The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. V. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS. THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE NEGRO. XXXI. March the 4th, 1885, this government after being under the control of the Republican party for twenty-four years was turned over to the Democratic party and as we have before stated, there was much apprehension on the part of most of the Negroes as to the policy or course, which the Democratic party would pursue in reference to himself and his children, their fears and misgivings were somewhat quieted after they had read the following from President Cleveland's inaugural address. In the administration of a government pledged to do equal and exact justice to all men, there should be no pretext for anxiety, touching the protection of the freedmen in their rights or security in the enjoyment of their privileges, under the Constitution and its amendments. All discussion as to their fitness for the place accorded to them as American citizens is idle and unprofitable except as it suggests the necessity for their improvement. The fact that they are citizens entitles them to all the rights due to that relation and charges them with all its duties, obligations and responsibilities. "These topics and the constant and ever-varying want of an active and enterprising population may well receive the attention and the patriotic endeavor of all who make and execute the Federal Law. Our duties are practical and call for industrious application an intelligent perception of the claims of public office, and, above all, a firm determination by united action, to secure to all the people of the land the full benefits, of the best form of government ever vouchsafed to man." Could or has any president claiming to belong to the Republican party ever given expression to higher or loftier ideas than these? Do they not set forth in the clearest language that as a Democrat President Cleveland from his heart desired to impress the one single idea upon the mind of the Negro that his political rights were secure, that there was no disposition on the part of the Democratic party to treat or deal with him in any other spirit, but honesty and fairness. In spite of these facts the leaders of the Republican party have for many years endeavored to make the Negro believe that no Negro would ever receive any recognition from the hands of a Democratic president, that all the members of the Democratic party were so hungry that they would not permit Negroes to hold office. Some few people who were raised in the back-woods still believe this is true, but we all know full well if we know anything that almost two thousand Negroes passed the civil service examination and were assigned to duty during Mr. Cleveland's first administration, and all of his Republican predecessors put together never assigned as many Colored men to good positions as President Cleveland. C. H. J. Taylor was appointed by him to serve as minister to a white Republic, but the Senate, which was under the control of the Republicans, absolutely refused to confirm him for the reason that no Republican president had ever selected a Negro to represent this government as minister to a white republic, and they concluded that it would be setting a very bad example to the Colored Republicans to permit a Negro Democrat to wear such high honors, hence Mr. Taylor was rejected by those who always express so much love for the Negro. Later on, that is after the senate was under the control of the Democratic party Mr. Taylor was appointed by the Preslident to be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia and the Democratic senate promptly confirmed the appointment. C. C. Astwood, Esq. was appointed as consul to one of the leading cities or France, but he was rejected by the Republican senate upon the same theory and reason, which the Republican senators assigned for refusing to confirm C. H. J. Taylor. For twenty-four years prior to 1885 the Republicans owned and controlled all branches of the government, but during that time it never occurred to its leaders that it would be a capital idea to select an honorable Negro to serve as postmaster North of the Mason and Dixon line and it remained for a Democratic President to set the example in this respect and Charles Young, now major, had the honor of benig the first Negro to receive his commission to serve as postmaster in any northern city or town. (To be continued.) J. MILTON TURNER HAS SKIPPED OUT BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON. As we predicted in the last issue of The Broad Ax that J. Milton Turner could not stand to have the head light of day turned on his crooked transactions. That the Democratic National Committee would be forced or compelled to cut loose from J. Milton Turner and his crowd of political hold-ups and sure enough when Turner attempted to gather in another $500, or $1,000-bill from the committee without rendering any service whatever for it the committee closed its eyes and balked and evidently came to the conclusion that they had a big white elephant on their hands in the person of J. Milton Turner, whom they seem to love and adore beyond all comprehension and just as soon as the money failed to come forth Turner refused to turn his little finger over in the interest of Democracy and he has turned the key in the door of the Colored Democratic headquarters and all work among the Colored Democrats throughout the country so far as he is concerned has come to a dead stand still and he is now enggaged in cussing and damning the members of the Committee, who rare back on their dignity and think what they do not know is not worth knowing. But be that as it may, there is one thing certain, our position has been vindicated and we have clearly proven that J. Milton Turner is unworthy of the confidence, which the committee reposed in him. That the majority of the men he collected around him reflected no credit upon the Negro race and belong to the scum element. As the following names will indicate which adorn Mr. Turner's letterheads, Chas. P. Armistead, Charleston W Virginia. No standing in his community and of no consequence. Dr. Jerome B. Riley, Washington, D. C., all-around schemer and four-flushef. Geo. B. Vashon, St. Louis, Mo., high roller and common political toucher; A. J. Davidson, Athens, O., cheap janitor and of ordinary ability; Wm. Butt, Milwaukee, Wis., gambler and owner of a cheap saloon and joint; A. St. A. Smith, Washington, D. C., unknown in his own city and outside of it and is not known to have any political convictions; Chas. Gatewood, Columbus, Ohio, cheap tinhorn sport, and does not represent anything; James Miller, Chicago, Ill., who is all mouth and wind, and who acts as straw bailer for thieves and blacklegs at the 35th St. police station and at the same time he has conducted a gambling club at 3118 State street; Travis Glasgow, Washington, D. C., has no politics worth mentioning and is entirely unknown outside of Washington; Adjt.-General Harvey A. Thompson, Chicago, Ill., who struck Turner in the head and knocked him through the window, while they were engaged in fighting and quarreling poses as the greatest representative of the rotten and unsavory outfit. These are a fair sample of the representative Negro Democrats which Turner has been holding up to the Democratic National Committee, and how do you like them, gentlemen? We venture the assertion that neither one of them is interested in the election of Col. Bryan any further than the money which they can hoodwink the committee out of and instead of any member of the committee feeling agrieved at us for criticising their actions in reference to Turner and company each and every member of the committee should thank us for exposing this notorious gang and preventing them from falling in to the den with robbers and political thugs. CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 22, 1900. OFF COLOR A young man of marked ability and high ambitions was sent from New Hampshire to a preparatory school at West Point to fit himself for entry there in due time. But it seems that his skin was one shade darker than suits the fashion. "Good God! He is almost as dark as a mulatto." was said. His conduct, morals and abilities are all of the first order. His manners are those of a gentleman, unobtrusive and retiring. But his color! It was intolerable. From one boarding house to another he was hunted out and finally he sought refuge in the country suburbs with a poor widow. Even from there they drove him by intimidating the woman. He ought to have carried a revolver and shot on sight the first assailant, but then what justice could he expect at West Point with that color? Finally he had to give up and go home. If there is anything more mean, cruel shameful, blasphemous, cowardly, horrible than this abuse of one by many it is the poor, ignorant, narrow provincial sentiment that instigates it. In this respect the people of many of these states show themselves to be far more narrow than the inhabitants of some little islands, who believe their small home comprises the whole