The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX THE HANNAH GRIFFIN HOME AND THE COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS For some time past the Conservator of this city has called the attention of the colored ministers and those women composing the Colored women's clubs to the wretched condition of the poor little colored children who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands or clutches of Mrs. Hannah Griffin, but after all the preaching, and urging done by The Conservator respecting the Hannah Griffin Home for Friendless Children. It only succeeded in bringing down upon its head condemnation from the great majority of colored women who—affiliate with the colored women's clubs. Most all of these smart club women contended that nothing could be accomplished by endeavoring to close up the Hannah Griffin Home; that it would be impossible to take the children from under her care, and we regret to say that most of the club women were perfectly willing to do all the talking and none of the acting in reference to this Home, for it seems that they were unwilling to incur Mrs. Griffin's displeasure. But through the efforts of a white lady connected with the juvenile court and Miss Susan B. Clark of the Illinois Humane Society, the Hannah Griffin Home was raided last Tuesday and the sight which the officers witnessed after they had burst the doors open was sickening, heart rendering in the extreme, the terrible condition of the 16 little children rescued therefrom was too horrible to contemplate. Those poor little children were almost starved to death, they were practically nude and huddled together in the old tumble-down shanty, which was occupied by Mrs. Griffin. Like so many sheep or hogs they were filthy, cold and half frozen, for it was a cold day when they were discovered by the officers and there was not one bit of coal or wood around the shake which Mrs. Griffin designated as her orphans' home. While those little dependents were being subjected to so much cruelty our Colored club-women, who claim that it is their duty, or a part of theirs, to investigate and look after such cases, were content to convene in one of the churches under the name of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and after spending two days in electing new officers and wasting much time in booming a newspaper which is published in Washington, D. C., whose editor dislikes to pay his honest debts, the members of the Colored Women's clubs retired to their homes fully convinced that there was nothing for them to do, that there was no suffering among the colored-people of Chicago, which they could relieve and they continued to labor under this impression until they were startled by the report of the raid on the Hannah Griffin Home, then it flashed accross their minds that there is a great work to be performed right here in Chicago, among the Afro-Americans, notwithstanding the fact that the clubwomen are apt to think that there is not much for them to do but to meet once each week in their homes or club-rooms and listen to someone read a paper on the best way or method to adopt to relieve suffering humanity, and then return to their homes feeling happy in the thought that they have done their duty towards their less fortunate fellow-creatures. We have not much love for the Conservator, but after all Brother Wikins, its editor, deserves the honor of leading the fight in favor of closing up the Hannah Griffin Home and none of our colored club women can claim that it was accomplished by or through the efforts put forth by them. Mrs. Welle-Fitts is very ambitious and smart. She assists her husband in his Job Printing establishment, 2713 State St. Mrs. Fitts is also president of the Kings Daughters and an able and very timely article from her pen on club-work among Afro-American women will appear in the next issue of The Broad Ax. AN ADMIRER OF THE BROAD AX. Editor Julius F. Taylor:—Dear Sir I have read with considerable interest your comment upon President McKinley's message to Congress. Allow me to compliment you by saying that the head lines of your paper is not missapplied. And I only hope that that issue will find it way in to the home of every colored man in the state of Illinois, if he never had an opportunity to quit the party this message has certainly afforded it to him. The fact of the matter is simply this: The Republican party are just like the seven judges that sit on the Dread Scott case of 1857 where by the popular phrase arose that" Negroes have no rights that white men are bound to respect." Since the 1st day of January 1863 the colored man has been declared a part of this Government and from that Declaration which was the finishing touch to the immortal Declaration of Independence. The Negro has appealed in every form and manner to the Legislative, Executive an Judicial branches of this Government for his rights that was invested in him through that Declaration, but his appeal has returned to him like the echo of the men's voice that were lost in the mountains to substanciate my statement you will find inclosed a letter from myself to President McKinley and his response. 5047 Princeton Ave., Chicago, Ill. The following letter was addressed to President McKinley, and his response follows: Chicago, November 20, 1900. Hon. Wm. McKinley. I assume the honor of addressing your excellency upon a subject that I have a deep personal interest in, and that is, Mob Violence, as a form of outlawry that has been peculiarly and particularly directed against one class of American citizens, namely, the Negroes of the United States, and, however lowly my effort may be, I nevertheless implore you for some immediate action. The constitution of the country has been violated and outraged, and unless some streneous action is taken to urge the enforcement of the law there can be no hope for the colored man in the United States. He has fought and shed his blood on the right side of every question that this country has been called upon to settle with the lives of her sons. He has, ever since his enfranchisement, gone to the ballot box and voted that the party that you represent as its leader might retain the reins of government. As a recompense for his ballot and for his services, the colored man of the United States has received only torture at the stake. His homes have been burnd down upon him, and he has been ostracised and vilified in every manner. When travelling in certain portions of the country he is compelled to ride in "Jim Crow" cars, and in other parts he is refused permission to live, notwithstanding the fact that he has helped to protect and preserve these very communities. Some states have enacted laws to ostracise him; others to disfranchise him. These crimes are being daily committed throughout the United States, yet I hear no word of rebuke, no command to halt, from the Commander in Chief of this great Republic. In conclusion, Mr. President, let me say that I am looking for no notoriety; I am simply asking the rights of an American citizen, and I hope that you will look upon my communication in that light. Sincerely hoping that you will give my appeal your due consideration, and begging to be favored with a reply, I desire to remain, honorable sir, Yours very truly, ROBERT T. SIMS, 5047 Princeton Ave., Chicago, Ill. Executive Mansion, Washington. November 26, 1900. My dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the re- HEW TO THE LINE. JAMES A. QUINN, CITY SEALER OF CHICAGO. ceipt of your letter of the 20th inst. and to state that its contents have been noted. Very truly yours, Secretary to the President. MR. ROBERT T. SIMS. 5047 Princeton Ave., Chicago, Ill. JAMES A. QUINN. It is safe to say that there are a very few men in Chicago who are as well and as favorably known as the popular City Sealer of Chicago, James A. Quinn, for many years Mr. Quinn has been before the public and so far no one can come forward and JAMES A. QUINN, CITY successfully maintain that he has ever betrayed the people or sold their interest out for a mess of pottage, he has ever been found on the right side of all questions effecting the interests of all the people of Chicago. As city sealer Mr. Quinn has made a reputation for fareness and honesty, which will last as long as the city stands he has apprehended more dealers who use short weights of every description and brought more of them to time than any other person who has occupied the sealer's office and for this reason the people have learned to place implicit confidence in our efficient city sealer, who can never be regarded in any other light than one who always performs the duties of his office without fear