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THE BROAD AX VOL. VI. WILL AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN LABOR SURRENDER TO CHINA? The Japan-China war resulted in the surrender of China to Japan. As a final result of the struggle the question now confronting both American and European labor is: Will we be forced to surrender to China? As a nation the Chinese have objected to adopting anything foreign. This peculiarity has prevented her from adopting improved methods of manufacture and machinery. By the recent treaty this policy will be largely abandoned, and not only will the natives themselves take advantage of the innovations, but both American and European factory owners will do so. In manufacturing, China will repeat the history of Japan. Japan cotton mills pay from 15 to 30 per cent dividends, while English mills have been losing money. Japan mills have increased sevenfold in four years. The treaty will allow their extension to China and similar results follow. Like Japan, China will first supply her home demand for cotton goods, after that, she will seek foreign markets; the markets that English and American mills now supply. What she does with the cotton trade she will repeat with a dozen or more other lines. Both English and American capital will go to China to operate factories of all kinds. The Oriental is the most imitative of human beings. Capital will take advantage of this faculty and what is of more importance it will recognize that the Chinese operative can live for almost nothing; working for 10 to 20 cents per day, for men, and one-half that for women. To all this advantage will be added the greatest of all, the fact that payment for labor can be made in silver, as silver buys the laborer as much of the home products of China as will gold. Great Britain has established a mint at Hong Kong to coin "chop" dollars, containing 516.25 grains of silver. She can buy this amount of silver for fifty-five cents. These dollars buy Chinese labor and products at face value and English speculators make 80 per cent profit on the purchase in addition to their regular profits on the sales. Capital has neither consicence country, politics nor religion. It will make steamships, cotton goods, watches and cambric needles in China as quickly as anywhere else if it can gain a profit, caring little whether European and American labor surrenders to China or not. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. The Thomas Jefferson Afro-American League will hold its first open meeting Thursday evening, Feb. 7, at the Phyllis Wheatly Club' rooms, 5058 Dearborn street, near 51st street, at which time its officers will deliver addresses as follows: Julius F. Taylor, on "The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson;" George S. Walker on "The Negro as a Soldier;" Robert T. Sims, "The Political Worth of the Negro and the Aims and Objects of the League;" Enos Bond, "The Negro in the Grand Army of the Republic;" Mrs. Robert T. Sims, "Woman's Work in the League;" James H. Harris, "How to Get Money into the Treasury." At the conclusion of the speaking all who wish will have the opportunity of having their names entered upon the membership roll of the League. It can be said without fear or favor that, the promotors of The Thomas Jefferson Afro-American League are among the best Afro-Americans of Chicago, its 2d Vice President Enos Bond; its Treasurer, James H. Harris, its Secretary George S. Walker and its Sergeant-at-Arms John Abrams all fought in the war of the rebillion and they are honorable members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Robert T. Sims its First Vice President is a plain sensible woman and she is ever ready to labor for the betterment of suffering humanity. With such men and women at the head of The Thomas Jefferson Afro-American League it cannot fail and its influence for good will know no bounds. Remember the meeting begins at 5 o'clock, at the Phyllis Wheatly Club mornings, 1958 Dearborn street, Thura- day evening, Feb. 7. Lawrence A. Newby will preside and friends and well-wishers of all races are cordially invited to attend. NEGRO JOURNALISM Comparatively speaking, few Negroes read Negro journals, and fewer still realize the necessity of them. The majority of our people have a craving for ten cent novels and all kinds of trashy and obsene periodicals, which has a tendency to lead them to make a jest of their own people, thereby intensifying the already heated prejudice of the caucasian. In casting our mind back over the various attitudes of our people, and realizing that they meet with so many adversities, in this boasted "land of the free and home of the brave," the question naturally suggests itself to our minds, how shall we remedy this great embarrassment? To this suggestion comes the answer: Patronize and build up able and fearless Negro papers and other periodicals. As we watch current events, we note the shaping and moulding of public sentiment, by the undue influence, of the poisonous white papers, whose chief aim is to show the dark side of the Negro. So then it behooves us to strengthen by unanimous support, our papers, that they may be enabled to defend us by helping to shape and regulate public sentiment and show the good qualities and bright side of the Negro. Color prejudice has invaded the legislative halls, and dictated the legislative policy of both our national and state governments against the Negro. It has marshalled its forces within the pales of the judicial forum, and besmeared the sacred togas of our great legal dignitaries, and has caused our chief magistrates to lend their sanction to its most contemptible and damnable practices. To accuse a black man of any kind of a crime now-a-days is a notice to the undertakers to prepare a coffin. For if he be captured, innocent or guilty, he is speedily hoisted to a limb or a telegraph pole, and his poor defenceless body perforated with bullets, or is burned at the stake. White men commit crimes, and while their hands are yet bathed in their victim's gore, rush forward, organize an angry mob, and some defenseless black man is summarily hurled into eternity without a trial by judge or jury. The present condition of the Negro is sorrowful. He is unsettled. He has no permanent home. He is confused and wandering as the Children of Israel. But unlike them, he is in need of a Moses. And that Moses, can be only in the form of good fearless Negro literature, such as will repel the poisonous effects of the villainous white journals, who studiously cast out the good virtues and character and manliness of the Negro as a citizen. There are two sides to every question. A fearless and able newspaper, is to a race, just what a lawyer is to his client. If every defendent would refuse to employ able counsel to defend himself, the case would obviously be onesided, and every defendent convicted. Just so long as the Negro neglects to patronize and support his own papers, just so long will his cause lack vindication.—John F. Thompson in The Plaindealer, Topeka, Kansas. Tuesday last the Lake View Woman's Club met and without a dissenting voice its members put themselves on record in favor of the admission of colored women into the National Federation of Woman's Clubs. The club was addressed by Doctor Julia Holmes Smith, who is a Southern lady of rare culture. Mrs. Henry W. Magee, Mrs. Cella P. Wooley, Mrs. Fannie B. Williams and Mrs. George W. Plummer, whose husband is one of the leading and most prominent lawyers of this city. It seems that all the best women in Chicago who affiliate with the woman's clubs are determined to stand by Mrs. Josephine St. P. Ruffin and their other colored sisters, and all The Broad Ax can say is, let the good work go on. THE LATE GEN. JOHN M. PALMER EULOGIZED. The following resolution was introduced by Representative John G. Jones on Thursday Jan. 24, 1901, and adopted by a unanimous and rising vote in the House of Representatives of the Illinois Legislature: Whereas, the Representatives of the 42nd General Assembly have learned with profound regret and feelings of M. W. C. M. JOHN G. JONES, ESQ. Member of the Legislature of the Great State of I Anti-Lynching Bill. the deepest sorrow of the death of Ex-Governor John M. Palmer of the State of Illinois, which occurred in the City of Springfield, Illinois, on the 25th day of September, 1900, and during his life-time