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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. VOL. VII. GOL. JOHN F. WATERS, ONE OF CHICAGO'S LEADING AND MOST SUCCESSFUL LAWYERS. Of the four thousand and some odd lawyers in this city it is safe to say that very few of them try or win more personal injury cases than Col. John F. Waters, who occupies a fine suite of law offices on the 8th floor of the Kedzie Building, for scarcely a week passes that Col. Water's voice is not heard in some of the Courts pleading in behalf of some poor unfortunate creature, who has been injured The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photo with no discernible features or text. ator. by the negligence of some grasping corporation. In the recent trial of the case of Mrs. Annie Douglass vs. the Chicago City Railway Company, he drew a vivid picture of the loyalty the Colored race have always shown to the white families, who once owned them. "Gentlemen of the Jury, I have but one misgiving about this case. This plaintiff's skin is black, but you promised me before you were sworn as jurors in this case that that fact should make no difference with you and that you would accept her evidence and the evidence of her witnesses, and weigh it just as you would the evidence of white witnesses given under the same circumstances. You promised to do this and I believed you. You certainly ought to do this because she is in no way responsible for the fact that she belongs to a race whose history has been written in blood by the pen of oppression and persecution. As I stand here a vision rises before my mind's eye. On the one side I see the boys in blue, above whom the stars and stripes wave in triumph, and at the other side of the arena I see the boys in gray, with the stars and bars, eager for the conflict. I hear the bugle call. I hear the deep detonations of artillery reverberating through the hills and forests. I see the charge of the cavalry as swift as the Beduoin from his bard, and as terrible as the mamalukes of the Nile. I hear the clash of steel and the clatter of the musketry mingled with the groans of the dying. In that dreadful fray I see a young man in gray uniform, charging at the head of his command. He suddenly stops, throws up his hands, the sword falls from his grasp; he reels and falls. And through the smoke and din and dust of that bullet swept field, I see a black face with a gray head. I see him twine his black and brawny arms around the prostrate form of his young master and bear him away to a place of safety. I see him again watching at the dead of night by the bedside of the stricken man, while the lamp of life flickers in its socket. Again I see him following the funeral procession as it moves down the country road to the modest little church yard, and behold him as he stands at a respectful distance, awaiting with uncovered head, while the "white folks" perform the last sad rites for the deceased. And after they have withdrawn I see him go up and throw his prostrate form upon the new-made grave, and pour cut his soul in an agony of grief for the man who fought to keep the chains and shackels of slavery upon him." As he concluded his oration Col. Waters, firmly declared that he believed in "the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of Mankino."The jury and even the spectators were visibly effected by his beautiful poratation, and the jury rendered a verdict in favor of Mrs. Douglass for $10,000. Sunday, March 16, a vast concourse of distinguished citizens followed the remains of ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld to their final resting place in Graceland Cemetery. Never in the history of Chicago did its people display more sorrow over the loss of one of its citizens than they manifested over the death of John P. Altgeld and many of them are just beginning to realize that he was really a great man The day was cold and raw but dispute that fact thousands and thousands of his admiring friends and on equal number of those who only knew him by reputation, stood in solid rows all along the streets from the Public Library to Lincoln Park. As Judge Edward F. Dunne, apply said "it was a poor man's funeral" and this was true for people in all walks of life participated in the funeral procession. Mr. James H. Harris, and Julius F. Taylor, joined in the procession and marched all the way to Lincoln Park, with the rest of those who loved and esteemed John P. Altgeld, and if there were any other Afro-Americans who did likewise they were not observed by Mr. Harris, nor by ourself. Col. Wm. J. Bryan, Hon. Charles A. Towne, Joseph W. Errant, Miss Jane Addams, Rev. Frank Crane, and Clarence S. Darrow, pronounced eulogies over his remains at his home, the library and at the grave, the three first named persons were the only ones to speak at the grave and no churchly preist was invited to stand by his grave and laud him to the heavens nor to consign his body to the fiery flames of hades. Bishop Fallows, Rev. W. B. Leach, Rev. R. C. Ransom, and Prof. M. M. Mangasarian paid glowing tributes to John P. Altgeld, from their respective pulpits, the day his funeral occurred. Rev. Ramson so far as the writer was able to assertain, was the only Afro-American minister in Chicago, who had the courage to stand up in his pulpit and do justice to the memory of John P. Altgeld. He spoke as follows: "A brilliant sun has set. John P. Altgeld is no more. Personally, we knew little of him, but we loved him and cherished him. He was from my native state, Ohio. He there imbibed the spirit which has made that state potent in America and throughout the world. "Just now the ears of wealth are hard and cold. The principles for which Lincoln, Phillips, Beecher, Ingersoll and Douglass stood, and for which many of the G. A. R. fought and fell, are not so popular. JOHN J. BRADLEY CANDIDATE FOR ALDERMAN OF THE 30th WARD. Aprill 30, 1866, John J. Bradley, Democratic candidate for Alderman of the 30th ward, was born at Ottawa, Ill., and he received his early training or schooling in his native town. At WILL THE DEATH ALTY OF 1903? ALTGELD AFFECT Sunday, last, thousand citizens, students and st friends followed the last resting place of the rade and leader, John The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with a dark background and no discernible features. [Name] MR. JOHN J. BRADLEY, THE NEXT prentice in a black-smith shop and after serving three years at that trade, he worked for a long time as a journey-man black-smith. In 1886, Mr. Bradley, bid farewell to the scenes, and the fond recollections of his boyhood days, and he moved to Chicago, and immediately after locating in this city he found employment in the car shops of Swift & Co., where he worked for two years. In 1888 Mr. Bradley severed his connection with Swift & Co. and entered the service of the Chicago Junction Railway Co. as night clerk and by hard and earnest work he was advanced and promoted to various responsible positions in R. R. work; in 1894, he became chief clerk for the Chicago Junction R'y, which position he held until Feb. 1, 1902. John J. Bradley, was united in marriage to Miss Julia Dunne of this city, Jan. 21, 1901, and Mr. and Mrs. Bradley reside in a pleasant home at 817 West 47th street and Mrs. Bradley, is well qualified to assist her husband in his Aldermanic contest for she is very amiable and she succeeds in winning all those over to her husband's side of the Aldermanic fight who have the pleasure of forming her acquaintance, in no sense of the word can Mr. Bradley be classed as a scheeming politician, but he is a plain honest every day business man, one, who is always willing to his uttermost ability to assits his fellowmen regardless of the color of their skin, and after John J. Bradley, is chosen as one of the Aldermen of the 30th ward, the humblest citizen residing in the ward need not hesitate in approaching him, for he is very affable and they will receive consideration from his hands. It affords us untold pleasure to state that long before Mr. Bradley, ever dreamed of becoming a candidate for Alderman he showed his friendship for the colored race and in many ways in the past he has rendered them assistance when they were in trouble, therefore we feel