or favor. Mr. Quinn is one of those broad-minded men who does not take into account the color of any one's skin whom he does business with, he is considerate and regardful of the rights of all who happen to occupy stations in life beneath him. He is very much unlike old uncle W. D. Kerfoot who will growel like a grisley bear if a respectable colored man comes within twenty feet of him, but if an intelligent and gentlemanly Negro approaches Mr. Quinn he will treat him with consideration and not turn him away without permitting him to state the object of his call or errand, and right here it can be truly said that if some of the other heads of the departments would adopt the same plan which Mr. Quinn adheres to in this respect they would reflect much more credit upon Mayor Harrison's cabinet. No one can accuse Mr. Quinn of being penuerous or small-hearted and this has been proven by him in numerous ways, some time ago a colored man by name of Richard Lewis died without sufficeint money for burial and as Mr. Quinn knew that Lewis was alright, he without fuss or feathers took charge of his remains, paid out his own money for a coffin and saw to it that he was laid to rest in good shape. This is one of the many kind and good deeds which Mr. Quinn is constantly performing for black and white alike who meet with misfortune during their journey through life, it has been rightly said or asserted that James A. Quinn is the royal prince of the Harrison administration. --- Thomas Byrne and family, 909 Garfield Boul., departed last week for Texas, where they will pass the winter. Mrs. Pearl Carlmore after spending several months in Memphis, Tenn., returned home Friday. She is radiant with smiles and more beautiful than ever. Policeman J. W. Hardy who is an old timer in the Town of Lake has recently moved . Mrs. Hardy and the children into the new house which he has built for them at 6800 Justine St. SEALER OF CHICAGO. M. E. Austin, president of the Chicago & Indiana Cqal Co., continues to look after all the details of the large business transacted by his company as an up to date business man Mr. Austin has no equal. Legislator M. E. Hunt is getting his law business cleaned up so he can migrate to Springfield after the first of January. Mr. Hunt has a pretty clear thinker and is able to do good work in the Legislature. T. McManus who holds a responsible position under the present administration—who is in business at 5269 Deaborn St., has been inpertuned by his friend to become a candidate for clerk of the Town of Lake. Aldeman Thomas Carey has leapted into fame by bringing foward his redistricting plan which upon its face seems to be fair and we believe it will pass the council and meet with Mayor Harrisons approval. The Chicago Conservator puts its right foot down hard on the Federated Women's clubs of the metropolis on Lake Michigan, and suggests that they are doing little else than gossip. The Enterprise, Omaha, Neb. Mrs. M. B. Jackson, 4400 Vincennes Ave., continues to greatly interest herself in club work. She is an active worker of the Hyde Park Womens Club. The Phyllis Wheatly Club and several other clubs. Dan B. Jesse, cashier in the city water office, can never get lost in the shuffle as long as they do not throw his ward outside of Cook County, and Mr. Jesse will be around next spring to take a hand in the Aldermanic contest. To read a newspaper every week in the year and then not pay for the same is the same as borrowing a loaf of bread from a neighbor every day and then refusing to pay the same back at the end of the year. In other words, it is nothing more nor less than downright stealing. Hon. John G. Jones, if he lives, has fully made up his mind to go to Springfield and endeavor to make a better record in the next legislature than any other Afro-American who has heretofore sat as a member of the Law-making body of Illinois. The Colored Women's Business Club will give a grand ball at Arlington hall, 31st and Indiana avenue, Monday night, December 31st. --- All the net proceeds derived from the ball will be expended towards maintaining an exchange for women's fancy work. Justice John Fitzgerald may be compelled to change up a little bit in order to be in line with the big politicians of the Town of Lake providing Alderman Thomas Carey's redistricting scheme does not hang fire and is passed by the city council. Dr. Wm. H. Weaver of Baltimore, agent for the Board of Freedmen of the Presbytarian church, delivered his great lecture on the work of that Board to a large audience at Grace church last Tuesday evening. The lecture was illutsrated with brilliant stereoptican views. The women of the Phyllis Wheatly Club have plans completed to hold an apron bazaar at their rooms, 5058 Dearborn St., Wednesday afternoon and evening, Dec. 19th. Refreshments will be served. Th proceeds of the bazaar are to be donated to charity and it should be well patronized. Otto V. Mueller is composed of the right kind of material for collector for the town of Lake. Mr. Mueller is engaged in the real estate and insurance business at 646 West 63rd St., and The Broad Ax would like to see Mr. Mueller receive the nomination for colector of the Town of Lake. Mellville G. Holding has an army of friends who would like to see him receive the nomination for Alderman next spring. Mr. Holding has in the past been loyal to the cause of Democracy and he is entitled to any honor which may be conferred upon him by the leaders of the Party. Stephen A. Douglas is now prepared to receive his friends and clients at his new law office, 125 LaSalle St., In the past campaign Mr. Douglas delivered many speaches in different section of the county for Col. Wm. J. Bryan, but for the next four years Mr. Douglas will devote all of his time to the practice of law. John E. Fitzgerald who is one of the headlights of Democracy on the North Side has been mentioned in connection with the nominator for city clerk of Chicago, there is nothing the matter with John E. Fitzgerald for he is worthy and able to discharge any trust which may be placed upon his shoulders. In the event that Alderman Carey's re-districting plan is adopted Freo Hart and Robert J. Roulston can have the nomination for Aldermen from the new ward which will be sliced off the 29th and 30th wards and it is more than probable that ex-Alderman M. McInerney or James B. McDonald will secure the nomination for Alderman in the 30th ward. If it were not for the fact that Judge Edward F. Dunne resides at River Forest he might within the next few years receive the nomination for mayor of Chicago. Judge Dunne is always very fair in his rulings and he never permits himself to lose track of those who are not so fortunate as to belong to the rich and the high born. James J. Gray, North Town Assessor and member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, in inclosing his check for two subscriptions to The Broad Ax says he "wishes us continued success." Mr. Gray, Chicago has no more honorable citizen than yourself and there is no one we esteem more highly than James J. Gray who, if he lives, will become Mayor of Chicago. Coroner John E. Traeger did the proper thing by appointing John Czekala as one of his deputies. Mr. Czekala made a gallant fight to be elected County Commissioner, but he in company with three other Democratic candidates were slightly side-tracked by the Republicans. He is a true representative of -the -Polish people, and his selection by coroner Traeger can not help from being pleasing to Mr. Czekala's countrymen, and all others who know him as a good citizen. Old Joe Kipley; who has, to the disgust of all decent people mismanaged the Police department of Chicago for a long time, lit out for Cuba in order to escape from being brought before the Grand Jury and being investigat- ed for standing in with the low-dive keepers. Chief Kipley it seems has the reputation of being a grafter and Mayor Harrison should not hesitate in firing him, and select some one who knows how to perform the duties of superintendent of Police. Mrs. Agnes Moody addressed the women of the Phyllis Wheatly Club, 5058 Dearborn St., Wednesday afternoon on "The Paris Exposition". She was greeted by a large and cultivated audience as she entered the hall. President L. A. Davis in a few well chosen remarks introduced the speaker of the afternoon. Mrs. Moody talked interestingly for over an hour on the great exposition and the many wonderful sights and old historic scenes she gazed upon while in the French capitol. She also dwelt at length upon the great Negro exhibit and said it was considered one of the best by the jury of awards at the great Exposition. At the close of her remarks Mrs. Moody