The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. VI. A PHENOMENON OF OUR CENSUS. For the first time in our history the census shows two of our foremost and chiefly forming states have decreased in population. Kansas and Nebraska have lost. What has become of the great natural increase from 21/2 millions of such people? As to deaths, the immigrants more than balance them. In slavery times some of the slave states showed some such signs, accounted for by the oppression of slavery upon the vast body of consumers. The next few years must see something still more marvellous of this kind unless railroad building counteracts the tendency. The explanation is easy enough. The whole life of society proceeds under what may be stated so four great functions: First, making; second, distributing (i. e. carrying and exchanging); third, consuming: fourth, re-distributing the surplus. Indeed all animal and vegetable life proceeds thus. Anything that interferes with one injures the others. Slavery and landlordism oppress the masses of consumers—especially of the owners are absentees. Our enormous taxes by tariffs and imports have had tremendous effects in disturbing the natural equilibrium of trade. But something worst of all has developed within fifty years past. The effects have been obscured by the great expense of developing the system, but from now on it must make itself severely felt. In a word it is the complete throttling of re-distribution. Only our older men can recall how business was done fifty years ago. Wherever you lived your neighbors rendered all the services; you paid them and they re-expended the surplus in improvements. Perhaps one-third of all the able-bodied men everywhere were engaged in carrying, directly or indirectly. Even the bankers were your fellow citizens whose bills were current. Very little wealth went abroad save for insurance and imported goods. Never in the world did any country see such rapid growth against all manner of obstacles. Real wealth was superabunding. Now all has been changed. In brief: all the surplus profits for distribution and very much for making go abroad. Money is borrowed from abroad. Our mighty central power has put a quietus on independent banks of issue in favor of a great power at Wall street. The very fuel and timber are gathered from earth and all minerals and all the surplus profits if the whole business go abroad. No wonder then that the richest farming regions begin to show the effects. But worse must follow when the country will divide up into large estates with none but renters to till the soil. Nothing will be left to the worker but a breech cloth and pan of herring. There will be no redistribution whatever, as is the case in some of the naturally richest regions of earth. Small as is re-distribution it is most precious of all, and it goes cumulating by a kind of geometrical ratio. It is to all the other functions precisely what compound interest is to usury. "A mere trifle, too small to haggle over," says the reckless borrower, but it shall overwhelm him at the last. So is the withholding of this little surplus from adding to the wealth of the state. But finally it is fatal. Invention, progress, has brought us to face this problem. HOLT. One hundred and fifteen persons were mobbed and lynched in the United States during the year of 1900, an increase of eight over 1899, and of the number thus death with 107 were Negroes, and according to The Chicago Tribune only 18 were lynched for rape and 13 for attempting to rape, the others were foully murdered for committing all kinds of minor offenses. The lynching record of 1900 shows that this form of lawlessness is on the increase instead of being on the decrease and that the Christian people who reside in this so-called enlightened nation do not pay any attention to the oft repeated expressions of President MrKinley, "that mob and lynch law must not be tolerated in this great and highly civilized country." We long ago learned that the mightiest powers were the unseen, the intangible. "Opinion rules the world," became a proverb, and opinion is invisible and intangible. But other forces of that nature, although approaching nearer to the material, such as steam and the like were soon put to our service. Then came the employment of electricity; then certain psychic powers of man were used and now this is truly the age of sublimated forces. Is it not then a plain remnant of gross superstition and materialim, where we still cling to forms, ceremonies, bowing before images in religion; and using gross material for instrumentalities instead of the mightier forces at our command, the spiritual, the sublimated? Is it not a resuming of the idol, the ox, the pony express? To specialize in one instance—we do know from experience that credit in motion is the most potent instrument for exchange. It is to commerce what faith is to religion. Faith, credit, confidence, trust—all meaning the same thing. The Reformation of Luther withdrew religious faith from idols and shows to the invisible spirit. We need a commercial reformation to withdraw our trust or credit from base commodity, mere metal, and place it on public credit. Why repose our trust upon mere things that are subject to any sudden accident? Why not place it upon the power and honor of humanity. Three-fourth of it rests there anyhow of necessity. Why allow creditors to be the sport of a theory that the whole is payable in gold. The money tokens of the world are more than one hundred millions. Inclusive of what is daily performed by telegraphic orders, bank checks, letters of credit international, and the like, these evidences represent infinite billions monthly in exchanges. And yet by a silly fiction all this moving credit, this real work of money rests upon a small pile of gold in the absolute control of one house of Jew bankers of London. Antiquity and the dark ages rested enslaved under priestcraft from which mankind is not yet wholly freed—though the shadow of its eclipse is slowly forming up. Our age lies under a greed craft based on a silly belief in a metal—a superstition far more debasing than any other idolatry. So long as this exists no reformation is possible. It may ound strange, but think it over and you will see why. HOLT. COUNTY DEMOCRACY'S CELEBRATION AND INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS. Tuesday, New Year's Day, all the leading spirits of the Cook County Democracy assembled in their club rooms to participate in the installation ceremonies and it is needless to say that all who were fortunate to gain admittance will long remember the occassion. The program was exceedingly interesting. It consisted of fine selections by the orchestra, songs by the County Democracy Quartette and xylophone solos. President John J. Powers delivered his address of welcome in the happiest frame of mind and at his conclusion he was heartily applauded by his hearers. Hon. Vincent H. Perkins responded in behalf of the newly installed officers and in doing so Mr. Perkins told a bran new story in relation to a blooming young bride and her husband's wooden leg. The charming manner in which Mr. Perkins related it caused his brethren to clap their hands and to regard him as the capital story teller of Chicago. Mayor Carter H. Harrison followed Mr. Perkins and his honor paid a very high tribute to the Cook County Democracy. He maintained that the fine body of men belonging to the County Democracy have ever been ready to uphold the arms of Democracy in every section of the country, that many of its members have traveled thousands of miles in order to do so. During Mayor Harrison's short talk he made many happy hits and he could not help feeling proud over the warm greetings bestowed upon him by his fellow Democrats who declared that he will be re-elected mayor of this big town. Judge Philip Stein and Col. M. C. McDonald were the last speakers and when they wound up everybody felt like laying in a little food and getting on the outside of a glass of ice-water, which was obtained by all without cost, therefore all friends of the Cook County Democracy felt it was good to be present at the installation of its new officers. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. A few of our many friends remembered us during the holiday season with some very nice presents, and we wish to assure one and all that they were highly appreciated. State Senator M. J. Butler favored us with two bottles of wine and one bottle of good old Pure Md. Rye whiskey. Hon, John T. Keating in order to show that he likes The Broad Ax sent one bottle of Angelica wine, and Congressman-elect Wm. F. Mahoney followed suit with a bottle of fine Port wine; Robert J. Roulston reminded us of the holiday season by sending three pounds of mixed nuts and several pounds of coffee, which tickled Mrs. Taylor, and she was also much pleased with the bottle of Port wine presented to her by State Senator M. J. Butler. We also received several other lovely presents and among the last but not least to come back at us with a dandy present was the whole-souled and big hearted City Sealer of Chicago—James A. Quinn. CHIPS There are 17480 colored barbers in the United States. 5,000 of whom own and run their own shops.—Ex. Mrs. M. J. Jackson, President of the State Federation, whose husband has been seriously ill is gradually recovering. Tuesday evening, Feb. 12, the County Democracy will give its eleventh annual ball at the First Regiment Armory. If you reach any high place in this world do not get the big head nor forget the depth from which you rose and don't desert the friends that helped you on the way.—Ex. Coroner John E. Traeger is rapidly recovering from his indisposition and within the next two weeks he leaves for the South, where he remains until he regains his health and old time vigor. Ex-Alderman McInerney has been confined to his home for the last two weeks with the grip, or a very bad cold, but he is improving and he expects to be out next week so he can look after his aldermanic campaign. Secretary Robert E. Burke was togged up in his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes New Year's Day, and he was kept constantly busy during the installation exercises in looking after the details in connection with it. A colored man of McKee's Rock. Pa., ate an eighteen-pound roasted pig at one meal, Monday, December 3, and washed it down with twenty-four gallons of beer, and won $20 on the wager.—Ex. The Negro Bank in Birmingham and a wholesale and retail dry goods establishment at Montgomery by a Negro are proving to be the best argument possible against a constitutional amendment.—Ex. Miss S. Frances Lewis, school teacher, of Cincinnati, Ohio, passed the holiday season in this city with her mother brother and friends. Miss Lewis is very bright and full of energy and she is bound to make a name for herself if she continues to progress. S. Coleridge Taylor of London, the semi-African musical prodigy, stands alone in his class as the foremost operatic writer of the age. The race can well afford to feel proud of Mr. Taylor and rejoice in his splendid achievements.—Ex. Lawyer Dan Morgan Smith, Jr., has moved his law offices from the Portland Block to the Temple Court Building, 225 Dearborn street, and he now has better quarters and more room to conduct his rapidly increasing law business. Bishop Henry M. Turner, so it is announced, has resigned as President of the College of African Methodist Episcopal Bishops. Bishop Turner and his co-workers could not dwell together in peace and harmony under the same tent, hence his abdication. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, 5045 Armour avenue, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Woods, Prof. and Mrs. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and Miss Barry, Wednesday evening. Choice refreshments were served by the hostess and a delightful time was enjoyed by those present. The Century Magazine for December contains an able article by Jerome Dowd, entitled "The Paths of Hope for the Negro," and it should be read and re-read by every Afro-American in this country, for Mr. Dowd has struck the key note in reference to the things which prevent the race as a whole from advancing more rapidly. James G. Condon, who was for some time first assistant city attorney, resigned that position, which he so ably filled a short time ago and at the present time Mr. Condon is engaged in the practice of law at 160 Washington street, Journal Building. Mr. Condon is wide-awake, a good lawyer, a first-class gentleman and The Broad Ax would gladly support him for City Attorney. Providing Alderman Thomas Carey's re-districting plan does not hang fire in the city council it has been suggested that Louis Lundquist and J. R. Burgee would be the proper gentlemen to nominate for aldermen from the 31st ward, that many Scandinavians who always vote the Republican ticket would support Mr. Lundquist and that owing to the popularity of Mr. Burgee the new 31st ward could be swung into line for Democracy. Commencing with next week the fight between ex-Alderman M. McInerney, Thomas Wall, James McNarney, and ex-Alderman or Buck McCarthy, and Alderman John T. Russell, will be renewed. James B. McDonald has retired from the contest and while Mr. Wall and Mr. McNarney are doing considerable hustling, it is conceded by all that ex-Alderman McInerney will snatch the aldermanic plum from his competitors and that he will be elected. The many warm friends of Graeme Stewart are kept busy in distributing the one hundred thousand buttons which have his portrait on them and it now looks as though Mr. Stewart will not experience much difficulty in securing the Republican nomination for mayor in the spring. Mr. Stewart left for Springfield Thursday night and upon his return next Thursday he will look around for suitable rooms to open up headquarters and launch his mayoralty boom. New Year's evening George J. Terrell, who is the right hand man of Alderman Thomas Carey, tendered an elaborate dinner to some few of his friends, after which his guests joined in the merry dance. Among those who sat at the festive board were: Mr. and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins and Master Watkins; Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Mourry, Mrs. Terrell, mother of Geo. J. Terrell; Mr. L. A. Newby and Julius F. Taylor. Everything was first-class and the fine repast was greatly enjoyed by all. H. T. Riggs, who has for the past fourteen years had charge of one of Mr. Nathan M. Freer's buildings, had the misfortune to break his arm recently, but his broken limb is on the mend and it will not be long before he will be able to use it. Mr. Riggs is very trustworthy and by his upright conduct he has won the confidence of Mr. Freer. It will be remembered that Mr. Freer donated The Esther Freer Home to Provident Hospital and as an Afro-American Mr. Riggs, who is a credit to his race, says, "the colored people have no better friend than Nathan M. Freer and all the other Freers." John C. Martin, a millionaire of New York, is arranging to buy homes for colored people in the Southern states and that $100,000 is to be spent for that purpose in Texas. Mr. Martin has sent the general secretary of his educational fund, Rev. W. B. Rankin, to Texas to look into plans. Meetings along this line have been held and plans discussed pro and con as to the best method and the most effective system of providing homes, whether promiscuous or in small colonies. The homes are to be in the South, and he sends Dr. Rankin to Texas first of all, as he has spent twenty years in Bible work in that state and is acquainted with the relations of both races.