The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. VI. Much has been said and written since the election as to the future of the Democratic party. Some have contended that the party would at no distant day become disorganized, wither up and decay. Others have as persistently maintained that as long as the republic lasts or stands, the Democratic party will not die; that it is co-existent not only with the republic but also with her institutions that the great party founded by Thomas Jefferson still has a mission to fulfill and a task to perform that it will not perish or become extinct as long as injustice stalks throughout the land. As the result of these two conflicting ideas in reference to the future of the Democratic party, we are rather inclined to the latter view rather than to permit ourself to labor under the impression that the Democratic party cannot or will not grow in strength and power, for how could it be otherwise as long as there are so many grave and serious questions confronting the American people for settlement which cannot be setled until they are settled right, and it will only be a short time comparatively speaking until the people cannot help being convinced that they cannot reasonably expect that the Republican party will ever manifest any disposition to curta- the power or to retard the onward march of the trusts and the money power. Then, after they, the people, have observed how their rights as common citizens are gradually being undermined and slipping away from them through the instrumentality of the Republican party, they will naturally turn to the Democratic party for relief and there are already many millions of people in this country and their number is constantly increasing, who are not in favor of permitting the trusts to control the government instead of the government controlling the trusts. They do not approve of that dangerous governmental policy of delegating the right to a few private bankers to make, own and control all the money, which means that the bankers have become more powerful than the government itself, for the Republican party and the government have shown their inability to cope with the bankers and the money power and the result is these two silent and unseen powers not only control the function of making and regulating all the money, but they also control all branches of the government as well. It will be the duty and the mission of the Democratic party to remedy these and many more evils which are now being inflicted upon the American people by the Republican party, the trusts and the money power. But the Democratic party cannot hope in the near future to meet with that degree of success which it so richly deserves until its leaders without fear or favor stand up and contend for the rights and the equality of all men before the law. For true Democracy knows no man by the color of his skin nor by the texture of his hair, for Democracy was born out among the common people in an age when all men were brothers. Therefore the undying principles of Democracy will never die and if we had the ability we would proclaim thy glory! Every battlefield baptized with your memory! Every revolution of the great and ever-turning wheel of progress marks your march towards liberty and equality! Every slave set free, every darkened mind made light, every child lifted from the cellar and the garret into the sunbeams, is an evidence of your power and influence; your true songs O, Democracy, are continually sung by the winds, and your thoughts will never cease from being uttered by the sons of men so long as noble aspirations shall spring from human hearts! Congressman George P. Foster, will take his departure for Washington, D. C., Tuesday, where he will resume his labors in Congress and from now on Congressman Foster will take a hand in speeachmaking and all things pertaining to the welfare of the people of Chicago. WORDS OF WARNING TO THE NEGRO. It is from the northern state of Colorado and not from the South, that news of the latest horrible torture of a Negro comes. This Negro was a mere boy of 16. He had committed a crime upon a white girl of 11 which caused her death, and for this he was justly amenable to punishment—to precisely the same punishment that ought to be inflicted upon a white boy of equal responsibility for the same kind of crime. But this boy was not treated as he would have been had his skin been white. It is true that a white boy would have been arrested, as the Negro was. It is possible that in a rocky mountain state he would have been lynched, as the Negro was. But it is certain that nowhere would he have been tortured at the stake. Yet what is what was done to the Negro boy. He was seized by the mob—with the consent of the sheriff who had him in custody, and who ought to be most severely dealt with for his share in the crime that followed; he was mained to an iron stake; wood was used about him and saturated with kerene; and slowly, deliberately, flendly, he was tortured with fire until consciousness left him, and then he was burned to ashes. This was not for his crime. Such an outrage upon white man however villainously criminal, would be impossible in Colorado or anywhere else. It was because, in addition to being a criminal, he was a negro. In Colorado this extreme expression of race hostility is a worse blot upon the public conscience than it would be in the South. For in the South public opinion regarding Negroes has been perverted by a long history of false race relations The people of Colorado have not that excuse. They are allowing race prejudice and hatred to possess them as a new evil. They will be doing so, that is, if they adopt this crime by allowing the leaders of the mob who participated in the devilish orgie to go unpunished. And that they will do so is almost a foregone conclusion. With but few exceptions only faint expressions of condemnation have been made even in Denver. Nor is this apathy canned to Colorado. Astonishing interviews from other states, even from women, have appeared condoning the lynching. Out of four well-known members of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs interviewed at Albany, N. ', the day after the occurrence, only one denounced the lynching as a crime. The others found palliation for it in the boy's offense. Of the magnitude of that offense too much in condemnation cannot be said. But if we are to have social order at all, it is vital that the criminal law and not mobs, shall deal with criminals; that punishment shall be expressive of the necessity of punishing criminals and not of the brutish instincts of infurred men; that in administering punishment there shall be no distinction with reference to race; and above everything else that the sober second thought of the people everywhere and under all circumstances shall recognize and insist upon these principles. There is political significance, using that word in its broader sense, about the spread into northern states of the anti-Negro feeling. That it is spreading is no longer open to doubt. Nor is this horrifying Colorado lynching the sole evidence of it. Only a few months have elapsed since a reckless hue and cry against Negroes was raised in New York, and instances of discriminating treatment in different parts of the country are becoming more and more frequent. Considering these facts in connection with other familiar facts, it is evident that the race question is on the eve of settlement against the Negro. Highly significant in this connection are the reports that keep on coming from Washington to the effect that Mr. McKinley is hoping to organise a strong white party in the southern states, now that the race question has been settled there by the suppression of the Negro vote, reports that are confirmed by the marked refusal of administration congressmen to reduce southern representation in Congress by the number of Negroes the southern states disfranchise. This means that the disposition of the Republican party to maintain equal rights is at an end. It is as clear as day, to whoever will observe and think, that there is a fast growing tendency, among the classes of people that give the Republican party its strength, to treat Negroes in all respects as an inferior race—to deny them the full protection of the laws and to encourage their exclusion from participation in government. This tendency has grown with the raising of elementary issues in politics, with the issues of classes and masses, of plutocracy and democracy. The Negro's status is such that the blow against the "lower classes" can be delivered most effectively first at him. Prior to the recurrence of those elementary issues in American politics the Democratic party had, as a matter of pro-slavery tradition, been ranged against Negro rights. But upon its return to democratic principles, its recognition and defence of those rights were inevitable. It could not long plead for the declaration of independence without casting aside its traditional prejudices against Negroes. And it is fast doing so. "Bryanism," as it is called, or the "new democracy" as it should be known, stands for equal rights, politically and industrially and regardless of race. Yet we find the New York Age, the leading Negro paper of the East, congratulating its readers upon "the passing of Bryanism." Let us take the liberty of warning the American Negro that if "Bryanism" does pass, the hope of Negro and white alike—those of both faces who depend upon their own labor for their living—will pass with it. This is a critical time for the Negro, and if he cares for his rights he will do well to think more and trust less, before it is too late.