The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. SIDE LIGHTS ON THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSI- On more than one occasion it has been stated by us that it is not a very pleasant task for us to criticise the actions of those who are duly delegated to participate in meetings or conventions like the National Negro Business League, but we honestly believe it is the solemn duty of someone to take the bull right by the horns in an earnest effort to point out or to show to the leading spirits of such movements, meetings or gatherings, some few of the many mistakes which are generally made by them. For some years it has fallen to our lot to closely note or watch the actions of those claiming to be the highly enlightened representatives of the Negro race, and we very much regret to say that there is not much difference or improvement today on the part of our leaders over the vulgar anr boastful so-called leaders of some twenty years ago. This shallow and vain idea on the part of our eminent race leaders was clearly impressed upon our mind while attending the sessions of the National Negro Business League, for the vast majority of those who attempted to speak upon any and all subjects devoted the greater portion of their time to laying great stress on their own personal achievements, which, to say the least, displayed very bad taste, for no man or woman who have accomplished anything worthy of surviving them beyond the grave, need not lose much time in dwelling upon it before the public, for if he, or she, is a great merchant prince, financier, inventor, writer, artist, manufacturer, educator, lawyer, doctor, large land or real estate owner, philosopher, or what not, the dear public will learn of these things without the parties themselves parading it before them. Herein lies the great difference between the white man and the Negro, if the white man becomes wealthy, or if he is successful in the world of business, or in the affairs of life, his standard of ethics is such that he cannot afford to assemble in convention and blow about his own achievements, but he will expend many thousands of dollars with the newspapers and permit them to elaborate upon his wonderful career and greatness. But the Negro spurns his newspapers aside generally speaking, when it comes to paying out any money for write-ups or for advertising in them, for he is looking for free doings in this regard, but he will travel thousands of miles for the purpose of coming together so that he can have the opportunity of turning loose his eloquence on himself. This is his crude idea of business and liberty. bird of Milwaukee, are heralded abroad by the officers of the league as firstclass business men. This would indicate that the promoters of the league have not the right conception of the term "business men." One of the saddest and most shocking scenes witnessed by us during the sessions of the league was enacted by T. Thomas Fortune, of New York. His weakness should be covered over with the thick veil of charity, but it is not always right to do so. It caused us to shudder and tremble as to the moral progress of the Negro race, when we beheld the condition of Mr. Fortune at the time he had to be ejected from the stage, or platform, and he presented a more pitiful sight in the evening, when he attempted to read his paper on "The Logic of Business." It is well known that when T. Thomas Fortune left the city in company with Prof. Washington, he was unable to climb aboard the train without the aid of several police officers. Yet, notwithstanding this and many other facts of the same nature, T. Thomas fortune is first vice-president of the National Afro-American Council, secretary of the National Afro-American Press Association, chairman of the executive committee of the National Negro Business League, although he is one of the most immoral whisky-drinking degenerates in this country. It is beyond our comprehension how Prof. Booker T. Washington can afford to tie himself to T. Thomas Fortune. An attempt was made by Ed Cooper, the notorious fraud and falsifier, and several others, to play politics. Cooper read a message from President McKinley, expressing his regret at not being able to attend the sessions of the league; then some one proposed three cheers for the President, which was intended to add to the glory of Cooper, Fortune & Co.; but President McKinley, not no member of the league, referred to the fact that during its sessions peaceful and law-abiding Negroes were shot down like criminals, driven away from their homes by the white Christians of Pierce City, Mo. The Negro race will never make any material or substantial progress until its teachers, leaders and preachers learn to seperate the dude from the real business man, the honest from the dishonest and the virtuous from the libertines. ENFORCED ECONOMY, ITS EFFECT ON MARKET. Few have any suspicion of the effect of scarcity in some products on the market, but jump to the conclusion it is high price, whereas the exact reverse may devlope. The writer, some years ago, had a never to be forgotten lesson in this. Apples had failed all over the United States except along the Missouri River in Kansas and Missouri, and parts of Nebraska and Iowa, where a mighty crop occurred—but the whole of it but as a pint to a barrel in ordinary times. We bought up orchards and shipped to places where apples ruled high, such as Denver and the far Northwest, selling some to pay the high freight per railroad. But by the next spring apples were never so cheap before. This was a puzzle. But it came from enforced economy in the use of the fruit. By mid-winter it was equal to a mighty crop. Now this is what is taking place as respects corn all over this corn belt. The saving and substitution of ground small grain at least a million bushels are saved up daily. The high price of last year left a large amount of old corn in the country. There are farmers with large supplies they hoard like gold, not even feeding an ear. If next spring don't see more old corn in reserve than ever before known, it will be wonderful. Strange, not one paper in all our cities ever seems to utter a suspicion of this effect of enforced economy on such products. HOLT. Martin Flanley, of Flanley Brothers, proprietors of the Empire House, 4141 South Halsted street, is tooming his friend John Nugent for alderman of the 80th ward. Ex-Member of the Legislature of Tennessee who speaks before the South End Sunday Club on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 1, on "The Needs and Possibilities of the Negro of the Twentieth Century." Ex-Member of the Legislature of Tennessee who speaks before the South End Sunday Club on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 1, on "The Needs and Possibilities of the Negro of the Twentieth Century." I pretend no special friendship for the Negro, but simply rise to remark that he has as much right to work in Melrose Park, Ill., as in Birmingham HON. S. Ex-Member of the Legislature of Ten End Sunday Club on Sunday after Possibilities of the Negro of the Ala. The same right to take a white man's place in Chicago that he has in Atlanta. We of the North howl long and loud about "the rights of the colored man in the South," but if he dare attempt to assert his right as an American citizen to leave the South and come to Virden or Melrose Park to improve his condition at hard labor, we greet him with shotguns. To emphasize our love, we shoot a few of him and ship the rest back. Barring the bloodhounds, this plan is a shade more barbarous than the fugitive slave law. We do this in the Republican commonwealth of Illinois, the great State of Abraham Lincoln and Lovejoy. Illinois is Republican largely by grace of the colored vote, and the Republican party is full of men who love the Negro afar off and near by about election time. These harping hypocrites denounce Southern lynchings with holy unction, but in their resolutions say nothing of the black crime for which these brutes die. When the question of guilt is settled the rape flend, whether black, yellow, brown, red or white, ought to be elevated to the first limb in sight. When a man commits that crime he forfeits all right under the law. But the colored man who attends to his own business in the South is not molested. He will yet learn that men of the Southland are his best friends. Soon as he learns to divide his vote between the two great parties, the race problem will be solved, and his rights respected in every State. The scheme to disfranchise the Negro in certain Southern States originated with shrewd Republican politicians for the purpose of dividing the white vote. They knew that soon as the fear of Negro supremacy is removed, there will be a chance to organize a white Republican party in Dixie. To this end they have taken advantage of local prejudice against giving the Negro the ballot, and the work of disfranchisement goes merrily on. The Democratic party is held The solution of the race problem does not lie in the disfranchisement of the Negro, but in division of the colored vote. The Negro ought to be able to see this. If he does not, he is doomed. If the Democratic party McELWEE. nessee who speaks before the South moon, Sept. 1, on "The Needs and Twentieth Century." fails to grasp the situation, it is also doomed. By careful investigation, the Gatling Gun has learned that a majority of stock in many of the leading newspapers of the South is held by Northern capitalists—Republicans, who will make the papers Republican when the time comes. In the light of these facts, one is not surprised to find glowing eulogies of McKinley and his imperial program in such papers as the Richmond Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Atlanta Constitution. Gradually and unconsciously the people are being prepared for the change. These papers all pose as organs of Democracy, but are constantly saying things to discredit the Democratic party before the nation. For more