The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. VI. PRESIDENT McKINLEY IS RAPIDLY RECOVERING FROM THE EFFECT OF THE MURDER- At this writing all the people residing in all parts or sections of the civilized world are perfectly familiar with all the details of the attempted assassination of President William McKinley at Buffalo, last Friday, by Leon F. Czolgosz, an anarchist, who shot the President twice, while he was standing in the Temple of Music engaged in shaking hands with the multitude. The people, also, are well aware of the fact that if it had not been for James F. Parker, a Negro, who was standing close up to the President at that time, that his life would have been snuffed out by the red-handed anarchist. It is useless to state that all true Americans, regardless of their political creed or faith deprecate and deplore the act or the work of the maniac who fancies that he has been called or had a mission to perform in killing the ruler of this great nation. This disdardly attempt to end the life of President McKinley has stirred not only the whole of the United States, but also the whole world; excitement has run very high ever since the heinous crime was committed; in fact, it has been at fever heat. Many of the admirers of the President, including ministers of the Gospel, have been swept along with the tide of excitement, so that they, in common with the hot-heads are now and have been in favor of subjecting the would-be assassin to unspeakable torture; some have suggested that he should be thrown into a vat of red-hot oil, that his tongue ought to be cut out, and thrown to the dogs to feast upon, that his ears should be cropped off, that he should be subjected to many indignities in order to pay the penalty of his terrible and revolting crime. Cool-headedness on the part of the people, right now, seems to be out of the question, and many of them are entirely willing to commit a greater crime against society by resorting to violence in this direction, than what was committed by Czolgosz. For crime begets crime and crime can never be checked nor decreased as long as men in high stations or positions in life are not adverse to setting aside the established laws of the land for the purpose of enabling themselves to reap vengeance on those who violate the statutes. In short, we believe that no individual is capable of committing any crime which would warrant those other than the constituted authorities to administer the laws and to deal out the punishment commensurate with the crime committed, and this work cannot, nor it must not, be performed by mobs made up of the rabble who are generally led by gentlemen who are criminals at heart. President McKinley displayed his magnanimity when he emplored and plead with those who were around him at the time he was wounded, hot to abuse, maltreat, mob or lynch the poor creature who had inflicted such pain upon him, which may yet end his life. The President, although wounded near unto death, no doubt thought that if Czolgosz was put to death then and there a much greater crime would be committed by the populace than what had been committed by Czolgosz. In reviewing the attack on President McKinley by this single anarchist, it may be well to recall the fact that in 1896, Herr Most, through the columns of his red-anarchist sheet and his fellow anarchists, warmly supported Major McKinley for President of the United States as against Col. William J. Bryan, that Herr Most and his associates were all welcomed with a shout of joy into the ranks of the Republican party; that those anarchists assisted Major McKinley, Mark Hanna & Co., in branding Colonel Bryan and six and a half million freemen as anarchists and repudiators. But now it appears that this viper of anarchy has coiled itself up in the lap of the Republican party, and it now threatens the very life of this once glorious Republic. To our mind anarchy, or anarchism, has reigned supreme in this country for some years; every person who commits an unlawful act or violates any of the laws is an anarchist; those who compose the mobs that engaged in murdering, lynching and burning innocent men, women and children at the stake, and cut up and sell chunks of their quivering flesh to the highest bidders for cash, are anarchists pure and simple; the great millionaire tax-dodger and the immense banking institutions and kindred concerns who own and control millions and millions of dollars, but who in reality only pay taxes on a few hundred dollars, are the highest types of anarchists. The first class of anarchists have within the time that Major McKinley assumed control of the affairs of this government, wantonly and ruthlessly put to death many hundred inoffensive and law-abiding citizens, and these crimes have been winked at by those who should be the first to put their seal of condemnation upon them. In the meantime the last class of anarchists have greatly increased and multiplied, and are fast becoming richer and more powerful. Therefore, if this condition of affairs continues to exist, which makes it possible to trample upon the laws without any fear of being brought to judgment; if it is right or just to place a millionaire or a billionaire on one end of the plank and a poor, honest, povertystricken tramp or workman on the other, then it will not be long until this Republic, heretofore the fairest of all the republics or governments, will be blotted out in blood and revolution. PUBLIC CREDIT. Matters of familiar everyday's handling are often the most difficult to be thoroughly understood in their every aspect. The subject of money is one of these most difficult ones. The idea that gold pieces of a certain ascertained purity and made legal tender are superior to all other forms of money. is a fallacy easily shown. Its value changes with the more or less quantity of gold thrown on the market. This seems incredible because the dollar of gold is always 100 cents and seems never depreciated. The fact that the purchasing power of the dollar is greater or less as the metal becomes more or less abundant in market proves that it does change in value. And this must be the case with any form of money created out of commodity. Nor is the gold piece a lawful tender if it lacks one half cent in weight of purity. If the debtor offers a worn gold or silver piece the creditor may reject it. The government daily refuses payments in worn metallic coins. It weighs them and exacts the deficiency from the payer. On the other hand the paper acceptance of the creditor when offered by his debtor is payment absolute, law or no law. The acceptances of any person, firm, city, state in the hands of their debtors or tax payers are legal tender. Hence the highest and only true form of money among commercial people is the acceptance issued by themselves through their own agents, for the revenues due and owing by them to their police, their soldiers, contractors, pensioners et al. Every citizen is bound for them. When we analyze this form of money we find it to be the public credit in circulation through the acceptances (due bills, greenbacks, etc.) of the public. If the people prefer to stamp their credit upon some metal pieces of a costly character and liable to waste in using; or to give their credit to bankers and borrow it back at interest or impose other useless burdens on themselves and grant favors to special persons—that is another matter. But let us not deceive curselves. The public credit is the mightiest source of wealth this age knows of and monetary tokens based on that are the most certain and lasting, and are payment absolute far above anything else expressed on metal or paper. But of all forms of money the worst, most deceptious and dishonest is the paper promise to pay on some contingency or in some commodity. The mighty revenues of this nation are constantly accruing as a debt due from the people to their servitors and pensioners in the sum of nearly eight hundred million dollars yearly. These revenues are the most precious and quick form of public credit. How long shall it be abandoned to a nest of Wall street money jobbers? here that the lynched victim speak, to speak through post mouths, made so as much hatred and pure cussedness a ful crime. The party of the part can petition here and claims aired to the world that can see man's inhumanity to HOLT. PRESIDENT WILLIAM M. KENNEDY PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY. The latest indications are that Presi at any moment. NEGRO NEWSPAPERS. A few years ago it was the opinion of the thinkers of the race that the Negro newspaper would soon be a thing of the past. The general assent to that opinion was due to what then seemed to be the converging of racial lines. But time and circumstances, like ocean currents, trade winds and other influences have influenced those lines out of their tendency, producing unexpected conditions. Those lines that at one time bid fair to converge have in recent years assumed a dead parallelism that threatens to maintain far into the future. The racial millenium is not at hand, and makers of the Negro newspaper will have plenty to do in preparing for it. It is not always loved as it should be, nor is any good thing or cause, but it is doing more than any other single agency in helping to pave the way to the future. Bishop Grant, of the A. M. E. church, has just been paying a glowing tribute to the makers of Negro newspapers through a Christian publication of Atlanta, Ga. He recognizes their worth and understand the cause of their short comings. He feels that if they were supported financially much of the adverse comment would not be heard. The Negro newspaper has a mission to perform, and it