The Broad Ax

FURTHER COMMENT ON THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL Our former article on the meeting of the National Negro Business League stirred up the animals in all parts of the country. It caused The England Torchlight, of Providence, R. I., to turn its mud batteries against us in behalf of T. Thomas Fortune, T. W. Jones, who is rightly or wrongly known as the moral saint of Chicago, shot off his loud mouth at us in a long-winded article through the columns of an obscure newspaper published in this city. Jule Avendolph, who would have to get down on his hands and knees and black Bob. Lincoln's boots, if he ordered him to do so, or loose his job, refrains from speaking to us because the article touched him up; T. Thomas Fortune, of New York, wrote us a mighty hot letter, and if we ever meet again he may take our scalp; Ed Cooper, who beat us out of $8.25, who is one of the big guns of the National Negro Business League, cut The Broad Ax off his exchange list on account of its attack on himself and the league, even other high officials of the league fell over each other and writhed and staggered like drunken men under the onslaught of The Broad Ax. Two weeks prior to the convening of the members of the league in convention in this city, Aug. 22, its President, Prof. Booker T. Washington, requested us to give it publicity through the columns of The Broad Ax, and out of consideration for Prof. Washington we hunted up his cut, inserted it in The Broad Ax, along with a half column article on the meeting of the league, in its issue of Aug. 10, and again on Aug. 17, more space was devoted in its columns in elaborating on the then forthcoming meeting of the league. Two or three days after complying to Prof. Washington's request in that direction we called on L. G. Wheeler, 119 Dearborn street, whose son is connected with Tuskegee and who is one of the high priests of the local colored men's business league of Cook County, and Mr. Wheeler, who resides over on Langley avenue, among the big rich white folks, began his conversation with us by saying "none of the Afro-American newspapers of Chicago had had anything to say in reference to the meeting of the National Negro Business League." At that juncture we pulled a copy of The Broad Ax out of our pocket, containing our article on the meeting of the league, and Prof. Washington's cut. Then we very politely informed Mr. Wheeler that if he would only read or advertise in race publications he would be better posted as to what was going on among the members of his race (whom he is supposed to love so well). Before withdrawing from the presence of Mr. Wheeler we asked him if he thought the local members of the league would want to publish its official program in the Afro-American newspapers of Chicago. He stated that he did not think so. However, he maintained that "that question would be settled by the other members of the committee within a few days from that time," and we understand from one who was on the inside when the committee met, that T. W. Jones, L. G. Wheeler, W. F. Taylor, Charles H. Smiley and others belonging to it were all opposed to giving any consideration whatever to "little nigger newspapers," and be it remembered that Jones, Taylor, Wheeler and Smiley, who want to be known as the Rothschilds and Siegel-Coopers of the Negro race of the west do not all told spend ten cents each month for advertising in any newspaper published in the interest of the colored people of this great commercial center. So on the night when the grand reception was held at the First Regiment Armory in honor of Professor Booker T. Washington, and the other members of his league, we paid fifty cents to enter, and remained long enough to behold many characterless Negroes belonging to mush-mouth Johnson's push, 462 State street, lay- ing on top of the best women of our race, while waltzing, dancing, eating and drinking with them, and as we wended our way to our humble little home two thoughts flashed themselves across our mind, first that it is no wonder that "the whites delight in singing that all Negroes look and act alike to them," second, that the National Negro Business League, like the National Afro-American Council and the National Afro-American Press Association, is simply an adjunct of the Republican party. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN M. PALMER. Many men in the various walks of life have before passing away from among their friends and their labor, handed down to those who come after them, sketches of their lives and their life wor', and while it has been our good fortune to become familiar with many works of this character, but none of them have, or can be, more interesting to peruse than "The Story of An Earnest Life, or The Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer." In his last effort to portray to his countrymen an outline of his varied career the late Gen. John M. Palmer informs his fellow men, that he was born in Scott County, Kentucky, on Sept. 13, 1817; that many years before that date his parents migrated to that state from old Virginia. In 1831 they removed to Christian County, Illinois. Shortly after their arrival in this state young Palmer, the green Kentucky boy, entered Shurtleiff College. During vacation he sold clocks in order to raise money to pay his way through college. John M. Palmer, according to his best recollections, first met Stephen A. Douglas, the little giant, in 1837, and from that time to his death Mr. Douglas and Mr. Palmer were warm friends, but bitter political opponents. In the same year John M. Palmer taught school for three months in Fulton County, where he first formed the acquaintance of E. P. Lovejoy and Lyman Trumbull. After giving up his school he located at Carlinville, and read law with Judge John S. Greathouse. While studying with his preceptor he ran for county clerk on the Democratic ticket, but he was defeated, while the other Democratic candidates were elected. In 1839 John M. Palmer borrowed five dollars for the purpose of obtaining a license to practice law and upon arriving at Springfield, Stephen A. Douglas and J. Y. Scammon were selected by the court to examine him as to his qualifications. Mr. Douglas drew the license and made the motion for his admission, which was duly performed by