than a century the United States has been harassed with a race problem. Rivers of blood have been shed, and moss-grown graves, numberless as the stars, tell what this problem has cost us in treasure and tears. But the problem is still with us. The sunny South has suffered most, and ought to be the last to welcome into our political system 10,000,000 indigestible Filipinos. If capital will import cheap colored labor from the South to take the place of white union labor in the North, will it not also import cheaper Coolie labor from "our Philippine possessions" to take jobs from both the white and colored wage earner in the United States? If this is answered in the negative, here is another question: Will not American capital go to the Philippines and employ that cheap oriental labor and leave the American wage earner to his fate? The time has now arrived for the American workingman-black and white-to THINK. A picnic and pro-Boer demonstration will be given at Oswald's Grove, 52nd and Halsted streets, under the auspices of the Englewood Branch of the American Transvaal League, Saturday, Aug. 31, beginning at 2 p. m. There will be games of all kinds, addresses by prominent speakers, M. C. Schade's Brass Band will furnish the music. Entrance fee, 25 cents. Let all the friends of liberty be present on this occasion. ```markdown ``` WHEN WILL DEMOCRACY DIE? When the lion eats grass like an ox, and the fish-worm swallows the whale, when the robins knit woolen socks, and the hare is out-run by the snail; when the serpents walk upright like men, and the doodle-bugs travel like frogs, w hen the grasshoppers feed on the hen, and feathers are found on hogs; when Thomas cats swim in the air, and elephants roost on trees, when insects in summer are rare, and snuff never makes people sneeze; and fish creep over dry land, and mules on velocipedes ride, when foxes lay eggs in the sand, and women in dress take no pride; when Dutchmen no longer drink beer, and the girls get to preaching on time, when Billygoats butt from the rear, and treason no longer is crime; when humming birds bray like an ass, and Limburger smells like cologne, when shingles are made out of glass, and our bread proves to be only stone; when ideas grow in Populists' heads, and wool on the hydraulic ram—then the Democratic party will be dead, and this country won't be worth a d—m. -Selected. CHIPS James J. McNarney has removed his sample room from 4189 South Halsted street, around the corner on 42d street, right near the postoffice, and his new location is all O. K. for business. Eugene Burkins, the young Afro-American inventor, who supplied the United States government with Burkins' rapid fire gun, died in the city of New Orleans a short time ago. For the first time since 1860 the white population of Louisiana exceeds the colored population. By the census of 1900 the whites have about 75,000 majority. Alderman Henry L. Fick did not leave the city during the heated term, but on the contrary he remained at home and looked after the interests of his constituents. Mr. Pool, who for many years has been connected with the Stock Yards Daily Sun, will very shortly start a new weekly Republican paper for himself in the Town of Lake. Success to Mr. Pool. Attorney Israel Cowen, who made such a splendid run last year for one of the judges of Cook County, is at present on his vacation in the East, and he will return to the city on Sept. 15. A debt contracted by our government in 1779 during the Revolutionary War was recently paid. The original claim was $400, but when paid the principal and accrued interest amounted to $12,906.20. Alderman Charles J. Boyd and family are at home to their many friends from their vacation, and from now on the alderman will devote some of his time to repairing his aldermanic fences. James H. Mercer, a white man, was hanged at Tampa, Fla., last week, he being the first white person to be legally strung up in that part of Florida since 1858. He was charged with assaulting a little girl only nine years old. Mrs. Carrie Brown, 4938 Dearborn street, entertains the Linen Club, No. 1. at a social on Wednesday evening, Sept. 4, for the benefit of Provident Hospital. Admission, 10 cents. Ample preparation are being made to entertain all who attend this social. A national convention of Negro bankers, the first of its kind ever held in this country, is being arranged to be held at Buffalo on Sept. 26. The prime mover of this undertaking is John Clinton, president of the First Colored Bank, north of Philadelphia. Witchcrafty, it has been recently learned, is still being practiced in the mountains of North Carolina, and that too, to an alarming extent. No wonder the Democratic voters of North Carolina think the Negro too ignorant to vote intelligently.—Ex. United States Senator William E. Mason is already at work in arranging and maping out his campaign for NO. 45. his re-election to the United States Senate, and Senator Mason feels sure that he will lay out Gasboodler Dawen and all his other rivals. Justice John Fitzgerald continues to grind away at his justice mill, and it can be said in his favor that he endeavors to deal fairly with all who approach his throne of grace. The Broad Ax still favors Justice Fitzgerald for one of the judges of Cook County. Alderman George Leininger, 16th ward, has a host of friends who would like to see him become health commissioner of Chicago, for Dr. Leininger, who so ably assists Alderman Stanley Kunze to represent the people of the 16th ward in the city council, is well qualified for that position. The colored man writes the "coon" song, the colored singer sings the "coon" song, the colored race is compelled to stand for the belittling and ignemy of the "coon" song, but the money from the "coon" songs flows with ceaseless activity into the white man's pockets. According to the newspapers reports Mayor Carter H. Harrison will train his guns to secure the United States Senatorship prize, instead of endeavring to succeed Major McKinley as President of the United States. Mayor Harrison's change of front as to his future political actions will be a sad blow to the politicians, for many of them were already figuring on becoming members of his cabinet. During the "dark Democratic days" of 1895 the Republican organs shed barrels of bitter ink over the woes of the woolgrowers, who had been "ruined" by free wool. But in August, 1895, medium grade wool was quoted at from 16 to 24 cents on the Boston market. Wool is now "protected" to the limit, yet strange to say medium grade wool in August of 1901 is quoted on the Boston market at from 11 to 17 cents. Has the Dingley law slipped another cog? Before Ed Cooper left for Washington, D. C., he promised to call on us and turn over to us the sum of eight dollars and thirty-five cents, but he, like many other would-be leaders of the Negro race, failed to keep his word. If Cooper would have brought his trunk along with him, we would have attached it for the money which he owes us, but he only brought with him two old shirts and three worn-cut collars, and they were worth nothing to us. Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock the South End Sunday Club opens up at St. Mark's Church, 47th and State streets. First on the program for this date is an instrumental solo by Miss Marion Berry; vocal solo, Miss Pearl Renfroe; vocal duet, Misses Lillian and Alma Floyd; address, S. A. McElwee, exmember of the Legislature of Tennessee, subject: "The Needs and Possibilities of the Negro of the 20th Century"; instrumental duet, Arthur and Albert Dunham. The last issue of The Broad Ax was so warm that it caused Mr. Edward Lahiff, head of Mayor Harrison's office, to become so hot in the collar that he picked up the copy which we handed to him and to show his contempt for it and us he threw it on the floor. While The Broad Ax was engaged in praising Mayor Harrison, Mr. Lahiff thought it was the greatest and the best Democratic newspaper in Chicago, but now he thinks otherwise; so it all depends upon whose ox is gored. Lleut. Peter J. Joyce and Officers Tracy and Cramer have had their inning before the Civil Service Commissioners, and the general opinion seems to prevail that they will be found guilty of dividing up the $75.80 among themselves, which was obtained from the State in the Larkins case. Col. A. D. Gash made a powerful and eloquent plea for his client, Lieutenant Joyce, and the lieutenant has many friends who would like to see him exonerated from these charges. Capt. L. P. Colleran denied point blank, on the witness stand, that he had received $10 as his portion of the fraudulent expense account. Will promulgate and as all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Formerly, National, Protestant, Knights of Tabor, Indiana, Missouri, Republica, Priests, or any he also can have their say, no long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose printers is broad enough for all, ever claiming the distorted right to speak its own mind. Qty. Year..... 99.90 Month..... 