is it only that can perform it. Our large dailies with their ample facilities, mammoths as they are, cannot thread along the lowly ways of Negro existence, reflecting back its smallish life. And, if there are no such aids, then good-bye to race hones. It is the Negro editor who paces the rampart daily, or, perched high in a tower, sweeps the fields with his glasses, giving warning of approaching danger. The dangers of latter years have fallen thick and fast—the fields are studded and the duty of the newspaper grows none the less. Too much praise cannot be given to those who out of pure love of race elevation sacrificed time and money to realize their ideas. There are but few of these institutions that pay, yet without them, what then? As has been well said, the Negro newspaper is the Negro's Forum; it is here, and here only, that he can have the pleading of his cause; it is here that many of the vile lies and much of the malicious slander so brazenly uttered are flung back in the face of those from which it sprang; it is --- here that the lynched victim gets to speak, to speak through poor dumb mouths, made so as much by envy, hatred and pure cussedness as by awful crime. The party of the second part can petition here and have his claims aired to the world that men can see man's inhumanity to man. It is safe to say that, if some destroying agency could at one time J. wreck every Negro newspaper in the land it would be but a short time before the known horrors of America would increase tenfold. Notwithstanding the value of them they are not appreciated as they should be.—The Freeman. CHIPS. Master in Chancery Granville W. Browning arrived home Monday from the East, where he spent his pleasant vacation. Superintendent of Streets M. J. Doherty is kept very busy these days in looking after his end of it and in keeping tab on all the men under his control. Mrs. Robert J. Roulston, 540 61st place, left the city Monday for Buffalo, where she will spend ten days in taking in the sights of the Pan-3American Exposition. County, Commissioner James E. Daley ought not to have any trouble in being renominated for his present position, for he is worthy of it and he is with the people. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, 4715 Armour avenue, have come into the possession of a bouncing new girl baby, which weighs over 12 pounds. Mrs. Robinson and the baby are doing well. Now that it has been definitely settled by some of the religious societies that there is a place called hell, the next thing in order is for all the sinners to move up another peg on the mourner's bench. Mr. Joseph Schran and Jayhawk Frank Murphy, neither one of whom will ever die from the enlargement of their hearts, were knocked out of the aldermanic contest in the 30th Ward by the last issue of The Broad Ax. Two weeks ago Alderman Charles J. Boyd left for several points in Montana to spend the remainder of his vacation, and the last heard from the alderman he was confined to his bed from sickness. His many friends hope to see him return home restored to good health. The Carter H. Harrison League gives its grand picnic at Sunnyside Park today, and a great crowd will be on hand to make things lively for the boys, and the handsome ladies who will attend it. Mayor Harrison will ```markdown ``` HOLT. CHIPS preside and present the orators. Col. William J. Bryan will be the principal speaker. Capt. John J. Bradley, Harry J. Rogers, Arthur McLaughlin, Denney J. Riordan, T.W. Mackey, Thomas Tobin, John Nugent, Thomas Vaughan, Martin Flanley, Thomas Dunn, James J. McNarney and William L. Gahan are hot after the seat which Alderman Charles J. Boyd has held down for the past four years in the city council. There is some talk of ex-State Senator Daniel F. Curley entering the contest for Alderman from the 30th Ward. The Broad Ax may be mistaken, but it does seem to it that the ex-senator has outlived his usefulness as a political factor: that he ought to or must be classed with the old dead political ducks of the Town of Lake. Justice John Fitzgerald resumed his duties Monday morning at the Stock Yards police station, after spending one week at Coney Island and other points in the East. The justice stated that "he run up against a few very fast yachts down in that part of the country, but he intimated that he knew or could tell more about hogs then he could about fast yachts. Miss Emma Goldman, the high priestess of anarchy, says, "that we have heard a great deal about the scandals that have involved members of the police force. Well, these scandals have to be hushed. Is there any better way of doing so than by attracting attention to an alleged plot to murder a president." There might be some truth in what is said by Miss Goldman. United States Senator William E. Mason has got his senatorial headquarters going in full blast; they are located on the fifth floor of the Home Insurance Building, Adams and La Salle streets. They will be kept open until after Senator Mason is re-elected to the Senate, and the senator feels that by working and huctling early and late he will not experience much difficulty in succeeding himself. Everybody seems to be in favor of driving out or killing off all the anarchists, for they, the people, think the anarchists are a very dangerous class of citizens to have laying around loose. During this uprising against the anarchists it will not do to overlook old Ben Tillman, for he is the biggest and the greatest anarchist in America, and he should be grabbed by the throat and suppressed at once. Ed. Cooper endeavored to impart a whole lot of advice to us in the last issue of his paper, which is all very well as far as it goes, but Ed. did not say anything in The Colored American about remitting the eight dollars and thirty-five cents which he skinned us out of, and we are still of the opinion that Cooper is not above resorting to the strong arm act on all his friends, whenever he deems it necessary to raise some sporting, gambling and whisky money. Last New Year's Day Old Ben Tillman, who is a disgrace not only to the race to which he belongs, but a disgrace to all mankind, dined with President McKinley at the White House. But if J. F. Parker, the Negro who saved the President's life at Buffalo last Friday would happen to call at the White House he would be compelled to stand with his hat under his arm and wait until Ben Tillman finished drinking and eating with Mark Hanna and President McKinley. Cheap Skate Gambler George J. Terrell stands in so well with the policemen who pass 47th street and Armour avenue, that these officers of the law, who are getting paid for pulling gambling joints and low dives like Terrell's place, close their eyes and ears as they rush by that joint, and they do not see or hear of any crap-shooting or other gambling going on in the Hy Henry Club, therefore we hope Chief O'Neill will swoop down on Hy Henry George, who has failed to pay the three dollars which he owes as subscription to The Broad Ax. NO. 47. Sunday, Sept. 15, Mrs. Della Blake Ridgeway sings a vocal solo before the South End Club. Instrumental duet, Misses Mamie and Bertha Wiley; Mrs. Fannie Barriar Williams speaks on "Harriet Beecher Stowe"; vocal duet, Misses Clara Wilson and Beulah Medley. Dr. Howard S. Taylor was the drawing card, or the leading star, at the club-last Sunday, and his address on "The Road to Freedom," was highly appreciated by the large number who heard his inspiring and instructive oration. MR. WALTER S. BOGLE. President of the Crescent Coal and Mining Company, Director of Fort Dearborn National Bank—the able and wide-awake Chairman of the City Central Committee of the Tilden Democracy. Col. Isaac Rivers, who at one time was not only Mayor Hempstead Washburne's right hand bower, but was also a mighty big cog in the Republican machine of this city. is rapidly coming to the front again, and by wearing his rabbit's foot night and day it brought the cclonel good luck, for lately Postmaster Coyne reappointed Colonel Rivers as special mail carrier, and a nice fat salary. The actions of Postmaster Coyne has made the Colonel, Mrs. Rivers and the children happy. School Trustee Thomas Gallagher, cf Gallagher Brothers. commission merchants, South Water street; Mr. George C. Callahan of George C. Callahan & Co., 217 South Water street, produce commission, and many other merchants belonging to that famous street, with their families and friends, left the city Wednesday in a special car for Buffalo for the purpose of enjoying all the sights of the Pan-American Exposition. The party will return after spending four days in the exposition city. Congressman James McAndrews and Mr. James A. Quinn, City Sealer of Chicago, left for Washington, D. C., Tuesday morning. Congressman McAndrew's errand is for the purpose of endeavoring to get his brother restored to a higher rank in the United States army, and Mr. Quinn's object in visiting Washington at this time is to familiarize himself with the new system of weights and measures which the government will introduce in this city in the near future. Congressman McAndrews and the City Sealer return to the city Monday. The Old Conservator thinks it wrong for a certain newspaper to refer or mention the fact that Messrs. Wheeler, Jones, Smiley of the local Negro Business League deported themselves other than honorable business gentlemen in connection with the National Negro Business League, but Elder or Colonel Wilkins, cannot honestly contend that Messrs. Wheeler, Jones and Smiley did not vote in favor of permitting Samuel R. Snowden to become a member of the League, and it seems to us that as long as these three supposed leaders of the colored business men of Chicago, Wheeler, Jones and Smiley, was in favor of putting all the decent men and women of the race on a dead level with Snowden, by allowing him to come into the League, that they are not entitled to the highest consideration from the best people of our race, nor from moral and straightforward newspaper men. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the two principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Methodists, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any other can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the faithful right to speak its own mind. Qua Year..... $2.00 * Monthly..... 1.00 * Providing sales made known on application * All communications to It is said that automobiles have so cheapened the cost of harvesting grain in the immense California fields that wheat can be raised there at less actual cost than in the Argentine Republic. The frequent walks across the Swiss Italian frontier of girls of a seminary near Maslianco, says a Rome dispatch, aroused the suspicious of the customs officers, who finally stopped a procession of 40, walking two by two, and ascertained that each girl was smuggling cigars or cigarettes. The aggregate value was $30,000. A prize of 3,000 marks presented to the Berlin Academy of Science by the Marquis de Chasseloup, a Parisian of partial American descent, for the best modern work on American history, has been awarded to James Ford Rhodes, a native of Cleveland and a brother-in-law of Senator Hanna. Mr. Rhodes was so honored on account of his "History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850." A writer in the London Spectator remembers to have seen the border country of Suffolk and Essex lighted night after night with blazing ricks, fired as a protest against the introduction of thrashing machines. Where, to-day, he asks, is the man under fifty who can use a flail? The question is only an emphatic way of referring to labor-saving machinery. Imagine for a moment an attempt to harvest Western crops without a reaper. A resident of Springfield, Ohio, was recently robbed of $16, and one "Dan" Sullivan was arrested. When the man was searched the money could not be found. The officers were confident they had the right man, and after watching him for a short time noticed that "Dan" was carefully guarding his corncob pipe. He had it in his mouth, filled with tobacco, but it was not lighted, and, striking a match, Lawless put it to the pipe and told "Dan" to enjoy hmself. He obeyed the order, but after smoking a few seconds weakened and told the other that the money was concealed in the bottom of his pipe. Fifty casks of a special design and the strongest possible construction will soon be sent to Bering Sea by the United States Revenue Marine service, and placed upon the highest hummocks of the flow-ice. It is hoped by tracing their future course to test the direction of the currents that cross the polar regions. The casks are twenty-eight inches long and sixteen inches in diameter, so as to be seen easily. Inside of each are directions printed in several different languages, asking the finer to write to the nearest United States consul, giving the latitude and longitude in which the cask was found, and the date. Admiral Melville, who designed the casks, believes that it will be possible in this way to determine whether the ice-packs drift from the Arctic westward, or south and east to the Atlantic. The Arkville (N. C.) Cities The Ashville (N. C.) Citizen says: "Those who have read of the recent deeds of violence committed by negroes in Louisiana while banded together under the pretense of being organized for religious and benevolent purposes are not surprised to learn that a negro mafia is about to be started. The negroes in that vicinity have been becoming very insolent and self-important and seem to have the idea that a secret organization is all that is necessary to enable them to accomplish their purpose of dealing out death to every white man who may strike a negro or become an object of their malice. The new order is said to be under the leadership largely of negro preachers, who, having no use for the ordinary virtues that are supposed to be advocated from the pulpit, have been devoting their questionable talents to the preaching of lawlessness. The movement for the preservation of British scenery resulted in the formation of the National Trust for Paces of Historic Interest and Natural Beauty. A London editor suggests that the trust profit by a few of the "superfluous millions" of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, by inducing him to buy Exmoor, or the English Lakes, or the River Thames, or the Snowdon District, or the Trossachs. The trust would see to it that builders and advertising firms did no injury. There are tracts without number in our own country, the beauty of which ought to be guarded for the benefit of generations to come, which invite the attention of men between whose overflowing purse and philanthropic purpose no great gulf is fixed. Nature has her rights, as well as man, and it is a wanton invasion of them to mar and destroy unnecessarily what God has made beautiful and health-giving. FAMOUS TIDES OF FUNDY. Placid Waters Suddenly Turned Into a Raging and Perilous Torrent. Brief reference is made in nearly all school books to the Bay of Fundy and its remarkable tides, but in none is justice done to the most remarkable manifestation of its kind in the world. Most notable of all its features is the reversible falls of the St. John river near St. John, N. B. Imagine a perfectly placid surface of water, so placid that it mirrors all the surrounding shores, suddenly converted into a raging torrent and tumbling waterfall. The St. John river, or, rather the harbor, contracts here to a beautiful rocky gorge, spanned by two handsome suspending bridges. Above this gorge the river broadens out again. But during the 24 hours there are only four intervals of 20 minutes each when shipping can pass through the gorge. On each change of tide there is at slack water a period of 20 minutes during which the water in the gorge is on a level with that of the harbor and the river and perfectly placid. During those 20 minutes the shipping hurries through. Suddenly, without the slightest warning, without so much as a tremble or quiver of the surface, a streak of white flashes across it and a second later a roaring waterfall and a cataract is pitching headlong into the harbor from under the bridges if the tide be running out, and into the river above if the tide be on the flood. Such are the reversing falls of the St. John river. It is doubtful if a more dramatic change occurs with such unvarying regularity anywhere else in nature. It is made all the more impressive by the beauty of the landscape. The suddenness with which the landscape, as reflected in the placid water, disappears is like the ruthless smashing of a mirror. ANOTHER DISTORTED VISION Man with Queer Name Foresees the End of the World. This is sad news which Prof. Ludwig Marienburger puts on the wires, says the Chicago Record-Herald. He declares that the end of the world is near at hand. He has discovered that our little old planet has jumped its orbit and is wobbling around in space like a drunken man in the middle of the street at 6 a. m., or words to that effect. This irregularity on the part of Mother Earth, the professor explains, causes our summers to become hotter and hotter and our winters to be colder and colder. Before long, according to his figures, things are going to be so bad that nobody will be able to make the transit from one extreme to the other, and the first thing we know the human race will go zip. It may be that Prof. Marienburger has special opportunities for finding out things concerning the earth's travels that no other scientist could know about; it is a good deal more probable, however, that he has just pulled out a guess and that he has several more coming. If J. Pierpont Morgan were to come out and say that the world's trolley was off or that there was a hot box somewhere people might be justified in feeling nervous. But what has Prof. Marlenburger to do with the earth? It isn't his, and he isn't running it. Therefore we earnestly advise the public to treat his announcement with the scorn it deserves. The man who has already paid for his coal for next winter needn't suffer a pang. He will probably need it, Prof. Marlenburger's prediction of a speedy end of all things to the contrary notwithstanding. Two Miles a Minute In England the advocates of great speed in transportation predict that in a few years they will have a single rail line on which trains will be run at the rate of 110 miles an hour. In Germany an electric railroad is proposed, over which cars are expected to move 120 miles in 60 minutes. Americans are not slow, but they are not impatient for transit so rapid as to exceed the bounds of reason. A mile a minute is fast enough for the great majority of sober-minded and practical people. Medals for British Troops. The medal department of the British mint has been reinforced and now has capacity for turning out 10,000 medals per week. During the last half of the last year the preparation of military medals was pushed on, "the bulk of those struck being on account of the war in South Africa, in anticipation of its early termination." By the end of the year 102,042 South African medals had been struck and issued, to be engraved with the names of the recipients. Salt Water Fish in Lake Superior Four years ago the United States Fish Commission began to plant in Lake Superior the steelhead salmon of the Pacific. It was believed that this salt water fish would thrive in