he filled many positions of honor and trust. Was elected in 1843 Judge of the Probate Court of Macoupin County; elected State Senator of the Senate of the State of Illinois in 1852; in the early part of 1861 was made Colonel of the 14th Illinois Volunteer Infantry; in the latter part of 1861 was promoted and made Major-General of the United States Army; in 1865 was appointed by President Lincoln to command the military department of Kentucky; in 1868 was elected Governor of the State of Illinois; in 1891 was elected United States Senator from the State of Illinois; and his record in all of these public offices as well as in private life was without a stain. And in the long line of governors of this state none ever served this state with greater credit than Governor John M. Palmer. And: Whereas, The life work of ExUnited States Senator John M. Palmer of Illinois has been such as to endear him to every lover of Liberty and sympathizer of American institutions. He was noted for his integrity; his stardy independence of character; his devotion to his friends and his recognition of the equality of all men who are honest and upright without regard to color or nationality. He hated and despised slavery and oppression in all of its forms. He believed in the preservation of this glorious Union with its American flag waiving over us as the shield of our protection on land and sea. His heart and hand were ever for the good of the people: Therefore, Be it resolved that we hereby express our profound sorrow of his death and we recognize that the cause of free government has lost one of its brilliant advocates and the State of Illinois has lost an honest and distinguished citizen. A brave soldier; an eminent jurist and a great statesman. He was a strong and forcible debater; a man thoroughly master of the subject he discussed and an intent believer in the policy and principals he advocated, which has placed his name high upon the pinnacle of fame. Therefore be it, Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved family our sincere and heartfelt sympathy and a copy of these resolutions be engrossed and forwarded to the family of the deceased and the same be spread upon the Journal of the House. Representative John G. Jones has certainly covered himself all over with glory and honor in paying such a high tribute to the memory of Gen. Palmer, who was one of the great war horses of Jeffersonian Democracy. But Mr. Jones, or no one else, can ever say too much in favor of the late John M. Palmer, who was a broad-minded and patriotic statesman, and one of ONES, ESQ. State of Illinois; Author of the thing Bill. the greatest champions of the rights of the Afro-American race. It is reported that Dan. M. Jackson, Esq., procured a marriage license recently and has taken unto himself a wife. The Knights of Templars gave a grand ball last Monday night at the First Regiment Armory, and from a financial point it was not a success. Mrs. B. A. Lewis, 3013 Dearborn street, is a fine songstress. She is bright, talented and casts much credit upon the Afro-American race. Ex-Alderman James Joseph McCarthy is not seeking aldermanic honors this spring but he is plugging very hard for Ex-Alderman Micheal McInerney. Patrick Murphy, Louis Lundquist, F. J. Lher, J. R. Burgee, Geo. W. Heck and Robert J. Roulston, are the leading candidates for aldermanic honors in the 31st ward. Some say that Jacob L. Parks will bring suit against Dan Jackson, Ed Morris and company for false arrest; if Jake Parks does he might get a hold of Mr. Morris' big diamond stud. Dr. Howard S. Taylor left Wednesday night for Southern Indiana to attend the funeral of his brother. The Doctor will not return to the city until the first of the week. It has been said that the John Gerts' Piano Co., corner Weed and Dayton streets, this city, have done a much larger business the past year than it has ever done in the years which have gone before. Prof. Grisham, of Kansas City, will lecture before the Men's Sunday Forum, Institutional Church, Sunday, Feb. 24, and preparations are now being made to receive and entertain Prof. Grisham when he arrives in the city. Charles Schlacks, city boiler inspector, may decide to enter the contest for alderman from the 31st ward. if he should do so he would make the fur fly. Mr. Schlacks is well-known and if he should receive the nomination he would run like a scared deer. Kansas has produced more cranks, fanatics and d----d fools in the last 50 years than any other state in the Union-John Brown, John J. ingallis, Mrs. Lease, Mrs. Nation and her associates, and the san-headed men who vote for women suffrage.—Ex. ```markdown ``` CHIPS. Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Wagner, 5553 Princeton avenue, are both sturdy German-Americans, they possess the broad catholic spirit, and both are interested in the advancement of the colored race. Mr. Wagner will join The Thomas Jefferson Afro-American League. The Hon. John T. Keating, who is one of the hardest working members of the board of education can have the nomination for alderman from the sixth ward if he wants to. No mistake can be made in selecting such men as Mr. Keating to represent the people in the city council. Dr. Anna R. Cooper recently partook of a very fine luncheon at the home of Mrs. Celia P. Wooley, 196 44th street, and Doctor Cooper says, "that Mrs. Wooley practices what she preaches," moreover, Mrs. Wooley will no doubt aid Dr. Cooper in her struggles. City Oil Inspector Robert E. Burke is kept busy from the time he strikes his office until he leaves it in consulting with his lieutenants in the various wards relative to the spring campaign, and Mr. Burke is firmly of the opinion that Mayor Carter H. Harrison will succeed himself as the head ruler of Chicago. Mr. Zola C. Green, who was manager for the Cold Blast Feather Company, started in the same business the first of the year for himself. He is now at the head of the Columbia Feather Company, 95-97 Indiana street. Mr. Green's new company manufactures first-class feather pillows, down cushions and high grade bedding. James J. McNarney continues to hustle early and late in his fight for the nomination for alderman of the 30th ward and Mr. McNarney now feels that he is making considerable headway against his rivals. He also thinks that many of them will drop out of the race or contest before the scrap is ended. Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora, Ill., who is one of the big lawyers of the West will after the middle of February engage in the practice of law in Chicago. He will connect himself with Kraus and Holden, Unity Building. Mr. Alschuler, The Broad Ax welcomes you to Chicago, for there is always plenty of room in this big town for brainy men. Otto V. Mueller, the energetic and proeperous real estate, renting, and fire insurance agent, 646 West Sixtythird street, was at the last meeting of the 31st Ward Democratic Club selected as its secretary. Mr. Mueller is straightforward in his business dealings and The Broad Ax still favors him for collector for the Town of Lake. The Broad Ax would like to see Col. Richard O'Sullivan Burke succeed in his fight against the gang of "sewer contractors" who have used their influence with Commissioner McGann to have the Colonel displaced as superintendent of sewers, and there are thousands of people in this city who want to see Colonel Burke get a fair trial before the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. Alderman John J. Coughlin, author of the charming song, "Sweet Midnight of love" has favored The Broad Ax with tickets to the masuerade ball which will be given by the 1st Ward Democratic Club, Thursday evening, Feb. 7, 1901, at the First Regiment Armory, Michigan avenue and Sixteenth street. Alderman Coughlin will lead the grand march and it is expected that all the politicians and statesmen in Chicago will be present. Wednesday afternoon some of the members of the Phyllis Wheatly Club met at their rooms, 5058 Dearborn street, for the purpose of holding a business meeting and to perfect arrangements for giving an entertainment in the near future. A resolution was passed congratulating and commending Mrs. Geo. W. Plummer and the other 174 women of the Chicago Woman's Club, for being in favor of justice and fair play. NO. 15. CAPTAIN WM. P. BLACK, THE EMINENT BARRISTER, WILL ADDRESS THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE THOMAS JEFFERSON AFRO-AMERICAN LEAGUE ON FEB. 12, LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. SUBJECT: "ABRAHAM LINCOLN." THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE BROAD AX WILL CONTAIN A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST OF THE MANY MEETINGS WHICH WILL BE HELD BY THE THOMAS JEFFERSON AFRO-AMERICAN LEAGUE. The editor or the manager of The Conservator seems to be keeping very quiet about the increase of Southern representation in Congress and the slapping of the Negroes in the face by President McKinley. Possibly if Brother Wilkins would refrain from wasting so much time in praying during business hours he would feel more like exposing the low and dirty methods which President McKinley and the other leaders of his party have pursued in reference to the colored Republicans. It has been so long since there has been an Indian uprising the announcement that 1,000 in Indian Territory are about to go on the warpath is somewhat of a surprise. The discontents are said to have complained of improper treatment on the part of the whites and object to encroachments upon their lands. It is hoped a satisfactory conclusion to the difficulties will be arrived at soon.