The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. CAPT. H. C. CARTER, THE FALSE LEADER OF NEGRO DEMOGRAPH It may be that some of Capt. H. C. Crater's plug-uglies will endeavor to shoot or stab us to death for telling the truth and nothing but the truth, but the time has now arrived to seperate the sheep from the goats, therefore we will adhere to the plain truth, let what come may come. It is well known to all, that at the time Capt. Carter had himself installed as President of the Cook County Colored Democracy, which was last December, he declared that "he would compel all the Colored Democrats to bow down to him; that he was better able than any one else to enlighten the minds of the Colored people along the lines of Democracy." But this bold assertion on the part of the Capt. does not carry any weight, for it will be remembered that two years ago the work among the Colored people was conducted by L. A. Newby, and as a result of his good work at that time the Second, Third and Fourth wards; all the precincts of the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second and Thirty-fourth wards, which were largely inhabited by colored people, were swung into line for Mayor Harrison. Last year the work along this same line was under the control of Mr. Newby, and a committee which was made up of clean and honest men and under the management of Mr. Newby and his committee, the following work was performed in behalf of Democracy among the colored voters of this city and county: Six meetings were held in the 24th ward, three in the 13th, two in the 18th, three in the first, four in the 2d, five in the 3d, three in the 4th, 4 in the 30th, one in the 32d, one in the 34th, and the monster Bryan and Alschuler meeting at South Side Turner Hall. In addition to these meetings the names of 10,000 Colored people were collected and 11,000 copies of The Broad Ax were distributed among the colored voters throughout the city and county, and a personal letter was also sent to the colored voters urging them to break the chains of political bondage and vote as free American citizens. Nine hundred colored Democrats turned out in the great Democratic parade Saturday night Nov. 3. All this hard work was accomplished without any money, comparatively speaking, for Mr. Newby and the hands of the committee were tied for the lack of money to carry on the work of opening the eyes of the colored people more vigorously and we believe that if the leaders of the party would have advanced the money to the colored committee, which was promised it, so that the colored committee could have put up a stiff fight all along the line, that the entire Democratic county ticket would have been elected. Let us, after reading the above record, return again to Capt. H. C. Carter and review his work during the late contest between Judge Henecy and Mayor Carter H. Harrison. He had full sway in everything, but he did not turn the world upside down. He failed to hold any meetings among the colored people except in the tough districts, and the only meeting held in the 30th ward for colored people was held at 47th street and Armour avenue. It was presided over by James H. Harris and addressed by Alderman McInerney, Alderman Chas, J. Boyd, L. A. Newby and Julius F. Taylor; and what was the result by not paying any attention to the respectable colored voters? Why, the result was that Capt. Carter failed to make any showing of his work in the wards where the colored people reside, and he lost the 2d and 3d wards, and the great majority of the black precincts—all on account of bad or poor management on his part. Capt. Carter, as president of the Cook Co. Colored Democracy, has surrounded himself with the worst class of Negro Democrats that he could find. They, like himself, are only Democrats for the dollars and cents which they can skin the committee out of. C. L. Hill, the captain's secretary, is an expert policy writer; Geo. J. Woods, who is a member of the executive committee, runs a gambling club on State street near 30th; Geo. J. Terrell, his marshall, has no following, or, we might say, no standing with decent people; S. L. Marsh, another member of the executive committee, was in jail in Milwaukee a short time ago for running a gambling house—these are a fair sample of the class of men whom Captain Carter delights in holding up to the public gaze as the leading colored Democrats of Chicago. Right here we want to say that from the time that Captain Carter and his gang of gamblers, policy-writers, ex-jail- birds and bawdy-house primps were put in charge of the work for the colored people to the present, we have not put our foot inside the headquarters, and we do not intend to as long as they are in charge. Although The Broad Ax has right along been at the service of the leaders of the party, ready and willing to assist in helping to advance the cause of Democracy, and inasmuch as Captain Carter and his crowd have already received their money for the work which they failed to perform, it naturally follows that they are not entitled to any further consideration from the hands of Mayor Harrison, nor from his managers. Laying aside all these undisputed facts, there are other reasons why Captain Carter cannot expect to command the respect of decent and self-respecting Colored people,at least,for they have not forgotten the fact that for years Captain Carter lived with Mrs. Fanny Brown in open violation of all the laws of decency and morality, and Mrs. Brown either kept Captain Carter, or Captain Carter kept Mrs. Brown, which is one and the same thing. For this reason alone there are hundreds and hundreds of the best and brightest colored Democrats in all parts of Chicago who will never submit to have Captain H. C. Carter rammed down their throats. EX-GOVERNOR JOHN P. ALTGELD ON ORATORY. One of the finest and most instructive little books that we have read in many a day is the little book which has been recently written by Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld on oratory, its sixty-five pages fairly bristles with gems of the best and purest thought and a blind man can readily see that the author is a great master of the English language. He divides oratory up into thirty grand divisions, and each division contains much sound advice for those who contemplate branching out into oratory. Mr. Altgeld concludes his little book on oratory as follows: "The orator of this age can sway not only his hearers but the civilized world. Would he tread the heights of the ideal? Then here is the path of the martyr, thorny and blood-stained, but glorious. Would he direct the vintage of his own time? Then here is the vineyard of humanity calling for men. Is he ambitious? There is the force that shakes the continents and thrills the nations, that rides upon the centuries and sports with the ages. Here, like Pericle's heroes, he can write his epitaphs in the hearts of mankind and have the whole wide world for a sepulcher. John P. Altgeld on Oratory is published in cloth binding by Chas. H. Kerr & Co., 56 5th Ave., and it sells for the small sum of fifty cents, and it is well worth it. THE APOLIQ MUSICAL CLUB AND HIAWATHA'S WEDDING FEAST. THE CONDITIONS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEM. By Hilary A. Herbert. Conditions in the late Confederate States, from "the surrender," as it is still called in the South up to the passage of the act of March 2, 1867, overthrowing the Johnson government, and establishing the congressional plan of reconstruction, were pathetic in the extreme. Out of a white population of about five million, there had gone into the Confederate army six hundred and twenty-five thousand, and of these two hundred thousand had lost their lives. Many thousands more had been maimed. Many other thousands had enlisted in the armies of the Union, and they also had suffered severely. Prussia was in a piteous plight at the close of the seven years' war, and so was France at the end of her great revolution. But Prussia, after her direful disasters, still had a certain amount of currency, and had no debts; France was left deeply in debt, but she had her currency and her financial institutions, whreas the Confederates, whose bank notes were now worthless, and whose currency and bonds were left without any government behind them, had practically nothing to show for their past savings. here was this further difference: neither Prussia nor France had ever been cursed with slavery; and all the other misfortunes of the South aggregated were but fleeting and temporary when compared with the enduring problems, economic and political, which were to come from the sudden manumission of four millions of slaves. Desolation had followed in the wake of armies. Plough stock had been taken, cattle and provisions consumed, fences destroyed, in places even cotton seed was not to be had; and almost no one had credit, where credit had once been nearly universal. The harvest of death had left nothing but debts and lands, and many land owners were without a dollar that would pay taxes, state or federal. Already in the Union for purposes of taxation, but still out of it politically, the people of the late Confederate states were at once to assume their full share of the debt of nearly three billions of dollars, contracted in subjugating them: they were to pay also their share of the pensions to Union soldiers, and the money thus drained from the South, to be expended in the North during the coming thirty-five years, was to be far more than equal to all the expenses of the Southern state governments, including school funds and interest on state debts. The spring of 1865 witnessed indeed the completion of the transfer of wealth in the United States from the home of the Southern planter, where it was once supposed to exist, to the Northern section of the Union. There was but one resource left. "King Cotton," during the past four years, had grievously disappointed the prophets who had boasted of his prowess; but now he came out from his hiding-places, and showed that though he could not as a sovereign turn the tide of unsuccessful war, he still could play the part of Santa Claus in times of peace. Never were children more delighted by