The Broad Ax

VOL. VI. THE CONDITIONS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEM Rehabilitation of the states, therefore, involving as it did the future relations of both whites and blacks to the states and federal government, marked a crisis in our history, second in import only to that created by the attempt to secede. The task was delicate, and called for deliberation and wise statesmanship. If, instead, the intense patriotism and philanthropy of the hour were allowed to become only the handmaids of a acrimony and political ardor, and if results have been fraught with evil, the commentor-fails of his duty, who does not set up a beacon light to warn his countrymen of the dangers that come to the ship of state from venturing, when full-freighted, into the stormy waters of partisanship, for assuredly the perils of the future are not to be avoided by concealing or glossing over either the errors of the past or the reasoning upon which they proceeded. Mr. Lincoln, as early as December 8, 1863, had formulated a plan of reconstruction by the executive—voters to be those who were qualified "by the election laws of the state, existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others," but Congress had afterwards passed a joint resolution asserting its own power over reconstruction. Mr. Lincoln, it is true, killed this resolution by a pocket vote; but the great head of his party had been removed by an assassin, and there stood the action of Congress, and the declaration of Mr. Sumner, one of its foremost leaders, on the 25th of February, 1865, that "the cause of human rights and of the Union, needed the ballots as well as the muskets of colored men." It was feared in the South that President Johnson, especially after he had said that traitors must be deprived of social position, and "treason made odious," would share Mr. Sumner's views. Mr. Sumner has claimed that for a time he did, but if so, the President soon changed his mind, for on the 9th of May, 1865, he made an order recognizing Mr. Lincoln's plan in Virginia, and on May 29 he issued his proclamation for the reconstruction of North Carolina, excluding Negroes and recognizing as voters only those qualified by the state law at the date of the attempt to secede. The continued presence of the military and the aggravating conduct of many of the officials of the Freedmen's Bureau were causing much dissatisfaction at the time of this proclamation; yet it was an immeasurable relief to feel that the seceded states were to be admitted without putting the ballot into the hands of the ex-slave. The repugnance of Southern white men to Negro suffrage was extreme. Edmunk Burke, in one of his speeches in the British Parliament, pointing out the difficulties in the way of the subjugation of the American colonies, explained that in all the slaveholding communities there was an aristocracy of color; every white man felt himself to belong to a superior race, and his pride of race to an extent annobled and elevated him. It was a true picture, and such a people were naturally prejudiced against meeting their inferior, the Negro, as an equal at the ballot box. But their aversion had a better foundation than prejudice. The Negro had nowhere shown himself capable of self-government. White manhood suffrage had obtained for years in all the seceded states, and never had the suffrage been purer or given better results. The population was largely of English and Scotch descent. Free schools had not been general, and illiteracy was more prevalent than in the Northern states, but joint discussions before the people by candidates for office were almost universal, while the code of honor regulating duels, then sanctioned by public opinion, exacted from every speaker, rigid responsibility for his statements in debate; and so it came about that even among those who were uneducated there were unusually correct ideas of the high duties discharged by freedom in caring their welfare. Their sub- frages were not for sale, and in self-government the morality and patriotism of voters count for almost everything; without these, book learning is a snare. It is easy enough to write that the success of universal manhood suffrage for white, although in evidence both North and South, was not a sufficient argument for giving the ballot to every male over twenty-one among four millions of ex-slaves, and to add that a question like this ought to have been decided on its merits, and without regard to its effects on political parties. This is a truth that was recognized by Mr. Lincoln and by Mr. Johnson, each feeling that the burden of decision rested upon him. Individual responsibility sobers and lifts men up to meet great crises. Divided authority, however, weakens the sense of responsibility, and leaves passion full play, especially in a numerous body like Congress; and never was there so much at stake upon the action of Congress. The Confederacy, after a bloody war against the Union was prostrate. Should ex-Confederates come back with increased membership in Congress, representing all the Negroes as freedmen, instead of, as previously three-fifths of the Negroes as slaves? Should the party claiming to be the party of the Union incur the danger of handling over the government to an alliance of ex-Confederates with the Democrats, who in their platform of 1864 had denounced the war for the Union as a failure? Had not the North freed the slave? Was not this freedman the ward of the nation? Ought not the government to be keenly watchful of his interests, and was it not a duty to protect him and give him power to protect himself? The ballot was clearly a remedy, provided the freedman was competent to wield it. This was the question—competency—and it called for decision on its own merits; but passion, prejudice, love of power, philanthropy, and a sense of justice to the Negro, all combined to obscure the issue, and to make it, as it soon became in Congress, a party question. A few Republicans were to oppose their party in the House and Senate, and be soon driven out of public life. The party that elected Mr. Johnson was to oppose him, and the party that opposed him in the election was to sustain him unanimously in Congress. This President, who had come to his office on account of his services to the Union, was to become the best friend, the adviser, and the leader of the ex-Confederates in a political content; and occupying this peculiar attitude, he had uncommon need of tact, in which, unfortunately for his new allies, he was singularly lacking. The Southern whites looked upon Negro suffrage as a crime against Republican government—a crime against which the people of the North, and if not they, then the President and the Supreme Court, would protest them. They had abandoned in good faith both slavery and secession, all that they thought were in issue, and now they were uncompromising in demanding what they denominated their "rights" as conceded by Lincoln and by Johnson. They never once thought of a compromise, but staked all upon the result of the fight between the President and Congress. From March 4 till December 4, 1865, Congress was not in session, and during all that time Mr. Johnson was busy carrying out in the Southern states Mr. Lincoln's plan of reconstruction. The result was that when Congress convened, in December, representatives and senators from most of the late Confederate states were applying for admission. The thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, had been resisted by these states, and new constitutions had been adopted. The issue was thus fairly presented—whether Congress would recognise reconstruction after the Lincoln-Johnson plan. The new constitution set up under Johnson all confined弯痕 to white men. (To be continued.) Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, likely became an honorary member of the Old Hickory Cave of this HEW TO THE LINE. The program which is executed each Sunday at the South Side Mens' Sunday Club at St. Mark's Church, is becoming exceedingly interesting to all who attend. Last Sunday Mr. L. O. Renfroe, of Renfroe Bros., coal and wood dealers, 137 West 47th street, read a superb paper on "A Successful Life and the benefits or organization." His paper was highly instructive and it was well received. Many joined in the discussion. At the conclusion of it Mr. H. T. Pelkey, who is organizing, with the assistance of several other railroad men, the Colored Railroad Mens' Benevolent Association, addressed the club on the great benefit which would be derived by the work which they proposed to carry out. Before adjournment a committee consisting of S. B. Emmick, Rev. J. W. Robinson, S. A. T. Watkins and Julius F. Taylor were appointed to confer with the city authorities and urge them to compel the saloon-keepers in the vicinity of 47th and Armour avenue to close their places of business on Sundays. Mrs. H. T. Pelkey, who is a very bright woman, spoke along this line, and she stated that she knew many women were willing to do everything in their power to assist in helping to purify the moral atmosphere in the district mentioned. She and others censured the landlords and renting agents for renting their property to immoral and unrespectable colored people, and at the same time expecting those who are endeavoring to be honest to come in contact with them in the same buildings. Mrs. Pelkey maintained that the real estate owners must learn that there are good and bad colored people the same as there are good and bad white people, and the two classes will not mix, and that it is entirely wrong for the renting