The Broad Ax

VOL. V. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS. AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EMINENCE CHAIRMAN JAMES K. Owing to the exalted position which you occupy in the Councils of the Democratic party the undersigned assumes that you no doubt will consider it the hight of illbreeding and presumption on our part to pass any criticism upon you respecting your treatment of the accredited representatives of the Negro National Democratic League. I assume that it is still fresh in your mind that at the time the representatives of the League called on you which was on or about Aug. 15th you very decidedly informed them that the NationalCommittee had no funds to make any grand stand plays, and owing to this fact, the chances were twenty to one that no money would be or could be expended for opening and Maintainng National headquarters for the colored Democrats. But I have been very reliably informed, that at the very same time you held the consultation with us, preparations were being perfected to open headquarters and install J. Milton Turner in them whoes unsavory reputation is a stench in the nostrils of all honest men be they black or white, and to the best information obtainable. Mr. Turner was thrust into this position at your suggestion so that he could have the power and the authority to perfect and carry out his nefarious and high-handed schemes. There is no disposition on our part to dictate to you whom you should select to carry out your behests. Neither have I any inclanation or disposition to force Geo. E. Taylor or any one else upon you. and I may be permitted to say in the same breath that there is a strong determination on the part of many hundred self-respecting Colored Democrats not to permit you to-ram J. Milton Turner down their throats. How can you expect us to have any confidence in him knowing and fully realizing that in 1898 Mr. Turner deliberatly and bared-faced misapropriated and disposed of transportation which had been furnished him by the Colored Democratic League of Cock County so that he could be enabled to come here and adddress them, and it naturally follows that if a man is crooked in small transactions he is just as liable to be unstraight in larger transactions. This being true I again repeat, how can you expect us to have any confidence in Mr. Turner. What the honest Afro-American Democrats are contending for is that a worthy and upright conscientious man must be put in charge of the work to be performed in behalf of Democracy among the colored voters throughout the country. You shall not, Chairman Jones, act upon the theory that all "coons and niggers," as they are so aptly called by members of the opposite race, look and act alike. That one "darkey," as they are termed by many is just as good as another providing he is a whisky bloat, and can resort to all kinds of rascality, and in the name of honesty decency and manhood I implore and beseech you to drop J. Milton Turner, and his gang of unsavory followers the same as you would drop a red-hot potato. You will be compelled to do this sooner or later if you expect and desire harmony in the ranks of Negro Democracy. Chairman Jones, you cannot afford, that is, if you desire the election of Col. Bryan, to be arbitrary in dealing with this matter; you cannot afford to insult and slap in the face, the best element and the highest types of Negro Democracy by ignoring them and holding fast to J. Milton Turner, who openly and brazenly declares that he has never performed any service whatever for the Democratic party without being well paid for it. I beg to remain yours for the success of Democracy, JULIUS. F. TAYLOR, Editor and publisher of The Broad Ax. The "civil rights bill." which was uppermost in the mind of Charles Sumner, at the time of his death passed both branches of Congress, but it did not remain on the statutes books very long until it was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court composed entirely of Republicans, while the same Court declared the "Jim-Crow Car Law" of Mississippi constitutional. The civil rights bill was construed by the court as Class Legislation, but the court decided that the "Jim Crow Car Law" was not Class Legislation. Such is Republicanism. We have now arrived in our review of "the Political Parties and the Negro," to the Presidential election of 1884. During that campaign everybody naturally supposed that James G. Blaine, the Plumed Knight of Maine, would out distance Grover Cleveland, but such was not the case. Mr. Blaine who was, without the least doubt, a great leader of his party, but he was an intense hater of the Negro, and while making his canvas for the Presidency a delogation of very prominent Negroes waited upon him while he was stopping at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York City, but the Plumed Knight absolutely refused to permit them to invade his rooms or to touch the hem of his garment s, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Blaine detested all Negroes from the lowest to the highest he endeavored to make them believe that they would be re-enslaved unless they voted for him. Even after Mr. Blaine was defeated for the Presidency and after he had become Secretary of State he used all of his influence to prevent Frederick Douglass from being confirmed as minister to St. Domingo, and he made it so hot for Mr. Douglass that he was compelled to resign. John A. Logan, was Mr. Blaine's running mate and it will be remembered that "Black Jack." as he was commonly called, was a member of the Legislature of this State during the years of 1854 and 1855, and he was the only member of that body who introduced a bill authorizing the state to expend the sum of two thousand dollars or more for the purchase of bloodhounds to be used in hunting down all Negroes who attempted to seek refuge within the borders of the State. Nevertheless General Logan looked down upon all Negroes who refused to vote ofr him with the greatest scorn and contempt. When it was definitely ascertained that James G. Blaine had marched on to defeat and that Grover Cleveland had marched on to victory there was much comotion and excitement among the colored people; the most ignorant of them honestly believed that just as soon as Mr. Cleveland assumed the duties of his office, and the government turned over to the Democratic party, they would be again subjected to slavery. This idea had been impressed upon the minds of the Negroes by the Republican orators in order to compel them to vote for Mr. Blaine, and within a very few days after the election President-elect Cleveland induced Frederick Douglass to write a letter for the Associated Press wherein he stated that he did not believe there would be any attempt on the part of the Democratic party under President Cleveland's leadership to interfere with the Negro, nor to circumscibe his rights and liberties and all the world knows that during the reign of Grover Cleveland no hostility was displayed by him nor by the Democratic party towards the Negro. Harvey A. Thompson and J. Milton Turner had a personal encounter in Mr. Turner's headquarters Thursday and it further emphysises the fact that if Mr. Thompson had not performed so much dirty work for Mr. Turner he would not feel like knocking hits in the head. HEW TO THE LINE. "WHY EDUCATE THE DAUGHTER?" In order to educate the daughter properly it should be begun with careful home training. Whatever trains and develops a girl into a stronger and noble womanhood, will help her in any position which she may be called upon to fill. Perhaps some may say that woman is educated for everything but the position of wife and mother but whoever says it, has a false idea of the value of a general education. In childhood, girls should have the same preliminary training as the boys. They should be encouraged to play with their brothers because boys grow more gentle and considerate while the girls will gain in vigor and force by this exchange of courtesy. If a daughter is delicate she should not be crowded with work. Let her education take a longer time. Education should begin with physical and moral training as well as mental. The years of training are the most beautiful years of life, because they are full of hopes and aspirations which beautify the soul even if they are never fully attained. Daughters who have been brought up tenderly, it is not always pleasant for them to have to care for themselves, but it is a thousand times better to be able to do so in an emergency than to eat the bread of dependence. Education will fit them to meet such emergencies hence we see the necessity of educating the daughter. The Bernna Morrison Auxiliary Club gave an entertainment at the home of Mrs. Perry Bates, 4943 Dearborn street, Monday evening for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home, and without a doubt, it was the most brilliant affair of the many interesting social functions held this season. Many of the most prominent citizens were, in attendance, and a royal good time