The Broad Ax

CHRISTMAS Once more all the people inhabiting all parts of the so-called civilized or the Christian world are in the midst of the holiday season, for next Wednesday, Dec. 25, is Christmas, and with joyful hearts and good feeling many people will celebrate Christmas-tide in honor and in commemoration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, who was according to history born in the Land of Judea, over nineteen centuries ago From his great contemporaries, Philo and Josephus, we learn that his parents were extremely poor; that they were unable to give him any educational advantages; that all but eighteen months of his life was devoted to his trade, that of a carpenter. Therefore Jesus grew up to manhood totally unacquainted with all the rudiments pertaining to an education; it is true that when he began to preach the people were attracted to him by the wonderfui magnetism which he possessed and the bold stand he assumed against the priesthood, for Jesus was the greatest socialist or anarchist of his day, and generation. It is also true that Jesus was unlike Moses, Buddha, Mahomet, Confucius, Zeno or Socrates, for all those great moral teachers or philosophers were the founders of new religious systems; but Jesus did not give expression to one single new thought or truth during the eighteen months of his ministry. Even the golden rule which his followers claim that he was the author of was promulgated by Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and lawgiver five hundred years before the Christian era; it was the mission of the meek and lowly Jesus to re-clothe and re-voice those touching and ennobling sentiments which had become dim in the hearts of the multitude at the time he walked and talked to those who gathered around him. Many of the theologians and the other followers of Jesus have for almost two thousand years continued to rail against the Jews or the Roman authorities for causing the death of Jesus. They seem to lose sight of the fact that if he was sent to this earth from his heavenly father to redeem mankind from its sins, it made no material difference whether he embraced death upon the cross or died from some disease, for he was subject to all the laws of nature. We are willing to agree with the theologians that Jesus suffered intense agony while he was upon the cross, but that suffering or pain only lasted a few hours, and it was nothing in comparison to the honor and the glory which has been and will continue to be heaped upon him by his four hundred and fifty million followers, and we firmly believe that Jesus is ten thousand times more alive today and a million times more beloved since his death upon the cross. While celebrating Christmas or the holiday season, let us remember that Jesus endeavored to lighten the burdens and to illuminate the pathway of the poor and the unfortunate; that he cared nothing for pomp, the froth or the splendor of what is called society, that he generally worshipped the true and the beautiful, but we fear his devotees will in this fast age look upon him as being out of date or as an old fogy, and very few of them will honor him for his humility and piety, for on Christmas day the vast majority of those who pretend to reverence him will vie with the ungodly, the Jew, the heathen, the free-thinker and the infidel, in indulging in social excesses, eating, drinking and in celebrating the day in grand Bacchanallian style. The theater, the ball-room and the banquet hall will be crowded, and the Christians as well as the non-Christians will cling to that olden idea, "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die." In the midst of all these social gayities the needy, the poor widow, the little orphans, the outcast and those who barely exist, in hovels where the bright sunlight never enters and hope has never been, will be almost ignored and forgotten. On Christmas day no doubt the various churches will be crowded to hear songs and praises chanted unto the man who had no place to lay his head as he went about preaching in Galilee more than nineteen hundred years ago. but the religious exercises will be entered into more from custom and formality than anything else, and few will be sufficiently able to grasp the full significance of the occasion. Loudly and over-dressed women will be in evidence, and they will be so busy in inspecting each other's new bonnets, dresses, diamond rings and long automobile coats, that they will be unable to tell whether the loving Jesus gave up his life for the good of humanity five hundred or five thousand years ago. The men who will attend these religious exercises will be so busy in figuring up their profits and losses for the past year and wondering where they are going to get off at in 1902, that they like the women will be unable to tell what the preachers discoursed upon. With these few reflections we, from the bottom of our heart, wish every friend and reader of The Broad Ax, and all mankind and womankind throughout the world, A Merry Christmas! BROAD VIEW OF THE RACE PRO BLEM. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 20, 1901. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of The Broad Ax: Dear Sir—In a recent issue of your valuable paper I noticed an able comment upon President Roosevelt's message to Congress and in the second column a very touching comment from an exchange and also "The Plaindealer," of Topeka, Kan., upon his appointment of G. R. Koester, a South Carolina Democrat, who boasts of his lynching proclivity and the appointment was recommended by our champion (4) Prof. Rooker T. Washington. As I view it, the president and professor are playing the same kind of political cards and accomplishing the same kind of magical feat in riding two political horses in opposite directions, at the same time. Just like the capitalist parties (whom they both are tools of) do in eating their cake and still retain it. In the next column an article headed "Attack a Girl in Negro Guise." From the tenor of all these articles one would (especially the Negro) think that there is a gigantic Negro Problem to solve) when in fact they are laboring under a hallucination. The Negro, ever since his emancipation from chattle slavery and induction to wage slavery has been soft soaped by the Republican party, until they have them nearly, all in their proverbial vest pocket. So now the mantle has fallen upon our strenuous Teddy's shoulders to apply the same emulsion to the Southern Democrat. Therefore, he wisely left the Negro lynchings and disfranchisement out of his message to Congress, but to Prof. Decoy Duck Booker T. Washington, we see in his message and also the press great strees laid upon immigration laws and the Chinese exclusion act, and of course the poor fool laborer, both white and black, of America believe that the exclusion of the foreigner will better his condition, another hallucination. If the laborer will only wake up to the realization of his own strength and become as consciencious of his own interest as the capitalist class is of theirs. The giants (laborer) of the earth will not allow no political stool pigeon and scabs to barter off their rights of decent existence, if the Negro will wake up also to the fact that instead of a Negro Problem to solve, he must play an important part towards solving the labor problem, for in that solution alone is the salvation of the Negro, not in yelling at some political demagogue to recognize him in his messages to Congress. However diverse may be the mental and physical pecularities, we are all subjects to the same disease, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter, effected by the same passions, fed by the same food, and hurt by the same weapons, we are all human, Mongolian, Caucasian, Negro and Indian. The Socialist party and its teachings alone has that sociological effect upon a man to show him where his best interests lie and in order to secure the most for each individual the Socialists propose to organize society collectively into one big trust, thereby owning all the means of production and exchange in order that real goodness of the earth will redound to the benefit of us all. So let us put aside our quibblings and stand at the ballot HEW TO THE LINE. box united in our demands for justice for ourselves, our families and our posterity. Yours truly, ARE YE TRULY FREE? Men whose boast it is that ye Came of fathers brave and free, If there breathes on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed--- Slaves unworthy to be freed? Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts, forgot That we owe mankind a debt? No! True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare to be In the right with two or three. CHIPS Attorney Albert B. George leaves for Washington, D. C., on Sunday night, where he will spend the holidays. Sunday, Dec. 22, a grand musical treat, "Oratorio," by St. Mark's M. E. Church Choir Bethlehem, will be given at 4 o'clock p.m. Mr. M. P. Byrne is being freely spoken of for county commissioner. His nomination would add strength to the ticket, for Mr. Byrne has a strong following in the Town of Lake. Justice John Fitzgerald is sporting a new long-tailed overcoat, lined with silk, and if any one did not know the justice they would take him for an English lord or duke. Mrs. H. Washington, mother of Mrs. L. W. Washington, 3118 Dearborn street, died Monday night. Her funeral services were held from Quinn Chapel Thursday afternoon. City Sealer Jas. A. Quinn has for the past week been indisposed from a severe attack of pneumonia, but he is now recovering from its effects and will be able to attend to business by the first of the week. The banquet and reception given by the Indiana Club of Chicago at the Auditorium Hotel on Tuesday night was a magnificent success in every wa and its secretary, Charles H. Leech, covered himself all over with glory. The Advocate, Milwaukee, Wis., of Dec. 14, contained a hot article on the most high right or left Rev. Pierpont Alfonso Hubert, whose handsome mug appeared in The Conservator a short time ago. Ex-Gambler Jackstine Terrell, does not seem to be such a big-gun with the cheap-sports around 47th St. and Armour Ave. since he closed up his gambling and dancing den, but we are still out three dollars, Terrell. Alderman Fred. A. Hart, 29th ward, has proved himself a very valuable member of the city council, and no mistake was made by the voters of the 29th ward in selecting Fred. Hart as one of their