The Broad Ax

SPECIAL COMMUNICATION FROM HOT SPRINGS, ARK., TO THE BROAD AX. According to promise I write you some of the Hot Springs society events. Among the few that are visiting in this city from the Windy City are Mrs. Chas. Pitts, Mrs. William McKnight, Miss Genevieve Leoun Arbuckle, Mr. Dick Moss, Mr. Greene, G. Funley, Hassell Ransome and Mr. Billy Coats, who are all deriving benefit from the baths. The weather is simply beautiful here, and everyone is enjoying the mountain air, and picking the sweet violets. Mrs. Dora Williams entertained Mrs. Davis of Colorado Springs; Mrs. McKnight, and Captain Edwards at luncheon. Mrs. Mauds will entertain Mrs. Charles Pitts, Mrs. McKnight, Miss Genevieve Leoun Arbuckle and others Thursday night. Our well known physician of that Windy city, Dr. Curtis, has a large practice and is well liked by all who know him. Dr. Wade and daughter, Miss Melluot, entertained Miss Dienia, of Washington, D. C., Mrs. McKnight and Mr. D. Moss at dinner Wednesday. All agreed that Dr. Dade's daughter Miss Melluot, made a sweet and charming little hostess. The people of Hot Springs are exceedingly enterprising, and most all of them own their own homes. The livery man, Mr. Jenkins, does an amazingly big business in his line. Miss G. L. A. caused a sensation in Hot Springs the other morning. While out riding with a party of friends, all of whom were clever horse-women, she displayed a remarkable lot of nerve by throwing herself from the saddle while her horse was running away. Fortunately she escaped without a scratch her horse leaving her about two miles in the back ground. The horse was caught by a gentleman of the party, brought back, and she again mounted and rode home. She is a good rider and a decidedly clever young lady in every respect. We are sorry to have the Chicago ladies leave as society will be very stupid without them. Miss Quicker Robinson and her sister are both teaching school in the city. Mrs. Lovels has the only first-class manicuring parlor in Hot Springs. Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, of the windy city, is doing a fine and rushing business at the Eastman hotel in her hair dressing parlor. Mrs. Claben, of Marquette, Mich., has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Robinson, in this city, and returned home Thursday. The many new friends she made disliked to see her go. Mr. Maurice Orman and Dr. Linely his cousin of Texas, entertained Mrs. Willie Brown, Mrs. Wm. McKnight, Miss Genevieve Leoun Arbuckle, Sunday at luncheon, the table decorations were carvations. After luncheon they took a delightful drive through the most inviting places in Hot Springs which the ladies enjoyed and appreciated very highly. The bohemian fair at Ronoke Baptist church proved to be a great success. Mrs. C. Johnson has just completed her beautiful new home which is situated in a delightful spot, 116 Walnut street. Mrs. William McKnight, Miss Genevieve Leoun Arbuckle and Captain Edwards of Detroit, Mich., Mr. Maurice Orman and Dr. Linely will be given their good-bye reception by Mrs. Dora Williams, of Hot Springs, and Mr. Rebecca Davis, of Colorado Springs, Friday evening, 18 High street. Mr. G. Henry Green, of Hot Springs, is a charming and pleasant young man who is never too tired to entertain the visiting ladies. Miss Anna Robinson, of Chicago, is very ill. Yours respectfully, MRS. WM. McKNIGHT. It is claimed by several gentlemen, who are in a position to know, what they are talking about, that Rev. Andrew Jackson Carey, who is known as the cheap Snorting Political Preacher "will receive fifty bucks, or fifty dollars for speaking in behalf of David L. Frank, at the Coliseum last night." Who is not in favor of doing away with Policy-shops, crap-grames, gambling-ums, Low dives, or tough saloons. Rev. Carey is in a bad business, when he supports David L. Frank as a reformer, and as long as low bred or cheap white politicians can buy whisky-drinking Negro teachers for five, ten, and fifty dollars, just so long will this same class of politicians display their greatest contempt for all self-respecting Negroes. Mr. J. B. O'Connell, of the strong legal firm of Devine & O'Connell, Resper Block, is eminently qualified for Judge of the County Court of Cook County. ```markdown ``` M. J. WALSH AND ROY O. WEST LAID, OUT. Monday evening last, Mr. James H. Harris and Julius F. Taylor attended a political meeting held at 4903 State St., in the interest of M. J. Walsh, who wants to be Alderman of the 30th ward, and as we were seated close to Mr. Walsh taking notes for our paper he stated that when he wound up speaking he wanted the editor of The Broad Ax to get up and tell his hearers why he was a Democrat. We declined to do so at first, then he kept on urging us to get up and speak out. At the same time he said that "The Broad Ax was a good newspaper, that he read it and paid his subscription to it, and if it was only Republican in politics instead of being Democratic its circulation would increase five thousand inside of two months." At last, after being urged the third time to set forth our reason for being a Democrat, we consented to do a little talking along that line, but we had not spoken over a dozen words before Candidate Walsh wanted to choke us off. We politely informed Mr. Walsh that we did not say one word while he was jumping on us and now we proposed to be heard. Then Friend Walsh saw that he had bitten off more than he could chew. He left the meeting in haste. At that point a little man with a very small head by the name of Roy O. West, endeavored to put in his jaw by interrupting us. He claimed that we were not adhering to the truth in one of our statements. We then and there offered to wager Mr. West $100 that our statement was correct but he would not call our hand and we bluffed him out. At the conclusion of our little speal Mr. West addressed the meeting but instead of booming Walsh for Alderman, he put in all his time in a vain endeavor to tear down our Democratic speech, and Walsh and West will never want another Afro-American Democrat to speak in one of their Republican meetings. ALDERMANIC CANDIDATES. The following bunch of men are aspirants for seats in the city council, and all of them will work hard for their own election next Tuesday, April fool's day: Borland One of the hard working and obliging commissioners of Cook county, who is more than likely to receive the nomination for Sheriff next June from the hands of the united Democracy. G. J. Sindelar, Soc. THIRTEENTH WARD. L. P. Friestedt, R. E. E. Snyder, S. T. J. H. Perkinson, D. H. W. Matthews, Pro. J. Lambert, Soc. FOURTEENTH WARD. H. B. Tefft, R. W. T. Maypole, D. H. S. Turner, Pro. A. A. Worsley, S. T. F P. Farber, Soc. FIFTEENTH WARD. A. W. Beilfuss, R. C. C. Coles, D. H. Brophy, Pro. E. E. Harding, S. T. W. I. Goodspeed, Soc. SIXTEENTH WARD. L. M. Novak, R. S. H. Kunz, D. M. F. Werber, Pro. H. O. Fletcher, S. T. G. D. Evans, Soc. SEVENTEENTH WARD. E. Obendorf, R. W. E. Dever, D. J. H. Siljander, Pro. F. Bouchonville, Ind. E. L. Woehosky, Soc. C. A. O. Hwarvig, S. T. EIGHTEENTH WARD. M. C. Conlon, D. E. A. Cook, Pro. J. O'Connor, S. T. NINETEENTH WARD. J. Powers, D. T. M. Chamers, Pro. R. B. Rood, S. T. J. J. Kirby, Ind. M. Kaplin, Soc. TWENTIETH WARD. N. R. Finn, D. W. D. Tate, S. T. A. W. Fainbanks, Pro. J. Gilbert, Soc. TWENTY-FIRST WARD. F. Dobyns, R. J. Minwegen, D. S. T. Jacobs, Pro. E. J. Krumrine, S. T. C. Ericson, Soc. TWENTY-SECOND WARD. A. E. Gault, R. M. D. Dougherty, D. C. J. Olsen, Pro. H. A. Hendrick, Ind. F. H. Herdrich, S. T. R. Bauer, Soc. J. W. Simpson, Ind. D. TWENTY-THIRD