The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. REVS. A. J. CAREY, J. F. THOMAS AND A. L. MURRAY, ARE INACTIVE OR SLEEPING, WHILE VICE, CRIME, SINK-HOLES OF INQUITY AND SALOONS ARE FLOURISHING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CHURCHES. E. H. MORRIS, ATTORNEY FOR THE GAMBLERS' TRUST, MAY NEGOTIATE A TWENTY YEAR LOAN ON BETHEL CHURCH. Anyone possessing an ordinary or a reasonable amount of intelligence would naturally be driven to the conclusion that churches are established and maintained. First for the sole purpose of improving or bettering the morals of those who become members of the various churches, as well as those who do not affiliate with them. Second, to provide for the wants and comforts of those who have grown old in the service of the churches: those who have aided them for many years with their money, and to suppress vice, crime, sink-holes of iniquity, and saloons from flourishing in the midst of the churches and to improve the moral tone or condition of all the people residing in the vicinity of the church edifices. Admitting, or granting, that this is the true mission of the church or churches, what shall we say in relation to Quinn Chapel, Olivet and Bethel churches?! is not a fact that one saloon is running night and day on the corner of 24th and Wabash avenue, which is within a few feet of Quinn chapel?! and can any member of Old Quinn come forward and honestly state or assert that its pastor, Rev. A. J. Carey, has ever made the slightest effort to have it removed or closed up?! Those who attend or who belong to Quinn Chapel know very well that the saloon is directly opposite the church. That it is almost impossible to enter the church without running up against the saloon. That there is a city ordinance to the effect "that no saloon or saloons shall be located within three hundred feet of any church or schoolhouse!" Notwithstanding this fact we have never heard of Rey. A. J. Carey, raising his lordly voice in his pulpit in condemnation of the saloon, which is located so near his church, but the report has gone abroad that the owners of the three saloons, which are located so near Quinn Chapel, Bethel and Olivet, always manage to cultivate the friendship of their devines to such an extent, that they are unwilling to preach against their saloons being so close to their churches, or head any movement with the object of closing them up or driving them from under their church domes. Every Sunday, just as the services are winding up in Quinn Chapel, many dudes and young fops, who are not dry behind their ears, line up in front of the saloon on both sides of the sidewalk, clear out to the corner of 24th and State street, where a new saloon has just started and these dudes and fops stare or look at every decent woman who is alone as though they wanted to jump on her, but Rev. Carey, seems to be dead or insensible to these and the many other evils which exist around his or the Lord's temple. Here we might pause for a moment and ask, how does Quinn Chapel treat those who have given all the money to aid her, when they become old or decrept? It is a well-known fact that Commodore Hardy was a member of Quinn Chapel for over 42 years, and during that time he turned over the most of his money to its officers to aid in paying its debts, but now that he has become old and penniless, Quinn Chapel pays no attention to him, and Commodore Hardy would be in the poor house today if the great and big-hearted Melville W. Fuller, the Democratic chief justice of the United States Supreme Court did not send the Commodore twenty dollars each and every month, besides money to buy coal during the winter months. Mrs. Dicy Smith was a member of Quinn Chapel and Superintendent of its Sunday school for 25 years, but when she became old and worn out from working for the benefit of Quinn, its pastor nor its officials did not loose much sleep in alding her to get into the Old Folk's Home. Aunt Jane Allen was another good old soul, who thought the Lord had called her to aid or give her money to Quinn Chapel, but for years Aunt Jane Allen has been a beggar on the public streets; it's true that for some time the members of Quinn Chapel did buy shoes for Aunt Jane, but we understand that they have now ceased in doing so. When Olivet Baptist Church was located in Harmon Court, a saloon was across the street right in front of it, and for some reason the saloonkeeper failed or refused to do business with Elder or Rev. J. F. Thomas, who would rap or knock the owner of the saloon every Sunday from his pulpit; things, however, have changed since Hanna died, for it is said that "the Lord moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform, that he plants his footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm." Whether this statement concerning the actions of the Lord is true or false, one thing is certain, Rev. J. F. Thomas at the present time does not seem to be opposed to having saloons so close to Olivet that it is no trouble to hear the clinking of glasses and the cursing and swaring which floats out in the streets from them, while sitting in Olivet for the saloon on the corner of 27th and Dearborn street is less than one hundred feet away from the entrance to Olivet, and Bob Mott's notorious joint, where many young girls are led to the brink of ruin each year, is within 200 feet of Olivet, which seems to please Rev. Thomas, for quite frequently, while standing up in his pulpit, he refers to his friend Bob Motts in glowing terms. Thanksgiving day 1900 Elder Thomas ran a "Fish-fry" at Olivet, and his friend Bob Motts requested Rev. Thomas to send him Motts, a big, fat turkey. Elder Thomas complied to his request, so we have been informed by one of the ladies, who attends Olivet, and Motts sent Rev. Thomas some money, so he would advertise him and his den from his pulpit. Motts is being boomed for the legislature, so it is said, by Ed. Morris, attorney for the Gamblers' Trust, and Deacon Morris is the attorney for Olivet, and if Motts should be selected to go to Springfield as one of the lawmakers, he would experience no trouble in being permitted to deliver political speeches in Olivet, if Motts would be unable to shout or pray unto the Lord, and paint or picture the beauty and the grandeur of the G. O'Lily White Party, of plunder and greed, he could inform the brothers and sisters as to the number of our seemingly promising young girls, who have lost their virtue in his hell-hole of iniquity. Bethel church stands on the north east corner of 30th and Dearnborn street; there is also a saloon on the South east corner of the same street, which seems to do a flourishing business, whenever services are held in Bethel, and there are alway a large crowd of dressed up loafers standing around in front of this saloon, and they delight in ogling and guying all the women who happen to pass that corner on their way to and from Bethel, but Rev. A. L. Murray, like Revs, A. J. Carey and J. F. Thomas, is inactive or sleeping, or is so absorbed in piling up wealth in this world to pay any attention to the existence of the saloons and the other disreputable places, which are flourishing near his church. Rev. Murray, like Rev. Thomas, seems to be a favorite with some of the saloonkeepers, for only a few week ago Billie Piper, informed us to the "effect that Rev. Murray was his friend, and that Rev. Murray would gladly vouch for his gentlemanship. We did not ask Billie Piper who woud vouch for Rev. Murray. All the foregoing seems to indicate that these three leading Negro churches of Chicago are not exerting the moral influence over the people that they should or ought to exert, that their pastors gobble on to all the money in sight, while at the same time they feed the people, who dig it up upon straw and chaff, that all three of these churches fail to provide a home for their old and enfeebled members; that these old members are compelled to rely upon the charity of others, if they are sick for a long time, or else be carted off to [Name] MR. W. H. WEBER The efficient secretary of the Board of Asessors of Cook County, whose broad mind knows no man on account of the color of his kin, and who feels sure of his calling and election next fall. Dunning to die. That each one of these churches should maintain a ward in Provident hospital for the benefit of their members. Much talk is going the rounds lately to the "effect that E. H. Morris, attorney for the Gamblers' Trust may be induced to negotiate a twenty-year loan on Bethel for $12,500, which amount has been past due for some time, if the attorney for the Gamblers' Trust should succeed in placing this loan, then he and his political God-father, Archbishop Perry A. Hull, would be able to control Bethel and transform it into a political hall, or vaudeville theatre whenever they felt disposed to do so. To a blind man up a tree it looks as though Bethel is ready and willing to join hands with the devil and his hosts. In conclusion we admonish Revs. Carey, Thomas, Murrey, and their associates to proclaim from their pulpits, that God or the Gods, are not, nor never have been, angry with mankind. That God or, the Gods, have not the slightest desire to reek vengeance upon the heads of the people, simply because Eve persuaded Adam, to eat one little red apple, many thousand years ago, that there is no room beneath the earth, in the universe, nor beyond the starry firmament for heaven nor hell; that without virtue, honesty, truthfulness, kindness and benevolence, life is only a dream or a pasing cloud. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CELEBRATION. Tuesday evening, Feb 18, St. Mark's church, 47th and State streets, was well filled by an appreciative gathering, who assembled in honor of the birthday of Fredrick Douglass, which was held under the auspices of the Douglass League. Most delicious refreshment were served free to all and the following elaborate and interesting program was rendered: Organ Voluntary...Miss Gertle Jackson Invocation ...Rev. Jason Bundy Selection ...St. Marys' Choir Introductory Remarks..... President John B. Hart Vocal Solo.....Mrs. H. T. Pelkey Douglass the Orator..... Hon. S. A. McElwee Vocal Solo.....Mrs. Jennie Green Reading—"Douglass" by Dunbar Miss Clara Green Violin Solo ...Miss Alberta Riggs Douglass the Abolitionist..... Mr. S. Lang Williams Dust.....Mrs. Maud Johnson, Mr. F. Johnson "Douglass' Work for Woman'". .....Mrs. L. A. Davis Vocal Solo.....Mrs. Mollie White "Dougass the Statesman"..... .....Rev. R. C Ransom Selection.....St. Marys' Choir Benediction.....Rev. J. W. Robinson MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Last evening Mr. D. C. McLain, secretary of the Carter H. Harrison League of the 31st Ward, delivered the following address before the students of the Illinois College of Law at Handel Hall: There are two general divisions of the subject of corporations. Public corporations are organized for governmental purposes. Private corporations are organized for the pecuniary profit of their stockholders. The policy of the law has been to enlarge the powers of private corporations, while public corporations have remained unchanged. To reverse the order and pursue that policy which will continually enlarge the powers of public corporations to enable them to own and operate public utilities seems to be the dominate and feasible idea of the present day. The postoffice of the general government is operated on a business basis. Under city authority sewers are constructed, cleaned and repaired. Water supplied for public use and private sale. The money accruing is constantly applied to the extension and improvement of the system. Public buildings are erected for public use, owned by the public corporation. The state law recognizes the supervisory power of the city over many private corporations, such as street railways, telephone companies, electric lighting plants. The present process is not direct. If these enterprises were under city control, faults could be remedied by public authority. Popular clamor, either for or against any particular practice in the management of public utilities would have an immediate effect. An office holder is like a thermometer in so far as he is able to be. Well knowing he will loose his political head when he ceases to represent the public mind. The officials of any municipality will rise no higher or descend lower on an average than the average status of its citizens. If th people are honest enough to want honest officials they will find them. The supply will follow the demand. If the "active" in politics want a rogue to carry out their ideas, presto, the rogue appears to perform the service. When the public are searching for honest candidates the honest, men will be in evidence. When abuses attract widespread attention the people arise in their might and throw out those from whom the offences come; and then go to sleep, while the net is again woven for their entanglement. If twenty years ago those in authority backed up by popular sentiment had passed enabling laws and embarked upon a policy of municipal ownership we would not now be expending twenty millions of dollars building railroad for the city of London. The profits of the North and West Chicago City railroads for the past twenty years would have been available all these years for the improvement of our own city. The vast accumulations of Mr. Yerkes is but one item. More than one hundred million of money has accrued to the various transportation companies of this city as profits with in the period of twenty year. The money is all in the hands of private corporations and their stockholders. The city is poor. Is it any wonder? This is but one item, one element concerning the public today. Others of nearly equal importance will be treated at another time Vast questions going to the foundations of modern society are presenting their living realities for solution and desition. In the political circles of all parties the contest for place and power is rife. The general good is overlooked in the scramble. In every ward organization the principle object is to push some one forward into position. Principle and real beneficial discussions of business methods are practically dead letters. Some people are fearful that private boodling by public officials would accompany municipal ownership. There is as much opportunity for boodling in surrendering the rights of the people to private corporations as there is in the managements of new departments, which would have to be created to handle the transportation system. The avowed legal object of private ownership is for the private gain of its stockholders. The avowed legal object of public ownership is that the public profit. The foundation law of state and statute is still in tact and is being enforced by the judges of our various courts. Plans and system will have to be devised and invented by which these new departments shall be controlled. Violations of duty punished by removal from office, fine or imprisonment. Under the extension of franchise plan, which is a contract for a term of years, it is the express purpose to make private money. When cars are over crowded, appliances out of order and unsafe or inadequate, the remedy is the inspection system. This must be supported by the city while the profits of the business accrue to the companies. Then too the inspectors may be fixed by the companies. The boodling element is not eliminated in either case. In private ownership the inspection is secondary. In contest cases the courts are resorted to and this item now forms a maelstrom for city funds, while the defect continues unabated. Private corporations refuse to pay taxes. Seil their property for unpaid taxes. This is the remedy applied to the citizen, who becomes delinquent. The street railroads may be acquired in this manner. If not, how can they be acquired? An owner of real property on a business street asks the money lender for money to erect a building. The value and possibilities are investigated the loan secured. On a good business street in ten or twenty years or less time the income will repay the debt. The city may call in capital, pass a twenty years franchise in trust, secure the money and build an elaborate and perfect system now and long before the expiration of the term of twenty years the profits of the business, well managed, will have discharged the debt. It is the same old question which has engrossed the attention of the greatest men of all time. In ancient Rome it was the Plebians and Patricians. Land laws, corn laws and contentions of every sort have grown out of money and business. Labor and capital diputes. Strikes with their attendant evils have grown out of business relations of the community the municipality state or nation. When these disputes grow larger it is the greed for ill gotten gain that induces a nation to cross ten thousand miles of water to clutch the prospects and possibilititle of another people. Attend to perfecting this system of government. Make it possible for all to share in the profits of the labor and industry of all. The private corporation has had a beneficial field in stimulating invention and devising new methods. When the private corporation crosses the border line and assumes governmental function, the business carried on by it should be placed under government control and ownership. The public corporation should swallow the private corporation when the real clash occurs. That the whole people may profit by human ingenuity and not be driven to the wall as has been the case in the competitive systems. Competition means, cut, clash, waste, down, ruin at any cost of life or property. Municipal ownership is co-operation. Peaceful unification of forces for common good. If there is honesty in the race it is now and it is time for it to assert itself. The government has been entrusted to the people for more than a century and they have succeeded well. They have passed through crises which have wrecked less wisely managed governments many times in history. Confidence begets confidence and distrust begets distrust. Trust the people to handle business affairs in a public way one thing at a time and methods will be devised to cope with difficulties as they arise. This policy will solve the trust problem by absorbing them. Solve labor troubles and strikes by placing in the hands of the laborers the ballot to change the system and correct abuses. It will mean the reduction of unlimited power by individuals. It will employ the masses in honest labor. Tramps and poverty and rags will be a thing of the past. The dream of the theorist will be a fact. I speak candidly and advisedly; municipal ownership contains the solution of these difficulties. The small scale co-operation has grown into the private corporation. The private corporation has grown into the quasi public corporation and this in turn has been supplanted by the trust. These are limited corporations. Unifying, combining in their nature and must sooner or later control all business of whatever kind. The next and natural step is absolute control of government, or government control. The fight is between giants. Are the combined interests of the people greater than private gain and aggrandisement? The affirmative means municipal ownership. The negative means monarchy and empire. The battle is on. The smoke is born upon the breese. Brave men will defend the right. Put the great arm of the law under the masses of the people and rise or fall together. Society is a plant putting forth tender leaves as it peers in the sunlight of a bright May morning. But it must harden and toughen to stand the winter's blast. Great truths originate in a small way; as the forest oak braves the centurie great principal and systems grow, decay and give place to the new which follow them. CHIPS The President has nominated Mr. Wm. Fleming, a white 'man, to succeed Mr. M. B. Morton as postmaster at