The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. V. OUR TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS. THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE NEGRO. XXXIII THE LILY WHITE REPUBLICANS. For many years there has been an effort upon the part of the white Republicans throughout the Southern states to form a Lily White party and its aim and object is to ignore and prevent the Negro from controlling the Republican party. There is no desire on our part to distort the truth or to make any misrepresentations respecting the formation of the Lily White Republican party therefore we desire to remind the Negro by calling his attention to the following facts, that the Republican state convention of Tennessee convened in the city of Nashville on the 24th day of August, 1894, that sixty-five Lily White Republicans, who were delegates withdrew from the convention hall and refused to participate in any of its proceedings, because they did not care to come in contact with the Negro delegates. The lily white leaders of the Republican party of Louisiana, of Georgia, of Florida, and of all the other southern states have resorted to similar tactics. The lily white Republicans of Boxboro, North Carolina, met in convention recently, but no Negro was permitted to enter the hall and the lily white Republicans drove the colored Republicans away from the hall with clubs. On or about the middle of August, 1894, the Hon. John Sherman wrote a letter to one of the leaders of the lily white party of Texas, and Senator Sherman urged the dough-faced leader of his party to devise some plan or scheme to resecure it from Negro domination. If there be those who are inclined to regard this statement as being nothing more than a huge joke we would most respectfully request them to peruse the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of the above mentioned date then perhaps they will be unwilling to arrive at the conclusion that we are endeavoring to misrepresent John Sherman. On April 19, 1896, the members of the Lily White Republican Party of Texas assembled at Houston to select delegates to the Republican National convention and the three hundred Lily White delegates were in favor of adhering to the advice, which had been imparted to Mr. A. B. Norton by John Sherman and the result was that the Lily White Republicans would not allow the Negro to mingle with them nor to participate in the deliberations of the convention. We all know how President Ben. Harrison was dominated over and controlled by the Lily White wing of his party, he was impertuned by all the leading Colored Republicans to appoint or bestow one of the United States district judgeships upon one of our worthy Negro atorneys; but the great constitutional lawyer paid no attention to their request or applications and he did not hesitate in letting them and their friends know that in his opinion no Negro was sufficiently qualified to become United States district judge. President Harrison had the distinguished honor of selecting two hundred and eight commissioners to represent the various states throughout the union at the great Columbian Exposition, which threw open its gates May 1, 1893; but be it said to his everlasting discredit he absolutely refused to name or appoint one Negro as commissioner, and by pursuing such a course he wilfully and deliberately ignored the millions of Negroes residing in all parts of this country, who were entitled to at least ten or twenty commissioners. In speaking of the insults which President Harrison had heaped upon the heads of all representative Negroes, The Chicago Herald, which was at that time the greatest Democratic newspaper in the West, said in its issue of Sunday, August 29, 1893, "That a Colored man, Douglass, Langston, or Bruce should have been named a national commissioner, will be admitted by fair-minded Americans of all political parties. That President Harri- son should have omitted to name one of them is apparently inexplicable. That the race has made extraordinary progress will also be conceded." Notwithstanding the course which President Harrison pursued towards the Negro, when he was renominated for the Presidency, the Hons. John R. Lynch, Richard T. Greener, George L. Knox, and numerous other would be leaders of more or less prominence denounced all honest and courageous Negroes, as being traitors, Judas-Iscariots and enemies of the race, who possessed manhood enough to utterly and absolutely refuse to continue to lick the hand which had smote the race. No one has any greater respect for Messrs. Lynch, Knox, Greener, and all the other gentlemen, who claim to be the great and only leaders of the Negro than us. But according to our thinking all of these gentlemen have proven themselves to be the real enemies and traitors of the Negro for they have betrayed and bartered away the rights of the entire race, body and soul, with few exceptions for a mess of pottage. (To be continued.) THE DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE OF ILLINOIS Every politician be he Democratic or Republican residing within the bounds of this state agrees that Illinois is the battle ground in the present political contest, that every vote,black or white, will be worth its weight in gold before it is over, that whichever way Illinois goes, so goes the Union. Therefore one would naturally think that the leaders of the Democratic party of this state would leave no stone unturned in an honest effort to secure every lawful vote regardless of the nationality or the complexion of its owner. But in all sincerity we very much regret to say, that such is not the case, however, for there are more than thirty-thousand Colored voters here in Illinois, and so far no effort whatever has been made on the part of the State committee to induce one Negro to vote for Colonel William J. Bryan. Some two months ago the writer endeavored to impress it upon the minds of those who control the party machinery of the State that many Colored men would support the entire Democratic ticket if there was any disposition on the part of the committee to encourage them to do so. The committee were reminded of the fact that the leaders of the Republican party did not feel so sure of capturing all the Colored voters at the coming election for the simple reason that they had established a literary bureau at the Great Northern Hotel away back in June, and through this literary bureau, they, the Republicans, were succeeding inflooding the State from one end to the other with literature prepared by the best and ablest Negro writers. With no other object in view than to poison the minds of the Negroes against the Democratic party, at that time and on several other occasions since that time we have stated to the worthy and able chairman of the state committee, and other gentlemen connected with it, that it, was our honest opinion that something ought to be done in the way of sending a Colored Democratic newspaper and other Democratic literature to all the Colored voters throughout the State, that good results would follow from work of this kind, that it would enable the Colored People to read and discuss both sides of the burning questions of the campaign, and that they would come to the conclusion that the managers of the Party had not forgotten them in the way of presenting them with a little newspaper and other reading matter. To all our entreaties and suggestions in this direction the reply came from the committee that it had no money to expend in such channels that all the Colored people are Republicans and that it is impossible to change them. Those members of the committee, who make such statements are away behind the times and they should withdraw from the public for a year or so in order to get posted. Now, what we mean to say is this, that if it is absolutely necessary to establish a literary bureau for the Germans, for the purpose of tickling their fancy, and to get them to vote the Democratic ticket, and if it is really necessary to send tons and tons of literature and newspapers to French voters and all other nationalities and expend thousands and thousands of dollars with them for the purpose of keeping them in line for Democracy. Then it seems to us, that it would not be a bad idea for the committee to spend a few thousand dollars in helping to educate the Colored voters along political lines. To illustrate suppose with a little effort and work among the Colored voters that the Democratic party received 5,000 of these votes that would mean a loss of ten thousand votes to the republican party and tenthousand votes may transfer Illinois from the Republican column to the Democratic column, which possibly would be the means of electing Col. Bryan President of the United States. For it hath been said by someone that if the Colonel is elect- M. J. BUT President of the 30 Ward Democratic Senate from the Fourth Senatorial Dis [Name] M. J. BUTLER, ESQ President of the 30 Ward Democratic Club, who will be elected to the State Senate from the Fourth Senatorial District. ed it will have to be accomplished by the aid of the Negro vote and if he is defeated it will be done by the Negro vote. So it behooves the committee to wake up and cease from going to sleep in broad day light, only a few days ago. Mr. C. W. Furguson of Rockford, Ill., informed us that one night last week five respectable Colored men walked into the Democratic headquarters in that city, and called for Bryan buttons. The day after Samuel Alschuler was nominated for governor, twenty to thirty Colored men