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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. VII. For some fifty years England's imports have exceeded her exports, often in sums of over five hundred million dollars per year. The same is true in proportion as to Holland and Belgium. And these three nations have grown constantly richer. From 1850 to 1860 our manufactures flourished as never before—and increased over eighteen thousand in number, while we over-imported. From 1870 to 1880 we over-exported and our factories increased only seventeen hundred, while there was the greatest panic and breaking up of factories ever known. We now boast of our over-exports. We are exporting our permanent resources, such as coal, metals, timber and products exhaustive to the soil. Our forest are laid bare, our mines riffled, our soils impoverished. A century from now our descendants will gaze with wonder on the ruin we are wreaking. We act as though no one is to live there in the future. From the first settlement of our country it has been robbed to supply the necessities of Europe. And it has been going on ever since at an increasing rate. Government, instead of taxing exports lightly taxes imports. Exports like timber, coal, gold, silver, iron copper, cotton and tobacco should be heavily taxed, because they impoverish permanent resources. Never was any government so unwise as our own. Even we seem unable to get rid of the lands fast enough. The whole heritage of the nation is going into foreign hands. Even the railroads belong to foreign bondholders and whole states in lands have been voted to them!! HOLT. THE $65.00 WAS PAID TO US. Many persons have, within the last three or four months, asked us "if we ever received the $65.00 which was due us from Robert E. Burke and Fred E. Eldred for inserting Mayor Carter H. Harrison's cut in The Broad Ax along with a write-up of himself, and for printing seven thousand extra copies of the same March 30, 1901, containing the cut and write-up." In response to the above inquiry we are happy to say that every cent of the $65.00 has been paid to us; not by Messrs. Burke and Eldred. however, but by Mr. James A. Quinn, City Sealer of Chicago. Shortly after we began our fight on Messrs. Burke and Eldred for the money which honestly belonged to us, Mr. Quinn made a thorough investigation as to the truthfulness of our statements, and after he ascertained that we were not prevaricating he paid us the money out of his own pocket for the good of Democracy. Mr. Robert E. Burke and Mr. Fred E. Eldred may be honest and straightforward in dealing with white men, and their word may be better than their bond or as good as gold, but before we would again take their word for anything they must explain to us the reason why they refused or failed to attempt to adhere to the promise which they made to us during the month of March, 1901. Last week a large number of those who dabble in politics thought that Mayor Carter H. Harrison, ex-Mayor John P. Hopkins, Thomas Gahan, Wm. Loeffler, Robert E. Burke, James A. Quinn, Thomas Carey, Roger C. Sullivan, James J. Gray and many of the other high mucky-mucks of the Democratic party would all tumble into the same bed together, but it now appears that the harmony meeting failed to harmonize, and it seems that Robert E. Burke, as usual, occupies all the room in the political bed, which is causing much dissatisfaction among the gentlemen who believe that they are in the possession of some rights which R. E. Burke must be taught to respect. One thing is certain, Mayor Harrison cannot be elected President of the United States in 1904, unless he cuts loose from Boss Burke. Representative John E. Doyle, who is a faithful worker for his party, will be again returned to the legislature, this coming fall. J. M. HIGGINBOTHAN, THE CONTRACTOR, WRITES RESPECTING HIS CONNECTION WITH OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. REV. J. F. THOMAS, AND HIS BULL HEADEDNESS SHOWN UP TO PERFECTON. Julius F. Taylor, Esq., Editor of The Broad Ax. I hope you will allow me a little space in your paper, as there are a few things I desire to speak about. Perhaps you have heard of the litigation that has been going on between Olivet Baptist Church and her creditors, including myself, and that in Mr. G. M. Rogers' court on the 28th day of February, 1901, he found that the Olivet Baptist Church owes Jasper M. Higginbothan $6,580,66. Different people say to me every day or two: Why is it that the Rev. J. F. Thomas is so opposed to paying your bill, when he is not opposed to the other creditors? And a gentleman said the other day: I heard Elder Thomas say that "he hoped to see every creditor of the Olivet Baptist Church get paid but Higginbothan." And this gentleman said to me as many other persons have said: What is the secret about this church fight, he said, there must be something unfair about it, it looks so dark; it looks like a personal fight between you (Higginbothan) and the Rev. J. F. Thomas, at the expense of the church, thus spending the money for his benefit. The money that the people have given for the good cause of Christ, has been spent for naught. Now, Mr. Editor, I agree with the gentleman, but I never like to talk much unless I am crowded. A number of people have said to me: Higginbothan, you must be a good man to stand all of the mean and untrue things that Elder Thomas says about you and still you remain silent. I said I thought I would wait and see if he (Mr. Thomas) had sense enough to know when to stop, for I never like to say anything that might cast reflections on anyone. But four years have passed, and he still keeps up his unwarranted accusations, so I believe the public will agree with me and say it is time for me to break the silence. But I shall not consume so much space in your paper as to explain this church trouble in detail at this writing; but perhaps I may give a full explanation at a future date. But I will point out a few things thus paving the way for more. I will begin by saying I was the lowest bidder for the contract to build the Olivet Baptist Church in 1895. I took the general contract and built the structure to its present height; the trustees failed to make payments according to the contract and the work was stopped in August 1895. There was a large amount of money due and unpaid to myself and to the subcontractors. I kept them from taking severe legal steps against the church from 1895 till 1897. At that time I called the creditors together and succeeded in getting them to agree to accept notes and a second mortgage on the church running five (5) years, providing that the church would pay a certain amount of money by a certain specified time. But the trustees could not raise the amount of money required, so I loaned the trustees $400 to make up the amount and then the settlement was made with the subcontractors by the said mortgage and note running five years. I delivered the notes to the creditors and reported same to the trustees; but they did not make any settlement with me (Higginbothan), I was a good man when I stood between them and their creditors. I even indorsed some of their notes to their creditors. But as soon as this was done and I had loaned them $400, and carried out the settlement for them and reported everything satisfactory to the Rev. Thomas and the trustees. Then I guess the said Rev. Thomas thought that they had no further use for me. I guess he (Rev. J. F. Thomas) had it in for me, because I had refused to do certain things which he had asked me to do for him through my contract on the church, which I considered was base dishonesty, and I would not comply with his request. Then he said to me: "If you don't do for me what I want, I will make it hard for you before you are through." But I was firm and was not moved to do wrong against the church by his threats, and I purpose to stand for the right thing, for "He that is for me is more than those that are against me." But they refused to pay me the $400 that I loaned them when it came due. But the said Rev. Thomas told me to commence plastering the church. I asked that they pay me the money that I loaned to them, and then I would commence plastering the church, as the money was long past due and they had it on hand. But they refused to pay. Then I heard the Rev. Thomas say to a trustee: "I want you all to see that Higginbothan commences plastering this church at once." He then came to me and said: The trustees are preparing to take legal steps against you, but we are not agoing to pay you that bill. I said: Why not let the congregation settle this instead of going to court, as I belong to the congregation. I believe they will act fair, I said; that is the rule of the church. Rev. Thomas said: I know it is, but I purpose to run it this time, the congregation shall have nothing to do with it. You must do as I have said. Rev. Thomas then left the city, and I received three days' notice from the trustees in regard to starting the plastering, so after the three days' notice had expired I ordered material and started to work on the church. I was then informed that inasmuch as I did not commence within the three days' notice I should not do any work at all. My men were working and my material was in the church, so I placed a watchman in charge, and told him to allow no one in unless I was there. I left him in charge to protect my interests. The trustees came that night with warrants; they broke open the church doors and arrested the watchman. I came down to the church and they arrested me also. They took me to court, and the case was dismissed in my favor. Then I took out an injunction to keep them from interfering with me and my work, and I proceeded to plaster the church and finish the first floor. During this time Rev. J. F. Thomas had returned to the city; I said to Rev. Thomas in the presence of witnesses: "I am a member of the church, why not let the congregation settle this