WARD. W. E. Furness, R. E. F. Herrman, D. H. C. Pegram, Pro. T. Gribi, S. T. G. T. Millar, Soc. TWENTY-SIXTH WARD. W. C. Kuester, R. C. H. Weber, D. A. W. Augur, Pro. A. A. Wilter, S. T. C. A. Gustafson, Soc. TWENTY-SEVENTH WARD. H. W. Butler, R. H. N. Miller, D. J. Nate, Pro. H. Wulff, Citizens. O. R. Gunderson, S. T. S. Robbins, Soc. A. W. Davison, C. H. R. TWENTY-EIGHTH WARD. W. J. Raymer, R. C. J. Holmes, D. M. L. Halverson, Prop. J. F. Ramp, S. T. J. W. Bartels, Soc. TWENTY NINHT WARD. G. Scharf, R. T. Carey, D. H. N. Ott, Pro. H. W. Koehler, S. T. J. A. Ambroz, Soc. TRIRTIETH WARD. M. J. Walsh, R. J. J. Bradley, D. D. J. Stewart, Pro. C. H. Ciliske, S. T. R. T. Sims, Soc. J. G. Hanrahan, Ind. THIRTY-FIRST WARD. C. O. Smith, R. P. J. O'Connell, D. H. S. Snowden, S. T. M. E. Cornell, Pro. P. J. Granberg, Soc. THIRTY-SECOND WARD. J. Bradenoch, R. S. T. Jeuness, Pro. L. Dean, S. T. W. G. Wehrwein, Soc THIRTY-THIRD WARD. E. Bihl, R. J. C. Finn, D. C. H. Boughton, D. F. Sweeney, S. T. J. T. Caulfield, Soc. THIRTY-FOURH WARD. J. Ruxton, Sr. A. J. H. Maney, D. E. Q. Parkhurst, Pro. E. G. Davies, S. T. H. P. Kensch, Soe. J. G. Milbach, Ind. THIRTY-FIFT WARD. T. M. Hunter, R. T. A. Thorsen, Pro. A. E. Rebberg, Ind. O. A. Rapeh, Soe. E. Drummond, S. T. A. H. Humphrey, Pro. J. J. Belinski, Ind D. F. Heidrich, S. T. P. A. Zahlman, Soc. TWELFTH WARD. C. H. Fetzner, R. V. S. Cerveny, D. W. J. Goodman, Pro. R. Wirth, Ind. W. F. Brennan, Nonp. R. Holthusen, Soc. TWENTY-FOURTH WARD. G. K. Schmidt, R. J. T. Hechninger, D. I. J. Mason, Pro. N. L. Wagner, Soc. TWENTY-FIFTH WARD. A. D. Williston, R. I. H. Nordlinger, D. E. L. Walker, Pro. Lawyer W. L. Gahan, 100 Washington street, returned home last Friday from his extensive western and southern trip. The Broad Ax dislikes to admit it but it is its honest opinion that Bath-House John J. Coughlin will down the gang of reformers in the first ward. Generally, the man that is always saying that colored papers don't have any news, is the man that borrows them to read.—Atlanta Age. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock Prof. M. M. Mangasarian will speak in the Grand Opera House on "The True Conception of Another Life." Alderman Wm. F. Brennan, 12th ward says "that things are coming dead easy for him and that he will be re-elected to the council." After carefully looking over the political field in the 30th ward, we are firmly convinced that John J. Bradley will be elected to the city council from the 30th ward. Attorney James Long, Unity Building, and James Cunningham, who is connected with Fowler Bros., are candidates for members of the Democratic County Central Committee from the 31st ward. Alderman Wm. O. Kuester, 26th ward, has no doubt of his re-election to the city council and this news will please his many friends for Alderman Kuester is O. K. If you vote for John J. Bradley for Alderman of the 30th ward, it will show that you are in favor of having an honest man to represent you in the city council. Congressman George P. Foster is spending one week in the city and he will not return to Washington, D. C., until next Tuesday night. The congressman is assisting Alderman Kent, in his fight in the Fourth ward. Almost two thousand dollars was raked in by Rev. A. L. Murray and his flock within the last quarter and still Bethel Church is heavily in debt, but we must remember that Rev. Murray must have twenty dollars a week for his table. The Broad Ax is sorry to learn that its friend, Mr. M. E. Clare, assistant prosecuting attorney of Chicago, will be unable in the future to serve the city in that capacity owing to the fact that the city has no funds on hand to compensate him for his services. Robert M. Mitchell addressed the Sunday Forum of Paris, Ill., last Sunday on "The Failure of the Negro in Politics." Attorney Mitchell says he was well received by the people of Paris and that many white persons attended the Forum to hear him speak. A little over three thousand dollars were collected by the members of Quinn Chapel during the last church quarter, but the report which was published in the old church organ last week does not say how this three thousand dollars was expended. And still the long and loud cry is constantly going up from Rev. A. J. Carey for more money. Another blow has been dealt "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The city council of Charleston, W. Va. has forbidden the play to be performed in the city, as a result of a petition of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and similar action has been demanded in other towns and cities of the south.—Ex. It is about time that Negroes should fully awake to their place and opportunity in the world. We have slept too long, and can be shooed aside too easily. Everything is moving, and some of us are just pushed on by the pressure, and not from our own attempt or desire. Wake up and be men, and prepare yourselves to bear the brunt, and walk in the van. Shelton were laid to rest. Mrs. Sheltog desires to thank all of her friends for the aid and sympathy which they so cheerfully and willingly rendered her during her sore affliction. Deacon Harvey Brown is as mad as an old wet hen. Last Monday morning he was dressed up in his plug hat and sitting on the top of his coach. As the writer passed the corner of Randolph and La Salle streets, and as soon as we came near unto him, Deacon Brown hollowed out in a loud voice that he would smash is in the face if we did not keep his name out of the Broad Ax. Heretofore we were under the impression that Deacon Brown was a Christian and a class leader at Quinn Chapel. Enough said! Bringing: a woman clear across the continent chained to a man was the nauseating spectacle on one of the overland trains one day this week. Such barbarity was never before seen or heard of, and it would not have been in this case, in the opinion of the writer at least, if the woman in question had not been of Negro blood. The woman and her husband are accused of having stolen the Lowenthal diamonds at Portland, Oregon, some months ago. They were subsequently arrested at Toronto and brought back to Portland guarded by five detectives, and yet that hoard of detectives found it necessary to chain the woman to her husband as if she had been a dangerous murderess. Who said the average detective was not a brute when it comes to handling persons of color.—Ex. Mr. James A. Quinn, the high-cockaloorum of the 21st ward, has rung his bell and he has begun an unrelenting warfare upon Boss Robert E. Burke. Mr. Quinn asserts in a long interview which appeared in all the daily papers a few days ago, that within the past five years he estimates that Boss Burke has collected no less than $250,000 by manipulating the Harrison Guards, the Bryan League and the Chicago Tammany. This bitter fight between Messrs. Quinn and Burke will be watched with much interest by all the politicians, and if Boss Burke cannot get Mr. Quinn's scalp by demanding Mayor Harrison to oust Jimmy Quinn as city sealer of Chicago, then it will prove that Boss Burke's political star has gone down never to rise again. It is our opinion that Mayor Harrison will never dispense with the services of the present city sealer to please Boss Burke, for James A Quinn is clean and honest and he reflects credit upon the Harrison administration. Another row occurred in the South End Sunday Club, which meets at St. Mark's church, last Sunday afternoon. It appears that Saint Bulldozing Emmerich, Rev. Slim Peters and Dam Pious Webster were the cause of most of the trouble, and for the many disgraceful and disgusting scenes which were witnessed by those who were so unfortunate to be present. It seems that many members of the club were in favor of suspending Emmick, Webster and Peters from serving on committees for three months as a punishment for their ungentlemanly conduct in the past and that, as far as we can learn, started the fight, and while the lie was passing between the combatants and while much vile language was being used right in the presence of women and children, Rev. John F. Moreland, who was ready to address the club, felt that his life was in danger and beat a hasty retreat from the church, and the meeting came near ending in a rough and tumble fight. Hereafter the South End Club should be known as the South End Prize Fighters' Club. SAYINGS OF THE SAGES. Nothing is so infectious as example.