—Ex. If the Negroes would fight for their just rights like the Indians they would not be shot down in cold blood like dogs nor burnt at the stake on trumped up charges. Mrs. Fannio B. Williams' name appears on The Chicago Woman's Club's program twice this season. March 14 Mrs. Williams talks on "Organization of Charities." April 4 she will read a paper on "Ethical studies." Mrs. Williams is treated with much deference by the best members of the Chicago Woman's Club, and she and Mrs. Ruffin are playing a grand part in assisting to bring around a better feeling and understanding between the two races, although there are a great many colored women who came into the world half-baked and before their time that do not like Mrs. Williams because she does not grin and show her teeth and chatter like monkeys the same as they do. Prof. M. M. Mangasarian and his followers have organized The Independent Religious Society of Chicago, and the new society starts off with almost two thousand members. Services will be held each Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the Grand Opera House. The creed of this new society is very simple, it requires no assent to any theological or philosophical doctrine, but it will receive into full fellowship all who desire to promote the religion of truth, righteousness, joy and freedom. W. L. Kroeschell, D. M. Hillis, E. Gerstenberg, Charles Kiper, Louis Muench, F. P. Schmidt Jr., H. Mueller, J. V. Pierce and E. C. Wentworth will serve as the first nine trustees of this new society. The grand jury after hearing Rev. Moses M. Jackson and Dr. Cotton unwind their tales in relation to Jacob L. Parks and Daniel M. Jackson it decided that Mr. Parks was not guilty of circulating the circular last fall which claimed that Mr. Jackson liked to mix up with cheap or low white women, therefore, the grand jury failed to indict Mr. Parks. The actions of the grand jury proves that Justice Underwood does not know anything about the libel laws of this state; it will also remind the justice that he and Ed. Morris, who like many other so-called leaders of the Negro race who take no stock in what they are pleased to call "Little Nigger newspapers" unless such papers waste all their space in booming them, cannot run the grand jury. Vale, Messrs. Underwood, Morris and Jackson, you three small men in big hides have been barking up the wrong tree. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the two principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the mittertal right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; His only on one side of the paper. One Year.....$2.40 Two Months.....1.60 *verifying sales made known to applicants, *shows all correspondence to JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Already the first edition of Lord Rosebery's "Napoleon; the last Phase," consisting of 10,000 copies, has been exhausted in England. The Athenaeum utters many disparaging walls over the book, and says that it is written in a style not historical, but rather adapted to that of after dinner speaking. An impatient man in Camden, N. J., who was eager to acquire wealth and acquire it quickly, sent money to an advertiser who promised, on receipt of a dollar, to tell any one "how to get rich." Here is the useful advice he received: "Work like a slave all your life, spend as little as possible, and never marry." Modern science is extremely exact. The engineers who have been considering the problems arising out of the proposed Nicaragua canal provide for a waterway nine inches deeper than the draft of large ocean steamships. The reason is that as fresh water is not so dense as the water of the sea, a vessel will sink deeper when it enters the canal. Many of the purchases made by the Shah of Persia last summer in Europe, as well as some of the presents made to him, went to the bottom of the Caspian sea by the sinking of the steamship Vera in a storm. Among them were the eighteen carriages bought in Paris. There is no chance of recovering anything, as the Vera went down in 500 fathoms. In the House the other day, Representative Dalzell, referring to the French chamber of deputies, said that "if there were a more disgraceful and infamous parliamentary body in existence he would like to know where it was." If we are to be a "world power" our statesmen will have to learn that one of the essentials of that position is official good manners toward the other members of world-power society. The largest tree in Switzerland is to be found in the Melchthal, perched on the mountain side, at a height of 450 feet. At its base it measures in circumference forty feet. The circumference of its trunk, six feet from the ground, is twenty-six feet, and one of its branches is four feet in thickness. The diameter at the top is eighty-four feet. This mighty giant of the forest shows great signs of age, but is in a perfectly healthy condition. Forty-five thousand dollars in government bonds, with the coupons still attached and running back for thirty years, were found recently in a chest in a hut occupied by Hermit Ypsilanti Smith, who died a few years ago. He had lived near Fletcher, Miami county, O., for forty years, and was not known to have a cent. His mind was deranged years ago by the death of his wife. Pension vouchers untouched for years were also found, amounting to about $2,500. At Sheboygan, Wis., the other day, a Maltese cat took a long ride inside the rim of a flywheel. The animal jumped into the wheel at the Plymouth Refrigerator company's plant, and remained there two and one-half hours. As the wheel is about thirty-eight feet in circumference, and makes eighty-seven revolutions in a minute, the cat traveled at a distance of about ninety-three miles. When the engines were stopped pussy was alive and well except for a little lameness. Recently published lists of prices charged by prominent portrait-painters remind us that if modern artists take the cash, eighteenth century painters often took their time. Augustus Hare says that Lord Mexborough asked Sir Thomas Lawrence again and again to send home the portrait he was doing of Lady Mexborough and her child. "I allow I have been a long time," replied the artist at last, "but if Lady Mexborough will kindly bring the baby and give me another sitting, I really will finish." "Well, Sir Thomas," was the answer, "my wife will be happy to give you another sitting whenever you like it, but the baby is in the Guards!" The Englishman has found death in his pot of beer. It appears that some of the brewers have been "teating" the national drink with sulphuric acid made from iron pyrites, which contains arsenic, and that the poison has passed with the sulphur into the brewers' sugar, a product of starch, in quantity sufficient to produce serious consequences and wide-spread alarm. Many cases of alcoholic neuritis have been traced to this cause in Birmingham, Liverpool and Chester, and nearly 800 are reported from the district of Salford alone, of which sixty-one have proved fatal. The growing use of mineral chemicals, in the preparation of foods as well as of drinks, may threaten civilization with a new brood of disease. Disorderly Conduct in Scotland. The Scottish judicial statistics for the year are not altogether pleasant reading. Serious crime has been decreasing in Scotland for some time. The period 1895-9 shows a decrease of 26½ per cent as compared with 1870-4. That is satisfactory, but while the serious crime is diminishing, the "huge volume of drunkenness and disorder," to quote from the report, "which marks Scottish statistics so unfavorably as compared with those of other countries" seems to be steadily increasing. The number of persons charged with drunkenness and disorder rose last year to 112,033, which is a record figure. Drunkenness and disorder, indeed, account for more than 60 per cent of the whole of the police offenses in Scotland. Those are eminently offenses of the larger towns, though at the same time some of the smaller burghs in this respect apparently try to compete with their larger neighbors. In counties the general average is 83.7 per 10,000; in burghs with a population of 50,000 and over it is 439.5; and the average decreases in the various classes till in the case of burghs with a population of under 2,500 it is 250.3 per 10,000.