The Broad Ax

Up to Wednesday afternoon nothing new developel in our libel suit except that a little bird traced Capt. Carter and several other ring-leaders of his gang of blood-thirsty hybird conspirators to a house on La Salie street, near 28th street, where they further concocted their plan or scheme of getting us in jail before we had the time to get out another issue of The Broad Ax, for the last issue of The Broad Ax set every member of this whole gang of hydra-headed impostors on fire and they all had or have blood in their blood-shot eyes. Wednesday afternoon however, the fight was renewed in dead earnest; along about 2 o'clock we appeared in the hallway which leads into Justice John C. Everett's court and the first one to tackle us was W. H. Clark, who cussed us up one side and down the other. Clark called us "a bastard," "a yellow hyena," and many other names which are too vile and indecent to print. He thought he could scare us off by threatening to commit bodily harm upon us, but we did not run, Clark had fifty cents hung up in the case, which he put up to have it docketed, go it is fair to assume that he was in favor of having Justice Everett to go right ahead with the case, but Justice Everett continued it until next Wednesday afternoon; then the boys got hotter and hotter in their collars; Saint Air Tight Watkins, who misrepresents the city of the 56th street police station, stood around and looked at the judge, and Watkins had his hat cocked on one side of his lawless head, which made him look like a dead tough boy instead of a brainless lawyer. Ham Carter pranced around like a two-legged dung-hill rooster and acted as though he wanted to tear one of our witnesses to pieces. Several other members of Ham's gang glared at us and conducted themselves as though they would like to drink our warm blood and cut and hack our body up into a million pieces and throw it to the dogs to feast upon. In the meantime all hands filed out of Justice Everett's court; at about 3 o'clock, and shortly after doing so, one of our true friends, who is connected with the States Attorney's office, called us up by telephone and informed us that "a colored man from the corporation counsel's office arrived in front of the grand jury rooms at about 4 o'clock, and stated that Justice Everett refused six times to go ahead with the case of the People of Illinois against Julius F. Taylor, and that he wanted the grand jury to take it up at once." So on Thursday morning arrangements were made to appear before the grand jury and on Thursday night that body returned on indictment against us. Friday morning word was sent to us from the States Attorney's office, requesting us to come over to the big building on the North Side and bring our bondsmen with us, and Albert B. George and Edward H. Wright went on our bond for one thousand dollars, and we are still ready to fight. P. S.-By the time the colored man from the Corporation Counsel's office arrived at the Grand Jury rooms, so it is said "that Poney Moore, Ham Carter and other members of his gang of notorious vipers were already on the ground." Cheering news comes from Southern Illinois, over the election of the Hon. James B. Ricks as Judge of the Supreme Court of this state. Judge Ricks is an able lawyer and he will give honor and dignity to the office to which he was elected last Tuesday. State Chairman John P. Hopkins spent much time in Southern Illinois prior to the election, and the returns show that he is no novice in the political world. County Commissioner James E. Daley so far has made an ideal county official and the leaders of the party will not pass Commissioner Daley by next year when nominations are in order for county commissioners. The first step of this congress was the passage by practically a solid party vote, of the celebrated "Concurrent Resolution," to inquire into the condition of the late Confederate states, the next was the passage in the House, December 14, of a resolution referring to that committee of fifteen every question relating to conditions in the late confederate states, and to admit no member from these states until the committee had reported; then came the defeat of the Vorhees resolutions endorsing the presidential plan. The Republicans, in the votes on all these measures, presented practically a solid front, while the Democrats were unanimous in opposition. The action of the Senate was on like lines. In the language of Mr. Stevens' Congress was already determined "to take no account of the aggregation of white-washed rebels who, without any legal authority, have assembled in capitols of the late rebel states and simulated legislative bodies." Reconstruction was already a party question. Mr. Stevens, the leader of the radicals, said during these proceedings, on the floor of the House, December 14, 1865: "According to my judgment they (the insurrectionary states) ought never to be recognized as capable of acting in the Union, or of being recognized as valid states, until the Constitution shall have been so amended as to make it what its makers intended, and so as to secure perpetual ascendency to the party of the Union." A sample of the arguments for the Concurrent Resolution is the following, by a prominent member, Mr. Shellebarger, in answer to Mr. Raymond: "They framed iniquity and universal murder into law. The'r pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea. They carved the bones of your dead heroes into ornaments, and drank from goblets made out of their skulls. They poisoned your fountains, put mines under your soldiers' prisons, organized bands whose leaders were concealed in your homes, and commissions ordered the torch and yellow fever to be carried to your citizens and to your women and children. They planned one universal bonfire of the North from Lake Ontario to the Missouri." etc. Moderation was out of the question. A few conservative Republicans, who, like Mr. Raymond, of New York, stood out for Mr. Johnson's policy, were trampled under the feet of the majority. Others, though halting now and then, kept in line with the party which was steadily marching forward to the view that was already held by the radicals, and afterwards expressed by Mr. Sumner in debate upon the bill for suffrage in the District of Columbia: "Nothing is clearer than the absolute necessity for suffrage for all colored persons in the disorganized states. It will not be enough if you give it to those who read and write, you will not in this way acquire the voting force which you need there for the protection of Unionists, whether black or white, you will not secure the new allies who are essential to the national cause." To reach this goal there were many obstacles to be overcome, and time was necessary. The plan of the radicals included legislation relating to freedmen; there was good reason to expect hostilify from the Supreme Court, and southerners did not foresee how a square decision from that tribunal could be avoided; it included constitutional amendments; three-fourths of the states only could amend the Constitution, and several of the northern states were hostile to Negro suffrage, while if the policy entered upon should fail, the failure would be disastrous. The Democrats in Congress had allied themselves with the cause of the southern whites, and, as Mr. Stevens expressed it on the floor of the House, If Negroes were not to have the ballot, the representatives from the southern states, with the Democrats "that would be elected in HEW TO THE LINE. the best of times in the North," would control the country. The radicals were looking hopefully to the investigation of the committee of Fifteen, under the Concurrent Resolution, of which Mr. Seward said (Bancroft's Seward, Page 454), it "was not a plan for reconstruction, but a plan for indefinite delay." The committee was composed of twelve Republicans and three Democrats, and of them Mr. Blaine says (Twenty Years in Congress, Vol. II, Page 129): "It was foreseen that in an especial degree the fortunes of the Republican party would be in the keeping of the fifteen men who might be chosen." This committee was appointed in December, 1865, continued its investigations until June, 1866, when dividing on strictly party lines, the majority made its report, June 13, and the minority June 22 The majority report discussed at length theories of reconstruction, and bitterly condemned the plan of the President. As to conditions in the South, it found that the Freedmen's Bureau was "Almost universally hated," and that "the feeling in many portions towards the emancipated slaves, especially among the uneducated and ignorant, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred. This deep-seated prejudice against color is aggressively cultivated by the public journals, and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish. (To be continued.) TAKING ADVANCED GROUNDS. At the regular Monday meeting of the Ministerial Union held at Metropolitan A. M. E. church, the following resolutions looking toward reform in the conduction of funerals in the parishes represented by the Union, was adopted: Resolved, that we recommend I. The discontinuance of all Sunday funerals. We find this to be the custom in the great city of Philadelphia to the satisfaction of all classes. The regular duties of Sunday are more than equal to the time and strength of the city pastor. II. The discouragement of all forms of extravagance, especially in floral decorations, expensive caskets and the hiring of an unnecessary number of carriages. III. That funeral services in the churches be conducted exclusively by ministers of the Gospel. IV. We respectfully urge upon our people the grave need of promptness or punctuality at funerals both at the home and the church.