Athens, Ga. Mr. Addison Bakely, assistant corporation counsel of Chicago and his estimable bride, are now at home to their many friends, 321 Webster ave. Some of your states may have more women than men, but they are not superfluous, thank you. We have to supply brides to the European nobility, you know. Prof. M. M. Mangasarian delivers his 4th, or last, historical lecture in the Grand Opera House Sunday morning, "The Meaning of the French Revolution." An Ohio pastor says the temperature of heaven is 826 degrees. If this is true, we prefer the other place. It can't be hotter, and we imagine there'll be more fun going around. Alderman Charles J. Byrne, 11th ward, is bound to win out in his ward the first of April, and he will continue to hold down his seat in the city council after that date. City Attorney John E. Owens, has been indisposed for the last few days from the effect of a severe cold, but by the first of the week Mr. Owens will be working harder than ever. Alderman Thomas Carey returns home Sunday night from New Orleans, La., where his fast race horses won a lot of dough or the long green for him and his friends. Many of the leaders of the repuolican party of this county believe that Jackson Gordon is the proper Afro-American to nominate for county commissioner. County Commissioner Rolin B. Organ's boom for sheriff of Cook county is developing into large proportions, and it would not be surprising to us to see Commissioner Organ capture the sheriffalty plum. Alderman Wm. M. Butterworth. 31st ward, is now wearing a big, broad rimmed black hat and a long gray-tailed overcoat and he walks around the city hall like an old time gentleman from Hoosalerville. J. Gray Lucas, speaks before the South End Club, St. Marks church, 47th and State street, this coming Sunday afternoon. Plano solo, Mrs Emma Cochran; vocal solo, Mrs. H. T. Pelkey. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Paragraph, Jatholim, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Incla- dals, Mormons, Republicans, Priests, or any he also can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform to broad enough for all, ever claiming the ministerial right to speak its own mind. Local communication will have attention; this only on one side of the paper. New Year..... $2.99 Months..... 1.99 Advertising sales made known on application. Show all communications in The Indian will next be required to subscribe to the fashion papers. Mark Tapley would have made an ideal governor for the Philippines. Two Biddles would get Miss Stone out of Bulgaria in twenty-five minutes. Perhaps Dr. Parkburst's remarks about "dead souls" means those of corporations. It is said that all the Dutch leaders distrust Mr. Chamberlain. They must be a suspicious lot. Crowned heads of Europe and Asia are just learning that the United States is a good place to visit. Between the Japanese faction and the Russian faction in China where do the Chinese come in. Another bachelor club disrupted by the frequency of marriages contracted by the members. What's the use? The field of discovery will never be covered until somebody shall have discovered some way of preventing fires. It might be possible to lead the Indian to the bathtub, but it would require the entire regular army to do the rest. Copper mine owners are about to unite in a trust and get back from the public all they lost fighting one another. Great Britain may have spent too much money for horses, but it seems satisfied with its bargains for Missouri mules. Oddly enough, no high-browed statesman has yet introduced a bill in congress to make groundhog day a national holiday. Many of the papers are referring to "The Islanders" as "Kipling's last poem." It is probable, however, that they are mistaken. A gold mine has been discovered under the Denver city hall. How did the officeholders ever permit it to remain there all these years? There is to be a spring trust organised in New Jersey, but, thank goodness, its object is to corner steel springs and not gentle spring. Texas oil is to be tried as a substitute for coal in the United States navy. Look out for submarine boats, airships and flying squadrons generally. There won't be much left of Most if he ventures to flourish his beer can in the face of one of those giants who are coming over with the German prince. There's no chance for a sporting department in the Congressional Record. All the senate fights are expurged from the proceedings before they reach the printer. A German paper now tells us in detail how England favored Spain before the war of 1898. In the course of a century or so we may get at the truth of this matter. The New England Historical Genealogical Society, after full investigation, finds that most American "hearaldry" is an imposture. It would not be of much value if it were genuine. That German army officer who has sued an American heiress for damages because she broke her engagement with him evidently wanted the money far more than he wanted the girl. The Indiana man who holds the record for marriages has been wedded 12 times and is the father of 32 children. Strange as it may seem to some, he is talking now of acquiring a thirteenth wife. It may be noticed that none of the great powers is striving to prove that it was friendly to Spain in the recent unpleasantness. The reason for this ought to be obvious to the most casual observer. Increased influence is being manifested for the proposed federal law requiring all shoddy cloth to be so stamped and designated. Adulterated food must be marked, and why not wearing apparel. A Chicago gentleman who is alleged to have made two attempts within a year to burn his wife alive has been subjected to a fine of $100 and costs for his latest effort in this direction. This gentleman does not realize, perhaps, what he has missed by living in a great, big, selfish town, which has no time to bother much with such : WASHINGTON the club. Now foils are getting to be as common on Connecticut avenue as walking sticks or umbrellas. August Schoenborn, who prepared the plans for the dome of the capitol, is dead. He came to the United States from Germany in 1849, entered the office of the architect of the capitol two years later. His work there attracted the attention of President Fillimore, who was a frequent visitor at his office. At the breaking out of the civil war he rendered valuable service in the preparation of maps and plans for Gen. McDowell, as well as plans for forts, barracks, hospitals and buildings for the quartermaster general's office. The secretary of state and Mrs. Hay have sent out over 1.000 invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen Hay, to Mr. Payne Whitney, which is to take place in February. At the wedding breakfast only the two families will be present, with the exception of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, wno will also attend the ceremony. President Roosevelt will toast the bride at the breakfast. A brilliant ball was given at the German embassy to the officers and SEN. H.M. TELLER OF COLOBARO cadets of the training ship Moltke. the ballroom was decorated with German flags and many naval pennants brought from the ship. Mme. Von Rebeuer-Paschwitz, wife of the naval attache, acted as hostess. There were about 200 guests. Fifty-nine cadets are attached to the Von Moltke, and thirty of them attended the ball. Senator Teller of Colorado, the always undismayed champion of the silver cause, is always an object of interest to visitors to the senate chamber. His recent altercation with Mr. Lodge—on which occasion both the distinguished gentlemen behaved something like unruly schoolboys—will be remembered, but it is seldom indeed that the Colorado statesman forgets senatorial dignity. Since 1876, with the exception of the three years 1882 to 1885, when he held the portfolio of secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Arthur, and a few years thereafter, Senator Teller has represented the state of Colorado in the upper house. His present term expires in 1903. Quiet and reserved in manner, though genial enough among his associates, the senator is popular with those whom he comes in contact with on official business, and age has in no way impaired his exceptional ability. He is 72 years old. In politics Senator Teller is an Independent Silver Republican. "The ladies of the cabinet," as the wives of President Roosevelt's advisers are called in Washington, have resumed their weekly receptions. During the McKinley administration the "ladies of the cabinet" held a caucus and agreed to discontinue these features of the social life at the capital, because the refreshments served at a reception cost about $10. No secret was made of the reason for stopping the receptions and the cabinet women came in for a great deal of criticism. They were called stingy and inhospitable by the wives of rich congressmen and senators, who were in the habit of giving dinners at which the favors for each guest cost more than did the refreshments for a so-called cabinet reception. The cabinet women refused to give in, however, and no receptions were held until this winter. The wives of the congressmen have endeavored to get revenge by remaining away from the rehabilitated functions. The value of William Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, as a great public attraction has not escaped the manager of a lecture bureau. The inventor has received an offer of $1,000 a lecture for twelve to be delivered by him in the United States. In declining the offer Mr. Marconi said that his hopes and ambitions soar beyond lecturing at even $1,000 a night. He is at present neglecting short-distance wireless telegraphy, in which money can be made immediately, for the purpose of developing transatlantic work, and he says he has no time to put into any more talking than is absolutely necessary at present. Dr. Milburn's Long Service Dr. W. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the senate, thinks he may fairly lay claim to the title of "grandfather of the House." He entered the service of that body ten years before John Sherman of Ohio, and Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, who were termed "fathers of the House." Mr. Milburn was first elected chaplain of Congress in 1845, being then a resident of Illinois, and hailing from the congressional district represented by Lincoln. ITH the dinner to the judiciary the entertainments at the WhiteHouse reached their apogee. Nothing so superb has ever transpired at the old mansion as this banquet, which was served in the East Room, which Mrs. Adams called the Audience Chamber, and in which, it being then in an unfinished condition she hung up the family laundry to dry, on wet washing days. The banquet board was in the shape of a horseshoe, and President and Mrs. Roosevelt sat opposite each other, not side by side, nor yet at the far ends of the table. So richly verdant was the whole apartment that one might have believed oneself in the depths of a tropical forest, save for the presence of those all-compelling evidences of civilization, the electric lights, the dinner table, the food, the wines and the company. Mrs. Roosevelt is a charming hostess. There is nothing superficial about her cordiality; there is warmth in her smile and heartiness in her voice as she bids welcome to her guests. Never has such a boundless hospitality prevailed at the White House since the days of Dolly Madison; it is likened to the colonial times, on the great estates in "Ole Virginny." Not a meal is served but guests are bidden to break bread with the president and his charming wife. A Washington photographer is exhibiting a picture in his show window which tends to convict Mr. Foss of being the most irreverent of a crowd numbering thousands. The photograph was taken during the presentation to Admiral Dewey of the sword voted him by congress. The plate was exposed just as the invocation was being offered. President McKinley is standing, hat in hand, with bowed head. Not a covered head is to be seen in the multitude banked up behind the president and the a-miral with the exception of that of Mr. Foss, whose silk hat looms up with particular prominence. When the picture was called to the attention of the chairman of the naval committee he went to the photographer and tried to buy the plate. The photographer refused to part with it, explaining that such a transaction would deprive him of an accurate record of an interesting historical event. "That doggoned photographer must have taken that picture just before the minister began to pray or just after he ended," said Mr. Foss, "because I know that I took my hat off during the prayer. I was either a little slower than the rest in uncovering or a little quicker in getting my hat back on my head. What will my constituents in Evanston think if the picture gets out there?" Mrs. Dubois, whose husband is the junior senator from Idaho, is well known among club women. It was while she was attending a mothers' congress at Washington several years ago that Senator Dubois met her. He attended one of the meetings of the congress, heard her deliver an address, and fell in love with her. They now have a daughter who, Mrs. Dubois declares, is the embodiment of all a mothers' congress ideal babe should be. When President Roosevelt desires to express his approbation of a man in the highest possible terms he calls him a "corker." The other day the wife of a prominent financier was presented to Mr. Roosevelt. "I am delighted to meet you," said the president. "I know your husband very well. He is a cork- Mr. Dabols er." The lady went away wondering. When she reached home she asked her husband what the president meant by calling him a "corker," and said she was much worried because Mr. Roosevelt entertained such an opinion of him. Fencing is the latest fad of Washington society leaders. The Lelter girls brought back the craze from Europe, and it has spread like wildfire. The capital has had a fencers' club for some years, but it was dying of dry-rot until the two former Chicago girls started it again. Now a large house in one of the most aristocratic quarters of the city has been leased as a club house. What was formerly the conservatory has been made into a fencing hall, which experts declare to be the finest in this country. The cafe is under the direction of a chef imported from France, who has had wide experience with similar organizations and who it expected to serve meals like those served in the famous fencing club o Paris. Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, has been elected president o SEN. H.M. TELLER OF COLORADO NO GOOD UNTIL HANGED. Grim Humer of an English Judge When Imprtuned for Mercy. A recent allusion in a London journal to Mistress Quickly's remark, "Hang-hog is the Latin for bacon," has sent a correspondent on the search and he concludes that the late Ignatius Donnelly knew that Shakespeare was familiar with one of Sir Francis Bacon's jokes, which finds a curious echo in the quoted retort. Thus runs the witticism: Sir Nicholas Bacon being appointed a judge for the northern circuit, was by one of the malefactors mightily importuned to save his life, which, when nothing he had said did avail, he at length desired his mercy on account of kindred. "Prythee," said my lord judge, "how came that in?" "Why, if it please you, my lord, your name is Bacon and mine is Hog, and in all ages Hog and Bacon have been so near kindred that they are not to be separated." "Ay, but," replied Judge Bacon, "you and I cannot be kindred except you be hanged, for hog is not bacon until it be well hanged." He Clinched It. Erie, Kans., Feb. 17th.—In July of 1900, W. H. Ketchum of this place was suddenly seized with a violent pain in his back. He says he supposed it was a "stitch" and would soon pass away, but it lasted five months and caused him great soreness, so that he was barely able to get out of bed. He became alarmed and consulted a doctor which only increased his anxiety and did him no good. A friend who had some experience advised him to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Ketchum began with six pills a day and in a week was well and the soreness all gone. However, this did not satisfy him, for he says: "I thought I would clinch the cure with another box and I did. I have had no recurrence of the trouble since and as this is over a year ago I am thoroughly convinced that Dodd's Kidney Pills have completely cured me." What "Miscreant" Meant. The word miscreant formerly signified only an unbeliever, an infidel. Joan of Arc, in the literature of her time, was called a miscreant. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. In 1894, of every 10,000 persons in this country, 245 died of consumption; in 1900 the figure had fallen to 190. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Five presidents of the United States have been of Scotch-Irish descent. HERE THIS IS IT Know by the sign TRADE MARK. St. Jacobs Oil CURES Rheumatism Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Sprains, Bruises, Soreness, Stiffness. 25c and 50c CONQUERS PAIN! Diseases, Rheumatism, etc. Disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder cause Bright's Disease, Rheumatism, Gravel, Pain in the Back, Bladder Disorders, difficult or too frequent passing water, Dropys, etc. For these diseases a Positive Specific Cure is found in a new botanical discovery, the wonderful Kava-Kava Shrub, called by botanists, the piper methylcimum, from the Ganges River, East India. It has the Jnr. Thomas, No. 120 E St. N. W., Washington, D.C. extraordinary record of 1,200-hospital cures in 30 days. It acts directly on the Kidneys, and cures by draining out of the Blood the polsonous Uric Acid, Lithates, etc., which cause the disease. Rev. John H. Watson, testifies in the New York World, that it has saved him from the edge of the grave when dying of Kidney disease and terrible suffering when passing water. Mr. James Thomas, Esq., of the Board of Review Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C. writes: Was cured of usually fatal Kidney Trouble after many physicians had failed and he had given up all hope of recovery. Hon. R. C. Wood, a prominent attorney of Lowell, Ind., was cured of Chronic Rheumatism, Kidney and Bladder Disease of ten years standing by Alkavis Many ladies including Mrs. E. R. Dinnimore, South Deerfield, Mass., and Mrs. James Young, Kent, Ohio, also testify to its wonderful curative power in Kidney and allied disorders peculiar to womanhood. That you may judge the value of this Great Discovery for yourself, we will send you One Large Case by mail Free, only asking that when cured yourself you will recommend it to others. It is a pure sacrifice and can not fail. Address. The Church Kidney Care Company, 408 Fourth Ave., New York. Landskeeters' Excurions to Virginia, North and South Carolina. Good farm and stock lands cheap. No tornadoes or heavy winters. For pamphlets and excursion rates address W. E. Conklyn, N. W. P. Agt. C. & O. Ry., 234 Clark St., Chicago. Sensible Housekeepers. will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. TO MOTHERS Mrs. J. H. Haskins, of Chicago, Ill., President Chicago Arcade Club, Addresses Comforting Words to Women Regarding Childbirth. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Mothers need not dread childbearing after they know the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. While I loved children I dreaded the ordeal, for it left me weak and sick A. MRS. J. H. HASKINS. for months after, and at the time I thought death was a welcome relief; but before my last child was born a good neighbor advised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I used that, together with your Pills and Sanative Wash for four months before the child's birth;—it brought me wonderful relief. I hardly had an ache or pain, and when the child was ten days old I left my bed strong in health. Every spring and fall I now take a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and find it keeps me in continual excellent health."