agents to entertain the idea that all colored people look and act alike and that they must and can be huddled together indiscriminately. At the suggestion of Rev. Robinson The Broad Ax was designated as the official organ of the South Side Mens' Sunday Club and the women all voted to sustain this proposition. The reverend gentleman as chairman of the program committee has secured the following speakers for the coming month: Miss Clara Green, Mrs. L. A. Davis, President of the Phyllis Whestly Club, Dr. Joseph Jeffrey and Dr. L. W. Lewis. OUR TRIP TO SPRINGFIELD. Most of the past week was spent by us in rounding up the readers of The Broad Ax at Springfield, Ill., and while doing so it was our pleasure to dine with Alderman and Mrs. Thomas White and their family, where we are always cordially received and made to feel at home. Mrs. White is one of those kind of ladies who thoroughly understands the art of cooking good eatables, and she fed us on pie and cake which she made with her own hands. There are very few women who are as liberal minded or as free from race prejudice as Mrs. White, and she is a noble lady in every sense of the word. Alderman White is the king among the colored people in his ward, he is ever ready to assist them and they in turn never refuse to aid in his election to the city council; at the present time Alderman White is one of the two Democratic city fathers; he had the honor of being one of the two Democrats who were chosen to serve on the reception committee, which and charge of inducting Governor Richard Yates into office. Many of the other readers of The Broad Ax in Springfield extended to us pleasant greetings and were greatly pleased to have us call upon them. The capitol city was full of Chicagoans and among those whom we met were the following: State Senator H. P. Butler, Representatives Doyle, Mitchell, Cummings, Wall, Carmody, Jones, Hunt, Hod: Samuel Alschuler, County Commissioners R. B. Organ and Joseph R. Pinnigan, George E. Brendan, Al. P. Gorman, James Todd, Ross C. Hall, Orlandia Trustee E. R. Carter, and Nelson Dingle & Huson of Gladstone. MAYOR HARRISON AND HIS CABINET. Monday evening Mayor Harrison eased the minds of all those who were on the anxious seat by selecting the men who are to serve in his cabinet for the next two years, and a few surprises were in store for the politicians and the statesmen. His cabinet consists of the following capable gentlemen: Francis O'Neill, Chief of Police; Lawrence E. M'Gann, City Comptroller; F. W. Blocki, Commissioner of Public Works; Charles M. Walker, Corporation Counsel; E. B. Ellicott, City Electrician; Dr. A. R. Reynolds, Health Commissioner; Robt. E. Burke, City Oil Inspector; Peter Klolbassa, Building Commissioner; Edward M. Lahiff, Private Secretary; F. X Brandecker, City Collector; James A. Quinn, City Sealer; and Dr. Howard S. Taylor, Prosecuting Attorney. The Mayor has surrounded himself with some good chiefs and it argues well for his coming administration. THE NEGRO QUESTION. There is no question more thoroughly discussed in this country than the Negro question. You can read in almost every newspaper in the country some man's idea as to the solution of that vexed problem. The Negroes themselves are in a quandary as to what will be their destiny. Among all the different races of men on earth the world seems to think that with all their shortcomings time alone will bring about a change in a better development of all the other races except the Negro. Now it seems queer to us that if time will change conditions with other races, who not have faith in time changing the condition of the Negro. He is a part of the human family, and if humanity is subject to evolution, why is it impossible for the Negro to evolve in better habits and a higher sphere of living? Give us less talk about the Negro question and Christianity shown to all the races of men.—Catholic Truth. Further public steps toward the organization of a white man's republican party in the south, under the patronage of President McKinley, have been taken since our remarks upon that subject last week. Senator McLaurin, nominally a Democrat but really a McKinley Republican, delivered a speech in Charlotte, N. C., on the 18th in which he virtually and almost expressly severed his relations with the Democratic party. He has since denied that he intended to renounce allegiance to the Democracy. He proposes, he says, to work "within Democratic lines." But as he intends to support President McKinley's expansion and plutocratic policy, his working within Democratic lines is a species of political Funstonism, which all the more justifies Senator Tilliman's charge that McLaurin has neither conscience nor principles. Despite his disclaimer, however, the subsequent report of his conference at Washington with Senator Hanna was not necessary to confirm the growing conviction of these who have observed his reeling political career that he is promoting the administration's plans for dropping the Negroes of the South and organizing the aristocrats as Republicans. These gentlemen may be building better than theq know. Such a Republican party would probably result in splitting the Negroes as well as the whites, and that would in a little time, in the very nature of things, remove the race question from southern politics in the only way in which it can be removed permanently—by securing equality of political rights to all—The Public. Alderman McInerney pulled through by the skin of his teeth, he only had 58 more votes than Michael Walsh and if it had not been for the colored voters in the east end of the ward and of the 29th precinct recording their votes against Mr. Walsh and for Mr. McInerney, the former would have won out. So after all Alderman McInerney owes his election to the colored voters and don't you forget it. Rev. J. W. Robinson preaches the annual sermon for th K. of P. at Olivet Church, 27th and Dearborn streets, Sunday afternoon. Advertise! It is said that advertising influences sales to the amount of $10,000,000,000 annually. If you don't advertise you lose your share.—Ex. Miss Alice Mills, of Baltimore, Md., was recently left $500 by Mrs. M. Champe Robison by whom she had been employed as maid. Dr. M. F. Murray, 1935 State street, is one of the best physicians in Chicago and he has a large practice among the colored people who have learned to know him as a true friend. In 1750 Negro slaves comprised one-sixth of the population of New York City, and 1771 the English alone sent to Africa 182 ships equipped for the slave trade, with a total carrying capacity per trop of 47,146 slaves. The informal dance given by the I'phyllis Wheatly Club last Monday night was largely attended. Refreshments were served and those who participated in the festivities hugely enjoyed the occasion. An industrial school is to be established at Bloomington, Ind., for colored people. Halson V. Eagleson, one of the most prominent colored men of that state is at the head of the enterprise, and has secured enough capital to make the start. Wednesday evening the Colored Railroad Mens' Benevolent Association held a largely attended meeting at Institutional Church, many prominent citizens who are interested in the welfare of the railroad boys were present and spoke in its favor. Mr. G. W. Alschuler, brother of the Hon. Samuel Alschuler, who was one of the best aldermen of Aurora, JH., was recently elected mayor of his city. Mr. Alschuler is a clear-headed business man and he will make a good mayor for Aurora. The Colored Womens' Christian Temperance Union of Jackson is trying to build a "Home" in our midst for the care of their aged people and orphans, and to instruct the girls and boys the different industries, cooking, and sewing, and the other mechanical trades. Policeman A. Rowens, who for a long time was connected with the 22d Police Station has been transferred to the 18th Police Station, 86th and Aberdeen streets. Mr. Rowens has ordered The Broad Ax to follow him to his new station and he has enclosed his check for it. Americans shudder with horror when they think of how Arnold sold his countrymen. But thousands of Americans are now rejoicing because a lot of Filipinos sold one of their countrymen. The spirit of imperialism manifests itself on the slightest occasion.—The Commoner, George L. Braxton, who is well known to everybody on the West Side, conducts a first-class sample room at 260 West Lake street, and he always has on hand a fine stock of wines, liquors, imported and domestic cigars, which he delights to serve his costumers and friends with. Mayor Wells. of St. Louis, Mo., is starting well with the colored Democrats he has just appointed George B. Jones as a clerk in the office of the board of public improvements, and W. H. Field as clerk in the license commissioners office both of these men are Afro-Americans. James Beasley, a Negro sailor of New York, has been awarded a medal and his share of salvage by the German government for saving the crew and vessel William Lenk, which was in a sinking condition in the south Atlantic. Beasley carried a rope through a raging sea, by which the crew was saved and the vessel was safely towed to port. The president is appointing gold democrats to office in the North, and there is evidence that appointments are NO. 28. joining with the white republicans in the formation of a new party which will exclude the Negro. As the whiteface will be the distinguishing characteristic of the members of this new party, they will probably be known as Hereford republicans.