The Broad Ax

TOO MUCH PRAYING AND HYPOCRISY ON THE PART OF THE NEGRO. Of all the civilized or semi-civilized people who are scattered over the face of the earth, none of them, or to speak more precisely, no race of people expend as much time in praying or resort to as much hypocrisy as the Negro race, for it seems utterly impossible for the Negro to hold any kind of a meeting or gathering without opening or closing it with a prayer and singing. This also includes political meetings, and anyone who does not believe in praying would naturally think that in-as-much as the vast majority of the Negroes devote so much time to singing, praying and to other religious exercises, that they would be far above practicing the art of hypocrisy or dissimulation, but no one who is capable of giving the subject the slightest consideration can successfully contend that such is not the case, for if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that as a general rule the Negro is extremely long on praying and hypocrisy and very short on true religion or honesty of purpose. This may partly be accounted for on the theory that for several hundred years the Negro was subjected to a condition of abject slavery, and during that time he formed no conception of a high ethical standard or ideas, and as far as his religious ideas or impressions were concerned he was guided or swayed entirely by emotion or religious enthusiasm. He was taught then by his immature or unlettered religious teachers or preachers, as he is instructed today by his stall-fed faithless or dishonest ministers that it is better to profess to love Jesus than to seek enlightenment or to adhere strictly to the moral Law in all things. By inculcating these false ideas into the mind of the Negro, is the main reason or cause why he tramples morality or the moral laws under his feet, and relies on hypocrisy and praying to square himself with his anthroponotical or man-made god. With these false or erroneous ideas constantly before him respecting the true or simple religion which is stripped of emotionalism and hypocrisy and founded on love, honesty and reason, he easily leads himself to believe that it is not harmful to open and close all his meetings with religious songs and prayers, then fight or resort to violence in the midst of them, and in many instances these hypocritical religionists who claim that they are far superior to all moral or honest men become so pugnacious, that its very dangerous for those who are not prize-fighters to attend their prayer or other religious meetings. This utter disregard for decency, law and order on the part of so many Negroes who belong to church shows that he is not in favor of being governed, and it further demonstrates that he only uses his religion as a cloak. For we know of many Negroes who are officers of the churches who can cuss louder and longer than the very devil himself, and drink more whisky and beer than the old rounders who frequent the tough resorts in the levee district. Moreover, we can call the names of many church officials, both men and women, who close their eyes and look very sanctimonious while the preacher is giving out his text, or conduct themselves as though they are ready to go right on to heaven while the so-called Holy Spirit is upon them, but the next morning after they have spent all day and most of the night in the church it is no trouble to see many of them rushing into the policy shops for the purpose of playing policy with the numbers which the elder read out of the Bible or used while he threatened to take them by the nape of the neck and drop them into hell. Does not this prove that there is too much praying and hypocrisy on the part of the Negro? That he has not been taught the true essence of religion (morality and honesty)? We very much regret to mention the fact that there are many women who are leaders in the churches, teachers in the Sunday schools and very active and prominent workers and officers of the Colored women's clubs who are inveterate policy fiends. These women who have great faith in dreams and visions, play the blood row, the crazy row, the chicker row and many other kinds of rows, yet they feel that they are good church members and are the chosen ones of God. They also entertain the idea that simply because they are expert policy players that they are eminently fitted to shine in society. Many of these same women believe in rushing th beer growler all day long, and some of them make no bones in sending their little boys and girls—their own flesh and blood—into the worst saloons after beer for them and their lady friends, and their finer sensibilities have become so blunted or deadened that they do not think that they are violating the moral laws, or fitting their boys for the prison or the gallows or their sweet little girls for street walkers by sending them into low saloons. All these undisputed facts, unmistakably indicate that many of our so-called respectable women in this city who desire to pose as Christian women, like many of the same stripe or class of men, simply wear the cloak of religion as a sham and to cover up or over a multitude of sins or immoral acts. Therefore we must again emphasize the fact that there is too much praying and hypocrisy on the part of our Afro-American women as well as the men, and too little regard for honesty and true morality. As further evidence that the Negro is sadly in need of a higher ethical standard; only a few years ago Mush-mouth Johnson, 464 State street, was shot by one of his victims who had lost all his money in his big gambling den, and while Mush-mouth Johnson was in the hospital most of the Negro preachers rushed out to the hospital for the purpose of praying and singing to him, and if we mistake not they succeeded in getting Mush-mouth to promise to join the Bethesda Baptist church, providing the good Lord would spare him. The Lord did not snatch him out of this world but instead of Johnson's wearing the Lord's crown and joining the church when he got well, he went back to his saloon and gambling house, another case of too much praying and hypocrisy on th part of the Negro preachers and their followers. In conclusion we beseach and implore the Negro to rid himself of religious superstition, emotionalism, policy playing and other forms of gambling or vice, praying and hypocrisy, for all these things are relics of slavery days, and let the Negro embrace the religion of the future—the religion of morality, honesty, love and reason. IT FIZZLED OUT. All-Hash Roberts, the third-rate ex-barber who was unable to make a living by working at the barber's trade, and who came mighty near starving to death by attempting to impose upon the public as a weak-brained lawyer, could not raise enough money to have his handsome "mug" and his rambling harangue which he delivered at the Sherman House almost one month ago published in the paper which at one time was very neway, which has now dwindled into a cheap church organ, and the editor of this old-time church organ was very much disappointed last week and he refused to be comforted because All-Hash Roberts, the ex-barber, who always wants to be in the lead in all the public functions, failed or could not raise or put up enough money or postage stamps to pay his office devll. In order to have kept his word with the readers of his paper the shouting and praying editor was willing to do his work or printing for a song, but All-Hash Roberts was unable to connect himself with any money which shows that he has no right in posing as a great leader of the Negro race. There are many hundred Afro-American Democrats in Chicago who are great admirers of Frederick Douglass, but All-Hash Roberts, who is chuck full or egotism, would not under any circumstances invite one of them to deliver a flev-minute toast on that occasion some one requested him to permit L. W. Washington to talk for the Afro-American Democrats, but All-Hash claimed that L. W. Washington's grammar was bad and Roberts, who is fitted for hanging criminals, passed Mr. Washington and all the other Afro-American Democrats