—MRS. J. H. HASKINS, 3248 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Ill. — $5000 forfeit if above testimonial is not genuine. Care and careful counsel is what the expectant and would-be mother needs, and this counsel she can secure without cost by writing to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. $15 A WEEK AND EXPENSES for men with rigs to introduce our Poultry Mixture. Straight salary. We mean this. Encloses amo. EUREKA MFG. CO., Dept. W, East St. Louis, Ill. WE PAY $20 a Week and EXPENSES to men with rigs to introduce our Poultry Compound. Send stamp. ACME MFG CO., East St. Louis, Ill. NO FAKE SALARY offer, but big commission to agents to introduce Success Poultry Mixture. Write today. Never mind stamp. SUCCESS MFG. CO., Dept. N, East St. Louis, Ill. SEAFARING MEN KNOW THE VALUE OF TOWER'S TRADE MARK FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING IT WILL KEEP YOU DRY IN THE WETTEST WEATHER LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK ON SALE EVERYWHERE CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A.J.TOWER CO., BOSTON, MASS. WANTED—Y. ung Man to Travel; salary $30 month and expenses; send references. Address Pleugh-Williams Co., Manhattan Building, Chicago. LARGE FIRM Wants to employ energetic Lady in every town to introduce its goods. Experience unnecessary; $15,00 Weekly paid. We have pleasant, profitable work for any lady at home. P.P. P. Box 36, Kalamanzoo, Mich. WANTED Energetic Representatives in cities, towns and country; exclusive territory, steady employment and good pay. Address Rooms 402-3, 336 Dearborn St., Chicago. Agents Wanted to sellour remedies direct to consumers; good wages. Ad. Sadoe Chem. Co., Calburn, Ind. AGENTS make $1 per dog. distrib. free samples. De Ahormer Co, Box M, Burt, Ia. Send dime for particulars. The Colorado Oil Fields Boulder, Colorado, is the new center of oil interest in the west. The first producing well in this district (The Arnold) is owned by a Headlight Oil Company. The Consolidated Oil, Leasing and Developing Company of Boulder, Colorado, the original parent company, owns the control of this company and fifteen others in this district, besides large interests in many other companies operating in the heart of the producing region. Wells are going down, many oil stocks having no merits will be put on the market as richly high prices within a few weeks. Be safe, and communicate with us before investing in Oil Stocks. You can make money. THE CONSOLIDATED OIL, LEASING AND DEVELOPING COMPANY, Boulder, Colorado. HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY 16 OZ. MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG Co OMAHA, NEB. ```markdown ``` REAL ESTATE. VIRGINIA HOMES You learn all about Va. lands, soil, water, climate, products, fruits, berries, mode of cultivation, prices, etc. by reading the VIRGINIA FARMER. Send 100 c for 3 months sub. to Farmer Co., Box 308, Emporia, Va. FOR SALE—Farms in Southern Iowa. Write for Hst. J.F. Gallup, Corydom, Iowa. MANITOBA LANDS. 3120 acres of the choicest. Red River Valley Lands, nearly all "class one" according to Government surveyor's report and all within radius of 45 miles of Winnipeg. Price $3 per acre, half cash, for whole tract. This should easily retail at $12 per acre, and will pay 10% interest on $20 per acre to farm. NORTH DAKOTA LANDS. In Cass, Sargent, Dickey, Lamore, Mortin, Burleigh, Wells and Grand Forks counties. Large or small tracts. In correspondence state whether you wish to speculate or farm, and how much money you have to invest. W. D. Hodgson, Fargo, North Dakota. FARMS FOR SALE! Bargain in Edwards Co., Illinois. I have Farm for sale from 80 to 800 acre tracts. Can furnish anything wanted from 2 miles of county seat to 2 miles. Small cash payments. Also some wild lands from $5.00 to $12.00 per acre, fine for pasture or cultivation, from 80 to 1.080 acres in a body. Correspond for what you want. GEO. FIRRIMAN, Real Estate Agent, Albion, Illinois. FREE HOMESTEADS! 500 HOMESTEAD CLAIMS IN SOUTH DAKOTA—Filling fees, $14; we have the plate. Wealoo have IMPROVED and UNIMPROVED FARMS for sale, from $5 to $55 per acre. Cor- respondence invited. WM. M. HERBERT & CO., Mitchell, South Dakota. WISCONSIN for the INVESTOR or SETTLER Address HOME-PEETER'S LAND CO., N. Y. Life Building, St. Paul, Minn. JOHN S. DOUGHTIE, Nacogdoches, Texas. FARM LANDS, Homes and Business Opportunities to offer in Northern Indiana. Get particulars and bulletin. Jacob Keller, North Judson, Ind. FOR SALE—In the prettiest part of Michigan. 160 acres good land, fair buildings. $10 per acre. 120 acres, good buildings, peach and apple orchards, $55 per acre. 130-acre stock farm. good barns, etc., 855, all well located. Address. G. ALDENB, Box 100, Lawrence, Mich. TO SELL my farm of 123 acres quick will take 483 per acre. Half in trade. Easy terms. Good land, good buildings, plenty fruit and water. CLAUSEN, Dix, Jefferson Co., Ill. count 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 brances, 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 Assiniboba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thousands of Americans are now settled there. Reduced rates on all railways for homeeekers 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. 9:7 Monadnock Block. Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room 6. "Big Four" Bldg. Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, Toledo, O., Canadian Government Agents. FOR SALE 5% mortgages, secured on improved farms worth double the sum loaned. Correspondence solicited. WM. MULHAM, Sioux City, IA. MISCELLANEOUS. WOMEN can make MONEY, lots of it. Send us 100 and we send you all the secrets. Address KIOWA * Ft. & SUPPLY CO., 809 W. 37th, Rooms 3 & 4. N. Y. City. Money free. Address with 3 c stamp. OCEOLA MFG. CO., 309 W. 57th St., Suites 1 and 2, N. Y. City. FOR SALE OR RENT—Best horse snoeing shop in Peoria, Ill. E. G. Hocknold, 4 5 S. Washington St. FOR 10 CENTS SILVER, BY MAIL, we for ward you materials, and directions for 10 bottles best black ink. WORLD'S FAIR SPECIALTY CO., 2839 Thomas St., St. Louis, Mo. LADIES Household Necessity. 7 different useful articles in one. Saves time, labor and housewife's patience. Write for particulars and get beautiful Turquoise Stick Pin free. G. Eureka Supply Co., Woodbury, N.J. Independent. weal by young lady would assist kind husband in business venture. Would marry soon. Address C, Box 83, St. Louis, Mo. Agents and others find latest discoveries, formulas, advertised receipts, trade secrets, each month in Practical Receipts. Teaches how to establish profitable business at home; sample copy free. BROWNELL, Publisher, 237 Front St., N. Y. City. FARMERS and others HOW TO TAME a VICIOUS HORSE and make him follow you like a dog; free for 2 c stamp. Solorine Co., 1401 4th Avenue So. Minneapolis, Minn. SURE CURE for PILES—Send 25c for recipes ingredients can be procured at any drug store. WM. HAIG, 606 4th St. DuBois, Pa. Good Business Opening for man with few thumb sand dollars. Address WILLIAMS, 601 Davis St. Evanston, Ill. $10 Worth OF GROCERIES FOR $5 DELIVERED FREE. Get list. Reliance Grocery Co., Evanston, Ill. HOME WORK—WRITING—Honest, willing workers. Apply in own hand. Ramig Mfg. Co., 70 E. Madison, Chicago. NOTICE. We intend to start a circulating library in your locality. You may read any number of good books you desire. EXPENSE TO YOU ALMOST NOTHING. We also want a good librarian; small salary. Town people and farmers address for particulars THE HOME PREMIUM LIBRARY, 1621 Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL. CLOVER Largest growers of Clover, Timothy and Grasses. Our northern grown Clover, for vigor, frost and drouth resisting properties, has justly become famous. SUPERIOR CLOVER, bu. $5.90; 100 lbs. $9.80 La Grosse Prime Clover, bu. $5.60; 100 lbs. $9.20 Samples Clover, Timothy and Grasses and great Catalog mailed you for 6c postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. LA CROSSE, WIS. GREGORY SEED If you want the purest grass seeds sold in the United States, try oura. Catalogue free. A. J. H. Gregory & Son, Marblehead, Mass. Afflicted with sore areas, use Thompson's Eye Water One third more starch a better starch that is the whole story. Defiance Starch, 16 ounces for 10 Ingenious Theory on the Subject Is Advanced Declared to Be More Nutritious Than Straw-Horse and Cow Yet to Be Heard from. The mule that died just as his master had taught him to live on sawdust was an ungrateful beast. Before long horses and cattle will be fed on sawdust entirely, if the invention of a German, as described in the Baltimore Sun, fulfills expectations. Consul Frankenthal of Berne reports the invention in Germany of a method of utilizing sawdust as a foodstuff for horses and cattle without the aid of the green goggles of the traditional anecdote. There is a residue of the beets consumed in beet sugar factories, called "melasse," which contains about 50 per cent of uncrystallized sugar. This melasse is to be mixed with sawdust, which is shown by analysis to be more nutritious than straw. Straw contains over 3½ per cent of albumen, 36½ per cent of nitrogen, 1½ per cent of fatty substance and 39½ per cent of wood fiber, while pine sawdust has 8½ per cent of albumen, 40.1-2 per cent of nitrogen, 5 per cent of fatty substance and 35½ per cent of wood fiber. The sawdust, however, is first treated with salt and lime water and fermented to a certain extent before mixing with melasse. Animals, it has been observed, easily digest young shoots and roots of shrubs, sunflower stalks and cornstalks and the same nutriment remains when these become wood. According to the report, "when certain chemicals—salt and calcareous water—are added to sawdust or ground corncobs and stalks that have undergone a certain fermenting process the resultant product is a food for animals that is easily assimilated and digested