confident that many Afro-Americans will on Tuesday April 1, 1902, record their votes in favor of John J. Bradley, for Alderman of the 30th ward. Aldermens Finn 20th ward, Stanley H. Kunze, 10th ward, John Minwagen 21st ward, and Albert W. Beilfuss, 15th ward. will be re-elected to the city council. WILL THE DEATH OF EX-GOV. ALTY OF 1903? ALTGELD AFFECT THE MAYOR Sunday, last, thousands of admiring citizens, students and staunch political friends followed the remains to its last resting place of their dead comrade and leader, John P. Altgeld. As ALDERMAN OF THE 30th WARD. these men marched along each step kept time to the pulsation of a bleeding heart, which at the same time burns with hatred for Carter Harrison. Altgeld's followers number way up in the thousands, that was clearly demonstrated in 1899 and his staunch friends will never stand for Harrison under any consideration and his death only serves to intensify their hatred for him. By the way, when you meet one of Altgeld's friends you will be immediately impressed with their enthusiastic devotion and sincerity they always manifested for the great humanitarian, at the same time they never overlooked an opportunity to vent their wrath upon the "man of destiny." With the Altgeld democrats who will never "forgive and forget" so far as Harrison is concerned and the Gahan, Loeffler, Hopkins crowd combined with disgusted citizens and disgruntted democrats with these conditions growing and increasing. Harrison might as well "Go Way Back and Sit Down" if he is making "Goo Goo Eyes" at the mayoralty in 1903. The Tilden democrats haven't an available candidate, there is a young, active, aggressive man who can lead the party to victory in 1903 and unite all factions, get the independent vote, he is an able lawyer of executive ability whose record, private and public, is so thoroughly clean the Solomon of the Reformers of the city, George E. Cole. With his "stool pigeon" Hoyt King couldn't find a blemish upon it with an X-ray machine. Jim Quinn the guardian of the political fortunes of the 21st ward, commonly known as the "Oid Guard" has it within his grasp to groom the next Standard bearer for the mayoralty race in 1903. in the personage of the Hon. Chas. M. Walker of the 21st ward. M. J. Walsh, Republican candidate for Alderman in the 30th ward, who came very near skining Alderman McInerney, last spring is at the present time putting up a stiff fight against John J. Bradley, and there is no use in disguising the fac a but what M. J. Walsh, is a hustler and he is very popular with the young voters of the 30th ward, and The Broad Ax warns Mr. Bradley, that he must not permit the grass to grow under his feet if he wants to prevent M. J. Walsh, from breaking into the city council. ```markdown ``` Sunday evening, after returning home from attending ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld's funeral we dropped in to see our friend and neighbor Mr. David Scott, for the purpose of reading to him our article "On Too Much Praying and Hypocrisy on the Part of the Negro and before we had finished it Deacon Harvey Brown, who imagines that all of Quinn Chapel rests on his shoulders, called to pay his respects to Mr. Scott, and as soon as Deacon Brown was presented to us he opened the conversation by saying, "It would not do to believe everything which appears in the newspapers," he referred to the item in The Broad Ax several week ago, "Which stated that Rev.Andrew Jackson Carey always had his hands down into the pockets of the members of Quinn Chapel after more money and that he wants two thousand dollars by Easter Sunday and we presume that Rev. Carey wants some of the money to buy a new Easter suit and to assist in paying the thirty-five dollars rent for a house for himself to live in." Deacon Brown, maintained that "this statement was false that the two thousand dollars was to be expended in paying interest on the church debt," after we succeeded in getting the idea through Deacon Brown's thick-head that there is a difference between a direct and an indirect statement, and inasmuch as Rev. Carey had to have his house rent paid and a new suit. It made no material difference whether the money, which had to be expended for such purposes, came out of the two thousand dollars or not, it was all the same in the long run. That assertion on our part staggered Deacon Brown for a few moments, and when he came to himself he said, "that The Broad Ax couldn't do Rev. Carey any harm for no one read it." Just at that point he pulled a copy of The Broad Ax out of his pocket which he had faked from someone, containing our item on Rev. Carey, which he had been carrying around for a week in order that the brothers and sisters could read it. Deacon Brown caught himself in its own rat trap and he proved himself to be a liar by claiming that no one read our Ax, for he had not only read it himself but had also permitted many other members of Quinn Chapel to read it. Before Deacon Brown bid Mr. Scott goodby he wanted to know if we believed in praying and we responded. "no" then his eyes came near jumping out of his head and he exclaimed that "he belonged to three lodges and if he should take The Broad Ax to his lodge rooms it would be chucked in the stove by his brethren and that if he lived a hundred years he would not give one cent towards helping to support The Broad Ax." We replied by saying that even if the members of his lodges did burn up the paper that act on their part would simply be displaying their ignorance and it would not disprove the fact but what the poor Negroes are being constantly robbed of their hard earned money for the purpose of supporting the poorly managed Negro churches of Chicago, and that we never had nor never would ask him for one cent as subscription to The Broad Ax, thus ended our first encounter with Deacon Harvey Brown. Mr. John M. Harlan, who may become the Republican candidate for mayor in 1903, intends to go on the war-path against Bathhouse John Coughlin. Aldermens Charles Martin and Wm. E. Kent. John M. Harlan was the undoing of Alderman James J. McCormick and and several others last spring and these city fathers better look out a little for reformer Harlan, for he may deal them all a knock-out blow. Jule Taylor of the Chicago Broad Ax is one of the most talked of gentlemen that ever lived in Salt Lake. While in Salt Lake a few days since dozens of the leading and most influential citizens highly complimented him. - The Times-Speaker, Denver, Colo. Thanks brother Sharp! We still have many warm friends in Salt Lake City, and we are glad they treated ye royalty. NO. 22. Alderman H. L. Fick, 9th ward, will have no trouble in being returned to the city council. The women of the D.O.J.'s Court will hold their annual services at Quinn Chapel on Palm Sunday, March 23d. Congressman James McAndrews spent three days in the city the first of the week visiting with Mr. James A. Quinn and his other friends. Congressman John J. Feely attended John P. Altgeld's funreal Sunday, and he left for Washington, D. C., the same evening. Thomas Tobin, Collector for the Town of Lake, would have no trouble in being re-elected if it was not for the weak men who are on the ticket with him. Rev. John F. Moreland will address the South End Club at St. Marks Church 47th and State st., Sunday afternoon, subject "Westminster Abey." Mr. James J. Higgins, who is one of this city's honored business men is making a great fight in the 10th ward to be elected to the city council, and we believe Mr. Higgins will win out. It seems that many of the aldermanic candidates this year only want the saloon bums to work and vote for them, and as far as we are concerned they are welcome to them. The Democratic State Committee of Ill., convenes at the Sherman House, this city, Saturday, March 29th, for the purpose of fixing the date and selecting a city or town in which to hold the next state convention. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Crampton and their daughter, 2912 State St., are all great admirers of The Broad Ax, and they are fully convinced that it is accomplishing a great work in the way of reform among the Afro-Americans. Alderman Wm. F. Brennan, of the 12th Ward, is making the fight of his life to return to the city council, and by the time the polls are closed on the night of the election he will surprise his opponents. David L. Frank, seems to be causing Bathhouse John J. Coughlin, a whole lot of trouble throughout the first ward, and John is compelled to fight like a demon in order to hold his forces together. Robert T. Sims is the Socialist candidate for Alderman of the 30th Ward. Mr Sims is the only Afro-American in Chicago to be thus honored by either of the political parties, and he expects to receive the votes of many liberal-minded and progressive citizens. Alderman E. J. Novak is so light and penurious that we often think he will realy starve himself to death and we do not believe that Alderman Novak spends ten cents a year for newspapers, and he will never be missed when he passs out of this world. Mr Zola C. Green, president of the Columbia Feather Co., 96 East Indiana street, is full of business and a thorough gentleman, and it would be well for the leaders of the Democratic party to select Mr. Green as one of the commissioners of Cook county. Alderman Wm. C. Kuester, 26th ward, whose past record is straight and clean feels perfectly confident that the people of his ward are with him, and that simply means that Alderman Kuester will continue to serve them in the city council. The colored folk of Pennsylvania have organized an "Imperial Grand Council, Daughters of Isis," and are boasting of it being the first of its kind ever established, among American Negroes. Who the deuce sister Isis is the writer hereof begs to be excused from trying to answer.—Ex. Last Saturday morning while passing the corner of Clark and Erie streets, Mr. James A. Quinn city sealer or Chicago, motioned to us to step into his hat store, "The Erie," which is located at 169 North Clark street, corner Erie, and he then and there instructed one of his gentleman assistants to present us with the best $5 hat in the store, and the present is highly appreciated by us. James A. Quinn is truely the Prince of the City Hall, and he has got a heart in him as big as an elephant. To California, Oregon and Washington Chicago & North-Western Ry. from Chicago daily, March and April, only $6.00 for berth in tourist car. Personally conducted excursions Tuesdays and Thursdays from Chicago and Wednesdays from New England. Illustrated pamphlet sent on receipt of two sent stamp by S. A. Hutchison, Manager, 212 Clark street, Chicago. Japanese cats have the shortest kinds of tails, or else none at all. One of these cats, on being taken to a European town, refused companionship with the long-tailed cats there, but, finding a cat whose tail had been cut off by accident, the two became friendly at once. Japanese dogs are almost destitute of noses, having the nostrils set directly in the head. The smaller the nose the more valuable the breed. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and, that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Dure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Dure is taken internally, using directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and agonizing nature in doing its work. The predicators have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of practitioners. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Hold by druggists Inc. Kelly Parcells Pills are the best. Wire Barry. "Have you heard that new song, "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven?" "Yes, and it got me into trouble. I called up central the other day and tried to have a little joke by quoting to her the title of that song." "Well?" "Oh, nothing; only central didn't give me heaven." TO YOUNG LADIES. From the Treasurer of the Young People's Christian Temperance Association, Elizabeth Caine, Fond du Lac, Win. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I want to tell you and all the young ladies of the country, how grateful I am to you for all the benefits I have received from using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 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We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household. Many people may it is the best of all of your preparations. Price 16 cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by standing this amount to us in postage stamps we will send $20 a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not $20 aime. CARSBROUGH MFG. CO., 17 State Street, New York City. HOWE TO ENGINES BORDEN & SELLECK CO. 48-02 LAKE ST. CHICAGO. FOR SALE 200 ACRES, 8 miles from Bedfield, Spink Co., S. Dak. 120 acres cultivated. All pressure and hay land; buildings worth $400 on all pressure; good well water; good soil; clay soil. Price $1.50 per acre. Call on or address D. N. Munt Land Co., Bedfield, E.P. 4 Will promulgate and at all times uphold the great principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Lutheran, Protestant, Knights of Labor, Indians, Morons, Republicans, Priests, or any he can have their say, no long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the intellectual right to speak its own mind. One Year..... 61.00 Month..... 1.00 * Advertising sales made known on application. Russia has invited the president of France to "come and strengthen a few ties." King Edward evidently believes in his divine right to go to a horse race occasionally. Andrew Carnegie has earned the right to scatter seeds of counsel for the reaping bye and bye. Plethoric wedding fees are in sight for the St. Louis minister who is urging women to do the proposing. More school teachers are going to the Philippines, to scatter the sunshine of the American spelling book. The proposed fight between the British and American tobacco trusts will, no doubt, cause great activity in navy plug. It would not be rushing the season to drop a note to your congressman to ask, "How about those garden seeds?" Santos-Dumont is said to be very superstitious. Perhaps he thinks he was born to be run over by an automobile. Hereafter the United States will appear upon nearly all the maps of the world that are used in European schools. A rumor will trot around the circle three times while the truth is investigating to see if the harness is on straight. Grammarians are worrying about "United States is" or "United States are." The kaiser most emphatically thinks they are. Dr. Hirsch might have gone further and expressed his disapproval of nine out of ten of the actors who try to personate Shylock. You can never depend on Chicago's taste. Grand opera was rejected off-hand, but the city has taken to ping-pong with a hurrah. The duel at Athens between Minister Topalis and Col. Kowmoundouros appears to have been a clear case of Greek meeting Greek. American skill and enterprise have made a clean city out of Havana and redeemed it from the dirt and disaster of 400 years of Spanish control. It is estimated that King Edward's coronation will cost $20,000,000. England needn't feel so bad, though. A lot of it will be good American money. A Minneapolis doctor urges ninety days in jail for people who refuse to be vaccinated. Many nervous respectable people would hug that alternative. Three men in dress suits and occupying a box interrupted a play in Philadelphia by starting a game of cards. Evidently they were real "gents." The name of one of the ships that took part in the naval battle at Panama is Guiteau. It is to be hoped that she will be sunk before the trouble is adjusted. A dispatch from Chicago says there is no "Manners" in that city, and Rev. Nichols, social arbiter, rules that it contains only four aristocrats. Poor Chicago is up against it pretty hard these days. It's queer about cows. They never lie down on their right side unless injured. At other times they lie down on their wrong side or their left side or their front side or any other convenient side. The London Dally Mall in its New Year Book gives the United States the credit of being the greatest nation on earth. This information will not, however, come to many of us as a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. Another fatal duel is reported from Germany. As the government and people are just on the point of making things very unpleasant for the survivors in fatal duels, perhaps this one will do no particular harm. A Viennese