The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LIKE THE LATE PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY, IS IN FAVOR OF DISFRANCHISING THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH. It will not be very encouraging news to the vast majority of Afro-Americans who have always looked upon the leaders of the Republican party as little less than white-robed angels, to peruse the following, which fell from the lips of President Roosevelt; "I will support President McKinley's political policy so far as it relates to the South, tooth and nail. On this I have made up my mind absolutely and unequivocally. The late President's course regarding the South had my hearty co-operation and approbation, and you can say to your friends, who are interested in developing and carrying out that policy that I will stand by them." Thus spoke President Roosevelt to Senator Pritchard of North Carolina, and to Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, the President, in his interview with these two senators assured them that like President McKinley he is opposed to existing and contemplated plans for the reduction of Southern representation in Congress on account of the exclusion of the Negro vote. President Roosevelt declared that "he would not be a party to any scheme to curtail political rights and privileges, that the South now enjoys. In other words: "I will do as the late President McKinley did — use my influence to check any efforts that may be made by Congress to cut down South representation." President McKinley's Southern policy, what was it? Its main object was the undoing of the Negro; to rob him of his political right; to reduce him to nothing more than a serf or slave, and to reward those who assisted to accomplish the act by appointing them to office. This was one part of President McKinley's Southern policy as displayed towards the Negro. The other part was, as far as the Negro was or is concerned, his bribing or rewarding the people residing in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Texas and North Carolina by giving them one extra congressman each because they had so successfully succeeded in enacting legislation which will not only forever disfranchise the Negro but also strikes at what little liberty he had or enjoyed in other parts of the country, for President McKinley knew as well as President Roosevelt knows that it is impossible to strike the ballot from the hands of the great mass of any race of people residing in one section of the country without effecting the civil and the political rights of the same class of people living in other parts of the same country. The ballot is the most powerful weapon ever placed in the hands of freemen, and whenever any race of people are deprived of the use of the ballot in a free government or republic then all is lost and their future existence becomes very dark and cloudy. Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt were and are perfectly familiar with all the foregoing facts. Yet, in spite of them they were and are in favor of trampling under foot the political rights of the Negro in order to build up a lily-white Republican party. Laying aside the moral aspect of President Roosevelt's position or stand in reference to his Southern policy, why should he and his party want to forsake the Negro at this particular time? Has not the Negro for over thirty years adhered to the Republican party, which has enabled Mark Hanna and its other corrupt leaders to plunder and rob the people, thereby becoming millionaires and bloated billionaires? Has not the Republican party for years rode into power on the back of the Negro, which has invested it with a long lease of power, which has made it possible for monopolies and the gigantic trusts to flourish like a greenbay tree? Did not the Negro pick the late President McKinley up and place him in the White House after he had failed in business and had signed notes for $118,000, when he was only worth $1,000, and at last, did not President McKinley re- ward the Negro by favoring his disfranchisement? Did not the vast majority of the Negroes rally to the support of McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900? Yet, notwithstanding this plain fact President Roosevelt feels that he is not doing his solemn duty as a Christian(?) gentleman or ruler unless he turns his back upon the Negro, who elevated him to his high position, and he is now most emphatic in favor of disfranchising the Negro. Sunday morning the Grand Opera House was well filled by an appreciative audience which followed Prof. Mangasarian very closely from his opening to his closing words. It was his first lecture of the season of 1901 and 1902. His theme, "The American State," was exceedingly interesting and instructive, he threw out many gems of thought during the course of his lecture. He declared that moderation should be the one sign of modern culture; he set forth the views of Professors Huxley and Herbert Spencer on Anarchy and Anarchists, and in doing so he very clearly brought out their ideas as to the powers and limitations of governments—the rights of the individuals. The professor maintained that he was no Anarchist, but he intimated that nothing could miss him an Anarchist except to see or hear of men and women being insulted and persecuted, thrown into prison and deprived of the protection of all the laws for no other reason than that they give or gave expression to their honest opinions. Prof. Mangasarian tossed a few bouquets at the orthodox theologians by asserting that this brand of theologians proclaim "that it was God's will that President McKinley was to die at the hand of an assassin." If that is true, the professor contended, then it is wrong to execute Czolgosz or to prevent Anarchy or Anarchists from flourishing in this land. The professor closed his lecture by these words from Pericles, whose matchless and graceful oratory will be handed down from generation to generation to the end of time: "We are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Wealth, we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is real use for it. We regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as a harmless but as a useless character." Suppose a large landlord were to conduct his business as we do our nations. He has hundreds of tenants, many of whom can furnish him all he needs and be glad to get his acceptances in payment. But he borrows the bills of bankers and goes in debt for machinery. Long after the machines are worn out the debts remain. New machines, new enterprises are established, new debts made. Finally he goes to denuding his forests and rifling his coal mines to sell off for cash to pay current expenses. His grandsons come into possession and find nothing left but exhausted soils and debts. Was it necessary for him to go in debt at first. As surely as that his right hand could wash his left, so certainly could his acceptances for rent have procured him every article he needed. But the course he took was one sure to make the usury he paid cost more than his current expenses in time. And our government is now paying interest and profits to money dealers, more than the necessary cost of the whole government. Thirt* years of this course has brought us to the brink of ruin. What will the next thirty years do? HOLT. Fred m. Eldred, treasurer of the Democratic County Committee, was stricken down with paralysis last Sunday, but at the present writing he is improving and in time his doctors think he will regain his health. The Broad Ax hopes so, for aside from Mr. Eldred's disinclination to adhere to his word in political affairs he is a very pleasant gentleman. [Name] The honest and faithful City Seal than likely to become the guiding er of Chicago, who does not believe spirit of the Democratic Party of in "one man power," and who is more Cook County. The partisan prejudice of some men was fittingly illustrated by an incident which occurred in a western city during the sad week of the presidential obsequies. While the campaign of 1900 The honest and faithful City Sealer of Chicago, who does not believe in "one man power," and who is more was in progress Democrats had great sport reading a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1858 and intimating that it was a portion of a speech delivered by Mr. Bryan. Republicans readily fell into the trap and denounced it as "hogwash," "copper-headism," etc. An ex-congressman stood on a prominent corner of—a few days ago and denounced the Democrats, and especially Mr. Bryan, for what he termed "appeals to class prejudice." He asserted that these appeals unsettled the minds of people and made them discontented with their lot, and further declared that the language used by Democratic orators in discussing political questions was indirectly, if not directly, responsible for the assassination of President McKinley: A young man standing by coincided with this view, and to prove the truth of the assertion made by the ex-congressman read the following: "Human right and privileges must not be forgotten in the mad race for wealth. The government of the people must be by the people, and not by a few of the people. Power, it must be remembered, which is secured by oppression and usurpation, or by any form of injustice, is soon overthrown." "That," asserted the young man, "is the kind of talk that is continually stirring up trouble between the different elements of our population. It is the doctrine of discontent." "That's right!" asserted the ex-congressman. "It is intended to make the poor hate the rich. It is intended to make people believe that our republic is rapidly becoming an empire. It is—" "Oh, you ought to know better than to talk that way about this speech," interrupted the young man. "That is an extract from a speech delivered by William McKinley only a few years ago." The republican ex-congressman looked dazed, then hastily changed the subject.