the gray-bearded king of Christmas, than were the helpless and hapless people of the South by the blessings that come to them by fleecy staple, absolutely the only relief in sight. The cotton that had inwar ascaped Federal and Confederate torches, and that could elude the United States-government agents, who were seizing it upon the plea, often groundless, that it had been subscribed to the Confederacy, brought high prices; and the money thus received, though wholly insufficient, was invaluable. It passed rapidly from hand to hand; for lessons of economy that are learned under compulsion are reldom taken to heart. Most of those who got money off cotton were in a mood for self-indulgence; they must put away the momery of the bitter past, and reward themselves for the sacrifices they had made. Women who had cut up and sent their carpets to soldiers for blankets, must have silks and satins. Sorghum syrup, substitutes for coffee, and other economic makeshifts were relegated as far as possible to the limbo of the unhappy past. These were the conditions that awaited the Confederate soldier at home. To appreciate his attitude, it must be recalled that as nine-tenths of the Union army had enlisted to save the Union, and would have refused to join in a war having for its sole purpose the abolition of slavery, so five-sixths of the Confedrates were non-slaveholders, and had fought, not for slavery, but to maintain the old constitution under an independent government. When it became apparent that independence was impossible, the war ended suddenly. There was no guerilla warfare, prompted by hatred, as in South Africa, or in the Philippines. The issue was decided, and the confederate soldier turned his foot-steps homeward, not ashamed of his defeat, but exulting in the thought that he could call upon mankind to witness that he had made a brave fight. His cause was lost and his country desolated, but "hope springs eternal in the human breats." Now that slavery and secession were out of the way, he hoped for peace and prosperity in the old Union. One of the most notable features of his homecoming was the strangely intermingled gaiety and gloom that everywhere, for weeks and months, pervaded society. The comrade who was never to return had met a soldier's fate; for him the tear had fallen as he was buried. Why should not the survivor be happy at meeting again those whom he had often thought he was never more to see? Mother, sister, wife, or sweetheart, greeted him with joy, and as a hero who had deserved, if he did not achieve, success; and never were there gayer routs, dancing parties, and weddings than those which were everywhere witnessed throughout the late Confederacy in the times of which we write. Tables were often thinly spread, but youth and beauty and valor had shaken hands, the long agony of war was over, and the white dove of peace had come again. The theory of Malthus, that after devastating wars population increases with a bound, was being illustrated afresh. Marriages were more frequent than ever. Around camp-fires and in lonely prison hills, the soldier, often a bachelor who had never before thought to prove Benedict, had been dreaming of a peaceful home, made happy by the smiles of a wife and the prattle of children; and now, whatever eles was in store for him, his dream must be realized. To be continued.) This is a question every editor should think over, how they puff one, and how they buy a daily paper at 35c a week and refuse a Negro weekly at 10c. We wonder do they know, they are Negroes too.—Mississippi World. Yes, brother, but they are a class of fools, so much so until they will get an invitation to the rear in a few more years. Let every Negro journal burn these fools until they fall in line. The News will never cease to burn them until all are in—you know.—The News, Shreveport, La. Brother Collins and Andrews Chicago is full of great big Little Negroes, who never think about paying one cent towards supporting newsapers published in the interest of the race, yet these cheap Johns and partly-browned Negroes, who want to be white get wrong in their empty heads if they are not looked upon as great leaders of the Negro race. THE COLORED WOMAN'S BUSINESS CLUB. Miss Ida C. Sweet spoke before the Colored Woman's Business Club Friday night on "Foundation Stones of Character." The club held its meeting at the spacious home of Mrs. A. C. Lewis, 3241 Wabash ave. Mrs. Smith, its President, very gracefully presented Miss Sweet to the large number of men and women who graced the occasion, and they all were completely charmed with Miss Sweet, for she urged all who were under the sound of her voice to be truthful, honest and adhere to the Golden Rule. At the conclusion of Miss Sweet talk a reception was held and each person was presented to her and her friend Miss Jacobs, President Smith informed us that in the near future the Colored woman's business club will open a home for working women, which will be very commendable. The Broad Ax always has a good word for the Colored Woman's business club, for its aims and objects are in the right direction. The brutal killing of Postmaster Baker and his child and the wounding of his family on the night of February 21, 1808, by white men who did not want him to be postmaster at Lake City is well known. Eleven prominent citizens were arrested and tried and the jury failed to agree. It is now said that the understanding was that the case was to be dropped after Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett took the crippled family to New England. The United Sates Circuit Court this week at Charleston, S. C., has moved the case to the contingent docket which means that the men indicted will not have to stand a second trial. We thought Justice would end it this way. Shame!—Ex. If the women were as careful in padding their busts as they are in padding their bustles, what perfect creatures they would be. We would prefer admiring a woman with large feet than one with a large mouth: a woman can hide her feet. The advocate general of the national department of the Grand Army of the Republic is James N. Wolfe, a leading Colored lawyer of Boston. Ex-Congressman George H. White, of North Carolina, will from henceforth make his home in New York City, where he will engage in the practice of law. Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar's new book, "The Fanatics," will be issued in April by Dodd Mead & Co., of New York. Mrs. Lillian Thomas, a mulatto, is making an oil portrait of President McKinley. He posed for her recently. Booker T. Washington is to be one of the speakers at the Missionary Conference of the M. E. Church, South, which meets in New Orleans the last of next month. By the will of Moses Pierce, recently deceased, a wealthy cotton manufacturer of Norwich, Conn., the sum of $100,000 is devised as a fund with which to educate teachers for Colored youth. Frank J. Ryan, former superintendent of the water pipe extension, is now connected with Delaney & Murphy, Distillers, Importers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers, 10-12Wabash Ave. Daniel Herlihy, who ranks as one of the very best city officials may become a candidate for city boiler inspector. Mr. Herlihy is well fitted for any position which he may be called upon to fill. City Electrician E. B. Ellicott is the right man in the right place and The Broad Ax feels sure that Mayor Harrison will retain Mr. Ellicott in the service of the city. A Colored man in cleaning out a cellar in Richmond, Ky., this week found a jug containing $30,000 in gold. Nothing is known as to the ownership of the money. P. P. Schlacks, city boiler inspector so far has endeavored to discharge all the duties of his office fearlessly and honestly and we believe Mayor Harrison will re-appoint Mr. Schlack to his present position. R. B. Fitzgerald, one of the leading Colored men of Durham, N. C., is a brickmaker and works many hands. He also owns a large drug store and cigar manufacturing establishment, employing in all about 30 men and women. Mrs. L. A. Davis, president of Phyllis Wheatly Club, witnessed the rendition of "Hiawatha's Wedding Feat" at the Auditorium Monday evening, and she greatly enjoyed all the singing and the music from the beginning to the end. Mrs. George L. Braxton, 146 Gladys avenue, and her preposessing sister Miss E. Lee, paid us a pleasant call last week. Mrs. Braxton is quite a songstrees and a great lover of music and she and her sister are warm friends of The Broad Ax. Col. A. D. Gash, "Not desiring to swell your head, but I want to say that your article on Thomas Jefferson, which appeared in the last issue of The Broad Ax, was one of the most logical articles ever written in behalf of Democracy and Thomas Jefferson." Little Sarah Hackett, a bright Colored girl, is the prize speller of all the Alameda Grammar Schools, in California, having won the honor over eight school children selected as the best spellers in four schools for the annual contest in the rooms of the Board of Education. F. W. Blocki, for some time past has practically conducted all the affairs pertaining to the duties of the commissioner of public works. Therefore The Broad Ax would be highly pleased to see Mr. Blocki chosen Commissioner of Public Works. Bishop C. H. Fowler, at a meeting of the Washington conference of the M. E. church, said that in 100 years there would be 100,000,000 Negroes in the United States, even without immigration, and from that number an army of 20,000,000 could be raised. The Negro problem, he said, is a problem of education. A white man took out a license the other day to marry a mulatto girl of this city. He was immediately arrested, and held to answer to a tribunal to establish his sanity. There seems to be an impression that any white man that wishes to live in honorable marital relation with a negro woman must certainly be crazy.