The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX VOL. VI. CHRISTMAS. Almost two thousand years ago Jesus—the Prophet of Nazareth and the founder of the Christian religion—was born in the land of Judea the greater portion of his life was spent in working at his trade, that of carpenter. From his great contemporaries, Philo and Josephus, we learn that his parents were so extremely poor, that they were unable to give him any educational advantages, consequently Jesus grew up to manhood totally unacquainted with all the rudiments pertaining to an education. The last eighteen months of his life was devoted to disseminating his religious principles, which were antagonistic to the religious ideas, which were then uppermost in the minds of the Jewish people, but it must be remembered that Jesus was not like Moses, Budha, Confucius; Zeno, and Mohamet; for all those great moral teachers and philosophers were the founders of new religious systems, but Jesus did not give expression to one single new thought or truth during his ministry. Even the golden rule, which his followers claim he was the author of, was promulgated by Confucius, the great Chinese Philosopher and lawgiver, more than five hundred years before the Christian era. What Jesus desired to do was to reform the Jewish priesthood and for that the Jewish people finally succeeded in persuading the Roman authorities to arrest Jesus for violating the Roman laws. He was tried, found guilty according to the Roman and Jewish laws and customs, and forty days after his death upon the cross the church of Christ was established in the city of Jerusalem, and the elders of that church were all uncircumcised Jews. This new sect did not progress very rapidly and at the end of two hundred years it had almost become extinct. Its adherents were at first very meek and humble—they were very careful to refrain from impressing their religious ideas upon the Gentiles and the Pagans, but as time went by Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome, who murdered his wife and children, became a convert to the teachings of the religion of the cross, and he adopted it as the religion of Rome, then its adherents became bold, dogmatic, and revengful to those who refused to march under its banner. Tertullian, one of the Latin and early fathers of the church and devout follower of the sanited Constantine, exclaimed: "I expect the greatest of all spectacles, the last and eternal judgment of the univese. How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs and fancied gods, groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates who persecuted the name of the Lord. Liquifying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against the followers of Jesus; so many sage philosophers blushing in red hot flames with their deluded followers; so many celebrated poets trembling before the tribunal, not of Minos, but of Christ." While standing upon the threshold of the Twentieth century, we regret to say that the adherents of the meek and lowly Nazarene entertain the same bigoted ideas and hatred against those whose religious views are contrary to theirs and to a large extent their sentiments are in harmony with the sentiments which Tertullian entertained against this same class in his day and time. It is therefore a remarkable fact that the five hundred million people who profess to have the name of Jesus encircled in their hearts will wrangle for their religion, write for it, fight for it die for it, and endure any and everything for it, but they utterly fail to live for it. Tuesday, Christmas day, and the remainder of the holiday season, the devotees of the man from Galilee will assemble in their various places of worship to celebrate his birth and his death. The ladies will display their rich and costly new silk dresses, new broad-rimmed hats or bonnets and the remarks of the ministers generally speaking will not leave any lasting impression on their minds. The gentlemen who will attend will be so absorbed in musing over their worldly affairs that they, like the ladies, will be unable to inform you what the preachers discoursed upon. In the midst of all this wealth and elegance the poor, the needy and the outcast will be almost ignored and forgotten. For there are numerous homes and hovels throughout the Christian world, where the bright sunlight never enters and hope has never been. Where day follows day in never changing toil and life leads only to the prison or the workhouse or the grave. Realizing the truthfulness of these reflections—then let each and everyone of us while engaged in celebrating this joyous holiday season, endeavor from henceforth to cheer the faint-hearted, raise the fallen, administer to the sick and the afflicted—throw our protecting arms around the widows, the motherless and the fatherless little children—scatter flowers and sunshine into every darkened home. In conclusion. The Broad Ax most heartily and earnestly wishes all its friends, supporters and perusers a Merry Christmas. THE PARKS AND JACKSON LIBEL CASE. Tuesday afternoon the case of Daniel M. Jackson against Jacob L. Parks came up before Justice Underwood—Rev. Moses Jackson, Doctor Cotton were the chief witnesses against Mr. Parks and their testimony was very weak, it appears that while Rev. Jackson was rubbering along State street the later part of October or the first of November he met Mr. Parks and requested him to let him look at the circular-which was supposed to represent Daniel M. Jackson, locked arms with a white girl and the following inscription "I does certainly like my white girls"—the evidence brought out as to Mr. Parks being responsible for the publication and distribution of the circular was very weak and shallow and if Justice Underwood did not belong to the third ward Republican machine and if he was familiar with the laws of Illinois, he would have thrown the case out of court and discharged Jacob L. Parks. But being the tool and the creature of the Republican machine referred to he was afraid to do otherwise than bind Mr. Parks over to the grand jury. E. H. Morris represented Mr Jackson and he seemed to be delighted to let it be known that he and Justice Underwood occupied front-seats together in the same band-waggon regardless of the fact that the law was all on the other side, although Mr. Morris was afraid to put Dan. Jackson on the stand for the reason that he was fearful that Lawyers Albert B. George and E. H. Wright would burn Mr. Jackson up alive by firing questions at him respecting his domestic relations. Messrs. George and Wright put up a good fight from start to finish for Mr. Parks, but they were up against it for Justice Underwood closed his eyes to all the facts in the case and when it terminated Edward H. Wright promptly signed Mr. Parks bond for one thousand dollars. *** Foot-pads, hold-up men, cut-throats and robbers seem to have absolute possession of Chicago and they have become so bold that it is becoming very dangerous for decent men and women to walk abroad during the early hours of the night and we do not believe that this state of affairs will improve very much until mayor Harrison fires Joe Kipley and selects a new superintendent of police and The Broad Ax would like to see Mayor Harrison place Inspector Nichols Hunt or Luke Kalas at the head of the police of Chicago for either one of these two able and capable inspectors installed as chief of police could cope with the mid-night bandits and robbers. Ex-civil service commissioner Edward Carroll will engage in the manufacture of a new patented telescope on or about Jan. 15. Mr. Carroll is of the opinion that the goods, which will be put on the market by himself, and partners will be better and cheaper than those gotten up by other firms. CLUB WORK AMONG COLORED WOMEN. But a short time ago Colored women knew very little about the club or its work. But seeing th value of organization and the benefits derived from exchanging thoughts and ideas, they began to see what good they could accomplish by organization. The results speak for itself, for there is hardly a city in the Union that does not possess a club composed of Colored women, all doing effective work in the endeavor to better conditions among our people. They have given help to the destitute, food to the hungry, clothing to the naked: they cared for the chil- A. dren, and helped race business enterprises. All this has been accomplished by club work in Chicago and even more can be done in the future, if the spirit of harmony and zeal is the watchword. The Progressive Circle of the King's Daughters, of which I am president is endeavoring to make its work practical and especially helpful to our people in the locality in which our society makes its home. We are endeavoring to take up a branch of work which we think of prime importance to our race and that is the home building phase of our race life. We intend to work to help better the conditions that exists among the children at the Keith School. We propose to enlist all the forces possible to work in this district for the benefit of these children, and when our plans are fully formulated we shall ask the hearty cooperaton of the public. Mr. Allison, the principal at Keith School will address the King's Daughters Sunday, Dec. 23, at Bethel church, and he will then tell us in what way we can assist him. Last year our time was devoted to furnishing a room at Provident Hospital, thereby showing our interest in that splendid institution. Now the best work of the club is its influence upon the individual woman herself. Club work when carried out by all gives rest and change of scene, and if she studies its benefits as she should, it makes her broader, more intelligent, a more agreeable companion for her husband and children. The enlightened woman becomes the equal and companion of man of whose society he can never tire. As man rises in the intellectual scale he demands more and more this substantial companionship of a wife. It is no longer woman who selects. From the earliest historic period down to the present time man has