—The Commoner. M. Emmet Clare, Suite 208, Real Estate Board Building, who is one of the best assistant city prosecuting attorneys, has been transferred to the Stock Yards police station, 47th and Halsted streets. Mr. Clare is a good lawyer and a brilliant orator. George H. Kriete, who for the past three or four years has been the attorney for the Board of Health, succeeds Mr. John E. Owens as first assistant prosecuting attorney of Chicago. Dr. Howard S. Taylor acted wisely when he decided to select Mr. Kriete as his first assistant for in every way Mr. Kriete is well fitted for his new position. ```markdown ``` THE LEE-COPPAGE WEDDING. Thursday evening, Oct. 10, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Harris, 4764 Armour avenue, Miss Cordella Lee, niece of Mrs. Lizzie White, was united in marriage to Mr. John A. QUINN. than likely to become the guiding spirit of the Democratic Party of Cook County. H. Coppage, the Rev. J. W. Robinson officiating. Mrs. Jessie Bruce played the redding march. The bride was beautifully attired in a white satin dress and wore a veil and orange blossoms. The house was tastefully decorated with palms and flowers. After the ceremony a sumptuous wedding supper was served in the dining room. The table was decorated in pink and white. The wedding presents were numerous and very useful. The following are a few of the many guests present: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mr. S. W. Scott, R. Harding and wife, Mrs. Rev. Thompson, S. B. and Mrs. Emmick, Miss Florence Thompson, Mrs. Logan Webb, Miss Covington, of Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. Handy, Mr. F. W. Boyd, Mrs. Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Williams,Mr. and Mrs. Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Coppage, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnson, Mrs. Davis, Miss Mary Loomie, Mrs. E. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. DeKoven Thompson, Mrs. Lizzie Loomie, Miss Louise Jackson, Mrs. Skrugs, Mrs. Anna Tucker, Miss Ruth Coppage, Miss Bell and Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor. The Broad Ax wishes Mr. and Mrs. Coppage unbounded happiness and prosperity on the motrimonial sea. WRITES IN FAVOR OF THE Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax. Dear Sir—Of all the journals published in Chicago or in any other city, for frankness none can touch the Broad Ax. I read an account in the Conservator some time back scathing the Negro Republican or political lick-spittles. I was unfortunate enough to think that the editor of that sheet was beyond that scope of ridicule. Therefore I wrote him a letter commenting upon Mr. T. W. Jones' article (which appeared in The Conservator). My letter was so twisted and jumbled that I could hardly recognize it. as for Mr. Jones' advice on the application of the gray matter, it was well put, if he had gone just one step farther with his advice and admonished his people to apply this brain to the ballot and vote the "Socialist Ticket," for a party that guarantees every man "equal rights" and recognizes no man by his color or previous condition and also gives every man an opportunity to apply his brain or labor power in producing something beneficial for society and not for individuals; a party that will do away with those political lick-spittles and editors that dare not ```markdown ``` publish an article that jeopardizes their political bread and butter. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cosey, of New York City, spent the past week in visiting with Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Buckner, 29th and Armour avenue. It is very unpleasant news to millions of Colored Americans to learn, after the death of President McKinley, that he indirectly encouraged the disfranchisement of Negro Americans. Ex. Mrs. L. A. Davis, Miss Cornelia Bowen, Waugh, Ala.; Rev. Mrs. William Gray, and Dr. W. H. Davis spent the week at Peoria in attendance at the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. The Negro Jefferson Democratic Club association of St. Louis has the finest headquarters and club rooms of any Negro political organization in the world.—The American Eagle, St. Louis, Mo. County Commissioner Joseph E. Flanagan continues to grow in favor for Sheriff of Cook County. For two years past Mr. Flanagan has been a very valuable member of the County Board and the people are with him. Monday morning, bright and early, Mr. John E. Owens assumes the laborous task of running the city attorney's office, and knowing Mr. Owens well, we have every reason to believe that he will make a first-class city attorney. E. D. Gibson, sergeant in the United States army, of Salem, Roanoke, Va., has contributed a weak article to The Colored American on "Socialism," and from no point of view does Sergeant Gibson know anything about socialism. A white man, be he either Democrat or Republican, who will not subscribe to a Negro newspaper before a political organization has nominated him should not expect the support of a Negro sheet after a convention.—The Times, Denver, Colo. Thursday night W. E. W. Johnson was elected President of the Tilden Democracy of the 32nd ward and Charles Crane was chosen as secretary. The meeting was well attended by many of the leading Democrats residing in the ward. Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, the Marquette Club celebrated the anniversary of the great fire, and Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Ala., was among the speakers. Prof. Washington responded to the subject "The Citizenship of the American Negro." County Commissioner Rollin B. Organ is much stronger with all the people today than he was one year ago, for he has ever been regardful of their interests and rights, therefore it would be highly pleasing to The Broad Ax to be able to support Commissioner Organ for Sheriff or Treasurer of Cook County. The palatial headquarters of the Negro Jefferson Democratic Club association, 2629 Lawton avenue, are an honor to the Negro race, and clearly demonstrates the high appreciation of our white Democratic friends of the loyal support given them by thousands of Negro voters in our last municipal reception—The American Eagle, St. Louis, Mo. What has become of the Cook County Colored Democracy, has it and its leaders crawled in their holes and died? During the last campaign it was given out that the Cook County Colored Democracy would fit up handsome headquarters but we have not seen nor heard of the headquarters. The Tilden Democracy organized in the 30th ward last Saturday night. Mr. Breen was elected chairman; Wm. H. Burbank, vice-president; Wm. A. O'Day, secretary; Prof. Albert H. Putney, treasurer; William L. Gahan and P. J. Maguire, ward committee-men. Congressaman John J. Feely, president of the Tilden Democracy and Dan Morgan Smith were present and both gentlemen delivered five speeches. They dwelt upon the treatment which they had received from the hands of the henchmen residing in the 31st ward, who belong to the late city hall boss. Ex-State Senator D. F. Curley also spoke and related his experience with those who ran the last ward meeting. Chairman Breen is a smooth speaker, presides with grace, and owing to his high standing in the business world he will add much strength to the reform movement in the Town of Lake. The next meeting will be held at Corchan's Hall, Saturday evening. Oct. 19. The Mall and Express, of Red Bank, N. J., continues to help us out in our fight on Ed. Cooper, of Washington, D. C., who defrauded us out of eight dollars and thirty-five cents. The Mall and Express reproduced our last chip on dishonest and characterless Ed. Cooper, and it says that "according to The Broad Ax Cooper, of Washington, must be a dog on faking." Cooper, who loves his whisky and women, also beat The Mall and Express out of some advertising money. City Attorney Andrew J. Ryan next Monday shakes the political or the city hall dust off his feet and he will upon surrendering his duties as city attorney become president of the Illinois and Wisconsin Stone Company, which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in existence. Mr. Ryan, and the stone company which he will guide and direct, will occupy offices in the Title and Trust Building, 100 Washington street. It is useless to say that there are many people residing in this city who very much regret that Mr. Ryan decided to relinguish his duties as city attorney of Chicago. Another white man or monster at Ottawa, Kans., disguised himself as a Negro and knocked down a young woman last Monday night, and in order to gratify his beastly passions upon her he silenced her cries by shoving a handkerchief down her mouth. The woman recognized her assailant as being white, and bloodhounds will endeavor to run him down. If he is caught he will not be mobbed nor lynched for committing his crime upon a decent woman. This proves that many white men are immoral degenerates; that they have no love nor respect for the chastity of white or black women. Lying, gambling, crap-shooting Hy. Henry George Jimson Terrell would like to convey the idea to his few followers that "the only reason we have for not liking him is that he refused to distribute The Broad Ax for us during the last election." But we have never asked nor requested Terrell to distribute one copy of our paper, but we have urged him to pay us as subscription to The Broad Ax the sum of three dollars, and if he will remit the three dollars to us then we will not look upon Terrell as a liar and a grand rascal. The fly-cops arrested 10 or 12 men Sunday night at 679 Grand avenue, for shooting craps, but the police belonging at the 50th street police station will not interfere with George Terrell and his crap-game for it is reported that every Monday morning Terrell divides up with the desk sergeant and police, who close their eyes whenever they pass near the corner of 47th street and Armour avenue. Terrell also assures his crowd of blacklegs that no power in the city can prevent him and his gang of gamblers and dead-beats from rolling the bones, for the game or the games are backed by his friend, who is one of the assistant prosecuting attorneys of this great city. Mr. James A. Quinn, City Sealer of Chicago, who is one of the head leaders of the Democratic party, does not believe in "one man power." He thinks it is injurious to the success of the party. He is for harmony in the ranks of Democracy. Mr. Quinn further believes that all political debts or obligations made in good faith should be paid or fulfilled the same as any other debt or contract. Mr. Quinn's word is as good as his bond, and we honestly believe the day is not far distant when James A. Quinn will be chosen by his fellow Democrats as the leading or the controlling spirit of the party throughout Cook County, for he is no dictator, but he is in favor of home rule and for that reason he is strong with the masses. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Permute,abolize, Protestante, Knights of Lakers,Indicate, Mormons, Republicians, Priests, or any he size can have their say, so long in their ingenuity is proper and responsibility is kind. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the bitter right to speak its own mind. One Year.....$1.00 Months.....1.00 Agricultural union made known on application, children all communications to THE BROAD AX. 1045 Armour Avenue, Omaha. PULAUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. There are more newspapers published in Iowa, in proportion to its population, than in any other state of the Union. There is a terrible coercion in our deeds which may first turn the honest man into a deceiver, and then reconcile him to the change. Show me the man you honor. I know by that symptom better than any other what kind of a man you yourself are; for you show me there what your ideal of manhood is, what kind of a man you long inexpressibly to be.—Ben Johnson. Mrs. Catherine Babcock of Washington, D. C., widow of Colonel Babcock, who was a member of General Grant's staff, was committed to the Government insane Asylum recently, to await an investigation by the court as to her sanity. Mrs. Babcock has the idea that some one is going to steal the body of her daughter, buried in Baltimore, Md., and hold it for ransom. Some Austrians living in Geneva conceived the project of placing a memorial tablet in the Quai du Leman, where the Empress Elizabeth was assassinated. The authorities, however, refused their permission on the ground that it would be improper to commemorate the deed of a madman and help to preserve his name. In place of the tablet, it is now proposed to erect a chapel in honor of the Empress. Seventy-six vacancies exist in the Medical Department of the United States Army, for which there are comparatively few candidates. Young doctors on entering have the rank and pay of a first lieutenant, and generally promotion is more rapid than in the line of the service. It is surprising that more applications should not be received, considering the salary and rank attaching to the places. The same trouble is experienced with vacancies in the medical corps of the navy. It is a familiar example of irony in the degradation of words that "what a man is worth" has come to mean how much money he possesses; but there seems a deeper and more melancholy, irony in the shrunken meaning that popular or polite speech assigns to "morality" and "morals." The poor part these words are made to play recalls the fates of those pagan divinities who, after being understood to rule the powers of the air and the destinies of men, came down to the level of insignificant demons, or were even made the farcical show for amusement of the multitude. Although without knowledge of surgery, Theodore Austin, aged sixteen, probably saved his own life the other day by the application of a little practical knowledge. The boy was working at home in Philadelphia, when he ran his hand through a pane of glass and severed an artery in his wrist. He started for the hospital, but had not gone far before he realized that it would not do to wait to have the flow of blood stopped. He bound his handkerchief tightly around his wrist, above the cut, and by sticking a pencil through the knot, improvised a tourniquet by which he succeeded in twisting the handkerchief until the end of the severed artery was closed. Dr. E. W. Allen, assistant superintendent of experiment stations, conducted by the Agricultural Department, has returned to Washington, after a ten weeks' tour of inspection of the stations in Alaska. Dr. Allen reports that all the hardy vegetables are being grown there and he predicts that the time will come when Alaska will grow a sufficient supply of them. He also says that wheat, oats, barley and rye have been matured at the stations, and he thinks it practicable to raise beef for the home market. He says there is considerable inquiry for land along the coast from people living in Northern Europe, and thinks the time will come when many of them will find more comfortable homes there than they now have. According to Dr. Rijnhart, the medical attentions lavished on invalids in Thibet are of a very primitive character. For headache, large sticking plasters are applied to the patient's head and forehead; for rheumatism, a needle is often burted in the arm or shoulder; a tooth is extracted by tying a string to it and jerking it out, sometimes bringing out a part of the jaw at the same time; a sufferer with stomach ache may be subjected to a good pounding, or to the application of a piece of wick soaked in burning butter grease, or, if medicine is to be taken internally, it will consist probably of a piece of paper on which a prayer is written, rolled in the form of a pellet; and, if this falls to produce the desired effect, another pellet is administered composed of the bones of some pliers. PERSUADED WITH A CAMERA: How a Young Man Won Over His Prescive Father-in-Law. "It was simply bull-headed luck," said the young man with the red shirt waist. "Papa declared that it would be a warm day when he consented to my marrying his daughter, and as the weather record had been broken several times after he had made that remark. I was beginning to lose hope. When all-the-world-to-me went on her vacation I went to the same place and put up at the same hotel. Now, papa-in-law-to-be is an old blowhard, and it made me tired—everybody else, too—the way he bragged about the fish he caught in former years. Finally, some one hinted that it would be a good plan for him to make good and give us an example of his skill as a fisherman. He accepted the challenge and spent three days getting his tackle ready. He went alone, as he said he didn't want to be bothered by having any greenhorns along, and we waited with bated breath for him to return. Now, I am something of a camera flend and late in the afternoon I started out to take a picture of a little wooded dell when the shadows were well down. I was making my way to the road through some thick brush when I discovered my daddy-in-law-to-be standing in the middle of the road bargaining with a small boy for a long string of magnificent fish. Quick as a flash I took a snap shot of him just as he was holding onto his pocket with one hand and digging into it with the other. I let the old man brag around the hotel for three days about the fish he had caught. Then I showed him the picture, told him if he didn't consent to my marrying his daughter I would spread it broadcast over the hotel, and pointed out where his reputation would be. He wilted, gulped hard and surrendered. He isn't a bad sort when you know how to handle him."—Detroit Free Press. SOUVENIR CUPS LATEST. Made of a New Metal and in Many Fantastic Shapes One of the latest fads to show itself in the jewelry trade is the souvenir cup of metal. This article, says the Jewelers' Weekly, is already popular in some sections of the United States. The souvenir spoon fad had its origin in Washington, D. C., and so, too, the souvenir cup in its present form, seems to have first appeared in that city a few months ago. It has now extended to other cities. In Washington the cups became a fad because that is a great tourist center. So far these cups have all been made to order in Germany and imported by one or two New York firms, who calm to have control, for this country, of all manufactures of the metal employed in this form. But if the demand expands and develops into a general fad there is every reason to expect American manufacturers to enter into competition with he German houses that now have the monopoly. The metal used is the new Kayser Zinn metal, which has come into demand lately for various uses, and the cups are sold either in their natural condition or silver plate inside and outside, or silver plate outside and gold lined. The popular shape is that of a white tumbler three and a half inches high by two and three-eighths inches in diameter at the top and one and five-eighths inches at the bottom. There are other more fancy shapes, such as a small German beer stein and a small thin goblet eight or nine inches high. On the sides are local designs which give the cups their souvenir significance. Saved the Little Bottles "I have a patient who is wonderfully considerate of my interests," said a prominent physician lately. "A few weeks ago he had malaria, and I prescribed quinine for him, giving him four-grain capsules, so that he might take the drug without discomfort. He came out of his attack and a few days later called to see me at my office. Judge of my surprise when he exhibited the empty capsules and said, 'Doctor, I thought you might like the little bottles, so I saved them and brought them back.' He had emptied each four-grain dose of the bitter powder, and then essayed the rather hopeless task of washing it down with water: I couldn't do otherwise than to take the 'little bottles' from him without a word and next time I'll give him quinine in another form."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Takes Family in Balloon. The archduke Leopold Salvator, who is considerably interested in aeronautics, recently made an ascent in his balloon, Meteor, accompanied by his wife and little seven-year-old daughter and Princess Theresa of Bavaria. The ascent was made in Vienna at about 10 o'clock in the morning, the Danube was crossed at about a height of 6,500 feet and the descent was safely accomplished some three hours later at Kornenburg. In Berlin a permanent international commission has been formed to promote ballooning, both in the interests of science and of sport—Chicago News. Citizen—I'd give a clean thousand to find some way to exterminate those sparrows. Sporting Friend—I'm your man. I've got just the thing. "Out with it." "Get the Legislature to pass a game law protecting them." A remote period is the one due at the end of a woman's remarks. In the last century geese were raised in Russia and Poland in vast flocks, almost entirely for the sake of their quills. MIRACULOUS RESCUE. OF TWO OF THE TOURISTS WHO FELL OVER A MATTERHORN PRECIPICE. crowned mountain peak is too strong for the average tourist to resist. This most recent fatality occurred only a few weeks ago and caused the death of Dr. Black and Miss Bell, both of London. Two other members of their party, Miss Trow and the guide, Carrel, were badly injured, but by a miracle. The grim Matterhorn, standing in its cloud-capped majesty, has claimed two more victims to its fascination and only a miraculous accident prevented the number from being four. It is another costly tribute to the dangerous delights of mountain climbing. Not a season passes without its list of terrible deaths; scarcely a day without an accident. And yet the fascination of a snow- crowned mountain peak is too strong for the average tourist to resist. This most recent fatality occurred only a few weeks ago and caused the death of Dr. Black and Miss Bell, both of London. Two other members of their party, Miss Trow and the guide, Carrel, were badly injured, but by a miracle escaped death. A landslip was the cause of it—one of those treacherous accidents that are constantly occurring in all mountains. The party was well on its way to the peak of the Matterhorn when the ground beneath them began to give way. There was no salvation for them. The iron-shod poles could find nothing by which to hold; slowly the ground began to sink beneath the climbers and, with the others looking helplessly on, the four doomed ones slid over the edge of the precipice and dashed upon the crags below. It was a sheer fall of thousands of feet. Below them jagged peaks of rock jutted out and seemed almost to reach for them. Dr. Black and Miss Bell were probably killed instantly. The escape of the other two was miraculous. Carrel, the guide, struck upon a ledge of rock and an instant later the lifeless body of one of the women fell beside him. There, for hours, they lay with the weight of the other two bodies pulling taut the rope about their waists and aid reached them just in time to revive the dying spark of life. The accident was, of course, a shock to all who heard it, but it did not act as a warning. Parties of mountain climbers are today struggling toward the peak of the Matterhorn and the tragic death of Dr. Black and Miss Bell will be put down in the list of accidents that are not likely to happen again. And now, at almost any moment, we may hear of an accident even greater in horror than this one. The Roche de la Clusette is likely to topple over into the busy valley of the Travers any day and send thousands of tons of rock and earth hustling upon the people below. Corps of Tree Defenders Organised to Destroy the Post. Fairmount park, Philadelphia, has a caterpillar crops composed of men who do nothing but scrub down the shade trees and kill the dislodged insects. The implement used is simply an ordinary scrubbing brush nailed to a long pole, and it takes considerable endurance to keep up such work all day. As soon as the caterpillar touch the ground they start to climb the tree again, and the men have to step lively to kill all the fallen ones. Said one of ```markdown ``` GIVE RATHER THAN TANHL Joe Moyer Teacher—Johnnie, what did George Washington say when his father asked him why he cut down the cherry tree? Johnnie—He said, "come, pop, let's bury the hatchet." And, instead of heeding the warnings of experienced engineers, tourists are crowding the neighboring hotels and are swarming up the mountain side, peering into the great clefts that have already opened among the rocks. If the crash should come now the death list would be appalling. The rocks may give warning enough before they fall to enable the tourists to get out of the way, but then again they may not and the engineers say FROM A SKETCH MADE BY A MEMBER OF THE PUPPY it is a toss-up which course they take. Given the favorable conditions—a sudden, unheralded slip, the tourists swarming over the toppling crags, the crowds in the valley below—and the fascination of the mountains will surely have claimed enough victims. The Arab and the Telephone. We had a party of Arabs along with us and took them all over a great newspaper office, writes a New Yorker. GIVE RATHER TRAD TAKEL Teacher—Johnnie, what did Georg asked him why he cut down the cherry Johnnie—He said, "come, pop, let's them the other day, according to the Philadelphia Record: "This is the only really effective way of getting rid of the pests. I have tried other ways, but they were no good. Take tar traps, for instance. I have watched caterpillars wriggle their way out of their fur, leaving it in the tar. Poisons, instead of killing them, seem to make them fat. I took one of these lotions to a drug store, where I had bought it, and told the man it was worthless. 'Just pour some of it down a caterpillar's throat and see if he doesn't die,' said the druggist. 'You're foolish.' I ```markdown ``` Everything was wildly astonishing to them. They had imagined that the Koran contained all the wisdom and knowledge of the world, yet here was the telephone, the electrotype, the printing press. The place was a veritable enchanter's castle to them. They would never have believed in the telephone if I had not called up their hotel and got one of their own party at the end of the wire. The dervish who had come along was bold as well as pious. When he heard that his friend five miles away was talking through the instrument he made a dash at it. He was greatly excited and yelled in a megaphone voice. He thought we were tricking him, but here was his friend talking Arabic. He rolled his eyes at me in a despairing manner and then began a search for devils, being quite convinced that the 'phone was an invention of Satan. Cleaning Plano Keys. To keep plano keys clean and prevent the discoloration of the ivory, dampen a piece of muslin with alcohol and with it rub the keys. The alcohol can do no damage, and if frequently applied the keys will stand in want of no other treatment, but if they have already begun to turn yellow rub them with cotton flannel wet with cologne water. Even old and discolored ivory may be rejuvenated, no matter what the cause of discoloration or of how long standing. An acid applied repeatedly will usually restore the keys to their original whiteness. Cotton flannel cloths wet with a saturated solution of oxalic acid and water and laid upon the keys will remove all stains. Care should always be taken in the use of such a bleacher as this that it does not touch anything from which the color is not to be removed, for it does not work with great certainty.—Chicago News. Autos in a Thunderstorm "Is an autocar safe in a thunderstorm?" The answer to this question is, generally speaking, in the affirmative. Although an autocar contains a comparatively large mass of metal, it could not take, and would not invite, the discharge of a cloud such as would be dangerous. It would invite such a discharge, and would probably be wrecked by the discharge, if it formed part of the discharge path to a conducting mass below. Such a conducting mass would be the wet ground of a large level field, under which a bed of clay existed, so that the wet could not get away. A path like this might also be formed in certain special cases on a wet road, but they would be rare. For safety, then, in a thunderstorm the autocar should keep right out in the open and on the hardest bit of road that can be found. Chicago News. Seamen Displaced by Machinery. The old wooden battleship Vermont, which it is proposed to discontinue as the receiving ship of the Brooklyn navy yard, when in commission in the 50's carried a complement of 1,100 officers and men. The new battleships, altogether much larger and infinitely more powerful, do not require crews to exceed 600 men. To such an extent does machinery displace human labor. Chicago Chronicle. "I see you advertise for some one to run your trust," said the young man to the magnate, "and I wish to apply for the position." "Have you ever had any experience running trusts?" inquired the magnate with interest. "No," replied the young man, "but I ran a bucketshop which robbed the people for five years."—Ohio State Journal. George Washington say when his father herry tree? let's bury the hatchet." said. 'You've got to catch your caterpillar first to do that, and after you've caught him you might as well stamp on him, and then you know he'a dead." How He Gained Experience. She (receiving a cycle lesson, naively)—I suppose you learned how to teach girls to ride while your seven sisters were learning? He (with his arm around her)—Oh, yes, I saw how their fellows taught them!—Brooklyn Eagle. A square foot of honeycomb contains about 2,000 ceils. ```markdown ``` STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY, Frank J. Cheney makes cath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co. doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886 (SEAL.) A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and sets directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best An Athletic Woman Ruler. The Queen of Portugal is perhaps the most athletic woman ruler in the world. She is particularly fond of swimming, and at Cascals swims farther out from the shore than any of the other bathers. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 6th.—The secret of the remarkable success of the Garfield Headache Powders; manufactured here by the Garfield Tea Co., lies in the fact that they are harmless as well as effective; people have confidence in them. A fine new stone chapel at Ticonderoga, N. Y., has been placed at the service of all evangelical denominations. If you like Mrs. Austin's famous Pancake Flour, won't you be good? Tell your friends how delicious it is. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.—Lamb. The Past GUARANTEES The Future The Fact That St.Jacobs Oil Has cured thousands of cases of Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Sprains, Bruises and other bodily aches and pains is a guarantee that it will cure other cases. It is safe, sure and never failing. Acts like magic. Conquers Pain Price, 25c and 50c. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE. LAND SEEKERS, HELLO! Here is a Splendid Chance in the "Cloverland" of Wisconsin. You want land. You realize that land is getting higher-priced and in greater demand every year. If you get a farm now and hold it 10 or 20 years—even if you should not make any money by farming—the farm will make you rich. A farm trbuitary to the cities of Minneapolis or St.Paul in northern Wisconsin, will increase in value faster than land in the prairie states because of its nearness to market and because of its greater productiveness. It is hard for people who have never seen that section to appreciate its wonderful growth of blue grass and clover. Where else in America will you find grass, clover and alsike spring up spontaneously and cover a patch or a field as you will among the hard wood lands of northern Wisconsin? The waters of this section, the soil, the climate and all the natural elements tend to make it an ideal dairy country, and the markets near insure a good price for products all the year. Our readers will do well to write to D. W. Casseday, land agent of the "Soo" Line, Minneapolis, and ask him to send them printed matter describing that great section for the landseeker. WEATHERWISE AND OTHERWISE! WHY DON'T YOU WEAR TOWER'S TRADE FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING BLACK OR TELLOW AND KEEP DRY? BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK. CATALOGUES FREE Showing Full Line of Garments and Hats A.J. TOWER CO., BOSTON, MASS. OIL GUSHER LAND FOR SALE. With only a very few thousand dollars, yourself or yourself and friends, can buy enough land to drill 3 or 3 wells in "SPINDLE TOP HEIGHTS", right among the great oil gushers at Beaumont, Texas. This within a few feet of gushers and sure to produce same. Right of way for pipe line and wagons. Can meet you in Beaumont to investigate; also aid in selection of property for organization of stock company or private investment. If you want rice lands, let me know. Write the at Beaumont, Texas, Box 305, or Hope, Ark., Box 73. I will likely have an oil proposition in Arkansas soon, though there is nothing anywhere to be compared to the Spindle Top Heights at Beaumont, as that is the only gusher hill in Texas. Among farms for sale, I have 80 acres near Hope, Ark. 60 acres open, 20 timber. I have the government analysis to show this as being among the parent waters. The mild climate and healthy location makes it a perfect home for aged people, as such advantages, you know, probob life, dwarfs on this plate flow 60 to 70,000 gallons daily; good improvements. Good land to grow cotton, cora, early potatoes, melons, etc., for st. Louis and other markets. Price $1,600. Come and investigate both propositions before investing a dollar. A.F. DYRE. LIFE OF WM. M'KINLEY with memorials by nation's sympathetic men. Large, fully illustrated. Extra terms. Freight paid. Credits given. Big pay for quick work. Ouids ready; FREE. Read 10 cents for postage to SEIOLER CO., 324 Dearborn St., Chicago. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—15 acre Grain Farm, Halls Co., Mo. Price $7,000. Will take merchandise or smaller farm for half, balance easy terms. Also 640 acres in Crickett Co., Texas to exchange. PFINGSTON, Odell, Ill. Mallibooded with 1 ocre acres, nest Thompson's Eye Water PISO'S CURE FOR WITH THREE ALL EASY MILK Must Cough Syrup. Thinks Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION . an FOF TAP x son ane. 5 BSLEE TELLS Was First Rescue tr om | res = ie ex tee ae eee ee nding of te Montment at Gon ee eee | Gorm Saget eee ea Se geet on es Quast tinea Rear Admiral? ‘dslee"has recently arrived — m Japan, wh re he gevoted mm Lime Ot rice of the Perey aanamene “ot Gora Hama. As be is the only survivor of the i =. ron that went to Japan in 3853, (Bie she command ot Commodore i C. Perry, he found it devolving upon him to push public interest tn Japan long to the completion of the me- worial. (Soak cae pat He also made a”study of Japanese conditions of today as’ compared with those of half a cOntury ago. They proved gratifying «tO ome remember- ing the day when representatives of America's navy first set “foot, against uch opposition, on the land where now 2 monument is raised in their keader’s honor. §- * = . Some of bis -observations and con- dusions are set forth in the following ietter, together With- his account of the unveiling of that monument on the Mth of last Jdly, Et-was:the-work of months to get the Japanese interested Se ‘meant the rais- ing of « large sum Of money. The way in which it Was accomplished is re- lated here. Letter of Admiral Beardsiece. The first thing that I did after ar- riving in Japan ‘waters was to hunt wp the exact place where the landing was made. There it lay, the quiet Gora tacked by Bille aad facing the bins backed by : water. It recalled that day when, 2 peaceful weleome having been assured, the Japanese scullers guided the Amer- ican officers imto the ‘harbor. Guns boomed then a8 they boomed the other day when the celebration was held in honor of that early event. Captain Bu- chanan, in command of the early par- ty, was literally the first of them to put foot on shere. I paced the ground there and re- called it all. Then I mingled among the people and tried to find some rec- oliection of that day. It had gone com- pletely from their minds. The place there had mot changed es- ff as SN ee ZB SS Z BGAN AUMIBAL, BEAR Lm. pecially in these years, except that there was no hostility to the advances made by Americama—no great .curios- ity even, for American tourists are by Do means rare. But the people in those out of the way places: have mot taken up European customs as those of the larger cities ave ‘They sit.on the floor and wear kimonos as much as ever and sive never a thought to chairs and tail- oring. £ rs 2 Perry Resmetiiia at Bae Ga. Tt seemed strange enough that J could not come upon old residents, and Plenty of them, who rememibered Per- Ty. But in all the course of my travel- ing in Japan I found‘atmiost mone upon whom the commodore’s landing seemed to have made any impression, One old man of 90 and his son bf 70 appeared before the conclusion of my visit—men who had seen Perry, remembered him cary ant Sie ae oe eae eee for their nation. ‘They are thet whom you ice ntnding "bie the monument. They are both, father and son, fine specimens of Japanese. old manhood. Tae er aa! riage they look many ye less they are. a He ses sees fe aE It gratifies me to know that I had a hand in raising that handsome, 1 Ment as a m ears 7m aX wae edit nt adie Gea Set about it it wae's tong time befor 1 could aroy any interest in the ws. some in! inential Japa ey were of the Beiya Ky a Up to dl me my talking kad been | ee a 4 of no aval. Lyrae received. most hospitably, delng entertained ia Princely manner by men of great dis— deaf ears. e right took hold of the-metter it~ was hy rs Hard to Ratse Fonds. ‘he raising of funds took Oe re ree, a ae Pa Be ie A ox a Finally’ acioaias aad. ai Braye: sod a aoe he had worked hard for t thet are weblen hth wi Palle wr Ges es: Se sived, lay eight ‘war’vesss s bene ‘any Of the suspicious and tantious ‘character shown in their relations that ‘Uad--beon tn the ‘rst place. Instead ‘were ‘open rejoicing and friendliness ‘Over. comition cause. Torped> boats ‘were there to help along the celebra- tion. ‘There was & booming of guns ana figshing of day fireworks. The the rejoleing of two happy nations, - Education Advancing Rapidly. Tt-is delightfi to’ me, now that the journey is over, to look back ‘upon Jepan- and see the way that it bas Srown Since my first visit. In the cities education is advancing and broadening at 2 rapid rate. In many ways ‘the country’s civilization is not excelled the world over. its courtesy and hos- Ditality are renowned. Am American ‘yoman can travel with more safety than in Paris or London. This speaks for itself. ; Many things are still undeveloped. All will come in time. It- Commodore Perry could look upon the resalt of his mission he surely would find it as grat- itying as he could desire. L. A. BEARDSLEE. ‘ABOUT ICEBOATS_ me Meland They Are Used for Business Rather Than Pleasure. For hundreds of years past in Hol- land boats have been sailed over the jee on the canals. The Dutchmen use them for business rather than for pleasure. One may often meet in Holland little navies of sledges, loaded ‘with corn, flour or wood, sliding on ‘the ice, with sails vet to the wind. For ‘Sess. ‘oo, ce-boating has been com- . Finland. Northern Europe un- sdonbtedly is the shome of the sport Wealthy men of St. Petersburg sail their ice-boats on the Baltic. On the ‘Sords of Norway and on the great lakes of Sweden one may frequently See the sails of the boats, though lack of wind and abundance of snow make ice-boating there a precarious pastime. ‘England has little chance for enjoying the sport, though attempts have been made to introduce it into the fen dis- trict. Scotland bas more chance, and Occasionally an iceboat is heard of on one of the frozen lochs. In Switzer- land, at Davos and other places beloved by skaters, ice-boating is keenly culti- vated in winter. A serviceable modern ieeboat of best quality costs about $250, The average length of the best all-around craft is about 50 feet and they bear some 1,000 square feet of canvas. They are very frail craft—as ome cannot help remembering when traveling at top speed over rough ice— and weigh about 800 or 900 pounds. Briefly, an iceboat consists of a trian- gular timber framework, with a tall mast rising from the front of the frame. She runs upon three steel run- ners, the after one set crosswise and acting as a rudder, all long and curved fore and-aft. The rudder skate is turned ‘by a tiller and must naturally be very sharp to obtain a grip on the ice. To steer an ice yacht is a matter of nerve and practice. A calm disposi- tion and a quick-eye are more neces- sary than on a sea yacht, for the slightest touch of the tiller will spin the boat round. Unless the helm be) turned gradually the yachtsmen will find themselves overboard. it is re- markable that an iceboat sails faster than the wind. She does not sail di- rectly before the wind, like a balloon, which consequently can sever sail faster than the wind. but she always sails at an angle to the wind's direc- tion and gathers increased speed with every thrust of wind against her sails. There is so little friction that, having gained a certain speed, a forward im- petus received from the wind does not go to maintain that speed but to add to it. Thus it comes about that ice yachts actually overbavl the wind, so that their canvases appear as if driving into its face.—Chicago News. — The Eveless Congo. French Congo is without a French woman, and there is gnashing of teeth in local official circles. It ap- pears that lest year the colony was brightened by the presence of thirteen jadies, wives of French officials, but these soon. sickened, and the govern- ment, finding the cost of transport too much, informed {ts colonial , servants that they would not be allowed to take out their wives at the national ex- pense. Now & decree of December, 1897, states that inasmuch as wives ought to follow their husbands to the coloniss, their fares backward and for- ‘ward would be-defrayed by the colo- nial office. ‘Therefore the recent gov- ernment order is illegal, and to get will be compelled to send aut bachel- ors to the colony.