—Chicago News. A NURSE'S STORY. A Graduate of Lakeside Hospital, Lake Geneva, Tells an Interesting Experience Peshtigo, Wis., Jan. 26, 1901.—(Special.)—One of the most popular nurses that ever graduated from the Lakeside Hospital, Lake Geneva, is Miss Lillian Dreese, of this place. Miss Dreese is the Vice Templar of the Independent Order of Good Templars, and organist of the Rebeccas of Peshtigo. During her twelve years' experience as a trained nurse she has had many opportunities for observation, and her opinion in all medical health matters is held in very high esteem by the thousands who have learned to know and love her. In speaking of her experience she says: "During my twelve years as a trained nurse I have often observed how many different physicians give their patients Dodd's Kidney Pills in cases of Diabetes and Kidney Trouble. About three years ago I myself suffered some months with a weakness and continual congested condition, and I decided to try what the Pills would do for me. I soon found that they built up the affected parts and restored harmony to the entire system, and although I often lose much sleep and rest while attending severe cases, I find that I was never in finer health nor had more endurance than since have used these marvelous Pills." Clergymen say they are good, Senators and Congressmen have added their evidence as to the wonderful curative properties of this Medicine, hundreds of physicians recommend them and use them in their daily practice. The most skilled trained nurses advise their use and use them themselves, while tens of thousands of sick and suffering people are being cured every day by Dodd's Kidney Pills. They should cure you. They will cure you. Try them. Zwelbach for Children. In families where children are given to the munching habit, better than sweet or cheap crackers or cake will be found zweibach, or twice baked bread. On account of this thorough baking it is easy to digest. Meats used at the children's table should preferably be boiled or roasted. Boiled meat, unless very carefully prepared, is apt to lose its nutriment, and the part left, through overcooking, is not easy to assimilate. Soft boiled eggs are the only kind that should be served to young children. They should not be cooked at a high temperature, as the sudden violent heat toughens the whites. "The Chicago and Florida Special." Solid vestibuled trains from Chicago to St. Augustine every Wednesday and Saturday via "Big Four" route. The entire train runs through solid from Chicago to St. Augustine. Absolutely no change of cars for either passengers or baggage. First train Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1901. Through dining cars, through Pullman sleepers, through observation cars, through baggage cars. Leaves Central Station, 12th St. and Park Row, Chicago, 12:00 noon. Arrive St. Augustine 8:30 next p. m. For particulars call on your local agent, or address J. C. Tucker, General Northern Agent Big Four Route, Chicago. CAREER AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An address by Joseph Choate, Ambassador to Great Britain, on the career and character of Abraham Lincoln—his early life—his early struggles with the world—his character as developed in the later years of his life and his administration, which placed his name so high on the world's roll of honor and fame, has been published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and may be had by sending six (6) cents in postage to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. An Indian Divorce Afraid-of-Cloud, a Crow Creek brave of 73, has just been granted a divorce at Chamberlain, S. D., from his spouse, known as Mrs. Iron-Nail-Face-Afraid-of-Cloud, aged 64. The defendant failed to appear in court and decree went by default, plaintiff having shown that his wife, whom he married two years ago, refused to live with him a single day. The gay old brave intends to make another—his fourth—venture on the matrimonial sea. Lane'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 50a. ANIMALS FEAR MEN. Of all questions asked by people who have never been much out of doors, none seems so simple to the old-timers as that which concerns the dangers to which the camper may be exposed from the attacks of wild beasts, says Forest and Stream. It is chiefly women and children who ask such questions, but it is evident that in the brains of many inexperienced persons is firmly established a belief that wild animals are dangerous, that wolves, panthers and bears prowl about seeking whom they may devour. This belief is in all probability a survival in part of earlier days, when the most civilized men dwelt largely in the East, where might be encountered lions who would attack them, or hyenas ready to snap up the stray child wandering away from the camp, or bears of the type encountered by the irreverent infants who apostrophized Elisha; and also in part of that time when the weapons of primitive man were so feeble and of so little avail against the wild beasts that these were justly to be feared. This feeling already existing is encouraged and strengthened by a certain amount of the writing of the day. The average man and woman love to read a bear or panther or wolf story not less than do small boys and round-eyed children listen with pleasure to the tales of some venerable uncle or grandfather who relates the story of the wolves that used to howl about his cabin or visit his sheep fold when first he settled in the country. In this land of America, as many know, there are no such things as dangerous animals, though there are creatures which may be made dangerous. The wolf, the bear and the cougar are far more anxious to get away from man than man is to get away from them. If given the opportunity they will always slip away and run, and if they fight it is because they believe that they have been cut off from every avenue of escape. Where an animal has been wounded it is a different matter. Then, often, considerations of prudence are forgotten and the animal acts on impulse, instead of doing what it knows to be wise; but even so there is much more danger from a wounded deer than from a wounded panther, and vastly more from a wounded moose. But for the average man who is travelling through a new country where wild animals may be plenty, who stops when he has made a day's march and it home where night finds him, there is not now, nor ever will, more danger from the wild animals of the country than from the lightnings which blaze in the summer sky. Many more people have been killed by lightning than have been run over by stampeding buffalo herds, or killed by unwounded grizzly bears, or by all the other animals of the prairie put together. One might almost say that more people have been struck by falling meteorites than have been killed by panthers or wolves. And yet from day to day the newspapers continue to print bear stories, catamount stories and wolf stories, and probably they will do so until long after the last bear, catamount and wolf shall have disappeared from the land. STEALS IN PRISON. All Times and Places Are Alike to Emma Ford. Emma Ford, a giant negress who was convicted several days ago of robbing Dr. Hayes of Cripple Creek, Col., and sentenced to one year in the bridewell, was transferred from the county