—Ex. The "Haberdasher" is authority for statement that it is not proper for a man to go about in the presence of women unless he wears a coat. As this arbiter of fashion makes no mention of pantalons, we assume that this fashion gazette is looking for circulation in the Philippines and Sandwich Islands, where bare legs and greasy stomachs are considered the proper caper in society. Imagine a man calling upon a lady friend wearing only a coat. Horrors! The only thing the lady could do under the circumstances—if she is a real lady—would be to press the buttons and order a pair of pants. The gentleman friend would no doubt appreciate this delicate attention, and, if he staid long enough, he would get a whole suit of clothes. Ex. Health is the foundation of success. Without health the necessary vim, and push, and energy, that the climb to success demands, are wanting. Where there is not success there is failure. A man's life is either the one or the other, there is no middle way. A slight indisposition may be the cause of failure at a vital moment. A headache has lost thousands of dollars. A dull eye cannot see an opportunity. The great German remedy, "Longavita" cures the little ills of mankind, brightens the eye, quickens the step, sharpens the intellect, makes life worth living. Being purely vegetable it never harms. "Longavita" is put up in tablets, and sent to anybody by mail for one dollar, worth $10,000. Read our ad. in another column. Representative Crumpacker, a republican of Indiana, has again introduced a bill reducing congressional representation to the basis of voting population. It is in this way that he proposes to punish states that disfranchise the negro. And it is the only way in which the federal government can punish them. Yet President McKinley opposes Crumpacker's bill. When that gentleman proposed it last year it was pigeon-holed. And such will doubtless be its fate again this year unless Mr. McKinley can be persuaded to favor its adoption. Here is an opportunity for northern Negroes who object to the disfranchisement of their race in the southern states. Let them bring their influence to bear in support of the Crumpacker bill. If they neglect to do so, if they allow that bill to be again pigeon-holed without a protest from their leaders or their press, without so much as a petition in its favor, they must not be surprised if the public come to suspect them of having a deeper interest in the plums of republican machine politics than in the maintenance of their constitutional rights as a race. —The Public. Effle "Jack and I fished for four hours yesterday." Elsie—"Catch anything?" Effle (coyly)—"Only Jack." Friend—"I don't see how you can afford to sell bicycles at such a price." Slimspoke—"I make my profit on the repairs." Friend—"Does your town boast of a football team?" Suburbanite—"No; we used to boast of one, but we have to apologize for it now." Lover (ardently)—"I love the very ground you tread on." Heiress—"Ah, I thought it was my estates you were after." "Why should we worry, Jack, Surely the world owes us a living." "I'm afraid, though, that we are not on the list of preferred creditors." When a man is considered to be very clever, his wife thinks that his greatest exhibition of cleverness was in picking her out to marry him. "Didn't you feel dreadful when you lost your gold headed umbrella?" "No; I'd expected to lose it for so long that I was glad when it was gone." PERSONALS. Eben D. Jordan of Boston has offered to build a hospital to be presented to the town of Plymouth, Mass. The citizens of Hartford, Conn., planned an elaborate reception in honor of Mark Twain's return to that city. Senator Davis of Minnesota, had a library of about 8,000 volumes, and it forms a large part of his comparatively small estate. Frau Nina Auerbach, the widow of the famous German novelist, died the other day, having survived her husband eighteen years. Edgar Brehm, the youngest son of the famous German naturalist, is dead at the age of 65. With him the family has become extinct. The late Dr. Thomas Arnold of Dublin, Ireland, was about the last survivor of the associates of Cardinal Newman in the endeavor to found in Dublin an Irish Catholic university. The will of the late George R. Berry of Baltimore has been broken on the ground of the insanity of the testator. He had bequeathed about $20,000 to the Woman's College of Baltimore. Governor-elect Hunn of Delaware is a member of the Society of Friends and will not take the oath of office on an old Latin Bible, as previous Governors have done. He will make affirmation instead. Lord Salisbury has never been known in the Peers' Gallery in the house of commons, and Mr. Gladstone, though he was in parliament for sixty years, was never seen in the smoking room. Arabi Pasha, who for eighteen years has been held a prisoner in Ceylon by the British authorities, will be pardoned shortly, it is said, and allowed to leave his island home. He is not yet over 50. Plans are about complete in Pittsburg for the erection of a monument to the memory of Colonel A. L. Hawkins, who led the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment in the Philippines, and died on the transport which was bringing the regiment home. The late Sir Arthur Sullivan was aid to have Jewish blood in his veins, but he had none. His mother was an Italian named Righi, and his father, of course, was pure Irish. His grandfather was an impoverished Kerry squire, who served under Wellington, and was a member of the garrison at St. Helena. To prevent whitewash from rubbing off stir a quart of thick hot flour starch into every pailful of the whitewash. Boston Journal. WITH THE SAGES. Man does not live by bread alone, but by faith, by admiration, by sympathy.—Emerson. It is the soul which creates to itself a body; the idea which makes to itself a habitation.—Mazzini. Then that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others.—Barrie. Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.—George Meredith. The business of the head is to form a good heart, and not merely to rule an evil one, as is generally imagined.—Sir A. Helps. We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspirations instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.—George Eliot. Surely nothing can be more unmanly or more unworthy of a rational being, than to spend life in idle lamentations because what we or our fathers once believed to be true has now proved to be false.—C. Naden. He who, when goodness is impressively put before him, exhibits an instinctive loyalty to it, starts forward to take its side, trusts himself to it—such a man has faith, and the root of the matter is in such a man.—Sir J. Seeley I will not think any human being the worse, but much the better, for having a broad foundation of seriousness which the lightest spirits may grace fully illuminate. Playfulness on top of seriousness is not only a charm to others; it is the wise secret of life. Oakfield. Depend upon it, there is a difficulty in sticking perseveringly to work made for yourself, which you ought scrupulously to consider before you enter upon it for life. There is an assistance to the whole character in compulsory work, in even the commonest routine drudgery, which deserves to be properly valued before you unbuckle from it.—Oakfield. THE BROAD AX. wn sat 3 tie ort Baynmistaas —— Pollowing on his extraordinary ac- tion in prohibiting the use of electri- <ity in theaters and the introduction of bicycles, the sultan of Turkey has for- Didden the use of balloons or carrier pigeons for army purposes. The rea- son is not stated, but his great terror of plots against his life may have something to do with it. John and Rachel Scott of Randolph county, West Virginia, and their chil- dren, have been weighed recently. The father and mother are still living in the house where their eight sons, whose combined weight is more than a@ ton, were born and raised. The com- bined weight of the family is 2,796 pounds, an average weight of 276.3-5 pounds. * Yn Germany a furnace has been in- vented intended for burning low-ciass fuels, such as lignite and peat and in which the combustion is intensified by turning into the fire the gaseous mix- ture obtained by the evaporation of liquid air. The nitrogen is first set sree and the residue, containing at ‘least 50 per cent of oxygen, is sent into ‘the furnace. A philanthropic Greek, who tecently died at Corfu, has left a considerable sum to be applied to the purposes of a matrimonial lottery. Every year a eertain number of poor girls, of good conduct, will receive tickets entitling them to a chance of winning a sum sufficient for a marriage portion. The committee