matter." I told him if he would let a full explanation be made before the congregation I would accept whatever decision they might make about paying my bill. Mr. Thomas said. "The congregation shall have nothing to do with it; we don't owe you anything," although I had the documents showing that they owed me over $5,000; so they went into court and said that they did not owe me anything, and asked for an accounting, and the case was referred to a master-in-chancery's court, and thus the litigation was continued and my claim has been sustained in all the courts so far. The Rev. Mr. Thomas said to me one day as follows: "Higginbothan, I know you will win this suit in the end, but it costs you money to fight in the court, and it don't cost me anything, for I have a congregation of 1,500 people at my back, and they will give money when I call for it." He then told me that "he was getting old and this was the last church that he would build, and then he repeated the same request and demand that he had made on me before, and he said to me: "It will be well for you to comply with my request, for when I start after anybody I throw him down or he must throw me down." Mr. Editor, I know you have heard his cowardly attacks from the pulpit. Why don't he act like a man and settle all differences. Now, Mr. Editor, I have only opened the way this time; I may have much more to say at an early date, and there are other persons that heard a certain conversation between the Rev. Mr. Thomas and myself; they heard his demands, and they say if it becomes necessary they will make affidavits and have them printed in your paper. Mr. Editor, you can see that it looks like the Rev. J. F. Thomas is fighting me (Higginbothan) on a personal matter at the expense of the church, and spending the peoples' money for naught. Is it not his duty as a Christion leader to set an example by preaching and practicing love to one another, unity of mind and peace in the house of God, honesty to all mankind, doing unto others as he would like to be done by. But instead of that, what does he do. Is it not a fact that he, the Rev. Mr. Thomas, takes delight in stirring up the people one against another, causing strife and dissension, sowing seeds of discord, and almost inciting to riot. Is that the way for a gospel preacher to do? It looks as though his principal object is to get all that he can out of the people for his own benefit. But I tell you that he may be able to fool all of the people some of the time, and he may fool some of the people all the time, but he can not fool all the people all the time. I will conclude by saying they have a different board of trustees now, and I hope that they are men who believe in dealing honest and fair with all mankind. It can be very easily proven that Rev. Mr. Thomas was not instrumental in getting the $15,000 donation for the church and that he don't control the money, nor the man that gave the $15,000. Neither was it through Rev. Thomas' influence that a certain man promised to finish the church. But it all has been done through a certain officer of the church, and this officer controls the whole affair. I am told that Rev. Mr. Thomas does not know where to find this man, and he can not see him unless this officer of the church makes the appointment for the Rev. Mr. Thomas to meet him, and that this gentleman said that he had great confidence in this certain officer of the church, and that he was willing to trust everything to this officer. Olivet Baptist Church should be glad to know that she has such an officer as that. You may hear his name called in the near future. The party who gave me this information stands ready to prove it at any time. Wednesday afternoon John Hampton, who roomed at the house of Mrs. Roselia Evans, 550 West 56th street, shot Mrs. Evans to death with a big revolver while she was working at the sewing machine. Mrs. Evans lost her husband a short time ago, and it is thought that Hampton wanted her to make love to him or become his wife, as he quite frequently escorted her to and from St. Mark's Church, 47th and State street. After Hampton had beheld what he had done he drank a large dose of carbolic acid and died from the effect of the poison at the Union Hospital, Englewood. Rev. J. W. Robineon was visiting Mrs. Evans and her mother, Mrs. Belle Ford, at the time the crime was committed. Mrs. Evans was only 25 years old and Hampton was 33 years old. William Peacock is the most logical candidate for congressman from the 7th congressional district. Mr. Peacock stands well with both factions of the Democratic party, and he does not believe he will meet with much opposition in the convention. There are now about thirty women pastors of Unitarian churches in the United States. John E. Treager, the popular coroner of Cook County, continues to conduct all the affairs of his office to the entire satisfaction of all the honest and decent people of this city and county. Lawyer Edward W. Cullen, Opera House Building, is being freely mentioned by his friends in connection with the nomination for one of the new judges of the Superior Court of Cook County. Edward Katzinger, who came very near being elected county commissioner in 1900, will without a doubt be selected by the leaders of his party to make the race for the same position this year. Alderman Charles Martin seems to have things all his own way down in the 5th ward, and it now looks as though he will have clear sailing into the city council. Lawyer Dan Morgan Smith, Jr., 225 Dearborn street, Temple Court Building, lately divested himself of his pretty mustasche and lovely whiskers, and the change causes Mr. Smith to look very handsome. Boston is said to have the foremost colored woman undertaker in the world in the person of Mrs. Theresa M. Roles. Her husband is associated with her in business. Hon John E. Owens, City Attorney of Chicago, is making a good record in conducting the affairs of his office, and as long as Mr. Owens stands by the taxpayers be can have the local support of The Broad Ax. It is said that Judge Edward F. Dunne will soon remove from River Forest to 44th street and Michigan avenue, and that he will immediately go into training to make the race for Mayor of Chicago in 1903. They say that S A. T. Watkins has log-rolled Gambler Jack Terrell because Terrell would not pay us the three dollars which he owes as subscription to The Broad Ax. M. J. Doherty, superintendent of street, may not be the handsomest man in the city hall, but he is clearheaded and his big heart generally beats in the right direction. Attorney John C. King, who is one of the ablest criminal and all around lawyers in Illinois, is bound to be chosen to wear one of the new mantles which are being prepared for the new judges of this city and county. City Electrician Edward B. Ellicott is one of the best experts in his line in this country, and the citizens of Chicago are very fortunate in having a gentleman like Mr. Ellicott at the head of its illuminating department. Mr. M. E. Austin, president of the Chicago and Indiana Coal Co., 2711 South Canal street, is a thorough business man and Mr. Austin is in every way qualified to serve the people as one of the commissioners of Cook County. An Indiana Negro refused to send his children to school because the teacher was a colored Democrat. This is only another fool who has come to light. No doubt the teacher was the most independent Negro in Clark County.—Ex. Sunday morning, Jan. 19, Prof. M M. Mangasarian speaks in the Grand Opera House at 11 o'clock, on "The Religion of the Ancient Romans." His lecture last Sunday morning on "The Gods of Greece," was one of the finest we have ever listened to. The K. P.'s will give a house-warming and literary entertainment at their headquarters, 2821 State street, Monday evening, Jan. 20. Col. R. A. Ware and the others who have charge of the affair, promise that it will be an enjoyable event in every respect. Mrs. Clara Powell, 3001 Armour avenue, very charmingly entertained the members of the Buffalo Whist Club on Thursday evening, and the dainty lunch served by Mrs. Powell was out of sight. Those in attendance were: Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McKnight, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Akin, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith, Mesdames Shelton, Clark, Lapsley, Wilkerson, and Messrs. Simms, Fletcher, Spriggs, Reed and Taylor. Robert J. Roulston, Esq., who is connected with the big wholesale grocery house of McNeil-Higgins Co., 27 South Market street, is thoroughly conversant with all the affairs of this city and Cook County, and he would make a first-class county commissioner. James O'Brien, the hardworking city gas inspector of Chicago, is a power in the political arena in the 19th ward and it will not do for anyone to think that they can run the politics of that ward without reckoning with Mr. O'Brien. Vices of the most shocking nature actually occur on the thoroughfares of London and yet no one takes any official cognizance of them. If the human world is not growing worse every day it is certainly not growing better and there is no middle ground. Ex. State Senator B. J. Maguire is laying low these days and continues to saw wood, but unless the boys residing in the 9th senatorial district watch the senator right sharp he will call their hands before they can prevent him from being re-nominated as the next state senator from the 9th district. Some say that Slim Jim Donohoe, would like to have the judicial lightning to strike him hard enough, so he could secure the nomination for one of the Circuit Court judges; but we do not think, however, that hungry Donohoe can land; but if he should The Broad Ax would feel like doing some chopping. Long Daniel J. McMahon, who passes as the attorney for the Board of Education wants to become one of the new judges of Cook County, but he will never land, and we predict that on the day of the convention Lawyer or Farmer Dan will have to mosey to the rear of the hall and sit down and ponder on what "might have been." Will somebody inform us where Editor Taylor of the Chicago Broad Ax was born? If he can fight in the pugilistic ring as good as he can in the pencil ring, he's a bird. We wonder whether he is saying facts about T. Thomas Fortune. The Times has been under the impression that Fortune was a leader of character.