The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. One more week has rolled around and so far Ham Carter and his gang of Ku Kluxs have not succeeded in killing us nor in driving us out of town, although many of our fast friends have warned us to be careful and watchful that Carter and his gang of Ku Kluxs and vampires are determined to end our existence some way or other; that they are and have been scouring the city from one end to the other in order to find some tough thug, who has the nerve to redden his hands in our blood. Fully realizing that our life is in danofger, that some member of Carter's gang of cowards and Ku Kluxs are liable at any moment to shoot us down in coldblood, or carge us up with a razor, nevertheless, we will not recede from telling the truth and Carter, nor all his imps or hosts of hell, cannot drive us out of Chicago, for we have the respectable people at our back, and we intend to stand by our guns until Gabriel blows his last trumpet and we admonish Ham Carter to lookout for the crowing of the cock. Many people, who are unfamiliar with our fight on Ham Carter and his grinning gang of goose-footed Ku Kluxs are of the opinion "that we made a grave mistake by throwing hot-shot into them." Be that as it may, but we must not lose sight of the fact that Carter and his gang first began their fight on us; that early last spring Harvey A. Thompson, S. Watkins, W. H. Clark, Ham Carter, Jim Miller, George J. Terrell, who owes us three dollars as subscription to the Broad Ax, and the other members of the gang of skinners rose up against us because we wrote in favor of L. A. Newby for County commissioner, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Newby paid us the money for running his cut and for the write up of himself, but Ham Carter and his gang of grafters got mad at us, because we didn't slobber over them for nothing. Then at a later period this same gang branded us as a "coward and slave" for the reason that we voted in favor of commending the leaders of the Democratic party for opening headquarters for the Colored Democrats last fall. Shortly after Carter and Company branded us a slave for voting as we did, Thompson, "Billie" Piper, the little gambling house boss; Terrell, Clark, Miller, Watkins and Company appeared before R. E. Burke, Esq., and the executive committee and they endeavored to knock us, but after failing in that direction Carter, the ring leader of de gang, labored to chock The Broad Ax off from being distributed among the Colored voters of this city and county. After all these reprehensible methods on the part of Carter and his gang of Ku Kluxs, after Carter lied about our connection with the Bryan and Alschuler Club; Carter had the brass and the brazen faced cheek to request us to furnish him with a list of the Colored men, who are employed by the city. It is needless to say that we did not furnish him with the list. Someone has informed us lately to the effect that inasmuch as the present leaders of the Democratic party of this city are fully determined to wage an unrent-lenting warfare upon State Chairman John P. Hopkins, Thomas Gahan, Roger C. Sullivan, their friends and supporters, that Ham Carter and his gang of degenerates have been instructed to beat out, crush out, drive out, and knock or stamp out, all Colored Democrats, who are unwilling to kiss Ham Carter's dirty big toe. We hope this report is false, but if it is true, then we are willing to be called a traitor to the Democratic Party rather than permit ourselves to crawl through the filth and slime upon our hands and knees and fall at the feet of Ham Carter and his gang of Ku Kluxs. State Chairman John P. Hopkins named the members for the executive and finance committees last week which are as follows: Executive committee, J. P. Hopkins; chairman, Wm. L. Mounts; Wm. B. Brinton; Charles Boeschenstein; Thomas Gahan; P. C. Haley, Alex J. Jones, Wm. Loeffler, Mayor Dennis J. Hogan; F. W. Havil; Thos. Byrne; Charles W. Ferguson; Guy C. Scott, Daniel Heenan, B. J. Claggett, F. J. Quinn, Thomas F. Dunn; I. A. Lumpkin, W. S. Mathews. The finance committee is composed thusly: B. J. Claggett, chairman; Walter Watson, D. Heenan, Wm. Loeffler, Robert E. Burke, Guy C. Scott, D. J. Hogan, Thomas Byrne, John Fitzimmons, James Lingle, J. E. Murphy, Alex, J. Jones, J. F. Robinson, Thomas Gahan, Roger C. Sullivan, George E. Brennan will serve as secretary of the executive committee. The committee went on to recommend that Congress should not admit the late Confederate states to representation "without first providing such constitutional or other guaranties as will tend to secure the civil rights of all the citizens of the republic," the disfranchisement of a portion, etc. As to the nature of the guaranties to be required there was in the report nothing definite. The three minority members, in their report, vigorously combated the views of the majority. Mr. Stevens had reported, January 31, 1866, and the House had passed, a proposition for a constitutional amendment providing that, whenever suffrage was denied on account of race or color, the persons so denied suffrage should be excluded from the basis of representation. But there was no promise that such amendment, if adopted, should be taken as a settlement. The amendment, however, was never to be submitted to the states, as Mr. Sumner and other radicals joined with the Democrats and conservative Republicans, and defeated it in the Senate. Both Democrats and Republicans were now treating all measures affecting the South as political, and the late Confederate states were being counted as in the Union for the purpose of passing on constitutional amendments, while their governments were held as "revolutionary, null, and void," for all other purposes. Nothing more could conclusively illustrate the intense partisanship of the hour. The fairest chance the Southern state governments, as set up by Johnson, had to stem the tide that was setting in against them—but it is doubtful whether they have succeeded—was by unanimously ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment. Had this amendment been accepted by both sides as a settelment it would have reduced the representation of the late slave states and left them in control of suffrage. But this article disfranchised nearly all Southerners of prominence and experience, and Southern people could not bring themselves to vote for the degredation of those whom they had honored and trusted. Johnson, too, now their friend and political leader, advised against it, so did Northern Democrats. It was a political fight to a finish between the prostrate ex-Confederates, without representation in Congress and without an acknowledged vote anywhere, aided by the President, a handful of Democrats in Congress, and an unknown number of sympathizers in the North, on the one side, and the Republican party in unmistakable control of Congress on the other. The bill for the extension of the Freedmen's Bureau, which failed to pass over Johnson's veto, and the civil rights bill, which did pass over a veto, these, and the angry discussions over them in the spring of 1866, only intensified, North and South, the bitterness of the struggle in progress. If Mr. Lincoln had lived and had carried on, as the speech in answer to a serenade just before his death indicates he would have done, the policy embodied in the North Carolina proclamation approved by him shortly before his death, and used by his successor, as the basis of his policy, he would have had before him the same open field, and the same nine months preceding the meeting of Congress that were before Johnson; and though it would have been a strange spectacle to see the great Republican chieftain politically allied with ex-Confederates, one cannot avoid the conclusion that tactful and at the same time great-hearted as he was, he would have been continually pointing out to the Southerners the breakers that they did not, and he did, see ahead. His influence, too, with his owa party, after the successful termination of the war, would have given him a measure of control over his party that Johnson did not possess. Mr. Johnson was much abused for having "deserted" the party that had honored him, and now that the fight was on instead of coolress and skill of a gladiator, he manifested only the qualities of an angry bull rushing at a red rag. In a public speech, alluding to some charge that he had played Judas, he said: "If I have played the Judas, who has been my Christ that I have played the Judas with? Was it Thad. Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips? Was it Charles Sumner?" Numerous conventions, state and national, were now, In 1866, being held, all devoted to the manufacture of public opinion for and against the Johnson plan of reconstruction. (To be continued.) County Commissioner M. Irrmann never fails in looking after the best interest of all the tax-payers of this county and the people must see to it that Commissioner Irrmann is re-nominated and re-elected next year. LETTERS OF ENCOURAGENMENT. Chicago, May 29, 1901. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax! My friend not being accustomed to writing for newspapers, but I hope you will permit me through the columns of The Broad Ax, which is doing so much for the elevation of our race and mankind in general to express my highest approval of the course which you have persued in beating back H. C. Carter and his [Name] CHIEF D. J. SWZENIE, associates who desire to palm themselves off as the leaders of our race and as the representatives of Negro Democracy. The Democratic party of Cook County cannot expect to make permanent inroads into the intelligent and honest colored voters of this city unless such men as H. C. Carter are kept in the rear. Again I won't to say that I am with The Broad Ax, tooth and toe-nail, for it stands for a higher and better citizenship among our people. Respectfully yours, JAMES H. HARRIS. Editor of The Broad Ax! Will you kindly allow me to say one word in regard of the "People of the State of Illinois vs. Julius F. Taylor," or probably better known as the "Captain Ham Carter Case." I want to say that I admire your brave stand in favor of morality, decency and order among our leaders, and it has borne fruit which will be gathered in the future by those who love right and justice. While some may criticise because The Broad Ax as they believe did blacken the memory of the dead, yet as I understand The Broad Ax meant to expose only Capt. Carter, but Mrs. Brown's name was so connected with that of the captain, that the exposure of her was in spite of him. But I further believe that what you did you meant it for the public good. that you wanted to let the people know that you would not submit tamely to be ruled by such a man as Captain Carter has been shown to be. Leaving out his past acts and the mistakes he has made in other