and is liked by cattle, horses, sheep and pigs. The valuable properties of this prepared food are based upon the nutritious matter contained in the wood (which is set free by the fermenting process). mixed with a large percentage of melasse." To the fermented sawdust may be added potato peelings, bran and the like, and then from 70 to 80 per cent of melasse is to be mixed in so as to be absorbed by the sawdust. Inventors have often attempted to turn sawdust to use, without practical results so far. One proposal is to convert it into fuel by pressure or by mixing with tar or other substance. Another scheme is to blow sawdust into furnaces. The schemes are innumerable and do very well except to the eye of the bookkeeper. If the nutritious elements of sawdust can be made available by partial fermentation a great point is gained. But the horse and cow which are to eat the mixture are yet to be heard from. Wasted Water. From two great mountain systems of our country, the Appalachian and the Rocky, and from the lesser highlands of the interior, flow countless streams that are capable of furnishing millions of horse power of energy. Many of these powers are already used, where they lie near the centers of population, but by far the greater part of the whole remain still undeveloped, and the waters which might be, and eventually will be, employed for the generation of cheap power, are allowed to run to waste. What this waste energy amounts to is still undetermined, but it must be enormous. Some idea of its extent is beginning to be realized by the investigations which have been carried on for several years by the United States Geological Survey in its study of the water resources of the country, and by the numerous measurements it has taken of the flow of many of the streams. These investigations have clearly demonstrated the important fact that there is a magnificent reserve supply of unused power scattered over many parts of the country, which awaits the demands of trade and industry.—U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin. The British officer, Maj.-Gen. Sir Francis de Winton, who died recently in Wales at the age of 66, was the first man who fired a Maxim gun in war. It was he who first demonstrated the practical use of the new gun. All doubt as to the efficiency of the weapon passed after it had once been put to this test of war. While its utility was still uncertain its inventor was asked by a government committee to have 10,000 rounds fired at the highest possible speed and the experiment was carried out. But still the committee was not satisfied. "Could you guarantee your gun to go on firing automatically at the same rate for, say, twenty-four hours?" asked the chairman. The inventor replied that he could and would on one condition—that the government found and paid for the ammunition. The first inclination of the committee was to accept the suggestion, but somebody calculated that the number of rounds would be 864,000, and that the cost would be about $30,000, and the committee suddenly decided that it was satisfied without the new trial. There are two Populists in the Mississippi legislature, five in the North Carolina legislature, one in the Minnesota legislature, thirty-seven in the legislature of Kansas, nine in the legislature of Georgia, twenty-one in the legislature of Colorado, and two in the legislature of Nevada. The Populist party has no foothold in Eastern states. ANGORA GOAT LANDS. Angora goat breeders are selling large numbers of fine stock to be run on the cutover lands of northern Wisconsin. Along the "Soo Line," which extends east and west through a fine strip of country at least a dozen fine flocks have gone in during the last few months and the demand for goats exceeds the supply. The wool of the Angora goat browsing on the rich herbage of northern Wisconsin is of a superior quality, due, no doubt, in part to the climate, water and ideal conditions there found. The farmer who puts sheep and Angora goats upon land from which the timber has been removed will soon find that, without any work on his part, these animals have converted the land into a pasture covered with a mat of blue grass and white clover, for as soon as the brush and the browse has been grazed down and the sun gets to the soil, blue grass and white clover spring up as if they had been seeded by man. If you want to know more about this country, write to D. W. Casseday, Land and Industrial Agent, "Soo'Line," Minneapolis, Minn. Congressman Hepburn of Iowa has developed an unfortunate but laughable facility for making bulls, which, of course, never appear in the Congressional Record. While debating the Nicaragua canal bill he spoke of "wafting the sailing vessels that desired to cross the continent." A roar of laughter greeted the remark, to be renewed when someone suggested that "the gentleman from Iowa had prairie schooners in mind." $500 FROM $1.00. Wm. Kelley. Lawrence Co., O., made on $1.00 worth of tomato seed, bought from the John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis., last summer, over $100. That pays. Now early cucumbers is one of the best paying vegetables, so also earliest radishes, peas, tomatoes, beets, etc. For 16c. and this Notice the John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis., send you 150 kinds of vegetable and flower seeds and mammoth catalog telling all about money making vegetables. Market gardeners' list, 3c. W. N. U. WEL the Philippines Pay? Senator Bacon of Georgia, who has just returned from a tour of study in the Philippines, has written for the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia a valuable paper on the business aspect of our insular affairs. He comes to the conclusion that our account with the Philippines must, for an indefinite time, be on the wrong side of the ledger. This article will appear in the issue for Feb. 22. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Q. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Christians in India Christians in India are increasing in numbers rapidly, according to the recent census in South India, where the Christians now number over 1,000,000. The increase during the decade was 18 per cent, as compared with 7 per cent for the population, 6 per cent for the Hindoos, and 9 per cent for the Mohammedans. "Trymi" Is the Best— Use proves it. By sending this item, worth 25c, to R. J. Sarasy & Co., Janesville, Wis., you will receive a package of Trymi Tablets free that will prove this is a remedy long needed in Constipation, Stomach, Liver and Nervous troubles Every purchase guaranteed or money returned. The editor of the Pottsdammer Zeitung is to be prosecuted for publishing a report of a speech by the German emperor before he (the editor) had received the official version. Sufferers from Kidney Trouble Should not fail to road the advertisement of the Church Kidney Cure Co. 406 Fourth avenue, New York, appearing in this paper. The increas in population in Venice has been 50,000 during the last twenty-five years. During the last ten years it has been nearly 17,000. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 17th—The activity at the laboratory of the Garfield Tea Co. is further evidence of the popularity of their preparations; over THREE MILLION FAMILIES used the Garfield Remedies last year! This vast public approval speaks well for the remedies. They are: Garfield Tea, Garfield Headache Powders, Garfield-Tea Syrup, Garfield Relief Plasters, Garfield Belladonna Plasters, Garfield Digestive Tablets and Garfield Cold Cure. Insurance tables show that in Germany only one person in 10,000 reaches the age of one hundred years. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Two hundred and fifty Trappist monks are now working at twenty-five stations in South Africa. Fowls with tails eighteen feet long have been bred in an interior province in China. WHEN YOU GO TO BUY BLUING, And for Rusa Bleaching Blue. Made by The Brown Company, South Bend, Ind. Capital to the amount of $20,000,000 in Texas invested in the rice fields. IOWA FARMS $4 PER CENT CASH BALANCE IGMP TIL TIME The average longevity in the United States was $5.2 in 1900. Delicately formed and gently reared, women will find, in all the seasons of their lives, as maids or wives or mothers, that the one simple, wholesome remedy which acts gently and pleasantly and naturally, and which may be used with truly beneficial effects, under any conditions, when the system needs a laxative—is Syrup of Figs. It is well known to be a simple combination of the laxative and carminative principles of plants with pleasant, aromatic liquids, which are agreeable and refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system when its gentle cleansing is desired. Many of the ills from which women suffer are of a transient nature and do not come from any organic trouble and it is pleasant to know that they yield so promptly to the beneficial effects of Syrup of Figs, but when anything more than a laxative is needed it is best to consult the family physician and to avoid the old-time cathartics and loudly advertised nostrums of the present day. When one needs only to remove the strain, the torpor, the congestion, or similar ills, which attend upon a constipated condition of the system, use the true and gentle remedy—Syrup of Figs—and enjoy freedom from the depression, the aches and pains, colds and headaches, which are due to inactivity of the bowels. Only those who buy the genuine Syrup of Figs can hope to get its beneficial effects and as a guarantee of the excellence of the remedy the full name of the company—California Fig Syrup Co.