scientist named Dr. Unschutzkaempfe, is about to start for the North Pole. When that name strikes the ice, it will crack and leave a waterway right straight up to the old much-hunted stick of timber. Is it not growing a trifle monotonous to see so many murders and suicides attributed to "love"? No matter what may be the cause of these crimes, it may be set down hard and fast that love has nothing to do with them. She waits; how large and strenuous her part If step by step she walks with labor now And with her virgin hand unbars the gates Behind which poverty has lain so long. So dreams the toiler; wooes her as his (Or, true to race and ancient heritage, Wed the soft-handed suitor at her side?) He waits her answer; tailing in the field He waits—or where, the tired nerves wrung By factories' din, worn youth is turned to age. And lifting weary eyes from day to day He dreams that even now the word is said; Grim labor walks with love for evermore; Dark brows are crowned that were in dust bored low; bowed low; While they who have gone far along the way With the old century, see the starving fed, And for the prisoned ones an open door That leads into the sunlight's happy glow. Thus tensely listening, his face grown pale With visions whiter than the prophets saw, Amid the din he hears a wondrous cry. "At last! oh, Lord!" that drowns "Oh, Lord! how long?" Ah, blissful dreamer! if before the veil Has fallen—labor and love and law. Shall lead a multitude that, passing by, One-hearted lifts to heaven a nightly song, —Harner's Weekly. TAKING A BRIDE. By Horace Eaton Walker. "WELL, Helenene." I said to my pretty housekeeper, "you came to me just five years ago today." "Yes," she assented, scarcely looking up from her breakfast dishes; she was a modest and unassuming woman. "During these busy years I have paid every dollar of the $5000 I agreed to, and the farm is now mine." She smiled demurely upon me, but made no comment; so I continued: "You have been a participant in all the details of my domestic life." "Certainly, Mr. Bolingbroke." And she turned a curious gaze on me for the first time. I may as well be plain and say at once that in the vernacular of the shire where I lived, I was an odd stick. However, I had good habits, a good farm, and friends sufficient. "I would like to take a walk over the farm, and be accompanied by you, other matters not interfering," I said. "Other matters will not interfere," she responded in her unobtrusive manner. We were soon on the way, and I commented on all we saw. "Five hundred acres; $5000. A thousand dollars for every 100 acres; and, Helenette, the place is mine!" "You have done remarkably well in so short a season. You deserve much praise." "There on my left the everlasting hills arise, their summits densely covered with oak, spruce, pine, and trees of lesser quality." "Yes, the timber alone is worth $2000." "No doubt. Then there is the luxuriant meadow, the fertile fields, the rowen-patch, a pasture sufficient for a large herd of cattle, a goodly flock of sheep, a dozen horses, and two beautiful brooks cross and recross my fields. Surely there seems to be nothing lacking." I tried to take note of her expression as I ended the last sentence; but her countenance did not change. She seemed to be gazing off over the faraway hills. She said very pertinently, however: "And there is the sugar orchard. That ought to net you $500 per year." "It will." I could not help noticing how very practical she was in her observations. "Your buildings are in good repair; your farm is well stocked, you enjoy the best of health," went on Helenette. "Your earthly lot is enviable. May your prosperity ever continue!" I looked at her intently. But that sweet face betrayed no emotion. "You think the picture is complete?" I said. "Yes, financially." "But money is not everything. There is one lack. The earthly picture cannot be complete to me without it. Can you guess what it is?" "No." We both paused then, but her countenance did not change. "A wife?" she said in a matter of fact manner. "Yes." "You seem to be very happily situated now; yet the right kind of a wife would be a useful addition to the farm. Yes, you should marry. "I thank you, Helenette. Your advice has always been good. I shall consider it carefully." By this time we had returned to the house, and as she walked in, leaving me outside, I thought, "When I take my new wife, Helenette will be the best help for indoors I can secure." From that moment I began paying more attention to dress than I had done, and with such success that I congratulated myself on my general improvement. I never was rated a modest man. One day I dressed myself carefully, harnessed up my finest team and prepared for a journey. Helenette stood at the door to see me off. "Helenette," I said, "I'm going to town. I may be gone a week. I may be gone a month. During my absence, you and John will keep the farm in running order, and on my return I hope to introduce you to your future mistress." I clucked to the horse, without waiting for any reply from Helenette. To my dying day I shall never forget the strange look that came into her face. I gave it scarcely a second's notice, however, but dashed down the two-mile road leading to the village. "Going to town, Neighbor Bolingbroke?" Looking over my shoulder, I beheld Mr. Dayson, a well to do farmer who lived a mile below my own farm, coming with his fine span of grays, the beams of health irradiating his countenance. "Yes-I'm wife hunting," I said facetiously, reining to one side that he might pass. "No, keep on; I'm not bound for the village to-day; I turn toward Mr. Dart's at the next corner. But, my dear Bolingbroke, you have left the woman you want behind." "What do you mean?" "Helenette's the wife for you. She's economical, capable, and you're more than half in love with each other." "Gammon! She thinks of nothing but her work." "Go back and find out if I'm not right. Why, you ought to marry her! She's helped to buy the farm." My neighbor drove on, leaving me to ponder over his words. I remembered the look on Helenette's face as I drove away. What if it should be— "Hello! Can you tell me how far it is Gordon Bellingbroke's?" I looked up to see a gentlemanly looking person standing in the road. "Why do you wish to know?" "I want to see his housekeeper, Helenette Rathburne. Having decided to take a wife, I intend to make her a proposal." I was dumfounded for a minute; then I said curfly: "Gordon Bolingbroke's farm is just one mile from here. Take the first road that leads to the right. Good-day, sir." I touched my horse testily with the whip, the result being that I found myself in the ditch, my tie out of gear, my watch chain broken. For awhile I knew nothing. Then somebody sweetly asked: "Are you feeling better, Gordon?" It was the voice of Helenette. "Better? What's the trouble?" "Don't you remember being thrown from your team a week ago?" "Oh, yes, I remember; but that was only a few minutes since." "You have lain here nearly seven days." "And where am I, pray?" "In your own house, in bed." "In bed? What for? I'm going to get up." "Gerdon, listen. You are not yourself. You received a bad concussion of the brain and have at times been violent. I had to have some one to take care of you." I raised myself in bed; beside me sat the man I had met on the road. "What! You here?" I exclaimed. "Yes, begging your pardon, Mr. Bolingbroke. If I were not you might now be a dead man." It all began gradually to come back to me. "I see you found my housekeeper," I said significantly. "Oh, yes." "And have you proposed marriage to her?" "No-I couldn't do that." "Why?" "She is my sister-I told you I had a proposal to make. So I had. But it wasn't what you thought." I stared first at one and then at the other. Helenette was smiling, but looked at me earnestly. "What mystery is this?" I exclaimed. "No mystery at all. My sister and I left our poor home some five years since to seek our fortunes, she going in one direction and I in another, the agreement being that neither of us should wed until success crowned our efforts. Well, I am established in business, and came to ask her to help me get my house ready for my future wife." "I am glad Miss Rathburne is your sister." "So am I. When you marry she will come to live with me. That also was in the agreement." "Never! I've been a fool. Helenette, will you have me? It's you I've wanted all along, only I didn't know it." Helenette made some demur, but finally promised to remain on the farm as its mistress. And if any one wants to see the happiest pair in the world let him call at Gordon Bolingbroke's.