Judges Smith and Brown of the Supreme Court. In 1840 John M. Palmer began to take an interest in national politics, and from that time onward he became a conspicuous figure in the affairs of this nation. He was elected to many offices of trust long before he became Governor of Illinois or United States Senator, he assisted to organize the Republican party at Bloomington, in 1856, he was made permanent president of the convention in which Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings and Abolitionists sat side by side, consulting and shouting their enthusiastic approval over the platform adopted by it. The great men of that convention were: Lincoln, Palmer, Browning, Wentworth, Yates, Lovejoy, Oglesby and Koerner. John M. Palmer addressed the convention from a Democratic standpoint and Abraham Lincoln raised his voice in behalf of the new party. The convention chose for governor, William H. Bissell, and Francis A. Hoffman for Heutenant-governor, both Democrats. From that convention John M. Palmer was selected as a delegate to the National Republican Convention held at Philadelphia, in 1856, and nominated Abraham Lincoln for Vice-President, who received the highest number of votes given to any unsuccessful candidate. It was through the influence of John M. Palmer that Hannibal Hamlin, the old line Democrat of Maine, was nominated as Mr. Lincoln's running mate MR. P. J. O'KEEFFE. The eminent lawyer, brilliant orator, ideal citizen, friend of the colored race, who has kindly consented in the near future to address the Thomas Jefferson Afro-American League of the Town of Lake. in 1860. Feb. 4, 1861, Governor Yates chose Mr. Palmer as one of the delegates from Illinois to the noted peace convention, the acts of which have become a part of the history of this MR. P. J. The eminent lawyer, brilliant or race, who has kindly consented in the Jefferson Afro-American League of country. In 1861 John M. Palmer entered the Union army, where he distinguished himself on many battlefields. In 1862 he returned home from the army for a short time and he was indicted by the grand jury of Macoupin County for bringing a Negro slave into this state, but he was found not guilty by the jury and Martin Taylor, the Negro, was set free. Within a few weeks after that incident Mr. Palmer was summoned to Washington by President Lincoln and when John M. Palmer arrived at the White House President Lincoln said: "Palmer, go to Kentucky, keep your temper, do as you please, and I will sustain you." And in less than six days after that conversation with President Lincoln, which was the last time they conversed or grasped each other by the hand, John M. Palmer was in command of the military department of Kentucky, and as such, on the 4th of July, 1865, he had the honor of driving the last nail in the coffin of slavery. President Johnson, like President Lincoln, gave General Palmer full power to use his judgment in all things, and he sustained him while he was engaged in defending the rights of the Negroes to freedom. General Palmer's Personal Recollections contains his letter to Lyman Trumbull, on the rights of the Negro, which is worth the price of the entire work, which should be read by all liberty-loving people. Speaking to the colored people of Springfield on the seventh anniversary of the preliminary emancipation proclamation, while governor of this state, Governor Palmer said: "I insist that you and every citizen shall have the right to vote. Suffrage is the most powerful and most valuable weapon of defence. Officers rule over you now that you did not select. They tax your labor and defy you. What difference does it make to the governor whether he protects the colored citizens or not, or to the members of Congress, or of the state legislature, who, by votes, bind your person to duties or mortgage your property for payment of burdensome taxes., or to the police officer who huddles you into jail or knocks you down for some imaginary offense against his own dignities? But concede to the colored citizens the right to vote, and suddenly all is changed." This same rule applies to the colored people of the --- On our last visit to Springfield in 1900, we had the honor of lunching OKEEFFE. tor, ideal citizen, friend of the colored near future to address the Thomas the Town of Lake. with Mr. and Mrs. John M. Palmer, who assisted her husband, the broad and liberal-minded statesman, to write his Personal Recollections, and when the repast was concluded Gen. and Mrs. Palmer were not one whit blacker and the writer was not any whiter. Here it is, worthy to remark that Gen. John M. Palmer, his bosom friend Lyman Trumbull, author of the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States; Charles Sumner, George W. Julian, David Wilmot, author of the Wilmot proviso; Horace Greeley and many of the other great champions of the rights of the Negro, expired in the arms of the broader and the new Democracy. "Personal Recollections, or the Story of An Earnest Life," by John M. Palmer, consists of six hundred and thirty pages; it is printed on very fine Aberdeen paper, with bold-faced type; it is handsomely bound; it is interestingly written from start to finish: it contains the portraits of Stephen A. Douglas, Lyman Trumbull, Abraham Lincoln, R. J. Oglesby, and its author, John M. Palmer; it is published by that well known firm of book publishers. The Robert Clark Co., 33 East Fourth street, Cincinnati, Ohio, and it sells for $3.25. The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain a full account of the controversy between Attorney Edward H. Morris and Attorney S. A. McElwee. Look out for it, for it will be a warm baby. Early last spring Deacon Edward H. Morris, who is always willing to transform the colored churches into political halls, proudly marched through the streets of Chicago at the head of the Colored Odd Fellows, who joined in laying the corner stone for their new building at 43rd and State streets, which was to cost $50,000, and was to be finished by the 1st of September or October, but for some cause or other nothing have been done towards erecting the building. Deacon Morris is rich, and prosperity is here, and if he is unable to raise the money from any other source, Deacon Morris ought to advance it himself to show his love for his race and business enterprise. --- Mrs. Lulu Owens, of Toledo, Ohio, is visiting her mother, Mrs. L. Miller, 4630 Dearborn street. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hardy, 6800 Justine street, entertain this evening in honor of the 15th anniversary of their marriage. Mrs. Bush, mother of Mrs. B. A. Lewis, 3013 Dearborn street, left Thursday night for Memphis, Tenn., where she will spend the winter with her sister. State Senator Barney J. Maguire bids fair to be returned to Springfield again next year from the Ninth Senatorial District. Our preachers and teachers should encourage their congregations to buy and build more homes and fewer churches and cemeteries.—Ex. Theodore W. Jones, ex-county commissioner, speaks at the South End Sunday Club tomorrow on "Why Business Men Abstain from Society." Sunday morning Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, of Cornell University, addresses the Ethical Culture Society at Steinway Hall, on "The Ethics of Jesus." Mrs. E. W. Tidrington, 413 52d street, and her sister, Miss Brown, are warm admirers of The Broad Ax, and they never rest until they have both read it through the second time. Attorney Charles Turner Brown. Unity building, makes a specialty of patents, trade marks and copyrights. If you have anything you want patented call and see Attorney Brown. Prof. M. M. Mangasarian concludes his three lectures at the Grand Opera House Sunday morning on, "Shakespeare's Women," "Man's Loss of Faith in Woman—Othello and Hamlet." White men, whose aunts, uncles, cousins, and sometimes half-sisters are mulattoes, should be very careful how they discriminate and legislate against the Negro for fear they may lose something.—Ex. When the banks issue all the money and the trusts own the attorney, general, then the people may begin to realize that they were mistaken when they thought a full stomach the acme of human happiness.—Ex. An unique marriage is reported from Bremen, Ind.: A young man named Landers married his stepmother. Tuesday, after obtaining consent from his father, who had been but recently divorced from his son's wife!—Ex. The civil service commissioners have fired or kicked out Captain Luke P. Colleran, as chief of the detectives, for inattention to his duties. Thus one by one the heads of the machine are falling into the reform basket. Lately the Afro-American Democrats of South Omaha, have organized a club with W. W. Lewis as president. It starts off with 28 members. M1. B. Greer is publishing a colored Democratic newspaper in the same city. Attorney Martin L. McKinley, Ashland Block, wields a strong influence in the 26th Ward, and throughout the Northwest Side. Some of his friends are urging him to become a candidate for the legislature one year hence. Addison Blakely, Attorney-at-Law, Ashland Block, and President of the North Shore Union Club, stands well with all the members of his profession, and it will not be long until Mr. Blakely is favored by them for judicial honors. The white folks have a new joke: "O, you're not so warm," remarked one white man to another, who had been telling of something wonderful he had done; "you've never taken dinner with Teddy Roosevelt. You are not the right color!"—Ex. W. C. Schmidt, who was for many years with Theo. Koch, dealer in barbar supplies, in company with J. Barry, H. Von Moos and F. W. Herb. lately established the Dearborn Barbers' Supply Co., 251 Dearborn street. All the members of this new firm are well known among all the barbers throughout the city, and so far they are doing a rushing business. NO. 5. Prof. W. E. Dorsey, the soft and dishonest-headed leader of the colored K. P. Band, W. W. Johnson, the breefless and untrustworthy lawyer, and Gambler Brickbat Terrell cat-hopped us out of four dollars and fifty cents. Let honest men beware of these three fraudulent Negroes. The Indianapolis Journal says that only Booker T. Washington and a few other colored citizens will be able to vote at Alabama's future elections. There is more truth than poetry in the assertion. After the 95 per cent is qualified, then what? More restrictions?—Ex. The Times-Speaker of Denver, Colo., cannot understand why the newspaper brethren are continually after Ed. Cooper, of Washington, D. C. Brother Sharp, The Broad Ax has nothing against Cooper except that he defrauded us out of $8.35, and we want our money, that's all. It was our pleasure to meet the Rev. Rufus A. White, pastor of the Stewart Avenue Universalist Church, the past week. Dr. White is greatly interested in the race problem, and later on an article from his eloquent pen on that all-absorbing subject will appear in the columns of The Broad Ax. The dining of Booker T. Washington, by President Roosevelt, created as much consternation among the Southerners, as the dining of Ben. "Pitchfork" Tillman by President McKinley, soon after the last presidential election, did among the readers of this column and the colored politicians in general.—Ex. Frank Emerich, attorney for the Board of Health, is an excellent speaker, and he delivered quite a few speeches in the Town of Lake, last spring in behalf of the re-election of Mayor Carter H. Harrison and the rest of the Democratic ticket. Mr. Emerich is well fitted for his duties as attorney for the Board of Health. Alderman Charles H. Gary, 13th Ward, has for some time past served all the people residing in his ward well and faithfully. He has ever been ready to extend any favors within his power to Democrats as well as Republicans, and this act has made Alderman Gary exceedingly strong and popular with all classes. He is a clean and approachable city official, one who knows no man on account of the color of his skin, and if Alderman Gary lives he will be returned to the city council next spring. Many of the leading citizens of the 26th Ward have formed a club for the purpose of booming Thomas E. Barrett, member of the Board of Trade, for Sheriff of Cook County. The following well known business men are at the head of this club: John G. Neumeister, wholesale dealer in butter and cheese, 148 South Water street; Mr. Williams, of Williams & Newman, wholesale liquor dealers, 115 Lake street, and Mr. Steve Spain, member of the Board of Trade. These gentlemen and their associates intend to stand by Tom Barrett for Sheriff of Cook County. Robert S. McCallen, manager