The Broad Ax

THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE The lily white republicans in all sections of the South resorted to every mean trick known to the scheming politician to prevent colored delegates from bring sent to the Republican National convention of 1896, which convened in the city of St. Louis which was at that time a Republican city, and under the control of the G. O. P., but if we mistake not the Negro delegates who were permitted to attend were refused first-class hotel accommodation by many Props, who were staunch Republicans and in order for the leading Colored Republican delegates to get something to eat in a Republican city governed by Lily White Republicans, they were compelled to sleep in box cars, hoard at cheap lunch counters and that incident was further proof of the great love (?) the Lily White Republicans have for the Negro. But if that some incident had happened in a Democratic city, the Lily White Republican speakers and the Lily White Republican press would never have ceased from howling about race prejudice and hatred of the Colored people by the exrebels and their sympathizers, but the Republican press failed to condemn the actions of the Republicans of St. Louis, and we did not hear any comments from these loud-mouthed advocates of equal rights. It is true that one or two lily white leaders arose in the convention hall and were eager to say something in relation to mob and lynch law in the south but they had nothing to say in condemnation of the treatment accorded the colored delegations. The lily whites throughout the campaign of 1896 kept the Negro in the back ground as much as possible for they were fearful that his color would run off and cause them to turn several shades darker; if they allowed the Negro to come near into them. This statement can be very easily verified by anyone if they simply turn back to the press dispatches of Oct. 4, 1896, which informs the world that Ex-President Harrison addressed the lily white Republicans of Richmond, Va., but no Negro was permitted to occupy a seat on the stage or platforms and in reality the lily white were in favor of compelling all the Negroes to remain in the rear end of the hall notwithstanding the fact that the Colored republicans furnishes 80 per cent. of the Republican votes of that state but with impunity the lily whites insult and ignore this vast majority of the colored voters on all occasions the colored leaders loudly complained of the cold and uncalled for treatment which they received from the hands of the lily whites but they were informed by the lily whites that all Negro Republicans must keep themselves in their proper places. It's well known that Ex-President Harrison did not favor the Negro occupying seats too near him for when he presided at the White House, he kicked out all the colored men and women he could; who had for years worked in and around the white house. He discharged the old colored coachman who had drove all the Presidents from Abraham Lincoln down to and including President Grover Cleveland, but the Harrisons would not consent to have the honest and faithful colored coachman who had been selected by Lincoln so he was turned off, and an alien Englishman succeeded him. Returning to the lily whites of the South we find that Jim Crow cunners are always provided for all Negroes who attend the Republican state conventions throughout the Southland and in nowise are the colored delegates permitted to mingle with the lily whites if there be those who can successfully dispute these two assertions we would like to have them stand up and be counted, furthermore, a lily white Republican state senator of Kentucky had the deciding vote in the state legislature of that state at the time the "Jim Crow" or the separate coach law," came up for its last reading and final passage and instead of voting against the "Jim Crow car law," this lily white Republican voted in its favor and by virtue of his vote the measure passed through the legislature. It might be said right here that Democratic State Senator Goebel worked and voted against the "Jim Crow car law," and W. S. Taylor who ran for Gov. on the Republican ticket was attorney-general of the state of Kentucky at that time but he did everything in his power in favor of getting the "Jim Crow car law," placed on the statute books and after the lily white Republicans succeeded in having it placed there the Supreme Court of Kentucky which was then composed of lily white Republicans handed down an opinion to the effect that "the Jim Crow car law is constitutional therefore it is not class legislation and the U. S. Supreme court, composed of all Republicans declared that the civil rights bill was unconstitutional because it was class legislation. (To be Continued. WORLD'S MONEY Of all the foolish, ignorant talk about money the assertions made about "money of the world," and that we must use the money of the nations we trade with; that other nations use gold money and therefore must we do likewise, etc., and much worse to the same purpose. We wonder at what men are thinking and how, when they talk thus. Now see "how plain a tale shall set this down." We trade considerably with China and Mexico. China has but one legal tender money token, the little bronze copec with a square hole in the centre. No matter what else is used, that copec is the true and only legal tender. Do we use that copec in our trade with her? By no means. Next, silver in bricks is used by weight. Do we use silver in bricks? If we must use the money of those we trade with it follows we must use Chinese money in our Chinese trade. Mexico uses silver. Do we use her silver? Prior to 1873 every nation of Europe had its own peculiar legal tender. Did we do no trade with them before 1873? If we must use the money of these nations now, how did we manage prior to 1873? During our civil war even foreign trade expanded beyond all our experience. What was our money? Some 75,000,000 was of what is called irredeemable paper, made a perfect legal tender. Next we had out several hundred millions of greenbacks that we had purposely depreciated by inscribing on it "not receivable for custom dues or interest on the public debt. The money we used with foreigners (if any) was that first issue made a full legal tender. We all knew that gold and silver were so scarce then that one piece was a curiosity and antiquarians grabbed for it to put in their museums. Yet our foreign trade grew as never before. How then is it that we must "use the world's money in our outside trade." There is not a man able to think but should know better. Again, every person at all posted in political economy knew that every respectable writer on the subject says: Foreign trade is merely trade. That is merely the barter of one thing for another—an exchange of commodities, and that in every case of a difference, whenever a cargo is sold by us for less than the price of the return cargo a letter of credit, is drawn upon some merchants in the trade in preference to any other means—or next, some commodity in demand is used forthwith to settle any small difference. cleared off later differences are left to be cleared off later by shipments of exports or imports as the case may require. The very great excess of our exports today ought to tell us that Exports some: six hundred millions over all imports of goods, gold and silver. If we must pay, say England or she must pay as instanter in the world's money (what is it?) why do such mighty balances for or against either stand year after year? For 50 years such nations as England, Holland, Belgium, have bought more than they sold, often year after year