of earth and consider how wicked and silly it is—this color prejudice. When Rome was most flourishing in power there were not over a hundred million whites on earth, if indeed half so many. At the same time there must have been seven or eight times as many of the Colored races. There is one race of whites called Caucasians, with another its congener the Albino. Of Colored races there are the Chinese, Japanese, Negro, Negroid, Arabs, Malay Hindoo, Mongol, Indian, Australian, New Zealand, Pacific, Isle, etc., etc. The white race tapers up until in torrid zones and on vast windy plateaus, at can scarcely be distinguished from the Colored and highly colored at that races. The black race tapers down from the noblest specimens of the human form as seen among Arabs, Zulus, Ashantees and others in Africa until in unfavoring climates it becomes invalid, off color and dies out. The fairest regions of earth and the noblest form of manhood has the creator given to the Colored races and endowed them with the capacity of increase, until they have vastly outnumbered the whites, who then dare criticize this mark of creation by stamping in scorn upon this favorite image of himself as reflected by the mighty maker? If there be an unpardonable sin it is that. HOLT. CALAMITY HOWLING. We would be neither a calamity howler nor a prosperity humbugger—but we certainly fail to see any evidences of prosperity in the figures used by the Globe-Democrat of St. Louis like the following: It gives the reat excess of our export sover our imports and cites the excess as proof that the outer world owes us just that sum. At the sametime, along with our exports of products we are sending millions of gold out. Our case is that of a merchant, who is sending out to the city whence he purchases his goods for more country produce and cash than he is receiving back in goods. Such he must soon fall bankrupt. In addition to these figures the Globe-D., says our Bank clearings are fare more, by 50 per ct., R. R. earnings were 50 millions last July against 39 millions the July before, pig iron doubled, R. R. securities almost as high again, etc. But the question is who gets all this increase. When Ireland was starving, her population falling from 8 millions down to some five millions the same figuring showed exports very large and enormous rents going to same landlords. It is said that a like condition now exists in India. Of this we are certain—the great touchstone of general prosperity is in our nation activity in real estate both of village and farm property. Since 1892 no sign of that has been shown. All is dead. HOLT. The city council opens up Monday night for business, much to the gratification of many of the boys, who want to get in out of the cold, and others who have axes to grind. A BAD EXAMPLE. We Americans are doing just what many other nations have been doing. In one mad seeking for wealth we are draining our lands of all their natural wealth and carrying it to Europe. Some day there will be ten times more people here and then all our forests our richest mines, etc., will be exhausted. What do we get for this real wealth we expent? Nothing whatever of any real value. We act as though we were placed here to amass money only—yet money is a thing we can make by a word. It has no value in itself—that is, the pieces used as money have no value. And we do not even get money back any longer—because the system we have acted on has brought us into debt that never will be paid and we are yielding up our labor and its products to pay usury. We are imiating the British system. See what that system has done for England. It has made a few thousand suck men and millions paupers. It has given all the land nearly to a hundred or so men and left the nation disinherited. If that nation does not end in horrors never experienced before in all time there is no truth in moral or economic science. CHIPS. Suffrage is not a right, but a privilege conferred by law, and its qualification or denial is the prerogative of the State.—John J. Ingalls. Maryland Afro-Americans are again attempting an organized movement against the law prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and blacks.—Ex. The colored people of Mississippi have undertaken to furnish the building being erected at Jackson for the use of the colored blind of the state.—Ex. Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins returned home Monday from a prolonged visit to her old home, Memphis, Tenn., and her sister, who is said to be strikingly handsome, will spend the greater portion of the winter with Mrs. Watkins. Miss H. A. Gibbs, of Washington, D. C., a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and late of Boston, has opened a class in voice culture, piano and organ harmony. Miss Gibbs is at the head of her profession. Ex. Attorney-at-law Joseph A. McInerney. Chicago Opera House block stands ready and willing to aid the party with his voice. Mr. McInerney is a good speaker and he must be pressed into service for the National State and County ticket. James McAndrews, who will go to Congress from the 4th Congressional District will, in a few days, pull off his coat, roll up his sleeves and scramble into the thickest of the fight, and when it is all over Mr. McAndrews' Republican opponent will throw up the Congressional sponge. Maj. E. B. Tolman, who will preside after the next election as one of the Judes of Cook County is one of the most profound and logical lawyers in Chicago. The major is friendly to the Afro-American race and all other races, and for a long time he has given employment to two colored persons. Hon. M. F. Dunlap, of Jacksonville, the next State Treasurer of Illinois, has spent most of the past week in Chicago, in consultation with the managers of the national and state campaign. Mr. Dunlap is very friendl y to the Afro-Americans and thousands of them will record their votes in his favor. Joseph A. Swift, who is known to his numerous friends as a dead sure winner on forty to one shot, conducte one of the neatest fitted up sample rooms in the 59th Ward, or the town of Lake. Mr. Swift's headquarters are located 5428 South Halstead street, and he is ever ready to greet all comers with a smile. There will be a red-hot, three-cornered fight in the Fifth Congressional District. Congressman E. T. Noonan has been nominated by his friends to lay out Ex-Alderman Wm. F. Mahoney, the regular Democratic nominee. But if all signs do not fail the tall and good looking Ex-Alderman will represent the Fifth District in the next Congress. Peter J. O'Brien, candidate for clerk of the Circuit Court has so far conducted a more than successful campaign. Mr. O'Brien possesses winning ways and he is not egotistical enough to think that he is the only man in the world or the only pebble along the beach. Therefore The Broad Ax feels that he will land the Circuit Court clerkship. It has come to our ears that Chairman James K. Jones felt that we had handled him without gloves in the last issue of The Broad Ax. It was not our desire to convey the idea that Chairman Jones erred from the head, but from the heart and we feel confident that he is now able to see that he was imposed upon by J. Milton Turner and company who plied upon his good nature. The musical given by Miss Euphemia B. McQuann at Kimball Rehearsal hall, Tusday evening, was a great triump for that young lady, whose well trained voice completely captivated her many friends, who filled the hall and they showered their unstinted praises upon the new queen of song. Miss McQuann was accompanied on the piano by Miss Gertrude Jackson and Miss Mamie O'Leary. Chas. H. Mitchell, the well known lawyer of the 31st Ward, whose office is on the 12th floor of the Unity building, has been doing some affective work for the good of the old Democratic party. On several occasions, recently, Mr. Mitchell has addressed The Chicago American Bryan Club of the 30th Ward and he will continue to raise his voice in behalf of the party to the close of the campaign. Hon. R. B. Organ, candidate for president of the Board of County Commissioners, continues to interest and enlist the support of his wide circle of friends in his political fight, and there is no doubt of Mr. Organ's election for this is the year that the Republican salary grabbers, tax dodgers and rascals must be routed out of the County building, and let the cry go up, "down with Republican misrule in Cook county. Next Thursday afternoon and evening Sept. 27th the ladies of Bethesda church will give a high tea at the residence of Mrs. R. I. Collins, 5321 Armour avenue for the benefit of the church In the evening a fine literary and musical program will be rendered, which will be participated in by some of the best literary and musical talent of the city, refreshments will be served, the small sum of ten cents will be charged for admission. Col. Wm. J. Bryan's letter of acceptance deals sledgehammer blows to the blood-sucking trusts, which should be grabbed by the throat and have all the life squeezed out of them before they squeeze all the life out of the people and the remedy, which he proposes to handle or deal