of the American Book and Bible House, St. Louis, Mo., maintains that the Negro "has no soul, that he is not human, and is only a beast." He is the writer of a book entitled "The Negro A Beast." He quotes from the Christian(?) bible, which is repudiated by thinkers and philosophers, because it teaches that slavery and polygamy are of divine origin to back up his theory or position. If the Negro has no soul, then the white man is also soulless, for they are constructed on about the same plan, and there is no difference in the blood which courses through their veins. But it is our honest opinion that all people are nothing but animals, and their animal propensities crop out on the slightest occasions. This proves that after all proud and haughty man is only a shadow on "the wall—a falling leaf toyed with by autumn winds" and he is but breath whispering against the wind, sand in the desert, dew upon the sea! THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, Not Farmers, Catholics, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any one can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the militarical right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention the only on one side of the paper. One Year.....$24.00 Month.....1.00 * diverting units made known on application * inform all communications to JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. We use 104,000 tons of flax yearly, France comes next with a consumption of 66,000 tons. Once a distinguished Russian grand duke found himself charged 20 francs apiece for hothouse peaches at a cafe in Paris. "Are hothouse peaches so scarce, then, even in mid-winter?" he asked. "No," replied the maitre d'hotel, "but grand dukes are." The advance of civilization is noted in the Holy Land, where American beer has become a popular beverage. Jerusalem now has electric lights, telephones and phonographs, and trolley lines are talked of to connect that celebrated city with Bethany, Bethlehem, the Lake of Galilee and other places famous in Bible history. President Roosevelt's independence of thought and action was illustrated recently in a manner pleasant to record. He bought three fine, high-stepping horses for use in his carriage at Washington. "He was particular about having long-tailed horses," said the man of whom he bought them. "He insisted that they should not be docked. It made no difference to him that short-tailed horses are considered more fashionable." For the last two years members of the Baptist church of Saco, Me., have been annoyed by a sound of the church building. While it was not especially troublesome, it was annoying from the fact that it was constant and could not be located. The sexton hunted everywhere for it, but without success until the latter part of last week. In making a more thorough search than usual he found tucked away in a gable end a swarm of bees and about fifty pounds of honey. In the Victoria History of the County of Norfolk, England, the author quotes a note concerning the cod, from an old work on British fishes, which says that on a midsummer eve one was captured in Lynn Deeps and brought to the vice-chancellor of Cambridge. In its stomach was found "a book in three treatises." The date of the discovery was 1626. Can it be that the scarcity of cod in the present year is to be explained by the fact that the fish have been indulging in a literary diet, as did their esteemed predecessor, and with fatal effect? A few "yellow" journals may have been eaten by mistake. The law which is driving religious orders out of France, has two very simple provisions. The first is a declaration that all religious associations of whatever kind must submit to the general law of the republic and obey the prescriptions laid down for the formation of all corporate societies; secondly, it ordains that all religious institutions in the country must submit to the inspection, approval and control of the bishop in whose diocese they are established, and it provides that no religious association which professes obedience to a superior residing out of France shall be authorized to exist in the country. The English home office is reported to be considering the abolition of Black Maria. The origin of the term "Black Maria" is curious. When New England was filling with emigrants from the mother country a negress, named Maria Lee, kept a sailors' boarding house in Boston. She was a woman of great strength, and helped the authorities to keep the peace. Frequently the police invoked her aid, and the saying, "Send for Black Maria," came to mean "Take him to jail." British seamen were often taken to the lock-up by this amazon, and the stories they spread of her achievements led to the name of Black Maria being given to the English prison van. There are many workingmen in all large cities who cannot remove to the suburbs, who must remain in congested districts because they need to be near their work. Thus there is force in a recent suggestion that some immense apartment houses be erected where tenements now stand. Such a building, sheltering a thousand persons, perhaps, might be from twelve to eighteen stories high, supplied with elevators, steam-heated, fire proof and sanitary. In the basement would be a general laundry, on an upper floor a hall for concerts, lectures and unsectarian religious services, and there would be a roof-garden which would be also a play-ground for the children. The Mills Hotels in New York City enable single men to live in decency and comfort at prices working men can afford to pay. The big family hotel would serve the same purpose to married men who cannot leave a neighborhood of tenements, but would like themselves and their families to be farther from sidewalk sounds and tents and nearer to the sky. ```markdown ``` The method of maintaining discipline in the state prison at Folsom, California, is declared to be very successful. There are no dungeons or dark cells, and none of the old modes of punishment are recognized in this institution. When a new prisoner is received, he is informed that they have three different bills of fare in the prison, and that it is optional with each man as to how well he lives. If he is industrious, orderly, well-behaved and in all things conforms strictly to the rules of the prison, he is served with excellent food, nicely cooked. He can have chops, steaks, eggs, tea and coffee, milk and white bread; if he is only fairly well-behaved, and does not do his allotted task properly, is inclined to growl and grumble at the regulations of the institution, he is given ordinary prison fare, mush and molasses, soup and corn bread; and if he is ugly and insubordinate, he is permitted to feast on unlimited quantities of cold water and a rather small allowance of bread. There is said to be an intense rivalry among the convicts to enter the first class, and once there it is very seldom that one of them has to be sent back to a lower class. Rheumatism and the Eyes Chicago, Ill., Nov. 18th.