been exercising choice, and female beauty as it now expresses itself in woman is the result. But the progress of civilization has brought a change in the aesthetic tastes of mankind, and while physical beauty has lost none of its charm, moral and intellectual beauty have come to hold first place, and true companionship can only be found in the harmonious union of these three. Such a combination in woman can only be secured through a life of interested activity, which invites the exercise of all the faculties. The club movement has been a marvel of growth; but some of our women belong to too many clubs. They thus waste their strength and accomplish little. To be an earnest, zealous faithful member of one or two clubs at most, means that women can then get the best there is in club life and do the most good in club work. In more than this, she can not be so successful, unless she be a woman with nothing to do—no husband or children with claims upon her time. That club work here in Chicago has not kept up its high standard of activity with which it began, is to be gretted, for there is more than enough of work to do for the race and humanity in this great and wicked city. Whenever women have sunk personal ambition and petty jealousies and united their forces, they have always done great work. Whenever they have failed to do this, there has been no success in their work, but only wrangling and bickering, which weakens the clubs and ministers only to the selfish ambition of those who, if they can not rule are determined to ruin. IT CONTAINS THE TRUTH. Editor Broad Ax: In reading the letter wrote by Mr. Robert Sims to his honor, William McKinley, begging and pleading for the President to say or offer some encouragement for the treatment of the Afro-Americans, I think the President misunderstood Mr. Robert Sims by using the word American citizen, the only time we are known by that name is before an election. It will be remembered how the G. O. P. was going to right all the wrongs of the Colored man both North and South how the party wept for the poor black man. He was told how the South was disfranchising his race, and they were lynched in the South. They felt so sorry for the Colored man before the election that they almost shed tears for his condition and when a white man is so sorry about our condition, that he cries, that softens our feelings for the white man and vote him in office, but this race question is something to be considered by every intelligent Colored man. I am glad Mr. Sims has the good of the race at heart and is not blind to the real facts, which confronts every Colored man who has the best interest of the race at heart. Just as long as we continue to be slaves of the Republican party, we are not only endangering the voter, but it will be endangering the lives of our children that we are striving so hard to give an education and fit them for higher things in this life. Christ said the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. The Colored man can say we have no place to lay our heads, where we are treated as American citizens, the South will do just whatever it pleases to do with the Negro, and his rights and the North will do nothing or say nothing, about it until the near approach of an election, it will not be a great while until all our rights will be taken from us as citizens the 15th and 13th amendments are taken from us; the day is not far distant when we will be forbidden to ride in the same car with the white man in this state there is no North, no South for the Negro to apply for protection. Kirkwood, Ill., Dec. 17, 1900. SENATOR TILLMAN'S OPINION. The Charlotte (N. C.) Daily Observer editorially says that Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, asserted that the Supreme court would declare the difranchising acts of North Carolina and Louisiana unconstitutional; that the ancestor's clause of 1868 allowing ignorant whites to vote, but denying this right to ignorant blacks, is plainly a discrimination on account of color, and thus in contravention of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States; that the suffrage amendment of North Carolina and Louisiana are identical; that those of South Carolina and Louisiana are not. Senator Tillman is charged with saying that he refused to take part in the North Carolina campaign because of the unconstitutionality of this clause in the amendment. After this direct stab at this amendment by Senator Tillman, the Republicans should not have any hesitancy about taking it into the Supreme court to have it doomed for all time to come.—Ex. A NEGRO DEPUTY Mr. C. . Rankin, a life-long Negro democrat, was appointed deputy sheriff by Sheriff-elect Dickman, last Wednesday. The American Eagle congratulates both Mr. Rankin and Sheriff Dickman. Mr. Dickman could not have made a better selection, and Mr. Rankin is worthy of the honor. Go ahead, Chris, and keep in the middle of the road.—The American Eagle, St. Louis, Mo. CHIPS. Mrs. B. Green, 449 56th court, gave a very enjoyable sociable to her many friends Wednesday evening. Robert Haggans, 4745 Armour ave. died last Monday—quick consumption he was well known and leaves a wife and five children. A white man looks all right to some of our Colored women, but a black man looks like the devil to the white women.—Ex. The New York Age is responsible for the assertion that Bishop B. T. Tanner has come out strongly against preachers kissing the women members of their congregation.—Ex. James O'Brien, City Gas Inspector, says : "The Broad Ax is doing a good work for the party and he delights in reading the many interesting articles which it contains." The Alabama State Fair authorities wil erect a special Negro building for the exhibition. Mr. G. W. A. Johnson of Tuskegee has been appointed Commissioner. Mrs. M. L. Keelon, 3220 Wabash avenue, left Sunday morning for Boston, Mass., where she was summoned to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Lewis, who was suddenly stricken down with an apoplectic stroke. Major R. A. Ware, commanding 1st Batalion, W. R., K. of P., jurisdiction of Illinois, leaves this morning for a two weeks visit to Nashville, Tenn., and the major will be greatly missed in Chicago during the holiday season. "Lawyer P. J. O'Keeffe, Ashland Blk," Joseph Kipley, chief of police, is liable to have you yanked up for cat-hoppng him. Mr. O'Keeffe in case Chief Kipley should get such a foolish notion into his head, we will call on you to prevent us from being placed behind the bars. Rev. and Mrs. J. Bundy have sent out invitations announcing the marriage of their granddaughter, Miss Euphemia B. McQuam to Mr. James W. Osborn Wednesday evening, December 26, at 5 o'clock, Bethel church, 30th and Dearborn streets, the reception will be held at 2020 Central street, Evanston, from 7 to 10 p. m. Monday night a mass meeting was held at Institutional church for the purpose of petitioning Congress to reduce representation in the United States congress from the Southern States. Rev. R. C. Ransom, Doctor Bentley, Wm. Martin, E. H. Morris and D. R. Wilkins were among the speakers. The Afro-Americans of Allegheny county, Pa., have bought a fine piece of ground and completed all arrangements to erect a home for aged and infirm Colored men and women. This shows that the Colored people of Western Pennsylvania are wide awake and are in favor of providing a comfortable home for the old and decrepit. In Pittsburg, Pa., a few days ago a white man married a Colored woman and by so doing his father and friends wanted to mob and lynch him, evidently they are opposed to the two races crossing, and breeding with each other, but that is nothing new, for the two races have for years been breaking down the bars in this respect and during that time many white men have made love and kissed Colored women and is said that fair exchange is no robbery. NO. 9. Christmas Day the Salvation Army of this city will provide a Christmas dinner for the poor. The newsboys, and the unemployed. Tattersalls, 16th and Dearborn street, has been engaged for the occasion and Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. French and the other workers and leaders of the Army will endeavor to make all happy, who attend. The Salvation Army is without a doubt doing more for suffering humanity than all the other religious organizations in the world. City Attorney A. J. Ryan has informed us that under no circumstances will he become a candidate for the position, which he now so ably occupies. This announcement on the part of Mr. Ryan will be very disappointing to his many friends and supporters, for they would like to see him re-nominated and re-elected and it must be conceded by all interested and disinterested citizens of Chicago that A. J. Ryan has made a first-class city attorney. Evidently the new Board of County Commissioners intend to expend the tax-payers money as recklessly and as extravagantly as the old board for at the last meeting of the Board R. B. Organ introduced a resolution favoring the reduction of the salaries of the over-paid county employees. But commissioner Organ's resolution was voted down and it only received the support of Messr. Organ, Flanagan, Thielen Irrmann and Hulsman, who are in favor of hewing close to the line in managing the affairs of Cook county. Lynching of Negroes continues to afford much pleasure and amusement to the highly white Christian gentlemen of the United States. The good and peaceful people of the Republican state of Indiana are the latest to indulge in this pleasant pastime within one week they have mobbed and lynched three Negroes and trampled all the laws of their own creation under their feet, according to th Negro population the Republican North is keeping pace with the Democratic South in the matter of burning, mobing black men and women. Poor man, he broke down completely. It began this way. His feet seemed heavy, his liver sluggish, his digestion poor, his cheerfulness gone, his brain slow to grasp fact, his eye dim to see an opportunity. Then came neglect of business through lack of energy, and