up as being beneath his notice or only worthy to receive his scorn and contempt. Lieut. W. P. Clarney, who is known to all the crooks around the stock yadra police station and throughout the Town of Lake, is one of the ablest and most fearless police officers in Chicago. HEW TO THE LINE. F. Whose Untimely and Tragic Death at Joliet Tuesday Morning is a Great Loss to This Republic and the World at Large DEATH OF EX-GOV. JOHN P. ALTGELD. In closing his last great speech in behalf of struggling humanity and for the the rights of the Boers in South Africa, at Joliet, Tuesday night, ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld, the Pericles of America, expired or returned to the arms of Nature. John P. Altgeld was born in Germany in 1847, and he came to EX-GOV. JOHN Whose Untimely and Tragic Death at to This Republic and this country while he was nothing but a poor, penniless boy. His parents located on farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and for many years after coming to America he labored on the farm and studied hard at night, in time he became a soldier in the Union Army and he served his adopted country well in that capacity. As time rolled on he became a school teacher and in 1867 he drifted or walked from his home in Ohio to St. Louis, Mo., where he found work. At that time John P. Altgeld did not have ten cents to his name but he was full of pluck and grit. From St. Louis Mr. Altgeld moved on into the northwestern part of Missouri where he resumed school teaching and began to study law, and within a few years from the time John P. Altgeld located in Western Missouri he was elected city attorney and also county attorney. After very creditably serving his terms of office in Missouri, Mr. Altgeld came to Chicago in 1875 and from that time onward to the day of his death he was prominent in all the affairs pretaining to the welfare of Chicago, the State of Illinois and this mighty nation. John P. Altgeld came up out of the ranks of the plain or the common people and like Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, he always highly esteemed them and also like those two great patriots he could never be induced nor persuaded to turn his back upon them, for it was the common people that elevated him to one of the Superior Court Judgeships in 1886 and while he served the people in that exalted position he weighed out justice to all classes and nationalities with golden scales. It was the common people who bore John P. Altgeld on their backs into the Governor's chair at Springfield in 1892, and as Governor of Illinois he did not hesitate in letting the high or the heaven born or the capitalistic class know that the plain or the laboring class were in the possession of some rights which they, the capitalists, must and should respect at least while he was governor of Illinois. That was the reason why this exclusive or privileged class of citizens hated him and branded him as an anarchist, for possessing the courage to stand up for the right! And right here we want to say that in our opinion Governor Altgeld displayed his great statesmanship and showed his true manhood when he pardoned the anarchists, for no evidence was produced during --- their trial which established the fact beyond reasonable doubt that either one of the convicted anarchists were guilty of throwing the ill-fated bomb; they were simply and solely condmned to death or imprisoned by public sentiment, but in time the American people will learn that public sentiment is a very dangerous thing to fool without a just cause. For frequently its deadly P ALTGELD. Joliet Tuesday Morning is a Great Loss the World at Large hands are fastened around the throats of those who are not guilty of doing wrong. As Governor of Illinois John P. Altgeld had the honor of admitting the Ninth Battalion as a part of the Illinois National Guards, for it must be remembered that for five long years these Afro-American soldiers endeavored to be mustered into the service of the State under fighting Joseph W. Fifer, but Gov. Fifer very contempuously spurned them aside and absolutely refused to give them any consideration whatever and it remained for Gov. John P. Altgeld, the first Democratic Governer Illinois since 1856, to do justice to those belonging to the Ninth Battalion. Many colored Democrats held good positions at Springfield while he was governor and for these and for many other acts of kindness which he cheerfully performed for the Afro-Americans greatly endeared him to them and the picture of John P. Altgeld can be seen hanging on the walls in homes of many of the progressive Negroes in this city and throughout the State of Illinois. John P. Altgeld's latest contribution to the world of literature was his book on "Oratory" which appeared the first of 1901 and during the month of May the writer who always greatly admired him for his boldness and independent spirit, received a copy of his classical little book with the following inscription written on the fly-leaf with his own hand: "Julius F. Taylor, with the kind regards of John P. Altgeld, Chicago, May 6, 1901." We shall always prize this little token of Mr. Altgeld's friendship very highly. Very few men knew John P. Altgeld well enough to walk up to him and pat him on the shoulder and say, "Hellow John," for he possessed no magnetism, for he was rather cold and distant. But he won his way into the hearts of the people by his wonderful oratory and by using choice and elegant language while pleading or advocating their cause. He was thoroughly honest in all things, was plain and simple in his habits and loved his home and family. He was devoid of personal vanity and was thoroughly Democratic. His breast was full of the milk of human kindness and his love for the poor and the oppressed was as broad as the universe and lastly, he was one of nature's noblest and most valiant sons. ```markdown ``` There are self-made women, tailormade women, and some who are simply maid. Each class speaks for itself. When an old man having a plenty of money or property asks a young maid in marriage he seldom gets a flat refusal. Alderman Albert W. Beilfuss, 15th ward, will have no trouble in retaining his seat in the city council after the first of April. Capt. John J. Bradley swept everything before him last Saturday at the Primaries, and he will be the next 30th ward alderman. Alderman Wm. C. Kuester, 26th ward, is one of the high grade members of the city council and he will continue to serve in that body until April 1st, 1904. Alderman Charles J. Boyd, it is said, will run as an independent candidate in the 30th ward. Alderman Boyd is still popular with the masses. Lawyer Albert B. George lectures this coming Sunday afternoon before the South End Sunday Club, at St. Mark's Church on "Prospects." The Broad Ax regreted to see Aldermen Charles J. Byrne, Charles H. Gary, Manning T. Hackley tossed overboard for they were all useful members of the city council. Thomas J. McShirley, a Negro, was arrested the first of the week at 32nd and State street by Police Officer Frendergast; for toteing a coffin away from J. L. Parks undertaking rooms, 3155 State street. Congressman John J. Felly arrived in the city Friday night and left for Washington, D. C., Tuesday evening. Congressman Felly is looking well and he is working hard for all his constituents. John Blackshear came very near cutting the face off another Negro, Sunday last, in Billy Piper's saloon. 141 West 47th St. After Blackshear carved up his man with a big razor he skipped out for St. Louis in order to escape from being arrested. Ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld's remains will lie in state at the Public Library from 10 o'clock today until 5 p. m. and at 11 o'clock Sunday morning they will be borne to Graceland cemetery followed by Gov. Yates, his staff, the city officials and by many other distinguished citizens. "The Philosopher-Infidels" will be Prof. M. M. Mangasarian's subject Sunday morning, March 16. Every Sunday morning the Grand Opera House is filled to overflowing by people who use their thinkers for they delight in listening to the Professor's instructive lectures. President Roosevelt appoints a white gold Democrat, William Fleming, postmaster at Athens, Ga., to succeed a Negro, "Pink" Morton. The people began to hold mass-meetings against Morton as soon as the question of his reappointment arose, and so the President concluded to try another color.