an average of six hundred millions to one billion dollars worth more above all then exports, and that too long before silver was demonitized and the nation had varying standards of money. There is no MUST about it. In truth 'tis far better for a great trading nation to have its own peculiar home currency made legal tender, because it can then stand independent of all outside countries. What held our domestic traffic free from the panic of 1873? What involved us in 1875, in 1883 and 1893? Nothing but our being dependent on foreign nations through having no legal tender when it was most needed. Suppose we legislate for the people and not for creditors and speculators in rises and falls, per an experiment. Let us use our reason and not believe all we hear. It is strange that we are so prone to believe anything the gamblers in money and prices tell us. We would not credit interested parties about other matters knowing how self interest blinds, prejudices and warps the judgement. Every panic they tell us is "coused by either too much trading or overproduction." We swallow the assertion, never suspecting such causes to be impossible. The greenback is a promise to pay, and shows a debt of government, they assert every day. That too we swallow never suspecting that such government paper is an acceptance by government for revenues due or occuring every day and is proof of a debt owing to government by its people. CHEAP NEGRO PREACHERS AND PULPIT RANTERS No civilized nor half civilized race of people residing in many portion of the world have ever been cursed to the same extent with as many ignorant, cheap preachers, and pulpit ranters as the Negro race. These rantings, immoral, and cheap Negro preachers infest every locality and community throughout the country, and as far as politics are concerned there is not the slightest difference between the very lowest jumping, groaning and screaming cheap Negro preacher and pulpit ranter and the very highest for invariably with very few exceptions they all look and act alike while spouting politics from the pulpits. As a result of the Negro preachers and pulpit ranters expending so much of their valuable time in preaching politics while vice and immorality flourishes over and all around them Only a few weeks ago Bishop B. W. Arnett, of the A. M. E. church while attending conference at Oakland, Cal. thought he was called by God to go and preach the Gospel of Politics instead of expounding the Gospel which is supposed to tell us all about the weak and lowly Jesus and his wonderful works. Bishop Arnett while at the conference referred to used the position which he holds in the church to secure an endorsement of Merk Hanna and President Bill McKinley and this holy man of God induced the rest of his brethren to assist him in giving the President a thick coat of whitewash and a certificate of good character. The Bishop did not only do politics for McKinley by having the conference endorse his every act but he also like the devil which he has created, urged those preachers and ranters who attended the conference to refrain from bringing souls to Jesus, and devote their time to preaching politics and turning their churches into Rep. political clubs in order to serve him and promote his personal ends for it must be remembered that Bishop Arnett owns two sons who are holding good, fat jobs under President McKinley, hence the Bishop has one hand on the back part of this back waiting for someone to put a little political money in it, while he is engaged in praying to the good Lord to hold on to McKinley and amite Col. Bryan. Unfortunately for Chicago the Afro-Americans residing within her broad walls are doubly cursed and doubly damned with cheap Negro preachers and pulpit ranters, and the Rev. J. F. Thomas, of Olivet aptist church is not among the least of these cheap political preachers, ranters and pulpit fakers. Several Sundays ago Rev. Thomas ranted, raved, snorted and pawed the air like a big stall fed Durham bull, while he was engaged in delivering a political discourse, and declaring that he intended "canvassing among the Babtist ministers of the state of Illinois, asking them to sign an agree- ment to preach the doctrine of Republicanism in their pulpits from now until election day." he denounced Bishop Henry M. Turner for favoring the election of Col. Wm. J. Bryan, and claimed that Bishop Turner was unduly influenced to make the "flop," but Rev. Thomas failed to inform his hearers that he, himself, always receives his money for every political sermon which he delivers from the pulpit of Olivet church. Some of those who heard Rev. Thomas shout and preach politics cried "Amen," "Good," "That's right," thus showing that they were in the possession of less gray matter or brains then Rev. Thomas who stands at the top notch as a pulpit ranter and political money preacher. Rev. A. J. Carey of Quinn chapel is in all probability the most notorious political hood-winker and pulpit ranter, he delights in prancing around in his pulpit and conducting himself like a bucking mustang poney or wildhorse while shouting and preaching political sermons. Rev. Carey is rightly considered by all the politicians as the greatest pulpit ranter and political monstrosity of the age, when the Afro-American council met in this city in August, 1899, Rev. Carey very bitterly denounced President McKinley before that body; but in less than six weeks from that time this same Rev. gentleman who claims to be holier than all other men who shrink from doing as he does, crawled in the dust, and threw himself at the feet of President McKinley, and laying there in the mud as it were, with his sanctimonious face upturned to the heavens he declared that his political Lord and Master, President McKinley, is a greater man in every respect than Abraham Lincoln for the reason that he delighted to have a confederate badge pinned on his left breast and exclaimed "This is the proudest moment of my life." Sunday night and in fact almost every night the past week Rev. Carey has to the disgust of many honest and God fearing Negroes, persisted in conducting political meetings in his church and last Sunday night while the spell was on him he said that "if McKinley is re-elected the church debts will be paid but if Col. Bryan should win out the debt can never be paid." This is a fair sample of the kind of clap-trap, political slops, and buncombe which the Rev. Carey, the slippery hypocrite dishes up to those who go to church to learn how to live better and nobler lives. It is a burning disgrace and shame to think that all the Negro preachers of Chicago are willing for the sake of a few dollars to become so debased that they are ever ready to do any and everything for the debasement of the race, even to the extent of transforming the houses of worship into political halls which puts them on the same level with other cheap political halls, not only that but they have become so prostituted that they unbosom themselves of a lot of stale political lies and which are only fit for bawdy house pimps, idiotic fools, and crap-shooters, CONGRESSMAN GEO. P. FOSTER. Every respectable, honest voter and tax payer regardless of his past political affiliations, residing in the Third Congressional District should certainly favor the return of Hon. George P. Foster to the lower house of Congress. Two years ago the electorate of the Third District honored Mr. Foster with the nomination, and they saw to it that he was elected, they have again re-nominated him and if all political signs do not fail they (the good people of his District) will re-elect him. For the reason that they have implicit faith in his integrity