—Charles Kingsley. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.—Antisthenes. The less heart a man puts into a task the more labor it requires.—Amiel. Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel but in taking away some fire.—T. Fuller. If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.—R. Cecil. SPECIAL NOTICE. The leading article in The Broad Ax next week will be on Mrs. Sublett and Mrs. Brown of Quinn Chapel. NOTICE. The next issue of The Broad Ax will contain a "red-hot" or a "sizzling" article on Mr. Robert E. Burke and Mr. Fred E. Eldred. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Farmers, Artists, Protestants, Knights of Labor, Indians, Morons, Republicans, Priests, or any other can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is kind. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Year..... 82.95 Month..... 1.55 Overlining notes made known on application address all communications to The regular pilgrimage to Mecca is causing the usual activity among the industrious little cholera germs. Kansas has done the handsome thing. They admit down there that Prince Henry looks like General Funston. China has the advantage of South American republics in that she is large enough to support several rebellions at the same time. Speaking of the pleasures of the rich, no one seems to be getting more real enjoyment out of them nowadays than Andrew Carnegie. A Missouri man has decided to stock his farm with 400 goats this spring. Hereafter the Missouri butter is likely to cut an enlarged figure. The Chinese government will intrust the reorganization of its army to the Japs. Evidently China is preparing to become a fighting nation. A mountain of arsenic has just been found near Tacoma. Those contemplating suicide can learn the fare to Tacoma from any ticket agent. King Alfonso, after looking over the situation in Spain, is inclined to wait until he has grown a full set of whiskers before trying to be a ruler. The bicycle has a past. Its past at least is secure. But the automobile, the airship and the underwater vessel have a future, every one of them. An English professor says women are incapable of learning the Chinese language. If he can prove it Chinese may yet become the universal tongue. A burning match, lighted to find a lost penny, destroyed a $60,000 grocery store at Sedalia, Mo. This is a case of penny wise and several pounds foolish. It is intimated that some of our women are contracting foreign alliances just in order to get an opportunity to attend King Edward's coronation. There would be less justification for divorce if perpetrators of "beauty column" prescriptions could be made to swallow some of their own unholy smears. Senator Depew owns 150 pairs of trousers, which allows for a change of one pair and fifty-six hundredths of another every quarter hour of the twenty-four. District Attorney Jerome states candidly that he does not know how to run a newspaper. That's a strange admission for a man to make who is not in the business. A St. Louis teacher of Spanish has been fined $28 for kissing one of his young lady pupils, and she is probably mad at the jury for not placing a higher valuation upon it. The pictures appearing of the St. Louis preacher who advocated that the women should do the proposing look as if he might wait a long time under any such arrangement. James Dick of Glasgow has just died and left $5,000,000 of his fortune to the charitable institutions of his city. This is a clear case of putting money where it will do the most good. James J. Hill is an assiduous student of William Shakespeare. Jim particularly admires Bill's universal outlook and his dexterous way of working up dramatic combinations. A great reduction is threatened in the output of diamonds this season. Persons who may at present be somewhat shy in the gem department are admonished to order a supply at once. As long as the agency through which the battleship Maine was blown up remains unknown there will be an opportunity for pipe stories about it, but some day the man who knows the truth will bob up and tell it. Full and generous credit should be given to the corporations of Pennsylvania that have advanced the wages of their employees. The totals will mean several hundred thousand dollars, more than can be shown in any other state of the Union. Prof. Kent of the Yale Divinity School upholds hasing and cites the treatment of Joseph by his brothers as a biblical precedent for the practice. Yale is evidently jealous of the public attention given Western theological schools. Finish what thou hast to do, Prove thy right to wear a crown; Bravery tread thy journey through Eve the sun goes down. Crowd thy bark, though storm-sailed, Orcas seas that seek to drown. To the harbor-mouth, full-sailed, Eye the sun goes down. If thou canst not reap, then glean Midst the stubble bare and brown; Search the field and leave it clean Ere the sun goes down. JUDGE HASTINGS QUEER CLIENT THE talk had been of cases extraordinary, queer clients and singular precedents, when there was a rap at Judge Hastings' door and the office boy came in to say that Mrs. Hastings was in the ante-room. "You've never met her, have you Proctor?" asked the judge, turning to his friend. "No? Tell her to come right in, Pete." She came in radisnt, dignified, womanly, cordial, and Proctor, who was an old bachelor, began to realize his friend's reverential faith in marriage vows, his fame as a peacemaker betwixt warring pairs, his dislike for frail divorcees and errant husbands. Very gracious to her husband's colleague, she lingered but a moment and went away. Hastings closed the door, lighted another cigar and resumed the talk. "Speaking of queer clients," he began, "the worst and the best, the most deceptive and yet the most ingenuous I ever had was a woman shoplifter. It was down in Cincinnati, in the old days, when I had but little experience outside of criminal practice. You know, I was prompted to come here to get away from a growing reputation as a criminal pleader, and yet my first case in Chicago was for one of my loyal Cincinnati crooks. Crook—yes, that's the word, I guess, though it seems harsh now, for she was the most loyal, ingenuous and most virtuous thief that ever dodged the penitentiary. Well, to begin at the beginning. "She was arrested one day in Cincinnati by the house detective of a big dry goods store, searched, and as the saying is, 'caught red-handed.' Of course she sent for me. I was terribly strong with the shoplifters of Cincinnati, and the Lord knows there were enough of them to keep a hard-working tyro in board money. I don't deny that I was struck with her beauty and evident refinement the moment I met her she was on the books as Mary Smith and the cheap calico and dowdy cape she wore were not much of a disguise for her extraordinary qualities, physical and mental. "I told her to tell me the truth about herself up to the title of her arrest, and she did. I'm sure she did, as you will find. She