jail to the house of correction yesterday afternoon, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Before she went she is alleged to have stolen a pocket-book from Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, colored parole officer of the Juvenile court and president of the Bethel House Missionary society. Emma Ford has boasted of her dexterity in relieving persons of their valuables, and while being taken to jail for trial picked a watch from the pocket of a deputy sheriff who had her in charge. Mrs. McDonald was with her for some time yesterday in the corridor of the woman's department in the jail. The probation officer carried a hand bag in which was her purse, containing a small sum of money and some papers of value. Some time later she had occasion to open the bag and found the purse gone. The prisoner's boasted skill caused suspicion to be directed towards her. Meanwhile she had been taken away. The officers at the bridewell were informed and the woman was searched, but the purse was not found. Smooth Lady Book Agent. A smartly dressed woman has been reaping a golden harvest in New York through a process of book canvassing which savors strongly of blackmail She travels in a carriage with a liveried footman. After gaining admission to the home of a wealthy family, she urges a subscription to a "beautifully illustrated edition" of some standard work, giving the name of a society leader as a recommendation. The victim signs what she supposes to be a list, only to find later that she has contracted for a large number of very expensive books. The only means of escape is by "settlement" on stiff terms. Queen Receives Gold Medal. When the German Emperor heard of the courageous act of the Queen of Portugal in saving a boatman from drowning he asked the Queen to accept the German Gold Salvage Medal. Her Majesty at first hesitated in accepting this gracious offer, because with her usual modesty, she had already declined similar decorations which the Portuguese government and the Humane society at Lisbon wished to confer upon her, but she finally gave way and signified her willingness to receive the medal. AN INNOVATION. The Louisville & Nashville R. R., together with its connecting lines, has inaugurated the Chicago & Florida Limited, which is a daily, solid train, wide vestibuled, steam heated, gas lighted, with dining car service for all meals en route from Chicago to Thomasville, Ga., Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Fla. The train leaves Chicago over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois tracks at 11:00 a. m., running via Evansville, Nashville, Birmingham and Montgomery, Plant System to Jacksonville, and Florida East Coast to St. Augustine, arriving at the latter city at 7:30 the next evening, making the fastest time ever made between these points. The train has annex sleeper, leaving St. Louis at 2:15 p. m., which also runs through. Mr. C. L. Stone, General Passenger Agent, Louisville & Nashville R. R., Louisville, Ky., will answer all inquiries concerning this train and furnish printed matter concerning it. The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity is that of a good character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land is that of a shining, spotless example.—R. C. Winthrop. 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. Character must stand behind and back up everything—the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it.—J. G. Holland. During the Winter As a safeguard against la grippe, it is well to cleanse the system with Garfield Tea. The first public library was established in New York in the year 1700. To Mothers of Large Families. In this workaday world few women are so placed that physical exertion is not constantly demanded of them in their daily life. Mrs. Pinkham makes a special appeal to mothers of large families whose work is never done, and many of whom suffer, and suffer for lack of intelligent aid. To women, young or old, rich or poor, Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., extends her invitation of free advice. Oh, women! do not let your lives be sacrificed when a word from Mrs. Pinkham, at the first approach of A. weakness, may fill your future years with healthy joy. "When I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I was not able to do my housework. I suffered terribly at time of menstruation. Several doctors told me they could do nothing for me. Thanks to Mrs. Pinkham's advice and medicine I am now well, and can do the work for eight in the family. "I would recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all mothers with large families."—Mrs. CARRIE BELLEVILLE, Ludington, Mish. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE H Curea Colde, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Wheezing Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for consumption in first stages, and a cure relief in advanced stages. Use of once. You will see the excellent effect, after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. CARMERS-STOCKMEN you are Handl- enced caught Here. I will Educational land leases for 25 to 50 cents per acre, annual leases 7 cents per acre; Railroad Land 4.10 to $9.00 per acre Improved Ranches $3.00 to $15.00 per acre. Easy terms, low interest. Great demand. In FIRST letter state what you want. C. H. Benderson, Real Estate Agent, Kearney, Neb. Dr.Bull's COUCH SYRUP Cures a Cough or Cold at once. Conquers Croup, Whooping-Cough, Bronchitis, Gripe and Consumption. Quick, sure results. Dr.Bull's Pills cure Constipation. 50 pills 10c. OPIUM. EUREKAL POUND AT LAST A TRUE REMEDY Don't wait, write for information. Positively something new. WHITERGROSS SANTARIE, Whitehorn, K.L. EPIDEMIC OF GRIP WORST EVER KNOWN Peruna not only cures the grip but prevents it Taken in time thousands of lives will be saved in this present epidemic Every family should take the precaution to secure a supply of Peruna at once, for the retail and wholesale stock of the remedy may be exhausted by the enormous demand for it. It is wisdom to have Peruna in the house even before the grip attacks the household. It has been ascertained by a reporter that the following people of national reputation have given public endorsement and testimonials to Peruna as a remedy for la grippe: Congressman Howard, of Alabama, says: "I have taken Peruna for the grip and recommend it as an excellent remedy to all fellow-sufferers." Congressman White, of North Carolina, says: "I find Peruna to be an excellent remedy for the grip. I have used it in my family and they all join me in recommending it." Miss Francis M. Anderson, of Washington, D. C., daughter of Judge Anderson, of Virginia, says: "I was taken very ill with the grip. I took Peruna and was able to leave my bed in a week." Mrs. Harriette A. S. Marsh, President of the Woman's Benevolent Association of Chicago, writes: "I suffered with grip seven weeks. Nothing helped me. Tried Peruna and within three weeks I was fully restored. Shall never be without it again." At the appearance of the first symptoms of grip people should stay indoors and take Peruna in small doses (teaspoonful every hour) until the symptoms disappear. This will prevent a long, disastrous sickness and perhaps fatal results. Sleep for Skin-Tortured Babies And Rest for Tired Mothers In a Warm Bath with Cuticura SOAP And a single anointing with CUTICURA purest of emollients and greatest of skin cures. This is the purest, sweetest, most speedy, permanent, and economical treatment for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humors, rashes, irritations, and chafings, with loss of hair, of infants and children, and is sure to succeed when all other remedies fail. Millions of Mothers Use Cuticura Soap Assisted by CUTICURA OINTMENT, the great skin cure, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin of infants and children, for rabses, itchings, and chalings, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing red, rough, and sore hands, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Millions of Women use CUTICURA SOAP in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and excoriations, for too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sensitive aniseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used these great skin purifiers and beautifiers to use any others, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. CUTICURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purse of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odors. No other medicated soap is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, vis., TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, the FEST skin and complexion soap and the BEST toilet and baby soap in the world. Bacillus of Grip. ```markdown ``` Magnified 16,000 times. ```markdown ``` Hundreds of car loads of Peruna are shipped in all directions to meet the extraordinary demand of the grip epidemic. Everybody laying in a stock of this valuable remedy in time to meet the terrible enemy, the Grip. The extensive facilities of the manufacturers taxed to their utmost to meet the urgent demand for Peruna. Almost everybody has the grip. Almost everybody must have Peruna. Taken at the appearance of the first symptoms of the grip, not only is Peruna a prompt cure for the grip but it prevents those disastrous after effects so characteristic of this dread disease. cecret of Sager Sete The ee ee ae = gece of English is Given by a robgh en discusses what he calls the “4 t thata wt ey eareeee patedox to say tailor never vn ee truth nevertheless, a Periny tailor Boldt forth tome eee xe solemnity on this subject. ‘my american customers,’ he said, ‘some- times try to persuade me that a New York tailor is ahead of us Londoners pecause he gives @ better fit. 1 repiy that if I wanted t> make my clothes St the figure I could €o just as well or qven better than my American rival. But I don’t. Clothes, sir, should hang, pot fit. It takes a genius to make them bang well, while the merest tyro can pske them fit. Wear a suit that nts you for a week and it is out of shape and wrinkled. A suit that hangs prop- ely, on*the contrary, always looks well and shows the art of its cutter, for i has style, which the other lacks’ That is expert opinion, and is sugges- gre” Bew's This: offer One Hundred Dollars reward sox of Cuarrh Ghat cannot be cured ty Halle ae ®0O., Toledo, eae Cwfeclly honorable in ell business transactions sad Seanclaly, Sntg or SOFT Oct any oblign- Teer EE ©; Waldi & e oEa's Catarch is taken Senernaliy, 000- Siibe syscem Testeaniols suas tree. Price bottle. druggists Sept Pamly Pile are the ese ae gnlartes te Ehnnd O@inieie® Widens. Appropriation of public money to pay the widow, heirs or legal represen- tatives of a person who died in office ‘the salary for any unexpired part of his term is held, in opinion of justices (fass.), 49 L. R. A., 564, to be within the power of the legislature, where the public good will be served by the grant of such a reward, but mot where the only public advantage is such as may be incident to the relief of a private citizen. A Remedy for the Grippe. Physicians recommend KEMP'S BALSAM for patients afflicted with the grippe, as it is especially adapted for the throat and lungs. Don't wait for the first symptoms, but get a bottle today and keep it om hand for use the mo- ment it is meeded. If neglected, the gripe brings on pneumonia. KEMP'S BALSAM prevents this by keeping the cough loose and the lungs free from in- fammation. All druggists. 25c and 50c. Presbrterianiem tn New York. The recent census shows that while in the city of New York the popula- tion has increased from 1,529,301 in 1890 to 2,050,600 in 1900, there are now only 52 Presbyterian churches in the city, while in 1890 there were 56. Secretary Long keeps on his desk an alarm clock to remind him of his ap- pointments, regarding which he is very particular, If the secretary has en appointment for, say, 5 o'clock, the little timepiece will strike five times at 4:30. . Corning, N. ¥., is in a ferment. Evi- dence against saloon-keepers ‘s pro- duced by taking snapshots of patrons as they are entering or coming out of the saloons. . Buffalo points with pride to its can- cer laboratory @s the first of its kind im the world. It was established and thoroughly equipped two years ago. Comforting ———= tee ‘St Jacobs Oil ONE MILLION LADIES: Send name and address WOMAN'S Se fen geal ee es Siocon acces eB Beal En bee iy RUBEFACIENT mieen Seem “Sletea eee ps pe sate yoo WANTED =< DROPSY wmerentes SS Beck ot -esumentais ant & Pare seatenent Ghe Weekly, ‘Panorama, A Stardy Govern. ere is at least ‘one citizen in the United States who will hereafter re- Dudiate the cynical maxim of Horace Walpole, that “every man. has his Price.” “That man is an Indiana ¢on- tractor who, it ts alleged, attempted to bribe Gov. Longino of Mississippi, one Gay last month. He found, to his gur- Drise and discomftture, that the chief “xecutive of Mississippi is a man who has no price for the bertayal of the trust the people have imposed upon him. The Indiana man, so the story Boes, went to Jackson to try and secure the $1,000,000 contract for erecting the Rew state house. One day he procured Y en AN OT it WS a! SS AX ~f SA HON. A. 3 LONGING & private interview with Gov. Longino. To the governor the man said that he knew the mode of procedure in se- curing a public contract, and then of- fered the chief executive any sum in reason if he would see that the job of building the capitol went to the “man from Indiana.” To this infamous Proposition the governor responded by summoning a policeman, who hauled the seductive Indianian before a judge, where he was placed under heavy bonds for trial on the charge of at- tempted bribery. She Saved a Life. Miss Muriel Wilson, England’s most noted beauty, now enjoys the distinc- ion ‘0e bitag w= heroine ‘ea! well; for abe recently saved an official of the foreign Cece trom a ter rible death. George Clerk, one of the assistants at the foreign office, was Tecently boarding &@ moving train at Doncaster. His foot slipped and his legs fell between the footboard and the platform. With- out a second’s hesi- tation Miss Wilson caught his arms and held h'm up VER. of lh ee ee ee ae Wee until the train stop- ped. Had she let go Mr. Clark would have been crushed to death. Miss Wilson will take part im the most aristocratic amateur theatricals England has seen for a long time. They will be given by the duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth on Jan. 11 and Jan. 14 in aid of charity. A bril- Mant audience, including the prince of ‘Wales, will be present, while the per- formers, besides Miss Wilson, Will have among their number Count Mens- dorff, a cousin of the queen; Lady Maud Warrender and F. B. Mildmay, M. P. - Ble ®a:nred a S¥orm. In a recent lecture before the New- ton club, in Boston, F. Hopkinson Smith, the author, strongly protested against the sentiment conveyed by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Later at his home in New York he stated that the book was a vicious, appalling, criminal mis- take. It gave @ distorted view of the Fa foe hase VS Ca > SopKINSON.SMITH. _ eouth. It made norther= beleve ‘that southerners eee slave. Mr. Smith, who is a soytherner by birth, doesn't believe in siavery, but be believes that the slaveholders should nave been paid for their slaves for their right of property was just as sacred in their negroes as in their gules. Since Mr. Smith delivered his Jecture in“Boston he bas recvived from the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers many letters commending his attitude Pee tae eee ° Bde end the Treaty~ te British goverement under. consideration the . Nicaragua canal treaty presented to it by the United States. 