—Mr. R. A. Wade, the celebrated criminal lawyer of this city whose opinion on legal matters is unquestioned, has recently made public his unqualified opinion on a matter of medicine. Mr. Wade says that Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble affect the eyesight, and further that there is no case of the kind that can not be cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. He has no fear of being set right by any of his medical friends, for both statements have a living and indisputable proof in the person of the great lawyer himself, who as a result of Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble from which he suffered for years, became totally blind. Physicians, the best in the country, pronounced his case incurable and hopeless, but Dodd's Kidney Pills cured him, restored his sight, drove away the Kidney Trouble and with it the Rheumatism and made an all-around well man of him. Diving on Bicycles The embankment of the Tiber, just outside the Porta del Popolo, is the vantage ground from which the most expert members of the famous swimming club, "Rara Nantes," careering along in midair on bicycles, gracefully plunge into the river and swim to shore. Many of the feats performed by the divers in turning back somersaults while plunging from the bridges or the embankment are really surprising, and always drew admiring crowds. —Traveller. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price Toc per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Bills are the best. Food Luxuries for Soldiers. All European armies have certain extras weekly in the way of food. Sugar is given in England and France, two gallons of beer in Russia, half a gallon of wine in Italy, three pounds of fish in Spain, and five ounces of butter in Belgium. Are You Using Alien's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunlons. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. America does not possess all the ingenious newspaper men. Lulgi Carreno, a journalist of Rome, in order to get up a story on the Pope's daily life, secured employment in the Vatican as a gardener. Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 15th.—A medical authority says: "In many families throughout the world Garfield Tea often takes the place of the family physician, for practically everyone suffers at times from disorders of stomach, liver, kidneys or bowels. Certainly, from no other medicine can such good results be obtained. This Herb remedy makes people well, thus greatly increasing their capacity for enjoying Life; it is good for young and old." A. G. Jones, the governor of Nova Scotia, is reported to have twice declined the honor of knighthood, offered while the Duke of Cornwall and York was in Canada. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not spot, streak or give your goods an unevenly dyed appearance. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. "Lazarre" is one of the most charming romances written in many a year."—New York Press. The well posted druggist advises you to use Wizard Oil for pain, for he knows what it has done. One of the streets in Canton, China, is occupied entirely by druggists and dentists. Piso's Oure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, RS Third Ava, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. The gifted bride is the one that gets the presents.—Philadelphia Record. Have you seen Mrs. Austin's new dress? To borrow is human—to pay back is divina. A THANKS GIVING FAIRY The night before Thanksgiving I found mamma sitting alone by the window in the dark, and when I put my cheek against hers it was all wet, and I said out quick: "Oh, pretty mamma, what is the matter?" and cried, too. "I was thinking about your uncle Jefferson," she answered, then she dried her eyes and mine. "He will be the only one who will not be here at our Thanksgiving dinner." "But why don't he ever come?" I said. "Three years ago he had a misunderstanding with your father," said mamma. "That means a quarrel," I said. "What did he quarrel about?" "The pronunciation of a word," said mamma. "The way a word ought to be spoken?" I asked. "Yes," said mamma. I thought that such a queer thing A "MY POOR CHILD, WHAT DO YOU WANT?" to quarrel about, but I did not say anything, for, of course, big folks know best. "It was on Thanksgiving Day three years ago," said mamma, "and he has never been in the house since." "He must be very cross and bad," I said. "No, indeed, Hilda," said mamma. "He is a splendid doctor, and very kind to the poor. He is ready to go and see them any time, day or night. I have often known him to take the ragged little children who were sent for him in his gig." Then she said again: "They will all be here but he." "Shall I go and ask him to come?" I said after a while. "I know where he lives." "No, Hilda, he would not listen to you," said mamma. "If I was a ragged little girl would he come?" I asked. "He might," said mamma. Then she sat very quiet and looked out of the window for a long time, and I knew she was thinking about Uncle Jefferson. Next day every one came—grandma, grandfather and all my aunts, uncles and cousins, big and little. The table in the dining room was bright and glittering with pretty glass, silver and flowers. Every one seemed happy, but I knew just by her face that mamma was still thinking, "They are all here but Uncle Jefferson." So I went up to her and said: "Maybe Uncle Jefferson will come after all, mamma," but she shook her head and the tears came into her eyes. "Would he come if I was a ragged little girl and asked him?" I said. "He might," said mamma. "He is always so very good to