was of good family and tender nature, had eloped with a hand-some salesman and had been living for three years in Covington, where her husband was doing well, but living beyond his means as the manager of a A woman sitting at a desk with a book. big furniture house. Well, he was found to be short in his accounts, convicted of embezzlement and sent to the penitentiary, leaving his young wife and baby in absolute penury. She sold everything the first year to keep him supplied with the extras that are not on prison menus; she denied herself, looking for work of any kind, and finally awaking to the realization that there was nothing between her and hunger except the few good garments that remained of her once splendid wardrobe. "She sold them, and in utter generosity wrote hopeful letters to her husband even when her prospect loomed blockest. She could hardly sew, knew nothing of business, had neither means nor time to learn shorthand or typewriting, and soon found that even the petty positions open for young women in the big stores, paid next to nothing. Assailed on all sides by rancals of the unclean and impertinent type, who would have 'favored' her on account of her beauty, she could do no better than fill an occasional vacancy as 'extra' in some store. She tried writing at home, but found that the piltance for addressing 10,000 envelopes would not keep her and her baby a day. Then, in desperation, she began to steal, timidly at first, but finally with a boldness and shrewd dexterity that for a time meant ease and even luxury for her and the baby. "She fixed up a snug little flat in Ginestown, but with her weather not on possible detection, held on to the squalid room in Covington, where she had hid her misery and her shame from the fair-weather friends of her early married days. She made no effort to conceal nor condone the crime for which she had been arrested. I got bail for her, and, as we left the jail together, what do you suppose she proposed? Simply that she go back with her baby to the dirty, bare room in Covington, and, leaning wholly upon her story of pinching want, throw herself wholly on the mercy of the rich merchant she had robbed. No lawyer could have devised a better plan; and at once I was struck by her swift ingenuity. It meant a chance to plead 'first offense,' and I seized upon it as her only chance to escape a sentence. "Of course I played her hard-luck story to a finish, got the opposing lawyer to go over with me to Covington, and, to make a long story short, not only got the case dropped, but actually convinced the proprietor that 'Mary Smith' should have a place in the glove department of his store. She got it, and, as I took pains to know, contrived to eke out a decent living for herself and child till her husband came back from the penitentiary. Of course that meant that they must leave Cincinnati, and the next thing I knew, they were gone, bag and baggage, nobody knew whither. "I came to Chicago a year or so after, set up a modest office, resolved to keep away from the criminal branch, and was in the way of forgetting 'Mary Smith' when suddenly one day I got a telephone message to the effect that a woman prisoner at Central wanted to see me. I went over and met 'Mary.' She was almost in rags, had come to Chicago with her husband, who deserted her as soon as their money gave out. She had tried to get work, failed, begged a little—too little to keep her child warm—then she resumed stealing. The old story. Everybody knows it. Well, I took the case, got her over to her squalid room on the West Side, and began to figure on a scheme to get her out of trouble. "I couldn't think of any, but when I came back the next day I found her THEIR OWN DOCTOR WAS SENT. full of hope, though she was in bed, ill and looking quite cadaverous. 'Tye got consumption, Mr. Hastings,' she said, smiling wanly; 'we must try the quality of Chicago mercy this time.' Then I noticed that the handkerchief which she brought to her mouth was stained with red and at the corners of her pretty mouth were tiny crimson lines. I got a doctor to visit her, and he promptly declared that she was in rapid tuberculosis—pthisis, I think he called it. "But the prosecution was obdurate at first. They didn't swallow the 'dying mother' story very easily; it had been worked too often, they said; so I suggested that they send their own doctor to see my client, and, if he declared her other than consumptive, or declared that she was shamming, I would pay her bill and go to trial. He went a dozen time and finally agreed with my doctor that she was failing rapidly. He was a good-hearted man. The pretty child touched his heart, I dare say, but the unfortunate mother's hemorrhages, her failure to gain flesh, her pinched, almost transparent flesh, brought him over to our side. "Then my Cincinnati experience was repeated. Case dropped, position for the mother as soon as she was able to walk, kindness, help, hope. But she rallied so fast that I was nonplused, afraid that her employers might become suspicious, though none but the proprietor knew her story. Yes, I admit it, Proctor, I had more than a lawyer's interest in her. At last, at supper one night after the play, I quizzed her about her 'pthisis.' She smiled querulously at first, but said: 'It was a desperate fraud, I know, but I was desperate, Mr. Hastings. You don't blame me? I'll never deceive you again.' "And she never did, Proctor. She's the best woman in the world. I got her a divorce and—well, she was in here a moment ago—my wife, in fact, and I'm not ashamed of her." "But the consumption?" said Proctor, after a wondering moment, "the emaciation, th—the-er hemorrhages? How on earth did she—" "Just worry, starvation and—and a morsel of raw calves' liver"—John H. Raftery, in the Chicago Record-Herald. Mountain Rats. On the summit of Mount Kosciusko, the highest peak of the Australian Alps, an astronomical and meteorological observatory is maintained. The official in charge states in his latest report that the place is overrun with rats, and that he is slaughtering them at the rate of hundreds a month. He adds that he would soon accumulate a fortune if the Government would pay him at the rate that rules in Sydney, where rats' tails are worth threepence each since the visitation of the bubonic plague. Such swarms of rats on the roof of Australia, at a height of 7328 feet, constitute a curious foot in antipodean natural history. It is supposed that they have been attracted from all quarters by the large depot of food supplies in connection with the observatory. However, the keeper does not mean to surrender to the invaders. "I am thoroughly contented," says this Alpine Mark Tapley, "and I mean to stick to the mountain as long as it will stick to me."