days, sufficient are the evils thereof, of his acts since claiming to represent the Colored Democracy of Cook County. With all his greatness as a political leader. He ran a mayoralty campaign and a large barbecue also, and the patronage he received was one little messengers place. It reminds me of a mountain, producing a mouse. I hope, Mr. Editor, that you will continue your fight for justice and honesty for some of the best people in Chicago are with you and hoping for your success, and the day will soon come when the colored Democrats of Chicago and Cook County will be led by a broad-minded, sensible and sober Negro of whom we will not be ashamed, and The Bread Ax can and will hasten the day. Miss Isabella Garnett, a graduate of Provident Hospital Training School, was graduated last Tuesday evening from the College of Physicians and Surgeons as a Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Garnett will hang out her shingle in Chicago. Thomas Harney, who was one of the old timers of The Town of Lake, died at his home, 4745 Princeton avenue, Monday evening. His funeral was held Thursday, and it was conducted by Thomas McInerney & Sons, the old reliable undertakers, 5050 State street. No one is better entertained than the devil at many church socials. E. Emmet Clare has changed his law offices from 97 Washington street to 59 Dearborn street. Mr. James J. Gray, member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, has more than one hundred thousand friends who would like to see him nominated for Treasurer of Cook County next year. Ham Carter and his gang of sanctimonious rattle-headed snapper-jacks have virtually entered a plea of guilty to all the charges which we have preferred against them. Long Jim Miller, who owes us one dollar as subscription to The Broad Ax, which he will not pay and Jacob Harris appeared before the grand jury last week in behalf of Ham Carter. Mr. and Mrs. Enos Bond, 6050 Green street; payed the editor and Mrs. Taylor a pleasant call Thursday evening. Mrs. Bond is well versed on all subjects and she kept us sweating in the collar to get ahead of her. Alderman M. Zimmer, 12th ward, is getting onto the ropes very easily, and he knows all the ins and outs of the City Hall. Alderman Zimmer works very hard to please his constituents and he is a power in his ward. Attorney Edward W. Cullen ,suite 619 Chicago Opera House Building, ranks away up among the best lawyers in this big town, and Mr. Cullen would make an ideal judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. The passing of Populism in the west and north and the elimination of the Negro as a political factor in the South, bringing the South into the Republican column, promises a lease of life to the party in power. This may be good politics, but what sacrifice.—The Plaindealer, Topeka, Kans. We do not take any stock in praying, but we might be induced to offer up one long prayer to the gods if it would assist in helping to defeat the re-election of Ben. Tillman to the United States Senate, for of all the Negro-hating rascals on the face of the earth, there are none born greater than old Ben Tillman. Perry Bates, 4943 Dearborn street, who got jammed up in the Burlington wreck out in Iowa a few weeks ago, is on the mend and within the next two weeks he hopes to be able to resume his run. Mr. Bates owes his rapid improvement to the good nursing which he received from his devoted wife, Mrs. Bates. The grand musical entertainment given at Skeele's Hall, 51st and State street, by the Illinois Club, of Saint Marks' Church, was a great success. Gov. S. B. Emmick, and Secretary H. B. Smith acted as the committee of arrangement. Madame Emma Taylor and the Crescent Lady Quartette sang for the occasion. Rev. Father Flanagan, St. Annes church, Garfield boulevard and Wentworth avenue, is a warm friend of hte Colored race; he is well acquainted with many of them, and many Colored people belong to his church, for he is wide minded and he believes that all men and women are the sons and daughters of God, regardless of the color of their skin. CHIPS. Walter Hill informed us lately that "he did not get any money to hold a meeting at 18th and Dearborn street in the interest of Mayor Harrison during the late election," and as the parties who assured us that he didget the money did not see it paid into his hands we are perfectly willing to give Walter Hill the benefit of the doubt, who says, "he does not want to be a leader of the Cook County Colored Democracy." A German expert in the east points out that as time goes on more and more men are required to coerce China into doing the will of another power. The opium war required only 4,000 Europeans, the Anglo-French war against the Chinese 16,000 and 4,800 Indians. The Japanese needed 95,000 men and 115,000 coolies, and today we find 90 men-of-war and almost 150,000 men attempting to compel obedience from the giant empire. American scholarship has been criticized for a lack of thoroughness. What was to be expected of a nation that so lately set up housekeeping, and had a wild continent to subdue? But we are gradually settling to the business of superior education. The number of post-graduate students to each million inhabitants steadily rose from eight in 1880 to seventy-four in 1898—the latest year for which returns are given. And this statement does not include those who pursue their studies in European universities. An interesting fact brought out by the recent elections in Colorado is the marked tendency of Colorado men to elect women as city treasurers. Mrs. Margaret Robins was unanimously chosen city treasurer of Idaho Springs. At Aspen, Mrs. E. A. Kenney was reelected to the same office by a large majority. Mrs. Jennie Gale was elected city treasurer at New Castle, Mrs. Emma C. Palmer in Greely, Mrs. Clara A. Clark at Alma, Mrs. Mary Shanks at Ouray, Miss Nellie E. Donahue at Victor and Mrs. A. N. Frownie at Manitou. In the Hawaiian legislature the native or reactionary element, which calls itself the "Home Rule party," is in control. Its leaders were opposed to annexation, and some of them have not abandoned the hope of the recall of the ex-queen. Not all the members speak English, and few of them are familiar with American institutions. They make unreasonable demands upon Governor Dole, and consume much time in personal bickerings. Many radical measures have been introduced, but the only bill enacted during the first half of the session was one appropriating money for the expense of the legislature. Altogether, it is a disappointing beginning; but legislative vagaries will be held in check by the executive, and gradually experience and growth of intelligence will bring improvement. A London scientist is exploring the "color cure" or "chromopathy," based on the influence on disease or morbid states of the system which different kinds of light waves are presumed to exert. The modus operandi is to allow light to pass to the patient through glasses of different tints. Disease, says the discoverer, "shows a want of harmony in the system—in other words, a want of color." The main doctrine propounded under the system is that red is a stimulant tint, and should be used where there is lack of vitality, while blue exerts a soothing and sedative action. Yellow is "a capital cerebral stimulant." But the color curists are not content with the action of light alone. They think that colored rays allowed to play on water endow that fluid with curative properties, the water being used externally or for internal administration. Uncle Sam is not only building a big, new mint in Philadelphia, but he is making it the finest in the world. He is also bringing it wholly up to date; for electricity, and electricity only, will be the power which makes the thousands of wheels go round. Electricity is the password for every appliance that knocks for entrance here, and nothing that will not lend itself to the energy of the dynamo can find a resting place. The building is a gigantic bunch of electric nerves, and the floors of the many rooms are tattooed with little brass plates, which mark the spots where these vibrating nerves may be tapped to secure the power used in driving the machinery. Every machine in the place will have its own motor attached, thereby rendering its use independent of any other part of the system, making it possible to operate the smallest device, both night and day, without moving any other part of the system. NO. 32. The department of agriculture in its annual report gives the amount of money the people of the United States spent in buying flowers at retail in 1899 as follows: Roses, $6,000,000; carnations, $4,000,000; violets, $750,000; chrysanthemums, $500,000; miscellaneous, including lilies, $1,250,000. The state legislatures have been dividing the respective states into congressional districts. The law under which they are acting calls for districts made of contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The legislatures should, in fair play, live up to the spirit of this law, even if the ways of enforcing its letter are shrouded in some uncertainty. American public schools and educational methods are going to the ends of the earth. Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and now the Philippines, are making the acquaintance of American teachers; and that they are good teachers is plainly indicated by the care with which the war department, through the civil service commission, is selecting them. Applications for positions are pouring in at the rate of twenty-five a day. Only those are chosen who are graduates of either a college or a normal school, have had several years' experience in teaching and now hold positions, and can offer conclusive proof of success in their work. Emperor William's public plaints against the weakening authority of the crown must raise a smile in Turkish councils, where preventive measures abound. "Avoid suggestive dots in the body of an article," reads a recent official circular to Turkish newspapers; "they tend to raise suppositions and disturb the tranquillity of the reader's mind." Again: "Do not publish articles too long for completion in a single issue. The notice, 'To be continued,' causes an uncomfortable tension of the mind." Piquant formulas, certainly; only the sultan seems to forget that other phrase, "The end," which sooner or later must be written for all governments not republican in form. The elevator cure is the latest. It is widely known in New York, as an elevator man in any big skyscraper will tell you. "Three out of every four women who ride in this car," said one of the Battery Park building employes, the other day, "are taking the 'elevator cure.' How does it cure? And what? Search me. The motion is supposed to have a beneficial effect on the circulation of the blood or something. Some of the men try it, too, but the women have it the worst. Whenever a stranger