poor children." "Then I will go and bring him," I said to myself, and ran away. Dinner would not be ready for an hour, so I had plenty of time. I left all my cousins playing and talking together. I was afraid some one would call me back, but I got away without being seen and went into mamma's room and into a closet, where I knew an old coat of papa's hung. I knew no one would mind, so I got the big scissors and cut off some of the sleeves, then I put it on; but it was so long that I could not walk, so I cut off the to make it ragged. I climbed up on a chair after I was dressed and peeped into the glass. I looked just like a poor, poor little beggar girl. It almost made me cry. "I hope I am ragged enough to suit Uncle Jefferson," I said, and I ran down stairs and out of the door. No one heard me. When I reached Uncle Jefferson's office his gig was standing at the door, no I waited close by until he came out of the house. I was afraid that after all he would not listen, but the mo- ment he saw me he stopped and looked at me all over through his glasses. "Dear, dear, he said, "my poor child, what do you want" "I want you to come and see mamma," I said. He answered right away. "Certainly; jump in and tell the boy where to drive." When the black boy lifted me into the gig he laughed and said: "Well, little rag-oag, where shall I take you?" Just that moment I forgot our number, so I pointed. Uncle Jefferson sat down on the other side of me, and away we went Well, before I knew it, the boy drove down the wrong street, but there was a gate into our back garden in this street, and I told him to stop there. It was very dark in the garden, but I went straight up to the dining-room door, Uncle Jefferson following close behind. As I ran up the steps I threw away the old coat and handkerchief, for I knew mamma wanted me to look nice. When I pushed open the door and called out, "Here is Uncle Jefferson," every one stopped talking and turned around. Well, I don't know what happened after that, but anyhow in a few moments they were all shaking hands, and mamma was crying, but this time she looked so happy. When at last they all sat down, I next to mamma on one side and Uncle Jefferson on the other, she said: "You dear little fairy, how did you manage to make him come?" Then I told her about the old coat, and she told everybody else, and they laughed, Uncle Jefferson louder than all the others. Mamma said it was the very happiest Thanksgiving Day she had ever known, and all my cousins said it was the very best Thanksgiving dinner ever eaten. Well, after that day Uncle Jefferson and I were the best of friends, and he always called me his Thanksgiving fairy. THE OLD MAN'S THANKSGIVING I move my arm-chair to the door that fronts the autumn wold. And gaze upon the stately trees proud To find the sea, and Nature smiles this glad Thanksgiving day. The years have touched my hair with gray, but still above me files The fairest flag that flaunts its folds against the azure skies. I watch it in its beauty as it floats 'twixt sea and sea. From every lofty mountain top o'er people truly free. No war within our borders, we can all rejoice to-day: As when was first baptized in blood the old Red, White and Blue. I thank the loving Father, He who watches over all. For blessings on our land bestowed from mountain wall to wall; For harvests that were bountiful from far Dakota's plain To where the old Penobscot rushes 'neath the pines of Maine. I seem to catch the echoes of an anthem in the South. Where sings the golden oriole in some grim canon's mouth; And the laurel and the cedar and the branching chestnut tree Grow side by side, where once were pitched the tents of Grant and Lee. I hear no more the battle drums that beat in manhood's day, For side by side, fore'er at peace, are standing Blue and Gray; Together they are marching to the destiny of fame, And each one crowns with deathless wreath our country's noble name. I dream of coming ages which our nation loved will crown With mighty triumphs which to her shall give a new renown; Until in conscious wonder every country 'neath the sun Shall ring with lofty plaudits for the land of Washington. We're marching on to greater things, as vessels sweep the sea; And each Thanksgiving fills our hearts with blessings yet to be. America is destined, if to God we're only true. To be the favored nation 'neath the canopy of blue. Then let the bells all ring today throughout our cherished clime; Let old and young with pride rejoice this glad Thanksgiving time; Let paeans rise from morn till eve and nothing come to mar The hope that rules our happy land beneath the stripe and star. The winds blow through the autumn boughs; methinks I hear a tread. A merry laugh and a little hand is laid upon my head: And soft lips touch my wrinkled cheek, and this is what they say; "I've come to kiss you, grandpa, dear, a thankful kiss to-day!" My eyes grow misty as my arms about the wee one twine; I cannot see the meadow and the woodland's golden line; My old, old heart beats faster, as it bubbles o'er with bliss. And silently I'm thankful for the sweet Thanksgiving kiss. Sh. 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Five full pages of the December Delineator are devoted to the illustration and description of holiday gifts that may be made at home. Every member of the household, and every part of the house, has been considered in these remembrances, which will appeal as much on account of their ease of construction as their beauty and their utility. Three-Quarters of a Century. For seventy-five years the Youth's Companion has been published every week as a family paper. In these seventy-five years the paper's constancy to a high standard has won the confidence of the American people. It has kept pace with the growth of the country. Its stories, its special articles, its editorials, its selections represent all that is best in American life. For 1902 the foremost men and women of the English-speaking world have been enlisted as contributors. The work of an unprecedented number of new and promising writers has also been secured. 