—Springfield Republican. Every self-respecting Negro in the land should subscribe and pay for at least one newspaper published by the race. But shame on some of our wouldbe big Negroes. They would, pay for nothing and see good in nothing done by black men and women. Despite these simpletons, the Negroes are making progress along all lines.—Voice of the Century. Rev. J. F. Thomas, who has stood up in his pulpit in Olivet Baptist church, and pronounced his blessings upon Bob Motts, and asked the Lord to let Bob prosper because he gave him some money (and perhaps a bottle of whiskey) is running a prayer or a revival meeting which will last from now until the 1st of May, and Elder Thomas may pull Motts through and induce him to become one of the deacons of Olivet. A Kapaas newspaper man's motto is, "Lie, steal, drink and swear. When you lie, let it be down to pleasant dreams, when you steal, let it be away from immoral associates, when you drink, let it be pure water, when you swear, let it be that you will patronize your home paper, pay your subscription and not send your job work away from home." This motto should be adopted by every man who desires to live right and see his home town flourish and grow.—Ex. Flora Bender, of Frederick, Md., got religion, as they sometimes say in that section, and wanted to be baptized. The preacher was willing, but as in her case baptism would mean immersion in a neighboring creek her parents objected. Miss Flora insisted, though warned that she was not strong enough to stand such an ordeal. Then her parents got out an injunction restraining her until the water shall be of a more congenial temperature.—The Southwestern Banner. Monday morning the Town of Lake conversion was held in the Watita League club roome. Justice John Fitzgerald called the convention to order, and introduced State Senator M. J. Butler, who served as chairman. Rep. E. M. Cummings acted as secretary. M. P. Byrne passed up the resolutions which went through without a hitch and the following ticket was nominated Michael Bauer, supervisor; John Smolka, clerk; Thomas Tobin, collector; John Schuberth, assessor. Dr. W. H. Jones is an eminent physician of Harrisburg, Pa. He is the only Negro physician in the city. By his great skill he has earned a widespread renown. His practice which is about all that he can possibly attend to is increasing among the whites. His patients are among the best white families. This work the great Duphin County Medical Society composed of all the doctors of the county held the annual meeting and elected Dr. W. H. Jones as president for the ensuing year. This society is composed entirely of white men.—Ex. The following are some of the many good Democrats who will be elected to the city council the first of April: David L. Frank, 1st ward; Wm. E. Kent, 4th ward; Charles Martin, 5th ward; John T. Hanrahan, 6th ward; P. J. Gorman, 8th ward; Henry L. Fick, 9th ward; James J. Higgins, 10th ward; Fred Rhode, 11th ward; V. E. Cerveny, 12th ward; James H. Perkinson, 13th ward; Wm. T. Maypole, 14th Ward; Stanley H. Kunze, 16th ward; Wm. E. Dever, 17th ward; Nicholas R. Finn, 20th ward; John Minwegan, 21st ward; M. D. Daugherty, 22d ward; Ernst R. Herrmann, 23d ward; Charles J. Holmes, 28th ward; Thomas Carey, 29th ward; Capt. John J. Bradley, 30th ward, and P. J. O'Connell, 31st ward. Tuesday morning Harry Shelton, who resided with his dutiful wife at 4901 Dearborn St., was killed in a wreck on the Rock Island Road at Sheffield, Ill. Several other persons were also injured at the same time. On receiving the sad news Mrs. Shelton left for Sheffield Tuesday noon to make arrangements to bring Mr. Shelton's remains to this city and she arrived home from her sad mission Wednesday evening and this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, funeral services will be held at her home, 4901 Dearborn St. Rev. Jason Bundy will officiate, after which Mrs. Shelton will accompany the remains of her devoted husband to Topeka, Kan., for burial where his parents reside. For many years Mr. Shelton worked for the Rock Island Road and he was highly respected by its officials. He was steady and honest and provided well for his family and his sudden death is a terrible shock to his many warm friends and his loving wife. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Love is one kind of praise and envy is another. Perfume manufacturers make dollars out of scents. Your life isn't worth living unless you think it is. Some men are born foolish and others fall in love. A political pull is often a great strain on the candidate's leg. The course of true love requires a lot of money to keep it in repair. A woman never feels comfortable unless her shoes are uncomfortable. A man makes a sweeping assertion when he fills his opponent's eyes with dust. Many a man grows wealthy by acting contrary to the advice of the majority. A woman would rather other women would talk disrespectfully about her than ignore her. Nine times out of a possible ten a woman's indignation will not bear close inspection. That student who lingers around the foot of his class may eventually become a first-class chiropodist. Constantly Employed. Some time ago the Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette published a most thrilling and remarkable experience of the wife of Mr. Frederick Payne, himself connected with the Portsmouth dockyard for many years. The report produced a great sensation, not only in Portsmouth, but throughout the country, being considered of sufficient importance for reproduction and editorial comment by the leading metropolitan and provincial press of England, as showing the marvelous power which St. Jacobs Oil possesses as a cure for Rheumatism, its application having effected a perfect cure in the case of Mr. Payne, after having been a helpless cripple and given up by several physicians. 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I began to use St. Jacob's Oil, and you may guess my surprise when in about another week from that date my husband could not only stand, but could even walk about, and in three weeks from the time I first used the Oil my husband was back at work, and everybody talking about his wonderful recovery. This is not all. Seeing what St. Jacob's Oil could do gave me faith in your Vogeler's Curative Compound, also favorably mentioned in the book left at my house. I determined to try the compound on my little girl, who was suffering from a dreadful skin disease, the treatment of which has cost me large sums of money in going from one doctor to another with her, all to no purpose. She has taken two bottles of Vogeler's Curative Compound, and one would now hardly take her for the same child. Her skin has such a nice healthy color after the sallow look she has always had. "I shall never cease to be thankful for the immense benefit we have derived from these two great remedies of youra. 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The historian says: "If you have had any hopes of the progress of mankind in the new century I envy you. I have none. Indeed, I find it rather backsliding. Perhaps if a new world would arrive to supplant the ancient one humanity may be bettered; but this, too, I think extremely doubtful." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars rewaits any case of Catarch that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarch Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Wa, 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 obliga- sions made by their firm. West & Tranx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Walding, Kinnast & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Oetarrb Cure is taken internally, acti- ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price No per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Proposed Honor for Gen. Wallace. Congress will soon be called upon to consider a proposition for the erection of a monument to Gen. Lew Wallace and the troop with whom he defended Washington during the Civil War. The suggestion has been made that Senator Fairbanks of Indiana take charge of the matter. Indian Women a Trained Nurse. One of the first Indian women to take up the calling of a trained nurse is an educated girl of the Pueblo tribe, Miss Selcher Ataya. Will presuppose and at all times unhinder the two principles of Democracy, but Darwin, Smith, Protestantism, Knight of Labor, Incline, Hoynean, Republican, Principe, or any else can have their any, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is kind. The Sound Air is a newspaper whose platform is bound enough for all, over claiming the natural right to speak its own mind. Ques. Terc. ..... 61,50 * Monthly ..... 1,50 * broadcasting notes made known on applications, affects all communications to Jan Kubelik's raven hair seems to be a splendid re-enforcement to his violin shading. Gen. Weyler wants the Spanish army reduced—probably to put the navy in countenance. German-built boats may do for trade or the navy, but for himself the emperor wants the best. An emergency appropriation to supply our statesmen with sparring lessons is earnestly suggested. The microbe that causes gray hairi has been discovered, but no injunction has been served on him as yet. The early spring talk about the destruction of the peach crop seems to have been nipped in the bud. To the average workman increased wages are better than new resolutions for the beginning of a fresh year. The Pan-American congress is already bearing fruit. Washington is importing Mexican bullsnakes to catch her rats. It will now be in order to watch the Macedonial committee and see if it begins spending money with easy nonchalance. These are such surprising days that we barely find time to call attention to an Ohio judge's trial of a case by telephone. Montana could not get as good as third money in Detroit. It took one of her cashiers over three years to steal a paltry $178,000. There is a 16-year-old boy in Tennessee who has killed three men. A boy of that age is almost sure to come to a bad end. A Kentucky farmer is dead from a calf bite. No Kentuckian ever dies from a snake bite. The antidote is always in his pocket. Kansas wants to know if a man can be a Christian on $5 a week. That would depend largely on how much money his wife had. Wilhelmina's Prince Henry seems to be really trying now to live a blameless life. A testimonial of some kind ought to be forwarded to encourage him. According to a dispatch, British newspapers are giving the American steel trust credit for various things. The trust doesn't need credit; it can pay cash. No one has succeeded in improving upon Edward Everett's estimate of George Washington. "He was the greatest of good men and the best of great men." According to the census bureau the value of domestic animals, fowls and bees in the United States is $8,200,000,-000. This includes the cows that produce colored butter. It is no cause for humiliation that the brain of a man weighs three times that of an ape. It takes man three times longer to prove superiority to his own satisfaction. The king of Siam has changed his plans and will not visit the United States this year, but the regular annual circus will come, street parade and all, the same as usual. Against those who deplore athletics as demoralizing may be pitted the Topeka clergyman who declares that "It is all right for college students to pray to God to give them victory in a football game." For every excess inch of liberty that the "foreign devils" are now taking with the humiliated court of China the smiling dowager empress expects to take a mile of bitter revenge in the red bye and bye. Students of an Ohio college hazed a new man the other night by gagging and binding him and then dropping him twenty feet down a coal hole. Yet the victim failed to see the joke. Some people are so obtuse. Philanthropist Keene doesn't believe much in organized charity, for the reason that it demands a certificate of character before giving aid to people in extremity. It is true enough that in almost everything else, including the pursuit of pleasure, we take long chances on getting the worth of our FORCE IN A YEAR'S WINKS. How the Life of the Ordinary Man Is Divided Up. A man with a mania for figuring and not enough to do to keep him out of mischief, has been making calculations regarding the manner in which the life of the ordinary man, who both works and plays, is divided up. When such a man has reached the age of 60 he will have spent his time as follows, according to the statistician: Twenty years in sleep, three years and nine months in eating; seventeen years six months in working; seven years and six months in the pursuit of pleasure; six years and three months in walking and other exercise; two years and six months in making his toilet, and six months in doing absolutely nothing. The item for toilet he subdivides into seven months shaving, eleven months washing and one year dressing. Persons mathematically inclined can find flaws in these figures—if there are any—most people will be content to take them on faith. This remarkable dissecter of human life by the mathematical process has also discovered, he says, that the average man speaks 11,800,000 words a year and shakes hands 1,200 times, thereby using up energy enough in fifty years to lift 2,500 tons. The amount of force a man uses up in winking is truly appalling. Our statistician calculates that the average man in a single year opens and shuts his eyes no less than 95,000,000 times, and in doing this uses force enough altogether to raise an electric car filled with passengers. Consequently in 60 years he develops enough force to wink sixty trolley cars off the track. This is the moderate, average, sober, respectable man mind you, not the frivolous person who winks at all the pretty girls he sees. The "wink-power" developed by a flirtatious man probably is enough to run the new subway system.—New York Press. LAPSE OF MEMORY. Momentary Forgetfulness That Broke Upon an Orator. Some Westerners were telling stories of political campaigns in the lobby of the Hoffman House. "I heard a good one on Senator William H. Stewart of my state," said a Nevada man. "You know, Mr. Stewart doesn't spend much of his time at home—he only goes out there once in every six years, when it comes time to have himself elected back to the senate. "In the course of his last campaign he presided over a mass meeting in Virginia City, and as chairman he had to introduce each speaker in turn. With complimentary praises he presented to the audience the first three, and then he arose to introduce the fourth. "Gentlemen,' said the senator, 'I have the distinguished honor of presenting to you my boyhood's friend, a man I have always known as a stanch follower of our national principles and as a speaker of conspicuous ability. Rarely has it been my pleasure to sit on the same platform with him in recent years, but I know of old the ringing notes of his voice and the sterling sense of his words. I introduce to you the Honorable—the Honorable—the Honorable—' "The senator paused. His memory had forsaken him, and it was not a situation in which quick wit was an effective asset. Finally, after a painful pause, he turned to the chairman of the campaign committee and whispered: "'What did you say the feller's name was, Bill?'" Foraker's Long Memory. "What is the temperature at Fargo, North Dakota?" The question was asked of the weather clerk in the marble room of the senate yesterday by a stoutly built, smooth-faced man. At the sound of the voice Senator Foraker, who was also standing in front of the weather map, turned around. "I know you," he said, addressing the stout man. "Your name is Edwards." "Yes," was the reply; "but I am sorry to say that I do not remember you." "I am not surprised," remarked Senator Foraker, smiling. "We have not seen each other for thirty-eight years. Don't you remember down in Marletta, Ga., in 1864, when you were in the army of the Tennessee, you used to argue with a young soldier in the army of the Cumberland? I am the soldier. My name is Foraker." "Joe Foraker, by heaven!" exclaimed the man. "Of course I remember. But, say, haven't you grown gray and ain't you bald?" Senator Foraker admitted the indictment, and then the two men, who had not seen each other in thirty-eight years, went off and talked over old times.