residing in his city pinned his buttons on the lapels of their coats and are still wearing them and they are doing the same thing in other parts of the state, and more of them would do so if the committee manifested the slightest disposition that it desired or wanted the Negro vote. The Democratic state committees of West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, New York and of the other doubtful states are alive and fully comprehend the true political situation—they are doing everything in their power to convince and persuade the Negro, that it is to his interest to assist in helping to hold aloft the banner of the New Democracy. In the city of Greater New York Richard Croker, whose is a practical politician has devied the nine thousand Colored voters of that city right in the middle, and he can always put his hand on over four thousand colored Democrats. He is spending money with them right and left, and he believes a ballot cast by a black man will weigh as much as a ballot cast by a white man. He is having a newspaper published in the interest of Negro Democracy and it is being scattered broadcast among the Colored voters througout the empire state. Mr. committeemen of Illinois are your gentlemen playing politics for fun or in dead earnest? Attorney P. J. O'Keefee, Ashland blk, failed to receive the nomination for states attorney last June, but he always has enough money on hand to pay his subscription to The Broad Ax. We pause for a reply. COL. W. J. BRYAN'S TRIUMPHAL TOUR The past week Col Wm. J. Bryan, who will be elected President of the United States, in spite of Mark Hanna, the Money Power, the great trusts, and the monster and Hydra-headed monopolies, has been making a grand tour through South and North Dakota and Minnesota, and he has been warmly received by the vast majority of the people throughout the Northwest which proves that that he is still near to the hearts of the plain people, who, in turn, idolize him for his true Americanism. While the Colonel was engaged in addressing by far the largest number of people which has ever assembled in Fargo, N. D., last Saturday, some one in the crowd asked: "How about the Negroes in the South?" The Colonel replied to his questioner in the following manner: "The Republicans never talk on LER, ESQ. Club, who will be elected to the State trict. the race question until election. I am glad you spoke of the Negroes. If you look at the Sulu treaty you will not have a chance to talk about the Negroes during the entire campaign. I do not know of a purer piece of hypocrisy than that of the Republican who defends the Sulu treaty and condemns the amendments in the Southern states. Under the Sulu treaty the United States flag floats over the Sultan's harem, and under section 10 is provides that the Sulu slaves can buy their liberty at the market value when they earn enough to do so, working at nothing—a day. If you find there is a race question in this country that will require all the intelligence of the people, North and South, to solve, is that a reason why you should drag in another race question. Is it a reason why you should bring into this country 8,000,-000 brown people to share in the destiny of this country. There is not a Republican in a position to defend the Negro question. The Republican party has ridden the Negro for years to the doors of the capitol and then hitched and went in to hold office. The Negro vote has bestowed President after President on the Republican party and the party has given them janitors in return. You never hear a Republican talking of a Negro only at election time. Col. Bryan has very tersly sumed up the position which the Republican party has for many years assumed in reference to the Negro. Mr. M. P. Byrne is kept very busy these days in looking after the Republican politicians in his end of the 30th ward for Mr. Byrne does not want the Republicans to run in a lot of floaters on Registration days and he is right in keeping both eyes and ears open. Alexander J. Jones is a cheap-skate and kicker, he has refused to pay his assessment to the Co. Central Committee, and its his intention of conducting his own campaign on a cheap scale. The committee ought to have known that Alex. Jones is all hog and as cold-blooded as a rattlesnake. He aspires to be a leader of the Democratic party, but he says to hell with Afro-American newspapers published in the interest of Democracy. ```markdown ``` Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of the Broad Ax: Dear Sir—I received several copies of your paper this week and I am pleased with the Broad Ax, and its politics, also its motto. Hew to the line. Your paper is representing a party that is for the masses, not for the classes. William J. Bryan represents the same principles that Lincoln represented. The Broad Ax is representing a party that is a friend to the Colored man and will be a greater friend to them if the Colored voters will show the Democratic party, that we are their friends by casting our vote for William J. Bryan on November the 6th. There is a greater political awakening with the Colored voters this year against the republican party than was ever known before which means a defeat for the Rep. party, because the Negro holds the balance of power in that party notwithstanding the report sent out by Rev. Jordan Chavis, who is drawing pay from the State Campaign Committee by trying to make some of the republican bosses believe that all the Colored voters are in line for the republican party, there is no one man that knows the hearts of all the Colored people, nor the politicila belief the notice sent out by the man Jordan Chavis to the Warren County voters to fall in line is not a success by any means, no, reverend, it don't work now like unto ye olden times. There is too much education with the Colored voters to work the "We freed you." The Broad Ax is doing a grand work for the cause of Democracy; let the good work go on. G. W. JONES. OPENING DAY OF THE PHYLLIS WHEATLY CLUB. The Phyllis Wheatly club re-opened Wednesday and entered upon its fifth year of club work. A large number of women were present, including many visitors. President L. A. Davis called the meeting to order. The Lords Prayer was chanted led by Mrs. Eliza Harris. After the roll call the officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Mrs. L. A. Davis, re-elected by acclamation; vice-president, Mrs. Ida Taylor; secretary, Mrs. A. Emogene Taylor; assistant secretary, Miss Effie B. McQuan; corresponding secretary, Mrs. McCracken, treasurer, Mrs. S. J. Hart; chaplain, Mrs. Laura Johnson. President Davis made extensive remarks on the work the club will take up for the year which includes several new features. She urged upon the members to become interested in the sewing school. The splendid program which has been arranged for the season was dwelt upon at length. The Broad Ax was highly commended for devoting so much space to the doings of the club and the members were entreated to give it their loyal support. President Davis' remarks and explanations of the work for the year were well received. The exercises closed with a short talk by Mrs. Butler, of Glencoe, who represents the Julia Gaston club of Evenston. The Home Section will have charge of the program next Wednesday, Oct. 10th, subject, "Ventilation," by Dr. Joseph Jeffrey, Ladies are requested to meet promptly at 2 p. m. A good attendance is desired. Last Saturday night Burke Cockran, the noted and eloquent orator of New York, spoke at the Coliseum, on the great questions or issues of the present campaign, and it was without doubt the greatest political meeting ever held in this city. The Coliseum holds no less than eighteen to twenty thousand people, but every seat in that vast building was occupied and many thousands were unable to get on the inside and so eager were the people to hear Mr. Cockran that the policemen had a hard task in preventing them from breaking in the doors after they had been closed. The Cook County Democracy. The Colored Democrats, headed by a fine brass band; and The Young Democracy, turned out and marched to the Coliseum. Something like four hundred Colored Democrats were not afraid to show their true colors. Mr. Cockran made the greatest effort of his life to present in clear language the policy of Imperialism and those other questions which will have to be grappled with for weal or for woe by the American people. CHIPS. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Wright, formerly of Kansas City, are now located in this city, at 5133 Armour avenue. Dr. Austin M. Curtis, surgeon-in-chief of Freedmen's Hospital, is visiting Dr. George C. Hall. He is accompanied by his wife and baby. John H. Cross, dealer in imported and domestic wines, liquors and cigars, 222 West Lake street continues to do a flourishing business. Walter T. Stanton, Pat J. Donohoe and Mike Blackwell were chosen as delegates by the 30th ward Democratic organization to attend the meeting of the Democratic clubs at Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Delpha Wallace and Mrs. Lizzie Stafford, who spent five weeks of the summer in this city as the guests of Mrs. Emma Stewart, 3534 State street, returned to their home in Sprinfield, Ohio. last Saturday. The Henry George-Bryan and Stevenson club have opened up headquarters at 83 East Randolph street, and able speakers will be present to address the meetings, which will be held every day from 12 o'clock to 1:30 and in the evening from 8 to 10. C. S. Richardson, of Chicago Heights, candidate for county commissioner, has many warm friends among the Colored people around Chicago Heights who will vote for him. Mr. Richardson is a clean business man, and we believe he will be elected. Mrs. Jacob Harris, who for a long time lead the choir at Quinn Chapel, has composed a very fine song on Col. Wm. J. Bryan. Mrs. Harris is very bright and The Broad Ax would like to see her win the one hundred dollar prize, which is being offered by the Chicago American for the best song on Col. Bryan. City Sealer James A. Quinn continues to put forth his best efforts to hunt down and bring to justice all the short weight coal dealers, and dealers in other commodities who have been swindling and defrauding the people by holding out some of the goods which they had brought and paid for. The short weight fellows fear Mr. Quinn for he is onto his job. All the Coiored Republican under strappers like to read The Broad Ax, providing they can stand behind the door out of the way of their white political masters for they secretly admire The Broad Ax for telling the truth in relation to the G. O. P. of Slavery and hypocrisy, which is lead by Mark Hanna, the hybrid whose is in league with the devil and his imps. Wednesday evening, Oct. 10, a social and literary entertainment will take place at the home of Mrs. Cooper, widow of the late Tim Cooper, 4509 Dearborn street, for the purpose of raising the mortgage on her property. Mrs. Cooper is a deserving woman and this entertainment should be well patronized. Tickets, including supper, which will consist of fried chicken, oyster stew and ice cream, 25 cents. Doctors George C. Hall. A. M. Curtis, D. H. Williams, A. W. Williams, C. E. Bentley, and A. L. Smith, left the city last Monday for St. Louis, to attend the Fourth meeting of the American Association of Colored Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists and Pharmacists, which was held in that city last Tuesday and Wednesday. The first five doctors named read papers before the convention. Hon. Edward O. Brown, who stands at the head of his profession, the law, is greatly interested in the election of Col. Wm. J. Bryan. Mr. Brown is president of the Henry George Bryan and Stevenson club. He is an advocate of the single tax theory or system which is admitted by advanced thinkers to be the only equitable system of taxation. In many ways Mr. Brown has proven himself to be a friend to the colored race. The Hon. William Peacock, Democratic candidate for congress, seventh district, is a keen lawyer, and is very well known throughgout his district. He is a very pleasing speaker, and while he has a huge task before him for the Seventh district is strongly Republican, but with so many new issues confronting the people it is hard to tell what is liable to happen, and his chances of election are growing brighter each day. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; write only on one side of the paper. When the wind propels a hat it is chased, but the remarks of the man who owns the hat are seldom chaste. The wornout uniforms of the British army are sold at auction each year, and bring back into the treasury nearly $150,000. The undertakers of Cincinnati have formed a trust. Doubtless the members will boycott all their acquaintances who persist in remaining alive. The Mexican census, recently completed, shows a total population of 12, 491,573, over two-thirds of whom are illiterate. Over 80 per cent of the population is of mixed or Indian blood. This year's wine yield in France is expected to be exceptionally abundant. The "Moniteur Vinicole" estimates the total output for France at 55,000,000 hectolitres, as compared with 48,000, 000 in 1899. Having duly annexed the Transvaal. Gen. Roberts appeals to the Boers to stop fighting. As they are now, from the British point of view, legally subjects of Queen Victoria, why not have the Boers arrested? Lord Rowton, who is the literary executor of the late Earl of Beaconsfield, has been visiting the queen, and it is rumored that she has directed him to put off the publication of Beaconsfield's memoirs till after her death. Recently a new fruit was exhibited to the fellows of the Royal Horticultural society in London. The plant bearing it is a hybrid between the raspberry and common blackberry. The taste of the fruit combines the flavor of the dewberry with that of the raspberry, and it comes into perfection as the raspberries are failing. It is said that gas for lighting purposes is obtained from the leaves of the Australian gum tree and in Germany, Russia, Norway and other countries, gas made from wood has been introduced. Almost every tree may be said in a way to produce gas, for they all give off carbonic acid gas in greater or less quantities during the night. Work has been begun in Baltimore on the silver service for Rear-Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, to be made from the silver coin captured on the Spanish cruiser Christobal Colon. The service will consist of eighteen dinner plates, one gravy boat, one ladle, four vegetable dishes, one game platter, one fish platter, one entree platter and one soup tureen. The total weight of the silver is 2,000 ounces, and the cost when completed will be between $7,000 and $9,000. The "missing link" has again been found, this time in Java, where Dr. Dubois has unearthed certain fossil remains of such an interesting character that Professor Haeckel, the celebrated German biologist, has determined to go there himself and investigate. Dr. Dubois is firmly of opinion that the bones belong to a species intermediate between the highest ape and prehistoric mah. His views have been received with favor by many scientific men, among them Professor Haeckel, who has never ceased to advocate the importance of making further excavations in the district of Java where D. Dubois found the remains. The craze for Kruger coins and stamps has been so pronounced that a complete set is not now to be had in the regular market. A $1.25 piece is rated at $12.50, and what is known as an "extraordinary" crown at $50. This is because in 1892 the die makers gave the bullock-wagon shafts, instead of a pole (or disselboom.) All coins from half-sovereigns downward were so struck, and got into circulation before the error was discovered. Any one of these coins fetches more than $5. There is likely, by the way, to be a slump in the rating of Transvaal postage stamps, for a Pretoria official says that he has overprinted stamps to the value of $1,500,000. Of course educated deaf mutes get to be pretty handy with their pencils. They have to write all their communications to speaking people, and do so very rapidly. The Rev. A. W. Mann is a deaf mute missionary and expert penman. For twenty-five years he has made missionary trips to deaf mute churches, not alone in this country, but in foreign lands. Mr. Mann writes wrong side up as well as the other way. He is often interviewed. The method is this: The reporter sits at the table opposite Mann. A pad of paper lies between them. The reporter writes a question, Mann reads it upside down, and, without moving the paper, writes the answer—also upside down. THEY CATCH FROGS. Industry of Considerable Importance on the Shores of Guadalupe Lake Among a class of people residing along the shores of Oneida lake in the vicinity of Upper South bay the industry of hunting frogs is surpassed in importance only by that of fishing. Frogs' legs and fish go together in making up an appetizing meal at many of the Oneida lake summer hotels, and killing frogs and catching fish are kindred pursuits. In this manner a score of Oneida lake longshoremen make a livelihood. The frog business, however, is comparatively new. During a greater part of the season frogs are found in marshy places along the lake shore. A frog hunter sometimes uses a spear, but more often a long, stout club. The club has a flat end, and one well directed blow will add another frog to the collection in the hunter's basket. During the summer months frogs are found on high ground, having migrated from the bogs bordering the lake. Hay fields are a favorite abiding place for them in summer, and it is no unusual sight to see a frog hunter following a mowing machine and aiming blows at frogs that are exposed to view as the grass falls. In the southeastern part of the state there are inclosed frog farms with artificial ponds. Here frogs are raised for the New York city market. While central New York cannot yet boast of a real frog farm, an Oneida lake man is proprietor of something closely resembling such an institution. The Oneida lake man has a large yard on his premises inclosed by a tight board fence. In the yard are thousands of fine looking frogs. They were picked up along the lake shore last spring before they had awakened from a stupor brought on by a few days of cold weather. The owner of this collection of frogs is able to fill orders from hotel proprietors for fresh frogs' legs promptly. By going into the yard with a lantern at night as many frogs as are required may easily be picked up by hand, providing the collector is careful to make no noise. Frogs' legs, after being dressed, are left on ice for a day or more to make them good for eating. Twenty or twenty-five cents a pound is the price usually paid by Oneida lake hotel proprietors. A Strange Malady. A strange malady is going the round of north Alabama, says the Atlanta Constitution. It is some kind of a germ which is attacking the ear drum of the people, causing risings and abcesses, which prove very painful and troublesome. In Birmingham many