entrusted with the admin- istration of the legacy is presided over by the Archbishop of Corfu, and the ‘winning number is published in the papers. The fortunate candidate pre- sents herself, and all inquiries being satisfactorily answered, the money is paid over. Of interest to all students of Greek is the announcement from Athens that the “Clouds” of Aristophanes, para- phrased into modern Greek by the sa- tiric poet Souris, has been produced in the national theater in that city. Souris, who has been called for 30 years the “Modren Aristophanes,” is said to have surpassed all expectations ‘im his metrical rendering of the play. His work should be especially valuable to philologists as a basis of compari- son between ancient and modern Greek, the language as it is written today being said to be closer to that of Xenophon and Plato than is the Eng- lish of today to the English of Chau- cer. Mississippi may have another Helen Kellar in the person of a little girl from Webster county, who arrived at the Deaf and Dumb institution about ten days ago. The child is Maud Scott, six years of age, and her parents live at Cataletta. She has been deaf and dumb from birth, and when she was about a month old she became blind. She is in charge of one teacher, who devotes nearly her whole time to her, and the child is beginning to give some remarkable signs of dawning intelli- gence and capacity to receive knowl- edge. The improvement is noticeable even for the time she has been there, and she is much less dependent now than she was when first brought to the institution. The City Club of New York has is- sued two small pamphlets which are useful to New Yorkers and suggestive te wesidents of other cities. One is a brief index/to the city charter, the other a brief summary, in chronologi- cal order, of the various events pre- scribed by the charter to occur during the year. It thus comprises a list of the official acts of the whole city gov- ernment, and from it one can learn the precise duties of any and all officials. The ordinary citizen often realizes his dgnorance of the local government, and bis consequent inability either to fulfill his civic duties properly or to derive all the benefit he might from the operation of the government. These little pam- phiets are designed to meet his need. Chicago physicians have recently had the opportunity of examining several persons who were treated for consump- tion by the nitrogen compression method first promulgated by Dr. J. B. Murphy at the congress of physicians in Denver several years ago. The method consists in injecting nitrogen gas into the pleural cavity, the theory being that the pressure of the gas com- presses the lung, enabling it to take a rest and permitting the unhindered cure of any disease affecting it. Dr. Augustus Lemke, who presented the cases shown in Chicago, made no elaim that he had effected a cure, but he said: “The symptoms of tubercu- osis, which were pronounced in these gases when they applied for treatment, all digappeared. The fever and have ceased, and the patients slept and eaten well. They have stined in weight end show no evi- -@f disease.” ~~ - INDIAN TYPEWRITER OCIRL. ‘Miss Zdos Parker = Member of 2 Dis- Uoguisbeé Seneca Family. : For the first time in the history of the New York state Iroquois Indian women one of their number has be- come a typewriter and stenographer. She is rm Béna Wright Parker and is now in the service of the New York Central railroad. Miss Parker comes of a Seneca Indian famiiy distinguished by its exceptional record. The mother of William Parker, the great-great- great paternal grandmother of Miss Parker, is concerned in one of the In- @ian romances previous to the revolu- tionary war. A party of the Senecas captared & young white woman of the Slocum family who became as ono of them. During a treaty trip to Fort Niagara she met a titled French of- ficer who, infatuated with her beauty, clandestinely took her as his wife. En- /Taged at this alliance, the Indians stole her from her husband, who was after- ward killed in battle, and returned her to their camp, where her daughter, the child of the Frenchman, was afterward born, As soon as possible after the birth of this child, in an endeavor to search for her own family, the mother escaped from captivity, taking the daughter with her. She was overtaken by the Indians, the child was taken from her, and one of her captors escorted her to her relatives near Philadelphia. The child, reared by the Senecas, and not knowing her parent- age, was eventually married to an In- dian chief and from her descended the Parker family, who in each of the suc- ceeding generations have been distin- guished among their people. The great- grandfather of Miss Parker, William Parker, a volunteer in the American army during the war of 1812, was seri- ously wounded at the battle of Chippe- wa. Her grandfather, Nicholson Park- er, Was a graduate of a college at Al- bany. Her great-uncle, Gen. Ely S. Parker, the foremost Indian of his gen- eration, was the military secretary of Gen. Grant during the civil war. The father of Miss Parker is now in the freight auditor's department of the New York Central railroad. Her moth- er is a white woman of Scotch descent. Her brother, Arthur Parker, having been associated with the New York Central for a’‘time, is now in the Dick- inson seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., preparing for a college course before entering the church as a clergyman of the Methodist faith. Her paternal uncle, Sherman Parker, was admitted to Hamilton college when 18 years ol age. Miss Parker was graduated from a commercial college. She is 19 years old. TO CARRY POWER. Expertments with Aluminum as Con- dueter for Electricity. The already practically foreshadowed widening use of aluminum conductors for electric transmission purposes adds interest to Lord Kelvin’s recently ex- pressed opinion of them. The weigh! of aluminum required, he said, is al- most exactly one-half of the copper which would produce the same effect. The diameter of cable is 28 per ceni in excess of one made of copper, and the cost of insulation for an under- ground cable is increased in about the same proportion when we pass from the copper to aluminum. Aluminum is not a pleasant metal to deal with, but its high conductivity will make it invaluable for overhead transmission, says Cassier’s Magazine. It is true also that the weight to be supported on posts is half of copper, but the sur- face exposed to the wind is greater, and its strength is not great. The chief drawback to its use, especially overhead, is its liablity to become rot- ten. This defect does not exist if the metal be pure, and especially if free from sodium. But exposure to the atmosphere, especially near the sea, induces deterioration. The fact that aluminum is easily oxidized ought not to condemn it. The same is true of iron and steel, and yet we do not hesitate to place structures of these metals in exposed positions. Only we paint them; so Lord Kelvin proposes that we paint or varnish aluminum conductors wherever necessary. A few hundred yards of 1%4-inch aluminum wire were put up by Lord Kelvin on a Scotch estate somewhat over a year ago and on this line he is watching the effects of weather. A TOUGH ALBATROSS. After Belsg Fourteen Days in an Icebes It Still Lived. A writer says Sir William Corny told him some time ago that on one of his steamships coming from New Zea- land an albatross, suppc::d to have been choked dead, kept in an ice box at a temperature which was always much below freezing point, was found to be alive at the end of fourteen days. Captain Reed, in command of the ves- sel in question, supplements the story with the statement that the bird was supposed to be killed by being strang- led with twine tied as tightly as pos- sible around the neck. 