—The Public. WOMAN'S COLUMN The Educational Section of the Phyllis Wheatly Club will render a program next Wednesday. Subject: "The Relation of the School to Society." Miss Lucinda Gamble, of Omaha, Neb., read a paper before the Woman's Club of that city lately on "The Women Writers of the Colored Race," and her paper was very interesting from start to finish. Mrs. Mary Church-Terrell, who is the strongest and the most intellectual woman belonging to the Afro-American race has returned to her home in Washington, D. C., after a successful lecturing tour through the west and the central states. Dr. Joseph Jeffrey lectured before the Phyllis Wheatly Club Wednesday afternoon on "Water," and he urged the women present to use plenty of water not only in bathing, but also in drinking. The doctor's talk was very instructive and highly appreciated by the club. Mrs. Fannie Barrie Williams, the highly educated and accomplished wife of S. Laing Williams, has the distinction of being the only Afro-American woman in Chicago belonging to the Chicago Woman's Club or to any other white club. Mrs. Williams is modest, unassuming and she is deeply interested in reform and club work. If women would get out of the habit of wearing shoes with run-over heels dirty underskirts then they could wear their top skirts much shorter, which would relieve them from the necessity of pulling their dresses up on the top of their fat and lean humps, thereby causing the slits in the rear of their dresses to flop open, which very often exposes their corset-strings, underclothing and sometimes their bare skin. Monday morning, Nov. 26, Mrs. Fannie Brown, who was well-known to all the old residents of Chicago passed away, and on Wednesday her remains were removed from her late home, 559 State street, to Quinn Chapel, where the funeral services were held. Rev. A. J. Carey spoke very touchingly of her many kind and good deeds. Her remains were laid to rest in Oakwood Cemetery. Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the Kansas agitator, intends cutting loose from her dear husband. She is of the opinion that her husband, who conducts a prosperous drug store in Wichita, Kans., cannot maintain or support her like Mrs. Potter Palmer, hence Mrs. Lease wants a divorce, so she can go it alone and it is said that Mr. Lease is delighted to get rid of Madam Mary, for he does not want the new fashioned wife or woman who feels that she is to good to remain at home at least part of the time, to administer to the wants of her husband and her children. Brother Lease, The Broad Ax is with you and we say, amen. Mrs. M. L. Keelan, 3120 Wabash avenue, is without question very highly trained in all those things which go to make up a true, noble and sensible women. Mrs. Keelan not only speaks French and German fluently but she is also an excellent performer upon the piano, and no one can help being charmed with her low, soft, musical voice. She is also one of the most active workers of Grace Presbyterian Church and the Lyceum, which is connected with it, there is one thing more which can be said in favor of Mrs. Keelan, namely, she does not manifest any disposition to button herself up in her husband's pantaloons and do all the bossing and henpecking like the so-called new or modern women, who delight in unsexing themselves in order to appear bold and mannish. The Chicago Women's Club tackled the color line at its last meeting and two reports were submitted for the consideration of its members, the majority report favored treating respectable colored women as sisters, but Mrs. J. E. Keith, whoever she may be, submitted a minority report and she thought it would be wrong to ask the white ladies of the South to sit in the same room with colored women who are sadly in need of their uplifting influence. Mrs. Keith may be right respecting the Southern white women, but we believe that inasmuch as the white ladies of the South for many years permitted black men to wash their feet and legs, that there is not much danger at this late day of them getting any blacker, if they should happen to draw a little closer to decent colored women. CHIPS. Frank J. Lehr, who conducts the Town of Lake resort, 117 South Clark street, has re-painted and given his place a general overhauling and everything now looks bright and clean. The Arena for November contains a symposium on the "Race Problem or Race Question," and this number of the Arena should be carefully read by those belonging to both races. Ex-Alderman M. McInerney believes that he will be able to build his aldermanic fences so high that Aldermen John T. Russell, James B. McDonald, Thomas Wall, Ex-Alderman McCarthy nor no one else will be able to knock them down. The election returns prove that a larger number of colored men openly supported the Democratic party here in Chicago this year than all the other years put together, and in many strong Republican districts where the colored people reside R. B. Organ and several other Democrats ran far ahead of the Republican candidates. Thus showing that the Negroes know how to do a little scratching. Monday morning the writer had a pleasant chat with Robert E. Burke, Esq., and while doing so he expressed his highest gratification over the good showing made by the colored Democrats at the last election and Mr. Burke also informed us that he "believes it is the duty of the leaders of the Democratic party to encourage colored men to refrain from thinking that they are bound hand and foot to the G. O. P." Thomas A. Moran, Jr., son of ExJudge Thomas A. Moran, has by his brilliant record at the bar become well known to all the ablest lawyers in Chicago and knowing that Mr. Moran possesses the necessary qualifications to occupy any legal position, we in common with man more, believe that the leaders of the Democratic party could not go astray by nominating Thomas A. Moran, Jr., for city attorney. Republican protestations of love for the Negro and regard for his "rights" are, and always have been, a mockery upon truth, honesty and sincerity. If the South would consent to bow down and worship the Republican shrine she could secure the wiping out of both the fourteenth and the fifteenth amendments. If the former is made operative against the South by the Republicans in Congress it will be for the purpose of punishing the South for remaining Democratic.—E Tuesday night a jollification meeting was held at Butler's Hall, 5728 State street, in honor of Congressman-Elect John J. Feely, Coroner John E. Treager, State Senator M. J. Butler, Representatives John E. Doyle and E. M. Cummings. George A. Huff presided with much dignity. Short talks were made by Hons. John J. Feely, M. J. Butler, John E. Doyle, E. M. Cummings, T. J. Nerney, Oscar Lennen, Ex-Alderman Michael McInerney and others. A fine lunch was served and all hands had a jolly good time. Dr. Howard S. Taylor, prosecuting attorney of Chicago, leaves the first of the week for West Baden, where he will remain for a period of three weeks in search of health and strength. The Doctor did not take his summer vacation and as he has been working very hard all fall, he feels he will be greatly benefitted to get away from his office long enough to kick up his heels. Dr. Taylor belongs to the old school of gentlemen who are rapidly disappearing and he always endeavors to scatter sunshine in the pathway of his fellow men. The big and little tax-payers of Chicago and Cook County, and those who do not favor extravagance in county affairs will turn to R. B. Organ as the leader of the six Democratic county commissioners to protect their interests in every way from the Republican schemers and tricksters and as Mr. Organ never shirks from his plain duty it stands to reason that nothing can prevent him from contending for the right, therefore, he is more than likely to become treasurer or sheriff of Cook County two years hence or mayor of Chicago, for the people invariably believe it is their duty to reward those who remain faithful to their trusts. At last the board of election commissioners have fininshed canvasing the ballots cast at the late election and as a result of their