1.20 * Advertising makes money known on combination, affirm all commitments* Paris supplies free of cost sulphurous baths to all persons engaged in handling lead. Green is recommended for bathing dresses, because it harmonizes with a tanned skin "and the emerald and sapphire of the ocean." Matilde Weber, who recently died at Tubingen, age seventy-two, was one of the pioneers in south Germany in the movement for securing greater privileges for women. Nathan Church, a man of scholarly attainments, and a colleague of Bialne in the Maine legislature, is now working as street cleaner in Minneapolis at a salary of $1.50 a day. In France the interest charge on the public debt is $200,000,000 a year, a per capita of over $5. In the United States the interest charge is less than $80,000,000 a year, a per capita of 9 cents. Canada's exports of bacon to Britain last year amounted to 135,000,000 pounds, as against 4,000,000 pounds in 1889. This vast increase is, no doubt, greatly due to the preferential trade established. At a recent college occasion in India, Lord Curzon, the viceroy, told the young people "to be without education in the twentieth century would be as if a knight of the feudal ages had been stripped of helmet, spear and coat of mail." It is a curious fact that in 1790 the Turkish government prohibited the export of Angora kid skins on the ground that the trade threatened to extinguish the Angora goat; but these animals are now more numerous than ever, and their usefulness is far more widely recognized than was the case a century ago. The testament of Mrs. Eliza Potter, wife of Bishop Henry C. Potter, who died June 29, was filed at the surrogate's office in New York, a few days ago. It was written by Mrs. Potter on June 20, and is the shortest will ever filed there. It contains but one sentence, bequeathing her entire estate of $50,000 to her husband. As a sign of the care with which American officers pay regard to local sentiment, attention is called to the act of Capt. Michael, who had charge of the recent execution of six murderers in Manila. He chose a position where the condemned men faced the east, and before they dropped they had one last look at the morning sun, which is so dear to the Oriental. On a recent Sunday a thousand members of a Roman Catholic congregation in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, signed a pledge of total abstinence from intoxicating drinks. The priest who preached the sermon of the occasion said: "A blow has this day been struck for temperance that will be heard round the world." The Companion is glad to help on the reverberation. The United States navy continues to increase a statement by Rear-Admiral Bowles, chief of construction, recently issued, shows that there are now building, or under contract, mine cruisers, four monitors, sixteen torpedo-boat destroyers, ten torpedo-boats and seven submarine torpedo-boats. At this rate the old song will soon have to be amended to read: "Britain—and her daughter—rule the waves." A professional burglar in Berlin found a new and original way of adding to the ordinary profits of his profession. After each burglary he sent a full account of it to one of the daily newspapers, and for this he received payment in the usual way. But he tried the plan once too often. The editor became suspicious and gave information to the police, who soon found how this amateur reporter was able to beat all rivals in the way of early information. The improvement in the appearance of railroad grounds during the last few years has been more noticeable this summer than ever before. Cutting the grass around the stations, keeping the borders trimmed, planting flowers and caring for them—these are things which most of the railroads used to permit the station agents to do if they would; but the corporations themselves gave little thought and no money to it. Now the roads themselves are doing the work, on a larger scale and systematically. The improvement is general throughout the east and is making rapid progress in the west to the pleasure of those who travel and the benefit of the towns in which the stations are situated. UNIQUE UNION PACIFIC EXCURSION. The Delightful Secchery Afforded by B A unique excursion was recently arranged by the Union Pacific Railroad company. About sixty news-aper men, representing the leading metropolitan journals of the country, were invited to meet at the Brown Palace hotel, Denver, Colo., for a trip on the Wyoming division, "The Overland Route," for the purpose of viewing the stupendous engineering achievements recently made on that line. The train was made up of two private cars, three Pullman palace sleepers, a dining car, drawn by one of the new compound engines, with an observation car—constructed on the same plan as a trolley car-ahead of the engine. No more striking example is afforded of the progress of today than the gigantic undertaking of the Union Pacific. One hundred and fifty-eight and four-tenths miles of new track laid, reducing the mileage between Omaha and Ogden by 30.47 miles, and reducing gradients which varied from 45.4 to 97.68 feet to the mile to a maximum of 43.3 feet, and curves from 6 to 4 degrees, while a great deal of bad curvature has been eliminated entirely. A mountain removed and lost into a chasm; huge holes bored hundreds of feet through solid granite; an underground river encountered and overcome; an army of men, with all sorts of mechanical aids, engaged in the work for nearly a year; the great Union Pacific track between Omaha and Ogden made shorter, heavy grades eliminated, old scenery changed for new, and the business of the great Overland route flowing through a new channel, without the slightest interruption. Millions of money have been spent to reduce the grades and shorten the distance. This reduction is the result of straightening unnecessary curves, and the construction of several cutoffs between Buford and Bear river, Utah. Buford is on the eastern slope of the Black Hills, 545 miles west of Counell Bluffs and twenty-seven miles west of Cheyenne. The cutoffs required the construction of 158 miles, of which 29.63 miles are between Buford and Laramie, 15.34 miles between Howell and Hutton, saving 3.11 miles; 3.9 miles on the Laramie plains between Cooper's Lake and Lookout, saving .35 of a mile; 25.94 miles between Lookout and Medicine Bow, still further west, saving 12.03 miles; 8.15 miles between Allen Junction and Dana, saving 2.87 miles; 42.83 miles between Rawlins and Tipton, saving 1.44 miles; 10.64 miles between Green River and Bryan, saving .45 of a mile, and 21.56 miles between Leroy and Bear River, saving 9.56 miles. The curvature saved is about onehalf, the grading about the same, while the angles are reduced nearly two-thirds. The superiority of these changes is apparent to the practical railroad engineer. It is also apparent to the operating department in the reduction in operating expenses, and to the traveler in the increased speed the trains can make. The change in alignment of the line is marked. West of Buford the track ran northwestward to the Ames monument, near Sherman, and then took a sharp turn to the southwest over Dale creek, crossing it by a bridge 135 feet high—an elevation trying to the nerves—and from thence due north to Laramie. The new line runs due west from Buford, avoiding the high hills and eighty-eight-foot grade from Cheyenne, and piercing through cuts and the big tunnel, crosses the Black Hills at a grade of less than one-half (43.3 feet) over mountain altitudes. From Leroy the country is literally a coal bed. Here the new line makes another reduction and enters the Bear river valley on an easy grade. From a constructive standpoint the line is remarkable for the amount of material required in the construction of immense embankments and the building of large tunnels through solid rock. The construction of the new line between Buford and Laramie alone has involved the excavation of 500,000 cubic yards of material, one-third of which (exclusive of the tunnel excavation) has been solid rock, or something over 160,000 cubic yards per mile. Some of the embankments of the new roadbed have been remarkable for their height and the large quantities of material to construct the same over seemingly short distances. The two most difficult embankments were at Dale creek, southwest of Sherman, and across the Sherman branch of the Lone Tree creek, southeast of Sherman. The embankment at the crossing of Dale creek is 120 feet high, 900 feet long, and involved the handling of 500,000 cubic yards. At the crossing of the Sherman branch of Lone Tree creek the embankment is 125 feet high at its point of greatest height and involved the handling of over 290,000 cubic yards. Too much credit for this work cannot be given to Horace G. Burt, president of the Union Pacific railroad, for boldness of conception of these improvements; for ability to convince the company of the wisdom of the outlay, and following the necessary appropriation by the company, for the execution of the work in a phenomenally short time. Deputiding his lieutenants, Mr. E. Dickinson, general manager, and Mr. J. B. Berry, chief engineer, to commence and complete the work, under their direction the contractors assembled a large army of laborers and gathered a vast array of modern machinery, much of which was used for the first time in railroad building. Thus, without stopping for a day the ceaseless flow of an enormous traffic, the Union Pacific officials in less than two years completed a great work which ordinarily would have required five years. The excursion was replete with many interesting incidents, and the splendid hospitality of the Union Pacific officials was a revelation. The newspaper men evinced their appreciation in many ways, particularly in a resolution of thanks to the Union Pacific officials, Messrs. Lomax, Darlow, Para and Griffin, while the train was stopping near the Devil's Slide in picturesque Weber canyon. IS MYSTERIOUS THIBET TO BE OPENED TO THE WORLD? CARTE VIEJA DE LA CASA DE MAYORAL ONLY AUTHENTIC PICTURE OF LHASA, "THE FORBIDDEN CITY." (From a sketch by a native artist.) The presence in St. Petersburg of a mission of four high officials of Thibet, the first representatives of that practically unknown country to visit Europe, and the announcement that the Dalal Llama, ruler of Thibet, has been persuaded to himself visit Russia, is looked upon as indicating that the barriers which have closed the white man out of "The Forbidden Land" will soon be let down to civilization. A Buria from Transbaigalia, named Akhorambo Atchwan Dorschieff, who has gained the favor of the Dalai Llama of Thibet, came to Livadia last October and was received by the Emperor. He returned to Thibet and succeeded in persuading the Dalai Llama to send a special mission to St. Petersburg to open friendly relations with this country. This mission has arrived under the guidance of Dorshieff, and has been