The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. For City Attorney-Andrew J. Ryan. Democratic Candidate for Alderman of the 1st Ward. It affords us untold pleasure to call the attention of the many readers of The Broad Ax, residing in the new 31st ward, to the candidacy of P. J. Murphy, Esq., who is the regular Democratic nominee for alderman for the two year term. P. P. J MURPHY, The Popular Citizen Candidate for Alderman of the $1st Ward. Mr. Murphy has been a resident of the old or the new $1st ward from his boyhood and he is therefore familiar with all of the leading citizens of the Town of Lake and Englewood. He is known to them as a keen straight- forward business man and extensive property holder and tax-payer. This is the first time in the history of his life that he has sought any political office and if the people residing in the 31st ward desire an honest, faithful servant, one who has ample time to look after their interests and wants, one who will work if elected for the improvement of the western end of the ward, they will certainly not fail if they have at heart the welfare of all the people, to elect Mr. Murphy to represent them in the city council. In case Mr. Murphy has this new honor and trust imposed upon him he promises to be true to his constituency and as we have stated before, to work for the best interests of the ward, to look after the cleaning and improving of its streets and alleys. On the great question of the street railway franchises, his position is sound. He does not favor any grant for a longer period than 20 years, with ample compensation to the city; and in the meantime he is in favor of the city taking such steps as will place the street railways and public utilities under municipal ownership. No aldermanic candidate in the Town of Lake or Englewood, stands any better with or has any more warmer friends among the colored people than P. J. Murphy. In many ways during his business career he has displayed his friendship for the Afro-Americans and a great majority of them residing in the 31st ward, are laboring in the interest of the candidacy of Mr. Murphy, and they believe that he will be selected as a member of the new city council. The Second Ward, ordinarily Republican, is more than likely to return a Democrat to the City Council at the coming election. Joseph M. Wineman, the nominee of the party, is a popular and well-known citizen of the ward, a native of Chicago and thoroughly identified with the interests of the city. He will receive not only the full party vote but also a very large proportion of the Republican vote of the ward. Mr. Wineman is 29 years old and his candidacy is hailed with delight by the younger element in the ward. Mr. Wineman is engaged in the real estate business at 189 La Salle street. He has many customers and friends among the colored people, and many of them will vote for him next Tuesday. Friday evening last the Old Hickory Club, 5824 Wentworth avenue, entertained its members and friends in royal style. Frank J. Corr, its Grand Sachem, presided with much grace. Ham sandwiches, liquid refreshments and cigars were served. William Herold, Charles Nielsen, P. J. Murphy, candidates for aldermen of the 51st ward; Dan, Morgan Smith, Jr., Congressman John J. Feely, S. H. Haddock, B. C. Evans and Julius F. Taylor, were the speakers of the evening. Tim Tobin the policeman, Ben, Ferris and Hal, Lapitre furnished the vocal and instrumental music. Henry O. Tanner, the Negro artist will be employed this year by The Ladies' Home Journal.—Ex. D. W. M. MAYOR CARTER H. HARRISON AND THE COLORED PEOPLE. Before The Broad Ax again makes its appearance the great political battle or contest for the control of this city will have been fought and won and the signs of the times all potend that Mayor Car- MAYOR CARTER Who Will Commence His Duties as on and after April 3. ter H. Harrison will put to flight Judge Hanecy; Bishop Perry A. Hull, Deacon Edward H. Morris, ex-Congressman Bill Lorimer & Co. and that after April 2, this brilliant aggregation of would-be statesmen will commence their sail up Salt River. The campaign as conducted by the republicans has been one of mud-slinging, villification and misrepresentation. No stone has been left unturned by the adherents of that party to bring reproach and discredit upon Mayor Harrison and his administration. Knowing these things and the methods which the republicans have resorted to for the purpose of accomplishing their object, the great mass of the voters of Chicago, including many thousands of its best Colored citizens, have fully made up their minds and are determined to cast their lot with Mayor Harrison and march on to victory with him. Many times the question has been asked us, whether or not the Colored voters that is the thinking ones, are still inclined to accord their support to the mayor and we have very promptly responded yes, for his conduct in the past two years toward them has not been such to cause them to desert him at the time he needs their support. His Colored ad- If you vote for William Loeffler it means you are in favor of an honest City Clerk. More than 1,400 Colored men are employed in the steel mills in the vicinity of Youngstown, Niles and Warren, O. The Hon. Thomas Gahan, member of the Democratic National Committee has returned home from Hot Springs, Ark., much improved in health. Mr. Frank Roberts and son are the only Afro-American contractors in Western Maryland who are professional in their line.—Ex. Walter T. Stanton, attorney for the Town of Lake, so far has looked after the interests of the tax-payers in good shape, and he ought to be re-appointed to the same position. Martin J. Murphy, the present Republican Collector for the Town of Lake is making an active canvass in all portions of the Town and he says, "He feels sure of his re-election." Herman Stolze, the Democratic candidate for Assessor for the Town of Lake, is of the opinion that the entire Town ticket will pull through next Tuesday. Paddy Ryan, Democratic candidate for County Constable, is making friends every day and we believe that he will be re-chosen as one of the good constables of Cook County. Mr. Thomas Byrne and family, after spending the winter in sunny Texas, have returned to the city and they are now at home to their many warm friends at 900 Gerfield boulevard. mirers still have it fresh in their minds that over one hundred Colored men are at the present time employed by Mayor Harrison's administration, that none received any recognition under gimlet, Bull Swift's administration. That only twenty Colored men hold cheap minor posi- H. HARRISON. Mayor of Chicago for the Third Time tions under the republican county administration. This fact alone will cause many Colored voters to brand Judge Hanecy & Co. as falsifiers and hypocrites. Moreover, they still remember that Carter H. Harrison Sr., father of the present mayor, was the first to recognize the political worth of the Negro. He was the first to appoint Colored bridgetenders and to place a young Colored woman in the Public library and to organize a fire company among the Colored people, which is still in existence and as his son, the gallant mayor of Chicago, is following in the footsteps of his illustrious father in this same respect, he can rest assured that he is still held in high esteem by the Afro-Americans of this city and that they will be found next Tuesday working and fighting for his re-election. It is therefore our firm opinion and honest conviction, that if the other followers of Mayor Harrison will do as well and work as zealously as his Afro-American admirers that victory will perch upon the banner of Democracy. That Carter H. Harrison will on the 3d day of April enter upon his new duties as Mayor of Chicago. Alderman Patrick Morris, 19th ward, will have a walkaway next Tuesday, and those who thought otherwise will after that date learn that we are stating that which is true. Alderman Charles Werno entertains no doubt of his re-election to the council from the ward which he has so ably represented for the past two years. Alderman John Minwegan sleeps with one eye open all the time and there is not a member of the city council, who is as anxious to please their constituency as Alderman Minwegan. Frank J. Lehr, head guy of the Town of Lake resort, 117 South Clark street, celebrated his 44th birthday Wednesday, and all who frequented the Town of Lake resort on that date did not have to pay anything for their refreshments. Mrs. Agatha Clara Willis, first nurse on the Confederate side during the civil war and the first white woman to teach a Negro school South of the Mason and Dixon line, is trying hard to keep from starving by sewing.—Ex. Tuesday evening the Central Democratic club of the 30th ward held a good meeting at their headquarters, 436 W. 47th street and it was addressed by exAlderman McInerney; Jas. Wilson Thompson, James H. Harris, Julius F. Taylor and Frank Emerick. Albert H. Putney, president of the club, very ably presided The hall was filled from fore to aft and all the speakers were well received by those who turned out to listen to the gavel of Democracy. --- In the electric cars and railway waiting rooms of many cities the boards of health have posted notices, forbidding, under heavy penalties, the unwholesome and nauseous practice of spitting on the floors. But have the authorities ever looked into a smoking car? The honor of being made an early cost Lord Roberts, as it costs every new-made peer of high degree, thousands of dollars in fees. Nevertheless, hosts of Englishmen, and probably not a few plain American citizens who esteem themselves—while not under temptation—good republicans, would gladly pay the price. The municipal government of St. Petersburg has appointed a commission to study the question of sanitary workingmen's homes. The city, with its marshy surroundings and its liability to overflows, is regarded as unhealthy at best. The evil is aggravated by the use of the poor of rooms beneath the overflow line. The sound of the woodsman's ax may soon be a thing of the past. In the forest of Potter county, Pa., a machine is to be tested which is claimed to be capable of peeling bark, cutting down trees and then transforming them into logs. After being fastened to a tree the machine will peel it from the ground to the branches, then cut it down and saw it into the required lengths. Boys who "work their way" through college often hit upon odd ways of turning an honest penny. Girls in similar circumstances also appear to be resourceful. Several Radcliffe students are earning their college expenses, or a part of them, by tending bables. They receive from twenty-five to fifty cents an hour, and are acquiring information not obtainable through the regular curriculum. Five years ago when Alonzo Whiteman of Williamsport, Penn., died, his family was surprised at the smallness of his fortune. They were sure he had more money, but could not tell where, a few days ago, Charles Whiteman, a son, was rummaging about the attic of his home, when, in the secret apartment of an old trunk, he found, tied up with red tape, a package of government bonds, to the amount of $40,000, evidently placed there by his father. Other holidays commemorate events of the past; Arbor day speaks for posterity. John Frederick Oberlin, the famous Alsatian pastor, would not permit the peasant boys and girls to come to communion until they had planted at least two trees in their rock-strewn valley. Had the great educator of a century ago lived on the present site of Chicago the university of that city might not to-day be paying $5,000 for transplanting a single row of big elm-trees on its campus. The British foreign office, it is said, is not disturbed by the speeches made in the senate on the Nicaragua canal question. "They are dismissed with the remark that treaties cannot be abrogated without the consent of both the contracting parties." "Cheer up," said the lawyer to his client; "they can't put you in jail for that." "Maybe they can't," replied the victim through the bars, "but they have." Whether treaties "can" be abrogated or not, we know of one that will be. The municipal council of the little French town of Corteuil in discussing an ordinance forbidding the wearing of tall silk hats within its borders. The "stovepipe" is condemned in the argument of the advocates of the ordinance as a "ridiculous headgear," which by reason of its costliness constitutes a badge of social superiority, and is, therefore, humiliating to those who never wear it. The tall hat, reformers declare, "is used only by aristocrats who live and grow fat on the sweat of the poor." The University of Chicago is said to have been chosen as one of the nine institutions which will select the candidates for the Noebel prizes. The other eight are the Universities of Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Rome, Leydon, London, Paris and Zurich. M. Noebel was a Swedish millionaire, who left a large legacy for prizes to the greatest benefactors of humanity. The prizes go to the greatest discoverers in physical science, chemistry and psychology; also to the author of the greatest literary work of idealism and to the greatest promoter of peace. In some parts of western Pennsylvania rabbits are doing much damage to orchard trees. It is no doubt useless to remind the two men as there is between day and readers of The Broad Ax as to the im-night and the people remembering the portance of electing a capable city clerk vast difference between these two can- and as everyone is perfectly aware ofdidates for city clerk, therefore we D. A. H. Thomas Tobin, Democratic candidate for Collector of the Town of Lake, is waging a red-hot fight in behalf of the whole ticket, and he is of the impression that nothing can prevent the onward tide of Democracy. M. P. Byrne, Esq., the big contractor, will in the near future engage in the manufacture of fireproof and common brick. Mr. Byrne says "that Fred. A. Hart will be elected to the city council from the 29th ward." Nowhere perhaps does the Colored population outnumber the white more largely than in the delta section of Mississippi, yet no charge of criminal assaults is ever brought from here against the Negro, is the observation of a prominent white business man of the section. County Constable S. R. Smalley, who is connected with Justice John Fitzgerald's court, 4737 South Halsted street is again seeking the same position from the hands of the voters and The Broad Ax would like to see S. R. Smalley re-elected constable, for he is clean and honest. Al F. Gorman, who has for the past year conducted the affairs pertaining to the office of supervisor of the Town of Lake with rare judgment and extraordinary ability, entertains no doubt of his re-endorsement at the polls for the same office by the people residing in the Town of Lake. James J. Gray, member of the Board of Assesors of Cook ciunt, is one of the hardest workers within the ranks of the Democratic Party and he is also one of its shrewdest leaders. Mr. Gray feels cock sure that Mayor Carter H. Harrison will be re-elected by a larger majority than he had before. Mr. Zola C. Green, head of the Columbia feather Co. "Permit me to say that your address on The Life and Times of James Madison,' was read by Mrs. Green and myself with much interest and we are both gratified to note that The Broad Ax does not fail to hew to the line. The Broad AX especially urges upon its Afro-American readers as well as its other readers residing in the Third Ward to register their votes on the day of the election in favor of Samuel N. Hoffheimer, who is a true friend of the plain or the laboring people and Mr. Hoffheimer is just the man the people living in the Third Ward need to represent them in the City Council. Deaf mutes are on the increase in Germany. There are no fewer than 6,458 persons in institutions where deaf mutes are specially instructed. WILLIAM LOEFFLER. ALDERMAN JAMES J. McCORMICK Ex-Alderman John M. Harlan made a grand entry into Alderman McCormick's pasture field last week and the way the late republican candidate for mayor kicked up the dust and mud one was almost persuaded to believe that he had succeeded in dealing Alderman McCormick a knockout blow, but since mr Harlan's departure from the fifth ward the clouds have rolled away. The sun has come forth from its hiding place; men and women still live and die, and the hand work of the gods are still visible everywhere. All these things being true Alderman McCormick still believes O. that notwithstanding all the smoke, wind and bluster which ex-Alderman Marlan kicked up with his long heels, that he will not be called upon to surrender his seat in the city council. Japan has greatly increased her cavalry in the last few years, and still more recently added nearly forty field batteries to her artillery, and as the country itself produces no horses suitable for this purpose, the necessity for importing them is urgent The removal of a man's veins would seem an impossible operation. A New Orleans man's subveinous veins from his groin down stood out like whippcords, were immensely swollen, and gave him intense pain. An operation was finally resorted to, and the veins were all successfully removed, leaving only the arteries. The other day a man made a tour of the diamond houses in Maiden Lane, New York, with a pair of diamond earrings, for which he had paid twenty years ago $700. In all but two places the stones were pronounced faultless, but cut in an old fashioned style, and the highest offer he received anywhere for them was $150. much difference as to the fitness of the two men as there is between day and night and the people remembering the vast difference between these two candidates for city clerk, therefore we FLER. had, and he will serve the people as city period of two years. honestly believe that they will not waver as to their duty in this respect, which means that they will reward Mr. Loeffler for faithful services rendered in the past, by re-electing him to his present position. THE BROAD AX. Will presidents and at all times uphold the two principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Liberals, Protestants, Knights of Lobos, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Primes, or any other can have their say, no long on their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Downed Ax is a newspaper where platform is bound enough for all, ever claiming the moral right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; the only on one side of the moon. No Year.....$1.00 Month.....1.00 Providing times made known on application. Often all communications to The last annual silk crop of China was estimated at 21,000,000 pounds weight. Of this total more than 60 per cent is consumed in China. In the electric cars and railway waiting rooms of many cities the boards of health have posted notices, forbidding, under heavy penalties, the unwholesome and nauseous practice of spitting on the floors. But have the authorities ever looked into a smoking car? The honor of being made an earl cost Lord Roberts, as it costs every new-made peer of high degree, thousands of dollars in fees. Nevertheless, hosts of Englishmen, and probably not a few plain American citizens who esteem themselves—while not under temptation—good republicans, would gladly pay the price. The municipal government of St. Petersburg has appointed a commission to study the question of sanitary workingmen's homes. The city, with its marshy surroundings and its liability to overflows, is regarded as unhealthy at best. The evil is aggravated by the use of the poor of rooms beneath the overflow line. William Dickerson, an engineer, living at Chelsea, Miss., is the moving spirit in an organization of fifty or sixty men and women of that part of the state who say they are descendants of Oliver Cromwell, and as such entitled to a share in the division of more than $25,000,000, which, they have been assured, has been lying for generations in the Bank of England. The sound of the woodsman's ax may soon be a thing of the past. In the forest of Potter county, Pa., a machine is to be tested which is claimed to be capable of peeling bark, cutting down trees and then transforming them into logs. After being fastened to a tree the machine will peel it from the ground to the branches, then cut it down and saw it into the required lengths. Boys who "work their way" through college often hit upon odd ways of turning an honest penny. Girls in similar circumstances also appear to be resourceful. Several Radcliffe students are earning their college expenses, or a part of them, by tending babies. They receive from twenty-five to fifty cents an hour, and are acquiring information not obtainable through the regular curriculum. Five years ago when Alonzo Whiteman of Williamsport, Penn., died, his family was surprised at the smallness of his fortune. They were sure he had more money, but could not tell where, a few days ago, Charles Whiteman, a son, was rummaging about the attic of his home, when, in the secret apartment of an old trunk, he found, tied up with red tape, a package of government bonds, to the amount of $48,000, evidently placed there by his father. Other holidays commemorate events of the past; Arbor day speaks for posterity. John Frederick Oberlin, the famous Alsatian pastor, would not permit the peasant boys and girls to come to communion until they had planted at least two trees in their rock-strewn valley. Had the great educator of a century ago lived on the present site of Chicago the university of that city might not-to-day be paying $5,000 for transplanting a single row of big elm trees on its campus. The British foreign office, it is said, is not disturbed by the speeches made in the senate on the Nicaragua canal question. "They are dismissed with the remark that treaties cannot be abrogated without the consent of both the contracting parties." "Cheer up," said the lawyer to his client; "they can't put you in jail for that." "Maybe they can't," replied the victim through the bar, "but they have." Whether treaties "can" be abrogated or not, we know of one that will be. An application to congress for an appropriation of 210,000 has been made by Secretary Hay as a preliminary step to the entertainment in Washington next December of the international congress which considers the protection of patents, trade-marks and other industrial properties of a similar nature. An article of the convention concluded in Paris in 1883 provides for the periodical revision of the agreement. The last conference was held last December in Brussels. The arrangements for the conference include the gathering from the various parties to the convention and the distribution of the suggestions for amendments, all of which must be completed at least six months before the meeting. ANDREW J. RYAN. The Pre-Eminent Lawyer, Highly Est eemed and Next City Attorney of Chi J. RYAN. eemed and Worthy Citizen and the ney of Chicago. 1910 The Pre-Eminent Lawyer, Highly Est eemed and Worthy Citizen and the Next City Attorney of Chicago. has in every way proven himself worthy of the confidence which the people reposed in him. The story of Mr.Ryan 's life is one which should kindle the fires of ambition in the hearts of all boys and cause them to use their best endeavors to climb upward. He is to the manner born a Chicagoan, for he first saw the light of day in this city in 1869. He received his education in its public schools and at an early age he started public library board. He is aRegent of the Illinois Council, Royal Arcanum, and member of the Knights of Columbus. He is also prominently identified with other social and political clubs and societies. His high standing in this respect and great influence caused the managers of his party to turn to him in 1899 as the one most fitted to make the race for City Attorney. He was nominated and elected by a large majority. Upon assuming the duties of the office Mr. Ryan wasted no time in instituting many needed reforms in the conduct of its affairs and there is scarcely a lawyer, tax-payer or property holder within the limits of Chicago who, if they are honest with themselves, but will admit that Mr. Ryan as City Attorney has far surpassed his predecessors and that he is without a doubt one of the best city attorneys that Chicago has ever had. He is civil and corteous to the rich and poor, high and low, white and black, and the opinion prevails in all sections of Chicago that the people will not for one minute overlook these facts—that they will re-elect by an overwhelming majority Andrew J. Ryan as City Attorney of this the Queen City of the middle west. For many years he was a member of the Board of Education before the Town of Lake was annexed to Chicago and before he became a member of the board all the school teachers were outsiders, and when he left it all the school teachers belonged to the Town HAEL McINERNEY, ity Council from the 30th Ward. EX-ALDERMAN MIC HAEL Mel who will be returned to the City Council 10 of Lake. He served his town in other official positions and he was elected to the legislature of this state, which sent Gen. John M. Palmer to the United States Senate. During that memorable contest the managers of some of the senatorial candidates were offering $500 to $10,000 for the votes of the members of that law-making body. But Mr.McInerney spurned those bribes aside and refused to touch the boodle, and if according to the municipal Republican touching voters league, Mr. McInerney is a boodler, in that case he did not display ```markdown ``` --- ANDREW J. BYAN Two years ago the electorate of Chicago