—The Times, Galveston, Texas. Brother Noble! It affords us much pleasure to state that we were born into, or came into this world at New Market, Va.; that we are fully able to prove everything which has been said in the columns of The Broad Ax in reference to the conduct of T. Thos. Fortune, while he attended the sessions of the National Negro Business League in Chicago. Captain John J. Bradley, D. J. Riordan, Harry J. Rogers, T. W. Mackey, John Nugent, Arthur McLaughlin, T. Vaughan, James J. McNarney and Wm. L. Gahan, are still inclined to put up a fight against Alderman Charles J. Boyd, but Alderman Boyd firmly believes that he has got all the boys on the dead run, that he can down the whole bunch on the day of the aldermanic convention. As an evidence that the big fish are gobbling up the little ones, business failures among the small merchants for 1901 show an increase of almos' nine per cent over 1900. This would appear that prosperity is just the thing for the trusts and monopolies, but for the small traders or business men it is the reverse, for the last class lost one hundred and thirty million dollars last year by endeavoring to buck up against the trusts. The Tilden Democracy of the seventh ward will give a grand reception and ball at Calumet Hall, 63rd street and Stoney Island avenue, Saturday evening, Jan. 25. Thomas P. Flynn, its president; James K. Finn, Alex McNeil, Joseph W. Errant, Oscar W. Eckland, M. J. Hishen, Edward T. Wade and the other officers and shining lights of the Tilden Democracy of the 7th ward will bend every effort to make the reception and ball a huge success. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Jatherson, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any he also can have their say, no 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 editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; into only one side of the paper. SUBSCRIPTIONS (advance): One Year.....$2.99 Two Months.....1.49 Advertising rules made known on application, address all communications to THE BROAD AX, 8640 ARMOUR AVENUE, CHICAGO. JULIAUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. It looks as if the old Yale spirit had got into the Harvard jug. King Edward will be crowned June 26 if his millinery is sent home in time. Anarchy is about to take its place where it belongs—at the head of the list of crimes. A 20-foot giraffe in Greater New York has obligingly absorbed the visible supply of influenza. One-eighth of the British empire's populatioin are of British descent; the remainder are ascending. The politician may always be relied upon to reflect popular opinion with prompt, unerring accuracy. Hate a big-souled man and he will forget it; despise him and he will remember it to his dying day. Gen. Lew Wallace expects to have his autobiography ready for the printer in the course of a few months. There are fewer orators in congress these days. The dry frost of increasing business nips the young jaws in the bud. There's to be another whisky trust, but there is no reason to believe that whisky will be put beyond the reach of the masses. Professor Garner has succeeded in teaching a chimpanzee two English words, but the brute never can remember them in company. The New Hampshire man who has a record of having sawed a cord of hard wood in an hour and a half must have some lovely lungs. If wireless telegraphy becomes general it will only be necessary to send up a kite to tap the information putting a girdle around the earth. The truly wise man groans under the burden of his wisdom. None will ease him of it, and none will stop to ask him where and how he got it. Conservative prophets predict that if the present year is more prosperous than last 1902 will make a better showing than did 1901. This is at least safe. Foreigners are requested to look the other way while the Chinese court enters Peking. Why not let the spectacle be enjoyed through smoked glasses? A St. Louis man and his wife provided a Christmas tree for their dog this year. Did Santa find any children's stockings hanging up in that house Christmas eve? The London Saturday Review puts the business of 1901 this way: "America had a boom, while England had three slumps." This is scarcely statistical, yet we fancy we can grasp it fairly well. The Mexicans are favoring the proposed Olympian games in Chicago. There was a time in Mexico's history when the Aztec kings settled their differences by resorting to a friendly game of what is now called football. San Francisco bay is to be tunneled to accommodate the traffic between opposite sections of the city which now has to go around. The distance is about five miles and the subway will pass beneath an island in the bay. Minneapolis Times: The Milwaukee ministers are engaged in a erusade against gambling and will carry the war into the municipal campaign next spring. They will interview every candidate on the subject and those that are not outspoken in support of the reform movement will be attacked from the pulpit. Some of the Milwaukee politicians will be subjected to a terrible strain. Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncelote have a most honorable ambition if they are seeking to settle all the questions in dispute between this country and Great Britain, with reference to Canada. The most serious question is that of the Alaskan boundary. Practical agreement, as we understand, was reached by the joint high commission on all other questions. But our British friends wished everything settled or everything left open, and as the commission could not get together on the Alaskan boundary, its deliberations were indefinitely postponed. Perhaps now settlement will be more easily attained. This country has whatever rights Russia possessed. It would seem that it ought not to be impossible to determine what those rights were. --- 2 YALE TO HAVE A STATUE OF NATHAN HALE THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AT P. HADDEN, CONN. THE CAPT. GREEN HOMESTead NATHAN HALE A CRAFTSMAN IN THE NATIONAL ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES WHO GAVE NO LIZED FOR MISCOURT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK SEPT. SAT. 1776 DIRECTED BY THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE UNITED STATES NATHAN HALE BY FREDERICK MAC MONIES. STATUE OF NATHAN HALE BY GHISSEM JARDELLI I The long-drawn-out controversy, which, at one time, was by no means devoid of bitterness, over the proposition to honor the memory of Nathan Hale by erecting a statue of him on the grounds of Yale University, seems likely to come to a peaceful end toward the last of this month, when, according to present indications, a bronze statue of the hero-martyr of the American revolution will be unveiled on the green, with imposing ceremonies. The statue decided upon is the work of William Ordway Partridge of New York. It has been completed in clay and will shortly be cast in bronze. Critics who have seen the statue speak favorably of it, and one of the number expresses the opinion that "it embodies more perfectly the spirit, and portrays more nobly the manliness of Nathan Hale, than any other representation of him in existence." This is high praise for the statue of Hale, by Frederick MacMonnies, which stands in City Hall Park, New York, and is one of the best examples of that accomplished sculptor's work. Mr. Partridge himself considers his statue of Hale his masterpiece. Modeling a statue of Nathan Hale was to Mr. Partridge a labor of love. The work, which occupied much of his time during a period of upward of two years, was carried on with an enthusiasm that never flagged. The finished and accepted statue has grown from two or three models. The sculptor had ever before him in his mind's eye the THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AT E. HADDEN, CINN. STATUE OF NATHAN HALE BY GUISSEM MORELLI picture of an heroic character, than whom he believes no other developed by the revolutionary war equaled, measured by the purest, loftiest ideal, and no other, in his opinion, is so sublimely beautiful and so worthy of the love and admiration of the American people. There is no authentic portrait of Nathan Hale extant, and the facial features and head which Mr. Partridge has put into enduring bronze are a combination of those of the venerable Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who is a grand-nephew of the revolutionary hero, and of a young man who, by mere chance, came to the sculptor's studio one day, and who, so Mr. Partridge declares, comes up to his ideal of Nathan Hale, and is imbued with the same high sense of honor and duty which characterized the latter, and enabled him to face death on the scaffold without flinching, and with those immortal words on his lips: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." This young man is described by Mr. Partridge as a Socialist, in the higher, Christian sense of the term. His home is in Pittsburg, Pa. He had read Mr. Partridge's "Art for America," and was so impressed by some portions of the work that he wished to become acquainted with the author. His visit to New York was for the purpose of gratifying that wish. A prolonged and unexpected stay was due to the fact that in him the sculptor had found what he had long sought in vain—a second Nathan Hale, an altruist of the altrulists, a man filled with the ambitions of Hale, imbued with the same humanitarian spirit, moved by the same no- --- ble impulses and aiming at the same high standard of morals which Hale had set up. And to add to the sculptor's