with them when he assumes control of the whitehouse next March, is the best yet proposed In his letter he very clearly deals and handles all the other live issues of the campaign and it should be carefully read by all who are in favor of throwing off the yoke of oppression. Ex-Senator T. T. Allain, who has for the last 30 years worked harder in season and out of season for the grand old party than any other man in the United States. But since Mark Hanna and a few other puffed up individuals have gotten control of the party they only believe in rewarding those who do nothing for it and such men as Mr. Allain are ignored and brushed aside and at the present time old man Hanna makes Mr. Allain act the part of truck horse around the headquarters. This is entirely wrong for the Ex-Senator is deserving of better treatment. Old Mark Hanna in speaking of the Colored voters being solidly in favor of the Republican party attempts to compare Roosevelt with Ben Tillman. But we cannot see the point. Senator Tillman is not seeking the suffrage of the Negro, but Roosevelt with all his hatred for the race is seeking the Negroe's vote, and it remains to be seen whether or not the Negro will blindly shut his eyes and swallow this Negro-hater, who has not given one member of the race a position since he was elected Governor of New York. If they do then they are political cowards and slaves. NO. 48. Some fellow writting from West Virginia under the name of Caas. M. Pepper, says, in the Chicago Record Wednesday, Sept. 19th, that all the colored men in that state will vote for President McKinley, which shows that he does not know what he is talking about. For there has been organized a great many Bryan and Stevenson clubs among the colored people in West Virginia. They have a colored Democratic State Committee which is making many converts for the party and three of the best out of five colored papers published in West Virginia are openly advocating the election of Col. Wm. J. Bryan. Thursday afternoon the Colored Democratic Central Committee of Cook County met at its headquarters, 145 Randolph street, and mapped out the work to be carried on among the Colored voters of this city and county. The meeting was well attended and representative Colord Democrats were present from all the principal wards in the city. The following are the active officers of the committee: Lawrence A. Newby, chairman, S. A. T. Watkins secretary, Geo J. Woods treasurer, Geo. J. Terrell sergeant-at-arms, members of the Executive Committee: Lawrence A. Newby, S. A. T. Watkins, Geo. J. Woods, Horace M. Clinton, W. H. Clark, Robt. B. Cabbell, Samuel Tracy, James Logan and Julius F. Taylor. 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. Onix Woman Delegate. When the wholesale druggists hold their convention in Chicago in October Mrs. Fannie Lamar Rankin of Georgia will again be delegate from her state, having a second time been selected for that honor. She will be the only woman delegate. Consumptives' Isolated Hospital. Consumptives are to have an isolated hospital on Blackwell's island, New York. Commissioner John W. Keller has long been working for this improvement. They are to get the insane wards, occupants of the latter being apportioned among various state hospitals. Sounded Like Age Hint: Mary Anderson Navarro attended a bazaar in England the other day in aid of a religious community and was told by the father rector that she was a mother to them. "Our Mary" is, of course, no longer in the full blush of youthful beauty, but this remark rather startled her for a moment. In the course of a short reply she goodhumoredly said that the reverend gentleman might at least have called her a sister. Automobiles Take Fruit to London. In the county of Kent, England, it has long been usual for farmers to lose immense quantities of fruit for lack of railroad transportation. They now engage automobile cars, which they load in the evening and take to London during the night. The arrangement is working well and railroad officials are busy devising plans to head off what may develop into serious rivalry. Origin of the Chinese One The custom of Chinamen wearing pigtails is not ancient, considering the period that China has existed as a nation. It dates from 1627, when the Manchus, who then commenced the contest of the Celestial Empire, enforced this fashion of doing the hair as a sign of degradation. The average queue is three feet long, and, reasoning that the adult Chinamen number 200,000,000, we get a united pigtail measuring 113,636 miles long, sufficient to go four and a half times round the earth!—Golden Penny. High-Priced Pictures. Five pictures brought over $25,000 apiece in the last London season. Romney's portrait of Charlotte Perge was sold for $36,750. Hobbema's "Water Mill" for $32,050, Millais "The Boyhood of Raleigh," bought for the Tata Gallery, for $27,300, and the two Van Dyek portraits from the Peel collection, which sold for $121,250. Four portraits of the Arundel family, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, were sold in one lot for $57,750. Will promulgate and at aft times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Orthodox, Protestante, Knights of Labor, Infidels, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. 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 ie JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. It is easier for a person to bear all the misfortunes of his neighbors than a single one of his own. London has 6,102 physicians; the provinces, 15,794; Wales, 1,127; Scotland, 8,462; Ireland, 2,559. An authority on cats says that blue-eyed cats are always deaf, and that pure white ones are afflicted in the same manner. So useful are toads in gardens that they are sold in France by the dozen for stocking gardens to free them from many injurious insects. The postal savings bank system is in operation in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, and in most of the colonies. It is stated that George Shergold, the Gloucester (England) shoemaker who 24 years ago invented the safety bicycle, is living in poverty though he made millions for others. He is now 76. Taking advantage of the "closed season," a bull moose came out of the Maine woods, recently, and took a stroll through the streets of Bangor. Small boys threw stones at him, and he trotted away. Christian De Wet, the famous leader of the Boers, according to the St. James' Gazette, was a wrangler at Cambridge and is said to have gained golden opinions from all during his university career. The sultan of Turkey has gone in for motoring, and is so pleased with his particular machine that he has conferred a decoration upon the manager of the German works at which it was constructed. It is comforting to learn, in the present coal crisis, that Britain has still 82,000,000,000 tons of coal unused and available. According to the past average rate of consumption it will be over 500 years before this quantity is exhausted. The official returns for last year showed a consumption of 157,000,000 tons in Great Britain and Ireland. British killed in South Africa from the beginning of the war to July 28 were 271 officers and 2,500 men; 73 officers and 681 men died of wounds; a total of 3,527. For some reason the number of the wounded is not given. Up to July 1 the total wounded were 11,576, and the deaths from diseases were 4,533. Twenty thousand men have been invalided home. There is such a thing as too much realism. They are trying to have a "David Harum Day" at Tullay Lake Park, near Syracuse, where the famous "hoss trade" scene is to be read by a professional impersonator. But the farmers in that region who were buncoed by the real David, and who have never seen the humor or the merit in the book, are vigorously protesting, and the chances are the day will not be held. A negro conference in Charlottesville, Va. adopted what they call "a prayer to the intelligent white people of Virginia" not to disfranchise the colored people of the state, and asks, if a measure of disfranchisement is to be passed, that it apply to both races alike. The appeal, which is described as non-partisan, goes further, and asks the white race's aid in the matter of education, the uplifting of the colored race morally, and its advancement generally. Variot of Paris, according to a Lisbon paper, has discovered a process for embalming bodies which it is thought will prove a great success. He not only embalms but metallics the bodies by the Roult process, just as it is done with a fork or a spoon. In this manner they can be preserved indefinitely and in such perfection that the most imperceptible wrinkles and lines are reproduced, and the embalmed body has the appearance of a metal statue. The modern craze, or vice, of syndicatization is this year the correct thing for the shooting party in England. It infallibly brings out the bad in one's friends. One shareholder proves to be a hitherto unsuspected diposmaniac with homicidal tendencies. The next decamps, leaving his liabilities to his fellow directors. The third is awkward with his hands, kills a gamekeeper or two and burns down the shooting