and his ability to properly represent them, and look after their every interests. By reason of these facts Congressman Foster has in a very short time become exceedingly popular with all his constituents. Congressman Foster has many Afro-Americans residing in his District and owing to the past friendship which he has so often expressed for them that hundreds and hundreds of them are working and will continue to work early and late to further his chances of re-election, and they and The Broad Ax, are strongly of the opinion that Congressman Foster has already worn his fight and there is nothing else for him to do but to wait and do the shouting on the morning after the election. READ AND DIGEST. Mr. Editor of The Broad Ax: Dear Sir:—The Broad Ax should be in the hands of a large number of the colored voters of this state the article that appears in your paper political parties and the Negro telling of the treatment of the colored voters at the hands of the Southern white Republicans would alone convert many of the colored voters to the Democrat party if the paper was placed within their reach. The state committee should see to it that your paper goes into the that your paper goes into the homes of the colored voters. The colored voters are ready for a change politically and a large number will vote the Democratic ticket this fall if they are given some encouragement by the Democratic party. The colored man is tired of working for his political Republican master, paying for our freedom the longer. We work for the Republican party in voting the more we owe them and less thanks we get, therefore we have lost all faith in the Republican party. There can be much good accomplished by sending the colored Democrat newspapers. A colored man is not as much prejudiced to a colored Democratic paper as a Democratic paper that is published by a white Democrat. I know of colored Democrats in Warren county who have not received a scrap of Democratic literature this campaign. If the Democratic State Committee will take a little time and pains and have the Broad Ax and other colored Democratic papers sent out there there can be much good accomplished yet. We are not all Republicans because we are Afro-Americans. Let us have the Democratic newspapers. G. W. JONES, Mr. Jones we, from the bottom of our hearts, desire to thank you for coming to the aid of The Broad Ax, in calling the committee's attention to the importance of sending Democratic literature to the colored voters throughout this state, but Mr. Jones we have become thoroughly convinced that the present Democratic state committee of Illinois do no want one Negro to vote for Col. Wm. J. Bryan, if they did they would gladly send copies of The Broad Ax to each colored voter in the state. CHIPS Wm. Legner, who is up to date in all things will run along by the side of his running mates, Messrs. Smyth, Webb and Wenter. Michael Irrmann, who is well known to all laboring men of Chicago, for he is their friend, will be elected county commissioner. R. B. Organ, candidate for president of the board of county commissioners, feels that he is bound to run way ahead of his opponent and that he will be elected. Mrs. Carrie Toler, the fashionable milliner, 4657 State street possesses extraordinary taste and she understands how to trim hats up to the highest and latest art to the delight of her many customers. Julius Goldzier, who has served the people long and well in many ways is now out of the woods so to speak, and all can rest assured that he will be the next State's attorney of Cook county. Attorney Charles H. Stevenson, 100 Washington St. returned home from New York city a few days ago and he is much pleased with Col. Bryan's chances in carrying that city and state. M. E. Hunt, regular Democratic candidate for state representative, 3rd Senatorial District is making a very creditable canvass. Mr. Hunt, like his father, Inspector N. Hunt, is very popular with the colored people and the majority of them residing in his District will cast their ballots for him. Thursday night the Old Hickory club of the 30th Ward gave its Fall-house warning, and many of its friends were present to join in the good time which was enjoyed by all. Robert J. Roluston, its president extended an invitation to us to attend he love-feast but we were unable to do so. There is nothing new to be said regarding the good qualities of Frank Wenter, drainage trustee for his reputation is above reproach. He is known to all the best business men of Chicago, and there is no power on earth that can prevent the re-election of Frank Wenter. The 30th Ward has no harder or better worker in the ranks of Democracy than Robert T. Sims who is a typical representative of the new Negro. Recently Mr. Sims has organized a Negro Democratic club with more than 40 members. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the 3rd District Committee. M. J. Butler, who will be returned to the legislature from the Fourth Senatorial District, and it can be truly said in favor of Mr. Butler that he has ever been friendly to the Afro-Americans. Those who know him still remember that he was a member of the legislature when the Civil Rights bill was passed and the records show that he voted in favor of the measure. We understand that Mr. Alex. J. Jones, has stated on several occasions that whenever he runs across us he intends giving us a good clubbing, because we told nothing but the whole truth about him. Mr. Jones if you had not treated us like a common dog we would never thought of saying one mean word about you, and all we have to say is, that if you attempt to club us you may get the worst of it. A large number of club women gathered at the Phyllis Wheatley 51st and Dearborn club rooms Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 10th to listen to an address on "Ventilation," by Dr. Joseph Jeffrey, under the direction of the Home section. The doctor's remarks were mixed with bright sparkling wit and sound logic. To hear him was indeed a feast of reason. He said among other things, that in order to enjoy perfect health the home must be kept well ventilated and free from dust, that we can live without food for a short time but that it is impossible to live without oxygen and that we cannot get too much of this great supporter of life. In closing he impressed upon those present that we must also ventilate the mind as well as the home that the two go hand in hand. The doctor's remarks were well received and he was highly complimented. The Educational Section will have charge of the program next Wednesday, Oct. 17. Subject, "Relation of Parents to Teachers," by Mrs. Jones. Anyone who can give information as to the whereabouts of Adam Born (colored) who when last heard of was working at the barber trade in this city will be suitably rewarded by Mrs. Sarah Robinson, No. 3 Rector court, Charleston, S. C. Last year two Italian railway lines passing through swampy regions supplied all their station-houses with inquite nets. In consequence, there has been such a diminution in the number of cases of malaria that other lines in Italy and in Sicily are about to adopt the same measures. Largest Grape Region. The largest grape growing region in the world is not the champagne district of France, nor in the sunny valley of southern California, for western New York owns the title by virtue of 50,000 acres now given over to grape culture. Indian Territory Society Item. This paragraph appeared in the Chickasaw, I. T., Press, under the head of "society notes:" "A Chickasaw girl who several years ago had a "startled fawn' look in her eyes has cultivated the look to such an extent that she now looks like a scared rabbit." Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Parma, Belfast, Protestant, Knights of Lobos, Inkebo, Hormana, Republicans, Priests, or any other can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper where platform is broad enough for all, over claiming the literal right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; the only on one side of the name. One Year..... $2.49 Six Months..... 2.49 Advertising rates made known on application Address all communications to When patrolizing a Boston hotel don't forget that "culinary symposium" on the bill of fare means hash. A lady writer says that it must have been a woman who invented the alphabet, for had it been a man he would have begun with the letter I. That burglar who held up a Chinese laundryman and received a pall of hot starch in reply was probably the most "stuck up" criminal in the city for a time. The solemn look on the father's face when he gives his daughter away at the marriage altar is amusing when one recalls how anxious he was to get rid of her the past ten years. Even the president of the United States cannot declare war until he is authorized so to do by congress. Yet miners or mineowners can at any time precipitate industrial war. The time is coming when they will not be permitted to do so. Compulsory arbitration will make strikes unnecessary. The American manufacturer has lost no opportunity at the world's fair in Paris, and in numbers is far in excess of any other foreign nation. There are 6,564 American exhibitors, num- ring ten times more than Great Britain, three times more than Germany and four times more than Russia. Our exhibits cover nearly eight acres. Alexander Ramsey, the first territorial governor of Minnesota, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday in Minneapolis a few days ago. He is as hale and hearty as a man of sixty. He served first as mayor of St. Paul, then as governor of Minnesota Territory, was second governor of the state, served as United States senator, and was secretary of war under President Hayes. Mrs. Nancy Jones of Jonesboro, Tenn., celebrated her 105th birthday a few days ago. She still enjoys her pipe, manages her farm and draws a pension as a revolutionary widow. The secret of the number of the Joneses is now explained. They have had vigorous ancestors and if all of them live to the age of the Jonesboro Jones they will have to annex additional territory or build a new Jones-town. Ident. Hobson seems to have a hard time in getting a square deal with the reporters. He now denies that he ever had "the slightest intention of belittling Admiral Dewey's victory. It cannot be belittled, and I, who have been upon the ground and who have spent months in repairing the wrecks that Admiral Dewey left, can appreciate fully what a grand victory it was." That sounds better. It is now "up to the reporters" for their say. Seventeen mountains in Alaska are more than ten thousand feet above the level of the sea. One of them is Mount St. Elias, which until the recent survey was supposed to be the highest peak in the country. It now proves to be nearly a half-mile lower than Mount McKinley, a hoary old giant that towers more than twenty thousand four hundred feet. Here is a namesake at which the president can point with pride. It is not quite the highest mountain on earth, to be sure, but it is the "biggest thing" of its kind in North America, as a presidential peak should be. It is said the Koreans are a handsomer race than either the Japanese or Chinese, and at one time were far ahead of them in civilization. Devil worship of the most abject order is the secret of Korean decadence. Superstition and fear of countless evil spirits, with the faint hope of propitiating a small minority of kindly demons must be held accountable for the degeneration of the people whom nature did not fail to qualify for a splendid destiny. Buddhism and Confucianism have both been overthrown by Shamanism, the keynote of which is always sorcery. Wizards and witch doctors are the real rulers of Korea. The board of health of New York has decided to build a laboratory where the bubonic plague may be studied and plans for the structure are now being drawn. Ever since the arrival at New York of the plagueship from Santin, Brazil, last spring, the need of such a laboratory has been felt. The present outbreak in Glasgow has served to hurry the authorities. The building will be constructed of steel, with solid asphalt walls. There will be no chimney nor windows. The lighting will be by electricity. The establishment of this laboratory will be a valuable addition to the quarantine system of the port, as well as an aid to scientific research in a very practical field. WOMEN CATCH SHARKS. Blue-Nosed Man-Enter Landed by Pinchy Long Island Women. Four man-eating sharks were landed at Bay Shore, L. L, last week by a fishing party and the credit for the achievement is given to a number of women, Mrs. E. F. Draper, Mrs. Frank De Rosses and Mrs. Joseph B. Griswold. There were, of course, a few men in the party that left the pier. They were rounding Fire Island when a tremendous shark was seen to jump out of the water near the stern of the boat. Captain Ketchum rigged three lines each as thick as an ordinary clothesline, and baited the big moors with good-sized chunks of pork, using pieces of wood about the size of a brick for floats. The women of the party did the fishing. Soon Mrs. Griswold got a bit so fierce that it almost jerked her out of the boat. But she held on, and with Captain Ketchum's assistance commenced to haul in. She had hooked a blue-nosed shark of tremendous size, which struggled in vain to free itself. Mate Howell grabbed the handle of a sweeping brush, to which was attached a large-sized knife, and when the shark had been pulled to the side of the boat he plunged it in as far as it would go. This he did four or five times. After a struggle of nearly fifteen minutes the shark was killed and lifted into the boat. It weighed 270 pounds. Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Draper each succeeded in landing a shark, though the prize catch was Mrs. Griswold's. The fourth and smallest of the catch also fell to Mrs. Griswold. DUTY IN KIND. One Case Where a Thieving Turk Was Bitten. The rapacity of Turkish officials of all sorts is notorious, but that of the customs officers exceeds all other kinds. An interesting instance of paying duty in kind is to be recorded. An official of the British embassy bought in Paris a dress for his wife, for which he paid £10. The customs officials valued it at £60 and demanded duty on that amount. The Englishman refused, and, knowing the law, said they might keep the dress, paying him the value they had fixed upon it, less the 8 per cent. This was done, and a month later at the public auction of confiscated goods he bought back the dress for £6, thus getting the dress for nothing and making a profit of £39 4s on the bargain. Justice is meted out rapidly in Turkey. On one occasion a Kurd picked up a tobacco box in the street, which was promptly claimed by an Armenian. Just as they were coming to blows a policeman interfered. Both Armenian and Kurd claimed the box, when the former suggested that the Kurd should say what was in it. "Tobacco and cigarette paper," promptly answered the Kurd. "Nothing of the sort," cried the Armenian. "It contains only a five plastr piece." The box was gravely opened by the policeman, who then said: "The Armenian is right and the Kurd is a liar." Here he smote the Kurd's head. "Furthermore, Allah be praised!