finally failure. He had never heard of "Longavita," a priceless preparation, that brings roses to the cheeks, rounds out hollow faces, makes the step elastic, the disposition cheerful, and renews the vigors of youth. "Longavita" has ben called the fountain of youth. It is a vegetable medicine that came from the brains of Germany's leading scientific physicians, absolutely harmless, and a benefit to both old and young. Read our "Longavta" ad. in another column. THE BROAD AX. =! PUBLISHED WEEELY. eres Danoerant eres tbe caste ee sharers eee ‘SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): oe Advertising retes made known on application Se eee ae JULIUS F. TATLOR, Editor and Publishes, ‘Miss Clara Barton, head of the Red Cross society, has placed with a firm at Kittrell, N. C., an order for 1,000,- 000 strawberry plants. These plants will be distributed among the fruit growers of Texas who suffered so se- verely from the great September storm. Some at least of the great redwood trees of California will be preserved, the state having recently come into possession of about 400 acres of red- ‘wood forest through the will of the late Cok J. B. Armstrong of Clover- Gale, Sonoma county. The tract is te be held as a public park. The first authentic discovery of traces of a prehistoric race in Alaska ‘was made recently by prospectors in the foot-hills of Mount St. Elias, A copper mine was unearthed which had been worked ages ago. Kettles, tools, spear-heads and other articles, made in a crude manner from copper, were found. The President usually issues his Thanksgiving day proclamation just before the November elections. In that way he saves himself from the shafts of the jokers. Were it issued after election, a President's attitude of thankfulness would be ascribed to his own party's victory, if it had achieved a victory. If defeated he would be ac- cused of “whistling to keep his cour- age up.” University chaperones are the latest Viennese novelty. In consequence of the riotous and insulting behavior of the male students when the women tried to avail themselves of the newly granted permission to attend lectures, many mothers of-women students have registered for the university lectures in order to accompany and protect their daughters. The pioneer was the opera singer, Arabella Szilagyl. Se The house in Peekskill in which Henry Ward Beecher wrote “Nor- wood,” has been opened for a free li- brary and reading room for Peekskill people. This has been made possible through the generosity of Dr. John Ne- well Tilden, who for many years was & practicing physician in Peekskill and later was principal of the military academy there. The institution will be known as the Beecher Free Reading Ezary Baird of Fond du Lac, Wis., and Miss Clara Elmer of Oshkosh made atrangements to be married at the home of Mrs. King in the former city the other evening. When the justice examined the marriage license he found the five days’ limit required by the instfument had not expired. The wedding party waited until after the midnight hour, the justice returning at about 1 o’clock in the morning to tie the knot. Marriages in Hindostan are very ‘simple, and are usually arranged by the parents of the principals. When an alliance is agreed upon, the bride nd groom are brought together, and perhaps see each other for the first time. The bride playfully skips toward the groom and seats herself ®eside him. The priest ties a corner of the bride’s veil to the groom's shawl, and this simple proceeding makes them man and wife. A young western attorney was re- cently asked why he had so strenuous- jy Gefended 2 woman who could not pay him. “I can never forget,” he re- plied, “that she lived at the end of my long paper route when I was @ struggling college boy. More than oneé in winter her kind heart prompt- ea her to rise very early to have a cup of hot coffee ready for her news- boy, fearing lest he might perish with the cold.” Such acts defy commercial “repaymen:” as much as mother-love or sister influence. How does the old Persian poet put it? “Im Time’s fieeting river The image of that little vine-leaf lay; immovably unquiet, and forever it trembles, but it cannot pass away.” A Paris newspaper gives the weight of.ecertain European sovereigns. In a football line-up, Dom Carlos of Portu- gal would be center. His towardness or valor ought to be guaranteed by his 202 pounds. Ferdinand of Bulgaria, 177 pounds, and Oscar of Sweden, one pound jess, seem fitted for guards. Kaiser Withelm's 160 pounds woula give him momentum and force as a tackle. The czar would scarcely make the team except as quarterback, for ae 2 ye The little “ot Spain, 99 pounds, fs out of the question, save to hold the sweater ot a player or to toes the coin for Seaents enna President of the pre 2 © republic for fullback, the head of the ‘pounds, would naturaly be a candidate. ZL Ving rhe we il NAN : La o- i Re | , S| : ee rT hit ‘MAS i \ Hi = 9) = 5 ne g Ys YE Uy pif Ma 7, yy Vy BA GAC AS Yo Yj page te Y/ “a 7 Y Zi Pe G tig g a J* “ ZB \E& ZB ?S of IN THE HOLLOW IN THE BANK HE SAW THREE FORMS. ‘The roll of the revellle drums and the trumpet’s brazen falsetto did not serve in the least to disturb the mo- fore meditations of Private Patrick Francis Tiernan, Seventh United States cavalry, who was walking post at Fort Runyon, Mont. in the gray of that Christmas day morning in the year 1890. Private Patrick Francis Tiernan, Troop K, until day before Yesterday a sergeant of twenty-seven years standing, was now walking post like the veriest “rookie” in the Fort Runyon outfit, reduce to the ranks by the ‘finding of a court martial for @renkenness, and that court martial convened by the order of his colonel. And the colonel, the man with whom Tiernan had soldiered all through the years that the officer was rising step by step from the ranks of a subaltern of horse to that of the command of the crack cavalry regiment of the ser- vice. After the new guard had been mounted that morning Private Tier- man made his way to his quarters and Without a word to his fellows, left the barracks and headed for the stables. As he passed the door of the commis- sary the Colonel came out and met him face to face. Tiernan’s hand went to his cap in rigid salute. “Good morning, Sargeant,” said Colonel Blake. The old title slipped out naturally. “Private Tiernan, sir, now,” was the answer in a tone that implied it cS < S a : Sa —— WN NCR KF E|-E=—_> S\S z= © \N f VAD “2 AD PRIVATE PATRICK FRANCIS TIER- NAN. would be a pleasure to add, “Thanks to you.” “As you will, Tiernan; where are you going?” *T'm_ an old guard post; I've walked post all night and I’m going to ride over to Miles City, sir.” “Aye you going to drink today, ser- geant?”-—the title again. “Private, sir; I don’t know; there’s pot many that care.” “Tiernan, we've soldiered in the same command for nearly thirty years. Yours was a growing fault. A deep. interest and a liking sometimes moves @-man to doa disagreeable duty. Enough of this, however. I want you to promise me that you won't drink today. Get out of the mud, ‘Tiernan; eet out of the mud. Promise me you'l) not drink” “What's my word worth? fm * nt ere shen we a on ae te dc pee Deaton, Tiernan. I've known the chevron and the plain sleeve to do the trick as well. Promise me.” The answer came half sulkily: “Well, if you want me to promise, I will.” Then the trooper turned an< strode away to the stables, taking no notice of the hand which he knew instinctively was held out to grasp his. At the stables he threw a saddle on to Joe Hooker, and with a more vi- cious dig from the spur than the horse had’ ever before felt from that heel set out at a “charge” pace across the prairie. Miles City came in sight. Tiernan rode past the scattered out- lying shacks, and reaching the heart of the place made straight for the bar of the “Jolly Trooper.” He called for brandy, filled the glass, raised it, and then as if mirrored in its contents he read the words: “I've known the chevron and the plain sleeve to do the trick as well.” Tiernan put the liquor back on the bar, paid for it, and turn- ed for the door. Then the thought of the gibes of the recruits came into his mind like a knife. He turned to the bar again, touched the glass, dropped it and then said sharply: “Give me a bottle of brandy.” He took the flask outside and put it in his saddle bag. ‘Thus far he had kept the letter of his word. : Tiernan headed Joe Hooker for the railroad station. The wind was sough- ing along in a way which the experi- enced trooper knew presaged a bliz- gard. At the station platform Tiernan found the post ambulance. The driver said that he had been sent over to meet Colonel Blake's sister, Mrs. Car- ruthers, her son andthe Colonel's daughter, Miss Molly Blake. “They arrived,” said the driver in response to Tiernan’s question, “on an earlier train than was expected and left for the post in an open De- fore I arrived. Sara: Gaseuteal cen, who came with her, hired the team, said he knew the way, aud would drive the party over. They've had half an hour the start, and if they keep to'the new road they can make the post before this blizzard is strong enough to hurt them. It’s too late now for me tu put back, however, and I'm going to stay here.” Tiernan looked at the sky. The clouds had banked up thickly, and the snow was coming faster and faster, blown by a constantly rising wind. “The last time young Carruthers, wag at the post,” he thought, “the old road was in use.” He does not know of the short new one. If he takes the old trail round the bluff they're lost.” Then he thought of Molly, whom ten one try, taught to ride. Molly, for whom he had been bodyguard all through"“her childhood. Without a word to a soul he mounted and struck Off.into the very teeth of the storm. “Don’t fail me this day, Joe Hooker.” be said. . The horse, as if in answer, galloped steadily forward. The air seemed turned to ice, yet the wind kept ever risitig. They came at last to the parting of the old and the new roads. Tiernen ‘slipped from his horse, and ate .the now disused trail, fresh marta of found the marks of a Carruthers had taken the old roundabout road The biizzard was @ its height. Tiernan Dlinde@ his horse and bending low over the sad- @ile kept him to his task with encour- aging words.