box. No. 4 pushes an insurance system among one's aristocratic guests. Holiday housekeeping is also conducted this year on the cooperative plan and is said to be quite as successful in destroying faith in Rickets Due to Unwholesome Food and Impure Air. This is one of the most distressing sights which we so frequently notice in the poorer districts of our large towns. The trouble which is commonly known as "rickets," is mainly due to unwholesome food, bad ventilation and insanitary surroundings generally, and is rarely met with in children who are well cared for. There is great comfort, however, in the knowledge that the deformity can be cured by suitable surgical appliances if steps are taken in time, and before the bones are set in their disfiguring shape. The symptoms are first observed about the age of six months, and may be recognized by slight feverishness, swelling of the joints, and various other symptoms which are not otherwise seen. Where there is any suspicion of rickets a doctor should be consulted without loss of time, as there may be complications, and in the meantime do all you can to remove the cause, by giving a nutritious diet of an easily digested kind, plenty of eggs, if the patient is old enough to take them, and good milk. Give a daily tepid salt bath, rubbing the body with a rather rough towel, and obey implicitly all your doctor's advice. Remember that unless your child is well cared for in all the minor details of everyday life, you are making the task more difficult for the doctor as well as prolonging your child's pain and suffering. Perfect cleanliness, constant fresh air, as much sunshine as is possible, and regular baths are the strongest aids in fighting such a foe. Regarding the medicine which should be given to a child who is afflicted with rickets we will not pretend to advise. Iron and lime enter very largely into its composition. We suggest nourishing food, sanitary surroundings, and perfect obedience to the doctor's rules. CONCERNING DIVORCES. Some of the Danger Periods in Married Life. Somewhat more than sixty-five per cent of the petitions for divorce in England and Wales are presented by those who have been married from five to twenty years. In the early years of married life the proportion of husband to wife petitioners are much the same. But a larger percentage of petitions are brought by wives after twenty years of married life. The highest figures are in relation to marriages of between ten and twenty years' duration, which is obviously the most trying period of married life. Thus in 1898 21.68 per cent of the husbands' petitions and 17.42 of the wives' petitions relate to couples who had lived together between ten and twenty years. During the period of five years and less than ten the percentage of husbands' petitions is 13.78 and of wives' petitions 13.41. In marriages of twenty years and upward the husbands' petitions amount to 5.39 per cent and the wives' petitions to 8.14. In France and Italy divorce is sought mostly by people who have been married five years and less than ten, the percentage of cases being 36.66 and 24.97 respectively. The general figures confirm the impression that divorces are commoner in the case of childless marriages, the proportion varying from 36.91 to 41.24 per cent. It is also noticeable that in the largest proportion of divorce cases the marriage took place in a registry office. Wild Geese. During the season of migration, generally in April and October in Manitoba and the territories, the flight of the wild goose is an almost continuous procession for several days consecutively. The height at which they fly varies according to conditions of the atmosphere. On clear days their V-shaped companies may be seen cleaving space from 200 to 500 yards, or 600 to 1,500 feet above the surface of the prairie, sometimes indeed still higher. In dull and cloudy weather they (like the swallows) fly low, and in spring, or in fact at all seasons, are excellent discriminators of a sown field from one as yet unsown to any kind of grain. They have been known on numerous occasions to alight on plowed land, hand sown to wheat, and remain right there for several days, covering the ground like a snowfall in numbers whose name is legion, with sentinels set at different points, and all busy as bees. They have one end in view, namely, the possession of all the red fyfe in sight. In cases of this kind, fields have to be all resown, or no harvest is the inevitable result. Pauperism in EnglanC. The recent half-yearly statement on pauperism in England and Wales, prepared and printed by the local government board, shows that one person in 30 out of the whole population receives relief out of the public funds. This is bad enough, yet within the memory of some now living one-seventh of the whole population were paupers. One-fourth of the total of 817,000 for the current year are children under 16, and the least creditable part of the report is that only 1-29th of these are boarded out in respectable families, where they may grow into normal and useful life. Few people realize that Wind Cave, near Hot Springs, S. D., is the largest and most beautiful cave in the United States. No one knows how large it really is. Over 100 miles of passages and 3,000 chambers have been explored. And that is only the beginning. There are fourteen different "routes," only three of which have been opened to the public. They are known as the Garden of Eden, Fair Grounds and Bear's Gates. LANDSLIDE TO BRYAN. REPUBLICANS FLOCKING TO THE DEMOCRATIC STANDARD. Wellington, Egan, Davis, Monett, Schurz, Olney, Wilson and Hundreds of Others of Like Prominence Cannot Endorse Imperialism. Not a day passes that the press is not called upon to record the fact that from a dozen to a score of prominent men who voted for McKinley in 1896 have announced their intention of voting for Bryan and Stevenson this year. While there are among these many gold Democrats who voted the Republican ticket four years ago, and who are returning to their former allegiance, there are still hundreds of lifelong Republicans who have consistently supported the Republican ticket, ever since they reached their majority, but who now find it impossible to accept the Republican platform adopted at Philadelphia. The list includes business and professional men, bankers, educators, historians, jurists and the like, and in itself presents a forcible argument in favor of the Kansas City platform and the ticket nominated at the Kansas City convention. The reason given for their conversion by these recent additions to the Democratic ranks are many. The gold Democrats, who left the party four years ago because of its attitude on the money question, declare that this issue is not the paramount one in this campaign; that the questions of imperialism, militarism and trusts are of immensely more consequence to the country, and upon these questions they cannot support the Republican party. Why They Support Bryan. The many voters of foreign birth who are leaving the Republican party give as their reason for doing so that they are opposed to its policy of imperialism. Many of them, also, differ with the present administration in regard to its colonial policy, and believe that the constitution is being ignored in the conduct of the administration towards Cuba and Porto Rico. Still others give as their reason for coming over to Mr. Bryan that they believe, in a crisis, the country would be safer in his hands than in the hands of the men who dictate President McKinley's course of action. In view of the continuance of the war in the Philippines and the complicated condition of affairs in China, they believe that there is grave danger of a crisis to successfully carry this country through which will require a clear head and mature judgment, such as Mr. Bryan possesses. Ex-Secretary of State Olney has written a letter declaring himself for Mr. Bryan and advising all patriotic citizens to support the Democratic candidate. Mr. Olney has always been an expansionist but has not confused the Jeffersonian article with imperialism. His announcement came as a bomb shell into the Republican camp. Great Names in the Van. At the head of the list of converts to Democracy since the Kansas City convention stand such names as Webster Davis, late assistant secretary of the interior under Mr. McKinley; G. L. Wellington, senator from Maryland; Patrick Egan of New York, who was minister to Chile under President Harrison; Thomas Wentworth Higginson of Boston, soldier, historian and litterateur; and a score of others equally as prominent. The Republicans, in their desperation, are announcing conversion after conversion to McKinleyism, but they are unable to present a list containing such a formidable array of names of national reputation as the above. Webster Davis, who resigned his position as assistant secretary of the interior and cast his lot with the Democrats, did so because he had visited South Africa and had become convinced that the attitude of the present administration towards the struggling Boers was un-American and unjust. He had been making speeches for the Democratic ticket ever since he announced his conversion at the Kansas City convention, and his work has been the means of changing hundreds of votes from McKinley to Bryan. Former Lieutenant Governor Jones of New York, who was an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. McKinley in 1896, says in announcing his change of sentiment: "I believe the country would be safer, in the event of any possible crisis, in the hands of Mr. Bryan, a man of unswerving firmness, integrity and ability, than under the control of Mr. McKinley." Frank Monnett, who, as the Republican attorney general of Ohio, enforced the law against trusts so diligently that they sought to bribe him with half a million dollars. He is out for Bryan now. Wells, Fargo & Co.'s President. John J. Valentine, president of the Wells, Fargo & Co. Express, says: "Believing that between the claims of freemen, that all men are entitled to equal political rights, and the dogma of tyranny, that might makes right, there is no middle ground, I favor the endorsement of Bryan and Stevenson and the straight support of the Democratic nominees." Edward Osgood Brown, a prominent Chicago attorney, says: "I believe Bryan honest, able and right on the only real issue of the campaign. I support him because I think opposition to imperialism my first political duty." Sigmund Zeisler, a prominent attorney of Chicago, says: "McKinley's arrogation of unconstitutional powers, his yielding to sinister influences, his constant wabbling, his hypocritical cant, filled me with gradually increasing disgust. Bryan's courageous con- sistency, his manifest sincerity, his brilliant defense of the principles of self-government have filled me with increasing admiration and confidence in his statesmanship." William Birney, son of the old liberty party's dead leader, has declared that he will support Bryan in the present campaign. Great New York Publicists. Bourke Cockran of New York, famous as lawyer and orator, who has been classed as a Republican ever since he made speeches for General B. F. Tracy, the regular Republican candidate for mayor of New York City in 1897. General Robert Avery of New York, a life-long Republican, who says: "My devotion to the principles of the Republican party taught by Lincoln, Seward, Greeley, Summer, Chase and others compels me to vote for Mr. Bryan." P. Tecumseh Sherman of New York, son of the late General W. T. Sherman, who has served a term in the board of alderman as a Republican. He cannot longer affiliate with a party that condones the Alger and other army scandals. Henry F. Keenan, a well known author, who wrote "The Money Makers." L. W. Habercorn, who was chief of the Republican national committee's German bureau in the campaign of 1896, leaves his party on the issue of imperialism. It would require several pages of this paper to publish the names of all prominent Republicans in all parts of the country who are now working for the success of Bryan. ENEMY OF LABOR Theodore Roosevelt now pleads for the vote of the laboring man. On Labor Day he stood upon the same platform from which Mr. Bryan spoke and said nice things to the "horny-handed sons of toil." Mr. Bryan voiced the laboring man's complaint against the Republican doctrine of "Government by Injunction," and in a roundabout way "Teddy" voiced the same sentiments. Of course, Roosevelt is in sympathy with the laboring man. He is opposed to "Government by Injunction"—at least he says he is; he is a candidate for vice-president now, you know. There is, however, food for thought in an article published in the "Review of Reviews" for September, 1896, and written by Theodore Roosevelt, at that time not a candidate for vice-president. In that article, page 295, Mr. Roosevelt said: "The men who object to what they style 'Government by Injunction' are, as regards the essential principles of government, in hearty sympathy with their remote skin-clad ancestors who lived in caves, fought one another with stone-headed axes, and ate the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. "They are interesting as representing a geological survival, but they are dangerous whenever there is the least chance of their making the principles of this ages-buried past living factors in present life. "They are not in sympathy with men of good minds and sound civic morality." A CANDID CONVERT. The administration press has loudly proclaimed the "conversion" of Mr. Chavannes, editor of the Des Moines Globe, a Republican who voted for Mr. Bryan on the money question in 1896. Mr. Chavannes has returned to the fold, however; has been elected a Republican precinct chairman, and his paper advocates the election of McKinley and Roosevelt this year. In an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Mr. Chavannes gives the following candid reasons for supporting McKinley this year: "I am a Republican and I do not have any faith in the Democratic party. I am giving the Republican national ticket my support now for the reason that I believe the election of McKinley means imperialism. By imperialism I mean just what the Democrats mean when they call Republicans imperialists." He is supporting McKinley because he believes in imperialism; wants imperialism; and knows what ticket to support in order to get imperialism. A candidate who is getting converts because of their avowed belief in imperialism can hardly assert hereafter that imperialism is a "bugaboo." Two Silent Statesmen Kansas City Times: The aloofness of Thomas B. Reed and Benjamin Harrison, the two bravest and most distinguished leaders of the Republican party, from participation in the canvass for the re-election of William McKinley cannot fail of having a telling influence upon the action in the forthcoming election of a very large number of voters belonging to that political organization. Imperialism Past and Present Cleveland Plain Dealer: Imperialism first destroyed the Roman republic and then ruined Rome. Imperialism killed two republics in France and is waiting its opportunity to assassinate a third. Imperialism is a menace to the American republic as it was the destroyer of the great republics of ancient and modern Europe. Slow but Steady Squeeze Boston Globe: The price of sugar has been raised almost a cent a pound since May 22, in eight different advances. The only thing that can be said in favor of the trust is that it has apparently tried to break the bad news gently. THE FARMERS AND THE WIRE TRUST. The figures in the following article apply to Indiana as far as acreage and area is concerned. The moral of the article, however, will be readily seen by the farmer, wherever he may be found. In the onward march of events it so happens that farmers prefer wire to wood for fencing their land. In the state of Indiana there are in round numbers say 200,000 farms, and it is estimated that the average farm contains 80 acres and that about one-sixth of these farms, say 33,000, are fenced with wire. There are numerous reasons urged by farmers for preferring wire to wood for fencing. The forests of Indiana in a large measure have disappeared, and timber suitable for rails has become scarce and costly and is too valuable for fencing; it is worth more to the farmers for lumber than it is for fencing material; besides wire, even if wood were plentiful, is more durable than wood. As a result wire has become universally popular for fencing. This fact accounts for the existence of the wire trust, an aggregation of capital about $100,000,000, which has control of about 20 corporations engaged in the manufacture of wire suitable for fencing, exclusive of barbed wire, numbered as to size 9, 12, 13 and 16. For the purpose of easy calculation to show to what extent the wire trust is a beneficiary of the Dingley protective tariff, it is worth while to approximate the amount of wire required to fence a farm of 80 acres, and the cost prior and subject to the operations of the trust. The outside fencing of an 80 acre farm would require 640 rods of fence, and it is estimated by those who know that the inside fencing equal to four lines across the farm would require as much more-total 1,280 rods. Wire fence of a superior quality, four feet high, is manufactured, containing 10 pounds of wire to the rod; hence, 1,280 rods of fence would require 12,800 pounds, of wire. Before the trust advanced prices this wire was sold to manufacturers of fencing at $1.65 per 100 pounds, costing $211.20 to properly fence an eighty acre farm. The trust, taking advantage of the necessities of farmers, advanced the price of wire to $3.95 per 100 pounds an advance of $2.30 per 100 pounds. As a result, manufacturers of wire fence, instead of being able to supply the required wire for an 80 acre farm for $211.20, are required to advance the price to $504.60—a difference of $293.40, which the farmer has to pay or go without wire fencing. Going back to the estimate that one-sixth of the farms of Indiana—33,000, the average being 80 acres—are under wire fence, each requiring 12,800 pounds of wire fencing—it is seen that up to date 424,400,000 pounds of wire have been required to meet the demands of the Indiana farmers. If this wire had been sold at $1.65 per 100 pounds, it would have cost the Indiana farmers $7,002,800. If, however, the wire had cost $3.95 per 100 pounds, the place to which the trust has forced prices, then, in that case, the Indian farmers would have paid $16,663,806—a difference of $9,661,000. What is in store for Indiana farmers provided the wire trust continues its plundering policy? There are, according to the estimate made, 166,000 80 acre farms in Indiana, which under favorable conditions would have wire fences. It has been shown that to fully fence an 80 acre farm 12,800 pounds of wire are required; hence to fence 166,000 such farms would require 2,125,800,000 pounds of wire. If this wire could be furnished at $1.65 per 100 pounds, which was the price prior to the advance made by the trust, it would cost the farmers of Indiana the sum of $35,075,700, but under the advance made by the trust to $3.95 per 100 pounds, the cost would be $83,969,100 an increase of $58,893,400. 