The Broad Ax

No one realizes the fact with more force than the writer does, that in many sections of the country the Negro is robbed of his earnings by those who can out-figure him, that in many cases, if he goes to law for the purpose of collecting what is coming to him the courts will invariably decide adversely to him, but here in Chicago, such condition of affairs does not exist, for the Negro stands equal before the law, the same as other men. He enjoys the same freedom and in many cases he earns as much salary or as much money as his white neighbor. But in spite of these last facts, in spite of the most favorable conditions, which surrounds many of the Negroes who desire to make the most of their opportunities, Chicago is full of dishonest and would-be respectable Negroes, who pose as leaders of society, who seemingly delight in beating or defrauding the doctors, undertakers, renting agents, butchers, grocery stores, coal dealers and any and every body in order to put on style and keep up appearance. Numerous instances could be cited by us in varyfication of these statements and for the good of those who dislike dishonesty on the part of the Negro, we will refer to a few tricks practised by some of the supposed respectable Negroes. While in conversation with a white undertaker a short time ago, who has always shown his friendship for the colored people, he related to us that "six months or more ago a colored man and his wife entered his place with tears running down their cheeks, and between their sobs they informd him that their little baby had just died, that they had no money to pay him for burying it, but if he would be so kind and help them out in their terrible distress they would certainly pay him just as soon as the Pullman Palace Car Co. paid them the money which it owed them." So the kind and big-hearted white undertaker furnished the coffin for their little dead baby, laid it out and even bought a lot in Oakwood cemetery with his own money to lay its remains in, but we regret to say that this couple of society leaders have not, nor they will not pay the undertaker one dollar for burying their baby, although its late mother struts past his place of business dressed up to beat the band, with a big black hat cocked on the side of her head, presumably bought on the installment plan. Every day similar stories are related to us by white business men up and down State street, and in other sections of the city, where Negroes frequent their establishments. One large coal dealer stated to us, while transacting some business with him, that "he had always liked colored people, but he was just beginning to learn that the would-be respectable colored people of Chicago are the greatest falsefliers in the world, that he had trusted a number of them for coal, but instead of paying him for the coal like honest men and women, they pass his coal office on their way to the policy shops which is located near his place of business. One of our leading colored doctors, who has always mixed up in every way with the race, related to us his experience in dealing with white people and colored people, and he went on to say, that while it is true that many white men will resort to all kinds of schemes in order to escape from paying their honest debts, but he contended that the would-be dishonest and respectable Negroes of Chicago can give the whites cards and spades and then beat them at the game of not adjusting their honest debts; that as a general rule the whites will pay their obligations more promptly and more cheerfully than the majority of Negroes." For over two years we have had business dealings with many of the dishonest and would-be respectable Negroes of Chicago, and we are free to admit that we have bought many of them for twenty-five cents on up to two and three dollars. We purchased Prof. W. E. Dorsey, the crooked and trickey leader of the colored K. P. band for one dollar, and W. W. Johnson, the cheap lawyer, sold what little honor he possessed to us for the small sum of fifty cents. We could write a long list of other so-called honest and respectable colored men and women too whom we have bought mighty cheap within the last two years, but we will refrain from doing so at the present time. Here we can say in all honesty, that there are not twenty Negroes in one hundred in Chicago, who want to pass as honest and respectable leaders of society, who will send you what they owe you, if you send them their bill by mail, but if you expect to collect the money due you from them in the majority of cases you will have to run after it J. COL. JOHN F. GEETING. Lawyer, Orator and Humanitarian. fifteen or twenty times, then if they owe you one dollar they will give you half of it and owe you the rest. All the foregoing unmistakably indicates that the great majority of the Negroes not only of Chicago, but in all sections of the United States need a higher and better training along the lines of honesty and morality, that his teachers and preachers have sadly and woefully neglected to impress this one idea upon the mind of the Negro, that "no person can be a good citizen unless he endeavors to be honest." Consequently, if the Negro preachers of Chicago are interested in the future success and welfare of the race let them preach less of hellfire and damnation, and admonish their hearers to sing, shout, pray and play policy less, work harder, save more, read more good literature, observe the moral laws closely, pay their honest debts, "do not unto others what they would not like others to do unto them." If the vast majority of the Negroes will adhere to these simple rules of moral conduct, then they will have no further use for creeds nor religion. MINOR OFFICES FOR NEGROES. The President has decided that some of the minor southern offices shall go to Negroes and has practically agreed to appoint former Representative Murray and E. H. Deas, of South Carolina to places that will be selected for them later. Acting upon the advice of Republican National Committeeman Capers the places selected will be of a character where the colored appointees will not come into frequent contact with white citizens. Ex. How do the leading colored Republicans like this latest move on the part of President Roosevelt? Don't all speak at once, gentlemen, but remember that Capers, whoever he is, was a howling Democrat a few months ago. Gambling Jackbrickbat Terrell informed County Constable Robert T. Sims, a few days ago that "he had one hundred dollars to blow in against the courts before he will pay the three dollars he owes as subscription to The Broad Ax." Terrell, you never had one hundred dollars at one time in your life, and if you should succeed in skinning the suckers out of ten dollars at one time you would butt your watery brains out against a stone wall. MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ARE OFF THEIR BASE. Last Sunday before the South End Sunday Club adjourned several members of the committee recently appointed for the purpose of endeavoring to improve the moral condition of the district near 47th street and Armour avenue, declared that they did not propose to begin their fight on gambling jacksnipe or brickbat Terrell in order to assist The Broad Ax in its fight against that despicable individual. The learned chairman or President of the club very gravely informed it that "the laws were so constructed that it would be mighty hard to close up Terrell's crap-joint or the four policy shops which are constantly running right up by the side of the Rev. J. W. Robinson; that if any move was made in that direction it would look as though The Broad Ax wanted to use the committee to fight his friend Terrell," or words of the same purport. The Broad Ax wishes to assure each and every member of the committee that it is amply able to fight its own battles, without their assistance, that as far as the writer is personally concerned it makes no difference to us whether or not there are ten or twenty policy shops or dens like Terrell's right up by the side of the church which the Sunday Club meets in, and if the members of the committee think it is no harm to have young girls frequent Terrell's place and dance the hoe-down while policemen pass in and out and join in the demoralizing sports with his tough crowd of hangers on, then