labors six Democrats will for the next two years assist in managing all the affairs of Cook County. It was very fortunate that Democrats of sterling worth were placed on the ticket, for Messrs. R. B. Organ, Joseph E. Flanagan, Jacob B. Thielen, Michael Irrmann, Otto Hutsman and James E. Daley are among the best business men of this city. Their past records will stand the closest inspection and each and every one of them will make a model county commissioner. Had Porter's face not been black, the crime he committed would never have merited the punishment and penalty he paid. A few days ago, for an example, a bruto with a white face was caught attempting to rape a little 4-year-old girl in Seattle, and the incident did not even cause a ripple or a bubble on the busy bustling city and its inhabitants whereas if the same crime had been attempted by a man with a black face no human power could have saved him from a monstrous necktie party. But such must be right, for civilization and Christianity approve of it—The Republican, Seattle, Wash. From mouth to ear, through the medium of hundreds of publications, on the dead walls of European cities, in fact all over Europe, and in scientific circles, has lately been mentioned the wondrous results of experiments made by two great German savants, which has for its attainment a product entirely vegetable and in simple form. "Longavita" Tablets, socalled because they are mainly the means of making one feel good bodily and mentally. These health and good humor producing tablets have the effect of rejuvenating the system, thereby attaining longevity, by its great power of invigorating the whole of the body. Old and young alike are benefited by its use. See ad in another column. A New Haven (Ct.) politician by the name of Dillon arranged to have a special train to Waterbury for his friends. Through some mistake it was given out that the public was invitee, and the public accepted. Mr. Dillon's bill is consequently $2,000. RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS. All the principles which religion teaches, and all the habits which it forms, are favorable to strength of mind. It will be found that whatever purifies, also fortifies the heart. Blair. Remember, your own soul must be illuminated before you can help others; the spring does not brim over with refreshing waters that has not a hidden source.—Light on the Hidden Way. Religion is the fear and love of God; its demonstration is good works; and faith is the root of both, for without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear and love what we do not believe.—Penn. A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him. That which does not distinguish him from a sinful world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.—John Howe. The true law of every life, the only law of life, is consecration. Consecration is going out into the world where God Almighty is, and using every power to his glory. It is simply dedicating one's life, its whole flow, to his service.—J. F. W. Ware. The good work of the world is done either in pure and unvexed instinct of duty; or else, and better, it is cheerful and helpful doing of what the hand finds to do, in surety that at the evening time whatsoever is right the Master will give.—John Ruskin. The child of God does not look backward to gain fresh energy. His energy is the energy of hope and not of retrospection. He presses forward; his glance is ever onward. He anticipates revelations of God ever more and more glorious.—Stopford A. Brooke WITH THE SAGES Where the sun does not enter the doctor must go.—Italian Proverbs. A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend, a life is too short.—Emerson. If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it.—Franklin. Most men employ the first part of their lives to make the last part miserable.—La Bruyere. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.—Herbert. The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner.—Bonaventura. As "unkindness has no remedy at law," lets its avoidance be with you a point of honor.—Hosea Ballou. I would give nothing for that man's religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.—Rowland Hill. The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.—H. W. Beecher. Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.—Epictetus. The hands of the young are active in deeds, but the judgment of the old is superior. For time gives a variety of lessons.—Cicero. Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.—George Elliot, "Daniel Deronda." Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and hard-heartedness of its professors.—M. Henry. ODDS AND ENDS. Dikes of Japan cost in the aggregate more money than those of the Netherlands. Smoking is forbidden on the platforms of street cars in Springfield, Mass. Six hundred new French plays were performed in France and elsewhere last year. Khaki neck shields are now worn in sunny weather by the London police force. There are only about 180 living soldiers who are entitled to wear the British Victoria Cross. Merchants in London are still selling Boer relics, and, however little their intrinsic value may be, they bring high prices. In some of the hotels in northern Europe your quality is asked for among the other inquiries propounded in registering as a guest. An advertisement has appeared in a London paper, in which a lady expresses her desire for a servant who will be expected to "cook and dress the children." 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Later empty whisky bottles were discovered in the jury room. Absolute amnesty has been granted by the Peruvian legislature to all persons who may have been concerned in any political transgression or offenses, with the right to fill public offices. All political prisoners confined at Lima have been set at liberty. When a new postoffice is to be named the people of the neighborhood have the right to choose its name. There are Schleys, Roosevelts and Funstons all over the country. Now some Virginians have named their postoffice Tuan, in honor of the anti-foreign Chinese prince, and the name has to stand. Clark of Montana is going to make another effort to obtain a seat in the United States senate. As far as the legislature of Montana is concerned, Clark's case is already won. A majority of the members of that body are of Clark's choosing, and they will undoubtedly give him a set of credentials to carry to Washington. There is one comfort in the coming on of cold weather. Statistics indicate that outbreaks of insanity are most frequent in the hot season, and that suicides in the summer months as compared with the winter months are as three to two. Whence it would appear that even our reason and our love of life are best kept on ice. Christmas trees are already being cut down in Washington county, Me., and the season's output from that section will amount to 400 car loads, with 360 bunches to a car. Each bunch consists of from two to six trees. The trees are sent to New York and Boston, where they will retail for about ten times as much as they are worth on board the cars in Maine. A street in Chicago, not far from the "Archey road," immortalized by Dooley, has been known for twenty years as "Fake" street, in honor of a certain business man bearing that name. The word has come to have so injurious a significance of late years that the residents and property owners in that neighborhood have prayed the city authorities to give the street a new name. Twenty-one persons died in Massachusetts last year aged 100 years or more. Sixteen of the twenty-one were women-three of the sixteen never having been married. Eight of the twenty-one were born in Ireland, three in Canada and three in other foreign countries-leaving seven native-born, six of whom were of Massachusetts nativity. The oldest was two months over 106 years. The perfunctory manner in which witnesses are sworn in English courts was illustrated recently in a London court after some twenty witnesses had given their evidence. It was then discovered that all had solemnly sworn on and had kissed a guide to the law of landlord and tenant. The mistake came to light only when a court official saw that the supposed Bible was much more clean than usual, and, as a consequence, looked closely at the book. Miss Alice Sinclair of Cincinnati, O., who acted as bridesmaid at the wedding of a friend, found a thimble in the piece of bride's cake which she ate. This was regarded as proof that she would be an old maid. To prove that the sign was false she agreed to marry William Keeler, to whom she was engaged, at once, and invited all the wedding guests to be present at her marriage. A minister was found within three hours of the time when she was acting as bridesmaid. The fa'ling of the elevators is perhaps not the only danger associated with life in the modern sky-scraper. Some physicians, in