—Waverley Magazine. In referring to a recently installed new system of centrally operated bulkhead doors on some of the steamships Cassell's Magazine says: "There is no disguising the fact, however, that a door in a bulkhead is always an element of weakness and danger; indeed the only safe bulkhead, as some very able experts have contended, is the bulkhead that has no doors. Most ship captains and engineers, on the other hand, say that they must have doors and the best solution of the question therefore, would seem a reduction of the number of doors to a minimum, the selection of a good type of door, and the adoption of a safe means of operating it, and, as to this last feature it appears to be afforded by a central station method like the one just noted." A Western cattle man tells me that all cows lie down on their left side and never on their right unless the left is injured.—Victor Smith, in New York Press. Policemen Praise Pe-ru-na. 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The Province of Manitoba and districts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and Alberta are the most wonderful grain producing countries in the world. In stock raising they also hold the highest post- tion. Thousands of Americans are annually making this their home, and they succeed as they never did before. Move Westward with the tide and secure a farm and home in Western Canada. Low rates and special privileges to homesekers and settlers. The handsome forty-page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. Apply for rates, &c., to F. Pedley, Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to C. J. Broughton, 927 Modadnock Block, Chicago, E. T. Holmes, Room 6, "Big Four" Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., or H. M. Williams, Toledo, O., Canadian Government Agents. Owns 38 claims of acquisition size—820 acres of mineral land—attuned in the center of the richest mineral producing region of the globe. $85,000,000 MINED IN ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY IN 1961. 15,000 tons of ore on the dumps and blocked out. 2,642 feet tunneling completed. Shaped to pay good dividends the coming season. Write for prospectus and full particulars to the principal office at Ann Arbor, Mich. GOLD BEATS OIL $10 per 1,000's hares for stock of live mining company owning valuable patented ground in Cripple Creek, Colo. Address Box 1328, Denver, Colo. Steady Home Work for Ladies—NO CAN-VASSING or worthless outfit to buy. Send stamped envelopes to LAKESIDE MFG. CO., 141, 98Dearborn St., Chicago. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives quick relief and cure worm cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAY treatment FREE. DE. N. K. CREEPS SCH. Bax. E. Allison. Gt. Great Northern Railway Popular Homes seekers' and Settlers' Excursions. Round-trip tickets to points in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, will be sold first and third Tuesdays in March, April and May, at one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. One-way settlers' tickets to points in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia on sale every day during March and April at rates $15.00 to $25.00 each. One-way settlers' tickets on sale March 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th and April 1st and 8th, to Minnesota and North Dakota points for only $6.00 each. These tickets are good on all trains, including the famous Great Northern "Wilber." This is the best opportunity that has ever been offered to parties who wish to investigate the many advantages offered them in the Great Northwest. Information about Great Northern country is given by agents, of the Great Northern Railway, or those desirous of ascertaining just what opportunities are offered there, can secure full illustrated information in reference to land, climate, crops, rates, etc., by writing to Max Bass, G. I. A., 220 S. Clark St., Chicago, or to F. L. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn. Must Have Been Smuggled. Sir Barrington Beaumont's memoirs, recently published, tell the following: "I recollect a discussion between a Scotch lord and Lady Clermont as to the merits of the other side of the border. 'How is it,' said she, 'that the Scots who leave Scotland are usually men of more ability than those who remain at home?' 'Ah, madam,' he responded, with an effort at persiage, 'the reason is obvious. At every outlet there are persons stationed to examine all who pass, that, for the honor of the country, no one be permitted to leave it who is not a man of understanding.' 'I suppose, then,' murmured George Selwyn to me, 'his lordship must have been smuggled.'" Unfortunate passengers aboard a steamer are not the only ones to endure the agonies of nausea. Any circus man will tell you that it is a most difficult thing to overcome the miserable sensation caused by constantly circling round a small ring. Clowns, even, the ringmasters suffer from it, merely from seeing the horses go around and around; and one well-known ringmaster, even after years of experience, still finds that if a horse balks a little, or gets behind time, compelling him to follow close upon it, he will probably undergo a painful fit of sickness after leaving the ring. $33.00 TO PACIFIC COAST Chicago & North-Western R'y; during the months of March and April $30.00 from Chicago to Helena, Butte, Anaconda, Ogden and Salt Lake City; $30.50 Spokane; $33.00 Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, Victoria and a large number of other points. Tourist Sleeping Cars daily to the Pacific coast. For maps and particulars apply to nearest ticket agent or address W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth avenue, Chicago, Ill. $1.00 Chicago to St. Paul or Minneapolis for double berth in Tourist sleeping cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, each Tuesday and Friday during March and April, 1902, on train No. 1 leaving Chicago at 6:30 p.m. For further information apply to the nearest coupon ticket agent, or address F.A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Wendell Philips once said that unless our next step in progress, as a nation, was in a spiritual direction, that boy was now living who would write the downfall of the American republic, as Gibbon wrote that of the Roman empire. High Price for a 'Cello. A record price for a Stradivarius 'cello is reported from Berlin. It is stated that Platti's 'cello by Stradivarius has been bought for $20,000 by a banker, who is a grand-nephew of Mendelssohn. EARLIEST RUSSIAN MILLET. Will you be short of hay! If so, plant a plenty of this prodigally prolific millet. 5 to 8 Tons of Rich Hay Per Acre. Price 50 lbs. $1.90; 100 lbs. $3. Low freights. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. W A Wandering River. During the last century the Chinese Yellow river changed its course twenty times. Its present mouth is 600 miles away from its mouth of 1800. Sensible Housekeepers. will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. No Money in Bicycles. Of all the bicycle factories in Germany only six paid dividends last year. Fifteen large factories are on the point of going out of business. Steamships Owned in England. England owns 7,930 of the 14,077 steamers belonging to the twelve leading nations of Europe and America. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. While gold digging in Demarara, a negro has unearthed a nugget weighing eighty-seven and a half ounces. You may know a man's principles by the things he has an interest in. BEAT ESCALATOR HANDS DOWN. On the "uptown" side of the elevated station at 23d street and 6th avenue, and on the south side of 23d street, there is a moving stairway, which by a tedious process conveys the tired shoppers from the street to the station above. Passengers from down town getting off at 23d street often forget about the stairway and walk to the south side of the station, only to find that the steps move only one way. They then walk over to the other side and down the fixed steps to the street. This was not the case with a young man who made the wrong turn the other day. He had taken perhaps one drink too many, and was being looked after by two of his friends. Discovering the mistake, the friends tried to pilot him over to the other side, but the young man, with a contemptuous look at the creeping steps, remarked: "I always did believe I could outrun that thing, and breaking away from his friends, says the New York Mall and Express, he bounded down two steps at a time and won the race hands down. Champion, Mich., March 17th, Mrs. A. Wellett, wife of a local photographer, has had a remarkable experience recently. Mrs. Wellett tells the story this way: "I could not sleep, my feet were cold, my limbs cramped. I had an awful hard pain across my back. I had to get up three or four times every night. I was very nervous and fearfully despondent, I had very little appetite. "After I had suffered in this way for five years, I begun to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. When I had taken a few pills you ought to have seen what came from my kidneys. It looked like a spoiled egg only darker. "I kept on using Dodd's Kidney Pills till I was cured. Now I can sleep well and do not have to get up in the night, I have no pain in my back or limbs and I feel better than I have for years." Robson's Choice-That or None. In the time of Charles I. one Hobson let horses to the students at Cambridge. He would never break his rule of letting the horses in strict rotation. Persons wanting a horse must take the one whose turn it was to go, or they could have none. Hence the saying, "That or none." "Trymi" Is Reliable and this item is valuable—worth 25c to every sufferer from Constipation, Stomach, Liver or Nervous trouble who will cut it out and send with address to R. J. Sarasy & Co., Janesville, Wia., for a package of Trymi Tablets free of charge. Results certain and guaranteed or money returned if not satisfied. Do not suffer when it is not necessary. Cycling in the Mountains. Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Scotland, has been ascended by Dudley Grierson of London on a motor bicycle, weighing 200 pounds. After having ridden to an altitude of 3,000 feet the cyclist was compelled to wheel the machine through the snowdrifts to the summit. 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. There is no beautifier of complexion or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.— Emerson. The family doctor has more secrets told him, but the family dressmaker discovers just as many. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. We are not inquiring for that boy now, but for one who will make that history impossible. The Paris municipal council will shortly be asked to name a street after Richard Wagner. Mrs. Austin's Wheat Food pleases the whole family, from baby to grandfather. Makes a healthy, hearty breakfast that satisfies. When prosperity falls on the evil heart it but nourishes its weeds. Nothing is more friendly to a man than a friend in need.—Plautus. 150 Kinds for 16c. It is a fact that Salzer's vegetable and flower seeds are found in more gardens and on more farms than any other in America. There is reason for this. We own and operate over 5000 acres for the production of our choice seeds. In order to induce you to try them we make the following unprecedented offer: For 16 Cents Postpaid 10 kinds of rare hotulous radishes, 10 magnificent coldint melons, 16 sour glorious tomatoes, 25 poorest lettuce varieties, 18 splendid host worms, 66 gorgeously beautiful flower seeds, in all 150 kinds positively furnishing bushels of charming flowers and lots and lots of choice vegetables, together with our great catalogue selling all about Tepidite and Pea Oat and Bromus and Speltis, color seed at 60c. a pound, etc., all only for 16c. in stampa. Write to-day. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, WI. 8 Dollars BUYS DELIVERED, As 800 Lb. GOOD SCALE, On Wheels. PLATFORM 10 X 20 IN Chest Fixed giving usefully tempered, Accurate, Durable, well finished, Other than and WAGON SCALED mills. For elevation, address, JONES ON PAY THE PRESIDENT BENCHANTIN, M. N. BOX 42. 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. Call another a fool and you are the fool; call yourself a fool and you begin to be wise. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are the brightest, fastest and easiest to use. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. fled in starting a periodical devoted wholly to the scientific study of milk. FITS Permanently Cured. Noises or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kiline's Great Nerve Restores. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Ayr St., Philadelphia, Pa. But few good things come to the average man. He must go after them. I am sure Fiso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Rombins. Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.—Pliny. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Success consists of doing what you can do and doing it well. Rheumatism and Johnson's 6088 cannot agree. The former kills the latter every time. Try it. All druggists. With most men economy, instead of charity, begins at home. If you tire of Buckwheat, try Mra Austin's famous kancake Flour for a change made from the great food cereals. No man is free who is not master of himself.—Epictetus. Get a bottle of Hamlin's Wizard Oil today; it saves trips to the doctor! It cures Headache and Toothache quickly. Genius is a superior aptitude to patience.—Buffon. Two cannot quarrel when one will not. Men of Affairs One may sail the seas and that men of affairs, who a nor the inclination, whether medicines which cause excess organs in a constipated condition. It acts naturally, acts eff the internal organs and leaves If in need of a laxative rem One may sail the seas and visit every land and everywhere will find, that men of affairs, who are well informed, have neither the time nor the inclination, whether on pleasure bent or business, to use those medicines which cause excessive purgation and then leave the internal organs in a constipated condition. Syrup of Figs is not built on those lines. It acts naturally, acts effectively, cleanses, sweetens and strengthens the internal organs and leaves them in a healthy condition. If in need of a laxative remedy the most excellent is Syrup of Figs, but when anything more than a laxative is required the safe and scientific plan is to consult a competent physician and not to resort to those medicines which claim to cure all manner of diseases. The California Fig Syrup Co. was the first to manufacture a laxative remedy which would give satisfaction to all; a laxative which physicians could sanction and one friend recommend to another; so that today its sales probably exceed all other laxatives combined. In some places considerable quantities of old-time cathartics and modern imitations are still sold, but with the general diffusion of knowledge, as to the best medicinal agents, Syrup of Figs has come into general use with the well-informed, because it is a remedy of known value and ever beneficial action. The quality of Syrup of Figs is due not only to the excellent combination of the laxative and carminative principles of plants, known to act most beneficially on the system, with agreeable and refreshing aromatic liquids, but also to the original method of manufacture. In order to get the genuine and its beneficial effects one should always note the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP C THE WEALTHY HAVE OPPORTUNITIES for investments which are denied the man or woman of moderate means. Have you ever stopped to think why the rich grow richer? Because they are continually looking for investments which yield large return; whether it is termed speculation or investment, it is all the same. The rich people of our country have not amassed fortunes on 5% and 6% money but on investments which yield them dollars for cents invested. 