the committee ought not to take any steps to close it up. OTHERS AND OURS. The Broad Ax and Dallas Express are not in good humor with Brother Cooper, of the Colored American; they say they have others in their company. Maybe so, Cooper may have his faults, but he is an able newspaper man and is doing much good. Free State, Brandon, Miss. There are others. And as the Free State man grows older he will learn that there are some smart rascals pushing the quill for themselves only. The Times, Galveston, Texas. Brother Times, you have told the truth respecting Ed. Cooper, who is a very warm chum of Prof. Booker T. Washington. The only good(?) the fraudulent Cooper has ever done is to laud Col. Bob. Church, the big gambling house owner, of Memphis, Tenn., and Col. P. Carson, of Washington, who is in the same business, in whose joint Cooper gets his free whisky, as the great leaders of the Negro race; the next greatest thing that was ever accomplished by dishonest Ed. Cooper, was to defraud many of our Afro-American newspapers out of many hundred dollars, through the Boston Chemical Co., of Richmond, Va. As the champion liar, whisky drinker, swindler, whitewasher of gamblers, jackleg preachers and broken down political bums, whom he delights to holp up as leaders of the Negro race, we are willing to give that honor to Ed. Cooper, of Washington, D. C. NOTICE The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain our review of the "Personal Recollections of the late John M. Palmer." Also our second comment on the meeting of the National Negro Business League. Look out, for it will be worth your time to read it? Judging from the way Governor Aycock, of North Carolina, foams at the mouth because President Roosevelt and Prof. Booker T. Washington happened to eat together, he thinks that all the "niggers" of the South will want to cock their legs under his dinner table. Keep your shirt on, Governor Aycock, and have no fear about social equality, for no decent nor self-respecting colored person has any desire to eat with such blatant fools as you and your kind. INDIAN CHIEF SLURS NEGRO. Ponca Leader Thinks He Also Should Dine With President. White Eagle, the aged philosopher chief of the Ponca Indians, declares that while he might entertian Booken T. Washington at dinner should the colored educator visit his tepee, yet he is very positive that in no other manner should an Indian whose pedigree is as old as the sun have aught to do with a man whose skin is black "White Eagle thinks it proper," he said, "that the white father at Washington should give to big Indian chief same treatment as to big Negro chief. No Indian chief ever ate at white father's table. This is not good. My pedigree as old as sun, moon and stars; older than white father's, Negro chief's pedigree only since the great white father set him free. White Eagle believes Indian just as good as white man. Indian should have white woman in his tepee. White man should have Indian squaw. Not so with Negro, he not good enough to have white squaw. No Ponca papoose shall go to Negro school. If he do so then Ponca disown him. "White Eagle will go to Washington to see white father and will tell white father that Ponca Indians want lands allotted. He will ask White Eagle, whose pedigree is old as sun, to eat at his table. White Eagle will eat. That will be good."—Ex. White Eagle's comment on the Roosevelt and Washington dinner is the best of the season, and the reason the Indian thinks himself better than the Negro is that he always loved liberty well enough to die for it; he could not be enslaved to the white man like the Negro, hence his white father did not set the Indian free. Congressman James McAndrews leaves for Washington, D. C., within a very short time to assume his duties as one of the law-makers of the nation. Prof. M. M. Mangasarian continues his course of three lectures at the Grand Opera House Sunday morning on "The Women Shakespeare Loved Best." Alderman Charles J. Byrne, Ninth Ward, will be returned to the city council next spring, and his opponents might as well go away back and sit down. County Commissioner Rollin B. Organ has launched his boom for sheriff of Cook County and many of the boys who want to be on top are climbing in his band wagon. Sunday, Nov. 17, Prof. William M. Salter, lecturers in Steinway Hall. Eethical Culture Society, on "Using Our Opportunities." His address is mainly for young people. Will those who think they see the hand of Providence pointing toward imperialism recognize the Roosevelt-Washington incident as another manifestation of destiny?—Ex. County Commissioner Joseph E. Flanagan, who is one of the best business men of Chicago, can have the nomination for president of the board of county commissioners, if he will accept it. Dr. Leonard W. Lewis addresses the South End Sunday Club Sunday, Nov. 17, on "Opportunity." Miss Pearl Renfroe, Miss Louise Jackson and St. John's A. M. E. Church Choir are billed to do the singing. Deputy Coroner John Czekala, who was defeated for county commissioner last year by only a few hundred votes, may become a candidate again next year, if the two wings of the Democratic party become united. If the Negro is such an inferior being, why on earth are so many European nations struggling to get a slice of Africa, where he is to be found in myriads? Strange that one would want those things that they hate worst-Ex. Alderman Thomas Carey, who is always covered with war paint, is still being groomed by his many friends in the Town of Lake, and throughout Cook County, as the proper person to head the next county ticket as sheriff of this county. Mr. Lawrence A. Young, president of the Washington Park Association, who made such a gallant run for one of the judgeships of Cook County last year, recently moved into his new law offices on the 10th floor of the Ashland Block. Mrs. Laura Green, 4747 Armour avenue, died Monday night after a long spell of sickness. She left a devoted husband and eight children to mourn her death. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon from St. Mary's Church, 50th and Dearborn streets. Rev. J. W. Robinson performed the last sad rites over her remains. There is no use in talking. if the Democrats residing in the 15th ward expect to prevent the re-election of Albert W. Bellfuss to the city council. ```markdown ``` MR. EDWARD KATZINGER. Manufacturer, and One of the Leading Jewish-Americans of Chicago. they will have to get up and get, for Alderman Beilfuss has got a good record behind him. He has been a hard worker for all the people in his ward, and they will not loose sight of him next election day. States Attorney Charles Deneen, who is more than likely to be the next governor of Illinois, is supporting John Hanberg, president of the county board for sheriff of Cook County. Mr. Deneen can generally tell which way the wind is blowing, and whenever he puts his stamp on any of the boys for an office, the other fellows might as well throw up the sponge. Hon. M. F. Dunlap, of Dunlap, Russell & Co., bankers, Jacksonville, Ill., who ran far ahead of the Democratic ticket for state treasurer in 1898 and 1900, stands well with the colored people throughout the state, and they have learned to admire him on account of his many good qualities, therefore The Broad Ax favors the renomination of Mr. Dunlap for state treasurer in 1902. The Arena for November contains the concluding article of a series of articles on "The Criminal Negro" by Francis A. Kellor of the University of Chicago. The entire series of articles are self-evident that Miss or Professor Kellor, banished all race prejudice from her mind while preparing the articles, and, they are worth anyones time to read them. Mr. J. B. O'Connell, of Devine & O'Connell, lawyers, Reaper Block: "Some time ago you were kind enough to mention my name in connection with the nomination for judge of the county court, and from that time to the present, whenever The Broad Ax arrives at our house, Mrs. O'Connell stops all her work in order to read every line in it to see of you are still booming me for judge." Hon. Edward Osgood Brown, president of the Henry George Association of this city, is one of the great legal luminaries of the middle west, and he is warm-hearted and generally favors the under dog in a rough and tumble