received by Count Lamsdorff. It consists of four persons, one of whom is the Dalai Llama's second secretary. It brings an autograph letter from the Regent of Thibet to the Czar. The Russian newspapers attach much importance to this journey, and no doubt properly. It marks another step in the extension of Russian influence toward the Indo-Chinese possessions of France. The Russians regard the establishment of a chain of communications across the rear of the Indian Empire and the permanent isolation of India from the Yang-tse-Kiang valley as practically assured. The present is the first opportunity that Russia has had to make overtures to Thibet—for, although it is a country of 651,500 square miles, with a population estimated at over 6,000,000, it is an unknown land except to the few intrepid adventurers who have explored it at great personal risk. The country is in central Asia, bounded on the north by the Kwenlum Mountains, on the ONLY AUTHENTIC PICTURE OF I (From a sketch b east by China proper, on the south by the almost impassable Himalaya Mountains, and on the west by Kashmir. The mountain range on the south separates Thibet from British India, and Eastern Turkestan separates it from Russia. The country, which became subject to China early in the seventeenth century, contains the sources of the Yang-tse-Kiang, the Indus, and other large rivers, and the country is for the most part a high tableland. The reasons why Thibet should be called "The Unknown Land" have been reinforced and more vividly impressed upon the Western mind within the last two years by the bloodcurdling narrative of torture which was brought back to his government by Savage Landor in 1899. Mr. Landor's experiences also serve to remind the world at large that, unlike any other country, even in Asia, at the present day, Thibet is under what may be said to correspond in some fashion to the Christian idea of theocracy—a government in which the religious hierarchy also wields despotic temporal power. Such as it is, the religion of the country is the prime motive of all its life, whether for good or evil. "I have lounged through Asia Minor, lived in almost every country in Europe, ransacked India from Comorin to the Himalayas, and become fairly well acquainted with China," said a veteran Scotch traveler, "but nowhere in the world have I seen a people so wrapped up in what they considered to be religion as in Thibet." This religion, with the always necessary Asiatic exception of certain Mohammedans in the western parts, is a highly idolatrous corruption of Buddhism. But, in order to get a reasonably lively conception of the peculiarities and the intensity of Thibetan Buddhism, some idea of the country itself is necessary. The bulk of Thibet is the Chang, or Great Thibetan Plateau, the highest, as well as the largest, tableland on the earth. As to area, it occupies all the central and northern and most of the western sections of the country. An idea of its elevation may best be obtained from the statement of Captain Hamilton Bower, one of the most highly regarded of recent authorities, from the end of June until the middle of November the average altitudes of our camps was over 16,000 feet, the lowest being 14,021, and the highest ```markdown ``` ( 18,760 feet." Of the climate the same explorer says: "No amount of woolen clothes will keep out the wind on the Chang, so skins must be taken." During the period already referred to the enormous stretch of country crossed by Captain Bower's party did not show a single tree, and only two species of shrubs, and these rarely exceeded six inches in height. They found a large number of flowering plants and grasses, however, while for variety the landscape, both on the Chang and elsewhere, is diversified in many places by gigantic masses of rock and terrific precipices. This is, in fact, what is poetically known in Asia as the "Roof of the World," and at the southwest corner of it, at Gilgit, on the borders of Kashmir, is the place "Where Three Empires Meet," the title of Mr. Knight's work. The hideousness or sublimity—according to the view one takes—of nature on the Chang, and in other parts of Thibet, is not left to itself. As in the Tyrol and other Catholic countries one sees wayside crosses and picturesque shrines, so in Thibet, only far more frequent, are the huge rock-cut images which are supposed to represent the Buddha, the "chortens" or monuments of a religious character, and inscriptions, large and small, cut in the rocks, of prayers and sacred sentinels. As one tramps along a Thibetan road, it is said, any stone against which the weary foot stumbles may be found on examination to bear the inscription, "Om mani padmi, Om" (O! Thou Jewel in the Lotus, O!), a devout aspiration which, in a slightly altered form, will be familiar to readers of Sir Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia." Ever since the days of Marco Polo, who entered Thibet in the fifteenth century as the envoy of Venice, Thibet has been famed as the nursery of East- LHASA, "THE FORBIDDEN CITY." by a native artist.) ern magic. Marco Polo tells in his book of travels weird stories of magic wrought before his eyes and those of his companions at the table of a personage whom he calls the Kham. It was Marco Polo, too, who told of the "ladder trick" and so earned for himself the reputation of a splendid liar through twenty generations, until, early in the nineteenth century, the same ladder trick was performed again and again in India and was circumstantially recorded by Dr. Norman McLeod. Psychologists of a material bent explain many of these marvels nowadays by hypnotic suggestion; but many Western followers of Buddhist occultism still associate Thibet with the great Mahatmas. How far the sublimely intellectual cult of Gautama's stricter followers corresponds with the religion of the Thibetans may, perhaps, be gathered from Mr. Knight's account of the ceremonies which he was fortunate enough to witness at Himis. One of the most striking features of the whole day's celebration was its remarkable resemblance here and there to the ancient ceremonial of the Catholic Church, a resemblance which has led many pious persons, since Marco Polo's first account, to trace in these proceedings the handiwork of Satan. It is also curious to notice the close parallelism between this and the extant accounts of some of the graver "miracle plays" of medieval Europe. After a long account of the preliminaries Mr. Knight proceeds: "Under a canopy borne by attendants walked a tall form in beautiful silk robes, wearing a large mark representing a benign and peaceful face. As he advanced men and boys, dressed as abbots and acolytes of the Church of Rome, prostrated themselves before him, and adored him with intoning and pleasing chanting. He was followed by six other marks, who were treated with similar respect. These seven delfted beings drew themselves in a line and received the adoration of several processions of masked figures, some of abbots, and others beast headed, or having the faces of devils. Throughout the day, even during the above solemn act of worship, certain Yamas, masked as comic devils, performed all manner of buffoonery, bursting into peals of insane laughter each time that --- one played some monkey trick on another. "Again there came a change. The solemn chanting ceased, and then rushed on the scene a crowd of wan shapes, almost naked, with but a few dark rags about them, as if they were shivering with cold. They wrung their hands despairingly and rushed about in a confused way, as if lost, starting from each other in terror when they met, sometimes feeling about them with their outstretched hands like blind men, and all the while whistling in long drawn notes which rose and fell like a strong wind on the hills. The sudden onrushing of these wildly whistling shapes occurred at frequent intervals during the ceremony. The change from one phase of this curious mummery to another was always startling abrupt. One never knew when some peaceful anthem and stately dance of holy figures would be suddenly interrupted by the clashing discord of cymbals and trumpets and the whirling torrent of shrieking fiends. "At one period of the ceremony a holy man with an Archbishop's miter on his head advanced, to the beautiful chanting of men and boys, the basses, trebles, and tenors taking successive parts in solo and chorus. * * * This holy man blessed a goblet of water by laying his hands on it and intoning some prayer or charm. Then he sprinkled the water in all directions, and the defeated demons stald their shrieking, dancing, and infernal music and gradually crept out of the arena, and no sound was heard for a time but the sweet singing of the holy choir." BREAKS FORCE OF THE WAVES. Matresses are Strung Together to Protect Ocean Beaches. At many of the favorite seaside summer resorts in this country the beaches are from time to time ravaged by wild storms, and hitherto no adequate method of protecting them against such onslaughts has been discovered. As a result the cottagers may awake any morning and find that the pleasant strand on which they strolled during the previous evening has, during the night, been eaten away by the hungry waves. Now, however, an ingenious inventor has devised a method for the protection of such beaches, a method which, he is confident, will prove effective. It consists of a number of mattresses, which are formed of fibrous material and which are held together by means of warps and bars. The mattresses, thus connected, are laid on the beach, the warps and bars being placed in such a manner that the long, fibrous covering is kept stiff and immovable. As a further safeguard, however, stronger fastenings are placed here and there, and by means of these the mattresses are anchored firmly to the beach. The mattresses are arranged lengthwise in the direction of the current, and the warps and bars are arranged diagonally. The object is to break the force of the waves and