comes up to me and asks for a fictitious person, I know they are after the ride and nothing else. Some of the sharp ones generally pick out a name in the directory before they enter the car. They never go into an office, however, and always take the next car down." John Newman, formerly an Indian fighter and a pioneer of Arizona, recently recovered a bar of bullion worth $9,000, which he had buried in the ground at the root of a tree near Phoenix, Ariz., more than thirty years ago during an Indian attack. He was driven out of the country, but made a map of the surroundings from memory. He returned a year later, but the face of the country was altered, and he could not find his map. He went to Europe, and has been living in London nearly ever since. A few months ago he discovered the old map, or chart, among some papers. He had accumulated a little money by mining in South Africa, and with it he purchased a ticket to this country, and, with a friend, began a search for the lost bullion. He located the tree and recovered the bar. Already several steam plants have made experiments with the newly developed oil found at Beaumont Texas, as so far the tests appear to have been satisfactory. The Jennings Electric Light and Power company put in the necessary apparatus for using the oil as fuel, and began its use in its large plant, which supplies the town with light and power. At Houston also experiments have been made in the same direction and with satisfactory results, while several of the canal pumping stations in Southwestern Louisiana are getting ready to change their fuel from coal and wood to oil. If after full and sufficient experiments it is found that the Beaumont oil will be as cheap and as satisfactory in other respects as coal, there is no telling the extent of the demand that will be made upon the oil wells for steam-heating purposes. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Colonials, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Moslems, Republicanna, Priests, or any else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the intellectual right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; the only on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): Two Year.....$2.00 Three Months.....1.00 Overwriting notes made known on application Address all communications to THE BROAD AX. The state legislatures have been dividing the respective states into congressional districts. The law under which they are acting calls for districts made of contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. The legislatures should, in fair play, live up to the spirit of this law, even if the ways of enforcing its letter are shrouded in some uncertainty. Fully 1,200 acres in the Pecos valley, south from Roswell to Barstow, Tex., a distance of 170 miles, will be planted this year to cantaloupes, with an estimated yield of 1,000 carloads of the melons, or something less than a carload to the acre. The crop will be shipped direct to Chicago, and will have an average net market value of $450 a carload—the minimum a carload being $300, with a maximum of $600. American public schools and educational methods are going to the ends of the earth. Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and now the Philippines, are making the acquaintance of American teachers; and that they are good teachers is plainly indicated by the care with which the war department, through the civil service commission, is selecting them. Applications for positions are pouring in at the rate of twenty-five a day. Only those are chosen who are graduates of either a college or a normal school, have had several years' experience in teaching and now hold positions, and can offer conclusive proof of success in their work. Emperor William's public plaints against the weakening authority of the crown must raise a smile in Turkish councils, where preventive measures abound. "Avoid suggestive dots in the body of an article," reads a recent official circular to Turkish newspapers; "they tend to raise suppositions and disturb the tranquillity of the reader's mind." Again: "Do not publish articles too long for completion in a single issue. The notice, 'To be continued,' causes an uncomfortable tension of the mind." Piquant formulas, certainly; only the sultan seems to forget that other phrase, "The end," which sooner or later must be written for all governments not republican in form. The elevator cure is the latest. It is widely known in New York, as an elevator man in any big skyscraper will tell you. "Three out of every four women who ride in this car," said one of the Battery Park building employees, the other day, "are taking the 'elevator cure.' How does it cure? And what? Search me. The motion is supposed to have a beneficial effect on the circulation of the blood or something. Some of the men try it, too, but the women have it the worst. Whenever a stranger comes up to me and asks for a fictitious person, I know they are after the ride and nothing else. Some of the sharp ones generally pick out a name in the directory before they enter the car. They never go into an office, however, and always take the next car down." John Newman, formerly an Indian fighter and a pioneer of Arizona, recently recovered a bar of bullion worth $9,000, which he had buried in the ground at the root of a tree near Phoenix, Ariz., more than thirty years ago during an Indian attack. He was driven out of the country, but made a map of the surroundings from memory. He returned a year later, but the face of the country was altered, and he could not find his map. He went to Europe, and has been living in London nearly ever since. A few months ago he discovered the old map, or chart, among some papers. He had accumulated a little money by mining in South Africa, and with it he purchased a ticket to this country, and, with a friend, began a search for the lost bullion. He located the tree and recovered the bar. Already several steam plants have made experiments with the newly developed oil found at Beaumont Texas, as so far the tests appear to have been satisfactory. The Jennings Electric Light and Power company put in the necessary apparatus for using the oil as fuel, and began its use in its large plant, which supplies the town with light and power. At Houston also experiments have been made in the same direction and with satisfactory results, while several of the canal pumping stations in Southwestern Louisiana are getting ready to change their fuel from coal and wood to oil. If after full and sufficient experiments it is found that the Beaumont oil will be as cheap and as satisfactory in other respects as coal, there is no telling the extent of the demand that will be made upon the oil wells for steam-heating purposes. YANKEE GIRLS IN A TRAP. Parties of discouraged women have been seen about the Grand Central Station during the past two weeks preparing to make their way back to Boston and other eastern towns from which they were lured by promises that were never realized in New York, says the New York Sun. Recently advertisements appeared in the newspapers of a New England town guaranteeing the girls of a certain education and refinement a sure income in New York as canvassers for a book. Recently a party of these girls arrived in this city and went to a boarding house, where they found a woman who had been placed there in charge of them. The establishment was an ordinary boarding house, in which the firm had engaged accommodations for the women. They found themselves assigned to a certain territory in the city and were directed to make a house-to-house canvass, see everybody living within that region and get as many subscriptions as they could. The woman manager living in their house paid their board and lodging and deducted from the commissions they made the amount she had paid out for them. This seemed well enough until some of the girls found that, work as they might, it was impossible for them to earn enough to pay out of their commission the money advanced to them to come to New York as well as their board. But the unfortunate agent is not allowed to depart until she pays all the expenses involved in her trip to New York. She is allowed to go home, but is compelled to leave her trunks or whatever jewelry she has to compensate the manager for the amount of her outlay. There is, of course, no legal ground on which this could be done, as the baggage is her baggage, there is no lien on it for the advances, and there is no understanding of that kind. One unfortunate who worked a month with so little success that she was disheartened wanted to get away and pawned her watch. She then discovered that her trunk was held for a board bill of $30. She was allowed to leave after she had taken the watch out of pawn and given it to the woman manager as security. A party of four who found themselves practically prisoners two weeks ago were lucky enough to have some acquaintances with a lawyer, who saw immediately the injustice of the claims made against them and enabled them to go home and take their baggage with them. One peculiarity of the way in which the business is conducted is the selection of the girls. For New York only agents are engaged to come from more or less remote northern or southern places, while those who were sent to Boston and other eastern points are selected only from the west. One of the rules of the business is to allow none of the agents to work in the territory in which they have lived and are known. They are all sent to strange places. ANECDOTE OF GREELEY. Hew He Treated a Mau Who Came in to Speak His Mind. Offended by a pungent article that had appeared in the columns of the New York Tribune, a gentleman called at that office and inquired for the editor. He was shown into a small sanctum, where Horace Greeley, quickly, without looking up from his paper, writing very rapidly. The man began by saying, "Is this Mr. Greeley?" "Yes, sir; what do you want?" said the editor quickly, without looking up from his paper. The irate visitor then began using his tongue, with no reference to the rules of propriety, good breeding or reason. Mr. Greeley meanwhile continued to write. Page after page was finished with no change of features, and without the slightest attention being paid to the visitor. Finally after the most impassioned scolding ever poured out in an editor's office, the angry man became disgusted and abruptly turned to leave the room. Then, for the first time, Mr. Greeley quickly looked up, rose from his chair and slapping the gentleman familiarly on the shoulder, in a pleasant tone of voice said: "Don't go, friend; sit down, sit down, and free your mind; it will do you good—you will feel better for it. Besides, it helps me to think what I am to write about. Don't go."