was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Bates, the hostess, received her guests in the most flattering and cordial manner. The interesting program consisted in several fine piano selections by Mrs. Arthur A. Wells. Comic recitation and singing Mrs. Ada Brown Stewart. A platform was especially erected in the large and roomy yard which was illuminated with Japanese lanterns and fully two hundred persons danced to the strains of music furnished by a string orchestra. Refreshments were served and a goodly sum was realized for the Old Folks' Home. Last Friday night quite a good number of Afro-American Democrats assembled at 3347 South State street, and organized the above named club complete harmony prevailed. Resolutions were warmly adopted indorsing The Broad Ax, and The Chicago American for so fearlessly espousing the cause of Democracy. The following officers were elected: Captain, H. C. Carter, president, Julius F. Taylor; vice-president, Lieutenant C. L. Hill secretary; Wm. Lewis, treasurer; marshall, F. S. Moore; Robert E. Lewis, sergeant-at-arms; Lawrence A. Newby, chairman executive committee under the direction of this new club. Other clubs will be organized in all parts of the city and if nothing happens from twelve to eighteen hundred men will join the different clubs. Monday morning the Nebraska club tendered a reception to Col. Wm. J. Bryan at the Sherman house, which was largely attended by many of the most prominent well wishers and supporters of the Colonels. He seemed greatly pleased in having the pleasure of being present on such an occasion at the close of the reception we had a short conversation with Col. Bryan and he expressed his entire satisfaction over the prospect of his election. We very frankly informed the Colonel that much dissatisfaction existed among the respectable colored Democrats owing to the fact that the National committee persisted in elevating J. Milton Turner above others who are better qualified to conduct the campaign in the interest of the colored voters. ATTEMPTED TO "LECTURE." Lights Turned Out on W. Allison Sweeney, Who Then Sought Muncie, Ind., Special.—There came near being a riot in the African Methodist Episcopal church Monday night, the presence of policemen in anticipation of trouble averting serious results, over the attempt of W. Allison Sweney, colored, of Indianapolis, to deliver a "lecture." Sweeney is known to be a Democrat, and a committee of colored people met him at the depot and warned him not to attempt speech making in a Muncie church where there are but three known colored Democrats in a population of 2,000. But a small crowd was present, and soon after the speaker began and his theme was discovered both men and women rushed into the church from the street like wild people and stopped the "lecture" by turning out the lights. The officers protected Sweeney, who is an old acquaintance of Rev. Tucker Wilson, pastor of the church. Tickets of admission were sold at the door. Upon each was printed the names of McKinley and Bryan, and the holder was to vote them at the conclusion of the "lecture." The people declared that it would disgrace the church to have a Democratic speech made in it. We want it distinctly understood that we are not in favor of transforming the churches into political halls. It makes no difference to us whether or not the meetings are conducted in the interest of the Republican or the Democratic parties, and if we had the power we would take a large club and drive every cheap Negro preacher and broken-down politicians out of the churches who attempted to use them for political purposes. Mr. James O. Davidson. Republican candidate for state treasurer, is in our opinion in the "right church, but in the wrong pew." so far as the Negro votes are concerned. He is imbued with the idea that the colored man is simply the outer crust of the sandwich in this fight. We have had colored people claim that he was bitter towards his treatment to them. Now, as colored people, we don't seek social equality with Mr. Davidson nor his cohorts. Nor do we seek to foster any personal relationship. We simply like to be treated in common with all other people whom Mr. Davidson is trying to gain. It is a disgrace for the Republican party to have in its ranks such men as Mr. Davidson. It makes one quiver to have to write the name of Davidson alongside of Lincoln, Sumner. Horace Greely, Phillips and the best of the leading features who made the Negro love and cherish the very name of Republicanism.—The Advocate, Milwaukee. Wis. SELECT MUSICAL Miss Euphemia B. McQuann assisted by Miss Mamie O'Leary and Miss Gertrude Jackson will give a high class musicale at Kimball Rehearsal Hall, Wabash avenue and Jackson boulevard, Tuesday evening. Sept. 18th, at 8 o'clock. Miss McQuann possesses unusually rare musical talent and for some time she has been the pupil of Prof. Gill the noted vocal instructor. She is a very sensible young woman. She is a credit to the Afro-American race and if she continues to study diligently The Broad Ax predicts for her marked success in the musical world. The Alschuler Democratic marching club was formed recently and some of our best Negro Democrat's belong to it. W. K. Crampton has been elected to serve as President. P. H. Brown and Julius F. Taylor vice-presidents, C. M. Reynolds, secretary; B. A. Lewis, treasurer; Geo. J. Terrell, marshall; F. S. Moore, sergeant-at-arms; J. N. Simms, chairman executive committee; W. A. Johnson, financial committee; The Alschuler Democratic club expect to make a great showing on the day of the parade, Oct. 9th. There will be an open meeting of The Men's Sunday Forum. Sunday afternoon, 4 o'clock at the Institutional church, 39th and Dearborn streets. Strangers invited. CHIPS. Thomas F. Scully, candidate for member of the Board of Equalization continues to grow in favor and if all signs do not fail he will be elected. Thomas J. Webb, candidate for Drainage Trustee, is one of the most successful business men of the North Side, and he will pull through in November. Headquarters for conducting the campaign among the colored people in this county have been opened up at 145 East Randolph street, 3d floor. Lawrence A. Newby will be in charge. Thos. Smyth who is one of the most efficient members of the Drainage Board will be re-electel with a large majority to his credit. Mr. Smyth is very genial and he always has a civil answer for all regardless of their walks in life. County Commissioner Edward H. Wright, will serve as President of the Board until its regular president returns from Europe. This is the first time in the history of Cook County that an Afro-American has been selected to fill this position. The cyclone which swept over Galveston, Tex. this week is something appalling and the loss of life will never be known. Great suffering prevails, and, as usual, the public spirited citizens of Chicago have liberally responded to the call for aid. Peter Kiolbassa, who will be elected member of the Board of Assessors has so far been making an active canvas. Mr. Kiolbassa stands well and is very popular with all classes and it would not be surprising to us to see him run far ahead of the ticket. Timothy E. Ryan of the West Side who for years stood by the common people and the small tax payers while he was assessor will come out under the wire Nov. 6th, and he will faithfully serve the people of Cook county on the Board of Review. The Tammany picnic which is being held at Sunnyside park today will no doubt be a record-breaker, and eclipse all other picnics given by the Tammany Braves, which will entitle Grand Sachem Thomas Carey to strike another feather in his Indian hat. Henry Stuckart is an all around hustler and if the other wards in the city will do as well as the old fifth, Mr. Stuckart's ward, it will mean that the Republican boys of Cook county who have mismanaged its affairs will be on the run after the 6th of November. Another Chicago American Club has been formed among the colored Democrats on the West Side. B. C. Inerson is its president; Wm. Floyd, vicepresident; John Perry. secretary: Robert Davis, treasurer. So this new club starts out with one hundred and ten members and they meet at 807 West Madison street. Henry Lutzenkirchen, secretary of the Board of Public Works will be kept doubly busy from now until after the election. Mr. Lutzenkirchen possesses a bright and keen mind and his services to the party are indispensible at the present time. From the present outlook he is thoroughly convinced that this is a Democratic year. The committee composed of the various nationalities of the city which will make all preparations for the monster parade Oct. 9th, met at the Cook County Democratic headquarters, 145 Randolph street, last Sunday afternoon Hon. Vincent H. Perkins presided as chairman and John J. Harkins acted as secretary. The committee will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock sharp; same place. It is conceded by many who are in a position to know that owing to the great blunders