—London Express. C—O A, ~ If & defendant's property be sold un- eer a void judgment and execution and he, with legal notice of all the mater- fal facts, receive from the sheri« and retain a portion of the proceeds of the gale, the supféme court of Georgia, in the case of Tutt vs. Roney (39 8. B Rep... 298), bods thet thie smonste 25 jew to & ratification and he is MIO sites 515 ‘Calendars Osaght & Patron. riage, Git yon Sapoes t0, oes Siiienae "OF cotrss: St sor Sere es companies?" “Yes. ‘She investigated aie ere ee Prufixs That Auccace Thue = a le ee ee ‘or they consist: off little More than 2 cellulcse envelope con: taining a solution of sugar, the amount varying from 17 per cent; as with ‘Grapes, to sbout 14 per cent, as with lemons. The amount of water-fn fruit is considerable. In watermelons it is Bo less than 95 per cent, in grapes 89 Der cedit, in oranges 86 per cent, in lemons 9@ per cent, in peaches $8 per cent, im apples 82 per cent, in pears $4 per cent, in plums 80 per cent, in nec- taries $2 per cent, and in strawberries 90 per. cent, not = fruit in the whole Category containing less than 80 per cent. ‘Te irresistible conclusion, con- sidering these facts, is that fruit plays an important role ‘in the diet as a thirst quencher. Moreover, the juice Of fresh-cut fruit js perfectly free from microbes, is as sterile as freshly clean drawn ‘milk, and the fruit acids tend to inhibit the power of those dis- ease-producing bacteria which flourish im neutral or slka’ine media. The marked anti-scorbutie properties of fresh fruit due to the vegetable acids end their salts. in the juices are of great importance. . STILL TALKING ABOUT IT. Bryant, Mo., ( :t. 7th.—The case of Mrs. M. A. Goss, continues to be the chief topic of conversation in this neighborhood. Mrs. Goss was a erip- ple for a long time with Sc.tica; she was so bad she couidn't turn over in bed and for four months she lay on one side. She bad tried everything without getting any relief, till at last she heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. She is strong and well today, and bas not a single ache or pain. Mrs. Goss says: “I don't know if Lodd’s Kidney Pills will cure any- thing else or not, but . do know they will cure iatica, for they cured me, and there couldn't be ~ worse case than mine.” —— eS eee The dignities that confront the elder brother are usually “appalling to the small sister, and there is a little girl in Columbus, Obio, who has been giv- img to the subject much careful atten- tion, as the Despatch bears witness. ‘She electrified the family at breakfast by announcing: “Next year Malcolm will be a lawn-mower. I wonder way they call him that” “A lawn- mower?” -echoed the astonished mother. “What do you mean?” “That is what you told me,” replied the child, gravely. “This year he was a freshman. Next year he'll be a lawn- mower, and then a janitor and then a senior. And then he'll graduate.” A Dimiective lescct. The smallest exhibit at the Buffalo exposition was the fg wasp from Cali- fornia....It cam be seen only with a microgeope. The insect is an import- ant aid im producing the fruit, and the United States government spent $16,- 000 in establishing it in the Pacific fig region. - Ave You Using Alien’s Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swoilen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask fer Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into tne shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 2éc. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. ¥. Qecen of Spain Likes Ketlics. A pack of ivory playing cards car- tied by Prince Eugene, the colleague of the great Duke of Marlborough, in the campaign against the French un- der Marshal Villars was recently bought by the Queen of Spain, who is immensely fond of such relics. $3.00 PER DAY AND EXPENSES To map with rig to introduce our stock and ee ee ee ae ee The biggest meteorite ever known to have fallen has been discovered at Ponto Alegre, Brazil. wt is 55 feet. in diameter and 85 feet long. and should obese “ot tes toes Co SASS paper. Their offer is very liberal. : ‘New Orleans now boast of being the greatest fruit market in the world. THINK IT OVER If you've taken our ad- vice, your house is painted with Devoe ready paint. If not, we'llhave a few words ‘with youabout it next spring. -. "The advice may seem better then; the paint will be just as good; couldn't be better; no- body can make better. : Advice: When you paint, use Devoe for results. gates “VAN'S” BUCKWHEAT BUY! a ee Sof = EAT! zone Bp io Sozodont Good for Bad Teeth Not Bad for Good Teeth Ber. 25e. Base eporder itmares iter re Eon pie rine ocr Address Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N ¥. ely Shower of Bugs. In Szentes, Hungary, a most interest- ing phenomenon occurred recently. At dusk @ black cloud suddenly obscured the sky, and a shower of greenish, opalescent insects began to descend, covering the ground to a depth of a foot, . 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It appears from all the records that the city oil inspector owed the city of Chicago over $23,000, and it seems that the city would have been out this vast sum if the grand jury had failed to perform its duties. Mr. Burke gave bonds to the extent of $25,000 for his appearance in the Criminal Court, where he will be tried for embezzlement of money belonging to the city of Chicago. In the meantime Mr. Burke has resigned as oil inspector and that act on his part came mighty near causing all the politicians to believe that the world had come to an end. Ex-Mayor John P. Hopkins and Mayor Carter H. Harrison, are at it again hot and heavy. Mayor Harrison says: "If ex-Mayor Hopkins or any of the Ogden Gas Company take offense at the statements contained in that interview, it looks to me very much like a case of the 'galled jade wincing.' The ex-mayor retorts by saying that "if Mayor Harrison claims that I had anything to do with the indictment of Robert E. Burke by the grand-jury he simply lied, and if Mayor Harrison, will come out in the open with his charges I will disprove them in detail and show them to be malicious falsehoods." This is hot enough and we would suggest that ex-Mayor Hopkins and Mayor Harrison hire a small room somewhere, put on the gloves and settle their personal differences for there is room enough in the Democratic party for two mayors. Prof. W. H. Councill, Normal, Ala., who is one of the leading orators of this land and one of its ablest educators, addressed the Chautauque at Clarinda, Iowa, recently, and throughout his talk he eloquently pled the cause of the Negro. Prof. Councill contended "that the 'coon songs' were potent and unfair factors in making and perpetuating public prejudice against the race." "All Coons Look Like to Me," is an insult to and a slander upon the Negro race, he maintained. He urged the large number of whites who listened to him not to treat all colored people alike, but to treat each one as he deserves. These words, spoken by Prof. Councill, contain much truth, and yet there are many so-called leaders of the Negro race who for the sake of making a little money are willing to sing coon songs from one end of the week to the other. For a first-class shave or hair-cut call and see C. E. Doswell, the university barber, 116 West 51st street. Agent for The Colored American Magazine. OLEVER LITTLE STORIES. Emperor William of Germany preaches sermons occasionally on board his yacht, the Hohenzollern, and the story is told that a sailor was once brought to book for sleeping during the royal sermon. "Oh, let the poor fellow off," said the kaiser, when the matter was brought before him; "he has been punished enough already. Besides, it wasn't much of a sermon, anyhow."—Chicago News. A parish priest going his rounds one July day in a little Irish village met a farmer whom he knew well but who was a Protestant and not a member of his flock. Says Pat: "Af ye plase, yer riverince, would ye be so kind as to pray for a wee drop o' rain come Sunday next, for sorra a thing'll grow in me little garden wid the present hate of the weather." "I'm sorry to hear it," said the priest kindly, "but why do you not ask your own clergyman, Pat?" "Ah, sure, yer riverince," said Pat, "and what for would I be axin' him to pray for rain wid thim cocks o' hay a-standing on his lawn?" Richard Dobson of Lansing, Mich., says that years ago he came across Mr. Gladstone chopping down a tree near Hawarden. Not recognizing the statesman, the globe-trotter exclaimed, "Hello, Johnny Bull! You're making a rather sorry job of cutting down that tree." Mr. Gladstone owned it would take him an hour. Thereupon Mr. Dobson offered to bet the gentleman a dollar that he would fell the tree in twenty minutes. "You're a little man physically, but large in conceit. I'm not much of a betting man," retorted Mr. Gladstone, "but I'll tell you what I'll do, my little man. I'll give you a sovereign if you can chop down that tree in twenty minutes, and if you don't do it in that time you are to cut it down for nothing." Mr. Dobson sweeps he performed the operation in seventeen minutes and thirty-seven seconds. At any rate he pocketed his sovereign and subsequently lunched at Hawarden. There is no science to love; it's all art. A pug dog acts as if he might be vain of his ugliness. A woman's fickleness is only extended by her constancy. The diver has a practical way of getting at the bottom of things. The rose is not always to the swift, even if the turtle does get into the pond. ```markdown ``` OUT OF THE TALL GRASS. William Patterson is very busy setting old hens. He set seven in one day. —Stringtown (Ind.) correspondence. John Mangrum has advertised for a carload of yellowhammers to be sent to the Philippines and sold for mocking birds.