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NCIDENTALLY," remarked the man with a basket on his arm as he came into the presence of the editor, "I might mention the fact that if you want the finest and fattest turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner, my store is the place. i it, but that is not what I am here for. I came in to bring you an item of interest. You may not know, notwithstanding an editor knows more than anybody else on earth, that the first proclamation of Thanksgiving Day that is to be found in printed form is the one issued by Francis Bernard, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over his Majesty's province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, and Vice-Admiral of the same, in 1767." The editor admitted that it had not occurred to him previously. "I'm glad I'm giving you something new," continued the turkey man, "and now let me read it to you, so you may compare it with the modern style. It is headed 'A Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving:' "'As the business of the year is now drawing toward a conclusion, we are reminded, according to the laudable usage of the Providence, to join together in a grateful acknowledgment of the manifold mercies of the Divine Providence conferred upon Us in the passing Year: Wherefore, I have thought fit to appoint, and I do, with the advice of his Majesty's Council an- A point Thursday, the Third Day of December next, to be a day of public Thanksgiving, that we may thereupon with one Heart and Voice return our most Humble Thanks to Almighty God for the gracious Dispensations of His Providence since the last religious Anniversary of this kind, and for—that He has been pleased to preserve and maintain our most gracious Sovereign, King George, in Health and Wealth, in Peace and Honor, and to extend the Blessings of his Government to the remotest part of his Dominions; that He hath been pleased to bless and preserve our gracious Queen Charlotte, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager of Wales, and all the Royal family, and by the frequent increase of the Royal Issue to assure us the Continuation of the Blessings which we derive from that Illustrious House; that He hath been pleased to prosper the whole British Empire by the Preservation of Peace, the Increase of Trade, and the opening of new Sources of National Wealth; and now particularly that He hath been pleased to favor the people of this Province with healthy and kindly Seasons, and to bless the Labour of their Hands with a Sufficiency of the Produce of the Earth and of the Sea. "And I do exhort all Ministers of the Gospel with their several Congregations, within this Province, that they assemble on the said Day in a Solemn manner to return their most humble thanks to Aimighty God for these and all other of Her Mercles vouchsafed unto us, and to beseech Him notwithstanding our unworthiness, to continue His gracious Providence over us. And I command and enjoin all Magistrates and Civil Officers to see that the said Day be observed as a Day set apart for religious worship, and that no servile Labour be performed thereon. "Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the Fourth Day of November, 1767, in the Eightn Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. "God Save the King. "Remember what I told you about the piece for Thanksgiving turkeys," said the turkrey man, laying the paper on the desk and walking out.—New York Sun. 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"Good Luck," "Cross Bow," "Old Honesty," "Master Workman," "Sickle," "Brandywine," "Planet," "Neptune," "Razor," "Tennessee Cross Tle," "Ole Varginy." TAGS MAY BE ASSORTED IN SECURING PRESENTS. Our new illustrated CATALOGUE OF PRESENTS FOR 1902 will include many articles not shown here. It will contain the most attractive List of Presents ever offered for Tags, and will be sent by mail on receipt of postage—two cents. (Catalogue will be ready for mailing about January 1st, 1902.) Write your name and address plainly on outside of packages containing Tage, and send them and requests for Presents to C. Hy. BROWN, 4241 Folsom Ave., St. Louis, Mo. I CURE FITS FREE A Pell-Site 61 Treatment of Dr. O. Phlose Brown's Great Remedy for Pins, Epilepsy and all Nervous Diseases. Address O. FREELBROW, 80 Browns, Kewburs, E.I. A BANKRUPT BANKER Owned a little ground near where our Company is at work. The '83 panic left him owing over $10,000,00. 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Secretary MacBrady, Star Bldg., Chicago. Agents Wanted Always something new. Just the articles you need for the Holidays, our agents coinning money, sell everywhere, no trash. Write at once for particular. LOUIS SCPLY CO., Chicago AGENTS MAKE $500.00 PER MONTH selling rights for my smokeless gunpowder. Patented. Can be made for 100 per lb. Every hardware store will buy the shop right. Greatest money maker on earth. Particulars free. J. A. STRANSKY, Pakwana, S. Dakota. Agents make $10 Daily selling solution for making mirrors. Recipe with full instructions, sent for 10a. Call or write LEON MFG CO., 183-183 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. BIBLE STUDY MADE EASY. The Great Tree Chart gives the whole plan of redemption in a beautiful Tree. Price, $2.00. Agents wanted. H. L. BERT, Marion, Indiana. CARVASSERS and agents wanting a slide-line, write Dr. Hussey. 221 Cherry St., Toledo, O., for particulars. ACENTS! SEND 15 CENTS for the BEST SELLING ARTICLE out. Your money back if not satisfied. Address CNAS, L. ARCHBOLD, Decatur, Ind. OPIUM Habits. Specialty 30 years. Free Trial. Dr. Marsh, Quiney, Mich. The Barbourville & Cumberland Valley Gas & Oil Co., main office Blindfield, West Va., owns leases on 5,000 acres in Knox and Whittytown counties, Kentucky, the recombined oil basin of Kentucky, all of which is proven oil territory. Oil has been struck and estimated 50 to 150 barrels per day on adjoining lands. GUSHER only short distance from our property. We own latest and best machinery, but need money to drill wells, hence for 10 days only, we will sell 50,000 shares stock, par value $1.00 paid up and non-esserable for 15 cents per share. WE GUARANTEE TO STRIKE OIL OR REFUND MONEY. Make remittance to E. T. OLIVER, Secy. & Treasurer. (Investigation requested.) Blindfield, W. Va. HOWE SCALES BEST In The World ALL KINDS FOR ALL PURPOSES Write for Free Oceanlog. The only scale with ball bearings. BORDEN & SELLECK CO. 46-59 Lakr. St. CHICAGO PENSION JOHN W. 