prevent them from wreaking their full fury on the beach. Experiments, it is said, prove that a protection of this kind is useful for such a purpose. A Revered Victualer Few publicans take as much interest in the welfare of their clients as does Mrs. Mary Lee of the Beehive, White Waltham, near Maidenhead, England, who is the oldest licensed victualer in Berks, and who recently celebrated her jubilee as a dispenser of ale. As long as her strength and eyesight permitted, it was her habit every Sunday evening to carry her ponderous family Bible into the taproom, place it reverently on the table, the visitors making room for it by pushing their beer-jugs to one side, and to read a chapter to the assembled company, who always uncovered while the sacred book was in the apartment. The frequenters of the Beehive greatly respected the old lady for her efforts to give them moral instruction, and although her occasional comments might not commend themselves to the followers of what is called the higher criticism, they were homely and to the point. Mrs. Lee also displays in the taproom a notice intimating that any one using impolite language or singing songs of a risky tendency, would be promptly expelled. Altogether, the venerable lady seems to be a model licensed victualer. Iron Scarce In Philippines Iron, we are told, is wanted in the Philippines for the manufacture of tools, farming implements, building trimmings, weapons, and hundreds of other articles. The wheelwrights are looking everywhere for iron with which to repair and construct vehicles. The mining engineers are paying large sums of money for pieces of old iron for use in the various mining enterprises, says Cassier's Magazine. Owners of sugar cane crushing machinery, proprietors of machine shops, and shipbuilder are offering all sorts of prices for iron, steel, and other metals. Yet it is almost an impossibility to buy iron in the islands. Native machine workers produce hundreds of different kinds of metal implements and parts of machinery from old vehicle springs and wagon tires. The average yield of potatoes in the United States is about 100 bushels to the acre. Under half-way decent treatment this average could easily be made 200 bushels. Lots of men who imagine they are public spirited citizens will not hear their names announced when the roll of honor is called. AGE OF MICROBES SCIENTISTS TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE RHEUMATISM MICROBE. Present-Day Investigators Do Not Attribute Acute Inflammatory Rheumatism to the Same Organism as Do Their Predecessors—NewlyFound Diplococcus. This Woman Enjoys Mosquitoes. A woman of New Britain, Conn., who is a Christian Scientist, maintains that mosquitoes have brains and reasoning powers, that it is "outrageous" to kill the "little harmless insects," and that all that is necessary is to reason with them. She says: "If a mosquito is troubling you just speak to him kindly and say, 'Look here, my friend, you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.' Then believe that he won't bite you! Even if he does his sting won't hurt. I have done this for years and now enjoy having the pretty little things around and listening to their musical buzz." revs eh oF foams =), si Pied ste he ea ao oman sutside the exclusive inner circle a con aan pappenings in-which. the mames of princes and princesses, lords, dukes, gochesses and others high in the ac- a: <a terest ; as- Sat, however, Seated “a: peultion the Sav erly Be risen, be tr es are d sins with which those Jess favored by birth are beset. The latest sensation, which has.set ell London talking, has been furnished by & womian whose op- erations with all sorts of men, peers, generals, dignitaries of tne church and diplomats, stamp her as possessed of an unusual lack of good morals as well as an unusual power over those whom she wishes to gratify her desires. She is Mrs. Howard Ei daughter of Sir Henry. Wolff, and she has had a career. On the flimsiest pretexts she has induced men whose shrewdness in the business worl. has made their names prominent in the circles of trade to.loan her vast sums of money, and when they ap- pealed to the courts to reimburse them she would laugh them to scorn. Mrs. Kingscote courts a sensation, and to produce one will resort. to elmost any means. Now she has turned her hterary ability to account and has published a book in which she holds ber dupes up *o ridictle. As among them are Lord Byron, Lo>d Burton and the Duke of Cambridge, the publi- cation has produced more than a rip- ple in the social sea. Has an Extraordinary Power. ‘Mrs. Kingscote bas an ex-raordinary power, her victims claiming it to be an hypnotic influence, which gives her, it would seem, complete control over another's faculties and compels him to do her bidding. This, it is claimed, she er observation im the east, and tf due partly to-atavism. Her paternal grandfather, Joseph Wolff, was a He- Pa =~ «4 \ eee g be 5 eens . sth or , ‘ < he. | I, f | | brew by birth and faith. Becoming converted to Christianity, he volun- teered a8 a missionary to serve in In- dia. Many years he passed in the northern mountain ranges of india, and there be acquired that mysterious eastern knowledge of forcing men and women todo his will,.an art of which Europe and America possess only 4 very small knowledge under the name of hypnotism. Wolff was a man whose face was unattractive, body misshap- en, and general appearance repulsive. Yet, presumably by the exercise of his will power, he compelled the daugh- toot ee ee Se most gifted, beautiful wealthy debutantes of the year, to Ixy beth her hand and fortune at his feet. As & result of their union two sons were born, the elder of whom is em- ployed as porter in @ dry goous house at Tallahassee, Fla. The other son is Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, who is lomate 4m the service of Great Britain two. Or Kf Drammonéd Wolff, who, for conduct unbecoming and officer and gentleman, was turned out of the British army, and the ether is the most extraordin- ary adventures, Mrs. Kingscote, bee posann omnes ast asa and ths.st vera] books and emt os epg nage pppoe: money she could gain possession of by t means was not suf el ae ae eee aw “tobe went to parice rich tn worldly a ne-ee eeere and the power ber victime claim aha ie posed te Be = of MS eee Rak Ne aa eR gee e oie - Z a ‘enotmous profits, The was the manufacture of boots el Substances by a process ieee "Wy, her Behar, ch she said the United States had St once advanced the money for ‘Gnd then he was dropped. _ Two. other vittims are a couple of Glergymien, rectors of large end popu- Jous parishes in the county of Oxford, ‘S04 who, as the pastors and spiritual ‘Mentors of men of every degree must Certainly possess some knowledge of the world. In each case they are men Beater 60 than 50, and, what is more, Sre married and have families, Yet , ved Boclally and ec- Slesiastically, for the ‘sake of this ex- traordinary women, who was in the “habit, according to their own account, cin. most contemptuous manner, fhe Sums which Mrs. Kingscote has ‘Obtained from these three mature men of the world, either in the form of gifts, loans that were never meant to ‘de returned, or else bills signed by them and which she got discounted, ‘Smount in round numbers to over $1,- 000,000; and it is asserted by those in & position to know that this constitut- ed only a moiety of the sums which ‘she bas abstracted from people in all parts of the world during the last 15 @r twenty years by means of her hyp- otic eyes and mysterious powers up- on the wills of others. An Army Captsin Duped. Mrs. Kingscote’s hypnotic power is attested to in most positive terms by Capt. William Adams, of the Fifth Lancers, British army. The way he ‘was worked upon by Mrs. Kingscote ‘was as follows: The edventuress had among ber many tools Mrs, Mary Stephanie Drummond Wolff, her broth- ers widow. In 1894 this woman was on the verge of bankruptcy, and by ber written confession, had committed numerous crimes at the instigation and for the benefit of Mrs. Kingscote. Her creditors becoming importunate, she was hard pressed, when Mrs. Kingscote, to save her for future use, resolved to get some one to marry her. Sne was introduced to Capt. Adams and selected him as her victim. Invit- ing him to dinner, she told the cap- tam of her charming sister-in-law and, ‘with tears in her eyes, informed him that the only thing that could save her from ruin was an immediate mar- Tage, The captain was completely in her power before dinner was over and ‘yowed that, io oblige her, he would marry the women whom he had never seen. He did, and when he came to his:senses found bimself in a sad predicament. Divorces in England can be secured only on statutory grounds, but Mrs. Kingscote volunteer- ed to help him-out fora monetary consideration. Her husbana was to figure as co-respondent in tue case, and also to be well paid for his serv- ices, Capt. Adams agreed to the terms and went to his regiment in India ¢ free man but minus a fortune. Hypnotized the Court. Wforts were made to bring Mrs. Kingscote to justice, but she seemed to exercise & power over the courts also and treated with contempt the Court of Bankruptcy and summonses to ap- pear for examination in connection with several of her crooked transac- tions. The dupes referred to are believed to form only 2 very few of those who have fallen victims to Mra. Kingscote’s | Biforts were made to bring Mrs. Kingscote to justice, but she seemed to exercise & power over the courts also -and_treated with contempt the Court of Bankruptcy and summonses to ap- pear for examination in connection with several of her crooked transac- tions. The dupes referred to are believed to form only 2 very few of those who have fallen victims to Mrs. Kingscote's mysterious influence. She dealt with all manner of men, their possession of wealth being the only consideration she exacted. Her complete confidence in her pow- er to control. men's actions is