—Ex., Washington, D. C. Mr. E. Terry, of Nashville, Tenn., is visiting his old friend, Maj. R. A. Ware, 2232 Dearborn St. Mr. Terry informs us that Nashville has a new drug store which is conducted by Sevier & Parker, who are both colored men. It is located in the Napier Block, which is also owned by one of the leading Colored lawyers of the South. Mr. Franklin C. Hollister, Secretary of Hollister Bros., Printers, Designers and Engravers, corner Madison and Market Sts., is well drilled in all the avenues of business, and it is a pleasure to transact business with such men as Mr. Hollister for he delights in treating his customers decently. Mr. Hollister is one of the directors of the Apollo Musical Club. We congratulate W. D. Miller, of the American Eagle, and Julius F. Taylor of the Broad-Ax, St. Louis and Chicago, on having elected their Democratic city tickets. They respectively, did a great deal toward bringing about the results and they should be cared for by the Democratic administrations.—The Plain Dealer, Salt Lake City, Utah. Three hundred white ministers, delegates to the Baptist State convention which convened at Greenwood, S. C., recently rose and remained standing while the Rev. Edward Starks, a Negro, was walking up the aisle of the church to the rostrum. Stark was 100 years old on August 18th, and has been preaching 76 years. He made an address and before adjournment led the convention in prayer. Noah D. Thompson, who is one of the leaders of the four hundred among the Afro-Americans of this city occupied one of the front seats in the parquet circle at the Auditorium Monday night; and Mr. Thompson could not find words sufficient to express his highest admiration for the Apollo Musical club ,for bringing forth "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast." Mr. Thompson has been mingling with brainy white men so long that,like them, he appreciates high class music. Willis J. Abbot, who is well and favorably known in the newspaper world, will on the first of May become the editor of The Pilgrim, a monthly magazine, which is published at Battle Creek, Mich. Dr. Julia Holmes Smith of this city, will also after that date write for The Pilgrim. Her articles will be entitled, "Hints for Right Living." With Mr. Abbot and Doctor Smith at the helm The Pilgrim will flourish like a green bay tree. W. H. A. Moore adressed the South Side Men's Sunday club at St. Mark's M. E. church, 47th and State street last Sunday afternoon on "Phylis Wheatly." He handled his subject very interestingly and it pleased the large number of men, women and children, who turned out to hear him. Rev. J. W. Robinson, in drawing the meeting to a close paid a high compliment to The Broad Ax for containing such a fine cut and an excellent article on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. During the last presidential campaign the editor of this column pleaded faithfully with the readers of this column to give their support to McKinley, and thus defeat Bryan, which would be a death blow to Pitchfork Ben Tillman and his disfranchising method. As everyone knows McKinley was elected. What has been the result? The president oppose dthe reduction of southern representatives; he has banquettd Pitchfork Tillman at th White House, while our own, and only representative, George White has been ignored. Maryland has taken its cue from the president's attitude and has passed a law to disfranchise 50,000 colored voters. State by state is defying the amendments to the constitution, while the president and a republican congress prevent the minority from upholding the constitution of the United States. We shall make due apology for our misguided advice in the last presidential campaign, and voice our sentiments from time to time. —W. Forrest Cozart, in The Freeman. Last fall, Mr. Cozart you assisted in branding all Negroes as traitors to their race, who refused to support President McKinley, and now how long will you be able to see that you were wrong and they were right? Medium-sized carrota scraped and sliced and boiled till tender in salted water may be made into a salad with the addition of a simple French dressing. Sliced parsnips, boiled first, are also liked by some persons when served as a salad. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants. Knights of Labor, Indians, Morons, Republicans, Priests, or any other can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; as only on one side of the paper. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Crowded through the ocean may be becoming the iron four-masted sailing ship Afghanistan, managed to make a seven months' voyage from San Francisco to Liverpool without being spoken by another vessel. Not a word was heard of her from her departure till she sailed up the Mersey, a few days ago. A quarter of a century ago the whole of the mercantile marine of Japan could have been described on a small sheet of note paper; but now, it requires a considerable volume, as it totals 491 steamers of 484,853 tons, and 1,031 sailing ships of 146,088 tons—in all 680,942 tons, and it now tenth on the world's list of ship-owning nations. The private letter books of Robert Morris, the financier of the revolution, which were lost for several generations, were brought to light in Washington recently, and have been deposited in the congressional library. Another acquisition by the library is the original manuscript setting forth the various decrees by which the titles were conferred on Columbus by the pope for the discovery of America. Morocco has taken a first step toward civilization. The Sultan has ordered a set of Highland bagpipes from a Glasgow firm. They are probably the most costly ever made in Scotland, as the mountings are in 18-carat gold and the price is $1,000. One of the chief officers at the Sultan's court is a Maclean—a nephew of the Highland chief of Lochbine in Mull, who insists on spelling his name MacLaine. Thre was a unique mixing of religions at a meeting last week in New York. It was a meeting of the Baron and Baroness Hirsch association and was held in the Baptist church, of which Rev. Dr. McArthur is pastor. The baron and baroness were Jews. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to this country, was the principal speaker and Rev. Dr. Heber Newton, the distinguished Episcopalian divine, also delivered an address. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, lies in an unmarked grave that, except perhaps to one or two persons, is also unknown. Dr. George L. Porter of Bridgeport, Conn., who saw both the killing of Lincoln and the death and burial of Booth, says that Booth's body was hidden in Washington arsenal, in a spot still kept secret. After that it was given to the family upon condition that no monument nor even a mound should mark its resting place. The rearing of ostriches in the Valley of the Nile is likely to become an important industry in the near future. An experimental farm, established under French auspices, in the vicinity of Helicopolis, has successfully demonstrated the suitability of the climate of the Delta for this purpose, and during the present season the number of birds of all ages has reached the respectable total of 1,400. The runs are established by means of cheap rabble, and are planned out concentrically round a central watch-tower, which permits of a survey of the whole farm being made at a glance. There has just concluded at Catanzaro, Italy, the trial of 230 men belonging to a criminal association, which named itself "The Imperishable Tree." The managing chiefs were the "trunks," fully initiated members were "branches," junior members were "leaves," and the novices the "first flowers." The plunder realized by the organization was the "fruit." This seems to have been considerable. Without counting homicides and crimes of violence, the robberies during the few months numbered more than 400, and the various articles stolen total something like a half million. As the public court was not large enough for such a trial, it had to be held in a church. The sentences amount to six hundred years. As the United States pays no civil pensions neither ex-presidents nor their widows receive allowances; but Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Garfield are each recipients of $5,000 a year as the widows of generals in the army. There were surviving last year four widows of soldiers who fought in the Revolution 1776, the youngest of whom was eighty-four. No doubt some widows of civil war pensioners will live to be centenarians. In that case the opening of the twenty-first century will witness the pertinacious lady cheerfully signing her youcher. Many young women have married aged pensioners, that they may subsequently receive life pensions as widows. By actuarial calculation, it is "odds on" that more than one widow will be drawing a Spanish-American war pension TEXAS' OIL KING. CAPT, A. F. LUCAS, WHO BORED WELL AT BEAUMONT. From an Humble Beginning He Has Suddenly Become One of the Richest Men in the State—His Attempts to Find Oil Laughed at at First. A few months ago Capt. A. F. Lucas was a stranger in Texas. Folks laughed at his efforts to find oil in the soil of the Lone Star state and regarded him with contempt and pity. Today he is a big man in the state and may be one of the next candidates for governor. Success has caused the change in sentiment. Lucas has struck it rich. His gusher at Zeaumont, about which much has appeared in print, has a flow of 30,000 barrels a day, which is over four times that of the largest one known in the United States up to the present time. Before the well was closed, the oil flowed into a temporary reservoir which had been formed about the well by throwing up a temporary embankment. This reservoir covered 64 acres of ground 10 inches deep. The bank gave way in one place and about 200,000 barrels of oil escaped. It is estimated that fully half a million barrels are still in the lake. It is not certain that this can be utilized, because it is so mixed with dirt that its usefulness is doubtful. The well is now closed and to handle the output the most expensive plant in the world is being built. A half million dollars will be invested in tanks alone. So strong is the pressure of the well it is estimated a vessel of from 2,000 to 3,000 tons' capacity can be loaded in less than 24 hours. Lucas went to Texas from Washington two years ago. The locality in which the well is situated has long been regarded as rich in oil, but numerous attempts to strike it, prior to Lucas' arrival, had