—Pennsylvania Grit. In France and Germany. The depopulation of France has long been a subject for speculation and argument, but the fact is that since 1874-78 the decline of the English birth date has been greater than that of France. Taking England and Wales, the loss of what is called "birthforce" since 1874-78 has been 17 per cent, while in France it has been only 14 per cent. Germany's birth rate has lost 10 per cent since the same period of years, which is consoling to England. Germany, however, is rapidly gaining in the race for population. In 1874-78 her excess over England was 5.8 per cent; in 1894-98 it was 7 per cent—New York Press. Sacrificed "Two-Legged Animal." A curious and painful story has been told in the Bombay High Court. A young woman was found guilty of murdering a child and sentenced to transportation for life under the following circumstances: She believed she was haunted by the ghost of her mother-in-law, and consulted a soothsayer, who advised her to sacrifice a "two-legged animal" to propitiate the ghost. She murdered the child. The session's judge said it was a great pity that the charisan could not be placed in the deck along with the girl. One of the immortal poems of the English language, the authorship of which has long been the subject of much controversy, begins with the lines, "There is no death; the stars go down to shine upon some other shore." Scores of school books and magazines, in publishing these, have ascribed their writing to Lord Bulwer-Lytton. As a matter of fact they are products of the genius of J. L. McCreery of Iowa. Driving homeward one afternoon in March, 1863, over a lonely country road, his mind ran from such material things as the possible foreclosure of the mortgage on his little printing plant at Delhi, and the future source of his daily bread and butter, to his higher and spiritual destiny. He pondered upon the question of immortality. At first his meditations were somber and gloomy. But as night came on and one after another the stars appeared in the sky, the subdued and tranquil radiance of the heavenly host imparted a more serene and hopeful tinge to his thoughts and feelings. Gradually the conviction came to him that life was eternal and this conclusion framed itself in the first four lines of the poem. When he reached home, and the duties of practical every day life were ended, he devoted himself to the expression of his poetical ideas and these lines were the result: There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore. There is no death! the forest leaves Convert to life the viewless air; The rocks disorganize to feed The hungry moss they bear. There is no death! the dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer show- There is no death! the leaves may fall, The flowers may fade and pass away They only wait, through wintry hours, The warm, sweet breath of May. There is no death! the choicest gifts That heaven hath kindly lent to earth Are ever first to seek again The country of their birth. And all things that for growth or joy Are worthy of our love or care, Whose loss has left us desolate. J. L. M'C TWO PRESIDENTIAL TRIPS. Some of the Features That Distinguished Gen. Harrison's Tour. J. L. M'CREERY. J. L. M'CREERY. There are many points of similarity between the transcontinental tour of President McKinley and that made by the late President Harrison exactly ten years ago. The trip made by Gen. Harrison was a memorable one in many respects, outside of the notable series of speeches which broke all records up to that time. It was the longest trip ever made by a President in office, and was remarkable in that not a single accident or incident occurred to interfere with the elaborate railroad schedule or to mar the comfort or enjoyment of the Presidential party. The party left Washington at 12:10 o'clock a.m. Tuesday, April 14, 1891, and after a journey of 9,228 miles returned home at 5:30 o'clock May 15, on exact schedule time to the minute. Stops were made for longer or shorter periods at the principal cities in the states of Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania. At no time was there any break in the arrangements, and the entire prearranged program was carried out to the letter at every point on the route. During the entire time the party was on the road it occupied a special train of five magnificent Puliman coaches, and, with the exception of locomotives, no change was made in the composition of the train from beginning to end, and there was not a single change of cars on any of the different lines traversed. The train was made up of an observation car, a dining room car, a combination --- The Origin of the Poem. To golden grain, or mellow fruit, Or rainbow-tinted flowers. Are safely garnered there. Though life become a dreary waste, We know its fairest, sweetest flowers, Transplanted into paradise, Adorn immortal bowers. The voice of bird-like melody That we have missed and mourned so long. Now mingles with the angel choir In everlasting song. There is no death! although we grieve When beautiful, familiar forms That we have learned to love are torn From our embracing arms. Although with bowed and breaking heart, With sable garb and silent tread, We bear their senseless dust to rest, And say that they are "dead." They are not dead! they have but passed Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life Of that serener sphere. They have but dropped their robe of clay To put their shining raiment on; They have not wandered far away They are not "lost" nor "gone." Though disenthalled and glorified, They still are here, and love us yet; The dear ones they have left behind They never can forget. And sometimes, when our hearts grow faint Amid temptations fierce and deep, Or when the wildly raging waves Of grief or passion sweep, We feel upon our fevered brow Their gentle touch, their breath of balm; Their arms enfold us, and our hearts Grow comforted and calm. And ever near us, though unseen, The dear, immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is Where the soul goes. These lines were first printed in a Philadelphia magazine. Some time thereafter, a man named Eugene Bulmer, writing on the subject of "Immortality," quoted the poem, without crediting the author. One paper clipped the poem, changing the name of E. Bulmer to E. Bulwer. Other publications copied it and the poem went on record as the work of Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton. A friend of McCreery who stood high with President Grant, asked the author of the poem be appointed official stenographer and quoted the verses as proof of his ability. Then general said the poem was very good, but what he wanted when he became public business and that the fellow who was good at writing poetry, generally was not good for anything else. CREERY. library and smoking car and the private car New Zealand, which latter was assigned to the special use of President and Mrs. Harrison. The train was lighted throughout with electricity and prvided with every possible facility for comfort and convenience, including a fully equipped barber shop. The Harrison trip occupied 31 days and covered 9,228 miles, while the McKinley trip will occupy 38 days and will cover about 10,500 miles. King Edward's automobile is being built for him in Paris. The machine, it is said, will be one of the finest ever turned out. It will be a nine horse power, double phaeton, and will be capable of a speed of 50 miles an hour. It will hold four persons, and the motive power will be paraffin. It is designed to be a noiseless, odorless and even-motioned affair, in which there will be a total absence of vibration. Nearly all the metal parts of the carriage will be of finest steel and the body will be painted red. Normally it will be an open carriage, but is constructed so that in bad weather it can be closed. The cost is said to be not far from $3,000. Manufacture of Carbon The manufacture of carbon for use in electric lighting and for other purposes has grown to be a great industry in the West Virginia gas belt. The process requires great heat and the expenditure of large quantities of fuel, though the plant required for putting the carbon through the preliminary processes which consumes the fuel is neither expensive nor complicated. ```markdown ``` ONE OF THE IMMORTAL POEMS OF LANGUAGE. King Edward's Automobile W.L. DOUGLAS $3. & $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Real worth of W. L. Douglas $3 and $3.50 shoes is $4 to $5. My $4 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. It is not alone the best leather that makes a first class shoe it is the brains, that have planned the best style, lasts a perfect model of the foot, and the construction of the shoe. It is mechanical skill and knowledge that have made W. L. Douglas shoes the best in the world for men. Take no substitute. Insist on having W. L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. Your dealer should keep them, if he does not, send for catalog giving full instructions how to order by mail. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. Trick of Lawser'a Trade. The average layman who may attend any of the more conspicuous trials in the civil or criminal courts is usually amused at first by the wrangles and tilts of opposing counsel, but in the end he becomes bored and wonders what is the point of all this furious recrimination. Some light was shed on this matter the other day by a prominent criminal lawyer, who said: "I never engage in any of these controversies without an object. When I have a witness who is going along swimmingly and keeping his head, I never mix it up with my opponent, but when my witness begins to get rattled under cross-examination, for instance, I am pretty apt to interject a remark that will bring a retort from my learned friend on the other side. One word leads to another and in a jiffy we are at it hammer and tongs until the court stops us. Meanwhile my object is accomplished. The witness' mind is diverted, he gets a chance to recover himself, and, if I happen to have had the better of the argument, he feels reassured and his confidence is restored."—Chicago Journal. Cold-Food Cure Fad. A new cure has appeared in Paris which is said to be much in vogue, especially among members of the smart set. It takes the form of a special diet and the particular malady at which it is aimed is overstoutness. The idea of this diet is that everything, or nearly everything must be eaten cold; and even hot coffee, tea or soup is forbidden to those following the regime. The early breakfast of toast, cold game or hard-boiled eggs and ham is accompanied by a cup of cold milk. At luncheon, again, there is nothing but cold meats and cold puddings, with bread and cheese or salad; while again, at night, the meal may consist only of mayonnaise of fish, cold entrees, and entremets. Geronimo Charges for Photographs. Geronimo, the noted Apache chief whose bloodthirsty career as a raider in the southwest was ended years ago by his capture, is now 80 years old and lives near Fort Sill, Okla. Tourists who wish to photograph him must pay $5 for the privilege and the old sinner before facing the camera always gets himself into war paint, strikes a ferocious attitude and looks as fiendish as possible. Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben-Hur," says in his introduction to "Tarry Thou Till I Come," "In my judgment, the six greatest English novels are Ivanhoe, The Last of the Barons, The Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Hypatia, and this romance of Croly's." "Tarry Thou" is a historical novel dealing with the events from the crucifixion to the destruction of Jerusalem. It is the most vivid portrayal of those events ever written. The great serpent mound in Ohio has been transferred to the Ohio Archaeological and Historical society. FRAGRANT SOZODONT a perfect liquid dentifrice for the Teeth and Mouth New Size SOZODONT LIQUID, 25¢ SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER, 25¢ Large LIQUID and POWDER, 75¢ At all Stores, or by Mail for the price. HALL & RUCKEL, New York. Fortune-Maker! Agents double their money. Economy Shirt Bosom Pad. No more laundry bills. Twenty clean Shirts in one. Sample 25¢, silver. R. R. DOLL CO., Gothenburg, Nebr. 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Address State Emigration Agent—FRANK WEINSHENK, Kingman, Kansas. farm or other property for cash no matter where situated. State price, etc. We are the largest Real Estate Advertisers and Agents in the U. S. Established 176. L. DRAKE & CO. Philadelphia. DUGLAS SHOES UNION MADE. L. Douglas $3 and $4 to $5. My $4 cannot be equalled price. It is not alone the best father that makes a first shoe it is the brains, it have planned the best lea, lasts a perfect model mechanical skill and best in the world for men. Duglas shoes with name up them, if he does not, my mail. Brockton, Mass. Two London crooks, Grainger and Rice, engineered a slick swindle recently. They forged a check for $1,000 and signed it with the name of a man who had a big balance in his band. Then Grainger "made up" to resemble the person whose name was being used and, waiting until the man had gone out to luncheon, stepped into his office and into the telephone box. At the same minute Rice appeared at the bank and presented the check. He said he was a new clerk of the man whose name was on the check, but the cashler refused to give the money to him until he was identified. Rice said/that his employer wanted the money right away and suggested that he be called up by telephone at his office. This was done and Grainger, at the other end, answered the telephone bell and said, of course, that the check was all right and "please hurry and give the man the money." Then he left the office without it being discovered that he was not the proprietor of the place and, meeting Rice, the two divided the money and made off. Both were subsequently arrested, the story being so good that they told it. It then reached the ears of the police.—Utica Globe. Verdict Meant Death. Aldrich, Mo., May 27th.—Four of the best doctors in the vicinity have been in attendance on Mrs. Mollie Moore of this place, who has been suffering with a severe case of nervousness and kidney disease. Each of them told her that she would die. Hearing of Dodd's Kidney Pills, she began to use them, and instantly noticed a change for the better. Her improvement has been continuous since then. She says that the disease first manifested itself by the appearance of dark spots floating before her eyes. Her nerves were so bad that many times they would collapse completely, and she would fall down as if shot. The fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills saved her after four doctors had given her up, has caused no end of talk in this neighborhood, and all are loud in their praises of this new remedy—Dodd's Kidney Pills—which is curing so many hitherto incurable cases, in this state and elsewhere. Educating the Indians Preliminary to expected important legislation by the next congress affecting Indian education. Commissioner Jones of the Indian bureau will try to ascertain just what measure of success has attended the instruction of Indian pupils. Questions addressed to Indian agents and superintendents are designed to show the relative merits of Indian pupils who have attended schools upon the reservation or the general educational institutions located elsewhere. To what use the Indian pupils have put their education is asked, and also whether their course in life after returning to the reservation indicates that their career will be that of the average white person. Commissioner Jones is seeking to make the inquiries of practical value, and he asks for relative statements by those in immediate charge of the Indians as to the status of those Indian pupils who have attended and are now attending Indian schools. Annual Meeting American Medical Ass'n. Annual Meeting American Medical Assn. The officers of the Chicago Medical Society, after most careful consideration, have selected the Burlington Route, "the Mississippi River Scenic Line," as the line for the Chicago Medical Society special on the occasion of the annual convention at St. Paul, June 4, to June 7, 1901. From most points on the Burlington Route the rate will be one lowest first-class fare plus $2.00 for the round trip; for instance, from Chicago, $13.50; Peorla, $13.75; St. Louis, $18.00. From points in Central and Eastern states initial lines will also sell through tickets via the Burlington route on a reduced basis Tickets will be on sale May 27, 28, 30, 31; June 2 and 3, 1901. Return limit June 15. Extension of return limit to leave St. Paul up to and including July 15, 1901, may be obtained by those who so desire to take the Yellowstone Park trip now being arranged for to leave St. Paul June 7, 1901. An Exponential Auction An extraordinary auction is about to take place at Pesth at the palace of the late Count Moritz Esterhazy, for the purpose of the disposal by public sale of his immense collection of cigars, which is valued at $60,000, this being the reserve price put upon it. It does not consist of boxes of cigars, but of single cigars of every kind and quality. Some people collect stamps, others coins, others again buttons, some again collect snuff-boxes. But the late Count Moritz Esterhazy devoted himself throughout his long life to collecting samples of every kind of cigar from every part of the world and from the cheapest to the most expensive. 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. Justice Fuller's Recreative Heading. Chief Justice Fuller is a constant reader of contemporary novels. Classics of all sorts he has at his fingers' ends, but after a day in court the lighter sort of fiction he finds to be more of a diversion. "Where's Mr. Schnorer?" "He's in the next room." "Are you sure?" "Yes, I just overhead him taking a nap—Glassow Evening Times. A UNIQUE MISSOURI TOWN. No Taxes Are Lovely But a Great D The problem of municipal government at a minimum expense has apparently been solved most successfully by the little town of Shumway, in Efingham county, Missouri. Shumway, which has a population of 300, was founded 26 years ago, but was not incorporated until 1885. The inhabitants of the village are chiefly Germans and every one has some honest occupation. Shumway has more than three miles of brick walls, all constructed since the village was incorporated. The village has paid 65 per cent of the costs of constructing the walks and the property-holders the remaining 35 per cent. It has put a requisite number of crossings and placed the thoroughfares in better condition than in many places of 5,000 population. The most remarkable part of all this improvement is that not a cent of tax has been levied by the village authorities since the incorporation took place. All revenue is derived from a saloon license issued to one man, who has an exclusive privilege of dispensing the "ardent" within the village limits. He pays $700 per annum into this village treasury for this privilege, and, while several other residents have essayed to open saloons, the village board has frowned upon every attempt, believing that one establishment of the kind fills every requirement. The president and the board of trustees receive no salaries or fees for their services. The only salaried officers are the village clerk, who receives $18 per annum, and the village marshal, who draws $30 per annum. The marshal's duties are chiefly those of a janitor when the village board is in session. Only on holidays and special occasions is he required to serve as an officer. Not a single arrest has been made in the past year, and in the village's history nearly every one of the dozen persons arrested has been intoxicated. Whenever it becomes necessary to apprehend an offender the populace turns out en masse, and assists in making the arrest. The captive is locked up until sober, and the proceeds used in constructing more walks or improving the streets. The villagers enjoy a great degree of prosperity, every man of family, with but strikingly few exceptions, owning his own home and keeping his property in excellent shape. Insurance Against Living Burial. Almost every day insurance genius evolves a new kind of personal or real estate security. The latest is against being buried alive. A New York man is agitating the new policy. He recently said, at an underwriters' meeting: "Insurance against being buried alive would certainly be hugely profitable. It is surprising how many people have a dread that suspended animation may be mistaken for death. I know a woman who has actually made her husband promise that if he survives her he will stick a hatpin through her heart before she is buried, to make sure that no spark of life remains. In certain parts of Europe they have what are known as mortuary houses, where the dead are taken and subjected to various tests to make sure that death is absolutely certain. I believe there is a bill providing for a somewhat similar course now before the Massachusetts legislature. If such a mortuary building is established, multitudes of people would gladly pay, say, $100 to be insured in a company that would guarantee to make the necessary tests before burial or cremation." A Restful Remedy. Rev. Dr. Hillis, pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, is evidently not a success in maintaining the congregation that Henry Ward Beecher so long ministered to. If he were he would not be going around the country lecturing on the decadence of religion as reflected in the absenteeism from church services. One of the reasons he gives for non-attendance at church on the part of the people is "that tired feeling." The American young man, after a hard week's work, is too weary to arise on Sunday morning and sleeps until noon. That keeps him from church. To overcome this