shown by -her invariable practice of writing mean, insulting letters to those slice ‘had beaten. Now, as a crowning in- sult, she has put upon the market a book in which are portrayed, so thin- ly veiled that any one at all familiar with her proceedings may recognize the characters, the dupes she desires to ‘Bold up to the world’s ridicule. Her ‘book is being widely read and com- mented upon and serves to establish er still more firmly in the minds of society as 2 woman of depraved mor- als whose possession of an infiuenca beyond the ken of western intellects makes her a dangerous factor in the affairs of mankind, and one who should be shunned by society of all classes. Carelessness Was Latky. Bernard Lauth went to work in a Pittsburg rolling mill when he was Ti years. oid, and at 30, by industry and frugality, he had become manager and part owner of a small iron plant One day, in etamining some iron which, it was thought, a careless work- man had spoiled in rolling, be found, to bis surprise, that the supposed worthless iron was superior in many reapects to that produced by the best equipped mills, says Success. Lauth said nothing, but at once began to search for the cause of the singular Ses ant Ae wertepeet cee ments, and his ; careless- sean. ate Went 8 Recah aes i SET ant in = few ‘bad grown into ema aan de 24 ————————$=—$— Se Sr ae Pn ; ‘Cetieets Suerting Books. e 7. Suffern ‘Taller. of New York js said to have the best library of books = ridtog tae. this coun try. NOT AS GRD AS THEY LOOKED. Qugilihinaas Use of a Word Mids Rim Beem Veuigar. An wapublished episode of the lat: weet ae et Ary in 1883-4 is interesting In that shows that, while many American ‘show bad manners abroad, some Eng- 4 Bre equally guiity of a lack o. them when away from home. In 1883-4 Matthew Arnold jectured in this coun- try. He brought with him bis daugh ter. At Baltimore they visited the fam fly Of the late Mr. Whittfedge, a rich ship owner, to whom the Arnolds hac ‘been very polite in England. At the Dreakfast there were buckwheat cakes In those days the buckwheat cake did ‘Rot look as it does now It was a thick, soggy, indigestibie looking mass, ‘Dut it was good to the taste. A Stranger. it can be said for the dis- tinguished Englishman, was excusable for looking on it with suspicion. When the cakes were passed the daughter refused them Mr. Arnold took one, to be polite, and ‘found it good. So when they were again passed to hix daughter he said: “You bad better take some, danghter; they are not balf so naxty ax they look.” An Englishman, in defending Mr Ar- Bold, said that he used the word as it is used in England. where it bas not ‘the same meaning «8 it bas here. — New York Times. B& Ron's Nerotion. Wallace. Mich. August 26th:--A striking example of a men’s dutiful and attentive care of his mother is seen in Mr. Oscar Swanson-of this place Mr, Swanson’s mother has suffered much with Kidney and Urinal Trouble and Female Weakness Her son bas sought owt and procured for her every- thing that be thought could possibly benefit her. She did not Improve, till at last he Dought ber a box of Dodd's Kidney Pilla, {n a few days she was complete- ly cured. and her faithful son bas the reward for his loving efforts. in the knowledge that sbe is now strong and weil. : BD Qeeslian hiftantfireapiat. ‘The will of a Moscow capitalist, M. Solodovnikoff, bequeathing large sums for educationa! purposes, was recently approved by the Russian courts after a hard legal struggle. The relatives re- ceive modest allowances.. The re- mainder of the estate, estimated at $10,710,000. is to be divided into three parts, of which two will form funds for the establishment of elementary and professional schools in the govern- ments of Cologda, Archangel and Tyer, and the third will be devoted to the erection of workingmen's dwellings in Moscow. The rent for each family is not to exceed about $2.50 a month. The Parrot Wea Watehing. . - A correspondent writes: “I was vis- iting a friend some time ago and nat- urally in due time wished to take a bath, so, having let a goodly supply of water into the tub, in 1 stepped, with much pleasure at the prospect of a de- lightful sernb, when a most matter-of- fact voice said, “Going to take a bath?” My heart stood still with ter- ror, and, vainly endeavoring to stretch my washrag to the dimensions of a sheet, I glared wildly around and saw a parrot placidly blinking at me from his cage in the window.” Damb Friends May He Our Equal. ‘We shall respect onrselves none the jess if we find animals are nearer to us intellectnally than is generally sup- ‘posed. About 100 start men have Deen credited with the ssying: “The amore I see of men the better I like dogs.” There fs much truth fn the saying, that there are some men in ‘this world whom anima!s would prob- ably be sshamed to recognize as equals. Let us wait on the scientists. ‘They may teach us much that will be helpful.—Philadeiphia Enquirer, Here ts a recipe for little chocolate biseult that are nice for 5 o'clock tea: Melt half 2 pound of butetr in a large ‘basin over hot water and stir in grad- nally, ip the foliowing order, two beat- ‘eggs, half a pound of white sifted , two large tablespoonfuls of eo- es Sloe conse ae Sprinkle the whole a heaped teaspoonful of ‘baking powder, roll out thin, cut into -Discuits about the size of a wine glass ‘and bake on a buttered tin in a quick Oven about ten minutes. , Bap on Music. Paris and Limoges both have laws which the brain workers of many Brit- Aah towns will ceeply envy. In Paris ‘BO street music is allowed after 9 @’clock in the summer and ¢ in the winter, while in Limoges bells must Bot b> rung before 6 in winter or 5 ‘on summer mornings. os ; SPSL RE serenstnr ssn aaa teaaiaataataates oneness Melt a cake of pure olfve oll soap in g@ quart of boiling water. This will make almost a jelly. Take about two tablespoonfuls of this jelly and a piece of common washing soda about the gize of a filbert; mix the two together, _and, after wetting the hair, rub thor- oughly in. Ss a remedy for red bands, :rub’this paste on them at night and wear loose gioves: Beat togetber one cunte of lear honey, an ounce of almsond“olf, the juice of a lemon, and the yolk of @ Taw ess “i gee A nd dad ,chlorate of potash, forms a mixture of great intensity, = peers In Paris cabmen are not allowed to gmoke while dtiving, wee Mi all Stores, or by Mail for the price. BALL & RUCKEL, How York. A young minister, recently settled over a Massachusetts parish, has al- Sewer eset a ® comparative term. His parishioners are scattered over a iarge area, and he has not yet seen them all, although he has made as many calls as bis other duties permit. His round brought him one day to the house of a little old lady who was nearly eighty-five and bedridden. She was delighted to see him, and when he Tose to go, after a long call, she told him bow much p‘easure be had given her. “Now I want you to go to see the girls.” abe anid, earnestly, “the Talcott girs: They were up here a few days ago, and tney’re looking for- ward to a call from you. Living alone as they do, since their ma and pa died, they have some pretty jonesome times, and they set a great deal by callers.” “I certainly will try to go there soon,” said the young minister, and wheo he met one of the deacons of (he church on his way home he spoke of the old lady's request: “I think I don’t know the girls by sight.” said the young man, “but I didn’t wish to hurt the old lady's feelings by saying so. Where do they sit?” The deacon smiled “In the last pew but one in the gallery,” he said. “But 1 hardly think you would recognize them as girls. Miss Emily is sixty-one and Miss Frances sixty- three, according to the records.”— Youths’ Companion Hews This: ‘We offer One Hundred Dollars reward forany axe of Catarrh thst Cannot be cured by Hall's P. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, O Wa, the undersigned, bave oown Fed. ee AS LF ad ee eae ae eto spade by their firm ve semaines ran tng directly Careisogend: noes Wucous surfaces gtthe syniem Teatimoninis nent frex Price “SpRife Pamity Pills aye toe Dest Secrecy tn Watch-waking. There are processes in the manufac- ture of watches which are a secret ex- cept to the manufacturers themselves. Different gangs of workmen take part in making the fittings covered by the Processes, and one gang is not in- formed of the methods used by the other. The men are sworn to decrecy and a violation means dismissal. ‘The Elbow Sleeve. | ‘The elbow sleeve, with turned-back cuffs, failing lace frills or gathered un- Ger sleeves, will constitute one of the retained fashions of next season. Ad- vance styles will show the use of either two contrasting colors or fabrics or both, or aguin of one material in different shades, to be used also for ‘Unings, guimpes and vests. Are You Using Aliens Fout-Kase? it ts the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning. Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunious. Ask for Allen's Feot-Base. a powder to be shaken into tie shoes. At ali Druggists and Sboe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Governments of the arth. The whole buman family is under fifteen principal governments, of which only six are absolute monarchies and fifieen are limited monarchies. Irving Bacheller's sécond great story, entitled “D'ri and I” is a border tale of the war of i812 and the scenes are laid In the same north country which was depicted in “Eben Holden,” ex- tending, however. beyond this to the French domain in Canada. Its appear- ance in serial form has cailed forth the highest praise of representative criticism and there is no doubt but that Mr. Bacheller bas created in “D'ri” another character equally in- teresting with bis famous “Uncle Eb.” The story is full of action and ts drawn with a skillful appreciation of the three types represented. French, Eng- Mish and American. About sixty thoa- sand copies have already been sold, with three weeks remaining before the date of publication. The twelve railway companies of England and Wales employ between them 312,000 men. The Scotch and Insh companies employ 40.000 men be- tween them. Sar els inter waite more than to walk slowly. WHAT ISA ER? a, wit Sea Line nd wh), Nis 1 Vf ate oe es Co. rue we INVESTMENTS Simca iam e Koel LADIES i'm ienasrenameee Ses eet eS en ae ee Ca ER YA p {i - PR P a NN C er f ReaD i a t rune os +s pas LDN. ? ry rN \j ot Fj y’) A~——~4 = a . We \ . ne rade? 