honored Andrew J. Ryan, who is an ideal citizen, an eminent lawyer, with the election as City Attorney, and during the intervening time Mr. Ryan has in every way proven himself worthy of the confidence which the people reposed in him. The story of Mr.Ryan 's life is one which should kindle the fires of ambition in the hearts of all boys and cause them to use their best endeavors to climb upward. He is to the manner born a Chicagoan, for he first saw the light of day in this city in 1869. He received his education in its public schools and at an early age he started out on his public career as a cash or errand boy for Marshall Field & Co. In time he became connected with the extensive music firm of Lyon & Healy, who soon observed that he was bright and keen. Consequently he was advanced to the responsible and trying position of credit man for the firm and while so serving he employed his leisure time in preparing himself for the practice of his profession, the law, and from the day that he passed the examination with flying colors he met with extraordinary success in the legal world. In 1894 Mr. Ryan was chosen as attorney for the West Town and it can be said with great credit to him that he discharged the duties of that trust fearlessly, honestly and conscientious- EX-ALDERMAN MICHAEL McINER- NEY. Very few men in Chicago have been before the public to the same extent as ex-Alderman Michael McInerney who will again occupy his seat in the city council from the 30th ward after next Tuesday. Very few men in the Town of Lake have had as varied a career as Mr. McInerney who has risen up from the common herd or the plain people, and by reason of this fact thousands of his fellow townsmen have always been willing to fight and die for him for they have always greatly admired him for his plain blunt way of speaking and by remaining close with those who work in the lower ranks or pit politically speaking his influence and hold upon the people who know him best has been something wonderful. Consequently he has served and represented them in many ly and none who have succeeded him have left behind them a record untarnished for fair dealing like Mr. Ryan. Mr. Ryan stands high in the social and political walks of life. For a number of years he was a member of the capacities. any boodling proclivities. This same Republican aggregation, known as the Municipal League, have on many occasions attempted to link ex-Alderman McInerney with the aldermen who favored voting away all the rights of the city in favor of the railway traction companies, while he was a member of the city council. But if any one will take the trouble to familiarize themselves with the ordinance which Mr. McInerney favored, relative to the traction companies, they will find that in the long run, if adopted, it would have been far more beneficial to the tax-payers and property holders in general than several other measures of a similar character, which seemingly have met with the approval of the so-called silk-stocking element. Mr. McInerney stands ready and willing to debate his position on the franchise question with any one whom the Municipal Voters League may select to pit against him. Like Alderman Charles J. Boyd, Mr. McInerney stands O. K. with the colored people, they have always found him truthful and when he promises to do them a favor he keeps his word and hundreds of them will remember him by marking an $ \times $ right up by his name, for they as well as The Broad Ax, feel confident that he will be the next alderman from the 30th ward. ROYALTIES FOR PLAYS. "The Charity Ball" costs $300 a week. "An American Citizen," royalty for one week, costs $500. That clever play "The Butterflies" costs $200 and "The Young Wife" $150. "Sweet Lavender" is worth $250 a week, while "Hoodman Blind" is pleased at $125. "Trilby" can be had for $250 per week, while there are half a dozen "Nell Gwynnes" at $100 a week. "The Dancing Girl" averages from $300 to $500 a week, while E. M. Royle's play, "Friends," costs $150 a week. For the use of "Liberty Hall" from 10 to 15 per cent of the gross receipts is exacted, with a guarantee of at least $400. A farce comedy like "Why Smith Left Home" requires $200 a week to get it, while the melodrama "The Fatal Card" demands $100. In the west Howard & Doyle occupy about the same position and they in some instances control the absolute rights to several plays. "The Great Ruby" costs 16 per cent of the gross receipts on the first $4,000 and 21 per cent on the next $2,000, with a bonus of from $250 to $500. "The Prisoner of Zenda" has cost as high as $750 for its use for a single week and one stock company is said to have paid as high as $1,000 for it. It requires 10 per cent of the gross receipts to obtain "The Sporting Duchess a week and a similar amount for the use of "Little Lord Fauntleroy." "The Moth and the Flame" wants 10 per cent of the gross receipts, with a guarantee of $300, while "A Gilded Fool" is satisfied with 10 per cent of the gross. No doubt the largest dealer in play for stock companies is Alice Kauser, who acts as agent for these pieces, collate the royalties and for her services receives a liberal commission. In instances where box office statements are required to figure up percentages she has experts at work to cover that detail. Of some of the other plays, "Hazel Kirke" costs $150; "Men and Women" $300; "A Bachelor's Romance" $300; "Jim the Penman" $150; "A Fair Rebel" $100; "The Ensign" $150; "The District Attorney" $150; "Diplomacy" $200; "The Countess Valeska" $300; "Paul Kauvar" $200, and "White Heather" 10 per cent of the receipts. The cost of the above pieces must be weekly added to the salary list of the companies, and that is probably why a great many stock companies are not such a profitable investment—Dramatic News. LITERARY NOTES. Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.—A. B. Alcott. If the reader desires a surfeit of sweetness somewhat like that of the clerks in a candy store he (or she) could not do better than to read the much-talked-of book, "An Englishman's Love Letters." Nothing expires sooner than a worthless book. How quietly the Della Cruscans died! Gently as a sigh the Minerva novels! And noiselessly as ghosts, however trumpeted and applauded, will the army, which no man can number, of stupid authors, walk into oblivion, each happily with his books under his arms.—Alexander Smith. In "The Sky Pilot" Ralph Connor has told a story well worth the telling. It introduces the reader at once to the breezy foothills of the great west and to the characters that in these days are usually to be found on the outskirts of civilization—rough, adventurous, with some bad qualities and many good ones, if you are only able to discover the latter. Louis How, the young man who wrote that very artistic and entertaining story, "The Penitentes," is a grandson of the late Captain Eads, the famous engineer. Mr. How's home is St. Louis, and when there he and the author of "Richard Carvel" are seen much together. It is said they are congenial in everything except their literary likings. Hold on to your hand when you are about to strike, steal or do any improper act. Hold on to your good name at all times, for it is much more valuable to you than gold. UNDER THE SNOW. Ghastly Truths Revealed on the Disap- pearance of Winter's White Mantle. Lumber Notice. On and after January 1, 1901, we will sell direct to contractors, consumers or any other parties desiring to buy lumber, lath, shingles or any kind of building material, saving them a middleman's profit. Send in your lists for estimates. Correspondence promptly answered. JOHN E. BURNS LUMBER COMPANY, LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES MONROE 241, MONROE 290. 40 W. Chicago Av. CHICAGO, ILL. PISO'S CURE FOR WHICH WORK ALL DIE TALK. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by discount. CONSUMPTION RARE BARGAINS 1175 acres all Chehalis river bottom land; no better in Western Washington; one mile from town of Centarilla, on main line N.P. railroad between Tacoma and Portland; part time if desired. W. J. Trotter, Centarilla, Wash. It is a remarkable fact that the chameleon, when blindfolded, loses the power to change its hues, and the ent...e body remains of a uniform tint. If You Have Rheumatism Send no money, but write Dr. Shoop, Rasine, Win., box 160, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Care, express paid. If cured pay $5.50; if not it is free. Seventy dollars was paid in London the other day for a copy of Franklin's "Cicero," Philadelphia, 1744. Now that the Winter season is past, it is well to cleanse the system and purify the blood with Garfield Tea—an Herb Medicine good for all. The extensive and valuable resources of Louisiana will be exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on the box. 25c. Canada's exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition will occupy a space of about 3,000 square feet. WANTED—Men with rig to advertise and introduce Monarch Poultry Mixture. Straight salary $15.00 weekly and expenses. Address with stamp, Monarch Manufacturing Co., Box 699, Springfield, Illinois. The biggest logs in the Western Hemisphere will be seen at Buffalo this summer. Thirty minutes is all the time required to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. People who have the least to say usually have the most to talk about. We thank you for trying Wizard Oil for rheumatism or neuralgia, then you will thank us. Ask your druggist. We can forgive a good many things in people that can make us laugh. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Remember, woman is most perfect, when most womanly.—Gladstone. DON'T EXPERIMENT With your health. Use Batt's Caps for Colds. Prompt cure guaranteed. 25c at druggists. If a man has crow's feet about his eyes there must be some caws. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The way of the transgressor often leads to foreign shores. Cos's Cough Balsam is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable. Try it. At a certain age a man is so much the better for being bad. The Best Laundry Soap. is Maple City Self Washing Soap. Just try it and see. All grocers sell it. Yawning in company is a beneficent natural exercise. Baseball players; Golf players; all play- ers chew White's Yucatan whilst playing. The Berlin Women's club has 205 members. UNDER TH Chastly Truths Reve pearance of Wint Deadly dangers lurk in the ground left bare by the departing snow. All winter long there have been accumulating deadly disease germs. These have been protected and kept alive by the covering of snow and now, with the first warm days, these deathbringing microbes are awakened by the rays of the sun, and as the ground dries they are carried to all corners of the community in the dust that is blown everywhere by the spring winds The human body at this time is particularly susceptible to these germs, especially the germs of fevers. The system has been depleted by the foregoing winter. The blood is sluggish and filled with impurities. The nerves have not recovered from the tension they have been under for the past months. The stomach, the bowels, the kidneys, the liver are all at their worst. It is therefore, not strange that these germs of disease find fertile ground in which to thrive, flourish and develop into deadly ills. Spring is the time of year when one should fear an attack of fever, especially when the system is depleted, one should dread any severe illness. The vitality is at a low ebb. There is less power of resistance to throw off disease, and it is on this account that fatalities are so much greater during the spring months than at any other time of the year. There is but one way to ward off such dangers, and that is to fortify the Lumber On and after Janu sell direct to contract any other parties lumber, lath, shing, building material, o dleman's profit. Sen estimates. Correspondence p If you are dangerously sick what is the first duty of your physician? He quiet the nervous system, he deadens the pain, and you sleep well. Friends ask, "what is the cause?" and the answer comes in pitying tones, nervous prostration. It came upon you so quietly in the beginning, that you were not alarmed, and when sleep deserted you night after night until your eyes fairly burned in the darkness, then you tossed in nervous agony praying for sleep. A. B. MRS. A. HARTLEY. You ought to have known that when you ceased to be regular in your courses, and you grew irritable without cause, that there was serious trouble somewhere. You ought to know that indigestion, exhaustion, womb displacements, fainting, dizziness, headache, and backache send the nerves wild with affright, and you cannot sleep. Mrs. Hartley, of 221 W. Congress St. Chicago, Ill., whose portrait we publish, suffered all these agonies, and was entirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; her case should be a warning to others, and her cure carry conviction to the minds of every suffering woman of the unfailing efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. SEND NO MONEY If you live within 600 miles of Minne- apolis if farther send $1.00. cut this ad. out and send to us and we will send you this END TO THE BROADCAST SEEDER by freight C.O.D. amination. You can examine it at your freight pot, and if found perfectly satisfactory, exactly at double the price, then pay the freight agent $7.75 OUR SPECIAL OFFER PRICE..... $9.15 and freight charges or less $1.10 if sent with order. The seeder weighs about 100 pounds and the freight will average 60 for each 100 miles. OUR SPECIAL $5.75 PRICE is based on the actual cost of manufacture, is less than dealers can buy in carload lots. This is the Highest Grade End Gate Broadcast Seeder made. Made for us under contract by the best maker in America. Made from the very best materials that money can buy. Will sow more evenly and most satisfactorily than any other seeder made. Will sow 100 acres of wheat per day, other seeds at proportional rates. Very Latest Model for 1801. Embodies ever improvement every good point of every other brood. Free Agricultural Implement Catalogue. Addressee: P. M. BORNERTS SUPPLIER HOUSE, Minneapolis. THE SNOW.aled on the Disap-er's White Mantle. human body so that it will become impregnable to the germs of invading disease. To do this take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It will build you up quickly, it will re-establish your waning appetite, it will give you restful nights of sleep, it will give vim and vigor to the nerves, and it will dispel all existing poisons that have accumulated in the body besides counteracting the effects of others that may accumulate. Following is an instance that will illustrate the wonderful power of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. Sheriff Jonas T. Stevens, who is sheriff of Hyde Park, Vt., says: "I have used Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy especially as a blood purifier. I had a very severe humor on my arms, accompanied by a very bad itching, so severe that I could not sleep nights, causing me great inconvenience by the loss of sleep by the itching. A friend advised me to take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, which I did with the most satisfactory results, for the trouble has entirely disappeared, and I can now rest comfortably nights and have none of my former misery from the burning, itching sensations." Remember Dr. Greene's advice will be given to any one desiring same absolutely free if they will write or call upon him at his office, 35 W. 14th St., New York City. Notice. THE BROAD AX. < PUmaatED WEEE, me payin To Seen ins we Slee z Gaeee = eeEscalrricus (advance): SS -— ooeaeseee THE BROsD 2x, ($080 Amsous Avarvs Cxrosse, ‘POLIVS PF. TAYLOR, Beiter and Peblishes, Lona eo net ‘was estimated at 21,000,006 weight. Of this total more than 60 eer cent is consumed in China ‘Iu ‘the’ electric cars and railway ‘waiting rooms of many cities the Noards of health hare posted notices, ‘orbidding, under heavy penalties, the ‘anwholessme and nauseous practice of spitting on the floors. But have the euthorities ever looked into a amoking ear? ‘The honor of being made an earl cost Lord Roberts, as it, costs every mew-made peer of high degree, theu- sands of dollars in fees. Nevertheless, hosts of Englishmen, and probably Rot a few plain American citizens who esteem themselves—while not under temptation—good republicans, would Siadly pay the price. “ The municipal government of 8 Petersburg has appointed e commis- sion to study the question of sanitary ‘workingmen’s homes. The city, with tts marshy surroundings and its lie- ‘Dility to overfiows, is regarded as un- healthy at best. The evil is aggravat- ed by the use of the poor of rooms be- Beath the overfiow line. William Dickerson, an engineer, liv- ing at Chelsea, Mifss., is the moving epirit in an organization of fifty or sixty men and women of that part of the state who say they are descendants et Oliver Cromwell, and as such en- titled to a share in the division of mere than $25,000,000, which, they have been assured, has been lying for generations in the Bank of England. _be‘Gound of the woodsman’s ax ‘Wy Soon de a thing of the past. In ‘the forest of Potter county, Pa, a ma- hina is to be tested which is claimed ‘te betapable of peeling bark, cutting Gown trees and then transforming them into logs. After being fastened to 2 tree the machine will peel it from the ground to the branches, then cut it down and saw it into the required ‘Vengths, Boys who “work their way” through eoliege often hit upon odd ways of frning an honest penny, Girls in similar circumstances also appear to bbe resourceful, Severa] Radcliffe stu- @ents are earning their college ex- penses,.or a part of them, by tending DRabies. They receive from twenty-five to fifty cents an hour, and are acquir- tag = information not obtainable through the regular curriculum. Five years ago when Alonzo White- man of Williamsport, Penn., died, his family was surprised at the smallness of bis fortune. They were sure he had more . money, but could not tell Where, a few days ago, Charles White- mhn, 2 som, was rummaging about the ‘ettic of his home, when, in the secret qpartment of an old trunk, he found, ‘Ged up with red tape, a package of @evernment bonds, to the amount of 940,000, evidently placed there by bis Other holidays commemorate events of the past; Arbor day speaks for pos- terity. John Frederick Oberlin, the fa- mous. Alsatian pastor, would not per- art the peasant boys and girls to come ¢ communion until they had planted at least two trees in their rock-strewn valley. Had the great educator of a euntary ago lived on the present site of Chicago the university of that city transplenting « single row of big elm- ‘The British foreign office, tt is said, is not disturbed by the speeches made tm the senate on the Nicaragua canal q@estion. “They are Giumissed with the remark thst treaties cannot be abrogated without .-+.consent of both ‘he contracting parties.” “Cheer up.” <aid the lawyer to his client; “they ‘wnt put you in jail for that.” ““May- be they can't,” replied the victim Through the ‘bara, “Dut they have.” or not, we know of one that will.te 4m application to congress for an appropriation of $10,060 bas bean made by Georstery Hay as « oreliminary etep to the entertainment in Wash- ington next December of the interna- tional congress which considers the protection of patents, trade-marks and otber industria? properties of a simi- jar mature. An article of the conven- tion concinded in Paris in 1833 pro- vides for the periodical revision of the agreement The iast conference was aS eee ee ‘The arrangements for evnference {n- einde the gathering frova the various parties to the convention and the dis- enna <a oeoe nent be oo SS ee Cite Z Seeger cae Se Be Sah eS a : eee oe ee - Be eg pee ee sae ae eae E oe eee ee ee Sas 2 See aS ae ubaaaiearees fale se eae oS = ee SS Be 7 => 7, =e Saas. Bs é ta a : THES ae eee =. ae Seer aes pee 3 3 os Seer “Sat : aie 1=eee anc nuee peo et eee Me nee aoa ape ae ae oe 2) BE “a 4 ANDREW J. RYAN. ‘The Pre-Eminent Lawyer, Highly Est eemed and Worthy Citizen and the Next City Attorney of Chicago. PY ae ee er car ; i i -. = : : 4 22 : i ae oe eee Spiele eae = E pee eee 2S pete rae b. sie ee al Fs , a a ag es a 5 = oe ' fa ? ; i ) F : | ca : 3 C i who will be returned to the City Council from the 30th Ward. ANDREW J. RYAN. Our Next City Attorney. - Two years ago the electorate of Chi- eago honored Andrew J. Ryan, who t an ideal citizen, an eminent lawyer, with ‘the dlection as City Attorney, and during the intervening time Mr. Ryan bas in every way proven himself wor- thy of the confidence which the people reposed in him. The story of Mr.Ryan 's life is one which should kindle the fires of am- bition in the hearts of all boys and eause them to use their best endeavors te climb upward. eee onl born a for first saw the tat ae ti ay se received his education in its public schools and at an early age he started out on his public career as a cash or errand boy for Marshall Field & Co. In time he became connected with the extensive music firm of Lyon & Healy, who soon observed that he was bright and keen. Consequently he was ad- vanced to the responsible and trying position of credit man for the firm and while so serving he employed his leis- ‘ure time in preparing himself for the practice of his profession, the law, and from the day that he passed the exam- imation with fiying colors he met with extraordinary success in the legal world. In 1894 Mr. Ryan was chosen as at- torney for the West Town and it can be said with great credit to him that he discharged the duties of that trust fearlessly, honestly and conscientious- EX-ALDERMAN MICHAEL McINER- NEY. Very few men in Chicago have been before the public to the same extent as ex-Alderman Michael MelInerney who will again occupy his seat in the city council from the 30th ward after next Tuesday. Very few men in the Town of Lake have had as var‘ed a career as Mr. McInerney who has ris- en up from the common herd or the plain people, and.by reason of this fact thausands cf his fellow townsmen have always been willing to fight and die tor him for they have always grest- ly admired bim for bis plain blunt way of speaking and by remaining close with those who work in the lower ranks or pit politically speaking bis tufiuence and hold upon the people thing wonderful. Consequently he has served and represented them in many Shee Arget ag areata Stk oa ly and gone who have succeeded him have left behind tiem a record untarnished for fair dealing Mike Mr, Ryan. r Mr. Ryan stands high in the social ‘and political walks of life. For a num- ber of years he was a member of the public library board. He is aRegent of the Illinois Council, Royal Arcanum, and member of the Knights of Colum- bus. He is also prominently identified with other social and political clubs and societies. His high standing in this respect and great influence caused the managers of his party to turn te bim in 1899 as the one most fitted to make the race for City Attorney. He was nominated and elected by a large majority. Upon assuming the duties of the Office Mr. Ryan wasted no time in in- stituting many needed reforms in the conduct of its affairs and there is ecarcely’a lawyer, tax-payer or proper- ty holder within the limits of Chicago who, if they are honst with themselves, but will admit that Mr. Ryan as City Attorney has far surpassed his prede- cessors and that he is without a doubt. one of the best city attorneys that Chicago has ever had. He is civil and corteous to the rich and poor, high and low, white and black, and the opinion prevails in all sections of Chi- cago that the people will not for one minute overlook these facts—that they will re-elect by an overywhelming ma- jority Andrew J. Ryan as City Attor- mey of this the Queen City of the middle west. capacities. - For many years he was a member of the Board of Education before the Town of Lake was anncxed to Chicage and before he became a member of the board all the school teachers were outsiders, and when he left it all the school teachers belonged to the Town of Lake. He served his town in other official positions and he was elected to the legislature of this state, which sent Gen. John M Palmer to the ‘United States Senate. : During that memorable contest the | managers of some of the senatorial candidates were offering $500 to $10,000 for the votes of the members of that law-making body. But Mr.McInerney spurned those bribes aside and refused te tovch the boodle, and if according fo the municipal Republican touching voters league, Mr. McInerney is a, doodler, in that case he did not display i si Fain - , 2 at oe any boodling proclivities. _ This same Republican aggregation, known ‘as the Municipal League, have om many ococasions attempted to link @e-Aléerman Molnerney with the al- @ermen who fsvored voting away all the rights of the city.im favor of the raftway traction companies, while | he it arly one Will teke the trovble- to ance which Mr, Mefmerney favored, re- lative to the traction comipantes, they will fip@ that in the long run, if adopt- e4, it would have been far more bene- ficial to the tax-payers and property holders in genera! than several other trieasures of a similar character, which seemingly have met with the approval of the so-callod silk-stocking element. Mr.. McInerney stands ready and willing to debate his position on the franchise question with any one whom eee eee een ‘Like Miderman Charles J. Boyd, Mr. McInerney stands O. K. with the col- ored people, they have always found him truthful and when he