was extended a vote of thanks by the members of the club. The Apollo musical club gives three more concerts at the Auditorium this season, the first December 20th, the second February 18th, 1901, and the third on April 15th. On April 15th The Apollo Musical Club will sing Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by Coleridge—Taylor, this announcement should be especially pleasing to the Afro-Americans, for Coleridge-Taylor is one of the greatest writers and composers and he is a product of the colored race. His writings and Hiawatha's Wedding Feast have been spoken of in the highest terms by the English and the American press. Attorney Edward H. Taylor who is associated with Lawyer Joseph A. McInerney, Chicago Opera House Block, will sing the base in Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. Last Monday morning Daniel McKee Jackson, who was the colored republican candidate for County Commissioner and was defeated, swore out a warrant before Justice Underwood for the arrest of Jacob L. Parks, 3155 State street, charging him with criminal libel. The complaint rests on the allegation that Parks, who was the leader among the colored men who opposed Jackson, had printed and distributed a large number of circulars, reflecting on Mr. Jackson's domestic relations. Mr. Jackson has retained Mr. E. H. Morris to prosecute the case Hon. E. H. Wright and Albert B. George will represent Mr. Parks. The case is set for a hearing before Justice Underwood next Tuesday at 10 o'clock. It is not life alone that they prolong. But while you live they keep you healthy, strong. "Longavita" Tablets will restore the dimples in your cheeks, the wan look vanishes, the wrinkles telling of approaching age or sorrows past will be removed, and life toned up to make it worth the living. It is a purely vegetable compound, a preparation which represents the culmination of years of labor and scientific research of two noted German sceintists. The effect of these tablets upon the human system is marvellous by their certainty of action, and the immediately beneficial results from their use. At last a mystery has been cleared and a baffling problem solved. Our advertisement in another column will interest you. I. year's production of saccharin in Germany is given as equivalent to 50,000 metric tons of sugar. The sugar producers demand that it be sold only as a drug, and its use in foodstuffs is prohibited in France, Belgium and Greece. Deprived of Chief Income. Mrs. Mayne Reid, the widow of the famous Captain Mayne Reid, has, through the difficulties of a London publishing firm, been suddenly deprived of her chief income and is for the present left almost penniless. The Kimberly Diamond Mines. Nine years ago there had been taken something like nine tons of diamonds from the mines. The properties yield a profit of close to $9,000,000 a year, and usually pay a dividend of 40 per cent. Will promulgate and as oft times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indies, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever criticizing the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; the only on one side of the paper. One Year.....$2.99 Nx Months.....1.59 Advertising rates made known on application. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. An election bet of a steer against a $50 coffin is recorded in Kansas. In Indiana it is unlawful to bet on an election, and the penalty for so doing is to pay a sum ranging from the amount bet to one twice as great to the school fund. Cats are having a bad time in Germany just now. Ten thousand furlined great coats and as many each of fur gloves and gaiters have been ordered for the troops in China, and pussy has to shed her skin for all. For every great coat fourteen cat skins are used. The Russian government grants subsidies for the purpose of helping new settlers. This money is spent in encouraging farming and fruit-raising. Subventions are given for the first six years. During the following ten years these subventions must be repaid in yearly payments. Since 1894 $2,605,500 has been spent in that way. The domestic goose holds about the same honored place in the nutritive economy of Germany that the most delicately flavored and patrician turkey does in that of the United States. It is the standard luxury of the German people, and during nine months of the year forms the principal feature of the table at festive as well as every day entertainments. A short time ago an old Viking ship was discovered in the valley of the Lea at Tottenham, where the East London Water Company is making new reservoirs. A still more ancient boat has been found about eight feet below the surface, in the form of a "dug-out canoe" about fourteen feet long, representing, according to antiquarians, "the second stage in the history of shipbuilding." Several railroads centering in Duluth and having lands for settlement have organized a movement to establish colonies on these lands. Several representatives from northern France have been looking over the ground with a view of establishing considerable settlements of their countrymen there. Carlton, Pine and St. Louis counties are specially under consideration by these agents. Just previous to the recent election a Tennessee editor foolishly ventured on a forecast of coming events and invited his readers to watch the result and see how far he missed. In his latest issue he manfully owned up as follows: "We are now able to state we missed it by exactly the space between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans east and west and from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico north and south." There is a Roman Catholic priest in the West who has a parish which is larger than all Ireland. He is Rev. J. B. Hayes, and his parish includes a part of Montana and North Dakota, and stretches for hundreds of miles through Wyoming. During the first year of his priesthood he traveled over 10,000 miles, and on one occasion rode 143 miles by train, 35 miles by stage, and 215 miles on horseback to baptize a child. Antiquaries will be interested to hear of the discovery, near Leba, in Pomerania, of a Viking ship in a tolerable state of preservation. The vessel is 48 feet in length. The upper part was found imbedded in swamp ground, and was in a very dilapidated condition, but the lower part, which was buried in sand under the marshy soil, was perfectly intact. The ship has been conveyed to Stettin, and will be deposited in the museum there. Some months ago a government pensioner died in Ireland. His widow sent in a bill for funeral expenses amounting to $82.67. The government auditor found some flaw in the bill, declined to "O. K." it and ordered an investigation. The red tape and incidental expenses of the investigation cost something like $2,000, but the widow's bill has finally been thrown out. The government is out more than $1,900 in the matter, but, then, there must be something to keep the clerks busy. General Wood is the sufficient authority for the statement that Cuba presents signal opportunities to enterprising young Americans who have some capital and a knowledge of farming. Aside from the raising of cocoa, coffee or tobacco, market gardening promises good chances. The soil is wonderfully productive, and the skill and industry of the American farmer should make Cuba the winter garden of the United States. "The climate," General Wood says, "is no more uncomfortable in hot weather than that of the Southern States," and he further asserts that "reports of discontent and hatred of Americans, and suspicions of the American government, as seen in the press, are absolutely incorrect." Chicago's Poet Preacher. MELVILLE E. STONE TO RESIDE IN THE EAST. Manager of Associated Press Has Spent Thirty Years of an Active Business Life in Chicago as Editor and Banker. The west is to lose one of its bestknown citizens within a few days. Melville E. Stone, who has been intimately connected with the business life of Chicago for thirty years, is going to take up his residence in New York City and his family will accompany him. This is one of the results of the suppression of the "trust" feature in Associated Press contracts by the supreme court of Illinois. Mr. Stone, who is the general manager of the Associated Press, is compelled to take this step on account of the transferrence of the headquarters of the association to the eastern metropolis. Melville E. Stone came to Chicago with his father, a Methodist minister. A. H. MELVILLE E. STONE. (Prominent Chicagoan and Manager of the Associated Press, who Will Move to New York.) in 1860, and attended the public schools. He graduated from the high school