Mr. Hillis would have a half holiday on Saturday so that the young man could go to bed early in the evening and get sufficient rest to be up Sunday in time for religious services. Baldwin Named for a Heroine Bridge Named for a Heroine. A railroad bridge across the Des River, near Boone, Ia., is to be called Kate Shelley Bridge, after a heroine who 20 years ago saved a passenger train from destruction there. She was then a girl of 16 and was seated in her mother's cottage when one night she saw an engine fall through a bridge during a raging flood. Lighting a lantern, she sped away through the storm to Moingona, told of the disaster and saved a passenger train from following the ill-fated engine to a watery grave. The state of Iowa gave her a medal for her bravery, her name has been celebrated in poetry and prose, and, as a lasting monument to her heroic deed, it has been decided to name the structure now in process of construction the Kate Shelley Bridge. To Snow Cotton in West Africa In order to encourage and stimulate the cotton industry a London firm is making arrangements with its New Orleans house to send an expedition of experts to West Africa, in order to teach the natives how to plant and grow cotton. The idea is to send two experts from the southern states to each of the principal West African colonies, viz., Lagos, Sierra Leone, Bathurst and Cape Coast Castle, and it is anticipating that this will be the means of creating a new and important industry in that part of the world. Piles Cured While You Sleep WESTERN CANADA'S DECEMBER WEATHER Equal to That of May in Minnesota. To the Editor:—Thomas Regan and C. Collins of Eden Valley, Minnesota, went out to Western Canada last December as delegates to look over the grazing and grain lands that are being offered at such low prices and reasonable terms. This is what they say: "Wearrived in Calgary about the 20th of December and although we had left winter in Minnesota and Manitoba, we were surprised to find beautiful warm weather at this point, quite equal to what we have in May in Minnesota. There was no snow nor trace of winter to be seen, and the climate was really splendid. Horses, cattle and sheep were running out, in prime condition, with plenty of feed on the prairie, and really better than that of ours stabled in the south. We are impressed with this country as one of the finest mixed farming countries we have ever seen. The immense tracts of fertile lands well sheltered and abundantly watered leave nothing to be desired. "Leaving Alberta we returned east and visited the Yorkton district in Assinibola. We drove out about ten miles at this point and were highly pleased with the splendid samples of grain we were able to see—wheat yielding 25 bushels, oats 60 bushels. Roots were also good specimens. From what we have seen, we have decided to throw in our lot with the Yorktoners—satisfied that this part of the country will furnish good opportunities for anyone anxious to make the best of a really good country." "Any agent of the Canadian government,whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the columns of your paper will give you full particulars of the new districts being opened out this year in Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. Yours truly, Old Reader. Summer Vacations Spend yours this Summer in California. There is no telling when the trip can again be made so cheaply. July 6th to 13th inclusive, Round-Trip Tickets will be sold to San Francisco via the Southern Pacific Company's routes at rates less than the regular one-way fare and will be good for the return until August 31st. These tickets cover first-class passage and will allow holder to stopover at various points of interest en route either going or returning, or both, and can be purchased for passage going via any of the Southern Pacific Company's three routes, Sunset, Ogden or Shasta, returning the same or either of the others. Through Pullman Palace and Pullman Tourist sleeping cars. For particulars address W. G. Nelmyer, G. W. A., S. P. Co., 238 Clark street, Chicago, Ill. French Architecture in Washington. The French government is to have an official residence in Washington, and it will be a fine one. Nearly two acres of ground have been bought, well located on a high knoll commanding a fine view of the city, and there the famous French architect, Carre, is to design a home for the embassy, which shall be the finest specimen of French architecture on this side of the Atlantic. Try Grain-0! Try Grain-0! 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. 1/4 the price of coffee. 15c and 25 cts per package. Sold by all grocers. Pomades are made of the best and purest fat of the ox, impregnated with any perfume which may be desirable. A Real Utopia. Dunwich, Moretown bay, Queensland, consists of about 1,000 inhabitants. In four years there have been two births and two deaths. There are no streets, no omnibuses or trains, no soldiers, no police, no shops. There is a beautiful theater, and every one is admitted free. Clothes are free and so are food and lodging. Very few do any work, and there are no hotels. Very little money is required, and medical attendance is free. There is a lockup, but that is not used. There is also a postoffice, and if money is short the letters are stamped free. There is also a free hospital and library. South Dakota Farms 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 a copy may be had by sending a two-cent stamp to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. Measurements of a Meteorite The meteorite which fell at Porto Alegre, Brazil, is reported to measure 56 feet on the base and 85 feet in height, most astonishing dimensions. 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. Stettin now numbers 209,988 souls, an increase in population in five years of 69,264, owing to its position as the seaport of Berlin. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! New lands soon to open. Be ready! Morgan's Manual, with supplement containing proclamation, map showing allitments, County seats, etc. $1. Supplement & Map, 50c. Agents Wanted. DICK T. MORGAN, Perry, O.T. Of all German cities, Nuremberg has increased most within the last five years—about 60 per cent. For weakness, stiffness and soreness in aged people use Wizard Oil. Your druggist knows this and sells the oil. New brooms sweep clean—and old ones, too, if properly manipulated. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 831 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Ireland lost 1, 746,000 people by famine during the past century. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, $22 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Logic evidently has legs otherwise it could not stand to reason. Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. There is many a good wife that can neither sing nor dance. GOOD DIGESTION MEANS HEALTH Health means beauty. DR. CRANE'S QUAKER TONIC TABLETS produce both. Saw and ax contests are favorite pastimes in Tasmania. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Orange packing in California is done chiefly by women. 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. Never help a man into trouble; try to help him out. Baseball players; Golf players; all players chew White's Yucatan whilst playing. Time, tide and soda water wait for no man. THE WOMAN'S WORLD A woman is sick—some disease peculiar to her sex is fast developing in her system. She goes to her family physician and tells him a story, but not the whole story. She holds back something, loses her head, becomes agitated, forgets what she wants to say, and finally conceals what she ought to have told, and this completely mystifies the doctor. Is it a wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease? Still we cannot blame the woman, for it is very embarrassing to detail some of the symptoms of her suffering, even to her family physician. This is the reason why hundreds of thousands of women are now in correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. To her they can give every symptom, so that when she is ready to advise them she is in possession of more facts from her correspondence with the patient than the physician can possibly obtain through a personal interview. Following we publish a letter from a woman showing the result of a correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham. All such letters are considered absolutely confidential by Mrs. Pinkham, and are never published in any way or manner without the consent in writing of the patient; but hundreds of women are so grateful for the health which Mrs. Pinkham and her medicine have been able to restore to them that they not only consent to publishing their letters, but write asking that this be done in order that other women who suffer may be benefited by their experience. Mrs. Ella Rice, Chelsea, Wis., writes: "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—For two and inflammation of the womb. I sup pains, headache, backache, and was endured no one knows but those w hardly drag myself across the floor. town for three months and grew w and friends wished me to write to you cines. At last I became so bad that received an answer at once advising me and I did so. Before I had taken two taken five bottles there was no happ again. I know that your Vegetable advise every woman who suffers as I table Compound. Believe me always health."—MRS. ELLA RICE, Chelsea, W $5000 REWAR deposited with which will be testimonial is the writer's spe MRS. PINKHAM:—For two years I was troubled by the motion of the womb. I suffered very much within the womb, backache, and was not able to do anything but those who have suffered as I myself across the floor. I doctored with the phone months and grew worse instead of better. I washed me to write to you, but I had no faith in it. I became so bad that I concluded to ask you answer at once advising me to take your Vegetable Before I had taken two bottles I felt better, tables there was no happier woman on earth, now that your Vegetable Compound cured me, a woman who suffers as I did to try Lydia E. Pinch. Believe me always grateful for the reward. ELLA RICE, Chelsea, Wis. 00 REWARD Owing to the fact people have from time to time the genuineness of the we are constantly deposited with the National City Bank, of which will be paid to any person who will testimonial is not genuine, or was published the writer's special permission.