2s was expected, Eng- Iona. bas ttimatd S oe tae cate gos canna ie SET has instructed that : no “trades”..cam: Da_wade,, and da a oF es “as eaters. both Washington end London it is De- SRF OS REESE RS ASRS RFU IR SESE SUSE SUS OSES USES RSA SE SUS OS USERS RS RRS RSRS RARE RISES ESN IRFU SUSU SUSUARSRSRSUSESUSR ; ) F 8 f ) or the Fami 3 All ages hail with delight the coming of the most wonderful, meritorious preparation that will lighten the ills § tof humanity and will do away with the taking of obnoxious, violent purges, inconvenient liquids, and pills that tear f your life out. Simply because in CASCARETS Candy Cathartic you will find just what you want, convenient in ; > form, pleasant of taste (just like candy) and of never-failing remedial action. They have found a place in millions } _ of homes, and are the favorite medicine of the whole family, from baby:to good old grandpa. f Dont be fooled with substitutes for CASCARETS! . ] ) cent | * Tespite—Cincn..o0 Enquirer. at + ‘ng| = a ERE Ea shrv ) .t| Suerte ae [a E Soon oz ee ee bom ee ia eee Elen re | OF , ¥ oe Confiio~ag Emotions. aaa PN . at a a ee Ser D ‘ . . ‘ , ) ° : ; Le Pi BEST FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. THIS IS r rg eo Hey : ag 250. Se , 4 : A , : nas . * (eee) dt] y WHILE YOU SLE NEVER SOLD IN BULK. ad breath. bad blew, wind os the stomach: bie bowels foal mo BETS wesseld. Kow tt is over six miltion be: reer; greater = ' 2 oe oe ee pai ae gare sce x | eae ae eee | Pome rerrgein rr tneeeees Spegabce ears easy Seeiee nr | Mite wth gatehiy eoliew ad row wig Siows tos Ge pee ne pings eee TIME TO Go SOUTH. For tlie present wihter ‘season the Louisville & ‘Nashville Railroad Com- pany has improved its already nearly Derfect through service of Pullman Vestibuled sleeping cars and elegant Gay coaches from Cincinnat!, Louis- Ville, St. Louis and Chicago, to Mo- bile, New Orleans and the Guif coast, Thomasville, Ga., Pensacola, Jackson- Ville, Tampa, Palm Beach and other Points in Florida. Perfect connections made with steamer lines for Cuba, Por- to Rico, Nassau, West Indian and Central American ports. Tourist and home seekers’ excursion tickets on sale at low rates. Write C. L. Stone, Gen- eral Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., for particulars. Sarcar-Bect Market Giutted. On account of so many countries having turned their attention to the cultivation of beets for sugar, the mar- kets of the world are becoming glutted. The European producing lands are Germany, Austria, Russia, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Switzer- land, Italy, Greece and Spain. Persia ig just entering the field, and Egypt 1s realizing that her soil is adapted to the cultivation 6f the beet. Yea Can Get Allen's Foot-Fase Free Write to-day to Alien S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. ¥., 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 cer- tain cur> for Chilblains and Frost-bites. At all druggists and shoe ctores; 25c. SS Mother ‘fan invalid)—“Johnny, don’t you think I ought to punish you for be- ing so bad?” Johnny (aged 5)—“No, mamma. You know the doctor said you was not to indulge in any violent exercise.” Coughing Leads to Consumption. | Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough &t once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 60 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. The London News says that In Eng- land the consumption of tea exceeds that of all other European countries and of the United States together. If you have had Is grippe, a few doses of Garfield Tea will cleanse the system of all impurities and hasten recovery. a The highest churcn steeple in the world is that of the Cathedral of Ant- werp, 476 feet. ‘ Piso's Cure for Consumption fs an infallible Nedicine for coughs snd colds —N. W. SaMUgL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. If a man is able to stand abuse he is able to stand prosperity. You an get rid of gour cold in harry. a . Batt's Gapettor Colds cure colds. | Some Polynesian languages have only seven consonants. We pay 818 a Week BTS OL amsoss, Rawsas. Green crocidolite, or “cats eye,” is found in New Mexico. oldest and best. 1t will break cold quicker So ipais cme. it ts aways reliable. Try ih Merchandise was first admitted to the mails in 1861. Some articles must be described. White's Yucatan needs no description ; it's the real thing. . If a woman's face is a poem it should be a lineless one. : . Remove the causes that make your bair Iifeless and grey with Pamars’s Harm Baisax. ‘HINDEEBOORE'S. Ube best cure for coras. iScts. They who misjudge are apt to be misjudged. DR. GREENE’S NERVURA nervereme: fs the Greatest and Most Positive Cure for Rheumatis the World Has Ever Known. Try It and be convinced of Its wonderful po to cure Rheumatism and Nouraigia. Nothing like it for Headaches, Pain and mess in the Back or Limbs; unrivalled fe Painful Menstruation, cto. HEALTHON? a | ee on bed MRE ESS | Balers " Nee a5 fa a 4 om Be : DR. Seen fee ee oa Mr. T. H. = try Dr. Greene’s Nervura, and e373: 5, consult Dr. Groene, 35 W. 14th o=2""® St., New York Olty, about your § so = ease. Call there or write him. from » coud! This you can do without cost or Eisen __ About the most that can be expected of the girl of the period is that she will try to look pretty. before she leaps.—Detroit Journal. henge Awreannl tag: Andee chip Sons, ot Atianta, Ga. greatest dropsy SS Read their adver- im another column of this paper. A few good misses in the chorus is apt to ald the opera in making a hit. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES pro- duce the fastest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. Ont im New Mexico a woman is a trainmaster on the Southern Pacific. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. ‘Take Laxative Bromo Quivwwe TaBcers. All Grosgista refund the money if it falls to eure, E W. Grove's signature is on the box. fa. It takes two to make an agreement— and a lawyer to get the best of it. Bar. Rest 8S So ComsTOOK 260. Tradera Bolane. CMoAee” A Wonderful Curs of Rheumatism of the many thousands cured by The greatest known cera tor MERVURA. RHEUIMATISAL, Mr. T. H. Roleau, of Essex Janction, Vt., says: “ Forthres years I was terribly afflicted with a most severe case of rhew- aa ee ene aes ee ee ee I was comp. helpless suffered the most horrible agony. “No man in these parts ever suffered as I did. I took everything that I ever heard of, but never found anything Soh Sd ma, Go aighians geod wie I gen the eee De Greene's Nervura nerve remedy. “And now comes the most wonderful part of all. Ins short time this splendid medicine a a i eo It is the best remedy I ever saw or heard of, for it raised me from a condition of utter helplessness and constant agony to health. It saved m: NS ee ee gone. Tess nec euskal il and strong, and I owe my ith and my life to Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy. I advise everybody to use it.” KGREEN DAT x | " 4 ae per TON i ae ear =e edt FEE 82S re me whe Do. Quinta P wesc ‘will petivety make you rich; 18 tous x Mt bay end ecset pa reper acre.so se fl eee ose MERE Wee Se. Psisal wegen a 3 x Wrens rer cond pa ager eed cotany. pJOIN A SALTER SEED Co ASS Caicwd win son’s Eye Water IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED Ree cS scees Bae vara eee peter er s Racehentenn at a Blocg. Chicero, Til or H. T. Holmes, Hoom 4 ‘Sig Four” Building, Indianapolis, W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 5, 1901. we IOs G1 90te Whee Asswetieg Advertisements Aiadly Heation This Faper. a ——— i ial . . GREEN, # l we Nes NERVURA'! (J SSSSSS [teas uarx.] sss BLOOD AND NERVE | | REMEDY. eer FOR THE CURE OF Rerveussess, Vervows Deviity, Weatmen, Peer Deed. | swe maee cimcstieen’ fl ‘RuRsasted Nerves Vitality, Ferrous Presere | Seen cen tome i pecs, Trem bing. Pulse is the aide and i; — i (pas cad Sock Meadecka, De | pepsin, Inflgeecien, Lew = | =e wanvoes srexs OEE RS |" Cadren—Oendall wo © mespocetat ater sack | eter er era te ee, | 2S ey Dr. Greene's Laura Cathartio Pils || ee) f 26 CENTS AT DRVOCIETS. PREPARED BY Dry. RES J. fl.Grecno,, | Mt Chad Medica] Cees end Lederatscin, } t] 6B West 14h 88, ew Tork Crop, (04 Temple Fisen Boston, een PRICE, $1.00. ‘y cpieoERINiT Oe L TRADES | Taner | COUNCIL 3 100 “Shs Wewersarprer LAW. Se viet > = “amy person who takes the paper ‘Tegulcrly from the postoffice, whether ‘be is a subscriber or not, is responsible ‘for the pay. : img to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. Patriotiem and fair play seem to be at a discount in this section. The In- augural Committee which has to say and do for the second inanguration of President McKinley, which takes place the fourth of March of this year hes ignored the colored citizens al- most entirely. On every hand they have been insulted by being wholly ignored. The latest discrimination that has come ts from the Interstate Collegiate Association Committee, a part of the Inaugural Committe, which ‘has invited every college in the United States to send a delegation of young mento participate in the imaugural ceremonies. These invita- tins Hive been sent exclusively to the white colleges. The explanation that it was an oversight which will prob- ably be offered will not hold since the colored people have been ignored ‘im every feature of the inaugural exer- cises.