-Washington, D.C., Ex. We heartily approve of the above sentiments. OUR LIBEL SUIT. W. A. Moran wrote a long article to The Colored American, Washington. D. C., last week, respecting the libel suit which Ham Carter and his gang of vile-mouthed, nameless creatures and conspirators have instituted against us, and Moran wound up his poorly written article as follows: "Ham Carter and his bunch are happy, Will Clark is taking an extra drink every hour, he is so tickled at his brother's downfall; Ham Carter is so busy laughing that he has forgotten to cuss." Since Friday Jim Miller actually looks taller since he experienced the joy of laughing in his sleeve at "Broad Ax" Taylor; Sam Watkins has but one regret, that Taylor was not arrested out at the 35th street station, where he could prosecute him." While good colored Republicans are having a hard time getting their share of the "spoils" President McKinlev continues to dish out "political pan" to the lilly white republicans and the gold democrats. Old war horses like ex-Cov. Pinchback, Col. Wm. Pledger, Col. T. Thomas Fortune, ex-Congressman George H. White and others are held back until the President can further carry out his southern policy, in trying to build up a white man's party. Is this our reward for 35 years of loyalty to the republican party, during which time we have sacrificed about 50,000 lives In the Library of Congress are 1,100 titles of works written by Negroes. Many of those books are on the shelves and are frequently called for by the readers. Ex-City Attorney Miles J. Devine may be induced to accept the nomination for County Judge next year. Mr. Devine is a fine lawyer and he would make a good judge. When a girl hears that some man whom she has loved, but who has married another, is getting the worst of the deal, she chuckles away down to her toes. Dr. George C. Hall has promised to visit us providing we get in jail and bring along something good to eat and cheer us up by relating a lot of fresh stories. John E. Treager's many friends, residing on the South, North and West Side and in all parts of Cook County, presented him with a diamond star Thursday evening, which costs four hundred dollars. Th acquittal of a colored man in Alabama by the court for rape is an evidence that there are many mistakes made when hasty judgment is carried out. Many persons have been lynched who if they had had a fair trial by law would be alive today. Opr friend Dr. George C. Hall left Friday night for Baitimore, M. D., where he will spend six weeks in renewing his acquaintance with Mrs. Hall, who is already in the East, and in visiting friends. Mrs. Hall will return home with the doctor at the expiration of that time. A William H. Thomas item: A black man in Boonville, Mo., married an octoroon. She gave birth to twins as fair as she. The black man made no kick. Next, she gave birth to a real black baby, and the black man left her, claiming it was not his child!— The Radical, St. Joseph, Mo. Lawyer Hugh J. Kearns is now located in his new law offices, 616 Ashland Block. Mr. Kearns was a candidate for city attorney before the last city convention, and he has many friends who would like to see him chosen as one of the Circlut Court Judges of Cook County. Mr. J. F. Turner, president and treasurer of the Sanitary Feather Co., 249 South Canal street, lost his beloved mother recently. Mrs. Turner was in her 85th year, but she continued to take an active interest in all the affairs of life up to the very last. Mr. Turner's many friends sympathise with him over the loss of his mother. A certain newspaper devil was explaining to a young lady last week the difference between printing and publishing. He having concluded, she shyly said: "Now you may print a kiss on my check but you must not publish it." With that he locked the fair form in his arms, so it would not pl, and went to press—Ex. Schrader-Wittstein Co., wholesale dealers in diamonds and manufacturing jewelers have removed from 100 State street, to the fifth floor of the Columbus Building, 100 State street. Mr. A. H. Wittstein, one of the head members of this big diamond and jewelry house, is one of our friends, and he is a first-class business man. Ex-Judge William M. Barnum, Room 916, New York Life Building, after spending the last three weeks in Seattle, Wash., and in other sections of the West, arrived in the city Mon- day morning. The judge greatly enjoyed his trip through the West and he is looking well and feels much benefited by it. The Broad Ax of Chicago, is one of the best edited and most sensible AfroAmerican sheets published in this country. We wish it long life and everlasting prosperity.—The Times, St. Louis, Mo. Brother Times, The Broad Ax, like the Times, stands for everything that is best not only for the Negro race, but for all races of mankind. When we first opened up our fight on Carter and his gang of bull-faced bullies each and every one of them said "that no one reads little 'nigger' newspapers, and The Broad Ax can't hurt us," but now they have changed their song and they tremble like cowards and slaves, whenever The Broad Ax hoves in sight, for they are afraid it will undo their rotten gang. Some Negroes make asses of themselves on every occasion possible. He was a southern Negro who boarded the President's train going through Alabama and asked a lot of fool questions about lynchings North. This must be the same fool who got on Bryan's car last summer and asked what he intended to do if he were elected president! The impudent rascal should have been kicked off both cars.—Ex. Hon. Charles S. Thornton, of the great legal firm of Thornton & Chancellor, Masonic Temple, returned from St. Paul, Minn., the first of the week, where he argued a very important case before the United States Court. Thornton & Chancellor have over three thousand law books in their offices and with all their rushing business, each member of the firm and Miss McDonald, who is strikingly handsome and unassuming in her ways, writes out the checks and finds the time to read The Broad Ax. The afternoon of the same day that Mayor Carter H. Harrison was renominated we stepped into W. H. Clark's office in the city hall and he and S. A. T. Watkins were talking at the same time, and we very humbly asked Clark if he had been over to the convention. He retorted by saying: "I was a delegate, and if you did not see my name in the morning newspapers then you are a hell of a newspaper man." We did not respond, but concluded that W. H. Clark was about right. Green E. Evans, who was at one time a member of the Legislature of Tennessee and for many years he was connected with the United States government, has washed his hands of politics and he is now devoting all his time in looking after his coal and wood business at 332 29th street, and within the last few years he has built up a large business among the best class of whites; thus showing that the whites are willing to spend their money with colored business men, if colored men know how to do business. Some one has said that if you heave a rock into a pack of dogs, while they are engaged in fighting, the dog which gets hit by the rock will run out from among the rest of the dogs yelping at the top of his voice. If this is true then it appears to us that the rocks which we threw last week through the columns of The Broad Ax, must have hit Capt. H. C. Carter and his gang of fighting-cocks right square in their deceitful faces for they have been yelping loud enough to beat the band for the past week. Dr. Joseph Jeffrey spoke before the South End Sunday Club the past Sunday, "Evolution and Degeneration" being his subject. The doctor very learnedly elaborated upon many advanced ideas on this new thought, which is now engaging the attention of the advanced thinkers of this age. Those who heard the doctor were highly pleased with his instructive discourse. When he concluded L. A. Newby suggested that a rising vote of thanks be extended to him which was effectfully compiled by Dr. L. W. Lewis speaks this coming Sunday on "Opportunity." Down in Mississippi during the war between the North and the South there dwelt an old yellow mule which seemed to loaf around, and he had no home, but at last a United States agent came along and he branded the mule with his seal, U. S.; the next day an agent representing the Southern Confederacy appeared and branded the mule secession, and this process was kept up so long between the agents of the two governments that at last it was very hard to tell whether the mule belonged to Uncle Sam or to the Confederates, and this applies to Captain Carter, for within the past 40 years he has been the head and front of the Republican party, the Democratic party and of many other parties, and you cannot most always sometimes tell whether he is a blooming Republican or a shouting Democrat, for in politics he is all things to all men. Insanity ought to be a good defense for Mr. Wellington, who has promised to marry 25 or 30 Chicago widows. If he were sane he would have known that one Chicago widow is about all one man can take care of properly. You may talk of the selfish men who succeed, but when we talk of success we don't mean tumblebugs who roll their treasure home, pigs who succeed in finding acorns, bankers who pile up dollars, trust organizers who rob, or gamblers who successfully swindle. When we mention successful men, we mean men really successful—those whose lives have added something to the dignity and decency of the human race. The dinner given by the survivors of the defenders of Belfort in the Franco-German war, on the anniversary of the siege, was especially memorable because of the one woman present, who provided one of the most popular toasts. This was Mme. Belfort, a lieutenant of the Frances-Tireurs, who, then but a girl just out of her teens, was enrolled as a trooper in that corps, as she was a capital rider and shot. In this campaign she won both her commission and the military cross. An interesting and unusual ceremony will take place in Quebec next month, when a suitably inscribed bronze tablet will be placed by the Sons of the American Revolution upon the spot where the brave Gen. Montgomery fell, on December 31, 1775, in his ill-fated attempt to capture the citadel. The ceremony of unveiling the tablet to the American general will be followed by an international exchange of courtesies and a banquet; and it is safe to predict that, although the city held out successfully against the fathers, it will capitulate to the sons. When digging in the gravel beds of South Kensington for the foundations of the Victoria and Albert museum in London great quantities of the bones of extinct animals were found, creatures which lived in the London basin at the time that the river's drift and brick earth were being deposited. These were the bones of the great stags then common, of the elephant and of the primeval horse, creatures which lived there before the channel was cut between England and France, though not perhaps before man had appeared