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VF AUIS: ok Of the nation’s four great monu- ments to the northern soldiers of the civil war, New York has two—or, rather, it will have upon the comple- tion of the Temple of Fame on River- side Drive, the corner stone of which was laid the other day in that city. The other memorial is the beautiful arch at the Plaza entrance to Prospact Park in Brooklyn. This cost the old city of Brooklyn $250,000, while New York's monument will cost $190,000. Cleveland has a soldiers’ monument, the actual cost of which was $240,099. though legal fights over the site, ete., brought the total cost up $40,000 more. And finest and most costly of all is the towering shaft which Indiana has just completed in her capital city of In- dianapolis, and which cost the state $700,000. The present site of New York's monument is the fourth whi-h has been agreed upon. Cleveland Monument. Cleveland passed through a longer and bitter fight before Cuyahoga coun- ty’s monument was erected and dedi- cated. The project was broached first in 1879, and the site suggested was the center of the Public Square or Monw ‘mental Park. For eight years the idea of a civil war monument languished, and in 1887 the project was revived by the choice of the southeast’ section of the square, which necessitated the Te- moval of Commodore Perry’s monu- ment. The men of the G. A. R. ang the county commissioners who had control of the public parks couldn’t agree on the site or upon the designs for the monument and its erection. The controversy was taken into the courts, ae nee bret aie a the gymnasium at Harvard university, bas just brought before the scientific world a strength machine which em- bodies in an intricate and wonderful tanner all the forms of exercise which go to the highest development of man. The machine is called an inomotor. It has as yet been seen by only a few physical experts, but by them it is pro- mounced a wonderful machiae. Dr. Sargent worked on his invention four years, and he feels that in it he bas a plan of exercise and develop- ment which will revolutionize gymnas- ium work. The machine is described Dest as a pair of levers connected by four adjustable rods with a sliding seat and a sliding footrest, which are Bast hg tag uae tee and the various decisions sometimes favored one side and sometimes the other, but the final victory was won by the G. A. R. In the spring of 1891 the monument commission took pos- session of the site, and then began a year’s fight, sometimes hand to hand, in which the police several times took part. Actual work on the site was be- gun in August, 1892, and on the tenth of the next month came the anniver- sary of Perry's victory. Now it was dis- covered suddenly that Perry's statue had been neglected shamefully for 30 years, and the opponents of the site for the soldiers’ monument made a fine outcry over the coming removal of the Perry monument, and Cleveland awoke on the morning of Sept. 10 to find that for the first time in 32 years the Perry monument was decorated with flowers. After every one had a good laugh over this and it was thought that peace had been restored W. D. Hoyt of Man- chester, N. H., who owned property on the square, sought to enjoin the com- mission from putting up the monu- ment on the ground, as in the recent New York case, that it would cnt off his light and air, and he was defeated ‘speedily, and in the spring of 1893 work was resumed and carried on so expeditiously that on July 4, 1894, the monument was dedicated. The legal fight had cost the city $40,000. Indianapolis Has the Finest. The first appropriation for the fhon- ument in Indianapolis was made in 1887. Early in the following year the commissioners selected from among 7¢ designs for the monument that sub- mitted by Bruno Schmidt of Berlin. Work began that year, and in August, 1889, the corner stone was laid. The in turn connected by a power applying crank to crank on a gear or sprocket wheel. It alms not only to strengthen the principal muscles of the body in the best and most natural way, but also to bring them into action at one time, so that the heart and {ungs will get plenty of work to do without fear of overexertion or strain. Every move- ment of the feet, arms, trunk and legs add to the propelling force; che exer- cise is pleasant and enjoyable, and the muscles of the operator may be used simultaneously or relaxed at will. In addition to these qualities the machine acts especially on the back, waist and abdominal! regions, which boom the weak points of the American people, and does away with round shoulders sae re talent . i monument stands in Governor's Circle, two squares east of the Capitol. It rises to the height of 268 feet, and at 220 feet there is a lookout which af- fords a fine view of the city. The monument has its own electric plant, which furnishes the power to run the elevators and for the lights. The monument takes the form of a shaft, surmounted by a bronze figure of “Miss Indiana,” twenty-eight feet high. On the east and west sides of the base of the shaft are the groups of statuary representing War and Peace, and which are the largest groups of figures cut from the rough stone in the world. About these groups are figures cast in bronze, emblematic of the army and navy. On the plazas surrounding the monument are bronze statues of George Rogers Clark, the explorer, and Governors William Henry Harrison, Oliver P. Morton and James Whitcomb. The Brooklyn Arch. The designer of the Brooklyn Arch was John H. Duncan, the man from New Orleans who designed also the magnificent Grant monument on River- side Drive, New York. Work was be- gun on the arch in 1889, and it was dedicated in October, 1892, the cere- monies aiding in the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery. The material is granite. and the arch stands eighty feet high, the total width being the same, and the archway fifty feet high and thirty-five feet wide. The arch is crowned by a group of statuary by Macmonnies representing the navy. On either abutment of the side of the arch that faces the park will be a group of Macmonnies’ statu- ary. One of these groups is in place, but is not completed. Boston in the Cub Race The announcement that Boston will be represented in the trial races for the honor of defending the America Cup against Sir ‘Thomas Lipton’s yacht has created something like a panic in the New York Yacht club. At first there was most decided opposi- tion manifested among the members to any contestant not sailing under the auspices of that club, and it was ar- gued it was not according to the regu- lations in any event, as the prospective owner of the new contestant ig not a member of the club. The liberal spirit of some of the members, however, as Well as the sharp protests made in the press, has silenced the remonstrants, and there will be no further opposition made to the boat naw building by Crowninshield for Lawson. . Most un- questionably fear has had much to do with this opposition. The coast from Eastport to Cape Cod swarms with yachts—a hundred to one that sails in New York bay. In the sea coast towns there are not only a large number of professional yzchtsmen, but almost every man, woman, boy and girl is more or less expert in the fine points of sailing. The whole atmosphere of that coast fs one of yachting, and every day in the season, fair or foul, its waters are covered with the white winged flyers. The New Yorkers, therefore, have every reason to fear Boston, mach more, in fact, than they have to fear Lipton. Lady Kenmare, who has done so much for the poor people on Lord Ken- mare's Irish estates, intends next year to personally supérintend the hotel on the lovely Lake of Killarney, which is their property. Killarney house, their own residence, is exquisitely situated on the same lake at no great distance from the hotel. EAGLE AS AN cmpicu = eee ee im Jane. 1782. ii = The selection of the eagle Sam tional emblem by the United Statey was officially made in June, 7x2. Whtiy John Adams was in Englang a @ governmenta! mission, he formed the Scquaintance of Sir John Prestwick, €@m accomplished antiquarian, Adams one day mentioned that his country. men had not decided upon a nations) cont-of-arms. The baronet SUEzestag that an escutcheon bearing thirtesy Vertical stripes, white and red, with the chief blue, and spangled with thin teen stars, would make a fine devica, and he thought it would sive it mor consequence to place this shielg on the breast of a displayed Americag, eagle without supporters, as emblem. atic of self reliance. Meanwhile, a committee of the continental congregy had been discussing the matter of a seal for the United States, ang oa June 13, 1782, referred the matter oy its secretary, Charles Thomson, who obtained several designs from William Barton of Philadelphia. None of these was entirely satisfactory, and at lag the secretary reported to congress a device which combined some of Bap. ton’s ideas with those of Sir John Prestwich, which Thomson had Tecely. ed from Adams. On June 20, 1782, the great seal of the United States of Am. erica, with “the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle display. ed proper, and in his dexter talon ag olive branch, and in his sinister a bun- dle of thirteen arrows, «ll Broper,” was adopted.