—for my trouble in deciding this complicated case I keep the five plastrs." PREACHED 68 YEARS. Rev. Lorenzo Waugh, the oldest Methodist minister in the world, died Saturday at Williams, Cal. He was 92 years old in August. He was born in West Virginia and spent his early life in the region of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 1852 he crossed the plains with an ox team and took up a grant of land in Sonoma county, Cal. He had been a minister in the Method- A. REV. LORENZO WAUGH ist Church for upwards of sixty-eight years and was known far and wide as "Father" Waugh. This Lamp Has Time Limit. A time-limit incandescent lamp, which will burn for a predetermined number of hours and then go out, has been invented in Germany. It is exceedingly simple in construction and entirely self-contained. In the base of the lamp is mounted a copper tube in which is contained a solution of sulphate of copper. Into this dips a copper wire which is so connected that the current feeding the lamp flows through it and the solution to the tube and thence to the lamp filament. An electrolytic action is set up by this arrangement, the wire dissolving in the fluid and copper-being deposited on the walls of the tube. After a certain length of time, depending upon the size of the wire, the wire is completely dissolved and the circuit broken. By selecting the size and length of the wire the lamp may be made to extinguish itself after any fixed number of hours. Just what use will be made of this ingenious device is not stated, but it is possible that families afflicted with callers who stay late might find GROWTH OF COMBINES Latest Monopoly Is a Conspiracy to Hob Them of Their Profit—Has Far-Reaching Effect — Contracts Are Already Signed. P. E. Dowle, member of the executive committee of the National Democratic Traveling Men's association, and of the Commercial Travelers' AntiTrust League, arrived in Chicago yesterday. He has just completed an extensive tour of Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. "I have recently discovered," said Mr. Dowie, "a gigantic conspiracy to rob the farmers of the country. This latest product of monopoly includes in its membership about 600 big grain dealers and elevator men in the territory extending from St. Paul on the north to Kansas City on the south, including the states of Wisconsin Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. "All the 600 and more members of this newest thing in trusts are pledged to buy grain at one and a half cents low, that is below the cash price, and to store for not less than one and a half cents profit. The association engineering the scheme is to fix the selling price. Forty per cent of the profits are to go to the association, the balance going to the dealers who are parties to the swindle. Have Signed Contract. "Grain dealers in the sections where the trust is at work have been induced to sign contracts and a regular system of inspection guarantees against cutting prices. Grain stations are established here and there, and at each station the trust has an agent who has authority to inspect the books of any member of the association. A membership fee of $50 is charged. A fine of $100 is imposed if the agreement is broken, and $50 is charged for reinstating a member who has violated any of the terms of the pact. On its part, the association guarantees the grain dealers, who enter into the agreement,protection from changes in the ownership of elevators where they may have their grain stored. If an elevator attempts to break away or to run independent, they guavantee to have its supply of cars shut off, so that it cannot ship grain to market in opposition to the trust. Promoted by Republicana "Since I discovered the conspiracy, a few days since, I have been collecting information concerning it. I ascertained today that the promotor and organizer of the trust is an ardent Republican and superintendent of one of the largest elevators in the country. "The practical workings of this combination to rob the farmer are not difficult to see. By getting all the grain dealers of a community enrolled as members, it is impossible for the farmers of that section to sell to anyone outside the trust or to ship their grain away. They must stand the loss of a cent and a half a bushel on the price of their grain in order to find a market. I am not ready to give the names, but will do so soon." It is said that the new movement to compel the farmers of the states mentioned to accept less than the market price to realize on their crops had its inception in Chicago, and that several of the big elevator men and grain dealers are interested in it. LYING WAS BEGUN. The Republican national committee keeps the Republican newspaper throughout the country supplied with burning thoughts. This is a boon to the Republican newspapers, for their thoughts use to cost them 25 cents per column from the "boiler-plate" factories, and now they get them for nothing. In a list of converts to Bryan published sometime ago by an eastern newspaper, the article mentioned half a dozen names of residents of Bath, N. Y., as citizens of Bath, Me. The mistake was purely accidental. Obviously their votes would be much more useful to Mr. Bryan where they properly belong than they would be in Maine. The Hanna organs, however, discovered the mistake, pounced upon it with a great outcry, and even yet have not finished crying "fake." Last year, Mr. Creelman, the celebrated newspaper correspondent, wrote from Nebraska that statement that Mr. Bryan by his lectures and writings had accumulated property worth about twenty-five thousand dollars. The ever vigilant and diabolically inclined printer, put on an extra cipher, making the amount two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The mistake was not discovered until the paper was on the street. Here was another thing for the Republican press to make an out-cry about. Remarks about Mr. Bryan as a "plutocrat" began to circulate through the Republican press, but they eventually stopped when the explanation of the slip made them too ridiculous to be persisted in. The Hanna literary bureau, has, however, recently revived them, and has even improved on the original typographical error by raising the amount of Mr. Bryan's fortune to three hundred thousand dollars. Another instance of the methods employed by the Republican literary bureau may be cited. Some years ago a gentleman, no longer connected with the New York Journal, wrote a signed article giving his estimate of Mr. Bryan as a man and as a leader. This estimate has been revived by the Republican press bureau and circulated as the editorial opinion of the New York Journal and even in some cases represented as the personal work of W. R. Hearst. Ex-Senator Manderson, recently undertook to prove for the benefit of the Republican party, that notwithstanding the cry of "militarism" the "military powers of Europe spent more on their armies than we did." The New York Journal printed an article showing that the military budget in Europe includes the entire cost of pensions, and that if we took this into account our military expenses were nearly twice as great as those of any other military country in the world. Thereupon the Republican literary bureau started out paragraphs like this and they are still running in the columns of the Republican press of the country: W. R. Hearst, editor of the New York Journal, an earnest "Bryanite," says that the paying of pensions to soldiers is "militarism." "Militarism" according to Bryan is one of the great issues in this campaign. Veterans will please take notice. Such attempts as the ones indicated are a very fair example of what may be termed "the slimy hands in politics" and yet such are the methods of the