failed. When Lucas appeared people ridiculed his efforts, but he was persistent and on the morning of January 10 oil was struck. From a poor man Lucas has A. come to be one of the richest men in Texas and if present prospects are realized, may become the richest. Handed to Rule Husbands. Germany has of late years been the stronghold of masculinity. The German women have been held up as paragons of all domestic virtues and steadfastly opposed to new womanhood. But even in Germany the throne of man is shaking. Berlin now has an Association of Married Women for the Control of Husbands. The constitution and bylaws haven't been made public and the meetings are private, but the name alone opens broad vistas of speculation as to the functions of the association. Presumably the women will all read papers and compare experiences, and the discussions will take on a reminiscent and anecdotal character that will make them even livelier than a Sorosis election day. Of course, American club women will look pityingly at their Teutonic sisters' effort to throw off the yoke. Organized effort toward the control of husbands isn't necessary over here. As the Wonderland Red Queen would say: "Oh, we passed that long ago." Each American woman controls her own husband with an ease that leaves her time and energy for problems more vital. Still, the German women have made a step in the right direction. What the feelings of the German husband are when he sees his wife setting forth to a meeting of the A. M. W. F. C. H. is beyond conjecturing.—New York Sun. Exploring in Ontario. The pole still lies hid, the sacred Lhama has kept fast the bars of her gates, and the rural secrets of Darkest Africa have not been dragged forth into light—but even Ontario has recesses into which a white man has never penetrated! The Duke of Abruzzo fared two thousand leagues for his Arctic enterprise; Henry Savage Landor photographed himself bound to a Thibetan stake—but the metropolitan city of Toronto is only two days distant from a forest older than Lebanon. The fitful voice of the prospector came down from this solitude, and the seeker of pulp wood cast a covetous eye on the spruce wilderness, but the Ontario government determined that its unknown regions should not be given over to the stranger. Accordingly an appropriation of forty thousand dollars was recently made, and ten exploring parties despatched to go up and possess the land. Unlike the Israelitish spies they have returned bearing neither figs nor pomegranates—Claude Bryan, in Canadian Magazine. The man who sows seeds of kindness has a perpetual harvest. PROTECTING HIS FAMILY. A Bull Moose's Fight with a Wildcat in a Maine Forest. A story illustrating the courage of moose and their devotion to their young is related by a Maine guide, says the Sun. He was with a party of sportsmen from New York and Boston, hunting big game in the Bangon and Aroostook region. One morning after a light fall of snow they came upon the tracks of three moose, apparently a bull, a cow and a calf, which they followed. Some distance further on a side hill they found signs of a struggle, evidently between the moose and some other animal—a mountain lion or wildcat. The snow was covered with blood spots, showing that the fight had been fierce. The sportsmen and guide continued to follow the tracks and at intervals found evidence of further encounters. Finally the party heard sounds of battle ahead. As they mounted the crest of a hill a peculiar sight met their gaze. Retreating as rapidly as possible under the circumstances was a good-sized cow moose perched upon whose back was a calf that had apparently been injured, while a little in front of the cow a large bull moose was engaged in a desperate fight with an enormous wild cat, the largest cat the guide had ever seen. The party watched the fight for some minutes, until finally with a sweep of his antlers the moose dealt a blow that seemed to disable the cat. The hunters might easily have killed the bull then and there, but their admiration for the pluck and resourcefulness of the moose family saved the big fellow. When the wildcat tried to get away he was quickly shot. The three moose moved rapidly out of sight, without, to all appearance, having noticed the presence of the hunters. The calf had been in some manner so injured that he could not walk, and his intelligent parents had arranged to carry him, pappoose, style, upon the broad back of the mother. While traveling in this fashion, evidently, the family had been attacked by the wildcat, a beast that at times will tackle anything from a dog to a locomotive. ROOSEVELT'S PASTIME. Compares Our Senators to Their Ancient Prototypes. "It would kill me in a year." This is what Theodore Roosevelt wrote twelve months ago to a friend in Washington. He was protesting against the consideration of himself for vice president. He wished to convey a strong impression of how irksome the performance of the duties would be if he should be nominated and elected. Well, writes a Washington correspondent, Vice President Roosevelt has had his first turn at the gavel. Just after adjournment of the extra session some one asked him "how he liked it." "Immensely, I like it immensely" replied the vice president. His face lighted up and there was no mistaking the genuineness. Mr. Roosevelt is most agreeably surprised by his first experience as presiding officer of the United States senate. He thought that sitting there hour after hour would be unbearable for the lover of strenuous life. How does he interest himself while the talk goes on hour after hour? Why! He ignores the thread of argument when it grows tiresome. He studies the senators. He compares them individually to historic characters. In this senator he finds the counterpart of some Grecian statesman and his imagination transforms the American capitol into the Acropolis. Then another is recognized and the vice president, toying with the gavel, sees a toga take the place of the Prince Albert and the galleries fade away while the outlines of the forum come dimly in view. For a dozen American senators Mr. Roosevelt has found the prototypes in ancient politics. He will resume his comparisons when the regular session opens in December. Oae Way of Swearlag Off. "Give me a pony of brandy, quick!" exclaimed a nervous-looking man as he rushed up to the bar of a hotel the other afternoon, says a Chicago paper. The liquor was at once forthcoming, but instead of gulping it down, as the man's manner naturally suggested that he would do, he poured a little into the palms of his hands, rubbed them together, and buried his nose in his hands. He gave long-drawn sniffs of inhalation until the liquor had evaporated, and then poured more from the glass into his hands. This operation he repeated until the glass was empty. Then he paid for his drink and went out with a look of contentment on his face. "What's the answer?" asked an interested spectator. "It simply means that there are more ways than one of beating the devil around the stump," said the bartender. "That man swore off drink the first of the year, and I don't believe he has swallowed a drop of liquor since. He inhales it now—always brandy. I've known him to come in here as often as five or six times in one day and go through the performance you have just seen." Things grow very fast in the short Arctic summer. As soon as the snow melts off In many places the ground is covered with a vine which bears a small berry something like a huckleberry, porwong it is called. It is sour and has a pungent taste, and the Indians leave off work and go porwong hunting, cramming themselves with the berries. Three miles from the village of Krisuvik, in the great volcanic district of Iceland, there is a whole mountain composed of eruptive clays and pure white sulphur. A beautiful grotto penetrates the western slope to an unknown depth. British Postal Reforms. Among the new century reforms which the postal authorities are credited with having under consideration is the adoption of the system known for many years in India as the "value-payable" parcel post. Under this scheme, for a very small commission, the postoffice delivers parcels, collects the value of the article and transmits it to the sender of the parcel. During the last year 2,500,000 parcels were thus carried by the Indian postoffice, the commission realizing £34,-000. The Indian postoffice has a similar system of paying money-orders, the whole operation occupying no more time than it at present takes in delivering a registered letter and obtaining the addressee's receipt for it, says the London Express. This system is also under discussion at the general postoffice. The number of letters, parcels, money orders, etc., carried by the Indian postoffice last year was 520,000,000. The number of complaints, was infinitesimal, and practically the whole of the work is done by natives. There should be little difficulty, therefore, in introducing these eminently desirable reforms in the English system. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. The Wife and Mother-in-Law of Mr. Charles Keys. CLARISSA, Minn., April 15, (Special.)—No family in this vicinity is better known or more universally respected, than Mr. Charles Keys, the local School Teacher, and his estimable wife, and mother-in-law. For a long time, Mrs. Keys has been in ill health. Recently, however, she has found a cure for her ailments in Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I cannot speak too highly of Dodd's Kidney Pills, or of what they have done for me." said Mrs. Keys. "My life was miserable, my back always ached, also my head. I was troubled with Neuralgia in the head and face and suffered extreme pain, but thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills, all those aches and pains have vanished like the morning dew, and it now seems that life is worth living. I consider Dodd's Kidney Pills a God-send to suffering humanity. They may rightly be named the Elixir of Youth. "While speaking of my own case and the wonderful benefit I have received, I might also add, that my mother, who is now an old lady of 74 years and who lives with me, has been troubled more or less, with aches and pains, as is natural with one of her advanced age. When she saw what Dodd's Kidney Pills had done for me, she commenced to use them herself, and she says that they have done her more good than any other medicine she has ever tried. "This testimony is given in the hope that others who may be afflicted as we were, may see and read it, and be benefited by it." What Mrs. Keys states in her letter can be verified by reference to any of her many friends in this neighborhood. Dodd's Kidney Pills have already a wonderful reputation in Todd County. Nothing has ever cured Bright's Disease, Diabetes or Dropsy but Dodd's Kidney Pills. Boulevard to Cross Ohio The owners of automobiles in Ohio constitute a new force in the good roads movement. There is a plan under way for the building of a boulevard from one end of the state to the other, touching the cities and largest towns. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. $ \frac{1}{4} $ the price of coffee. 15c and 25 cts per package. Sold by all grocers. Digestibility of Foods. Rice, raw eggs and boiled venison require only one hour to digest. At the other end are pork, roast beef, cabbage and hard eggs, which require four to five hours. Coughing Leads to Consumption Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. The annual loss to France caused by the ravages of hailstorms is said to amount to about 83,000,000 francs. From 1873 to 1895 the figures varied from 40,000,000 to 134,000,000 francs. Garfield Tea, the medicine that purifies the blood and cleanses the system, brings good health to all who use it. It is made from herbs. Druggists sell it. It is estimated that fully 10,000 "laws" will have been enacted before all the state legislatures adjourn. HOLLYHOCK POULTRY FARM 56-page Illustrated Poultry Catalogue. The secrets of successful poultry raising told in plain language; all about incubators, brooders, poultry houses, how to hatch and raise every chick, what, when and how to feed, forcing hens to lay and hundreds of valuable subjects contained in no other catalogue. Tells of 35 varieties popular thoroughbred jowls and quotes extremely low prices. Send 56 in stamps for postage. Hollyhock Poultry Farm, Box 1457, Des Moines, Ia. Eastern S. Dakota Lands for Sale. 100 acres 3 miles w. of Castlewood, co. seat; price $1,000. 800 acres 3 miles w. of Castlewood; price $6,000. 100 acres 4 miles w. of Castlewood, $2,000. 100 acres 9 miles w. of Castlewood, large back, good house, spindid water, 100 acres in crop, close to P.O. and school; price $8,500. Liberal terms arranged; small cash payment, balance time. Address: JOHN WALKLIN, Castlewood, Hamilton Co., So. Dakota COLORADO FARMS No cyclones, no tarnadoes in Sunny Colorado. Are you looking for a farm, ranch, garden, fruit tract or business opening near college town without soaps? Write for reliable information and list of properties. State your want, I'll try to meet it. Liberal terms arranged; small cash payment, balance time, low interest. C. Golding-Dwyre, Fort Collins, Colo. The strongest paper yet produced is made of Manila hemp. A sheet of legal cap will sustain a weight of 300 pounds, and a man of ordinary muscular power cannot tear it across. The most durablepaper is made by a guild near Nankin, China, which supplies the government of that empire the leaves of its official documents. Some of these are over 1,000 years old. Fireproof paper made of asbestos is another kind of greater durability. The drawback to it, however, for printing purposes, is that although it will pass through fire unscathed, it will come out snow white, without a trace of the printed letters or writing that was on it. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. A Month's Test Free. A Month's Test Free. If you have Rheumatism, write Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis., Box 143, for six bottles of his Rheumatic Cure, express paid. Send no money. Pay $5.50 if cured. It is a saying of Queen Sophia of Sweden that "the world's history is made in the nursery." TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on the box. 25c. Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.—George Herbert. Millions of sufferers use Wizard Oil for pain every year and call it blessed. Ask the druggist, he knows. The value of France's latest vintage is estimated at 1,264,258,000 francs. Grett Good See Fao-Simile Wrapper Below. FITS Permanently Cured. Noits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Man's greed for gold was probably the original germ of yellow fever. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. D. ENDSLEY, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION Price 25 Cents GENUINE MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. Purely Vegetable. Ventilating an opinion often causes a coolness between friends. BATT'S CAPS FOR COLDS. Are recommended by the best druggists. 25 cents. They cure safely and quickly. An umbrella does a lot of good but it has to be put up to it. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED The largest room in the world is the room for improvement. TWENTY-TWO U. S. SENATORS endorse DR. CRANE'S QUAKER TONIC TABLETS Kidneys. Liver. Bowels. A gentleman is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Coe's Cough Balsam Is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable. Try it. The ardent lover is like a tailor when he presses his suit. Don't Waste Your Money. Buy good soap. Maple City Self Washing Soap is the best. All grocers. INVALUABLE TO HORSE OWNERS The newest round dance in Kansas is the "slow drag." PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle. Pekin now has a newspaper published in German. A rich and pretty widow never comes a-miss. for rheumatism, if your credit is no. But only one doctor will cure charges nothing for advice. Mr. Greene, the discoverer of Dr. will write to him at 35 West 14th will tell you exactly how to get rid and all. It won't cost you anything n't you write to Dr. Greene to-day? Any Doctor is willing to treat you for rheumatism good or you pay his fee. But once your rheumatism, and he charges me. This physician is Dr. Greene, Greene's Nervura. If you will write to Street, New York City, he will tell you of rheumatism for good and all. It will get his advice. Why don't you write is willing to treat you for rheumatism, if your credit is good or you pay his fee. But only one doctor will cure your rheumatism, and he charges nothing for advice. This physician is Dr. Greene, the discoverer of Dr. Greene's Nervura. If you will write to him at 35 West 14th Street, New York City, he will tell you exactly how to get rid of rheumatism for good and all. It won't cost you anything to get his advice. Why don't you write to Dr. Greene to-day? W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & $3.50 SHOES' UNION MADE The real worth of my $3.00 and $3.50 shoes compared with other makes is $4.00 to $5.00. My $4.00 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. Best in the world for men. I make and sell more men's fine shoes, Goodyear Welt (Hand-Sewed Process), than any other manufacturer in the world. I will pay $1,000 to any one who can prove that my stance is not true. (Signed) W. L. Douglas. Take no substitute! Insist on having W. L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. Your dealer should keep them; I give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. If he does not keep them and will not get them for you, order direct from factory, enclosing price and 2xc. extra for carriage. Over 1,000,000 satisfied wearers. New Spring Catalog free. Fast Color Eyelashes used exclusively. W. L. DOUGLAS, Bockton, Mass. Lumber N Notice. 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 LUMBE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES MONROE 40 W. Chicago Av. Watches Fine Gun Metal Watches, made from Guns captured in the Spanish-American War. Every patriotic American should have one of these Souvenirs of the War with Spain, Gold Filled Bow and Crown Jewelled Movement; Stem Wind and Stem Set; Ladies size, $4.60; Gent's size, $5.55. Order quick. The most serviceable case made. Will send C. O D., subject to examination, if requested. Diamonds and High-Grade Gold Filled Watches sold on every payments. Agents wanted. J. A. BARTON, 169 Oakwood Rvd., hicano, IH. LUMBER COMPANY, S MONROE 211, MONROE 290. CHICAGO, ILL. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES MONROE 211, MONROE 290. 40 W. Chicago Av. CHICAGO, ILL. MONEY In Sheep in Montana is SAFE and pays 25 per cent interest. Now is the time to INVESTED invest. Get in at bottom prices and be prepared for four more years of prosperity. Write for our annual report and particulars. Montana Co-Operative Fanch Co., Great Falls, Montana. PATENTS WITHOUT FEE unless successful Send description; and get free opinion. MILO B. STEVENS & CO. Estab. 1864. Div. 2, 817-14th Street, WASHINGTON, D.C. Branch offices: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. I CURE FITS FREE A Full-Size #1 Treatment of Dr. O. Fleipn's Brown's Great Remedy for Pit, Epilepsy and all Nervous Diseases. Address O. FIELDS BROWN, 28 Broadway, Newburgh, R.I. PISO'S CURE FOR CHURSES WHERE ALL ELSE FAIL. Best Cough Syrup. Taste Good. Use in time. Sold by drupalte. CONSUMPTION Farms for sale on easy terms, or exchange, in Ia. Bob, Minn. or S. D. J. Mulhall, Sioux City, Iowa. SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER, 25c Large LIQUID and POWDER, 75c At all the Stores, or by Mail for the price. HALL & RUCKEL NEW YORK Must Bear Signature of Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CURE SICK HEADACHE. 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, 1223 Modnadnock Block, Chicago, or E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Special excursions to Western Canada during March and April. Send 10c for Illustrated Treatise on Horse- shoeing Without Nails. Every owner of a Horse should have THIS BOOK. AMERICAN HAILLESS HOUSEFENCE 00 AMERICAN NAILELESS HORSESHOE CO. 604 Lippincott Building, PHILADELPHIA. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 16, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. 