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OSGOOD PORTABLE BOAT CO., LTD., BATTLE CREKK, MICH. 11 $300 Oceans Conf. Money for $1; $100 for 50c. R. L. DFITRICK, Lorraine, Va. visit every land and everywhere will find, are well informed, have neither the time on pleasure bent or business, to use those active purgation and then leave the internalion. Syrup of Figs is not built on those actively, cleanses, sweetens and strengthens them in a healthy condition. body the most excellent is Syrup of Figs, but buya a full suit of Out- side side clothes. Sand hose, waist, front, leg and o. measures, and $1.50 and we will deliver free at any P. O. in U. S. a free quality union Overall suit. Jackets and pants in one garment. Made in blue and fancy dentures: has $ pockets. No suspenders needed. Durable. Handy. Meat and Cheap. A spiced crew work suit. Thousands sold. Agents wanted. Reference, all Quincy banks. Address. WANTED A good man in this and adoring coun- ties as General Agent for Photo Family Records, other Pictures, Portraits and Frames. Best paying things for agents. A beauti- ful 16x10 memorial sent p. pd for $30. Send for catalogue. S. G. P. Cory Co., 41-48 Jefferson St, Chicago. AGENTS Greatest telephone and office specialty prior patented. Thousands daily sold; territory allocated live agents; state and county rights for sale. Send She for sample and partcipants. Marenge Specialty Co., Marenge, Ill. Gentlemanly Salesmen Wanted to solicit subscriptions for stock in Bookkeepers' Land and Cattle Co., small monthly payments; large profits; send for illustrated booklet. C. MESSERVE, C.P.A. Sec., Emporia, Kan. WANTED SPECIAL AGENTS EVERYWHERE, men or women; will not interfere with present employment; great opportunity to increase your income. Glen-Armstrong Co., 40 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. LADIES make money easy selling Holdfast Hone Supporter. Big profits. Easy to sell. Large sales. 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Adress: FALKENSTEIN SUPPLY CO., SAUK GRIFFIN, WI. CHEAP RATES CALIFORNIA, OREGON WASHINGTON, COLORADO on Household Goods of intending settlers to the slove-named States. Map of California-FREE. EMIGRATION, 38 Market Street, CHICAGO, IL. SHEET MUSIC UP-TO DATE Sent Postpaid to any address. 3 Pieces, Pull Size for 25 cents. 7 Pieces, Pull Size for 50 cents. Vocal or instrumental. Write for List. Manufacturers & Publishers Distributing Agency. P. O. Drawer 158, Buffalo, N. Y. WRITE THE O. E. LESLIE PUBLISHING CO. for your Anthem, Sunday School, Day School Singing School, Sacred Male Quartet, Memorial Books. Prais', Harvest, Thanksgiving, Temperance, Christmas, Easter Services. Childrens Day and Christmas Exercises. Everything in the line of music. 225 Dearborn St. Chicago, IL. This Farm You Want 80 acres. Well improved, good buildings, general farming, gardening and fruits; handy market in large city. Must sell. Albert Baxter, R. R. S., Michigan, Mich. FREE HOMES - GOVERNMENT LANDS! Thousands of acres of rich farm lands remain open for settlement in the wheat-growing sections of the Northwest and Pacific Coast States. Have opportunities to secure cheap homes, farms and ranches. The eastern Land Guide, a book for the homeeeker, tells all about the Public Lands, where they are located, how to reach them and obtain title. Price 50c. Address L. S. HARVEY, Osawatomie, Kansas. FOR SALE OUT THEY GOI North and South Dakota improved and prairie lands. Fast becoming settled by good farmers. Save you $1 to $8 per acre. We deal direct with owners. M. P. SCHUSTER, Joliet, Ill. Southeastern Kansas; 20 acres under plow, 25 acres meadow, 40 acres pasture, 10 acres timber, garden, etc. Five-room House, eastern, well and spring, $1,000.00 CASH, balance easy payments. H. B. SAHLER, Joliet, Ill. WOULD YOU LIKE A... FARM or RANCH? I can sell you improved land at $15 to $25 per acre, and wild land at $4 to $10 per acre in the land of No. 1 Hard Wheat, where Flax seeds 20 bu. per acre, and stock lives out doors the year around. For further information address F. D. WOODWORTH, Hope, N. D. Money loaned; easy terms arranged. For Sale Fruit Ranch, 38 Acres, Sonoma Co., Cal. 5 acres peaches, rest, except 2 acres, plus and small fruits. Moderate, hard-finished houses, barn, dryer, costing $300. Price, including all implements, stock, etc., $30.00. Liberal terms. For particular address J. SCHRIDER, Sebastopol, Calif. For Sale 140 acre FARM; 100 acres in cultivation, 50 acres pasture, residence, 28 ft. square, barn, crib, granary and wagon shed combined, poultry house, hog corrall, well, wind mill, clistern and grove. Liberal terms arranged; balance time. Price $4,000. C. N. MORRIS, Holdrege, Neb. For Sale California farm, 320 acres, 14 miles from Sacramento, on R. R. Convenient to P. O., schools and churches. First-class improvements. Cement cistern, 20,000 gallons, with pump connections. Well piped for all conveniences. Excellent grain or vineyard land; 2 acres in fruit. Price $30.00 per acre. Liberal terms arranged. Address B. F. SEANS, Elk Grove, California. FARM LANDS! 80 acres in Kossuth County, Iowa. $26.00 per acre. 160 acres in Kossuth County, Iowa, well improved, $46 per acre. Write us quick for a descriptive list of 75 good pieces for a home or investment in Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Price from $4.00 an acre upward. Also ask for map of Minnesota and Iowa. It is free. VARLAND LAND CO., Globe Bidg., ST. PAUL, MINN. 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 268. TACOMA, WASH. FINANCIAL FINANCIAL I Will Furnish Money to patent and promote a good invention for an interest in the same. Enterprise, P.O. Box 678, New York. in the new Kintla Lake Oil Fields just across the line from our property. Operations have begun on our lands, and we expect to strike oil before July, and for a very short time we will offer full paid, non-assessable stock at 10 Cents per Share. Write for full particulars and make remittances to KINTLA LAKE OIL CO. KINTLA LAKE OIL CO. F. L. GRAY, Secy. Kallispet, Mont. TEXAS OIL STOCKS MEMBERS OF THE HOUSTON OIL AND STOCK EXCHANGE: Note the heavy advances in many of the best stocks, while extensively "boomed" stocks have little trade value at home. Write for information and daily official quotation circulars. References: Houston Banks, Merchantile Agencies; also important references in most large cities. R. W. CAMBLE & CO., Houston, Tex. Santa Fe Homeseekers' Excursions California AND Great Southwest $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, Phenix 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 home seekers and investors in the great South- west 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. General Passenger Office The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rys System CHICAGO CORSETS Not on Earth, sent p. pd. $1. Spiral spring side stocks never break. ADVERT WANTED. N. DARLING, 68 N. Clark St., Chicago. W. N. U. CHICAGO, NO. 12, 1902. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHEN ALL HERE FAIL. Best Cough Drops, Tissues Good. Use in time. Sold by druglines. CONSUMPTION TAXES ARE NOW DUE! 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 CHIPS. Lawyer W. E. Dever, Democratic Aldermanic candidate of the 17th Ward, says that there are over seven hundred saloons in that ward and that he is compelled to visit all of them in order to stand in with their owners so that they or their followers will vote for him, therefore he has no money to spend Mary E. Jackson is the name of a colored woman that is to be executed on the gallows April 25th, in the state of Maryland. Not many women of this country have ever been legally executed and if this one is she will be the second to our knowledge, the other being a white woman, who was executed in New York City some ten or twelve years ago.