- For an hour they kept steadily on in the face of the tempest. Te aay others than that plains-tried soldier and steed the blizzard would bave meant death. He had hoped to overtake those whom he sought in time to taks them back to the new path. The hope was given over long since. Suddenly Joe Hooker stopped. ‘There was au obstruction ou the trail. Tiernan slid from the saddle, his Mmbs already stiffened with the cold, anc with one hand on bis steed’s bridle he led the way gropingly for a few steps. There he found an open carriage empty and with two horses overcome in the trail. Tiernan’s neart nearly failed him. He knew he was almost on the point where the tratl rounded the bluff. Perhaps the carriage occupants had sought shelter under the lee of the embankment. Toward it he made his painful way. A ery came faintly to his ear above the howling of the storm. He stumb'ed on with his left hand still grasping tight- ly Joe Hooker's bridle. In another moment the stcep embankment sbut out some of the fury of the wind and the driving needlelike snow ceas- ed for a moment 1o blind his vision. Before him in a hollow of the bank he saw three forms. Two were pros- trate, the other was kneeling, aad the soldier realized that the white face of young Carruthers was turned toward him, while from the lips came the smothered cry, “Sergeant Tier- nan.” Tiernan stumbled forward and sank down beside the motionless figures, half covered with snow. “Save them,” came in anguished tones from the boy. Tiernan raised | the nearest form and looked into the face of Molly Blake. Exposure had well-nigh done its work. Then 2 thought flashed into his mind, and with an action as quick as the thought he sprang to the side of his horse and thrust his hand into the saddle bag. There was the bottle of brandy intact. In a trice a quantity of the stimulant was forced between the lips of the storm’s victims and signs of return- ing consciousness were almost imme- diate. Tiernan used his saddle blan- ket and overcoat as a further protec- tion and soon succeeded in getting the three into a still more sheltered nook. After long waiting the storm subsid- ed, and then came the thump of hoof falls. A minute later a troop of cav- alry, led by Colonel Blake, broke round the edge of the biuff. The Colonel slipped from his horse and took his daughter into his arms. The troopers started a fire, and when its genial warmth had made itself felt the story was told in a few words. “Sergeant Tiernan,” said Colonel Blake, “that bottle of brandy saved three lives.” “Maybe,” returned Tiernan, but you may thank what you said this morn- ing for there being a drop in it.” Patrick Francis Tiernan, retired first sergeant K troop, Seventh cav- alry, wears a massive gold watch. In- scribed on the inside of one case are these words: “From Molly Blake to Sergeant Tiernan, Non-Commissioned Officer and Gentleman.” Within the back case Sergeant Tiernan had en- graved these: “I've known the chev- ron or the plain sleeve to do the trick as well. Christmas Day, 1890.” Ghe Chetstmasr Tree. Says an enthusiastic mother: “I don’t believe there is anything on the face of the earth that gives more Pleasure to the average child than a Christmas tree. It does make a good deal of trouble for the elders, but surely it is worth while! One is only & child such a little while, and one is grown up so very long! We grown up People are very well satisfied to have our yearly presents just given to us, but surely we all can remember how ‘the value of the gifts once increased in Proportion to the way they were giv- en. Was anything more delightful than emptying a stocking, especially when each thing was wrapped up aad tied. The presents were so much more desirable that way than if they bad just been laid out on a chair or table. Ard if they came on a Christ- mas tree, words cannot’express how much that enhanced their value. Sure- ly that childish delight repaid all the hard work that fell to the elders’ share, and the remembrance of it now goes a long way to lighten the work of it all for our own small boys and girls. “A big tree is glorious, but, after all, the Christmas we always looked back on as the very best was the one where we each had a little tree of our own. They were from about six inches high, for the baby, up to three feet for fa- ther. They were planted in lovely pots, and were decorated with little bits of candles and cornucopias, on each tree a different color. There was even one tree for the pets, and no sin- gle one was forgotten. Every dog, cat, rabbit, guinea pig. or doll had a gift, with its own name marked on the out- side. Truly that was a Christmas! I only wish I had the nine little rascals to make all the happiness for, and the means to do it. Children are endless trouble; but how forlorn it is not to have them to trouble for!” Her Christmas Greeting. It's Christmas, and she sends to me A neat and pretty card; But as I read my face grows long— Tt must be quite a yard. “Tis not because its worth is slight That I am filled with yoe; It is an invitation to Her wedding, don’t you know? ‘When a man is down his enemies ee re nt a ae Sete te a ae Z2=— Tita rN ) a) is bch Nes fe 3 cans i pa f \ Z ih i Uy; / ay wh i" THEY CUT THE BULL LOOSE WJTH US LASHED TO ITS BACE On Back of “es Ball *< (Special Correspondence.) ~ In strikig contrast to the exciting experiences he underwent in his younger days is the quiet manner in which Capt. Ike Jackson, whose name fs familiar all through the southwest, fs passing the evening of his life. Now he lives on his well-stocked ranch on the Pecos river, in western Texas, and while a jolly, sociable companion, un- der all conditions, is at his best while recalling the incidents of his life on the frontier when the Indians were plentiful. His entertaining fund of reminiscences he is always ready to | draw upon and never does he talk to an uninterested audience. One of his tales is of an exciting event which led to his marriage. As he tells it, the story is as follows: Attacked by Indians. “J was playing the fiddle one night at a dance in a little log cabin on the extreme frontier. There had been ru- mors of an Indian raid, but the people were fearless, and everybody in the neighborhood was at the dance. Sud- denly an arrow whizzed through the open déor and struck a young girl on the shoulder. It was followed by a shower of arrows and a few shots. Women shrieked, and the men seized their arrows and began to barricade the house. I kept on playing the fid- dle as if notuing had happened. “That's right, Ike,’ whispered old Col. Chrisman. ‘Piay as if the devil was after you and"I will save the women and children." I turned loose on ‘The Arkansas Traveler,’ and I made the old fidd'e roar. While some of the boys were popping away in the dark from the front of the cabin the old colonel managed to slip out the back way and escape into the woods with the women and children. Then T laid the fiddle down and got my gun and joined in the defense. The red devils were too many for us, and after killing four of our boys they set fire to the cabin and succeeded in captur- ing me as I was trying to cut my way through their lines with my bowle knife. “They bound me hand and foot and tied me on a pony. After raiding the settlement and burning the cabins they started back toward a Lipan vil- lage on Devil river. When daylight came I was congratulating myself that the red men had not captured any of the wives or daughters of the settiers, but in a moment I heard a cry of dis- tress and upon twisting my head around was amazed to see a beautiful | young girl whom I well knew lashed | to an old squaw who was riding a mustang. The Indians had found a demijohn of brandy in a cabin, and it was not long before several gf the war- riers were drunk. They began to yell and cavort about on their ponies, ap- parently indifferent to the likelihood that they might be overtaken at any moment by the enraged settlers. While crossing the San Gabriel prairie they circled around a herd of wild cattle and roped several of the fat animals. By this time the old chief in command was almost too drunk to ride, and they halted in a grove on the banks of San Gabriel and prepared to have a feast. & Historical Umbrolia. An interesting historical relic, name- ly, the first umbrella of which mention is made by French writers,has, a Paris correspondent states, just been sold by auction. It fell out of the royal car- riage in the famous flight to Varennes, was picked up by a villager and takes to a newly created mayoralty, where it was kept for years. The umbrella is of great size and strength, and resem- bles the article used in the old coach- ings days by the outside traveler. The silk is royal blue, with a border of China rose. The ribs which support whalebone are in gilt bronze, round, and have a corkscrew ornament twin- ing round them. As to the handle, it would bear without bending the stiff- est gale. This umbrella is spoken of im a report on the light of Louis the Sixteenth and his family. Louis Philippe got into the habit in Eng- Frightful Torture Inflicted by Indians We were tied to a t: a ree, Squaw told us that we woul lac ed alive later in the day. The girl — the daughter of Col. Munroe, a nat member of Austin’s colony. |<? close enough to speak to her ane bade her to be of good chee; telli : her that our friends would ba aaa rescue us soon. The Indians Saas and drank until nearly sunset, yar that time many of the warriors we, furiously drunk and eager fo- <4. fiendish work. They roped 4 meee Mexican bull, and the old Syuaw aa to the girl ‘White face heap trig = bull. No like toridehimy Lashed Osto the Batt. | “The savages no sooner hea} +5 remark than they began to ye) wi delight, They ran toward tne girtang three or four drunken warriors Seized and dragged her to the bul! oi Indians cut me loose from the tree aaj forced