—The Commoner. State Chairman John P. Hopkins will from now until after the 21st of May spend the major portion of his time in the southern end of the state so that he can be better prepared to conduct and direct the judicial campaign which is now being waged. J. B. Ricks, Esq., of Taylorville is the Democratic nominee for judicial honors, and Chairman Hopkins is of the opinion that the Democratic nominees for judges will be victorious. The Home Section of the Phyllis Wheatly Club entertained its members and friends Wednesday afternoon last at their rooms, 5058 Dearborn street. Mrs. Margaret Bunday, chairman of this section, had a well prepared program, which was well carried out. Mrs. Agnes Moody read a very practical paper on "Health and Home." Doctor Joseph Jeffrey spoke on "The Relation of God to Man," and from his utterances one would have been lead to believe that he was a D. D. Instead of an M. D. Mrs. Rev. Gray urged upon those present to teach the boys how to work as well as the girls. She also scored the men of the race for not providing for their wives and families better, that they depended too much on the women to be the wage earners for the home. Mrs. Gray was loudly applauded during her remarks. Rev Robinson of St. Mark's Church, made some appropriate suggestions about the Men's Sunday Club, which closed the exercises. Choice refreshments were served by a committee of women. The market for bridges is far greater in the United States than elsewhere. The states have now 190,000 miles of railways, and it has been estimated that there is an average of one span of metallic bridge for every three miles of railway. This gives 63,000 bridges on existing lines, without including those required for new lines. To such an extent has the blackballing practice grown in Paris that the Union, which is the most fashionable, exclusive and aristocratic club of the French metropolis, has been obliged to alter its method of election, and to restrict the balloting to the governing committee, instead of allowing the entire club to take part therein, as heretofore. Cattlemen in Greenwood county, Kansas, are making hard times for lawyers. They have established a system of arbitrating differences. Three men are chosen as an arbitration committee. They investigate the trouble and make a decision, which is final. A fuss involving $60,000 was settled at Eureka last week by an arbitration committee. The daughter of Admiral Montojo, who commanded the Spanish fleet at the time of its destruction by Admiral Dewey in Manila Bay, has just committed suicide by hanging at Genoa. The admiral and her mother are now living at Barcelona, and as she wrote to them a long letter just before she put an end to her days, they probably are aware of the mysterious reasons that prompted her to the deed. Rather than lose his five-foot cue Lee On, a New York Chinaman, who jumped from a trolley car backward recently and received a fractured skull in consequence, will return to Hong Kong in a gaudy coffin. The surgeons want to trephine Lee's skull and that means a hair cut. Although a prosperous Mott street merchant and well versed in western ways, Lee thinks he would rather die. Of red snow we all know something from books on the High Alps. Black snow—except when it is "manufactured" in London, and consists of a fine blend of soot and slush—is less well known. But it might have been some years ago in a corner of the Muette Valley, where a "dark snow," which formed a thick layer, almost black, on the ground," came down in a heavy shower. Ill-smelling, it was, and, what is worse, its color represented an enormous host of tiny insects. A strong wind, we are told, brought them over from some distant mark. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Moronsons, Republicans, Priests, or any he also 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 aiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Age Year..... $2.00 Month..... 1.60 Providing rates made known on application, address all communities one to A fine specimen of the periophtalmus family, a species of fish that is supposed to be confined strictly to African waters, was recently caught near Fernandina, Fla. Italy's new coinage with the head of Victor Emmanuel III. will be ready soon. The dies have been cut by Cavaliere Speranza, the engraver of the coins of King Humbert. H. G. Wells, the novelist, has designed a house for himself at Sandgate, England, in which he prides himself that nothing which can be done by machinery will be done by hand. "The Extrirpation of Rabbits," "Heaven's Dead Letter Office" and "Revival by Constitutional Methods," have been recently announced in Australian newspapers as subjects of Sunday discourses. So it appears that America is unfortunately not the only country where sensational titles are chosen to attract listeners to sermons. The market for bridges is far greater in the United States than elsewhere. The states have now 190,000 miles of railways, and it has been estimated that there is an average of one span of metallic bridge for every three miles of railway. This gives 63,000 bridges on existing lines, without including those required for new lines. To such an extent has the blackballing practice grown in Paris that the Union, which is the most fashionable, exclusive and aristocratic club of the French metropolis, has been obliged to alter its method of election, and to restrict the balloting to the governing committee, instead of allowing the entire club to take part therein, as here-tofore. Cattlemen in Greenwood county, Kansas, are making hard times for lawyers. They have established a system of arbitrating differences. Three men are chosen as an arbitration committee. They investigate the trouble and make a decision, which is final. A fuss involving $60,000 was settled at Eureka last week by an arbitration committee. The daughter of Admiral Montojo, who commanded the Spanish fleet at the time of its destruction by Admiral Dewey in Manila Bay, has just committed suicide by hanging at Genoa. The admiral and her mother are now living at Barcelona, and as she wrote to them a long letter just before she put an end to her days, they probably are aware of the mysterious reasons that prompted her to the deed. Rather than lose his five-foot cue Lee On, a New York Chinaman, who jumped from a trolley car backward recently and received a fractured skull in consequence, will return to Hong Kong in a gaudy coffin. The surgeons want to trephine Lee's skull and that means a hair cut. Although a prosperous Mott street merchant and well versed in western ways, Lee thinks he would rather die. Courtesy for courtesy is, unfortunately, not the motto of all shoppers. During a recent month a large drygoods store sent out, in answer to requests, thirteen hundred dollars' worth of samples. Every package contained a printed request to return samples after examination. The head of the department says that less than one-tenth ever find their way back. "Where are the nine?" is no new lament for benefits forgot. A mountain goat farm is a new business in Center and Tloga counties, Pa. A pioneer in the business opens with cleared mountain land and a cosignment of 1,000 white goats, costing $18 a head. The mountain cleared land affords an ideal pasture for the hardy animals. The New Mexican goats have a good fur, their hides made a fine leather, and the meat, for food, is said to be delicious and most nutritious. The pasture grounds of the goats are inclosed with a wire fence. The Revue de Paris contains some very interesting details by Count de la Vaulx about his projected balloon trip across the Mediterranean. He says "My balloon will be made of French silk, which is much lighter than Chinese ponges silk, and has quite as much resistance. The car will be made of rushes, and will measure two metres eighty c.m., by three metres twenty, and will be attached to the balloon in the same way as is used by the military balloonists at Chalals. The crew of the balloon for the Mediterranean voyage will be four in number—two naval officers and aeronauts. The voyage will be made in June or July, when the wind and sea are their calmment. There will be preliminary trials, and provisions for three weeks will be pre- Just outside our lines at Gibraltar, says the Dally, Mail's Gibraltar correspondent, it is customary to land the live cattle from the ships and take them to the slaughterhouse. The other evening a British sentry was pacing up and down when a bull, just landed, rushed at him, doubtless attracted by the man's red coat. The sentry brought his rifle to the charge, and received the bull on the point of his bayonet. The animal bellowed with pain, retired a few paces, and, like the good Spanish bull that he was, charged again. The second time the bayonet entered the neck, and the bull, with a whisk of its head, unshipped the bayonet and carried it off with him. The sentry did not like to shoot, as his rifle was loaded with slugs. Both Spanish and English sentries on these posts are similarly armed, otherwise when using their rifles on smugglers much danger to the innocent public on either side might be done by stray bullets landing in the towns. The bull made for the Spanish lines, where the nimble sentries dodged him behind the boxes, and ultimately drove him off. FROM DEATH'S DOOR Hillsdale, Ill., April 29th.