—Silver Hill (Ind.) correspondence. A farmer in Taylor county was kicked by a mule and died. A son by his former wife married the widow, and is now said to be hunting for the mule, too.—Sellsburg (Ind.) Mall. The restaurant parlors of J. R. Jennings were opened in fine style last Wednesday evening. Some of the "boys" overturned the tables and danced on them, and after inviting everybody to go home they proceeded to shoot up the town.—Marlow ... T.) Review. Readers of the Clintonian this week are cautioned to handle it gingerly lest they catch the smallpox. Some of the type from which it is printed was set by a girl whose father is a half-brother to a man who winked at the sister of a boy who went to school with one John White, who has the smallpox. Clinton (Ind.) Clintonian. "No, suh! I'se not flirting wit dat lady," said the porter on the Pullman entering Chicago to Judge. Hubbard of this city. "Dat lady mah wife. When Ah have er good, fat run Ah hold up mah full hand to huh. Hit means foh to get. er beefstalk and onlons. Ef Ah hol' up one fingah dat means er pore run and nuffin but liver."—Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette. One of the shrewdest storekeepers ever in these parts was Uncle Ezra Nichols, back in the '80s. Some one got a bad dime on to him one day, and Uncle Ezra passed it out again. It was at once returned, but the customer was assured that the coin was good at that store any time. To test it he bought some candy for the children, and so Uncle Ezra got it back and again passed it out with the same remark, and after a little was able to brag that this dime was making him more money than a good coin could.— Sebewa (Mich.) correspondence. NEW HOUSEHOLD IDEAS. Save the pound cans in which baking powder comes. They make excellent molds in which to pack ice cream for serving. Baked fish stuffed with mashed potatoes should be served with little cakes of mashed potatoes rolled in egg and bread crumbs and fried. To prevent onions from turning black when cooked, slice and soak the slices in milk for at least ten minutes. Then dip them in flour and immerse in boiling fat for six or seven minutes. Remove with a skimmer and drain on brown paper. Fruit stains should be wet in alcohol, whisky or camphor, or a stream of boiling water poured through them. A stain once set by suds is henceforth almost hopeless. Beware especially of grass, paint, mud and wagon grease marks—all of which must be taken out before washing or not at all. Embossed leather can be cleaned with turpentine applied with a soft cloth. This removes the stains, but slightly stiffens the leather, which should be made pliable again by rubbing briskly with crude oil. Use very little oil, and go over the place with a clean cloth on which no oil has been put, as care must be taken to get all the surface grease off, to prevent soiling the clothes. WISE OR OTHERWISE. Man is as positive as a woman is contrary. Love may be blind, but it has a delicate touch. The politeness of a mean man is always disagreeable. The secret of ignorance is not to know your lack of wisdom. Fortunate is the man who can depend upon himself at all times. Many lasting friendships are due to the distance between the friends. A woman is never satisfied until she can do a thing two different ways. Some married men are so mean that they enjoy seeing other men get married. A woman can't see any further than the end of her nose if it has a pimple on it. The man who refuses to believe that honesty is the best policy is a born politician. Every plain, intelligent woman is just the least bit envious of a handsome silly one. SCRAPS. Cane sugar, heated and treated with chlorate of potash, forms a detonating mixture of great intensity. The rearing of worms and manufacture of silk were completely broken up in America by the revolution. In 1893 Switzerland lost 7,835 inhabitants by emigration, mostly to America. Last year the number was only 3,816. Inense is mentioned in A. D. 496 as used in Christian churches, the occasion being the baptism of Clovis of France. The city of Portland, Me., has in its streets 30,000 shade trees, some of which were planted more than half a century ago. In the year B. C. 128, 800,000 persons parished by a pestilence arising from the putrefaction of great swarms of dead locusta. The common measure of road distance in Greece is the pike, three-quarters of an English yard, 1,000 pikes being about 750 yards. C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yardu B4. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. 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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you, in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts—the eternal Thought speaking in your thought—George Macdonald. Sorrows are often like clouds, which, though black when they are passing over us, when they are past become as if they were the garments of God thrown off in purple and gold along the sky.—Henry Ward Beecher. To reform a world sunk in dishonesty has not been given thee; solely over one man therein thou has quite absolute uncontrollable power; him redeem, him make honest; it will be something; it will be much and thy life and labor not in vain.—Carlyle. Eager clutching at the delights of natural life, and making it one's chief aim, is the sure way to lose all its sweetness and to miss the higher life; while the subordination, and, if needful, the sacrifice of "life in this world." leads straight to the possession of "life eternal."—Alexander McLaren. There is greater variety of parts in what we call character, than there are features in a face; and the morality of that is no more determined by one part than the beauty or deformity of this is by one single feature. Each is to be judged of by all the parts or features—not taken singly, but together.—Bishop Butler. "As the duty of every day requires." That is a simple rule. Let it be pondered well. Resolve when you awake that it shall be to some faithful purpose, and that your renovated powers shall be obedient to Him who has renewed them. Let not the opportunity that is so fleeting and yet so-full pass neglected away.—Frothingham. 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 LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2025. — EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 200 S. 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Truth will give up her treasures to you when you give up your prejudices to her. The glory of the promises is not only in that they are many but that they mean much. It is foolish to sing. Heaven is my home, if you are not providing any furniture there. To have faith in God is not only to believe that He died to save you but that you live to serve Him. The man who covets his neighbor's house would change his mind if he knew what was in the closets. ```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. BAREY, M'g'r. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Special Agent. 410 Roanoke Bldg., 145 La Salle St. 5040 Armor Ave. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. 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The King of Roumania is personally interested in a plan to educate his people by the establishment of theaters in every town in the kingdom. It is reported that in his will Signor Crispi named a certain politician to examine his papers and superintend the publication of his memoirs. Sir Henry Johnson recently returned to London from Ugandae, has a collection of photographs said to be the finest ever gathered together in Africa. Unique as a brooch is a golden dragon holding in its mouth a large diamond. A golden spear pierces its body. An extremely taking shirt-waist set of sleeve links and four buttons consist of round opals set in rather wide bands of bright gold. "Photo" rings are the latest adaptation of a popular idea. In form these are gold signet rings, either plain or carved, in which a tiny photograph takes the place of the usual graved device. New art motives are in the fore in the carving of very heavy jeweled band rings for men.—Chicago Journal.