which Chairman Jones made in 1896 led to the defeat of Col. Wm. J. Bryan, and if the Colonel is defeated this year it can be attributed to the serious blunder which Chairman Jones has made in placing his favorite African pet Jumpingjack Turner in charge of the work to be performed among the colored voters. John E. Owens President of the 12th ward Democratic club and president of the Young Men's Democratic club of Cook county continues to receive letters every day from persons NO. 47. who have heretofor affiliated with the Republican party and who now express their firm determination of supporting the entire Democratic ticket. Mr. Owens is a warm supporter of The Broad Ax and he is doing a good work for the party. The Broad Ax has no better friend and supporter than Henry McDonald. city contractor for the removal of dead animals. Inclosing his check in payment of three months advertisement Mr. McDonald says: "I feel assured that The Broad Ax is worthy of support and I wish you continued success." Mr. McDonald you are alright and we feel proud in being permitted to number you among our warm friends. When Senator Pritchard said that white men must learn to stop mobbing, it was accepted by common consent, but when he said that Negroes must stop committing the crimes which causes the mobbing, there were protests. The spirit manifest was wrong. It is true that much of the accusation against Negroes relative to such matters is not true, but much is true. It is the spirit of intolerance again. The Freeman. The members of the Democratic National Committee would be strictly in it if they would rent a room on the top floor of the Masonic temple and induce Chairman James K. Jones and his big pet Congo and chum Jack Mossback Turner to occupy it from now until after the election. Then Chairman Jones would be relieved from the necessity of writing letters of commendation one day and spending two or three days afterward in a mad effort to regain possession of them. In Indianapolis, Ind., several days ago Mr. J. Milton Turner declared upon his (J. Milton Turner) honor that he was not a Democrat nor a Republican; he said that he would cross his heart that he was not. Now, we ask. what is he, will the gentleman please tell The Palladium, St. Louis, Mo. Brother Wheeler Uncle Mossback Turner is nothing more nor less than a bombastic political leech and parasite; a swaggerer, a bully, a blusterer and a boastful, noisy creature who is devoid of all honor and with your assistance. Brother Wheeler, we will endeavor to compel Old Double-dealing Turner to skip out of Chicago "By the Light of the Moon." Harvey A. Thompson and Jackmama Turner have come to the parting of the way at last and they are now engaged in stirring and kicking up a big stink over the division of the spoils which they have so far flim-flamed the committee out of. There is an old saying somewhere or other that when theives, rouges and political high-waymen, ex-jail and penitentiary birds fall out honest men sometimes get justice and what rightly belongs to them. The National Committee may yet learn if they are not too stupid, that they have made a very serious and grave mistake by loading itself down with Buffalo Jim Mossback Turner, and many other would-be Negro leaders and political skunks. CHIP Labor Day, Sept. 3d. we met J. Milton Turner in the Sherman house and he informed us that The Broad Ax was such a little paper it could not hurt or harm him. But when the last issue appeared containing Bomb No. 2, which set forth the exact truth he squirmed and staggered, but he could not get away from our hot-shots. Then slave like, he sought out several members of the Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois, and informed them that we had been syndicated. Hence our fight on him, and his gang of pug-uglies political grafters and touchers. We have not been syndicated Mr. Turner, but if we can we intend to prevent you from thrusting your poisonous fangs down deep into the flesh of honest men, and you must remember that whoever scores a point against the right, loads the dice against himself. 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. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of I labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, no long on 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. Kentucky's whisky product for the year just ended was nearly 22,000,000 gallons, an increase over last year of nearly 2,000,000. The Trans-Siberian railroad will be completed at the present rate of working in about two years, the cost probably considerably exceeding the original estimate of $75,500,000. Twenty-nine historic spots in Portland, Me., are to be marked with tablets prior to the return of the absent sons and daughters in Old Home week. They include several noted in preRevolutionary days, the birthplaces of Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow, Thomas B. Reed, Nathaniel Parker Willis; his sister, Mrs. James Parton ("Fanny Fern"), Alexander S. Wadsworth and Sargent S. Prentiss. Siberia has recently furnished a new game-bird for the epicures of Europe. It is called the Siberian partridge, and is found in the mountains south of Omsk in southern Siberia, but its original home is said to be Manchuria. Its principal food consists of wild nuts, which gives an exquisite flavor to its flesh. These birds, which have begun to appear by thousands in the markets of London, are shot during the winter and forwarded to England by way of the Baltic sea. In France, Monsieur Dufour has succeeded in making thermometer tubes of pure quartz. Not only are these tubes exceedingly transparent, but their resistance to heat and other advantages make them superior to glass for thermometers intended to measure high temperatures. In such thermometers, melted tin takes the place of mercury, and the scale reads from about 465 degrees Fahrenheit up over 1,000 degrees. It could be run up to 1,800 degrees, for quartz does not soften below that temperature. The largest time ball in the United States is being erected on the roof of the Fourth street end of the bourse in Philadelphia, the task being under the supervision of Lieutenant Hughes. The ball, which is four feet in diameter and weighs 60 pounds, will be hoisted to the top of an iron column 190 feet above tidewater five minutes before noon each day and dropped electrically 40 feet to an air-cushion exactly at noon by the naval observatory clock in Washington. The object of the time ball is to enable all the mariners in Delaware and Schuylkill rivers to regulate their chronometers before sailing. An explanation has been given, in the house of commons, of the reason why American capitalists were allowed to take a large slice of the new British loan. The war had greatly depleted the stock of gold in the Bank of England. Meanwhile there was a great abundance of gold in this country. The result of disposing of a part of the loan here was to draw gold to London. It is all simple enough; but the fact remains that it is only very lately that this country was rich enough to take foreign loans. Perhaps the most significant feature of the affair is that capital at interest now earns so little that the possessors of it are content with 3 per cent if the security be unimpeachable. The widespread impression that people living in a primitive condition possess more acute vision than civilized men enjoy, receives a little support from the investigations of Dr. Rivers during the recent British expedition to Torres Straits and New Guinea. The visual powers of the people there were found to be superior to those of normal Europeans, although the degree of superiority was not great. The natives of Torres Straits could see better in the dark than most Europeans can. Their sense of touch was also slightly superior, and in the discrimination of weight they were more accurate than a practised European. Dr. Rivers ascribes their acuteness of vision to their habits of constant observation. The editor of an anarchistic newspaper in this country hailed the murder of King Humbert with an editorial paean of joy. He frankly conceded that Humbert was kind and estimable, personally, and that he had not been gulky of oppressing his people; yet this man rejoiced in his death merely because he was a king. What sort of a man it is who predaches such doctrines—what sort of men anarchy breeds—is well brought out by the comments of a Chicago paper on this editor: "Ee is not a worker, but a 'dead beat.' He spends most of his time consuming beer and giving utterance to the desire that people may be killed. He is not even a brave man. When he was just wanted by the police he had to be dragged out from under the bed where he had hidden." This is a just assignment, not merely of an anarchist but of anarchy. "Perhaps the most peculiar of the mountain phenomena are the so-called electric storms. There is no precipitation, no lightning, no thunder, and usually no wind. Nothing to be heard and nothing to be seen except the gathering clouds. But much may be