—London Chronicle. Some Set with Diamonds and Other Precious Stones for Millionaires. "Here are some rather odd things—the first of their kind I have ever made," said a jeweler, as he laid upon a cloth of black velvet a number of silver and gold buttons, into which were set small diamonds, pearls, sapphires, opals and emeralds. "They are electrical push-buttons," he explained, "and they are to be used in a country house that one of our millionaires is building." "Push-buttons, you know, are coming into wider and wider use. The dwellings of the rich contain fifty or sixty of them nowadays. And as a consequence of their profuse appearance everywhere architects are giving a good deal of care to their designing. These six buttons, for instance, that are to go in a white and gold drawing room, are, you see, of silver, studded with opals, and they are to be set on a plate of onyx in a silver frame. "They will go well, don't you think," asked the Jeweler, according to the Philadelphia Record, "with the drawing room's delicate and pale decorative scheme." A Very Strong Letter. La Farge, Wis. Wm. T. Payne of this place has written a rather startling letter to the papers. He says: "I was in great pain across my back for four weeks, and was taking medicine from a doctor all the time, but it did not do me any good. "I bought a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and had not taken more than four or five doses before I noticed that they were doing me good. "They helped me right along, and I kept on using them till I had used four boxes when the pain left me altogether. One box of Dodd's Kidney Pills has done me more good than five dollars worth of doctor's medicine. "This remedy has certainly worked wonders in my case, and I feel it my duty to give it the credit due." In the Book Shop A salesman in a Philadelphia book store is said to have been asked these three questions: "Do you sell that new book I heard my niece telling about last week? Here's the name of it (taking out a slip of paper), 'Ben Hur?' " "Have you a novel by Hawthorne called 'Moss from an Old Man?' " "I want a copy of 'When Nightshade Was in Flower,' please. I think it's a novel, but it sounds like a work on gardening." STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ] Frank J. Choney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Choney & Co. doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State of aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrch that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrch Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886 (SEAL) A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrch Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. E. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo. Tourists on Switzerland Railroad. The railway up Mount Pilatus in Switzerland was used last summer by 21,273 persons. England contributed 30.4 per cent., Germany 22.8, France 10.4. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. Some people undo with their tongues all the good they do with their hands. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it falls to cure. 25c. A good word in behalf of others costs you little and is worth much. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.—Goethe. These crispy mornings Mrs. Austin's Pan Cake Flour tastes delicious. Ready in a moment; Buy from your grocer. Spending time in thinking what to do next instead of doing it. People buy Hamlin's Wizard Oil because they have learned by experience that it cures pain of every kind. People who have the least to say invariably talk the most. Dispatch is the soul of business. Lord Chesterfield. Nurses' Experience. Medical men say that a good nurse in a difficult case is better than medicine, but when we can get a good nurse and good medicine, the patient stands a much better chance of recovery. The few words of advice given below by nurse Eliza King, are well worthy the attention of all readers: "I have constantly used St. Jacobs Oil in the various situations I have occupied as nurse, and have invariably found it excellent in all cases requiring outward application, such as sprains, bruises, rheumatic affections, neuralgia, etc. In cases of pleurisy it is an excellent remedy—well rubbed in. I can strongly recommend it after several years' use and experience. It should be in every household." Sister CAROLINA, St. Andrew's Hospital, writes: "I have found St. Jacobs Oil a most efficacious remedy in gout; also in sprains and bruises. Indeed, we cannot say too much in its praise, and our doctor is ordering it." DAN GROSVENOR SAYS: HON. DAN. A. GROSVENOR, OF THE FAMOUS OHIO FAMILY. Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor. Deputy Auditor for the War Department, in a letter written from Washington, D. C., says: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from one bottle of Peruna. One week has brought wonderful changes and I am now as well as ever. Besides being one of the very best spring tonics it is an excellent catarrh remedy." "I consider Peruna really more meritorious than I did when I wrote you last. I receive numerous letters from acquaintances all over the country asking me if my certificate is genuine. I invariably answer, yes."---Dan. A. Grosvenor. A Congressman's Letter. Hon. H. W. Ogden, Congressman from Louisiana, in a letter written at Washington, D.C., says the following of Peruna, the national catarrh remedy: "I can conscientiously recommend your Peruna as a fine tonic and all around good medicine to those who are in need of a catarrh remedy. It has been commended to me by people who have used it, as a remedy particularly effective in the cure of catarrh. For those who need a good catarrh medicine I know of nothing better."—H. W. Ogden. Treat Catarrh in Spring. The spring is the time to treat catarrh. Cold, wet winter weather often retards a cure of catarrh. If a DAN. A. GROSVENOR. be meritorious than I did when I us letters from acquaintances all certificate is genuine. I invariably course of Peruna is taken during the early spring months the cure will be prompt and permanent. There can be no failures if Peruna is taken intelligently during the favorable weather of spring. As a systemic catarrh remedy Peruna eradicates catarrh from the system wherever it may be located. It cures catarrh of the stomach or bowels with the same certainty as catarrh of the head. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. s25.00 TO CALIFORNIA 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 Const 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. Write on the back "Send details low rates to California," adding your own name and address, also those of any of your friends, and you will receive in return information of fascinating interest, great practical value, of educational and business worth. Whether or not you are now thinking of taking this delightful trip or looking to better your condition in life, it will pay you, your family and friends to write a postal as above. As the colonist rates open to all are good during March and April only, send your postal today. 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 cent stamp by S. A. Hutchison, Manager, 212 Clark street, Chicago. 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. "Tryml" Never Fails to cure Constipation, Stomach, Liver or Nervous trouble. To prove it cut this item out—it is worth 25c and send it with name and address to R. J. 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If you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES you can do it just as well as a professional. Sold by druggists. 10s per package. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.—Hume. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for same money. That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.