—LYDIA E. PINK "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—For two years I was troubled with falling and inflammation of the womb. I suffered very much with bearing-down pains, headache, backache, and was not able to do anything. What I endured no one knows but those who have suffered as I did. I could hardly drag myself across the floor. I doctored with the physicians of this town for three months and grew worse instead of better. My husband and friends wished me to write to you, but I had no faith in patent medicines. At last I became so bad that I concluded to ask your advice. I received an answer at once advising me to take your Vegetable Compound, and I did so. Before I had taken two bottles I felt better, and after I had taken five bottles there was no happier woman on earth, for I was well again. I know that your Vegetable Compound cured me, and I wish and advise every woman who suffers as I did to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Believe me always grateful for the recovery of my health"—MRS. ELLA RICE, Chelsea, Wis. $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, Masa., $5.000 which will be paid to any person who will show that the above testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer's special permission.—LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE Co. FOR SALE A tract of good land about 14,000 acres, nicely fenced and Located near C., R, I & P, and M., K. & T.R.R. In North Texas. Fine shade and shelter and the very best unequite grass for winter. 2,000 acres cultivated Good climate and very healthy. Price 180.00 per acre No investment can be made any better. Address Box 231, Henrietta, Texas. 10WA FARMS$4 PER CASH BALANCE CRBPTIL PAID While You S to relieve the condition. This causes a rush of in you have piles. There are many kinds and man ARETS make effort easy, regulate and soften the morrhoids, fistula, and other rectal troubles yield persuaded to experiment with any Atchison Globe. g7 --- "I suffered the tortures of the damned with protruding piles brought on by constipation with which I was afflicted for twenty years. I ran across your CASCA-BETS in the town of Newell, In., and never found anything to equal them. To-day I am entirely free from piles and feel like a new man." C. H. KETZ. 1411 Jones St., Sioux City, Ia Woman's Long Suit. years I was troubled with falling defered very much with bearing-down not able to do anything. What I no have suffered as I did. I could do doctored with the physicians of this case instead of better. My husband but I had no faith in patent medi- I concluded to ask your advice. I ege to take your Vegetable Compound, s bottles I felt better, and after I had or woman on earth, for I was well compound cured me, and I wish and aid to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- es grateful for the recovery of my sis. ORD Owing to the fact that some akeptical people have from time to time questioned the genuineness of the testimonial letters we are constantly publishing, we have the National City Bank, of Lynn, Mass., $5,000, aid to any person who will show that the above not genuine, or was published before obtaining al permission.—Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Do You Want to Know all about patented Are you an inventor! If so, send stamp to L. T. GREISY, patent atty, 810 12th St. N. E., Washington, D. C., for Free Handbook on Patents. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 22, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BITS OF INFORMATION. The manufacture of carbon for use in electric lighting and for other purposes has grown to be a great industry in the West Virginia gas belt. Kansas is to revolutionize her treatment of the insane. Instead of crowding the patients together into one immense building, they will be placed in cottages similar to private homes. Wrangell Island or tract in the Arctic is north of the eastern extremity of the Aziatic coast, intersected by the meridian of 180 degrees east longitude. It was discovered in 1867 by Captain Long of the United States and named after the Russian explorer, Baron von Wrangell (1796-1870), who sought to reach it. There are no exact figures of the population of Manila, P. I., at this time. It is estimated at about 170,000, not including American troops. The Pasig River is twelve miles long. Los Banos is about thirty miles from Manila. The climate of that place is like that of Luzon Island, healthy for those who are accustomed to it. The steamer Yankee Blade was driven upon the rocks at Point Arguello, Santa Barbara county, during a fog in November, 1868. She was a sidewheeler, valued at $500,000, and was almost new. No lives were lost, but Captain Randle, her master, was held responsible for her loss, for sailing so dangerously close to shore. HERE AND THERE. The twenty Mexican banks reported in the government reports show a combined capital of $70,000,000. There will be between 50,000 and 100,000 additional acres of land devoted to rice culture in the South this year. The greatest strength of the Prohibitionists, in proportion to the voting population, was shown in November in minor Southern states. Railways, automobiles and bicycles are safer conveyances than vehicles drawn by horses, according to statistics just issued by the French government. The old bell in the tower of Baltimore's city hall, known as "Lord Baltimore," resumed the striking of the hours recently after a silence of five years. The very latest in Boston is to call a man or woman behind the counter in a store a "salesperson." The new word has already appeared in advertisements. The late Professor Marsh of Yale bequeathed his house and grounds for a botanical garden. They are to be made the home of the newly created school of forestry. A rice kitchen is to be maintained at the Buffalo fair by the rice association of America. Rice will be served in various forms, showing its value as a staple article of food. There are fewer employes in the postoffice department at Washington than in the more recently established department of agriculture, and the pay of the postal employes is less. WITH THE SAGES. When they uttered not a word, thou hast laid thy hand on it; when thou hast uttered it, it hath laid its hand on thee.—Old Quotation. In the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.—George Eliot. In the matter of friendship, I have observed that disappointment arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or thinking of them too highly, but rather from an over-estimate of their liking for and opinion of us, and that if we guard ourselves with sufficient scrupulousness of care from error in this direction, and can be content, and even happy to give more affection than we receive—can make just comparison of circumstances, and be severely accurate in drawing inferences, and never let self-love blind our eyes—then I think we can manage to get through life with consistency and constancy unembittered by that misanthropy which springs from revulsion of feeling. The moral is, that if we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sake rather than for our own.—Charlotte Bronte. FRILLS OF FASHION. Very pretty girdles are made of white glace silk or white ribbon, appliqued, with the new cretonne flowers. Gay little low shoes have red heels, the front part of the shoe, in which the eyelet holes for the lacings are set, being red and the lacings light drab silk. Chic little pique stocks are made with a very short tie, which does not make a bow, but is finished by one end running through a smart little buckle in front. Some of the handsomest long coats of silk, chiffon, and fringe, and various kinds of fine materials are trimmed with gold lace. This, if it is narrow, will probably be all of the gold, and, if wider, of the white thread. It is beautiful, effective and costly. Charming waists are made entirely of ribbon of two widths, with about half an inch of space between the rows, which is partially filled with the fancy gold stitching connecting them. These waists are worn over bodices of any MUCH IN, LITTLE London has 690 acres of docks; Livernoal, 550 acres. erpool, 560 acres. Marylanders are "Craw-thumpers," a slang name for the lobster. More than 250 references to Shakespeare by his contemporaries have now been collected. Sir Wilfred Laurier has frequently, about election time, made as many as fifteen speeches a day. In the south 5,000,000 cotton spindles are at work, or one-third the number in operation in the north. It is said that the principal fraternal organizations of the United States and Canada have a membership of 5,723,-016. The latest Swiss mountain railway project is to connect the Engadine with the Italian lake by a road over the Bernina range. Some time ago German postoffices were established in the cities of Smyrna, Beyroot and Jerusalem, in Asiatic Turkey. During the past year several remarkable reefs of fossil coral have been explored near Bainbridge on the Flint river in Georgia. One of the most destructive earthquakes in the world's history was that which occurred in Yeddo, in the year 1708, when 190,000 people were killed. There are more than 1,000,000 square feet of glass surface in England exclusively devoted to the cultivation and production of tomatoes for market purposes. Nuremberg has a famous little restaurant, the Bratwurstglocklein, which was founded 500 years ago. It used to be patronized by Albrecht Durer and Hans Sachs. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. If a man is unable to find a reason for doing a mean act he invents an excuse. Mind is not matter nor from matter, but above. Leave matter then, proceed with mind. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; yield with graciousness, but oppose with firmness. It is one thing to survey yourself with pride, and quite another to explore your heart with humility. Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character and conscientious observance of duty. A moral wrapped up in sugar goes down certainly, but it may be feared that it only goes down because of the sugar. I belong to the universal church; nothing shall separate me from it, says Channing. To confide God's love or His good spirit to any party, sect or name, is to sin against the fundamental law of the kingdom of God. The past remains with us to remind us of our perils and our constant need of help, but it ought not haunt and oppress us. The real life of an aspiring soul is always ahead. We are not fleeing from the devil, but seeking God. In doing our very best to be good ourselves we bring tremendous unconscious influence to bear on every one around us. No one can meet a man who transparently and constantly tries to do his duty without being either spurred or shamed by the encounter. CONDENSED INFORMATION. The desert of Sahara covers 2,500,000 square miles between the Atlantic ocean and the Nile valley. The oldest large bridge in Europe is that at Ratisbon, over the Danube. It was built in 1135, and is 994 feet in length. The Russian government opened 625 new savings banks last year, mostly at railway stations. The total number is now 5,406. Excluding 62,000 small craft, the commerce of the world is carried on by 45,000 vessels, with a carrying power of 48,000,000 tons. The increase in the Russian savings bank deposits was considerably smaller in 1900 than it had been for several years previously. An Ontario oculist thinks that the eyesight of one-fourth of the blind patients he has had might have been saved by prompt precautions taken in infancy. A boy baby a month old can expect but forty-two years of life. When he is five years old his chances of living have increased to fifty-one years six months. The London police department costs $8,100,000, the Paris department $6,000,000 and the Berlin police department $1,500,000. Berlin policemen are retired Prussian soldiers. Winter hats should be looked at and shaken as well as furs during the summer months. There is a paste used for cleaning and polishing windows which may be bought at any first-class house furnishing store. To remove ink stains from the fingers, wash the hands, without soap, and while wet rub the stains with the sulphur of a match. The pretty, old mirrors, with pictures in the upper part of the frames, are being reproduced, and are sold at very reasonable prices. When silk has become flimsy and has lost its gloss it may be restored by sponging with a solution of half an ounce of gum tragacanth. When you have the floor mopped, add to each pail of water two tablespoonfuls of carbolic acid. It leaves the wood in a sweet and healthy condition. 