promises to do them a favor he keeps his word and hundreds of them will remember him by marking an X right up by his name, for they as well as The Broad Ax, feel Confident that he will be the next alderman from the 30th ward. ROYALTIES FOR PLAYS. “The Charity Baill” costs $300 a wenk. “An American Citizen,” royalty for pe week, casts $500, That clever play “The Butterflies” costs $200 and “The Young Wife” $150. “Sweet Lavender” is worth $250 a week, while “Hoodman Blind” is plas- ed at $125. “Trilby” can be had for $250 per week, while there are half a dosen “Nell Gwynnes” at $100 a week. “The Dancing Girl” averages from $300 to $500 a week,while EB. M. Royle’s play, “Friends,” costs $150 a week. For the use of “Liberty Hall’ from 10 to 15 per cent of the gross receipts is exacted, with a guarantee of at least $400. A farce comedy like “Why Smith Left Home” requires $200 a week to get it, while the melodrama “The Fa- tal Card” demands $100. In the west Howard & Doyle occupy about the same position and they in some instances control the absolute rights to several plays. “The Great Ruby” costs 16 per cent of the gross receipts on the first $4,000 amd 21 per cent on the next $2,000, with a bonus of from $250 to $500. “The Prisoner of Zenda” has cost as high as $750 for its use for a single week and one stock company is said to have paid as high as $1,000 for it. It requires 10 per cent of the gross receipts to obtain “The Sporting Duch- ess a week and a similar amount for the use of “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” “The Moth and the Flame” wants 10 per cent of the gross receipts, with & guarantee of $300, while “A Gilded Fool” is satisfied with 10 per cent of the gross. No doubt the largest dealer in play. for stock companies is Alice Kauser, who acts as agent for these pieces, col- I: 5 the royalties and for her services receives a liberal commission. In in- stances where box office statements are required to figure up percentages she has experts at work to cover that detail. Of some of the other plays, “Hazel Kirke” costs $150; “Men and Women” $300; “A Bachelor's Romance” $300; “Jim the Penman” $150; “A Fair Reb- el” $100; ‘The Ensign” $150; “The Dis- trict Attorney” $150; “Diplomacy” $200; “The Countess Valeska” $300; “Paul Kauvar” $200, and “White Hea- ther” 10 per cent of the receipts. ‘The cost of the above pieces must be weekly added to the salary list of the companies, and that is probably why a great many stock companies are not such 8 profitable investment—Dra- matic News, LITERARY NOTES. Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it—A. B. Alcott. If the reader desires a surfeit of Sweetness somewhat like that of the clerks in a candy store he (or she) could not do better than to read the much-talked-of: book; “An English- man's Love Letters.” Nothing’ expires sooner than a worthless book. How quietly the Deila Cruscans died! Gently as a sigh the Minerva_novels! Ant noiselessiy as Bhosts, however trumpeted and ap- plauded, will the army, which no man can number, of stupid authors, walk into oblivion, each happily with his books under his arms.—Alexander Smith. In “The Sky Pilot” Ralph Connor has told a story well worth the tell- ing. ‘It introduces the reader at once to the breezy foothills of the great west and to the characters that in. these days are usually to be found on the out- skirts of civilization—rough, adventu- Tous, with some bad qualities and many good ones, if you are only eble to discover the latter. ~ Louis How, the young man -who ‘wrote that very artistic and entertain- ing story, “The Penitentes,” a r ‘ot the late Captain Bade tne engineer. Mr. How's home is St. Louis, and when there he and the author of “Richard Carvel” are seen much together. It is said they are congenial in everything except their iiterary iikings. *e Hold on to your hand when you are about to strike, steal or do any im- 2 on to your good name at sil ae See were pentse UNDER THE SNOW. Chastly Truths Revealed on the Disap- pearance of Winter’s White Mantle. L a ; On and after January 1, 1901, we will sell direct to contractors, consumers or any other parties desiring to buy. lumber, lath, shingles or any kind of building material, saving them mid- dleman’s profit, Read Supe Vato tae estimates. Correspondence promptly answered. JOHN E. BURNS LUMBER COMPANY, LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES MONROE 211, MONROE 290. 40 W. Chicago Av. CHICAGO, ILL. OTT AB Rs at oe ee ae Tt is a remarkable fact that the chameleon, when dlindfolded, loses the power to change its hues, and the ent..e body remains of & uniform tint. 6 Ven Maeve Bheumetiomn Sw ~~ ae ee Boom F 2 pat be Seventy dollars was paid in Londos ‘the other day for a copy of Franklin's “Cicero,” Philadelphia, 1744. —————__—_ Now that the Winter season is past, it ts well to ‘cleanse the system. and purify the blood with Tea— an Herb Medicine good for all. —— The extensve and valuable resources of Louisiana will be exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition. — TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. SP Serer stare is tu toe box. Me. Canada’s exhibit at the Pan-Ameri- can Exposition will occupy a space of about 3,000 square feet. WANTED—Men with rig toadvertine and introduce esti and crpvuses. adres ith sig: ogarea ‘The biggest logs in the Western Hemisphere will be seen at Buffalo this summer. Thirty minutes is all the time re quired to dye with PUTNAM FADE- LESS DYES. People who have the least to say usually have the most to talk about. We thank you for trying Wizard Ol! for rheumatism or neuralgia, then you will thank us. Ask your druggist. We can forgive a good many things fm people that can make us laugh. 1.40 not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption as an equal for coughs and colds—Jous F Borsa, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. 15, 1900 Remember, woman is most perfect, when most womanly.—Gladstone, With health. Use Bat for Colds. ise Batt’ ee ee eee “If a man has crow’s feet about his eyes there must be some caws. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. ek arbi Sar iecteus The way of the transgressor often leads to foreigh shores, cident and best, It will break ap scold .oaeee isisaiwaysrelibie. Te At @ certain age a man is so much the better for being bad. ‘The Best Laundry Soap. Sans ae Yawning in company is a beneficent natural exercise. Baseball ; Golf players; all play- et chow White's Yucatan Whilt plaping The Berlin Women’s club has’ 205 members. Deadly dangers lurk in the ground left bare by the departing snow. All winter long there have been accumu- lating deadly disease germs. These have been protected and kept alive by the covering of snow and now, with the first warm Ways, these death- bringing microbes are awakened by the rays of the sum, and as the ground Gries they are carried to all corners of the community in the dust that is blown everywhere by the spring winds. The human body at this time is par- ticularly susceptible to these germs, especially the germs of fevers. The going winter. The blood is and filled with impurities. The nerves have not recovered from the tension oe werden oe ae MARNEVS, Do River are all nt Ghete worst. therefore, not strange that these germs of disease find fertile ground in which to thrive, Sourish and develop into deadly ils. Spring is the time of year when one Se an Sie of tae, cape: cially when the system is depleted, one should dread any severe illness. The vitality is at a low ebb. There is less power of resistance to throw off dis- ease, and it is on this account that fatalities are so much greater during the spring months than at any other time of the year. There is but one way to ward off such dangers, and that-is to fortify the peeled oe LTA Tel) Eee — AP TION. -+ WOMEN MIST SLEEP, Avoid Nervous Prostratica, n sick whag sak det Say of Joe pc z Serpe ned yen eral _ ‘aak, “what is the cause)* and the answer comes in pit: tones, nervous prostration. rows a rere nt arm ne sleep Gomerted yon night after nigst until your eyes fairly —— in the nn yoiping Sox sloop. You ought to have known that wher you ceased to be regular in your a ae ee ie out cause, there was seriou eee cabaustion: oe a dizziness, headache, an frm pa thence Hy oe Caengo, ky whee Port it > - portrai owl wer entinthy ered ty Tolls Pink ham's Vegetable Compound ; her case should be s warning to others, and ee cemesct ae Sitmee Salclomay et Es as Calling etieieeg < 1gee. ' pene sa iy = iS an 7 ry . ; A iN Cox ‘W ri i aes ame iE 3. on = ee es =e ae pier oe ny Sees Sh tlie human body so that it will become im- pregnable to the germs of invading dis ease. To do this take Dr. Greene’s Nervurs blood and nerve remedy. It will build you up quickly, it will re-establish your waning appetite, it will give you rest- ful nights of sleep, it will give vim and vigor to the nerves, and it will dispel all existing poisons that have accumulated in the body besides coun- teracting the effects of others that may accumulate, ; Following is an instance that will il- lustrate the wonderful er of Dr, Greene's Nervara blood and nerve rem Sheriff Jonas T. Stevens, who ‘is sherif? of Hyde Park, Vt. :—T have used Dr. Greene's Nefvurs blood nerve remedy especially bi purifier. 7 Md © verybovee hemor os my arms, accompanied by a very bad itehing, so severe that I could not sleep nights, causing me great incon- venience hy the loss of sleep by the itching. A friend advised me to take Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy, which F did with the most satisfactory results, for the trouble has entirely disappeared, and I can now Seen enone: have none ing, itching sensations.” be given to = desiring = one same aern eens St upon him at ip office, 35 W. RARE BARGAINS :°::-= Bioneers sont “aT hpeeeebae won Reese ‘ ie _ iliac We offer One Hundred Dollars round for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Q. We, the underigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truss, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Q.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price $e per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Herd of Buffalo Charles Allard, of the Flathead Reservation, near Kalispell, Montana, has a herd of about 275 buffalo. He proposes to select seven or eight of the finest specimens from his herd and exhibit them at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo the coming summer. A PAIR OF $3.00 SHOES FOR 20s A PRIOR OF GOOD SHOES FOR YOU. Send us $1 for our coupon book, sell four of the coupons to your friends at 80 cents each, who in turn send for our book, and in this way get 80 cents back. Return the order to us with your size and the kind of shoe you want, any size or style, and we will express you the shoes. A.W. VAUGHAN & SON, Watertown, Wis. Railroad Development. There was not an inch of railway line in Britain when the late queen was born; today there are 21,000 miles and a thousand million passengers travel over them every year. Should Be in Every Household A jar of RUBEFACIENT should be kept in every house. It is the most wonderful specifie in all cases of internal inflammation and will speedily nip in the bud any case of Pneumonia, Diphtheria, La Grippe, etc. Write to the RUBefacient Co., Newton Upper Falls, Mass., for free booklet. An elephant has only eight teeth—two below and two above on each side. At the age of fourteen an elephant loses its first set, and a new set grows. Don't Injure Your Health by scrubbing clothes all day. Use Maple City Self Washing Soap and make washing day easy. All grocers. It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him. Two Big Pains seem to be the heritage of the human family everywhere, viz: Rheumatism and Neuralgia but there is one sure and prompt cure for both, viz: St. Jacobs Oil DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE. R Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Group Influenza, Whoping Cough, Breathills and Asthma. A certain cure for: Consumption in first stage, and a cure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect, after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Laran bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. SEAFARING MEN KNOW THE VALUE OF TOWER'S TRADE MARK FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING IT WILL KEEP YOU DRY IN THE WETTEST WEATHER LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK ON SALE EVERYWHERE CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A.J.TOWER CO., BOSTON, MASS. OKLAHOMA OFFERS FREE HOMES to 50,000 people on 3,000,000 acres of lands, soon to open to settlement. Opportunity of a lifetime. THE KIOWA CHIEF, devoted to information about these lands, will contain proclamation fixing date of opening. One year $1.00; 6 mos. 60 cents; 5 cents per copy. MORGAN'S MANUAL (Complete