aldermen. Lawyer John F. Clare, Unity Building: "Unless I happen to be in my office at the time the mail-carrier delivers The Broad Ax; som one is more than likely to carry it away with them, for it seems that everybody likes to read your spicy little paper." Alderman Charles J. Byrne, 11th ward, has made a faithful servant of the people; he is a gentleman every day in the week, and for those two seasons The Broad Ax wants to see Alderman Byrne returned to the city council. Rev. Joseph R. Slattery, of St. Joseph's Seminary, Baltimore, Md., will make a tour through the west shortly. Father Slattery is at the head of the Josephite Fathers, a society of Catholic priests who work among the colorful people. Alderman William F. Brennan, who has the handsomest mustasche of all the city daddies, will side-track all his aldermanic competitors, and he will after next April continue to serve as one of the able aldermen from the 12th ward. Mr. George A. Huff, who is well and favorably known throughout the Town of Lake, would make an ideal candidate for county commissioner. Mr. Huff is an up-to-date business man and he always remains true to any and all trusts imposed upon him. Capt. John J. Bradley, Alderman Charles J. Boyd, Arthur McLaughlin, John Nugent, Harry J. Rogers, William L. Gahan, James J. McNerney, Dennis J. Riordan, Thomas Dunn, T. W. Mackey, John Breen and a few other politicians in the 30th ward are getting ready to enter the aldermanic contest. Geo. W. Henderson, 5016 Dearborn St., who has for the past fourteen years be a responsible position with the Phenix Insurance Company, is a reformer and a deep student of history. Mr. Henderson is also one of the most popular singers among the Afro-Americans in Chicago or the west. If Alderman Charles Martin, of the 6th ward, does not want to continue to keep his seat in the city council warm then The Broad Ax is in favor of ex-Alderman James J. McCormick being re-invested with his aldermanic star, for he is large enough to fill Alderman Martin's seat in the city council. In the last city convention ex-City Attorney Miles J. Devine was thrown away up in the air by Mr. Robert E. Burke and small company, and he was knocked out of the nomination for city attorney so slick and so quick that he did not have time to say boo, but notwithstanding that fact Mr. Devine is not ready to desert the old Democratic ship of state. Ed. Cooper of the Colored American, Washington, is still being pitched into by all the leading newspapers all over the country because dead-beat Cooper robbed many of them through the Boston Chemical Company in order to enlarge his own paper. Characterless and whisky-floating Cooper beat us out of $8.35, and if he ever returns to Chicago we will endeavor to land him in jail Owing to the intense cold wave which struck the city last Sunday The Men's Sunday Forum, which meets at Institutional Church postponed its meeting on that date, but Sunday, Dec. 22, Rev. R. A. White will address the Forum on "Spiritual Forces and Progress." Prof. P. T. Tinsley and Prof. N. Clark Smith's orchestra will furnish the music. Mrs. Lucas, 4938 Armour Ave., entertained the Buffalo Club Thursday evening and an enjoyable time was had by those who attended. Those who were present were: Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Akins, Mrs. W. M. McKnight, Wilkerson, Lyons, James and Lapseley. Messrs. Woodflork, Spriggs, Fletcher and Taylor. Mrs. Lucas, as hostess acuqitted herself to the Queen's taste. Thursday evening, Jan. 2, 1902, the club meets at the home of Mrs R. A. Smith, 361 30th St. The Middle States and Mississippi Valley Exposition for the benefit of the endowment fund for the Home for the Aged and infirm Colored People, 610 Garfield bouleard, opens in this city from Aug. 14 to 24, 1902. Many of the most prominent colored men and women residing in Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, Chio, Mississippi, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Colorado, Kansas Arkansas, Alabama and Lousiana have joined hands and from now on they will labor to make it a grand success. There are hundreds of business men or merchants up and down State street who are growing rich from the patronage which they receive from the colored people, but this same class of business men will not spend one dollar in the way of advertising in any newspaper published in the interest of the colored race, in fact many of them delight in treating the repressutatives of the Negro press with scorn and contempt. Later on we may give some of these merchants a little free advertising. Eugene Winston, 3943 Langley avenue, who is an honest and industrious member of the Afro-American race, spends much of his leisure time in reading good books and other high-class literature. For years Mr. Winston did not believe it was the best policy for newspapers to adhere to the truth at all times, but now he is fully convinced that it is the best thing to do, that it is not improper to call a spade a spade, and to hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may." That is the reason why Mr. Winston greatly admires The Broad Ax. The Broad Ax has been informed that Col. Manning of the Indianapolis World, has a brother who is head bartender for Mush-mouth Johnson, 464 State street. That accounts for Col. Manning holding Mush-mouth Johnson up as one of the greatest leaders of the Negro race. We presume whenever Col. Manning visits Chicago Johnson furnishes him with free whisky and a nice warm bed. Mush-mouth Johnson may be able to lead Col. Manning and Ed. Cooper of Washington, D. C., who are always looking for free doings and the gamblers and crapshooters who hang out at 464 State street, but he can never lead The Broad Ax. Last week, while the Rev. O. A. Johnson, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, was standing up in the pulpit of the M. E. Church of that city leading the singing, Miss Hattie Johnson, who is one of the colored belles of Iowa fired a shot from her revolver at Rev. Johnson and exclaimed: "You are the father of my child! You have ruined my life!" The bullet entered the pastor's shoulder near his heart, but it is thought the wound will not prove fatal. Miss Johnson attempted to fire a second shot but was disarmed by many strong men; then she fled from the church. Miss Johnson, it is said, is very beautiful and just twenty years old; Rev. Johnson is 45 years old. The child was born on Sept. 1 last, and Johnson claims that a committee appointed by the church to investigate the scandal exonerated him. Emperor Reduces Rent Emperor William has made himself popular among his small tenants in Kreis Kolmar by issuing an unexpected order for the reduction of this quarter's rent. He has informed his agents that out of 260 small farms belonging to the crown, the income from which amounts to 15,822 marks, the rents of 238 are to be reduced about 54 per cent, owing to the failure of the crops. Suggests New Capital Punishment. Marcellin Berthlot, a distinguished French chemist, after discussing the merits and demerits of the systems of capital punishment now in vogue, pronounces in favor of carbon dioxide, a gas used for the destruction of stray dogs. He says this is a quiet and painless death and one that does not shock the sensibilities. Those Locklaw Cases The obvious comment on all this nonsense is that something should be done to restrain corporation officials of every kind from practicing on children with their serums, bacilli, and assorted viruses. A stick of dynamite placed under a trip-hammer is not as dangerous as a jar of germs in the hands of a really bustling and enthusiastic quack.-Washington Post. Early Map of America What is said to be one of the earliest known maps of America has been discovered in the library of Wolfegg castle, which belongs to Prince Von Waldburg-wolfegg. The map was drawn in 1507 by Martin Waldsee Muller, by whom America is said to have been named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Large Families at Residences Bessinger, Fla., seems to be an ideal place for the raising of large families. It is only a frontier settlement as yet, lying in the heart of the great inland prairie, but there is no danger of the population diminishing. Among the families living there are six whose children aggregate seventy-one in number—thirty-two boys and thirty-nine girls. Bessinger challenges any place of equal size in the state to match these domestic figures. NO. 9. OONSIDERATIONS OF MONEY. A Writer Protests Against the Taking of Interest. Such laws as the prohibition to take interest for money loaned to one in distress (Exodus, xxii., 24; Leviticus, xxv., 36; compare Psalms, xv., 5) is a protest against the business of money lending as carried on in Babylonia, where thousands of tablets found beneath the mounds reveal the extent to which this enterprise was developed in the commercial centers of the Euphrates Valley. Of course, without money lending commerce on a large scale cannot be carried on, but this is exactly what the Pentateuch aims to avoid, says Morris Jastrow, in the Independent. The ideal which it holds up is not commerce, but agriculture. It has no sympathy with commercial expansion; it does not hold out the hope—nay, it distinctly discourages the prospect of the people becoming the rivals of the Babylonians and Phoenicians, the great merchants of antiquity. The progeny of Abraham is to be "as numerous as the sands of the sea," but nowhere is wealth held up either as a goal or even a possibility. The picture which the compilers of the Pertateuch codes had in mind was that of each man sitting with his family under the shade of his fig tree. Every pater familias was to own the land which he cultivated. Country life is given the preference over city life. Hence interest is intentionally tabooed as an effective blow against converting the people into a commercial nation. THE "HOBRID MAN" ELED. How a Pretty Girl Rebuked the Importinence of a Student. He was a Columbia man and she was a Barnard girl. Chance sent them down-town side by side in an Amsterdam-avenue car. He was big and good-looking, and dressed in typically collegian style. She was quite pretty and refuted the aphorism that there are pretty girls and girls who go to Barnard. She was writing vigorously in a blue and white notebook, and he kept trying to see what she was writing by peering over her shoulder. She seemed not to mind at first, for apparently she thought him rather nice. Gradually he became