the cold, fresh waters of the great lake, and fish of this kind weighing five pounds have recently been caught. As modified in the lake they are well-shaped and firm, with flesh of a fine red and delicate flavor. The planting will proceed rapidly. New French Code Duello. The new French duel code, which is the work of Prince Bibesco, provides that in the future no duel can end without the shedding of blood, and no account of the proceedings shall be published if the insult causing the duel was not made public. Krupp, the German gunmaker, has a fortune of nearly $50,000,000, an income of $4,000,000 and a payroll of 80,-000 persons. MONSTERS OF THE DEEP. Probably never since Last Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, was swept away, forty-five years ago, by such a hurricane as destroyed Galvesion, and for many months afterward the fishermen of Barataria and Atchafalaya dared not go to fish because their nets caught dead bodies everywhere, has a fishery been laid prostrate so strangely as have the fisheries of the north French coast in the past three years. But the French fishermen are not catching corpses in their nets. What they haul up out of gray, cold seas of the English channel are living things—perhaps the ugliest living things that have their being on the globe. They are octopi. They fasten to the hand lines and rob them of the hooked fish. They crawl into lobster and crab traps and fill them with the slime of their bodies and the ink that they squirt as soon as they find themselves captured. They weigh down the deep seines and cling to boats and oars and the fishermen themselves. ```markdown ``` KILLING THE OCTOBER KILLING THE OCTOPL A vast catastrophe, of which the details never will be known by man, has happened in the secret deep abyse of the outer Atlantic Ocean, and has driven these creatures of night and ooze to seek the shallower waters. It is a happening most monstrous, most unnatural. It is as if the graves had opened and were parading their sacred mysteries. For nature, having made the octopus, at once as if she had become horrified at her own handiwork, banished the creature to the graves of the ocean—to those deep, dark, cold chasms where only the explorer's dredge penetrates and gropes awhile blindly, bringing up fragmentary captures that hint frightfully at frightful things that dwell there in everlasting night and in terrible companionship. Even the deep sea dredges, feeling around at the ends of their thousand fathom long wire arms, that recently have brought up so many forms wonderful, fantastic, chimerical, incredibly horrible, never brought up a creature more fantastic, more chimerical, more horrible than the octopus. And now these beasts of semulchre have swum ```markdown ``` A INVADE THE BATHING BEACH. In and have exposed themselves to the light of day, not in battalions or in hundreds, but in thousands and tens of thousands. have a greater le grows in the ope have a larger su light when the la From Cape la Hague to the Channel Islands no net can be cast now without the sea nightmares crawling into it at once to strip it of fish. The visitation has extended even to the bathing resorts along that coast, and every tide brings contorted forms with arms writhing as if in deadly agony. In pools along the coast they lie, some dying, other full of life and whipping their sucker-lined, snaky tentacles at all who approach them. The creatures are the most plentiful in that part of the English channel from the well-named Casket Islands, that have proved caskets indeed to ships innumerable, along the curve that marks the 120-foot depth to the Channel Islands. Among those Channel Islands is Sark—the land of Victor Hugo's devilish, described by him in "The Tollers of the Sea." Sark's marine caves, in one of which he laid his scene of the famous fight between the octopus and his hero, now contain, not one, but herds of the gray things, "brooding in the abyss." They are not such monsters as he described. Few of them are larger in the body than a man's hand, and their tentacles rarely are more than ten feet long. Their average weight is from ten to twenty pounds. But they are there in hordes. They have not attacked man, except to fight back as --- they were attacked. But they have rendered man helpless and almost ruined the one mode of livelihood left to him in those waters. Many Factions in Cuba. An American officer who has just returned from Cuba says that the political parties of that island "have the propensities of all Latin races. That is, they cannot have a two-sided fight, but instead divide up into three or four factions. Thus in Havana there are four parties, each with a different shade of principles and a different leader. Among Latin races, as I have studied them in South America, it appears to be a question of leaders more than of principles. A new man comes to the front, with an engaging personality, proclaims himself a leader and a man of destiny, and the crowd falls in behind him. The idea of a battle of principles or of issues as brought to them from the United States is new to the Cubans, and I believe it will E OCTOPI. take them many years to accustom themselves to it." Before 1845 the rates of letter postage in the United States varied with the distance. Half an ounce was the standard. In that year the rates were fixed at 5 cents for distances not exceeding 300 miles, and 10 cents for greater distances. In 1846 the rates were fixed at 3 and 10 cents, respectively. Then, in 1851 the maximum distance for the smaller rate was raised to 3,000 miles; and in 1863 a uniform rate of postage for the entire country of 3 cents was fixed. This lasted for twenty years—until October 1, 1883—when the rate was put at 2 cents a half ounce. On March 3, 1885, the standard of weight for 2 cents was increased to one ounce, making postage cheaper here than elsewhere in the world. Canada and Mexico also receive the benefit of this low rate. It is well known that when a plant grows in shady places it is likely to have a greater leaf area than when it grows in the open sunshine. It must have a larger surface to collect the light when the latter is comparatively dim. Now, most of the goldenrods live in woods and copses, where the shadows are thick and direct sunshine is a fleeting thing. And so we find that this species has the broad, thin leaves of a shade plant, leaves with well-developed stems, but otherwise so similar to those of the elm tree as to give this goldenrod its distinctive name. But it gives a touch of color to the somber shades of the woods that we would not willingly do without.—Woman's Home Companion. Afraid of Their Tin. According to Edward de Neveu, formerly of Fond du Lac, Wis., who is now living in Paris, the notorious timidity which characterizes French capitalists, conjointly with their dislike to enter new fields, is responsible for the total neglect of what may prove the richest deposits of tin ore discovered in many years. These deposits lie about thirty miles inland from the French coast in the department of Morbihan. It is believed that these deposits are a continuation of the famous Cornwall mines lying almost opposite on the English coast. Neveu is attempting to form a company to exploit a concession. He has already secured limited French sup- port, and now proposes to appeal for further financial aid to New York and Chicago.—Chicago Journal. MOTHS AS FOOD. Philippine Islanders Consider Them a Another class of insects which form a stable article of food in some of the islands are the moths found in great abundance in the mountainous regions of Panay, writes an American correspondent from Manila. These moths are small insects which hover around the rocks and live in the crevices in immense numbers. They resemble the bats somewhat in their method of hanging in groups from the rocks. It is an easy matter for the natives to capture them by the hundreds and thousands, and regular moth hunters go to the mountains at certain seasons of the year. The moths rarely fly when disturbed, but drop down into nets or bags spread to catch them when loosened from their hold. When captured they are subjected to sufficient heat to cause the soft, glossy tissues of the head and wings to shrivel up and drop off. These parts of the moth are considered unsuited to the cultivated Filipino palate, and they are always removed before sold in the market. The intense heat which burns off the wings and heads also kills the insects, and dries up a good deal of the natural juices in them. When taken from the heated oven the moths are sifted, and the dried bodies are separated from the broken pieces of heads and wings. The dried moths are used much like the grasshoppers. They enter into the composition of a great variety of native dishes. They are rarely eaten alone, as are grasshoppers, but are mixed with other foods. A confection is made of them, and some natives simply dip them in melted sugar and when dried eat them as tid-bits. OUR SUPREMACY. We Can Produce Goods for Less Money Than Any Other Nation. The statistics of manufactured products show that the United States is easily in the supremacy relative to any country in the world. The commercial statistics are equally satisfactory, for now at the head of the world's great exporting nations there stands the United States. For the calendar year 1900 our exports of domestic products were greater than those of any other country, their total value for that year being $1,453,013,659. This means that we can produce goods and lay them down in other countries cheaper than they can be produced in the countries to which they go. Great Britain ranks next, with $1,418,348,000, and Germany next, with $1,050,611,000. Thus