Settler's Guide) with sectional map $1.00. MANUAL MAP and CHIEF, six months $1.50. For sale by Book and News Dealers, or address DICK T. MORGAN, Perry, O. T. In the Great Saskatchewan Valley and the Fortile Plains of Assiniboia. To the Editor, Dear Sir: The past three or four years have demonstrated to a large number of Americans the value of the grain-growing and ranching lands of Western Canada. Tens of thousands have taken advantage of the offer made by the Canadian government as well as of the exceedingly low prices asked for lands by the railway, colonization and other companies. The experience of those who have been settled there for some little time is of a highly gratifying character. So much so that the Canadian government, who has control of the immigration into Western Canada, has decided to open up some new districts this year in the well known Saskatchewan Valley and also in the fertile plains of Assiniboia. These Districts are probably the most productive in the entire West and in close touch to largely settled communities as well as being situated on some of the most important lines of railway. They are within easy reach of markets, schools, churches and other social advantages. In some of these districts lands may be homesteaded as well as purchased outright at very low prices. Now as to what can be done on these lands. The evidence of the settlers in the neighborhood of the lands now about to be opened for settlement (some of them being located in one of the best Indian Reservations) goes to show that the very best results have followed even most indifferent methods. Cases are given where farmers having gone there with most limited means, barely enough to erect a small house and break up a little land, have in three or four years time become prosperous, all debts paid and money in the bank. The soil in the Districts mentioned, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, is a rich black loam, fifteen inches to three feet deep. As a settler says, "It appears like the accumulation of decayed vegetation and ashes for centuries (the sub-soil is a stiff, putty clay)." On this soil it is possible to raise from 40 to 50 bushels of wheat to the acre, oats 75 to 100 bushels, all of which bring good prices at the local market. For mixed farming these new districts are probably among the best in Western Canada. Stock fatten easily on the wild grasses. Hay is plentiful, and prices spler-lid. Another settler writing to a friend in Iowa says: "The climate is all that could be desired, plenty of rainfall in summer, with no hot, dry winds. On the 28th of September I saw prairie flowers in full bloom, sweet corn, potato and tomato vines that had not been touched a particle with frost, and the winters are milder than those in the State from which I came. After the holidays the winter sets in clear and cold, with plenty of snow for good sleighing; no high winds or blizzards are known. Horses live out all winter and pick their own living, while cattle live all winter in open sheds and around the hay ricks. Wheat, oats and barley are the principal grain crops. Potatoes and all other roots and vegetables do well, the yield being enormous as compared to those in the States. Wild fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, gooseberries and all varieties of currants yield in abundance. As a reader of your valuable paper for a number of years, I feel that I should inform you of the progress and advancement being made in Canada within the past few years, and the inducements and advantages that will follow settlement in Western Canada. Those who desire information can do as I did, and apply to any Agent of the Canadian Government, whose name I see appears in advertisements appearing elsewhere in the columns of your paper, and when writing ask particularly about the Saskatchewan Valley or Assiniboia Districts. Jarring Proposition. The scheme of forming large game preserves in the east is to surround them with a wire fence and have it charged with electricity. The poachers who run up against it will at least be surprised. Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. O'msted, LeRoy, N.Y. William F. Kline's celebrated painting, "The Flight into Egypt," which was awarded the Clark Prize at the recent Academy Exhibition, will be shown at the Pan-American Exposition. Kemp's Hallam 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. The Ordnance Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition will surpass any display of the kind ever made at an exposition. In the Spring, take Garfield Tea. This wonderful Herb Medicine purifies the blood and gives new and vigorous life to systems depleted by the trying winter season. Stamp collectors all over the world are adding the new Pan-American series of stamps to their collections. THOUSANDS OF FAIR WOMEN HERALD PRAISES FOR PERUNA. Catarrhal Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration Make Invalids of More Women Than All Other Diseases Combined. Miss Anna Prescott Mrs. F.J. Lynch Miss Marie Coars Bowels Don't Move? Caused by over-work! Over-eating! Over-drinking! No part of the human body receives more ill treatment than the bowels. Load after load is imposed until the intestines become clogged, refuse to act, worn out. Then you must assist nature. Do it, and see how easily you will be cured by CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. Not a mass of violent mercurial and mineral poison, but a pure vegetable compound that acts directly upon the diseased and worn out intestinal canal, making it strong, and gently stimulating the liver and kidneys; a candy tablet, pleasant to eat, easy and delightful in action. Don’t accept a substitute for CASCARETS. I'm bring a surgeon.—eweler's Weekly. "I have gone 24 days at a time without movement of the bowels. Chronic constipation for seven years placed me in this terrible condition; I did everything I heard of but never found any relief until I began using CASCARETS. I now have from one to three passages a day, and if I was rich I would give $100.00 for each movement; it is such a relief." ATLANTA L. HURRY, 100 Russell St, Detroit, Mich. More Information, Tommy—P that do these put CASCARETS BEST FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. THIS IS CCC THE TABLET THEY WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP 10c. 25c. 50c. NEVER SOLD IN BULE. DRUGGISTS GUARANTEED TO CURE all bowel troubles, appendicitis, billiouness, bad breath, bad blood, wind on the stomach, bloated bowels, foul mouth, headache, indigestion, pains after eating, liver trouble, shallow complexion and dizziness. When your bowels don’t move regularly you are getting sick. Constipation kills more people than all other diseases together. It is a starter for the chronic aliment and long years of CASCARETS that once afflicted you. If you want to cure your bowels, for you will never get well and be well all the time until you put your bowels right. Take our advice; start with CASCARETS today, under an absolute guarantee to cure or money refunded. GUARANTEED TO CURE: Five years ago the Grut box of CASCARETS was sold. Now it is over six million boxes a year, greater than any similar medicine in the world. This is absolute proof of great merit, and our best testimonial. We have faith, and will sell CASCARETS absolutely guaranteed to cure you. We buy for you, as per simple directions, and if you are not satisfied after using one 50c box, return the unused 50c box and the empty box to us by mail, or the druggist from whom you purchased it, and get your money back for both boxes. Take our advice—no matter what all you start today. Health will quickly follow and you will bless the day you first started the use of CASCARETS. Book free by mail. Add: 5782180 KENNEDY CO., Low Yuk or Chicago. Peruna is the woman's friend everywhere. It is safe to say that no woman ever used Peruna for any catarrhal derangement but what it became indispensable in her household. Letters From Women. Every day we receive letters from women like the following. Women who have tried doctors and failed; women who have tried Peruna and were cured. Miss Katie Klein, 6125 Bartmer avenue, St. Louis, Mo., writes: "Peruna has done me more good for catarrh than the best doctors could. I had catarrh so bad, but after taking Peruna it is entirely gone, and I feel like a different person." Miss Anna Prescott's Letter. Miss Anna Prescott, in a letter from 216 South Seventh street, Minneapolis, Minn., writes: "I am sincerely grateful for the relief I have found from the use of Peruna, I was completely used up last fall, my appetite had failed and I felt weak and tired all the time. My druggist advised me to try Peruna and the relief I experienced after taking one bottle was truly wonderful. "I continued its use for five weeks, and am glad to say that my complete restoration to health was a happy surprise to myself as well as to my friends."—Anna Prescott. A constant drain of nervous vitality depleting the whole nervous system causes the mucous membrane surfaces to suffer accordingly. This is the condition called systemic catarrh. It very nearly resembles, and there is really no practical difference, between this condition and the condition known as neu New York State will have about 4,000 square feet of space for its exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition. rasthenia, or nervous prostration. Peruna will be found to effect an immediate and lasting cure in all cases of systemic catarrh. It acts quickly and beneficially on the diseased mucous membranes, and with healthy mucous membranes the catarrh can no longer exist. Peruna a True Friend to Women. Mrs. F. J. Lynch, writes the following from 324 S. Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Gentlemen—"I earnestly recommend Peruna to any suffering woman, as it cures quickly. Last year I had a most persistent cough which nothing seemed to cure. Two bottles of Peruna did more for me than all the doctors seemed to do. In a couple of weeks I found myself in excellent health, and have been enjoying it ever since. Hence I look on Peruna as a true friend to women."—Mrs. F. J. Lynch. Peruna is equally efficacious in curing catarrh of the throat as in curing systemic catarrh or catarrh of the stomach. Catarrh is essentially the same wherever located. Peruna cures catarrh. Peruna Makes You Feel Like a New Person. Miss Mary Coats, a popular young woman of Appleton, Wis., and president of the Appleton Young Ladies' Club, also speaks in glowing terms of Peruna. A letter recently received from her by The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, reads as follows: "I am glad to call the attention of my friends to Peruna. When that languid, tired feeling comes over you, and your food no longer tastes good, and small annoyances irritate you, Peruna will make you feel like another person inside of a week. "I have now used it for three seasons, and find it very valuable and efficacious."—Miss Marie Coats. Diseased nerves are traceable directly to poor digestion, and poor digestion is directly traceable to catarrh. With the slightest catarrh of the stomach no one can have good digestion. Very few of the many women who have catarrh of the stomach suspect what their real trouble is. They know they belch after meals, have sour stomach, a sensation of weight or heaviness, a fullness, irregular appetite, drowsiness, gnawing, empty sensations, occasional pain—they all know this; but they do not know that their trouble is catarrh of the stomach. If they did they would take Peruna. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. As soon as Peruna removes catarrh from the stomach the digestion becomes good, appetite regular, nerves strong, and trouble vanishes. Peruna strengthens weak nerves, not by temporarily stimulating them, but by removing the cause of weak nerves —poor digestion. This is the only cure that lasts. Remove the cause: Nature will do the rest. Peruna removes the cause. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. Maud-I don't like to see you throwing yourself at Fred, Elizabeth. Elizabeth-Why not? He's a good catch. MONEY in Sheep in Montana in SAFE and pure MINVESTED invest. Get in at bottom prices and be prepared for four more years of prosperity. Write for our annual reports and particulars. Mountain Co-Operative Ranch Co., Great Falls, Montana. FOR SALE—The Best Hotel in Jerseyville, Wisc.; best location, best time; modern house with elegant furnishings; prices and terms are right. Also farms from 80 to 1,000 acres each; improved, in Rock Co. and central Wisconsin; cash payment, balance time. Correspondence limited. Address, W. R. PHILLIPS, Evergreen, Wisc. I CURE FITS FREE A Poll-Size $1 Treatment of Dr. O. Phlox Brown's Great Remedy for Fits, Epilepsy and all Nervous Disorders. Addition: G. PHILLS BROWN, 60 Broadway, Reynolds, R.I. FRIENDS Cut out Road—Buddst Area YOU can make independence well on others—on small capital by judiciously investing in land—Opportunities plenty—Take this—A whole lot tion improved farm—good soil—clear Maplestone, Mon- ena County, Iowa—50 per acre—soon—Fannell Red River Valley lands Minnesota—50 per acre— Pay big interest—and double in value two years—For particulars—Address: D. B. BRYSON, Real Estate Agent, Traer, Iowa MAN WANTED AT ONCE with rig to sell our Poultry Mixture; straight salary $15.00 per week and expenses; year's contract; weekly pay. Address with stamp EURBEA MFG. Co., Dept. P, East St. Louis, Ill. INVALUABLE TO HORSE OWNERS Send 10e for Illustrated Treatise on Horse- shoeling Without Nails. Every owner of a Horse should have THIS BOOK. AMERICAN NAILELESS HORSESHOE CO. 604 Lippincott Building, PHILADELPHIA. A Splendid Investment! The Wyoming Cattle and Investment Co. are offering shares at par. The safest and best paying investment now on the market. If you have money to invest, either in large or small amounts, write for particulars. D. H. KOOKER, Secretary, Des Moines, Iowa. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED If you take up your home in Western Canada, the land of plenty. Illustrated pamphlets, giving experiences of farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of delegates, etc., and full information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton, 1233 Modnadnock Block, Chicago, or E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Special excursions to Western Canada during March and April. The ..... Original HAYES 45,000 in actual use testify to their popularity. . . . Conceded without question the best planter on the market . . . Guaranteed to plant more corn in less time and do better work than any other Also, Riding and Walking Cultivators, Harrows, Pumps, Eto. Write for circulars. HAYES PUMP & PLANTER CO. 10 Hall St., Galva, Ill. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 13, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. ve?selves more ill treatment to act, worn out. Then Candy Cathartic. Not a directly upon the diseased kidneys; a candy tablet, We offer One Hundred Dollar reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be erased by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known, F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honourable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Wen & Trux. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonial sent free. Price per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Herd of Buffalo Charles Allard, of the Flathead Reservation, near Kalispell, Montana, has a herd of about 275 buffalo. He proposes to select seven or eight of the finest specimens from his herd and exhibit them at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo the coming summer. A PAIR OF $3.00 SHOES FOR 20c. Send us $1 for our coupon book, sell four of the coupons to your friends at 20 cents each, who in turn send for our book, and in this way get 80 cents back. Return the order to us with your size and the kind of shoe you want, any size or style, and we will express you the shoes. A.W. VAUGHAN & SON, Watertown, WI. Railroad Development There was not an inch of railway line in Britain when the late queen was born; today there are 21,000 miles and a thousand million passengers travel over them every year. Should Be in Every Household A jar of RUBEFACIENT should be kept in every house. It is the most wonderful specific in all cases of internal inflammation and will speedily nip in the bud any case of Pneumonia, Diphtheria, La Grippe, etc. Write to the Rubefacient Co., Newton Upper Falls, Mass., for free booklet. An elephant has only eight teeth—two below and two above on each side. At the age of fourteen an elephant loses its first set, and a new set grows. Don't Injure Your Health by scrubbing clothes all day. Use Maple City Self Washing Soap and make washing day easy. All grocers. It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him. Two Big Pains seem to be the heritage of the human family everywhere, viz: Rheumatism and Neuralgia but there is one sure and prompt cure for both, viz: St. Jacobs Oil DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE 11 Carces Cold, Coughs, Sore Throat, Group, Killuenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A corral care 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 dentists everywhere. Large balloon 25 cents and 60 cents. SEAFARING MEN KNOW THE VALUE OF TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING IT WILL KEEP YOU DRY IN THE WETTEST WEATHER LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK ON SALE EVERYWHERE CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A.J.TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. OKLAHOMA OFFERS FREE HOMES so 50,000 people on 3,000,000 acres of lands, soon to open to settlement. Opportunity of a lifetime. THE NICWA CHIEF, devoted to information about these lands, will contain proclamation fixing date of opening. One year $1.00; 6 mos. 60 cents; 5 cents per copy. MORGAN'S MANUAL (Complete Settler's Guide) with sectional map. BLOR. MANUAL MAP and CHIEF. six months $1.50. For sale by Seek and Neep Dealer, or address DICK T. MORGAN, Perry, O. I. Dr.Bull's COUGH SYRUP Cures a Cough or Cold at once. Conquers Croup, Whooping-Cough, Bronchitis, Grippe and Consumption, Quick, sure results. Dr.Bull's Pills cure Constipation, 50 pills 10c. SPECIAL PRICES 80 Days' Total. Guaranteed. Double and Combination Beam. OSGOOD SALES Co. Ocating Fresh. Write now. BINGHAMTON, M.V. To the Editor, Dear Sir: The past three or four years have demonstrated to a large number of Americans the value of the grain-growing and ranching lands of Western Canada. Tens of thousands have taken advantage of the offer made by the Canadian government as well as of the exceedingly low prices asked for lands by the railway, colonization and other companies. The experience of those who have been settled there for some little time is of a highly gratifying character. So much so that the Canadian government, who has control of the immigration into Western Canada, has decided to open up some new districts this year in the well known Saskatchewan Valley and also in the fertile plains of Assiniboia. These Districts are probably the most productive in the entire West and in close touch to largely settled communities as well as being situated on some of the most important lines of railway. They are within easy reach of markets, schools, churches and other social advantages. In some of these districts lands may be homesteaded as well as purchased outright at very low prices. Now as to what can be done on these lands. The evidence of the settlers in the neighborhood of the lands now about to be opened for settlement (some of them being located in one of the best Indian Reservations) goes to show that the very best results have followed even most indifferent methods. Cases are given where farmers having gone there with most limited means, barely enough to erect a small house and break up a little land, have in three or four years time become prosperous, all debts paid and money in the bank. The soil in the Districts mentioned, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, is a rich black loam, fifteen inches to three feet deep. As a settler says, "it appears like the accumulation of decayed vegetation and ashes for centuries (the sub-soil is a stiff, putty clay)." On this soil it is possible to raise from 40 to 50 bushels of wheat to the acre, oats 75 to 100 bushels, all of which bring good prices at the local market. For mixed farming these new districts are probably among the best in Western Canada. Stock fatten easily on the wild grasses. Hay is plentiful, and prices splendid. Another settler writing to a friend in Iowa says: "The climate is all that could be desired, plenty of rainfall in summer, with no hot, dry winds. On the 28th of September I saw prairie flowers in full bloom, sweet corn, potato and tomato vines that had not been touched a particle with frost, and the winters are milder than those in the State from which I came. After the holidays the winter sets in clear and cold, with plenty of snow for good sleighing; no high winds or blizzards are known. Horses live out all winter and pick their own living, while cattle live all winter in open sheds and around the hay ricks. Wheat, oats and barley are the principal grain crops. Potatoes and all other roots and vegetables do well, the yield being enormous as compared to those in the States. Wild fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, gooseberries and all varieties of currants yield in abundance. As a reader of your valuable paper for a number of years, I feel that I should inform you of the progress and advancement being made in Canada within the past few years, and the inducements and advantages that will follow settlement in Western Canada. Those who desire information can do as I did, and apply to any Agent of the Canadian Government, whose name I see appears in advertisements appearing elsewhere in the columns of your paper, and when writing ask particularly about the Saskatchewan Valley or Assiniboia Districts. Jarring Proposition. The scheme of forming large game preserves in the east is to surround them with a wire fence and have it charged with electricity. The poachers who run up against it will at least be surprised. Do Your Foot Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Oimsted, LeRoy, N.Y. William F. Kline's celebrated painting, "The Flight into Egypt," which was awarded the Clark Prize at the recent Academy Exhibition, will be shown at the Pan-American Exposition. Kemp's Hallam 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. The Ordnance Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition will surpass any display of the kind ever made at an exposition. In the Spring, take Garfield Tea. This wonderful Herb Medicine purifies the blood and gives new and vigorous life to systems depleted by the trying winter season. Stamp collectors all over the world are adding the new Pan-American series of stamps to their collections. THOUSANDS OF FAIR WOMEN HERALD PRAISES FOR PERUNA. Catarrhal Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration Make Invalids of More Women Than All Other Diseases Combined. Miss Anna Prescott Mrs. F.J. Lynch Miss Marie Coars Bowels Don't Move? Peruna is the woman's friend everywhere. It is safe to say that no woman ever used Peruna for any catarrhal derangement but what it became indispenable in her household. Letters From Women. Every day we receive letters from women like the following. Women who have tried doctors and failed; women who have tried Peruna and were cured. Miss Katie Klein, 6125 Bartmer avenue, St. Louis, Mo., writes: "Peruna has done me more good for catarrh than the best doctors could. I had catarrh so bad, but after taking Peruna it is entirely gone, and I feel like a different person." Miss Anne Prescott's Letter. Miss Anna Prescott, in a letter from 216 South Seventh street, Minneapolis, Minn., writes: "I am sincerely grateful for the relief I have found from the use of Peruna, I was completely used up last fall, my appetite had failed and I felt weak and tired all the time. My druggist advised me to try Peruna and the relief I experienced after taking one bottle was truly wonderful. "I continued its use for five weeks, and am glad to say that my complete restoration to health was a happy surprise to myself as well as to my friends."—Anna Prescott. A constant drain of nervous vitality depleting the whole nervous system causes the mucous membrane surfaces to suffer accordingly. This is the condition called systemic catarrh. It very nearly resembles, and there is really no practical difference, between this condition and the condition known as neu New York State will have about 4,000 square feet of space for its exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition. rasthenia or nervous prostration Peruna will be found to effect an immediate and lasting cure in all cases of systemic catarrh. It acts quickly and beneficially on the diseased mucous membranes, and with healthy mucous membranes the catarrh can no longer exist. Peruna a True Friend to Women. Mrs. F. J. Lynch, writes the following from 324 S. Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Gentlemen—"I earnestly recommend Peruna to any suffering woman, as it cures quickly. Last year I had a most persistent cough which nothing seemed to cure. Two bottles of Peruna did more for me than all the doctors seemed to do. In a couple of weeks I found myself in excellent health, and have been enjoying it ever since. Hence I look on Peruna as a true friend to women."