fight. Mr. Brown, like the late Henry George, is for "men," not white men alone, but he is for all men, therefore he firmly believes that all men should stand equal before the law. Attorney Ernest Wedekind, 81 South Clark street, lately cast his political fortunes with the Tilden Democracy. Mr. Wedekind wants it distinctly understood that he has not one thing against Mayor Carter H. Harrison that he is willing to assist to uphold his hands as long as Mayor Harrison adheres to the true principles of Democracy. But Mr. Wedekind is bitterly opposed to one man power in conducting the affairs of the party; there are thousands of loyal Democrats in Chicago who are of the same opinion as Mr. Wedekind. Dr. Howard S. Taylor, prosecuting attorney of Chicago, lately presented The Broad Ax with a copy of "Lincoln's Words on Living Questions," which was compiled and edited by the doctor himself, who is the poet of Democracy. The little book is very valuable to those who are interested in the great questions which now confront the lovers of liberty. Dr. Taylor has rendered mankind a great service by reproducing extracts from Mr. Lincoln's speeches, which are more alive today than they were at the time he uttered them. Flimflammer Ed. Cooper, of Washington, D.C., calls The Broad Ax "a patent back sheet." Slippery and blackguard Cooper, who is one of the high officials of the National Negro Business League, is using eight dollars and thirty-five cents of our money, which he is spending while he is traveling around with Prof. Booker T. Washington, and if lyng and deadbeat Cooper would send us the eight dollars and thirty-five cents it would enable us to print or publish a much better newspaper. Colored American please copy. Frederick Austin Ogg, A. M., of Indianapolis, Ind., began a series of articles in the Modern Culture Magazine for November on "Reconstruction and After A Study of the Race Problem." In his opening article Prof. Ogg boldly declares that "the race problem in this country will in time surpass all other questions or problem." The Broad Ax hopes its many readers, white and black, who are interested in the race problem will become readers of the Modern Culture Magazine, which can be found on sale at all news stands at least until Prof. Ogg concludes his articles in it, for he is a fluent writer and we feel that his articles will be highly instructive to all. W. H. Weber, Esq., of Blue Island, secretary of the board of assessors of Cook County, who may be induced to become a candidate for county commissioner in 1902, is one of those big-hearted men who never forgets a friend nor a good act several years ago. Mr. Weber worked in the same office with George Shaw, a colored man, and when George Shaw was taken sick Mr. Weber assisted him financially, but in time Shaw died and was buried, then Mr. Weber contributed some money to erect a monument over his grave, but the colored man who was intrusted with the money disappeared with it, but Mr. Weber would not be out-done, so last week he ordered a monument erected to the memory of George Shaw, and he paid for it himself. Which proves that Mr. Weber is true blue. The late Cyrus Blanchard of Weymouth, Mass., bequeathed the bulk of his estate in equal shares to the Home for Working Girls in Boston, the Boston Port and Seaman's Aid society, and the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston. In removing the exhibition buildings in Paris the foundations were found of the palace that Napoleon I. began to build near the Trocadero for the King of Rome. Plans were drawn for a larger and more magnificent Kremlin, with the Bols de Boulogne for its park and the foundations were begun. After the fall of Napoleon they were built over and forgotten. An electric automobile recently came to the rescue of a church in Stratford, Conn. Something went wrong with the lighting facilities and the church was left in total darkness. Kerosene lamps had been proposed when up came an automobilist member of the congregation, connected the feed wire with his storage battery, and in a minute had the church brilliantly lighted. Afterward he unhitched the automobile and took his family home. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the pure principles of Democracy, but Farmora, Catholicism, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicanas, Priests, or any else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Dread Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Year..... 82.90 Months..... 1.00 Advertising sales are known on all landlines address all communities to In removing the exhibition buildings In Paris the foundations were found of the palace that Napoleon I began to build near the Trocadero for the King of Rome. Plans were drawn for a larger and more magnificent Kremlin, with the Bois de Boulogne for its park and the foundations were begun. After the fall of Napoleon they were built over and forgotten. An electric automobile recently came to the rescue of a church in Stratford, Conn. Something went wrong with the lighting facilities, and the church was left in total darkness. Kerosene lamps had been proposed when up came an automobilist member of the congregation, connected the feed wire with his storage battery, and in a minute had the church brilliantly lighted. Afterward he unhitched the automobile and took his family home. The supreme court of appeal in Austria has decided that if a wife saves money from the amount allowed to her by her husband for household expenses and appropriates the savings for herself this proceeding amounts to theft. Mr. and Mrs. Daun of Vienna, after being married for thirty years, were divorced, and Mrs. Daun took with her the sum, amounting to about $625, which she had saved from her weekly allowance made to her for household expenses. Mr. Daun brought an action against her to recover this amount, and judgment was given in his favor. Mrs. Daun has to refund the whole sum. In more than three thousand schools in Great Britain the boys are studying text book on Canada which set forth her history, explain her system of government and lay stress upon her natural resources. These books are supplied free by the Dominion, and Lord Strathcona, Canada's high commissioner to the mother country, will give valuable medals next spring to the scholars who pass the best examinations on them. The laudable aim of Strathcona and his countrymen is to impress British youth with the advantages of the Dominion as a field for emigration. It should be easy. Geographically speaking, and in other ways, too, Canada is the next best place to the United States. A pack of ivory playing cards, said to have been carried by Prince Eugene, the colleague of the Duke of Marlborough in the campaign against the French under Marshal Villars, has just been purchased by Queen Christina of Spain. The "court" figures are all hand-painted, but of no particular merit. The pack was at one time in the possession of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, father of the Prince Consort, and grandfather of King Edward VII. The cards were given by the duke some sixty years ago to a Spanish nobleman, who visited his court in a diplomatic capacity, and a grandson of the latter is in such reduced circumstances that he was glad to dispose of the pack to the queen. The members of the church board of the African Baptist church, of Frankfort, Ky., have been arrested by the city marshal for violating the building ordinance of the city requiring a permit from the council to erect a building in the city limits. The negroes recently bought ground just opposite the executive mansion and the governor and adjacent property owners raised objection to the building of a church upon it. The city council refused to grant a permit. The church board, ignoring the action, let the contract and the contractor had begun work on the church. The matter has been in controversy several months, and Gov. Beckham threatens to recommend the removal of the capital if the church is built. A curious letter from Mindanao, in the Philippines, has been received at the war department from Washington. It is written in characters not unlike the notes of a musical score, and is an acknowledgment of a gift by Wato Mama Datoh Baqui, one of the native chiefs. His conduct had been so exemplary at the time when