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 J. --- New England Women Have an Abiding Faith in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. MRS. MABEL' GOOKIN After years of struggle to attain and merit public confidence, with a firm and steadfast belief that some day others would recognize in us the truth, good faith, and honesty of purpose which we know we possess, what a genuine satisfaction it is to succeed, and to realize the uplifting influence of the merited confidence of a vast army of our fellow beings. Thus stands the Pinkham name in New England, and all over America, and nowhere is the faith in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound greater than in New England, its home. Merit, and merit alone, can gain this. If Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will cure these women — why not you — you cannot tell until you try it. If you are ill, and really want to get well, commence its use at once, and do not let any drug clerk persuade you that he has something of his own which is better, for that is absurd. Ask him to produce the evidence we do. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I was troubled very badly with inflammation of the bladder, was sick in bed with it. I had two doctors, but they did me no good. A friend gave me Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it helped me. I have now taken three bottles of it, and I am entirely cured. It is a God-send to any woman, and I would recommend it to any one suffering as I was. I think, if most of the women would take more of your medicine instead of going to the doctors, they would be better off. The Compound has also cured my husband of kidney trouble." MRS. MABEL GOOKIN NERVOUS PROSTRATION. "For two years I suffered from nervous prostration, the result of female weakness. I had leucorrhoea very badly, and at time of menstruation would be obliged to go to bed. Also suffered with headaches, pain across back, and in lower part of abdomen. I was so discouraged. I had read of Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound, and concluded to give it a trial. I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham, and received avery nice letter in return. I began at once the use of her Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier, and am now feeling splendid. I have no more pain at monthly periods, can do my own work, and have gained ten pounds. I would not be without your Vegetable Compound. It is a splendid medicine. I am very thankful for what it has done for me." —Mrs. J. W. J., 76 Carolina Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass. New York-Philadelphia Trolley Line. Plans are about completed to close up the gaps between New York and Philadelphia and complete a trolley line between the two big cities. The tracks of a couple of steam roads are to be used for a portion of the way and a high rate of speed is expected. The promoters say that the full fare each way will be $1. The round trip between the two places by the steam roads is $4. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrch. Hall's Catarrch Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrch being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrch Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Q. Sold by druggists 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. How Do You Like Monkey? How Do You Like Monkey? A Brazilian cook book gives seven modes of cooking monkeys, including stewing with figs, bananas or squash, and baking with sweet potatoes.—Pennsylvania Grit. PAYS FIVE TIMES AS MUCH AS CORN. Buy Rice lands in S. E. Texas and S. W. La. at $10 to $15 per acre. 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I must say it is the grandest medicine on earth, and have advised a great many suffering with female troubles to take it. I tell people I wish I could go on the platform and lecture on it. "My trouble was painful, menstrual cine. I must say it is the grandest medicine on earth, and have advised a great many suffering with female troubles to take it. I tell people I wish I could go on the platform and lecture on it. ation. The suffering I endured pen cannot describe. I was treated by one of our most prominent physicians here for five months, and found myself getting worse instead of better. At the end of the fifth month he told me he had done all he could for me, and that I had better go to the hospital. "My sister advised me to try your Vegetable Compound, as it cured her of backache. I did so, and took it faithfully, and am now cured of my trouble, and in perfect health, many thanks to your medicine. I cannot praise it enough, and would recommend it to all who suffer from any female weakness."—Mrs. H. S. BALL, 461 Orchard St., New Haven, Conn. $5000 REWARD. — We have deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn, $0000, which will be paid to any per son who can find that the above testimonial letters are not genuine, or were published before obtaining the writer's special permission. LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. Kept Coffin in House. Alfred Redman, aged 85, a farmer of Maysville, Ky., has had his coffin in the house forty years, although the fact was not known outside of his family until a few days ago, when he ordered a new one, having grown too stout for the accommodations offered by the old. What Do the Children Drink? What Do the Children Drink. Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about 1/4 as much. All grocers sell it 15c and 25c. Prof. Pickering's Astronomical Honor. Mr. Choate, the United States Ambassador, received on February 8 the gold medal awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society to Professor E. C. Pickering, director of the Harvard College observatory. Should Be In Every Household. A jar of RUBEFACIENT should be kept in every house. It is the most wonderful specie in all cases of internal inflammation and will speedily slip in the bud any case of Pneumonia, Diphtheria, La Gripppe, etc. Write to the Rubefacient Co., Newton Upper Falls, Mass., for free booklet. Wireless Telegraphy on Atlantic. Professor R. A. Fessenden, with his assistants, has installed a wireless telegraphy station not far from Cape Hatteras, off Roanoke Island N. C. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. It is the opinion of experts that the opening of China and Siberia will disclose large deposits of gold and that Asia after a while will furnish a large part of the world's supply. Don't Spoil Your Hands Use Maple City Self Washing Soap. It saves rubbing and makes clothes look white as when new. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well. In density of population Arizona has 1.09 inhabitants to the square mile. LI HUNG CHANG IS ILL MAY NOT LIVE TO SEE PEACE IN CHINA. Though a Physical Wreck His Mind Is Said to Be as Clear as Ever—His Health Has Been Steadily Waning for a Year. The health of Li Hung Chang is now a matter of grave consideration for the ministers of the powers. His health has been slowly and steadily waning for a year past, and there has been fear for some months that he would not survivve the negotiations in which he plays so important a part. What the effect of his death would be upon the situation at present is a difficult matter to conjecture, as no other man in China has the influence with the Chinese court that he has. Though he is a physical wreck, the earl's mind is still as brilliant as ever and he handles the affairs of the nation with great skill. The sagacious old man has played his cards with almost wizard-like skill. Who would be able to take up his work where he lays it down no one can tell, but it is a strong feeling that Minister Wu, now at Washington, might succeed him. Between Li Hung Chang and Mr. Wu there has been a lifelong friendship, and the younger man has in many ways been an apt pupil of the elder. It is not improbable that his elevation to the commission would be received as a clear advantage to the prospect of peace. It might, however, be opposed by Germany, because of the fact that Wu is less oriental in his habit of mind than Li Hung Chang, and has been more or less the product of English teaching. It will be remembered that Wu was educated in Hong-Kong, became a barrister before the English courts there, and there is even now doubt whether he is a subject of China or not. By many it is claimed that he is a British citizen. JINHUANG LI HUNG CHANG. and that his relation to the Chinese imperial government is only that of a regularly employed attorney. A Sample of Flippino Oratory. Filipinos have the oriental gift of oratory of the ornate, flowery kind. An illustration of this is contained in the last mail from Manila. When about 100 Filipinos employed in the ordinance department of that city took the oath of allegiance to the United States, their spokesman, Hugo Asunción, delivered the following patriotic address: "Filipinos: This is the hour in which the light spreads itself over the fields like a mantle of gold; when the ancient trees, with their clinging parasites, lazily move their great crowns in the breath of the early breeze; when the shrubs greet the day with the delicious odors of their flowers; on whose tendrils the dew has left a pearl which the sun turns into a beautiful gift from a serene night of love; when the birds raise, in concerted choir, their hymns of praise; in short, all nature salutes the father of life, the luminous representation of the creator of the world. Now that we have had the happiness of being gathered under the starry banner, do not doubt, Filipinos, that the grand republic of America is that which will conduct us, be late or early, to the moral and material good of these islands. Therefore, you who have signed and sworn your fealty to this grand nation, join with me in crying: Long live the starry banner! Long live our colonel! Long live our lieutenant! Long live America!" Elephant in a Barber Shop Quite an excitement was caused around the zoo at Indianapolis, Ind., by a baby elephant, which escaped from his keepers and proceeded to make things lively while he had his freedom. He dashed through a large plate glass window into a barber shop and drove the frightened white-coated men into the street. Escaping from there he ran