more flirtatious and more curious. Suddenly she lifted her paper so he saw quite plainly that she was writing to a girl friend. "There is," she wrote, "a horrid man staring over my shoulder at every word I write." He started, but she didn't act as if she thought he saw, so he continued unabashed. Then he read: "Don't you think: you have read all you really need to of this letter, Mr. Man?" He took one glance at her, says the New York Times, and fled hastily from the car, while she erased her last sentence and serenely continued her missive. Buried Cities of Asia. Dr. M. A. Stein during his recent researches among the buried cities of Asia discovered much information regarding the life of those cities which for 2,000 years have been immersed in the sand. The most striking excavations were made in the heart of the desert north of El Riya. There one settlement was exposed covering with its scattered dwellings and shrines an area of about twenty-four square miles. Refuse heaps which were unearthed near some ruined houses which apparently had been tenanted by village officials contained hundreds of documents, beautifully written on wooden tablets and carefully tied and sealed. Owing to the preservative nature of the sand many of these were in splendid condition—the ink as black and the seals and string as perfect as if they were only a few weeks old. As these documents are in a known Indian script their decipherment can be expected to reveal in a fascinating manner many of the details of the ancient village life. Surgents New Capital Punishment Suggests New Capital Punishment. Marcellin Berthlot, a distinguished French chemist, after discussing the merits and demerits of the systems of capital punishment now in vogue, pronounces in favor of carbon dioxide, a gas used for the destruction of stray dogs. He says this is a quiet and painless death and one that does not shock the sensibilities. FARM WORK IN ISLANDS Representatives of Hawaiian planters are in the Philippines to ascertain whether it is feasible to import farm laborers from the archipelago to Hawaii. The scheme is generally regarded as impracticable for the reason that the percentage of skilled agriculturists among the Philippines is very small. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Lutherans, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, so any be also can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. Local communication will have attention, like only on one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance) One Year.....$1.00 Two Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 5010 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Lord Kitchener is long on organization, but short on oil. Russia is settling Siberia on the installment plan—a thousand peasants in a bunch. Kentuckians may object to the isthmian canal as increasing the water area of the earth. They know what weather is in the Klondike. The Yukon river is frozen to the bottom and half way back. Bulgaria can maltreat defenseless women, but it can not afford to be impudent to Uncle Sam. Reference—Spain. The King of Yap is believed to have been lost at sea. Yaps everywhere will observe the conventional time of mourning. Queen Wilhelmina insisted on picking out her own husband. Next time perhaps she will let her state counselors look over him. Secretary Hay says lying is not diplomacy. This being the case, we must conclude that the sultan isn't much of a diplomat. Everybody is sorry for Inventor Gathmann, but his gun is not the irresistible force that is to encounter the immovable body some day. Dr. Coon accuses newspapers of spreading the grip. They simply can't help it, doctor; they've go to spread things or go out of business. Hall Caine has joined the church, and his publishers announce a large increase in the sales of his books. Other authors should take notice. Perhaps the American girl is too fond of queening it over the house. But, bless her, we have crowned her and have neither heart nor courage to rebel. The United States court of appeals has decided in a St. Louis case that an applicant for life insurance must tell the truth. Is this decision not revolutionary? A Kansas paper advises that turkeys be cooked with their breasts turned to the bottom of the pan. How prone, as it were, some men are to meddle in kitchen affairs! Michigan University's football eleven scored 501 points during the season, blanking every opponent. This almost marks the point where the game becomes uninteresting. The traditional enemies of France may expect to be handled without gloves now that an order has gone forth from the war minister to deprive the army of that adornment. A Harvard student "after a full meal" crawled up 400 feet of a precipice, every moment in imminent danger of death. Clearly he must have partaken generously of more than solid food. In German West Africa they get three years in the penitentiary for roasting a negro; in this country they get a three days' roast in the newspapers. Neither punishment seems to discourage the habit. It might expedite matters considerably if the various powers made it a practice to keep their cruisers in the Dardanelles all the time, the sultan being simply invited to observe their presence every time a bill falls due. When, as Prince of Wales, King Edward visited the United States a great many years ago, he heard our great national air on several occasions. A few days ago when Sousa's band played it in his presence he recognized it at once and removed his hat. Many things have transpired in forty years to impress him with the belief that "The Star Spangled Banner" is a much greater tune than he once believed it to be. There have been greater crowds at football games this season than that which witnessed the contest between the eleven of the army and of the navy at Philadelphia, but there have been none more distinguished, including, as it did, the president of the United States, the veteran heroes of the army and of the navy, not to mention a vast array of statesmen, diplomats and other eminent representatives of military, naval and civil life. The occasion marked the climax of a notable football season, in which the general public has taken an extraordinary interest, not without ample com- PUNOTUALITY WON. Agent for a Company Calls on a Man at S A. M. A life insurance agent who resides in this place deserves great credit not only for the energy and persistence with which he pushes his business, but for his punctuality in keeping engagements, says the Punxsutawney Spirit. He had been after a man who resides in Anita for the past two years, and had received some encouragement. He called one day last week, and when the man saw the insurance agent approaching he ran and hid. But the insurance agent had caught a glimpse of his fleeting form and was not to be foiled. He finally smoked his man out and told him he had come to talk insurance. "I am too busy," said the man; "call again when I have more time." "When may I call then? Set your own time, and I'll be there." The man thought a moment, then made reply: "You may call next Friday morning at 3 o'clock." "I will be on time." When the appointed day arrived our indefatigable insurance man arose at 1:30 o'clock and walked to Anita, a distance of nearly five miles, arriving there at 2:55. He sat down on the porch and waited until precisely at 3 o'clock, then rang the doorbell. "What's wanted?" inquired a female voice from an upstairs window. "Is Mr. Jones at home?" "He is," "Tell him to come down right away. I have some very important business with him." Mr. Jones hustled downstairs in his nightshirt, and there was the life insurance agent. "I have called," he began, "as you requested, to talk life insurance." Jones was somewhat astonished and bewildered, but realizing that he was up against it, said: "Such punctuality deserves to be rewarded. I surrender." And he gave him his application for a policy. "SWELL" GERMAN FARMER. Some Agriculturists in the Fatherland Indulging in Luxuries. During the last twenty-five years there has been an active demand for farm land in Germany. It has become fashionable for rich men, merchants, bankers, manufacturers, retired army officials and others to buy country seats. It gives them a better standing and influence in the community. A man who has made a few hundred thousand marks in trade or manufacturing can improve his social position and promote the prospects of his family by buying an estate and building a castle. His daughters and sons can make better marriages, for the social status of a gentleman farmer is much higher than that of a man who makes or sells merchandise. If the ambition of this class of people had led them into extravagance—they have built fine houses and filled them with expensive furniture; have bought improved machinery and fancy stock—horses, cattle and sheep; they have filled their stables with hunters, kept kennels of dogs and maintained game preserves at great cost, and all this has been charged up as agricultural investments. So, when they complain that their farms are yielding them only 1 per cent, and they must, though, have the prices of breadstuffs and provisions advanced by shutting out American competition, they ask the consumers to pay for their amusements and luxuries. Furthermore, the demand for land has increased its value. Good farming property has doubled in price, and in many favorable locations has increased four and five fold since the empire.—William E. Curtis, cor. Chicago Record. The Professor's Story. At a recent dinner given in honor of a certain man of letters, Hamilton Wright Mable, who was one of the speakers of the evening, said, in the course of his remarks, that a pessimist might be defined as a person who has the choice between two evils and selects both. A Columbia student who happened to attend the dinner sat the next morning under Professor Brander Matthews, who delivered a characteristic lecture, with statistics, on everything in general. During the lecture Mr. Matthews remarked, with the air of a man conscious of tossing off an original jewel of epigrammatic wisdom, "You know, gentlemen, we may define a pessimist as a man who has the choice between two evils and takes both." The student, who was certain that Mr. Matthews had not been present the evening before, looked the professor up at the conclusion of the lecture, saying: "Your definition of a pessimist struck me forcibly, but I heard Mr. Mable give the same one last night." "Is that so?" replied Mr. Matthews sauvely. "He forestalled me by half a day then. We both heard it from Mark Twain two evenings ago." Too Much for Reuben. "Yes, sir," said Uncle Reuben, as the graphophone stopped, "that's mighty good—mighty good!" "Just wait a while," said the youth, as he slipped on another record, "and I'll explain it to you." "Oh, I understand it all right," responded Reuben. "Understand it all except one thing." "What's that?" asked the youth. "Well," answered Reuben, with an abashed grin, "I understand how these sleight-o-hand fellers pull big rabbits and pigeons out o' little hats, but I'll be danged if I understand how you git a full brass band in that box."