—New York Weekly. FROM BRYAN’S OWN ciry ter That Will Cause ® Sensation _ LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. §.—(Sp>cial.)~ At No. 2115 O street, this city, is the B. & M. wallpaper house. “B. & M” are the initial letters of the proprie- tors, Mr, A. C, Bonsor and Mr. 0. B Myers. The senior partner, Mr Bon- sor, is a well-known and highly re spected citizen, and no one has ever doubted his truthfulness. It {s, there- fore, the pronounced opinion in Lin- coln and the state generally that the significant and very strong statements made in Mr. Bonsor's \etter will gp 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. 5 saw an advertisement of Dodd's Kid- ney Pills, and I bought some, and com- menced to use them at once. I had not been taking them three days before I began to improve. For years I had mot had one good night's sleep, and before the first box of the Dodd's Kid- ney Pills were all used, I could sleep all night without pains. I am now completely cured, and have not a paiz or ache left.. I cannot recommend Dodd’s Kidney Pills too highly, for they are unexcelled as a kidney rem- edy. Yours truly, ; A. C. BONSOR, No, 2115 O street, Lincoln, Ned. Dodd’s Kidney Pills always cura S@c a box. All dealers. Korth Carolins Negro Ho«pital. R. J. Reynolds has given $5,000, half the amount needed for the construc- tion and operation of a negro hospita? at Winston-Salem, N. C. The negroes of the state have raised the remainder of the $10,000. The hospital will be operated in connection with the Slater Industrial school. Jell-O, the New Dessert. = all the family. Four flavors:~ emon, pe a eee a ‘ your grocers. e 7 Remember that your brushes need @ weekly washing and a daily airins. Never leave them on the toilet table where the dust and germs in the room can fall on them. | SVovo VP MNEs aA ee oo 4 y/ j s | ia OF < a Cale 1s often derived from an unlooked for source—the Kidneys, . Odorous urine or that which scalds or stains is an in- fallible 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. kak Myre oe tai fig me, ine and urinary disorders, that co not be cured by MORROW'S he pt ongnttie discovery for sbattereé cured Kid-ne-olds. In writing “ze Please ehclove stamped ncdveased Mr, BR Broadway, Lorain, 0. Mere E. Monae, ao Bank 8t.. Loraia, 0. LP. ae broker, Anderson. oo. BG een Cia oe. Wanton Mrs. W. E. Letever, 14 82% 8t., Food-du-Lec, Wit Morrow's Kid-ne-olds are not pills, but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty eents a box at drug stores. SUBE BORROW & OR, CHEMISTS. Springfield, > CR Ee aS eee a - Tied Up | Soreness : . Stiffness a ee St. Jacobs Oil ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. aap i i Sec en coer PATENTS a OLE APTI neat is the reflection of a light Rev. Henry a entirely cured of Nervous Pres- tration by Dr. Greene's Nervura Blood ~~ ane Merve Remedy. IR ae am Oo SSR “at * er ; - ae TY re > ~ fig iat 4 YZ F “a ZA 0 z Ye aL? ws ee ZW th et ae, We ZY A Ema Z Se IN) Wi YY <a 3 eR) A eS y Gr AG ARN yy, KE OO Ase <a PE os ROC IS Ly Gee \ JHA erat ae NN a F oO WURZIZEEE: > eae eh a : hae ae MR NY YY Eg NaR| SSO RY Lace a RA I a YI A} BY ALAR — a “44| RS Ee ay UB ~ pS ING HY , , Ny N} QF IN y € BEV. HENRY LANGFORD. Rev. Heary Langford, the eninent Baptist divine, of Wetton Wis for tn ped atter nervour es ‘He is pastor of four churches. oe [ire bo mid, “1 bare bean nervous Sehr eealy a me year wait be read. [Pur oF five years I becanse 90 nervous L cows a sermon news after they had been laid aside “T was unable to bold my head in the nor could I hold or handle my books srennbie so hed wy bead sealy Ss ening oat ee Soe Med andere : vi bet ie “T tried many remedies recommended by but found no permanent relief. 2 store Ee Sardia, W. Va, and be nid to me: inset ee Eel erve remely, and if you say it ““T tak two battles Snedicine and found so much relief that I two more bee, Sid now Fa icine ons fa health and in. strength. ee ie —_ fd nerve remedy id T can heartily and truthfully recommend * te tee $e, Rome gee tre Paine ee cave omy Smee, For sufferers from nervous and prostrating who can be = le snyuat, Tama Sbanbktel to God thet J found Dr. Greeeds Revere aarve Temedy, and for what it has done for me." DR. GREENE’S OFFER OF FREE ADVIOE. Dr. Greene, Nervura’s scoverer, will give his counsel free to ail whe write or call pom bm at hls office, 25 West 14th Street, New York Clty. His civice is froos his great Skill and experience and will shorten the soad te health. Thousands come to kim and write te him constantly. ‘Do mot put off GURE SICK HEADACHE. Kane's Family Medicina 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 puri- fying the blood: take Garfield Tea, it is the best blood purifier known. To clean hair’ brushes rub them in Gry 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 QuomNe Tasers. All Gruggists 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 Cac Sell You Carter's Ink or he can get it for you, Ask him. ‘Try it. Car loads ual) state in the Union. Doyou buy Carers! _ The profit on England’s postal serv- ice amounts to about $20,000,000 a year. Send for FREE 82.00 trial bottle and treatise De RH. Kise, Lid., #61 Arch St, Malladelphia, 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 di ists. 2% cents. They cure safely and aes The commonest thing in the world is children, and the next is cats. Ido not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption ‘has an equal for coughs and colds.—Joun F Borsgs, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900 Thus all below is strength and all above is grace.—Dryden. C. H. Crabtree, Des Moines. lows. wil! on request Goid en all ae eran nd He who agrees with himself agrees with others.—Goethe. Baseball ; Golf players; all play- ers chew Waite Yocaten whilst playing. London's yearly milk supply is over 42,000,008 gallons. children softens the gums, reduces fy Extcnation. allays pela. cures windeolic:'25c.abowa To be content with less is to have Jess discontent. Coco's Cough Daiam Is the oldest and best. It wi!) break up s cold quicker ‘an anything else. it is always reliable. Try it When the guilty go free, the inno- cent suffer. she aren At some beeeitat Bat: Secure i HLUsDEROORES, the best curc for corns. iScts A smile is the reflection of a light heart. OLDEST MAH IN AMERICA Telis How He Escaped the Terrors of Many Winters by Using Peruna. ee By ge a. LL 1 5 PQS a United States. Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan coun- ty, Tex., has attained the great age of 111 years, having been born in 1788. He is an ardent friend to Pe- runa and speaks of it in the following terms: “During my iong life I have known & great many temedies 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, Pe- Tuna, 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 ca- tarrh is sure to live to a hale and hearty old age. A free book on ca- tarrh sent by The’ Peruna Medicine 'Co., Columbus, 0. / Lady Has Long Name. One of the most remarkable names of the present day is that borne by the fiancee of the Duke of Wurtem- burg. Sle 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 Rai. nera Josephine Ferdinanda Therest Leopoldina Antoinetta Henrietta Fran- ces Caroline Aloise Januaria Christina Philomena Rosalie. £2100 Reward. 