—Ex. Crap-shooting, policy-playing and All-Mouth or All-Legs Jim Miller, who got tangled up with a bolt of silk in Cincinnati, Ohio, and who beat us out of one dollar as six months' subscription to The Broad Ax, who also went before the Grand Jury for the purpose of sending us to jail, is one of the slim-cheap grafters or little cogs of Boss Burke's and Fred Eldrod's machine. Big-mouthed Rev. Pie or chicken-eating Hubert assisted Rev. Jumping Carey to administer the communion at Quinn Chapel two Sundays ago, and its a wonder to us that the devil did not come right down through the roof of Quinn after Hubert, the foul-mouthed hypocrite, and run him and his associates out of the Lord's House. Monday night, May 5th, 1902, the various lodges of the K. Ps. of this city will give their first state ball at the Coliseum Annex, at which time two of the most charming ladies will be chosen from among those present and crowned Queens. This even will be participated in by K. Ps. and all their friends from all parts of the state, and it will be a grand affair. In the death of Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld of Illinois at Joliet the other evening the Democratic party looses by all odds its most intellectual figure. During both the campaigns Mr. Altgeld proved himself easily a master debater. He was cool, incisive and strictly logical, having at all times a broad grasp of things. It is safe to say that barring some of the rather socialistic tendencies he was Germany's best contribution to American thought during the 19th century. As an orator he was more effective than Carl Schurz, who, while very intellectual and literary in thought, was rather inclined to vagaries. Altgeld always addressed his arguments to the reason and won out, wherever he did, in the region where there was no race, color or previous condition of servitude.—The Guardian, Boston, Mass. Tobacco blindness is becoming quite a common affliction, and short time ago several persons were being treated for it. It first takes the form of color blindness, the sufferers who have smoked themselves into this condition being quite unable to distinguish the color of a piece of red cloth held up before them. That is the popular medical test, though there is a more scientific one. Eventually the victim to tobacco blindness sometimes loses his eyesight altogether. Lieutenant Governor a Kingmaster Lieutenant Governor Edwin L. Keeler of Connecticut does not consider it beneath his dignity as a public official to act as ringmaster at a circus. The circus is to be an amateur affair, however, and for charity. The unique entertainment is to be given at the Fourth regiment armory at Norwalk. Unable to Keep Warm. Frank Bemis of Columbus, O., can not keep warm, though he wears five suits of underclothing the year around and sleeps in an ulster and woolen cap. He usually carries about forty pounds of clothing, besides $30,000 life insurance, and says he can pass a better medical examination than most men. Physicians do not know what is the matter with him. Oldest Members of the Senate. Four of the oldest men in the senate sit side by side in seats 11, 12, 13 and 14 in the front row of the Democratic side of the chamber—Mr. Pettus and Mr. Morgan of Alabama and Mr. Cockrell and Mr. Vest of Missouri. Senator Pettus in point of years is the father of the upper house, having passed his eightieth birthday nearly a year ago. Pittsburg Jail a Handsome Building. The Pittsburg jail from which the Biddle brothers escaped is the handsomest prison in the United States. It was built from designs by Richardson, the famous Boston architect, whose genius has so many monuments to his memory in the newer buildings of Harvard University. Clark Russell Still Living. Clark Russell, whom old sailors regard as the only man who ever knew how to describe the sea, was 58 years old last month. This noted writer of sea stories lives in Bath, England, far from salt water, a hopeless cripple from rheumatism. Between the ages of 13 and 21 he sailed in British merchant vessels, and during that time learned how to draw his wonderful pen pictures of life on the ocean. Statisticians have generally divided the German immigration into two periods, the decade from 1860 to 1870 being the transition stage. In the first period, from 1815 to 1860, not a year passed but men of the higher classes, dissatisfied or tormented politicians, came from Germany. They were especially numerous from 1830 to 1848. Since 1860, on the other hand, there have been few political exiles among the immigrants. Crowded Stations The London County Council street railway experts have drawn up an interesting table setting forth the number of passengers using per year some of the most important termini in the world. Here it is: Grand Central, New York, 14,000,000; South Union, Boston, 21,000,000; North Union, Boston, 23,108,000; Broad street, London, 27,000,000; Park street subway, Boston, 27,400,000; Waterloo, London 28,658,000; St. Lazare, Paris, 42,062,000; Liverpool street, Liverpool, 44,377,000. Ask your dealer for Sunday Creek No. 19 HOCKING The best for domestic use. For Sale by THE JONES & ADAMS CO. Anthracite and Bituminous Coal 47th Sq. and Wabash Railroad, Strictly dealers' yards. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 S. HALSTED STREET, .....CHICAGO ...LAWYER... 36 S. Clark St., CHICAGO. Room 706 Ogden Building Residence, 3153 Forest Av. ALBERT B. GEORGE LAWYER. 423 Ashland Block, Chicago. — 701. M. 2005. — Robert M. Mitchell Attorney at Law Suite 9, No. 77 South Clark St. CHICAGO EDWARD H. WRIGHT LAWYER Suite 421, 200 S. Clark St. Telephone, Harrison 2033. CHICAGO. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counsel at Law, Suite 729 Open House Block. & W. Conner Clark and Washington St. TELFENCE MAIN 1756. 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., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Provision Dealer Telephone 563 South 31st and State Streets CHICAGO Jas. J. McCormick, SAMPLE ROOM IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. CHICAGO Estimates and Special- courses Pursued ... Prompt Attention Given to Jobbing C.J. BOYD, Practical Plumber and Gas-sitter Steam and Hot Water Heating, Iron and Tile Drainage ..... Telephone Towne Ltd. 709 WEST 47TH STREET. SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR PROVISIONS FROM BERNARD J. MAGUIRE, BUFFET. 430 STATE ST., Cor Polk. IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS A SPECIALTY, TEL. 973 Harrison, CHICAGO. MRS. LIZZIE N. RANDELL Dressmaking and Plain Sewing..... 4836 State St. CHICAGO FOR BARGAINS IN Staple and Fancy Groceries, Meats Best Brands of Flour, Teas, Coffees Baking Powder, Spices, Butter Eggs, and Cannel Goods, Etc. All Goods Guaranteed to be Fresh, 5060 DEARBORN ST., COR. 51ST ST. CHICAGO. Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishings and Shoes GO TO THOMAS & HARRIS TWO BIG STORES 5101-3 Wentworth Ave. 5650-4 S. Halsted Street PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Etc. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY GUS GEBHARDT Boots, Shoes and Rubbers Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods No. 5046 SO. STATE STREET CHICAGO Repairing neatly done By Ordering One of Our - $15 Suits and Overcoats G. E. EVANS. Dealer in All Kinds of HARD AND SOFT COAL, Wood, Charcoal, Coke and Ice, Expressing and Moving a Specialty. 832 29th St. Chicago, Ill. The Largest, Oldest and Most Extensive Tailoring Establishment in Chicago Our Fall Line is Now Complete. The Best in the City. EVERYTHING GUARANTEED. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By THE MOSSLER BROS. ARNHEIM, THE TAILOR. CORNER CLARK AND MONROE STS. TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL TAXES ARE NOW DUE! OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or early hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, causes 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. Seware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized 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 ideal hair pomade. It is not possible for anybody to produce a permanent make it. Full directions with every bottle. Only $2 coins. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us $2 coins for one bottle or $1.20 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 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, TAXES ARE NOW DUE. AGENTS FOR THE BROAD AX. From now until further notice The Broad Ax will be on sale at the following places: B. H. Faulkner, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3104 State street. B. W. Flits, 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. 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, Colleefer Town of So. Chicago. Office, Stock Exchange Bldg., 108 La Salle Street. ```markdown ```