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No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used these great skin purifiers and beautifiers to use any others, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. Cuticura Soap combines cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most sefresh- ing’ of flower odours. No other medicated soap is to be compazed ever expensive, is to be compared with it. for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP "at ONE PRICE, the BEST skin and completion soap, the BEST + eo intoraal “Tre : " ory Humour, Gicur=== Ss = sm Til DE =| W.0. 0. omcAGO, mods, ioe, | ‘Eadics Can Wear Shem ‘Base, a powder. It makes or new s Som sey, Curcstolien, tof sweating Bontckn all aSugqiots and chee All d- and stores, a Trial FREB by mail. Address Allea 8. LeRoy, N Y. Geese Journey Withoct Food. About 300,000 geese are annually brought from Russia to Saxony. A carioad consists of 1,700 and they have Bo food or drink during the journey. Do you Hike Mra Austin's (pew drens? Alaska has the smallest population of any possession of the United States. Lame back makes a young man fee! old. Wizard Off makes gn old man feel young. See your druggist. Sarcasm never hurts mocb aniess it confines itself to the limits of truth Piso™ Cure for Consumption i an Infatirdie Deteine for coughs gad colin —N W Samou. Ovens Grove, N. J., Fed 17. 1900 A cemetery for dogs has now been established in Washington, D. C. Mis, Wiaslow’s Soothing Syrep. Ectosetion.sliaye pais, cores wind colte” See sete, There are 40,000,000 fewer sheep in Europe than ten years ago. Do you like Mrs. Austin's new dress? Your enemy makes you wise. — wie tekes outs U.S. Patent through me thie, Seep Peer recice Rees: LY FREE OF CHARGE send for full Infor. mation and New Rovk on Patents cuntalaing all formecf assignmects, licenses cic. free O. E. DUFFY, Winco ce Myraexpertence Myre anesawizer io U &. Pat. O®ea pee Washingion, DC Succeustully Prosecutes Claims. Late Princtpal Exeminer ( 8. Pension Bureas. |yre.ip civil war: 15 adjudicating claime; atty since RUPTURE=== dations The ense Ons Dakeas wee he’ eeth a4 Breath 25° s. BALL & RUCKEL, Bow York. EDUCATIONAL, =. een nnn Mount St. Joseph College and Academy, DUBUQOE, IOWA. Academy accredited to the University ef fowa and conduc ed by Sisters of Charity, BU. @.. Excelinnt facilities offered tor the Edacation of Young Womes acd Chil- Gren Canservatery of Music aad Artes European pina oraeie Sart eta Wincoeria nea. fitinote Grounds os — Preehiy squipped buildings; private pe'NefSal fr Ferme preparing, te tate pw pe inh and Classic- al an! English and Scientific Thorough Bush "Secnton begtan Weduenday. Sept 11, 100% For Catalogue address “ SISTER SUPERIOR, Mount St. Joseph, Dadaqas, lows ST. MARY’S AGADEMY Conducted by the Sisters of the Hi Cross. Chartered 1855. Tusiecgh English and Classical education. Reg- ular Collegiate In mene renacy Hoeariitek studenta Se ee wel hoes Gomnervatory of Music well equ od Scvest of Art. Gymnasium undes direction of graduate of Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Catalogue free. The 47th year will open Sept. 5, 1961, Address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY, St. Mary's Academy, Notre Dame. India: a. Ls ‘St Treatment of De. O. ) Brown's Great Remedy 5 Parner amet =tth! Thompsen’s Eve Water < PISO’S CURE FOR a. ae ae = ee ea ef ee i : The K. P.'s held very successful sessions of their order this week. The reception to its officers at Quinn Chapel on Monday evening, the entertainment at the Coliseum Thursday night and the street parade, were all creditable affairs. All in all it was the grandest affair ever held by the K. P.'s. Hy Henry Gambling Club George . Terrell, now claims that he is a gentleman, that he never ordered The Broad Ax sent to his house, but it was ordered by his late wife. Gambling George knows full well that he is lying in this respect. George, you yourself ordered us to send you The Broad Ax the 1st of October, 1899, and we never saw Mrs. Terrell until Jan. 1, 1900; at that time we called at your house to do a little collecting, but George lied then about paying us and he has had no regard for the truth from that time. So, George, we again ask you to send us three dollars as your subscription to The Broad Ax. NOTICE. This week old Dan Sullivan is out in the country busily engaged in milking his cows, so he is compelled to rest up for a short while, and our fight against Messrs. Burke and Eldred is also declared off for one week, so this issue of The Broad Ax may appear rather tame to the big politicians. THE INNER TEMPLE. It is where we must kneel to the highest judgment. Alone, we must each enter there—sometime—voluntarily or not. Solitude means thought. Thought sometimes leads us to where we do not wish to go. Some men seek society, not so much because they derive a pleasure from it, but because they are avoiding their own society. Some men's only acquaintance with themselves is when they involuntarily attend service in the "inner temple." Busy days and wild nights will not demolish the "inner temple." Generous contributions to charities, attending church, great public donations, will not drown the voice in the "inner temple." The man who poses as a philanthropist for his own glory, knows himself for what he is in the "inner temple." The man who cheats his fellow-men in the name of business, flees far to escape the whisperings in the "inner temple." The man who loves a woman selfishly, lies prone in his unworthiness before the altar in the "inner temple." The woman who is unwomanly must sometimes writhe in agony at the foot of the altar steps in that "inner temple." Those who use religion as a cloak or personal gain and their own misdeeds—they hear their doom in the "Inner temple." No matter how egotistical, how self-important, how much possessed of the world's goods, how much respected or feared or loved by others, each man knows him for himself in the "Inner temple." If we all made it practice to seek to be honest with ourselves, what a glorious temple it would be! There would be flowers on the altar. There would be incense in the air. There would be beautiful voices heard and beautiful lights streaming in from the windows. But most of them try to darken that holiest of holies—the altar of our Honesty. We keep it covered. We reserve it for compulsory attendance. Open up the "inner temple," friends. It means in the end a happler conscience for you.—K. K. W. in Chicago Journal. JACKSTRAWS. Tried and true—pure lard. The theatrical "knocker" doesn't always make a hit. It is the well-preserved woman who gets put upon the shelf. A man who is nearly bald thinks a lot of what little is left over. The trombone player's cue to begin ought to be "let her slide." The elevator manufacturer cannot be expected to give a friend a "lift." Whichever way you turn a new dollar enables you to look on the bright side. When a dog wags his tail rapidly, why, you might call that "a hasty conclusion." Even in the hottest weather the house painter may have to put on an overcoat. Hot weather may not be exactly cheering, but it certainly causes many to "smile." Other cities may be admired, but Philadelphia has the largest number of Friends. The man with half interest in a business has no excuse for being half-hearted about it. Without even a bone left, Old Mother Hubbard couldn't have had a skeleton in the closet. The only time some people get overflowing measures is when they are given a pack of troubles. THE VIVIENES ARE ECONOMISTS, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. Pride is handome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.—Wealth. Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide; and the fisherman dripping all day at the cool pond, the switchman at the railway intersection, the farmer in the field, the negro in the rice swamp, the fop in the street, the hunter in the woods, the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball, all ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it- Illusiona. Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds; our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited. Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair, all these we never made; we found them ready made; we but quote them. In literature quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, and, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road I had better have gone afoot.—Quotation of Originality. "Tis a Dutch proverb that "paint costs nothing," such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer pigment. And so of cheerfulness or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible. You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times; and the power of happiness of any soul is not to be computed or drained. It is observed that a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.—Considerations by the way. The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. Those who are not self-possessed obtrude and pain us. Some men appear to feel that they belong to a Pariah caste. They fear to offend, they bend and apologize, and walk through life with a timid step. As we sometimes dream that we are in a well-dressed company without a coat, so Godfrey acts ever as if he suffered from some mortifying circumstance. The hero should find himself at home wherever he is; should impart comfort by his own security and good nature to all beholders.