—Seneca. If you have not yet tried Defiance Starch, just ask your dealer what others say about it. Happiness is always where we find it, but seldom where we seek it. Disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder cause Bright's Disease, Rheumatism Gravel, Pain in the Back, Bladder Disorders, difficult or too frequent passing water, Dropsy, etc. For these diseases a Positive Specific Curse is found in a new botanical discovery, the wonderful Kava-Kava Shrub, called by botanists, the paper methodism, from the Ganges River, East India. It has the Jen. Thomas, Nc. 120 S St. N. W., Washington, G. B. extraordinary record of 1,200 hospital cures in 30 days. It acts directly on the Kidneys, and cures by draining out of the Blood the poisonous Uric Acid, Lithiasis, etc., which cause the disease. out of the blood the poisonous Acid, Lathies, etc., which cause the disease. Rev. John H. Watson, testifies in the New York World, that it has saved him from the edge of the grave when dying of Kidney disease and terrible suffering when passing water. Mr. James Thomas, Eao. of the Board of Review Bureau of Penalties, Washington, D.C. writes: Was cured of a usually fatal Kidney Trouble after many physicians had failed and he had given up all hope of recovery. Hou. R. C. Wood, a prominent attorney of Lowell, Ind., was cured of Chronic Rheumatism, Kidney and Bladder Disease, of ten years standing by Alkavis, Many ladies including Mrs. R. R. Dhimore, South Deerfield, Mass., and Mrs. James Young, Kent, Ohio, also testify to its wonderful executive power in Kidney and allied disorders peculiar to womanhood. That you may judge the value of this Great Discovery for yourself; we will send you One Large Case by mail Free, only asking that when cured yourself you will recommend it to others. It is a Sure Specimen and can not fail. Address: The Church Kidney Done Company, 466 Fourth Avenue, New York "No," said the dealer, "you don't need to be an expert in order to be able to tell a good diamond from a poor one. You need only to have common sense and good eyes and a magnifying glass. First you examine the diamond's table. The table is the surface, and it should be perfectly flat and perfectly octagonal. Then examine the circumference, and if that is round the gem is, at least, you may be sure, well cut. Now, for flaws, you look into the diamond, using the glass here, for the reason that a flaw imperceptible to the naked eye will often lower a gem's value 50 or 60 per cent. Flaws in diamonds resemble those little feather marks in ice that we so often see, though scratches on the surface are also flaws. If none are to be found you study next the color, remembering that the steel blue, because it is the most brilliant, is the most desirable and costly hue, and that the white comes next. Yellowish or off-color stones are practically worthless, but a perfect violet or amber, or rose diamond brings a fancy price. "Study usually the depth and weight, and if the depth is good you won't be cheated if you pay $150 or $160 a carat for your stone. Before the South African war you' d only have to pay $100, but $150, thanks to this war, and to the diamond trust, and to the heavier customs duty, is now the market price."—Philadelphia Record. WAY TO SAVE MONEY. Young Man Takes to Shabby Dress of the Professional "Genius" "Perhaps you have noticed that I am doing the artistic stunt in the matter of my attire and personal appearance," said the engaged young man. "I have come to the conclusion that if I am ever to get married I must save money, and the only way I can save money is by denying myself things I like. "Now, I have always been fond of dressing well, but that is a thing of the past. Instead, I am doing the genius pose. Notice my unkempt appearance. I wear my hair long and am raising a beard. I never learned to shave myself you know, and that in itself is a considerable saving. I wear shiny black clothes, a flowing Windsor tie and an old soft hat with a very broad brim—the broader the better. "The people who do not know me may take me for a tramp," he said, with a smile, according to the Philadelphia Record, "but for their opinion I do not care. The people who do know me merely think I am becoming eccentric. In the meantime I am saving money, and that's the main thing." Homes on Holland Canals. Holland owes much of its unique charm and the Dutch race many of its distinctive qualities to the gaily-painted and happily peopled homes that float serenely through the landscapes of the Netherlands. Nearly every Dutch "tjalk" or barge is not only a conveyance for merchandise, but also its owner's dwelling place; not merely a temporary habitation, as a sea-going ship is to her captain and crew, but an abiding home. The raised poop, upon which the owner stands, grasping the tiller and watching the sail, or directing the labors of his family at the tow rope, is the roof of his house. It is also the garden, by virtue of its row of pots containing flowering plants and bulbs. Here, when the day's voyage is ended, and the house moored for the night, the good man smokes his biggest pipe and drinks his schnapps; the women sit and sew; the children, safely inclosed by the poop rail, and a little toy gate, play their stolid games, and the canary and the siskin from their gilden cakes pour forth rival evensongs. Unqualified Indorsement. "I want to show you my new bonnet." said Mrs. Hammersmith to her husband. Mr. Hammersmith tried to smile and look pleasant. "I want your judgment on it, dear," she went on. "How do you like it as compared with my last bonnet?" "Why—er," began Hammersmith, pretending to make a critical examination, "this is very pretty, but what is the difference in their cost?" "This cost $7 less than my last one." Hammersmith's mind was instantly made up. "I like this much better," he said. Undesirable emigrants for the Cape have greatly diminished in numbers since the new permit regulations came into force. An official of the patent office says the bulk of those who were authorized to take passage now consisted of respectable artisans and others with prospects of permanent employment. The rules, which have now been in force for about two months, enjoin that the would-be emigrant must possess at least £100, or a proof of ability to maintain himself on arrival. The name Semi-Saxon was applied to the English language as spoken from the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth century. From that period to the death of Edward III., in 1377, the term old English is applied. From thence to the death of Queen Elizabeth, in 1603, it is called middle English and from that date to the present it has been called modern English. Big Industries Built up on Small Articles. Few people realize the wants, and requirements of the eighty millions of people in the United States. Who would think that it requires over a million dollars capital to carry on the package dye business in this country, and that there are twelve different factories in the United States that manufacture package dye? One of the largest package dye factories in the world is that of the Putnam Fadeless Dye Co., Unionville, Mo. In this factory alone over three million packages are put up every year. When you know that each package colors from 3 to 6 pounds of goods, or that the output of Putnam Fadeless Dyes alone will color from 9 to 18 million pounds and that it would require more than 800 cars to haul this amount of dyed goods, you will realize the magnitude of this seemingly small business. Travelers Going To New York Are becoming quite enthusiastic over the delightful service which the Lackawanna Railroad has recently inaugurated from Chicago. The three through trains each day are splendid examples of the car builders' art. 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Praise, Harvest, Thanksgiving, Temperance, Christmas, Easter Services. Childrens Day and Christmas Exercises. Everything in the line of music. 