felt. Everything is charged with the electric fluid; the earth, the air, the very stones and trees, and even human beings are full of it. A mining engineer, visiting a tunnel located on a mountain side at an elevation of 13,200 feet, describes his sensations during one of these storms. All alone he was climbing up the trail to the tunnel, where he wished to examine a vein of ore. Great black clouds began to gather on the horizon, and were soon rolling about the mountain side below him. A calm prevailed, then an unnatural stillness seemed to be in the air. Steadily the clouds rolled up the mountain side like a flood of black water. The stones, as he stepped on them, began to crackle and snap, like dry wood in a fire. Realizing these unusual conditions, he hurried to the sheltering tunnel above him. His hair felt as if a swarm of files had settled in it. When he tried to brush them away with his hand, he found each hair standing almost straight. The stroking of his hair increased the peculiar sensations he experienced, and, tingling from head to foot, the now thoroughly frightened man ran into the tunnel. No sooner had he passed the entrance than the peculiar sensations ceased. After resting awhile, he went to the opening and discovered himself entirely surrounded by clouds so black and dense that he could scarcely see five feet away, although the hour was not far from noon. Stepping outside to investigate, he received a shock that sent him reeling back into the tunnel, where he remained for over an hour before the storm passed. Such electrical storms seem to be formed in strata. If a human being should make such connection as to draw the charge from one of the layers, he would instantly be incinerated. This accident, however, has never been known to occur. Electrical storms prevail throughout the mountain region, but the severest storms of this nature are met only at the great altitudes. With all the severity of electrical storms, and thunder showers, it is a fact that human beings are seldom struck by lightning in the mountains. Death from that cause is much more frequent on the plains bordering the ranges than in the mountains themselves.—Ainslee's Magazine. DIED ALMOST FORGOTTEN. William Steinitz, who died in an insane asylum in New York recently, was for many years the world's master at chess. He was born at Prague, Bohemia, in 1836. In his early boyhood he showed marked proficiency at chess. He won the world's championship in London in 1872 and successfully defended it against the greatest players of the day. He was defeated by Emanuel Lasker a few days ago, after which his mind began to fall. A. H. WILLIAM STEINITZ. Although at one time the world rang with his name, innumerable honors were heaped upon him and he was summoned to play in the presence of Kings and Queens, during the three months that he was in the public asylum his friends had almost forgotten that he ever lived. All Should Swim. The remarkable number of deaths by drowning proves that too many persons venture into waters without knowing how to swim. About 80 per cent of those drowned so far this summer did not have that knowledge. This is all the more wonderful when knowledge of swimming may so easily be had. A person of average physique should be able to swim several hundred feet after a dozen lessons. Even weaklings may be taught to swim 25 feet or more without exhausting themselves. There are dangerous places on the ocean beach, where the sea pull or undertow will sometimes overpower the strongest swimmer. Even on the beaches of the great lakes there is at times a strong and dangerous undertow, but a knowledge of swimming is within the reach of all. Mt. Marcy, the highest mountain in the Adirondacks, is very uneasy, with volcanic tendency. This mountain is one of the curiosities of the Adirondack section and it is said to be the first mountain in the world to have received the cooling breezes after the chaos period, and to this fact is attributed the continued salubrity of the air and general healthfulness of the Adirondack mountains. REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY. Charles A. Towne Shows How Each Interpreted the Declaration of Independence—Contrast Shows Declendence—A Sorry Contrast, Indeed. Historically, as all the world knows, the Declaration of Independence is the document in which the American colonies in 1776 proclaimed their independence and nationality and in which are recited the reasons and justification for that step. Considered as a contribution to the literature of the science of government, it is a formulation of the general principles of liberal institutions. Its spirit has been for 124 years the greatest force in the political world. It has shaped the policy and formed the ideals of the American people. It has made our example more potent on the institutions of Europe than all other influences combined. It is today more powerful than all our fleets and armies. Parliaments, representative governments, liberty of the press, religious toleration, increasing guarantees of personal freedom bear witness to in the uttermost parts of the earth. Source of Information To it are largely due the humanities of modren art and literature and the subjugation of science to the practical utilities of everyday life. The promulgation of it and the defense and exemplification of it have given us our peculiar place in human history. The Christian gospel has forever sanctified a small Roman province. The art and philosophy of Greece have dedicated a petty European peninsula to the immortal regard of all mankind. Future ages will cherish endlessly the bequest by the United States of the principles that all men are created equal and that just government can exist only by the consent of the governed. Twice only in our history has the doctrine of this great instrument been openly assailed. It was the duty and glory of Abraham Lincoln to defend the Declaration of Independence from the charge that it did not apply to black men. Today the party that he founded is engaged in attempting to prove that it does not apply to brown men. But by its language it applies to all men, and to admit an exception is to deprive it of its place in the history of liberty and to remit the world to the old doctrine of force as the basis of government, justifying the divine right of kings, the institution of slavery and wars of mere conquest and subjugation. A Serry Contrast When the first national convention of the Republican party met, in June, 1856, in the city of Philadelphia, it adopted a platform, of which the very first resolution was as follows: "Resolved, That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution is essential to the preservation of our republican institutions, and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the states and the union of the states shall be preserved." When the last Republican national convention met, in June, 1900, in the same historic city, it adopted a platform wherein there occurs not one syllable of reference to the Declaration of Independence. How can this be accounted for? No American citizen can go to Philadelphia without feeling the holy influence of the place. The immortal Declaration lives in every nook and corner of the old colonial capital. The convention of 1856 was in harmony with this sacred association. That of 1900 was insensible to it. The reason was that the party between 1856 and 1900 had changed character completely. From being the champion of freedom it had become the defender of oppression. Its high ideals had given place to sordid ones. From Lineola to Hanna It had measured the awful distance from Abraham Lincoln to Marcus A. Hanna. Forty-four years ago it reaffirmed the Declaration of Independence. This year it not only fails to reaffirm that great instrument; it actually repeals it. Note the following language of its platform on the subject of the government of the islands taken from Spain: "The largest measure of self-government consistent with their welfare and our duties shall be assured to them by law." This makes the Republican party the source and origin of whatever "measure of self-government" these people may secure. The Declaration of Independence says that liberty is an inalienable attribute of manhood. The Republican party declares that McKinley may give liberty to some men. The Declaration of Independence maintains that God gives it to all men. This complacent announcement of benevolent guardianship over inferior races is in the very spirit of despotism. No tyrant in the world ever confessed that his own glory and advantage were the objects of his away. Always and everywhere the plea of absolutism has been that it aimed at the welfare of its victims, which they themselves were powerless to achieve or to achieve in equal measure. This was the claim of George III. with reference to the revolted colonies when he said: "I am desirous of restoring to them the blessings of law, which they have fatally and demeatly ex- changed for the calamities of war and the arbitrary tyranny of their chiefs." It