joy, the young Socialist from Pittsburg was the counterpart of Hale in a physical sense. The latter, according to the best authority, was about 5 feet 10 inches in height. His figure was elegant and commanding. He had a full, broad chest, full face, light blue eyes, rosy complexion. He was an athlete. All this was true of the young man from Pittsburg. And Sculptor Partridge, figuratively, fell upon his shoulders and wept for joy. It has been practically decided that the Nathan Hale statue shall be erected upon the famous Yale Green, not far from the spot where, as a student athlete, Hale made the prodigious leap, the marks of which were for many years preserved and pointed out. Hale entered Yale in 1770. It is said that he passed the examinations with more than average credit, excelling particularly in reading, writing and arithmetic, and that he had an excellent acquaintance with Sallust. Cicero and the Greek Testament. His career at college was distinguished by good scholarship and good behavior. He was a great favorite with his class and with his professors, and made lasting friendships readily. The story of Nathan Hale's heroic service to Gen. Washington, in entering the British camp on Long Island to obtain information concerning the enemy's strength and movements which could not be had in any other NATHAN HALE A FRAITH IN THE REGULAR MARTY OF THE UNITED STATES WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 5691 349 1776 NO JOHN'S I HAVE GOT ONE END TO LIST NATHAN HALE BY FREDERICK MAC MONIES. STATUE OF NATHAN HALE CITY HALL PARK, N.Y. way, of his capture after betrayal by a traitor, and of his subsequent execution by order of Gen. Howe, are too well known to need repeating now. The place of his execution is believed to have been the Rutgers orchard, on what is now East Broadway and the heart of New York's ghetto. Where he was buried not a human being can tell. It is supposed that his sepulchre was an old burial ground just north of Chambers street, where the dead of the American prisoners were ignominiously thrust into trenches by their redcoated foes. If this be true, his dust must long since have been scattered to the winds of heaven, for business structures, including skyscrapers, now cover all that area. It is no credit to the American people that they have done so little to honor the memory of Nathan Hale. Indeed, as a nation, they have done absolutely nothing. As far back as 1835 a senator from Connecticut made a plea from the floor of the senate at Washington for the erection of a monument to Nathan Hale, but his words fell upon deaf ears. His own state of Connecticut has reared no shaft nor built other memorial. For a great many years a granite monument in the village cemetery at. Coventry, Conn., was the only one in the country, the only memorial of any description. There is now the statue in City Hall Park, New York, before referred to, and the old schoolhouse in East Haddam, Conn., in which he taught, preserved through the patriotism of Capt. Richard Henry Green of New York, whose grandfather was one of Hale's punils. There is also an excellent --- I statue of Hale, recently finished by Gluseppe Moretti, a well-known New York sculptor, which it is thought may be purchased either by the Sons or Daughters of the Revolution and be erected in Washington. Both the MacMonnies and the Moretti statues represent Hale as bound. Mr. Partridge is the first sculptor to model a statue of the hero with hands free. The cost of the Yale statue of Nathan Hale, including pedestal, is to be about $20,000, perhaps $25,000, when the statue is in place on the historic green. But a few thousand dollars remains to be raised. Mr. Peter Flint, '80, in making an appeal for further subscriptions. says: "The true spirit of Yale everywhere will rejoice in the coming of this statue, for it will be an inspiration to the youth of America and show how Yale rewards unselfish devotion to country and principle." The Origin of the Aquiline Nose. Dr. Louis Robinson has developed an ingenious hypothesis to account for the evolution of the aquilline nose, which, considering the organ entirely from its relation to the voice, he regards as its highest type. He contends that while primitive man was struggling towards civilization that by voice he could alone exercise influence, and that as a consequence a sonorous voice became of great importance to the aspiring and ambitious, who, by reason of this superiority in the struggle for existence, were able to maintain themselves and eventually pro- THE CAPT. GREEN HOMESTEAD STATUE OF NATHAN MALE BY MR. ORDWAY PARTNAGE duce an aquilline-nosed race. In support of his idea he calls attention to the North American Indians, the Maoris and the Zulus as being large-nosed, warlike and oratorical people, and further remarks that in the skulls in the British Museum the hollow sounding chamber in the upper jawbone, known as the antrum, is always of greater capacity in the skulls of short-nosed people than in those where this organ is of large dimensions. From this he argues that this cavity supplies in a measure the resonance afforded by the passages of a large nose, and that with the increase of the former there is a decrease of the latter, and vice versa, but that for oratorical purposes a nose voice is better than a cheek voice.—Philadelphia Times. Queer Street Names. Peerless street, in London, is a corruption of Perilous Pool. Golden square was originally Gelding square, and the name was changed at the wish of the inhabitants. Fetter lane has nothing to do with fetters, but only with fewtors, idle fellows, who once loafed in the neighborhood. Gutter lane, in the city, is really Gutheron's Lane. Duck's Foot lane, near Cannon street, should be Duke's Foot lane, being so named after the Dukes of Suffolk. Cannon street has nothing to do with guns, but everything with candles, which were made in it when it passed as Candlewick street. Man is a two-legged animal who tries to work all the other animals for a living. ANOTHER REMARKABLE CASE Which the Doctors Failed to Cure or Understand. A Medical man as a rule dislikes to acknowledge the value of a proprietary medicine—in fact, professional etiquette debars him from doing so. Yet there are many eminent physicians, those most advanced in their professions, who give full credit to the great curative properties of Vogeler's Curative Compound, from the fact that it is manufactured by an old and reliable company, proprietors of St. Jacob's Oil, from the formula of a brother physician, who to-day stands in the front ranks of the most eminent medical men in London, and on account of its intrinsic merit, it is largely prescribed by the medical profession; but, in the case which we are about to relate, the attending physician called it "rubbish," but, as it turned out, Mrs. Nettleton tells the doctor that "rubbish or not, it saved her life." Mrs. Nettleton graphically relates the particulars of her own case, which will doubtless be of interest to many of our lady readers: "I had been an intense sufferer for many years from dyspepsia, liver and kidney troubles, when a little pamphlet was placed in my hands, and, although at that time I had been bedridden for more than six months, I determined, after reading some of the wonderful terilmonials therein of cases similar to mine, which had been completely cured by the timely use of Vogeler's Curative Compound, to try some, especially as my doctors failed to even benefit me, and I had almost given up all hese of ever being well again. It is most interesting, and, in fact, marvelous to relate, that the very first dose of fifteen drops relieved me. It was not long before I was able to get up and about; three months from taking the first dose I was enjoying better health than I had been for fourteen years. I continued well until a few months back, when I was taken ill again, my troubles being dyspepsia and constipation. I had a doctor attending me for a month, but continued to grow worse, until I again found myself bedridden, when I bethought myself of my old medicine, Vogeler's Curative Compound, which I immediately sent for and took in place of the doctor's medicine; at that time I had not had a movement of the bowels for five days, but Vogeler's Curative Compound soon put me on my feet again—in fact, completely cured me a second time, but, of course, this attack was not as bad as the first, yet I fully believe I should not have been alive today had it not been for Vogeler's Curative Compound. If I had only thought to have taken it when my last illness took place, I should not only have been saved much suffering, but a $75 doctor's bill." Mrs. Nettleton said: "I have recommended Vogeler's Curative Compound for indigestion and eczema, and in every case it has proved a cure beyond a doubt. Mr. Swinbank, our chemist, has sent me the names of no end of people who have been cured by Vogeler's Curative Compound. By the way, the proprietors have so much confidence in this great London physician's discovery, that they will send a sample free to any person sending name and address and naming this paper." St. Jacob's Oil Co, 205 Clay Street, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Nettleton is a confectioner, in the Brighton Road, where she has been established many years, and is honored and respected by all classes. Her statements as regards Vogeler's Curative Compound may, therefore, be regarded as reliable evidence of its great value. The public, however, may look upon this remarkable statement as one of the many which we are constantly receiving from grateful people all over the world, who have been cured of various maladies by the use of this wonderful remedy, which is the result of an eminent physician's life-long experience. These people are nearly always representative and well-known citizens. The Growth of Nebraska. Nebraska was organized as a territory in 1854, and admitted as a state in 1867. The population as given by the 1900 census was thirty-seven times as large as that given by the census of 1860, the first in which the population of Nebraska appears in the United States census report. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York. Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Friend—"What, Pat, not learned to ride that bicycle yet?" Pat (who has been practicing for a week): "Sorra a bit, sor. Shure Oi can't aven balance meself standin' still, let alone roidin'!" PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are easier to use and color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. The first city incorporated in this country with a charter and privileges was New York, which was granted its papers in 1664. When in doubt use Wizard Oil for pain; both suffering and doubt will vanish. Your doctor and druggist know it. New York city is to have a children's theater, patterned after one in Boston, which pays good dividends. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUER. Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Nearly all the silk of Spain is produced in the province of Murcia. This year its value is about $270,000. Unique New Violin. The Stroh violin made its first appearance at a special concert given at the Prince's Restaurant, London, J. E. Muddock, who has furnished th following description of the violin's construction. The vibrations of the strings are conducted by means of an ordinary violin bridge, which rests upon a rocking lever to the diaphragm and resonator. The lever supporting the bridge oscillates laterally upon the body of the instrument, the end being attached to a diaphragm of aluminum by a small connecting link. The diaphragm is held in position between two india rubber cushions by means of a specially designed holder fixed upon the body of the violin by two brackets. Attached to this holder is the trumpet or resonator. The body or main support of the instrument is no way employed for sound purposes; it simply holds the various parts of the violin together and sustains the enormous pressure of the strings when tuned. The disk or diaphragm which represents the belly of an ordinary violin is perfectly free to vibrate, the result being that when the strings are set in motion by the bow, the bridge and rocking-lever vibrate V accordingly, and thus every vibration is transmitted to the diaphragm. The diaphragm sets in motion the air contained in the resonator, the resonator augmenting and distributing the same to the surrounding atmosphere. Lesson to Bankers. The Jewell County (Kansas) Republican tells a little story in illustration of the circumspection with which country bankers must handle their customers. A Kansas banker lost patience with the "dribble-drabble" business of a man who caused the bank a lot of trouble in bookkeeping, and the cashier told the man that his account was not desirable. In a little while the man died, leaving a large sum in life insurance, which was deposited by the wife in a rival bank. And a little later still she married the best customer the first bank had, and induced him to remove his deposit. And the lesson is that all banks should treat us kindly, for there is no telling how soon we may leave a lot of vengeful widows to deposit the life insurance elsewhere and marry away the bank's best customers. New Bahamas Stamp. Of interest to philatelists will be the announcement that a new postage stamp has been issued. It is specially designed for the mail service on the Bahama Islands and has been manufac BAHAMAS POSTAGE 1£ ONE PENNY 1¢ tured for the British government by Whitfield, King & Co. of Ipswich, England. The issue is of the 1 penny series, and while not remarkably ornate, is still, in a sense, artistic. The view in the center of the stamp is of a place locally known as the "Queen's Staircase." The picture shows the new stamp considerably enlarged. Mixed Relationships Lord Chesham, who kept his fifty-first birthday last week, was doubly connected, and in a curious way, with the late Duke of Westminster, who was not only his brother-in-law, but also his father-in-law, as Lord Chesham married his Grace's daughter by his first wife. Lady Chesham was, in consequence of this double alliance, sister-in-law to her own father, while the Duchess of Westminster became mother-in-law to her own brother. The duke was, further, grandfather and also uncle by marriage to Lord Chesham's children, while his own children by his second wife were at the same time his great-nephews and nieces. Florida's Orange Crop. The time is close at hand when Florida will ship as many boxes of oranges as she did before the great freeze of 1895—namely, 5,000,000 boxes. If it had not been for that disaster she would be shinning more than 8,000,000 now. Wilson CAPT. H. H. BODRYSH. After an eventful journey, extending over land and sea, Miss Olive Jones, a native of the arctic regions, arrived in Chicago recently. Olive came in a cage, and before the christening, which took place in Topeka, Kas., was only a plain, shaggy-coated muskox without title or name. The arrival of Miss Jones was heralded by the boom of cannon and a rousing reception because Olive is the only one of the muskox family that ever reached the United States alive. Miss Jones was captured in the far north by Captain H. H. Bodfish of Vineyard Haven, Mass. It was placed aboard a whaling schooner, and after NEW ENGLISH STAMPS With the new year in Britain begins the issue of the stamps of the new reign. The penny (two cent), which will become the most familiar, is a bright red, the authorities having gone back to the old color. King Edward VIL's head takes the place of Victoria's, whose portrait figured on the national stamp for more than sixty years, penny postage dating from Jan. 10, 1840. For the greater part of her reign the queen was represented by the single portrait taken in her youth. Opinions differ as to the design for the face of King Edward, and some find difficulty in recognizing the likeness. The present issue of stamps include the half-penny (green), the $2\frac{1}{2}$ pence (blue), used especially for foreign countries, and the sixpenny (purple), all having the same design, except that the $2\frac{1}{2}$ pence stamp bears its denomination in figures. The artist has idealized the face of the king. New Field for Women. In not a few of the granite cutting yards in Aberdeen, Scotland, female draughtsmen (or draughtswomen) are employed. This opens up a new field for female skill, and demonstrates once more that women are filling with con- Emperor Will Emperor William's Yacht Emperor William desires that his new yacht, now building in the United States, shall be christened by President Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, and at the New Year's reception at the Old Palace he requested the United States Ambassador, Andrew D. White, to ask the President to allow Miss Roosevelt to christen the vessel. Miss Roosevelt has consented. The contract made by Carey, Smith many trials and tribulations and the exchange of about 250 telegrams landed in San Francisco on Nov. 8. Olive spent several weeks in California, becoming acclimated, and then left for Chicago. At several places along the route receptions were held, and at Topeka the animal was christened by Miss Emma Kelly, known as the heroine of Alaska. Miss Olive Jones, daughter of Colonel C. C. Jones, acted as sponsor, and the animal was named in her honor. Olive is now snugly housed on the South Side, and takes kindly to the new quarters. The animal is $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ years old and a good specimen of the muskox family. Few of the animals are brought out of the arctic country alive, and on this account its owner prizes the specimen highly. He contends that scientists know little about the history of the muskox and will use Miss Jones for educational purposes. Coal Production. Of the world's annual production of coal-650,000,000 tons-more than two-thirds is mined in the United States and Great Britain. Coffee Consumption in Europe. In Europe the greatest average consumption of coffee is in Denmark, and the least in Russia. MOLTAGE DE VENUE ONE PENNY siderable success avocations which formerly belonged exclusively to men In England and France, if not in Scotland, lady architects are not uncommon, and display considerable skill in monumental drawing. The Amoor River The Amoor, the great stream of China and Siberia, is 1,500 miles in length, but for nearly nine months in the year is icebound. liam's Yacht & Barbe, naval architects, to construct an American schooner yacht for Emperor William of Germany, was let to the Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Company of Shooter's Island, Staten Island. The yacht is to be completed in time for next year's racing season. Special specifications made by the emperor are being carried out in the building of the vessel. 42 A great many of the citizens of East Walnut Hills are relating the details of how "Billy" Weiss, who presides behind the counter in John Smith's saloon at Woodburn avenue and Clayton street, was filmflammed, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. One day recently an old fellow whose face was adorned with typical hobo whiskers appeared in the place bearing a can in his hand. "Gimme five cents' worth of beer," he demanded. The foaming lager gushed into the bucket and filled it to the brim. The old fellow then produced a Canadian quarter of a dollar and tendered it to Weiss. The latter informed him that the quarter was worth but 20 cents, and gave him 15 cents in change. A half hour later the old man reappeared and asked for his Canadian quarter. "Let's see, how much beer did you buy?" asked Weiss. "Five cents' worth, and here's the nickel," answered the old fellow, laying a five-cent piece on the counter. Weiss tossed the nickel in the drawer and handed the customer his quarter. And now the question Weiss and his friends are figuring on is, how much did he lose? An Important Discovery. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 13.—A sensational statement is made by Mr. Benjamin Major, whose home is at the corner of Jane and Hurlbut Ave., this city. Mr. Major says that he has found a remedy which will positively cure all Kidney and Bladder troubles. He suffered himself for a long time with these diseases in the most painful form, and during his illness experimented with a great many medicines without getting any relief. Finally he tried Dodd's Kidney Pills, and to his great joy was cured completely. The statement he makes seems to have ample confirmation in reports being published every day of wonderful cures by this remedy. Easy Problem in High School To see objects at a distance of 100 miles the observer must be standing at a hight of 6,067 feet above the level of the sea. The rule is that the distance in miles at which an object on the earth's surface may be seen is equal to the square root of one and a half times the hight of the observer in feet above the sea level, allowance being made for the effect of atmospheric refraction. 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.; Waiding, 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 The per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Gallantry in Camden, N. J. A Camden (N. J.) man undertakes in the Philadelphia Record to give some advice on the proper method of assisting women who fall on icy sidewalks: "Stand before her, saying, with a smile and a soothing gesture, 'Remain perfectly still, please,' and then step gallantly to the rear, put your hands under her arms and raise her with a firm grip." TO THE GREAT NORTHWEST. The Wisconsin Central Ry. will take you there in proper shape. Daily trains at convenient hours leave Chicago from Central Station, 12th street and Park Row (Lake Front) for St. Paul, Minneapolis, Ashland, Duluth and the Northwest. Pullman Sleepers are attached, and meals in dining cars are served a la carte. Nearest ticket agent can give you further information. Jas. C. Pond, Gen'l Pass, Agent, Milwaukee, Wis. A Pueblo Indian Book. The Santa Fe has in preparation a book on the Indians along its lines. The material is being gathered and arranged by an expert ethnologist, and although the primary object of the publication is to advertise the wonders and interesting features of the Southwest the book is expected to have a definite scientific value and great care is being given to the accuracy of the subject-matter and illustrations. States with Low Birth-Rates Ontario has an abnormally low birth rate, lower than that of any European country, but not lower than that of some of the adjoining American states, notably Michigan and New Hampshire, the former being eighteen in 1898 and the latter nineteen in 1895. 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. Area Covered by India In 1890 the area of the national domain occupied by the Indians aggregated 116,000,000 acres; to-day it aggregates 85,000,000 acres, which is about as much land as we have in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. to cure Constipation, Stomach, Liver or Nervous trouble. To prove it ent this item out—it is worth 25c and send it with name and address to R. J. Sarasy & Co., Janesville, Wis., for a package of Trymi Tablets free. They are guaranteed to give satisfaction or money returned. Scores are daily testifying to and praising their qualities. Platinum is worth a great deal more than gold. SALZER'S New 20th Century OATS TEST YIELD 300 BUS. PER ACRE CLEAR THE TRACK! Here's the monarch—nothing Hail on earth. Salzer's New 20th Century Oats takes the oats, carries first prices as the biggest yielder everywhere. The fast in Salzer's oats are bred to produce. The U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture claims that eight of over 400 samples and kinds tested. Salzer's were the best. How do you like that, Mr. Farmer? Our new 20th Century Oats is bound to completely revolutionize oat growing and we expect dozens of farmers to report yields in 1300 running from 200 to 800 bushels per acre. Price is dirt cheap. Be in the swim and buy this variety this spring to sell to your neighbors the coming fall for seed. It will surely pay you. Salzer's Marvel Wheat—42 bus. per Acre The only spring wheat on earth that will yield a paying crop north, east, south, and west and in every state in the Union. We also have the celebrated Maa- rural wheat, yielding on our farms, 63 bushels per acre. SPELTZ The most marvelous cereal and hay food on earth, producing from 60 to 80 bushels of grain and 4 tons of rich hay per acre. VEGETABLE SEEDS We are the largest growers and our stock of earliest Pans, Beans, Sweet corn and all money making vegetables is enormous. Prices are very low. Onion seed 60 cents and up a pound. Catalogue tells. For 10c—Worth $10 Our great catalogue contains full description of our Beardless Barley, yielding 100 bushels; our Triple Income Corn, going 400 bushels; our potatoes, yielding 600 bushels per acre; our grass and clover mixes, producing 6 tons of magnesium hay; our Fen Oat, with its 8 tons of hay, and Tentacle with 80 tons of green fodder per acre. Salzer's great catalogue, worth $10 a year, white grass grower or farmer, with 10 farm seed samples—worth $10 to get a store—do mallled you on receipt of 10s. portage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., LA CROSS, W15C. FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND AT SAS.AATCHEWAN, WESTERN CANADA. A Michigan Farmer Visits Saskatoon and Is Well Pleased. Mr. S. K. Lent was a delegate sent from the farmers of Allegan County, Michigan, to Western Canada, to report on the prospects for successful settlement. His report is as follows: I went from Winnipeg to Edmonton, thence east one hundred miles by wagon. I found the country in that vicinity a rich, black loam, varying from 12 inches to 3 feet deep; the crops are simply something enormous; wheat and oats by actual measurement often standing five feet in height. I have been a farmer for forty years, and consider myself a fair judge of the yield of grain, and I saw wheat that would yield 50 bushels per acre, and oats that would yield 100 bushels per acre; not one alone, but a good many. As for root crops and garden truck, in no country have I ever seen their equal for all kinds except corn and tomatoes; the nights being too cool for these to ripen well. As a stock country it has no equal. East of Edmonton, on the head waters of the Vermillion River, I saw hay meadows containing from 10 to 100 acres, the grass standing 4 feet high, and would often cut 3 to 4 tons to the acre. From Edmonton I passed through some fine locations, namely, Wetaskiwin, Lacombe and other points. From McLeod I went to Regina, thence to Prince Albert, 247 miles north of the main line. For the first fifty miles is fine farming country, but the next hundred miles is more of a stock country. Then at Saskatoon, Rosthern and Duck Lake I found some very fine farming country, so good that I found a party of Americans from Minnesota buying land for themselves—one party buying 12 sections, and the other 20 sections of land for themselves, which they proposed to improve at once. I have traveled over twenty-three different States and Territories in our Union, and never in my life time have I ever seen such magnificent crops and especially as fine a stock country. In several Belgian towns dogs are being made use of by the police. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. It is easier to buy the good opinion of the world than to merit it. Don't Suffer From Rheumatism. Take MATT J. JOHNSON'S 6088. It is a positive cure. Try it. All druggists. Don't worry—and try not to make other people worry. WHEN YOU GO TO BUY BLUING, Ask for Russ Bleaching Blue. Made by The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Beets yield 12 to 13 per cent of their weight in sugar. Miss. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.' For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. So a bottle. A cool head is better than cold feet. WESTERN CANADA'S for 1901 now the talk of is by no means phenomenal. The Province of Manitoba and districts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and Alberta are the most wonderful grain producing countries in the world. In stock raising they also hold the highest posi- hold the highest position. Thousands of Americans are annually making this their home, and they succeed as they never did before. Move Westward with the tide and secure a farm and home in Western Canada. Low rates and special privileges to homeseekers and settlers. The handsome forty-page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. Apply for rates, &c., to F. Pedley, Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton, 927 Monadnock Block, Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, Toledo, O., Canadian Government Agents. Development Stock in Colorado Mines have made thousands rich from small investments. If you buy stock of the par value of $1.00 per share at 15 cents during the development period and the property pays a dividend of only one per cent. per month you are receiving nearly Seven Per Cent. Per Month on the money you have invested. We have proposition that we think will do better than a one per cent. dividend as the development progresses. Particulars free. W. E. ALEXANDER, Denver. COLORADO Hard on the Children. According to a decree of the Prussian minister of education, just published, children in Germany will have to be most careful in addressing letters to the kaiser in future. Apy requests for stamps, dolls, and similar articles are to be severely punished by the school authorities. Forests cover one-tenth of the surface of the world and one-quarter of Europe. ALWAYS USE RUSS BLEACHING BLUE, acknowledged the leading bluing. Made by The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The first gray hair is bad enough, but the last one is a good deal worse. MISS BONNIE DELANO A Chicago Society Lady, in a Letter to Mrs. Pinkham says: "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Of all the grateful daughters to whom you have given health and life, none are more glad than I. "My home and my life was happy A MISS BONNIE DELANO. until illness came upon me three years ago. I first noticed it by being irregular and having very painful and scanty menstruation; gradually my general health failed; I could not enjoy my meals; I became languid and nervous, with gripping pains frequently in the groins. "I advised with our family physician who prescribed without any improvement. One day he said.