225 Dearborn St., Chicago, ill. (If affixed with more area, use) NE SMALL POX and other disease germs are nurtured and diseases disseminated by wall paper we can be, at no cost to you, healthful homes. Address at D, Grand Rapids, M.'ch. $500 ANNUAL INCOME for investment $100; smaller investment proportionate income; no sobeity, no risks; fullest investigation desired. THOMAS & CO., 503 Providence Building, Philadelphia. New LUMBER CO. organizing purchased large tract hardwood timber. Preferred stock for sale with liberal minimum stock house. Absolutely safe; big profits; investigate promptly. To: First Bat'l Bank, Hardwood, Ark. OF WIDE ACCOUNTANCE wanted as our correspondent, liberal terms to right party. It will not interfere with your pre-ent business but will put hundreds of dollars in your pocket. We will pave the way. For particuliers address WOLCOTT CO., R. 902, 157 Dearborn St., Chicago. THE INDEPENDENT MINING CO., OF SEATTLE WASHINGTON Owners of a group of claims in: Kittens Co., one of the best mining campa in the Pacific northwest. Ledge of Ore, 9,00 feet long, 25 feet wide; unlimited waterpower supply. Ore assays 484.56 per ton. For development work a limited amount of shares will be sold at the low price of Three Cents per share. Prospectus for an application. INDEPENDENT MINING CO., 1606 First Ave. INDEPENDENT MINING CO., 1498 First Ave., Seattle, Wash. C. H. JALLEST, Secretary. HAVE some OIL TERCER BEAUMONT OIL STOCKS to sell cheap. All dividend payers. If interested write me. J. L. REVERIDGE, Galveston, Tex. OIL STOCKS GREAT BARGAINS in Oil Stocks. W.M. B. KING & CO., Members of Houston (Texas) Oil and Stock Exchange, solicit orders. A BOX OF ORE! SAMPLES TO EVERYONE Who is Interested, FREE. We are in one of the finest mining districts in the world, and by joining our forces we can help one another to a fortune. We are all laboring men and would like to do something for our fellow laborer. Write for particulars. Address THE MIDLAND MINER, Lvons, Colorado. Official Organ of the Mutual Miners Association. Tropical agriculture yields much larger returns than home investments; property rights equally secure in Mexico as in United States. First mortgage 7% 10-year Gold Bonds, price 95 and accrued interest, security 3 for 1. Inest tropical plantation, in midst of United States colony; also dividend-paying shares in plantation for cash or monthly installments. For references and full particulars, call or send name and address to COMMONWEALTH MEXICAN PLANTATION ASSOCIATION, R 508, I15 Dearborn St., Chicago. Owns 10 claims of regulation size-320 acres of mineral land- situated in the center of the richest mineral producing region of the globe. $66,000,000 MINED IN ITS INMEDIATE VIOLINITY IN 1801, 15,000 tons of ore on the dumps and blocked out. 2,045 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. DOROTHY, MONTANA Bend for Prospectus of this Company if you contemplate investment in gold mining. Address the President, THUKLOW WERD BARNES, 149 Broadway, New York. GREAT BARGAINS IN OIL STOCKS! WM. B. KING & CO. Members of Houston (Texas) Oil Stock Exchange solicit orders. CANCER CURED For years the whole medical and surgical world has waged unsuccessful war against cancer. We cured 100 cancers in 1901. Of these six resisted treatments till treated and cured by our New X-Bay Treat-mech. Send for our book; it tells all about cancers, gives the letters of persons cured without the use of a knife. 26 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN TREATING CANCERS. CORSETS Best on Earth, secut p. pd 01. Spiral spring side stones never break. ARRIVES WANTED. N. DARLING, @ N. Clark St., Chicago. PISO'S CURE FOR BEST WORK IN THE FALL. Best Cough Syrup. Tissues Good. Use in time. Bold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Sold by Douglas Stores, and the best shoe designs everywhere. CAUTION! The genuine have W.L. Douglas' name and price on bottom BEST IN THE WORLD. $3.00 W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE Notice increase of sales in table below: 1898 = 148,706 Palrs. 1899 = 896,183 Palrs. 1900 = 1,259,754 Palrs. 1901 = 1,566,720 Palrs. Business More Than Doubled in Four Years. Business More Than Sweets in Four States W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.00 and $3.60 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 Celt, and National Kangaroo. Fast Color Kyboles and Always. Black Hooks Used. W. L. Douglas $4.00 "Gilt Edge Zinc" cannot be equalled at any price. Shoes by mail BSC. extra. Catalog Free. SALZER'S SEEDS Beardless Barley is prodigally prolific, yielding in 1801 for Mr. Welin, Oriental Co., New York, 100 bushels per acre. Does well everywhere. That pays. 20th Century Outs. The oat maryel, producing from 200 to 300 bus. per acre, Salzer's Oats are warranted for sale, great yields. The K. & A. Ag. plant, sells them the very best. That pays. Three Eared Corn. 200 to 300 bus. per acre, in excellent condition, is your easiest price of corn. Salzer's seeds produce everywhere. Marvel Wheat yielded in 30 States last year over 40 bus. per acre. We also have the most advanced Marvel Wheat, which yielded on our farms 60 bus. per acre. That pays. Spelt. Gritious corral feed on cereal and 30 tons magnificent hay per acre. That pays. Victoria Rape makes it possible to grow bogs, and bales and bales of burls on lea. Marvel-only prolific, does well everywhere. That pays. Bromus Inermis. Most wonderful grass of the century, tolerated in areas of large bushes and lots of passage besides per acre. Grows wherever soil is found. Salzer's seed is warranted. That pays. $10.00 for 100. We wish you to try our great farm seeds, hence offer to send 10 farm seed samples, containing Thousand Housed Kale, Tomato, Kape, Alfalfa, Spelt, oats. (Fully worth $10.00 to get a start) together with our granting, for 100 posts. SALZER'S MAGIC CRUSHED SHELLS. Best on earth. Sell at $1.25 per 200 lbs. $2.75 for 500 lbs.; $6.50 for 1,000 lbs. John A Salzer Seed Co. LA CROSSE WIS. Santa Fe 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 cairs 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, Pacos and Rio Grande valleys of New Mexico, Salt River Valley of Arizona, and San Joaquin Valley of California. General Passenger Office The Atkinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Rly System CHICAGO A Small Investment made through us will PAY YOU A CASH WEEKLY INCOME, greater every week than a whole year's interest on the same amount in bank. Will commence to earn this at once and continue to do so until you withdraw your money. No gambling scheme or speculation, but by means of a legitimate licensed business. Address A. J. ARBOLD & CO. 9th and Pine St., Dept. W., SF. LOUM, MO. TAXES ARE NOW DUE! 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. Man's sense of humor is like dogs. He shies stones at the one that belongs to his neighbor and feeds his own on beefsteak and smiles at his innocent spirits when he happens to bite a pound of fresh leg out of a friend. Many men think that their wife is a millstone around their necks. They don't think it because they suppose that they could do more and better work if they was not married, but because they guess that they could do less. Most men that think this couldn't do less, but they don't believe it. Many a man views his wife as he would a life preserver that has been thrown to him. It may be a inferior article but it's a great thing to clutch tight at the time. After he has changed his wet clothes and swallowed a hot toddy he reconsiders his hasty impulse to give $5 to the man that saved him and figures that $3 will do. If it was his wife he would save the $3. Man will apologize to his wife for his small income a week after marriage and three years after will threaten divorce because she don't save money out of it and also keep up the supply of collars without frayed edges. A collar with a frayed edge is a great test of the male sense of humor, and none has been known to pass it. This is mostly because the frayed collar hurts his own neck and not somebody else's. MAXIMS FOR THE MARRIED. The tight cord is the easiest to snap. If you save, save at your own expense. If you take liberties, be prepared to give them. Permanent mutual respect is necessary for a permanent mutual love. There is only one thing worse than quarrels in public. That is caresses. Money is not essential to happiness, but happy people usually have enough. So save some. The man who respects his wife does not turn her into a mendicant. Give her a purse of her own. The easiest way of saving is to do without things. If you can't, then you had better do without a wife. In all matters of money prepare always for the worst and hope for the best.