in 1867. He was not long idle, for in 1869 he purchased an interest in a foundry and machine shop, of which he became the sole proprietor one year later. The great fire of 1871 destroyed the plant and left Mr. Stone heavily in debt. Overwork forced him to seek rest and he traveled in the south, returning to accept the position of assistant editor of the Evening Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, pastor of Central church and former president of Armour institute, Chicago, is very likely to become president of that great Methodist institution, the Northwestern university. Dr. Gunsaulus is without doubt one of the most gifted, versatile and resourceful preachers in the American pulpit today, says the Methodist Magazine. Dr. Gunsaulus is a native of Ohio and of Spanish ancestry. He is about 40 years old. Deciding upon entering the ministry, he chose the Ohio Wesleyan university, from which he graduated with high honors. He became a Methodist itinerant and had remarkable success with the class known as habitual none-churchgoers. It was through his agency that the great Armour institute was established. More than 1,200 young men and women receive instruction in this splendid institution every year, the design of which is to help toward the solution of the social problem; to level up and to level down; to assist in rubbing out the lines between the wealthy classes and the laboring Writer Speaks of Strain of Women's Coracta. Every one knows that a portly woman who wears tight old-fashioned corsets always bends her spinal column in at the waist and at the shoulders, that she tips her chin up and crooks her neck, and so gets a lump on the back of it. All this is because her abdomen is too large to be held inside the tightened belt or the corset steels, so that she is unable to hold her chest up in the proper place. Any one without strong abdominal muscles can prove the truth of this for herself by trying an experiment when undressed. Put a tight belt round the waist so that it presses on the upper part of the abdomen. One wants to bend over to relieve the strain. Put a bandage or something that lifts the abdomen from below, and see how instinctively one straightens the shoulders and throws out the chest. The spinal column is then erect. Doctors, teachers of physical culture, and instructors in hygiene have all attacked the corset, thinking it to blame for certain bad results. Some persons have abandoned corsets altogether, but no one who has grown stout without them has been able to hold the weight of the abdomen and keep the body in proper position—at least no one who attempted to wear the modern dress. The value of the straight-front corset, a corset which has been evolved through many mistakes, and out of many endeavors, lies in the fact that the abdomen is supported and all the body above the waist line is left free and unrestrained. The corset touches nothing in front above the waist line. Much care must be exercised in putting one of these corsets on. The laces should be untied and loosened, and never left fastened from one time to another. After the corset has been Mail. When that paper consolidated with the Post he became managing editor. Then he went to Washington as correspondent and later came back into his old position. He was not satisfied, however, and Dec. 25, 1875, he published the first number of the Daily News. The story of his success with that paper is unnecessary to relate. Victor F. Lawson joined Mr. Stone early in the enterprise and they secured the Associated Press franchise when the Post and Mail suspended publication. In 1881 the Morning News was begun and this became in a few years the Record. The partnership between Mr. Stone and Mr. Lawson expired by limitation in 1883 and a stock company was formed. In 1888 Mr. Stone retired from the paper with a fortune. After two years in Europe he assisted in the organization of the Globe National bank of which he became president. In March, 1893, he was offered and accepted the position of general manager of the Associated Press, with headquarters in Chicago. Early in the present year a reorganization of the association took place and the incorporation required that the headquarters should be in New York City. THE LARGEST CAKE. Frederick William I Regaled His Army With It. Last Christmas, in one part of London, there was on view an enormous cake that towered almost to the ceiling of the confectioner's shop. It was made to represent a fortress, and weighed more than 4,000 pounds. In its composition had been used 600 pounds of flour, 400 pounds of butter, 400 pounds of sugar, 600 pounds of icing sugar, 900 pounds of currants, 450 pounds of suitanas, 300 pounds of candied peel, 200 pounds of almonds and 5,000 eggs. Gigantic, however, as was this cake, it cannot be compared with that which in June, 1730, Frederick William I. regaled his army. After a huge repast of beef, wine and beer had been partaken of, the guests, to the number of 30,000, saw approaching an immense car drawn by eight horses, on which reposed a monster cake, eighteen yards long, eight yards broad and one-half yard thick. It contained, among other ingredients, thirty-six bushels of flour, 200 gallons of milk, one ton of butter, one ton of yeast and 5,000 eggs. The soldiers, who had already eaten a hearty meal, were able to devour only a portion of this extraordinary cake, so to their aid were summoned the people from the towns and villages in the neighborhood, among whom it was distributed till not a morsel remained. classes. Here the millionaire's son and the workingman's son stand shoulder to shoulder. learning to see things REV. DR. F. W. GUNSAULUS from the same point of view. Dr. Gunsaulus is also popular as a lecturer, orator and poet. hooked and the garters fastened to the stockings in front, the corset should be pulled down. Some skill and force are required for this, the idea being to fit the corset about the hips. Then the hands should be put in between the corset and the body and the abdomen lifted into position, as though the corset were playing the part of a bandage. After this the tightening should begin, but always about the abdomen, the tightening above the belt only serving to bring the corset into position, not to cramp the figure in the least.—Harper's Bazar. Able Men in Obscurity. An able man can make himself almost anything that he will. It is melancholy to think how many epic poets have been lost in the tea trade, how many dramatists (though the age of the drama has passed) have wasted their genius in great mercantile and mechanical enterprises. I know a man who might have been the poet, the essayist, perhaps the critic of this country, who chose to become a county judge, to sit day after day upon a bench in an obscure corner of the world, listening to wrangling lawyers and prevaricating witnesses, prefering to judge his fellow-men rather than enlighten them.—Charles Dudley Warner. The German soldier has seven uniforms respectively worn in the following occasions—for war, for the imperial parade, for ordinary parade, for Sundays, for street promenade, for the daily exercise and drill, and for summer. He must be able to don any of these on short notice. The outfit for war must have as much care as the one worn most frequently, yet not one in a hundred ever has occasion to use it. M. A knit goods manufacturer whose rise in the business world has been remarkable, he now standing near the top in his line of industry, although only a few years since working as a common mill hand at 75 cents a day, is Robert MacKinnon of Little Falls, N. Y. Mr. MacKinnon's great success was brought about by his own energy and perserverance, and it is conceded that as yet he has not attained the limit in his endeavors. Now nearly completion in Little Falls is a mammoth structure for manufacturing purposes, which was built by Mr. MacKinnon, and this, when completed, will be the largest plant in the world for his special line of business, managed by a single individual. Its cost will be $700,000. Mr. MacKinnon is only 47 years of age. He is a native of Cohoes. Being thrown on his own resources early in life, he entered a mill and, though ambitious to acquire an education, was compelled to remain until event- J. ROBERT MACKINNON. nally fortune smiled upon him. At the age of 21 he began the study of law, but was unable to continue because of lack of funds. His first venture as a manufacturer was when, 18 years ago, he and two partners borrowed $7.000 and started a small knit perintendency of her brother's vast interests. A pleasing feature in connection goods business in Little Falls. They were successful and the capacity of RAILROAD TRAMPS. Weary Willies Hate Work and Like to Travel The importance of the railroad tramp nuisance is indicated by the fact that it is made the subject of the leading article in the "investors' supplement" of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, an issue of over 180 pages. The estimate of Josiah Flynn that 10,000 tramps steal rides nightly and 10,000 more are loitering around railroad yards is quoted, together with his estimate that each of the 60,000 tramps in the country travels on an average of fifty miles a day, which, for 100 days in the year, means 3,000,000 miles of free transportation annually, which at two cents a mile would represent paying travel of $6,000,000. The free rides are, however, of slight importance compared with the extensive pilfering of freight and personal damage claims arising through accidents to tramps while trespassing. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle advises railroads to adopt the plan of the Pennsylvania The "Galician Mme. Marcella Sembrich has given a farewell performance in Berlin and is now reorganizing her company for a tour of the United States. It is now twenty-three years since the "Galician songbird" made her debut in "I Puritani" at Athens, but her voice retains all the purity and power of her their plant was increased from time to time. In 1887 Mr. MacKinnon bought out his partners' interests and since has conducted his business alone. Intimately associated with Mr. MacKinnon in his business career and contributing not a little to his success has been his sister, Miss Belle MacKinnon. She thoroughly understands the knit goods business and for 10 years acted as superintendent of his mills. Two years since she retired, but now again enters the field of business and will assume the suwith Mr. MacKinnon's business career is the consideration he has for his employes and the high esteem in which he is held by them. A large share of his success he attributes to the efforts of his operatives and as prosperity attends him it is returned in many ways to them. Each of the mills he operates he has opened with a reception to his employes and in this and other ways has manifested such an interest in his operatives that all have the greatest regard for their employer. Motor Posts in Australia. A frequent difficulty encountered by postal authorities in Australia is the cheap and expeditious delivery of mails in outlying localities. Many of these places are hundreds of miles from the nearest railway line, and the route is apt to be through drouthstricken country, where the dry roads are at times impassable even by camels. This is conspicuously the case in tropical Queensland. But the government of that colony has risen to the emergency, and has decided to try the experiment of dispatching mails to "out back" by motor car. The result is likely to be awaited with interest in other places than Queensland.—London Daily Mail. Hugged a Horse's Neck. The late Friedrich Nietzsche's sojourn in Turin in the year 1887 is described in the last number of the Nuova Antologia. He spent most of his time reading and writing, and seldom left without telling the landlady to be careful not to touch his books and papers. The first symptoms of his mental infirmities showed themselves one day when he caused a great commotion in the street by hugging a horse's neck and refusing to be parted till the police arrested him. Prof. Overbeck was summoned and the patient was taken to his home. road, which employs a regular force of eighty-three men to keep the cars and yards clear of the undesirable class. The success of the plan is shown in that the company pays $17,000 a year less for its police arrangements than before it adopted it. The adoption of the plan by all important roads would not only be of benefit to them but to the country. It is well known that most tramps are what they are partly because of hatred of work and partly because they like to travel. The removing of easy facilities for transportation would reduce the number enormously. Compressed Air Burglar Alarm A London plumber has arranged a new system of burglar alarm by means of compressed air. When the modern Bill Sykes opens a window or door, the compressed air blows a policeman's whistle and lights an electric lamp to act as a guide, so that the man in blue shall know where he is wanted. It's a poor picture that attracts less attention than the frame. an Songbird." Martha and Lucia days in Dresden and London. Her first appearance in America was as a member of Abbey's Italian Opera company in 1883-4, when the compass of her voice and the brilliance of her execution produced a genuine sensation in the cities of this country. EAGLE AS AN 2MBLEM Selected Officially by the United States in June, 1782. The selection of the eagle as a national emblem by the United States was officially made in June, 1782. While John Adams was in England on a governmental mission, he formed the acquaintance of Sir John Prestwich, an accomplished antiquarian. Adams one day mentioned that his countrymen had not decided upon a national coat-of-arms. The baronet suggested that an escutcheon bearing thirteen vertical stripes, white and red, with the chief blue, and spangled with thirteen stars, would make a fine device, and he thought it would give it more consequence to place this shield on the breast of a displayed American eagle without supporters, as emblematic of self reliance. Meanwhile, a committee of the continental congress had been discussing the matter of a seal for the United States, and on June 13, 1782, referred the matter to its secretary, Charles Thomson, who obtained several designs from William Barton of Philadelphia. None of these was entirely satisfactory, and at last the secretary reported to congress a device which combined some of Barton's ideas with those of Sir John Prestwich, which Thomson had received from Adams. On June 20, 1782, the great seal of the United States of America, with "the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, and in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper," was adopted.—New York Weekly. FROM BRYAN'S OWN CITY Comes a Startling Story—An Open Letter That Will Cause a Secretion LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 8.—(Special.) At No. 2115 O street, this city, is the B. & M. wallpaper house. "B. & M." are the initial letters of the proprietors, Mr. A. C. Bonsor and Mr. O. E. Myers. The senior partner, Mr Bonsor, is a well-known and highly respected citizen, and no one has ever doubted his truthfulness. It is, therefore, the pronounced opinion in Lincoln and the state generally that the significant and very strong statements made in Mr. Bonsor's letter will go unchallenged. After explaining his willingness that the matter be given the fullest possible publicity in the public interest, Mr. Bonsor proceeds: I have suffered untold misery and pain for over ten years. My kidneys were diseased. I tried many so-called remedies, but they did me no good. I saw an advertisement of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and I bought some, and commenced to use them at once. I had not been taking them three days before I began to improve. For years I had not had one good night's sleep, and before the first box of the Dodd's Kidney Pills were all used, I could sleep all night without pains. I am now completely cured, and have not a pain or ache left. I cannot recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills too highly, for they are unexcelled as a kidney remedy. Yours truly, No. 2115 O street, Lincoln, Neb. Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure 50c a box. All dealers. North Carolina Negro Hospital Jell-O, the New Dessert, pleases all the family. Four flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. Try it today. Remember that your brushes need a weekly washing and a daily airing. Never leave them on the toilet table where the dust and germs in the room can fall on them. ```markdown ``` is often derived from an unlooked for source—the Kidneys. Odorous urine or that which scalds or stains is an infallible proof that you are progressing towards Bright's Disease or one of the other forms of Kidney Trouble all of which are fatal if permitted to grow worse. MINISTER SAVED and Nerve Remedy. Rev. Henry Langford, the eminent Baptist divine, of Weston, W. Va., has just escaped after nervous and physical prostration. He is pastor of four churches. "For ten years," he said, "I have been nervous and growing worse all these years. During the last four or five years I became so nervous I could scarcely sign my name so it could be read. I was so nervous that I could not read my own sermon notes after they had been laid aside awake. awhile. "I was unable to bold my head steady in the pulpit, nor could I bold or handle my books and papers without embarrassment, owing to the trembling and weakness of my hands and arms. I was so nervous that I could scarcely feed myself. In fact, my nervous system was wrecked." "I tried many remedies recommended by physicians, but found no permanent relief. "One day I was in the store of R. S. Ogden, at Sardis, W. Va., and he said to me: 'You take two bottles of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and if you say it don't help you, you need not pay for it.' "I took two bottles of this medicine and found so much relief that I bought two more bottles, and now I am wonderfully improved in health and in strength. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy did it. I can heartily and truthfully recommend it to the sick. Too much cannot be said in praise of this splendid medicine. I say this for the good of other sufferers from nervous and prostrating disease who can be cured by this remedy. For myself, I am thankful to God that I found Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and for what it has done for me." DR. GREENE'S OFFER OF FREE ADVICE. Dr. Greene, Nervura's discoverer, will give his counsel free to all who write or call upon him at his office, 35 West 14th Street, New York City. His advice is from his great skill and experience and will shorten the road to health. Thousands come to him and write to him constantly. Do not put off matting the right advice, if you are !!" Tied Up When the muscles feel drawn and tied up and the flesh tender, that tension is Soreness and Stiffness from cold or over exercise. It lasts but a short time after St. Jacobs Oil is applied. The cure is prompt and sure. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Grant Wood See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION GENTLEMEN MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. Price 28 Cents Purely Vegetable CURE SICK HEADACHE. PATENTS WITHOUT PER unless successful Send description and get free opinion. MILO B. STEVENS & CO., Estab. 1864 Div. 2, 817-14th Street, WASHINGTON, D. C. Branch offices: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. MINISTER Rev. Henry Langford entire tration by Dr. Gree Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. A mile square is a surface each side of which is a mile in length; a square mile is any surface containing exactly The only way to CURE diseases of the skin is by cleansing the system and purifying the blood: take Garfield Tea, it is the best blood purifier known. To clean hair brushes rub them in dry Indian meal until the oil and dust are extracted. All goods are alike to PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, as they color all fibers at one boiling. In 1840 the population of New York city was 342,710; that of Brooklyn was 36,233. 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. An idea must feel awfully lonesome when it gets into some people's heads. Your Storekeeper Can Sell You Carter's Ink or he can get it for you. Ask him. Try it. Car loads are sent annually to every state in the Union. Do you buy Carter's? The profit on England's postal service amounts to about $20,000,000 a year. FITS Permanently Curved. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle, and treatise. Dm. E. H. KLINE, Ltd., $31 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. And let him be sure to leave other men their turn to speak.—Bacon. BATT'S CAPS FOR COLDS. Are recommended by the best druggists. 25 cents. They cure safely and quickly. The commonest thing in the world is children, and the next is cats. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Thus all below is strength and all above is grace.—Dryden. C. H. Crabtree, Des Moines, Iowa, will on request explain all about the Gladiator Gold Mining Company; extremely interesting; write me. He who agrees with himself agrees with others.—Goethe. Baseball players; Golf players; all players chew White's Yucatan whilst playing. London's yearly milk supply is over 42,000,000 gallons. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces flammation, always pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. To be content with less is to have less discontent. Coe's Cough Balsam Is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable. Try it. When the guilty go free, the innocent suffer. The charm of beauty is beautiful hair. Secure it with PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15cts. A smile is the reflection of a light heart. OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA Tells How He Escaped the Terrors of Many Winters by Using Peruna. Mr. L. W. H. O. M. Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan county, Tex., has attained the great age of 111 years, having been born in 1788. He is an ardent friend to Peruna and speaks of it in the following terms: "During my long life I have known a great many remedies for coughs, colds, catarrh and diarrhoea. I had always supposed these affections to be different diseases, but I have learned from Dr. Hartman's books that these affections are the same and are properly called catarrh. "As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Peruna, I have found it to be the best, if not the only reliable remedy for these affections. "Peruna has been my stand-by for many years, and I attribute my good health and my extreme age to this remedy. It exactly meets all my requirements. "I have come to rely upon it almost entirely for the many little things for which I need medicine. I believe it to be especially valuable to old people." Isaac Brock. Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age. A person entirely free from catarrh is sure to live to a hale and hearty old age. A free book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Lady Has Long Name. One of the most remarkable names of the present day is that borne by the fiancee of the Duke of Wurtemburg. She is one of the nine children of the late Duke Charles of Tuscany, and if her brothers and sisters are as rich in nomenclature as she is her parents must have exhausted the list. The lady's full title is as follows: Archduchess Maria Immaculata Rainera Josephine Ferdinanda Therest Leopoldina Antoinetta Henrietta Frances Caroline Aloise Januaria Christina Philomena Rosalie. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Pestimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. High Price for a Book. Denton's "New York," the first book dealing with that locality, brought $2,000 at a sale in London a few days ago. It is a small quarto volume and was published in 1670. It was bought by Dodd, Mead & Co. of New York. The work was in possession of Lord Ashburn, who, upon the death of his father, sold his collection. Best for the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Wales Planted Two Trees. In the Central Park are two trees which were planted by the Prince of Wales, to commemorate his visit to this country in 1860. They are an American elm and an English oak. They are between the footpath and the drive, near the center of the Mall, on the western side. 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. Billboards Breed Disease Germs. Destruction of a number of billboards in a western city by the fire department was ordered recently. The reason given is that the billboards were regular and active disease-germ incubators, a menace to health and a nuisance generally. Three Deaths En, Routes. The British bark Inverurle arrived at San Francisco from Swansea recently with her flag at half-mast, there having been three deaths during the voyage. 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. If men put more sense into their sacred service the world would put more faith in their sanctity. COLORED WOMAN WHO SERVED IN TREASURY. Sophia Holmes, Who Died in Washington the Other Day, Left a Record for Heroism That Is Truly a Credit to Her Race. Old Sophia Holmes, the most interesting colored woman of her day, has left a little story woven around her memory which will long live, and a record of which her race may well be proud. She died in Washington a few days ago, where she had won her mark of distinction as the first colored woman to be given a life position under the United States government, which was awarded by a special act of congress during Lincoln's administration. She was at that time employed as charwoman in the division of issues department, a position to which she was appointed by President Lincoln. One evening in 1863, in sweeping up after closing hours she found a chest of bank notes, which had been carelessly overlooked by the employes and left out of the vault. Not knowing what to do and fearing to call the watchman, of whose honesty she was A. SOPHIA, THE HEROINE. not sure, she continued to sweep back and forth until it was dark, then she dragged the chest as noiselessly as possible to a place beneath a table and lay upon the top as sentinel. It was past midnight when General Spinner, then treasurer, made his nightly round. He had long made it a habit to sleep in the building and to make a personal survey of the department at midnight. The negress listened and realizing whom it was called out to him and made her discovery known. Noted for his profanity, General Spinner is said to have made use of his powers upon this occasion, and expressed his wrath in fiery volume. The frightened woman, at his command, followed trembling to a room above, where at that unusual hour a committee meeting was called. She was absolved from all blame and allowed to return to her home, which she did rejoicing. Congress acted upon her deed of bravery and valor, and subsequently appointed her to a life position in the division of issues department, to carry packages of money from one employee to another, at the highest salary paid to the laborers in the government employ, which is $60 a month. This position she retained until her death, always carrying herself with dignity which won the respect of all her superior officers. On another occasion she detected a man stealing $47,000 from the counting room of the treasury and caused his arrest and the return of the money. Sophia Holmes was born in Georgetown, Va., and was married to Melchoir Holmes, whose freedom she purchased with her own earnings. He lost his life in the civil war. Sophia Holmes was over 70 years of age, how much she herself was unable to tell, for as much as she was associated with figures she had no memory for dates. Mr. Sample, now treasurer of the United States, requested her to sit for the accompanying sketch and as she did so she remarked "I'm gettin' ready to die now; 'specs it's most time, cause I'm gettin' my picture sketched. I've been honest, and I'm glad to give the world that record." Mourning for Ancestors Portraits. A fire broke out recently in the palace of the emperor of Korea at Seoul and completely destroyed the sanctuary, where the mortuary tablets of the imperial family are kept. The residential part of the palace seems to have escaped uninjured. A financial question will be the issue of this calamity. Funeral rites, erecting of tombs and constructing of cenotaphs are immensely costly operations in Korea, and there is no money at present in the imperial exchequer. As a first step the Korean court went into mourning for three days because the portraits of the imperial ancestors were destroyed in the conflagration. All officialdom robed itself in white, and the inmates of the palace wore sackcloth and fared roughly.—A. Bellamy Brown, in Chicago Record. F. Hopkinson Smith has just returned from abroad. He says: "I went ever in June for my annual jaunt. This time I painted on the Thames, in Holland and in Venice. The Thames is a new subject for me. The greater part of the work which I did on the Thames was done at Cokeham, an hour out of London. This is one of the prettiest part of the river. The trees overhang it on either side; and the life is interesting. We have no idea over here of the life on the Thames. The English live on the river. I wish we appreciated our rivers as the English do." Yours for Health Lydia C. Pinkham No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful friends. Do not be persuaded that any other medicine is just as good. Any dealer who asks you to buy something else when you go into his store purposely to buy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, has no interest in your case. He is merely trying to sell you something on which he can make a larger profit. He does not care whether you get well or not, so long as he can make a little more money out of your sickness. If he wished you well he would without hesitation hand you the medicine you ask for, and which he knows is the best woman's medicine in the world. Follow the record of this medicine, and remember that these thousands of cures of women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper were not brought about by "something else," but by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want-a cure. Moral- Stick to the medicine that you know is Best. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health more than a million women, you cannot well say without trying it, "I do not believe it will help me." If you are ill, do not hesitate to get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for special advice. It is free and helpful. Sent to anyone on receipt of $1.00. They are very effective for decorative purposes. Size of pot inches. The fact that we are the largest growers of palms in the entire west enables us to supply them cheaply. Write us today. THE GEO. WITTBOLD CO., 1657-59 Buckingham Place. CHICAGO, IL ```markdown ``` For all information, folders, maps, and rates to Florida via the "Dixie Flyer" line, Battlefield route via Lookout Mountain, write to Briard F. Hill, N. P. A., 328 Marquette building, Chicago, Ill., or W. L. Danley, G.P.&T.A., N. C. & St. L. Ry., Nashville, Tenn. In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.—T. W. Higginson. Rheumatic and Gouty Affections disappear after cleansing the system with Garfield Tea—a blood purifier made of herbs and recommended by physicians. In France a woman may appear in masculine attire if she pay a license fee of $10 a year. GRAIN-O THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Grain-O is not a stimulant, like coffee. It is a tonic and its effects are permanent. A successful substitute for coffee, because it has the coffee flavor that everybody likes. Lots of coffee substitutes in the market, but only one food drink Grain-O. All grocers: 15c. and 25c. Dr.Bull's Cures all Throat and Lung Affections. COUGH SYRUP Get the genuine. Refuse substitutes. IS SURE Salvation Oil cures Rheumatism. 15 & 25 cts. PISO'S CURE FOR DURS WHEAT ALL THE FAILS. Bust Cough Syrup. Taste Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION --- It injures nervous system to do so. BACO- CURO is the only cure that REALLY CURES and notifies you when to stop. Sold with a guarantee that three boxes will cure any case. BACO-CURO is vegetable and harmless. It has cured thousands. It will cure you. At all druggists or by mail prepaid, $1 a box 3 boxes $2.50. Booklet free. Write EUREKA CHEMICAL CO., La Cross, Wise $3.00 W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE The real worth of W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes compared with other makes is $4.00 to $5.00. Our $4 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. Over 1,000,000 satisfied wearers. One pair of W. L. Douglas $3 or $3.50 shoes will positively outwear two pairs of ordinary $3 or $3.50 shoes. We are the largest makers of men's $8 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. S. BEST $3.50 SHOE. The reputation of W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes for style, comfort, and wear is known everywhere throughout the world. They have to give better attestation than others because the standard has always been placed so high that the wearers expect more for their money than they can get elsewhere. THE REASON more W. L. Douglas $3 and $3.50 shoes are sold than any other make is because THEY ARE THE BEST. Your dealer should keep them we give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. Make a leatherette liner on having W. L. Douglas shoes with name and price already in factory, enclosing price and 25c. extra for curvature. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or not ten. Our shoes will reach you anywhere. Custodian from W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., Brookton, Mass. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and curve word cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS treatment FREE. DR. E. H. GREEN'S SORR, Bax R. Amelia, Co. Afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W, N, U. CHICAGO, NO. 50, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Bishop Potter of New York deplores the decline of home cooking and expresses sorrow for the coming of what he calls the "tinned" era. Frederick William, the grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, has entered upon the fortleth year of his sovereignty over the grand duchy. Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and her son, Lloyd Osbourne, are building two houses in San Francisco and intend to make that city their home. Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, though perfectly easy on the lecture platform, is extremely shy and diffident in general society and talks but little. Don Carlos declares that the recent signs of insurrection in Spain are not due to his instigation. It is intimated that some of the Carlists are ready to go to greater extremes than Don Carlos himself. The Unionist opponents of Lord Roseberry have appealed to him to make a bid for the leadership of the opposition. The appeal is made on the plea that the government needs vigorous opposition. Governor Sayers of Texas is said to have contributed to the Galveston relief fund more money in proportion to his means than any other person interested. What he gave was given quietly and not publicly acknowledged. Sir Theodore Martin has withdrawn his offer of a monument of his wife to the church at Stratford-on-Avon. Sidney Lee, in a letter to the London Times, showed that even the merits of Helen Faucit could not justify the erection of a memorial that overshadowed Shakspeare's tomb. Tom L. Johnson, the noted capitalist and single tax advocate of Cleveland, is a most charitable man, but has a great aversion to professional beggars. He returned recently from a trip abroad and reports that he could not become accustomed to the universal European custom of "tipping." STAGE WHISPERS. "The Corpse" is a new Tolstol drama. Andrew Mack may take "The Rebel" to Australia. Pauline Hall is going to try a season at the London music halls. Anna Held may appear in the comic opera, "Madame Sans-Gene." Olive Wallace will appear in "The Magnetic Girl" in December. Herbert Keleey and Effie Shannon may play "Romeo and Juliet." James A. Herne will take "Shore Acres" to London next summer. One of the plays in common use in England is "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Joseph Wheelock will star next season in "Ten Nights in a Barroom." At Paris the themes for opera bouffe are being taken from Bible stories. Chauncey Olcott will present a new play, "Garrett O'Magh," in New York early in January. M. Coquelin has accepted an invitation to address the Cercle Francais of Harvard university during his forthcoming American tour. Harry B. Smith has determined to break away from long association with the making of comic operas and is to write a play to be based upon Charles Dana Gibson's series of pictures called "The Education of Mr. Pip." Sarah Bernhardt has decided to abolish theprompter. He was quite different from the English or Americanprompter, who is unobtrusive and hidden in the wings. The Frenchprompter had a little box in the front of the stage, which looked like a wooden mushroom. Antoine was the first to throw over this strange excrescence; Rejane followed, and now Bernhardt discards it. WISE AND OTHERWISE. A smile is the reflection of a light heart. A hod carrier mixing mortar is a sublime character. The crying of children in bed is one kind of sheet music. Some men are brave in great dangers and cowards in little ones. Never judge physicians by the praise undertakers bestow upon them. Wise is the man who makes all he can, saves all he can and gives all he can. Society is, after all, but a conglomerated mixture of mysteries and miseries. The world is not ruled by the so-called rulers, but by the people who make the rulers. Every time a small boy gets a whiff of the odor arising from the kitchen he proceeds to get hungry. If unable to decide whether to buy or hire a horse, bear in mind that of two evils you should choose the leased. TO CONQUER SELF. Help and Comfort your neighbor. Realize that it can be cured by persistent effort. Attack it definitely, as something to be overcome. Cultivate a spirit of gratitude for daily mercies. Forgive your enemies and conquer your aversions. Realize worrying as an enemy which destroys your happiness. Bishop Vincent gives these helpful rules for conquering worry: Consider what must be involved in the truth that God is infinite and that you are a part of His plan. LIFE'S UPS AND DOWNS. Magnificent Revenge the Governor of Miasouri Took on a Prisoner. A few years ago, while Robert Stewart was governor of Missouri, a steamboat man was brought in from the penitentiary as an applicant for a pardon. He was a large, powerful fellow, and when the governor looked a him, he seemed strangely affected. He scrutinized him long and closely. Finally he signed a document that restored the prisoner to liberty. Before he handed it to him he said: "You will commit some other crime and be in the penitentiary again. I fear." The man solemnly promised that he would not. The governor looked doubtful, mused a few minutes, and said: "You will go back on the river and be a mate again, I suppose?" The man replied that he would. "Well, I want you to promise me one thing," resumed the governor. "I want you to pledge your word that, when you are mate again, you will never take a billet of wood in your hand and drive a sick boy out of a bunk to help you load your boat on a stormy night." The steamboat man said he would not, and inquired what the governor meant by asking him such a question. The governor replied: "Because some day, that boy may become a governor, and you may want him to pardon you for a crime. One dark,stormy night, many years ago, you stopped your boat on the Mississippi river to take on a load of wood. There was a boy on board who was working his passage from New Orleans to St. Louis, but he was very sick of fever and he was lying in a bunk. You had plenty of men to do the work, but you went to that boy with a stick of wood in your hand and drove him with blows and curses out into the wretched night and kept him toiling like a slave until the load was completed. I was that boy. Here is your pardon. Never again be guilty of such brutality." The man, cowering and hiding his face, went out without a word: What a noble revenge that was, and what a lesson to a bully.—Success. GERMAN MOTTOES IN ENGLAND Stoves ornamented with German mottoes seem somewhat out of place in English board schools, and yet the educational establishment in Addison gardens boasts several of these heating apparatuses. Mr. Thompson asked Viscount Morpeth, chairman of the works committee, whether he was aware of their Teutonic origin, and whether the inscriptions were supposed to possess any educational value. His lordship replied that the articles in question were not to be had in this country, and that he had not noticed the texts when giving the order. So far, so good; but now that the stoves are there, the philologic occasion may just as well be improved, says the London Telegraph. Squeers asked one of his boarders to spell "winder," and, being satisfied with the result, told him to gb and clean it. Perhaps among the precepts there is Wilhelm II.'s favorite one, "Deutschland uber alles." After having examined a pupil as to the orthography of the inscription, the teacher may order him to polish the stove, in order to impress the lesson his memory. German marks are equivalent to British shillings—few of the former leave the fatherland. The shilling of the ratepayers should be equally respected by those who have the spending of them. Ceurting in Holland. Holland is a place where primitive customs abound. Traditions are sacredly handed down and observed, and this veneration for ancient things has kept alive in the country what are known as courting Sundays. Throughout Holland the four Sundays of November are said to be kept as fete days. They are named severally Review, Decision, Purchase and Possession Sundays. On Review Sunday every one goes to church, and after service there is a church parade, when all the young men and maidens look at each other but forbear speaking. On Decision Sunday each would-be benedict approaches the maiden of his choice with a ceremonious bow, and from her response judges whether he is acceptable as a sultor or not. On Purchase Sunday the consent of parents and guardians is sought, if the wooing during the week has been happy. Possession Sunday witnesses the first appearance of the various lovers before the world as actual or prospective brides and bridegrooms. Happening of a Proverb A good many people went "up Salt river" on election day, and it is interesting to inquire into the origin of the phrase. Salt river was a little stream in Kentucky tributary to the Ohio, which was very dangerous and so crooked that rowing up in a keel boat was about the hardest work a man could do. It was customary to punish the negro by making him take passengers up the river in a keel boat, his master hiring him out for the purpose. 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