一 The basis of the calculations is approximately correct and demonstrates the purpose of the trust to rob the farmers of Indiana, who choose to substitute wire for wood in fencing their farms. The result has been, as has been stated, to paralyze the wire fencing industry. Farmers of Indiana have decided that they will not pay the trust its robber prices, and are discussing the enormous inuity of the Republican tariff which fosters such plundering corporations as the wire trust. They say that a law which enables a combination of capital to perpetrate such colossal robberies of the farmers as the wire trust has inflicted upon them ought to be abolished, and since this cannot be accomplished while the Republican party is in power, a change in party control of the government has become an absolute necessity. The Burden We Bought New York Herald: We certainly did the handsome thing by Spain in the late war. We paid her $20,000,000 in cash, then unstrapped the burden from her shoulders that she had been staggering under, strapped it on our own shoulders and are now doing a little staggering on our own account. We played the part of a very accommodating Don Quixote in that affair. CHRISTIAN HEALER HAS AS TONISHED JAILERS. Has Fasted for Thirty-Seven Days and Is Still Strong and Confident—Laugh at the "Ignorance of the World—Claims to Be Gifted with Divine Power Here is a picture of Dr. Henry Reuel Wallace, who is now incarcerated in a Chicago jail as a defendant in a breach of promise case. He claims to be observing an ordinance of God, and fasting for forty days. Up to date he has passed into his thirty-seventh day, subsisting solely on coffee, sugar and water and salt. The doctor began his strange trial in good health, and has continued in the same condition. P DR. R. H. WALLACE fact, it is said by Cook County Jail Physician Francis W. McNamara that the doctor is even in better health than when he began his self-imposed task. He has fallen away somewhat in weight, going from 150 pounds to 125, and losing about six inches of girth. But his health has kept excellent. The endurance of the doctor is looked upon as remarkable by the jail officials, who, despite a sharp watch constantly kept up, have failed to discover the prisoner partaking of any food except such as has been named above. The doctor says he has absolutely touched nothing in the way of food but sugar and salt dissolved in water and coffee, except what angels bring him at night. The doctor claims to be gifted with divine power and that he is fed by angels who bring him food at night and sing to him. ENGLISH DOCTOR'S FEES Larger than in Other Countries and Fortunes Have Been Amassed. Perhaps the physicians of England receive larger fees than their brother practitioners in other countries of the world. The greatest medical feature of the century, as might have been expected, has fallen to the lot of Sir William Jenner, who died a short time ago at the ripe old age of 83 years. Sir William, who was always liberal in his expenditure and his charities, left a personal estate of the value of £395,000. In his palmiest days Sir William more than once made £2,000 by a single week's work, although naturally his average earnings were much below this amount. He himself, however, estimated his aggregate professional income for the last 30 years of his active life at over half a million pounds sterling, and yet this king of doctors has been known to travel to a distant suburb and take a two-guinea fee with a smile and a "Thank you." Some of the largest recorded medical fees, however, fall to his lot and he is said to have received £20,000 for his attendance on the late prince consort and the Prince of Wales during their two serious, and in one case fatal, illnesses. Sir William Gull, who had nine years less of life, amassed £344,023, the second medical fortune of the century; Sir Andrew Clark, with a still shorter life, accumulated £146,746. It is significant that some of the medical men who have reapted the largest harvests have been proprietors of private asylums. Dr. Paul, proprietor of the Camberwell House Private Asylum, amassed over £100,000, and Dr. William Wood, of the Priory Private Asylum, Roehampton, left £67,000. Fifteen physicians who have died quite recently left behind them an aggregate fortune of £2,000,000, or the gratifying average savings of £133,000. Sir Morell Mackenzie is said to have received £20,000 for attending Frederick the Noble, but at his death left only £21,953. These fortunes become intelligible when we consider that a fashionable physician frequently earns from 100 to 200 guineas in a couple of hours' morning consultations, and that there are many days on which his fees amount to 300 guineas or more. An ordinary fee for attending a patient at a distance of 200 miles from town would be 250 guineas, and for an operation at this distance a fashionable surgeon would get considerably more.—Utica Glob. e Tapestries. The taste for tapestry is the craze of the hour. They are used for every purpose under the sun that furnishings can afford. Seats and backs of chairs, composed of small squares, reproducing in text stitch the paintings of Lanier and Wouverman, are the latest for drawing rooms, with curtains and carpets to match. A new plan in library, dining room or living rooms decorations shows a straight band of tapestry on either side, framing the window, while across the top, framing these, there is a straight cross band of Henry II. style. They are lined in some heavy textile to match the color scheme of the room. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway will sell regular Homesekers' Encursion tickets to all points in South Dakota, at one fare plus $2 for the round trip, on September 18 and October 2, 1800. This will enable parties to visit the Corn Belt Exposition to be held in Mitchell, S. D., September 26 to October 4, 1900, inclusive. This exposition is held to demonstrate the great agricultural resources, wealth and possibilities of this thriving state. The exposition is held in a gorgeously decorated corn palace which for beauty can hardly be excelled anywhere by a building of a temporary nature. There are thousands of acres of cheap lands left in South Dakota that will, under the present conditions in that state, rapidly increase in price, and the holding of this corn palace with its many attractions, that both amuse and instruct, should be an opportunity that all land and investment seekers should embrace. For further information apply to any ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, or address Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. The police of Jersey City recently captured an illicit still and a quantity of whisky in a cellar. There were two stills, in fact, and two furnaces in full blast. It is not quite so romantic to make whisky in a dirty cellar in New Jersey as among the mountains of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, or in the fastnesses of Tennessee, but the whisky in Jersey City probably brings a higher profit as well as a readier sale. The stuff captured was of the genuine Jersey lightning description. Beatrice Harraden, while trying to regain lost health on her California ranch, has taken up carpentry, and has become skilled in the use of the saw and plane. She has become also proficient as an orchardist and in other work upon her grounds. The parasite which causes elephantiasis has been discovered in mosquitoes. 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His father was a school teacher and settled in St. Louis. Major Rassieur has made that city his home since. He is a lawyer by profession, and for years was judge of the probate court of St. Louis county. Major Rassieur was one of the youngest soldiers in the Union army. When he enlisted as a private, May 7, 1861, he was but a few days over 17 years old. He went into the service for three months under the first call for troops issued by President Lincoln, and became a member of Company B, First Regiment, Missouri volunteer infantry. Aug. 20, 1861, young Rassieur was mustered out at the expiration of his term of service. He had been promoted from a private to orderly sergeant. Sept. 7, 1861. LEO RA GOES WITH Like other members of her distinguished family, Princess Marguerite of Orleans is of an adventurous disposition. Her husband, Col. de MacMahon, duke of Magenta, has been ordered on active duty in China and, though that country is not now looked upon as a very safe place for women and children, she has decided to accom- . PRINCESS MARGUERITE. pany him on his dangerous mission. Her brother, Prince Henri, is a noted explorer, having traveled extensively in Tibet, Tonquin, China, India, Madagascar, central Africa and Abyssinia. His daring and energy are beyond question and Marguerite seems to possess a fair share of the same qualities. She was born in 1869. Her husband comes from an ancient Irish family, which was naturalized in France more than 200 years ago. He is a trusted officer in the French army. The Ways of Some. One of these good fellows good for nothing-will draw his salary on Saturday, says the New York Press, discussing the treating habit, and run to the bank with it before he can be tempted, depositing all but barely enough to maintain him through the day. He imagines himself then safe from attack. Honor forbids him to drink at the expense of others without returning the favor, and, being denud- ```markdown ``` he re-enlisted for three years. This time he became a member of Company E of the First Regiment Missouri volunteer infantry, and was soon elected first lieutenant. April 20, 1862, he was mustered out on account of illness. During his service he served as past adjutant for some time at Warsaw, Mo., under order of General John C. Fremont. When he recovered his strength, Maj. Rassieur joined his command and saw service under Gen. Grant. In September, 1864, he was elected captain of his company, and a year later was mustered out of the service in Texas, with his company. At that time he had a commission as major. Returning to St. Louis, Maj. Rassieur became a student of the law. April 1, 1867, he was admitted to the bar of Missouri. He practiced his profession successfully and came to be known as one of the leading lawyers of St. Louis. He was elected probate judge some years ago, and held the position until recently. In 1893 he was elected judge advocate general of the Grand Army of the Republic. ASSIEUR H HUSBAND ed of change, how can he return it? In this inevitable way—by drinking a few rounds with his pals, then, spurred on by evil generosity and false manliness, drawing a check for the proprietor of the bar to cash. The funds thus acquired are speedily exhausted, leaving our hero as before. On Monday another check is drawn at another bar, on Tuesday a third at still another bar, and so on through the week. If I had my way no barkeeper should be permitted to cash a check. It is this cashing of checks that leads to perdition. But barkeepers are the best fellows in the world because they do always cash checks for customers, whether known to them personally or not. Social Sets' Whereabouts. Of the 6,000 and odd New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and Baltimore families who have given their addresses to the Social Register, 3,150 are located inland and 1,683 are at the seashore. Of these latter 325 are at Newport and 221 at Bar Harbor and vicinity. Six hundred and fifty families are on Long Island, of which the Hampstons claim 175, and 197 are on the Connecticut shore of the sound. Since May 1 there have been 204 marriages, a decrease as compared to last year, and seventy-five men and sixty-three women have died. Five hundred and sixty-six families have gone abroad and may be reached through their foreign bankers. This is a slight decrease as compared to last year, notwithstanding the attractions of the exposition.—Chicago Tribune. Golf and Pacific Cable. The statement is made in all seriousness that the golf fad may postpone, if not prevent, the laying of the proposed Pacific cable. The explanation is this: The great demand for golf balls has created a gutta percha famine. The supply is limited, the market has been cornered and the price has gone up so high that the promoters of the new submarine cable are unable to buy what they would need for insulating purposes. It is claimed that the gutta percha used for golf balls in the course of a year would furnish insulating material for a cable across the Atlantic. Every woman has a story about a man whose wife died and his hair turned gray in a single night. PRESIDENT TYLER'S DAUGHTER, A Venerable Lady of Noble Lineage Speaks a Timely Word. WHITE HOUSE. WASHINGTON. D. C. "One of the most aristocratic faces so daughter of President Tyler. She has passingly youthful complexion. Personally she out of the European courts," so says the No Sidelights at the Capital." The following is a letter from this inter Washington. D. C., to the Peruna Medicina great catarrh tonic, Peruna. Mrs. Semple Gentlemen—"Your Peruna is my friends have used it with the commend it to all who need a so remarkable medicine." Sincerely Peruna is a specific to counteract the detitled "Summer Catarrh" sent by the Peruna. "One of the most aristocratic faces seen in Washington is that of Mrs. Sample daughter of President Tyler. She has passed her 80th year and yet retains an exceedingly youthful complexion. Personally she is charming, and impresses one as stepping out of the European courts," so says the National Magazine, under the heading "Social Sidelights at the Capital." The following is a letter from this interesting lady, written from the Louise House, Washington, D. C., to the Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, concerning their great catarrh tonic, Peruna. Mrs. Sample writes: Gentlemen—"Your Peruna is a most valuable remedy. Many of my friends have used it with the most flattering results and I can commend it to all who need a strengthening tonic. 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Significant Intuition It devolves upon the higher criticism, having denied that all flesh is grass, to explain the intuitional conviction of the summer girl that cows will bite.—Detroit Journal. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! $8,000,000 acres new lands to open to settlement. Subscribe for THE KIOWA CHIEF, devoted to information about these lands. One year, $1.00. Single copy, 10c. Subscribers receive free illustrated book on Okiahoma. Morgan's Manual (210 page Settlers' Guide) with nine sectional map, $1.00. Map 25c. All above, $1.75. Address, Dick T. Morgan, Perry, O. T. For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.—Carlyle, "Sir Walter Scott." Nell—"Mad at him? Why, he wrote a lovely poem to her." Belle—"Yes; but she never wrote it. When she saw the title of it she tore the whole thing up in a fit of anger. You see, he called it, "Lines on Mabel's Face." Snakes of all sizes abound in the Sumatra jungles. Monster lizards are there, measuring six and seven feet. The house lizard is about twelve inches long and makes a noise like the bark of a toy terrier. The olive has been cultivated in the regions of the Mediterranean coast from time immemorial. Olive oil there takes the place of butter. All goods are alike to PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, as they color all fibers at one beiling. Moderation is the silken thread running through the pearl chain of all the virtues. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—W.M. O. ENDELEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. It is said that salmon, pike and gold-fish are the only fish that never sleep. FIVB Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Klins's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. E. H. KLINE, Ltd., 831 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 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When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. I haven't much faith in mankind and I have less in miself. Broken hearts are often the eazyest kind ov kuockery to mend. I have seen folks who were too rekless even for fortune to help. Advice is a drug on the market; the supply haz killed the demand. Fortune never cheats a wize man; he enjoys her smiles and lafts at her frowns. Begging iz very unprofitable until it bekums a trade, then it bekums infamous. A reputashun for being poor iz a grate deal wuss for a man to kontend against than poverty itself. Thare iz none so safe on the top round ov the ladder az thoze who hav reached it from the very bottom. In mi writings I hav allways had two objekts in view—one waz to do sum good, and the other to git mi pay for it. Yung man, if yu want to make a philanthropisst ov yurself, don't studdy human natur too cluss, but pitch right in. Thare iz nothing that will reduce most men to their fighting weight mutch quicker than to call them "a liar." Good luk iz a good thing to grease a suckcess with, but to sustane it there has got to be sum kind ov a bakbone to it. If I couldn't hav only just so mutch virtew, I would take it all in thankfullness, and trust to Providence to see me through. If it wuz not for our vanity and self luv, we should never be enny better satisfied with ourselves than we are with