making physical examinations for life insurance companies, think they have discovered that elevator boys and others who make many trips a day are peculiarly liable to heart-disease and premature degeneration of the arteries. They do not knew whether this is due to change in atmospheric pressure in passing from basement to roof and down again, to the disturbances caused by the sudden starts and stops and the rapid descent, or to some as yet unspecified cause. MISLEAD NEW-RICH. "There is a man somewhere in the employ of the Pullman Palace Car company who has much to answer for," writes Edward Bok in the October Ladies' Home Journal. "He is the official who selects or decides the furnishings and hangings of the company's cars. Probably no single man in this country has the opportunity for so direct and helpful an influence in the extension of good taste in furnishings. Instead, he perpetuates upon the public furnishing schemes which even rival those which we see in the homes of the most unintelligent of the new-rich. The chief injury which the furnishings of the modern Pullman car works is the wrong standard which is set for those who are not conversant with what is artistic. The new-rich come into these cars and accept the hideous effect as the standard of people of taste. I have been told by furnishing firms that they are often asked by those who have suddenly come into the possession of money that certain effect which they have seen in Pullman drawing room cars shall be duplicated in their homes. These people, knowing no better, accept what they see in the cars which are supposed to be patronized by people of means, as reflective of a prevailing standard. Color combinations about as inharmonious as it is possible for the mind of man to concoct, have thus been transferred to the homes of the pebble, and here the injury is done." THE CATTLE GROWING SITUATION. The approach of winter finds a most encouraging situation among the stock growers of Nebraska. Never has there been a more liberal supply of fall pasture than exists at this time, or a better condition of flesh and health among the grazing animals of the flocks and herds. The cattle stock of the state is in fine condition to stand the cold and freezing weather which must be endured for at least ninety days in average Nebraska winters. The open range plan of wintering stock has given way to better care and more prepared feed. In the buffalo grass districts, where the feed cures in the ground during the fall months, the winter care of cattle and horses is an easy problem to solve, as little or no prepared feed is required in moderate weather and when the grass is not covered with snow. The large area of Western Nebraska called the "sand hills" is abundantly supplied with the sand variety of grasses that cure on the ground and make good winter grazing for stock. In those localities the expense of wintering animals is very light in comparison with the prepared feed districts. Nebraska has a good crop of all kinds of rough feed for wintering cattle, and the farmers in the grain growing districts, as well as in the western grazing districts, have been stocking up with the cheap stock cattle coming into the markets from the less favored localities. World-Herald, Nov. 16, 1900. The Latest Sea Serpent. A new sea serpent has just been discovered on the coast of Japan, 100 miles from Tokio. It is classed by scientists as a coelentenate, and one of the most gigantic ever seen. It was caught by a long fishing line at a depth of 250 fathoms. It was a magnificent specimen. A large disc surmounted a long stalk which evidently fixed the animal on the sea bottom. A circle of numerous graceful tentacles hung down from the margin of the disc, while on its upper surface arose an oval tube surrounded at its base by bushy appendages and having a second circle of slender tentacles around the upper edge. The total height of the animal was 700 millimeters, and the prevailing color transparent scarlet. The specimen was entirely fresh, but not living. Beston & Albany Leased by New York Central. The Boston & Albany railroad having been leased to the New York Central, the mileage of the Albany road will now be added to that of the New York Central, and hereafter a thousand mile ticket of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad will be good on the Boston & Albany railroad. This will prove of great convenience to the traveling public who desire to reach points in Massachusetts on or reached via the Boston & Albany, including, of course, Boston. The holder of a New York Central thousand mile ticket will now have the privilege of riding over lines aggregating more than 6,000 miles of railroad on a ticket costing only two cents per mile, good for the person presenting it and good until used. Art and History Study Pictures. Among the best publications issued are the Art Study Portfolios, semimonthly, and the History Study Pictures, containing 10 pictures in each portfolio. The pictures in the Art Portfolios form a study of the most noted art works of the world. In the History Portfolios the pictures illustrate the leading features in History, Geography and Literature. Art Study Company, publishers, Chicago. The Census of 1900. A booklet giving the population of all cities of the United States of 25,000 and over according to the census of 1800, has just been issued by the Passenger department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and a copy of it may be obtained by sending your address, with two-cent stamp to pay postage, to the General Passenger Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago, Ill. HON. JOHN ALLEN. IN THE PHILIPPINES. ASOLDIER IN THE ARCHIPSLAGO WRITES HOME. How Fighters Spend Time—Pay Goss Quickly and Little Liberty Is Allowed Food Plentiful—Incidents as Told in a "Letter to Mother." Charles A. Hope, a sergeant of volunteers, now serving in the Philippines, has written a letter home to his mother, telling of the manner in which soldiers pass their time in the Philippines, says the Chicago Daily News. After having served nine months in the Spanish-American war, Sergeant Hope enlisted August 1, 1899, and arrived in the islands October 1. Up to last January he was orderly to General Young. He had seen five battles with the insurgents, and had received two promotions. The letter in part is as follows: "We get paid every two months, and the men generally lose or spend their money in the first two weeks, and the rest of the time they play dice for buttons, matches or cigarettes (they are twenty-nine for 2 cents). When these are gone they read or sleep all day long, the latter the most. It is very tiresome here, as we are not allowed to go to the natives' shacks, or even 1 SERGEANT HOPE. to the market, which only lasts three hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, as there is smallpox here. A number of the colored men have it, and one man in my squad has it, too, but not bad, as he will be all right for duty pretty soon. We are to stay in the quarters, as they expect an attack at any time, but we have been still closer to the natives, and there seemed to be no danger. We have not had any rain for ten or twelve days, but there is a typhoon blowing which keeps us busy along the line. "A few men started from a town thirty miles north of here to go thirty-eight miles farther north in a boat, but they were glad to land five miles south of here, being blown thirty-five miles in the wrong direction. I must stop now, as I am on guard and the rain is coming through the roof. It rains about twenty minutes and stops for fifteen minutes, and so on for a few days, then stops for ten days, then rains for fifteen days. The rain has not started yet, but will soon, and last for ten or twenty days, and that will be all. Up in the mountains it rains about all the time. It makes the rivers very bad to cross. Out of one wagon train two soldiers, one driver and one mule were lost. Three nearly got out; if it had not been for the daring wagon master things would have been worse. He almost lost his own life. "The people live on what the water HON. JOHN During only one more session of Congress will Private John Allen of Mississippi, entertain his colleagues with cloak-room stories. The man who has cracked more jokes in the house than any other statesman living or dead has tired of public life and refused to accept another nomination. Allen is a Mississippiian by birth and is 53 years old. He left school at the age of 14 to become a private in the Confederate army, and he served in the ranks until the war closed. Then he studied law and at the age of 23 began to practice his profession in --- and trees give. Nothing grows to full size here. The natives grow rice and a little corn and cane to make sugar and a few sweet potatoes. Rice is their main food. Their meals consist of boiled rice, boiled fish, not cleaned, and boiled