in what is now the Thames valley. A scientist, to whom some of the remains were taken said that they reminded him of the great discovery of similar remains in the brick earth at Ilford, in Essex, England, thirty-seven years ago, when he personally saw dug from the brick fields of that parish the head and tusks of one of the largest mammoth elephants in the world. Within the next two months the government will close out its business of educating Indians by contract, and thenceforth will retain practically the whole control and conduct of the matter. The change from the old system to the new began in 1896, when Congress passed a law providing for sectarian schools, the decrease being twenty per cent each year. Mean time, as the cutting off of this all deprived Indian boys and girls of the privileges which they had enjoyed for them in government schools, the attendance in which has increased from fourteen to twenty-two thousand, and is still growing at the rate of a thousand a year. The next step contemplated by the government is a measure of compulsory education for young Indians. It is a pleasure to note that Hampton Institute, being entirely non-sectarian and performing a service which would be hard to duplicate will still receive a certain measure of government assistance. Greene sah suse ce — Re SAvortiaing ruies eda knows on egetiontian, THE BROAD as, ~ ‘$0te buwour AvErtE, Crosse ————e FOLIUS ¥. TATLOR, Raitor end Publisbon | Sed ES _ Mazy Owens of Chicago is aaid to be he only woman in the world who does wegular police duty. Every husband can testify that this ts incorrect. : —_——— According to. arecent regulation, @uplis in the schools of Saxony will ‘bereafter be required to commit to @smory 291 Biblical verses and 193 verses of hymns in addition to’ the eatechism. : - An Ohio speculator fainted when he ‘saw that stocks-in which be was in- terested were going down, and when ‘he came to he found that he was many “thousands of dollars richer than when ‘the lost consciousness. Yet a few years trem now he will tell his ¢randchild- em that he made his money by econ- ‘a Neng agua acca *: Exerete ‘cannot with impunity be ‘meglected, and should be taken reg~ wiarly and im moderation. Most wor -mgn. would-be all tae better for walk- were they to do so, instead of de- pending so much on street cars, good complexions and trim figures would be Zar more commén than they are among those who ere no longer in ‘The origin of the tiger as an emblem of-Tammany is sald-by W. C. Mont- anye, & coffee and. spice “dealer, in New York, to date from the time when William M. Tweed, then foreman of “Big Six” Gre company, took a fancy ‘to'm picture of a royal Bengal tiger im the elder Montayne’s store in the “80's. ‘Tweed adopted“the emblem for the American civb, and it.socon was accepted by all Tammany. & bill in the New York legislature proposes to give electric railway com- panies the same rights of condemna- tion as steam railways, with -a yiew to Promoting general competition with existing zoads.. The propriety of put- ting electric roads under regulations similar to those placed upon the compete peng ego See fo equip their . ars with -lavatories, a= sogenen. Se eve ’ ere an eo ieee esigned to teach the art of telegraphy is consists of p baseboard on oa modes, between RICK w 4K is eee, Semen op iphety with SEES Rtpceiv ties ex apie So areeed Seal, <rae SOAR SPREPS Sie eee os aren, Rese ie wees ot ibe takan Gad breaks fo ciel. _, SQmitting the cost of water and the rproducts of the soda fountains, the ‘American Grocer estimates that the ‘@ational “drink Dill" for beverages of all kinds amounted last year t( more than twelve hundred and ‘wenty- eight million dollars. Alcoholic lig- for more than a billion L coffee, for one hundred and w millions; tea. for thirty- seven millions, and cocoa for six mil- =. Statistics are given to show ‘taat our consumption of alcohol is uot imeréeatng, and this, of course, is a ‘be. thankfal for; but the seri- ie cetk thik oe spansenery: some ef which are unnecessary, a an een eeenal | every year money enough te provide the comforts of life for all ‘The olf Scotchwoman who. liked her minister because “he joombies the Soedment an’ confoonds the sense” ‘would have appreciated a bit of British ef which the premier seems to ‘with sardonic ammeefnent. “In pm. act of Parliament.” says Lore , 7, “which authorizes us to q technica instruction, it 4d distinctly said that’ techmical in- ‘act of Parliai owen > i of foreign iaa~ on Se caring ined, a Se netecees - Freely: aa Be id want 4 sured 20k the ‘@e man tho to A FAMOUS OLD HOUSE. BR eden a hacen ogo ee whose of cocoa Seecmige nove cabeth aohinate ‘mouth as household words, was estab- Usbed one hundred and twenty-one years ago (1780) op the Neponset river in the old town of Dorchester, a suburb of Boston. From the little wooden mill, “by the rude bridge that arched the fi ce oer was first bere has grown up the industrial establishment of the ‘Kind-in the world, It might be ‘said ‘that, while other manufacturers come ‘end'go, Walter Baker @ Co., go on for- ever. fe ‘What is the secret of their great suc- cess? It ism very simple one. They bare won and held the confidence of body of consumers always main- taining the highest standard in the quality of their cocoa and chocolate preparations, and selling them at the lowest price for which unadulterated articles of good quality can be put upon the market. They weleome hon- est competition; but they feel justified im denouncing in the strongest terms the fraudulent methods by which in- ferior preparations are palmed off on customers who esk for. and suppose ‘they are getting the genuine articles. The best grocers refuse to handle such goods, not alone for the reason that, in the Jong run, it doesn't pay to do it, but because their sense of fair dealing ‘will not permit them to aid in the sale of goods that defraud their customers end injure honest manufacturers. Every package of the goods made by the Walter Baker Company bears the ‘well-known, trade mark “La Belle Chocoistiere,” and their place of manu- facture “Dorchester, Maas.” House- keepers are advised to examine their purchases, and make sure that other goods have not been substituted. An atfractive little book of “Choice Recipes” will be mailed free to‘ any housekeeper who sends her name and address to Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 158 State Street, Boston, Mass. Qeeer dens of Jastice. | Some of the justices of this city ap- pear to have taken a singular view of ‘their duties and prerogatives, says @ ‘recent Manchester, England, dispatch. ‘The case of Hugo Shaw and W. H. | Hughes—who"have rightly resigned a position for which they were clearly unfitted—has created a great sensation, and has drawn a letter from the home secretary in approva] of the censure of the city justices. These two gentle- men have escaped lightly, for they Were guilty of about as scandalous a breach of magisterial decorum as can ‘be imagined. From the report fur- nished by the chief constable we gath- er that when a local publican was to be summoned for permitting drunken- ness on his premises these two justices made repeated attempts to induce the police to refrain from prosecuting. sip cuvtens es tee tes were ‘on ’ salsa thpehice shltned alten ts to moved after them. Having done all they conld to stop the case they thrast themselves upog -the bench out of their turn. There is a strong hint in the chief.constable’s report that undue Smfiuence Is frequently brought to bear ‘on licemsing cases in Manchester. Peaches Tricks to Bactame Mrs. Rosalie Gandolfo is a St. Louis woman who has a penchant for ban- tam chicken pet# and has a broot of them ‘of which she is exceedingly "ptond, for she has trained them to per- form tricks that are the wonder of tée ‘meighbors. Two of her roosters, esfe- ially favored by her, are named Bic- Rates ies perme on severe ‘fell were perched on a newspaper's iiamimioth bulletin board on election day last November and kept the big rowés- shouting with delight at their continual crowing. It seemed as if the little redbreasts knew when big rer turms came im for McKinley and Roosevelt, for as the figures were posted up they would emit louder thah ever their “cock-a-doodle-do.” The foosters will perch on Mrs. Gando!fo’s @ngers, fy to ber arm, shoulder or head at command; will crow when- ever their mistress tells them to, will eat out of her hand, will guard articles like a watch dog’ and in other ways ‘will show the result of long and care- ful training. Mrs. Gandolfo, who ts President of the‘Rosalie, Woman's club, highly and takes great pains in teach- ing them new tricks. : A Heme for Stray Cats An uptown woman in New. York, the dow of a supreme court judge, has ~ voted her attention to the welfare of ~ray cats. She bas had constructed « euge thirty-two feet long and ten feet wide, where all homeless animals who are found in the vicinity veceive food and. shelter. The meighbors cell it the “cat mission.” The cage is fitted ‘with cushions and has « house heated out wate igs ths 08 Sets of “Gally for the inmates. Over forty eats are being cared for at pres- ent, and news of the institution: is Cecdemaed te Wenr Wooden Co'lar. 4 man who had been conéeroned to ‘wear -@ wooden collar was seen dy ne ae eee Sus ee Sk heap, Solas. Ciera: Bi de- plied; “I only picked up an old piecs et rope” And you Are to be’ pun~ Ashe’ thus severely,” they asked, “for mereiy’ picking up ac ‘end of rope?” “Well,” answered thé man, “the fact is that. there wes a bullock tied to the other end." —Herbert A; Giles,: tz “History. of Chinese Litevature”. _ TYROL IS THE MECCA. EUROPEAN COUNTRY THE PHO- 7 ‘TOGRAPHERS* RESORT. Ko@ak Fieeés Parade — Foreige ‘Visitors with Instruments Often Secs ‘There. A ‘ er eee en ee eT eee ees 'ern Tyrol is now the of kodak fiends among the tourists of Europe. Daily, dm all sorts of weather, one may Parties of foreign visitors with their “photographic instruments ‘mak- ‘ing their way in the narrow valley be- tween the Laurensburg and the Rosen- gigantic, rugged walls rise on either side for miles, threatening to bury the intruder alive. t Enormous figures hundreds of feet in length are hewn’ by nature on the sharp edge of these rocky walls. Some ‘of these are old and historic, but new ones are constantly discovered by the amateur photographers surprisingly true types of the great