—Much interest has been aroused here over the case of William Marks, who has been in a dying condition for several months with an apparently incurable Kidney Disease. The leading physicians of this place had pronounced his case a hopeless one, and others from Port Byron, Geneseo, and Davenport, Ia., had attended him, and in a consultation decided that he could not live. In desperation, his nephew inquired of Mr. L. F. Giles, a local druggist, as to a last resort. Mr. Giles suggested Dodd's Kidney Pills, a remedy which had just been introduced here. The results were marvelous. Mr. Marks immediately began to improve, and within a few weeks was able to be up and about, completely cured. His cure is the talk of the neighborhood, and is considered nothing short of a miracle. There appears to be no doubt that this new remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills, will cure any case of Kidney Disease, for the more malignant forms, such as Bright's Disease, Diabetes, and Dropsy, yield readily to its remarkable influence. These forms of Chronic Kidney Disease have hitherto been considered incurable, and have baffled all medical skill, and yet, this new remedy has cured every single case in which it has been used, in this neighborhood. The doctors themselves are amazed at the wonderful work Dodd's Kidney Pills are accomplishing in Rock Island County. Two Views of a Rich Man. Baron Stumm, one of Germany's most influential personages, commercially and politically, who died recently at the age of 64, was enormously wealthy, owning vast factories and iron foundries at Neunkirchen, where he was greatly loved by his work people on account of his strict justice and kindliness. On the other hand, he was bitterly hated by the socialists, who saw in him the type of capitalism. He was often called King Stumm because of his possessions and his somewhat autocratic bearing. Career and Character of Abraham Lincoln. An address by Joseph Choate, Ambassador to Great Britain, on the career and character of Abraham Lincoln—his early life—his early struggles with the world—his character as developed in the later years of his life and his administration, which placed his name so high on the world's roll of honor and fame, has been published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and may be had by sending six (6) cents in postage to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. While there is a strong movement in Ireland for the revival of the ancient language, it is different in Wales. A poll taken at Cardiff on the question whether children in the board schools should be taught the Welsh language has resulted in a majority of 670 votes against it. 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. 1/2 the price of coffee. 15c and 25c ota per package. Sold by all grocers. Estimates for Arctic Expedition. Captain Bernier estimates the cost of his proposed Arctic expedition at $130,-000. He has applied to the Canadian government for a grant and has also opened subscriptions in the principal Canadian cities. MARVELOUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF LAKE BOATS. Transportation of Iron Ore Treated in a Descriptive and Statistical Article- Development of the Commercial Navy of the Great Lakes. In the Century "The Transportation of Iron" is described by Waldon Fawcett, with drawings by Ernest L. Blumenschein. To carry the freshly mined ore twelve hundred miles by land and sea, he says, and deposit it, within little more than a week after it has left the miner's shovel, at the furnaces in Pennsylvania and Ohio, where it is to receive its baptism of fire, is the task which has been successfully accomplished of late years by the men who have charge of the transportation chain which connects the mineral storehouses in the Northwest with the manufacturing plants of the middle states. They have, indeed, done more; by undertaking operations on a gigantic scale, they have shaved costs so closely that the embryo iron is now carried more cheaply than freight is moved anywhere. else in the world. It is a marvelous transit, this trip a third of the way across the continent, and the journey itself is not more wonderful than the vehicles in which it is made. The flying trip is made by rail, then by boat, and finally by rail again; and it might be made even more quickly were it not necessary to lose a day and a half "changing cars," so to speak, although in reality, of course, the transfer is from cars to the monster freight-carrying vessels of the Great Lakes, and thence back again from the leviathans of the inland seas to the metal wagons of the steam-road. On the first stage of its journey, from the mine to the loading-wharf at some port on the upper lakes, the iron ore travels on what is probably the most crowded steel-tracked highway in the world. Each of the powerful locomotives can draw a load of ore nearly equal to the weight of the entire American standing army prior to the Spanish war. Almost all the cars now employed are made of pressed steel, and each of them will hold fifty tons. It would seem as though the designers of these modern coaches of commerce had thought of every contingency, for there are even provided holes in the sides of the car through which streams of steam may be played upon the frozen ore in order to thaw it quickly. The development of the commercial navy of the Great Lakes, the chief work of which is found in the transportation of iron ore, constitutes one of the most remarkable evolutions of the century which has just closed. The first cargoes of the mineral were transported in vessels that carried only a few hundred tons and required more than two weeks for the journey. The new craft carry ten or twenty times as much, and little more than half as many days are given up to the delivery of each consignment at its port of destination. All the best of the lake vessels are employed largely, or exclusively in the ore traffic—a natural sequence, since this is the one plum of internal commerce at which the railroads get scarcely a nibble. Indeed, the "all-rail" shipments, as they are termed, hardly exceed half a million tons yearly, out of a total of twenty million tons. That the steam-lines get even this morsel of comfort is largely due to the exigencies of sudden demand after the ice has sealed up the waterway. The ships of the ore-fleet range from three hundred and fifty to five hundred feet in length—the latter equal in size to the transatlantic liners of a few years ago. Few of them draw, when fully laden, more than eighteen feet of water, and they are capable of carrying anywhere from six thousand to nine thousand tons of ore, or a sufficient quantity to fill more than a dozen ordinary railroad trains. The modern vessels are built entirely of steel, even to the deckhouses, where the men eat and sleep, and the slender, bare masts. Essentially they are freight-carriers, and yet for the accommodation of occasional guests there are fitted up on many of them rooms quite as handsomely furnished as those on the average ocean-going passenger steamer. The vessels are lighted by electricity, steered and heated by steam; and in their equipment are included power-windlasses and all the latest contrivances of the up-to-date deep-water carrier. Exercise Makes Women Beautiful. Next to the diet—and diet is vitally necessary if one would be beautiful—comes outdoor exercise. The woman who plods day after day at her housework, washing dishes, sweeping, making beds, mending the children's clothes, getting another meal and doing more dishes, getting through the list day after day and week after week—why, the lines of care and routine come so swiftly that almost before the woman knows it all her freshness and youthfulness have vanished and she is growing bent and old and unlovely. Served Thirteen Secretaries of State. William Gwin, the colored messenger who has served thirteen secretaries of state during the past thirty years carries a gold watch inscribed: "From William M. Dvarts to William Gwin, February, 1893." Time Required to Season Wood. The time for seasoning wood varies very greatly, extending from weeks in the case of some timbers to many months or years in the case of hard dense wood. No plen, no other; no pain or ache. FROM WASHDAY From Monday to Saturday—at every turn in the kitchen work—a Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stove will save labor, time and expense—and keep the cook comfortable. No bulky fuel to prepare or carry, no waiting for the fire to come up or die down; a fraction of the expense of the ordinary stove. A Wickless BLUE FLAME Oil Stove will boil, bake, broil or fry better than a coal stove. It is safe and cleanly—can not become greasy, can not emit any odor. Made in several sizes, from one burner to five. If your dealer does not have them, write to nearest agency of STANDARD OIL COMPANY. TO BAKING DAY WHY GET SOAKED WHEN TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY IN THE HARDEST STORN! LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADING PARK SCHOOL OF HISTORIES. CATALOGUES FREE. SERVING FULL LINE OF CARMENTS AND HATS. A.J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED FARMS 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 laid on application to the Superintendent of Immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton, 1828 Muddnock Block, Chicago, or E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. FOR SALE. STOCK FARM—450 acres southern part of Minnesota, 60 miles from Minneapolis. 140 acres fenced pasture. 200 acres cultivated. 