me along by the side of the ter. rified girl. They threw us on the ba ce of the bellowing beast, ang lashed ug securely to his body. “By this time the whoie «m5 was aroused and eager to witness tho to. tures. Sqaws clapped their hanis aaj the drunken warriors howled like ine carnate devils. They cut the bull loose with us lashed to his back, and be sprang away bellowing. with dieoj and foam flying from his nostrils. Th, Indians set out after the maddened beast, raining arrows and musket Dells at us. The girl swooned with terro, and I abandoned all hope. Fortunate. ly it was late in the evening. and the frightened bull ran so fast that the drunken Indians soon lost sight of him. When I realized this ali my en- ergy and courage returned to me ani I determined to make a desperate et. fort to save my own and the girl's life I called Sallie and was glad to gai that she bad recovered her senses, Tugging with all my strength at the ropes I managed to get one hani loose At this moment a new terror sprang up. The bull had been wounded and he was leaving a trail of blood that had been scented by a pack of wolves The hungry beasts howled and yelped an if there were a thousand of them. and it was not long before I -o1'd hear them gnashing their teeth. Keseued from a New Danger. “Tt is likely that the bull would have fallen on the prairie from er- haustion and the wolves would have devoured ‘us before we could have re- ieased ourselves had it not deen that the bu!! had run back directly over the trail the Indians had mad». Ani- mal instinct ied him back to the |o- eality from which he had deen taken, and be ran right into a column of st- tlers who were pursuing the Indians. Sallie saw the horsemen and when sie began to scream her father who was in command of persuing party, re- ognized her voice. The bu!!, being nearly exhausted, was easily cap tured. “I don’t think that I told S::lle that I loved her while we were on the hack of that buli, but I did fall {n love with her while the arrows ¥ore fall- ing about us. Not long aft: *© were married.” Jand of walking along with an ™™- brella, and was nicknamed “le Rol Paraplute.” Bemateas of Ancient Man. Tn some grottoes in Algeria Frencd explorers recently discovered stone i=- plements mingled with the remains of satinet animals belonging to quarte!- nary times. Further explorations it- dicate that during the age when thé grottoes were inhabited the coast of Algeria had a configuration different from that of to-day. Among the 22'- mals associated with the ancient bu man inhabitants of Algeria were the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus 2nd vé- rious species of ruminants. In an audience.of rough people » generous sentiment always >rins down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed —T- W. Higginson. WANTS AMERICAN WIFE BRITAIN'S NEW LORD. 6T. JOHN BRODRICK LANS-DOWNE'S SUCCESSOR. He Is the Son of Viscount Middleton and Has Been in Public Life Since 1880—Only Forty-Four Years Old—Served as Under Secretary Once. Mr. W. St. John Brodrick was one of the "clever young men" of the Conservative party in the "early eighties." Though not, perhaps, a brilliant orator, he is a keen debater, and has more than once shown that he can state a case as clearly as any of his colleagues on the Treasury bench. Eldest son of Viscount Midleton, Mr. Brodrick is in his 44th year. He received his early education at Eton, and later on at Oxford. Like so many other men who have shone in the political world he took a prominent share in the debates of the Union Society, of which he became president. He also helped to found the Canning club, which has long been the center of the new Toryism of the university. It was his good fortune to step straight from the presidential chair to a seat in the House of Commons, being returned unopposed for West Surrey at the general election of 1880. Both in and out of Parliament Mr. Brodrick was exceedingly industrious and painstaking, and it is affirmed that he was one of the few members who really mastered the intricacies of the Irish land bill. On the passing of the Redistribution act, Mr. Brodrick was elected for the Guildford division of Surrey, and he still represents that constituency. Often it has been said that Mr. Brodrick came of age, sat for his county, and got married all in one year, but the statement is erroneous. True, the two latter events occurred in 1880, but that was nearly three years after he had attained his majority. In June, 1885, Mr. Gladstone resigned, owing to the memorable defeat on the Budget bill. Ere many months had elapsed the Conservative government were vanquished upon the amendment of Mr. Jesse Collings to the Address, but the home rule proposals of Mr. Gladstone speedily installed Lord Salisbury again in Downing street. Then it was that Mr. Brodrick began The Minister from Uruguay to Washington came to this country specially with a view to securing an American wife, and he does not hesitate to say so, adding that he is a great admirer of American women. His father is president of Uruguay, and is anxious that his son shall make a good match in the United States. The minister is young and handsome, and SAL SENOR CUESTAS. will soon open a house of his own and entertain lavishly in Washington. First It Was All Cuts and Afterward Whole Sentence One of the most amusing skippers visiting Philadelphia is the genial commander of the British bark Calcium, one of the fleet of Greenland cryolite traders, which has just discharged her cargo here and loaded coal for Demerara. A fine specimen of the real old-time sailor, Capt. Smith possesses a fund of knowledge gathered through years of rough experience, the record of which would form the groundwork for an up-to-date sea novel. For years this picturesque skipper gained knowledge of the high latitudes that has been of great benefit to him in his present trade through service aboard one of the old Peterhead whalers, a fleet once famous, but now almost extinct. Capt. Smith has been one of the most successful of the arctic traders, his only mishap being the loss of the British bark Argenta, which he commanded in the fall of 1896. This vessel was actually crushed to atoms by the arctic floe ice. All were rescued after a thrilling experience, and made their way to Fredericksshaab, where they were housed and fed by the Danish governor. Capt. Smith has a greater knowledge of Greenland than any other man in the merchant service, says the Philadelphia Press. When he can be induced to tell of the bleak settlements surrounded by the polar ice his stories are always appreciated and he is sure of a large and greatly interested audience. Several days ago, just before his departure for Demerara, the skipper told a most interesting story of journalism in Greenland. Journalism in Greenland, he said, is represented by a single paper and to its his apprenticeship by serving as under secretary to the war office, and he remained at that post until the Unionists were supplanted by the Radicals in 1892. Finding himself in the shade of the opposition, the member for Guildford turned his attention to matters other than military. As the eldest son of a peer, he got into "revolt" against the idea of men, on succeeding to the title, being compelled to forsake the House of Commons for the House of Lords. He assisted in promoting a bill to change this state of things, but without success, and he is now the only one of the three mutineers now left in the Lower Chamber, Lord Selbourne having been called to the Upper House on the death of his father, and Mr. Curzon having become as an Irish peer, viceroy of India. It was the hand of Mr. Brodrick that fired the cordite mine which blew up the Rosebery government in June,1895. At once the queen sent for Lord Salis- M. HON ST JOHN BRODRICK bury, who accepted office and appealed to the country. The noble marquis started his third administration with a huge majorlty, and Mr. Brodrick was appropriately appointed to the war office, as second in command to Lord Lansdowne, and so successfully did he perform the duties of the position that no surprise was evinced upon his transfer to the foreign office on the promotion of Mr. Curzon to India. As lieutenant to Lord Salisbury, the member for Guildford has acquitted himself with complete satisfaction. proprietor, Mr. Moeller, is due the credit of educating a large number of the natives, because he not only printed the paper for them, but also taught them how to read it. This wonderfully energetic man performs singlehanded the functions of editor, reporter, proprietor, printer, distributor and business manager. The entire paper, which is printed in Godthaab, is the product of his own pen. Some time ago he set up a primitive printing establishment, and every two weeks he performs a long journey on skates to dispose of his journal. Originally it contained only a few crude illustrations, but gradually other matter was introduced until now it contains articles on the affairs of the day. This man actually taught his subscribers to read his paper, first introducing words, then sentences, and now articles on the topics of the day. Mr. Moeller is a Dane and has lived in Greenland for many years. He takes a deep interest in anything calculated to make lighter the burdens of the natives and is beloved by all who know him. The Biggest Pair of Tusks. In his report upon the trade and commerce of Zanzibar for last year Acting Consul Kestell Cornish states that the finest tusks on record in East Africa, and probably larger than have ever yet been obtained in any part of the world, came through Zanzibar last year. The elephant from which they were obtained was shot by an Arab near Kilimanjaro. These tusks, which consisted of perfect ivory, without a particle of disease, measured over ten and a half feet from top to base, and weighed 224 pounds, and 239 pounds respectively. They were sold for $5,000. The nearest approach in bulk to this pair were found about ten years ago, and weighed 180 pounds each. They were, however, diseased to some extent. Cooking in India. Every