—Indianapolis Sun. "Bridget, were you entertaining a man in the kitchen last evening?" "Will, mum, that's 'r him t' say. Or done me best wid th materials at hand mum."—Philadelphia Bulletin. Merry May Thy Xmas Be. THE HOLY NIGHT One star burned low within the darkened east, And from a stable door an answering light Crept faintly forth, where through full hours of night A woman watched. The sounds of day had ceased, And save the gentle tread of restless beast There dwelt a hush profound. The mother's sight- So holden by her Babe took no affright When shadows of the beams, that caught the least Of light, seemed shapened to a lengthening cross; She only saw a crown made by a fleece Of golden hair. Naught presaged pain or loss- To her, the pivot of the swinging sphere Lay sheltered in her arms so warm and near; A mother's heart proclaimed Him "Prince of Peace!" —Eina A. Foster. The Tramp's Christmas e was such an unkempt, sad looking creature when he presented himself at the back door that Christmas morning asking for something to eat that Mary was more than half inclined to disobey the rule of the Tracy household, which stood good at all seasons of the year as well as at Yuletide, and refuse his request. Before she could do so, however, Mrs. Tracy herself came into the kitchen, and, with scant show of hospitality, Mary allowed the tramp to enter. She had always secretly grumbled because Mrs. Tracy would allow no one to be turned away hungry, and today there was no excuse, for the family had just finished breakfast and there was plenty of food left to give the man a substantial meal. "Goin' to come and rob the house to-night, like's not," was Mary's inward comment as she put the coffee pot on the stove, and she watched the man narrowly to see if he were making a mental plan of the house, but her suspected burglar did not once look up from the floor as he sat nervously twirling his hat. "He's young and able to work," Mary soliloquized, as she bustled to and fro putting eatables on one end of the kitchen table. "Might be tolerable good lookin', too, if he was shaved and dressed up—and—washed." "There!" she snapped, setting a cup of coffee down on the table with as much force as she could without spilling its contents. "Your virtual's set." The man, scarcely raising his eyes, dropped his hat and hitched his chair near the table. Just as he eagerly clutched the cup of fragrant coffee, a door opened, a pair of merry blue eyes peered into the kitchen and a shrill iittle voice piped out. "Hello, man, merry Christmas!" The "man" started, shifted, uneasily in his chair, but made no reply. Undaunted by his chilling reception, the door was burst open, and a golden-laired little boy burst into the room. With the unquestioning confidence of childhood, he walked up to the stranger and said gravely, "I said merry Christmas." "Run into the other room, Donald," Merry put in hastily. The man shot a half-defiant glance at her, but did not look at the child. "I don't want to," the little fellow replied. "He's company, and mamma said I could 'tain him. I brought the new Mother Doose book dat I dot from Santa Claus to show he," and, pushing a chair close to the table, from it he mounted the end of the table opposite the man, and sat there like a sweet, rosy cherub observing some dark spirit. The tramp, who seemed almost furnished, paused just long enough to laughed, paused just long enough to look wonderingly at his strange little companion, and then gave his full attention to the meal. "Don't you want to talk?" Donald demanded. "I'm not fit—that is, 'er, I don't know how to talk to such a little kid," the man answered. "All right, I guess you want to eat," the child observed, graciously. "I guess I'll read to you," opening the book he was holding in his arms. "You know Mother Goose, don't you?" The man shook his head, but something like a smile flitted across his sullen features. "Well, I'll show you the pictures and read you 'bout 'em. This one," and Donald slid along the tab'e as near to the man as the dishes would allow, "this one is about 'Blue Boy.' I'll read 'bout him," and, in chanting, high-pitched voice, he repeated the rhyme of "Little Boy Blue." "Did you ever sleep under haymow?" he asked, suddenly, at the conclusion of his recitation. The man frowned slighly at the childish query, bit his lip and nodded his head. "Was it nice?" went on his interrogator. "Did your mamma let you?" The man's lower lip was pressed cruelly by his teeth at this question, but a surly shake of his head was his only reply. "Oh, was you naughty and runned away?" the boy asked, slowly. Had Mary been an observing girl, she would have seen, under the scrubby beard and grime on the haggard face, a dull red flush spread to the roots of his shaggy, neglected hair. "Didn't your mamma come to look for you?" continued the little tormentor. "She didn't know where I was," the tramp answered, in a strange, muffled voice. "Then you hided from her!" exclaimed the child, with blue eyes wide open. The man was looking out of the window now, forgetful of his good breakfast. "I was naughty once and runned away," Donald prattled on, "and when my mamma found me she was just awful glad, but she cried, too—wasn't that funny? And she said mothers was always glad when they got their boys back, even when they was big and runned awful far off, 'strayed into the paths'—I forget just what that part was, but she said I must always come back to her—an'—an'—I don't E.K. "A DOOR OPENED." 'member any more, but I guess if you'd go back to your mamma she'd forget the naughty and be glad. Do you think she'd cry?" The man cast one fierce look over his shabby person. "Cry!" he exclaimed, bitterly. "Oh——" he drew his breath hard between his teeth as the sight of the baby face choked back the oath that nearly escaped him. "Isn't you goin' to eat any more?" chirped the little fellow, with awakened hospitality, noticin; that his guest, sitting with his head on his hand, seemed to have lost his appetite. The child's voice poused him from his thoughts, and, seeing that Mary had paused in her work and was watching him curiously, he asked humbly, "Can I have some coffee?" Meanwhile Donald was turning the pages of his book. "Here's a funny picture," he announced, pointing with his fat little finger, "but it's 'bout a dreadful naughty boy. I'll read 'bout him," and, in a very solemn and impressive tone, he repeated the tale of "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son." "It's dreadful bad to steal, you know," he commented, gravely. "My mamma says so, and, of course, she knows—mammas know most everything, don't they? Once—what do you think?—I stole! I didn't steal a pig like Tom, but I stole some little cakes, and my mamma talked to me a long time, and she told me so many things so I'd grow to be a good man. Did your mamma want you to be a good man, too?" The man choked on a hasty cup of coffee, but made no reply. Donald did not seem to expect one, but chatted on. "I was 'fraid my mamma did not love me any more when I stole those cakes, 'cause she looked so sorry, but," with a happy little laugh, "seemed like she loved me more'n ever after. But I don't want to see her look sorry like that again. Did you ever make your mamma look sorry—out of her eyes, you know?" A smothered groan from the stranger and, with a child's intuition of "something wrong," Donald sought to cheer and console, and said, reassuringly, "Well, you just go an' tell her you're sorry an' see if she don't be glad and love you. I most know she will." The man had ceased eating and sat motionless with his head bowed on his breast until Mary approached and curtly asked if he were "done eatin'." "Yes," he answered absently, and, looking wistfully at the child, he reached for his hat. "Is you goin' to see your mamma?" questioned Donald, eagerly. "Yes, my little man," came the answer, in a clear, ringing voice that made Mary jump and drop a basin. "That's just where I am going. But first, tell me your name." "I'm little Donald Robert Tracy, and my papa's big Donald Robert!" "Good-by, little preacher. You're the best one I've ever heard," and just brushing the golden head with his lips, the tramp passed out of the door and went down the street, not with the slouching, hang-dog air with which he had approached the house, but with head erect and shoulders squared, he swung along with long, easy strides. "Of all the ungrateful wretches!" exclaimed Mary, angrily, to Mrs. Tracy, who had slipped in through the half-open door. "He never even said 'thank you.'" Her mistress did not seem to hear, but, with shining eyes, gathered her little son up in her arms, and, as she pressed him closely to her, she whispered brokenly, "And a little child shall lead them." A year passed, and little Donald's "taining" the tramp was forgotten A "YOU KNOW MOTHER GOOSE, DON'T YOU?" by all save Mrs. Tracy. She often wondered what fruit the good seed sown by the innocent child last Christmas morning had borne. That he had been God's chosen instrument for working out some great end, her gentle heart never doubted. It was, therefore, a great pleasure and satisfaction to her to receive a long letter from the "man." It was written from his home in a far eastern city, and told, in a simple, straightforward manner, the story of his downfall and how, moved by Donald's childish prattle, he had worked his way back home, resolved to begin life anew; how kind friends had helped him and encouraged him, and how he was doing well at his old trade of bookbinding. "I was going from bad to worse," the letter ran, "and nothing is easier for a young fellow to do, and the road down to being a 'common tramp' is a short one when one gets started. When I came to your house that Christmas morning I was bitter, hard and desperate. No one