—"Try Lydia Pinkham's Remedies." I did, thank God; the next month I was better, and it gradually built me up until in four months I was cured. This is nearly a year ago and I have not had a pain or ache since."—BONNIE DELANO, 3248 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Ill.—$5000 forfeit if above testimonial is not genuine. Trustworthy proof is abundant that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saves thousands of young women from dangers resulting from organic irregularity, suppression or retention of the menses, ovarian or womb troubles. Refuse substitutes. $3.00 W·L·DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE. BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST HOE MAKER. Stores and the best shoe dealers everywhere. CAUTION! The genuine have name and price on bottom Notice increase of sales in table below: 1900 mm 749,700 Pairs. 1899 = 898,182 Pairs. 1900 = 1,259,754 Pairs. 1901 = 1,566,720 Pairs. Business More Than Doubled in Four Years. THE REASONS: W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two man's in a world. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes placed side by side with $3.00 and $3.50 shoes of other makes, found to be just as good. They will outwear two raids of ordinary $3.00 and $3.50 shoes. Made of the best leather, including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo. Fast Color Epilogue and Always Black Hooks used. W.L.Douglas $4.99 "Gilt Edge Line" cannot be equalled. Shoes by mail 25c. extra. Catalog free. W.L.Douglas, Brockton, Mass. [Afflicted with Thompson's Eye Ware.] sore areas, use 20th Century OATS BUS. PER ACRE EAR RACK! March—nothing Ozner's New 20th the oak, carries first or everywhere. The first produce. The U.S. Depart- ment of over 400 samples and is born. How do you like that? Ozner Oat is bound to completely protect dozens of farmers to report 800 bushels per acre. Price is very this variety this spring to sell to L. It will surely pay you. at—42 bus. per Acro field a moving crop north, east, south. At all stores, or by mail for the price HALL & RUCKEL, NEW YORK. CAPSICUM VASELINE A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The palm-alaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache and sclation. 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 16 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. A Chance of a Lifetime For the small sum of $5 I will mail to any address four of the most valuable formulae for Neuralgla, Cramp or Colle. Whooping Cough, and Pain Killer and 1 formula for Preserving Eggs that will keep fresh for one year. All five formulae for $5, or any one at $2 aplece. Send money by postal order or express money order. Address FREDERICK G. W. POOCK, 221 Bottin St., Dayton, Ohio REAL ESTATE For Sale in the Ozarks, cheap homes, fruits with stamp, GEO. T. MEADOR, Cabool, Texas Co., Me. For Sale FARMS, RANCHES, timber and prairie lands in Prairie Co., Arkansas, in tracts to suit. C. L. BOWMAN, Hazen, Prairie Co., Ark. Buyer's Guide Send for my list of fine FARMS and RANCHES in Lyon Co. L. A. GRIMSLEY, Bushong, Kan-as. Farms For wheat, corn, fruit, stock growing, for sale, $10 to $80 per acre, in Reno, the best Co. in Kas.; also 6% for mortgages. Citizens' State Bank, Arlington, Kansas. 22 years here. Write. MONTANA RANCH PROPETIES are better than GOLD MINES. State amount to invest. JOHN SHOBER, JR., Helena, Mont. SCAMLON & McKENNEY, Bradley, S. Dak. have well improved FARMS and wild lands, well located in Clark County, So. Dakota, near towns, schools, churches and creameries, that they are selling on 14 cash payment, balance on or before five years' time. Write them for prices and information. three miles southwest North Judson. Ind. Good buildings. Over one-half under cultivation; balance timber and meadows. Easy terms. Write for price. Might take part pay in unimproved Western lands. F. C. JOHNSON. Kishwankwee. III. We have several thousand acres for sale in eastern Morton and other North Dakota Cos. Rich native grasses; where corn grows. Pure water in springs, streams and wells; price $4.50 to $7.50 an acre, rich black soil. Free homestead land adjoining. Native coal $1 per ton. Excursion rates. WM. H. BROWN & CO., Devils Lake, N. Dakota. 155 La Salle St., Chicago. FARMS and STOCK RANCHES for sale in Iowa, Neb., Minn. and So. Dak. The Union Land Co. 403 Fifth St., Sioux City, Iowa. AGENTS Salesmen Wanted—Salesmen for other white lead companies make $50 per week; they can make $100 with us. Prop sition attractive to dealers. Inducements offer sell lead; no experience necessary. Premium White Lead Co., No. 122 N. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo. AGENTS WANTED to sell our PILE CURE, 50e; box given free. Glint Edge Remedy Co., Marshall, Mich. $20 A WEEK Stralight salary and expenses to men with rig to introduce our Ponity Mixture in country; year's contract: weekly pay, Address, with stamp, Monarch Mfc. Co. Box 1572 Springfield, Ill. "NO-TIE" SHOE LACE Agents Wanted. Novelty and comfort combined. Try a pair; you will never do without them. Postpaid 5 pair for 25c. "No-Tie" Shoe Lace Co., 100 W. 57th St., N.Y. City. MISCELLANEOUS. PATENTS OBTAINED AND SOLD IN ALL COUNTRIES. Over 1,000 active salesmen. Ask for Gold Book. W. X. STEVENS, 626 F St., N. W., Washington, D. O. SEND 10 Cents for 26 PENS. Agents Wanted. NICKELOID PEN CO., Box 302, New Haven, Conn. WANTED LADIES OR GENTLE-MEN to write at home. Can earn $20 to $100 per month, according to work done; no fake; work paid for as done and no waiting a month; must enclose stamp, addressed envelope for particulars. WILLIAM H. FINCH, Fort Lawn, S. O. Wanted—FOLKS TO WRITE—Can make $50 per month. Address with stamp. MISS ROSA FISHBURNE, Sally, S. C. ORIENTAL Dancing Girl, pat. novelty, sent b. pd. for 20c. B. ANDERSON, Morton Park, III. CASH PAID for unused misprinted Postal Cards and stamps. We buy old stamps a collections. Ill. list for 2c. Hussman Stamp Co., St. Louis, Me. Our Special Offer The biggest hit in music of the season. "Me. inlay Memorial March!" The Police Patrol March and two- step, Pride of the Century, Waltzes, 2 copies for 25c. United States Music Co., Williamport, Penn. PAST and FUTURE Ravealed Readers I give COME TRUE as THOUSANDS TESTIFY. Send date of birth and 10c for trial reading. L. THOMSON, Dept. 87, Kansas City, Mo. FREE! FREE! A $3.00 HARP ZITHER, or a $4.00 Harp-O-Chord. Send no money, but simply send your address on postal card, also send the names of three friends in other towns who would like an instrument free. W. C. THEDE, Moline, Ill. WILL purchase coal mine, electric light plant, rail- road, $600,000 to $800,000. Box 300, Omaha, Meh. PILES and diseases of rectum cured at homes now script sent free. Kohnite Infirmary, Neoga, Ill. Matrimonial Register SEND for latest issue and communicate with hundreds of correspondents. Copies 10c. Address Register Pub. Co., 809 Lippincott Bldg., Phila., Pa. CORNS, BUNIONS, INGROWING NAILS. Hard and soft corns absolutely cured and all excesses removed from bunions. No Need to Suffer with those you have or allow others to form. Pimples, Bone, Cold Bones also scattered by the same SAFE, SURE, SIMPLE method. Full remedy with directions, in plain safety mailing tube, postpaid to any address on receipt of $1. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Address, S. S. S. REMEDY CO., Geneva, Ill. LADIES YOUR MOUSTACHE is a blemish and unsightly. AFA WILL REMOVE IT and all superfluous hair on face or body without pain or injury to the skin. Price $1.00. Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE AFA LABORATORY CO., Dept. C., 93 East 19th Street, New York. Typewriters Send for catalogue of FRANKLIN TYPE- WRITER, a visible writer, price $7.50 sold by Cutter Tower Co., 225 Dearborn St., Chicago. 6% First Mortgages To parties who wish to invest their money safe, I can offer some choice First Real Estate Mortgages, located in best portion of No. Dakota. Highest rets, Correspondence solicited. H. J. Haakamp, Bloben, M. D. "PRINCESS LACE LOOM," complete $8 Book, 19s; Lecs Thread, 500 Yard Spools, 10s. E. J. GEOTE, Agt., 507 Oriel Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cure worse cases. Book of testimonials and 10 BAYT treatment FREE. BE. M. E. GRIPE'S 9988, Ben R. Atlantic, Co. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 3, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Mindly Mention This Fager. PISO'S CURE FOR COUPS WHERE ALL FINE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tasting Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION For the year 1901 are now due and payable at my office, 259 North Clark Street. By paying your taxes to the Town Collector it is a direct benefit to you, as 2 per cent. of such collections goes into the Town Treasury to be used solely for town expenses. JULIUS SALOMON, Collector Town of North Chicago OFFICE: 259 NORTH CLARK STREET. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. The Recorder of this city does not miss it much when it says that the several hundred Negro Democrats received greater consideration at the hands of the Democratic party than the 6,000 Republicans do at the hands of the Republican party. It is very strange that after getting all the choice offices by means of the Negro votes that the party seems so backward about considering the colored voter.