leaves. When a caribou (or horse) or cow dies they cut it up. The men get 20 cents, Mexican, or 10 cents a day for their work, and they will give 3 pesos, or $1.50, for the hide, head, feet and entrails of a cow. They pick wild cotton to make their clothes. When they wash them they sit down in a stream of water and lay the clothes on a rock and beat them with a piece of wood engraved and weighing about five pounds. A servant girl gets 1 peso, or 50 cents, a month, and works about all the time. "That order about some of us going to China is countermanded. The Third cavalry is expected to go on a three months' campaign with General Young soon. We are under a volunteer colonel of a negro regiment now. Our captain's name is Johnson and lieutenant's name is Barton. I will try and get Aguinaldo's march for you. "There is not much fruit such as we get in the states here. There are different kinds of fruits, but they all have funny tastes." PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE. Gave-Dwellers in the Hills of China Although the vast mobs which infest Pekin and the larger cities of China are worked up to a state of frenzy and fanaticism, the great Chinese population proper is agricultural, and naturally extremely peaceful. Agriculture, however, is most primitive, and the wonder is how such an immense population can be supported from the soil until the great economy practiced in all things is understood. On the great plain of China every available foot of land is utilized for growing something and every particle of fertility returned to the soil. Waters are used for irrigation, and in many cases laboriously distributed over the fields. The great plain is about 700 miles in length, and varies from 200 to 400 miles in width, occupying the northeastern part of the empire, and containing over 200,000 square miles of wonderfully fertile soil. It supports a population of not less than 177,000,000 human beings, making it the most densely settled of any part of the world of the same size, its inhabitants amounting to nearly two-thirds of the entire population of Europe. A wonderful feature of the physical geography of China is the existence of a vast region of loess in this portion of the empire. Loess is a very solid but friable earth, brownish yellow in color, and is found in many places from 500 to 1,000 feet deep. The loess hills rise in terraces from twenty to several hundred feet in height. The loess region of China is perhaps the most broken country in the world, with its sheer cliffs and upright walls, terraces and deep-cut ravines. Owing to the ease with which it can be worked, caves made at the bases of straight cliffs afford homes to millions of people in the densely populated northern provinces. Whole villages cluster together in carved-out chambers, some of which extend back more than 200 feet. The capabilities of defense in a country such as this, while an invading army must necessarily become lost and absolutely bewildered in the tangle of interlacing ways, and where the defenders may always remain concealed or have innumerable means of escape, is peculiarly significant of this time, when consideration is being given to a conquest of China. IN ALLEN. Tupelo, Miss. He served a term as district attorney before being elected to congress in 1884. During the eight terms that he has served in the house of representatives he established more friendships, probably, than any other man in public life. His wit was his most prominent characteristic. In his first speech Allen told funny stories and his colleagues came to look for something amusing when he took the floor. Allen says his humorous tales were detrimental to his reputation as a statesman. No one would take him seriously. ```markdown ``` Mrs. M. A. Theatro, member Rebecca Lodge, Iola Lodge; also member of Woman's Relief Corps, writes the following letter from 1838 Jackson street, Minneapolis, Minn.: M. Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Gentlemen—"As a remedy for catarrh I can cheerfully recommend Peruna. I have been troubled with chronic catarrh for over six years. I had tried several remedies without relief. A lodge friend advised me to try Peruna, and I began to use it faithfully before each meal. Since then I have always kept it in the house. I am now in better health than I have been in over twenty years, and I feel sure my catarrh is permanently cured." Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. As soon as Peruna removes systemic catarrh the digestion becomes good, nerves strong, and trouble vanishes. Peruna strengthens weak nerves, not by temporarily stimulating them, but by removing the cause of weak nerves—systemic catarrh. This is the only cure that lasts. Remove the cause; nature will do the rest. Peruna removes the cause. Address The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio, for a book treating of Catarrh in its different phases and stages, also a book entitled "Health and Beauty," written especially for women. A new South Wales correspondent says that a shepherd of Hargreaves, near Mudgee, has tried dentistry for sheep with great success. He had a valuable ram which found great difficulty in masticating its food owing to the loss of teeth. Artificial teeth were inserted and the animal has since vigorously attacked its fodder. This is believed to be the first experiment of the kind in the colony. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. In many German villages sanitary depots have recently been established, at which private families can for a trifle borrow various things needed in a sick room, which they cannot afford to buy. Coughing leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Women who live in flats in London are finding it almost impossible to employ servants, because they are so completely isolated from the outside world. SEVERE HEADACHES of any kind are caused by disordered Kidneys. Look out also for backache, scalding urine, dizziness and brickdust or other sediment in urine which has been allowed to stand. Heed these warnings before it is too late. $50 reward will be paid for a case of backache, nervousness, sleepleanness, weakness, loss of vitality, incipient kidney, bladder and urinary disorders, that cannot be cured by how a Pigeon Escaped from an Eagle Which Puraned It. The ferryboat Piedmont, from Oakland, was about opposite Goat island when P. H. Schlotzhauer, a pigeon-fancier of Alameda, released five birds. Among them was a famous five-year-old homer, Duke of Richmond, which had proved its right to a title of nobility in more than a score of long-distance flights. It probably had never had such incentive to quick flight as was presented that day. The passengers watched the pigeons rise in the air and circle several times, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Then four of them turned toward the east, but the fifth, which proved to be the Duke of Richmond, was seen to flirt and drop toward the Piedmont. Presently the passengers made out that it was being pursued by a large bird. The birds were at an elevation of perhaps a thousand feet when the chase began, with the carrier in the lead. As if it had calculated its chances, the pigeon dropped straight for the place where its master had released it, and, landing upon the ladies' deck of the Piedmont, fluttered through the cabin door. The sea eagle was so confident of striking its prey that it did not check its flight until within ten feet of the ferryboat. Then it wheeled suddenly, and, hovering for a few minutes over the stern of the boat, winged its way back to Goat island. In the meantime the frightened pigeon fluttered down the aisle of the cabin until it came to a passenger reading a newspaper. Then, as if asking for protection, it made up to his side and perched on the arm of his seat. There its owner found it and carried it back to its cage. It was evident that the pigeon was too wise to risk a long race with the eagle, knowing only too well that such a flight would be its last. IN PULLMAN CARS. Interior Decorations Show the Most Glaring Inharmonies. In the October Ladies' Home Journal Edward Bok sharply criticises the interior decorations of Pullman cars as "A Riot of Bad Taste," that is absolutely inexcusable, for "the Pullman Company," he contends, "is a rich corporation which can have what it wills. If good taste does not exist in its furnishing department, as indisputably seems to be the case, the company can and should buy it. For the same amounts now expended on these cars, effects of harmony and of truly artistic drapery could be obtained which would be a credit to the company. These cars could have an incalculable influence on the community. The new cars which the company constantly builds could, better than any other medium that I know of, be made to reflect in a panoramic manner the newest and most progressive steps made in artistic decoration and furnishing. They