people have been attacked by this malady and much suffering has been heard of. Gov. Joseph F. Johnston has been detained at his home in this city during the past week with trouble in his ears and physicians had to attend him. Mr. John W. O'Neill, the popular president of the Birmingham board of trade, is now suffering agonies with the pain in both ears. There are many other people troubled in the same way. The germ seems to come with the least warning and the pain that follows can only be allayed a little until the rising either bursts on its own accord or an operation has been performed, when the pain ceases and the patient recovers. So far the disease has not proven fatal, though it has given the people whom it has attacked considerable pain. Exchange Children for Outings There is a pretty custom in vogue in Denmark which might with advantage be copied here. During the summer holidays an arrangement is made by which little Danes from town and country change places. The parents of town children send their little folks off to the country, and receive in exchange country children. The result is that the town children are strengthened and gladdened with country air sights, while the little rustics enjoy the pleasures of town life, and the festivals which are for their benefit. This exchange system results in 10,000 children from Copenhagen getting a country holiday, and another 10,000 are brightened up by a visit to the Danish capital. Paddling Is Beneficial People who frequent the many bathing beaches about Chicago have often noticed the number of people who merely "paddle" in the water instead of swimming about. Speaking of the practice a well known physician says: "My own experience, extending over some thirty years is that the practice is most beneficial. The children love it, and a child who has once paddled when at the seaside always craves to do it again. I have no idea on what grounds the medical objection is based, but for some reason or other the prohibition is strongly impressed on the parents." Exhibits and Awards of Paris. There are 75,531 exhibitors at the Paris Exposition of 1900, and 42,790 of these received awards in five different grades. Out of 2,829 diplomas given of the Grand Prix, the United States received 218, and out of 8,166 gold medals given, the United States received 486. There are about 6,000 exhibitors from the United States at the Paris exposition, and about 2,000 of these, or more than one-third, received an award in one of the five different grades. John C. Stubba, who is now third vice-president of the Southern Pacific railway and who may succeed the late President Huntington, is 53 years old. He was born at Ashland, O., and began his road career in the freight department of the Pan Handle system at Columbus. SPEAKS TO THE POINT ON EVERY ISSUE. The Maintenance of the Present Gold Standard a heavy Burden for the People to Bear—A Clear Statement of Facts. William J. Bryan, in his letter accepting the nomination for president by the Kansas City convention, once more proves his profound mastery of public issues, and his wonderful skill in illuminating, with a few words, a debated question. His utterances are as direct as rifle bullets, and in every paragraph, we can find an aphorism. In his speech of acceptance at Indianapolis he confined himself almost wholly to the subject of imperialism, whereupon arose the cry from Republican leaders and organs that he was dodging all the other platform issues, and particularly the silver one. They knew better, for if there is one thing more than another the American people admire Bryan for, it is directness and the courage to "speak the thing he will." No other man with his responsibilities, in our public life today, is politically so brave and honest as he. Menally and morally he is so framed that he cannot hesitate or dodge or fawn, and it is the general acknowledgment of these characteristics that make his character public and private, unassailable, and gives him in popular estimation the attributes of a hero. How different, although in high station, does his competitor in the national race look to the public eye. Versatile only in change, and content only in ignoring "plain duty." McKinley, politically, is a cipher and regarded by the masses as simply a proxy for Mark Hanna—a creature ever ready, at the dictates of the trusts "to crook the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning." Bryan's letter is a public paper worthy to be bracketed with his Indianapolis speech. It overlooks no topic that thoughtful voters are talking about, and the Republican highbinders who complained that he was dodging the silver, income tax, and other vital issues, are now themselves dodging the solar plexus blows his acceptance letter deals out. Unable to answer his logic and trenchant arguments and battered by his proofs of their duplicity and rascality they are now saying he covered too much ground, and that he ought to have confined him self to what they hypocritically propound as the paramount issue—that of silver. But even on that point, he has s ill much more than they reish or can refute. He exposes the double dealing of the Republican party in financial matters, and shows that while they have conspired to establish a gold standard, they were too cowardly to declare their purpose until they felt that they had the people at their mercy, and could safe'y pursue a policy of robbery at home in connection with the glamour of expansion and military glory abroad. Mr. Bryan shows that the currency system now upheld by the Republican party involves a permanent and increasing debt, and adds "it is hardly conceivable that the American people will deliberately turn from the debt paying policy, to the dangerous doctrine of perpetual bonds." Of trusts he pithily says that "a private monopo y has always been an outlaw. No defense can be made of an industrial system in which one, or a few men, can control for their own profit the output or price of any article of merchandise." He is equally explicit and pointed in his treatment of government by injunction, in denunciation of employes' blacklists; in a demand for arbitration as a prevention of strikes, and the establishment of a government department of labor, with a cabinet officer at its head; in insisting that pension laws should be construed according to the generous spirit which prompted their passage; in favoring the immediate construction, ownership and control of the Nicaragua canal by the United States, and asserting the right to close it against any hostile power, for to ratify the Hay-Ia nefote treaty would be to lessen its commercial value and convert it into a positive menace in time of war. The entire letter is as meaty as a nut, and worthy of his reputation as a fearless and acute political thinker. Here are a few sentences from it: "The weak and qualified condemnation of trusts to be found in the Republican platform is designed to distract attention while industrial despotism is completing its work." "It is a significant fact that the Republican party should accept the European idea of a protectorate, at the time it adopts a European colonial policy." "The principle of direct legislation resists upon the sound theory that the people can be trusted and that the more responsive the government is to the will of the people, the more free it will be from mis-use and abuse." "The abolition of government by injunction is as necessary for the protection of the reputation of the court as it is for the security of the citizen." "In the hour of danger the government can draft the citizen; it ought to be able to draft the pcketbook as well. Unless money is more precious than blood, we cannot afford to give greater protection to the incomes of the rich than to the lives of the poor." "It is easier to lose a reputation than to establish one, and this nation would find it a long and laborious task to regain its proud position among the nations if, under the stress of temptation, it should repudiate the self-evident truths proclaimed by our heroic ancestors and sacredly treasured dur ing a career unparalleled in the annals of time." HERESY OF IMPERIALISM. (By David Starr Jordan, President of Standford University.) There are four enemies that have stood in the path of man. These are aristocracy, militarism, slavery, and imperialism. There are various other enemies, but those are the four archenemies in the political sense. They all spring out of the idea that man belongs not to himself, but that he belongs, body and soul, to somebody or something else which owns him. These four enemies in a dangerous garb confront the United States today. "Schiller says that the tyrants reach hands to each other—that they reach to each other the hands. They stand together now. These four stand together now. Wherever there is one, the other is. Aristocracy, slavery, militarism and imperialism. They reach other's hands. They all have their fair, attractive side. They are defended sometimes at the fireside. Slavery was discussed and defended from many a pulpit in New England. Aristocracy has its fair side. The foundation of a quality is aristocracy; the foundation of our liberty is rebellion against it—the very thing we came here for. There is a fair side of slavery and a fair side of militarism. How clean the streets can be kept under military discipline and how free from noise! How easily people can be sent to bed at dark if it be desired There is a fair side of imperialism. You will find in many places that nineteenths of the people believe it is a good