world of beings of present and bygone days. Around these types were woven the saga of the ancient Teutons. Mothers whisper even today to the children on their knees the story of the dWarf king, Laurin, who fought with the giants Dietrich and Wettich for -the posses- sion of the beautiful Similda, the ais- ter of Dietlied Von Steler. And solici- tous parents tell their young daugh- ters the tale of the hypocrite maiden who prayed daily on her knee in church, but was unchaste fn her heart ‘and secret life and who one day when she climbed the Laurensburg to meet her lover found a huge Capucine monk who convicted her of her sinful ways. She feli before him and was trans- formed into a kneeling mass of stone. @ause Natives to Fear and Tremble. No wonder that the native children Tegard these ominous rocks with fear and trembling and hardly dare to look up to them. ana ae ten American and British tra do not hesitate to desecrate this tegion with their modern contrivances and repro- duce these manifold mythic statues which for centuries have awed the past generations. Laxurious hotels are now rising where once stood the enchantéd pal- aces’ and gardens of German mytholo- gy. Small cabins have been ¢rected for the accommodation of the moun- tain climber, where story writers lo- yap ge ean Two the most bizarre figures of the Rossengarten are the Riesenfingers (giant fingers) and the “cleft man.” The former is an immense monolith e a | ‘ ail en ' THE BLESSED FRAULEIN ON THE 4e rocky We | rising from the ‘wall as straight as a candle, resembling the fingers of a Titan, the latter like a mighty pyra- mid through which the elements Mave bored a large aperture. These are among the most lofty figures of \the dolomities. The tourist who has suc- ceeded in ascending to the topmost po- sitions here finds a solemn, .almost op- Preasive, stillness and an excellent view of the surrounding phenomena. Tearist Must f~ + Ths of dae vee a = ea of the » Which ts crowned ‘by a striking group representing: .« ‘woman holding ber child on her seas lone Setet se in edie vattitude. Besides thess figures is of a tall maiden with face turned de- “Die Geapenstige Familie” (the {the blessed maiden) by the inbabit- ants. On the opposite side be Geen tha Group Of the Rosengertaniins ready mentioned, of ° @ gnapshot at these figures one must ‘be an expert . for here the rock s ndicular and it ts dif- cult, to a vie he ce reds of “ . ‘end Whims of fe are bere. There is the figure of the Indian on Rosengarten in strik- ‘aly oriental -@vess,-of the ‘goed shephe aie per tog see the Laurensburg an a, the ruler of Hades, in ‘ bag Li ee nt Se eee vere sts who cla ee leset superstitions, venture in these ) after al z.* a ee a ‘The Pursuit of Pivasure. = ae ee various parks of London, and jon. About 15,000 games of cricket WENT BRAVELY TO DEATH. "(Special Letter.) | The man who can face death with- ‘out @ tremor and even give the com- mand which is to result in his body be- ‘ing pierced by a dosen bullets may ‘without question be considered as pos- sep Negeeey sf, Seek order and when to this Is added the fact that his ‘executioners are all friends and sym- pathizers the case seems al! the more ‘unusual. An instance of this nature ‘Which occurred during the civil Waris ‘Telated by a Southern soldier, who, si- though he had witnessed violent deaths “without number and had become inured to scenes of carnage, had a last- ‘ing Impression made upon him by one ‘officer's heroism. He told the story as follows: cs “One morning I left my command for a walk and had gone but a short distance when I ran into a little body of men. Two of them had their eyes blindfolded and their arms tied behind them. The first fellow couldn't have been more than 25. He was tall, straight as an arrow, with dark, curl- ing brown hair, and his face was the handsomest amd. the saddest I ever saw. He was walking quietly and steady. 1 couldn't see his eyes, but not @ muscle of his face was twitching, and his feet were planted fairly and squarely on the ground. I noticed that he wore the uniform of a captain. “The second fellow had to be held up by four men. Every few steps he would fall to the ground perfectly limp and, it seemed, lifeless. When the men would get him up he would scream and cry like a scared child. He was a great, big, raw-boned Nort Carolinian, and his terror would hav been. disgusting if it hadn't been & pitiable. . “I followed the little procession for a hundred yards to where the line of crosses stood. The captain was to be shot first. As they placed him with his back to the cross he said: “Men, you know me. I've led you in thirty fights, and you've never seen me shy from a gun muzzle yet, have you? I Just want you to take this bandage off my eyes, and as long as I've got to die, let me die like a man. I've given you the order to fire many a time, and I'd like to give my last order, if you'll let me.’ ‘The lieutenant hesitated, and then he said: ‘Jack, I'll do it, it I ge. shot for it.’ “They unbound his eyes. He waa ier himself for a minute, took a look all about him, and then facing his men, said in as steady- &@ voice as I ever listened to, ‘Ready! Aim! Fire!’ “They fired, and he pitched straight forward his full length, dead before he struck the ground. Then they tried to bind the ‘Tarheel to the cross, but he writhed and moaned and twisted away from it like a snake with a broken back. They gave it up, and he was shot while he was crawling along the ground, screaming out prayers for mercy. “I heard afterward that the captain, hearing that his old mother was dy- ing, had asked leave to go to his home, which was only twelve miles away. | We needed every man then, and the permit was refused. He slipped away, but before he got back Grant made one of his attacks on our lines. The cap- tain's company went into action for the first time without him at the head of it. He returned for a court mar- tial. Deserting had ‘become too com- mon for any excuse to be taken for it, and he was ordered to be shot the mext morning.” GOLD CHEAPER THAN PAINT. Why the Deme ef the Congressional Library Is Covered with Gite (Washington Letter.) It is only natural that the stranger in Washington should comment on the gilded dome of the library of Congress, which is one of the three conspicu- ous dandmapks of the city, the Wask- | ington menuantat and the dome of the capitol being the other two. Few of those who gaze pon this wonderful creation know that in giving such an attractive fimish to this superb building the idea of economy was uppermost. The gilded dome will stand for years as an illustration of the care and thor- oughness of the late Gen. Casey of the engineers, under whose supervision the Wullding was constructed. It was at ficst proposed to paint the dome, and although no color. was named it was assumed that it would be white or gray. Gen. Casey decided that gilding the tmmenas strectare ' ane ee ote fer propomile for covering dome and the stracture un- The lowest offered to do the work for $1.10 a square foot. It was ply it, an io ‘the wor! a satisfactory aor at a cost of 221-3 cents 2 square | @titire cost of gold d the its pyramidal m. Cas “nat gilding Soy see eras a8 more years so, it right és on the day whe ‘the last shest was put on. The pee nh wan yiner ty oe beard Te ip OO Re ee tae a eeugs aS} ‘It io not mecestary for 2 man to be poor ini order to be honest, but some- times It seems necessary for s man to be poor if he is honest. A GIFTED | AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL PROMPTLY SAVED BY PE-RU-NA, C SS N is é Ee rik ; SS — : X= 2 ee TV SS (A oo: SN ee ESS Shuai ee = Bom 2 SA i, — Gy oe —F eH . "7 “Uh (Se ae ee ie LRG, af |e GY ao se See . Si AN A ia i ec PPD DDD DD DD DDD EDEL EE EEE LL LL Lee Miss Rose Cullen, President Young Woman's Club, of Butte, Mont, writes from 921 Galena street, as foi lows: «Peruna has many friends in Butte. I cannot say too much in praise of it. While finishing school I became very nervous and exhausted from over-study. 1 was weak and sick, and could neither eat, sleep nor enjoy life. A couple of bottles of Peruna put new life in me. I find that having it in the house and taking a dose off and on keeps me in fine health. “A large number of my friends place Peruna at the head of all gedicines."’-~Miss Rose Cullen. @=zeW.L.DOUCLAS ts EEE PSS Sas a rae tt 4 ee er aa os c aoe eee ee MAN SOZODONT tor the Tooth ot each 25° ihe Base of Womankind. M*r G. W. HBARD, Hempstead, Texag, writes: “We have moved recently, and I must have lifted something that was too heavy for me in straightening things up, for I had such a backache and could hardly stand on my feet at all. Beside, I was so tired all the time. My face was spotted and I was very thin. I took one bottle of Pe- Tuna and was soon real well. When I feel tired and all run down I take Peruna and feel all right before I fin- ish one bottle. I know it is a won- @erful medicine, and both myself and husband praise Peruna. “There has been a great deal of sickness through this part of the coun- try, but, thanks to Peruna, which we use freely, our own family has escaped with almost no sickness at all. “Could you but see our baby Ruby, {to whom we gave Peruna for bowel trouble), you would see from her ro- bust looks that you need no better ad- vertisement.in this little town. She is so fat and rosy, is nearly five years old now, and is a great believer in Pe- runa.”—Mrs. G. W. Heard. to Die—an Fatied—It eG Roe W. A. Mitchell, dealer in general merchandise, of Martin, Ga. writes: “I.wrote you some time ago con- cerning my wife’s case. She had tried all of the best doctors, and we got to Is the title of an {illustrated booklet just issued-by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, descriptive of the country between Aberdeen and the Missouri River, a section heretofore unprovided with railway facilities, but which is now reached by a new line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St... Paul Railway. Everyone contemplating a change of location will be interested in the information contained In it, and @ copy may be had by sending a two- cent stamp to F. A. Miller, General Pasuenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. Yeechers Are Contented Boarders. A farmer's wife, writing to the Amer- fean “Agriculturist, says that it has been her good fortune to take sumimer ‘Doarders for the past seventeen years, ang she surfs up her experience thus: Th poli gy dar ‘the oe its nurse to the aged grandmother, but my favorites are maiden ladies and school teachers. ‘They are most always contented.” Wine De che Siiieex Menaky Pee ee tvs fete Somers aes through their systems. Graix0 is made ot o but ee The Government Building st the Pan-American Exposition is rapidly being filled and many most interest- ing exhibits have-come in. The light house exhibit. is being put up. It will contain 8 Sitey-order fashiizht, giving twenty-four flashes st each revolution, ® flash every five seconds. A pris- matic lens will refiect rainbow colors. The light # similar to the one on Fire Island and at Great West Bay. ¥ Feet ays — ; pita Sia be tes Sa ek where. we thought all they did was against ber. She weighed about 190 ae she commenced with our family physician in April, 1898, she weighed about 130, but kept going down all the time. She went to Atlanta, Ga, and took treatment, but jt did her no good. Then she went to Harmony Grove, Ga, and took treatment from the best phy- sicias there for three months. She ‘kept going down under his treatment, although he was considered the best physician in the county. She went down from 130 pounds to 68, and we saw she could not live long. She was a skeleton. We consulted an old phy- sician who told her to use Peruna. She gradually improved and got stronger. She has gained 38 pounds since she has taken Peruna, and is gaining ev- ery day, and does her own housework. “She was well known when she was so low, and now everybody wants to know what cured her. She had indiges- tion and catarrh of the stomach. It tz as good for children as for grown peo- ple. We haven't had to have a doctor for one of our children since 1898."— W. A. Mitchell. If you do not derive prompt and sat- isfactory results from the use of Peru- na, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giv- ing a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his val- uable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. REWARD@.22 KID-NE-OIDS Suieeae Freee ie ca emured of Pag. co Bay Safe” Zou, seat sad hore ereryinig © . ae POULTRY FARM Se pege ‘lustrated Poultry Catalogue. ing tet pa Taogeege: nat to hatch and raise every chick, what. shea and bow to feed, forcing bens to " ley and ‘of waluabdle subjects cont=' Sioeeers ots vari- aties foreter s ‘and quotes ex- tremely low prices. 4c in stamos for postage. Moltyhock Poultry Farm. Box 1457. Des Moines. Is. Brooks Rupture appliance. New and wonderfal. Nomore obnoxious springs or pads. Safe, durable and cheap. Sent APPLIANCE CO. P.O. Bex 907, Marshall, Mich. / Pee Boag, ese co Reweey ta Bae a py a a "sae sys eet Thompson's Eye Water ~ PISO'S CURE FOR eS In our country we have the following, says El Correo de Sonoro: The highest mountain in North America, Popocatapetl; the deepest mine in the world, Valenciana; the richest vein in the world, and the one which has yielded the most silver, that of the mountain of Guanajuato; the most extensive and wonderful caves, those of Cacahuamilpa and Villa Garcia; the oldest city in the Americas, formerly Tollan, now Tola; the oldest commercial house in America, the book store of Abadano, founded 21 years ago; the city in which printing was first established in the new world, Mexico, in 1533; the sanctuary most venerated in which only may be compared that of Lourdes in France; the people, whose tongue, like that of the Basques, cannot be classified among any of the continent, the Seri; the capital, with a higher altitude than the other cities of its country, Mexico; the biggest known tree, the "Santa Maria del Tule" in Oaxaca; the most recently created volcano, Jorullo; finally, the ruler now in power who has done most to preserve peace in all the countries of America freed from Spanish rule, General Porfirio Duaz. Benton, Ill., May 20—R. H. Dunaway, M. D., of this place, in an open letter, makes the following startling statement: "I had Diabetes with all its worst symptoms. I applied every remedy known to the profession, as well as every prescription suggested in our books. In spite of all, I was dying, and I knew it. "As a last resort, and with scarcely any faith whatever, I commenced taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. In one week I saw a great improvement. After I had taken five boxes, I was sound and well. This is ten months ago, and I have not taken any medicine of any kind since, and am convinced that my cure is a permanent one. "As a practicing physician with years of experience, I most positively assert that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best medicine in the world today, for Diabetes or any other Kidney Disease. Since using them myself, I have used them in many cases in my practice. and they have never failed." "I am making this statement as a professional man, after having made a most thorough test of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and because I feel it my duty to the public and to my professional brethren. The truth can never hurt anyone, and what I have said is the absolute truth." R. H. DUNAWAY, M. D. It is no wonder that the public are enthusiastic over this new medicine, when our leading physicians themselves, are being won over to its use. One of the special bicycles built for the use of the British troops in South Africa which went through the campaign with Gen. Ian Hamilton's column was recently exhibited in London, where its excellent condition, considering the knocking about it had received, excited general comment. England seems busy with the organization of cyclist soldiers, and many companies of wheelmen will figure in the Easter maneuvers. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Cimsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Mosquitoes Routed an Army. When Hannibal's army descended from the Alps into the valley of Lombardy the whole force was well nigh routed by a plague of mosquitoes, which drove men and animals almost wild with pain. Private Mailing Card. Private Mailing Card with colored views of scenery on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway sent on receipt of ten (10) cents in stamps. Address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. Looking toward the Electric Tower, on either side of the Court of Fountains, the great exhibit buildings of the Pan-American Exposition are seen complete in their architectural grandeur. The grays, yellows, browns and blues of many shades make a harmony of color that is a sight long to be remembered by all lovers of the beautiful. Tied Up When the muscles feel drawn and tied up and the flesh tender, that tension is Soreness and Stiffness from cold or over exercise. It lasts but a short time after St. Jacobs Oil is applied. The cure is prompt and sure. TO POISON LINCOLN. JAMES ALMAN OF WASHINGTON WAS OFFERED $100,000. The Story of How an Attempt Was Made to Induce Him to Kill the President Has Just Been Told for the First Time. The recent statement of James Alman of Washington lends additional interest to the assassination of President Lincoln, the saddest incident in the history of this country. Mr. Alman kept the strange secret for fully thirty-six years. It is to the effect that about two weeks before the president was shot, he was offered $100,000 to put poison in the milk of which Mr. Lincoln was sure to partake. At the time Mr. Alman conducted a dairy where the bureau of printing and engraving is now located, and furnished the president with milk. Mr. Alman says: "In the early spring Mr. Lincoln had a habit of walking over to Secretary Stanton's in the early morning, between 5 and 6 o'clock, to take a cup of coffee with him and talk over the important matters of the day. I had received instructions from the secretary to be sure to get around in the mornings with my cream in time for the president. One morning in the early part of April—not two weeks before the president was shot—I was driving along in my wagon, when two men stopped me, and one of them asked: "Do you want to make $100,000 easy and quick?" "Deed, and I do," says I. "Well, here's $100,000 in good hard cash. Now, if you will take this little box of powder and put it in the cream you deliver to the president this morning the money is yours. Pour out the milk now, and here's the money.' And he showed me a big roll of money, but if it had been as large as the Treasury building it would not have tempted me. "The men tried to argue the matter with me, but I drove off, while they called me all kinds of hard names. They cursed me blue and black, but it is not true that they assaulted me, either then or afterwards. I did not much believe that the men were in earnest and I kept the transaction to myself, but must confess that it worried me a little. I didn't know what the outcome might be as to myself, and I hadn't the least idea A. JAMES ALMAN. at the time that every effort was being made to kidnap the president. "As I say, I thought it was an effort to play an early morning joke on me, but after the great and good man was assassinated I was satisfied that the men who had made me the offer meant every word they said, and were in the plot to kill or kidnap the president. "I was a poor man, and thought it best to keep my mouth shut and go about my business. I am sorry this old thing is being talked about now." Mr. Alman is a well-known citizen of Washington and held in high respect. He lives at the corner of Fifteenth and C streets, S. E., and is now possessed of considerable wealth. He is a cattle dealer and the owner of valuable real estate. Buddhism Reviving. The belief current in some parts of Christendom that Buddhism is already far advanced in a state of decadence is not borne out by the facts. According to the most reliable authority the followers of Buddha still number no less than 147,000, and while Christian missionaries have undoubtedly made very notable conversions among them, the number thus actually withdrawn from the more ancient faith has been so small as to hardly affect the total. In Japan and other parts of the far east a concerted effort has been made during the past year to revive and strengthen Buddhism by adopting some of the methods of propagandism followed by the Christian sects. These include the organization of Sunday schools and Sunday lecture courses, the free distribution of religious tracts and the sending out of corps of missionary