our nabors. Mi dear nephew, if yu expect to pass thru this life with suckcess, yu hav to keep both eyes open, both ears open, and both hands open reddy to grab. Did yu ever see a man who had the gout bad from drinking whisky and eating tarrapins but what waz allwuss grunting about his rumatiz and the kussid east winds? FUNNYGRAPHS. She—"Have they decided what the national-air is?" He—"Oh, yes." She—"What is it?" He—"Millionaire." Nell—"Mad at him? Why, he wrote a lovely poem to her." Belle—"Yes; but she never wrote it. When she saw the title of it she tore the whole thing up in a fit of anger. You see, he called it, "Lines on Mabel's Face." "How about the loan of one hundred marks that you were to have returned to me six weeks ago?" "I wanted to return it then, sir, but you had just met with a bereavement. How could I break in on your deep grief with so cheerful an announcement?" Mrs. Jackson—"Speakin' ob your husban', Mrs. Wimple, did he evah convey to you dat he done propose to me befo' he married you?" Mrs. Wimple—"'Deed he didn't tell me! He was so ashamed ob some ob de fings he did dat I nevah insisted upon a confession." "You seem to have quite a sum in your bank, Bobby," remarked the visitor. "Yes," said Bobby, "ma gives me sixpence a week for coming to the table with clean hands and face." "Sixpence is a good deal of money for a little boy to earn every week." "Yes, ma'am, but I have to do a large amount of work for it." A Yorkshire vicar recently received the following note from one of his parishioners: "This is to give you notice that I and Miss Jemima Arabella Brearley are coming to your church on Saturday afternoon next to undergo the operation of matrimony at your hands. Please to be prompt, as the cab is hired by the hour. Forewarned is forearmed." HIGH LIGHTS. Money makes the mare go, but it can't always make the automobile go. Man lives years contemplating his numerous fatal ailments, and then dies of something else. It is hard to climb over fat people in a street car; it is also hard to have them climb over you. Look people in the face when you talk to them. It is also well to forbear pounding them in the back. Exclusive people are cranky or stupid; it takes attrition with humanity to keep the mind alert and sane. For real summer rest don't travel with a companion who won't let you act grumpy when you feel like it. One woman argues that because things haven't happened they never will, and another woman argues that because things haven't happened they ought to.—Chicago Record. Brigadier General Bell, the new provost marshal of Manila, began his career as soldier in 1862 as a lieutenant in the Eighty-sixth Ohio volunteers. For his courageous bearing during the battle of the Wilderness he received the brevet of captain and he was breveted major for "gallant and meritorious services" in the battle of Ream's Station. After the civil war he became an officer in the regular army Gen. Bell performed distinguished service in the war with Spain. 9 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS. Whisky is an accurate senses taker. A woman's quest is usually a conquest. A society belle seldom has a ringing laugh. When in doubt it is a good plan to tell the truth. Gloves are unsalable when they are kept on hand. A man is made either great or small by his own will. Close quarters are to be found in a stingy man's dollar. A policeman's club contains enough lumber to floor a man. A glazier must have his glass before beginning his day's work. The most tireless followers of fortune are a man's creditors. Children and fools are very apt to seize upon unanswerable arguments. Sometime circumstances make a man and sometimes it's a clean shirt. A fool can make good resolutions, but it takes a wise man to keep them. The average politician will promise anything one minute and forget it the next. Some people are chronic liars, but the dumb man can always keep his word. Some men are so full of human nature that they have no room for principle. When women cry it gives them time to think of some other excuse besides because. Within a year after a man dies, his widow concludes that she loved him, Oh, so dearly. It is useless to argue with some people, but lawbreakers are always open to conviction. When a man's temperature reaches the limit he is either hot-headed or has cold feet. Occasionally a man gets married because he wants some one around to blame things on. Mere trifles are responsible for more happiness and more misery than great happenings. The effeminate young man and the manly young woman are more to be pitied than censured. As long as a man is of a forgiving disposition a woman doesn't care whether he pays his debts or not. A girl should learn to bake bread before she learns to paint. It is better to tickle the palate than to tickle the palette. If wives didn't insist on their husbands working the lawn mower overtime there might be fewer grass widows. It is said that dogs speak with their tails. If this be true a short-tailed dog must be a stump speaker.—Chicago News. PRODUCTS OF REFLECTION. The man who patronizes saloons often finds himself in a tight place. One-half the world may not know how the other half lives—but it has suspicions. Twenty-four grains make one pennyweight—but one dram makes fifteen pennies go. Don't imagine a man belongs to the vegetable kingdom because he is a venerable sage. Any woman can mother a dog or she can mother a baby, but no woman can mother both. It would never do to abolish marriages, because without them there wouldn't be any divorces. If it were a question of going without jewels or clothes some women would get awfully sunburned. If there is anything in the habit, why don't girls look under the hammock like they do under the bed? Don't wait for great opportunities. A long, continuous walk will get you over more ground than a short run. If at the age of 40 a man meets a woman he thought he loved at 20 he is apt to believe that luck was with him after all. A woman never can tell whether she hates most to be sunburned around her neck in summer or chapped around her stockings in winter. An old bachelor says the only difference between a wedding and a hanging is that with the former a man's troubles begin and with the latter they end. LITERARY PRESCRIPTIONS. For clearness read Macaulay. For action read Homer and Scott. For vivacity read Stevenson and Kipling. For conciseness read Bacon and Pope. For sublimity of conception read Milton. For elegance read Virgil, Milton and Arnold. For imagination read Shakespeare and Job. For simplicity read Burns, Whittier, Bunyan. For common sense read Benjamin Franklin. For smoothness read Addison and Hawthorne. For interest in common things read Jane Austen. For humor read Chaucer, Cervantes, and Mark Twain. For choice of individual words read Keats, Tennyson, Emerson. For the study of human nature read Shakespeare and George Eliot. For loving and patient observation of nature read Thoreau and Walton. Kansas City Star. 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, 59 S. Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO. TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE OHICAGO. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2025. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. Office Hours: Phone 818 Wert 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 6 to 8:30 p. m. 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. 8012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago Mrs. J. W. Ward. Thorough lessons given upon the piano at Studio or privately. Terms reasonable. 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 presenta GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. 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, 1898. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax Dear Sir—I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform princi- pcies. 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, 1899. 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 legal and true friends of Democracy. Respectfully, Carter M. Harrison. Telephone Yards 758. Established 1877 JOHN J. DUNN, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. THOS. McINERNEY & SONS, Embalming a Specialty, UNDERTAKING and LIVERY Open Day and Night...Tel. Yards 886. 5050 STATE ST., Residence: 4635 Wallace St., CHICAGO. Estimates and Specifications Furnished ... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD. Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 814. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. 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The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One year .....$2.00 Six months .....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5040 Armour avenue. Chicago. Julius F. Taylor Editor and Publisher. Mrs. Julius F. Taylor, Assistant Editor. (Entered at the postoffice, Chicago, Ill., as second class matter.) WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT OZONIZED OX MARROW THE ORIGINAL—COPYRIGHTED. This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. 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