was of such presumptions as those of George III. and William McKinley that Abraham Lincoln said; What Lincoln Said. "Those arguments that are made that the inferior races are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow—what are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will note that all the arguments of kingscraft were always of this class. They always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. Turn it every way you will, whether it comes from the mouth of a king as an excuse for enslaving the people of his country or from the mouth of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent." Some of the present day critics of the Declaration of Independence think they have discredited its authority when they trace its inspiration to Rousseau and the French philosophy of the eighteenth century. But they wholly misconceive the nature and purpose of the instrument. It does not aim to state historic fact, but civic justice; not so much what has been as what ought to be and will be. Lincoln has somewhere said that the framers of the Declaration aimed to set up for mankind an ideal standard and maxim of government, toward which by ceaseless effort and struggle we should constantly more and more approximate. When that goal shall have been reached indeed, then shall we behold that halcyon era of the world of which poets have dreamed and philosophers have theorized, and for which all history is a preparation. To the glory of advancing that consummation under Lincoln can it be possible that the Republican party is to add the infamy of retarding or defeating it under Hanna? All the traditions of our history, all the aspirations of our people cry out against this madness. The patriotism of America is today the hope of the world. BRYAN'S SPEECH. (Chicago Letter.) Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance is without doubt the political event of paramount importance in the present campaign. Mr. Bryan received at the hands of the Democratic party the nomination for the presidency. A partisan utterance upon this occasion would have been pardoned, nay more, was even expected by the country at large. Tradition and precedent exist to justify a candidate in such a course. He of Canton—Mark Hanna's man—who was recently notified of a nomination, took occasion to plead for the principles of a party and in the cause of an administration. In multifarious terms he told what "we" had done, and fairly revealed in the deeds of "us." The Republican party was defended—even apologized for. And Wm. McKinley accepted at the hands of those who bore the stamp of the Republican party, the nomination for the presidency of the United States. Mr. McKinley's speech of acceptance will go down in history as the statement of a party chief to his party followers. But how different the tone and tenor of Mr. Bryan's Indianapolis address. McKinley spoke to a party—Bryan to a nation; McKinley plead the cause of an administration—Bryan the cause of a people. McKinley defended the principles of a party—Bryan spoke in defense of the principles that are at the foundation of free government; McKinley spoke as a candidate, but Mr. Bryan spoke as an American citizen. In the face of existing circumstances it is a fact of peculiar significance that Mr. Bryan could reply to the notification committee in a speech bearing as little trace of partisan politics as the constitution of the United States or the Declaration of Independence. This does not indicate that Mr. Bryan is not a good Democrat, but rather that the Democratic party is contending not so much for certain theories of administration in a free government as for free government itself. Hence it is that, fighting for the very existence of the republic, the position of the patriotic citizen who stands for free government and the position of the Democratic party became identical. Mr. Bryan was great enough to recognize this. Mr. Bryan's speech was remarkable enough on account of the things he said. Mr. McKinley's Canton speech was chiefly remarkable on account of the things he did not say. The Canton speech abounds in vague intimations and promises. It does not hold out to the Filipinos the faintest hope either of independence on the one hand or of the freedom and rights of American citizenship on the other. The voter has only to read so much of Mr. McKinley's speech as relates to this subject in order to find this statement to be correct. He will find something about giving the Filipinos as much self-government as they are fit for—as though the right of people 10,000 miles away to self-government was not a God-given right, but a right to be granted by some authority in Washington. But he will find not the faintest whisper of such a thing as independence for a people over whom we have no authority except such as Spain somehow is supposed to have had a right to give us. In Mr. Bryan's speech, however, the voter may find a pledge that if he is elected he will convene congress at the earliest moment to declare the nation's purposes. "First, to establish a stable form of government in the Philippine islands, just as we are now establishing a stable form of government in Cuba. Second, to give independence to the Filipinos, just as we have promised to give independence to the Cubans. Third, to protect the Filipinos from outside interference while they work out their own destiny, just as we have protected the republics of Central and South America and are by the Monroe doctrine pledged to protect Cuba." This is a sufficiently clear and succinct statement of the Democratic position. Of its correctness, of course there can be no doubt. This, with what McKinley says, and with what he significantly omits to say, sufficiently defines the issue as to the Philippines. The broader issue of imperialism, which includes that of the Philippines, may be stated thus: Mr. Bryan stands upon the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Mr. McKinley stands for the utter repudiation of that doctrine and for "the doctrine of thrones, that man is too ignorant to govern himself," and must be subject to those who rule by superior might and divine right." Mr. Bryan upon leaving Indianapolis came to Chicago, where he has been in conference with the leaders of the party here at headquarters. To say that the outlook for the Democratic party at the present time is hopeful would be putting it mildly. Mr. Bryan's speech seems to have put a new aspect upon the campaign. Telegrams of congratulation from Republicans and gold Democrats have been literally pouring in upon Mr. Bryan and the executive committee. Influential papers that have been hesitating as to their policy, upon receiving Mr. Bryan's speech, openly endorse the candidacy. The converts of the week would fill a column. When such conservative papers as the Springfield Republican become enthusiastic for the success of the party; when such papers as the Boston Post, the New York World and the Baltimore Sun, all of which supported McKinley in '96, openly indorse Bryan, the outlook must be considered bright. But these papers have not been the only additions to the force of the militant Democracy. Wherever large bodies of men have gathered during the past month the events have been productive of much encouragement to the Democracy. The dissolution of the Gold Democracy at a regular meeting and the quick assimilation of all its influential members by the regular party marked the end of the truancy of 1896. When the Ohio Bar association met in yearly convention a few weeks later and the president, Judge A. P. Lauble, a life long Republican, denounced McKinley's policy of imperialism, he found no dissenters, though fully half the members were Republicans. Quickly following this Dr. Silas C. Swallow, candidate for president of the United Christian party, addressing his followers in a convention, said: "If we must choose between the two candidates of the old parties, I must say that I shall support a man who clings to principles and adheres to what he believes to be right rather than the man whom the people never know where to find on any vital issue." According to press reports, this statement was received with remarkable expressions of approval. During the same week Father Heldman, a prominent Catholic clergyman of Chicago, in an address before the German Veterans' League, brought the entire audience to its feet in a spontaneous expression of approval when he scored the administration's policy in the Philippines and Porto Rico. In Ohio the defection from Republican ranks has been especially marked. The Germans who gave McKinley such strong support in 1896 are coming over in droves to Bryan. Besides this Frank S. Monnett and Cleveland's former Mayor, Robert McKisson, men with enormous personal followings are fighting Mark Hanna tooth and nail. Then, too, that most independent element headed by Jones of Toledo are practically a unit for Bryan this year. It will be remembered that Jones polled 120,000 votes when he ran for governor last year. PLAY THE BABY ACT. When the imperialists "plead the baby act" by trying to shift responsibility for imperialism upon Mr. Bryan, they expose an unsuspected consciousness of the weakness of their cause. Yet that is what they are doing. Because he advised the adoption of the Paris treaty rather than advocate an amendment which would have involved a nominal continuance of the Spanish war, they charge him with responsibility for the policy of imperialism which McKinley has erected upon the basis of the treaty!