51st Street and Armour Avenue... Residence, 5045 Michigan Boul., CHICAGO. RENFROE BROS. Dealers in WOOD, COAL, FEED AND ICE. 137 West Forty-Seventh St. CHICAGO. NOTARYPUBLIC Teelphone Wentworth 671 OTTO V. MUELLER Real Estate, Renting, Loans ... Insurance ... 910 W. 63d st. (near Halsted) CHICAGO. DR. H. C. FAULKNER, Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE: 6258 HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. Office Hours: Phone 818 Went 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m 6 to 7:30 p. m. TELEPHONE EXPRESS 472. 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. Prompt Attention given to Calls at Your Residence or Place of Business. 5012 Fifth Avenue. Chicago Estimates and Specif- cations Furnished ... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. Telephone 819 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4098 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Hours: 8-10 a. m., 3-4, 6-8 p. m. LARGE FEES OF DOCTORS. Distinguished Men Have Paid Their The doctor who charged the estate of the late Christopher Magee of Pittsburg $180,000 for attendance upon the deceased millionaire has been roundly abused from one end of the country to the other, and yet his bill was not extortionate when compared with others of a similar nature. The length of time involved in the service, as well as the other sacrifices, have much to do with forming a just opinion as to the bill. When Samuel J. Tilden died his physician, Dr. Charles E. Simmons, presented a bill for daily attendance during seven years and eleven months, which the papers of the day said aggregated $143,000, a report which neither Dr. Simmons nor the trustees would contradict. Jay Gould paid his physician, Dr. Munn, $15,000 a year, sick or well, and thus his heirs escaped a postmortem surprise. Dr. George F. Shrady records in a magazine article a physician's fee of $87,000 for attending a millionaire's daughter for two months, another of $60,000 for attendance on a yachting cruise of less than six months, and $25,000 for a flying trip from New York to San Francisco. Cases almost without number might be cited of rich men who have had similar bills presented to them. In many cases they have been protested, but it is quite likely that most millionaires reflect that eminent service is often bestowed by kind-hearted physicians upon the poor for nothing. In some countries the most eminent practitioner, who would not scruple to tax the nobility a small fortune for service, dares not refuse a summons from a beggar unless he can furnish good excuse. Otherwise he is open to the charge of the manslaughter if the patient dies of neglect. The Chinese have a very ingenious arrangement. In China if the patient is restored to health the doctor can collect a reasonable fee. But if the patient dies under his treatment he is not allowed to collect anything. Before a foreigner can become a citizen of the United Kingdom he must have resided in Britain or have been in the service of the crown for five years. Having this qualification, and having also the intention of residing or serving under the crown, he may apply to the home secretary for naturalization. Minnesota's public printer is a hustler. He beat all records this year by publishing 495 laws, passed by the state legislature, within forty-eight hours after the legislature adjourned. A. D. GASH, Attorney at Law. 84 and 88 La Salle St., Suite 615 to 619. Telephone, Main 3077. Chicago. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 80 2. Clark Street, - - CHICAGO TEL. HARRISON 51. Thomas F. Scully, 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: 2533 Harrison. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STRMET, CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Tel. M. 2625. EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 260 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2583. CHICAGO. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington Sts. TELEPHONE MAIN 1782. 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. ADVERTISED THEIR BLISS. Cruel Joke Perpetrated Upon a Newly Married Philadelphia Couple Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Miller of Philadelphia passed their honeymoon in Washington and returned to their home on a recent Saturday. The house in which they are to reside was prepared for their homecoming during their absence and their many friends were likewise prepared. As the cab drove up to the house a blare from a frozen coaching horns aroused the quiet neighborhood. The din was deafening, but it did not satisfy the jokers. Headed by the "Eight W's Pinochle club," the friends of the young couple cheered and blew their horns strenuously as they marched up and down before the house. Mr. Miller and his bride finally escaped into the house, but their friends followed with the horns. The noise ceased only when supper was spread and late at night the serenaders departed after a farewell blast. The neighbors then left their posts at the half-open shutters, glad that it was all over. So were the bridal couple. The visit of the serenaders was not entirely unexpected, and, happily, the embarrassment was past. But the jokers had reserved a trump card. While the excitement was on a member of the Pinochle club slipped into the parlor and put this placard in the window: "Just married; oh, what bliss!" Then he carefully closed the inside shutters and softly stole out of the room. Churchgoers next morning lapsed from their usual Sunday seriousness as they passed the house. A small boy occupied a stand on the sidewalk, directing attention to the sign with the air of a circus lecturer. About 11 o'clock the gaping crowd in front of the house saw a small, shapely hand seize the offending sign with a grip that made the finger nails whiten. The next moment both disappeared. A little scream of dismay was plainly audible. Then all was quiet and the crowd dispersed. A Trust in Russia. Following the precedent set in America, all the South Russian metal works have arranged to form themselves into a trust, and sixty-three different firms have agreed to a huge limited-liability company for this purpose. The effect of this trust will, of course, be an increase in prices. The Russian minister of finance may, however, have something to say with regard to the future operations of this trust. The Great Paraguay River. The Paraguay river, so called from the republic of the same name on its banks, is 1,800 miles in length. At points in its lower course it is from five to fifteen miles wide. 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 Armer Ava. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Canal 372 Fine Wines and Liquors Imported and Domestic Cigars 260 West Lake St. JIM Jas. J. McCorm SAMPLE R Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. 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. 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. NERVOUS SYSTEM IS DUAL. Development of One Set Benefits All Parts of the Hormon Body Prof. Scripture of Yale university has invented a new term, "cross-education," which he gives to the results upon the organs of the opposite side of the body from exercise of a limb or organ. The simplest instance is that a gain of 70 per cent in strength of the right hand from exercising it alone secures a gain of 50 per cent in the unexercised left hand. The law holds not only as regards strength, but also in other qualities. The fact helps to explain why in right-handed people, for instance, the left retains so much strength and expertness. The question also arises if other organs than corresponding ones may not be influenced, for example, the left foot by means of exercise of the right hand. Why are right-handed soldiers required to step off with the left foot first? Finally, the development in the defective classes of mental and moral characteristics by systematized physical instruction which teaches order, rhythm, accuracy and judgment is explained and put upon a rational basis. The claims of the manual training advocates are justified and made clear. The experiments at the Elmira reformatory thus elicit the greatest interest. How far it may be possible to educate into something like normality the weak minded, criminally inclined and even the idiotic becomes an important study. Prof. Scripture calls this "the principle of character building by motor activity." Holy Wine Long Preserved In the famous cellars of the Hotel de Ville, at Bremen, there are a dozen cases of holy wine, which have been preserved for 250 years. A merchant figures that if the cost of maintaining the cellars, payment of rent, interest upon the original value of the wine and other incidental charges are considered, a bottle of this choice Madeira has cost not less than $2,000,-000, each glassful $270,000, and a single drop could not be sold without loss under $200.—New York Press. --- NOTICE. WANTED GEORGE Cormick, E ROOM TT, CHICAG0. CURLY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT BY THE TAKEN FROM LIVE. BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW [COPRIGHTED.] 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. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and men. Elegantly perfumed. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers or we will ship you express paid one bottle for 65 cents or three for $1.40. Send postal or express money order, as we do not send goods C. O. D. With your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL. 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. WANTED. 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