down Illinois street until he was attracted by a stuffed bear in front of a fur store, which he tore to pieces. He then confiscated the stock of a fruit vender, the owner, like the barbers, fleeing in terror. He was finally captured by trainers from the zoo who got him by the ears and marched him home. Bendigo, perhaps the most famous of Australian gold fields, is preparing to celebrate its jubliee by holding a mining exhibition. It was in October, 1851, that the first nuggets were found by an old shepherd on the spot where Golden square now stands. Since then Bendigo has contributed 17,169,680 ounces to the gold output of the world. The old shepherd was a pugnacious and quarrelsome person, hence he was christened by his comrades "Bendigo." the name of the most renowned English prize fighter of the period. DAN GROSVENOR SAYS: D. M. Hon. Dan, A. Grosvenor, Deputy Auditor for the War Department, in a letter written from Washington, D. C., says: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from one bottle of Peruna. One week has brought wonderful changes and I am now as well as ever. Besides being one of the very best spring tonics it is an excellent catarrh remedy." Very respectfully, Dan A. Grosvenor. Hon. John Williams, County Com. Duluth, Minn., says the following in missioner, of 517 West Second street, regard to Peruna: "As a remedy for S. KEEP YOUR SADDLE DRY! THE ORIGINAL TOWER'S TRADE MARK FISH BRAND POMMEL SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW PROTECTS BOTH RIDER AND SADDLE IN THE HARDEST STORM ON SALE EVERYWHERE. BENEAR OF INVITATION'S. LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADES MARK. CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A.J.TOWER CO., BOSTON, MASS. 39 $50 REWARD will be paid for a case of backache, nervousness, sleepiness, weakness, loss of vitality, incipient kidney, bladder and urinary disorders that can not be cured by KID-NE-OIDS the great kidney, liver and blood medicine. 50c At all Druggists. Write for free sample. Address KID-NE-OIDS, St. Louis, Mo. $15.00 AWEEK and Expenses, yearly contract, weekly pay, for men with rig to sell Poultry Mixture in the country. We furnish bank reference of our reliability. mish bank reference of our reliability. EUREKA MFG. CO., Dept. 24, East St. Louis, Ill 160-Acre Farm Free in Manitoba, Canada. Why pay rent for a farm when you can obtain 160 acres of the choicest lands on the continent for grain growing, stock raising or mixel farming free, or purchase Government or railway lands near railway stations and towns at from $2.00 to $6.00 per acre on the ten-year installment plan? Manitobas the nearest province in Western Canada to the Great Lakes and has a complete system of railways: four competing lines run to the East, consequently cheap freight rates which assures the farmer the full value for all he raises. 33.0.0 farmers exported $5,000,000 bushels of wheat and 50,000 head of cattle and $500,000 worth of dairy produce in 18=9. Good schools and municipal system. Low taxes. For full particulars write to or call on J. D. GILLIES, Agent Government of Manitooa, Canada, 167 East Third street, St. Paul, Munn. names of Three Important American Cities. What are they? Each line represents one city. You may be the fortunate person to secure at least a portion, if not the full amount. For should there be more than one set of correct answers, the money will be equally divided. For instance, should five persons send in correct answers, each will receive $40.00; should ten persons send in correct answers, each will receive $20.00; twenty persons, $10.00 each. This offer is made to advertise and introduce our firm quickly. WE DO NOT WANT ONE CENT OF YOUR MONEY. THIS CONTEST IS FREE. As soon as you have arranged what you suppose are the correct names, send them. A postal card will do, and you will bear from us promptly by return mail. Those who have tried other contests and failed to secure anything, try this one. All can secure an award if they wish to try, without any expense whatever. THE HOME SUPPLY CO., Dept. W. DETROIT, MICH. Every day you clean the house you live in, to get rid of the dust and dirt. Your body, the house your soul lives in, also becomes filled up with all manner of filth, which should have been removed from day to day. Your body needs daily cleaning inside. If your bowels, your liver, your kidneys are full of putrid filth, and you don't clean them out, you'll be in bad odor with yourself and everybody else. DON'T USE A HOSE to clean your body inside, but sweet, fragrant, mild but positive and forceful CASCARETS, that WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP, prepare all the filth collected in your body for removal, and drive it off softly, gently, but none the less surely, leaving your blood pure and nourishing, your stomach and bowels clean and lively, and your liver and kidneys healthy and active. Get a 50-cent box today. a whole month's ```markdown ``` 160-Acre Farm Why pay rent for a farm when tinent for grain growing, stock rail railway lands near railway station year installment plan? Manitoba Lakes and has a complete system quently cheap freight rates which a farmers exported $5,000,000 bnshe of dairy produce in 18-9. Good sch lars write to or call on J. D. GIL Third street, St. Paul, Minn. names of Three Important Am one city. You may be the fort full amount. For should there will be equally divided. For i each will receive $0.00. should catarrh I can cheerfully recommend Peruna. I know what it is to suffer from that terrible disease and I feel that it is my duty to speak a good word for the tonic that brought me immediate relief. Peruna cured me of a bad case of catarrh and I know it will cure any other sufferer from that disease." Miss Mattle L. Guild, President Illinois Young People's Christian Temperance Union, in a recent letter from Chicago, Ill., says: "I doubt if Peruna has a rival in all the remedies recommended to-day for catarrh of the system. A remedy that will cure catarrh of the stomach will cure the same condition of the mucous membrane anywhere. I have found it the best remedy I have ever tried for catarrh, and believing it worthy my endorsement I gladly accord it." Mrs. Elmer Fleming, orator of Reservoir Council, No. 168, Northwestern Legion of Honor, of Minneapolis, Minn., writes from 2535 Polk St., N. E.: "I have been troubled all my life with catarrh in my head. I took Peruna for about three months, and now think I am permanently cured. I believe that for catarrh in all its forms, Peruna is the medicine of the age. I remedies fail. I mend Peruna as P its forms, Peruna is the medicine of the age. It cures when all other remedies fail. I can heartily recommend Peruna as a catarrh remedy." The spring is the time to treat catarrh. Cold, wet winter weather often retards a cure of catarrh. If a course of Peruna is taken during the early spring months the cure will be prompt and permanent. There can be no failures if Peruna is taken intelligently during the favorable weather of spring. As a systemic catarrh remedy Peruna eradicates catarrh from the system wherever it may be located. It cures catarrh of the stomach or bowels with the same certainty as catarrh of the head. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, give 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, Q. CHINA DINNER SET FOR FREE! Selling 15 Pounds Queen Baking Powder Our inducements are enormous. To every purchaser of a pound can of our Queen Baking Powder, we give FREE a beautiful Royal Blue Pitcher and 6 Glasses to match. To the lady who sells 15 pound canes Queen Baking Powder we will make a present of a handsome 10-piece Dinner Set, full size tableware, handsomely decorated and gold traced. We also give Mieres, Sewing Machines, Markinches, Dress Shirts, Furretails, Musical Instruments, and hundreds of other valuable premiums for selling our groceries. We also give cash commission. Write us to-day and get our illustrated plans and premiums; it will pay you. No money required. We pay freight and allow agents time to deliver goods before paying for them. AMERICAN SUPPLY CO., 806 N. Main St., Dept. 108, St. Louis, Mo. RECORD-BREAKING FEATS. When, a few weks ago, a builder in Paterson, N. J., broke all records by putting up a large frame structure in four hours and a half, it may have been imagined that the limit in queer feats had been reached, but those who have kept track of odd occurrences know that such is not the case. Clerks in the mailing department of post offices become extremely adept in handling the stamping hammer. The record is held by Daniel J. Cleary of Medina, N. Y., who stamped 500 letters in three minutes and 57 seconds, handling all his own mail. Walking and running fifty miles in eleven hours and thirty-six minutes and twenty-one seconds is not a bad go-as-you-please record by itself, but the event is all the more remarkable when it is stated that when C. Golding did this in London he carried on his head a two-gallon stone bottle, neck downward, and never touched the same during the entire journey. Such a prosaic occupation as wood chopping holds a record breaker. He is J. M. Mackinolty of Tasmania, Australia, and he cut through a standing block of wood 4 feet 8 inches thick in one minute and 41 seconds. Diving for coins is a profitable occupation, especially for such an individual as J. Finney of Manchester, England. At one dive, without the use of his hands, he picked up with the mouth 84 half-pennies. The duration of the dive is not stated. The record for diving from high elevations was not held by Steve Brodie. The palm is given to George W. Clarke, who jumped from the Halsted street bridge, Chicago, a distance of 165 feet. Oil City, Penn., carries off the honors for jumping the rope, as Fred A. Connor of that place made 2,000 consecutive jumps without a miss or stop in 11 minutes and 39 seconds. The champion hopper is S. D. See of Brooklyn, who once hopped 100 yards in 13 2-5 seconds. Oyster-opening has its champion in William Lowney of Philadelphia with the record of 100 oysters in three minutes and 3 seconds. James Weinhart of this city, once opened 459 clams in 30 minutes. To telegraph 345 words in five minutes is quick work. This is the world-beating record held by G. W. Conkling. There are lots of club swingers, but not all of them have anything like the endurance displayed by Homer W. Crawford, who, at New Lisbon, O., swung a pair of Indian clubs, weighing ten pounds each continuously for seven hours, averaging 70 swings per minute. The champion horseshoer is Peter Haley. At Shenandoah, Penn., he turned 100 horseshoes in one hour 47 minutes 47½ seconds. Practical bricklayers will appreciate the cleverness of Frank Stoewahs, who in Chicago la'd 162 bricks in two minutes 30 seconds, using a trowel and putting in cross-joints.