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Sebree, president of the Saratoga Hotel and the Morrison Hotel and Restaurant Co., who is or will be backed up by the Tilden Democracy, will before the idea of next April, have Alderman Bathhouse John's scalp dangling from his belt. H. C. Haynes, Chicago's famous razor strap manufacturer, has traveled some 30,000 miles and sold over 18,000 razor straps in three years. His record only shows 42 straps sold to colored barbers.—Ex. Mr. Haynes belongs to the Afro-American race, but like the most of the colored men in business he would starve to death if he depended upon those belonging to his own race to support him. Alderman William H. Ehemann, 24th Ward, is a hard worker in the city council, he is a member of several important committees and his cool judgment goes a long way in determining the actions of the committees. in his ward. Alderman Ehemann is never idle, he is a member of the executive committee of the Harrison League and chairman of the executive committee of the North Shore Union Club. Mrs. Jennie M. Magill has begun divorce proceedings against her husband, Thomas W. Magill, member of the firm of H. O. Stone & Co., 206 LaSalle street. Many years ago Mr. and Mrs. Magill resided in Fargo, N. Dak., where they are both well known, and when he was in serious trouble Mrs. Magill stood by her husband through thick and thin, but now she claims that he has proven false to her and desires to retain the use of her property and money. Shad-belly Frankhawk Murphy, who has been connected with the city pay roll for many years, claims that all the colored voters in the 30th Ward will vote for him for alderman without the aid of The Broad Ax. The crap-shooters like Terrell and the chicken stealers may support cheapskate Murphy, for he may associate with that class of Negroes for all we know, but the decent colored people residing in the 30th Ward do not know any more about Shad-belly Murphy than a plg does about its daddy. Alabama has joined Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia, by disfranchising the vast majority of her colored voters last week it was thought by many that out of consideration for Prof. Booker T. Washington that the people of Alabama would not favor the proposition to deprive the Negro of his ballot and permit ignorant white men to vote, but it appears otherwise and the returns from the election indicate that the people never thought of Prof. Washington, nor his leadership while they were voting to unhorse the Negro. Mr. Lowe, chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Alabama, was opposed to its adoption, and he strongly fought against the suffrage clause on the floor of the convention, and several other leading Democrats went on record in opposition to it in the convention, but their votes and warnings were unheeded by the people of Alabama. SPANISH PROVERBS Never quit certainty for hope. Love is always in the wrong. Buy at a market, but sell at home. The book of Maybes is very broad. Who robs a scholar robs the public. He who has but one coat cannot lend it. Plow or not plow, you must pay your rent. He who eats meat, let him pick the bone. A good companion makes good company. Better go about than fall into the ditch. A handsome hostess is bad for the purse. For a flying enemy makes a silver bridge. Better an empty house than an ill tenant. A friend to everybody is a friend of nobody. When a friend asketh, there is no tomorrow. He who sows brambles must not go barefoot. It avails little to the unfortunate to be brave. Life without a friend, death without a witness. Many go out for wool and come home shorn. Most of Tolstoi's books have had the rare honor of even being translated into Chinese. The Republican candidate for mayor in Yonkers, N. Y., John E. Andrus, is said to be worth $50,000,000. "You are looking beautiful tonight; I suppose everyone tells you that, but I mean it."—Brooklyn Life. The illiterate man often has pronounced ideas, but they are sometimes mispronounced.—Philadelphia Record. Later census returns from remote districts will increase the population of the Dominion of Canada to about 5,500,000. Magistrate Mott of New York, in a late case before him decided that no man is intoxicated so long as he is able to run. Argon has been found to be composed of five other gases, so that the atmosphere is now known to contain 75 elements. Nearly all the large book stores, says a Philadelphia, are expecting an increase in sales of President Roosevelt's books. The peasantry of Russia have a guitar called the torban, having thirty strings, the body shaped something like a mandolin. Some of the Southern states give pensions to Confederate soldiers. Since 1879 Georgia, for instance, has thus paid out $5,904,225. "You're quite a sportsman, aren't you?" "Wal, I dunno, boss. I s'posed a sportsman wuz one of dem fellers what comes from de city, an' can't hit nuffin'!"—Puck. The ex-members of the Washington baseball team certainly swat the leather and scoot around the bases when they sign with other teams. Washington Post. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. An act of charity usually discounts an act of heroism. Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles. The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity. Perhaps money talks, but it seems adverse to holding conversation with a great many people. The history of a woman's tragedy could be summed up by the man's cry of weakness. "I need you. Stand by me!" No success is worthy of the name unless it is won by honest industry and a brave breasting of the waves of fortune. You must try to be good and amiable to everybody, and do not think that Christianity consists in a melancholy and morose life. Each man can learn something from his neighbor; at least, he can learn, says Kingsley, to have patience with him, to live and let live. Where there are confusions and griefs, and fears and unattained pursuits, and avoidance in vain, and envy and rivalry, can the way of happiness lie there? To be a gentleman is to-be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and having all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.—Pennsylvania Grit. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. JOHN H. COPPAGE .. Dealer in .. 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