Republican press bureau. MARK HANNA CALLED OFF. Mark Hanna's career as a "spellbinder" has been cut short by no less an individual than William McKinley. For the first time in the campaign it is said McKinley has found it necessary to interfere with his campaign manager in any way. But Hanna in a few brief efforts was having such a disastrous effect among the workingmen and farmers in Indiana, Illinois and other states where the trust is not admired that the presidential candidate found it necessary in the interest of the party, not to say anything of himself, to interfere and call off Mr. Hanna's dates as a "spellbinder" much to the disappointment of National Chairman Jones of the Democratic committee. As a result Mr. Hanna will devote his undivided time to the management of the contributed campaign fund where, in his opinion, it will do the most good. The main cause of the trouble was Mr. Hanna's speech in Chicago in which he made the statement, "I do not believe there is a trust in the United States." From all over the country telegrams and letters of protest poured in on the president against such foolish statements, even though made by "The Boss," and McKinley could not let them go unheeded however much he approved Mark's assertions As a consequence Mark Hanna was told plainly that he must make no more speeches without first submitting what he is going to say to a rigid censorship and that he must not attempt to make the Dakota and Nebraska trip he had planned under any circumstances. As a matter of fact, Senator Hanna was a little dubious about attempting to make any campaign speeches until Perry Heath and Congressman Landis of Indiana urged him to speak at Delphi. His reception there appealed to his vanity. The flattery of the Republican papers turned his head and he was induced to make a second trial before the Commercial Men's Club at Chicago at a noonday meeting. There was where he got into trouble. He believed that it was up to him to say something about trusts, and he did so with a vengeance. He launched forth in a challenge to Mr. Bryan to tell him what a trust was and then followed with the assertion that there were no trusts in the country and finally concluded this phase of his address with a bold statement that the only trusts he was aware existed in this country were the cotton ball trust and the ice trust, which he said certain Democratic politicians were supposed to be interested in. Democrats all over the country will regret Mr. Hanna's downfall as a spellbinder. But we still have Teddy Roosevelt and Senator Stewart left. BRYAN DENIES IT. "I have not given to any one, either verbally or in writing, a promise of a cabinet position or any other position, and I shall not during the campaign make any such promise to any one. "I have not authorized and shall not authorize any one, verbally or in writing, to promise any cabinet position or any other position to any one. If I am elected I shall be absolutely free to discharge all the duties of the office according to my platform, as far as the platform goes, and according to my own judgment in all matters not covered by the platform." Such is William Jennings Bryan's answer to Hanna's charge that he has made promises to would-be officeholders and that the cabinet portfolios have been parceled out in advance of his election. Why Republicans Are Apathetic. Binghamton Leader: The record of the Republican party in government is not satisfactory to the members of that party, especially to these members who do their own thinking. Thousands of Republicans in all sections of the country disapprove the Philippine scheme, and while not all of these will refuse to vote the Republican ticket, their attitude and speech are calculated to encourage and strengthen the growing sentiment against imperialism. When the thinking and independent membership of a party is in a mental condition that reflects all the shades of feeling from indifference to disgust, it is not unreasonable to look for results that must be far from gratifying to that party's managers. This is the state of things in the Republican party today, and over-confidence is the last feeling it is calculated to produce. WHEN SLAVERY ISN'T SLAVERY "The Declaration of Independence remained unexecuted until the people, under the lead of the Republican party in the awful clash of battle, turned its promises into fulfillment."—McKinley. Mr. President: Didn't you say at the Georgia Chautauqua in August, 1888, that the American colonies to which England had a valid title, rebelled against the mother country in order to have self-government?" Didn't you say at the New England society dinner in 1896 that you believed in government by consent of the governed, "and of all the governed?" "Yes; I said that." Does slavery exist in the Hawaiian islands? "Yes." Who owns those irlands? "The United States." The United States, now under a Republican administration that points with pride to the action of the first republican administration in emancipating the negro slaves in America at a cost of about 400,000 lives? How did the United States acquire the Hawaiian islands? "By annexation, in 1898, under my administration." Did you know slavery existed on those islands? "Yes; I knew it." What have you done or asked congress to do to stop that dealing in human flesh in the islands? "Nothing at all." What is the evidence of ownership of slaves in the islands? "A receipt or bill of sale with description of the colored man or woman." Are those slaves personal property in the islands? "Just as much so as a mule in Ohio." In what other portions of the United States territory does slavery exist? "In the Sulu or Moros islands, a group of the Philippines." How many islands does the sultan of Sulu govern? "Five." With whose consent does he govern those islands? "With my consent." Is he absolute monarch of those islands? "Yes." So there is an absolute monarchy in the territory of the United States, and by your consent? "Yes." What religion prevails in those islands? "The Mohammedan religion." Is the sultan the head of the church? "Yes." So there is an established church in United States territory, and a combination of church and state? Are slaves bought and sold in the Sulu islands? "Yes." "Why don't you put a stop to it? "I can't; the sultan would revolt." Have you given any presents to the sultan of Sulu? "Yes; I have given him $10,000 and an allowance of $500 a month." "Did you give that out of your own pocket?" "Oh, no." Out of whose pocket, then? "The pockets of the taxpayers of the United States." How did the sultan earn that money? "He promised to keep quiet and make no trouble." Make no trouble, for whom? "For me." Is the sultan a polygamist? "Yes." What is the size of his harem? "He has ten women." So you give him $1,000 of the American taxpayers' money for each of his women? "Yes." And an allowance of $50 a month for the support of each woman? "Yes." "Did you think congress was right in expelling Brigham H. Roberts on the charge of polygamy? "Yes." As a professing Christian you thought that was your "plain duty," didn't you? "Yes." So that you denounce polygamy in America and pension it in Sulu at the expense of the taxpayers? "Yes. But the interests of the republican party required us to have the good will of the sultan at any price." Then, why didn't the Republican party take that money out of its own pocket, instead of taking it from the American people who don't believe in polygamy and slavery? Why Hanna Is Worried Rochester Herald: One of the chief causes of Mark Hanna's uneasiness, which he makes no pretense to conceal, is the possibility that New York will go Democratic. In