—The Public. If Republicans are apathetic overconfidence is not the only possible cause of their apathy. Instead of being too confident that McKinley will win there is good reason to believe that a considerable percentage of them don't care a hoot whether McKinley wins or not. The best way for a woman to get rid of a man she doesn't like her husband to like is to treat him too affen. CLEVER AND BRAVE RECORD OF AN AMERICAN COW BOY IN BOER RANKS. Was Formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the Sixth United States Cavalry—Has Lately Been Heard From Through the War Correspondents. One of the Americans now in the Boer army who has been heard from through the South African correspondent is "Beau" Blake, formerly a cowboy down in Texas. "At the time I made his acquaintance," said an old friend the other day, "'Beau' was interested, with a Kentuckian of the name of Harvey Watson, in a horse ranch south of Brownsville. He was a big, good natured, powerful fellow, with humorous Irish blue eyes and a small, sandy mustache. Although he had no record as a 'bad man,' it was pretty well understood that he had plenty of sand and could take care of himself in an emergency. I saw that fully demonstrated one night at Fort Worth. He was in town on some business, and, happening to walk into a bar attached to a gambling house then famous throughout the southwest, encountered a cattle man of the name of Ed Armstrong, with whom he had some difficulty over a stock brand. "Armstrong had the reputation of being a 'killer,' and as soon as he saw Blake he reopened the old quarrel. Blake replied to his remarks goodhumoredly, but he became more and J. COL. BLAKE. more insulting and finally whipped out a six-shooter and leveled it at the Irishman's head. 'Now, you hound!' he roared, 'I want you to tell the whole house that you're a liar!' "The action was so sudden that Blake had no time to defend himself, but he never turned a hair. 'Aw, put that thing away,' he said laughingly. Then, looking over Armstrong's shoulder, he added, as if speaking to somebody behind him: 'It's all right, Harvey; he's only kidding.' "Thinking that Blake's partner, Watson, had entered the place and was in his rear, the desperado instantly wheeled around. As he did so the big Irishman hit him a crushing blow under the ear and knocked him fully a dozen feet. His revolver flew out of his hand as he fell and exploded harmlessly in the air, and before he could recover his senses Blake was on his chest with his hands on his throat. "That ended the row and made an everlasting impression on my mind. By the way, Blake got his nickname of 'Beau' from a favorite expression of his while a cowboy. On Sundays he used to 'beau up,' as he called it, to visit some girls on an adjoining ranch. 'Beauing up' consisted of shaving and taking his trousers out of his boots." Blake was a lieutenant colonel in the Sixth cavalry, U. S. A., and spent nine years, until 1889, fighting Indians and campaigning in Arizona, New Mexico, Indian Territory and along the Mexican border. He was born in Missouri. Big Mining Contract The largest contract ever let by a mining company in the state of Colorado for the delivery of ore to reduction works or smelters was made last week when Dudley M. Gray of Cripple Creek closed a contract with the Independence mine management for the delivery of 200 tons of ore per day from that mine continuously for a period of five years. The work of breaking ore at the mine for transfer under the terms of the contract agreement with the reduction firm has been begun. Outside of the immense magnitude of the contract in the matter of the ore tonnage which it involves for the whole period stated, it also represents the greatest amount of value in ore production for any like period of time which has ever been made from any exclusively gold-producing claim containing the same amount of productive territory within its prescribed limits. Tortoise Traveled. A tortoise story comes from Center Bridge, Bucks county. Edward Johnson was walking over his farm the other day, when he picked up a land tortoise bearing the initials of his father, D. R. Johnson, and the date 1846. These initials were cut on the tortoise when Mr. Johnson's father, who has been dead several years, was a boy of seventeen, making the tortoise over fifty-four years old. It has been picked up on the farm several times by members of the family, but had been missing for a number of years. The farm has been in the possession of the Johnsba family for over a century.—Philadelphia Record. There were 197 wolves killed in France last year and the bounties equaled 13.075 francs, or f523 VESSELS OF QUEER BUILD. One in the Atlantic and the Other in the Pacific Ocean. While the Deutschland and other trans-Atlantic flyers are astonishing the world by the speed with which they race from Europe to America and back, marine men along the eastern and western coasts of the United States are discussing with interest two other vessels, both of which, by the way, are especially interesting to lake sailormen. One of these is the four-masted Americana, just arrived at San Francisco from the nitrate ports via Honolulu. She is the most peculiarly rigged craft that ever was seen at the port named, and Capt. Berry, who commands the nautical freak, is not by any means proud of her. No one can be found to assume responsibility for the rig, but judging from the schooner's latest cruise the idea is not destined to be taken up by owners generally. The Americana was 150 days coming from Caleta Buena, and at one time 50 per cent reinsurance was paid on her. She put into Honolulu, however, and was then fifty-one days coming from that port to San Francisco. This is the record slow passage from the nitrate ports to San Francisco. The Americana carries a jib topsail, an inward and outward jib, a fore gull topsail, a fore and aft foresail, a square foresail, a main gnord ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` THE AMERICANA. topgallant sail, main stopsail and fore and aft mainsail, mizzen and gaff topsail and spanker and gaff topsail. In spite of all this spread of canvas the WORLD SHORT OF COAL. If Cremation Continues There Will Be a The American opponents and advocates of cremation are much interested just now in a statement which has been made by a distinguished chemist, to the effect that if cremation should ever become a universal practice the world's supply of coal would speedily be exhausted, says the New York Herald. This chemist is Professor Clemens Walker of Saxony, and his statement is the result of long study on this subject. The world's population, he says, consists of about 1,550,000,000 persons, and of these about 31,000,000 die every year. Now, if all these bodies were to be cremated the amount of coal which would be used for this purpose would, he maintains, be 14,849,000, or, in round numbers, 15,000,000 tons. Many years, however, he admits, are likely to elapse before the entire world decides to substitute cremation for the prevailing method of burial, and, therefore, instead of laying stress on what is likely to happen in this far distant time he draws attention to cer- CROW INDIAN NDIANS CROW INDIANS AS RAILROAD BUILDERS The evolution of the American Indian is being illustrated in a new way. Crow Indians have just gone to work constructing the 110-mile extension of the Burlington railroad from Toluca, Mont., to Cody City, Wyo. Much of the line passes through the reservation of these Indians, and the Burlington management, as an experiment, suggested that the contract be awarded to the Indians where it was possible. The head of the once great war tribe, Chief Red Blanket, accepted the conditions, and, calling his warriors together, explained to them that the white man's steam horse was to cross their reservation, and that they were to be paid $5 a day for the use of two ponies and a scraper. The Indians were quite unanimous in declaring their intention to go to work, and now 200 buck Crows are working on the roadbed. This is the first instance in history where the American Indian has undertaken work of this kind. The Indians show extraordinary intelligence in handling CORKS IN QUANTITIES. Contract Just Made for a Hundred Million of Stoppers. A deal has just been closed whereby a brewing association purchases about 480,000 pounds of corks, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. This deal represents $450,000. In two years this company will deliver to the brewery upward of 100,000,000 corks. This is said to be the biggest deals