—Mrs. F. F. J. Lynch. Peruna is equally efficacious in curing catarrh of the throat as in curing systemic catarrh or catarrh of the stomach. Catarrh is essentially the same wherever located. Peruna cures catarrh. Peruna Makes You Feel Like a New Person. Miss Mary Coats, a popular young woman of Appleton, Wis., and president of the Appleton Young Ladies' Club, also speaks in glowing terms of Peruna. A letter recently received from her by The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, reads as follows: "I am glad to call the attention of my friends to Peruna. When that languid, tired feeling comes over you, and Queensland, Australia, is twelve times larger than England, with a population about equal to Birmingham. your food no longer tastes good, and small annoyances irritate you, Peruna will make you feel like another person inside of a week. "I have now used it for three seasons, and find it very valuable and efficacious."—Miss Marie Coats. Diseased nerves are traceable directly to poor digestion, and poor digestion is directly traceable to catarrh. With the slightest catarrh of the stomach no one can have good digestion. Very few of the many women who have catarrh of the stomach suspect what their real trouble is. They know they belch after meals, have sour stomach, a sensation of weight or heaviness, a fullness, irregular appetite, drowsiness, gnawing, empty sensations, occasional pain—they all know this; but they do not know that their trouble is catarrh of the stomach. If they did they would take Peruna. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. As soon as Peruna removes catarrh from the stomach the digestion becomes good, appetite regular, nerves strong, and trouble vanishes. Peruna strengthens weak nerves, not by temporarily stimulating them, but by removing the cause of weak nerves—poor digestion. This is the only cure that lasts. Remove the cause: Nature will do the rest. Peruna removes the cause. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. Maud—I don't like to see you throwing yourself at Fred, Elizabeth. Elizabeth—Why not? He's a good catch. MONEY in Sheep in Montana is BAFE and pays $3 per person interch. Now is the time to MINVESTED invest. Get in at bottom prices and be prepared for four more years of prosperity. Write for our annual report and partisanism. Montana Co-Operative Ranch Co., Great Falls, Montana. FOR SALE—The Best Hotel in Januaryville, Wm.; best location, best business of any hotel in the city; modern house with elegant furnishings; price and terms are right. Also farms from 50 to 1,000 acres each; improved, in Rock Co. and central Wisconsin; much cash payment, balance time. Correspondence solicited. Address, W. R. PHILLIPS, KYRVILLE, Wm. I CURE FITS FREE A Full-Size 81 Brookside of Dr. O. Phelps Brown's Great Remedy for Pills, Epilepsy and all Nervous Disorders. Addition G. PHILPS BROWK, 88 Broadway, Keystone, K. N. FRIENDS Cut this out—Road—Niche—All— others—on small capital—by judiciously investing in land—Opportunities plenty—Take this—A whole lot improved farm—good soil—obey Mapleton, Mon- one County, Iowa—per亩—soon go—Fantastic Red River Valley lands Minnesota—per亩— Pay big interest—and double in value two years—For particulars—Address—D. B. BRYSON, Real Estate Agent, Traer, Iowa. MAN WANTED AT ONCE with rig to sell our Poultry Mixture; straight salary $15.00 per week and expenses; year's contract; weekly pay. Address with stamp. EURBEKA MFG. Co., Dept. P, East St. Louis, Ill. INVALUABLE TO HORSE OWNERS Send 10e for Illustrated Treatise on Horseshoe shooting Without Nails. Every owner of a Horse should have THIS BOOK. AMERICAN NAILELESS HORSESHOE CO. 604 Lincolncott Building, PHILADELPHIA. The Wyoming Cattle and Investment Co. are offering shares at par. The safest and best paying investment now on the market. If you have money to invest, either in large or small amounts, write for particulars. D. H. KOOKER, Secretary, Des Moines, Iowa. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED 160 ACRE IN FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE If you take up your home in Western Canada, the land of plenty. Illustrated pamphlets, giving experiences of farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of delegates, etc., and full information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton, 1229 Modnadnock Block, Chicago, or E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Special excursion to Western Canada during March and April. The ..... Original HAYES 45,000 in actual use testify to their popularity. . . . Conceded without question the best planter on the market . . . Guaranteed to plant more corn in less time and do better work than any other Also, Riding and Walking Cultivators, Harrows, Pumps, Eto. Afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U. CHICAGO, NQ. 13, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Fanee. ve? receives more ill treatment to act, worn out. Then Candy Cathartic. Not a directly upon the diseased kidneys: a candy tablet, * “Brom now util the close .£ the mayoralty contest fiftem to twenty ‘thousand copies of The Brotd Ax will be distributed each week among the yetera of Chicago, Now ts the time to advertise In it. to rend ft, and sub- “serlbe for it, for The Broad Ax is the only newspaper in this city or state “pitvobhting Democracy “among the colored race. SAMUEL N. HOFFHEIMER. Democratic Candidate for Alderman o a ae a ae ‘Tt. 4s befitting on this occasion to say that Milton J. Foreman, who has misrepresented the people of the Third ‘Ward-in the City Council for some time, has got more trouble on his hands than what he bargained for. Heretofore he entertained the falacious fen ‘that he was the absolute alder- ‘manic king of big ward, that it was weeless for tim to xive the slightest PE i es eae SAM'L W. HOFFHEIMER DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR ALDERMAN THIRD WARD wonsideration to the candidacy of any Demo-rxtic candidate “or alderman. But Samuel N. Hoffheimer, who is ‘he regular Democratic candidate for lderman of the Third Ward, has so far stirred the political waters up to a‘ far greater extent than they have been in the past, and if he continues to gain strength and recruits from the Republican ranks for the next few days there is not the slightest doubt of his lection to the City Council. For it must be remembered that hundreds and hundreds of Republicans, who are dissatisfied with Alderman Foreman, re. actively and openly working for the-succese of Mr. Hoffhetmer. - Mr. Hoffheimer, who was born in Memphis, Tenn. in 1865, has resided -4m Chicago for so many years that he _meeds_ no introduction to its citizens “Yor the past 15 years he has been a resident of the Third Ward and for many years he was secretary for the great packing firm of Nelson, Morris & Co., and while connected with that firm he was instrumental in securing em- ployment for hundreds of colored nen who will remember him for his kind- mess and consideration for the race on April 2. If elected alderman, Mr. Hoffheimer hus pledged himself to devote much of his time and energy in looking after the physical and sanitery condition of the ward. He will keep in close touch with the people, so as to know their wants and needs. He believes in that great principle of Democracy, that the poor people are just as much entitled to clean and well paved streets and alleys as the wealthiest. ‘He stands on the same platform with Mayor Carter H. Harrison on the ques- tion of municipal ownership and it is sufficient to say at this point that Mr. Hoffhetmer firmly believes that the great citizenship of Chicago have rights which must be respected by the traction companies and the other cor- potate interests. Mr. Hoffheimer is ee on cme ane be the Royal Insurance Building, snd he calls upon all good citizens of the ‘Third Ward, who are in favor of the a ee ea te oe ‘to ‘assist in his election to the City Council. . m=. 2 MOSLEY. Can@idate for Supervisor co: wae +m of Lake. Nover in the history of either polit- feal party of Chicago and it might be eald of the State of Iilinois, has the honor been bestowed upon an Afro- ‘American for Supervisor, and- some- thing over a month ago, Col B. F- Moseley, who is well known in every mook and corner of the Town of Lake, ‘was honored by the Republican party with the nomination for supervisor and wether he is successful or unsuccess- ful on the day of the election, waich sccurs on Tuesday next, he will have the distinction of being thé first col- ored man to bave this unsought-for honor thrast upon him and if elected be will be the first one to serve in this capacity. Colonel Moseley is in every sense of the word s self-made man, for he came ‘up Gut of the lowest walks in life, an/ for a number of years he has resided in the western end or section of the Town of Lake, right in among the Settee ce acme ae he has succestied in bufld- ing up sn extensive law - business among them and 7s a result of his connection with them for so many years a large number of the Scandi- navians in the Town of Lake are bol- lering and shouting for Col. Mossley te be ta been accused of robbing his ne po pea pepeg! "Se wea ae: Paie “eae pe Teta ae ¥ a eer BE 4 te oe Bb POS ; Res SER, opie ed ee 2 eee ish Reet 2 tesa Sie + fhthe BS =k Sha Stee Ree ME 8s me ‘- “ a wy STS : ; page PBS da dated é 4 te meter K eg Ce aes ons 9 hag SRR ES Se ZS ~ os Ve rc % Be ges Are My life or nationalities will so far as he is eeneeeenk: Rare Galt sees Se terests fully protected. If Moseley ‘was only a good Democrat we would like to say many other favorable things about him, and yet we sometimes be- Heve that he ts a Democrat at heart, but be does not fully realize it But some day we do expect to hear of the colonel working fm the interest of the party which was founded by Thomas Jefferson. The foreign ministers at Pekin have prepared a list of high Chinese officials whose execution they demand as a punishment for their complicity in the Boxer outrages and the attack on the Yegations. Of the expediency of this demand, in certain instances, there may be some doubt; but of its substan- tial justice, assuming that the officials did what they are reputed to have done, there can be no question. While the attempt is tcing made to distribute responsibility and to exact penalty for these crimes, neither the foreign min- isters at Pekin nor the powers which they represent can afford to be indif- ferent to certain other crimes, still more inexcusable and atrocious. A church choir, complete in all its parts and composed exclusively of Chi- nese vocalists, accompanied on the or- gan br a young Chinese matron, is vone of the unique practical sights and results of Christian effort in San Fran- cisco. Of course it has required years to accomplish this result, but in those years the zeal and hope of the Rev. J. M. Condit and his missionary wife have known neither flickering nor wavering. As a result, Dr. Condit presides Sunday after Sunday at the services in the Presbyterian Chinese church on Stockton street; a Chinese congregation composed of men, wom- en, chil¢ren and infants in arms at- tends for worship, and now sufficient advance has been made to have the musio, of the service rendered by a double quartette of male and female woiess NEWSPAPER LAW. Any person who takes the paper regularly from the postoffice, whether he is a subscriber or not, is responsible for the pay. - The courts have decided that refus- ing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them unealled for is prima facie evidenee of intentional fraud. pe {f your nearest druggest does not have the Original Ozonised Cx-Marrow pees: yp pydnomed sale druggist in city. It streight- ens kinky hair. Warranted harmiess. Only 50 cents a bottle. The Ozonized ‘Ox-Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chi- cazo. 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Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials overy yes" Wesaatags eee me arse a aac et tad ik Bn as e . or i : ri ing any of ye om. ; « not, we will show you how =. igetona Wo-Gaiell will chinéee: smelle and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching fect, chafed limbe, ete. | =. toall i ; d sa Sas aa Sage RN Ia, age is a us © Yollar, and mer a ae we 5 Of | lange bottles of Hartons Hace Wah, and ous large box of Hartooe Noma it wet eat eecuriy socet Terenas: ee: ere ee ca iss rs a Teepe Aer <p we fbgs saat i eet a : Soy ee ae - zx . " Ae ING = » 2. rT yy. CH OF DD = Rh, i in i 2 a atid Be Vy ae Aes | Aoi ep ot a ES es ee Oe ” Meme 291 as ae a Jt 1éF 4 a. ks ORS eee heen eeee eee Oe ‘Pelephone Yards 71. Established 1877 JOHN J. DUNN, = Goal - and - Wood, Bist Street and -Armour Avenue... NOTARY PUBLIC Teelphone Wentworth 67" OTTO V. MUELLER * Resi Estate, Renting, Loans oo NBUTENOS..- 910 W. 68d st. (near Halsted) CHICAGO. DR. W. 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