man in India is a good cook. The women cook at home, but in traveling the women are not allowed to show themselves, and so the men do the work. No Hindu will eat food on which any man's shadow has fallen. All Hindus are great ceremonial legalists. The Hindus are of our own Aryan race. They are not like the Chinese and Japanese, alien from our race. They have all the mental capacity of Europeans, and only need the same religion and the same opportunity to shine on an equality with us. Burbage Waterloo Battle Ground. Henri Houssaye, the French Academician and authority on Napoleon,has purchased for the Paris Sabretasche, the French military association, the exact spot of ground where the Old Guard made its last stand at Waterloo, and upon it M. Gerome, the sculptor, is to erect a monument. Cheap Stain for Wood- A cheap and simple stain for wood is made with permanganate of potassa. A solution of it spread upon pear or cherry wood for a few minutes leaves a permanent dark brown color, which, after a careful washing, drying and olling, assumes a reddish tint upon being polished. NATIONAL PRIDE. Why Lord Lansdowne's Appointment Pleases the French France is pleased with the appointment of Lord Lansdowne as British foreign secretary because he is of French extraction on his mother's side. When he was governor general of Canada he was popular with the French Canadians for the same reason. When he was in Canada he once had to make a speech to the Canadian French. Now the educated among these people are great sticklers for the purity of the French tongue—at least as it was spoken in the eighteenth century. Few viceroys have ever ventured in addressing them beyond the safe security of the English tongue. When they heard that Lord Lansdowne was going to speak in French they were doubtful of the result, but as soon as he uttered the first word "messieurs," the whole audience burst into cheers. They recognized at once the accent possible only to a man of French blood. The Marquis of Lansdowne is a son of the eldest daughter of General Flahault, one of the officers of the first Napoleon. The Duke de Morny, half brother to Napoleon III., was a half brother to Lord Lansdowne's mother, being the son or Qeen Hortense and General Flahault, the grandfather of the marquis. HER HEAKT WAS TOUCHED. FOLSOM, Custer Co., South Dakota, Dec. 15.—(Special.)—Mrs. H. D. Hyde has given for publication a letter expressing her unbounded gratitude to Dodd's Kidney Pills for the double cure of herself and little daughter. Mrs. Hyde has been troubled with pains in her heart for over three years and for a long time her little girl suffered from weak kidneys. The grateful lady does not seem able to find words strong enough to express her gratitude. She has written the following: I cannot say too much in praise of Dodd's Kidney Pills. They are the greatest kidney and heart medicine I ever used. I had been troubled for over three years with a severe pain in my heart, which entirely disappeared after I had taken a few doses of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I also gave them to my little girl, whose kidneys had been weak, and she commenced to improve from the very first dose. Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly a wonderful medicine. I would be pleased to have this, my statement, published, as I feel it my duty to let others know just what the Pills will do for them. Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure. 50c a box. All dealers. The Devil's Bible The "Devil's Bible" is one of the volumes in the royal library of the royal palace of Stockholm, Sweden. In this library there are 200,000 volumes and 10,000 manuscripts. The Bible is written on 300 prepared asses' skins There is a tradition that it required 500 years to complete the work, from the eighth to the thirteenth century. But, according to another tradition quite as reliable probably, the book was copied in a single night, the devil himself assisting, and giving the monk a portrait of himself for the frontispiece. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, JULIA, COUNTY Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State acreasold, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. (SEAL) A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best Large Pill for a Meal Emergency rations are not popular in the army. A large pill for a meal may quiet the stomach, but falls to satisfy the ego. A prominent physician explains the matter: "We have teeth, a palate, jaw muscles and other pieces of machinery that are ignored, if not insulted, when you pop a tablet into a man's mouth and say, "There, you've had your dinner." TOUR OF ALL MEXICO. in Pullman's finest Compartment Drawing Room, Library, Observation and Dining Cars—all Vestibuled—with the celebrated OPEN TOP CAR "CHILILITLI" for Observation in the Mountains and Canyons and Dining Car in the Tropics. A delightful trip of 38 days with Three Circle Tours in the Tropics of the South of Mexico and a visit to the Ruined Cities. All exclusive features of these itineraries of leisurely travel and long stops—The Special Train starts Tuesday, January 22, from Chicago. Special Pullman Cars leave Chicago Thursday, January 17, and Thursday, February 14, at 9:30 a.m., connecting with the splendid new steamships Ponce and San Juan sailing from New York the second day following. Individual Tickets sold for other sailing dates, alternate Saturdays. TICKETS INCLUDE ALL EXPENSES EVERYWHERE These select limited parties will be under the special escort and management of The American Tourist Association. Reau Campbell, General Manager, 1423 Marquette Building, Chicago. Itineraries, Maps and Tickets can be had on application to Agents of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. LOW RATES TO THE SOUTH. Excursion tickets at reduced rates are now being sold by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway to the prominent resorts in the South, including Jacksonville, Fla., Mobile, Ala., New Orleans, La., Savannah, Ga., El Paso, Tex., which are good for return passage at any time prior to June 1st, 1901. Information regarding rates, routes, time, etc., can be obtained on application to any coupon ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. News Telephone Service. A news telephone service has been established at Budapest, the object of the scheme being to supply subscribers with reports of all the important occurrences which are ordinarily chronicled in the daily papers. The service has a main line 168 miles in length, and ft is connected with private houses and various public resorts. Between 7.30 a. m. and 9.30 p. m. twenty-eight editions of news are spoken into the transmitter by ten leather-lunged individuals who work in shifts of two. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a newpreparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. Australian Cavea. The eastern portion of Australia is rich is cave systems, mostly in limestone formations, several, such as the Jenolan, Yarrangobilly and Wombeyan, being of considerable extent, although only partially explored. Most of the caves, which are generally of a highly picturesque character, are in charge of caretakers appointed by the colonial government. 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. Batz Cause Epidemie Many epidemics of plague are believed to have been traced to rats, yet in other localities, and markedly in Glasgow, the rats have not been found infected by plague, either before or after the outbreak. It is by the vermin in the rat's coat that infection is probably conveyed to man. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bear the Signature of Charles H. Klitchin. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Red Cross Purchases Plants. Miss Clara Barton, head of the Red Cross society, has placed with a firm at Kittrell, N. C., an order for 1,000,000 strawberry plants. These plants will be distributed among the fruit growers of Texas who suffered so severely from the great September storm. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. Makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Chilblains and Frost-bites. At all druggists and shoe stores; 25c. Silken raiment has a standing among the oldest garments in the world. Robes of that material were worn by men and women alike 2,500 years before the birth of Christ. Curiosities of Human Hands It is a strange fact that the right hand, which is more sensitive to the touch than the left, is less sensitive than the latter to the effect of heat or cold. Leng's Family Medicine 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. Reverse of Fortune. The man who built the city hall of Denver is now selling cigars and tobacco at a stand in the corridor of the building. The Youth's Companion has announced the varied features to be published in its 75th volume. Science, history, biography, and travel are represented by many illustrious authors, while stories will be contributed by G. W. Cable, F. R. Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Margaret E. Sangster, Harriet Prescott Spofford, F. T. Bullen and many others. "The lady missionary declines to go to Kentucky." "Why." "She says she'd feel just as safe in China and get more bric-a-brac." Garfield Tea produces a healthy action of the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels; it purifies the blood, thus protecting the system against disease. In the end we all take our degrees from the great school of life through some of them are booby prizes. ```markdown ``` MRS. BREWER RECOMMENDS PERUNA FOR GRIP AND FEMALE CATARRH. The Home of Mrs. Lizzie M. Brewer at Westerly, R. I. The production of beer increased 2, 749,637 barrels last year. The total product in 1899 was 36,581,114 barrels, and in 1900 it was 39,330,849 barrels. Garfield Tea is an invaluable remedy for all forms of bowel and stomach disorders; it will cure the most obstinate case of chronic constipation. Silence is often the most eloquent answer that can be given. MRS. BREWER RECOMMEN FOR GRIP AN The Home of Mrs. Lizzie M. In a letter to Dr. Hartman concerning the merits of Pe-ru-na, Mrs. Brewer writes, among other things: Westerly, R. I. "Dear Dr. Hartman—I find Pe-ru-na a sure cure for all catarrhal affections so common in this part of the country. It cures a cold at once. There is no cough medicine that can at all equal Pe-ru-na. As for la grippe, there is no other remedy that can at all compare with Pe-ru-na. "I am among the sick a great deal in our city and have supplied many invalids with Pe-ru-na, simply because I am enthusiastic in my faith as to its results. I have never known it to fail to quickly and permanently remove that demoralized state of the human system which follows ia gripe. "In all cases of extreme weakness I use Pe-ru-na with perfect confidence of a good result. In cases of weakness peculiar to my sex I am sure that no other remedy can approach in good Immense Cargo of Caffer. What is said to be the largest cargo of coffee that has ever been received at the port of New York was landed there recently. One hundred and one thousand and two hundred and sixty-seven sacks arrived from Santos. Don't Get Footsore! Get FOOT-EASE. A certain cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. Cures Frost-bites and Chilblains. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Diamond Tooth Craze. The diamond tooth craze seems to be increasing, and a New York dentist declares he simply piled up orders during his stay in the French capital. Dronsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement in another column of this paper. Ants have brains larger in proportion to the size of their bodies than any other living creature. Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. The girl who wins the love of a good man makes a lucky hit and is herself a lucky miss. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on the box. 25c. The salmon output in the Northwest exceeds that of all former years. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. ROBBINS. Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. If you are not beloved by others you will soon cease to love yourself. Some articles must be described. White's Yucatan needs no description; it's the real thing. The United States consumed 80,000,-000 pounds of tea in 1899. DON'T WIPE YOUR NOSE OFF. You can get rid of your cold in a hurry. Batt's Caps for Colds cure colds. Stimulants never hurt the man who leaves them alone. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 250 a bottle. Among every seventy births there is a pair of twins. Ooe's Cough Balsam Is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable Try it. No man ever supported a family on praise or glory. Age tends to kill the hair and turn it gray. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM renews color and life. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15cts. Boys to be men must first be boys. What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day. 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. Get a package at your grocers to-day. 10 cts. Dr.Bull's COUGH SYRUP Cures a Cough or Cold at once. Conquers Croup, Whooping-Cough, Brouchitis, Grippe and Consumption. Quick, sure results. Dr. Bull's Pillis cure Constipation. 50 pills 10s. --- 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. English women are not supposed to read the daily newspapers. They take to the weeklies, and that is why London has a number of that clauses of a high order. MENDS PERUNA AND FEMALE CATARRH. . Brewer at Westerly. R. I. results the action of Pe-ru-na. It meets all the bad symptoms to which females are subject. The irregularities and nervousness, the debility and miseries which afflict more or less the women from girlhood to change of life, are one and all met and overcome by this excellent remedy. I wish every young lady in our city could read your book. "Mrs. Lizzie M. Brewer." Pe-ru-na will cure the worst cases of catarrh. La grippe is acute epidemic catarrh, for which Pe-ru-na is a specific. Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, New Lisbon, Ohio, suffered for many years with chronic catarrh of the lungs, head and throat; continuous cough; many physicians failed to cure. Permanently cured by Pe-ru-na. Thousands of testimonials could be produced. A valuable treatise on catarrh sent free by The Pe-ru-na Medicine Company. Columbus, O. A of any kind are caused by disordered Kidneys. Look out also for backache, scalding urine, dizziness and brick-dust or other sediment in urine which has been allowed to stand. Heed these warnings before it is too late. S50 reward will be paid for a case of backache, nervousness, sleeplessness, weakness, loss of vitality, incipient kidney, bladder and urinary disorders, that cannot be cured by $50 the great scientific discovery for shattered nerves and thin impoverished blood. OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN people cured by Kid-ne-olds. In writing them please enclose stamped addressed envelope. Mr. Jas. V. Kinney, 242 W. Wheeling St., Lancaster, O. Mr. C. A. Scovell, 208 N. Columbus St., Lancaster, O. L. P. Coffey, broker, Anderson, Ind. Leonard Whetsell, 512 W. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, Ind. W. R. Beebe, Centraia, Ill. Mrs. C. A. Hewitt, Wilson Ave. & 10th St. Sterling, Ill. Mrs. W. E. Lefever, 18 Sth St., Fond-du-Lac, W. Morrow's Kid-ne-ofds are not pills but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a box at drug stores. JOHN MORROW & CO., CHEMISTS, Springfield, DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Green, In Muenzon, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for (consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect, after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. WANTED AN IDEA. Have you an idea? Protect your ideas by a Patent. They may bring you want. Write for our valuable free book "ins and Outs of Patents." $50.00 premium for the most meritorious invention. H. T. BRIGHT & CO., PATENT ATTORNEYS, Washington, D. C. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims Late Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau 3 yrs. in civil war.15 adjudicating claims. atty. since DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; GIVE quick relief and curse woes cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS' treatment. FREEL. D. H. H. GREEN'S SONG. Box K. Atlanta, Ga. W, N, U. CHICAGO, NO. 51, 1900. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR OVERS WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugrists. CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` WISE AND OTHERWISE. A lawyer is strongest when fee-blest. A music-loving woman should acquire a husband. Every time you wrong your neighbor you harm yourself. By his conduct every man in the world fixes his own value. If the master is negligent the servant will not be diligent. Be very careful how you let remarks fall—they may hurt a friend. All men are more or less foolish, but some men outgrow their foolishness in time. A great deal of shocking language is due to the receipt of C. O. D. telegrams. A laugh bought at the expense of propriety costs far more than it is worth. The frown of a true friend is better than the smile of a cunning enemy. A woman is a great deal better than her neighbor and, what is more, she knows it. The faster a man's pace the more likely he is to be overtaken by the minions of the law. If the use of tobacco shortens a man's days it probably adds to the length of his nights. Friendship means more, and at the same time less, than any other word in the English language. The nights in Greenland are six months long, but, fortunately, there are no cats in that country. Lots of men spend half their time complaining of life's brevity and the other half in trying to kill time. The girl who is stupid, ugly, penniless and good possesses the four cardinal points of genuine misery. "He gives twice who gives quickly," says the proverb, but you will please observe that the rapid paying teller never gives you twice the face value of a check. HERE AND THERE. The income of the Prince of Wales exceeds £140,000 a year. Canada expects a population of 6,000,000 in its census returns next year. Butterflies are very sleepy-headed. They go to bed early and get up late. The land where the city of Hannibal, Mo., is now located sold in 1828 for $640. Ireland's woolen fabrics are incomparable for traveling, cycling and hardwear gowns. Spain has only 11,500 miles of railway, while France, of about the same area, has 36,000. Davenport, Ia., with but 35,254 inhabitants, has wet goods establishments to the number of 155. In some Swiss vineyards nearly the whole harvest was left last month to the poor of the neighborhood. There are about 117,000 novels in the Paris national library, and nearly 69,000 volumes of French poetry. Under the Sherman act, from August 13, 1900, to November 1, 1900, there were coined 122,783,050 standard silver dollars. The percentage of illiteracy in Kansas is less than it is in any state in this Union, or in any country on the globe save Belgium. Following the increase of population, the recruits joining the colors this year in Russia numbered 297,100, against 291,100 in 1899. The city of Moscow will expend 48,000,000 roubles, or about $24,600,000 on new waterworks. The city has now a population of over 1,000,000. KEEN REFLECTIONS. Contentment is merely a lack of desire. Old bachelors are the exceptions from the general rule. How very easy are some of the tasks we imagine difficult. Even the sharpest blade is run to earth when it is ground. If you would have your neighbors believe you speak ill of yourself. Many a man who sets up for a wit should be immediately set down again. There are two kinds of silliness—the silent and the garrulous. The former is endurable. Wise is the individual who prepares for the future by studying both the past and present. The common mind may be deceived by the fact that vice and genius often produce similar effects. The man who has but little and wants less is richer than the man who has much and wants more. Up to date no man has been able to discover a satisfactory method of giving friendly advice to a woman. If you have occasion to argue with a donkey you might just as well address yourself to his tail as to his head. When one woman tells another about the troubles she has with her dressmaker the other woman always has a tale of woe twice as long to tell in return. Shirtwist to Be Female The shirtwaist promises to be extremely popular next summer. Salesmen for the furnishing houses who are now on the road, are sending in large orders for shirtwaists for next spring and report that the demand will probably be heavy. Manufacturers report that the demand for such garments has far exceeded their expectations, and that they will be compelled to make up many more goods in that shape than they anticipated. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Tnere has been no vice president since the death of Mr. Hobart. The swords of Damascus were famous five hundred years before the Christian era. A law in Boston permits residents to keep street musicians 300 feet from their house. Holland appropriates 800,000 gilders annually for the support of the young Queen Wilhelmina. When the peel of a Japanese orange is removed, the sections fall apart without further aid. The poor farm in Marion county, Kansas, has only ten inmates. Last year it cleared $200 over expenses. Twelve hundred bottles of eau de cologne will be sent to the sick and wounded soldiers in the Transvaal. There is room for 54,000 persons in St. Peters church, Rome; for 37,000 in the Milan cathedral, and for 25,000 in St. Pauls, London. Electric street-sweeping machines are in use in Paris. They are planned after the model of the automobile, with revolving brooms. A gentleman in Brighton, England, Mr. Horace L. Short, has invented a phonograph which repeats a conversation so loudly that it can be heard distinctly at a distance of ten miles. A candid business man in Otterville, Mo., having determined to have a good time, closed his store and put this notice on the door: "Gone to the fair at Sedalia. Will return when I get sober." A wooden cannon used in the representation of a play at Greenwall's Opera House, in Fort Worth, Texas, exploded during the performance, and killed Percy Tanner, who was one of the audience. In various parts of India otters are used by the natives to catch fish for them. So rapid is the speed of the otter under water that no fish can escape them. When not working the otters are tied to stakes, like chained dogs. HOMEMADE PHILOSOPHY. Look allerze on the dark side ov life, an the few bright specks yoo find will look awl the more lovely. Men hoo love the law most are generally makin use ov it in thare speshalty ov skinnin the peeple. Sum peeple will shed teerze over a poor old horse, but pass by a poor old man with no that ov simpathetick brine. Peeple hoo love too dearly have to pay more for the articlele than it iz worth. Like the boy's watch, it costs mor'n it comze to. The man hoo gitz coord an snatcht frum the grave throo the virtyure of patent medisen, like the gords, are located a durn wayze off. Never forget the man that doctored yoore cow, nor forgive the man that pizoned yoore dorg. The more yoo hate the mean man, the more yoo will love the good one. Az fast as the novelty wearze off the young bridegroom's love, the complaints about the cookin grow louder an louder, until at last noboddy in the world kin cook like his ma. Don't treat yoore nabor to whisky that izzent good anuff for yoorself, for the old taste may be in his mouth wen yoo go to him later on un axt him to cum over an help raize a sick steer. The first man hoo kicks against oppreshun an wrong, kicks against a mountin; but the mountain iz sure to tumble down sooner or later, tho he may then be only a thin skum ov dust at the bottom ov a forgotten hole in the ground. Tharze even a grim source ov satisfaxun in bein fatally ill; you find out how little the dockorze know; an wot a grand humbug medisen really iz anyhow.—Finnickey Finnukin in Pennsylvania Grit. BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. Fear is the wust kind ov slavery. Wounds will heal, but skars won't. Our habits are stronger than our judgments, or even our pashuns. I never saw a man yet who wuz really in luv who didn't akt more or less foolish. The only thing that a man kan do well, when he iz in a pashun, iz to fite hornets and musketoze. Sum people are born just expressly for fools, and if they undertake to be enny thing else, they spile. Thare iz certain kinds of ekonemy that don't pay; trieling to straighten krooked pins iz one ov them. What ails the world most just now is the grate amount ov uncommon sense thare iz floating around in it. It iz a grate deal easier to make reputashun for ourselfs than it iz to preserve the one we get from our ansesstors. If we could only learn to forgiv others az readily az we forgiv ourselfs one haff the trubbles ov this life would be over. Thare iz hardly enny man living who would not make a good trade if he could swop off what he knows for sumthing different. Thare is nothing that mankind are so smart at az finding a good excuse for enny ackt they have made up their minds to commit. Thare is only one time in our whole lives when we kan with safety lay aside our canshun and be kareless, and that is when we are fast asleep RESIDENCE, 954 Turner Ave. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington Sts. TELEPHNNE MAIN 1782. Thomas F. Scully, Attorney at Law, 79 Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO. Room 14. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 50 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. 2025. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. Office Hours: 'Phone 818 Went. 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 6 to 8:30 p. m. THREPHONE 818 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4898 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5013 Fifth Avenue, Chicago HORSES We pay the highest prices for horses for killing purposes. Will call Telephone South 1005. McDONALD, 3234 Wentworth ave. P.J.FLYNN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HARD and SOFT COAL WOOD AND KINDLING YARDS, Cor. 47th and Wabash R. R. 67th and Eastern Ill. R.R. Branch Office, 5301 Wentworth au LONGAVITA The Scientific Discovery of the Age! The Magic Key to the Mystery of Life! From times immemorial it has been man's predominating ambition to prolong Life. But among the many brilliant minds, who have devoted their lives to the fascinating subject. It was left for the immortal Darwin to give to the world, in his great theory of Life, the fundamental principle upon which to build all further research in this direction. Following closely in his footsteps came Prof. Dr. Ludwig Buechner, a German scientist of international renown, with his remarkable work entitled "Das Buch des Langen Lebens" (the book on Longevity). But alas, like Darwin he too died, ere he could reap the fruit of his wonderful doctrine. Others however, equally great took up the interrupted thread with the result that two famous German scientists, after years of experiments and research, have at last discovered the secret of Longevity, in the shape of a remarkable Vegetable Compound, which, if properly used, will positively prolong Life. This new remedy, appropriately named "Longavita" (meaning Long Life) has been subject to the most rigid tests at all the leading clinics and hospitals throughout Europe with marvelous results. Appreciating the importance of this discovery, we have acquired, at enormous cost, the exclusive proprietary right to this truly wonderful preparation, which has proved a blessing to mankind. "Longavita" is the true Tablet of life, a rejuvenator excellence, embodying the veritable secret of longevity in a practical, feasible form. It is the fountain of perpetual youth, which it prolongs far beyond its present limits, while retaining health in a perfectly normal state. "Longavita" brightens the eye, stimulates mental activity, gives elasticity to the step, makes the face full, absorbs wrinkles, cleanses the system, purifies the skin, and is the only true Ponce de Leon remedy for old and young of both sexes. Endorsed by Europe's leading physicians. $1.00 a box, by mail. 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Taylor Editor and Publisher. (Entered at the postoffice, Chicago, Ill., as second class matter.) TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair known above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years, it is by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials from a quest. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Organized Ox Marrow, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use, you brighten your own hair home. Owing to its superior quality it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only $5 cents. Sold by dealers or send us $1.40. 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Try a bottle and you will be happy also. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers or we will ship you a bottle express paid for 65 cents, address The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 78 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax, 5060 Armour avenue, Chicago. --- A. B. INSURE IN AGENTS WANTED. FOR SALE. A lovely six-room cottage, modern improvements, lot 25 by 125, located on Elizabeth street, near Sixty-Seventh Price, $1,204. $150 cash, balance to suit purchaser. This is a bargain. Any one desiring to secure a cosy little home should avail themselves of this opportunity. For further information address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue. Information on Waterways. Lyman Cooley, the original engineer of the Chicago drainage ditch, lectured at Ann Arbor recently, and said that boats to compete with railroads nowadays must have a carrying capacity of not less than 2.000 tons each. The roads are preparing for heavier hauls, and so must the boats if ship canal plans are to carry and succeed.