living could have touched my heart as did that little blue-eyed boy. His little sermon, with its text taken from 'Mother Goose, snatched this poor brand from the burning. Tell the little chap that I found my mamma, and she was glad as he said." Accompanying the letter was a package of Christmas gifts, addressed to Donald. Among other things it contained a book—a copy of "Mother Goose" exactly like the one from which he had "read" to the man to "'tain him," exquisitely bound in white vellum. On the cover in gold letters was Donald's name, and below it, "From his grateful Blue Boy, Christmas—189—." In England children hang their stockings at the foot of their beds. In America the whole family suspend their stockings from the mantelpiece of the sitting room, to save Santa Claus the trouble of ascending the stairs and entering each room to distribute his wares. Largest Ones Ever Built to Be Used in Fast Passenger Runs. Larger Trains and Quick Schedules Are Expected to Be the Ultimate Result. Several of what are claimed to be the largest locomotives ever constructed were received by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road yesterday. In these days of large engines each fresh consignment received by a railroad during the past year or two has had the distinction of being the largest. While these monster locomotives have in a way ceased to excite surprise, those just received by the St. Paul road are remarkable in their dimensions. For example, the diameter of the driving wheels is eighty-four and one-fourth inches, or one-fourth of an inch over seven feet. Following is a technical description of the new giants: Diameter of driving wheels, 841/8 inches. Diameter of compound cylinders, 25 and 15 inches. Stroke of cylinders, 28 inches. Total length of engine, 68 feet 12 inches. Steam capacity of boiler, 200 pounds. Fire box, 8 feet 8 inches by 5 feet 5 inches. Number of flues in boiler, 350. Heating surface, 3,215 square feet. Capacity of tender, 13,000 pounds of coal and 7,000 gallons of water. General Passenger Agent Miller of the St. Paul is enthusiastic over the new engines, alleging that they will tend to revolutionize schedules and power. He says they will be capable of hauling fourteen or fifteen heavily loaded coaches or sleepers sixty miles an hour. Grades will be little or no obstruction to the leviathans. The locomotives will be put in service on the limited trains between Chicago and Milwaukee and between Chicago and Omaha. TALKS ON ADVERTISING. The best way to advertise is just to advertise. Get at it with a view to having the people know what you most desire to sell, and incidentally letting them know that the specified items do not represent your full stock. Say interesting things about interesting goods and have the goods to talk. Men talk of the secret of successful advertising, but it is all very plain. The essentials are to offer what people want, at fair prices, and to offer it in a way that will make readers know they want it. The art in writing an advertisement is to speak as the interested and well-informed merchant would speak to a prospective customer. The mere appearance of a business man's name and address in every issue of a leading newspaper will do work to increase his trade. Every business man, however, is able to give facts about his establishment which will encourage people to deal with him. To state such facts clearly in a newspaper is the principal secret of successful advertising. The idea that it takes a number of impressions to make the average advertisement effective is not new. Forty years ago an English advertiser said to the publisher of the Cornhill Magazine: "We don't consider that an advertisement seen for the first time by a reader is worth much. The second time it counts for something. The third time the reader's attention is arrested; the fourth time he reads it through and thinks about it; the fifth makes a purchaser of him. It takes time to soak in." FLORIDA SPECIAL Via Big Four Route Chicago to Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Effective Jan. 6, 1902, the "Big Four" will operate through Pullman sleepers from Chicago and Indianapolis to Jacksonville and St. Augustine, via Cincinnati, Queen & Crescent, Sou. R'y, Plant System and Fla. East Coast Ry., leaving Chicago at 1 p. m., daily, except Sunday. Dining and observation cars. For full information address J. C. Tucker, Gen. Nor. Agt., 234 Clark street, Chicago; Warren J. Lynch, G. P. & T. A., or W. P. Deppe, A. G. P. & T. A., Cincinnati, O. . THE HANDSOMEST CALENDAR of the season (in ten colors) six beautiful heads (on six sheets, 10x12 inches), reproductions of paintings by Moran, issued by General Passenger Department, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, will be sent on receipt of twenty-five cents. Address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. The second of the series of historical programmes announced in the Chicago orchestra's prospectus for the season on the part of local musical folk will be presented at this week's concerts, to be given on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening at the Auditorium and at the usual hours, under the direction of Theodore Thomas. In these programmes, of which there are to be six in all, Mr. Thomas proposes to show the progress which has been made during the last 300 years in the way of orchestral composition—its development from its most primitive state up to the full flower of nineteenth century perfection. "Lives of the Hunted" is the title of a book by Ernest Seton-Thompson, the first writer who has ever adequately interpreted the nature of brutes, especially those to whom man appears as a beast of prey. Seton-Thompson never fails to enlist our sympathies with the conquered beasts. The illustrations are harmonious and always suggestive of thought and feeling. The Corn-Shredder Is His Latest Friend in Rural Localities. A beneficent providence hangs over the surgeon. In the years which have sped the buzz saw and the ripper, the tar coupling, and what not, contributed to making his profession vigorous and profitable, and the safety appliances introduced as the skill of the inventor advanced were only temporary hindrances to his swelling bank account. If a machine was improved until it was no longer an engine of death, the insatiable need of the hour placed something else with equally devilish appetite on the market, adding to the list of the maimed and unfortunate, but cheering the heart of the surgeon with the knowledge that his skill was ever in demand. His latest friend, and the prince of all friends, in the way of piling up victims, is the corn shredder. If the list of maimed and mangled victims of this state is a standard by which to judge the rest of the corn belt, the corn shredder should be known as the man-killer. It makes quick work of its victims. If a finger comes within range of its remorseless jaws, the entire hand must be sacrificed, and it champs and mashes and drags to slow death the hapless wight caught in its resistless grasp. Occasionally it varies the program by tearing the arm from the socket, and there have been instances where the shoulder and a few ribs, as a sort of dessert, were added to the regular menu. The corn shredder is comparatively in its first childhood, but it is doing a man's work in filling the hospitals and adding to the surgeon's purse. After a while some quick-witted and humane man will devise a safety appliance, and the corn shredder will be reduced from a man-killer to an everyday convenience of the farm, industrious and harmless. But the surgeon need not despair, neither need he lower his fees. After the man-killer has lapsed into a condition of innocuous desuetude, so to speak, some other labor-saving machinery without a safety appliance will command the market. But just now the corn shredder is without a peer in its flendish work—Indianapolis News. A STREET CAR INCIDENT. Three Blessed Babies and Two Bachelor Brutes. "Disgusting," said one old bachelor to another. "Isn't it," said the other old bachelor to the one. Three women had come into the street car at different intervals with babies of different intervals. The first was a lusty child with nerve-testing fungs. The second was about a year old, and the mother, just a little embarrassed at the bachelors' glares, finally gained courage to take a bottle from a grip and plug up baby's mouth with a rubber neck. The third baby was the newest of them all, and entered the car a mere white bundle in the arms of a dignified matron hardly out of short skirts. Beginning to unwrap the bundle which had been somewhat disarranged in the haste to embark, the proud mother first unfolded a cunning pair of blue worsted booties that might fit a grumpy old bachelor's thumb. Then, feeling the eyes of the world upon her, she showed baby's two fat legs, which were as pink as her own ears. Then the cunning sight was solemnly shut from all eyes by a procession of gowns all of white, laced, tucked, embroidered and plain, the fat legs kicking vigorously as baby's laces hid them from sight. Then the little mother sat the bundle upright and threw a soft cloak from the other end, disclosing a round face, a pair of blue eyes wide open in amazement, and as pretty and bald-headed a baby from end to end as ever made a bachelor angry at his own lost opportunities. Then the three mothers smiled at each other's babies. "Disgusting," said the bachelors. Then they went out on the platform and one took a chew of tobacco and the other lighted the butt of a malodorous dead cigar he had been carrying.—New York Press. Safe Occupation. Bridget, the pretty young maid of all work employed in a Boston family, confided to her mistress when taking service that she had lately become engaged to be married. She stated, however, that she and Tim would have to wait two years, and in the meantime she wished to be earning money. When Tim made his first call, one evening, the family remarked that they had never known so quiet a man. The sound of Bridget's voice rose now and then from the kitchen, but Tim's words were apparently few and far between. "Tim is not much of a talker, is he, Bridget?" said the mistress of the house the next morning. "I should scarcely have known there was any one with you last evening." "He'll talk more when we've been engaged a while longer, I'm thinking, ma'am," said little Bridget. "He's too bashful yet to do anything but eat, ma'am, when he's wid me!"