140 acres hay lands. Soil black loam. Complete set of buildings, including ice house, etc. Fully equipped with machinery, horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. Belongs to an estate—must sell. Price and terms right. For particular address, R. C. STAGER, 228 Minneapolis Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 7 Do You Want to Know all about patents! Are you interested in patent? Male and stamp to L. T. Garner, patent attorney, 810 12th St. N. E. Washington, D. C., for Free Handbook on Patents. W, N. U, CHICAGO, NO. 18, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Nature's Prickleous Remedy DR. O. PHELPS BROWN'S PRECIOUS HERBAL OINTMENT It Cures Through the Forces Adams Dr. O. P. Brown, 90 Browns Way, Newburgh, M. Z. Echeumaism, Nourishment, Weak Back, Sprains, Burns, Sorgs and all Pain. Special Oil is of your drought. If he does not sell it, send his name, and for your trouble, we will Send You a Trial Free, Newburgh, M. Z. A Month's Test Free. If you have Dyspepsia, write Dr. Shoop Rachne, Wk., Box 140, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Restorative, express paid. Send no money. Pay $6.50 if cured. The man who gives advice freely incurs unnecessary responsibilities. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F BOTTER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Hamburg is headquarters for wild animals and zoo stock of all kinds. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $29.99 trial bottle and tressise. Dm. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 911 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Some learned people have the dead languages burled in their brains. Don't take chances. Buy the best. Maple City Self Washing Soap is guaranteed to be pure. All grocers sell it. A German savant points out that rural postmen were in existence in Egypt 4,000 years ago. Foolish and obstinate people alone suffer from neuralgia or rheumatism. For they can always secure Wizard Oil and cure themselves. Montana first figured in the census returns in 1870. Then her population was 20,595. Now it is 243,329. We refund 10c for every package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYES that fails to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co., Unionville, Mo. He—I've lost a wealthy aunt. She—Really? When did she die? He—Oh! she isn't dead; but her niece has just jilted me. People expect much from Garfield Tea and they are never disappointed; it purifies the blood and cures stomach, liver, kidney and bowel disorders. A woman is very apt to have misgivings about a man who is addicted to the free and unlimited coinage of compliments. 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. The Bengal government has formally agreed to grant an annual subsidy of 50,000 rupees for three years for further chemical and scientific researches with regard to indigo cultivation. 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 1/2 as much. All grocers sell it 15c and 25c. Great Lighting Features. People who expect to attend the Pan-American exposition should remember: First, that the number of lights and the quantity of light will exceed that of any other equal area ever artificially illuminated, and it will be evenly distributed; second, that unusual spectacular effects will be produced by the many combinations of light and water, and these combinations are to be so graded as to climax in keeping with the decorative lights at the electric tower; third, that the electric tower basin will be the stage of the display of a combination of 1,500,000 gallons of water per hour in fountains with the light of 100 large-sized searchlights—a scene which will certainly be impressive. A All manner of extravagant expressions are possible when a woman's nerves are overwrought. The spasm at the top of the wind pipe or bronchial tubes, "ball rising in the throat," violent beating of the heart, laughing and crying by turns, muscular spasms (throwing the arms about), frightened by the most insignificant occurrences—are all symptoms of a hysterical condition and serious derangement of the female organs. Any female complaint may produce hysterics, which must be regarded as a symptom only. The cause, however, yields quickly to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which acts at once upon the organ afflicted and the nerve centers, dispelling effectually all those distressing symptoms. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I wish to speak a good word for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For years I had ovarian trouble and suffered everything from nervousness, severe headache, and pain in back and abdomen. I had consulted different physicians, but decided to try your medicine, and I soon found it was giving me much relief. I continued its use and now am feeling like a new person, physically and mentally, and am glad to add one more testimonial to the value of your remedy."—Mrs. M. H. Lewis, 2108 Valentine Ave., Tremont, New York, N. Y. Writing to Mrs. Pinkham is the quickest and surest way to get the right advice about all female troubles. Her address is Lynn, Mass. She advises women free. Following is an instance: Mrs. Haven's First Letter to Mrs. Pinkham. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I would like your advice in regard to my troubles. I suffer every month at time of menstruation, and flow so much and for so long that I become very weak, also get very dizzy. I am troubled with a discharge before and after menses, have pains in ovaries so bad sometimes that I can hardly get around, have sore feeling in lower part of bowels, pain in back, bearing-down feeling, a desire to pass urine frequently, with pains in passing it; have leucorrhiza, headache, fainting spells, and sometimes have hysteria. My blood is not in good condition. Hoping to hear from you, I am," MRS. EMMA HAVEN, 2508 South Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa. (June 8, 1890.) Mrs. Haven's Second Letter. PINKHAM:—I wish to express my gratitude for me. I suffered for four years and lived very badly. I got so bad that I had to sit or lie down the most of the time retained no relief. I began using your vegetable Compound, Blood Purse and now feel like a new woman."—Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Feb. 1, 1900.) IAM:—I wish to express my gratitude for what your time. I suffered for four years with womb trouble. Very badly. I got so bad that I could hardly do my it or lie down the most of the time. I doctored for no relief. I began using your remedies—Lydia Table Compound, Blood Purifier, Sanative Wash how feel like a new woman."—MRS. EMMA HAVEN, Bluffs, Iowa. (Feb. 1, 1900.) "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I wish to express my gratitude for what your medicine has done for me. I suffered for four years with womb trouble. Every month I flowed very badly. I got so bad that I could hardly do my work. Was obliged to sit or lie down the most of the time. I doctored for a long time, but obtained no relief. I began using your remedies—Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier, Sanative Wash and Liver Pills—and now feel like a new woman."—MRS. EMMA HAVEN, 2508 South Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Feb. 1, 1900.) $5000 REWARD Owing to the fact that some skeptical people have from time to time questioned the genuineness of the testimonial letters we are constantly publishing, we have deposited with the National City Bank, of Lynn, Mass., $5,000, which will be paid to any person who will show that the above testimonials are not genuine, or were published before obtaining the writers' special permission.—LVDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE Co. ‘Whether the “garden” be a two-acre Dlat or a city back yard twenty by thirty feet, there are certain things ‘that should be planted for the infinite comfort derived through the summer from such provision. Herbs come first, that garnishings and soup, or sauce flavors may always be at hand: If be- sides the place for herbs there be space for a fatr-sised garden, let preference be given to cucumbers, which are good only when freshly picked; tomatoes, and about three plantings, two weeks apart, of lettuce and radishes, which are wholesome only when fresh. If more space still be at command, give ‘the next choice to grean beans of the stringless variety, and corn, both of which are so much better if. freshly gathered; then peas, carrots (a most delicate vegetable when small), beets and okra—Woman’s Home Compan- ion. Sars The :ctlking record for New Zea- Tand has been put up by a Plains set- tler and his wife, who, without any help except what could be given by a ‘20-month-old infant, milked seventy- mine cows twice daily. It is « fact, and can be vouched for, that he de- ‘livered on an average 2,000 pounds of milk a day at the factory, and mot a penny was spent in wages last year.— New Zealand Record. Ir the oldest and best. Tevill break up acold quicker ‘than exy Uning else. eee wh If Your Wife ts nervous and your doctor's medicine does ber ne good, why don’ you write te Dr. Greene abeut her and get bis advice! © This will met east you anything, and It will prebably be the mons of csalind Tomi: ts 26 W: 00h Se. Dr. ‘address is 38 W. 14th St., How York City. He ts the disegverer of Dr. Greene's Nervure and bes the greatest success ouring nervousmess 10 all Its forms. itisne exaggeration to say that thousands ef women and men have been made well through bis counsel. Abselately ne charge for advies by mall. ‘i ‘ S FRAGRANT New Size SOZODONT LIQUID . ays 266 6 LargeLiQubend POWDER =... ‘The- At the Btores or by Mail, postpaid, for the Price. 