teachers and preachers. In Japan an enormous fund is being raised by a Buddhist temple to establish orphanages and other benevolent institutions after the manner of those conducted by the Christian churches. Porto Rico is going through the stress which all backward countries meet when they feel the advance. When Spain held the island its inhabitants were satisfied with poor fare and went barefoot. Taxes were light on property and heavy on occupations. The poor man had no chance and accepted his fate in docile calm. Wages have risen, wants have come and the whole population stirs with desire to improve. Immigration follows. It has its suffering. So does every advance; but the advance must come, none the less. Philadelphia Press. Undigested, decaying food remnants, in the mouth and stomach, giving off pestiferous gases, are the cause of that awful breath, so repulsive as to cause a halt in friendship, affection, love, any form of intimacy. Nobody can stand its overpowering stench, and it is a cause of terrible misery to those afflicted and their dear ones. There is only one way to cure it-disinfect the digestive canal with CASCARETS! Clean it out, keep it clean, let CASCARETS stimulate the lining of mouth and stomach, and put it in shape to work naturally and properly. Nothing but CASCARETS will bring about the desired result. BE SURE YOU GET THEM! WHAT WE HEAR FROM ASSINIBOIA, WESTERN CANADA. "Don't Think of Coming, but Come." To the Editor: The above is the emphatic manner in which a friend in Yorkton writes to a friend near St. Paul, Minnesota, and it is pretty nearly right, too, with the advantages that Western Canad1 offers to those seeking homes. The Assinibola district is one of the best. The writer from whose letter we quote goes on to say: "John, if you miss this chance you are foolish, for you can get out cheaper when there are so many coming, and I would not tell you to come if I thought you could not do well, and if you don't come in the spring you will have to go away back, for you do not want to think that there is no one living out here but us. I saw nicer buildings out here than I ever saw before, and if the country was no good what would they want them for? John, if you sold everything you have and came out here you would be worth more than ever you were before, and if you can bring your team. You can get anything you want on tick, and when they do that with strangers they are not afraid they can't make enough to pay for it. I saw as nice wheat as I ever saw in my life, and if they could not grow grain what would the flour mill be for, and it cost $20,000." Now this was what Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, of Yorkton, Assiniboia, Western Canada, wrote to a friend. There will be opened up this summer new districts in Saskatchewan and Assiniboia at low prices, particulars of which can be had of any agent of the government of the Dominion of Canada, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the columns of your paper. Yours truly, An Old Reader. Teacher—Now, Tommy, suppose you had two apples, and you gave another boy his choice of them, you would tell him to take the bigger one, wouldn't you? Tommy—No, mum. Teacher— Why? Tommy—'Cos 'twouldn't be necessary.—Tit-Bits. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Longevity of Queen's Train-Bearers. All the eight ladies who acted as train-bearers to the queen on her wedding day, sixty-three years ago, are still alive. All save one are married. The Lady Victoria Howard is the one exception. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway has got out a neat booklet descriptive of the beautiful summer resorts at Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in Northwestern Iowa. Free copies will be mailed upon application to Jno. G. Farmer, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Cedar Rapids, Ia. "There's a movement afoot in various states to prevent any but regular physicians practicing hypnotism." "It's slightly in line with the legislation which forbids sluggers putting each other to sleep."—Philadelphia Times. Johnson—Do you mean to insinuate that I can't tell the truth? Parkinson—By no means. It is impossible to say what a man can do until he tries. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! New lands soon to open. Be ready! Morgan's Manual, with supplement containing proclamation, map showing alliments, County seats, etc. $1. Supplement & Man, &c. Agents Wanted. DICK T. MORGAN, Perry, O. T. Chicago, with 70,000 arrests in a year and 4,000 miles of streets to be patroled, has 3,300 policemen. It is declared by Wall street men that the estates of Commodore Vanderbilt and Jay Gould have about doubled in the hands of the later owners. The Vanderbilt properties were worth $80,000,000 and the Gould interests $70,-600,000. The decorations of Uncle Sam's great buildings at the Pan-American Exposition are exceptionally fine. Maroon and green are used and the effect is most pleasing. The whole dome is decorated with flags, and some 400 flags, including the national colors and departmental flags, will be hung about the building. If You Have Rheumatism Send no money, but write Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis., box 145, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure, express paid. If cured pay $5.50; if not it is free. Boston has much vacant land, the assessed value of which is $62,000,000. The number of epileptics in Illinois is estimated at not less than 5,000. Pain—Wizard Oil. Use the last on the first and you have neither one nor the other. Well-seasoned red hickory weighs 52.37 pounds to the cubic foot. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? If so try DR. CRANE'S QUAKER TONIC TABLETS. Cure certain. 50c a box. If ignorance is bliss, then the fools in this world have the best of it. The full-dress jewels of the King of Siam are valued at $1,000,000. The city of New York includes 2,508 miles of streets. When cycling take a bar of White's Yuccatan. You can ride further and easier. What we best conceive, we fail to speak.—Browning. boasting - broiling baking - ironing thing that can be done with a wood cr coal ter, cheaper and quicker on a WICKLES Blue Flame Oil Stove Heat is not diffused throughout the house—there is no smell, soot, or danger, and the expense of operating is nominal. Made in many sizes; sold wherever stoves are sold. If your dealer does not have it write to nearest agency of STANDARD OIL COMPANY Breath mouth and stomach, giving off pestiferose a halt in friendship, affection, love, and it is a cause of terrible misery to those direct the digestive canal with CASCARET of mouth and stomach, and put it in shape out the desired result. BE SURE YOU GET ena.—Detroit Free P. Toasti Toasting - broiling baking - ironing anything that can be done with a wood or coal fire is done better, cheaper and quicker on a WICKLESS Blue Flame Oil Stove Heat is not diffused throughout the house—there is no smell, soot, or danger, and the expense of operating is nominal. Made in many sizes; sold wherever stoves are sold. If your dealer does not have it write to nearest agency of STANDARD OIL COMPANY Bad Breath "I have been using CASCARBETS and as a mild and effective laxative they are simply wonderful. My daughter and I were bothered with sick stomach and our breath was very bad. After taking a few doses of Cascarbette we have improved wonderfully. They are a great help in the family." WILDERMINA NACCI 111W Bittenhouse St., Cincinnati, Ohio. care FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. WHILE YOU SLEEP Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.--WM. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Is taken internally. Price, 730. Mr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 23c a bottle. In 1790 Pennsylvania had a colored population of 10,274. 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. WHY MRS. PINKHAM WHY MRS. PINKHAM Is Able to Help Sick Women When Doctors Fail. How gladly would men fly to woman's aid did they but understand a woman's feelings, trials, sensibilities, and peculiar organic disturbances. Those things are known only to women, and the aid a man would give is not at his command. To treat a case properly it is necessary to know all about it, and full information, many times, cannot be given by a woman to her family phy- MRS. G. H. CHAPPELL. sician. She cannot bring herself to tell everything, and the physician is at a constant disadvantage. This is why, for the past twenty-five years, thousands of women have been confiding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham, and whose advice has brought happiness and health to countless women in the United States. Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, Ill., whose portrait we publish, advises all suffering women to seek Mrs. Pinkham's advice and use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as they cured her of inflammation of the ovaries and womb; she, therefore, speaks from knowledge, and her experience ought to give others confidence. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice is absolutely free. BINDER TWINE FARMERS wanted as agents. AUGUST POST, Moulton, Iowa. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 21, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE If you take up your home in Western Canada, the land of plenty. Illustrated pamphlets, giving experiences of farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of delegates, etc., and full information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration, Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton, 1233 Monadnock Block, Chicago, or E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. California Oil. We have a first-class proposition in which we are offering charter member stock at 10c. per share. The company owns 1280 acres situated in the very center of the great California oil belt, and has options on additional ground. We are offering treasury stock to raise money to put down wells as quickly as possible. The stock is non-assessable and carries no individual liability. We furnish the very highest references. Write for particular. THE KENDRICK PROMOTION CO., Denver. Colorado Pleasure, when in combination with Profit, IS SURE TO PLEASE. This is assured those selling the cheapest and most practical dress supporter now in use. Agents Wanted. Write Today. BROWN MFG. CO., Colorado Springs, Col. CONSUMPTION AND CATARRH We have the greatest remedy for curing Consumption and Catarrrh known. Write us for a list of questions at once. Address, GASS BROS. & LEONARD, SALTVILLE, VA. SEND US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS and upon receipt of same I will send you a proposition whereby you will be liberally paid for a few minutes of your time; no canvassing, as I have nothing to sell. It costs you absolutely nothing. Write to-day. W. C. KLEINE, NORTH WISCONSIN & MINNESOTA LANDS RATRILY INCREASING in value—at least 50c per acre every six months. Don't go too far West. Consider advantages of good water, plentiful rainfall and nearest the best markets of the world. Large tracts for investors and all sizes for farmers, at $2.50 per acre up. Easy terms. Reduced railroad fare and freights. Write for particulars. Land&Lumber Exchange, $01 Pleaser Fresh Blvd., St. Paul, Illum WANTED MEN TO SELL CIGARS. Liberal proposition; if you are one of employment and want a profitable steady situation and will devote your time to our business write us. HAVANA CIGAR COMPANY. De Sota Building, St. Louis, Mo. ```markdown ``` AT LUNCHEON AND DINNER. Do not gulp liquids and bolt food. Do not masticate or swallow audibly. Do not empty every drop of soup from your plate. Do not drink your soup from the point of your spoon, but from the side. Do not crumble the bread by your side, or drain your glass to the last drop. Do not pile your plate with food, or grasp your knife, fork or spoon as if it were a weapon of warfare. After eating it is well before you drink to wipe your lips, otherwise you leave a smear mark on the glass. Do not be dainty and fringe your plate with bits of meat; eat what you can, and put any skin or bone on the edge of your plate in one little heap, which move down from the edge when you have finished. For fish, do not use a dessert knife instead of the fish knife; if these be no fish knife, use a small crust of your bread, but leave that piece of crust on your plate. Do not eat it afterwards, as so many people do. Do not put salt or pepper on the side of your soup plate—in fact, in France it is bad form to ever take salt or pepper when dining out, as it is considered as an insinuation that the cook has not flavored the food properly. Do not crumple up your table napkin. If you are only a guest for the day do not fold it up, but if you are staying on and in a quiet household fold it up. If you are staying in a big house, where everything is done "en grand prince," do not fold it up; just place it on the table when you leave, as in rich establishments there are clean table napkins every day. On the other hand, do not be affected, and eat as if an appetite was a crime, drink as if you were a dicky bird, and hold your knife, fork and spoon as if they were red-hot needles. — Milwaukee Wisconsin. NEW HOUSEHOLD IDEAS. A few dried or preserved cherries are the best thing possible to garnish sweet dishes. To renew old letters or papers, boil galls in wine and sponge over the surface. The letters or writing will be as fresh as ever. When cleaning house do not put everything that is not wanted into the back yard. There is nothing more pleasing than a well kept lawn, whether at the back or front. A good recipe for ginger snaps is the following: One-cup of lard one cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little water. Boil the sugar, molasses and lard five minutes; let it cool; then add the other ingredients and enough flour to make stiff; bake in a quick oven and keep in a dry, open place. An old cabinet maker says the best preparation for cleaning picture frames and restoring furniture, especially that which is somewhat marred or scratched, is a mixture of three parts linseed oil and one part spirits of turpentine. It not only covers the disfigured surface, but restores wood to its natural color and leaves a luster upon its surface. Pat on with a woolen cloth, and when dry, rub with woolen. For a polish to clean and brighten old furniture, pianos, etc., dissolve four ounces orange shellac in one quart of 95 per cent alcohol; to this add one quart of linseed oil and one pint turpentine; when mixed, add four ounces of sulphuric ether and four ounces aqua ammonia; mix thoroughly and well before using. Apply with a cloth or sponge, and rub the surface on which it is applied until the polish appears. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Too many prophets spoil the weather. The early circus catches the small boy's quarter. An awkward boy is a chip off the old stumbling block. A wise man never counts his checks before they are cashed. Marry in haste and let your father-in-law repent at leisure. Man wants but little here below—with a little water on the side. Love's supposed blindness has cost the gas companies many a dollar. Absence may conquer love, but it sometimes takes costly presents to hold it. Wise men are conservative. Only fools give their candid opinions on all occasions. Some people don't know very much, and what little they do know they are not altogether sure of. Wise is he who remembers that a soft answer turneth away wrath—especially when the other fellow is the bigger. Some one has said that a man who loves animals is to be trusted, but, in Texas vigilance committees do business with men who love other people's animals—not wisely, but too well. Chicago News. You may get credit for good intentions, but it takes successful action to bring you cash. Somehow it never seems to be our luck to keep at the right end of the Horn of Plenty. Second thoughts may be the best, but their dilatoriness generally makes them unavailable. Always to do one's best is highly commandable, but a judicious selection of tasks gives better results with less work.—Indianapolis News. --- Conrad III. Emperor of Germany, had six fingers on his right hand. Lord Roberts' title has been gazetted as "Mari of Candahar and Pretoria and Viscount St. Pierre." Dr. Johnson was extremely fond of orange peel, and used to carry it in his pocket for the sake of its odor. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has held his seat in the British Commons without a break for almost a generation. Russell Sage has become, rather late in life, a billiard enthusiast, and spends several evenings a week in that form of relaxation, in which he has become quite expert. President Diaz of Mexico is a most abstemious man. His daily fare is almost Spartan and even when he attends official banquets he departs but little from his regular diet. The new charter for San Francisco went into effect on the first day of January, 1900. James D. Phelan, the first mayor under the charter, was elected at the November election in 1899. It is thirty years since the German reichstag began holding sessions. Four members of the first reichstag hold seats in the present one—Graf Hompesch, Eugen Richter, Dr. Lieber and Bebel. The William L. Wilson memorial fund intended for Washington and Lee university has been increased by $1,000 contributed by "A Friend" through the chairman of the committee, Grover Cleveland. Mr. Knox, the new attorney general, has fallen an early victim to the Washington real estate men, who lie in wait for him at every corner in the hope of inducing him to buy a home in the national capital. Henry Floyd, the artist, has just completed a portrait of Lady Pauncefote, the wife of the British ambassador to this country, which will be hung in the drawing room of the British embassy at Washington. FORECAST OF FASHIONS. Plaitings of every description are being used. When in doubt as to what color is becoming, one is generally safe in buying dark blue. Walking skirts of gray flannel will be worn this summer as they are both cool and modish. Fichues are being made up in all kinds of dainty shapes in mousseline de sole and thin materials. The linen collar will be much in evidence this summer, but is less higher than those seen last summer. Nothing can be too much ruffled to be in good form for the coming summer, for children as well as their mothers. Nothing is more in vogue at present for semi-dress occasions, than the new silk grenadines that come in a variety of weaves. Most attractive little sunbonnets are made for children which consist mostly of flowers and dimity in delicate colors. This season the hair will be worn in a pompadour, slightly parted in the center and should be allowed to fall gracefully over the ears. The new skirt is very wide at the hem, and despite all the efforts to bring about plaits and gathers at the waist, is close fitting around the hips. A pretty mode for trimming foulard is in lace points extending up into the bodice from the belt and down into the skirt for several inches around the hips,except directly at the back,giving the popular effect of the skirt yoke. The newest evening wraps are heavily decorated with embroideries in raised designs of silk and velvet roses. The collars of these cloaks are faced with lace and finished with ruffles of chiffon or some soft fabric. A law has been passed by the Kansas legislature forbidding the requirement of study at home for children in certain grades. It costs fifty cents to have an article that may be copyrighted secured by copyright. Send to the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., and he will mail you a blank and circular of information. The oft used quotation, "Oh, that mine enemy would write a book," is incorrect. The quotation is from Job xxxl. 35, "Oh, that one would hear me! behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book." In New York a 12-year-old girl, who was asked to write a composition on "Life," produced the following: "Life is like French verbs. You try hard and you seem to fail, and you stumble and get discouraged and hate the whole thing, and suddenly, when you don't care any more, you find you know how to do it." CHILDREN AND MONEY Get him a savings bank. Let him spend some of his money. Try to teach him system in finances. Give a child a certain amount or allowance of money. Office Hours: Phone 818 Went. 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. 6 to 7:30 p. m. 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, 2019 Fifth Avenue Chicago Institutions and objects entrations Permitted . . . Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD. Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 824. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. 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. IVANHOE TRYSTING OAK. It Has Fallen at Last on the Leeds Estate. Admirers of that gallant knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe will be glad to learn that, although the old "trysting oak" in what was once the forest of Sherwood has fallen, heavy with the weight of many centuries, another tree will be planted alongside of its ruins. The ancient trysting oak of Sir Walter Scott's great story of chivalry stood in Harthill Walk, a glade in the old forest of Sherwood. It was under this oak that the Black Knight, Wamba, the jester: Gurth, the swineherd, and Locksley signed the final letter of defiance to Front de Boeuf, and there the spoils were divided by Robin Hood's band and Friar Tuck showed his skill with the quarterstaff. The venerable oak which has just fallen was of great antiquity and flourished before the beginning of English history. Under its branches marched the Roman soldiery, and it saw the coming of the Saxon into the island of Britain. All the Ivanhoe country rapidly is being given over to collieries and romance flees before the advance of the mines; but the Duchess of Leeds, on whose husband's estates the old tree stood, will preserve what remains of the ancient trunk of the trysting oak and will plant the new oak which is to succeed the fallen tree. An inscription will be placed on the old trunk, giving the history of the trysting oak and reciting its connection with the romance in which Scott conjured up such a series of splendid pictures of medieval times. The trunk of the new trees also will bear an inscription telling the story of its predecessor. Mr. Pearson Will Not Resign. Rev. Mr. Pearson, the preacher who was elected sheriff of Cumberland county (Portland), Maine, after having been nominated as a joke by the liquor men, has been a source of unending trouble to them ever since. His rigid enforcement of the prohibition law has, it is said, resulted in an offer of a large sum if he will resign or go to Europe and remain there until his term shall have expired. Mrs. Springer Backs Down. Within the last three months Mrs. Jennie Springer of Troy, Kan., has instituted as many suits for divorce against her husband, but each was dismissed before the time of trial. Last week she began the fourth suit, declaring to the court house officials that her mind was unalterably fixed this time, and that there would be no backing down. Two hours later the sheriff went to the Springer home to serve the papers on the husband, and found the pair "as loving as two kittens."—Indianapolis News. ```markdown ``` A. D. GASH, Attorney-at-Law. 64 and 86 La Salle 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. HARRISON 51. Thomas F. Soully, Attorney at Law, 79 Clark Street, CHICAGO. Room 14 JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE CHICAGO Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St, Down Town Office 260 S. Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 33 Harrison. Telephone Yards 707 Residence, 118 Garfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 R. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — TOL. M. 2025. — Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera Mouse Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. TELEPHONE MAIN 1782. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4898 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Hours: 8-10 a. m., 2-4, 6-8 p. m. G. E. EVANS. Dealer in All Kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL, Wood, Charcoal, Coke and Ice, Expressing and Moving a Specialty. 332 29th St. Chicago, Ill. HE SCATTERED DIAMONDS. A Dealer's Rather Costly Fit of Absent- Mindedness. A member of a firm of diamond merchants, while walking down Victoria street on a recent morning, in a fit of abstraction, pulled an old envelope out of his pocket and commenced to tear it up. When he reached the last section the terrible fact dawned on him that it was the envelope in which were some sixteen hundred small diamonds, valued at $500, and that he had been sowing these broadcast over a public thoroughfare. The news spread with lightning-like rapidity. Shopkeepers locked up and came to the more lucrative occupation of picking up diamonds, while for a mile around an errand boy at his ordinary work was a phenomenon. Such a scraping of the street with knives and sticks had never been seen. As it happened, most of the lost stones went down the cellar grating of a jeweler's shop. Ingenious youths fished for them with a piece of soap attached to a stick, and reeled in three prizes at a time. Others sat in the gutter sorting an anxiously-guarded handful of dirt. Still the crowd grew. At one time over fifteen hundred lads were to be seen hard at work. From noon to 7 o'clock the street was nearly blocked. When night fell candles, lamps and lanterns were brought to aid the indefatigable hunters for treasure trove. About half the diamonds have found their way back to their rightful owner. Some were sold to a shopkeeper, and the rest, like the graves of a household, are scattered far and wide.—London Express. George W. Carroll of Beaumont, Texas, who has become rich through the discovery of oil in Texas, has given $60,000 to Baylor University, Waco, Texas, to erect a science building and has promised more if that sum is insufficient. Laws Restricting Marriage. Efforts have been made recently in two western states, Minnesota and Wisconsin, to enact laws restricting the marriage of persons afflicted with physical or mental disorders. It is proposed that persons contemplating marriage shall first pass a medical examination, and that marriage licenses shall be refused to those who do not receive medical certificates as to their fitness to enter the marital relation. A bill of this kind passed the Wisconsin assembly, and failed by two votes in the upper house. These measures have had the earnest support of the medical fraternity in both states. It has been the general experience, however, that laws imposing restraints upon marriage are exceedingly difficult of enforcement.—Chicago Journal. ```markdown ``` 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 4028 ...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 Ave. 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, SAMPLE ROOM Destruction of China's Encyclopedia Is a Great Loss. News comes that the Orient has been robbed of its most famous collection of knowledge, the monumental "Encyclopedia Maxima." A writer in the current number of an English magazine briefly describes this splendid Chinese encyclopedia, whose destruction he says "is the most appalling literary catastrophe the world has ever seen." In 1403, the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, Yung Lo, issued a commission to Hsieh Chin, the leading scholar of the day, for the preparation of an encyclopedia. With the assistance of 146 colleagues, Hsieh Chin finished his work in a year and four months and laid it before the throne. It did not at all satisfy the emperor, who thereupon issued a new commission, in which Hsieh Chin appears as one of the three commissioners, with directors and a staff of assistants, making 2,169 persons in all. The idea was to collect together all that had ever been written on the Confucian canon, history, philosophy and general literature; and by the end of 1407 a compilation was submitted which immediately received the stamp of imperial approval, and was named the "Great Standard of Yung Lo." This work ran to no fewer than 2,877 separate sections, and was bound up in 11,100 volumes, each half an inch in thickness; so that were all the volumes laid flat one upon the other, the column thus formed would reach a height of 450 feet, or nearly forty-six feet higher than the top of St. Paul's. Each section contains about twenty leaves, making a total of 917,480 pages for the whole work. Ever since Pekin was first opened in 1860 all applications from foreign scholars to be allowed even to view such an interesting relic have always been curtly refused. China has now lost her treasure through the misguided violence of her own sons; while the only hands stretched forward to save it from destruction were those of the foreigners from whom it had been so jealously withheld. Sultan's Kitchen a Fortress. The private kitchen of the sultan of Turkey is a veritable fortress, consisting of a small chamber situated to the right of the great entrance, and is guarded by barred windows and an armor-plated door. The cook officiates under the ever watchful eye of the kerlardjhi bachi, one of the most weighty functionaries in Yildiz palace at Constantinople, for the health, the very life even, of the ruler is at his mercy. When cooked each dish is fastened with red wax, bearing the official seal of the kerlardjhi, and remains hermetically closed until the seals are broken in the sultan's presence. CHICAGO. WANTED. A colored man and wife with no children want the janitorship of a flat building. Can furnish good references. For further information, address The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour ave. 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. Read and subscribe for The Broad Ax, the only newspaper in Chicago which "hews to the Line." NOTICE. 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 LIVE. BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW [COPYRIGHT.] 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, cures dandruff, prevents falling, and makes the hair grow. Sold over forty years. Wages less than sentimental free on request. It was the most preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of irritations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. A toilet necessary for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation comes to its. Full directions, with every bottle. Only $Q cents. Sold by dealers or we will ship you express paid. We will ship three for $1.00. Send postal or express money order, as we do not send goods. C. O. D. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Tramps' Secret Fraternity. The chief of police of Bethlehem. Pa. claims that there is a tramps' secret fraternity. He discovered that a dozen "hoboes" in the lockup the other night were performing an elaborate initiation and were working the first degree upon a new candidate.