—Youth's Companion. Would Pension Harrison's Widow. The friends of Benjamin Harrison's widow are preparing to ask congress to vote her $5,000 a year pension, the same amount as is now being drawn by Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Garfield. Opposition is likely to develop on account of the fact that Mrs. Harrison did not marry the general until he had ceased to be president. It is thought, too, that Russell B. Harrison will be against the proposition, and will declare that his father never expected such a pension for his widow. It will be remembered that General Harrison's children have had no communication with their father since he married the second time—Chicago Chronicle. UNABLE TO STAND FOR MONTHS BECAUSE OF SPRAINED ANKLES. Among the thousands of voluntary endorsements of the great value of St. Jacob's Oil for sprains, stiffness and soreness, is that of Mrs. G. Thomas, 4 Alexandra Road, Gelli, Ysbrod, near Pontypridd, South Wales, who says: "It is with great pleasure that I add my willing testimony to the invaluable excellence of your celebrated St. Jacobs Oil, as experienced in my own case. I sprained both my ankles in walking down some steps so severely that I was unable to stand for several months. The pain I suffered was most severe and nothing that I used helped me until I applied St. Jacobs Oil, when they immediately became better daily, and in a short time I was able to go about, and soon after I was quite cured. I am now determined to advise all persons suffering from pains to use this wonderful remedy, which did so much for me." Mrs. Thomas does not enlighten us as to what treatment she pursued during the months she was unable to stand, and during which time she was suffering so much, but we venture to suggest that had she called in any well-known medical man he would have at once prescribed St. Jacobs Oil, for it has conquered pain upwards of fifty years, and doctors know there is nothing so good. The proprietors of St. Jacob's oil have been awarded twelve gold medals by different international exhibitions as the premier pain-killing remedy of the world. The committees who made the awards were in each instance composed largely of the most eminent medical men obtainable. Mrs. Thomas evidently did not know the high opinion in which St. Jacobs Oil is held by almost every progressive medical man. Flower Culture Flower culture is no longer looked upon as a mere amusement nor is it followed merely for the love of the beautiful, and florists are becoming flower farmers who raise large quantities of perfumes. The government is encouraging this movement, and the department of agriculture calls attention to the fact that in the southern states are found exceptionally favorable conditions for this profitable industry. California, too, it is thought, could produce the essential oil, or attar of roses on an extensive scale to great advantage. According to official authority an acre of ground will produce 1,500 pounds of rose petals, from which five ounces of the attar may be distilled, and this quantity is worth on the market $45 to $85. The rose water which remains amounts to 300 gallons to the acre, which is worth from 75 cents to $1 a gallon. Lavender gives a net profit of $100 to the acre. Pure lard saturated with the scene of flowers—pomade—is worth $6 to $7.50 a pound. Cologne of the finest quality, obtained by soaking the pomade or saturated lard in alcohol, is worth all the way up to $17 a pint. Other perfumes are equally profitable.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. Geronime. Geronimo, who has had more crimes laid to him than any other Indian warrior, is a good Indian these days, and leads a quiet and peaceful life. He is now a prisoner at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the officers allow him all the privileges possible under the rules governing prisoners of war. Although a prisoner he is paid $35 a month as a government scout, but is not allowed to carry a loaded gun. He has no work to do, and spends much of his time making bead work and other fancy articles, which he sells to white visitors. Out of this trade, it is said, he makes $2,000 a year. When the old warrior is asked if he has saved any money, he says: "Me no save any money—me spend it on squaws and heap gladness." By squaws he means wives, and he has several, but he does not live with any of them, preferring a tent in summer and a grass wicklup in winter. Geronimo is said to be 80 years old. He does not know his age. He was with Victoria when that chieftain went against the Mexicans.—Detroit Free Press. 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. made by the West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio 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 No per bottle. Sold by all druggists Hall's Family Pills are the best. The "Literary Digest" is a weekly periodical which aims to sum up all periodicals into one, giving the gist of every side of every question in controversy with impartiality and telling just what busy people want to know. Will Carleton's magazine, Every Where, seems to have demonstrated what, to many, seemed impossible that a strictly first-class magazine could be produced for fifty cents a year. Most of the articles are short, and very much to the point. Oil in Texas Gulf Coast lands, any size tracts. Ten dollars up. Raise any crop. Cheap R. R. rates. Write for information. W. S. Swilley, Houston, Texas. More than 40 guides have been insured free against accidents by the Swiss Alpine Club, at a cost of over 12,000 francs. SASKATOHEWAN, WESTERN CANADA In a letter to the Reed City, Michigan, Clarion, Mr. Jas. G. Armstrong, of Meltford, Saskatchewan, says, writing on 27th May, 1901: "This is a fine country for a poor man, as he can go out on the hay slews and cut all the hay he needs. He turns his cattle out on the prairie, and when he is not using his horses he turns them out also. There is such an abundance of food, they never wander away. "A lady, who has lived here eight years told me that this was the original 'Garden of Eden'. I certainly would believe it, if we could only find the apple trees. But as it is, we have many varieties of fruit—strawberries, cranberries, saskatoons, huckleberries, red and black currants, dewberries, plums, red and black cherries, and red raspberries. All of these fruits grow wild. Then the flowers that dot the prairies, making them look like a real garden. We have eaten of the wild red currants, and they are equal if not superior to those grown in Michigan. We have sweet corn $7 \frac{1}{2}$ inches high. As the Western farmers are all done seeding, branding cattle and sheep shearing are now progressing. Wool is only five cents a pound, and many ranchers have on hand last year's clip. I enclose you a potato blossom, slice of new potato, which measured $6 \frac{1}{2}$ inches when cut. This is no fairy tale, as we are so much farther than Reed City. It is all facts. Come up and see. This has been truly called the 'garden of the west.' With fruits and flowers, lakes and streams, fish and fowl, beautiful rivers, tracts of timber and mountains, what more does a man want?" Information concerning all parts of Western Canada will be cheerfully given by communicating with the agent of the government of Canada, whose advertisement appears elsewhere. Woman Had Business Foresight When a woman gets married there are many things to be taken into consideration; but not all brides evince such business foresight as the heroine of the following story, told by the Rev. W. F. Sheridan to a writer for the Chicago Tribune. The bride was large and heavy, and the groom small and meek looking. Everything was regular. After the ceremony the bride explained her position. "You see," she said, "farm hands are mighty hard to get in this part of the country, and harder to keep. You get a good hired man and get him well broke in and the first thing you know he quits and goes off to town or somewhere else. Last spring I had a first class hand, about as good as I ever expect to get, and just when the season got right busy he up and quit me. "I just made up my mind that I wasn't going to be left in the same fix this summer, so here we are." The bridegroom had nothing to say at all. He just stood and smiled meekly. New Care for Rheumatism Hester, Mo., Dec. 16.—An unusual case which has recently come to light here is exciting the keenest interest among medical men. Mrs. Ellenor Guardhouse suffered for over forty years with Sciatic Rheumatism so severely and so constantly that her case has been regarded as chronic and absolutely incurable. At times the pain was almost unbearable and she could not rest day or night. Some months ago she was induced to try Dodd's Kidney Pills, a remedy recently introduced in this neighborhood. The immediate results were magical and she continued till she had taken eight boxes, and now she declares she has not an ache or pain left. She believes that she is completely and permanently cured and as she has not used the pills for some months and is to-day in the best of health the doctors who were at first skeptical are amazed. Pollite Sarcasm. Mr. Tightfist—'I'm always willing to help a deserving unfortunate. Here is two cents, now don't spend it for drink." Tramp—"Certainly not. If I don't buy a ticket to Florida I'll surely purchase a set of winter flannels."—Chelsea Gazette. In Winter Use Allen's Foot:Ease In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. Your feet feel uncomfortable, nervous, and often cold and damp. If you have Chilblains,sweating, sore feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. - Trap for Catching Insects Strong lights, with basins of petroleum below them, are used in France to destroy night-flying insects that injure vineyards. As many as 4,868 insects have been caught in a basin in one night. He asks three great gifts—Health, Wealth and Happiness. Then give him Garfield Tea; it brings Good Health, promotes Happiness and makes the pursuit of Wealth possible. Natures whose roots strike deep clear their own way, and win to light in growing.—Lost Tales of Miletus. If you like Mrs. Austin's famous Pancake Flour, won't you be good? Tell your friends how delicious it is. Over one-third of the manufactured goods which are made in France are the product of female labor. THE WOMEN'S SCHOOL Rev. Marguerite St. Omer Briggs, 35 Mount Calm Street, Detroit, Michigan, Lecturer for the W. C. T. U., recommends Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. 