thing for the world. May be it is, but when we come to read history from the one side to the other we will find that the British people have been debauched by their course in India and that the Hindoos have been cursed. You will find that the English people have been turned from being a strong, freedom-loving people. You will find also that the heart's blood has gone out of Great Britain as it has gone out of all countries which have engaged in constant wars. We know how Napoleon depopulated France by his wars. We know of the murders of the nobility, the murders of the peasantry and the result in France today. In 1630, when the Philippine question was a burning one in Spain, La Puente, an Augustinian friar, expressed his opinion of the whole thing when he said: "Against the gain of redeemed souls I place the cost in loss of armies and of soldiers and friars sent to the Philippines, and these I count the chief loss, that while mines give silver and forests give lumber, only Spain gives Spaniards, and she shall give so many of them that some day she shall be left childless, and forced to bring up strangers' children instead of her own." The heresy of imperialism is the most dangerous that has arisen since the heresy of secession, and it must be fought as vigorously as the heresy of secession. If we admit as citizens any number of millions of people that are not ready for liberty, if we admit them with all the degradation which they must bring into our politics, we must take the consequences. It is better that we should be just and faithful to our own principles and to the principles of God and that we should in our laws be no respecters of persons, because if in our laws we are respecters of persons we must go the way of empire, as all empire has gone The best way in which the growth of any man or nation has ever been promoted has been through self-government democratically looking after its own affairs We do not expect that self-government will always be good government. Men learn not by their successes, but by mistakes. It is absolutely impossible for any republic to conduct any affairs well except its own. REPUBLICAN AGNOSTICISM The Republican campaign has become a negative proposition. The candidates and leaders have become stolid agnostics The rank and file is hiding behind breastworks of shifting sand. Mr. Hanna says: "There are no trusts." Mr. McKinley says: "There is no such thing as imperialism." Mr. Roosevelt says: "I am not afraid of militarism, because there isn't any militarism." Mr. Gage says: "There isn't any gold standard, therefore it must not be attacked." Chorus of Republican spellbinders: "NOW YOU SEE IT AND NOW YOU DON'T." They Do Protest Too Much Baltimore Sun:—"There is no impealialism," declares President McKinley in his letter of acceptance. From president down to the humblest spellbinder and organ grinder the republicans are kept busy protesting that an evil which does exist in a palpable form really has no existence. Their denials are based upon the assumption that the American people are so dullwitted that they are unable to understand the difference between Republican government and the kind of government which has been established in Porto Rico and which is ultimately to be forced upon the Filipinos. Pulling Down the Flag. Kansas City Times:—What does Mr. McKinley mean by pulling down the flag in Pekin? It was thought that flag furling, except in territory belonging to the United States that England wants, was treason, according to the rules laid down by the Hannaites. THE TIN-PLATE TRUST. The tin-plate trusts are credited with a capital of $70,900,000. They control 281 tin-plate mills, and are the beneficiaries of the Dingley tariff, which imposes 1½ cents a pound on imported tin plate, equal to $3.30 on an average box of tin weighing 220 pounds. The estimate of the annual consumption in a state like Indiana is placed at 300,000 boxes of the average weight of 220 pounds each, or 66,000,000 pounds. Before the trusts advanced prices these 300,000 boxes of tin could have been purchased at $2.65 a box, or $795,000. The trusts advanced prices to $4.65 per box, increasing the cost to $1,395,000, netting the trust a clear gain of $600,000 a year from the people of a state the size of Indiana. The tariff duties under the Dingley bill, $1 1/2 cents a pound, would enable the trusts to rob the people to an extent of $990,000 a year, which will probably be done, since in the last ten months they have succeeded by the advance in prices to secure $600,000 of the amount. There is absolutely no substitute for tin, and the extent of the trusts' robberies is a mere matter of discretion. They control the market and fix prices as they please, and there is no appeal from their decision but to the great tribunal of the people. In such emergencies the question is asked in what way the tin-plate trusts directly affect the people's welfare. The answer is in all matters in which tin is used by the people. An Indianapolis, Ind., establishment manufacturing 75,000,000 tin cans a year consumes 80,000 boxes of tin, the cost having been advanced $2 a box in value an increased expenditure of $160,000 a year. The people who purchase tin cans are required to pay about $12 a thousand more for their cans than before the trusts advanced prices. If a man wants a tin roof on his residence or business building he finds the price has advanced $45, and if his house is to be guttered, he finds the average advance at least $20, and in any one of 50,000 homes, where a full outfit of tin utensils could have been purchased before the trusts began operations for $3. the outfit now costs at least $4. increasing the total 50 per cent, or $75,000. But going back to authentic data, states the size of Indiana, during the last year, have been robbed by the tin trusts of $600,000, and the roberies are proceeding unchecked. If a state like Indiana can be plundered to the extent of $600,000 a year, then it is safe to say, basing calculation upon population, that the tin trusts are robbing the people of the United States of more than $19,000,000 a year. A REFUBLICAN TRIBUTE TO BRYAN. The Boston Herald is compelled to pay Mr. Bryan a tribute of praise for the masterly speech he delivered last week at Indianapolis and to remark that it will be thoroughly read. It says: "The Herato, as is well enough known by this time, does not take the same view of the subject discussed that is held by Mr. Bryan, and does not support his candidacy. But to say of this address that it lacks the quality of full manliness, intellectual or moral, would stultify our judgment. It is the utterance of a robust, earnest, competent disputant on a high theme of statesmanship. We have no motive to overpraise it; but our feeling is that this speech will give Bryan higher rank among the statesmen of the nation than he has had before. The significance of the speech to the Republican party is that it is high time for its leaders to quit calling names and get down to business. If they suppose that it is in the power of money, or party organizations, or artfully fostered prejudices, to successfully oppose the effect of such an address on the minds of the intelligent plain people who constitute the overwhelming majority of the electorate of the nation, they will make a mistake. Mark Hanna, with all the millions he can command, and all the unscrupulous machine bosses he holds in leash, is not a match for a man who can talk to the American people as Bryan does in this speech. His obvious sincerity, frankness and directness will break through and demolish any fortress of material politics or chicanery that can be erected in its path. It will prove a more effective speech than Senator Hoar's because it has intense devotion and indomitable courage behind it." Much Abuse of Olney. Springfield, Mass., Republican:—The attack on Mr. Olney because of his support of Mr. Bryan takes several different lines. He is "brutal" in his comments on Mr. McKinley; he wants to be the Democratic candidate himself in 1904, when he will be in his seventieth year; he hasn't voted in Boston since 1895; he wrote a magazine article that our national "isolation" was a thing of the past, and, consequently, he has no right to think the acquisition of the Philippines a blunder; he is the original imperialist himself, because he forced England to treat a small nation as she would a big one. Mr. Olney takes all this trouncing, and says nothing, declining resolutely to be interviewed. Greed Led to Criminal Aggression Greed Led to Criminal Aggression. Utica, N. Y., Observer:—Bungling diplomacy, led by organized greed, left us a legacy of trouble in the Philippines which would have been avoided had we adhered to the end to the announced policy in the beginning of avoiding criminal aggression. May we be spared from the results of the same kind of bungling diplomacy in the Chinese difficulty. There is safety in fidelity to our own policy. Buckled Walstcoat of Silk. A new waistcoat has made its bow to the Parisian public, and seems to have hit feminine fancy. It is of white taffeta, embroidered or painted in water colors with small roses, and is made, like a man's waistcoat, with a strap and buckle in the back. Being worn with a bolero or eton, there is no pretense of hiding this buckle, which is of the most elaborate character and matches the handsome buttons which, in front, fasten the waistcoat over a jabot of costly lace. Marketing Hints. When ordering meats remember that beef, when boiled, loses one pound of weight in every four, and when