—Ex. ‘The above item of news tells the whole story of the great amourt of love (?) which President McKinley and his party entertain for the Negro and yet there are thousands of silly and shallow-minded Negroes who are ever ready to fall down upon their knees and worship McKinley & Co. as the infallible gods of the universe. ‘While engaged in fishing off Low- stoft recently a fisherman landed in his net a unique piece of amber. It re- sembled a huge pebble, was oblong in shape, weighing eleven pounds four- teen ounces, and is the finest specimen of amber that has been discovered on the English coast for several yeara. it realized $137.50. It is stated that all the coffee con- sumed by Emperor William and his household is sent to him regularly af- ter each harvest from a plantation ia the state of Michoacan, Mexico. The coffee sent to his majesty is put up in silk bags instead of in the ordinary gunny sacks. ‘The cattlemen ars planning a move- ment to hold an annual cattle show at Kansas City, Kan. to be called the “American Royal.” Four breeds of Deef cattle, also hogs, sheep and An- gora goats, will be included. It is thought that the show will win recog- nition for Kansas City as the cattle center of the world. . An electrically lighted clock is a new and useful device for home use. It is Placed within sight of a sleeper’s bed, and when he wishes to learn the time he touches a button at the bedside, and in an tnstant the clock is 6o il- tuminated that he can plainly see the dial. A litUe storage battery suppiies sufficient electricity to last several months Portugal, being in etrained relations with Holland, emerges from obscurity jong enough to get mentioned in for- eign dispatches. A plucky little king- dom! With a home population smaller than that of Pennsylvania and an area less than Kentucky's, she bears rule over African and Asiatic dependencies ‘which contain more than nine million people and cover nearly a million square miles, The British government encourages ‘inventors and scientists by extending @manciai assistance to those whose ‘work is considered of sufficient value to warrant such development. The grants are made through the British Toyal society, and range in value from 350 to $2,500, according to the nature of the invention to be exploited. At the present time the society has im hand $20,000 ready for distribution within the month of January. Tt fe'uaiG that’several of the Euro- pean general staffs are. studying the feasibitity of organizing special corps something after the Boer model. The principal difficulty lies in the limited supply of horses at the command of the various governments, with the ex- ception of Russia. The last equine cen- us im that country is stated to have shown considerably more than 10,000,- 000 horses fit for war purposes. A lively spree was enjoyed a short stime ago by some hogs and geese at the cher mills of William Smith, at Bicom@eld Center, Mich A mass of cherries which had been used to favor ‘brandy, bad been thrown where the ‘hogs.could get it. Geese ad well as ‘hogs stuffed themselves with the cher- ing” in a high ctate of excitement, all comically fuddied. J : Queer advertisements occasionally find their way inte the Irish papers. A recent isspe of a Limerick newspaper ‘ennounces thet “Michsel Ryan begs to inform the public that he bas a large ‘Stock of cara, 1 brakes, eale or hire.” This-is ‘he spme paper which, in 2, description of a fuperai, deci “Mrs. B. of G— sent & ‘Wresth of artificial Modern Sclente is extrimély exact ‘The engineers who have been consid- ering the problems arising out of the Preposed Nicaragua canal provide for & waterway nine inches deeper than the draft of large ocean steamships. The reason is that as fresh water is not 80 dense as the water of the sea, a ves- sel will sink deeper when it enters the canal. Many of the purchases made by the Shah of Persia last summer in Bu- Tope, as well as some of the presents made to him, went to the bottom of the Caspian sea by the sinking of the steamship Vera in a storm. Among them were the eighteen carriages bought in Paris, There is no chance of recovering anything, as the Vera went down in 500 fathoms. In the House the other day, Repre- sentative Dalzell, referring to the French chamber of deputies, said that “if there were a more disgraceful and infamous parliamentary body in exist- ence he would like to know where it was.” If we are to be a “world power” our statesmen will have to learn that one of the essentials of that position is Official good manners toward the other members of world-power society. - The largest tree in Switzerland is to be-found in the Melchthal, perched on the mountain side, at a height of 450 fect. At its base it measures in circumference forty feet. The cir- cumference of its trunk, six feet from the ground, is twemey-six feet, and one Of its branches is four feet in thick- ness. The diameter at the top is eighty-four feet. This mighty giant of the forest shows great signs of age, but is in a perfectly healthy condition. Forty-five thousand dollars in gov- ernment bonds, with the coupons still attached and running back for thirty years, were found recently in a ches! im a hut occupied by Hermit Ypsilant! Smith, who died a few years ago. He had lived near Fletcher, Miam{ coun- ty, O., for forty years, and was not known to have a cent. His mind was deranged years ago by the death of his wife. Pension vouchers untouched for years were also found, amounting to about $3,590. At Sheboygan, Wis., the other day, & Maltese cat took a long ride inside the rim of a fiywheel. The animal Jumped into the wheel at the Plyouth Refrigerator company's plant, and re- mained there two and one-half hours. As the wheel is about thirty-eight feet in circumference, and makes eighty- seven revolutions, in a minute, the cat traveled zt a distance of about ninety- three miles. When the engines were stopped pussy was alive and well ex- cept for a little lameness. One of the most wonderful fish sto- ries of the century is told in the New York Press of Dr. Ralph Smith, a moted surgeon of Jacksonville. While in bathing in surf about up to his ‘waist over on the east coast, a big shark swam between his legs, forcing him to a sitting posture and swimming out to sea with its burden astride. The sensation nearly cost the doctor his hair and whiskers. He declares he was on the shark's back fully half a min- ute. When the monster got in deep water he slid off. Recently published lists of prices charged by prominent portrait-painters remind us that if modern artists take the cash, eighteenth century painters often took their time. Augustus Hare says that Lord Mexborough asked Sir Thomas Lawrence cgain and again to send home the portrait he was doing of Lady Mexborough and her child. “I allow I have been a long time,” re- plied the artist at last, “but if Lady Mexborough will kindly bring the baby and give me another sitting, I really will finish.” “Well, Sir Thomas,” was the answer, “my wife will be happy to give you another sitting whenever you like it, Dut the baby is in the Guards!” ‘The Englishman has found death in his pot of beer. It appears that some of the brewers have been “trating” the national drink with sulphuric acid made from iron pyrites, which con- tains arsenic, and that the poison has passed with the sulphur into the brew- ers’ sugar, a product of starch, in quan- tity sufficient to produce serious con- sequences and wide-spread alarm. Many cases of alcoholic neuritis have Da, Lavetbeel ana Chien, aed Sear ham, Liverpool and , and nearly 800 are reported from the district of Salford alone, of which sixty-one have proved fatal. The growing use of min- eral chemicals, in the preparation of foods as well as of drinks, may thresten civilisation with a new brood of diseases Tt your néarest druggest does not have the Original Ozonised Ox-Marrow he can get it for-you from any whole- sale druggist in the city. It straight- ens kinky hair. Warranted harmiess. Only 50 cents a bottle. The Ozonized Ox-Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chi- cago, Tt WANTED. ; ‘The Broad Ax desires to engage the services of one or two popular young women as collectors, subscription and advertising solicitors. Good salary paid to active workers. Cail or address JULIUS F. TAYLOR, 5010 Armour avenue, eae cS _ - + peewee waren. - ‘The B==<4 Ax Gestres te gesure active ageels nad esrrespemdemts tm all sec- (oss a the country. 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