Maine and Vermont there have been changes of 10 and 20 per cent during the last four years in favor of the Democracy. That was in states where no concerted effort was made to reduce the conceded Republican pluralities. In New York a change of less than 1 per cent will throw the state into the Democratic column. With organized effort throughout the state it is not to be denied that the chances of Democratic victory are bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. Mark Hanna, at all events, has experienced no difficulty in discerning them. The trusts ceased to be about the same time that the war in the Philippines ended. — Kalamasoo (Mich.) News. AN IMITATIVE PEOPLE The Chinaman has little of mechanical ingenuity, although he possesses mere powers of imitation, and is often very much alive to the excellence of mechanical devices he never saw before. A year or two ago Henry A. Janvier was sent to China to assist in the erection and operation of coining plants for brass and silver currency. One of the tools which Mr. Janvier took with him was a "micrometer caliper," made by a well-known firm in the United States, and capable of detecting differences of a thousandth of an inch in the thickness of a piece of metal. The superintendent of one of the shops which Mr. Janvier established was named Wai, and he proved a very intelligent fellow. During an interval of about six weeks he borrowed the caliper almost Jaily, and was rather tardy in returning it. Finally he exhibited to the American a reproduction of the instrument which was perfect except in one respect. Certain tables of figures stamped into the steel by the Yankee makers of the original were omitted from the copy, and in their place were several Chinese characters. The imitation had been made with the rudest of tools, but was a marvel of accuracy. Mr. Wai proposed an exchange to Mr. Janvier, and the latter agreed to the proposition. Notes from the Paris Expos "The Singer Manufacturing Company, of 149 Broadway, New York, show their usual American enterprise by having a very creditable exhibit, located in Group XIII, Class 79, at the Paris International Exposition, where they show to great advantage the celebrated Singer Sewing-Machine which is used in every country on the globe, both for family use and for manufacturing purposes. The writer was highly pleased with this display and observed with much satisfaction that it was favorably commented upon by visitors generally. The Grand Prize was awarded by the International Jury to Singer Sewing-Machines for superior excellence in design, construction, efficiency and for remarkable development and adaptation to every stitching process used in either the family or the factory. Only One Grand Prize for sewing machines was awarded at Paris, and this distinction of absolutely superior merit confirms the previous action of the International Jury at the World's Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, where Singer machines received 54 distinct awards, being more than were received by all other kinds of sewing machines combined. Should it be possible that any of our readers are unfamiliar with the celebrated Singer Machine, we would respectfully advise that they call at any of the Singer salesrooms which can be found in all cities and most towns in the United States." Aroused Young Woman's Indignation. A certain colonel on the staff of one of Grant's generals was much given to novel reading and went about with his saddlebags stuffed full of thrilling romances. For weeks he had been devouring an English translation of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables." One day while passing through a confederate town he saw a young woman seated on a porch, and stopping his horse, bowed to her with all the grace of a Chesterfield and endeavored to engage her in conversation. Before he had gone far he took occasion to remark: "Have you seen 'Lees Miserables'?" anglicizing the pronounciation. Her black eyes snapped with indignation as she tartly replied: "Don't you talk to me that way; they'be a good deal better than Grant's miserables, anyhow!" Extent of Chinese Literature Chinese literature is so extensive that a catalogue of the four imperial libraries of the present dynasty classifies and briefly describes no less than 98,000 books and itself fills 200 volumes. Although some western writers have described the collection as a whole as a vast library of oriental concit and a dreary wilderness of words, the Abbe Remusat, a genuine student of the Chinese language, wrote enthusiastically regarding their charm, saying he found in them "eloquence and poetry, enriched by the beauty of a picturesque language preserving to imagination all its colors." The description is a very accurate one, too. Buried Cities in Central Asia The list of bush-covered ruins in Central America is steadily increasing, and some of the sculptured temples recently unearthed—or, rather, unjungled—in the neighborhood of San Elizario, Honduras, differ from those of Uxmal only in point of size. The elaboration of ornament is the same, the architecture resembles that of the Tucatan forest town in all its characteristics, including the substitution of big stone slabs for keystone arches. The builders may, after all, not have been contemporaries of the Pharaohs, but peace-loving Caziques, who fled at the approach of the Spanish man hunters. Jeff Davis' Slave a "Mayor." Isaiah T. Montgomery, who was in his youth a slave of Jefferson Davis, and his elder brother, Joseph Davis, founded a colony of negroes in the Yazoo river valley, in Mississippi after the war, and he is now "mayor" of the village of Mount Bayou, the center of the colony. The negroes own 12,000 acres there. When the British sparrow-hawk is flying toward its dinner it goes through the air at the rate of 150 miles an hour. YOU NEED NOT SUNSHINE With Brennan Simmons, Salutee, Hannahigh or Backstreet, "I Broke" will believe All Pain' and Ours Too. SWANSON'S "5 DROPS" is quick and positive. It prevents and absolutely cures disease. It kills the germs. It uses with marvelous effect on the stomach, liver and kidneys; purifies the blood, strengthens the nerves, and places the entire system in a healthy condition. 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It is true that both the charming actress and the equally lovely marchioness are Irish women, but there the relationship ends, while the resemblance can readily be traced in their photographs—a resemblance made all the stronger by the fact that in height, weight and coloring there is scarcely any difference between them. Just as Miss Marlowe is considered one of the most delightful women on the stage today, her double, the marchioness, is regarded as a leading belle and beauty in smart British society, and what is even more to her credit. A she is a peculiarly sweet and accomplished woman. Before her marriage she was Miss Hare, granddaughter of the earl of Listowel, and by her marriage to the eighth earl of Downshires the Irish beauty, whose pulchritude in a single season had won her widespread fame, because of the richest of Irish peeresses, second only to her sister, marchioness of Londonderry. Like a genuine daughter of Erin, this wealthy and titled woman prefers her Irish homes to those her husband owns in England, and, true to the traditions of her family, she is a wonderful horsewoman. Her little 5-year-old-son, the little Viscount Hillsborough, has been taught to master his pony under her own eye, hand and direction. Coming herself of Irish people, one of the marchioness' proudest boasts is that her husband's family settled in Ireland as long ago as 1573 and that her