roasted eighteen ounces. Mutton loses even more than beef. This should be thought of where much meat is used. Meat should always be hung, for by this means air circulates all around and keeps it sweet. In very hot weather a wipe with a cloth once or twice a day, with a sprinkling of pepper or flour, will tend to keep it, and if only slightly tainted, a wash over with vinegar and water, or borax and water, will generally remove all unpleasant flavor. Diseases at English Resorts. Miss Florence Warden of "The House on the Marsh" fame, has pointed out the danger of visiting various English seaside resorts, which, during the winter months, have been utilized for convalescent homes for people suffering from diphtheria, black measles and other contagious or infectious diseases. With reference to Sandgate, one of the houses, she states, "contained diphtheria patients the winter before last, and was turned last summer into the Grosvenor hotel, in which form it was used for the reception and entertainment of hundreds of travelers." The same house, it appears, was utilized as a consumption hospital throughout last winter and spring, and continued to be so used as recently as April 30, when it was reported on by a doctor as a consumptive hospital. Since then it has again been turned into the Grosvenor hotel, and is once more become a house of entertainment. Such a curious situation would scarcely be possible in this country. Trade Mark Laws of Denmark Consul Ingersoll, at Copenhagen, in a report to the state department, says he deems it of importance to American exporters to Denmark to direct their attention to the trade mark laws of that country. Under the Danish law a trade mark is granted four months from the date of filing the application, but any person having already registered a similar trade mark in another country may apply here and the mark will be registered in the name of the person to whom such trade mark has been granted, the registration upon behalf of the Danish applicant being refused. The American manufacturer whose trade mark has not been registered in Denmark runs the risk of having it taken away from him by any unscrupulous person who intends to put an imitation of American goods upon that market. A large firm of English pickle makers has lately been compelled by reason of neglect in this matter of trade mark registration to materially modify its old trade mark of St. George and the dragon because the saint and the dragon had been appropriated by a Danish firm making a liquid dentifrice. The popularity of American goods in Denmark, the consul says, grows daily, and American manufacturers will avoid much trouble and expense by registering without delay.—Washington Star. Horseflesh as Food. The old question as to the healthfulness, if not the palatabilty, of horse- mesh, has been suggested again by the experiences of the people in the recently besieged towns of Kimberley, Ladysmith and Mafeking. At each of these points it became necessary, before relief came, to indulge to a considerable extent in the flesh of horses. Experiences with this diet seem to have varied, according to accounts of survivors, says Leslie's Weekly. At Ladysmith horse steak, even when served up in the most appetizing form possible under the circumstances, was pronounced repulsive, and those who dined on it were afflicted with a distressing nausea. At Mafeking, however, where horse meat was the chief item of the bill of fare for a time, it seemed to agree with those who partook. The explanation of this may lie in the fact that the garrison at Mafeking was reduced to much greater extremeties than the one at Ladysmith and hunger, as everyone knows, makes a piquant sauce for almost anything. It is never easy to understand why horse meat should be objectionable at any time or place. In France the meat of both horses and donkeys is openly sold in the butchers' shops, duly labeled as such in large letters. Horseflesh is also largely consumed in Paris restaurants, without any label, and passes easily for beef. We eat readily the flesh of swine, which feed on anything, and we even regard ducks as a delicacy, yet the flesh of the horse, which is one of the cleanest and most dainty-feeding of animals, is looked upon with loathing. It is apparently all a question of habit or usage. Palmolive la chose propre PERUNA Many a woman, sick and weary of life, dragged down by weakening drains, painful irregularities, depression, and the hundred and one ailments which affect women only, has found in Pe-ru-na a bright star of hope, which has changed her misery to joy, her suffering to health. No woman need suffer from the derangements peculiar to her sex, if she will give Pe-runa a fair trial. the majority of weaknesses which make woman's life a burden, spring from a simple cause. The mucous membrane which lines the pelvic organs becomes weakened and inflamed owing to strain, cold, overwork, etc. This causes catarrhal congestion, inflammation, painful irregularities, depression of spirits, irritability, weakness and suffering. It shows in the haggard lines of the face, the dull eyes, the sallow complexion and angular form. For the prompt cure of such ailments try Pe-ru-na. It drives away "the blues," clears the complexion, brightens the eyes, changes thinness to plumpness, and cures pains, aches and drains, because it immediately strikes at the root of such troubles and removes the cause. M. "Health and Beauty" Address Dr.Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. A Viennese dentist, while experimenting at the Hygienic Institute at Wurzburg, claims to have discovered the successful application of electricity for the destruction of bacteria. It is said that the treatment is very simple. What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it today. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! add boiling water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. Farmers of Dubuque county, Iowa, are banding together to protect what little game is left in that section. If You Like to See. A Good Game of base ball, send your name and address on a postal card to The Home Base Ball Co., Lock Box 855, St. Louis, Mo. Many people are spoiled by success because the spoils belong to the victor. Baseball players; Golf players; all players chew White's Yucatan whilst playing. The fresh young man is generally not worth his salt. GRAIN-O THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Grain-O is not a stimulant, like coffee. It is a tonic and its effects are permanent. A successful substitute for coffee, because it has the coffee flavor that everybody likes. Lots of coffee substitutes in the market, but only one food drink—Grain-O. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Grant Good See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILLOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIR. FOR THE COMPLEXION * Price DI Gamb Purely Vegetable .CURE SICK HEADACHE. Will Wed a Spanish Grandee MASON - DIXON LINE TWO STATES CONTRIBUTE TO ITS RETENTION. A New Survey of the Famous Boundary Between the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland-Over Mountain and Valley. During the present month there will be begun a resurvey of that famous old boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, known as Mason and Dixon's Line. The object of the resurfvey is to re-establish the line monuments, and to place monuments on the western end of the line where none have hitherto existed. The state of Pennsylvania and the state of Maryland have each appropriated $1,000 for this purpose. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, is president of the commission that will have the matter in charge. The other mem- P. H. bers are Prof. William Bullock Clark, of Johns Hopkins university, and Maj. Isaac B. Brown, of Pennsylvania. The re-marking of the line will be for the distance from the northeast Mlle. Zelie de Lussan, whose engagement to Don Andrade, a Spanish nobleman, is announced, is not only a singer of the first rank but an admirable actress as well. As a singer she has gained high repute in this country and Europe and has played Carmen several hundred times in English, French and Italian. Her beauty, her grace, her true dramatic instinct made her a favorite everywhere. She was born in New York of French parents and to her mother, who was a well-known singer, she owes her training. She made her first public appearance when she was 9 years old, and a few years later-joined the Boston Ideal company. She traveled through the United States, taking the leading soprano parts in the Daugh- A MLLE. ZELIE DE LUSSAN. ter of the Regiment, Carmen, Faust and other plays. It was in Carmen that she reached her greatest success. In 1899 she went to Europe and made a great hit. Last year she was with Grau's Grand Opera company. Mlle. de Lussan is a very handsome woman, with a good deal of the French chic in her make-up. Her voice is very beautiful and her singing of the Italian school. How Cables Are Repaired. It is said that one of the submarine cables is laid at a depth of 18,000 feet. At any rate, there are at least three cables, working at a depth of nearly 17,000 feet, and four in about 16,000; but the vast majority lie in water about 12,000 feet deep or less. Repairing a cable is hard work. The apparatus has to be at once sensitive and strong. The repairing steamer proceeds to the point where calculation shows the break or damage to have happened, and then lowers a grapnel, which it slowly drags across the route of the cable at right angles. As