—is printed on the front of every package and without it any preparation offered as Syrup of Figs is fraudulent and should be declined. To those who know the quality of this excellent laxative, the offer of any substitute, when Syrup of Figs is called for, is always resented by a transfer of patronage to some first-class drug establishment, where they do not recommend, nor sell false brands, nor imitation remedies. The genuine article may be bought of all reliable druggists everywhere at 50 cents per bottle. $10.00 FREE! $10.00 SPECIAL INDUCEMENT! We will sell to the farmer (where we have no agent). at wholesale prices, our CORN PLANTERS, WEIGHTERS and ELEVATORS, SHOVELING BOARDS, "GRANT" CORN SHELLERS, SEEDERS, Etc. Write TO-DAY for Catalogues, Prices and particulars. WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Decatur, Ill. Baco Curro DON'T STOP TOBACCO Suddenly. It injures the nervous system to do so. Use BACO-CURO and it will tell you whon to stop as it takes away the desire for tobacco. You have no right to ruin your health, spoil your digestion and poison your breath by using the filthy weed. A guarantee in each box. Price $1.00 per box, or three boxes for $2.50, with guarantee to cure or money refunded. At all good Druggists or direct from us. Write for free booklet. EUREKA CHEMICAL CO., - La Crosse, Wis. Florida Excursions via Virginia and Carolina Winter Resorts and Charleston Exposition, Hot Springs. Old Point Comfort, Southern Pines. For Information address W. E. Conkyn, N. W. P. Agt. Chesapeake and Ohio R'y. 224 Clark St., Chicago. Hanover, Germany, now has six football teams that play the Rugby game. They are trying to carry out the Kaiser's orders not to use English sporting terms. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.—Longfellow. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not spot, streak or give your goods an unevenly dyed appearance. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. Tacoma, Wash., is 3,209 miles from New York by the shortest route, and it takes 127 hours to get there. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for same money. Berlin's richest inhabitant has paid a tax of $23,300 on his last year's income of $583,750. FITS Permanently Cured. No fit or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Kestorer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatie. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 631 ARB St., Philadelphia, Pa. Tea consumed in England is subject to a duty of twelve cents a pound. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an Infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. The state of New York has furnished three postmaster-generals. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Sixty United States naval vessels are now being constructed. Matt J. Johnson's 6088 is a guaranteed cure for rheumatism. Insist on getting the genuine. England used half a million Christmas trees last Christmas. ALWAYS USE RUSS BLEACHING BLUE, acknowledged the leading bluing. Made by The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Cancer causes 4,251 deaths annually in London. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. In China the year begins in February. Delicately formed find, in all the season or mothers, that the which acts gently and which may be used with any conditions, when Syrup of Figs. It is bination of the laxative plants with pleasant agreeable and refresh to the system when used. Many of the ills a transient nature a trouble and it is pleas promptly to the benefit but when anything rises is best to consult the old-time cathartic trums of the present remove the strain, similar ills, which a tion of the system, use Syrup of Figs—and sion, the aches and p are due to inactivity. Only those who can hope to get its antee of the excellent of the company—printed on the front it any preparation of violent and should be of this excellent substitute, when Sy always resented by first-class drug est recommendations, nor se remedies. The genuin reliable druggists ev CALIFORN $10.00 FREE! we have no agent). ERS and ELEVATORS, SNOVELING BOARDS, "GRANT for Catalogues, Prices and particulars. Baco Curro DON'T SUDdenly. It injures the and it will tell you when You have no right to ruin your breath by using the $1.00 per box, or three money refunded. At all good Druggists or EUREKA CHEMICAL DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worms cases. Book of testimonials and 10 BAYS' treatment FREE. Dr. M. M. GREEN'S CORP., Ben R. Attuck, Oma. WAKE UP! And send 10 cents for sample: goes like wildfire for the DOMESTIC MFG. CO., Ottumwa, Iowa. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN WHO ENDORSE PERUNA. MISS MATTHEW DOUGLASS MISS LENORE- ALLEN. Miss Lenore Allen, 407 Dowell Street, San Francisco, Cal., writes: "I consider Peruna an infallible remedy for catarrhal diseases. For several years I have been troubled with influenza, especially during our rainy season. I used to catch cold so easily that I was afraid to be out when the weather was the least bit inclement, or in the evening air. But since I have used Peruna I have nothing whatever the matter with me. "I am in perfect health, and find that Peruna acts as a tonic, and seems to throw all sickness and disease out of the body. I go anywhere now and in all kinds of weather, seem to have an iron constitution and enjoy life because I enjoy perfect health." LENORE ALLEN. Miss Mattle Donglass, 138 Thomas Ave., for a book of testimonials, of the cures Women are naturally more susceptible to incitemencles of the weather than men. Memphis, Tenn., writes: "From my early womanhood I have been troubled with occasional headaches. I took different powders and drugs, at times getting temporary relief. One of my friends advised me to try Peruna, which I did. I soon found that my general health improved, and my entire system was toned up. "I felt a buoyancy of body and lightness of mind I had not known before, and my headaches has entirely disappeared, and I have enjoyed perfect health for over a year. I gladly endures Peruna." MATTIE DOUGLASS. Women from all parts of the United States and Canada are te-tifying daily to the virtue of Peruna. Only a few of these letters can ever be published. Write for a book of testimonials, of the cures Peruna has made. Peruna Makes Clean, Healthy Mucous Membranes — Cattarhal Diseases Disappear Permanently. The mucous membrane is to the inside of the body what the skin is to the outside of the body. It lines every organ, duct and cavity. Catarrhal inflammation attacking one part is liable to spread to other parts. A neglected cold or slight catarrh is often the cause of lingering and dangerous catarrh. GINSENG $40,000 refused last year by Missouri man for less than one acre. The dried root sold last year at $7.00 per pound. The price has gradually increased for 25 years. As easy to grow as any vegetable. Roots and seeds for sale for Sping delivery. Full instructions for its cultivation with each order. McDOWELL GINSENG GARDEN, 621 Main St. JOPLIN, MO. CANCER, CURED. No knife, no pain, no loss of blood or strength. The treatment is safe and a cure is certain. Only two other institutions in the United States using this mehod. Describe your case and receive post-paid the most thorough and plainly written book on cancer published; also refer you to persons cured by us. 50 years' experience in treating cancer. Electro-Cure Sanitarium, Streator, Ill. NUT-LE Greatest game of the age; 150 by mail. NUT-LE CO., Y, New York Women are naturally more susceptible to inclementies of the weather than men. With them a cold is often the starting point of some severe pelvic derangement, causing much pain and suffering. Every woman needs a remedy upon which she can rely to keep her system fortified against the trying weather of winter and early spring. If Peruna is taken at the first symptom of a cold it will cure it before it develops into some annoying catarrhal derangement. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. VICKSEEDS Don't let another season pass without planting VICK'S SEEDS. The highest quality seeds at the most reasonable prices. Vick's Seeds are the most profitable because the most productive. Vick's Farmer's Handbook A book every progressive farmer should have. The best work of its kind ever published on Grain, Grass, Clover, Forage and Soil-Renovating Plants, and Root Crops. It tells all about the culture and care of crope, preparation of the soil, fertilizers, spraying for fungus diseases, insects, etc. The farmer's reliable reference book. Price 25 cts., but we will send it for 10 cts. if you mention this paper, and we will also send with it a copy of Vick's Garden and Floral Guide Full of information and advice on planting, and descriptions of the best Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, Roses and Shrubs, and Small Fruits. 122 pages. Whether you grow for profit or pleasure it will help you. Free—send for it. JAMES VICK'S SONS 46 Stone Street Rochester, N. Y. GREEN RAPE costs 25 cents per TON. Greatest, Cheapest Food on Earth for Sheep, Swine, Cattle, etc. Will be worth $100 to you to read what Sailor's catalog says about rape. Billion Dollar Grass will positively make you rich; 12 tons of hay and 100 tons of pasture per acre, so also Bromus, Peasost, Speiz (400 bu. corn, 250 bu. eats per acre), etc., 400. For this Notice and 100, we mail big catalog and 10 FarmSeed Novelties, fully worth $10 to get a starch. For 160, we mail 150 kinds of Flower and Vegetable Seeds and catalog. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., LA CROSSE, WIS. CAPSICUM VASELINE (PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES) 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 sciatica. 