—Behavior. To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople; to ses galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories. "The rich man," says Saadi, "is everywhere expected and at home." The rich take up something more of the world into man's life. They include the country as well as the town, the ocean-side, the White Hills, the Far West, and the old Européan homesteads of man, in their notions of available material. The world is his who has money to go over it.—Wealth. FURNISHING THE HOUSE To be entirely comme il faut the library or living-room table should be covered with Spanish leather. Austrian oak, a new rich brown tint, is by far the prettiest furniture finish exhibited for some time. It is much newer and smarter than the dead black. A bronze yellow, decidedly bronze in tint—not the true yellow used with a mahogany colonial setting—is the latest wall covering suggested for a Dutch living-room scheme. This is usually accompanied by many brass decorative pieces and bronze yellow hangings. Madame la Mode countenances nothing else than leather screens these days, especially for dining-room use, before the pantry door. In the bronze brown and green tones, either plain or stamped, put on with large stud nails, they are truly exquisite creations. Roan skin (a treatment of ox hide) in several tints—particularly effective in russet brown—of several degrees of smoothness (the roughest and perhaps the smartest strongly resemble the costly elephant's hide), is the very newest wrinkle for cushions for large arm-chairs, settees, etc. RAM'S HORN BLASTS The nourished soul makes steady nerves. Nothing can be done till the past is undone. Power with man proceeds from power with God. A man is never poorer for the questions he asks. We are punished by our sins rather than for them. The saddest truth is less severe than the merriest lie. Christ's rule is everywhere, but His throne is in the heart. The Bible is the mirror of conscience held up to man's heart. A short prayer will get to heaven quicker than a long one. The sun is always shining to the man who walks by faith. The perfect man in Christ was before the imperfect one in Adam. Conscience is the better man within the best of men.—Ram's Hera. Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yard 814. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. BROWN 618 YARDS. DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 4098 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO Hours: 8-10 a. m., 3-4, 6-8 p. m. General Expressing and Moving. 5001 ARMOUR AVE. CHICAGO, ILL 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. 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. Mikado Rare'y Passes Beyond Limits of Imperial Gardens The western world hears very little of the distant and somewhat secret court of the mikado. Yet it is interesting in more than one respect, for the poetical charm of its traditions is giving place gradually before the advent of the spirit of the times. The Mikado Mutsuhito is regarded as one of the cleverest and at the same time most modest rulers recorded in Japanese history. When he overthrew the "Shogun" in 1868 and restored his own dynasty he won at once the admiration and sympathy of his people by abolishing a despotic form of government in favor of a milder form. In his own country he is known as "Koteli," but he is generally referred to abroad as the "mikado," or "the honorable gate." The mikado is of comparatively large stature, and his very majestic bearing is increased by the general's uniform which he usually wears. In his daily walks he never passes beyond the limits of the imperial gardens, except on the occasion of the opening of parliament and at rare intervals for the purpose of attending military and civic festivals. Unlike his predecessors the mikado is very frequently to be seen driving in his carriage, and when he passes through the streets the Japanese are no longer compelled, as was the case in former days, either to disappear from the line of route or to turn their backs toward their ruler. It is curious to learn that this attitude betokened a form of the highest respect. Nowadays the people learn that the mikado is approaching only from the shouts of the police: "The mikado; beware!" Did Not Get What He Wanted. The late Rev. R. S. Storrs was a very hard man to interview, for he resented the inquisitiveness of the press and was icy to its agenda. One evening a reporter attended a reception at his house and in the course of the evening touched his arm and whispered: "Doctor, I'm from the ——; I want the names of guests and all the particular." "Yes," Dr. Storrs whispered in return, "this way, this way," and, taking the young man's arm, he escorted him to the front door and put him out. —Chicago Chronicle. 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. Telephone Yard 797 Residence, 129 Garfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, ....,CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2025. — EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 260 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2533. CHICAGO. GEO. W. W. LYTLE, Attorney and Counselor at Law Telephone Central 3558. Suite 60, Grand Opera House. Notary Public 87 & 89 S. Clark St. Chicago. Lawrence M. 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Bricks were thrown as high as 10 feet in the air, and some went sideways with great force. Demand for Meerschaum Pipes. Among retail dealers, it is said that the demand for meerschaum pipes and holders has greatly decreased in the last few years. French briar has supplanted it in popularity. 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 4008 ...The Mutual Reserve Fund Life or New York... OVER $41,000,000 PAID Insurance for the Prote E. P. BARRY, M'g'r. 410 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St. 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 Shille St. 5060 Armor Ave. COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Canal 379 POOL AND BRAXT SAMPLE Fine Wines and Imported an 260 West JIM Jas. J. Mc SAMPLE IMPORTED WINES, LIQUOR 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET A. JOSEPH GREAT N SALE AND EXC Driving, Draft and Ge Always 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. POOL AND BILLIARDS BRAXTON'S ....PLACE SAMPLE ROOM Fine Wines and Liquors Imported and Domestic Cigars 260 West Lake St. JIM GEORGE IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand B. F. ROGERS INSURANCE B. F. ROGERS & COMPANY INSURANCE B. F. ROGERS & COMPANY INSURANCE Unworthy Lover Killed on Grave of True-Hearted Girl. The romantic have found food for contemplation in deaths by sudden strokes of lightning, in which they have conceived that a higher power visited upon the heads of sinful mortals a just punishment for offenses for which the human code had no penalty provided. One of these was where a few years ago a young girl descended from the Indian race, educated at Carlisle, and of refined tastes and lovely disposition fell in love with a young missionary who had gone to her tribe's residence to preach the gospel. The beautiful girl was a member of his congregation and he showed that he reciprocated her love, but it was developed that he considered the trace of Indian blood in her veins a bar to their marriage. The girl killed herself and a few nights afterward there came a severe thunder-storm, at the equation of which the young minister was missing. Later his dead body was found on the grave of the girl, where he had been struck down by a bolt of lightning. The collectors of the curious stories of the freaks of lightning have preserved the account of the case where what appeared to be a ball of fire was observed rolling along the ground and finally into a shed where several pigs were penned. With comparatively slow and deliberate movements the hall traversed the inclosed rails, skirted the sides of the pen, and was pursuing its so far harmless way along the floor when an overcurious pig concluded to investigate it more closely by rubbing his snout against it. At the touch of the pig's snout the shed on that side flew into small bits and the porcine student of electricity and his half-dozen brothers and sisters were instantly killed. ```markdown ``` INSURE IN Bernard F. Rogers TELEPHONE MAIN 3292 BILLIARDS TON'S PLACE THE ROOM And Liquors And Domestic Cigars West Lake St. GEORGE McCormick, THE ROOM AND DOMESTIG CIGARS AND CIGARS T, CHICAGO. JOSEPH STRAUSS NORTHERN CHANGE STABLE. General Business Horses On Hand John D. Cory S & COMPANY RANCE 154 LaSalle Street FREIGHT MOTORS WELL TREED. Average Speed Is About Five Miles Per Hour, Loaded. Extended trials of freight carrying motors which have been attracting the attention of engineers lately, took place in Liverpool, a short time since, in which condition of competition were exacted. It was necessary, in order to secure entrance, that the platform for goods should have an area of from 45 to 75 square feet according to class and be able to carry from 1½ to 5 tons. The vehicles entered varied in length between 18 and 22 feet and had wheel tires of from 4 to 6 inches in width. Their speeds averaged about 5 miles per hour loaded. Most of them were steam motors, though there were a few oil motors. Their boilers were generally of the vertical type and of both fire and water tube systems, carrying from 225 to 250 pounds per square inch gauge pressure. The engines, of the horizontal type, were beneath the platforms and had cylinders of 3½ inches diameter with 6 inch stroke compound to 6½ inches, and making from 350 to 420 revolutions per minute, geared to various wheel speeds, direct and by chains. The distance run was 50 miles and they all came through satisfactorily, the accidents being very few. If your nearest druggust 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 56 cents a bottle. The Ozonized Ox-Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Read and subscribe for The Iroad Ax, the only newspaper in Chicago which "hews to the Line." ```markdown ``` OHIOAGO, ILL John D. Cory