—Washington Post. A London Publisher's Confession. One gets confessions now and again which are distinctly interesting, though it may not be possible to turn them to any practical use. Here is an example: Yesterday a publisher was talking of twenty years ago. "Then," he said, "I could publish any novel that came along, if it were not hopelessly bad, and be sure of a profit; which I could generally estimate pretty accurately before the MS. went to the press. The only possibility of error lay in the fact that the book might by chance achieve an unexpected success, and so bring an unexpected profit." He went on to explain that conditions are changed, and of course they are, or he would not have talked with such frankness—admitting all that was vehemently contradicted only a few years ago, when Sir Walter Besant spoke of the ethics of publishing—London Morning Post. $25.00 TO GALIFORNIA. Every Day During March and April. Phenomenally low rates to the Pacific Coast and Intermediate Points. Colonist Excursions open to all. Later on at intervals during the summer special round trip excursions to the Coast at less than One Cent Per Mile going one way, returning another. An exceptional opportunity to visit any part or all parts of the Great West for pleasure, education or business. People with interests at various points will show you attention. Address a postal to W. G. Neimyer, General Agent, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific Rys., 193 South Clark St., Chicago, Ill. 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While the latter are full of contentment, the home manufacturers and dressmakers feel bitter upon the subject. Even the velvet, which is equally well made in England, has been ordered in France. Profusions of jewelry are now worn. Never were women so gem laden as at present. Imitation and real stones are mingled together haphazarded. For the woman who cannot afford luxurious jewelry there is only one revenge—to wear none and affect simplicity. For Her Bister's Sake, Stendal, Ind., Mar. 10th.—Mrs. Sarah A. Shrode of this place says: "I suffered much as many other women do with Kidney and Bladder Troubles. I tried many medicines but got no relief until I used Dodd's Kidney Fills. "Nine boxes of this remedy cured me completely and I feel it my duty to my fellow women to make this statement. "I can heartily recommend them to any woman suffering with Kidney and Bladder Allments." The words of Mrs. Shrode will be good news to many of her suffering sisters. Dodd's Kidney Pillis have proven themselves to be sick women's best friend for they are as effectual in all cases of Female Weakness as in Bladder and Kidney Disease. "Recently," wrote a Kansas lawyer, "you had an article about the lack of dignity upon the bench. It reminded me of a case in point, the judge being on the bench in southern Kansas in the early '70's. He was noting on his record the filing of a bill of exceptions and this is the way he did it; 'And now comes the attorney for the plaintiff, rasping his williams of exceptions.'" Congressman Burk has traveled all over the world outside of the United States, the greater part of which is unknown to him. He says he goes to foreign countries in order to get an entire change from his usual surroundings. He has never been west of Chicago nor south of Washington. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. Makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Chilblains and Frost-bites. At all druggists and shoe stores; 25 cents. The word hoyden, now applied exclusively to a noisy young woman, formerly denoted a person of like character, but of either sex. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. Praise from another is far better than self-praise.—Democritus. Disorders of the Kidneys and Madder cause Bright's Disease, Rheumatism, Gravel, Pain in the Back, Skidder Disorders, difficult or too frequent passing of water, Dropsy, etc. For these diseases Positive Specific Cure is found in a new botanical discovery, the wonderful Kava-Kava Shrub, called by botanists the piper methystine, from the Ganges River, East India. It has the extraordinary record Miss Fiona Dearing, Palersburg, Ind. of 1,200 hospital cures in 30 days. It acts directly on the Kidneys, and cures by draining out of the Blood the poisonous Uric Acid, Lithium, etc., which causes the disease. James Thomas, Eag., of the Board of Review Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C., was cured after many physicians failed and he had given up all hope of recovery. Nathaniel Anderson, Eag., of Greenwood, S.C., writes: Was a suffleur of Kidney and Bladder trouble, which caused two hemorrhages of the Kidney; had to tribute every few minutes; physicians told him his case was incurable, but was completely cured by Alkawra. Alyvia D. Lane, Annun, Me., writes: Was cured of Kidney mation, which vampoose as to cause him to use crutches. Hundreds of similar testimonials can be produced if denied. Many Indians, including Mim Viola Deering, Potemburg, Ind., Mrs. K. K. Dinnamore, South Deerfield, Mass., also tendily as to wonderful敛敛 powers in Kidney diseases and other disorders peculiar to women. That you may judge of the value of this Great Recovery for yourself, we will send you one Large Cane by mail Free, easily asking that when cured yourself you will recommend it to others. It is a small Specula and can not fail. Address. The John Kidney Cane Company No. 40 Funkin Davenport New York U.S. LOGAN WAS CONVERTED. The attitude of Gen. John A. Logan in the exciting days immediately following the first election of Lincoln and the outbreak of the civil war has been the subject of a good deal of discussion, to which a writer for the Illinois State Register of Springfield, Ill., has just contributed an interesting chapter. According to "Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography" Gen. Logan was from the first an ardent supporter of Lincoln and the Union. It says: "On the first intimation of coming trouble from the South he (Logan) declared that in the event of the election of Abraham Lincoln he would shoulder his musket to have him inaugurated." Further on the encyclopedia says: "In July, 1861, during the extra session of congress called by President Lincoln he (Logan) left his seat in congress that he might overtake the troops that were marching out of Washington to meet the enemy, and fought in the ranks of Col. Richardson's regiment in the battle of Bull Run." With both these statements the writer in the Illinois State Register takes issue. Describing himself as a warm friend and admirer of Gen. Logan, he avers that Logan did not sympathize with Lincoln at the start and was not favorable to the cause of the Union when the war began. He further says that while Logan's patriotism was fired by the roar of the Bull Run guns, the story that he left his seat in congress to overtake and fight in the ranks of the Union army at Bull Run is erroneous. He says: "The history of Gen. John A. Logan is a family one, and the object of the writer is to correct that history with no intent or aim to pluck from the brow of one of America's bravest a single laurel to which he is entitled or to wrong his memory in the slightest degree. But the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as the oath goes, is this: "John A. Logan was not favorable to the Union side when the war of the rebellion commenced, and those who claim that he was not only do him but themselves a great wrong. "On the contrary, John A. Logan denounced the war as a 'damned Abolition scheme to free the nigger,' and went so far in his denunciation of the Lincoln party, as he termed it, as to denounce Douglas and many of his warmest friends in Springfield and at his home. On the train upon which Douglas and his wife were going to Chicago, he declared in the hearing of hundreds of people: "'Douglas has sold out the Democratic party, but I'll be damned if he can deliver the goods.' "He was so enraged at Douglas he would not go to Douglas' room in the American House in Springfield, although Douglas implored him by saying: "'John, come up to my room and let us talk this thing over." "'Oh, talk the devil,' said Logan, 'I've talked with you and been led by you, until you have led the Democratic party into ruin! - I'll be damned if you lead me any more!' "He would not listen to the speeches made by Douglas at Bloomington, Pontiac and Joliet, at which last place Logan got off the train and Douglas went on to Chicago, where he died the June following. "John A. Logan had been elected to congress as had old Col. 