the United States has reached the commercial supremacy of the great exporting nations of the world. Twenty-five years ago this country stood fourth in rank, the United Kingdom being first, Germany second and France third. The United States has increased her exports during the last 25 years 192 per cent, Germany 73 per cent, the United Kingdom 34 per cent and France 5 per cent. The supremacy of the United States is due very largely to the enormous expansion of manufacturing industry during the last decade. Our manufactured products now constitute about 30 per cent of the total exports. In 1860 they were but 12.76 per cent. Through our agricultural products we have been feeding many countries. We are now supplying them with both food and fuel. Dead Sea Fruit. "Dead sea fruit" actually exists, and not in metaphor only. A recent traveler in the Sahara took a photograph in the desert within a few miles of the oasis of Biskra, and his picture shows a group of "dead sea fruit" or "apples of Sodom," as they are sometimes called. The fruit grows upon the ground on a straggling stalk and is about the size of an orange, golden colored, with bright green stripes, the skin being smooth like that of a melon. It is a strange irony of nature that the fruit which is so beautiful to look at, should be a deadly poison. It is interesting to note that the camels which graze upon the aromatic shrubs discriminate between them and this fruit of most tempting appearance.—Detroit Free Press. New Public Service. Springfield, Mass., has been trying in one district the experiment of a weekly house-to-house delivery of books from the public library, with good results. Over one-half of the 150 persons now receiving books in this way did not formerly make use of the city library. There is a charge for the delivery of books. One may get six weeks' service for fifty cents, twelve weeks for $1, or thirty-eight weeks for $3. This pays the book-user, since the street car fare to and from the library once a week amounts to more. A dozen persons at the same address can get books at the expense of one delivery. Sewer Gus Kills Troops Experts have come to the conclusion that what kills so many trees in London is not soot flakes or the want of at or the drought, but the sewer gas, which attacks the roots, so that the tree soon withers and dies. Women dislike a womanly man as much as men hate a manly woman. LUCKY JOHNSON FAMILY. One Member of Each Generation Born with Teeth. The Louisville Courier-Journal tells the story of the peculiarities of the Johnson family of Nelson county, Kentucky. One member of each generation is born with teeth. William Johnson, who came to Kentucky in 1806, was born with two teeth. His sister, Mrs. Laura Hays, who died several years ago, was born with four teeth. Ben Johnson, a banker at Bardstown and formerly collector at Louisville, came into the world with two well developed teeth, and his daughter, now a 14-year-old girl, had two teeth in her mouth when she first saw the light of day. In each case the teeth were lower front ones, and were extracted when the child was only a few days or a few hours old. It was necessary to extract the teeth so the child could nurse. The teeth of the last five generations have been preserved, each baby's teeth being labeled and put away. There is a tradition in the family that being born with teeth has been a peculiarity of some members of each generation for ten or a dozen generations back. Except for the case of William Johnson and Mrs. Hays, only one baby in each generation has been born with teeth. Couldn't Wear Shoes Sumpter, Ill., Sept. 9th.-Mrs. J. B. Flanigan, of this place, had suffered with dropsy for fifteen years. She was so very bad that for the last three years she has not been able to wear her shoes. She had doctored all the time, but was gradually getting worse. Last winter Mr. Flanigan, who was very much discouraged, called for some medicine at Mr. J. J. Dale's drug store in Carmi. Mr. Dale persuaded him to have his wife try Dodd's Kidney Pills, and he bought six boxes. His wife used five out of the six, before she was entirely cured. She is now as sound and well as ever she was, completely restored to health, and free from any symptom whatever of dropsy. To say that Mrs. Flanigan is pleased at her wonderful deliverance does not half express her feelings, and she and Mr. Flanigan are loud in their praises of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and of Mr. Dale for recommending this wonderful remedy to them. The fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured Mrs. Flanigan of such a severe case of dropsy, after the doctors had given her up, has made them the most talked of remedy ever known in White county. The Largest of All Animals Of all the uncanny creatures in the animal kingdom the one whose acquaintance is hardest to make is the blue whale, the largest of all whales, and, indeed, one of the most colossal animals living or extinct, known to science. You will look in vain for him in the zoological collections, in menageries or even in museums. A brute, ninety feet in length and weighing just as many tons, does not lend itself to preservation or stuffing, and the few skeletons of him which do exist give one no idea of what he is like. The blue whale is hunted by the Norwegians chiefly, for the sake of his oil, and is of considerable value, a full-grown specimen being worth from $1,250 to $1,500.—Pearson's Magazine. Books Non-Literary, but Successful. A book may have an enormous success, a non-literary book, and the people who have made the success, by buying the book, may not care any more about the author than if he were a drummer from Chicago who happened to be the seller of some wares that appealed to their sense of something, whatever it might be. To psychologize the taste of non-literary readers is a task that has attracted many writers. Our enormous and omnivorous reading public, and the "great successes" that it makes, have simply nothing at all to do with the literary merits of the writers into whose hands they put money, nothing at all to do with literature.—New York Times Easy Come. Easy Go. The man who creeps along bent over, with his spinal column feeling in a condition to snap like a pipestem at any minute, would readily give a great deal to get out of his dilemma, and yet this is only the commonest form by which lumbago seizes on and twists out of shape the muscles of the back. This is commonly known as backache, a crick in the back, but by whatever name it may be known, and however bad it may be. 10 minutes vigorous rubbing with St. Jacob's Oil on the afflicted part will drive out the trouble and completely restore. It is a thing so easily caught, it may be wondered at why there is not more of it, but because it is so easily cured by St. Jacobs Oil may be the very reason that we hear so little of it. Only Eight Chief Justices There have been only eight chief justices of the Supreme court—Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase, Waite and Fuller. Three of them—Rutledge, Ellsworth and Marshall—were all named within six years. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shop Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. No man is free who follows a leader. Mrs. Austin has just come to Town. The spider is an expert fly-fisher. Was Built in 1839—One of Its Founders Is Still Alive—She Is Called the Mother of Methodism in the Southwest. The oldest Methodist church in St. Louis, Mo., is the Centenary Church, founded in 1839. The old structure is now undergoing renovation at a cost of $30,000. When October comes, and the work is finished, a bishop is to attend, or perhaps several bishops, and a rededication ceremony will take place, which is intended to be the most memorable that the denomination has ever held in that section. One of the founders of Centenary Church is still living in St. Louis—Mrs. Mary Gordon Goodfellow. She is in her 81st year, is in perfect health and vigor and is known as the Mother of Methodism in the southwest. In Centenary's early days Mrs. Goodfellow was a leader in the Female Centenary Society, which accomplished a great deal for church work. The society raised $1,000 a year for many years. It was done by sewing and by a large annual fair and festival. She says that there was a greater readiness to contribute money 50 years ago than now. In this connection she tells a story of the evangelist, John Newland Maffitt. This minister, who was one of the most eloquent preachers of h's day, had made a glowing appeal for funds for Centenary in 1839, and he promised his St. Louis congregation that if they would do their part he would himself contribute $500. He was not a rich man, and it is doubtful if all his possessions were so much as $500. He left St. Louis to go to New Orleans, taking one of the elegant steamers which plied the river in those days. The boat was filled with wealthy planter, and John Newland Maffitt preached to them. They could not escape from him, even had they wished to do so, and when, the tears rolling M. MRS. MARY G. GOODFELLOW, OF ST. LOUIS. (Who is the Mother of Methodism in the Southwest.) down his cheeks, he besought them to give of their abundance to this pioneer church, money was poured out at his feet. He filled his engagement at New Orleans, and returned to St. Louis with the $50) at the appointed time. POORLY PAID SOLDIERS. Britishers Who Served in South Africa Are Complaining. One occasionally hears Englishmen boasting that they belong to the richest nation under heaven, writes a London correspondent. The boast is not a particularly pretty one, and it is not particularly wise, because for a rich nation it does