could be made the most effective traveling educators of the public. Instead, they are simply vehicles of the worst taste imaginable—in fact, of no taste whatever. As amazing conglomerations of the most glaring and grossest inharmonies of color, they stand absolutely supreme. They violate even the simple canons of good taste." Mathematician in Spite of Himself. Mathematician in Spite of Himself. An Augusta correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes: Augusta has now a living example that mathematicians are born with the gift of quickly and accurately handling figures. He is a colored man and a laborer on the J. B. White building, by the name of Robert Gardenheir, living in Jones street, above Cumming. Robert is a middle-aged, stalwart fellow, having had very few, if any, educational advantages during his life, but when it comes to figures he is prompt and quick in his mental calculations, and rarely ever makes a mistake. Perhaps his best gift is in multiplying. As quick as you can set down figures, say, for instance, like 75 times 91, or 321 times 525. Robert has the answer for you. In several other tests he showed a most remarkable aptitude for the use of figures, using nothing but his mind, and proved to be accurate. When asked as to the principles or rules by which he accomplished these mental answers, he proved by his answers that if he had any such to go by they were beyond his explanation or demonstration. In fact, it was evident that he does not know how he does the trick. He has possessed the gift from his boyhood days. He cannot remember when he discovered his gift, but it was evident that it was before he had matured into a man. Slate pencils were formerly all cut from slate just as it is dug from the earth. Pencils so made were objected to on account of the grit which they contain. To overcome this difficulty, says the London Engineer, Col. D. M. Steward devised an ingenious process by which the slate is ground to a very fine powder, all grit and foreign substances removed and the powder bolted through silk cloth much in the same manner as flour is bolted. The powder is then made into a dough and this dough is subjected to a very heavy hydraulic pressure, which presses the pencils out the required shape and diameter, but in lengths of about three feet. While yet soft the pencils are cut into the desired lengths and set out to dry in the open air. After they are thoroughly dry the pencils are placed in steam baking kilns, where they receive the proper temper. Fearing a plague of rats, Antwerp has organized an official rat hunt, a penny being given by the authorities for every animal killed. Mrs. M. A. Theatre, Minneapolis, Minn. Ram with False Teeth. Best for the Bowela. Sanitary Depots in Germany. Conghing Leads to Concern Isolation in London Flats reward will be paid for a case of backache, nervousness, sleep- beauses, weakness, loss of vitality, incipient kidney, bladder and urinary disorders, that cannot be cured by NORMAL PAIN OPENED HER SKULL Mrs. Lasher's Remarkable Story—Dr. Greene's Nervura Cured Her. MRS. FRED. C. LASHER, JR. The case of Mrs. Fred. C. Lasher, Jr., a well-known woman of Westport, N. Y., is one of the most interesting on record. It is an actual fact that headaches caused her head to split. "For thirteen years," she says, "I suffered from terrible headaches night and day, until the bones of my skull opened so that the doctor could lay his thumb right into the opening on to my brain. Two doctors attended me and claimed that I was on the verge of insanity. I was under their care for nine years, but got no relief. Then I tried Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and inside of a year the bones of my head had taken their natural shape again." That Mra. Lasher's statements are true is vouched for by reliable men of Westport, and by a Justice of the Peace there. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy cured Mra. Lasher when all other remedies failed, and it cures thousands of suffering women every year. If your head aches, if you cannot sleep and are weak and nervous, remember that this great curative agent, Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, will make you well and strong. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy is a physician's prescription, formulated from a discovery after years of investigation and experiment. Dr. Greene, 35 West 14th St., New York City, is the discoverer. He can be consulted free personally or by letter. If you were unable to enjoy your Thanksgiving feast because of indigestion, take Garfield Tea and you will hereafter be able to enjoy all your meals. Many a genius is a harp with only one string.—Roscoe Conkling. COME AND GO In many forms Rheumatism Neuralgia Lumbago Sciatica makes up a large part of human suffering. They come suddenly, but they go promptly by the use of St. Jacobs Oil which is a certain sure cure. It injures nervous system to do so. BACO-CURO is the only cure that REALLY CURES and notifies you when to stop. 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In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. A writer in a Buffalo paper says that "hardly one person out of twenty-five in that city who claim to walts really know how." Jell-O, the New Dessert, pleases all the family. Four flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. Try it today. There are truths which are not for catch on record—320,400 crans, valued at over $1,500,000. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All drugists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on the box, 250. It will cost $98,000,000 to keep New York city going during 1901. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restoren. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatment. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 831 Arch St., Philadelphia. To the gentleman every womas is a lady by right of her sex. is used by millions, which is a sure proof of its quality. Send, for free booklet, "Inklings." Address Carter's Ink Co., Boston, Mass. It has been forbidden to use the Bible in Chicago schools. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. O. Endslhy, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The Shah of Persia receives a salary of $30,000,000 a year. BATT'S CAPS FOR COLDS. Will stop that sneezing and cure the cause. All good druggists. 25 cents. By the census of 1900 Galveston had a population of 37,789. Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.—Pascal. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. The fear of Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.—Carlyle. God made all pleasures innocent. Mrs. Norton. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. So a bottle There are 798 distinct species of roses known. Luxuriant hair with its youthful color assured by using PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERCOURNS, the best cure for corns. 18cta. The task of selection is easiest in poetry. When cycling, take a bar of White's Yucatan. You can ride further and easier. To hope is to enjoy.—De Lille. D HER SKULL Story-Dr. Greene's Nervura d Her. Country things which flourish in London have been receiving a good deal of attention of late. At the present time there may be seen a number of fine bunches of fast-ripening black grapes on the south wall of the Hospital for Incurable Children at Chelsea. No doubt the poor mites within will be enjoying them before long. In a garden at the King's road end of Flood street, Chelsea, there is a mulberry tree which has this year borne a fine crop of fruit. It was picked during the present month. Mulberries are not always to be obtained in London, and they are expensive. This, by the way, has been a good year for mulberries in various parts of the country. They have been allowed to fall from the trees and rot on the ground in some places. The fed harvest is a small matter, but not one to be altogether overlooked in districts where this tall, handsome plant flourishes. The mowers are now among the reeds, which go down before the old fashioned scythe. They are bound up in sheaves like the corn, and when dry, stacked and used as they are required for thatching purposes.—London Express. A LIFE SAVED. A Druggist's Timely and Straight-Forward Advice Saves the Life of a Prominent Citizen. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 26.