other inhabitants of the Philippine Isles were giving much trouble to the United States that General MacArthur, after a tour through that part of the archipelago, decided to send Datoh a cane. He accordingly had one beautifully headed and engraved, at an expense of about $30, and forwarded it to the loyal chief with his compliments. The acknowledgment, translated into English, is as follows: "This letter from your brother Wato Mama Datoh Baqui to his brother the captain general of the Philippines concerning the appropriate present—a cane—which I have received from his excellency through the commanding officer at Malabang. I wish to express my great gratitude to him for his thoughtful remembrance. My pleasure at receiving it reaches the KENTUCKY'S GRETNA GREEN Nearly 20,000 Kloping. Couples Married There in Fifteen Years. The greatest Gretna Green of the United States is no more. The new law passed by the Indiana legislature is in force, and no more can runaway couples be married in Jeffersonville, the little city opposite Louisville, Ky. Young love a who live in nearby states are not the only ones who are sad at the charged con ltions. Two white-headed 'squires sit in their offices and mourn for the f t fee that will no longer be theirs. "Runners" who met incoming boats and tried to guide the runaways to their respective employer—each 'squire had a dozen of them, so intense was the rivalry for this lucrative business—"run" no longer, but have turned to other walks. 'Squire John H. Hause still has his office at the top of the hill overlooking the Louisville and Jeffersonville ferry. The old horseshoe still hangs over his door, and the matrionial sign still stares the passer-by in the face 'Squire Hause has married 8,000 couples. 'Squire Nixon, who has beer in the business three years, has married 1,400. He is a watchmaker by trade, and has kept up his business, so he will not miss the fees so much. Recently Magistrate Ephraim Keelman died. He held the record over all competitors. He married 10,000 couples during his life. In fifteen years the three—Hause, Kelgman and Nixon, Kelgman's successor—married 19,000 runaway couples. These three men have derived from these marriages clear of fees paid to "runners," a little over $100,000. County Cle k Carr also mourns a rich source of revenue taken from him. During the year 1900 1,200 licenses were issued to out-of-town couples. Each was forced to pay $1 for a certificate, of which the clerk kept $2. So it can be seen that he loses $2,400 a year of h's income. All Jeffersonville mourns with these men, says the New York Times, for its best advertisement has ceased. But thus do old institutions pass away. Many of the 38,000 who were married in Jeffersonville are still living, and many of the 76,000 eyes may possibly be wet with tears as they think that other sweethearts will not be able to flee to the haven to which they rushed to escape obdurate parents. EXTERMINATING RATS A Vigorous and Successful Campaign If the Pied Piper of Hamelin had not been filling an engagement elsewhere he might have found remunerative employment recently in Cape Town, South Africa, where the authorities have been waging a war of extermination against the numerous rats. These rats, according to the New York Press, were responsible chiefly for spreading the bubonic plague throughout the region and thus gained the enmity of all classes. Hence in the war of extermination a reward of threepence a head was offered for each rat that should be proven to have suffered the extreme penalty of the law—whether guilty or not—of having introduced bubonic plague during the course of its enterprise but all too brief career mattered not. It sufficed that the grave crime of bringing the plague from the stricken ports of India into South Africa had been fixed on the rats that came over in transports. The result of this was that so vigorous and successful a campaign has been carried out in Cape Town that it is at this moment practically ratless—save for fresh arrivals, which are summarily dealt with. During the early stages of this minor war the rat-receiving office on the docks was besieged by huge numbers of bloodthirsty human conquerors every day, but in the later stages the siege relaxed so much owing to the growing scarcity of rats that the poll tax had to be raised to sixpence. As soon as these rats were received and paid for they were taken to a small hut near the sea and consigned to flames lasting as long as there was rat fuel to feed them. Young Man Nearly 8 Feet Tall. The tallest man in the world, as he claims, has been visiting different places in Maine and has attracted great attention. His name is Edward Beaupre, and his exact height is 7 feet 10% inches. Beaupre is twenty years of age and comes from the province of Assinaboine, Northwest Territory. He says he is nothing but a boy, but there is enough of him to make half a dozen boys of ordinary size. He weighs 367 pounds and is a well-built young chap. He wears a No. 21 shoe and a No. 21 collar, and everywhere he goes he attracts attention. In all the hotels where he has ever stopped he has never found a bed long enough to accommodate him, so two mattresses are placed lengthwise on the floor, and on these he stretches out to sleep. Beaupre says he did not begin to grow until he was 7 years old. Then he began to shoot up and when he was sixteen years old he was seven feet in height. He says his parents are of ordinary height, his father being 5 feet 8 inches in height, and his mother an inch shorter. Beaupre is a great eater, smokes everything in the shape of tobacco, and is never sick. He takes pride in believing he is the tallest man that lives.—Lewiston, Me., Journal. The Friends at Home. Wife—"Why did you whip that poor dog so unmercifully, William?" Husband—"Because the brute won't keep quiet when I am wrestling with my lecture to be delivered before the Dog Friend society."—New York Times. Singing in sorrow is the sign of God's saints. With the Indians in Alaska A INTERIOR OF AN INDIAN HOUSE AT YAKU TAT BAY. When we grow discontented, as we sometimes do, with our environment; annoyed because the old shades are faded, and we cannot afford new ones; the carpets shabby and the purse too flat to replace them with finer and more modish fabrics; when we compare ourselves with our neighbors and are vexed t' at their splendor surpasses our own, we may find a tonic in making a pilgrimage to an Alaskan home, says a writer in the Christian Herald. The red man in Alaska, living with primitive simplicity, is satisfied with a fire on the hearth, even if it burn in a smoky chimney and the roof is blackened with the soot. He asks for no luxurious easy chairs. A bench running around the walls of the living room fills his ideal of comfort. Thick clothing is a must-be, and he and his family is fortunate if they are swathed in thick woolens, or furnished with skins. The spoils of his hunting and trapping must bring what money he requires, and at all times pelts may be seen drying from poles and bars propped up against the ceiling. Outdoors, the Indian condescends to hunt and fish, but within his home he is an autocrat, living in lazy inertia, and waited upon, hand and foot, by his womankind. To the children he is not unkind, and they group about him, as bears' cubs in the den. It is hard to be sick in such a home as the one our artist has photographed, and as there is very little of tender ministry or patient care-taking, those who are too ill to rally under Nature's handling, usually die, and are little mourned. Gentleness and sympathy are qualities which come from civilization. Much missionary work is being done in Alaska, and schools are being established for the little ones. A generation hence, an Alaskan house, even INTERIOR among the Indians, will be far more comfortable than those we see now. And then, who knows, the squaw may feel as we do about her carpets and her curtains! BOOSEVELT AND THE FOWL. How He Caught the Gamecock at "Old Bill" Sewall's. Up in Island Falls, Aroostook county, lived a rugged farmer and backwoodsman familiarly known as "Old Bill" Sewall, and to his house one day in autumn about twenty-five years ago, came a rather delicate youth, armed with a gun and fishing rod, and looking for a place to board for a few months while he "roughed