soon as a tension on the grapnel rope is noted, due to catching the cable it has hooked, great pains have to be taken lest the precious treasure-trove slip off at any stage of its journey up to daylight. Special grapnels have been devised for this important work. In one of the latest the prongs project from a hood like the claws of a crab. Should any of them come in contact with rock on the bottom of the sea, new recede within the shield suffici- corner of Maryland to about the northwest corner. The remainder of the Pennsylvania line to the southwest corner of Pennsylvania was surveyed and re-marked in 1885. It is interesting to know that Messrs. Mason & Dixon marked out other lines beside the east and west south boundary of Pennsylvania. Their journal, a copy of which is in the possession of the Maryland land office and another copy in the Pennsylvania Historical Society library, states that they resurveyed the entire west boundary of Delaware and also determined the distance from the northeast corner of Maryland to the Delaware river, 15 miles below Philadelphia. These lines of Mason & Dixon do not, of course, come under the attention of the new commission. Granite posts three feet in length will be used in the Mason & Dixon marking. About the only inscription will be a "P" on the Pennsylvania side and an "M" on the Maryland side, together with a reference to the authority under which the resurvey is to be made. The popular impression is that a stone will be placed at the end of each mile, but this is erroneous. The topography has much to do with the frequency of the marks, the idea being to locate them so that a straight line from one to the next nearest can be easily determined by the surveyor. Stones are also placed at highways and important streams for the convenience of officers of the law. The stones with which the greater portion of the Mason & Dixon Line is now marked were brought from England. Out in the western part of Maryland and in West Virginia, however, mounds of earth and stones were heaped up to a height of perhaps eight feet. That work was done in 1767, yet in 1885 they were still two feet or more above the level of the ground, and were serving their purpose fairly well. The surveyors had cut great vistas through the woods along the boundary line as they progressed, and these remained with much distinction. ently to let the grapnel glide over the obstruction. In this new grapnel the prong, if it has hooked a bight of cable, will still hold on when it retracts into the shell.—London Tit-Bits. VALUE OF DOGS. Wolf Species Contribute to the Country's Development. Wolf dogs are not the handsomest of their species, yet they are now, and have been in the past, contributing not a little aid to the development of the far northwest. Much has been said of the Klondike, but the wolf dogs, which in the beginning made that frigid El Dorado possible, have received little more than passing comment. Nor has this neglect been due to their being but the humble servants of the master—man. They are far from humble, as their wild ancestry attests. They may be beaten into submission, but that will not prevent them still snarling their hatred. They may be starved into apparent docility and then die suddenly, with teeth fast locked in a brother's throat, torn to pieces by their comrades. Rather has little attention been accorded them because the interest of man has gravitated inexorably toward the natural, mineral and social features of that farnortherly land. But the husky is far from uninteresting. As a type of endurance no better evolved product of natural selection need be sought. If ever a species has been born and bred of hard times it has. Only the fittest in a struggle for existence extending through a thousand generations have survived. And they are well fit. Domesticated by the savage autochthons of that forbidding region, they may not only account their remote ancestors as wild wolves, but often their immediate forbears. Where Breakfast Is Not Eaten. Where Breakfast Is Not Eaten. For the last fifteen years Dr. E. H. Dewey of Meadville, Pa., has never eaten breakfast. As a result he declares he is always in good health and has never known the pangs of dyspepsia. Dr. Dewey believes that to eat immediately after getting up in the morning is irrational and harmful. At that time the body is recuperated by sleep and is in no need of food. If a heavy breakfast is eaten the vital forces are employed with digestion and consequently a smaller amount of work can be done. So long has Dr. Dewey preached and practiced his peculiar theory that a large percentage of the inhabitants of Meadville have become his disciples, and the breakfast bell is fast becoming unknown in the Pennsylvania town. Dr. Dewey is a practicing physician, and in many cases of severe illness he prescribes not only abstinence from breakfast but from food at any time until the patient is well on the way to recovery. It is his opinion that many diseases are caused by overeating, and that they can be cured quicker by fasting than in any other way.—Chicago Tribune. So successful has been inoculation against cholera among coolies employed by tea planters in India that the natives are now eager for the simple operation. The planters have clauses in their contracts calling for inoculated coolies. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonialis free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Mortgage Forclosure Decision Balance of a mortgage debt, after deducting the amount for which the property was bought by the mortgage on foreclosure is held, in First National bank vs. Elliott (Ala.), 47 L. R. A. 742,not to constitute a "lawful charge" which the statute requires a creditor of the mortgagor to pay on redemption from the sale. Best for the Bowels. 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THE BEASON more W. L. Douglas $8 and $5.50 shoes are sold than any other make is because THEY ARE THE BEST FOR MEN. THE BEST $3.50 SHOE Made of the best imported and American leather. The work- manship is unexcelled. The style is equal to $4 and $5 shoes of other makes. They fit like custom made shoes. They will out- wear two pairs of other makes at the same prices, that have no re- putation. You can safely re- commend them to your friends; they please everybody that wears them. THE BEST $3.00 SHOE Every case under the supervision of our medical director, an expert in treatment of nose, throat, ear and lung affections. Flavor. Buckwheat Mill Through Get a Package From Your Grocer. RSHIP BY MEERING FOURTH EDITION (sent by mail). 10c This little book TEACHES ELECTRICITY and how to obtain electric light from home-made chemical batteries. JAMES H. MASON, 519 American Tract Bldg., N.Y. City TOE-GUM Cures Corns 15c; all Druggista (If it fails—it is free.) If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 40, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. --- MRS. SARAH SWODER CHEMICAL COOLER PETER H. The real worth of our $3.00 and $8.50 shoes compared with other makes is $4.00 to $5.00. We are the largest makers and retailers of men's $3.00 and $3.50 shoes in the world. We make and sell more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the U. S. Established in 1876. A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU Why do you pay $4 to $5 for shoes when you can buy W.L.Douglas shoes for $3 and $3.50 which are just as good. exclusive sale in each town. Take no substitute! Insist on having W. L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. If your dealer will not get them for you, and direct to factory, enclosing price and 35c. extra for carriage. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or cap toe. On sale everywhere. Catalogue Free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. PISO'S CURE FOR CORES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druglists. CONSUMPTION Slavery and polygamy are again sheltered by a solemn compact by our republic. Well is it for William McKinley that the pen of William Lloyd Garrison has been dropped and the voice of Wendell Phillips hushed forever!—Ex. Our noble friend, the Sultan of Sulu, is still for the old flag and McKinley's generous pension. He weeps, however, when he realizes that he will not be permitted to cast his vote and the votes of his slaves and concubines for the Canton over-lord.—Ex. Robert Thomas, who conducts the west end resort at 809 West Lake street, knows nothing else but Democracy, several days ago he walked into the district headquarters, 1001 West Lake street, and laid his check on the table, which called for a good sum, Mr. Thomas is working hard for all the ticket and for his true friend, B. M. Mitchell, Esq., who is bound to be re-lected to the legislature. 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. FUNNYGRAPHS Beggar (to gentleman)—"Do you happen sir, to have lost your purse?" Gentleman (feeling in his pockets)—No!" Beggar—"Then you can let me have a little assistance." First Correspondent—A native runner has arrived, but the Boers waylaid him and he swallowed his dispatches. Second Correspondent. — Oh, well! that's probably more than the public would have done. The Tramp (who has been given a pair of old shoes.)