some uncommonly mean things. Among the meanest must be classed the way in which it pays its soldiers. The war office has been heaping up wrath and indignation against itself for a long time, but it has not done anything lately to stir the nation's blood like its treatment of the Imperial Yeomanry in the matter of their pay. These men went out to South Africa on the understanding that they would be away a year. They were promised in some cases that their situations would be held vacant for them a year. The war office kept them in South Africa for about eighteen months, and now some of the men have come home to find out that their situations are no longer waiting for them, and that the money which has been earned at the risk of their lives, and would come in most useful while they are looking for work, cannot be squeezed out of a reluctant state. Form to Hopes & Chipmunks Town to Honor a Chimpanzee. The municipal council of the French town of Grenoble has recently voted a large sum of money for the purpose of erecting a bronze statue to the famous chimpanzee, named Charlemagne, who not long ago died there. For nine years the chimpanzee, which was brought to Grenoble by an African explorer, had enjoyed the freedom of the town, being privileged to enter practically every house and to help himself to anything he fancied in fruit and vegetable shops. The chief reason of the town's great regard for the chimpanzee was that about five years ago he rescued a child from drowning in a well. Charlemagne had seen everything, and for him to swing himself over the top of the well was the work of a moment. Descending by the rope used for the buckets, he grasped the child and quickly carried her back to her friends, climbing up by the rope. Charlemagne increased his popularity by spending two hours in the children's hospital of the town, playing in different wards and amusing the children who were all very fond of him. In such respect was this chimpanzee held that when he died the inhabitants of the town followed his remains to the grave. secret of Schwab's Rise from Obscurity to Wealth and Fame. A story is told about President Charles M. Schwab, of the United States Steel Corporation, which will show a good many persons who may not know why President Schwab became what he is, says a Pittsburg correspondent. The tale was told by an engineer for whom Mr. Schwab, as a boy, carried the chain. Everybody down here knows how Mr. Schwab began life as a grocery clerk at Braddock. Next he carried a chain at Homestead and later a draughtsman in the Carnegie works. While holding that place young Schwab came under the notice of Capt. William R. Jones, who was general manager of the Carnegie plant, and whose name is synonymous here with everything good and manly. Capt. Jones was killed at Homestead by accident a few years ago. The story is that Capt. Jones at that time needed the services of an expert draughtsman. He applied to the head of the draughting department for a man, asking for the best man in the place. "I have no best man," said the chief. "They are all good." Capt. Jones went away.The next day an order was issued that to complete a certain piece of work all of the draughtsmen should work two hours over-time each day for several weeks without pay. All of the draughtsmen grumbled except one man. Capt. Jones came along the next day and said to the chief of the draughting department: "How do the men like that order?" "They don't like it and are all grumbling except one man," was the reply. "Who is that man?" asked Capt. Jones. "Schwab." "Give me Schwab," said Capt. Jones. From that day the young draughtsman's success began. The man who told this story was asked what he thought of President Schwab. He said: "Charlie Schwab has no equal as an executive in the steel world to-day." ROYAL FINANCIERS. European Crowned Heads Who Have Investments In America. Many European royalties have investments in this country. The Emperor of Russia is a stockholder in the Pennsylvania, the Northern and Canadian Pacific, the New Jersey Central and the New York Central Railroad Companies to the amount of $6,000,000, the most of it invested in the last four years on the advice of a well-known American diplomat. On it he draws an average of $500,000 annually, or eight per cent interest on his money. King Edward VII. has found means to put $5,000,000 in American industries. They are said to average him 11 per cent a year—something simply gigantic in view of the low European rate of interest. It is even told how he borrowed a large part of this capital to make these investments. The Duke of York, the Kings of Italy and Greece, Denmark and Belgium, the Sultan and the Shah of Persia have salted down great sums from their private fortunes in the American securities which gives such large returns and are so safe and far away from European complications. Even poor Spain-i. e., the rich Queen Regent—figures on the list for $2,000,000. The Kaiser has $3,000,000 invested in Atchison & Topeka, Illinois Central, Louisville & Nashville, and Union and Northern Pacific Railroad Companies stocks. The Empress Augusta Victoria had $500,000 and the princes of the house of Prussia have $1,000,000 in the same securities. Reformed. Many young ladies have found it necessary to improve, or rather to alter, the spelling of the names with which they were originally blessed. Babel becomes Babelle, Jessie becomes Jessica, Mary becomes Marie, and so forth. A brother lately received a letter from his young sister at a fashionable boarding school. It was signed Jessica. He answered: "Dear Sister Jessica—Your welcome letter received. Papaica and mammalica are well. Aunt Maryca and Uncle Georgica started for Buffaloca yesterday. I have bought a new horse. You ought to see it; it's a beauty. It's name is Maudica. Your affectionate brother, Samica." The sisters next letter was signed Jessie. Human Prey of Wild Animals. The report of the government of India for 1899 shows that for that year 25,587 human lives fell a prey to wild animals. By far the largest number—24,621—were killed by snakes. Tigers were responsible for 899 deaths, wolves for 888, leopards 825 and 1,402 were killed by elephants, hyenas, jackals, and crocodiles together. The deaths due to serpents were much more numerous than during preceding years. What It Costs to Light Paris. The lighting of Paris is a work of magnitude to which the ordinary way farer perhaps seldom gives a thought. There are no less than 60,000 lamps, and it takes 6,000 men to attend them. The cleaning alone occupies no fewer than 3,753 men; and the cost of this army of lamplighters, cleaners and attendants is nearly 25,000,000 francs a year. It is reported by the Indian commissioner's office that the 300,000 Indians of the country are peaceable and contented and that they are giving the department no trouble. This is a reversal of the former theory that in order to be good an Indian must necessarily be defunct. Who is it that does not wish to be out in the open air or alive in some field of sport, whether it be with the bat, rod or gun; whether we go coasting over the hills and vales on the wheel or sailing over rough waves or into serene coves, it is all sport, and the springing muscles seem to need it. It is bound to happen that some mishap will occur. Thus it is that we have sprains in abundance. Light sprains, sprains that cripple, sprains that give great pain, sprains that rob us of sleep, but sportsmen of all kinds have come to know that there is nothing better than the old reliable St. Jacob's Oil. Have it with you for use; you may rely on its cure of the worst sprain and restoration to the comforts of life. Why the Congregation Smilled. One young theological student is wondering if he will ever become a successful minister. He has his doubts, for his sermons are often renferred ludicrous by an unfortunate lisp. He was called to fill a temporary vacancy in a village church last Sunday and gave out as his text: "He was called to fill a temporary vacancy in a village church last Sunday and gave out as his text: "He that perverteth a shinner from the error of his ways, shall shave his shoul to life and cover a multitude of shins." Yet he wondered why his congregation smiled.—New York Times. Answers Absent Minded Men Augustus Hare tells this story in his autobiography of a friend, who in some ways, was one of the most absent-minded men in the world. One day, meeting a friend, he said: "Hello, what a long time it is since I've seen you! How's your father?" "Oh, my father's dead." "God bless me! I'm very sorry.' The next year he met the same man again, and had forgotten all about it, so began with: "Hello! what a long time since I've seen you! How's your father?" "Oh, my father's dead still." A Belt Hint. Here is a tip for keeping your patent leather belt fresh and bright. It was gleaned while talking to the leather goods buyer for one of the city's big stores. This accommodating buyer stated that patent leather can be rejuvenated by polishing the surface with a canton flannel cloth on which has been dropped a small quantity of olive oil. Veteran's Pictures Sell Well Sidney Cooper, the veteran English painter, now in his ninety-eighth year, recently traveled from Canterbury to Windsor to receive a decoration from King Edward. Although Cooper's pictures are ridiculed by some critics, four of them were shown at the Royal Academy this year, and three of them were sold for $5.875. Ladies Cap Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating aching feet, ingrowning nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N X. Historian's Old Home The old home of Francis Parkham, the historian, near the pond at Jamaica Plain, is now included in the park system of Boston. The spot is to be marked by a memorial. Mrs. Austin has just come to Town. The state which produced the largest corn crop last year was Illinois, with 247,000,000 bushels. Half an hour is all the time required to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. A man in Calaveras county, California, is hatching pheasants in incubators. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Mosquitoes have no pedigree, yet they are often full-blooded. Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. The more solid comfort is the softer time a man seems to have. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind coffe. Zoe a bottle. Comes round in time—the hour hand. Mrs. Austin has just come to Town. PAINT RISKS The risks in painting are three: materials, mixing, putting on. With best lead and oil you take two; with ordinary mixed paint three; with Devoe ready paint none. On each package is this label: If you have any fault to find with this paint at any time, either now in painting or after in the wearing, tell your dealer about it. We authorize him to do what is right about it at our expense. Paint-safety for you in Devoe as in no other. · Pamphlet on painting free if you mention this paper. GOOD-PAINT DEVOE, CHICAGO. Civilization of People Not Concerned About Knowledge Job Hedges says: "Three wise men discussed the highest civilization. One opined that an appreciation of art and music marked the most cultured man. The second said that the philosopher appeared to have the firmest grasp upon civilization—a Darwin, a Tyndall, a Huxley, a Spencer. The third, whose life seemed saddened, remarked: 'My brothers, you are theorists. The end of civilization is happiness. The highest civilization, therefore, is found in actual life by people who are not concerned about the comforts of others. To my mind that family which in the ordinary course of housekeeping can succeed in making the most hideous rumblings and noises in trundling their carpet sweepers, which they have brought from the country, etc., and who, not allowing books or newspapers to bind them down to miserable quiet, sit Sunday afternoon and every evening thumping upon floor or wall in such manner as to excite the admiration and envy of the neighbors—that family, I say, possessed of such angelic adolescence and zealous tact, can lay claim to a higher degree of civilization than your art connoisseur and philosopher.'"—New York Press. New York and Pennsylvania pay members of the legislature $1,500 a year; Maine pays them $150 a year. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement in another column of this paper. Henry III. of Germany had a complexion so dark that he might easily have been mistaken for a negro. 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Address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY, St. Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, Indiana. MountSt.Joseph College and Academy, DUBUQUE, IOWA. Conducted by Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Academy accredited to the University of Iowa. Excellent facilities offered for the Education of Young Women and Children. Conservatory of Music and Art on European plan. One mile from Dubuque City. Direct railroad connections with leading cities, St. Paul, Minneapolis, etc. Commands view of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Grounds cover 20 acres. Golf links, tennis courts, groves and pineries. Finely equipped buildings; private rooms. Three general courses of study. English and Normal for pupils preparing to take teachers' examinations. English and Classical and English and Scientific. Thorough Business course. Private pupils received. Session begins Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1901. For Catalogue address SISTER SUPERIOR, Mount St. Joseph, Dubuque, Iowa. 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CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` The Enterprise, of Omaha, seems very much put out because the Republican state convention of Nebraska failed to pass resolutions condemning the wholesale disfranchisement of the Negro in the South. It may not be improper to remind the Enterprise that the Republican state convention of Maryland also ignored the colored brother, although the lily-white leaders of the party had something to say on all other issues, which means that the Negro will always be the under dog in the fight as long as he hugs the delusive idea that the lily-white leaders of the Republican party will right his wrongs, and in time he will learn that he must rely on his own strong arms to do that. Oct. 4 the twenty-fifth annual congress of the American Secular Union and Free Thought Federation convenes in Teck's Theater, Buffalo. All liberals in religion are invited to attend this important session, which lasts three days, from Oct. 4. Reduced fares can be obtained from all points to Buffalo, for this gathering. The object of the American Secular Union and Free Thought Federation, as is well known, is to secure the total seperation of church and state, to the end that equal rights in religion, genuine morality in politics and freedom may be established throughout the country. Right now is the time for all liberals to have the courage to stand up and work for the cause of true liberalism in all things, and for the future welfare of all the sons and daughters of humanity. A writer in The Freeman says: "There was considerable discussion in the National Negro Business League as to why the average Negro was not a success in business, and why one colored person did not want to work for another. Now I will say that the answer is very easy to give, and it is this: The average Negro has never learned to pay his honest debts promptly, or, in other words, when they are due, and in too many instances he does not pay them at all. If the Negro ever expects to do business he must learn to pay his debts when they are due." The above item is full of truth, for it is no exaggeration to say that no other race of people on earth delight in escaping from paying their honest debts to the same extent as the Negro race. It is also true that generally the Negro will cheerfully pay the debts which he owes to the white man; but if he can get out of it he would rather not pay what he owes to his colored brother, for he does not want to make him rich. In company with one of our doctor friends, we attended the reception given in honor of the members of the National Negro Business League, and it was really amusing to us to see swell dressed men and women who want to be known as ladies and gentlemen, darting and hiding like jack-rabbits in order not to come in contact with the doctor and ourselves, for they knew that they had failed to keep their promises in adjusting their doctor and newspaper hills. Just how long pensions may continue illustrated by the fact that there are still four widows of revolutionary soldiers on the rolls. According to the same continuation and considering the average of life increasing, this government may be paying pensions on account of the Spanish war as late as 2018. It will not be for any lack of applications, which already number 44,000, of which nearly 4,000 have been granted. And the revolutionary wards are not the only ones with long lives, for within the past year two widows of the war of 1812 and 325 widows of the Mexican war were added to the list. Souls can not be estimated in shekels, says the Evangelist, and yet there does seem to be an unwelcome significance in the fact that, as some one has estimated last year, the sum of $3,300,000 was expended in Greater New York for the current expenses of Protestant churches, while the increase in membership was only 5,278. Yet the fault, continues the Evangelist, of these facts is not to be blamed wholly upon the members of the churches, as so many very glibly say, but in large measure to be attributed to the desperately wicked worldliness of great masses of our time, who, in spite of all manner of gospel advantages and appeals, go on their way, like Gallio of old, caring for none of these things. The butter of Denmark is considered superior to that of all other countries. It brings the highest price in fancy markets, and can be found all over the world in shops where luxuries are sold. In South America, South Africa, in the East and West Indies, in India, Egypt, and in tropical countries generally it is used by epicures, who pay $1 a pound for it in tins of one, two and three pounds' weight. No other country has been able to produce butter that will stand changes of climate so well. In Holland and Sweden attempts are made to compete with the Danish dairymen, but the butter from those countries is worth only half as much and does not keep half as well, while the efforts of dairymen in the United States have practically failed with a few isolated exceptions. HOME MADE PHILOSOPHY. A boy and a cat never forget a deception or an injury. It is the early worm that catches the eye of the hungry bird. The blue laws are for the poor, the long green are for the wealthy. Some statesmen make better citizens on the cooling board than they do in congress. The greatest sinner in the world is the fellow who is too honest to hide his faults. I suppose the mouse often wonders why God doesn't feed the cat on hay or corn fodder. Some people would rather give a dollar to charity than an extra dime a day to the hired girl. The labor unions of today have a greater tendency to divide labor, than to unite laboring men. There are men and newspapers that condemn nothing that is wrong, nor praise anything that is right. The woman who is too anxious to show her modesty, hasn't got much of the article to put on exhibition. The most selfish man I ever knew didn't even call his wife to see him die. He wanted to enjoy it all by his lonely self. I don't mind so much about the American eagle going abroad if she didn't take so many human vultures along. The women and the rag man like to deal together, because both parties feel that they got something for almost nothing. Hoarding up wealth is like building up a pyramid of sand along the turbulent river; when the flood comes it is soon washed away. Some people shed too many political tears over oppressed humanity, and shed too little truth in regard to the process of oppression. If the day never comes when men will divulge their secrets to each other, the day of perfect civilization will never dawn on earth. The vainest man I ever saw, was the fellow who would call his wife at midnight and make her light the lamp to see him suffer with toothache. The wind turns the weather vane, but the best weather vane can't turn the wind. Just so with men who pretend to make political conditions. The flea that interrupts the dog that is chasing the rabbit, is like the corporation that pays starvation wages to its men—robbing the creature from which it sucks its blood. Sheep and laboring people were not exactly created to be shorn, but they seem to enjoy the process better than starving.