it" for the benefit of his health. The youth was Theodore Roosevelt of New York, and he was made welcome. For many weeks, accompanied by "Bill" Sewall and Wilbur Dow, a young man living in the neighborhood, the newcomer went hunting and fishing and gradually color came to his face and strength to his muscles. If he was alight and rather sickly he had plenty of grit, and soon he won the friendship and admiration of all the woodsmen in the Island Falls section. They said that, although at first sight the young tourist "didn't look as if he'd pull through," he was game to the backbone, and if sticking to it was any help they thought he might turn out all right, after all. Many stories are told by those who remember Roosevelt's visit of his courage and persistency. One day when, with Sewall and the rest, he went on a long tramp through the woods after deer, he was much exhausted on the way home, and someone offered to carry his rifle for him. Roosevelt almost indignantly declined the proffered assistance, and, although almost ready to drop in his tracks from weariness, he clung to his rifle and struggled through to the end of the journey. On another occasion he had a long chase after a game rooster that had escaped from his coop, and pursued the bird through the village streets, over fences and through yards, until finally it flew into an open window in the second story of a house. Nothing daunted. Roosevelt got a lad- --- der and climbed into the house, presently emerging with the towl squaling and struggling in his arms. He had actually crawled under an old woman's bed to get that rooster. When Roosevelt went west to become a ganchman he took "Bill" Sewall and Wilbur Dow along with him and kept them in his employ for some years. Dow died in the west, but Sewall came back to Maine and is still living at Island Falls, where he delights to tell of the days he spent with Theodore Roosevelt. He says that at the time of the chase and capture of the game cock an aged settler of Island Falls, admiring the persistence and determination of young Roosevelt, said: "That young feller'll be president some day, if he lives."—New York Tribune. POWER OF ONE WORD Breaks Up Supper Party, at Which One Chair War Vacant On the morning of March 13, 1889, news of special import from the Philippines went coursing through the nation. In a certain half hour's fighting thirty-seven volunteers had been shot—killed and wounded. Scattered through six different states that morning nine men read the name of a college classmate in the list, and, for the first time in all their lives grew serious. The bearer of the name was sent on sick leave to his home in Pittsburg, a medal for special bravery on his coat, and a bullet in his head. One morning I walked into the sick soldier's room and found him—sleeping. For an hour he lay thus, then turned "Why-w-w-why! 'Shorty,' is that you? D-d-did we score? Did that scheme work?—I-I'm hurt. T-take out time. There were seven hundred Scrubs—I mean Philli-Philippios in the rush OF AN INDIAN HOUSE AT YAKU T line. When the game began they meant to murder us. The half was nearly up—— They were inside our five-yard line—we lost the ball—got out of ammunition—Score was 'thirteen, fifteen, nineteen' dead men—it was our last down—I knew a scheme—would work—I asked the captain! Where were you? I must have had to give the signals. We worked a flying wedge with a long double pass, then I got out and ran for it. I had all their ammunition and had dodged their full-back coming in. The men were cheering—Oh! but it was glorious—I must have gone out of bounds, for oh! My head!—I think we—Did we score?—I think—I know I got there just in-time," and with his teeth set in the old way, and that old smile of triumph on his face, he fell back on the pillows—dead. At the funeral the pall-bearers were his nine classmates. That night we tried to have a little supper at the Seventh Avenue hotel. We sat down, but by some mismanagement ten plates were laid instead of nine. We tried to talk; we tried to eat; but somehow we couldn't. The waiters brought the second course. We tried again; it was no use. Just then a man passed down the corridor outside toward the elevator. The second hush had fallen on us when there came the single exclamation—"Down!" With one accord we looked into each other's filling eyes. Then our visions focused on—Jim Townsend's vacant chair. We rose in silence and left the room. There are no joys so keen as those which we ten men had known through four years; there is no sorrow so keen as that which we nine knew that night.—Ladies' Home Journal. HIS NERVE WAS GOOD. Cool Drummer Allows Cowboy to Shoot Away His Pipe. "I was sitting on the veranda of a far western hotel one afternoon," said the Boston drummer, according to the Galveston News, "and was lazily smoking one of the nicest meerschaum pipes you ever saw, when out of the tail of my eye I saw that a native down at the other end of the veranda had his gun sighted at me. They were a wild lot around there, and I --- couldn't tell whether he meant to shoot me or the pipe. The chances were in favor of the pipe, however, and it seemed a good chance to test my nerve. I made up my mind to let him shoot, and pretend a careless air, but I'm telling you that in the ten or fifteen seconds of waiting the sweat came out at every pore and my heart pounded my ribs sore. I felt a sort of tick at the bowl of the pipe, heard the crack of the gun, and knew that the bullet had passed through the pipe. I got a brace with my hands and feet and waited for the second bullet, and it went through the bowl after the first. I sat there until the fourth bullet hit the pipe and knocked the bowl off the stem, and then the shooter sauntered up to me and laughingly said: "Excuse me, stranger, but I thought it was imitation." "Same as you are," I replied. "My gibe hurt him, but he was man enough to tell everybody about my nerve, and the boys chipped in sufficient nuggets to buy me this $50 smoker. "Nerve! Say, do you know what happened to me when I made an excuse to go upstairs after my old corn-cob? I had no sooner got into my room than my knees gave out, chills galloped up my spine and I'll be hanged if I didn't faint away and lie there for ten minutes. "It had suddenly occurred to me that the bowl of that pipe was only six inches from my nose while the fellow was doing his shooting, and I have not yet got over touching my nasal organ now and then to see if it is safe." Why He Didn't Mind It. A gentleman took a country friend to the opera one night to hear the TAT BAY. "Meistersinger" performed. He was very anxious to see the effect of Wagner's glorious music on the countryman, and watched him keenly during the rendering of the overture, which, grand as it is, is a little noisy, more especially when the bang of the drums and the crash of the cymbals occur at intervals. But the countryman's face remained absolutely unmoved. At last the Londoner could bear his friend's indifference no longer. "Doesn't this glorious volume of sound affect you?" he said. "Oh, no, not in the least," was the calm reply; "you forget that I am a boiler maker."