in corks ever made. These 100,000,000 corks in bulk, weighing 480,000 pounds, would support 240,000 men on top of the water --- ```markdown ``` best the Americana could do was about 100 knots a day. She was very foul, however, having been for a long time in the water without being drydocked. The marine novelty which is attracting attention on the Atlantic coast will doubtless do better in the way of speed than the nondescript which is exciting wonder in San Francisco. The former is the largest schooner afloat and the RICANA. ```markdown ``` only six-masted vessel of the kind in the world. She has just been launched by H. M. Bean, a builder of Camden, Me. Until this new schooner took the tain statistics which are of more immediate interest. There are, he says, 160 cities in the world each of which has a population exceeding 100,000, and the aggregate population of which is 82,000,000. The number of deaths in these cities amounts annually to 1,640,000, and if all these bodies were to be cremated the amount of coal required for this purpose each year would be 785,500 tons. That such a large quantity of coal should be consumed in this way seems to him highly undesirable, and he expresses the hope that encouragement will not be given to those who are in favor of using for the annihilation of dead bodies a most valuable material, and one which the living may soon be in need of it much of it is consumed in this way. Advocates of cremation in this city do not agree with Professor Winkler, neither does Die Flamme, the representative organ of the European cremation societies. "Admitting," says the latter, "that the total population of the 160 greatest cities is 82,000,000, it is quite true that the average number of deaths each year will be one and two-third INS AS RAILROA the modern tools, but all the persuasion of the railroad officials was unable to induce Mr. Lo to forsake his blanket. Hence the unique picture is presented of these Indians, dressed in their war feathers and gaudy colored blankets, working scrapers and dumping dirt on the roadbed. They did agree to leave their rifles in their te- were they to be thrown overboard each with a single life-preserver on. Cork comes from bark of a species of live oak tree found at its best in the forests of Spain. The cork wood tree is said to be one of the three most valuable trees known, the others being the trees producing rubber and quinine. The cork wood bark is stripped from the trees and the principal branches about once every ten years, each tree yielding from fifty to 500 pounds of crude cork. This is packed in Spain, shipped to England in bales and belled to make it less brittle. ```markdown ``` A man stands beside a horse, pulling a load of goods across a snowy landscape. water the John B. Prescott, a five-masted schooner, was the largest sailing vessel. The owner of the new craft promises to still further astonish the world by immediately contracting for a seven-master, and he claims that the time is not far distant when schooners of 10,000 tons capacity will be as common along this coast as are the British tramps of that size in these days. A party of prominent shipping men witnessed the launch of this huge craft. The vessel is partially owned in Philadelphia and is intended principally, if not wholly, for the New England coal trade between Newport News and Philadelphia. Capt. Arthur Crowley, the managing owner's brother, will com- the foc 82 f5 K o v t FIRST SIX-MASTED SCHOONER LARGEST SAILING VESSEL AFLOAT. mand the new craft, which will be named after a prominent Taunton capitalist The new vessel is 2,750 tons net register, 300 feet long on the keel, 335 feet long over all, 46 feet beam and 26 feet deep. She will carry 5,500 tons of coal, about 1,100 tons more than does the John B. Prescott. This six-master will not only be a monster, but a beauty. Her masts are of Oregon pine, each 116 feet long, with 58 feet topmasts. The lower masts are 26 inches in diameter in the partners, except the foremast, which is 30 inches. The four topmast is 20 inches in the cap and the other 17 inches. The bowsprit is 35 feet long and jibboom 75 feet. She has a forward house 26 feet long, midship house 16 feet and after house 35 feet, in addition to a large wheelhouse. The vessel is fitted with a double set of pumps and with engines and steam winches fore and aft. million, and it is also true that about half a ton of coal will be required to consume each body of an adult, provided the furnace has to be specially heated in each case. Professor Winkler apparently assumes that as much coal is required to consume a child's body as an adult's, which is manifestly absurd, and that whenever a body is to be cremated the furnace has to be specially heated for the occasion. As a matter of fact, in the large crematories at present the furnaces are always heated and thus the amount of coal required to consume a body is hardly one-tenth of what it would be under other circumstances." Finally Die Flamme claims that the amount of coal which is now, or which is likely to be, used in crematories is insignificant compared with the amount which is used for industrial purposes, and that the value of the coal used in crematories is by no means so great as the value of the wood used in coffins. Don't think so much about the new gown that you forget a paper of pins. AD BUILDERS pees, but most of them carry heavy revolvers swung by their sides. The men work in gangs, looked after by their tribal bosses, who sit near and smoke. The excellence of their work in one respect is due to their absolute silence. They waste no time in talking, but work steadily from sun to sun. The cork wood tree requires about ten years to recover from the bark-stripping and does not, like most trees, die with the loss of its bark. The older the tree the better the yield of cork is said to be, and in Spain many trees are bearing heavy bark crops at the age of more than 100 years. It is now settled that Winston Spencer Churchill, if he does not risk his life once too often before the war is over, is to write the life of his distinguished father, Lord Randolph Churchill. ```markdown ``` IT WILL BE SENT FREE. In Topeka, Kan., 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. 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, 16x24, addition 12x24, two stories, stone foundation. Barn, 46x56, addition 16x56, 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 ali 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. How Soot Is Utilized. Experiments in France have shown that chimney soot is valuable both as a fertilizer and as an insecticide. Its fertilizing properties are particularly noted in gardens and meadows. M. Dasserre, a wine grower in southern France, avers that "chimney soot kills the phylloxera with the rapidity of a stroke of lightning, and at the same time endows the vines with extraordinary energy of growth." Other experimenters, however, have not found it effective in the case of phylloxera, although it kills many kinds of larvae. Masonic Temple Roof Theater. Having again established a record for presenting the most attractive bills and the biggest stars to be secured in vaudeville, the management of the Masonic Temple Roof Theater promises to continue its efforts to please and entertain its patrons up to the last performance of the season. Each program will be the best that money can procure or the most critical could wish. For the week of September 9th, commencing with Sunday matinee, a list of special favorites will appear. 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. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. 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New York Central.....10,430 Pennsylvania.....10,392 Canadian Pacific.....10,018 Southern Pacific.....9,862 Chicago and Northwestern.....8,463 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 8,001 Southern Railway.....7,887 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.....7,880 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 6,437 Union Pacific.....5,584 "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. 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Adversity is often a blessing R. requires no experience to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Simply boiling your goods in the dye is all that's necessary. Any man that asks a girl to let him kiss her doesn't deserve it. Women Think About This In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are communicating with A Woman A woman whose experience in treating female ills is greater than that of any living person, male or female. She has fifty thousand such testimonial letters as we are constantly publishing showing that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is daily relieving hundreds of suffering women. Every woman knows some woman Mrs. Pinkham has restored to health. Mrs. Pinkham makes no statements she cannot prove. Her advice is free. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Ma Take four ounces of any kind of fruit—peaches, plums, strawberries or ooreless pineapples—and if it has been sufficiently stewed in canning, press it through a sieve. The pineapple must be minced very fine. To half a pint of this fruit puree add one and a-half ounces of gelatine soaked in half a cup of water and melted in half a pint of boiling water; mix well together and add gradually to a pint of rich, whipped cream. Pour into a mold and set in a cold place to harden. A Fiddling Campaign. John H. Holt, Democratic candidate for governor of West Virginia, will make a fiddling campaign, in imitation of some other southerners who have run for similar offices. Governor Atkinson, the present Republican executive of the state, made use of a violin in his canvass, and former governor Wilson was also a performer on the same instrument. "Alf" Taylor fiddled his way into the gubernatorial chair of Tennessee. Rice and Population In deciding whether China's population is dense or sparse it ought to be remembered that the country produces rice. Countries which produce rice yield at least two crops a year. Countries which produce corn, on the other hand, only yield one crop a year. Therefore, apportionately to its extent, a country which produces rice ought to support at least twice as large a population as a country which produces corn. Workmen employed in the erection of a new primary school in Charlestown, Mass., struck a vault below the ground, and found a lot of corroded coin in it which proved to be silver dollars, and seemed to be stacked up in some semblance of order. Most of the coins could not be identified at first on account of the thick corrosion, but a few in the middle of the piles were clean enough to show the dates. Made It Earn Its Food. A Lowell woman who found a young robin on her doorstep took it in and tenderly cared for it. She has brought it up to be a self-reliant, independent bird by burying worms in a pot of earth and compelling the robin to do its digging for a living. The bird is said to be a great pet and has learned to come to his mistress when she calls, though he will have nothing to say to strangers. Stone Soles on Shoes An inventor has hit upon a method of putting stone soles on boots and shoes. He mixes a waterproof glue with a suitable quantity of clean quartz sand and spreads it over the leather sole used as a foundation. These quartz soles are said to be flexible and to give the foot a firm hold even on the most slippery surface. Michigan Selling Wild Land. In his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30 Land Commissioner French of Michigan says that the total amount of land now held by the state is 537,045 acres. During the year 47,211 acres of land were disposed of, for which $144,495 will be received, all but $14,238 having already been paid. Regular Trip to Lapland. Prince Oscar Bernadotte, second son of King Oscar of Norway and Sweden, has returned from his regular trip to Lapland to inquire after the welfare of his people. He makes the trip twice a year, accompanied by a Lutheran clergyman, and carries on active religious work among the Laps. Dr. George Robertson Sinclair, organist of Hereford cathedral, England, has been awarded the greatest musical prize but one that Birmingham can bestow. He has been appointed conductor of the Festival Choral society, succeeding the late Dr. Swinnerton Heap. Funerals Rept Out With Shotgun. The farmers living in the vicinity of Harvlell, in Butler county, Missouri, have sued for the possession of a cemetery. The graveyard is in the center of a farm, the owner of which has been guarding it with a shotgun to prevent any more burials. Pasture in the milk-raising section tributary to New York was burned by long continued dry weather. As a result the price of milk went up and there was a prospect that the poor would have to do without the article altogether. Berlin Honors Americans. The Berlin Geographical society has elected the following named Americans honorary members: Alexander Agassiz, Gen. A. W. Greely and Morris K. Jessup, president of the American Museum of Natural History. Daniel Webster's State Coach. In a local celebration at Duxbury, Mass., recently the state coach of Daniel Webster was brought out and joined the parade. It was lent for the occasion by the present owner and occupant of the Webster estates. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. If a tbin woman is rich, she is only slight. There is very often a girl behind the man behind the gun. Women mistake passion for love; men, love for passion. Snow me a girl's bureau and I'll tell you her favorite actor. Probably the spider first tried to engage himself to the fly. A man's ambition is to be noted; a woman's to be noticed. The closer you get to her the more far-away look a girl gets. Ananias probably made most of his reputation while he was courting. No man who has kept single has ever been really disappointed in love. Most married men would be at home oftener if their wives were at home less. Lots of men who don't ever be arrested for bigamy have got one wife too many. No man knows what it means to succeed with a woman till he has failed with one. A woman, can conceal her age, but when a man plays golf he has got to show his legs. Men set the powder to blast women's reputations, but it is other women who fire the blast. You can always tell an old bachelor by the way he makes a baby cry trying to make it laugh. The women who refuse to tell their age to the census man are generally old enough to know better. Every woman has a story about a man whose wife died and his hair turned gray in a single night. The best way for a woman to get rid of a man she doesn't like her husband to like is to treat him too nice. There is never any hope for a man after his wife gets so she thinks she can pick out his clothes best for him. A woman's idea of a skillful doctor is one that will tell her every once in awhile that her soul is wearing out her body. Great disappointments are not sent to teach one not to hope again, but to teach one to expect more disappointments. If a man apologized to company for his wife's cooking half as much as she does herself she would go home to her mother. No woman is thought much of by the other women in a town till she has had at least one operation that took two doctors. Women always can get along together, because, if they haven't anything else in common, they can always compare their neighbors. A man never knows whether a woman is really beautiful or not till after he has seen her without her corsets and with no collar on. When you are eating a dinner that a woman has cooked, she expects you to spend half the time it takes to eat it talking about how good it is. Half the time when you hear a man calling another man a "hog," it is only because the second man has got what the first man would get if he could. Half the time when a man lies to his wife, he does it because he knows he can get up a story that will sound a lot more reasonable to her than the truth. A man who has loved a woman will defend her character against all the rest of the world when he will not defend it against himself.—New York Press. BRIEFLETS. Seven out of eight loaves of bread eaten in London are made of foreign wheat. More than one-third of all manufactured goods in France are made by women. Electric lights are being installed experimentally in the imperial court at Tokyo, Japan. In France, where wine is as abundant as petroleum is here, it is transported in bulk in tank cars. A shark captured at Bayshore, L. I., Sunday, was five feet long, and weighed nearly two hundred pounds. A London authority estimates that the Baroness Burdett-Coutts during her lifetime has given to charity at least a million pounds sterling. A newspaper or sheet of paper tied on a window or balcony of a dwelling house in Mexico indicates that there are rooms to let in the house. An odd cycling freak is to trim a piece of brown paper to fit the lens of the lamp, and in it cut the eyes, nose and mouth. The effect is startling. Reports from Cuba say that the tobacco crop there is enormous, but a large proportion of "clear Havanas" continue to come from Connecticut, just the same. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 50 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. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET. Office Hours: Phone 818 Went 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m.. 6 to 8:30 p. m. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4838 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. 5018 Fifth Avenue, Chicago Mrs. J. W. 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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. July 15th, 1890. 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 THOS. McINERNEY & SONS. Embalming a Specialty, Open Day and Night...Tel. Yards 886. 5050 STATE ST. Residence: 4635 Wallace St., CHICAGO. Estimates and Specifications Purchased ... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. 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