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 rh-umatic, 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 18 cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHEESEBROUGH MPO. CO. 17 State Street, New York City. $5000.00 in Cash and Premiums will be Divided FREE B·S·N | L·D·N among those pending in answers to above puzzle. Supply the missing letters in above skeleton words, and spell the names of two cities, the set in U.S., the ld in England, $000.00 of the award in cash. We gave $10,000.00 in awards last year to advertise our business. Answer to-day. A postal will do. We answer by return. The Home Supply Company, Detroit, Mich. CATARRH CURED with my Inhaler. Great discovery, post paid 2c. O. Bernahl, W. Fullman, II. W. N. U. CHIOAGO, NO. 8, 1802. Wace Answeing Advertisements hirdly Mention This Freeer. --- 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. HEAVY MACHINERY. Smoke Stacks, Cupolas and Monuments Erected. Hoisting and Placing of all kinds of Beams and Girders for architectural work. Office, 31 South Canal St., Chicago TELEPHONE MAIN 4928. The brutal killing of Louis F. Wright, a Negro, by a mob at New Madrid, Mo., last Monday night, without just cause, is further prove that there are many whites in this country, who are savages at heart and are always ready to display their race prejudice against all Negroes. It appears that Louis F. Wright, who resided with his mother at No. 20 Bishop Court, this city, was a member of Richards and Pringle's minstrels, which was performing at New Madrid at the time Wright met his death at the hands of the mob of white Christians. Just preceding the show, those composing the mob insulted and endeavored to impose upon Wright, and just because he talked back to them, like a free man, they became offended at him, and that same night these white(?) gentlemen went to the theater fully determined to take Wright out and give him a good sound beating for daring to contend for his rights as an American citizen. They rushed upon the stage after him like wild devils, but he fired into them with his pistol, and several of the crowd were wounded by him. Men, women and children became stricken with fear. Wright and the whole troupe were placed in jail, but in a very short time afterwards Sheriff Stone, turned Wright over to the mob, which took and hung him up to a tree, as a sample of Missouri justice. Wright was not charged with raping a white woman. Wednesday morning Alderman Maypole, Harry Goings, a relative of Louis F. Wright and Julius F. Taylor appeared before the finance committee of the City Council. Alderman Maypole acquainted it with the facts in the case and requested a little financial assistance for Mrs. Wright, who was also in the building to aid her in bringing the remains to Chicago for burial. Aldermans Mavor, Jackson, Bennett, Beilfuss, Finn,Goldzier,Blake, Boyd, Hon. F. W. Blocki and other gentlemen connected with the committee contributed $11. Alderman Maypole donated $10 himself. This $21 and a letter addressed to the officials of the Illinois Central Railroad signed by Mayor Carter H. Harrison Alderman Mavor, chairman of the finance committee; Francis O'Neill, chief of police, and Alderman Maypole, requesting it to bring Wright's body to Chicago, and Mrs. Wright could not find words to express her gratitude for the assistance these gentlemen rendered her. President Roosevelt robbed the Negro troops of all their honor for saving the day at the battle of El Carney and Santiago, and he has also robbed Admiral W. S. Schley of his honors and placed them where they do not belong, which is sufficient proof that the vast majority of the American people did not use good judgment when they made it possible for Roosevelt, the cowboy, to become President of the United States. CHIPS. Mr. John Connolly, manager of the Chicago Athletic Club has become an aldermanic candidate in the 24th ward. Mr. Connolly is a true Democrat and he is popular with all classes, and Alderman Ehemann is pushing his boom along. Garden City Chapter, No. 31, O. E. S., gave a masquerade party at Butlers hall, 5728 State street, Wednesday evening, which was enjoyed by all who attended it. It was managed by Mrs. Carrie Webb, and Mrs. Louise Montgomery. George E. Jones of Little Rock, Ark., died last week at his home, leaving a large and valuable estate. He owned one of the largest blocks in Little Rock and was known to have been identified with all measures intended for the upbuilding of the Negro race. Representative E. M. Cummings,who is one of the mainsprings of the Democracy of the Town of Lake, made a good record in the Legislature at Springfield last winter and there is no reason why Mr. Cummings should not be given another trial at the legislative bat. Walter T. Stanton will buck up against Representative John E. Doyle, and endeavor to prevent the latter gentleman from being returned to the State Legislature next fall. Johnny Doyle and Walter Stanton, are both hustlers and there may be a very hot fight between these two young statesmen of the 31st ward. Prince Henry of Germany is billed to strike this town, in the near future and the reception committee, which will look after his Royal Highness is made up of all nationalities except the Negro and whoever selected the committee, must have concluded that the "niggers" must keep out of sight when Prince Henry arrives in town. The alderman fight in the 30th ward between Alderman Charles J. Boyd, Captain John J. Bradley, D. J. Rjordan, James G. Hannahan is growing hotter and hotter and it is hard to tell what the outcome will be, although Alderman Boyd's supporters still think that he will be the winner. The Rev. P. A. Hubert, formerly of some other place, but now of Chicago, has in some way incurred the displeasure of the Milwaukee Advocate and the Chicago Broad Ax. These papers are walking all over the doctor, from many colleges, with hobnailed boots. This, gentlemen, is cruel; you will tear the learned doctor's\flesh. But then—well, let us pray!—The Times, Denver, Colo. Brother Sharp! We hold no enmity against Rev. P. A. Hubert, but we do think that he should not be allowed to rank and snort in the pulpits for he uses vulgar language, and he is a chicken-eater and a lady killer. Ask your dealer for Sunday Creek No. 18 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. William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Room 402 Reaper Block, CHICAGO Tel. North 16L ADDISON BLAKELY ...LAWYER... SUITE 1202 ASHLAND BLOCK. RESIDENCE 321 WEBST. R AVE. CHARLES HUGH LEECH COMMERCIAL LAW A SPECIALTY Room 216 Roanoke Bldg. 145 La Salie St. Phone Central 3584. CHICAGO, Telephone Yard 707 Residence, 110 Gurfield Bd. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4787 S. HALSTED STREET, .....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. — T. L. M. 2025. — Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77. South Clark St. CHICAGO EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 260 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2533. CHICAGO. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Open House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. TELEPHONE MAIN 1786. 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., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. ```markdown ``` WILLIAM LOEFFLER Wholesale and Retail Telephone 365 South 31st and State Streets CHICAGO Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO. SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLE. Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. OHIOAGO, IA. SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR PROVISIONS FROM A.E. HANSEN, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Meats Best Brands of Flour, Teas, Coffees Baking Powder, Spices, Butter Eggs, and Canned Goods, E. All Goods Guaranteed to be Fresh, 5060 DEARBORN ST., COR. 51ST ST. CHICAGO. GEO. C. CALLAHAN & CO. PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Eto. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods No. 5046 SO. STATE STREET CHICAGO Repairing neatly done By Ordering $15 Suits and One of Our- Overcoats Made to your measure in Any Style. Guaranteed to Fit and Satisfy You. Better Grades up to $25 G. E. EVANS Dealer in All Kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL, Wood, Charcoal, Coke and Ice, Expressing and Moving a Specialty. 332 29th St. Chicago, Ill. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By The Largest, Oldest and Most Extensive Tailoring Establishment in Chicago Our Fall Line is Now Complete. The Best in the City. EVERYTHING GUARANTEED. THE MOSSLER BROS. TAKEN FROM LIFE; BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL. Successors to ARNHEIM, THE TAILOR. CORNER CLARK AND MONROE STS. OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It presents the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never falls to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly performed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair as home. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities is the best and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full dispersion with every bottle. Only &$ count. Sold by drucker or by send us &$ count for one bottle or &$ &$ for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address pinnily to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. TAXES ARE NOW DUE! The State, County, City, School, Drainage, Library and South Park taxes for the year 1901 are now due and payable at my office, Room III County Building, cor. Washington and Clark Streets. THOMAS TOBIN, AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. From now until further notice The Broad Ax will be on sale at the following places: E. H. Faulkner, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3104 State street. B. W. Pitts, printing office, 6713 State street. A. F. Tervalon's cigar store and news stand, 2826 State street. S. Mitchell's news stand and cigar store, 4902 State street. News items and advertisements left at those places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax. President Roosevelt has again showed his very human side by stepping on his wife's best gown. TAXES ARE NOW DUE. The State, County, Town, City, Drainage and South Park Taxes For the year 1901 are now due and payable at my office, Stock Exchange Building, 108 La Salle 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 purposes. Maurice Eltzgerald, Collector Town of So. Chicago. Office, Stock Exchange Bldg., 108 La Salle Street. ```markdown ```