—Tit-Bits. Moonshine Distillery in Brooklyn The biggest moonshine distillery was discovered in Brooklyn the other day in a suburban cottage inhabited by Russian Jews. Its capacity was 150 gallons of proof spirits a day, and its profits were $500 a week. A wagon load of its products was captured and the officers found the place by allowing the horse to choose its own route homeward. Holland's Queen a Sportswoman While Queen Wilhelmina has been staying at Schwerin she has taken several motor trips with her brother-in-law, the grand duke of Mecklenburg. The queen, who is already an inimitable skater, a fine horsewoman and can drive a coach and four, is said to be enchanted with the new sport, and has ordered an automobile to be made for her. Populations In Cities In Rhode Island 81.2 per cent of the population in 1900 lived in cities or towns of 8,000 inhabitants or more, while this element also constitutes 76 per cent of the population in Massachusetts, 68.5 per cent in New York, 61.2 per cent in New Jersey and 53.2 in Connecticut. Voyage was formerly any journey, whether by sea or land, it did not matter. Wash-Fobs for Women Fobs for the watch are in fashion again for women and they are worn tucked through the belt. All the old devices which the jeweler can invent are wrought out in these little fancies, every sort of fancy stone, as well as valuable gems, being used in the varied designs, while for riding there is a leather fob with a fancy monogram for ornament. Look at the Labels! Every package of cocoa or chocolate put out by Walter Baker & Co., bears the well-known trade-mark of the chocolate girl, and the place of manufacture, "Dorchester, Mass." Housekeepers are advised to examine their purchases, and make sure that other goods have not been substituted. They received three gold medals from the Pan-American exposition. Would Remove Two Objections Bishop Philpotts of Exeter once went to stay with a friend in Devonshire. "It's a beautiful place, is it not" remarked somebody upon his return. "Yes," said the bishop, "it is a beautiful place; if it were mine, I would pull down the house and fill up the pond with it. That would remove two objections." $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by dr. geists 75c. Belle Dame Park is the best Hall's Family Pills are the best. Baseball "Pigeon English." When English shall have become a dead language, fancy the unimaginable student encountering: "In the sixth, Casey flew up in the air and was pounded all over the lot!"—Puck. We promise that should you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES and be dissatisfied from any cause whatever, to refund 10c. for every package. MONROE DRUG Co., Unionville, Mo. Nearly one-third (31.53 per cent) of Switzerland's imports last year came from Germany. For particulars and prices of their improved, most sati-factory and simple vapor light manufactured, write The Diamond Light Co. Canton, Ohio Liberal discounts to agents Distance doesn't lend enchantment to one's view of the almighty dollar. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 331 Arcl St., Philadelphia, Pa. The druggist who sells soothing sirup is guilty of taking hush money. Hamlin's Blood and Liver Pills cure constipation and all the ills due to it; 25c at your druggists. The skin of the Canadian black bear brings from $15 to $50. Mrs. Austin's Wheat Food pleases the whole family, from baby to grandfather. Makes a healthy, hearty breakfast that satisfies. You never miss the political orator till the 'bar'l" runs dry. If you tire of Buckwheat, try Mrs. Austin's famous Fancake Flour for a change made from the great food cereals. A wise man in business may be a fool in love. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. A miser is known by the money he keeps. Address to Women by the Treasurer of the W. C. T. U. of Kansas City, Mrs. E. C. Smith. "My DEAR SISTERS:—I believe in advocating and upholding everything that will lift up and help women, and but little use appears all knowledge and learning if you have not the health to enjoy it. J. "Having found by personal experience that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a medicine of rare virtue, and having seen dozens of cures where my suffering sisters have been dragged back to life and usefulness from an untimely grave simply by the use of a few, bottles of that Compound, I must proclaim its virtues, or I should not be doing my duty to suffering mothers and dragged out housekeeners. "Dear Sister, is your health poor, do you feel worn out and used up, especially do you have any of the troubles which beset our sex, take my advice; let the doctors alone, try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; it is better than any and all doctors, for it cures and they do not."—Mrs. E. C. Smith, 1213 Oak St., Treasurer W. C. T. U., Kansas City, Mo.—$5000 forfeit if above testimonial to not genuine. Mrs. Pinkham advises sick women free. Address, Lynn, Mass. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY The 127th anniversary of the Maryland patriots' stand against the British Stamp Act, when they burned the ship Peggy Stewart and its cargo of tea in the harbor of Annapolis, is known throughout Maryland as Peggy Stewart day, and in commemoration of it a splendid monument to the revolutionary heroes was unveiled in Baltimore the other day under the auspices of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. The destruction of the Peggy Stewart and her cargo of tea was one of the most stirring acts of the revolutionary period. Following closely upon the heels of the stamp act it not only stung English pride, but aroused the spirits of the Maryland colonists to a fighting pitch. It is contended by Marylanders that the destruction of the Peggy Stewart is of as signal interest to the country as the Boston Tea Party. They contend that while the men who tossed the tea overboard in Boston harbor were disguised as Indians THE PEGGY STREET POWER OF BUDDHIST PRIESTS. Their Responsibility for the Fearful Boxer Movement in China. Buddhist priests were the instigators of the horrible Boxer uprising in China and one of the aids they invoked in goading the Boxers to violence was hypnotism. These priests exercise a great influence and are regarded in the light of miracle workers. Their most extravagant statements are received with implicit belief. They assured the Boxers that they were invulnerable and that the bullets of the foreign devils could not injure them. How they put their knowledge of hypnotism into effect is thus narrated by A. Henry Savage Landor: "The usual malicious stories were circulated in Boxers' placards of foreigners kidnaping children to turn them into soup or pound them into jelly, which, as a medicine, became endowed, after it had undergone the further process of drying in the sun, with marvelous strengthening qualities. Foreign doctors were also accused of plucking out the eyes of people unawares. Foreign devils, it was declared, then ground these eyes into dust and used them in their occult arts. Most of these absurd rumors were probably originated by natives who had seen surgical operations performed in mission hospitals. The kidnaping of children was invariably the first accusation brought against the foreigners, and whenever riots occurred against 'while devils,' the instigators maliciously did away with the number of little unfortunates, and then held foreigners responsible for their disappearance. The Buddhist monks, however, in the Boxer movement, had devised a slight variation in the detall. They were very adept at hypnotism, and availed themselves of this power to impress the masses. They hypnotized young boys, and then at night left them in a state of catalepsy in some thoroughfare. When a sufficient crowd had collected around these insensible creatures the monks duly appeared and pointed out 'the actual proof of the evil doings of the foreigner.' The crowd having been worked into a state of frenzy, the boys apparently dead, would be restored to life by the monks (they said 'resuscitated'), and the bystanders would be thus further convinced that, whatever deviltry foreigners might perpetrate, Buddhist monks had always the power to make things good. ```markdown ``` and the deed was done under cover of darkness, the men who destroyed the tea-laden Peggy Stewart were all known and their act was committed openly. It is said that while the Boston Tea Party might have been overlooked by England and smoothed over, the burning of the Peggy Stewart was a defiance of the authority of the King which only abject retraction could wipe out. The monument which commemorates the destruction of the Peggy Stewart is 60 feet 6 inches high and weighs 200 tons. The base is the largest and heaviest single stone ever brought to Baltimore, weighing 31 tons. The diameter of the column at the base of the shaft is three feet, and the diameter at the neck of the shaft is two feet seven inches. The height of the statue of the Goddess of Liberty surmounting the columns is 11 feet. The figure of Liberty is of bronze. She holds the laurel wreath of victory in one hand and the Declaration of Independence in the other. EWART MONU MENT. "It was this simple hypnotic expedient, carried on on a large scale, that induced the Boxers to fling themselves in the field against the modern rifles, under the belief that the Buddhist monks had made them bullet-proof." SEATS OF MONARCHS. King Edward and Czar Nicholas Have Several Royal Chairs. Great