—(Special)—Among the Catholic Foresters in this city, none is better known or more universally esteemed, than Mr. S. P. Rush, Conductor (President) of Holy Name Court, Number 26. His many friends, inside the Order and outside of its ranks, were, therefore, much startled to learn that his life was in danger, he having Bright's Disease, that most terrible and fatal disease. Mr. Rush, however, made a grand struggle for his life, taking prescriptions, and pills and powders, until his stomach refused food. At last, his local druggist, guided by the numerous inquiries being made at his store for Dodd's Kidney Pills, advised Mr. Rush to buy and try some. This he did, and to his delight he was restored to health and strength. Mr. Rush says that after commencing the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills, he felt much better, but it took two months to effect a cure. "I took nothing else but Dodd's Kidney Pills during that time, so I know that I owe life and health to them." What this wonderful remedy has done for Mr. Rush, it will certainly do for anyone. It is the only remedy that has never failed to cure Bright's Disease. Mr. Rush is just now receiving the congratulations of his friends, but always finds time to say a good word for the Medicine that saved his life. Advice to Poor Married Couples. Common sense, prudence and selfdenial are the essentials and safeguards in a union of small means. With a bountiful supply of these estimable qualities a married couple may live more comfortably, bring up their children more creditably, and leave behind them a better name than another with double their income, but half these helps to matrimony. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Q. Sold by druggists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Paragrapher Criticises Photograph. The photograph taken of the queen of the Netherlands and Duke Heinrich is decidedly "spooney." He looks sober and impressed, but she dares to show how pleased a young monarch can be with her first flance—oh, bless me, let it be hoped there will be no second! and the fun of being "too" together.—Boston Herald. 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. Lord Salisbury, in speaking of the social side of English political life, said recently that there is really little of it. He has never so much as spoken with John Morley and never even saw Mr. Parnell. 3,000 acres new lands to open to settlement. Subscribe for THE KIOWA CHIEF, devoted to information about these lands. One year, $1.00. Single copy, 10c. Subscribers receive free illustrated book on (kishoma. Morgan's Manual (210 page Settlers' Guide) with fine sectional map, $1.00. Map 25c. All above, $1.75. Address Dick T. Morgan, Perry, O. P. A Missouri paper begins an article thus: "Our highly esteemed but utterly contemptible, piratical and cut-throat contemporary," etc. When men cease to be faithful to God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.—Bishop Horne. To Promote Good Digestion. If after Thanksgiving Day the appetite is poor take Garfield Tea; it will cleanse the system and stimulate the appetite. In the London slums the third generation born and bred there lives and dies without any progeny. KEEP BOYS ON FARM. PROPAGANDA STARTED BY A CHICAGO MAN. William H. Thompson Believes That the Environments of the Old Homestead Are Best for the Youths of Our Land. A new propaganda to keep boys on the farm has been started by William H. Thompson of Chicago, president of the National Live Stock exchange. Mr. Thompson knows what farm and town life are. He was reared in the country and has won success in the city, and he believes the average farmer's son would be better off if he stayed on the farm. He admits that many country boys win fame and fortune in the cities, but he argues that for every successful one there is a horde that barely make both ends meet. But Mr. Thompson goes beyond existing conditions. He believes farmers can do much better than heretofore, and he looks to education as the means of improving their condition and making the farm more attractive for the boys. In discussing the problem Mr Thompson says: "The cry for the past 50 years has been 'To the city.' That was beneficial for a time, and a sign of progress, but we ought now to raise the cry 'To the country.' The country is deserted by the boys, and the city cannot provide remunerative labor for all who come. For the social peace of our A. H. WILLIAM H. THOMPSON. country the tide must change and flow back again. For the betterment of our commercial interests some of our young men should turn their attention to the farm and the raising of produce. Among the large number of successful farmers you will find a small percentage whose sons have chosen the farm life. Their early school days on the farm were spent in reading of men and events that had nothing to do with country life. Soldiers, statesmen, lawyers, ministers, bankers, and even politicians figure upon every page of their district school readers. Scarcely was mention made of any man who had led a successful life on the farm. "The farmer's children are as a rule the natural farmers of the country. What they become in after life is determined by their early education. At the district school the farmer's son lays the foundation for his future, and his ideas are largely influenced by reading books treating on men and objects which seem to him to be of an outside world. Why not change this? Let his books speak of some of our great men who have been farmers and there are thousands of them. Let him study the things he comes in contact with every day. Let him be taught he can improve his condition by adopting improved methods of production. This will make him more interested in farm life and more contented. It will fire his ambition to excel in his father's calling. It will make him a better man, a better farmer and a better citizen. It will keep many boys in the country and relieve the cities of their congestion. There will be more ground cultivated and better results. The strains of live stock will be improved and the farmer will get more money. In every way such a change will be a benefit to the farmer boys and to the country at large." Mr. Thompson presented his proposition in an address before the National Live Stock exchange, and he is urging agricultural and live stock papers to carry on a crusade along the lines he has mapped out. First Publishers of Chancer. The first collected edition of Chaucer's works was published by Pynson, who issued the first of the three parts in 1526. In 1532 there followed an editio by Thynne, and others appeared in 1561, 1598, 1602 and 1687, to say nothing of that which came from the house of Lintot in 1721, which has the distinction, in the opinion of scholars, of being the worst ever printed. The name of Thomas Tyrwhitt is justly remembered in connection with Chaucer and this by reason of the scholarly edition of the "Canterbury Tales," 1775-8, to which he added information notes and a glossary. Not until Dr. Furnivall produced his six-text volume in 1868, was Tyrwhitt's work, as a whole, superseded.—New York Post. The roar of a lion can be heard farther than the sound of any other living creature. Next comes the cry of a hyena and then the hoof of the owl. After these the panther and the jackal. The donkey can be heard fifty times farther than the horse, and the cat ten times as far as the dog. Strange as it may seem, the cry of a hare can be heard farther than that of either the cat or the dog. "Oh! Dear I'm so Tired." The ordinary every-day life of most of our women is a ceaseless treadmill of work. How much harder the daily tasks become when some derangement of the female organs makes every movement painful and keeps the nervous system all unstrung! One day she is wretched and utterly miserable; in a day or two she is better and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing much the matter after all; but before night the deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch it seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals; she goes to pieces and is flat on her back. No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these symptoms are a sure forerunner of womb troubles. She must remember that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is almost an infallible cure for all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause weak stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and inflammation of the womb, or any of the multitudes of illnesses which beset the female organism. Mrs. Gooden wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she was in great trouble. Her letter tells the result. "DEAR MRS. 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Full particulars and farm views mailed free to those who wish to buy farm. E.Y. K.I. GORZ, Real Estate Agent, Glasgow, Ky. PATENTS WITHOUT FEED unless successful Send description and gut free opinion. MILO B. STEVENN & CO., Estab. 