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Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Farm Workers in Cuba. The Havana Post estimates that 60,000 immigrants, mostly Americans and Spanish farm workers, have landed in Cuba in the last three years. The number also includes about 1,000 Chinese. Naturally people want to be WELL for Christmas, for nothing so promotes happiness and good cheer. Therefore, take Garfield Tea now; its uses are manifold; it cures all derangements of stomach, liver, kidneys or bowels; it cleanses the system and purifies the blood, thus removing the cause of rheumatism, gout and many chronic diseases. It is good for young and old and has been held in the highest repute for many years. Physicians recommend it. Strange powers of the world, that the moment we enter it our great conceptions dwarf.—Disraell. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. It is better to hit the nail on the head than on the finger. cured promptly by the use of MATT J. JOHNSON'S 6068. Try it. All druggists. There are several hundred Americans residing in Berlin. Help your wife to get breakfast easy, take home Mrs. Austin's Pancake Flour. Your grocer waits to supply you. Three new railway lines are projected in Turkey. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The burden of love is never too heavy. Rev. Marguerite S. Mount Calm Street Lecturer for the W. O. Lydia E. Pinkham's W. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — My twenty years brought me into hurl I have had plenty of opportunity and mothers who from want, ign but surely being dragged to death and irregularities of the sex. I be that Lydia E. Pinkham's Ve more women than any other agency Hundreds of women owe their life a fore, I can conscientiously advise sic St. Omer Briggs. $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE When women are troubled with weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement, ing-down feeling, inflammation of general debility, indigestion, and remember there is one tried and the Vegetable Compound at once remain. No other medicine in the world unqualified endorsement. No other of female troubles. Refuse to buy Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick She has guided thousands to hear JUST THINK OF IT Every farmer his own landlord, no incumbrances, his bank account increasing year by year, land value increasing, stock increasing, splendid climate, excellent schools and churches, low taxation, high prices for cattle and grain, low railway rates, and every possible comfort. This is the condition of the farmer in Western Canada—Province of Manitoba and districts of Assinibola, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thousands of Americans are now settled there. Reduced rates on all railways for homeseekers and settlers. New districts are being opened up this year. The new forty-page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. F. Pedley, Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada or C. J. Broughton. 9:27 Monadnock Block. Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, Toledo, O., Canadian Government Agents. Y GAME—For Home and Friends POWERS Card Book of Uncle Sam. 53 Cards, each with map of one of U.S. Possessions. Plays over 50 Improved Games, Instruct, interest and amuse. Complete map of all U.S. Possessions extra with each game. Sold by Dealers, or mailed on receipt of Price, 25c. Be first. Write now. Pub. by JAMES M. POWERS, Henry, III. Copyright 1901. POWER 53 Oats of U. S. P. Improve terest of all U. each gar mailed o Be first. Copyri DR.KNOBLAUGHS FISTULA.CURE FISTULA, POLL EVIL In 4 to 16 weeks. When just forming usually cures without discharging, in four weeks. Humane and easy to give. Price, 60 cts. By mail, 60 cts. Treatise free upon application CLOUSE & STAMM, Chemists, 28 STATE ST. GENERAL, NL. $100 REWARD For a case of Dyspepsia, and In- digestion that cannot be cured by un- Clarke's Bismo PEPSIN TABLETS. Safe and reliable. Price 15c and 50c, by druggists. samples free. Agents Wanted. CLARKS HEDICINE CO. Wamcorn, Ohio. Afflicted with sore area, use! Thompson's Eye Water PISO'S CURE FOR CURE WHEN ALL THE FAIL. Blist Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` Wild Animal Statistics. The number of wild animals destroyed in India in 1900 was 17,250, as compared with 18,887 in 1889. The snakes killed in the same periods number 88,232 and 94,548, respectively. There was a satisfactory increase in the number of wolves destroyed, which was 2,872, as compared with 2,357 in 1899. The bears destroyed rose from 1,585 in 1899 to 1,840. The tigers destroyed fell, however, from 1,570 to 1,314, and the leopards from 4,548 to 4,480. Wish All a Merry Christmas! And tell them of Garfield Tea, which cures indigestion and liver disorders and insures the return of many Happy Christmas Dinners by removing the cause of dyspepsia and ill-health. Sugar plantations are appearing in Mexico. A Georgia man has just started the cultivation of 12,000 acres, 120 miles from Tampeco. Good Mexican land produces 80 tons of sugar cane per acre. Many good physicians and nurses use Wizard Oil for obstinate rheumatism and neuralgia. It's the right thing to do. Of the 110,000 American soldiers who participated in the Mexican war, only about 5,000 are living. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are the brightest, fastest and easiest to use. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. One of the minor expenses of a locomotive is 100 gallons of lubricating oil a year. 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. In France duels are most frequent in winter; in Italy, in the spring. St. Omer Briggs, 35 Detroit, Michigan, C. T. U., recommends Vegetable Compound. My professional work has for the past hundreds of homes of sickness, and to witness the sufferings of wives inurance or carelessness, are slowly principally with female weakness believe you will be pleased to know Vegetable Compound has cured acy that has come under my notice. and health to you to-day, and, there- ck women to try it."—MARGUERITE VE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. A irregular or painful menstruation, or ulceration of the womb, that bear- of the ovaries, backache, flatulence, nervous prostration, they should true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's moves such troubles. He has received such widespread and medicine has such a record of cures many other medicine. Women to write her for advice. Health. Address, Lynn, Mass. CAPSICUM VASELINE A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache and sclatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household. Many people say "it is the best of all of your preparations." Price 15 cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO., 17 State Street, NEW YORK CITY. COLORADO Development Stock in Colorado Mines have made thousands rich from small investments Particulars free. W. E. Alexander, Denver COLORADO FIRE!—1,000 in Five Weeks!—Honest men, all ages, work among acquaintances. Territory at home. Chance of a lifetime. Fire test sells the extinguisher. Experience of years given our salesmen. CHICAGO FIRE APPLIANCE CO., Hollywood, Mn. Agents! 100% Profit selling Queen Brand of Furniture Boards. Call everybody; household access; restuff for $1.00 weekly guaranteed; others are making from $6 to $3 a day. Why not you! Sample free; write for someone. The Ohio Novelty Co., Mansfield, Ohio. BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale FOR CASH—a cash. Grocery Stock; Invoices about $2,000. Chance to step into established business. Located in best city in your state. Good reason for selling. 111 North Harrison, Alexandria, Ind. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecuted Claims. Late Principal Examiner U. S. 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EMIL ARNOLD, Real Estate and Loans. Woodstock, Ill. KANSAS WHEAT FARM FOR SALE. $40 acres of good wheat land in Sumner Co., Kas, the best wheat county in the world; 300 acres winter wheat, 1/2 goes with farm; small improvements; all good land. Price, $14,000. WHEELER, NEWMAN & Ct., Wheltita, Kas. IOWA FARMS Close to Stock Verde and packing houses at Sloux City, at right prices, on each farm. Lands to exchange for other properties so, Dakota and Nebraska ranches. With a Minn. cheap lands. Write for information. E. E. SELMSER. Sloux City, Iowa. McBURNEY, 115 Dearborn St., Chicago. FOR SALE—CHEAP FOR CASH, Prairie Lands on the Grand Prairie in Arkansas, in well settled community. Easy access to Memphis and St. Louis. Write for information. A. BOYSEN, 172 Washington St., Chicago. FOR SALE—Fine improved farm stock; adj. town of 700 people. J. O. McDameld, Gardner, Kas. FOR SALE—170 acres improved farm, Jay Co., Ind., $9,500, part time. T. M. WARNE, Amby, Ind. ARKANSAS Offers best value in good cheap land in the United States. Can sell good wild land $5 to $8 per acre, and improved farms $35 that rent for $4 per acre cash rent. Good corn, cotton, grass and stock country. Good class of people. Mild winters. Five years experience. Liberal terms. Guaranteed as represented. Write. E. B. BOYD, Indiana, Iowa MISCELLANEOUS. BOYS and GIRLS send for particulars. Your choice in Van's $1 collection for $500 VAN'S MEROANTILE HOUSE, Chicago, Ill. Worth $100: For 25c we will send a guaranteed cure for rheumatism and all stomach and kidney troubles. Hygiene Co., San Francisco, Cal. Your Ideas IF PATENTED Your Fortune Book and ad ad MAY MAKE vice FREER A. J. WKDDERBURN, Jr., Patent Attorney, Washington, B. C. Silk Remnants.—Big pkg, assorted pieces, with floss and patterna. 10c. B. ART Co., Beaver Springs, Pa. Christmas Gift FOR MOTHER: Pkg. self-threading needles; thread in dark; pleased all year. 10c. BLACKMAN SUPPLY CO., 1012 Diversity, Chicago. Lizzie Nagel will send you something mysterious. Hypnotism, financial success for you. It's free. Write to day, L. Box 301, Reading, Pa. MADAME ANNA ALPLANALB. The Celebrated Gypsy Palmist, has had a large business for 20years in America. Send for price and method to procure a mail reading. 3044 So. Fremont, Minneapolis, Minn. I CAN AND WILL Positively care Inflammatory, Muscular or Sclastic Rheumatism for $5. Full course of medicine sent on receipt of price. Free book and testimonials from people who have been cured. JOHN L. SECOND MEDICINE CO., 400 Inter-Ocean Bldg., Chicago, Ill., Desborn, cor. Madison. BABY'S Diaper Supporter brings comfort—saves labor; postpaid; 25s; agents wanted big profit. FIELD SOUVELT CO., Minneapolis, Minn. RHEUMATISM Relieved Immediately by Brown Herb TABLETS. Makes old people feel young; purely vegetable; 50 Tablets 25c. 225 Dearborn St., Rm. 511, Chicago, Ill. THE THEORY OF SEX SOLVED. Unnecessary to investigate Prof. Schenk's theory. 