2100. ‘The readers of this ill be pleased t 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 Catarrb Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu- tional disease, requires @ constitutional treat- ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces of the —. thereby destroying the foundation of disease, and giving the patient some by building up the constitution and assist nature in doing its work. The pro- prietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls tocure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, Sold by druggists Sats Fam! jy lls are the best. High Price for # Book. Denton’s “New York,” the first book dealing with that locality, brought $2,000 at a sale in London a few days ag. 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, cort you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tabict has C. C. C. stamped on it. Be- Ware 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 Am- erican elm and an English oak. They are between the footpath and the drive, near the center of the Mall, on the western side. was ea we ew SS ee 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 covl. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. Billboards Breed Disease Germs. Destruction of a number of bill- boards 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 Route. | ‘The British bark Inverurie arrived at San Francisco from Swansea re- eently with her flag at half-mast, | there having been three deaths during the vorage. CGeusbios Leads to Cousuemptica 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 gacred service the world would put gaore faith in their sanctity. PURELY PERSONAL Charged twotth Looting. Lady Macdona'd, who has been pub- licly charged ir Lonvon newspapers with looting the imperial palace at Pe- kip, is the wife of Sir Claude Mac- donald, former British minister to China, and at present minister to Ja- pan. The story, which is indignantly denied by the lady's friends and de- nounced as a malicious and brutal at- tack on the character of a good wom- ge) 2 ke tae ccd aed = a Ses aw 5 nea oy ke , ais ‘ = A : 4 q ae 3 "a> & eae ~.. oer ey 4! Sets) a eae eS e. me * Wage A= : - a 8 ae a rf . LADY MACDONALD an, is to the effect that Lady Macdon- aid personally superintended a number of coolies who had been ordered by her to take from the palace certain treasures of Chinese art. together with oiher objects having religious use and of priceless value to the Chinese. Lady Macdonald, before her marriage to Sir Claude, was Ethel Armstrong Robert- son, the beautiful daughter of Major W. Cairns Armstrong and widow of P. ©. Robertson of the East Indian service. Unruly Boys for the Navy. The plan agreed upon in Judge Tut- hill’s court, Chicago, for sending some of the boys of the John Worthy school, a local reformatory, to the training ships of the United States navy is com- mendable. Most of the boys will be glad to become naval apprentices, and two or three years of naval! discipline will be the making of them. What they need is a proper outlet for their superabundant energies. As a rule the lack of parental control rather than innate viciousness has made them what they are. In the navy they will get plenty of useful activity along with the strict control which they need. They will at once have a desirable ‘career to look forward to, and there is no reason to doubt that many of ‘them will win more than average | honors as seamen and gunners in after life, | Beary Cabot Loadée. Henry Cabot Lodge, who had charge of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty in the senate and who marshaled the forces favorable to ratification, is generally accounted a bright and shining exan- ple of “the scholar in politics.” He began his public career as a member of the fiftieth congress, and has been a congressman or senator ever since. Ra OS yhoo ~~ ¢ gate? os — . 3 et ie F hs pee Ma Patt ete J SENATOR LODGE. Mr. Lodge is a lawyer, but, although admitted to the bar, never practiced. His profession, as he himself describes it im the congressional directory, is “that of literature.” The junior Mass- achusetts senator is 50 years old. Sultan Is Tender Hearted. It would appear from a recent inci- dent that the sultan of Turkey shares with his satanic majesty the distinc- tion of not being so black as he is painted. A theatrical troupe appeared in his private theater and gave “Othello.” When the moment came for the murder of Desdemona the sul- tan was so affected and struck with pity for her that he called out and forbade that she should be smothered. a Meouwel Wleddinée Gift. The daughter of Mr. Souvorin, the well-known editor and publisher of the Novoe Vremya, St. Petersburg, has 6een married to Mr. Miasoiedoff-Ivan- hoff, the son of the minister of ways and communications. The bridegroom ts to enjoy the daily profits of one of the advertising pages of the Novoe Vremya, and this curious wedding gift is causing considerable amuse- ment in St. Petersburg. Mrs. Stephens’ Portras. A portrait of Mrs. Lon V. Stephens has been hung in the executive man- sion at Jefferson City, Mo. Portraits of former governors are there in plenty, but there were none of their ‘wives or female relatives, so’that of Mrs. Stephens is the first to be bung La E Pinas Veale Compound The Great Woman’s Remedy for Woman's Ills. i ae UY = Z 4\ < i 7 | (ele > if Vie 8 MS | y. ws NSS . f iti” : Ges Lh fue OC), Yt EE bia é No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualéfied endorsement. ~~ No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles er 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 inte his store purposely to buy Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, has no interest in your case. He is merely trying to sell you some- thing 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 His. 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 Amow is Best. When a medicine has been successful in ———— bent were Oe 2 ee vee well say without trying tt, © I do not believe it will help me.” gr , do not hesitate to get a bot- tle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable a at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, » 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 3 inches. The fact that we are the largest a of palms in the entire west enables us to supply them se cheaply. Write us today. THE GEO. WITTBOLD Co. 14%7-59 Buckingham Piace. CHICAGO, ILE Se: ve: ine F pe ch ee 16 ee Rates to Ficrida. For all information, folders, maps, and rates to Florida via the “Dixie Flyer” line, Battlefield route via Look- out Mountain. write to Briard F. Hill, N. P. A, 328 Marquette building, Chi- cago, 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. Ww. Higginson. Rheumatic and Govty Affections disap- pear after cleansing the system with Gar- field 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. THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Grain-O is not a stimulant, like coffee. It is a tonic and its effects are permanent. Asuccessful substitute for coffee, eee — the coffee flavor that every’ es. Lots ofl coffee substitutes in the market, but only one food drink— Geain-O. All grocers ; 15c. and 25e, NE DrBull's | (Cures all Throat and Lung Afiections. COUGH SYRUP iS SURE sora Pane oF garg. RISO’S CURE FOR ONS ‘oT oie Don't StoP TOBACCO SUDDENLY It injures nervous system to do so. BACOs Cur Gs car ce eS SAR Bico-cu that three boxes wilt cure any cosa BACO-CURO ee Tt will a a At all druggists or by mail we fis Sons Zboxes #250 Booklet free. Write EUREKA CHEMICAL CO., La Crosse. 