-The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. Notwithstanding the above facts just before each election The Freemap is the very first newspaper to brand every Negro who asserts his manhood and political independence as a traitor to his race, if he refuses to shout or vote for the G. O. Lily White Party of God and boodle. BELIEFS ABOUT ANIMALS. To kill a spider on one's person means ill-luck. If a bee stings, kill him and the wound will not swell. If a cat washes her face it means that visitors are coming. Superstitious New Yorkers carry a small round veal bone for good luck. The back tooth of a hog and the blood of a black hen have curative powers. In ancient Egypt cats were deified and in India a sacred character was and is attributed to cattle. A black cat crossing one's path foretells disaster, but a cat coming to the house is an omen of good import. In Massachusetts the most common talismans are the claw of a crab and the left hind claw from a crow's foot. In Texas, superstitious people carry a small bone from a fish's head, but the luck only comes after the charm has been lost. The neigh of a horse is a portent of death, which will come from the quarter to which his head is pointing when he neighs. A curious and inexplicable proverb says: "It is good luck to see Mr. Elephant swing on Mr. Rabbit's eyetooth at the Three Nights' Ball." In New England the sailors carry as a talisman a bone taken from a living turtle, a pebble from a fishhawk's nest, or a small bone from the head of a cod. In Newfoundland and Labrador cramps are said to be guarded against by carrying a cod's head or a bone from a haddock caught without touching the boat. The hair of a dog, the skin of a snake, and the pelt of a black cat are believed to contain medicinal qualities, while the handling of a toad is said to give warts. In the fall, when the apples lie on the ground, the porcupines come out of the woods and roll under the trees till they are covered with apples, when they retire to the forest and eat their plunder at leisure. In Lincolnshire the belief is current that the wearing of a toad's breast bone commands the obedience of all animals. To keep witches away they stick an animal's heart full of pins and keep it in the house as a talisman. In Maryland if one is walking at night and a spider web brush the face it is supposed to mean that a ghost is following, but in the daytime it tells that a stranger is coming. It is widely believed in Maryland that a horse has the power of seeing ghosts. Among German Canadians a white spider crawling toward one, the howling of a dog, the neighing of a horse, the sight of a snake, are portents of death. The killing of a toad or the crowing of a hen foretslls rain. 'If the wild geese fly high look out for a gale." The crow in Asia Minor is looked upon as unlucky, and the children cry when they hear him cawing, "Eat your head whole!" The crow, in fact, has the distinction of being almost the only member of the animal kingdom who has a sinister reputation in all lands. Even the snake fares better. In Asia Minor when children hear an owl hooting from the cypress groves they cry, "Good news for us; good messages for you." If they catch an owl they hold it up by the beak and chant: "Palm Sunday owl, how does you mother dance?" The meaning of this rite is lost, but the habit lingers. In Turkey the partridge is detested because once it betrayed the prophet to his enemies, and its legs are red because they were dipped in the blood of Hassan. If a man kills a panther he is imprisoned for twenty-four hours and then is handsomely rewarded. The crane is respected and it is a crime to kill it. In Poland the goat is considered the best harbinger of luck, while the wolf, crow and pigeon are looked upon as unlucky. The skin of a cat worn on the chest is alleged to cure consumption. "To cure cataract in the eye take a black cock, make him look at the sun, look at it yourself, then throw the cock on the ground, jump on a fence and crow three times." Kentucky negroes consider that the caterpillar brings fever.—The New York Times. TIME TELLS Men many tales which cut deep scars in the heart. Men how easily they are deceived by women's wiles. Men where they have wasted many precious hours. Women what a strange composition is the human race. Women that happiness rarely comes from self-adulation. Men how many mistakes were made through self-conceit. Men where have been sown the seeds which bear good fruit. Women how transient is the existence of beauty of face. Women what a hollow mockery is another woman's flattery. Women what a bleak existence comes with money without love.—Philadelphia Bulletin. SAGE REFLECTIONS. The woman who knows how to broil a steak doesn't need to read magazine articles on how to make a happy home. The finest Christmas present ever put in a stocking is what prudish people won't call by name without pretending to blush.—New York Press. Ask your dealer for Sunday Creek No. 19 HOCKING The best for domestic use. For Sale by THE JONES & ADAMS CO. Anthracite and Bituminous Coal 47th St. and Wabash Railroad, Strictly dealers' yards. HALL & RAWLINS and Undertakers Embalmers AND LIVERY 4838 State Street CHICAGO Bid estimates and Special- oents Pursued . . . Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C. J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards 914. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO. MRS. LIZZIE N. RANDELL Dressmaking and Plain Sewing..... 4836 State St. CHICAGO FOR BARGAINS IN Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishings and Shoes GO TO THOMAS & HARRIS TWO BIG STORES 5101-3 Wentworth Ave. 5650-4 S. Halsted Street GUS GEBHARDT Boots, Shoes and Rubbers No. 5046 SO. STATE STREET CHICAGO Repairing neatly done NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS. The decisions of the United States Court on these subjects are interesting. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to renew their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the postoffice to which they are directed, they are responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without informing the publisher, and the papers are sent to the former address, they are held responsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to take periodicals from the office or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. 6. If subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give notice at the end of the time if they do not wish to continue taking it; otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it, and the subscriber will be responsible until an express notice, with payment for all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. Don't imagine that all hair preparations are alike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has been on the market for so long that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use on their hair. It is most delicately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fall to cure dandruff and make the hair straight, soft and beautiful. It invigorates the scalp producing new growth and stops the hair from falling out. Try a bottle and you will be sure to be pleased. Only 50 cents, express paid, to any address in the United States. Druggists also sell it. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. ```markdown ``` A. D. G.ASH, Attorney at Law. 64 and 83 La Calle St., Suite 615 to 618. Telephone, Main 8077. Chicago JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 50 S. Clark Street, - - CHICAGO WILLIAM L. GAHAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Suite 1402, 100 Washington St. 'Phone Central, 3341. CHICAGO JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER SUITE 706—708 CHICAGO OPHEA HOUSE CHICAGO Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St, Down Town Office 260 S. Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 2533 Harrison. Telephone Yards 70 W. Residence, 110 Gurfield DQ, JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 6797 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Room 402 Reaper Block, CHICAGO S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 706 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — Tel. M. 2025. — Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 200 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2533. CHICAGO. THR. MARRISON 51. Thomas F. Souly, Attorney at Law, 79 Clark Street, . . . CHICAGO. Room 14. BROOKLYN, 954 Turner Ave. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 720 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. TELEPHONE MAIN 1762. G. E. EVANS. Dealer in All Kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL, Wood, Charcoal, Coke and Ice, Expressing and Moving a Specialty. 332 29th St. Chicago, Ill. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight at showers there. It nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Sewar of instructions. Get the Original Opened Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for indies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its soft and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only &$ cents. Sold by drugstores and dealers or send us &$ cents for one bottle, or &$ for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 70 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Read and subscribe for The Broad Ax, the only newspaper in Chicago which "news to the Lines." --- Waiting for Business Is very poor business. The only way to do business in a business-like way is to make business. If you are in business and are not satisfied with the volume of business you have been doing, we would suggest that you take the business advice of one who makes it his business to make business for others. Your announcements in the columns of this paper will bring you increased business. 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