'Dick' Richardson, as everybody called him. Col. Richardson on the day before the battle of Bull Run made up a party of six, four to go in a carriage and two on horseback, to witness the battle. They arrived near there on the evening before the battle and could get no place to sleep, until one of the party, Col. R. E. Goddell of Denver, 171 Colo., improvised a camp by taking sheaves of oats from a field near by, upon which the party slept that night. "The party consisted of Col. Richardson, Col. John A. McClernand, congressman from Springfield; John A. Logan, the Hon. Burt Cook, Col. R. E. Goddell and one other to be remembered. The party were soundly sleeping in their oat-sheaf beds when the sound of a cannon was heard and Gen. McClernand exclaimed: "My God, boys, it is the beginning of the tug-of-war! Get up and let us hurry to the front." "They went without their breakfast and were as hungry as bears, but still anxious to see the fight. They pushed along until they began to meet stragglers coming toward them, running at their best speed. They came thicker and faster, and then they were met by three men carrying muskets. "John A. Logan jumped toward them and asked: "'What is the matter? Where and what are you running for?" "One of the men replied: 'There's a hell of a fight and the rebels are giving us hell and we are trying to get out of their reach.'" "John A. Logan then grabbed one of the muskets and exclaimed: "There is but one side to take in this fight and I am going to take the Union side." "With that his friends cheered him, for he had been still finding fault with the war and saying sharp things M. against the leaders of his own party 'for helping Lincoln and his party.' McClernand at once said: "He has been converted,' and congratulated him on his change of front." And this, according to the writer in the Illinois State Register, is the true history of how John A. Logan, for once and for all, threw aside his Southern sympathies and enlisted, heart and soul, in the war from the Union in which he made so splendid a record as a brave and loyal soldier. IN THE OLDEN TIME. Ways of American Duelists One Hundred Years Ago. The New York Evening Post of Feb. 1, 1802—a century ago—contained the following: "Yesterday morning an affair of honor was settled at Hoebuck, between Mr. Chandler of Philadelphia and Mr. Carlisle of Albany. Three shots were exchanged, and the latter was wounded in the thigh. "A second was terminated at the same place, between two gentlemen. The particulars of this are variously related. We give the following as the most current, and we believe the most correct: A challenge was given about a fortnight since, and time and place appointed, but no weapons agreed upon. When the challenger came to the ground he perceived his antagonist (who, it is said, was a Yankee) there before him, with two muskets. This, the Yankee informed him, was his mode of fighting, offering him his choice of the guns; the other declined the musket, as not a gentleman's weapon. The Yankee remonstrated that it was placing him on disadvantageous terms to use pistols, as he had never fired one in his life; but if the meeting could be postponed for a fortnight, so that he might practice in the meantime, he was content to use pistols; or his adversary might take the same time to practice with the gun, and he would then meet him with that weapon. The first offer was acceded to; and the parties met yesterday accordingly. Three shots on each side were exchanged; the Yankee's second fire carried away the other's pocket flap, but his third shot him through the fleshy part of both thighs; and here the affair ended. "The third duel took place in New Jersey about ten days since. The only particulars which have come to hand worth mentioning are that there were several spectators who accompanied the parties to the field, and all of whom, together with the two seconds, climbed the trees, to be thus out of harm's way while they saw fair play. But, as one of the gentlemen chose to terminate the affair by firing his pistol in the air—a thing unforeseen—the ball passed through the upper limbs of the very tree where the second of his antagonist had taken his post, and who was so much alarmed at the whistling of the bullet that he fell and broke his collar bone, which was the only accident attending the exhibition; happily no lives were lost." A Belgian diplomat who recently returned from Turkey says that the Turks are not hostile to Christians. At Constantinople the minister of waters and forests has chosen a Roman Catholic priest as a tutor for his son. It is also asserted that the Armenian massacres were not provoked by hatred against Catholics, but by the detestation in which the Armenian race is held for its/ tendency to overreach in trade. Amount of Gold Coin The amount of gold coin in actual circulation in the world is estimated by the Bank of England officials to be about 865 tons. A Remarkable Case Reported From the State of New York. 5 CONGRESSMAN HOWARD, OF ALABAMA. House of Representatives, Washington, Feb. 4, 1899. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen:—"I have taken Peruna now for two weeks, and find I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. I have also taken it for in grippie, and I take pleasure in recommending Peruna as an excellent remedy to all fellow sufferers." M. W. HOWARD. Congressman Howard's home address is Fort Payne, Ala. nounced my trouble a species of advised me, after he had treated months, to get a leave of absence and go into the country. I temporary relief. I want back but was taken with very distress. stomach. "I seldom had a passage of the rally. I consulted another phyt better results. The disease kept until I had exhausted the ability Rochester's best physicians. The advised me to give up my work and go south after he had treated me for one year." "I was given a thorough examination." MOST people think catarrh is a disease confined to the head and nose. Nothing is farther from the truth. It may be that the nose and throat is the oftest affected by catarrh, but if this is so it is so only because these parts are more exposed to the viciousitudes of the climate than the other parts of the body. Every organ, every duct, every cavity of the human body is liable to catarrh. A multitude of ailments depend on catarrh. This is true winter and summer. Catarrh causes many cases of chronic disease, where the victim has not the alightest suspicion that catarrh has anything to do with it. The following letter which gives the experience of Mr. A. C. Lockhart is a case in point: Mr. A. C. Lockhart, corner Cottage St. and Thurston Road, Rochester, N. Y., in a letter written to Dr. Hartman, says the following of Peruna: "About fifteen years ago I commenced to be alling, and consulted a physician. He pro- Man's Mission on Earth. Medical Book Free. Know Thyself Manual, a book for men only, print Free, postpaid, sealed, to every male reader mentioning this paper; 6c. for postage. "The Science of Life, or Self-preservation." the Gold Medal Prize Treaties, the best Medical Book of this or any age. 850 pp. with engravings and prescriptions. Elegant Library Edition, full gilt, ONLY 81; paper covers. Inferior abridged edition. Mc. GET THE BEST. Address the Peabody Medical Institutes, 4 Burlach st., opp. Revere House, Boston, Mass., the oldest and best in this country. Write today for these books; keys to health and happiness. Consultation, in person or by letter; 9 to 5; Sunday, 10 to 1. The Peabody Medical Institute has many imitations, but no equals—Boston Herald. MISCELLANEOUS. A Speculation small amounts made protable under experienced management. Address PIONKER CO., Home City, Ohio. PATEBTH—Protect Your Ideas. Fortunes made. Free advice as to patentability. Palmia secured. coveted stock. HARRY LEE DODSON, 1831 Honeuck Bld., Chicago. Wanted PAVING DRUG STORE for CASH. DUFF, 612 Roanoke Bld., Chicago. X-RAY—A New York City—See bones of your fingers, lead in a penet, etc. Postpaid 10c. Agents Wanted. Other specialties also. Circumstrs for stamp. OHIO SPECIALTY Co., Bellefontaine, O. WAKE UP Bend 25c for trade secret that enables you to start permanent business of 615 to 638 weekly. Address Progressive Mtg. Co., 468 W. 