boys will grow up to be genuine Irishmen. Now aand then she leaves her favorite home in County Down for a glimpse of the London season, and she is not alone conspicuous in the Mayfair drawing rooms for her beauty, but also for the fact that she rarely or never wears any jewels. With a wealth of rich hair and faultless throat and arms, this beautiful woman creates a more flattering impression without the commonplace pearls, diamonds, etc., that her sister peeresses find absolutely necessary to their pride and good looks. Woman in the Pulpit. One of the most successful women preachers in this country is Mary Gammill Rheubottom of Indiana. She is a member of the denomination called Christians. She has charge of several congregations, including those at Millersburg, Wakarusa, Pleasant Hill and Belleville. She has been the regular preacher for Millersburg for five years and a circuit preacher for the other places. She recently completed a series of revival meetings at Pleasant Hill, when there were 103 conversions, and at Millersburg, where there were ninety-two accessions to the church. At one time 106 of her converts were baptized. As a result of her work the old Pleasant Hill church has been razed and a handsome brick church has taken its place and is ready for dedication. Mary Gammill Rheubottom was born in Ohio. She is an accomplished, sympathetic and forceful pulpit speaker and fearlessly attacks vice and immorality. She officiates at weddings, burials and other religious affairs, and people go for miles to hear her preach. Width of a Lightning Flash. The width of a fish of lightning has been measured by George Rumker of the Hamburg observatory. A photograph was secured last August as lightning struck a tower a third of a mile away, and from the distance of the tower, and the focal distance of the camera objective it was possible to calculate the breadth of the discharge shown in the picture. It has been determined that the flash was one-fifth of an inch wide. Ramifications shown in the photograph on each side of the main discharge are attributed to the strong gale that was blowing, the phenomenon appearing like a silk ribbon with shreds floating in the wind. Apples are now recommended by many physicians as brain food, because they contain a quantity of phosphoric acid and are easily digested. When eaten at night, some little time previous to retiring, they are said to excite the action of the liver and produce sleep The tan shoe for women will soon be numbered among the things of the past. Without a single exception the makers report a marked falling off in the demand for them and some concerns have not sent out any samples of them for this season. Tan shoes for women were always regarded by shrewd men in the shoe business as more or less of a fad and were not expected to become an established feature of the business. One of the chief causes for the loss of popularity which the tan shoe has sustained is the fact that a tan shoe, size for size, looks larger than the black shoe. That alone was enough to bring it into disfavor and when, in addition, it is considered that the tan shoe, no matter how tastefully made, could never compare with black shoes of standard makes in style or neatness of appearance, its speedy decline in public favor as soon as the novelty of the innovation had worn off followed as a matter of course. This does not apply, however, to the more elaborate articles got up in fancy colors, such as red, blue, pink, etc., which are meeting with more and more favor. The fancy slippers and shoes made of these shades of leather, and furnished with the French or Louis XV. wood heel, are being made in great numbers this season by Lynn manufacturers, who report most gratifying results in the demand. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. 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Simple in speech, she has striven also to be simple in deed and life. Last winter season, it may not be generally known, she persuaded the king to give up entertaining at court, and to devote the money thus saved to the poor. This winter the experiment would have been repeated. In Turin the widowed queen is expected to lead henceforth a life detached from state and amusement almost to the point of austerity.—Buffalo Commercial. Americans Must Have Ice. The ice habit is making rapid progress in Great Britain, says Marshall Halstead, United States consul at Birmingham, due largely to the incessant clamor for ice in hotels and public places by the thousands of traveling Americans. Not very long ago the attendants of public places in England, where nearly everything except ice was provided, would be insulted if one complained because ice could not be had. 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No other medicine has made the cure that it has, and no other woman has helped so many women by direct advice as has Mrs. Pinkham; her experience is greater than that of any living person. If you are sick, write and get her advice; her address is Lynn, Mass. "The Telephone Girl" will pay a visit to the People's theater, Boston, a little while. Maud Raymond is taking a rest this season and does not appear with the Rogers brothers. The Bostonians, in their new opera, is an early attraction at the Broad Street theater, Boston. Twenty theaters will compete for the patronage of the amusement-seeking public in Chicago this season. Israel Zangwill is himself making the dramatization of his story, "The Mantle of Elijah," for Viola Allen. Matthews and Bulger have found a play to suit them in "The Night of the Fourth" written by a Chicago newspaper. Maude Ritchie, the prima donna of "The Cadet Girl" company, is the daughter of a member of the Philadelphia Bourse. Charles Hopper, who used to play "Ginnnie Fadden," will make his next bid for popular recognition as Sir. Dooley. Messagni says that he is composing an opera with Julius Caesar for its home to a libretto written by Gabriel d'Anfinzio. It is said of Francis Wilson's new comic opera, "The Monks of Malabar," that it promises to become as popular as "Ginnnie." Harris, the sweet singer, appears in a stunning costume and sings popular illustrated songs at the Eleventh Street opera house. Robert Fitzsimmons will return to the stage and his wife will be his leading actress. She used to be Rose "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" has been acted on the Italian and German stage. It has now been put into France for the use of Madame Rejane. It is more than probable that Ada Rehda's season in this country will be a short one, and that she will begin a London season by the first of the year. Alice Judson, the dainty little prima donna antiquite of "The Cadet Girl" company, has made a very favorable impression by her work as Marguerite. This is the first role she has played since leaving De Wolf Hopper. What a woman's husband makes money she no longer employs a sewing woman, but calls the woman who does that work her "modiste." The women make a great fuss if a man appears at dinner in his shirt sleeves. Are shirt sleeves at dinner any worse than hair in curl papers for breakfast? If there were a law compelling a great when he says, "With all my worldly goods I thee endow," to give an inventory showing just what he has there would be fewer marriages than call for relief expeditions from the bride's parents. Annie who is visiting in town has been invited out to two meals a day since she arrived a month ago. At every meal she was given a tomato coated with yellow starch. She wants to know if this habit is universal in Kansas, or prevails only in Atchison. 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