—From "A Duet," by A. Conan Doyle. J. P. Morgan has promised to give away $25,000. That man will die poor yet. The St. Paul News calls Dr. Harper president of the Northwestern university. Leavenworth, Kas., has a city clerk named Przybylowicz. In order to keep the accounts straight the people call him "Robinson." Some day Uncle Sam will get tired of rowdyism in the Senate and do things. He is an old man of strong action when he gets started. We heard that catnip can make a cat-nap. The preacher should leave the element of long-windedness to the church organ. TAXES ARE THE STATE, COUN DRAINAGE and LINE Ground rents are sometimes due to an earthquake. Many proverbs are the wit of one and the wisdom of none. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of book knowledge. Fortune sometimes favors a man for the purpose of destroying him. People who are always behind time ashould be fed on tomato ketchup. A good word in behalf of others costs you little and is worth much. Habits are like porous plasters—easy to asquire but hard to get rid of. It is easier to criticise the faults of another than it is to correct your own. Nothing is better than a good woman and nothing is worse than a bad one. Wise is he who knows where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins. Rest is the sweet sauce that is dished up only in connection with hard labor. The average man takes more interest in what he suspects than what he knows. Taking a stout girl out riding in a light buggy is suggestive of a spring meeting. The logical deduction from many a so-called statement of facts is fully 100 per cent. Milliners' bills are the tax which the male sex has to pay for the beauty of the females. Many a girl's distant manner may be traced to the fact that she had onions for dinner. When you meet a man who is thoroughly content you see one whose ambition has gone to seed. Great thoughts deteriorate by passing through small mind*. Even the hurricane makes but sorry music when it attempts to whistle through a keyhole. The usual order of things is reversed in matrimonial warfare. First comes the surrender, then the engagement and last, but not least, the call to arms.—Chicago News. Don't imagine that all hair preparations are alike. Quite the contrary. Some never do what is claimed for them. The Original Ozonized Ox Marrow has been on the market for so long that there is no doubt it will do everything we claim for it. It is the most genteel preparation that any one can use on their hair. It is most delicately perfumed and when thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and well brushed through the hair it cannot fall to cure dandruff and make the hair straight, soft and beautiful. It invigorates the scalp producing new growth and stops the hair from falling out. Try a bottle and you will be sure to be pleased. Only 50 cents, express paid, to any address in the United States. Druggists also sell it. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Ask your dealer for Sunday Creek No. 18 HOCKING The best for domestic use For Sale by THE JONES & ADAMS CO. Anthyacite and Bituminous Coal 47th st. and Wabash Railroad, Strictly dealers' yards. NOW DUE! TY, TOWN, CITY, COLN PARK TAX S SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Stn. Telephone, Main 940. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH, Attorney at Law. 61 and 66 Lgt. Colte St., Suite 415 to 418. Telephone, Main 3077. Chicago. JOHN E. OWENS Attorney at Law, SUITE 621 ASHLAND BLOCK, 80 S. Olark Street, CHICAGO WILLIAM L. GAHAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Suite 1402, 100 Washington St. 'Phone Central, 3341. CHICAGO. FREDERICK W. JOB ATTORNEY AT LAW 832 MARQUETTE BUILDING Telephone 2310 Central CHICAGO JOSEPH A. McINERNEY LAWYER Beauregard F. Moseley, LAWYER. Practice in all Courts. Main Office 6256 Halsted St. Down Town Office 260 S. Clark St., Room 421 Hours from 12 to 2 P. M. Phone: 2523 Harrison. William Howard Fitzgerald LAWYER Room 402 Reaper Block, CHICAGO Tel. North 16L ADDISON BLAKELY ...LAWYER... SUITE 1202 ASHLAND BLOCK. RESIDENCE 321 WEBSTER AVE. CHARLES HUGH LEECH COMMERCIAL LAW A SPECIALTY Room 216 Roanoke Bldg. 145 La Salle St. Phone Central 3584. CHICAGO. JOHN FITZGERALD JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4707 S. HALSTED 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. — TOL. M. 2020. — 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 232. CHICAGO. Lawrence M. Ennis, Advocate and Counselor at Law, Suite 726 Opera House Block. S. W. Corner Clark and Washington St. TELEPHONES MAIN 1764. Other People's Alphabets. Letters in the alphabets of the different nations vary in number. The Sandwich islanders have 12, the Burmese 18, Italian 23, Bengali 21, Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee and Samaritan 22 each, Latin 23, Greek 24, German, Dutch and English 26 each, Spanish and Slavonic 27 each, Arabic 28, Persian and Coptic 32, Georgian 35, Armenian 38, Russian 41, old Muscovite 43. Sanskrit and many of the oriental languages have 50 each. ```markdown ``` IMPORTED AND DOMESTIG WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 8402 SOUTH HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO GREAT NORTHERN SALE AND EXCHANGE STABLE. Driving, Draft and General Business Horses Always on Hand 1197 Milwaukee Ave. Near Robey St. Telephone West, 1028. OHIOAGO, IA SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR PROVISIONS FROM 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, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing..... 4836 State St. CHICAGO Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishings and Shoes PRODUCE COMMISSION Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Game, Veal, Etc. 217 SOUTH WATER STREET, CHICAGO. THOMAS & HARRIS TWO BIG STORES 5101-3 Wentworth Ave. 5650-4 S. Halsted Street GUS GEBHARDT Boots, Shoes and Rubbers YOU CAN SAVE MONEY By Ordering $15 Suits and One of Our- Overcoats Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods No. 3046 SO. STATE STREET CHICAGO Repairing neatly done Made to your measure in Any Style. Guaranteed to Fit and Satisfy You. 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. TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. --- 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, curves dandruff and makes hair soft and even. Over forty years and used by thousands. Wearable harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Opened 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 keep your hair 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 8¢ cents. Sold by drugstores and dealers or send us 8¢ cents for one bottle or $1.8¢ 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 Webash 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. 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: E. H. Faulkner, dealer in cigars and tobacco, 3104 State street. B. W. Fitts, 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, Collector Town of So. Chicago. Office, Stock Exchange Bldg., 108 La Salle Street. ```markdown ```