of swamp land near Swan Bridges and will turn it into a breeding place for alligators. Alligators are becoming scarce, owing to the activity of northern hunters, and there is a steady demand for alligator skin. Writing from a ship en route to Cape Nome, a Thayer, Kan., man says: "This Sunday morning Rev. M. Scott is preaching a sermon up in the bow. Down below a stud poker game is the attraction and 'aft' a dance is in progress." Too Ill for Nursing. A nurse visiting her patients in a Cape Town hospital ward, found her favorite soldier fast asleep. Pinned to his coverlet was a scrap of paper on which he had scrawled, "To il to be nussed to-day, respectfully J. M." In Geneva, Switzerland, glass blocks are used to pave the streets. They are made of the refuse from the glass factories and give great satisfaction. They are pleasant to the eye and vary durable. Foreigners in the Army. The regular army of the United States is made up of 25 per cent of foreigners, while in the navy 52 per cent of the petty officers and 42 per cent of the seamen are foreign born. At High Altitudes The highest village in Europe is Avers Platz, in Switzerland (7,500); the highest inhabited point in Europe is the Hospice of St. Bernard, in Switzerland (8,200 feet). In Colorado the mining town of Leadville, with 15,000 inhabitants, is over 14,200 feet above sea level; other mining camps are still higher, and some gold and silver mines are worked at an altitude of over 12,000 feet. Women's Hats in Church. "Should women wear their hats in church?" This question came up for discussion among the trustees of a church in Lexington, Mo., and one ingenious gentleman suggested that the matter might be adjusted by compelling the ladies to all sit together on one side of the auditorium, and thus "permit them to view the teacher through a jungle of ribbons, feathers and gewgaws." Noted His Own Insanity. Dr. Henry J. Costello, a Philadelphia physician, committed suicide while of unsound mind. Knowing that he was becoming insane, Dr. Costello kept a journal in which are to be found most minute details as to the progress of his mental derangement. He was an enthusiast in his profession and worked himself into a condition of mental and physical decrepitude. Melody in Andreasburg There is more melody in Andreassburg, Prussia, in the Hartz mountains, than in any other town in the world. There 250,000 canaries are annually reared and four-fifths of them are sent to the United States. "Professor birds," perfect singers, are placed among the young birds, so that the latter may imitate the trills of the experienced warblers. Grounds for Divorce Actions Most anything seems to be good enough reason for bringing divorce proceedings. A Washington woman has sued for freedom on the ground that her husband is not as strong politically as he thought and said he was, and a Leavenworth sister has just burst her matrimonial bonds because her husband would not take her to church. Colonel Has Dangerous Post. The colonel of a regiment occupies the post of danger. According to the record more colonels have been killed in action, in proportion to their number, than officers of any other grade. A general can keep under cover, more or less, but the colonel's position is with his regiment, and when it advances he is expected to lead. A Japanese Craze. Women are reveling in a Japanese craze. Milady must have her Japanese morning room. It is hung with light, figured matting, the floor is covered with matting, and there is a wide divan upholstered with the same material. A few cushions are permitted on the divan, but not many, and there are no chairs. Soap Lightens Labor. In the cleaning of a stove to use a little soap will lighten the labor. Wet a flannel cloth and rub it over a piece of soap; then dip the cloth into the stove-polish and rub over the stove; finish with a dry cloth or brush. The polish will last much longer than if it had been used without the soap. Turquois Mines of Persia About thirty-five miles from Nishapour, in the Khorassan, are the celebrated turquois mines of Persia, the only mines in the world producing this stone. They are situated in a mountainous region, 5,000 or 6,000 feet above the sea level, and employ, perhaps, 1,500 persons. Shelled Eggs Exported. Vast quantities of shelled eggs are exported from Russia in hermetically sealed tins, and are drawn off through a tap. One tin holds from 1,000 to 1,500 eggs. The eggs must be carefully selected, or a bad one would spoil all the others in the can. Millionaires Race on Sunday. Alfred Vanderbilt and John Davis, two of the Newport summer colony's millionaires, shocked the pious people of the resort on a recent Sunday by racing their automobiles through the streets just as the churches were dismissed. Status of Foreigners' Wives The decision just rendered by the United States appraisers declaring that American women who are married to foreigners are aliens is regarded by lawyers to be perfectly legal, as it is based on recognized international law. Berlin Falls Below 2.000.000. It is estimated that the population of Berlin will complete the 2,000,000 figure by the end of 1902. The present figure is about 1.843.000. July 15th. 1899 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 Damee may. Respectfully, Carter M. Harrison RESIDENCE, 954 Turner Ave. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington Sts. 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, 50 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. 2625. — DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 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. 5013 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. MRS. LAURA FAILEY. MRS. LAURA PATLEY. 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 av LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. 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. Telephone Yards 792. Established 1877 JOHN J. DUNN, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In.... Coal - and - Wood, 51st Street and Armour Avenue... 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