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My bowels move regularly every day, and I have taken on eight- ten pounds of flesh. I have recommended Peruna to a great many and they re- commend it very highly. I have told several people that if they would take a bottle of Peruna, and could then candidly say that it had not benefited them, I would pay for the medidine. A. C. LOCKHART. Send for a free catarrh book. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Fruit and Vegetable Farm 2816 acres of good ground, at station, good buildings, macadam lead roads, 5 miles good market; 80 chickens, 2 milk cows, one horse, wagons and all farming tools included. Price $1,500.00 easy payments. Address Box 278, Michigan City, Ind. ALABAMA LANDS FOR SALE. Thirty thousand (30,000) acres in the heart of the Black Belt of Alabama, in 40 to 3,000 acre tracts. Best farming, pasture and timber lands in the south, at from $8.00 to $10.00 per acre. Only small cash payment required, easy terms on balance. Correspondence invited. SHERWOOD BONNER & CO., Real Estate Agent, Camden, Alabama. Muck or upland, 40 to 400 acres sugar beet land; 125 acres peaches, near R. B. to Chicago, Southern Michigan, 1,000 acres fenced stock land. Get prices before buying west. GEO. OLIVER, Allegan, Mich. NEBRASKA LAND 2,000 acres improved land for sale, 40 miles North of Omaha, in Burt, Banner County of State. Near County Seat; well watered; terms easy. Also dairy business to lease or sell, or will employ cheese maker. Correspondence solicited. M. K. Mopewell, Tekamah, Neb. Farms Sale and Exchange. Special bargains for home or investment. Big list real estate free. Davies county county offers special inducements; fertility, prices and terms. A. Kameraly, Washington, Ind. FARMS! FARMS! FARMS! FARMS! ANYWHERE IN THE "EVERGREEN STATE" OF WASHINGTON. On easy terms. Satisfaction guaranteed. Full information on application to FRED. H. MERRITT, P. O. Box 255. TACOMA, WASH. SOUTHERN HOMES for SALE South Alabama is the coming garden spot of the United States. We have 1,000 lots in Bay Minette and 19,500 acres of adjacent lands for sale. Small each payment, balance on terms to suit purchaser. Cancel nappal notes if you die before completing pay- ment. A guild brews every day; two crops vegetables every year. HAND LAND COMPANY, Bay Minette, Baldwin County, Alabama. FARM LANDS! 80 acres in Kesouth County, Iowa, $28.00 per acre. 160 acres in Kesouth County, Iowa, well improved, $45 per acre. Write us quick for a descriptive list of 75 good pieces for a home or investment in Minne- da, North and South Dakota. Price from $4.00 an acre upward. Also ask for map of Minne- da and Iowa. It is free. VARLAND LAND CO., Globe Sqm., ST. PAUL, MINN. FINANCIAL $100,000,000 furnished to 100,000 business men to increase their business. Application $5,000 to advance, no other recognized. State sum can use. Reference, business and population. Address North American Investment Co., 100 State St. Bridgeport, Conn., U.S.A. WE ARE DEVELOPING a very promising mine in British Columbia in the richest district of the province. We are now selling our stock at ground floor price. So per share. Try $5,400 or $50 worth and see what it will be worth a year from now. We predict that it will surprise you. Send for properties and all information. THE LORDEAU MINES Ltd., 005 Temple Court Blvd., New York. condition of the farmer in Western Canada—Province of Manitoba and districts of Assinibolu, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thousands of Americans are now settled there. Reduced rates on all railways for homeseekers and settlers. New districts are being opened up this year. The new forty-page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. F. Pedley, Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada or C. J. Broughton. 67 Monadnock Block, Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room & "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, Toledo, O., Canadian Government Agents. Sold by as Douglas Stores, and the best shoe dealers everywhere. CAUTION! The guinine have W. L. Douglas' name and price on bottom BEST IN THE WORLD. $3.00 W·DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE. Notice increase of sales in table below: 2800 = 748,700 Pairs. 1800 = 898,183 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- ufacturers in the world. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes placed side by side with $5.00 and $6.00 shoes of other makes, are found to be just as good. They will outwear two pairs of ordinary $3.00 and $3.50 shoes. Made of the best leather, Including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo. Fast Color Syntheses and Always Black Moos Used. W. L. Douglas $4.00 "Gilt Edge Line" cannot be equalled at any price. Shoes by W. L. Douglas for sale free. W. L. Douglas Brooklyn, Mason. Santa Te Homeseekers' Excursions California $33 from Chicago $30 from St. Louis $25 from Kansas City One Way, second class, daily, during March and April, to San Francisco, Los Angeles and other California points, also to Prescott, Phoenix and other Arizona points. One Fare plus $2 Round Trip March 4 and 18, April 1 and 15, May 6 and 20. From Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City to Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Corresponding rates from East generally. Ask your home agent. Through sleepers and chair cars to California over the Santa Fe, the comfortable and quick way to go. Write for free illustrated land pamphlets. These Spring excursions will enable you to personally inspect the many advantages offered homesekers and investors in the great Southwest and California. Particular attention is invited to irrigated lands in Arkansas Valley of Colorado, Pecos and Rio Grande valleys of New Mexico, Salt River Valley of Arizona, and San Joaquin Valley of California. CAPSICUM VASELINE A substitute for and superior to mushard 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-irritants known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household. Many people say "it is the best of all of your preparations." Price 15 cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries one label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROUGH MFQ CO., 17 State Street, NEW YORK CITY. CANCER CURED For years the whole medical and surgical world has waged unsuccessful war against cancer. We cured 100 cancers in 1991. Of these six resisted treatment till treated and cured by our New X-Ray Treatment. Send for our book; it tells all about cancers, gives the letters of parous cured without the use of a knife. 