—Finnickey Finnukin, in Pennsylvania Grit. LESSONS FOR CHILDREN. The least part of children's education is that which they get from books. They should be taught a thousand things at home in early life to make them good members of society. They should be taught to treat their elders with respect. They should be taught to wipe their boots when they come in on wet days. They should be taught to speak softly, and answer when spoken to, and not to contradict. They should be made to sit still on occasions when they are in the drawing room with grown-up people. They should be taught to use their forks and spoons judiciously, not to spill their food, or to make unpleasant noises in eating. They should be taught not to expect to hear their own voices on every occasion, and not to interrupt older people's conversation. They should be taught to shake hands with people in meeting or parting, and to bow to people they know in the streets. They should be taught not to stare rudely or to make audible remarks upon persons and things about them.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. WORDS OF THE WISE Economy is the good genius whose presence guides the footseps of every prosperous man.—Dr. Wise. Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strang men believe in cause and effect.—Emerson. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.—Ruskin. Remember all who have ever shown us any kindness. May we never forget to be grateful.—Henry Ward Beecher. The obese man who is anxious to lose a little flesh should try a safety razor. A baking powder manufacturer ought to succeed in getting up in the world. "Doctor, your tonic made a new man of me." "A new man? Well, how is he off financially?" Joe—If you have anything mean to say about a man say it to his face. Billy—Oh, it will get around to him almost as quick. One day an Irishman who had got his legs broken in a railway accident was advised to sue the railway company for damages. "Sue them for damages, is it?" said he. "Sure Ol've damages enough already; but Ol'll sue them for repairs." DR. JOSEPH JEFFREY, Physician and Surgeon, 409 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Hours: 8-10 a. m., 8-4, 6-8 p. m. JAMES T. CRAIG, Coal, Wood & Ice General Expressing and Moving. 5001 ARMOUR AVE. CHICAGO, ILL C. E. DOSWELL BARBER, SHAVING. Hair Cutting and Shampooing done in artistic style. Basors put in order. 118 West 51st Street, Chicago. If your nearest druggest does not have the Original Ozenized 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 Ozenized Ox-Marrow Co., 76 Wabash 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 unscaled for is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. Read and subscribe for The Broad Az, the only newspaper in Chicago which "hews to the Lima." THE FOX AND THE CROW. A crowd, having secured a piece o. cheese, flew with its prize to a lofty tree, and was preparing to devour the luscious morsel, when a crafty fox, halting at the foot of the tree, began to cast about how he could obtain it. "How tasteful," he cried, in well-feigned ecstasy, "is your dress; it cannot surely be that your musical education has been neglected. Will you not oblige?" "I have a horrid cold," replied the crow, "and never sing without music, but since you press me—— At the same time, I should add that I have read Aesop, and been there before." So saying she deposited the cheese in a safe place on the limb of the tree, and favored him with a song. "Thank you," exclaimed the fox and trotted away, with the remark that Welsh rabbits never agreed with him, and were far inferior in quality to the animate variety. Moral.—The foregoing fable is supported by a whole Gatling battery of morals. We are taught (1) that it pays to take the papers; (2) that invitation is not always the sincerest flattery; (3) that a stalled rabbit with contentment is better than no bread, and (4) that the aim of art is to conceal disappointment.—Lanigan's Fables. A test of a cannon that throws a shell designed to scatter oil on boisterous waves was made by Mr. F. F. Kaufmann of Camden, N. J., in the Delaware river near Riverton. The shell is of wood and conical in shape. It contains two gallons of fish oil. At one end of the projectile is a vent. This is covered with paper, which is blown off as the shell leaves the piece, allowing the oil to escape. In this way it is the purpose of the inventor to calm a rough sea for the distance of a mile, making a smooth path for a lifeboat to make her way to disabled vessels. 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: 263 Harrison. 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, 200 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2383. 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. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. TELEPHONE MAIN 1762. HARD AND SOFT COAL, Wood, Charcoal, Coke and Ice, Expressing and Moving a Specialty. 832 29th St. Chicago, Ill. 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One can easily see that the men invented those titles, not the women. ```markdown ``` HEAVY MACHINERY. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office. 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4928 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. 440 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St. 5040 Armor Ave. POOL AND BILLIARDS BRAXTON'S ....PLACE SAMPLE ROOM Fine Wines and Liquors Imported and Domestic Cigars 260 West Lake St. JIM GEORGE IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. CHIOAGO, IL. Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Etc. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO. TELEPHONE MAIN 3292 There are three things that a child may do with the world that surrounds him. He may appropriate it; he may run away from it; he may fight it. These three types of action sum up the efforts of a man's life, from the cradle to the grave. They spring from three emotions, the most fundamental and the most difficult to control. These are sympathy, fear and anger. What a child sympathizes with, what he fears, what he gets mad at—this will determine very largely what he shall become. The training of these emotions should, therefore, be the primary aim of every parent and teacher. This fact has not been generally recognized. And because it has not, the world is full of men and women who sympathize unwisely, fear unwisely, fight unwisely and live miserably.—Pennsylvania Grit. A Holy Brick. The Italian steamship Regina Margherita, lately arrived at Buenos Ayres from Italy, has brought one of the most extraordinary parcels that has ever appeared is the manifest of any vessel, i. e., a holy brick. We do not mean a jolly friar in holy orders. He would not be manifested. We mean a real brick, a squared mass of burned clay, declared to be holy because it was taken from the Holy Gate in the vatican. The parcel is forwarded by the pope to Argentina as a mark of special distinction.—Argentina Times. John D. Cory 154. LaSalle Street. Timid Children. Many children, especially highly strung children, are troubled with their nerves. Night terrors are very common among imaginative children. The little one will be tucked up quite comfortably perhaps and seem sleeping and then begin to imagine that there is a bear or a wolf in the room. One bright youngster used to lie in mortal terror that an earwig would come out of a hole into his brain. There he used to lie, the clothes tightly held over his little head, shaking with fear, wet with perspiration, ashamed to tell his fears. Some children, however, cannot contain themselves after a certain time, but give vent to piercing screams and yells, or, having fallen asleep, wake sobbing.—Detroit Free Press. It is remarkable how the fashion for wearing sandals has developed. At a single shop belonging to a firm which has been devoting itself to sandal-making orders have been taken during the last eight weeks for no fewer than 12,000 pairs. These have, however, not been from wholesale houses, but from private individuals. These sandals are not, as might be supposed, merely intended for children's wear, but a great many men and women have gone in for them, and the watering places may therefore be confidently expected to blossom forth with pilgrims shod with sandals.—Manchester Courier