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Forgot Himself—Wife—"My dear, you haven't a cold have you?" "Husband—"No." "Any headache?" "None at all." "Rheumatism?" "Not a particle." "You don't think it will rain, do you?" "No danger. Why?" "This is Sunday, and it's most church time." "raw, what is a Jersey cow? I never saw one did I?" "No, I guess not, Zimmy. A Jersey cow is any kind of a cow that gits killed by the cars." The Governess—"What do you understand by noblesse oblige?" Little Miss Up-to-Date—"That most of the European nobles are obliged to marry for money." "Even the general that never wins a battle can beat sometimes," remarked Beechwood. "What are you driving at?" asked Homewood. "He can beat a retreat." Uncle Hiram—Did y' ever consider the question of the origin of evil? Uncle Silas—Well, I allus thought the politicians was responsible for a good deal of it. "Catch me proposing to a girl by letter." "What makes you so timid?" "Why, three girls in this town have my framed proposals hanging up in their 'dens.'" LITERARY NOTES "The Moon Maiden" and "The Curio Dealer" are new pieces by Richard Carle. "The Country Judge," a new pastoral play by Alice E. Ives and Jerome Eddy, will be produced in New York next March. Friends of Robert Buchanan have formed a committee for the purpose of raising a fund for the maintenance of the author, who is no longer able to work. "Richard Mansfield's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's King Henry V." will soon be published. It is understood that Mr. Mansfield's arrangement of the play is based chiefly upon Rolfe's edition of Shakespeare. Dr. Winthrop Ellsworth Stone, president of Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind., is only 38 years old. Prior to his selection as president he had been vice president for eight years. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural college and took a post-graduate course at Gottingen. Among books a tale recently written by Edward Perry Warren is called "The Prince Who Did Not Exist." It concerns a prince in a fairy book who was in the most doleful straits because he had fallen in love with a real young lady who was not in the book, whereby she was prevented from expressing even a sisterly interest in him. ALCOHOL ON THE NERVES. T. S. Clouston, M. D., Medical Superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, writing in the American Mother for October on the effects of alcohol on the nerves gives the following results from scientific observations: 1. That alcohol in excess distends the capillaries in the brain, thickens the membranes, causes destruction of nerve substance and produces brain degeneration, and no excuse can be found for this excessive use. 2. Alcohol in moderation liberates energy, but with marked loss of control; interferes with co-ordination of muscular effort and with clear thought. 3. That even where days elapse between the giving of moderate amounts the brain more quickly feels the effect of subsequent doses, showing permanent injury. 4. That even moderate use tends to create a craving for repetition. 5. That for young brains the effects are always dangerous and the finer the brain the more dangerous. 6. That people over fifty alcohol is always dangerous. This leaves at the most, very small leeways for the use of alcohol. That man certainly is not wise who begins, even in middle life, a habit which after fifty years of age will be dangerous to him, while inexcusably culpable is he who gives to his child that which destroys the integrity of his brain and consequently interferes with his moral development. ODDS AND ENDS Brush the bottom crust of a fruit ple with white of egg and it will not be soggy. Gum camphor kept in the case or closet with new silverware will prevent tarnishing. Drawing paper may be rendered transparent so as to allow of tracing in lead penell or India ink by sponging with castor oil dissolved with al- SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. A set of false teeth is an emblem of time. The man who possesses a million is a capital fellow. Every little vice is the subject of a lot of advice. Many a married man who isn't exactly smart is shrewd. The baker may not want for bread, but he has his hour of knead. Love doesn't laugh at the minister, and he is love's lock-smith. When a tricky jockey holds the reins the race isn't always to the swift. Some men are so very good that it is a question what they are good for. In the pulpit and on the stage the supply is often inadequate to the demand. Some baseball players are so brave that it is almost impossible to get them to run. Love makes the world go round only when the lovers are intoxicated with happiness. A sporting man says the only way it is possible to beat the weather reports is to play them to lose. The north pole is much like a woman's pocket, we all know where it should be, but we can't find it. When one woman is inclined to be charitable and doesn't care to express her opinion of another she merely says she is queer. Uniformly kind, courteous and polite treatment of all persons is one mark of the true man or woman. SCRAPS. SCRAPS. The German empire in 1899 had 1,336 strikes. In Holland no landlord has the power of raising the rent or of evicting a tenant. St. Petersburg's churches are the most splendid of any modern churches in the world. in Mississippi the number of landowners among the colored people is steadily growing. From the Bassin d'Archachon in the Bay of Biscay about 250,000,000 oysters are shipped annually to England. Great Britain no longer furnishes the largest contingent of Swiss tourists. Germany comes first, France second. It has been figured out that the United States produces 2,220 pounds of grain for each inhabitant; England 360 pounds. The increase in membership of the New England Cremation Society during the past year has been larger than for several years. Berlin's population of 1,884,345 is about the same as that of New York proper, but it spreads over a great deal more territory. It has been found that insanity appears earlier in Jews of both sexes than in non-Jews, at thirty-seven, as compared with forty-three years. Texas used to have a state geologist, but his office was abolished in 1894. An effort is now being made to have the position re-established.—Indianapolis News. A FEW IFS. If trusts trusted— If Justice ruled— If people who pose were deposed— If we could learn how to succeed. If peace, not piece, was the order— If there was more whoa to our woe— If coal and mercury were tied together— If we could hypnotize a few people we know— If it would rain in April and snow in December— If honesty was always the most successful policy— If honesty was always the most successful policy— If the rewards were always to him who earned them— If more people who think would act and more who act would think— If those who called for the war the loudest were the most willing to pay the taxes— If we could hear the truth and nothing but the truth without making it the whole truth— How different this old world would be.—Milwaukee Journal. BRIEF OBSERVATIONS. Don't run if you want to catch your breath. An event is a circumstance that seldom happens. Exemplifying duty is better than explaining it. In order to live long it is necessary to live slowly. A girl's lover is a poor suitor if he does not suit her. No matter how tall a man is he is not above criticism. After nine days of wonder the puppy gets his eyes opened. The job of police court judge is certainly a trying situation. Many a man starts out to gather wool and gets fleeced himself. The average man thinks other people need church more than he does. No man ever expects his wife to make as many mistakes as he does. A woman is never satisfied so long as there is anything she can't get. When a woman is really reasonable, she can never give any reason for it. It is a sin to steal a pin—especially if it has a diamond attached to it. ```markdown ``` JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE OHICAGO. HARRIS F. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW 805 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHICAGO TELEPHONE MAIN 1464. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. Office Hours: 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 6 to 8:30 p. m. PHONE 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. 6013 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 st. 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. 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The roads are preparing for heavier hauls and so must the boats if ship canal plans are to carry and succeed.