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A French preparation for the development and restoration of the female Bust, Neck and Form; guaranteed to enlarge the Bust 4 to 6 inches in from 30 to 60 days. Send 25c for trial box; sens in plain sealed package to any address; postage stamps accepted. MARVEL MEDICINE CO., 509-511 Cross St., Yipilanti, Mich. Mrs. J. H. Ramade, President. Mrs. J. H. Remaden, President. Ladies desiring pleasant home work, writing letters, mailing circulars, salary guaranteed. $35 per month, send stamp for p'tc'i. Mrs. Mary Hadow Brown, Camer, Ga. Responsible Man OF WIDE ACQUAINTANCE wanted as our correspondent, liberal terms to right party. It will not interfere with your present business but will put hundreds of dollars in your pocket. We will pay the way. For particulars address Finance Co., 308, 145 La Salle St., Chicago NOTICE TO POULTRYMEN. Hens will lay as many eggs in WINTER as in SUM-MER, if fed WINTER'S EGG FOOD. Samples sent free to everyone that will test it. For particulars SEND 10c for recipe of best cough and bronchial cure, can easily be made at home. Address E. HOMES, BOX 83, ST. LOUIS MO. Eagle Fountain Pen Retailer for $1.50, sent post paid on receipts of 25c. Morely Specialty Co. Chardon, Ohio. 25 Games complete with men and boards, 30c by mail. Barberton Supply Co., Barberton, Ohio. Christmas—Child's Silver Knife, Fork and Spoon, satin lined case, 30c; aluminum McKinley souvenir bookmark, 15c. BARNARD SUPPLY Co., 6719 Vincentnes Ave., Chicago. POULTRY, GAME, EGGS and VEAL Your freight or express agent, after consulting his Chicago agent, will tell you we are all right. Tags and quotation furnished free on application. BINDERS! FOR AGRICULTURAL PAPERS. Farmers need them as well as for their grain. 500 post paid J. H. SCHAKE CO., 29 Blake, Cleveland, O. MARRIAGE PAPER. Best Published—FREE. J. W. GUNNELS, Toledo, Ohio. THE MEDICATED CROUP NECKLACE Will prevent Croup in Infants and Children if worn around the neck at night. If disposed to croup it offers attack. Price 65 cents, 2 for One Dollar. FREE BY MAIL. "Coon, Good-Bye Dolly Grap," and 64 other latest popular songs by return form尔 Address C. HARDACK. 818 Salisbury St. St. Louis, Mo. GOLD MINER - Shares 2. Driving tunnel; will cut 20 minutes. Solid, reliable. Certificates make grand 圣诞礼物. Bank references. Statements and mineral free. GOLD COUP COMPANY. SOLAR ST. Denver, Colorado. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worm cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DATE treatment KREEK, DR. M. H. GREKE'S SONS. Box E. Attainn. Co. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 51, 1901. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Fagen. Citizens Brewing COMPANY ARCHER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. CHICAGO Telephone Canal 379 BARNEY BENSON, House and Fire Wrecking. MOVER of All Kinds of HEAVY MACHINERY. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. Not long ago Prof. N.-R. Leonard, president of the Mining College at Butte, Mont., feeling indisposed, consulted his physician, a German, very scientific and acknowledged as one of the leading men in his profession in Montana. The doctor advised Mr. Lebnard to work less at the desk, exercise more outdoors and take beer as a tonic, something the professor had never cared for. The doctor met his patient a few days later as he was leaving the college and stopped to inquire how he was feeling. "About the same," replied the professor. "Did you take beer as I directed?" inquired the physician. "Yes," responded the professor, "I took it a few times, but it became so nauseous that I had to discontinue it." "How much did you take?" "Why, I bought a whole bottle and took a spoonful before each meal" answered the professor. When Prof. Max Muller, as a boy of 12, was put to school in Leipsic, as he relates in his autobiography, he had an odd old teacher. Prof. Muller says: "Before beginning his lesson he used to rub his spectacles and, after looking round the half-empty class room, mutter in a plaintive voice, "I see again many boys who are not here today." When the same old master began to lecture on physical science he told the boys to bring a frog to be placed under a glass from which the air had been extracted by an air pump. Of course every one of the twenty boys brought two or three frogs, and when the experiment was to be made all these frogs were hopping about the lecture room, and the whole army of boys were hopping after them over chairs and tables to catch them. No wonder that during this tumult the master did not succeed with his experiment, and when at last the glass bowl was lifted up and we were asked to see the frog great was the joy of all the boys when the frog hopped out and escaped from the hands of its executioner." HINTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS, Somebody suggests that green vases are the best for table ware. All underground vegetables should be cooked in unsalted water. Pulverized pipe clay will clean white canvas, and is also an excellent polish for brass. All vegetables should go over the fire in boiling water. There is not a single exception to the rule. One pound of beans has more muscle, nerve and brain food, more heat and force, than six pounds of beef. In using canned corn for corn pudding, chop the corn thoroughly and the pudding will be more delicate. Raisins can be opened and the seeds quickly removed by allowing them to stand several minutes in boiling water. New linen may be embroidered more easily by rubbing it with fine white soap, which prevents the threads from cracking. To change the register from the side wall to the floor, particularly in a basement room, will be found to increase the volume of heat from a hotair furnace. The most successful way of using flowers on the table is to combine the blossoms with a little green, such as asparagus ferns in tall and slender vases and arrange these glass shafts among the other decorations. Never darn fine woolen undergarments with wool. It will shrink and pull out a hole larger than the original. Use instead loose twisted knitting silk. Darn loosely, and when washed the mended part has almost the same thickness as the knitted goods itself. Self-Supporting Pueblo Indians. There are about 8,000 self-supporting Pueblo Indians, in twenty-six villages, twenty of which have day schools, costing the United States not less than $20,000 annually, besides the much larger sum expended upon the boarding schools. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. "Right goods at right prices" applies to everything in our store. If you need anything in the jewelry line it will pay you to visit us. CHAS. H. BERN, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Optician 5116 Wentworth avenue - Chicago All kinds of Repairing. Miss Daisy Miller, whose father, C. O. Miller, is one of the wealthiest men of Stamford, Conn., is going out to Corea as a missionary. The Sultan of Morocco has seven lions as pets. These he permits to range the courtyards of the palace at night to act as guards to the royal harem. Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, has just chosen for its pastor Rev. Charles A. Schlegel, 23 years old and totally blind. Mr. Schlegel has every qualification for his work except his sight and is a fine musician. Miss Helen Gould has sent a library of 500 books to the public schools at Horse Cave, Ky., where the school children gave her a pleasant reception in the course of a recent visit to the south. President Roosevelt is said to be unnerved by only one thing and that is literary composition. Close occupation becomes irksome and debilitating to a man of robust build and sanguine temperament accustomed to be much in the open air. THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY. If there were no thorns in the path of life its roses would not be half so sweet. "Charity covereth a multitude of sins," but does it always cover its own design? Take things as they come—but remember there are lots of things that it will pay you to go after. Many a man's shiftlessness is due to the fact that his father bore down too hard on the grindstone when he was a boy. Hope may be the lodestone of life, but those who cling to its anchor must expect to sometimes trail through the mire. Possibly married men think just as mean things about women as old bachelor do, but they are afraid to say them. STAGE WHISPERS. Frankie Wallace, grandniece of Gen. Lew Wallace, made her debut at Tony Pastor's theater recently as a singer. Mrs. Patrick Campbell has accepted Constance Smedley's play of "Gypsy Marie," and will produce it during her American tour. George Boniface, the veteran actor, has become instructor in a New York dramatic school. Anything to stay on Broadway, you know. Clyde Fitch is writing the libretto of a musical comedy to be styled "The Infant Prodigy." Ludwig Englander will furnish the music, and Anna Held will be the star. Viola Gillette, the Salt Lake City girl who has made a Broadway hit as Prince Charming in "The Beauty and the Beast," although very young, has already played all over Australia and most of the United States. Strikers in Three Countries. During the year 1900, while the labor differences in England numbered 648, and in France 903, there were as many as 1,468 strikes in Germany. It is true, the average number of participants in each strike is not as large in Germany as in England or France, it being in Germany roundly stated 100, in France 250 and in England 300. Sprinkling Streets with Oil. Columbia, S. C., has been following the example of several California cities by sprinkling certain of its streets with oil. It has been found by actual practice that it costs about $36 per block, and that it not only settles the dust but makes a better road. American Who Dialiked Titles. A witness in the London litigation over the estate of the late W. I. Winans, formerly of Baltimore, testified that Mr. Winans was one of the most genuine Americans he had ever known. He declined to call peers by their hereditary titles, and even dukes he addressed by their Christian names. 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