—New York World. HERE AND THERE Corpulency and indolence are two conspicuous characteristics of Carlos I, king of Portugal. He is 38 years old. The English say number two is an unlucky number. They say no monarch tied to "two" in any way has been a success. A new tea company has just bought 6,000 acres of land in Colleton county, South Carolina, intending to raise tea for the market. In one hundred years, while the population of the world has doubled, the population of the United States has increased fourteen-fold. The wealth has increased fifty-fold. It is estimated that the fame which attaches to Stratford-on-Avon because of the fact that Shakespeare was born there is worth the interest on $5,000,000 every year to the town. When a gambling house is raided in Kansas the furniture selzed must, under the law, be tried in court and convicted before being destroyed, just as though it were a human being. New York's great underground railroad will be completed in the fall of 1908, and by Christmas time of that year trains will be running from the city hall to the northern limits of the city. Missouri railroads have earned the distinction of jolting a man insane. A passenger who had suffered an accident to his head some yeas ago had the old complaint brought back and his brain affected by the shaking of the carr. Medieval knights often took a voluntary oath that they would never spare the life of an enemy. Within the last twenty years freight rates from and to England have decreased from 50 to 75 per cent. The city of Baku is in the center of the Russian petroleum industry. On the first of July, 1900, there were 1,421 oil wells in operation in the Baku district. According to the recent census, there are in the whole of the German empire 27,374 physicians. The city of Berlin has 2,860 followed next by Hamburg, Breslau, Munich, Cologne and Frankfort. SCRAPS The proportion of divorces to marriages in Rhode Island is about 1 to 8. The Japanese have tried the Western education for their girls, and put it softly down as unsuitable. The people of Iceland are all poor, but there are no paupers, no dependents; all are self-supporting. There is little or no crime there. Omar Khayyam,, the great Persian poet, philosopher and astronomer, died in the year 1123, and for over 700 years little more than his name was known in Europe. In 1899 the public high schools of the United States graduated 20,344 boys and 36,124 girls. The boys are taken from school earlier than the girls and put to work. The only Chicago paper that has a Sunday afternoon edition is the Daily Jewish Courier, which is printed in Yiddish. It is an enterprising publication, with type-setting machines. The present house of commons has one octogenarian member, Mr. Spencer Charrington, who is 82 years old. Twenty members are between 70 and 80, and over a hundred are between 60 and 70. During his honeymoon the prince consort of Holland distinguished himself by personally arresting two poachers, whom he caught trespassing in pursuit of game in the forest of Het Loo.—Indianapolis News. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. We have three kinds of people in the world; the wills, the wont's and the can'ts. Prejudice and partiality limit attention to what favors our side, and thus, as it were, makes us deaf in one ear and blind in one eye. Life is a burden imposed upon you by God. What you make of it that it will be to you. Take it up bravely, bear it on joyfully, lay it down triumphantly. It is a perfectly safe proposition that without the thoughtfulness, which is otherwise named tact, no one can find the fullest measure of success and pleasure in life. Does not history tell us that there is nothing so melancholy as the aspect of great men in retirement—from Nebuchadnezzar in his meadow to Napoleon on his rock? Will power is undoubtedly the source of all human achievement. Its development must, therefore, be a matter of supreme importance to every one. Although in its varying degrees will is doubtless an inherited possession, it is also responsive to surroundings and especially to education.—Pennsylvania Grit. ABOUT GIVING MEDICINE. Shake the bottle before you pour it out. Even if the bottle is marked, it is safer to measure the dose in a properly marked glass. A medicine glass should be in every house. One can be bought for a few cents. Medicine ordered three times a day should be given at 10 a. m., 2 p. m., and 6 p. m. If the direction is that it is to be taken every four hours, give it at 8 a. m., 12 noon, 4 p. m., and 8 p. m. Do not give medicine in the night unless the doctor has told you distinctly to do so. Iron is always best taken after food. Quinine should be taken before food. Hot milk and coffee disguise the taste of cod liver and castor oil better than anything else. Pour a little coffee and milk into the cup first, then the oil, then more coffee, and one will hardly know he has taken the medicine.—Boston Journal. Read and subscribe for The Broad Ax, the only newspaper in Chicago which "hews to the Line." On and after this date The Broad Ax can be found at B. W. Fritts Printing House, 2713 State street. News items and advertisements left there will find their way into its columns. CURLY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT BY THE TAKEN FROM LIFE, BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW [COPYPRESENTED.] Will straighten your hair, quickly and easily so that you can do it yourself at home no matter how kinky or curly it is. This wonderful hair pomade has been made and sold many years giving perfect satisfaction to everybody. It is the only safe preparation in the world that straightens kinky hair as shown above. Nourishes the scalp, curves dandruff, prevents falling, and makes the hair grow. Sold over forty years, this hair pomade free on request. It was the first organization to sell for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. Elegantly performed. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Oz. 40 coins. Sold by dealers or we will ship you anywhere and will ship for 40 coins or three for $1.40. Head payment. No money order, as we do not send goods C. O. D. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 90 Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL. TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S.PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by every one in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? HARTONA FACE WASH. Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. HARTONA NO-SMELL Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul. CHICAGO. NOTARYPUBLIC Teelphone Wentworth OTTO V. MUELLER Real Estate, Renting, Loans ... Insurance ... 910 W. 63d st. (near Halsted) CHICAGO. DR. W. A. BUCKNER, 29th and Armur Ave. Office Hours: 2:30 to 4:30, and 7 to 9 p.m. 1 to 3 Sundays. Tel. 826 South. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. Office Hours: 'Phone 818 Want. 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m 6 to 7:30 p. m. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue, Chicago WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to engage the services of one or two popular young women as collectors, subscription and advertising solicitors. Good salary paid to active workers. Call or address JULIUS F. TAYLOR, 5040 Armour avenue. 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 refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. If your nearest druggest does not have the Original Ozonized Ox-Marrow he can get it for you from any wholesale druggist in the city. It straightens kinky hair. Warranted harmless. Only 50 cents a bottle. The Ozonized Ox-Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. TRADE M REGISTER U.S.PATENT WASHING A. D. GASH, Attorney-at-Law. 84 and 86 La Salte St., Suite 615 to 619. Telephone, Main 3077. Chicago JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 80 S. Clark Street, CHICAGO TEL. MARRISON 51. Thomas F. Scully, Attorney at Law, 70 Clark Street, CHICAGO. Room 14. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE CHICAGO. Tel. Wentworth 818. Office Hours: 8:30 a. m., to 8:30 p. m. Beauregard F Moseley LAWYER Suite 1 and 2 6256 Halsted Street, Cor. Halsted & 63, CHICAGO. Telephone Yards 757 Residence, 113 Garfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington Sta. TELEPHONE MAIN 1782. SLEWHOUSE 818 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4898 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. AGENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to secure active agents and correspondents in all sections of the country. Liberal commissions will be paid. For terms and further particulars address The Broad Ax. 5040 Armour avenue Chicago. MARK ED 1892. TO OFFICE TON, D.C. HEAVY MACHINERY. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4009 ...The Mutual Reserve Fund Life or New York... OVER $41,000,000 PAID IN LOSSES. Insurance for the Protection of the family at actual cost E. P. BARRY, M'g'r. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Special Agt. 410 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St. 5040 Armor Ava. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Canal 373 POOL AND BILLIARDS BRAXTON'S ....PLACE SAMPLE ROOM Fine Wines and Liquors Imported and Domestic Cigars 260 West Lake St. JIM GEORGE Jas. J. McCormick. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 3462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. CHICAGO ..HARTONA.. THE GRANDEST OF ALL arations for the Hair! The Original and Only Hartona. Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair.