The Broad Ax

VOL. VI. REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY, AND THE ACCESSION OF COL THEODORE ROOSVIELT TO THE PRESIDENCY. The sudden death of President William McKinley at Buffalo, early last Saturday morning, after it had been proclaimed to the world by Senator Mark Hanna, and by many of the most eminent physicians and surgeons, that within a few days from that time the President would be signing state papers. The rapid journey of Vice-President Roosevelt to Buffalo from the mountains in the interior of New York State to be sworn in as President of the United States. The universal mourning and sorrow on the part of the people over the tragic death of William McKinley. The awe-inspiring, grand imposing and impressive services held over his remains at Canton, Ohio, Thursday, and in many other sections of the country. The suspension of business and traffic of every description for five minutes throughout the entire Republic. Millions upon millions of American freemen with uncovered heads singing "Nearer My God, to Thee," as if one man or person. The uprising against the anarchists in all parts of the world since the death of President McKinley, will for many years furnish food and thought for writers, orators, statesmen and theologians. No man or person since the days of Alexander the Great has received the homage of the people to the extent that the late President has, having no more worlds to conquer Alexander was cut off in the prime of life, his body was incased in a coffin of pure gold, lined with alabaster; three years were consumed in transporting it to its final resting place, and his funeral-pageant was witnessed by millions of his subjects. The whole world, as it were, was darkened by the weeping and mourning of the people over the loss of their ruler and military hero. The demonstration over the remains of the late President also reminds us of the cays or the time when the Roman Empire was at the height of its glory and prosperity. In those days it was no uncommon sight to behold millions of Romans in all their military grandeur following to the grave the remains of their emperor, ruler or warrior, whom they adored and esteemed. This same idea is implanted in the breasts of the people everywhere. If a man is a dashing warrior like the President was, he will have no difficulty in gaining or winning the admiration of the masses. If he can devise some plan or scheme to unite or bring together the people who had regarded each other as enemies, as William McKinley did, he will be looked upon as a great diplomat and statesman; if he is able to wage a war on a weak race of people and bring it to a successful termination, thereby extending the domain of the Republic to the uttermost bounds of the earth, which means rapid strides forward in commercialism, he will go down in history as the greatest President that this country has thus far produced. Right at this time, while the vast majority of the people are overwhelmed with grief and sorrow, all these things and many more have been ascribed unto Mr. McKinley; not that the writer has any desire to detract from the greatness of the late President, for with the rest of the people we firmly believe he was honest in his dealings with his fellow men, that his moral character was above reproach, that he was a kind and loving husband, that he was a great diplomat and politician. Here this fact must be impressed upon the minds of those who may not agree with us, that it is the plain though often unpleasant duty of the historian to record facts and events as they are and not to twist them out of shape for the purpose of simply tickling the fancy or the ears of the unthinking rabble. Therefore we cannot consistently class William McKinley with the bold and original thinkers and statesmen of the past, for in all his political career he never carved out a new path for the great mass of humanity to tread in; he shrank back from leading the people when they clamored for the war with Spain; he did not favor it, but when he observed that the people were determined to plunge this country into another war in the interest of commercialism, he yielded to their wishes and we had and have the war. Mr. McKinley was very diplomatic and a man of policy from head to foot, he believed in commercialism in all of its ramifications; this idea became a part of his nature, so much so that he thought it was necessary to sacrifice the lives of many thousands of loyal citizens on the altar of commercialism in order to reunite the Northern and the Southern people. President McKinley favored the disfranchisement of the Negroes residing in the Southern states, or at least he never spoke out against it. He knew that the law-making bodies of the South did not propose to deny ignorant white men the use of the ballot, but their measures are and were only to apply to ignorant Negroes, but Mr. McKinley did not deem that it was his duty to prevent or attempt to prevent the Southern people from assailing the constitutional rights of the Negro; no doubt he would have done so if the majority of the people would have urged him to do it but as they did not, seemingly he was content to let things drift along as they were. This proves that Mr. McKinley was a good diplomat and a keen politician, that he always held his car close to the ground so he could catch the voices or the whisperings of the people and trim his sails accordingly, and in these latter days of commercialism, when women and little children, in order to earn food and raiment, and everything else, must bow and bend to commercialism or to the great commercial kings. It might be that Mr. McKinley was right in adhering to the course which he pursued, but we hardly think so, for it is our humble opinion that his governmental policies were unconducive to the best interests of the mases, but rather tended to favor the classes. If President Theodore Roosevelt possesses the courage and the manhood to speak out in thunderous tones against mob and lynch law; if he uses the great power vested in him as President of the United States in an honest effort to protect each and every citizen (though he may be humble and lowly) in his constitutional rights; if he will say to England that she must cease from endeavoring to crush out the Boers in South Africa, his course as President will meet with the highest approbation of all liberty-loving Americans. SUPPOSED NEGRO IS WHITE. Wichita Kan., Sept. 17.—The man who assaulted Mrs. Wadell Monday night was caught tonight by the blood-hounds and proved to be a white man blackened with burnt cork and not a Negro—The Chicago Chronicle. It is very strange indeed that this incident of finding a white man disguised as a Negro should attract such little attention on the part of the white Press for it seems that they did not take the trouble to ascertain the name of this white brute or scoundrel who assaulted Mrs. Wadell and then endeavored to fasten the crime on the Negro race. We have every reason to believe that within the last twenty-five years that many hundred white men have for the purpose of gratifying their beastly and lustful passions upon their female friends and at the same time enjoy their friendship and appear as gentlemen, used burnt cork as a means of enabling them to accomplish their hellish and damnable desires, and after doing so they have been the first ones to follow the blood-hounds after some innocent Negro, string him up to a tree, riddle his body with bullets or dance around his form chained to a stake like blood-thursty savages or cannibals. For a first-class shave or hair-cut call and see, C. H. Doswell, the university barber, 116 West 51st street. Agent for The Colored American Magazine. HEW TO THE LINE. T. E. AMERICAN SLAVERY. MacArthur Tells of Slavery Under the Stars and Stripes. (Indianapolis Sentinel.) For thirty years the sincere and consistent champions of American liberty fought for the emancipation of the COL. THEODORE The Twenty-Sixth President Southern slave. For thirty years they struggled to direct public sentiment against the slave pens and the whipping posts that gave the lie to the Declaration of Independence. Newspapers took up the fight, and their buildings were burned to the ground. Orators entered the arena, and were compelled to fight their way out from mobs with bowie knives and revolvers. Congress took up the question, and the nation shook to its foundation. Gradually the national conscience was aroused. The underground railway enlisted the service of the best blood in the nation. The movement toward emancipation grew in magnitude until section was arrayed against section and the inevitable conflict was on. The strong men of the North and South finally sanctioned the sentiment of Lincoln—"a nation cannot exist half slave, half free"—and so the sections clashed. For four frightful years this war to purge the land of slavery and make the Stars and Stripes the banner of the free was waged. Thousands upon thousands of the men of the North and South laid down their lives. Thousands of homes were desolated. Fields were laid waste and magnificent plantations given to the torch. Wealthy families found themselves face to face with destitution. And when at length peace came again the national debt, the desolation, the newmade graves staggered the credulity of the world. And yet we were content. We had paid the debt of ancestral wickedness. We had purged the land of slavery. We had rewritten the Declaration of Independence with the blood of our trust and our best. Forty years have elapsed. The other day Gen. MacArthur in a government report concerning his work in the Phillippines made the following statement: "Whenever a question relating to slavery comes before me I simply make the owners prove that they are slaves, in which case I have nothing to do with them (slaves)." Once more the government of the United States recognizes the institution of slavery beneath the flag. Once more the army of the United States is active—but this time in defense of the slave-owner. Slavery under the flag recognized and protected by the flag! The other day a Chicago music teacher with no sense of humor translated "The Star Spangled Banner" into Spanish for use in the schools of the Philippines. Just fancy these children, whose parents died fighting for their liberty and who feast their eyes upon the legalized slave pen and whipping post, singing: "Tis the star spangled banner! Oh. E ROOSEVELT. of the United States. long may it wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!" TO BUILD A MONUMENT. Bethel A. M. E. Congregation Plans The congregation of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which is located on the corner of 30th and Dearborn streets, in Chicago, has on foot a project to erect at Canton, Ohio, a monument in honor of President McKinley. The following committee was chosen at a meeting of the congregation Sunday evening, Sept. 15, to formulate plans. The committee consists of the Rev. A. L. Murray, John G. Jones, Richard E. Moore, John C. Buckner. E. H. Morris, A. H. Roberts, C. R. Johnson. Representative John G. Jones offered the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted by rising vote: Whereas, we have learned with profound sorrow and regret of the death of His Excellency, Wm. McKinley, President of the United States, and, Whereas, we deem it fitting and proper, as members of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church to give an expression of the sincere loss that this nation has sustained by his death. Therefore, be it Resolved, that we recognize in his death that the nation has lost one of its most valued, progressive and distinguished citizens, a wise and patriotic statesman, a faithful and watchful public servant for whose loss this country mourns. Resolved Further, that the Pastor, Rev. A. L. Murray, of this church, be requested to appoint a committee of seven (7) for the purpose of formulating a plan to build a monument at Canton Ohio, in memory of this distinguished hero. Resolved, that we here extend to his family our sincere and heart felt sympathy in this hour of bereavement. Brief but eloquent addresses were made by Representative John G. Jones and Rev. A. L. Murray. Sunday Sept. 22 Attorney Beauregard F. Moseley discusses the proposition, before the South End Club, "What is the best thing for the Negro to do for his advancement and success in this country?" At the conclusion of the colonel's talk, discussion follows. ```markdown ``` DEMOCRACY'S VOICE UNHEEDED (Johnstown Democrat.) The democratic party for years has been seeking to overcome tendencies in government which it knew to be breeding anarchy. It has recognized the peril to our institutions involved in building up a monstrous fabric of class privilege. It has shown that in sowing the wind of class favors we are bound sooner or later to reap the whirlwind of class hatred. And it has sought in an orderly way by invoking the spirit of civic virtue to check the reckless progress of class selfishness and class greed as exemplified in shameless laws which brought want and sorrow into thousands of homes and bitterness and revolt into tens of thousands of hearts. CHIPS. John Anderson, 6610 Laffin street, who is one of the hard Republican workers of the 31st Ward, is being favorably mentioned for County Commissioner. The Phyllis Wheatly Club holds its first regular meeting Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 2 p. m. at 164 47th street (Butler Mission). Election of new officers and full report of the Buffalo convention. Mrs. M. L. Clay, of Memphis, Tenn., is visiting Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, 4603 Armour avenue. Mrs. Clay contemplates spending two weeks in the Winplates spending two weeks in the Windy City. Hon. Frank Wenter, also a valuable member of the Drainage Board, who presided over the last city convention, is also spoken of as the one most likely to receive the nomination for County Treasurer. Mr. Thomas A. Smyth, the Drainage Trustee, is being freely mentioned in connection with the nomination for County Treasurer. Mr. Smyth is a strong man in the ranks of the Democratic party and he would make a winning race. State Senator Barney J. Maguire, always has a warm spot in his big heart for worthy colored people. He not orly treats them with consideration, but he gives them employment, and Col. R. A. Ware, is his right hand man in his buffet, 430 State street, corner of Polk street. Mr. William Howard Fitzgerald, the polished and gentlemanly assistant corporation counsel, who is an able lawyer in every respect, should feel proud of the fact that he has numoreus friends who would be delighted to hear of his selection as one of the new judges of Cook County in 1902. The Western Newspaper Union, which is the largest and most extensive institution of its kind in this country, and the best and fairest to deal with, struck a popular chord by presenting each and every one of its many patrons with a beautiful portrait of the late President William McKinley. Those Negroes who assisted in mobbing and lynching another Negro at Wickliffe, Ky., last week, are not one whit better than the white savages who engage in the same pastime for fun, and that emotional class of Negroes who are not in favor of permitting the law to take its course in all things have no right or excuse to complain against the treatment which they receive from the hands of the lawless whites. A number of so-called respectable citizens residing near the home of Attorney John F. Geeting in Norwood Park, endeavored to inflict bodily harm upon him and his family several nights ago, simply because Mr. Geeting, as a lawyer, had been retained to defend Miss Emma Goldman. We are glad to note that those unruly anarchists who attempted to terrorize over Mr. and Mrs. Geeting, did not succeed in causing him to shrink from doing his sworn duty. Tuesday evening, Sept. 17, Mr. and Mrs. Knox Bond, 6050 Green St.; gave a card and dancing party, which was greatly enjoyed by the forty-odd NO. 48. guests who assembled within the parlers of their pleasant home. Mrs. Horper and Mrs. Stedrick, of New York City, daughters of Mr. Bond, were present, and these ladies after passing two months with relatives and friends here in Chicago, left for their homes in the East Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Lewis, 3013 Dearborn street, gave an informal luncheon Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Lewis' niece, Miss Maude Bush, who left Thursday for Louisiana, where she will resume her duties as teacher in one of the large educational institutions of that state. Many were present to bid Miss Bush farewell and wish her success in her new field of labor. Miss Bush possesse charming ways and she made many friends while visiting in this city. Doctor Mary E. Walker narrowly escaped from being mobbed at Syracuse, N. Y.. Wednesday, for saying that "President McKinley was a murderer, because he killed the poor Filipinos." In all parts of the country people are being sent to prison, mobbed, tarred and feathered and driven from their homes for expressing their honest opinions in reference to President McKinley. Never in the history of the country have the people showed so much contempt for law and order. The 33rd precinct of the 31st ward contained nine square miles of territory, which made it the largest precinct in the city, but through the efforts of Alderman William M. Butterworth, it is now divided up into two precincts, thereby enfranchising 75 voters who were disfranchised by reason of the fact that they resided in Clarkdale. Alderman Butterworth knows how to look after the interests of the people living in the 31st Ward, and in time they may decide to send him to Congress. Rev. Moses M. Jackson, the honest and fearless pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, 34th and Dearborn streets, delivered a sermon last Sunday night on the death of President McKinley, and among many other good things he said that "tears had been shed in his household for Mrs. McKinley, over the loss of her husband, and while he deeply sympathized with her in her hours of sorrow and affliction and greatly deplored the striking down of President McKinley by the hand of an assassin." But Rev. Jackson, contended that "he was free to confess that his tears would be shed for the widows and little children who are scattered throughout the South, whose husbands and fathers have been muredered burnt at the stake and otherwise horribly tortured, upon trumped-up charges." These sentiments as expressed by Rev. Jackson, are the sentiments of many of the would-be leaders of the Negro race, but they lack the courage to stand up and speak out in open meeting. Each and every mutton-headed member of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, the grand old commonwealth which in days gone by was the cradle of Free Speech and Liberty, decided or voted in favor of suppressing or denying free speech in that state from now henceforth. The members of the convention maintain that free speech was the cause of the death of President McKinley. If those lunatic Virginians feel that it is their duty to do something for the good of their state and the country at large let them lay hold of United States Senator Ben R. Tillman and execute him the same day that Czolgosz is put to death, for Senator Tillman is one of the most dangerous anarchists running at large. For he preaches anarchy in the United States Senate, in universities, and before audiences of the most cultured Christians, who applaud the remarks of this red-eyed anarchist while he is engaged in urging them to take the law or the laws into their own hands and murder innocent men, women and children. The area under wheat in Manitoba exceeds 2,000,000 acres. WILL promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Permanent Shall, Protestant, Knights of Labor, Emancipation, Necessity, Republican, Priests, or any other can have their say, no longer than their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. JOHN P. TAYLOR, Mitter and Publishers The Nebraska State Game Warden has forbidden the farmers to fight the grasshoppers longer with poison, saying that the loss of birds and game is too costly a price to pay for the destruction of comparatively few insects. A famous entomologist says that not one mosquito in four hundred ever tastes human blood. To know how to avoid making the acquaintance of that one is the important thing, and on that problem the scientists seem to be making good progress. By the will of the late Jacob H. Rogers, the locomotive builder, the bulk of his fortune, possibly eight million dollars, is left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as an endowment fund, the income to be used for the purchase of objects of art. This will place the museum on a splendid footing. Commander-in-Chief Frederick St. George de la Tour Booth Tucker of the Salvation army, is now a citizen of the United States. The commander has secured his final naturalization papers, having been in the United States the required five years. He will vote at the coming election but will not say what ticket he will indorse. A railroad company that operates coal mines in Pennsylvania recently prevented its striking miners from interfering with non-union workmen, who were employed in pumping water out of mines, by building a barbed wire fence seven feet high about the pump house and dynamo plant and then charged it heavily with electricity. Youthful aspirants who plan to make a living by writing poetry ought to note the fact that the livelihood of the English poet, Austin Dobson, was earned as principal of the fisheries and harbor department of the Board of Trade. He has just resigned after nearly half a century of service. A few men only can earn fame as poets. Power still are they who can trust to the productions of their muse to pay the butcher's bill. As soon as the weather will permit and proper locations can be selected, there will be pitched near Boston the first of a number of camps for consumptives. This camp (and each succeeding camp will be like it) will consist of ten piano-box tents, arranged in a circle, with an open-air fire in the center, and surrounded by a duck wall eight feet high. Each of these tents will be a consumptive's home; a consumptive will sleep there, even through the coldest weather, with no other protection than plenty of felt blankets, felt sleeping boots, and a two-inch gallon jug of hot water. As a result of a tangle in the steering gear of his automobile, Arthur Fasker of Philadelphia met with a peculiar accident. He started to take a spin down to Baltimore recently, but turned aside from the high road when a few miles out from the city. He was coursing at a speed of eleven miles when suddenly, without apparent cause, the machine spurted and veered to one side. It was going at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour when it jumped a fence and struck a tree. Fortunately, instead of being an upright tree, it was leaning, and instead of being crushed by the impact the machine slid up the tree and lodged in the branches, forty-five feet from the ground. Mr. Fasker was unhurt. He climbed out of the seat and slid down the tree and walked to a farm house, where he hired a farmer to bring him to town. According to the Medical Record, a gang of swindlers has been playing a despicable trick on numerous pharmacists in Brooklyn. A man goes to a drug store with a simple prescription, has it made up, and takes the mixture away with him. In an hour or two, or the following day, the purchaser returns with the medicine, which he says he gave to his wife or child, as the case may be, and that the patient was nearly killed by poison which was there through the blunder of the compounder. He says his physician has analyzed the mixture and demonstrated the presence of poison, and he allows the druggist to test it then and there. The poison is, of course, found, as the swindler has added it himself, and he thereupon announces his determination to sue the druggist for damages to atone for the results of his alleged blunder. If the pharmacist becomes frightened at the man of a suit for damages, and thinks it may be possible that a mistake has been made, he may accept the suggestion of the blackmailer to settle the case out of court. The amount of settlement is said to vary from $50 to At Derby, Conn., George Mechterschelmer has a raccoon which is about the most intelligent animal in that vicinity. He caught it while out hunting one day last spring and he brought it home to exhibit it to his friends. The raccoon was a little fellow, barely able to walk, and was put in a cage and placed at the back of the saloon. The little fellow would stand no fooling, however, and at the least attempt to approach him would snap and bite like a wild cat. He was well fed and everything done to make the animal comfortable. In time he became more tame and at last he was allowed the liberty of the saloon. He became a favorite with everybody who came in contact with him and soon learned how to do a number of tricks. He eats a dozen bananas a day and will go through the pockets of any one whom he knows, usually finding something. He and Rap, George's spaniel, are great chums and it is comical to watch the two together, the dog letting the coon get on his back and drive him around the place. The other night two dogs entered the saloon and the minute they set eyes on Pete, the coon, they went for him. Pete backed into a corner and, standing on his hind feet, used his forepaws like a prize fighter, and got in so many cross-swings, upper cuts and straight blows that he had both dogs licked in no time. They turned tail and ran out of the place for all they were worth, with Pete after them. He landed on the back of the larger dog and nearly drove that animal crazy by scratching and biting him. It was a victory for Pete and he seemed to realize it, for he walked up to where the bananas were kept and would not go away until he had one. GOLD FROM RIVER BEDS. New Machine Invented to Separate* How to get the precious metals which lurk in the beds of rivers in the southwest is a problem which mining men are trying to solve with the dredge. A canal is being dredged through the auriferous gravel beds along the Colorado river, just north of Yuma, and the gravel from the big scoop is washed at the rear of the machine in the water that follows from the river. Tests show that the dirt contains about sixteen cents worth of gold per cubic yard. With a crew of ten men the dredge can handle some 4,000 cubic yards daily. Although little was known of the Colorado river gravel deposits until a year ago placer mining has flourished for fifty years along the Colorado tributaries, which are rich in gold. Water has been so scarce for the last ten years that the miners have had to practice dry washing. This year, however, there is a plentiful supply owing to the heavy rains of last winter, and thousands of men are busy along the sandy shores. The richest stream, perhaps, is the Hassayampa river, which drains severl gold fields. A newly-invented dredging machine which is expected to handle gravel at small cost and extract the gold by a dry process, was lately put to work near Yuma. If it proves successful there is a big field for it in Arizona. Over in New Mexico Thomas Edison's scheme without using water has been undergoing a test for nearly a year. A company capitalized at $3,000,000 has bought a tract of land in the Oritz plazer region of that territory and hope to make immense fortunes out of it by the aid of Edison's invention. Paris is "Prig." The Parisiennes have a new English word. They think it more piquant than either "flirt" or "higlif" or "5 o'clock" or 'sportsmen.' This time it is "prig." A bonnet is prig; a bow of ribbon is prig; it is prig to go motorcarring dressed in white leather packets which can be cleaned with pipe clay, etc. An American woman hearing the proud reiteration of this upside-down expression among her French friends, threw cold water on the enthusiasts by explaining what the new word meant. Of course, it was dropped at once and replaced by another one—vingtieme—which seems to comprehend and express all the possible records, the various perversities and modern nervous complaints. One is vingtieme, and that means everything! There was a very rich man who went about enjoying himself. He possessed magnificent palaces, and his stud costs him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. One day, after his horses had made a particularly fine showing on the track, this man threw $40 to people in the street, who were soliciting for charity. Then there was a furore. Long reports of the act were telegraphed to all parts of the country. The man's portrait was hunted up for publication in a hundred papers. Editorials were written in his praise, and he was referred to as "one of nature's noblemen." Meanwhile, after giving to charity, he entertained a few friends at a little dinner, which cost him $350. It isn't the Lord alone who loves a cheerful giver.—Chicago Record-Herald. Peaches of Ozark Region. Seventy-five million peaches. One peach for every man, woman and child in the United States. This is the contribution which the Ozark fruit belt, centering in Howell and Oregon counties, has made to the world's peach crop in 1901.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 7 dresses the South End Club on Sunday,Sept. 22, on "What is the best thing for the Negro to do for his advancement and success in this country?" Words That Begin with "A." In fifty years the words and phrases of the English language lexiconized under the letter "A" have increased from 7,000 in number to nearly 60,000. Science and invention requiring new terms are largely responsible. LAWYER B. dresses the South End Club on Sunday, for the Negro to do for his advance RUNAWAY HORSES. They May be Checked by Very Simple Deserts Since the advent of automobiles and the spreading out of the trolley lines through country roads, not only in this country, but in Europe, the problem of preventing scared horses from running away has especially commended itself to inventors, and all sorts of devices have been evolved for the prevention of carriage accidents caused by skittish animals. In Paris the alarming increase in accidents—many of them fatal—caused by runaway horses scared by the "teuf-teuf" has induced the prefecture of police to experiment with devices for stopping runaways. One device with which they have been experimenting consists of an extra pair of blinders, mounted on the ordinary blinders and kept back by a spring. This spring is controlled by an extra rein, which passes between the ears of the horse and leads back to the hands of the coachman. If the horse becomes restive and shows an inclination to bolt the driver quietly pulls the rein and the extra blinders fall into place, completely blinding the animal. The most vicious or nervous steed is supposed to be cowed at once when he finds himself in complete darkness. The experiments have been so successful that it is proposed to make the use of this appliance compulsory in the French capital. An English invention is more complicated and cumbersome. It consists of a set of friction wheels hung beneath the body of the wagon in such a manner that by pushing a lever they can be brought down upon the other wheels and act as a brake to them. At the same time two reins leading from the horse's bit to the axle of the friction wheels are wound up and pull the horse's head short back. In Sicilian cities an appliance which is in general use, and has been for a long time, is an arrangement by which the wind of a horse is shut off when he attempts to run away. Nearly all the carriage horses in Palermo are stallions, and their drivers drive after the manner of Orientals and Latins, nervously, excitedly and as fast as the horse can be urged. Standing out from the nostrils of the stallions are little leather disks, which the pulling of a little rein by the driver clasps down upon the animal's nose, thus shutting off his wind if he tries to run away. AOTOR GILLETTE'S YAOHTING. His Boat Was Not as Speedy as Either Constitution or Shamrock. William Gillette, the actor, hides himself in summer as far away from crowds and newspaper personalis as possible. Often he uses his time constructing a new work, while Nat Goodwin calls "the Gillette play—a thing that acts itself." One summer Gillette hired a yacht, and as he tells the story, it was a craft without an equal. With a few friends he set sail from New York, and proceeded by way of the sound upon a cruise. They kept close to the shore, and a week or so after they left New York were drifting leisurely by a point of land at the end of which sat a solemn Yankee fishing. In a few hours the boat had passed the point, and the Yankee aroused himself from his contemplation of the water and asked, "Where are ye from?" "New York," replied Gillette, with a yachtman's pride. "How long?" "Since Aug. 1," shouted the yachtman again. The Yankee returned to his contemplation, and the yacht kept on drifting, but along in the afternoon there came a voice over the water, and it asked. "What year?"—Harper's Weekly. ```markdown ``` One Newspaper in Greenland. There is only one newspaper in Greenland. The proprietor not only edits and prints it, but puts on his snowshoes and distributes it to his subscribers, not a few of whom he has taught to read. F. MOSELEY. y,Sept. 22, on "What is the best thing ment and success in this country?" THE AVERAGE AMERICAN. What Census Statistics Show About His Qualities. Henry Gannett has divided the census totals by 76,000,000 and discovered the statistical average American. In Everybody's Magazine he gives a concise description of this interesting beink. He finds that he is an octooon with a dominant Anglo-Saxon strain Through all the mixture of German French, Irish, Scandinavian, and the nations of Southern Europe, the ancient Anglo-Saxon holds the mastery Physically, this average American-bear in mind he is the statistical average-is five feet eight inches in height has a chest measurement of thirty-six inches,and weighs 150 pounds. He probably looks over the heads of all European peoples, being nearly an inch taller than his English cousin and more than an inch taller than the German. However, both Englishmen and Germans are heavier. He is 37 years old. He expects to live thirty years, more than a year longer than his English and German cousins. His wife is 35 years old, five feet four inches in height, and weighs 126 pounds. She expects to live a year longer than her husband. He lives on a farm near Columbus, Ohio. He is worth about $5,000, having an annual income of $750. He pays taxes on 40 per cent. of the real worth of his property. His annual tax bill is $14.60. The family--there are three children--live on the fat of the land. If they lived in Europe they would be considered extravagant. They use not only domestic products, but imported goods. They consume 1,250 pounds of wheat flour, 600 pounds of oat and corn meal, 750 pounds of meat, or about two pounds a day; 750 pounds of potatoes, 100 pounds of butter, and 300 pounds of sugar. This family drinks more coffee than any similar family on earth, one pound a week being consumed. Tea is not popular, about five pounds a year sufficing. The cost of this menu is about $16 a month. The average American has vices. He uses twenty pounds of tobacco a year, or one ounce a day. Despite the fact that his father and grandfather used the weed, it does not appear to have hurt him. He is not a total abstainer. His family, of which he is the major portion, consumes seven and a half gallons of spirits and wine and not less than seventy-five gallons of beer. He uses less spirits and more malt liquors than did his ancestors. For clothing the annual bill is about $100. It is ready made, as are the shoes. His wife keeps no servant, and is a companion to her husband. He is the greatest newspaper and magazine reader on earth. He is alive to his opportunities, has a clear head, and aims to become the typical American, the man who will rule the world. The tallest men in Great Britain are to be found in the district of Galloway, in the south of Scotland, comprising the counties of Wigton and Kirkcudbright, where the records of stature give an average height of 5 feet 10% inches without shoes; while the northernmost or border counties of England have a decided superiority over the rest of England and Wales. With respect to the British Isles, the order of superiority in stature is: Scotland, 68.71 inches; Ireland, 67.90 inches; England, 67.35 inches, and Wales, 66.68 inches. The shortest stature is found in Wales, the Welsh border counties, and the southwest of England. The midland and eastern counties, occupied by people of more purely Saxon descent, are of medium size. 4 A MODERN CINDERELLA. "Little Patsy" Returns to Thank the Balloon for Her Rescue. A pretty little girl elegantly dressed, a perfect ray of sunshine, stepped out of a fine carriage that stopped opposite the police barracks, says the Atlanta Constitution, and asked an officer to direct her to the office of the chief of police. There was a lady in the carriage, but she kept out of sight. The little girl tripped lightly up the stone steps and walked into Chief Ball's office. "Is this the chief of police?" a voice sweet enough to belong to a choir of woodland choristers asked. "I am the chief," replied Chief Ball, "and I will be pleased to have my pretty little visitor take a seat." "Oh, no," she replied shaking her head until the golden hair rippled like sun-kissed waves. "I can't stay but a very little while. I came here to tell you what a very thankful little girl I am. You don't know me, perhaps, but maybe you will remember a poor little child who was taken from a hovel a few years ago by the good policeman. She was known then as Patsy, and she sold matches sometimes and picked up rags and old papers at other times. She was a poor, miserable and very, very wretched little girl. Her mother died, and her father had run away, and she was living with an old woman on Marletta street who drank whisky. The good policeman found her and she was taken away from the horrid old woman and placed in a home. Then one day a kind lady saw her and she said she wanted a little girl. So she was adopted, and since then she has had a good home and the dearest, sweetest mother in all the world." "And you were little Patsy?" the chief asked. "Yes, I was poor little Patsy," she replied as a tear almost dimmed the bright blue eyes. "And I came here to-day to tell you how thankful I am for what the good policeman did for me six years ago. Mamma, who is downstairs in the carriage, said she wanted me to thank you for her, too." "I am sure," said the chief, as his pretty visitor was about to leave, "that the police of Atlanta never did a better piece of work, and we are very proud and happy to know that Patsy has been so bountifully blessed." The child laid a bunch of roses on the chief's desk and slipped away. It would not be right to give her present name. She was once poor little Patsy, a walf, but Patsy is dead, and in her place there reigns as happy a little girl as ever carried with her sunshine into an Atlanta home. OUR COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY. United States Supplying Many Other Countries with Food. Agriculture and manufacture make commerce. 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 exploring 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. Great Britain ranked next, with $1,-050,611,000. Thus the United States has reached the commercial supremacy of the great exploring 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 twenty-five years 102 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. Formerly we imported great quantities of iron and steel, but now we are exporting these things. Ten years ago we had little or no production of tinplate, the importts being over 1,000,000,000 pounds in 1891, but last year we imported only 108,144,826 pounds, a little more than one-tenth of the importations of 1891, while in place of manufacturing little or no tinplate ten years ago we are now manufacturing nearly 1,000,000 pounds.—World's Work. Make Laws During Night. There is a very marked difference in the working methods of the United States congress and the British parliament which strike the visitor from one country to the other. Some of the things that seems peculiar to the American is the absence of clerks in the British assembly and the practice of members in wearing hats during the session. Some recent proposals that the hour of convening the British parliament be changed call attention to the striking difference between the working methods of that body and our own congress. Parliamentary sessions begin late and last far into the night. The parliamentary hours, indeed, have undergone a good many changes and it is only twelve years since a radical change was made in them—the house meeting at 3 instead of 4, and adjourning, nominally, at 12 instead of at some hour in the morning. Skeleton of Samotherium. A fossil skeleton of a samotherium has been discovered at the Greek village of Pikermi, thus proving that the fossils are geologically of the same date as those found in Samoa. RAILROAD NEWS. MR. SEAGRAVES LOCATES 200 FAMILIES IN COLORADO. Come from Northern Europe to Raise Sugar Beets. Mr. C. L. Seagraves, passenger agent of the Santa Fe, has returned from the sugar beet district of Colorado, and completed arrangements to locate two hundred families from northern Europe, the first fifty families to locate near Holly, about October 20. Mr. Seagraves said: "The leader of the colony is an expert agriculturist, and has visited and carefully investigated all sections of the United States, and pronounced the Arkansas valley the most promising of any section visited, on account of the superb climate, rich soil and the most perfect irrigation system in the world, backed by a reservoir supply with sufficient water to irrigate all the lands for two years without a drop of rain, thus insuring the farmers against failure of crops. After the first movement the balance will follow as fast as homes can be provided for them." Mr. Seagraves advises that the farmers in the valley are very prosperous, and as that section will be densely populated and brought up to a high standard of cultivation, it will in five or six years become the richest and most prosperous community in the country. He says: "Sugar beets are a very profitable crop for the farmer and the only drawback is the laborious work in the thinning season which lasts about two weeks. This feature, however, is being overcome by labor brought into the valley from New Mexico, who contract to thin beets at so much per acre. "In the vicinity of Rocky Ford, where the land has been cultivated extensively, it is possible under only fair conditions to raise twenty tons of beets to the acre, while thrifty and industrious farmers grow from twenty-five to thirty tons to the acre, and in some instances as high as thirty-five tons. "The price of beets is determined according to their sugar content, the average being about $5 per ton. The cost of growing beets, including all labor, seed, as well as harvesting the crop in the fall is about $25 per acre, leaving the farmer $75 or more profit an acre for his beet crop. "The Arkansas valley of Colorado is considered the ideal sugar beet country, as they grow more tons to the acre and contain a larger percentage of sugar than beets grown anywhere in the world. The Rocky Ford factory is now rearranging some of its machinery, the beets being so rich they will not submit to the usual methods employed at the other factories "Cantaloupes are also a very profitable crop, and many growers estimate they will pay $100 an acre net. I saw two and one-half acres near Rocky Ford that yielded the grower one thousand dollars. This was on rented land of which the owner received one-third of the crop. This may be rather an exceptional case, but it proves what intensive farming will do. "Alfalfa, as well as small grains, do well and are profitable crops to grow. Vegetables of all kinds, poultry and dairy products command good prices, and a ready market in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and the mining camps. "Lands in the vicinity of Rocky Ford, before the erection of the sugar factory, that sold for thirty-five, forty and fifty dollars an acre, are worth today from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars an acre. The question is what is land worth that will net over and above all expenses from seventy-five to one hundred and twenty-five dollars an acre? "Lands in the Holly district and the very choicest in the valley and under a most perfect system of irrigation, with a never failing supply of water, a perpetual water right going with the land is selling at thirty-five dollars per acre, with ten per cent down and the balance in seven years at six per cent. The company will also build houses, barns, etc., on which they require fifty per cent down and the balance in seven years at six per cent. "The Dunkards and Mennonites are now colonizing large tracts of lands, while other settlers are pouring into the valley from all over the country. the valley from all over the country. Topeka State Journal, Sept. 2, 1901. Wed Without Formality. In Scotland the path to matrimony is broader and smoother than in England. The great holiday time in Glasgow is the fair week. All the shipyards are closed and man has time to marry. But many shirk the toll gates of the high road. Seventy irregular marriages took place this air in Glasgow. The method is simple and inexpensive. The couple take each other for man and wife before witnesses and then they go to the sheriff and ask for warrant to register. There is an absence of fuss and wedding cake which appeals to the modest and economical minds. Besides miners, laborers, engineers and shipyard workers generally, the seventy numbered a ventriloquist, a physician, a valet, a school board officer, a hotel-keeper, a coachman, a soldier, a sea captain, a lapidary and a motor car driver.—London Chronicle. Stout Gent—Well, sir, I'm a selfmade man. I began life as a barefooted boy. Thin Gent—Well, as far as I can make out. I wasn't born with shoes on, either. A GLOWING REPORT. AN INDIANA MAN COMPARES WESTERN CANADA WITH THE UNITED STATES. The Department of the Interior at Ottawa has just received from Mr. E. T. Holmes, the agent of the government stationed at Indianapolis, Ind., the following letter, which requires no comment. It is only necessary to state that Mr. F. Fisher, the writer of the letter is one of the most prominent of the Dunkards and a man upon whose word the utmost reliance can be placed. His home is at Mexico, Ind., and he will be pleased to substantiate verbally or in any other way all that he says in his letter. Anyone desiring information apply to nearest Canadian agent, whose addresses are here given: J. S. Crawford, 224 W. Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo. Benjamin Davies, 154% East Third street, St. Paul, Minn. T. O. Currie, Room 12 B, Callahan's block, 203 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. C. J. Broughton, 227 Monadnock building, Chicago, Ill. W. V. Bennett, 801 New York Life building, Omaha, Neb. W. H. Rogers, Watertown, South Da W. H. Rogers, Watertown, South Dakota. N. Bartholomew, 305 Fifth street, Des Moines, Iowa. Joseph Young, 51% State street, Columbus, Ohio. To My Many Friends-I am pleased to make a report to you of the pleasant visit my wife and I had in Western Canada. We visited the territories of Alberta, Assiniboia, and Saskatchewan, and found them far surpassing our imagination, but little did I expect to find such rich, loamy soil, so much of it, and so uniform in its level prairie lay. I do think the soil of Canada as a rule equals if not excels the finest prairie farm lands of Indiana. These lands are immense in their richness, and when once the sod is rotted and pulverized, it is as pliable and as easily cultivated as Indiana sandy soil. Western Canada, from my point of view, offers as fine opportunities for mixed farming as any place in my knowledge. The long, sunshiny days, together with the rich soil, produce very fine wheat, oats, barley, flax and other cereal products. There is scarcely any attempt to raise corn, except early varieties for table use. The season is too short to depend upon maturing field corn. From the standpoint of getting this land ready for the plow, I must say that I never saw such a vast extent, practically all ready so all that one has to do is to hitch up the plow and go to work. This is not the case with all the Canadian land, however; some of it has quite a bit of timber, much of it may be called brush land, and some of it has lovely forest groves, dotted here WISCONSIN FARM LANDS. The best of farm lands can be obtained now in Marinette County, Wisconsin, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway at a low price and on very favorable terms. Wisconsin is noted for its fine crops, excellent markets and healthful climate. Why rent a farm when you can buy one much cheaper than you can rent and in a few years it will be your own property. For particulars address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago. Rockefeller Pitcher Qualls John D. Rockefeller's favorite pastime outside of business hours is pitching quoits, at which he is said to be very clever. He was speaking of this game when some one asked him if he ever played golf. "Golf," was Mr. Rockefeller's reply. "I don't know anything about golf. I wouldn't even know how to hold my caddle." The Right Sort of Dictionary. Our dictionary makers appear to dodge the plurals of many words, which shows indecision or ignorance. The firm that publishes a work giving all approved plurals and the correct style of spelling them will meet a want that has long been pressing. Most of our dictionaries are slack wads.—New York Press. The Hood River Fruit Growers' union in Oregon recently received an order from a Chicago firm for 50,000 or 100,000 bushels of apples in bulk lots. The demand was too big for the supply, which this year will be about 90,000 boxes. 1 2 3 PAINT When you paint you want it, 1 to last; 2 look well; 3 protect your house. Some paint does 1, not 2 or 3; some does 2 awhile, not 1 or 3; lead and oil does 2 well, 3 fairly, 1 badly. Better have it all; 1 2 3 paint: Devoe ready paint; the best isn't too good. Get Devoe of your dealer; take nothing less. Pamphlet on painting sent free if you mention this paper. GOOD-PAINT DEVOE. CHICAGO. and there, thereby covering a hundred and sixty acres. I have no doubt but that this country excels as a grazing or ranching country, because they have such rich grass, having an abundance of rain to keep it fresh. They also have plenty of water streams, and as a rule water may be reached at a depth of from 20 to 40 feet. From this you can see there can be plenty of hay mown for winter feeding, and I have had reliable farmers to tell me that their stock will feed on hay alone, and be ready for market in the spring. Upon inquiring about the expense of raising a steer, a farmer replied that he did not consider it would cost any more than $4 or $6 to develop a three-year-old steer. I truly think Canada offers a fine opening for a young man or a man who is renting land in Indiana. One hundred and sixty acres of good black land will cost you on.y $10 at the time you enter it, and by plowing and cultivating five acres each year for three years, gives you one hundred and sixty acres of good land for $10. This land can be bought from the railroad companies, private corporations or the government for $3 to $4 per acre. From a financial standpoint, I believe that for a series of years (five) a young man can make $10 in Canada, whereas he would only make $1 here, and I feel sure that I spent more money to get my eighty acre farm in White county, Indiana, cultivated than it would cost me to cultivate eight hundred acres in Canada. This may seem a strong view to take of the matter, but when you take into consideration the clearing, ditching, fencing and the expensive breaking in of the stumps, and then compare the expense to that of land needing only the breaking, you will conclude that it is not such a wild or exaggerated statement as you might at first think. I enjoyed the balmy, breezy atmosphere, which was bracing and refreshing, and the cool nights which made it so pleasant for sleep. On making inquiries regarding the winters in this country, I learned that the people never suffer from the cold, as the weather is dry and invigorating, and in a great many places farmers and herders allow their stock to run outside the year round. One great advantage to the settlers in Western Canada is the free creameries established by the government and run exclusively in the interest of the farmer. I visited Thomas Daley, a farmer near Edmonton, Alberta, who showed the oats he had raised, some of which took the first prize at the Paris Exposition last year. The same yielded 110 bushels to the acre in 1899. Yours truly, FRANK FISHER, Mexico, Ind. It is officially estimated that there are 13,000,000 acres of virginal forest lands in Cuba. This is nearly one-half of the total area. The improvement of transportation facilities will bring some of this to market. It will include mahogany, ebony, grandilla, majagua, cedar, walnut, lignum-vitae, oak and pine. There are more than thirty species of palm, some of which have special uses. But timber cutting and sawing are for the specialist who "knows a tree" and has had experience in "making sawdust." It is an unsafe industry for the uninitiated. "OH, MAMA, Something is Biting Me." It is not itching piles that ails you or your child. It is the pin or seat worm that causes you or your child to have rectal trouble. Soon after retiring for the night the worm appears. It bites and stings and causes scratching and aching. Mothers know what it means when the child cries out: "Ma, Ma, something is biting me." And sure enough, upon examining her child, she finds the naughty, white, sharp pointed at both ends, the troublesome pin worm imbedded in the child's rectum. This worm causes more nervousness to young or old persons than any other disease. And the itching is not piles but pin worm. The only cure and harmless remedy is STEKETEE'S PIN WORM DESTROYER. Ask your druggist for Steketee's Pin Worm Destroyer. In order that you get the right medicine, send me 200 postage. Will send by return mail. Address GEO. G. STEKETEE, Grand Rapids, Mich. Please mention this paper. High Rate of Speed. "They were talking about an elevated road in New York City with a speed of 200 miles per hour." "It seems to me that there would be one serious objection to such a high rate of speed." "What is it?" "Well, suppose you wanted to get off at Forty-second street. You'd have to speak to the conductor about it the day before."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hoopaston, Ill., demands respectful attention. Its mayor serves for 50 cents a year and its councillmen for half as much. There has never been a saloon in the place, though it has now a population of 4,000, and its pavements, fire department, water supply and public works generally are all right. She—"Don't you find journalism rather thankless work?" He—"Oh, no. Almost everything I write is returned with thanks." Among the thousands of books that formed the library of E. J. Stanley, M. P., and recently sold by auction in London, was one precious product of the ingenuity of that arch-forger of Shakespeare, Samuel William Henry Ireland. It is the quarto volume which deceived the world when it was published in 1796, under the title of "Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare, including the tragedy of 'King Lear' and a small fragment of 'Hamlet,' from the original MSS. in the possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk street." In the book world the reign of the rogue is but a span, but the inventive Ireland's was rather long draw out, and Boswell on his death bed, kissing the forged manuscripts and believing his lips to be sanctified by the process, was not the only great man who was taken in by the swindle. This book is not only interleaved with manuscript copies of the original forgeries, but is also preceded by an account in manuscript signed by Ireland of the suppression (on the discovery of the forgeries) of the original issue in folio. Ireland's success is but a record of human credulity. Young Ireland was first tempted by his father's unintelligent enthusiasm for Shakespeare to forge an autograph of the poet on a carefully copied old lease. His audacity grew with the growing credulity of his dupes, and ere long locks of hair, private letters, annotated books, and so on, were plentifully produced, and all enquiries were put off with lying explanations. Boswell, Wha——, Dr. Parr and hundreds more were deceived, but those like Malone, really qualified to judge, denounced the imposture from the first. Ireland's audacity now reached the folly of producing a deed of Shakespeare's, bequeathing his books and papers to a William Henrye Ireaunde, an assumed ancestor. A new historical play was announced, entitled "Vortigern," and carefully concealed its production by Sheridan at Drury Lane; but it was vapid and unShakespearean and was a failure. The old man now began to smell a rat and demanded an explanation from his enterprising son. It was forthcoming in the form of the confession in manuscript affixed to the volume referred to. "I order," one reads, "to further obliterate as much as possible every vestige of Shakespearean production I further committed to the flames the complete impression of the present reprint, reserving no more than the annexed copy," which as a literary curiosity consequently ranks unique. It was bought by Mr. Jackson for £122 The Effects of Bad Books. It is not alone that the ethics and aesthetics of so many books are bad, the moral tone dubious and the stimulus unwholesome; that is bad enough in itself. But the mischief is that the prominence given to a certain species of literature, if it must be so called—its cheapness; its innate impertinence—act not only as an inducement to partake of unwholesome mental pabulum, but they unfit the mind for the digestion of anything more wholesome or profitable. The appetite grows by what it feeds on; and it is not surprising that the final state of the mind which has pastured on such rank herbage is one of indifference toward anything that is difficult to find, difficult to masticate, and, perhaps, uncomfortable to an easy conscience, lying, as it were, a little uneasy on the intellectual and moral stomach. It is as if the diet of a child were advanced from milk to sweet sherbet, and from that to brandy, and men were to wonder at an infant maturing through a brief stage of sickly youth into a premature decreptitude. The reason of the unhealthy mental development is not far to seek. The unwholesome book fails in the mission of every book. It does not extend man's knowledge of man, but merely repeats in various more-or-less-pliquant dressings the story of certain vices, craftiness, heartlessness, and failings, which are, essentially, not the study of man, but a morbid interest in the remnants of beasts which an imperfect civilization and faulty education have failed to eradicate in man. It fails to deal with aliquid human, in so far as it puts forward as interesting problems what are really sordid difficulties in the life of the animal—difficulties of whose existence every one is aware, and with which the right-minded man tries to cope in the inmost privacy of his heart and mind. Contemporary Review. The pazhuta-saka, or Indian conjuror's rattle, formerly used among the Sioux Indians, was always prepared with great care by the conjuror himself. It was made of rawhide and ornamented with feathers. Perfumes Made in Secret. In mediaeval times the best perfumes were made in France and Italy, the perfumers of those countries acquiring a dexterity unknown elsewhere and possessing many secret methods of manufacture. The thrift of the French may be inferred from the fact that one-fourth of the whole population are depositors in savings banks and that the amount of their credit is over four billion france. JOURNAL OF THE YEAR 2000. Correspondence Columns Not to Be Filled By Bore Writers. My own culture and turn of mind, which is probably akin to that of a respectable mechanic of the year 2000, inclines me toward a daily paper that will have, in addition to its concentrated and absolutely trustworthy daily news, full and luminous accounts of new inventions, new theories and new departures of all sorts (usually illustrated), witty and penetrating comments upon public affairs, criticisms of all sorts of things, reproductions of newly produced pictures and works of art, and an ample amount of ably written controversy upon everything under the sun. The correspondence columns, instead of being an exercising place for bores and conspicuous people who are not mercenary, would be the most ample, the most carefully collected, and the most highly paid for of all in the paper I should prefer, and which my kindred mechanic will. This paper will have, of course, many pages of advertisements, and these will usually be well worth looking through, for the more intelligent editors of the days to come will, of course, edit this department just like any other, and classify their advertisements in a descending scale of freshness and interest that will also be an ascending scale of price.—H. G. Wells, in North American Review. A NARROW ESCAPE. Bath, N. Y., Sept. 16th.—There is now at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home here an old soldier who has been nearer death than anyone who has lived to tell the story. His name is A. E. Ayers. For many years he lived in Minneapolis, Minn. where he is well known. Four physicians of that city once Sold Mr. Ayers that he could not live four days. He had Brights' disease. As a last resort he tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. He is strong and well today. ney Pills. He is strong and well today. He says: "I was in the very presence of death, but Dodd's Kidney Pills saved me. They are the greatest medicine in the world." It is a curious fact that there are certain kinds of noises which attract snakes. The whirr of the mowing machine is one, and in six months as many as 120 cobras alone have been killed on a grass farm in India by getting in front of the advancing machine. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 16.—The Garfield Tea Co., manufacturers of Garfield Tea, Garfield Headache Powders, Garfield-Tea Syrup, Garfield Relief Plasters, Garfield Digestive Tablets and Garfield Lotion, are now occupying the large and elegant office building and laboratory recently erected by them. For many years the Garfield Remedies have been growing in popularity and their success is well deserved. Pilgrims do not kiss the Pope's foot, but the cross worked on the slipper that he wears.—Philadelphia Times. Don't ache, use Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Rheumatism, neuralgia and all pain banished by it. See your druggist. The new Theater Francais in Paris covers three acres of ground and is the largest in the world. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are the brightest, fastest and easiest to use. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. The demand for electrical ventilators in India is ahead of the supply. FIT9 Permanently Cured. No fitus or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Klime's Great Nerve Restorer. send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatie. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. The oyster supply for the coming season is to be large, it is said. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Teacher—What is the meaning of the word "excavate?" Small Pupil—It means to hollow out. Teacher—Correct. Now form a sentence in which the word is properly used. Small Pupil—Stick a pin in a boy and he will excavate. During the summer thrushes get up before 3 o'clock in the morning and don't go to bed until after 9 o'clock at night, so they work nearly nineteen hours. Blackbirds are not nearly so industrious. They only work seventeen hours. Kind Lady—Here's a quarter, poor man—what made your health give way so you had to beg? Tramp—Madam, I used ter be an ice man, an' I got dyspepsy from samplin' left-over water melons in th' ice chists. "The Cradle Rules the World" and all wise mothers make St. Jacobs Oil a household remedy for the simple reason that it always Conquers Pain CATARRH OF KIDNEYS Quickly Develops Into Bright's Disease. JOHM HERZIGER John Herziger, son of Alderman Herziger, of Neenah, Wis., and Vice President of the Neenah Young Men's Club, writes in a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, the following: "After suffering for two years with kidney trouble I received relief and a cure from using your wonderful medicine, Peruna. "For months I was unable to work on account of a severe pain in my back, and when I was able to do anything I was in pain and distressed most of the time. "Hearing so much of the good results people had obtained through the use of Peruna I determined to give it a trial and it was a lucky day for me when I did so. I am well now and it only took a few bottles of Peruna." John Herziger, 307 Commercial street, Neenah, Wis. Two years suffering with catarrh of the kidneys, unable to work on account of the severe pain; could find no relief from medicine; gave Peruna a trial and was promptly cured—such was the experience of John Herziger of Wisconsin. This experience has been repeated many times. Not only in Wisconsin but in every state in the Union. It was indeed a lucky day for this young man when his attention was called to Peruna. What would have been the result had he continued suffering on and fool- Extra Safe Investment at Omaha, Neb. Acre lots in Solomon's Addition 3/4 of a mile from two electric lines, 1/2 mile from country club, inside of 4 mile circle from Omaha's postoffice, lots 126x295 ft.;cash price for 30 day at $200 per acre lot; only 33 lots left; write now. E. G. Solomon. Care County Clerk's Office. "Well," said the man who counts every penny, "there's one comfort about the hot weather we have been getting." "You find comfort in it?" "Yes. The thermometer was bought the other day has been kept busy. It's a satisfaction to find that we didn't pay out our money for something that didn't work after we got it." Willie—Oh, maw! I have sich a pain in my stommick. Fond Mother—Willie, have you been eating something? Willie—No, maw, I didn't eat a thing but eight green apples. Mr. Jack Frost became overheated at Joplin, Mo., the other day. These crispy mornings Mrs. Austin's Pan Cake Flour tastes delicious. Ready in a moment. Buy from your grocer. The area under wheat in Manitoba exceeds 2,000,000 acres. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The United Kingdom has 850 blast furnaces; France 570. SOZODONT for the TEETH 25c ing away precious time with other remedies, no man can tell. But it is almost certain that it would have ended in incurable Bright's disease of the kidneys, which sooner or later would have proved fatal. Peruna is a sure cure for incipient Bright's disease of the kidneys. Taken in the early stages of this disease, it cures permanently. Bright's disease always begins with catarrh of the kidneys. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Congressman Bankhead's Statement. Congressman J. H. Bankhead of Alabama, one of the most influential members of the House of Representatives, in a letter written from Washington, D. C., gives his indorsement to the great catarrh remedy, Peruna, in the following words: "Your Peruna is one of the best medicines I ever tried, and no family should be without your remarkable remedy. As a tonic and a catarrh cure I know of nothing better."—J. H. Bankhead. Samuel R. Sprecher, Junior Beadle Court Angelina No. 3422, I. O. O. F., 205 High St., Los Angeles, Cal., writes: "I came here a few years ago suffering with catarrh of the kidneys, in search of health. I thought that the climate would cure me but found that I was mistaken, but what the climate could not do Peruna could and did do. Seven weeks' trial convinced me that I had the right medicine and I was then a well man. I know of at least twenty friends and members of the lodge to which I belong who have been cured of catarrh, bladder and kidney trouble through the use of Peruna and it has a host of friends in this city."—Samuel R. Sprecher. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. The Farmer Is King. If you want to invest in farm property send 10 cents for October copy of "Homes," the only exclusively farm sale journal. Its range is from Maine to California, from the Dakotas to Florida. Homes Pub. Co., 10-12 Custom House place, Chicago. More than twenty dirigible baloons are building in or near Paris. W·L·DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE. For More Than a Quarter of a Century The reputation of W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes for style, comfort and wear has excelled all other makes sold at these prices. This excellent reputation has been won by merit alone. W. L. Douglas shoes have to give better satisfaction than other $3.00 and $3.50 shoes because his reputation for the best $3.00 and $3.50 shoes must be maintained. The standard has always been placed so high that the wearer receives more value for his money in the W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than he can get elsewhere. W. L. Douglas sells more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers. W. L. Douglas $4.00 Gift Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes are made of the same high grade leather used in $5 and $8 shoes and are just as good. Sold by the best shoe dealers everywhere. Insist upon having W. L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. How to Order by Mail. If W. L. Douglas shoes are not sold in your town, send order direct to factory. Shoes sent anywhere on receipt of price and 25 cts. additional for carriage. My custom department will make you a pair that will equal 40 to 50 bushels wheat per acre. Write for descriptive list. T. T. FRAZIER CO., BURMAN, R.G. Fast Color Syntheses used. Galloping from. W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. SOUTHERN FARMS 93 to $10 per acre. Some of these farms have produced 40 to 50 bushels wheat per acre. Write for descriptive list. T. T. FRAZIER CO., BURMAN, R.G. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; given quick relief and cures worm cases. Book of testimonials and 10 BAYF treatment FREE. Dr. K. K. CREEK'S CO., Burlington, N. G. W. M. U. CHICAGO, NO. 38, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR WORSE AILLE FAILS. Best Coach Syrup. Wheat good. This in time. Sold by designer. CONSUMPTION Green H. Evans, dealer in coal, wood, charcoal, coke and ice, 332 29th street, near La Salle street, desires to engage an intelligent and honest young colored women to act as cashier, bookkoper, and to take orders in his coal office. For further information call on or address Mr. Evans at the above-mentioned number. There is a severity in the New England girl's view of men. She compares them with women greatly to the advantage of the latter in manners, morals and mental endowments. Here are some of the pithy conclusions and condemnations on mankind: A woman has better sense than a man. Women learn things quicker, because they have more intelligence. Women are always better than men in morals. Women are more use in the world. Women have more religion than men have. Women are quicker than men, and they can control their temper. Women just have patience, when they are crossed, but men use bad language. Women bring up children, and the child is father to the man, is the crowning testimony to women's superiority by these young moralizers. Those of us who know the traveled American child in hotels and boarding houses will agree that the child is certainly father to the man in a way which Wordsworth never contemplated. Twenty-four per cent are well balanced and cheerful. They accept the inevitable and make the best of it. I am satisfied with the way I am, and it would make no difference if I wasn't. I wish to be a woman, because God gave me no choice. I would rather be a woman, because God gave me no choice. I would rather be a woman, because I cannot be anything else, and I mean to be as good as a man anyway. National Review. BABES' BRIGHT SAYINGS "How many teeth has a human being?" asked the teacher of a small philip. "A mouthful," was the unexpected reply. Mamma—"Why, what's the matter, dear?" Clara (aged 3, sobbing)—"Tommy hit me." Mamma—"Did he hit you on purpose?" Clara—"No, he hit me on the head." Fond Mother—"Johnny, I wish you would use your napkin at the table. You have butter smeared from one ear to the other." Small Johnny—"That's all right, mamma. If you want a machine to run fast you've got to grease it." Little Bobby was trying to read and, looking up from his book, he said: "Mamma, what is a grass widow?" Before she could reply his 5-year-old sister exclaimed: "Why, Bobby, anybody ought to know that. A grass widow is a woman whose husband died of hay fever." A small child was asked the other day who were the survivors from the flood. "Noah, Shem, and Ham," she said. "Yes," replied her mother, "and who else?" The child paused for a moment in thought. Then a brilliant idea struck her, "and," she added, "Joan of Arc." "Two children were playing "hospital ward" and were acting doctor and nurse. "Is the patient very ill?" said the doctor. "She has swallowed a whole bottle of ink," replied the nurse. "What have you done for her?" asked the doctor; and the nurse, with professional satisfaction, answered: "I gave her two pads of blotting paper." THE GIRL WHO'S ENGAGED. Has an idea she has accomplished her life work. Looks down with undignified pity upon heart-free companions. Gets something to laugh at in the jokes about maidens. Spends seven-eighths of her time in the shops. Begins to tell her mother how a house should be run. Starts a collection of handkerchiefs and dollies. Thinks all her old admirers are dying of broken hearts. Becomes absent-minded and leaves her left hand ungloved. Gives the hero in the latest novel her finance's name. Promises every girl she knows that she'll be one of the bridesmaids. Is on the whole the sweetest personification of agotian imaginability—Philadelphia Telegraph. GEMS IN PROBE Count no duty too little, no round of life too small, no work too low, if it comes in thy way, since God thinks so much of it to send His angels to guard thee in it.—Mark Guy Pearsa. Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others—Prof. Drusmund. During the first half of 1901 France imported $25,000,000 gold and exported $5,700,000. There is a considerable demand for bicycles in Japan, and some automobiles have been recently imported. The first machines for the manufacture of gold pens are said to have been made by John Rendill of New York. The Persians have three kinds of guitars—the sitar, the tar and sus—all played either with the fingers or with a plectrum. The shallowest of all seas are the Baltic and the Adriatic, which average only forty-three and forty-five yards' depth, respectively. Many chronological authorities date from the foundation of the world, but the widest possible diversity exists as to when this event occurred. Underneath the town of Norwich, England, are numbers of brine springs, which were used for the preparation of salt even before the Christian era. At a rough estimate the total amount of income taxes which Americans in England are compelled to pay for John Bull's support is $5,000,000 a year. All whose incomes are below $800 a year escape free. Some 30,000-odd patents are issued from the British patent office each year, and, curiously enough, not much more than half of these are from British inventors. Taking 100 years' work, the United States comes first, France second, and England third. Deer forests in Scotland are much more expensive than grouse moors, says a London newspaper. They range from $5,000 to $20,000 or even $25,000 for the season, according to the sport obtained, and whether the place gives salmon fishing and grouse shooting as well as deer stalking. For a place combining all the three and giving good sport all round almost any rent may be asked. As a general rule, it may be said that stags are worth $100 to $150 each. The best deer forests in Scotland give over 100 stags each season, while others range from 30 to 80 stags. FURBISHING THE HOUSE. Cut glass knobs are considered much smarter on colonial furniture, just at present, than even the perfectly plain brass trimmings. Woodwork and floors painted green in combination with delicately flowered walls and big blossomed chintz or cretonne upholstery and curtains are the favored bedroom decorative scheme of the hour. Large and medium sized bowls are coming more and more to the front as a house decorative adjunct. Those of copper or brass are in high favor, while quaint Japanese ones, of the ware that shades from unglazed green to lightest gray, are, also, much liked as receptacles for flowers, for powdered orris to make the air fragrant, etc. Women would do well to give much thought to color harmony and circumstances rather than style when choosing house furnishings. Upon the harmonious blending of wall and floor covering together with the woodwork, depends much of the success of the room, yet some women, hearing that red walls "are the style," and seeing how effective a soft shade of it is with the pure black Flemish oak, straightway has it put on her walls to combine with yellow oak. How much better a gobelin blue burlap or cartridge paper would be? Then, too, often the mistake is made of having everything of one color to match, thereby causing monotony. Artistic decorators advocate old rose in rugs and hangings as a relieving contrasting bit to gobelin blue walls, and yellow oak woodwork. Chicago Journal. LITTLE HINTS. The flannel shirt waist promises to be quite as popular as ever this season. Sky-blue and castor are a fetching combination that will be much favored this fall. Panne applications are among the latest garniture notions for very elaborate waists. Velvet waists, for the most part severely plain, as an attempt to tuck them results in a very cumbersome effect, are on view. A deep shoulder collar of lace, which falls from the throat well over the shoulders, is a feature of many of the dainty summer dresses. Rows of bebe ribbon, either velvet or satin, joined by a herring-bone stitch to form hands about three inches wide, are a late trimming effect for silk waistb. Advices affirm that the uncertainty in regard to the waist buttoned in the back is past and that, notwithstanding is inconvenience, its popularity is assured on account of its novelty.—Chicago News. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. The receiver of a black eye feels as bad as any thief. Some titled individuals are like worn-out brooms—all handle. Lucky is the man who makes more money than his wife can spend. Unless a man is utterly worthless he has but little show to become an expert whittler. Sometimes the man who poses as an intellectual giant is merely the possessor of good memory. If a man falls to open the door when fortune knocks she doesn't break the door down with a battering ram. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO. 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. Razors put in order. 116 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., 78 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 uncalled for is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. Read and subscribe for The Broad Az, the only newspaper in Chicago which "hews to the Lina." OUR COLLEGE POPULATION. To-day there are 629 universities and colleges and 43 schools of technology in the United States. The total value of the property possessed by institutions for higher education amounts to $342,888,361, a gain of about $31,000,000 over the amount for the preceding year. The endowment fund amounts to $154,120,590. The total income for the year, excluding benefactions, amounted to $27,739,154. The value of gifts and bequests during the year 1898-1899 amounted to $21,925,436. Some $2,500 is invested for each student who is now enjoying the advantage of any, of the institutions of learning. Classical courses claim by far the greater number of students—35,595 students out of the 147,164—while 21,860 were taking the general culture courses, 9,858 general science courses, 2,593 instruction in agriculture, 4,376 in mechanical engineering, 2,550 in civil engineering, and 2,320 in electrical engineering; 1,032 students were studying mining engineering, 627 architecture, 9,501 pedagogy, and 6,098 were taking business courses. The number of degrees conferred during the year for work done was 15,087—10,794 on men and 4.,293 on women. Thirty-eight different varieties of degrees were conferred, and in some cases only one candidate received a degree, musical doctor, for example. Seven hundred and thirty-five honorary degrees were conferred. In 1872 the number of students to each 1,000,000 of population was 573; in 1880 it had increased to 770, in 1890 to 850, in 1893 to 1,037, while in 1899 the number was 1,196. Reading Aloud. People with chest complaints are recommended by medical men to read aloud, as this strengthens throat, lungs and chest muscles alike. The reading should be deliberate, without being allowed to drag, and the enunciation clear, the body being held in an easy, unstrained, upright position, so that the chest will have free play. The breathing should be natural and as deep as possible without undue effort. ```markdown ``` Thomas F. Soully, Attorney at Law, 79 Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO. Room 14. JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706-708 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE CHICAGO. Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St. Down Town Office 260 S, Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 2533 Harrison. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2625. — EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 200 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. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suits 728 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. TELEPHONE MAIN 1782. G. E. EVANS. Dealer in All Kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL, Wood, Charcoal, Coke and Ice, Expressing and Moving a Specialty. 332 29th St. Chicago, Ill. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitation. Get the Original Ozonized OX Marrow as the genuine never falls to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet secessarily for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation without it. Full directions with a bottle. Only 40 cents. Sold by drugrists and dealers or send us 20 cents for one bottle or $1.50 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Webash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive Uses Alcohol. On a private railroad, used chiefly to carry coal and bricks from a brick-yard in Prussia, a locomotive using alcohol as fuel is used. 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A Barnard College girl tells in the New York Times of visiting in a household where grace was said at the table—semi-occasionally. Her curiosity got the better of her, and she asked the mistress of the house why they didn't observe the Rite regularly. 'Why,' said the lady with some surprise, "we say grace only when we have reason to be thankful. We never dream of giving thanks when we have only roast beef or beefsteak, or some simple thing like that. But whenever we have game or something' really nice, then we say grace, for it's worth while." COMPLETE BELOW