4 . , . ma i OP and peervation of te nd , eet See ¢ ere ee Nee ee et 4 RUCLEL MEW YORK. 7 W. L. ae Sears ptecrecee: a =o cntubes Cannot Be Cares ~ sgn Se te way to.cure be aie bet = Eeeechian > is inbaaeed you nave & nee ae i ve its woman? con: forever; pine cases out Of ten. caused by ¥ suk ee Rad infamed condition at ereoreae icone — Sottyiaiy Pulsere moves 7 We strike hard tq get bargaiae’and then don't cape denen we to the things for which we are overcharged. CURE A COLD IX ONE Dax, crogpleta vated, tee money 18 ¢8 tale to curs, EW. Grove’s signature is. ou the box. Sic. There are enbic miles of wes ta toe atienviteei 141,000,- 000 in the Pacifie...- <— ~ > >. ay Suitee Pome TABLETs Goats The sap of the sugar cane produces from 15 to 20 per cent of sugar. © lepine tame Mrs. Winslow's : nose ste Excavations are being carried on at Pompeil around the Basilica . ‘DO YOU COUGH KEM aS) ST Are eee sa eee gpeietenae Sig at Sin eld eens rere » REWARDiars o I goer c KID-NE-OIDS Dina See OB THOcK POULTRY vane Sate mee Saar ae ee ao pind «Bho yt S Sere aan FARMS FOR SALE. ieee see __ m eee ian ome Sac eeeeee PATENTS: === i N tr. ‘mae Reykholasveit, x Iceland, Europe. ‘This is.the address given in an ander for Dodd's Kidney Pills received and of Buffalo, on April 16th.: This unique direction means that to teach the sick People of Iceland, the parcel « ‘must ‘travel to New York, then to London, Eng., then northwest to Greenland, to ‘be Jantied finally, on the lonely island at the edge of the Arctic Circle. This ‘W 2 pointed illustration of how United States goods find thelr way to the remotest corners of ‘the earth. ines, as well as better manufactared articles than any other country in the World, and this fact uccoonts for the @emand for Dodd's Kidney Pilis trom ‘every part ofthe known universe. ‘Wonderful MUlkine Becord. ‘The Grand Trask Ealiway System. ‘The picturesque route to the Pan- American Exposition, will mail on te- ceipt of 2 cents in stamps, sent to its City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 249 Clark Street, Chicago, the handsomest descriptive folder of the Pan-American Exposition yet issued. For {ts unexampied-electrical display the Pan-American exposition will re- ceive five thousand horse power elec- tric power from the great plant of the Niagara Falls Power company, twenty miles distant. © 3 i ieee When your liver is out of order do nat Saco eee Fe ee that harm and never cure, but take Garfield Tea, the. HERB remecy that CURES. Senator Hoar believes and acts on the belief that the last car in « train 4s the safest. De Net Seek tear ome using inferior Maple City Self LS © Paul of Russia was insane during the gteater part of his life. ‘Hope is the best medicine a physi- cian can give his patients. p Tee ee "7 aX y = EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY THE ARTIST WHO IS TO PAINT THE CORONATION. ‘ ‘We Is & Graduate of the Pennsylvania Galery of Fine Artsa—He Weat to England and There Became = Subject ef the Crown. That Edwin Austin Abbey bas been selected as the official painter of the coming coronation is a tribute to great attistic achievement. Mr. Abbey is one of that considerable colony of Americans who bave taken up @ per- ‘Manent residence in England. Whist- ‘ler, Sargent and Henry James are among his fellow exiles. All have won. honor abroad. Born in Philadelphia in 1852, Mr. Abbey studied at the Pennsylvania Acadeniy of Fine Arts. In 1871 he be- gan drawing for Harper's Magazine and other pyblications of the Harper Brothers in New York. He soon rose to be the favorite illustrator in black and white for both books and peri- Odicals. His methods were especially adapted -to the interpretation of the quiet idylis of the old time country life and to portrayals of the beruffied, gay- ly dressed cavaliers and dames in quilted petticoats, who wnirled through the Mayfair of eighteenth century Eng- land. His first successes were won, in fact, by illustrations to Herrick’s poems and Goldsmith’s comedies. But it ‘was not until after he had taken up his residence in London, in 1878, that he discovered the true bent of his genius. His greatest achievements of this latter more ambitious period are permanently placed in the country of his birth. These are the five mural paintings illustrating “The Quest of the Holy Grail,” now in the delivery room of the Boston Public Library. Mr. Abbey drew his inspiration less from | Sas iV ‘ AW y : ce ‘English literature than--ffom~ the ‘mediaeval French and German rom- ‘ances. Since then he-has devoted him- self mainly to historieal or semi-his- ‘torical subjects, with an occasional ex- cursus into portrait painting. His ‘mom famous recent pictures in the former line are “Richard, Duke of “Gloucester, and the Lady Anne” (1806); “Hemlet” (1897), and “King Lear's Daughters” (1898). Among the best known portraits are water colors “of Andrew Carnegie, J. W. Harper and R. G. Dun. ; Mr. Abbey was elected a member of ‘the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors in 1883, and a member of the Royal Academy of England in 1896. He won a second-class medal at the Paris Exposition of 1883 and a first- ¢lass medal at the Paris Exposition of 1889. - ‘When the present king was married, in 1868, the commission to commemor- ate officially the ceremony was given to the most popular painter of the period, W. P. Firth, R. A, who is still living. In his “Autobiography and Reminiscences” Mr: Frith has given an amusing account of the difficulties that confronted him. Similar difficulties will, doubtless, have to be met and conquered by Mr. Abbey. . Mr, Frith had great trouble with the bride, Princess Alexandra, herself. She did not seem to realize-that she must keep her face in one position #f the painter was to catch a resemblance of it He appealed to the Prince of Wales. “You should scold her,” said he. -Frith was.not hero enough for so herole a measure. At that time Gib- son was making a bust of the same lady. Frith hoped he might get a hint from the unfinished bust. He found, however, that it was not @ good Mikeness, and said so. “Well,” said Gibson, “the princess is a delightful lady, but she can’t sit a bit” At this moment the prince and princess en- tered Gibson’s studio. The prince said: i “How do you find the princess sits Mr. Gibson?” ” x Gelame iockes sn tent, least Be and shook his head. . ‘ “There, you see,” ssid the “you neither sit propefiy to Mr. gon nor to Mr. Frith” = ~~ a ee Lo Seay emmtet, “ane never : gon gnd-1 have to of ow Qeantifal sitter" § = 8 — 5 Tt is sad that the highest-priced rail- road president in the United States 1s Charles M. Hays of the Gouthern eit, whose ‘salery is $55,000 a Me, Camzatt of: the Callaway of the New York Ceats Spencer of the Southern oe Mallen of the Northern Pacific an@ lll of the Greet Northern SPRING CATARRH MAKES. PEOPLE WEAK AND NERVOUS : y <6 = | S GPE | CZ aA » a. St aie ' eT m4 | = | Waa BN | ; ¢ gen Sane ' : (ae or , 7 eo SS | | Sess, | Ay & . at ey) ; a eto : ZP a SON ORS ay : Vf é FAO. * > // : FeAS ROS Sas SS7; SS ey = —_ oe : | a —_a> Le LEB WE | 3 treet rele owe te to a _ Miss Anna Bryan, a favorite cousin of William Jennings Bryan, is well ®nown socially in Washington, D. C., where she has a host of friends. Miss Bryan recently studied music at Fairmount Seminary, of Washington, D. C. In a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, she says: t 7.5 1489 Florida Avenue, N. W., Washington, D, C. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: ‘ Gentlemen---«:At the solicitation of a friend. I Began some weeks ago to take your Peruna and | now feel like a mew person, I take pleasure in recommending it to all whojwant 2 good tonic and 8 per- manent cure for catarrh.""—-Anna Bryan. a eee MAN-N-MA!! >: ry oneal so ee BABY Oe wT. at forget summer’s coming : fp) 221 = dangers to the litle oneo—all troubles Y Pag bred in the bowels. Ka ee ah The summer’s heat kills babies and little Z 7 Seat | i Kee yi Winter’ has fied the ‘system with bile En | Hill!) Belching, vomiting up sour food, -rash; “ie eel Sey col etn, Cees Ay Ni Sh mi = consti; bowels cS st tore or 9 Aa/ ite Ef you want the little to face the dangers with- r Oe . see Serres . ry p ee a hot weather sets in. y} a only safe laxative for children, pleasant to take (they ce ast for more) is CASCARETS. | Nuning mothers make thels feaelit. Tey itl Send fon 0 S0c bax of CASCARETS to-day and you wil find that as ve groaranter, al regularities of the lite and big childrens insides ar = oe Lm > ~ LIVER TONIC 10. 7s js ti — ST ao NEVER CURE See | GUARANTEED ae | Riabiyem are esting Mek. Constipation Bilis mere | Sas wt CisCAS¥(S tcrtamty suertaiecl te eere er | “Fespis than Sil. other dizesen hers Site = | tency refuses y onday, tare Bos boten, Sire’ : | RS 5 Fir Bees ea eres P° Falhvee pede oer meaty a te paneer ee nny Daneman; oe. «LAO ee Leet ee ee 2 RS. BERTHA KOCKLER, 177 Guinett street, Brooklyn, N. Y., “Peruna and Manalin have done me Seeker: nuenoke cad ake come then with to all who suffer with nervous catarrh of the stomach as Ida. Should such-s disease ever attack me-again I shall immediately take Peruna. I now feel very well and have a good appetite all the time. I “amare eo! Thompson's Eye Water have gained in weight. I recommended ‘Peruna to an acquaintance of ours and ‘he us making remarkable progress. I looked so badly for a time before I ‘began your medicine, that now when ‘I meet some of my friends they say: “I was very much worried about you, but now you are looking so well.’ I shall always keep Peruna and Mana- lin in the house as family medicines.” —Mrs. Bertha Kockler. semen a ee Sioa Cay, bows esi “ Bt i “ . " 7 Thousands of Fair Women Are Never Without Peruna, The National Catarrh Remedy. Miss Marie Coats, President of the Appleton Young Ladies’ Club, writes the following concerning Peruna: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Gentle m en— “I find Peruna an = spring and sum- mer medicine aoe call the atten- tion of my friends to it 4 wae at me | guid, tired feel- ing comes over ed F no longer 2 Miss Marie Costes. £\ smal: unces irritate Peruna annoyances you, will make you feel like another per- son inside of a week. I have now used it for three seasons and find it a ee Mrs, Al. Wetzel, 21 South 27th street, Terre Haute, Ind., writes: $ “Peruna is the greatest medicine on earth. I feel well and that tired feel- ing is all gone. When I began to take your medicine 1 could not smell nor hear a church bell ring. Now I can smell.and hear. When I began your See on en ee sorts of buzzing, chirping asd noises. Three months ago I dragged | around like a snail; now I can walk as briskly es ever. I am going to go and see the doctor that said I was not long for this world, and tell him that Peruna cured me.”—Mrs. Al. Wetzel. If all the tired women and all the nervous women, and all the women that needed a tonic would read and heed the words of these three fair ladies who have spoken right to the point, how many invalids would be prevented and how many wretched lives be made happy. Peruna restores health in @ normal way. Peruna puts right all the mucous membranes of the body, and in this way restores the functions of every organ. If it is the stomach that is out of order, and the digestion impaired, Pe- runa quickly makes things right by restoring the mucous membrane of the stomach. If the nerves tingle, if the brain is tired, if the strength is flagging and the circulation of blood weakened by flabby mucous membranes of the di- gestive organs, Peruna reaches the spot at once by giving to these mem- branes.the vitality and activity which. belongs to them. pee eee: The pelvic organs are also lined with mucous membrane which in the female sex is especially lable to de rangements. Peruna is an absolute. Specific in these cases-.:The ‘women everywhere are praising it. No other remedy has evér received such un- qualified praise from such a multitude of women. 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, 0, Use CertainCorn Care, Price, ISt SMART HOUSEFURNISHINGS. A new fashion is to hang a long mirror, as long as the sofa itself, directly over the sofa. Tufted upholstered furniture is no longer la mode. Mahogany of good design simply covered is much better form. Reps, the old-time favorite, is again coming to the fore in the house furnishing world, and in red and golden brown is much liked for portieres. Indian red; with a paler red for the ceiling, gives most successful results as a wall covering for a living room or library. This shade may be had in either cartridge paper or burlaps. Dimity curtains on brass rods, reaching from the top of the window to the edge of the sill, are the approved window hangings for a colonial hall. Cotton or silk outer draperies are most consistent with the other furnishings, soften the light and add much to the attractiveness. Red leather is the newest color tone for the seat coverings of dining-room or library chairs. This has been brought about by the vogue of the darker toned oaks with which it harmonizes better. Green was better with the light oaks in style several seasons ago, with which red would look just as out of place as the green does with the more somber tones used now. Among the modern ideas of furnishings, plainness of effect has a prominent part. One of the latest and most favored ideas for a library is to have perfectly plain pine book shelves, which any carpenter can put up, stained to match the woodwork of the room, to fill every available space in the room between doors and windows, forming a continuous line of books. They should not run up very high, though, about four feet, or perhaps a trifle more. Wood stains are entering more and more into the artistic composition of the modern home. Exclusive designers nowadays consider the tint of the woodwork, in relation to the wall and floor coverings, as much as the hangings and furniture. The variety and beauty of the colorings given the woodwork are very effective. Dark green woodwork, with yellow walls, is one of the latest schemes that is very fashionable. There is a light sage-green that is stunning in a dining-room, too. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. It is strange how often some people prove themselves foolish; and yet have no knowledge of it. We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determines character. The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produces amendment, and the greatest is insufficient if it does not. Do not despise any opportunity because it seems small. The way to make an opportunity grow is to take hold of it and use it. You might as well expect one wave of the sea to be precisely the same as the next wave of the sea as to expect that there would be no change of circumstances. No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. The most satisfying thing in life is love and sympathy; but these, like fame, must come spontaneously and indirectly, if they come at all, and not be sought as a specific end or direct aim in themselves. Call it happiness or call it blessedness, the life whose end is righteousness is a life which satisfies, and which one is not willing but glad to live; its ways are ways of pleasantness and all paths are peace.—Pennsylvania Grit. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Politeness is a coin that passes current in every land. Reason is a man's guard and principle his safeguard. Diligence is a fair fortune and industry a good estate. It is truly a fine art to wear new clothes unconsciously. The heart can always give to charity even though the hand cannot. It's a wise plan to try on your good resolutions before passing them. When fortune is on our side popularity always bears her company. Advice, like hot butter, takes the form of the vessel it is poured into. A man should have a pound of common sense to each ounce of learning. The luckiest people in the world are those who do not depend upon good luck. Conscience is that within us which tells us when our neighbors are doing wrong. About one-half a man's life is devoted to rectifying the mistakes of the other half. The man who asks fool questions must not be particular about the answers he gets.—Pennsylvania Grit. ELEVEN MILES OF NICKELS. Nickels collected at the Boston subway entrances and by the conductors Monday, Dec. 24, 1800, were 847,935. These nickels would weigh almost three tons. They would look very pretty in any coal bin. Piled up, they would make Bunker Hill monument look verily like 90 cents. The pile would be 157 feet and shine lichens more than a mile high. Place them side by side, and the shining pavement would reach more than eleven miles. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. Envy is the dyspepsia of the mind. A burlesq-e is the refuge of indigent jokes. Crazy men and fools are poor instructors. A fool at home will be none the wiser when abroad. Lots of busy people never seem to accomplish anything. Some men are measured by feet and some by their heads. A lawyer is a cat employed by mice to settle their quarrels. Better an egg today than the promise of a hen tomorrow. Hope is the best medicine a physician can give his patients. With the exception of gray hairs, women like to make discoveries. A man is known by what he doesn't do rather than by what he says. The man who gives advice freely incurs unnecessary responsibilities. A feather in your pillow is worth two geese in your neighbor's back yard. Many people complain of their want of memory, but none of their want of judgment. A gentleman is a human being combining a man's courage and a woman's tenderness. When a man and a woman become husband and wife they are joined together for a strenuous life. When a man carries a baby on the streets he tries awfully hard to look as if he were doing it from choice. It has been truly said that dancing is the poetry of motion. At any rate, much depends upon the feet both in poetry and dancing. The crazy man with the state taking care of him and unlimited time to talk and handle big enterprises, is all right; it is sane kin who are miserable. Grass widows ought to be compelled by law to carry a gong as a danger signal and ring it every time one of them crosses the path of a strange man. Some clergymen deal in rhetoric, some in logic and some in commonsense. The first is popular with the women, the second with most men and the third with but precious few of either sex. LITERARY NOTES. The well-known historian of the inquisition of the middle ages, Henry Charles Lea, LL. D., has just given to the world a volume of noteworthy excellence, entitled "The Moriscos of Spain—Their Conversion and Expulsion." Mr. Lea is now 76 years old. Over a thousand hitherto unutilized Heine manuscripts and letters have been acquired by Prof. Hans Meyer of Leipsic. Among these is the earliest manuscript of Atta Troll, embracing 200 sheets, containing many corrections. The letters addressed to the poet by relatives and friends throw much valuable light on phases of his life. Frank Norris' "The Octopus," which is announced for early publication, begins a trilogy, "The Epic of the Wheat," which will form a complete picture of a crop of wheat from its sowing in California, through the exchange gambling based on it in Chicago, to its relief of a European famine. This story is founded upon the "Mussel Slough Affair," when, about 1870, the wheat growers of the San Joaquin valley came to actual war with the railroad, which was trying to dispossess them. STAGE WHISPERS Charles Klein's play for David Warfield's use has not been given a name, as yet; but it has been settled that the venture will be launched in the metropolis in September. F. Marlon Crawford is writing a play for Mrs. Sarah Cowell Le Moyne on the subject of Mme. de Maintenon, the production of which will occur in Boston next October. As yet no name has been selected for the piece. Henry Miller will probably have another play by Mrs. Ryley next season. Other stars who will present plays by this popular writer next season are Forbes Robertson, in England; Nat Goodwin, Willie Collier and John Mason. Next season John H. Stoddart will appear in New York as the star of Kirke La Shelle's production of "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush." He will play the role of Lochlan Campbell. The dramatization of Ian MacLaren's novel, originally made by James MacArthur, was rewritten some time ago by Augustus Thomas. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Ventilating an opinion often causes a coolness between friends. A gardner minds his peas and a billiard marker minds his cues. Only a few men can talk about themselves to the satisfaction of others. It takes adversity to bring a good man out—especially at the knees and elbows. If some people had more push and less pull they would probably have less cash and more credit. There are but few domestic wrongs inflicted upon the wife by her husband that a soilskin jacket won't heal. A scientist claims that a whisper travels on through space forever. It might be well for lovers to make a note of this. One of the grandest sights on earth is a man talking sense and his wife listening—Chicago News. 910 W. 63d st. (near Halsted) CHICAGO. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Office Hours: Phone 618 Went. 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 6 to 7:30 p. m. TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. PROF. W. E. DORSEY, 2058 La Salle St. Leader and Manager K. P. Military Band and Orchestra Music Furnished for Balls and Receptions. Prices Reasonable. Call and see me. DR. WM. H. DAVIS, Chiropidist, TREATMENT PAINLESS. Promp Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 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. Lumber King in Congress. Llewellyn Powers, ex-governor of Maine, who has been elected to congress in place of Charles A. Boutelle, is 62 years of age and has been active in political life since 1864, when he was elected county attorney at Houlton. Mr. Powers is a lumber king, owning 175,000 acres of timber land. Cashier Paids for Carelessness It has been held by a jury in Iowa that under certain circumstances a bank cashier must make good money taken by robbers. In March, 1900, a bank in Northwood was entered by burglars who rified the safe. O. F. Ulland, owner of the bank, brought suit against Burr Payne, his cashier, for $2,500, claiming that Payne left the burglar proof safe unlocked and that he had left more money there than he was supposed to. The jury awarded Mr. Ulland $823.50. COMMONPLACE FACTS. Put Together in a Way to Make You Think It comes as something of a shock to realize that Massachusetts is smaller than Vermont. One always has a hazy, general impression that the Bay State is three or four times as large as the Green Mountain Commonwealth, superficially. But it isn't so. Vermont has (according to a just published census bulletin) 9,565 square miles, whereas Massachusetts has but 8,325. And there are five other states of the union smaller than Vermont—New Hampshire is 260 square miles smaller—though if it were spread out flat it would doubtless be much bigger than Vermont. Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Jersey are the four other states that are smaller than Vermont. But all make a terribly poor figure when compared with Texas. Texas, may it please your royal highness, has 265,780 square miles, and is thus 28 times as big as Vermont, and makes just about one-fourteenth of the whole United States. If it were as thickly populated as Vermont it would have a population of about 9,000,000, wheras, as a matter of fact, it has but 2,500,000. The Texans have plenty of elbow room. Next to Texas in size comes California, with 158,360 square miles, and then follow Montana, 146,680; Nevada, 110,700, and Colorado, 103,925—which are all the states having a hundred thousand square miles of area or more. Alaska knocks them all milly with 590,884 square miles, and; at the other extreme, the reader experiences a delicate surprise to learn that Hawaii, over which so much fun has been made, is a good deal smaller than Vermont, having but 6,449 square miles—Pennsylvania Grit. A. D. GASH, Attorney-at-Law. 84 and 96 La Salle St., Suite 615 to 619. Telephone, Main 3077. Chicago. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 80 B. Clark Street, CHICAGO 171. HARRISON 51. Thomas F. Soully, 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 Yard 707 Residence, 119 Garfield Rd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 6787 S. HALSTED STREET, ....CHICAGO LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Vol. 24, 2020. — Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. * TELEPHONE MAIN 1762. TELPHONE 619 YARD. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4858 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 Armenor avenue, Chicago. Combination Diffuses Monopoly. The growth of industrial combination, so far from concentrating, has more widely diffused the power of monopoly, and has equalized the economic advantages which arise from its possession. Producers who were formerly sufferers from monopoly power have now been permanently relieved. They have been taken into the inner circles and have been admitted to a share in monopoly power, which, under the regime of free competition, they could not have obtained.—The Forum. Rome Temple Discovered. At Naundorf, in the Hunsruck, near the Rhine, a Roman temple has been found inclosed in a walled inclosure measuring 220 by 200 feet. The temple stands in the middle, and is 60 feet by 50. It contains some terra cotta objects that have been discovered hitherto in Germany. They are votive offerings, about a hundred being whole figures representing goddesses. Small bronze statuettes of Mars, Jupiter and Mercury have also been found. Popular Sports at Davos Davos, situated among the Alps, 5,000 feet above the level of the sea, has become the most popular place in Europe for winter sports, such as skating, tobogganing, curling, sking, etc. The season generally extends from the middle of November until the middle of March, and last year there were ninety-six days of skating. Curling has developed greatly and this year a new curling rink has been opened. The Parson's Remarks. A colored preacher, at the funeral of a brother who had "fallen from grace," said: "I hopes de good Lawd will bless de reminiscence er his family en constituents, but I got my doubts erbout it, kaze Br'er Thompson put off repentance ter his dyin' hour. I dunno whether Br'er Thompson is lost or not, but I knows one thing, en dat is, if he is lost I didn't lose him."—Atlanta Constitution. Important If True. Chicago promised to keep enough water flowing through her drainage canal to dilute the sewage to harmlessness—as though that could be done! But now the United States compels a large reduction of the flow of water, with the result that the sewage goes down to St. Louis crude and concentrated. Thus is wisdom justified of her children.—New York Tribune. Groovenor square, in London, is en' to contain the residences of more mil lenaires than any other area of siii' extent in the world. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. 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The report of the metropolitan fire brigade of London shows that there were 3,385 fires in the English capital last year. The causes are tabulated as follows: Unknown, 1,158; lights thrown down, 68; sparks from grates, 190; candles, 173; upsetting mineral oil lamps, 157; children playing with matches, 116; defective flues, 115; escape of gas, 98; looking for gas with light, 31; explosion of oil lamps, 23; incendiarism, 6. Discovery of Anthracite Coal Anthracite coal, known to be such, was first discovered at Mauch Chunk, Pa., in 1791. In the same year the Lehigh Coal Mining company began the business of making a commodity of the new discovery. As the success of the company became apparent efforts to discover other mines were made with favorable results, and the coal mining business steadily increased to its present wonderful proportions. Seven Million Men on One Job More men were employed on the Gizeh pyramid than on any other work in the history of the world. It is estimated that not less than 7,000,000 men were forced to labor on the great pile. The pyramid is 450 feet high and its base covers an area of 13 acres, twice the dimensions of any other structure in the world. In one instance 2,000 men were three years in bringing a single stone from the quarry. Carpenters for the Navy. The government finds it exceedingly difficult to secure properly qualified carpenters for the navy. Out of twenty-one applicants recently examined at the Washington navy yard only three were able to pass. Carpenters are paid from $1,200 to $1,800 a year, according to length of service, with added percentum for longevity and commutation for quarters while on shore. Moldiness Prevented by Oil A few drops of any perfumed oil will secure libraries from the consuming effects of moldiness and damp. 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