—Pardon me, lady, but do yer know where yer husband bought dese? The Lady—Why do you ask? The Tramp—Because it's likely de store he got dem from shines dere shoes free uv charge, an'd dat would save a lot uv labor. "Do you think,"jeered the fellow who had succeeded in pulling off a government clerkship, "you will be able to hold down the job you're trying to get?" "I guess so," said the office-seeker, who had cooled his heels regularly in the ante-room every day for a month. "I seem to be a man of considerable wait." The last anecdote about Dr. Randall Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, is told in the London Outlook. After a recent ecclesiastical function, as the clergy were trooping in to luncheon, one of the most unctuous observed: "Now to put a bridle on our appetites." "Now, to put a bit between my teeth," retorted the bishop. "Why doesn't Adelaide bring in the turkey?" demanded the professor, who sat waiting, carving knife in hand. No response. A premonition of impending trouble hung over the company. "Why has Adelaide delayed?" he asked. "Is there no one to aid Adelaide?" No? Aid delayed. Ah, de lady comes with a delayed turkey, and the table looks a deal laden." "I wonder," mused one of the younger members of the group, "if the egg from which this turkey was hatched was A. D. laid." The professor groaned. The probable effect of his example on the rising generation had never occurred to him. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. How seemingly unattainable are the heights of purity from the depths of wickedness. Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. Of things that are in our power are our opinions, impulses, pursuits, avoidances, and, in brief, all that is our own doing. A greater value should be set on having received instructive and useful lessons than on possessing great store of wealth; for the latter is a transitory good, the former is durable. A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district all studied and appreciated as they merit, are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty. Two things, says Kant, fill the mind with every new and increasing admiration and awe the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them—the starry heavens above, and the moral law within. The best offering you can make to God is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good; and bear what he allows of evil, like a child who believes in all her father's dealings with it, whether it understands them or not. A Breath of Will. A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and the Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit. Fate. The Biggest Stockyards in the World. These are in Chicago. The combined plants represent an investment of over $10,000,000. The yards contain twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water troughs, fifty miles of feeding troughs, and seventy-five miles of water and drainage troughs. The yards are capable of receiving and accommodating daily 20,000 cattle, 20,000 sheep and 120,000 hogs. ARE COLLEGE DAYS WASTED? Men who have never attended college and yet who have distinguished themselves greatly in various callings: Alfred Dolge. Richard Croker. William Earl Dodge. Frederick W. Devoe. Theodore Low De Vinne. W. R. Grace, ran away from school at 14. Andrew Carnegie never attended college. Daniel Frohman, educated in public schools. Thomas F. Gilroy, educated in public schools. Frederick S. Gibbs,educated in public schools. George J. Gould, trained under private tutors. Albert B. Chandler was educated at an academy. Charles L. Tiffany was educated in public schools. Charles T. Yerkes was educated in a Quaker school. George H. Daniels became a railroad man early in life. James B. Colgate apparently did not attend any college. Louis Fitzgerald, president Mercantile Trust company. Terrence V. Powderly, went to work as switch tender at 13. Lemuel E. Quigg only received a common school education. John D. Rockefeller only received a common school education. Isidor Straus became a clerk in a paper mill while quite young. Thomas Alva Edison, became a newsboy when 12 years old. James Congdel Fargo, went into the express business early in life. Robert Graham Dun, educated at district schools and academy. Cornelius N. Bliss graduated from a high school in New Orleans. William A. Strong became a dry goods salesman when he was 16. Charies F. Wingate was educated in the public schools and at Cooper institute. T. T. Eckert, president and general manager Western Union Telegraph company. William Rockefeller was educated at Oswego, N. Y., and Cleveland, O. Charles A. Schieren FIVE LITTLE JOKES. "Some folks," said Uncle Eben, "imagines dey deserves credit foh bein' contented, in spite o' poverty, when de real troof is dat dey'd rather loaf dan work an' earn money."—Washington Star. "Dear me! There are those pleasant people we met on the train; we don't want to be bothered with them, do we?" "No; and we can safely go on the plan that they don't want to be bothered with us."—Indianapolis Journal. "That man who just left us," said the British visitor, "tells me he's very active in politics." "Humph!" exclaimed the American, "he's merely a ward-heeler." "But is not a ward-heeler a type of politician?" "You might call him a type. He's a minion."—Philadelphia Press. Farmer Skinflint (reading sign)— "Eyesight tested free uv charge." By Gosh! Mandy, in I go an' find out if it's hurtin' my eyesight tew read the paper. Mandy-An' if it is, are yew goin' to squander good money on spectacles? Farmer Skinflint—No, sir-ee! I'm goin' to give up the paper.—Brooklyn Life. "You know Frisby, the gold enthusiast, don't you?" "Of course. What about him?" "I witnessed his will last night. It's very characteristic of the man." "How so?" "Why, in one clause he directs that his body be interred in the approximate center of the links, and that the grassy mound above his grave be converted into a bunker."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. QUAINT OBSERVATIONS. Physic is a poor substitute for exercise. If a man has short legs they can't be-long to him. Time is money—with the absconding bank official. Conscience makes cowarls of us all—unless we are lawyers. A long face is very apt to be in partnership with a long conscience. Too many culinary assistants are sure to impair the flavor of the consomme. Some men rise because of their gravity and some sink because of their levity. A fashionable tailor says that many of his customers dwell in the land of promise. Speculation sometimes empties a man's pockets and fills his hat with costly experience. The less some people know about things the greater the volubility of their expressed opinions. The boy who works hardest for the least pay may eventually become the man who has to pay the biggest taxes. Some habits are practiced so unconsciously that a movement to correct them in others is the only way to detect them in yourself. A writer says: "No man can look at the stars without wishing he could live forever." If he refers to the stars in the average theatrical cast he is away off--Chicago News. B. W. Corner Clark and Washington Sts. TELEPHNNE MAIN 1782. TEL. HARRISON 51. Thomas F. Scully, Attorney at Law, 79 Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO. Room 14. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, S. Clark Street, CHICAGO TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE OHICAGO. ALBERT B. GEORGE 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. Office Hours: Phone 818 Went 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m.. 6 to 8:30 p. m. TELEPHONE 813 YARDS. 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. 5012 Fifth Avenue. Chicago MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR Thorough lessons given upon the piano at Studio or privately. Terms reasonable. 3341 State St., Chicago. CANDY ... Try the inimitable fine and pure candies, the best in the city for 15c., 25c. and 40c. per pound. All put up in beautiful boxes, suitable for presents. GUNTHER'S CONFECTIONERY 212 STATE STREET. 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, 5801 Wentworth av LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. Chicago, Sept. 16, 1899. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. Bear Sir-I am glad to learn of the work that is being done by your paper in behalf of Chicago platform principles. That platform stands for such a government as Jefferson and Lincoln favored, namely, a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and I believe that such a government will prove a blessing to the great majority of the people. Yours truly, W. J. Bryan. 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 loyal and true friends of Democracy. Respectfully, Carter M. Harrison. ```markdown ``` 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 Specif- cations Furnished ... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. HENRY STUCKART HARDWARE, STOVES and FURNITURE 2511-2519 ARCHER AVENUE, ONE BLOCK WEST OF HALSTED ST. JOBBING A SPECIALTY. OTTO V. MUELLER Real Estate, Renting, Loans ... Insurance ... 646 W. Sixty-Third Street. - Chicago. Telephone Yards 797 Residence, 113 Garsfeld Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO M. C. McINTOSH, COOK COUNTY JUSTICE... OFFICE, BOOM 616, ASHLAND BLOCK, Telephone Main 2711. J. F. KENNY, 5553 Green St Tel. Yards 668 KENNY & CO., Undertakers and Livery, Open Day and Night, Lady Assistant . . . 5438 SOUTH HALSTED ST. THE BROAD AX. Published Weekly, will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, priests, infidels, farmers, single taxers, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One year .....$2.00 Six months .....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX. 5040 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.) 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