1864 Div. 4, 817-16th Street, WANHINGTON, D. C. Branch offices: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. MRS.E..J.GOODEN ```markdown ``` We are the largest makers of men's $3 and $3.50 shoes in the world. We make and sell more $3 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the U. F. LITERARY NOTES "The History of Colonization," by Henry C. Morris of Chicago, formerly United states consul at Ghent, is to make its appearance almost immediately. The approach of the centenary of the birth of Hans Christian Anderson is to be celebrated by the simultaneous issue in several countries of a sumptuous edition of his fairy tales. The December issue of the Smart set presents the usual variety of attractions in the way of verse and prose. The leading story, "Her Guard of Honor," is by Miriam Michelson. An announcement of interest is that Br. Edward Eggleston will publish soon "The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century," a historical work which represents a new undertaking in the writing of American history. The book pictures the literary, scientific and other influences which were brought to this country from Europe in the early years of our history. "Wayside, the home of the Hawthornes in Concord, was a comfortable little house on a shady, grassy road. To please his wife he had built an addition to it, a tower into which he could climb, locking out the world below and underneath, a little parlor, in whose dainty new furnishings Mrs. Hrwthorne took a womanish delight. Yet somehow gay Brussels rugs and gilded frames were not the background for the morbid, silent recluse. Justin McCarthy in a recent article has been repounting some of the witty or apt sayings he has heard. One of them is James McNeill Whistler's reply to a distinguished but ill-favored novelist whose portrait he had painted: "When the portrait was finished the sitter did not seem satisfied with it. 'You don't seem to like it,' Whistler said. The sitter confessed that he did not, and said, in self-justification, 'You must admit that it is a bad work of art.' 'Yes,' Whistler replied; 'but I think you must admit that you are a bad work of nature.'" HERE AND THERE Silk dresses were worn in China 1,500 years ago. There is a slump in the French wine market, and wine is going at a fartning a pint. The world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best. Parnassus. Chicago's city council has passed an ordinance fixing the price of gas in that city at 75 cents per 1,000 feet. The municipal authorities of Glasgow are considering a proposition for the establishment of a city savings bank. A comic opera at Warsaw was converted into a tragedy by the murder of a chorus singer in full view of the audience. Vital statistics published recently in Norway show that about 7,000 inhabitants of that country die annually from consumption. Last year 39,000,000 sterling of depositors' money was paid into the English postoffice savings bank and 35,000,000 paid out. A register of strangers is now kept in Berlin. Records for the last twelve months show that over 1,000,000 travelers visited the city. The cheapest laborers work for 3,000 cash (equal to $3.75 Mexican, or $1.8712 gold) per month, which amounts to 1212 cents per day in gold. The total amount of taxes for all the boroughs of New York city collected during the first twenty days of October reached $37,610,540.83. AFTERTHOUGHTS. It is unadvisable to waste much time in trying to get election promises cashed. If the best of our friends knew all they thought about one another, very few of them would be on speaking terms. It isn't every man that can discuss a young baby so judiciously as to inspire in its mother a good opinion of him. You can generally tell how much a woman admires her personal appearance by the number of photographs she has taken. We expect much of ourselves in anticipation, but we are not hard to please in realization.—Chicago Journal. WHAT ONE WOMAN THINKS. According to a man, the only secret a woman can keep is that of her age. The people who pride themselves on being determined are sometimes only contrary. It is a poor sort of consolation for people in trouble to say things might have been worse. Some women feel very lonely in heaven if there is not a cook stove or a scrubbing brush there. Some women try very hard to win a man's love and then seem to forget they must try just as hard to keep it Philadelphia Times. As a rule man spoils his recreations by letting his mind run on how much they are costing him. Man says he doesn't understand woman in order to escape what might be expected of him if he did. STAGE WHISPERS. Tom McGrane has been in California playing leading roles with the Moroccos stock company. Charles Williams recited his arrangement of "To Have and to Hold" before the Harvard chapter of Delta Upsilon at Boston recently. The noted French portrait painter, Alphonse Jongers, has finished two pictures of Mrs. Fiske that were exhibited in Boston before Mrs. Fiske's engagement in that city closed. Mrs. Leslie Carter is to appear in New York next season in a new play by Jean Richepin, called "La Dabarry." It has seventy-three speaking parts, and will probably open the Knickerbocker theater. She has also Ibsen's "When We Dead Awaken," a new piece by the French authors of "Zaza," and "The Queen's Drawing Room." Miss Ina Brooks will appear this season in Titania in Kathryn Kidder's and Louis James' production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Miss Brooks is a daughter of Capt. and Mra. Arnold Dexter Brooks, of Paris, Tex., a good old southern family. She has been on the stage four seasons, latterly playing leads in a stock company in Nashville, Tenn. Prominent new members of Mrs. Fiske's company will be Frank Gilmore, who was for several years John Hare's leading man in London; Chas. Vane, formerly in support of Sir Henry Irving and Miss Elen Terry; Alfred Hudson, for years comedian at the Boston Museum, and Laura Magilvray, who played leading and juvenile roles for John Hare for several seasons. Mrs. Fiske will continue to produce "Becky Sharpe." SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. The fisherman's wealth depends on his net profits. If a musician utters false notes he is a counterfeiter. The world is like a piano—full of sharps and flats. Platonic love is a dinner at which nothing but soup is served. No man is truly wise who denies that he ever made a fool of himself. But few people have enough confidence in themselves to believe all they say. Some men are always feeling for the handle that will enable them to pump you. If you are not satisfied with your lot put it in the hands of a real estate dealer. Young ladies should set good examples if they want young men to follow them. The inexperienced maid wants to be a man's first love, but the wise widow prefers to be his last. Fully two-thirds of a woman's troubles result from reasoning with her heart instead of her head. Mother Eve may have invented curiosity, but she is the only woman on record who never turned around to see what the other woman had on. "A wise guy" once said: "Every failure is a step toward success." This may explain why the oftener some men fail the richer they become. PERSONALS. The Prince of Wales really had to put on eyeglasses. He began to miss seeing the pretty women. Helen Keller, the famous blind deaf mute, has been elected vice president of the freshman class at Radcliffe college. The czarina likes to set her own table and tend her own house flowers, as Victoria of Wales does at Sandringham. Sir William Lyne has offered a prize of $2,500 for the best ode in commemoration of the new commonwealth of Australia. Mark Twain usually breakfasts about 10 o'clock. He says that the early breakfast is one of the American customs he admires most when abroad. At the woman suffragists' bazar in New York there was offered for sale a quilt made by Susan B. Anthony when she was 14 years old. FLASHES OF WIT. May—What became of that old flame of yours? Ethel—Papa put him out.—Answers. "Yes," sighed the Aberdonian, "money is the root of all evil, but most people would like a forest." "Does your wife take to horticulture?" "Yes, indeed; she goes out every fine day with the hoe and chops the head off something I've planted." "I'd like a job, sir, as waiter," said the applicant. "You have had experience in waiting, I suppose?" queried the restaurant proprietor. "Indeed, I have." "For how long?" "Why, sir, I've taken meals at a restaurant for twelve years." TART PROVERBS. Youth may stray afar, yet return at last. None so busy as those who do nothing. He is not escaped who drags his chain. There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. There's nothing like being bespattered for making a man defy the gutter. Thomas F. Soully, Attorney at Law, 70 Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO. Room 14. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 80 S. Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706—708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE OHICAGO. HARRIS F. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW 805 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHICAGO TELEPHONE MAIN 1464. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. DR. H. C. 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