Britain has no distinctive and exclusive throne. Instead, there are four—the wooden chair, with the slab of Scotch stone, in Westminster Abbey, which has served as the coronation seat of the monarchs of this realm for seven centuries; the sumptuous chair of state in the House of Lords; the chair on which the late queen sat when holding a drawing room in Buckingham palace, and the gilt arm chair at Windsor, in which the sovereign sits to receive letters of credence or recall from foreign envoys, or accord audience to dusky potentates. The Czar of Russia is even more diversely throned. Each of a dozen chairs of state are at various times styled the Russian throne. The two most remarkable are the chairs of Ivan the Terrible and the one in St. George's Hall of the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. The former is of turquoises. In the back alone there are 10,000 of these gems. The other chair is of costly woods, with ivory and gold, richly jeweled, and embossed with the imperial eagle. The seat is of ormine, and the arms are ivory tusks. Further east, in Teheran, the Shah displayn himself on a white marble throne, looted from Delhi in 1739. It is of ivory, overlaid with gold, and ablaze with gems, its value being estimated at over £1,000,000. In Great Britain the corporation laws provide for a great degree of publicity in connection with promotion of corporations and their regular management. There is a like degree of publicity for corporations in France, Germany and Austria, and in these latter countries there are such rigid provisions regarding the valuation of property, and reports of promoters and directors, that stock watering, in the ordinary sense of the expression as used in the United States, is almost, if not quite, an impossibility. Cassler's Magazine. --- Progress in Manufacturing in the Past 10 Years. A report showing the growth of the manufacturing industries of Kansas from 1890 to 1900 has been issued by the census bureau at Washington. It shows the total number of establishments in 1900 to have been 7,830, an increase of 75 per cent; total capital, $66,827,363, a growth of 52 per cent; wage earners to the number of 35,000, an increase of 24 per cent, and the value of the product $172,129,398, an increase of 56 per cent. Kansas City, Kan., has 492 manufactories, with a capital of nearly $19,000,000, and an annual product valued at $82.769,000. This is an increase of 87.3 per cent. Topeka has 399 factories, with a capital of $3,891,530, and an output of $10,000,000, an increase of 47.8 per cent. Wichita has 328 establishments, a growth of 127.8 per cent, capitalized at $2,108,524, a decrease of 31.2 per cent, and a decrease of 6.0 per cent in the product, this in 1900 being $4,724,068. Leavenworth has 220 factories, capitalized at $3,207,111, putting out a product of $4,721,373. This city was not reported separately in 1890. AN HONEST NAME An Illinois Statesman Tells a Good Story—Knew His Father's Son Would Not Lie. The Honorable Alva Merrill of Chillicothe, member for the Twenty-fourth District, State of Illinois House of Representatives tells an interesting story: Some two years ago Mr. Merrill gave a testimonial stating that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his rheumatism. This with Mr. Merrill's portrait were published in thousands of papers all over the United States. On the train returning home from Springfield one day last winter were the Honorable Mr. Merrill and several other members. After a time one of them said: "Merrill, what time do you get to Chillicothe?" This attracted the attention of an old man who had been apparently awaiting some identification of Mr. Merrill and as soon as he heard the name he rushed up to his seat and extending his hand said: "You are Alva Merrill and you saved my life. I was most dead with Lumbago and in an advertisement I saw your picture and your recommendation of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I knew your father, and I knew his son would not lie, and therefore I decided to try the Pills. "I am satisfied that Dodd's Kidney Pills and nothing else have saved my life and I have been waiting this opportunity to thank you personally, for had I not seen your recommendation I might never have been led to use this remedy, but, thanks to God, through your honest name and the honest medicine which you so heartily recommended I am still alive. "I have been watching you since you got on the train at Springfield and thought I recognized your face as the one I had seen in the advertisement, and as soon as this gentleman called you by name, I knew you were the man I had to thank." Phosphate Rock Mining. The mining of phosphate rock is one of the most important industries in Florida and South Carolina, and it amounts to 1,500,000 tons a year, valued at $5,360,000 at the point of production. The November number of Mind gives a symposium on the subject of the development and teachings of spiritualism. No woman has entered the convent of St. Catherine, on Mount Sinai, for 1,400 years. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.--Wm. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Many a man is able to climb to success because his wife holds the ladder. A Boon To Humanity Is what everybody says who has used St. Jacobs Oil For it cures the most difficult cases of Rheumatism—after every other form of treatment has failed. St. Jacobs Oil never fails. It Conquers Pain Price, age and age. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE SYRUP OF FIGS IS AN EXCELLENT FAMILY LAXATIVE- IT IS REFRESHING TO THE TASTE AND ACTS PLEASANTLY AND GENTLY. IT ASSISTS ONE TO OVERCOME HABITUAL CONSTIPATION PERMANENTLY With many millions of families Syrup of Figs has become the ideal home laxative. The combination is a simple and wholesome one, and the method of manufacture by the California Fig Syrup Company ensures that perfect purity and uniformity of product, which have commended it to the favorable consideration of the most eminent physicians and to the intelligent appreciation of all who are well informed in reference to medicinal agents. Syrup of Figs has truly a laxative effect and acts gently without in any way disturbing the natural functions and with perfect freedom from any unpleasant after effects. In the process of manufacturing, figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medioinally laxative principles of the combination are obtained from plants known to act most beneficially on the system. Louisville, Ky. San Francisco, Cal. New York.N.Y. PRICE 30$ PER BOTTLE SEND POST OR EXPRESS ORDER FOR $5.00 Our Single Breech Loader; Decarbonized Steel; Choke Bored; Top Snap; Pistol Grip; Snap fore end. Warranted in every respect. 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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 ex- celled all other makes sold at these prices. This excellent reputation has been won by merit alone. W. L. Douglas shoes have to give better sat- faction than other $3.00 and $3.50 shoes because his reputation for the best $3.00 and $3.50 shoes must be maintained. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes are made of the same high-grade leath- ers used in $5.00 and $6.00 shoes and are just as good in every way. SOLD BY OVER 5,000 DEALERS The standard has always been placed so high that the wonder receives more value for his money in the W. L. Douglas $2.00 and $3.00 shoes than he can get elsewhere. W. L. Douglas makes and sells more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the world. FAST COLOR EYELETS USED. Insist upon having W. L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. Shoes sent any- where on receipt of price and 25 cents additional for car- riage. Take measurements of foot as shown; state style de- sired; size and width usually worn; plain or cap toe; heavy, medium or light soles. Sold by 63 Douglas stores in American cities selling direct from factory to wearer at one profit; and the best shoe dealers everywhere. Catalog O Free. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE AND THE RIO GRANDE WESTERN COLORADO SPRINGS, PUEBLO, CRIPPLE CREEK. LEADVILLE, GLENWOOD SPRINGS, ASPEN, GRAND JUNCTION, SALT LAKE CITY, OGDEN, BUTTE, HELENA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, PORTLAND, TACOMA, SEATTLE. B. T. JEFFERY, President, DENVER, COLO. J. G. METCALP, Gen'l Manager, DENVER, COLO. A. S. HUGHES, Gen'l Traffic Manager, DENVER, COLO. A. H. BABCOCK, Asst. Gen'l Traffic Manager, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. S. K. HOOPER, Gen'l Passenger and Ticket Agent, DENVER, COLO. WANTED SALEMEN To Sell a Choice line of Nursery Stock. 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Five thousand dollars have been spent in vain for poison with which to kill prairie dogs in western Kansas. The department of fisheries is introducing in Nova Scotia waters the rainbow trout from British Columbia. The digging of the Nicaragua canal will cut off 10,000 miles from the voyage from New York to San Francisco. In a few months an electric tramway will be opened from Naples to the Cook railway station below the summit of Vesuvius. The government agricultural experts are hard at work trying to evolve an orange tree that will prosper under cold weather. The sum of $8,800 was collected last year from commercial travelers who visited Prince Edward island. They are required to pay $20 each. Benjamin Russell Hanby, author of the famous ballad, "Darling Nellie Gray," is buried at Waterville, O., twelve miles from Columbus. It has been decided by the Kansas Supreme Court that opening a window screen constitutes a "burglarious breaking" within the meaning of the law. Emperor William of Germany has found a new fad in palmistry. He has secured a collection of books treating of this subject and has their contents by heart. GOOD TIMES FOR FARMERS. Apples and other fruits are extraordinarily high. Live stock represents value of nearly $250,000,000 over last year. Their wheat crop is worth more than last year's by $150,000,000. Potatoes are so high that the short crop will probably return more money to the farmer than ever before. The farm products of the United States this year are doubtless worth $400,000,000 more than last year's outturn. Cotton growers have netted $400,000,060 more for the past five crops (1901 crop estimated) than for the previous five. During the past five years, agricultural exports have been $938,000,000 greater in value than for the preceding five years, a gain of 30 per cent. Other grains represent as large a total this year as last, the shortage in yield of corn being made up by advance in price. Taking 1896 as a fair basis of values during the late agricultural depression, nine staple crops for this year represented an increase in value of over $700,000,000. Live stock is worth $1,000,000,000 more now than then. The cereals, wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley raised in the United States during the past five years represented a value to the farmer of $6,250,000,-000, or an increase of nearly $1,000,-000,000 over the preceding five years. With a keen foreign demand for our surplus, the American farmer certainly rejoices in a glorious prospect for profits, prosperity and happiness. American Agriculturist. WITH THE SAGES. This world is God's world by right, ours only by gift and sufferance, and it cannot go well with us if we try to shut Him out of it.—Gladstone. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. . . . Those, therefore, that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.—Joseph Hall. It is not enough to have the love and do the duty in silence. We live not by bread alone, but every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of those we love. Out of the mouth—It is the spoken love that feeds. It is the kindness offered that furnishes the house.—W. C. Gannett. Whatever we see on every side reminds us of the lapse of time and the flux of life. The day and night succeed each other; the rotation of seasons diversifies the year; the sun rises, attains the meridian, declines, and sets; and the moon every night changes its form.—Samuel Johnson. To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, not frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common—this is my symphony.—Channing. WISE AND OTHERWISE. No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.—Simmous. He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors.—Jane Porter. The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.—Johnson. The feet of the kicking church member are not shod with the gospel of peace.—Ram's Horn. ```markdown ``` THOUGHTS OF WISE MEN. We talk of the origin of evil, but what is evil? We mostly speak of sufferings and trials as good, perhaps, in their result; but we hardly admit that they may be good in themselves. Yet they are knowledge—how else to be acquired, unless by making men as gods, enabling them to understand without experience. All that men go through may be absolutely the best for them—no such thing as evil, at least in our customary meaning of the word.—Helps. The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through—the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends—I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came.—Longfellow. I have often heard said by him, who, among all people I have conversed with to the edification of my understanding, had the keenest practical insight into human nature, and best knew the art of controlling and governing men and winning them over to their good—the moment anybody is satisfied with himself, everybody else becomes dissatisfied with him; whenever a person thinks much of himself, all other people cease to think much of him.—Hare. We have each to do our duty in that sphere of life in which we have been placed. Duty only is true; there is no true action but in its accomplishment. Duty is the end and aim of the highest life. The truest pleasure of all is that derived from the consciousness of its fulfillment. Of all others, it is the one that is most thoroughly satisfying, and the least accompanied by regret and disappointment. In the words of George Herbert, the consciousness of duty performed "gives us music at midnight."—Dr. Smiles. PERSONALS. The Czar of Russia is a cigarette smoker. He rolls his own cigarettes from tobacco especially imported from Syria. Judge Paul Wentworth Linebarger, of Chicago, one of the judges in the Philippines, speaks five languages. He studied law in Paris and Madrid. Paul Bourget, the French novelist, is probably to make his second visit to this country this winter. His excursion is in pursuit of literary material. Victorien Sardou was educated for the medical profession and took to play-writing because he was so poor. He now lives in a house that cost him $150,000. The Queen of Spain is fond of music and during her residence at San Sebastian in summer never fails to invite Saraste to her palace for some private soirees. John W. Owens of St. Louis has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for a half century, and for the last twenty-four years has been Grand Tyler of the Missouri lodge. F. A. Sampson of Sedalia, Mo., has given to the Missouri Historical Society his library of 7,000 titles bearing on Missouri history, which he has been collecting for thirty-three years. Lord Minto, governor general of Canada, is fond of all sorts of outdoor sport. The Canadians like such a man and Ottawa cabmen swear by his lordship since they dined with him in May. FOOD FOR THE MIND. The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which, in morals, is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols.—Bacon. To work! What incalculable sources of cultivation lies in that process, in that attempt; how it lays hold of the whole man, not of a small, theoretical, calculating fraction of him, but of the whole practical, doing and daring and enduring man, thereby to awaken dormant faculties; root out old errors at every step! He that has done nothing has known nothing.—Thomas Carlyle. He who, however limited may be his capacities and however humble may be his social position, is true to the gift that is in him, and tries, with such help as he may have, to carry out the principles of religion and virtue in his daily conduct, has in him something akin to the touch of Christ, and is a fellow-worker with prohpets and apostles, reformers and saints. Thomas Sadler. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. Love is blind. That is why so many women marry men to reform them. Chicago News. 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