26 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN TREATING CANCERS. Storks Free for children. STREATOR, IL. THE STATE, COUNTY, TOWN. CITY, DRAINAGE and LINCOLN PARK TAX S 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 DITS FROM ACROSS THE SEA. Chinese quack doctors in the vicinity of foreign hospitals in the far interior hang out foreign flags inscribed, "Cure according to the foreign devil's plan." Moscow has the largest hospital in Europe, with 7,000 beds. There are ninety-six physicians and 900 nurses, and about 15,000 patients are cared for annually. Phenomenally mild winter is being experienced in Russia. At Kiev the trees are budding, the River Dnieper is clear of ice, while at Warsaw violets are flowering. The custom in France of posting on the dead walls of every commune throughout the country the speeches of ministers is to be discontinued. Every time it is done it costs the government $60,000. King Alphonse's coronation is to be commemorated by the issue of thirteen new kinds of postage stamps, each p. which is to bear the head of one of the thirteen kings of the same name who have ruled over Spain. Negotiations are on foot for the forming of a European union in the matchmaking industry, headed by Bryant & May and the Diamond Match company. A combination of the nature indicated would thus put the control of the market largely into British hands. BRAIN LEAKS. The dead cannot smell the flowers. An easy conscience needs no press agent. History repeats itself, often to plague the historian. Looking for a soft snap means lying on a hard bed. Politics is dirty business only when dirty men control it. People who live in steam-heated flats should not throw cold water. The recording angel makes no note of the figures on a bank check. Philanthropy does not consist in giving collars to a shirtless man. The truly good man does not need to be subsidized into doing right.—Will M. Maupin in the Commoner. Patrick Ford-Ireland must have home rule and free land or she will fight for it. Andrew Carnegie-If you give a young man a good name he can do anything, and he will never be suspected. District Attorney Jerome-The only way mechanical power can be applied is with a crank. The crank also moves the moral world. John D. Rockefeller—Trusts benefit the greater number of people, even though it may be at the expense of the few. The American beauty rose can be produced only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. There's always life in the old land; only trouble is, some people don't like to dig for it. People who say that this old world isn't bright enough for 'em are in no hurry to see the next world blaze. What keeps us all a-livin' is the thought that we'll get on the brighter side as soon as the world turns round. Happiness only comes by the pint measure. That's why some folks prefer misery by the bushel.—Atlanta Constitution. TAXES ARE THE STATE, COUNT Former President Cleveland is not so fleshy as he was, his sickness having pulled him down a bit. If Sir Thomas Lipton cannot win with a Yankee boat, a Yankee skipper, and a Yankee crew, there's no salvation for him. M. Philippe Deschamps proposes to present to the Paris municipality 4,000 pictures and other articles respecting the present czar and his visits to France. These would form a second alliance museum. Bishop Lucien Lee Kinsolving, who for a dozen years has been actively engaged in missionary work in Brazil is in this country and will be one of the conspicuous members at the missionary conference in Buffalo. Judge Morris of Ohio recently held that there is a distinction between an habitual drinker and an habitual drunkard, and refused a divorce to a wife who had alleged habitual drunkenness on the part of her husband. Sir Noel Paton's will, recently recorded in Edinburgh, Scotland, asks that his sons and daughters keep together his works, finished and unfinished, and also the collection of armor and arms which he has brought together. The Empress of Germany recently called with two of her children, on the widow of the last pastor of the children. They announced they would remain to tea. Frau Frommel apologized that her servant was out, whereat the empress made the tea, after the crown prince had started the fire, while young Oscar set the table and cut the bread, and after it was all over the empress said: "I haven't had such a pleasant afternoon for months." SAYINGS FROM CURRENT BOOKS. Men will never tire of reading of Lincoln.—"The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Success in a novel means, usually, success for the novel.—"Bright Days in Merrie England." A thousand times better are the men who do than the weaklings who only know.—"God Wills It." Nature works, not for man's enjoyment, but for her own satisfaction and her own glory.—"Our National Parks." The swift recognition of the beautiful in literature is an achievement as well as a gift.—"The World Beautiful in Books." "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith Lee Lord," but I guess the Lord needs an instrument to carry out that text. I'm that instrument."—"The Millionaire Mystery." Literature is an institutional, device by which society administers to itself its gains and discoveries of finest sentiment and sublimest thinking.—"What Is Shakespeare?" There is nothing worse for a weakling than a small success. The strong man tosses it beneath his feet as a step to rise higher on—"The House with the Green Shutters." Much might be done for the amelioration of the condition of suffering lovers if nature had displayed larger benevolence in providing for the benignance of fathers.—"Captain Bluitt." Ask your dealer for Sunday Creek No. 18 HOCKING The best for domestic use. For Sale by THE JONES & ADAMS CO. Antiqueable and Illuminous Coal eighth St. and Wabash Railroad, Strictly dealers' yards. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 & HALOTHED STREET. ....CHICAGO S. A. McELWEE ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 708 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 521, 200 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2028. CHICAGO. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 720 Open House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. Tulsa, Oklahoma March 1904. 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 fail 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 --- C.J.BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-fitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage . . . Telephone Yards NL. 700 WEST 47TH STREET. BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Oor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO. MRS. LIZZIE N. RANDELL Dressmaking and Plain Sewing..... 4886 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 Gentleman's Furnishing Goods No. 3046 SO, STATE STREET CHICAGO Remaining nearly done Desigler 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 as shown above. It can imitate the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cuts dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Gold 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 Gonzonized OX Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, 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 superior 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 $0.00. All creations are dealers or send us $0.00 for each bottle or $40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges to postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 26 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 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. Flitts, printing office, 2713 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. ```markdown ``` CHICAGO SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8462 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1928. CHICAGO, IL. SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR PROVISIONS FROM Staple and Fancy Groceries, Meats Best Brands of Flour, Teas, Coffees Baking Powder, Spices, Butter Eggs, and Canned Goods, Etc. 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 By Ordering $15 Suits and One of Our- Overcoats Made to your measure in Any Style. Guaranteed to Fit and Satisfy You. Pantaloons from $4.00 Up! 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. --- 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, Collector Town of Lake. 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.